skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really might want to reflect on your own biases as your last paragraph is entirely your editorial and is not present in the article at all. To the contrary she had mutual respect with her team, and was found to be justified in punching someone by higher ups, which would definitely not be the case if she was the one with an unreasonable chip on her shoulder.

Also, your suggestion about presenting analysis of "the way men think" would be an absolute minefield, not to mention inherently reductive and problematic. The insidious thing about experiencing prejudice is that it can be very difficult for a reasonable person to be sure whether it's real or whether it's in their head—by being very specific and factual she gives us more to chew on.
Looks useful. Where do you get the data from? Did you have to sanitize it somehow?
I wouldn't mind IoT that electronically diagnoses and finds the part I need to replace. Maybe notification when was is done, but thats minor. In a small house can hear beep anyway.
Some people dont have the luxury of being able to go even short periods of time without income.
Too little we know about Dick. Apart from the fact that he touched the hair of his coworker and made some personal remarks. Then when the woman asked him to stop he couldn't, he couldn't just apologize and stop because this would mean he did something wrong. So he did it again pretending it's just a fun joke.

I dont know, i'm not a woman. I dont even know how to handle some strange situations at work. But what Dick did reminds me of kids behavior -they do something annoying, for example kick the chair, and when asked to stop they will pretend they dont understand, kick one or two more times and laugh - just to check if the situation can be transformed into harmless/no consequence and they can get out without having to admit wrongdoing.

Sometimes it's a sociopath targeting a victim while pretending it's a harmless friendly joke, but quite often its just a big child..
>This article makes me wonder if we'll ever see another social network ever again.

My somewhat controversial take is that the era of social media being used as a tool to connect people is over. "Social networking" (as it's still called) will predominantly be used to connect people to brands/influencers, but it won't be used to connect people that actually know each other.

Younger people fled from Facebook, as it became increasing curated and infested with news, ads, etc.

As Facebook declined, Instagram became the primary social network to keep up with friends. Instagram surpassed Facebook's popularity, until users fled Instagram for many of the same reasons they fled Facebook. But what's different this time is that there isn't some brand new social network emerging to take up Instagram's mantle as the primary social network to connect people. Instagram's relevance has faded, and it's been replaced by nothing.

For the reasons you discussed, I don't think we'll ever see another social network reach the prominence of Instagram. Yes, TikTok exists, but it's more of a YouTube competitor, and makes no attempt to connect people, as Facebook and Instagram once did. Also there is a general cynicism around social media, which will make it challenging for new social networks to emerge.

What comes after social networking? I'd say messaging will replace social networking as the primary means to connect people over the web. Privacy is less of a concern with messaging, as users directly control who their information is shared with. Messaging has fewer of the negative psychological effects we see with social networking (eg, brigading, obsessing over likes, etc...). And perhaps most importantly, messaging enables users to avoid the algorithmic "curation" (aka advert optimizations) we see on social networking.

Discord and WhatsApp are the two most prominent examples of messaging services that could effectively replace social networks as a medium to connect people. Clubhouse itself is also a messaging app (just auditory, rather than textual). iMessage could be another huge player in the space if Apple makes the right moves.
This.

Also "modern" landfills when filled tend to be "capped" (covered in plastic) so rain doesn't leach though into the groud water. If they have a bottom liner, these landfills are like the worlds largest plastic bags.

To prevent methane building inside the capped landfill, pipes are run and the gas is collected and sometimes "flared" [1]

Having dug into some old old landfills, it was like a time machine of 25+ year old stuff. nothing seems to rot well inside them (no water). papers readable. We found a glass bottle of what appeared to be grape soda.

[1]https://www.epa.gov/lmop/basic-information-about-landfill-ga...
“No fillers”

Go for the real thing - tacos. Forget burritos. They’re universally subpar.
> I just want to pull something into my project

My experimentation mostly lives here: https://github.com/kybernetikos/wherewords/tree/main/lib/wor...

If you're coding in JS, I'd use https://www.npmjs.com/package/verbal-id for 10bits, bip39 for 11 bits, and maybe my wordlist for 12 bits.
For me, the extent of it only became clear after I (finally) started using uBlock origin (instead of only anti-tracking like Ghostery). Suddenly the in-store ads during grocery shopping actually felt like the manipulation attempts that they are (and not just like more of the usual).

I don't know if "give FF + uBO a try for a couple of months" works as advice to make people come around (I mean, "no more ads" should be pretty convincing in itself?)... But if it works, it may be a good first step to encouraging more privacy-oriented behavior?
No, the plus code system is purely grid based.
There's a bit of survivorship bias going on here though. The only appliances still working from more than (X number of years) ago are going to by definition be those that were built to last for more than (X number of years).

