skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most fermented alcohol doesn't contain a significant amount of methanol to begin with, fermented fruit being the exception. After distilling you can usually drink the heads with no risk of methanol poisoning. You'll still get a nasty hangover from aldehydes and higher alcohols if you do, but it won't kill you.

The majority of methanol poisoning cases are where illegal spirits have been deliberately adulterated with industrial methanol (most likely with denatured alcohol, which is still 90%+ ethanol) to increase profits.
too much. I go through phases, like last year I didn't do anything, but this year it's 247. going to start a MS program too, so it's going to be going for a while.
This is not a new occurrence in US presidential elections. So I don't think this is a factor in the current "flawed democracy" narrative.
That’s a maturity problem. Working from home full time magnifies the culture already present, like steroids. If you had a strong office culture that empowered employee initiative and innovation then time freed from driving to the office is a godsend for further increasing productivity. If, on the other hand, the office is like herding kitties without any vision or self-motivation the full time working from is an excuse to watch Netflix all day instead of pretending to work.
Apple has been selling phones in India through third-party retailers, not through Apple stores. They were recently permitted to open their own stores. The regulations involved take domestic production into account.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/02/26/apple-ceo-tim-coo...
Thanks for the paper. Where do you find that it discusses decoupling the concepts of network calls and system boundaries?

I must be honest: aside from the context in which it was linked, I came away terribly unimpressed by this paper. I found myself disagreeing on a number of points. Having only spent half an hour on it, I can't claim to have a major problem with it, but I wouldn't couch my architectural work against it.
Yeah, that's really not what I'm saying.

But I think you're right that as long as we stay this course there's going to be more problems and so you'll be able to make more money solving problems that didn't need to exist.

You're absolutely right about the first optimization being to get it work. You're just discounting the reality is that you're making it far more difficult for that to happen.
Firefox push[ing] irrelevant notifications
Great article. I've been trying to grok the Kalman filter for a while now, definitely seems to have clicked a little more this time. BTW if the author sees this the link at the bottom 'Some credit and referral should be given to...' seems to be broken.
Removing names and ratings could work. Recreate the experience of overhearing good or bad things about a place and then draw your own conclusion. Sort by recency since you don't have to account for ratings. Then maybe you see one like "the service improved a bit since 2 months ago".
As others have said, you just plug it into any computer with a USB port. This is one edge Garmin has over some of its competitors. Most of the device functions are fully usable without any sort of internet access or even a phone.

This outage, ironically, highlights that strength. One can hope that Garmin is reminded of how valuable this interoperability is after this event and continues their commitment to it :)
I'm missing what is good for a company when they go through a SPAC the 20% fee is close to what the average POP for an IPO which historically has been 13-15% and last year was 22%[1]and in exchange for dealing with a bunch of investment bankers you get to give up a board seat at best or being the CEO of your company to the promoter. Is it really just to dodge regulations?

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/09/the-ipo-market-started-stron...
You've just shifted the cost from onshore developers to hiring incredible management and developing complicated process to deal with the a heterogeneous staff. That's not necessarily better allocation of money... just a different one, with a lot more variables, and vastly more potential for failure for the majority of companies.
HN's front page algorithm (2008)
I'll give it a try. At your company's next diversity seminar, why not suggest merit should be prioritized over diversity? Or that affirmative action is regressive in its effects, or that the talk of reparations is so silly as to be dismissed, or that women's unequal pay is due to factors unrelated to sexism, or that Asians are unfairly penalized in universities and the workplace, or that biological sex exists, or that trans women are not real women, or that trans women should not share a bathroom with biological women, or that white men are not oppressors, or that you don't support BLM. Whether or not these ideas are right, you clearly cannot express them. Not in the workplace and if you live in a large city, not to strangers, and sometimes not even to your friends. There's an implicit belief that if you deviate from some of these positions you must be a racist, misogynist, transphobic, alt-right, or a radical.

There are ideas you can safely express if they fall on one side of the political spectrum and there are other ideas you have to be hush about even if they are completely reasonable.
American electoral system, same as in UK, is about 500 years old.

It makes it unsafe to vote for your actual favourite candidate, because you don't get a second round... I always remind people that Maine's scandalous governor LePage never won 50% of the voter support and his first win was with merely 37% of the vote.
That makes sense the system would be setup like that.

I'm not trying to game the system, but these are weird times. I wish USCIS was a bit more flexible during these times to avoid unnecessary travel and let people quarantine with family while maintaining status.
Wow thanks for that! I didn't know and was happily using them for some time now.
Thank you, that’s a fascinating read. Sandburg was right: we pay attention to flashy disasters, while slow-rolling ones are barely newsworthy.
Not to make a reddit comment, your comment is insightful but can also be summed up with: "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".

