skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I had chronic insomnia and sleep hygiene worked for me! The biggest biggest things were a totally dark bedroom, only using lamps in the evening, and switching back to halogen/incandescents for the lamps. And little screen use/activity in the hour before bed, along with having a routine.

I also have had a lot of success with podcasts to fall asleep.

Before this I’d often be awake until 1-3 am. It was terrible.

It sucks it didn’t work for you, but am chiming in to say for others that if you really try sleep hygiene and tinker with it, it may well work.
does that actually hold up in "at will" states?
> El Salvador receives millions of dollars in aid from the US.

This has been true for decades. Not anymore. A couple of weeks back the US gov said that it would stop all USAID funding and give it instead to ONGs in El Salvador which are basically the opposition or anti-Bukele.

I assume that there are other ways that the US gov sends "aid" but I'm sure these will also stop soon enough.
Researchers’ algorithm to make CRISPR gene editing more precise
We're currently quite off-topic if i'm honest.

I think the author was specifically talking about RAID-1 redundancy and is advocating that you can leave your systems with RAID-0 (so no redundant drives in each server), as you're gonna need multiple nodes in your cluster anyway... so if any of your systems disks break, you can just let it go down and replace the disk while the node is offline.

but despite being offtopic: redundant implementations are -from my experience - not used in a failover way. they're active at all times and load is spread if you can do that, so you'd likely find the inconsistencies in the integration test layer.
Bandcamp friday was fantastic, as far as I can tell it has now finished - there wasn't one last friday and https://isitbandcampfriday.com/ says it is over.
As said with the other comment, Netherlands has negotiated bilateral deals with individual corporations. So the rate you are quoting is for Dutch corporations but now what foreign corporations pay. That is why almost large corporation has a nameplate office there.
British veterans set a new hypermiling record of 9.14 miles per kWh
Apple is giving non-technical users the ability to create ephemeral email addresses. It is good for privacy, but those addresses with random characters will be a nightmare to spell out.. I wish they could have taken the correct-horse-battery-staple approach.

I own an easy-to-spell domain and I know many people like me use <business_name>@mydomain.com for all the services. Sometimes some customer service person at <business_name> does not believe it is a legit email address and insist to get an email from a "reputable" email provider(last time it happened was when I purchased a sedan from a dealership). So I give them a made-up gmail account and will never hear from them.

I use a different strategies when dealing with some industries known for shady business practices. For example, moving companies. If you google "cross country moving", you see a lot of websites with similar domains and business names. Last time I requested quotes for my cross country move, I left emails like usdot-<usdot_registration_number_of_the_business>@mydomain.com. And unsurprisingly, some of my email addresses got leaked/sold to some insurance scammers.
So I've just discovered the pronunciation I learned in school is basically medieval.

Interesting to see how the classic one is actually even closer to Italian in some ways.
looks at calendar Is this the year yet? :D
Well, in a gold-backed world, we had frequent but small bubbles that corrected inefficient economic activity relatively quickly. In a post-gold-backed world, we have less frequent but much much larger bubbles that result in devastating economic crises. Is that really the stability you want?

With modern economic knowledge, technology, and techniques, a gold-backed dollar could be quite a bit more stable than it was in the 1800s, don't you agree? But we don't have to go back to gold to fix this problem. The problem is not gold or not gold. The problem is massive monetary inflation. That can be solved without going back to gold backing. What gold-backing did was create a culture that believed in a limited money supply. When we destroyed that culture, we created the problem.
Maybe somebody smarter than hiring committee figured it would be an idea to look through that person's twitter profile, IMO they dodged a bullet.

"For tech writers, this means that it doesn’t matter that your job is often much more than it says on paper or that it requires a high level of technical knowledge or that your work brings more value than many others who are paid more."

So, an already disgruntled worker who doesn't see their role. i think docs are important - the notion documenting other's (already documented somewhat by virtue f API existing) work is more valuable is nonsense.

Inflated sense of self.

That's just one red flag I found within 30 secs of scrolling.
The author clearly explains how this works in the sentence immediately following. "Instead it has internally a thing called flash translation layer (FTL)" ...
“802.11x is generic term to refer to the IEEE 802.11 standard for defining communication over a wireless LAN (WLAN).”

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/508/ieee-80211x

I believe you’re looking for 802.1X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1X
> You also have to consider that the absolute risk (the risk of catching Sars-Cov2 multiplied by the risk of COVID) is far lower with current prevalence.

and you are playing your part knowingly or unknowingly in possibly causing the mutation and spread of a new variant that is not effectively controlled by the current crop of vaccines which could lead to another lockdown and mass deaths.

