skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starlink is likely to eventually have a mobile-base capable terminal. Probably not by this summer, though.
They said they normalized the cough count, which I'm assuming means time adjusted?
We have found our deep thicker and geopolitical strategist.

Amazingly, they conjure their deep insights without any factual information, using only their extraordinary prowess for bellybutton scratching.
A lot of people use DDG which mainly uses Bing.
An important thing to bear in mind is that the legal profession is largely self-regulated, and lawyers have a monopoly over the legal system. State bars and bar organizations are largely unaccountable to the public. If these organizations abandon principles of neutrality and objectivity, and become overtly ideological, they can use their power over lawyers to exert tremendous, anti-democratic influence over every aspect of life. Everyone should be worried about this.

And when I say everyone, I mean it. People assume that it's just "conservatives" complaining about these ideological changes. But to be clear, all of the people quoted in this article--like the overwhelming majority of lawyers--are liberals: David Boies, Andy Koppelman, Nadine Strossen, etc. Indeed, they're probably well to the left of your average Democrat.

Also, when it comes to the legal system, you shouldn't disregard complaints from "conservatives." The reason legal process works is because, even though it results in winners and losers, everyone at least everyone agrees in the process and the principles underlying it. The faith Americans have in the legal system is remarkable given that 90% of lawyers are liberal Democrats, while most Americans are Republicans or conservative Democrats. (Fun fact: about two-thirds of the country still opposes the half-century old Supreme Court precedent banning school prayer.) Abandoning the dedication to neutrality and objectivity that has been championed by even liberal legal organizations up to this point will have profoundly negative consequences for the rule of law.
I know why the button is there, as GET requests are not supposed to change state but POST requests can, and you can only make a GET request by clicking on a link in the email.

I'd be interested to see if that interpretation has been upheld by a court. Has anyone taken legal action arguing that the server should have used the GET request as the action to unsubscribe, not made the user click an extra button to get that POST request.
It will be worth it, hang in there. I think it's easier for them because they don't get interrupted, they can skip past horrible screen sharing experiences and they don't need to bother with invitations or schedules.
Which makes sense, "Closed Captioning" (CC) is different than "Subtitles", in that the purpose of CC is to provide on-screen text (captions) for deaf/near deaf viewers, while subtitles is captions for just dialogue.
Zapper is a special feature, entirely unrelated to cosmetic filtering. When you zap an element, the element is removed from the DOM, and the zapper code will also look at the DOM to find out if any of the parent elements are scroll-locked, and if so will defuse it with an inline style using `!important`.[1]

As for cosmetic filtering, it's is the hiding of elements using `display: none !important`, so `!important` is also key to ensure page styles are overridden.[2]

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[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/12ab8664a30538570d395...

[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/12ab8664a30538570d395...
>They d,o but your boss doesn't

You don't know. You don't work there. You're just making stuff up to bolster your position. Users never complained about the speed of the system based on that algorithm.

>Yes and you're not the only one but the "I've been burned therefore noone can use 3rd party libs" is childish.

No one said that but you.

>is childish

If you can't attack the position, attack the person, right?

Well we'll just have to agree to disagree. I'll run my team how I see fit and you run your team how you see fit.
How about "This is a mentally slothful way..." It's same thing. Comment is about how poor the thought was behind their view.
I do it a few times a year because many open-source softwares have glaring bugs. This is true in the JS/TS world, at least.

I don't know how you can avoid doing it at all, unless you're just messily working around issues in your codebase or leaving a TODO or item in the backlog to fix it in the distant future. (Which can be a better use of time sometimes of course.)
I have contributed work I've done in the context of paid employment. Very very occasionally I do so outside of work (maybe I use a tool at home, it doesn't work properly for what I want, I patch it and send a PR upstream).

My motivation to do so is if everyone puts in just a little bit of extra effort to contribute upstream we can get many people making small patches. It's nice for a contributor to see folks care (as opposed to just complaining of issues).
I found it in the students library and I had a C64 at the time and I thought "Wow, this is it! This is the official, real language for the Commodore, 'cos COMmodore and COMal, obvious, right?"
I mean it's exactly what I would expect from something with minimal friction. The only improvements I can think of is to make the wait time slower; plugging one battery in should immediately unlock another.

The other improvement depends on battery technology though.
I'm just going to put it out there that this is a great start and has some distance to go depending on its end point. Interesting concept (I have seen iterations of it in the past but maybe not at the whole global level). You'll notice that it strongly favors hydro electricity (for which you can only be blessed with rivers or not) or Nuclear.

