skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The individuals on Twitter are an extremist “mob” on both sides of the political spectrum that really has little relevance to larger society, except for politicians and the like who use it for communication.

Follow the science and draw your conclusions for your own life and don’t let the mob bully you, they are living in a world where dogma/politics trumps science [full disclosure that is word choice, I’m independent btw & not a Trump supporter].

I double masked up until 2 weeks after the second mRNA shot (early April), at which time COVID was effectively over for me. If others want to wear masks for years of that makes them feel better that’s totally ok, but the reality is that the pandemic is over for the vaccinated, although I’d get a booster if needed.

Also if we do have to wear masks for another pandemic I absolutely will, but not any longer than needed they really mess with my ability to read facial expressions and communicate.

The political landscape has also changed now so that the government is forced to admit that and now the fully vaccinated can go shopping without masks. It is about damn time. This pandemic has damaged the mental health of the nation but finally rolling back restrictions is the best way to give everyone an end to the pandemic that is in sight.
Pick a different activity just do it longer. Golf, bird watching, gardening...it doesn't have to be mindless. Mindless routines are for mindless people :)
Its toxicity seems to be nonsense.

The replacement of soluble collagen with insoluble collagen with age doesn't seem to occur.

Bones are indeed less mineralized, but in a way that makes more mechanical sense i.e. less concrete, but more rebar.

Some wound healing pathways are inhibited, but it's scar tissue formation that is inhibited. Repair and remodelling as seen in dolphins takes place instead.

Kidneys indeed excrete things they don't normally do, but it seems to be an active process, where larger molecules are moved through, not leaking.

Also stable levels of cadmium are sought, its levels are regulated, excess levels are excreted.
>No one outside tech in this field would ever think of "Dev" as "Developer".

Who's the majority of audience of PG's posts?
This twitter thread from Jose-Luis Jimenez is far far better.

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1391111720526024708

Credentials: https://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/jose-luis-jimenez
Murdoch meant "who should I call to have the deals I want to make facilitated?" (to put it in PC terms)
My favourite colleague ever was the nicest, most diplomatic and considerate leader I've known. He taught me that if you're genuine and know the playing field, you really don't have to be a dick to succeed ... despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

My most annoying/disappointing colleague, who I was fooled into hiring into a senior position, taught me many, many lessons .. but the most positive was that speed to market trumps attention to detail 9 times out of 10. Seems obvious now!
This is not the tone you're expected to use on HN
One of Britain's most famous quizzers talks about fame, feminism, Asperger's
Although at these scales, a CCP at 400MW output is "only" ~$300M, so building that small power station might not be that big a deal compared with the cost of turning off?
You mean the web? The most empowering and useful “platform” in the whole world because there is no single bigcorp behind it.
Thanks, I understand now. There is a grocery store near me which has a spot that seems poorly covered by security cameras. So far I thought that I shouldn't just grab things from there into my pockets and leave without paying, but I see now that it wasn't smart - I don't need to follow these rules.

BTW. Did you even notice that you just compared Trump's campaign to Galileo's work?
That’s different then. I did call some people Sir but it was out of respect. Mostly I appreciated that they were easy to get along with.

If you did nothing wrong I would say it’s still a sign of respect even if done theatrically every time.
Very good summary, thanks for posting.
This is so cool, imagine it would meet Perseverance and the droids would engage in some <strike>battle</strike> friendly cooperation!

Q: Are the landing sites even remotely close to each other?

Q: Had any of sides incorporated this somehow unexpected counterpart into their master programs? Can they update the programs at all?

Edit: grammar
The whole concept of retirement is based off of peoples’ bodies breaking down to the point where they can’t work anymore. If we had genuine rejuvenation, a 100 year old would be just as capable of working as a 20 year old.
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So, one thing that people seem to miss is that there are two Moore's Laws. Everybody knows about the 1st one, but the second one is as follows:

> says that the cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_second_law

And I fear that's what's going to be our stone wall in the evolution.

Yes, building the most modern plants make sense. But producing more of the older generation chips also make sense (don't think all the stuff in your phone is the latest generation neither!)
Dang, I just wanted to say how much I appreciate the work you do here.

I've seen you engage with posters in this way so many times (though this reply is particularly loquacious!).

I'm always struck by how unusual that level of effort is. A typical moderator would probably just hit the 'ban' button and move on.

I do agree that mrtksn seems well-intentioned here, but even in cases where good faith seems unlikely, I've seen you take the time to explain the rules kindly and substantively.

At first glance, trying to educate bad faith posters might seem like an example of PG's "do things that don't scale" maxim. But surprisingly, I think your approach scales pretty well. You may not always succeed in changing the behavior of the poster you're replying to, but your replies have a positive and scalable impact on this community because they role model good behavior to the thousands of other people reading. And that's leadership.

