skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you or someone explain to me why you need or want Bluetooth on a sous vide circulator?

You already have to be physically next to it put your food into the water bath. It makes no sense to pull out your phone and launch an app to turn it on and set the temp when you're already physically standing right next to it, and I've never heard of any sous vide recipes that require you to change the water temp partway through cooking, so there's no need to change the temperature remotely.

The only thing I could possibly see wanting a Bluetooth app for is monitoring the water temperature in case it's gone wonky, but in the 5+ years I've had my Anova, it's always been flawless.
Content Bias Analysis of the New York Times
I found a coin claiming to do this - tradeable carbon credits, where you could extinguish a coin to offset carbon. It seemed like it had no traction.

You could make carbon-neutral coin that automatically offsets its own emissions by buying and extinguishing carbon offsets for every transaction. Obviously this would be cost-prohibitive for Bitcoin, but seems practical for less energy-intensive cryptos. I’m surprised nobody has done this (at least, I didn’t find it by googling). I think you could make billions of dollars off this because of the current furor over environment impact of cryptos. And it would actually be good for the world.
Because the claim is that SF violent crime got worse, which is false. You are resorting to comparing the general disparity in crime rates between major cities and small towns, which is not unique to SF. Therefore it is an illogical argument.

I have no disagreement with you in your general point or personal preference for small exclusive bedroom communities where poor people cannot afford to live, but the same could be said in comparison for Miami, Austin, Dallas or any other major city.
This comment is a pretty good argument for education reform, but likely not in the way you meant.
Thank you! It really was a different era back then :)
Movement does not require energy, acceleration does.
I know you already know how silly this comparison is. Replace White with Han Chinese and Black with Uyghur if you need help.

It's not exactly a surprise when the repressed and discriminated against minority sees race as a more important issue. Equating racism without considering the context of who holds what power is simply disingenuous.
> But the track record is so poor, and there is such little transparency, that they have no trust whatsoever.

The track record of... Medicare? It's one of the most popular programs in government!

What you've done is just aborb spin. It's true that these people don't trust "The Government" to provide health care, because their thought leaders (and peers like you) keep telling them that. But then they go and enroll in Medicare anyway, and it pays for their care, and because nothing breaks and it's never in the news they don't even think about it.

At some point you'd think the truth would break through, but it just doesn't seem to be happening.

Literally every health care system sucks for someone, it's a complicated problem. But everywhere, both within and outside the US, the systems that work BEST are government-run.
Heh. Just wait till they get wind of XinJiang or labor conditions in Foxconn factories and see how the management responds to those concerns... oh, nevermind. We’ve known that for years but that must okay to activists since silence is violence and I haven’t heard peep.
> But how? Drugs are already illegal.

Now do automatic weapons, straw purchases, felons getting guns, etc.

Both sides have their political bugaboos about problems that haven't been completely solved by existing approaches. Both sides want to try something different by cracking down on their own citizens; both sides want to try something different by lessening the burdens on good people who don't hurt others. Unfortunately, the two major political parties take opposite positions on which approach to take with which issue.

Maybe our political discourse wouldn't get quite to the level of talking about secession if we tried to understand one another's values a little better.
I’ve thought humans have been a plot for the microbiome to procreate for a while now, in essence you’re just a safe place for various bacteria to keep you alive. Have no illusions about how important they think you are ;-)
AI-powered dogs with force feedback petting mechanics launched in VRChat
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=lord%20zipacna%20el...
This was an education issue. There were KN95 and KF94 masks available for purchase. I bought KN95 masks off Amazon sold by Amazon proper and later switched to KF94 when they became widely available. Both masks have similar performance to N95. Someone of the KF94 masks i bought showed 99% filtering effectiveness in government testing.
Hi there!

We're looking to open up our repos as designs begin to stabilize this over the next month or two. We want to make sure anything we publish is in a state where, even if incomplete, code can at least be successfully built and worked on the general public and hardware designs are stable. To be clear, it will still be alpha/beta versions, but as various parts of the project reach the stage where they are not likely to be redesigned entirely and can be made to work without too much difficulty, we'll be releasing designs and source for them then. Stay tuned - for a lot of hardware this should be soon.
> when all threads have reached the latch, they are unblocked

The phrasing is somewhat confusing: it is the waiting thread, not "they", that gets unblocked (count_down does not block).
What is this, the 90s?

I'll be sure to install it on my Palm Pilot
>It would be interesting to have a trial where everyone was wearing N95s, but we're not likely to see that.

Bavaria and Austria had FFP2/KN95 only while the rest of Germany had the choice of surgical masks or FFP2, where almost everybody picked surgical masks (cheaper, not as annoying to wear).

Now the rest of Germany switched to only FFP2 in public transport.

So we do have some population studies. It didn't seem to make much of a difference. I'd say the factor overwhelming almost every other measure is the weather. More people outside means dropping case numbers. More people at home means rising case numbers.

