skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm seeing a lot about how hiring competent people would be harder. But I think competence is independent of this, so perhaps what you're saying is Linux use masks incompetence? I would really question the chops of somebody who says they can work with Linux but not FreeBSD. People who really know their stuff on Linux would be able to figure it out.

And if you never see FreeBSD again... So what? The stuff you are building on top is probably more relevant than questions like this.
Think of it more like a very long period wave, much like a tide, but on a much shorter time period than the tide. Tides, waves (periods on the order of seconds), and tidal waves (or tsunamis) are all fluctuations in sea level. Water can be moved when the waves encounter enclosed bays or harbors. Think of the water level dropping 3 ft over 20 minutes in front of a harbor entrance and imagine the currents that can result.

Here's an example of observations from coastal California (red line shows sea level measured every 6 minutes: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/waterlevels.html?id=941211...

It is truly amazing - I'm not surprised that it's hard to believe.
Making things hard sometimes leads to insights down the line. For instance, the formula for solving cubic equations seems kind of silly from a numerical point of view -- you can just use a general-purpose numerical algorithm to solve cubics. But the research into solving cubics using restricted operations led to the discovery of the complex numbers, group theory, and the theory of fields, etc. So it was worth doing things the hard way and sticking to the letter of the problem.

Likewise, the ideas people use to solve the problem in the article may have applications elsewhere.

I do sometimes have doubts about whether this is the most efficient way of discovering scientific ideas: Posing puzzles and seeing what tools people throw at them. So I can see the criticisms coming...
Just tested this myself. Got the same results as you while using different file names.

Difficult to believe that Google has become so internally dysfunctional that it hasn't fixed this technical embarrassment twenty hours after first being being seen, and then five hours after being reported on front page of Hacker News.
So tell me about the improvements in the ports and packages systems, that's notably missing from your response.
The connections can take up the bulk of the package.
I think the vaccine should have been distributed earlier to at risk groups as well. I’m probably classified as either anti-vaxx in the current discourse. I think if you are placing healthy people under house arrest to protect other people then you have to strongly consider if risk/benefits of an experimental vaccine justifies its distribution without waiting for normal testing.
VR advertising and tracking platform.
For the same reason it’s a good thing in other contexts. It’s the main reason Unix got popular - because it can be made to fit whatever requirement you have.
Indeed. It looks a lot like dotnet's Linq.
Does this let you write functions that take tables as parameters and return tables? It always seemed weird to me that SQL doesn't let you do this.
If you don’t know about this feature of rclone, you’re in for a treat! Combined with unionfs or mergerfs, or the builtin union function, you can have cached local decrypted mounts of locally encrypted remote mounted directories on gdrive, mirrored to a local folder.

https://rclone.org/crypt/

https://rclone.org/union/

Edit: there is also the (sorta abandoned, or finished/complete depending on your pov) plexdrive project, which does a bit of Plex server specific opinionated stuff and mounts gdrive read only, but which may help with reducing API quota usage according to some reports. I’ve never had any issues with the quotas that I’m aware of, but I did have to tune my settings a fair bit to get it dialed in on a somewhat memory constrained vps.

https://github.com/plexdrive/plexdrive
Microsoft Server systems for government use have been audited and have strict controls for implementation, hardening, securing, etc.

They're probably more secure than BSD.

>SELinux looks nice on paper - another box to check - but it’s just another mitigation later, not something that can be considered “trusted”.

This is fractally wrong.
Ah, great answer, thank you. Do you happen to know the approximate radius of JWST's halo orbit?

(Edit below, to answer my own question via wikipedia)

> The telescope will circle about the Sun-Earth L2 point in a halo orbit, which will be inclined with respect to the ecliptic, have a radius varying between about 250,000 km (160,000 mi) and 832,000 km (517,000 mi), and take about half a year to complete.
> Some companies never let mechanical designers into the R&D lab to make prototypes and instead have a dedicated staff that only does that.

I want to second this.

I went into MechE specifically to be a MechE that also gets to do hands on portions in machine design. Unfortunately, as a young teenager with this goal in mind, nobody told me this is a very rare thing - especially for fresh out of college positions.

Very small niche, you’ll have to search far and wide to find a decent job as a MechE that also lets you touch the things you’ve applied your MechE to.
Shameless plug:

I wrote a Nemo extension [1] that lets you add columns for #tags @persons or $whatever you put in a filename. You can sort by these columns. For complex things, there's always `find`.

[1] https://github.com/dejj/nemo-addons/blob/main/nemo-python/ex...
> they explicitly reserve the right to do so in their TOSes

Do you have an example of Google explicitly reserving the right to delete any/all data with no notice and for no reason?
> My point is: it would be unethical to "stick to the man" in that way,

Healthcare workers in the US were largely done thinking this way before the pandemic, unfortunately.
IRC tells me this has been fixed now.
Ongoing discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30062510
Just over 2/5 of the white students at Harvard at ADLC admissions. These are overwhelmingly white. To make up for that imbalance, you need very biased admissions for non-ADLC students, indeed.

