skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must have forgotten it because I can open the Epic store and play Fortnite on my Mac right now without any warnings. I actually just downloaded the installer right from epicgames.com and it installed just fine. Apple doesn't even try to stop me.

I remember Apple revoking Epic's access to Apple's developer tools because of a disagreement over their developer program TOS, but that only stops Epic from using Apple's tools. It does not prevent me from installing any software.

I have a ton of software on my Mac that's not part of the Apple developer program and the developers have never asked Apple's permission nor given Apple any money for the software and Apple has never once tried to block those developers from creating that software or me from installing and running it.
> Like you I am an avaricious multi-tasker over extended periods of time and was heading towards the same state you appear to have reached.

> I realised it was not optimal

I will take a look, thank you! Would you mind briefly elaborating on what you found suboptimal about the workspace/window/tab hierarchy for organizing your tasks? So far it's working very well for me, and the low friction is a really important part of it. Though it's completely possible that I have blind spots around my pain points, or am about to run into a wall. Thanks in advance for your thoughts?
RubyRefactorings: additional automated refactorings for RubyMine
How real is that Atlas robot video (more staged than real)?
High schools in the US can sometimes get very close. There are often large schools of two to three thousand students and in a country with ample access to weapons, security becomes an issue very quickly.

Both university level and lower education levels in the US will probably have large security camera systems. I know some smaller schools can't quite afford it but the medium and large state schools can.
Flip side implies symmetry.
Nope. Its windows. Prisons in most cases are buildings without windows or very small ones. Offices and schools pretty much always have windows.
Good spot, lemme update. Thanks.
Adding emphasis to step 2 in the comment you responded to:

> X didn't work, because we didn't implement it properly or we didn't understand how to implement it properly or some unrelated situation caused it to not work properly.

Empiricism would seek to learn about these failures before step 1 as mitigation and before step 3 to determine if there’s new/more understandable data to prepare more effective mitigation for a repeat experiment.
Twitter users have had their most miserable year yet
I always figured it was more like, they protect the company aka the group. If your interests and the company's align they are in your corner; if not then you are the "other" and their enemy. The bias towards protecting the upper ranks not being their mission statement, instead the company's interests simply more often align with the VP than the NCG.
The crux of the problem, that Python 2 handles unicode/bytes/text in a non-intuitive way, isn't surprising. However, the way the author set up the problem and walked through the context, test failure, diagnosis and resolution was great. Always pleasant to find a coding post-mortem written as well as this one.
I agree.

I also agree with the rough time delineation. Starting with the dotcom bubble, the industry was flooded with people. So we should have seen amazing progress in every direction.

Most of those programmers were non-geeks interested in making an easy buck instead of geeks, into computers and happily shocked that we could make a living at it. And many of the desirable jobs turned out to be making people to click on things to drive revenue.

Who can blame any of those people? They were just chasing the incentives presented to them.
People don't travel much in those places. During the summer a lot of them are almost completely cut off, though there's often small aviation flights from some of them, so people can get out in emegencies. The situation is a lot better during the winter with https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BD%D0%B8... (ice roads), that's how and when most travel/supply trips happen.
This entire article assumes that the vaccine provides sterilizing immunity (where you can't spread it) rather than just disease protection (where you get and spread the virus but aren't as symptomatic).

But even now no one knows if these vaccines provide sterilizing immunity, as they were only testing for disease protection in the trials. Some even theorize some vaccinated individuals might be _more_ contagious, as they are less likely to socially distance and could be more likely to be asymptomatic carriers.

Indeed the article itself is evidence of this risk, as the author seems to advocate giving the vaccine to people who are willing to pay a lot so they can go party.

That said, if sterilizing immunity is provided by the vaccine, then a lot of the arguments are more plausible. But I don't think it's valid to just assume that, and it's not fair to health officials who don't assume that either.
> For instance, there was one person, 2 decades ago, flying out of france, who hid a bomb in his shoes so today we are all still taking off our shoes, all of us, each time, on every flight. Splendid.

I feel like the shoe inspection is silly, but this seems like the wrong logic. To the extent that there's a vulnerability in the system, patching it makes sense, even if it's only been exploited once.

No one has closed network sessions with unauthenticated RSTs lately like we used to do in the 90s-- so is the sequence check no longer necessary?

Of course, one needs to consider the cost-benefit of every mitigation measure and whether you're addressing the biggest risks.
Yeah, someone said that, repeatedly, four hours ago. Why bother making this comment?

And given that they were explicitly breaking an app store rule, which they are now being held to: Yeah, they were getting away with something. I mean, this is patently obvious.
> If you find yourself in an exploitive work environment, you need to leave as quickly as possible. The situation is not going to get better. It's only going to get worse, and your options are two: Leave with your mental health and reputation intact or leave after they have been destroyed.

