skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The extrasolar origin hypothesis is based on the reentry velocity, which is known and would have completely vaporized any other known type of meteor. That's what made this one special, the fact that an object with such velocity could survive reentry and impact the surface, and that's why the expedition to find remains (the spherules) was launched.
"You might argue that this is Microsoft’s operating system, or that when using Microsoft’s browser and search engine it’s well within its rights to try and sway people away from Chrome."

"Microsoft’s behaviors here are totally beyond a simple webpage prompt. I shouldn’t have to be dismissing pop-ups that appear on top of my apps and games, or ones that magically appear after I update my copy of Windows."

Windows 11 is doing what it was programmed to do:
https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM?t=57

Sadly, this kind of user-hostile behavior is increasingly common and a form of enshitification (https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/) of the operating system.

What should Windows 11 users do to let Microsoft know that such behaviors are intrusive and offensive?
It was absolutely suppressed, at both the scientific investigation level and at the public discussion level.

There was gain of function research going on in the same city as the origin of SarsCov2, with the exact same class of virus, and a hand-wavy paper appears claiming only natural origin is reasonable? And the recipients and/or funders of the gain of function research put their names on the paper without declaring conflicts?
In the age of big data, where data is generated at an unprecedented pace, the need for real-time data processing is more critical than ever. Enter Streaming SQL, a game-changer in the realm of real-time data processing.
GDP 2.0: Measuring who prospers when the U.S. economy grows
It must have been many people in a very short amount of time..
For lack of a better response, as a customer I'd like to tell them to fuck off because both are terrible user experiences. It's like wading through trash.
I mean I rather companies just be more clear and simplistic w/ their language.
That’s what the “default browser” setting is for. Microsoft just deliberately choses to ignore it in some parts of Windows, and instead hardcodes Edge.
You can probably put any cmd-executable command as default, including headless browsers.
I guess that would depends on how you define "democracy" and what you believe a healthy government looks like.

I prefer a messy, publicly conflicting government to a smooth running authoritarian police state any day
I find myself in an oddly conflicted state about this and see both sides here.

I comprehend the cinema's stance; the abrupt change meant they could no longer screen premium content, and the local film industry doesn't appear remotely prepared to contend. They seem to be stuck without a viable solution, and the only effective remedy would entail swift and substantial policy alterations at the federal level.

Conversely, the government's position strikes a chord with me, oddly enough. I'll set aside the perspective of "we aim to boost local films and this influx of free premier content would overwhelm us in competition," even though I concur with that viewpoint.

Even more-so, when considering the country's situation post-war, rebuffing foreign stakeholders even more vehemently than they currently are seems likely to exacerbate the inevitable and substantial post-war recession. If I were a foreign conglomerate contemplating an eventual re-entry into the country, I'd be closely monitoring this situation and I imagine the government officials considering the post-war era know it.

Ultimately the right choice is probably to just let the cinema industry fail, but the responsibility for this predicament lies with neither the ministry of culture nor the cinema industry so I can't help but sympathize with the challenging circumstances a bit.
At this point, I'm astounded that although I got promoted at prior jobs and could previously interview pretty well that I'm basically not able to make a living doing software work. In theory, I'll be full time if my friend's startup can raise capital but that's certainly not guaranteed.
Related (as in a similar story but focusing specifically on Cambodia),

They’re Forced to Run Online Scams. Their Captors Are Untouchable (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37304188) (no comments)
Investors for one, I get annoyed at overly generous executive pay because it costs me money.
The Lab Leak Illusion
Looks awesome! Congrats on the launch
The problem was that a lot of the 'evidence' of a lab leak and genetic engineering of the virus was contrived, exaggerated misinformation. So if you want to exclude contrived exaggerated deliberate misinformation from your platform, what are you going to do?

Personally I have been from the start saying that a lab leak was possible, on the basis that lab leaks have happened before, and should be investigated. That makes me a lab leak theory supporter as a possibility from day one. I've never got silenced, banned, insulted or de-platformed for saying so. I have no common cause or sympathy for people knowingly spreading lies and contrived 'evidence' to push the lab leak hypothesis though.
Well avoiding the problem to start with is a perfectly good solution.
Solar Energy Can Help Boost Biodiversity and Farming
I mean... this is a hugely ironic comment given the topic is discussing respect for the user's desired browser.

