skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents house was part of a national radon survey in Ireland back in the 90's I think. I had a small little black monitor/'counter' in my bedroom for maybe a year (I'm a bit fuzzy on the details). Anyway, they sent us the results when the experiment ended and we sent the device back.

The results were quite bad I seem to recall (I may be mis-remembering according to [0])
Our house was in rural Cork and was build by my parents in the 80's.

My father died from lung cancer but he was a heavy smoker; my mother smokes very occasionally and she's fine.

However, my aunt, who lived next door, maintained a very healthy lifestyle and also died of lung cancer; her husband is also fine.

[0] https://www.epa.ie/radiation/radonmap/
This "way more to life" consists of driving way farther?
I think at the current rates of production were still looking at another, what, 36 months to fully vaccinate the world?
2nd sentence in the article:

>“I can’t guarantee you that that policy has never been violated,”

4th sentence in the article:

>identifying one case in which an employee used the access to improve sales.

So only violated once...
I use it like a graph connected Rolodex. I recently joined a temporary work group with people from multiple orgs who I don’t know. I used LinkedIn to both learn about them but also to include in background notes to collect together all the various profiles to save time when meeting and doing intros since people don’t need to spend as much time saying their papers, where they studied, etc.

That’s about it, but still kind of useful.
I few like there has been a lot of attempts at this; the semantic web, html5 semantic tags (article, header, ...), stuff like robots.txt. Developers really like to generalise.

Getting everyone to cooperate is the hard part.
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Are 1st-party accessories ever the cheapest option, for any brand?
> His calm live and routines granted him a superior lifespan.

That's just conjecture on your part. Some people are lucky, others are not, it's not always due to behavior. 3 cigarettes a day is also extremely low - the average is apparently 14[1] right now.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p0118-smoking-rates-...
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my dad died from lung cancer. He smoked his whole life. His MRI's looked pretty good. So this is interesting. Makes sense. Poison, radiation.
Okta is breaking way too much
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First reality check?
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The same reasons lie behind why we also tend to ignore many external costs.
This will sound very stupid or like a joke, but I'm not joking: Maybe if you play (almost) exclusively games with permadeath, where the consequences of dying are bigger, could at least hard-wire some kind of survival instinct in your head in case you get lost in this surreal feeling? In the worst case scenario you played some good games.
The business does however care about the marginal cost of delivering new feature improvements.

https://youtu.be/TQ9rng6YFeY
> other chains can do >4,000 TPS on layer 1

read: other chains are centralized databases that have no business being blockchains in the first place and can be replaced by single mysql instance.

the trick is not to have high TPS, bitcoin could have unlimited TPS too, it's just a single line of code change. the trick is to have a decentralized system that functions at saturation on commodity hardware.

the conservative minds prevailed during scaling debate in 2015-2017, creating selection pressure for scaling solutions that optimize limited resource - chain space, rather than populist simplistic "solutions" pushed by cheap propaganda slogans like "we can do this much TPS!".
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Ah yes, you're totally right, when I think about this in terms of i.e. Prometheus vs Graphite instead of query engines then it makes much more sense.

Thanks!
If libfoobar-1.0.4 is not a drop-in upgrade for libfoobar-1.0.3 then it should have a different SONAME, which would allow distributions to package both of them.
All 3 beverages caffeinated, of course... Wonder how that affects interpersonal transactions. Anybody on edge and slightly ahead of themselves? Everybody?

Just want to recommend L-Theanine to smooth the jagged edges. Men and women both ought to notch it back as far as I can tell.

EDIT: I thought it might be pertinent, but clearly the battle of the sexes is more interesting to all of you. Grow up.
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I’d like to see which of my organization’s projects are currently failing their GHA build. Does anybody know how I can do this without clicking in to every single project?

Edit: I know this is sort of off topic, but it’s similar to being able to see the build status from the favicon.
That varies substantially by region.

In my area, Amazon's logistics is the least likely to be on time. I've gotten many free months of Prime from delayed packages.
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> A consumer can offload all of the risk to the bank

There is a pattern/trend, and the banks started with a certain amount and now lowered it. If the trend carries on, it's a matter of time before what you suggest is no longer possible.
I did the NY Times crossword for several years, and got to the point that it was pretty easy. The key is that all of their junk fill words come from the same bank of words and clues. Sometimes you'd see the same clue three out of five days.

You combine that with the Jeopardy-level trivia clues, that are hard if you aren't familiar at all but obvious if you are, and that just leaves the gimmick.

