skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What kind of terrible lesson would it be to her children if she taught them that their school camping trip was more important than those things?

That you can rationalize anything to fit your choices.
This is quite mind-blowing. In the UK workplace it is a common cultural norm to use the same 'favourite' cup every day for every drink. Same at home. People would think there was something wrong with you if every drink was a takeout. People do have single use cups on train journeys and as a special carry-in treat from a lunch break but generally the re-used cup idea is the normal, default option.

Have people really got that lazy? Or is their work really that important?

In all fairness though, in America the power is only 110v not 240. So boiling a kettle is not going to happen. Plus the Boston Tea Party thing means y'all don't have a nice sharp cup of tea. So it is kind of not economically viable to just have a cup of tea, which for me, with no milk or sugar, comes in at less than 1p per cup + electricity. (58 tea bags cost 80 pence). Even then I often re-use the same tea bag, so totally different economic level.

I imagine my blood wouldn't be too useful if it was laced with caffeine, sugar, dairy products and/or artificial sweeteners on an hourly basis and that I might get too lazy to wash a cup. Maybe this is what happens.

There is a feedback loop that goes on with the wasteful lifestyle with people not able to regulate their body heat in winter or summer. So everything has to be air conditioned the whole time. In the USA this is a requirement but in England there was no such thing as air conditioning in the 1970's. You would open a window instead. Nowadays the windows have to be closed and the AC is on. Also in the 1970's you put lights on when it got dark. You didn't have the lights on mid day in mid summer, the glowy thing in the sky was considered sufficient.

Try turning off the lights in your workplace and see how people moan. Don't tell them that you are saving the environment, just say you had glare on your screen. See how they react.

I would like to see an office segregated into two zones much like how places used to be segregated into smoking and non-smoking areas. In one zone there would be the planet trashers. Then in the other the people who can do actual work without having to be overly nannied.

The 'eco' work zone would have no AC in places like England, instead there would be a breeze, some silence (instead of fans), nobody moaning about the weather but enjoying it and some sensible hours worked, so nobody sauntering in at 10 to moan all day, more of a decent lunch time, French style.

Meanwhile, in the other zone would be the people who are no longer able to regulate their body temperatures due to weight considerations. They would be paid slightly less as in their part of the building there would be the fizzy drinks machine to pay for, the disposable cups, the air conditioning, the excess lighting and the excess trash to landfill.

If this were in place then I am sure productivity would increase.
There are also ones that fit in windows that slide horizontally, which ought to be just as good as "normal" ones.
You can use AMD graphics cards with their open-source drivers. I'm not sure how well hardware-accelerated video works with them but it should work the same as it does on x86 Linux. Multimedia is probably one of the weaker areas for Power since there's so little focus on writing Altivec SIMD code for the platform from the larger open-source multimedia community (most of their focus is understandably on x86 and ARM), though that wouldn't impact hardware en/decoding.
Most Berliners do not have the sense of humor where a satire could be applicable.
I read it as it takes 250 millions trees 40 years to remove the carbon emitted by the US in a week. That being they have very little effect overall.
I'm not a manager, but it seems to me that one of the biggest obstacles managers face is that they often have less information than the people they manage. Humans are gossipy creatures, but we tend to gossip with peers, not with those we perceive to be higher or lower status. (A lot of times the person that is most clued into the happenings in the office is the receptionist). I think managers would be smart to focus more often on one-on-one meetings. I'm always baffled when managers don't have time to talk to low-level employees. If I were a manager, I think I'd definitely want that.
Is life satisfaction the correct metric?
Exciting! I'll have to take a look at the new interface. Thanks!
Forgive my ignorance, but does any of this have to do with insurance (I assume you're in the U.S.)? Those prices are absurd, so I'm wondering how is it possible for the average American household to afford to pay for that? I imagine one argument being "that's the thing, they can't afford it"; but.. isn't that what hundreds of thousands of Americans are doing per year?
Can you please explain a bit more about these CIA poisoning attacks? As far as I know, the vulnerability here is just flooding keys with spam signatures so much that the public keys crash sks keyservers and gpg when downloaded. That seems like just a basic DoS attack. Where is the CIA poisoning?
Personally I think we should never give up. We are not in a video game with a binary outcome - win or lose. There’s a wide spectrum of possible outcomes, and some involve less suffering than other. I think it’s our responsibility to keep going, and push towards less suffering. If only to make the most of the time we have.
MediaTek ranked 4th largest IC designer worldwide, Novatek No. 8
Is that a heritage of some kind of cultural trauma caused by the cold war?
> A typical HPP process uses food products packaged in a high-barrier, flexible pouch or a plastic container.

If the pressure medium doesn't enter the pouch maybe it doesn't need to be food safe.
> Kohan called for a nurse, who explained that he would need jaw surgery that night. In the meantime, he tried to check whether the hospital — Dell Seton Medical Center — was in his insurance network.

