skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is reducing the diet coke not possible for you? I don't mean to ask this as a snide remark, I'm just curious.
Interestingly, NZ has been settled by Polynesians only around 1300 or so (I think the latest estimates vary by +/- a few decades)
> If I didn't learn something from the junior engineer or intern this past month, I wasn't paying attention.

Amen! Not just junior engineers. PMs, analysts, testers. We all have a lot to learn from the rest of the team!
China is interesting because over 15% of the entire world's population lives there. China is interesting because it has the second largest GDP in the world. China is interesting because it has the largest military in the world.

The government that runs China may not be especially worse than any other authoritarian government in the world. But because China is a world leader, they rightfully attract the attention of the rest of the world, just like America has for decades and other great powers did before it.

I get the sense that the Chinese government wants to have its cake and eat it too - it wants to run the most powerful country in the world, but it does not want to accept the criticism that comes with that position.
I strongly believe that charging stations need to become entertainment complexes, particularly if you're going to have them on highways. You have a captive audience for however long it takes to "fill up" an electric car, you need to offer services to fill the time/make profit off of the customers while they're there. Get people loyal to your brand, your specific offerings of entertainment while you wait for your car to charge. Until we see those sort of things pop up to deal with the fill up time relative shortcoming of electric cars on long trips, I don't think electric cars will have truly "made it".
Why Is HighKey Coin Gaining Traction on BitClout
LeetCode – Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array
Why is this a good thing?

If I follow someone to a number of different locations with Wifi, then I can learn a lot about them by using a simple intersection of the ads I'm now getting.

For instance, if I get ads about diapers in all locations, then I have a strong reason to conclude that the person I'm following is pregnant or has a baby.
I’ve been waiting for an ad for turtle necks for over a year doing this experiment. Maybe that’s too specific?
The link does not resolve for me. I recall discussions and assumptions that commercial CMOS could be provisionally expected to work to cryogenic temperatures. I have only routinely qualified to -40, and many +85C parts for excursions to 105C.
Ask HN: Tools to Organize Bookmarks and Highlights?
I find myself bookmarking lots of pages with interesting information, quotes, etc. But going through them later is a total nightmare. Do you have any preferred tool to organize bookmarks and save pages or highlights? Thanks!
I guess for me the thing that's really crappy about this quote is that it shows his underlying attitude - that women are basically always potential romantic partners.

If he was into men, and he said he didn't want men in the lab because he might fall in love with them, you can sort of see how absurd it is, and how unpleasant it is to be the object of romantic fantasy when you're just trying to get on with your job.
Are you genuinely trying to argue that air strikes had no impact on the war in Libya?
Maybe it is. But "bad faith" is definitely not meaningless. At the very least we can expect any party who can defend itself, to not respond well when they believe you are acting in bad faith.
I don't know about you, but where I'm from, consumer protection laws exist specifically so consumers don't have to sue in these cases. Providing a fair refund process is their legal duty, not a courtesy.
No, I'm an American disappointed in the ignorance of my countrymen. My congressperson has been in office consecutively since 1997 with no serious challenges, and I couldn't name a single thing she's done for me in that time.
Really? I recall netbooks being pretty bad. Cramped keyboards, short battery life, weak processors... the worst of all worlds, really. What attracts you to them?
"I've never seen a thin person drinking diet coke"
Thanks. We also feel the same.

We've mentioned that we can open up a US company (using Stripe Atlas etc.) but he keeps on insisting that no one would buy a security product in large quantity from a US company with foreign ownership. Though he himself had us hired a few years ago for the old version of our product along with security consultancy for a financial platform he conceptualized and supervise building/sale for a custodian company in USA as its C-level executive. He later hhad lawsuit with the company as the owner he says, refused to give him a percentage of the sale amount (the company got sold) promised verbally. ONe of the reasons he gives is that we can do the same to him without stake. But we feel that he can also do the same to us and he should earn his right into the product based on a vesting schedule or buy it out with an upfront payment.
It's a strong addiction. I'm a device for turning diet code into working software ;) [1]. I need the caffeine kick. I don't particularly like to drink tea or coffee (which wouldn't help with the teeth coloring anyway). And I like the taste of diet coke (or coke zero) a lot. I tried switching to water multiple times, but was unable to sustain it. I wish Coca-Cola would produce a colorless variant (like Pepsi once did), which would at least improve the whiteness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfr%C3%A9d_R%C3%A9nyi#Quotati...
Saudi was, at least before COVID, opening up tourism (except for the two holy cities). At least then people could go and see things for themselves, and there is a liberalizing potential if the locals crave tourist income more than they fear hardliners. China, on the other hand has made it harder to visit certain regions of the country in the last 13 years.
This is silly. A twitter storm is a pretty well defined, public event. Do you seriously think it would be common to post racist stuff on the internet, and then organise a permanent campaign against yourself, in order to become un-fireable for causes that are work related? A company that wants to fire you for your poor performance can do so, and if you sue them it's not going to be hard for them to prove they have a legitimate cause which has nothing to do with your self-organised mobbing campaigns.
I once had my $180 Amazon order not delivered while it was marked as delivered by Amazon. After filing complaint I got "sorry" directly from the actual seller (they're in the US and I am in Canada) and they shipped me replacement.
Maybe CS is a branch of information theory…
I have a story of a CS "professor" and fraud.

