skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dev tools to fix sites during one off visits and Stylus for regular visits. Stylus is an absolutely essential add-on for me in recent years.

It's useless trying to convince the world to have sane, readable text size and contrast on desktop. Firefox reader view doesn't work well with interactive pages.
depends on what you're used to. as a C++ dev, i find rust's syntax quite pleasing. it's not too different than what i'm used to, but a lot of the ugliest parts of C syntax have been improved. the only bad example that comes to mind is the lifetime specifier (what i think you are alluding to with the apostrophe).
What little experience I've had with cocaine just left me with the impression that it's like caffeine turned up to 11.

This changed my views on both caffeine and cocaine.

I now see caffeine and caffeinated beverages as more problematic, habbit-forming stimulants which I avoid consuming far more than prior to the "my newly rich friends discovered cocaine" phase. And cocaine as a largely overhyped, relatively benign (for an illegal drug with such a reputation) but habit-forming substance made desirable by the media, and expensive by scarcity the war on drugs creates.

They're more similar than they are different, and it seems absurd to me that one is legal while the other isn't.
Could someone explain to me why would I choose this over https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module ? It supports LuaJIT and while I suppose it is possible to write faster C code by hand than JIT translated Lua it'd be hard and I'd fear the maintainability of hand optimized C code.
Here on the east coast, I use it as my main form of payment. Fast food, grocery stores, gas stations sometimes. I don't carry a wallet anymore, just a sleeve on my phone case for my driver's license.
Comment thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724096
It's all fiat money anyway.
So is alcohol. As with most things the amount of harm likely depends on amount used.

The problem with cocaine (in my limited experience) is people take a bit, want more, and wind up binging. And quite often it turns into a habitual thing which does affect both health and wallet.

Cocaine (insufflated, injection and smoking are different cases) doesn't have to be used like this just as a person can have a beer or two now and again without great harm or danger. However people often lack control once they get started with it. Some people are like this with alcohol, habituation and binging and generally out of control behavior once they have a little.

I'm not a doctor, I don't know the harm levels at low dosage infrequent use, but I personally doubt a small bump or two a few times a year is really that harmful or dangerous.

The problem is, given access, dosage doesn't usually stay low nor infrequent. I haven't been around cocaine in years, decades really, but I have seen some sad stories and it is best stayed away from in my opinion. However it's not quite as bad as some people believe, and I have seen people who used it in a way I would consider responsible.
The Worst Job in Tech: Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It Off Facebook
Allegations of overpriced repair charges at Apple Store [video]
Great questions !

> How much [dark matter] [is] in the solar system ?

A lot, because the solar system is a huge volume and dark-matter fills it fairly uniformly (there is a small overdensity inside the sun, and the planets will also cause small departures from essential uniformity).

However, it's extremely sparse, so there isn't much in any small fraction of the solar system.

Compare that with the planets: they are extremely dense, but do not fill more than the tiniest fraction of the whole volume of the solar system. However, even so, even Phobos and Deimos have much more mass than all the dark matter inside Mars's orbit (see a couple paragraphs below).

~ one third of a million proton-masses for every cubic metre

~ 6 * 10^-22 kg for every cubic metre (Earth's density is 524 kg/m^3)

~ 0.65 kg / earth volume

http://cdms.berkeley.edu/Education/DMpages/FAQ/question36.ht...

Of course the total mass scales with volume.

Inside Neptune's orbit there is about 10^17 kg of dark matter; that's about ten Phobos-masses, or about the mass of 253 Mathilde (a carbonaceous intermediate-belt asteroid).

The volume of the galaxy is enormous, and with dark mater filling all of it roughly uniformly, the mass of all the visible matter is dwarfed -- there is an awful lot of space between star systems.

> somehow observable

It's not moving anywhere close to relativistically compared to the Earth's surface, and it doesn't feel electromagnetism. If we compare two other neutral particles, we have no practical ability to detect non-relativistic neutrinos (we can only spot a microscopic fraction of relativistic neutrinos from known sources) and have trouble spotting thermal neutrons (again, we generally need a known source that is "loud" with them, and additionally the collision momenta will still be larger than most collisions with solar system dark matter -- neutrons spit out of nuclear reactions are much faster than Earth's orbital motion through the extremely sparse dark matter the inner solar system sweeps through, and neutron beams used experimentally are generally a lot denser than ~ 3 neutron-masses per cubic centimetre).
Maybe if you get pure acetone like a lab would. The acetone I've had experience using from auto parts and hardware stores definitely leaves streaks on glass and clothes smelling of chemicals.
Most of what he was going to leak can already be inferred, I would say.

