skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As far as I understand it the vast majority of rockets have uncontrolled

I don't think that's true anymore. There's a Danish radio program[1] that talked about this and apparently China is the only country/operator that still have uncontrolled reentry rocket stages. Everyone else have committed to controlled reentry.

Looking that the possible places where the rocket can hit populated areas. It looks like they went out of their way to ensure maximum coverage of Africa. Reentry a little earlier and they would have been almost ensured that it would hit the Atlantic Ocean.

[1]: https://www.radio4.dk/program/den-nye-rumalder/?gid=43389&ti...
Why should they pay more if they already get 100x more submissions than they need? It’s clear that almost all constructors do it for fun so paying more isn’t going to improve quality. For solvers the real value add comes from the editor and selection process that ensures reasonable quality and consistency.

I’m also curious when we switch to AI generated crosswords. It seems like it shouldn’t be too long from now that they match human constructors.
I feel you on this, but I don't know if HN is the problem. This culture war has broke a lot of people's brains (regardless of what internet communities they're part of), to the point where nuanced discussion on any topic is rather difficult nay impossible.

For people that are captured by this form of thinking, everything is framed in for or against terms. If something or someone can be placed, even conceptually, as against their side; they fail the purity test or make a decision that isn't strictly kosher, well then every single thing they do needs to be hyper analyzed, then framed in a dispassionate if not fully negative perspective.

Like you, I'm getting very tired of this discorse. I'm sure for people who view things this way it can be exhausting, as you constantly have to be reframing everything in ever evolving terms of political doctrine. I don't think this will last. Ordinary people are getting tired of it, and I think these puritans are starting to get real pushback in the open. A totally anecdotal opinion, but hopefully one that resonates a bit.

In anycase I think the best thing we can all do is try our best to be objective, compassionate, and nuanced when evaluating people or events. Life is complex and its elements don't fit into a binary of good and evil.
I see Jenda being Jenda.
Congratulations, I always enjoy new search engines

W.r.t. "and updated intermittently," I wanted to draw your attention to the HN realtime API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API#live-data and also that S.O. offers Atom Feeds: https://stackoverflow.com/feeds/ (I'd guess the rest do, too, but I didn't verify)

I am a huge proponent of taking advantage of any update features that a site offers, because otherwise the "how about now?" of re-crawling is wasteful to both parties.
China was like that also. If you had some furniture you wanted to get rid of, ask the guard or someone at the property management office, they know someone who would take it.
I agree that smoking weed is harmful, my addiction is causing me quite a lot of mental issues, but if I had to compare it to heavy alcoholism, it's night and day ...
Freakonomics podcast: Has globalization failed?
It was supposed to boost prosperity and democracy at the same time. What really happened? According to the legal scholar Anthea Roberts, it depends which story you believe.

Co-author of "Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters"

https://www.amazon.com/Six-Faces-Globalization-Loses-Matters...
Would we (I'm of an older generation) have been less ignorant if I'd been carrying a pocket encyclopedia with me? Doesn't seem the appropriate word.

> if a store is open

Well, you don't need to tell if you plan ahead. That's how it used to be. Shops here opened from 9 to 6, except on Saturday (shorter), and never on a Sunday. There simply was no reason to look up opening hours. And if you needed something after 6, you had bad luck, or you asked the neighbours.

I don't think your examples work well, especially when you add in that there are actual flat-earthers around: not because it's Gen Z, but because of that handy device.
It does work on Firefox for me (on macOS at least)
I've never used any of these voice assistants. Do people find it easier to yell "Hey Siri, set up an alarm for 1 hour" vs going to Clock app and setting one? Not bashing anyone, genuinely curious.
On easy, I have to get really bad luck to die; there is just so much scrap, I can buy whatever I want whenever I want.
If there were a "fixer" subscribed to the service who is into replacing upholstery and assuming that the chair is otherwise in good condition, why not? If it is a rickety thing falling apart at the seams with broken wheels and a dysfunctional gas lift, certainly not. If somewhere in between, probably not.
A lot of people will mock this as an out-of-place "me too" feature, but I actually think it's great.

Pitching Signal to people as an alternative to iMessage/WhatsApp/whatever is really hard. But if people actually use the stories feature to share real things from their lives, it can become an alternative to a whole other category of privacy-harming apps.
Limiting whom you follow and not tweeting means you have some control over what shows up in your feed. It doesn't mean you made anything useful out of it, though I can understand how other people might think they have made something useful.

