skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that desert, but instead in a near by desert in Arizona: https://bigsandyshoot.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h3HAv9ra9Q

It's where all the private individual owners of the biggest military equipment you can buy in the US go to shoot their equipment that would be basically illegal to shoot anywhere else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R02emks3BoQ

I like this one where they shoot a ball turret from a bomber from a different year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_TaK0WZj2k
> Anyone happen to know how the legislation is being justified?

Two reasonable justifications are checking for steroids/PEDs and making sure no males participate in female sports. Just a guess though.
Apple, does not have layoff plans,now. But they missed their earning numbers this quarter so expect some layoffs later this year. They need to regain the upper hand on earnings so reducing staff is a sure way to reduce costs and increase earnings.
My kids really enjoyed Minecraft: The Island by Max Brooks. They already liked Minecraft, and the book was a fun read. For a 4yo, I think anything that you read with him is great. Also, when my kids were about that age, they really liked the Roald Dahl books. Just get the boxed set, because they are all good.
Yes, I'm sure. Is is father or mother Austrian? There was a period in 2014 wherein children affected by this law were allowed to apply for Austrian citizenship - perhaps he took advantage of that. There has also been a recent change for descendants of holocaust survivors. I'm not sure about the german side of the equation.

See 'Obtaining Austrian Citizenship' here: https://www.bmeia.gv.at/en/austrian-embassy-london/service-f...
I definitely appreciate this, my understanding is probably lower than I let on, thank you for the info.
I find the list of similar songs to be bang on for a couple of songs I queried for. Great job!
You don’t get much more info than from a modern satellite
> The ransom note asked for 50 bitcoins (around $1.9 million at the time) in exchange for revealing the vulnerability used to breach the network and for returning the stolen files.

Only $1.9M? If you risk going to jail, make it worth it.
I found the recommended songs to be bang on similar to the ones I queried. Great job!
(Also in title and headline.)
> Now, if people are making up stories already. How will that when anyone can create a video that appears to show that the opponent's champion is doing exactly what the worst conspiracy theories claim

I see. Some people can't help but believe what their eyes see and what their minds think. Instead of considering that just a candidate for a working hypothesis. We must pity them.
You can be banned for stating a verifiable fact if it's too inconvenient: https://twitter.com/steve_sailer/status/1607733672635158528
Personally for me the best way of finding new music is friends whose opinions I trust. I find going by similarity will pull up a lot of derivative artists that suck (eg Last.Fm/Pandora). I want something good, and if it's radically different, even better!

One awesome use-case I can see for this though is finding alternatives to copyrighted songs. Let's say you make a sports video, and you have this fantastic song in your head, but you can't secure permission. It would be cool if this could find something similar to that song. Same style, tempo, etc. Even better if it's royalty free.
Yes: some kids are quite sensitive to that sort of thing. More importantly, it's not actually teaching them anything except that they must conform.
It happens with a lot of people who get burned out and just want to put their kids through college. There's nothing inherently wrong with that outlook, and those people can do good work keeping the lights on. But if you're at all driven or ambitious, it can be seriously frustrating to work with (or especially for) someone like this.
If you have any recs I can buy in the US I'm all ears. Because mine "heats up" but not enough to make an actual difference between turning up the tank heat.
I honestly don't understand how anyone could read the terms of tether and possibly believe they have the right to demand real money for their tether. Tether is up front that it is monopoly money.
I don't think it is a price issue, like other commenters. I think the price is in line with previous editions, just adjusted for inflation.

The real reason is that newer versions of iPhone have been utterly meh. Absolutely no new innovations. The screen looks dated. The design is tired. The camera tech has plateaued. Storage sizes have plateaued. Battery life has plateaued. CPU improvements have lost any meaning for the average user, given apples inability to write software that takes advantage of the gains.

So why should I drop $1000 for no meaningful improvement or added use case? If I'm gonna spend that much money I'd rather try the folding phone from Samsung. It's got something new.
Ignoring Y because it has X is the opposite of ignoring X.

It is fundamentally impossible to both ignore X and make decisions based on X at the same time.

Something cannot be both ignored and a key criterion.

Your argument is akin to saying that a company hiring process that "ignores race" means eliminating applicants based on their race. It is untrue. It is the opposite of true. And I think you know that, so please stop trolling.
Im happy to hear this kind of celebratiom, but I personally know very few people for whom VR is a once-a-month on average thing they do. I do think sales are a good indicator and this is good news, but it doesnt really tell me what enduring engagement looks like, and I have a lot of doubts.

Having 4 mildly successful but isolated & proprietary platforms that never manage to build enduring engagement seems like a terrible waste of promising hardware.
I actually can hand wave it away.

