skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone in another comment compared Lex to Joe Rogan, and I think that comparison is apt. He is only as interesting as his guest's ability to break out of the box his questions put them into. And just like Rogan, Fridman has a very questionable set of guests which he doesn't truly challenge at any point in the conversation.
Ion engines need a lot of power, but scale down quite well to lower powers and lower thrust. And even with an ion engine, you'd only be running it for a few years at the beginning of a mission. Meanwhile, one of your major power draws is a radio, which needs higher power as distance to Earth increases, later in the mission. Finally, nuclear thermal power supplies have decreasing power budgets over time. It seems reasonable to me that there's a combined power budget with focuses on ion propulsion for the first several years of a probe's lifetime, disabling the ion drive and shifting the (reducing) power budget to comms once target velocity is achieved.
Egothic: Rust library running distributed Monte-Carlo statistical simulations
It's pretty common with people I know born from 1980 and beyond. Of course, it gets more common the closer their year of birth is to the aughts. But I guess you are right, everyone doing it today was under 20 at some point.
Wait a minute... I heard that before!

Was it with drag-and-drop interfaces? Low-Code/No-Code platforms? Outsourcing? Can't recall.
So far, there's at least one picture of Hunter with a meth pipe that doesn't appear to be manipulated. That seems to indicate there's some non-zero something there, with how much being up for debate. Also, the ODNI says there's no intelligence pointing to Russia, despite some claims to the contrary.

We should probably withhold judgement and let the facts come out. Let people compare the signature on this contract for the laptop with Hunter's, let people forensically analyze the image, etc.
I disagree about the Kallax units specifically - I've moved mine several times and it holds up well.
The message beyond the HN title actually has potential. However, the author focuses in some odd places for me.

As far as punctuation, ending periods actually have negative emotion in text vernacular now for younger audiences and should almost never be used in 1-1 messaging. Exclamation points, commas, and question marks, great!

For abbreviations, it's simply know your audience. You should use them when everyone in the room knows them, but you have to think about that first before use. The step of thinking about it is a great mental step to add, but the article presents it more as a steadfast rule. Also, expanding them in parentheses can be a chance to educate your audience for the future even when you have people who don't know, like I'll do below :P

To me, the smallest point was actually the most interesting and valuable, and it was skated over entirely - communicating emotion and sentiment, particularly through emoji use. With WFH (Work From Home) especially, communicating emotion is very socially helpful. I've found a lot of engineers think "well I don't care/need so I'll skip the flowery additions for efficiency" and then leave many non-tech people and some engineering coworkers to decipher if this random slack ask is mad, passive aggressive, inquisitive, or a check-in. This has far worse effects longterm often than an unknown acronym.

Adding emojis can solve this, or if you don't like those, literally giving more social context in words can also do the trick. When we're talking in person, we always communicate emotion, even when it's not the primary purpose. I think many would do well to include that in their online messaging as well :)
Young Investors Are Still Betting Big on Crypto
Whether or not they have insurance, you will.

It blows back on a whole community when a chunk of the community gets flooded out.
The first graph you reference is not really people being ill, instead it’s people with detected infections.

The fact you can’t really infer anything from the other graphs without a microscope might be a clue as to how much of a deal this is.
I would love to see a followup with some example code.

Could a regular person making YouTube videos benefit from using Python in their production?
https://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding...
Vice is garbage, but regardless of what you think of McInnes, it has nothing to do with him anymore.
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https://bediger4000.github.io/replicate.html
Artificially suppressed interest rates?

Economists define the natural interest rate as "the interest rate that supports the economy at full employment/maximum output while keeping inflation constant"[wikipedia]

For the last decade we've seen very little time at full employment and absolutely no accelerating inflation by any standard measure. So by any textbook definition of a natural interest rate we've been keeping interest rates too high.
1021 bytes of JS, and 6 million lines of browser code.

FTFY

These modern demos, using OpenGL and now the whole web browser that are mimicking the rules and sentiment of old 8-bit machines demos, or even later DOS demos, are not the same thing.

Oh, this demo has text being spoken ... how was it done ... checks source code ... SpeechSynthesisUtterance . Yeah right, 1021 bytes. :)
There is no “map”. The simulation would be like an entity-component system, basically a universal database. The voyagers coordinates are very far from Earth, but no new entities have to be created for that. Their coordinates can continue rising until they reach whatever the max possible value can be within the simulation, after that it would probably overflow into negative values and the voyagers would be on their way back toward where they started.
Not completely unrelated fields but the Chen-Simons theory is a quantum field theory named after mathematicians Shiing-Shen Chern and James Simons(founder of Renaissance Technologies) who introduced the Chern-Simons form.
This x1000. I've owned a lot of IKEA furniture and I think it's really durable. I have a bedroom set (Hemnes) that I've hauled around to six different places over the years and it still serving well in the guest room. I never bothered to even unload the dresser full of clothes, I just wrap it up in shipping plastic and haul it on a dolly.

