skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still using a OnePlus 5T - and I'm increasingly thinking that if it ever breaks I'll just find another one on eBay. Literally don't see any point in spending £700-800 on a new model, and this one still has a headphone jack - why would I upgrade? It's still fast enough for everything, even for games - been playing Genshin Impact in max details and it's smooth as butter.
What Happens When a Module Is Imported Twice?
For the uninitiated: Rook is a deployment tool for Ceph and a few databases on Kubernetes. The heavy lifting is done by Ceph, the name is only mentioned in passing in the 10th paragraph.
I was using 10 year old HTC ONE up until a few months back. The reason is simple - for my use cases getting a new phone didn't add anything - no new functionality, no new design.

In the past new phones used to mean some kind of additional function: either colors, or mp3 support, or bluetooth. Now it's faster CPU and more pixels in your camera. After you sync stuff from your old phone you don't even notice any difference.
Except you are forgetting that with many native compilers, I can choose to wait 3 seconds or 3 minutes, I am not stuck with a frozen compile time, because their toolchains allow me to choose how long I am willing to wait, including the option to use binary libraries on their package managers.

D, C++, Ada, Eiffel, Delphi,...
A connection of a "measly" 25-30 mbit/s down- and upstream suffices for many simultaneous standard quality video streams. However, there's nothing individual Internet users can do about their ISP overselling its internal bandwidth and capacity.
I have also never understood this. Can someone explain?
We can dance around it all we want, but we will always arrive at human overpopulation contributing to all our environmental problems. We can fool ourselves that lowering birth rates mean lowering population. We can fool ourselves that stabilizing the population hides that we are using more than the Earth can sustain, which will lead to population collapse. We can fool ourselves that human nature requires growth yet many civilizations have stabilized populations for centuries and nations like Thailand went from 7 children per couple to under 2 in a few years purely voluntary (think the opposite of the One Child Policy, no forced abortions or sterilizations). We can fool oursleves that efficiency will lower our waste to sustainable levels.

We can fool ourselves that rich nations won't feel it as much, but it will hit us just as much eventually.

This community is so quick to split atoms, fuse atoms, and rocket to Mars. If we can do those things, we can globally provide the contraception and education that leads to 1.5 children per couple for a few generations, which will bring our population to sustainable.
Social media:
I did stop arguing on Twitter. And stopped following arguers. Still following informational accounts. But mostly Twitter is back to its original usage: a Google Reader replacement. No more a global chat.

Screens (TV):
I now avoid any kind of TV series that is not already finished. No time for a show that is eventually a bad one after season 1. (a variant of the GoT syndroma. But you could call it XFiles syndroma too, if you are old enough :)

Screens (games):
But the most dramatic change, and the most unexpected one, is that I have started playing FPS games again. It has increased a lot my attention and "good stress" level.

Also, I have started learning piano. Passed the first 2 years and things are getting much better now.

In the end, I suppose that I am no longer able to survive the information deluge that Internet brings. So I now focus on a few things that I consider important, and I leave the rest out of my attention.

PS: oh and let me add that i now learn new tech things through books (from Manning and O'Reilly) instead of loosing my time reading blog posts. Sounds so basic that you may laugh at that, but it made my learning process much more straightforward.
(once again, I was loosing myself in the information deluge of the internet).
Its been a while, so I might be saying it wrong but, I was trying to create an entity collection. Essentially, a super basic scene graph. on every tick in my update call, i would update something about a specific entity in that collection (maybe position, transform etc). And then in my draw call I would render the entire updated collection. Just getting a specific entity from the list was a huge issue and then updating it and putting it back was worse. I gave up after a many days of trying something as basic as this. In JS, Nim, Crystal etc. this would have taken me a couple of lines of code.

Here I ended up reading bid docs on something called Lens and was never able to apply it correctly.
here is the repo i was working on https://github.com/rishavs/coral/blob/master/Engine.fs
Habitats are very complex interrelationships. Even IF cloning brings them back in future, we won't have their natural habitats and niches. It's like saving the threads but not knowing how to sew them back together into a garment. That's why habitat protection is non-negotiable if we want to save Earth's biodiversity.
> The recommended brand contained 500 IU per drop. Unknowingly, the patient obtained another vitamin D preparation that contained 1000 IU per drop. The patient was not counselled about toxicity risks and, over a period of 2.5 years, he took 8–12 drops of vitamin D daily, for a total daily dose of 8000–12 000 IU.

> The patient’s calcium and vitamin D levels decreased after initiation of hydroxychloroquine. Almost 1 year after diagnosis, his calcium and vitamin D levels have returned to normal, but he is left with stage 3B (estimated glomerular filtration rate 34 mL/min/1.73m3) chronic kidney disease.
I've been following Apple's outward policy and none of this is remotely surprising.

