skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't "go" to financial institutions, it goes through them. (Of course they make a "healthy" profit. Though it's arguably too much, if this many banks can survive: https://www.statista.com/statistics/184536/number-of-fdic-in... )

So who is buying equity (so stocks)? And one argument is, that "retail investors" are driving this. (So end users, the folks on the WallStreetBets subreddit, and whoever uses RobinHood, or anyone that puts money into a passive index fund: https://www.reddit.com/r/econmonitor/comments/hnohi6/us_equi... )

Also savings increased a lot, since people were not spending (they were staying at home), so where to put the money? They put it into index funds.
"Don't worry Timmy, there's nothing wrong with you. You're just an electrical engineer."
Quick tips to enhance your Gitlab issue workflow, part one
You mean:

"Hey, don't do that, we do business with many of those companies, and we don't want them to associate us with the shoddy work on the later seasons of the series, certainly not that ridiculous ham-fisted finale".
I just had an iPad Air replaced with zero misery on my end; reported the problem to apple via support chat, tried basic troubleshooting with support tech to no avail, promptly received paid mailer, sent device to Apple and was then overnighted a new device.
The problem with indicator lights is, that they're useless, until you actually need that info. If i turn my head just a bit, i can see a 48 port ethernet switch with 50+ blinking lights here in the office, and 99.9% of the time, they're all useless. But, if something doesn't work, one quick glance, can tell me if the switch is on (lights), if the data is sent through (random blinking), if the ethernet connection to my pc is up (one specific light), is it waiting for spanning tree to set up (light color), is there a loop (all lights on, or blinking synchronously), and also if the connection is slow during a calm time, I can see who's sending most traffic (frequency of blinking).

I literally never look at them when all is ok, but when it's not, i get the status info in literally a second.

Same with my home router with 8leds (especially the "internet" one), same with my PCs (on/off, hdd activity) etc.

My prefered solution would be just to keep those things away from the bedroom. Currently, in my bedroom, there is only one visible led (TV), and even that one is very very dim red.
Since I have my own domain, I receive all emails addressed at whatever@domain.com. Of course, different values of "whatever" end up in different directories, and should one of those display an insufficient SNR, it would go straight to /dev/null. This way the "proper" address, i.e., the one that goes to the actual inbox, is not easy to extract.

The hard part is social acceptance. This morning the Whirpool technician was very puzzled by me giving him whirpool@domain.tld as my email, although he accepted my explanations in the end. (I might use more opaque identifiers, but then I would forget about what is what, so for the moment I am trying to stick with this scheme, until it becomes too difficult)
For sure, it obviously depends on what the subject is and how a subject is taught. Group work for the sake of it is super annoying. But there is also elements of tech related teaching that with a little work can be taught in slightly different ways without the need for it to be so device heavy. Especially basic concepts. For example we teach the main parts about online surveillance with a very simple 10 minute game that allows people to stand up and physically take parts in some of the elements. They don't need to be anywhere near their devices. When we compare that to when we teach it purely with slides or webinar etc the information retention difference when we measure 1 and 6 months later is massive.
PCPS IP Puller for PS4 and Xbox – Lanc v3
> It’s super telling that this 55 year old billionaire would be “working on a presentation he was giving” at 02h00 in the morning. It is probably possible to do great things without burning the midnight oil, I’ve just never seen it personally, or been able to do it that way myself.

It is probably possible to survive in good health and shape and reach your 80s while continuously burning the midnight oil, I’ve just never seen it personally.

Sure, "burning the midnight oil" is something that can (and IMHO should) be done sometimes. But is that the only (and main) key to success? I doubt it. The lesson about focus is far more valuable.
>Embrace the Scientific Method, and you just might solve any problem that comes your way.

