skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The weather/5G frequency use conflict reminds me of the FAA 5G filter fiasco 8 monthes ago:

FAA Shows ‘Sample NOTAMs’ for Possible 5G Restrictions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29694085

My comment at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29696273

This is all ridiculous, there's still a 200 MHz band guard between the FAA band and the 5G proposed band.

Here is what a $1 ESP wifi dongle has to follow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11

"The mask requires the signal to be attenuated a minimum of 20 dB from its peak amplitude at ±11 MHz from the center frequency"

So 2 dB/MHz filter.

I let you do the math.

FAA is just ridiculous here if they let old junk radio hardware handle safety landings for airplanes, but well after 737 max what do you expect...

And obviously this was in line with reality, FAA finally admitted it didn't do its job of preventing crap filters to be kept in planes for decades:

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-statements-5g

Airlines and other operators of aircraft equipped with the affected radio altimeters must install filters or other enhancements as soon as possible."

Now I haven't looked in details yet on this new frequency use conflict and Sabine mentionned a scientific study that seemed legit.

One thing is different: around 20 GHz there's lots of frequencies available (vs 5GHz) so we could have larger guard band without significant impact.
Anyone know what the curve for alcohol looks like?

I know no amount of alcohol is "safe", and a lot of alc is very bad, but in between, what does it look like? Is it a cliff after more than 2 drinks a week? 10? Does it matter if it's beer or whiskey?
I even think MBNA recently started blocking Firefox. It's a dark time for us all.
It's not that they were two failed launch attempts. They were actually more like two more wet dress rehearsals that they should have done before trying to launch. But they didn't, and now still have not managed to complete a full wet dress rehearsal satisfactorily. There was no indication they were actually ready to launch going into this and there still is not.
How does PHP / Ruby fare?
As someone who has an energetic dog, I'd be careful of telling people to do this. It's a lot of responsibility, and the amount of workout and training is more time than I spend working at times. Especially if you are single like myself.
Personal assistants can really make a difference to people with disabilities
Testimony from key RCMP officer at mass shooting inquiry can't be broadcast
Why should software companies, developers, product managers and executives remain immune from consequences of willful negligence, when that negligence results in real harm?

In college I took an Engineering Ethics class, where we studied engineering mistakes resulting in deaths, and learned about the investigation and prosecution of the engineers involved when there was negligence.

The Hyatt Regency walkway collapse in particular will always stay with me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse.
But, but: "HR film can be over or underexposed several stops and still produce acceptable prints."

I worked in a one-hour photo lab. Disc photos always looked like crap. If you couldn't get a decent photo with the light in Maui, there was no hope.
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
This looks great but I'm surprised there isn't any % of the paid money going to charities, good causes or something.

I'd like something like this that pays into my retirement, a long-term investment or donates to charity, with maybe 1-20% going to Beeminder or whatever.
Great story. I have a similar one with swimming. When I started swimming laps, I'd always come at it hard, and I'd sometimes panic, lose my breathing, and feel like I was going to drown, and have to stop completely. And it was terrifying.

Eventually I learned to a) slow down at the start, and b) to recognize when I was inching toward the redline, and slow down while still swimming to avoid the panic stop. I felt, and still feel, that there was an important life lesson there: to be attuned to yourself, to make conscious decisions about your behavior based on that awareness, optimize for 'harmony', or 'least disruption'. There are some psychological things going on, too, like shame, guilt, etc that seem really silly now but felt real and were pushing me toward the wrong conclusions!
drafts optimizes for startup time, I use that for on-the-go and then review it later to be put into a long-term system

looking for one-tool to do it all is a mistake
1. There is no filesystem (exposed), there are per-app sandboxes with the ability to move files from another sandbox

2. It only allows single file actions, no sync/offline cache/etc. Most apps don't meaningfully work well with this - there is no "sync these ten comics to this device at all times"

Most apps still only use their local file sandbox.
Except labor was the group that came up with the term "quiet quitting."

Also, I'd say "work to rule" is also pretty bad from a branding/comprehension perspective, given the multiple meanings of the word rule. I suppose it's meant to mean "do the exact work required by the rules governing your job and no more" but grammatically the sentence reads as though it's referring to the verb form of the word - i.e. "work in order to become a ruler within the organization."
I would not consider VMS and Aegis/Domain OS as unsuccessful. They got however in the hands of HP who killed them.
Yes, any solution would have to take into account the reality that losing nets will continue to happen despite the best efforts of the crew.