This is the right thing to do however for many people on a visa it has significant life consequences and financial hardship with having limited time to pack up your life and leave the country you built a life in.

I’m sure if the author wasn’t dependent on having a visa they would of left much sooner than they did. Companies know they have unfair leverage on employees dependent on sponsored visas. Employees on sponsored visas have very little options and next to no rights, in this case the author felt suicide might be their only way out.

I’ve been in a situation in a job I didn’t like with a bad manager well aware if I quit I had 90 days to find a new job or leave the country. 90 days isn’t a long time to find a new job or pack/sell all your belongings and ship to a new country without a job/place to live. I had to put a plan together to save enough money to cover the significant costs of leaving, a timeline to find a job with a deadline if it doesn’t work out to pack and go. The situation was far less stressful than the authors and I was in a good position where if the worst came to the worst I could take the financial hit and be relatively ok on the other end. Non the less it was incredibly stressful and put me in bad mental health so can completely understand why for some people they believe suicide to be a valid option.

For some people leaving is not just a case of handing in their notice.
No, it doesn't "mean they have a health issue", and I didn't say that it did. Part of the teacher's job is to look for signs of abuse, bullying, and health problems. I'm not a doctor. I see a possible symptom, I'll bring it to the attention of people who can help. If they are using the bathroom frequently because they are being bullied then I am exactly doing my job in the best way possible by alerting the nurse, who can alert the counselor, etc.
I think the only perceivable different is likely the size and placement of windows. Also prisons are highly unlikely to not have security bars or screens on every window (excluding a public entry foyer which is not part of the actual prison.
I think the surface is a major factor, but speed not so much. I have no test numbers to prove that, just some practical experience racing MTBs for some years and using various width and pressure combinations based on the surfaces in the race.
I've seen this attitude quite often in juniors: The manager is always supposed to be available. Not immediately answering your email so you need to follow up with a phone call? Thanks, you just interrupted my talk with my boss and his boss about our department budget, and your colleague next door could also have solved your urgent problem.

More often the reverse complaint is uttered, and because of the power differential I think that direction is far prevalent.

But ideally, both sides should learn to see each other as human beings with limited lifetime, limited availability and patience and a life outside of work. As a manager, this is a little easier to accomplish: just scold your subordinates for answering emails off hours and remind them to take their vacations seriously. They'll learn quickly to do the same for you. Everybody wins.
Show HN: Using SIMD to decode and encode gigabytes of varints per second in Rust
Is it also possible that food-contaminated styrofoam is significantly costlier to recycle than styrofoam on its own, or did this specialized process also take care of this problem?
Canada, and especially "the North", has many towns, only accessible by winter; ice roads. After freeze up, they are plowed, and maintained. After break up in the spring, those towns are only re supplied with groceries, medical supplies, traveling doctors, etc. By airplane. There is a lot of pressure to stock up in the winter.
The region is covered by muskeg ( swamp), rivers and lakes. Winter is the only time many places are accessible. This also is true for mineral, oil and gas exploration. Winter is a blessing. Global warming, will give rise to many interesting questions about accessibility.
See Norman Wells, Tuktoyaktuk, and Aklavik. New highways, old ice roads.
I know a judge who has said the US "corrections" system is not designed to correct criminals and prevent future crimes. It's designed to punish people.
I find that Linus has some good content from time to time, but I can’t bare the format.

The jokes, screaming, unreal exaggerated emotions. Puts me off instantly.
I feel extremely uncharitable but I don't see any other comments raising this - this reads like a lot like the writings of people who believe they're being 'gangstalked'. Meetings being added/removed to calendars to mess with you, an 'implied' threat being left in the notes section of a hidden slide in a presentation, meeting notes being manipulated to make them look bad, this sort of thing.

Maybe I'm just extremely lucky but I've never worked with anyone who would put in the effort for this sort of thing, even if they really disliked the person. And some of it just makes no sense - an implied murder/suicide threat, in the notes section in a hidden slide in a slideshow?

Also the formatting being a long screed with random bolding doesn't help, although that could well be a non-native speaker not realising how this appears to natives.
Leaders leverage their network. A network of leaders is a massive and capable network.
I think it's because we as people tend to speak from our experiences, and I do agree that school is more authoritarian than it should be.

I'm not sure what else you can do :( it's a really big systemic issue. I think we just need more awareness, first?

Social life in prison involves having "friends" who can any day decide to try and rob or fight you (both happened to me with my closest "friend"). Nobody has real friends. It's dog eat dog, you lose the ability to trust, and don't have any trusting social connections. That's extremely painful. When you talk to people on the outside, every prisoner just tries to deceive them into thinking things are just dandy: I'm not sure why that happens, but it means those connections aren't real either. It's all so much worse psychologically than is conveyed in popular media. We don't know how to quantify psychological suffering though; as a society we rather put people through huge amounts of that than some visible physical suffering (which, again, is probably strongly preferable to the criminal).

