skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a NASA review of the scientific understanding of oxygen toxicity circa 1964. There's a difference between pure oxygen at low pressure (as experienced by astronauts) and pure oxygen at high pressure (as experienced by SCUBA divers). See page 7 (pg 20 of the pdf)

Another link has an interesting review of how Apollo 1 ended up with a pure oxygen atmosphere, even though NASA had originally specified a mixed-gas atmosphere:

> "NASA changed its mind on the dual-gas system because weight was increasingly becoming an issue. The spacecraft was getting heavy, too heavy to launch to the Moon with the Saturn V, and shaving pounds off the top of the stack was ideal: every pound removed at the top translates to tens of additional pounds of thrust at the moment of launch. And so NASA zeroed in on the crew cabin environment as a place to save weight."

- https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/why-apollo-had...
None of that information is "necessary" though otherwise I would be dead. Painting Facebook as some kind of loft extension built on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is disingenuous at best and propaganda at worst. I've lived happily without Facebook for many years, not using it has had zero impact on my life. Not zero _meaningful_ impact, but _zero_ impact. Facebook is NOT a necessity.
Just because it sounds extreme doesn’t mean I am using the wrong words. Guns are not required for violence or murder to occur. Just because some people there were not trying to do either doesn’t mean that didn’t happen. Why do you feel the need to defend them by focusing on selfies?

“Insurrection” is a violent attack on a government.

“Assassination” is murdering a prominent person for political reasons.

> In charging papers, the FBI said that during the Capitol riot, Caldwell received Facebook messages from unspecified senders updating him of the location of lawmakers. When he posted a one-word message, “Inside,” he received exhortations and directions describing tunnels, doors and hallways, the FBI said. Some messages, according to the FBI, included, “Tom all legislators are down in the Tunnels 3floors down,” and “Go through back house chamber doors facing N left down hallway down steps.” Another message read: “All members are in the tunnels under capital seal them in. Turn on gas,” the FBI added.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/conspiracy...
People need to balance there weaknesses with strengths. Just because one demographic is weak at something doesn't mean they're strong in another.

While intuitively I agree that what Camile Pagila says makes sense, there is no definitive evidence that was causes men to more likely be serial killers is what causes men to more likely be geniuses. Scientifically we still need to entertain the possibility that women aren't geniuses because of biology and this has nothing to do with the fact that they're unlikely to be serial killers. It might be true it might not be true, don't let ideology or pride in your own race/sex blind you from the truth.

Case in point, white people are more likely to be serial killers than other races. You may automatically think a racial centered biological origin of serial killer behavior is absurd but again this is the irrational need for "balance" and equality that is throwing you off. There is no scientific evidence either way, it could be Caucasian in origin it could not be.

Behaviorally we should be ideologically neutral for different demographics, but for observations of reality and discussing truth we should be scientifically neutral.
The Swiss Government was (at the latter part of the operation) aware and complicit.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/no-official-outcry-in-...

Given this precedent, there's good reason to believe it would happen again. There is not reason to believe that the people behind Teleguard today would be in favor, but there is good reason not to become wedded to the service given the risk that it may change hands or be operated similarly to Crypto AG down the road.
FWIW, those aren't explosives. Flammable, yes, but definitely not explosive. Spreading gross misinformation like this is part of the problem.
It's Twitter, you don't even need to generate original text: likes, comment-free retweets, reaction gifs and posting the same text as replies to everything are all actions that will boost whatever sentiment or link it is you want to boost.
> many people that do a naked "hi" / "hey" are trying to see if the receiver is present

The metaphorical "You up?"
Anyone remember the late 90s when Scientific American didn't publish clickbait?
The offshore people on one of my big corporate jobs used to do this with such ubiquity they must have been coached to do it.
Depends on which circles you move around.

https://www.actiprosoftware.com/

https://www.grapecity.com/

https://www.telerik.com/

Just a sample, there are others.
I only get a 1/5 and almost all my followers are bots or abandoned accounts I paid for years ago.

Same things with BotSentinel - it's just garbage.
Bitcoin's creator thought the block size should be raised and nodes would end up in server farms. Whether you agree with this or not, that was the original vision of Bitcoin. Now, start-ups pivot, and it's great that there are experiments, but BTC should not have used the Bitcoin name to do this. That is the point being made.
-> the insurrection attempt

That's wording that made me think, and I had to actually look up the definition of insurrection. I think it was complete insurrection, not a just an attempt at it. But, maybe there's a legal definition or duration of success matters?
Absolutely, but it's still polite to schedule the synchronous call via async.

"hey, need to talk urgently about x, are you available at 2?" or "...can you call me ASAP?"

There's very few situations that warrant getting someone else to unexpectedly drop whatever they're doing and pay attention to you, right now.

