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You don't understand university sports revenues and expenses.

Feel free to download a breakdown of revenues and expenses for the university of your choice at: https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/

You are going to find that almost every school is net neutral with respect to their sports programs. Football and basketball typically funding all other sports.
Cool, I didn't realize anyone else had productized UV sensors. I wish the tech would hit mass market devices.

> The technology is out there, you could probably build your own sensor using an Arduino and UVA and UVB sensors.

Back in 2016 or so, we were able to order UV sensors, but since there was so little knowledge about how to use them on wearable, getting them to work was a challenge.

It was months just to find a lens material that didn't block UV at all, but was also affordable, could be put on a production line, and fit all our consumer use cases (durable, chemical resistant, etc).

The cards are cool, I forgot about them.

It is unfortunate none of the main wearable players, by which I really just mean Apple, have bothered, but the UV sensor on Microsoft Band 2 was responsible for Band 2's not so friendly looking clasp, so I can't say I blame anyone for not wanting to go down that route again.

Edit: FWIW our sensor gave us something, I forget what, but I remember it wasn't what we wanted, and we had to map it to UVI. From what I vaguely recall it was one of those things where we ordered a sensor, it says it did one thing, but the thing it actually did was related but not quite the same, so we had to create a mapping curve of some type.

I came up with the user story and user flow for what we shipped, sun exposure reminders. We were really smart about it, we had logic in there to tell when you briefly went out of the sun, such as going to the bathroom, vs when you spent extended time inside, and we also worked to separate out walks to and from your car VS actually spending time outside.

To take "breaks", I believe we had an accumulator and if you went out of the sun we started a timer and if the timer went off we reset the accumulator but if you went back into the sun the timer was cancelled.

Actually starting the accumulator worked the same way, get out of car, exposure starts, if you didn't have so many minutes of continuous exposure, we never started the accumulator, an example is walking between buildings.

Lots of use case design around what ended up being a couple of dialog boxes for a reminder to put on sun screen!

Parents loved it though. :) Lots of positive feedback from parents who used it to track their family's sunscreen applications.

Edit: From shade

> 5 days of battery on a single charge

Pretty sure if we just ran the UV sensor on band our battery life would've been forever and ever. :-D

If that is a sales page, they need to list power draw of their sensor for various sampling rates, that is the only thing anyone cares about when it comes to integration.
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> How do you indicate that you want to provision some more because there's a big event coming up?

You literally do not. As load starts to increase, you scale up automatically. The word elastic has been used to represent this pattern in the last few generations of cloud and/or computing infra.

What's the alternative? Manually ssh into some box and crank up mysql instance by hand? like its 1996?
We don't have enough renewable generating capacity to charge storage from, and won't two years from now, either.
> I don't know a web designer in the world who wants to give their editors complete control.

I'm thinking this might be aimed squarely at scenarios where the editor, designer and admin are all the same person.
The vast majority are approximately cuboid boxes, sure. Ever seen a hole in the road like that?
TinyUSB: Open-source cross-platform USB Host/Device stack for embedded systems
>What other species has set up such an intricate and varied system of communication? Of laws? Of art, poetry, and music? Of research and insight into the natural world that has propelled us to space? And all of which have been developed across language and culture barriers?

I'd posit that such human activities imply sentience and not just consciousness.

Certainly sentient beings need to have consciousness, but the converse isn't equivalent.

Many life forms have consciousness. Dolphins, cats, most humans, chimps, gorillas and numerous others.

What the non-humans don't have (or at least not, in our fumbling investigations, detected) is sentience. That's not the same thing as consciousness.
> Everyone pays to get a phd.

The question is only how much. Universities would be paying $0 if they could. Turns out they can't. If candidates tax bill goes up $10k universities would have to increase the stipend by that much. No one works for free. People pay for undergrad because it increases earning potential by huge amounts, a phd isn't really the same. Those candidates could easily get jobs if they wanted.
> I live in the Portland OR area, which has started to experience more extreme temperatures over the last decade

That 116 degree day last year... x_x I have central A/C and it couldn't keep up. It was 85 degrees in the house and it sucked. Can't imagine all the poor sods that didn't even have A/C. I probably would have just sat in the bath tub all day.

And then last month when we had a 75 degree Thursday followed by snow on Monday...

I just want some nice weather so I can take my new mountain bike to Gateway Green.
Folders are something that's been needed in WordPress for 10+ years and hasn't gained any traction. It's to the point where it's beyond terrible and is a large reason I don't use WP anymore.
Fogros – Robotics with AI in the Cloud
It’s insane that on my laptop I’m using a browser to run full featured versions of Google Sheets and Figma, but on my mobile phone, the pizza place wants me to download a 30mb binary app to see their menu.

