skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just moved to a property near a pond that is severely infested with midge flies and mosquitos. The water is supposed to be treated by the HOA but they've neglected it for a while I guess. A solution like this wouldn't work due to the sheer volume of insects in the air at any given time (millions gathering around my block). I rigged up a door reed switch that turns on high power fans for 30 seconds when opened that helps keep them out of my house, but I'm trying to figure out a better solution to actually kill them around the clock. Thinking of controlling an electric pressurized washer with a pi and spraying swarms with a solution of water, soap and neem oil.
Actually, websites that don't disable ads for subscribers will get fewer subscribers. This is true, regardless of whether any form of Web Monetization from the article is in place.
I wonder how well common acme tools implement exponential backoff on retries. With a ton of clients you can inadvertently make a DDoS longer/worse.

Let's Encrypt asks for max 1 request per day per certificate: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/integration-guide/
Which would be great if he follows through. Unfortunately he has made promises in the past and not followed through, so I can't take his word on that.
I mean, the real problem with Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos is the illegal war the US fought there to maintain the value of the dollar.

Charitable donations are by definition a response to a failure of society in one way or another (regardless of whether your political views consider it a failure of the market, a failure of government, or some of both). Even in the ideal case, they exist because some problem is so bad that someone feels morally compelled to give their spare money to try to solve it. We donate to provide water to certain places in Africa (or Michigan) because there isn't reliable infrastructure there, but we don't need to donate to provide water to San Francisco. We donate to specific medical research goals because the funding system for medical research (again, whether it's government-backed or market-backed) isn't investing in some problem, and we think throwing a bit of money at it might cause us to happen on a cure, and at the same time we complain about how other medical costs for different problems are out of control. We donate to legal activism nonprofits because, bluntly, we believe our justice system will fail to be just without that intervention. We donate to Mozilla because there's no money to be made in selling web browsers thanks to the various vertically-integrated competitors but we think independent web browsers are still valuable. And the Gates Foundation donates to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos because the kids there quite frankly will never grow up to be Bill Gates without rebuilding some infrastructure first.

(Or, of course, charitable donations are PR - a way for the Andrew Carnegies of the world to deflect questions about whether they've quietly caused more failures of society than they're currently loudly fixing.)

The reason that your town needs a food bank is that there are people in your town who can't just afford food and need to rely on the whims of people who believe in private charity in order to not starve to death. Running the food bank is great, and I'm glad that there are people with those whims, but making it so that nobody in your town has that problem would be even better. It doesn't matter if your answer is "more taxes to support welfare" or "more teaching people to fish," either of them is more sustainable.

I'm not saying we shouldn't donate to worthy causes. I do, quite a bit, and I think those of us who make tech-industry salaries do in fact have a moral obligation to do that for as long as these failures of society exist. But let's admit that it's a second-class approach.

Donations cannot solve problems. They can at best soothe the effects of a problem. There isn't really any fundamental difference between the guy with a sign on 101 asking for a dollar every day, the kid in Vietnam asking for a dollar every day, and the New York Public Library emailing me to ask for many dollars every day. Or, ultimately, even the beloved local for-profit business with a Kickstarter to save them from shutdown asking for a (hopefully) one-time pile of cash to make rent. All of them feel like their best shot is to hope for donations. Let's figure out where they should be getting funds from instead.
Agreed — OP I’ll help, email in bio
I wonder what the pilots of the Max have to say about the airplane? There could be greater potential for human error if pilots are distracted by the idea that something could fail at any moment.
Liars are susceptible to lies, recent activity in the US proves this out.
Do you mean the search itself or other parts? Quite possible that I've become accustomed to the parts that are slower being used to IDEA. e.g. I accept the 'indexing' operation sometimes on startup or the now rare garbage collection pauses.
It says in the article:

> The animals were destined for South Korea, where they are eaten as a delicacy
This is my problem, to a nearly pathological degree. I don't want to go to bed at night, I don't want to get up in the morning, etc.

For the morning I have sleep as android as a backup, which requires me to go to the bathroom and scan a QR code to disable the alarm - effectively forcing me out of bed.

For actually doing what I am procrastinating on, I have a dumb-watch where I can set an alarm for 10 minutes. I find that I can usually get started that way, and when the 10 minutes are up I don't want to stop (see previous pathological state). However, on occasion I will and that is totally fine too - if you expect to follow up on the deals you have made with others, you should follow up on the deals you made with yourself.
Lying is when you know A to be true but claiming A is false.

Bullshitting is not knowing enough about A but making claims about A regardless.
IP doesn't handle it fine.

If I roam from network A to network B, then someone else cannot send me an IP packet till they know my address on network B.

