skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mix hand-ground premium beans with a commercial ground coffee that I already like. It makes it taste and feel expensive, but not really all that much more expensive. It's also half the exercise than grinding the whole thing every morning.

As for prep, I have a lot of different coffee making gizmos. Regular drip, French press, stove top espresso maker, Vietnamese coffee maker. I also have a cloth filter, but I don't use it so often that it would wear down quickly. It does make amazingly smooth brew, though. Each of them has their own pros and cons, but they all make good coffee which result in subtle variations in the final experience.

In the summer, I French Press a pot and put it in the fridge with milk and sugar already added (and far less sugar than commercial ice coffees). The press allows you to make super potent coffee, so you can add lots of ice and it won't ever taste too watery.
Loved it! I agree with most of it as well, I'm so fed up with preparing with abastractions to things that will probably never occur (changing the underlying DB for eg)
I changed my coding style a decade ago to focus on producing code that is as simple as possible to read/maintain with as few abastractions layers as possible.
I have been a manager and manager-of-managers for quite a few years (many of which were WFH), and IC now. I'm curious about your statement that some might look at the behaviour describe above as "phoning it it"? I didn't see anything in their description that said anything about getting less done or putting less time in or not being available when needed. Maybe I'm misreading something.

I agree that remote management has very different challenges than remote IC - certainly you're likely to spend a lot more time talking with people so less-than-ideal WFH circumstances would be harder.
This. This is exactly what I started watching last summer to keep myself calm and optimistic through the pandemic. The channels I watch are - Nomadic Ambience[1], NIPPON WANDERING TV[2] and IURETA e[3].

Here are my favorite[4] video[5] walks[6] from Japan. Hope you like it. As for other places, here's two from NYC[7][8] and another from Olympic National Park[9] which is not a video walk per se, but would appeal to folks who love the wilderness.

Last but not least, thank you for videos you shared :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/NomadicAmbience/videos

[2] https://www.youtube.com/c/NIPPONWANDERINGTV/videos

[3] https://www.youtube.com/c/IURETAe/videos

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et7O5-CzJZg

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpxJSvgHysA

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JCNn_4-Ap4

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21HKaqA1rpo

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOan6RRvOi4

[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jGX1oUADhg
This. I would expect a modern permissions model to be:

App has access to its own config/cache folders, and is implicitly and temporarily granted access to a file or directory on a process-lifespan basis when that file or dir is fed to that app through the file browser or through the application's "open file" file dialog box.

Possibly something more liberal could be granted for read permissions for like a gallery app or a music library thing, but that's what I'd expect for write permissions.
Completely agree as popularity != quality and curation without cornering the market does have a lot of value. When I said gatekeepers I was thinking of academic publishers vs sci hub for example, or non-fiction publishers who operate on selling big names rather than quality.
The crime was 20x worse and more common back when we had death penalty.

Comvined with the fact that most EU countries have much lower crime rate than US and have no death penalty, it shoupd be clear that death penalty is totally ineffective at reducing crime. There is literally no place on earth where you can demonstrate "we introduced death penalty and crime has fallen" by any significant amount. We do, however, have ironclad proof that rehabilitation makes a difference. We have proof that quality of investigators that make sure the perpetrator is caught for sure makes a difference.

Recently in UK our inconpetent government has reduced the amount of police resources avaliable to investigate crime. More crimes are unsolved, crime rates increase because criminals are unounished, and they are hoping to compensate with tougher sentences. And that iduotic because we know it doesnt work, it never did
It makes me happy to see privoxy back again. Time to set it up back! :)
For the question "why would anyone want to work at GS as opposed to their clients", it's not a matter of the number of corporations, it's about the number of good roles.

A very large, say property developer, might hire GS for its fundraising needs, but a GS grad wouldn't want to work laying bricks. He might want to work as CFO or someone very close to the CFO, but those roles are much harder to get than working as grad for GS.

So it's not just about what the grad wants, it's also about what he can get.

This shouldn't be controversial. Anyone who's been in the industry knows that people move "up" from IB to their clients. Of course everyone wants that, but again such roles are harder to get than IB.
And last I looked into this, nvme doesn’t support edrive encryption. And it doesn’t really matter very much any more with all of the encryption accelerators in modern cpus. Someone please correct me on either account if I’m wrong!
I looked into participating in the DSP program when it was announced; it was obvious at the time that it was a "buy yourself a job" type of situation, where an individual DSP provider would require a lot of volume/trucks/routes/employees to even make a living for themselves. What you describe makes complete sense.
Wouldn't a crowdsourced medium not tend to reflect the post-truth society in which it is embedded?

English Wikipedia is sadly no exception.
2020 state of the commons report [pdf]
>Well lots of people can read and write, but few people are able to write a good novel.

That's exactly my point. Coming up with a great story is very difficult. Writing it down is trivial in comparison.

