skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah its mostly gibberish and the few facts in it are cherry-picked. But what would be the point of arguing about it? If someone finds this useful so be it.

I will say that the mainstream view is that the Kaliyuga is 432,000 years long and started in ~3102 BC. And it makes little difference to anything in practice what yuga it is.

This only became an obsession with a certain type of Westernized Hindu in the 19th century in the same vein as (and largely in imitation of) the kinds of Christians around that time who were trying to “scientifically” trying to investigate Noah's flood etc.
I hope somebody has a chance to make high-quality samples/recordings before it's fixed. I doubt we'll get the chance to hear an instrument like this again, accidental or not.
That's a great perspective, thank you.

Funnily enough, I'd consider this post to be on the borderline between a micropost and a regular post.

Of all of my microposts, it's the one that I dedicated the most time to - though still much less than a post that would go on the homepage.

You've really hit the nail on the head though. By writing every day-ish, it lead me to start this post, which made me realise that I needed/wanted to dedicate a lot of time to to fully explain and say what was on my mind. (I reordered some of the paragraphs and added bits here and there, which I didn't do for most microposts to keep them 'micro')

By trying lots of posts, I found one that I wanted to go into detail with, which ultimately lead to it being the first post of mine to rank on the HN front page. Wow!
Thank you! I haven't tried frozen marrow bones, but I will definitely give them a whirl - I'm sure my dog would like them.
Implement a Clean VIP Architecture in Swift 5
Thank you! I think the concerns of the elderly is not exactly hn front-page stuff!
Yet for most imaginary property, we observe that it tends to be sold away from its creator, and coalesces in concentrated ownership pools. And without distributed ownership, this state of affairs does not end up generating sustained income for individual creatives themselves, but rather just adds to overall rent-seeking that everyone needs to find increasingly-scarce income to survive under.

The solution to the need for less human labor is to simply stop insisting that we need so much human labor! Full time employment should be well under 20 hours per week by now, the labor force basically doubling due to women working. Instead we have a monetary policy that deliberately inflates the currency to keep everyone working, resulting in a load of bullshit jobs such as financial paperwork generator or imaginary property administrator.
"Posts without URLs get penalized." That's strange. Does that include "Ask HN" posts? I would have thought that submissions with no link would be good discussion starters.
While narrowly correct, this barely rises above the level of pedantry. As I'm sure you're aware, racism is in common use as a short form for "racial discrimination", of which this is uncontroversially an example. Unless you object to white nationalist separatists being called racists, on grounds that wanting a separate white homeland doesn't require any belief in racial superiority? (Or the more mundane form, people who want their neighborhoods to be their own race and oppose race-mixing)

This isn't the fact-check "lesson" you think it is; it just pedantic apologia for racial discrimination that shows your own narrow understanding of the situation more than anything else.
Yeah, one of the suppliers I've identified for freeze dried foods is one of those survivalist prepper type stores. I'm sure my use case is not what they're thinking about :)
My take on this is there's constantly a "friend or foe" subtext to everything that's going on. So you have to be careful about how you state things, or you're going to subtextually saying "I am a foe" or "I am attacking you".

This is context-dependent. If someone is e.g. coaching you in something, it is expected they'll critique, and that will not carry connotations of attack. There's also a level of closeness where giving someone shit is actually affectionate. Etc.
Happens to me all the time. Hard to convey tone using text only.
Thanks! I've been thinking about how to do it grain free, but it's really tough to get to that point and still keep it at a reasonable price.
At least in LTE, the IMEI isn't a necessary part of connection setup. The network identifies the user seeking to connect by a temporary identifier if one of those is allocated or by the IMSI if that's all the user has. After the network and user pass a mutual authentication procedure, the core network may optionally ask for IMEI.

The identifiers actually used over the air are the IMSI (normally written once at the SIM factory and never changed, used as a fallback if no other identity is available), the TMSI (assigned by the core network when the user attaches, can be reassigned at every attach, service request (return from idle to active state), or mobility event that the core knows about), and RNTI (assigned by each cell, changes at each handover, used to address each downlink transmission to the mobile and I think included in the CRC in each uplink transmission from the mobile).

If you just receive a random transmission off the air, you can get the RNTI; if you receive an initial signaling message to the core network you'll get the current TMSI if assigned; you'll see the IMSI only in case of a new SIM or a SIM where the core network has forgotten who it assigned that TMSI to.

There are also some temporary identifiers between the cell and the core network allocated when the cell starts talking to a mobile and released when the mobile goes idle, but these never reach the mobile.

The core knows the IMSI and optionally IMEI of everyone connected. In normal operation, each cell only knows some temporary identifiers (it has the opportunity to record IMSI if the mobile sends it, but the mobile doesn't normally do that).

