skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that somebody should pay to hear me say something I think is important is weird, and the idea that if I have something I think everyone should hear, I should ask them to pay to hear it is weird. I don't have a problem if that simple statement ruins the business model of the 10,000 court stenographers masquerading as journalists, but traditionally, journalism was done by people trying to spread ideas: either the people who came up with those ideas, or the wealthy sponsors of the people who came up with those ideas.

Now, we almost exclusively hear from people being sponsored by the wealthy while people independent of them are denigrated as an unprofessional fringe, and we're expected to feel guilt if we don't pay for it.

I send money to the publications that investigate the things I want investigated, who make the arguments that I already agree with, or who teach me things that I want to know, or who just make me smile. I don't even read half the publications I donate to; they're not for me, I already agree, and I don't need to hear the arguments because I make the same arguments. Whereas plenty of the publications I do read I think the world would be better without, and I not only don't want to donate to them, I wish I could somehow take money away from them.

I don't care about their suffering. If they don't like it, they should either find something else to do, or something important to say that people would want to pay to keep them saying NOT to hear. They're not the same thing. And no amount of corporate hectoring done through employees is going to change that.

NYT editorial columnists should be paying us.
Within 20 years, sure. But extrapolate that for any invention which has significant commercial value, and you've got a problem. This why patents exist in the first place.
it's hard to schedule long holiday's without losing context and work piling up, that's my feeling
1. If you need to reset your pw at any point, we need either your email or phone number. We don't ask for your email. A phone number is most likely tied to a real person.

2. It's a unique identifier that allows you to add your existing contacts more easily. It's much more convenient than trying to figure out the usernames of all your friends and family.

3. It's harder to automate creation of users by requiring a valid phone number, versus usernames (and potentially even email).
Starvation can kill anyone, no matter how different they are.
None of that changes physics. It might change dietary compliance but that’s all.
Cloudflare's DoH Disabled by Default in Firefox on OpenBSD
Investigating which axioms of your theory can be weakened whithout affecting its predictions seems worthwhile to me even if it's useless from a practical perspective.
Reminds me of a video I saw in early alpha of a guy making a calculator with redstone.

Not all the redstone conveniences existed yet, so it was... large.

They weren't the first to do it, but it still blew my mind seeing the memory unit built out further than the game was rendering...
Proprietary also includes REAPER now. It's not very expensive, and I know musicians that have done some very impressive stuff with it.
I wonder what this is going to do to US electronics/devices manufacturing. If companies were previously importing some/all of their components and then building the final product here, will they just move assembly & mfg overseas to only get dinged once instead of eating massive costs on the import of every component?
People aren’t misunderstanding what you’re saying; what you’re saying is just wrong. It may be accurate within a limited range - a few hundred calories/day, perhaps - but is obviously wrong in the limit.
I managed to try out Microsoft's HoloLens 2 at MS Build this year in Seattle. My impressions were that it's a very cool, very impressive prototype. FOV is still quite low, although I hear it's significantly improved from v1. Framerate felt too low for real-world stuff; as you were alluding to, our brains are used to screens operating at 60fps, but there's something about putting the screen right up next to your eyeballs and adding tracking (whether VR or AR) that kills that illusion and mandates at least 90fps, and very smooth. I'm not surprised by the reports of people getting motion sick.

Having said that, the fundamental interactions are very cool. I had slight difficulty figuring out where the tracking was actually registering (e.g., how far do I have to move my finger to 'tap' a button), but once I figured that out it worked just like you expected it to.
This looks pretty nice! But I’m curious how you match the artist up to Spotify; for instance, Whitney (https://open.spotify.com/artist/32aUoW94mJ7xTJI7fG0V1G) is playing in Austin this week but you link to Whitney Houston (https://open.spotify.com/artist/6XpaIBNiVzIetEPCWDvAFP).

That being said I like it and could see myself using this!
A new book for freelancers
In fact, Alabama football team members spend far more time doing football-related things — practices, meetings, games, etc. — than any non-athlete devotes to their major subject.
DevOps is such a cluster f*ck.
How is the opaque visual UI better? IaC doesn't unlock you from a vendor but at least you have a reproducible config file you can check in and version.
Penalize them? It's a football game.
The history and legacy of jQuery
If you mean in terms on Kubernetes, the idea is identical JSON would work on AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean. If you want to go cloudless, you can run k8s on your own infrastructure. And if you want to run on your own infra, the need for configuration doesn't go away. Given how open the specification is for the JSON documents, I find it difficulty in characterizing it as lock-in. The configuration JSON is highly reusable in variety of contexts, with the examples I gave above.
US Treasury official admits terrorists still mostly rely on cash, not crypto
Clemson's football program has been exceptional under Dabo. I can see how his 10-year contract is justified.

