skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It almost sounds like this book is the reason we so often hear and talk about the imposed hierarchy between "pure" and "applied", and that "mathematics is a young man's game". Did it have a huge impact? Or were these ideas commonplace before it was published?
Backpack health makes one. Can use it for free. Has multiple languages. Medical dictionaries etc. (Disclosure
I used to work there)
httpss://www.backpackhealth.com/
> While the company might give you what you ask for this one time, they will feel blackmalied and will see you as a flight risk, ready to leave for greener pastures at any moment anyway, so they'll prepare themselves by restricting your access to promotions, trainings and critical work so you don't pull that stunt again and slowly reduce its dependency on you

This is a pretty reliable trope. I feel like I hear this every time someone mentions putting the screws to their employer. Yet I have yet to see it borne out by evidence.

It sounds scary. In practice I have never experienced it.

The reality is that institutional memory at most institutions is so fleeting that this above threat has never become an issue in practice.

Mind you in all cases I’ve always been prepared to walk, so that’s something to keep in mind, but I’ve never experienced worse treatment for leveraging what scraps I have. It’s pretty much been the opposite. Once I have that promotion by whatever means, magically I’m treated better. It has never failed.
Thanks for sharing, good luck.

What are cultural outlets that the Chinese use to deal with this type of suffering/anxiety/sadness?
The German mineral water industry started using a standardized glass bottle in 1969, all of these are reused: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normbrunnenflasche

If we could do it 50 years ago, we can do it now. It's a solved problem.
I have also used this ability to make a dsl with https://noseofyeti.readthedocs.io (rspec style "describe", "it" for writing python tests).

It's a cool technique, but quite a lot of effort and can break a bunch of tooling (getting my codec to work with black for example was... fun)
It seems plausible that a relatively slow increase (that is, compared to a supposed catastrophic flood) over tens of years, well within a single generation, could turn into, "and the entire world flooded overnight" within a generation or two of exaggerated story-telling. I mean, most religious fables are probably nothing more than exaggerations of real events, if not outright fabrications.

That kind of increase might very well be noticeable from year to year, and after 10 years you might come back to where your lands used to be only to find the sea has taken it over entirely.
I guess companies will update their sick leave policies too. Could be interesting.
Ask HN: Strong magnet in Logitech mouse box
I recently bought a Logitech MX Anywhere 2S mouse and when I was flattening the box I noticed it had a small battery like disk inside. I assumed it was an RFID tag. When I was tossing it in the trash it flew out of my hand and stuck the metal trash can.

On first glance it looks like a "357" battery [that is the small battery a little less that 1/2 across that is very common in laser pointers, small flashlights, etc].

Does anyone know why an RFID tag (if that's what it is) would have such a strong magnet in it?
If you re-read what I wrote, or perhaps quote the whole thing, you'll see that I was referring to the SIM, not to the phone number.

Of course unless phone numbers perpetually get longer, they have to eventually get re-used. We don't implement any re-use but the operator will indeed eventually recycle them.
Is there a key for the different language colours? I figure PHP is blue because of Swoole, but the rest are just a sea of colours I have to Google the web framework of to find the language (on mobile at least).
> Behaviorally most just go back to the same patterns and aren't particularly changed.

From what i read of the Johns Hopkins studies using psychedelics to quit smoking, CBT style sessions before the psychedelics was a key part of the program.
Yes, similar to the US. But British post codes (or at least the ones I’ve seen in London) are in fact very specific.
What about pretty much all of cryptography?
What makes it more sustainable?
The point is that people shouldn't have to be forced to live on the streets out of necessity, unlike what happens today.

It's considered a perfectly normal part of live that some people live on the street in 2020 like animals, it's just nuts.
Tempo: Timing, tactics and strategy in narrative-driven decision-making
You are 100% right. It started the same with our service; we bought back ImprovMX (I don't put the link as I'm not looking for publicity - just for reference) when it was just a 5$ droplet at Digital Ocean, and now we have 10 big servers, more than 700$ monthly cost (and I honestly think it's not that much) and have to handle all the messy parts of delivering an email.

It's easy to send an email, but it's way harder to ensure that the emails you send are delivered properly.
Enforce the use of https://www.rescuetime.com/ may help.
A Simple Graph-Based Intermediate Representation (1995) [pdf]
In the current situation it is necessary, since it prevents accidents. The main problem is that there is simply too much traffic on poorly planned and barely maintained infrastructure, so in that sense development would "solve" the necessity of honking.

