skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn't seem to have been a blocker for sailing or ski jumping...

The boats they use in the Olympics are generally standardized designs that have been around for a very long time.

The most common Olympic boat is the Laser, which has been around since the 1960s. You can make one yourself if you feel like it. They'll take out a measuring tape and if all the dimensions are correct you are good to go. You could buy an Olympic-quality one from a manufacturer for $6k or less, including all the sails. You can watch out for a Craigslist post offering one up for free if you just come get it. There are stacks and stacks of them all over sailing clubs everywhere in the world - because they've been building them exactly the same for 70 years. There are so many Lasers out there people don't know what to do with them.

The exact kiteboarding thingy they use can be bought off the shelf at plenty of sailing stores for $3k or less.

Yes, the bigger boats they are using for the two-person races can get pricy, but that's just a fraction of Olympic sailing.
To elaborate on a point of 0xfaded's comment, the "12 of 13 possible pairs" is the crux of the solution. And when I solved this as a budding math student, I found two solutions -- I first, laboriously, worked top-down and came up with an entire decision tree. It was manifestly beautiful but entirely inelegant. So I worked from the bottom up, and found this solution.

How do we work from the bottom up? We construct a "truth table" for the various results, note the symmetry,

--- +++ A
--0 ++0 B
--+ ++- C
-0- +0+ D
-00 +00 E
-0+ +0- F
-+- +-+ G
-+0 +-0 H
-++ +-- I
0-- 0++ J
0-0 0+0 K
0-+ 0+- L
00- 00+ M
000 000 X

When I read off this "truth table" I immediately see a parity issue: it's telling me to weigh (ABCDEFGHI) all at the same time. Nine balls? That's not gonna balance out. Also, all of those balls have the same apparent sign for the first weighing so I'll need to break parity somehow. What if I just alternate signs as I walk down the table?

--- +++ A
++0 --0 B
--+ ++- C
+0+ -0- D
-00 +00 E
+0- -0+ F
-+- +-+ G
+-0 -+0 H
-++ +-- I
0++ 0-- J
0-0 0+0 K
0+- 0-+ L
00- 00+ M
000 000 X

Alright, this gives the weighings

ACEGI BDFH
ACHK BGIJL
AFGLM CDIJ

Now, we take a popularity contest: who only shows up in overloaded pans? Discard the G and we arrive at

ACEI BDFH
ACHK BIJL
AFLM CDIJ
Apple beats earnings forecast despite decline in iPhone sales
Show HN: Android App for Blind people to Navigate their surroundings with AI
SpaceX accused of dumping mercury into Texas waters for years
I think we should strive for making all "middle-man" platforms non-profits. App stores should be run by non-profits. Food delivery platforms should be non-profits. Rideshare platforms should be non-profits. I think it's the only way to defend against the natural process of enshittification that occurs when the platform itself is has a conflict of interest from the two parties that it connects.

That goes for Patreon itself by the way - why in the world is a platform for connecting creators to fans itself a for-profit entity? A non-profit would be able to offer significantly less transaction fees - for example, Every.org. There's also the question of what Patreon's "exit strategy" will be...
Are you serious? Have you used an online dating app in the last decade? Do you know any men or women who have? Do you want me to link a source for "wasting people's time is an undesirable trait"? What sort of supporting arguments do you need?
This is an article discussing the paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409983121
I am happy I removed Apple from my business workflow.
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Life is barely long enough to get good at one thing so you should choose your thing wisely. That's wisdom I've held for quite some time.

Coincidentally, I chose Go as my language of choice as well. The factors that led me to that choice were many, but to highlight some:

- incredible standard library

- simple to read and write

- single static binary builds (assets included, like html/images, etc)

- don't need a container (my binary is the container)

- can be used anywhere (webdev, desktop apps, gamedev, embedded, etc)
I went looking in the postgres code and took it more as a "Feature request" where if the index building / table scanning, etc is interrupted for concurrent builds, PG could drop the index in the end. I can see how PG keeps it around however, since invalid indexes can be useful for administrators.

