skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm mostly losing them in my bed since the Airpods are a solid, partner-compatible way to fall asleep to music.

My biggest annoyance with the Airpods Pro is that no one sells custom molds. The right one fits with the small plug, but none of the three sizes that ship with the Airpods seem to be compatible with my left ear, it's extremely loose. In any case it's uncomfortable walking with them out on the streets or driving with my bike simply because I'm always afraid they will randomly fall off and get lost or destroyed.
My Pixel 4a can also generate a QR by opening a particular network in the settings app and pressing «share».
Part of them problem is patents are "one size fits all". the one size being 20 years.

In pharmaceuticals, where getting a drug to market takes a decade and hundreds of millions in investments, it seems to work well enough. The investments wouldn't be made if the investor couldn't get return because all their hard work could just be copied.

But fast moving areas where R&D can literally happen in a garage, take months rather than years, and each step builds upon the ideas in previous steps it's not all clear how patents help, and there pretty clear examples where patents slow things down. Sewing machines were bedevilled by patent thicket, as were aircraft where in World War I the Americans were force to use European designs. The latter was a bizarre outcome given heavier than air flight was invented in the US by the Wright brothers - but them heavily patented by them.

The sewing machine thicket was "solved" by the formation of a monopoly - Singer. The Aircraft thicket was solved by the US government demanding all aircraft patents be forfeited to them. In both cases as soon as the problem created by patents was solved, innovation resumed.

It's possibly true that shorter patents would prove to be a net benefit in fast moving industries, but IMHO the evidence seems pretty clear when your innovation is likely to be superseded by something better in 5 years in a free flowing environment, being able to stall all R&D by 20 years is not at all helpful.
This study talked about accessing a specialist (cardiologist, obstetrician etc) not a general practitioner for a basic health check up. This borders on disingenuous.
I'm one of four engineers at my company. I don't have the luxury of offloading my job to someone else. Also I really feel like you're projecting attitudes that I (at least didn't mean to) portray. I design the dog food, and then I make the dog food.
I double checked -- another source[0] mentions amounts that are a bit higher:

"The Chamber [of Commerce] spent nearly $82 million on lobbying in 2020"

But generally in line with the list posted by the GP:

"Facebook and Amazon were the only companies in the top 10 spending list and spent nearly $19.7 million and more than $18.7 million on lobbying in 2020, respectively"

I too, am surprised as how little this is for these gigantic companies ($20M for FB? 1/1000th of their quarterly revenue?) and more generally, how little money this is... in comparison with the entire US government budget?

Sorry, this is probably all obvious? Just a bit.. sad?

[0] https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/536082-us-chamber-nu...
Look at an airpod. Why should the battery be consumable but not the airpod? They have about the same amount of electronics. The average airpod user throws out more than an airpod's worth of plastic per day. I get junk mail with electronic trash that is bigger than an airpod.

Airpods are used with iPhones that have 20x the amount of electronics, so should last 20x as long.

People's real concern is the price which is higher than they guess because they think airpods are like regular headphones in longevity.
It’s an interesting story, although the title is burying the lede.

The answer is he called Verizon’s Collections department who had no hold times and was happy to assist him in setting up his device.
The actual message from "beep, beep" on October 4th, 1957 was that: hey, we can now deliver a bomb over the ocean in an hour and it is unstoppable.
Dropshipping itself looks totally legitimate, and there's market value of selling things for a small markup. The scammers in this case are doing a 500% markup.
Rest V/S GraphQL
They definitely did see the blue color, just like we do. Imagine all the named CSS colors: most people can clearly see the difference between them, even if they don't know the correct color name.

Also, the argument that 'they didn't have the name for this color' is flimsy: maybe they had the name, we just don't know it.
In vim you would actually just do 5dk to delete 5 previous lines. Or just do dk to delete one line, then . to repeat until satisfied.

So you get an easy way to repeat actions. You can make this into a macro easily if needed.

Then, most importantly in my opinion, you keep your hands in the normal typing position. The command key is awkward for me to reach and hurts my hands.
Why isn't R a proper programming language? What would you use over R for data analysis or statistical analysis?

R has a beautiful functional ability based on S-expressions, allowing some clever stuff to be done (i.e. tidyverse), incredibly fast (data.table is faster than Python, Julia, Matlab etc).
Could you fix the title to not be almost a century in the future please? :)
I tried iTunes on Windows once. Horrendously clunky UI, not at all what one would have expected from the vaunted "intuitive" Apple.
I do this for a living man. You are wrong.
In Virginia c. 1956, my grandmother was supposed to have an appendectomy. The Navy surgeon did this and also performed a radical hysterectomy (involuntary sterilization). It was said the surgeon was drunk, but it could've been a purposeful policy back then too.
I am calling this horse pucky. I am going to throw my anecdotal feedback to counter your anecdote. I checked with amzn recruiter friends and they were all going "wha?"... Their current biggest problem is "getting someone who is 50% better then the hiring team". Cutting people with extensive experience would be counterproductive to this goal.
The same limits apply to a CD or DVD purchased. You own the song.
Quite a few years since I used `with` the last time. Not going back to that one.

