skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
-2 I should be proud. hn's voting system is trash and they do their best to make everyone look the other way. kind of dystopian.
And because I left it too late to edit it in.

7) You will feel, at times, like you're letting down everyone equally, workmates and children both. And you just have to ride with it.

And I've found that workmates will notice your child related late starts or early finishes, and resent them. The only solution is communication. And a decent employer.

Our work culture also assumes two people families to an extent.
To play devil's advocate / ask some questions:

> you also can't say 'just don't use heat' without looking idiotic

Can't you put on a sweater to minimize your energy footprint?

> air conditioning is considered a luxury

Isn't air conditioning common even in developing countries? Perhaps it is luxurious to cool your environment, but to what extent is it a luxury?

> even if lack of it also results in people dying

Are people dying from lack of air conditioning? Will people die without it? I find it is difficult to argue causation of death due to lack of a luxury
I think this is the wrong ask. Stronger anti-fraud and anti-corruption laws. Ethical requirements for politicians, and appropriate sanctions for violating them. Standing army and war taxes. Some or even all of these things should be made constitutional amendments so they are enduring, and not subject to political histrionics. What we really need is better functioning and accountable government. If we don't have that first, a bunch of money just gets wasted, and what we're in sore need of is better value, and a better return for our money.
Depends on the temperature differential between the outside air and the climate controlled environment. Here, in eastern Washington, winter costs me a lot more. Using the shoulder season as a baseline, summer adds x and winter adds 3x.
Ticketmaster fined $4.5M in Canada for deceptive ticketing practices
The way I read it: In practice it's easy to DOS the server even if it's written in that language for which was here claimed to have a property of protecting from DOS. Especially due to the pooor scalability of it.
I can't say I've read much from this publisher (although I appreciate the sidebar articles on Gabbard and Gorsuch, two of the rare public figures I admire), but I wonder how much of this skepticism of neoclassical dogma can be credited to our Orange Leader's determined protectionism? After a century of kowtowing to country club Republicans, conservatives are finally allowed to question the price of "anything goes". The Orange One is no fan of regulation, but he cannot possibly stick to a consistent ideology and besides he probably has been pissed off at lots of Wall Street reptiles.
You mean TC_and_LC_or_GTFO.com ? Pretty sure a fair portion of those numbers are exaggerated on there, either because of trolling or peer pressure.
That's a remarkably unhelpful way of presenting it too.

Each year's high and low in the same line so there's no chance of noticing a trend or moving average, without plotting one.
That is pretty arrogant to think that just because somebody posts here they have 10 digits of pi memorized. This is a public forum. Anybody can post. You and everybody else posting here are in all likelihood just average intelligence.

There is nothing exclusive about using this forum. You aren’t the first or the last random person to exist here.

Don’t let your own supposition of your intelligence get to your head. There is even a theory for that.... Dunning Kruger.
Thanks :) As for TUIs vs web UIs, I believe so. The closer the UI is to the command line, the shorter the feedback loop and the more options for customisation. I'm someone who struggles to context switch so if I can do something without having to leave my terminal it helps keep me focused
To be honest I don't actually use the feature, so I frequently forget it exists too. :-P
They're more practical: ssh into the server. start the tool. [do your stuff]... close the tool. close ssh session.

With a web UI: ssh into the server. find out you want to check your containers statuses. ssh again while binding some local port to a remote port. start the web UI service. open a browser window. enter the URL. [do your stuff]... close the browser window. go back to the terminal. close the web service. close ssh session.
This is great. Celebs need to be on boarded more than Geeks. Getting an Obama or Kim Kardashian to show support would have major global impact. A cascade would start.
That seems like a good choice for some. It's sad, though, that for Thimble, and so many others, that "science"=electronics, when there is so much more to explore.
I love this. Ironically, a great way to spread the word is via social media.
> I have not seen a single open source community that would treat full disclosure with such contempt.

So what are the acceptable limits of this "full disclosure"?
Not always. Like the prototypical draft horses, the people have blinders on. The scope of their observations are limited to what is in front of them, or what they hear in the stable after work.

The horse may think moving forward on the road is the wrong direction, but the horse also cannot see the obstacle off to the side.
It makes possible a dragnet of iMessage communications in China. In the US, the Fourth Amendment prevents a dragnet on SMS messages (and on iMessage).
Mostly just in VirtualBox, which makes for much more convenient development, and also provides a debugger. When I need to run on real hardware, then just some regular PC (or Mac, with Bootcamp) will do.

Unfortunately I don't have anything out publicly right now. It's really a toy side project, and as such it's currently neither presentable nor in any stable shape. If it ever gets somewhere where I'm comfortable showing it, I'd love to put it up, though.
Boy, I miss my Matias keyboards. I had the clackity type with the big key caps and mechanical switches. Unfortunately they just didn’t last that long.