> “I was on my iPhone lying there with a broken jaw, and I go on the Humana website and see the hospital listed,” Kohan says. “So I figured, okay, I should be good.”

Except he wasn’t: While the emergency room where Kohan was seen was in his insurance network, the oral surgeon who worked in that ER was not. That’s how Kohan ended up with a $7,924 bill from the oral surgeon that his health plan declined.

> Kohan called his insurance plan, which assured him that nothing was wrong — that the doctor had likely coded the visit wrong and would just need to resubmit the claim.

> Kohan’s doctor did resubmit the claim, and increased the price of the surgery by about $2,300, billing records show.

> I reached out to the doctor who saw Kohan, an oral surgeon named...

> himself did not respond to my request for an interview. But the day after Canizales and I spoke, Kohan said she called him — and let him know that the entire $7,924.13 charge was being dropped.

> I also reached out to Dell Seton hospital to ask why it contracts with an oral surgeon who does not accept any medical insurance.

> The hospital declined an interview but provided a statement noting that this is a common practice across the country.
I'm curious which part seems nefarious to you? I guess I didn't perceive it that way, but a lot of people have.
Indeed, DICOM is a beast of a spec. Dicomtk is a solid reference implementation in C++ imo, but a bit difficult to work with sometimes.

The goal here is to have a featured implementation in Go that's easy to work with as a library and easy to iterate on and add new features on top of. This library unpacks most standard elements and metadata inside the dicom, in addition to multiple image frames that may be stored in the dicom in a variety of formats. More utils for normalizing and working with these images are coming soon! Also will be looking forward to dumping the dicom data into protocol buffers (that I also helped generate at github.com/gradienthealth/dicom-protos).

As for the forking--I did a lot of work on the parent fork (which isn't maintained anymore) and decided to introduce a lot of API breaking changes and opinionated new features on my actively maintained fork so decided to move ahead with a hard fork (with all the git history and credit maintained). You can see the original author's blessing here: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/bnu47l/high_perform...
You digestive system doesn't absorb intact protein but disintegrates it.
likewise, I'm a huge fan of innolitics and their dicom browser. It's awesome and has helped me a lot!
An old English guy once told me never to buy anything mechanical manufactured in the UK that is larger than a bread box.
It's not apparent to me from the article that this woman is making a serious attempt to make up for those absences. That she wrote this almost seems like a celebration of her choice to de-prioritize them. My father would be gone for a week, but then home for a week. When he was home, he was 100% available to us.
I'd heartlessly hazard that weeding future nuclear engineers out who are unable to master reading "Do not consume" warnings is probably for the best...
It isn’t just the trees that matter. It’s the rest of the forest ecosystem around the trees. Reforestation is still a great idea as part of a larger plan to restore the atmosphere to and global temperatures to what they were, but it isn’t a silver bullet. There is not one place in the world where you can plant a bunch of trees and declare mission accomplished, but you’ll want those forests there flourishing and absorbing carbon dioxide when we do neutralize emissions.
I good book I suggest is Debt the First 5000 Years by David Graeber. It will blow your mind.
I hate "meetings" but I am big fan of conversation. When I worked in a team room with 3 other engineers we just naturally had good conversations from time to time. There was no schedule, no agenda, no start or end time. But we solved a lot of things that way. I also chat with my manager several times a week about stuff. I feel if there is a need to schedule formal one-on-one meetings it indicates a dysfunctional environment.
Damn right! Smart bulbs go in out-of-the-way lamps so I can turn them off when the kiddos leave them on. Smart switches for the porch lights. The rest of the house is “smart enough”.
> For other introverts, how do you speak up in meetings?

It definitely takes practice and experience to feel comfortable doing this. If there's someone you trust, perhaps you could enlist them privately to give you feedback on your contributions in meetings - that kind of feedback can be really helpful.

On a single team (yours), the advice I'd give is: (a) strive to make yourself really valuable, even indispensable to the team through your technical contributions and increasing knowledge; (b) when you have something relevant/helpful to add to a discussion, speak up!

However, when interacting with multiple teams that you don't work with, I think (b) is probably the best advice. Wait until you have something helpful to say (this may be seldom - that's OK), then say it.

Also, when interacting with other teams there may be a lot of discussion that has nothing to do with you. It can be helpful to learn to tune out irrelevant discussion (although that may take time to build that mental filter), if only to keep your brain from getting overloaded.
Author says, regarding if-else, “We aren’t certain here whether we mean to cover all possible values, or only these values in particular”. I don’t really get what that means.

I never feel confused when looking at an if-else statement which values I’m targeting. Do they just give a bad example in this post?
Alternatively, the author of said contract could, by law, be forced to pay for the other party’s lawyer.