Things I take issue with:
1. How do you lump all of California under one value given there are 4 large utilities that have their own value but include LADWP and the balancing authority?
2. Since the visualization is by state but not the size of impact it also makes smaller inefficient areas look like they have as large an impact.

I do appreciate the flow of electricity across states though.

In the end I'm not sure the value prop - is this for policy planners? It's not high quality enough to be for energy trading or asset deployment. I had thought of doing something like this mapping out a couple years ago but couldn't figure out what the exercise was going to do in the end outside of some interesting visualization and then fairly complicated analysis of different energy systems.

Either way good work for the people who've got the project to this point.
There is no technical difference. There's no real technical argument for it -- the same thing could easily be done by software. It's more about the gestalt of photography and being limited to a small number of options done "in camera". Most of what Fujifilm has been doing in recent years has been trying to carve out a niche closer to old-style photography (the XPro3's removal of the back screen in the default configuration, for example, so that chimping becomes difficult). When you pull files into Lightroom/Camera Raw/Capture One, there is tons of flexibility, but there's also a ton of sliders and it eventually ends up feeling onerous and not fun in the long term for me. (If I was doing professional photography it would be different of course.) I think that's a big part of what makes people prefer their phones.
> Absurd rules were created, for example a levy for privately generated photovoltaic electricity.

This makes sense since you stress the grid requiring the grid operators to invest.
Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control
I have seen it. Appreciate you sharing it though.
Point is I don't buy his angle. To me it wasn't a fresh take on sounds of the future. It meshed bad with the movie and was a bunch of trite tropes like detached arabic-like wails and dry buzzers. Soundcloud is full of amateur electronic artists doing it better. But in the end its all taste, and I wouldn't call the movie (and soundtrack) bad. Just not anything near good. I'm kind of envious of you who like it.
Counter point... if niceness is distributed independantly from looks, por que no los dos? ;)
Big corp I work for will not allow me to write single line of code for open source projects. I might leak something confidential this way. The reality is not black and white like you try to paint it. Heck I had problems with leaking confidential information when supplied electrical diagram with mechanical drawing for one of the suppliers.
> I see R users (typically PhD students and post-docs) doing "science" in R by playing with parameters to functions in poorly-understood packages and publishing papers on which parameters are "best" for data generated from some specialty source.

That's a lot of bioinformatics, and not specific to R. It is a huge issue with anything vaguely pushbutton in the bioinformatics domain.
As a big proponent of sortition, I fully endorse loto-lawyer.

Maybe then we can continue with the lower houses of US legislatures.
Nobody is exempt from nerd beatdown time on HN.
Show HN: UI Updates to Blokfeed
My motivation has usually been to add features/fixes that *I* would consider useful for my particular use cases, and most times it's for software I use in my personal time or personal projects.

Expecting to get paid for your first contributions to open source sounds, to me, like the wrong motivation.
Now I want to see an actual match with these cards. Imagine having to come up with fitting strategies for that bunch of uncanny-valley Pokémon you've been dealt with. Given the vastly varying damage some of these critters do, it will probably be more of a game of chance.
Oh yeah, I've witnessed it. An ADA held a known unsupported charge that carried pretrial restrictions only found under that charge. Then they prevented us from talking to court scheduling to secure remote accommodations for a witness (so they couldn't testify) - even though the rules of procedure/discovery didn't allow them to do that for a summary case, and violated the Bar's rules of professional conduct. I filed a complaint with the Bar. The Bar didn't even look at it. They did they'll only investigate after a court formally declares that prosecutorial misconduct occurred. Ok... so what do you actually investigate if the determination has to already be made?
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but this looks like an end-user authentication system that you would implement in your own app rather than a corporate directory like Okta. Different use cases.
So now you expect everyone to engage with their bribers to determine credibility?
Your type of reply is common with people who want to avoid the very real question of why the rules are bent when trades go wrong for certain people. Please tell me why you think somebody who shorted nickel so heavily to the point that they almost went broke deserves a bailout.
Yes by using them thereby giving the developers reason to get out of bed.

More seriously; no. The license gives no warranty for the software, or potential issues I encounter. If the developer would take more professional responsibility there, I might feel like funding or contributing somehow. But if their approach is this is free stuff no strings, my approach is freely take and provide no guarantees in return.
As a non-German speaker I found the joke about the joke informative and humorous.
While we're griping about marketing emails, another pattern I've noticed from some companies are emails with subjects like:

> January monthly statement: <some drivel>

> February monthly statement: <more drivel>

> Account summary: please review your statement

> Your January eStatement

Would you be surprised if I told you that none of these emails contained an account statement? The general content of these emails is something to the effect of "Your statement is: nothing changed! So while I have your attention, here's 20MB of flashy images and here's some new ways you can give us money and why haven't you been giving us money recently?" These tactics are straight out of spammer's playbooks.

