skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the sudden movement scenario, gravity is overcome by rapid acceleration in the upward direction. In the no-dropped-item scenario, friction within your pocket (presumably) comes to the rescue to make up the difference between gravity and upward acceleration so that the item doesn't make a successful escape.

The friction in a pocket should be a function of tension (how tight your pants are, especially around the item) and not, as often is the case, proportional to the mass of the item. So this particular method of losing the item should be less common with something lighter.
Nah, we'll get our SS checks - the Fed will turn the money printer up to 11 if they have to cover the program.

Inflation will make them worthless, but we'll get our checks :)
The key bad thing in what you said is "can't be used to build houses again". Zoning in SF and most of California is a joke.
Considering the human race bootstrapped itself from nothing, what’s your mental model here? Where did everything come from?
Here's why Aretha Franklin always carried her purse on stage
Documenting code is, for the most part, useless. It takes way too much time to keep it up to date. it's easier to just get in there and READ the code. Sure, document the larger, overall, architecture and how all the pieces fit together, but don't try and document all the details. It really isn't worth it.
https://archive.today/7ZJcI
I have a very similar experience. Truth be told, it is what I have on my car's navigation whenever I know exactly where I'm going: the warnings about traffic jams, stationary radars, police and all that is all I care about. But whenever I need directions, I quickly switch back to the big G.
turning my workspace into an ADHD-proof cockpit.

learning to design and build mechanical joints and stuff.

will need to learn welding asap.
Yes I am. You might not be but don't I count as "the public"?
block_on is a executor that polls a future until it returns ready. If the future is not ready then the executor wait until it is woken up. If you poll a future that relies on a specific runtime (I.g. A async library that uses Tokio) to wake up the executor, with a simple block_on you will get stuck.

A generic block_on in std would be a footgun for new programmers I believe.
In Switzerland, most people rent for life
You're ignoring the role of the state and intelligence agencies in shaping the media and what's reported. If you look at any war, conflict, theory about adversaries, etc. - the news in Western (and equivalently any other region) mainstream media is almost always completely aligned with the government positions and the position of the 'intelligence community' (CIA/NSA). So, yeah media/news is strongly driven by profit, but the ability for the organization to exist and continue to make profit is very dependent on having the right political alignment/spin.
I imagine if you start merchandising with the Dalai Lama's image and you'll soon get sent a C&D. This isn't necessarily a Theravadin thing, imho.

I practice Theravada and while it certainly is different than the US-style California Buddhism and the popular Mahayana traditions in the West (often with anything challenging or 'ethnic' or 'traditional' whitewashed for Westerners), the monks there are acting like I imagine monks near anywhere would. Its really offensive to portray monks as thrill-sensory seekers.

In the West, if some church was suing because someone was photoshopping their congregation into sinful acts everyone here probably agree, "Yep, slander and libel is actionable. Speech sometimes has consequences." But if Buddhists do it, somehow its an issue. I think there's a bit of ugly Orientalism at play here. Westerners can sue and use the police, but "mysterious" and "stoic" Asian monks must, of course, be above that.
As if G+ is the only thing that's been canceled
I've used Amazon for ~10 years. It has certainly gotten worse, but it isn't bad.

I live in Seattle. A lot of random things I can get shipped the next day (sometimes even the same day!) for free (I pay for Prime, but there is no additional cost), like if I need a USB drive, compost bags, or dish soap.

I'd prefer to buy things from Amazon vs other sites simply because I'm used to Amazon. I have an account; they have my address and payment information. I just need to click a few buttons and have what I need the next day.

If something goes wrong, customer support is still pretty good in most cases, although sometimes Amazon has dropped the ball. Amazon is great with returns -- most of the time, I don't even need to box up and label my return. I just need to show up at an Amazon Fresh store or some other dropoff point (there are many in Seattle) and hand them my item/scan a QR code, and that's it.

People have complained about fake products on Amazon. I've bought hundreds of things from Amazon, from CPUs to consumer electronics to batteries. I'm sure I received some knockoff at some point, but I've never noticed.

I would gladly switch away from Amazon if something better popped up, but I don't see how any alternative could be better without eventually becoming Amazon again.
Yeah, if journalists simply bypassed the agreement, a future source might say "OK, I want to expose this bad thing that a government agency is doing, but if I do, the journalists will probably be careless about it and people will get killed" (or whatever the case may be).

If Snowden himself had had to redact everything ahead of time, or study everything in fine detail beforehand to determine all the implications of publishing it, he wouldn't have been able to leak nearly as much material.
>People should avoid any antiquities that don't have clear provenance.

