skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For temporary purposes, they usually wrote on wax tablets with styluses, which could be easily melted and re-molded for reuse. They came in little boxes with a protective cover and were used for temporary records and drafts and personal letters: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Table_wi...

And there's always sand! It's probably apocryphal but the legend is that Archimedes was slain by a Roman soldier during the taking of Syracuse when he objected -- "Don't disturb my circles!" -- to how the soldier marched through his trigonometry problems.
Blog post from Joel Spolsky introducing this.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2022/01/27/making-the-web-bet...
Yeah, it's a terrible name. "Zero Assumptions" or similar might be more clear.

Words matter. If nothing else, laypersons hear these terms and shape their understanding assuming based on what it sounds like.
We want to fit into the existing semantic web tech rather than reinvent it - there's a FAQ here which hopefully helps to clarify: https://blockprotocol.org/docs/faq
I'm sure people who fly jetpacks absolutely do care about jetpacks.
I don't know what to tell you. The people of the United States have continuously ceded power to their government, and the corporations that wield influence over it, while being spoonfed lies about what freedom actually means by government and media.

The right to bear arms supercedes the right to live in safe communities (and as a former infantry man, I can assert that more weapons in the hands of untrained civilians does not make communities more safe).

The right to an health care (abortion) is superceded by so called "religious freedoms".

The right to vote is superceded by politicians who rewrite election laws and electoral districts to choose their constituents.

Freedom to discriminate is beginning to supercede the right to freedom from discrimination.

These problems aren't unique to the United States, and in Canada we have our own issues.

> Private corporations don’t have the power of the state to coerce me to do anything.

* blinks in private law enforcement, the radical expansion of surveillance by private corporations, and lack of accountability of tech companies *

Uh, yeah, that's by design, but on a global basis, the design is breaking. There are more and more exceptionally wealthy individuals and corporations that are wielding power and working in domains that have typically been the purview of states and governments.

We need stronger regulation of corporations globally, and strong treaties that unify global regulation and information sharing of how that regulation occurs, or we will continue to cede freedom and governance to the whims of corporations that will wield significant influence over elected officials. One thing going for unelected government, they generally DGAF about the whims of corporations, and we have seen what some countries are willing to do in order to preserve influence over corporations (I would love to hear an honest, unbiased tell all from Jack Ma for example).
How well would Star Link work on a rocking boat? Is its aiming good enough to keep a lock? Is there a problem moving around where they don't expect you?
I can see this potentially having some usefulness if refined, but from a strictly practical perspective, I can't see many pilots surviving a boarding if the vessel has any firearms. It just lacks maneuverability.
The thing missing from this is that no one pays $7.25 any more, even though it is technically the minimum wage. Take it from me, someone who has an entry level job (customer service).
I've heard a theory that the first person to reach 150 will also be the first person to live to 1000, because they'll be around for an extra 50 years of anti-aging research, which will buy them more time, and so on.

It was from an anti aging TED talk I believe.
I recently purchased a LTO-5 drive for my Gentoo-based NAS and have a few key takeaways for those who are interested. Don't buy a HP tape drive if you want to use LTFS on Linux! HPE Library & Tape Tools is prety much dead on modern Linux. Official support is only for RHE 7.x and a few versions of Suse. Building from source is a dependency nightmare that will leave you pulling hair. IBM drives have much better Linux support thanks to https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs. That being said, IMO, you should consider ditching LTFS for good ol' TAR! It's been battle tested since 1979 and can be installed on basically anything. TAR is easy to use, well documented, and makes way more sense for linear filesystems. While drag&drop is nice and all, it really does not make sense for linear storage.
Well, paramotors are actually a bit less prone to mid-air collisions (aside from showing off, wing tip bumping etc.), because they're usually brightly colored, the pilots have perfect visibility, they fly slow and usually pretty low (lower than most airplanes).
I've just been getting into paragliding (i.e. without the motor), and have been absolutely loving it. It blew my mind to learn that by riding thermals, paragliders can essentially stay in the air indefinitely. My longest flight so far has only been about 15 minutes, but people are regularly in the air for hours.

For some more inspiration, check out "speed flying" — essentially, paragliding with skies:
https://youtu.be/UwWLnaME0CI
> There's limited space on that truck, you know that right?

What sort of delivery mode is this statement supposed to defend?

I deleted a lot of text to substitute this simple question: if you wanted to bring toilet paper to all 250 apartments in our building, would you use a passenger car or a truck?
Once again: people are dying, right now, because they can't get access to health care, because hospitals in some places are overflowing with mostly unvaccinated people with COVID. This seems like a fairly location-specific issue, so I would expect that different places could do different things at different times.

