skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I got my Aeron secondhand too, about 5yr ago, and it's been great this last year. I did replace the stock wheels with rollerblade casters[1] which are made by a bunch of companies (it seemed like OfficeOasis was one of the originals, so I went with them, though it looks like some of the more recent ones use sealed bearings for the swivel along with the wheel, which might be cool).

1: https://theofficeoasis.com/products/rollerblade-office-chair...
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Async communication requires an intentional approach to be successful. If you treat slack like an office cooler or a replacement for meetings, then of course it’s going to feel synchronous. The authors assertion that the tool isn’t async because it it supports a synchronous workflow (which most companies actually are set up for and understand) doesn’t make much sense to me, since async is more of a mindset than a tool.

The best approach I have seen is ensuring there are operational channels and making sure that everything goes in there. I’m personally not a fan of threads in slack for an async org since it can really fuck with the timeline and it’s more difficult to have a temporal view of what happened for a particular subject.
It most likely sounds difficult to understand because you are not familiar with it. Try working through the first few exercises in SICP; you'll see that it can be quite straightforward.
It's amazing how bearable 80-85F is when you have a small fan pointed at you. We started setting the thermostat to 82 and using fans. Very comfortable and the A/C barely runs now.
Exactly.

https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/R8500/R8500_UM_4...

The power supply for an R8500 gives 19V / 3.16 A DC maximum.

And yes, a gaming PC can use a few hundred watts---that's why it has to have all of the thermal management and all of the hot air blowing out of it.

P.s. https://kb.netgear.com/23003/Maximum-power-consumption-for-N...
Drinking straw device is instant cure for hiccups, say scientists
I did that once, and the experience was a big part of why I use unraid now.
I too miss Valleywag.
What phone? The Twitter mobile site / PWA is regarded as one of the better ones.
Inexplicably, when launched, the drones immediately set off on a direct heading to the closest JIRA user.
Not sure why you're getting the down votes but here, have an up vote :)
A friend of mine had one of these in the late 90s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_1600SW
Possibly the most famous video game tutorial of all time has got to be World 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bros.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH2wGpEZVgE&t=5s

And really, most of the later Mario games execute this fairly well, with some (sunny) exceptions here and there. Nintendo is unusually skilled at introducing a new mechanic in a way that feels like organic play, and slowly ramping up the complexity in a way that will leave most players feeling like natural masters by the end of the level, without realizing that the level was leading them by the nose the entire time.
ah ok, that exact thread then? Fairplay. Yeah, can duplicate. Weird/annoying.

(logs in, continues on merry way, in browser, all working)
Plus now we have Jetbrains Rider. So there's an excellent non-Microsoft IDE alternative.
> The negative feedback on the reddit redesign and the reddit app has been building for years, and they continue to push it. The motivation is puzzling.

The feedback is minimum, and the users who are complaining are not the users who make Reddit money. Like if you're not making them money they're not going to want to improve your experience. They're going to want to make it worse and push you into a better experience. Their motivation for this is clear, and I am confused as to why anyone would be puzzled why Reddit wants to control how people use their app, especially since if you use the app, you have to see ads and you are getting tracked. There are also notification possibilities to push more content to you. This all makes a lot of sense, and I am pretty sure revenue-wise, it's working.

People keep talking about Digg but Reddit has already had their Digg moments and are still standing and there are countless clones and countless apps that just mirror their content. Use them.
Reddit web/mobile is painful to use, slow, ugly, and full of dark patterns so I get that. But why do you think Twitter is bad? Yeah they force ads on you, but the app itself is nice imo.
On a half serious note, the traditional 0-1 computing model is the origin of mental polarisation in our society, because such model permits no shades of gray. A better model would use probabilistic bits where each bit represents a probability density.
Were I an evil criminal, I'd include a backdoor in the restore image I gave them, so that I could attack the same people again.
I'm in Toronto incidentally, not sf.

I suspect overnight lows of -40 are ok, because it sounds like it's -30 after the self heating.

There are definitely reports of people having it work through 40 degree heat waves, but I suspect that's close to the limit. Keep in mind it is white, so the sun isn't as bad as it could be.

I don't have stats to back this up, but I think it's the case that most people live in reasonably temperate climates, 50 degrees is really frickin hot (dangerously so), -30 degrees is really frickin cold (dangerously so).
For quant finance, by looking at recent papers on SSRN, arxiv (there is a quant finance section), by getting email updates from finance journals of their new papers (often the working papers can be found online), and by subscribing to some free newsletters from New Economic Papers http://nep.repec.org/ .

A caveat is that one can spend so much time keeping up-to-date that one's own research languishes.
The two main reasons AMD is not dominating is servers right now are:

1) 5 year support contracts

2) OEM unavailability.

