skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just read point #3 after reading your comment, and I don't see what's nebulous about it. Perhaps different people are good at grokking different writing styles, because it was quite easy for me to extract the lessons:

- It really is true that big companies move much more slowly than startups.

- Consequently, startups should be wary of projects that depend on partnerships with big companies.

- Big companies are slow because knowledge is widely distributed and tough to wrangle, and liabilities and gotchas are numerous. Even simple things require a lot of know-how.

- To minimize slowness, find a single person who knows all of the moving parts involved. Avoid hodgepodges of people who each know only a tiny part of the whole challenge.

- It's important to start with this person, because problems snowball. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
I was talking about life expectancy for a 50 year old. Life expectancy at birth has increased significantly more because of reduced risk of death for newborns, infants and even teenagers. But once you are of a certain age, those risks are gone, and there not much has changed.

No, I don't believe in scifi. Theses are all fantasies. Just as little as I believe in living on mars being a great alternative to earth. Nice scifi story, but in real life, things are different.

If you just look at the spread obesity in the U.S. and its effect on life expectancy, please tell me again with a straight face that you expect "people live to be over 100" in the future. And no, they don't today. You are talking about a really really small minority, and that minority was already there 50 years ago. In 1970.

Edit: Life expectancy for a 50 yeah old in 1920 in Sweden was about 9 years shorter than today.
This is a great idea. Thanks for sharing.

Just to restate what you said, adding nothing. Imagine you had Anki for a similar cohort studying a coherent single course. You’ll be able to get a sense of what topics confuse everyone and what correlation there are in confusion. If you had trouble with X, then you need extra guidance on A & B.
Given an input image of a hard disk or other storage medium, validate that the hash when given to you and after your analysis are the same.
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" Super conducting magnets at scale were pioneered for LHC" ... wait... no love for HERA (DESY) here?
it's really not that complicated.

step 1: accumulate a buffer of 3-6 months expenses in your checking account

step 2: a) identify money that you will not need in the near future. b) accept that you will not beat professionals at picking individual stocks. c) use the money to invest broadly in the market.

step 3: in preparation for retirement (or a large, time-sensitive purchase), shift allocation to bonds.

if steps 2 and 3 are too complicated, buy target date funds instead. the hardest part is figuring out how much money you can safely tie up in investments, but no school can tell you this. step 1 is also pretty hard if you don't make much money, but that isn't really related to finance.

note that 2b) means you sidestep all the stuff that's actually complicated, and you're better off for it.
>False theories of poverty spread by people like yourself are the reason more people don't get the right advice to get out.

What exactly is your theory of poverty, if you don't mind me asking? That impoverished folk should be better at saving, and then they wouldn't be impoverished?
> Wouldn't that require redistribution?

(sorry meant to reply to this earlier)

No, copyright infringement doesn't require redistribution. In the UK if I buy a physical CD and rip it to a PC, purely for personal listening, that's still infringement (there have been attempts to change the law but they failed: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/quashing-of-private-copyi...)
That's kinda the issue, you only want to guarantee that the image didn't change (ie, noone planted anything and the chain of evidence from the crime scene to your nice forensics lab is untampered).

I think once someone makes a tool that allows you to add a file to an image and have it resolve to the same hash (anti-forensics as a field), it will probably change. Most tools do offer dual MD5 and SHA256 support though.
Anki is good, but the problems that I had with it was that I was not learning the flashcards well enough on the first day to to recall those flashcards on subsequent days and it took too long to make flashcards, so I made myself a flashcards app.
http://flashcardmax.com/download
To avoid quarantining students, school tries moving them around every 15 minutes
If you don't comply they then threat to start trade warz and sanctions, simple deal IMHO
I didn’t downvote, but I checked it out and see that it’s at version 0.10 and the last update was more than two years ago. The combination of these two don’t inspire much confidence for me.

There’s a psychological barrier for pre 1.0 releases that must be handled in any serious project.
Many streaming services will split the media file into segments and send only the first few chunks to the browser, to limit bandwidth usage on longer media and block techniques like the one you described. Recently I used youtube-dl to get a zoom recording from Vimeo and remember that it was split in ~35 parts.
Quibi is Hollywood’s biggest short-form failure - but not its first
Frank Luntz said it on Fox News on Friday.
So, would the Eastern German governments political friends have been less susceptible to these health effects?

