skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
agreed.

This was, and continues to be, a momentous accomplishment.

The fact that it happened at all is a herculean task in constraints management, not only on the engineering side, but also on the political and zeitgeist-management side (e.g., managing different adminstrations with often antithetical perspectives on the value of science, etc).

A lot of folks on HN only see this from their own perspective, of "how-can-I-disrupt-X", or "I would have done it so much better", without a real appreciation of the overwhelming complexities in pulling off a task with so many moving parts (literally and figuratively).

Sure, you could have done it better. Then do it. But don't diminish the value of a truly monumental accomplishment when it happens; they don't come often enough, and more often than not, projects with this level of ambition fail far before they ever get to the point they can be critiqued by arm-chair geniuses.
So is there any indication his statements aren't true?
Again, it’s not the controlling of the speakers that was patented, it was the UI for grouping them and controlling them. Bluetooth headphones generally have the same controls as normal headphones, so they wouldn’t apply to this patent.
In PostgreSQL you can use file_fdw extension:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/file-fdw.html
This comment is in response to Google complaining specifically amount iMessage usage in the US.
Small plug for Kotlin as well! Yes, there's new concepts to learn with structured concurrency, but I've been mostly enjoying how quickly it gets out of your way.

once properly configured :)
I was not aware that this is something the browser would do.
I downvoted you for vile language and violating the guidelines. I imagine so did the others.
Meta-comment: can the mods shadow-ban the Pooh Patrol already? They are agents of a hostile foreign power that has no respect for human rights at all. You don't need to give them space to spew their bullshit here.
Most certainly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point#Solar_System_va...

I don't think I understand your question about the sun. The Lagrange point used for JWST is an Earth-Sun one.
The same companies have no problem making 100s of Nazi movies or Japan Pearl Harbor movies. Yet they are afraid to touch any Chinese topic. That is the problem.
> The Telegraph only seems to provide any sources that are about the UK. I can't find any sources outside of the Telegraph for Telefonica, for example, mostly because Google only lists articles copy/pasting the Telegraph.

I read it as referring to those telcos' international HQ's. The Telegraph article reports that the letter to the European Commission was signed by Vodafone, Telefónica, Orange and T-Mobile.

First, Telefónica isn't active in the UK under that name, only as part of Virgin Media O2 (their joint venture with Liberty Global) [1]. T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom) and Orange (France Télécom) haven't even been active in the UK at all since 2016 (when BT acquired their joint venture EE) [2].

Therefore, if the Telegraph were reporting on the UK only, the list of telcos that signed the letter doesn't make sense in the first place.

Second, if the letter were indeed authored by UK telcos, why would they have sent it to the European Commission? That's an EU institution, and the UK isn't part of the EU anymore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media_O2

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EE_Limited
He already picked a side. He very specifically said he wants his son to feel like an American. Not blaming him, just clarifying.
Lego “pauses” Overwatch-themed set launch amid Activision abuse concerns
You can probably sneak by under the radar/because it is bad PR to go after individuals, but legally you are not able to do that and can be sued. You are probably also not worth the expense of a lawsuit.
It seems the A key takes the brunt of the typing, did that factor into your design?
What do you mean you are unaware of devices that output audio to distinct bluetooth targets? Any Windows PC can do that, AFAIU. Just connect multiple devices, and every program is free to choose which of them to output to.
I love your faith in constructive dialog — I wish it were all we needed. In more ordinary situations, it can be very effective. But it is an effect that works mainly on the margins.

We are in the situation where major global forces are actively working to destroy even the ability to communicate, literally attacking the idea that truth is knowable. The conspiracy theories don't come from nowhere to become widespread, they are specifically and relentlessly pushed - the specific goal isn't so much to gain adherents as to push so much noise that people abandon the concept that they can find any truth, and also to promote the concept that everything happens not because of knowable forces in the universe but because of a secret evil cabal, whose members can be identified by the conspiracy pushers (handy to leverage bigotry and claim the other party is the ultimate enemy).

This literally destroys the opportunity for factual discussion.

The result is to open the doors for authoritarians like Putin, Xi, Orban, and wannabes like Trump (who are all agents promoting this).

The problem is these specific efforts to promote distrust in humans, leadership (other than the chosen "strongmen"), and truth.

The fact that I have come, through direct experience and attempts starting with trust, to no longer trust them is now irrelevant. I neither caused nor amplify the distrust. Whether I (or you) trust them or not is irrelevant. They will continue to distrust unless I actively join their cult lunacy.

Can you provide a single example where your trust and conversation actually changed the mind of one of them? If so, how did that work? Did it "stick"?
> This only reconfirmed my parents’ belief that device makers deliberately make things go out of date so that you have to go buy new hardware every couple of years.

