skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Diogenes is one of my favorite wandering philosophers, along with Nasreddin, and legendary characters from Taoism and Zen Buddhism.

In a way, they did "troll" the societies where they travelled, by living beyond their value systems, flaunting their freedom and mocking what people take seriously.

I'd prefer the term "wise fools".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_madness

They were not trolls who take pleasure in mockery. Their way of life and thought have something to teach us, and people through history have loved these characters, as we can see from the stories we continue to tell about them.
My theory, based on a lot of experience, is that average developers are not “smart” enough to learn it, beyond simple tutorials. By smart I don’t mean IQ, but rather drive, intellectual curiosity and desire for a challenge, that I think is required for learning something so different from mainstream languages.
If you want to be the next David LaMacchia or Shawn Fanning I guess.
Oh, I like this one. I’ll be borrowing it for future use.
What did Earth look like up to 750m years ago? Move through time
I have the Wellue SleepU, and it seems to work pretty well. Granted I'm not counting on it to save my life in a hospital situation, so any false readings really don't matter. But looking at the nightly data, it seems to gather pretty solid data.

https://getwellue.com/pages/sleepu-oxygen-monitor
I can only hope..
Let's see :)

https://xkcd.com/605/
38,000,000,000/4000 = 9,500,000 plants needed to get to net zero, just for the the carbon we are currently putting out, to say nothing of all the carbon currently causing warming...

Seems reasonable to say no.
I just ran across a three year old pop song on YouTube today with 200+ million views. I've never heard it on the radio. The top 40 gatekeepers are killing the top 40.
“Punctuated Equilibrium” - long periods of stability, and then short periods of great change.

I find it interesting to see the effect in other fields in my life - for example, I’ve been tracking net worth each month for almost a decade, and it follows a similar pattern of slow (or no) growth ... and then big jumps.
It’s Texas. Zero Tolerance and minimum mandatory sentencing trumps your rights.
That's an argument for disabling large GIF autoplay or tying it to the autoplay setting, not for removing the autoplay setting entirely!

Though I guess in the extreme case a webpage could have a huge grid of 1x1px divs that change color in a requestAnimationFrame callback based on data retrieved over XHR.

So I can kinda see their point of view. It still seems a bit too far in the other direction if you ask me though.

... But enough grumbling. I wanted to point out the following documents for more context:

https://blog.chromium.org/2017/09/unified-autoplay.html (Somewhat wordsmithed...)

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/audio-video/auto...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EH7qZatVnTXsBGvQc_53R97Z...
Having contracted at many big corps, I know this situation very well. The worst issues are the fact that nobody really knows what you're supposed to be requesting, the systems you have to use for requesting them are a complete maze, and a lot of the time, you have to request one thing before you can request the next thing (waiting for those tickets to be serviced sequentially, with their multi-day SLAs).

But don't stress over it. Your manager definitely knows how bad their onboarding is, and isn't expecting you to be able to do anything about it.
You fell directly in line with what they wanted.

It's reasonable to expect companies to honour their spec sheets, and to not lie in their firmware.

Once they're caught doing otherwise it's important to hold them accountable, not throw our hands up and pay up anyway.
By that measure we have tons of senior engineers, but the system that is built is a monstrosity.

What I want out of a senior engineer is dedication to a coherent whole.
Not just scenario, but during crises, people tend to go for the familiar, so older tracks might have done relatively better than before. Spotify users might also be skewing a bit older than they used to as streaming adoption grows, but this is just a guess, and older users tent to use Apple Music.
Haskell has unsafe methods in the standard library.

hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.0.0/docs/System-IO-Unsafe.html
I remember discovering reruns of coast to coast AM and listening to them while driving around at two in the morning.
What are some advantages mechs offer over a combination of tanks + helicopters?
Weirdly some Seagate Exos is inexpensive.
It wasn't omitted.

> However, the fate of the fly is not known, news outlet Sud-Ouest notes.

