skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are on fire but won't put down the cigarette
"For those of us of a certain age, there was a toy that was quite popular: the Easy-Bake Oven...Rather than having a more normal resistive heating element as you find in a normal oven, though, a special light bulb was mounted in the oven, and the waste heat from the bulb would heat the oven enough to cook the food."

I can't find any evidence that the Easy Bake oven used a "special" light bulb. It just used 2 normal 100 watt incandescent bulbs as far as I can tell. Tungsten is a normal resistive heating element, pretty common in electric furnaces.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Premier_...

Though there was a 2006 redesign that apparently didn't go well: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2007/new-easy-bake-oven-recall-...
The only intellectually honest interpretation of this comment is that you were born outside of China and have since moved there for values reasons. Is that accurate?
Slightly Off -Topic.

Are you latency sensitive, do you often feel when your computer / web page reaction time sometimes being unstable and causes mild frustration?

Do you feel frustrated with Jank or micro-pauses within Apps?

Do you play FPS Games?
The old joke that "Consultants tell you what you already knew but didn't want to face." has been around forever for a reason. It's even an accepted tactic by business units to hire a consultant to document all these known problems as a means to force themselves to clean up their own act.
Can't read, paywalled...
Those were numbers for world rather than just the US. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-12-09/...

If you consider US only then it's not quite as dramatic but heart disease is still the #1 killer, especially since this happens every year and there's no vaccine for heart disease. 647,000 US deaths due to heart disease in 2019 vs 575,615 deaths due to Covid in 2020/2021. https://www.singlecare.com/blog/news/heart-disease-statistic...

As others have pointed out however, heart disease is a major factor in Covid deaths, for example, a history of heart failure ramps the Covid case-fatality rate from something like 2% for the general population up to 49%, so it's very difficult to fully separate out heart disease vs. covid for those 575k US deaths.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7490208/

If we are serious about following the science, it's pretty clear where we should focus our effort.
I'll assume this is just for commercially available tickets, right?

If you're important enough to charter, you won't be forced to slum it on the train, right?
> This last year has involved a lot of blind hatred of policing and poorly thought out calls to reduce police funding all based on very rare anecdotal incidents which have been spun as data.

This is interesting, because the evidence for your claim is anecdotes and “posts on NextDoor” — what statistical evidence do you have that crime is increasing more in “more permissive” cities vs “less permissive” ones? I would also invite you to consider that COVID may have more to do with this than anything else.

I also invite you to consider people who commit crimes as human beings with needs like you and I — needs that are often unmet: housing, healthcare, community, and which are not resolved by locking them up.
People drop $1000 on smartphones all the time. It might be expensive, but it's not unobtanium anymore.
What would stop people from doing split tickets?
But stuff like Netflix or Disney+ is quite cheap compared to other forms of entertainment because it is spread over so many viewers.

I remember Madonna getting a lot of grief over a statement about climate change because her crew was shifting so much kit around by air. But the reality is someone paying $100 for a concert ticket isn't going to cause much in the way of carbon emissions, certainly nothing like buying a car or a trans-Atlantic flight.
I’d recommend the book Moneyland.

The focus is more on international, rather than inter-state, arbitrage of legal systems by persons/corporations but is there really that much difference between the rationale for putting an HQ in Dublin and incorporating in Delaware if the goal is selectively operating under favorable legal frameworks?

Bonus, I’d never put together that offshore is just a socially acceptable alternative for the word pirate a la pirate radio.
FYI, the guy behind a resolution is a Bulgarian MEP.

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

I doubt that any of the resolution text can be his original writing.
How does one zero out the profits? Pay yourself as a contractor?
No, the argument is about revenue generating asset class, and the thing is is that such a deferred taxation enables, and motivates (perhaps even forces) one to effectively convert any revenue generating asset class to an appreciating asset through a corporate wrapper. And the deferral of taxes breaks the process of governance, as there's no income now to pay for the common expenses now.

Real estate is a good example - assume non-appreciating real estate, which is the historically main example of a revenue generating asset (i.e. the rentier landlord class historically). If you defer taxation of profits until they're removed from the company, then any rent-earning landlord can instead of earning rent, getting taxed, and investing that after-tax money in more real estate would establish a corp for that, and use the rental profits (untaxed) to buy more real estate within that corporation. It gives a tax advantage (ability to arbitrarily defer) to everyone who can put their earnings under a corporation, and punishes those who can't.

The key problem with such taxation is essentially the same as moving to a consumption-only tax - it means that you disproportionally tax the people who (have to) spend all their income to buying things for consumption (i.e. the poor), and don't tax the people who use their income to buy revenue-generating assets and control (i.e. capitalists); it's a rich-get-richer, poor-get-poorer form of taxation.
2) happily do

1) eh. I would pretty much prefer a system where externalities are embedded in taxes and levies to the point the consumption becomes sustainable
> "Can we see a dust storm's effects on the airframe at rest and solar panels before flight maybe?"