And, in order to not wander too far off topic of energy economics, how is the extraction of uranium from seawater going to be economical?
...and with staff cuts, subpar monitoring, irresponsible subcontracting, pressure on 'independant' inspectors to not report issues and many others.
Pity. I really liked rubymine, and while I used it legally, I really dislike abusing the DMCA like that. Time to search for an alternative.
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You can't really compare Stingle to Google, Apple, or any other cloud photo services. Stingle's whole value proposition is encryption. Google and Apple don't offer encryption-at-rest, and Google in particular is using the photos you upload to learn about you and market to you. If you're looking for cheap cloud hosting and don't care about privacy, last I checked, Google offered unlimited photo storage (with restrictions on individual photo size that are perfectly fine for non-professional viewing and use).
I like that the comments here are generally proving that this article is pretty much on the money.
Download notepad++ or similar, learn what a function declaration and function call is, if loops, for loops, and arguments/return statements, variable declarations and assignments, and youre good to go!
If you want to project from desktop PC to laptop one problem is that not all WIFI adapters support this. Seems to be the feature that is needed is WiFi-Direct [1].

At least some RealTek chips support this, for example RTL8192CU. I got it working by ordering cheap (€4.79, delivered) USB-WIFI stick from eBay [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Direct
[2] https://www.ebay.com/itm/300M-USB-RTL8192CU-Wifi-Adapter-pas...
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OSMI is probably one of the most well known in the developer/mental health space that is speaking out on this topic. I know there are some apps and start ups trying to do things but I dont keep close tabs on them.
Yeah, this smells very much like youtube-dl:

$ strings -e l Utubster.exe | grep best
bestaudio/best
bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best
bestvideo[ext=mp4][height<=1080]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=1080]
bestvideo[ext=mp4][height<=480]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=480]
bestvideo+bestaudio/best
I read about half the paper but couldn't find an answer to my first objection (perhaps I missed it), but if this was the case, wouldn't we observe sudden changes in cognition in those who were subject to the strong magnetic fields of an MRI?
It never was acceptable in polite society, but I find it's a useful signal to indicate what software to avoid.
Can we quantify this?
The noise in the cockpit from all those engines very close must have been deafening.
What is this european-american worldview the article mentions? In most ancient mythologies of Europe from Greece to Scandinavia, humans are but a sidenote in the vast complex menagerie of weird creatures inhabiting the universe. Show up late, too. Christianity, yes, is very human-centric but it is weird for an anthropologist to ignore this complexity
This is very interesting, personally, because I am horrible at recognizing faces, but hearing the sound of the voice, I can recognize the person.
Any reason for not using C Standard Library functions such as (for example) strlen and isdigit?
> You don't need breeder technology to produce plutonium. In fact, the US produced enough in 1945 to build and detonate two plutonium-based atomic bombs.

You can extract plutonium from spent fuel, I agree to that. This is what makes spent fuel processing expensive and this is what was used in 1945 and also turns any fuel waste into a proliferation issue. But converting depleted uranium (U-238) from spent fuel into fissile plutonium or whatever isotope, like GP suggested, is a different thing which would necessarily need some nuclear reaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium
Is there a software less clunky than Anki out there with similar functionality?
Show HN: Sync your smart lights with your recording studio
The thing is it almost made sense. I could see “quality of food declining” as a market for a civilization or empire beginning to fail.
Hello, Hacker News! I'm the dev for this project.

Our early testers have found Cherry very useful for preventing interruptions during recording sessions. It works for any size studio, home or pro.

We are trying to remove barriers to creativity. Giving peace of mind during recording is one little way to do that.

Cherry is one of my pandemic side projects. I've learned a lot about SwiftUI and reverse-engineering simple communication protocols, like how digital audio workstations (DAWs) communicate with peripherals.
Single threaded async is a special case of M:N threading model.

Shared libraries in Rust don't get distributed via cargo like Conan, vcpkg or OS package managers are capable of.

Too much C++ stuff in headers, yes that is a thing, specially in badly organized builds. Extern templates, incremental compilation and linking are also a thing, and VC++ already has experimental C++20 module support.

My dummy Gtk-rs test project to validate Rust improvements after each release takes 16 minutes currently on a core duo with 8 GB and SSD. The Gtkmm variant takes about 3 minutes, because it doesn't need to compile Gtk-rs on each compiler upgrade.
The browser vendors for example.
Demo coming in the next weeks on my partners youtube channel:
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCNIkB2IeJ-6AmZv7bQ1oBYg

Email/passwd auth coming in the coming week.
We had courses called “home economics” in US public middle school (grades 6-8, age 11-14). Near as I can remember, they were exclusively cooking and sewing/crafts with no content that contained the $ symbol.
The link could really use a quick description of why someone would want to install it (e.g., features cal doesn’t have) and a copy of the manual.
> Why not let the free market decide if they're safe rather than providing taxpayers as a backstop?

The free market is pretty evidence based, so it would decide they are safe. I doubt the public insurance subsidy works the way you are representing it. They'd not insure against the risk of a catastrophic meltdown in a free market, the risk is too low. The "insurance" is probably more of a government tax on the assumption that there is latent risk. I'm not going to say that is unreasonable, but it doesn't have anything to do with how safe the industry thinks it is.

