skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read speculation that the warm ocean temperatures are due to ships at sea stopping use of high sulfur fuel recently, so perhaps releasing some sulfur (or other reflector of IR radiation) at a fairly large scale ahead of a hurricanes path might deprive it of some energy from the Sun and reduce it's intensity? Might need to be done a month in advance though and since hurricane paths are not predictable that far ahead maybe the coverage area would need to be too big for too long to be practical. There's been talk of building ships that spray ocean water into the air to reflect heat back to space as a way to cool the planet, so perhaps that would be an approach to cooling the ocean along the most likely hurricane paths into Florida and the Gulf coast and Eastern seaboard. If it worked there it could be expanded to other places.
Depends on your situation. If you have family and friends maybe, but lots of people don't survive and you don't see them. Healthcare, housing, food, etc. is mostly tied to employment or lots of money. People don't have time or energy to figure out any alternatives if they exist, and face eviction and starvation if they don't, which is a whole new world of not being able to survive. We see lots of drug abuse, theft, suicide, and similar things precisely because there is no safety net.
Although I would bet USB OTG HDMI works
> Ecosystem is small, but at least there's FFI interop.

FFI continues to be a disaster (to be fair, this is not unique to Dart/Flutter).

The biggest problem with any cross-platform system on mobile is always getting performance out of the native interop. It's often easier to ship a computation to a server on the web and ship teh result back rather than execute it natively on another thread on the bloody phone. It's infuriating. We have a zillion cores, and every single phone OS tries it's damnedest to prevent you from using them because, heaven forbid, you might actually use up some of the battery. The Horror! The Horror!

The cross-platform systems for phones are really good at doing puzzle games or CRUD. Step outside of that and you enter "Here Be Dragons" territory very quickly.
Needs “blood”
> This version of Quake 2 now has a 40hz tickrate, up from the 10hz of the original. In short, that means the game is now checking for and reacting to your inputs four times more often, which should make high-level play feel dramatically more responsive.

While it is quite an improvement, 40 ticks a second is still on the very low side for a FPS that is intended to be played at a fast pace.

I wonder if there were physics (or other) simulation bugs/limitations that made a higher tick rate infeasible?
Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
They did. The reason for going hard and fast on quarantine and lockdown is to make them as quick as possible. A reminder that this worked really well in Australia, Nz, South Korea, China, Vietnam, etc etc.
The market is so weird right now, that I find it hard accepting this. A lot of jobs that would have been otherwise open are paused.

Having said that, I have just recently got into Flutter/Dart and I found the experience quite enjoyable and the resulting app very polished. From the tooling to the language itself and the Flutter framework - it's a joy.
I don't agree with the transformer=transistor analogy. Nothing is to say we don't find a new model 10x better than transformers. That would be like perfecting very tiny and cheap transistors, before even making integrated circuits!
I think your take hits the nail on the head. Most people have zero interest in running their own website.we live in a world where people have no clue how things work. They just want it to work and not have to understand how.

People could change their own brakes and oil too. But how many folks want to? Not many. It doesn’t provide value to them. Just like a personal website wouldn’t provide value to them. Hence, like you said, social media pages are their “personal website”.
> Were failures punished by low ratings, bonus?

Netflix's culture stack used to say that culture is all about who gets rewarded and who punished. So, yes, people did get punished for their failures. The key here is what behavior led to a failure? We have to analyze consider the failure and the associated human behavior together and see if there is a lesson or a punishable pattern - this is where strong leadership is needed for a just assessment and action.

There is no rating. At that time, one either their job or not. There was no bonus either, as bonus contradicted to the no-rating system.

> How did they incentivize taking risks?

Taking calculated risk was also part of the culture. Good people actually wanted to take risks. So the incentive systems is to take road blocks away.

> Were Netflix employees from then valued very highly?

I think the success of the company and the quality of the employees make them marketable. Everything else is secondary.
Tell me exactly how these companies are destroying the earth. Snark isn’t an argument

My point isn’t even about shareholder value. Both consumers and very many employees have benefitted from these companies’ existence.
> Discussions, yes, but discussions aren't for the standup meeting.

What actually happens in a standup meeting tends to be a mix of:

(1) What theoretically belongs in a standup meeting, which is a meeting that should have been a kanban board plus identification of blockers that have been deferred for the standup rather than properly addressed when encountered and,

(2) tangents into discussions which should be 1:1 (this especially happens when blockers are discussed, because people want to help get them unstuck.)
Unabashedly so! I'm not in marketing and couldn't have come up with that inside of my allowance of hn time.
I like Namesilo.
You might want to go back and see if that “crazy city” conclusion merits revision. I visited Tijuana last winter and was amazed how little it resembled stereotypes from two decades ago. No longer are there any safety concerns about walking or cycling across the city during the day, and I discovered that thousands of Southern Californians are now living across the border and commuting to work everyday, because cost of living is much cheaper in Mexico and crossing is fast with Global Entry.
The video call revolution is dead
I'd say that Breakfast at Tiffany's would make an incredible film.