However, for application developers - unless you are familiar with the internals, this comes off as a big surprise.

Would love to learn more from folks who are more familiar with the internals.
> not true for any modern MP game

Pretty big claim

> at least a few examples

Reasonable claim

Comfortably doesn't mean everything will be at 60fps, it means that most things will be at 60fps so someone with a 7700k will not be feeling pressure to change their CPU (the entire point of the thread).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41228284
This argument is a poor foundation for legal reasoning. Suppose a guy wants to be a slave? Shouldn’t he have the right to be enslaved? Suppose a guy wants to sell his organs? Shouldn’t he have the right to sell his organs?

Well, no, society is much better off with these things blocked off. There are immensely perverse incentives created.

The main one here is just straight up collusion because there’s not many distributors by nature. It’s dumb as hell that steam takes as much as it does. It’s not helped by clauses about not charging less elsewhere even if the fees are lower which should also be illegal
Humans are NOT an endangered species...
I attached brightly colored ribbons to my keys. Finding the keys now takes far, far less time. I feel stupid not thinking of this decades ago.

I got the idea from reading a survival book, which recommended taping things like the knife with brightly colored tape, so you can find it when you drop it in the leaves. I accidentally threw my keys in the woods when I meant to just throw a stick. It took 3-4 hours of searching to find them, even in a 10x10 area (because it was years of layers of leaves).
I worked in CA housing years ago and they would just call similar rental companies and get comps in order to either maximize rents (in high demand areas) or undercut the competition (in lower demand areas). I believe these practices are still completely legal.
A fun little thought-experiment to inject into these debates is to analyze commute-hours and fuel costs as if they were-wages/expenses that the employer had to pay for.

When corporate RTO-advocates are faced with paying the costs themselves instead of pushing it all onto employees, suddenly it becomes "impractically expensive" and "wasteful".

Hey guys, commutes were always costly and (sometimes) wasteful, if you've finally realized that you can at least stop demanding employees undertake it for dumb reasons.
Show HN: I made Twitter but it's all AI
welcome to the future of social media.

https://github.com/ktyldev/singularity
I think you are right. Sometimes fictitious planets are included in horoscopes, and this is one of the reasons why; some people continue to use it because some people included it in horoscopes in the past. There are others as well, such as the fictitious planets in the Hamburg astrology.

I have also read that apparently some astrologers decided to exclude Pluto from horoscopes because the IAU no longer considers Pluto to be a planet. That isn't a valid reason; Pluto still has coordinates and therefore can still be plotted on a horoscope (fictitious planets (such as Vulcan) also have coordinates although in that case the coordinates are made up rather than being real coordinates). Sun and Moon are not considered planets by IAU but are included on a horoscope too. You might decide to remove Pluto in case you think there are too many planets in the horoscope, but what the IAU says is irrelevant to horoscopes. (The Earth is usually the centre of measurement of a horoscope (although sometimes the Sun is used instead, but this is less common), so it is implicitly included in a horoscope but cannot be one of the objects plotted on it (since the plotting uses angular coordinates, and the object at the centre obviously has no angular coordinates).)
In other news: "NPR: A lot of offices are still empty — and it's becoming a major risk for the economy" (2023)

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1174938708/commercial-real-es...
> Why is there a culture war over this?

Not a culture war. WFH for some orgs was never official, it was always temporary until COVID was over. So unless there is a WFH policy in writing at your org, always assume RTO was inevitable.
I think the RTO policy is in part influenced by economic recovery research funded by the city [0]. My own conjecture is that it’s also influenced by SEPTA (regional transit) ridership recovery being a sticking point for funding from the state.

