skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notching angles into boards is the reason framing squares exist. I've learned and forgotten this three times in my life, the last not so long ago.

Stairs are for human legs, and they care about the rise, the run, and the depth of the stair (tread). And all those can be done with a framing square. Angles are incidental to this (google around and you'll see a lot of stringers being cut with a circular saw).

A 3/5 ratio is 31°. You slap down the square, you measure 3 inches on one arm and 5 on the other, and you mark it with a pencil.

Random dude answering question on the internet:

> In US construction stair pitch (angle) is expressed as a ratio between rise and run (vertical and horizontal distances).

> For commercial construction the minimum ratio is 7:11 but 6:12 is often used (these are expressed as rise and run in inches which is why it’s 6:12 and not 1:2)
You are being pointlessly pedantic. A lot of people still think Google has only one repo because I articles like this.
being poor and uneducated in this country IS being marginalized. I clearly stated that if you're white the expectations are different, but whatever else you're reading in my message is your projection.
Wow, so offensive. Didn't mean it that way, but if it turned out that, what a heck then. What I wanted to say was that slowness is not necessary attribute, unless we really seek it. If we could get very good and quick algorithm without being it slow, we would use it. Thanks for misinterpreting my smiley too. Have a good evening there.
What went wrong with virtual reality?
Yes, I have one. Just monoculture grass and dandelions. Not "nothing" but very little diversity.
Unfortunately, not all password hashing algorithms are key derivation functions. That's just a common design and closely related.
It's always funny (not) when companies don't slice realize that there is a certain overlap between "bad" words and last names (many because of a shift over time wrt. What words are bad, and differences between languages and dialects).
Assuming you are terminating strings with a NUL, for 0: it may be advantageous to R/W mmap with copy-on-write (i.e. MAP_PRIVATE). Then you can overwrite LF or CRLF with a NUL.
Orange County, CA has a toilet to tap program that turns sewage water back into drinking water.

https://www.ocregister.com/2015/02/24/yes-you-can-drink-it-a...
Not that I've tried to make it do anything fancy, but I've been using it since the -rc1 and it has been flawless for me. Just posted about it http://snafuhall.com/home-lan-2-openwrt-router.html

I really appreciate the effort the OpenWRT folks have put in to collecting useful snippets of documentation for odd cases and uses. Sure it might could be better organized but it's there at least.
Amazon.bomb (1999)
Scientifically illiterate media tends to occasionally treat fairly mundane work as exceptional when performed by a teenager. Particularly if they're from an underrepresented group. It's frustrating to read about such exaggerated accolades.

But laymen eat this shit up.
Create custom layout GUI's simply. Python 2.7 and 3 Support
How the lowest vibration in the room is costing you dollars and morale
http://isThisYourPaperOnSingleServingSites.com/
It was announced in a lightning talk following that session
Maybe the Danes are on to something here.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-strict-name-laws-of-...
Words have meanings. These particular words have offensive meanings, in the sense of them being used to intentionally offend others. There's no word I'm aware of that is only ever used to offend and they all have (and generally have stated with) inoffensive meanings.

In pretty much every community, we seek to reduce the friction between members, and as a part of that, different communities would often choose a point on that chance-to-offend spectrum and discourage use of anything more (potentially) offensive than that point. Despite myself generally preferring more open (and more offensive communities), I find it very rational for others to set the bar at other points.
The Apple endpoint, inconsistent as it was, was a little more permissive than I expected. At least compared to something like the Sony Playstation ID filter; for example, 'hitler' is fine for Apple, whereas Sony seems to block out any ID containing the literal string of 'hitle', e.g. `hitle123987` [0]. Meanwhile, Apple manages to block some of the more esoteric sexual profanity that Sony's filter can miss, e.g. `bunghole`.

