skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Industrial processes that keep animals in unnatural conditions throughout their lives (and cause them suffering), has troubled me more and more: there doesn't seem to be much room for respect there.
Also, they release new versions of books all the time and force their use in classes, making it impossible to use 2nd hand textbooks in a lot of cases.
*I mean, come on. How of ten do fundamental physics change...
Pearson is a company that should not exist.
Here are the “copyright owners” as displayed to the pianist in YouTube’s interface:

- APRA_CS

- ECAD_CS

- SOCAN

- VCPMC_CS
Swift means writing new gi bindings. Decent chunk of work.
Not FUD. I'm farming Chia myself but it looks pretty hopeless so just giving my honest review that no-one should expect to win any reward anytime soon without betting big on hardware.

Regarding the calculation and estimation: "Actual results may take 3 to 4 times longer than this estimate."

So 10 months to 3 years to win one single block which will give you 2 XCH. Considering the total network space rising at the rate we're seeing I think we should review this calculation again in a week.
I’ve opened a Macbook. It would be irresponsible to recommend someone attempt to do this unless they somewhat experienced. There is a reason why iFixit gives most newer Macbook Pros a 1/10 repairability, and it is not an anti-Apple conspiracy; they’re tricky devices.
That's apparently your first comment on HN. Please read the guidelines–your comment breaks quite a few.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html the "In Comments" part.
This is something to worry about when macOS is no longer supported after a few years. Today I can put Linux on a 10yo Mac to be secure. No current viable solution for M1 Mac.
Gaming the YouTube Copyright System
I've worked in any number of crappy labouring type jobs and the main difference between 'bearable' and 'fuck this' was most often bosses who believed in constantly giving everyone the hurry-up. Going at your own pace feels like a superpower when you're not used to it.

Being tired at the end of the day was pretty normal for most of the labouring jobs I've had, but it mostly felt like a simple exchange, my effort for money to live. Varying levels of sucky conditions were part of the weighing up against rate of pay. Overtime was just another weighing up, inconvenience of the extra hours or weirdly timed shift against higher pay.

Those simple calculations didn't usually seem unfair, until some jerk tried to get free money for himself or the company by pushing everyone to do more than they felt comfortable. Not only because of physical discomfort, but the underlying stress of always being pressured. It's totally understandable why bosses think thats a good idea, while at the same time I hate it like poison.

Obviously that problem is not restricted to manual labour, but I guess it is the one of the most easily replaceable resources, and you don't have much leverage, so it shows up often there.
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If you're just looking for the algorithms, there's always this C# port (from 7 years ago): https://github.com/angellaa/algs4

Interestingly, the README includes an e-mail exchange with Kevin, who noted the code is GPL
Health, plain and simple.
In fact I almost eat no plant foods.
I also love the taste of meat. Do you eat dairy and eggs (and products that contain them), and do you care about whether the animals involved had a good life? My concern is that something as innocuous as, say, a croissant, may contain ingredients that were produced using processes that promote animal suffering, but that I don't think about it because I am so far removed from it.
The only way it would be remotely libertarian would be if you upended the entire tax system and replaced it with Single Tax system aka Geo-Libertarianism...

But that is not in the cards, and no one is proposing that, they want to ADD these externality based taxation ON TOP of the tax on productivity
I'd presume that heavy usage of personal accounts on company time would have already been frowned upon purely for productivity reasons.
What’s the best native Emacs client for M1 Macs?
The founder’s egomania and the customer name list. I’m not going to give a company run by people stupid enough to put a bullet in the head if their own startup, any money.
By breaking after it got there, I'd guess. It did load for me after a long pause.
Unfortunately this is a polarizing question.

