skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this link! This is a great explanation which clears a lot of things up to me.
All the time. For example: open a link in Gmail, forget that I am in the in-app browser, and log into a service.
Ok, I wasn't being very accurate. More correctly, we do not know why outer stars in the galaxy rotate at the same speed as inner stars. As per gravitation laws, the farther the star is, the slower it should rotate. But they all rotate at the same speed, which only adds up if you assume there is some "dark matter" around the outside of the galaxy.

I honestly do not know how they estimate stellar masses. I suspect they just look at density of stars and have perhaps established that stars are more or less distributed randomly, but I'm armchairing here. Maybe an expert can chime in.
Have you considered Crystal?

https://crystal-lang.org/
Oh, great! These are two big changes I am very interested in. Will look out when it is merged :)
I guess that's where my Webpass (owned by Google Fiber) money was going. They increased rates in 2020 and 2021, first time since the acquisition. It finally got me to look for alternatives, and turns out they're all competitive (or better) now.
He said he is liquidating because that funding may fall through. He has a different idea of what funding secured means.
> Also, not sure how the name was picked-up

(Big caveat: this all depends on joining nylon ropes of similar diameters. Different diameters and UHMWPE cord has different rules)

My understanding is that the American's picked it up from the Europeans in the 90's, but then mixed up with the figure-8 knot which is the actual death knot. Some guy on the internet did some tests, and the figure 8 will roll and capsize at about 1-2 kN. Rappel loads are usually a bit under 1 kN, but if you hit enough snags, it could come out and there was a bunch of accidents resulting from that.

The overhand knot, when tied normally will role at about 3-4 kN which is well above a normal amount of force in a rappel. Also, it tightens as it rolls, so with enough tail, you'll be dead from something else before it could be a concern.

Incidentally, the double fisherman has a bad habit of getting stuck, so if you're doing multiple rappels, especially in icy conditions, or in sticky/jagged rocks, it presents a whole different safety problem.

Edit: source https://user.xmission.com/~tmoyer/testing/EDK.html
You can install blockers in your browser but not in in-app browsers
let's call them "nodes" and "edges"
Native would be Win32 calls to draw widgets. There's a built-in Swing look-and-feel that uses this API to render widgets in Swing. Yes, you could write your own code to replicate how things look, but it would be fragile and difficult to maintain. With Swing, it's built in and already maintained.
Quite a few apps from the early mobile days did this.
We have the claim of a refutation here, but one that is obviously weak. If your only explanation of why your toy theory is rejected by everyone else is collective, universal delusion you've already disproven yourself.

No theory fits perfectly, but that is what we expect in a world of imperfect knowledge.
I'm sure that every iteration of "have you tried X" has been tried, which is why the most popular theory is "there's a bunch of stuff we can only see through its gravitational effect".
Using Datastreamer's New Intent Classifier to Predict Future Actions
Using AI to determine what someone is trying to say, and identifying a person’s intention.
Related:

Stringbike – A Chain-less Bicycle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515123 - April 2016 (6 comments)

Stringbike: Chain-free bike - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1716002 - Sept 2010 (47 comments)
> You can't "prove" that something doesn't exist

You could definitely prove that something doesn't exist in any meaningful quantity. Happens all the time: The experiments searching for new particles end up proving that if they do exist, they interact too weakly to be detectable. Similarly you could make observations which place an upper bound on the dark matter density, possibly low enough that it cannot explain the galaxy rotation curves etc. anymore.
i don't understand why apple allows in-app browsers.
That makes sense. I wouldn't call that ad fraud. That's the ML system optimizing for what you've said you want. If you bid for cpc you're going to get a lot of cheap clicks, but they're going to be nearly worthless. That would be the case on any large ad network, especially since mediation is so mature.
I like Chomsky, but your criticism makes no sense. You can’t be a serious intellectual unless you hate corporations? Have you looked around lately? People love corporations and the products corporations make. And there is no better system than corporate neoliberalism, that we have figured out, for giving people the material things they want in large quantities. I just got back from Disneyland. It’s neoliberal paradise and people love it. People in my third world home country want to come to America and buy a house in Texas with four bedrooms and a pool and take their kids to Disneyland.

There’s lots of good criticisms to be made of the system. But there’s also a serious intellectual case for why systems that facilitate people getting the material things they want is a good thing. To write that off completely is intellectual laziness; a desire to wish away the difficult parts of your own position.
My fear is that the place that I once considered crucial for the development
of a counterculture becomes dominated by reactionary "intellectuals" who got
so rich by tech and now have become the status quo.

So basically, you are beginning to understand the "why" regulatory structures spring up but do not yet accept it?
In the context of this article, evaluating the no-dark-matter future is probably in scope.

In general, that statement would require defense.
> the definitions of those things and especially who can break the law without being prosecuted for it are largely determined by what is politically convenient.

