skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested in this subject, I can't recommend the documentary "The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire" [1] highly enough. The guy who behind it not only did an excellent job, but did it for a tiny fraction of what a bigger studio would have spent for a much more inferior end result.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8
Pixar's Oscar-winning 1988 short "Tin Toy" by John Lasseter and, in particular, the baby character (Billy) was the first time I had encountered the monstrousness of the uncanny valley.
yEd is my default go-to graph drawing tool. I use it mostly for engineering diagrams. It's kind of incredible what you can make with it, and it's basically cross-platform and I use it on Windows and Mac OS. The graph layout engine is first class and it has a ton of options.

If you can get into the flow with it, and trust the layout engine (instead of foofing around with placing your own things) it's basically replaced visio for 99% of my team's diagramming.
/r/ProgrammerHumor occasionally used to have good technical inside behind the jokes; I used to enjoy reading them and writing my own. Sadly I've stopped visiting because the subreddit's been overrun by "JavaScript bad" and bad volume controls (which isn't even programmer humor?)
Name me a single company that uses Haskell 2010. It's completely irrelevant.

But I'll leave you to argue with Vitaly Bragilevsky (speaking at Galois):

"Haskell is a big language" -- https://galois.com/blog/2018/11/teaching-haskell-in-the-real...

Or Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, and Simon Peyton Jones:

"Haskell is a big language" -- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... (p.28)

Maybe those guys know something.

It's cool Haskell goes through a small IR. That doesn't make TH, rewrite rules, CPP, the million extensions, STG, the runtime, the gigantic syntax, or the quarter million SLOC implementation simple.
It's a shame they decided to involve one of the worst parts of JavaScript and hardest to explain in all the examples: "this". I've written a lot of JavaScript code that doesn't use it and it's really easy to understand.
The use case for MPL and SSPL was broadly the same: selectively apply permissivity for the primary build-on use case (browser plugins, applications) to stoke adoption and copyleft to other use cases (forks, hosted offerings) as a bulwark against competitors (Microsoft, AWS). In drafting and presentation, I thought SSPL failed to communicate that heritage. So I wrote what became the API Copyleft License.
Clarification:

> Have Google employees ever been able to apply demotions, penalties, or any mechanism whatsoever to drop a website's positions in Google SERPs, in a way that the website owner is never made aware of it?

should have read, in part,

> Have Google employees ever been able to manually apply...
Anything and everything has a "dark side". That's why these, "Gasp! Oh my goodness, I can't believe there are such vile people in this world" comments piss me off. It's a clear sign of willful ignorance and naivety. The same goes with, "I can't believe people have offshore accounts. Those terrible rich people. Adam Neumann is so terrible for setting up in his contract to get a 1.7b bailout." Bitch, what would you do in their position? Don't lie. You'd probably ask why Adam didn't go for the even $2b. There isn't a single person in this HN thread who, if they made enough to get taxed 35%+ of their income, wouldn't tax shelter the shit out of their money. I already know they lie their ass off on their taxes. Why not take a dependent or two away from your taxes, just so you can pay a more moral share of the tax burden? Claiming moral righteousness due to inability is just shoving your head in the sand.

Thanks for the article by the way. Got to admit, those folks have a great heist story. "We stole $10m worth of deez nutz!"

Ever wonder if someone does a heist and the press shorts the value, do those guys want to correct them? "Excuse me, we stole $12.4m worth of nuts. We are professionals after all, thank you very much." Not going to lie, it would piss me off if I ever did an art heist and the news says, "$10 million dollar painting stolen..." Mofo, you forgot a zero! You're making me look bad!
It's not only that.

It's about building a society that can be based on assumption of honesty and trust rather than surveillance and authoritarianism. At present, our electronic monetary system has morohed into something that resembles George Orwell's 1984.
Yeah, I'm confused by all the comments saying this too, especially since those detectors are yet another nontrivial expense.

If you know you're in a polluted environment, why would you need instrumentation before taking action? To me it's like getting blood work done before you err on the side of exercising.
> coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste, says Scientific American.