[0] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri...
As long as people don’t lose sight that the there’s a lot more inflating prices than this, going after collusion and price fixing—including mediating software—is still a worthwhile endeavor.
Index creation can take a very long time for a large database, think hours or god forbid days. Restarting from scratch for an index that takes 18 hours to build is very painful.. doubly so back when concurrent index creation didn't exist.
I empathize with your struggle, but it's a pathetically weak argument against letting Apple continue abusing their position. If your parents are clicking on random email or SMS links, that's an issue outside of your OS security policy. They could be autofilling their credit card details on a malicious site in Safari or iMessaging their SSN to someone with a spoofed CallerID. My parents both use Android and let me tell you, worrying about them activating Developer Mode on their phone is the last thing I go to sleep worried about. In a post-Pegasus world you and I both know there are bigger fish to fry.

Do your parents a favor, talk to them about digital security if you're actually worried about them. Your other choice is to let reductive paranoia consume you until you're only comfortable when their web browser and contacts list is locked in a straitjacket.
It's called vellum and they also use goats, or as you may say, "dead baby goats" as if that added useful information. It happens to be a decent archival material and a lot of very old laws are well preserved. Not cool if you aren't into animal products though.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35569281
> there's little reason other than exceedingly unfounded hope to think it's what will happen.

And this is the point where I think we have to agree to disagree. In both the present real-world case and the theoretical simulated-experience case, we both agree that there are extraordinary power differentials which _could_ allow privileged people to abuse unprivileged people in horrifying and consequence-free ways - and yet, in the real world, we observe that _some_ (certainly not all!) of those abuses are curtailed - whether by political action, or concerted activism, or the economic impacts of customers disliking negative press, or what have you.

I certainly agree with you that the _extent_ of abuses that are possible on a simulated being are orders-of-magnitude higher than those that a billionaire could visit on the average human today. But I don't agree that it's "_exceedingly_ unfounded" to believe that society would develop in such a way as to protect the interests of simulated-beings against abuse in the same way that it (incompletely, but not irrelevantly) protects the interests of the less-privileged today.

(Don't get me wrong - I think the balance of probability and risk is such that I'd be _extremely_ wary of such a situation, it's putting a lot of faith in society to keep protecting "me". I am just disagreeing with your evaluation of the likelihood - I think it's _probably_ true that, say, an effective "Simulated Beings' Rights" Movement would arise, whereas you seem to believe that that's nigh-impossible)
is there a thesis in here somewhere? I couldn't even figure out the referent of the titular river of meat conceit.
I’d like to add something else to that list - the connectedness you feel in a community: the neighbors you grab beer with and help out in a pinch; the cashiers you get to know over time; the people at the after hours sports team or hobbyist community you get to know. Move to a different city (or even across town!) and that takes time to rebuild.

It’s why I nearly considered an academic career and decided against it - having to constantly move for grad school, then post doc positions, onwards and onwards regularly never appealed to me.
Belonging to a church often has perks, yet we don't consider offerings purchases. I do think some Patreons are setup closer to a shops, but not all.
Do you think Federal and state AGs already know and have proof of those systems, or would it help to drop a dime at this point?
Correlation does not imply causation.

I'm being a little cagey because I don't like to generalize in public forums.

In this case, what I'd say is that Ivy League schools both recruit and attract certain people.

> The schools absolutely are gatekeepers.

To put weight behind that statement, we'd need to somehow believe that someone who can attend an ivy league school, when attending a less prestigious school, is substantially less likely to find VC money.

I personally believe that such a person is attracted to an ivy league school, such that I would argue that someone who is likely to raise VC money is more likely to attend an ivy league school. It's not that the schools are the gatekeepers, it's that if they change their admittance criteria, the "minds that think alike" will attend other schools, and then those other schools will get a reputation for their grads gobbling up most of the VC.