It's been true for influenza and cold, and it's still holding up for Corona.

If any measure would make sense it would be to allow people to meet outside while forbidding it at home. They only forbade at home without allowing outside meetups, which made home parties more likely.
The anus is an evolutionary marvel
I’m not totally sure, but I think dereferencing a zero pointer is theoretically not undefined behavior in C, just so long as you didn’t obtain the zero pointer by initializing a pointer with a null pointer constant.
The response to this argument from the activists is "don't let perfect be the enemy of good", and they will carry on ignoring the stuff they want to ignore without feeling bad. (It's not true that they don't know though.)

There is some logic here and I've not found a good way to argue against it.
Ah. That sounds like the argument made in "One Word Broke C" [0, 1]. I can't say I agree with that argument, though.

As pointed out here and in the HN comments on that article, the phrase "ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results" is present in both those standards, and is arguably what allows aggressive compiler optimizations to be made, since to a first approximation those optimizations rely on ignoring control flow that encounters UB.

[0]: https://news.quelsolaar.com/2020/03/16/how-one-word-broke-c/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22589657
Something like https://github.com/evanw/esbuild#readme ?
"THE BITCOIN NETWORK FUNCTIONS AS A UNIQUE ENERGY BUYER THAT COULD ENABLE SOCIETY TO DEPLOY SUBSTANTIALLY MORE SOLAR AND WIND GENERATION CAPACITY. THIS DEPLOYMENT, ALONG WITH ENERGY STORAGE, AIMS TO FACILITATE THE TRANSITION TO A CLEANER AND MORE RESILIENT ELECTRICITY GRID.”

I used to get paid to write stuff like this.
Use N clients. Increase N until you’re sure.
Yup. If you're mining, and it fits the definition of a "business" instead of a hobby (google for more details - there are rules around what qualifies), you don't have to actually set anything up. You just file a schedule c as part of your taxes, and can therefore deduct expenses.
It's good to prompt them.
It is a statically generated site created with vitepress[1] and hosted on Cloudflare Pages[2]. The only dynamic functionality is the contact form which sends a JSON request to a Cloudflare Worker[3], which in turn dispatches the message to me via SNS[4].

It is modeled off of the code used to generate Vue blog[5], but I made a ton of little modifications, including some changes directly to vitepress.

Keep in mind that vitepress is very much an early work in progress and the blog functionality is just kinda tacked on, the default use case is documentation. It also definitely has bugs and is under heavy development so wouldn't recommend it quite yet unless you are actually interested in getting your handa dirty with Vue 3. I am glad I used it because it gave me an excuse to start learning Vue, but unless you are just using the default theme to create a documentation site, it will require some work.

1. https://vitepress.vuejs.org/

2. https://pages.cloudflare.com/

3. https://workers.cloudflare.com/

4. https://aws.amazon.com/sns/

3. https://github.com/vuejs/blog
Are you sure? They clearly state not all are 350kw but they seem to obfuscate how many are, it would be nice to know, they should have a map filter specifically for it:

https://www.electrifyamerica.com/how-ev-charging-works/

"Electrify America stations have CCS chargers with varying speeds, ranging from 50kW up to 350kW. "

"Our 50kW to 350kW chargers will be available at charging stations near highways, and 50kW to 150kW chargers will be available in metropolitan areas."

Anyone know how many 350kw chargers they actually have deployed?

Are the lower power ones still 800v capable?
> The j2me device world always seemed a lot more fragmented to me (but maybe it wasn't?)

Oh it sure was! There were device specific workarounds and hacks all over the codebase.
Or preferably, F#.
I'm sorry, but what does this have to do with guns? I don't think anyone in this thread brought up guns at all.
I'm using an old version of codium. But thanks for the recommendation. I will check it out when I ever have to use VisualStudio again or when it gets added to vs code.
Would you say you are trying to foster communication by using the lowest common denominator with regards to your choice in words?
look up: simile, figure of speech
At the center of a black hole, is there another universe?
> Or you can get into the credit business and just pay the bill and charge that person a fee or interest.

This. I'm not in the category of sharing bills with roommates anymore, but do remember it well and it was a pain.

I'd rather deal with a tech company that can provide better customer service and float for me than a utility bill that loses my info or doesn't do auto-pay correctly.

So if your value proposition is:

- never miss a bill again (Ysplit pays up front for it)[0]

- never deal with customer service for a utility again

Then I think people would pay for that convenience.

