skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you are bald and your head is in the frame, it detects your head as hand.
Documentation needs to express the intent of the author and how they arrived at a solution, and more importantly why they arrived at a solution. As someone who's had to clean up "self documented" code I can say unequivocally it will be a disaster. A decade from now we will be untangling thousands of lines of some ancient Python library to understand the intent of infrastructure that could have otherwise been properly documented in 5 minutes.
Maybe a solution would be to add revenue thresholds. It does seem like many of the new age of internet based companies do seem to exist solely b/c of their ability to circumvent regulation. Uber with employment laws and Airbnb with hotel regulations come to mind.
To be honest, I don't remember the name of the app. I think I actually got it as an APK from Randy directly...
Apparently. The comment box is enabled for me for example.
LucasArt games gave you a ton (unlimited?) of nameable save slots though.
Good to hear. Pelias was a welcome innovation in geolocation using OSM data.
If engaged in a situation where your citizens are acting lawfully if someone is shooting at you or about to shoot at you while you are engaged in your lawful action you can shoot them. This is only complicated if you want a reason to go after people for vague reasons.
Not that I'm anti-EV, but it's probably worth noting that EVs like Tesla's are both heavier and more torquey than the average ICE econobox. They might be causing more than their fair share of road wear. Especially considering you can treat every stop as a drag race in relative silence.
Direct flights from Italy to Wuhan and many Chinese work in Italy.

What is the origin of the virus? China cannot say because of logical fear that the world will blame them for all the death.
Sunclock for Android is pretty good for free (with ads, or pay to remove ads):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.hbenecke.su...
It's not though. That is to say... people really ought to check their blood results and act appropriately.

The truth is that in northern latitudes, anyone with dark skin is simply unable to meet their vitamin D intake from sun exposure alone. In certain parts of America, and a lot of Europe, a dark skinned person spending the entire lit part of the day outside buck naked is still not enough to synthesize enough vitamin D to be sufficient. Supplementation or dietary ingestion is necessary.

For me, as a dark skinned person in a northern latitude, my levels were very low. Taking 2000 IU a day did nothing. I had to take 10000 IU a day in order to appreciably raise my Vit D levels. That is what we found after checking with a doctor. I would recommend anyone else do the same. 5000 IU + is typical for people with vitamin D deficiencies. Some doctors even recommend extremely high megadoses to reset your vitamin D intake.
China is very diverse place.
It's finally the moment for revenue-based startup financing
And don't forget the American culture of owning huge fuel wasters and being proud of their expensive purchase. Long distances in countries like Australia and the USA sound like legitimate reasons for ICE vehicles, but the more cynical side of me assumes that USA culture leaking into Australia is at least equally likely.
Yes, costco sells 10000 IU ones.
As the author, I totally agree. Especially for the deduplication benchmark there are so many variables that affect it that is definitely is worth restating.

That being said, I am quite confident the results are accurate and don't mind other people running their own tests.
I think the common element in both cases is building clarity and focus.

I don't do an OKR process, but I have congruent ways of limiting how much personal change I'm tackling at once. If I try to a bunch of vague and broad things, I don't succeed. If I pick some clear, specific, time-bound actions, I do much better.

And I think it's fine that OKRs leave out the hills. In setting them, we think about the hills and possible routes. When we're working toward them, we develop a lot of understanding of where we are and our current specifics. If that in the moment demands creating more explicit or formal, that's fine. The OKRs are just there to create the context.
Addiction is sometimes described as something that is done repeatedly and is harmful. I can't get by without breathing, so I need to do that pretty often, but as it's not harmful, it's not an addiction.

The answer to your question is it depends... I don't think there is anything wrong with playing a dopamine hitting game on a 10 minute bus ride home from work (it's no different than the buzz from a shot of espresso), but if you are spending so much time that you are harming yourself (physically or emotionally) then that's an addiction.

There was a talk posted a few days ago here by Dr Gabor Mate about addiction:

https://youtu.be/vMstO3U4sVw

(Skip the 10 min intro, then watch at least the first hour)

His views are very different from the mainstream US view of addiction being substance abuse that can be fixed by restricting access to the drugs.
Restic does the same, though on the command line. I migrated from Borg to Restic and it took half an hour or so, the two tools are really similar.

What sold me on Restic is that it doesn't actually require a binary on the server. I don't know how much slower it is without one, though.
Precisely this. You're not locked into a platform on PC / MacOS. On consoles you are. On Apple phones you are.
The smallest possible money unit When money crashes into the laws of physics
No I didn't but after looking at it it looks like its implementation falls short.

- it only looks at system time at system startup, then relies on instant for monotonic clock source. unfortunately for setups that do leap-second smearing (ours does), this would deviate slightly out of sync after operating for a while.

