skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very possible to become isolated working remotely even in a familiar city, especially for introverted people. It's far easier to say "hey let's grab drinks after work" when I'd need to commute home from the office vs. when I'm already at home, with Netflix and Seamless mere inches away... and this becomes a very slippery slope. A week can go by with limited human interaction. And that's rarely a good thing.
Assuming bad faith is more damaging to discussion than dismissiveness. Your using the word "toxic" to describe the comment is more toxic than the comment itself.

Ed: if you had led off with

> The sentence works without asking "why I should care?"

then no one would be quibbling with you.
This is cool! Seems like it could be of use in generating audio books for ebooks in the public domain (Project Gutenberg, etc) affordably.
Author of the article, David Sinclair, did a podcast w/ Joe Rogan not long ago in case you want to learn more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGLL77wYxe8
I first learned the ins & outs of the 6502 from hobbyist hardware developers that cloned it as part of the NES. It's such a generally useful processor and great as a stepping stone for learning about just how you make the leap from logic gates to a full instruction set.

[1] For example: http://fpganes.blogspot.com/2013/01/luddes-fpga-nes.html
Lack of proper understanding of healthcare science?
In Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, your position in society is reflected in part by the uniqueness of the goods you own.

Poor people have lots of flashy, brand-name merchandise. Wealthy people, on the other hand, own things that are hand-crafted out of natural materials, often bespoke to them. News for the masses is flashy, digital, and tailored to the individual; news for the elites, the top of the top, comes printed on real paper, just like they did in the old days.

It's not that the elites are Luddites, eschewing technology. Rather, it's a very subtle part of their lives, a hint of fennel as opposed to a tablespoon of cayenne.

I suspect this is not unlike where we are going.

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops have swallowed almost every other electronic device, and you don't really even need to upgrade that often. I pick up a new iPhone every four years or so, and mostly just for the camera upgrades (and a fresh battery).

I suspect the trend for desiring high-quality, locally-produced craft goods will accelerate. Raw materials may come from everywhere, but fast fashion is being replaced with sustainable clothing, and I don't see Generation Z being invested in the high-bling party lifestyle that my generation desired.

Interesting times, indeed.
Show HN: Gigs at Your Terms
I still for the life of me can't understand how anyone with any medical training at all could reuse a syringe. Some other shortcuts I could imagine, but reusing a syringe is like eventually guaranteeing this kind of outbreak.
I am keen to build one of these if the SMD soldering doesn't drive me insane.

https://monster6502.com/
I use a 20 line Python script to convert Outlook .ics calendars into billable hour count. It looks for a company name (the client) and calculates start and end time. All it needs now is to fill a .pdf invoice template and I can get rid of HR :D
Doctors operate with enormous amounts of regulation and overhead; I don't think they're allowed to really manage themselves as all.
The wood in houses is dead and no longer able to repair wear and decay.

There are known trees whose ages easily exceed a thousand years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees#Individ...
If you want people to read about the matter I expect you may want to write an actual long form article.
This is the smallest thing that will have the biggest impact on your life significantly decades from now. I like phrase "pay yourself first".
If you cheap out on your smith, good luck coming back without a hole in you.
I don't really think brain state backup as extending your life.
If you look at the comment history, it appears that there is a ban on almost all of the comments, which suggests an action by moderators: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wiineeth
How come I've never heard of him during my logic classes in college and in the textbooks?
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This seems silly to me. Who cares that the browser data is scrubbed every 30 minutes. I can scrub my own browser data. Heck, I scan securely scrub my own browser data if I want to or run a everything in icognito. I can even run everything through a VPN where at least I have some sense of privacy, or just use Tor. The last thing I'd think to want or need is to run a browser remotely just because I can.
My point was that the cluster of unvaccinated folks in Brooklyn shows an uptick in people betting that the risk of something like this happening surpassed the risks of measles. Many/most people in Brooklyn eventually got vaccinated after the outbreak started, showing that they weren’t philosophically opposed to vaccines, but rather were making a bet based on perceived risk.