It's not a small number.
It would seem browsers would benefit from an easily-toggleable "disable auto-focus" option. That seems like a win/win to me
I understand it was quite popular in the MSX world.
Copyright is spelled out in the US Constitution as distinct from property, for clear and well-justified reasons.

Every move to make copyright more like property makes copyright less useful for its designated purposes, and more a drain on the public interest. But copyright holders are continually pressing courts and legislators to try make copyright law subservient to property law, and succeeding, incrementally, so case law on copyright has become hard to distinguish from property law. Nowadays copyright lawyers even call themselves "Intellectual Property" lawyers, deliberately trying to obscure the difference.

The consequence is that Copyright, which was once a benefit for the public interest, is now a benefit only for entrenched media companies. Eliminating it would once have been taking away from the public. Now, eliminating it would benefit the public. But, since copyright is now a matter of international treaty, we no longer have, even in principle, the power to eliminate it: treaties override the Constitution.
Because the original felt odd in C#.
It's interesting that he identified statistics issues (eg a third variable, poverty, explains some of the correlation between race and police incidents) but there doesn't seem to be much interest in the next step: if poverty, ghettoisation, and wider systemic issues are the real problem, how to solve them?

An analysis concluding that 'defund the police is just a distraction' should logically conclude that the real response required is much bigger (reducing inequality, the effects of historical racism, and systemic racism), not that no action is required.
Here's the ever-present warning when employing any ad-blocking: make sure you whitelist friendly blog sites, they need your ad money to operate! (Not that there is anything wrong with this project, just keep that in mind).

I do understand that this is something completely different, and it solves a real problem. Great job! Welcome back to the game, xvello, 2005 was a long time ago...

I might pop into the repo later and see about contributing.
I honestly loving using it as well, hence the post. I have not always had the best time with the Parallax Propeller (was going to use it for a work project last week but ended up going a different route) but when I have played with it the experience was awesome.

The RP2040 usually just works for me, and the PIO is awesome. I've had a few cool automation projects at home that the RP2040 was the easiest thing to just get up and running with. In the past I would've gone with something in the STM family, but I'm very happy and impressed with the RP2040/Pi Pico.
Interesting. I've always just assumed that the messaging around prevention like vaccination/masking has always been adjusted to the Western motive - Do THIS thing and it will keep you safe! Whereas I think we all know by now the only way to defeat the virus is to prevent the spread - not to prevent a specific individual from being infected. Vaccination, boosting, masks, social distancing - the goal is all to get that R0 below 1.0, but to convince people to actually practice them we must tell them it will keep them safe.
See the URL for the Bash/Zsh aliases and Fish functions for the following commands:

# Create a new branch called New_branch_name, branched off the default branch (e.g. main or release), with any uncommitted changes carried over.

$ gnb New_branch_name

$ git checkout -B Some_great_new_feature

# Create a git commit with the commit message "Some great new feature"

$ gcb

# Perform a Git push to origin, using the local branch name as the remove branch name

$ gpb

# Force push

$ gpb -f
Deny all should be default.
You use rclone, or another stack? I’m always trying new tools in this space.
biology is hard, perhaps too complex for human brains to make a decent model of it. AI can solve it and try to explain it to us (if it pleases her)
For background batch jobs and analytics etc. they might want caps. Say something like a video transcoding workload. And lots of things could benefit not from a cap, but some kind of gradual degradation in bandwidth/instance allocation + a warning so you can raise the limits, it doesn't have to just shut everything down immediately using a hard cap.
> if tags can imitate them, they can't replace their structure.

Technically, they can. A "folder" is just a tag whose name is the entire directory path up to root. All files with that same tag are in the same folder.
While OP here made a mistake, some countries use mixed systems depending on what it is used for . Switzerland for example uses comma for normal numbers and dot for currency alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Examples_of_...
It seems like this should just reduce to the question: given two natural numbers x and y represented by n bits how many bits are needed to represent the difference sqrt(y) - sqrt(x) so that it is non-zero when x != y. To see this suppose you compute each sqrt in both lists to k bits then group together the closest matching pairs from the two lists. Some of these pairs may have a difference of zero. Now increase k until all of the pairs are distinguished (have non-zero differences). At that point you know the answer, you just have to add up the differences.