I am a student at University of the People. It's an online-only school which relies on volunteer instructors who are paid a small honorarium for each class. Instructor involvement varies from instructor-to-instructor, but most act mostly as moderators rather than instructors. This is due to the "peer learning" environment of the school.

In 2015, the university either hired or hosted (or had some relationship with) an instructor who was fired a month later. He was fired because he'd lied about his credentials. He claimed to have a PhD from either Stanford or MIT, but had none.

Prior to volunteering at the school, he'd worked on building up an online profile for himself. Yes, astroturfing.

He wrote a few "academic" articles on Second Life. In one, he claims one of the founders of the game as his co-author or a contributor. He "published" this article to a couple of websites and then he posted it on Wikimedia Commons. It has even been cited in real academic works.

He wrote a self-published book on Second Life which he submitted to the Library of Congress. He leverages this quite often.

He claimed to hold a "world record" on an ACM ICPC challenge. And he managed to work this into the ACM ICPC article on Italian Wikipedia which has since been removed.

He used Freebase and Wikidata to create "info boxes" about himself on search engines.

He even spent time writing fake articles promoting himself on a websites including Blasting News and IMDb. On the latter he claims to have created a commercial with Julia Roberts.

The best part is that while he was at University of the People he was also running a service to help students cheat services like Turnitin. This was something he prompted on LinkedIn, Reddit, and even Wikipedia. Yes, the traces are still there on Wikipedia.

To this day, the guy holds a grudge against the university. He posts fake reviews on TrustPilot. He posts comments on the Reddit sub such as posing as a fake recruiter or going on about the university's subsidiary in Israel. He uses a plethora of socks and IPs to edit the university's Wikipedia pages and engage in edit wars. He has also tried to scrub some of his past actions by getting articles deleted.

And this doesn't even get into his attacks on other institutions, attempt to run an Italian NGO/political party, and more. My mind continues to be blown as I dig into his activities.
We'll never know, but at that number of sorties, you figure we destroyed the regime's air power and mechanized units, aka the edge they have over a popular revolt.
> Good code is code that can be understood by a junior engineer. Great code can be understood by a first year CS freshman. The best code is no code at all.

This a thousand times. Having empathy for future devs, maintenance, and bug fixes is so important.
> I don't know why full stack webdevs are paid so poorly. No really, they should be paid like half a mil a year just base salary. Fuck they have to understand both front end AND back end AND how different browsers work AND networking AND databases AND caching AND differences between web and mobile AND omg what the fuck there's another framework out there that companies want to use? Seriously, why are webdevs paid so little.

AMEN to this. I've been in the industry for 20+ years and at this point I know so many different frameworks (front-end and back-end), databases (SQL and NoSQL), networking protocols, browser differences, ORMs, it goes on and on.

I'm paid what I barely consider adequate.
One thing I've always wondered: since credit cards generally have relatively pro-consumer policies, why didn't they just take the next logical step and write "retaliation for chargebacks isn't allowed" into their merchant agreements?
> I love to somewhere surrounded by nature, open my laptop and use my phone as hotspot, but I feel the fatigue after some time…

I think this has more value than just working somewhere in the arms of nature. The fact that we no longer see sunsets as often as we should and with mobile phones and modern IPS panel screens constantly feeding daylight (morninglight) spectrum through our eyes into our brains, we stifle our body clock [1] too easily.

A screen that works outside of the covered space or even in the sunroom of my house would mean a lot. It will offer better sleep patterns than today.

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2017/press-releas...
He isn't against ISOs, the "there are no ISOs" is a Serenity-internal meme. The thing is that because SerenityOS moves so fast, it makes no sense to provide ISOs, they would be outdated within days. Also, Andreas and other top contributors have other things to worry about than keeping a nightly imaging system of some sort up and running. But if you (or me or anyone, even people inside the Serenity circle) were to make an ISO archive, nobody, including Andreas, would complain. It's just not a priority by any means.

Also, as mentioned previously, it's really not that hard to build it (even if you run Windows thanks to WSL 2). People are very willing to help you, and most of it is just waiting for the toolchain to compile (custom gcc and the likes).
I agree with your sentiment about the relative scale of current US and Chinese detention crimes, but you may want to rethink just how genocide happens.

