skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems nice but it’s difficult in practice.

Converting to metric for fuel seems reasonable but measuring fuel in weight (mass) and volume would still lead to errors using only meteric.

Distance and speeds use a mix of feet, statute miles, nautical miles, meters and kilometers depending on the context and country. Eliminating the difference would mean new approved flight manuals for each airplane, and quite expensive changes to flight instruments as well.

There’s a really good fit with feet for altitude in the U.S. that just works well. 1000’ of separation for opposite direction traffic, and 500’ separation between flight rules in the same direction. Directly converting to meters breaks all the simple math involved. Whereas if we keep the math simple, it alters airspace density and capacity.

Anyway, there’s no significant desire or effort to drop any of these units.
As a web game dev, one point in favor of an App Store debut (and many against)
I think the bigger issue would be if they actually answer...
Ah yes. If only the US didn't sell food to subsaharan Africa, they'd learn to pull themselves up by their bootstraps! It's really the handouts that makes them dependent on the US government.

The horseshoe theory of politics truly explains a lot.
How so? I don't see how a secure attention sequence (i.e. what Windows used to do with requiring ctrl + alt + esc to be pressed to log in) could be a bad thing.

On the other hand, you can bet that that's absolutely something scammers will be able to convince people to do while they're on the phone with them...
Narcissist has become exponentially more abused over the past couple years.

I've ended up leaving it for people who are attention-seeking, in common culture it is reduced to "people I have conflict with who I don't think care about other people", which has some irony, that's how a narcissist would perceive many interactions.
The Biden family’s corruption is so blatant and brazen, that if they really wanted to drag him through the mud they would.

I’m sure there’s a lot of this kind of corruption going on with Republicans in Congress as well so there’s a sort of mutually assured destruction protecting all of them.
The biggest issue with implementing involuntary treatment hospitals is that there are very real, very established regulations that you cannot force a patient to do something they do not consent to, outside of very strict circumstances or court orders.
By "other players" do you mean the incumbents? Parties with existing revenue streams and contracts stretching out years without any performance requirements?

Anybody who is guaranteed a job with a decent salary for life and a great retirement plan is not incentivized to perform except by some personal drive. Anybody who wants onto the gravy train is motivated to do whatever work it takes to get a seat at that table. And they are motivated to do it as fast as possible.

It is not wrong to prioritize safety over speed. But you can use the safety excuse to drag things out for as long as people are willing to pay you without producing results. While space travel risks involve the obvious threat to human life, those risks can be generalized like any other risk. Usually, the lower the risk, the lower the reward. Unless there is something interfering. Interference that manipulates the risk/reward ratio often has the smell of corruption in the minds of many people.
I don't know what to make of this. It just seems so incredibly implausibly that extraterrestrials would have the technology or motive to come to Earth without widespread detection.
It's not a win. The fake clicks will not convert to sales, and the advertisers are seeing a lower ROI on their ads and will go and spend their budget elsewhere in the future. All ad networks will try to filter out as many fraudulent clicks as possible, because they are not optimizing for the maximum revenue today but for the revenue in the long run.

But yes, of course this is not just about filtering out fake clicks. The draft proposal lists a bunch of use cases, most of which have nothing to do with ads.
Her first recorded song was with The Edge on the criminally overlooked soundtrack for "Captive": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvKV4_9nV2M
Ay, that's me! I made a post almost a month ago myself here but never got a response.
Are you sure it wasn't thanks to an absolutely huge amount of arable land?
Computers have an unprecedented ability to reproduce value for free. Programmers need a relatively fixed amount of resources to thrive. (The value of resources varies by location but we all need things like food, shelter, transportation, clothing, tools, etc etc)

If we can find a way to make sure every person has what they need to thrive regardless of their income, programmers can open source all of their software and we can enable the maximum value creation possible. Other engineers like those that design commodities like dishwashers and cars or important manufacturing or medical equipment can also open source their designs so that repair costs are low and innovative improvements are easy to apply. I genuinely believe this would result in a steeper and more rapid innovation curve as well as a better world for all, than a world where we try to monetize things which have zero marginal cost to reproduce.
I'm curious to hear from someone familiar with web development:
How much do websites invest in accessibility and related features that cater to a small audience?
Can we draw any conclusions from this to how websites will deal with accessibility to non attested users?
It's already not possible to login to Twitch on Linux.

It rejects Firefox and Chrome outright. The solution is to use either browser on Wine, then copy the session cookies over.
> we quickly run out places to grow the types of crops we recommend

Not at all.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares

> The problem is overpopulation

A little math might help.

environmental_impact = number_of_individuals * mean_individual_consumption

We can either lower individual_consumption, or wait for the nature to reduce number_of_individuals
I expect you were downvoted because your post isn't particularly interesting, and won't lead to thoughful discussion, let alone thoughtful discussion about the article in question. Sure, someone who doesn't know the difference between "its" and "it's" might learn something, but, while I'm not going to go so far as to say "that's not what HN is for", it's... well, kinda not what HN is for.

