skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me throw this out there: When I switched to working from home, I found that I sat a lot longer at a time than when I was in an office. No trips for lunch or the "water cooler" or meetings for that matter. It started to affect my body negatively.

I invested a few hundred dollars in a monitor arm that could allow me to sit and stand, and then just got an old bed table I could set on my desk when I was in standing mode. It made a world of difference. Now I can switch around during the day so I'm not in one position too long.

A good chair is important, but so it standing and walking around.
What about bamboo?
There's significant power loss in transmission on grid and to avoid power loss, you need fairly expensive equipment to convert to and from high voltage. If you are adding wind to the mix and working on an AC grid as normal, phase sync is also tricky. Electricity supply on grid has to be very closely matched to demand and the problem will likely become fairly complex with lots variable sources. A lot of problems potentially go away if you push renewable to significant battery storage first and you also get a much more resilient grid to natural disasters (see Puerto Rico's situation)
Good points, I wonder what a government run by Amazon would look like...
I always assume there's a backup somewhere in Google or Facebook that's old as hell but has the old emails, I would assume some of these places have cold storage options for backing up legacy data, but then again, there's the time myspace wiped a bunch of old data and nobody seemed to have cared.

Surprised to this day that many other sites have shut down, but MySpace keeps on kicking.
> consider two different companies. One spends the next 5 years committing to those languages and eco-systems that have been built for the era. The other spends the next 5 years using Docker so they can keep using script languages from the 1990s. Now it is the year 2023, and a crisis happens at both companies. Which of those two companies do you think will be more ready to adapt to the crisis?

Presumably the one that doesn't have to rewrite everything that they just wrote from scratch to avoid Docker.
The new version of TaxPrep, one of thepopular professional tax software in Canada, uses SQLite as part of its save file format. It replaces dbisam which was used in previous versions.
What's that due to? Less energy lost to dissipation?
It really seems beyond just negligent and greedy to me, it's almost like Boeing was just running a malicious social experiment just to see what they could get away with.

I understand the goals of the plane and how avoiding pilot retraining is more important than any other priority in the world of aviation, but even then the design is just so bad it's hard to even make sense of.
If you don't like "some" then replace it with me. I interpret it as the author saying C is confusing.

My interpretation is also based on what the author states, fairly explicitly. And I don't think there's anything that explicitly contradicts my interpretation.
"There are older, mature options, such as Java and C# and Erlang"

I just looked it up, and python is the oldest:

python 1991

java 1995

erlang (public) 1998

c# 2002
I don't know. They don't seem to be attacking any place even once. And yet all this money is spent...
Ask HN: How does Plaid work under the hood?
Does plaid just store your bank username/password that you provide it and then pretend that it is you logging in?
I noticed that they still have to relay your 2FA codes to the bank, so I am pretty sure they don't have some special back-door API to access your financial data.
I am wondering if (when they got started) Plaid used something similar to Selenium to basically scrape all these transactions. However, given that they have thousands of supported financial institutions (and website formats could change every day)... I am wondering how they keep things working....
In dating market, attractive people get most of the attention [1], thus it would be safe to assume that attractiveness is highly valued by the majority and they compete with each other, knowingly or not.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170127222943/https://blog.okcu...
The battery business is a great idea today for grid stabilization, is getting there for peak demand shaving for customers, and the cost is falling.
I really don't feel sorry that the shuttle is gone, over the lifetime of the program including all costs, it cost $1 billion per launch. The 1970s dream of an affordable, reliable, speedily re-usable spacecraft was not achieved. It's good that it's gone.
any idea why it seems the thruster is offside? [0]

