skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data point, unsure if helpful. I sleep plenty but wake up at least once per night. My most vivid dreams always occur in my last sleep, usually after 6am. I can literally live a lifetime in my dreams between 6 and 9am. I haven't quite figured it out yet, but because my dreams are less than stellar, I usually dread going back to bed.
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Your first statement is not true, at least in the US. Copyright gives the holder the rights over the ability "to perform the copyrighted work publicly" (directly from US law). The wording from the law on public performances: "to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered". Even in the strictest interpretation of the law, no reasonable judge/lawyer would find that singing to a single friend would meet this criteria. So someone can absolutely sing a copyrighted song to a friend without being in violation of copyright law. You can even do so with a group of friends (as long as it is what is deemed a normal circle of family/friends).
A GS-15 doesn’t require a PhD but it definitely requires considerable experience.
IIRC the cheese thing is basically a myth, any heavy food in your stomach when you sleep will cause you to sleep less deeply, wake more often, and consequently, remember more of your dreams.
Ghislaine Maxwell will either get bail and disappear or die by suicide in jail within the next 3 months.

Companies will push to have an annual Corona Virus Vaccine. Covered by insurance and mandated as much as possible.

RISC-V will start to show up in peoples hands.

Something interesting will happen with Intel.

That's really all I got, and two of them are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
At a certain mobile security shop ;) there was a push service rollout, back in 2013, and it was basically pings over the network, and mailboxes in Cassandra, no Redis layer atop. The volume was much smaller (~1hz), so it's interesting to see how the ecosystem has evolved, and how the volume requirements change the shape of the system
What are those 2-3 fields? What are some of the things people say that are wrong about those topics?
That’s incorrect. When you buy something with bitcoin, even if it is priced in bitcoin, the IRS considers it a sale or exchange of a capital asset and you have to report the transaction on your return.
I think sane people are a myth. If someone believes strongly in their own sanity, they're most likely even crazier than we are.
What was some of the wrong advice you received in the past from this over-confident strangers?
Yes, I should have clarified the "in public" part.

My original point about the idea that someone can own a song or a number as if it were property is fundamentally insane.

The fact that it being a violation or not depending upon whether the song is sung in public or in private illustrates that point nicely.
Kamala Harris will be President by July.
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The article made it sound like they would lose less than 8% of their 2200 MW renewable generation for a reduction of less than 176 MW. Maybe the article confused the total generation from the 8 plants with and the 4 being removed.

They estimated 450 million to add fish ladders and rehabilitate the facilities for the next 100 years. If it was $450 million for 170 MW $2.6 million / MW is pretty cheap construction cost. I am surprised that it isn’t an attractive investment
The comment describes a liquidity crisis, when the market clams up and price begins to fluctuate wildly. It's not that things aren't tradeable, but that very few people want to.
LOL. Was this satire?
> Ironically, the EU tried to solve this problem: it had a parliament with democratic elections that actually made decisions about the kinds of international treaties EU member states would adopt.

the EU parliament can't do any of these things

it can't even propose legislation

at best it's a rubber stamp for the Council and the Commission
Thanks for the feedback! I wanted to urge users to submit "here's how I'd do it" instead of commenting, i.e. show don't tell

But I think you're right that a comments section is more usable/useful.
This was a surprising fact. I have a young Zoomer friend who grew up loving Zelda 64 even though his childhood should've comprised Wii games.
How do you deal with the ongoing devaluation of the bolivar currently?
"Dreaming is practicing our survival skills in a safe environment. Nature's "VR", if you want"

This also sounds like a rationale for play. A safe practice zone... a sand box.
Good to know. Thanks and all the best in 2021 !
> What does that look like?

Factory and assembly line reconfigurations. Increased automation and the capex that comes with that. Worker retraining, reskilling, and replacement. Suppliers of ICE components who attrition out of the supply chain, simply because there are so many less moving parts in an EV powertrain (for each, they will reach a point where the diminished volume no longer supports a continuing business supplying automakers).
There will be outbreaks of COVID-19 for at least a decade, as well as new strains of it.

