skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of what kind? Because the next thing that happens is a lawsuit slapped on your desk by a very rich company for property destruction. They have a vested interest in protecting not only the property but also the business model so they will use the law to maximize punishment for such behavior. And the downside to shooting down a drone is the telemetry it collects makes it pretty easy to prove the shooter is the aggressor and Amazon's following all relevant local laws.

Going on the legal offensive and putting them in the position to prove they're doing no harm (including a discovery process to confirm their telemetry isn't gamed or flawed) is a much better tactic. Still a legal uphill battle, but one you're signing yourself up for anyway if you take a gun to an Amazon drone. At least this way it's on your terms, not theirs.
Alas? A good tale of security work to free a device. Which then gets patched, to lock the devices back up.
Hi cube2222!

Just today I tried octosql for the first time when I wanted to correlate a handful of CSV files based on identifiers present in roughly equal form. Great idea but I immediately ran into many rough edges in what I think was a simple use case. Here are my random observations.

Missing FULL JOIN (this was a dealbreaker for me). LEFT/RIGHT join gave me "panic: implement me".

It took me a while to figure out how to quote CSV column names with non-ASCII characters and spaces. It's not documented as far as I've seen (please document quoting rules). This worked:

octosql 'SELECT `tablename.Mötley Crüe` FROM tablename.csv'

replace() is documented [1] as replace(old, new, text) but actually is replace(text, old, new) just like in postgres and mysql.

index() is documented [1] as index(substring, text)

(postgresql equivalent: position ( substring text IN string text ) → integer)
octosql "SELECT index('y', 'Mötley Crüe')"
Error: couldn't parse query: invalid argument syntax error at position 13 near 'index'
octosql "SELECT index('Mötley Crüe', 'y')"
Error: couldn't parse query: invalid argument syntax error at position 13 near 'index'

Hope this helps and I wish you all the best.

[1] https://github.com/cube2222/octosql/wiki/Function-Documentat...
The idea would be for out of warranty repaired items; in other words, the device was bought years ago and is otherwise destined for the landfill.
This X 100
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I flush while still sitting on the bowl, problem solved I guess?
Which are clever?
Note that my natural reading speed is ~950 wpm, so I tend to ignore these fads.

Were you just born with 4-5x the average reading speed? Or did you employ some other 'fads'? This seems pretty astonishing. Particularly in light of the following sentence on the "Speed Reading" entry on Wikipedia:

>Cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene says that claims of reading up to 1,000 words per minute "must be viewed with skepticism"
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I feel like the use case of people who want extremely accurate flight modeling and physics + want to control their plane with a QWERTY keyboard is 0%.
> The more money they have, the more likely they are to exist in perpetuity.

I think the opposite is true. Consider examples like broke lottery winners, the resource curse [1], and the long history of startups getting lots of money and then cratering, from Webvan to WeWork.

With Wikipedia in particular, I'm concerned that the more money there is, the more attractive it is to people who want to be near large streams of money for various reasons, including living large and diverting money to their own friends, pet projects, and grand visions. I'm also concerned that even if they are able to avoid those people entirely, large budgets pose other risks, including inflexibility in downturns, which I think increase the odds of a setback turning into a full collapse.

Corruption, like cancer, is statistically inevitable for organizations. The only question is whether they have the right mechanisms to detect and exercise the tumors when they're small. But the scrappier Wikipedia stays, the less we have to worry about that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
Only if you have a narrow modern definition of politics based on eg political parties and elections.

Just as a very simple explanation with this example: a painting of a garden has politics embedded within it if not everyone has recreational access to that garden. A painting of a garden by a member of the family that owns it is just a painting, "apolitical", where a painting of it by someone who shouldn't be in it could be transgressive, or even threatening.