We can and are focusing on other things, but hospital capacity is a good one to work on keeping down. Once that's down, I guess we see where we are and probably lift some restrictions.
Read the two sentences following the one you quoted. It's not talking about OpenSea collecting your web address. It's talking about the OpenSea client-side website loading and executing arbitrary HTML loaded from a remote location specified by the NFT creator, which the NFT creator can control. If I create an NFT with an animation url set to `http://my-website/arbitrary-code-i-can-change-any-time.html`, I can execute whatever JavaScript scripts I want in the client-side browser of anyone who views my NFT on OpenSea's website.
If it was "easy to see" we wouldn't have iphone dominance.
On the west coast I've seen parking at municipal parks completely closed "for covid". Yet the parks remain open.

This means people just park in the streets around the parks. What’s that supposed to achieve?
I like the characterization so much of a "polite armed conflict". Seems almost cartoonish.
what exactly happened to yours then, if I may ask?
I feel like I see this way more often than before, but I don't have any hard data to back this up. Just like you, I don't have any good answer to that.

Maybe your network is growing or, more realistically, the global pandemic we happen to be in is causing issues than normal. IMO, the answer to this would be voting for politicians who support a welfare system where an accident doesn't bankrupt you (regardless of things like employment status).
You (obviously) combine it with fire support. Just like a ladder or helicopter assault on a ship, or an infantry attack on land, or really any other military manoeuvre.
Youtube appear to have forgotten about the creators. I miss the wild west days of Youtube when it was growing and anything went. Now we don't have a dislike button, comments get randomly deleted, everything is decided by a random opaque AI and small creators don't get paid. Who now gets to the front page? The highly-polished advertiser friendly mainstream content I went to Youtube to escape from.

I don't agree with some of Naomi Wu's comments about her being specifically targeted for some characteristic, I really suspect she is just an unfortunate victim of the same dumb "human review" everybody is. Some low paid person working for Youtube has X seconds to discern between 'porn' and 'not porn' - they see large breasts and think 'porn'.

The main problem here is they optimized all humanity out of their system. There's no empathy, there's no justice, there's no room for change. It's not a platform I have enjoyed using for a long time now, and it's only because of people like Naomi Wu or EEVBlog that I even interact with it at all. I think most people are looking for a compelling reason to leave.
Looks good! Their examples of using goto in automata (chapter 10) is the first time I've seen it that makes sense to me.
I wonder if a `loop`/`recur` construct like the one Clojure has would help here. Allows for closing over data without having to pass everything into a recursive function, and can handle more complex looping constructs without having to write an explicit "for loop".
oEmbed[1] meets Schema.org[2]?

[1] https://www.oembed.com

[2] https://schema.org
Black powder bronze firearms did apparently exist historically. Note that bronze is a fairly broad term for a range of alloys, some of which I'm guessing didn't exist in the "bronze age."
I for one would commute with it! Fly by the lights and traffic jams.
It looks like subscription plans are the way of the future for automakers. This follows Toyota making remote start a subscription service retroactively [0] [1]

[0] https://www.thedrive.com/news/43329/toyota-made-its-key-fob-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29543194
We have a lot of work to go on implementation detail, but this hopefully helps: https://blockprotocol.org/spec/implementation-approaches#web...
org-mode plugin when?
I'm seeing a huge discrepancy between the poll responses and the comments.

Most everyone seems to agree that leetcode has poor corollation with the ability to perform at most companies, while also agreeing that leetcode is very common practice in interviewing.

You may be able to find a company where you can pass through the interview stages with poor leetcode ability, but many companies that YOU WOULD ACTUALLY WANT TO WORK AT currently include a leetcode evaluation as part of their interview process, despite the fact that that very company does not require those skills for every day work.

And ignore the, "well you wouldn't want to work for a company that tests this way" comments. There is NOT some magical super-strong correlation between the interview experience and the actually-working-there experience that applies to all companies. Some have this correlation, and some don't. This is why you ask the hiring manager for 1:1 interviews with front line engineers and then you grill THEM about aspects of work that matter to you.
lots of billable hours for the various consulting firms. "we'er so happy we can hardly count" - Pink Floyd
CalyxOS, a de-googled Android alternative is now on Android 12
Computer model can estimate where a sound come from as well as the human brain
It does not apply to "normal" cloth masks, and it's deliberately misleading to say otherwise, because if it were true about "normal" cloth masks, then these masks would not be more breathable.
> scientism

Thanks for that.
Even after reading 1/2 this article I was reading it as "ruins" instead of runes. Two very different things apparently!

"Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter."
Sure, I meant it in context, obviously some people did care, otherwise they simply wouldn't exist at all, what I meant is nobody = niche = not mainstream by any means.
It looks like you shared an AMP link. AMP is controversial because of concerns over privacy and the Open Web [0].

