skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also cheaper to just buy a normal bag of ground coffee and brew it in a french press/percolator/whatever than buy those coffee pods which taste more like boiled cat shit than actual coffee. Keurig would make the same letter to the same high horse professor. Are you going to say Keurig is stupid for not selling bags of coffee instead?

Doesn't matter how smart someone is, they always forget that economics doesn't give two shits about their feelings or how shiny their degrees are. Fancy little prefixes and suffixes to your name doesn't help change reality.

People buy things for a multitude of reasons. Because people are unique and allowed to do what they want for themselves, they tend to like and value things different from you. Companies capitalize on that.

Hell, want to get into some real nerdy math academics and economics? What about that Japanese chalk so many of them love to use? Something so exquisite and special to the professors of the world for black board lectures. They went out of business. Why couldn't your fancy letters and diplomas save that important product? Where are the equations for that one?
The data path is 1 bit, but instructions are 4 bits, so it has 16 different instructions. Many processors back then had completely different widths for instructions vs data.
Yes.

When I first got into color coding, it was mostly for work purposes and I used a simple model that was about the type of event... meetings blue, external/customer red, 1:1s green, etc.

But as time went on, I realized to (try to) be an effective leader what really mattered was the underlying goals of how I spent my time.

So I switched to a model where I tried to associate every event on the calendar with goals/projects... Ship Feature X was blue, New Pricing Model was red, Hiring New PM was green, etc.

The challenge with that model is, as is often the case in time-management, finding goals/projects that have enough "staying power" that you're not changing the entire list every week, but also that aren't so generically evergreen that they don't inform the way you think about how you spend your time.

These days I use mostly event type (what I started with) but layer in 1-2 key projects that "override" the color type so that they stand out and I remind myself to focus primarily on those.

FWIW, some of these ideas have found their way into my startup and will continue to do so: https://reclaim.ai
Show HN: You-tldr – easy-to-read transcripts of Youtube videos
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I thought we learned this lesson with the Colorado labor wars. Giving companies the power to jail their employees is not a good idea, anyone who can't see it is stupid or a grifter.
Look in the e-mail headers to see if it comes from a reputable e-mail service or marketing provider. If so, notifying them should make them suspend the customer's account as they wouldn't want to be flagged as spam (as that would ding the reputation of their e-mail servers and affect their other customers too).
It is hard for people to calm down when some scientific advisers to governments are telling newspapers that social distancing must last until the entire world is vaccinated, to prevent new COVID mutations, so they recommend the status quo until 2024–2026.

Also, governments have handed virtually all authority over lifting lockdown to their health ministers, who generally prioritize saving every possible life above all else. Most of the population will, at some point or another, be willing to accept some number of deaths in order to reopen the economy and freedom of movement, but they legitimately worry that their voices aren't being heard.
my goto explanation for this is the crappiest companies out there have highest profit margin simply because they have a whole host of bad practices available to pick from. that basically means they have most resources to burn on marketing & promotion.. egro most highly advertised stuff is what one should avoid the most.
This reminds me of when adding color to your MUD was considered cutting edge. It actually was pretty cool at the time. Supporting non ANSI clients was fun too. If I recall we just punted and made color a setting rather than trying to somehow determine if a client would render the escapes properly.
Off topic for this, but I've always wondered, why do these tools call this process "minification", not "minimization"?
Stop teaching C (2015) [video]
I can heartily recommend this compilation of old American songs on all sorts of newsworthy topics, lots of murders, but also train crashes, fires, hurricanes, and other assorted natural disasters.

https://www.discogs.com/Various-People-Take-Warning-Murder-B...
> Because marriage is intended as an act of lifetime committent

For most of history marriage was property transfer, let's not pretend it's something more romantic than it is.
The analogy works even better because organ transplants are sometimes necessary and sometimes not. Although GP started off defining a binary, I don't think they are thinking in black and white. A charitable reading of the GP implies the nuances you express.
This zombie they're lying about their numbers! cope needs to die. Look at Taiwan. Look at Korea. Both of them handled the virus fairly well, with much less extreme measures, and have good relations with the US so you have no reason to doubt their numbers.
Ya I was just thinking that the fact we haven't discovered aliens is strong evidence of new physics. Otherwise we'd see their electromagnetic emissions everywhere.

I tend to think that we're just 1 or 2 discoveries away from a very different view of the universe. The low hanging fruit being stuff like: detecting neutrinos cheaply, having a better understanding of quantum computing/entanglement/etc, knowing how the extra dimensions at subatomic levels work (and how a dimension might be lost/gained or open up sub-universes within black holes), understanding how the electromagnetic/strong/weak/gravity forces converge at high energies and how to modulate one or more with the others, etc.