Doesn't that complicate mobility/control?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37#/media/File:X_37B_...
You can install whatever GPU you like, but good luck getting aarch64 drivers for it. IMO franken-Ubuntu on Xavier is pretty close to stock, save for CUDA and a few Jetson-specific tools. Certainly close enough to be practical. And you get Pascal-grade CUDA and tensor cores on the Xavier, too. And PyTorch works as well.
I'm not sure it's a moral panic so much as annoyance at a sketchy foreign power trying to screw with our democracy.
Europe is under siege from a plague of incredibly hairy, toxic caterpillars
Drag-and-Drop Data Analytics
When I first saw the photo with very little explanation attached, I took the ring of light around it to be the accretion disc and found it suspicious that it would be so perfectly perpendicular to earth.
This is speculation, but I feel like xi xinping probably thinks that trump is a one-term president, and he can afford to wait a couple years for a better deal. Then, the trade crisis will resolve.
There is a lot to unpack in your response, but I guess it’s your use of the term ‘degenerate’ which confuses me. It’s not common in the Semiotic cannon, and so you say it’s not something you’ve studied.

From your original comment: “...contextualizes that good as being different from all the others (un)like it.”

This is textbook Semiotics. Meaning is not derived from the designation (‘apple’ is the red fruit with the thin skin and firm ...eh flesh. Rather, Apple is not a banana; not a kiwi; not a tomato; not beef; ad infinitum.
For (Neo)Vim, the plugin you are looking for is Denite, it can be cajoled into using fzf, rg, whatever external process you need. It's a game-changer.
> Uggg. This gives everyone that is trying to live on a boat a bad name. The boat's a mess both inside and outside. As someone that cruises around for fun, boats like his create problems. Florida, Georgia and South Carolina are all working / have passed restrictions on people anchoring out.

uhghhhhh, yes. This is basically the floating equivalent of the trashy RVs that are collecting in Seattle's south of downtown industrial area.
“that’s why they call it fishing and not catching” is a popular, if smartass, response to that.
I do have this brochure about a C conference from 2072 entitled "C the language for 2172?" just can't find the link at the moment
In the US, they’re always referred to as ziploc bags. If you called them something else you’d get some confused expressions.
I recommend going somewhere where you can try them out. You're probably going to have to go second hand with your budget anyway. I found that I did not like the popular chairs.
In general:

1. Find key data structures, guess at their purpose, and examine frequently-called functions that operate upon them

2. Outline program entry points: command line, API calls, RPC, etc.

3. Identify major systems and interfaces, especially any module management code
>If the corrected airplane is deemed airworthy by the appropriate regulatory bodies, I'll have no problem flying on it.

I disagree, and I think this is really what makes the situation a far larger issue within the aviation community. It was approved by the appropriate regulatory bodies despite the serious failures by Boeing engineers and managers to identify and correct the MCAS problems before it was deployed into the field.

It's not a case of some crazy fluke that nobody knew was going to happen. This was a single sensor (aka a single point of failure) on a system that could nosedive a commercial airliner against the will of any human on or off board. You could ask anyone: "Is it a good idea to put a sensor on this plane that, if it malfunctions, will force the yoke forward and cause the plane to crash?" Not a single soul alive would think it is.

The fact that the FAA had the opportunity to tell Boeing to GTFO with this insane decision but didn't makes them a political body (i.e. pay for play, they wanted Boeing to generate 737 MAX sales even if it killed people) at worst and incompetent (they genuinely didn't realize the MCAS had problems) at best.

The FAA has, so far, miraculously avoided political controversies throughout its history and has always been regarded as a reputable, trustworthy body that deserves the privilege to regulate airways both in and out of U.S. territory. Losing their reputation could hurt air travel safety for decades to come.
Other than the JRE/JDK what other dangling parts does Java depend on? I mean installing the same JRE/JDK at both ends is hardly onerous.
But, they could get a judgement on whatever other assets he actually does have.
Language design is very hard. Harder than API design. Most people are not much good at it which is why there are not many popular languages. Many people are good at designing languages for themselves but that is much easier. On top of that, are you going to get time to document it? When the inevitable flaws are found will you still be there to fix and extend it in a consistent way? Will there be stack overflow posts there to help people work around it if not?
In response to this post I looked to find out when the Steelcase Leap chair was introduced (1999) and found a few interesting things about it:

It was designed by IDEO.