Stay clear of the British Museum ;o)
You really think that these people who have worked for multiple gaming sites and are now starting their own gaming site really don't play games? It seems like there would be an easier way to make a living than writing about something you don't care about.
'Ray, this is a religion': How Bridgewater lost two top hires
Large organizations are made of "money saving entities".

I work with a lot of large corporations and we have constant problems with the software I support because the imperative is to continually drop operational costs. We'll have a team we work with that is well trained, understand the software well, and keeps the software working at near 100% capacity.

Then suddenly one day they are all gone and you get the offshoring team that knows nothing about the specialist software they are attempting to support, if they have the capability to actually turn a computer on is surprising. Software availability drops significantly having direct impact on deliveries, costing god knows how much in some of these companies. Support on the vendor side (my side) turns into a huge expensive mess because now you're now writing instructions to the level of "when you take a poopy, remember to flush and pull your pants back up".
A site I found had this on the body content:

> The arithmetic mean of the numbers XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX

> Answer is: XNUMX
I like "The I.T. Crowd", but it might be a little too dated/cynical for some people today.
I mean gatekeeper comments are just as bad, no?
> It's hard to believe that there are such stupid people, but all right

I assume that if someone is at the point where they're willing to murder someone else, they're in an emotional place that excludes rational thought. In cases like this, it may not be that these people are stupid as much as they are blinded by anger/pain/whatever.
If it was the case, most developers would take a few hours to learn how to use regular expressions to search faster in their code. But they don’t.
I'm surprised that they didn't bring up their agreement with Snowden in this context. Maybe the interviewer somehow didn't ask them about that aspect?
Exchanges like these give me a small bit of hope for humanity! Thanks cdata and jchw!
I'd love to believe that, but they made a new account just to make that comment. I'm guessing it's unironic.
Alas, there's just so many people with so many reasons for wanting to grab & coerce the noosphere's thoughpaths to route through their specific power grabs. The move would spring up spontaneously in so many ways.

Thanks again EFF for so vigilantly watching against encroachment.
Oh, that's easy. It's because Assange committed crimes that Greenwald did not.
In Brazil, the police isn't allowed to do this. The justice system accepts that the perpetrator would not follow the course of action if the government haven't created a hitman site.

This approach by the fbi can lead to some bizarre situations. They shouldn't have that power.
There is a famous joke about standards: the great thing about common standards is that you have so many to choose from. A corollary to it: if none of the existing common standards meets your need, how about letting some of your senior staff get promoted by successfully creating and popularizing a new common standard?
I do agree a braid allows more movement and flexibility than fabric. However, I can't imagine the fibers really move that much to the point whatever gets printed will become entirely illegible. It is not like the fibers in the jacket are going to permanently move several millimeters in its normal straight shape.
UK may demand tech world tell it about upcoming security features
Got me there, peepeepoopoo47.
Not just headline bait, because the economics have changed: a Midjourney subscription is much cheaper than hiring an actor, costuming him as a monk, and photographing him on a rented motorcycle.
Making sure you get UV resistant zip ties is key.
the spec has no CLA, and I don’t believe the Foundation has plans to add CLAs.
Fine. Edge is a better Chrome
Water is wet, news at 20:16
None of which has anywhere near the traction of any JavaScript-based one, or has one comparable to any of the popular Python back-end frameworks.

Anyway, I think I didn't express myself properly - I used web framework for "backend web framework" the likes of Django or FastAPI.
I would like to see comparisons for things in the same price category too. Especially for something like usb-c cables where it's hard to know if you are just paying for a brand or actual quality.

Most of the time when you buy Apple you are buying a better engineered product and maybe these scans are just proving that it's actually hard to match their quality for the price.
Sometimes you can find a King under a parking lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhumation_and_reburial_of_Ric...
It's not that high in SF, look up condo and home prices. This also included retail and other business space, so you're probably not including at least 50% of the extra cost&benefit when saying $1 million
This seems oddly sparse on details to me - what are the tropes that characterize the genre? Stepped pyramids? Chocolate? Obsidian blades?

The only two recommendations for the genre are one novel, and one collection of short stories that includes other -punk genres

Like does this feel like it’s making a mountain out of a molehill?
How's the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope compare to Euclid?
Sounds like an excellent way to ensure that individuals who find valuable historical artifacts never report them to the authorities and possibly remelt them instead.
I'm not making decisions for society. I'm reporting the current reality. Consider looking at the disastrous situation in California for people with hydrogen powered cars. Typical discussion is at https://www.reddit.com/r/Mirai/comments/17md2gr/called_toyot...

