skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that the point? Before English-speakers had seen one, 'black swan' was a nonsense impossibility, like water flowing uphill. After Brits saw them in Australia, the phrase changed from 'total impossibility' to 'extremely unlikely but what do you know, actually true!'
> substantially harder to get any pistol

That makes sense, though? It is far easier to conceal a handgun than any kind of rifle, and [to a close approximation] all guns are semi-automatic at most. A rifle may pack more punch, but I'd be more afraid of someone packing a Glock 17 (especially if they brought along a Glock 18 magazine).

In any case, the point I was trying to make is one of intent. We have stats which tell us where the low-hanging fruit is on the issue, but nobody seems interested in that.
>Ford unveils the F-150 Lightning

Reality: Ford confirms existence of at least one prototype, after President has been filmed driving one.
It would be nice to write another article that explains why it works. Add labels like 0, 1, 2, ..., 6 to the nodes and explain that black arrows are +1 and white arrows are x3.
> narrowing down what any process can do to the bare minimum has my approval

Except if the vendor wants to have the ultimate control over access to my machine.

It's like buying a house and leaving a copy of the key with the bank.
That was very helpful, thank you!
There is a contract where seemly Christel sold everything, even stuff that was not hers to start with, to PIA.

That contract was hidden until recently, and seemly some of the staffers had to pay lawyers with money of their own pocket to figure out what is going on.

What made people realize how bad it was, is when the "owner" started to demand passwords for control of the servers, including ones that are not directly controlled by freenode, saying he has legal right to demand that.
Many people use macbooks as glorified terminals to run a text editor and a browser, while running the actual program being developed on a remote Linux machine.

Even more people use macbooks to develop for the browser, or to develop using platform-independent languages: Python, Ruby, Node, maybe even golang.

Quite a few people then package their backend code in a container and test it in a Linux VM which "Docker for Mac" helpfully provides.

But indeed the fact that Macs used to run on Intel, so the libraries you used in development were mostly that same versions of the same code as in production, must have been helping.
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Elect better representatives.
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Seconded. I got one of these and was surprised at how much I love it. The input latency is unnoticeable. I intentionally don't connect my email, calendar, or anything interruptible to it and it is a wonderful notepad, reader, etc.
I've been on Freenode since 2006.

I've been known as 'imode' for a couple of years now.

I called out Lee, and he took my nickname away. There are already abuses of power going on, and he has no legal authority over any of the infrastructure.

imode: Nick/channel is temporarily unavailable
It always amazes me somewhat when people talk of languages like Polish as having complex words, because Indo–European languages generally have pretty simple words compared to most languages outside Europe. Consider, for example, the average word from Yimas:

planmaawkurampikacakapimpitɨprak

‘he got those two and hid them and lay them down inside’

Or Wichita:

kiya꞉kíriwa꞉cʔárasarikitaʔahí꞉riks

‘by making many trips, he carried the large [quantity of] meat up into it’

These sorts of words, as far as I can tell, are the norm rather than the exception outside Europe. (Well, perhaps not that extreme, but certainly words like those Polish examples are pretty common.)
Spintronics Simulator
Thanks! I'm gonna give this a try today.
I tried running games from 2004 earlier this week and all failed in a spectacular fashion. I thought Windows was all about supporting legacy 32-bit applications.
I was also skeptical, but my sister in law talked my wife into it. I was expecting it to be one more thing around the house that I was always having to repair...

They've really dialed that design in. It does require a deep cleaning about once a month, but it's quite easy. Takes maybe a minute. And whenever we don't pick everything up, the Roomba will choke on things like bubble wrap, socks, towels (we often keep one on the floor by the door for the dog).