Usually the gimmick isn't that tricky, if you get one, and can see the pattern. Except the damned rebuses. Those are always hard because they feel like they are breaking the rules.
In the face of people willing to come talk to them directly about it? Fairly hard.
Probably since a lot of us spent the middle parts of our career watching our democratic institutions get dismantled in front of us using the tools we built early in our careers.
My father also died last year from lung cancer and never smoked in his life.
I once met P&W military engine designer (he was an expert on heat issues with turbines) who explained to me that fancy machines like this would never work. They will not fly reliably in anything but clear air (no precip). Although he was a turbine guy, he said propellers for low-speed aircraft are simple and just work.
Three Wide-Spread Product Owner Failures in 6:09 Minutes
Unfortunately smoking doesn’t really do that either. I’d say it has close to no benefits from a day to day cognitive perspective anecdotally. I think it’s the same for coffee.

Great for socialising though . Smokers have more fun at parties since you end up chatting to other smokers whilst outside in sub zero weather sucking on your death stick.

And damn do I miss a cig after dinner
> The price would regulate itself by offer/demand balance and you would still be able to buy it if you can afford it.

No, not really. I shopped around. I picked the best for me. I want to buy from that company but it is already at your 10% limit.

What then? Can I actually buy what I want?
Yes, but that destroys cached and local data and isn’t compatible with built in apps using the same package name.
It's not an anagram, it was portmanteau (in this case, but other wordplay is seen too).

Also, folks in the thread are ignoring Henry Hook, a famous UK constructor who used plenty of "non-standard" wordplay.
Also, talking about leadership is way harder than actually leading.
Right, but there's a self-correction here, which is that Accenture gets fired if they do a bad job. The govt has a monopoly and so there's little self-correction - too many layers of indirection between the everyday voter and Amazon's outcome.
Not sure what an accouting trick is, but it might be interesting to note that Bitcoin right now averages 1.4MB blocks.

Would 2MB be preferable? Would it be useful? Just the same magnitude of transactions that visa settles would require slightly above 500MB sized blocks, and that's without any more sophisticated transactions such as atomic swaps, which could potentially be useful.
It'll be interesting to see if they'll have the same end game as the others: being too large they'll need bots for bad customer support, which translates into businesses trying to correct some problem after being flagged due to some odd event, all while not being liable for the losses caused.
In a competitive market, when you outsource, you get immediate costs savings

Isn't that just a different phrasing of what the article means by "in the longer term, [shareholders] are not strategically interested in the company, because if the company doesn’t do well, they will invest in another company. And so a lot of this stuff is actually driven by shareholders and consultancies"? Or are you arguing that it is competition that drives outsourcing, not public ownership?

the R&D for big tech projects simply cannot happen without external intervention or external funding

I think you may have a point there: the KPN Neherlab mentioned in the article never was KPN's. It was part of PTT, the Dutch national post & telecommunications service. PTT was rebranded KPN when it was privatized, and KPN subsequently closed the Neherlab.
That would only be with enterprise class SSDs. I’ve been plotting on both consumer and enterprise and the former’s lifespan won’t be more than 3-4 months.
Don't forget asbestos, which despite all the hubbub never got banned. It's used in all kinds of stuff and just one or two microfibers of it in your lungs and your fate of a slow painful death is sealed.
I suggest you have a read what projection means in psychology and why would he criticise Bolsheviks while supporting Soviet Union. Classic behaviour.
The faster it gets solved in the first market the faster it gets solved in the last, so the point stands.
As far as I can tell, just as often. No, I don't have the same expectations, but that is more than reasonable considering Amazon has an easier job (every seller already has there product in an Amazon warehouse, as is the USPS has an additional processing step).
You're absolutely right. They can be.

With that critical truth that you've touched on said... American civilian resident-facing government services tend to be organized and run with all the strong incentives being to make it good for everyone but the residents. Usually the workforce has a strong union and management has their goals, but us users have no strong force to exert except distant oversight in the form of Congress.

Some organizations escape this. Others do so partially at best. Most do not. State DMVs are notorious pits of utter misery, and this is generally an honest reflection of experience.

You can report a passport lost online, but you have to file a DS-11 in black ink at a post office to request a new one. This process can be easy or hard unpredictably, depending mainly on how nice the postal worker feels that day. There are few to no organizational incentives towards better customer service.

