skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems obvious. Just tell the facts!

You may have great social circles with intelligent and curious people, but in my life the facts don’t work because the facts don’t matter. The number of people actually interested in the science and not just the science (tm) is dismally low, we’re talking less than 10% in my experience. This includes people who have degrees in physics and engineering and a university engineering professor I knew.

People are hungry, vulnerable, emotional, scared, and prideful creatures. That’s what we are; and we like stories. We like stories where we’re hero’s on an epic journey with villains to defeat.

If you tell someone a fact that breaks their story, makes them scared, and makes them less prideful, you’re not having a conversation for very long, doesn’t matter if you can support it with evidence and reasoning. What PR added on top of this human tendency is people think about climate way more than they otherwise would, they think about it in terms of a story, in us vs. them terms (PRs narrative), and if you say something counter to that narrative, now you’re the villain.

I’ve had people I respect flat out tell me that climate change is a hoax and if we reduced carbon emissions it would just be virtue signaling. They are not joking, they are serious and they’ve been told this by talking heads for over 20 years.

You’ll never get to the back of the envelope calculation.
>Tesla is the only participant that has a true path to self driving technology.

They dont even ship cars with Stereo front facing cameras.
Eight cameras, twelve hypersonic sensors, one forward facing radar, GPS, and still no stereo vision resulting in cars plowing full speed into stationary obstacles ....
mmap is not as free as people think. VM subsystem is full of inefficient locks. Here is a very good writeup on a problem BBC encountered with Varnish: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/17d22fb8-cea2-4...
Yes, but even pessimistically Google could send one rocket to the moon in 10 years with only 10% revenue.
They are not comparable actions or situations.

Left-wingers demonstrate for respecting the rights of people who are being denied them and to end biased policing, arguing for greater equality and support for those in need.

From what I've seen of right-wing protests over the last many years, they've demonstrated for restricting the rights of people they don't like, and lately to try and overturn a fair and democratic election.

These are not at all comparable, there is a clear difference in motives and methods.
Yeah, right, now that a person is dead you can do whatever you want without being punched on the nose. Expect the same to be done to you after your death, though.
> What happens to your currency in that process is debasement/hyperinflation.

Not if the vast majority of population lives paycheck to paycheck and food and basic necessities production are not disrupted.

In that/our case, you simply get the inflation of the assets the "elites" who have disposable income choose to spend that disposable income("investing" in real-estate, bitcoin).
As someone who used to log lifting in plain text files (copied from a notebook) I think this is a really good idea.

To avoid all of the comments from people asking about GPS tracking, I think you should make it clear that it's primarily for strength training. The format is clearly oriented around that.

An addition that could make it more useful for recording cardio workouts like swimming/track/indoor cycling would be the concept of rest intervals. For example, it's common to prescribe a part of a swimming workout in a format like this:

4 x 100 at 1:20

Meaning you have 1:20 to complete each 100m rep, where any extra time is rest. You could also add extra fields for recording the actual time taken to complete rach rep. E.g:

#Unit: m
#TimeFormat: M:S

4r 100 @1:20
1:05, 1:07, 1:11, 1:06
City of Largo (FL) Linux Thin Client Infrastructure Blog (2015)
1,800 Instacart workers are losing their jobs. No one agrees on who fired them
Not all his critics. If you disagree with him and can provide substance, that's fine and we can debate it.

But there were a lot of comments in this thread that were literally just saying "Greenwald is losing his mind". No argument, just that.
Baker's (half-)dozen?
Here's Verizon's explainer [1] about how 5G works. Basically, since the frequencies needed to transmit large amounts of data are so high (28 - 39 GHz millimeter wavelength bands), the signal does not reach as far as a 4G tower. Therefore, a higher density of towers is needed (500 feet apart to effectively penetrate buildings [2]), allowing for higher granularity cell-phone triangulation/tracking as a by-product.

[1] https://www.verizon.com/about/news/how-far-does-5g-reach

[2] https://www.celltowerleaseexperts.com/cell-tower-lease-news/...
VFX Artists (Corridor Digital) React to the Mandalorian CGI, Including Deep Fake
Forgot Fischer SpacePen!!
Those types of law hurt my feelings. I have studied and I'm working so hard every day, all of this to make sure the countryside is stuck in the past?

It makes me want to leave France.
In my experience NES, SNES, and Sega Masterdrive/Genesis are perfectly playable on a model B (especially when moderately overclocked).
As long as much of the world’s trade is settled in US dollars, there is a demand for them, and some demand for US treasuries.

The merry-go-round of the Fed increasing the money supply and buying US government debt with the newly created money can keep
going for a while, but it will lead to a steady decline in the value of the dollar vs other currencies and some official inflation over time, as the cost of imported goods rises. And there is already high inflation in other areas not measured in official inflation. The other component of inflation is increasing wages, but I don’t see that happening soon.

