skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never heard (let alone forgotten) that 'Economics is considered a philosophy', whatever that might mean.

Wikipedia: "Economics is the social science that studies..."
Someone who did impressive things with method A saying they think a method B that they haven't tried is superior isn't much evidence in favor of B.
This isn’t just a pattern of self help books but i’ve noticed that most non fiction pop psychology or business books tend to follow this extremely tiresome pattern:
1. Start with a little biography for a chapter or so.
2. State your thesis, maybe earlier.
3. Make all of the chapters some principle or broken down element supporting the thesis.
4. Beat the reader over the head with case study after case study. This is great because it fills out what would’ve otherwise been a pamphlet into a real deal 300 page book.
5. Profit?

I used to look down on all of these summary companies and stuff like Blinkist but i totally get it now. People aren’t too lazy to read this stuff, it’s just not very important that you understand all of the filler.

Also. It’s quite telling whenever these kinds of speed reading goal setting articles get made they’re almost always using self help books. That works because of the points above. No one is ever speed reading War and Peace or East of Eden.
Of course they are, there are many more gurus pushing them today than there were in 2014, and those that still remain from 2014 will necessarily have grown their revenues. Further, because the guru quotient was relatively minor in 2014, the businesses that used Shopify back then would tend to be more solid than those that have been brought into the fold in the last 2 years. That won’t continue forever, and the internet marketing world is already starting to show signs of Shopify fatigue. Courses aren’t selling as well, etc. The fact that they are at 2x what they were in 2014 does not disprove that their growth is being driven by a fickle source that is soon to end.
Ah scare mongering. The safety limits are put in place such that the exposure causes no measurable effects, plus a buffer for safety. The precision of our instruments is very, very high.

Naturally occurring uranium has a very long half life. Which means it radiates very small amounts in comparison to other radioactive elements like certain isotopses of cesium and iodine. By many orders of magnitude.

You could drink 10x the "safe" levels of uranium your whole life and have no ill effects. Holding a kg rod of pure uranium gives you exposure between normal background and a plane flight.

The outrage you're looking for isn't here. It's not another Flint.
In a country that’s obsessed with saving, wouldn’t there be a lot of money in these accounts? Though in a country like Germany that has a large state welfare program, you would think that saving wouldn’t be particularly popular.
Years ago I had an elderly neighbour here in Germany who fell victim to financial fraud, wiring most of his his life savings--over $200k--to some dodgy bank account in Hong Kong. He thought he was buying shares in some kind of gold mine or something. He asked me for help because most of the information he had was in English. I quickly figured out that he'd been scammed, and very gently broke the news to him. He took it remarkably well.

This happened during the Euro crisis some years ago, and at the time it seemed that Germans with any kind of savings were desperately looking for safe places to put it. Lacking much in the way of financial literacy, many undoubtedly fell victim to professional crooks.

It's hardly any surprise that property markets across Germany started heating up around that time. Property is widely viewed as a safe bet. They call it 'Betongold' or 'concrete gold' for a reason. I know that isn't the only factor behind the vast increase in property values in many areas, but it's undoubtedly a major one, and I think we can expect this situation with interest rates to further inflate what is beginning to look like a bubble.

Nominal property values in the mid-sized city where I live have more than doubled in a decade--seems like a wild party after decades of relatively flat (real) property values.

It's something of a shock, given that earnings have hardly budged during the same period. One could argue that Germany was abnormally cheap 10 years ago in terms of both consumer goods and real estate, and it might be true, but the reality on the ground is pretty disheartening, particularly in light of political developments in places such as Saxony. I'm afraid the squeeze on people in the middle is going to fuel more political instability, or could at the very least be used to stir up trouble.
It's unlikely that switchable/swappable batteries will be a thing in aviation.

Even in the smallest aircraft, the batteries weigh hundreds - or thousands - of kilograms, comprise the bulk of the aircraft's dry weight, and are likely to be tightly integrated with the rest of the airframe for structural and safety reasons.