These things are small and may seem like a stretch but this is politics. It's kind of like that joke "gamers think there are two genders: male and political." What we think of as political or not is itself an embedding of politics, not a neutral external fact derived from the universe.
It’s a small river island … at this point it’s quaint enough to keep as is.
I agree 100%. I think the fundamental flaw in seeking methods to speed read is the inherent assumption that there is an equal tradeoff between higher speed and lower comprehension. Alas, bad comprehension is probably many times more harmful than lower reading speed. So the tradeoff is highly imbalanced due to the highly dissimilar importance weights attached to comprehension and speed.
So … how did you solve it? Did it solve itself organically, or did someone have to step in and broker a middle ground?
The specific issue is facebook complaining about apple. That's a no brainer for most users - put Apple in charge, not the idiots at the EFF (supporters of spam for years) or facebook (wouldn't trust them further than I can throw them).

What you and others fail to realize is that I PAY apple money. That at least loosely aligns their interests with mine. I've been very happy with what they've done as a result, showing up the EFF and the govt (with their stupid and toothless cookie popups and unders and privacy policies flooding my mailbox). Apple gives me actual control, and backs it with market power that makes it very dangerous to cross them to try and exploit users.

Facebook is paid by business, corporations, but NOT by their users. Just think about that for a minute. The specific issue here, facebook and eff vs apple, is easy for most users. We've already voted, instead of forcing tracking off the way they used to, apple let's users indicate what they want. They have agreed with apple, don't track. I personally wish apple would go further, and just force it and let users go into some setting to turn on the allow app to track me setting.

Same with the EFF issues about warning on bogus batteries being put into phones. Just ignore these guys.
I mean - I mostly agree (I'm fairly clear about my distaste for the current crypto market in many of my comments).

That said - there is a floor value for a single coin that captures the dark market space. The original use-case for crypto is still there: There are folks who want to exchange stored value for black market goods, in a scope where government regulation is already assumed to be absent because the goods being exchanged are forbidden items.

This is basically what bitcoin was originally. It kept a fairly stable price point around the single dollar mark for use on the silk road ~2010/2011. The problem is that folks started noticing that any time the media talked about it, the price would spike. And that started the whole rollercoaster of speculation that I find absolutely immoral and greedy, that ruined the whole thing.

So basically - amend your comment to "besides gambling and fraud and dark market exchange" and I'd agree.
I’m traveling right now and had to pin this web page to decipher the symbols on the washing machines in my airbnbs:

https://washerhouse.com/en/perevod-terminov/
See now that's interesting - All of those have very out-there brand reach and recognition but who knew they were using Deno, nobody heh. Okay, then, so it's a bit under the radar but ticking away down there, hence the raise. Fairplay.
No really true for ethereum. There are "light clients" who can validate new blocks and only stores every X blocks for checkpointing.
another possible explanation is that fewer men are competing in the dating pool at all

but assuming your hypothesis is correct, to what do you think that choice can be attributed?
Open source ecosystems that become big enough often end up either producing unicorns, or failing that, producing unicorn-level returns for existing companies.

There’s no guarantee that the creator of the ecosystem will be one of the unicorns, but they’re as good a bet as any other company to pull it off. VCs aren’t looking for 100% certainty, just a plausible path.
Please don't post content-free reaction posts on on Hacker News. If you don't like something, at least make some effort at explaining why.
Plus, you're sticking it to Big Bidet.
My bet is on ammonia but yeah the economics will get tricky as producers are going to ask themselves "will I get more money if I sell this as fertilizer or as fuel?"

Kind of what happens with corn-based bioethanol, where they have to compete with the regular food market and viceversa.
The main thing I'd be interested in blocking is Ethernet:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI_Ethernet_Channel

With televisions having all sorts of questionable software installed that wants to phone home, it's probably best not to connect them directly, but rather stream things to the display from either your mobile device or a box (e.g., Apple TV).

Of course if you accidentally do connect it online via a box that does have Internet access, who knows what kind of Lovecraftian horrors will be enabled on the television.
I think that's the underlying idea of Logic Programming.
recently went through a job search. what I learned about where I didn't want to work:

* any startup as an employee. I just can't be sold on your stupid idea.

