jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My gf just pointed out the potential danger of heating plastics. I googled, and found this:
http://camping.about.com/od/campingrecipes/a/ziplocbaggies.h...
They call it Silicon Beach here: http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/

There are Open Coffee events, Drinks every fridays, some events every now and then (not enough in my opinion)

Lots of world-class startups were born in Australia (Remember the milk and 99designs come to my mind), you might be the next one :)

Places to live: Coogee, Manly or Bondi! (beach lifestyle, 25 to 45 minutes from the center of Sydney)

If someone else from Sydney is on HN, please say hello :)
It seems that they are currently dismantling the restrictions for the already-affected users (since that the licence is specifically only for Iran, not other embargoed countries like Syria). Probably they can submit a request that points out to the post to expedite this.

(Now the next challenge is how to get GitHub paid services. As I understand they can now have full services - except that probably no payment processor that handles Iran.)
Even if Severian has become a better man by the end of the BotNS, in the coda to the sequence The Urth of the New Sun he is still keen on bedding the women he comes across. From reviews and fora discussions, it is this constant interest of the male protagonist in casual sex that has turned off many female readers. Sure, the encounters are now consensual, but Severian remains a horndog, and it leads those readers to assume that Wolfe was indulging in puerile fantasies.

Compare the similar "eww" reaction to Larry Niven's The Ringworld Throne where the author kept describing the characters' casual sex with the locals of the places they passed through.
> Getting volume buying commitments for an already working design rather than speculative "investing."

This still happens in KS and IGG both. I have seen a number of rather interesting backpacks from companies we never heard of. Also, I had multiple successful deliveries from Chinese companies who see IGG as a great jumping board towards the international markets.
... and to make matters even worse the solutions being marketed for fixing a lot of these problems are... MORE ACCESS POINTS!

Every time a friend tells me about getting a mesh system to cover dead zones in their place I cringe at the thought of more 2.4 GHz blasting everywhere. 99% of the time the problem can be solved by better placing their current access point, whether that means moving their ISP provided router/AP, or installing a standalone AP and disabling whatever they're currently using for WiFi.

I don't really know the answer to fixing the issues but it seems to me it's not technical, it's better information about placing the devices. End users just want it to work but don't have the time to learn how to best do that. ISP installers are not incentivized to care either, install as cheap and quickly as possible and get out.

Mesh definitely isn't the answer though. It's the anti-answer.
There's another aspect of it that the author doesn't address, which is that for a lot of people working on these problems, they're also looking for a way to pay their bills.

> The signature move of the morally incompetent is to be told about existing solutions that they were previously unaware of and then soldier on without any critical examination of any added value they're providing. Others working on the problem are ignored entirely or seen as a threat to their own solution.

If a person isn't already rich, then they're often balancing doing good for others with making at least enough money that they don't have to work a side job. In that sense, others working on the same problem absolutely are a threat to one's livelihood. Being aware that helping others can sometimes be in conflict with helping oneself and figuring out how to resolve those conflicts in a way that doesn't reduce one's effectiveness in helping others is important, but it seems to me that not working to help other people who have different approaches to the problem might not necessarily be an ethical failure but rather an economic one. Working with someone else and doing it their way might not be an option if there isn't a viable route to funding ones' own work.

On the other hand, I do agree that humility is valuable. If you're in it mostly to feel good about yourself rather than to do the most good even if it isn't personally rewarding, then the end results might not be as good as they would be otherwise. But then I'd rather have more people trying to help others even for bad reasons than not trying at all.
The idea: Avoid the dreaded shoulder-tap more often by documenting your team’s most common “how to” guides in one place. Even better - convert any “how to” guide into a personal checklist that you can use to track your progress.

I like to think of “how to” guides like recipes for how to do something specific to your team. This site helps you create and organize them.