I'm all in favor of alternatives for gasoline. We just need some that don't perpetuate carbon fuel use. The mirai folks end up paying way more for hydrogen than gas, way way more in that subreddit, run into unavailability of fuel, the stations break and aren't repaired. I was quite surprised when I came upon the discussions there. When or if we can create h fuel without using lots of fossil fuel and energy it would be great. Today it's primarily companies and govts perpetuating their industrial bases in Japan that seem to be pushing hydrogen.
Looks like there was a lot of pressure to meet deadlines and it couldn't be done before the announcement.
None of this is anything like Brave New World.
That's a highly inaccurate summary of what OpenAI and unsupervised LLMs do.

Yes there's human feedback at the end, but that's not to make it smarter or generalize facts better, it's so the AI isn't a genocidal dick. It's not about "labeling" correct facts for training.
A while back I worked at a digital media company. For developers, the process of setting up ads for new mini sites was a big pain and required lots of back and forth and approvals with Ads team. I asked other developers, and they say "This is just the process that tyhe Ads team needs".

I go talk to the Ads people about this specifically and they say "yeah it's a pain, but this is the way the developers need it".

Turns out both parties had been wanting a better way which was pretty easy (3 different page/ad placement templates), but neither had bothered to express this to each other.
Swift UI is just not that well thought out or efficient compared to Cocoa. And Cocoa was already a bit of a resource hog in comparison to Quartz, etc...
No UL or CE marking for Pussy. Use at your own risk.
Microsoft partners with VCS to give startups free AI chip access
I went to a restaurant on the weekend where somebody had crossed out $16 and had hand written $18 next to all the mains.
Not really. https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-court-upholds-ruling-aga...
I do not know why she gets so much fan fare for a single paper on Amazon. Her entire tenure was nothing consequential about Anti-trust. She was supposed to be queen of Trust-busting.

Just co-opt the lingo of a movement and forward your career. A walking talking self-promotion shop.
Life was much slower paced, and it sounds like all these letters are on very high quality paper for the time so it makes sense these were very deliberate expression of communication. These undelivered letters from wives and mothers to their husbands serving aboard a French warship that was captured are like a snapshot in time, and the historian writes that many were possibly written by scribes hired for their literacy. To give some idea of how much slower paced, the tragedy of the one wife who died a year after sending her letter who probably never knew the fate of her husband.
Arguably your plan would take longer to implement as you would need standardization across vehicles, implementation into actual cars, extensive testing, adoption by drivers, codification into the law with some enforcement mechanism and implementation on selected locations. It's a cool creative idea but redesigning a junction seems like something more within reach and that can actually prevent crashes in the meantime.

If you want to tackle speeding on highways, income-based fines from speed cameras seem like the way to go. It is more feasible, can be implemented more quickly and easily and is cheaper overall.

So really, it seems like a new expensive tool with questionable relative benefits that would take really long to deliver (not to mention the privacy / freedom concerns its existence would raise) while the existing tools haven't even been used yet.
More specific statements can be more impactful to the listener.

"Everyone's car is getting stolen these days" ... "Yeah, isn't that crazy? What are ya gonna do?"

"Your car is getting stolen right now" ... "Wait, what!?!?"

I think people really just write off the scale and scope of data privacy in this country as "yeah, sounds bad, but since it's happening to everyone there's nothing I can do about it"
The solution to congested towers is to add more towers and reduce the power levels making the coverage of each smaller. In a crowded room you can increase the number of simultaneous conversations by having people stand closer to each other and reduce voice volume levels at the limit people are whispering into each other's ears. Similar idea works with wireless devices. devices.
Is a university degree a requirement? Would that help?

I know four year degrees get a bad rap and god knows the prices are definitely bloated.

However, it could be a good filter to really take out the wannabe warriors.
They should be outlawed for the young like cigarettes are in NZ never allowing them to possess one.
I don't see how it could.
apps stands for appetizers but not in this context. HN has officially become reddit.
> Corporations (and other legal entities used for business) are legal fictions that allow people to pool capital for productive endeavors and yes, with limited liability on the parts of the owners, because we as a society decided that encouraging productive endeavors this way is better than the alternative.

Worth noting that legal 'collectives' date back to Ancient Rome, city charters, monasteries, guilds in the Middle Ages, etc. While they are currently called corporation, from the Latin corpus for "body (of people)":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation#History

The original term was from the Latin universitas, and were universities in (relatively) more modern times when the concept saw uptick in usage (1100s AD).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University#History

The first collectives were either groups of students coming together to hire teachers (Bologna), or teachers coming together (Paris).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bologna#History

