skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a great, constructive way to ponder.

As a start, anything with a power cord. Taken to the extreme, repurposing all the products used in RVs for the home. Like why not have battery packs for ice boxes (fridges), stoves, etc? This will certainly help with (personal) resilience, eg future grid failures.

I've been pondering personal heating devices. Like heated gloves and foot wear. (I now have severe chilblains.) Instead of heating the whole house, or room. (Ironically, my torso remains warm and so I sweat more.) Also battery powered therapeutic heat pads and whatnot would be handy too.

The next thing I'm pondering is water usage. I'd like to direct my waste kitchen sink water (DWV) to my lawn. Maybe even reuse for flushing toilets. This is still disallowed in my jurisdiction, so I need parts and fixtures which can be quickly swapped out to pass inspections (eg selling my house). I don't understand anything about water treatment. What little I've read says I can't just catch the water in a cistern. It'll quickly go bad. So maybe there's dish soaps recipes or something that can help solve that.

I'm also pondering After Plastic™, products which aren't based on fossil fuels. I recently tried bamboo tooth brushes (meh) and dental floss (terrific). I'd love to stop buying single use plastic stuff, plastic bins, plastic trash bags, ad nauseum.
I appreciate learning other cultures, but why the Quran? Seems heavy - why not some sociology textbook on Islamic culture?
You have quite a few [flagged] and [dead] posts. Perhaps the links you've been sharing are not a good fit for HN, or the URLs are automatically being flagged.
Or it shows that he's open and honest. And that's definitely someone I would want on my team.
It may also contain new cases that we don't know yet.
Frankly, at this point, I don’t believe that CIG has any realistic idea when it will be done. I’d say it will be when they run out of financial runway, but they keep extending that by selling hopes and dreams.
Those are good reasons to motivate a seller. But the main problem with small transactions is that the buyer's costs/risks in making an investment can eclipse the "inherent" value of the project.

Consider that theoretical 2h -> $500 / month project:

- Would those 2h for the founder be 2h for the buyer, or much more?
- How much initial training would it take for the buyer to sustain those economics?
- Are those 2h sufficient to protect / grow the business in a changing market, or just an instantaneous rate?
- Are the assets of the business actually secure? (unambiguous ownership / confidentiality, etc.)

Those are all pretty big unknowns, and even if the founder is confident about them the buyer would spend significant effort to verify -- very possibly more than the $5k sale price. It might even be cheaper (incorporating risk) to build a $500 / month business than to verify the purchase of one. Small projects have to sell at a VERY unfavorable discount to counter this.

The exception are buyers who make their own business out of efficient diligence and exploitation for many similar projects (like high-traffic sites for a single community). If you fit into such a category, it is probably better to find a specialized marketplace or a buyer with a reputation than attempt to sell in a broad market.
Absolutely, on an individual basis is where the difference can be made and this is exactly why it is important if you are tested positive for some cancer to work together with your oncologist to ensure the best possible outcome for you. The interesting thing here is that laypeople tend to be in favor of massive testing and almost always want to be operated on/have chemotherapy/have radiation therapy even if that is not necessarily the best path for them.

This leads to lots of suffering and hardship.
France is not an utopia. There are around 300k homeless people and it's increased since the pandemic hit.
Ask HN: What other SaaS like Atlassian sells multiple SaaS under one brand?
How to understand... Why is it beneficial to have multiple products under one company?
The same reason that they wrote their own parser generator instead of using Lex/YACC.
Imagine living in a society where basic income is guaranteed no matter what, and even its worst places - its prison cells - compare favorably to the finest hotels of other countries. You have so many options you feel constantly overwhelmed, stressing about making bad choices because everything your primitive heart could ever desire is not merely available, but plentiful and cheap. And it'll recruit you if you're not careful. Money fails to motivate when you have enough of it regardless. Life wants meaning.

Imagine having all the time in the world, just thinking about everything. Your whole life.

What would you do?
Unfortunately it's not. If you're working on a small 1 or 2 person game where your work blurs the lines of art and engineering, you're highly unlikely to be successful. For every Undertale there are literally hundreds of other indie games that barely earned a penny

It only takes a small studio of like 10 people before you're practically never touching anything creative and are working on software tools and under the hood functionality just like any other dev job
> But how many people enter their full email and then back out of the form?

Most people. Because we have form autofill.
A decade is too big of a window. It's tough to pick one decade over another but I do think I could pick one year out of every decade over the others. To put my thought another way, if you think of society as a system, you've got a short period where the rules are being changed, and then we let the system run its course for multiple years. Eventually there are some gross inefficiencies that become too big to ignore and we have another short period where the rules are changed again, and so on.
Skype? How outdated is his understanding of computer security?
it is a sad story
See below, there are quite literally 100's of studies supporting this so it should not be difficult to find many more articles about this.
Don’t you? Why not? Because of financials? Job availability in your region?

