skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a script which opens a bunch of random HN links in new tabs. In firefox you have to over-ride the default amount of tabs you can open and change it to something like 9999. I once shared the script on HN under a different account, and it got no interest at all. The idea behind the script is that it presents random articles, so there is no bias behind the webpage you are reading. I use the script all the time and it's great to be presented with articles you otherwise would not have clicked. It's not hard to write such a script, but it gets trickier when you start to add filters to it. So for example, you may want to omit opening links with 'Soylent', 'Drone' or 'Trump' in the title.
I hope your wife is okay! If I’d see that happen, guess it’s goat stew for dinner.
Ask HN: How do you decompress after a long day at work?
If your job is to sit in a dark closet & stare at a wall, is that job a waste of your life if you LOVE it? It's up to you to decide. Personally, I would hate being a mail carrier for many reasons, one of which would be thinking of myself as a 90% junk mail flinger. I love writing code, and I spend almost no time questioning the value of reimplementing a certain type of feature for the bajillionth time if that is what the job requires.
Helium balloon would be a better option. Release it with other end tied to your backpack.
Sailfish is the OS that runs on Jolla and nowadays also on the Xperia X and XA2 phones, although I heard it is not really available in the US (why?).

It's somewhat of an alternative to iOS & Android and feels like running Linux 20 years ago. You are making it harder on yourself.

Running Android apps with microg installed on it provides a decent fallback.
Buckwheat and add butter. Delicious, nutritious and easy to prepare. I buy buckwheat for about 3$ CAD / 900 grams here in Canada.
> I guess but that's not their business.

I mean my point is that it is a total show stopper for their business if they cannot have US apps on their store! Good luck selling a £800 Android phone in the UK with no Instagram! Or a $200 one in India with no WhatsApp.
It's a huge time sink. We've gotten more done at home in the past 6 months since getting rid of TV and internet than we have in the past 6 years. And our family life is significantly more connected and alive than when we had TV and internet.

I heartily recommend everyone try it for a couple months. No TV, no mobile data plan, no home internet, no radio. It's amazingly refreshing.

Edit: another reason is that almost all social media is geared towards making you addicted to it and encourages hopelessness, and when you get rid of social media, not just deleting accounts but even to stop consuming it regularly, your attitude will just change for the better on a daily basis. Waking up will feel refreshing, not burdensome, like today is a new opportunity, not a new day of drudgery. Well, at least it will play a big part in this shift.
It should be obvious now that climbing Everest is a vanity project.
Does McDs actually have a worse nutritional profile?
> Think of work as merely collecting resources to maintain life.

Work related tasks are 50%+ of you awake time so it's kind of hard to forget about it.

I could work 2 days a week while keeping my lifestyle but it's next to impossible to find a stable job allowing that schedule.
Wrong. NASA funding now is high as it was during avg. appollo years.

NASA now does more different things but in terms of human spaceflight they have basically totally mismanaged it for 60 years.
live in a country without hotel, property and all the other stupid taxes? What a nonsense...
Mona Lisa 'brought to life' with deepfake AI
The "thieves" could use the same trademark takedowns on any app store that serves users in China.
Stigler had a more complete approach to the optimization but still incomplete. Needs more factors, the problem excluding actual design of meals and palatability is solvable in seconds using even an old computer. You can even be nonlinear and assign ranges, weights and even likelihoods that RDA is insufficient or excessive.
I worked as a postman for a bit. I'd wake up at 0430, make a short commute, then sort letters into street/house number order for something like 3 hours. After the first few days this became mindnumbingly dull. It was obvious 90% of what I was about to deliver would go straight in the bin so all this drudgery wad largely pointless. For a while I worked in a pretty rough area (by UK standards, admittedly nowhere in the UK is really that dangerous compared to much of the world), and on several occasions I was harassed by members of the public. Though later I worked in a much nicer area and people were nice to me.

