skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of great-looking puzzles, this youtube channel covered a visually stunning pi day sudoku some time ago. As you said, it uses extra constraints to reduce connectivity, but still, I find it amazing that the digits of pi can fit so well into a puzzle. (Pi begins at the top and moves clockwise.)

+-----v-----+
| |431| |
| 8| |4 |
| 3 | | 1 |
|---+---+---|
|2 | | 5|
|3 | 6 | 9|
|9 | | 2|
|---+---+---|
| 7 | | 6 |
| 9| |5 |
| |853| |
+-----------+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N41yZsxIsK8
I just use chocolatey for that
> choco install windows-sdk-10.0

That being said I had to avoid installing VS 2019 for quite awhile because Node.js native module build chain couldn't work with it. There are complexities
Hey, I signed up for the beta a few days ago. Can you tell me how long should I wait before I can try it??
Ask HN: Do you have a creative outlet?
This is why I push for assisted suicidal wherever possible. I would not like to be a burden on anyone else in old age, and if I get to that point I would want to put myself out of my misery. Easier said than done of course.
Yes, I've gotten that recommendation as well. Apparently more natural light exposure may also decrease the risk for nearsightedness. Having a window near my computer monitor makes it easy to remember to look outside whenever I'm not actively looking at the screen.
AMD started to support the development of the open source driver several years ago by publishing hardware specs. . I am not sure if they switched completely or are still maintaining a closed source driver on the side - I haven't bought AMD cards in years, my last one only "works" with the binary blob.

The people working on the NVIDIA open source driver have no official support and were fighting with signed firmware blobs last I heard. I wish them luck, but even on older cards it is more likely to crash your system than render anything.
Just being aware of the situation also helps, even if one does not have a plan. Knowing that an apartment is not exactly what your mind and body needs helps you into searching activities outside the apartment for example.
During the fighting seasons in Afghanistan. US Army Rangers were doing raids every night. (Not counting in-country downtime associated with changing operation areas.)

Most raids were uneventful but contact with enemy happened often enough.

But they rarely had access to 160th SOAR helicopters because the 160th was usually busy supporting SEALs and Delta.

To your point about training, deployment was considered an easier time than being state-side because state-side time mostly consisted of high tempo training to prepare for other missions as well as get ready for the next rotation.
seems like a dumb move, but I'm sure they have their reasons.

I bought z390 mobo last year with some very beefy VRMs. it was near the end of the cycle for the 9th gen parts, so I was thinking I would consider upgrading whenever they released the next line of chips. I would honestly consider buying the 10900K if it were compatible with my motherboard, especially now that I'm compiling code at home, but I'm not willing to also pay $200-300 for another high-end motherboard.

I sort of suspect they looked at the last gen motherboards and worried that they wouldn't all be able to handle the increased power demands. maybe they decided not to support that to avoid making people look up each SKU to see if it could handle the new processors.
If you want a well paying remote job, you need to avoid companies that advertise remote work. 99% of the time they are trying to capture great talent for less money. Instead just apply to well paying places, and prove you are a worthwhile asset. Even companies that swear they are non-remote will usually make an exception

Caveats: This usually only works if you're in the same country as the company (legal/tax complications). Also, while you might get SF salary you will almost never get SF stock comp, which is almost always worth as much as the salary
Are you aware of any hardware tokens that support PKCS#11 and can be implemented affordably at small scale? The only ones I've found are Yubikey, but Yubikey's other protocols (OTP, U2F) are a lot simpler to implement, so I've never tried.

At one point I bought a few literal smart cards and a USB reader, but not being an enterprise customer of any of the vendors, couldn't find the necessary drivers / passwords to get them working with PKCS#11.
Uninstall the app?
Interfaces are types, and concrete classes implementing them are subtypes.

OTOH, it's probably easier to avoid LSP violations with interfaces than concrete supertypes.

> Is there a good reason to have a class hierarchy in modern programming?

Well, implementation inheritance facilitates code reuse; there's some ways to do that that aren't traditional class heirarchies, but they mostly seem morally equivalent to multiple inheritance with partially-abstract base classes. Ergonomically, though, I think some of them don't do as much to encourage inappropriate subytyping or implementation sharing compared to classical purely-class-based inheritance.
Well, the 'motivational/marketing' side makes more money than the actual job.

In the same way that Harley Davidson makes more money with merch than with motorbikes and George Foreman made more money sponsoring a kitchen grill than with his boxing career.
It's not as simple as you suggest. Hearing someone is imprisoned, or kidnapped, is probably one of the last things that a local consulate or embassy wants to deal with. Unless there is broader geopolitical concern, there is little reason to think that these folks will do much beyond the minimum to keep you alive. There is a good chance that the local diplomatics aren't too sympathetic either because know what you should have known about the country before you got yourself into trouble.