Most aircraft spend enough time on the ground between flights to make fast DC charging quite practical, and certainly much more so than swapping out huge batteries.
The move to a joyless, bland release naming scheme in order to appease a perceived mass of illiterate rubes who somehow care about their Android version but can't read past the name of a dessert...

To me it is another signal of the erasure of cultural flavour at the company; the pivot to a base, power-chasing, stifling corporatist death march toward nowhere of interest.
You had the unfair advantage of working on your own :)
I nominate your comment for the HN comment of the day.
A user can already choose to reduce their account security, by reusing passwords, choosing common passwords, not using 2fa, etc. Allowing a user to choose to not have to complete a CAPTCHA before a login attempt, or allowing the user to choose to not require their account to have a phone number in case of suspicious logins, is reasonable, and would make many people who care about their privacy respect Discord much more.
I enjoy seeing a bit like of humor in the code, especially silly-but-clear comments and names less important parts of code. For a one shot task, why name it ScheduledObjectStorageDownloader when you can name it AutoCloudStorageFileYoinker?!
> I am talking about throwing 10 Elon Musks at the problem. Heck let's throw 50 Elons at it.

Sure. We just need to find 50 Elon Musks's, and then convince them all to work for the state. Let me know when you have them all lined up ready to go.
i regularly use Compose for unicode symbols, mostly stuff like ←↑↓→–≠ . it's not too clunky, for example "→" is "RAlt, -, >" in succession.
In this demonstration, the rooster doesn't even mind having its leg pulled and prodded. I wonder how much discomfort it will endure before snapping out of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ_Up5UdwG0
Well water was used to produce many crops throughout the California Central Valley during the recent long drought, vegetables and fruits that are then shipped for consumption throughout the States.
I'm a bit surprised that negative nominal interest rates are a thing. If you print enough money, inflation starts to rise. Why not print money such that you can still provide a positive nominal interest rate so people don't start bank runs and stuff money in mattresses? True, the real return would be negative, but that would be the case either way.
> I wonder if penmanship is worse now than at any time in human history

As another datapoint, I write a few times per year.
I'm not sure if my handwriting got worse (it has always been on the lower end of legible), but I do forget how to write letters. I have to consciously think how an M or a K goes, or how a U fits onto a W. It has also always been slow, nearly slow enough to cause real trouble in exams. On the other hand (pun not intended), typing is something I do faster than anyone else I know in real life, so it's not that me or my hands are slow in general.
I’m not very familiar with the details of what’s needed tecnically for ”optionally manned”. Maybe it’s extremely complex and expensive.
My guess would be that it’s not extremely complex or expensive. UAVs have been in active duty for years so the remote piloting/link tech is already mature. Converting a current fighter to unmanned is done routinely at under $1M per hull, to create target drones. And those fighters were never designed initially to be unmanned, that’s just a hack.
Reconstructed Super Mario 64 source code
Life on alien worlds could be more diverse than on Earth
Something like 75% of code in apps nowadays are part of SDKs. Even if an app itself doesn't need network, you need the network for ads and analytics.
Interestingly, even though it's C code, the compiled ROM matches with the original byte-by-byte. This is why an old IRIX-only compiler is used.
I'm 99% sure that was tongue in cheek.
I misspoke then. I would call you an engineer without your being a member of a professional association. I guess in my mind the degree is enough. I'll never have PEng on my business card, but you at least have the potential.
Nice. I use some of these.

Unfortunately,commercial software is a few years ahead for some of the more complicated projects.

I prefer opensource but lack of support is a deal breaker in many professional environments.
I've used a Mac at work for several years now and generally either like the UX or have found third-party packages to fix my problems like BetterTouchTool.