* health tech. health industry in general is just messed up.

* companies with bad reputation for WLB. What's the point? The numbers don't add up.
That is not, in fact, established. And the question was "what's the harm?"
> They sell a (much more expensive) version that is FAA-certified for training.

It's not even that much more expensive, the Pro edition is 750.

Though unless you also have real sim hardware it's a completely useless expense as aside from FAA cert validators the features are mostly for multi-projector systems (image warping, edge blending).
Ancient DNA Points to Where the Black Death Began – Ars Technica
Huh. Priorities: actually killing a citizen is less important to prosecute (persecute?) than showing that the emperor has no clothes.
I've had Copilot enabled since early beta. I think it has saved me ... 15 minutes of typing in total? A few times it has caught on to a repeating pattern and filled a tedious bit of [({}{})] -style javascript correctly.

Most of the things it does for me I could replace with a library of snippets if I could be bothered to set one up.

Not really worth a monthly cost equivalent to, say, Disney+ - which I use tens of hours every month just by myself.

If my employer paid for it, I wouldn't scoff at it, but I'm not paying a cent of my own money for it.
It would be fun to be a fly on the wall when shit hits the fan in general. From Nuclear meltdowns to 9/11 ATC recordings, it is fascinating to see how emergencies play out and what kind of things go on with boots-on-ground, all-hands-on-deck situations.

Like, does Cloudflare have an emergency procedure for escalation? What does that look like? How does the CTO get woken up in the middle of the night? How to get in touch with critical and most important engineers? Who noticed Cloudflare down first? How do quick decisions get made and decided? Do people get on a giant zoom call? Or emails going around? What if they can't get hold of the most important people that can flip switches? Do they have a control room like the movies? CTO looking over the shoulder calling "Affirmative, apply the fix." followed by a progress bar painfully moving towards completion.
Unlike oil once there are enough batteries in a country that country is good for a long time as a batteries can be recycled quiet well (lead acid batteries have a recycling rate of 99.99x%, it is just a question of political will and new batteries being cheap right now).
I mean, that’s not really that much is it. And that’s the point, HN really doesn’t change much. Whereas Reddit, for better or for worse, has a much higher output of new user facing features.
Yeah, at first scan I thought it was going to be some ironic comment. Which it was, just not intentionally
Nice. I hadn't seen this, or his related quotes. Quite usable for business.
there is a group formed including Deno that will work together to try to maintain standards + compatibility

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-the-wintercg/
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Animusic's Pipe Dream – recreated in Roblox [video]
It's not schadenfreude if people on HN criticize crypto when it's hitting ATHs, which we absolutely do...
Becoming a Quant (2008) [pdf]
> flush 'carefully'/slowly

How does one flush "carefully/slowly"? The speed you press the handle doesn't change the pressure of the flush - at most it might extend it and waste water, by keeping the flapper open longer than necessary.

Instead press the handle rapidly and briefly to save water and still have a proper flush.
https://deno.com/deploy/pricing is their business model.

They charge you for CPU and bandwidth more than they pay for it.
Castrating reverse poopers may seem harsh, but it's necessary to limit their spread.
High school was such an awful time. The only thing worse was middle school.

All the behaviors in this article aren't new. They're just a new lens for the same thing that's always been going on - pick an out-group, punish the out-group, everybody else feels better about themselves. This is classic high school stuff. Look at how the words are used: "Abusers" and "victims". Might as well be "jocks" and "nerds". And who do the kids ultimately hate most? "Admin." Yeah. Who has ever liked their high school admin?

The only thing different, I suppose, is that at least the people who are ostracized now are the ones who allegedly did actually bad things, rather than the ones who listen to weird music or are fat or don't have wealthy parents or whatever else. And not being in school for a couple years has meant some social growth that usually happens hasn't, or has happened unevenly.