However, even their crap can be really rugged. I have this $5 side table that I've been dragging around for a decade now that just won't die.
The non-use of grammar is an adaptation to indicate a different "tone" of communication. As an example, it can be used to indicate sarcasm.
The best form of communication is ultimately based on the amount of shared context (Eg: acronyms), so it’s silly to create rules per the communication medium — slack, email, HN comments, etc. Even within a medium, a slack DM to a friend has very different shared context from a message to a company-wide channel. Being mindful of that, and communicating respectfully, regardless of the actual medium, is likely to be far more useful. Nothing special about Slack.

For me, respectful written communication also includes proper punctuation & capitalization — since it makes reading easier.
Can't Discord do this on iOS too? They're tracking what you do within the app, and there's nothing on iOS that blocks that.
I don't know anything about this company (rootIQ) but it sounds like a juicy, high-value target.
My wife can't message me (safely) in the middle of driving home so I know to start heating up dinner. Likewise she can't let me know when traffic gets snarled and she's going to be an hour late.
I don't like fail2ban because with IPv6 it becomes useless.
Pretending to be from a certain newspaper does not justify arrest, but he could have been taken to the police station for identity verification (possibly § 263
criminal offence of fraud according to the German Criminal Code)
I guess your experience is different from mine.

A lot of IKEA stuff I've bought involves one-way assembly -- pounding things together with a mallet. See the EKET cabinets for example. If you reverse it by naively prying them apart, it'll strip the wood.

Or take the backing to any BILLY bookshelf -- it's held in place with ~30 tiny nails. It's virtually impossible to pry the backing and nails off without destroying the backing in the process.

Etc. etc. Yes, some of the pieces can be disassembled, if the assembly consists entirely of cam locks, dowels and screws. But it's certainly not designed for it.
Ah yes, we def want to change that to be dynamic for campaigns! We will need to def need to make timezones more apparent. Thanks for these suggestions!
Your team will be a compliance nightmare

EDIT they will also burn out and leave once real operational issues drive through fixes that break your well thought out abstractions and you don’t have the safety net of a type system to catch you and progress grindS to a halt as technical debt mounts and we just want you to fix the damn bug not hear about your artists journey!
> The politeness of early USENET was a mark of privilege -- perhaps even white supremacy. Now that the world's ghettos have onramps to the information superhighway, online discourse has been increasingly truly democratized.

this but unironically
While not on the same level, this reminds of this gem:

https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
Dont forget government subsidies for corn and soybeans that drive prices stupid low and trap farmers in corn and soybeans. Some farmers would gladly shift to more profitable crops but are stuck on corn and soybeans.
In the hot markets (e.g. bay area), homes already have an inspection done and all potential buyers are able to look at the inspection report. In that case waiving inspection contingencies is not as wild/crazy as it sounds.
No, like on most other archs, people use tagged pointers in lisp and other runtimes on amd64 all the time. But the machine (like most ISAs) doesn't ignore any bits so you have to clear the tag bits before dereferencing.

You may be thinking of the fact that a full 64 bit VA space isn't supported in current implementations. But this has no impact on use of tagging compared to most other archs.
> I feel like people complaining about this didn't grow up in the IRC/IM era.

At one time most written language didn't put spaces between words (some still do), and many languages don't write vowels. That's not a good reason for doing the same in your informal English Slack messages.

You can write an informal message and still use punctuation.
> You can block that or contest it, as you wish.

I'm happy to do so. I'm also happy the platform has some base-level standards so I don't have to block and contest quite so much.

> Social media companies lean left, the government should ensure they remain neutral by following the First Amendment.

Is there anything in particular about social media, as a technology, that causes all companies engaging in it to "lean left?" If not, this is a problem the market can solve.
I didn't know it was possible but /r/iamverysmart has a winner.

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Though it's not relevant, I would argue like this:

My team will be able to program circles around everyone else. They will be able to construct rapidly a language specific to the problem we are solving rather than using a language designed by computer scientists worrying about their place in history and a herd of library writers working in cubicles a thousand miles from our business. My team will be able to use a language without training wheels. Strong typing is for weak minds, and it's exactly like they say at MIT: Our current popular languages are designed to help losers lose less.

I will be able to point to various examples where Lisp programmers have written not only 3-5 times faster, but they wrote things other programmers thought were impossible. In this regard, I'd tell the CEO, our competitors will be spending all their time trying to figure out that it's really possible we're doing what we're doing, because they will be thinking in terms of customization at compile time or link time, not at runtime.