By analogy I can control the real-life interactions I have with people to some degree, but not completely. I can choose not to engage with family members who spout conspiracy theories, just ignore them, or not put myself in the situation in the first place. But I can't always avoid that in real life because I can't always control those interactions. With social media, though, I can choose not to participate at all, based on weighing the value I might get against the downsides of time waste and nonsense I have to read, skip over, block, unfollow. In my experience with social media the downsides always far outweighed the benefits, and that was before taking into account the platforms harvesting and selling my information. If something important happens in the world, or some new tool or technology comes out that I might care about, I will find out through some other channel (here, for example) that doesn't come with so many downsides. Other people will have different experiences.

I mainly want to push back on the idea that we have to use social media to participate in some imaginary "global town square," or that we will miss something vitally important if we don't pay attention. We don't, and we won't.
Half a century brother. It doesn't get any better but life is still worth living. You can reach your potential with accommodations.
Stop being productive or diminishing returns in productivity?
> Certain users like builders need to access a special blockchain software dubbed coinbase that’s used to receive new tokens on the network and is basically a connection to validators.

I'm not sure what the special blockchain software dubbed coinbase is but what's really happening is

These "builders" handle block formation in a centralized manner (promote front running, block certain address, essentially raising fees (gas) for everyone, etc) for those running validators. One term I've seen is middleware.

So it's arguable that the entire network, including those regular ETH users dubbed as Ethereum outsiders by this article, will benefit from this specific upgrade. Please someone tear my commentary apart.
I'm sorry for the bad reading experience, I seem to have used the wrong word, please forgive my poor English .
I'm sorry, but this is somewhat playing the victim.

If you really felt strongly about being a a chemical engineer or pharmacologist and benefitting society through that, the schoolwork being uninteresting doesn't sound like a big hurdle to overcome.

We can't expect "the system" to solve everything.
The shift towards SOEs and back away is close to the largest scale economic experiment we have ever done on the planet. Many of these countries, particularly India and China, invested heavily in terms of political and reputational capital into the approach of a government-run economy. They had tremendous incentives to stick with a system they had assured the public was the way of the future. When the same approach is tried in everything from Scandinavian social democracies to Islamic socialist societies to Asian communist regimes, and then all of them change course after a few decades, that’s not just “confirmation bias. That’s data.

Maybe voters in Sweden and voters in India and party functionaries in China all just got some “right wing”virus at the same time. Or maybe they were reaction to the unworkability of an economic system they had tried. You know what they say: those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it.
I too am looking for extremely high CRI bulbs, preferably warm, 1600-2200K. Or adjust temperature. If anyone knows how to select these, please post.

CRI didn’t end up being the common consumer metric I hoped it would be. I have to rely on supplementing efficient LED lighting with inefficient halogen lights to be able to do color-sensitive activities like cooking food / monitoring skin health / some DIY electronics work. Also high CRI just contributes to overall quality of life / well-being across most activities.
I feel the problem is that many people in healthy offices already have a productive relationship with WFH, and understand the inherent costs and benefits. But there exists a large group who work in inherently toxic environments with sociopathic management for whom WFH is an essential component towards stability and is also the first places trying to force them to be in person.
One Mammoth of a Job: An Interview with Eugen Rochko of Mastodon (2018)
You can open it in the incognito mode, consent to all, and then let the browser delete everything upon closing the window.
This is just one group. Presumably mentors could connect with mentees through other groups and channels.
The National Park Service wants humans to stop licking this toad
Read the docs, I must say I like what I see. Seems focused, minimalistic and using existing technology well. Will give it a try!
I learned about this concept from this article - Why half a million people watch me study on TikTok - https://www.bbc.com/news/education-61305442

It makes sense. Really wish this sort of stuff was around when I was in college.
For strong ones, just neck and wrists.

For lighter ones, it's up to you.
Doing the above won't last long. I'd just spray mist at a couple foot distance 3 or 4 times and let it fall on you.
High tech manufacturing is even more important to keep domestic.
That’s not relevant to the other comment tho?
Britain (or at least Surrey) has the same system - Community Recycling Centres [1] will have a shipping container where you can leave things that a Charity Shop [2] might be able to re-sell.

[1] The local “Dump” or “Tip” - [2] “Goodwill”.
I guess this varies by region. I've never had to wait more than a couple minutes to make a donation at any local thrift stores.
Being armed is a dramatically effective way to improve defensibility.

How many effective defensive fortifications can you name that ran intentionally without any arms because they are of "little use"?
Ranked on lines of code? Hope not.
No, but the attention it's getting speak to why Musk bought it. Just about every media member has a Twitter account and uses it. They are affected and therefore report on it. This is worldwide news because of the reach Twitter has and it seems world changing.
I built my writer's habit using the London Writers Salon Writer's Hour daily zoom meetings, this concept has merit as well!
In Firefox, I enable the cursor mode to solve the link problem... I can click anywhere and the select the text using the keyboard.
> ...the crows still had to figure out the center-embedded order where open and closed brackets were paired from the outside in...if the birds only learned that open brackets were at the beginning of the sequence and closed ones were at the end, you would expect an equal proportion of ( { ) } mismatched and correct responses. But...the crows chose more of the latter than the former, even with the more complex sequences of three pairs of brackets.