They have used proprietary devices, banned apps, and worked with governments against their customers.

I can only suggest that either you or your wife takes a marketing class to defend yourself from Apple and other companies.
Although my body is made of meat too I can hardly believe this is possible. Like if we were made of marshmallow or something.
+1 just wanted to say thanks for pointing out the use of RDF, I would have missed that.

I have been into the semantic web since year zero, and after years of doing deep learning work I just started a Knowledge Graph job two weeks ago.

Anyway thanks, I am going to dig into TerminusDB as soon as I get back from my morning hike.

EDIT: wow, TerminousDB is written in Swi-Prolog.
If that's the reason, it seems strange that they kept off of Google Play for just as long
Bloom filter can have false positives.
> Or they could make Apple remove the telegram app.

Which is effective primarily because there’s no (practical) way to sideload on iOS!

This is why I’ve always seen the locked-down nature of the iPhone as a threat to free expression first and foremost. Apple is responsible for setting the system up this way.
Yep. But I never used being surrounded by nonsense as an excuse not to try to make things better.
I just want to point out that we don’t have to put up with this endless creepy corporate invasion of our lives. Eventually Apple, Google and these other behemoths will be disrupted and displaced by technology.

The curve favors the individual not the corporation or the state.
>Giving up 1% of your income each year isnt taken lightly.

Unless you're like me in which case you give up about 10% of your income each year on absolutely frivolous shit you just had to have but then used for about a week only to never touch again. Oh the joys of totally shot impulse control. That definitely includes a few smartphones.

I think next time though I'll just get a dingy piece of crap. All a smartphone really is to me is a browser in my pocket. Don't need a 4k screen for that. Won't fall for the stupid gimmicks next time.

Well.. I say that but, if I had much control over it it wouldn't be called impulse buying :(
Surprised Lucas Films doesn't try to collect on all the apps the use the word 'droid'
IPhone 7 Plus user here. Have swapped the battery twice (the last time I did it myself). Still don’t feel the urge to buy the latest. I’m probably going to keep going with it until Apple stops supporting updates for it.
Over-population is one big elephant in the room. The other one is disproportionate and ridiculously unbalanced consumption and wealth distribution. You can never succeed in getting very poor people to care about their numbers or about the Earth.
Who said anything about underground storage?
What if the minimum wage also included x stock per paycheck? Minimum stock options?
“A 2002 study by Tyrone Hayes, of the University of California, Berkeley, found that exposure caused male tadpoles to turn into hermaphrodites”

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine

A later study, funded by Syngenta itself, essentially said “nothing to see here, move along”.
I think social media sucks mental stamina because you are exposed to a lot of potential social interactions without actual interaction, and that takes a huge toll on your mind. Real close human interaction recharges the mind whereas the prospect of it depletes it, as many of the interactions has to be simulated (you are only interacting with text and images, the rest is left for the mind to fill in the gaps)

In any case, that is my perception of it, not necessarily true/scientifically accurate.
When considering the survey findings, it is worth bearing in mind that the survey was commissioned by a company that deals in refurbished/second-hand goods, including smartphones...
Sharing my story how I fix a frozen system on Debian running with Gnome Desktop
The typical argument against pragma once is that it's unclear what should happen if two different hard link paths are used to include a file with the same inode (along with similar situations on Windows or with files on network drives). That is to say, in general, there is no consistent and portable "true" absolute path that uniquely identifies file(s) as conceptually having the same underlying storage.

In practice, I have never actually seen a problem arise. The most likely real trigger would probably be a mix of including a library through a path that indicates a specific version and including it through a path that uses a "latest stable" link. That is already fragile and asking for trouble, though.
We should cover sports cars, those make females excited. Not male nipples.
I didn't really think much about its rolling release system when came from Ubuntu, and I don't quite get people who afraid of it. It's easy to literally ignore updates, or upgrade partially (but with some care and effort), and if something's wrong `downgrade` is here. Also AUR is great, as well as wiki and community at Arch Forums.
We tricked rocks and electricity into thinking for us.

Are we just sacks of meat/water our DNA tricked into working for it?
Note that /bin/bash isn’t completely portable (though /bin/sh is, that’s not Bash) as some systems have it at /usr/local/bin/bash.
I tried finding a small phone recently, but the smallest phone they had in the entire store was an iPhone 8/SE.

It would be nice to have a phone the size of the original iPhone with a retina display :/
...and balloons. I was surprised to learn that having a bunch of balloons next to models is a fetish to some as well.
I love seeing that as the standard-of-care. Really, really good practice.
Everyone is shifting torward foldable displays and or wearables due to the fact that since we can only get marginal improvements in smartphones at this time.