Companies will embrace remote work after they realize they can stop paying for expensive offices and all the expensive services associated to them.

AI/ML will get better at learning and all the skepticals will be ridiculed forever.
even if I can afford it, I usually find it more satisfying to work my way up through tiers of equipment for {insert hobby}. it's hard to appreciate what makes the high-end stuff nice if you haven't tried the low- and mid-range first.
Google sites. They are free but they use templates that limit the structure of your page and you can't customize them.
I love playing Nintendo with my niece. Miyamoto is likely the person alive today I’m most in debt to.

Hope to take my nieces to Super Nintendo World in a few years after the pandemic passes and it is built in the US.
There will be a 20 % increase in Toronto Real Estate. Average house price will be well over a million $$$.

Cannabis will be decriminalized at the Federal level.

Covid Fatigue, no one will give a shit by summer.

DOW 36k. There is no limit to the amount of stimulus.
incredible. This is why I like checking out HN at least couple of times a day. Always something new.
I created an issue [0] to address this. Could you add a microbenchmark that demonstrates the problem?

[0] https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/pypy/-/issues/3373
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Have you ever thought that you might be insane?
Right, but it's likely enough that they can profitably make a fairly small fraction of current production volumes.

For instance, if they move 1 factory out of 2, then they don't haven any capex or retraining associated with the factory they don't move. What I was getting at with the quite range of engines that they choose to produce is that they seem to have quite a lot of capacity to make money at lower volumes.
I hope the Bill of Materials concept spreads to more areas of software development.

A bit different from your example, but a small group of us started a "Bill of Models" project for our department. We spent too much time failing to manage complexity with fancy tools. We ended up writing our own simple tool for reading custom BOMs to create and manage simulations.
Only negativity so something optimistic to talk about:

- Vaccine program will mobilize and kick start the economy. Big Time. New restaurants will open up, it will be like a forest fire that wiped out the trees but new vegetation will grow. New business will start up.

- Travel is going to be out of control once everyone is vaccinated and cases plummet after herd immunity is reached.

- Python will have a great dep management finally.

- M1X is going to ignite the competition from AMD/Intel.

- US Senate will go blue next week. New pro-democracy laws will be passed in next 2 years after this shit show.

- Remote only jobs and startups will invigorate local towns and decentralization of cities. Local ISPs, local farming, local means of production.

- SpaceX starship will demonstrate further success.

Long Term:

- US, EU, APEC region will start becoming less reliant on China over the course of next 10 years. Fungibility of supply chain and decentralization. Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philipines, Eastern Europe, Mexico will see rise in manufacturing industries.

- New chip companies outside of Taiwan.

- Defense spending will go through the roof, defense stocks will do exceptionally well.

- Globalism 2.0 will put checks and balances for healthier international cooperation.
> Verbizes

Is there a name for words like this, which are themselves examples of what they denote?
It is odd that dams don’t incorporate a means for sediment to continue its path downstream.
If there were a channel that ran the length of the reservoir that was narrow enough it would
Keep the velocity of the water high enough that the sediment wouldn’t settle out. It could then be run through the turbines, admittedly causing more wear, or allowed to settle behind the dam in an area with a sluice gate that could be used to flush sediment out. Probably much easier said than done so the problem has just been universally ignored.
Getting pre-synthesized S mRNA is like 99% of the work, lol. If you're looking for a DIY challenge start here:

https://www.addgene.org/145032/

(seriously though, don't try this at home)

Words can't express how much more difficult it is to work with mRNA than DNA.
>save video

Problem with HTML5 video is you can use more than just a link to video file https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaSource There are "certain" websites serving videos using BLOB object mediasource created dynamically from encrypted https sources. So far I had no luck trying to capture resulting video datastream, mediasource is a write and forget type of interface, and on top of that MediaRecorder/captureStream() is bugged and crashes so you cant even record lossy reencoded capture.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50938089/how-to-download...