It's been a real workhorse.
Fire TV 4K. It is the overwhelmingly most common source for our TV and has a good remote and excellent playback, including H.265. I bought it without research as a “why not?” sized purchase and it surprised me pleasantly.
>I'm having hard time to understand how to talk amongst strangers (people whom I'm not familiar with their preferred pronouns)

If you're ever worried about how you'll be perceived in these kinds of scenarios, just make sure you're speaking with enough of an accent to communicates English is not your first language. The people who would otherwise be offended will not recognize you a target of the current cultural tensions that pronouns represent.
The more I see distasteful things happening around Chromium, the more exclusively I use Firefox these days. And frankly I have had vanishingly few problems using FF alone.
Yes, yes and yes! Soft Star shoes are amazing (and one of the few 'barefoot' shoemakers that sell north of US size 13)
I think the royal order of adjectives is the coolest example of this. Native speakers of English know it intuitively without (usually) even knowing it exists!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective#Order
As a person whose spent my entire life in the US, I've never heard that pronunciation of turbine. Looking into it, it seems like some people do pronounce it that way but typically it's tied to a specific region AND industry. It's certainly not the widely accepted way to say it here south of the border.
> I don't know how to solve that unless you write software to be hyper-modular and able to be modified without a complete rewrite of everything.

Isn't this how Salesforce ate the universe?
Sure, if it's designed for cropping cartoon images to show the first panel. This algorithm is designed to work for any image shared on twitter. What should it do for cartoons where the last panel is a much more interesting visual image? Single-panel cartoons that include both the setup and the punchline in one frame (https://twitter.com/PunHubOnline/status/1392509471482683399/...)? How about before-and-after comparison images?
Why Your Business Needs IT Staff Augmentation Services?
That only got 1 comment.
It's also funny because "the bread book" may refer to "the conquest of bread* which is a seminal tome if anarcho-colletivism
I played my first games on my brother's Nokia 2600 C.

I played titles like Assassin's Creed, and found them way mir entertaining than current smartphone titles.
If anyone else is looking for something to help block noise or relax while sleeping, I recommend also taking a look at the 2nd gen Bose sleep buds. They’re great if you’re a side sleeper and wouldn’t be able to wear headphones to bed. They fit quite well in my ears.

Now big caveat: they don’t stream audio and they aren’t noise canceling. They only play looping sounds that you download from the Bose sleep app. That said, I’ve found them to be helpful in staying asleep. Pricey also, but if it helps you sleep, it’s worth trying in my opinion.
> Personally I think these are a waste of money unless you live in a house

They’re not, and if seasoning is a concern, you can get preseasoned; you should almost never need to reseason with proper care.
Soda stream machine .. I love fizzy water.
I think that pausing our economy to the extent possible and allowing people and businesses to pick back up where they left off after the pandemic is incomparably better than screwing over the poorest in our society, yes. I understand that not everyone feels that way.
The fact that threaded tweet links like this don't work on non-official apps (I use Talon on Android), to me, is a sign that this is deliberate.
Most probable explanation: logged and notlogged requests go through a different path in the infrastructure and the not logged one doesn't work that good and they have no pressure in fixing it. Maybe it's not a dark pattern but it smells like one for sure.
That's entirely possible. I don't really ever browse it without being logged in.
The Mondeo strategy and their “Firestone” stupidity (blaming a third party for their design weakness) did then in for a while.
> Chair: Herman Miller Embody. High Quality, super-comfortable, with a 12-Year Warranty - costs about the same as buying a new chair every two years.

I really like some of the Herman Miller chairs, and I plan on buying one when my current one breaks, but I don't get this: why would you need to buy a chair every two years?

My IKEA Markus ($200) is older than that (I think 5 years?) and it's still fine.
Dog breeders literally invented dogs from wolves. Nothing wrong with supporting good ones.
> We got a Breville Barista Express.

Everybody who has one says it's so good. I wanted to buy one but then SO wanted a full-auto. So I bought a Delonghi full auto: apparently Delonghi's build quality went down a few years ago, they're letting the JURA brand the higher end market for full auto machines.