That said, the epidemic itself is thought to have started as an offshoot of the epidemic in Israel. And right before the epidemic in Israel there was one in Pakistan, so there may be a direct connection as well.
Same. 30 year lazy couch potato here turned cardio-addict and it's completely due to Peloton. There is something special about the blend of quality hardware, energetic instructors, and sense of "togetherness" that makes the service awesome.

The sticker price is high but it's worth it.
One of my dad's first jobs out of college was designing needle-grinding machines for BD. they have a relatively complex 3-facet cutting edge, but the plastic hub allows you to accurately orient them on the grinder. I can imagine collecting, cleaning, sterilizing, and resurfacing needles could be a cottage industry in the developing world. 23G 1.5" becomes 23G 1.25", and so on.

https://www.google.com/search?q=micrograph+of+hypodermic+nee...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2773053
I automate my garden. In the summer I have it configured with an automatic drop. I still get to play in my garden and there's always more annual maintenance to do, but the general watering and care is easily automated with a drip timer from home depot.
My house is a mess after a week. How’d you come up with 10-11 days?
I remember seeing Maxwell's equations written in Lisp (I believe it was in the Structure and Interpretation of Programs). This made me feel something very profound, although I am still unable to put this feeling into words.
What's the pricing like for something like this? Do you use a large service for this?
No, you can load it at any time. Just write (and test) SQL that is safe to load for upgrading a schema.
Between this and no treatment, the choice is easy for most people. Although I do find “rummaging through the trash” for syringes astonishing. If you’re gonna reuse it, at least sterilize it (failing that, rinse it) and store it somewhere clean?
There’s actually an entire book on this at: https://10print.org/
For those on iOS, built-in Shortcuts app can do this as well.
Real world example: uploading product, inventory and pricing data to ChannelAdvisor for processing and then republishing out to multiple e-commerce platforms (Amazon, Jet, Rakuten, etc). CA is a big complex powerful system, and my team was uploading FTP files every few minutes. We had the same kind of issues that E2E email delivery and receipt testing would be important for. In our case, we needed to know more about how many of those files were being read, injested, etc. There were dependent processes that could only be triggered if the data had made it into the system. We relied on process scheduling intervals to get close, but knowing more about the state of the ftp pickup itself could’ve improved yields to what we were trying to do.
Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP Client (2006)
I recommend hosting using CapRover if you'd like to use LetsEncrypt... the cert process is fully automated.
How do you not do the dishes for 10+ days?

That said, my wife and I do the same thing. Plus have a Roomba. All told it means everything stays clean and we're only on the hook for laundry.
What’s wrong with reminder apps that are default with all smart phones?
People who are using solutions like this for slides, please try out pandoc.

Pandoc is usually associated with Latex, but in reality its scope is really broad. I have been using it to convert markdown to slides for a while and it works quite well (Plus you get good syntax highlighting through pygments).

Ref: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#producing-slide-shows-with-pa...
Lots of home automation fun with Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io)

* Self-hosted security system that e-mails me when triggered. It arms when everyone disconnects from the wifi and disarms when anyone in the home reconnects to wifi. Totally passive. Also arms at night when the kitchen lights have been out for 5 minutes after a certain time and disarms when motion patterns that can only be someone waking up are sensed.

* E-mails work and personal when smoke alarm goes off or when water is detected in basement

* E-mails pic from front door camera when doorbell pressed (yeah, like Ring, but with a ESP8266 monitoring my normal doorbell)

* Voice reminder on garbage day

* Northern loon call exactly at each sunset

* Ambient jungle noises and lights on when I wake up and it sees me

* Laundry timer + reminders

* Vacation mode random lights on/off

* Plays a Ship's bell chime on the hour, but only during daytime (ambiance)

* Tones when any outside door in the house opens. Optionally: random Seinfeld bass transitions

* Alert for power outage

* Alert if my mom's house temperature goes too low in winter when she's away (I've called the plumber to fix the furnace thanks to this)

* Turn on A/C if temperature above threshold at 4:00pm in anticipation of my return from work

Stuff like that. Loads of fun. Lots of fiddling.
For me it's the unix example in [1] "AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System".