>Everyone I know who isn't necessarily a software engineer but has basic programming skills has benefited from that knowledge.

I completely agree. It's very useful and should be taught in school just like maths is taught in school. Maybe it should be taught as part of maths.

My point is that the cognitive difficulty of formal modelling is on a completely different level than that of transcribing words. We should adjust our expectations accordingly.
What happened to this page?

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/718

Archived version: https://archive.is/cbIIT
Mulgrew and Picardo looking back on Voyager
British English (and the SI standard) uses the spelling "tonne" to mean 1000kg, with "ton" meaning one of the obsolete units. American English prefers "metric ton", but they haven't obsoleted the old units.

The ESA uses "tonne": https://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/Space_Debris/Space_debri...

A "tun" is a type of barrel (Latin: tunna, German "Tonne"). One could contain roughly a tonne of liquid.
The plural ‘variants’ in the title is a bit misleading. Only one of the four viruses they tested is one we are actually concerned about at this time. The first is the original virus, which was displaced by the second early in the pandemic and against which vaccines are already known to be effective. The third one is the UK variant, which is of interest and the fourth is an artificial virus with a single mutation of interest, which doesn’t circulate in nature. This is all good but the study doesn’t add anything that wasn’t already known. It appears that better funded groups at the NIH, UTMB, Fred Hutch and Columbia beat them to the goal and to publication in the even more prestigious publications like NEJM and Nature. In any case, reproducing important research is a laudable and underrated goal. However, I would suggest a more modest title - ‘Study adds to data for vaccines’ effectiveness against the UK variant of SARS-COV-2’.

There are other variants - Brazilian, South African, Californian, New York, etc - which need to be studied in more detail. There are already data from the aforementioned research groups for at least some of these variants that suggest that vaccines will continue to be at least partially effective.
50 Previously unidentified genetic loci for eye color
It's so frustrating to constantly switch between my favourite browser and whatever the developers had in mind.
The ultimate point of the insurance market is to provide an incentive for quality. Use of components which the insurer regards as low-risk will be cheaper to insure.

What would the insurer regard as low-risk? Typically, they would use two things:

1) Past experience - have they seen this piece of software regularly exploited?

2) Formal assessment in an underwriters' lab - do relevant experts consider the software to be well-constructed? Here open-source software has a real advantage, because the underwriters can review the source code directly, or pay others to do so. They have access to any automated tests and code coverage assessments, and so might assign a lower risk score to a project with more tests. They might even assign lower risk to projects written in languages that are known to produce safer code, so with all other things being equal a Rust codebase would be cheaper to insure than a C++ one.

This is entirely compatible with a system of bounties or rewards for anyone who moves the project in the direction of safety and high-quality maintenance. By concentrating the risk associated with poor software quality on the insurer, we get around the problem where many different companies use the software but are unwilling to pay for its maintenance. The insurer has a greater incentive to care than they do, and so would be more willing to pay developers.

I admit that this is a back-of-a-napkin sketch, but the incentives do seem to line up correctly.
A List of Spurious Correlations
I really wish I believed this article more, but it strikes me as too optimistic :( It says a bunch of changes are coming that I wish were coming, but don’t believe we’ll get soon. Weird to come away from a “SV will die” article with that feeling.
There’s a far simpler solution.

Most old fashion electric coffee makers just above the cheapest option have a clock and auto start timer.

Then get a 3 in 1 outlet extender so you can leave it plugged in and use the outlet.

Disclaimer: Mr Coffee style coffee makers don’t make great coffee. The water doesn’t get quite hot enough.
I think your comment is a little bit alarmist.

* Python 2 is dead.

* pip is the most popular in the industry, conda serves a different purpose if your focus is mainly on scientific computing

* what does async vs blocking even mean in this context? all languages have the same problem, just use the libraries that are non-blocking.

* mypy is the static type checker that is the most popular (28.3k repositories, 1.9k packages), if you are using other type checkers then congrats, you will just be the CoffeeScript/Reason user of the JS world, refusing to believe that TypeScript won the mindshare
Imagine if we had the "Nutrition Facts" equivalent for failure rates (and supply chain while we're at it.) That'd be an interesting world.
Actually you can interop in the Unix family, that's what ACME is doing: write specific text to specific files and the content of your editor windows change. That allows the editor to implement any command you could find elsewhere, such as indent, put the contents of a directory, display compile errors...
>Richman was even named an "innovator" winner in Goop's "The Greater goop Awards" and at its peak, uBiome was valued at $600 million.

Considering how questionable Goop is that the fraud seems about right.

In the meantime the whole medical start up where they suddenly can test, for cheaper, better, etc seems to regularly come up short on the actual testing, results, or even just valid use cases.

Much like Theranos nobody ever seems to explain how these kind of companies can just suddenly test for more so easily where the existing medical industry just hasn't been able to.