All the details are available from 3gpp.org, and I can be more specific about which section of which doc if anyone actually cares.
$100K is a lot of money for some experimental low temperature labs. The other issue is that vibrations from compressor units can interfere with sensitive experiments like scanning tunneling microscopy. Helium is expensive enough as it is that I think most labs would like to recycle it, but there are drawbacks.
Tech is the city's biggest industry.

https://www.victoriachamber.ca/about-victoria.html
Black households have about $5000 in wealth. When considering the fact that they are owed 40 acres and a mule in reparations, remember that each black household should be worth upwards of $800,000 (~$20k per acre).

Ask yourself if education, poverty, healthcare, loans, housing, etc... would be an issue if they were actually paid what we all collectively owed them. I expect some portions of the racism would still exist but economic empowerment is always a potential gamechanger.

Seems uber is trying to help fix that gap themselves. I commend them for at least trying something novel.
for users: How about "I tried it, I like it" or "this product gave me warts", both things it could be useful to know.

for makers of products HN people like: Comments could draw more attention to the product, more clicks, more sales.

for makers of products HN people don't like: No, can't think of a reason why allowing comments on ads would make sense.
Thanks. I tried to go with the platform's primary color. It's slim pickings in terms of size to fit icons in the buttons but maybe I can relocate them above that area to get a bit of extra room.
Symmetry.

To make a very flat surface plate, you can grind three less-flat surface plates against each other (three because if you only have two, the common surface guaranteed by symmetry can still have curvature). To make a very precise cylinder, you can grind a less-precise cylinder in a "V" formed by two flat surfaces. To make a very regular lead screw, you can grind a less regular lead screw with a less regular reversible nut. Now you can construct a micrometer, and from there your mill/lathe and you're off to the races :)

That's how you bootstrap precision, but taking precision from a basic form and putting it into a complex form is a whole other art. These days we use numerical techniques, but historically geometric construction would have been the ticket. For instance, take a string, use a "standard twig" or something to mark 3+4+5 sections of equal length, cut & tie it into a loop, tension it into a triangle with sides of length 3, 4, and 5 using the marks, and now you've got a right angle.

Modern metrology looks a bit different because time symmetry started beating spatial symmetry. Badly. Absurdly badly. Like "you get twice the digits for the same price" badly. You get 6 digits for pennies in a quarz oscillator and I know the metrologists have chased their clock stability out to at least 19 digits, probably more by now. Also, you can just transmit the reference over the air to globally coordinate accuracy for dirt cheap, you don't even have to ship blocks of platinum-iridium in inert atmosphere. Modern metrology is basically the art of "rebasing" other types of measurement onto measurements of time because time measurements are so ridiculously great.
My parents lived up that way, and the amount of NIMBY-ism regarding offshore turbines is staggering. I suspect you may be right, and people just latched onto whatever claim got the turbines shut down.
I have sprinkled some of the cheese powder I use in my mac and cheese, but that's about the closest I get :P. Luckily my dogs are happy to help out.
There's a benefit in the cardinality during type checking when you use an external type checker. Strings have infinite possibilities an enum type is strictly defined.

Also I'm sure with reflection you can actually implement a simple enum pattern matching function on an enum that is exhaustive and throws a runtime error immediately if every possible enum case is not covered.
Anyone remember rickrolling over telnet?

Or this: https://github.com/keroserene/rickrollrc (Not over telnet, but same effect.)
One point i never get for companies operating their own hardware: If your problem was having a number of well known servers for the internal management services and you then move to a nomad cluster or kubernetes to schedule them dynamically, you end up with the same problem as before to schedule the well known nomad servers or kubernetes masters. So is the only advantage here that the nomad server images update less often than the images of the management services?
Okay, let’s talk about that.

That was worst moment of my career. It still leaves a sour taste in my mouth just talking about it. I loved working with those folks.

No one in VMware was happy about that decision, (the internal uproar was incredible...) the exec who made the call had no idea what they were doing with this. (Newer to VMware...)

Thank goodness the execs responsible for that have absolutely nothing to do with Fusion or Workstation now, and haven’t for some time.

We moved out of that group (end user computing) and into the core platform (I.e. vSphere) group in 2018 as a response, had renewed investment (vmmon engineers working on this had to stop/delay working on ESXi features to deliver our User Level Monitor changes to support the Huper-V APIs...), and new direction.

Frankly I couldn’t be happier with where we’re at, other than for the entire old UI team to still be with us.

Sore subject for me tho. They are my friends, and I had to carry on like nothing happened, or I would have been out the door just like them (and summarily sent back to Canada, I was on a visa still at the time...).