The top college football programs pull in over a hundred million in revenue each year. Clemson is on it's way there. And that's only in media, ticket sales and such. I'm sure schools with excellent football programs are more likely to attract students and alumni donations.

Check out this WSJ table with revenues from the 2018 season.
https://graphics.wsj.com/table/NCAA_2019?mod=article_inline

EDIT: Thinking more about it—there are secondary effects as well. If a team does well, it attracts fans from out of town. Those fans will spend money on food, drinks, entertainment and hotels. That provides local businesses money and the city tax revenues.
The last sentence really hits the nail on the head. Just to add to that, during the 2008 recession I saw my portfolio swing pretty wildly going negative one day and positive another but the amount was more than I made that day or maybe even that week. It was then it dawned on me, American capitalism rewards ownership, not labor nor time devoted to a task. Those changes in my net worth would have happened regardless of if I worked or took the day off. Time and labor can get you to ownership but that's not guaranteed nor probable in some fields. I don't want our country to discourage property ownership and accumulation of wealth but the paths leading to that from working hard seems increasingly fewer and narrower.
Terraform is okay, if you don't value things like "loops that aren't an awful hack", but in 2019 Pulumi is significantly better and their cloud-agnostic implementation actually kinda works okay.
This article is effectively claiming that SIM card hardware has a back door built in.
Average FICO score hits all-time high
> their actions make you feel bad for some reason.

Not at all. I already live a very spartan life and my carbon footprint is well below of most people who go around lecturing others on sustainable lifestyle. Eg, in the past 12 months, I have traveled zero miles on fossil fuels.

The class of professional globetrotting climate activists is so unbearable because they are among the worst polluters, yet spare no energy looking down on others for not doing enough.
These types of businesses are getting created and funded (just not in large quantities like tech companies), and you will not find it here on HN or really in typical VC tech circles.

Medical devices and Pharmaceuticals are not easy or simple things to bring to market and you can't "hack" around the FDA to short circuit the timeframes etc. Even using approved formularies there are very detailed testing requirements which take significant amounts of time. Which leads to costs not being so inexpensive once all the research, development and market costs are calculated. Obviously I agree the $300 epipen for example is insane and although I am not sure how much can be trimmed there, I am sure it is fairly large.
Excuse me, but this does not make any sense. If somebody stopped losing weight after making progress for six months on the exact same diet, it would only mean that their body is now burning as much as it is consuming, so their intake would need to be reduced again. This is basic thermodynamic stuff. I promise I could lose weight eating nothing but ice cream sprinkled with powdered starch, as long as I could control my portions.
Killings of transgender people in the US saw another high year
> 10^(iπ) is some horrible complex number

Sure, you want to use a convenient coordinate system. But you already have 2 horrible numbers in the conventional coordinate system: the π and e.

In the conventional (“natural”) coordinate system for logarithms, the coordinates represent powers of e and rotations by 1/2π turns, respectively.

You have just decided that you’ll use those specific horrible numbers in the logarithmic coordinates, because e and π are what you get out if you choose a coordinate system for the logarithm of quotients-of-vectors where the derivative of log(x) at the point x = 1 is 1. This turns out to be convenient for simplifying differential equations and related formulas.

Personally I like using a coordinate system where the “scale” axis of the logarithm uses units of doublings, and the “rotation” axis of the logarithm uses units of full turns. If I use that one when making a picture, I can easily tell you exactly what the value is (as a rational number) at every grid intersection.

e.g. here is a plot of a Möbius transformation, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jrus/images-for-observable... Every contour at the most prominent level is either a doubling or 1/12 of a turn. (You’ll notice that when we zoom on any part of the picture, we see little rectangles rather than little squares; the “natural” coordinate system is a square one, which is also often convenient.)
my bar for "DevOps" on my (SaaS) team is that the engineers responsible for the platform the product runs on are involved in the discussions about the product we build.

everything that comes after that: pipelines, testing, release engineering, migrations, post-mortems, whatever -- it's all a result of your infrastructure engineers having a stake in the thing your company is building. I have yet to see a definition of DevOps that invoked some sort of tech stack that made any sense to me. the processes and tools emerge from a cooperation between stakeholders and a shared responsibility for the delivered product.
>NPR is also supported by advertising in a big way, we've all just sort of collectively agreed not to call it that.

This isn't completely true. NPR-associated stations regularly hold donation drives, and solicit donations from private individuals to help them meet their expenses. It's a significant part of their operating budget. Of course, they also have "messages from the sponsors" too, though not nearly as many as in commercial radio.

