skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have filed a complaint with BBB

This doesn’t do much for you, but anyone reading this should know:

BBB is private and little more than your parents’ Yelp. Pay for play and without any actual power. Despite the tricky name it’s not governmental in any way.
Thanks for posting the podcast link.

As I mentioned earlier, testing pharmaceuticals is not easy. Usually you need to develop a specific method for each drug and then validate it. It’s very easy to actually introduce an impurity (or the appearance of an impurity) with the wrong process.

Ranitidine (Zantac) is even more challenging when it comes to NMDA. Most drugs have that impurity from the manufacturing process. Solvents and chemicals react to produce traces of it. Ranitidine has the building blocks of NMDA in the molecule itself. So decomposition of ranitidine will produce NMDA. You could start with 100% pure ranitidine and if you test it wrong, you’ll produce NMDA and be convinced it was in the original material when it wasn’t.
While I worked there, I heard about user studies Mozilla performed comparing Chrome and FF. It turned out that with all branding stripped, users found FF to be faster - but as soon as it became 'Chrome' vs 'Firefox', users always chose Chrome. I recall they actually faked browser UI's (i.e. made FF look like Chrome and vice versa) to test if it was about branding - and it was.

The reason I bring this up is I assume a lot of folk are in that bucket. Chrome was on top for a long time, and I think people are hesitant to switch to FF, despite the effort Mozilla has put into revamping/rewriting their browser.

(Also, I find it interesting that you only have a quarrel with Google tracking you (via Chrome) if you _see_ the ads. They're still collecting data whether or not you see the end result.)
It's weird that "and" is broken up into "an-" and "d" on page 38 and 39 respectively.
Open digital borders has had a number of positive and negative consequences, and of these the increase in foreign influence campaigns has been both positive and negative forces from a moral perspective, to a nation-state an open-borders internet is a huge security risk.
The article seems to be saying Roblox is a successor to Minecraft. But Roblox was released under that name in 2005 (I created my Roblox account in 2008). Minecraft was released in 2009.
(most) p̶eople ̶d̶o̶n̶’̶t̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶t̶u̶r̶n̶ ̶b̶o̶o̶k̶s̶ ̶w̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶’̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶d̶a̶y̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶w̶e̶e̶k̶ ̶l̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶e̶s̶.̶

Even with fines, (most) people return books when they’re a day or a week late.

FTFY Coding standards. ;-)
It does not follow from the assertion that devotion to a political unit of any size is a similar mindset or activity, that devotion to any one such thing means precisely identical devotion to all parts of whatever political hierarchy it may be a part of. Your objection doesn't make sense.
Cold Weather and Body Jewelry
Ask HN: Start a new job tomorrow – what's important?
I start a new position (contract-to-hire) tomorrow.

What is important to you as your start a new position?
They should work with the post office to accept returns. I live ten miles away from the closest library. It never makes sense to drive there solely to return a book and I work from home 95% of the time, so I’m rarely there by chance. As a result, i never go to the library.

If i could chuck the book into my mailbox to return it I’d stop by more often.
>- The transport network is dedicated and not open to anyone and covered by quite strong laws in many countries

is it? what if the hospital is using a VOIP solution?
I agree - meant to say that most of the SEA-PHX legs have been route changed to Airbus lately, which has been nice.

If you think they're nice, you should've seen them with the Virgin America interior.

As someone flying out of the Bay Area, Alaska just isn't that compelling. Their route network is smaller than the big 3 and their product isn't well differentiated from the rest. I've heard good things about their customer service, but so far Delta has done right by me when either I or they have screwed up.
The Various Types of Piercings in Existence Today in the Industry
A man who ejected from a plane and survived falling through a thunderstorm
Failing 15% of the Time Is the Best Way to Learn
It's sort of odd that the list of precautions omitted the most obvious one: don't link online accounts to your phone number if that account can be reset with access to that phone number. Yeah, using a password manager is great, but not if it can be trivially bypassed. The phone companies should not be expected to be some sort of security gateway service.
Chicago made you pay the fine when you returned the book? You can't just drop it in the return and pay the fine later when you want to check out another book?
Seems somewhat unlikely to me. Now that OpenGL is gone from MacOS, the Mac is basically dead as a cross-platform gaming system. Who's going to rewrite their renderer on Metal just to target such a tiny platform? Maybe if UE or Unity do the work, games might still get Mac releases...
TLDR; Alexa will be proactive rather than just reactive but doesn't give any realistic examples of what that will look like.
Yeah but is the overtime real?
That sounds interesting! In the Departamento de Computación? Is the course still offered?
The ship itself is just incredible.

