skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walking burns like, what, 5 kcal/minute (generous)? If non-Americans walk on average 20 more minutes a day (generous), that's like 100 kcal per day. Or about 7kg at 15 kcal/kg basal metabolic rate, not taking into account for increased appetite.
I'm guessing that fewer maintainers are running i386 to the point where i386 is not "tested by default". So they're asking porters to step up and take over testing/maintaining packages for i386 if they want the i386 releases to continue.
I guess everyone as a price, even on HN :)
tldr:

"An 1852 treaty between U.S. officials and the tribe that is still in force set aside the land for the Apaches’ use."

Answers that question. At least, for those with little idea of how seriously the US takes the treaties it scammed a hundred tribes with (or how it usually got their signatures).
I strongly disagree with the way that Ethereum was launched and the way that it was run---indeed Ethereum was a competitor of Counterparty's, with a polar opposite approach and ethos---but Greg Maxwell is the one that's rewriting history there.
So blue light is known for triggering migraines.

One aspect of Migraines is EXTREME sensitivity.

This is mostly a huge negative, but can be interesting at times.

Can smell foods and identity all the individual spices used.

Eyesight is so intense that only a pitch black room is comfortable.

Sense of touch brings textures alive, etc.

Hearing goes from average to I always notice things first.

So if there is any chance of extra senses registering, migraines are the way to go.

I do see weird distortions at time, but I think it’s just reflections of blood vessels in eyes, hard to tell.
This is one of the most "draw a circle, then draw the rest of the owl" comments I've read. :) Skinning it is the tough part.
Working on https://levels.fyi to help people with their career decisions through accurate data and tools. Really excited to have recently created some new location pages for compensation information: https://levels.fyi/locations/
2021 Cloud Report
Do many SWEs not know that IT department staff are paid way less than them?
> Levels.fyi is heavily biased toward companies where tech is their primary business.

They are also (AFAIK) based to a large degree on self reporting which you have to imagine would skew high. If I had an amazing salary I’d want to self report it and tell levels and HN all about it. If I have a normal salary, maybe I keep that to myself.

Anecdotally I’ve worked at two companies featured on levels.FYI and my total comp was nowhere near what they were reporting for similar roles... like 50-66%—they were waaaay off. Either I am consistently grossly underpaid or levels biases high.
I've been on HN for a number of years but have always been a passive observer and have never commented before. From the below project you can probably tell why;

I’ve recently dropped out of school and have been working on making the government acquisition process better.

There is a mountain of regulation, registrations and little tid bits required and takes an inordinatant amount of time to learn how to properly do business with the federal government vs. the commercial market. I was a contracting specialist for the Air Force for an enlistment and did a year and a half 'Internship' on the Supply Chain, CapEx team at Tesla. The differences in acquisition strategies and time it takes to get shit done are palpable. My link is below [0] but the website and content doesn't tell the story at all.

I faced a problem, How do you go about fixing the Government acquisition system? What I’ve come up with is that the problem is unsolvable. You can’t fix the mountain of regulation but you can automate it. I’m a two man shop but looking at the linkedin pages of my competitors it seems like there isn’t a programmer among them outside of web dev's. Paul graham once told me that that's a competitive advantage. (I think he was discussing lisp but I digress) However, to be fair I have zero background in programming at first look of my linkedin but I’ve been coding since I was young and is a reason why I thrived at Tesla on an inherently business and engineering team.

GSAContractpros.com (Just launched the site on Monday, would love any feedback)
As an outsider, it's not the reliability of the software that is amazing to me. It's the governance and management of the project. The distro has managed to be amazingly consistent and stable for years. But the reason for this is how the project is run. It's hard to do that for so long with minimal drama and they deserve tons for kudos for that effort.

Like some others, where CentOS was my go-to distro, I've started moving over to Debian as my distro of choice when I can. Thus far, I've been very happy with this choice.
I have a theory that people will enjoy watching media in a shared space that can be completely customized.

The shares and synchronized component is important - it’s (often) more fun to watch with your friends and exchange links, stories, factoids etc. as the media plays.

A big feature is being able to customize your environment - lots of minefields here of course but for example, creating a Star Wars themed room with appropriate 3D models, images, animations etc. while you were watching The Mandalorian seems like it would be fun.

Support for embedded media via web (YouTube, Netflix, and all the other steaming services) via my own Chromium Embedded Framework wrapper. This will of course also support any regular web content that the latest version of Chrome does too.

Support for playback of other video/audio URLs via ffmpeg.

Also considering adding a local screen sharing component so you can share your screen with your friends and maybe play games together.

I initially wanted to make this work in JavaScript so it could be used anywhere and had a shot at working on my Quest2. Not sure that’s possible so for the moment it’s all in C++11 and non-VR.