All but one-- MacOS doesn't allow click-through. If you're working in one window and want to click on something in a second window, you need to click twice, once to select the other window and then again to do whatever you were looking to do. This drives me crazy on an hourly basis and there is no way to fix it.
99% of the people on Earth have a higher than average number of legs.
I believe a huge fraction of Tinder profiles are in fact Instagram models attempting to attract followers so they can become influencers. I bet if you use a bot w/ their API and change your location around, say "I'm never on here, lol, IG me at __, lol <kiss emoji>" -- and you look like a model -- then you can gain hundreds, or perhaps thousands of followers easily.
Many cattle ranchers have declared war on Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat
Google refuses to do something about arbitrary network connections, most likely due to their ads business model. Their ads require network connections to work!
This has been my experience exactly.

I switched from Linux to OSX/MacOS around eight years ago, and the better and (to me) more intuitive modifier keys have been one of the features that have kept me there; along with the convenience of Emacs/Readline keybindings for text editing everywhere.

Getting keybindings to work the same way in Linux currently involves a Rube Goldberg setup of GTK3 key themes [1] and AutoKey [2] for me, and some things still don't work right (Super-W closing a single tab in Firefox/Chrome, etc.) Also, it looks like key themes are going away in GTK4 [3].

The Hawck daemon cited elsewhere in the conversation looks promising, maybe that'll work better.

[1] http://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/gtk3-emacs-key-theme.html

[2] https://github.com/autokey/autokey

[3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/1669
Yep, this is an accurate description according to my understanding of the issue too.

The lesson I've recently learned is that, for now, swap is necessary on Linux machines with SSDs. I've enabled zswap and added a 4 GB swap file to my machine with 16 GB of RAM, and the problem hasn't reoccurred for me since then. Supposedly, the memory pressure measure in the kernel gets a more accurate reading when swap is enabled, but I don't know for sure that that's true. At the very least, you can page out the memory you're using the least instead of file-backed pages, which is what happens in memory pressure situations on SSDs (as opposed to OOM killing).
$60 is a stiff price for a belt when the value of leather is apparently $0. Hank's Belts hasn't heard the news yet, I suppose.
This is true, but by taking USD exposure rather than Euro exposure, you are actually derisking and hedging out the massive currency exposure you already have. Namely the fact that you use Euros for everything in your life.

So it would probably be a better idea to hedge some of that out unless you have some specific long view on Euros. Also you could argue that Euro debt isn’t sovereign debt since only the European Central Bank can make more of it. Consequently USD should be a less risky and more stable currency in the long-term.
Without disagreeing with you:

> Although a corporation is soulless entity

A corporation (like any large group of people) certainly has a "mind of its own" as an emergent property, so calling it "soulless" is kind of odd (unless you have a narrower definition of "soul" than I do).
It is still there and visible on both Play Store and Settings when you open the full permission list for an app.

It is called "have full network access".
I'm not a zealot or anything, I just like Arch because of certain good aspects. Great documentation for everything I could want to do (though it used to be better). Rolling release. Upstream, latest packages. AUR. On that note, I tend to prefer Manjaro unstable nowadays because it works out of the box and still gets me the latest packages.

I don't particularly care for the whole DIY aspect. I spend enough time tinkering with Emacs and other tools that I don't want to waste any time on configuring/tweaking the OS itself. The different Manjaro versions are pretty decent (currently using the Awesome WM one), and I really like the Manjaro CLI installer (manjaro-architect) if I want a bit more control over my installation.
>The enemy isn't a pilot flying something like an F-16, the enemy is a hypothetical low-cost high-maneuverability remotely controlled drone fighter which isn't limited by human tolerance for G-forces.

The F-35 has internal and external mount points that are specifically designed to carry these drones.
> As a tangent, Vivobarefoot is a shoe company that makes very high quality leather shoes. I bought a pair of their brown low-tops and have worn them everyday for work for 4(+) years. Other than looking slightly worn they function as new. No affiliation, just impressed with the craftsmanship.