But that's a long term solution, which will require a lot of time and funding. A short term solution that does not involve a massive infrastructure overhaul is difficult. Perhaps a clever reflow AI could mitigate some of the problems in the near future. This is something that does need attention, because the air pollution in cities facing this problem is terrible.
A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China
And when legendary treasures are discovered, they often turn out to be a box of junk. The story grows in the telling. Especially if there's nobody around to contradict.
Does it allow ZFS on root?
I was running ACID2 on a retina display and it is very distorted around the eyes in Firefox. Chrome did render it ok.
Here is a link to Codegrip: https://www.codegrip.tech/
A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin
I got a nuc8i5 (not i7 like his and not 10 as well) as I would to try Hackintosh as my last purchase of mbpro15 really break the bank.

but I never reached there. It now runs windows and linux very smoothly. Just swap the nvme 512g.

His experience seems useful as I still have a 512g for Hackintosh. May be I should try the min ubuntu 18 like his and then try the external ip access.

Good article I say. But not sure about he said ok with the noise. May get the noiseless case and do win/linux with it like this : ignore the Hackintosh part:

https://youtu.be/tUUP8K3RqAo
Maybe https://improvmx.com would be what you are looking for? (I'm the owner, to be fully transparent). We offer up to 5 domains for free.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! :)
Read it again. Those are examples that need a presence.
I don’t really understand what you mean, sorry. In what sense do you think the Royal Mail is able to employ Royal prerogative in this case? The Crown doesn’t normally ignore copyright laws.
they will eat youngsters. it will help stop the population exploding to get them before they get to adulthood
Scientists: we are killing the wildlife, half of it in just 40 past years

You: our attempt at not killing it will be futile because universe dost not care and is always changing

Me: ???

What you write sounds like deep thought, until you realized you just justify inaction to anything because deep thoughts.
> And lastly, #4 - If your counterparty plays hardball with you, give them a truly fair offer that addresses their needs. If they don't take a fair deal when offered, be prepared to walk away.

I think this is easier said than done. A lot of negotiations are invariably started with very incomplete information. Knowing what a fair offer for the other side would be often isn't clear.
Indie Worldwide is a community centered around live online meetups hosted 1-2 times a month. We've been meeting once or twice a month since last Spring, this next meetup will be our 14th (I think, kind of lost count). It's been a really neat way to meet people working on cool projects from all over the world I don't think I'd have ever gotten the chance to meet in person.
God, I'm in the same boat. I don't do web programming, so my web design skills stagnated around the end of the Space Jam Era documented here. I don't work with CSS often enough to memorize its inconsistencies (why is text colored with "color" but backgrounds are colored with "background-color"?), so it's mostly a baffling series of frustrated googling whenever I'm unlucky enough to work with it.

I'm glad you all like it, though.
Working with the Bash Directory Stack
Experiments are only as good as their preparation and setting, and so this would struggle to be a good experiment.
Starting with Ubuntu for now, and hostapd.
They call it “compare”
I think it's because of the cows! In India, the cows roam around freely, and if you have ever been on the road with a cow in front of you, it does not give a shit and will basically just stand there, eventually move when it feels like it. The obvious action to alert something/someone hindering you is to use the horn, "you are in my way", but that does not work for cows that well.

Over time, this weird culture developed of honking. Often honking in reply to each other, like a rhythm almost.
I can't explain this other than just personal preference, but I find Doom extremely frustrating in a way that Serious Sam wasn't.

I loved play Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and after a long lull, the new Doom games (Doom after Doom 3 and likely Doom Eternal).

But for me the hell theme just doesn't work. Chalk it up to my evangelical upbringing, my dislike of horror in general, or whatever, the thematic aspects just don't work for me.

It's immensely frustrating because I truly adore the gameplay, but I find it incredibly difficult to play a game where the enemies are demons of various sorts, and the environment is some kind of 'hell'.

I have the same issue with the premium Souls-like games. I find it really difficult to play any of the Dark Souls or Bloodborne.

I really love the gameplay, and I'd really love to see a Doom game that isn't horror-style Doom, a Souls game that isn't Souls-type-terrifying-enemies.

Any recommendations? I wish I could get past the 'esthetics' of said games, but if I can't: what are my options?
And screw themselves in the process... not a net gain unless someone's wanting to share a bad day, I suppose.
Not by itself, but because China is never transparent with numbers, and because they quarantined millions of people, they have sparked a panic.

If the death rate is really 2%, and if it is a contagious as it seems...
Hmmm, on the sliding scale of harmless to life-and-death software, it seems that as time goes many programs and services migrate from being closer to the harmless end to bring closer to the life-and-death end.