On the other hand, I'd actually go further and say there's lots of situations where sync communications is significantly more efficient. The most obvious example is when both sides are exchanging information in the "discovery" phase of a discussion where most of the back and forth is one-liner questions or statements - essentially where two parties are trying to sync up and get on a level playing field. Similarly, brainstorming over sync can save paragraphs of wasted keystrokes.

Often what can take days over async can take minutes if done synchronously. The key is synchronous communications should be scheduled or solicited - even if done only a few minutes in advance.
There is no PS5/ Xbox One X version of cyberpunk. One will launch end of 2021. Cyberpunk is a bad example.
i mean earlier when it became overtaken by spam
Indeed the attribute-based nature of IRMA makes it more general than OpenID Connect. Users can collect all sorts of attributes in their IRMA app, and then selectively disclose any subset of those attributes, as appropriate to the use case. This includes authentication like OpenID Connect (e.g. the user could disclose a username attribute), but also other use cases such as indeed proving that you are older than 18, or anonymously proving membership of a group (using unlinkability, see below), or providing authenticated personal data such as your address or date of birth.
I tried both this and the other and I am happy to say I am not a bot on either. I did get a .7 on the other and a 0 on this one.

Interestingly it identified my sister in law as a bot, but looking at her account, I'd assume the same. Anyone else I checked seemed accurate as well.
I'm not a fan but the place where I work now uses it and it doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would. IDEs are smart enough to work with it. Although I still wouldn't use it on a project of my own.
The quest2 was cool. Infact I was going to start developing apps for it, but I decided to return it because you HAVE to connect to facebook and people are getting banned left and right for "bad behavior" which could be as little as dropping an "f-bomb"
Continued use of leaded fuel over time means it can build up in the environment. Living near an airport now I'm reluctant to eat anything from gardens nearby.
100% on point, they always are. Thankyou for reminding me to not engage.

It's honestly too much despite having a strong opinion on the matter.
You're right! It's been too long since I used them. I think I was probably remembering F#'s light syntax.
The deniers I know are conservatives who reject it outright simply because it's what the liberals believe (or perhaps, to find some common ground, it's what liberal institutions believe). They've read little about it and assume that it's hysteria.

Maybe my idea of a conservative celebrity is a silly idea and won't work, but I believe the root cause is one of tribal conflict (combined with cynical disinformation campaigns), and to change their mind requires getting around these tribal defenses in some way.

According to Pew, 84% of Liberal Democrats think that humans significantly contribute to global warming, whereas 14% of Conservative Republicans do. I think this helps to confirm that there's a pretty important tribal dimension at play here (although we also can't rule out that financially self-interested people have self-selected themselves into the latter category).
I think this is what creates that perception. People whose worldview is shaped predominantly by the media outlets that have jumped the shark encounter cognitive dissonance when someone correctly points out their failings, and are more invested in trusting the establishment than what some guy has to say about them, even if that guy is correct.

Notice that it's "Glenn Greenwald has gone crazy" and not any substantive refutation of anything he said.
I would see that as the price you deserve to pay for trusting an organisation so obviously untrustworthy.
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was doing this with a pi2 and some tweaked default settings pretty successfully - don't recall what - but I think turning off jpeg compression helped because the CPU didn't have to process the stream as much
He's talking about the show Silicon Valley, where they came up with a compression algorithm that was so good it was theoretically impossible.
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The logic is sound when applied to my singular observation. But a good number of people got > 8/10. Read the thread.
I'm very ambivalent about Greenwald. One the one hand he produced essential work with the Snowden revelations and his exposure of corruption in Brazil. He also makes good points about the moral evil of the Bush/Cheney administrations and Obama's continuation of the war on terror.

But on the other hand it feels like he spends a lot of time attacking strawmen just for the sake of being contrarian.
Saying that journalists are authoritarians who want to protect the secrets of the powerful [1] and control access to platforms [2] has a tiny grain of truth in it but is mainly a massive oversimplification that paints a group of thousands of professionals who have a myriad of varying incentives with an incredibly broad brush. He seems to be incapable of nuance in his critique of the journalistic profession, and that renders his message mostly inaudible to me because it feels like it's coming from some form of resentment rather than reasoned arguments.

[1] "Journalists view the dissemination of information about what powerful people are doing in the dark not as their principal function and purpose—which is what it ought to be if we had a healthy media—but as something to be denounced and condemned."

