skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks; I've added the Redox Manuform. I'm not sure how I missed it!
LayerCI (YC S20) is hiring devs to work on a distributed hypervisor in Toronto
I also wonder - in general - about the cost/effort to offer some form of support to 10.000+ users.

If half of them has even a basic question, that's already 5.000 answers to deal with.
https://donotdrawapenis.com/
Biontech founder defends himself amidst price controversy: https://m.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/biontech-we...
Turns out Biontech had good reasons to claim 50EUR per dose: https://m.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/biontech-we...
All would be fine for me if MS would fully integrate key rebindings. No chance in my business environment to install extra software. I could balance the use of both hands better if I can have the return key also on the left side or rebind R shift as left mouse click or whatever...

I need the full keyboard. All of it and accessibility of (some) keys to both hands would be great.

Most split keyboard and minimal keyboards make no sense anyway outside English environments.
Say you hire Troy Hunt to do an audit (security, IG, finance, anything), then repeatedly block them from accessing the information they need.

They then email you saying "I need access to this data to be able to do my job, otherwise there's no point me being here and I should move on to something else"

Another example. You hire a sales person on commission, but then deliberately stall the payment of commissions for cashflow reasons. They say "Look, I'm buying a house in 6 months, so you need to start approving these commissions or I'll need to find another job"

Is your stance that any statement from an employee that a problem with their role is severe enough that they can't do the job they were hired to do, or that the compensation they were promised (whether that is money, career development, publication of papers, etc) is cause for immediate dismissal?
Show HN: Multi-Object Trackers in Python
I didn't get the email, but I did sign up in 2014, and /convert confirms that. I love the service, and I was particularly taken by the old style business model which increased sign-up cost over time - if this means that model didn't pay off, it's sad news.

I would be more than willing to pay a subscription were I able to. I'm not currently earning enough money to pay my outgoings, unfortunately, so I'm currently looking to cut subscriptions rather than go in the other direction. However, I'm close to breaking even, and if I find myself in a position where I have a surplus, pinboard will be one of the first things I support. Given the circumstances, I'd be totally understanding if you decided, one day, to retire such accounts as mine.

I've previously contacted you on two issues relating to the API and sadly never heard back. One was a simple question, one was to report a bug. I understand you're busy, though, and you took some time to investigate problems with my delicious account resurrection the other day, which I do appreciate.
> both look down on non-Anglosphere countries

I don't know where you get that from. Any examples?

> You have to be aware of their biases, though.

A point of view is not a bias. The Economist was founded as a pro-market liberal (classically liberal) publication. A Marxist would consider that a bias I guess?
I wish the dart language was more common than typescript. but this is very hard.
Why is Texas seeing Arctic temperatures?
The problem with following a system bound by the logical rules of modern philosophy is that modern philosophy itself is an ineffective tool for making real-world, moral decisions.

It's no accident that the most respected public intellectuals are all economists, linguists, (former) politicians, activists, authors, Canadian clinical psychologists, or even gay, bipolar quiz show hosts...
Biontech defends themselves against price controversy
Ferret becomes first North American endangered species to be cloned
Do you have his Twitter handle? Our of curiosity I like to see I can find a way to confirm that Twitter account is legit or not in the first place.
I don't understand this quote, could you explain it?
The Guardian used to have a fantastic set of talkboards which they closed almost ten years ago to the day:

“We didn't have any other viable option on Friday other than shutting the boards down without warning. None of us think that is good community management, and the reason we have been in this thread is because we regret that we had to do it this way.”

I guess the name of the game is “comments supporting our journalism and from which we can extract value from without incurring liability or bad publicity”.
MSR was started by Nathan Myhrvold who recruited Rashid. Well, "started" may be ambiguous here. Nathan proposed it.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/nathan-myhrv...
Also You may want to look into Starlink before getting too serious, it may be disrupting the current ISP paradigms.
I was very passionate about Wikimapia as an actual wiki for everyday people to add to in the first few years. There was a lot of graffiti, but it was also building into a great resource for local interest and history. Then the cost concerns picked up and deletion wars began. The emphasis was on removing all places and content not considered "significant" and current. Real estate and business became the primary focus and the wiki aspect fell away. I loved how that site started.
You must have missed the update
People worry a lot about having their ideas stolen. In reality, most new ideas get enormous push back. Not only are they not stolen, but people will call you a loon for voicing them.

See Semmelweis, Galileo, et al.
You are doing something illegal every time you are doing it which can be used if you sue them for wrongful termination. Make a hard copy and if you need it electronically let the court do it's thing.
Agreed completely. One should avoid media reporting about media, and consider the reframing as an issue about Facebook rather than two local media monopolies having the legislative power to shake down Facebook and Google.
I think this is kinda what the Wine project is doing.
It probably means that false ideas spread quickly but you have to work hard to make people accept original ideas.
> Yet it takes an extraordinary move of adding ~$2 trillion in market cap for Bitcoin to get there. The risk vs reward in Bitcoin at these levels is like a lot of absurdly overvalued stocks presently.

