skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plenty of sunlight

Have you been to Seattle? They don’t have Alaska levels of Seasonal Affective Disorder, but it’s pretty bad. Mountains on both sides shave a little time off sunrise and sunset, and partially cloudy is every day. People basically ignore astronomical events because they won’t be able to see them anyway, although we did luck out on the last solar and lunar eclipses.

They have a special term for “overcast with a few moments of sun”: they’re called, “sun breaks”. Sun breaks. A break from clouds that lasts moments. Just a break, then back to work.

The only time the sun comes out reliably in the winter is when the wind shifts to the north and an arctic blast comes through. If it looks sunny outside, put on your heavy coat.
I would say misunderstanding rather than rumour — the original statement was closer to “Given how long it takes politicians to do things, we have until 2030 to get started on really fixing everything and not just painting things green and mistaking that for action”.
A Founder's Guide to Design
> So you think its unacceptable to have an SLA? That's a very common way of making explicit the amount of downtime the organization feels is acceptable.

Perhaps we mean different things by "acceptable". SLAs are a promise that downtime won't exceed certain levels. They are not a declaration that downtime is "acceptable", only that it's inevitable and is an attempt to characterize that inevitability.

What I mean is that when downtime happens, nobody at the company should be think "this is fine". They should be very concerned and engaging in urgent and speedy resolution to the problem.

The idea that a service is expecting and accepting downtime as part of normal operation and, even worse, as part of some sort of tradeoff with regards to developing new features is just bizarre and unacceptable to me.

It indicates a level of unconcern about customer needs and experience that renders the service untrustworthy.
Here's a Twitter thread discussing the significance of the 2030 date: https://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/1104833329587806210

It's more complicated & nuanced than most blogs or stories have time for, but it's not an Internet rumor.
Perhaps because the “other side” has spent thirty years fighting tooth and nail to stop even the most modest attempts to address the problem?

When people spend that long telling you what they want, it’s generally safe to believe them.
So, not a lawyer but I'll give some non lawyer advice.

You can buy spores online because the active psilocybin is not in them. They are mushroom spores (it's all so stupid to make illegal, but that's another debate)

You can grow them very easily in spare space. You grow the mycelium in a jar with brown rice flour and vermiculite, there comes a point where you expose the jar to some light to help stimulate growth. Like any natural growing mushroom. Then you put them in a container that remains humid, and again light helps them grow as theyll grow towards it. Think of a mushroom growing under a leaf off rotting tree bark in the forest, same concept.

They're decriminalized where I am (denver) and easy to find. Not legal to grow and cultivate, but do it for personal use and noone is going to bother you. Start selling or distributing, yeah, no need for that. Dont do that, federal law is still backwards and you can technically get in some trouble.
What is the legal situation on this?

I'd love to seed. I even have the space for quite a lot but seeding illegal content in Germany is a big nono.
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Is this the 13" or the 11" version you have?
> And I wish that Iranians could come to the US and visit NYC or SF and see our culture

Plenty of Iranians live in the US or western countries.
This is amazing. I'm having to restrain the part of myself that loves buying gadgets. These not only look cool, from watching their videos and reading about them, they have an awesome function.

Suppose I had some of this equipment and a sick family member. Would it be possible for me to somehow isolate a virus or bacteria from the sick person's saliva or blood and then sequence the DNA/RNA and then use a catalog of genetic information to identify a likely match?
Misskey: A federated/decentralized microblogging platform
Horror Stories from Inside Amazon's Mechanical Turk
For those suffering from similar problems and want to stay legal while giving this a try, you can buy fresh truffles in the Netherlands and do it yourself. For the first trip, it’s very recommended that you get a tripsitter. If you want to try microdosing, it’s not necessary although it’s more of a long-term thing so travelling to NL for that might not be very useful. There are other ways to do this obviously.

The book by Michael Pollan, already suggested here, is a must read if you want to convince yourself and give it a try.

I can also recommend r/microdosing and r/psychonauts.
I'm not a biologist, but a biologist friend of mine suggested that these results are specious because it is impossible to double-blind test the effects of psychedelic drugs. Does such skepticism have any merit?
I wanted to update the article to adress signing in more detail last time this was shared, but ... I'm lazy :-) I does mention it though: "Package managers are more secure due to checksums, signing, and auditing".

Maintaining packages is a lot of work: there are many of them, all with different policies/update schedules/etc. It can be very time-consuming to maintain a package for all systems. Package managers are great, but does come with some trade-offs, like most things.

There is nothing really stopping you from signing shell scripts; although I'm not sure if you'll still be able to run them with some clever "curl | gpg | sh" pipeline; but you can "curl>file; gpg [..]; sh file" it.