The article frames it as if the parents are naive here, but it seems like this is 100% right. Mom's chromebook and iPad not receiving updates is a perfect example of planned obsolescence.
His exemption was a process provided by the Australian Open tournament. More than twenty people applied for it and only a handful got the exemption. The process they outlined was a blind process (those evaluating the applications did not know who the players were) and two stage.

It's not like he tried to cheat the tournament or Australia with this. He was following a provided process.

Note, this is separate from any notion of him cheating or not with the process. Just saying it doesn't appear he tried to sneak in by bypassing the processes.

The reason he's being looked at instead of the others who went through this process is likely that he posted about it on social media.
> corporations are not people and do not have morals or values. They are organizations that seek to maximize profit and grow.

They are however made up of people who make moral decisions based on their values, including in their businesses. Plenty of corporations choose to do or not do things based on their ethics and morals. And acting as an agent of a corporation doesn't free you from moral peril when making those decisions.

I don't expect Intel the Corporation to have values, but I do expect the people within Intel who choose where they manufacture or purchase manufactured goods to have qualms about using slave labor for it, supporting a genocide in doing so.
>Shrug. All evidence is that the Chinese have managed to create plenty of military tech. Stolen IP or not.

They really haven't. There's no original R&D. It's just rushed, terrible copies.

Yes, there's a massive difference in military logistics and shipping the latest knock off kitchen appliance.

> This is a hell of a non sequitur.

I don't think this means what you think it means. Most of China's military capabilities presented on the global stage are rushed to the public eye as soon as possible. That's the point. The US has no interest in doing this because of adversarial nations like China. They have no need to prove they're ahead of the game or unveil what they're capable of, it's just accepted that they are and have private capabilities that far exceed what is publicly known (because that's the case).
It's 4 dimensions for 3D space plus time, as he makes explicit with "at the moment I first sat on it".
The timestamp is likely when the entry was opened in the system.

Not when the test was made.

Normally that's the same.

But it's not enforced, as for example a test center which lost it's internet connection temporary is still allowed to add tests once the connection is back up.

So we don't know for sure that the test is manipulated.

We only know for sure that it was placed later in the system, not that it was made later.

Which is still very suspicious.
What notable labor saving tools and implements were invented during this time period? (1350-1400 AD)
I have a really hard time understanding how we're supposed to stop this kind of thing, not just on the internet in general and not this comment in particular but on this site in particular.

HN has rules against accusations of bad faith, and they work 99% of the time, and I try hard not accuse an individual comment of being in bad faith even if I strongly suspect it. But it seems so obvious by looking at any thread about the Uyghur Genocide on Hacker News that there is a pattern when looking at the whole thread, the whole site, in aggregate. I'm not suggesting 50-cent-army-type astroturfing either -- I don't think it's 1 person with 100 accounts spreading FUD for malicious reasons, I think it's 100 people with 100 accounts spreading FUD about the Uyghur genocide because they are nationalistic and proud of their country for personal reasons.

I think this is bad, and needs to be stopped because the genocide in Xinjiang is too important, but I think that HN's policies about not accusing people of bad faith or astroturfing may actually make it harder to have honest discussions on the topic. It's a conspicuous failure case for a site where normally things don't get this bad. I'm not sure what a better policy would be either, which I suspect might be the reason why nothing has changed.

I apologize is this comment is considered rule-breaking, and I will remove it if it is. I just can't stand watching this kind of thing happen.
Well, we read C as K, and most people spell English as they pronounce it, hence koronavirus :-)
The hypothetical here is FLoC.

If everything were based on Chromium, and Google really wanted FLoC, how would that play out?

They'd add support to the codebase and... what? Everyone else would fork? Or how about for DRM support?

It's the "collaborated on fairly" that's the difficult and unsustainable piece. Especially when we're talking last mile things (i.e. that interact with the user) and the additional rewards those entice less altruistic parties with.

Java/Oracle/IBM is what you realistically get when there's serious $$$s on the table and multiple parties. And that's probably about the best possible outcome.
Renewables are already moving the needle quite rapidly. Take China for example, from 17.74% in 2009 to 29.09% in 2020. Meanwhile coal dropped from 79% in 2009, to 62% in 2019.

Nuclear is going to stick around, but at best we can start building today’s designs and have them finished in a few years. It’s simply to late for any significant R&D effort to pay off, we needed better designs a decade ago for them to be proven reliable today and then ramp up production for 3-5 years from now. It’s not even just building nuclear stuff that’s slow, the Navy has a solid track record and trains people quickly but even that takes time.
Thankfully he's wearing an ESD bracelet which (i assume) is connected to a ground instead of a livestrong or WWJD bracelet.
That doesn't make much sense to me: it seems to require a person who has an allergy to the vaccine to also get infected. At any rate, the sensible course of action would have been to allow only permanent, approved medical contraindications to be grounds for exemption. Temporary contraindications (like recent vaccination/infection) would simply invoke an apology and a wish they get better soon.
ChromeOS used support laptops for 5 to 6 years, while now it's 8 years. Meanwhile, the average lifespan of a laptop is 8 years.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/02/07/chromebooks-will-now-get-up-to-eight-years-of-chrome-os-updates/
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=average%20laptop%20lifespan
We need someone from Serbia who has done this test to verify.
This is very sad development for me, Djokovic's countryman who really bought his story. Nut facts are facts.