The path of least resistance is definitely a draw, and there is incredible business value lost pursuing it.
and statistically none of what you describe happens, so the only way you're tired of it, is if you make stuff up, or take the .001% of cases and pretend that's all of them.

if you are blocking every road in the middle of the day, that is illegal. we have sidewalks for you. it's not "any order" - you're breaking the law, and are warned not to.

as far as police being wrong with a suspect - that is not for the courts to decide. that is decided immediately. and the procedure for that, is when they think you may be an armed suspect, for you to follow the order to get into a position safe for them, so they can verify your identity. not to keep standing there talking and refusing to lay down and put your hands on your head. because if they do have the correct suspect, he can take out his gun and kill them. if you don't comply, absolutely they force you to, and you are charged with not complying.

and if you look at all of those cases you're raging about, no - the suspects did not comply like they have to by law. yes, there are a dozen cops over the last decade that literally murdered someone, in the whole country. there are 12000 cops in my city alone.
Multi-line insurance systems generally start at 2000 tables.

Heck, simple auto insurance systems with multiple products in a single large state can hit 5k really easy.
SharePoint is actually reasonably effective.

It's certainly not non-existent.

(There's now browser based versions of MS Office apps that can simultaneously edit documents stored and automatically version controlled in SharePoint)
> How is it a political move when basically every central bank in the world is doing the exact same thing?

Um, because every central bank in the world is controlled by rich people?
Indeed, I wonder if someone can't write an ensemble algo of sorts that gets chosen based on some AI (not to hand wave)
> That is, the conventionally-minded who is convinced they are die-hard independently-minded.

I do not see as sub-type. Aggressively-conventionally minded most assuredly think of them as independent minded.

Other than that I agree with you. These type of people make statement equivalent of 'Earth revolve around the sun' in 21st century. And then their circle-jerk jumps in, claiming what a 'brave' and 'stunning' position they have taken.
My implicit assertion is that in this case the presentation has absorbed and digested the topic and primary content. If you make a speech while dressed and made up as a clown then you have made a clown speech and that is worthy of remark.
> You just have to not care about what you're doing

You do have to care, you're just mistaken about what it is people in big corporate companies are actually doing. What they're doing is advancing their own careers and those of their network.

> how well it could be done

Reflected in the rate of advancement, which can be actively maximized through effort and attention.

> what tools you're using to do it.

The "work" is in fact one of several tools used to advance the career. This is why it is so frequently performed with little care or love. Often it only matters to the career to the extent that it can be declared "done." Most companies lack mechanisms to tie what happens later back to the original doer, so the marginal benefits of care and quality to the career are low.

If you care about the actual "work" and craft it's best to find a place with little to no concept of advancement, in my opinion.

EDIT: Some people really are just phoning it in for a paycheck, and who can really blame them? Others who may appear to be lazy or careless simply have a different set of priorities. If those priorities offend you but the person is nevertheless succeeding, probably a good idea to move away from that environment.
With sufficient affordances - tab completion and whatnot - it might be fine?
I learned from your perspective here. Thank you for sharing your experience.

Interesting, because this trade study could be conducted by an engineer and a manager in a small company and still have starkly different results in the weighing of concerns.

Most of my early career was solo. I recognize the importance of a good team, but as a business you (even non profits and myself solo) have to understand the bottom line for all stakeholders.

If anyone else could expand on this person's ideas, please do!
What if, bear with me here, depression causes a lack of perseverance toward life goals.
Datalevin may have what you like https://github.com/juji-io/datalevin, has no history, no "database as a value" etc, and focus on performance instead.
Wow, they're both the same size! What a cool coincidence! Just think what would happen if the moon passed exactly in front of the sun! Has it ever happened? Has anybody looked up at the sky when this happened? I wonder what it looks like.
I tried out the TTRSS with another feed and saw what you did - there's definitely about a minute gap between adding a RSS feed until those articles are processed and available in the web view. I assume it's due to the current heavy use, or perhaps it's being throttled.

