skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an important point for the FTC to emphasize, IMHO:

Businesses in many domains love to claim that any increase in their cost - taxes, suppliers, etc. - must be passed on to their customers.

That is absolute ripe BS, and anyone who knows any economics, finance, or has run even the smallest business knows it. More bizarre is that consumers - and others who know better and have no vested interest in the BS - all repeat it.
Harness Joins OpenTF Initiative
I think less interesting than life originating elsewhere is that this line of reasoning means earth is seeding life throughout the galaxy in real time. It’s fully possible that we are the first life in the universe, after all the first life would look up and wonder why the universe seemed unpopulated. Well - assuming all this adds up to life populated planets being able to seed other life potentially populated planets, we may be the first and only life in the galaxy, but we won’t likely be the last. We’ve been spewing life filled ice and dust into space for quite some time.
Unity used to be Mac only for years (around 2008) while still being based on .net / Mono.

I can't stand MacOS and neither could any of the other devs at the place I was working, so we had this funky system where we coded in VS, using the MS .net libs, but would deploy against Unity on Mac with Mono to run on iPhone 3gs. Those were strange times :)
but, wouldn't you just catch it, everytime you review your credit card statement?

personally, i check every 2 weeks to verify any purchases
Lol if they're doing 1 billion next year I bet the market is at least as big as search
Could someone compile Skia to WASM and add a layer for some UI niceties like flexbox? I wonder what the layer they have consists of.
Freedom to do what you want as long as it doesn’t have negative externalities?
Looks like the comment in that post has a link with a bad redirect. This appears to have the intended content: https://orbitalfocus.uk/Diaries/Luna/Luna.php (in my case, it redirected to https://orbitalfocus.uk/of.php/Diaries/Luna/Luna.php which I manually changed to the seemingly correct URL).
The ability to replace Siri with chatGPT would 10x the usefulness of my phone.

If Apple is ever smart enough to add this feature - can’t wait!
I've tried this with free trial stuff mainly. So, once the trial ends they attempt to withdraw money and they can't so I don't get the service. I have no indication that any service thus far had viewed it as me having an outstanding debt. YMMV
> Additionally, anyone notice that nothing works worse together than Google and Google. I had Google Wifi, Google phones, Chromebooks, EVERYTHING. And nothing ever worked reliably. Ever.

I get frustrated as much as anyone about Google's product shit show, but I don't agree with this. I own a Pixel, a Pixelbook that I loved and was a great dev machine when running the Linux container (of course, "In September 2022, Google canceled future generations of the product and dissolved the team working on it."), and Nest Home that I got as a sort of door prize at some event. They all worked together really well, e.g. unlocking/syncing the Pixelbook with my phone, or when I say "Hey Google" both the phone and Nest Home initially acknowledge but only one (in most cases the Nest Home) responds, which is what I want.
Just crazy enough to work! I love it. One hole I can poke in the concept is to copy the IR heartbeat signal and retransmit while destroying the mesh.

>Besides power transfer from stator to rotor, we need a reliable, bidirectional data link to transmit mesh status and a low-latency heartbeat signal. We chose to transport an 115 kBd UART signal through a simple IR link for a quick and robust solution. The link’s transmitter directly drives a standard narrow viewing angle IR led.
If only windows optimized boot as well, it often takes ~10seconds even on the highest end machines
Related:

N Guilty Men (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10860765 - Jan 2016 (23 comments)
To clarify for anyone confused, "extremist leftist organizations" appears to be referring to Harvard University, Yale University and Stanford University, although one of the authors also received funding from a noted left-wing terrorist organization called the "United States Department of Defense".
Google's VPN. I was already paying a small bit of money for extra Google Drive storage and they recently started including the VPN as part of the Google One package.
This is very cool! How feasible would it be to take a video instead of a photo, then using landmark detection and a stitching algorithm such as SIFT to cover a larger surveying area?
So we're clear: we're talking about labeling requirements that can change multiple times within the span of 10 blocks or so. This isn't a regional problem; it's about as local as it gets.
yeah when it works 99% of the time that 1% is VERY VERY ANNOYING. When you are in the google ecosystem everything works like 5% of the time and so you just pretend it doesn't work together.
I really like Visual Studio. I work lately mostly on mac and linux though, and mostly in C and C++. Visual Studio on Mac ended up being regretware for me, as I don't do much in .NET. (mostly, just never needed to! No objections to the language at all, it just never fit what I needed)

VSCode still works ... ok. It has a very hard time with refactored code though, so I've just gone back to my traditions and it's emacs everywhere once more. Except windows - where I'll still use Visual Studio if I can.
Honestly, VSCode is probably great for 80%-90% of developers.