Unfortunately most of the people suffering in the prison system are poor, so we don't hear what they have to say. If you're rich, you can afford your own lawyer and get a much better plea deal, and get out quickly. It's also very racist: you will really understand Black Lives Matter when you meet a black father who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for a nonviolent drug offense, and realize there are 100,000s - millions of people in the exact same situation: it's destroying entire communities. I've seen the way black people who a judge has never seen before are villified from their appearance: go to a courtroom near you if you don't believe me, it's shocking. I'm talking about in San Francisco, not even a rural area.

Anyways, thank you for your empathy. I wish more people understood that criminals will commit less crime if they're forgiven and accepted by society, instead of villified. And it's also the decent thing to do. Prisons are bad cultures because the small number of actual bad actors push everything to this shitty equilibrium: most prisoners individually have a lot of shame about their crimes, and as strong a moral code as the average person. Some definitely do not: and it's hard for the justice system to make the distinction.

All things which are hard to believe until you have some real world experience with these things...
I've often wondered if home water filters, which can filter out lots of things [0] were doing light desalination. A slight amount of salt in water is desirable in specialty water like Vichy, but I'd imagine it would be unhealthy all the time.

0 https://helpatmyhome.com/aquasana-aq-5300-water-filter-revie... filter with the most ANSI/NSF certs that I've seen
Can somebody explain what this is actually doing? I am quite confused
They are nothing new. Just re-iterations and refinements. Incremental innovation is no real innovation. True innovation is destructive, removes whole fields from the map, while creating new ones.
I don't like being called a coward, even if the words wrapped in velvet, but in this case the truth sticks.

PS: Machine learning is old too, although application - again due to incremental hardware improvement, has finally arrived.
It's not just about the money. The menus, information, and other details are just wrong or go out-of-date because this pizza restaurant changes things on a daily basis. Additionally their business is not setup for take-out at scale. They do the occasional take-out but when the phone starts ringing with to-go orders they were not anticipating, they are not staffed or ready to meet the demand. They call to remove themselves and then a few weeks later they end up back on there.
Prison maybe, but don’t forget about jails. I’ve visited jails in panopticon “pod” setups for 40–50-ish people bunked two-each in rooms with no bars (just a painted line dividing cells from common areas) that had a single separate common restroom/shower where each trip must be requested and approved. San Francisco’s jail is like that.
It's a good point I hadn't really considered until now and is sure to make the author quite unpopular. However, in the words of Eliezer Yudkowsky, "Shut up and multiply."
I don't know of any data but the following fundamentals are driving this:

"The equation for wind power(P) is given by P= 0.5 * ρ * A * Cp * V^3 * Ng * Nb where, ρ= Air density in kg/m3, A = Rotor swept area (m2).Cp = Coefficient of performance V = wind velocity (m/s)Ng = generator efficiency Nb = gear box bearing efficiency."

http://www.ijsrp.org/research_paper_feb2012/ijsrp-feb-2012-0...

Area, A, is equal to pi * r^2. As you increase your radius (length of the wind turbine rotor) it grows exponentially due to it being squared.

The consistency of the wind offshore, plus the higher speeds, is what is driving offshore due to the Velocity of the wind contributing to the power output being cubed.

Also see: https://mmpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Swept-Area-Provi...

Some turbines do not use a gearbox, so replace that with the efficiencies of magnetic gearboxes also called "direct drive" turbines.

There are some other advantages to wind power as well compared to gas power, such as being able to respond more quickly to grid power dynamics such as voltage droop and frequency response.

Regardless even if some of the power is being thrown away because the grid doesn't need it, the fuel is at zero cost. It does bring up interesting maintenance and other questions. As far as I understand, you can have the wind turbine locked to prevent spinning and do that for say 50% of the wind park. So that should prevent the excessive wear and tear on the electrical components, and minimize things like loads on the foundation and structure itself.
If everyone gets the vaccine, it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t provide sterilizing immunity.
New Data Triples Russia's COVID-19 Death Toll
> If you truly knew how manipulative a group of children can be, when ganged together you'd understand this. Toilet breaks are often abused, with children skipping class to, for instance, vape in the toilets

Doesn't justify denying basic biological rights.
Considering how often the Chinese government outright fabricates charges and “crimes” committed by those who oppose it directly, you’ll have to forgive me for being less than credulous regarding what he’s been accused.