Even now getting an AMD server is a "go out of your way" situation. Add to the chip shortage and you have people holding on to hardware a bit longer or going intel for availability (those are minor reasons).

Anecdotally I just ordered 50 or so AMD servers.
I get why BGP sounds like a good target, since it's self-contained and high-importance, but I'd assume the most important BGP4 deployments on the Internet aren't in systems that can replace their BGP4 servers with anything that Cisco isn't itself shipping. Lots of people run little `birds` to advise their upstreams, but they're not running full-feed defaultless; they're minimally exposed. I think the win from a community-driven BGP4 project might be small compared to the investment. But you've been thinking about this already, so I'd love to hear about how wrong I am. :)
Is it though? There is historical data for that, and even when AMD was crushing Intel for years on all benchmarks including price/performance and early adopter usage, Intel ultimately ended up with a larger market share. Prescott was a (litteral) hot mess and the Athlon 64 3xxx series was amazing, but it did not take long until things came back to normal with the introduction of the Core series. I expect the same to happen here. AMD is great at slipping through the cracks between Intel's CPU generations, but it cannot seem to be able to become a market leader.
Yes, that is not great marketing copy.

But I suspect that if people knew what "embalming" means, they'd be squeamish about that as well.

...

I was present for a cremation sale where the funeral director explained that they fire the body, then collect any metals (titanium screws etc) and sell them for scrap.

This bothered me, but I can't say (still to this day) whether it was because it seemed way too graphic for the average bereaved family member, or if I was just offended that the crematorium thought it was OK to sell other peoples' property.
Some groups will actually tell you how they got in and help you patch your systems.

Some groups will hack you AND also uninstall viruses emanating from other groups, or they will hack you and patch other flaws so that other malwares cannot take their spot. It's all game theory.
Women? I haven't seen as many diggers and backhoes in the last 10 years as I've seen in the last 10 days. There's a guy doing lives from the cockpit of heavy forestry equipment. Give the algorythm a chance, it will find your niches.
> Yet another reason to reign in the freedom of platforms

Forcing platforms to host material that may, arguably infringe copyrights or trademarks isn’t a solution.

What’s needed are bright-line rules for determining fair use. Bright-line rules, however, are basically impossible for all but the simplest cases. Most cases are far too nuanced or deal with novel uses.
It’s amazing how these things happen in the volume of a cubic micrometer. There is however a big misleading element; Not all of these pathways operate in the same cell and not all of them are equally strong - the arrows are not of equal “thickness” if you like. That’s the big problem in molecular biology and biochemistry: all these arrows are always depicted as of equal strength.
> your average .net dev gets paid less than your average COBOL dev too

I don't see how this is a valid comparison. Java being paid better has nothing to do with scarcity of expertise.
Reddit Enhancement Suite has had this for years btw. It's on by default but you can turn it off.
At the very least there'll be strong after market demand for a proper steering wheel.
These people are obviously serious.
Steelcase Gesture. I am 310 lbs, 5'10". I bought one at the start of the epidemic when it was on sale, new for ~$1k (directly from Steelcase). After a recent change in work plans (going full time WFH post COVID), I decided to get a second, but the price had increased to ~$2k for the same configuration. Was able to get a factory return in pretty much the same configuration and like new condition from a US based liquidator, Crandall Office Furniture, for $780 shipped. (They do authorized Steelcase factory returns).

I like this chair over Aeron as I don't like floating mesh seats. It's fabric so it breaths. Has good options for me to change it's configuration quickly/easily through out the day.
It's a hypothetical scenario :) In reality if there's a project shutdown there would be enough time to migrate to a different setup. Of course it would be annoying to do, but at least it's possible. With a system like ZFS I'm risking having to change the filesystem, volume manager, storage array, encryption and whatever other feature I depended on. It's a lot to buy into.
Yes, for example in AWS the instance types with "a" appended (AMD EPYC) are lower cost than the corresponding Intel-based instance.
Any recommendations for an actual desk+chair combo? Ie a chair with a desk attachement? I need something comfortable but ultra mobile. Something like below but ergonomic, arm rests and space for keyboard, monitor, mouse. Probably a very long shot.

https://www.anguloconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/...
If you’re asking, you may know this already, but the whole MOBA genre (eg League of Legends) came from custom war3 maps.
I wonder if this only considers the OS that a server was shipped with? Which is typically nuked as soon as the customer receives it.
Must be the inertia. CPUs live long in server space: where I'm looking, server providers offer hardware for rent that is up to 10 years old, and AMD only started to rule CPUs in 2017.

E.g. the CPU on the VPS I'm renting is from 2013, and it makes perfect sense that it is form Intel.
A reasonably modern air conditioner to cool your house in Phoenix a few months in the summer is more efficient than many of the common ways you'd heat a house from potentially well below freezing in the winter in many other places.

