skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, stars move through the arms, and circle around the center of the galaxy. The arms actually also "move", but not in the way you would maybe expect. They are actually density waves - areas of greater density of gas & dust, similar to a traffic jam on a highway. These waves also "move" along with the gas & dust. But this wave-movement is illusory, because they are formed by these traffic jams.

The stars move through these waves (traffic jams), and in these high density areas new star formation and supernovas happens mostly (because there is more stuff to collect). The stars move through the gas & dust faster than the gas & dust themselves, because the stars are more massive and need more velocity to stay in stable orbit. The illusory movement of the waves is also slower than the stars, because the illusory waves move as slow as the dust & gas that forms them, and the stars are faster.

Apart from that, you also have dark matter which influences the rotation speed of objects based on it's distance from the galaxy center. It causes objects at the end of the spiral arms of the galaxy to rotate at the same speed as the ones close to the center, or anywhere. That is a mysterious area, and actually caused the requirement of dark matter into the equation. Because in Einstein's relativity theory, objects with same mass that are farther away from the galaxy center, need to move slower to have a stable orbit, which is the case in our solar system and other solar systems we observe. But in galaxies the case seems to be different. That is why dark matter was introduced, and makes it more complicated.
Frankly, it is absolutely ludicrous to limit the FDA to telling Amazon to remove a product by name and then having to do that again each time someone resells the same product under a different name.

In this case the FDA is saying everything that includes regulated medications in non-regulated products must be addressed.

Seems reasonable to me. If a company completely ignores regulation, the FDA should have to power to enforce its own regulations.
1) Sigh
2) Firefox still works great though, I'm a very happy user!
> Huh? Just about everything that didn't come on a cartridge took forever to load, especially on a C64.

Taking a long time to load doesn't mean having a minutes long "Loading ... Please Wait" screen.

Civilization needed a lot of time, on a contemporary computer, to create the map. While doing so, it plays a slideshow with captions:

In the beginning,

the Earth was without form,

and void.

But the Sun shone upon the sleeping Earth

and deep inside the brittle crust

massive forces waited to be unleashed.

This goes on for quite a while, accompanied by appropriately epic music.

How do I even know that this is actually a loading screen? Simple - the animation is not skippable on a low-powered computer. You can try, but the actual skip will only occur later, when the computer is ready for it. On a Windows-95-era computer, you can skip the whole thing; the game will be ready before the slideshow starts.

But just because the game required a loading screen didn't mean the designers thought it would make any sense to punish the player by making them spend minutes staring at a message saying "I bet you feel pretty stupid for buying this game now, huh?". The Civ I intro is famous and well loved. You can watch a youtube video of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtK388b9drE . You can read the entire text on TvTropes, where a fan has posted it as a memorable quote: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/Civilization . It is the first thing listed on that page.
What got me was the geofencing for the trains to break down when in competitors workshops. Was apparently only found in 2 out of 30 trains, but still there is no plausible deniability here at all.
Not if the metrics come solely from analytics like GA. It would appear as an absolute decline in browser numbers instead (which would probably be indistinguishable from noise in most samples).
Citizens (aka labour) are not assets under a capitalist system?
"It's not okay for a human to pirate, plagiarize, violate IP rights and laws, etc."

most of the world disagrees with this view, and that means they will create the AI that wins.
You can also use beautiful mutual recursion a la ocaml

let rec isEven n =
if n = 0 then true
else isOdd (n-1)
and isOdd n =
not (isEven n)
Can someone summarize the findings for those without a subscription? I can totally understand “due to some hidden dynamics, ice cream consumption is correlated with health in type 2 diabetics”, but I can absolutely not understand “ice cream is a healthy food to eat in general”.
This is a cool use case thanks for sharing
It's somewhat difficult to immigrate to most places, but usually the difficulties can be resolved in weeks or months. The US level of difficulty is an exception, not the norm.

Or more accurately, the processes are obfuscated and full of inexplicable delays. Why would someone even consider hiring a lawyer for something as simple and common as employment-based immigration? And how can the green card process take longer than a few months?
“Shared cultural definitions” carry enormous cultural baggage. If I say something affects women, but it's about menstrual bleeding… well, why not just say “people who menstruate”? Much clearer for women on the pill or without a uterus, or trans men, or whatever. And if it's about breast cancer, that's a completely different set of people, many (though not most) of whom are not women. This imprecision has a death toll.

To give an example from the article, “boomers” is a term referring to a specific American demographic group, usually from a sociocultural perspective. (It's actually a bit more complicated than this: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boom for details.) If you're trying to classify humans by age, e.g. in a medical context, the term is not appropriate.

I can't tell you how to know whether you know what you're talking about: that's difficult. A good rule of thumb is that you're aware of contradictory viewpoints, and understand why those people disagree with you (and why they're wrong, if they are), but this only works if you don't force it (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law).