Saudi will continue to be despotic until the political winds shift and they are suddenly cut off, if ever.
Is small court claim not an option in US?
I think it's wishful thinking. Everybody WANTS it to be the next iPhone, because the iPhone was wildly successful. That level of investing acumen unfortunately amounts to not much more than noticing that the iPhone happened. Like I noticed the Beatles happened, but saying my band is the next Beatles doesn't make it so. The iPhone and the Beatles were both products of very unique circumstances including a lot of plain random luck.
Why are more and more Egyptians committing suicide?
Or maybe I've just been lucky.

Well, it’s not just you. I didn’t want to act like I know what I’m talking about, given that I’m eight months into my only “real” embedded job (I’ve previously consulted on projects, but they didn’t let me near the low-level stuff.) The only difference in our situations is that our remote solution (GoToMyPc, no VPN) sucks. :-)
Users with insecure browsers are subjecting themselves to security vulnerabilities, not me. In this case, the service just wouldn’t work for them. Not overly worried about those users because they represent a diminishingly small portion of our user base.
>Fraud is a cost of credit cards, not a benefit. Even with "protection" it's an ordeal when it happens

wait what? making one phone call (5-10 min) is hardly an ordeal, and is better than the cash alternative - losing a couple hundred dollars

>Or even if you do have the money, wait until first time you forget to make a payment and all the supposed financial benefits of credit cards instantly evaporate into a late fee and 15+% APR.

this is a non-issue for me because I already have multiple bills I have to remember to pay, so adding a few credit cards to that routine is trivial
You are a nice person.
I have blue blocking glasses (by Cyxus) and Face ID works fine with them on or off.
Thank you :) No, it's still too much in alpha stage.

I will not describe my algorithms, but still, I don't use overhyped neural networks (which are not well designed for true NLU) instead I use a normal program like opencog which allow top-down inferences.
I'd recommend "Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World," for those who enjoy cyberpunk fiction.
I was hoping for something new BGP related.
Samaritan City seems like an interesting concept, but as a Seattlite I have never heard of them, and they appear to be app only, which makes me question what they're actually doing.

The website talks a good game, right up until the point that you look at the claimed partner list. I tried to find a couple of the supposed partners linking themselves with Samaritan City in any way, but AFAIK there is no public announcement I can find from King County Metro and other partners mentioning this outfit.

To add to that, it appears money donated is easily locked away from those you supposedly donated to (with mandatory 30 day check-ins), and it can only be spent at select partners. The straightjacket on permitted places to spend donations is similar to EBT, but even more restrictive as you seemingly can't use this anywhere besides at mega-chain markets and restaurants.

I don't give Mutual Aid to exclusively support chains & mega-corps, this business practice of only allowing purchases at select partners is very scummy, and hurts the value of the supposed support donors are attempting to provide via Samaritan City.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/homeless-...
I'm not sure of the actual statistics, but it's good to brainstorm the financial game theory of being a founder or top employee.

If most startups die within 2-3 years, then you would probably want to find ways to make as much salary and positive rep off the venture as you can.
I will read this pdf and bing some articles about "total public funding" and see what I believe.

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/B...
My github profile has gotten me more jobs than I can count. The biggest things to solve for getting hired are:

1. Finding good employers/clients (meaning are they actually good people, good culture, respectful, professional, etc).

2. Marketing yourself.

Yes, you're still going to have to do those coding challenges and such, because companies want to have a standardized way to approach hiring in order to evaluate all applicants the same way. And even though that's a fool's errand, it's still more palatable than a brazenly subjective "gut feeling" hiring process.

Your OSS projects are there as conversation pieces, for talking about how you discover, define, and approach projects. They want to know one thing: Will they gain a competitive advantage by hiring you? Demonstrate the skills they value the most, and the answer to that question will more often than not come out "yes". Or go one better: Seek out companies that value the same skills you do. Research and interview THEM. Hiring goes both ways.
As somebody who is a landlord, albeit far from the bay area, I've never seen any tenant that expected the security deposit back. Usually, they break the lease before the lease terms are up, and want to have the security deposit applied as last month's rent. I've had nondestructive tenants and am a generally over-nice guy, so I usually go with it...
Oh no they have bad slogans, let's bomb them to hell, perfectly justified. It's the Middle East, where those sorts of opinions are pretty common. Saudis hate Shiites but other than that what exactly were the Houthis capable of doing to justify essentially destroying the entire country.
And what you will find by reading Thomas’s HN or twitter feed is that he’s often opinionated yet rarely wrong.
Funny enough Firefox still doesn't allow modifying scrollbar css.
Huh. I always thought bump had turned into the Android feature called "nearby". Had no idea Google photos was what came out of the bump acquisition.
Their customers do though.
Ask HN: AWS vs. AZURE vs. G-CLOUD for an A.I/ML Type Application
Wanted to get HNs opinion - Who’s platform and stack do you like the best for AI applications?
Yes, you're right, I think I described the one end of the spectrum where you have someone that chose to move into a management role because they never were that good at the hands on work, and on the other end of the spectrum, you have the brilliant genius hackers that think going into management will help them advance their career, not realizing that the skills that make them 10x engineers are not going to help them even be a 0.5x manager.
I'm not an apple user, but isn't this essentially solved by airdrop? Or do people not actually use that?
> Fact is you cannot use these sites realistically without these algorithms.

