skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped celebrating Christmas back around 2010 I think? I told my family not to buy me anything, and I wouldn't buy them anything. My parents wrote my name on all the stuff given to nephews and nieces. My dad even offered to give me money and I refused it.

Since then, I've had the best winters ever. I don't consume. I don't fret about gifts. If I want to give something special to someone I love, I do it at another time of the year. It might seem grinchy, but I don't feel that way. I feel better about myself for getting away from consumerism.

I wrote this nearly a decade ago on shopping and gift giving:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/perspective/shopping/
Well, again, we see about 20-40% eSNI activity based on our connection data, of about 60k monthly users.
Postmates Joining UberEats
In a very substantial number of enterprises; the cost of procuring, validating, installing, powering, cooling, fire-rating, commissioning, maintaining, writing up, handing over, revising, reporting, auditing, approving, and very occasionally actually executing those hot<>cold standby procedures, exceeds the entire purchase cost of the cold standby unit.
Optimum Developer Productivity – GitHub and Visual Studio Code and Azure
It still absolutely blows my mind that Arecibo was able to be used as an active radar to survey planets and other objects in the solar system.
What about Apple's privacy do you disagree with?
Arecibo was steerable, that's what the receiver array was for.
AWS Re:invent talked about improvements to S3 earlier today. You can see that talk here https://virtual.awsevents.com/media/1_usujusng

For any AWS EMR/hadoop users out there, this means the end of emrfs.

For the uninitiated, emrfs recognizes consistency problems but does not fix them. It'll throw an exception if there's a consistency problem, even give you some tools to fix the problem, but the tools may give false positives. The result is you've got to fix some consistency problems yourself, parse items out of the emrfs DynamoDB catalog, match them up to s3, then make adjustments where needed. It's an unnecessary chore.

It surprises me that this issue has not got more attention over the years and thankfully it'll be solved soon.
Teams is the new Skype

> everyone has Teams for free

Prevalent sentiment at my workplace:
Teams integrates well for outlook meetings, but it‘s a CPU hog, has crappy chat UI.

It paralyzes work to the extent, that I only prefer to use Slack. Or zoom for bigger video calls.
While mechanical and real watches are fun, smartwatches' biggest selling point for me is body telemetry. Steps taken, floors climbed, pulse, activity tracking, etc.

I've disabled everything notifications and phone-control wise on my MiBand. I exclusively use it for a body telemetry device and I love it.

While I miss my proper watches, I just can't leave the MiBand at home.
Of course. And that is part of my point: Arecibo may not be the most sensible thing to rebuild if it's not salvageable and larger antennas exist.
The problem with gifts is that if you actually want it and it's worth the money you would have bought it already. (There are exceptions: e.g. parents with more money buying gifts for kids who can't afford them.)
How do you determine what is "small loss"?

Get the feeling 90% of fraudsters could use gmail and there's very little chance anyone on Earth would block them.
Can you elaborate? Slack's async feed used to ping me every 5 min and distract me from coding. I also found myself having OCD about going through each and every message that was sent to all channels - very low ROI obsession. I like the slightly higher barrier of having to send emails and refresh your email inbox :)

EDIT - thanks to everyone correcting me on the sync vs async! I fixed it in the original comment.
AKS with multiple Nginx ingress controllers, Application Gateway, Key Vault cert
Isue with those: they're often battery leeches. Especiially when displaying highly dynamic content - the lcd draws almost nothing when the displayed image stays static
I'd think Excel-based games would be more common. It's dataflow programming after all, which is the only form of massively parallel programming that ever caught on in a big way.
I will spend more time trying (with no great chance of succcess) to obtain authorisation to establish an additional commercial relationship, and corporate billing/card approval, and the time burned on this instantly exceeds any amount of money they could possibly save me.
Don't mean to be nosy ha, what is the code you were working on/had on screen? Perhaps not specifics but language/context the grouping seemed interesting. (the indents are insane is it Go/Linux?)

