skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The appeal to civility is the last step before starting the cycle of rhetoric anew. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Men are such horrible creatures!

I understand the sentiment, sadly, being a male, there’s little I can do to thwart its own impact on my social life, except, of course, not be creepy.

Oh wait, you said “in pursuit of romantic and sexual interest”. I didn’t real your full sentence off the bat. Well, how does one know a “strange” (unknown) man is “bothering” (strong word, I’d have chosen introduce) in pursuit of sexual or romantic interests?

Are men and women really not allowed to be friends on a non-intimate level? Does introducing myself to a woman immediately imply that I want to seduce her? I wish that weren’t the case. I feel in many ways I relate and have more interests in common with women, and no, I am not a homosexual, or any modern label, just a normal guy.
Buying the rights means licensing the rights of the patent, otherwise it would've said "Novartis bought the patent to Lutathera"
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Somewhat related: Run arch on any distro: https://github.com/fsquillace/junest
>The flighty attraction to the new shiny is somewhat driven by a lack of understanding of how either the new or the old shiny actually work. If you understand the job you're setting out to do you're in a much better position to decide upon tools, frameworks, what to do in house, etc. If you don't you're stuck gluing black boxes together, because any actual code you write will be far worse.

Writing my own sort routine? Pointless but pretty harmless.

Writing my own docx parser? Sure, that will be one mythical man century of work.

Sometimes we are using black boxes because we have created so much accidental complexity that we can't do better than "this works, we don't know why and we dare not change it". The browsers js must target are some of the biggest black boxes even though they are open(ish) source.
Children are difficult, but not as hard as you make it out to be. Out of my circle of friends, more than half the kids were unplanned (including our first child). It was no big deal—grandparents swooped in to keep things on the rails (something that is true for people of all income levels). For lower income people, a bit of help with childcare during work is all that’s necessary.

The “responsible parenting” approach you suggest would basically lead to lower income people never being in a position to have kids. And that would be a tragedy. Having children is one of the greatest joys in life. There is a really remarkable Gallup poll: https://news.gallup.com/poll/164618/desire-children-norm.asp...

Americans 45 and older were polled, and asked what they’d do if they had to do it over again. Just 7% of those with kids said they would’ve had zero kids. By contrast, 55% of those without kids would’ve had at least one. Indeed, while just 7% of people with kids would’ve had none if they did it over again, among those who never had kids, fully 18% wish they would have had 3 or more.

What other incredibly expensive, labor-intensive life choice has that kind of customer satisfaction rating?
As a simple approximation, debris of an explosion would need to reach the escape velocity of that asteroids gravity field to permanentely be separated from the asteroid. To "blow up" an asteroid, one would need a sufficiently strong explosion to reach the escape velocity for at least a large part of the debris.
The recombination of the asteroid would take quite a lot of time, considering the weak gravity. So if it is blown up at the right moment, recombination does not have enough time. Just reducing the density of the asteroid or rather its cloud of debris beyond a certain point might be sufficient to prevent a large disaster on earth. It then doesn't matter if the asteroid would recombine after crossing the earths path.
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I wish there was an easy way to send commands to the console of a browser.

That would be all I need to satisfy all my browser automation tasks.

Without installing and learning any frameworks.

Say there was a linux command 'SendToChromium' that would do that for Chromium. Then to navigate to some page one could simply do this:

SendToChromium location.href="/somepage.html"

SendToChromium should return the output of the command. So to get the html of the current page, one would simply do:

SendToChromium document.body.innerHTML > theBody.html

Ideally the browser would listen for this type of command on a local port. So instead of needing a binary 'SendToChromium' one could simply start Chromium in listening mode:

chromium --listen 12345

And then talk to it via http:

curl 127.0.0.1:12345/execute?command=location.href="/somepage.html"
job board without any position listed?
Really? All it takes for language fatigue is syntax? I’d hate to hear what you think of English.
I disagree with "Try to understand bottom-up". The whole point of abstraction is to use it without understanding it. Trying to understand bottom-up is actively harmful. At most, attempt one or two levels below you.

For god's sake, don't go study quantum mechanics (or semiconductors, or CPU architecture) when you are writing JavaScript.
Not really.

I also have no idea what cheerio brings to the table here.

