skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well obviously this depends on what you mean by "they". But a leading narrative during the early part of the pandemic was that masks were not good, for various reasons, one of which was that they didn't actually offer protection, but people think that they do, so people will be less careful.

This was so much part of the narrative that there were later pieces about how bad this narrative ended up being, e.g. in the NYTimes.

So for sure, it was a real thing.
You just have to take some of that time saved thanks to internet and smartphones, and put it into commuting. or telecommute.
Because customers love the walled garden. An open version of iPhone would be a disaster for Apple and its developers.
Thanks Neelesh for the link, I like the way of thinking with the focus on data.

It is similar with what I am seeing - i.e. lots of older integration systems are terrible with data simply because they force you to use some way of data modeling (e.g. their OOP data models, WSDLs/XSDs etc.) while the newer ones just rely on json which is good but can lack the (sometimes necessary) complexity. To do some data cleansing on the way then seems like an unachievable task (there is certainly such a thing as overdose on XSLT ;) ).

I also like the approach you took with centralized data dictionary - it certainly is something the industry might need, I would wonder how it impacts change management though (especially in bigger companies).

Wishing you good luck!
Word counts were a major part of this, if memory serves.
I think in general you are right, but this article was about tech workers, who are largely unaffected in terms of the job market from what I can tell (I could be wrong about this though). Also, it seems like the job market is ironically getting better for tech? I am seeing more remote opportunities on who's hiring so the job pool is opening up due to this.
So first you malign my choice of how I spend my leisure time with an implicit “my hobby is more wholesome than yours” and now you call me ignorant? I had hoped to add to the conversation by holding a mirror up to your silly “my hobby is better than your hobby” comments by highlighting that there is no “right” amount of time to spend on relaxing and taking care of your well-being.

As I’m sure you are aware, mental health is an important component of overall well-being, and you will find that doctors have prescribed treatments involving computer games in a wide ranging number of studies since their popularity began to grow in the late 1980’s. Picking one well cited example at random from a 30 second Google search https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.0026... .

“No doctor ever advised playing more video games” is such a broad brush statement as to be useless to refute. It is factually wrong, and the first statement in our sub-conversation that truly deserves the label “wilfully ignorant” - you can learn more about the topic with a few minutes of searching for “video games therapy”.

You are likely aware that not everyone is neurotypical. Some people come alive in their creativity in a video game but struggle to communicate face to face, or struggle with the fine motor control to draw, paint, or write. Video games like Minecraft can become effective communication channels. Doctors and researchers can and do prescribe video games as therapy ( https://psychcentral.com/news/2019/01/28/therapeutic-video-g... ).
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Flamebait and personal attacks will get you banned on HN. You've unfortunately been doing these in other comments as well. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the intended use of the site? We'd appreciate it.
The title seems to assume that Bayesian statisticians do not know Monte Carlo methods. But in fact, Monte Carlo methods are part of Bayesian statistics. They are in any decent Bayesian stats textbooks.
Who would be paying the person or bot in this scenario. Surely LinkedIn wouldn’t be directly paying for that I wonder what is funding all this.
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I often ride a little (or a lot) faster than the situation calls for in urban context and rely on emergency braking.

The bike I bought at a dealership is just a couple months old and no maintenance work had been done so far.

I am feeling it’s about time for some adjustments (rim brakes are accumulating some leeway now), and thought I could as well replace some parts while at it and start to learn how to put together a fully custom ride (to use the skill in future after I move to a more permanent location).
Nobody advertises irreparable damage. This testing lab found out the hard way and then had to follow up with the vendors to get an explanation.
You can, without bypassing security mechanisms. Simply acquire a free developer certificate to sign your own binaries. They work for a week but you can re-sign them.
vim-as-wordprocessor virtually always means some form of maarkup: Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, ASCIIdoc, etc., etc.
That viewpoint seems unnecessarily narrow.

It's like saying we are in a decline because we went from Caspar David Friedrich to Banksy.

It's perfectly valid not to like it even want to understand someone's work, as art is always subjective imho, but it feels weird to try to grade it on a scale.

I generally prefer Greek sculpture as an art form, and will probably walk by 90% of any modern art museum without stopping. But that doesn't mean I won't be moved by some of the exhibitions, possibly even more than by the "Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer" or the "Nike of Samothrake".
Agreed no-one who can draw this level of cat deserves our sympathy.
Uhhh well isn't it more like Tesla? There are no Tesla dealerships in the traditional sense — only Tesla-owned sales locations. You can't buy a new Tesla from any local dealership; you can only get them directly from Tesla's stores.

You can switch to Android, and in fact Android holds the global majority of smartphone users (yes yes, iOS is the majority in the US by a small margin).