This one in particular would have been kind of risky, since one thing that happens to airframes left to sit in windy conditions with no tie-down is that they get blown over.
This feels vaguely racist. It's one thing to make a programming language that uses Cree keywords, but to include smoke signals, call loops "winters" and make it all about "storytelling" just seems so patronizing.
US is divided internally on how to go forward with the JCPOA. Assuming it was Israel, I don't think the government could muster up enough support to punish a long-time ally for something like this .
I live in deep deep Trump country and know a good number of the Maga hat, Trump flag flying folk. None of them “look[ed] to the state to force their own restrictive ideas of living on other people.”

It’s quite the opposite actually.
active = alpha;
passive = beta;
What's even more strange is that at one stage even some high ranking members of the Israeli military saw the benefits of the nuclear deal.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-militar...
My pet theory is that it used to be something hard and for the young and innovative, but was eventually commoditized.

My aunt was one of the IT pioneers in the late 80s in Poland(her first task was to figure out how to put together her work machine - fun stuff), and was only laid off in 2010 - two years before retirement - due to stuff unrelated to her performance.

I think currently it boils down to us being expensive resources - I was told repeatedly at my current workplace that we (the team) are "a cost", so we should focus on delivering instead of ensuring quality, which is kind of ironic given that I know we're pushing code which simply doesn't work so we aren't actually delivering.

Bottom line is that we're expensive and that causes anxiety among the decision makers, who in turn transfer that anxiety onto us.

This is my best guess anyway.
Attempts to control internet discourse on all matters that intersect with Israeli foreign policy is presumed to be an important tactic for Israel's cyber teams. It's safe to assume that this venue is no different from other major social media outlets in that regard.

My other reply pointed this out directly, along with noting that I'd likely be downvoted. Instead the response was flagged as a super-downvote and now is no longer visible. Israel leverages social media as a weapon and is unwilling to accept a critical view of their actions.

edit: lol, right on cue.
this man plays KSP.
Detecting the Long-Tail of Unseen Conditions
Which Amazon didn't fire them for.
> It is ironic how the number decreased from 1500 to 300 in recent report

even if a single person dies, that matters.

toning it down to 300 doesn't make it look better. each one of them is a human who was killed by Iranian regime.

here is Reuters confirming that number https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-protests-specialrepo...
> even the place that is supposed to be fair isn’t due to money

What place is that?
I read the whole interview, and at no point did I really feel like I understood what this is trying to achieve. The closest I felt I got was this:

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> Obviously my primary target communities here are Cree communities that are looking for new (and exciting) ways to encourage students (especially in the K-12 grades) to use their heritage language as much as possible, and resist using English as their primary language.
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But at the end of the day - This feels more like a display piece along the lines of art. Choices were personal, artistic, and spiritual. But I REALLY struggle to call this a programming language. To quote him:

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> Where the output is generative and graphic. The generative aspect is crucial in the representation of the Indigenous worldview, because when the program ends whatever display was generated is destroyed (comes to end of life). And subsequent running of the program – though they may produce similar results will never be graphically identical to any previous execution. This mimics the “real” world equivalent of listening to a story from a storyteller – who might change it slightly each time, so the same story is never the same twice.
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I'd say instead this feels more like NetLogo - It's a modeling environment that creates generative graphical output based on input, but is not capable of doing most of the things that I'd expect from any real programming language. Mainly - repeatability and precision.

Doesn't make it a bad choice, particularly if his goal is student engagement - but it's not a tool that I feel has much use outside of the very limited environment of teaching/story telling.
In the end preserving the environment helps everyone. We all have to live here on this earth, as will our descendants (for the foreseeable future at least). Perhaps you don't have many years left, and have no children? Otherwise your attitude seems rather shortsighted.

It's a good thing most rich countries are democracies where the majority actually can force altruism on others, no matter how selfish they are.
> at least it does not require k8s

One would think that should be a hell of a low bar. It’s like having to choose a car and going “Trabant will do, at least it does not require a crew of seamen”.
Each of these articles need to be treated with a degree of scepticism: in order to have a functioning market for any of these things - whether an NFT, a share of future earnings, or ‘BitClout’ - you need people who are willing to buy into the ecosystem.

If there are not a steady stream of new entrants with new money coming to the market, the whole thing collapses like a house of cards. And you will eventually run out of people. Anyone seriously looking into BitClout should look into the recent story of FootballIndex in the UK.

The Ponzi analogy is quite apt, and buyers into Ponzi schemes typically do not do well out of it.
There are 2 separate issues here: the moral and the legal.