[0] curl -X POST https://accounts.api.playstation.com/api/v1/accounts/onlineI... -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"onlineId":"hitle123987","reserveIfAvailable":true}'
Are We Living in a Simulated World?
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>>> Yet he is reluctant to allow people to opt out of Google’s core health-search tool. He likens that to a physician knowingly offering substandard care, he says.

>>> “If you believe me that all we are doing is organizing that information to make it easier for your doctor, I’m going to get a little paternalistic here: I’m never going to let that get opted out,” Dr. Feinberg says. “It’s going to screw up your treatment. We’re not going to be able to take care of you.”

Planet Money had an interview with Dr. Feinberg, the head of the Google health initiative. He was asked about people potentially opting out. His response was extremely paternalistic.

He said that he views everybody in the system as his patients, and he thinks this data aggregation and analysis from Google will improve care. So as "our" doctor he cannot morally allow any of his his patients to withdraw themselves from the program because, to him, that would be akin to giving you inferior care.

So this guy gets to unilaterally appoint himself as our doctor? I certainly didn't hire him.

>>> He boasts about his $5 Wal-Mart fleece jacket, and is an astrology enthusiast. “I’m positive,” Dr. Feinberg says to a reporter good naturedly, if inaccurately, “you’re Sagittarius.”

He's also heavily into astrology and was asking the interviewer his sign and trying to guess it. I certainly would never hire a doctor that was into astrology. How can I fire this guy?

How TF do you become a doctor that believes in astrology?
In re: “Don’t worry about making money.”:

They're sitting in a firehose of cashflow. They waste more in a day than most people earn in a lifetime. I was working as a contractor there and the Occam's Razor hypothesis I formed to account for the massive waste I saw was that they have so much money that they can afford to sequester talent. (Meaning, they can hire a bunch of people just to keep them from working for competitors.)

I know that's not true, but it's less upsetting than admitting they're just that wasteful.
> risks of major rewrites

The risks are mostly in relation to your existing users. As this was more of a prototype, with no real user base, in my mind it fits more with the "throw the first away" line of thinking.
A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math
This benchmark is not a comparison between BLAKE3 and SHA-2, it’s a comparison between b3sum and sha2sum. Things like file access pattern, hiding io latency, distributing work to cores, etc can make huge differences that have nothing to do with the hash functions themselves.
What to do with your Mercurial repos when Bitbucket sunsets support
GitHub – Appium/Appium: Automation for iOS, Android, and Windows Apps
Yes, and it didn't go unnoticed that KangarooTwelve (which - mind - does not belong to the SHA-3 family right now) is not included on that prominent comparison diagram, while it is considered in the BLAKE3 paper.
Its funny to me how they try to apply christian values like avoiding vaguely sexual sounding words while also making significant amounts of money off late night debauchery, picking people up from clubs at 3am.
Why would you trust a literal corporate mouthpiece? You think Zuckerberg cares about your privacy too?

No way in hell Google isn't going to use this for advertisement. It's exactly the kind of huge free money that drives everyone else to collect data totally unrelated to their core business. Even if the intentions are benign now, there's no reason to trust they'll be so later, based on Google's track record and the typical tech mindset.

Just imagine the kind of profiles you could build on people with medical data. Beyond targeted drug advertisement, medical devices, and the like, you know which people are sedentary, which play sports, who probably smokes, and I'd bet good money there are correlations between certain conditions and shopping habits, religious preference, and even political preferences. Just begging to be clustered with the latest hot neural net.
Yeah, it’s tough; the “most loved” thing is interesting. It’s name kinda indicates a scope that’s different from what it’s measuring, but I’m also not sure what else I’d call it.
While I understand that this crowd in particular might care more than the average audience about what Paul Graham says, the important thing is not to tie your self-worth to what others think or say.
If I could buy up the rights to every pop song the next day would be Emancipation Day as every one of them was deemed public domain.
The same or very similar mattresses are rebranded and resold as vastly different price points. Mattress sales is mostly marketing. When I was researching mattresses years ago the takeaway was basically price and satisfaction/quality of sleep are not correlated very much.
Yep. The body is not independent of the brain. Your other organs and especially the hormones they produce absolutely affect it.