If they think there is some injustice, then it depends on how much it'll play out in the media. The government posture at home will also play a part. You could see the Trump administration playing hardball in a lot of scenarios to demonstrate how tough they are, but then they undermine the general ability of the State Department to operate, so lower visibility problems struggle for attention and resources. The Obama administration provided more resources, but probably wasn't as hawkish.
It's one of the worst products on AWS. It's so bad, that companies would rather spend engineer's time to avoid it. That's why there are hundreds of products that replicate its functionality.

Has the GUI been fixed to be somewhat useful? Did they migrate from their god awful JSON crap? Can I embed simple infrastructure logic, like automatically adding a group of nodes to a Route53 zone?
Your exemple is more a third-party API than an unofficial api as the one from this post.

The one from this post are self-hosted scrapper-wrapper library API.
Yeah and how'd the Heat do the year after Lebron went back to Cleveland? Spoiler: after just making a trip to the finals the previous season they had a losing record and didn't even make the playoffs

So to recap: Miami with Lebron = 4 Straight NBA Finals, Miami first year without Lebron = losing record and miss playoffs completel. They're basically a .500 dumpster team ever since.
Honestly, the answer to the question "is field x less rigorous" is almost universally no. Some fields tend to attract smarter people than others, but that doesn't mean there aren't very smart people in pretty much every field who are doing good work and exploration at depth.

For this question I think that beyond the politics and what was a deeply ill-advised strategy for managing a limited resource (masks), it may also have to do with the type of studies they tend to use and give authority to.

The scientists you're talking about probably are looking at smaller scale things where plausible mechanisms are investigated and confirmed. Epidemiologists though have many examples in their toolkit where such common sense findings don't extrapolate to population level interventions.

For whatever reason, epidemiology doesn't seem to embrace a more bayesian approach where you operate with a good guess and try to revise it as you learn more. They tend to stick to confirmed models.
There are satellites for watching and communicating, but no weapons.

Of course, actually there are weapons on some of the satellites but everyone pretends that there aren't to maintain stability. Publicly putting weapons in space is destabilizing, stupid to the point of evil.
I'm actually the current owner of this repo!! I started it because I love working with unofficial APIs for fun hacks that improve my life. During college, I had an alert that told me when the Krispy Kreme donuts were fresh built off an unofficial API that promised enjoyable donuts.

If you're interested, I have a newsletter to update you when new repos are added https://forms.gle/e8nCivpTBNftNtgGA and to feature interesting stories from the community.
The First Bar Code Was Round (2014)
I'm reading gp's suggestion as a single base in a single pole, which always gets sunlight from one direction. Cabling can be very short.
We had a guest on the podcast recently recommend the free tool, Security Onion, which you might find useful for this purpose.
qmail was essentially unmaintained for a long time, people were distributing patches to it, but there were no upstream releases.

(Similar story with djbdns/tinydns.)

"Recently" he released his code with new licenses, so that people could finally start distributing updated versions, rather than the previous approach where lots of people were sharing conflicting patches for various features (e.g. IPv6 support for AAAA records in tinydns.)
Do you really think there's anything only the US can do? I suspect China and the EU can do whatever the US can do in space exploration.

But I agree with you that it's unclear the value of going to the moon again.
I think this is a neat idea and is very useful for any type of sales planning. This isn't so much growth advice as survival advice. You should read LinkedIn's terms of service very carefully to determine if your product is compliant. LinkedIn makes it very difficult to scrape their site and their TOS states pretty clearly that combining LinkedIn data from their developer/partner API is a no-no. As far as I can tell, apps that use the LinkedIn APIs are really supposed to enhance the LinkedIn experience for users rather than enhancing the experience of other products.

I can't remember the specifics of the app I thought I wanted to build that would use LinkedIn's data, but I remember being turned off from the idea after reading their TOS.

This might not apply to your product but it's something to be aware of.
SawStop’s creator seems to have offered reasonable fees.
Epidemiology during a pandemic is about one part science to three parts PR. Sending a consistent message to the public and getting them to change their behaviour at all is more important than getting the details right.

In the case of masks, the WHO decided early on that masks for the public were of limited use in slowing coronavirus spread: they'd stop some infections but could be detrimental if misused and could threaten the supply to medical professionals. This was a reasonable conclusion at the time. To communicate that to the public, the party line was: masks no good. Many national organisations took their cue from the WHO.

Now the risk/reward tradeoff has shifted: better research shows that masks, even ersatz ones, are good and the supply lines for professionals have improved. So the message has to change: masks good.

