skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is this actually for? Programmers need clarity and precision, not "fun" analogies stretched past their breaking point. (I mentally facepalmed when it got to the glass floats. Why even bother with the river at that point?)

And it can't be aimed at children, given that amount of technical jargon (we suddenly go from otters and rivers and bees to headers, keys, values and timestamps). And, well, children don't need a book about Kafka.
Yeah, that's what I expected, a proposal to silence the speech of some people to protect others. Maybe you haven't thought enough about free speech, not me?

I think Ken White covered this dichotomy best, in this case a few years ago over a guy name Pax who got fired for his intemperate speech. See below.

> The foundation of "witch hunt" rhetoric is the notion that some free speech (say, Pax's) is acceptable, and other free speech (say, the speech of people criticizing and ridiculing Pax and his employer) is not. You can try to find a coherent or principled way to reconcile that, but you will fail.

https://www.popehat.com/2013/09/10/speech-and-consequences/
That was very unprofessional and disrespectful from them.

Technologies should be debated by weighting their pros and cons, not with insults.
> Most people got their first taste of widescreen gaming with the Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3

To put on my pedantic hat for a minute: the Wii was only ever 480p and never truly output in widescreen

However, there was one exception: Super Smash Bros Brawl had a "widescreen" mode where it could widen the virtual camera such that if you stretched the 640x480 picture across a wide-screen TV, it would look correct

Edit: I should have read the article! Brawl did exactly what's described here as happening on older consoles
Good point. There's a hierarchy of priorities. First prevent children from starving, then give them computers. It's true that in Argentina more than half of children live in poverty https://chequeado.com/hilando-fino/casi-6-de-cada-10-chicos-...
Why not? You can demand anything you want and I've yet to see a country agree to a demand simply because the other party wasn't a hypocrite.
At least one poster in this thread has attempted to bully me. He failed - and not because anyone tried to correct his behavior. It's because his insults do not affect me.
"Recompose, the country’s first human composting funeral home does it like this: a corpse is placed in a cylinder with organic materials, like wood chips, plants, and straw, then heated and turned repeatedly for several weeks with a hook until it’s broken down into a nutrient-rich soil that can be delivered back to the family or used for planting."

Every time I read about using human corpses to produce soil, I recall this article:

"Grass plants bind, retain, uptake and transport infectious prions"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4449294/

In the past I read about this or similar startup and they mentioned that they don't accept corpses of people diagnosed with prion diseases. IMHO, this is not enough. For example, a person with early CJD could die of other cause and never be diagnosed. Besides that, sporadic CJD isn't as rare as "1 per million" (still rare though).

Here is an interesting video about prion diseases that, among other things, discusses epidemiology ("1 in 7000 US deaths"):

"Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Other Prion Diseases - Brian Appleby, M.D."

https://youtu.be/4vyuby6gibs?t=328

Testing of corpses based on Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification (PMCA) might come in handy (if it's not too expensive). It is claimed to be very sensitive. Here is presentation by Dr. Rodrigo Morales (one of the authors of the article about prion uptake by plants that I linked above):

"Texas CWD Symposium: Pre-symptomatic prion detection"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ZX8sHAPUw

P.S.: Hopefully, this eco-burial fad wouldn't catch on. How about deep sea burials?
Oh wow, they are still around..
It is also signals a package of personality traits:

* rejecting other personal hygiene customs

* being noticeably more pedantic

* picking every battle/argument

* lower than normal respect for other's boundaries

* lower than normal awareness of how their actions effect others

* making "being rational" a core part of their identity

* dismissing human behaviors they don't do as irrational. usually these are the ones where rational explanations do exist, they are just difficult to re-invent on the spot.

This package is common enough to have earned itself a name, which happens to be the easiest visual indicator.
UX design and UX writing are not necessarily the same skill set.
I might have missed it, but what is the license?

I have the project of building a large user generated map for African countries, using photos and osm,

Adding some needed features like weather based road conditions, and road state and type.