I guess when you say "saving raw frames"... are you saying this video you made was not simple by "push record button, .mp4 comes out"?

Oh the white background comment is about the iso/bad balance?

Anyway thanks this is pretty cool... I just ordered mine so won't be able to play around with it till January.
The most impactful thing NZ can do to deal with the climate change emergency:

1- Ban tourism to New Zealand. All those flights that will no longer cross half the globe to get to NZ and the tourists who come and despoil the environment will save thousands of tons of CO2 emissions.

2- NZ can also give up dairy and sheep farming which leads to methane emissions which are a potent greenhouse gas. There is a glut of dairy products and NZ's export will actually not be missed. NZ I think has the highest number of sheep/cows to humans.

I am not optimistic that NZ will do any of that but rather wax virtuous about accounting moves like CO2 neutrality. I am genuinely curious if moves like CO2 neutrality actually accomplish anything. Opinions?
at most 35% ppl are willing to relocate, since you run the second command after the first one and new comments could have been added in between.
Convenient trash copy to distract people from the actual class war. $47 TRILLION is what's missing from the pockets of the middle-, lower-, and homeless-classes in America in particular,
stolen from the bottom 90% by the rich 1% from 1975 to 2018 (RAND Corp. figure). https://newrepublic.com/article/159478/rich-people-hilarious...

It's been going on a lot longer than that and likely more.
Seems like it's a consumer society built on cheap oil over the recent century which is not meant to be powered by renewables.

Civilization itself is continuing to gain on a scale of millennia from progress in renewables, now seemingly at somewhat of an exponential growth phase.
Medical researcher taps existing drugs for new uses
The price point is right, and there's a lot of functionality. I wish Wyze well in its quest to sell a lot of their smart watches, and they probably will.

That being said, what I'd really like (if someone out there is listening) is a smart watch which is not only cheap (<$20), but it would also have microHDMI and microUSB ports, and basically you could take it off your wrist and hook it up to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse, and use it like a very underpowered Raspberry Pi...

Yes, it would be slow compared to other computers...

Yes, it would be limited in many respects compared to other computers...

But dagnabbit if it wouldn't be cool to have, if you couldn't just take it off and use it like a general-purpose stand-alone computer!

To me, that's the killer feature that any smart watch must have...

Oh yeah, and Open Source everything, too...

And yes, I realize that I ask for a lot! <g>
> How much is it worth to passively keep an eye on your heart rate, and stress levels, and oxygen levels, and sleep levels

Yeah, if you need to monitor that perhaps you need to work on what's causing the need to monitor it instead ;)
Saving $130k a year with 10% investment return (totally feasible this decade) would have done the trick

> sum(130*1.1**i for i in range(6))
1003.0293

I was in Zurich - life's cheaper than in the Bay, lower rents and taxes, no CGT. Had own mortgaged apartment in the end, a car, frugal-ish lifestyle but nothing extreme and no kids. Totally possible on an L4 google pay (200-250k gross), even today.

In the states, myeah, you might need L5 to pull the same. But on the other hand there are much more well-paying places to work at besides only google, you'll have faster career growth.
Dumb rule tbh to focus on a single occupation.

Just make it money based

Want to skip military service? You will need to pay $3m USD in fees (or some high number). Then, use this fees to compensate the current soldiers.

Win win.
They are officiall and we use our own slack instance. We have an internal dedicated slack channel with our aws team i(technical account manager, solutions architect etc) as well. It can be handy just for organising meetings etc but it is really hit and miss depending on your account team. We are on an enterprise plan.

It definitely helped to have a faster turn around time and provide more visibility for people.
Getting Started with the AZ Predictor PowerShell Module for Azure
I'm 6 classes through it. Classes vary wildly in difficulty and applicability.

