skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting techniques to sleep better at night
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Nitpick: 1Gb is only an eighth of 1GB and I think you meant the latter.
Australia actually does a lot in its fire-prone areas: https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/management/fire/prescribed-burnin...

As an aside, some plants have in fact adapted to release their seeds in the event of a fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotiny
> Personally, I favor hitting people with billy clubs, because it leaves evidence of what happened

You make a decent argument.
Upon viewing the product video[0], I immediately wondered whether anyone's studied the effects of aggressive jump cuts on child psychology. Turns out, they have! Kind of.[1]

Personally I find jump cuts jarring if not repulsive, emblematic of the "Like and subscribe!" cultural, intellectual wasteland that is most YouTube and Twitch content. It's arguably not healthy for adults, let alone children.

Then again, I grew up watching The Ren & Stimpy Show, so far be it from me to talk.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9IqcnQ9GQU

[1] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-35066-001
I checked both Mac and iOS, its a fixed list, no option to add SearX for example. Funny enough, Yandex is missing from MacOS list (only options are Google, Yahoo, Bing and DDG), but present in iOS.
A lot of the security concerns listed in the article, while entirely valid, would be mitigated by a combination of a permissions check similar to the ones that already exist for things like the Clipboard API and a UI element to show what connections are in use and sending data.

Any issues that exist about using it for DDoS attacks already exist for the available network request APIs.
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Web scraping is now legal. Here’s what that means for Data Scientists
Disclaimer: There is so much that can go wrong administering drugs without somebody's medical background (like just getting the weight right in this case), random variables (say ate grapefruit beforehand), or just sheer dumb misfortune. Then there is the dystopian nature of yet another layer to diffuse responsibility. This is tragic, and I hope doesn't set precedent.

All that out of the way. Why is this on here? This seems to be just run of political muckracking to reinforce the narrative of "we live in an oppressive police state". Granted, I think society can do much better. This is ABC news, and I can say with a high level of confidence, we are very likely not getting the full picture here. I'm not one to normal point out guidelines, buts here we go:

What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This uptick in political content is really not doing this community a service.
The use of chemical restraint in a law enforcement setting is an appalling breach of human rights, but ketamine is by far the safest option in an out-of-hospital setting, especially when you don't have any sort of patient history. I'm sure that someone has been killed by a single clinical dose of ketamine, but I'm not sure how. Ketamine isn't a very good chemical cosh, but at least it's a safe one.

Anyone administering chlorpromazine and a benzodiazepine in this setting is criminally negligent - if the "patient" (and I very much hesitate to use that word in this context) has taken another CNS depressant, they're in deep trouble.
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There is a wide gulf between the claims of the Blockchain community and the technological reality. For example, I hadn't heard of Arweave before you mentioned it so I looked into it.

From the splash page:
"Store data, permanently." "creating truly permanent data storage for the first time"

From the 'yellow paper'.

"[T]he core Arweave team does not expect that the network as it is currently formulated will continue to produce blocks in true perpetuity. This does not, however, mean that we expect that the information stored inside the weave will be lost after the final block is mined. It is our expectation that when eventually a permanent information storage system more suited to the challenges of the time emerges, the Arweave’s data will be ‘subsumed’ into this network. After the mining of the final block, the financial incentive mechanisms for data preservation will subside and give way to social incentives for data preservation"

The "truly permanent" aspect is based on hand waving and hoping that this system (which was designed with a finite lifetime) will be picked up and stored by someone else.

I have nothing against crypto or this idea (in fact I like that someone is working on this!), but the baseless claims, the barely-honest way that companies present their technology, the blatantly unsolved problems that underly the big claims and dreams - it's all so exhausting. Far too often when I investigate projects in the Blockchain space I try to understand how a company has achieved a shockingly impressive goal only to find that underneath the hype there is no solution, just blind faith and a promise that the core problems will be solved in the future.

I don't know how you can look at the Blockchain space and see anything other than: interesting but very incomplete tech propping up preposterous claims.
Still not worth it. Just desalinate and transport the ocean. Always more cost and energy efficient.
> It might actually be a better way to learn, because you're learning is always in service of other learning.

Me in freshman calculus: Why are we learning these Taylor series? It's so boring, and I'll never need to use it

Me three years later in upper-division meteorology: It turns out 90% of what we do is numerical methods because fluid dynamics is hard with limited data.

It's definitely easier for me to learn things when I have an application for it.
It’s used “a lot” by the EMS. It’s doesn’t lower your blood pressure like Versed can, and ketamine has some pain relief properties.
I think you're over-estimating the discounts - the plans you linked were for talk, text, and data. The plans I'm talking about are here[1] at nearly the very bottom of the page.

Current plans listed are 4Gb for $10/month, though they would require being paired with a voip provider, as I mentioned above.