Ultimately, though, someone has to pay for the cost of removing these nets from the ocean, and ideally that cost should be recouped from the fishing company that bought the nets (possibly as part of some insurance scheme).
This is pretty cool. Would you consider releasing the reverse engineered source code? I imagine that could be pretty helpful for anyone dealing with future OS changes (perhaps trying to make this work on Windows ARM for example, or even linux), and while it's probably technically against the license agreement, I can't imagine anyone would care much about such old software that's no longer maintained.
Is Nvidia underestimating the chip crunch?
The Signal Path has done a really good job breaking this down - skip to 3:00 if you want to avoid the preamble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0xwyVlqsRo
Mystery of US archaeologist’s Irish disappearance to be examined on TV
That second line can be written:

*reg &= (uint8_t)~x;

Or:

*reg &= ~x & 0xFF;
I don't know, and that is very hard to measure definitively due to confounding variables. In the nuclear industry we have a similarly hard question for ionizing radiation dose. Since the 50s we just use a dumb linear no threshold curve, assuming every little bit hurts.
> your compute and phone resources are already used for analytics and other things that you didn't explicitly tell the phone to do.

I didn't know LineageOS sent analytics, it never showed up on Netguard. Curious!

If you think this is a dumb thing to argue about, then by all means; don't argue about it! If you're satisfied with your iPhone and convinced that Apple can do no wrong, then certainly don't let me get in your way. We're talking about the largest company in the world, though, and if you're unwilling to offer them a little criticism for objectively degrading the iPhone experience, then I don't see the point in discussing this.

> you also greatly overestimate how much CPU it takes to compare a hash, lol

Do I? If it's not such a big hassle, then Apple can just run it on their own servers. They own your iCloud decryption keys anyways, it shouldn't be too big of a deal.
I wouldn't wear that weighted vest too much. If you wear it all day, it will have the same adverse effect on your joints as being 20 lbs overweight.

It's fine to use it to add work to body-weight exercises such as pullups, squats, etc. but don't wear it for hours just walking around.
Article 15 and article 22. Look it up if you're interested. They can automatically lock you out, but they are obligated to send you all the data they have about you, including whatever data caused their automated system to lock you out, and they are obligated to manually review automated lockouts.

Edit: Here's the intro to article 22:

> The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.
I'm not a smoker, but know many, many people who are legitimately addicted to tobacco. What is it about the content of this book that made such a change in you? I'd love to hear about your experience - it sounds like an extraordinary approach if it indeed works as well as you're saying, which makes me think it's some kind of written neurolinguistic programming thing, a technique that could be helpful in a lot of other situations.
I currently for for a Fintech and our investors don’t want to do anything with asbestos companies. That includes asbestos removal companies. Which is pretty idiotic considering these companies are actually doing a good thing. This is the kind of solution that the industry will tend to if it is expected to self-police.
> Every phone has glaring problems you have to live with or work around.

I can only think of one phone i have used that has what I would characterize as “glaring problems”.
> Wasn’t QE introduced to deal with the last round of this?

The opposite. QE is an inflationary policy, much like lowering interest rates. As the central bank buys up debts in the open market, QE makes loans easier, meaning more companies get cheaper debt to finance their operations.

That is: QE inflates the bubble further. Arguably needed in the 2010-era to help us recover from the 2008 recession, we are beginning to see the ill-effects of this policy today. Which is fine, there's a time and place for all of these policies, and the rising interest rates will counteract the ill effects of that.

Its a question of "how hard to push the deflation buttons". Pushing too hard risks a difficult recession, pushing too lightly means inflation will get out of whack.
Stable Diffusion on an Old GPU
I wrote a blog post on my efforts to get Stable Diffusion working on my old machine (with its Geforce 1060 GPU). I'm probably behind the curve here, but I thought it might be helpful.
You don't use Cloudflare because you're afraid of them de-platforming you due to social pressure? Are you hosting content that encourages and/or facilitates harassment, violence, suicide, swatting and other illegal activity? Then you should be afraid of being de-platformed, Cloudflare or not.

If you said you're not using Cloudflare because Cloudflare is attempting to become a monopoly that can mix good with bad and prevent anyone from blocking whoever they choose to host, that'd make sense.

But it sounds like you're just bullshitting. Anyone who'd stretch this event to the possibility of "losing business on a Saturday afternoon on a whim of an anonymous Cloudflare censor" is just absolutely bullshitting. You, cft, are full of shit.
Lapce is graphical and seems to be aiming for a vscode-like experience, while Helix is a terminal-based editor. They're not really competing in the same space imo.
Yes, if you install LineageOS... I like my Pixel 3 except for one thing, the fingerprint sensor appears to be defective, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't (bought it used on https://swappa.com/)... it gained 30% in value since I bought it more then a year ago.
There's reason to believe those earlier studies used flawed methodologies:

> But there was a problem with many of these studies: They compared drinkers to non-drinkers, instead of comparing only lighter drinkers to heavier drinkers. And people who don’t drink are pretty fundamentally different from drinkers in ways that are hard to control for in a study. Their lives probably look dissimilar.