They also have a large collection of artifacts that were well preserved in the cold, low-oxygen environment. The most interesting item I recall was a portion of human brain from the wreck that was preserved and somehow recovered.
Yes, you see surge of returns at the moment. But I would expect there will be a dramatic increase of overdues as a terrible long term effect.
All of those are pretty awful, honestly. There's no guarantee of permanence like the original had (first one shut down due to hacked map, second due to mass duping ruining the economy), the admins are pretty one sided, and the culture is ruined due to everyone focusing on building megavaults. Ttk did do well with Altheanet, yeah. I think he's on this forum as well.
The US would not have developed as fast if it had continued to be a British colony. A major cause of the War of Independence was that when Britain took control of the Ohio after the French and Indian War, the crown claimed the right to all negotiations with the Indian tribes and prevented the colonists from buying and/or seizing Indian land in the Ohio River Valley. Recall that Washington had been to the headwaters of the Ohio. He and others were well aware of the rich lands west of the Appalachian chain. Also, many of the financiers of the war were also land speculators before and after the war. The officers of the war formed the Society of the Cincinnati, and many of them were granted land west of the Appalachians.

The net result was the rapid expansion westward from 1790 through the 1800s. This expansion and development of the lands, forests and mines was aided by rapid immigration from many countries in Europe, not just the British Isles. As a British Colony, the US would not have been as available to other Europeans, and development would have been slower.

Possibly slavery would have ended more quickly, but Britain also supported the South, rather than the North. The South's cotton fed the British textile factories. After the Civil War, Britain went on to develop cotton plantations in Egypt as a replacement source.
Look and smell good, smile, let them talk, provide a sentence or two to show you understand what they are explaining. good luck!
My library did this a couple of years ago and made a big production about how progressive they were.

Instead of a fine with a cap ($5 iirc), they suspend your card.
> Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

-- Erich Fromm

I would say the person who loves just one nation over all others loves no nation. They may think they do, and they may claim it as they destroy it, but they're incapable of it. Furthermore, I think the mass societies that came into existence in the 20th century, and the rootlessness they produce, also created a form of hypernationalism which is more self-destructive hysteria than even selfish chauvinism.
Stepping back, societies often struggle with managing the behavior of the instruments of public order. There seems to be an inherent tension between tasking people with dealing with society’s “undesirables” and bad behavior and also having them behave as model citizens themselves.

An interesting read is, “The Faithful Executioner” about 16th century Nuremberg. The book is heavily based on contemporary sources. The town archers, who are responsible for law enforcement, often cause trouble through drunkenness, excessive violence, and general bad behavior, and are rarely held accountable except for the most egregious offenses. An interesting parallel that points to that broader tension.
I think this is now related to the democratization of programming than it is to Gmail in particular. CS as a major used to be limited to people who were already self taught and had a solid understanding of how computers and networks worked. It has become not just acceptable, but common, for CS majors not to have grown up programming. I think that's overall a good thing.
I'm going to have to guess that CFD simulation above mach 1 that is good is probably not something that is publicly available but from reading RUAG's website they use open source software[1]. From my experience with CFD in F1 the main issue you have with CFD is correlation but maybe driving a car around a track is harder to simulate than going really fast in "clean" air.

This reason is what leads me to think that it is a major issue and is why both China and the United States started going into mach 5+ with autonomous craft to gather data for correlation.

[1]: https://aerodynamics.ruag.com/en/aerodynamics/simulation-ana...
As expected. I don’t feel they will ever deliver anything.
Maybe you think that there aren't any humans out there who really enjoy cutting open their fellow humans' heads with knives, and that neurosurgeons only do what they do because they're motivated by altruism or money.

If so, you are profoundly mistaken, and probably a lot more optimistic about human nature than is rationally justifiable.
Spoken like a true Californian. <grin>

My great great grandfather stowed away in a mail bag to get to the US. He homesteaded in Eastern Colorado and carved a living and a life where there was next to nothing.

If you can do the same, I'd say you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps.
The confusion is that we're often told that a strong national identity is important. But ultimately it's still playing off the same cognitive bias that racism often does - the "us vs them" tribalism instinct.

Just think about americans calling the french "dirty frogs" and how is that any different from racism?
How did they ever raise such capital?

I want in on it. Capex for R&D is prohibitive.
Let’s end publicly funded Catholic schools
They are the Boeing police though, which is where they were delinquent in their duties.

> The FAA isn't the global airline police.

Then why were they on-site in Indonesia doing the investigation?
No one said working for startups is meaningful.
Is the game still being developed? I bought it in pre-release and haven't looked at it in years.
The Problem with ‘Good’ Taste
It's also a good way to ensure that wealth becomes concentrated in upper management. I'm all for automation provided it's done in a way that workers would actually want and ensures they continue to get a (growing) piece of the pie.
This is only tangentially related, but This American Life did an episode about a month ago about how difficult it is to reform an institution. Specifically it was about fire fighters in Amsterdam:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/684/burn-it-down/prologue-a...