Seems like a hefty solution to web scraping
it might be worth to mention, that microg got funded in the meanwhile, beginning from march. This is great news, as the developer will now start to dedicate a increased time in microg development. Cast API is on its way. Looking forward to a good future.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/agnb3x/microg_andr...
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FWIW, cv.pdf works in emacs (on mac)!
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Sign me up! I’d love to muffle my
GPU miners. They need air and make plenty of fan noise.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19294029
Our local political organizations are (legally) reformed every two years. We Democrats have a ritual where we introduce ourselves and say why we're a Democrat.

Most people say something like "I believe in the greater good." Which I suppose could be warped into whatever you just described.

My answer has been "To help people help themselves and to help those who can't."

TLDR: You should probably meet some lefties, in person, before you claim to speak for them. Try meeting some righties too.
The argument you appear to be making (as I interpret it) is equivalent to saying some members of the Freedom caucus support neo-Nazis / "alt-right", therefore all conservatives are now proponents of eugenics & "white nationalism" or some equivalently loaded term.

I mean, democrats are still white, by large majorities..so they "hate themselves"?

Such simplistic analysis of something so complicated seems.. trivialization to the point of no meaning. This just appears to be trolling for effect's sake..or venting. I know HN's guidelines suggest not attributing motive..but this appears to be such a rancorous post..
I don't think that consumers are that irrational.
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Who should we be listening to?
What a fascinating write-up!

The discussion seems to hint at something I've seen effective working with several family members succumbing to Alzheimers/dementia: when possible, play into the world as they see it. Something causes these folks to disconnect from a full reality, and being told you're wrong and being constantly corrected irritates/aggravates. There are limits to this, certainly, but I've found it easier to lean into it overall.
I wonder how far we are from a real usable phone that docks into being a real usable PC. I suppose that's more of a hardware than software program. I'm aware of Samsung's DEX and similar, but I would guess the performance isn't great given the limited memory, etc, on a phone.
Another related app is Termux. It can't run full Linux distro but it is much more lightweight and it has a pretty active community at /r/termux.

Termux wiki: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Main_Page
Termux repo: https://github.com/termux/termux-app
Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/termux/
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Couldn't agree more. I made the switch about a year ago at age 31. Previously, I was a manufacturing process engineer. I created some tools for me and my team, and my current employer hired me specifically because I "created real apps".

Companies want employees who are self-starting autodidacts.
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Every time I see an H-1B related thread comment like this will pop up. No, it cannot "be very easily solved" by sorting salaries. For example, what about other industries who also need foreign talents? $100K might be top wage for some other industries but no where near the top in tech. Even in tech, how do you expect small start-ups or small businesses to compete with giants like FAANG who can just throw money at the problem? Also, what about the cost of living factor? Is $200k in SV considered more competitive than $150k in some other rural area?
Well your statement was:

> As a sanity check, the fact that no other intelligent life has been observed is evidence that it is unlikely.

Plus some claims about the uniqueness of our solar system which are not necessarily true, given the small sampling of planet's we've found.

There is so much bias in what we observe that I don't think you can make those statements, whether or not you're implying that a species would be galaxy-conquering.

Given these biases I think the odds may well be much better than 100 billion - though I'm not current enough to judge whether that's an appropriate estimate based on curent astrophysics. There's so much uncertainty that it could be orders of magnitude different in either direction.
I have a github account, with not much in it. And not much to add to it. I've written tons of code, but it was all under various NDAs and uploading it wouldn't be a good idea.
https://maruos.com

You're looking for MaruOS. I've been following development for a while and it had come a long way. While it might not be this project in particular, I feel it's the future of computing.
I agree with this, but there is a nuance. Given the same problem, someone solving it with Excel typically gets a smaller employee reward than someone solving it with some complex sounding stack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher%E2%80%93Munson_curves

If one attempts to figure out what the subjective, perceived numerical volume vs. actual dB SPL is for a large group of people, it roughly coincides with the dB SPL number.

Bit more detail: you play a 100dB SPL tone and tell the participant "this is a 100" and play a 0dB SPL tone and tell the participant "this is a 0" and play all kinds of other tones at various frequencies and sound pressures, you get that curve. The unit for this arbitrary scale is called phon.
Hello World in C without libraries or similar dependencies (2012)
Flagships from two years ago had 4GB RAM. New flagships come with 6 to 10GB, and 128GB or more storage. GPUs already handle 1440P and larger displays.

What you need is a standard dock that can break out HDMI, USB ports for input and I/O, and a gigabit NIC. As it turns out, people make those for Macbooks right now.
Sound isn't light. If you have source for your suggestion that shorter wavelengths of sound carry more energy, I'd be curious to see it.

