skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This is the sort of thing that allows the free market to work efficiently."

History shows otherwise. As an example, lets say they pass this law and require all phones to use a specific charger standard.

In 3 months, an innovative company creates a new standard that is not only more efficient, but cheaper. Instead of just being able to sell it, they have to go through the government to get the standard changed..which will NOT be fast.

This will only stifle technology. If we ever want to curb things like climate change, we need less laws like this in the world.
Tesla might be the best example ever of this practice.
More specifically, if you include S as a possible letter, it appears in the second-most words (53,556, compared to 63,445 for E). But once you have some words it's natural to just stick S on the end of everything (this will work for most nouns and verbs) and this makes the standard spelling bee puzzle uninteresting. (I don't think it makes the meta-puzzle less interesting, though.)

If you run Robinson's code but omit the filtering out of words with S, the best puzzle is E/AINRST (8681 points). The previous winner, R/AEGINT at 3898 points, is now only 442nd-best. (Notation: I put the required center letter before a slash.)

Interestingly, one of the five puzzles that's tied for 15 points, the second-worst possible, includes an S. The puzzle is Q/CIORSU - the words are CROQUIS and SUQS.
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) 1.0 is now generally available
Tony Heller is a well credentialed denier[1], been in the game since at least 2008, and is at least good friends with the deniers that get oil money to keep going [2]. I estimate his honesty as comparable to that of Giuliani post 2017.

[1] https://www.desmogblog.com/steven-goddard

[2] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12032015/leaked-email-rev...
Apple cables are notorious for wearing badly. I suspect it's because they favor very thin casing and for greater flexibility -- a lightning cable winds tighter than typical charging cables for other phones. MacBook Pro chargers also suffer from the syndrome.
> Is the implication that you believe that's causal?

Less implication and more exactly what I was trying to say.

> I suspect that isn't true, since it's basically just an arms race.

You may be right, you may be wrong. But I don't understand how anyone can say advertising causes people to spend money on things they don't need and also that advertising does not positively impact the economy. Those seem contradictory, and yet that appears to be the argument being made.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You say that, but phone phreaking was possible because of in-band signaling. People back in the day had much the same tradeoffs we did; by necessity, they just came down on the side of less security / less portability / less reusability.
Nah, it's just the usual delusion of small-but-growing communities. The Python community was great in 2001, a bit less so these days. The Lisp community was probably great at some point in the '70s too. It's just that, with size, the likelihood of attracting undesirable elements inevitably grows until their presence simply cannot be denied. At that point, you either deploy heavy-handed moderation and get branded "unwelcoming" by the assholes, or leave it free for all and get branded "unwelcoming" by the most sensitive not-assholes. Then someone or something will spawn a new community, and the cycle will repeat itself.

This process is basically inevitable, and it has been observed in internet communities for so long that it's basically a science by now. It's just the nature of the (human) beast.
How Hard Is It to Quit Coal? For Germany, 18 Years and $44B
To Serverless or Not to Serverless
I've always enjoyed these beeps...to me, for technical radio comms, they lend a sense of "tightness" or maybe even "seriousness" that normal comms don't have. Control purposes aside, I just love them. And until now, I had no idea they were different frequencies...now that I know this, I can tell.
It isn't intentional, exists only as a side effect.

Thank you for your feedback and I will fix it soon.
And criminal gangs can quite easily access these private property surveillance networks for their tracking desires.
What is a knowledge graph – Pokémon edition
Buying Bitcoin Today Still Makes You an Early Adopter with High Potential Reward
They could put the actual content in understandable form at the top, and leave the page of marketing babble for after.
This is just false.

I've had iPhones since 2014 and still have all chargers and cables.

I guess some people just mistreat their cables alot more.
If anything Apple has actually been the responsible one only using 2 different connectors, while the rest of the industry have been doing; mini usb, micro usb and now usb-c. And before they - with the advent of iPhone - started with usb connectors all phone manufacturers had their own proprietary connectors.

Who knows what comes along in 5 years on the usb side.

I sure hope Apple stays off USB-C on iPhones for a good while.
revenue is all monies before any kind of expense...
Warp v0.2: the composable web server framework
the other drivers. so if we received a total of 100 orders and a driver went on 29 orders, then they get 29% of all the tips.

If a baker went on only 2 deliveries then they get 2% of tips. Ends up averaging to "$3/delivery in tips" that i shared above.