$ makewords sentences | lowercase | sort | unique | mismatch -

It reads a file called sentences then prints the words that are not spelled correctly.

To me it's; concise, expressive, flexible, modular... Which makes it beautiful...

[1] https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0
"The misguided vaccine program in Pakistan was started in a poor neighborhood of Abbottabad, no doubt to give it an air of legitimacy. Yet after the first in a standard series of three hepatitis B shots was given, the effort was abandoned so that the team could move to bin Laden's wealthier community. This lapse in protocol proves that the best interests of the recipients were not the guiding principle of the effort—while not coincidently betraying the program for the sham it was."

Damn, they couldn't even be arsed to give them the full number of shots
You don't need the list comprehension for python - just 2 * sum(range(1, 13))
Minor stuff. Any logins that require password (git/ssh), all the command line operations that I do more than one time (I start with moving them to text file and when it gets tedious - to shell scripts, saves surprising lots of time).
What’s quite elegant about Ruby (in and of itself, not in comparison to your examples) is how consistently it is implemented using its own simple set of core features, with very little magic or syntactic sugar. reduce, Enumerable, what the & operator is doing etc.

What’s so challenging about Ruby is how the language can be abused by library vendors to make all kinds of surprising magic and homegrown syntactic sugar.
I use automatic bill pay and some scripts to fix video player settings, that's about it for full automation.

A lot of things are semi-automated, as in I have a script / specialized software to handle them, but I still run them by hand. I have a paperweight suitable for holding down the enter key which comes in handy sometimes.

I use the repeating events feature in Google Calendar a lot, that seems to mystify people who think I put them all in by hand.

The automation people seem to fall into a few camps: smart home, enterprise data, and vacation. The last is referring to the sort of people who build a business, hire some low-paid folks to do all the work "automatically", and take a vacation. This seems like cheating to me but whatever.
So a virus?
Loathe to be contrarian but code that is very boring, readable , coherent and comprehensive at scale is 'great code' and I'm completely unimpressed by these 10-liner 'wow' bits of algorithmic anachronism often mentioned in response to such questions.

Last time I checked into the TypeScript source, it was really nice to look at - this is very rare and admirable.
Sure, but all these links (like the 2KB link) seem a bit coincidental. Of course, 2KB would fit other combinations of columns and lines, and typewrites (I think? I don't have one at hand!) probably do manage to fit more than 25 lines of single-spaced text with normal margins... My guess is that matching typewriter (and/or punchcard) width was more important than matching length, so with 1KB and 2KB, terminal manufacturers used as many lines as they could fit while using 80 column lines. Display width is probably more important than display length for us humans.
For various domains this might be helpful. There’s no way to enumerate units in a general way, so I’m interested to see what “rock-solid” manifests as. The principle could be applied in an open-ended way, with luck this becomes a robust framework.
Silicon [1] is a similar solution implemented in Rust and can work without browser & Internet.

[1] https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon
Can someone tell me why a special custom phone would be necessary? What could it possibly give you that Signal and a fingerprint lock doesn’t? Is it just a case of criminals not understanding the technology? I’d actually be more suspicious of a phone that has been hacked apart by a shady company.
They pay the same, yes. But they pay all of it. With an employer, the employer pays half and the employee pays half.
Sod-as-a-Service (SaaS)
> Why this infrastructure is so tightly coupled with CUDA?

It's not. It uses LLVM, which can easily target AMD GPUs. (Whether the Julia folks have invested in making this work, I dunno, but it's not Extremely Hard.)

Understandably nvidia gives you the wrong impression.
It's a systemic disadvantage made worse by the tipping system that is uniquely shitty.