I may still buy a Breville Barista Express just for me.
Do you not have a standard hood over your stove? Seasoning has never caused issues for me in the 4 or so places I've lived and done this. Usually keeping the oven door shut fixes 98% of the issues, and the fan above on high sucks up anything else.
Who else recalls the self-flagellation that was required in order to get any kind of help in #cplusplus or #programming? Took a lot of humility and you had to eat a lot of crow back in those days. ah, seeking help on EFNet - the old rite of passage for young programmers.
> How did you find a good PT?

The poster unfortunately did not. "Needling" aka "dry needling" aka "Western acupuncture" is re-branded acupuncture. Like acupuncture, it is quackery and an unsafe scam. Even the acupuncturists agree: "Dry needling is acupuncture and physical therapists are practicing it without a license and putting patients at risk"

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/acupuncturists-declar...

Mark Crislip had a good podcast that covers acupuncture and other medical fraud:

http://quackcast.com/spodcasts/page6.html

If you feel like you need help for "years of sitting at the computer" I recommend Jolie Bookspan's books. The best, most effective information I have come across so far.
I'm not 100% on board with today's tech either. I miss when every instant messenger supported XMPP so I could just use Adium/Pidgin to handle all my communications in one program.
A BIDET attachment for my toilet.

I bought this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A0RHSJO/

But there are many different models.
> Ah, nothing like telling people to change the way they have been speaking since childhood for _your_ convenience...

Look this is not a conversation about feelings. It's a conversation of what's necessary so we can understand each other effectively.

Speaking the language of the people you're trying to talk to is a basic requirement for communicating. Being super-respecful of someone's origin doesn't make you comprehend the sounds coming out of their mouth.

By your logic, I've been speaking Bulgarian since childhood, I should talk to you in Bulgarian and be super-offended when you don't understand, because millions of people speak Bulgarian. Instead, I'm using English, because it's an English-speaking board. That's called "common sense".

> Take your racism somewhere else.

My God... that's so ignorant, I just feel bad for you.

You're trying to turn this into a moral debate, and it's not about morals. It's about understanding each other, get it? BTW, I'll be responding to you in Bulgarian only from now on. Because you're clearly not "racist" and you respect my culture and heritage, or don't you?
I think people forgot the mess surrounding PPP. Publicly-traded and other large companies like Shake Shack and Ruth's Chris Steakhouse received millions in PPP loans while many small businesses did not hear back from the SBA until June or July. Bank of America prioritized customers with existing bank loans as if the PPP was a backdoor bailout for a poor small business loan portfolio. Many real small businesses were screwed due to the decision making processes.

Reading about these fake loans is a gut punch. When small businesses that really needed the money were stonewalled for months, many having to shutter, it's hard to believe that oversight would have hurt
Although there is no reason why he didn't post on say medium and post the link. He chose to use a 140-char-limit site to write a novel.
IMHO, once you have child(ren) , the value of a senior role is questionable, especially since as you point out , more hours are expected which makes it not a real raise (besides "stealing" from quality time with your kid(s) ). Senior roles to me can be a poison chalice, more stress. IMHO when one feels a failure for not being a senior, one might need to emotionally detach, and disconnect self-worth from their job title. To those who say they can't get by on a mid-level salary, well , how does much of the rest of the workforce without tech salaries do it then? One other thought - internal promotions are often a lost cause anyway, (e:g reliant on playing politics). If you're dead set on becoming a senior, job-hopping often the best way. Good luck! :)
It depends what you start out with of course, if you had low wattage incandescent bulbs for example you can replace them just fine with connected ones.

But currently, commercially available dumb bulbs go into much higher lumen ranges than connected ones. Ours were in the 2600-3000 lumens range before the change if I recall correctly.
Many people suggest going nuclear would be "greener" for the EU. It is greener than coal, out of the qestion, but it also comes with a lot of penalties.

I know that other reactors are safer and not even God can sink the Titanic...