- does not handle seq overflow within a given millisecond window - this i think is very unsafe, and can cause the generation of duplicate IDs if `next_id` is called at too rapid an interval.
1) Hybrid, I design hardware so I typically have to go in to use equipment about once every week or two. A bit surprise is how little I need to be in the office.

2) I'm about a 30 minute walk/10 minute drive from the office

3) Working from home hasn't been too bad, a bit of loneliness, but mostly it is fine.

4) Pros - Less people bugging me throughout the day to answer questions, able to go run errands during the day if needed (e.g. grocery shopping off peak hours). Cons - Having to plan when I go into the office to do stuff, keeping track of the other people on my projects and making sure work is being done, more meetings, later hours (mostly due to being asked to oversee an project from an overseas team, at least I don't have to get home before or after the meetings).

5) It sucks living in a tiny apartment and working from home. It would be greatly useful if I had a separate office so I can shut work away at the end of the day. I literally go an lie on my bed just to get away from my workspace. If it was permanent, I'd be looking to move to a larger place. A job specific observation/quirk, remote desktop doesn't work well with 3D CAD programs when you run 4K monitors at home.

6) It depends on the type of person. My job could never be fully remote, but a hybrid model works better than I expected. I'll definitely be wanting to work from home occasionally even once everyone is back in the office.
Did you test the backups with Restic's built in test command, or by restoring?
Heh, to defend Obama on Gaddafi, it's not like he's got crystal balls. And if he had done an Iraq War II deployment into Libya, the American public (presumably you too) would've screamed for his head, after suffering 8 years of the clusterfuck that is Iraq (and 10 of Afghanistan), which was started and kept in "fucked" state for 5 (7 for AF) years by people like Rumsfeld and Cheney.
I hope this original is published as a book. (This is actually fairly common for journalism in the New Yorker.)
Photographing the Orion Nebula through light-polluted skies
Even if it’s mechanical it works. I keep hitting Reddit or HN when I’m compiling or uploading or switching tasks. Blocking it for 8 hours (sometimes for days) really helps me stay focused and get my work done so I can do something actually relaxing
Nah, if you max out your pulse 30 minutes a day you aren't sedentary, and that is just 5 minutes 6 times a day. It is healthier to spread it out like that rather than sit still and do it all at once.
All of those things have worked fine for me. I suspect it depends on how you use them.
Hah, sure, here's the highly technical cradle: https://i.imgur.com/VRj5Fxs.jpg

It's a piece of cardboard bent to the size of my phone, wrapped with duct tape. Then a piece of velcro attached to the cradle, and the back of the monitor so that it pokes out up above.
I got my blood tested and everything came back in normal ranges except Vitamin D, which was HALF of the normal range!

I and the doctor both knew that the link to COVID susceptibility was inconclusive, but that its such low hanging fruit that might as well take a supplement. Its honestly just not even worth debating "but maaaaybe low Vitamin D is linked to other things and those people were already sick!" okay, typical useless internet discussion. Now back to getting it into normal ranges. The doctor gave me 50,000 IU weekly doses. Available by prescription only.
crates.io has 52,000 crates. You may not find everything, but you can find a lot of things.
Big Oil Is Getting Scared of Electric Vehicles
Climate and socioeconomic conditions are probably also factors, but yes, I wouldn't be surprised if vitamin D is one, too.
Do you think being sedentary is literally not moving at all throughout your day? Doctors generally recommend at least 4-5 hours of vigorous exercise a week, getting up and circling your apartment a few times each day is not equivalent.
> Someone here on HN tried Googlebot and it worked. I just tested it and it is still working

Was there an HN thread regarding this change that I missed?
This led me down a Wikipedia hole where I learned about John B. Calhoun’s experiments with mice - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun#Mouse_experi...
Very interesting - once the “mouse universe” reached a high population density, it descended into violence and chaos, which was succeeded by massive behavioral changes across the entire population - male mice became introverted, ceased fighting and attempting to reproduce, and simply ate, drank, slept and groomed themselves until the population collapsed.
What you said is totally false:

1) China is facing a major famine, and millions could die in the next couple of years. Many farmers cannot afford to replant.

2) CCP officials, including Xi, have relocated family members to Canada and Australia because of expected political retaliation if they remain in China.

3) The "hegemony" you talk about is stealing from American capital markets to bribe BRI vassal states. We'll see how long that lasts.

But hey, if you want to buy a one-way ticket to China, be my guest.
Yeah one of the best tools especially as Apple's power saving had become a bit overzealous lately
> The better you know a language, the more tempting it is to take shortcuts. When you don't know a language well enough to write really gross things that work "for now", you have to think carefully about the simplest possible solution to a problem that you can express clearly in an unfamiliar language.