I think we need to rethink the whole vertical integration thing entirely, instead of trying to reason about vertically integrated platforms in terms of non-vertically-integrated platforms. It doesn't seem to work.
Wind Waker on the gamecube is a perfect example of what you're describing. Almost 20 years old and I still think the cel-shaded graphics look great, especially when compared to its more "realistic" contemporaries.
Take a look at Terrament slides. They are driving a train vertically into the ground.
With increased depth more cars can be added, increasing total weight, so m = Ch and ep =~ Ch*h/2
This would be better if there were a physical-only method to factory reset the CPU, instead of blowing fuses.
Closed form integration is fundamentally different.

What's the integral of exp( sqrt ( 1 + (tan^(3/2) X)2 ) ) ) ?

We only know a handful of forms that can be integrated in closed form and its down to our creativity to discover new forms that can be integrated (same deal with solving differential equations and the reasons are the same).

The forms that we know how to integrate can be done by a computer. CAS tools will do that for you. For example Mathematica.
I hope the situation changes soon. I'm a parent and two of my kids are doing school online. I have been able to make it work, in that I'm not slacking at work or leaving stuff for someone else, but I'm working much longer than I ever did at the office. I've found the best way to meet the demands of work, while meeting the demands of my kids, is the put some work on the back burner. Once they go to bed, I catch an hour or two before getting up and knocking out the work I wanted to do earlier. I understand it's not tenable, but nothing else I can do at the moment.
This comment breaks HN's rules badly. Please don't post like this again, regardless of how someone's website is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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If everyone starts spending, doesn't that increase demand, and therefore push the economy into high gear? Doesn't everyone want more business?
Mask-wearing is causing facial recognition problems in airports, impacting flow
Thank you.. That's very simple and could be workable for bare bones pages. For basic visual elements the CSS should work I suppose (i'm not a programmer).
It defends big vendors against secondary market.
Healthcare, education, housing prices go somewhere though.
The article states "The Fed now owns almost a third of bonds backed by home loans in the U.S." which is where the headline comes from.

I think the reason why it's important is that owning 'mortgage backed debt' means you own an instrument sold by the mortgage underwriter rather than the mortgage itself. If the mortgage payer defaults and the underwriter fails you have no way of recovering the debt. A mortgage backed bond is tied to the actual property, so if the payer defaults you can sell the real estate to get the money back.

That might be completely wrong though. The extend of my financial education is watching The Big Short.
What I’d prefer to atomicity is automatic file versioning such that a file descriptor opened at time t0 always points to the same contents, unless you refresh it. You’d also need CoW and/or writing patches rather than rewriting the whole file and a GC/compactor for cleaning up transient versions of a file.

The workflows this would be enable is that, when vim wants syntax checking, it writes a transient version of the file to the fs without updating the “HEAD” pointer and then hands a fd to the syntax checker that points to that new transient version.
Out of college I worked on the finance side of a self storage investment company (thank god I left after 4 years), so I know the ins and outs of the business.

The number one deciding factor for customers is location. Coming in a close second is security. In a far distant third is price.

Self storage employees can only access your unit in the event of an emergency, eviction, or a warrant from law enforcement.

For self storage facility owners, one of the top up-sells is insurance. Almost everyone buys it, again, for security (and peace of mind).

Unfortunately, this idea decreases security rather than solving one of the biggest customer pain points of renting a storage unit.
It's probably not the office people dislike, it's the commute. If your office was next door to your house and all your colleagues were there you wouldn't go? You could come back for lunch and go back and forth as needed.
The problem with a flywheel is that you ha w to keep it moving. Bearing wear out, require lubrication...

A weight you can just hang there
> Imagine a 4 billion year old codebase, written by dice throws and unit testing.

That's a great analogy, except it doesn't go quite far enough. The code for the toolchain that compiles the codebase (not to mention the unit testing framework) is just as old, and written the same way.
I’ve heard horror stories about childcare in the US from friends who live/lived there so I can understand people’s reticence when their only experiences have been extremely poor.

But likewise my experience in Iceland has been phenomenal. Experienced, educated teachers who specialise in pre-school education backed up by really caring support staff. And the schools are packed full of fun things to do and healthy food.
> Since day one security and safety have been the most important feature for iPhone, and the biggest reason consumers select it.

That's ridiculous. That has nothing to do with the reason people selected it when it came out. It was pretty, it had features no other phone really had, such as a browser that rendered the same as the desktop and good touch controls, but security and safety had nothing to do with it.
That was part of the old nuclear age dream back when a fleet of reactors would make power too cheap to meter, although using methane or propane instead may be easier to work with from an engineering perspective. Moving energy around as liquefied gas is also significantly more efficient in most circumstances.