Slight offtopic; I love your microblog Plurrr - the site and code are clear, simple, and get the job done. I poked around the code a bit because I'm interested in starting my own microblog. A quick question: in your CSS file located at https://plurrrr.com/soothe.css , the code declares font-family: San Fransisco - is that a misspelling of San Francisco or does the CSS spec mandate that spelling?
Ask HN: What are your top YouTube channels?
this is awesome. have thinking of working on something like this for my own note management solution (dendron.so). will give this a try!
Interesting, but how does it work? Do product owners supply their customer list and contact info to you?
Running FreshRSS on my cluster with FeedMe and happy with it. I looked at TinyRSS when getting going. Chose FreshRSS because it can run self-contained, whereas TinyRSS requires Redis. Just one less moving part is all AFAICT. Could be wrong, don't really care at this point as FreshRSS is fine and working. :)
> I've been RE'ing for decades and wish more people knew about this valuable skill

I want to learn. I've played around a bit with r2, doing a small patch on a unsupported piece of software, but that was nearly trivial.

Can you recommend any good places to get started?
As noted elsewhere, seals are available in many places that don't support ruminants.

What "ancient civilization pseudo-science" are you referring to? Younger Dryas lowland civilization is as testable as anything else in science. At the moment it is as hypothetical as existence of humans in the Americas before that time was, until recently, and as life on Mars still is. Does the name "Atlantis" distract you? It's as good a name as any for the phenomenon of an inundated civilization.

What are you saying the delta-O18 data implies, or fails to imply? Are you suggesting the caves were dry much later than reported in the article, and therefore could have been worked much more recently?
I dunno there's still like the Surface laptops which come in cooler colors already
I’d say we’re closer to an order of magnitude larger When you consider all the different businesses and domains. My org alone has about 1000 services. But we have massive scale and the employees to support that number of services. You also won’t find one architecture; it runs the gamut from lambda to REST/RPC to pubsub, event bus and workflow architectures. Typically new orgs start out with a few larger services that get broken out over time, as the complexity and number of employees continues to grow.
How much of that do you have to download before browser does first paint? With a key handshake you would have to do it before any content is displayed. In much of the modern web (for people blessed with fast connections) latency is much more important than bandwidth. An extra 1mb right upfront might be very different from an extra mb overall. Especially when tcp slow start is taken into account.

Even more so if the webpage is loading stuff from many different domains
Is this a private fork or something else out there?
New study suggests a new type of interstellar spacecraft
The problem is politics and philosophy is overdone. Find something useful to people's lives.
I’ve often said that if we convince ourselves that technology is magic, we risk becoming hostages to it. Just recently, I had a brush with this fate, but happily, I was saved by open source.

I was very pleased to discovered an open-source utility called gpsbabel (thank you gpsbabel! I donated!) that can unpack Garmin’s semi-(?)proprietary “.FIT” file format into the interoperable “.GPX” format.

...and how do you think that utility was created? They probably didn't have access to Garmin's source code or documentation for the format. They just "figured it out". Furthermore, whether that utility is open-source doesn't seem to matter here: it's just doing a format conversion.

but it was mostly a matter of finding the right open-source pieces and gluing them together with Python

Replace "open-source" with "freely usable", and the author would've probably been able to accomplish the same end-goal. Gluing together existing software, treating the pieces as black boxes, doesn't show off any advantages of open-source at all.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against open-source; I'm just against this rising glorification of it as somehow a be-all and end-all of software freedom. What is worth praise, however, is the rising availability of freely usable software.

To go back to the author's first point, the best way to not "convince ourselves that technology is magic" is to start with a comprehensive low-level education: Computers are just dumb machines executing sequences of instructions, and in a non-hostile environment, you get to choose precisely what instructions they execute.
If you want to read a bit about how I got here - as of about 10 years ago I was nowhere near this radical - I would strongly recommend "Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life" by Barbara E. Fields and Karen J. Fields, which deeply analyzes the historical and socio-anthropological development of racialist ideology. The blurb from the link[1]:

"Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call 'racecraft.' And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history, economic doctrine, politics, and everyday thinking that the presence of racecraft itself goes unnoticed.

"That the promised post-racial age has not dawned, the authors argue, reflects the failure of Americans to develop a legitimate language for thinking about and discussing inequality. That failure should worry everyone who cares about democratic institutions."

[1]https://www.versobooks.com/books/1645-racecraft Kate Mann's "Down Girl" takes a conceptually similar view and analysis of misogyny and sexism: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/down-girl-9780190604...
I have no idea if they are compliant, I was a fairly early user and I don't know how much their software has evolved. At the time the education content they curated was online, and you needed to be logged in to progress and unlock content.

This content is a key part of their product, the whole point of the Kano is that it is a carefully prepared experience from the moment you hold the box, until you're writing bash scripts.

The interface would prompt you to post your work, and the way that choice was integrated, even if it wasn't mandatory, it seemed as if was the only way to save your work.

Once it was posted it was publicly available, and anyone with a Kano login could comment. If my daughter was logged in using the Kano she would be notified of the message. There did not seem to be any way to set any privacy controls, given that I asked Kano specifically about this I'm sure they would have let me know.