These still go to my gmail account which I'm slowly migrating off of. One thing I've noticed is that often, these emails are long enough that gmail clips the message short and adds a "show full message" button. But that means it clips off the "unsubscribe" link.

I've started adopting the tactic I learned here of signing up for services with different emails like `me+to-servicename`, and then having filters set up to keep their spam out of my inbox. It's wonderful, although sometimes I worry about missing an email from some support staff who urgently needs to contact me (this has literally never happened, but I still worry).
The leap from 'junior associate at a fancy law firm made a bold request based on principles' to 'the American legal system is under attack by whiny, ultra-liberal wreckers' blew me away. But as you pointed out, that's not the point of the article. The author's purpose is to whine about right-wing windmills for 5,000 word.

I can't believe we take these people seriously.
I can imagine it takes a few hours to fully charge these batteries (and to keep them cool), so if it's frequently used there wouldn't be any full batteries and swapping them would be a waste.

I mean it can be scaled up so that one of these stations has hundreds of batteries, an active cooling system etc etc, so it's a fixable problem.
#18 will take most people that long (a couple of decades) to actually follow. And it's the most important one. Even on OP's list is near the end, IMO it should be the first point.
I wonder if the COVID effect will have desensitized people to coughs so the coughgeist is way higher than usual.
> I'm afraid that risk aversion will lead us to demand perfect instead of the good enough.

Then Mercedes' move is exactly the sort of pragmatic, no-bullshit yardstick you want. 'Putting your money where your mouth is' is a widely-understood and respected way of showing you are not bullshitting.

Current liability laws have not forced car manufacturers to make perfectly safe vehicles (which, would, of course, kill the industry), and there's no reason to assume they will do so for self-driving cars.
google can detect an Amish person in the horse-drawn carriage, reliably, by the small decrease in speed, and the slight "moving over" in the lane, by the deluge of barely-affected traffic.

The red dot drudges along blissfully ignorant, unaware of its existence in the virtual, ethereal plane.
Taleb's System: From the 4th quadrant to Skin in the Game (2018)
Yeah, it could just be me, but I prefer to make two false starts, toss them, and then get it right on the third attempt rather than attempting to whiteboard the problem for two weeks.

Not only is it more interesting to me to try three different ways to tackle a problem, but I have been burned when the two weeks of whiteboarding missed something and I'm back to having to iterate anyway.

To be sure, I do a little whiteboarding, but generally it might be about 2 hours or so of sketching out ideas, major structures, code flow ideas.

I generally was nodding along to most of the author's points though.

I definitely have grown to divorce myself from my ego and always try to not only try to shine the spotlight on my younger coworkers (new engineers) but try to give them "ownership" of key pieces to allow them not only some sense of autonomy/ownership but a sense of pride as well.

That does go slightly against some of the author's points about collaboratively working on a project. Engineers need a part of the code (let's say an image cache manager, as an example) that they can "own" though in order to grow. You don't want an engineer to always have "training wheels" on. (And frankly, I think this is one of the things I dislike about code reviews, I think it dis-incentivises autonomy.)

The team though, let me be clear, is the most important part of any project, not the individual luminaries. The "team" though, to a degree, needs to have engineers who feel an ownership stake in pieces of the product.

(FWIW, I have probably 35 years of programming experience, ha ha.)
Mac Studio is 4x more efficient than my new AMD PC
This article doesn't offer up compelling evidence that the "ideals themselves" are eroding. It's just a collection of anecdotal examples, showing in some cases it doesn't live up to the ideals, in the author's opinion.
I make incidental contributions, usually of the form of fixes to bugs I encounter or extensions of function that I need.

My motivation is saving others the ass-ache I just went through. There’s no reason in my mind that I should have a fix and not share it, especially after all of the lift/savings I've gotten over the years from emacs, Linux, apache, svn, git, etc.
If you make such strong statements, I would expect that you back it up. For now, it reads as a shallow dismissal, and the guidelines talk about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Performance serves usability" is, to me, another very strong reason to do at least some prototyping very early.
I agree that you often need to be pragmatic. Not that the keyword is the definition of grace in any way. If you have to overwrite something later you can append it as the last !important gets precedence.

I am no web developer and I honestly don't like html/css, even if I use it nearly exclusively for visualization by now. There is so much baggage that you basically have to know to be able to create efficient solutions. Wanted to visualize some data where you basically color small cells in a larger table. I used a HTML table tag and styled it with CSS. Big mistake! It was incredibly slow for something very simple, I had perhaps 50,000 cells. Little did I know about the background calculation of html table cells and I also did not know why no browser version of Excel derivative uses that tag to implement their grid.