Coal is definitely bad, however, coal power producing more radioactive waste than nuclear power is a meme that deserve to die.

Here's where the meme originated. Somewhere towards the end of the SA article there's this paragraph:

"The result: estimated radiation doses ingested by people living near the coal plants were equal to or higher than doses for people living around the nuclear facilities. At one extreme, the scientists estimated fly ash radiation in individuals' bones at around 18 millirems (thousandths of a rem, a unit for measuring doses of ionizing radiation) a year. Doses for the two nuclear plants, by contrast, ranged from between three and six millirems for the same period."

Well, guess what: people living near nuclear power plants have a very reasonable expectation to see zero radioactive releases from those plants, and this expectation is generally met (with a few notable exception that we all know about, like Fukushima). That does not mean nuclear power plants don't produce radioactive waste. They do, and that waste is stored and shielded. After the shielding, the amount of radiation released is zero. Yes, zero.

Let's look at the actual numbers now: 18 millirems/year from coal ash, vs 3-6 in the neighborhood of the nuclear power plants. But how much is normal natural radiation? Per [1] it is about 300 millirems/year. So both 3-6 and 18 are negligible levels compared to the normal radiation background.

How does this all compare to Chernobyl? Per [2] the radiation in the vicinity of the famous Elephant Foot is about 8500 Roentgens/hour. Which corresponds to about 75 billion millirems/year.

So, whenever someone mentions again the fact that coal produces more radioactivity than nuclear, keep these two numbers in mind: 18 units for coal and 75 billion for Chrnobyl. Oh, and the natural background is 300 units.

[1] http://news.mit.edu/1994/safe-0105

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant%27s_Foot_(Chernobyl)#...
White noise is actually very harsh. When people say "white noise" they usually mean softer variants such as brown noise.

I sleep to brown noise (have done so for the past 8 years -- so this is not a fad thing for me), and I use a different brown noise with headphones at work to help me concentrate in a noisy office environment.

I use Noisli profiles to generate these noises, but any number of apps will do the job.

I won't claim it works for everyone, but this combination works very well for me.

p.s. Ear plugs at work also work amazingly well. Low tech and effective.
Show HN: Moodify – Privacy respecting mood tracker
Both projects can be of interest without one obsoleting the other.
The other upside to sealing plus mechanical ventilation (instead of leaky-building ventilation) is that your building is always fresh. Leak-driven ventilation leads to a building that is drafty on windy days and stuffy on calm days.
Considering the link between hearing and cognition I wouldn't be. Hearing loss is linked to cognitive decline and mental health issues.
Extra Credits did an excellent job covering this as it relates to video games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K1Kd9mZL8g
Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism
I feel that the most significant edge provided by these kinds of pedagogical languages is they bridge the years for when the hands can't use the keyboard very well -- in other words, it's not a very interesting edge.

I also think that typing the words out has an effect on fluency even though it seems like a menial form of practice.
The robotic pooch from Boston Dynamics’ viral videos is ready for real work
If I’m following this logic, the article seems to present a false equivalence between perceptions and feelings.

When we hear music, we perceive things like pitch, timbre, duration. We don’t perceive sadness in music. Rather, certain types of music tend to cause certain types of feelings in listeners. The parts of music we do perceive are strongly bound to the music in the way the author defines. That’s how we can pick out individual instruments or have a conversation while music is playing.

Feelings are, well, more layered and do combine with those created from other perceptions. They also can last beyond the immediate perception.

Theres a great radio lab episode [1] about music, language, perceiving sound, and the connection between music and emotion. It’s such a fascinating topic.