But the brain is still not “just another organ”. The brain is special, as evidenced by the fact that the body gives it a special blood barrier. The brain also is you, to a greater extent than any other organ. This is why your thyroid can be removed and with appropriate hormone replacement, you’re mostly unaffected. No amount of hormones will replace the loss of your brain.
Actually the opposite. If chips represent time, I'm advising that the seller force the buyer to spend time (in person) with them to reflect commitment. A classic example is whether or not the seller can get a meeting with the buyer's CEO (depending on the relative sizes of the two companies, it could be a lower level exec too). A CEO will not waste his or her time on a dozen meetings with a dozen different companies to support an m&a fishing expedition. But if the list is narrowed down to just 1 candidate, and certainly if the deal is progressing, then the CEO (or other C level exec) is usually eager to meet with the seller's management team.
Boys Who Wear Shorts All Winter
Should be labeled "[2008]"
Author here, I did run it a few times but you don’t have to take my word for it, you can rerun the notebook yourself if you sign up for Nextjournal and remix my notebook. Full disclosure: I’m also a Cofounder of Nextjournal.

But I wouldn’t suggest to use Nextjournal for serious benchmarking (yet). We’re running on Google Cloud and it’s not suited for benchmarking unless you pay for a (big) sole tenant instance. In the future we plan to offer dedicated instances for benchmarking.
https://picsafe.com is a HIPAA compliant tool that solves this. Until penalties are applied, health organizations won't act on this.
Compared to?

MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, etc.: There are collisions known, so yes.

SHA-2, SHA-3, BLAKE2b, Skein, Whirlpool, etc.: We don't have any collisions for these, so it doesn't get any better than that.
> Except in one instance we had delays rolling out SSO not because the system was complicated to use, but because doctors complained that they didn't like the color of the SSO UI. They insisted it be blue rather than yellow and wanted to scrap the entire project because of it. That's the type of resistance I'm talking about.

Is it really the hill you want to die on?

Just change the damn widget color if it is so important to them! Client is king!!
What exactly is the "court of appeal" that higher art is predicated upon? What does this phrase mean apart from concrete examples?
So something like this?
https://e.huawei.com/en/products/servers/kunpeng/kunpeng-des...
Honestly if filter try to filter out euphemisms all is lost because:

1. People who use them for that just come up with new ones all the time

2. People still use the word in the regular sense, like would I now have to come up with a euphemisms to describe a door knob ?!

3. How I wore is my decision. As long as I don't hurry anyone intentionally or knowingly no person and even less company had the (moralic) right to constraint me. (Through wrt. Minirs, Y least younger ones, their parents opinion matters, too.)
I wouldn't say unfazed, but as I recall the reaction was more that the doctor wasn't to be blamed and that it was security's fault for not only "allowing" the breach to happen, but also for inconveniencing the doctor.

At the organizations I worked with, doctors really have carte blanche privilege to get away with anything as long as they claim "it's for a patient". Even the C-suite will bend over backwards for MDs.
The US has a serious problem with saying normal things like fuck, cunt and shit. I find it extremely offensive to hear beeps in series and even the verge author self censors his article. Fucking stop being hypocrites.
Did you know that Blackberry 10 is QNX?

I had a Passport for a while. A lovely phone, and the OS had an Android runtime so _some_ Android apps worked... but like other OSes that let you run non-native apps, it resulted in BB10 never attaining a critical mass of apps.
I can only hope to one day write something so provocative that 12 years later people are still getting rankled by it.

I know Atwood's post is from 2008, but the fact that it's on the front page today in 2020 must mean people are still feeling sore about it.
I'm still trying to work out what Sony's filter doesn't like about my username (zeta0134) which I've had for ages. The first bit is just the letter "z" in Spanish; there's no deeper meaning. To my knowledge it's not considered offensive in Spanish, but Sony would not let me have it no matter how many variations I tried. Maybe there's some political thing I'm not aware of?