Bruce Sterling writes about ergo chairs in Wired during the height of the dot com boom ninteen years ago this month.
https://www.wired.com/2000/07/chairs/

"The chair was developed over four years, cost $35 million to design, and resulted in 11 academic studies and 23 patents."

David Pogue reviews the Steelcase Gesture in the NY Times and discusses its predecessor the Leap:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/technology/personaltech/a...
Where I planted, The ground was often rocky so it was tricky to close the holes properly after planting a tree. It's also very important not to bend the tree roots. It would be very difficult to accomplish that reliably without bending over. As far as specialized tools, generally from what I have seen the spade is sharpened and one half is usually ground completely off
The best chair I ever used was a kneeling chair. It encourages proper posture in a way that no other chair I've seen does.

Beware, there's a huge spectrum of quality for this (or any other) type of chair. Kneeling chairs were also some of the worst chairs I've ever sat on. "Kneeling" is one feature which chair designers can use to make a great chair, but it's not a magic feature that makes any chair design great.
I think that linked list with randomly distributed nodes is a good benchmark. Each jump will be hit miss and cause load from RAM and you can't prefetch anything because next address depends on content of fetch. Performance of simple iteration of that linked list should correspond to random memory access performance.
Apparently they are going for SBSA, which means it will have proper UEFI implementation, including possibly ACPI, so you will have normal UEFI experience.
The article says Nutella bread, but I wonder if it was toast.
Which I prefer. And the time waiting for the toast allowed long enough for his mind to wonder to the solution.
I’m running my startup, it requires a shit tone of self-organization. Also, I have too many interest to be able to persuade all of them. What helps me the most is a check-in question: “What thing that you will accomplish or move further forward today will make you the most satisfied and happy?” I try to do that thing.
Removing blockers for others is usually my first priority in the beginning of the day.
This is why I always advise friends to use smaller VPN services, less chance of a site recognizing the VPN. In any case, if you're going to engage in illegal activity you're better off hooking a clean computer to a long-range antenna and connecting to the nearest McDonald's. Keep that computer off your home network entirely and only transfer files with a flash drive.
>My point is that the common thread throughout history is that world super powers have been incredibly brutal.

Huh??? That's the opposite of what happened. Ages with empires are characterized by peace, trade, and cultural and scientific development. War was the default state in the interim time between empires.

And yes, the American empire (if you want to call it that), has been the most prosperous and benign in history.
I could never describe the people who live in the Florida Keys properly, or the people that lived there besides Marathon.

Basically, all different degrees of this.
The thing is, fat binaries don't really solve the problem; Java and Go have just as many problems with this as python does because you're still depending on the OS. Your java app might still depend on a service running on the OS, or a system level configuration (hosts files, etc), or a JNI interface to a C library.

To me, Docker is a tradeoff: you're trading disk space and a little bit of efficiency for removing a TON of variables. Given that I have zero interest in debugging servers, that's a great win for me. YMMV. But if you have to potentially deal with thousands of servers, it seems like an obvious choice (excluding otherwise using something like a VM).

The JVM may have promised "write once run anywhere", but that's never really been particularly true. You've only ever really gotten that with an actual VM, and those are much heavier than Docker is
I use a DXRacer King series and work remotely. I've tried multiple Herman Miller models and steelcase models and returned them within the 30 day period.

I thought the $1500 chairs would be more comfortable, but they were awful for me. The $500 gamer chair is leagues ahead of the others for me.

Try as many as you can.
You are vastly underestimating how important size is. It’s a huge difference to track a pickup truck vs the nail that falls off of it. The military was tracking baseball sized objects in 1961, amateurs are over 50 years behind the curve on this stuff.
Coreboot only handles low-level initialization, it will still need a higher level payload unless you're going to hardcode your kernel to the board for every update.