The actual scientists know that it's not black and white, but pretending it is is a useful tool for health organisations.

At some point I expect we'll see a flip-flop on the party line that "there is no evidence that covid-19 infection confers immunity against future infection". It's nonsense - there are hundreds of years of circumstantial evidence - but it's just about defensible in that there haven't been any sufficiently powerful blinded trials to directly demonstrate it specifically for Covid-19. Once it's deemed to be in the public good, they'll accept some study showing exposure does indeed confer immunity.
Nice. Now where’s the repository?
Agreed. Pulling over a comment I left the other day in a similar thread about blogging, seems relevant here:

We all know too much about one another these days. It doesn't seem to matter to whom we address our writing. There is something to writing for yourself, writing offline, writing as a means of forming a private life and a private consciousness. And what about writing for the experience of writing itself? Forget publishing.

Ours is a society that says so little about nearly everything, and most commentary on the web today isn't worth reading. Furthermore, all content is ephemeral, people share gentle opinions instead of strong convictions because it is safer for one's public reputation, nobody is good at or cares about typography, self-editing is not a skill that people have, and you can never tell where the delusional self-promotion ends and the truthful personal expression begins.

We have become so sensitive to other people's personalities, accomplishments, productivity habits, recommendations, and advice for life. To what end? I don't know. Reading blogs is not my idea of quality time.
>>I wonder what kind of job offers these guys are getting after they leave the military. Or, frighteningly, while they’re still in it.

They're getting gigs as paid assassins, moonlighting as military officers in other nations' Direct Action missions so they can pull in $25k/month.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mercenaries-...
But with no more than 1 comment on 2 occasions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

3 if you count https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15869249.
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I don't think motivation is malware detection, I am assuming this is sort of fraud detection (like carding)
Dokuwiki will function perfectly for some specific use-cases. The file format and plugins are not something that should be glossed over with Dokuwiki though.

Yes, it's possible to rsync flat files from Dokuwiki to somewhere else, but Dokuwiki files are stored in a unique format. Moving files from one machine to another does not make the format more ubiquitous or easier to parse. The amount of work required to migrate data out of Dokuwiki may be trivial to some very experienced developers but would be neigh impossible for greener developers.

The plugin ecosystem of Dokuwiki is reminiscent of Jenkins. Dokuwiki plugins can do anything, but few seem to do them well or without quirks. Some require updating the CSS and HTML template for a theme. Others require modifying the host system. Few plugins are active, modern, and useful to more than a subset of specialized scenarios. The mobile editors are truly an exercise in frustration for even tech-savvy users.

Dokuwiki is great if you have specialized needs and accept the file format costs. The specialized markup language and plugin ecosystem are a type lock-in that should really be stated more up-front to new and perspective Dokuwiki users. I do recommend Dokuwiki for very particular and specific needs, but not as a general purpose wiki for "most people".
I don't think they're mutually exclusive, but I also think underpinning my previous post is an un-stated assumption: we have too many people doing jobs that don't matter.

IMO we don't need gas station attendants, we don't need grocery store clerks, we don't need manufacturing jobs. We need more robots. When robots inevitably replace these menial jobs, we're gonna have to do something with those folks. Over time the birth rate will decline and the population will even out, and there won't be more people than jobs, and that UBI is an elegant stop-gap measure.

Otherwise, keeping people in these jobs is just some sort of Rube Goldberg-esque make work project.

Folks like yourself can stop working, folks doing menial work will stop working. Those who want to get ahead and do crazy new things will always be motivated to do so.
We get your point, that you expect the public to be more wrong than the authorities.

Except in this case, all of the foremost authorities have been wrong repeatedly and in ways that delayed productive caution, and extended unproductive policy. More of WHO's early guidance was dangerously misleading or false than was true; they actively denied every important observation which turned out to be critical to getting a handle on the virus.

Ordinary members of the public were ahead of the WHO for months in disseminating factual information and productive advice.
https://github.com/nhorman/dropwatch
What do you consider extremely rare? 13% of private sector employees still participate in a pension plan.

It does seem very likely a large share of those are older workers and that that percentage will continue to erode over the next 10-20 years.

https://www.pensionrights.org/publications/statistic/how-man...
> "Top-level programs"

I'm not usually one for causal dismissals but that made me cringe. What on earth is the use case for getting rid of that tiny bit of boilerplate, relative to the complexity it adds to the language definition, that makes it worthwhile?
It would be extra great if it had a battery charging outlet instead of a regular 120v AC outlet. I'm not sure how you would standardize a battery outlet but it has to be more efficient that going from DC->AC-DC.
Thanks for creating this - super cool!
I manually track expenses in a spreadsheet. I'm using tillerhq.com to pull transactions to the spreadsheet automatically.
Is there a Moore's law-type exponential capabilities expansion ongoing in robotics?
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Wouldn't that require some code to redefine `int.__add__` or `int.__radd__` between iterations of the loop? Which I would file under "bizarre shit that shouldn't normally happen." Before the loop starts, you'd have to override `int.__add__` to modify itself every time it's called, or something crazy.