Something Apple does considerably worse than Microsoft, intentionally and purposefully - entirely for control and profit, mostly to maintain their app store taxes.
Not sure if you're speaking from ignorance of cryptos use cases, or out of personal animosity towards crypto. . .
I like learning, link us to some quotes.
It's on the same embarrassing level as putting candy crush in the start menu.
a fool with a tool is cheaper than an expert. especially if expertise is needed to adequately estimate cost.

that’s the gamble all of these “natural language” tools are making. sell to people that aren’t experts, attempt to deflect criticism from those that are. what’s a $20k subscription compared to a $200k person?

what comes next depends on the company. some will invest the money in the product to make it more useful. others will search for more fools.

most importantly, nobody wants to be left behind. there’s a lot of products that need more time in the oven, but that’s never stopped a good salesperson.
Greece wildfires: 79 arsonists detained.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66612781
Switzerland is _not_ in the EEA, it has a sui generis bilateral agreement with the EU that implements some but not all of the EU law that applies to the EEA countries automatically. It's very contentious in EU-Swiss diplomacy, because the EU doesn't like that the agreement with Switzerland keeps needing to be renegotiated to incorporate new EU law, whereas Switzerland sees this as a necessary element of maintaining its sovereignty.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Supranational_Europea...
A huge admission of not respecting the user. If they didn't support this anywhere they could claim that it was because they can't test and support every browser. But if they can support other browsers in the EEA then they have no legs to stand on for why they disable it elsewhere. It is now clearly that they care about their preferences more than respecting the user's preferences.
You empiricists often loose the plot when it comes to these sort of matters.

A thought experiment:

A murder during a fancy dinner party. Victim was shot in the head with a 9mm round. Guest A is very evasive and was in the vicinity where the body was found. Guest A is known to have a 9mm handgun. Guest A quickly destroys his handgun and forensics cannot recover any information from it. Guest A writes a letter explaining that the shot came from outside the house, without any mention of his potential role in the murder, and his friends at the local newspaper not only run the letter, citing him as a expert, but run hit pieces that anyone claiming otherwise is a racist.

Reason allows us to know Guest A was involved. In the absence of evidence sometimes reason is all you have. This is one of those cases, no science is required just a little life experience.
This is a very good thing for Linux on desktop. I wish MS was way more aggressive here, hopefully it's just the begining.
Because they do not respect you as a user anywhere out of choice.
Wow, the audacity. The movie bosses remind me of the parents protesting in China that cheating should be allowed.

I understand there is an entire industry around discouraging pirating, but that would seem completely ineffectual in a case of state-sponsored piracy, or piracy in a state that will not prosecute.
>There's a group dubbed "Friends of the Court" and others want to kill NYC's rent stabalization laws and they're already asking the Supreme Court to take the case.

You mean these guys[0]? They've got their fingers in a lot of pies!

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/amicus_curiae
WASM is a binary format and can be embedded in other data formats.
I phrased my previous comment wrong (and should edit it). There’s of course a benefit to adopting the regulations and following the rules — you get to participate in the free trade area. But without a say in how those regulations and rules are formed.
and land

Technically I could keep chickens as long as I keep five or less. Realistically my neighbors would hate me. Also, there's a lot of foxes in my area and I don't think that my five chickens would be around all that long.
In linguistics, there is a saying coined by Firth, “You will know a word by the company it keeps.” The idea is that a words meaning is embedded in all the contexts in which it occurs. This is how virtually everyone processes the semantics of words. Meaning and contexts vary with time and person and can lead to many misunderstandings.
By what standard? Yours? Java developers? Rust developers? The fact that Python has typing now, tools to check those, and has plenty of tooling around “make it faster”, I think your world view might be stuck in 2010. Python has gone from a slow obscure scripting language to a powerhouse. Conda, NumPy, Scikit, PyTorch, GPU programming, Games, Analytics, web apps, API’s, I think it’s safe to say this ain’t your grandpa’s Python anymore.
Taxation and regulation. Not very hard to limit who can buy property (forbidding large funds and overseas buyers, for instance), and how much taxes they pay on non-primary residences.
OSM River Basins
Reuters is using blockchain technology to verify the authenticity of images sent from conflict zones
When will Apple admit?
I really don't think an insurance company should have 24,000 employees.

Even 240 employees sounds like too many to me.

They serve 10 million customers. Nearly every customer should be able to use an entirely automated online form for signing up and for making insurance claims. Claims should be settled entirely with the customer uploading a 1 minute video showing what damage occurred, plus the bill to fix it.

Assume 1 claim per customer per decade, and each claim takes an average of 10 minutes to handle (check video, spot check bills, make payment), thats 100 full-time claim agents.

The other 140 employees can make a great website, policy pricing algorithm, and be in the finance/HR department.
Not to pick on you specifically but HN sure has a way to dismiss "principle" over the tiniest of nitpicks.

Apple could be murdering puppies but man, their touchpad is just 2% more pleasant than the competition, sorry! My hands are tied!
The new CMake package manager may make things easier.
Let's say agile can deliver better software, and maybe even more reliably. The issue is, somewhere up the org chart, there's someone who operates in terms of yearly plans and quarterly results, and there's an impedance mismatch between that layer of the org chart and the agile process below them.