Mythbusters was a great and inspiring show, but they weren't always great at following the scientific method IMO. It was always more about cool hacks than scientific validity. They decided people being injured by bullets being shot into the sky was a myth mostly because they couldn't locate the bullets they fired into the sky, in spite of talking to one of the leading experts on the phenomenon, talking to a doctor that performed surgery on people injured by bullets fired into the sky, and discovering there are people in prison for seriously insuring people miles away by, once again, shooting bullets into the sky.

That was before Grant's time though, he was awesome.
According to the pseudo-aristotle's "On Trolling"

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

"the troll in the proper sense is one who speaks to a community and as being part of the community; only he is not part of it, but opposed. And the community has some good in common, and this the troll must know, and what things promote and destroy it: for he seeks to destroy. Hence no one would troll the remotest Mysian, or even know how, but rather a Republican trolls a Democratic blog and a Democrat Republicans."

"... indeed some say that Socrates was a troll, and so that the good man also trolls. ... he told the Athenians to care for their souls, rather than money and honors, and showed that they lacked knowledge. And this is not trolling but the contrary, exhortation and truth-telling— even if the citizens get very annoyed. For annoyance results from many kinds of speech; and the peculiarity [idion] of the troll is not annoyance or controversy in general, but confusion and strife among a community who really agree."
As an American living in Canada, I gotta say. Pennies and dollar bills SUCK. We have $1 and $2 coins and they're actually useful. Every time I visit home, I end up with piles of pennies and wads of stinky, tattered, overcirculated garbage bills.

If you accumulate a pile $1 and $2 coins, nobody looks askance if you plunk down a stack of them. But god, the glares if you want to spend $20 in dollar bills.

I say take it further: nickels should go too, and probably dimes.
This. It’s super non-obvious if you go that there’s more to see. No signage or anything. I’m disappointed I missed the national museum of computing (though Bletchley itself was awesome!)
What's this type of calculator often misses is how nuanced and complex is to estimate the cost of employee time.

It's not just the cost of an employee salary per hour... Is the opportunity cost of everything that employee could have instead done.

After all it isn't as though with more money you can just immediately get more fully ramped sophisticated employees to add value... All of that is complex.
I've been wondering about the cost of motors used in robots. For many robots it's actually the main cost, but why are they so expensive and will we realistically see cheap, powerful servos in the near future?
Why couldn't spammers just:

s/(\w+)@(\w+)\.(fastmail\.fm)/\2@\3/g

...or equivalent?
Yep, I'm having the same issue. Got my left replaced, then about 2 days later my right started. I haven't gotten around to swapping the right yet as I didn't want to do them to close together and have them be like, HEYY!
> It does prevent you from submitting a URL that's identical to a recent submission.

No, it does not.
> I don't think the Socratic Method is universally applicable. I'm not sure how one would use it to effectively teach Spanish, or history, or geometry.

Doesn't seem hard. Socrates himself used the method to teach geometry: http://www.socraticmethod.net/essays/meno_geometry/meno_geom....
I've had paralysis twice. And both times I had the sense someone was in the room. The presence felt way more than ominous though, it felt TERRIFYING.
Why I'm Switching to Apple
When it happens to me, I try to roll my tongue. Once I do that it snaps me out of it.
> Sorry I cannot see management believing this at any universities. I think you are mistaken.

Wish I was my friend!

> Universities are all certainly cutting staff, but this is the current decimation of students and the loss of money, causing this.

Actually the student intake in the UK isn't nearly as bad as the initial modelling predicted - the same modelling according to which universities are currently shedding their staff because of. At least domestic BA numbers. International student MA intakes are more of an issue but unlike with BAs, the government hasn't imposed caps on these so there's all the play for.

> Separately, high ranking universities know in class teaching is critical for their survival, it's why they rank high. Without in class teaching they lower themselves to the level of the other universities, they would never move in this direction, especially falsely thinking it takes less staff.

Alas, it's research output not teaching quality which drives income to universities in the UK.
> just inane bird chatter

I suspect most bird chatter is about sex, not flying.