As for the first question it should take no more than n bits because sqrt(x) is a contraction at least for x >= 1 as is obvious from its graph compared to that of f(x) = x.
What's the difference between N and N+ ? As far as I can tell, N+ just means a higher doping concentration? But it seems very fuzzy as to what 'higher' means?
I think so. I think there is necessarily a circle "eversion" (turning it inside-out) with a crease. Whatever is the point of the crease would hear sound from all directions. Even with something like a figure 8 collapsing wavefront, eventually one or more creases should form.
I am long BTC, ETH among other things. No tulips though.
ultimately I think we are in agreement and I apologize for coming across so strongly in my original post.

I am also so frustrated at all the propaganda being disseminated by oil companies and bought out YouTubers alike, about doing only the smallest amount possible. and I completely agree the anthropocene epoch is clearly driven by fossil fuel.

I think people feel (and are in actuality) powerless to change the fossil fuel question. which is why the biggest contribution individuals can start today along side advocating policy change, is to halt wasting food, cut out or reduce meat (mainly beef) consumption to a tiny fraction of what is currently culturally normalized.

however in all honesty I live in pure horror of this whole thing every single day.
> ...insane to allow broad access to medical records through any centralised system any time soon.

> It is unfortunate because obviously in principle a single centrally-administered records facility with robust security and audit trails for all access and a Hippocratic Oath level of privacy protections would be far better than the status quo in many ways.

Funny, one would have thought that pretty much is the status quo already: Looks to me like the UK already has (or should have) a single centrally-administered records facility with robust security and audit trails -- isn't that the NHS?

If it doesn't at the moment quite fulfill your requirements, it certainly ought to anyway, oughtn't it? So the problem is one of fixing its possible current deficiencies, not one of lacking it entirely. Or?
RCRestoMod Project 3 – Ferrari F40
That world does exist with programmable keyboards. Fn + Capslock = Capslock On / Off toggle. Capslock = Esc. Makes coding in VI / VIM quicker on the touch and lighter on the fingers. Just wish laptop manufacturers would include programmable keyboards so multi-boot allows retention instead of having to run a service to override the OS input device.
It's why I like tekton, it's a CI system for kubernetes so you're letting kubernetes solve all those problems. I have far more faith that k8s will be alive and kicking and not breaking core things like secrets, logs, container execution, etc. in painful ways in the future than anything else.

In general though I try to put all the CI work into a simple shell or similar script and then just configure whatever CI system is in use to call it in the appropriate environment (in a container, bespoke VM, etc.). I agree putting all kinds of complexity in a unique CI system is just asking for trouble down the road as it's now basically a hard dependency for your code to be shippable.
Minsky had many questionable opinions. Obviously somebody consumed by avarice would have an aversion to meditation.
https://edit.tosdr.org/points/14762

Note the wording "we reasonably believe". There is nothing objective about this.

Additionally: https://policies.google.com/terms#toc-removing

> Removing your content

> If any of your content (1) breaches these terms, service-specific additional terms or policies, (2) violates applicable law, or (3) could harm our users, third parties, or Google, then we reserve the right to take down some or all of that content in accordance with applicable law.

Finally, buried 3 links deep in the Terms[0], we can find a list of some of what Google considers valid under this clause. A lot of it makes sense (clearly illegal things) some of it is subjective ("misleading content"). If you feel comfortable all of your data could never be interpreted by anyone as falling under any of these categories, be my guest, use GDrive.

[0]: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505
Watching the trailer reminded me of "It's a Unix System... I know this" :)
I have watched this evolve for ~12 years now. As thanatos519 sums up, when power is angered.....
At this time, any correctional aspect to this pursuit is long gone. The US Government is just letting it's anger rage unchecked - to no good or valid end.
It reflects badly on the US Government, it refreshes the ire of most Americans at the whole thing. They are angry the US Government committed their own crimes, they are angry at these unattractive truths being aired, they see that Assange also acted badly - but a large portion feel he was justified - most feel Sweden also acted badly by their lying accusations(assuredly instigated by the US). After 12 years it is time for the rage to end. The US Government should mend it's ways - if they have to do criminal acts to block the criminal acts of foreign governments against US interests (as I am sure there were) they need some judicial oversight to limit action against innocents of any country. That said, if they get evidence of foreign crimes against US citizens/interests the oversight should grant the powers they need. This data should be held in an encrypted form that can not be cracked - electronic 1 time pad - if there is such a method, and in an isolated computational enclave with no external connections so it can not be breached, and if by chance breached - it can not be decoded.
The UK courts approval of the appeal gives a chance for smarter people to come to the fore.
As you can see, I want the ability to safeguard the USA/citizens against the many very hostile foreign interests they face - but at this time, the offence is so remote from the punishment that all this farce reveals us the basic US venality - justice is long gone.
Ask HN: DMCA request without a Google Account
It appears that to file a DMCA request to take down copyrighted materials, one has to go through the "troubleshooter"[0], a series of questions that ultimately sends you to Google Search Console to login, i.e. you need a Google account. Is there any way past this requirement?