Finding experts is a difficult problem, but in this case it's easy: picking a member of the demographic group at random, then randomly picking one of their friends (also in the demographic group), will probably give you someone who can tell you how members of that group will react to various terms, what the preferred terminology is, and why it's not about the words you use. (Because it isn't. Never has been, never will be. Even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry/Londonderry_name_dispute isn't about the name.)

Stereotypes are harmful if they cause harm, which is most of them. There's no arbiter except reality. If it's easier for you, avoid stereotypes that are inaccurate: which is, again, most of them. If you don't know that either, just use one of these irritating checklists of prescribed and proscribed terms: that's why they exist.
And the time series on that page aren’t normalized to number of passenger-miles flown, which had been increasing rapidly through 2019.
There is more nuance here than your comment assumes. If Firefox makes X dollars by investing Y dollars but Y+N dollars doesn’t return more money, they will spend the minimum amount on Firefox and allocate the remaining funds elsewhere because otherwise they’d be throwing money away, or so the C-Suite assumes.

You think Pocket and Mozilla VPN sprung up because creating new products was easier than investing more into the golden goose? If Firefox was the end all be all that would be the obvious, safest business decision. Clearly they don’t think it is and that they can get more money through diversification.

A number of people here believe that Firefox is only supported by Google so they can avoid anti trust. If that were the case they’d pay Mozilla regardless of how good/bad Firefox was wouldn’t they?
Companies ask for the SSN because its so much more efficient than their previous systems.

They already did debt repayment without SSNs; it's just easier with one. The existence of fraud with a SSN doesn't mean there wasn't fraud without one; and if there was more fraud now then companies would abandon asking for SSNs.

You might not like SSNs but their existence has been a benefit not a detriment to the USA.
Custom firmware for MI fitness band
My understanding follows (I don’t use it but I’ve noticed the processes running on other people’s machines). Corrections welcome.

It’s split into a client (web frontend) and server that’s doing all the work. The server can be run anywhere but it’s effectively a bunch of stuff installed in a docker container. When you start an instance for a project, it creates a container for that instance with all the code folders etc bound in. LSPs are running in that container too.

It’s possible to use your own image as a base (you might have custom deps that make installing the requirements for an LSP hard, for example).

The trick they use here is that there’s some base container/volume that has most of the server stuff downloaded and rest to go. Whether you start a normal instance or from a custom image they do it the same way by just mounting this shared volume and installing what they need to bootstrap the server.

It also appears they create a frontend window per server process too. So the master client process starts, you select a project folder, they create a new server container and a new client window connected to it. The frontend client is local while each server can be anywhere (obviously you could run the client with X if you wanted to further muddy that).
I’ve lead those threads in the past with hopes that someone would give a glimmer of hope

Honestly, this news/post made me lose the final shred of hope I had.

:/
Both. I like to keep a file in notepad updated with all my corporate passwords, which I then print and post on the wall by my monitor.

I also use a label maker to fix the login credentials for shared computers on the backside of their keyboards.

I suspect people like me are the reason my firm is trying so hard to migrate to single sign in instead of dozens of unique passwords which require updates
Away from Firefox? They don't have anything useful other than Firefox. Trash everything else and devote all resources to Firefox.
I went down a small rabbit hole of Amazon electrical products once. You truly are better off at the big orange or blue hardware store for anything electric. Might cost a few bucks more but you don't have multiple suppliers referencing the same fake certificates and skimping on wire gauge to save a few cents.
I am of opposite opinion. I think it is unreasonable to train AI using copyrighted information without permission from the copyright holder, at least if it is done to create a proprietary product. It is probable even unreasonable if the end result would not be proprietary but at least that would benefit the world more.
Mitchell Baker was important for Mozilla/Netscape in the past. She was the primary author of Mozilla Public License in 1998 (MPL 2.0 is a very good license). I bet that many of us were just infants when she was at Mozilla.

The problem is that many feel that she is not a good leader for Mozilla today, not that she is not a historical figure for Mozilla and the open source community in general.
Not if you account for the increase in ad revenue from the company paying them.
Will look at Hostinger, thanks.

> it is very hard to remember how you set things up, and almost have to start over.

