skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People didn't watch Cloud Atlas. D:
Yeah, I couldn't get very far in to it. Something about the author's tone and writing style was awkward and offputting.
I actually find anti-decay measures applied to corpses disgusting. I feel like corpses should be buried raw right into soil or in plain wood coffins at max, not marinated in formaldehyde and put in non-compostable coffins.
Umberto Eco’s 36 Rules for Writing Well (In English or Italian)
The classic example is the first level of Mario. It teaches you all the mechanics of jumps, blocks, battling enemies, whatnot, but never explicitly feeds you directions.
I had to buy a mouse for Tropico 6, because there was a tutorial step that required the middle mouse button… on a MacBook.
That's so 1980s! Now, they update the balance on your Player's Card.
My greater suspicion is that Amazon will soon come out with similar "basics" products that cover 95% of banned products.
This is precisely my point: there were numerous moments in the past when AMD was trailing closely Intel among enthusiasts because of a superior product, but ultimately it never led to AMD overtaking Intel in the overall consumer market: Intel has always been able to catch up within a generation. I see no reason why this time would be different. And thus, the enthusiast market has little to no bearing on the overall market share.
ByteDance news app and 130 apps told to halt privacy infringement by China
> As a tangent: I learned how to enter a waking ideation / guided daydreaming state associated with sensory deprivation without extreme stimuli removal.

Awesome. How? Any books/articles/resources that
could help?
#define true (rand() < 0.99)
iPhone.

In the area where the Tweet would show, it instead says "Something went wrong" EDIT: it has been like this for several years so I assumed it was a dark pattern.
What you probably meant is no two SIDs sound the same. Emulated SID will fit in perfectly :) cant claim it sounds wrong when they all sound wrong in some way ;p
China is beyond playing 'catch up'. They might not be making the world's best software or jet engines, but they are making their own innovations in a wide variety of areas.

I don't think they will ever become the export powerhouse like the US, but we will see them move up the chain.

A lot of the low-level R&D in products already comes from China.

Also - the Chinese will put up with authoritarian culture because 1) they look at it entirely differently 2) they've never known anything else and especially 3) the surveillance of the CCP is orwellian. They will never let any idea challenge their status. The Chinese population at large will never have the opportunity to explore any alternative but what is told to them. Within that bubble, most are 'fine with it'.

Frankly, so long as China tried to have some kind of independendent judiciary and weren't putting people in prison for their ethnicity ... or kind of following the Singapore model I think the 'Rest of the World' would have no problems. And of course, if they weren't grabbing chunks of international waters as their own.
If so, it doesn't make sense to blame Putin. The blame lies on US lawmakers, for not incentivizing US businesses to have a budget for fixing these sorts of issues. For example, when companies such as Equifax are hacked because of poor security practices do they pay a penalty? No. That's the problem.
I do consider them equivalent. contemporary feminism, mainstream feminism. The feminism that gets to dictate laws or is paraded by corporations is as man hating as incels are of women. the only difference is that hating men is palatable(or at least degrees of magnitude easier to brush aside and forgive) for society.
> You seem to have a very narrow definition of "portable."

Can you explain how wanting to include more programs into the definition of portable is narrow?

> Can you link to the definition of the jargon term you appear to be using here?

The same definition I've always seen in every community discussing shell-scripting: if it's specified by the POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) standard. POSIX does have a definition of `echo`. GNU echo does not conform to it by default, but can be configured to.

> Also, have you considered that some words have colloquial meanings too, and that it doesn't make sense to label them as "not correct"?

But it makes sense to label `echo` itself as not portable? The argument can be made that `GNU echo` is not portable (even though it can be with an environment variable), however that should be specified, instead of mentioning there are several implementations where it is non-standard.
Ask HN: Why won't GreenHabit succeed? (it's roast time)
HN, I need you to roast my idea.

My submission for PH Makers Festival - 'Green Earth edition' is in.

