skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the accusation is that the mere act of searching a domain on godaddy increases the likeliness of it being sold by godaddy to some shady squatting service. the rebuttal is yeah because we use your searches to power our suggestions. the advice stands - don’t use godaddy to search domains if you don’t want them to get squatted (or don’t use godaddy to search unless you’re ready to buy then and there - or just use namecheap instead as they apparently don’t use your search history in this way)
Everything old is new again: in the former Eastern Bloc (and I think South Africa, too) chicory was drank as a substitute for coffee. Personally, I find coffee substitute and the often-burnt filter coffee favoured in North America or some of the Nordic countries to both be less than subtle and refined taste-wise, so sure, why not just cut real coffee out of the equation entirely?
Seems to have turned up in insane asset prices, making the rich richer. Unfortunate that it's the wrong kind of inflation.
Same! WHO 1040 AM. This was my favorite followed by Dimension X, Suspense, and the Burns and Allen Show. They dramas and sci-fi were pretty intense listens as a kid.
Your algorithm is trained on your racially disparate status quo and outputs racially disparate results. If your intent was race-neutral outputs, then you screwed up and the algorithm is implicitly racist. If your intent was outputs racially-biased towards fair-skinned people, then you're explicitly racist and your algorithm is still implicitly racist. Take your pick.
It is simply not feasible to lower co2 in a space with a few plants. Ventilation is the only method that works.

This is trivial to test. Just get a monitor, walk into a room with plants, close door, and start breathing. Check change in co2 after 15-30 min.

Vent the room, remove plants, repeat. Results should be equivalent.

Plants store co2 by growing. They do not grow quickly enough to deal with emissions from your breath.
The Windows Component Store (aka Side-by-Side aka WinSxS) is sort of a content-addressed store for DLLs and the like, except the content-addressing isn't facilitated by a literal cryptographic hash over the contents, but instead by the logical identity of the component (name+version but more). And, it doesn't fetch anything automatically. Writes to certain paths are just intercepted and redirected into it, while storing an association somewhere else that the app that did that (or was installed doing that) wants that particular component (or at least, that's how I think that works).
Hasn’t the definition of taxable income changed over this period? I wonder how a normalized version would look.
I couldn't care a fig for tone policing. You should be getting challenged on this subject, if you think its something that we should be more 'mild mannered' about.

Genocide is happening, for fucks sake. CIA has 2000 secret torture/rendition sites. Is that really something you want people to be using 'inclusive language' to describe?

Perhaps you should have a session with the "empathy police".

Iraq lost 5% of its population because of these heinous criminal liars that still run America today. Thank goodness for Assange, letting the free world know!

America is bombing the fuck out of the world, and expects to be getting away with it - and the message in lobotomising Assange, is to let you and me know that we better not be trying to discuss this fact.

FUCK THAT. Get mad about what is being done to Julian Assange - because we are next.
Why FreeBSD is migrating to Git
Their conclusion is that we should emit less CO2. Certainly a good idea, but their data clearly point to better ventilation.

Better ventilation is something we can do right now, that will improve things immediately and 100 years from now.

Maybe the best thing would be the mandatory installation of powerful ventilation systems with heat exchangers for new buildings, and incentives to upgrade existing installations. That would help with both problems: getting more fresh air and limiting energy expenditures which can, in turn, reduce CO2 emissions.
The phrase "Value investing is dead" is a decades-old inside joke. One can google it. Value & growth strategies oscillate. When then persist in one state too long people who haven't been around as long (or who are selling something) make grandiose proclamations. It's a fundamental reality related as much to the business cycle as it is to the human condition/psychological cycle of investment.

An investment is worth the value of its future cash flows discounted by the risk free rate (plus terminal value). That's it, it's all that 90% of people need to know. There are many, many unknowns in that statement, which makes it a market.
That seems a strange generalization. I haven't seen any idea that 'young people generally have this idea' at all. What I -have- seen, and experienced personally, is coming of age and realizing exactly what you say, that they aren't special, that they don't matter.

And whereas boomers tended to indulge in wanton hedonism, or pursuit of commercial gain to try and feel a sense of purpose (think midlife crisis, "the one with the most toys wins", etc), millenials and later have seen that that doesn't work just by watching their parents (and oftentimes either already experienced it, or don't see it as a possibility), and so are trying something different (though something also tried, historically). Oftentimes symbolic acts that will leave an impression on others; that at least makes their existence matter -to someone-, even if it's negative.