Thats just for tips from the checkout form, they keep cash tips.
Has anyone here noted that coal is literally a black rock
PostgREST is really hard to figure out how to use though. I tried it a year or two ago because I was really excited about the posibillity, but the setup was super unintuitive, and the docs were hard to follow.
I got a simple case working, but in the end I gave up on using it for anything serious - I simply wouldn't trust myself to be able to debug it if something went wrong.
2019 US GHG emissions fall 2.1% in early estimates
TwitCode – A Microblog for Developers
> 1) addons don't work yet

It'll be interesting to see if this change is going to get rid of extension support or not. I'm a Firefox fan, but uBlock Origin is more important than the browser.
> Why're everybody commenting about it being a 737?

Where are you reading comments at, though? Surely you don't mean this HN discussion ...
Yep. There's a good Cliff Asness post on this: https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/Virtue-is-its-Own-.... Increasing expected return for sin stocks is exactly what you want if you're serious about ESG investing.
The distinction between "amatuer" and "professional" is literally the motivation for the action, i.e. if you are doing it for enjoyment vs if you are doing it to get paid or advance your career.

If you are making products that people can rely on primarily because you enjoy it, you are literally an amatuer.

There are figurative connotations of quality and polish implicit with those terms, but I find those connotations unfortunate and in many cases unwarranted.
Agreed. Isn’t that what most of the framework based IDEs do for you? Look at .net Web mvc or rest api application for example - code generated from wizard after wizard. And then the developer massages the rest.
Awesome! What have people seen from the performance of these types of corporate venture capital funds?
I'm guessing a lot of it will go towards carbon neutral, but I'm most excited about the carbon removal pieces like Direct air capture, carbon to value, and underground carbon storage.

If you had $1B for carbon negative tech, where would you invest it?
Your analogy with the thermometer does not work. If you use rectal or oral measurement you will be able to detect fever, because temperature fluctuation at these locations is low if the person is healthy. With global temperatures this is different. Fluctuation is very high (for example there was snow in Cairo in 2013, but we did not have an ice age then).

Therefore you need to cover many locations, and that's the problem. Global temperature data is not very good for the first half of the 20th century.
details at https://dev.to/aicoutos/twitcode-a-microblog-for-developers-...
Just to be clear, whose life is being made better by you not taking delivery of food? The now unemployed delivery worker? The restaurant workers? Yourself?
The eigenvalues and eigenvectors example is in there now, and that one is not fiction. It's also really cool.
What Google Could Learn from a Fruit Fly
Β-amyloid redirects NE signaling and activates GSK3β/tau cascade in Alzheimer's
Terminal size matters, hackers get root in unusual way
The command usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/journalctl -n5 -u whatever.service prints out the log and exits. But we can't exploit it because journalctl exits right after printing. Our aim is to launch a shell from within the journalctl command. Journalctl uses less command by default to view the log. So we have to find a way to prevent the command from exiting. The trick can be found in the journalctl man page.

man journalctl | grep width -B 1 -A 2

The output is paged through less by default, and long lines are "truncated" to screen width.
The hidden part can be viewed by using the left-arrow and right-arrow
keys. Paging can be disabled; see the --no-pager option and the "Environment" section below.

So if we run this command in a small resized window, it won't exit after printing the log and then we can spawn a shell as root user.
Uttar Pradesh’s 500 MW Solar Tender Undersubscribed by 268 MW
In the future we are going to find out Tesla had a social media team that "maintained Tesla's reputation".

They did this by astroturfing and paying for upvotes/likes.

Tesla claims to not spend money on marketing, but I consider that a dubious claim.
You actually didn’t argue that.

Alcohol and tobacco are in use but surely we could save money by making them illegal. Why waste money and continue to regulate?

Again, who is deciding? Is it you? It should be illegal because... reasons? Reasons that don’t apply to other vices because... reasons?
Not if you have or plan to have kids though
And the real magic is that if you really wanted that control back you can have it! Nothing stopping you from opening up a class and redefining a method for what you need.
Tip in cash.
Semantics. Spec is very close to dependent types. "Entirely different purpose" is kinda vague. If the end result is the correctness of the program, the purpose is the same.
If someone can perform Vivaldi's Four Seasons on Ukelele, it's cool. It doesn't make Ukelele less of an instrument.
While money after expenses (“profit” to the layman) is “income”
Ask HN: Make something of the free time at work
In my job there are a lot of times where I am not doing much and slacking off. Unfortunately there is a lot of control due to security and I cannot do much on my computer (no install of software, a lot of websites are blocked by the firewall etc.).

For instance, I would like to learn a new technology, or consolidate one (for instance Node.js) that I know, but I can't because I cannot install Node.js, ore reach npm to install packages.