Good job for the release!
When you pay a lot of money for something, there is a psychological bias to give it qualities to justify the expense.
You don’t see how you could end up wasting time when a comment led to you making an incorrect assumption? If they don’t affect how you read the code would mean they’re useless.
We're just on one side of a culture war. The elder generation (no prizes for guessing which one) appears to have descended into fantasies about WW2 and the empire and it is being left to the young to try to be honest. There is no suggestion that we are the first; rather, I suggest our victory over the apologists might be starker and more final. Perhaps wishful thinking.
Interesting! I did not even know about NNTP.
I've owned one for 10 years now and it's still as solid as it was on day 1.

I would routinely break XL weight and sized chairs, probably because of odd sitting positions although I'm around 260 right now and the chairs were rated for 375.

This thing? Rock solid.

My advice if you are looking for a chair? Buy one. You don't have to buy a new one either. One of the first thing a lot of companies do when they're flush with VC money is to upgrade the offices, and that often means name-brand chairs. There are TONS of Aerons floating around for a few hundred bucks.
> Picks up the occasional backfiring car though.

It picks up more than occasional backfires besides actual gunshots, which is connected to concerns about its use being a pretext for selective policing in minority communities (or even outright manufacturing evidence to support police narratives):

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/police...

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“...a study of Chicago police data found that over a nearly 22-month period ending in mid-April, almost 90% of ShotSpotter alerts didn’t result in officers reporting evidence of shots fired or of any gun crime.”
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-police-crime-shootings-be...

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https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/jun/19/pros-and-cons-gunshot-... (The series of “ifs” used in the police lieutenant's defense of the value of the system is...quite impressive.)

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Simmons was accused of firing the first shot and charged with the attempted murder of a police officer, among other offences. Recordings by ShotSpotter were used against Simmons at trial, but evidence surfaced that the service had initially categorized loud noises in his neighborhood as the sound of a helicopter overhead — until Rochester police notified the service that an officer-involved shooting had taken place. ShotSpotter would then change the number of gunshots that it had reportedly detected from three shots to four shots, and then five shots.

After spending 18 months in jail and eventually being cleared of attempted aggravated murder, aggravated assault of a police officer, and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, Simmons is now suing the city of Rochester, two police officers, a former police chief, and ShotSpotter. Matters were complicated when Paul Greene, the Forensic Services Manager of ShotSpotter, admitted in court that the audio file from the time of Simmons’ shooting was gone. Greene also admitted that unlocked or unencrypted ShotSpotter audio files can be altered by ShotSpotter employees or police.

https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/gun-violence-po...
I've bought a fairly cheap office chair around 3 years ago which I've been happy with.

For me the solution was to go to a few stores and actually sit on a bunch of them until I found one that had lumbar support at the right height, and mushy enough on the actual seat and armrests. Nothing but the seat height is adjustable on this model, but at the end of the day I spent 1/5th the cost of the cheapest Aeron chair available at the time.

With that said, no chair will save you from the wrong posture. Which also means: never ever, ever, ever consider using both the laptop's screen and inputs as anything more than an "emergency use only". At the very least either use an external monitor, or use external K&M with the laptop on top of a very tall support that puts the center of the screen right at eye level.
I really liked the Codec system from the original Metal Gear Solid, for PS1. It made almost perfect sense in-game, with your tactical team monitoring your movements and able to see what you were doing, and it was done in a clever way. When a codec sequence is unskippable for story reasons, the designers will sneak some tips in that way, but more importantly, if the player takes a long time moving through an area, they might get an optional call. Answering the call will usually explain some new mechanic in the area, and additionally provides some fun side-lore and comic relief, so it can double as a tiny reward.