Even if you can really do agile (instead of "Agile"), that mismatch can ruin you. In the long run, it probably will, unless you have someone on the agile side able to talk in terms that the other side can understand. The agile side has to actively manage that connection; the business side isn't going to do it for you.

I have seen the best agile environment I have ever seen destroyed by this mismatch. Upper management killed it because it couldn't understand how to measure and predict the agile development process.
I generally agree.

But churn and burn is Amazon's philosophy. That's why they ask managers to PIP 6% of their reports every year.
I hate to be that person, but this is the future. Because of climate change, more of our country is barreling towards "uninhabitable".

It's not Farmers fault that we released too much CO2 and now wildfires and hurricanes are way worse and getting even more worse.

If the people of California and Florida want insurance so they can build matchbox houses in high risk disaster zones, then they can start a public insurance fund and pay for it with their own taxes.
Elon Musk’s FSD v12 demo includes a near miss at a red light
1,609 scientists have signed a petition saying there is no climate emergency
The answer is in your post. Use OpenStreetMap. It's free as long as you respect the dataset license and you can do a lot of things with it.

If you use OSM, please consider contributing back by either spreading word or adding more data to the map itself.
I'm not sure it's down to the new EU Digital Services Act (which is more focused on "online" behaviour, rather than client-side), but nb Art. 25(1) of the DSA:

"1. Providers of online platforms shall not design, organise or operate their online interfaces in a way that deceives or manipulates the recipients of their service or in a way that otherwise materially distorts or impairs the ability of the recipients of their service to make free and informed decisions."

Or there might be an argument that downloading instructions to a user's device, causing it to do something they didn't want, is a breach of the EU's anti-malware rule (AKA the much-despised "cookie law", even though that name downplays its significance)
Despite stereotypes, the speed of speech has nothing to do with intelligence
I'm sure there will be some future AR applicability with this
China? Look into Peter Daszak, he even mentioned his bias when the WHO sent him to investigate his own lab. Fauci was involved in funding the research via NIH, and he didn't mention this when shit hit the fan. The goal of the research was to manipulate the virus to see if it could transfer to humans, ie gain-of-function. There's a reason it was conducted in China and it's not the chinese.

And it gets worse, even though EcoHealth Alliance lied in their books they recently received another grant to keep doing similar research. It was discussed here at the time. What could go wrong?

It's a rabbit hole but you might be surprised how corrupt it looks. Don't get fooled by those trying to shift your focus to China.
This is a non issue, they literally sell a USB-C to Jack adapter on their shop.
> What should Windows 11 users do to let Microsoft know that such behaviors are intrusive and offensive?

They'll tell you to use the Feedback Hub, but all of that feedback promptly gets discarded or drowned out in the SNR of overzealous "insiders" acting as free QA for Microsoft praising every horrible decision they make.
The massive irony of wanting a movie like Barbie - nightly the TV propogandists rail against the decedent west and their immorality and that Russia is somehow involved in fighting a holy war in Ukraine.
Air Pollution in Delhi Is Reducing Life Expectancy by 11+ Years, Finds Study
What about the thousands upon thousands of regular programming jobs for people with less than FAANG experience? Between "driving a UPS truck" and getting a TPM job, there are lots of options in between.

And have you tried programming gigs (including remote)? Or it does absolutely have to be TPM or UPS?
I hope this will work, I mean, I hope they will ditch... Windows.
> yeah but if you believe lab leak then you are probably also an anti-fauci anti-vax anti-masker qanon trumper who gets all your news from tucker carlson and Laura ingraham

I can't tell whether this is sarcasm? I don't even know who Laura Ingraham is and though I've heard of Tucker Carlson I've never seen or read anything he's written or said (on TV?).

I'd characterize myself as a normal, left-wing European who initially totally believed the zoonosis origin of covid. But being genuinely curious about the science, I've read more and more of the abstracts analising the available data, and gradually realized that all the actual facts - even though some of them circumstantial - point with much higher likelihood towards an accidental lab-leak (which incidentally happen all the time), than the very unlikely 'double jump' of two separate lineages infecting people at the market - but not infecting anyone else in the entire delivery chain from capture or animal farming, to the market itself.
I don't. I try to stick to specific goals and limit how much work in progress I have at any given time. Being aware of my impulsive tendencies helps a lot.

However for the most part I just ride the waves. I'd rather work full steam towards a secondary objective than at half power on the most important thing. I learned to harness hyperfocus instead of fighting it.

This suits the nature of my work. It's a website. It stays online and keeps generating income. It's a lot more forgiving than a development job with specific deliverables. So long as I'm generally improving the website, I'm doing fine. In some cases, these side projects proved wildly successful.

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. Following my impulses leads to a lot of interesting magic.