I can share my own (positive) test, which confirms timestamp and id theory. My test was taken on the 7th January, it was a rapid test, not a PCR. But it's in the same government database:

https://pcr.euprava.gov.rs/validate.php?cqcode=1641591150Q!A...

Timestamp: 1641591150, which translates to GMT: Friday, 7. January 2022. 21:32:30. That seems to be right, it was taken earlier on the 7th and probably entered later to the central database.

Also, ID of my test is: 7601263. Djokovic IDs are 7371999 (16/12 test) and 7320919 (22/12 test).

It really looks like IDs are incremental, and that his test that was supposedly taken on the 16th was taken on the later date.

One consolation fact is that he wasn't positive when he took photos with kids on 17th.

EDIT:
I messed up and copied Novak's QR url! fixed now!
They don't scale up and down together in lock step, it takes time to adapt to something like a massive plague killing off the working population.
Does that happen, though? We've been hearing about golden parachutes for a while but are there cases supporting the logic that you just laid out?
I imagine North Korea has a similar percentage of their population that would report either ‘relatively satisfied’ or ‘highly satisfied’ with Pyongyang too.
I suspect the only "controversy" in your comment is that you said something positive about SpaceX.

I believe the GP is correct: wear and tear on existing components means that fuel won't be the only issue in 20 years. Hubble has been serviced 5 times [1] for example.

Part of the complexity (and thus cost) for JWST was all the issues introduced by trying to fit a 6.5m mirror on existing rockets. All those moving parts and points of failure have design costs.

What you may find in 20 years is that we'll want to launch an even larger mirror and/or use interferometry between multiple telescopes to improve effective resolution.

[1]: https://www.space.com/15892-hubble-space-telescope.html#:~:t....)
wrt gaming, there was a websocket game of spaceships flying around posted to HN a few times where the clients open two websocket connections to iirc get around tcp head of queue blocking. Maybe they were sending round robin updates across them.

Couldn't find the Show HN just now but searching "subspace" comments might reveal it ("this reminds me of subspace"). I always wanted to look more into the approach.
Shit, you're probably right. It only worked because I didn't tell SSH to only use the specified identity files (I threw it together in five minutes without really testing it, you can forgive me). Changing one of the lines to this (which it should have been all along):

GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -i $KEYFILE -o IdentitiesOnly=yes" git "$@"

...comes up with "Permission denied (publickey)". So, yep, you're 100% right.

Oh well. There's still HTTPS!
We've been avoiding buying masks from Amazon because they don't do a good job of dealing with fakes (commingling, etc) and they've argued that unlike other retailers they're not responsible for counterfeits. What do you suggest people do to ensure that the masks they get are authentic?
I think this varies by country.

A builder picking up a pack of screws won't buy something he doesn't have a screwdriver for, and a basic toolbox will only have screwdrivers for the most common screw heads - giving these things quite a bit of inertia.

So an American might consider Torx a widely used screw that everyone has a driver for. Whereas a Brit might rank Torx as an obscure security screw, like pentalobe.
That's cool. Do you have a link with more info?
Orbit (v1.1) Is Released
This post is missing what is a very common DNS mis-configuration: extra, and/or lame delegations.

The root will return the list of authoritative nameservers, but each of those authoritative servers may have a different list - and that list may still be used for resolution.

For example, if the root says ns1,ns2.example.com are the nameservers for your domain, but ns1.example.com also lists ns3.example.com as an authoritative server, then resolvers WILL query ns3. If ns3.example.com does not actually have authority for your domain (I.e., a lame delegation), then DNS queries for your domain will fail some percentage of the time.

It is valid (though confusing) to extend the list of authoritative nameservers from what the root says. But they had better all actually BE authoritative.

In my experience, this is one of the more common DNS misconfigurations.
Civic law is decided upon based on what society deems is moral.

Animal experiments are legal because enough people voted to legalize it (or not enough people voted to make it illegal)
I do not understand the argument for nuclear. The risk never seems worth the reward. Clean now? Yes. Cheap now? Yes. Potentially catastrophic? Yes. This feels like an unnecessary risk to take on. The lessons of three mile island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima seem to be forgotten too quickly.
It’s odd that today Google (in this case) but others as well, can get away with more than Microsoft did in the late ‘90s but the DoJ doesn’t make a peep.
>corporations are not people and do not have morals or values

The irony of this is that all corporations and all decisions and actions taken by corporations are made by people. If anything corporations are the most clear and unmistakable reflection of what it truly means to be human without the masks we wear in daily life.