That seems simpler, but I think it is more easily abused by consumers. (Get a overpriced slimey lawyer, apply for 100 credit cards, and split the fee with the lawyer after the fact).
We can chop down the trees and landfill them to prevent the carbon from being released back into the atmosphere. Of course, with that we are talking about re-doing millions of years of prehistorical carbon capture by the earth.
Actually, I'd like to exchange one form of sensationalism for another.

It's a particularly egregious atrocity to harm animals like orangutans, even if that sentiment represents a blind spot that neglects less charismatic portions of the environment and glosses over comparable human tragedy.

But the headline sounds like a bank heist with high powered firearms, and that conjures different imagery than the facts of the story.

Slingshots, bow and arrow, air rifles and hunting knives are a different class of weapon.

Getting "shot" is an entirely different injury that can shatter bones and rip internal organs to shreds. To say that an animal was "shot" 74 times creates an impression of a body so mutilated that it might be unrecognizable.

74 bullet wounds also usually don't trickle in over years. If an animal gets shot 74 times it's probably going to happen in less than a minute. It's also rare to little more than only blinded by a small caliber bullet wound to the eye. Often the bullet tends to enter the skull and destroy the brain, making it impossible to climb trees.

I'd rather see the headline communicate that human activity is a constant threat to these animals, and that protection needs to endure decades. These animals aren't just vulnerable to poaching, but also pranks and the malign entertainment value that idle humans derive from antagonize them is seriously harmful ways.

The headline fails to capture this sentiment. With the shocking treatment, it suggests that one person heinously abused one animal in a single incident of overkill with a hunting rifle, and that maybe there's an effort to capture and prosecute one poacher for one particularly improper killing.
The reality is that both need to happen regularly. Issues that are too sensitive for the entire group are talked about during the regularly scheduled 1 on 1 or an ad hoc 1 on 1 if the issue is urgent.
Lessons From The Screenplay (LFTS) is great also — in addition to Every Frame A Painting and Nerdwriter.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCErSSa3CaP_GJxmFpdjG9Jw

Beyond YouTube, you might start with something like "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112120/
Ah, sorry to hear that. Can you get a babysitter or pay a relative/friend to watch the kids? Obviously not something you want to do in the long run as it seems to neglect the kids, but it could make things better.

Alternatively you can look for clients who are very understanding of your situation.
Matching and Replacing Whole Words in JavaScript
Fujitsu develops user interface device to sense sound with body
Was also quoted by Naval Ravikant's podcast with Nivi, based on his Tweet storm by the title of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75tUgLxzE7Q. The entire Podcast can be listened to here;
https://nav.al
Yes, Microsoft clearly has a relevancy problem.
It seems everything around heath care billing is sneaky in the US. It's probably the most rotten, inefficient and corrupt sector of the whole economy. I am not talking about the actual health care but only about billing practices.
not with recaptcha in the way
In fact by not burning the oil yourself, you reduce the demand for oil which can depress the price, causing others to use more oil since gas prices are lower!
Witnesses miss out on birthdays, non Witnesses miss out on being a part of their community with the benefits and disadvantages that come with that. I’m not familiar with them but any demanding (and hence cohesive) religious community I’m aware of is it’s own social group, support network, family substitute if someone is sick or when somebody dies or just needs to move. Mormons celebrate birthdays but the adults have to give up alcohol, caffeine, swearing and R-rated movies. Communities are bundles of goods, they don’t come à la carte. Religious communities that demand nothing from their adherents other than weekly attendance and nothing else that is not appropriate to their social and class position like Unitarianism, Episcopalianism or Liberal Judaism wither because people wonder why they bother attending.

Communities demand and give different things. Birthday parties seem a very small thing to give up if an actual community is what you get in return.

Regarding accusations why should making accusations be costless? If you’re trying to drum someone out of a community and fail to bring convincing evidence they kick you out. It’s just a community deciding on its internal norms. The US legal system has different burdens of proof and punishments when it comes to slander but the US system is still available to them. Communities exist outside the state.
My original comment was how the health care system is used to put people to work. It's not really waste, it's a ham-fisted approach to the jobs problem.

One of the passengers I stay in touch with now has a United Health Care [UHC] AHCCCS (Medicaid) plan. They have their primary transportation provider, but if they don't show up she can call UHC and they'll send her trip to Lyft.

It's probably cheaper for UHC to use their primary transportation provider. Lyft provides flexibility and a backup way to get people where they need to go.
I once heard a podcast and some guy who worked there said that the problem is that they took investor money and they had to grow and ended up fucking up a great small app.

They said at one point they were selling t-shirts.
Getting paid 50% of my peak salary for just sitting on my ass and doing nothing sounds great to me. I'd go for it. Move to Spain for a couple of years, pursue my hobbies, stuff like that.
Was the Manhattan Project a Fluke? [video]
I use Brave browser's script and cookie blocking abilities. In the browser, you click on the Brave logo to the right of the url input. In the menu that appears, you can block all scripts and cookies.