I think very few people actually verify signatures manually anyway, not in the least because it's kinda hard to do so (gpg is a beast, although there are some better alternatives now, such as signify/minisign).
Python 3.9 and beyond backwards compatibility
DoubleTake by FiLMiC Pro captures multiple iPhone camera footage simultaneously
Imagine that you are suddenly in a vacuum where social constructs do not exist, that you have no ego and that you feel connected to everything and at peace with the world. Who would that person be? For many people, it would be a new person.

It's a simplified explanation, but you get the gist of it.
> This approach saved me both much ego and time. (This can be read as a joke, but I'm mostly serious.

As an interaction designer I cannot stress how right you are about this and that it is no joke at all. There's a seven-year old comment here on HN[0] that really drove home the importance of looking beyond the tech-savvy bubble that we live in for me:

> I look at UI changes in a totally different way now. My saw me come online on Skype, so she called me. There's an ocean between us currently. She said she called me because she was writing an email to me, but couldn't find the Send button, so didn't know how to send it. Either it made her feel stupid or frustrated, or she felt so sad that she couldn't send an email to me that she had spent some time writing, or whatever, but she started crying. She was crying because she couldn't find the Send button in gmail.

It's fine to be proud of our ability to navigate technology, but to let that become a form of gatekeeping due to carelessness is terrible. Whenever I'm designing something now I try to think of my retired parents and wonder "will they be confused by this?" as a basic smell-test. If an interface makes my users feel intimidated rather than empowered, I have failed as a designer.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6429848
While this points to outright scam - I’ve seen a fair number of pitch decks that deserve to be thrown in the trash but get serious attention anyway. It seems obvious but I’ve seen a number of investors who will ignore a history of average growth, simply eyeball next year’s forecast, and go with their gut if the management team has solid verbal skills and looks the part.
The GOP is a traitorous anti-american fascist criminal enterprise existing only to preserve the shadow corporate oligarchy in USA under their puppet supreme leader who they crown as president. They will feel no shame to use anti-democratic means like gerrymandering, voter suppression or taking help from hostile foreign nations like Russia through which they will hack election systems, manipulate voter rolls and/or disperse voting database information to various data mining companies to gain an advantage via targeted disinformation. Everyone needs to wake the fuck up because GOP is Evil Inc. They are far beyond good faith arguments, in physics terms, GOP arguing in good faith is outside our observable causal universe.
I think the parent is referencing this:

http://www.bash.org/?5483

I remember reading this quote more than 10 years ago and still occasionally think about how wrong it is.
Also, Lunix (C64)
And there's the problem.
No one disagrees that code needs to work in steps. The conversation is around how much and the answer is going to depend on what you're doing.

Why have a function that prints a whole line? Isn't that just smashing together a bunch of small steps to print one character at a time?
poor != unintelligent

That said, I get the concern that non-scientists can often misrepresent scientific findings. I read the other day that apparently lemon peels are 10,000 times more effective than chemotherapy at treating cancer for example. But I don't think the solution is to lock away knowledge. The solution should be to try to educate people as much as possible.
Who Deserves This? (2018)
They apparently returned 90% of it, I'm not sure where the $13M was spent. (To be clear, I'm not suggesting this is a scam per your definition, just a failure of DD on the VC's part.)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stablecoin-project-basis-is-shu...
You're not wrong with your first paragraph. That doesn't make the use of curl|sh good however. It doesn't justify developers laziness in eschewing secure methods of distribution, or writing articles like this that justify that same laziness.
I take no ownership of this but found it an insanely cool free app that shoots a single video with multiple cameras.
Open-source design system checklist
That does not work for me on iOS 13.3.
It doesn't track outcomes, it tracks policy. The China and India ratings make it clear that they aren't tracking effectiveness or whether the policies are even being implemented.
Serious question: is it only the political or military leaders who wish to see Israel wiped off the face of the earth?
The PNW has been breaching or modifying dams for decades so that we all can have Pacific salmon.
Consideration Stage in Client Acquisition
China and open source geopolitical strategy
I am pretty sure that bang/buck is completely irrelevant when it comes to Apple
"Cisco iOS source code"? What are you talking about?
For anyone who wants to know how they can help with this, personally: Citizens' Climate Lobby is a nonpartisan group that is trying to get a revenue-neutral carbon fee and dividend (The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, H.R. 763) through Congress. https://citizensclimatelobby.org/ CCL promotes a measured approach, focused on this single task -- it's not about protesting or venting frustration. I personally think it's the most effective way to make a real difference.

And H.R. 763 has strong support of both climate scientists and economists as an effective way to reduce our emissions and mitigate climate change.
I wish things like https://piggydb.net/ had more momentum or competitors... personal knowledge databases seem to be such a tough niche to tackle.