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/684/transcript

This was just one department in one city, and it was mostly just bad behavior ("macho, frat house culture"), nothing criminal. The effort failed.
> Most of the tricky/smart algorithms can be learned in a few months by smart kids.

This is the opposite extreme from the truth. It's like someone living in a 17th-century small town who imagines that a traveler could meet everyone in Europe in a few months. You can't even learn most of the algorithms in TAOCP in a few months, much less the entire published literature, still less all the tricky/smart algorithms that are used in existing software.
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I learned a few years ago that one of the best things to do for a concussion is to literally sleep it off. I was surprised to see recommendations saying do not "use your brain to think hard, read, study or try to learn new material [that] may be very difficult and may aggravate your condition."

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/suspect-a-concussion-how-...

Edit: wording
Think of the situation that puts the commander and pilot in- they're the ones flying the shuttle; no one else can eject.

If they eject, they are essentially abandoning the rest of the crew to die. It's the antithesis of the captain going down with his ship.

Initial unpowered glide tests were the only flights where ejection was even likely survivable, and this was the reason the seats were ever installed in the first place. (Only on the first two orbiters.) Any other use was an extreme long shot.

Of course all the abort modes ended up being fairly convoluted and unsurvivable to some extent, except abort to orbit.

The "contingency" aborts were especially absurd, which depended on burning off most of the remaining fuel (which would take longer, given it would likely be used in the event of an engine failure), then orienting the shuttle into a position where the crew could attempt a midair bail out. Think about that.

RTLS was a close second, for single SSME loss in the first 4 minutes. It was a 25 minute (!) abort process that involved building up enough speed and altitude so that the shuttle could be flipped around and "put in reverse" to return to the launch site. This involved a certain amount of time at near zero horizontal velocity, so the altitude was needed to permit some time of "free fall" while reversing direction. It also put the orbiter well outside of it's survivable stress envelope, and subjected the crew to extreme g-forces. It was highly questionable that even a perfectly functioning shuttle could have executed the abort, let alone a malfunctioning one.

>Astronaut Mike Mullane referred to the RTLS abort as an "unnatural act of physics"

>John Young:"RTLS requires continuous miracles interspersed with acts of God to be successful"

These were abort modes that were considered survivable. There were another set of scenarios that were considered not survivable: LOCV for Loss of Crew and Vehicle.

It was this level of absurdity that led to the NASA culture of basically ignoring some cherry-picked risks, ultimately leading to Challenger and Columbia.

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/shutref/sts/a...

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/383441main_contingen...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_abort_modes
My one experience with the port directly - I dropped off a car for a friend shipping the vehicle overseas. A complete logistics nightmare, and when it arrived in Europe, the plates had been stolen. Which port is to blame? Impossible to say, but the European port would have less use for stolen US plates.
He's not just an asshat, he's arrogant to the point of incompetence.

Did you know he bought the X.com domain back off PayPal for the 'sentimental value'? It's now been sitting blank for 2 years. Fuck knows how much he paid.

I think for him the end goal isn't money. It isn't the advancement of civilisation. He exists to stroke his own ego.
No loops, and at least for a 64-bit type, you won't run out of stack space.

fn digit_length_recursive(input: usize) -> usize {
if input == 0 {
0
} else {
1 + digit_length_recursive(input / 10)
}
}

fn digit_length(input: usize) -> usize {
std::cmp::max(digit_length_recursive(input), 1)
}
Iowa’s Governor Kim Reynolds has had several drunk driving convictions. Why should police be held to a higher standard than the Governor?
I worked at a place that required a middle name. I don't have one, so at their instance, I picked a name, "Xavier" became my middle name.
Very cool that management can get an anti-union piece in the mainstream media. The bulk of the article is about sowing division within the working class, and then there's some reasonable points by the union below the fold about how the reason the truckers are salty is in part because they are getting screwed by their management in a way that places them in opposition to the dockworkers by being paid per load instead of hourly.
> We know how dangerous it is to let bad actors run amok with AI and our data – if you need a refresher, recall the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Maybe I'm missing something, but what does the Cambridge Analytica scandal have to do with AI?

> Rohit Prasad, the scientist in charge of Alexa‘s development, recently gave MIT Technology Review’s Karen Hao one of the most terrifying interviews in modern journalism

Is the hyperbole really necessary?

> Rohit Prasad, Alexa’s head scientist, has now revealed further details about where Alexa is headed next. The crux of the plan is for the voice assistant to move from passive to proactive interactions.

So Alexa will make suggestions or remind you that you need to order toilet paper. Much like Google's Android greets me with the time it would take me to get to work every morning without any prompt.