It's a pity they never even tried.
I don't understand how this would work... is there some surefire way of knowing it is raining, and then somehow opening up the storm drains in time for the runoff?

Remember that if this automatic opening-closing mechanism fails, you get widespread flooding, likely leading to a lot of property damage and maybe even some lives lost depending on the severity of the storm.
I don't consider it spam due to its non-spam, grade A prime rib beef content, in actually saying what it does. But if you must, https://xkcd.com/810/ then
And the beauty of science is that despite all that human drama and our inability to live up to our best standards, the _is_ a fact of the matter that eventually people will recognize, given enough time and false starts.

You can forget a scentific knowledge and somebody in the future may stumble in the same thing. The same can't be said of other human activities
Can you think of any reasons why the ideals of fascism are less popular than the ideals of communism?
Yes. I tried Neovim last year. Spent 1 day, and did not achieve parity with my Vim setup so I abandoned it. A contributing factor may have been: getting distracted with analogous plugins on the nvim side. Now that Bram is gone, I'll take another day or two and switch over sometime this year. I don't have to though. Vim works. It always has. It probably always will.
Fedora is definitely a great distro that I've used a lot in the past. However, there are two main caveats from my POV:

1. The release of a version every six months.
(I would prefer at least a yearly release for being sure that things are gonna be matured enough)

2. The fact that Red Hat is behind.
(At this point, having seen the CentOS debacle, I don't trust them long term that much)
> 40-50% of sauna deaths (which are quite rare but still 40-60 per year in Finland) are alcohol related with falling asleep in sauna the number one cause.

Recent years have ranged between a low of 31 in 2015 and a high of 61 in 2017 (per Tilastokeskus). This even tho all new saunas must have timers, because people get home inebriated, turn on the sauna, and then after a while in it they conk out.
it sounds like you're referring to Daft Punk's "Giorgio by Moroder" from their album "Random Access Memories." The segment you're describing involves a repetitive chord progression, but the perceived variation comes from the evolving layers and elements surrounding the chords. This technique creates a sense of progression while maintaining a consistent base.

-- by chatgpt
I guess don’t make murderous regime slogans into kitchenware and sell it like novelty items.
What is up with that, seems too fast and not that accurate. Is it the smallest model?
Singapore's NLB designs its libraries to be more than just for reading
Disagree. COVID was high mortality at 1% before the vaccine with an especially high contagiousness. Hospitals were overwhelmed in areas that couldn't control the spread, which meant shortages of beds and oxygen for those who could be saved.
Almost comically hyperbolic. Today, you do have a right to host anything (within reason) you want on anything you own. You can’t be arrested for jailbreaking your phone, and you have every right to buy alternative devices if those don’t suit you.

Calling this a human rights issue is like calling your ability to order a sandwich for lunch a human rights issue
simply operator overloading
What means "sampling" here? Is it like sampling a probability distribution? Or like sampling a continuous image by taking the value of specific pixels?
Also you'd be fighting conservation of momentum - if the material you gather isn't going your speed and direction, you lose some of your speed and direction to pick it up. Given how fast anything has to go to reach orbit (about 17000mph for low Earth orbit) and escape velocity is about 41% higher, that speed difference would be a major problem.

For atmospheric flight the closest thing is a jet engine which is "air breathing", i.e. requires air to run and works in part by sucking air in, using some of the Oxygen in it for combustion, and shoving the extra air out the back. This gives them much higher efficiency than chemical rocket engines, as they don't have to carry their own oxidizer or the mass to eject for propulsion - but only works because the air is dense enough where they operate. Which is not true for space flight. Commercial jets typically fly a bit under the speed of sound in air which is 767mph. Of course supersonic air craft exist - I think mach 5 is achievable by some military jets - but that's still a fraction of orbital velocity. Anyhow running in the atmosphere means jets don't "scoop up air" in any sense but rather just use it immediately - so any lost momentum can be immediately countered by the engine.

Another direction to think about it - a simple model for air resistance says that air resistance increases with the square of your velocity (and with the density of air, which exponentially decays with height though also depends on temperature. I think the height wins out though.
Not sure if the equation works at extremely high altitude. But certainly this favors using air at lower altitudes and probably also lower speeds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_(physics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_of_air
Yeah you have to go up to Pacific Beach / La Jolla and farther north to avoid the runoff from the Tijuana river. Of course during long dry spells it is not so bad, because there is basically no runoff. Imperial Beach is almost always dirty, though.
This sounds like it might be conflating stuff like vibrato (human-fast variation in pitch) or even faster. The illusion in the post and on the Wikipedia page involves changing the tone only four times per second, there's no claims at all about both tones blending together or producing only a single note.