I've bought Vivobarefoot (mostly when they're on sale) for over 7 years now, and the build quality of their shoes are really hit-or-miss — while the leather doesn't wear, some of their soles tend to puncture or flake within months.

The pair I'm currently wearing daily, their Soul of Africa Gobi, has been going strong for over a year now.

Their Stealth and Evo series of running shoes (not leather) are rubbish. My Evo died after 131 km/81 miles of running — normal running shoes should last at least 2-3 times of that.

I wonder if the country of production plays a part in build quality.
I know of a ton of people asking for a MacBook Pro with a keyboard that doesn't suck, but I genuinely haven't heard many people asking for a "lower end Mac Pro." The trashcan Mac Pro, love it or hate it, clearly positioned the line as the intended spiritual successor to old SGI workstations -- the ones that started around $10K in 1999 money -- and the new Mac Pro is doubling down on that.

"Lower end Mac Pro" sounds an awful lot like the "xMac," a Mac that would be more like an iMac but a box that takes cards, which is something that some folks have wanted for literally two decades at this point. It's clearly not what Apple wants to bring to market. The low-end headless desktop Mac is the Mac mini -- and I suspect it would be a great machine for a lot of developers. That doesn't mean it's what you want, and I'm not saying you're wrong to want something else! I am saying, though, that "Apple won't make my dream Mac" isn't a sign of sadism.
> Apple intentionally made the green bubble color as ugly as possible

A lot of the arguments in this article forget a single thing, which is that when the iPhone came out, everything was green as there was no iMessage. The blue bubble is the new kid on the block here.
Of course they did. For some reason in today's popular culture, we have this strange idea that the common knowledge that the Earth was round, only came to be after the 16th century.

That's totally wrong, common people knew the Earth was round for 2 millennia in the old world.

In the new world, surely the Maia knew it as well given their extremely advanced astronomical knowledge for the time. Incan astronomy, although not as advanced, was still quite sophisticated, they surely understood moon ecplipses well enough to get that the Earth was round.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth
Do metal working conferences cancel due to a lack of female participation? Getting women into the mix is nice, but... it’s computer science?
The reason given was that only one woman submitted a proposal from over 250 submissions.

Lots of discussion on twitter about how talks were chosen. Not many brought up the fact that the submissions process itself was apparently broken.
Yes, because cutting off the trailing NULL is a threat vector every C programmer needs to be conscious of whenever they're dealing with strings.

But it's also a problem because maybe the programmer is using strlcpy to grab the first five lines of a 10TB memory mapped file. If you're not thinking about the implications of that return value it can be a real surprise.
> If your buffer isn't a NUL-terminated, then don't call a function that is only defined for NUL-terminated buffers.

It's not that people want to pass strncpy source buffers that lack NUL termination, it's that strncpy in certain situations will not NUL terminate its results.

https://begriffs.com/posts/2019-01-19-inside-c-standard-lib....

> some people claim strlcpy() is 'broken'

Speaking of strlcpy, it thankfully doesn't have the problem that strncpy does. However strlcpy is not in the C standard or in POSIX, so can't be used portably. In C99 snprintf is a better choice.
I'm not JumpCrisscross, but I'm thinking WW1.
the more testing the better? while having tests at unit and integration levels are good...

Test as little as possible/responsible.

I think it was Kent Beck who first articulated that, though it was something many people converged on in the early 2000s in the XP world. Of course it doesn't mean test nothing, it's recognizing tests are liabilities (as all code is) and we need to make sure they are serving a purpose otherwise delete them / refactor them to get rid of duplication of testing and overly verbose long winded tests that keep repeating things over and over again and again, saying the same thing repeatedly, doubling up on testing :)
That's really cool. So, do you have any hobbies?
Are tuktuks not an option for Americans?
Having used both a Lenovo P1 and the latest Dell XPS, I have yet to find anything with the battery life and general experience if a macOS laptop.
Nuking Hurricanes: The Surprising History of a Bad Idea
Any chance you can get this added into WebRTC of the next browser iterations? Submit patches? Is it patented?
Simple Leather Belts' prices are too high too!