> Most importantly, they may be sicker at baseline (perhaps they quit drinking because of alcoholism, or because of a health issue like cancer). And something in these differences — not their avoidance of alcohol — may have caused them to look like they were in poorer health than the moderate drinkers. (This became known as the “sick quitter” problem in the world of alcohol research.)

> Lately, researchers have been trying to overcome that problem by comparing lighter drinkers with heavier drinkers. And the benefits of modest amounts of alcohol wash away.

And that even moderate amounts of alcohol are harmful:

> Their findings were stark: Drinking more than 100 grams of alcohol — about seven standard glasses of wine or beer — per week was associated with an increased in risk of death for all causes, they concluded. In the US, the government suggests men can drink double that amount — up to two drinks per day — but advise women who are not pregnant to drink up to one drink per day.

> A person’s risk of death shot up as they drank more. The researchers used a mathematical model to estimate that people who consumed between seven and 14 drinks per week had a lower life expectancy at age 40 of about six months; people who drank between 14 and 24 drinks per week had one to two years shaved off their lives; and people who imbibed more than 24 drinks a week had a lower life expectancy of four to five years.

My sort of baseline here is that nobody would think twice about this if they weren't motivated to justify continued consumption. It's fairly obvious that it's bad for you.

Source: https://www.vox.com/2018/4/24/17242720/alcohol-health-risks-...
My P6P is also the worst phone I can remember, but unlike you, I also really dislike (main) camera. It oversharpens people's faces to absurd degree in anything but optimal light. Faces are discolored (often gray), wrinkles come up, hair often looks kind of greasy. (for landscapes the camera is pretty good though)
Don't say it is the last day. Start by saying today is a day that I won't have one. Then, maybe you can say that tomorrow too.
GDPR Article 22:

> The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.
Thank you for this recommendation - I'm planning to switch platforms in a few weeks, and blocking YT ads was one of the big open questions I still had.
Mr. Tharoor is a current Member of Parliament of India and previously India's Ambassador to the UN. He is a very eloquent speaker and writer.

Here's his famous short speech at the Oxford Union where he made a case for reparations from Britain for its excesses during its reign of the Indian subcontinent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4
I agree. While a quieter cabin may sound nice (pun intended), I found it noticeably harder to sleep on an A380 than on louder planes.

For me it's not even that you hear more of the other passengers (my experience is mostly in business and first class, which are less dense and rarely have babies). But the monotonous noise from the aircraft engines really helps me sleep.
Heh, you don’t get 20% of the internet without that content, so…
Is it? I think in the US that connection is quite well known, and yet I have seen people lose parents and grandparents that way and keep eating McDonald’s at a prodigious rate.
Transwomen are the big relevant one here, but Kiwi Farms happily hates on black people too.
This test seems really underrated. It's my go-to for comparing computer system performance (e.g. between versions on CI) since they often have very peculiar distributions and are relatively cheap to produce enough samples from.
How does a company faltering or succeeding end up being reflected in its membership of the Dow? If relative shifts in stock price are the main causal mechanism, then that's exactly the issue: universal passive index investing (roughly) means that there won't be relative shifts in price.
> Remarkable how much leaders can not know about their company's operations!

There's an entire wikipedia article dedicated to that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability
> the package had never actually been opened, and contained the original packing slip… with a date several years before I was born.

But the packing slip says 1999!!!!
They offer ARM64 Visual Studio for MacOS too, i believe in preview, but when I tried installing it a few days ago the first thing it asked was for permission to install Rosetta.

WTF? Unacceptable and probably just a bug in the installer?
Top-tier medical care is useless if you can’t use it! This is a vital point many Americans don’t seem to get.
Really happy for the author!
I also find gamification and vanity help. Strava/Peloton are good places to keep scores and brag about what you've done.
> there is no moral foundation for the existence of any governance system, except self-governance

"Self governance" is just another word for anarchy, which leads inevitably (and often quickly) back into autocracy. No thanks. Not even worth engaging with further.
Forgive me, I'm not sure what youre trying to say. The relevant reason not to have fiefdoms is demonstrated by the article, is it not? The king can unilaterally destroy you or your business at a whim.
Thank you, fellow nineties emo kid.
It’s common for teams to overuse IORefs or the ST monad when they need mutability, which can make Haskell feel like an imperative language or maybe OCaml.
> To compile JS and CSS, run gulp

Shows how dated this modern UI framework is
> Then they get very argumentative when someone says the mails look fine

Are you referring to this?