[0] - you could do the reverse and have people pay up front and give a discount, then use that float for finances. See -> Venmo.
The RCTs I have seen with basic surgical masks also seem to focus only on protection of the wearer, whereas on a societal level wearing even a shitty mask may be helping to prevent spread by presymptomatic people. I think it is unlikely the positive outcomes in mask wearing communities are purely due to confounders, although of course they probably also play a role.
Review: Statistical Rethinking, by Richard McElreath
Amazing. Thanks for the update.
You don't have to form a business entity. You can file as a sole proprietorship, which just means filling out a schedule c. There are some rules that you have to meet to qualify, but besides that it's just another form you fill out on your taxes.
The stuff I've had is noticeably sweeter, but with a nicer, lighter flavor. And yeah, theres really no better way to use it than with a spice grinder, but thats pretty much true of any dried spice.

Im really curious what you mean by 'the interior'... did you try and put them whole into something?

Anyhow, the quality/age/handling of the spice you get is very strongly going to determine whether or not you're getting the real deal. Spices can oxidize quickly.

Anyhow, I think long pepper is fantastic and shines really well in certain applications ( mostly those where its really contrasted by food that doesnt already have a strong flavor profile, like, a hard boiled egg or mashed potatoes.)
I wonder if this would work in electron?
Some idioms from the golf langs are quite neat. Common string, array, date and control flow operations are often quite verbose in normal languages (while doing very little) so I wouldn't mind to have some super-compact options in normal languages for that.
That makes a load of sense, the larger stations are like department stores, China’s remodelling while I was there was astonishing. Must have been £100m invested but they’ll definitely reap rewards.
Aerosols are explicitly defined as particulate with long settling time, and are differentiated from droplets by their size, with arbitrarily defined cutoffs on the order of 1um [0]. The pore size of surgical masks is in the range of 16-146um [1] (surprisingly hard to find). So whether or not the masks filter aerosolized covid-19 is a valid question and these downvotes are merely reflexive conditioning.

Even the question of whether surgical masks reduce infection after surgery was recently controversial, long before covid. This science is not settled. And it's in line with at least two sources which demonstrated negligible or no reduction in covid spread from surgical masks.

Plus, cloth mask pore size is orders of magnitude larger than than that of surgical masks and whether they block aerosols on the order of 1um is extremely dubious.

0. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/11/06-0426_article

1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242297437_The_Relat...
Make Linux Even More Insecure Again
There is something special about being able to buy your food from the store and not having it be a political issue. I feel like we are slowly losing this. Commerce should really be separate from politics. Pushing politics into everything risks reducing cooperation between people and all these positive sum trades that naturally occur.
You find yourself with a judgement and garnishment should you ever be employed.
As a tip method i imagine
Probably? One of the subtexts of this article and the ensuing conversation is that English has an absolutely mind-smashing amount of variability in usage.

In my general area, just a few hundred kilometers separates two groups of people who are frequently confused by each others' usage of the word "party store." Expanding a hyponym's meaning to encompass that of its hypernym is so common that I'm not even sure it requires special explanation. I've got some family members whose favorite kind of coke is Pepsi.
Let‘s just agree that C is not a good programming language according to modern standards: basic integer types are a complete mess with varying sizes and confusing implicit casts. The advantages of null terminated strings do not matter anymore, but the disadvantages matter more and more. The compilation model with headers is a mess compared to module systems. The C Preprocessor is an abomination. The complexity of the language is surprising.
Can you then explain what the author means when she says, "a voltage that draws energy up and out of the hole and along the helix. This, they claimed, is the jet — and a big asterisk on the naive notion that nothing escapes black holes"?
Maybe distribution via bittorrent is an alternative. It wouldn't be better performance than a good CDN but it distributes the costs better.
Yeet them into the sun. I say that as someone whose job benefits greatly from the convenience of easy to pip-install GPU wheels, and has fought many hours compiling GPU libraries from scratch.

I think it's the wrong abstraction. It encourages ridiculous amounts of bloat and duplication, of bandwidth, file systems, virtual environments, and docker images. It's really not actually that portable.

It encourages blindly installing unauditable giant binary blobs which run with all kinds of leaky abstractions. But boy howdy are they convenient.

I think "Allow external hosting" is the best case here. The first point of user expectation on PEP 470 is:

> Easily allow external hosting to "just work" when appropriately configured at the system, user or virtual environment level.

That's already out of the window once GPGPU is involved. The ecosystem is much better than it used to be, but there is still no plug-and-play GPGPU on linux without hiccups.

Let PyPI be the namespace, registry and lookup, and let users pass an --allow-external again, or (less optimal imho) do something like Conda channels. Improve the user experience for integrating with external hosts.

Pip is unlike NPM, Cargo, go get, etc because Python is much more intimate with linked libraries. It's unlike Brew because it's way more cross-platform. It's much closer to apt-get in this regard, and its challenges are different. Apt-get has sources lists, and I think that makes some sense for Python as well.
There are a couple of defensible reasons that people don’t put their mask over their nose outdoors. Firstly, if you wear glasses, then on humid days your glasses can fog up to a degree that you can’t even cross the street safely.