Its really sad that the state of tech reporting is full of this hyperbole and fear mongering. You can have a real discussion about the dangerous of technology and erosion of privacy, but this isn't it.
Big businesses taking over, yet again.
I wonder if a "DVD-era Netflix-style" library could be a thing? i.e. a paid-postage return envelope included when you check a book out. (I'm guessing the physical size of a DVD is the only thing that made that trick viable for netflix)
An interesting development, particularly if you take it in concert with the “Adpocalypse” (ad companies forcing YouTube to remove their ads from any potentially controversial content). For example, most violent (i.e. Call of Duty) video game videos are immediately and irrevocably demonitized, to the point where the creators are only able to continue thanks to external funding, either through Twitch or Patreon.

Now then, those videos can still get tens and hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. They are the very definition of “not commercially viable” to YouTube, since they can’t have ads on them, but they’re extremely well viewed.

Makes you wonder what will happen next.
The title and tone of this article make it sound unusual that the company used its IP as collateral.

You can get better loan terms (such as the interest rate) if your loan is secured. If you are going to get a secured loan, the default is that it's secured by 'all assets', which includes IP. In order to perfect a security interest in IP, you need to make this type of filing -- and a lender will be especially sure to do so when making a secured loan to this type of company because the company likely has little other assets of value with which to secure the loan.
Well, I wouldn't have put it that way, and I'm not that poster, so it's useless to get stuck to that word.

Personally I don't mind the artificiality of countries, but the insanity of the identities some people (artificially) construct around being randomly born somewhere (especially since people who contributed fuck all to wherever they live seem perfectly fine of being rabid nationalists)

Just like it's not a problem that your laptop is artificial, but if you start to pretend it's giving you commands, or if you just do what you want, but claim it's for the good of your laptop, then the problems begin. I wasn't just saying that to be snarky, you know, I was actually making a point. Because it's artificial, created by humans, and you are a human. I just don't know how to make it clearer than that.
> Let's not pay by what you produce...

Aren't...a ton of jobs paid by the hour, or salaried?

Shouldn't we, according to this logic, only pay software engineers for lines of code written?
If you go the JS/TS route, definitely go with MikroORM as your ORM [1]... it is rather newish, but works unlike all other JS/TS ORM's on the open source market. Namely it has implemented Unit of Work...

[1] https://github.com/mikro-orm/mikro-orm

(Note: v3 is beta and what you should start with. Quite stable as it has 100% coverage.)
I’m not sure what you mean. I thought my examples were meaningful freedoms and liberties more people are getting access too all the time.
Amazon already invests a lot in this space, that's how you increase profit. You have to predict who's buying what and where and ship bulk depending on tendencies. This is just taking it to the personal level.
> From a consumer point-of-view, it’s hard to imagine Alexa becoming so useful that we’d come running when it summons us. But Alexa‘s primary mission will always be to gather data. Simply put: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are all trillion dollar companies because data is the most valuable resource in the world, and Alexa is among the world’s greatest data collectors.

I think the article misses the point here. Alexa is not supposed to summon you anywhere, it's supposed to be omnipresent like the "computer" in Star Trek. Being more proactive would just be similar to receiving smartphone push notifications. Maybe the real worry is about getting too many of those notifications from Alexa, which is obviously something Amazon needs to be careful with.

I also couldn't find any mention of Alexa being "among the world's greatest data collectors" in the referred infographic. I don't doubt that it collects a lot of data in terms of terabytes since it's all audio, but is there really so much information content in those commands people occasionally utter to it?
> Once storage is as-fast as memory, things change.

"Money can buy bandwidth. Latency requires bribing God."
A company I used to work for was recently acquired because they were supposedly working on some kind of block chain technology. After the acquisition, all ‘work’ on the block chain was stopped and everyone reassigned to other, more mundane projects. Word is, the ex-CEO somehow sweet talked the acquirers with some fancy PowerPoint slides. He spends most of his time coming up with these proposals and shops them around to unsuspecting VCs and acquirers. Took him a few years but seems like he finally got one to bite.

I suspect many smaller tech firms are similar.
I don't even think they care, I got an internship in one of the FAANG companies and didn't even have my GPA on my resume.

I also remember the recruiter telling people you should only have your GPA in case it was super high and it would work as an extra to your resume. So I would think your interviewing skills matter the most.
>This is amazing work from Valve, but I have to admit some fear that it'll eventually stop. They started to put a lot of work into Linux gaming/Steam Machines when the Microsoft Store was a potential existential threat on Windows, but with the multitude of stores now present -- Battle.net, Ubiplay, Origin, Epic -- that no longer seems to be as terrifying as it once was. In the meantime, their own survey indicates that only <1% of users are on Linux (https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw.... -- click the "OS Version" entry in the table).

While this is true, I can also definitely see the logic in continuing to invest in a Plan B to protect the company from future external threats. I'm thinking along the lines of Apple maintaining an x86 port of MacOS for years before it ever became a public thing just in case.

Valve certainly has the resources to keep such an escape hatch open for themselves.