I have a family and a full time job so I’m only able to work on this evenings and weekends, my 9 year old princess permitting but it’s been fun so far. Haven’t decided how to release it yet but all my other stuff is open source so it probably will be too.
Ah, I remember when LightTable launched -- my dad (huge Clojure fan) was over the moon. Even today he's still trying to convince me that I should just use Clojure. :P
They’re a private company they can do what they want. Are you against private enterprise?
One of the things you see is that companies that do in-person networking end up trapped where their network is. Moving can kill the company.

If you don't want to be running a company in the SFBA, establishing your network remotely is probably the way to go. It won't break if you decide to run it from someplace other than the SFBA at the end of the school session.

I've done a lot online for years. This has helped make my life portable and that's helped me solve problems that should have been "impossible" to solve.

The pandemic helped set the standard that we can do a lot of things remotely that there used to be a lot of resistance to doing remotely. In the future, a remote network may be more valuable than an in person network. That idea just hasn't yet caught on, but it's possibly the wave of the future.
I've seen a few people recommend "The True Believer" [0] although I haven't read it myself.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
Show HN: Composability of software components is the biggest benefit of K8s
A tweet versus an FBI press briefing[1] where they discuss charging hundreds of people with federal crimes, including conspiracy to commit sedition.

A tweet versus a statement from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that said, "The violent riot in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, was a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process."[2]

The whataboutism continues to be unreal.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-and-fbi-lead...

[2] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/12/unprecedented...
We don't need data engineers, we need great tools and storytellers.
Curtailment of the National Security State, Church Senate Committee of 1975-76
They are on average more fit than poorer people.
I just got a Fitbit present. Now I have to kill it.
I'm not a gamer, but after work COVID lock-down boredom caused me to get a few old games working with Wine. Solitaire and Chess only go so far.

Tribes 2 and Test Drive 5 work great with Wine and are fun to tinker with even though they are 20+ years old now.
If Apple decided to downsize and focus on their core competency, which part of the company do you think they would deem essential to their business? I am sure they make decent money on all their stuff but Apple has also taken a public stance on privacy and their devices aren’t seemingly backdoored as seen in the LEAs trying to get help unlocking them and being told by Apple that they can’t help.

Look it all comes down to trust and I see way fewer reasons to trust Google than Apple. Both deserve a baseline measure of mistrust, but Google has all the incentive to spy on you while Apple has little to none. And when it comes to investigations of “why do you have this data in the first place?” Google’s answer is “we need it to advertise” while Apple’s can only be “we need it for this specific service” and if they fail to show why, they are liable. Google and Facebook have a virtually identical business model: collect, aggregate, advertise. If you don’t trust Facebook, why would you trust Google?
I find it funny that none of the people they listed were inside the capitol building. The only one that came close was Nick Fuentes and he was on the lawn but didn't go inside. What a sensationalist article.
I just installed yesterday. I tried an in-place upgrade from Buster, but that didn't work, so I did a new install. So far, so good. It's an interesting time to be running Bullseye because it includes GNOME 3.38, which is what you get in Fedora 33 and Ubuntu 20.10.
A superoptimizer that allows you to just put in the inputs and outputs of a function that want and that finds the shortest sequence of instructions that works the same way as the function.

Currently works only on branch-free AVX2 sequences where each SIMD lane is doing the same thing, and can calculate arbitrary graphs of 4 instructions for 8/16/32/64-bit SIMD.

I plan to add both more aggressive models of what can be represented (e.g. normal x86 or ARM programming as well as general SIMD), as well as working on synthesizing iterative and recursive sequences. It's already semi-useful in a niche.
This. If you read HN comments, only big tech like Google, Amazon and Facebook are after your data, and every single other company is amazing. I’ve worked at FAANG and small companies, and there’s waaay more shady business at small, struggling companies.

But I do understand that shady stuff at big companies have bigger blast radius, as they have more users, and often more diverse data, but I trust them way more than random startup.
This will get buried but I read an article somewhat recently about sperm count, which seems to be related: https://www.gq.com/story/sperm-count-zero
110 Years Ago, Electric Cars Were Already Shuttling Folks Under the US Capitol
What am I reading here? Thanks in advance.
I don’t think decoding Opus in software would be too hard on performance...
Major tech companies are hiring Rust experts months after Mozilla laid them off
Parler seemed like an organization that only catered to the far right and silenced all other speech on their platform.
All their contributions up until this point are still under the Apache license, so they'd have no reason to sue, I think. And anyone is of course free to fork that code and call it something else.