Moreover, we will be operating where the CEO is focusing on his or her specialty and not imposing his or her knuckleheaded view on technology.

Because Lisp is dead, I'll get better programmers for less money. I'll be able to guarantee 50 more IQ points for the same pay. And my guys will be able to spend their time typing in value not book keeping overhead and typing in type descriptions because their guys are too stupid to know when they type + numbers are involved.

Because no one uses Lisp, I'll have my pick of thousands of great, experienced programmers looking to work for someone with a non-zero IQ, not the ones fresh out of college with 10 programs under their belts.

I'll be compatible with everything because it is right now. And if someone throws me a bug, I can code around it in a few minutes. Being a niche market means we're more proprietary. People will not use Lisp to compete with us because they are lamebrains listening to the latest fashion statement from Sun or Microsoft.The open source crowd isn't even smart enough to notice C++, so they are especially nowhere in the picture.

Of course, no CEO will belive this because every one of them is stupid.

- Posted October 2002
This comment has strong "why does <your field> need a journal" vibes...

Online chess areas like lichess and chess.com absolutely have automated cheat detection which they consider along with with reports in automated banning of accounts. They consider not just whether the player is playing the excellent moves (something common at any level and very common at high levels), but also how a deep search is needed to evaluate that move, whether other obvious moves were available, how long was taken to play the move, if the position is common, etc. When these serial cheaters are banned, the sites even refund rating points to everyone who lost to them.

However, the issue of isolated cheating incidents is still a big deal, even if the serial obvious cheaters can be detected.
Lynx is great, but I personally prefer w3m[1]. Of course it's still quite limited without css/js, but it renders websites way nicer (with shiny html features like frames, tables, etc.), and even supports displaying images.

With the right configuration, it can also do stuff like automatically replacing urls, or youtube-dl'ing a page and piping its output to mpv.

[1] https://github.com/tats/w3m
> If you are not cheating, you are not trying hard enough to win.

I wonder if we're using different definitions of "win" here. To my way of thinking, if a person has cheated, they didn't win, regardless of what the official judges conclude.

(Apologies if I'm misunderstanding the point you're trying to make.)
10k worth of drones? That pays for like one and a half Warmates [0]? Drones are far more expensive than you think.

Also there are unmanned autonomous ground vehicles that can launch these like the mission master[1].

It's merely a force multiplier for soldiers. Not some indiscriminate killing machine. Imagine a slaugherbots video based on conventional fighter jets or bombers. They would show them used indiscriminately too. The video is mostly FUD. Any military that gives AI the authority to designate targets is no longer in control of their weapons so it would never happen.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzzOH5fBAqw
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_O85m6VXn8
I expected the comment to go on about how much code in the support libraries is needed to support this. It's not a 512 byte boot sector intro, far from it.
I suppose it’s a question of whether you count “documentation” as engineering.

It is elegantly complex and featureful. And (sometimes intentionally) poorly documented, as much of that implementation is seen as “an implementation detail”.
How did they treat the “suckers and losers” story? What about the (criminally) leaked tax returns? What about the Melania phone call that was leaked by a “friend”?

And last time around, how did they handle the claims that were leaked from the Steele dossier?

The problem is that this sort of censorship is almost impossible to apply fairly. When your workforce is dominated by one political viewpoint, you are inevitably going to be biased in a way that a “platform” should not be.
I've always been curious about how people could end up believing in a flat hearth. For a long time I thought they were living on another planet. After this talk, I believe there are living in another network of trust.
If it weren't BBC, I'd swear this article is paid placement. It is in the "Business" section, so maybe that section is like Inc. or Forbes or any other "news" magazine.

Anyway, in 2014, when the even happened (further implicating this being an advertorial) pretexting had been illegal in the US for 7 years already. I couldn't find any data on whether it's legal or not in EU/DE. (The event in question occurred in Munich.)
Are you certain about that? Wasn’t GPL-relicensing of BSD X-server code part of the original tensions between the GPL and BSD camps? I want to say that was in relation to Gnome, but it’s been a while since I’ve looked for it.

Nintendo’s defense, of course, would be to say they received the file from a non-gzip source.
I think you got that backwards - it used to be EXPEDIT, but now it's KALLAX.

(Source: I just bought a whole bunch of cube-shelving from IKEA - Kallax is all over, but Expedit is nowhere to be found.)
I am actually interested in what goes into building such a product. It would take tremendous resources to crawl millions of websites, not to mention fingerprinting tons of libraries and accounting for all the edge cases...
I tried this a couple weeks ago and while the process was rather smooth (as a newcomer to Haskell), the process to add authentication to the application was not explained at all in the docs -- they just have you copy and paste a bunch of code. Hopefully that can be improved in the future :)
>> To keep making more food, someone has to introduce nitrogen into the system.