This one looks like fun.

I like that it’s stealthy... it looks a lot like a regular Mac keyboard until you turn the backlight on.
Rising energy usage is an invariant. If it weren't for an increased demand for air conditioning, it would be for an an increased demand in other areas - transportation, computing, desalination, etc.

The answer is not to try to stop development - the answer is to cleanse the sources of electricity.
> Tune in next month when we’ll be taking a look at the forgotten art of the tech concept video.

Looking forward to this! Will it include stuff similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos or is 'tech concept video' a whole another thing?
Memorizing digits of pi is easier than memorizing the algorithm in the article. 3.14159265, come on, stop making such a big deal of this.
If the other partners want more value in exchange for continuing to work for the company, they should negotiate for more shares in a dilution event.

If they expected 30 years of service in the first place, then they should've put a 30 year vesting term on the shares from the start.

There's no right answer, it really depends on what people want and negotiate for. I may expect to put in 5 years and then retire with whatever value we end up with. That's totally reasonable. Just because my partner decides at that point to keep working doesn't mean our deal is suddenly no longer valid.

That's why I say, if you want to change the deal halfway through you need to get the board to issue more shares.
I'm the exact opposite. Short meetings with a small group (preferably just one other person, as discussed in the OP) at a scheduled time with an agenda are a much more efficient use of my time than ambient conversation. I've worked on teams and with people who feel like you do and it drives me pretty nuts. I'm constantly getting pulled into low value conversations that are a distraction from what I'm doing. I can't determine ahead of time whether the conversation is more or less valuable than whatever else I'm doing because there is no agenda for "hey you got a sec?".

What I don't know is: am I just wrong about this, or are you, or is it just pure subjective preference? If it's just subjective, what's the best way to structure teams with respect to this? Is it all or nothing, or can you build a team with both kinds of people in such a way that they respect each other's preference?

Edit to add: To make a different point, I'm a big fan of standing closed-door 1:1s with your manager, because the conversations you can only have with your manager are the most awkward ones and asking for a one-off closed door meeting when it's uncommon makes it way worse. For instance, if you're having strife with a co-worker that you need to bring up with your manager, the last thing you want to do is walk over to their desk and say, "can we talk privately?". Waiting for your next standing meeting is a much better option.
Anyone knows of a good ergonomic keyboard? I really liked the Microsoft one, but the newer versions are really bad quality and break in just a few months.
Gotta be careful with that. Someone might get the bright idea to combine a bunch of smaller medium risk transactions to diversify and reduce risk. Then you end up with 2008 all over again
https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/declaration-of-digital-indep...
Defining wiretaps as only content is splitting legal hairs. Location data alone can get people convicted. Browsing history (IP address/DNS lookups etc) and connection data (who you texted etc) is arguably also not "content". For the person facing the charges there is little practical difference between a content "wiretap" and non-content non-wiretap.
Because good deeds don't undo bad deeds. Morality isn't a math equation.
It's real, but the marketing slogan doesn't include all the details mentioned here: "Their only ingredients are hydrogen-oxidising bacteria, electricity from solar panels, a small amount of water, carbon dioxide drawn from the air, nitrogen and trace quantities of minerals such as calcium, sodium, potassium and zinc." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/31/electr...
Even if you can save 20% on younger people (by paying doctors/hospitals 20% less) that's still a long way away from bringing costs in line with Europe. Single payer doesn't sound like a crazy idea to me, I'm just skeptical that it will necessarily solve the cost problem. A single payer system that is very expensive and continually increasing seems like a real possibility to me.

I guess you could achieve cost savings by cutting reimbursement rates even further if you prohibit any alternatives. Hospitals can and do go bankrupt but it seems likely that physician salaries could also be cut. I'm sure this will drive many doctors that were borderline into retirement but I guess we're facing a physician shortage anyway.

I think there's a number of other things we could do to contain health care costs. We could expand the role of nurses and physician assistants (possibly with the aid of computer diagnostic systems). We could increase the number of doctors produced (which will in general lower salaries). We could subsidize medical education more, so doctors graduate with less debt, in exchange for accepting a lower salary later. We could have better conversations around end-of-life care, since many patients choose treatment plans that doctors would not chose for themselves, but might not if things were explained better. We could have official guidelines to establish when certain tests are necessary using evidence-based medicine, to limit thoughtless CYA testing for liability purposes if it isn't medically warranted.

So, my feelings on single payer are tied to whether it will make it more or less likely that we can explore these things. Given the current state of our political discourse I'm not encouraged.
I would guess that in China the probabilities of 4 and 8 goes down. Asking people to pick randomly drives them away from special numbers.
> Schönefeld/BER, which is rather far out

Depends where in the city you need to go to. Ostbahnhof to Schönefeld is 16 minutes with the RB 14, 17 minutes with the RE 7. A vastly better experience than the TXL bus which is often crowded.
N64 Zelda patent expired today
It depends on the job, and the phase of the company’s life.