Of course you can say that everyone knows this. Doesn't change the fact of the severe baggage.
Electric cars are whisper quiet at low speeds; at higher speeds tire noise becomes prominent. I wouldn't be surprised if they intentionally add noise for safety reasons.
Unsubscribe works on majority of services I have subscribed too. But they are some bad actors.

And we work with many “marketing professions” which do not understand that how nice “unsubscribe” actually helps the bussiness. At least can tell you if your marketing emails suck…
Hard to see how that tactically beats a Javelin or other anti-tank missile, which are clearly affordable enough.
I was fortunate to have a similar experience early on. That being said, I still firmly believe there are cases where "microservices" are appropriate, such as when you married to a specialized framework that only supports Python 3.5 but you want to use modern tooling for everything else as much as possible :)
I thought Uber had some fancy math that raised their rates to incentivize more drivers when their pool of drivers got too low? So why hasn't their math increased pay to offset the increase in gas prices if they don't have any drivers?

I don't live in an area that has Uber, so I'm not that familiar with it, only used it a few times when traveling :)
Ask HN: Is HN changing the submission dates of certain posts?
Noticed something strange with HN. I got an article from the pool in my reader a while back (19th) but saw the timestamp of that submission and my comment that I made of it was pushed forward to just now. Is this intended? I was tipped off when there was a reply to my comment which showed me the wrong timestamp.

Pictures: https://mastodon.social/@84b08ef8/108000554816373410

Article in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30737701
I think the issue with some of this documentation is that for other packages, the function documentation is largely self contained. If I look up glm() it tells me how to use glm(). However, for ggplot2 there is an assumption that you have some level of knowledge of how the pieces should be strung together. So when I know I want a boxplot, and I find geom_boxplot() documentation it wonderfully describes the options for itself, and gives examples for it's use. But sometimes it doesn't give a good idea of the context of how the other pieces might interact. It makes complete sense if you read the book and just want to refresh your memory, but if you are coming in as a new user it really can be difficult to use the documentation exclusively.
A mysterious solar farm crops up in Colorado
>No, ukraine did not have the codes or any way to detonate the bombs otherwise. They were not functional and nukes are made to be extremely hard to detonate without the proper procedures.

But not so hard that a nation of 40 million with many thousands of engineers who took part in designing every aspect of that bomb cannot figure it out if they want to. This would simply not be a serious issue.

>But most importantly, nuclear weapons and their delivery vehicules are enormously expensive to maintain. Ukraine is already a very poor country now, but there was absolutely no way it could have afforded to maintain a nuclear arsenal in the 1990s.

Hundreds of bombs, no. A dozen - easily. Yes, poor, but the sheer size of it would allow it to maintain a small nuclear arsenal.

>And that's even if they didn't have to reverse engineer an arsenal that it did not even control.

It did control it, because it was on Ukrainian soil, and you greatly overestimate the ability of a large country to reverse engineer or replace some detonators.
Oklo Mine – A Natural self sustaining nuclear reactor
Even with master-slave, why is that offensive? It’s a concept. Is referring to poor quality work insulting to poor people? Sure, the concept was applied to people and it was horrible. But does not speaking the words/concepts help? Should we never speak of the holocaust for the same reason? I’ve never understood the logic of how a concept is personally insulting or painful. It’s just a concept.
This made me feel a lot of schadenfreude and also made me feel better about the “Upgrade to MacOS Monterey” notification on my incompatible Mac.
My take: The west still looks at this from the perspective of the bigger power. I don't remember where I read that in asymmetric warfare, one side loses if it doesn't win, while the other side wins if it doesn't lose.

Ukraine is currently in the second group. They can "win" the war simply by not losing it. The longer it drags on, the bigger the losses are on both sides, but for Russia those losses are completely avoidable while for Ukraine the losses of the continued war aren't greater than the losses of stopping the war.

Add to that the devastating sanctions of the west and it's easy to see how Russia is under immense pressure to achieve a proper victory as soon as possible.

If there is any aspect in which Russia might be benefiting from prolonged fighting, it's the possibility of fixing their supply issues, but it's questionable how much that would open them up to even more partisan interference.
Don't know if you have but may I recommend reading the original novel from Ted Chiang named "Story of your life"? It's a bit different from the movie but still incredibly mind bending.

Also, any novel from the collection "Story of your life and others"[1] is worth reading and thinking about. Ted Chiang is an exceptional writer.

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