I don't rely on recommendation systems or past activity. I search specifically for what I want and find it without difficultly. I don't need to be told what I want. I don't see the value in being babysat or shepherded by an algorithm.

To quote Alexis de Tocqueville from his book Democracy in America (a bit out of context):

"What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?"

He was talking about the government. But in a world of massive and pervasive corporate surveillance and in a world of advertising more finely tuned to manipulation, I think we can also apply the quote to the likes of Google and Amazon.
Chromebooks are a good value if you are buying new, but a 3 or 4 year old Thinkpad is usually what I target when upgrading. Replace the battery, upgrade the screen to a 1080p or 3k panel and you have a decent, durable machine for $250 or less.
Apple isn’t a security focused company though, its a consumer goods company where ease of use trumps most other things. With that in mind, biometric posing as security is great for their bottom line. Security or privacy is sometimes a nice byproduct of how they want to market devices.
sigh

If you drop some neutrons on the ground, they will go through the ground some short distance until they interact with something, most likely via the weak interaction.

Photons do scatter off neutrons due to various effects, but the cross-section is really very low. I haven't checked the numbers, but I suspect that it's more than low enough that this type of scattering does not rule out neutrons as dark matter. (Plenty of other things do rule out neutrons as dark matter.)

The reason you don't fall through the ground even though you have almost no net charge has nothing to do with quarks.
I never need cash except when a hurricane is coming. But hurricanes are like being stalked by a turtle. I just go and grab the cash once I get notified there might be one :)
Agreed. Employers don't necessarily deserve loyalty unless they earn it. They often fire people on a whim to rapidly lower costs for this quarter. Meanwhile someone has missed time with family etc to meet an arbitrary deadline that only really benefited someone in marketing anyway.

Employers afraid of losing employees should be reminded that employees aren't property. Employees are often stuck with employers for multiple hard reasons and employers know this and exploit it. I've encountered many employers who actively select for employees based on their ability to be manipulated for these kinds of reasons, eg student / mortgage debt as handcuffs.
Seems like the graveyard of a lot of those '06 - '08 dreams.

Imagine all the things we can do with these new iphones, and so cheaply too! -> no that world didn't happen -> working for the BIG 4.
huh, I was just wondering what happened to bump the other day when I was asked for a business card and contact info. Had no idea this is how the story played out.
Wow, it's like an AI that makes your product for you! Put up a project on Kickstarter and if it gets funded just buy the product from China and send it to your backers.
I'm in Puerto Rico and almost all of shops that take card take chip. I feel like you may have been frequenting some odd places if you were having a hard time finding chip in NYC :P
I instantly thought of this video as well. Definitely an extraordinary human. Sadly, he passed away a few years ago. Warning, here be feels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnouXX1meso
The context is that it's a proxy war with Iran, which has armed and supported the other side in the Yemeni civil war.

Saudi Arabia fears Iran acquiring another political control point - one on their border at that - in the Middle East and increasingly surrounding Saudi. So they're willing to scorch the earth to stop that.

Also, in terms of territory, with Iran + Persian Gulf, and Yemen + Bab-el-Mandeb straight, you can choke off Saudi Arabia's access to the Arabian Sea. That could heavily cripple their global oil shipping if it came to war, or at least cause a big mess. So Saudi Arabia views having a puppet and or friendly regime in Yemen, to be strategically vital. Saudi has wanted functional pipeline + port access in central Yemen for a long time, to get to the Gulf of Aden, to be able to bypass Iran's territorial waters just in case.
This is me, and I suspect it hurts my career, as I'm lucky to remember the guy's name two offices over, much less the people who introduced themselves and we chatted for 5 minutes over a beer the nigh before.

And before you talk about lack of empathy/caring, this happened to me all the time when I was younger/meeting women. Back then I would forget their name after about three sentences, so I tried to run a background process "I really like this girl, her name is $NAME, and it reminds me of $SOMETHING". But frequently that itself would cause problems as people can detect when you aren't paying 100% attention to what they are saying..