But even with zero risks remaining, you still need uranium and a way to store it for > 5,000 years. If someone tells you to just put it underground, I just neglect the opinion...
I know that's a common feeling, but I tend to view it as an acknowledgement that we need to understand the behavior being incentivized rather than an actual statement about morals which can be endlessly debated.

There's some irony in the phrasing used to decry the term "moral hazard" though in that it seems to hint of morals itself.
The safety is what put me off of those. Read a few too many stories about permanent, serious injuries to young people using them (relatively) safely. It does look like a ton of fun though.
We could always see where the steam tunnel broke from the sidewalk and went into the building because there was a patch of bare grass growing in the heat the steam gave it underground.
Hello, fellow internet old! I too remember Yahoo Pipes. :D
That does not match data I’ve seen: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-are-the-odds-be... (increasing audit rates at all levels over $200K in return AGI and over 2% audit rates for all ranges at/over $1M.)
This exists, but the effect of undefined behavior in CPU architectures is a little bit more forgiving than the interpretation of UB in C to mean "literally the entire program has no meaning". Instead, usually the program will execute correctly up to the invalid instruction, and then something happens, and then the CPU will continue executing from that state. It's actually fairly difficult to build an instruction with undefined behavior that contaminates unrelated parts of the program.

Though it HAS happened: notably, brucedawson explains here [1] that the 360 has an instruction so badly thought out that merely having it in an executable page is enough to make your program otherwise meaningless due to speculative execution.

[1] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-d...
Three things specifically (though one is a two-parter)

1. Nanch micro screwdriver / bit kit. I had one previous and I rather liked it but I gifted it to my brother who was just starting out with DIY maker stuff, so I replaced my old magnetic kit with one that has the bits lock into place with a collar. I love the quality on it and I'm glad I'll probably never need to buy another one again.

2. Lutron Caseta switches for my house. I haven't replaced the lot, but I've replaced the most commonly used ones and it's so nice being able to stagger to bed after a movie and just tell siri to turn all the lights off in the house.

3. The last is a two parter; dewalt makes a little cordless screwdriver (not really a drill). That has a ton of utility, but what I like best is that I can combine it with a cordless drill "cleaning attachment" kit that you can get off amazon (or probably other places). Put the two together and you can save so much time and effort scouring things - you still have to manually do some nooks and crannies, but you can get the vast bulk of it out of the way and let technology work for you. A regular drill would work, but it goes too fast and flings shit everywhere, while the screwdriver has a much lower RPM. This combo is just my favorite.
Spoiler Alert: Attack Simulation Isn’t Ethical Hacking
> Does AMD pays Intel a fee for using x86?

The terms are secret, but basically yes, AMD had access to 386? designs and what not as part of IBMs second source requirements with Intel, but Amd486 and up designs were AMD original with instruction sets under license from Intel, although the licenses were set up after release under litigation.

> Does Intel pay AMD a fee for using their 64 bit extensions?

Yes / sort of. Use of the AMD64 extentions was negotiated under the broad cross licensing between the two companies.

> Does anybody pay the inventor of the SSE and AVX instruction sets?

Do the persons involved get royalties? I'd guess not, but who knows. Would you have to pay more to get a license for them, almost certainly.

You'll note there's been a lot fewer x86 processor designs not from the big two over the past many years than there were in the late 90s. Some of that is because 'RISC is going to change everything', but a lot of it is becsause nobody can get an x86 license.

> Does anybody pays Nintendo for deploying emulators?

I don't think so. Patents are too old, and there's not a whole lot of non-Nintendo emulation in the commercial market (but I know Capcom has released some collections, of Megaman games, etc). If those types of releases started including systems with system roms, then you would start having copyright claims.