This is usually enough for me to see NYT, WaPo, Economist, and other articles. Only in rare cases has this strategy not worked. I consume a lot of news, so whenever I see a paywall -- boom! Scripts blocked, paywall goes down.

It seems that it remembers these settings on a site-by-site basis, as well. I encounter fewer paywalls as time goes by.
Can you please tell me of one job where you can betray the trust of your employers to the point of going to jail and not lose your job?

Serious question. I might be missing something, though I will be honest and say I doubt it.
This is a nice idea, but the one thing I haven't been able to divorce myself from is YouTube. I really hate how Google has allowed such a wealth of constant information that completely dwarfs alternative video hosting sites. As censorious as Google can be(now "up next" is always some video from CNN or Fox), blocking YouTube from my network would mean cutting myself off from a large portion of the world.
Ask HN: Recommended Coding Bootcamps?
A friend wants to break into coding and has asked my advice. He has an offer from Revature, which he describes as:

"They train their new associates for 10 to 12 weeks and then try to place them at different companies. Since the training is free and they also provide corporate housing, they require new associates to sign an agreement for a two year employment term. The first year pay is around 50k and the second year around 65k. The training is in Arlington Texas and after the training they can send me anywhere in the US to work depending on their clients needs."

My initial thoughts are that he would be better suited with an online school as being forced to travel for 2 years for that low of pay isn't a good deal. But I'm not up to speed on the subject and would appreciate advice.
> One reason I will always refuse to become a supervisor is that being a good manager (i.e. nice and reasonable to work for) and being a good manager (i.e. extracting the maximum surplus value out of each worker) are often directly in conflict, as this article shows.

You seem to think that getting the most out of the employee is harmful to the employee, but I don't think that makes sense. If you're not asking them to work extra hours, it just means you're figuring out the best way to make them efficient. That's good for THEM (promotions, new skill-sets, new opportunities). It's also good for the business.

Also, as long as they're using ethical means, why would the business trying to get the most bang for their buck be an implicitly bad thing? As an employee (I'm not a manager), I'm happier if I feel like my time is being used productively, and I'm less happy if I feel like I'm collecting a pay check but my services are not being put to good use. I want to work reasonable hours, but I'm an adult and I'm not there to slack, I feel better about myself and my situation if I'm earning my paycheck.
I wonder if I'll even get to retire...
> Isn't there many people who become famous inventor or great discovery made because they goes againts the commonly held idea.

No. There are a few - probably something like 1 in 10,000,000 or so. Which echoes the most important part of my comment - what makes you so sure you're right when you've failed to convince anyone in this comment thread of anything other than you're a difficult individual?

Maybe you're the next Isaac Newton, but I'd literally take 1,000,000:1 odds you suffer from some combination of a superiority complex and delusional thinking.
minisign is a few hundred lines of code most of which are setup for calls into libsodium.
While banks sometimes fail this is the tip of the iceberg. The government has been using the banks to keep the economy on high, never mind that an awful lot of the loan security is not worth it's paper value.

I'm sure you've heard of the ghost cities?
How can there be any protection from the psychological stress of knowing that everything you do is recorded and can be used against you and there are no safe places of refuge? Are we not training the youth to accept the insinuation of violence by authority figures when they graduate?
Neffos – A cross-platform Real-Time framework with expressive, elegant API
video from Atlas Obscura about the toy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeyoJGqKbOQ
Cell phone SIM hacking horror stories
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https://www.reddit.com/r/lancora/comments/c76sjb/ballthreaddemetrius_andrade_vs_maciej_sulecki/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lancora/comments/c76sjd/watch_demetrius_andrade_vs_maciej_sulecki/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lancora/comments/c76sjv/officialterms_sulecki_vs_andrade_live_stream_on/

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One morning, about 2am in one of the Mission Control rooms at JSC, I was sitting next to two semi-retired flight controllers managing a simulation. They went back to Apollo.

One of my 20-something peers walked back to our row where the pizza boxes lay, ruffled through them, sighed “its all cold” and walked back to his terminal.

Now, we’d been doing this for weeks.

Old fart #1 turns to #2 and says under his breath “You know, I gave up my marriage and kids to get us to the moon”

And so they did.
Muxie – fast trie-based routing for HTTP
Besides the great references others have made here, I'll add that you need to have a certain mindset when watching movies that you -choose- to analyze for deeper meaning. Often I'll get there on a 2nd / 3rd watch. More often I'll need a little help from online research. The Leftovers (HBO 3-season series) is a great example. I watched it twice, then sat down and just wrote about it. To myself. Things came out that I didn't expect, then I researched what others were saying online. That introduced new wormhole to explore.