I suspect some of us, have the perfect genes for survival in the jungle with our 20 family members. The new large group social skills are something we can't deal with. So we are being selected out of the pool along with our killer instincts for other methods of survival. Frequently I wonder if some of frank Herbert's (there is some more recent similar stuff) science fiction where the human race is devolving into ant/bee like colonies is where we are all going.
Insurance makes sense for random events, especially not under the insured’s control. Ignoring healthcare, since it’s not even an insurancable risk, people who drive safely are subsidizing people who drive in more risky ways, but only because in the past, the technology wasn’t there (or cheap enough) to provide all of the data to accurately price them. Now that it is possible, I don’t see why people who take more risks on the road should be subsidized by those who don’t.
What’s bad is the next stage is this data set becomes available for people to use in their own apps. Smartphone apps that can identify people you don’t know.
P-Diddy sold drugs for literally two days.
http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.10271/title.diddy-opens-up-about...
High Country News, CityLab, Alpinist, Adventure Journal, Hyperlight Mountain Gear. Some regional stuff. Some local stuff. On certain sites like The Guardian, you can RSS follow certain authors, which I also like.

Open to other great niche sources.
Direct quote from the very first paragraph of the article:

> The Birth Trauma Association found that mortality rates are lowest for women who have elective caesareans.

The context is comparing maternal death rate for vaginal delivery vs caesarean.

Here's a Telegraph article that goes into more detail, including giving actual numbers: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584671/Women-choosi...

From the Telegraph article, the maternal death rate for pre-planned caesareans is 3.1 per 100,000 women, whereas the maternal death rate for everyone else (natural birth plus emergency caesarean) is 3.9 per 100,000 women (and the original article gave the maternal death rate for vaginal birth at 4 per 100,000 women).
I've been criticised because I was only at a job for 12 months. I've also been criticised for staying 3 years.

Apparently I'm a terrible employee who left too early and stayed too long. I'm so glad I'm no longer an employee - hiring is horribly broken.
> My over-40 career advice for you is to remember what they do to engineers that are over 40.

No offense personally intended, but as a mid-40s engineer/manager who knows many 40s/50s engineers, I can't relate to this sentiment. We have a couple of older engineers who are kinda useless, but we also have some useless young engineers too. Some of the older engineers dominate the engineering org, leading large architectures and more-often-than-not seeing technical issues very clearly and making good calls. Their defining characteristic is that they're good, not that they have gray hair.

My over-40 career advice for everyone is to stay sharp.
I thought Google+ led to Google Photos. That wasn't in this story.

Everyone is claiming credit for Google Photos it seems!
We don't need another centralized locked down system to replace the current one. Apples system would be even worse. If I don't own an Apple or Android device I just can't make payments anymore?
Wait is this really a thing?

I've rented in 5 cities across the US. I have never once had to even ask for my security deposit to be returned. It's just assumed that I would get it back, and I do.

In the cities where I've lived, I've never heard of anyone not getting their security deposit back. I honestly had no idea we were so lucky!
Right, except the AI is just really "cost-effective" labor and manufacturing, with some corners cut on small items like ethics, human rights, and materials.
I rented a house for a week in Michigan this summer --- the whole rent was paid up front --- and the landlord illegally retained a substantial portion of the security deposit. They have the money. Why would they ever give it back if they didn't have to?
>Cash is also good for negotiation.

Not long ago I walked in to a store with $150 of cash and asked for a thing I needed that would be within the amount I had with me and they gave me the $165 item for $150 because thats all I had with me.
Heh, I can see why you’re asking this question.

As mncharity pointed out already, I grew up on the Murge. Somehow, amongst my other friends obsessed about OSes and kernels in Bari 20 years ago or so this provenance became somehow identifying.

It’s essentially an inner joke going on for too long.
Freedom has risks and responsibilities, I accept them.

Edit: BTW, I'm not saying one needs to be 100% cash. I use credit cards too. The important thing is that I have a choice.
google.com/search?q=human+echolocation brings up a ton of related stuff.

The thing is "what do you type into the search engine." I, for one, would never think to type in any of probably tens of thousands of topics that, having seen, I think are awesome.
This is a valid point that is getting downvoted. Counting coins is a huge pain. Using notes isn't too bad but then you end up with all these scrap coins. The banks here in Australia have a solution for that though. They have a machine you can pour your coins in to and you get notes back.
Have you ever tried getting audio capture to work on Linux? Now imagine trying to automate that workflow across devices as part of a spyware package.

People would install it on purpose just to get their damn pulseaudio config sorted out.
Neat trick but it shouldn't be the only one you have. Which is to say it isn't the best way to proceed.
Please avoid these guys, they don't revert
I was referring to the "poor as a church mouse" expression actually but thanks for the etymology regarding the other expression - sounds plausible.
Man, Rossman's on a media blitz.