Perhaps readers might consider answering some less polarizing questions that help the author to get more relevant data:

1. Do you see eating vegetables as important for your diet?

2. Do you feel it’s important to care for animals? How would you best care for animals raised for food?

3. Would you consider eating less meat products if it benefitted society to do so?

4. Would you consider eating more vegetables if it benefitted society to do so?

5. Do you fear that vegetable protein alone is insufficient nutritionally?

6. If it were healthier to eat a diet of primarily vegetables and whole grains with less animal products, would you consider trying such a diet?

And so on...

My opinion: Animal products are deeply intertwined with human culture. The path to less animal suffering and more vegetable consumption is most likely one of reduction in meat eating as opposed to elimination.

Factory farms and slaughterhouses exist because of demand. If we all just worked toward less meat consumption—all 10 billion of us-we could probably make life better for humans and for all animals-not just those raised for food. It’s worth a try.
I burned out hard during quarantine and developed both sudden onset tinnitus and a migraine for the first time in my life. The migraine was with a visual aura and was terrifying and debilitating. I was so sure I was having a stroke. I saw a neurologist and a psychiatrist just like the author. Nothing. It was all a “stress-induced” episode. No fancy label, no satisfying diagnosis. And the symptoms have persisted here and there since. I have constant tinnitus and my brain feels different since then. I can’t think or focus as well. It sucks. And for the record, no, I didn’t get COVID (this is asked regularly when I describe my experience, especially after describing what sounds like brain fog).

I’m still not doing well. Just like the author, I’m not “better”. I’m barely hanging in.

I’ve heard numerous similar stories. Stress can do horrible things to the body. Almost everyone I’m close with has shared some kind of anxiety-induced medical something or another story with me. Last year was rough for society as a whole.
> When 8 phases of elections were allowed and the opposition asked for shorter elections, the BJP was the one who objected.

The 2011 elections were held in 6 phases.[1]

The 2016 elections were held in 6-7 phases.[2]

Why should it be any different this year?

If everyone was so concerned about the pandemic, they should have requested that president's rule be declared in Bengal till the pandemic is over.

Every Indian knows how violent Bengal elections generally are[3] and how voters are intimidated. Hundreds of BJP political workers have been terrorized and murdered in Bengal over the last few years.[4]

When it comes to the Bengal elections, COVID is just an excuse. Shorter elections with reduced security is a nice way to murder democracy.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_West_Bengal_Legislative_A...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_West_Bengal_Legislative_A...

3. https://www.thequint.com/news/politics/polling-advances-in-b...

> Taking advantage of this slackness, some state police personnel and TMC supporters became active in pressuring rural voters and taking recourse to unfair means. The most serious incident of TMC intimidation occurred in Shalboni’s Adharnayan villages where about 100-150 ruling party activists attacked some journalists and the CPI(M) candidate Shaymsundar Pande.

> According to reports, the TMC goons beat up Pande and the media persons, snatched away the camera of one news channel, damaged vehicles and tried to set fire to a few parked vehicles. The reports alleged that CPMF jawans stood by without taking action against the TMC cadres. Despite repeated appeals to rescue the journalists, the jawans did not move.

> Additional reports suggested that in Nayagram area under West Medinipur constituency TMC workers threatened villagers with dire consequences if they dared to leave their homes to cast their vote. The villagers complained that since they were BJP supporters they were ordered by the TMC workers and state police personnel not to leave their homes. The BJP candidate there was also similarly threatened by them. In Taldangra, Bankura, a state police assistant sub-inspector was seen taking bribes inside a polling booth.

4. https://indianexpress.com/article/india/amit-shah-in-west-be...
Can you do a write up on the lower level algorithms like place and route, circuit constraints solving optimization, the process from the netlist stage to autorouting? The engineering behind VHDL and Verilog systems are way too opaque for most software engineers.
All I could think of while reading this is Amazon packers not wanting to pee because it will "affect their numbers."
So an auditory hallucination?
> which is kind of bad, because now the support team must log-in with a Google account to YouTube in order to see the harmless but useful video.