I opted to work my ass off internally to make sure this would never happen again, and that we had a solid plan for the future.

This project (vctl) as well as hyper-v mode support in Workstation, are the first fruits of that work. We’re in the right home, the team is innovating well, and our engineering and product leads are long time WS/Fusion folks. We can’t undo the past, but we can try do our best to do the right thing for our customers. (Hence all the free .5 updates instead of paid ones for the past couple of years...)

Dell doesn’t get in the way. At all. Ever. They’re wholly uninterested in our tiny business.

And yah, it’s harder and harder to support older version of macOS when Apple is so aggressively making kernel level changes that we have to engineer for.

We’ll be supporting hypervisor.framework soon (tech preview after 10.16 beta drops). We also have ESXi on ARM, incidentally engineered with the original engineer for Fusion, so we’re ready if that happens. We’ve seen no sign of Apple giving up on x86 tho (for real...)
Libra doesn't really have monetary policy since it's supposed to be 1:1 backed by real money, but now that you mention it I wonder what they would do if (purely hypothetically) one of their backing bank accounts got seized.
What music do you listen to while working?
Frogs are undergoing a catastrophic dieoff
Lobsters requires an invite though. They have a good rationale for it, but it seems like a non-negligible barrier to entry, especially for people that are less connected.
thanks mate, my two dogs will love this. my dog just got spayed, and isn't taking to her treats. i think this would really make her happy.
General relativity proven on Earth across scale of centimeters
Considered this too, but there are two reason I ruled it out:

1. The beep was very long - maybe a second or two - much longer than smoke alarms.
2. I could hear it blocks away from my apartment. No smoke alarm chirp would carry that far.
I don't have any experience with their hardware but I'll have to agree on the software front. I have a multi-port hub that I also connect the HDMI cable for monitor to; I connect the hub to the laptop its actually plug-n-play. I haven't had to run one command to hack/override configs etc.

I tried their tiling option but didn't stick to it because when I maximized a window and toggled to another, the original window went back to being tiled. Too lazy to remember shortcuts for tiling WMs (probably to my own detriment)
Ask HN: TorProject Bug 33613, JavaScript Execution with NoScript Bypass
Hi HN. I stumbled across this [1] bug report in the Tor-Browser-Bundle (TBB) while rabbit-holing a somewhat related matter. Its current status is (from the last entry in the bug report) "We believe the current mitigation in NoScript successfully avoids the bug, but I want to give enough time for more people to poke at it before thinking about relying on NoScript completely for blocking javascript execution on the Safest security level."

The bug report was filed 3 months ago and updated with the above comments 8 weeks ago so this is an Ask HN - Can people take a look and see if the NoScript mitigation is effective please? I have noticed a few 'quirks' but the more people that can kick the tires on this one the better. For background here is the link to the original Tor Project blog entry announcing the bug. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-907

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/33613
There's a significant amount of startups / medium companies / consultancies but no "heavy hitter" offices like FAMGA, which is probably a driver behind the state of salaries. There is some Amazon presence through an acquisition they made on ABE books. Though there's also lots of remote workers here too for big companies like Github / etc.
He’s using the language of self help (“clear and direct communication!”) but interpreting it in a manner reminiscent of the “truth telling sessions” enacted by Synanon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon

> > Last night I told someone I could be interested in a variety of relationships with them. They told me they weren’t interested in romance but they were interested in friendship. We had a nice talk and teed up another talk.

He considers himself to be a “direct” communicator, when this is an example of very indirect communication. The guy wants to date and/or be intimate with someone — telling them “I could be interested in a variety of relationships with you” is so much more indirect than asking “wanna get dinner?” it’s not even funny. His barometer of “clear and direct” is totally off in this case.

This guy’s take on “clear and direct communication” is sophomoric and there’s a reason adults don’t communicate in the most direct manner at all times. Sometimes you need to give the other person plausible deniability: asking “wanna see my etchings?” is a cultural shorthand that is just a more respectful way of asking “wanna sleep together?”, but this guys interpretation of clear and direct communication doesn’t seem to have room for a question like that.

Sometimes speaking vaguely rather than directly is a way of respect to your conversational partner. This guy doesn’t get it
If you can share more about different routing mechanisms, I'd love to hear it. It's not that components are making me happy, per se ;)

As for the priority label - it makes sense if there's either a huge bug load (cf. bug hygiene ;) or in environments where you have automated workflows. I.e filing a bug with P0 alerts the responsible engineer, starts a log document for the inevitable post mortem, lets production know, whatever you need to do for P0s.

