skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting! For what it's worth, I also learnt that there are quite a few lens manufacturers out there and they all differ slightly regarding lens thickness and refraction properties. That may be another explanation.

And, if your optician is close by and shares your belief that your values vary over time, getting your values checked in different "states" (morning / evening / tired / etc.) can be helpful for deciding on what the "right" values for your glasses may be.
Kudos to that article for apparently writing with the general public as the target audience, but still using proper technical terminology (including thalwag, one of my favorites).

But an emerging principle in infrastructure design is that demand grows to saturate supply, and that's not usually sustainable.

This is true for traffic on the interstate (people avoiding rush hour traffic, until a lane is added) or for water availability (the existence of Las Vegas).

Engineers are uncomfortable with the concept, as it tends to veer into public policy. In the case of flood risk management, us policy is catching up with engineering, and FEMA has been offering block grants for relocation of flood prone communities for some time now.

Sometimes the right answer is to help people move to an area that can sustain them.
What's wrong with this header?
Someone who can make it possible to store the energy from windmills. Now the windmills are taken out of the grid when producing more than what can be consumed. Which is a complete waste. If this energy could be stored for a while - then this switch of would not be needed.
I think he number is sustainable. However, we are overproducing, and we are ineffective in distributing food and goods.

And most of that ineffectiveness comes down to politics.
> The government has not caught anyone of importance this way

The letter specifically describes an offender who was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment, detected when Facebook read his non-E2EE communications with a child victim. Are you suggesting this was an unimportant or unrepresentative case?
It seems like the Chemotherapy / radiation is a lot more targeted and has less side effects. Furthermore, genetically targeted treatments and the early detection mechanisms of cancerous cells to avoid large scale re-growth seem to have improved markedly.

That said, detection in the case I'm thinking about was super early which always helps with outcomes.
The Agile Onion
Agreed. Modeling your own keyboard chassis is possible, and there's plenty of open source models to start from. If you have access to a 3d printer you get down to normal mechanical keyboard price range.

My own attempt is at https://github.com/dancek/dactyl-keyboard/tree/less-aggressi... . While I only have the left half built, I'd say that measuring fingers and tuning an ergonomic layout to your preferences works well. I don't expect to see a production keyboard as ergonomic. Ever.

N.b. the amount of work needed for this build is pretty ridiculous. There's a reason that keyboards are usually flat.
>With that in mind, it may be worth considering Reddit.

Or, you know, individual websites with forums that aren't tied into a giant superstructure and therefore is a constant target of efforts in manipulation and social engineering both from its owners and from third parties.
That's pretty spiffy! How'd you do the layout? I was looking at elkjs [1] and the Klay layout algorithm to do something similar.

[1]: https://github.com/OpenKieler/elkjs
Hi, I've got complex PTSD, and my mental state is an issue pretty often. I recently received a warning from my employer because my performance had been slipping. My anxiety of not working fast enough was causing me to rush my work, but my inability to focus introduced a lot of bugs, which in turn caused issues for my coworkers.

It was a big slap in the face for me, because it made me realize that, while my employer is very accommodating, they are still a company, and cant stand for bad performance.

At least where i work, they care more about quality than quantity, so in my case, I've been trying to focus my anxiety towards writing tests and test cases, and just generally trying to be as diligent as possible.
Another big sticking point for me is staying focused in those 1.5hour + meetings... I still don't have a good answer for that.
I have a follow up today to find out if my performance is better, and if i get to keep my job.
I hope this doesn't make you more anxious. I more just wanted to let you know that you aren't alone

If you're looking into therapy, not every therapist is good at the same things. Look for one who specializes in cognitive behavioural therapy. They'll focus on actually teaching you how to deal with things, instead of just letting you talk through them. It's helped me a lot, but like everything, it takes time and commitment.
From what so can tell, it is illegal in Canada - the article is on a Canadian website.
Like the Internet in 1995: Blockchain ready for mass adoption
That's the primary reason I use it. Strip DRM from my purchased books and then upload to Google Books for viewing on all my devices.
The goalposts didn't move, you were just reminded that conventional trains frequently carry explosive freight.
I think this is controversial only because C doesn't have a way to explicitly and reliably silence an instance of a warning. Without ability to negotiate with warnings they are effectively errors.