So your only reference point is seeing that all the older appliances seem to be built to last. You'd need to do research on all the options that haven't lasted to today to find out if modern stuff really does break faster, and that's much harder to do.
There is a very large percentage of the population that does not have access to a farmers market... often times they don’t even have access to full service grocery stores that have fresh fruits and vegetables at all.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5063235/
I was asked to implement something like this at a web startup years ago (since folded): I was supposed to juice the number of active users in the last month by a large random number in the range of 50,000-100,000 or so. I refused saying I didn't want to lie to our customers. My boss said, "it's not for them, it's for the board". Which, needless to say, was even more reason to refuse.

They assigned it to another engineer. The new "feature" was deployed.

He forgot to round the random number. So let's just say the home page reported the number of active users with very fine precision.

Unfortunately it was quickly fixed.
Only if there is no propulsion and whatever goes through the tunnel exclusively relies on gravity.
Ok I forgot about the money printing, which may or may not stop after Covid. But I think people buy BTC as an alternativ to gold, not because of some banking narrative. The question is still what would be actually good investments. Maybe everything will crash when the money printing stops, but then some things will crash harder than others. Gold will probably remain gold.
I am going through this right now in a project. A lot of configurations break the database model and can't be really modeled by the database so you end up doing a lot in code which is way slower. Seems we need a type of database that can support these super-flexible customizable data models better. Maybe something where the data model and stored procedures written in a language like C#, Java or JS are understood by the database and optimized.
I'm not an expert in the area but I listen to experts like John Leonard, Rodney Brooks, and Missy Cummings who don't have a vested interest and I draw conclusions.

Trust me. I'd love to have FSD--although it's not without its problems--but I just don't see it in the near future whatever delusional software developers may think.

I know why companies like Uber presented themselves as they did. I'm genuinely curious whether Waymo thought they were closer than they were, drank too much of their own Kool-aid, or just lied.
it's hard for me to feel too bad for the industry

It's important to understand the causal direction here. As the industry took hit after hit while the internet gained dominance, media outlet like Fox News pioneered highly opinionated reporting & commentary, and it worked. Viewers & readers were more attracted to content that raised an emotional response. There's blame to put on the industry, but I can't separate that from the how the internet changed the economics of news media & how that mixed with human nature.

Incidentally, if you're looking for a good source of non-opinionated reporting, Reuters is probably one of the best. It tends to be more straightforward factual reporting, and I can't find any media ratings that place it outside the center/minimal-bias zone.
> This is quite an exaggeration, if not actually an outright lie

Or alternately, poor editing? Without the "So", the "software" sentence binds to the previous paragraph, becoming about apps and enterprise software. And the Ericsson sentence binds to the hardware sentence, becoming about telecom hardware manufacturing. Both unremarkable.
The real trick will be to make sure that the AI negotiating on your behalf is really your advocate and has not somehow been subverted (by any variety of means).
https://support.siasky.net/key-concepts/faqs#how-long-does-d...

Uploading files to Skynet is free, but without a user account, most portals will store your files for a minimum of 3 months.
Storage expenses are paid by Skynet Portals, which use a cryptocurrency called Siacoin on the Sia network.
Portal operating costs are paid by operators, but we encourage users to support portal operators, developers, and content creators by signing up for a user account.

Like many crypto currencies the current operation is heavily funded by subsidy from minted coins.
“Programmers At Work” panel, 1987
In 1986, Susan Lammers of Microsoft Press published “Programmers at Work”, an entertaining collection of interviews with nineteen prominent programmers.

Among the interviewees are Andy Hertzfield (Macintosh Operating System), John Warnock (Postscript) and C. Wayne Ratcliff (dBASE).
Yeah, but if the conversation starts with “large agribusiness is unsustainable and needs to end”, you can’t propose a solution that doesn’t feed the entire population.
Toyota’s Hydrogen-Powered Engine Sounds Pretty Damn Good
To play the devil's advocate, that would also mean keeping things inefficient on purpose to avoid job losses.

I want my taxes to be automatically by some computer without having to deal with a human that's more prone to errors. I want self-driving cars so that I don't have to deal with another human that's more prone to accidents, etc, etc. The list goes on.

I think it's inevitable that we will see some kind of UBI, otherwise there would be big revolutions when most jobs are automated to some degree.
I keep on hearing the kvetching about not being willing to pay for good journalism but where the hell can I actually find it? It comes across as pure entitlement on their part, especially since I recall the various youth targetted moral panics like rainbow parties and "pharm parties" of taking literally everything in the medical cabinets like a bowl of skittles and taking them randomly - there were not nearly enough dead bodies or hospitalizations for that level of stupidity. Let alone trivially Google research refutable claims - it is one thing to write at a third grade level, it is another to be out fact checked by third graders.
> IMO, facebook/twitter style social networks just suck.