Not only this, but in the EU* it requires verifying your age with a credit card or ID photo: https://i.imgur.com/gP20dXi.png
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I have a feeling that the wide spectrum of different ways to mitigate CPU bugs will slow down the demand for a new "slow and steady" CPU architecture. Linux already comes with a feature to wipe the L1 cache on every context switch -- simply enabling this option will compete with brand new architectures for a while.

A major advantage of not adopting new CPU designs for a while is that you get to keep insecure-but-fast and secure-but-slow behavior in the same CPU by simply tweaking mitigations.
> "Not only that but, really distressingly, the funds that come in from paid ransoms fund other forms of organised crime, like human trafficking and child exploitation."

Not really. Those things either fund themselves or their divisions get shut down within the criminal organization. Paid ransoms mostly fund luxury sports cars and vacation homes.

Source: I'm a Russian mob boss and ransomware is highly segmented from the rest of my rackets.
Kevin Wayne is one of the co-authors of the book, but the copyright listing is "Copyright 2011 Pearson Education, Inc." and there does not appear to be anything in the book that says that the code is GPL licensed.

Presumably Kevin Wayne was given the right to license the code as GPL, but that fact didn't get included in the text of the book, and the f*cking, stupid copyright bot Pearson uses didn't get the memo.
Mentioning the falling asleep part reminds me of a few cases myself. I have trouble sleeping myself and when I fall asleep very slowly I've noticed similar 'illusions'. flashes of light, voices, fractal patterns, a conscious state while dreaming and the very rare loud noise that comes from nowhere. Usually the noise doesn't prevent me from finally falling asleep. I've always wondered how many people experience these effects.

>Despite the name, the sufferer's head does not actually explode.

Oh good, now I can sleep at night again
Step 1. Good SNR
Step 2. 1000 tiny details
Step 3. Profit!

Thanks for the advice!
Alphabet gets paid either way.
It ought to.
> buying HDDs to plot chia will be unprofitable

hopefully it will not be caused by Chia being successful and causing increase in HDD prices
Most companies do actually evaluate their vendors. Basecamp built a brand on “management” and just proved they’re maybe the worst in the industry at it. Only on HN are people supporting them. It’s a dead company walking.
Java library to manage search and filter query from user to database
The Sleeping Beauty Paradox
This.

Wondering how we're going to remember the times before proper capability based security systems go mainstream...
Bluecheck Twitter we’re the only people using Basecamp in the first place. They just destroyed their core market.
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I have also worked physically demanding jobs but none of them phatigued me like writing software for eight hours.
This is irrelevant to the thread. ReCAPTCHA isn't a privacy invasion at all for this use case.
More sweeping isn't going to solve the problem.

https://ericalexander.org/post/devops-and-ransomware/

I maintain an open dataset on breaches:
https://ericalexander.org/SecurityBreach/#/

What does the data suggest? It suggests ransomware is criminal entities who've adopted APT tactics and tooling.

Those tactics and tooling depend on active directory, along with bad domain admin practices. Get to zero domain admins and most ransomware tools and tactics won't work.

Granted, they'll evolve. The bigger problem is a false sense of safety. Force ruggedization through cyber insurance policies that require bug bounty participation, where it's fair game to phish, and probe all perimeter systems.
You can’t live without shelter or medical care.
APRA is Australia & NZ, ECAD is Brazil, SOCAN is Canada, VCPMC is Vietnam.

APRA: Australasian Performing Right Association

ECAD: Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição

SOCAN: Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada

VCPMC: Vietnam Center for Protection of Music Copyright
it makes it worse that its a hamfisted, soulless rendition. perhaps Mx Molland has other superior tracks but this one is particularly egregious.
But is burnout the same as severe PTSD? I guess I've never thought of it this way, but I can see how that might actually be the case - certainly I've burned out and it affected me for a long time. I just never have heard it this severe.