[1] https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91512...
Où est l'inspiration pour votre cosplay?
Peu importe où vous allez dans le monde d’aujourd’hui, votre passion pour tous les domaines est animée: Marvel, manga, Demon Slayer : Kimetsu no Yaiba Cosplay Costume, etc. Pour rassembler toute cette inspiration et cette créativité, assurez-vous de rechercher certains des meilleurs sites Web, blogs, forums et groupes sociaux qui permettent de mettre en contact des fans du monde entier sur des plates-formes plus petites. Recueillez quelques idées sur les meilleurs blogs de cosplay. Consulter les blogs ci-dessous peut vous aider à déterminer le style et la stratégie que vous souhaitez adopter.

https://www.cosplay-field.com/demon-slayer-costume-cosplay

J’ai donc commencé à diffuser le Cosplay Costume en janvier dernier et j’en ai trouvé assez pour me sentir à l’aise de publier un article sur tout ce que j’ai appris en cours de route! Je sais que je vais en apprendre davantage au fur et à mesure que je continue de diffuser mon travail, mais nous pourrons toujours faire un autre article plus tard en discutant de cela!

https://www.cosplay-field.com/
Nous avons eu un peu de reconnaissance dans ces projets, ce qui m'a un peu surpris. Mais comme plusieurs personnes l'ont dit, on ne voit jamais les Boku no Hero Academia Cosplay Costume de Zeta, donc les gens étaient plutôt excités à ce sujet. Plusieurs personnes m'ont également demandé «Avez-vous vu Char?». La seule réponse acceptable est bien entendu «Je ne sais pas de quoi vous parlez».

https://www.cosplay-field.com/boku-no-hero-academia-cosplay
This is one of the reasons I jumped ship from writing VHDL for Xilinx parts and am now a Java dev. It’s worth noting that Altera, the other major FPGA vendor, is not noticeably better in this regard (or at least they weren’t when I last used their stuff ~5 years ago).

(The other reason is that I am unbelievably bad at getting the damn thing to meet timing.)
I've been driven crazy by all that, and I won't say what else because I'm afraid that you'd notice it too.

What I'd suggest:

1. You're going to harp on it. It starts with the annoying sounds, but then you're telling yourself about how rude they are, how gross they are, the injustice of it all.

Yes, here and there you've got a point, but 99% of it is you trying to rationalize your feelings, and then it wants to assign blame because people are the perpetrators of it.

2. Take breaks to stop harping on it. I vape, so that's my excuse, but you don't even need one, you're just taking five minutes every hour or so to stretch your legs. Deliberately do something that occupies your mind and gets your stress levels down.

3. See if you can work from home a day a week, or even a half-day. Take vacation as regularly as possible.

I think it's both made worse by stress and increases stress levels, classic feedback loop, so my approach is to avoid it as much as possible and use other means to get my stress levels down.

You'll have good days and bad days, if you're really down and ready to yell at people, maybe talk to a shrink.
It would be an interesting experiment, I think, to show some research subjects these pictures and others that represent different stages of fetal development, but without the weeks listed, and have them guess how many weeks old the fetus is.

Then see whether their accuracy correlates with other things -- level of education, opinion about the legality of abortion, etc.
> Epstein had a lot of advantages, but they weren't enough to buy him a luxurious prison experience.

Like his 2008 prison sentence right?
I thought that was absolutely hilarious when I saw it as a kid. Fast-forward a couple of decades and now this is on store shelves: http://malkorganics.com/
The bug isn't in msvcrt.dll, it's in your code.
If you pass NULL in to a function that wasn't expecting it, bad things are gonna happen.
>I'd respectfully disagree with this one unless the steep learning curve is a requirement to the task at hand.

The task at hand is to learn basic linux. You shouldn't be editing server configs or performing other higher level tasks until you have at least a basic competency at using the system, and learning text editing with vi is one of the most basic and useful skills to have since it's ubiquitous.

The reason I'm so opposed to this teaching philosophy is that "just get started developing"-first approaches instead of admin-first invariably seem to lead to sloppy and/or insecure products, and you end up with yeehaw "chmod -R 777 to make it work / SELinux is a hassle, always turn it off" developers that have to be painfully retrained once they get into the real world (or worse, are left to their own devices and you end up with horror stories like unsecured databases being exposed to the internet with PII or PCI stuff stored in it).

It is impossible to develop good quality software if you don't understand the platform you're building on top of, and the concerns of the people who'll end up using your software.