[2] "[Facebook and Google and Twitter, and Silicon Valley in general] began to censor because journalists demanded they do so, in part because journalists are authoritarians who believe that the modes of information [should be] regulated by them and by others.
"I'll give you just one example, which is press freedom. Under Obama, as I'm sure you know, the Espionage Act of 1917--one of the most pernicious laws we have on our books;
it was enacted under Woodrow Wilson, and it was designed to criminalize dissent from U.S. participation in World War I--was invoked against whistleblowers and sources, like
Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and a dozen others, more under Obama than every other prior president combined. It ended up being three times more prosecutions under
the Espionage Act for our sources as journalists than all previous presidents, including Nixon or Eisenhower or whoever you want to pick. And the press said almost
nothing."

I'd like to know what exactly is so "insane" about pointing this out.

Glenn Greenwald has always been actually on the left, unlike the milk-toast "leftism" (or really "centrism" or rightism) of outlets like the NYT, CNN, MSNBC, etc..

This is what bothers people, and they can't take people actually on the left pointing out what hypocrites and right-wingers many liberals are.

This is why Glenn Greenwald gets censored, but I'm pleased to see that he still has the balls to speak truth to power.
Aren’t there ways to have several beams outside body converge in the body to produce heat?

If there is a way to highlight cancer, then it could burn out all the bright spots
Just a couple of weeks ago I did a search on Google for “OnlyDevs” to see if anyone had already thought of this. I didn’t immediately see anything relevant at the time, so I then looked to see if onlydevs.com was available, which it wasn’t – parked by some domain shark. But the service I used for looking for domain availability suggested only.dev which is available and I was like oh neat but then I saw the price that it would cost and it was too much for me.

Only.dev would cost ~870 USD per year which is way to expensive for a domain for some random idea.

Anyways, neat to see that someone came built this, and nice that they were able to come up with a name for it that would not cost them an arm and a leg for the domain :p
There's a distinct lack of citations in your self-assured reply. Go ahead and cite all of that.
This one looks much, much better than the others, as a long-time user of dplyr who's now a refugee in the Python universe.
I wouldn't use the word Journalist but... There are 1001 pieces of outrage-porn every day about how someone said a bad thing on some socials media and what will BiGTeCH do about it.
Don't feel too bad, I'm 3.9/5. Must go in for service now.
Covid death rates seem pretty uncorrelated with wealth the world over. As to the US being exceptional—it is in many respects, but quick and coordinated societal and government response has never been one of those things. There is a long-standing joke that “Americans will eventually do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else.”
I've considered, and dismissed, this. Feelings would be a waste of CPU time; Facebook almost certainly distils its models. Plus, the systems I think Facebook probably uses don't have the feedback mechanisms required for a train of thought.
Now they have your full name and your driver license too... You're a genius! And you are marked as an "untrusted" person together with that data.
I'd probably not include the name without the person's permission.
Or maybe that's just buggy software.
Not sure what this is but it looks kind of interest. What rabbit hole am I going down?
I'm pretty sure that Facebook, Twitter etc. have absolutely no will to engage themselves in politics, at least openly. They'd be perfectly happy to focus on technological issues and ways to make more money through advertising. Very reluctantly they had to acknowledge their role in the political debate and start taking decisions, because people were asking them to. And people mostly repeat the opinions and views they've read in the press.
Slack sets you to "Away/Offline" after 10 minutes of inactivity by default, and by "relatively quickly" I mean, within an hour or two.

If you can't close Slack or update your status to let people know you are unavailable for long periods of time, what is the point of being on Slack? Or a team for that matter?

Barring an emergency, I'm not going to call someone directly because they're too busy working to (team)work.

If you can't play nicely on a team then maybe a different job is for you?
Yes, a systemic breakdown has occurred. The very language used in patents is latin-like. Back in the days of Rome, the written language was deliberately built to enable the business of scribes, and was full of tenses, declensions etc. Write a letter = hire a scribe. Read a letter = the same. Unles you were educated. Hard to start a recolution, spread the word etc. This did not fade away until the 19th century in many languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_grammar
As some old Latin student at Eton wrote:-
Latin's a dead language,
lying in the dust,
first it killed the Romans,
now it's killing us.

In a similar way patent speak has become a language for an elite. This has made it very hard to hire capable examiners at the wages they offer. An examiner needs to be capable in both patent-speak and whatever technology is in the patent application.
Most people capable in tech disciplines can get far better work elsewhere.
So they need to reform the patent-speak into the common language of whatever country - making sure that correct terms are used. This would expand the examiner pool enormously.
Didn't mean to dismiss them out right. Rather that banking on 'Swiss' as a shortcut isn't wise. Obviously if one does the work to audit those involved or the product/service itself then they can trust it regardless of the marketing.
MySQL Charset/Collate
I don't know SQLite specifically, but I think that it can be implemented in the application logic using the primitives of any RDBMS. This old thread suggests that http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/Re-Two-Phase-commit-usin...
NSFW means not safe for work: material that you couldn't bring to the workplace. A porno magazine is NSFW even outside the workplace.
This (highly annoying) practice was pervasive at Qualcomm as well, and we had a go/hi with essentially the same content.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments, flamewar-style comments, or personal attacks to HN. It's exactly what we're trying to avoid on this site, and you predictably provoked a flamewar. Maybe you don't owe Greenwald better but you definitely owe this community better if you're posting here. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Great site. Helped me home in on some professional pens for my wife.
Point is, the time to stop that particular practice was in its infancy. Waiting until the practice is both widespread and normalized is a losing strategy. The use of cell phone data is well understood, well litigated, and for all intents and purposes, settled law. To come along and unwind all that now is sisyphaean. We need to start getting out in front of the issues. Not reacting all the time. And certainly not allowing privacy violations that affect others, then trying to prevent the very same privacy violation from affecting our own.

