skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My friends tease me that this is one of my (few) superpowers - I can sleep comfortably for 5+ hours on long-haul flights in coach.

Honestly, it's been a trial-and-error process. I discovered a few things that work for me (YMMV, of course):

* Length of flight helps. I NEVER could sleep on international flights to Europe when I lived in NYC, because those flights were ~6-7 hours, which is, I think, the worst possible length for sleeping. By the time dinner service is done and the lights are out, there's about 3-4 hours of solid quiet time before they start prepping for breakfast/coffee service. Not enough. When I moved to SF, the 10-12 hour flights to Europe turned out to be the perfect length.

* Time of flight helps. The best possible flight for sleeping for me are the 7pm departures out of SFO that land in Europe 10-12 hours later. That's basically normal sleep time for me, so my body is actually in sync with the flight.

* Supplements help. The magic combo for me is 3mg of melatonin + 1 glass of red wine :)
How do you think they made iron before the industrial revolution? Hint: charcoal.
Question - Is the Microwave and any related I.T gear on the same electrical supply circuit? If they are then that certainly isn't going to help any. If they are on separate electrical circuits (or it's not applicable) then do a search for a Microwave Leakage Detector (Hint - pay a bit more for it than the low end stuff on E-Bay).

I'm not sure if those off the shelf detectors would be able to discriminate between a leaky microwave oven and a nearby Wi-Fi AP though.

If you can afford about $300 you can buy a HackRF SDR and place the aerial along side the coax and turn the microwave on and off and see how much noise gets created. (Note the cheaper SDRs aren't able to tune up high enough to cover the Wi-Fi frequency range). Bonus of going this route is you get to have the fun of getting to use the SDR for all sorts of other fun things and the software produces a waterfall screen that is easy for non-techies to understand - e.g. No spike, m/w on, big spike, m/w off, spike gone.

Alternatively if the Comcast guy is interested they normally have access to signal analysers.
Right, but you have to be on the local network to do that...unless the webserver also listens on the WAN interface.
Since the company is still operating, they should still be able to provide the services that you’ve paid for so they haven’t breached their contract with you yet.
Nothing wrong with finding something to do over the winter even if there isn’t a whole lot of practical value. Some people are happier when things are neat and tidy.
Productivity went up, but not necessarily worker productivity. If the machine is automated, or partially automated to the point where you just need someone to push a button, then the skill required by the worker falls and so does the wage.
Working for a company that creates life-saving vaccines, or builds homes for underprivileged people, or increases yields of crops to match the demands of a growing population doesn't make you a good person? Well, how high is your threshold then?
Not asserting that I am. It was a hypothetical.
Hydroelectric, slow but effective to establish an electric kiln that works with titanium.
I was complaining how weird the Nix language is, until I saw Scheme.
I've never heard that about cobblestone, but Roman concrete and "Damascus" steel are other examples.

Granted, we've recently (mostly) rediscovered how to make those, but it shows knowledge accumulation isn't monotonic.
Same here - any chance on getting it to pre-load or something?
According to Thomas Piketty [1], it's mainly a result of a bifurcation in education, and dramatically rising managerial compensation helped with tax cuts.

I personally also think this is the main answer. In other words, all our massive productivity increases have come from people with a ton of education, and they reap all the rewards, helped with lower taxes. The median worker isn't any more educated and hasn't reaped anything.

> ...I certainly do not believe that r > g is a useful tool for the discussion of rising inequality of labor income: other mechanisms and policies are much more relevant here, e.g., supply and demand of skills and education. For instance, I point out in my book (Piketty 2014a, ch. 8–9) that the rise of top income shares in the United States over the 1980–2010 period is due for the most part to rising inequality of labor earnings, which can itself be explained by a mixture of two groups of factors: rising inequality in access to skills and to higher education over this time period in the United States, an evolution which might have been exacerbated by rising tuition fees and insufficient public investment; and exploding top managerial compensation, itself probably stimulated by changing incentives and norms, and by large cuts in top tax rates...

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:x918MB5...
Thanks, and this list is indeed, not terrible.

Think I found it in the ToS, though.

_"Mailchimp also does not allow the distribution of Content that is, in our sole discretion, materially false, inaccurate, or misleading in a way that could deceive or confuse others about important events, topics, or circumstances."_

Once upon a time, l'd consider this reasonable. They're within their right as a company. But anymore I wouldn't use their service if I was looking for a mail distribution platform.
I find the idea of people attempting to learn history lessons from those scary. They were not meant for that.

Anyway, you can't really divorce army movements from the goals the army had. Which were profoundly political, including ethnical cleansing.
"All those books you haven't read are indeed a sign of your ignorance. But if you know how ignorant you are, you're way ahead of the vast majority of other people"
I have spent quite a bit of time but it was worth it to be able to keep the client as they think I'm making stuff up about microwaves. I'll ask the comcast contractor to see if a cable can be upgraded. I know the business owner will not buy a new microwave as they are a CPA firm and very tight with their money so I may just do that myself, thanks for the reply.
> What is "aesthetically pleasing" to random strangers according to some survey is of little importance.

