skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not the author of the project, but the following sounds like the project is a nice PR move from the virtual reality company Zoan:

> When you buy land from Cornerstone, you become a Cornerstonian. As the landowner, you gain access to the island and receive credits to start building a metaverse presence. Your region is your playground, design it for your needs and we’ll make your dreams come true. There will be many future perks for the Cornerstonians as the community grows.

> In the Cornerstone, virtual land is bought and sold as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), crypto assets that live on the blockchain. NFTs guarantee the authenticity of land ownership by registering every transaction on the blockchain.
The Myth of 1.3M Vacant Investor Homes in Canada
Also apparently tencent owns like 40% of Epic Games? It's all bullshit folks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6-r7GNlZvk&ab_channel=Cap.H...
The new PinePhone actually looks kinda decent. Unfortunately it will likely go from an interesting idea to abandoned before my iPhone is ready for a replacement.
Must not have been working with it very long, off the top of my head having to disable the "new" optimizer in Sql 2014 and go back to the 2012 version due to bad plans https://sqlservergeeks.com/sql-server-2014-trace-flags-9481/

I have been working with it since way back in 6.5 and it has made many obviously wrong decisions in the optimizer over the years, its has gotten better but is by no means perfect, good thing is it has hints unlike PG!
the kaby lake xps 13 linux skus had a different wifi card that was more reliable on linux (and arguably in general). could be some other subtle differences like that. to me it's easily worth $200 to not deal with those sorts of issues.

also, I believe they sometimes don't offer the lowest tier windows hardware with linux at all.
> Curious, how do you decouple query evolution from the DB layer of your application?

Use application-specific views, and the evolution driven by DB optimization, etc., can happen in view definitions without the app DB layer being involved. It’s a traditional best practice anyway, going back decades to the time when it was expected an RDBMS would serve multiple apps that you needed to keep isolated from each others changes, but it also works to isolate concerns at different levels for a single-app stack.

(Because of practical limits of views in some DBs, especially in the 1990s, and developer preferences for procedural code, a common enterprise alternative substitutes stored procs for views, to similar effect.)
I'm glad my children didn't have that to worry about in Norway nor myself in the UK (many years ago).
I think you are correct, making the tests available is probably good. Maybe we should have similar availability for other infections.
Would be nice to only play good ones. If only you could predict the experience you'd have by the developer.
"even in parts of the United States"

Do they mean American Samoa? Which is about 600 miles away, so not surprising given it was heard in NZ about twice as far away.

Oh! Wikipedia says it was heard in Alaska (but not Hawaii?). So why not say "Alaska"?
thats a nice feature. does postgres have it? in that case, its even MORE performant to push your data processing into the database via a query
The daycare age population are not the ones dying. Point being that yes, COVID 19 is resulting in more deaths than RSV nationwide, but as a vaccinated individual, I am more concerned about RSV (one of my kids has already got it), than I am from COVID 19.
I agree with the meta interview concept, but I don't think that applies here because of the OP's last sentence:

>Amazing that even engineers don't understand that GPS receivers don't talk to the satellites.

They're amazed at the lack of knowledge, not that a candidate wasn't able to talk it out, or that they bs-ed through it. That tells me the question is asked in bad faith.
I quite like Safari as an end user, but I do tend to do most of my development/manual testing on Chrome first because I just plain don’t understand Safari’s dev tools. If I could just attach Chrome’s debugger, I’d happily use Safari more for dev.
> Product teams painstakingly craft their product specs to ensure they're building the right thing. Unfortunately, the pace of modern product development is so fast that the minute a product spec is written, it’s no longer relevant.

I think the missing insight is that while the final outcome is no longer relevant, the process of reaching the outcome is critical! When I am trying to understand a feature, I find myself spending most my time in the version history of Google Docs (something that team has treated as a secondary feature) – learning how the feature team's collective understanding has evolved. I think Decisions in Fable is a step closer, but not far enough.