Consider Fukushima, the result of one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history (Wikipedia says 4th largest [0]). Free markets don't bother to insure against that sort low-risk event. It would be like insuring San Francisco against the fact that it is on an active fault line - the market doesn't bother to insure against a risk that rare.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes#Largest_e...
Loitering is a better use of land than metastasized retail. Anti-loitering is a fucked up policy on so many levels.

being synchronously social with other human beings is easily the last bad part of malls and phones.
Hey, I use "curl | sh" myself.

But I don't pretend there's no security risk in doing so. Like you advised, I exercise critical thinking, and then I take a risk.

On someone else's production machine, or a container with sensitive data, that risk is too high. On a fun machine in isolation it's fine.

The GPP asks what's the security difference between inspecting and not inspecting the downloaded command.

> or that they have been compromised by a malicious actor without being detected at the same time you run the installer

Installers are compromised quite often by malicious actors. Running an installer is just as dubious as running "curl | sh".

However, replacing an installer with one that looks the same but is actually malicious, is a lot more work than replacing a blind script with one that looks the same but is actually malicious.

And the risk of a malicious blind script going unnoticed is higher than a compromised installer when the SHA256 is shown to be checked alongside the latter's link, simply because the attacker would need to change two places instead of one. Yes I do check hashes of installers when that's possible and there isn't a package manager already doing so. It's a good idea anyway in case of a corrupted download file, which I do see from time to time.
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Sounds interesting. Care to publish your results (yes I know caniuse however I'm more after a core set of browser APIs/features defining a "real" long-term standard)? Btw I myself have also put quite some effort in distilling a HTML DTD grammar from WHATWG/W3C materials [1], defending it in conferences, etc.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/html52.html
You're going to have a hard time teaching finance to people with almost no money to manage.
Nextcloud works well. The web-based gallery UI isn't great, and the phone UI isn't great, but if you're looking for a way to self-host everything, share with family, etc. it's a good solution. You can always run a better self-hosted gallery on the web side, and mount the Nextcloud storage right into it. Nextcloud's Android client, while minimalist, has some surprising and useful features. It integrates well with the rest of Android, so you can browse and select photos from Nextcloud to e.g. upload to Facebook, and most-surprisingly, you can have your phone automatically upload photos and videos to Nextcloud when you take them, so that you don't have to do anything manually. Overall, Nextcloud is surprisingly good for photos.
Go diskless!
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I won't speculate about numbers, but until I dealt with people with "spending problems", I had NO IDEA seemingly smart people could be like that!

Simplest way to describe it is that their definition of "I can afford X" is "right now I have more money than X costs". Really!

These people will of course always be poor, regardless of income, subsidies etc.

How many they are is an empirical question, and I haven't seen any data.

One idea to handle them I like is to pay people daily, instead of monthly/biweekly. In the modern computerized world, that should be simple, and could really help some people.
Source? I've heard the opposite, I'm not an expert but I do believe fusion is pretty imminent. Maybe not at MIT.

We can achieve fusion already, so presumably we already have control of it? Check out lppfusion. https://lppfusion.com/technology/focus-fusion/

I think if we discarded the failed attempts we could consolidate something here.

Seems to be happening https://lppfusion.com/international-focus-fusion-research/
I may have to update my username
Currently exactly there. Was hired to fill a real and actual 'gap between engineering and business'. As senior with decades of experience.

Turns out the team I'm working in (not above) really does not like change (i.e does not accept been-there-done-that-failed, as valid argument to do things different), looks down on 'business', often even on 'users' (technical pureness above everything else, above working software even) and most of all hates me for pointing out problems.

I'm still trying to find ways to fill my original 'problem' for which I came on board, but am also close to giving up, due to the negative energy all this is costing me.

So: good advice. But be certain the 'problem' you're hired for, is actually something that people want to solve.
There's much more windfall in poverty than in non-poverty; when you have stable and sufficient income, you don't have windfalls almost by definition, and middle-income people don't get stock awards or huge bonuses either. When you work odd jobs, or get help from relatives, or whatever, it's all windfalls.

I won't claim it's the majority, but I've certainly seen lots of people blow windfalls of all sizes on ridiculous things (from someone working crappy odd jobs like loading trucks for barely enough money for food and necessities getting a one-time construction gig for a fixed sum and blowing it on a huge party, to barely have enough money for food again in literally a week; to someone using a bonus AND running up credit card debt to go on a fancy vacation, probably far more expensive than my techie vacations, and then complaining to everyone how they have crippling levels of credit card debt interest payments).

