skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A simple solution and less obvious than tape is to paint over the LED (dob it) with nail varnish. Depending on the applied thickness, the LED can be blanked out completely or simply just attenuated to your desired amount. (The tiny brush that comes with the varnish is just ideal for the purpose.)

The nail varnish can be diluted with varnish remover or when necessary just removed by it. HOWEVER BE CAREFUL - TEST AN INCONSPICUOUS PART OF THE SURFACE OF YOUR APPLIANCE WITH BOTH THE VARNISH AND REMOVER AS BOTH CONTAIN ACETONE WHICH CAN SOFTEN, MARK OR DISSOLVE PLASTIC.

Incidentally, I keep a range of nail varnishes of various colors in the workshop, they're very useful for locking the position of coil slugs and potentiometers, and the varnish can be snap-broken without damage to the components (and nail varnish is usually easier to obtain than coil dope).

ANOTHER WARNING — BUY YOUR OWN (DON'T STEAL IT FROM YOUR BETTER HALF OR YOU'LL BE IN DEEP YOU-KNOW-WHAT (I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE)).
Inspired by the space cadet keyboard, I have (){}<> as hold/tap on my modifiers. It vastly improves my coding experience.
I used to administer flu shots as an Army medic back in the day. I don't recall ever receiving or giving this warning.
It'd be rude to deny you think there's a slippery slope, though I would note that you did introduce that part yourself.
I said nothing about sudo or setuid; I simply meant what I wrote: A Python program runnable by more than one user, where I meant user as in uid.
With the size of air-coolers these days, and how they all have integrated heat pipes, I'm beginning to wonder if we've crossed the distinction barrier with liquid-coolers.

Holy moly is that a big heatsink.
Weird. I bought a torx screwdriver to open my new XPS 13, and the screwdriver stripped. I bought a better screwdriver, and didn't have any problems with the screws or screwdriver after that.

(Stripped screwdriver was Husky brand from Home Depot, better screwdriver was a less-expensive, higher-quality one from Harbor Freight.)
People want a political home. In countries without any type of per-capita representative voting system (where parties are split amount % of opinions like in MMP), they feel like they need to vote 'tactically.'

At least in America, at one time people could say, "I don't believe in everything x wants, but I do agree with core policies a, b and c and so I'm voting for them." Today we are much more polarized and people desperate for a political home may start internalizing and adopting policies they may not totally agree with just so they don't feel left out in the middle.

Cancel culture makes harder, if not impossible, to be in the middle. Are you against racism, but not for the specific BLM organization? You're opinion is not acceptable to the Democratic/politic-left. Is that a hill you're going to die on? If not, you move on and ignore it.

This gets into some pretty dangerous territory because now you cannot say certain beliefs publicly without fear of ostracization from your political home. You may be able to keep that belief secret, or you may just start to believe the opposite. Viewpoints within each false-dichotomy lose their diversity, and both sides could bend, consciously and subconsciously, to a narrow, homogeneous world view.
how about international agreement that a half of taxes are paid to the buyers residence nation, and half to the sellers' residence nation?
Can you imagine how Russians and Bulgarians deal with it? Yes, they switch layouts all the time. Write some lines of code in English, switch to Russian or Bulgarian to write comments or reply in Slack.
Maybe vote stuffing on the submission ?
I don't think we're defining "boilerplate" the same way, then. Reading from a file isn't something that every executable does, so when you add code for it, it's because you want your program to do it. Boilerplate is things that have to be added to every program regardless of whether they communicate anything that differentiates your program: main(), for example, or class in Java when you're not actually trying to define a class that will be instantiated by later code.
Do you have any videos of such programming style performed in Lisp, or could you try to convince some of those programmers to record some of their programming sessions?
How TypeScript helped me to self-document my React project
The ethical question is whether to do A/B tests privately vs to do A/B tests and publish scientific papers about them.

I would be interested to understand the ethical basis for removing the ability of companies to run A/B tests.
That's a silly attitude. The entire movement to wear masks is predicated on caring about other people's feelings. Otherwise, people at low COVID risk (or even high risk but willing to accept it) wouldn't need to bother.
Of course people marry, have children, etc. because they think they'll be in a better position in life than if they didn't. But that's not being selfish, at least in the way that I define it, that is, that they prioritize their narrow interests to the detriment of everyone else's.
> That said, Whatsapp absolutely dominates chat apps in Spain... so I guess these issues are not that important after all. Or at least, not if you are at the right place at the right time.

This was the case, but the market has changed. At the time, here in Spain Whatsapp was marketed as "like text, but free". We were still spending about 12 cents per SMS back then, or buying silly packages like "100 sms for 10 euro", so getting it was a no brainer. Anyone could have sold that idea.