One thing I would love to see is product spec editing / collaboration focused around version history. The real "work" of building product specs is building shared context between PM, Eng, UX through evolution of the requirements. However unlike devs who can see the diff of a code file, PM rarely "show their work" – and it makes it hard for everyone to see how the final requirements were reached. I still haven't seen any PM tool with this paradigm in mind.
This feels like saying that you're not forced to be subject to the laws of your country, because you could always go find an unclaimed island and create your own country. At some point the practical impediments are such that yes, we are at their mercy. And no, Google at least does not deserve any gratitude for creating a more efficient ad delivery machine (what, you think they provide a browser out of the goodness of their hearts?).
(Epic Systems is probably the biggest user of MUMPS in the world, and is headquartered in Verona, Wisconsin.)
https://archive.is/rNhub
I don't Encrypt my family photos. I don't understand why anyone would?
I have an ebook reader mount I attach to the rafters. If I want to watch TV I set my laptop on some storage containers far back from the treadmill and put in my airpods. In both cases I'm looking straight ahead.

Looking down at the NordicTrack screen doesn't seem ergonomic or comfortable. I don't get this article.

Edit: From 2 points to 0. And probably going to go negative LOL.
Democrats unveil bill to ban online ‘surveillance advertising’
> they're willing to consider the idea if somebody wants to say how to do it without the pitfalls of other systems

That is basically a blanket ban. Saying you won't implement a widely-implemented feature unless someone comes up with a whole new theory about how to do it better is saying you simply won't implement it. Other databases do well enough with hints, and they do help with some problems.
Are there any tools to automate this process? I know you can schedule Google Takeout, but I want the backups to be automatically downloaded and saved somewhere, e.g. S3 or my local NAS
Something not mentioned: the "new" L5 signal at 1176Mhz, combined with the existing L1 signal at 1575Mhz, allows the receiver to estimate the atmospheric effects and reduce the uncertainty, allowing for a much better position fix. Think centimeters instead of meters.

One more thing I've wondered: the system depends on the sattelites knowing and broadcasting their exact position, but how do you determine this position? From ground stations, sure, but how exactly? What's the margin of error on that?

And to add to this, how do you bootstrap this?

Galileo had an outage from 2019-07-11 to 2019-07-18 [0]. I've not read much about the details what caused the outage, or why it took an entire week to get back up & running.

[0] https://www.gsc-europa.eu/news/galileo-initial-services-have...
I've found that people also respond to thoughtful comments on blogs.
https://archive.is/J2BM8
I'm autistic. Have you considered doing a study using whole geneome sequencing? I had my genome sequenced to try to get to the bottom of what's going on for me (outside of autism) and after running some data mining on it lo and behold, shows a very high correlation between genes associated with autism.

One thing that I don't see talked about a lot is the link between autism and parkinsons.(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26322138/) My maternal grandmother and mother had Parkinson's and I'm sure my grandmother and her sister were on the spectrum as well (although they didn't really diagnose that form of autism back then). This may link into the subtype of autism you're talking about though with autoimmune as my mother has celiac and I have HLA mutations.

Also noticed you were talking Amygdala Volume , but have you seen this? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28689329/
This really makes me think about your paper because it's linking specifically right sided decrease of Amygdala Volume to a form of autism with anxiety. This makes me think about how autism is often missed in girls. I'm aware of this fact because I also have the right sided decreased volume after uploading a Brain MRI here: brainkey.ai . This, along with Whole Genome Sequencing (I got mine done at nebula.org) could really set the stage for wider studies at a fairly low cost.

Anyway thanks so much
The “here” matters, here. If it’s America or Europe, then yes, Poland is part of NATO and the EU. Its decisions impact its partners. And if it’s invaded, coalition blood will be spilled. Mutual defence means a common interest in being worth fighting for. Add to that Warsaw’s belligerence on multiple political fronts, and the criticism is unsurprising.