I can kinda understand where the psychological need might come from, but it has to be fixed regardless... just like drug addiction while explainable needs to be fixed. That is, if you care to reduce poverty.

Oh an my favorite example from Russia is where someone's rainy day fund of ~$1000 in cash (in the 90ies/early oughts that was a lot of money) was stolen by their sibling and blown on restaurants and expensive clothing. When found out and confronted, the sibling was defensive and said well you were not using it anyway! That's the psychology of many poor as I see it (not the stealing, the "not using" part).
> Your house burns down, now what?

I am in the process of scanning paper photos and photos on glass plates, dating from 120 years ago or so. Some of them survived two world wars, and mind you surviving WWII in Poland is no small feat for a piece of paper.

So while I do agree with the general sentiment of having multiple copies and backups, our digital world is woefully short-lived when compared to physical media.

On a related note, I am working on gallery/archive software, where the main assumption is longevity: whatever the UI du jour is, actual data must be kept in the simplest and most long-term file formats possible. Which means well-established and documented "traditional" image formats, text files with metadata, etc.
Easy to validate,

C was born in 1972, so 48 years.

C++ was born in 1985, so 35 years.

I stand corrected on the matter.

As for ideas, traveling is not enough when at the reception end there isn't any willingness to accept them.
I subscribed to ProtonVPN for more privacy and security when I travel and have to use hotel WiFi. I trust them. In general I don’t agree with the article.
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They don't just stuff it through the machine, you get in line as is you were the voter, verify you're on the rolls for your polling place, check you off in the book, etc. No steps are skipped to ensure the voter can't show up and request another ballot and vote again.

This is as described by a friend who had worked elections for years, this year will be my first. Should be interesting to see it in person.
the median net worth of a US household is $121,411. you have to go down into the bottom quartile to find households with a net worth under $10k. most americans absolutely have enough money to make investments relevant.

https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-net-worth-percentiles/
The amount of toxicity is also a factor. Novels, Comics and Movies are much less toxic than Media.
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Ah yes the util I love to hate

There's nothing easier than just typing cal on the terminal and getting the calendar. Cool

But the one in Linux works in one way, the one in MacOS works in a different way and if you try to install gcal it's still different.

And it also has these crazy usability issues. No, I don't want the calendar of year 11 thanks.
`open |myProgram` returns a file-descriptor for a pipe (that you can explicitly open for read, write, or read/write), and `exec ls |grep {myPattern}` will pipe the output of ls into grep...okay nevermind I do see your point.

p1 | p2 | p3 > file

is certainly nicer for interactive use, although I would argue that a hand-rolled pipe operator to give you the same in tcl comes with some pleasant fp benefits, and it’s only a few lines to define it to get the above, or supply alternative syntax like

| {p1} {p2} {p3} {[open file w]}

or if you want to also define the redirect,

| {p1} {p2} {p3} {> file}

where each portion of the pipe can be much more clearly manipulated in-stream, and with whatever interpreter, before returning the pipeable.

This gets especially nice for gluing when you want to run scripts in multiple interpreters but they are short and you want to maintain the context for readability between multiple execution contexts:

| {node -e {
console.log(“start”)
}}
{DSL1 {
MyDSLScriptHere
}}
{grep {whatever}}
{> file}

Sometimes the extra context hurts readability, but sometimes it’s invaluable.
Cool. What track record do they have, through financial crisis, world wars and natural disasters, that makes you believe this 100 year claim? And if they fail to deliver, what recourse do you have?

Personally, if Lloyd's of London offered an insured storage service, I might believe them, but I can't think of any other organization I would trust with a 100 year promise.
> There's no reason to believe that nuclear should be any different. The engineering and physics is well understood.

Well, for one, a rocket launch going wrong can certainly kill people, but it won't make an entire region uninhabitable.
I think they meant this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

But tbh I don't entirely see how it applies here
It seems school curriculums are inherently very conservative. By default, like any other organization, you keep doing what you did last year. With very little outside competition or other forces for change, inertia dominates.
Financial debt is okay if it gives you an important advantage now, and you can pay it off later, and you remember to actually do it.

If you get into debt so that you can have a nice new TV quickly, and you forget to pay it off, so it keeps increasing, and you only pay attention to it when the debt collectors start calling you... that is a problem.

In my experience, most software debt resembles the latter case. The goal is to meet a deadline sooner, and there is absolutely no intention of spending resources to fix it later, unless the customers start making too many tickets.

When a manager says "later" or "low priority", it usually means "never, unless we absolutely have to". Technical debt is always a "low priority" that will be addressed "later".

Yes, there are situations when meeting a specific deadline is critical, and it is a rational decision to cut some corners and fix things later. The problem is that after the deadline is met, the "fix things later" part is usually forgotten. A new deadline is set, and new corners need to be cut, etc.