I should probably experiment with shimming whole MediaSource api and capture data before its pumped into the read only void.
Ask HN: Does Dropbox scan your device for competing apps?
I installed Google Drive's "Backup and Sync" app for Mac yesterday, and within a couple of hours I get a mail from Dropbox saying - "We noticed that you haven't added any files recently. Save important PDFs, photos, and work docs to Dropbox to keep your files safe."

Is this just a coincidence or did they react to me installing Google Drive? Thing is I've never got this email from them before, so it made me suspicious!
The 80's was AWESOME. The future was going to be all new wave music makeup and cloths. All neon, cyberpunk, hacking the corpos for money and "fighting the good fight". What happened wasn't bad, but certainly wasn't that.

One thing living through several generations and reading/knowing lots of history. Every period is fine. Everyone believes their period to be special, they aren't. Things happen in cycles, very little is revolutionary. Every period has it's big events and sucks and is great. People's experiences are mostly the same. People just don't learn/know history.

Newp I didn't have money to invest. I "retired" (in quotes cuase I didn't have money) at 30ish, and biked around europe for a year. Ran company into ground playing MTG and video games instead of running business. career didn't really start to take off until 38 or so. I've done fine and feel lucky for it.

Not really miss. Would be great having youth now that I'm smart and wise and wealthy (compared to young). As young person it's hard to believe/understand the vigor, mental endurance and "wide eyedness" of youth. But all periods of life are fine. Enjoy and make maximal use of every period of your life.
I wasn't trying to compare the two and make a judgement on if 3 gorges is worth it while these aren't, I'm merely saying that 3 gorges is so much more massive in scale.
The word “prompt” has nothing to do with SRS, I learned it in grade school English class. The “prompt” is the thing given by the lesson to prompt you to write onwards. Although to be fair I didn’t actually find this definition in the two dictionaries I checked, which was very surprising to me.
Ford’s margin is ~%10. Not a lot of wiggle room imo, even less if their volume declines as someone like Tesla takes market share (Cybertruck is at ~1 million reservations).
Does anyone consider hydro as green anymore? Nuclear has far less impact.
Except Caesium clocks, which are the definition of time as we measure it.
A friend of mine who grew up in Spokane, WA told me that for some reason Spokane was regarded as the ideal product testing ground by big American corporations, and so he and his friends encountered a lot of weird products that never succeeded, and a few major ones that they saw years before everyone else. Anybody know if this is true?
> currency debasement ... is how the people are impoverished

I agree that's the heart of the Bitcoin thesis, but I am convinced the evidence does not support that claim. In fact, quite the opposite. Much of the original Bitcoin discussion had its roots in von Mises' theories and beliefs, one of which was the rejection of empiricism. It's tough to fruitfully discuss a topic when the conversants disagree over epistemology. We can try nonetheless.

> Currency debasement ... creates wealth inequality.

I see it the other way. The government can print money and distribute it uniformly, such as with this year's CARES act (which is about as uniform as one can ask for in this political climate).

Regardless of government policy for how it distributes newly created currency, inflation is fundamentally beneficial for debtors and bad for creditors. Are "the people" predominantly creditors or debtors?
A currency is a commodity whose utility is in being a medium of exchange.
Is Morocco in the EU or schengen? I expect those are the prerequisites
It could be is that the "ultra-productive" folks (except Ninja, who is real person), may be actually collectives, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
Happy new year, may you get so many up votes that you stop wanting them!
I enjoyed this article however the examples given were markedly poor. The article talks a lot about distilling knowledge and what it is to “know” a topic, then the example flash cards about the article ask things like “vague prompts result in ______ recollection”, which is trivia about word selection. Although I suppose this just indicates how difficult prompt writing can be, perhaps a section on “what it means to answer a prompt” was necessary. Consider as an alternative: “what is the problem with vague prompts?”
I definitely agree. Whenever you try to have a discussion that goes against some sacred assumptions, which happens very often when talking about sociology or (political) philosophy, or non-liberal politics in general, no matter how respectfully or qualifiedly you make your point it's almost certain your interlocutors will not engage productively.