And much of our power comes from solar (which is maximally available at the time cooling is maximally needed) and nuclear, while serious heating is often literally burning fossil fuels in your basement.
Because ISRG is trying to direct funds to projects that will actually protect current Internet users; notably, this isn't a research project, but rather a funded engineering project, focusing on things that are already in wide use.
The Epic Privacy Browser is still the best if you want a Chromium-based privacy browser. Brave cloned them anyway and added their crypto and reduced the privacy. Firefox isn't recommended for privacy, though TOR is of course very good for anonymity, but Epic is better for everyday use.
My circumstance exactly. My Aeron was used when I first started using it 15 years ago. I’ve always liked it a lot, and just bought another (used) that I could return to my employer so I could keep mine (which I took home a year ago).

I found mine (large) preferable to the newer one I bought (medium). The depth of the seat pan on the medium was just too shallow. (I’m 6’ 1”).

It’s amazing how well this 15+ year old chair has held up. No signs of wear to the seat or back, nor visible scratches on the frame. It does need a new pneumatic cylinder post though ($45).
When the article refers to an IMU, they’re referring to a combination of sensors; most commonly on Earth that’d be a 3-axis gyro, a 3-axis accelerometer, and a 3-axis magnetometer (compass). The problem with just using that is accumulated error and drift. On super small aircraft like this one, we usually use MEMS parts instead of big spinning physical gyros, and they don’t have great long-term performance.

MEMS Gyros measure angular rate, not absolute angle; to compute an actual angle, you’re taking the integral of the rate from t=0 to now. Any small errors in the measurements add up quickly to give you completely nonsensical results. For drones-on-Earth, we use a variation of the Kalman filter to combine short-term and long-term measurements. As an example, an accelerometer requires a double-integral to turn into position, so errors accumulate very quickly, but we can correct those errors using GPS. The accelerometer and its integrals give us really quick acceleration, velocity, and position updates (at, say 500hz), and then the GPS is used to correct the long-term position and velocity (at, say 5hz).
b sqr 4 a c * * - sqrt

Yeah no. This being "bug free" seems like a joke.
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I have an Aeron from ~2006 which is still in good condition, virtually no drop in the pellicle mesh despite near daily use for 12 years. The foam under the seat near the front lip has died a little, and the arm rest pads needed replacement once.

In 2018 I purchased an Aeron Remastered which for some reason I did not care for, it seemed to tilt differently in the seat and I felt the front lip more on my legs.

So I sold it and purchased an Embody, which I've been very happy with so far.

I think they are only for commercial buyers, but our office uses SitOnIt Torsa chairs (https://www.sitonit.net/productcatalog/torsa_taskchair.html) which I have found to be quite nice in quality and comfort.
Apple says only between 2 and 4 % of its users use Bootcamp to run Windows.
arrived from "embodied cognition" [0] but other discussions have been had here [1][2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4923299 (2012)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20701480 (2019)
I suspect you are right. I could probably open up registration to all countries but with the disclaimer that you would need a US or Canadian bank (or whatever we offer at the time) account.
You can get that feedback from most larger email providers. A lot of email tools can report on it automatically and make sure not to email again.
It's Strava's Global Heatmap, and here's a writeup I did on how to use it as a layer in JOSM: https://nuxx.net/blog/2020/05/24/high-resolution-strava-glob...

Note, you need a paid account to access the high-res data.
Embody + Aeron and alternate between them. Always amazes me people will spend incredible amounts on a car, but will skimp on something they spend 8+ hours a day sitting in.
It's really easy to do that wrongly... for example, you Q&A or integration tests database has the last back up of prod so that you can test with real data.

Of course you shouldn't do that, but, it's very common out there.
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If HN had an NNTP gateway I'd be over the moon.
So there wasn't 'mental polarisation' in society before computational models were created? Don't think that's correct..
> I think this kind of competitive malice is no worse than say, the malice in business to outcompete.

I think it matters that the goals of journalism are ostensibly different from the goals of business. The goal of business is to get people to buy something, maybe with some sideline in getting them to keep doing it over a long time. The goal of journalism is, I think, to show people important things that are happening. Optimizing engagement/acquiring customers is the goal for business, optimizing readership isn't supposed to be the goal for journalism. If it is, you run into, well, the things people complain about in modern journalism (and not-so-modern yellow journalism). And I think journalists whose primary goal is notoriety are more likely to optimize for controversy and readership, not showing people important things.

That's sort of orthogonal to "civility", I guess. But I question the idea that adversarial journalism is the way to go. My understanding is that good journalists have excellent people skills and can write critically and truthfully while cultivating relationships in an area that enable them to keep understanding what's happening in that area. Probably the number of journalists who are genuinely able to do this is not high, but we should hope for more of them.
A counterpoint I read on HN back in April, wherein the author decries expensive office chairs, and recommends exercise balls and tub chairs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26919449
Certainly!