Here's an apropos song animation that every Canadian of at least a certain age knows about how evil flies can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f389hIxZAOc
Charter schools have been around enough to make it clear that they don't fix these problems for the whole student population.

Individual charter schools may work, but there's not examples of charter schools pulling all the students out of public systems, and guess where the more problematic students end up?
>Just imagine if this was done all the way down to the piece level.

I don't know about that. With a reasonably large number of users, wouldn't you start seeing hash collisions via birthday paradox? Might be better off keeping it at the file level. (Though this does incentivize malicious users to find hash collisions of particular files they want to defend, and seeding the swarm with garbage files)
That's the obvious solution but maintaining the list yourself is a hassle, and I don't know of any community maintained lists for this kind of thing.
A better question is, is it cost effective? If it can scale up and be somewhere below $20-$40/Ton then it has a bright future.

A big chunk of humanity’s CO2 emissions come from sources that are hard to remove, like farming and concrete production. Getting to net zero or negative carbon will require a lot of sequestration.
I'd like the option to abort downloading once a gif reaches the first full frame or 1MB. Whichever comes first. Looks like Chrome will never be that browser.

Seriously gif is only used because it's autoplay predates widespread abuse of autoplay generally. Now is the time to put an end to it, at least as an option.
> Safari actually does that! At least on Big Sur, if you enable the "Reduce Motion" option in Accessibility Preferences, gifs only animate when you hover the pointer over them.

I'm not on Big Sur yet, so I can't check, but it's a shame if that's the only way to animate it, because I might trust OS-curated animations but not random-website-curated animations. It's a browser preference, not necessarily an OS-wide preference. (But I do think that inheriting it is sensible!)

As with all things customiseable, Firefox has had this option for a long time. (But look for their Chrome-chasing to lead them to get rid of this option soon ….)
There already are some like the Empress tree. A big problem with any super trees is that they tend to be highly invasive
> "Existence isn't based on something affecting our world, obviously - that's just absurdly self-centered."

This is very unfair. This is a niche field with contested interpretations, don't make people feel stupid for asking fair questions.

It's obvious what the other person meant: what does 'our world' and 'other worlds' mean, and how do you know it's not just a figment of your imagination, as a scientific theory must be falsifiable -> i.e. measurable and provable / disprovable somehow.

You should at least point people to reading material before making fun of them.
Title is trolling

> It's a transcript of the following talk by R. Martin with some substitutions made (SmallTalk -> Haskell, Ruby -> Rust, and others).
Interestingly enough....

Black conservatives like Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell have often decried that "affirmative action" is used by whites namely liberals to avoid fixing the issues with public education school systems that are in charge of so many black and brown kids.

THE ISSUES:

- Underfunding

- Disproportionate discipline

WHO IS TO BLAME?

- Conservative legislatures who push funding to rural areas over heavily populated liberal cities

- Democratic big city administrators beholden to teachers unions

- Liberal colleges who "focus on diversity at expense of all else"

WRITINGS:

- https://www.pilotonline.com/opinion/columns/vp-ed-column-wil...

- https://www.creators.com/read/walter-williams/07/18/college-...
Unlimited hotspot bypass Help Needed
Hi
I get stuck at the 3rd line of the code. The app does not execute it...

Does this method even work?? Any help or direction would help.

I have unlimited att mobile data in my phone but I try to bypass the hotspot data cap for it to not be recognized as being used as mobile hotspot.

Thanks a lot!
> allows ambiguity between l and 1

It doesn't really. The canonical is L (uppercase). In practice lowercase l will never appear, unless for some reason you want it to (you could convert L05ER to l05ER just for presentation, there are worse leetspeek offensive terms that would be allowed though).

Also the U/V thing neatly gets rid of FUCK. S/5 and I/1 take care of others.
Yes, I do. I have lived in several different areas where I had no problems getting the full advertised speed at any given time (on peak, off peak, etc.).