I remember being in school during Columbine, and a comment another kid made at the time struck me - "If I was suicidal, I'd want to go out with a bang too; at least leave a mark". He was under no belief that his name would be remembered, but he wanted to at least -make a difference- before he was gone.
>> one hundred twenty thousand years. Thousands of generations of human life

That's nothing. There are plenty of fossil dinosaur footprints aged many millions of years.
Plants still need to use the glucose, though. It's misleading to say that plants produce CO2 at night (since they produce it all the time); rather, they become a net CO2 producer at night because they're not offsetting it with photosynthesis.

I'm not convinced that grow lamps are an effective way to offset that, since photosynthetic efficiency is fairly low (3-4%), and the electricity for the lamp has to come from somewhere. Not to mention that lamps (even LEDs) are also fairly lossy. I'm also not convinced that's even worth optimizing.
I'm not saying the fed should stop what they're doing, but there are certainly alternatives which might have lead to a better result. For instance, in other countries, more of the government assistance was directed to maintaining payroll and to actually support rent payments rather than just delaying that obligation. It's hard for me to understand why that would not be a better approach to stabilizing the economy compared to what happened in the US.

It seems that the actual result of QE has been that a huge percentage of that money has been dumped into equities, driving prices higher. Yes it's better than a total economic collapse, but it's not clear to me that this is actually a good thing, and not just an artificially inflated indicator which is essentially papering over very real risks to the economy which could cause massive issues down the road.
> when a corporation is unable to collect enough money to continue operating, it goes out of business

This is different from saying an organization is inefficient. From my experience in the corporate world, some businesses can be VERY inefficient compared to other businesses and still be getting enough done to move the ball forward to the satisfaction of stakeholders. As much as people complain about bureaucratic government organizations being too inefficient, I'm not convinced that they are less efficient than many "successful" large corporations. The difference is that they are essentially like a non-profit and complaints are made without sufficiently measuring the value of their work (especially in comparison to massive for-profit organizations). I'm not saying more nimble organizations cannot produce more per-capita value, but there are disadvantages with size and also sometimes advantages such as economy of scale.
Ask HN: How do I unlearn swearing and curse words
I grew up not peppering my language with swear words. English is not my first language. I picked up a lot of colloquialisms as I travelled and when I left my country.

I still think in my native language and English is not just a translation of language but more of a manner of mimicry.

To this day, I don’t know or say a lot of swear words or bring myself to use curse words in my language. But it comes very easily to me in English.

I also worked in testosterone soaked restaurant kitchens for a while where male chefs often insulted each other’s mothers and sisters as a friendly way to bond.

Regardless. I use English as a way to assimilate and mimic rather than consider it the language of my thoughts. And over the years, it has become rather salty.

I am not distressed by it and I do moderate it. It has no emotional value to me. Sometimes I enjoy shocking people with my sailor language because it ends up being amusing and we all have a laugh about it. Sometimes I use it to ‘bond with the boys’.

But I want to see if I can completely eliminate it from my vocabulary as an involuntary language aid. In other words, how can I be mindful of my language.

While I try to convince myself that I have control over my language, there are a lot of unconscious slips even though I also beckon the choice of words at will.

I want to conduct an experiment. 21 days/3 weeks time quit the swearing habit. Only ..is an adopted language a ‘habit’? Is this even possible?

Is there an app or something out there that could beep if I swear? Maybe I can program Amazon Alexa to do that?
My understanding is that aerobic composting does not produce methane, but anaerobic composting does. If you're doing the composting at home you can set it up for aerobic composting. But if the waste material is going into a landfill, it's more likely to end up in an anaerobic composting process. Unless you happen to live in one of the few regions that actually have people separate out different types of waste products properly.
I like this one https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings. It is a set of exercises in which you must fix fragments of the code to pass the test.
I didn't get the data loaded for my personal project, I didn't get my story completed at work, and I can't think of anything that I actually accomplished this week.
I believe there are studies of the U.S. Medicare program that show it to be more efficient than private insurers. (Maybe someone knows a weblink to info on that issue offhand . . . ). Moroever, my understanding is that Medicare could be even more efficient if it were not handcuffed in various ways (e.g., legal inability to negotiate pharmaceutical prices).
Researchers attach cameras to orcas, revealing a marvelous underwater world
It's just a kerosene/diesel tank (jet fuel is basically kerosene or diesel depending on grade) an aluminum one at that. As far as cutting up fuel tanks goes it doesn't get any easier. Though that won't anyone you hire from trying to screw you on price "because fuel".
Learn Data Structure and Algorithm in JavaScript – Part 18: Advance Strings
Or maybe conditions in the world have changed that make assets more valuable... If the currency was "debased" it would show up everywhere.
I mean, we've known of early humans in Arabia for quite a while now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebel_Faya
The BBC radio 1968 version of Triffids is excellent, with a pretty modern feel, (except for the music). The BBC 1981 TV version is also great.
I've found learning assembly a necessary evil for certain work. I use Rust to automate lifting binaries and conduct protocol analysis to find vulnerabilities. Without knowing assembly it may limit the depth of analysis that can be done.
I beg to differ: a good rule of thumb is that an (audio) sample takes about 8mm (44.1k). By the time you're a full 1ms late, that's a 44 sample difference between the two (or that's as though the speakers were about a third a meter apart.