In terms of government debt - while the nominal value of US government debt rises, some of it is also somewhat eroded as the real value of the dollar decreases. So it looks like the plan is to monetise the debt, at least somewhat. I am not sure if paying the government debt back over time through increased taxes is on the agenda - I doubt it.

There is a trend of increasing de-dollarisation of world trade, which can already be seen in trade between countries like Russia and China moving to using their own currencies and the euro for a larger portion of trade.

I think in the future more world trade will be settled with some type of bancor type basket of currencies where USD is one component, rather than the only component.
Function Intersection Types Considered Surprising
I was using an original Pi as an ssh client to talk the the serial ports of a couple of systems at work. They're fine for any non-graphical that runs tmux and serial software. It could probably run VNC server with TWM or some other retro WM.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AntiAntiJokes/comments/91kpa0/an_in...
The Pentel Energel mentioned upthread is also pretty good at not smudging.
Chapstick, car key, multitool[1], phone, flashlight[2], wallet

I plan for the worst when I step outside the front door. The number of times I’ve needed a light is twice the number of times I’ve needed a knife, but both are immensely useful to have even when going on quick trips.

[1] https://countycomm.com/collections/cutting/products/boker-ed...

[2] https://countycomm.com/collections/18650-26650-flashlights/p...
It works great as a backup Pihole. I have the compressed ram config installed due to a large blocklist and rsync the DB over from my primary instance.

Works great in the times that I have the primary Pihole (containerized) down for maintenance/upgrades.
At my BigCorp just finding the right channel can be very difficult and channels can be a lightly monitored dead end.

That being said I have no problem if someone says, “can you ask this on the Foobar channel?”
That’s only accurate if paychecks and food adjust at the same rate. You’re pretty screwed if your wage is set at the beginning of the year but bread is ticking up every week.
If you're looking for a Moleskine kind of size but want paper that isn't terrible, I like Leuchtturm1917 [0]. It's reasonably easy to get a hold of in all of the parts of the world I've lived in so far.

[0]: https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/
This "look weird" issue also applies to the phone bumps, it's just that you haven't seen it before.

When the phone bumps and notches were first introduced it was plenty weird and ugly and obvious with no clear prediction of whether people will be bothered with it or not.

Obviously people are fine with it now.

If the market is a bit open minded with laptops, we can all have better webcams. Form follows function. If I can get a notched laptop with a great 4K laptop webcam, I couldn't care less that it has a weird notch.
I take your point, but the pandemic is different from the economy as a whole†, with different incentives. It is probably possible to keep society running with total indifference to COVID-19, pretending that its death toll is essentially the same as a bad flu. Over a million people would die, but society can metabolize a million deaths without really skipping a beat.

Preventing as many of those deaths as is reasonably possible requires sacrifice and expenditure, and really the only incentive we have to undertake that is moral.

I don't think the problem is that "blood on their hands" is moralizing, but rather that it's hackneyed, shrill, and unpersuasive.

† cf downthread
USB-C has almost entirely replaced USB-micro B on mid-high end phones.

The other end of the cable is much harder to replace; there's so much stuff with a USB-A that going USB-C on that side doesn't seem worth it, unless you're deep into Apple.

It would be very unApple, but they could keep a lightning port on one side, and add a USB-C port on the other and kill the lightning port later. Maybe not entirely unApple, they did go through a transition from firewire to usb on iPods with models supporting both for some time.
It's not 20 dimensional chess. It's simple Chapayev[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapayev_(game)
Lovely. I like that it has a cookie to remember the post-it locations. My only complaint is that it looks _too_ nice and polished!
Or you just post a lot of misinformation.
You never googled the joke to see where it was from?
"Vole wtf" made me think it might be a Czech page, since that's something someone might say (see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vole#Czech ) but looking at the list of contributors, I don't see anyone Czech.

So this was at least your bit of trivia for today.
Not just YouTube comments, but videos as well have become automated or semi-automated to produce the most engaging content and maximize ad revenue. There are companies making millions by gaming the system. See the Elsagate scandal and TheSoul Publishing[1], the company behind those 5-minute craft videos and occasional Russian propaganda.

And of course similar things are happening on all social media platforms.

It's deeply ironic that the West built all these tools with the intention of "connecting" people, something that's still Facebook's main mission statement, yet its biggest effects have been exactly the opposite, causing division and distrust between people, and contributing to real world conflicts and toppling of governments.

Social media today is weaponized by political agents to spread misinformation and propaganda on an unprecedented scale and the platforms are paying them to do it. The current political climate in the US is no surprise. It was a coordinated psyops attack and its enemies are laughing at how easy and inexpensive it was to destabilize a nation compared to traditional warfare.