Laid out all at once, these conversations would be an overwhelming amount of information to absorb and exposition to follow, but the game generally nails the pacing. Provided you don't repeatedly call like a goof, the calls all seem like reasonable radio chatter, and hardly break immersion. Experienced players will move through the level quickly enough to miss the more tutorial-like prompts, and can ignore optional calls if they'd rather get on with the gameplay.
It is said in the article that documents can be provided early. So you could read the stuff twice, first the day before so you have the time to think and then at the meeting to refresh your memory. So no, you probably won't have a disadvantage because of your careful thinking.
Future of any business after COVID19
I love Godot but it’s a stretch to describe it as multi-platform when it doesn’t support any of the consoles. Especially when compared to Unity or Unreal.
That’s why I use only floats in my code, and a patched Python interpreter that replaces “if” with “seemslikely”.
I have the logitech version of the HM embody chair. It supposedly has more cushioning and some cooling, but it doesn't seem too different. I think the materials on the Aeron were superior, but the embody has a more relaxed position and won out in the end.
When I first started working from home because of the pandemic, I had a IKEA Marcus chair, however, this soon was too bad of a chair to sit all day in, so I ended up investing in a Herman Miller Embody, and have not been looking back since. Great chair!
Thank you for the link. I'll check it out!
Can you summarize at a high level, specifically, his philosophy against individual rankings/bonuses? If I, a hypothetical high achiever, knew that my average co-worker was to receive the same bonus as me, sure I may be more collaborative and work towards the overall success of the team, but I personally sure would be demotivated to work as hard as I may have otherwise.
Alkaline hydrolysis (water cremation) is another green way of disposing human and animal remains. It's a low cost option too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_hydrolysis_(body_disp...
You can't go wrong with the ErgoChair Pro from Autonomous: https://www.autonomous.ai/

Check out PostureHealth: https://theposturehealth.com/beta

The app uses your webcam to monitor your posture and alerts you if you've been slouching for an extended period of time. It's a desktop app and no visuals are stored/recorded on the cloud. It will also remind you to take walk breaks and gives you stretches for back and joint care.
Can't recommend Branch's ergonomic and elevate chairs enough — I have the ergonomic at home and the elevate at the office.

I've tried basically all of the premium chair options from Herman, Steelcase, etc. but haven't found a better quality:price ratio than Branch's. The value is just so much better than any $800+ chair (added plus, Branch is a small company and their customer service is excellent — you can trade in your chair for credit when you're done with it).

Check out the elevate if you're looking for strong upper back/neck support: https://www.branchfurniture.com/products/ergonomic-chair
Yet in this case most experts were not neutral referees. They had careers in "gain of function" research at stake.
In the wild at actual data centers I'd gladly bet $10,000 it's actually under 1%.

It'd be the easiest $10,000 I'd ever make
This is just a "minor usability issue". Seriously. In Factor, you can solve this with references to local variables, which under the covers manipulate the stack as needed. It can also typecheck, so you wouldn't be able to write the expression in a way which unbalances the stack.
Malware comes from the outside. Stealing company secrets and selling them is what I would be worried about from internal threats. Either way least access necessarily where possible is a good strategy.
I code in this way as well, particularly when working with pre-existing, poorly documented codebases

Thanks for the link. I may have to find a copy of that book at the library :)
it says it right in the description, which you don't need a subscription to read

> In 2019, the Windows operating system was used on 72.1 percent of servers worldwide, whilst the Linux operating system accounted for 13.6 percent of servers. Compared to 2018, both companies experienced an increase to their overall market share.
This project was a disaster, no matter how you slice it. It is very lucky that it failed only as much as it did. That it was down so much of the time made it worse than useless: expensive to build, expensive to operate, expensive to maintain, ruinously expensive to clean up after, and didn't even provide reliable baseload power.

The experience does not suggest that small-format nukes are simpler to operate and maintain than big ones.

There is no plausible scenario where small-format nukes are a better investment than a solar + wind + storage system, terrestrially. On Mars or the moon, leaks might not matter so much, although the catastrophic failure likely to follow would leave users without power.

Even with insolation on Mars much reduced, solar remains the overwhelmingly better choice by any measure.