And indeed, because these assumptions are not even known to be assumptions, it's not even visible to the reader that this is a case of conformity.

Interestingly, I've noticed that these modes of conformity often come in temporal waves, in that at different times of the day you get downvoted - or receive less constructive discussion - for differing subjects. I should try to make a more involved analysis eventually.
Unseen Enemy: Conspiracy and Hollywood's Role in the Dissolution of Yugoslavia
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It's running a script in the background to exfiltrate the info from the browser to the system, and that script has an error. I believe it's a script like /home/dheera/code/clone/TabFS/fs/tabfs* – if you look around in the browser some more you should find the stderr output of the script, which probably explains the error
Apple Fitness+ will be their fastest growing service, and Apple Watch Series 7 will have non-invasive glucose monitoring.
Wanted to follow up to say how ridiculous a microarcsecond is. It's approximately equal to 5e^-12 in radians, which at this level is approximately the ratio of width to distance.

So, for example, it's like seeing a hydrogen atom from 7 meters away. Or a red blood cell from 400km away.
Google seems to have a continuity of feature problem. Why bother creating all this cool technology if we can't rely on it working a year or two down the road? At least with open source I can pick up and start maintaining a feature that I care about if nobody else wants to. Not sure how to accomplish this with a company that strives to make it impossible to talk to anyone that can make a difference.
Correct, so, 176MW is the power generation for ALL dams on that river. They are only removing 4 of them of which I think only 2 produce power and I can't find exact figures on the MW output of each of them. 169 was an upper bound and seems VERY small.

450M was the cost of removal according to the article, not the cost of adding new fish ladders?
2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416530
What you are describing is basically how any fiat currency is used, so it's definitely possible to live in bitcoin land. The issue is that price fluctuation for bitcoin is so extreme, not that you can buy other currencies with it.

If on Monday 1 USD buys 1 EUR and on Friday it buys 2 EUR you would have "overpaid" as well for many goods that you could have imported and maybe more directly if you had invested in EUR denominated securities etc..
Pebble, Nook, a bunch of Kickstarter stuff... Lumia 950.

Also the Burger King "Big King" burger, the McDonalds chicken selects... and a few other items that I have forgotten about over the years...

I dunno if that makes me "Harbinger of Failure", but its become clear that my consumer tastes are pretty niche.

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At least I got "unsweet ice tea" right, lol. Seems like plenty of soda companies are making that now.
On a huge range of vehicles once you look at what they make is what I am getting at. Do they bother stopping selling popular vehicles if 33% of the US market bans IC engines?
Thank you for this -- I don't understand why anyone would think a long string of tweets is a good way to communicate this kind of information.
DNS doesn't really redirect, but DNS is the answer. What you're talking about is split horizon, this is most common when you have an authoritative server for say a corporation, but can be applied here as well.

That said, I have a local dns server that is pi hole, I've set aliases in that that are preferred over my domains dns which would be used outside my network.

That way you can have pi hole pint to 192.168.0.0/24 and Google domains or whomever point to your vps.
I agree with you except about the animated gifs. Who wouldn't, at least on this extremely text-oriented site? But one goes to war with the internet one has.

Twitter is unique in its intense back-and-forthness and the opportunity to broadcast to a large audience, especially for anyone of prominence or standing. That plus network effects has made it the default for people who have an interesting line of thought to share.

That it's not the 'right' medium for this is related to why people do it anyway: the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. The spontaneity of the platform makes it easy to reel off what one is thinking or has just figured out. To make a blog post would be more work and wouldn't reach nearly the audience.