Background: I’m a software engineer, and more recently a software engineering manager at one of the FAANG companies (I’m not mentioning which one just to retain a tiny bit of anonymity). My point, though, is that even at huge established companies, having one place to share your team’s “how to” guides isn’t easy. My company has a huge internal wiki. It’s awful. Search sucks, and it’s like the Wild Wild West — no structure at all.

Some teams/companies try to solve this with “Knowledge Base” software, but I think what we need is a little simpler. Knowledge Bases are great for things like general information, strategy docs, and collaborative efforts… but not so much for straight-forward how-to guides (AKA SOPs or checklists).

At my current and all of my previous companies, we’ve always struggled with how and where to document our how-to guides/SOPs/checklists or whatever you want to call them. This grew out of my own need and I’m hoping to make something of it if other people find it useful too.

What I’d love feedback on:

1. Does the idea resonate? Does it apply to you and your team?

2. Does the messaging on the site make that clear?

3. I know it’s still pretty basic, but does it provide enough value right now to be considered an MVP that people might pay for?

4. What did you like?

5. What’s missing?
Funny. I wanted to try this so I just ran the docker image and it worked. Time spent: 2 mins.

docker run -p 8888:8888 jupyter/scipy-notebook
I'm curious... how is it possible for mall/retail employees to work there but not engineering teams?
Right — and that's what baffles me. If you want people to adopt your language, you certainly want to have your documentation of the very first step be complete and up-to-date. Thank you for making sure that is the case with Nim.
"Fast is slow, slow is steady, steady is fast"

Categorizing the good technique as "be stupid" is a gross mischaracterization. Be smart: make sure you have a solid understanding of what's going on before diving in. The issues being described here are a result of charging in headfirst into things without thinking things through.
>Keep teflon coated material to low temperatures

How exactly do you cook with it then?
I've had good experiences with Plex for local media. And anything you can put in a Chrome tab you can cast to the device.
So every job where you deal with people should resort to this method of payment? Sure, that is a great idea. I look forward to tipping my supermarket clerk, the post office guy, the delivery guy, the bus driver.

Japan has the right idea.
>> some people just never tip, but they're a tiny group

In my experience, they're not tiny. I'm a young male who owned and worked in my own bar in a poor area of the bible belt, so there's those caveats--but I averaged about 8% in tips over 2.5 years.

My niece, on the other hand, averages over 20%.

My service was in all likelihood better than hers--at the time, we had fewer customers and therefore I was literally able to do more. Further, I'm well-liked by my customer base, and by my own measure I was an excellent bartender.

Anyway, I had a very large amount of customers who did not tip. I'd say > 30%.
Who are you an enemy of? Who is doing it to you, and why?
> I'm not convinced that people would pay extra even if they didn't have to tip to a company that paid a living wage but charged more.

Probably could be a really interesting research topic but Uber comes to mind as part of the reason I loved it at the beginning was the lack of tipping.
It's not quite that simple, but I think this is a good explanation: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/ConfiguringNTP#Secti.... (TL;DR: don't worry about it).
I suppose using haskell-src-exts is cheating...
Local channels should be easy to get with an OTA antenna. If you live far away, you might have to put one on your roof. If you live within city limits, a simple wall-mounted, newer, "rabbit ears" style antenna should be plenty.
I don't use products that inconvenience me when there are other options available that provide superior experience.
Love how the author leads with

"NOTE: LITERALLY ZERO OF THIS IS FINANCIAL ADVICE!!! DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!!!"

And yet, I still read it.
> Both in terms of power (hardware & software) and in clout.

I'd also add their "bravery", similar to dropping the 3.5mm jack.
OT/meta: Sometimes on very new comments you have to click the timestamp in order to actually reply. I believe it's in order to prevent (rather, somewhat slow down) flame war threads.
> You'd rack a server or two, install Linux, stick the application in /usr/local/bin, make sure Apache was set up, and you were off and running. Simple enough.