Rust has a ton of lints/warnings in the style of "this looks fishy, did you really mean that?", and users can answer "yes" by adding `#[allow(fishy_situation)]` to a particular scope.

Users also have an option of setting `#[deny(fishy_situation)]` on entire modules or programs to ensure the particular thing never happens.

Because it's per scope per warning, it doesn't have the dilemmas of all-or-nothing `-Werror` and other global warning flags.
I really don’t grok your question. Indiscriminate (“unreasonable”) use, without a warrant, is unconstitutional.
> They didn't enjoy this level of access when people communicated by written letters nor when they spoke to each other over analog telephones.

I would think the appropriate comparison is neither of those, but rather "when people met in person". Usage of the internet today is much closer to what people did when meeting in person than when writing letters or even when talking on the phone, it is replacing a lot of direct face-to-face contact.

The demand to forbid E2E encryption is analogous to the demand that every citizen always has to make sure that the government can listen in to every personal conversation they have, and not only right now, but retroactively.
Behavioural economics and its ideological tendencies
Java had it first (by at least 10 years), but C++ IDEs do the same. Clang not being designed to make it impossible to access the AST has made this feasible for most IDEs. There are still cases where it cannot be done (macros), but in many cases it can be done now.
The Matt Levine-style "People are worried about custom keyboard market liquidity" made me laugh aloud!

https://www.bloomberg.com/topics/money-stuff
Oh wow. Today I learned something new. Thank you for that link.
Iain (M) Banks died of gall bladder cancer that had spread to his pancreas and liver [1]. This research concerns cancer that originates in the pancreas, so I don't think it would have helped him.

Still my favourite author. Six years. Hard to believe.

[1] https://www.iain-banks.net/2013/04/03/a-personal-statement-f...
That reminds me I must get the adaptor for my vintage type M (IBM XT) brought /built.

I do have a soft spot for the Vt100
Himalayan butter coffee is a salty recipie. Give it a try, and you might enjoy it.
I just completed a project using wS2811 lights using the FastLED library of functions. The library was built for effectively the same reason, that the base functions for converting between different colour sets were inefficient. I'm curious if some of what was done in Vagrearg is already a part of FastLED.
Seems less like diminishing returns and more like mass hysteria at this point. The only people I personally know of who are as detached from the rest of the market are those guys who collect Telecasters.
They aren't, but let's say for argument that they are. So what? If they can't actually replace coal and natural gas, then what's the point?

And they can't. Solar and wind are intermittent power sources, meaning that there are times when you aren't generating any energy because the sun ain't shining and the wind ain't blowing. There is also no battery technology that can scale to the level of cities or nations for a period of hours, days or weeks (and we would need around 8 to 16 weeks of storage to bridge seasonal intermittency). Instead what we're seeing are those regions that heavily invest in solar and wind need to make a comparable investment in natural gas to make them viable.
Cool stuff! Architecture makes sense. I may try this next model I build.
What if the government decided that you can use E2E encryption, but only using encryption protocols they are capable of cracking? Like, you could only use DES for your E2E encryption. That'd be similar to how gun control is now; you're allowed to have them, but only if the government approves them. If you need stronger than DES, you have to send in an application to the federal government, just like people who want automatic weapons or suppressors.
Sure, for marijuana. But not all substances are the same. If you've ever gone through the hell of having a family member or close friend being addicted to heroin or coke or other physically-addictive "hard" drugs, you'll see that they're not in the same risk category at all.
Or, you can go the other way, and just ban all political speech on your platform. That’s easy too! And makes perfect sense for some platforms (e.g. ones intended mainly for children.)
> Start Haraka (as root)

Yikes. If I did need to use Haraka for some reason (why is it better btw?), I'd run it on a high port using an MTA with a long security stability track record (like postfix) as a frontend queueing MX.
It's a pretty generic kit sold on ebay from various chinese resellers. It's not too hard to find if you search for "optician kit" or so, price is around 180€ in Germany :)
> Kovid is a real hero

Has Ph.D in quantum computing. Works on ebooks.