I suspect the main thing about the story isn't how great it is to be a mailman, but how great it is to be good at people. I work from home and live in quite a nice community, but I only know a handful of people. This is basically because unless I have a common interest with someone I don't really have anything to say for myself. Clearly not something that afflicts Floyd!
When I was a residence hall advisor in college, one of my roles was sorting the mail, which has been useful experience years later: basically, you can ignore anything sent as “PRESORTED STANDARD”: https://www.thebalancecareers.com/how-to-spot-junk-mail-with...
> They claim to be a services company but they still can't seem to let go of tying it to devices.

They've shipped apple music on Andriod since day 1, have had it on Sonos for several years, and in the last 6 months have announced & started to ship TV on tons of actual TVs and non-apple straming boxes.

They've 'let go' of tying services to devices, but iMessage isn't a paid service so the advantage to shipping it on other platforms is lower.
On-train systems will stop the train in case of failure.

I was responding to “Why not have people in a control room drive the trains, coordinating the system as a whole”. Infrastructure and timetables are centrally coordinated (or actoss several centers). Controlling a train remotely introduces multiple points of failure:

- connection lag

- connection quality

- remote operators don’t have the full details on a train (unless you have one operator per train)

Remote/automatic control works in smaller systems (such as subways, see e.g. Copenhagen), but the speeds there are usually smaller, the “fleet” is smaller, you can reach the trains in case of failure faster etc.
I understand carriers don't want the average Joe to mess with the radio, I'd be totally ok with that, so I would agree on closed source firmware on baseband if it was limited only to that use: a fully separated system that deals with connections and nothing else. All data could be en/decrypted on main device CPU, so that the radio closed firmware would essentially have full access to noise. Of course IP addresses could not be masked, but they would be available anyway to authorities with full access to cell towers and traffic.
Good job vetting your vendors Uncle Sam! Somehow, we'll end up paying (taxpayers) to clean this up - just like we paid to deploy it. Sure would be nice if we had any voice/vote in these things...
Absolutly. The problem is the money is tied up in pet projects that are a waste but can be realocated because the are protected by congress members.
But it'll also be a device that will most likely blast RF all over the place.

I can't imagine finding a transmitter capable of reaching LEO being all that hard for a country.
The Search for the Extra Pedal
It's only this cheap because it's a loss leader and has low other nutritional value.
Ask HN: How do you deal with or stop escapism?
In other words, how do you stop yourself from running away from your problems?
The state can use its propaganda machine for the things that run the state care about. For example, be good and pay your taxes, don't complain, zoning is not an issue, etc.

How do you eliminate the conflict of interest between the people that run the state and the behavior they want to imprint in society?
Yes but the path to the solution is inverted.

Previously attempts:

1. We need global internet.

2. Satellites!!!!

3. We need inexpensive rockets to launch our satellites.

4. Fail.

SpaceX / Starlink:

1. We have have excess satellite launching capabilities due to our inexpensive rockets.

2. Global internet!!!

3. Build and launch thousands of satellites.

4. Profit?
Any site like medium where we can see post from people in chronological order
Is there any site like medium where we can see only post from people i follow
No, actually if one is making a decision whether or not to drink black coffee while fasting, it is interesting and actionable data.

I do in fact drink black coffee in a fasted state and if it had 5 calories (which I don't believe it does) I would choose not to ...
Unless you get an iPhone, you have really haveno other choice....at least not without forgoing most apps. This is the problem with walled gardens in general. Even if Microsoft kills certain things for Chinese made laptops...the OS still allows you to run programs which are not reliant at all on these APIs, because Windows is generally not a walled garden.

My hope is that Chinese companies start making a new OS, and Google sees this and makes their APIs more open and free so in such an event not everything is rendered inoperable.
The question is whether those gates are really best used for this feature. Also, this feature might increase latency and make tens of millions programs run slower.
> These companies have so much money that they can afford to do things like 10 million dollar POCs (which I've seen). Often they have literally 5+ different teams doing the same exact thing and will pick the best out of that list.