If we're able to take all that stuff for granted, then the answer is probably that aliens communicate over some kind of encrypted quantum communication channel over something like neutrinos that is very hard to detect. They probably live around energy sources like magnetars and black holes and such so there's no way we'll ever see them against that glare. And their brains have almost certainly been uploaded to a metaverse that we have difficulty imagining, where our whole planet's computation would fit on a microscopic chip of theirs.

I guess what I'm saying is, we might be more likely to find aliens through an altered state than out in space. They're probably here right now waiting for a knock on the door, once we know which door we're looking for. So yes, their superintelligent technology that's indistinguishable from magic to us might as well be religion at this point.
So maybe you don't have to worry about the ISP itself, but your government:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13718768/uk-surveillance....

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/why-taking-government-court-mass-...
Why there's a global computer chip shortage that is slamming automakers
Thank you. I will just continue the conversation here so that maybe you will respond at a future time. So if I understand this right, the gist of it is that any niche token is actually always tradeable against any other token, and the original token issuer cannot control the situation?
Open source RSS reader aiming to work well for regular users: https://github.com/GetStream/winds

Could definitely use some more contributors
All the actual content seems to be on this site

http://www.complexity-explorables.org
They said their standards for a mate based a lot on their father and he he treats the mother. So just be a good role model.
Of course it's healthy for both individuals in a marriage to get out of that marriage they're unhappy in. Is this really up for debate, considering the wealth of examples?
I built a custom RSS Reader just to streamline my reading list. If I am bored and want to read something I don't go to social media I read what I marked for reading later. https://reading.ashishb.net
I look forwards to my sick augmentations.
> Isn't segfault a pretty healthy outcome to program?

Pardon the snark: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/318
Society and human progress could likely stagnate.

So much of human progress depends on old, inflexible minds passing away to make room for new, young minds and ideas to take hold and evolve.

Can there be evolution without death and rebirth?
FTFY means "fixed that for you"
Can't we give the FTC more teeth, so they take action whenever a company turns against their customers? Most dark patterns are well known, so how hard can it be to define some laws or set up a legal framework around this? The free market isn't everything, but at least we can try to make it less shitty.
Thanks for that feedback. I will adjust the CSS.
No, the response had good reasons, not like your "lol yeah but people be crazy" stuff.
We May Never Get to Herd Immunity
You can't use any commercial VPN service and expect privacy. Those are only good for bypassing geographical restrictions. If you want privacy, buy a VDS and host your own VPN server. It'll cost about the same, and you can use it for other things at no additional cost.
Anecdotally, having come from a physics background myself - DL is more similar to the math that physicists are used to than traditional ML techniques or even standard comp-sci approaches are. In combination with the universal approximation proofs of DL, it's easy to get carried away and think that DL should be the supervised ML technique.

Curiously, having also spent heavy time on traditional data-structures and algorithms gave me an appreciation for how stupendously inefficient a neural net is and part of me cringes whenever I see a one-hot encoding starting point...
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00868942/document
> Maybe someone can enlighten me why these services exist and what usecase they have?

Because there are lots of people that can't create their own VPN even though these days you can spin up a lightsail instance for $3.50 pcm and be up and running with Wireguard in minutes.

And for those people that cannot, their threat model changes to now needing to trust a single entity after they are up in minutes.

As you say, those providers have oftentimes been proven to not be so trustworthy. But how many CAs have been shown to be not trustworthy in the last couple years?
> every person exposes an aggregated RSS feed of feeds they consume

I like this idea, and I think it is something that RSS is missing. The "bubbles" that we decry on social networks is largely caused by our inability to share feeds. Every feed is tailor made to the person seeing it, so everyone is in their own bubble by default. This is unlike Reddit, in which members of a given subreddit can see the same feed.

RSS empowers users with complete control over their own feed, but there is still no mechanism by which we can share our reality. We are still bubbled away by default, and thus will result in the same toxic bubbles as social networks.
And that is to be commended and respected
do you have a PDF sample?
Even today, Harvard architectures[a] like the PIC have different instruction and data widths. For example, the PIC12 has 12-bit code words with 8-bit data words IIRC.

[a]: Are there von Neumann architectures with different width code and data?
Of Deaf and hard of hearing people I know, the young ones (less than 50) all really dislike the term "hearing impaired" because it implies that they are impaired (in the view of many, it's hearing people who are impaired because we don't know how to communicate using sign languages). Many also believe that "Deaf" should be capitalized because of the Deaf community's shared language and culture.
But couldn't that be because some do it as a cry for help?
He currently doesn't want (you) to be a part of his life

Considering he's not even in elementary school yet, I wouldn't worry too much about it right now. I'm not a parent, but it seems to me like 4-5 year olds or younger aren't the most rational or emotionally-developed people.