Like when you're out in the summer evening, and the crickets are chirping and the frogs are croaking, and you realise it's just a whole bunch of males shouting "hey baby, over here!"
This is similar to how HFT firms make a profit. Except it's generally less than a penny but it's per share per transaction (trade). We can thank the Sub-Penny Pricing Rule of Regulation NMS for this feature. An order for 1000 shares of XYZ stock that is front-run for half a penny per share is $50 dollars profit. Rinse and repeat.
>We are getting manipulated everywhere and might end up buying an item (washing machine, car...) that's objectively a worse fit for us. But isn't this something bad?

From my experience, it's bad if exploited but there's little benefits of lying to/tricking people and defraud their expectations.

In fact I'm pretty sure you (and I, and everyone) have plenty of brands that destroyed our trust in them and we would NEVER buy from them again - either because you had bad customer service, or they wasted your time to deliver a bad product/experience... so it's not a good practice to manipulate and lie to people, it will only work in the short term, but it does happen.

We don't do well we betrayal.

But for example, for fine art collection, people can do it simply because they like and artist body of work and see value in it, others because it would fit their collection (because they might be trying to get a slice of a specific artistic movement), others because they believe it's where art is moving to (represents a form a progress), other because their art dealer told them it's a good investment and the artist is growing in specific circles... I've been trying to help an artist with marketing, and it's not easy at all.

It may sound like non-sense, but fine art should be more present in our lives, and surround us, even if it's for something as simple as "I like this paint"!
Why unethical? You’re giving everyone a small gift of deflation.
Our brains are anomaly detecting machines
Thanks for the suggestion. I just placed a hold on the first of that series.
You should be able to pay with 1 and 2 cent coins in The Netherlands. You just won't get them as change and the amount charged will be rounded to the nearest 5 cents in most, but not all, shops. But I wouldn't be surprised if many cashiers don't know they should accept those coins.
Rubbish, I am very careful about what I say, and I post more conservative views than most people I know on FB. I avoid posting anything at all on Twitter. I am pretty sure I am not the only one.

I don't even consider myself conservative, just that social media wise anything that isn't hard left is labelled white supremacy or racist.
State of the Haskell Ecosystem
Probably not enough draft under the keel for the ship to actually submerge. Also, expensive for having to replace a bunch of equipment that is now dunked in seawater. Let alone raising the ship afterward.
There is also the cost of not understanding details that you left to someone else. If you save time but no longer know what is happening you can get into big trouble when those details matter.
The US dollar was designed to be subdivided into cents (hundreds) and mills (thousands).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_(currency)#Usage
Ballons aren't gliding.

Helicopters and quadcopters also aren't gliding.
I’d rather we do a reverse split of the dollar - say 10:1 - 10 old dollars = 1 new dollar, essentially take us back to 1950’s pricing, coins become relevant again! + it has the added benefit of undoing all the changes in laws/refs that were not inflation adjusted. Not holding my breath...
Google Loon Internet is now covering Kenya
I've really liked Mythbusters. I grew up with their shows. I still think about their shows weekly. I'm really sad about what happened. Grant seemed (didn't get to know him) like a very nice guy and he really inspired me (along with the whole Mythbusters team) and as it appears, a whole lot of other people.
Thanks Grant for your work and dedication! You won't be forgotten!
Beyond the “contact tracing” app: mobile technologies and Covid-19
The problem with scientific terminology is widely recognised in communication science. The issue is that while terms used by disciplines such as physics, law or medicine are sufficiently esoteric that someone “on the outside” wouldn’t use their terms casually, so they are somewhat protected from “watering down” their concepts in public discourse—or not, as we are seeing with anti-vax ideology, for instance. Terms in communication science also carry specific meaning to those who know them, but can just as well be interpreted as everyday language by outsiders.