Ugh. Reading stuff like this gets me deeply sad; what could have been done with that money and time instead? It makes me want to go escape to live in the hills, maybe even a full-on Wonko the Sane.
> but it's pretty uncontroversial that more added sugar is never better.

> this doesn't imply that there should be no limit.

Who is even claiming these things. :/
Most people don't really chose consciously. We just follow what we're told until it seems too late to deviate from the course.

I personally ended up in IT because "why not it pays well and I like computers", I wasn't the same person when I chose that path and now I'm actively trying to figure a reasonable way out.

> There are only a few who control themselves and their affairs by a guiding purpose; the rest do not proceed; they are merely swept along, like objects afloat in a river. And of these objects, some are held back by sluggish waters and are transported gently; others are torn along by a more violent current; some, which are nearest the bank, are left there as the current slackens; and others are carried out to sea by the onrush of the stream. Therefore, we should decide what we wish, and abide by the decision. - Seneca
I worked for a large investment bank a good few years ago. It was probably the crappiest job that I have had in terms of job satisfaction. There was a high staff turnover and the answer was to throw money at the problem and keep the churn going.

It seemed to work for them.
I don't see the benefits of jamming the square peg of language builtins into such a narrow use case.

> the runtime translates WASI args_get and args_sizes_get

> for the zeroth arg to the blockchain address() function.

There is nothing intuitive about that for me.

In most languages, exposing the blockchain interface as a module feels like it would be a significantly cleaner implementation. If I want to compile against different targets I'd prefer to wrap that module as a library behind my own interface. I can then swap out the implementation at compile time.
Exercise, fresh air, i.e. a long walk or hike.

The long term solution is to reduce your workload of course.
You think people voting on vendors would somehow result in less data leaks?
By default Windows handles Zip files in Explorer. Ostensibly it's fair to assume that "I don't run non-standard apps when I can avoid it" is a reasonable (if limiting) premise.
Not quite, wheat is cheap and easy to grow with both extensive and intensive farming options. Especially easy to harvest.

(Compared to, say, rice, corn, beans or even potatoes.)

Funny that white bread is cheaper when brown requires less processing.
thanks. that doesn't really make patents illegal, because there should be significant differences. and significant improvements on existing things are themselves patentable.

but i agree with you that whitewashing history is dirty. although, i do remember in a 5 minute video about lego history which i believe was made by lego, it was acknowledged that they got the brick idea from a fair that demoed injection molding machines.

as for suing their competition, i do hope they don't succeed. lego is pretty big in china too, but clones are rampant, and their brick quality is getting hard to distinguish from lego.

there are of course those that directly copy lego original models. but they also design their own. the latter should be allowed.
It would result in us not approving the project/vendor at all.

edit: We(citizens) don't like being spied on, and it just rubs salt in the wound that we have to pay for it.
Have you asked a smoker what they think and feel about it?

Are they happy the product they buy tells them they are going to have a gruesome medical condition?

And do you smoke? And do you advocate for the same imagery on products also associated to gruesome conditions but products you use, like computers, cars, food, buildings, government, etc?
If you don't get the same effect from salmon it might be because they have a large amount of phosphatidylserine which is a anti-inflammatory/immune suppressant.
Go for a walk if its nice out.

exercise

read

watch a movie

Start a hobby
I'm 50 and have experienced many failures, yet I still work for myself and have managed to secure funding for my latest project and even got invited to submit a grant proposal to the National Science Foundation.

Edison said, famously, "I can't tell you what works but I can tell you 1,000 things that don't work." Thirty is still quite young; you have lots of life and ideas in you left. If you were born with the entrepreneurial spirit, I say keep at it. You might need to pivot to a different project or even a different industry, but I wouldn't recommend giving in or giving up!