>I read this as "throw em in the lake, they'll learn to swim" vs. being honored to help them start

I see your approach the same way - skipping the basics and throwing them in at the deep end. So many projects suffer because of lack of knowledge about systems administration, basic networking, security, etc.
Foam ear plugs? Headphones? If you employees have to pull that just to get some quiet time to hear themselves think, something is wrong with your office. When can we go back to walls and thick oak doors... don't worry, we'll still have slack and email and Twitter and...
What the SUV has going for it are: high sales volume and the weight and performance don't have to be tops.

Meanwhile porsche is in the unenviable position of competing head to head with the model S which tesla started off in 2008.

Obviously a coupe would be more exciting, but it would be a smaller riskier market and ford could use the time to add lightness and remove slowness while keeping the price in the mustang range.
Here's the thing. While most people on HN tend to be in the global top performers when it comes to IT, the vast majority of businesses are simply ripe, low hanging fruit just waiting to be breached, and almost every time it is because of a failure of management to understand the importance of those things. Way too many 60 year old men who barely know how to use a computer are at the top of orgs, and are stuck in the janitorial cost sink fallacy of IT. I also put a lot of this on the heads of IT directors or senior sysadmins, who are failing to convey the importance of the matter to those C-levels in terms they understand.

I have learned this the hard way, having started up an MSP at one point and done a lot of contracting to help orgs unfuck their infra, I have seen it all first hand, from 5-30 person lawfirms to fortune 500 oil companies to unicorn startups. I have been the senior sysadmin who failed to convey things in a way the got through C-level thick skulls, and most of my career trajectory has been angled towards keeping up with the sysadmin transition to devops while learning how to fill that gap so I don't repeat those mistakes. I've failed multiple times, but each one is a lesson I learn from and try to apply to the next place, and sometimes C-levels literally just don't care and can't be reached, and nothing happens till a major breach or lawsuit costs lots of money.

To me, this is the importance of the CTO/CIO roles. The problem is, again, the vast majority of America isn't SV. I would say ~%80 of companies I saw didn't even have those roles, and if they had someone in that role but without the title (like IT director), they often didn't have a seat on the board or any real influence with the C's. I have also seen those roles taken by people who should be in other positions but enjoy the "C" title too much, to the detriment of the org.

Sorry, this got kind of ranty, but it's an issue I obsess over in trying to find better solutions for. Basically I'm learning how to hack management instead of computers these days.
It has real physical health consequences as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London?wprov=s...
How dramatic or not are the affects on the rhythm of exercise?
Really? I'm struggling to think of any major stock brokerage that doesn't offer banking services.
> Bill for June and July is only $100

Holy hell $100 in the mild BC summer?! According to Google Vancouver varies between 14 and 22 degrees Celsius in June and July. That's t-shirt weather - don't even need heating at night if you've got good insulation.

I think your problem might be your general usage patterns (running clothes dryer, dishwasher too much or at peak times, inefficient lighting or leaving lights on everywhere, zombie draw from electronics) and the efficiency of your insulation, not merely the cost of electric baseboards. Or maybe power is just crazy expensive up there, I dunno.
Banks have a habit of closing accounts of people involved in the sex industry and recreational drugs (even in places theses are legal)
Direct feedback is cool, but a simple schedule is really easy & reliable. Even occupancy detection isn't all that critical- nobody wants to come home to a stuffy house, and most people's schedules are very predictable.

These days IoT is so widespread that something like a $25 WeMo smart outlet is hard to beat. Hard wired is "best" but a million times more hassle and more expensive.
Raise the point with your partners, and the co-working space.

Consider alternatives. Libraries can be excellent work environments, if quiet. And talk to staff about getting a quiet area -- many libraries are tending increasingly to "conversations allowed", which can be annoying.

I'd find lack of access to my own frequently used materials, notes, papers, etc., to be frustrating, though.

Many academic libraries (ranging from community college, to public or some private colleges and universities) have quiet spaces.

Off-hours / off-season spaces may be findable, though that can get creative.