The U.S. healthcare system does indeed suck, at least from an outsiders perspective. I live in a country that doesn't have such an awful system. I feel very lucky!
I think you might be referring to something like Ecocentrism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocentrism), as opposed to Anthropocentrism which centers around humans.
I'm experimenting with Ktor and Kotlin. Ktor seems really well featured with baked in co-routines based concurrency and Kotlin feels a far more sophisticated and productive as a server side language than Go or Python.
I wonder how random that sort of thing is. I mean if the brain needs to make you pay attention because you’re overworked / burnt out, what better way than to fake a bass string sound?

That would totally freak me out.
Related is this: sometimes you have been using a piece of software for such a long time you can no longer judge whether the user-interface (UI) is any good. You've simply mastered the steps (and keyboard shortcuts) needed to accomplish a task and it now feels "natural", no matter how clunky or clumsy the steps remain.

And there's also a widespread belief among developers that making a task easier in the UI means "dumbing down" the UI. Or that making software easier to use means it could never satisfy "power users".

Developers love to revel in arcane interface minutiae (especially for command-line tools). They think it's equal to acquiring a skill or knowledge. But it's not really. Instead, it is the perpetration of a clumsy method to completing a task. But now that the developer has mastered that method (and that feeling of "knowledge" gained as a consequence), they won't easily let go. Or be easily persuaded of a different method.
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I love those blender tutorial videos, were they dont even bother to tell you were in the menue the button is for something, and instead go "press key x y z" - though 2.8 has greatly improved the whole affair.

This should in theory allow for a complete redesign of the gui though, as the core audience uses shortkeys anyway.
> The same people who tout the virtues of being well-read skip right past the Bible, the most popular book in human history.

Who's doing that? You wouldn't be able to understand half of what you read. Did the author just make up someone to score points on?
Show HN: Truly making 2021 the year of the Linux Desktop
Would be nice to be able to declare

"Use this size image when the img is being rendered at x size/width/height", size could depend on css, width/height properties, or just imposed by a parent element.

Choosing an image size based on the size of the entire screen is a hack that we've just accepted because we don't have a more precise tool.

Yes, you can technically achieve it with JS, but that's a crutch, and less helpful for page load.
Holi-what? People on the path to burnout are usually the ones trying to push away time off. 'I'll rest when this is finished' - narrator: it never ended, the exceptional became nominal...
Tape still has big advantages over other mediums: it's relatively cheap in terms of price/Gb, it's a lot less complex than hard drives, and a lot more recoverable than SSDs.

On the other side, it has minute-long seek times since the tape needs to be rewonund/ff (that's an eternity compared to already-deprecated milisecond-long HDD seek times) and it's not suitable for many write cycles (some tapes are even sold as WORM (write once read many), same as the old CD-R drives)
ISP lobby groups sue New York over the law conflicting with a FCC decision
It can't simply be short sighted hubris since the value of the speed of light as a constant derives from Maxwell's equations, and the relationship between mass, energy and the speed of light come from relativity, and that's a lot of science to have been wrong about all along.

If FTL is possible, it's possible in a universe that has all of the properties of one in which it is impossible, where the math which most accurately describes it says it's impossible, where all of our experiments validate it to be impossible, and all of our technology that depends on those models (such as GPS satellites, which have to take relativistic time dilation into account to remain synchronized) still works. That doesn't seem likely.

Also, there's the matter of the Fermi Paradox. The lack of any evidence of widespread interstellar colonization suggests that FTL isn't possible.
> So explicitly pay more for certain people on a race/gender basis? ...

Literally no one said this.

Please try to stay in the actual conversation–it makes for a much healthier discussion.
I get the sentiment and it’s appealing to just pick something and go with it. I work with people that constantly churn on frameworks. They pick one and the first semi-difficult roadblock and they’re changing things up. To balence that out though. Picking something involves a significant investment and a long term commitment. That advice wouldn’t sound as good if you said,”Don’t worry about who you marry. Just pick one and go with it and make things work”
The book "Electronic Design automation" by Wang, Chang, and Cheng is quite approachable.