I can only send out a "Hey, I'm now at this address" message to them if I know they will be wanting to contact me, and I know my own address has changed. Neither of those is guaranteed.
Evidence requires observation. Observation in this case requires a strenuous experiment (see 10,000 years of religious/mystic technology for "seeing far" for more about that).

It is similar to high-energy physics in this way.
There’s lots of evidence if you read VF and similar forums. Joker manually processed withdrawals for those who requested them, even small amounts. All the sellers got paid.
Hey. Congratulations.

Regarding the dogfooding remark... We do that as well, and here's something you may find useful... I notice a lot more crap when I record presentation videos of the product and now I regularly record presentation videos as a revealing agent.

This is similar to what we do with written material. I generally write the presentation of the product before we develop it, how the things will work. Same with SDKs and APIs. I'll write how the API is to be used and ask teammates 'Does that make sense ? Is this easy to use ?' and then write the code to make that SDK visible.

I remember giving a laptop and library documentation to non coders and ask them to follow it and use the library to do something. If they could, developers were more likely to.

Now that we have a product, it is insane the amount of crap that becomes visible once we're in presentation mode. Really ? Do I have to do all these things just to get that going ? Note the issue, continue the recording, find another issue, etc.

My recordings are full of swear words because things that became invisible thanks to learned helplessness becoming visible.

We do that as well for deployment. Once in a while, we'll deploy it with fresh eyes and fresh, clean, environnements notices all the crap of manual steps, a huge README file to follow and out of date, etc. Then we'll fix that.
Please do, it's quite bad.
Looks like artists aren’t quite making money either:

https://twitter.com/isyourguy/status/1366176796996112385
First, please note that this is from 2002. Wish you could edit the title.

The last slide in the series notes that the talk gets heavily flamed on. It gets flamed on for good reason, IMHO.

From its intro:

>
Description

The "design patterns" movement in software claims to have been inspired by the works of architect Christopher Alexander. But an examination of Alexander's books reveals that he was actually talking about something much more interesting.

The presentation has two parts: a takedown of the Iterator (which kinda misses the point of iterator, it’s not purely a way to implement for-loops), and then a description of how Alexander had different goals than the GoF in their book.

Ok... the book isn’t Alexander. Though the patterns community was on the path to trying to achieve similar goals, just this happened to be a handbook of patterns that were more recently discovered. Software architecture is not as well-codified a field as physical architecture, needs a century or two to catch up.

The real complaint is that the book is not a “Pattern Language”, or the same as the famous Chris Alexander book. That’s not in the title of this talk. It’s also not really what the speaker spends much time on. Saying the C++ macro system blows goat dick doesn’t advance arguments about the difference between a handbook of patterns and anything else. Inspired by is absolutely true, inspiration has many effects and forms.

However, GoF is also about discovering and communicating the patterns you discover, and contains useful examples. GHJV spend energy describing how the patterns were identified, clarified and named, and they use this language in presenting the examples.

Meanwhile the author of these slides seems to thing it’s the copy side of a copy-paste command, which it definitely is not. There is no one true Iterator, nor Factory, Visitor, Facade, or any other pattern listed.

So he misses the point by quite a margin, IMHO.
It was a French model. I forgot which one.
Would you also consider C++ a specialized, hard-to-use tool?
Also, with LoRaWAN, devices have duty cycle limitations. They can't hog all the bandwidth for a extended period of time. It is really intended just for short, bursty, infrequent transmissions like you describe.
This helps to get good at marketing if you’re an engineer: https://phireworks.co/pro
My point is that some other foreigner drove past them before me and gave them money. Just like the person sitting on the left turn lane learned it from somewhere. I wasn't arguing that the behavior is rational or not. I'm talking about how we are wired in our culture around giving donations and it isn't just about how donors dictate how non-profits spend their money.
@kgwgk "have the slightest idea of what does"

On that specific problem there are other problems where they are not equal.
I work in legal software for courts and attorneys and can confirm WordPerfect is very much used by filing attorneys. Within the courts though, everything is typically PDF once filed.
A way of dealing with this issue that I've seen in the jewish community (I only have extensive experience there), is to provide sponsorship opportunities: a way for the donor to restrict the usage of their money and a way for the organization to get it where it's needed. While it doesn't cover everything, it can really help reduce the requirement for having donations that can be used for anything.
> The proposal also will change a strange feature in Ethereum that no one really saw coming. Users can now pay an Ethereum miner to process their transaction with a credit card or another cryptocurrency, undermining Ether’s role in its own blockchain, Beiko said.

Why would someone prefer to pay with credit card instead of using the normal fees for miners? Do the fees in Ethereum have some kind of "tax"?

> EIP 1559 makes Ether the only way to pay for transactions on the network.