Don't forget "hate speech" laws about criticizing royalty, elected officials, or the police. These are things that will be inevitable, and hate speech/hate crime laws to protect police have already sprung up in US red states.
There is no appetite in the Democratic party to pack the Supreme Court; it's a fringe position. Both poles of American politics are full of fringe ideas; on the left, you have things like "impeach Clarence Thomas", and on the right you have things like "defund the FBI and then have prosecutors in every red state secure punitive search warrants for Democratic politicians".

It's true that Roe, especially as originally conceived, put America to "the left" of Europe. We're to the left of Europe on all sorts of things: bankruptcy laws, no-fault divorces, exclusion of illegally obtained evidence, same-sex marriage, the right to wear religious garb in public spaces, the insistence that religious education be kept out of public schooling, no mandatory military service, and, of course, the First Amendment.

But your argument here includes a sleight of hand, because you confining your analysis to Dobbs itself, but ignore the state laws that it enabled, many of which are radically to the right of the European consensus. For instance, Ohio bans abortion at the moment a fetal heartbeat is detected, with no exceptions for rape or incest, so that a 10 year old girl had to be smuggled into a neighboring state within weeks of Dobbs passing.

Your point is that Europe doesn't put these questions outside of the political process. But you've run far past the end zone with that (seemingly correct) argument, by trying, and failing, to characterize the positions of the American political poles. It's a shame, because the real point you have to make here is interesting; you shouldn't crud it up with the partisan stuff.
Design and Security Challenges for VR
We're trying to make semantic web models easier to use with a project called TreeLDR...I think usability has been one of the biggest issues of this ecosystem and OSS in general. Think programmer-friendly data structure definitions that compile to JSON-LD contexts, jsonschemas, and beyond.

https://github.com/spruceid/treeldr

Shameless plug: we're hiring if you like this kind of stuff and Rust.
If the safeties fail, and the child is struck, and the bug is identified, will they do it again?
That's a good idea. What should the screen do when the screen brightness is causing high energy usage? :-)
This rhetorical comment actually has a specific answer. MakerDAO tokens were sold to VCs like Andreesen Horowitz and Polychain and Dragonfly, the latter of which are less patient crypto native funds, who wanted the infrastructure for trading immediately. Their outsized ownership allowed for ethos breaking changes, to great financial success, but before organically created infrastructure was in place. There were no liquidity pools, liquidity pool optimizers, borrowing and lending protocols, value extraction.

Again taking a look at Magic Internet Money, one part of the structure is that their SPELL token (the equivalent of the MAKER token) was launched more organically and at least has been able to keep an ethos within the owners. Nothing here prevents more consolidated ownership, or any novelties in governance (and I argue that governance can be vassstly improved, there are no bylaws or even continuity between governance anywhere). Only a case study into the contrast between MakerDAO and the answer to your rhetorical comment.
> -- customers who don't behave as well or kindly as before

Easy. Refuse service. You aren't legally obligated to offer your service to assholes. Any business has the right to do or not do business with whoever they want, provided they’re not refusing service for a reason that violates local, state, or federal law.

> -- customers who need 24 hour customer service

Also easy. You are under no obligation to meet peoples unrealistic demands or needs.

> -- maintenance that can't be done himself, and he has to employ people

He already is familiar with third party contracting.

> -- customers and vendors who sue you for breach of contract, or other simply nuisance lawsuits

Frivolous lawsuits are a risk in any business in America.

> -- upgrading the network to the next technology requirement, or when he's unable to get 2nd-hand parts so cheaply, etc.

What is this "next technology requirement"? My area cable company still runs most their network on 30 year old lines.

> -- or a natural disaster that unexpectedly forces replacement of (and charging for) equipment that wasn't anticipated in the original subscriber price

Cost of doing business, doesn't matter the size.

I think people don't understand just how profitable municipal broadband can be. It's why big players spend so much lobbying and bribing so they can keep their established position running and keep the gravy train running, but really the economics of it are fantastic once you've done the initial digging and running the lines, which sounds like he has here.

At $55 /mo for 400 households he's bringing in $22,000 a month plus whatever federal and local government subsidies and grants. The odds of a disaster, or one of the other scenarios you mentioned happening anytime soon is low, so he will have runway to build a decent sized war-chest to be able to easily afford handling any of these scenarios with third party contractors. The more houses he brings on line, the better it gets.
> Under what circums do you want this?

Click on "Sign In/Up with Google". Opens in app browser. Not logged in even though I'm with Safari. Type email. Type password. Get password wrong. Type password again. Get text/email with 2FA code. Every single time.

Or Gmail app. Click link. Open in-app browser. Not logged in.
> use the sites.

Which are increasingly user hostile, if not down right impossible to view on mobile. Go try using Reddit or Twitter on your Mobile browser.
Yeah but so much of happiness is relative and pure mindset. If you never knew about bacon or forgot about it, you would be just as happy.