Sure microled displays or Telephoto lenses are neat but at this time I won't upgrade my iPhone 11 Pro for a few years because I just got a new Apple Watch series 6. I generally hold onto devices until the battery stops charging to ~80 percent or less.
See also "The Happiness Equation"
which boils down to "Be happy first."

NOT:

Hard work -> success -> happiness

RATHER:

Happiness -> best work -> success
Waste not, want not.
Wouldn't surprise me, it's almost a perfect HN trap
Most countries in the northern hemisphere recommend supplimenting vitamin d over the winter anyway.

Seems like a no brainer to encourage people to start taking vitamin d now as it clearly at least has a small positive effect against covid
The two are connected. Over hiring is done on purpose to game promotions. In startups for funding. Depending on the timing and where you are in the hierarchy it can go either way. People switch every 2 years now so it’d doesn’t matter how the team does in the long term.
Thanks! I have written my last half dozen books using markdown + leanpub.com, keeping my book artifacts in GitHub. I am going to try this!
Sure, but you can only do that if either that's a way to express what you want directly or, in the example you gave, there's a common idiomatic style that the compiler can recognize and handle.

What is the idiomatic way to write the popcount of the intersection of two 256-byte byte strings? My C code is:

static int
byte_intersect_256(const unsigned char *fp1, const unsigned char *fp2) {
int num_words = 2048 / 64;
int intersect_popcount = 0;

/* Interpret as 64-bit integers and assume possible mis-alignment is okay. */
uint64_t *fp1_64 = (uint64_t *) fp1, *fp2_64 = (uint64_t *) fp2;

for (int i=0; i<num_words; i++) {
intersect_popcount += __builtin_popcountll(fp1_64[i] & fp2_64[i]);
}
return intersect_popcount;
}

I haven't figured out the Julia way to write it so it would use the POPCNT instruction (if available), the AVX2 popcount technique (if available), or the VPOPCNTDQ AVX-512 instruction (if available) - falling back, I suppose, to the SSSE3 and Lauradoux implementations - the last being the fastest generic C implementation I found. (See https://jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13321-0... ).
> One reason I never want to work for a normal company is that I wouldn't be able to take naps.

It depends on the culture: I work for an absolutely normal company in France (I'm the sole dev) and at noon I go home (10 min drive) cook my meal and eat leisurely, then get a 30 minutes nap and go back to work at 2 PM.

Pay isn't great, but quality of life is high.
On how Elon Musk learns things fast
The biggest reason I want a new phone is a better camera. I have a DSLR, but I just don’t bring that with me all the time, and the camera on the new iPhones is really good.
Daydreaming at Work Can Fuel Creativity
Must-Try Aquatic Cologne for Men and Women 2020
With the government, certainly. Are they also popular with the people, that is, would anyone switch away from iOs because Apple stood up to Belarus?
My point is that it doesn't make it easy to read for everyone and it was a bad design decision.
Alphora-Style Database Diagramming
> Apple should be forced to

I think that the authorities cannot be expected to solve every problem in society there is. A better approach may be to educate people about the alternatives.

What Apple primarily wants, in my opinion, is to keep their users and their profits. Currently, it seems like they can take down apps for almost any reason, restrict independent repair of their devices by making the replacement parts and chips unavailable, force many simple-to-repair devices to be recycled instead of repaired, take huge cuts from the in-app purchase prices and more, with little to no impact on their sales or number of users.

I am wondering why is that the case. But apparently, most people do not care.
> Just getting a specific entity from the list was a huge issue and then updating it and putting it back was worse.

I must be missing something, but this sounds like a pretty straightforward List.map
> Meat is fundamentally associated with living creatures.

And that is the fallacy.
How about making a tag, section or filter that's a "best of"? Maybe even a option to add in old posts to your feed? say at the bottom of the first page is a "best of" submission.
The only way I see purchasing every year making sense is if you always, without exceptions, trade-in and upgrade to the latest model phone. The current priciest iPhone (for 64gb) is $1100 for the 11 Pro Pax. If you were to trade in an last-gen XS Max, you'd get $450 in trade-in value and thus only pay $650 for the new phone. The value of that would then continuously roll over into new upgrades (provided you never crack the screen or damage the phone ever, since that immediately causes it to lose $200-400 in trade-in value), meaning you are always paying for a phone but you will always have the latest and greatest model and the value that goes into that.
It sounds like you had the equivalent of “short term health insurance.” They might not have called it that back then, but it’s sold now under that name (with limitations on how long you can remain in the policy that were relaxed recently) to remain ACA compliant. You can still buy these type of plans (at least in my state, North Carolina) for under $100/mo. There are lifetime maximums, exclusions for pre existing conditions, and high deductibles, but that’s probably the same as what you had pre-ACA as well.