I have the opposite experience, the worst performance bottle necks I have had to trouble shoot are from principal engineers (and tech leads) that use medium to high level abstractions in a ruby on rails that don't actually understand what how many sql commands they are triggering by writing clever one liners that taco my db, from a rails 2.4 method that has a much better rails 5 system they don't know about.
If your standard is perfection you’ll always be disappointed.

Suffice to say that both Taiwan and South Korea would not be leading democracies in Asia without US intervention. Yes, both were dictatorships initially.

Are you arguing it would be better if North Korea were running the whole peninsula? And China controlled Taiwan?
Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
That's really cool as well. I like the video explanation. Too many websites fail to explain what the product actually is and this simple site did a good job. Basic ecommerce done well here.

That said for nearly $700USD I'd rather go for a smart watch. Even though I understand why you wouldn't want one for privacy, distraction/addiction, or whatnot.
Obama's pattern does not "clearly" look more dictatorial. Hitler was given absolute power via legislative processes. The prototypical dictator for life, Caesar, was granted that title by the Roman Senate.

I could say well Bush lost the popular vote, so clearly anything he did looks more intrinsically dictatorial. Or because he raised private armies. It would be misleading. It doesn't matter how power is consolidated.
Watch what happens as revenue from fuel taxes decreases enough to threaten budgets.
I mean, there have been famines in recent human history in which people have allegedly turned to cannibalism and other behavior we would consider barbaric?
Yes it's still true. To charge an EV the average person needs around 10kWh a day, distributed over 23h of parking time. That's not a lot of current. You just need to teach the car to talk to the grid so that not all cars charge at once.
400 comments in "Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594068
Thanks for the ideas, my post was intended as an example why personal OKRs might be helpful -to align existing efforts, become aware of them and invest time with more care and purpose.

I am not looking for dating advice here, nor assumptions about my supposed views on women or my other activities in that area. There is a pandemic going on and my former social life outside is frozen, there were positive and inspiring encounters through dating apps and I even met a few friends there over the years. I am glad that more opportunities to meet new people online are slowly emerging (or more people discover them) such as zoom/gathertown meetups, discord groups etc, even as they can't replace dancing.
(FWIW, this paper wasn't retracted, but that detail isn't that important. It's also an ID paper, not a YEC one; both are part of creationalism and the difference isn't important enough for the point of this discussion.)

The key questions are: Do you think it was controversial merely because it was on ID? Or because the evidence presented didn't actually support a ID claim?

It appears that paper falls solidly in my description of how such works get into print, eg, cherry-picking quotes:

1) added the keywords "intelligent design" after editorial review

2) "naive to the point of being silly"

3) "I can only speculate, but inattention to the details and unfamiliarity with the references might have played a role [in how the article made it into print]."
Reminds me of this incredible talk by Tom Scott: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q
I wrote a blog post[1] about I overcome these problems, some may find it useful. TLDR; disable most apps on your phone and make it impossible to impulsively search the web on (at least) the computer you use most often.

I would love for a phone/watch that goes back to the roots of the iPod: just calls, text, music, podcasts, audiobooks, etc. Maybe a calendar and some kind of note-taking. Zero way to connect with others outside of phone calls. Definitely no web-browser, email or chat apps. Cameras are dangerous (because then you have photo-sharing apps), but are definitely nice to have.

[1]: http://vitiral.github.io/2020/12/06/how-I-reclaimed-my-atten...
Show HN: stationary_vector: A Parallelizable, Low-Latency C++ Vector
I'd heard of weed maps but cocaine taxis seems like a brazenness I couldn't imagine working on either side, vendor or buyer.
No I personally have not felt anything taking it at 5000. Or you know, not taking it after a period.

It's just like taking a vitamin. It's also a low enough dose to be safe for my adult body size/weight.
If you want to tax according to wear, almost every car is pretty much free and trucks become insanely expensive. Road wear is something like axle weight to the fourth power.
If Bāo and Bào are surnames, then it isn't similar to the forename "Joe"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D

It's technically a steroid, not a nutrient. We can manufacture it in the body. "Essential nutrients" are things we cannot manufacture.

It's essential to bone health and bone marrow is where the body makes white blood cells. It's generally understood to be important to normal immune function.

If you have reason to believe you are Vitamin D deficient, it is always a good idea to address that. If you are not deficient, there is no reason to believe that taking "extra" will protect you from anything. In fact, it may be quite harmful, in part because it is a steroid and in part because it is fat soluble so you can end up storing the excess to the point of hitting "toxic" levels.
"They argue for YEC not for religious reasons, but for honest intellectual reasons."

Who? And what are their arguments?

And how have their arguments not been given a fair hearing and found lacking? (See http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html for a list of common creationist arguments and their rebuttal.)

That's what I mean by a concrete example.
This site has a fairly complete index of all the studies related to vitamin D and COVID-19. Before commenting here I recommend reading through all of the article abstracts as much of what you might want to know has already been addressed.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
ReactOS in 2020 – ReactOS Project
I moved from Europe to the US as a teenager, and I remember being shocked at the evident shock, decay and poverty I saw even in what was supposed to be a large and prosperous city (New York).