Instead, here's the canonical page:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/12/as-coronavi...

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/ehrq3z/why_di...
Ask HN: Why the HN comment layout uses GIF elements?
I blocked all GIFs in uBlock Origin to save bandwidth (an exception filter at the bottom of this post):

.gif$domain

Surprisingly the Hacker News creates the comment layout with GIF images (and of the visible icons, the vote arrows are GIFs) — why this format specifically continues to be used for HN?

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Do geographical coordinates have a standard layout? I'd expect that you have to look at your particular data for cases like this.

Something like IMEI should be pretty easy, if Wikipedia [0] is to be trusted (e.g. in Python):

# Matches IMEI and IMEISV
imei_pattern = re.compile(r"\d{2}-\d{6}-\d{6}-\d\d?")

You could write a big monster pattern that sets up capture groups for all the different TAC and Check Digit variants, but why bother? Just slice off what you need from the result after matching.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mobile_Equipment...
All evidence to the contrary I suppose. So is it safe to label you anti-science and conclude you and Young are endangering people with death and disability because GMO-enhanced crops can feed more people and satisfy nutritional deficiencies? This strikes me as very much the same sort of disagreement over what are clear facts on one side, and what some would consider unwarranted paranoia on the other.

Maybe people should just be allowed to have these conversations because the paranoid serve a useful purpose.
You'll get downvoted for this, but it's been observed repeatedly.

It’s also the reason I stopped hiring from bootcamps. The signal to noise ratio is just too low.
Did you have 2FA? If yes, contact https://krebsonsecurity.com/
If we were to stop using special characters and only use human friendly phrases (eg “jupiterIsTheSmallestPlanet”) it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
Not sure - feel we are heading towards full employment https://data.oecd.org/chart/6BaX
Gonna fastmail it
I do not want to seek to diminish your very real belief that my issues are not real. But they are. My panic attacks in public started when I had to wear masks. When I am anxious or stressed, my breathing shallows. When this happens and I am wearing a mask, i have even less airflow coming in. I have tested this by simply lowering my mask, and examining how much air enters my nasal cavity. It is a huge difference. Or, I should say, it makes a huge difference to my mental state, even if the change in oxygen is relatively small.

My psychiatrist, therapist and gp all confirmed this.
Frankly, you should trust people with these actual conditions. We are living it, you aren't.
NASA Awards 12 Launch Services Contracts
> Doing some digging, I found incontrovertible proof that my foreman of ten years---ten years!!!---had been stealing from me.

> I simply told him I would never give him a raise again. And he understood that---due to radical inflation---his salaried buying power would keep dropping and dropping, until it was chiseled away to nothing. So he quit.

Just to play devil's advocate here, and I'm not saying that stealing is wrong by any means, but this just makes me feel like the reason he was stealing to begin with was that his income was too low to live off of.
It's only infinitesimal due to all of the precautions being taken. Remove those precautions, and more children will die.

Also pretty great, you're cool with a couple dozen kids dying because otherwise some kids might be mildly inconvenienced by wearing a mask.

The discomfort is infinitesimal, the response should be proportional.
Wasn't Omega the successor to Borg? I'd be curious what's the status of it today at Google?
Exactly - there is no such reputation for Russia and it has proven once again, that words of Russians are not even worth what paper is worth, but for everybody else - it is a trap. It was really naive to give such guarantees - they could be more realistic and demand, that Russia at least remove military bases from territory of Ukraine. Even the current events were because of fears to lose Sevastopol - pride of USSR military(which did nothing in WW2).

US and other signing power reputations is worth more(than Russians) and rest of the world is watching. US has already lost a lot of soft power and this entrapment is another dent in reputation for vaning superpower.
Folks at Parcel wrote serializers that uses SharedArrayBuffer for their core stuff like graph[1]. I agree with parent comment that this didn't have to happen in Go, JS would've been fine if they were willing to depart from the source enough.

[1] https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/tree/v2/packages/co...
:( Spoiled on hacker news, what a world
> Like, yeah, I will take the risk of contracting coronavirus to play the piano, because I want the piano in my life.

I'm sympathetic to your point (and I love to play piano), but I can't help but ask, if we slightly reword your claim: would you be willing to take responsibility for spreading coronavirus to n other people so you can play the piano?

Edit, to be clear: I'm not talking about the piano, or surface transmission; I'm talking about the values.
We disagree a lot but I really like your post.

Capitalism is a natural behaviour which emerge in human interactions. As you say, we're social animals and we interact with one another.

The problem lies with the "capitalist" states which are not capitalism but crony capitalism, aka just socialism with extra steps. When a state with regulatory monopoly and a monopoly of violence exists, you can't have pure capitalism. Big businesses will just corrupt the government and you'll end up in a system where the top dogs can keep everyone else poor and under control - while still believing their democratic vote is worth anything.