Nintendo has never seriously impeded system emulation; there's just no case to be made. ROM distribution is clear copyright violation though, of course.
EVs are currently 5% of annual sales. They need to be 60% by 2030, and 100% by 2035. Yea, incentives are still necessary, but higher taxes on combustion vehicles as well.
I haven't been following too closely, but my understanding is that if some of the parties who are short GameStop/AMC have been naked shorting, then as this drags out it becomes more likely that the failures to deliver will eventually catch up with them, forcing a squeeze. And with the volume of shares that have been traded, I doubt it's just Redditor's making this play.
Not sure where you could get citations for general cultural references like this. For what it's worth, his description of it being an insult is exactly how I understand it to be used too. Someone who thinks they are more powerful or important than they really are. Native English speaker here.
Thank you! I had given up on reading any HN post from Twitter because of this issue.
How can you tell if someone is actually too old and frail to work rather than just pretending, especially with invisible issues like chronic pain? It's easier just to declare a retirement age.

>But it simply makes no sense that we essentially have UBI for able-bodied workers who are 65, but not those who are 35.

Someone who is 65 most likely has already paid their contributions to society. Compare how Norway and the Gulf states distribute their oil wealth. Norway reinvests it and only hands it out to those of retirement age. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait meanwhile guarantee a job where you don't even have to show up, which basically is the same as UBI. As a result, thesr nations are completely dependent on foreign labor.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-20/workers-p...
Cold climate mini-split heat pumps
* I live in northern New England and used to heat exclusively with wood in the winter time. Very cozy, but hard to maintain a consistent temp throughout the house. The new cold-climate models can operate at 100% capacity down to an ambient temp of -13F outdoors. One in each bedroom, the living area, and home office makes it easy to dial in the optimal temp for the space. No more loading the woodstove overnight when everyone is in a bedroom with the door closed!

For the summer, the heat pumps have replaced our terribly inefficient whole-house central AC. We have a PV solar electric system, so we can use the electricity we produce to run them, and once I started paying attention to energy use in our home it was clear that the old central AC had to go.

The modern mini-splits are pretty much maintenance-free, and are warrantied for 12 years. Best off all? The compressors are very quiet. You can have a normal conversation standing right next to them.
They've announced the entire product line with every trim level. It's hardly just a prototype.
For better or worse (better, I'd argue), I don't think browsers want you to drive the browser for the customer. My takeaway from most modern browser security developments is that if you can't do it with the standard APIs, you aren't supposed to be doing it.
It's not true that one cannot hear race in British accents, it is actually quite overt. I've lived in London and Manchester and the vast majority of established Black British and South Asian British communities do speak with a noticeably different accent to other ethnicities of the same economic class living nearby. The type of London accent mostly influenced by Caribbeans since the 60s even has a proper name - Multiethnic London English
These headphones have been an amazing bump to quality of life. My neighbors have a new baby, the other neighbors are constantly yelling, and I live across a school that recently reopened. Can't recommend these enough. I also used them while traveling back in the before times, they're exactly what you'd want while traveling on a plane/train.
OK we added the pause/seek controls! Thanks for bringing this to our attention, it's way more accessible this way.
> the best compilers were not free

This must have been a huge part. Maybe ICC could squeeze more MIPS per dollar out of Itanium than x86, but if GCC can't, people are going to not buy Itanium rather than buy ICC.
Nothing is honest here.. it’s just becoming a state owned company...
I've used quite a few office chairs over the years - mostly in the $200-$300 range, and before I decided to buy the Embody, I went to the Design In Reach store to try it out. I'm 6'6", so making sure I could actually fit in the thing was essential. I tried out the Embody and the Aaron and a few others.

It is legitimately a high-quality chair. I've had mine for three years now and it's absolutely solid. By this time with other chairs I'm generally starting to shop around again due to discomfort, or pieces falling off, or the hydraulics not working as well, or squeaks and creaks.

When it arrived there was no need to put it together. It just rolled out of the box fully assembled. The arm rests and back still adjust as smoothly as the day it arrived. No squeaks or creaks. And that warranty is hard to beat.

I'm not one to chase brands, by a long shot. But HM absolutely nailed it with this chair (imo).