skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is important to understand that this is a "fund" that is constructed with a strict frame of established public funding rules. It is amazing to see that it actually works as part of the German research and innovation funding at all, which normally requires a considerable amount of own money to be eligible (at least on paper which really makes it unfit for seed funding or developer funding). I think is a starting point and should deserve credit for this. On the other hand government should actually use open source and pay the ecosystem for it by paying developers for maintenance instead of spending billions on big tech.
I didn't check to see how the data was collected on the chart, but might this count app downloads per person rather than raw download numbers? I might have an app installed on multiple devices, but I'm still using the same Google account.
Honest question, is this that hard to do (without your service)? I don't think so.
Ok, then maybe you are a genius, because everybody else has told me how painful it was to learn all the characters. I'm going through the process myself, and while sometimes I enjoy it, there is no point in denying that it is way more difficult than learning an alphabet-based language.
I think this article is correct in the social prediction.

Truth of the matter is, I'd rather use masks for the rest of my life and socialize outdoors than have the neurological after-effects of COVID.

My worry is that after omicron, we will see pi, rho, sigma, and tao. Each of those will cause neurological effects in, say, 5% of the population. Depending on how this works, we might see a quarter of the population in moderately bad shape, or 5% of the population in very, very bad shape. Or we might see a variant that lands 100% of the population in bad shape.

Prior to the advent medicine, mankind has dealt with diseases like that before. I'd be very sad if modern gave us a 100 year lull, rather than solving the problem.
You can just dig a big hole for them, the earth stays cool enough when you go a meter or two down.

Unless you live in the desert, having the batteries too hot isn't as big of an issue as freezing them.
Interesting - didn’t knew tsan is now available for Java. Which JDK version is it available for? The linked wiki isn’t super clear on this. But given it seems a 2020 Addition I guess only for rather recent ones.
DroidFS: Encrypted overlay filesystems implementation for Android
> Marginalia Search is fantastic, but it is more of a personal project than an open source community.

And where's the community behind mwmbl project?
Anyone else notice this?

> Also, it is not feasible for NSNSD to collect samples at all park sites within a reasonable time. Therefore, NSNSD created a geospatial model that predicts soundscapes in parks across the nation.

Doesn’t that defeat the intent of measuring?
Hey, great project - the more competition in this space the better. To be honest, at the moment the algorithm doesn't return any sensible results for anything (at least that I can find), but I hope that you can find a way past this as it's a great place to have a project.

I've included some search terms below that I've tried - I've not cherrypicked these and believe they are indicative of current performance. Some of these might be the size of the index - however I suspect it's actually how the search is being parsed/ranked (in particular I think the top two examples show that).

> Search "best car brands"

Expected: Car Reviews

Returns a page showing the best mobile phone brands.

then...

> Then searching "Best Mobile Phone"

Expected: The article from the search above.

Returns a gizmodo page showing the best apps to buy... "App Deals: Discounted iOS iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone Apps"

> Searching "What is a test?"

Expected result: Some page describing what a test is, maybe wikipedia?

Returns "Test could confirm if Brad Pitt does suffer from face blindness"

> Searching "Duck Duck Go"

Expected result: DDG.com

Returns "There be dragons? Why net neutrality groups won't go to Congress"

> Searching "Google"

Expected result: Google.com

Returns: An article from the independent, "Google has just created the world’s bluest jeans"
Well, that's called "advertising and marketing" - persuading engineers to buy their products by doctoring the truth. It's actually easier with rockstar engineers - they never admit their pet approach might be wrong so AWS just needs to sell to them once ;)
This sounds like the drug mule trick where you send an obvious patsy first to get caught and draw all the attention, while you then afterward send the real experienced mule.
> I don't remember when was the last time I dealt with non-Indian reps.

Is it possible you normally deal with support within the same 8 hour window? I believe they have a global rota, I often end up talking to reps in Ireland.
Your comment piqued my interest in the death stats. The CDC has a nice table about half way down the page that compares rates between 2019 and 2020.

What's interesting is not that Covid spiked, but the following causes of death also changed significantly in 2020:

- heart disease +5%

- cancer -2%

- unintentional injuries +20%

- stroke +5%

- chronic lower respiratory disease -6%

- Alzhiemer's disease +10%

- diabetes +15%

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm
And I would also like to buy one. But as far as I understood a Facebook account which I refuse to create is required for that. I found conflicting information on that - would someone maybe care to competently clarify on that?

Do you need a Facebook account or not to use an OQ2?

As a matter of fact I still have an Oculus account from Go days and I just checked - it's still active apparently.

Got the following disclaimer after logging in:

################################################################

Enhance Your VR Experience With a Facebook Account

To access social features, you need to log in with a Facebook account by going to Facebook Settings in the Oculus app.