IIRC there was some study on doing something like that in Germany in the 2000s but I'm not finding references to it now. If you don't have to build the dam (since it already exists), pumping water back up into the reservoir is going to be better in the limited locations you can do that, and given the relatively tiny amount of energy storage vs power production I suspect the economies of scale on that won't change without a preceding sea change in global commitment to fossil fuel retirement.

There is also a better transition path to that as we already are building amazingly good gas turbines that could just as well be burning synthesized or biogas on demand from solar or nuclear over-generation. I sort of suspect that may end up being politically poisonous to the people that would normally be pushing for carbon-neutral storage options.

It would be way more than double the solar panels though. Solar generation is generally maxing at around 25% capacity factor, so replacing an existing fossil fuel generator requires 4x or more the nominal capacity in solar plus whatever efficiency loss in storage, so going with a pure solar + storage replacement of a 1500 MW combustion plant could easily require 12,0000 MW of equivalent generation.
Friendship, joint ideals, and empathy don’t exist at the international level without a third party security guarantor keeping the various sides down, see: the history of Europe pre 1945 (and post ~2030 or so).

You’re not coming to HN to look for a rational discussion of geopolitics, you’re looking for someone to agree with.
I looked into it just now.

Somebody has WordPerfect 8 binaries around.

It requires libc5 - the c library that was common before glibc became common at the end of the 90s. And then needs X libraries that are compiled against libc5.

Probably you could find an old Red Hat 5 or something and pull out those libraries to run on a recent kernel.
Where is innovation and efficiency ?

To me it smells like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzV_uzSTCTM and all about patents, marketing and money burning, but I don't know as much as these professors do so maybe I am wrong.
While Indian cities are definitely challenged infrastructure-wise in a lot of ways, the specific problem of rainwater management deserves to be given more focused attention.

Most Indian cities receive a ton of rainfall in the span of a few weeks, and hence infrastructure needs to be designed for peak rainfall that is perhaps 5-10x of average rainfall. As with all things, designing a system to handle 5-10x peak utilization is significantly more complex and expensive, especially when it will be in peak use for maybe 1 of 52 weeks of the year.

In some cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore etc., the economic downsides have finally started to outweigh the costs of dealing with this problem - but lack of local funding and executive leadership will probably keep infrastructure playing catch-up with future floods and climate change events. I would argue this applies to all other problems that happen due to scale of Indian urban areas - heat management, air pollution, waste disposal, traffic etc.
IANAL, but my understanding is that you can generally keep using the previous version under MIT and any version that was still released under MIT; you just can't update past that to the non-MIT versions without falling into the new SaaS clause.

That said, you should find out how much the payment is and see if you can just pay it; maybe you can negotiate a good deal with the author. They've gotta eat too, right?
Its called Secondary market, nothing black about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxZ21Q0VSdE
Yeah, if a game looks like Excel today with lots of charts and stats, I won’t play it. Don’t have the patience anymore.
Pumped hydro is great but unrealistic in many countries. You need hills or mountains with space for new lakes. All obvious places already have them, for the others the ecological impact often is quite significant.
The oldest proprietary software I came across (approx. 1995) had a LPT hardware key and stopped working as soon as you disconnected it. You could connect your printer through that key (it was a pass-through), but it behaved weirdly.

Oh, and the keys were prone to hardware failure, and replacement took weeks to arrive.
Exactly, the focus must be on trying to mitigate it, not make it more easier.
is the think of the children excuse.
If you think you example is equivalent, or just even sensible, then you really need to pause and understand Chinese history before passing judgement.

In fact these attacks and insults by foreigners who know nothing about the subject matter is one the thing that makes Chinese public opinion very firm when it comes to issues like HK (a symbol of foreign aggression) and the riots there, which is what the cast of the movie commented on.

The riots were not defensible, but indeed you can justify anything if you try hard enough.
Intersteller (with -er, indeed)? How did it pick that one up as an alternative for Inception? There is something with that title, but no information in IMDb.

Anyway, for the rest it looks similar to Netflix' recommendation: similarity in actors, directors, keywords. A toy.
I never maligned your hobby. I enjoy video games too. That's why I play them.
Your arithmetic / unit conversion doesn't work. Change of 3.5°F is same as change of 1.94°C, not 1.2°C. Change of 28°F is 15.5°C. 37.7 - 22.2 != 9.6.

(Water freezing to boiling is 100 degrees in C and 180 degrees in F).
I am just very curious how to get a copy of the wordperfect 6.2 for DOS.

Can it be downloaded from Internet Archive?
Well, of course the experience of the netflix leader is starkly different from everybody elses. So his day is spend having to give a go for project or in general listening to ideas. Since he also depends on kategorizing people quickly he is hindered by videoconferencing. An videokonferencing all day certainly has its downsides. For other jobs, it says nothing. What a waste of my time.
How An African Slave in Boston Helped Save Generations from Smallpox (2019)
Clonk is great but not comparable to Minecraft imo.
Progress Acquires Chef to Expand DevOps Portfolio
I hope the update cycle will be better than with other Androids.
This isn't really the same use case.