More pointedly, this is current news. How are you already judging reactions?
Always raise prices in relation to demand for your work, especially if you don't have any employees. If there is more demand than you can fill, raise prices until you can do the work. If there is less demand, keep prices the same and find new clients. If you can't find new clients, lower prices.
> Are my kids really just sick with some other random thing despite dozens of people in our social circle getting COVID?

If you are in the US, flu is a possibility. Unlike 2020-21, the 2021-22 flu season is coming on strong: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm
t-SNE is a cool technique, even if some of the parameters require manual judgment/tuning. I've actually been thinking about taking our various groupings and trying a combined analysis, maybe with multivariate distance matrix regression. One issue is that labels are not exclusive, some individual may belong to several.
These things do a wonderful job of adding to the garbage pile but are pretty much worthless for anything else.

Our poor poor planet.
Coinbase and MasterCard partner to revolutionize NFT purchase experience
I do. Because for me Safari is a significantly better browser than the alternatives.
The New Deal was a bad deal economically, but some historians think it prevented a violent socialist uprising. Of course we'll never know if that's really true.
Time to discuss the paradigm shift in how people, especially the ones traditionally in these low paying jobs are supposed to support themselves in the next generation.
>Only one thing is certain: Gelsinger and his team have a lot of cojones.

Trained and mentored by Andy Grove. Disciple of the old school "Only the paranoid survive". I expect nothing less.

I hope someday he could do the next unthinkable, Once their foundry could at least compete against Samsung, open up the x86 ISA. Or clean up the ISA and call it something like AE86. In the very long term, x86 is pretty much dead. By 2030 you would expect all hyperscaler to be on ARM with x86 serving some minor legacy clients. You have PC manufacture eager to compete with Apple and ChromeBook. So x86 could loss up to 50% of its current volume by 2030. Then a long tail of 10 - 15 years decline.
It was 98% of the datacenter market in 2017, and apparently the rate of decrease is accelerating, and that's even before taking into account that the datacenter chip equivalent to your 12700k doesn't come out until later this year and that's where you'd expect to see the real fall off in DC marketshare.

That money can dry up very quickly.
https://archive.is/1UJcQ
The Open Rights Group is a step ahead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVVhFrBsQXk
Finding the lever or short-circuit to effect that change is probably the real challenge here.

There are countries or cities which _don't_ have a widespread housing crisis. Tokyo and Berlin are frequently touted.

There was a recent article series at Sightline which addressed this:

https://www.sightline.org/series/winning-abundant-housing/

One of several excellent reading suggestions that turned up in a thread by Shane Phillips:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/ShaneDPhillips/status/14741930881...
Do you have any plans to support backups of other Google content, e.g. gmail?
Ask HN: Anyone else seeing this weirdness in the Opera web browser?
Yesterday while using the Opera web browser on my late `09 Mac Mini (MacOS v10.11) to test a web app I'm working on I noticed a <style type="text/css"> tag referencing a file that's not in my html code. Here's a small sample of it of what was in it:

:root topadblock, :root span[id^="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-"], :root img[alt^="Fuckbook"], :root iframe[src="mellowads.com"],

There are hundreds of URLs embedded in that file and not all are porn sites (but there are quite a few).

My first thought was I may have some malware on my Mac but after testing the app on Firefox and Safari and not seeing this issue I thought maybe this is a "feature" in the Opera web browser so I sent them a message via the bug report system on Opera's web site. They replied with:

"All bug reports are read and handled by our staff. However, please note that you will not receive a personal reply to the bug report, unless we need more information to investigate the bug."

Later on last night I did some searching for a file with that string above in it on my Mac and found one buried in one of the system folders named "OperaEmbeddedBS.html". So this morning I responded to Opera's reply email asking if that file is installed when I install their browser. So far I've not heard back from them but it's only been a few hours.