Thanks to the messages here though, I'm going to look to see if Rider could work ... maybe. ;)
I think that's probably a function of the context you're encountering photogrammetry in, it's literal meaning (as described in the Wikipedia article) is "measuring stuff from photos." I believe what you're describing is generally referred to as "3D reconstruction."

For what it's worth, this article was pretty much exactly what I anticipated it to be. But language is funky, and obviously other people shared your expectation (which makes it a good comment in my view).
There is another option here, where organic precursors accumulate via some currently unexplored process.

Really any system capable of creating themrodynamic disequilibrium and a chemical gradient could be an option. An example of this might be the freeze and thaw cycle of large planetoids. Swing close to the planet, warm up enough, move away, cool enough. Just a basic cycle (I believe the surface images of Pluto support the existence of such cycles). If volatile ices can have just enough warth to create bonds, there are many many many more of these types of objects than well places 'goldilocks' planets. Give it enough time and one will knock out of orbit and smash into a planet that does have adequate conditions for the development of life. Just a bunch of precursor chemistry to life, but plenty of it.

I've tried to look into deep space volatile ice chemistry but haven't exactly found great resources. But it strikes me that if a simple extraplanetary mechanism for pre-life chemistry accumulation exists, well, then life is probably pretty much everywhere.
Don't know, but I have been using net core / vs code and a Mac since 2019 and switched to the M1 when it came out for the MacBook Pros. I was using VS inside a VM before that since probably 2009 or so.
>But on the other hand I wouldn't want some guys in suits and American flag lapel pins subpoenaing my DMs or all up in my FOIA requests every time I did a research on a politically adjacent research topic

Agreed, but when the research topic at hand involves millions of deaths worldwide sometimes it is necessary. Especially when said scientists openly discussed how to deceive journalists asking questions.
You've made this false claim before. I responded correcting you, and you didn't respond to me. At this point, it seems like you're willfully posting misinformation.

As I noted previously, the likely proximal zoonotic host for SARS-1 was discovered within about a year. The article that you've linked discusses different related bat viruses. These provide important information about the evolutionary history of the human virus, but are more genetically distant from the human virus than the civet and raccoon dog viruses found within that ~year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37095934
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_and_life
What makes you choose Go over C#/Java for medium projects? And why not go for the large projects?
Reaction: If $ISP can't even list all the government taxes, fees, charges, etc. that they're collecting on my bill...then it seems darned unlikely that they can correctly keep track of all those different types of funds, and properly remit them to all the various units of governments to which they are due. Clearly the DoJ, SEC, State Police, State Atty's General, etc. need to move in on $ISP's Accounting Dept., and "un-gently relieve" $ISP of all the "accidentally unpaid" funds they've retained. Along with some "extremely generous" penalties and interest for their "oversights".
We can take what they're objecting to at face value, because they're the ones objecting. So when I say that NCTA is objecting only to pass-through fees, I feel like I'm on pretty firm ground, because they have not objected to other labeling requirements.
feel free to DM on twitter or linkedin. In a nutshell, if you want to pursue a company now in or in the near future, we would likely need to consider you through our normal investing process for equity funding. If you are considering just working on it OSS, we would encourage taking first steps in that direct,
and testing community-project fit validation before quite going full or near-full time!
There’s already a 30-50% quota in most public institutions that is very successful at giving lower castes an advantage. No bootstraps required.

Will those affirmative actions extend how long the caste system stays around? Probably but they’re meant to be in place for a couple of generations (40-80 years) which should be an acceptable amount of time to level the field.
// Just name the numerator and denominator // OK, I name the numerator as 1 and the denominator as 3. Viz, I want to be able to cut a piece of wood which is 1/3rd of a meter long. Still no line on the meter stick for that.

Sure, in any base, in any system of units, there will be ratios you need to resort to sig-figs, etc to represent. But that is not an advantage of metric--it a common disadvantage to everybody.

What makes it particularly pressing is that 1/3rd is actually a very common ratio. As far as I know, the metric system is the first and only system which does not let you easily divide your unit of length into thirds. A yard is 3 feet. A cubit is 3 shaftments. And inch is 3 barleycorns. Anybody with three kids and a yard-long string of licorice appreciates the fact that there are marks on the yardstick letting you quickly, easily, and fairly divide the candy, before the kids go berserk waiting for you to tally up how many digits you need.
My experience - smart TVs tend to be really bad at CEC during power on, because they are booting while the other device is asking them to execute commands like switching input. I usually set the TV to 'last input on boot' if such a setting exists.

I've noticed the Apple TV will ask the TV to switch input via CEC on pretty much any button press, which is non-ideal but is a decent enough workaround.
You might be right (I have no idea), but saying that it is only true 80%+ of the time doesn't make the word "typically" become a "hilariously wrong" claim.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. Better options are either (1) to make a substantive point thoughtfully; or (2) refrain from posting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How about, "no company shall refuse access to essential infrastructure to anyone because they engage in lawful activity." That's what I think the bar should be on this issue and should include banking and internet services.
Volume matters and if the majority are outside that window it shouldn't impact the majority.