But, from the article's initial proposition - "You do know that the Germans have a sequential numbering system (1, 2, …, n)" and in giving historical context "On investigation, it became clear that the serial numbers were sequential, without gaps."

So, yes, without that being a prior, of course it's more likely that that outlier is a strange one off, and you'd do better to exclude it from your data set (and/or continue to investigate, because it's NOT at all clear that the serial numbers are sequential yet).

But, that context and ordering matters. Assume just the opposite series of events - you started by finding 50 tanks with serial numbers [1, 100]. And then three or four months go by you didn't get any tank serials sent to you. And then you get 1234. 1258 tanks seems really reasonable at that point (and, in fact, would fit the reality; the Germans were producing ~256 tanks per month per the article).
Counterpoint - I’ve had multiple experiences in furniture buying where I think a chair or couch is comfortable in the store, only to dislike it once I take it home and sit on it for a long time.

Meanwhile, when I got my Aeron, I didn’t like it for the first few days, and even thought about sending it back. But now that I’ve adjusted to it, I love it, and I can confidently say it’s the most comfortable office chair I’ve ever tried.

It’s hard to evaluate comfort in a short period. Ergonomics is all about support, and I personally find that something that is more firm and maybe less comfortable on my first try is actually more comfortable in the long haul.

It’s hard to turn this into concrete advice, other than that you probably want to just make sure there is a good return policy for whatever you buy, and to make sure you buy a product with a good reputation.
Your phrasing is very interesting: "consider who that person is since they died." It's interesting because you refer to the dead person in the present tense, "who it is," not "who it was". Yet, in the following sentence you say "they are a collection of elements." Even when attempting to state "cold hard facts," we cannot help but exhibit our humanity, and it's a reminder why we should treat the dead with respect. In my opinion, being alive is more than just a collection of atoms and the interactions between them. And in death, while the electrons stop moving in that particular way that made us alive, that "something special" still remains in the form of their memory.
It seems to me like there is already something better than "smart contracts" now with the current legal and financial system. The current system can handle all sorts of nuance, edge cases, and disagreement that smart contracts can't. What's the Oracle for "Did you really go bankrupt?" or "Does the interaction between Alabama and California law necessitate payment in these specific conditions?"

Ethereum is one of the more credible cryptocurrencies and yet, it is slow, throughput is woefully inadequate for scale, expensive to transact, and smart contracts don't really work. When I say "Don't really work" I mean that you can't use them for the things you'd want to use them for - i.e. you can't write an Ethereum smart contract for "If I deliver X hours of contracting work, meeting these specifications, then you will pay me Y amount by Z date automatically." If I'm wrong and you can do stuff like that, please point me to the solidity.

I'm glad you included the line welcoming comments from those who feel this market shouldn't exist, otherwise I wouldn't have written this comment. I hate to be negative regarding a launch - but this feels like adding a product to the Ponzi Scheme Industry. Maybe it's like writing software to help manage slot machines, except your slot machines aren't regulated and you tell people they're investing rather than gambling.
I came across this paper recently while looking at Kitten (it was actually mentioned in HN before): http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-concatenativ...

I think really explains the idea. I always liked combinatory logic more than lambda calculus, although it didn't click to me that the concatenative languages are essentially the formalism for it (as opposed to ML-style syntax).

Although I would say functional programming is somewhat orthogonal concept, the concatenative languages can have functions with side effects, like Forth does.
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The Rust community tries extremely hard not to shame other languages, projects, and communities. If you're talking about ideology, you will not see any ideology from the Rust project saying "This other language sucks." You'll just see "We're trying to build a high-quality technical product."

In fact, the Rust compiler itself depends heavily on LLVM (C++), Cargo fetches crates using libgit2 (C), rustup downloads updates using libcurl (C), Rust uses the C standard library (C) instead of directly making syscalls like Go/Zig/etc. do, memory allocation used to use jemalloc (C) until they switched to using the platform's C standard library for compatibility, etc. If there were any belief in the Rust community that other languages are garbage, those dependencies would have been replaced long ago.

If outsiders are saying that other languages are inferior, it is because they've examined the evidence and made up their minds, not because anyone is organizing a bullying campaign. Most of the people saying that do, in fact, have extensive "real life experience" with C and C++ and have come to their conclusions based on that experience.

Which is to say, I don't know any way that the Rust project could try harder to steer the language and ideology to be more respectful of other languages other than by making Rust a less compelling language.
I did exactly this at the start of the pandemic - like new Aeron for $400 and it's amazing.
I don't have access to the source, but I literally cannot believe that is true.