It's extremely important to most people. We go out of our way to look good. Just look at any shopping street. Clothes, makeup, gyms, etc.
Thank you! Hopefully it will make you a tiny bit more productive.
No, but I haven't personally done a search of C/C++ JSON libraries.
Graph created by the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/7IbsRIhRFbTYRuEjla6ki...

You can see union membership was on the decline since the 1950s, but it accelerated around the 70s. It is hard to see the timeline in that graph, in this one it is harder to see the acceleration, but it is easier to see the timeline: https://rpubs.com/jncohen/uniondensity
Of the period 2015-2017:

> We find that trolling fell 35% on Russian holidays and to a lesser extent, when temperatures were cold in St. Petersburg.

Of 2018 and after:

> More recent trolls released by Twitter do not show any systematic relationship to holidays and temperature, although substantially fewer of these that have been made public to date.

Full text: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28035/w280...
From that article I honestly think the answer is incompetence. I've seen almost the exact same mistakes from really junior devs who are out of their conceptual league. They don't know what a session is or how auth is supposed to work or cookies and they have this web server that serves JS and templated HTML so they just use that. And it "works."
Depends on the what’s being grown. Sometimes you need monster HP.

Even with light work, electrical systems add to the weight leading to built in inefficiencies. I don’t know if we can move away from diesel at this point.
I read it. That is how I know it is there. You presented a 400 page PDF as some sort of condemnation of Kerry and this is the only reference:

"The anti-IFR forces were led by John Kerry. He was the principal speaker and the floor manager of the anti-forces. He spoke at length, with visual aids. He went through the litany of anti-nuclear assertions, articulately and confidently."

Note this PDF is: Copyright © 2011

Let's be clear though. Either you don't know his current views or you are misrepresenting them to serve your political ends.

"During a speech at MIT on January 9, 2017, Secretary of State John Kerry explained that he once did not believe nuclear was a viable solution and supported Bill Clinton in shutting down nuclear research. He went on to say that, given the challenge of climate change and the advances in nuclear proposed in Generation IV, that researchers should “go for it”."

or read for more background:

https://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2017/01/09/john-kerry-mit-cl...

Just to be clear. I don't care one way or the other about Kerry and I would rather see renewable energy thrive without the use of nuclear, but if it were a choice between that and fossil fuels, I would advocate nuclear. I am more irritated that you posted a giant PDF with a tiny aside to justify a clearly outdated political claim on HN.
This explains why US GDP at the end of 1969 was right on 1 trillion. It's a default starting value.
MIT does require acknowledgement. Nintendo was legally obliged to include the full text of the license and the copyright notices in their documentation.

Not everyone is a fan of that requirement, which is why Unlicense, 0BSD, 1-clause BSD and Boost licenses were created.
Why just treatment of German civilians? Soviets were assholes to pretty much everybody. Baltic states, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, Finland, China, ... - they all enjoyed "friendliness" of Soviets. They also raped women liberated from concentration camps. During liberation of Poland it's estimated they raped ~100,000 women. Talk about saving the victims.
It's a long article, but it starts off talking about student debt and then increasingly moves towards the concept of cancelling many other kinds of debt. "In June, the Movement for Black Lives called for the absolution of student loans, medical debt, mortgage payments and rent". The article is still worth reading if you want to learn about the "Debt Jubilee" concept they are advocating.

I've read many articles lately encouraging Joe Biden to unilaterally cancel student debt. This one says "any American President, should they desire, can make every penny of federal student debt disappear without consulting Congress". And it's clear most of these articles utilize a "Just Do It" kind of attitude that completely ignores the real and legitimate concerns many citizens like I have about the fairness and practicality of just forgiving (by making the government pay it instead) billions of dollars of voluntarily taken loans.
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I do not quite understand what you're trying to say here. Many are / were not wealthy to buy any computer at all back then. I was born long before 486.
The other problem is that for a newsletter to succeed you must be:

* A good enough writer, for people to want to read what you write

* Have identified a niche to write about

* Be sufficiently skilled in that niche that you can write as an expert, and provide a genuine expert opinion which is worth the money.