Just be a good person/parent and I imagine he'll warm up to you as he gets older.
This is a software supply chain issue, but it likely doesn't interest Intel Mac users who are still using x86 homebrew and who can't empathize with the experience of the upstream developers for all the Mac software they use.
This another great post! I had question about the following:

>"Another key circuit in the processor is the transmission gate. This acts as a switch, either passing a signal through or blocking it."

This is the first time I think I've come across a "transmission gate" circuit in one of your posts. Is this uncommon then? What is the actual input to the transmission gate?
Your example is not a “fact” in the sense of Christian cannon / dogma. What you are referring to is an article of faith. Faith is belief in something that cannot observed or proven to be true.

The distinction between faith and fact is an important tenet of Christianity.
Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API
There was a man with a cat and he loved it so dearly. One day he thought if the cat would have been a woman, they'd have a nice time together. The God was listening – low and behold the cat turned into a beautiful woman instantly.

The man was surprised but overjoyed. A few years passed with both having a great time together, and one day ...

A mouse appeared in front of the woman and she grabbed it with her tender hand and ate it raw and alive right that very moment.

The man was disgusted to see this and the God remarked "Look I can change a being from outside but what they are inside even I can't change!"

Disclaimer: No pun intended; just sharing after reading the title for fun. No offence to cats around :)
This is a fairly political statement to put into an article on the linguistic history of a word:

>The unstated goal of all this talk is a gross collection of sexism, elite gatekeeping, anti-elitism in general, and a simple partisan attack on the Biden administration
I forgot to say I meant adding an optional new parameter to a function. Obviously adding a new parameter to a function is a breaking change for any API regardless of language.
The federal and state constitutions still apply in these new areas, should they form, and the state and federal criminal codes still apply as well.

So on criminal matters, we're talking about enforcement more than the law itself.

Given local law enforcement's history of asset forfeiture, corruption and biased enforcement, I'm not sure this new model automatically means people would be swapping out angels for demons.
One is an island, and the other might as well be an island? I applaud their successes, but a year in, empirically what works in Hawaiʻi and Guam isn’t going to work in Chicago.
Crushing Hard and Soft Things with Shredder Machine Experiments
`man dog` for me gives:

SHEEPDOG(8) System Manager's Manual SHEEPDOG(8)

NAME
dog - Command line utility for the sheep daemon

SYNOPSIS
dog <command> <subcommand> [options]

DESCRIPTION
dog - Sheepdog is a distributed storage system for QEMU. It provides
highly available block level storage volumes to virtual machines.
Sheepdog supports advanced volume management features such as snapshot,
cloning, and thin provisioning. The architecture of Sheepdog is fully
symmetric; there is no central node such as a meta-data server.

The server daemon is called sheep(8). A command line utility is avail‐
able via dog(8). QEMU virtual machines use the sheep daemon via a
block driver available in qemu(1).

For more information, run 'dog <command> <subcommand> --help'.
Yeah, tell that to Craigslist, who nuked their RSS feeds recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24840310
My understanding is that this story was run through the New York Times fact checking department. Is that not the equivalent of testing?
The last thing is why Marxist analysis is so revolutionary. It was the first real systemic critique that didn't rely on principles of individual morality, and in essence it's also why it's probably always going to be relevant.
> I didn't read the entire report, so I may have missed it, but where is this stuff coming from?

Various places. One of the culprits, arsenic in rice, is a problem that was exacerbated by the use of arsenic-containing pesticides in fields where cotton was previously grown. It also simply appears to be a plant that picks up a lot of heavy metals.

Some rice brands are publishing the results of their testing for arsenic:
https://www.lundberg.com/faq/product

It's an interesting FAQ with some other factoids, too... apparently their quinoa doesn't have a detectable amount of arsenic. Brown rice syrup has the same concentration of arsenic as the rice it is made from. And so on.
It matters when you see it being used in its original context, which immediately shows it to be false. That neo-nazi believes that we're ruled by ethnic minorities and (to his mind) moral degenerates, with his proof being that he's not allowed to speak his mind about them.
Really great app. One minor issue I have with it is that when you sort alphabetically (by ticker symbol), the watchlist and the portfolio get mixed together, which is counter-intuitive and a bit unfriendly to the eyes. I would expect it to sort alphabetically but grouping separately the watchlist elements and the portfolio elements.
Oh believe me, I am aware. I just didn't want to write a program for my task back then (even if it would have likely taken almost the same amount of time as it turned out in the end).

That's why I am searching for an alternative to the classic shell scripting and I have almost settled on OCaml.

Python is alright as well but never really liked it: just when you might need a tool that's quick to launch, you'll hit the Python interpreter startup overhead. Same goes for many other interpreted languages.
there's also an 'sh' at the end of 'fish', which is why that's the name of the shell.
It's strange. Almost everyone I know in real life, when told "Why don't you just do X instead of Y" treats it enthusiastically as a chance to share some nuance about their field.