Thanks again.
For me, youtube is better now than at any other time I've used it. My feed is almost entirely very well made talks, and lessons, and tutorials. That they have a 2-3 minute "this video brought to you by ABC" doesn't bother me at all as the content is amazing. Anything I want to know there are 25+ plus different people willing to explain it to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(video_game)
I hate that I agree with this but...

I soured on Jira because my first experience with it was a horrible Rube Goldberg configuration on a self hosted instance.

Years passed, I tried a bunch of different ways to use GH Issues as a primary tracking tool. It works but it’s... blah. It’s a good outward facing tool, it’s not good for tracking internal work. Because there’s no organizing principle.

My last job forced me to use Jira again and, don’t get me wrong! It’s still bad. But given the nature of my role in that job I ended up setting up a new board and I was pretty amazed to discover that you could set up a new project with relatively sane defaults. And you can turn most of the complexity off and get almost bare bones Trello.

The only thing I couldn’t sort out to make it habitable: I really wanted to disable the “sprint” concept and have a single board without gymnastics. I don’t know if that’s just baked in or something the company configured.

In any case, that bare bones Jira setup was basically functionally equivalent to GitHub Projects, and surprisingly a better UX. Neither are great, this isn’t praise for either. But I’m just owning my bullshit and admitting I was surprised that the (now year old) modern Jira UX surprisingly didn’t torture me as much as I expected.
Cloudflare gets you very paranoid, overly aggressive, user-hostile protections by default – and people just take the defaults even if they use it with STATIC HOSTING LIKE GITHUB PAGES!
Is dynamic typing really what kills Python's speed? Or even allocation and gc? I always kinda assumed it was doing dictionary lookups for variable access that really took time.
From the worst: "Bad people are bad for your brain. Get them away or get away from them"

From the best: "Ambition is the will to try what others won't."
It does have content with actual information, it's just difficult to cram it into the format. First the limit was 6 seconds, then upped to 15, and I believe the current limit is a minute.

So when it does contain some information, people usually talk far too quickly. Like you're scrolling through fun shit that doesn't require you to think at all and then you're suddenly looking at an equivalent of a YouTube video at 2x the speed.
Why and how do we create regex automatically to train better NER models
> All regulation is created for the purpose of protecting people.

That is a politically naive, idealistic perspective that does not align with reality.

Regulation often exists to serve entrenched monopolies and to raise barriers to entry. Sometimes, regulation is a purely emotional knee-jerk reaction to a particular wave of passing news or events. It's often ill-considered over the long term. Long after a society or economy has changed or evolved to the point of rendering the regulation obsolete, the regulation continues to impose costs and burdens on the subjects of that regulation.

It turns out that laws are easier to enact than to roll back. There's a bias to keep existing laws, no matter the opportunity costs.

And that's without digging into my former point, which is that much regulation is the result of cronyism at the highest levels to serve special interest groups.

> Profit comes from people do anything they screw people over for is usually obscured in some way.

Profit comes from economic value creation or perceived economic value creation in the marketplace (as determined by the market). It is revenue minus expenses. It comes from any economic activity that is conducted between two parties in a mutually agreed upon transaction in which both parties trade one type of value for another.
MacOS full screen mode has been at least as quirky as i3 for me, but without all the benefits of i3.
Silicon atoms are only 0.235nm apart. So at 1nm you only have 5 atoms left. At 0.2nm you have one atom lleft and it stops behaving like a semiconductor. So there are real physical limits to nm scale devices that don't apply to micron sized ones.

Admittedly were not as close to those limits as it seems since "nm" quoted on CPUs etc is no longer a literal size of the object. But we're getting there...
Ask HN: Do you still optimize/test websites for Firefox
I get the feeling that Firefox is unfortunately getting less and less TLC from websites these days.

A couple of days ago I could not login to zalando.de, one of the largest online clothing retailers in Germany. At the same time login was working in Chrome.

My online coffee roaster's website has a comment section. It is not rendered in Firefox while working perfectly in Chrome.

On chefkoch.de - one of the largest cooking sites in Germany - the widget to calculate the amount of ingredients for a different number of people does not work in Firefox. At least the mouse widget to increase/decrease the number of eaters does not work in Firefox. The click does nothing. In Chrome it works.

It has gotten to a point that whenever something is not working for me in the web, the first thing I do is check, if it's working in Chrome. And more and more I am getting the feeling that it's just websites that don't really test with Firefox anymore.

Is it just my experience or do you see the same? Will it get worse over time, so that at one point I won't be able to use my favorite browser of choice anymore?
I've always wondered why most household appliances recycling factories don't sell the parts, but hey, I'm just a lowly employee, not a CEO getting paid five+ figures a year.