When masks come off there will be a sharp uptick in unvaccinated people getting covid and dying... the current majority of people that get covid and die are the unvaccinated by a large, large margin. It's not going away and you will likely get covid if you are unvaccinated since it spreads so well and life is going back to maskless soon enough.
I agree that individuals should control their own devices.

I also agree with Apple's implicit claim that if iOS users could sideload apps, millions of idiot iOS users would get their devices owned after they followed some "follow these seven steps to get free $POPULAR_MOBILE_GAME tokens!" guide they found on the web, making the platform less trustworthy overall.

Apple makes a good argument that buying an iPhone is also buying, in a sense, a remote managed security service for the device at the same time. The net effect of this is that millions of people now have devices mostly free of the most egregious malware (and it's limited to just spyware, delivered via the App Store). For most users, this is a better state of affairs (at least in peacetime, or outside of China/Vietnam/Russia/etc).
Fans of this type of thing may enjoy listening to The Allusionist podcast: https://www.theallusionist.org/.
Federated login has existed for a while. The main diff w/ Eth is the way it works with its keys. But saying it "solved a major problem" is a real stretch. You could say the same about Okta and the like. Stuff like this has been around since the 90s.

The main problem I see w/ Eth login is that it relies on your credentials being on the machine, and makes propagating those to other machines harder for non-tech folks. Whereas the whole user/pass solution is much easier to follow for the common person.
Agree with this. If an employee was laid off even on their first week on the job, a company like Stripe would offer them some severance package. Same thing should apply if it happens a week before they start.
That's good point, I suspect it's more a question of time before English replaces French in the UN and similar institutions though.
I don't know about that, but they are currently hiring a user experience designer: https://bandcamp.com/jobs
You have fallen afoul of Poe's Law.

Basically, it is now impossible to make a point by attempting to present an absurdly extreme viewpoint in the opposite direction, because too many of us have encountered people who genuinely espouse viewpoints even more extreme. (As well as the exact one you said—no matter what it happens to be.)

If you want to present such a thing sarcastically, you're gonna have to make an explicit indication of your sarcasm (even just a "/s" at the end is usually enough). Otherwise, you're very likely to just be taken as meaning it sincerely.
We have centuries of evidence that unpersonalized ads are both the best for brands (if you aren't preaching to the choir you are opening the door widest for expanding your buying audience) and individuals (discovering things that you didn't know you needed, discovering things that other people in your life might need but aren't directly relevant to you, avoiding the mental health detriments of how the more targeted an ad becomes the more likely it uses psychological tricks to manipulate you [all advertising is manipulation; but the amount of manipulation you can get away with in a general ad is very different that what we are seeing in targeted ads], etc).

The only people really benefitting from targeted ads are the companies making the ad tech (including and especially Google) making billions of dollars from "platforms" that do way too much to prop up "metrics" that mean way too little in practice (but are great for creating fancy invoices to charge just about whatever you want to the rubes [sorry, advertisers]).

(I've been taking a lot of steps to opt out of personalized ads, without outright running ad blockers, though these days a lot of sites now believe Firefox to be an ad blocker, and the ads are better unpersonalized. It's just amazing that so much of our culture on either side of the ad tech "platforms" has been sold such a bill of goods to think that personalized ads are doing anything but sucking money out of good companies into at the very least morally gray if not unethical ones.)
7 years ago I woke up at 2AM to a commotion outside. It was my neighbors home - on fire - and by the time I got outside to check what was going on, the fire jumped to my home. Had I not heard the noise, I would've probably died in my sleep.

Given that situation or any other possible emergency that may occur in the middle of the night, sleeping with earbuds playing old TV shows seems like a very bad idea...

Be careful.
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> Could someone explain the obsessive devotion to doing all Artificial "Life" research in terms of Cellular Automata?

Uh, it doesn't exist. Plenty of A-life research doesn't use cellular automata as a model.

> Also, if anyone knows of alternative methods to CA in studying the properties of life then I would also be interested in learning of these.

https://avida.devosoft.org/
> Your general tone is aggressive.

Can you quote something I have written with an aggressive tone?

>> I’m curious if you can quote anywhere where I’ve made it clear I’m an activist.

Here’s a quote:

“Why do I need to say something bad about China? I’m a US citizen. That’s the only country I have any chance of impacting through criticism.”

And another:

“My only aim is to dissent against the manufacturing of consent for another bloody US war. What’s yours?”