Of all the things that the start up ... "system" can do well I kinda question their ability to suddenly become amazing complex medical device inventors / scientists. I recall some folks who work in that industry and they noted that creating new tests and diagnostics and equipment is often incredibly slow and iterative. That doesn't seem very start up-ish. The magical breakthroughs are rare.
Thanks for sharing this. I actually see very little reporting on how this virus spreads among the vaccinated population. I would love to see new case numbers broken down by vaccinated and not-vaccinated people from countries like UK, US and Israel. So far I’m unable to find such data on the internet.
I think OP's point is that many users aren't pushing machines to the limit or saturating 10g links. They just need the equivalent of a several-year-old desktop to run a webserver or whatever. Consumer-grade colo.
I wrote this extension in order to help a company, Pneuma Solutions, bring awareness to the issue of accessibility overlays. For those unaware, they hinder more than aid in the struggle for complete web accessibility due to deceptive marketing. They sell to companies telling them that web accessibility is something that be accomplished with their single line of provided JavaScript, instead of being something that must be factored in starting from the design stage.

The extension is a simple script blocker, intended for those who aren't technically savvy enough to add hostnames to their adblocker (if they have one). The only data it collects is what site the accessibility overlay was on when it was blocked, only so we can show those statistics on the website. That data collection is completely anonymous (there is no relationship between users and sites on the backend) and can be opted-out of in the extension settings.

You can find the link to the GitHub at the bottom of the website.
If it’s that awful.. I dunno, maybe quit?
For myself after extensive testing with fresh roasted and ground beans, controlled water, bloom time, etc, I decided that pour over makes both a superior tasting and much simpler cup.
Hypothetical question: how would it work out in the long run, if there would be no such thing as illegal "insider trading"?

Because I suspect the very few things that surface up, are only a very small tip of a very big iceberg anyway, with all the elite managers/politicians interacting in pretty much closed circles, I cannot imagining it is not happening on a large scale and only some small fish like this one get caught now and then.

So, how could things work out, if this would just be legal? Devastating to the economy? Much more manipulation of the stock market? Or even less, as people are more aware of it?

Also, I cannot imagine myself not doing it, if I would have valuable information, I also do not really understand it all, when it would be considered insider trading and when not - but I can imagine this is the case for many people. The term seems just not clear defined to me, so maybe it is then doing more bad than good?
It's a big problem to get active matrix monochrome displays these days, let alone reflective ones.
Sadly, "danger pay" paid for coming into the office to make sure the infrastructure kept going for the telecommuters. I've been able to help the relatives during this craptacular time.
Yea, 20+ years on PostgreSQL. Why would I change my DB away from the perfect one?
South Africa: Drop in Covid-19 Cases Adds to Questions About Waves of Infections
Full title: "Why Probability Theory is Hard: It’s not because you’re stupid or weren’t concentrating in school"
Just as we ban or should ban completely rigged televised gambling games, we should ban pyramid schemes such as bitcoin. It's not because people like the rush and addiction of gambling that we should just leave it be. People are being taken advantage of and doing nothing about it is immoral.

To advance as a human species, there needs to be an environment of equal opportunities (not equal outcomes) where everyone can lead a fruitful and satisfying life, devoid of pyramid schemes preying on the hopes of someday making it. In that sense, cryptocurrencies are not helping but exacerbating the problem.
Wheenver reading articles like this i love to replace words like software with electricity or something similar. All these industries are and will continue to be disrupted by whatever the latest innovation is. It's just that software is the latest big one to change things so dramatically. People say similar things about crypto and finance or ai and writing. It seems silly to think this has ever not been the case and will ever not be the case.
The show piece at the bottom is kinda cheating, right? One of Tetris challenge is to visualize where the piece will land. Nice project never the less.
Still compared to Theranos!
Well for starters even getting a canvas based UI working that supports all DPIs, all aspect ratios, live resize, clicks, and multi-touches is non-trivial.
And yet it’s still possible to eat ice cream even though such a thing would not be found on the savanna.

Some people can’t control this and become wildly obese, but others eat ice cream, understand what it is, and get on with their life.
Good for you. Stories like yours should be a good example of WHY to buy a home. Now there are plenty of reasons why NOT to buy a home. Bottom line is that buy a home to Live, not invest (primary home at least). A lot of us are made to believe that one should buy a home because of equity/investments/saving rent etc etc. All that is true BUT you need to not buy for those reasons. You need to buy when you want your own space, can afford it reasonably and are not using it as a casino.
Unless your application is implemented in under 100 lines, types will save you time in general
What's frustrating is you can't solve this with tech anymore.

For my last gaming build I bought a boatload of RAM thinking it'd let me have my tabs and play games without issue...