He really is a hero.
Apple and Hong Kong
Chris hadn't been murdered yet when the first edition of the book came out.
In addition to data Creation and Reading, we also have to address Update and Delete.

Do they change the data or delete "special" cars or "special" events. If there are any exceptions to collecting and storing the data, we can't trust it for much of anything: maybe the license plate entry was changed to a different license, maybe seeing a license at a location was added to the data, maybe other suspects are ruled out because data was deleted. And there will absolutly be exceptions: undercover officers, the presidents motorcade, people with stalkers, etc...
Its the Bike Number Rule:

The correct number of bikes to own is n+1 .While the minimum number of bikes one should own is three, the correct number is n+1 , where n is the number of bikes currently owned.
> There's nothing wrong with any of this

There isn't? Deliberately understocking so that some of your users miss out and the rest have to pay more seems like it's all bad for the users, even if it's making money for somebody.
It’s not they can do it “better”. They can do it “good enough” so that most people aren’t willing to use a smaller vendor and where the value add is not enough to have a sustainable business - see Dropbox, Spotify, Etc.
OpenAPI Generator v4.1.3 release comes with 4 new generators
Why do exclusive wines fetch several hundred a bottle when in double blind tasting tests oenologists fail to differentiate them from 6€ supermarket wine?

Why does the same Malaysia made shirt go up in price 50x if it gets a top brand label attached a opposed to a cheap generic brand one?
There's plenty of reserved bits in the old protocol to give more bits that the 10 the WN (week number) already has: https://i.imgur.com/QuJDwmb.png

Source: Figure 20-1 in https://www.gps.gov/technical/icwg/IS-GPS-200K.pdf

Your argument that the space is sparse is true though in the new protocol which has still a message of 300 bytes but no reserved space any more: https://i.imgur.com/xyxCxIi.png

Source: https://www.gps.gov/technical/icwg/IS-GPS-705F.pdf

It gives 13 bit to the message at least, making the counters roll over every 157 years instead of every 20. It's still a bit too little IMO. Date counters should either be so short that engineers must design rollovers into the devices (e.g. 1 year) or longer than human lifespans by several orders of magnitude (e.g. 1000 years).
Major distros should modify their version of VB to not accept Oracles version of the extensions without (1) informing users about the Foss version and (2) forwarding the user to this page first.
Do you think every part of your spending is rational?
And there will be the unlucky (stupid) person that ends up with RSI at 35
For anyone that's curious, it seems you can check whether or not you have the Extension Pack installed with `VBoxManage list extpacks` in the CLI. I get the output "Extension Packs: 0". Not sure if that's the 'right' way to check.
> It's not survivor bias because all my siblings are still alive and I was the only one that nearly didn't make it.

Survival bias isn't (necessarily) literal. And you are ascribing your success (relative to your siblings) to drive developed from your rough times, not to a million other possible variables you're not aware of, and your story is just one case.

It is survival bias, regardless of whether your analysis happens to be true.
High Paying Remote Companies
This sounds interesting, but I don't know what most of that means. Can you elaborate?
Only safer because of all the other motorists. So we're stuck in a transportation arms race now and the only way to win is to pilot larger and heavier hunks of steel. Ok I'll start driving an APC so I don't even notice my next high speed collision with a car, maybe then I'll drag the flaming wreck behind my war machine for a few miles without realizing it. The visibility out of this contraption just isn't that great. I trust you'll understand that I just didn't see you!

Btw sorry it takes up 4 parking spots and gets 2mpg. Y'see, we're also in a competition to use the greatest amount of shared resources possible before we die.
Another argument (which I remember coming from Walter): The job of the compiler is to generate code. It's job is not too serve as a half-assed static analysis tool.