There’s always an option. It might entail a more extensive change and change is hard, that’s for sure.
It's not surprising because we're used to spam. /s
Yeah it’s almost like magic. I remember feeling pretty confused and then suddenly there’s a chapter with an adenoid walking around and it’s like wtf?! But because the prose was so good and there were enough nuggets tugging you along I stool with it. And then right as it feels the entire endeavor is pointless it comes into focus and you get a grip on it.
You're probably right, which is why articles like this feel like gullible people believing Musk's incessant image-building.
> But surely building “yet another react form” feels like coding an already solved problem.

> What I mean is that gamedev has possibly the most untapped potential for coders wanting to make something truly amazing, with a sheer infinite amount of possible creations.

Whilst I agree there is a lot of common and drudgey work in gamedev as well even in extremely creative projects.
We could develop those treatments irrespective of early detection, there are plenty of examples of early detection of cancers today to make that feasible, this does not depend on a new test regime.
Someone read the headline and not the article. :-)
He/she is not gender neutral. It reinforces the gender binary by excluding non-binary individuals.
Its a great example of a slippery slope fallacy. I agree it's troubling, in general, to attack the mechanisms used to commit crime. On those grounds you could legitimately outlaw cars ("get-away vehicles!") the post office ("a conduit for illegal drugs, porn, etc!"), computers, ("an essential tool for hackers!").

I'm just saying, taking down the DNS entry for "obviously" criminal domains doesn't bother me. And yes, when it's not obvious, or worse, is maliciously abused by power to silence dissent, then yes, it's worth being upset about. The slippery slope fallacy is all about extrapolating how power could be abused, leaving the only response to take away power entirely. But that's impossible, because power exists. So let's have an adult conversation about how to use it for the good of all.
The Lola Programming Language
The bigger smell is no version control :D
Saving emails `onBlur()` is probably not a dark pattern.
> I figured it was just a matter of time before the resignations started flooding in

The headline and the anecdote in the opening paragraph of the article are somewhat misleading. The statistics about millions of people resigning aren’t from people choosing to leave the workforce or take sabbaticals.

It’s mostly people who are simply changing jobs due to the booming economy creating new opportunities and hiring pressure. Millions sounds like a big number, but in a country with hundreds of millions of people it’s only a couple percent of the workforce. Even during normal times, a million or more people resign according to these statistics, again mostly to change jobs.

To put it in perspective: The normal turnover rate is in the 1-2% range (monthly) and the current post-COVID spike is in the 2-3% range, which is consistent with a booming economy. That means only about an additional 1% of workers are choosing to change jobs each month, which isn’t exactly the upheaval this article makes it sound like.
I thought the same. Why not just sort out an automated irrigation system, and do the initial seeding manually? Even with a robot there will be manual work like cleaning weeds, pruning, etc.
Again, personally, I lost both parents to cancer. One thyroid (very slow progression) one pancreatic (very fast). In both cases, I believe that pre-symptomatic detection would have had a high probability of eradicating their cancers. That experience skews my view and if I get the opportunity, I'll have these tests done 3x annually.

But I understand your point. How about making it elective? That way, people who prefer to not endure the risk of false positives or the anxiety of awaiting the test results can opt out.
Probably "Discovering Godot". The instructor, Yann Burrett, is fantastic. He runs his own training courseware company now, called Canopy Games.
Alternatively, this could be another thing he's lying about in order to seem eccentric and interesting.
> Technology is technology. It doesn't care about morality and what's right or wrong.

That is rather uninformed. There is a growing body of research on embedding ethics into technology.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-020-01010-1
some "out there" suggestions:

- "Extremal Combinatorics" by Staysys Jukna

- "Convex Optimization" by Boyd and Vandenberghe

- "Delay Insensitive Circuits" [1]

- "An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography" by Hoffstein, Pipher, and Silverman

- "Quantum Computing since Democritus" by Scott AAronson

[1] https://www.delayinsensitive.com

disclosure: I'm the author.
The United States can’t keep ignoring India’s Internet abuses
So the entire point is basically it's a flash game which doesn't need flash. Where has this person been?
How we made EfficientNet more efficient
Early Monte Carlo methods – Part 1: the 1949 conference
> That's a critically better health outcome though.