Edit: since there is a new project here is more details years back: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2014/160/Workspace-Pigg...
There is merit to that skepticism but if effect sizes are large enough then it doesn't matter. You don't need to double blind to figure out the impact of gunshots on cardiovascular health.
Threads have some very practical advantages:

* Standard, easy way to get a backtrace

* Standard, easy way to get a list of active things going on

* In many cases, threads make it easy to follow control flow
I have to disagree - the ipad shouldn't be simpler than the iPhone - it should be binary: simpler for the grandparents, powerful enough to compete against a surface. When I travel, I'm only taking 1 big screen. The ipad should replace my laptop for trips where I don't have to work a bunch.
Spotify's impact on our culture is "People like to stream music. Here is a service that lets them do so.". You didn't need the Media Lab to come up with that idea, and indeed, it didn't.
To generate content for Gimlet podcasts
There was this British guy who drove from Beijing back home on a Honda C90 moped.

His video about Iran is heartwarming.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LEgowbzSc
Normally you get access automatically when you're on any machine connected to the campus network. Most schools also have a proxy server or VPN you can use off-campus. The Zotero browser plugin does a good job for me of automatically detecting resources that can be proxied and redirected so things work pretty seamless for me off-campus as well.
Influenza deaths are 2 per 100,000.

source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/flu.htm

SARS death rate is around 10%

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
ML and Cloud: A Better Love Story Than Twilight
That’s a very nice well polished site, I’ve seen many many businesses with sites that don’t even sort of approach that quality. Good job
I've read that you can carry it for 1-2 weeks without showing symptoms. That might significantly change how the virus spreads compared to flu.
> I absolutely can not wait to go.

I would like to go too. Unfortunately, I also travel frequently to the US and visiting Iran would make further trip to the US potentially problematic.
It certainly does not do this for everyone.

Some people's brains are very good at putting up barriers - it can't stop the hallucinations. It's hard to describe, but the brain can put up barriers. You can feel your mind cycling through stories - books you've read, TV shows and movies you've watched - to keep itself in control.
> I don’t claim that we don’t need to keep some people separated from free society.

Like people who contract the murders of other other people, in order to keep their criminal empire, with zero remorse or appreciation what they have done? Exactly.
You reprocess it to remove all the stuff that isn't actually "waste" because it's usable as fuel. What remains presents a much smaller storage problem which has known working solutions.
This was replaced in iOS 13 by a less comical, yet equally undiscoverable three-finger tap gesture.

Considering that command-Z is not discoverable either, it’s not too bad, especially as there are undo/redo/clipboard buttons on the keyboard in most cases.
We need something similar to the Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA). Our system rewards short-term thinking. However, the BBA should take into account stimuluses during slumps. It would probably have to kick in slowly to avoid hurting the representatives who sign it.
Indentured Servitude in the Americas
This arrived at literally the exact moment I was looking for lists/services for profanity/vulgarity (to disallow as game app nicknames). Thanks!
Cool! I ended up switching to a raspberry pi for that particular project but I'll keep that in mind.
Sorry but I fail to see the point of Blazor. It just feel like cool tech lacking a use case?

Anyone feel like helping me out here?
Nobody wanted cars like the Saab 900 by the mid 1990s. Volvo did away with the boxy design and started catering to a different demographic. Mercedes stopped producing Panzerwagens like the W140 and vault-like vehicles such as the W124. Handling and design were prioritised over long-term durability and build quality.

It is still a cultural matter, but a one that pertains to the tastes of car buyers in general.
If it's a Ryzen Pro, it has dedicated encryption/decryption hardware which might be being used. The old Via mini-itx systems had this, which allowed them to speed up AES operation massively, to the point that it was basically free to run an encrypted FS (and in their cases, it definitely had a CPU cost, around 10-20% of their single core IIRC, but that was a decade ago, and I'm not sure I could find the blog entry that person did now).
Having these companies use less efficient alternatives would seem to be a net loss for society.

The point is that these companies (more specifically: their operations related to fossil fuel extraction) are already, intrinsically, a net loss to society.

As such should they be shut down. It doesn't matter whose cloud their operations are running on.
That’s the thing about this issue: humans aren’t built to deal with it.

> When people start to truly panic and fear death you can be sure the nukes will start getting built quickly.

By this point it is far too late for any action to have meaningful consequence. People are raising hands now, when the effects are practically nonexistent on a human timescale, because if we wait until the effects affect us, then we are well and truly fucked. Society won’t collapse this century, but it might in a few hundred years.
Taking Portland Ave and Park Ave are great in Minneapolis, but I agree about cars in the front speeding, slamming on their breaks for the red, the going again. I wonder if there should be a new sign for green waves, or maybe we could just make them more popular.
Wow. Without some additional arguments backing that up, this looks really disgusting and misogynistic.