And at the end of the day, it’s more important to be happy
> contexts at different properties for different types

It seems like I could use syntax from HOCON to achieve this in a less verbose way, perhaps with minor changes to the parser.

> have a schema and perform the elaboration from there

I like your schema approach. I'll have to experiment a bit.
Firefox has built in tracking protection to prevent this iirc
Definitely possible but i think there are no more than 2 facilities within any reasonable distance of me. And they've been outsourcing a lot to USPS and 'the other two' lately.

My suspicion is they are inundated and forced to ship anything they get, the minute they get it.
Teslas aren’t currently bidirectional, some of the new Fords are, unsure about others.
dark matter - the new epicycle?
On the opposite side of the coin: I have never had Prime and when I've lived near a distribution center, Amazon will frequently ship packages before the estimated date. In years past they have seemed to withhold shipment until the estimate window arrives but that is less frequent now.
> import julia_numpy as np

I don't get it. Does this override python's numpy library with a julia native? If so does it implement all of numpy functionality? Or does this piggyback on normal numpy, redirecting accordingly, but also allows plugging extensions written in julia? The documentation doesn't shed any light at all. Neither do the demos.

Also, is this simply a python julia interface and the "high-performance" part of the description is just part of the usual juliaspeak? Or is there an actual "high-performance" component there that makes this more than a simple python julia interface?
The semantic web has been reintroduced as part of "Solid" by Tim Berners-Lee (and Inrupt) and is growing very fast:
https://solidproject.org/

The opposite of dead in fact.
My point is that the same could be said about phlogistons back in the day. There were a lot of completely different advances in the understanding of physics and chemistry needed to explain combustion and oxidation, and it's a lot more complex than just saying "because phlogistons". It was an extremely simple mechanism which solved all the problems at once, and fit all the data available at the time.

And it doesn't explain anything! We have this entirely new substance and we don't know what it is, what it's made of, where it came from, or why we only have circumstantial evidence for its presence.
> People have a tendency to talk lot faster than they think. Great speakers know how to control this just like how cars speed up or slow down depending on terrain.

I think speed variance is a good tool to have but I wouldn't purposely try to talk slower.

For example John Carmack is someone who I really enjoy listening to talk about any topic. It's like a pure uninterrupted stream of thought without filler words, often times for hours. Lots of folks say he talks too fast but I think his pacing is perfect, it's very engaging.

On the flip side, I'll get disengaged pretty quickly if someone is talking slow or uses a lot of words that feel like they've spoken 7 words to say 3 words of information. I think slowing down to focus on certain phrases is good in moderation but I don't think you should purposely try to turn a 10 minute conversation into a 15 minute conversation.
it comes at a high cost, especially as you can end up spending so much effort on "friends" that you neglect to solve or even recognize your own problems.

This is a valuable insight. At some point, even the closest to you are their own individuals. Short of saving their lives from imminent physical danger, at some point, one must leave others "to their fate."

I have come to realize recently that I don't actually have any friends, only dependents.

This is not either-or. There is a friend-dependent spectrum. Also, how you might evaluate this is strongly affected by your own personality. The closer you are to the "dark triad" in the space of personality traits, the more skewed your perceptions will be towards the "dependent" viewpoint.
I can see the argument. I hope I'm not mischaracterizing is by saying your position is something like: because I can look up the best and what that looks like it is boring to strive for it.

The difference for me is I haven't experienced what it is like to be good. You know how an olympic gymnast makes insane feats of body control appear easy? I have no idea what that feels like. (and I never will, in my upper 30s I am beginning to lose flexibility needed, not to mention I have no desire to put in the effort in that area.) I don't know what it feels like to fight a 70lb halibut in the north pacific. Sure I can watch someone do it, but to have the skill to do it, to have the experience of catching a massive fish is entirely different than watching someone else do it.

yeah, someone else does it better. (In fact I'm watching Richard Gene the Fishing Machine on Youtube as I write this. I'll never be a fisherman like him. ) The difference is doing as opposed to watching. I have all sorts of second-hand fun watching youtube. But I have so much more fun when I make my own accomplishment. My fish may be smaller and objectively less interesting than the one I saw caught on YT. But the experience of doing is radically different than the experience of watching. I find doing much more engaging.

If I were you I'd look for something that you like to do. Doesn't have to be fishing, that's me. Maybe you like to crochet or program, cook or build. Whatever it is, find something that makes you say "hey, I did that. cool." and go with it. That's where living is!
The article tries to conclusively throw out good and predictive science based on a single rare edge case test that well-educated people believe to be explainable within the same paradigm.