It took me a long time to realize that this is how America works: things that didn't work or that nobody wants are allowed to fail, and this clearing out of the underbrush is what allows new things to come forth. Contrast this with Europe, where things like unprofitable state enterprises are propped up essentially forever, sucking away capital and people that could be doing something useful instead.

But this was a long, long time ago. These days I don't hold out much hope for the US or for Europe: humanity's future is in Asia.
> For any project where performance or correctness are significant concerns I'd much rather use Rust than Python. It provides a lot more tools to help you write correct code, and express invariants in a machine-checkable way. This means that they are maintained when the code changes, even when multiple contributors are involved. I'm must more confident in my ability to ship correct code in Rust and maintain that correctness over time.

Any reason for why Rust over Ada/SPARK?
Meanwhile, most people I talk to IRL about the topic, after having had the safety talk: "But nuclear is too expensive!"

Strangely they never have comparative prices or can explain why France doesn't have super high energy prices.
iPhones also have a greyscale mode under accessibility:

Settings, then choose Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Color Filters. Turn the Color Filters toggle switch on, and Grayscale appears as the top option
Some people are still using 2.7 in production.
I'm pretty much in agreement, for the most part. Which is why I didn't put encryption as a priority on my backup tool for quite a while.

Two things that you'd want encryption on

1) for compliance (dealing with customer data, patient medical records etc).

2) Lots of secrets in your browser data directory (logged in session IDs, cookie values, site data).
That is the first generation Tesla Model S I doubt that it had self driving capabilities...
> Patches are currently available only for the ATP, USG, USG Flex, and VPN series. Patches for the NXC series are expected in April 2021, according to a Zyxel security advisory.

4 months to deliver a security patch of this significance? Would love to know what kind of situation leads to that kind of latency.
No, I go and do an exercise regime every hour, why would you just walk around your home? Waste of time to not exercise hard.
They should probably buy a struggling automaker (Nissan, etc) for access to supply chains and raw amounts of automotive engineers. Nissan should have substantive numbers of EV engineers too.

At a minimum that would enable working on a minivan, smaller cars, and other form factors, especially if it is under a different badge.

But that assumes that car design is the bottleneck, it may still be battery supply, and nothing matters until that is solved.

Given their apparent quality problems, I'd guess it's not all battery issues.
Is this like a Ponzi scheme?
Road wear is like cubic? With vehicle weight. Would take 10000 Tesla’s to wear the road the same as one truck.

https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weigh...

If you want to EV tax me for road wear fine. Please tax trucks at least 1000x, and please tax all gas burning cars for the lung cancer and other negative externalities they cause.
"Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts" - literal translation "entity of public law" - and are more or less non-profit businesses funded by the city

As a point of interest, the American equivalent of this is called an "Authority." Examples include the Chicago Transit Authority, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Rome didn't collapse, it just diversified into several other smaller states. The Aztec empire wasn't overthrown by the Spanish, but just fractured. The empire of Genghis Khan didn't collapse, it just got successfully split until what remained resembled nothing of what it once was.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but rather pointing out that -- in the grand scheme of history -- every collapse can be recast as a 'diversifying' of the original society, even if the end state of the society has little in resemblance to the original.

For example, the Roman empire lasted -- in the form of the byzantines -- until 1453, only a few decades before Columbus discovered America, but the Byzantines were not really Roman in the way we think of ancient Rome, despite having every claim to being one and the same with the Roman empire.
In the situation suggested above: because the owners are the consumers and thus have no inventive to charge themselves more for a later taxed payout.
Sometimes officials choose not to do things "at their digression" based on public opinion, without the need to change laws. Also, the argument about changing laws is moot if we are discussion the suppression of information, from becoming public, and therefore motivating the law.

Basically, "if it is legal or not" is not the only important factor, because laws can change.
23h? That strikes me as ridiculously optimistic on a population-scale level.

When only charged at home it's just an overnight charging window.
This is a repost from 10 months ago

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=I%20Want%20Off%20Mr.%20Golang%...
I doubt this will make it to the front page, but thanks for sharing and happy New Year, my friend :)
I've self-administered vitamin D for decades, 2,000 IU daily for the last few years. When my GP heard about it, they ordered a test. Even with that intake + a reasonably healthy diet I was in the lower 1/3 of the healthy range, so I've upped to 3,000 IU. (Obviously I'm not saying this applies to anybody else.)
Yeah, and it looks quite beautiful!
What's the 90th percentile trip length in Australia compared to France? I bet it's not that much different.
> Yet some have not collapsed but have only gradually faded away, as in the case of the British Empire since 1918.

Burn.