I think the biggest reason they say "up to" is because a lot of poeple get a cheap $40 router that can't support that the advertised speed. Heck, I just moved into a new place that gives symmetric gigabit speeds. I had to replace my router to actually get one that can handle the advertised speeds (I had an APU1d4 with realtek ethernet ports that saturated at 300 Mb/s). My older laptop does not even have wired nor wireless speeds that can handle the connection.

So while I am no fan of a lot of ISPs, I completely understand why they say "up to", they don't want to deal with folks who say they don't get their advertised speeds while using a $200 laptop and a $40 router.
The problem is my fiber gigabit duplex internet throttles me from the first KB. Net neutrality is dead.
Dude what kind of pseudo-intellectual babble is this.

You literally just described what a sphere is. It’s the collection of points in every possible direction, equidistant from a center point.
How much carbon release is needed to make 9,500,000 plants..
TECHCanadian Technology Investor John Ruforo Paralyzed by Cycling Crash
The spec is super basic, so I would do the below in a weekend (for an MVP):

Frontend:

* Use a pre-built React theme (maybe MaterialUI since it has a basic login page already). Make a few tweaks where required. This will probably take 5ish hours depending on the total number of pages and unique components needed.

* Deploy the frontend to AWS Amplify. This will take less than an hour (unless I've screwed something).

Backend:

* Fastest option: If I'm under a time crunch, I'd go with Django REST. If you've set this up before, you could have this configured in less than 2 hours with all relevant endpoints (maybe even less). I'd probably mock a few routes with fake data in place of business logic (if appropriate). Deploy to either Lightsail or Heroku.

* Personal preference: Use the Serverless Framework (with Node.js) to create the required endpoints, handle auth, media storage, etc. This will take a bit longer than Django REST, but the deployment process will be a bit faster. Maybe 3-5 hours (if I'm using mock business logic).

DB:

* Spin up some kind of SQL DB on AWS RDS (probably PG).
“...over the centuries”. I mean, any street in San Francisco is probably deadlier.
Great to see air mining getting featured on HN!

For an index of 100+ companies working on mining carbon dioxide from the air, check out AirMiners http://www.airminers.org
How’d you get access to that? I’m trying to figure out how hah.
How can I improve the quality of my sleep?
Has anyone that works in tech (presumably a large portion of HN) found an effective way to set yourself up for consistently high quality sleep?

I don't have too much difficultly getting to sleep (takes maybe an hour depending on screen time before bed), but seem to almost always wake between 3 and 5am, with a 50/50 chance of being able to fall back to sleep. It gets insanely frustrating, laying in bed, tired, but seemingly unable to sleep.

Removing screens from the day seems to help a bit but mainly only with falling to sleep. I work in software so cutting screens out is not particularly feasible during the week days. Plus, I don't want to entirely remove all non-essential screen use as I enjoy working on my own side projects.
It seems they still can't be bothered to implement a proper "stop" button, despite many requests over the years. When the devs refuse to listen to their users, that's software I won't use.
Firefox for android allows extensions, so you can use ublock origin.
> You could have a protocol where every block of the file is actually two "random" blocks XOR'd together

One implementation of this is the "Owner-Free File System"[0], but it is no longer being maintained.

> If you create a new 1GB torrent, you'll need 1GB of new (never seen before) blocks

If you XOR your 1GB file (X) with 1GB of blocks that already exist on the system (Y), you get a new set of 1GB blocks (Z), but it will be hard for an observer to prove that your Z blocks don't actually pre-date Y.

Your defence would be that someone generated Y based on your Z in order to frame you as having created X, when actually your Z, when combined with another set of random-looking blocks Y2 produce a different 1GB file, X2, which is completely legitimately.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem
All of those are easily verifiable. From the most credible of sources.

Last election I voted Libertarian, btw.
You need to create originals before you can cash in on sequels. Or buy them eg. Disney buying Marvel for $4b and making $18 billion 10 years later from the IP.

Off the top of my head a Netflix original Christmas movie has had two sequels.
Where does the constitution protect a business?
A point often missed is our dependency on plastics and petroleum-based pharmaceuticals. If oil demand as fuel decreases, so the price of those increase. Otherwise oil becomes too expensive to produce.