Nowadays, however, whatsapp is so ubiquitous that I'm not even sure they can be replaced anytime soon, so if someone wants to undertake that task they better have all the help they can get.
You are over-relying on a dictionary definition of monopoly that runs counter to the legal standard.

Think "anti-trust" rather than "monopoly," if that helps.
So if someone says their lived experience is pain and suffering from the existence of cancel culture, you fully embrace that and want to do everything you can to help them stamp out cancel culture?

Or how about this one: what if someone says their lived experience has always been a negative interaction with every member of some specific racial group. You then believe them and accept their racist views as legitimate?

I just can't accept that you actually believe what you are claiming. We all must evaluate and judge so called lived experience on its merit, not blindly accept it as legitimate.
Quote: "I want to talk about the Nokia N9 alarm clock application because it’s a really nice example of thoughtful, functional design – and because it’s only on the N9, so a lot of people won’t have seen it. There are more important things in life than getting excited about an alarm clock app, but it's nice when simple things are done well." From here: http://nition.momentstudio.co.nz/2014/08/the-nokia-n9-alarm-...
I haven’t read the article yet, so I will not comment on it directly. I was recently very demotivated in my work and started reading the book “Deep Work” and the concept really helped me get back on track. I think the concept of deep work is not only very beneficial for knowledge workers, but also essential to our long term well being. Because of the book, I was able to make changes in my work, life and personal priorities and I’m far, far happier and less stressed. Ignoring the importance of deep work (to use the articles title), is a recipe for burnout and disatisfaction. If I had been dismissive and passed the book over, when it was recommended to me, I’d still be stuck in a rut, on the brink of burnout and likely heading towards depression.
I don't disagree generally.

I just wonder with these discussions usually the issue is that when people disagree it is SO EASY to believe that someone else is 'biased' or in this case using some kind of 'orthodox privilege' .... that's where the 1:1 disagreement often is. We find it handy to believe that someone else is being unreasonable because ... <insert new term for why they are being that way>.

We live in a world where we're inundated by folks who say they're being silenced or etc for all sorts of reasons. This just seems to be a new term for folks to use.
So. US $150 per ton, so $150B per gigaton. We must ultimately remove 1,000 gigatons of CO2, but we need to start with 10/year. Using this method will cost the world $1.5 trillion per year. That seems completely within our resources. What's stopping us?
> I think you're missing the possibility that there are conservatives who want police use of force reform too but want to do so in a color/ethnicity agnostic way.

I agree with this, in that evidence seems to show that the problems with criminal justice and excessive use of force are amenable to color/ethnicity agnostic solutions, and that this would have the most positive impact by far on non-white minorities for obvious reasons. I also think BLM is doing a fine job of raising awareness about the issue but it's less clear that they have good solutions, whereas conservatives have been looking at this area for a long time but haven't done nearly enough to advertise the social equality angle. So this seems to be a case where orthodoxy privilege and lack of respect for intellectual diversity is hurting both sides.
For an example of a US southerner speaking from orthodox privilege in 1860:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23739361

For an example of a Nazi speaking from orthodox privilege in 1943:
https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb36...

"The West is in danger. It makes no difference whether or not their governments and intellectuals realize it or not. ... We also know our historic responsibility. Two thousand years of Western civilization are in danger. One cannot overestimate the danger. ... The only choice now is between living under Axis protection or in a Bolshevist Europe."

For an example of Athenians speaking from the Most Orthodox Of All Privileges in 431 BC:
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/melian.htm

"right ... is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
The new UX is terrible, but note you can still minimize comments by tapping the white space to the right of the username. Horrible discoverability, but at least that is still there.
Can confirm. Came here to look since githubstatus.com gives green light.

I noticed something else, as a result of their recent outages. I'm losing time when they're down, but also when they aren't. It is like flakey tests: you don't know on what you can rely on while troubleshooting something.
To the extent that the problem can be solved, the solution isn't going to be race-specific! There's no subsetting going on here.

The people complaining are black. They want their lives to matter. If you can't campaign for that without there being something in it for you as well .. why not?
The screenshot is not exactly inspiring; if that's the topology the creator of the program ends up with for a model, then the program is probably not suitable for most use cases.
> I'm tired of those self improvement hack 2 cents worth. Do what you love people, just focus on life and don't use all the time process.

Sounds like you've found a self improvement hack.
Yup, only 7% better battery.

But... 20% cheaper. 50% faster in multi-threaded tests, 20% faster in single-threaded tests.
The military plane didn't have absurd economical reasons against increased pilot training that 737 MAX had.
> Poor white people are just as fucked as any other minority in the US...

Poor whites are still more privileged via historicity of assets vs comparable poor blacks, and they are more likely to capture gains from federal assistance programs. They are also far less likely to be imprisoned for drugs or other judicial hurts.