Secondly, in some countries the public has chafed against laws requiring outdoor mask wearing in places that are not even remotely crowded. (In my own country, the same scientists advising the government on the COVID response have also opposed this law and urged the government to overturn it, arguing that it is clearly unscientific and only undermines the government’s credibility in getting the population to observe the public-health measures that really matter.) At that point, wearing a mask in a half-ass way is a way for the population to signal their discontent. It has happened that such laws were lifted when ruling parties saw mass flaunting of them, because such strictness might cost them the next election.
Cyber insurance giant CNA paid out $40M to its ransomware attackers
Well said. HN likes to think of itself as a paragon of virtue and goodness, but it's a thinly layered veneer on top of a lot of bullying, nastiness, envy, and hate and fear of the unknown and those who are different.

Your reasonable live and let live comments are downvoted, while the absolutely pointless and off-topic empty vitriol bullying some completely unrelated people in a topic supposed to be about a scientific discovery is not. Amazing.
The sun of Rome is set: Volcanic dust veils and their political fallout (2020)
More likely, due to the tendency to support pre-existing patterns, no matter the redundancy.
Man Sentenced to 20 Months for Computer Hack That Shut Down Concession Sales
Thanks for the link. Excellent article. Those are all great points and I like having them summarized in one place, because I am indeed a little behind in my modern architecture theory.

However it has always been acknowledged that C was by definition a sort of simplified computing model. For example, when I first learned see the 8086 architecture was popular but it was competing with many others and it was already dramatically different from the PDP-11 virtual machine you describe. The 286, 386 and so on had funky indexing modes and address space weirdness but so did just about every other processor of the time.

There is likely never to be a single unified architecture that anyone agrees on, and the developers of C understood this, certainly by the time the 1989 standard was hammered out. So compiler directives, pragmas, and maybe even language extensions were expected on a per CPU basis, no?
I just updated Chrome OS on my Chrome Book and it totally whacked out my bluetooth mouse again. Lately (say last 8 months) it seems there's almost no QA before they push an update.
Unfortunately logical fallacies are often used in much of political messaging, which far precedes the current climate.

https://propagandaprinciples.wordpress.com/logical-fallacies...
And did what with it?

And why?
Because they are just NIOSHA certified and not FDA. Only certain N95s are have gone through testing and certification to be cleared for medical use.
Literally have all those things in the heart of SF. Some people just like living in more segregated communities.

> And yes, San Francisco in 2020 in terms of crime.

Again, no data cited! Even after being called out on it.
There is a good chance a significant portion of those forums have UK members. You can't just hollow out a community like that and expect it to survive.
The last email from Greg K-H is a gem for many reasons.[1]

"""

And to be a bit more clear about this, having other subsystem
maintainers drop their unwanted code on this subsystem, _without_ even
asking me first is just not very nice. All of a sudden I am now
responsible for this stuff, without me even being asked about it.
Should I start throwing random drivers into the kvm subsystem for them
to maintain because I don't want to? :)

If there's really no other way to do this, than to put it in staging,
let's talk about it. But saying "this must go here" is not a
conversation...

"""

I deeply cherish the fact this stuff is out in public. It helps more junior software devs learn the softer skills.

[1] https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/YKTsyyVYsHVMQC+G@kroah.com/
It's sort of a new thing. All the major tech companies were forced in the last decade to move away from the neutral platform position and started to do more proactive moderation or some would say censorship, turning themselves into responsible publishers.

Thus, in being willing censors (or at least moderators) for the powers of good, they have also let themselves be strongarmed by whomever says what is good.

from another angle, the Arab Spring uprisings or Ukrainian Euromaiden events from last decade which were organised on neutral tech platforms, would not be able to take place now because these tech companies have much more moderation and internal responsibilities to be a clean publisher.
Jan vs. Vandenberg, computer scientist and key collaborator with Galaxy Zoo died
> a way for people to LARP as technologists or entrepreneurs without actually producing anything of use to the general public at large.

as someone who likes Words and Terms for things, thank you. It has always rubbed me the wrong way that blockchain enthusiasts use code as a verb. This may sound strange but I find I only use “code“ as a verb for people who do not work in tech to describe what I do. Even introductory programming materials, if you look at them, always say “learn to code,” or “coding,” which I always feel amateur saying. If it’s someone I work with or who even just works in tech, it’s always more specific. Don’t know if this makes sense in the slightest but thanks regardless for the link.
> it doesn't matter what state the representative is associated with, and baring rounding errors the number of representatives would stay roughly the same?

The [Republican] Idaho legislature would get to gerrymand the districts instead of the [Democratic] Oregon legislature.
Total installed powerline length vs population is a problem.

Whether they're new / old or well / poorly serviced is just a difference of a few decades.

If there isn't money to service old lines now, then there won't be money to service formerly-new lines in 30 years.