Anyway, I switched languages and I'm "zed0134" on their network. The whole thing struck me as a bit odd.
That's a good point; I was just giving you a handy chart with an explicitly called out platform :)
Mangband (multiplayer-angband) has a Mac OS port of both client and server: https://mangband.org/
Soil moisture retention is determined by soil structure and composition.
I have to say, when I first moved back to the U.K. after a long time in the states, I absolutely could not control my shock followed by giggling when people asked if they could bum a fag off me at a pub or suchlike. (Fag is slang for cigarettes for those outside the U.K.)
> Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy. And Mr. Graham is absolutely right to encourage young people to take risks early in life, to join small business startups with potentially limitless upside while they have nothing to lose – no children, no mortgage, no significant other

Important to recognize that while 'startups' are typically 'small business' not all 'small business' are the types of startups that Paul (and the OP) are referring to. Most 'small business' are not angel, vc or even friends and family funded (at least with f&f not to any large 'lose money for years with runway' extent). They are businesses that people start and operate on a shoestring that they have to get right or they go out of business. And when they go out of business they don't land at some other 'startup' and aren't heralded as having their ticket punched and presented with great opportunities (like happens with people who fail in a way with a YC 'startup').

> Naturally, every young software programmer worth a damn forms a startup. Because that's what Mr. Graham's company, Y Combinator, does. They fund startups with young software programmers

This is another annoying thing about YC and HN. This idea that anyone that is good is working at a startup and not at a 'traditional' company I mean who would work (if they were good) at (insert legacy company that has been around for 100 or even 25 years filled with old timers)?

What's ironic is that Paul has actually burned out (from what I can tell and sure I could be wrong) from the startup ecosystem. He is doing writing and programming he is not running a company or trying to start a company and so on (he would say this is why you have to do your best work when you are young). But the truth is in traditional business there are plenty of 'older dudes' (older than Paul) that getup and enjoy running a business and they don't need the money and they don't need the aggravation but they enjoy business.
Verizon will reportedly sell a 5G version of the OnePlus 8
That doesn't sound very official. Most text in the paper seems to date from August, so it looks like this has been out for a while and was not only just announced, even if it was mentioned or officially "announced" (while being already released) in a surprise talk at that conference.
Yeah. I know they have, enhancing Permissions in Android, making data deletion etc more visible. And I don't think they sell data. Personally, as a student I think they've provided incredible positive value to my life. But I wonder how GCP, Google Health will gain big customers because Google has clearly abused their power in certain areas.
Popeyes Gives Family Feud Contestant 10K Worth of Chicken
Think there's more layers to the desertification problem.

Desertification also can be linked to activities impacting climate - One paper talks about aerosols (likely via coal use in europe in the early 1900's) as a driver to droughts in Sahelian Africa and the Amazon: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.652...
Cyprus has been using sewage to irrigate crops for ages. What's different here is they're using to build greenways to stop desert creep. Very cool.

It used to be that you couldn't even flush toilet paper in Cyprus - you had to use a separate bin to this side. I expect more sewage reuse in the future. Expect in ~50years time for it to be exceptional to release any sewage into nature.

Apart from sewage being useful for irrigation, it's also a goldmine of minerals, and drugs to reclaim. I expect the same to happen with garbage dumps slowly. We already divert aluminum cans and paper, slowly the rest will be reclaimed too.
Showing gameplay would be pointless because 99% of the gameplay is in player's head, analyzing the code, maybe even writing some down on paper. If you just look at the screen, it doesn't make much sense.

Here, try looking at this gameplay video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4RskXHDLzo&t=183s

It's hard to pick any point in that 75 minute video that would be a good trailer material. There's nothing visually spectacular except some static ASCII art and there's no surprise mechanics that would draw attention. The game itself isn't about ASCII art anyway, so having that in the trailer wouldn't make you learn much.