Bitcoin is not a stock, it's a deflationary asset. There are not just a limited amount of bitcoin, but a constantly decreasing amount and a constantly increasing amount of people wishing to use them. People sounded very much like you at every step of the way, including in the rise to $1,000. "The risk isn't worth it."

> Significant inflation isn't coming back anytime soon

I mean except in the commodities markets, the housing market, the price of ammo, of course. Unless you believe those are just "bubbles" as well.

> We're not going to see a serious wave of inflation this decade now for the same reason we didn't the prior decade.

We are seeing inflation, it's just occurring in hard asset classes like real estate.

> and nothing is very different today versus the past (except that so far this is a cakewalk compared to the destruction in the past; maybe it'll get a lot worse yet, of course).

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1

It is worse though.
My life mngmnt is no goals, no plans, no work more than one hour a day and sleep as much as I can. So easy to maintain.
The Process Is Not the Product. The New Agile Anti-Manifesto
Your contrived example starts with the very premise of a distribution. An agent gets copied. There are 7 variants. You make an experiment and argue that for 6 of the 7 variants your strategy is successful. All builds on the premise of a distribution, because otherwise the notion of chance has no meaning. Note, that the distribution must not be random, but it must exist.

Take the perspective of your agent: There is no way to learn about the number of other agents, and this number is absolutely central to your argument. Every agent will at some point notice that a specific strategy is successful. It will appear like a universal law of nature. For each agent there is no chance involved, it is 100% predetermined what the correct strategy is.
I've never operated a SAAS app at large scale (ie. millions of customers with 50-100+ machines, etc.) but for smaller deploys I must say that things haven't ever gotten that bad.

In some of my own projects I've only gotten bitten by little things a few times over the last 5 years. Like an SSL cert not getting recreated successfully, but this could have been prevented at the time if I had registered the LE account with an email address to get notified it wasn't getting renewed in time.

If you put in your due diligence with writing tests, run them automatically as part of your CI pipeline, stick with stable software / tools and keep things as simple as possible until they no longer work then you'll set yourself up for a strong base to work off of. Then as you encounter issues, you automate fixing them as soon as possible.

Having monitoring in place to prevent disasters helps too. Like getting notified of unusual CPU / memory / disk usage and getting warned before it becomes a real problem. Sure this requires being messaged but it also means you probably have at least a day's notice before you need to take action. That means you don't need to be glued to a pager and respond in 5 minutes because your site is down. Big difference.

This sort of applies to customer support too. I currently do personal customer support for 30,000+ folks who take one of my programming related courses. From the outside you would think I'd be slammed with requests to the point where every day involves answering questions for 2 hours but really it's nothing like that. With a strong base (a working course that stays updated) it's a handful of emails most days and quite often times nothing.
So you count on SELinux. Who maintains SELinux policies for you, so that it knows what is allowed to a program and what isn't? It's people just like other software maintainets.

There is no way around having to trust somebody else.
You know you can talk about things like that in private and don't have to use a twitter horde to make your argument because you are providing none.
I'm a Wayland evangelist and super sad about the fragmentation - it's the main thing holding it back right now. KDE and GNOME are both doing their own thing, with the wlroots (Sway) community being the main driver for standardization: Wlroots protocols are slowly being integrated into Wayland proper and implemented by KDE (layer-shell is coming up).

I would hope the Freedesktop group to get active here, as they have been incredibly successful promoting standards in the past and probably could do it again - but it seems like they're closely associated with the Gnome-Project, which has apparently decided to go the "fuck everyone else" route.
Should the rich pay for the pandemic? Argentina thinks so
I bought a long TRRS cable and ran it behind the chair.
- market cap and features are completely unrelated.

- in many people's minds cryptocurrency and bitcoin are synonyms

- it's pointless to try to look for reasons in a market that's so detached from reality
A short film related to this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJj_NMhYwf0 (won a BAFTA).
Tho, one is a myth and straight racism; the other comes with women being chronically understudied. E.g. heart attack symptoms are different, some medication does work differently, women do need less vaccines, and so on. The mere assumption of "black" people's biology to differ much, is uneducated and bigoted legacy crap, while women really do have a different metabolism and body then men, which is also known. Not saying one failure is better than the other, really... just different issues.
The quote is from the article and it appears in almost every article on Internet about this topic, so they at least they are not random words. Everybody say this is a Twitter message, at least some may have read it.
What is this "servers" you speak of?
oh. not free will. ok I get it.