That sounds incredibly complex! :) Where would you find a place to rack a server? Are there minimum rates for such a place, or can you rack a single server for one month? Would you be able to rack it yourself? What if there was some problem with the PSU, and the server lost power when the data center was fine? What if the network card failed? What about if a hard drive in the server blew out?

Cloud infra in 2021 infrastructure has pretty turnkey answers to all of those (Kubernetes is not one for any of the ones I mentioned, except maybe for “what happens when any node goes down“). So yes, the complexity might be high, but so are the capabilities.

I mean, maybe you are running a mom-and-pop shop with a server rack in the basement for some reason, and have pretty daytime-specific hours. That's fine, and I still think you can do the server rack thing. Or at least that's the way I see it.

Perhaps one piece of meta-commentary here is that server hardware has not become substantially cheaper, faster, smaller, and easier to set up since 20 years ago. I can't really set up a server in my small bedroom that's capable of serving 10k concurrent users, and doesn't deafen me with its noise. Maybe if I did, all this cloud stuff might be less ubiquitous?
>> the spike in our murder rate is more likely the product of something else entirely: political instability.

The murder rate was declining both long term and in recent years, here is the annual homicide rate per 100,000 for the Trump years:

2016 5.4

2017 5.3

2018 5.0

2019 5.0

And in 2020, the rate was flat at the beginning of the year, even through the initial Covid lockdown. It only started spiking in June. And not just a spike, likely the largest increase in the homicide rate in US history.

The author, by ruling out the protests as a cause of the increase in the number of people murdered, seems to make the implicit claim that protests can't cause political instability, that they can't decrease trust in government or "People’s faith in political institutions". But no evidence is presented for this implicit claim.

There was so much focus on police killings last year that it seems to have cause people to be misinformed. In one survey, 44% of liberals and 20% of conservatives estimated the number of unarmed blacks killed each year by police to be over 1,000. That's two orders of magnitude higher than the actual number. How can that not have an effect on people's views of "the legitimacy of political institutions"?

In any event, if you are going to make the case that "x" caused the massive recent spike in murder, you need to explain why "x" had an unprecedented spike starting in June of last year.
Anyone know of similar libraries in JavaScript?

It's difficult to search for HTML diff libraries these days because all the hits are vdom like things, instead of diffing HTML text for development / testing.
This list leaves off the most important thing -- emergency fund. You should have enough to cover expenses for a sudden loss of employment (3 months is usually recommended, but in this climate I wouldn't feel comfortable with anything less than 6). And esp. if you own a home, you need enough to cover things that pop up without depleting your emergency fund too much. For example I had to spend 9k recently to have a sewer line replaced in the yard.

Yes, you have better return on investments if you pay off that 20% interest credit card. But if you become unemployed, it is better to be able to have that fund so you can keep your house and the lights on.
> 35.5% virtual NBA trading cards

If somebody told me they have a third of their assets in virtual trading cards I would either guess that their net worth is max $1000 or conclude they are completely nuts and won't take this person seriously.
> Everyone who rear ended the car in front of them was an idiot.

I find this comment baseless and insensitive to those that were killed. The Texas accident was attributed to a failure of road ice management. Bystander video clearly shows vehicles attempting to stop sliding for hundreds of yards on ice.
The article is referring to all the myriad other things an SPA will bring in. Analytics, feedback components, interactive galleries, notification components, header components... you can sew a site together from SaaS components that all live in different domains.

Well... you could. Harder now.

From the article:

> So are SPAs dead? Well – SPAs as in the UI/UX concept certainly not. SPAs as in “browser-based standalone applications that do cross-site authentication and API calls in the context of a modern identity and SSO architectures” – yes.
Full analysis here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/49752018
Yup, you do it via type policies in v3

https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/caching/advanced-to...
Ah thanks! This is new to me. That is indeed a concern, but probably can be worked around, e.g. by proxying requests to third party domains through the same Domain.
> Hyperacusis

I didn't know this was associated with ADHD but have struggled with this my whole life. Is there anything at all that can be done about this? If I go to a concert or sometimes even just riding a motorcycle, earplugs are not quite enough
The source is my sister's practical and local experience. the Private Eye podcast covered LTN's recently in some detail also

https://soundcloud.com/privateeyenews/page-94-the-private-ey...