Both are quite clear about different ears hearing different things, and hearing two or more tones.
Wouldn't we care more about the momentum of the exhaust rather than the mass? I'm not quite following why lighter particles are better
> Can you think of any reasons why the ideals of fascism are less popular than the ideals of communism?

The ideals aren't, the slogans are.

(That is, the slogans of the particular 1930s-1940s fascist groups; there are newer fascist slogans...)
Wages aren't even close to being high enough that companies won't able to afford workers. Developers in the standard ranges don't even need to consider what a company can afford when doing salary negotiations. With the exception of small businesses, it's about what they are _willing_ to pay, not what they are able to.
> Lots of retirees getting their pensions reduced, their personal savings in the form of real estate

In socialism, there’s no need for a pension. The state will decide what to distribute, how much and to whom.

> can’t even see a doctor without waiting for months (unless paying high fees out of pocket)

In socialism, you get allocated resources and services from the “community” aka state. When resources are finite, you wait in lines. We’re already seeing that in nations with socialized healthcare without a private option

> the whole population shrinkage thing in the long run

Thank you for bringing that up. All modern economic systems, socialism included, require growth.
Sewage and tap water situation is a metric I use to judge countries if they care about their citizens! :)

https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Water-Quali...
Interesting. So if a restaurant has 10 customizable ingredients, they can mix them up to make 1024 meals.
The AUR and PKGBUILDs are pretty much just an Arch thing.
But on a distro like Fedora, where the default repo is fairly complete and well-groomed (with the odd package hosted in a 3rd party repo), having something like the AUR is a moot point IMO.
With the Wikipedia sample, I kinda suspect the central low note is the same phenomenon as binaural beats - 400hz and 800hz constructively interfere to produce 400hz. There is no 400hz on the high side, but we perceive interference even though there is none.

Which means it should disappear or produce a third tone if it wasn't an exact doubling. I haven't hunted down a sample to test though.
You wouldn't necessarily want to lose broken bookmarks. Metadata might be useful. They might be in an online archive. And you might be able to search for the link to find people who link to it for associated information.
Hmm. That is an interesting idea, thank you for sharing it.

We currently just have a big list of pages in alphabetical order after a short blurb.

I'll need to figure out a new list order to implement. Hmm. Thanks for giving me something cool to think about!
So the HP 2645 did use a half-bit shift and it's quite clever. It's shown in this video[1] by CuriousMarc (I've set the timestamp to the relevant part). The document shown in the video is available on the Internet Archive[2]. It also reminds me of techniques used in Epson dot matrix printer fonts, where the rate of pin firing couldn't be increased, but the half-pixel timing could be.

I'm pretty sure DEC VT100 and VT220 did not do this. There is some dot-stretching logic in the VT100 and VT220[3], which improves appearance but doesn't increase effective resolution.

Apple ][ is a slightly different story. The high bit (very similar to the HP terminal) does cause a half-pixel shift, but I believe this was almost entirely used to create more colors through NTSC artifacts, not to increase horizontal resolution. I'm unaware of a character ROM that uses the technique, but I could be missing something. The best writeup I've found is [4], and I also found an original description in BYTE magazine[5] from Steve Wozniak himself.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QikO0WOAGWI&t=371s

[2]: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_hpterminaleriesCharact...

[3]: https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typography

[4]: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6271/what...

[5]: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-06/page/n61/m...
I thought the discussion of Findhorn Foundation and "pockets of light" like monks in the "dark ages" was pretty interesting. There are current organizations dedicated to such long term thinking such as seed banks and the Long Now Foundation. The current Findhore seems to have gotten away from it's mission as described in MDWA
That reminds me I need to add some Zalgo test cases to my layout code. I got a stern warning from dang for Zalgo-ing a HN comment once.
I would get a 78-optimized needle for my turntable, set it for 45 RPM (since it doesn’t have 78), and capture it through a high-quality ADC. Then I’d speed it up in post. I’ve done this.

I imagine that contributors use different methods. Old record players used thorn needles (as in plant thorns). A purist might do that and record from the player’s horn with a mic.

One annoyance I encountered in capturing old mono content is the lack of a filter in the audio software I’ve used that would keep only the mono content of a stereo recording. A lot of the crackles on a mono record are in stereo, being on only one side of a groove.
> A reminder that this worked really well in Australia, Nz, South Korea, China, Vietnam, etc etc.

Even excluding all the confounding variables, your assertion can not be stated so unequivocally, considering there has not been time to do long term studies on the outcomes overall. There may have been an initial success, but will it be maintained overall with all factors considered? How will it look 5 and 10 years later?