I spent nearly six years homeless, I've had a college class on Homelessness and Public Policy and I've written about homelessness for years.

Being homeless and socially cut off is hard on your mental health. It's not always obvious which direction cause and effect runs.

Plenty of people have serious mental health issues and manage to largely hide it if they can remain housed, on any pertinent medication, etc. There is no direct cause and effect relationship between mental health and homelessness or drug use and homelessness.

Instead, studies show that increased rates of homelessness are more than 90 percent accounted for by rising rents in an area.
I can think of another reasonable reason, not that I agree with them delisting it: Reducing consumer confusion. You don't want people buying the wrong one by accident.
It’s quite likely that was an extension of the joke, the repurposing of a comercial off the shelf item that already does the job the young inventor set out to do.
This Resumé Got Me an Interview
The point being made by myself and others in this thread doesn’t contradict yours: all software development is not R&D, R&D is a specific activity related to speculative work. A bunch of people churning out code to support a revenue generating product are not engaged in R&D. Historically, it has been beneficial to classify as much as possible as R&D because of credits. The point of contention is not whether R&D must be amortized, it’s whether or not R&D classification is a choice.

Some in this thread have argued that the rule change means that all software development is now R&D which would be a radical change and would have the impact that the OP describes.

I’m still not convinced by the argument that all software development is now R&D: it just doesn’t seem plausible, what on earth would be the reasoning behind that? Yes, this bill is garbage and it may have unintended consequences, but to suggest they’ve accidentally made all software development be R&D seems inconceivable — even before considering the amortisation consequence.
From the post: "it may well become necessary for anybody who wants consistent results to decompress archive files before checking checksums."

I'm certain there's some exploit waiting to subvert the decompress algorithm and substitute malicious content in place of the actual archive files.
They could put Carrot Top and Andy Dick on it and send it back?
Much of the confusion in this thread comes down to the fact that in the US, the standard shower valve is a 'pressure-balanced' valve, which allows you to select a flow-ratio between hot and cold feeds, but does not in itself maintain any particular temperature - it just ensures that in the event of pressure changes on one or other feed, the overall mix is maintained (preventing temperature spikes if someone flushes a toilet).

Whereas in many other parts of the world, the standard shower valve is a 'thermostatic mixing valve', which allows you to select a temperature, and balances the inputs to achieve that desired temperature mark.

Note that if you go to, say, HomeDepot.com, and look at shower faucets, you will not find thermostatic mixing valves. Only pressure balanced. The only thermostatic component in conventional american shower valves is an anti-scald-cutoff. Thermostatic valves do exist, but they're not the ones that are bundled into showers and that therefore get employed by the average landlord who is grabbing the cheap standard parts off the shelf. Thermostatic is a premium option, and not one that even crops up in the search result filters for showers.

So most Americans have simply no idea that thermostatic valves are a thing.

Whereas if you go to, say, diy.com (which is the store of B&Q, an equivalent store in the UK), and look up showers, you will find all the basic 'mixer showers' have thermostatic valves.
Absolutely.

I adjust my shower based on feel, sometimes I want hot, sometimes I want cold. Then I just turn then temperature knob.

I don't think I will ever want an explicitly 38°C shower.
It circled around every concept, gave a lot of references and refused to answer the question.

So, whatever the answer (yeah, you gave the answer), looks like it can wait a while. Politicians, on their turn must be wary. Here is what it said:

> In Chapter 11, we discussed how firms can maximize profits by producing the quantity such that P=MC, entering industries where P>AC, and exiting industries where P<AC. We also discussed how the movement of labor from weaker firms to stronger firms can increase efficiency. In Handbook of Labor Economics, it was found that in the United States, 60% of the increase in U.S. manufacturing efficiency was caused by people moving from weak firms to strong firms. In this chapter, we also discussed how firms can use limited resources, such as labor and capital, to produce goods in order to satisfy as many of our wants as possible. This means that firms must allocate labor and capital to their highest value uses in order to maximize profits.
Depends on what you're defending against. Drones are effective because they're cheap so they can be sent in large numbers to overwhelm air defense even if each individual drone is an easy target.
Biden isn't capable of standing up to China.
The baby did fall off the face of (Peggy’s) earth. She gave it up shortly after it was born. That’s it.

As I said, it comes up again and again. Most directly in “Meditations in an Emergency”, wherein she tells Pete the whole story of his baby and why she gave it up.
People always focus on the agenda of the 'fact-checker' in these arguments, but never seem to focus on the agenda of the 'fact-checked'. This isn't to say that said fact checkers are always correct because people can always double back and issue a counter argument, but rather that it's easy for people to just post nonsense and run, leaving it to fester if uncontested.

