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Liberal ideals have no hold on Twitter. The liberal ideal is to let as many people as possible have a Twitter account.

Did you read their announcement when they banned him[0]? Banning the man representing, at minimum, a quarter of a country with such nakedly partisan logic is an embarrassment to anyone who wants to pretend Twitter cares about liberal political ideals. They were listening to voices in their head rather than reading what Trump wrote; voices which obviously won't tolerate anything outside a narrow, illiberal view.

[0] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...
I'm still going to use google to search to be honest.
Twitter is complex. But not nearly as complex a building a mass produced EV, charging and servicing infrastructure and space company. You have a bug in twitter? Easy try something new. Bug in either of the others? People DIE. Twitter will barely be remembered next to MY___________ in a few years. It's blank for a reason.
There's definitely nihilism, but where is the hedonism in the comment?
For the same reason it’s really easy to get a good idea of where Russia has been attacking, advancing, or retreating throughout the whole deal by simply monitoring the Ukraine propaganda telegram channel. They want to highlight any atrocities committed by Russia to the West on full blast so we get to hear about every missile in every town almost immediately after it happens.
Yup, at the same time it allows people to use USB-C for charging, which might easily be the case with some of those usb-c hubs that also provide charge to the device.
What's up with the comments? We don't get it. My only guess is you're claiming "sunken" is a verb that requires an actively chosen affirmative action to put the ship at the bottom?
So close. I really want a laptop with a "2K" 4:3 aspect ratio 14" screen, 64GB of ECC ram, a Ryzen processor, and an M.2 SSD.

Would be interesting to get a nice web cam too but that is less important to me. I'm also not a huge "thinness" type, thicker is fine if it isn't heavier.
I just search a product similar to what I need, even if it's bad quality when I add it to the cart I'll get recommendations for the good ones with better price. Carefully check the comments for non-spam. Haven't had problems using this method. The search engine is optimizing to get FBA crap out of their warehouse before it rots/explodes.
as it happens, newpipe is currently broken
Both human and simple machine wear out of exercise.

Human cells (controlled by DNA algorithm) repair the wear out parts via reinforcement learning.
Interesting, I wonder what they used for the search database, since that enormous amount of text can't fit in RAM, it would have to be partitioned & sharded in something like Scylla DB
Show HN: Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework
> Everyone grumbles about Baofeng people, but I've had some contact with rural police and fire departments and you would be amazed at the things their "radio technician" (chief's nephew) thinks are a good idea.

@jcrawfordor, what kind of bad ideas have you heard of here?
Your body has a hypertrophy response to exercise stress.

The low-level mechanism could be the endocrine system and its production of anabolic hormones, depending on how 'low-level' you are looking for.
Well it’s not it the protestant bible, so it’s not canon, but it’s not part of the apocrypha either. I just don’t know.
There's no nuance.

The UI warns you something serious is going to happen with bold text on a separate line.

It makes you type the full path of the affected object.

His explanation for what he was doing in the first place (making a README file private) doesn't make the slightest bit of sense.

It's a PR stunt for a startup company.
Feel free to shoot an email. I don't look at it every day but when I catch it, I'll send over some info :)
You mean the one that requires you to write the full path of the affected object?
Already exists, also in Tokyo: https://medium.com/opensource-cafe

you would write down a task you want to accomplish and deposit it at the cashier. Upon completion, you would say so and would get a free drink (iirc).

Was nice, I think it's closed due to Covid atm.
What happens in June?
What do you acquire by having this opinion?
No you don't. If a guy on the other side of the world wants to teach me to juggle via Zoom, and I want to pay him BTC to do that, we can both trade that service directly without requiring a government to intervene.
You can have a door close behind the projectile to limit the amount of air that gets into the main chamber. I suspect spin launch to include that simply to reduce the amount of vacuum pumping needed. The idea showed up on one of the early space gun designs for similar reasons.

Starlink’s shape is optimized for it’s launch system, while I doubt spaceX is going to use a competitor anytime soon they would seriously consider sufficient cost savings.
I would say we need less echo chambers, not more. You probably don't think the people that only watch Fox are well informed, and you'd be right.
Brahmins are around 4% of the Indian population. It's no surprise there weren't many of them in the top 10 selected. Even if there was on average only one out of 10 each year, that would still be an overrepresentation of more than double.
But German homes already have pipes to move hot water for heating. German homes also usually are made of concrete or stone, not wood sticks and sheet rock. It would be an enormous effort to put air ducts in that instead. If that's even possible. A quite frankly most Germans wouldn't want air to be blow around their rooms. All Germans who visit my home in the US are weirded out by the blown air and also complain about the noise.
None of the "Lessons learned" are of personal nature - unbelievable.
Meta fundamentally doesn't understand what the Metaverse is going to be.