Not all fields in the database are for humans :)

I have occasionally thought it'd be nice if we ditched a lot of UI & status fields, and the IC view in the bug database is just "what is the most important thing for me to work on right now". One issue. Only comment history, no other fields. You still need the rest for reporting, analysis, workflows, but as IC, that's what you care about.
This is my favorite json viewer gui: https://github.com/ashwin/json-viewer

it's a single file python/tk script, requires no installation and no dependencies other than standard python
Do we really need IMEI or SIM Cards?
- Some countries use IMEI for tracking & disallowing certain phones bought in some other country
- SIM Card also seem to just create problems to people.
"Open source" is primarily a coding phenomenon.

But an operating system is about more than just code. It is the central component of a computing ecosystem. And producing a viable, productive ecosystem requires much more than just open source code. It requires design, implementation, incentive and marketing.

If code was all that was needed, Linux distros should be dominate by now. Instead, after 30 years of effort by some of the best and brightest and billions of lines of code later and the result is --- a big yawn from the general computing public.

But, but, but Android. Well, Android isn't totally "open source" now is it? Key pieces of the ecosystem are not really "open" at all. And these key nuggets capture the incentive that propels the design, implementation and marketing forward.

Bottom line --- it takes more than an engine to produce a best selling car. And likewise, it takes more than charity, good intentions, free labor and open source to produce a truly viable and popular operating system.
Gnome 3 has been out for 9 years now, which is longer than the time between the releases of Gnome 2 and 3. I don't think there is a lot of config churn. (It may have been worse in the early days of Gnome 3.)
Strictly speaking racism is the view that different races of human even exist.
I'd assume its to avoid meta discussions about the companies. In the "whoishiring" threads you often get people complaining about the companies, which the mods then remove.
In today's world of activation locked iPhones being far more effective in preventing theft than IMEI banning, it's time to get rid of privacy breaking things like IMEIs.
I don't think 5G will be restricted to cities at all. There are some carriers who are already providing pretty good service to rural areas using sub6 fixed wireless. The N77 auction (3.7 - 4.2Ghz) I think will open up some very good competitive rural options. mm-wave will probably be too expensive in most cases but not necessarily always. The reason is because mm-wave being so fiber intensive. There is often a misconception that fiber is more expensive to deploy in rural areas but often the opposite is the case. Rural areas tend to have fewer regulations and restrictions that make deploying fiber a lot less expensive on a per mile basis that in cities. It's just that cities have more potential customers so it is the obvious first place to deploy. Although it will take longer to get there, I believe that fiber will work its way to more rural areas over time.
Oxford's Recovery Trial: Malaria drug hydroxychloroquine does not save lives
Those "Long necks" probably didn't hold their neck that way, according to this highly informative article: https://svpow.com/2009/05/31/necks-lie/
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as is Plan 9's Sam - jumping beyond the Command Line ;)
And also it is exhausting and if you over do it, you end up spending all your mental energy worried that something you said was misunderstood by someone.
I am under the impression that the blocklist programs (such as ublock origin or pi-hole) do not have an option to redirect to anything other than the void. I can only see downsides to allowing this.
The Implication of Electronic Banking in Nigeria Banks
Ask HN: A world without SIM cards
How can we achieve without SIM cards - what would we gain or lose?
Could this be used to find bugs in already published contracts? It brings to mind the 2013 PRNG issue [0] that led to a bunch of wallets being drained. Something that is perfectly valid today might have a vulnerability in the future.

[0] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2013/08/some-secur...
Why 5G is dangerous : because mm-wave can't get out of a paper bag, we'll need a tremendous number of antennas everywhere, consuming a tremendous amount of resources and burning a tremendous amount of energy. For what benefit exactly? I don't want 5G. I'm very certain we have really urgent problems of climate, pollution, biodiversity, resources to tackle, and we certainly don't need any new planned-obsolescence systems. No to 5G. And of course, no to 8K TV.
I'm glad to know about the hex-color change ability.
OK that grouse sound is very trippy considering the context. I would’ve been in the exact same mindset as you. Thank you for sharing.
Is there action camera or mirrorless camera that has webcam feature natively?
Wow awesome idea. How many rolls do you produce a day?

How about recycling plastic waste ground on the beach?
the BSOD minidump should tell you which driver crashed. GUIs exist for analyzing minidumps, it might even be feasible to talk someone through the process over the phone.
An Unfinished and Playable Build of Dead Island 2 from 2015 Has Leaked
Except not. The MAC-layer identity in LTE is the RNTI, which is temporarily assigned by each cell before the mobile transmits any sort of unique ID.
By never releasing open source drivers ever. (Not counting Atheros which was an acquisition.)
It's a good day to visit Hacker News. Lots of interesting and insightful submissions, including this one.

I especially get a kick out of creative domain names. This is one of my favorites.