Maybe you're right, and maybe that conclusion will stand. But it is this absolute insistence that we know the answer already, that is part of the reason trust in institutions has been undermined.
Package management, sure. The packages themselves leave a lot to be desired in JS.
I read somewhere that if you can read Russian, you could get a license for free (I guess it's generally free now). This is supposedly why many Russian competitive programmers use Far Manager (with some plugins) for editing code. This includes Tourist, who I am told is one of the world's best.
Besides the decoration, notice how all the Chinese style mugs have lids on them, and the "English style" ones don't.

This seems to be a Southeast Asian thing, also seen for eg. in Korea.
I believe that's the joke, the two package systems have orthogonal nightmares
I worked at an place tied to 60s US legacy technology from the airline industry, and yes, everything was first name/last name. I don't know how it works interoperating with airlines serving Asia or anywhere with non-US naming. The same system was strictly ASCII, too (I think very technically EBCDIC deep in the inner workings). Also, because of TSA rules and the security line, the names are used for more than personalization, they are legally required to meet certain criteria.

Previous to that I worked at place with a key customer in Japan, so everything was pretty well i18n and I got used to seeing given name/family name or similar. I discovered I had muscle memory for typing 'surname' instead of 'lastname'.
I refer you to my post on the Nim 2.0 release:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36956144
The strcpy implementation is probably similar, just moved to gcc.
It looks a lot like a H. magnifica anemone’s tentacles.
Small bit of feedback on your post, you use the same screenshot when referencing how Honey's execs used to respond to customer feedback. Based on reading the post I think you intended two different screenshots.
They tried with the war on terror, but it just wasn't the same thing.
The nice thing about ASCII diagrams is that they they naturally push back against complexity. That is, a diagram that's too complex to express in ASCII is (almost always) too complex in general. And the nice thing about doing ASCII diagrams manually in a (multi-cursor capable) editor is that this essential property is reinforced at the editing stage.

Definitely you should have a clear idea of your diagram before you arrive at your editor. If you want to experiment with layouts or whatever, you do that in a different tool, often pen-and-paper.

As you note, the same is true of programming! Experimentation is a totally different modality than writing a production-quality program. It's not a spectrum, you're either doing one or the other.

edit But, really, if you have a reasonable diagram in your head, it's really not difficult at all to express it as ASCII in a (multi-cursor capable) editor. I can do diagrams faster in VS Code than Monodraw, usually.
As far as I'm concerned, "better things to do" is heavily at odds with "using Linux".

Seriously, I spend more time when using Linux trying to get the computer to work instead of actually doing anything constructive with it.
Some other interesting things from the article that stuck with me:

- Most toilets weren't connected to the sewers because they didn't want to have the smell of the sewers in their houses
- The public latrines were considered a bad choice because of lack of privacy and shared spunges (based on texts on the walls)
- The sewers were built mainly for the convenience of not having to transport water to and from within the city, not necessarily for hygiene reasons
- Apparently some emperor did realize that it wasn't smart to bathe with sick and healthy people at the same time but decided the sick would bathe before the healthy

Of course, if you only wanted to know if they cleaned the water in bath houses sufficiently, then your summary suffices as well.
Total re-write on Cloudflare Workers (had been running on a single machine with no backup, which experienced data loss after a fire).
Or predators could be reintroduced.

With deer, the problem is often not an excessive population but rather their tendency to stay in one place, destroying young shoots and plantings and hindering the growth of the plants we care about.

In contrast, with predators they cannot stay in one place for long enough, allowing most plants to outgrow their vulnerable size and survive.
EDIT: I said "radio station" only because thats what most would recognize... its not a radio station its just a really really faint sound of music playing - like jazz or something. its too dim to make out.

ALSO - eveyone should checkout mynoise.net

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Yes!

This literally usally happens right on the cusp of falling asleep...

I equated it to what I had read a long time ago that "in order for one to fall asleep the body shuts down the sensory systems, and the last one to turn off prior to sleep is hearing"

So I thought that it was caused by the creaks hitting my ears at time of turning asleep -- but it happens when even I am not fully asleep.

But the body twitches really freak me out. I'll basically hit 'asleep' and Ill have a flash in my internal vision (white light looking like an iris of an eye is best way to say it) - and a full body twitch, it jolts me back awake.

The morbid thought in my head is that this may be associated with sleep apnia and my body twitching back 'alaive' after stopping breathing ; however - this happens when I am not even fully asleep...

So I am at a loss - I presume it is a vitamin defficiency, so I just bout some multi-Vs this week...
Mary Beard, probably the most respect alive scholar on ancient Rome, already explained that in this excelent documentary about daily life on Pompeii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSw7eoBbM0U

She explains it at 20:51.
They can do some pretty serious infra damage if left unchecked in the wrong places. Turning underpasses and culverts into lakes can cause flooding and road destabilization.

Not that we should wipe them all out like we seem to now.
This shows the limits of a 200+ years old piece of paper