Greenhouse gas emissions have to decrease dramatically, but it will bring with it some extraordinary inflation in common consumer and medical product prices, to name two knock-on effects.
What kind of parsing do you think can be done in "a real programming language" that can't be done in bash?

I like objects and performance and abstraction and other things about other languages but bash has a _lot_ of parsing tools.
If your version of RHEL supports Flatpak, I would suggest using that (or the AppImage posted by someone else).

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/flatpak

Either way, the fact remains that the OpenOffice development community imploded and takes a long time to even fix security issues.
> Right, but the point is that disabling autoplay video doesn’t stop that from happening. An ad network would use a canvas tag or a GIF instead. That’a not disingenuous reasoning, it’s exactly what they do!

Then deal with the canvas tag or GIF, like Firefox already has the capability to. Don't suddenly decide it isn't worth the effort.
I have wondered about this too, after reading about other interesting experiments with vibrating oil droplets a few years ago.

https://www.sciencealert.com/these-bouncing-droplets-behave-...
Speaking of blockbuster sequels. Look at these crazy dollar amounts, especially the Avengers franchise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_super...
Institution is the name we give to things that exist outside of the humans they contain. So institutions necessarily lack common sense.
It's a very bizarre and false claim that Google doesn't "use" news content and that they are doing this as some sort of altruistic system of "allowing these publishers to make money by showing their own ads". Google itself serves ads, runs a massive ad network and makes a ton of money in the process. Every point in this process that they touch, be it search results or AMP pages or even destination pages that use Google Analytics are of some benefit to Google either directly as ad revenue or indirectly as data capture.
In the current environment (a significant percentage of Americans are afraid of almost any police interaction and are demonstrating to that effect), the welfare check seems ridiculous as well -- especially when a phone call to the parents would suffice.
Yeah, I don't understand why Mozilla thought this latest release was ready for production.
The physical interpretation depends on context, but the concrete arithmetic is the same whether you write it using GA language or some other mathematical formalism (matrices, Gibbs–Heaviside style vectors, differential forms, tensors, complex numbers, ...), so if you have a problem with it your problem is with the physics.

Like with any expressive language (e.g. English, C++, or matrix algebra), GA makes it possible to state a wide variety of nonsensical things. But that’s not the fault of the language.

Where GA really shines IMO is in the ability to divide by vectors, something that is extremely useful but gets super cumbersome using other mathematical languages.

The biggest “problem” I have with GA is that it takes a lot of practice to get familiarity with all of the powerful stuff it can do. There are pages and pages of (extremely powerful and useful) short identities which are impossible to memorize by just looking at them, and can only be learned as far as I can tell through years of hard-won experience. I feel like I still only really have a handle on the most basic stuff.

I find regularly myself working on some complicated coordinate-based calculation for 3 pages of scratch paper full of mistakes and wrong turns, only to experience déjà vu, re-express the original thing in GA language, and end up with a clear and geometrically interpretable 4 lines of simple algebraic identities which solve the problem. But I’m not always sure if I’d be able to figure out which 4 lines to use right off the bat, without first going through the coordinate slog.
An easier way to do the same thing but for any tool is `cat file | sed 's/foo/bar/' | sponge file`
When I purchased the most amazing problem solving device I've ever had. A personal whiteboard.
I want an external 3090 chassis on Thunderbolt, similar to this box. No muss, no fuss. AC, liquid cooling, all in an engineered box. Gaming or ML with my laptop or tablet pc.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N208TIXEB-11GC#kf
Doom 2016 was just way too well optimized so anything after it will seem slow
e option to disable autoplay on YOUTUbE was already somewhat hidden so that is not a big surprise....
This is a very interesting comment so will add some thoughts to this

WFH has a huge difference in result depending on who you are, when you are (in your career), and where you are in a company (or organization).