I fear that we still haven't seen the worst of it, and frankly I'm not sure what the solution is.

[1]: https://www.lawfareblog.com/biggest-social-media-operation-y...
Which has nothing to do with the Model 100. The title is misleading.
California keeps key virus data out of public sight
You're in the right spot – IndieHackers is a pretty great community for this kind of stuff too!
There was an executive order by the governor to allow more flexibility for Covid tests. Pharmacists are now allowed to order Covid tests. And when you show up at a testing site at a clinic or hospital, your test will be recorded as "ordered" by a doctor or nurse practitioner that you never actually see in person.
I used to follow Dave Richards’ Largo IT blog regularly 7-8 years ago, and it occurred to me that I don’t think it’s ever been featured on HN. Hasn’t been too much activity lately, but there is a ton of very cool and interesting content here. Highly recommend.
>switch away from Moleskines.

My dad developed a proto-paper for Moleskine, it was perfect but way too expensive for them, 4$ for a A5 Notebook :(
Well, every tool has it's own range of use cases; doing integer math is not a use case for a guesstimate engine .
Or, at least in the parent article, the regulations were found to be nonsense, and so a law was passed to revise them.

Lots of well meaning laws have unintended consequences. A large contributing factor to out-of-control Californian wildfires was that prescribed fires to thin the amount of combustible material were often stopped by the air quality board.
I guess I could go something like «Hi I need one of you five people to give me some context on this topic I know little about right now so I can continue on my reasoning for what actions to take by the business to mitigate some problem” and just see who answers first. Now five people are context switching for no reason and I’m a legit problem. When I don’t know what I need. Synchronous communication is very efficient because of faster feedback loops. This is agile and some job types can have a lot of this. Like architects and management. And yes, I hate doing it. Pre March 2020 a strategically timed coffee machine meeting could fix some of these situations with less friction and better social outcomes for future cooperation.
Email in profile if you'd like help finding developers — I've worked with devs on a number of different projects from places like Ukraine, Serbia, India, and China. Depending on what you're looking for, pay is in the range of $17-$40/hr for most common stacks, at a junior to mid-range level of expertise (I assume you're mostly working in a web-based stack like Javascript, Ruby, or PHP).

LinkedIn recruiting is your friend here, especially in places like India, as you can post jobs for very low INR prices as compared to recruiting in the West or in more affluent countries.
Right, yes, that must be it.
Okay, I have to ask:

How is the current "notion of IP for software" not sustainable?

And how is this model, which seems like it's just asking to fall into a tragedy of the commons, more sustainable?

And finally, how is making something and holding it back until getting paid a certain amount a "counter-force to greed"? (to be clear, I don't have a problem with this -- if someone makes something, they're free to do what they want with it -- but I don't see how it's any more or less greedy than other options)
I think this misses the point, which is that many (maybe most) of the citizens of Great Britain don't consider nationalists in Northern Ireland as citizens at all, even while they are murdering them.

After all, while the majority of the deaths during the Troubles were caused by Republicans, most of those killed by Republicans were members of the British Armed Forces.

Most of the civilians killed by any party were killed by the British Armed Forces or Unionist paramilitaries supported by them.

You, like many in Great Britain, have decided that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland aren't really UK citizens, while simultaneously they were being slaughtered to try to force them to accept being UK citizens.

You are a perfect (possibly non-GB) example of the ignorance or maybe wilful blindness that surrounds Northern Ireland, and the crimes of the British government against its own citizens.
> If someone here builds a different UI for IDEs, I will be an enthusiastic beta tester.

The interface you're seeing is still alive and well in most Smalltalk environments. If you're on Windows, try Dolphin Smalltalk, which is now available for free.
You could always start an underground pamphlet printing press!

... although the pro-censorship crowd have an exploit for that as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx3svMxAIas
"Customer service" lol

You're not the customer.
I wonder if something similar could be accomplished with a group helping people file specific Freedom Of Information requests. I feel like the reason would have to legally be in there
> State health officials said they rely on a very complex set of measurements that would confuse and potentially mislead the public if they were made public.

Where is Rebekah Jones when you need her?
Į think certain percentage will just keep the donations on. And of course some will cancel them after the feature is released.
Hey Daniel this is super cool and I appreciate all you've done over the years to support our use of Ruby on App Engine.

This is extremely exciting -- I've always loved the idea of running Ruby in a serverless context, and I've always preferred Google Cloud Functions to Lambda for its simplicity. This is super good news in general.

I definitely recommend taking a look at Ruby on Jets for inspiration, which brings a very rails-like serverless Ruby framework to fruition in AWS Lambda.
It's more of an observation on how markets tend to work in general.