I'm rarely out without a few pair of high-efficiency earplugs myself. These can block much (though not all) noise quite effectively. You'll want the ones which block speech specifically, not just high-frequency sounds.
Also fuels burned in a power plant are much more efficient than fuels burned in a car that is constantly slowing/speeding up/idling.
> There is a fair chance that your core annoyance is something else.

People desiring quiet places or isolation to think isn't a particularly new phenomenon, so there's a good chance that this is the core problem.

That said there's a lot of things that can add stress and in isolation this one particular one might not be too bad. But then it becomes an optimization problem, there are many sources of stress that are hard or difficult to solve but the work environment is low hanging fruit and easy to solve so we focus on that.

This is why touring the office is an important part of a job interview, the places with a good environment will be happy to show you around. Fortunately some companies are so clueless they'll even advertise their modern open plan office, you don't even need to apply to those.
Yeah, I wasn't specific here. Tabs and spaces in Make are different specific things. I also like Python's significant whitespace.

It's easy to mess up whitespace in Make and it might not complain about it. Mixed whitespace in Python will either work without problem, or it will tell you when it doesn't.

Make's whitespace is unnecessarily clever.
I switched from WF-1000xm3s to AirPods Pro and it was the best decision ever (I still love my WMs). They are lighter and much more comfortable. Usually I can't wear in ears more than a couple hours but I could leave APs in all day.

There are less connection drops, no voice announcements like "noise cancellation activated" just a discrete blip, the transition between modes is quite smooth, and the "pass through mode" aka transparency mode feels like you're not wearing anything. And I do find the ANC quite excellent, there's a much less reduced "ringing" you get from other NC gear (could be due to better algorithms, chip, or the mic on the inside that processes noise inside your ear canal). Overall one of the best purchases I've made.
Most of these assets, although "located" in obscure places, are actually warehoused right back here in the US of A.

Their status as being "held" outside the US is mostly a fiction existing on paper which allows for privacy and tax avoidance.
I don’t mind the travel but I do mind my broken command key, very wobbly keys and double entries.
In respect to the car, I would argue about a clean car with low maintenance, and not about gas prices.

That said, gas will probably be 3x the price as electric for this car.

----

I got curious and did the math:

electric 270 miles range from 93 kw @ 12c/kwh = $11.16

ford edge 21mpg @ 3.00/gal = $38.57 for 270 miles

ford edge 25mpg @ 3.00/gal = $32.40 for 270 miles
Use fusesoc. https://github.com/olofk/fusesoc

Use your own editor and source control tools outside of Xilinx's 1990s straightjacket. It creates Vivado projects and invokes it to do synthesis. You can open the generated projects in Vivado if you really need their GUI.
It's also fairly high up on a few subreddits, so it's not just HN traffic.
Why? I can’t see much of an upside there compared to the downsides of being used by both sides of the abortion debate as fuel for the fire.
> Theoretically, the brain can get used to certain kinds of regular noise and filter it out, and then, if the disruption is a small sound that occurs irregularly... if you add constant white noise that's louder than the sound, then the sound should get quite literally lost in the noise.

Just an FYI, while this is basically true for neurotypical people, for some people (for example those with ADHD or who might be on the autism spectrum), there's difficulty filtering, so this ends up just adding cognitive load rather than accomplishing a filtering effect.

To use a dumb visual analogy, imagine you tried to hide some carpet stains by putting another rug over it. Some people can partially see through rugs, and so now they have to deal with the rug _and_ the carpet stains.

Of course this stuff is still worth trying out, ultimately a lot of these kinds of things are deeply personal, and it's pretty easy to try.
If by adapt you mean quit, then it wouldn’t be the first time.
Google's algorithm actively promotes shitty content. Want proof? Go search for a tuna salad recipe.
I use 3M PELTOR X5A Over-The-Head Ear Muffs with 3M Peltor HY80A Gel Ear Cushions. They are comfortable for long periods of time and block all types of noise. They won't make your work environment completely silent, but I am pretty sensitive to noise and they all me to work in an open floor plan office.
Commercial FPGA tools are a joke. I really hope SymbiFlow [1][2] will make the development experience way better.

[1] https://symbiflow.github.io

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