The moral I leave to you. Morality and fairness are always matters of personal opinion. I don't think fiddling markets you control is "fair" for what it's worth...

The legal is pretty cut and dry. Especially for b2b like this. Maybe we should change the law? But then you're going to have to change it everywhere. Check out the shit supermarkets pull, they're a good example of a market provider that plays both sides. Google might have been unfair, but they're not in the top 10,000 for unfairness in this regard...
That's probably because the deal you're offering them is objectively worse than their current deal.
Firefox's security team was gutted last year. I don't think they have enough resources to properly secure their browser. The alternatives are webkit or chromium based browsers.
If all you do on http is send a redirect to https, you might be able to do that on the loadbalancer itself, or have a minimum sized pool of origins that does it for all of your hosts, so all your loadbalancers would have port 80 sent to them.

If you have any inbound links to http content, you really should endeavor to make those continue to work forever.

All that said, when I ran a high volume website, I got hsts preloaded, and served favicon with hsts headers, but generally didn't redirect content pages to https. If the user had a browser supporting hsts, they would be on https, otherwise maybe they want to see the content, but their browser can't manage modern https. The page was public information only though, if you have private information, you may reasonably prefer to have server acceptable TLS or nothing.
Good point: German public TV had some interview with Bulgarian government officials a couple of months ago, on the show Conflict Zone (https://www.dw.com/en/denitsa-sacheva-on-conflict-zone/av-55...), about them being the "most corrupt government in the European Union". The interviewer straight up asked why they didn't just resign.

It looks like this dude as a Member of European Parliament (MEP) is no different.
It's so tragic it's almost comical. The whole fishing industry is about £700 million industry and yet somehow is a huge dog whistle in politics.

Compare to the night time entertainment industry which is a £66 billion industry. When it was effectively shut down indefinitely by covid-19 the governments response was to tell them to go retrain as cyber experts.
yes, you are confirming what i guessed. so you were able to type out the initial program only with the keys on the keyboard? how did you find what to type?

and then once you had the hex-reader, where did you get the hexdump to type in? which programs did you create this way?
Spiraling into the most valuable automaker on earth?
What was the TC difference between GOOG and the job you have?

Might be worth it for some people out there
There are also script exporters (a few implementations) for simpler Nagios style checks and more specialised ones for getting things like Cloudwatch data (shout out to YACE[1] - with dashboards from promcat). It's really quite vibrant the ecosystem.

[1] https://github.com/ivx/yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter
Ask HN: I have no “business sense” what to do about it?
Bit of quick background: no education, have worked mostly in lower paying software jobs in a variety of environments (mostly non-tech)

I suppose this may be a place to ask as this seems above all, a business oriented site.

I have absolutely no “business sense”. In fact, I’m not even sure if that’s the correct term. There’s always a lot of talk of startups and businesses on here and it all seems so foreign to me. I have no network (most people I’ve worked with have been lifers at whatever company or I’ve long since fallen out of touch) and virtually no friends at this point. I have no idea how to go about entrepreneurship: knowing where to look for problems, figuring out if a problem could be a potential business, etc. I know very little about business finance or how to bootstrap something. I have no capital of my own and am not sure I could build any in a reasonable amount of time (though perhaps some software business, such as SaaS products, don’t require much to get started). I don’t know how to sell myself based on past experience due to how random and vague it is. I typically find myself uninterested the “hot” or “up in coming” areas of tech I’ve seen and when I do find something I’m interested in, it’s mostly always in an area that doesn’t make for a good business for one reason of another. Maybe it’s something heavily commoditized already, maybe it’s in an oligopolized industry where entry is just unrealistic, or maybe it’s in an industry that tends to be a bit more “gatekeepy” where someone with my background would likely be unwelcome or not taken seriously.

Now that’s a lot of stuff I don’t know or don’t have. Perhaps some of them could be realized with enough research, but others seem unlikely. What sort of things can I do to remedy the above issues? I’m still very young at the moment, but I feel I’m running out of time to decide to do many things. Not that I can’t do them later in life, but the returns will be diminishing the longer I wait.
>It has always been attainable only for specific skill sets.

I agree but the real issue is that the bar has been raised considerably. Previously, particularly with manufacturing you could have a middle class income with virtually no credentials. You didn’t need a degree, a portfolio of work, or connections to get a line position that you could keep for 30-40 years until you receive a pension. Nowadays that only gets you a lower income service job unless you can get a union position (which are dropping in numbers over the last few decades). Private defined benefit pensions are also almost non-existent.