When there was an opioid crisis the nation responded with sympathy and urgency. When we had weed, we decided to have a war against drug users and send black and latino people to jail en masse, and there they sit still.

Does anyone remember the term "super-predator"? That's not an allusion to poor people in general, but rather a reference for black people.
I don't agree. I've paid to subscribe to the FT for over ten years, and used to subscribe to the Economist before letting it lapse. They are not neutral and especially in the case of the FT, this has gotten a lot worse in the last few years.

Both papers do provide quite good coverage of particular economic topics, framed by their editorial perspective. But if your understanding of Brexit or Trump (or anything politically contentious) comes only from the FT, you are setting yourself up for a huge surprise.
Just curious, what are some examples of better ways to measure general IQ and grit? You said they are questionable concepts, so how do _you_ interview people?
Positive comments that don't "add any value" are heavily discouraged on HN. Unless you have some deep expertise or experience that you can use to expand on the article, it's usually best to not comment.

Negative comments that don't add value are not viewed the same way for some reason.
That's not a good metaphor because there isn't a single entity destroying all the forests. If, say, Exxon, was destroying all the forests, I'd for sure not be trying to save the Amazon but trying to stop Exxon instead.
Black Lives Matter is, among many other things, a hook to draw attention to systemic institutionalized racism from white voters who haven't ever questioned their privilege (the teachable kind, not the kind PG is talking about).

The legislative programs that people are advancing in the wake of this attention do indeed focus on solving the problem for everyone, not just Black people. For example, Colorado recently passed a police reform bill that does a lot of beneficial things, none of them specifically targeted at the Black community[1].

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-passes-sweeping-police...
Coronavirus: Mobility Data Provides Insights into Virus Spread and Containment
I find it more likely its either up-vote stuffing, or direct intervention from a HN moderator.
for deb packages I guess?

https://snapcraft.io/docs/snap-store-metrics

> the store assigns an anonymous identifier, the device-serial, to every new snapd client it sees. This exchange usually happens when a new installation contacts the store, and the identifier persists for the lifespan of the machine.

> Systems running snapd will periodically make a refresh request to the store, checking the for the most recent release of each installed snap. At that moment, they inform the store of their device-serial along with a list of the currently installed snaps.
Great piece. I frequently find myself withholding opinions about inequality because they'd get me in trouble. The orthodoxy really has the debate on lock down, glad the Trump situation has really got the debate moving again though.
There's this little thing called Alt+Shift.
> (AstraZeneca using meningitis vaccine as control instead of true placebo).

AFAICR, this was done on purpose to prevent people from figuring out they got a vaccine shot, because an inert placebo wouldn't cause any side effects.
Possible, yes, practical, no. In general, you want the least complexity as possible in the payload, since you can't fix it as easily as you can with ground bugs. Also, memory that's space-hardened is going to be significantly more expensive and failure-prone, so you need a lot of redundancy.
It’s possible that longer term immunity (> 3 months) isn’t even possible. There’s initial evidence of reinfections in that time frame, which means that vaccines would only last about that long and “herd immunity” is impossible:

https://www.vox.com/2020/7/12/21321653/getting-covid-19-twic...
Elon Musk Releases Giga Factory Berlin's Image Render
I didn't downvote, but probably because of "needed/useful for PWAs," which seems to be incorrect.
Yes, please. The first couple paragraphs of this PR I thought I was reading about Riot Games renaming themselves.
> There is more than one dimension

This is fundamentally true for everything in the universe. Every single category breaks down. Even if I were to drill down into, say, five dimensions, your basic argument would still hold true.

If we took the raw complexity of reality into consideration, we'd never be able to move forward because we'd be stuck in an endless debate over categorization. It's why I included caveats at both the beginning and the end of my statement.
This is the problem with this post; Paul isn’t getting into specifics, so it’s easy for anyone to read this and say “ah yes, it is them who have the problem and not me”.

I gather he wants to tell all of these people casting platitudes down on everyone to fuck off, but he could also be talking about the people that want to tell those people to fuck off.
Should note (from someone who has a few of these systems at my lab) unfortunately the consumer RTX cards don't do memory pooling. This means that although NVLINK is good for inter-GPU comms it doesn't actually allow you to run giant models that need the entire 48GB of memory for a backwards pass (treat the combined cards as "one card"). Not typically a problem for most people but worth mentioning
I think you are missing the point, and the point of the original "appeal to politeness" argument.
It is polite and appropriate to give someone the benefit of the doubt and "believe them" as in follow their line of thinking and investigate the point of view that they have.
However - giving someone the benefit of the doubt and trying to see their point of view doesn't mean you follow their every command and accept every proposed solution. It just means you listen, and try to work with them to solve the problem.
The problem is when a stupid college kid from an elite institution without significant life experience tells you about privilege and is trying to educate you. Even with mostly leftist views I would fully support the redneck uprising that comes after and you don't need to be a psychologist to understand the reaction. I doubt there is any deeper truth about racism to be learned here...
>Anyone who suspects they might have regrets or will be giving things up... I don’t know if they should go through with it.