Raise the minimum wage, disallow paying tipped employees less than the minimum and legally require all staff to share a tip pool.

Slightly higher prices will pay for higher wages and smart money will in any modest market advertise higher prices and no tips required simultaneously.
Because you don't know what real poverty is like (neither do I)? I remember a story from one of Atul Gawande's books (was it Complications?) about how rural Indian surgeons operate. As he described it, they were missing many kinds of equipment that western surgeons consider absolutely indispensable in doing their work. They replaced it with whatever was available, stuff like plastic piping from the nearest plumbing store, which then comes into contact with the entrails of the patient, so to speak.
Pakistan is under developed in my opinion and only because their priorities are not focused towards making the country better but rather on political and Kashmir issues
Golden rice is mostly a publicity stunt. Basic agrarian reforms could easily allow farmers to grow crops that naturally contain vitamin A. This article perpetuates a very expensive misconception about land use, R&D and the basic problems of nutrition.
What is the probability that it prints a completable[0] maze?

Expressed in terms of line width (w) and number of lines (n).

[0] Where there's a valid path from the first line to the last.
I totally understand it looks silly. You can scrub your own data. You can run everything through a VPN where at least you have some sense of privacy, or just use Tor. I get that the last thing you think you'd need is a remote browser just because you can.

Maybe you don't need one. Also, how much time do you want to invest in your security?

The main advantage of an isolated remote browser is isolation of the threats from the public internet away from your own network and device. Ransomware, malware, virii, browser exploits, zero days; by running your local browser, you directly expose yourself to that. When you connect to the public internet through an isolated remote browser, your device is "air gapped" from this. There's still channels of attack, at the same time, the surface area is greatly reduced. I think that's a reason remote browser isolation is becoming more popular as a security practice.

TL;DR - isolation and containment is an effective complement to detection and neutralization of threats.

At least one part is unclear in the page copy, that the session is only 30 minutes long. A sort of "free public internet cafe" or "library computer" limit. It reads like the browser you use is reset every 30 minutes. Actually the browser session only exists for 30 minutes, after that all data is scrubbed. If you want to keep going, you open a new one browser by clicking on the icon.
And to be clear, such paradigm could sit on top of Excel. It's the tooling around it and the workflow that I think will be solved. Where the boundaries of what a new app / system lie exactly is open to debate, however
Poverty exacerbated tremendously by financial and social corruption all around.
This was the idea behind the Blackberry Android keyboard.

Source: Was there, wrote code for it.
I honestly think the LightPhone people have the right idea. They aren’t trying to compete with Google/Apple. They simply made a simple device whose idea is to not be a smartphone at all. It’s basically a feature phone, but far less distracting.
doesn't it apply to almost all of social media?
I automate most things I do more than a dozen times.

Marketing for my wife's uncle was a pain, so we automated CL and FB posts to fire from Quickbooks Inventory on a schedule.

I'm full-time remote, so I have a spreadsheet that tracks my expenses from a google form, does currency conversions for my location and forex analysis to tell me the best day to pull money from an ATM, tells me how much I have to spend on food each morning...

There's a script I send quotes I like to, and it randomly sends me one from the list via Telegram every day at 6am.

I'm also a swing-trader who hates staring at charts, so my watchlist generates via news and sentiment, then I run TA on that watchlist to send me alerts if a signal is generated, then all I have to do is hit buy/sell on my inline keyboard and it sends off a market order; it auto-exits after a target or stop loss is hit.

Recently formed an agency with a few other automation devs who do similar stuff if you want to check it out: https://weautomatestuff.com
No problem with vegans. Big problems with people who talks all day about being vegan or a gluten free diet.

There's no need to say "I'm vegan" everywhere everyday.
What's (not) shocking is how stigmatized the HIV-positive population is. Authorities are literally segregating the HIV-positive children into a different side of the room from the rest.

An obvious effect of this is that people will be terrified to get tested at all, as it's all downside with the possible upside of treatment being a distant dream. And that makes it both harder to evaluate the spread of the disease, and also harder to prevent further transmission of it.