How can I use the time that I have available during work? What would you do?

Books are not a good idea because I don't think it would seems good to bring a book and study it at my desk

EDIT: I work in Banking and I cannot bring anything with me (such as my personal laptop). This means I am constricted to the use of my work PC. Something like repl could work, but for instance, that is not reachable for me
With distributed version control, is anything ever really deleted? How does he have the power to delete everyone else's local copy of the project and prevent them all from forking and maintaining it?
Ahh, yes. That would be fantastic.
Game has huge scope and is very ambitious as usual for CDPR. Most likely they have lots of bugs creeping in at these final stages; Gamedev is the most complex area of development no doubt. I work in the gamedev industry professionally and at home as an indie and can only respect these guys. I can't handle crunch at all. Almost died when tried to do it.
Interestingly, people have run wm training studies with these control groups!

(Historical caveats about trusting the results of a single training study apply)

http://www.academia.edu/download/36902540/2015_ActaPsych_Mor...
The most famous of those movies is the one where one of the recruits snaps and murders the sergeant and himself. Not a great example of how human interactions should go.
I'm on Mac too and I've never seen anything like this. The odd tab will crash (particularly after I started using containers extensively and more than one adblocker/anti-tracker), but that's it.

> pkill -9 plugin-container

Ahhh, ok - that's not FF, that's a crap plugin (likely Flash). It's the browser equivalent of blaming Windows when a crap taiwanese driver gets it stuck. You could try uninstalling all that crap.
"The thing is that, of course, there are totally different ways to think about these kinds of situations. In this traffic, all these vehicles stopped and idling in my way, it’s not impossible that some of these people in SUV’s have been in horrible auto accidents in the past, and now find driving so terrifying that their therapist has all but ordered them to get a huge, heavy SUV so they can feel safe enough to drive. Or that the Hummer that just cut me off is maybe being driven by a father whose little child is hurt or sick in the seat next to him, and he’s trying to get this kid to the hospital, and he’s in a bigger, more legitimate hurry than I am: it is actually I who am in HIS way.

Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket’s checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have harder, more tedious and painful lives than I do.

Again, please don’t think that I’m giving you moral advice, or that I’m saying you are supposed to think this way, or that anyone expects you to just automatically do it. Because it’s hard. It takes will and effort, and if you are like me, some days you won’t be able to do it, or you just flat out won’t want to.

But most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her kid in the checkout line. Maybe she’s not usually like this. Maybe she’s been up three straight nights holding the hand of a husband who is dying of bone cancer. Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department, who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a horrific, infuriating, red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it’s also not impossible. It just depends what you want to consider. If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.

Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re gonna try to see it."
In the UK wait staff are tipped based on service and are still paid at least minimum wage.

Tipping is generally based on the quality of the establishment, you tip at a higher class restaurant but you don't at restaurants that are franchised or common brands.
I can impossibly go back to an onsite job.

I got married in a Southeast Asian jurisdiction where divorce rape does not exist. Going back onsite would undoubtedly mean dragging wife and kids along into a divorce-rape jurisdiction. When I look at other people who did exactly that, their private life was completely destroyed in less than five years. Thanks but no thanks.
Space Based Radar Geolocation
Original source can be found easily online. Link not included because this comes from an online CTF that discourages spoilers.
Reignwolf- Hear Me Out Review
> And this seems like a perfectly personal thing to do with something that's preventing happiness.

Sure, if you want to spread the misery. That's still kind of a dick move, even if he's perfectly within his rights.
GNU Guile 3.0.0 Released
>Writing about this now, I got an idea: we should have some sort of plugin for Log4J or slf4J: a plugin that would automatically open tickets on Github or other trackers, when the .error(...) method is called

Great idea in theory. It will not fly in practice. If you tell to any enterprise company that your (or their) software is automatically doing this behind the scenes, the project will be shot down.

I mean, getting crash metrics is one thing, but opening automated issues from enterprise software is a completely different manner.
Well, good luck getting a company you paid for a product to provide indefinite support, large professional software companies cancel projects and EOL software all the time.
‘Quant winter’ raises tricky questions for a hot industry
That not true anymore
Heart disease contagious?: non-communicable diseases may spread via gut bacteria
Deploying a Containerized PHP Application to AWS Using Docker and ECS
Firefox preview is an interesting experiment with decent speed and a nice layout.

However there are some big blockers for me before I can use this browser. One is bypassing TLS errors (or preferably finally allowing me to use my own certificate authority for some internal services). Right now the issue is on hold and nobody from the Firefox team seems to. Be working on dealing with certificates.