Now, coreboot+tianocore uefi for somewhat open firmware...
Thanks for the input but we run on Gsuite and haven't had a single problem compared to Office 365 which locked us out repeatedly because some rep in some outsourced support center wasn't available.

The reality is every provider is both good and bad, and you're unlikely to get any major support unless you're the CTO of a major corporation.
The only thing that works for me is a zafu, zabuton and the Burmese position. If you need a chair, I'd suggest sitting on the front edge of the seat, with the height raised so that your thighs are below the horizontal. A thin buckwheat cushion on a hard chair will probably provide the best stability.
How else would you present a counter argument to false information? Without appeal to authority nothing makes a source inherently more or less trustworthy.
I can think of several potential application, if somewhat unlikely, through most is just adaptation of the original deepfake algorithm.

It could be used as a replacement for stunt doubles. The nude scenes in Game of Throne was not always liked by the acters, and the walk of shame actually used a nude stunt double for some of it (https://ew.com/article/2015/06/18/game-thrones-lena-headey-n...). Deepfake and DeepNude could also replace stun doubles where the scene is too dangerous thus improving safety.

It could be used to create a better base model in animation so that clothing can be added more realistic on top, which could be useful when making remakes/remaster of old movies.

In gaming it could also be used as a faster/better method to create realistic bodies, improving immersion and graphic representation. Nude mods has always been rather popular in RPG's.

In theory we could also see similar algorithms in security to get an estimate body shape in relation to clothing in order to detect hidden weapons.
I'm not sure I would consider these an unbiased opinion on China...
Very cool idea. I will also kick it around with my friends in Parachute Mobile, they may have some ideas:

http://parachutemobile.com/

Of course it would also depend on things like weight limits on the balloon and what won't interfere with the student research packages (or maybe even collaborate with them?), but let's keep in touch!
To be fair the “shack” guy is younger, no previous career / savings, and lives off small donations for his open-source work, while the other presumably is living off savings or family money (no offense meant, it’s a damn good use of it, but feel free to correct me here). What we see might be just a reflection of their priorities.
Standing desk + bicycle underneath for ~4 hours a day is what's working for me. Biked ~46 hrs since last Sunday.

Standing otherwise.
These are an awful lot of work. I've got a couple of multigraft trees, with just 3 varieties (apples) on each, but wouldn't want anymore. Some varieties are much more vigorous than others, so they require a lot more care and effort with pruning and training.

Pest control, irrigation, picking are also much more complicated, as different varieties ripen at different times (often over many months).

As I understand it there's no productivity gains either, in terms of volume of produce per unit of (land) area. Most commercial growers have moved / are moving towards upright trees, with dense plantings (1m spacing or less), as it maximises the labour, off-farm inputs, and management costs versus saleable produce.

Doesn't look as pretty as the imagined idyll, but little of industrial agriculture does.
That was your takeway from an article mostly about how someone fixes up and runs a boat on a small budget?
This video by Derek Muller (Veritasium) helped me understand this phenomenon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyH3XhpLTo
I wonder if with a free vpn ... would state pressure even be needed?

Maybe just a wad of cash?

Considering their costs / questionable ownership / ability to just roll out repeated new "free vpns" that nobody knows who is behind or took the money for the other one?
No one needs mass immigration. Especially those with high living standards and "low" birth rates. The position you're taking is an outright lie and I can't fathom why it's constantly being perpetuated.
"real time" has nothing to do with raw speed, and even with C/C++ requires custom allocators to get around normal memory code being unpredictable.

Real time requires predictability, something that was solved in GCs by mid-1990s and had workarounds (which are required in C/C++ as well, and widely used by games etc.) by 1980s - when real-time GC'ed programs started to be used. Including hard-realtime in telephone switches.
Tips for Training Likelihood Models
Carnot cycle limiting maximum ICE efficiency to ~40% (can be obtained if you're big electric power plant) vs 95% electric engine efficiency.