Not necessarily. It depends on how old you are, what your genetic make-up is, whether the cancer is growing rapidly, whether it has easy access to other organs to spread to (or has already begun to do so) and so on. It's not a binary thing.
https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=sks-keyservers.net&s=upda...
I’m not GP.
Like this for example: https://dotbigbang.com/game/ee5d9ed9e9684cad865cf04cd425406a...

Although I'd argue that instant games don't necessarily need to be multiplayer. For example Friday Night Funkin isn't right now IIRC.
Poor PNC sentenced to forever walk into that wall https://youtu.be/31v7sSGfTm8?t=470
This is the slippery slope argument. My assertion is that we shouldn't, as a society, accept that some things are wrong. Such that that is the wrong argument to use here.

At large, I also think that this means some things can't be codified. Such that some activities are highly dependent on expected duties of the employee.

As an example, as a security guard, if on the job you think up a good movie script and get it written, I don't see any argument that you thought of it while at work compelling. Even if you jotted notes throughout the day. If you are a staff writer for a studio, I'm sure the case is different.

So the same here. It is not a slippery slope. Nor is it a uniform field. And, in general, I suspect I would side with individuals over corporations way more. Probably not exclusively, but predominantly.

Edit: not that I think your advice is bad, really.
> I think that we need to separate the life of the hardware (WD My Book) and the life of the cloud service (the "Live" bit).

That makes me think of the internet radio owners (Grace Digital, Yamaha, etc.) that all had their products brick because the underlying look-up service just up and went away. No problem. You just have to buy another hunk of plastic and microprocessor.
I’m wondering about that too but for another reason - the aging population. There are article in Asian about “China getting old before it gets rich”.

Basically the small group of younger workers are going to have their wealth siphoned off to support the much larger older population who doesn’t have financial means to support themselves. Not a big deal when it’s 5 workers to one retired. Huge deal when it’s 2 to 1.

The expectation is that will stall growth for decades. China will be richer, but stuck in a lower income range until they come out the other side.

It’s an interesting theory.
This has been broken since 2019. I’m running Ubuntu 20.04 with the 5.11 kernel and the 460/465 drivers and all these problems are still happening.

And also, yes, I expect a 5 year old operating system to still work. Windows 10 does and it came out in 2015. These are professional tools for my fucking job.
Most SaaS of any significant age have a sibling or two. The benefit is that you want to create a more seamless, integrated experience for people, but you don't want to bloat your original product with unrelated features.

Or, you just acquired something.
Of course.

I've joined a company that uses nuxt with nuxt-auth, which is incapable of securely (i.e. not) storing tokens. This means access tokens are stored by JS in cookies. So I know the app is vulnerable to XSS, but there is no way to fix it because the author of the tool doesn't think it's important.

Honestly, if developers didn't know they were releasing vulnerable apps, I'd be more concerned.
> all I really want is a slug laser

Even better: a slug-hunting robot powered by fermented slugs:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/tmp/slugbot.html

The project is from circa-2000, I remember being impressed by the idea at the time, and I'd have thought slug-hunting robots would be more of a common thing by now - turns out robotics for agriculture are hard.
Ask HN: What websites (other than HN) do you visit to read the comments?
This is an absolutely absurd thing to say.

“We’ve never had blood tests that detect pancreatic cancer early, therefore we should never use them because when we used other means to try to detect early, it didn’t lead to better outcomes.”

If you can detect colon, kidney pancreatic or liver cancer early, you might be able to do surgery or develop treatments at the stage 1 stage. Right now we don’t have anything except MRIs and CT scans that are too hard and expensive to do frequently. And if you are diagnose with pancreatic cancer it’s usually so late that you will basically die in weeks.

You’re basically saying “give up. Even if we detect early you all die anyway” which is frankly stupid. You’re discounting the possibility that early detection by means of a blood test adds whole new layers of possibilities to fight those particularly dangerous cancers.
College students can now make sure that I am adequately fact-checked if I err from the path of truth.

I don't think they are "making sure" as in "enforcing." It sounds like they are observing and reporting, hopefully in an aggregated fashion.
why would the NIH comply with a demand from China to remove such valuable information?
The test is easier than a full part-107 exam and I was able to finish mine in less than half an hour for free. The FAA did the right thing by making the test free to take. If there were any fees involved, it would hinder adoption and work against FAA’s goal. Some might see the test as another thing to do, but making it free really does have a lower barrier of entry, and is a necessary step in the right direction which could’ve easily gone wrong if a fee was involved.
Humans being less than 1.2m tall is extremely common, and I will bet there was a significant period of your own life in which that criterion applied to you.

(edit: and you should not be surprised at the number of "new species" which are just juveniles of a known species.)
Millions of people are quitting their current jobs to take better jobs!