I also get what you mean by “straw-man-y”. I think the issue is that definitions have to be robust and hypotheses falsifiable in order to make them researchable, so they must be kind of stringent. Exactly as you say, someone might be in a political echo chamber, but that is not their entire life. They have peers, family, friends, colleagues that also expose them to political information. By focusing so much on the online, the echo chamber assumption was very limited from the start.
Some ships also broadcast a false ais. Not generally legal, but it is done.
Mateo, I'm very interested in primo and look forward to putting it to work once it is open source. So very pleased that you are heading that way! I'd like to sign up to the forum without using github (as I'm allergic to anything leaking data, esp to corporations / Microsoft).

I realise it may be needed for some primo features, but is there any chance we can use email to auth with primo's Discourse?

I'll be building test sites and deploying to SAFE Network as soon as I can. Svelte is my favourite so again I'm please that you've chosen to use it to build primo. Good luck.
My Squier Bullet made in mid 2019 is the best guitar I have ever played.

It sounds more than okay (which is subjective). The body is light but without any head dive present. The neck is a dream and the fretwork is impeccable.

The tuners are bad but not awful. That's the only bad thing I can say about it.
I have none of the knowledge and all of the curiosity about at what point is it cheaper to just commission a new one.

A fire burning that long must be pretty hot. Does that compromise the steel? Is the wiring and electronics basically gutted by now?

Also curious. It was being refitted. Would they have removed most of the fuel (or left it low)? Was it full of hmmvws and APCs and stuff? I guess it wouldn’t have a traditional ammunition battery wanting to explode, it’s not a battleship or anything. Jet fuel?
from the perspective of an employee it might not. If your goal is to get the best people at the cheapest prices it's logic to do things that will make them accept lower salary (ideally you do it without making a meme, but eh, can't win um all I guess)
Aww, US only.
A button or setting that turned the LEDs on/off would probably be prudent.
So is that a bug or a feature of the US system?

On one hand, beneficial change can be painstakingly slow. On the other, malevolent change can be stymied indefinitely

Edit: clarify my statement was in reference to the US
Seems to me it mostly doesn't matter if 95-99% of all transactions go digital. So basically it's less work to do nothing about the penny because the issue will solve itself.
Would also be very easy to add a switch that turns the indicator lights on while pressed. At least any indicator lights I look at already require me to be at arm's length from the device to discern which light is which.

Note that this is not one of those things that sound simple but would complicate the design a lot. It's literally just adding a switch to one of the line supplying power to the lights. It can be done completely modularly -- probably even hacked into place after the fact.
Reminds me of the S.S. Normandie
https://boats.drivemag.com/features/the-golden-era-of-transa...
yea, its more likely that someone didn't watch what they were doing.
This is cooler than the other
One of the reasons I bought a FRITZ!Box was that I can control all the LEDs. Lets me change the brightness or completely turn them off. I wish more devices had a feature like this.
> GST.

Found the Australian!
Compared to heart disease and cancer, aneurysms are a drop in the bucket. Not that they should be ignored, but if you're choosing where to put funding it's not going to be high on the list.
I've had a whole range of hallucinations from it, visual, physical and auditory, eventually I tended to get the paralysis part less and less but still have the hallucinations.

Things like the feeling of someone on your back grasping you and talking into your ear while trying to fall asleep. Sitting up awake in the morning and seeing fully formed objects floating in the room like a floating filing cabinet, fully formed person in the room not a "Shadowperson". Auditory ones usually happen as you're falling asleep and its all voices you know sorta talking gibberish sentences.

Around the same period of time it started I also began having lucid dreams too, generally always had a bit of trouble sleeping.
Chopper Commando Revisited
Noise-cancelling windows halve traffic sounds even when they're open
It's a fair question. No need to downvote.
I watched a video on this very topic last night. There are a list of attributes to fascism and he questioned whether Trump (used purely as an example) could be considered fascist. I see the modern left ticking more boxes than Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws8k1JXmscU
At my previous employer we had two people working on data analytics for container barge traffic within the Rhine delta in the Netherlands and Germany. They were able to overlay their predictions with the partial barge plannings that we actually had because we supplied software to inland container terminals.