On the moon, dark for two weeks at a stretch calls for more clever engineering. An 11,000 km equatorial superconducting transmission line with distributed solar panels could power quite a lot of activity. Even a 5500 km system would be immediately useful, given a vertically-oriented array at each end. But solar and storage would probably be cheaper. A flywheel constructed above-ground, hundreds of meters across (dumbell style, at first) would store quite a lot of energy. Structure could be just a cable on top of a tower; when stopped, the counterweights hang vertically, and swing out as it spins up.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/04/25/powering-the-l...
>(I think I'm supposed to bang rocks together to make fire, right?)

Won't work very well unless you have flint specifically :-) Even if you know the techniques, starting fire without any manufactured tools or manufactured tools to make the devices is really really hard.
Colorado’s ‘rebel’ farmers – ‘I’d like to see industrial farming go extinct’
Kinda wish microsoft would make Windows 10 the last backwards compatible windows and start from scratch. Virtualize Win10 for backwards compatibility and start from a blank slate with modern design principles.
I feel some of the same discomfort that you feel with modern journalism. Some (not all) calls for “civility” seem to be code for “if you disagree with me you’re being uncivil”. Completely objective, unbiased journalism is impossible for all but the most banal of stories.

And yet somehow the idea of all journalism being a form of individuals’ perspectives of situations seems equally disquieting. With the hand of outstanding writers this blatantly personal journalism produces writing of the highest quality. But lesser writers - I’m thinking of the likes of Tucker Carlson and Owen Jones - it becomes nothing more than second-rate preaching at the Sunday pulpit. Nothing new is said, nobody learns anything. It’s just stories that make a certain audience feel good.
Any risk of fakes?
Why Has “Ivermectin” Become a Dirty Word?
Exactly what I was thinking. Cancers, metabolic & endocrine disorders, GI microbiome, pregnancy testing, STI testing, and so forth. I don't know how test consumables would be made with longevity, but there's likely clever approaches to make it work.

Surreptitious drug testing the kids too.

Just be worried about holographic ads suggesting baby carriages or suppositories.
Costs go up for smaller payloads as your paying for more than just weight.

As a sanity check a Falcon gets 22,800kg (expendable) and 16,800 (reusable) to LEO. At 5k/kg that would be 84M reusable, apparently they’re charging ~85M for a reusable falcon Heavy launch and Falcon 9 is much cheaper.

Actual prices aren’t disclosed but the internal price are quoted at as ~40M new and under 15M refurbished, with 10 total launches per rocket. Assuming the last launch isn’t reusable by design that’s (40M+ 9 * 15M ) ~= 175M to get (16,800 kg * 9 + 22,800kg) = 174,000kg to LEO. That’s under 1k/kg, though I have seen 951$/kg quoted in terms of StarLink’s costs.

Clearly they charge customers more, but not 5k/kg more.
Also:

> A urine test developed by researchers at the Nagoya University in Japan can pinpoint a person who has a brain tumor — regardless of its size or malignancy — with 100% accuracy, according to a new study.

They used samples of pee of people that were diagnosed with CNS tumors with other methods, so my guess is that they had already big enough tumors to cause problems, so "regardless of its size or malignancy" is probably too optimistic.
This headline is like a bad r/nosleep title. Someday, somehow, I hope we move past this dumb clickbait style.
Li et al., "An Incremental Path Towards a Safer OS Kernel," HotOS 2021 (two weeks ago), is an academic paper arguing that putting Rust into an existing kernel will deliver you much more than microscopic gains and will yield better results than starting from scratch. https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s...
This may be true for small companies, but larger businesses tend to use windows due to support contracts.
Yes. A lifeform 2390 high back executive with a custom made coccyx/perineum cutout seat. It cost me a pretty penny but I've had it for about 9 years at this point and it's been totally worth it.
Hughes Gen5 HT2000W .98m 1-watt Satellite Internet System (https://ispsat.com/product/hughesnet-gen5-ht2000w-98m-1-watt...) has a 73W power supply. Normal use seems to be about 40W (https://community.hughesnet.com/t5/Products-and-Plans/Gen5-H...).