Guess that's progress?
You can in theory hijack the projector/monitor, okay. But the chances of reverse-hijacking are really REALLY slim - virtually all HDMI devices employ a retimer/redriver chip in front of the output, which means the only way "in" would be to exploit the CEC stack. HEC (Ethernet over HDMI) support is extremely rare in support.
The data have nothing to do with the hypothetical where the air filters process 10% of the air in the room. They also have nothing to do with the air filters in the thought experiment, which are simplified, ideal filters that have the exact characteristics we say they do. Nobody is applying the numbers in question to any "chaotic system", because this is just a simple framing designed to illustrate exactly one, utterly banal point: If you don't process most of the air, it doesn't matter how efficient you are. In fact, that's all the section should have been. That one sentence. No numbers (it doesn't need them), and very little detail. Just, "if you don't process most of the air, the efficiency doesn't matter". You can't disagree with that conditional statment. You can argue that the premise is flawed, or irrelevant, or unrealistic to the point of uselessness, but you can't argue with the totally boringly obvious statement that if you aren't processing 90% of the air at all, then your efficiency doesn't matter. It's not more controversial than saying that "if your air filters are turned off, their efficiency doesn't matter."
Same with Mozilla/Firefox imo.
An introduction to deep code-walking macros with Clojure (2013)
Does alphabet make sense?
> Having said that, they should never be considered as a multi-tenant (N customers) isolation 'security' barrier. They are there for scaling not security.

V8 isolates are absolutely designed for security. For 10 years V8 was the only security barrier between sites in Chrome. Now they have retrofitted strict site isolation for defense-in-depth, but that doesn't mean the V8 team suddenly doesn't care about security. Chrome wants both layers to be secure and will pay a bug bounty if you break either one.
https://speed.readwise.io

Your results

Typeface Bionic Reading Literata

Article 1 591 WPM 352 WPM
Article 2 657 WPM 457 WPM
Average Speed 624 WPM 405 WPM

You read 43% faster with Bionic Reading

Guess gotta give this a try for storybooks...

maybe some enterprising and bored HN nerd can make a Calibre plugin that converts regular epubs to bionic reading enabled epub files

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but the truth is, for the aforementioned storybooks, often I just LOOK at a whole paragraph or even the whole page and just pick out the relevant word of two in a story.

Unlike actual educational content, where the exact text matters, in fiction, after having developed a hobby to read for entertainment for so long and having gotten used to so many tropes, I just often just breeze through and look for the word that confirms which direction the author is taking that paragraph in, and often just glide over the paragraph and go to the next one.

It's like learning how to drive, I guess. At some point you are not supposed to look at every thing, you just take the overall picture and just go.

Not sure what is achieved by making every road sign and billboard flashing neon is supposed to achieve in such a scenario. Not all words are worthy of equal attention, most are meant to be glossed over.

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but for actual educational purposes, the best test IMHO is to use it for the boring but important texts, like training manuals. See if it actually helps people learn and retain more import information about the new tool or procedure they are learning about.
Neat idea, but lack of HDCP support could be deal breaker for a lot of applications - I'd even consider listing this limitation nearer the top, it's currently at the end of a long README. HDCP is used in a huge number of HDMI devices.
Pecunia non olet. If the goal is to make money, an exit via acquisition is one potential way to make money
Deno sounds like a powerful runtime, but what is there to sell?

I won’t build on anything that isn’t permissively licensed. They can’t charge for anything without license protection.
It was early web anyway. The first web browser was released in 1993, and the first version of Netscape was released in 1994.
Sure, i couldn't find a way to describe minitel rose in english so i went for prostitution. But it's clearly not, you're right.
I actually use a bidet which is why I don't have to stand up until ass and toilet water are both clean.
You can insert attached images into comments. It's in the menu of the "Visual" editing pane, or doable by inserting some magic [] or {} incantation in the "Text" pane. Sorry, I don't know it by heart. But you can do it visually first, then find and learn it by switching to the textual view. I do remember you can specify size by optional width and height parameters; without them, I think you get just a tiny thumbnail.
Could have been intentional. Some might say the highest honor in the frog kingdom was to be a sacrifice for the great amphibian god. There were only two ways for the kingdom to keep their bog moist - sky water from the great ambition god, or blood.
People still use rails? Wild.
They also found it spread to toothbrushes in other rooms as well.
What specifically are they claiming and what data or facts would you wish to receive to back up that claim? To me it just looks like they're stating their opinion.
Necessity is still the mother. Failure is the Mengele of invention.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you've never fired a gun.