Most writers will succeed at the first, will try to get the second, and then fall down on the third. You can't just be a writer - you need to be a writer with something special to offer.
Related: There was that story about how axle count on Swiss trains can't be a multiple of 256 (2^8) [0], and a comment mentioned that German has a limit of 252 "just to be safe":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12071686

[0] Because there are only 8 bits to store the axle counter for whether the train has passed, and you don't want overflow to zero.
I might be missing something, but what's the connection between bitcoin and the gold standard?
Please learn the meaning of "false dichotomy".
Yup. It's pretty interesting the places that managed their woodlands responsibly over a long time - Japan and England both had pretty sophisticated approaches to not running out of this resource over the long term.
My One-Man SaaS tech stack:

* AWS EC2

* .NET Core Backend (Business logic + Kestrel Web server + Let's Encrypt + JSON Web API)

* NOSQL Database: The filesystem

* SPA InfernoJS front-end (similar to React)

--

The application is performance intensive and must deliver responses sub 100ms at at all times. Each 'request' from the user does a lot of work. I optimized to get all this to run efficiently on a $20 / mo EC2 instance, with no other costs
The fact that 'stealing money' is harshly prosecuted is just one factor that contributes to its value as a currency.
> it's safe to argue that the poor general response to COVID is also an indicator of your skill at science

This isn’t safe to argue at all. In fact, it’s completely wrong. We know that the poor UK response is almost exclusively due to politicking and government corruption. The scientific advisory panel of the government (SAGE) hasn’t always been right in their assessment but they very quickly produced rigorous working models and solid recommendations, most of which have mirrored (and continue to mirror) the international consensus. Furthermore, public research in the UK has, sometimes against the active opposition of the government, done stellar work to ramp up testing and genetic sequencing.

For instance, several institutes (incl. the Crick Institute in London and the University of Cambridge) had extensive testing capabilities set up in record time, but their offers to official channels were ignored for weeks, if not months (the Crick in particular simply ignored this and already provided testing internally and externally, at a time when basically no country had widespread testing yet).

Likewise, a collaboration of different institutes quickly set up genome sequencing pipelines for COVID-19 samples, and as far as I know the Sanger Institute is sequencing more COVID-19 samples than any other individual entity in the world: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/sanger-institute/t...
WireGuard for Windows 0.3: ARM support, enterprise features, & more
Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case
If the Engineers say, they wont build your dream bridge, then you wont get a bridge. Easy as that. Sometimes there is a reason pros wont do it.
The Azure Cloud Shell image has been updated
Would love to find a way to try this in person because it lives and dies by the keyboard quality.
Azure Cloud Shell Update base image to CBL-D
Same! Why is this? I watched some videos on car stuff and the next day I get suggestions for people unboxing meal planning stuff when I never watched a video pertaining to that.
It's safe to assume that whoever undermined these routers has access to a grab bag of exploits that they are free to attempt at will, and without any detection, for all time, because they own your router. I like to think I "run a tight ship" security-wise, but if a state-run botnet owned my router, I don't think it would take long for them to find a weakness and get a foothold into my PC, and it would, in general, be pretty hard for me to know about it happening since I rely on the router to tell me about network activity!

(Personally, the best way to accomplish that goal in would be to require the owner to install an app to complete the router installation. The old, unpatched Android phones Wal-Mart shoppers use are generally easy to exploit I imagine. Although I expect that your app could ask for total control over the phone and all data sources, and people will just answer yes because they want their thing to work, and Wal Mart wouldn't sell it if it wasn't safe.)
Try it in incognito tab in Chrome, or equivalent in another browser; that (Chrome Incognito) normally sorts it for me on Medium.
The release song slaps. Love the beat.
Yup. Labor is not as mobile for the employee.

Amazon is interesting too. They brought the global supply chain to the consumer. What consequences will that have?
Now do 2020 elections and the 50 Cent Army.
I don’t presume to know enough about Unicode to code parsers it, but I’m happy to accept the correction!
If you're interested, you can always refer to the research from the Ornithology Institute of Oxford University, since that's where they work. Won't give out anymore info, or I'd be doxxing myself.
That’s the thing, if they paint it as something non-controllable, you may think you can’t get compensation. Or you’ll get stone-walled in trying to figure out the real reason.
This article hits the nail on the head. The financial system is not working. Also there are VC-funded zombie companies everywhere. Just look at Snapchat or Uber. Never made a profit in a decade but they have ridiculously high market cap.

What kind of investor puts their money into a business which has a decade long track record of losing money and no profits in sight? In a system which is notorious for incentivizing short term gains... It doesn't add up.
Ask HN: Where do you keep your error code glossary
We need somewhere to keep a list of our app's error codes, so that:

- we have a single source of truth

- we don't repeat/overlap by mistake

- human readable to reduce collisions, low barrier to find

- is machine readable so can be used for i18n, etc

- can be used to publish something like this: https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/errors