(But that is a very different narrative). Damn you NPR.

From their text:

>” So when his employer began calling people back to the office part time, he balked at the 45-minute commute. He started looking for a job with better remote work options and quickly landed multiple offers.”
Where Did the Coronavirus Come From? What We Already Know Is Troubling
Well, my understanding (and common advice) is actually not to water the leaves at all if possible as that has no benefit apart from helping diseases set in.
> I would love to be wrong though, garden robots would be great, especially if they had lasers for slugs

I’ve had a similar idea before, for roaches, but I’m just not sure how it could work. Surely any laser with enough power output to kill something would cause a decent amount of collateral as well?
> Example: Situations where the user would be likely to have very unreliable connection and be on the page with the email field for some time with other data entered that they wouldn't want to lose.

Data entered in a form don't require an active connection. If submitting the form fails you can resubmit it.

Usually such issues start to appear when companies decide to implement their own custom UI from the ground up in a way that the result can only be described as undefined behaviour and things like input fields reset their state when you look at them the wrong way.
I misread as “the” people and was confused. Sad.
The idea that we should live in cities and people should leave living on the land behind.

Because it is not in any facility relevant for the fight against climate change and yet, I see fervent defenders of this idea as if it would be the holy grail of sustainability.

A cost-/benefit analysis makes clear, that this would give up freedom for marginal success (if there is a benefit, I have my doubts).

It would be even more efficient if we all live in tents for that matter. I believe such discussion to be extremely contraproductive to get people to take climate change seriously. Because for sensible action all your capital is exausted. Also your financial capital as it would drive property prices to new heights.
I’m not sure it’s so limited:

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...

In particular there is mention of purpose:

> is not fit for purpose - either its standard purpose or a specific purpose ordered by the customer which you accepted
Every brand proves themselves untrustworthy at some point, look at Seagate or every airline. The free market breaks down all the time and that's why government regulation is so necessary.
The funding of "cloud gaming" and interest from investors like a16z as noted right at the top of the article mean it's on a bit of an upswing in terms of interest.
Jumpgate scratched the itch years ago and I was hoping this game would too. But its just not really a game yet.

Star Citizen is pretty much the proof that unlimited resources is not necessarily a good thing for a project. Constraints can help keep things focused.
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More and more convinced that the best data backup is a read-only one, and not connected to the internet. Optical disks will have their use, even if they will not be mainstream anymore.
Agreed wholeheartedly.

I'd add that engineers have their place in gamedev as well, because many artists don't know how to make computers create worlds. Engineers generate the possibility space where artists can work. Sometimes, fast code is needed to unlock capabilities no-one could have pre-imagined of.
This is smart!

"""Check whether the cake is true"""
return isinstance(cake, Cake)
Then you can't send them reminder emails, can you? No, this was pretty sleazy, and quite probably in violation of the GDPR.
The use of cheating here is pretty tongue-in-cheek. I'd say the thought process exhibited in this is the exact kind of person you want to hire. Somebody who keeps their old work organized in such a way they can leverage it rather than start from scratch over and over again is hugely useful.
Ah, the Minecraft Modpack methodology.
It's unique in that it lets you create something that is quite immersive and more tangible instead of ephemeral. It feels more familiar to working with your hands than any other type of coding, and pretty much anyone can understand or enjoy it.

My partner doesn't care that I wrote a really sweet cron job for collating web orders today, but she can instantly grok how cool a game idea is and have fun playing.
What cheating?

All he did was a really low-effort submission.
Does anybody just read the Quran? I listened to some comparative religion lectures by Huston Smith where he said basically it's impossible to just read. He tried it and didn't understand it. It's a book that is very hard to get into without an existing knowledge of Islam that comes from somewhere other than reading the Quran. Eventually he began to understand it after a lot of background reading from the Sufis.
One lesson I see here is that software-only triggered factory resets shouldn't be a thing.

Routers used to have reset pins/buttons which had to be held down for a while to make them factory reset. That should be the _only_ option to factory reset a device that wipes user data along with it.
I was hoping for something more descriptive I guess. Steam used to be much pickier about which games were allowed on the platform. Now it's anything goes, and there's a lot more lower quality games on it, that sell for under $5,have no marketing budget, and just kind of look bad.

The indie games I've played all seem to have little news posts about 1 million copies sold. So... what's the return on an indie game of 2012 indie game quality?
yes, having mysterious blood in your freezer is a good conversation starter for guests too. Bonus points if you get creative with the labels for each sample.
Looks like LKML purged all mail of June 18?
19% are too ignorant to know it?