I feel that migration is often ignored or discounted. For example, Facebook in the early years was considered mostly harmless, but now has migrated to being exploited by state actors to brainwash populations into hating each other, interfering in elections, or at worst performing genocide on a minority group. We need to stop assuming that just because a software application is harmless now, that it will stay that way, and we need to adjust its "correctness" accordingly as it migrates along the harmless <> life-and-death scale.
> I note that your example of $300Bn as being a completely unreasonable, unachievable number for UBI is less than half the US military budget

Check your numbers:
US military budget 2019 [1] is $686Bn or $60 Bn per month vs $300 Bn per month for ubi.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
Lunar Lander Optimal Control Using Dash
After much reflection recently, I fully agree with this. All that really matters in this world is the people close to you and how you affect their lives - how they remember you, how you color their day, all the stories you write together...
This article might be of use: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/48693439_Large-Scal...

Long term means weeks to months of storage. This deals mainly with large season shifts in energy availability. Other ideas only really make sense for hours or days worth of storage. The need for this type of energy storage is well beyond what is plausible with pumping water or compressed air.
Oh, so they do. Sorry I've just never been aware of that.
You should deal with the problem of the single person, in the same way you'd deal with someone who consistently delivers bad code, or someone who turns up to the office and smokes crack in the bathrooms.

I'm a strong proponent of allowing people to work from home, but I have also had conversations with people in the past about whether its appropriate for them. Ultimately it needs to come down to the question of whether people are getting the work they need to be doing done, and if not whether that's for reasons outside of their control. If people are delivering what they need to be delivering (whether that's in the way you'd typically expect or not), there isn't a problem. If they aren't delivering, that's the problem to solve, not the nuances of a work from home policy.
What I would love for wikipedia is ability to select a block of text and click "show me when this was last changed"
I’m going to be downvoted but I think this is actually kind of cool. Just something that makes the world a little more interesting. Similar to wild horses living in chincoteaque. Sure the hippos harm some species but they may be helping other species.

Life is about change. Maybe our goal shouldn’t be to keep ecosystems static.
Another short one "ouf", as in "C'est ouf !" Used by everyone.
The source in the linked article has canonical link: <link rel="canonical" href="https://assetnote.io/bug-bounty/2020/02/01/expanding-attack-...
This is something I love about Dota. So many of its "features" started out as bugs.

Apart from proper game-breaking bugs (fountain hooks, bottle crow), everything else stays mostly untouched.

A vast majority of hero balance often came down to limitations of the WC3 engine, that were carried on into Source2 because they had now become hero defining traits.
Etherpad lite is still alive: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
Atomic weapons were far more an outgrowth of quantum research than relativity. The mass-energy equivalence is a pretty minor part of the energy release of the atomic bomb at ~10%. Most of the energy is simple atomic binding energy; energy before and energy after.

Einstein’s politics had more to do with the bomb than his physics.
Thank you for your post. I run ImprovMX and it's with pleasure that you liked using it :)

We are on the verge to release a sending feature and the decision from Mailgun to drop this came at a great surprise for us.

I always thought of Mailgun like the "unreachable competitor", kind of like "reach for the moon" type of target. But since they moved their forwarding feature to a costly paid plan, it's just like the moon vanished from our trajectory.

Anyway, I'm open to answer any questions if you have any. I also posted about ImprovMX here on HN today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22223783) and ready to answer all the questions there too.
Matthew Goodwin: Why Labour Lost the Election [video]
"The Hippopotamus is one of the largest mammals on the African continent and although mature adults are much harder for predators to kill, they are still preyed up by a number of predators throughout the wetlands. Big cats such as Lions and other animals like Hyenas and Crocodiles are the most common predators of the Hippopotamus, particularly of the young or sick individuals. "

https://a-z-animals.com/animals/hippo/

this is elementary. not sure why i am getting downvoted
Erm.. no. It's the opposite for me. I've used semicolons for over 2 decades. I can type pretty fast. Removing one character under the guise of "but I type faster" is just pure BS. Without semicolons, I can't work. The person who came with the idea to remove semicolons in JS earned a special place in hell.
Yes, they each sorted them out. (I'd mention VMS Pascal, too.) But they sorted them out differently, so if you were, for example, writing Software Tools in Pascal, as Kernighan had, you couldn't use their solutions; they were incompatible from one system to the next. ISO Extended Pascal did not solve this problem even when it was published in 1991, ten years after this paper, because even today it's not universally supported; for example, FreePascal still doesn't support it.

In a few cases, like TeX and STiP, the solution was to write in standard Wirth and Jensen Pascal, despite the inconveniences. Most people instead resigned themselves to writing nonportable code.

By the way, I see that the comment window has closed, but I'm still interested in your thoughts on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22083468 — it represented a fair bit of effort on my part, and it's disappointing that you haven't answered at all.
And who's stopping you to write things in Pascal these days? Lazarus + Free Pascal has plenty of platforms as target. Heck you can run Lazarus on Raspberry Pi and create stuff for Rasbian right there on your RPi device.
To offer an opposite position I pretty much disagreed with --or at least would heavy qualify-- with most points. The rest I thought were trivial.