Another -- unfair -- reason is that some posts about grammar and spelling come off has holier-than-thou nitpicking. I don't believe that describes your particular post, but it's hard to convey tone/purpose in text, and people get annoyed by stuff like that.

I didn't downvote you (at 21 hours later, it doesn't matter at this point), but if your post was "in the way" of scrolling to more interesting conversations, I probably would have. I come to the comments on articles because I'm curious about what people are saying about the content of the article (and was thrilled in this case to find that a commenter here was actually the person who built the software that ran this bar). As much as I do believe that language and clarity is important, I don't particularly care if someone mistyped an apostrophe into the article's title. It's just noise to me.
To me (i live in the mainland EU) it looks like a testing ground, to see what passes and what doesn't, so that then our unelected EU officials can try to implement it here too. Be it ACTA, many many attepmts to outlaw encryption (or at least add some key escrow system, or centralized encryption system instead of e2e), etc.
It’s a good call out - the ability of the government to keep secrets across decades.

But - tinfoil hat time - have they not demonstrated their ability to do this wrt the knowledge around nuclear weapons?

Edit: and considering the claimed abilities of UAP, might those technologies be on par (in terms of military
might) with the technology behind nuclear weapons?

Also, that bit about a spaceship needing a biological pilot was kind of dumb. I don’t know how you can see the advances in AI these days and not be able to extrapolate an advanced space faring species not needing a biological pilot on their spaceship.
Yes, that was the item to which your link referred.
One odd thing that I've not seen any discussion on: the reported heat capacity of LK-99 decreases above 250K, which is pretty atypical. Has there been any commentary on that?
Is this really a problem?

Revenue based on selling copies of a recording is down. The cost of reproducing copies is less than ever. The barrier to creating your own music and distributing it to everyone in the world is less than ever.

All the middlemen cranking out wasteful copies of just one thing are not necessary since music is trivially reproduced with digital copies.

How much should music make as an industry? Who should be making the money from the music that is made? how much money should you make off of a single song that is performed a single time?

This is always a controversial issue. The loudest opinions typically say "they need to make more", which is the same opinion about nearly any profession in the entire world aside from the ones that make the very most money. Some musicians still fall into that category.

At the end of the day the lion's share of revenue doesn't go to a performer anyway, it goes to middlemen who add no value to the actual performance - they just make it be distributed and decide the winners and losers based on arbitrary gatekeeping. The contracts are predatory and the whole thing seems f'd to me.

I know many people with primary and side gigs as performance artists who don't make superstar money, there's no shortage. Live musical performance is all over the place and the ticket prices are outrageously high for any in-demand performance.

Most of us don't have the option for income in perpetuity for work performed - we just get paid for hours worked. Is there an argument around payment in perpetuity vs pay for work performed that should apply across the board?
And I’m saying that people who do that are ethically compromised in general, and dishonest if they think they are “outside of society” while still benefitting from mains electricity, mass-produced goods, etc.
Show HN: Interactive and lightweight map of NYC's Restaurant Week
I found the official website https://www.nyctourism.com/restaurant-week slow and tedious to navigate, so I hacked together a fast, filterable map to showcase the participating NYC restaurants during Restaurant Week.

It's in pure HTML, CSS, and JS, and it uses Leaflet for mapping and a utility JS file for the searchable multi-select input. If you're interested, check out the unminified source code by right-clicking and selecting "view source". The full source is available here: https://github.com/Blue9/restaurant-week.
Ok, but please don't fulminate or call names on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do a daily stand-up

Make sure to monitor your team every day and force their performance first thing in the morning. Focus on the daily grind to ensure meaningful change can never occur.

Hire randomly

Never put in the work to identify potential candidates based on their contribution to the industry or relevant projects. Always rely on blind applications to a job ad then make the applicants perform grueling and humiliating coding tests until they've successfully demonstrated their pain tolerance and allegiance.

RTO

Make your developers as uncomfortable as possible and force them to move to the most expensive real-estate market possible. It's important to remind individual contributors of their position on the social hierarchy. Home ownership and starting a family is for execs only.
People often no longer own commercial licenses, but rather rent their assets until the updated terms of their agreements become a liability.

Android -> Sales funnel for app store/services, and consumer profiling

MacOS -> Sales funnel for app store/services, and consumer profiling

Windows 11 -> Sales funnel for app store/services, and consumer profiling

Ubuntu -> Sales funnel for app store/services, and consumer profiling

Most people conflate information appliances with general purpose computing.