Browsers are more than capable of delivering responsive interfaces that cover 95% of what apps do. But mobile browsers, specifically mobile Safari, have refused to implement the relatively short list of features and fixes that would get us there.

I have no doubt it is due to not wanting to give up the profit and control that Apple currently enjoys with the App Store.
Features of a Common Lispy approach to (better) NumPy
Airbnb to take down its listings in China
Ask HN: Do you have a cheat sheet for life?
If you do, would be ready to share it with other people?
It's nice to see this project coming to fruition. I just find it sad Gnome/KDE/Linux are not supported. Still there's always the possibility of doing an Electron-like app using Blazor for Linux apps.
Being in a position of "makes $10k a month and spends $100k a month" is the whole problem. Not having a sustainable business model and focusing on raising money at all cost are two reasons that got it in that unenviable position in the first place.

Perhaps the art of bootstrap is not discussed enough here.
i dont think you've made the point you want. FP isn't just C (procedures and structs) and encapsulation isn't helpful because it enables nothing. Its just a pattern of making certain functions take a secret parameter (this)

you get a clear boundary around useful modules when you have good design. you get clear distinctions with good naming and organization practices.
A true non-smart parallel is this. You and I agree on a sporting event between humans. Because I want to construct a fantasy, let's just say it's a three-point basketball contest between adolescents (under 13).

The observer will pay $100 dollars per blocked shot, and earn $1 per 3 point play made. All the games are played 1v1. To the untrained basketball player participants, this may seem to be a fair game. After all, it's quite rare in a real basketball game to see a 3 point shot blocked. So they sign the contract, fully agreeing to pay $100 per blocked shot and earn $1 per made 3 pointer.

To game this as a participant, I go to the ends of the earth ( I hear Sudan and the Netherlands are both nice this time of year ), and find a 6'8 ,215 lb boy and recruit him to play for me. He proceeds to block every single shot in every contest, winning hundreds of thousands of dollars and bankrupting the organizers. Just to further weight this, I also hire an opposing player who is only 4'3 to shoot as many 3 points as possible as quickly as possible.

Now, they signed the contract and agreed to it. They didn't have a clause for height, or any sort of caps, and now they have unlimited downside. How would the legal system handle this? Do you think they would release the participants liability? Perhaps, but not likely if they didn't sign the contract under duress. They fully agreed and had consideration ( the $1 per 3 point made ).

It's a contrived example, but it's useful to show that technicalities can be exploited in real world contracts just the same as smart contracts.
I don't think I would ever work for a place that required IQ tests because that would mean that they didn't not just understand the racist and ableist origins of IQ testing (which is a red flag for an employer, imo) but they also were ignorant of the fact that they don't actually tell you much. Using IQ tests as a meaningful way to measure intelligence has long been debunked by academics who study intelligence.
I like it but it would be more interesting for me if you provided some web page with the documentation of that.

I am more interesting in the explanation of your code that the code itself.
My problem with moving is always that once I've unpacked the books and the music stuff, I tend to lose interest so I end up with boxes of stuff lurking for months afterwards. Being married helps a bit, but my wife has her own blind spots and we still have boxes in the basement eleven years later that have yet to be unpacked.
I don't know what jurisprudence you live under, but under English common law (also America, Canada, etc) - which, I must say, I also always denounce and rarely defend - inequitable negotiating power between parties to a contract is considered by courts when adjudicating whether parties have broken it or can be awarded damages. We don't have a system where big powerful organizations can just dictate contracts to powerless individuals and then later enforce them.
Not really. What happened there was an attempt to destroy Native cultures and even reproduction. It's based on a racial trait.

My ideas are to help kids from mothers that can't or won't provide an acceptable environment to grow up in have a chance to grow up in a caring, non-abusive environment that gives them the best chance to have a life. And hopefully reproduce and pass those values on to their own kids! :)

I'm not saying it would be the best implementation, but the idea is to help kids. Not create a client of the state that will vote for a certain political party because they are helpless and dependent. I want to help people. Not hurt them and lie to myself and others and pretend I'm helping when I'm only serving my own agenda.
The same way as they're doing it right now, just well-documented and open. Let the bigcrops create working groups to hammer out the details.
"It's just saying that nuanced things are nuanced, it isn't proof or evidence of anything about Web3."

Web3 deserves this nuance for its enormous scope and rapid pace of changes. There's hundreds if not thousands of projects, so it's pretty much impossible to make any absolute statements about it. Even more so when the typical commenter has never even interacted with any of it.

You could fairly easily prove that 90% of crypto projects fail, but so do > 90% of startups. Do startups suck altogether now? Another nuance is failure versus scams. Whereas 90% may fail, that doesn't mean 90% are a scam. There's lots of scams, but also just really bad ideas. A scam and a bad idea are not the same thing.