IE, a certain kind of person is likely to raise VC, and that certain kind of person is likely to attend an ivy league school: Correlation does not imply causation.
Is it really bringing 5 screens? Most of the apps I've seen tend to be gimicky apps that I wouldn't commit to a single screen. Some of which I wouldn't even have maximized to access via Cmd+Tab. Even if they're all useful, most users typically never use beyond 2-3 screens, and you typically don't look at more than 2 via AR anyways. Instead of virtual desktops, you put apps in spaces where you have to redirect your attention.
Sorry yeah, I muddled with the definitions a bit, this is focused on binding affinity data. Afaict, the primary source for such data is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDBbind_database, which is quite small
The original copies of the magna carter, all written on sheepskin, are still intact and legible after eight centuries.

In contrast, the hardbound, acid-free, books from my undergraduate days are falling apart.
My magic 8-ball says: Doubtful

Considering how long Apple supports its other products, I'd take a chance on Vision Pro before a Google product. My nine-year-old iPhone 6S got a software update a couple of weeks ago.

Still, before I'd drop that kind of money on a device, I'd like to see an Apple Graveyard website, like the Google Graveyard site, to reassure myself.
The cheapest Tesla Cybertruck is $99,990; promised $60K model canceled
Answer - yes it can.

Pair over TCP like normal, connect to it, then follow the README.

```
adb pair xxx:xxx

adb connect yyy:yyy

adb devices

mkdir -p testhere

./adbfs testhere

ls testhere
```
You've got to quote those quotes
Yes, I had a typo.

As for why I said metric, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_tensor. Which is technically a concept from differential geometry rather than linear algebra. But then again, tensors are literally the topic that started this. And it is only in differential geometry that I've ever cared about mapping from V to V*.
First Human Spaceflight to Fly over Earth's Polar Regions
That immediately brings up the next question: Why are transactions not composable?
we'll have AGI whenever people decide that AI is smart enough to save them money over competent people in a broad scale fashion...whether that happens before AI understands the tax code is a rates problem.
There are two different issues. One is a lack of housing that drives up rent. The other is collusion to artificially increase rents. In places with severe housing issues like CA, both of these are huge issues and both should be addressed aggressively.
Ok, so that sounds like Apple muscled banks out of their swipe fees.
Ignoring everything but the outer transaction would be technically correct - wonder why it isn't supported?
I see no reason why a cartel should be legal just because it's managed by software.

That said, SF's sky high rents are largely due to decades of anti-growth policies that have prevented building enough housing to meet demand.
Do what is the recovery/restart process for a partially created index?

And how do you clean up after an aborted index build?
You can use reindex to rebuild an invalid index. But many prefer to just drop it and try again (like the author does). I'm sure there are scenarios where reindex is a much better option so not a bug (maybe a bad default).
Hey Shayon. IF NOT EXISTS or the Active Record version "if_not_exists: true" can be pretty handy though when there's a valid index in production, to help drive schema definition consistency in all environments (prod, dev, CI, etc.). As you pointed out though, it only makes sense when the indexes being checked are valid.

In my experience on large tables that are “busy”, sometimes indexes need to be added manually first from a utility session, perhaps inside tmux/screen that's detached from while they are created. This could take hours for large tables. Then once done, and the index is valid, an Active Record migration can be sent out using “if_not_exists: true” to make sure it’s applied everywhere.

Your point that it could be misused unintentionally due to not knowing an index is INVALID is a good one, and I feel it should be part of how it works by default in Active Record. Had you considered trying to propose that to rails/rails? I would certainly support that PR (may be able to collaborate) and could add more examples and validation.
You are aware that you cannot purchase ebooks through the Amazon apps on Android, right?

What you say may be true today, but tomorrow is unknown territory as far as these sorts of agreements go.
Fica is ~15% on gross and get paid both ways, when you earn and then double dipped as tax on labor you hire.

So that's about 30% gone right there for engaging in labor trade before you even consider income tax
I saw response from LoRa organization in another article. They use the ISM allocation.

That is also amateur radio band and their organization, ARRL, will probably be involved.