Fido is available nation-wide, AFAIK. You're likely thinking of Wind. Originally available in select cities (such as Toronto or Vancouver), they were bought out by Shaw in... 2015 (?) I believe, and renamed to Freedom Mobile. They are currently available in most major cities, and rely on roaming in less densely populated areas.

[1] https://www.fido.ca/consumer/tablets
Wonder what’s the cost to supply 1 person with drinking and bathing needs.
Regular Rust assumes that you use unsafe in a proper manner, but still asks you to mark functions that can cause memory unsafety with the wrong inputs as unsafe. This is so people know what code to audit. If you don't do this (or at least, mark something in the module as unsafe), it's considered a bug in your library. Among other things, this kind of clear isolation boundary makes it obvious where your proof obligations are and consequently which code you can ignore when debugging undefined behavior (code outside the unsafe module is not responsible for the unsafety no matter what weird input it provides).

This build tool, as first proposed, knowingly exposed macros that can cause memory unsafety with the wrong inputs, without making you write unsafe. If a build tool makes assumptions like "you probably know what you're doing with that C++ code" without asking you to write unsafe, it is just as wrong as an implementation of unchecked indexing that wasn't marked unsafe (because "you'll probably know not to use this unless you're really in bounds."). It is clear that you consider this a trivial matter, but many people very heavily involved in the Rust community (including the people working on its soundness proofs) do not.
Exactly, what a weird american way to measure network. I've traveled to many places around the world and bandwidth is rarely directly capped. It's usually unlimited* with a speed cap.

Right now for example I'm paying 50$ for 30mbps unlimited* yearly plan here in Thailand. The map in the article puts Thailand at avg 1.2$/GB which would net 42GB a year for 50$ which is a much worse deal.

Finally I feel it's very hard to measure this. If you look at the article's map the avg/cheapest/most expensive vary by an absurd margin. Again Thailand is 0.2$ cheapest and 7.2$ most expensive — that 32x difference. This data seems to be absolutely useless for drawing any sort of conclusions.

\* unlimited up to some point.
And software developers make few times the median in such places.

Source: am developer in a country you describe
There are some good uses cases . You arrive on scene and the patient is injured and agitated and lashing out. EMT is having a hard time as well. You need to give them something. Basically Benzos or Ketamine, and Ketamine is much safer and can relieve pain
> One of the things that frustrates me about apps/web is that most people have no idea what individual apps/sites are “costing” them

It's not an issue with web apps but issue with outdated bandwith limiting.
I'm paying £9 for 30GB but that also includes unlimited minutes and texts. So I'm pretty near the lowest in my country, UK. My only question is, who in their right mind is paying the highest?! I mean £52… WFT.
If you are worried about American intelligence don't use anything based in the US.
So I guess The West Wing was right about this back in 2001

> Josh: Putting out fires isn't necessarily our policy?

> Sam: Fire's good for the environment under certain circumstances. Forests have a natural cycle that requires purging burns to reinvigorate growth.

> Josh: Someone just said that to you, right?[1]

[1] http://westwingwiki.com/2014/04/season-3-episode-3-ways-mean...
That's where hackintoshes come in. Technically development doesn't require a physical device too. Of course, UX is likely to be kinda poor when working in simulator only. But that's how it goes.
That's GP's point I think: the context of the experience makes all the difference.
> On a lot of sites changing email is impossible.

Interesting, how do they such sites deal with people who lose their email account (phishing or others?)
Square.

Japan was their first international foray. There were visions of the serene design aesthetics of Square clearing the clutter from countless Japanese shops. It was going to be the perfect society to embrace Square’s vision and form for credit card based payments.

Guess who has a banking system that’s archaic and runs on faxes? And a society that largely eschews credit and credit cards?

It was not the glorious meeting of culture and technology they had envisioned.

The pre-launch research was poor. It was a vanity expansion.
I've read a few of your responses and you've already made up your mind. There's no way you'll budge.

At this point, I don't know why people are still trying to win you back. If you can, just edit your original comment and say "and I won't change my mind".
True, but then steam does provide value to you. I would assume a revenue share of 30% is acceptable albeit painful in your case, since otherwise you wouldn't do it.
I've heard of this happening again and again lately because of the lack of traffic due to Covid.
> Agree with you on this -> The only google service that is really relevant and hard to replace is YouTube.

Agree. It would become a little easier if all major broadcasters would at least mirror their youtube content on other networks like Peertube. That would not solve the recommendation problem to discover new videos, but at least the hosting itself would be taken care off this way.
I just don't see how access is even really relevant to the cost. Content restriction seems like a governmental thing, unrelated to service providers. IT's not like the Pakistani internet is cheap because of the resitrictions.
True! I would still argue that, in many cases, SV companies actively resist understanding the local culture -- Uber and AirBnB fit into that category.