For practical purposes, ICE has way lower efficiency than 40% and electrics lose some due to the transmission and battery recharge.
We've asked you many times to stop taking HN threads further into flamewar. As I've told you repeatedly, if you can't or won't stop doing this, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, because you've also posted good comments. But would you please fix this? HN is not for fulminating and fomenting, however justified your cause.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or tomato to tobacco.
While it’s troubling that this happened isn’t it sort of cool that it’s out in the open for everyone to see? At least due to open source the community can know what happened and even look for changes.
Bitcoin is evil in some aspects. Its enigmatic origin triggers religiosity. Bitcoin consumes those who learn about it. It's like a spell. When price goes down, you'd come into its defense. When price goes up, it occupies your brain. Bitcoin can be a source of good. But it comes with a lot of evil. Craig Wright fell for its evil.
I've always found I prefer a nice dining chair or barstool to any of the expensive office chairs. I'm guessing this is a very individual thing, though, so best advice is to try as many different seating arrangements as you can.
If the project is small (just a handful of files), then I will just jump directly to the code.

But if it's medium to large (several folder, tens or hundred files), then I prefer "working" with the code more than just read it.

The process usually follows this order:

- Check the document for how to build and run the test. Make sure test passes before doing anything else.

- Once test pass, go back to the document, look for the program entry point (if it's built into a binary), or the exposed interface (if it's library). Skim through that to get the overview.

- Load the project into my IDE, and try debug the test to understand the flow. Sometimes, I'll also write new code to check my understanding.

That said. If the goal of reading that OSS project is to hunt down a bug, I would just start from my own code, and debug into the library itself. Skip the overview part.
There's English as well.
Frankincense in Peril
Pretty much any mini-itx board (ie. <$100) comes with 4 sata standard.
Yep, and yet, what a Californian knows is not what a Global 2000 does. We had a new Swarm user last quarter and another Global 2000 doing Mesos, both through their central IT. This month, a team trying us out with their new experimental Hadoop cluster.
Okay, fair point, we can then say little resistance.

My point was that few Danes we're proud of this, and had something to prove. Thus, selling Greenland was off the table.
When we fish, we actually catch the fish ;)
> Presumably the one that doesn't have to rewrite everything that they just wrote from scratch to avoid Docker.

I think that's too simplistic. Larry is right that a company who manages to survive 5 non-productive years rewriting everything in a "better" ecosystem will likely be in a better situation than the company trundling along with ever increasing technical debt.

The problem is that the conservative company without the major rewrite is more likely to make it through (at the least the first few of) those 5 years. So Larry's not wrong --- he just might be making some unwarranted assumptions.
If you're referring to the coins in The Tulip Trust, I don't know that there was ever a claim that only the inventors were involved.

No, there's no guarantee that Bitcoin was singularly invented. I'm not even convinced Craig wasn't part of that team. I'm just convinced he's not the singular inventor.
This is my reply to the parent comments on how his boat looks bad and this other guy’s is better.

The article on the Dutch sailor mentions a 12-year career, family history of sailing, flights, etc; plus even with the savings his boat costs a good decade or two of the other guy’s income. As I said, feel free to correct me and I’ll be happy to retract my comments.
Deep scrutiny only has moderate impact when it comes to finding and fixing bugs.

An issue can be extremely difficult to identify and understand in the first place. Assuming you can find it anyway, the fix is very costly both in financial and political terms. All things considered, most problems just remain under the carpet.

For a comparable case. Think of the unwanted acceleration in the Toyota car. A software bug that caused multiple deaths. Toyota didn't admit to having any bug. The first audit found glaring quality issues but no explanation for the unwanted acceleration. It's only few years later that another audit identified how to trigger it, well, 10 different ways to make it happen.