15 minutes in
The problem is more or less solved - see Nix.

It'll take some decades for the ideas to percolate, but language-specific package managers are definitely not the future.
Tho, you don't compare it to the absolute number of units sold, but to the typical engagement in the support forum. How many people would even make the connection between Airpods and tinnitus? Same with the dead M1 macbooks and USB-C hubs. I agree the "600" isn't exactly science, but your argument isn't either.
Totally. Zig is neither a better C nor a better C++, but an entirely new (and better, IMO) concept for how low-level programming can and should be done. Zig is about as simple as C and as expressive and powerful as C++, but it doesn't follow either's design tradition (unlike Rust, which is very much in the C++ tradition), and should only be compared to either one by virtue of all three being low-level languages.
I asked the same question and then I bought a new monitor...

My kvm, is in my monitor, a Dell U3419w.

One usb-c connection from my monitor charges / powers the laptop and provides usb connections to all my input devices, other devices, video, and etc.

Just one cable and I'm up and running.

My desktop is also connected to the monitor (display port and another usb connection) and I can switch back and forth as I need to. No cable moving or anything like that.
Let v be a vertex in a N-dimensional hypercube. Assume it's colored C. It has N neighbors, which must be colored ~C if we're using 2 colors.

If you change v to ~C, v now has N neighbors with the same color. This improves on the √N you're giving.

What did I misunderstand?
One of most interesting facets of this to me is that China have created multiple zoonotic diseases in the last few years and caused serious loss of life and economic damage and no one seems to want to say anything!?
What do you mean?

> Specifically vegetable seed oil, like sunflower oil or canola oil.

Please be more specific, my understanding is there is no easy X is harmful in nutrition. Your example vegetable seed oil:

Refined sunflower oil at high temperatures --> bad
Cold pressed sunflower oil --> ok (great source of Vitamin E, but too much omega 6 compared to 3)
Cold pressed linseed oil --> good

> The other thing I'm very skeptical of now is milk replacements, like oat milk.

Could you elaborate? You can make oat milk easily at home. Let oat flakes soak in cold water over night, blend, sift, done. Go fancy and add a drop of rapeseed oil (will work as a natural emulsifier) and a pinch of salt.
A great engineer and hacker. I've recorded (bass) through his circuits numerous times over the decades.

I don't know if it was his idea or not but I always loved the Portico 5042 tape emulator. Want the sound of tape? Then run the signal through some tape heads. A proper "hack".
You hit the nail right on the head there.
K Thx - won't happen again
And they have the nerve to call their IM extension "SIMPLE".

It also shocks me how prevalent SIP is for arbitrary lookups in telcoland. More than one switch uses a SIP call to find number portability info. So they involve at least 3 SIP messages, each hundreds of bytes long, complete with a full SIP transaction state, burning up call resources on their switch, to essentially send and receive 10 bytes.

The amount of stupidity in telecom is mind-boggling. I take solace in hearing that other industries are just as bad, but I don't see them so they just appear to be OK.
Personally, I was quite interested in it, I spent 10 minutes reading it before I realised how long the article was. Clearly others are interested too, as it's on HN. But who actually read it all the way through? Did you?
MongoDB + Parse Server.

MongoDB does the storage. Parse Server handles the tables, structure, communication with the app. Perfect for CRUD. Fast to start, no serious issues with scaling.

Plugging an article I wrote on how to get Parse Server up: https://medium.com/@smuzani/setting-up-a-mobile-backend-serv...
Neural networks followed a typical hype cycle — before they were ignored they were the next big thing.