That's where we're at. We're open to changing our minds depending on our situation, which is about as good as we could hope for (not rich but relatively secure and very happy). Since things are good and we feel fulfilled, it's hard to justify significant compromises. We're really clear that if either of us changes our mind, we'll talk about it, and we check in with each other from time to time just to make sure, but we already have more interests than we have time to properly nurture.

You shouldn't feel any guilt about existing, though.
Absolutely not denying what you or pjc50 are saying (there are far too many who cry wolf, or benefit "inappropriately"), but I can imagine the case where some people may be in the honest situation where they feel they have been silenced because they cannot say what they would like to say.

Individual 1: "I'm being silenced."
Group: "What would you like to say that you think you're being silenced about?"
Individual 1: "I cannot say for fear..."
Ha! I didn't even notice the lack of [-] signs! I guess I never had a big need to do that...

Actually my biggest complaint is the lack of ability to maximize comments - basically, I detest having to click n times just to be able to read the whole discussion. There's a bit of content, and mostly SPAM on that page. Old design was mostly content.
It will be very nice if you can show a big list of conditions use-cases, hypothetical and real world, besides the implementation details. That will help to popularize the concept for non-CL audiences.
I frequently think I should sell my townhouse and buy a flat, but then I look at photos in various real-estate listings and they're all dark and gloomy. It seems you're lucky if the flat has floor-ceiling windows in the main room, even luckier if it has a balcony. I don't know how people live in such darkness. As it is, the dining room in my townhome sits between thee kitchen and living room and is noticeable darker then either (and subsequently rarely used).
Woke is a pejorative? Damn I really am in a bubble.
Ask HN: Ist this a legitimate Facebook domain?
Hi people,

I just got a LinkedIn message from a Facebook recruiter in which I was told to register on this site: https://recruitingkickstarterspectech2020.splashthat.com/ . It seems kind of fishy since there is a similar site under a different domain. (https://facebookrecruitingkickstarterfee2020.splashthat.com/) Does somebody know how I could verify that this is a real thing? Sadly there is no contact on Facebooks career site.
Agree with you completely. A simplistic way of pointing this out is that EVERY tax and every cost regressively effects the poor more. If you are close to break-even, or you have negative surplus already, then additional cost is always worse for those who are worse off.

The alternative is to levy large taxes on corporations who pollute, that come only after payroll expense. Then, you could create a progressive deduction where pollution taxes were zero for low income earners, while after some threshold everyone was taxed for polluting.

It's unsatisfactory because the government hates earmarking specific income for specific outcomes and they much prefer the slush fund approach (for not entirely bad reasons). But, if pollution taxes specifically were spent on buying CO2 sequestration products which were deemed effective by the NSF or some other group, we might be able to create a non-regressive pollution tax to increase the net cost of polluting.
The problem is that the current system for international taxation of trade among daughter companies was devised during a time when international trade consisted of things like bars of steel, for which there is a well-defined daily market price, so it's easy to audit and prevent companies from profit-shifting to avoid taxes. Today, daughter companies trade things like 'the Google search algorithm' and 'the Nestle brand' - IP, which by definition is unique, so no market price exists, so auditing it is impossible, making it a free-for-all for multinationals to get taxed wherever they want.

There are proposals for updated international taxation rules to prevent this issue - for example this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formulary_apportionment The problem is to get the OECD to agree on updating this.
the mapped ideologies are dynamic (leaky), but the historically enduring dichotomy is simply power and its disciples vs. the disenfranchised.

"anti-PC" is power retaliating against change, and "woke" is the disenfranchised calling for change. conservative and progressive also map to this same dichotomy.
I'm not able to merge pull requests.

The PR is stuck in the "Checking for ability to merge automatically…" stage.

So I guess I can "confirm"
> You mean white people also getting killed by the police? Good question.

Where was the campaign against white people getting killed by the police (or vigilantes! the original campaign was in re Trayvon Martin, who was killed by George Zimmerman) before 2013, or indeed in the present day?
popularity-contest comes from Debian. They introduced it quite a while ago as a way to help prioritise maintenance work etc.
I agree it's hard for people to be truly silenced nowadays. If you have something you really want to say, you can probably find friends and jobs and news outlets that allow it.

But the question of orthodoxy is, which things can you say without optimizing your life for them? If you have an average job and average friend groups, which opinions can you express without a risk of losing them? The answer will vary depending on exactly what's "average" in your area, but in most places it's going to be a much smaller set than the opinions you could in principle say.
Why are you constraining it to "big tech"? All large companies in all fields want to avoid paying tax as much as possible.