It is a shame 98% of the market went this route... You still pay, but are just unaware how you are being monetized. =)
Well, people with bad eyesight use bigger fonts, making terminals full screen is necessary to see the whole 80 chars line without wrapping.
> Fortunately, we've found ways to mitigate that friction in the end.

Some of it, yes, but there are a nontrivial number of small/hobbyist sites that never overcame that friction.
Interesting, I just met a group starting a co-op around heirloom varieties of plants etc. and promoting them / selling food products made from them.
I just tested this in Sillytavern hooked up to GPT4. You can include instructions in the character card to joke and deflect rather than reveal it's an AI, and it will do so, but I'm sure someone familiar with the AI could notice it doesn't deflect the way a human would.
How?

The page must first load, then it requests an attestation using js and sends it back to the server for further use (like a recaptcha token).

So for something like curl it could be no change.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
He seems to have been incredibly honest thus far including on his own failures.
Slavery is a great evil, then, now, and forever. Nevertheless, antebellum American plantation slavery, where the overwhelming majority of persons in chattel bondage were held, was focused on cash crops like tobacco and cotton, and not on feeding the populace.
Is the ideology of people living in a certain area really that much of a factor in
the economic success of that area?

Or is is the more the other way around. A location that has attractive geography or abundance of some resource leads to people wanting to live there. Once population reaches a certain density, there is desire for more rules and regulations to prevent a "tragedy of the commons". Progressive policies are more a result of "success" than a cause.

In the US, the state Mississippi get stereotyped as failing area. Progressive policies can't do a whole lot there. Maybe higher taxes on the wealthy, but that could only go so far until companies and wealth can just go to other another state. Mississippi is more of a victim of geography than ideology.
https://archive.ph/VDNPj
Whenever the west does something, it's somehow China's fault.
Copper is diamagnetic, not paramagnetic
If you have used GNOME 2 for an extended period of time and then moved to GNOME 3, I think you'd find the shorter list of what wasn't removed.

The idea was a vast plugin ecosystem which would allow development of desktop features to be more distributed. The problem was, some of the most basic features (like a taskbar for displaying open windows, or panels, or applets, or sane window management tools) were left out.

At some point it becomes a security and performance nightmare when the idea is that to achieve a normal desktop experience, you need dozens of user-supplied scripts.

Of course that's not a problem in practice, because even with user plugins, several basic features continue to be missing. And the fact that most of these plugins are just recreating functionality that already previously existed should really tell you something about GNOME team's design philosophy.

To quote Linus Torvalds, GNOME 3 is a "total user experience design failure".

https://www.datamation.com/open-source/gnome-2-vs-gnome-3/
It's amazing how quickly code-is-law becomes regular law is law when the code allows all your money to be stolen. And that is the nail in the coffin of this ideology, proponents of blockchain claim one day your house deed will be on the blockchain. What happens when people hack your house away from you then?
That would have been a better comment without the dig. I suspect the person you're replying to would find "Against Method" interesting (assuming they haven't already read it).
>Ehh. I was in high school and college throughout the '90s and still think pop music quality peaked sometime between 1966 and 1986

How much of that was influence from baby-boomer controlled music media?
I think this is a little reductive. WEI is likely what some people at Google felt was best for AdSense's customers, i.e. advertisers. It just so happens that Google has a whole other set of customers who this is not best for, e.g. Chrome users, YouTube users. The problem is that it's all coming from one company, and AdSense is where the money is at, so I don't trust Google to make the best decisions for their secondary customers.

I definitely agree that AdSense blocking clients that don't implement WEI seems likely. At that point, it will be up to websites that rely on AdSense revenue to decide what to do with customers they aren't monetizing. That's already a question they have from users with ad blockers, although that is a little bit more challenging to detect.

My hope is that the majority of sites accept that they can't rely on ad revenue, and instead resort to directly monetizing users as a way to make ends meet. IMO that's a better relationship than indirectly selling their data and attention.
I would argue that both sides are equally hateful and full of disdain for the other. The time of calm rational conversations where we agree to disagree has unfortunately passed. I can have a beer and calm conversation with anyone and have done it many times.

I've even done it with open anti Semites and neo Nazis [it was a very good conversation] while I'm Jewish. These days instead of trying to understand where someone is coming from and having an open exchange of ideas, everyone just resorts to personal attacks and outrage. It's exhausting.
Well there is that and there are users that post GPT SEO trash to Reddit et al, which is what the attestation API could help with.
Assistant professor, but yes. He's not exactly just a "guy with an opinion".
He says they don't describe a critical temp where resistance appears, but I think they do int their paper 127°C
Doesn't really matter. According to a representative of the German Insurer Alliance, most ship fire extinguisher designs are 50 years old, calculated on fire loads of cars common back then... so not respecting any developments since then, from ever heavier cars (more mass, more energy in a fire) over magnesium alloys/components to batteries [1].