They picture a virtual space where you, a human, will go to interact with other humans you know and love.

They are thinking MMO Metaverse.

What it's actually going to be is a place where you go mostly alone into a virtual space that's being actively curated for and in response to your interactions with it.

Most people aren't going to care about hanging out for hours in VR with Aunt Patty whose political rants they can barely tolerate on FB.

But being able to bring back dead pets or loved ones to interact with, or have simulacrums of celebrities who want to be your friends, or experiences that are being tailored on the fly specifically for you and using eye tracking and pulse to reengage your disinterest?

The Metaverse is going to be the place where AI comes alive in ways it will be prohibitively expensive to do in real life with robotics and manufacturing. And ultimately what that can offer will beat out all other media.

We may have limited invitation of loved ones into our curated spaces, but it's mostly going to be a solitary (and yet intimately social - AI therapists/friends are going to end up well beyond Eliza) place.

Meta is a company that for over a decade wasted the data gathering opportunity of finding out what people DON'T like to the point it's damaged society.

They're just not going to "get it" in order to succeed as long as Zuck is CEO, in spite of very talented engineers.
For anyone in the San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay area, here are a few that may be of interest.

Foothill Expressway was originally a train line. If you know where the old Fry's Electronics was in Palo Alto, the line branched off from the main Southern Pacific line near there, went by the loading docks behind the buildings where Fry's was - it was a major cannery at the time - went through what is now Bol Park, and turned onto Foothill where the VA hospital is now.

Foothill makes a bend to the right at Homestead, but the train line continued straight through at that point, going through what is now the Trader Joe's parking lot. If you notice a diagonal NW-SE path through the parking lot that continues onto Homestead Ct and Peninsular Ave, that was the railroad alignment.

Highway 280 wasn't there at the time, of course, so the line continued straight through to the still-existing Union Pacific line that serves the Kaiser Permanente quarry, and then down to the line that parallels Winchester Blvd in Campbell. This right-of-way currently has three tracks on it: northbound and southbound light rail lines, and the Union Pacific line.

I used to live in an apartment that overlooked this railway, and it was great fun to hear and see the Union Pacific freight train that comes through twice a week. Just like at Fry's, you can see several of the loading docks in the buildings in downtown Campbell.

On the east side of that line, there was a branch that went south to serve the New Almaden mines. If you ever wondered where Camden Ave in San Jose got its name, it wasn't from the city in New Jersey. This line was called the Campbell-Almaden line, so CAMpbell-almaDEN is where the street name came from.

If you drive Camden Ave from Campbell, you may notice an oddly gentle right turn at the junction with Hillsdale Ave. This turn was gentle for the trains. Farther south, Camden takes a slight right at Clovis, just before Blossom Hill, and there is a powerline right of way that continues in a straight line where the railroad was. The tracks then crossed Guadalupe Creek and followed what is now Redmond Avenue, then turned south toward New Almaden.

Back to Palo Alto, if you know of Hawthorne Avenue, three blocks northwest of University, that was a train line too! Lytton and Emerson were streets at the time, but Hawthorne was a spur line that served the Catholic University in Menlo Park (now St. Patrick's Seminary). It branched off the main Southern Pacific line by the water tower, followed Hawthorne and then made a bend to the left onto what is now Middlefield, then a gentle right into the University. It split into two tracks on each side of the main building.

If you are interested in this stuff, I highly recommend the USGS topographic maps. They have the complete historical maps all online!

https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/

For example, here is the 1899 Palo Alto topo where you can see that Hawthorne train line:

https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ht-bin/tv_browse.pl?id=8db99b827f55d7...
Without disagreeing per se, some of the reasoning is dubious.

Studying something in grad school likely makes you familiar, not an expert. I would be skeptical of anyone without at least a decade of industry experience. No one becomes an expert by going to grad school; you have to build real things under real constraints. I went through a selective hard sciences program (coincidentally including nuclear chemistry) and industry people forgot more than we ever learned.

School creates confident sounding opinions but it rarely creates deep domain expertise. I would put more value in the opinions of people that have built or worked on real systems.