I've also done some google and duckduckgo searching for both the file name and snippets of the content but didn't find anything at all.

I've uploaded the file so others can check it out if they want:

https://ezinvoice.com/OperaEmbeddedBS.html

The page is blank when viewed in a web browser so you have to view the source code to see what it contains. Here's another longer snippet of it copied from a page loaded in the Opera web browser. I have no idea what this does. I've never seen CSS like it before but that doesn't mean much because my CSS skills and knowledge are minimal.

Anyone have a clue about what this does, if it's an Opera "feature", or malware of some kind?

The only thing I can think of is it's sending requests to the urls embedded in it, but I no clue why or what else it might do.

<style type="text/css">:root topadblock, :root span[id^="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-"], :root img[alt^="Fuckbook"], :root iframe[src="mellowads.com"], :root div[style^="padding: 5px 15px !important"] > [style^="width: 100% !important; cursor: pointer !important;"], :root div[id^="zergnet-widget"], :root div[id^="traffective-ad-"], :root div[id^="taboola-stream-"], :root div[id^="sticky_ad_"], :root div[id^="rc-widget-"], :root div[id^="q1-adset-"], :root div[id^="proadszone-"], :root div[id^="lazyad-"], :root div[id^="gtm-ad-"], :root div[id^="ezoic-pub-ad-"]
> Further evidence that crypto is truly a cancer on software.

you might want to correct "crypto" with "cryptocurrency", at least
If it helps you, I'm diagnosed with bipolar and Asperger's.
Bobby Kotick really wanted to retire.
It's nothing like that. Neither of those hack into people's phones.

Edit: I guess you're pointing out that the spyware was developed by a private company rather than the Israeli equivalent of the NSA, which is true.
If Nordic is being honest that the issue is safety- preventing users from diddling with their software and accidentally making it unsafe, then they can simply install a browser so the users can view what they wish online.
It's definitely a compelling offering. I don't think one model has to win over the other though. There will be room for subs and there will be room for steam libraries where you own licenses as well in the future.

For me personally I have a hard time justifying game pass. I only complete 2-3 games a year at best and it's really expensive at that rate.
Depends on what you’re evaluating the candidate on. If you’re evaluating the candidates ability to reason through a problem, and communicate the reasoning, the. GPS is arguably a better question for a software engineer as they’re unlikely to have studied it. Thus you can watch them work through a problem they haven’t thought about before, but which should probably have the basic tools to solve.

There should be no expectation of them coming up with the “correct” answer. But they should be able come with an answer and explain it clearly, warts, holes and all.

Using something real like GPS also ensures that the candidate understands why the problem is a useful problem to solve, and what the objective of the solution is I.e. a system that lets you locate yourself on earth.
I wrote a system in the 1980s in Turbo Pascal under MS-DOS to talk to a bunch of hardware, and keep a display updated. It did large water meter calibrations, for city size meters, 6" and up.

That software survived Y2k with no incident, the only reason I heard about it was in 2007 when one of the cards was replaced, it failed to restart.

It turns out they had the two cables swapped. As far as I know it's still going strong.

I followed most of the rules detailed in the article, it was simple, did the one thing (including a multitasking library I wrote), and just kept doing it.
Is it? I do not know anything about Israeli "Federal/State/County/Municipal" law enforcement jurisdictions to agree or disagree.
Lazy piece on how Climate change is Milton Friedman's fault...
Classically the feature was taken away to make you safer :)

> The block on privilege mode was automatically installed because we believe it enhances security and safety while using fitness equipment that has multiple moving parts,
On the other hand, the fact that Dell offers a linux option is still helpful to users even if it's overpriced, since it signals that the hardware will likely be compatible if you go the self-install route. Then Dell gets to sell windows laptops to linux users with a wink and a nod and both parties benefit financially
not _as_ effective... sheesh
A quick search for a default Dell/Windows desktop shows Spotify, Netflix, PicsArt, and there's a couplefew more in the tray, not to mention the start menu, which certainly has more who probably got a bit of a discount on their placement fees.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DSC00...
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22894952/t...
Some people point many factors as a "need" for basic income. Automation is one of them. Without basic income, robots (as an analogy for automation) will benefit only its owners.
My younger brother is diagnosed as what can currently only be described as "moderately functioning" autism and I cannot thank you enough for starting in on this very important research.
I can only assume you mean the evidence of a shared language family and some similar flood myths. I have read some ANE journal articles on this topic and most researchers admit the flow of information may have been bidirectional.