Same issue. I have an absolutely terrible memory. That's why I do all the setup and configuration through Ansible.
"Both iOS and Android...transmit telemetry data to their motherships even when a user hasn’t logged in or has explicitly configured privacy settings to opt out of such collection. Both OSes also send data to Apple and Google when a user does simple things such as inserting a SIM card or browsing the handset settings screen. Even when idle, each device connects to its back-end server on average every 4.5 minutes...In the US alone, Android collectively gathers about 1.3TB of data every 12 hours. During the same period, iOS collects about 5.8GB."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/android-sends-20x-mo...
When Chat GPT starts to show racial\cultural bias
NTI drugs, a/k/a critical dose drugs, can avoid titration requirements through dilution. It’s harder to fuck up a 500 mL difference than a 1 mL difference. Again, this is why most OTC versions of prescription drugs are different in only one way: concentration.
It’s all very confusing :)
Show HN: workin – A web app to create and run smart trainer workouts
I used TrainerRoad for my indoor bike workouts during Winter. Its subscription costs $20 per month, which seemed unreasonable for the one thing I was using: the workouts. So I decided to create an free and open-source alternative. I've been using it for almost a month now and it feels great to have built something useful for once :)
Yes, there's always residual fuel and oxidizer in the piping, it's always accounted for. For the first stage of a rocket of this size, it should be around a couple dozen kg, give or take. And hypergolic components ignite on contact.
For which market? China has many like that. Americans don’t tend to favor small vehicles. The EU is better suited for it.
This is a category problem, really. It’s up to private industry (for capitalists) or the government (for socialists) to actually take research results and do something eith them.
>I disagree with this. A comment like this can provide some amusement and joy

Maybe you still get a chuckle, but after the same tired strawmans get posted over and over again it gets annoying, similar to all the low effort comments on reddit like "username checks out", "RIP my inbox", "came here to say this", or any number of the common copypastas.

>as well as legitimate criticism of people who unironically hold similar beliefs to the one parodied.

Strawmans are not "legitimate criticism".
Thank you for the information. I've even started to use the statement timeout in my DSL implementation to ensure that queries are bounded. I think we view the relative costs of the implementations quite differently, probably due to our backgrounds, but this has been very enlightening for me, thank you.
Show HN: Hello World Rust WASM Component
I think that comment refers to the iOS kernel uploading a copy of the linux kernel to the broadcom wifi controller during boot. I'm sure a lot of devices do that or something similar.

I wonder what issues that creates licensing wise, since that's GPL'd code they have to ship on every device and firmware update. I would guess they published the source for it somewhere, and disclosed it. Just like the GPL2 versions of bash they used to put in macos.
Firefox's actual, non-replicable killer feature is somewhat questionable, but: Chromium has a lower limit on how much RAM a page can consume. Now, YouTube comments sections get huge, and huge web pages are huge. Turns out, Firefox can give the page more RAM and keep it nice and functional for longer.

The questionable part is spending your limited lifetime on reading huge YouTube comment sections.
Last year it was IoT
But unlike cold war they have market based economy ... so I think that the west will be unpleasantly surprised how little we will be able to slow them down. Also - programmers have started to learn how to squeeze performance again out of the little hot rocks.
IMO this is paranoid behavior and not healthy. Part of existing in society is having reasonable trust that just because someone can take advantage of you in a moment, doesn't mean they're going to. You're getting in an argument with a server because of your fear that a local hacker printed out a sticker, walked into your local restaurant, seamlessly put the sticker onto the table, didn't get caught, you just happened to sit at the exact table they picked, and whatever vulnerability they're trying to exploit is compatible with the exact device you have. Thats not going to happen.

Scan the QR code, dude.
Looked into it. It's more than I need, and it's got the same issue as my registrar's paid plans. The price is per domain, per user. For ~10 domains I rarely use at $5 per user, per month, per domain, it's not worth it.
That's one serious weakness of the 3rd edition, I agree, but it's the only part I think is clearly inferior to the 2nd. The actual electronics content was updated and expanded significantly without omitting anything too important.

What little the 3rd ed. does say about construction techniques isn't particularly helpful (or even true), such as when they exaggerate the challenges of working with SMT parts on page 65. It was probably better that they didn't try to go any deeper.
It's a shame that git is too complicated for most non-programmers. I've always wished my sisters (who are all avid writers) could use the branching functionality to explore different possibilities for their fictional stories. It's a beautiful tool but hopelessly unintuitive.
> It seems like a bizarre gap between food and drugs that shouldn't exist. If it's meant to be eaten, the FDA should definitely be regulating it thoroughly.

The FDA did try regulating supplements. They were legally prohibited from doing much.

You can thank Senator Orrin Hatch (who was the longest-serving Republican senator in history until recently) for preventing the FDA from regulating supplements back in 1994. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIT5_SMIaHE&t=6m46s (watch a few minutes of it from here)

Edit: Posted it here for those interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38797162

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/784
> - Bed sheets (oddly enough, you'll often get lies on materials and fabric)

It makes you wonder about all those masks people were buying online and wearing 14+ hours a day
> your resume didn't reflect

One observation I've made throughout the years of reviewing tech resumes - if I get a resume from a U.S. citizen, I (and anybody else) immediately know the difference between MIT/Stanford vs. "The University of Wisconsin" without even researching it. OTOH, I have no idea what the difference between the University of Hyderabad vs. the University of New Delhi, and there's not really a good way for me to tell. Foreign applicants actually have an _advantage_ over U.S. citizens in that the person reviewing their resume will almost certainly bin all of the resumes into the same "ok, has a degree" vs. a potentially unconscious "ah, ok, couldn't get into an ivy league".
Our reaction to 9/11 was an overreaction. Lots of places have been devastated by U.S. actions and those people haven’t had similar overreactions.
Whether or not the use is commercial is certainly one of the considerations, but it's not the most significant one generally. There certainly can be specific cases where it's very significant, of course.