Two instances recently come to mind, my asking my father (an orthopaedic trauma surgeon) why we don't just make hips (in total hip replacement) out of dead people's bone instead of out of whatever material they do now, and my father's asking me something about why blue LEDs are supposedly so hard (why don't you just wrap them in blue film).

On the Internet, everyone is always like "you guys always think you can do our job better!". In real life, everyone is always like "hmm, that's interesting. Let me explain why". But perhaps it's just everyone I know.

I saw this the other day too in another HN comment⁰ where people assume that "Why don't you just" and questions like that are demeaning.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25826835
ISP modifying DNS responses, or at the least potentially logging them. A good reason to use DoH/DoT.

ISP logging traffic anyway in UK in order to comply with, say, Snoopers charter.

ISP providing out-of-date router hardware with unpatched firmware that most people connect directly to their WiFI networks instead of isolating.
Similarly, CBC news reports about Allegations of vaccine queue-jumping at Ontario nursing home [1].

I suspect that we should tone down the outrage over the edge cases (end-of-day left-over doses). The Atlantic article points to the need in the U.S. for a more consistent online queue/registry for timely left-over doses while the CBC piece makes clear that Ontario is way behind the U.S..

Perhaps the concept of continuous improvement should be discussed more widely during these trying times.

[1] https://youtu.be/HL5Ww-YBaDo
display: none should be enough.

If you notice issues while testing, aria-hidden is a good thing to have in your back pocket
For such an elaborate setup, I'm quite surprised he missed a few things from the gamers world. And yes, these gamers do have some serious sh*t. Gamers mice and mousepads are order of magnitudes more precise and comfortable. I had the Logitech G900 and recently got the Razer Viper Ultimate. Anyone having strains from using the mouse should try these things.
Scott Hanselman's 2021 ultimate developer and power users tool list for Windows:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/scott-hanselmans-2021-ultimat...
The only thing I really got out of this long article was the importance of having a customized organizational and workflow system that suits your lifestyle. For me there's two books / methodologies that has made a huge impact in how I think about and organize my work. The first is David Allen's getting things done system. It is extremely generic but comprehensive and suitable for pretty much any kind of knowledge worker. The second is using a personal kanban board for organizing all of my work and personal tasks. Highly recommend the book Personal Kanban.

with a sufficient organizational assistant in place I don't feel the need to be productive all the time. I know that when I sit down my work is already planned ahead so I can immediately start being productive. I also review and plan my work ahead a little bit which saves a lot of time and makes contact switching less costly.
MariaDB 10.6.0 Release Notes
DELETE Never mind, I knew I was going to regret posting this.
Because "minimize code" already has another meaning
The EU Open Source Policy Summit 2021
In my experience this is pretty contentious depending on who you talk to in the community, some people don't buy into the deafness as a benefit and its definitely a political issue.
Vernadsky Research Base
disqus goes against both security and speed
> Not being hyperbolic

Perhaps not, but this is a classic display of 'whataboutism.' It is entirely possible to have an opinion about the public torture of citizens as punishment without having to weigh in on the morality of incarceration.
RSS allows us to decentralize aggregation of content, but still has some of the same critical pitfalls of social networks. Most notably, the "bubble" effect is as strong as ever: my feed is entirely unique and non-reproducible. I have complete control over it, but I cannot see a feed as another user without perfectly replicating their setup.

I think there is a missing component that would allow us to create a decentralized social network of RSS feeds. If we cannot share our reality with others, we're going to reproduce the same toxic patterns that social networks exhibit today, but it's going to be completely unmanageable.
For search, would embedding Google search be good enough? See: https://support.google.com/programmable-search/answer/451375...
Mentioned in today’s xkcd

https://xkcd.com/2421/
It’s almost definitely cost! Zemax is what, a 5-digit price for the full pack? Prohibitively expensive for anyone but those deep inside the industry who really get their bang for the buck.
Must-haves in your vacancy for software engineers
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Open Policy Agent Graduation
> To anyone with broader worldwide exposure to titles, this makes the use of the title by lawyers in the US hilarious because it makes the person look like they’re taking the title of some kid in the UK.

If we're talking about lawyers and barristers with hilarious conventions, then I think the UK still takes the cake, what with those comical white curly wigs.

And yes, I know it was changed in 2008 to allow them not to wear the wig under certain circumstances. It's still absurdly silly though.
> Also tsmc cancelled euv equipment orders due to the huawei ban:

> https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2021/01/20/as...

The word Huawei doesn't appear on that page either.

Please stop spreading misinformation.

The sanctions are on Chinese companies, not Taiwanese companies. China's chip exports are somewhere between zero and insignificant.
Calegari gets to cherry-pick comments he approves or rejects on his blog, so calling it "peer review" is taking the concept out of context =).