For me, it's always helped to identify real-life heros, people who have achieved what you want. Read their bios. Learn everything you can about their struggles, their failures, and their successes. Mark Cuban said that overnight success takes a lifetime. May that inspire you!
The audience for the product is not the same as the audience for the website.
Flavored (and sweetened) milk drinks have already been given a special exemption from the rules, with no particular reason stated.

I'd like to be able to debate the fundamental merits of labelling and public-interest laws like this. But in practice I just end up opposing them because they're reliably full of stupid loopholes and special-interest favoritism.
Given that this is literally only useful for tracking people, not approving the project would be ideal.
I think that online subscriptions come with a different set of expectations- I dont expect offline software to ever really get constant updates, work on any computer, and so on. Not have trouble transfering licenses when upgrading and so on. I think that I'm fine with this sort of shift in general as long as companies are actually delivering on those expectations, but I would def be miffed if i was paying monthly and the company stopped developing new icons/updating features etc.
That 30% rounding error are people who don't have any interest in travelling to major cities.

Giving mobility to those people would unlock new use cases of its own, but the GP post is actually accurate to commercial reality.
"n-gate", which should lead you to http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
I'm far from an expert on this, but I believe the biggest benefit to phased array antennas is that they don't have any moving parts, and adjusting where the signal is pointing is almost instant.

As long as the "pizza box" can track the sats, it should be able to communicate through some pretty intense speed and acceleration changes.
Pretty sure that it wasn't Google doing the suing. I remember it being Opera. Did Chrome even exist back then?
vr IS art.

just because someone identifies as an "artist" and makes vr doesn't mean they are making "vr art" and a graphics programmer is not making art. human creative expression is art whether made by an "artist" or programmer.

now for the smarter humans/bots to tell us how it really is. thank you.
I'm kind of hoping for Tetris.
I posted the original example to demonstrate that skepticism IRT abstracting pattern based decision making away from human actors transcends political leanings.

While I personally am not entirely sure how I feel about this sort of eugenics, it's worth noting that at the gestational period these genetic anomalies are detected it's far more likely that these fetuses would progress to develop legal personhood than not.

Given our species history of reliance on anomalous individuals I suspect it's unwise to seek further genetic homogenization and better for us to learn to accept those who don't neatly fit societal norms of fitness.
Perhaps I've missed it somehow, but I didn't find anything in that video that refers to any asymmetry between north and south hemispheres?
> Why is TARP the only program we judge with ROI?

Seriously. The ROI of solving the homeless and mental health crisis to the point where most of them can get back to work and become tax paying citizens is probably pretty good too.
Personally the capitalized "Real Problem" (along with my current mood) makes me lean towards sarcasm, but yeah, Poe's law...
Of course Hong Kong is supposed to be better under Chinese rule; it's no longer a colony!

I always find it amusing when people try to compare the PRC with the oppressive colonial empires as if they're on the same level...

As for whether LegCo was powerless, look up the Protection of the Harbour Ordinance. It was a bill introduced not by the government but by an elected legislator, something that will never happen under the current system. That bill has been the bane of the government ever since, even after the handover.
Eat till I'm sick
If you are a citizen and have not been disenfranchised, and I grant you that many fall outside of these buckets, you absolutely have a say. That say is that you can elect whomever you want to decide these things for you. It is the central mechanism in a representative democracy.
They are building infrastructure across the whole continent, connecting all major ports.

Expect that this will cause a decline in EU GDP as the remnants of colonialism get displaced/replaced.
Last I heard (three or four years ago), the APA was suffering from a fall-off in pharma advertising. If that is the case, and it hasn't rebounded, just think what the advertising must have been fifteen years ago.
I think climate scientists need to be careful about doing conclusion-oriented research, and climate crusaders should be more careful with their marketing efforts.

CO2 is heavier than air. Most of the human-generated CO2 ends up in the ocean [0]. This changes the pH of the ocean water, making it slightly more acidic. pH changes and nutrient changes (CO2 + agriculture runoff) probably explain the observations of changes in the types of plankton better than temperature changes.