At some number of tabs well before you've maxed out your RAM your entire system slows to a crawl and you end up having to close them all anyways
n = 88 billion is larger than I can think of for any DL research I've read about. Can you (ahem) enlarge on that?
This comes down to reputations largely. I'm sure that 1943 paper tried very hard to keep their reputation. But there is a whole term for thteh sensationalist style of newspapers called Yellow Journalism that's been around for a VERY long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

And that's just that one term. Before that, wealthy people literally made newspapers to try to push their own points of view onto the public. Heck, the USA was arguably founded on propaganda newspapers. They certainly weren't regularly fair and objective representations of truth, and rarely even tried to be.
Nice Reply All episode about tracking down and resurrecting an old Flash game: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/j4hlx6
Did you make that up? I love it.
I had the same thing in mind when I ordered a gift recently, thought I'd see how Newegg matches up. I got my package 2 days later, the whole order had Amazon shipping slips/boxes, delivered by Amazon.
I completely understand that, but you concentrate these small loads to more powerful servers, so you can colocate ~50 small VMs to one gigantic server (in comparison).

When you squeeze 50 low-pressure VMs to a single VM, they become a one high-pressure load.

Hence, you need enterprise level hardware to be able to provide these low-cost, eh performance VMs to masses.
> It's just as easy for a Windows .exe to create a service that runs when you log in as it is for a Linux app to write something to .bashrc - so its not a uniquely Linux problem.

This isn't entirely true - you need something like Administrator access (so at least a UAC prompt) to create a Windows Service, whereas all software you run on Linux will normally have access to write to your .bashrc.

Of course, if we're talking about installers and not random .exe's, where users are already conditioned to allow installers to run as Administrator, the problem re-surfaces.

A bit closer to editing .bashrc in Windows is the peculiarity that Windows DLL search order normally starts from the directory where the .exe was loaded from. So, any .exe in a User-writable location that loads a DLL can be tricked into running malware by creating/overwriting a malicious DLL of the same name there (this doesn't work for Windows DLLs, though).
Sound stuff is still pretty unstable.
I definitely agree that this has left a lot of people worse off. I fear it will take a long time for many to recover from. :-/
Making Sense of Iran and Al-Qaeda’s Relationship
Humility, Sympathy, and Recognizing Truth
If you are referring to porn, despite the general perception I think it's quite harmless. Things like drugs, smoking, alcohol and even spedning time on Facebook and Instagram have much worse effect on someone's wellbeing. People use it mostly for stress relief and that's much better strategy than smoking pot or even casual drinking.
Puff piece much? You really softballed your questions there.
Than you for spotting this. The HN layout engine mangled that bit I'm afraid.
The Holy Roman Empire was an European monarchy from the middle ages to ~1800. That's what I was referring to - perhaps that wasn't as clear as it should have been.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire
Advertisers were willing to pay quite a bit back in the days! While privacy is good, the advertising industry supported a p. large cottage industry of cool online game developers back in the days. A lot of people I know got their first buck that way in a way that's harder to do nowadays.
Should this be posted automatically two weeks prior to the first? I am being entirely serious, I always find these threads helpful.
Personally identifiable information. It’s a term of art that is extremely common, at least in any large software company, that deals with customer data in any way. I’m not sure if it’s usage in the broader industry/common speech (although I swear I’ve occasionally seen it in news reports)
> Statisticians know that outliers need to be excluded from their results,

offtopic, but this is not true in general. This is one of my strongest pet peeves. For many distributions (e.g. Cauchy, power laws, Levy stable...) it turns out that all samples are "outliers" and you cannot really exclude them. It is only on the "degenerate" case of finite variance that you can exclude outliers. But some statisticians may still argue that this is still wrong: there are no outliers, only incomplete models.
They didn’t design the study to look for severe cases in South Africa and this variant isn’t widespread in other countries where the vaccine is in use, so it will be hard to get evidence on effectiveness against severe disease anytime soon.
Scientists don't know what this number means. Doctors don't either. And yet this number from a test result from a company in SF means something to someone in SF. And no one can figure out why.
There's a good open source Flash runtime called ruffle.rs, used by Internet Archive.[1]

(Wasn't sure what "prodigal" means in this context. Any chance you means "canonical"?)

[1] http://blog.archive.org/2020/11/22/flash-back-further-though...
I don't know myself, but if the big expense is parts not salary, both can be true.
The vehicle manufacturer would be the one capturing the profits of the overpriced band-name parts.
A January 2021 study in the annals of internal medicine estimating the death rates of non institutionalized patients of
.26 percent with age breakdowns .
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5352?utm_source=...
They don't care. The only reason they have an interest/stake at $15 min wage is so they can crush anyone who might challenge them. Essentially solidify their position.

A rival might not be able to afford that so they let everyone go, or Amazon gobbles them up for dinner.

There's always an ulterior motive when lobbying is involved.