[0] https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905
I already love a lot of things at Pimoroni, but that Tiny2040 looks great for experimenting with! The wireless pack also seems interesting, might experiment with that concept on a custom board.
Who is winning the U.S.-China trade war?
I ran FreeBSD servers for about a decade. Now all my servers are Linux with systemd. I'm liked FreeBSD then, I'm happy with systemd now. I have commits in both.

I'm glad there are some people who use and prefer FreeBSD and other init system now, because diversity in digital ecosystems is benefits the whole just as diversity in natural ecosystems do.

The shot taking at systemd here was disingenuous though. The author complained about the number of different systemd binaries and the lines of source code, but all these tools provide a highly consistent "system layer" with standardized conventions and high quality documentation-- it's essentially the same argument made to support FreeBSD as a large body of kernel and userspace code that's maintained in harmony.
It's a $12 minimum order where I am anyway. So you pay $12 whether you have $12 of items or not.

So, I am guessing GP has a couple egg-mcmuffins in there somewhere.
its almost like they have different departments.....
Brexit made it more difficult to do business in EU. Otherwise it us fairly easy to incorporate and get a startup visa. But the Netherlands are very business friendly and low tax. Go for a BV structure ( similar to Ltd. in UK or GmbH in Germany) but lower capital requirements ( EUR 100). Just my tuppence.
Do you get paid in MetaBucks or a real currency? What are the hours and benefits like? Does Zuck wave out a window at you in lieu of cash bonuses?
Consider where your customers are, first and foremost. When you know that, you are ready to evaluate.
It's pretty terrible if you compare it to CircleCI or GitLab from 4 years ago. I'm a big fan of GitLab, seems like the only company pushing things forward in an _elegant matter_, used it heavily in the startup world. Using GitHub again these days. I cry every time I need to do GHA stuff. Current setup of Github + CircleCI is miles more elegant as it was 6 years ago.
If you constrict the logic to the north, then the electoral college isn't doing the thing Rayiner says it's doing; the logic stops working in a different way.
I use Dropbox for almost 10 years and I have been using it well so far!

Dropbox offers great file history and restoration support. One day I deleted files permanently then the team kindly supported my case to restore the files within a day.
I posted a visualization of the shock wave as a submission, but I"ll repost it here. This is a satellite measurement of integrated atmospheric water vapor (IIUC), so changes in the density of air change the integrated measurement, such that you can see the shock wave travel around half the globe.

https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2022/01/22...

(it take a few seconds to load, but I believe this is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen).
A really hard problem that often arises when doing E2E tests, is creating and managing test data.

If you have one or more integrations to external systems, where you cannot control your test data, it becomes much harder to write stable E2E tests.

Some don't have test environments, some have too few. Most don't allow you to setup data easily either way.

You can, of course, mock the external systems, but if they play a large enough part, your tests start looking more like integration tests again, but with the added overhead of something like browser automation.

It's a hard balance to strike.
This is going to be super important, as soon as we have automated digital fabricators that can fabricate silicon chips competitive with TSMC's and Samsung's. Until then, you're kind of stuck with what TSMC and Samsung and Intel decided to fab for you, AMD PSP and all; you can't just recompile your CPU to remove the backdoor or add half-precision matrix multiplies, or recompile your DRAM with a large CAM to see if it helps with database queries. You can do a lot of experimentation with FPGAs but you'll get 10x worse performance and 100x worse price than an ASIC.

It's 02027 and you don't like your CPU reporting you to the US Trade Representative for copyright infringement because you have a file consisting of "1" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30060405), or to the Chinese Communist Party because you have a copy of the Quran? Not sure that Rage Against The Machine album always had lyrics urging you to get out there and buy Sony products? Suck it up, peon, that's just the way things are.
Practical Breathing Exercises for Long Covid
Calling the Startup Valuation Peak
I ran a quick bit of napkin maths a few days back here on HN.

Based on 6 MT energy release, a maximum of 11 million tonnes (or 11 million m^3) of water could have been vapourised.

Liquid-to-gas expansion is on the order of 1,000 times, not 70x. This would be 11 km^3 of expansion.

If the erruption yield was higher, and I've seen values of up to 50 MT suggested, the amounts would be roughly 9x greater: 100 million tonnes and 100 km^3 of steam.

All of this is very rough and is strictly based on the quantity of energy and the heat of vapourisation of water. Actual quantity of water/steam is likely lower. There's no geology involved in the estimate, just physics.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019044
Negative Value Features
We're not talking about USA.
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Happy National Peanut Butter Day, American HNers!
Interesting, so you kinda imagine a resurgence of India and China to be an innovation cluster. Matt Ridley had also said something like this -https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/innovation-is-localize...
Show HN: I made a website to check how decentralized an NFT is