The reason why they are opqaue is partly because the problem is hard, and secondly because the developers of the code make money directly off the tools (like compilers were in the past)
I think it very much depends on the specific programming job, but I can't think of many roles I've come across where, if I were in charge of programming hires, I'd be happy with somebody who wasn't even aware of the concept of modulo. And I consider myself FAR from a math nerd.
Because science is based on observation. Even though we initially won't understand how their technology works we will know more about what is possible. This information will allow us to ask better questions and over time learn more about our universe.

I used to work as a developer in the point of sale industry. We needed to print small 1/2 inch labels from an Epson impact printer. At first I didn't think it was possible but then saw one of our competitors were already printing them. Seeing it happen not only told me it was possible but gave me clues how to do it.
What do you mean by loosely? Whenever I hear a car horn, they always sounds very similar.
I recently read an interview with one of the website creators and it was fascinating: the basic premise is to reason about physics from the perspective of what is impossible/fixed.

The example given in the interview was relativity, which arose when Einstein asked the simple questions “what if c IS fixed?” (it was an open question at the time) and “what if only light can travel at c?”

Mathematical treatment of those questions led to SR and SR led (eventually) to GR.

It’s an intriguing approach: posit a fixed limit or impossibility and see where the math takes us (inventing/applying new math as necessary). Some avenues will be useless, others may be fruitful.
In this case, a solution is to match against obviously known public domain first, and failing that, check copyright claims. I’d imagine google has or can quickly build the necessary db of all public domain music, starting with music from 100+ years ago. Also identify copyright claims that conflict with that db ahead of time.
> There is something very draining about 'menial' physical labor.

That can be true, depending on the context.

But there's something about doing physical tasks that is satisfying and dignified. I used to bus tables when I first started working. It was certainly menial and low status, but there was camaraderie with others doing that job or similar ones. It felt good to do something real. And although it was physically exhausting to come home at 2am smelling of restaurant, it was easy to have a hard sleep and a total reset the next day.

What is far more draining and harmful is menial cognitive labor without tangible meaning, working under arbitrary rules and oppressive oversight. Even if it's "easy" it can lead to burnout, to feeling that you don't matter or are invisible and replaceable like a commodity. These effects persist and last, there's no waking up in the morning and feeling a sense of "reset". I think some people just get crushed by this. I do. Others seem to thrive if they can find a headspace where they can do that job while being mentally checked-out.
Thanks for this. Loved it!
I forgot: go to https://letsencrypt.org/ to learn how to get a (free) certificate so you can do https.

You might be thinking that you don’t want to learn about all of that just to host some videos, and that’s reasonable. But there is a tradeoff. Either let someone else control your content and live under the threat of arbitrary takedowns, or learn what you need to control your own stuff.

If you get popular you will have to deal with bandwidth issues, because video is huge. That’s one reason even people who are capable of hosting on their own turn to platforms like YouTube.

You can look into Vimeo. For some reason it's not mentioned often as an alternative to YouTube, but it seems to be better in almost every way.
"Most people don't realize that they're also being manipulated by this data"

What would you say to such people?

I was trying to explain that to my friend with no success. "They cannot manipulate me that much. I do not care. I turn it off and decide by myself "- I heard in responce.
Just getting back into Android dev myself. Rapid workflow stack: Jetpack Compose / Kotlin, Material Design UI kits and Stripe / Firebase Cloud Functions. The emphasis on being able to go from idea to release in the shortest time frame. Target being Fast Mobile Commerce

https://github.com/android/compose-samples

https://material.io/resources

https://firebase.google.com/docs/use-cases/payments

Other than that I'm excited about next-gen low latency audio library Oboe and real-time physically based renderer Filament

https://github.com/google/oboe/tree/master/samples

https://github.com/google/filament/tree/main/samples

Best of Luck ;)
Random bold text and over use of emoji is not my kind of thing.