AirBnB fixed this -- after something like four years -- and Uber would be dead here without COVID buoying up UberEats. They (Uber) could have had a killer offering, had they built-or-bought relationships with taxi companies, because ride-sharing here is a total non-starter.

Gap does not make products for the local market. I used to buy jeans there because they sold exactly the same products in the same fit as in the US, and Americans are... larger.

And it's not like there's a shortage of people that can look at your product and say, "Nope, won't use it, here's why. Watch how I solve this problem right now..."

Socializing in Japan works very differently than in the US.

Meetup and Facebook would have had to introduce almost totally alien products to succeed here, so I think they were kind of doomed from the get-go -- although Instagram was an outscale hit here.

This problem works both ways, of course.

Uniqlo, as of the last time I checked, also doesn't re-size for the US market. But Americans come in more shapes and sizes, so they've still got a market.

As an aside, if I go to Uniqlo and try on the largest size dress shirt they sell, it fits beautifully around my waist and stomach, but the chest and arms look and feel as if painted on. Afterwards, it'll take a full fire crew and a gallon of baby oil to get me out of the damn thing.
Not starting the war in the first place seems like a plausible alternative to mutually assured destruction.
Unix had it right. Provide a toolbox with modular legos that you can customise and fit together to make the tools that you need.
I think one of the main reasons it strong oversight of the sector by both the ACCC and Telecommunications watchdog.

It took a long time to force this, but aggressive competition by regional ISPs (especially Internode and iiNet) forced Telstra to allow access to their ADSL network, and once that was in these and other companies used similar tactics to force open other markets.

Optus aggressively used MVNOs to build market share in mobile markets, and while Telstra still charges a premium the generally decent quality Optus network has kept a cap on how much additional they can charge.
I think a better question may be "Is machine learning the best way to solve autonomous driving"?

Tasks that are very difficult for a ML / CV system to solve could become trivial if we could rely on world around us to have the right sensors embedded.

In your example if moving vehicles on the street had beacons on them, you would not had to rely on ML to determine if you are safe. Of course, we do not have access to this kind of data currently and so we have no choice but to rely on ML / CV / AI. But once upon a time there were no highways for cars either. Society as a whole decided that building these highways was worth the investment.

I believe that society will slowly evolve towards building the kind of infrastructure that makes autonomous driving much easier. So ML may only be needed to make the ROI on this kind of infra clearer to more people.
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I'm with Public Mobile (they're owned by Telus now) and I'm paying $8/month right now. I don't use much data so I just recharge that when I need to. If you want to use my discount code I'll be paying even less ;) though tbh I think their cheapest plan is now $15 before any discounts. You can buy 1GB of data for $15 (which if you don't use carries forward) i.e. the official undiscounted price would be $30/month.
Alcohol and ketamine is a known bad bad combination. 500mg is a damn lot of ketamine and morally there is no difference than drugging someone against their will by non medical people for no medical purpose.
You can say the same thing for anything based outside of the US. You think China-based services don't have the CCP spy on their users, like TikTok?
I'd wager that the vast majority of people don't, or certainly don't for emails.
Very cool. This is somewhat similar to the mechanism of flipping a rearview mirror in order to dim lights from behind at night.
He told me his reasons but he put it down as an expensive lesson learnt.
There was nothing egalitarian in the Soviet leadership, with some historical debate about maybe Lenin (though even with Lenin, one of his first acts after coming to power was to dissolve the Soviets, the democratic, independent factory-ruling councils that had sprung up).

With Stalin definitely, the only goal was complete control over the population and over the state. Sure, egalitarianism was paid lip service, but it was entirely propaganda.

In fact, the proper historical name for the economic system used in the USSR is "state capitalism". You still have corporations that employ people for a fixed wage, but instead of being controlled by private interests, they are controlled by bureaucrats appointed by the ruling dictators.

Socialism would have meant that the worker-owners get payed based on the profits of the factory, and that they have a direct say in how the factory is operated. In the USSR, no one had any say in how anything was operated, save for the unelected ruling elite.
> Trying to find an alternative to Android.

You have the Pinephone nowadays. You will lose a lot moving from Android to a Linux based phone, especially if you rely on native applications.

https://boilingsteam.com/pinephone-community-edition-ce-revi...
$15mm is a rounding error for MSFT
Yes, in fact his documentaries are initially unnerving, because suddenly you see Robert Mc Namara shouting at you :

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/
When Covid-19 becomes a chronic illness
Yep, I think the empty void feeling was only a few minutes and after that ended it took like 20-30 minutes to be able to open my eyes and regain motor control.
I cant answer your questions on net neutrality, but I do have fond memories as a teenager of waiting 24 hours after a WoW patch came out to grab it from unmetered from GameArena to save my parent's 13gb download cap.
I'll do you one better -- I have a blue Handspring. :)

Mercedes created the first motor vehicle.