I'm no expert but it seems like the birds are identifying visual symmetry. Maybe they are remembering the mid-point of nested symmetrical symbols, and that's still interesting, but is that "understanding recursion"? Recursion is the idea of repeating an algorithm or a function calling itself. Visual symmetry is a little simpler than that.

If a crow peels an onion layer by layer that doesn't mean it understands recursion. It's doing something recursive. Understanding recursion, in my mind, involves being able to describe a recursive function or make a prediction based on understanding the function.
I read this while I lay next to my toddler so he can sleep more soundly.
No such video exists. Got it now.

All that you've got is a quotes taken out of context that distort the original meaning. Ignorable.
If anyone finds this interesting, I would also like to recommend watching Jon Stewart’s Wordplay. It is much more interesting than it sounds.
We shouldn't push kids into science if that's not their interest in the first place - just saying it since apparently some people need to hear it.
Reminds me of American corps draining water elsewhere, like Coca Cola in some South American towns: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/world/americas/mexico-coc...

The irony!
I'm gonna be honest, I'm having a hard time parsing this, almost to the point of wondering if you're running a natural language model for these comments.
The reason is what matters
I often wonder what a modern emacs would look like. This feel like a step in that direction.
socialtrue was up last year ?
Years before it seemed to bother me more than now. I find myself just using a lamp more often

Part of it's likely that I'm now in Texas, we have two seasons.

Summer being the main one, roughly 95% of the year. Rain or just cold enough to freeze for the other 5%

I grew up in Appalachia and there... it was more bothersome but I also kept busier, so it didn't impact me that much then either.

I guess the takeaway is, stay busy and be mindful of warmth -- both in temperature and light. People can help with the environment too
The headline implies that they are using Wi-Fi RF waves to scan and create an image of interior objects. In actuality, they are pinging Wi-Fi devices inside a building and calculating their location using time-of-flight measurements.

The device, nicknamed Wi-Peep, can fly near a building and then use the inhabitants' Wi-Fi network to identify and locate all Wi-Fi-enabled devices inside.

Still interesting, but not quite “seeing through walls.”
You speak of preconceptions rather than fact.
Centralized systems are very dangerous, moderation is a huge problem and has a massive chilling effect.

I support civil discourse and disagreements, I actively want to see both sides and not just an echo chamber.

We all have different beliefs and the only way to move forward as society is to foster open and honest conversation.

This is especially applicable to politically correct language and culture. Some things are uncomfortable and that’s ok. It should be.
CBT has to be focused with an understanding that any effort--notebooks, sticky notes, etc--is going to exhaust your already precious executive function.
I'm a huge fan of Helix, use it everyday. LSP works out of the box(if you install it with a package manager, otherwise you need to do a bit of config) .My configuration file has 5 lines or so, great defaults. No need for overly complicated configuration, or installing dozens of plugins, etc.. Did I mentioned is crazy fast? Opens in ms, and everything feels very snappy. The only thing I noticed, when I use it with tmux, the colorscheme get reverted, dunno if that is a tmux issue or not. But in general, great editor, thanks to the authors.
Apple has added no UI changes since Leopard that I prefer or even care about about. I'd be extremely happy if they froze UI changes / features and focused entirely on stability, compatibility, and security instead.
Eugen Rochko
> And what's meant by "the explicit intentions aren't enough"? And is the point that Okulitch ("a white man") qualifies under the "LGBTQIA+" heading? Are we supposed to assume that the a white male opera singer couldn't be Gay or Bi or Trans or Queer/Questioning or Intersex or Asexual or "+" (anything else)? Or that he is at least one of these, and that's we he was able to participate? Wouldn't it be simpler (and better) to just let people who are excited about crosswords post a message and see if they meet someone interested in mentoring?

I think the point is that despite the given disclaimer and rules, disqualifying individuals are still making use of the group and supporting each other.
Although I’m sourcing the crawl data from devdocs, the ingestion process uses the upstream URL, so the search results link to developer.mozilla.org with the appropriate favicon.

I’ve heard enough complaints about W3Schools and other SEO-heavy but accuracy-light sources that I suspect a fair proportion of technically-minded users probably consider the domain before clicking on a result link.
It's still 1560 light years away. It's a binary system that includes a star very similar to our Sun and a black hole, and apparently they choose to live together peacefully, not exchanging mass. Black holes are hard to detect, let alone dormant black holes like this one, even though there are hundreds of millions of them in our galaxy alone. We only managed to detect a couple dozen.
*helps fund the translation engine in Mastodon.