Then they got ignored, and then they finally got useful.
It is a nightmare if positive change does not come about. You're stuck in pain for as long as you refuse to bring others pain.
China is the largest producer of potatoes in the world, accounting for 26% of the world total.

According to this, only Alaska is currently allowed to sell fresh potatoes to China. https://www.potatopro.com/news/2019/united-states-potato-ind...
It's a really deep problem actually! Doing y then x is better but it's far from "optimal".

These parallel programming course notes have an example of using z-order curves which is slightly better yet: http://ppc.cs.aalto.fi/ch2/v7/

And the best solution requires something like Halide https://halide-lang.org/ to find the best traversal order.
Oh sorry. We have developed a custom DNS solution that sites in front of unbound. We only use unbound for standard recursion and caching, all custom configuration management is operated in this home made DNS proxy.

For trackers to use DoH, they could certainly perform XHR requests to resolve a domain, but they won't be able to use it to perform a request from the browser. You may use http://<ip> instead of http://<domain>, but this has two issues:

1. You won't be able to use virtual hosting (the Host header is gone), and thus you need one IP per "service", which is doable but harder, more custom and more expensive.

2. You won't be able to use HTTPS, except with an expensive certificate that is somewhat harder to setup.

As most websites are HTTPS now, a non HTTPS tracker would rase mixed content errors. Not to mention that this IP would quickly be blocked by browser based ad blockers, and IPs are harder than domains to change.

And all this is doable without DoH, you just embed the IP the ad library embedded by the site.
So why should we repeat ?
I mostly agree with you but "work ethics" is also partially genetic. It's defined partly by a big five trait called conscientiousness which has a fair percentage of its effects not explainable by the environment or random chance.
The wirecutter did an article [1] on VPNs and recommended tunnelbear. I’m not sure who to trust but I’m going to at least give it a re-read

[1] https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-vpn-service/
> So, according to the CDC … only n95 or better are worth pursuing.

Current CDC guidance is “facemasks are an acceptable alternative when the supply chain of respirators cannot meet the demand”.¹

¹ https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/infection-control/...
I've had a Peak Design backpack for about a year now. Best money I've spent on a backpack yet.
In graphics terms when someone says 'realtime' they usually are referring to the performance of the algorithm, not whether or not there's a delay. Lots of video games have input delays of 100ms or more.

The framerate is pretty bad, though. I wonder why - I was under the impression the Kinect captures at 30fps.
After reading this I start to really feel why we don't like 'security by obscurity'...
If they don't respond quick enough mutually assured destruction quickly becomes America only destruction. No doubt any all out attack would quickly aim to incapacitate the other sides ability to respond.
I'd like to see the point & shoot camera companies start integrating complete Android phones into their point & shoot cameras.
excellent writeup, great perspectives -- thanks for sharing!

> They did seem to be a bit dismissive about the product (as in “why would I use this, I already have bookmarks in my browser”), but I’m sure that’s just standard procedure in this sort of interviews.

i'm curious what others' experiences are on this front?
How exactly has free trade benefitted the majority of the population of the U.S. again?

I see the microeconomic benefits to individual companies: lower costs equals higher margins. Lower prices? You, mister CEO, are fired! Every econ freshman knows to calculate marginal profit times units sold to find the best price in terms of total profit, and the cost of the inputs often has little to do with it, except when elasticity of demand is very high. By and large, you charge what the market will bear, and pass the savings along to the shareowners (and the board and execs, of course)

Having every company outsource and import destroys "the commons" of a nation. Regardless of which other nation the money is going to.
Never shut up and be satisfied while you are not fulfilled. Keep your job for now, save some of that money, and spend a portion of your non-work time thinking and exploring what you would like to do with your professional life. By the time you've figured it out, you may have saved enough money to make it happen. Possible things based on what you've written above...

* Mathematics

* Doing something totally different in the software world

* Something else ;-)