I don't understand how this prevent side channels. There is a mandatory part that is burned, but someone can use a side chanel anyway.
A fan that blows them into a metal mesh filter is sufficient. The fan keeps them stuck against the filter until they dehydrate and die. Propane is often used to attract them to the fan but that may not be necessary in your case.
I learned how to negotiate when someone linked to the famous kalzumeus software article on the subject. I've probably made tens of thousands of extra dollars in my life from it.
I'm surprised even ancient vbulletin doesn't have new vulnerabilities arise. Last I looked at it, it was a horrible kluge. For example a fair amount of the actual PHP than runs was in database tables.
> EUT is claiming there are parallel universes not EE.

Can you back this up with a reference to anything not coming from Ole Peters (and known associates)?

> "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Helping to clear the confusion he creates in his full-time occupation is a just a hobby for me.
Also I got a job that I found on a who's hiring thread.
Adding a PiTube co-processor to a BBC Master
They were imagination amplifiers. The computer itself didn't do much so you had to fill in the gaps by imagining the things it wasn't doing - often guided by some exciting cover art on books and games packaging.

You could also expand your imagination by thinking of the things you might do if you worked hard at it, or if it was only slightly bigger/faster/better.

Modern computing is the opposite. It does so much it doesn't leave any gaps for your imagination to fill - the creative equivalent of a distracting wall of noise for you to consume.
ReadMe (YC W15) Is Hiring a UI Engineer
“Black Lives Matter's Effect on Police Lethal Use-of-Force”

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3767097

Give it a read, maybe it will change your mind. Organizations like BLM were formed to organize concerted protest and political pressure at a community-wide level. That is to say, it’s a direct result of people doing what you suggest they do: “people should care about what they do with themselves, their family, and their community first.”
If you wear a surgical mask, I found pushing it as high as possible to be the only thing that worked. You want the top at the same level as the nose bridge.
A previous "mosquito fence" claimed to be able to recognize not only species, but also specifically female mosquitos, by wing beat characteristics. So it should be possible.
>Well when you buy a ticket from ticketmaster you can’t exactly dictate what features they offer through their platform...not to mention ticket master is a 3rd party service that they take a massive cut.

Is this an argument? We're talking about ticketmaster moving to a chain, why can't we talk about them moving to a cheaper better service that isn't based on crypto?

And besides, crypto isn't free. The network takes a cut. Doesn't it cost like $20 to perform a transaction right now?
> I suspect a lot of people didn't realize how much power was being used for bitcoin.

And another thing which changed is that, every time the price of Bitcoin increases, it can (and will) use more power (the amount of power a Bitcoin miner uses is limited by how much power it can buy with the mining rewards, because if it used more power than that, it would be mining at a loss). There's a lot of difference between when one Bitcoin was USD 1, when it was USD 4000, and now that it's over USD 50000. Someone who was OK with how much power the Bitcoin network used back when the per-block mining reward was around USD 50, might not be OK with how much power the Bitcoin network uses now that the per-block mining reward is over USD 325000.
In the UK, vertebrates + octopuses.
I've been in cars with multiple people who would just ignore the warning when it was a few dings per minute, I assume they are responsible for that change.
An additional complication: according to the Centre for Effective Altruism, charities vary hugely - several orders of magnitude - in their ability to turn dollars into benefit.
Have the 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz unlicensed bands become unusable by device proliferation? What makes you fear the 900 MHz band will be meaningfully different?
I'm really glad Rust has that too with cargo-fix. https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-fix.html
This reminds me of the Greek paradox "Ship of Theseus" which asks the question if every part of a ship is reconstructed over time is it the same ship?

If any subset of the new ship is a subset of the original ship then surely. But this also raises the question if we take a subset and build a new ship. Which is the original?

Another interesting take is to introduce non-physical attributes such as a name of the ship. That way every piece of wood could be changed but the name attribute would still make it a subset
FinTech hires Maths PhDs for this sort of thing.
> I'll do my best to avoid Boeing altogether

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-probe/airbus-bribe...
"native is fast" is a statement of fact that is not open to debate. That fact is obvious to anyone who understands enough about compilers. The real question is "Are the tradeoffs between native and $portable_platform worth it?", which is generally subjective.
> HN may not be the place to discuss this, but... am I missing something obvious?

The Gates Foundation are likely giving money to these efforts so as to balance out the heavy "learn to code" focus of most other SV-tech educational efforts. It's the anti-white-supremacy equivalent of buying carbon offsets for your dirty energy use.
> This is why I watch with increasing alarm the current trend to “cancel” meat.

But this is not a new trend though. See The Global Influence of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Diet: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/9/251
His method -- buy VISA giftcards at a grocery with his AMEX 5% cash back, then use those giftcards to purchase $$ transfers into his bank account (which would then be used to pay his AMEX bill).
I just love the arrogance of these fuckers. “No one but state level law enforcement could take us down!” What a crock of shit. More likely just an ex member with an axe to grind.