When times are good and things are growing, self-organization works great because doing what you do better is easy to grasp, easyish to rally around, and whatever fuck-ups happen get buried in growth.

When things are more challenging, answers aren’t always so clear. Somebody has to lose something. You need accountability, someone who owns the strategy and execution. Enter the manager.

The other issue with self management is that it is usually bullshit unless you have a great culture and the good fortune to pull together an amazing team. That is incredibly difficult to do. There’s always a pecking order based on relational based power, and whomever holds the positional power must understand what that means for her team.
"Just use your free will"

https://github.com/elsehow/aaronson-oracle
Would be super cool to see the source code and protocol implementations.
Dismissing criticisms because they're "technical" in a field of law that is possibly the most hyper-technical is some of the goofiest yet dishonest hand-waving I've ever seen. There is no Magic Money Tree. Even if we liquidate the rich so as to make everybody equally poorer we're not going to collect revenues that will last.
> Are they also going to go through all kinds of expressions of art and looking for unacceptable views in their libraries?

I think that's been going on for a while. I remember discussions of some works of American literature, which routinely have been parts of teen curriculum, being declared unsuitable due to the use of certain words that represent racial slurs now.

> I’m a bit surprised they haven’t revived Gore’s PMRC to ensure music lyrics represent correct orthodoxy.

That's way too little now. Long past are the times where the only thing that needed for a work to not be banned is content of the work itself. Now if the author fails the purity test, all their work, no matter how clean, is automatically treif and must be expunged. So the ideological commission would have a lot of work on their hands. Likely, it can be crowdsourced by twitterati who are only to happy do dig up any utterance, no matter how old, in the service of the noble goal of unpersoning yet another offender.

> Will one day all the Mission cities get renamed because they were named by Evangelizing Spanish Missionaries.

I wouldn't put it past them. Not only "San" prefix clearly implies religious reference, which triggers atheists and ACLU, I am sure modern sensibilities would not be too kind to Francis of Assisi, which associated with literal crusaders, engaged in various acts of cultural imperialism and so on. And of course there's the question of gender balance - out of all surrounding cities, only Santa Clara - one of the smallest cities, arguably not even a real city at all but merely a district of San Jose agglomeration - is named after a woman. On the other hand, we have San Francisco, San Mateo, San Leandro, San Carlos, San Jose, San Gregorio, San Martin, San Bruno... you get the picture. Cats get the same representation in city names in the Bay as women do. How does it look?

I think renaming San Francisco should be on the agenda very soon.
Your comment confuses me. Are you talking about external GPUs not making sense? Or dedicated GPUs in laptops?

Anyways, I'm pretty happy with the weight of my Dell XPS 15 which has an Nvidia card, but I regret buying it because of the lackluster Linux support.

I haven't seen any laptops with dedicated AMD cards at all lately, and until recently I had no idea that AMD's integrated cards were so competitive, so that's why I didn't. I plan to buy AMD next time I'm in the market.
> If the U7 went to Tegel

It won't go to Tegel, but might be extended to the BER!

https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article215847355/U-Bahn-Der...

You are thinking of the U6 though (see linked article)
Similar, but not solely contained in a cartridge:

Nintendo Family Computer Network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Network_System

and the Nintendo Satellaview which did things similar to the SEGA Channel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview
Rome has the same problems with Ciampino airport. It's exclusively used for budget airlines, and although it's closer to the city center there is no public transit link. You can either take the privately run air coach which takes forever (if the bus departs on time it should take 40 minutes, but late at night or early morning it's usually late taking double that or more) or cough up for a taxi and hope they don't rip you off (the fixed price only applies within the historic city walls, if you are going outside they will charge you more, even if it's less distance).

When I was living there I'd always try to fly to Fiumicino because of that. I can't imagine what impression it must give to tourists on their first trip to the city.
I happened to be looking through some N64 technical documents including a list of patents[1] and noticed that many of them seemed to have expired today!

including ones related to:

Z-buffering[2]

Starfox 64[3]

and Mario 64[4]

[1]: https://forums.cen64.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=7

[2]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6414678

[3]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6540612

[4]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6331146
Wrong. You are assuming a good selection over the whole search space of humans. If you took HN I bet you would get a different distribution. The Reddit data only applies to sampling Redditors sampled using similar strategies, the generalization is limited by how general the collection strategy was
This (https://github.com/suyashkumar/dicom)
... is a fork of this (https://github.com/gradienthealth/dicom)
... which is a fork of this (https://github.com/gillesdemey/go-dicom)
... which inturn depends on other open sources (https://github.com/ivmartel/dwv/ and https://github.com/cornerstonejs/dicomParser)

I always wonder, what happens to an upstream source if one of the downstream guy loses interest.
> How do you discourage consolidation without increasingly punitive tax levels on concentrated wealth and income (individual and corporate)?