Favorites so far for me were AI4R (Ariticial Intelligence for Robotics) which is a more rigorous version of Udacity's Self-Driving Car course, ML4T (Machine Learning for Trading) where you implement various algorithms to optimize trading strategies, and ISYE 6501 (Intro to Analysis), which is a survey of various analysis techniques and ML algorithms.

Still have to take the reputed hardest course in the program, the General Algorithms course, the ML course, and an elective.

Worth the money, though I have had to skip a couple of semesters due to burnout. Work and this program are hard (for me).
I enjoyed The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Depending on what you're looking for it might be relatively light on the science side and includes autobiographical digressions, but overall gives a high-level overview of key developments in the field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gene:_An_Intimate_History
I wonder what are another 2 tools in your stack?
India regime is intentionally keeping people poor/starving with https://archive.is/6eE5g and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_in_circulation#Total_...
To expand on that (great explanation btw) and to get at something the original question was asking:

A protein can have many different, stable conformations. Those conformations depend on the chemical environment, and any interactions the protein is making. Basically they alter the lowest energy to be a different arrangement.

However, basic elements of the fold, with a few exceptions, will never change. We call these secondary structure elements, and they are limited by phi and psi angles on the dihedral C-N peptide bond. These secondary structure elements are thought to form before the protein is even fully synthesized, and are extremely difficult to undo. However, the spatial relationship between these elements is much more dynamic depending on what the protein is doing.

The ELI5 version is basically that proteins will have a basic shape, and they can wiggle around that shape, but can't really radically change because it would take too much energy
Amazon has hard-disk products for large transfers. Snowcone, Snowball and Snowmobile.
just to clarify, I don't think "oversized image" was a mistake on author's part, but a deliberate attempt to inflate book size, hence the rest of my sentence
Comments like these are a great reminder of how disconnected HN comment section can be from reality. That pricing is nothing.

At that price, if it helps close 1 incremental sale a month per seat it pays for itself.
Companies are still launching with iOS/Mac only? Very Silicon Valley of you. Ignoring Windows and Android is just silly these days.
> Three times as many people die from cancer now than in 1900!

I usually look at that as "today's medicine is advanced enough to keep us alive until we get a cancer". Keep in mind that research on antibiotics only started about in 1928...
How do you feel about desktop apps that sync to google drive? I just made scrumsheet.app and a friend mentioned that I should do the same for a personal CRM. Do you trust Google with the data or do you really prefer it to be offline-only?
For me the real selling point of the wyze cams is the free one week cloud storage (for detection event, with 5 minutes cooldown period, not permanent recording). This means I don't need to subscribe to anything and still have a record even when the burglars take the cam/system.
In my mental scheme slack is mostly synchronous (people expect a reply, there's a @here thingy to ping everyone, etc) whereas e-mail is asynchronous (people don't expect an immediate reply).

You said "asynchronous communication is detrimental to your health". Since asynchronous=email, I read "email is detrimental to your health". I thought you meant the contrary (slack is detrimental to your health -> synchronous communication is detrimental to your health) so I though it was a mistake.

Wasn't it?
Are you using an @protonmail.com address or a custom domain Protonmail?
Rene Magritte duck typing
Synchronous communication typically means something that demands your attention as soon as something is sent. Asynchronous communication is something that typically handled whenever you're ready for it. To put it in programming terms, synchronous communication "blocks" until you deal with it, where as asynchronous doesn't require you to deal with it until you're ready to.

https://www.worldwidelearn.com/education-advisor/questions/s...