> Writing non-trivial software that is correct (for any meaningful definition of correct) is beyond the current capabilities of the human species.

Perhaps, but this is a worthless distinction, especially if the author does not define correctness. If it is mathematically correctness he is after I think experience has shown a program does not to be correct to be very very useful, and except for extremely critical situations is not a consideration. The same way a road does not need to be perfect.

> Being aligned with teammates on what you're building is more important than building the right thing.

Hell no! Every leader would prefer to go in the right direction at 50% of maximum speed, that going 100% in the wrong direction.

> There are many fundamental discoveries in computer science that are yet to be found.

True, but trivial. The same thing can be said about every theoretical branch of science like math and logic, and even for many experimental branches.

> Peak productivity for most software engineers happens closer to 2 hours a day of work than 8 hours.

Perhaps, but if you work the other 4-6 hours at 25% of your peak you still would do more than double during the day. Besides, the 2-hour figure, although reasonable strikes me as anecdotic at best. If anyone knows about a study I would love to read it.

> Most measures of success are almost entirely uncorrelated with merit.

Without a definition of merit, this is worthless. And for that matter, a definition of success is also needed.

> Thinking about things is a massively valuable and underutilized skill. Most people are trained to not apply this skill.

Really? Thinking is a valuable skill?, who would have thought?

> The fact that current testing practices are considered "effective" is an indictment of the incredibly low standards of the software industry.

Or perhaps reaching that "effective" threshold is beyond human capacity. I think this claim is pretty insulting to the software industry in general too.

> How kind your teammates are has a larger impact on your effectiveness than the programming language you use.

Perhaps? It is not that straightforward. Doing a CRUD app with Ruby in a team full of assholes will have a "larger impact" than doing in on assembler with a bunch of goodie-goodies.

> The amount of sleep that you get has a larger impact on your effectiveness than the programming language you use.

Perhaps? Without further qualifying it is worthless.
Some cured meats. Stuff that's smoked and preserved with nitrites is problematic. Prosciutto (purely pork, salt, and time) is probably safe.
> chrome - [...] A faster browser than Firefox, sorry, not sorry.

What about fighting the Chromium monoculture? Is the difference in browser speed so great that you can't tolerate the extra lag in Firefox in order to fight Google's dominance?
Glad I'm a part of this!
I wonder how few wrote something that in their own opinion wasn't crap and did something impressive.
You made a "random wire" end fed antenna. Your more knowledgeable older self might not have tried it, but an even more knowledgeable amateur radio operator definitely would have.

As long as you avoid even multiples of half the wavelength you're trying to work, it's an easy way to make a usable antenna.
Microsoft tried it and productivity shot up 40%. Yes, in Japan, but still.

After I took a solid break from work for 3 months, doing a full 5-day work week was torture. I am still not used to it, and I don't think I ever will be agin.

It all comes down to scarcity. Scarcity of time. Give me five 10-hour days and I will stretch them out by hanging out on Hacker News. Give me less time to accomplish my tasks, and I will be much better at managing a scarce resource. AND I will have a 3-day weekend to check out from work completely.

In the past it sounded very "socialist" and lazy to me, but I have come around to believe that, in the language of Mandalorians, THIS IS THE WAY.
>and everyone thought that visualization would change the world to a greater extent than it really did.

c.f.: Data Scientists
*> Skype was originally a peer to peer application&

Sure, but Skype adopted a peer-to-peer design back in 2005 or so when expectations were a lot lower - no smartphones, no group calls, no 1080p, no cross-platform, and if it's unreliable or needs some fiddling around to get it to work properly, such is life - because the competition was paying $$$ for an international phone call that wouldn't have any video.

These days if you want to compete with Skype and Google Hangouts and Discord, I expect my regular four-way video call between people using Windows, OS X, Ubuntu and ChromeOS to establish first-time with clear audio and video to all users.
Taking back Mondays and Tuesdays (2019)
Who is the audience for this blog? Developers that don't know how to buy a computer and install Linux? Lmao
jQuery: include this lib, modify DOM.

Modern JavaScript: traveling menagerie of package managers, compilers, build tools, etc. Now that is all in place, modify DOM.

At least, this is my impression from the outside. The last time I actually wrote js was around a decade or more ago.
Hi,

Maybe https://improvmx.com might be the solution you are looking for? (I'm the owner, to be totally transparent).
food, utilities can be sterilized with gamma radiation, water with UV radiation. I am thinking of making a battery backpack for UV LED sterilization of air, so that it is durable and reusable, as mask production is not keeping up with demand, and they are roughly single-use items...