Unless we're only talking about Iceland or similar countries, which are not connected to any continental grid and have a surplus of cheap/free energy they have no where to put, increased demand for electricity will lead to increased production. This demand might be fulfilled by building new powerplants using renewable sources (since currently that's cheaper than fossil or nuclear. However as long as these new sources are connected to a grid which still has non-renewable power plants mining bitcoin will produce as much CO2 as using a washing machine, smelting aluminum or driving a tesla per kWh.

Now if (assuming everything else stays constant) for some reason all bitcoin mining stopped the decrease in demand would lead to decrease in production from more expensive (possibly due to regulatory overhead and/or subsidies to renewables) more fossil-fuel based energy sources
Was this perhaps posted in response to the death of Brad Cox?

It seems in the spirit of software components.
The savings rate is a whole other issue. Strictly on the value proposition of the dollar and discussing economics, the savings of common folks in any amount cannot be invested into production assets meaningfully with real yields as prices rise = they are worthless. Meanwhile homes, auto, healthcare, education, all rise and what you are holding has less purchasing power. Inflation is very real even if the price of specific items like your socks are not rising substantially. Also CPI is a basket created by the fed to sell bonds, it has no other purpose.
Ask HN: Is low level progarmming job more satisfying?
I think general assumption is that a high level programming language/tool:
1. protects you from many technical dangers;
2. empowers you to relatively easy implement complex business logic;

But does it also strike back with these downsides:
1. limits your ability to create "novel" or technically non-trivial systems;
2. moves you closer to the business and thus forces you to deal with many levels of management that influence not only "what" you program, but sometimes also "how" you do it;

Having enough experience with high-level stuff I have this stupid idea that going closer to the OS/metal and wisely choosing tools can somehow protect an engineer from politics and provide an environment with more grunted, real, technical constraints.

Anyone did such a switch? Please, let me know how this corresponds with your experience.
There was a lot of extern "C" (and there still is a lot of that), but there also was a lot of extern "Pascal" back then, I seem to recall.

There was a quite a bit of regular C in classic MacOS, though there was also a good deal of C++. You're right that MacApp (Which I think is what you're referring to with "MPW", which was an IDE) and PowerPlant were written in C++, but I'm not talking about the clients of the MacOS APIs, but about the implementations of those APIs.
Or that writes a lot in Dutch.

Just the other day a prominent dutch account got auto-blocked on twitter for saying 'Die Rutte toch.', where 'Die' (a pretty common dutch word, which in this case translates as 'That') was mistaken for a threat to our prime minister.
I think for a certain kind of techno-anarchist-libertarian, "both sides are evil" leads to it being at worst morally neutral to help one fuck over the other. I suspect Assange fell into this hole: he hates either party, he decided to subvert a process because he could.

Does he "back" Trump? no.
Satellite TV dishes don't transmit and don't require the service provider to know your location.
Thing is there are assholes on both sides. And both sides may use laws to their convenience to keep being assholes.

I have a neighbour in my village (and I mean, really 'in') who has several cocks, and he also has peacocks! The first ones start around 2 AM, the other ones basically never stop. I leave 300 yards away and I hear everything through the double window, every night. Oh, as I said peacocks, you probably thought "that neighbour must have a large property, a real park". Yeah, no, he has a standard detached house with its small piece of land, and the hens, the cocks, the peacocks spend their time on neighbours properties: a few remaining meadows (nobody really minds) and, what is more trouble, the gardens (they ate all my cabbages one year in a garden I have even farther from their place).

Also, sometimes people complain against traditional things, but they often complain about 'industrial' size farms. Farming has changed a lot in France in 30 years (even though it still operates at much smaller scale than in countries like the USA, the sizes and modes of exploitation have dramatically changed).
So people often complain about a massive pig farm, a massive poultry farm with several thousands chickens, and so on.

In my village (coming back a bit earlier in time), people used to have 1 to 4 cows in a tiny stable, and would take them to the meadows. Now the few remaining so-called agricultors have a hundred cows in a hangar (often all year long). Actually they don't have a hundred cows: they have 99 cows, because starting with the 100th, the extra cows are no more subsidised...
Immortal Yeast: a week's worth of research
I see this question pop up a lot here and other communities, so I started curating a list of alternatives here:

https://www.curabase.com/org/curabase/alternatives-to-aws

DISCLAIMER: The linked site is a side project of mine. I will revisit this post and add the ones I missed.
Even if all Internet based video is banned, movies will still circulate on USB flash drives. It happened before with Roadside Picnic and other books that the regime wouldn't print because of foul language or subversive ideas. Do not underestimate the creativity of citizens from the former Eastern block.