I confess I have a low tolerance for hype, and as a result my communication with the Kano team was a little bumpy. I was genuinely disappointed with aspects of their product. I think a more thoughtful self critical culture would have addressed what I believe were glaring problems. Overall I appreciate what they do and I bought three.
For many things, it just doesn't matter because all the options are basically fine, or they're cheap enough that the occasional dud isn't a big problem. When I want a local business, I just get whatever's nearby. Sometimes I look at reviews to make sure it's not a complete scam, which it never is. But I'm not going to pick one over the other because of a different number of stars on some site.
The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis (2019)
Minecraft (before survival mode was added) was a free game though to be fair
Pure proprietary < Mostly FLOSS < Pure FLOSS < Mostly proprietary
I have always wanted to give a restaurant an anonymous “tip” instead of a public review.

Like privately: “hey, we love you guys, just FYI the croissants have seemed stale lately. Just wanted you guys to know...”

My hypothesis is most just nod and always say everything is “fine” if prompted for feedback. But you’d get more honest feedback if there was a way to privately “drop a line” to your favorite restaurants.

(I hate writing reviews. I know even minor negative feedback will have a bad impact on someone’s personal business.)
If you read up on the history of French revolution, they didn't particularly want a republic. They got a republic as the last resort... and they changed the country forever, even Emperor Napoleon didn't roll everything back.

They still wanted a lot of changes to allow more freedom, restrictions and more transparency... just not necessarily a formal republic.

Think about this - in CATO's own Human Freedom Index half of the top 16 countries are monarchies.

1 New Zealand - monarchy
2 Switzerland - republic
3 Hong Kong (definitely not going to be in #4 now)
4 Canada - monarchy
5 Australia - monarchy
6 Denmark - monarchy
6 Luxembourg - monarchy
8 Finland - republic
8 Germany - republic
10 Ireland - repulbic
11 Sweden - monarchy
11 Netherlands - monarchy
13 Austria - republic
14 United Kingdom - monarchy
15 Estonia - republic
15 United States - republic
Unemployment rules vary state to state so start looking those up.

Note that generally in most states you have to be looking for a new job when receiving unemployment... so keep tose rules in mind.

But you can still use your own time to start a business, although any income from that may impact benefits.
India's population is larger but I see no reason to believe Indians are more willing to learn skills than Americans. Would you mind explaining your argument, or at least backing it up with some kind of evidence?

The US labor market has long exhibited massive demand for skilled labor, and that's part of the reason that two-thirds of high-school graduates immediately enroll in college. USN&WR lists the US as being perceived fifth in the world for producing skilled workers, behind Japan, Germany, South Korea, and China.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/slideshows/top-10...

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=51
> That's called "living in a community".

Except cancel culture is anything but community driven. It's social media driven -- which in itself is a platform to get more views to sell you more ads. The more the platform can draw your ire, the more ads it sells, the more ire the platform spreads, etc.

The problem is that words aren't which we argue our politics by anymore. It's now who has the biggest weapon to personally destroy those that speak out.
> Being POC doesn't make you any more or less right

That is obviously true. However when someone is describing thier personal experience, that context is quite useful, which was clearly what was going on in the original comment.
You could complain about the packaging, but it’s not quite as easy as using their app to take a photo. I’ll note last time I ordered a book from Amazon.com for international shipping to Canada, it arrived in the pressure-tight cardboard packaging I expected.

I ordered an audio CD set from Amazon.jp and it arrived faster than it would by US ground and the packaging was flawless, with Apple-esque plastic attached to the easy-open cardboard to keep every corner perfectly sharp.

So... it varies by region?

Or I’ve gotten lucky, n=1 ;-)

(Aside: that’s the annoying part about Amazon, 9 times out of 10 it’s exactly what you expected but then there’s that one time, maybe you buy something you wouldn’t normally, or the box is mostly empty, or the item’s serial number is invalid, and... you really don’t know what you’re going to get sometimes. And Amazon doesn’t make it easy to report it, it’s simply not something they visibly care about...)
I did some digging. He's the founder of the Chenla Institute, Center for Distributed Civilization. Also launching/launched Chenla FabLab.

His comment history suggests he's old-school, been around the block (China, Japan, Cambodia), has done work for SGI, and has an "Infinite Reality" machine at work (which is described as a "graphics supercomputer").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniteReality
You can see it with the naked eye in a very dark place. It looks like a big brighter smudged area, a little off the plane of the milky way. And it does appear a lot bigger than the moon.