Again though the bar for Judicial overriding a consistent ruling should be very high. And they consistently made this choice.
No, they're not. Comcast's price doesn't float municipality to municipality. These are simply taxes that local governments are charging and forcing Comcast to collect.
I agree. It’s an ordered state that self perpetuates and self adapts to new environments in a spread that seems inexorable.
If an ISP advertises $49.99/mo, then they need to itemize on the bill anything that makes the final charge greater than $49.99. Right now, ISPs generally have a "Fees" line, with no insight into what said "Fees" are, unless you jump through hoops to contact them. ISP are complaining (presumably because the increased transparency will make it harder to milk the customer) by trying to claim that itemizing the invoice will be confusing since they have to pass-through all these state and federal fees. The FCC is saying "tough shit", and if they want to keep it "simple" then they need to roll these fees into the sticker price.

Basically, either itemize or be upfront. If the ISP doesn't want to itemize, then the bill must match the advertised price. If they want to keep the advertised price lower, they need to itemize all additional fees being added to the bill.
Please don't start flamewars on HN. Programming language flamewars are particularly easy to avoid, and avoiding them has always been a priority here because we're aware of what happened to certain other forums, which burned themselves to a crisp and never recovered.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37315605.
The US Army has Fort Buchanan in Puerto Rico.

https://home.army.mil/buchanan/
Someone getting a high salary doesn't signal the country's overall prospect. That might be just a "take" case where that job was supposed to be served by a US citizen.

Any US citizen (or citizens in any country) doesn't want fair competition against immigrants/foreign laborers. They accept immigrants because it (is supposed to) enlarge the pie to share. That's why things like dynamic scoring attempt to capture a bigger picture.

I'm personally skeptical about metrics with a lot of guess work, but I appreciate the effort here. The impact of the immigration is just hard to quantify.
Should have taken advantage of the arbitrage.
When insulated elite take on the identity of some ancient philosophy or pragmatic quote, these ideas also tend to spread to the gestalt. Or maybe it's vice versa.

As a younger adult and fresh college dropout I used to cling to stoicism around the time "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius become popular again.

Super embarrassing, but I even had a picture of Elon Musk hanging on my mirror. But, this also helped me ignore some painful aspects about my life and move on.

When I could finally do something about my problems, the idea of stoicism slowly outlived its utility for me. Sure as hell didn't stop me from burning out multiple times afterwards.

I picked up Chekhov years ago and this quote from Ward No. 6 helped me gain some perspective:

"You should go and preach that philosophy in Greece ... Diogenes did not need a study or a warm habitation; it's hot there without. You can lie in your tub and eat oranges and olives. But bring him to Russia to live: he'd be begging to be let indoors in May, let alone December. He'd be doubled up with the cold.

At this point I just believe that most of these high-minded ideas are after-the-fact reasonings about how or why ones life went well or poorly.
> I don't do much C or C++ development, but I've used gdb in the past for schoolwork and a really great capture the flag I did once. I probably can remember enough about it to get some useful info out.

This brought a tear to my eye. What a beautiful attitude, kj800x! Don’t ever lose it; that spirit will take you far.
Not all software has a GUI. I've recently started working on a cross platform command line application using .NET 7 and am honestly impressed with the experience.
35°20'58.0"N 116°35'39.1"W
Crazy to think that technically Apple has every right to just turn off iCloud or the App Store one day. No warning, no advisories. Just shut off the servers. They don't even have to acknowledge it. No more software for a few billion devices.
Identical phenomenon exists in US where groups with well above average incomes are considered officially "disadvantaged groups" for purposes of eg SBA loans.
CGI is sometimes cheaper, and usually logistically simpler. "Fix it in post" lets you wrap up the production sooner and spend less time on set.
Save them to the blockchain then, they can't do anything about it.
I'm surprised they didn't simply charge to use the bathroom

with a lower price if you purchase a reserved instance
YOShInOn is already doing a lot of polling and waiting on message queues and making decisions and having me make a decision so anything new has to go in my own task queue since there are all kinds of features I plan to add to it.

Scientific papers are begging for all kinds of special case handling. I post a lot of stories from Science X where sometimes the original paper is better than their version, sometimes it is the other way around. Whether or not the original article is open access is a big factor. They republish articles from places like "The Conversation" and frequently outrank the original and I'd rather link to the original in those cases. There are a lot of cases like that.
4 gazillion bijillions
As they used to say, memento mori
No it isn't. It's more akin to denying phrenology, phlogiston, leeches or almost anything that psychology has claimed in the past 20 years. Bad science is everywhere and has always existed throughout history. You can't just pick some random bits of science that are agreed to be not bad and state that they're the same: they aren't.