https://status.net/articles/synchronous-vs-asynchronous-comm...
Interesting, I was always versioning file names as they upload. That seems to be mostly for file updates rather.
Gold Industry Shaken: 83 Tons of Fake Gold Bars Used to Secure $2B Loans
You need the r permission to read a directory, in the sense of getting a list of filenames. But the x permission lets you access files and subdirectories if you already know the filename. Of course, you need r permission in the file to read it, but you can always stat() it.
It shouldn't be one if you're sending 3500+ requests a second. It may take some time for partitioning to happen, though.
I don't really like Silicon Valley's mentality either, but no need for judgment. I totally feel you, and for us as a very small company we had the choice of either a) building a great native iOS/Mac app or b) Electron that runs everywhere but is ultimately a poor experience. We want to build a sustainable business not fueled by VC money, so our bandwidth is very limited. We decided to go the native route and work with the platforms we are experts on. There's some great Windows/Android clients though!
I haven't looked too deeply into emailio or front, but the solution to me looks a lot more like a mix of reddit and discourse (community/forum) than anything else. I'd love to see something that looks and feels like a forum than IM/chat. Systems like Slack are great for quick collaboration, but not ideal for persisting and disseminating information across diverse/large teams and organizations. I want to go to my messaging platform and see the topics that have been started and the discussions within them. This reduces all of the banter and chatter that endlessly goes one each day that just adds to the noise. I can go on and on, but maybe someday I'll get to see what I'm envisioning come to life.
This is what I mean by "hobbyist mindset": driving straight past the huge neon sign flashing TCO, assuming that some idiot (that's me) has failed arithmetic 101 (totally possible, my undergraduate mathematics ruined me for sums, isn't everything an infinite series?), and blithely disregarding the cost and time I'll need to obtain authorisation to establish a new commercial relationship, authorisation from legal and security to have our IP and/or customer data in yet another facility, then the overhead of managing the technical and billing elements, and the compliance reporting, and so on.

So yes, AWS is still a shoo-in.

Don't even get me started on the data sovereignty and latency issues of a self-proclaimed "global" hosting provider that's only on two continents, neither of which we are operating in.
Most people on here share this sentiment and endorse the exact laissez faire economic dogma that gave us a world run by corporations in the first place.

And let’s be clear: “big government” talk is meaningless squabble. The corporate order loves having a big government who protects it. What we need is a government (of any size) who works for the people.
FYI - your home page doesn't load properly for users with (e.g. nextdns.io) tracker blocking.

On your point, slack has brought fluidity and lightheartedness to our internal comms. IMHO less demanding than "chat apps" and way better than email chains for internal comms.
We need to talk: More on the problems juniors are facing
Thanks, this is really useful!
No, i excluded the sensor bump deliberately. Its area is too small to have a notable effect - the 8.5x9.2x1mm sensor bump sinks into the wrists skin and raises the watch by a lot less than the nominal 1mm. It probably is measurable, maybe calculate the space of the bump (~80mm³) and virtually redistribute the displacement across the whole 42x35 base plate and assume a calculated
effective thickness of less than a tenth of a millimeter (80/42/35=0,054mm)
Second this and at the same time don’t. The watch is great, it’s the closest to Pebble I’ve gotten. It also has features that I wanted out of my Pebble, like sleep tracking. The battery life is also fantastic and closer to 14 days for me.

But, the big downside is the software. It’s veeeery limited. The latest update made things a lot better and Fossil seems to be headed in the right direction, but it’s just not there yet. Customization is big for me, and the Fossil HR has limited amounts of it. No SDK for example, so no third party apps. You get what Fossil says you need.

That being said, I love my Fossil HR to bits. But man, I really wish I was wearing a Time Steel 2.
I feel like using this on my "Your Top Songs 2020" playlist tells me something about this year, but I'm not sure what.

For the curious: https://loope.herokuapp.com/?playlist=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spo...
>That's great, but when you're a startup and your only option is Comcast, outages are a very real thing.

Then send your hardware to a colo for a fraction of the cost of AWS
I can imagine that there is something better than email for many people, but the problem is that people have optimized their lives and companies have optimized their processes around the fact that email is a key mode of communication.

So even if you knew what would be better for people than email in the long-run, it's not clear that it would be better for them in the short-run. And even if it is actually better for people in the short-run, you still have to convince them of this in order for them to try your new thing.