But then again, it isn't a game for everyone. It's for people who are into hacking, computer internals, binary/hexadecimal numbers or assembly/machine language.
What “other incurable conditions” do doctors not even attempt to treat and simply tell patients to “accept who they are and deal with it”?
IRL you can, on the internet the former is much rarer and only works on small groups where the community part is important. And on Twitter or other places where people don't know each other (HN is no exception even if there is a moderation system) it just never happen.
Hi Syntaxing
I'm the owner of myrobotmower.com
Although not a hands on, I wrote this article due to the significance of the announcement.
As a robot lawnmower enthusiast for 20 years, the imminent arrival of robot mowers without perimeter wire is a paradigm shift in the industry.
I'm actively involved with a number of companies developing competing products.
I have hands on experience with most of the current robot mowers on the market, and robot mowers like the irobot terra are going to make a big impact when they launch.
I wish I had more info for the article that I can publicly share.
Best wishes
Andrew
As this was written 12 years ago and it would also be instructing to see if his perspective has evolved as he went on to found the StackExchange network.
See also Stranger Things, Guardians of the Galaxy (I and II), Captain America, etc.
>must mean people are still feeling sore about it.

Or maybe they thought it's funny, perceptive and entertaining? I did. (I really like both writers, have read a lot of each of them.)
They're some of the biggest mattress companies. If you haven't heard of them, you probably don't live in a market they operate in.
No, indeed I don't. It has been a long time since I've started actively avoiding C and C++ because it takes too long time to compile. Nevertheless I used to compile reasonable amounts of C# until recently and it wasn't a problem. Nowadays I mostly use write-and-run scripting languages like Python and build-free vanilla JavaScript.
What happens with towns like Cumming, GA?
It’s a shame he has made himself distasteful to sum through his tweets, as his books (particularly anti fragile) are phenomenal.
"Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

This is how you appoint yourself lord of all things.
How does this directly relate to “Christian” values? Could “Islamic” values be applied? Afterall, the Prophet Mohammed made his opposition to crude language clear in the Hadith.

Follow up: Also appears there are some misgiving regarding crude language within the Hindu religion as well. [0]

[0]: https://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?...
Yes, for the state.

We don't really have county courts here, just judicial districts which are all operated by the state. (We have no county governments)
You can never get this 'right' and trying to is a waste of time and money. Words are just words. Trying to police what words a person has in their name, username, email, etc. is wrong and has unintended consequences. What's inappropriate to these 'decision makers' is actually the given names of some of their users.

You should never try to define 'appropriate language' and then impose your definition of that on to the world. Especially if you want to do business.
PE is buy side, parent asked about sell side.
yup, Blake3 is 1-day old (released yesterday).
Presumably google doesn’t use npm or other external package managers that download random things from the internet. Why would they?
Maybe something related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Zetas

? Seems like a poor reason but most profanity filters are inconsistent as hell anyway so its possible.
Whether or not it is real, I am not going to allow a bunch of communists to set up shop and dictate to me and coerce me down some path of their choosing. Instead, I would rather we just shoot them or throw them out of helicopters and be done with their kind even if that means the human race has to go extinct.

The entire left has gone insane and thinks they are going to build some kind of 1000 year Reich on the back of environmental policy in America in order to permanently force their bullshit down our throats. I don't care if they are right about climate change or not, I am simply not going to live in a Chinese-style totalitarian world. Furthermore, the Soviets and East Germans had the worst environmental record of any political body in history.

If we want to have measured responses to the issues facing us that will be fine. No more communists, though. Not ever again. I am keeping all of my rights.
Greta Thunberg is an abused child.

Her father, with a prior career in social media, is running the show. That recent Facebook bug even revealed that he was posting on her behalf: https://i.imgur.com/KdsN3u7.jpg

It's really sad that she doesn't get to be a kid. She is being used.