And no, the real difference isn't that waves are attenuated much more by objects larger than their wavelengths. A 200m^2 sheet of paper will still attenuate treble and be completely transparent to bass.

The real difference is that bass damping requires a combination of size, raw mass, and permeability.

It's true that a tiny stick of a bass-damping material will do nothing to stop bass, but it's also true that giant bass traps - like the ones used in studios - will stop treble dead, but their effectiveness at bass frequencies depends entirely on size, thickness, and the material they're made of.

A concrete wall has plenty of mass but no permeability, so it's a good reflector at most frequencies. Bass traps use permeable materials like mineral fibre which have no effect in thin slices, but they're made thick enough to provide enough mass to damp the pressure oscillations.
Incidentally why does NASA prefer splashing down in the water, rather than a soft landing in dry land like the Russians do?
> Is there a better way to surf the web, retrieve the source code of the pages and extract data from them ?

Yes, of course! To get the source code of a web site you don't need a browser and all its complexity. It makes me so sad how far we have come in terms of unnecessary complexity for simple tasks.

If you want to extract data from web pages without requiring hundreds of megabytes for something like Electron, there are lots of scraping libraries out there. There are for example at least two good Python implementations: Scrapy[1] and BeautifulSoup[2].

[1]: https://scrapy.org/

[2]: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
It feels great when I read something that, somehow, I always believed but could not exactly articulate.

I know people that believe that, most of the time, the best way to respond to unreasonable or irrational petitions is to do it by means of answering the actual points made, even if completely unwarranted and time consuming.

For instance, claims of some random paranormal effect should be put to the test with proper scientific investigation, like that would satisfy the claimant and not take us in a never-ending endeavour...

Sometimes, the best way to answer the problem is to make use of well tested heuristics that, instead of going into the specific details, just make the elephant in room more evident: some problems are simply not well put, or some answers miss the point (e.g. the paranormal claim is pseudo-scientific therefore will never accept a negative result, whichever it may be; to feed the troll will not satiate the troll, etc).
I want a "phone" with data only that runs Linux and has docking support. The average techie could piece one together now with a pi, screen, and 4g module. It can't be that hard to build one in a phone form factor. It is all open source so you could whip up correctly shaped boards in weeks. The hardest part to me is the enclosure/case to screen finish.
>The headline here is incredibly misleading. The CDC is not making the factual claim that "low-income parents send sick kids to school due to lack paid sick leave".

OP probably saw this on Reddit where it was posted with exactly that title and the comments had all the critical though you expect from Reddit.
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I do not know US taxes, if US does that as well, then I guess the trick is just too good to not be used. If you're wondering if this is a trick at all, just read some tax theory, where they define a well-constructed tax as (amongst others) one that brings lots of revenue and does not create lots of resentment/social unrest in return.
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There's absolutely nothing wrong with using black boxes, and I'm not arguing that it should be totally avoided. I'm arguing that a lack of understanding of how to solve your problem leads to only gluing black boxes together as you lack the understanding with which to make more nuanced decisions, and to solve any part of the problems you have yourself.

It's also not necessarily required that you understand all of what you're doing down to the logic gates, but if you don't (to crib your example) understand some of what docx parsing may entail, or can't actually write any sort function (nor understand how to compare them), you're stuck with black boxes at even the highest levels, and then you're very likely to be exposed to the article's defined fatigue as you continually jump to whatever looks shiniest, lacking the understanding with which to properly compare your options.
What would you do with this solution that can’t already be done with headless browsers, apart from looking at it?

It’s very much like that already: write script, send to browser, let it do it’s thing, run javascript code if you want and get the final renderend HTML and console output.
But if twice as much is spent on marketing then in the case of pharmaceuticals it appears this is inefficient. These drugs tend to be necessary for people in ways that Google is not. There are cases where people live in penury due to high drug costs. From the perspective of beneficial to society it seems from my perspective that this is inefficient. Whether or not Google is efficient isn’t relevant in this matter as far as I can tell.

The typical argument for justifying high drug costs is that it costs lots of money to do R&D. This argument loses weight when the marketing costs are twice the R&D costs. Further to this point is the fact that the actual discovers aren’t the ones getting the big rewards of their discoveries. So it all appears inefficient in ways that don’t matter when applied to Google due to the fact that ultimately we are talking about peoples’ financial and physical health.
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I'd need to some more research material to confirm this but I wanna say that the structure seems to exploit some effects that you can't reason with lumped model + T-line models.
Projects from when you were a student? I have my undergraduate project on there for example, from well over a decade ago, but it still gets a lot of interest.