I look forward to seeing some evidence that Diary of a Future President is a cynical piece of propaganda designed to aid the fortunes of Michelle Obama, in order to restore a bit of my faith in humanity.
This is not something I've done, but I've been holding onto this paper from Princeton about using old mobile devices as compute nodes [1] which I think might be of interest here

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud17/program/present...
Ask HN: How do you manage to work remotely with kids?
We have a 5 month old, and we're trying to make remote work for both of us while raising her. We're trying out a nanny to help, but we haven't found our groove yet.

How have you managed this (with or without external help)?
If you are going to spend the money, just build yourself a desktop and install Elementary OS on it. Modern Linux is fantastic. I moved to Ubuntu earlier this year and had to tweak like 2 things for seamless use.

Then if you really want MacOS, look into VFIO with GPU passthrough. People are getting native like performance with both Windows for gaming and MacOS.
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The catch is that it's your own citizens who bear most of the burden of these tariffs. That's among the problems with Trump's various trade wars as well. I agree that we need to address the freeloader problem, but I don't think tariffs on scofflaw countries will work.

Well, a caveat: if the scofflaw country is selling you luxuries probably they suffer from the tariff. If they are the sole or chief supplier of the good/service and it is a necessary good/service, then you're just causing trouble inside your own borders: your citizens pay the cost of the tariff. Maybe you can use this revenue stream to make your economy greener, but you're still keeping the change inside your borders.
> A thread from 2017

Didn't you read the article?!
I spy logos for GitHub, Wordpress, Adobe, Linux, and Facebook as well. Not sure what they represent though. I would imagine that most of them make sense (Linux is an OS, Facebook is a cloud service, GitHub is a development tool, etc). The only one I'm curious about is Adobe. "Active Content" meaning Flash?

EDIT: Thanks to xroot's comment above, it is indeed Adobe Flash.
Given that even in "civilized" western countries there are a few percent of the population who really don't like Jews, I doubt that only Iran's leaders want to get rid of Israel.

The data also seems to suggest that antisemitism is more prevalent in Iran than in a lot of other countries: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/90093/1/MPRA_paper_90093.pdf

A final analysis then shows the extent of Antisemitism in different countries of the world, ranked by denominational groups, and based on the World Values Survey data. While in our 28 countries with complete data Protestants in Uruguay, Canada, and Argentina and Roman Catholic regular Sunday Mass Church attenders in Argentina, Canada and the United States are the major denominational communities with the lowest global rates of Antisemitism, Muslims in India, Iran and Iraq are the most antisemitic religious groupings of the world.
Total aside, but this notion that before the invention of minted coinage all exchange was done via "barter" is just completely ahistorical. Before currency exchange was done via favors. Instead of countable coins, you contributed to your community and built up a reserve of "honor" or "cred" that you could use to call in favors when you needed any kind of help or support. It's usually referred to as a "gift economy," but people get thrown off by the term "gift." It's less about the stuff you give or do and more about the obligations you have as a member or friend of any given community.

The main thing to remember is that people just had a very different way of thinking about the exchange of goods and services back then. It wasn't about financial transactions or maximizing economic returns, it was much more about building up cred and standing within a community.

Where financial transactions really come in is being able to facilitate exchange between two communities where that underlying foundation of trust and persistent social connection doesn't exist. This is why marriages between "clans" or "tribes" or whatever would often be marked by exchange of things that hold value like livestock, heirlooms and handicrafts, or parcels of land. These aren't really "barter" exchanges though, they're more like collateral or shows of good will between two groups or people who don't necessarily have a strong basis for trusting each other.

This is why coinage really starts to come around when you have large kingdoms or empires. Those rulers mint the coins because they control larger swathes of territory than could be governed by the sort-of-feudal interractions of familial obligation. So you start keeping track of things via precious metals instead.
Some think it is because elections are near. Can’t have weak market before that. Same reason why China trade deal phase 1 was signed, which doesn’t solve problems in trade with China.
Perhaps for this part: "but the US is on the side of human rights, freedom of the press, freedom of information, etc."?

China is admittedly far worse, but US has been working really hard on catching up with them in last few decades...
I think notetaking is way to "materialize" thoughts. In which I mean a thought is bunch of uncertain values within a rough area, and they come a go fast. But writting it down makes the values clear and specific and puts and gives you something to remember, instead of something to think.

Hm, basically it's making real final decision, instead of playing with a bunch of potenial possible decisions which are all somewhat equal, but also kinda fuzzy,