So to disrupt email you not only have to 'skate to where the puck is going', you also have to convince a bunch of other people to skate away from where the puck is now.
Machine Learning
As Machines Learn, Will They Learn the Law? Will They Follow It?
As always, respond to what I actually said and not what you wish I'd said. It's always really annoying to have to tell people that they're making up my entire point.

Secondly, how is condemning Scott Atlas for his calls for an insurrection against the elected governor of Michigan a "personal attack" against him? I'll remind you that the governor of Michigan was already the target of a plan to kidnap her and execute her on television; having someone in the White House calling for an uprising against her is no small thing.

And if "don't call for uprisings" is your definition of "political wokeness", then I think that you've watered down the idea of "woke" to the point of uselessness.
From my understanding it was mostly useful for understanding new sequences in medical and genetic engineering; questions like can we modify this part of the protein and keep the overall structure the same.
If the attacker has 2/3 of the entire stake then the only option is to manually coordinate a fork to a chain without his censorship, allowing protocol penalties to run its course. A direct analogue of an asic PoW fork in case of a sustained attack.

>and thereby convincing victim nodes that he in fact is the victim of false slashing because the victims will only discover the slash-claims much after the attackers "valid" blocks?

It's not possible for 'false slashing' to occur, because slashing requires presenting conflicting votes.

>Isn't the slashing mechanism also reliant upon mere hope that the network topology randomly happens to be in favor of non-malicious peers?

topology doesn't matter in this case, 2/3+ consensus is asynchronous. 2/3 of stake is required to finalize blocks, so the attacker would finalize his own chain without slashing.

There are some ideas about 99+% proof consensus which rely on topology and nodes being online (which means they can observe that censorship is happening) but it's not currently implemented. Eventually I expect it to happen, making attacks a practical impossibility, by coupling asynchronous 2/3+ consensus guarantee with synchronous 99+% guarantee, effectively automatically coordinating anti-censorship forks.

https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/08/07/99_fault_tolerant.html
Hopefully the masses will see how futile it is a lot earlier this time.

The arrogance that led to that many deaths in WW1 is easily repeated by multiple parties
Nope, but I definitely have!
That sounds really cool. As a kid I built my own PHP forum system and have great memories from early internet forums. Bringing that to workspace is a really interesting idea. One of my fundamental problems with Slack and any new method of communication is, if you already use email daily do you really want another feed that you have to check? So, combining the workspace forum as a Subreddit or a Discord server, services which people perhaps already use, is a perfect solution! We may try this for Emailio's employees down the line by making a private subreddit. Thanks for the idea!
Blockchain
How Will Blockchain Technology Change the Practice of Law?
All useful contracts in real world are dependent on humans, unless the machines can make and deliver a pizza, with extra cheese and no pineapples.
It would be awfully charitable to categorize Atlas's call for people in Michigan to "rise up" as an argument. Among other reasons, a call for insurrection isn't falsifiable.

As for his actual arguments (see [0] for reference) they're a good reminder that there's no virtue in contrarianism in and of itself. I think it's pretty obvious at this point that advocating for reduced mask usage at the margin will impact mask usage in "public settings" in "areas with known or suspected widespread transmission" - a situation in which the WHO report Atlas cites [1] unambiguously recommends that the general public wear masks. But of course, I'm sure Atlas's decision to sum up that nuanced balance of evidence as "Masks work? NO" were rational and non-partisan.

[0] https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/18/white-house-expert-scot...

[1] https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/332293/WHO-...
Fair enough, it's great to have polished apps. But I was going to "request access" until I saw that your service won't be supporting any of the devices I use, so there's one potential customer down the drain. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.

For context, my company (https://prestodoctor.com) has spent tens of thousands of dollars on Front licenses, so I'm not just some random nay-sayer :-)
Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby 2nd Edition
by Metz Sandi (Author)

Starting to get into programming again and she explains things in a way even a non programmer can understand. Quite rare in programming books. One of my all time favorites.
Google partners with SkyWater to enable open source manufacturing of ASICs