Why black ink? Because the State Department says so. And they don't have to care what you think.
> easily fixed by ucode update and kernel fix

Those microcode updates and kernel fixes are anything but easy. They are anything but lightweight. Context switching overhead is a huge contributor to lag and general inefficiency in interactive systems. Every kind of Spectre mitigation increases that overhead. Every further mitigation wrecks more of the performance advantages that caches have historically provided.

From a performance, power consumption and efficiency perspective, Spectre is a disaster. Mitigations just move the problem from a security and privacy one to an efficiency and performance one.
I didn't do wires with Schwab but I'll trust it's cheaper than your average bank when it comes to conversion rates. (They do refund ATM withdrawal fees for international ATMs)
That one gave me a giggle too - perhaps the author got told off for useless uses of cat too many times?
Focus on “What is is a high value question that’s not getting asked?” Questions matter more than answers and if you ask clear ones it can help people understand things.
And of course, the devs often care about using new tech since it improves both their current enjoyment of the job and (often) their future job prospects
Disgusting pop-ups are a side effect that help to demonstrate the problem. That's not the fault of GDPR. That's the fault of companies that (think they) are outside of the jurisdiction of GDPR.
The ideas here are: pay close attention to your user's actual experience with your product; nuanced experience fixes can have big collateral benefits; there's a way to do that in the context of everything else. All good, from my perspective.

The caveat is that the author in this case is not that different from his users, who are other devs. He gets their experiences. The magic trick for dev is putting yourself in your user's experience when they really don't think like you. Non technical, kids, accountants, whatever. You really have to drop your assumptions and forget your investments and just see things the way they do. Empathy rules, but I feel it is hard to codify that as a skill. There's a big leap before tiny wins.

EDIT- to add, the signals to look at first are user complaints, and user's efficiency on tasks with your product, aka usability studies. Empathy informs your takeways from that.
It will only make products more expensive and less accessible and people still won't be able to fully use _their_ devices.
Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm for $5B
Keep in mind that while some spelling in Canadian English matches the US (analyze in Canadian is spelled with the Z), other words match the British English (color is spelled with a U).
> In a UK cryptic there'd have to be an indication that there was a homonym involved story/storey.

Well, that one can be chalked up to US/UK spelling differences—"storey" is not correct US spelling.
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What are the technology's limits? Would it be possible to create mRNA shots to grow more muscle tissue, regrow teeth or lost limbs?
Rust maybe a little adhoc in places (e.g. the misappropriated Haskell/ML function syntax, enum/struct asymmetry), but overall it is a fantastic effort. It is not an easy task to combine an advanced static type-system with mainstream ergonomics, but they seemed to have pulled it off. The fact that it is also not owned and controlled by a single big tech entity is icing on the cake. I really hope it achieves even greater success.
> just one or two microfibers of it in your lungs and your fate of a slow painful death is sealed.

Hell of a claim. Sources?
You could also achieve this with a bus.
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Negative interest rates are impossible because people will withdraw cash or purchase cash equivalent assets like government bonds (the seller of the bonds may have to hold onto cash).
Good point. In my last apartment, Amazon threatened to stop delivering to the entire (large) complex because their delivery people failed so hard at delivering. Packages were left just about everywhere and the Facebook group became more like a lost-and-found package site. Something that didn't happen at all with USPS.
Of course English India will be preferred if offered. I checked this on Windows that there is an option within firefox language preferences to set it to system settings. Anyways the En-In will be welcomed but is not a necessary condition though. We do just fine without it for now.
As a big linux fan, Microsoft probably was the better choice 20 years ago.
Same in parts of Italy - its a very common tax dodge
While you are anti BTC, it seems to me you find some interest in DOGE.

Would you be willing to use it?
https://archive.is/Y7IFZ
Ethereum Rescue
$ ps aux | convert label:@- process.png

convert-im6.q16: attempt to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy `@-' @ error/property.c/InterpretImageProperties/3666.

convert-im6.q16: no images defined `process.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3258.
The article says "The largest and most talked-about item in the update is Google announcing that sites with passing core web vitals will receive a ranking boost on mobile."

Can anyone please explain what "passing core web vitals" means? It links to very lengthy articles full of SEO jargon that I don't understand.
Until the early 90s probably you could get documentation for every device sold - schematics, calibration procedures, BOMs, technical drawings and so on. That ended when companies from countries with less strict IP laws started copying the products that sell. Governments didn't do much to protect businesses and such secrecy is now the effect of this.
The M1 has had a paper recently published about Spectre-like speculative execution exploits, so at least for that class of ARM, yes I believe so
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When I was in Sweden on vacation, I was surprised that almost all except the most minor roads have a central divider. To allow overtaking, they have 2+1 lanes, and then after a few km they switch to 1+2 lanes (extra lane in the other direction).