If I'm defending my family or property, I won't be firing wildly into the air. It'll be precise and I'll be aware of my target, what's behind it, and what's beside it (one of the 4 universal laws of firearm safety).

My only concern for my neighbors will be if they get their shot off on the drone before I get mine. <grin>
This looks awesome. Unfortunately the pricing is like an order of magnitude higher than what my broke ass can pay for, but I'm truly rooting for them.
Trust a hacker or an MBA - difficult choice!
I'd assume fuselage lift was already part of the model because of previous aircrafts.
Kolmogorov's Early Letters About Mathematics Education [pdf]
I think this might be because X-Plane isn't the type of "game" many folks are looking for in a flight sim.

X-Plane prioritizes correctness and details above all else - whereas something like Microsoft Flight Simulator prioritizes eye candy and fun.

Want to fly to Area 51, attempt to land a 747 on an aircraft carrier, fly above the pyramids of Egypt, fly between buildings and perform aerobatics - choose MS Flight Simulator.

Want to practice patterns, procedures, participate in a live online ATC simulated community, familiarize yourself with new territory or airstrips, learn a new aircraft - choose X-Plane.

That's not to say you can't use X-Plane for fun, it just means doing things like aerobatics might not come easy due to the focus on realism.

Both are excellent simulators in their own right - just need to find the one you prefer. I personally fly X-Plane 11, Microsoft Flight Simulator and Prepar3D (based off older MS Flight Simulator codebase). Each has pros and cons.
Actually, they're spending less than 3MM per year for hosting. "Other operating expenses" are ~10MM, and everything else on the list has essentially nothing to do with Wikipedia.

However, at the current rate it won't take long until they actually do spend 100MM+ on their own salaries.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...
I guess it's a bit of a philosophical disagreement.

In my view: I don't believe a machine (at least not any we're capable of creating) can truly learn.

Copilot is a machine working on its inputs. Humans think and create. Maybe it can be argued that humans are just more complicated machines, but I don't think most people would agree with such an equivalency.

Copilot is constructed almost entirely from others' code. There's a tiny fraction of original "ai glue" in there, but the end product is arguably a derivative work of all that code it was trained on. As is its output.

It can also be argued that the AI part is really just an obfuscating copy machine. One that was created specifically for that task.

And of course, the real killing blow: if/when it reproduces training code verbatim, and you don't notice... will "copilot did it" be a valid defense in court? There are different opinions on that I guess, but no one knows for sure -- and I wouldn't take that risk.
If you don’t quite understand the language, how do you know it doesn’t also have subtle bugs?
>I really wish someone made a set of micro-vernier calipers that are small enough to fit on a keychain.

I'd really like to know what you mean by that. Obviously the Vernier scale can't shrink, so you're going to be limited to an inch or two of range, and all the sharp edges common to calipers aren't pocket friendly.

Something fold-up, or that has a few pieces to snap together?
Yep totally agree with this.

- Engineering Lead who got his start in PHP/ASP(pre .net) and loves the modern ecosystem despite its flaws
Just to nitpick, it sounds like you mean "women in the workforce" and not (broader term) "gender equality" as being the reason for the decrease in sex.

It should be fair to say that careerism has resulted in less free time for family and less time for chores which also puts a damper on the bedroom when everyone argues over all the work that has to get done.
> I'm willing to pay top money for top work

How much is top money for you? Maybe that's where the problem is.
They have some little pads you can solder across to re-enable writes. Perhaps it would be possible to put a switch across those?