Of course super determinist asteroids become worrying. Or can they adjust those ? If you can interfere can you interfere to produce "good" outcomes ? Steer asteroids away?
Clearly I need to read Permutation City. And watch Devs, even if it does devolve into action.
Haha, lol, good for you!
Maybe they had to make up for the Minix running on the Intel processors...
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2020-nov-feb.html maybe the best news feed, somewhat opinionated but I share RMS' opinion mostly.
Russian Hack Clubhouse and Launched It for Android
For the tech stack: I use nextcloud on a physical machine at home, and a MediaWiki instance as a personal knowledge base.

On a goal and task management:

For tasks, I have a monthly Todo page on my wiki. I use nextcloud calendar provider, with connectors for thunderbird and Android.

For goal management: I learned to tackle a single "big thing" at the time. Right now, I'm dieting, and that's it. I've lost about 6.5kg so far (started at 66.5, 1.65m height). Before that there were things like buying my first apartment, getting RHEL certified, learning kubernetes, learning keepalived, learning django etc.

I have a list of vague things I'd like to do on my wiki, things like "learn German" or "graduate from university" (lol).

So when I'm done with something I look at that page and try and understand what challenge the most sense to take on right now.

The one thing I would like to stress is: whatever thing you adopt, it should be a low effort and a low friction thing. It must be an enabler technology, not an impediment.

Going extreme, for some people a paper notepad and a convention (like bullet journaling or something like that) is more than enough.
Allegations of planted evidence raise questions about hacking ecosystem in India
Main Bitcoin Core Developers interesting talk back in 2015
Try Cloud66
Another interesting and quite original business model. I like the idea of 'use the product for six months and discover it's so essential, you'll continue subscribing'. What I couldn't find out from the site is whether or not there's an option to export your data if you do decide not to continue - any idea?
A Plea for Stability in the SciPy Ecosystem (2017)
Selective enforcement could be another issue. If this is common practice at the organization, then using it as justification for termination is a false pretense. Possibly still legal but not really ethical.
It's not at all clear that they "know what they're doing" in some way that makes what they're doing "correct."

If they and a majority of their customers learned to type Z with the left little finger, X with the ring finger, etc., that does not magically make that a better way to type than typing Z with the ring finger and X with the middle one.

Quite the contrary: If you bring your hands together naturally in front of you, they form an inverted V. In order to type the bottom row with the little finger on Z, you have to cock your wrist significantly, which is clearly worse from an ergonomics perspective.

If you bring your hands together like hands naturally come together, on the type of staggered keyboard virtually everyone learns to type on, an ortholinear one with be entirely wrong for you on the whole bottom row.

Designing around bad training may be a type of "knowing what they're doing," but it doesn't make it "correct," or even better.
Imagine their huge contributions reward today
Way more amusing to watch when they see the non-qwerty and CAN use it.
Wearable tech that promises to help improve your posture [video]
Everybody is selling EVs now. I wonder what happens to TSLA in Q4 2022 when car manufacturers publish their numbers. Enjoy it while it lasts indeed but I'm worried if that will have a cascading effect into other stocks or even also crypto.
It’s a solved problem in densely populated cities like HK, Tokyo, Shanghai etc. I only know about US suburbs from the movies, but it doesn’t seem like public transport would solve the commute there.
Sometimes I try to think in more philosophically terms about the word "disease".

It's often said depression is natural, and it only becomes a problem because of sedentary lifestyle.

Diseases are bad, but when you dig, nature doesn't work in term of good or bad. I think it's difficult to really know at what point depression becomes problematic, since doctors have a hard time making a good diagnostic. Brains are complicated.
It's amazing that this kind of simulation can be done so accurately with javascript in a web browser. I have no idea how it was implemented but the computational load must be nontrivial.
You can do that (mouse keys included) with any keyboard that supports QMK. No software needed on the local machine.
The Opioid Crisis, Fueled by Covid, Is Worse Than Ever
And then the selfless employee is not promoted.
Well that’s what academics and research scientists do - publish research and give talks at conferences.
Scientists May Solve Amelia Earhart's Disappearance with a Nuclear Reactor
"That includes one particular piece of metal that enthusiast Ric Gillespie found in 1991 in a location 300 miles from Howland Island. (In global terms, and with our limited understanding of Earhart’s distressed flight, that’s really just a stone’s throw.)

While skeletal remains can be tested for DNA alongside living people descended from Earhart’s family, this scrap of metal, which spent decades scraping around a coral reef in corrosive ocean water and is a suspected piece of the Electra, is much tougher to figure out. Now, particle physics could help identify whether it’s legitimate."
Basically an early incarnation of what electron does today, no?
Wall Street Transaction Tax Gets Fresh Look After GameStop Frenzy
I doubt these things are taking into account as it's mostly speculation. I am pretty sure life expectancy had changed because excess mortality. This also doesn't really mean much for one-off events. E.g. maybe the pandemic will have prevented future pandemics' severity.
Mostly good test coverage, uptimerobot, sentry.io and nodered to continuously run various scenarios :) also, get infra from well known cloud providers
Because as I say, the main difference I see is the imbalance of power.
Stateless Kubernetes overlay networks with IPv6
I architect everything around queues and run at least two redundant, independent processors (written in different languages, even) for each queue.