These plans are typically referred to as “junk insurance” but if you can’t afford or just don’t want a more comprehensive plan they’re better than nothing.
I hate writing nine in 10, or 9 in ten for that matter. It's inconsistent.
I have a hard time dismissing those stinky crystal worshiping new-age hippies, since I spend so much of my time playing with patterns of electrons in little silicon chips.
I don't fully buy this idea, because I've never seen an app become successfully widespread through side loading. The technical friction is just too high for non technical users.

I agree that we need a solution to monopolistic app stores though.
This reads like a Robert Sheckley short story. I never understood the fuss about Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy. To me, Robert Sheckley is the master of witty, provocative sci-fi short form. Douglas Adams is seems like random absurd for the sake of absurd. And yes Douglas Adams openly said he was inspired by Sheckley.
Agreed. His stories are fantastic.
The author's page for it is http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
Let’s hope that planned battery failure doesn’t become a normal “feature”
After covid hit I'm having trouble sleeping too much. I'm doing 9 hours a night and occasional 1 hr nap after lunch, I feel my metabolism is slowing down and I'm putting on weight. I've started doing more aerobic exercise and it just makes me need my after lunch nap.
Could it be that distant tribal villages didn't go through the same type of evolution and their brains didn't develop specific receptors in their visual field/cortex to detect nipples and bind them to the reward system in the brain? We know that even a single neuron in visual cortex can detect complex objects shapes like animals, who tells us that we didn't develop a specialized nipple detector neuron linked directly to the reward center while Papuan tribes didn't?
Some people enjoy absurd humor.
Show HN: Mental State of HN Users Before/After Lockdown
I'm so glad 90% of people are at least partially sane.
By the time it breaks you'll be able to pick up an 8T (which will be a couple of years old at least).

My OnePlus 3T, still going strong.
The proper term is a 'HN meme'. I'm using "meme" in the original meaning: a viral idea.
Arthur C Clarke wrote a story which contains the same core conceit:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_(short_story)

Edit: I see the wikipedia page does a poor job of describing the story. The essence is that a silicon, cold intelligence cannot believe intelligence could develop in carbon in relatively high temperatures. It decides that the meat intelligences are oppressing the silicon intelligences they have created and launches a crusade.
Is an iPhone a luxury good? Perhaps it is in poorer parts of the world but it has a 45% market share in the US.
What is the point, the whales are here today, we are destroying them and their entire habitat, Why would we clone them in 100 years ?

We don’t care for the whales we have now.
You state an excellent point and I would love to see the Apple fanboys argue your point.
It's almost impossible that their symptoms were caused by vitamin d in this case. It takes times to build up and reduce vitamin d levels, changes wouldn't happen overnight
Converting PHP 7.4 code (in a WP plugin) to PHP 7.1, using PHP transpiler Rector
Well, in the case of Telegram they've already tried pretty hard with the servers and databases route (hasn't worked).
> "Do not engage the mind in the intense pursuit of too many things at once; especially things that have no relation to one another"

The author "incremental reading" technique directly contradicts this. I don't know who's right though.

Here is a YT video of him watching a couple seconds of dozens of YT videos to extract knowledge : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOJyO7QDEX4

I'll admit it seems absolutely counter intuitive!
Yep, this is definitely something that should be made easier and there's an RFC to address it.

There are also some libraries out there that make this easier.

I'd say it's an annoyance and should be improved, but it's nowhere near a blocker for us.
Harvey OS

Redox OS
For other cost figures for hydrogen storage, see the options and linked references at

https://model.energy/

You can also use that site (and its weather time series) and play with the assumptions to see when nuclear can be made competitive with renewables + storage at supplying steady power output in various places, under a set of simplifying assumptions that tend to favor nuclear. You will find that hydrogen tends to be more important in high latitude places using wind.
Perhaps the 10% are the people who routinely earn enough money to buy a new iPhone every week. That's totally reasonable for them then.
There is no need to buy the flagship phone every year or every two years. I can understand it if they cannot afford it, but anyone who’s into technology and can afford should make sure they have the latest software updates. They should also educate others about the importance of timely updates.

If you buy an iPhone on launch, you get five or six years of software updates.

I can only pity the people using their Android phones way past any hopes for software updates and being vulnerable to issues (security, software and hardware). I’m referring to most of the Android phones that don’t see updates after a year and all Android phones that don’t see updates after three years from launch. Pressuring Google or OEMs to provide software updates for longer hadn’t worked well, and Google is still slow on improving it.
Vitamines et mode de vie