For example, there's been multiple incidents of that here on HN where people post something that's incorrect by all definitions. It statistically does not align with reality. The best way to counter the deluge of low effort, low accuracy claims is with a medium-effort, medium-accuracy source. Usually in these cases the poster simply vanishes because they did not intend to actually follow up a factual counterclaim.
>Strict determinism is physically impossible. By physically, I mean you cannot reconcile it with quantum physics.

This is complete BS, given that there are many aspects of quantum physics that still elude our comprehension. Just because we fail at determining its nature, doesn't necessarily mean its nature is indeterministic. Just like how a pseudo random number generator may generate numbers which appear to be random or indeterministic, but instead are actually the results of an entirely deterministic and predictable process.
Deep involved simulation you say?

Check out Nebulous: Fleet Command https://youtu.be/Oe-71-3khyA specifically 1min in they show off the missile seeker customization and sprint phase programming. The game is like if you combined The Expanse with Homeworld.

In general I've found the devlogs interesting—same YouTube channel I linked above.
This looks cool. Use case for whistleblower situations, to post info anonymously online with a link to share? Like archive.today for text (and could also be posted there). Not spam, real stuff.
I just looked up the conclusion of that. So awful. His whole family ended up moving to Qatar because of harassment.
I once got a bug report from a user's manager about the values in our application's private database.

It was an internal user interface, intended for employees of our conpany. Once upon a time, we had a process for adding a new record where it had to be added manually to multiple internal systems. So the internal UI had its own copy of the data. But then we built a single source of truth for this data source, that single source of truth had an API which our application would query and so the database table updates were abandoned as they were for the database's internal use only, however nobody ever bothered to remove the old table with a few hundred rows of stale data.

Two years later, we got the bug report then. The users' manager was complaining that the dataset was incomplete, that it was impeding his work, and that it needed to be fixed asap.

It turned out at some stage he had requested and was granted read only access to that DB, and had been querying the records of user actions in that DB to track the volume and quality of work his subordinates did. And then at some other point he realised that he could join against this table to get readable labels rather than opaque identifiers for the types of data said reports were working on. Except of course, the data was two years stale so he was noticing an increasing amount of "missing" labels in his report.

Said user escalated all the way to a VP of engineering before accepting that no, a private database is not a supported interface of our product.
Tens of thousands of people are in the same boat.
That's some A+ Cave Johnson level thinking!
If you are paying only yourself you are probably a disregarded entity for tax purposes and you don't get to write off your salary anyway (before 2022 or after).

In theory you could treat your one man startup as a C corp, but that would make very little tax sense, regardless of these changes. Also if it's your own 200k, you don't pay tax on it because you've put it in the bank and then taking it back, even in a C corp: you pay tax on the revenue from others.

The problem seems to arise for purely bootstrapped companies with contractors that have no startup capital. This is quite rare i think, because you'd probably start incurring expenses for a couple of years before you earn any revenue, expenses that you can then amortize once the revenue appears. If you are a small company but not a startup, then your software expenses are probably not R&E, they are ordinary section 162 expenses.

It's a law in the opposite direction nevertheless impeding innovation (i wonder the intent!), because it adds complexity for the tiny poorly funded businesses
> "we will have options to deal with this balloon."

OK surely at this point they are taking the piss.
> Gain-of-function research is defined as "research that improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease." Meanwhile, directed evolution is defined as "the laboratory process by which biological entities with desired traits are created through iterative rounds of genetic diversification and library screening or selection."

God this is so dumb, these two definitions are not mutually exclusive: You use directed evolution as a method to do gain of function.
> AI can automate certain tasks and assist engineers in their work, but it cannot fully replace the creative, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills of human engineers.

It very likely can. That it can't is an extraordinary claim with no evidence at all to support it.

It just doesn't right now, and GPT and LLMs in general are almost certainly not the correct kind of AI to do that.
Then I would agree with you that women don't have those traits just because men do. But they do have them. We're all human. I wasn't trying to argue the former. Your original response to my comment was disrespectful and uncharitable which is why I responded in kind, despite that generally being an inferior strategy.
Why?

I don't need git for my local personal use of the software, but I do need the source code if I need to modify the software.

Some people even downloaded source code even before git existed.
Really good, until the day it hallucinates a novel answer that suggests doing something bad.
A good friend of mine is a retired Army Green Beret. After retirement he went to the police academy and got a part time policing job more or less “for kicks”.