* agreed 100%

-- For the budding young developer who can't wait to show ideas to teammates and demonstrate being a go-getter by asking random questions and finding unaddressed issues to innovate on, WFH might be terrible. You're going to schedule time to fortuitously run into the senior person who takes an interest in your idea?

* yes, for people who don't know how stuff works, company culture, how to get things done

this is very bad

-- For the working parent whose productivity has been slashed by 50% and stress has gone up by 50% due to parenting obligations, WFH might be terrible.

* pretty sure there are more parents who wish they could WFO than want to work from home and also homeschool their kids

-- For the middle manager who can coast along and not need to move greatly in his/her career, WFH might be great.

* depending on company 'coasters' can be 20% to 70%. For all of them WFH is superb because no one knows whether they are working hard or coasting. All their tricks like having certain things set up and certain screens on their monitors etc. - not needed any more

-- For the developer who works by tickets on very concrete things and this is nothing new, WFH might be great.

highly focused developers who like to shut off everything. WFH is great

Except the PM/Project Manager/Tech Lead goes crazy because then developers start making what they find interesting and there is no way to keep them on track

-- For the small company CEO who relies on force of personality and everyone in the same room urgently working to get something done, WFH might be terrible.

* yea, this is absolutely terrible for anyone who has a leadership role

much of the work you get done is by leadership, and sometimes by leadership by force of personality or by 'created' consensus

good luck getting that in a WFH scenario

*

The real test of WFH will be when we see how companies that choose WFH after Coronoavirus, do compared to companies that go back to WFO

lots of tech companies are slobbering at the thought of cutting out office costs and paying employees less

my money is on such companies getting trounced by teams that work together and interact in an office environment

Right now we are in the honeymoon phase of work from home and very few (if any) real products are being launched that were started after coronavirus forced work from home

let's see how people feel in a year or two

It just takes 1 or 2 lazy people to bring down an entire product launch. WFH makes it very hard to figure out who these slackers are, and even harder to cover up their mistakes/flaws

Mythical Man Month is even more dangerous when WFH scenarios are involved
Another factor here is consumption.

Even at salaries far below Netflix-tier offers, many people depend on consumption to stay sane. Media, food, buying unnecessary items, seeking the next sale, etc.
This is Google though. It would seem that they could update Googlebot to penalize bypassing behaviors, lowering SERPS for any property that did such shenanigans.

Or giving users in Chrome a Report Button that then filtered into site rankings.
I absolutely agree. But, saying it looks 'exactly' alike is just such a stretch.
Caring for a Loved One at Home?
I was not asking if they really were trolls, but would the be shunned as trolls on the modern day forums by people who did not understand them?
Is it confirmed that decoherence is the answer to collapse? I strongly like the idea of decoherence, but IIRC it still need a few decades to settle.
There's a lot of data in the article. I don't think this is a very thoughtful rebuttal.
> If a website is abusive and does shitty things, just don't use the website.

What do you do if the aforementioned is not done by the website as such, but by some omnipresent, and hard to avoid 3rd party ad net?

> After some point, it's no longer the browsers job to babysit the web. I completely agreed with autoplaying audio, but blocking video is just not worth it.

Video is by far the heaviest piece of media out there. There is no practical means to reduce its loading time, especially on mobile. It simply cannot be considered an ordinary piece of page content.

Lastly, people are sick and tired of video ads, and, particularly, obscene, bombastic, and blinking like no tomorrow ones.
Money should follow the competence, not marketing campaigns.
These days delivering that sort of payload with a hexacopter is only a "stupidly expensive hobby grade" project.

(Though I'm not aware of any homebuilt multi rotors up in the 485lb plus a ~170lb pilot range. Yet.)
And until recently, a highly successful way to _launder_ it.
Expluria – Real-time information to travellers
I'd guess there are instructions (eg, x87) that are simply forbidden from use as being universally slower. Once you account for those and are comparing only desirable instructions, there should be a pretty reasonable correlation barring the occasional edge case like mixing AVX512 lightly with other instructions (due to downclocking).