I try to have as few services involved as possible, which basically means the web server.
You can see the same effect in the /r/homelab subreddit - Europeans and Americans are picking very different hardware. US side it's usually ancient enterprise gear that businesses have dropped because of the insane power requirements
I don't think that's fair to the vast majority of Texans suffering

You're asking the majority of a state of 29 million people to be as informed as the lobbyists for the electricity markets. To understand the pitfalls of privatizing and regulating an asset that is by its very nature, a monopoly (electrical distribution)
Social Circle Needs Order
If it were superintelligent and hyperaware, how would you question it?
And, again, my point is - it doesn't matter if it was a deliberate design choice or not.

Enviromental harm is the reality of bitcoin. And should be on the addressable agenda.
The average home in Texas uses 1,176 kWh a month, or 14,112 kWh a year, based on EIA data

As for using that much in one month and it being January (cold snap was in February, no?), I don’t know. Housing that’s not properly insulated and running a bunch of space heaters 24/7 instead of putting on warmer clothes and using central heating. Or Bitcoin mining.

Edit: Never mind. Since it lists him as a contractor, it’s possible he uses a bunch of power tools out of his place (might not even be his personal home but a business).
I can understand maybe showing an email or several perhaps to a lawyer, a court might well consider that reasonable even if it's a technical violation, or just give a warning. It's a matter of proportionality. Breaking a speed limit by a few mph won't get you banned from driving. This is completely different though, it was an automated query trawling and exfiltrating vast quantities of mail threads.
Also known as "NSA mode"
Avoiding condensation?

Rotating disk heat recovery devices can also recover humidity.
One thing that works in my experience is to find common ground first, meaning find things that both agree on and then take it from there. It sometimes create a joint problem solving mode.
>have 4 copies of OS X

Probably 2, the official boot and the recovery are macOS: the other 2 are iOS kernel for touchbar and controller. But I haven't digged into it.
Starting and Restarting Communities and Startups
I agree. Finding the absolute minimum when there are many local minimums can be very difficult.

I like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing it does not guaranty to find the absolute minimum, it has a few parameters that are difficult to tweak, but I got good results.
Actually android is just Linux Linux, no GNU here.
When Community wood banks, like food banks, help people in need
> The murder rate has declined by about 50x thanks to modern society.

> This is what I mean when I say that these actions are human nature.

That carries an assumption that modern society restricted that side of human nature. An alternative: modern society enables us to act according to human nature and not resort to actions necessary for survival in previous societies.

If modern society disintegrated, there wouldn't be a lack of society influence. It would be a different society. That's why we have the whole nature-vs-nurture debate which is not trivial. That's why I objected to the original claim. (Although as Doreen mentions, some behaviours are much more common than others)
The only practical, real world application for bitcoin is speculation and market manipulation. Oh, and it's profitable for power companies.

As an engineer is want to do, Musk is simply making the best possible use of it.
But it is known, that placebos work.

It is also known, that placebos work better, if people believe; they are medicine.

Thats why Homeopathy "works"

"in Germany, there was a case a few years ago where such a quack tried to treat his wife's breast cancer - obviously, this is beyond what should be legal). "

But this, I see actually different. People of clear mind, should have any right to choose their treatment of choice. So informing them on the best options, yes! Telling them of the mechanism of fraudsters who prey on peoples hopes, yes!
But in the end maybe not forbidding them if they choose - for whatever reason - less standard methods.

Maybe the placebo works in their case. Maybe the alternative treatment with the roots of plant X had by chance an actual unknown effective drug in it. Who knows. But I know that telling people to follow standards is not allways the best way.

Btw. because if a recent case I know there are homeophatic cancer clinics in germany. So it seems to be legal?

I know of other alternative cancer treatment by the very weird "Dr. Hamer" who cannot be practised in germany if the patient actually has cancer. And I think this is not helping to disprove scams. (because I know people who are into it)
Exactly the same can happen by rolling out a buggy app to millions of other people. You can "brick" their app, and then have to work out how to get the fix rolled out to every user.

Updating a server is much cheaper than that.
Thanks for sharing! Good point on being low- effort and friction. I cannot agree more, if I cannot imagine maintaining a habit for more than a year then there is no point in even starting.
I haven't looked at the code but it's likely some out-of-the-box physics engine, many of them available in JS. They often have to employ many more complex physics features. Buoyancy is just one of them. Computationally I'm sure it's complex, but it's made to run at game tickrates, less than the max budget of 16ms at a time.