Yep, everyone always says they were the victim of a sophisticated hack by advanced state-sponsored level hackers, whereas maybe their password was <company name>123.
I was thinking of The Lisp Curse[1] while reading your comment and then you mentioned the language! I’m quite excited by Zig (even if safety is lower priority for it than for Rust, it is really pushing the tooling envelope) but I do wonder whether the “anti-composition hypothesis” here holds up for relevant projects today. Many C programs include shims for compatibility between multiple different “library object models” (hell even strings count here) and they seem to be a common source of security and performance issues. Maybe in the domains where Zig is most competitive that dynamic won’t play out? Or maybe comptime provides tools that will still enable composition or at least allow for lower overhead “object model shims”? I suspect that it will be hard to know more about how it plays out until there is more language stability and code sharing, maybe even a repository like npm or crates.io.

[1] http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
It would be interesting intermittent releases supplemented with diffs
This is confusing:

"If you build your own funding service, you simply pay a subscription for using our tools."

If a platform uses your tools, but not 'your' capital, does it still pay Lendflow a 2%/3%/5% fee on all the loans it issues? Or does it only pay Lendflow the 500/2.5k/TBD subscription fees?
The sibling comment is right, it doesn't help very much. The CO₂ level goes above 800 ppm (which is already considered unhealthy) in ~20 minutes, rises to ~2200-2400 ppm (depends on wind speed and atmospheric pressure) in the course of a couple of hours, and then just stays there for days on end.

I put all my pollution data into Grafana and it makes making decision when to open (or close) a window that much easier. (Yeah, you have to make a thought-out decision to not feel terrible. It's a whole ceremony.)
To me, paelo always sounded like some new age esoteric crap to me, while vegetarian/vegan always had some merit to it.
> But ... how do you monetize this without ads?

Make something that people want instead of doi g the same as 163648462 others?

There was a time where you earned money if you added something to the mix
It is soft science. Almost all results are unreproducable BS
Is there any benign scenario that explains why amazon should do that? They have essentially put listening devices into every home and now they bypass the home owner's network? Am I the only one that thinks this looks like it is about surveillance? What's the next step? Mandatory amazon smart meters? Smoke detectors?
Huh. I grew up racing XC skiing in Alaska, and usually during the first week of practice in the winter you'd "burn" your lungs from the cold (or apparently, the dryness). You'd cough if you breathed deeply, and it took a few days to recover.

But then the rest of the season you were totally OK - no issues at all, with a weekly racing schedule and lots of very cold temps. I don't recall any teammates having any chronic or recurring issues either.

It was accepted as the annual acclimation to winter aerobics, just like that first sunburn of summer let you enjoy the rest of the summer sun without burning.
Here is a more technical video in English that was just uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeVcNmNFzmc
Yes. UTM tags (utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign) are fully supported. And you can filter the dashboard by any of them. And you can also see which of them refer traffic that ends up converting on any of your custom events/goals. You can try it out on our live demo: https://plausible.io/plausible.io
The other day I decided to make use of our garden and work outside. Within 20 seconds I was being swarmed by the buggers. I thought of using some sort of anti mosquito white noise to repel them but no luck (although it did seem to work for some commenters).

The war against the mosquito goes on.
Web devs have been cargo-culting really hard lately and adopting practices like completely disabling HTTP and only doing 304 redirects to HTTPS on the HTTP interface. They say they need to protect their users from MITM and downgrade attacks if they say anything at all, but realistically this isn't even in the threat model for 99% of sites.

So now we have sites abandoning HTTP entirely and only having HTTPS. So this encourages browsers like Firefox to start enabling things like HTTPS only in their browsers by default. It encourages putting up scaremongering warnings of danger on HTTP sites like HTTPS self-signed certs get (which killed off self signed sites).

So now browsers are beginning to refuse to show HTTP and the web admins are putting up servers that refuse to serve HTTP. That means in the near future unless you can get a cert authority approval (forever) you'll be unable to host a visitable website (ie, get a TLS cert from an authority) and unable to visit most websites that don't play the cert game unless you modify your browser.

Human people cannot be cert authorities. Only corporations can. These two trends towards HTTPS only, on client and server, lead inevitably towards a situation where everywhere is in a handful of cert authority chains and things become easily controlled, or accidentally broken, due to that centralization.
If you like such things, Nguyen Duc Thang has a ridiculously extensive collection he has been modeling, which can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/user/thang010146/featured.
People make mistakes.
Thanks for giving the source!
He said that he knows that the deck is not shuffled randomly.
I’ve heard this a few times. I’m the opposite, I think I learned it once and never forgot it, it seems impossible. Do you understand regex in terms of a state machine? Draw it out. It’s a very simple language.