I tend to view the opening of genesis as being a take-down of prior creation myths from other cultures in the region, but I'm unaware of exactly the same story in any of them.
This is a problem I'm trying to solve as well. My main repository is ZFS, which IMO is a no-go for postmortem access. I don't trust that online accounts, especially paid ones, will not be locked out due to inactivity or lack of payment. It may be several years between departure and access.

I have 3 separate use cases: casual access to shared memories for which I'm the family steward (photos, videos), motivated access to personal important documents, and motivated access to other personal files.

I'm not about to leave an unencrypted drive full of personal info in a family member's house, as the risk of theft is strictly greater than just having one copy. My current plan is to use EXT4 + Luks to satisfy the last 2 scenarios, which I think stands a reasonable chance for anyone slightly techy (most modern Linux distributions will simply prompt you for the container password when you try to access the encrypted drive) and is likely to enjoy long-lived support for at least a decade or 2. I have a techy person in my family, not sure I'd do this if I didn't... For casual access to shared memories, I plan on leaving an unencrypted partition. While it lasts, these media are also available on a family-only photo album I put up on AWS.

I'm considering using a laptop as the vessel for the encrypted drive, with a suitable Linux distro pre-loaded and instructions on the desktop/printed out and kept in an adhesive document pocket stuck to the machine.
Parallel question: formats

I keep all my photos in the "native" format, which is basically JPEG and whatever my iPhone is spitting out these days. They are currently editable (which for me is mainly crops, with occasional other fix ups). I scanned all my old negatives, APS, and slides and just had them all issued as the lowest compression (highest resolution) JPEG (I didn't have a huge choice of formats).

But I have a bunch of videos from film tape, and cards. What's the best equivalent (supporting simple crops and edits) that might reasonably be editable in future?
You're essentially making the argument that games are fungible while the other commenter is saying that they are not. The reality is that most games, yes including triple A games, are hot garbage and make no money and provide no benefit to everyone. It's a lot like the movie industry in that sense. So consoling myself that maybe someone will make a copy of the cool game I want to play doesn't really work, because that copy is near guaranteed to be expensive garbage
browsers have taken the place of operating systems.

why are we at the mercy of windows and mac os? alternative operating systems exist, just like alternative operating systems exist. but their marketshare is small.
I'm not the original poster. But I'm guessing that the reasoning is: there might be more capacity than needed so that would drive profits down. Cheap chips seem like a great thing to me, but I'm not selling them.

But at this point when there putting chips in everything its hard not to see the market expanding to meet increased capacity. (I think some greating cards have chips in them to control music/lights....)
Would be really hard to launch a new platform. Even if its excellent on its own unfortunately it can't survive without a big app catalog.
I've had similar experiences. A few years ago, I wrote a small service in plain Java, no frameworks as part of a quick change to improve performance. It worked and we all moved on. Later it was converted to Spring Boot and it slowed way down.
> Firstly, "video gaming" is really competing against things like reading a book, walking your dog, board games, etc

You're not wrong, but I can't agree with this.
>So wage fixing and overexpensive housing is the fault of the worker now?

I didn't write that.
I don't think the article was about ergonomics or comfort, or about how to watch TV or read a book while on the treadmill. It was about buying a product that does certain things, and then having the company that made it change its functionality without your consent. The question is, should you or should you not have control of the products you buy?