> More than 99.9% of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree

According to the same people who literally put in writing that they would "redefine the peer reviewed literature if we have to" to stop disagreement getting published.

Please. Nobody who wants to know what's true gives a shit about what's said in the forums the academics under fire themselves control, that's obviously stupid.

“Looking at the list of signatories, there are a lot of engineers, medical doctors, and petroleum geologists and almost no actual climate scientists,” said Zeke Hausfather,

Are you aware you're citing a known climate change denier who agrees with the signatories that there's no climate emergency?

https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1533875297220587520

It's a bit eye opening how many time I, a climate scientist, have been called a denier in the last 24 hours for having the temerity to say our children are not necessarily consigned to an apocalyptic hellscape of a future. Doomism is a disease, and a self-fulfilling prophesy.

which is in response to the lashing he got for this:

https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1533480022559772673

“I unequivocally reject, scientifically and personally, the notion that children are somehow doomed to an unhappy life”.

Even Hausfather knows that, but other people say the same thing suddenly he's upset that they're just a bunch of Nobel Prize winning physicists, cofounders of Greenpeace, professors of atmospheric physics, climate researchers, meteorologists, experts on rainfall and flooding, earth scientists and ugh engineers.
There's no reason it needs to be a quantum computer. It can be a simple device, it only needs enough memory. How slow the calculations are doesn't matter because it controls the 'tick's. We'd basically be frozen in a frame of time until the next computation was done rendering.
My playstations and xboxes all turn on my tvs (and switch their inputs) just fine.
I don't see how your math checks out. From the article, let's say you started the service at introduction with the Pixel 6 (22 months ago) and it cost $45 per month. Today, you would have spent a total of $990 on that phone (which was worth way less than that at launch) plus services. You now have a used phone worth $200 tops and $100 in "store credit". That seems like a crappy deal unless you value premium Google services a lot.
We are specifically addressing what happens when you take a Linux kernel (or any other GPL code), modify it, and bundle it with proprietary software, in such a way that neither the free nor proprietary software function without the other. I am arguing that, regardless of the technical details, this constitutes a derived work (and not, as is commonly argued, an "aggregate").

The FSF gently disagrees with me. Tellingly, they won't commit to a clear distinction between "derived" and "mere aggregate", calling it a "legal question", but suggest that "a proper criterion depends both on the mechanism of communication (exec, pipes, rpc, function calls within a shared address space, etc.) and the semantics of the communication (what kinds of information are interchanged)." I say this is a classic nerd mistake of reaching for technical solutions to social problems - the true criterion should be something more like "can the user run these components independently?".
I've found the abstractions with Flatpak, xdg-desktop-portal, pipewire, and misc. web browsers to be decent for screen sharing with Wayland

Native clients, not so much :/

Many-years user of Sway here. My screen sharing is actually broken now, and I'm pretty sure I missed something in my reinstall - it had been great for a year or so
Is this actually legally viable? I'd be worried that you could be technically considered to be under contract and get fined for late fees/penalties on top of other charges, get referred to collection agencies, etc...
Yes I am, but morally right doesn't mean I get the room. Also, they tend to put the refundable deposit on my card when I check in, which actually makes sense just in case whoever they admit isn't me*, or I booked long ago and my old card is now defunct.

* or more broadly, whoever they admit (whether or not it's me) has enough credit at the time of the actual stay to entrust the room to
ISPs are putting BS fees instead of raising their prices.
Years later: that link is now https://orbitalfocus.uk/Diaries/Luna/Luna.php.

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37327963 - thanks lcnPylGDnU4H9OF)
where in the article does it say they built their own database?
AirBnB "investment properties", for example, are still clogging up a lot of areas that have tourist flows.

Some of the residential apartment units, for example, are playing pricing games with rental prices vs occupancy because they can blame it on "pricing software" right now.

An occupancy tax would neutralize those.
> Because of centuries of discrimination that has kept them poorer and less educated

No one is denying this. But there has been a reservation of seats for SC and ST categories for about 80 years and for OBC category for 40+ years in education. The reservation in govt job openings exists since the 80s. How can you reasonably argue that the outcomes are entirely the result of discrimination in society?
Noctalgia: Loss of Night Skies and Environment for Astronomy, Sky Traditions
There may be a mythical "scrum" out there somewhere, but I and no one I've ever known has seen it. As much as I love a No True Scotsman fallacy, if this is the only thing people have ever seen and have ever attached the label "scrum" to...

Then that is what scrum is.
The term noctalgia shall express "sky grief" for the accelerating loss of the home environment of our shared skies - representing loss of science, heritage, millennia-old sky traditions, place-based language, and more - and summarize next steps to address the protection of our nighttime and daytime skies.