It was not official policy to torture children in Canada, and yet St. Anne's residential school had an electric chair. And so Canada refused responsibility, instead deflecting blame to the Catholic Church and "rogue" nuns. Eventually you need to accept that depraved individuals acting with impunity is part of the plan.

Consider just how hard ICE works to keep lawyers and journalists away to limit oversight. It is a recipe for abuse. Congressional leadership, and the president were very clear -- dissuasion through vindictive treatment was the goal.

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/st-anne-residential...
Subtle flex. He has a wife.
There are definitely IP address based tracking going on.

My partners birthday was coming up and I thought she might like a weighted blanket as a gift.

Within 10 mins of doing some light searching for prices and local outlets on my office computer, she came into my office smiling asking if I was planning on buying her one for her birthday.

She had suddenly seen multiple ads for weighted blankets appear on Facebook.

This was the most obvious example, but there have been many others were one of us researching something through our home internet connection will affect the advertising the other person sees.

I now have to be more careful in how I do my gift searching. Personally, I'm not really seeing this type of targeted advertising as a net positive.
I have an OLPC I found on ebay- by sheer luck I managed to find an XO-4, the newer ARM-based model. It's a slow, humble machine, but it's rugged as hell, usable in sunlight, gets about 5 hours of battery life in realistic conditions, and doesn't have any trouble running vim, gcc, git, or ssh. I would never use it as my daily-driver, but it is a nice distraction-free way to do a little tinkering in the great outdoors. Would recommend.
Ads? What ads? I don't watch TV and I have adblock for everything.

Last time was probably when I went to cinema, which is well over a year ago.
Formal SanskritSyntax: ASpecification for Programming Language (2020) [pdf]
Clueless questions:

1. Assuming it's easy to keep 20C (I thought it's problematic to keep such a low temp for satellite which has problem radiating heat away), what about transfer, is electronics not yet operating back then or do you use some heating elements specifically for bootstrap?

2. Just to be clear 25C is what is used as room temp in electronics and not something you set your thermostat too at home, right?

3. (easily googlable feel free to skip) - how does heat management look for satelatie electronics? Are peltiers used? Do you just put everything in some heat conductive material? Is there some gas sealed around PCB or is it vacuum? In case of the latter and if everything is not surrounded by some heat conductive substance how do you deal with thermal runaway? Is maybe PCB itself and paths enough to make it less bad than I imagine?

Thanks a lot, I'm sorry about so many questions, just got curious.
Because my LTV was really high.

Yep, I think this is exactly how things work. My household buys pretty much anything it can from Amazon unless it's more expensive than we can get elsewhere because our Amazon credit cards automatically give a 5% discount (cash back). Since we pay our balance every month this is basically like having 5% more income proportional to the amount spent on Amazon**

We never have a problem dealing with customer service. A simple chat solves pretty much everything immediately, and when it's Amazon's fault they'll apply a courtesy credit towards our account. (Actually that hasn't happened a lot lately-- maybe something they don't do as much any more, or maybe they've calculated that we're solid enough customers that we're not quiting Amazon just because Amazon didn't give us free money)

*The first time we used Amazon Fresh was a complete epiphany for us. I was sick so couldn't go food shopping. Instead I gave Fresh a shot, and found out that on average their prices were 10% to 15% lower than I paid at the supermarket, and* we still got the same 5% cash back from using our Amazon credit card. Even after a good tip for the driver, we were still saving money. In terms of selection, they probably lack about 10% of the things we normally buy or they're much more expensive (meats especially) so I still do the occasional trip to the local grocery store to stock up.
That is unironically written on a website hosted in the us were it is fully possible to write information as critical as you want about any American political party or more or less who you want.
Are they listening to mics? That is constantly debated/debunked.

But yes...geolocation, networks you log to, phones you are near, what you search. That all seems to play a part.

Linkedin has in the past for me suggested connections based on the wifi I was using. Someone who I don't have common friends or career as and I was getting their contacts as suggestions just after using the same wifi. I have no facebook account...but it seems every phone I buy has it preinstalled.

To me I have long assumed this was going on. With the number of sensors and the capability to have a near constant data connection it boils down to "if they can...they will".
But as a good friend of mine says "I thought this was what we wanted". People seem to enjoy that the first button they see when they log in is the button they were actually looking for. (not saying everyone...some take security/privacy very serious...but the flame is bright for the masses).

I constantly have ads served to me for something that has been discussed in the room near me...or topics I would never have an interest in but the conversation was happening near me. My assumption is someone I was near enough for my phone to "see" their MAC address (if via common wifi or if it is adhoc...doesn't matter) and they searched the terms later.