Income taxes can't do that anyway. If you have a pile of money collecting interest, it gets bigger over time whether you keep 80% of the interest or only 10%. It changes the rate but not the trend. And that's assuming it even does that, rather than having a nominally high marginal rate that nobody pays in practice, as was the case prior to the 1980s.

The way you fight consolidation is by facilitating competition. You can't keep a monopoly if anyone with a dominant market position is prohibited by antitrust from vertically integrating and anybody with $100 in their pocket and an hour's notice can join the market and compete with you. The way you get stable monopolies is regulatory capture and a regulatory environment with many overlapping barriers to entry for small businesses.
>A wealth tax could help address the climate crisis, improve the economy, improve health outcomes, fairly create opportunity, and strengthen our democratic freedoms. Instituting a wealth tax is in the interest of our republic.

I think they are vastly overestimating the amount of revenue this would generate. It would hardly be a panacea, particularly in the hands of a bureaucracy.
Unfortunately they just didn’t last that long.

I bought one about two years ago and it wasn't everything it should have been.

I used it with an iMac, and about 10% of the time it would shut off while the computer was asleep. So I'd have to wake the computer with the power button, then get the old Apple keyboard out of the closet so I could enter the login password, then re-pair the Matias keyboard.

It would occasionally un-pair itself while I was typing. And the letters started rubbing off within a few months.

I ended up going back to Apple keyboards and have had zero problems.
We descend from thousands of generations of people who ate meat without the benefit of refrigeration or USDA inspections. Unless you have other health problems already, the meat is fine. (I guess "mad cow disease" is an exception, but that's a really long-term exception.)

Yes I have lived in SE Asia. I never hesitated to eat at the restaurants next door to the meat markets that had never seen refrigeration.
In what way is this not a solvable problem?

From the article, the only issues seem to be (1) poor SDLC practices leading to toxic, frozen code, (2) the difficulty in performing protocol / standard upgrades on a decentralized network.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20315373)
I have gas heat and electric a/c and my bill is significantly higher in winter. I live near San Jose, which can reach the 90s in summer and the 40s in winter.
XBAND looks like it was really awesome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBAND#Service

After the matchmaking part on the service, the system would switch into a P2P mode:

"When the network matched two players up, the newly-connected player's XBAND modem would disconnect from the server and dial the other player, whose own XBAND modem would answer when the phone rang. At that point the players would see the XBAND logo slide together, followed by the matchup screen, which displayed each player's codenames, avatars, locations, and a pre-typed "taunt"."
Check out the Ergodox EZ. Split keyboard with tilt and wrist rest so you can adjust it any way you like. Including a thumb cluster so you use a powerful finger for more than just space.

Other split options: https://raymii.org/s/articles/Split_keyboards_a_five_year_re...
Sparse Predictive Hierarchies, an alternative to deep learning [pdf]
Someone would’ve had to have captured the patches that were downloaded and mapped over the cartridge code. Unless some of the game hackers kept copies and made them available, emulation won’t work.
Some folks seem to love this at work:

https://www.amazon.com/Kinesis-Advantage2-Ergonomic-Keyboard...
Check out Pyre.chat and Signal-Weechat perhaps?
AI scares me. Even though I've used neutral networks and even more complex models/networks in projects and have a fair understanding of how they work, they still scare me a lot. Even though we are far away (supposedly) from creating a sentient AI, I can't help but think that AI will turn into something like "I am Mother" rather than C-3PO.

And yes, I understand that AI and machine learning can help us in ways that will advance our abilities in medicine, science, etc but we're human. if something can be used for evil, we should be sure that that will be attempted. We, as a species, have an annoying need of being the first and having control of everything. Only that AI may, in the future, be uncontrollable.
The transport protocol was a close relative of AppleTalk (ADSP I think).
Totally. I’ve worked with very senior level people in corporations and government. The people at the top who aren’t on the letterhead are simultaneously powerful and powerless.

All of their information is 2-5 degrees from the source. They are held accountable for outcomes, and need to be able to navigate through all sorts of stuff.

Senior government middle managers are the most fucked. They are either civil service or staff people who moved up the ranks and have extensive expertise in their programs or field or political appointees who know anything from less than nothing to being preeminent in their field.

IME, the government people are smarter, but get ground up by the machinery of bureaucracy. Often times you have layer of formal leaders who are in a symbiotic relationship with the next level down who really run things. Sort of like how in many ways sergeants run the army.