I've been in the market for new belts for a year now, so the glut of hides is good news. Time to stock up for another century!

I've had very good full grain leather belts in the past. Now that I know the market situation I'm going to search for a big (cheap) piece of full-grain cowhide and cut my own damn belts out of it. Belts aren't hi-tech. It isn't as if we're talking about making a 5-nm chip here; more like "cow chip" tech.

I'm in Texas now so there are probably cowhides all over the local flea markets and wholesale shops.
From 2015, scare mongering with little content other than vague statements like

"Before treatment, Westport's water tested up to four times state and federal limits. After treatment, it's safe for the children, teachers and staff to drink."

This does not point to a specific limit such as Maxiumum Contanminant Level (MCL) or Maximum Contaminant Limit Goal (MCLG). MCLG is a non-legally binding limit, which is as it states is a goal. MCLG for urainum contaminants is 0 ug/L. Any measurement of any drinking water will always have more uranium than this limit. The MCL is 30ug/L for uranium.

Additionally, the EPA has changed the way in which they have approached limits, previously they quoted something like the World Health Organization limits [3], which are average daily consumption limits. Average implies that some measurements could be high or low. WHO estimates natural concentration of uranium in drinking water is 0.08 ug/L (0.001 Bq/L), which is obviously above the EPAs MCLG.

WHO is a much better resource for information on these limits, and the EPA appears to just take their limits and do a divide by ten.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Contaminant_Level
[2] https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=30006644.txt
[3] https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/272995/9789...
Deposit insurance? You're going to ask the public to subsidize their own negative interest?
> The low runtime error rate is due to the amount of stuff that Racket manages to catch at compile time compared to other dynamic languages and to some fairly extensive automated testing.

Interested to know if typed racket was used for this, and if so, what the experience was like!
If you read through the second link he mentions how he tried to work with the organizers to improve their submission process and reach more diverse speakers and they opted not to.
Instead of every of them recommending a woman for one of the time slots at the conference or any non-white-male they just throw a fit like spoiled kids and say they are not going until someone else fixes the issue at hand for them, this kind of behavior is one of the things that deepens the gap between people in favor of diversity everywhere not by increasing diversity but alienating people that think different and considering that as a win.
Leaving aside idiocy of buying meat from random, probably untraceable sources, I'm more interested in the logistics part of this.Assuming a good % of buyers are Americans,how an Octopus from Spain or a Unicorn from Sunnyland get delivered via customs? As far as I know, US can be very very picky about importing some random food... Anyone could elaborate on this?
That's a shame, but I can't say I disagree with the two blog posts linked in the page. Such speaker lineups only exacerbate the lack of diversity in tech, and, given the prior year's lineup, the organizers had the opportunity to work on outreach this year. Hopefully a new conference will supersede this one (if there's not already alternatives, I'm unfamiliar with the PHP community).

Props to the speakers who stood up for their values.
Tangentially related, the second post linked in that announcement is from Larry Garfield, who was involved in some PHP/Drupal controversy a few years back — https://www.sonyaellenmann.com/2017/10/drupal-gor-ayelet.htm...
See my reply to the other person making that kind of claim https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20796007.

To expand upon that, manned aircraft aren't going away anytime soon because electronic warfare is a thing and until drones are capable of human level decision making you need a human in the loop. Drones will augment the F35's capability but against a near peer adversary you're going to need a manned aircraft at the center of every drone swarm. Especially if you're taking about small drones as those will be lacking the high powered radar which will be crucial in such engagements.
What in particular has broken for you? I've had the same Arch install for almost 6 years now, with no breakage at all. (Other than once or twice when I decided to reconfigure something and screwed it up. Always recoverable though, without a reinstall.)
You don't see it under apps & notifications - - > data usage control?