But what I was arguing was that a use is not "fair use" merely because it's noncommercial in nature. I cannot make copies of movies and give them away on the street for free and successfully claim "fair use".
It's not clear to me that these numbers come from Firefox's own telemetry. I couldn't find the graphs in either of the reports on their own page.
This is a huge problem. While Tesla has portable superchargers that they bring out on bank holidays to handle extra demand, everyone else is super bad at handling peak capacity (I only charge at home, except on holidays, when everyone else is vying for the same chargers!).
Indeed, and I think we should be thinking about pricing the recycling or disposal costs too (even if that's difficult or inherently imprecise), as well as giving incentives for products with effective recycling supply chains (or simply low disposal rates! i.e. longlasting products). I think it's worth not being too heavy-handed about this, because low income people would be hit the hardest most likely, but I think something like this would help significantly.
That's a pretty neat idea. I don't know if the people in power would get all of that, but I think you could sell them on balancing the US's influence.
Interesting indeed, probably will only works where you can have powerful computation on-board, not much on drones due to total gross weight limitations.
I mean they're not rated on ACTIONS. They're rated on their PRODUCTION UNITS; of which an ALLOWANCE yields twice as many PRODUCTION UNITS than a REJECTION yields.

So; clerk are incentivized to grant a patent as it takes less effort and yields more production units. If a patent is of poor quality and later is invalidated in a lawsuit; the clerk will not lose production units. Therefore; the clerk is incentivized to grant patents as they count as more production units and not penalized for granting a patent they shouldn't've.

https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/Examination%20Time...
> We need to figure out what the deeper rules are that lead to the status quo, not merely mimic the superficial result.

Sure, that's an interesting path of inquiry, and one should be free to understand themselves as being no different than a machine if they desire.

But the objective of laws is the benefit of (at least some) humans, not machines covered in lab grown tissue. The process of being human is a big part of what makes us human.
What would be an example of something better that isn’t chromium based?
> It's easy to say "don't allow this to happen"; I'm curious about what that actually translates to in practice.

It translates into "don't allow this to happen," because any other standard can and will be gamed. So for instance testing a bottle or two at random would work fine if Amazon really does test a random and representative sample of what's being sold, and to me that's a reasonable level of diligence to expect. But if Amazon Testing emails the supplier: "Please send over a batch of X MAX SUPER ENERGY so we can test if for these substances which we hope we won't find, and make absolutely sure what you send is the same thing you're selling!" -- then that will work somewhat less well. There are endless ways for Amazon and sellers to wink and nod and skirt the intent of the rules, if Amazon is just checking a box for the FDA, and doesn't actually care.

The way to get Amazon to care is to hold it responsible for the outcome. Of course there will be sellers that find a way to skirt whatever process Amazon puts in place, but that needs to be Amazon's problem. Amazon can survive taking its lumps when it messes up.
Sounds like a NewSpace company... but not SpaceX.
The Chevy Bolt EUV is to my mind the perfect little city car. It’s not really “little” by most standards but if I were buying an EV today this is the one I’d go with. I love my Teslas and will keep them for many years to come but I’m happy that Chevy has this one.
> 3. It's anecdotal, but I rarely see anyone browsing the web these days.

Exactly. People on HN overestimate today's use of the web. Regular people barely know what a website is at this point or have any idea what a browser is or does. They only know it as a place to ask The Google something, but even that has changed with The Google's app/widget and voice activated assistants. Sure those things open up web views, but that view may not even have a URL bar, so as far as the user knows, they're in "the app", which is kind of true I guess. That "Chrome" or "Safari" app is just kind of a funny thing that opens up sometimes. Most users aren't opening up the browser and typing in URLs. A fraction of them are, but that fraction is diminishing, and I would guess that fraction mostly reflects desktop users. All this is to say that, if you want to create a blog today and not spend effort to heavily promote it and use SEO tricks (that will immediately go out of date), you can basically forget it if you want anyone to read it.
I'm only aware of his views against gay marriage. Do you have more info on him being openly racist and sexist? Searching for his name + racist or sexist doesn't seem to yield any results.

Off topic, but I think your edit is against the spirit of HN and weakens your comment.