If you're going to claim that dark matter doesn't exist, you need to have a way to explain all of the cases that are known to show that dark matter does exist. Cases like the Bullet Cluster, where a collision left all of the visisble matter in one region, and all of the gravitational matter in another. How can this possibly happen if there is no such thing as invisible gravitational matter? How can there be galaxies like AGC 114905 that don't have any dark matter, if there is no such thing as dark matter for galaxies to have or not?
In Argentina WhatsApp became the de-facto standard definitely because it was “free” messaging compared to the expensive SMS. The carriers ruined it for all of us.
You should make an app that does this. macOS is pretty extensible so this might be possible to do.
Comcast charges $100/mo for 1Gbps where I'm at in a suburb of Salt Lake City. Our city announced a partnership with Google Fiber that will begin rolling out in 6-8 months. After that happened, I've started getting Comcast adverts to sign a 2 year contract...I also expect to see their prices start dropping soon.
> Tuple table performance, though, tends to degrade quickly when querying separate rows for every little attribute.

Interesting. Do you know what causes this steep decline in performance?

A larger sequential read is typically not that much slower regardless on what sort of drive you are using. I'd have expected that the random access pattern of a normalized table would lose out.
I'd be down as heck for a 2D physx/femfx-accelerated 2048.

I have no idea what it would look like, but it'd open the pool for strat on solving the puzzles I think. May need to play around a bit with the shapes and materials to make it more interesting though.
It seems to use a lot of memory which can be unacceptable for many people and can become impractical if you plan on running several programs simultaneously. For several of the problems at https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... on the Computer Language Benchmarks Games, it shows the Julia programs as using several times more memory than similar Java programs. It's even worse when comparing to C, C++, Rust, etc...
IANAL, but have family & friends in biglaw

> Biglaw attorneys routinely bill 2200 hours a year in 6 minute increments.

A surprising portion of that work is random menial stuff, they don't actually end up doing 40hr/week of mentally demanding work.

> Plus, they do this into their 50’s.

The ones that survive to make partner do. But its well-known that BigLaw absolutely burns through associates. Very few BigLaw associates make it past 35, most eventually leave for saner pastures of corporate counsel/government/etc jobs.
They helped a bit, for a while. Gigabit fiber is less maintenance than electrical power, and it's easier to roll-your-own electrical power than it is to get a Gb connection like how would you do that before Starlink, buy an insane amount of radio spectrum? I heard one HN user who did exactly that in Brazil, got a 20-meter tower to connect by radio to the internet some distance away, and it was a very solid high bandwidth connection. But still much harder than a generator and solar panels, or a tiny little hydropower generator on a stream (a great option in places like Southern Chile, not a joke by any means). Or wind.
Now, don't be ADIC.
No one said that
> But from a political standpoint, when you know that your manager just read a blog post about React, I think the discussion needs to be framed differently.

The author only got to ask one question before he was shut-down: why do you want to do this?

That's not a criticism, it's a completely reasonable question, given that rewriting something using React is going to be expensive, and might introduce major new risks. Maybe author asked the wrong way, or in the wrong tone of voice.

If it were my manager, and he was proposing that I rewrite something that works fine in a new language, and I had real work to do, then I think my question "Why do you want to do that?" might come across as angry - because I'd be angry.
Shotwell would take over and is just as flakey and bit crazy. She told investors we'll likely have passenger rocket flights in 6 years (2028) so she could fly to Riyadh for lunch and that tickets would cost between economy and business class:

“Because I travel a lot, and I do not love to travel. And I would love to get to see my customers in Riyadh, leave in the morning and be back in time to make dinner.” Shotwell said the rockets would be cost competitive with long-haul airline flights because of their ability to make several trips a day."

They doubled down a year or two ago and said that timeline was still on track. Think about what they are saying critically.
> free speech purists always ignore the fact that speech inciting violence can have a material impact on the world.

Free speech but only when it is impossible that speech may have any material impact on the world is not free speech, it is maximally restricted speech.
Ah, i thought Authy was a service. So.. why can't OP use Authy with Google?

Google Auth is just TOTP, yet Authy is not capable of using it somehow? I'm so confused lol. I've used plenty of TOTP apps with Google.
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That really is the $1m question huh, wish I knew tbh. Even ignoring the unpaid work aspect the other Catch-22 is sure, you might filter a few "only good on paper" candidates but if you're hiring "top talent" what is a 5min Flask API going to prove?

For a coding eval like that to be useful beyond jr level it'd need to be decently complex which usually takes a while to develop. Maybe an open ended (upfront no expectation of completion) kinda "see how far you can get in 1hr on this complex thing" could be a fair middle ground as laying some good groundwork is a pretty solid insight into their coding process.
Ironically, another manufacturer that used to make great tools but went 'consumer'. I got to use an old +20yr B&D circular saw not long ago and it was still fantastic
I would agree that a lot of people who use these things do not consider themselves to be a product to be sold to marketing firms.
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