The other is the addon issue, but I have faith thst those will work once the preview goes mainstream.

If Firefox goes live without those two points, I'm going over to brave. I like Mozilla and I want a second browser engine for the web, but basic functionality like this should not be foregone for the sake of "bringing new experiences".
Is the reverse true? Should we make no hay of the fact that someone who was tired of being bit chose to leave the woods?
It's not marketing it's evangelizing.
Intro to Procedural Geometry
two more informative threads (scroll-up)

https://twitter.com/M_R_Thomp/status/1217510002723893250

https://twitter.com/gbrumfiel/status/1217506180303663104
The Internet of Beefs
Study finds billions of quantum entangled electrons in 'strange metal'
Musk also seems to spawn hordes of naysayers and pessimists who would rather revel in his personal failure than see a better world brought partially by his successes.

I am not sure exactly why people react this way. Are people also following around Bill Gates vocally hoping his ventures into vaccination and energy go belly up?
I've started playing this puzzle every day. If you get every word that NYT expects, you get a "Queen Bee" award, the trick is that they don't tell you what the Queen Bee target is, and more often than not there is at least one word I've never heard of.

The words are revealed the next day on the puzzle page, or if you're impatient, they are in the source code for the Spelling Bee page each day.
i threatened to quit a job because they forced fish on us. it is so distracting that i can't think when using it. they allowed a bunch of us to go back to bash.
You could buy entire games on the app store for the same price it cost to rent them in the 80s and 90s
Is anyone else starting to get the feeling that "gig economy" is this generation's "multi-level marketing"?

People who don't know any better get sold on the "be your own boss, earn what you put in" concept. Reality doesn't match expectations. The people work their asses off and wind up with a lot less money than they expected because costs and actual spent time aren't taken into account. The people they're working for continue to make lots of money. People quit, but are soon replaced by the next sucker.

MLMs still exist and are going strong, but culturally we're more aware of what they are. But maybe we're becoming more aware of what "gigs" are.

Perhaps, and I both love and hate myself for saying this, 'the gig is up'?
The article points out that for many DoorDash workers, they aren't getting paid a positive sum, even if they count their time as worth zero.

Look, we have the technical ability to handle millions of people as hourly workers on timescale granularities of seconds. Require these companies to treat their "contractors" as part-time employees being paid minimum wage: start paying them when they accept their first job on day, pay them for periods of up to ten minutes between jobs, and stop being reviled by everyone who hates slave labor.
the two are related deeply.
Very nice! I also took a bitwise approach and ended up with something that solved all possible puzzles in 5 seconds (in 60 lines of matlab).
A technique I used that helped bring the time down was to calculate the points for a given puzzle irregardless of the center letter. This provides an upper bound for the points that could come from that puzzle. After you've done that for all the boards, you sort by upper bound and then start calculating the actual scores for the different center letter options. Doing this for the 538 puzzle, I only had to look at center letters for the top 2 puzzles 'aeginrt' and 'adeinrt' (after those you find a score that is greater than the upper bound for any of the other puzzles).
> The cost of free stuff is "be nice to the guy giving it to you".

Can I get this on a poster please? Really well put.
That means 5 years behind others that will be researching it and actively using and improving the tech. What a rushed decision. And that's how EU did and will always lag behind everyone else.
Their study of adolescents[1] did not use a control group. This is an issue, as adolescent executive performance is likely naturally improving over time, and said improvement may be non-linear.

[1]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036013151...
That sounds pretty awesome, does anyone happen to have a list of the papers the class covers, I can't seem to find it online.
Is AirBnb as bad as the rest? I had understood the problem was that it was so lucrative it hurt people looking for a place to live. This is very different from the problem with Uber, Doordash etc. In Uber and Doordash, the person being hurt is a member of the transaction; in the case of Airbnb, I had thought they're a third party who couldn't get in.
[citation needed]

I just don't see it happening at a widespread scale yet. On the other hand if you give police the right to use these technologies you can bet you'll see police (and other government agencies piggybacking off them) deploying this everywhere very fast.
> ... and I would go days at a time without talking to anyone besides my wife

Would it be correct to assume that the majority of your time socializing is at work?

I'm at a remote-only company now, and have been so for seven years. I've found the key is that I have certain unconditional social activities I do after work. Without them I tend to go a bit squirrely and cranky. At work we also make a point to spend the first 5-10 minutes of longer meetings just hanging out, and get together in person at least twice a year.
But they don't have the issues nor pull requests that were open when the repo disappeared.