The last two weeks have been crazy! From the conception of the idea, building the app, websites, backend and to actually getting users to test the platform.
In this short amount of time, I've done very little in the way of validation other than FB polls and comments in groups.

So I am turning to you to pull it apart.

I've only just taken a short breath to consider the next steps and in doing so, I realised that for me, this is not just a throw away hackathon project, that I've potentially stumbled on something that could actually make a difference.

I need your help!

I want to know what I've missed and what I need to do _next_ to get https://GreenHabit.app visible to the world.

Please visit the site and use the app. As a short overview the GreenHabit app is a Messenger bot that uses the proven scientific methods of habit change to help its' users adopt one green habit at a time. When the habit is achieved the user is granted an embeddable badge they can display on their blog or website. The habit 'score' is updated in realtime so for each new habit they adopt their score will grow. There is also an inbuilt referral system so the score aggregates habits you have influenced in others, in other words for each user or employee you onboard your score will grow by habits they achieve making your individual or your companies' score a indicator of your green influence.

The message is simple: Start a habit. Save our planet!
* No more waiting for governments, regulators and corporations;
* Our individual efforts collectively can make a difference;
* Amplify your green habits.

For GreenHabit to turn into anything of value it needs mass adoption so I am open your contributions, articles, ideas... Over to you HN:

Nathan
A few years ago I got some kind of brain illness. Doctors were unable to come up with a strong diagnosis, which is apparently quite common for such cases.

One of the effects of the illness was that I essentially became stupid. I couldn’t focus on anything (even trivial activities like watching television), I couldn’t compose emails, I would get disoriented easily. It was absolutely terrifying not knowing whether or not my mind would come back. At the time, I would have preferred having a disease like cancer because at least I would know what I’m dealing with. Eventually I did start to get better. Like the author, I think I’m probably not quite back to who I was before getting sick.

A couple things I learned from my interaction with the medical system - 1. Like any other industry, 90% of medical “experts” are totally incompetent. 2. The state of diagnostics is pretty abysmal. So much of medicine is completely nonscientific guesswork. Most doctors aren’t even aware of the latest diagnostic developments in their own fields. Think about the people you know who learned Java in college and then never learned another programming language; chances are, your doctor is that kind of person.
Are those actually necessary?

Not an expert, but the whole network is on communication (with perfect understanding of the satellites locations no less), shouldn't they be able to run an ntpd like protocol to stay in sync, and just sync ground clocks to "starling consensus time" instead of "real time".
Oh how cool!

I never thought I could get excited about office accessories, yet here I am.
This is true, but I'd rather move to a society where the police officers have aligned interests to treat people as they want to be treated and the community as theirs too. Ending civil asset forfeiture, war on drugs, over incarceration, and qualified immunity would do a lot to nudge them.
I'm curious about the poor incentives for businesses advertising brings. I never imagined business is possible without advertising. If I were starting a business, I would probably target the people who don't block ads (despite the fact I myself do and help all my friends and relatives to).
Are these real numbers or are they counting SMB instances running on commodity hardware and doing other weird junk to play with the stats?

Windows isn't even the most used OS on Azure. Certainly large deployments at Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. accounting for a huge proportion of the population aren't running Windows either.
I recently bought an Amazon Commercial office chair and am pretty impressed by it actually.
Really well written, especially considering the author's plight.

Regarding this bit:

>The day of the accident I had been working on a project to improve how homeless people are placed into shelters. I say out loud, “I don’t care about homeless people” to see how it feels. It doesn’t ring true; I do care about homeless people. I just don’t feel like working.

I wonder if that's directly to do with the brain damage or not. I survived a particularly rough "you're gonna die" type cancer. And I have similar issues with depression, motivation, procrastination, and so on. Which I know sounds counter-intuitive. I survived, and the physical aftermath isn't really bad. So I should be grateful versus depressed, right? I have tried a variety of depression meds over the 5 years that have passed. I really can't tell if any of them work. I suppose partly because I'm not despondent really...just mostly unmotivated. None of them changed that.