You have an acknowledged political agenda behind your comments here.
The real estate effort makes sense because it gives an objective to organize around. In the case I made, I should probably elaborate. I don’t think there are many groups of people wanting to take over mail delivery for profit, or that those groups are terribly committed. I think it more often serves as an ideological punching bag that represents public services in general. The USPS is often cited in arguments for why public healthcare supposedly can never work, for example, despite it’s success in most developed nations. This depends on attacking public services in general. Currently, maintaining this sentiment for the private sector against the public sector is important to the effort to withhold IP of the coronavirus vaccine from the third world. IP laws are often complained about by HN readers, but IP itself is not. This conflict between regulation and anarchy is an eternal contradiction in the entrepreneurial pursuit, but public services which serve working people equally are ideologically beyond the pale, enemies of the entrepreneurial spirit.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Hiring, especially at larger scale, is a matter of constant, neverending multidimensional compromises.
Hmm, if someone says, what’s a project to teach me about programming, there’s a ton.

It is also well-defined in its own way, you need to know something before you even know how to narrow down your interests.

A 0th step, “what’s a cool project roughly in this area” seems like a well-posed question.
Just ask the girl scouts in your area.
Pakistan province tells citizens to get jabbed or have their SIM card blocked
> Trapped electrons vs magnetic regions;

From the physics point of view, aren't both cases the same thing?.

Isn't magnetic regions a state of the electric field? so if I move electrons in and out, the electric field should be changing as well
It's the easiest way in comparison to losing physical access to the property by selling or renting it out. Equity lines of credit are very easy, they're not free money but then again TANSTAAFL.
Ahh. CPaaS
Possibly because of the ongoing work of replacing the Chrome browser from Chrome OS with the Linux one.
It's worse the poorer you already are on average, I figure. My cousin was switched to WFH and she had no where quiet to work. Always someone shouting or kids playing too loud. Fixing that sort of issue is not easy when cash strapped. If WFH becomes obligatory there will be some who will have no where to work, in the sense of office space. Seems like a potential poverty trap.
this has been going on for years. amazon benefits, so they allow the practice.
I've gradually come around to the side of PoW being important as layer 1, because it's as close as we're likely to get to Lockean labor theory of property being directly manifest rather than built on a legal-deeds-and-titles national framework, and that has an immediate effect of building trust out of speculative value. PoW can be made more efficient along some axes, but not all of them. As such it puts every economy in a Red Queen's race to do things with available energy and computing power that are of more value than speculation.

However, PoS has an important role as the layer for specific applications and markets, since it acts more like central banking with the tradeoffs of such.
I can relate. At my first job, I spent ages customizing my Macbook. Everything from dark/light themes, shortcuts, gestures, terminal, bash aliases, etc, was meticulously personalized to be both effective and fun. Then I moved to a second job and was horrified at the thought of going through all that work a second time. Now I wget my bash aliases, tweak things as I go, and leave it at that. I wish there was a good way to make customization portable, but then you take on the work of maintaining it as programs and OSes update.
Why would you be surprised that the TCS or Cognizant or Accenture customer support rep in Bangalore would care one iota about security?

All they care about minimizing Average-time-to-answer and Average-handle-time.
And the rise in housing prices is a bubble created by monetary inflation. Asset prices increase first when money is created. Houses are one of the many safe havens that people put their money into when the economy has poor investment and savings options. Monetary inflation also fuels cheap loans that inflate these assets and get people into long term debt obligations - because money is largely created by giving out loans. This is all part of the same problem.
You have scabies? Asthma? Cancer?

Well, now, have I got something for you! Just right here, in this bottle, I have a medication that is not only federally guaranteed not to hurt you, but also will fix your problem right up! And it's just $10,000 per bottle! Step right up!
>By whose fiat can the supply of Bitcoin be inflated?

That's not what "fiat" means in this context. Fiat money is simply money that is asserted to be valuable. Control over issuance of money by those who assert the value of money is not an essential element of fiat money.

For example, the US dollar is adopted as the currency of the Republic of Palau, and yet the Republic of Palau has no control over the US dollar. Does that suggest to you that, in Palau, the US dollar is not the fiat currency?

>And are precious metals fiat by the standard you've laid out? Or are they commodities strictly on thin premise that you can use silver as a disinfectant, etc?

Precious metals are not money; they're commodities. No-one thinks they're money. The question "are precious metals fiat?" is meaningless.
I got one of those once, and wrote a review saying that this seller is paying for 5 star reviews and even though the product seemed fine, be wary of 5 star reviews. Amazon removed my review as going against the terms of service.
Giving your cookies short timeouts, say 5 minutes, and including the client's ip address in the cookie are both mitigating techniques.
I'm not sure I'd call it a "trend" (since there seems to be a concerted, if not obviously successful effort now to get more kids interested in STEM in the US at least), but more of a long-running thread of anti-intellectualism in general.
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Why, what did the Italian Automobiles Factory in Turin do?
Yes, but wages are "sticky" and lag in the rise. Statistically, it should work out fine. As a curious tangent, I've been reading that we will be entering stagflation soon as we continue with inflation and as people re-enter the workforce en masse wages will be driven down.