And to be clear, I am broadly pro-nuclear. I think it is a critical part of the energy mix that has been maligned on anti-scientific grounds by parties with an agenda separate from providing clean, inexpensive energy.
This has happened with Pranayama before, when it was appropriated and rebranded as 'cardiac coherence breathing' [1] and 'diaphragmatic breathing' [2].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/health/india-pranayama-yoga-c...
[2] https://www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/learning-diaphragm...
Was the dance a religious ceremony reserved for Brahmins? Seems sensible to honor that tradition if that is the case.
German homes already have pipes that go to every room for heating and already have pipes in the floor or radiators installed. Most people wouldn't want air to be blow around and wouldn't want a compressor outside. This would totally clash with German housing standards.
My thoughts exactly. And then at the end when he was like, “and why is it always that redddish color despite coming from a white light?” I was like that’s a damn good question!
I see a lot of folks talking about better warnings, etc.

Something else to consider for situations like this (or maybe for your apps) is to use the element of time to prevent mistakes.

For example, when a user wants to permanently delete an account or do any action that’s destructive, irreversible, or catastrophic… queue up a job for 10 minutes, an hour, or maybe a day, that gives the user time to cancel it if they made a mistake.

Out-of-band could be another way to prevent mistakes. “Want to delete your account? We’ll send you a link for you to continue via email”. This would also be cancelable.

There’s a lot of ways to deal with potentially irreversible actions outside of “better error messages” or checking the equiv of an “are you sure?” Checkbox.
the guy with 10+ experience of using github went to the "danger zone", pressed the red button, saw the very, very, very explicit warning about the consequences of pressing it and confirmed the action by explicitly typing the exact name of the repository.

yes, that blog post would've been apt. as constructive as it gets.

>Why is this your response

because I don't want to send a notarized request every time I need to delete a folder, format a disk or submit a SQL query
I don't understand why Amazon isn't doing more about this problem. Perhaps it's because consumers would rather buy the cheap crap?

At the very least they should somehow be grouping up products with the exact same product images. It's really fun to wade through listings of light fixtures from well known manufacturers such as IBESTWIN and COLMEGUNA.
Vanguard Is Now Biggest Twitter Owner per Share, 10.3%
The g forces are from rotation not how fast you spin up. To take it to the extreme an arm that’s slightly longer than the radius of the earth for sometime moving at Mach 22ish hits ~1g, because that’s orbit. Hitting Mach 22 or even Mach 10 on an arm that’s 500m means vastly higher g-forces.
Agreed, and I'm genuinely surprised that so many on HN are angry at GitHub when they already made it so hard to do this. The author explicitly mentions they were on autopilot - it would take a significantly more challenging barrier for them to not do the exact same thing no matter how many prompts GitHub put there. It does make sense for it to be more reversible, but I can also understand why GitHub doesn't want to put in the effort: this is a once in a year kind of incident and the resources required wouldn't be worth it compared to signal boosting, like they did on twitter. I, for one, would be extremely pissed if GitHub made it harder for me to do routine actions because there's a possibility of data loss. I signed up for that when I typed the repository name in.
> Greens are no longer unconditional pacifists and anti-nuclear hippies

No, they're just anti-nuclear hippies.
Wonderful stuff. This isn't a subject area I've ever really sought out but I enjoyed the video anyway
> The miners control the chain now

Who wants to vote in a little less difficulty so we can continue mining?
I use this:

https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/

Search Reddit comments and posts by keyword, user, sub, or all three.

Includes deleted comments and posts.
Yes, absolutely. On one level I understand how big tech bureaucracy, politics, and layered management structures cause this to happen. Another part of me is floored, that so many brilliant people absorbed into these companies have let this happen.

Twitter and reddit have a massive opportunity here to capitalize. I know many moons ago, Twitter had re-positioned itself to have a search bar on their homepage. Not sure what happened there.

Timely that reddit has released their comment search this week. Looking forward to trying that out.
> Bluetooth A2DP and other streaming protocols, because they prioritize constant latency over data reliability, don't have a means to allow that; the source keeps sending new chunks even if the sink didn't receive one.

That's true for the Bluetooth Headset profile (the low quality one you get on calls), but A2DP goes over Bluetooth ACL[0] which resends dropped frames.

A2DP headphones do have a short buffer on the order of a second or whatever to deal with the jitter from retransmissions (and devices like an iPhone have the logic to delay the display of video appropriately to keep the audio in sync).

Now none of this allows for a whole song to be buffered though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Connection-Less
I think the point they're making is that 40% efficiency is amazing when you have a 1500° difference between the hot and cold side. But at 2000° the theoretical efficiency limit is higher, for all heat engines.

It's like if I compared the top speed of your Porsche on a perfectly straight road, clear weather, no wind, to the top speed of my sedan, but I've got it pointed toward a very high cliff and I'm claiming a top speed of 400 mph (straight down). It's not a fair comparison, because I am cheating by exploiting a greater 'height'.