He was absolutely horrified at what constituted “training” at the academy. An interesting thing about the Green Berets - while they’re certainly very capable with weaponry there’s a lot of “finesse” that goes into their role (to the point he called SEALs, Delta, etc “door kickers”).

At the academy the training on everything from de-escalation to weapons and tactics ranged from completely wrong to outdated, dangerous, etc.

Granted this is through the lens of someone the US government easily spent millions of dollars training but in discussing this extensively with him he offered several suggestions in the training regimen that seemed very simple, obvious, and likely of little increase in cost/time.

He's described several occasions from his (11!) combat tours when they had to be very strategic and calculating in "going to guns". Given the training and experience they would be relatively calm, capable, and measured regardless compared to (as one example) lesser trained units that hammer and nail. He's alive in large part to being able to talk/persuade his way out of things.

It's not a stretch to imagine a lot of the most serious issues with policing in the US (police shootings) come from very poor training all around, putting themselves in disadvantaged positions, and escalating to the point of "go to guns".
I'd guess he planned to sell his product, collect the proceeds, and retire before any of it caught up with him.
I loved CS1.x (and CS:Source, which many didn't enjoy). I did NOT enjoy CS:GO.

I loved Overwatch for the first few years.

Valorant initially disappointed me because I wanted a better Overwatch, but Valorant was a better Counter-Strike mixed with Overwatch. CS:GOverwatch, if you will.

I rapidly fell in love with it and had lots of fun. Unfortunately an IRL injury to my wrist stopped me enjoying it for a while, until I started playing with a vertical gaming mouse. I still have less mechanical skill than I started with, but it was really fun.

Valorant is Free-to-Play (with no pay-to-win crap or loot boxes). Very much worth giving a try.
It's not ideological. It's empirical. People who can't accept reality. The ones who tried to overthrow democracy. And the millions of voters who declined to punish them. Strong overlap with people who fear vaccines, clean energy and drag queens. The ones who think the entire universe is a giant conspiracy. The ones who make threats and carry out attacks.
Let's run Half-Life 2
I had the same experience. Could see the element which it matched with, beat, pitch, etc.but missed the riff or nuance that made the source song special to me
Based on your rules, you would not be able to predict 人気 ninki, 人類 jinrui

Why is popularity "plain" and humanity is "identity"?

You just have to memorize ALL of the compounds, there's no other way
I've never commented on HN before, but I feel compelled. Congrats, you get my first.

I've been using your site for 10 minutes and already added song after song to my library. I'm sure you'll improve the matching algorithm over time. This is a great first step; I'm being exposed to songs I've never come across before.

Good job!
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Moreover, showers with purely mechanical thermostats exist.
This is interesting. https://twitter.com/faytuks/status/1621289387504836610?s=46&...
Computing is not yet old enough for us to know which books on computing are great books.

Also the point of reading Euclid is not really to learn geometry but rather to investigate and examine the oldest, most primordial expression of the idea that math should be formalized using a few axioms.
I believe a very similar use case was the original primary function of Richard's compression algorithm in the show Silicon Valley. Which of course was entirely underutilizing the technology but that was the joke.
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Tether: The former plastic surgeon behind the crypto reserve currency (2021)
When I asked if monopolies produced more or less goods than competitive markets, it got the effect of economy of scale exactly inverted, and finished with the usual textbook answer that monopolies produce less and thus created less value.
I’m just glad there’s finally enough competition to bring down prices in EVs. If Chevy hits its price target next year for the Equinox I think everyone will start buying them. I sure will.
Interesting. This was my take as well. I’ve been a fan of rods from god stuff for years, but his whole attempt to “recreate” was really lame. He explains physics stuff all the time, and then struggle with some simple engineering, just so they could create “suspense” around a helicopter drop. It was kinda surreal. I’m still scratching my head.
I realize hardware project are, er, harder, and I buy that this project is real, but at the same time: signup pages and fundraisers aren't supposed to be Show HNs. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. So I've taken Show HN out of the title now.
For many air-to-air and ground-to-air missiles, we cheat and improve the hit probability another way: proximity fuses.

Example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder

They detonate near the target rather than impacting it directly. This greatly improves the chance of success. Jets are fragile, so this is almost always sufficient to take them out of commission.
> I already look at people with suspicion when they are walking on the road in the middle of nowhere. I wonder where their car is and why they are walking there.

... but why? How does it possibly matter?
Yeah, there are sites where these are being looked into. I'm not sure its the same thing you mean, but you can bet there are plenty of eager guys out there making sure these cams aren't going to waste.
Twitter's new basic API tier to be about $100 per month with ID verification
This is a very music recommendation engine. The best feature I guess would be the serendipitous finding of unknown artists we might not hear otherwise. Great job!