I don't think Marxism is a solution, for the simple reason that human beings are not perfect: they are corruptible and as soon as you end up having an institution with the power to do something for a large number of people, you'll have power and corruption.
Marxism is great in theory, but in practice it just devolves to the same system we live in where top dogs eat small dogs.

The shift we really need is decentralisation. No centralised governments. People trading with people and exchanging services and goods with no third parties stealing a part. Healthcare and protection (and private protection agencies offering different sets of laws) being sold and insured like any other services. Voluntary charity to help those in needs instead of mandatory taxes.

We need to have the smallest entities possible so that there won't be someone far away deciding what you can and cannot do.
In a world without taxes, big companies won't have ways of avoiding taxes and shift them to the upper middle class, they won't have someone to corrupt to prevent innovation.

The answer for social networks is, again, decentralisation.
The systems we have now (eg. mastodon) are still immature but, unless Facebook pay some government to introduce even more laws to comply with (GDPR comes to mind), a good decentralised competitors is going to come up, eventually.

Everyone should have their own server with their own data and communicate with other users on their own servers.
I guess you could tape it shut and then carefully remove the tape when you get it. Once you have something you want to "send to the past" you use whatever natural stickiness comes with the envelope.
> But how is school quality defined? It’s defined according to the summative outcomes of how students perform. I’ve been arguing for a decade that perceived school quality is simply a product of the selection effects of how a school’s population was assembled.

That's one way to define school quality, and the author is right that it's a self-reinforcing loop, but... that's not the only way to define school quality.

Another way would be: what kind of courses do they offer? How many AP or IB courses do they offer? Do they have notable extracurriculars? There's a highschool near me that has a planetarium attached. What are the credentials of the teachers? Any of the teachers have impressive accomplishments, either outside of teaching, or teaching awards? How many students per class? What kind of technology do they have for kids to work with?

There's all sorts of things that can be used to analyze a school's quality, that has nothing to do with outcomes.
FWIW $employer is also okay with candidates working in their local environment if they're comfortable screen sharing. IME most people seem to prefer coderpad though, even after being nudged that using a local environment may be more helpful for writing tests.
The big difference is that cars have brakes and that coming to a full stop will avoid most crashes.

There is no good "emergency braking" for jetpacks, there is not even "autorotation" as there is for helicopters.
It's quite ironic that the "Foundations of Computer Science" are hosted on an HTTP server without TLS.

I was lucky enough to have gone to a university system (UC) which gave me an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of computer science, but when I see major universities (like Stanford) operate public HTTP sites without TLS, I can't be anything other than disappointed.

It's 2022, there's really no excuse to operate public HTTP sites without TLS (with minor exceptions). Even self-signed certificate HTTPS would be far better than HTTP without TLS.
I don’t know how to be more clear that the disclaimer is the same than to link you to a site selling normal cloth masks with the exact same disclaimer.
Genuine question- how is that actually possible?

Surely there is, at minimum, an unstated variable here like "effort required to inhale the same volume of air"? Or the composition of the air?

I'm not an expert in this area, but as someone who "feels" like I'm getting less oxygen and is willing to consider that my body is tricking me, help me understand.

edit: I shouldn't have to say this, but I'll mention I'm vaccinated+boosted and have complied with the mask mandates. I just don't understand these unintuitive claims.
>> There's no "bicycle" of jetpacks

Grab any drone with a 200kg capacity (they do exist), hang a lawn chair under it, and take to the sky. That's probably safer. Jetpacks as a concept might get overtaken by the small helicopters we today call drones.
According to which study? During Delta it did not appear to be significant difference.
Drop spindles don't spin continuously, which gives the wheel an uptime advantage.

Even modern spinners who prefer a drop spindle often have a wheel on hand for plying. Spinning a thread out of a blob of fluff can be engaging and interesting, while plying is a tedious process that's hard to get wrong without falling asleep in the middle. There's not really an art or skill to plying. A wheel can knock out this boring part of the spinning process much more quickly.
To be fair. Your gas stove in your home can pose health risks due to often poor ventilation of the fumes.

Your personal and childs health might improve by moving to induction.
I think maybe the problems are: 1) the extra axis of movement means more operating complexity, and 2) there is no equivalent of "5 mph in a parking lot" on a jetpack, either you're flying or you're not.
I'm not proposing anything. I was just trying to give a possible rational for this rule.
Sweden approves plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100k years
Yikes, chill with the whitephobia.
Up (Film Series)
Then you will have this argument forever, because you've broadcasted to the whole world that you can be trivially wound up by people making self-evidently stupid arguments, and there's a pretty decent chunk of the population that finds doing that to be an incredibly potent source of dopamine.