Today a compiler is not the only tool to parse a language anymore. It sure is convenient to add some print statements where the compilers sees the warnings anyways. A better approach is to provide the frontend as a library to allow plenty of other tools, e.g. a formatter.
relevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20997978
That makes me very curious. Could you write a blogpost on the topic by any chance?
Is this the RoboCop prequel?
If you think the raise of pension age is a one-time event, I think you'll be sorely disappointed.
Not really. An eavesdropper can sit in front of the authoritative server for a site and eavesdrop on all the DNS queries with EDNS information. That's one place they need to be.

To eavesdrop on Warp you'd need to do it all over the world, capture encrypted traffic and then try to correlate traffic. If your threat model is a global adversary capable of doing that correlation and you don't want sites to know your IP, then use Tor.
I use it on my Mac all the time. I've never had it crash on me. The reader...is not so good.
Can you explain to me what's so bad about the UI? I've used it for years and I never really gave the UI a second thought.
It's well-documented that terrorists use Facebook and other social media. There's a whole Wikipedia article about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_and_social_media
> I'm not saying buying an expensive car means you drive better, there's no link there, but what I will say there is drivers of expensive cars are often more aggressive, occasionally to a dangerous degree, but honestly? I'm relatively okay with that, because they'll cut you off in traffic but then they race off and that's that. Meanwhile somebody in a shitty Kia SUV is doing the speed limit in the left lane and holding up 4 miles of traffic.

What you just said is that you're OK with reckless endangerment and not OK with inconvenience. I would ask you to please reconsider your feelings here.
I was mocking the aggressive tone you used to issue a pathetic, insubstantial personal attack.
What are the complains? Just that it looks like an old 90s program, and doesn't have the latest all-white minimalist design? Or are there actual UX programs?
A bit lacking, Bans on masks started in renaissance Europe , with people only being allowed to wear them during carnival.
Surely the non-selfish solution is for the person drinking all the Tejava to just say to the office manager "I really like that Tejava stuff but so does everyone else and there's never any left, can we stock more of it?"

I see our office manager and the guy who refills our snacks discussing what to stock a few times a week.
The book Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey start with the description of an accident at a Russian dam that happened without pretty much without any warning and killed 75:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sayano-Shushenskaya_power...

Edit: I'm pretty sure that's the right accident - been a while since I read the book!
Downtime is not mandatory while upgrading to a new PostgreSQL version. I've upgraded from 9.0 to 11 and most versions in between without downtime on large busy databases.

There's not a single approach that works for every case, but they all involve a replica and upgrading one at a time.
one of my favorite historical antecedents is a document from the 12th century in london in which local businessmen and authorities are complaining about the hooded apprentices who get off work, get drunk, and start trouble in the streets.

Some things are truly eternal.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584317/Hoodies-were...
There are already existing E2EE encryption services (Telegram, Signal, etc). Those engaged in illegal activities would switch or continue to use those if you degrade the security of other services.

You don't stop child abusers etc. They move to a different platform and you make everyone else less safe.
>Rigged isn't a fair word, it's just reality.

The universe and the laws of physics are "just" reality.

Other things, and especially society, is more like what we make them.

Our society and its functioning is not some god- or nature- handed immutable, it's something that we can change, update, fix, build upon etc (and of course, regress).
I've followed the Keyboard.io Model 01 crowdfunding campaign (they have the best writeups!) with a lot of interest. I'd probably buy two of their keyboards if they'd offer a German keyboard layout. They are $329 each. For that price, I expect a perfect product.

A keyboard that looks equally tempting (but involves a lot of soldering and other work) is the Dactyl keyboard (https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard ).
I wouldn't call that game exercise. Fat people standing in one spot flinging their arms in not exactly swimming, weight lifting or even yoga.
The 4th Amendment both implicitly creates (or, rather, assumes) a general warrant requirement (for which it sets a probable cause requirement) and bans unreasonable searches and seizures; it doesn't allow warrants for unreasonable use.
> For all the skepticism at others (eye professionals at that), did he checked his enthusiasm for placebo effect?