I think you take the JS example a bit too literal, or maybe it was a poor example. My point was that anything of significant complexity tends to not have absolute binary answers. You can apply to JS, political ideas, almost anything.

As for the open web, in a way it's dead as it is. All attention and monetization lies in the hands of a handful of companies. I don't see how any web3 project would threaten the current status quo.

If NFTs become mainstream...so what? You're not forced to buy one. Same for crypto gaming. If it doesn't make sense and make games crappier, it will be widely rejected.
Which is absolute hogwash and FDR's most unfortunate mistake. It lead us to the war on drugs and a barrage of unconstitutional gun laws that should have all been outside the feds' perview.
I'm actually very surprised by many of the posts here. I know that in the humanities advisors are often picked which are only partly related to the research question. But I would have expected to find many more natural science/engineering PhD here. In those areas picking an advisor is directly linked to picking a topic, i.e. you pick the advisor because you want to work in his area of expertise.
quick way to destroy both the product and faith in the company. right on.
So is the threat model that the guy mugging you points a gun at you, then walks you to a store that supports Mastercard bio authentication, and while holding you at gun point, forces you to buy some fungible good from the store that they then rob from you?

…does that not seem incredibly convoluted? And not even that damaging for you, it’s obviously and clearly fraudulent, you’d have no issue getting the chargeback.
Think you nailed it by breaking it up by groups of people with different lists.

Literally every group/dept/team has a list. Someone/process has to arrange that into a single list for the group that builds. If you have more than one group that builds stuff, then more output lists and more complex the transformation from input lists to output lists.

Guess this is a simplistic summary of what PMs and Eng managers do.
not a fan of php either but I wouldn't go that far. I'd love to see it reimplemented with modern conventions over Laravel. As much as i dislike php in general, I have to admit the laravel guys have done some amazing stuff.
Surely he's heard that one — anything new to add?
You have missed my point. You can be conservative and patriotic. You can be liberal and patriotic. But if you are patriotically committed to your country, it means you agree to help carry your country's burdens. If your country has done something wrong and shameful, it is not patriotic to ignore this, much less to insist everyone else ignore it, or to hope they don't ignore it but that no one asks you to chip in. This is selfishness and dishonors the country you claim to love and support. The patriotic thing to do is to help right the wrong, make amends. This glorifies your country.

This isn't to say this is any more than an ideal, but it is a mark worth aiming for, and when a country grants you citizenship it expects that you buy into this notion at least as an ideal. Yes, you can in effect buy citizenship in many places, but this is generally regarded as a shame and an embarrassment.
> Will there be a new mass-vaccination [...]?

Probably not. It's not so contagious, for transmission is necessary close proximity and there are no asymptomatic cases. So I guess they will use ring vaccination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_vaccination I.E. If you get sick, they will vaccinate everyone that met you and everyone that met someone that met you, and perhaps everyone that met someone that met someone that met you.

> and contact-tracing on our phones?

If it's solved soon as I expected: no.

If it takes more time, perhaps. Explaining ring vaccination is difficult and people will complain that the government is only vaccinating X and not Y. So they must do something for everyone, and an app is an easy solution. Also, remember that Big Telco already has all your data, and the government can get that easily, so a contact-tracing doesn't give them much more info.
This very comment section is a great example. Insulting people who read the news, pretending that all media is just propaganda, anti-intellectualism, etc.

HN is great for tech, it's good to passable for tech-adjacent things (science*, math**) and usually really bad for anything far removed from tech (politics, humanities, philosophy, ...). Which should not be surprising, there is no a priori reason to believe that people experienced with technology should have interesting things to say about other topics.

(*) This excludes heavily politicised science topics.

(**) Though I have yet to see a math submission with more than a handful of comments without somebody complaining (and being upvoted!) about "math is too complicated" or "why don't they just use variables with more than one letter?".
Just found this:

> New York Times headline: "Rare cancer seen in 41 homosexuals” http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/us/rare-cancer-seen-in-41-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_spider

Some of these critters are far too bright to be that small.
I've never seen a post that better summarized what happened to Google
What are you referencing? The paper in the video has two authors. Johnson's name wasn't going to be on it. Initially, it was going to be misattributed to one person who was not Johnson.
Many us hold that there is such a thing as real meaning that extends beyond our subjective conceptions. (I'd actually argue that not to believe this is a limited form of solipsism)

Put a different way: everyone's life has some vestige of real meaning. And that meaning is probably different from meaning that person perceives their life to have.
Has Zuckerberg deliberately had work/make-up done to look like his own avatar might in some sort of 'metaverse' world? I can't be alone in thinking a lot of those clips look more like gameplay footage than photography?
> I know many WordPress designers who have upped and left to look at other platforms because they need client constraint, not "ultimate freedom".