A basic thing to understand about electricity storage is that there are very different needs for different kinds of storage.
Flywheels from what I understand are for very shortterm storage needs, i.e. balancing out shortterm fluctuations in electricity use vs. generation. But they're unsuitable for any kind of longterm storage, because they loose power over time.

In the long run with a high-solar-high-wind-scenario we'll need some seasonal storage to get us over a couple of weeks in some circumstances. This will need some storage that doesn't loose power over time.

(FWIW I have no idea if these gravitational storage techs will play any role in that, and one can be doubtful about it.)
The 3y old 4k Samsung TV in the living room can't be pushed below 50 to 60ms of latency, even with processing minimized, and compared to an audio signal NOT routed through it (the TV's line out obviously compensates for that, but is only stereo).

Back in 2011/2012, when I got Rock Smith, I used a dslr camera to determine the latency of my LCD compared to my old CRT. Just took a snap of a ms counter racing up on both screens (mirrored). Can't recall the exact difference, but definitely much more than 2ms. I measured because I noticed it during gameplay; I'm pretty sensitive to delayed video/audio, but not 2ms sensitive - that's one beat off at 30.000bpm. You can use that technique to check for yourself with a more modern display.
How do you and Gravitricity deal with ground water? Wouldn't you require constant pumping to keep water out, using additional energy? Or can they be sealed that well to work for decades without maintenance?
Apple is explicitly stating that they retaliated so hard against Epic specifically because Epic (1) asked for permission to break the contract, and then (2) broke the contract when they did not receive permission (even going so far as to send upper Apple leadership a letter informing them of the decision). So Apple's argument is that Epic was deliberately trying to start a big dramatic issue, and Apple wants compensation for being dragged into it.

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Please note that I have not weighed in on whether I think Apple or Epic is in the right (legally or otherwise). I'm just informing you of their justification, and why they claim this isn't a danger for other developers who may accidentally (or, perhaps, much more minorly) break the terms of service.
Nukes are more practical for a Venus hab, because you can just hang one a half-mile away and below, unshielded, and not even worry about leaks. Just hang your pile at the bottom of a tall polyprop fabric tube, heating up air, with a windmill turbine at the top.

You hold all this stuff up with balloons. Venus surface days are hella long, but the cloud tops blast around at 400 mph, so a cloud-top day is like, what, 60 hours maybe?

Polyprop because sulfuric acid clouds, you know.
What are Apple ][ and Apple //e? Pretty impossible to google search these so maybe readme could have some links or short descriptions
Nice as a stunt, but feels like taking a 40 ton truck to get your lunch sandwich from the bakers.
The July Radiolab episode it good on vitamin D and sunshine and its effect on covid and also on the 1918 flu. In both cases getting out in the sun seemed to have a dramatic reduction in deaths. https://pca.st/dwgcmlx1

I guess it must have quite an effect on things to evolutionarily justify the difference in appearance between fair skinned and dark skinned people - the fair skin is mostly to allow sun in to produce vit D in northern climes.
Good luck collecting on the new CPU they owe you
Having positive net profit is not the same thing as having no costs or negative costs.
> just about every website and blog now presents multiple spinning boxes when its loading

The vast majority of "page" content is baked into prerendered HTML and CSS rendered. I'm not sure what spinners you're talking about unless you're referring to web apps with timelines/news feeds that dynamically load.

Users love sites that load the important content and are interactive ASAP. Trust me, they appreciate your boring (fast) HTML.
So print more money, what does it even matter anymore in the land of MMT?

> the waste problem.

Ehh, it's well managed in Canada and France, I don't see why Americans can't handle it. Just keep it away from fault lines, right? I bet some of those old missile silos would be perfect.
From the News section:

"We plan to roll out our technology in disused mine shafts worldwide."
The USB ID Repository
Perhaps Civ6 just isn't your thing, but your experience could also be exactly what Sid Meier describes: You have to grasp the different mechanics to get to the fun, strategic part of the game - which takes a while. Like in chess, where learning the game doesn't end, but actually only really starts once you know the basic rules of piece movement.

As a non-native speaker, I sometimes have a similar experience when reading English books written in a rather ornate style, i.e. where I don't know some of the vocabulary: I can follow along just fine, I get the story arc etc., but the book just isn't fun because lacking the vocabulary I can't grasp the fine details of the atmosphere, the character descriptions etc.
> business means making it a sales business first and foremost

i think a lot of people have the misunderstanding that the world works under a "build it and they will come" model.