When I looked into it, the most cited reasons were "that's not our business" (really? then what is?) and "it costs more than it's worth" (it doesn't, plus you get government subsidies for green initiatives).

No mention of contracts forbidding that, some manufacturers do forbid resale of whole units, but not of spare parts.

Caterpillar sold/licensed their brand for use in industries they're not competing in, btw, just like many other big companies.
'Biggest data grab' in NHS history puts records in a central store for research
A small comment on wording: I think this should be called "Electrical nose stimulation". In a medical context, "digital" tends to refer to fingers. I found out the hard way that a digital anal exam involves no electronics.
SSHFS is about the worst FS in existence. I would only recommend it for a temporary file transfer here and there, but it's nowhere near stable enough to use it like a regular FS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

but also, for balance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard
Yes, I did this for self-contained reports in maybe 2014. All images referenced (containing diagrams) were embedded as data URIs. Restrictions are AFAIK more picky now, though so YMMV in 2021.
One workplace had an official 7.5 hour workweek, or 37.5 hours. That made it super common for people to take half days or full days off on fridays. We got everything shipped, and salaries were competitive but not absolute top. It was nice, and lots of A tier people working in comfort.

Then new management came in and started forcing everyone to crunch every week until almost all the engineers left.
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Fluenty build your Simulink model in .NET
bittorrent v2 is a bit different and more similar to IPFS: https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/
Houses in Cornwall need Radon surveys.
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment/environmental-protec...
This article is poorly written and inconsistent.

It first says:

> About a hundred feet downhill, the search party found “very distinct” footprints of eight or nine people, walking (not running) toward the tree line. Almost all the prints were of stockinged feet, some even bare.

But then a few paragraphs down, says:

> Something had happened that induced the skiers to cut their way out of the tent and flee into the night, into a howling blizzard, in twenty-below-zero temperatures, in bare feet or socks.

So first the article takes care to point out that the group was not running, only to then say that they were? Which is it? I expect the New Yorker to have better quality control than this.

I'm going to assume they used 'flee' in a more figurative sense, not literal, but such 'colorful' prose is sloppy in an article such as this.
I would have far more difficulty securing an electric connection that reaches my car than finding gas. I've been in a great many places that don't even have electricity, but I could always find petrol. Not just in central Europe but in North Africa and central Asia and everywhere in between.

Gas supply was tight once elsewhere because of a mild panic. For short instant, refueling was on my mind. With electricity, it's part of every trip you plan.

Of course, this vastly depends on how you use your vehicle. If I traveled shorter distance and had a plug at home, electricity would feel much safer.
Microsoft also provides a URL lengthener via "Advanced Outlook.com security for Office 365 subscribers". Thanks to them, any URL we send or receive by email at work turns into an unrecognizable monster. At least the links include comforting words like "safelinks" and "protection" so that everyone can feel safe and protected.
Great books on classic video games
> just an internal representation for a few older toolkits and programming languages.

One quite significant programming language being JavaScript - I know we have TextEncoder and TextDecoder now, and for the typical ways strings are used in JS this is a complete non-issue. But any context in which one would want to iterate over individual characters in strings in JavaScript there's a chance one might end up having to deal with UTF16 quirks.
BepiColombo is on the way! We will start getting data back in 2026.
I never understood this way of thinking about touch typing as a distinct skill from typing. My experience was that when you're kid and use a computer for the first time, you need to look at the keys, and then over time you look less and eventually you can type without looking at all. I never saw it as a distinct skill that needs it's own name or needs to be taught in school (apparently I'm wrong about this). It's just typing to me.
Basically because there isn't much of a difference. IPFS is basically bittorrent that breaks compatibility to add some fancy new features in exchange for more resources usage, like RAM. bittorrent v2 also does this but more modestly as it intends for torrent clients to upgrade to support it.
If you extrapolate, VW will overtake Tesla soon in electric cars.

The reality is more that untapped markets follow S curves. The electric car market will not be bigger than what the total car market has been but replace it. Electric cars are not there yet, but the market valuation is already far beyond that.
This was actually very good! Many of these articles on HN are a bit one sided but this one really feels grounded in reality and not just perception and "in my experience".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Oh what… by "Remote VS Code" are you referring to this? https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview Seems very handy indeed!
What has to happen so that you would try to make the switch to linux again?
There exists one of these at OMSI in Portland, OR.
You can’t input paths for starters. That means you can’t open dot files or navigate dot directories. Of which there are a great many in FOSS. The answer is to open up a terminal and run ‘open .blah’, which is just an appalling work around to a simple problem. Even Windows handles this use case better and that’s saying something.
I think it's a terrible idea, which works against small startups who can't afford these high value domain names.