Anyhow, just to say that near-death experiences, even without physical damage to the brain, seem to have mental consequences.
Reminds me of a skit from adultswim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
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> Palestinians said they're against the mass migration of Jews

Ofc they would. So what? They weren't the rulers or had any form of government, most of the land didn't belong to them no matter how gerrymandering maps you want to draw. It was the British mandate before the ottoman before that.....

> mass migration of Jews there that displaced them

It didn't. The land Jews settled on was purchased since the 1880s.

A lot of those Palestinians were immigrants themselves who came to Palestine for work, and the Jewish population were the ones that hired them.
Most of Palestine before the Jews started to immigrate and built was deserts and swamps, no one wanted to live there until the Jewish population terraformed them to be livable.

> Why is it that you think Palestinians only have the right to Gaza and the West Bank

Because they lost the war they started, you can't start a war lose and then cry that you lost territory.
They didn't want a Jewish state at all, or be under Jewish rule.

That's how countries form, that's how borders are made. Every other country in the world was formed by conflict it's just that most of those countries annihilated the other side long ago so there is almost no one left to hear their voice or go on a twitter rampage.
In the 1980's your student ID was most likely your SSN
Herman Miller Mirra from ~2006. I am not light or gentle, and it’s going strong after ~8hrs a day since then. Replaced the gas lift (~50GBP) this year, had the back replaced under warranty after a decade, and the only regret I have is buying rollerblade style wheels which were just awkward.
Properly run meetings with proper documentation and procedures are not a fad.
Agreed that 50°C is really hot, but you have to remember that 50°C includes the ambient heat plus the heat generated by the circuitry. My cable modem gets noticeably warm (and I can hear its internal fan spin up) when I download a large file that saturates my connection for a while. I could easily see the internal circuitry of the Starlink dish going over 50°C under load even when external temperature is 40°C.

From what I'm reading, it looks like the dish is passively cooled, which I find surprising. I would have expected at least a small cooling fan or something to provide a bit of airflow for convective cooling.
Visualisation of million commits of Linux Kernel
I think they meant the ransom as a subscription service, not malware to franchisees as a service.
perhaps ... which temporarily impaired her executive function.
Wow ! Awesome project...

1. Can I plug in my trading bots somehow on your app ?

2. How do you guys make money basicly ? Is there a monthly subscritpion or fees over exchange fees ?
I mean, 95% of those IPs are just going to be some Cloudflare CDN anyway, right? I think you'd be hard-pressed to infer much real info from them.
Miner Capitulation Is Putting Pressure on the Bitcoin Price
Interesting. I've lost a lot of weight (at my lightest in years) since 2020-01-01, when my New Years' Resolution was to do 16:8 IF. Eventually left the subreddit for it because it seemed like it was goading people into forming eating disorders (which are often competetive, which is why you won't get numbers in this comment) though I kept on it until school re-started in September when I started cheating a little.

IF was probably not what caused me to lose weight. What caused me to lose weight was the mindfulness of my food intake that I developed while intermittently fasting. I significantly cut my caloric intake while remaining moderately physically active and am in much better shape for it (athletic I am not but I am fortunate to be able to walk 3-4hrs a day to and from work and additionally whenever I need groceries etc).

I wouldn't recommend IF to anyone because it can develop into an eating disorder and you are never in as much control as you think. After browsing that subreddit I doubt the odds of dieting successfully (as in, losing weight while maintaining health) are very good.

Obligatory: I am not a nutritionist, dietician, or professionally anywhere close to the health field.
Fork-Exec for Python Programmers
I see other comments mentioning Autonomous.ai's ErgoChair, a slightly more unconventional option from them is the ErgoStool which I use daily and absolutely adore: https://www.autonomous.ai/office-chairs/ergonomic-stool

It's not a "chair" per se but paired with a sit/stand desk, it's comfortable and encourages good posture. I have owned it for the past year and have put it through its paces, it works equally well when transitioning between sitting and standing, and also while sitting full-time.