If we actually compared the same thing, yours would still be at least 50mph faster than mine (at a slight angle from straight down)
> But many old buildings transmit heat using hot water
I thought hot water heating was still by far the norm in Germany for homes with new homes having water heated floors. Has this changed recently?
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Autocorrelation
The human body doesn’t shut down so much as idle. There are mechanical systems that don’t like to idle, like air cooled engines. Anything that maintains itself as part of vigorous operation (flushing out pipes, circulating lubricants or coolants) can get into trouble if not operated vigorously enough for too long. You need to “exercise” your car every few weeks or the battery dies.
Did you read _any_ of the negative reviews for "Breath"? It sounds like pseudo science to me.
Hah 'cardiac coherence breathing'! Nothing like using a few fancy sounding words for an age old technique to get the cash registers a'ringing...
Off topic: If Anyone reading this thinking of joining reddit you can navigate it two ways without getting engaged(also enraged) with the the scum and filth and rage-baits that is r/all or r/popular.

1). Use old.reddit.com, create an account ( it will bait you to enter your email, but its not necessary to proceed. ). Go to subreddits that you want to follow, there are hundreds of niche subreddits which are frankly quite awesome. Subscribe to them. click on r/Home to get the feeds of the subscribed subreddits.

2). Read-only subreddits, privacy focused. Use libredd.it go to niche hobby subreddits and subscribe. Come back to homepage.

There you go the correct ways to navigate through the piles of garbage. Thank me later for your saved time, sanity.
It's actually the largest warship sunk in combat since WWII.

It was slightly larger than the Belgrano.
It might have been in the past.

It was just Bharat Natyam. A commonly taught classical dance form of India. But this performance hall denied her request to perform it because she wasn't a Brahmin.
On the fragility I have had good results with HP elitebook models with aluminum casing. (Not the ones with plastic casing!) These are common in corporate fleets and so are relatively cheap on eBay.
They already do keep a buffer for a second or so
At no point did you actually call out that yes, the ship had sunk. Your reply did not do this. It very much sounded like you were arguing that fact.
Basically, yes - this has been a thing the last 5 years or something like that (and seemingly getting worse)...

Its gotten to a point i actively avoid buying on Amazon - however, i find the reviews still useful, if you only look at all negative ones.

If you filter by the negative reviews, there'll of course be people that have no clue how to use the product and will complain, those that complain that the packaging was damaged, a used product was received from seller x etc...

If you mentally filter out all of those - as they don't concern the product itself - you should be able to see a pattern regarding the products quality. More than 20 people out of 1000s of review complain about some switch falling apart directly after unboxing? That may be a valid complaint then...
GitHub doesn't use foreign keys[1], and there's likely many tables related to all the users, notifications, permissions, etc... that would need to be cleaned up. Without foreign keys they likely have some system process that does this instead of a simple `DELETE FROM` which cascades.

1. https://github.com/github/gh-ost/issues/331#issuecomment-266...
This guy also believes he's super-progressive. He hates the caste-system, remember?

It might be "compensation". It's like people who live in lily-white areas who constantly harp on about George Floyd. To show they're truly down with the struggle. But if a black man shows up in their neighborhood, they call the police on him.
But they won’t practice unless they pass the board exam.
What do you think of the Atlas Scientific pH probes?
Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males
It seems to me that services that pretend to delete data but don't actually do it are usually subject to criticism on Hacker News, not praise.
This resonates with me too. When my wife had a great career opportunity some years ago, this is roughly where it went. Unless you have deep pockets, working odd hours and managing the home ~9-5 is probably in the cards.

I found it incredibly exhausting at the time (definitely didn’t take care of myself either) but it was fortunately worth it. My wife went from soul crushing, dimly lit, repetitive, poorly paid hydrographical work for the navy to real ocean sciences. She gets to survey the coastal waters of BC, Canada, participate in technical dives, install cool tide sensing units, check out places we’d otherwise never see, and is something like 9000% happier.

I probably set my career back less than hers went forward, and ultimately, I think we’re both happier for it regardless of our earning potentials.

But yeah, what a slog. I get tired just thinking about it. To be honest, there were times where it was hard on both of us and I wasn’t sure we’d pull through! That’s why I wanted to add this note and say yes, it takes sacrifice, it’s hard, etc. Go in more prepared than I did. Above all, support the people you love. You’ll be glad you did.
If you want to delete your Reddit account from the pushshift Reddit dataset, you have a Google form: https://teddit.net/r/pushshift/comments/pat409/online_remova...