The people doing the violating are going to double down. They don't want their critics being proved right. They don't want to be accused of being hypocritical. So what are they going to do?

As privacy activists, we need to make it easy for potential partners to cooperate with us. Right now, we're making it very difficult for potential partners to cooperate with us. We're putting potential partners in very difficult positions, and then asking why they won't support us?
I feel like there’s a pretty straightforward answer to this. Rather than straight asking the question, you can ask for whether they have a moment to chat about _____.

If you send that, now I know you’re asking for a synchronous conversation, and I can just say yes or no or “how about later?”
What I don't get is why they need to access my account to check public tweets from another account.
I read in multiple sources, usually the kind of comments that is only possible to validate with inside info, that to this day not all business units are sold on Swift.
Visual J# was Java as a CLR language. Visual J++ was closer to what you mean - it was the Java language and VM with some things deleted from Sun’s distribution (RMI) and some things added like WFC. They also made some breaking language extensions like delegates that later became part of C#, and were somewhat analogous to features that appeared in Sun’s Java 1.1.

Funnily enough, I learned Java in the summer of 1997 in the VJ++ IDE from MSDN tutorial videos, spent a good chunk of my early career doing Java at various places and now work for MSR where I often use Java (or the JVM) on Linux.
Any list of top rollerball pens cannot be complete without the uniball signo 207(ideally the needlepoint tip): https://uniballco.com/207-needle/

My only complaint about it is that the clip and casing are not great. The Pilot G2 actually has the perfect case but is too inky for my tastes (and stores usually dont carry the 0.38/0.5 widths). The dream pen would have the Pilot G2 case with the uniball signo 207 needle cartridge.

EDIT: It turns out the uniball signo 207 is actually a gel pen, not a rollerball!
It's called "active". Async is "away"
Thanks for the heads-up!

Edit: too late to delete and re-submit D:
Honestly this should be the top comment.
It may be more dependent on your company than your actual job role. I've been software engineer for a decade and a half and have had stressful jobs/teams and have been a cofounder which was also stressful in a different way than being an engineer on a team. Right now I'm an engineer in what you might call a typical SV (growing) startup, in an industry I like, and although the work days are busy, I never work overtime and don't have any stress.
You don’t actually need to ask what they need. You just need to acknowledge your presence. I usually just write “Hello” back to hello’s and things get started.

I find the styles differ based on a few factors: if someone says hi because we don’t work together very often, that makes sense. My teammates usual just throw the whole request into the hello. There’s also the issue that if I don’t answer immediately the initiator might need to find someone else. If they write their whole request out and I’m not there, it creates a demand incongruity especially if I try and work it (or provide an answer) 15 minutes later but someone else is already on it.

There’s also the factor that sometimes the person you need help from is the same person who has 40K unread emails in their inbox and doesn’t make it to all the meetings they accept. That’s another issue, but those people are also the kind of people who are subject to the most varied attempts at communication initiation.
Hey, can you move this account over to this identity provider, please? No, I can't prove I own the account, but… Hello? Hello?
Yeah, how many blue collar auto mechanics do they have on the board? Sailors, construction workers, firefighters, etc? How many ex-patriates of communist countries do they have on the board? How many moms with no college degree are on the board? How many Vietnam vets are on the board?

It's a stacked list of academics. Academia is a subculture in and of itself that is not in any way reflective of the world at large.
Except this exact same argument, nearly verbatim, was one of the alt-right anti-Obama talking points! It's a solid criticism too - don't get me wrong.

But it's a single argument, reused over and over, to do more than simply criticize the actions of an administration - rather, to construct a grand conspiracy about how modern Democrats and progressives are secretly authoritarians. Nothing Greenwald writes these days goes beyond this tired trope. (Which, I suppose, would make perfect sense to anyone who has similarly bought into this conspiracy.)
That's an interesting comment in terms of your personal experience but that last sentence obviously crosses far outside what is ok to post to HN. Please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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