Weaknesses and strengths are often conjoined like this. When something gets used in a way that it isn't particularly suited for, there's a lot of vitality in that—otherwise the activation energy wouldn't be enough to overcome the downside. It's interesting that this unsuitable medium gets by far the most usage for thinking out loud by influential people. The alternative is not a more suitable medium—it's not hearing about e.g. the historical influence of obscure clams in the first place.

I do think there's something to mourn, though. In the first years of Twitter the founders were incredible at following and adopting the inventions that the community itself came up with (e.g. hashtags) for developing the medium. That genius approach eventually died and got replaced with top-down design, which led to a mess. I assume this was crucifixion on the cross of growth-at-all-costs, but who can say. I hope I live to see the civilizational shift in which we start optimizing for quality rather than quantity. That will be interesting.
True, that's another possible item in the benefit column, but, it also creates risk of a catastrophic failures like Michigan and almost-orville.
The main advantage of a hardware synth is the user experience. Its controls are tailored specifically for that synth.

If it has a built-in keyboard, it also has the benefit of being a self-contained unit, and can feel (psychologically) more like a real instrument.
An open source app called FlashDevelop was fairly hot for a few years after Adobe open sourced the Flex framework. FlashDevelop lacked a visual editor, but it was quite capable. FlashDevelop's last release was in 2018.
wishing everyone lots of karma points both figuratively and literally
This is a cool idea. It would be nice to be able to blacklist some tabs though. For example, I wouldn’t want the text of my banks website easily readable by any random process.
Autological words, like pentasyllabic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autological_word
>thousands of tabs open

yeah about that, are you sure they are open and not hibernated? Chrome had
proactive-tab-freeze-and-discard , later renamed to proactive-tab-freeze and finally forced On in 80 with no option of turning it off. 'hibernated' tabs are merely a bookmark without loaded content. I dont think this extension would be able to work with non loaded tabs without forcing them all to load. 300 tabs is able to easily eat 16GB of ram, Im scared to think what would happen with 1000 tabs loaded in Chrome.

I remember good old Opera 12.x where you could sit on 200 actually loaded and active tabs and RAM usage was somewhere around 2GB.
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The permission performance issue I was commenting on (apparently) resides in the back-end code of the on-premises Jira server.

The front-end code issues other people have raised seem like the type that could be solved by simply turning on Gzip or Brotli compression for static JavaScript content in the web server.

All of this seems to be incredibly basic tuning to have been overlooked, especially given that every public discussion of Jira mentions its slow performance!

As for the Jira Cloud: I just did some quick experimentation. I spun up a free-tier account and created an empty issue. This is the best-case scenario for performance: A tiny amount of data, no complex permissions, a commonly used form, high-performance client link, same region as the Atlassian PaaS server, etc...

At least here, most of the traffic is coming from a CDN that enables compression, IPv6, HTTP/2, AES-GCM, and TLS 1.3. That's the basics taken care of.

Despite this, reloading the page with a warm cache took a whopping 5.5 seconds. There's an animated progress bar for the empty form!

This required 1.2MB of uncacheable content to be transferred.

With the cache off, a total of 27.5 MB across 151 files taking 33 seconds is required!

The total text displayed on the screen is less than 1 KB.

The page took 4.35 seconds of CPU time on a gaming desktop PC with a 3.80 GHz CPU and a gigabit fibre Internet connection.

A developer on an ultraportable laptop running on battery over a WiFi link with a bad corporate proxy server in a different geo-region would likely get a much worse experience. Typically they might get as little as 1.5 GHz and 20 Mbps effective bandwidth, so I can see why people are complaining that Jira page loads are taking 10+ seconds!

Is no one responsible for performance at Atlassian?
A reliable non-invasive glucose monitoring device is going to be revolutionary. That’s essentially a holy grail for diabetes.