Facebook/Twitter-style social networks were great until the point they started being "curated" (aka optimized for revenue). Once that happened, they rapidly lost their utility as a tool to actually connect people, and decayed into a medium to deliver advertisements (whether they be banner-style ads, influencers or sponsored posts).
A few months ago, I finally built my own board from scratch. I used an Arduino-alike (based on one of the bigger Atmega parts)

It was an interesting endeavour-- designing a PCB, mounting plate/casing, sending them out to be be drilled, soldering it all together, configuring QMK firmware. It's the order of something like assembling Heathkit audio gear was in the 1960s-- the finished product is on tier with a good quality commercial product, but you also get complete control over any substitutions and customizations you like.

Unfortunately, due to low economies of scale, I paid about $500 for the board.
For your list in the last paragraph - children at school or childcare. Our childcare lists any reported illnesses on the door of each age group's room. Sometimes there can be 2-3 items on a door: gastro, colds, HFMD, etc. Of course, you find out after your child has been exposed and brought it home.

Like others, we haven't had any real illnesses in over a year, as well as living in a place which hasn't really had COVID cases in many months.
Well one thing that is a difference is that receiving paging feeds was not as trivial back then as it is now.

Grab a $10 rtlsdr and free software and you're set. Back in the 90s you needed serious hardware to do this.
I follow Simon on Twitter and discovered his TIL site a few weeks ago -- it has to be one of the best things I've found on the internet in a long time. Refreshingly useful and personal, if you're reading this: thank you Simon!
A few months ago I started on an avocado-a-day diet--half at lunch, half at dinner--and shortly thereafter developed really bad heartburn. Turns out avocados are very high in fat and are known to cause heartburn if you eat too many in a short period of time. So buyer beware, avocados are only healthy in moderation!
Plastic in landfill is sequestered carbon dioxide.
Maybe we should pay Amazon drivers better. Maybe we should build public toilets.

Maybe a union...
why not this?

SELECT jsonb_column.key FROM table;
UPDATE table SET jsonb_column.key = '"value"';
Can't find a way to sort the slice ranking... what's the best slice?!
Yes it is disappointing how public health authorities have focused almost entirely on exposure prevention. There should be equal focus on harm reduction for people who do get exposed.
And roll the dice on whether you would be able to tell the court with a straight face whether you had a business reason for making all those changes and it isn't just an end run around the interoperability law, perhaps comparing your behavior to competitors who don't do that, and…
No idea why this is being downvoted. This is exactly what happens. But the virus destroys ACE2 (not the "reception because there is no ACE2 receptor. ACE2 is an enzyme).
A lot of time you don't need to identify people, you just need unique accounts. There is no fundamental need to have one identity linked on HN, reddit, Facebook.
this author also has a really good series on how to use a subset of C++ as a "better c"
There's a part in the Foundation series by Asimov where the Galactic civilization has forgotten how their technology works. They have all this amazing technology, things that generate free energy and terraform planets or whatever, and all that's left are technicians who kind of know that if you push this button that thing is supposed to happen, but they have no idea what the machine is actually doing internally or the physical principles on which it operates. When the machines break, no one is able to fix them.

I think about this a lot and the world seems more and more like this every day.
It quotes the comment you replied to two hours ago, about six comments directly up from this.
I've been able to keep my Fisher & Paykel dish drawers operating since 2004. Besides supplying parts, they also offer retrofits as they've made design improvements over the years. Ditto for a Fisher & Paykel double oven.

I'm recently annoyed by my Honda lawn mower which requires a complete transmission replacement ($220) due to a worn out key slot in the drive shaft. Annoying since the transmission itself is well built, but you can't buy just the drive shaft:

https://axleaddict.com/misc/Honda-Harmony-215-Transmission-P...

(I have an HRX217 but the transmission design is similar.)
> You could calculate the rough CO2 emissions of a 1 BTC transaction by dividing annual estimated CO2 emissions by bitcoin miners (35 million tonnes) by the number of annual transactions (100 million) which equates to about 350kg of CO2.

Even that would be misleading, because the number of transactions is a constant that has little bearing on the amount of work performed. Most of the revenue still comes from block reward, which disappears over time. Transactions fees would not support current levels of work.

If anything the cost of creating a Bitcoin has a carbon footprint, but most Bitcoins haven't been created at current prices and difficulty levels.

Given that creation of a Bitcoin is historically unique event that is certain to cease, it's not really worth losing sleep over in terms of CO2 emissions.
If there's one thing I've learned in the tech industry it's that no matter how much you think your work is worth, real estate is worth more.

We're not getting private offices any more than we're getting family homes. Both are understandable expectations given our nominal wages, but they are also gross misapprehensions of our place in the pecking order. You may be able to afford all the cars and iPhones and vacations in the world, but that will never hold a candle to land. Land owns you.
In my experience managers are extroverts. With WFH, they go batshit crazy because they can't drain energy from the "workers", hence the zoom calls, etc.