If we're talking about custom classes and not ints, maybe it's a bigger problem. But if PyPy doesn't allow the required introspection to make this work, how does it run anything at all?
For sure. I never carry a balance on my CC because it's quite possibly the dumbest form of debt to have, I forget that that entire revenue stream exists. As a sibling comment here mentions, rewards programs are effectively the rich getting richer and the poor getting screwed :/
Oh, I can totally beat that and do way more than 34 years.
Are investment opportunities really shrinking or is this a result of central banks never having really unwound their whole QE programmes, in fact many of them buy up as many 'safe' assets as possible.

I'm pretty sure Hayek would identify the issue as government intervention. It's not only central banks with their massive buy-ups of high quality corp/gov debt that's the matter here (forcing investors into ever riskier asset classes like VC funds). Given current world events I'm pretty sure a part of it is academia is broken too.

One thing that puzzled me for a long time is why there aren't more biotech startups, or why there aren't any (it seems) unicorn biotech firms. The potential of biotech seems unlimited. One day I found out a possible reason - VCs are afraid of biotech firms because they virtually all start by taking some academic paper that sounds promising, and building a lab to try and replicate it. But the papers don't replicate, so the company tanks and the VC loses everything. The figure I heard is around 50% of the papers don't replicate, which seemed shockingly high at the time.

Well, later I encountered an even worse figure: AmGen Oncology claimed only 11% of cancer papers replicated.

The cost of trying to find the next big idea in biotech seems astronomical with those kinds of odds. In effect the biotech world is flooded with ideas that sound good but fall at the first hurdle. No wonder investors prefer the software world, it's way less dependent on universities. Not many startups get started by saying, "we're going to commercialise this amazing sounding paper put out by the U of X". Even AI startups which I suppose come the closest are mostly being driven by corporate research labs, and even then, a16z dunked cold water on AI as a startup category.
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I find it's more helpful to see screen time in two buckets..

Creating/creative/thinking time spent on a screen is very different than passive consuming time.
Funnily enough, I remember talking to a historian who said centuries ago, reading a book was considered "mindless entertainment", much as we think about our smartphones now. Eventually, reading evolved into being considered something generally "smart" people did.
If you can live with crappy lagging UI. Since the stupid Windows 10 skin VS code is unusable.
> please don't say anything that further demonstrates your ignorance.

I'll leave that to you, shall I?
+1 for the great formatting.
I'm with you but I think social media should be limited when they get to that point.

Some parents also think you should be playing with your child at all times and that's absurd too. It's good for kids to learn how to entertain themselves and be creative as individuals. There's not much more obnoxious than kids who grew up with their parents always playing with them or managing their attention and the kids complain about being bored.
So did John Doe. Not sure I understand what the argument here is.
I'm sure there are organizations that earnestly and in good faith fight disinformation online, but whenever I hear the term "online army to fight disinfo" it's almost certainly another group also trying to put their own spin on things rather than asserting some objective ground truth.
The pricing difference is part of the product segmentation, because 10G+ has been reserved for "enterprise" parts despite not being much different at this point. There are ARM SOC's out there, where the bare SOC is in the $40 ballpark and comes with 10G integrated. 10G isn't inherently more expensive, its just been a decision not to repeat the "mistake" that was the 100-1G transition where the price went from $$$$ to 1/10$ in the space of a year.
Why? Hashicorp provides them with tooling at no extra cost. Majority of that is free to the end user. Having Hashicorp separate is great for the cloud providers, since they don't have to manage or spend money on Terraform... but still can contribute the code.
Its completely possible for the authorities to be wrong, its also completely possible for charlatan opportunists and insane people to make a bad situation much worse.
Did the polywater "invention" come around the same time as the discovery of tritiated water (aka super-heavy water or T2O)? That could explain why this was somewhat easily believed during that time.
You started out I was expecting you to be very liberal with 'screen time', especially agreeing with the GP who seemed the same. But:

> The rule in our house is that you can't use a screen if the sun is up unless it's a weekend

I think that's actually limiting screentime more than most US households, you aren't actually on the "no need to limit screentime" side at all!
YouTube Kids also lacks an option to disable Autoplay, which makes it pure evil in my eyes.