Devaluing the debt definitely helps, but I think you noted before that that wealth is largely inaccessible.
These are also two classes of consumer facing product that are most regulated and likely to contain electronics

(I'm excluding cribs...because my partner laughed at me when I suggested building our crib and told me that was fine as long as I followed all the rules)
It's odd to say that the only company you had a direct business relationship with had nothing to do with it. Product liability does apply to the seller of that product, in addition to the manufacturer and distributor. That doesn't mean retailers won't fight it, or that it is easy to prove. It's just how the laws are in the US.
Also the Endless Knot podcast: http://www.alliterative.net/podcast
> And what would be the point of this simulation that has been running for billions of years?

There is zero evidence for or against the simulation hypothesis, so why would some random person on HN be able to have the answer to this question even if we are in a simulation or even if we simply assume that we are?
The problem probably isn't Slack itself, but EA's policies around Slack. I think it's not nothing that the social engineering happened over Slack. For starters, somehow login cookies to the Slack were stolen and then sold, and those were enough to get into the Slack. And then in 2 separate instances, the hackers were able to convince IT to give them 2 new tokens.

Maybe the IT team/policy is just weak across the board, and they would've handed keys over the phone or through internal email. But it's not impossible for the IT team to have a complacent mindset around Slack.
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I believe it's that and a much higher inflation rate than is admitted by a government that uses inflation as a hidden tax.

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
its not that common. i have a friend who has blackout periods on his RSUs, but no company ive worked at with RSUs has any black out period.
That's pretty hilarious. Reminds me of construction equipment. At some point on some highway, I realized construction machines, materials, and so on are probably pretty expensive, yet they're just left out there without even a tarp to hide them. I guess they're so difficult to move it wouldn't be worth even trying to steal them.
Can someone explain to a non-native speaker what’s surprising about this?

> The leap from a word meaning "imaginary" to a word meaning "fantastic" struck me as odd initially, but apparently it comes from the sense of the word "imaginary" as "unreal".

What other sense is there that Wiktionary doesn’t know about?

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/imaginary
smoke signals
Can anyone comment on this please? (from the nysenate.gov link in the article)

"This bill require original equipment manufacturers (OEM) to make diag-
nostic and repair information for digital electronic parts and equipment
available to independent repair providers and consumers if such parts
and repair information are also available to OEM authorized repair
providers."

This seems to imply that if something is being sold as non repairable, it will continue to be, since there would be no authorized repair providers.
I think many artificial life simulations end up underwhelming because life is incredibly complex, and so it's very hard to simulate at scale. This ALiEn is perhaps the most advanced one I've seen, and it looks like even still they take some shortcuts (like copypasting interesting organisms from previous simulations together to create interesting interactions).

What you see as a criticism of this line of research I think is actually its reason: Life is arguably the most interesting thing in the universe, and if we can create it digitally it will surprise us. Evolution yields insights and solutions that you cannot predict. If we can synthesize what the minimal set of key properties are necessary for artificial lifeforms to create interesting unexpected outcomes, it helps us clarify the definition of what a non-biological organism could be.

I'm personally fascinated by the idea of autonomous digital agents that exist and self replicate while trying to earn cryptocurrency, which is used to pay for the hosting costs of themselves and their progeny. I think we are about two decades away from this being realized, but in the future, software services could self assemble, replicate imperfectly and evolve to please humans without any humans writing additional code: we'd just have to code a profitable LUCA, create suitable 'nests' and pay the organisms that please us. "What is life" is debatable, but IMO this would be a valid digital lifeform.
Committing fraud against the most desperate, vulnerable people in the country is universally regarded as unethical.
Raidz expansion feature leaving alpha
This feature allows disks to be added one at a time to a RAID-Z group,
expanding its capacity incrementally.
I don’t know for sure, however I presume if you have a compromised browser extension or malware on your device then the cookie can be extracted. And then they’re sold on marketplaces for black hats.
That's fantastic news, though I don't know what percentage of apps on fdroid will be covered? One of the requirements is:

> the app that’s being installed targets API level 29 (Android 10) or higher. (Google notes that the target API level requirement will advance in future Android versions ...
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I have been eating and loving Lebanon bologna since I was 4 or 5 so about 48 years now. Twice this week I had a Lebanon bologna sandwich for lunch. Sweet Lebanon bologna however is an abomination. I know HN guidance is too assume the best intentions of others but with an opinion preferring sweet Lebanon bologna it is very hard.