At a lower level, I try to avoid git branches. I work on master, so I only have one or two things going at any given time. I don't start two massive article rewrites at once, because it makes staging too confusing.

At a business level, I taught everyone I work with that I work slowly, and not to expect anything on a specific date. Things get done when they get done. The biggest challenge is to avoid promising anything when I'm in my "excited about stuff" phase. It helps that I'm paid per lead, so if they get nothing from me, they pay nothing.
And the UK follows EU regulations anyway, by not controlling imports (latest climbdown, delayed food checks until 2024, 5th time of delaying) and indefinitely accepting CE certification mark (meant to be superseded in the UK by UKCA).
This isn’t new, but it’s good to continue to report on it. I remember even back in 2005 it was generally well known that the gold farmers in World of Warcraft were likely Chinese prison labor. There were even a few articles about it: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/chinese-pr...
isn't this same behaviour when you open Google, they try to sell you a Chrome?

Just cross selling their products using the medium they own.
I've read height is weakly correlated (which intuitively makes sense, as greater height is more or less synonymous with larger body size).

Also the second-to-fourth digit ratio seems correlated. Longer ring finger seems to indicate more testosterone in utero.

The (many) other claims appear to be bunk.
Why would it be. Please elaborate.
Spamhaus is huge. A listed IP will see email bounce rates exceeding 50%, easily. Most large North American ISPs use at least one Spamhaus list. Tier-1s don’t generally advertise which blocklists they use, but the 2010-ish “Stophaus” DDoS attacks went after a number of Tier-1 operators.
In particular, the statement that weight is the most correlated of any measurement with all the others seems like it would almost certainly not be true of a general population with a broader spectrum of physical fitness
deno is refreshing, but i don't like the fact that it is married with typescript and has built-in support for this and that library. should've been framework agnostic from the start and not marketed as this batteries-included thing.

also, this creates more fragmentation in the node/web community which i don't really see the need for. being compatible with node/npm just carries with it the warts and problems instead of getting rid of them.
King Alfred hanging a judge for having had a man hanged about whom there were doubts really does take this to quite the limit!

Massive occupational hazard in judgery at the time. One must imagine that that society shortly thereafter ended in chaos as judges everywhere biased towards innocence.
More info: https://github.com/amandasaurus/osm-river-basins
> less games

AMD cards work very well in linux.
> overly generous executive pay ... it costs me money

But how can you prove that? The very justification for generous executive pay is that you couldn't get most people to do that role because it's so demanding and without these particular people, revenue/profits would tank. (slight exaggeration, but I don't think by much).
> I hate to tell you, but attributing all feminist campaigning to some kind of misplaced compassion or lack of rationality is pretty misogynist.

That's exactly what I am talking about. Attributing all feminist campaigning to anything specific is impossible (and therefore an excessive statement to make a point). It's far beyond human knowability by any means anyways. And implying misogynist behavior to the statements that I wrote pretty much is the start of an irrational - but also not an empathic - discussion.

Maybe the whole problem is because our language in physical form relies on intonation, stressing and nuances that the text form cannot represent, I don't know, I'm no linguist.

Most of the shitstorms I've observed in my social bubbles could have been solved easily if there were some form of empathic notations to the text that was written. Even just being able to express the emotional state while writing it (mad/sad/angry/frustrated/calm/etc) could have helped a lot to resolve those issues.

I think emojis tried to fill this gap initially, but it seemingly failed at it due to the differences of our generations online and their associations with them. Let's say boomer, gen-y and gen-z discussing a topic for argument's sake.

Gen-Z kind of evolved on the web, and they've learned to communicate their feelings differently. Other generations basically think that they're spamming emojis all the time, but gen-z kind of realized that it's their way of communicating empathic needs and expressions, which would be otherwise missing.

All I'm trying to say is that there seems to be an empathic/emotional gap in our language which leads to a lot of misinterpretation on the web; which in physical form never exceeds into the same absurdities because people seem to be able to express their empathic needs much easier then. And that's me saying this as an autist with huge problems reading (in both senses of the word) people's implied intonations, which is kind of absurd to begin with.

The issue with the populist journalism that you mentioned is that there's not laws in place to force them to recorrect their statements in the same populistic way they made advertisements for the previous incorrect statements. Usually you find the corrections in font size 8 on the last page - if there is even any correction. They should be forced to publish it in the same way, on the same media channels, as the initial incorrect article about that topic - by default, as an implemented law. This alone would kill a lot of shares of how misinformation, which appeals to angry emotions, works.

But then political campaigns wouldn't work either, so sadly there's no incentive for legislatives to do this.
No Switzerland and no Turkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area
Windows, the Lada of operating systems. I had to try and get my wife's laptop working with the VPN the other day. Worked fine on Mac and Linux, but on Windows, I had to uninstall a load of drivers and then do a registry hack. What a pile of shite.