It's been around for years, most famously Google's docs.new, sheets.new etc.
I don’t know. I’ve been hearing from people who actually use the app that it is really good, and the video editor is amazing.

I disregarded the platform at first because the content it surfaced didn’t appeal to me, but I can see how with good algorithms it can become a real platform for the future.
They do have a point, subsidies for something the EU doesn't really use are sort of wasted taxpayer money. But I think a leading edge chip fab in the EU would be strategically important.
MAYhem: A CitySec Event
Ah yes, unlike every other company that ships opensource keyboards right?

As a person who has had laptops and keyboards with layouts in Russian, Turkish, Romanian and Swedish, and who uses US layout almost exclusively, I honestly have zero idea what your problem is.
> The same was true for Hong Kong until recently, however, so concerns remain.

Not true. HK has been Chinese territory after 1997, there are PLA deployed in HK. There is no doubt about China's military capacity there, had the party really wanted to use it.

For Taiwan that is never the case.
I think so. IBM recently produced a new "5nm" chip. In reality the physical size is closer to 24nm, if I remember correctly. The numbers you hear don't literally mean the physical size of the transistor, it refers to something else.
China uses Uyghur forced labour to make solar panels, says report
Anyone who regularly works with FOSS. Which was the target demographic being discussed to begin with.
Isn't WSL2 at its core also just a better integrated linux virtual machine?
An uncomfortable reminder of mortality and potentially imminent end.
Win 7 > Win 10
To be honest I don’t see this stopping until the countries hosting these hackers are held to account. Prolific ransom ware gang in Russia? Well I guess Moscow doesn’t have a power grid for a few days. Letting your citizens attack foreign hospitals can’t be tolerated.
> If you decide on choosing a specific distro, you should know what you're choosing.

Indeed. And when that distro is MacOS suddenly HN is up in arms about how "not understanding why developers are chosing it".
Does Scala have a chance to regain popularity?

It was my main language for 5 years, and there was always a variety of Scala jobs in Berlin: companies of different industries, sizes. Recently, I mainly used Python at work. I love Scala and wonder if it makes sense to invest in keeping up my Scala 3 skills.
I read the article about space-originating plutonium. Looked up something about that in Wikipedia, noticed that there had been uranium mines in England, wanted to know more (I'm English), googled and found and read this.

I then submitted it because I thought the 1915 perspective on Uranium was interesting.
You can flip it around (if you're a pessimist):

1. If you *don't* pay, then you know bad things will happen.

2. So you might as well pay, regardless of their reputation, because your chances are strictly better even if they are nearly nothing.

3. Knowing that, there is no incentive for them to maintain a reputation by honoring the ransoms.

This seems like a stable equilibrium.
RIP macromedia. That suite was the best $400 AUD I ever spent as a teenager running my own web agency in the mid to late 2000s!
There's no "coherency" to them.

It's interesting to hear you say that. With the integrations we have with Slack and Github, I see previews, summaries, etc thrown at me when I link things
I've always viewed employment as a spigot that you turn up or down as required to match the lifestyle you want. So depending on your definitions, you could say I "retired" from working 2000 hour years at around age 30.

I'd work maybe 3 months on a contract, save as much as possible, then head off traveling until funds ran low or I felt like working again (which was usually the deciding factor). I had a stint in my early 40s where I took a long term consulting gig and went heads down and did 4 day weeks for 4 years, so I guess if we're being pedantic we can say that moved the "retirement" age back to 45 before I downed tools completely.

In the meantime, I built a couple Software as a Service products that do their thing in the background and require pretty close to zero maintenance or customer support. That's the main income stream, though I still pick up consulting gigs on fun tech with fun teams as a sort of a hobby. Never more than a couple days a week though.

From this viewpoint, the bullet points up top don't make a lot of sense. I don't have $5M in the bank. I certainly couldn't imagine spending $150k in a single year, though I wouldn't consider anything about my lifestyle to be "austere". And of course I plan on making more "fun money" consulting. It's a fun job, and the people you do it with are fun to be around. It's just the part where they want you to do it 5 days a week every week that gets old. Never quit doing anything completely if you like doing it.

The two keys for me were consulting rather than W2 work, since that easily doubles your income while letting you jump in and out of work whenever you want, and the SaaS products, which keep a background income coming in when I don't feel like working.

Here's the long version of how I got into this position:
https://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/guy-on-the-beach-with...
Use the WiFi Chip on RaspberryPi/Broadcom as Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
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'xcode-select --install' literally just installs the developer command line utilities, not an IDE.

Xcode, the IDE, is a separate download on the App Store.
Living eternally is something else entirely. Curing every disease and completely stopping aging gives average life expectancy of a few hundred years only.

Beyond health, quality of life is up to choices made by every individual and every society. It's not like there are technological fixes to most systemic issues that cause so many people to lead miserable lives.