Community service projects? I maintain a bibliography I have on there, and I write a local history book on my GitHub. I made a website for a conference on there recently.

Slides, notes and code from conference talks you've given?

Hobbies? I used to have some repositories with things related to the sport I play.

Open source projects you contribute to in the course of your work?

Notes and experiments you make while learning about technology like new languages and libraries?

You must have done at least something like those ideas at some point in your life?

I mean you obviously don't have to if you don't want to and I don't know anything about your personal situation, but if you do want to have a GitHub profile I'm sure there's tons of things you're involved in in your life that you could upload even if you work at the NSA or something.
Spacex lease LC39 and LC40 at Cape Canaveral. They are exclusively used for Spacex's launches. SpaceX need approval for launches obviously, but they have full control of the cadence and timetable. NASA and US Air Force are just customers (albeit with higher priority).

They don't own the land like they do with Boca Chica, but from the operational perspective they are the same.
I can read anybodies plain old javascript code, and figure it out. But if the author uses some kind of fancy vendor lock in framework, that had a life span in the community of six months, never to be seen again, well that is a pain in-the A to reverse engineer, i dont even bother reading the code anymore, i packet sniff, and see if the network has any value, and guess what, no customers, and all that effort. those who spout the spec, are indicative to me, as never having seen a customer in there life.
Saying that though, you should check out the future of web development,
https://github.com/Sean-Bradley/Seans-TypeScript-ReactJS-Red...
Typescript will win.
All you react/redux gods will be automated out of a purpose, what is the problem you are fixing again? Oh thunk, thunk will fix it, yeah, yeah, distractions, i get it, the problem. Solved, keep up the good work. Were fixing the problems of internet and were not finished yet,
What spectacularly clean, concise and elegant writing, a level of quality I so rarely get to appreciate. For that alone I'm printing it out to read again later and learn from.
And the maths side is a bonus.

Thanks, author!
How Cryptosystems Are Really Broken [pdf]
https://journals.aps.org/prb/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.024302

Anyone have access to this paper? This is driving me nuts and I want to know, damn it :P
If one of my kids is sick, i just email the office to tell them I'm going to be working from home. Not a big deal. I've never worked anyplace where it would have been a problem.
Another benefit of specialized hardware, besides dispatch costs, is the cost of moving data around. As your chip gets wider you want more physical (rather than architectural) registers with more ports meaning super linear growth. And your bypass network also grows quadratically in transistor terms. And as your core gets bigger physically you lose more power moving data longer distances.

But in dedicated hardware you can just gang your operations into dataflows where the output of one stage feeds into the physically adjacent next stage with no need to make a trip through the register file or bypass network.

A lot of the benefit of hardware vector operations over scalar operations is in the dispatch cost, but most of the benefit from hardware matrix operations over hardware vector operations is from reduced data movement.

EDIT: Of course, the post is from 2012 back when nobody was doing hardware matrix multiplication so it's understandable.
Agreed. I'm pretty sure is one reason for the fatigue because some people just believe changing the word without changing semantic makes differences.

For Chai, I also found RSpec/Jasmine/Chai styled testing is not much different from Minitest/Xunit/Tape test. Meanwhile, there was a hype of advertising so-called BDD interface several years ago.

But there are still a lot of people testing detailed implementation instead of business value with RSpec styled testing framework.

There are several things are pretty similar, I'm sure there's more:

* Pretending BDD with RSpec styled testing, instead of testing business invariant.

* Pretending continuous integration with Jenkins. Instead of incremental value delivery in high frequency.

* Pretending agile software development with Jira and abused task-splitting. Instead of preserving e2e business value in one task.
That guy might have tried to say that lower frequencies cause more displacement for the same SPL, which means they necessarily go through materials a lot better.

edit: in more detail, the pressure is basically analogous to force in a fluid, and particle displacement is analogous to well, displacement, and since F=ma or F=mx'', for a given amount of pressure, the acceleration of particles stay constant, so for sinusoidal displacements you end up needing more displacement to get the same SPL for lower frequencies. And the falling sensitivity of the human ear at lower frequencies make this even more pronounced.
>The second amendment is not protection from crime

If you are made a victim of property crime (i.e. most nonviolent crime) there is no good solution if the property can't easily be returned. Social standards and possible punishment is what prevents that kind of crime and even it doesn't do a very good job.

> at best it’s protection from crime that presents an active danger to your safety.

Well that's more than you can say for the cops. When seconds count the police are minutes away.