Regular journalism could do the same thing if they wanted to.
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Seems like "every company in drug supply chain must independently test each batch of received drug via GC/MS. That company is liable for any impurities found downstream in un-rejected batches" would be a nice regulation.
I think his words are being misrepresented.

He said this:
"
Minsky had sex with one of Epstein’s harem
[...]
Let’s presume that was true
[...]
We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.
[...]
"

I have no clue how plausible this scenario is, but I don't see any reason to infer anything about the character of Stallman based on him suggesting it.
Sometimes I wonder if the discussion about p < 0.05 has diverged a bit from practical considerations. In my field (population genetics and bioinformatics) for instance, I'm not sure any current journal would reject a paper where primary result has p=0.051 but accept an (almost) identical paper with p=0.049. Most papers seem to involve many separate analyses that together tell some story, and that story may even be an interesting negative result (where p >> 0.05).
Whether or not statistical significance is a useful concept at all is a separate question, but I suspect the discussion of whether the threshold of 0.05 is useful might be out of touch with actual practice.
A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299628
How did those celebrities get hacked? It was my impression that they had poor passwords, or got betrayed by a friend to whom they had sent the images. If the Apple services themselves were being compromised, that's news to me.

It was also my impression that Apple claims that if you lose or damage your device, your shit is gone forever and they can't get it back (and that independent repair services can get around this by simply fixing the damaged device.)
Generic Epi alternative you can get through CVS.

https://www.cvs.com/content/epipen-alternative
No one debates any of this stuff when it comes to animals. No one thinks their dog has a slow metabolism or different gut flora or different neural connections. They think their dog is fat because he’s eating too much and the cure is to feed him less. Amazingly it always works, assuming the dog’s owners actually follow through with feed him less.
> Given the relatively small significance and the fact that this article was published in an issue with the blurb "Can You Trust Generics?" on the cover, I'm gonna say this is just more FUD from Bloomberg.

It's not a small significance, and it's not FUD. It's admittedly possible to take some measured numbers for the prevalence of one of the nitrosamines, put that through a dose-response model (of controversial accuracy) and come up with low-sounding numbers of expected cancers, but that's not enough to dismiss the issue.

Nitrosamines are notorious carcinogens, the side-reactions that produced them is well-known (if this comment (https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/01/04/th...) is to be believed, known since the 1930s), and detecting these genotoxic impurities is feasible without exotic analytical equipment.

The mechanics of the synthesis routes should never have allowed production of those impurities, the active pharmaceutical ingredient should have been monitored for these impurities as well, and this aberration should have been discovered far earlier than it actually was.

It's a lot like foreign object debris in aircraft, or retained surgical instruments inside a patient. Neither are a guaranteed death sentence, but they're harmful, utterly avoidable, and their prevalence is a good indicator of careless/inappropriate working practices and inadequate monitoring procedures. If their procedures couldn't detect these nitrosamines for years -- what else is being let through? Heavy metals? Pyrogens? Some other class of toxic chemicals? Inadequate/overly-high active ingredient dose/concentration?

I've installed avionics inside other people's aircraft and I was careful to not leave behind any tools / bits of wire insulation / snipped-off wires / screws / etc floating around. Yes, the probability that a single bit of wire will find its way onto uninsulated connectors is small, but that argument is not an excuse for sloppy working methods. With life-critical systems, it's not OK to be careless just because someone else might catch the problem or because there's other subsystems that'll attenuate the severity of the fault.
I always feel a bit inadequate when I go to my parents' house and look around in the shop at all the tools and odds and ends related to metal working that I have zero idea how to use. And even that is a small smattering of what my dad actually knew how to use.

I don't know if its a time and place thing where those skills were more relevant to a rural farm boy in the 60s than they are today, or just that such people still have those skills, but I'm just not one of them...
Mr Money Mustache (MMM) estimated that you saved something like $700 bucks per mile per year you don't drive.

I've been remote for ~5 years, haven't owned a car for ~3, and I've saved a bunch of money. Uber and public transit handle most of my needs, and even after monthly passes and uber surge rates I estimate I save close to $500-600 USD a month in car payment/insurance/maintenance.

The main downside is that I'm in Canada, and being carless in the winter can get ugly.
Yep the article title is NOT 100% clear for those who have not worked with stochastics before. They mean that while the world is stochastic (randomly distributed) we think of it deterministically. In their example of pharmaceutical trials, the FDA requires a "hard" (deterministic) answer, while even the most thorough results remain stochastic (i.e. some distribution).
Pardon the seemingly naive idea. How much life is worse when you're shielded from harsh.

I wonder if people weren't more mentally stronger due to the fact that they knew how fragile and dangerous things were. You have to overcome fear and sublimate your existence.

Nowadays I (maybe many others) feel like always wondering if I should dive in the pool.