And that distance, you're gonna hear some uncomfortable comb filtering. A third of a meter corresponds to a frequency of about 1khz, which is right smack dab in the middle of a critical band, so you WILL hear the constructive and destructive interference around ~1khz.

(and _5ms_? That means the speakers are now ~220 samples out of sync, so I'd expect any lows around 200hz to have some destructive interference, making the music sound hollow.)

1ms of sync is FAR less than adequate. It took effort, but I was able to get a distributed set of raspis to within about 5 samples at 44.1k, and I think I can do better.

Why do I know this or care? :) I've done (and still do) a lot of research (and inventions) in the field of microphone array processing and audio source localization -- tracking objects purely by their sound. With cheap commodity equipment I can generally get a resolution of 5cm, and with lots of fine tuning I was able to do sub-cm tracking.
Sorry, I was reacting to the Dr. Strangelove from the article, especially the "end of"[1] description. Maybe it was more obvious in the transcript? I believed it to be about MAD because who, since 2010 (Stuxnet), could plausibly believe that non-decisive[2] American offensive cyber operations are not at least a potential thing?

As written in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24522125 I don't believe everyone apparently having more offensive than defensive capability is necessarily the most stable of situations.

[1] the true end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIpTE-aHEZ0

On the "mineshaft gap": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23712008

Have you got change for 20 million people?
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/713/nuclear-war

[2] "There was too much there to move, and we knew we had to break [Chrome], burn her straight down, or she might come after us."
The definition of intrinsic value comprises everything you mention and more, such as strength of companies moats. I didn’t want to write a dissertation.

And the least important factor for long term value is strength of management. GE was renowned as the greatest managed company in the world before Immelt. You want a business any idiot can run, because eventually one will.
Low interest rates are dictated by market forces, not by "them". Too much money, accumulated by older people, chase too few investments, that young people must pay interest for. There are fewer and fewer young people relative to old people, that's the fundamental problem.
This is about indoor air pollution. I assume the coal-fired power plant is at least not in the same building.
Don't DND, use airplane mode (if you want antitheft or incoming calls, disable cellular data and wifi--prey and other antitheft can toggle data by text message if necessary). This way you've still got it available for manual use when necessary, without the wait to turn it on.

Also, disable face/fingerprint/pin unlock, and use a longish password, so unlocking it isn't convenient.
Is there a good place to learn about new apple cultivars? I want to plant some apple trees, but since they would be in a backyard orchard there isn't any need for them to be commercially viable, just whatever tastes good. I know there are heirloom Apple orchards and festivals I can go to, but not sure where to find info on more modern cultivars beyond the ones like SnapDragon and Cosmic Crisp that have huge commercial releases.

It's a lot easier to learn about things like North American Pawpaws and American persimmons, because there are only a couple people working on the genetics for each and you don't have millions of dollars worth of SEO spam preventing any useful information from surfacing.
> "Capital income amounts for two percent of income for the bottom 99 percent of households." (page 7 of the pdf)

so 98% of capital income accrues to the 1% who have no monopoly on how best to allocate capital--see irrational capital flight into tech stocks and real estate, and a lack of real innovation, rather than iteration, in the past 50 years.

blind faith in market efficiencies in a profoundly unfair and corrupt marketplace only worsens our economy overall. this must be kept in mind in any discussion of the captured regulatory environment and tax policy.

we're losing economic dynamism to the whims of the rich, and to the detriment of all.
Can it be that the "few commits" situation with Atom is because Atom is sufficient for most purposes of its users?
Who said anything about a keyboard? We're using phones here, remember?
First case off the top of my head is Microsoft vs. US [0]

Second are National Security Letters [1]

Lavabit, a secure email provider used by Snowden was allegedly sent a NSL [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat...

[1] https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters/faq

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/2682825/lavabit-snowden-s-allege...
I don't really know what a social construct is.

What is a scientific category vs a non-scientific category?

And I don't think every item needs to fall neatly into a category for that category to be useful.

If I say 86% of african americans have a hypersensitivity to warfarin which means that if they were given the same dose as a white person they'd have a much increased risk of stroke.

Clearly in the previous sentence the distinction of ethnicity is useful and the information makes people safer.
https://www.spacejam.com/ scores 72% of users liking that site. Okay. I guess it takes nastolgia into account...