> Thanks for commenting. Unfortunately though I have to disagree, The Land. In my view, getting people on very limited incomes to donate $2 they can't afford, by making them "believe that Wikipedia is in trouble and that they need to give money to keep it online", is unethical. All the more so if it's done in part to raise WMF executives' compensation to $350K and beyond (bear in mind that these salary figures are two years old). It's worth mentioning that some of those salaries have been rising steeply, even as the WMF claimed to be in urgent need of money. Compare the entries here in the 2020 Form 990 to the corresponding entries here in the 2018 form. As far as I can make out: the CEO's total compensation incl. benefits increased by 7% (to $423,318), the DGC's and GC's by 10%, the CFO's by 11%, the CTO's by 17%, the CAO's by 22%, the CCO's by 25%, the CT/CO's by 28%, and the CPO's by 32% – all over a two-year period when the annual inflation rate in the US was at 2%
The grand scheme is to have a more than one option and path forward to a moon mission, keep the US' aerospace building capabilities fresh and available, and probably also to provide some of the usual pork barrel giveaways to the usual folks. It is both unfortunate but understandable. In an alternate timeline people might now be upset that NASA and the US put all their bets on SpaceX that could now not deliver for some reason.

Yes, the price tag is an abomination and the engineering strategies outdated and frankly kind of embarrassing. But hindsight is 20/20.
It's still a matter of perspective, though. To use the Keffals issue as an example, the same way you see stopping people from criticizing and doxxing trans activists like Keffals as saving lives, many people, including many on KF, see stopping people from promoting normalization of transsexualism and encouraging minors to seek out HRT and surgery as saving lives. It's not okay for these people to stoop to illegal activity in their activism, but it's also not okay for your side to do it. Any justification you can make on your side is a justification they can make on their side. If you feel strongly emotional about this issue, I understand how that can be hard to accept, but it doesn't make it less true.
Taking a picture of something on your own phone is not "medical data" and they weren't doing ToS compliance, they were scanning for novel CSAM in a way they're not required to, reported it to the police, and now are refusing to undelete his account because of their never give anyone customer service policy.

(Even if you took a picture to send to your doctor through an encrypted app, it just has to end up in the photo library to be cloud synced, unless you remember to hand delete it.)
I just got a VR headset so that it makes working out fun. Now I work out 7 days a week for an hour.

I use weights and resistance bands to make it a bit more demanding and I can do it at home and enjoy it. No need for hacks.
Exactly my experience. Numerous times I found ways to reduce accidental complexity in software. But guess what, my change breaks 50 tests, because accidental complexity happened to be under test. What I anticipated to be an enjoyable 2-hour refactoring turns into 3-day chore. I guess I'll just leave the complexity in there.

Sure, those were "bad" tests. Accidental complexity is not supposed to be tested. And yet I had this experience in every single company I worked at. Maybe I'm just incredibly unlucky. Or maybe there's something wrong with "tests are good" mantra.

"Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration"
Was that person getting physically kicked the shit out of?

I see exchanges of meta-information, recognized by courts of law to be public, and hear nothing of actual physical violence.

You do not, however go, and put someone in a sleeper hold, or call a construction company to come pull out the chunk of sidewalk a fight is occurring on. Also, if you have someone going and publically antagonizing another group, the general approach is inform LE, and caution the one on the receiving end to keep their head down.

If all they do is make themself more of a target, no amount of legal system or police force will protect them. If they scale their being a target beyond their capability to defend themselves from those that would target them, well... Society tends to self-correct through violence, in case you hadn't noticed. Learning "where thine chicanery will not be tolerated" is kinda part of the whole surviving in civilization shtick.

Mind, I've been on the recieving end of that Good Samaritanism. I pay it forward every chance I get. If you think I didn't learn to take care of myself better though, you're barking up the wrong tree.
what if we use, as you said, FCUs instead of a traditional radiator?

i understand other commenters are talking about individual air conditioning but that increases the electrical load exponentially because you have multiple units running at the same time... think of the poor wires.

has anyone been crazy enough to preheat the heatpump from solar ? would that even work?
Thats a good point. Let me try turning those off.
I don’t know anything about the people writing the comments. I’m pointing out that the author of the article is Indian. He’s presumably aware of the EIC’s negative history, but chose to write an article about a different aspect of it. Not everything about India or the EIC needs to be about poverty.
Oh, I somehow understood it was VR.
Doesn't sound like you've bothered googling him. Read his wiki page[0]. This is literally stuff he's been writing about for close to 30 years. Of course you'd talk with him if you're a billionaire prepper.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Rushkoff
I prefer DisplayPort over HDMI, and find it rather annoying how many USB-C hubs only have HDMI options - especially when it means extra circuitry to convert from DP to HDMI.
Run carbon capture off renewables. Use oil for gas for vehicles.

We don't care if carbon capture stops at midnight or doesn't run on a still day. As long as the average yearly carbon capture is slightly greater than carbon production.

Millions of vehicles could still be used and not replaced. We still have real and meaningful issues with electric vehicles that may not be resolvable. Battery chemistry is extremely reliant on very gnarly chemicals with their own environment issues.

The thing we want to fix is global warming.