900,000W? Wow, that's about 1200HP.
Scott Alexander talked about this six years ago[1]:

> HL Mencken once said that “the trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”

> There’s an unfortunate corollary to this, which is that if you try to create a libertarian paradise, you will attract three deeply virtuous people with a strong commitment to the principle of universal freedom, plus millions of scoundrels. Declare that you’re going to stop holding witch hunts, and your coalition is certain to include more than its share of witches.

1. https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-central...
It’s pretty common actually. A server buy can easily be an 8 figure deal, getting servers that turn out to be stupidly configured for your apps that your stuck with for 5 years is exceptionally dumb.
Audi sets 2026 end date for combustion engine cars-Sueddeutsche Zeitung
And let's not discount the moral of low paid, overworked employees, and companies that let low level managers run roughshod over lower level employees. My point is don't discount inside corporate espionage by disgruntled any level employees.

Thank goodness I didn't have access to a script that would lock up at least two of my past employers when coming up years ago? Then again, I personally haven't been that mad, but boy do I know employees who were.

I could say that we are all choir boys, but you piss on an employee, especially during a recession, well let's just say I have seen unpstanding guys rub magnets over hard drives over pure apathy. (The guy didn't know about strength of magnents, and it did not hurt anything.)

Plugging in a usb, or downloading a suspicious email is something I can see happening, especially to "those" companies.

I imagine Xfinity employees dream about it?
I'm surprised Metamask isn't in the most popular non-exchange wallet list!
It will take a long time, but you can still see the uptick. Zen has the potential to take over Intel at least, considering density and pricing, they are exceptional value.
I don't find the the experiences of native desktop apps particularly compelling. I think much of the thinking behind this mentality grew from an era where computers were scary and intimidating and you had huge swaths of the population that didn't even want to use them. So everyone bent over backwards trying to appeal to reluctant adopters. That world doesn't exist anymore.
They sound like Serious Sam bomb guys.
I'm the opposite. Had the Embody for years, but it slowly started to deform (long torso with lots of reclining) and cause back pain. I've since switched to an Aeron C, and after a few months, I'm back to lifting like I used to.
Just like the "fathertrees" from Card's book "Speaker for the Dead."
With genetic algorithms you still need to be able to calculate a fitness. Usually a test is fail/success. There's no fitness in that.
I would guess the other optimizers also need such a signal?
love your product :)
Downvotes from people who can't accept that one can dominate a market with many inconsistencies in your UI?

I guess the same people who applaud each time when Federighi anounces the redesign of the macOS trashcan icon.
I bought a "Swing Chair" back at the final Macworld Expo - after a long day of walking around the exhibits sitting in the demo chair was so satisfying - and it's been my main chair during Covid (with varying use over the prior decade). Other than the arm rests wearing out and a set screw I should replace it is still in great condition and allows me to sit comfortably for longer than I probably should...

They are no longer in business :'(
https://web.archive.org/web/20160422143349/http://www.swingc...

This seems pretty similar, but I haven't tried it:
https://www.eurekadesk.com/ergonomic-chair-swing-chair.html

I bought a glass corner desk around the same time that's still in use, most likely because it and the keyboard tray seem to be the perfect height for me/the chair. I can't recommend an under-desk keyboard tray enough, if you don't have one I'd strongly recommend investigating it.
Most people's enterprise software is akin to an already waterlogged dingy.
Twitter pwa often simply doesn't load the cintent, this has been discussed to death on HN. When it dies load I suppose it's decent and much faster than reddit indeed.
You'd be losing that bet. Larger datacenters tend to use windows because of microsoft providing support contracts.

I don't have access to the full numbers, but I'd bet on the linux side being majority red hat for the same reason.