Yes. I have two pairs of glasses here: The optician-made ones and my self-prescribed ones. I have controlled for the frame - both have the same one.

I see much better with my self-prescribed ones. If you don't believe me, feel free to drop by and we'll do a blinded (heh) test. :)
> nuclear plant near this town might've been more preferable in all possible ways

Nuclear plants typically need to be paired with storage, which often involves pumping water. Thus, a nuclear plant in this location could still result in some form of a dam or artificial lake.
Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Aretha Franklin, Pavarotti, Sharon Jones, Alan Rickman, Dizzie Gillespie, Patrick Swayze, Benoit Mandelbrot, Wernher von Braun, John von Neumann...

I hope they lick this thing along with so many other forms of this that just destroy quality of life.
And you don't care if the court has the standards of an autocracy?
The Challenges with Plastics
I was surprised, and I'm not sure why, to find out that Kindles run Linux, X11, and Java.
Humans are also wired to be less forgiving to those who are going through struggles that they themselves have crossed - this could be the reason behind the rich person deriding someone in need for being poor and not working hard enough
Technically plugins do this, right?
The Uk police have had numbers for a very long time not sure if it doesn't go back to the peel days.
Bootstrapping Conditional GANs for Video Game Level Generation
Exploit Wars II – The server strikes back
>It is not ideal that if a news recipe becomes obsolete due to changes on the respective news website, one has to upgrade Calibre to a new version.

I haven't used the news feature in almost a decade, but in those days, you could clone a news site's recipe and modify it - no need to upgrade Calibre.
Yes Netflix is anycasted at the edge. Has been for years.
That is absolutely not what happened with the USSR.
Agreed. re: power. But perhaps I'm seeing that power relationship differently. I'm feeling very strong parallels with economist Eleanor Ostrom's view on governing natural commonses [1].

Basically, she spent 4 decades disproving the "tragedy of the commons" in a whole set of defined cases, showing that a group of people DON'T selfishly destroy a commons when looking after it. She codified the requirements for a group of people properly governing a shared place/resource. Two of the 8 key requirements were 1) Local autonomy; 2) Appropriate relations with other tiers of rule-making authority (polycentric governance).

aka, powers must not be pulled too far from the place in which they are executed. to the extent that we need to seek efficiencies, system should offer through support from above to operate more efficiently (e.g., offer services and "kits" to self-manage). DO NOT CENTRALIZE OR CONSOLIDATE POWER.

Of course, the above recommendations can be discarded, but then collective governance fails, and keeping commonses alive and vibrant requires more and more central support systems to prevent its failure. Her rules are who you'd follow if you wanted decentralized and resilient governance structures and patterns.

[1]: https://evonomics.com/tragedy-of-the-commons-elinor-ostrom/
So as long as the same legal hurdles are in place, you don't have a problem with Facebook (for example) being required to provide law enforcement with access to unencrypted comms?
> you have to stay in your lane and pay attention even as a cyclist.

Sure, but my lane is 2x+ my width, and my body spans the width of my vehicle.

When I drive a car I'm not familiar with, it takes some time to get a sense for how wide it is. With a new bicycle, it doesn't--it spans from my left hand to my right hand. (My last driving experience was a short bus for the first time ever, after several years of not driving at all. A normal sized car is a lot less tricky, but still wider than and not centered on my body.)
From Github

> Congratulations! Interesting new approach to funding open source: get acquired and let them figure it out!
Because it's not a high enough priority for them. As long as it's not significantly affecting their profits, they'll do the bare minimum moderation. Same idea goes for the weak cybersecurity companies seem to have. When it comes to their IP they'll spend the resources to protect it, but when it comes to their customers info leaking, they don't care.
Hypothetically, even if it didn't harm the offspring, it must be kept track of who are their real parents.