I actually like WFH, because I can focus on my work. No distractions, no interruptions. When I'm done for the day I can go and do non-work stuff.
I don’t think the data backs that up. The percentage of obese people would indicate that food not having enough calories is not the issue.
> I also thought about implementing a kind of overlay filesystem, where chunks that are written to the file are stored in a local storage so the modified data is available locally while still reading everything else from the remote database.

If ever the intent were to involve eventually persisting those changes, then it would be worthwhile looking at remoteStorage, which works like this.
The sneaky tactics in video games
Lol you have never been to Barcelona I gather. Pickpocketing is a huge business here. I say business because Spanish law doesn't allow to prosecute them (only fines for thefts up to €400) so lots of scumbags basically make it their job.

When my wallet was pickpocketed I searched the bins in the nearby metro stations and found 6 wallets with ID cards etc and many phone cases (a stolen phone is much less identifiable without its case). Sadly I never found mine. I live here so I'm used to it but even then they can catch you off-guard.
Isnt most of their profit cloud services to businesses?
Very clever! Keep in mind this is a read-only dataset with the really clever bit being the ability to scan through the dataset and support sqlite query syntax.
Zinc deficiency and cellular oxidative stress: prognostic implications in cardiovascular diseases
https://www.nature.com/articles/aps201825
Supplementing zinc can reduce the risk of atherosclerosis and protect against myocardial infarction and ischemia/reperfusion injury.
Sad as it may be, I think it is foolish to resist the commodification of technology. I've disassembled my broken washing machine and found I can find a replacement for most constituant parts. How would you event improve on such a thing, why would you want to do that? I think we better embrace this evolution and move ahead with the right-to-repair legislation.
Right now I just have a link to a review I ended up at off of the Wirecutter: https://www.reviewed.com/dishwashers/best-right-now/the-best...

(I've been meaning to get one since the beginning of this year but cashflow has been pretty tight, so it keeps slipping.)
Aaaaand it's a crypto scheme. It always has to be crypto schemes.
I don’t know... there would be a lot of bad apis you could point to in the world.
I have dinner plates that are larger than the phased array under the nose cone/radome of the C-130 Hercules or the 737.

Phased arrays can be very small.
Look at webkit.org and tell me if you see evidence that apple isn’t working on it.
How about this, from the Portland, Oregon police dept .gov domain: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/81203

January 2019, 32 shootings
January 2020, 50 shootings
January 2021, 104 shootings

Lots of restless gang-bangers in Portland.

It doesn't help that Portland de-funded the gang enforcement team a while ago. It also doesn't help that some are agitating to abolish the police entirely.

Now Portland is making a big deal of getting FBI and state help to deal with this growing problem.

Yes, it's an anecdote, but you can find many similar anecdotes from all around the country.
Not a mathematician but every use of the term algebra I have seen has some way related back to what I learned in grade school about sets of real numbers, operations, properties, and how to solve equations. It's the same thing with linear algebra, they just put restrictions on the kinds of equations to solve. Then more ... abstract there is abstract algebra that goes beyond real numbers and looks at other kinds of sets & operations and classifies them as fields, rings, and more. I wonder if there are examples of the term "algebra" that are unrelated to this. If not that might be one difference between algebra and "a calculus" which as you said seems to refer to any system for formal calculation/reasoning.
There must be a bitcoin equivalent to Godwins Law.

as an online discussion around cybercrime grows longer, the probability of someone blaming bitcoin increases.
> extreme, tech-focused, affluent, bourgeois-as-fuck description that implies.

Which is a highly desirable niche for many people.
Just What Is Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus?
The people who are buying them are absolutely buying them as a status symbol, so that appears to be working.
Do you mind my asking what survey data this is? I would like it to be true, but my everyday experiences with people continually suggests otherwise. You just have to look at the example you give, Facebook, to see how much data people willingly put online in the public domain. This isn't because they wish they could share privately with a small number of people and have had to compromise - it's because they relish the act of publishing to a virtually infinite audience.
If I were a Swedish-Russian money launderer I would never set foot in the US. Why not stay in Sweden.
I say that presents market opportunities. Every piece of technology faces a time of obsolescence.

If the original source no longer exists and rebuilding is no longer possible then replacing dependencies is no longer feasible without manual intervention to mitigate problems. ABIs and APIs are not as stable as you'd think.
This was fascinating:

“ Indeed, ominous for Einstein to predict that the leadership of civilization would pass to America and ultimately Asia. Einstein‘s admiration for the United States appears to have begun in 1921, when he visited New York City for the first time. As he then wrote in an essay entitled ‘My First Impression of the U.S.A.’, he was surprised to find that “What strikes a visitor is the joyous, positive attitude to life […] ”
I had no idea! Here’s a 1997 article on the ban being lifted:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-02-01-fi-24310-...