This is a reason why some build custom themes and blocks
That requires my house or some asset to be put on the line instead of just my reputation, and I would be able to get exponentially less than I could with a VC.
Schools didn't close until late March. There was weeks of data from western society by then.

The basic understanding of the contagion, what drove the pandemic, and mortality numbers across age groups was known. The data has become more specific since, but not dramatically different.
As you are surely already well aware, "going negative" for short moments does not indicate enough surplus renewable generating capacity to charge up storage.
This can clearly be optimized. The rules that disallow "login_and_go" are already covered by the disallow rules for "login_". Checkmate.
submitters shouldn't editorialize because they can comment.

a "subtitle" isn't a subtitle its just a comment, the author/editor/etc write a subtitle.

people are going to start responding to subtitles.
I'm starting to wonder if monkeypox was always a real threat for wide spread in principle, but it never did because the global population was, coincidentally, largely immune to it because of widespread smallpox vaccination.

A paper from 2010 suggests that the outbreaks in Nigeria started around the time when herd immunity from the last smallpox vaccination campaigns in the area (1980s) would be substantially fading, with the majority of the population not immunized, having been born after:

> Factors associated with increased risk of infection included: living in forested areas, male gender, age < 15, and no prior smallpox vaccination. Vaccinated persons had a 5.2-fold lower risk of monkeypox than unvaccinated persons (0.78 vs. 4.05 per 10,000). Comparison of active surveillance data in the same health zone from the 1980s (0.72 per 10,000) and 2006–07 (14.42 per 10,000) suggests a 20-fold increase in human monkeypox incidence.

> [...]

> More than 90% of cases identified in our surveillance program were born after mass smallpox vaccination campaigns officially ceased, and less than 4% of infected individuals had evidence of previous smallpox vaccination. Furthermore, our data suggest that vaccine-induced immunity is long lasting because individuals who were vaccinated against smallpox over 25 y ago still appear to be at significantly reduced risk of monkeypox.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1005769107
Out of curiousity, have you looked at the paper or read the Forbes article linked in one of the other top-level comments? (https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/08/30/katherine...)

The paper itself has only two listed authors - that's also visible in the linked YouTube video and in the paper itself here: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19980227091

Further, the Forbes article has a quote from the paper's other author:

> [the other author] told [their boss], 'Katherine should finish the report, she's done most of the work anyway.'

With that in mind, I don't think it's a stretch to refer to this as her calculations, even though I'm sure Ted Skopinski (the other author) made significant contributions as well.
... in a good way.

I liked "high school" algebra okay, but group theory was fun, even if homework was sometimes spending hours and pages to wind up with a 10 line proof.
This is not sustainable and fingerprinting is just one side of this whole fragmented mess we're in. Browsers should present very few fingerprintable attributes by default. By now I'm convinced user-preferred languages is the only really defensible header. Everything else? Ask for permission.

The way we're doing capability permissions on the web (to the extent browsers do it at all) is just broken. A barrage of piecemeal modal dialog boxes is not the way forward. It needs to be drastically simplified. A website should be treated exactly like any other kind of app: if it needs to use extended features, it should put that into a manifest so the browser can provide a specific list of items for the user to approve or reject.

If none of these permissions are given, sites should be extremely restricted in what they can do, including cookies and localStorage.

Let's get rid of UserAgent and codec compatibility headers. Especially UserAgent is already useless and both should be replaced entirely by an improved feature detection system.

There are only 3 major browser vendors left. They could fix this within months. This is not a technology problem, it's a question of will and ad revenue.
No. Its not total power generatian its only nuclear energy's share of electricity generation in Germany from 2000 to 2020.

From 2000 to 2009, 6 years were below 30%, 5 years below 28% and 2 years below 27%, with a low of 25.9% and a high of 32.1%. If you take the 32.1% as the maximum value with 100%, that is a little over 20% fluctuation with a clear, negative trend.
> founders

Not all founders are VC backed . It’s only the ones that are and never thought about how to turn a profit that should be scared.
Why do you think the people who stole Native kids didn't want the best for those kids? It's just that in their case, they assumed that Native upbringing == bad parenting. (And I'm sure that the poverty/crime rate/etc. of those communities were also part of that rationalization.)

> Not create a client of the state that will vote for a certain political party because they are helpless and dependent.

I'm pretty sure there's no evidence bearing out that this happens to any significant degree. Moreover, people generally don't enjoy staying on welfare.
"Entry level" is tough to define. Perhaps entry level for Berkeley, but these are positions which still require an advanced degree and a good bit of teaching experience.
If someone thinks the title is bad or hurts discovery, then they can comment. If i see a boring title with no comments then I dont care. But if I see 1 comment that could be enough to make me click.
At this time, that would be a complete 180 as the Fed's messaging all year has been about how they will be raising rates, even if it means sacrificing markets. On an accelerated timeline, no less, compared to what they had floated in January.