As a selfish aside, I will never get a shave from a barber who doesn't have an autoclave.
How to get past the NYT paywall
For those unaware, * do not use this on modern systems. *

Normal for-loops are much faster than they were when Duff's Device was invented, since they take advantage of modern branch prediction.
I have a motion light at the bottom of the basement steps.

I also write scripts to compare OpenStreetMap to external datasets and surface interesting differences.
This analysis is flawed in two respects:
1. It neglects dividends.
2. The S&P 500 as presently constituted omits all the companies that were excluded during that time period (eg., went broke).

If you just buy good solid companies that pay dividends, you do ok.
AMD has a search and replace library that's API compatible with many cuda functions now. It hasn't caught on yet, but if they release decent hardware soon, it might.
OK, it's not horrible advice.

But there's no mention of Tor, which is arguably the best available way to "avoid leaving tracks around the Internet". And better yet, using Whonix, which prevents leaks around Tor.

Using multiple email addresses is good. But if you're sloppy about browser hardening, they'll all get linked.

More generally, there's compartmentalization. Not just multiple email addresses, but multiple VMs, connecting through different VPNs, and/or Tor instances. Modern machines can run several Linux VMs, and switching among them is as easy as switching among app windows.

So basically you can present online as many different personas. Even if everything that each persona does gets linked, it won't get linked to other personas. If you're careful, anyway.
Genuine question, if the razor is soaked in barbosol(?) between uses, is it not thoroughly disinfected. Aren't most medical tools metal? If a barber used an autoclave, would it be acceptable then?
A link from the internet archive https://web.archive.org/web/20191028014303/https://www.nytim...
The Amp Hour interviewed Chuck Peddle in this episode, it's a worthwhile listen:

https://theamphour.com/241-an-interview-with-chuck-peddle-ch...
Even if he re-used a syringe. Couldn't he have disinfected it with heat or flushing the needles with a water/bleach solution?
23 billion for 2.2GW is just a building and some equipment you still need workers, fuel, repairs, decommissioning etc. Further Nuclear only has a ~90% capacity factor they can’t operate 24/7 365 for 50 years without turning off. Nuclear also has the opposite problem, it needs to scale up production in the day to cover peak demand, and even more to reach peak seasonal demand. Run the numbers assuming exactly the right amount of power based on an annual average and your shifting energy across months. At a 90% capacity factor nuclear costs ~12c/kWh, at a 45% capacity factor that jumps to about 24c/kWh though as peak instantaneous demand is over twice average demand you would still need batteries.

Also, pretending we suddenly need to replace all sources of energy from PV power that’s then stored in batteries is crackpot territory. Part of those 101 quads are fuel used to generate electricity at sub 40% thermal efficiency. We don’t need generate electricity to replace the energy from fuel used to generate electricity.

Further, batteries only store electricity and it’s silly to pretend they are part of the loop for jet fuel which is also part of that 101 quads estimate in these calculations. Hell even using electricity rather than fuel oil to heat your house uses less energy via a heat pump.

As to prices, I think we are comparing apples to oranges here. If you want to design a system that takes AC power from the grid coverts it to DC for storage on a battery and then back to AC your adding far more than just batteries. But, if you’re producing PV power on site that’s DC so it would need it’s own DC to AC converter as well as equipment to connect to the electric grid and regulate production. This all adds up to significantly reduced prices when packaged together. So when I say battery prices are already under 200$/mWh I mean Battery prices.

“In March, an analysis of more than 7000 global storage projects by Bloomberg New Energy Finance reported that the cost of utility-scale lithium-ion batteries had fallen by 76% since 2012, and by 35% in just the past 18 months, to $187 per MWh” So even today we are beating your 2030 estimate. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/giant-batteries-and-...

PS: The article makes it’s own estimate at 900GWh of batteries being sufficient for 100% rentable electricity generation using some other set of assumptions.
How about "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

Or Watergate.