It moves up and down, and it's got a heavy base so you can sit down solidly, or stand up and just lean into it when you want some weight off your feet. The top is very plushy and you can even sit with your leg/foot underneath your butt and it doesn't dig into you or anything.

As a caveat I am 6' 1" and don't weigh very much (165-175) so depending on body type, using a stool instead of a chair might not be a good idea.

However if you are the type who kinda thinks this might work for you, it probably will. I was skeptical at first but it's paid off for sure. At $99 ($89 if you find a promo code, look for reviews on YouTube) it's cheaper than most terrible chairs from Amazon.
I had the same problem with the Herman Miller Mira 2, which has the same mesh seat. There’s an optional adjustable front seat angle which seems like it would help with this. It’s disappointing that they don’t have adjustable seat depth though (which my current cheapish office chair does).
Storytelling – Mamet’s Conflict Airing Theory
I hope when it's time for me, I can simply be flushed down the drain:

> Alkaline hydrolysis is also used in the agricultural industry to sterilize animal carcasses that may pose a health hazard, because the process inactivates viruses, bacteria, and prions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_hydrolysis_(body_disp...
Okay, I see a link to 'infinity' there, because there are infinitely many reals. Is that what you're going for?

If so, the link seems irrelevant and in particular I don't see how this leads to circularity in the definition. Can you explain this further?
At the end of WW2, the US needed all the allies it could get against the USSR. They were the real winners of the conflict, the red army was considered unstoppable and Stalin controlled everything from the sea of Japan to (well past) the middle of Germany. The assumption was that if Russia didn't stop when they met the Western allies' lines they would have taken mainland Europe within a few weeks. It was a crazy time.
Large tracts of the US have a continental climate, where temperature excursions are common. Remember that Starlink is marketed at people living in the flat countryside.
https://twitter.com/HackerVilela/status/1405972177225191427
No wonder. They don't understand the purpose of intermittant fasting is to place your body into a sustained fat burning mode. Instead they used diets that were harsh on the body and glutted with caloric intake.

Group 1 which fasted on alternate days with their fast day
followed by a day of eating 50% more than usual.
Group 2 which reduced calories across all meals everyday by 25%.
Group 3 which fasted on alternate days (in the same way as Group 1)
but followed their fast day with one day eating 100% more than usual.

> But intermittent fasting is no magic bullet and the findings of our experiment suggest that there is nothing special about fasting when compared with more traditional, standard diets people might follow.

That's because there wasn't true fasting, just shifting of eating patterns.
So the takeaway here is that you should not attempt to fuzz a human brain while using it:)
Something like 100 billion people have died in the last 50k years, and it doesn't really seem like prions from their corpses have been a problem.
I've been extremely lucky with a wooden "bankers" chair from probably the 1930s. Possibly this chair, though a lot of similar chairs were made during that time period:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/124317815232

I removed the tiny, useless swivel wheels and covered the bottoms of the feet with felt padding.

Also, I do not sit for prolonged periods. Right now by happenstance, my home office / lab has three computer stations, one with this chair, the other are makeshift standing desks -- plywood on top of boxes.
If only ternary computing had won! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
Not in the movies. So what? Marvel is a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney, and the image above (with Loki wearing a Low Key shirt) is plainly from a Marvel comic (a little digging seems to indicate it's https://www.marvel.com/comics/collection/80467/loki_the_god_...).