What Happens if You Don’t Log In With a Facebook Account

You can use your Oculus account until January 1, 2023, but you will not have access to social features with your Oculus account. Starting January 1, 2023, we will end formal support for Oculus accounts, and you will need to log in with a Facebook account to access full functionality on the Oculus platform.

################################################################

Still have very very fond memories of the Go. Virtual virtual reality and Wander f.x. were amazing experiences. But I sold the device in anticipation of a newer model and having been can't waiting now for it since several years ago. So that's due.
Anyone who thinks the privacy to sleep in your own bedroom and the luxury to have a second kitchen to use for canning fruit because it'd make using your first kitchen a little harder are two points on the same scale is just plain wrong. They aren't. One is a point on the scale of "things you need for basic human dignity", and the other is a point on the scale of "amusing shit deluded rich people think is normal." Those are definitely different scales.

Arguing they're just two points on the same scale makes me wonder if you have some sort of agenda to argue that people don't really need bedrooms because they don't really need summer kitchens.
What is the proper automated way to get vendorSha256? Currently I always set it to lib.fakeSha256 first, then run the build and obtain the hash from the error message.
It works!

> mame megadrij -cart thunderforce_iv.md

I can finally play Thunderforce IV on my laptop. Seems to be the only emulator I know that is actually accurate enough. Kudos!
OK, technically correct but I still disagree they are actually 10 because aside from `str` (which should be used only for constants really) and `String` everything else is strictly optional and you're not mandated to work with it unless you got a specific scenario (like CStr / CString).

Compare this to Haskell where you have lazy and non-lazy / Unicode and non-Unicode strings which is at least 4 (I think there was more but I forgot now) and you are practically forced into using any of them depending on which library you're interacting with -- and I don't mean with C libraries in this instance.

I personally never even used anything beyond `str` and `String` for any app development, including a bit lower level stuff (though not embedded or tight integration with system libraries).
> when looking at these things, you always need to look over the long term. Sure, December wasn't great, but how was all of 2021 overall?

Overall, our 10+ year old infrastructure has hugely outpaced reliability of any of the three main clouds (and brough in more business since we got customers when the main clouds killed most of the internet).

Why do you keep behaving like reliable infrastructure was impossible without paying rent to american bigcorp?

(This doesn't mean cloud doesn't make sense for many people, but, seriously, cut the crap.)
I have never found a solution for this. At my desk, with multiple extra screens and a keyboard and mouse for searching and rapid navigation, a PDF is sometimes a decent enough alternative but for non-computer based hobbies as well as reading reference books more casually / when not actually needing to be at my computer I have been unable to find anything close to paper books.
Yes, and they cherry-picked the results from endless tuning.
Thanks, the Python code is very clear and simple and makes it super easy to understand the idea without having to digest the paper.
Depending on who would be providing URIs.

If the miner, they would be able to deliver any crap so content deliveries would have to be judged in some way and awarded differently.

If the pool provides addresses to crawl, the miner could be given crafted/dedicated URIs from time to time and lack of delivery of Proof Of Crawl could result in a penalty chosen in a way rendering "cheating" unprofitable. But then fresh URIs have to come from somewhere.
Best line of the paper:

"The formula is so simple that it is likely that there are many such coefficients, some of them possibly having better properties than the one presented below."

suggesting that the author is seeking to highlight a basic principle, not tune for a specific application.
Out of curiosity, why do you think having a good random number generator is problematic? It seems like it's easy enough to access one in most situations.
Already 140,000mi from Earth? Impressive!
I mean, it's not even remotely comparable. It's not like we have to look at paper search engines as an alternative to online search engines. The whole point is that the general public has no real reason to switch, never mind donate.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll take a look at your examples and see if I can improve the rankings.
Which heat pump reaches that kind of efficiency when the temperature differential is so high?
Feel free to email me if you want to be involved!
I've learned a lot from managing school networks for public schools. Thousands of users runnung on either re-purposed or gifted hardware from 8+ years ago.

In 2013 I was running a school with 500 students and 70 teachers on a 8GB RAM HP Server that was built in 2005 and had no problems other than disk speeds for network transfers.

The same setup in the cloud would have been much more expensive but then again I had/have access to unlimited Microsoft product licenses because of the MS-ACH agreement so take that with a grain of salt.
They even give every public school in the country their own unlimited KMS host key.
Very neat, thank you! This could be very handy.

Is it open source? I would love to have the ability to display intervals instead of note names (maybe both?).
I bought a Quest and returned it to make a statement. Are they counting my vote the wrong way?
What neurological after-effects are you talking about?
I look forward to that link being posted on HN (if it exists)
On an unrelated note: I accidentally opened the OP in another browser where I don't have uOrigin and PrivacyBadger etc. installed and it's so full of ads one can barely read the article. Why would anyone put that many ads on their personal blog?
> The rest literally don't matter at all, at least not until you're selling >$1k worth of software a month. I don't mean just practically, I mean legally, at least under Australian law. If things are significantly different in the UK or NL, I'd be very surprised!