[1] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/auto/elektroautos-autofaehren-br...
From this/other work, Hamilton seems like an all-or-nothing -- E.G. you really have to buy into the paradigm. Do you see value in partial migration? How might one get started without boiling the ocean at their company?
> So, what stops the US government from making this an elaborate Psyops activity. Why should it be aliens _only_?

That just depends on what evidence you do, or do not believe. Depending on your selection, and number of explanations may make sense.

> In an unstable world, where power projection is necessary & inevitable, it is a tactical move to neither confirm or deny existence of unparalleled technological edge

Personally, I'd believe UFOs were all fake/mistakes before I believed it was real technology held by any government.

> The fact it isn't seen by India China Turkey Japan or any other sufficiently advanced military

It is. UFO reports come out of all of those countries. India has a religious tradition with very clear UFO references, and videos come out of China all the time (although they tend to be purposely faked 100% of the times I've seen).

NUFORC has a kaggle dataset in fact: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/NUFORC/ufo-sightings
Then lets make alcohol and tobacco illegal.
(1990)?

Seems weird that AP doesn't include the article date even if it's one that predates AP on the web.
From the lastmile team here. Would love your feedback!
Origin story -- we're a group of ML developers who want to build better developer tools to make AI more accessible to non-ML engineers. We built ML Ops tools in Big Tech for many years (Jupyter notebooks, model management, experimentation platforms, etc), but those were targeted towards ML researchers.

With LLMs and other generative AI models, we want to provide simpler tools to bridge that 'last mile' gap between the core foundation models, and using/personalizing/integrating them in your applications. Hence the name :)
Even in poverty having to spend more than one makes is a problem. Therefore my statement maybe simple but true.

The best kind of truth in my book. I have lots of ideas about poverty but I was actually responding to the trap of high-earners. Careful spending is more critical in impoverished situations.
Snowden spent quite a bit of time looking for UFO stuff since he had access to almost everything classified and never found any evidence.

I’m not saying this whistleblower is definitely lying, but if anyone was capable and willing to bring this forward with receipts, Snowden would’ve done so.
list of 50 cafe’s open late night / 24hrs in SF
Cafés start closing at 2pm, latest till 630pm. Restaurants by 9pm. Here's a rare crowdsourced list of places - restaurants, cafes, grocery stores, that are open late night in San Francisco
I really don't know either. When it works for me though, I think it looks like people going out of their way to point the finger at themselves, and nobody going out of their way to wag a follow-up finger at them. I'm not sure hiding it would be helpful, but I haven't tried that.
It is more severe than that. The design favors a whitelist approach: Only browsers that can get the attestation from a "trusted source" are allowed. Browsers that cannot, don't.
Resilience against cyberattacks using strongly-typed Actors (2022)
The thing you have linked to is correct, but you're reading it wrong.

VHS has 240 *horizontal* lines of resolution, meaning that a grid comprising 240 alternating *vertical* black and white stripes ought to be resolvable as a bare minimum. This corresponds (roughly) to 2.5MHz of luminance bandwidth. This is also confusingly named, but there you go.

Youtube's 240p resolution is lower quality than VideoCD, and far *far* lower quality than even fairly manky VHS.
Cool stuff!

I've been periodically hunting for languages which transpire to Go for a while now, surprisingly silent space. Was not looking forward to trying to make one myself :)

One curiosity: How would you categorise the resulting Go output currently?

Obviously no expectation that a transpired language's output would be _pretty_ but helpful if someone working in Borgo can practically work on alongside a team purely working in Go.

Think: progressive migration, or feasibly having core in Borgo & surface layer in Go (or vice versa)
This whole thing smells like a distraction from something else brewing.
>Why would Google not monetize unattested traffic? I mean that's like Google blocking it's own ads from being shown.

It's very simple. Google has concerns of click/impression fraud. Unattested traffic would be more likely to be fraudulent. Not paying for unattested impressions/clicks is therefore an easy way to cut costs and combat fraud.
I always immediately approve implementation of any good idea regardless of roadmap or resource availability.
I definitely distrust The Hill.

Her mother was charged with, and pled guilty to, providing an abortion after 20 weeks.

The law has since been changed to a 12 week limit.

I'm also interested in the Hill's take on how you can legally dispose of an aborted fetus after an illegal abortion. Seems to be pointless splitting of hairs based on sophistry.
What an incredible album. Jackie and Just Call me Joe are songs I always love to hear.
That's pure delusion. People will reject your solution just like they reject nuclear. Even more so, since millions of people can't afford them.
Let’s see some evidence?