I wonder how my geocities page from elementary school ranks?
We went the direction of DNS based redirects using a set of TXT records to get portability and delegation of subpaths with txtdirect.org (FOSS based on Caddy)
Currently working on a new iteration and feedback is always appreciated.
Yes, this is also the sole reason why I'm not using e-ink displays yet.
They should go down to 400ppm because the periodic autocalibration which is on by default assumes the lowest level seen in 24 hours is 400ppm.
Why is it okay to perform the similar procedures on males?
It's an outdated , barbaric practice
This is super-cool.

For those of us who can't adopt it right away, note that you can compile your cuda code with `--expt-relaxed-constexpr` and call any constexpr function from device code. That includes all the constexpr functions in the standard library!

This gets you quite a bit, but not e.g. std::atomic, which is one of the big things in here.
The textbook answer would be to divide PE by current treasury yield. Which is close to zero, so the textbook share price should be close to infinity.
"Typically the deviation is below 0.2ms." Impressive!
Ask HN: What is the most attractive website you've seen?
“ for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows.”

Wow! That’s a useful feature. Opens the intriguing possibility of automatic identification using machine learning, or even self-identification with the selfie camera!

And charting the results over time may be interesting to correlate with mood, health, diet, etc.
>I treated it like a trip to the library for research only after I had spent time working on the problem myself.

This is contrary to the (also true) conventional wisdom where _6 months in the lab can save you hours in the library_.

So you have to be careful.

But it can work exceptionally well once you've already been to the library a bit, you know better & better what it has to offer, when you do go back it's with a clearer focus on what you need, and you get the most out of it.
> Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" is solid introduction

Very good book indeed.
And the rebuttal:

https://twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/1088440503622909952?s=2...

The outrage and entitlement in the original tweet is laughable. It's an education charity, they need to raise money to fund their cause and do their work. I'm glad they do stuff like this. I bought both versions of the camera.
One way to solve that is with a plugin architecture and categories and a platform. You can create:

- An API that allows to interact and control your software functionality

- An SDK to allow third party development.

- A marketplace where you and third parties can put plugins/applications to your software.

One problem is clutter and trying to cram in too many things for every customer. By customer I also mean an enterprise as a whole. For every customer, only a subset of these functionalities is useful, and the rest is noise. This will be the experience of every customer using your software: mostly noise, some useful features.

The plugin architecture will increase the signal/noise ratio by allowing people to install the extensions that matter to them and only those that matter. Every customer will only have the extensions that are useful to them, and this will be the experience of every user.

Take your computer or phone. We might have the same OS, but we have different applications installed. Imagine if the entity that produced the OS wanted to satisfy us both: they'd cram the union of applications we need, and it would be a nightmare.

Our guiding line for our SDK is "Anything you can do on the platform, you can do with an API call" and "You should be able to reproduce the platform with the SDK and API keys".

Here are a few lines for a recent reply[0] to another question:

>the first few commits in our iko.ai project were to use a plugin architecture so that new features were apps/plugins we could activate/deactivate from a config file.

>These apps live in separate repositories and are loaded by the core. The core is tiny and most of the work is on the extensions. Similar to kernel vs. drivers.

>Why we did that? We've been building custom enterprise data products for almost seven years. Many of these products were so custom we couldn't sell the same product to another client if we wanted. It is not just about code reuse on the function or library level, it's "functionality" refuse as in you plug in a forecast extension, you plug in a sentiment analysis extension, etc.

>A couple of years ago, a college acquaintance came to me and asked if he could hire us to deliver a certain product. We practically had the product ready but the features were baked in the product.

>So, now, we have features as independent applications that get loaded, displayed, and interacted with easily.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503365
There’s like 2 very discrete camps in recruiting in my experience, people who optimize for short vs long game basically. I’ve maintained a fantastic relationship with the best recruiter I met, and it’s definitely not like this, there’s some great people in the long game camp.
Diffractive elements are very wavelength dependent so while something like this would only work for monochromatic light (like a laser), but not for multiwavelength light. For that you would need to do some colordiversity.
Point still stands. UK software engineer median wages are above UK national median wages.
I absolutely search and buy the former... there is only so much growth Tesla can realistically sustain... and currently it's "not any more". Same for all of the Big Tech.
Give me Rio Tinto and I buy it any day.
Does the Doom demo actually work? That'd be enough for me to call it "not vaporware" by a longshot.
My post said laptops. There's some kind of driver missing for raid I think in Linux. I forgot the exact details.
I think this asset class is crazy on the west coast of the US. Putting all your money in an illiquid asset, in a place where it might experience a significant earthquake, just to hedge against inflation. What could possibly go wrong?

But.... It's the one asset class where normal people are allowed to leverage themselves heavily. And you can live in it.
Hong Kong protests are filled with umbrellas. Here’s why
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