This is how the CCP takes down dissidents.
How can you possibly square "four people living in a cell with an open toilet" with "you can poop whenever you want"?
But that's just youtube. "Engaging content" is them yelling at us to smash the like button, and _hit the bell_
I would say most functions in our bodies do not involve the central nervous system.
Sure, I'm not sure I see the difference between Farmville and Animal Crossing in this respect (though I'm sure that they're not identical in all respects).
Other fields don’t release new version of their product every few days. Oncall for things that are always changing is very hard to be done by people who aren’t ones making those changes. You need formal release process and expecting training for each change. That’s not how 99.99% of internet businesses work.
Was the Korg M1 affordable for a hobbyist? It cost $2,166 at launch in 1988, or about $4,800 adjusted for inflation in 2020. You can get into eurorack for under a grand easily these days.

Considering that you might easily spend more money if your hobby is playing the violin or piano, or taking photographs, it doesn’t sound outrageous to me.
> When I suggested free market vaccine allocation on top of government distribution, critics lambasted me.

I think this misses the point a bit. I think the CDC’s allocation is just fine — the main problem is that it’s being implemented slowly. Just about any carefully planned allocation will be slow. Sell to the highest bidder? Slow. Sell for $20? Faster, but still slow. Compare the way most vaccines are given in an office to the way that mass flu vaccines are done.

If I were running the show, I would choose categories. The categories don’t matter that much — suppose, for the sake of argument, that it’s (1) patient-facing medical personnel, (2) people over 75, (3) people at high risk, self-certified, etc.

Now, in each region, you open up vaccinations by group. Medical centers can run walk-through or drive-through vaccinations, and people in the relevant group line up and get the vaccine. Someone scans ID and types in name and (if available) DOB for people without ID and hands out the info flyer. A handful of technicians give the vaccines.

As soon as vaccine lines aren’t getting filled by one group, you open it to the next group.

Money is basically irrelevant here. The available production is spoken for and paid for. Trying to allocate carefully is nice, but it’s far more important to give someone the vaccine than to give the right person the vaccine.

(Stanford Hospital would have avoided a lot of flak if they did something like this. Randomize the last initials of residents into groups, and give residents the shots by last initial. Then do other groups. Or forget about distinguishing residents from other people — it’s not worth the logistical complications.)
> Not the brilliant engineers you imagine are going to run it.

I'm still so fascinated by our minds' ability to interpolate and extrapolate to the platonic ideal of any ungrounded and unconstrained idea so readily. Yes big bureaucratic mass of brain trust experts going at it nonstop, how can you not yield great returns? I'm starting to awaken more and more to how messy and data dependent this world is. Ideals and declaration and promises just don't go far enough. But it's all so complicated and situational to figure out in advance why they don't go as far as we'd expect.
Super happy to see they're doing well and growing - so far the best collaborative whiteboard tool I've come across.

A few reasons:

1. No account needed, just send a link.

2. Speedier than alternatives.

3. Some kind of magic making it so that quickly drawn curves come out smooth and nice looking rather than jagged.

4. Open source!

5. A good UI, when so many other projects manage to screw it up.
Yeah completely agree that's what it's designed for, but to what end? What goal do we think the punishment achieves?

The only useful thing about it IMO is preventing truly dangerous/sick people from interacting with the rest of society. Most prisoners are not that
No. Ada had no safe solution to dynamic memory deallocation until SPARK started supporting it, and ergonomic support for pointers in SPARK (borrowing) postdates Rust. Arguably we still don't have proof that SPARK is ergonomic enough for widespread adoption.

(I dated Rust's breakthrough to five years ago because although Rust had the features well before then, it was only about five years ago that it became clear they were good enough for programmers to adopt at scale.)
Lessons learned growing to 5k MRR as a single developer in 2020
Since December 2019, MRR has frown from $1285 to $5003. Here is a list of my biggest lessons from 2020.
Unless you had an open toilet between your beds, seems unlikely.
3D objects in PDFs are cool. My thesis used those in a few places. The PDF would print normally, but you could rotate it when open in Adobe Reader.

Getting this to work with Latex was... interesting. I spent a lot of time typesetting as a grad student.
Scholarpedia is similar as well.

I agree there is not enough library work and there is too much focus on the 4-15 page publication format. This amount is often not enough to fully flesh out an idea or to present something non-incremental. Rather, people tend to chunk up work, called salami publishing.

Now, sure doctoral theses also exist but the vast majority of research is presented in about 4-15 pages.

But I disagree that after 6 months everything should be integrated into other summary work.

Most published research is not worthy of being integrated into other work and 6 months are jót enough to decide. Most papers are forgotten and rightfully so. Publication doesn't mean it's correct or worthy of eternal remembrance. It just means that a scientist wants to share a finding with the research community. It's not established knowledge yet. Only when it is actually adopted and used successfully by the community, will it be part of established shared knowledge. After some years such key ideas do get written into textbooks.
apple with its brand and name incites us to sin.
I'm hungry... Should I eat that apple?
Then again they don't sell Aperture anymore cause they keep on closing the walled garden tighter and tighter...