And the recent VR era is not helping, someone on IRC was complaining that he couldn't be in VR 24/7 so he could just live in it try anything without ever fearing death.
San Francisco is turning gray – one house at a time
My take: the college-educated class (of which I am one) is feeling nervous, and started to spew negativity at the idea of trades or apprenticeship. The college (loan) industry is in for a decline, and is feeling defensive.

I don't recall ever hearing that welders were "wealthy", I heard (and continue to hear) that they can be middle-class. Which is something that some who took out big college loans to get a journalism degree, struggle to do.
> What good does it do if this place burns down?

Based on a lot of the comments here that _do_ pass moderation because they aren't "denunciatory" while still being awful, I think it will do good.

> we know as much about it as the people doing the lecturing, couldn't care less about that word, and aren't motivated by the concept.

Pompous ass. You care too much about keeping your prissy little internet forum tidy to use any sense of morality and judgement in moderation.

> If you're bringing up "the Jewish Question" as a way of insinuating something about HN moderation, that's pretty offensive.

Hah, I wasn't, but nice own. Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.

Can't wait until you start going on about "good moderation is making both sides angry" as if my moral position is equivocal with a far-right one.
Do you know WHY you put solar panels on top of a car? Because everyone has the genius idea of putting them there. It isn't about how well they work, it's that people will pay more to buy a car with them.
I used to work for a managed service provider and their NOC was the same way. They would cycle through newbie guys constantly since they had a pretty low cap on NOC tech pay. I was a design engineer so I was out of their direct loop, but close enough to observe.

A lot of the local network engineers in the Austin area owe their start to working on that NOC desk- they were fairly large so they kept 30ish people fairly busy. Once they reached a certain level of competency they either moved to supervisory positions or got poached...
I really like the tone of their regulator.

Straight up we don't actually know but here is our best known info.

As regulator the temptation is always there to say it's all fine. So saying we don't know is extra hard.
Microbial Metabolism Modulates Antibiotic Susceptibility of Mouse Gut Microbiome
Interesting considering this comment from about the same time frame.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20253177
There’s a lot of conflicting incentives here, and PACs are definitely part of the problem. Luckey is, in my view, helping with just one of those issues (stagnation of innovation in the defense industry). Unfortunately I don’t see how he avoids employing, you guessed it, PACs to break the mold.
Have the USPS decided which UPU member they would route their international mail through?
Ben Thompson wrote an interesting article "What Is a Tech Company?" on Stratechery [1] recently where he discusses the trademark characteristics of tech companies and makes a convincing argument as to why WeWork is not one:

So what about companies like WeWork and Peloton that interact with the real world? Note the centrality of software in all of these characteristics:

- Software creates ecosystems.
- Software has zero marginal costs.
- Software improves over time.
- Software offers infinite leverage.
- Software enables zero transaction costs.

...

- WeWork claims it has a software-created ecosystem that connect companies and employees across locations, but it is difficult to find evidence that this is a driving factor for WeWork’s business.
- WeWork pays a huge percentage of its revenue in rent.
- WeWork’s offering certainly has the potential to improve over time.
- WeWork is limited by the number of locations it builds out.
- WeWork requires a consultation for even a one-person rental, and relies heavily on brokers for larger businesses.

Frankly, it is hard to see how WeWork is a tech company in any way.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2019/what-is-a-tech-company/
"So, essentially, in order to make the therapy accessible, it has to become part of the system. The system is what allows pharmaceutical companies and doctors to charge insurers thousands of dollars for peanuts."

*accessible to those who have insurance. Those who don't are SOL
BTW, when I had a bad anxiety problem, what really worked for me is walking. Really long walks, two hours minimum just wandering around the city. Three or four hours were better. The shitty feeling really subsided. I've taken up audiobooks, which incidentally jacked up my books-read numbers a lot (household chores are also much more engaging for the brain now).

Dunno about exercise, as I couldn't do intensive exercise then, and light didn't work as well, even if prolonged.

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I'll also back the others on the topic of meditation in that it should show at least some result. I suspect, though, that you might've tried meditation with some spiritual flavor or something oriented purely towards the awareness and self-control aspect. Personally I've come to meditation from the body angle instead, and that's when it clicked for me. I detailed the workings here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20960513

One point of meditation is that you aren't really ‘doing nothing’: the brain still needs to be occupied at first—but the attention is redirected from whatever it's hung up on at the moment, to breathing deeply and listening to the body, and the guide's voice also helps. This breaks the loop of anxiety and physical tenseness, which then lets you set the mind loose. Frankly this sounds like it should work for your exact case.
Well, the UI designers certainly didn't know about the PRIMARY keyboard. And to be honest, most Linux users also don't.

Does Wayland still support the PRIMARY clipboard?