Edited to add: Note that I think there's very much a good argument to be made that this stuff does or should fall well in bound of what fans can do in referencing a work, I just think that "it's not even the same character!" is off base.
DARPA Wants to Deliver Relevant, Just-in-Time Knowledge
It happens at a national level, too. Especially when politics are involved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLEchPZm318&t=27s
The Sega Model 3 (ca. 1996-1998) arcade emulator I co-wrote supports arbitrarily wide resolutions and expands the field of view of the 3D content to fit the screen width. It works beautifully despite the games performing culling at the original aspect ratio. If you choose a really extreme aspect you might catch objects being culled or ceasing to animate.

Model 3 also had a couple of 2D tile map layers which are more difficult to handle consistently.

You can see an example here (a few seconds in, there is a scene with a foreground layer that isn’t stretched, revealing the expanded viewport behind it): https://youtu.be/fGQodD4I600

In the intro sequence, a driver hops out of a burning car and then freezes at the edge of the screen. This normally would have been outside of the visible viewport. Otherwise, everything looks as expected.
Huh? Tons of Wii games supported 16x9. That was one of the big differences between Twilight Princess on Wii vs. GCN. 16x9 support.

Loads of original Xbox games supported 16x9 too. Stuff like HL2 and Doom 3.
> these folks opted into this program

I like "personal responsibility" as much as the next person, but we both know that companies love to bury things like this deep into contracts in the smallest font sizes know to man.

So while I do agree that "they signed up for the program" I doubt the fully read the TOS and other jargon associated with this part of the plan.
It's not really new. https://www.google.com/search?q=yellow+journalism+headlines&...
But that seems to be exactly what they are doing. They're surely porting the Android runtime to Fuchsia, or even already ported it.

Remember there are Android APKs containing native Linux banaries (made with Android's NDK) that you should be able to run. That is the whole main point of Fuchsia' starnix. I think this is even mentioned on starnix's RFC.
What are your thoughts on etymonline.com?
Food is pretty cheap in the Western world because of "industrial farming", and the poor would suffer most if "industrial farming went extinct".
> Of all the injuries we suffered, mine is the worst. My brain injury has shaken my confidence in my own personality, my own existence.

I don't exist. That's the secret. This concept took me years to grok but now I know.
I remember in junior school there where about three or four of us who the teachers let read at our own pace.
from my experience responding to these. orgs that entertain the ide of paying the ransom often do not care about root cause analysis to the degree they should.

orgs that completely ignore payment as an option spend their time identifying the entry point, and vulns, and close those before restoring or rebuilding.
The Housing Conundrum
I'm using Marcus for like 10 years at work. It's perfect for me, I can sit all day on it. I actually want to go to work and avoid working from home just to sit on my chair!

I know that there are better chairs that Marcus but nothing beats it for the price... It was the best 200 euros I had ever spent.
Autoclaves are meant to destroy living material while preserving what's being sanitized, while cremation intends to destroy everything and preserve nothing. For that reason, there's a difference in both temperature and exposure times.
I bought from Aukey directly and got a box from Amazon, so I went back to ordering from Amazon directly.
This is abhorrent, as if it was taken unironically out of a dystopian science fiction novel.

Decomposition is a natural process that happens to any corpse. It does not need to be optimized. That said, it does not need to be slowed down with embalming either.
In no other high-end consumer product would that unreliability be tolerated. Why would you ever run your speakers at a volume that might blow them out depending on what the next bar of the song sounds like? Are you pre-screening every single bit of audio that will get played over your speakers? Otherwise, you should never run speakers at a borderline volume. This protection should be built in to the speaker. No matter how much volume you feed into a speaker, it should not break.

(Of course, you could feed always feed such an absurd amount of power that it would break even the protective circuits, but that ultimate vulnerability is just inherent in the nature of electronics).
There is an easy fix here: make it illegal for companies to transact in crypt currencies. Then they would have no way of paying a ransom without engaging in illegal activities. This would destroy the ransomware business model.
Just gonna go ahead and cast my vote for Herman Miller Aeron as well. Aside from comfort/support, for me the killer feature is the breathability. I'm sure there are others like it somewhere, but I haven't found anything that regulates heat while sitting like it does.