Looking for suggestions of where to keep this list. Confluence makes the last two hard. A file in git isn't so findable. Have you done this on your projects? Where would you keep this list and why?
Considerably more powerful and expensive, but the Jetson TX2 or Xavier NX fits this niche quite well.
That approach has always ended badly in my experience because your manual installs will require more care to remove than the Hombrew ones. My usual recommendation is to install anything which supports it using --HEAD which will keep things tracked and make it trivial to either completely uninstall or simply use "brew reinstall" packages after the upstream stabilizes.
Fully support those who want to use these tools, just don’t forget they are not a crutch. You can still write hard to work with code and know exactly who the SME is. That doesn’t make the code less difficult to work with, less error prone to change. That can only be solved by design and enforced through discipline.
For another, it they're doing it right (not just for a checkmark on a list) then there is a non-insignificant chance of being heard. That makes other passengers uncomfortable.
In addition to other posters, firewall rules in Windows are far more permissive for internal networks than external ones. So if you have a setup where your laptop can RDP into your desktop with minimal credentials, someone gaining control of the router can access your desktop as well. If you do practice good security and require a username/password for the RDP session, the router can still spy on that traffic for the malicious remote. In addition, the remote can issue Remote Assistance requests. More nefariously, if your PC is not on the latest patch, which most PCs aren't, an exploit could be used to install a RAT or ransomware or equivalent. Are you using a NAS that is open to every machine on the internal network? If so, the remote will have a field day with your backups and shared data.

In short, once the remote has gained access to your internal network, many types of attacks become possible.
Can you tell me a bit about your background and your journey towards writing WASM, and learning to write a complier? (for context I never took a compiler course, vaguely know what lex and yacc are)
Might as well try out NixOS.

I've been using it on all my personal devices for ~6 months and also for some bare metal sever deployments.

A (mostly) immutable system configured with a single config file is an absolute killer feature.

The ability to roll back to a previous config in the bootloader or the terminal is brilliant.

And home-manager [1] provides the same experience for your user environment.

I also looked into Guix, but the community and package repository seem much smaller.

They also don't accept proprietary software in the official package repo. Which is a respectable ideological choice, but really reduces usability a lot compared to nixpkgs.

[1] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
Frost heaving is also a significant contributor to road wear in winter areas.
You can get pretty far along metallurgy with burning wood and charcoal.
I think this question is introspective, it's about what you think of yourself.
This is an insane idea. But.

Given that unlike cars, tractors work in a bounded area, could some kind of permanent power cord work? Given that irrigation water can get to all those crops, can't a power cable?
You need monster HP when you are trying to do a lot in a single pass, when I talk about the idea of autonomous+electric I am envisioning trading less work per pass for less HP and trading that off for more units and less labour.

Back in the bad old days you'd work 6 inches deep with a single-bottom plow behind a single draft horse! You can always break it up enough to get the HP down! ;)
Inequality sustained or increased by the law of man is entirely artificial.

Discrimination has long been applied to achieve inequality. I'm willing to try the opposite as a countermeasure.

https://www.newberry.org/newberry-and-restrictive-covenants
Let's say one has a friend who doesn't know what "a wide bus" refers to... What would be a good way of explaining it to said friend?
I usually do that but was presented with this text from medium after I signed in:

> Not every story on Medium is free, like this one. Become a member to get unlimited access and support the voices you want to hear more from.

Which makes it sounds like this is a paid article regardless. Incognito worked though thank you.
How to implement password recovery securely in PHP
He woke up in New York, and had to hitch a ride back...
I use blue light glasses, i change the brightness of my laptop with a chrome extension that changes the color to be more yellow-like
That may be the case since he WAS getting the royalties before Disney snatched it up.
Sort of, yeah. In C, the size of the integer primitives isn't defined. What is defined is that sizeof(char) will always be 1 (one). However, it is entirely implementation defined what that 1 refers to. On most systems, it is the number of 8-bit bytes, but it could refer to a larger or smaller amount of memory.
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It sounds like Foster was getting royalties on these books up until Disney bought them, so presumably his WFH contract did indeed specify some kind of continuing compensation despite assigning the rights.

This comment (https://www.sfwa.org/2020/11/18/disney-must-pay/#comment-214...) from the SFWA president says that Alan’s contract says that it is binding on “the successors and assigns” which is Disney. I presume that "the successors and assigns" is a direct quote from his copy of the contract.
In Sweden they are building a prototype of the Hybrit process, using hydrogen to reduce the ore. The plan is to convert the blast furnaces in Sweden and Finland within a couple of decades.

Now this isn't a particularly low tech way of going about it, and producing the hydrogen requires massive amounts of electricity. So probably not an option if you're bootstrapping civilization after a collapse.
They're being a bit more glib than that. They had sent him an offer to discuss, but that offer was 100% contingent on him signing an NDA.

Since he didn't sign the NDA yet, they haven't thought of any of his communications since then as a 'response'.
So something similar to ghost.org ?
Well, the time window in which you should do certain farming operation without product degradation is often quite short and having smaller tractor doing it autonomously might not cut it. Once you need to buy few of those to replace one you are buying into bigger chance to failure, more maintenance duties etc and it might result in higher cost per unit.