This eliminates the most deadly accidents (head on collisions) and makes overtaking completely stress free.

It's a simple intervention that you can do almost anywhere, and it saves lives immediately. You only need to invest a bit in concrete barriers and paint.

I wonder why almost no other country does that.
> My GitHub account now also requires a smartphone to log in for 2fa

TOTP isn’t exclusive to mobile apps. You can easily use the authenticator from a desktop. Some password managers (eg 1Password) have this built in as well.
The lack of arrow in the merge direction page was baffling (given that IIRC elsewhere lines were used to indicate change direction). Glad they fixed it.

What's missing in this article in talking about how little time the changes took ("This was a one-line code change that took a few minutes.") is if there was much consultation with designers/management/UX-people involved, and much testing needed after.
They probably have metrics suggesting that having both sign up and sign in buttons on the page leads to lower sign up rates than having only a sign up button, or something along those lines.

Rather than find a more in depth/better designed solution, it's easier just to remove the "sign in" button and any "confusion" that might cause for users who would otherwise complete the sign up workflow. If their A/B testing indicates that removing the button improves sign up rates, that's exactly what they'll do.

It's super-annoying and short-sighted - not to mention lazy - but this kind of micro/over-optimisation of behaviour on the web has been de rigeur for at least a decade now.

A better approach would be to try to understand why "confusion" around sign up/sign in is happening - i.e., what's the real reason having both buttons/links on a page decreases sign up rate? Root cause the issue and you can fix the real problem in a way that probably doesn't annoy your customers. That's effort though and most customers probably don't care enough to complain about the annoyance of hunting around for a sign in button or link.
$399.99 for 14TB seagate expansion ones. Still waiting for them to arrive. Everything else cheaper I found was out of stock.

NAS has 6 bays, I only bought 4 to get a RAID 6 setup and I'll expand when I find better prices.

If anyone has links, I'll take them!
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Hostile takeover seems like a stretch. Generally you use that phrasing when someone takes over a company in order to kill it and loot its corpse, not "invest heavily in the company and make it one of the most successful in the world".

A borderline non-sensical accusation w.r.t. PayPal, since he definitely didn't takeover PayPal, he founded X.com and got a payout through that after the merger and subsequent IPO + acquisition by eBay.

For Tesla, he was the first investor and took an active role in the company, starting in 2004 – less than a year after its inception and four years before they produced their first car (the Roadster). By the time the Roadster actually hit production, he was the CEO. Was the Roadster (a Li-ion sports car) Eberhard's idea? Absolutely. But it seems very unclear that it actually would have existed if not for Musk. And the rest of Tesla's vision/direction (that has made it the world's most valuable tech company) seems to have come almost entirely from Musk.

He wholly founded SpaceX and they're doing pretty well.
yes, in number of transactions. just realize that if bitcoin went unlimited, most of the altcoin activity would be happening on bitcoin chain. blockchain space being limited resource priced out economically un-viable activity into shitcoins.
The far more common scenario in the dot-bomb era was that you lost your job (which almost certainly wasn't paying the kind of salary many developers expect today), were left with a pile of worthless stock options, and maybe spent a couple years asking people if they'd like fries with that. (That's only a slight exaggeration. I was very very lucky to almost immediately land another position--which then went through its own rough times but not to the point of being unemployed.)

Some people made out of course, but in general ~2001-2004 was not a great time to be in tech.
How about the oldie but goodie of cable companies/utilities/etc. turning off auto pay for your last bill, in the hopes you miss it in a move and get to ding you with late fees.
There may be a few exceptions, but that is not the rule.
Or you could buy stakable cryptocurrencies with it and earn 15-60% APR. The price might fluctuate but unless crypto completely tanks all around it’s going back up. Also it’s way more secure than hiding it in a safe because it’s cryptographically protected. If you put in a safe you might as well put it in a chest and make a map of where you buried it because it’s going to be making you just as much money that way.
I hate this so much. They've all copied each other to the extent that having a hidden sign in button is requirement for a "modern" site.

Back in the day it was the other way around. Sign in was primary and sign up was secondary (often accompanied by something like "don't have an account? Sign up"). You just know some busybody UX person saw that and argued this was bad for new members. Well now you've just screwed it up in the opposite direction. Well done.
On macOS you can use “pbcopy” and “pbpaste” to manipulate or read from the clipboard.

For instance, format the JSON in your clipboard: pbpaste | jq .