There are products, like ZWave, that are in band and might protest. The short-range in-house probably won't interfere with the outside users.
Given enough time and resources, you'd be right, this would be sufficient. But remember the beginning of the movie - they explicitly stated that every year fewer crops could be harvested, which meant that most people had to work in food production, no matter what they did before. It was also stated that the population wouldn't accept spending going to interplanetary exploration instead of food production - they'd rather survive a little longer than to try and fulfill an impossible goal, or just to have a couple of people survive on ships/stations for a couple years longer, without any hope for long-term survival.

Under these circumstances (only a couple years left until starvation begins & no existing industry) it seems absolutely realistic that the government is able to throw together one hailmary in secret, without also being able to scale production up to save most people before they starve. Remember, the goal of the mission wasn't to measure the data they need to finish their equations, it was to send out one single ship that could continue human civilization on an inhabitable planet.

Had the future humans not intervened (by placing the black hole near inhabitable planets), humanity on earth would have died.
I think they're both pretty handwavy. In my opinion, both diagnose the problem correctly (we consume too much), but both lack actionable advice beyond that.

I don't think I've experienced many quick dismissals. Here's some of the conversations around personal responsibility I've personally experienced:

- reduce reuse recycle (this was drilled into my head at a young age)

- plastic vs paper vs reusable supermarket bags (pretty trivial)

- plastic vs paper straws (infuriatingly banal)

- EVs vs ICE vehicles (currently the only viable options are luxury cars, cutting a whole segment of the population out of the market)

- reduce meat consumption (as unpopular as it is effective)

- do not have children (extreme, extremely polarizing)

- reduce air travel (easy in theory, I just really like travel)
Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants “categorically” unconstitutional
Not exactly diet but maybe earthing/grounding could help.
Because, like you said, the issues are recent.
> Someone should get the FTC or EU involved.

I agree, but I also wonder why Patreon needs an iOS app.

It's 2024, you don't need an app for everything. See OnlyFans, they're doing fine even without being able to access the proprietary stores.
An interactive article:

https://mlu-explain.github.io/neural-networks/
Comparing almost any corporate structure to IKEA is like comparing a children's alphabet book to the tower of babel. IKEA is a non profit owned by for profits partially owned by non-profits owned by dutch companies that license IP from Irish companies (who license it from IoS (IKEA of Sweden) in a small Swedish village called älmhult) owned by non-physical, non-personal entities that are "legal residents in Switzerland" that might or might not be controlled by certain people named Kamprad (in non-exclusive partnerships with other interested parties that might be controlled by companies owned by said dutch companies). And after that we have the whole ROIG, INKGA, etc. structures.
They did warn it was modeled after Twitter.
I think the rule (at least while Moore's law was in force), was UIs start out boated but become fast as the hardware catches up. For instance, your example:

> Mac OS 9 felt pretty darned fast on my 400Mhz iMac G3 back in 2000.

You were using a UI that (at its core) was built for 1984 machine, with sixteen additional years of hardware performance improvements.

Every once in a while I boot up a Mac from 1989, and Mac OS is definitely not snappy on it.

I think if you want speed, you need to find something built for a system far more constrained than the one you're actually using. The choices the developers made to make the system merely usable under those constraints will make it fast once they're removed.
The decision to work extra in order to pay to outsource a task vs doing it yourself (as was framed above) is exactly the type of economic decision where the full marginal tax rate applies.
Suppose camera A has line L_A on the camera. A’s optics and marks are both on L_A, so A’s image plane contains L_A and camera B’s image plane also contains L_A (you know the latter because you’ve aligned the cameras so camera B sees L_A). And vice versa: camera A sees L_B. In 3D Euclidean space, two distinct lines define a plane, and both camera’s are photographing planes that contain L_A and L_B, so both cameras are photographing the same plane.

More concretely, if the cameras are photographing along different but parallel planes, then they won’t see each other.
Don’t forget the bureaucratic morass and red tape intended to make construction on one’s own land as difficult as possible in California cities.
My problem is some libraries which never transitioned from 2 to 3. I don't want to try to convert them, particularly as they involve Unicode which is one of the hardest bits to get right in my experience.