Now, it's very likely that many of them will stop contributing for versions 7.11 and up.
Remember when Google argued that Oracle shouldn’t be allowed to sue over using the Java API because SUN had said it was fine? That’s the same legal argument as the FAQ issue. It’s called equitable estoppel.
Have the Tables Turned on NoSQL?
Oberon OS Walkthrough (2009)
This article has a strange way of romantacising mental illness.
Nissan Insider Key to Ghosn’s Downfall Speaks in Court
Mostly 2D but some of the algorithms also work in higher dimensions. The HGeometry library explicitly encodes dimensions in the types of objects.
Brief comments suggesting this result is p-hacking are being downvoted, but I highly doubt this result will replicate. There's just so many chances (men/women/everyone, light, hunger) to reject the null hypothesis, no attempt as far as I can see to correct for this (e.g., Bonferroni), no priors/regularization, etc.
I think there may be a difference. Accountants are humans that are trying to be computers.

Smart-contracts are computers trying to be human. Most contracts are flawed and only really matter when things go wrong. I'd rather that a human be there when things go wrong to understand the human intent behind the contract than have a computer which does not know the human intent, but is able to enforce the (likely flawed) computational representation of that intent.
it turns out that enforcing "no politics" is often a political stance!
I'm working on a mobile version of a card game my friend's dad made! In between shifts at the hospital, it's been a great way to take my mind off of everything going on in the world.

https://www.entspire.com

It's funny, for someone with a formal computer science education I've never tried making a mobile app before! We don't really expect to make a lot of money off of the app, but we've had a blast going through the whole process.
> Do you trust Amazon, Google and Microsoft or millions of sysadmins in podunk companies to secure their infrastructure?

Of course not, and when they screw up, we lean on a robust (yet imperfect) legal system to intervene.

One of the advertised features of smart contracts is a reduced dependency on trust, so if they don't actually have that advantage (at least in relation to real-life interactions), then it's hard to say they're any better than traditional legal contracts for those use cases.
If we do enter the Snow Crash mega corp/gated burb future I want to become a Deliverator for the pizza mafia.

I'm also not for this. I wasn't for nest either. I now trust the device on my wrist less.
I see these experiences as nice-to haves. It just means you'll be able to hit the ground faster. Personally, I'd value someone who shows they can learn quickly.

That said, it's trivial these days to spin up a few VM's, install Airflow and try some practice scenarios just to get your hands dirty.
100%. That management makes it happen.

I think we all (who can afford it) should send them a few bucks.
Just yesterday I was daydreaming of quitting my job and throwing all the frameworks and build systems out the window in favour of starting something new with vanilla PHP.

Just edit your code and refresh the page. Aaah, the simplicity!

I’ve heard PHP8 was just released? I’m going to go read up on that.
Trino in 2020 - An amazing year in review
So... they p-hacked an experiment that really only shows that some people can avoid getting dizzy some of the time.

> the subjects were gently rotated to face toward the ambient geomagnetic north or east, depending on the experiment

> With the touch cue, subjects were asked to freely rotate toward any direction

> Subjects were informed of the [desired] direction before each experiment

Faulty experiment and P Hacking.
> The last non-amd64 processor that ran x86 is the Pentium 4E from 2004, a 17-year-old machine.

Atom CPUs without x86_64 support were released up until 2013.
Working on a label design and printing software, with a focus on barcodes and QR codes.

Eventually expanding it to integrate with various data sources.
> One is a post-epidemic estimate by independent epidemiologists, while the other is a confirmed-positive-death count subject to contemporaneous political pressure and institutional inability to confirm every Covid death.

...as well as almost certain over-counting due to extremely liberal criteria for "Covid deaths" (e.g. deaths within 30 days of a positive test, which is the standard in many areas.)

Point being: there's uncertainty on the "confirmed-positive death count" in both directions and you're assuming that it's a strict lower bound.

Just today, the WSJ published an excess-death study that put the number at 2.8M, worldwide (or 3.5/10,000):

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-covid-19-death-toll-is-even...

Higher than the JHU numbers, but still within reasonable statistical error of the 1957 pandemic estimates.

> After a couple years once experts have had time to gather and crunch the numbers, the number of Covid deaths from a comparable kind of best-guess estimate is going to double or more. Even in the USA, we are probably missing on the order of 150–200k Covid deaths so far from our confirmed death counts.

Well, now you're just making things up. Also, again: see the WSJ study above. Even if you count every excess death this year as Covid...it's about the same as the 1957 flu season.
It's a matter of taste and how much thickness you want. It's a tradeoff between thickness and amount of burnt-chickpea taste that you can tolerate. And it's fine if you don't cook it down at all.

For 2 cups dry chickpeas + 8 cups water I sometimes cook it down for an extra hour on low heat.
> You won't be sued (I'm not a lawyer) as long as you're not breaking and ToC, or misleading users into using it and sending you their data.

You can probably mislead them all you want in most jurisdictions. After all, that's what Facebook is already doing - how many of its billion+ users do you think are fully aware of how much external data Facebook gets access to?