I have become so used to this it has stopped bothering me. The real concerns I have are when I start getting served ads for things like Cancer or other medical treatments. It makes me say in my head "Does the bot know something I don't? Is there some sort of symptom I am having and the AI has picked up on it before me?"

At any rate...welcome to the future. Accept that tracking is a thing. I don't personally see a way to force the companies who have already become some of the biggest in the world by storing/selling data that they need to stop. Even through regulation. My personal opinion is we have passed the point of no return...it is the new normal until "the great reset" which will take a near extinction level event to force us back.
WWRD: What would Henry Rollins do?
Thanks for the explanation. It raises other questions, like how they would know small MACHOs haven't darkened the sky (I'm guess either you'd see twinking or it'd shift the stars downward on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram to some "unnatural" location) - but I get the gist of it. It's an interesting area of research. Really appreciate you illuminating it for me :)
According to their GitHub they seem to be using a standard $3 ESP8266

With a few modifications I bet you can very easily port their source to a much larger and sensible display, should you be so inclined.
The agreement was never a symmetric "free trade" agreement. Everyone knew China wasn't going to be as open to imports as the US was. Chinese consumers, in the late 70s, were so poor that it didn't matter anyway. Mcdonalds and Coke were symbolic outliers, but all the negotiators knew these things.

US negotiators did get what they actually wanted, US "FDI" investments in China protected by western style corporate laws.

Foxcon-Apple stuff is exactly what both parties had in mind. Foxconn (Taiwan is pax americana) invest in building the factory, funded by Western/US banks. Apple own the IP and gain most of the equity. China gets jobs, a trade surplus, and builds foreign currency reserves.

The game has been played for a while, and all parties got a lot of what they wanted. Foxconn really does generate a ton of equity for Apple. China really has built up a ton of foreign currency reserves. Etc.

I'm not saying this is good. China should stop being so surplus oriented and let salaries rise. The US should give some attention to domestic labour, etc.... That's my opinion though. It was not the opinion of negotiators in the 70s and 80s.
Is this being manufactured in India as well? Can you share more details
Ask HN: If You Thrive like Me Under Pressure, How do You Replicate That Drive?
Hey everyone, To put this in the simplest terms possible, I went through a difficult period months ago. This situation caused me a lot of stress and strong emotions for a short amount of time. I responded very proactively, I was waking up early everyday to go running, I was eating healthier, lifting after work in the evenings, and mentally being more “in the moment.” It was honestly a strange temporary mind shift I had, but I was super focused during this time.

Now I’m way over what happened and I have lost that edge and I’m falling back to my normal behavior.

I don't know if that level of hard work is sustainable over long periods of time, but surely there are other ways to tap into that zone I was in? Has anyone else ever experienced something like this?
“ Today, at least 270 Chinese diplomats in 126 countries are active on Twitter and Facebook. Together with Chinese state media, they control 449 accounts on Twitter and Facebook, which posted nearly 950,000 times between June and February. These messages were liked over 350 million times and replied to and shared more than 27 million times, according to the Oxford Internet Institute and AP’s analysis.”

If the world’s democratic nations fail to react to China’s growing popularity, we’re going to see more and more of our countrymen slip into anti-enlightenment ways of thinking. This is ironic because enlightenment ideals would have assumed opening economic ties with China should have led to democratic ideals in China, but that didn’t pan out.

US military might isn’t going to draw down China’s anti-democratic interests. China’s economic power is actually beating our democratic ideals. Being anti-China isn’t going to help. The rise of China as the world’s greatest economic superpower seems inevitable. The best solution will be a global effort to stream South Park directly to the Chinese people. Laughing at the absurdity of the situation is the best way to promote anti-authoritarian thinking.
> So, we have to figure out how to change the incentive structure so that professors don't attempt to perform Academic Fraud or we h ave to figure out if fraud does exist after the fact.

One possible way: increase funding to the arts and sciences. The total NSF budget was ~$8B, or 0.03% of US GDP. We could double that and no one would even notice. Increased funding means more money to go around, means higher acceptance rates for grants, means less incentive to write fraudulent papers.

The best part is, you have the power to actually change this. Write your congressperson, vote for a congressperson who pledges to do this, run for congress yourself, or organize other people to do this with you.
As a side note funny how Germany has been prosperous without de-industrialising but in the USA the popular sentiment among many seems to have been we can't export our industry faster.
https://archive.is/M7bA3
Does it matter though? Your brain will recognize it based on the look and the feel, isn't that enough when you're in a store?
Deep work is not about producing complex code. The result is most likely the opposite: it is a hard work, to make something look simple.

The term "deep work" is from here https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers...
If the universities wanted the problem fixed it would be fixed. I truly don't believe research universities are focused on producing value (other than to themselves).