At least if you are in Germany you need to have a business incorporated when you want to sell to customers or businesses. You need to have a tax number/ID.and you need to provide not only an invoice, but in case of software also updates (at least from next year on, if you not have the customer explizitly opts out).
Obsidian is not open source though.
Archbishop Tutu told me, a few years ago, that he had received a strange email from someone claiming to be a lawyer from a small English parish in which Tutu had been a curate in the 1970s.

The person was asking for Tutu's assistance in transferring the fabulous wealth of a deceased Nigerian prince to his widow.

“Ah, a 419 scam,” I said.

“A what now?”

I explained what a 419 scam was, and, fearing the worst, asked what he had done about it. It turned out that he still had a number of friends in that area, and had forwarded it on to a friend to investigate.

“Never heard of this lawyer chap,” the response came, “DO NOT respond!”

So, of course the Archbishop responded.

For a moment, I put myself in the shoes of this “Nigerian Prince”, getting an email from “Archbishop Desmond Tutu”, shaming the alleged prince for attempting to scam innocents on the internet. I started giggling.

“So what happened next?” I asked.

“Oh, he emailed me back, and tried to sell me something else.”
Duck Duck Go is profitable despite not blanketing the first page with ads (just like google were once upon a time); you can have no ads at all if you like also. Do they make money in other ways, sure but not in a way that degrades the user experience.

Are DDG results inferior, for 95% of users no.
Can someone explain this for Central Europeans?

Why is induction cooking problematic in NYC?

Why do you even need gas or heat pumps for heating? (Don’t you have “remote heat”?)

To me this whole discussion sounds quite absurd. Moving all in to electric heating could be messy if electricity prices explode as a consequence of increasing demand.
Your anger is misplaced. I'm not making you fix any machines. Were it up to me, you'd get 3 months vacation pay starting tomorrow, you clearly need it.
I wonder why it's not more broadly advertised as "let's turn this thing into a cold/flu" thanks to vaccination? To my profane mind, that seems like a simple message everybody understands, and kind of agrees to, at least around me.

Am I deluded?
On the whole FB account, does it require you to actually do anything with it? Can it literally just be an e-mail and random password, which only logs into the Oculus. If so, what's the problem?
In principle this could be done, even with decent results.

It would basically involve a two-step approach where the first model extracts text and intonation and the second model synthesises the target voice.
The first thing I do to test a search engine is to search for my own username on various public sites to see if it can find me. It didn’t find me. But keep it up and I’m sure I’ll be in there eventually (or maybe a overestimate how interesting I am, hehe).
If you’ve had covid, the benefit isn’t zero to getting a vaccine but it is also way below the threshold to use authoritarian force to get someone to take it in a free society. The people saying otherwise are full of shit and have zero ability to set guidelines based on actual risk and science instead of blind moralization.
> buy the land in question.

NIMBYs will argue that, in a certain sense, they did: they bought the land their houses stand on decades or centuries ago, when the area was farm land, and then promoted a city charter for a certain type of community, together with every other citizen in the area. They paid taxes for local infrastructure, schools, time and effort to organize and solve community issues, inconvenience when a new water mains or bypass was built etc. etc.

This whole communal development is what made the area desirable, it's not like they are hoarding limited farmland. It's the combination of private property + working community rules that create property value.

Some owners in the area would now opt out of those rules outside the democratic process pre-agreed to their change, by simply building a large condo building on their plot, depreciating the value of nearby single family homes and pocketing the cash. You can imagine existing owners will fight tooth and nail to maintain the agreed rules.

While i don't 100% subscribe to this point of view and there is much to be said about the exclusionary and down right racist behavior it can enable, the issue of urban development is not quite as clear cut as you make it out to be.
I'm sorry what? Have you seen the rate at which data is being created today? I mean, if you want to index the size of the 1995 web with your raspberry pi, go ahead, but it costs insane amounts of money to index the December 2021 web and keep the index up-to-date.

edit / full disclosure: I work at google but nothing related to search
China only start to recognize passport as identification a few years ago, previously a Chinese citizen can only use national id. It was just a lot extra work for the hotel if they don't have this system. No, you can get bugged, but by the state, maybe by some creeps.
I think you're confused. We use tables for tabulated data.

CSS gardens was created specifically to stop people from using tables for layout.
I can't imagine the man-hours that went into creating this, and, from here on out, knowing that core contention is still an issue that isn't solved will allow me to waltz in to contract jobs and save companies money, e-waste, and power costs - this causes hope, joy, something like that.