Outright lying on the other hand, that's what's going to get you in trouble:

> a privacy policy that claimed they did not collect any personal information
It's tough to eat enough meat to get really fat. Most people who try a carnivore diet end up losing weight. (I am not necessarily recommending that people follow a carnivore diet because it might have other negative effects.)
The Intel Core Duo (such as found in the 1st generation Intel macbook pro) from 2006) is not 64-bit capable.
I struggle with similar feelings as an aging amateur musician, particularly in genres like jazz where it sometimes feels like there is almost no point putting something out there unless it's world-class technically... which I'll never be.

Something I realized recently - and admittedly this hasn't changed any behaviors for me yet, but maybe it will help you - is that a lot of the music I listen to is objectively not the best in the world in terms of technical skill, originality, popularity, etc. and yet I enjoy and appreciate it anyway. So maybe it's OK for me to make music that's also not the best in the world - someone might find it and like it anyway. And if not, no harm!
> Personally I don't see the problem for the USA, if people are happy being unhealthy then let them be unhealthy.

They're not happy. They're suffering and helpless. That's the problem.
Paul Krugman's prediction that the impact of the internet will be "no greater than that of the fax machine."[0]

This is not by the way a specific criticism of Krugman (though I do think too many people, including Krugman himself, wrongly think his Nobel Prize for trade theory gives him expertise in every other subject he pontificates about).

As usual, the non-doers (commenters or critics, places like the NYT) have little perspective on things that can change the world. It's up to us in tech to always have that bright-eyed optimism for what is possible, because we're the ones building it day-in-day-out. Observer critics don't really have a place in this, unless that criticism is coming directly from folks who are meant to be the initial customers/users of technology.

[0]https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/revolutions/miscellany/paul...
> They say younger guys have problems finding a girlfriend, because they expect her to take care of him the same way his mother did, and younger Japanese women don't want to put up with that kind of attitude anymore.

This is rampantly common in (esp. Southern) Europe as well. The stereotype of the Italian or Greek "mama's boy" who can't do anything around the house and expects their SO to be their surrogate mother is very real.

I really don't think you should be using this as evidence to paint Japan as developmentally retarded as compared to "Western" countries. Respectfully, it comes off as parochial if I'm being charitable, or as working backwards from a desired conclusion if I'm not.

Moreover, this is a trend that crops up all around the world, not just in Japan or Europe. There are plenty of people like this in the US as well. I've met several grown men with well paying jobs who eat out for every meal and have their mothers do their laundry every weekend.
> A man brewed a tea from “magic mushrooms” and injected the concoction into his veins; several days later, he ended up at the emergency department with the fungus growing in his blood.

Oh good god. Where did he get this idea? You are not supposed to take Psilocybes every weekend like recreational drug.

You do 5 grams like Terrence McKenna says and then wait a few months until you do it again. For beginners, 5 grams is not recommended.

As for anti-depressant effects, the last time I did it was June last year. I think it rewired my brain and I don't feel as down as before.

I would take Psilocybe mushrooms over anti-depressant medication any day. It takes more than 3 or 4 times before I felt like its anti-depressant effect was more long lasting.

I like to thank the heavens for allowing me to live in a country where I can order medical marijuana and psilocybes with cash and arrive in my mailbox the next day without fearing the law enforcement. I simply can't imagine living in a country with draconian policies where misinformation continues to create stigma and severe punishment for simply partaking in a harmless activity.
Oh that's cool! I've been playing with Joy. Concatinative languages seem to have a lot of potential.

How do you handle compiling combinators?
Not with these guys of course.
Have you looked at https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri as a more lightweight and Rust friendly alternative to Electron ?
Interview with James Park telling the story of FitBit
Whatever it is, it started in the mid 70s. You can see the exact moment obesity rates launched upwards and never looked back.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/-/media/Images/Health-Information/...
For the purposes of this analogy, it doesn't matter what they should be allowed to do, what matters is what they are legally allowed to. Likewise there is a very legitimate argument that laws should be changed so that twitter would not have the legal authority to kick people off its platform arbitrarily, but the entire point of the analogy is that there is a difference between what is legally permissible and socially acceptable.
I've been using Debian or Debian derived distros for quite a while, everything from straight up Debian on various servers, Armbian for my SBC's, to my secondary PC running Kubuntu and later KDE Neon.

For me as a more casual Linux user, it's great as it essentially "just works" and I don't have to invest a great deal of time to fiddle with auxiliary things.

However, if I could get one wish, it was to ditch the codenames. As someone who's not on the dev mailing list, I find it so confusing when people reference the Debian version just by codename and have to search just about every time to make sure I understand what's what.

Regardless, a big thanks to the contributors!
Chapter Two: Finding Rationality (Battle Your Fear)