Isnt that the job of nitrogen fixing bacteria? You know, the microbes that probably dont do so well in modern farm soil. Presumably that's part of the reason crops do well in the organic plots.
Ikea sells a drill designed for putting together their furniture. The $20 version is fine for most use, but the $40 one is much heftier and can be used for lot of stuff.

Everyone should have a basic toolbox that includes a cordless drill.
Chrome on ChromeOS has had its own trust store for ages. Chrome on Android similarly uses Google’s Android store.
AirBnB owns that domain : /
We did talk about this too!
Anecdotally, I have moved multiple times (2-4 times) with IKEA furniture, including one of those classic IKEA swinging chairs (20 years old), a Billy (13 years old), an Expedit (8 years old), a desk (13 years old) and a bed (7 years old). Everything was completely disassembled each time, and is still looking great. You just have to be careful. I sold the bed for 50 EUR a year ago, which required yet another disassembly.

> fasteners simply pull themselves out of the soft particle board, because the board itself is weaker than the fastener

This is true for most furniture. High-quality solid wood is also weaker than a metal fastener.
Show HN: A site to help you get free icons in seconds
Hello HN, I've built a simple web app to help people get hundreds of icons for free.

I named it FontUltimate and it's a font icon library of beautiful vector icons which are scalable, easy to use & extremely fast to load.

You can just start by embeding a CSS( Cascading Stylesheet) file into the web app and you can add any icon from the library. Just click the icon you want to add, copy-paste the code & it's done.
It's really very easy to use.

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This is a really interesting technology. If it were packaged in an actual consumer-oriented product (and wasn't insanely expensive) I'd definitely give it a try.

One of the main annoying noises I have to deal with is the constant hum/rumble from a ventilation fan on the roof of my building. Seems like exactly the sort of problem that a noise-cancelling speaker could solve.
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New business applications is through the roof in Q3 [pdf]
It can be beautifully engineered yet poorly documented. It happens to quite a lot of software actually.
Many times I've started writing something I intend to be a single sentence so I'll be lax about capitalization. Then I realize a second sentence is warranted so I go back to fix things and carry on. IM really is an odd medium.
I don't think this is good generalized advice.

* Posting in a highly-visible channel where most/if not all people will lack context. Treat it like an email and make sure it's punctually and grammatically correct.
* Posting in a team channel where the attitude is casual. Pump those messages out pretty much like you're talking them.
Why are uninvestigated Twitter allegations still being reposted to HN and upvoted, causing distraction and confusion?
> It’s one bug.

It's a security bug that leaks information about the user. It reduces privacy for the user to any website they visit. Chrome and Firefox fix these security bugs immediately upon learning about them. Safari does not because it had hyped ITP and is more interested in security theater, which makes for great marketing, than actual security.

I don't know why you are trying to redirect the conversation to services that can be accessed from any browser. The topic of discussion is which browsers are more secure and offer better privacy.
This sunlight alarm [1] has made a big difference in my sleep quality. I am a heavy sleeper and have a hard time waking up sometimes even if I get the right amount of sleep. I have been using this now for over five months and it's brought great stability to my sleep. I workout in the morning and now I can consistently wake up.

A set amount of time before the alarm is to go off, the alarm simulates a sunrise and can play FM radio, a repeating sound (ocean waves, Nepal bells, etc.) and at the alarm time can do your typical loud alarm. I have this set for 20 minutes before I wake up to start the sunrise. By the time I am ready to wake up, its full brightness and I am ready to get up.

There is also a sunset feature for going to bed.

I also never thought that having an alarm being controlled by my smartphone would be such a great convenience feature but with this type of device it's a perfect match. I don't know how someone could use this device to it's full potential without the app.

This model is the most expensive but I have seen baser models with the core features. I do see a model now at Costco. I would recommend trying it out if you're struggling with bringing consistency to your sleep.

I used to feel these types of devices were a gimmick but for me it's been worthwhile.

[1] https://www.philips.ca/c-p/HF3670_60/smartsleep-connected-sl...
lol it’s not a honeypot. it’s just a way to avoid clicking the same location on your screen for 1.6 days in a row to get level 99 magic. it doesn’t even have movement capability, it just clicks the same spot at a set interval. the stuff that ranks above me is much better suited for cheating since it can actually macro.
Thanks so much J0ncc! We're really excited about how things have been shaping up!
Surely the Mastodon team are very concerned with moderation? Given that everyone agrees it is vital for the success of the project (or any social network), why would they consider it outside their purview?
This is not why he gets these guests. Lex is very famous in his own right. His episodes on Joe Rogan's podcast are some of the most popular he's put out. He's a well respected researcher in his own right. Chris Lattner did not go on this podcast because Lex's dad is a physicist.