NLnet might have its roots in the EU, but you shouldn't conflate the two.
This is just a service info page describing the service, not an advertisement.
> price the water appropriately based on the sustainable supply.

In the regions where the water problem is most relevant, pricing based on the sustainable supply isn't possible because the water supply isn't sustainable, and won't be no matter how much you charge or how little you use.
I "like" plenty of speech I disagree with, if the speech is fact-based and informative and rational and interesting. I enjoy a good debate, I learn stuff, it's good.

I don't "like" speech that lies, hates, tries to manipulate, tries to shock, or is just incoherent.

So, do I have a belief in "free speech" ?

BTW, the USA's First Amendment just prevents the govt from stopping religion or the press etc. It's doesn't mean anyone has to listen to anyone. It doesn't mean some platform such as Facebook or a newspaper is required to propagate your speech.
I am not sure if I can agree with that. The EU has several apps and API which are stable and useful.

Do you have an example of such low quality webservice?
It's an amazing piece of technology, but I read somewhere that the engineering tolerances of the gears would have caused drift/errors with the outputs that would have made it unusable without being recalibrated.
I'm super interested in studying at the moment. For years I suffered from hypogonadism, making it difficult for me to function as a human being. I'm trying best to pursue my interested in Computer Science at the age of 27. Hopefully it isn't too late!
This is so common in the current anti-intellectual American mindset... other forms it takes:

- I wouldn't know, X person is way smarter than me
- (Try to discuss how something might work...) This was made by really smart people, I'll leave it to them!
- (learns you're doing an Engineering degree) Wow, you must be really smart!
- The "for science!!" trope
> At the end of the day though I wish I had lights that met 3 conditions:
• Give off high CRI, full spectrum, high temperature light
• Contain simple electronics controlled by a dimmer rather than wifi-enabled
• Gradually turn on and off with the sunrise/sunset
Is there anything in the market right now for that?

There are high lumen, high CRI, 5k color temp ‘highbay’ (used for warehouse lighting) fixtures available in the commercial market.

Example, puts out 40-60k lumens at 5k color temp and 90CRI: https://cree.widen.net/s/nmxpvrvfdw/the-edge-high-output-hig...

That fixture is 0-10v dimming capable, you could pair it with a photocell, room controller, and dimmer from a commercial lighting controls line to handle the automatic raise/lower and manual dimming.

These are ‘available’ in a sense, if you can find an electrical distributor to open an account you can buy these, but it isn’t as easy as just going to Home Depot.

The downside is, it’s probably $400-500 for the Cree highbay, and another $500 for a photocell, room controller, and dimmer. Then you need to wire it all up, and program the controls.
Our of curiosity, do you regularly do crosswords? Like the NYT or otherwise?
Batch Converting Images to Webp with macOS Automator (2021)
How do you find ES is for this kind of thing? Have you looked at others, eg: Solr or even Sqlite FTS?
I'm not saying it's not a problem but after a few minutes of research I think some context is useful.

The current source of lead seems mostly (maybe almost entirely?) from "lead service lines," which is the pipe between the street and the home. And, new installations of those lines has been illegal since 1986 in the US.
Optimizing Binary Search
I am not convinced dexterity has much to do with intelligence. It is more an enabler of technology development and not raw intelligence.
Surely it isn't a tank (it would make no sense to have a small, 5 or 10 liters or so tank), but it is also not a hammer arrestor, as it is not vertical, and there is no way it could provide the air cushion needed.

Very likely it is simply a sort of distribution manifold.
A job can simply be a job, a means to an end. Money to go do the things that you will thrive at.

It's hard to get there mentally, and you might not even want to, but either you can come around to it, leave, or stay and likely stagnate.
"We want to laugh at the coffee machine."

I actually, initially thought the author meant "ridicule the coffee machine". How rude. ;)
Not all people have the motivation and self discipline to force themselves through a career in something that they hate, solely for the money.

I learned programming as a kid in 1981 and fell in love with it. I knew about the demand for programmers, as my mom was teaching programming at a nearby tech school.

My college internship was at a large computing facility, which employed a number of programmers. I formed the impression that programming as a job was incredibly repetitive, stressful, and boring. I majored in math and physics, and ended up with a PhD in physics.

I do plenty of programming today, but on my own terms. I work at a place that has a large programming department, and my opinion of programming as a job has not changed. On the other hand, if someone loves that kind of work, or can at least grind their way through it, they're welcome to the money.

It may have taken me a bit longer to reach a decent salary level. Today, I'm the highest ranking "technical track" worker in one division of a F500. Had I gone into programming, I might have reached a plateau, or burnt out.