The climate is a complex system with lots of inputs. It is fundamentally dishonest for the climate crusaders to whip up a frenzy (hockey-stick doom prophecies) on incomplete models and data.

Changes is solar activity (sun spot cycles) and underwater volcanic activity aren't really incorporated into the climate scientists' models, because they don't have much/any data. Temperature sensors have only recently been placed on the Juan de Fuca Ridge [1] (just off the coast of Oregon/Washington/British Columbia). The volcanic trenches in the deep ocean have no network of temperature sensors, or long-term activity data.

The Wall Street-owned utility model for the provision of electricity is technically and ideologically bankrupt, but the "green energy" replacements aren't much better. Solar panels wear out after a few decades, and are not easily recycled with current technology. Most people can't put a wind farm on top of their house, so wind-derived electricity is still purchased from a utility company.

I wrote a piece titled use as much energy as possible: "Under our current system of money and finance, Wall Street is trusted to plan for the economy's future energy needs. Wall Street invests where it sees the most potential for payoff, and THEY make more money when the economy uses as much energy as possible.

"Like a rigged carnival game, the energy economy is specifically distorted so that we have little choice but to send lots of money to our financiers' energy companies. [...]" [2]

[0] "The constant atmospheric CO 2 concentrations in the centuries prior to the Industrial Revolution suggest that the oceans released a small amount of CO 2 to the atmosphere to balance the carbon input from rivers. Today, this trend is reversed and the oceans must remove CO 2 added to the atmosphere from human activities, known as anthropogenic (humanderived) CO 2. In the 1980s, the oceans removed an estimated 2.0±0.6 Pg of anthropogenic CO 2 each year. Because humans are producing CO 2 at an everincreasing rate, the average ocean removal rate increased to 2.4±0.5 Pg of carbon each year in the 1990s." - http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Bi-Ca/Carbon-Dioxide-in-the...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Fuca_Ridge

[2] https://teslabox.com/use-as-much-energy-as-possible/ [I wrote this in 2011 - all my picture links are broken, hmm...]
Our team has been using https://tuple.app for a few months now, and it works really well for us! We've had much nicer video / audio quality since switching. Definitely recommend checking it out if anyone is looking for a replacement!

Apart from the features and performance of Tuple itself, I find the Tuple team to be a HUGE asset. They are extremely responsive to feedback, are always willing to dig into any issues you might run into, and consistently ship updates and improvements and communicate their progress.
The claim I read is that it is due to the mass of the molecules being different.

The masses being larger should result in them moving slower I think? (At the same temperature)

Allegedly this influences how the diffusion/osmosis works out, resulting in more or less water in the cells on the tongue or something?

It is also possible that I am getting things mixed up with when he tasted extremely pure water, which iirc causes some cells to burst, causing a sweet taste?
Tell yourself it's a feature, not a bug. I'm only half joking.
I've been streaming on Twitch for about a year, before pausing it. It was a lot of fun as I'm a very talkative person, but in my opinion requires a lot of discipline. Sessions were sometimes subnormally unproductive because I was constantly distracted by the chat and getting pulled into complex conversations. Setting a timer for myself to ignore the chat for 20 minutes helped a bit though.

Pros:

- meeting new people, sharing ideas
- if you're lucky and have a lot of experienced people in the chat they can help you out and spot bugs, potential mistakes, etc.

Cons:

- can be highly distracting and productivity-lowering

There might be more, but those are the most prominent things I can think of right now.
My brain was making combinations like Slow braised Wasabi flavored etc.
Endgame’ Box Office Was Massive, but It Fell Short of Expectations
Ask HN: What are the best tools to manage an iPhone on Linux?
I currently have an Android and want to switch to iOS, but only use Linux. What are some good tools, tips, or work-arounds to mix iOS and Linux?
Not the parent poster but I use Here WeGo on Sailfish running on the Android subsystem.

It's ok.
Shady Numbers and Bad Business: Inside the Esports Bubble