There will always be people who find a way to succeed by developing a specific set of necessarily skills. That doesn’t mean it’s easier for the average.
The cultural devastation wrought on the indigenous peoples of the Americas was tragic. But it was also largely inevitable. The colonization of Africa left many more Africans alive than the colonization of America because America was biologically isolated from Eurasia while Africa was not. The epidemics, particularly of smallpox, that depopulated the Americas were so brutal largely because the indigenous Americans had neither the biological nor the cultural adaptation to infectious disease that was common among Eurasians and Africans. Most indigenous causes of illness in the Americas were due to parasites rather than viruses and bacteria, allowing the evolution of cultural practices like having the entire extended family of a sick person keep them company and try and comfort them through their illness.

One consequence of this is that the indigenous cultures that we’ve actually had the chance to study don’t really represent the pre-Colombian cultures that well, because by then, there was already substantial disruption from the infectious diseases and wildlife that spread throughout the continent well in advance of explorers and colonists.
The other bomb dropped on Japan used plutonium, as did the Trinity nuclear test. (Yes, the US had so little uranium that the bomb design using it wasn't even tested before it was used against Japan.)
For room temperatures or air temperatures, integer °C is exactly the right amount of resolution. The difference between 20°C and 21°C is pretty much exactly what I would be able to tell apart.

And on the other hand, for body temperatures, tenths of °C as a level of resolution is just right, whereas integer °F would be too coarse.
The market owners weren't involved. The clearing company have been accused of "helping" hedge funds. But that's a conspiracy theory really...
Absolutely. The cyber security asymmetry in play. I'm actually working on this problem so it's very close to heart!
His #1 can not and will not ever happen. The radio spectrum is a shared resource. The total information capacity of the usable spectrum, say from 100 KHz to 100 GHz, is massive but most of it has terrible propagation and all of it can only be used once at a time. Massive MIMO helps in dense city cores with lots of independent paths reflecting everywhere but it's still just one spectrum in practice.

Whereas with physical transmission lines, be they cables, fiber optics, or whatever, each run can re-use the entire spectrum.
Thanks! Anything in English about the latest twists and turns for the debate? Is that new metro now open?
> there's less money available to support these programs

Incorrect. “Since 1980, college tuition and fees are up 1,200%, while the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all items has risen by only 236%.” https://www.visualcapitalist.com/rising-cost-of-college-in-u...
Surely you can just set the timer most washing machines to start it a few hours after you leave? Personally though having washing machines running in an empty house makes me nervous.
I've been making a hobby app with GTK Rust in GNOME Builder for Pinephone and eventually Librem 5.

App runs well on Pinephone but building Rust GTK App on Pinephone takes forever. I did it once out of curiosity.

Luckily qemu cross compiling is easy to do on laptop and SCP it to phone, with native Linux SSH and root on phones it is refreshing.

Cannot wait for Librem 5 to get shipped, it's a lot more powerful than Pinephone, but I'm super happy to be experimenting on the future of Linux phones and convergence, regardless of where it ends up going.
I agree probably since my experiences were similar. Things are much better now, but I don't remember people telling me 'here is some money; remember me when you make it big'.

There are definitely people who would benefit from this. Some of my friends would have said 'some people just put everything in their char stat'. In fact, I have this HS friend. When we were growing up, he could barely turn his PC on. Now he is an IT manager for a major US brand. He either has gotten better or he was able to BS everyone with his cool guy persona ( and he is cool ). In short, I would buy his personal IPO.
Open source firmware for the PinePhone modem, use it to make phone calls
That seems a much better idea. Work remote as a accountant for a french company.
How to Customize Your Vim from Zero to C/C++ (Ubuntu Cinnamon)
Yeah, building a bit of a nestegg helps, but I think I share your concerns on work security. And I think you're right to worry. If you walk out of every failed interview assuming they just weren't a fit for you, you run the risk of arrogance and never properly tuning yourself to the industry and its opportunities. 100%

BUT All of an individual's interviews are a terrible sample from which to draw any inferences about the industry and your place in it. Successful interviews give a signal. Failed/Not-followed-up-on interviews give none at all. My point being, tuning and training yourself must be a separate endeavor from interviewing or you will always be in for a bad time.
I think it be a lot like airliners vs small aircraft in terms of safety.
One of the peculiarities of the US is how you guys managed to effectively bootstrap industrial districts at continental level for the weirdest meta-stuff, from newspapers to movies to corporate accounting.
That's a little one sided don't you think?

Iran's despotic leader has publicly stated that they would love to wipe Israel off the map. They're a much larger and more populous nation with massive petroleum reserves and one of the top ten largest militaries in the world by enlisted count. Israel is completely justified in seeing Iran as an existential threat.
Youthfulness Begins in Youth [pdf]
> ...suggestion that the global economy could shift towards an isolationist model...

Not at all. There's "global isolationism" and then there's outsourcing everything to the point where all that's left is the C-suite and a few supply-chain jockeys.

It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other.