In case anyone missed it, the removal of throttling in certain circumstances saved twitter ~$5mm/year, if I read it correctly. With a naive kernel patch. While it takes dedicated engineers decades of knowledge to know where to aim an intern, an intern still banged out a kernel scheduling patch that made, what I assume, is a huge difference.

Dan Luu is a gem.
I've been a follower of Hintjen's writing since a few years. I appreciate his thoughts on distributed systems and software governance. He's still shining like a rare diamond on those topics and I think we'll take many more years to truly apply all his forward-thinking principles into practice.

I'm sad to have now discovered this article by him which hasn't arguably aged well. Or let's say that I would have wished that Peter never trespassed into involving himself into the world of social justice. He couldn't be an authority in there and so I judge this article to be rather useless or superfluous.

On the other hand, I get it: If you spend too much time on Twitter it really can alter your perception such that you start to think in the patterns laid out in the article. Twitter is a parallel society. It's hella interesting but also not real.

But what happens on it isn't what happens in real life. Once you've gotten off of it, you start to understand.

Quitting Twitter and quitting smoking, in that regard, felt much alike.
> How often do you scramble eggs on your cast iron skillet?

Almost daily, through there are things one leearn. Butter is a must, especially in term of flavor, and if you fry bacon before then you need to let it cool down for a bit or the egg white will get bubbly.

I find the cultural aspect interesting. Non-stick teflon frying pans tend to degrade over time and as such, do not get passed down when people here move out. It was also not something that we used when I was young since they easily broke if misused. That is th part I suspect will change with time.
There's maybe "Helion has a clear path to net electricity by 2024, and has a long-term goal of delivering electricity for 1 cent per kilowatt-hour. (!)" - Sam Altman.
The same way people don't intentionally break the law, they just overlook certain aspects of it when it suits them.
Prediction: the first video to come back from the telescope will be a Rick roll ;).
You're mistaken. Frontend developers use tables for tabular data.

I really don't understand what you're trying to say.
> Probably a good idea to install them somewhere that would be easy to flood with water if there was a problem though.

I can see why the fire department was concerned with these batteries: https://youtu.be/cTJh_bzI0QQ?t=344
Honest curiosity which helps with the question “where did the labor force go?”, what are you doing instead?
> I use Doom Emacs which is a lot better than Spacemacs in my opinion.

Can you explain why? I use Spacemacs (and like it) but have always been curious about Doom Emacs.

> This time I was motivated by emacs excelent support for LSP which I wanted for Go.

Neovim has built in support for LSP. I'm guessing Neovim's support for LSP is also very good by now. You have been using the original Vim?

> Nowhere near as fast as vim but the added features are worth the perfomance hit.

Are you comparing Vim with emacs-27 or earlier? Or are you comparing Vim with the unreleased (but still very usable) Emacs 28? Emacs 28 is a bit more zippy due to the native elisp compiler. I think you will be pleased with the performance boost!
If we are talking about billions of entries, even of just 32bit integers, we are talking about 4GB of data, your sort is probably going to be IO dominated, not CPU (comparison) dominated. In which case you'd likely use a sorted data structure with a much higher branching factor than 2 (like a B-tree or LSM tree).

Take the B-tree example, with 4KB pages, you can fit 1000 integers in there for a branching factor of 500, and a performance multiplier of just over 3.
I'm very intrigued by this concept.
Or his start-up https://www.anabrid.com/
If you’re replacing the battery then you still need to extract those materials. Thus weight is only really meaningful in terms of vehicle efficiency not materials extraction. And of course having a plug in vehicle doesn’t mean it will be driven as a plug in vehicle where EV’s are limited to pure electricity.
Very well done. The best part is that a modest 4% return on net worth/investments will yield about 100k a year which is a very good amount for most people.
I'm pretty sure the reason is that VR is not just regular games but in 3D. Instead the games have to be different in many aspects. Most people cannot play with those goggles for longer than half an hour. You have to address that. Also rendering 3D with comutation constrained to what's in the goggles is placing serious limits compared to rendering (3D projected onto) 2D using a much heavier hardware requires game development to rethink the entire design of a game.
Bigger than a homeless guy shopping cart.
If the author lurks around: the investment part would be more convincing if you added the gains you got from it to the table, at least between the first and last year.
> All other search engines that I've come across are for-profit. Please let me know if I've missed one!

https://www.ecosia.org/

https://ask.moe/

https://ekoru.org/

I remember seeing one more non-profit search engine on HN but can't seem to find it right now.
> I sure wish Homebrew would cease being cited as a standard or defacto package manager for macOS.

Me too. It embeds Google spyware without consent, sending a unique identifier from your machine every time you use it.

It's disturbing seeing people say "just run `brew install $PACKAGE`" where $PACKAGE is privacy or local-first software without including the requisite `brew analytics off` on the line above it.
5kW of panels don't produce 5kW in winter, that's the issue I guess.