Conclusion was that yes, you can predict locations of the terminals, but it's quite hard to find and produce repetitive schedules from the data because it requires the ships not change their schedule for too long, and the reality is just too dynamic to properly predict this.

For seagoing vessels I expect that they have more predictable schedules, but the hard part there is knowing container volumes, because there is no way to predict from public data what the volume of containers loaded/discharged is at a specific terminal. The closest metric is measuring the turnaround time of the ship, but that is not a great predictor for number of containers moved because handling times per container will differ per port, as will the number of cranes assigned to the ship, as will the ratio between 20ft and 40ft boxes, as well as the capability per port to do twinning (picking up 2x20ft boxes in one handling) and dual-cycling (discharging and loading a container as part of the same crane cycle).

Basically: it's a tough problem, with too many variables you cannot reasonably deduce.

(Also, even if you have the container volumes, I personally think the highest potential for optimization is in the hinterland, but that's a different story altogether)
Wow. I have the same problem. I just got my left AirPod Pro replaced at the Apple Store last wednesday because of rattling. (It appears to only happen in noise canceling mode. When noise canceling is off it doesn't rattle).

A couple days later I started to notice the right airpod is rattling.

I've used up my warranty now so would have to buy a new pair if I want this fixed.
The Case Against Tickling
For me its jaw or lip movement, that usually still works to wake me up fully.
"I don't need inactive peeps" says the mod as he kicks people who may have been active the next day.
Is it possible to permalink one? Is there a technical explanation of the generator?
Retired Navy here.

She's pierside at 32nd Street in San Diego. You could try to tow her out past Point Loma, I guess, if the towing hawser itself doesn't part, and the "front fall off[1]" the ship, at the risk of bottling up the 3rd Fleet in the channel.

Ships can be rebuilt from extensive damage, as USS Cole, USS Stark, and USS Samuel B. Roberts show. It's a question of whether there is sufficient motive to do it, given the age and opportunity cost.

You can bet your bippy that everyone even remotely related to this disaster is going to get hammered when the investigation is completed. Military officers are held accountable in ways that politicians and bureaucrats (almost) never are.

[1] Yes, it's the "bow", but watch this humor clip => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPwlMv8lNI
Putting out the fire and preventing a health emergency should be put above saving equipment.
People are using your Facebook data to sell you corny T-shirts (2018)
CloudFlare also lost a lot of money by giving away the bandwidth, but they consider it an important marketing tool. It still is a loss leader to them, at least according to their S-1 last year.
Author here.

I used to play this 2D flick-screen CGA DOS helicopter game as a kid, and I remember enjoying the simple presentation combined with what would now be called sandbox elements.

I thought it was really cool that you could eject from the helicopter and still run around and do things as a little sprite dude, and then get back in and fly off.

When I saw that the source was available, and had a poke around, I decided it wouldn't take (too) much effort to do a modern port, and make the game natively playable on today's machines.

It was a fun little project, certainly easier than my previous game restoration (Space Invaders in C), and it was interesting to explore the creation of a young Mark Currie, cranking out a
bedroom coded game in Turbo Pascal.

So, here it is, a modern port of "Chopper Commando" from early 90s Turbo Pascal on DOS, to C and SDL running on modern unix (linux/mac) and the web.

Enjoy.
Is Entrepreneurship Dead?
OAuth 2.0 Flows as GIFs
Visualising OAuth 2.0 base flows as GIF Cheatsheets.
Objectively you can only hear through your cochlea. You can sense vibrations through your skin but that is very different to hearing yourself snore. My guess is that the author's ears were in such a position that it appeared to his brain that the sound was coming from above their head. Combined with knowing that snoring comes from your mouth/nose and with the author's eyes closed his brain could be tricked into thinking it was "hearing from the body".
yes exactly. these days, not playing is no longer a winning move.
Maybe not having to field tech support calls if their choice of private IP space conflicts with a customers choice?