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Paris#History

Your local municipality, county, country, etc, are all legal fictions that act as a legal person. Turns out the concept is handy in many situations:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person
It should be illegal to estimate times lower than you can achieve within the speed limit - it means people leave later and have to speed to show up on time.
Toyota Built a City for New Tech. Its Dreams Are Falling Down Around It
The point is, his post is from a lunatical radical conspiracy theorist, and can only be construed as 'The sheeple did no research." Personally, I received 3 mRNA vaccines, and I got a-symptomatic Covid-19. No symptoms. Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine were shown to do nothing, except the placebo effect, lure the sheeple into a false sense of security, and then Un-alive them, like Herman Cain. I would pump this post full of references, as there are a few hundred, but ... just do not waste your time.
Encountered a challenge like this once. Infrastructure team kept telling us it wasn't anything on their end. I coordinated with the business unit VP to serve their entire QA environment from four VM's on my laptop for a day, and performance went from slow as molasses, to purring like a kitten. A couple days later their infrastructure team finally identified storage latency issues on their multi-million dollar cluster and let me help them fix it.
Why yield is not a suffix operator like await?
I'm not sure which part you are referring to by "exactly the same system", or to what extent patio11 is personally responsible for it.

However listen to his explanations of the incentives, benefits, and downsides. Then remember that he was working within a company that had the exact same incentives (eg same regulatory regimes), who was going to be hiring people out of the same financial system. And remember that there are parts of this that he think really make the world better.

Therefore the expected result really should be, "Somewhat better iteration on the basic thing that everyone else does." And so it is no surprise that it would include enough of what you don't like that you'd see it as "exactly the same system".
The author didn't say it is a bug. The author just says this is a shortcoming of Go.
Anything that can be communicated by an authentic charger could also be communicated by a counterfeit charger. You may have raised the cost of the scam (e.g. by requiring another chip), or delayed the start of a scam (e.g. until the inevitable leak of hardward signing keys), but at the end of the day you're trying to validate a device through a communication channel controlled by that very same device.

It's the same problem as with the satirical "evil bit" proposal for IPv4 [0]: Someone who is scamming you has already shown no compunction against lying to you through social means, and will lie to you through technical means as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
*approximately

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00152
What exactly makes you think that they are in any way socialist?
I actually think we have a cultural problem due to the fact that many of the people coming into Rust recently are coming from a "full-stack" webdev background, where "frameworks" are huge, and feels like nobody worries about being coupled to one framework or another, just picking the right one. Which is in large part due to the history of JavaScript and so on. This is an influx of people who sense that tokio is the "right" way to do things -- tutorials, blog posts, example applications, and 3rd party libs all start with tokio... and they're not philosophically against being tied to it.

Whereas my own sense of the Rust philosophy is supposed to be one of zero-cost abstractions (when possible), and for the language to provide nuts and bolts that I can assemble myself. My interest is in systems eng. I don't want to be tied specifically into the systems-eng choices that Tokio happens to have already made, even if they might be good ones. I want the ability to choose. It's not healthy, in my opinion, for one entity to dominate choices like this.

If this can't be resolved, my sense is that people who have the same impulses as me will choose to either not use async at all, or move on from Rust.
GOOD.

Using an iPhone and Apple Watch these last few years has felt like death by a thousand cuts. The number of times I've felt like throwing all of my devices out a window and going back to the olden days of flip phones and writing letters to people have been astronomical this year.

The worst part is the lack of communication when things go wrong. You can't just connect your phone to your computer and run `adb logcat` like you can on Android to at least hope for a glimmer of a clue behind the bugs. If you don't have XCode, you're mostly SOL.
We CT scanned two fake AirPods and compared them to the real thing
That's not how that works. Raising profits is not the same as raising prices to match inflation.
I'm a huge fan of Peter Attia's the Drive podcast which I learned about on HN. Scan the archive for a topic of interest, they are almost all good.

He's an MD, former surgeon, with a background in math and an appropriately skeptical point of view when in comes to health news. He isn't one, but he would be a very good scientist as he understands very well the methods of science.
Love the tone of the article.

Example:

Our marketing folks would say the characters are more responsive and lifelike than ever before; our internal dev notes described it as "the characters won't bump or get stuck into objects in tight spaces".
emailed you with one
Why the scare quotes? Are we still pretending climate change isn't real?

The rest of your point is totally valid (CAFE is a textbook example of well-intentioned regulations backfiring spectacularly).

But the climate denier nonsense kinda spoils the message.
Ask HN: Favorite way to typeset mathematical notes?
I do a lot of mathematical research and find myself often wanting to create short write ups that involve equations and references to share with collaborators.

While I am quite good with LaTeX, I find it lacking for this purpose. Setting up a base document, importing all my packages, getting a sane layout, etc. takes time away from the actual writing I want to do. On the other end, things like Notion have LaTeX support as an afterthought and it is quite annoying to write documents in it when there are a lot of equations. Moreover, I am not sure if there's a good way to add Bibtex references I want them in those note apps.

Have any of you found a good, LaTeX-lite solution for churning out quick research note documents?
"...avoid operatives on foreign soil being endangered." See Valarie Plume affair.