Ford created the first one that people actually bought and used in real numbers.

WindowsCE and Palm did not create the smartphone market.

Apple did, by introducing the right product at the right time.
I don’t know the details but I’m assuming he’s using commercial lease hiring, or the U.K. rules are different. The mileage and wear and tear alone would mean he’d be unable to hide it.
Yes, you do see that.

The etymology here is muddled... as etymology almost always is. It's also pretty interesting.

The Wikipedia article has a really (surprisingly) good rundown on the history of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel

So, yes, it was originally a term of self-identification dating all the way back to the 1990s.

Usage as an insult began after self-identified incels began making headlines by murdering people. After that, "incel" became shorthand for men who were bitter, alienated, misogynistic, and potentially violent.

A very similar thing happened in the 1990s, after a string of workplace killings by postal workers in the U.S. -- the phrase "going postal" entered the vernacular for a time.

When "incel" is used as an insult like this, I don't believe it is ever meant as a literal reference to the subject's sexual activity or lack thereof; only as a reference to their bitter attitude.
Nothing. Also, FORTRAN is an automatic programming environment (go check orig paper), but doesn't do few shot learning.
Central Tokyo -- Meguro, Ebisu, Roppongi -- are where all of us foreigners live.

It's like living in Manhattan, Nob Hill, or Los Gatos.

You're pretty insulated from... everybody else.

I live on the edge of Tokyo. Uber eats was here occasionally before COVID. They did not effectively exist at all in pre-pandemic Saitama, Kanagawa, Osaka, or Sapporo.

Now -- Instagram and Twitter are both companies that succeeded here.

Instagram, because Japanese people love taking pictures. I have to wait to eat dinner every day because my wife wants to take a picture of whatever it is I cooked.

Twitter is used very differently here than in the US, but I think I'm right in saying that they're the #2 tweetiest nation on Earth.
It IS bricked if you're a semi-technical Chrome user whose mac is stuck at the question mark screen, though
> In fact I would probably prefer databaseRestore to restoreDatabase for the same reason because it would allow to cognitively group database methods in your flat namespace instead of grouping restore methods.

This is especially important in pure C. If OOP-style programming is adopted, databaseRestore() can be strictly interpreted as a method of the Database class without ambiguity, and its first parameter is the object the operation is applied onto. In a sense, even old C & POSIX functions such as fopen(), fclose(), fseek() can be seen as a rudimentary form of OOP. On the other hand, restoreDatabase() may perform other operations that change the state outside of the database object.
Nope, not experienced and don't plan to be. I totally believe it could be a nice experience in a different setting, but I doubt that experiencing it in the hospital or mid-arrest would ever be enjoyable.
2020: An Isolation Odyssey
Would you say the same if you lived in China?
7-10mg/kg will cause unconsciousness, and is dangerous without CLOSE airway monitoring.

Just barely dangerous. You might see a bit of transient respiratory depression, but the risk of respiratory arrest or clinically significant hypoxia is very low even in an out-of-hospital setting. We have case reports of paediatric patients receiving as much as 50mg/kg without significant ill effect.

https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/S0196-0644(99)800...
Here's a great video from 2 days ago explaining the recent record attempts during COVID

https://youtu.be/GOWn1WSYhVQ
YaCy is a decentralized search engine
Millitary-style leaders will probably keep being a necessity. But perhaps in a less top-down controlled society, there would be less chance that things get to the point of the submarine surfacing at all.

Most large conflicts in human history have been about imperialism - one powerful ruling class trying to expand their power to new lands. Without the ruling class, it is hard to imagine millions of people caring whether they "control" some piece of land thousands of miles away. Would the US have gone to Vietnam if there weren't a ruling class that cared about extending their influence? To Irak? To Afghanistan? To El Salvador? Would they have orchestrated coups against the democratic leadership of Iran to protect BP's operations, and reinstalled their ousted absolutist monarchy? Would they have assassinated Iranian generals?
Do you recall one event during cold war where 65.000 men were killed in just one day?. Or how compares the 40.000.000 casualties during ww1 with the coldwar?.
Ask HN: How do you handle your team getting exhausted with unwanted meetings?
Hi everyone!

Our team went remote about 1.5 years ago and we've used a combination of tools

We used to get stuck in hours of conversations, with no agenda or follow process.

That was then followed with a shaky action/outcome system

This all changed when I spoke to almost 50 CEOs of remote companies to understand how they handle their business and why they win.

Ended up coming up with a system that cut down meetings from 3 hours a day to pretty much 10 mins give or take.

I've been making that "process" into a product via https://remoteworkly.co and i'd love to learn how you currently handle your meetings.

It'll really help me understand what's missing in our product