Other than that, yeah I get what you're saying.
I'd like to be able to open PDFs with Firefox and search the contents for a string.
Oh yeah, this isn't going to pass. Not with something ridiculous like this in there. I don't understand why this is in there. It seems like someone is trying to slip this past the lawmakers. So if someone steals Google proprietary code and puts it in their open-source project, and hosts it in New Hampshire, the state won't assist the feds track down the owner? What does that accomplish? How does that help legitimate open-source?
and you can have my NAD amp over my dead body, though when I am dead, you can get it with a Slim Devices/Logitech Duet Receiver (Burr/Brown 24 bit DAC), which I'll also take over the current Sonos offerings.
I wasn't trying to argue or debate, I was trying to put your exaggerated comment into context

>You don't need nukes when you can destabilize and divide an entire country from within while having everything you need and more to psychologically manipulate the population however you want.

Your comment seems so silly, when USA has routinely destabilised countries throughout history. It's not even comparable actually.

You think that the existence of some black lives matter activists proves the moral superiority of USA?
But Serbia's system seems flawed, the EU system has all the data encoded in the QR-code, including name, the date the test was performed, the sort of test (PCR or antigen), and the result, plus a digital signature to prevent changing of those fields. And the QR code is given to the person and is static. The app that checks it checks that the document hasn't been modified by verifying the digital signature. What Serbia seems to have done is to have a PDF with the timestamp, and QR code which goes to a website showing a database entry with no timestamp (except for the URL which apparently does contain a Unix timestamp, but that's not authoritive nor easily parsable by huamns).

So if I got a negative test in July and a positive one yesterday, and I want to fly somewhere, it seems I can just copy the QR code from the test in July and paste it into a Word document that says "The test was performed on January 10, 2022, and the result is available through this link: [QR code with the link to the results from July 2021]". And it seems this document doctoring (with a document with a result that allows unvaxed entry) is what Team Djokovic has done.
One commenter in that Twitter thread mentions that the Unix epoch embedded in the URL represents the time of the download, not the time of the test.
The author is on to something noteworthy for sure. It's a shame he only devotes one paragraph to his "recipe." Boy is that a topic I'd like to read more on.
Would such shared stewardship of Chromium really help, though? I don't believe that a shared governance structure for Chromium would stop Google from going their own way with Chrome, while effectively yielding the same problems.

"Oops, we added this experimental feature to Chrome, now it's be come a de facto standard, I guess you all had better let us upstream it!"

EDIT: Or even worse, they stop upstreaming anything at all!
You could also construct the argument the other way around: Demand is highest during the day and nuclear is struggling to follow the demand.

It’s also not weather-independent. When the water temperature is too hot the power stations have to be turned off.

Further it’s pretty common that when one reactor has an issue others of the same type will get turned off too to check if they have the same issue.
I think if you think about it as 'I could be making more money off of these people' it can be a bit of a mistake.

In my old neighborhood we watched a restaurant break away from a franchise, go through a bunch of upheaval, triple in size, take building damage from a freak accident, and open a second location. Practically every time we went in there, if the owner was in the building he would come out to say hi to my partner, myself, and anyone we were dining with. Occasionally he brought an appetizer.

We were some of his oldest regulars. He didn't make more money off of us than anyone else at a table (maybe his staff got slightly higher tips), but we helped get him to here. So did your old grandfathered customers. Without them you wouldn't have your business loan or your VCs. You've made plenty of money off of those people. Stop thinking of them as a number. You can't measure your old customers purely by $/request/s.
I think this is the best example. It's an extremely loud silence. Clearly no coincidence.
I'm not just copying the image, I'm editing the "Owner" table cell 8-)
> The internet is for end users: any change made to the web platform has the potential to affect vast numbers of people, and may have a profound impact on any person’s life.

Love this. I have an iPhone SE 2020, and if I had my druthers I would downgrade to an even older, smaller phone, but a lot of modern apps are just clearly meant for larger screens, and even its 4.7" screen -- SotA in 2017 -- struggles to display content properly.

I'd switch to a dumb phone entirely, but alas, I'm dependent on google maps, guthooks (a hiking app), and especially ride sharing and bike sharing apps. It's a bind.
Land is still the primary source of economic value. And I don't think land was getting fairly allocated between all the peasants during the late 1300s.
The bottleneck is always. The. Database.
These are great examples. I'd add delivery tracking/any geolocation tracking works great with websockets.
And of course chat messaging.