`call/apply/bind` are normal functions though, not some fancy syntax construct, and `this` is important if you want to play with prototypes/Object.create, which is what you want to do if you found class syntax sugar lacking in features/extensibility/overrideability.
Yes, this code gets it wrong.

It demonstrates that there are many different meanings for "smart", and even for "smart programmer". Nobody qualifies for all of them.
That's heat damage not discharge.
I'd love to have a compiler that just tells me what optimizations could be made, but let me either do it myself (if syntactically available in the language), or explicitly mark the optimization as ok through a #pragma or something like that. I just think having to read the disassembly to figure out what happened isn't a great user experience.
"California is prepared to... pay... an estimated $25,000 each."

What a joke. Compensation for state forced sterilization should be orders of magnitude greater than that.

edit:
P.s.
How have these cases not gone to the supreme court? I understand these people might be of little means, but surely some org like the ACLU could represent the case.
It's pretty bad, on my Android vivo phone you cannot even delete YouTube anymore...

For me it's a vicious cycle, where you keeping watching to find something good, and when you do that gives you the dopamine boost to keep watching more....

What helps me is recognizing that it is like an addictive substance. When you treat it with the same seriousness as drugs and alcohol, it becomes easier to manage...
Absolutely, that sounds like very good advice for 5-MeO-DMT specifically.
Hi from Australia!

Even during Covid lockdowns that Sydney is going through at the moment, I can get a GP appointment this week with a 5 minute travel time.

We have a health system delivered by the States of our commonwealth, enormous distance to cover and extremely high health outcomes.
GBA games were generally regarded as having lower sound quality than SNES games, although this perception was somewhat exaggerated by the poor quality of some SNES->GBA ports. It took a lot more CPU to get good audio out of the GBA, and I'm sure developers were taking the GBA's tinny speaker into account when deciding how much effort to invest in polishing the soundtrack. Hell, the GBA SP needed an adapter to use headphones!
There _is_ some evidence for Ivermectin being a broad spectrum anti-viral.. discussed here :

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/9/9/2100
> Why is it different?

Because youtube videos aren't rewarded based on votes. People generally want creators to be rewarded for their work when its good, and they'll almost certainly put more effort into rating if they know that's how those creators get rewarded.

Also, you seem to think that youtube's voting system has failed somehow. In what way do you think its failed? You do know that youtube doesn't recommend things to people based on upvotes, right? Views are what youtube cares about, not votes. Votes are mostly just for show on youtube.
HNs rules aren't tailored toward maximizing expression. They are tailored toward maximizing discussion and information exchange. Impoliteness, while certainly a form of expression, is detrimental to discussion, hence it being frowned upon here. If your goal is simply self expression for its own sake, visual arts likely would provide a better medium than internet discussion boards.
You spent three years trying to get someone else to first understand you and then use him as a go-between for "you" to better understand yourself. That's like debugging a program running on your own computer by using a 3rd person that's completely unfamiliar with the program as your only input/output.

Extremely inefficient.

Psychedelics blow the door to the mind-psyche apart and place you right at the center of the cyclone (to paraphrase John Lilly). For a smart, introspective/reflective individual there is nothing more direct and arguably better: No filters, no go-betweens, an aspect of one's self is placed inside one's own mind, free to observe and experience.
"That is not to say we don't definitively know they do not work. We just dont know if they do anything or not. There is promising preliminary research but a lot of that research is coming out of a community that appears prone to some serious motivated reasoning."

It's not just preliminary research.

At the time LSD was banned there were thousands of research papers on it, and I've read that it was the most widely studied psychoactive substance on the planet.

The research that's come out more recently about psychedelics has largely just confirmed what was already known about them, and what has become crystal clear is that they're actually far more effective for some very severe mental illnesses (like treatment-resistant depression and PTSD) than any other medication or therapy in existence.
It may be a blessing in disguise, until an employer asks you why you left your only work experience, and you have to dance around a bit to persuade them to give you a shot.
That 9% of people also included a group that believed they were justified but didn't actually buy a genuine product.
I think your mountain analogy is accurate, but I also think it means that these temporary, breakthrough experiences still have their place. Imagine thinking that you could never, ever get to the top of the mountain. There's no point even trying to work up to it. Then someone takes you up in a helicopter. You see the path from above. You see other people taking it. You see the view. Then, you're dropped back into the valley. That experience gives some people a sense of hope and changes their relationship with the work.
> A similar thing is that I often come across people who are well-informed but still surprised that compilers will combine two observable operations into one

Well, think of it this way, if you're not into compilers wouldn't you expect your code to run as written? Especially if you put a breakpoint in there and you can see each step happening sequently. I don't really think people that don't know these things should be viewed as ignorant because the compiler tends to be doing some very unintuitive things. IMO everyone would be better off if somehow the tooling or the compiler could report some of these things in an easy to visualize not-super-verbose way.
- Finding a life partner can be really hard for some (and that some might include you). Ain't going to happen for some of us.

- You'll become more self-aware over time (what you really want out of different parts of life) but can take some time to get there.

- There is a lot to learn, and college will only provide a fraction it. The rest is up to you, and your life will reflect it. How to dress well, cook, stay healthy, establish relationships, think deeply and logically, overcoming your weaknesses, and more.
A very intuitive entry into gaussian processes comes from Chapter 12 of Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath:

He comes at it from the regression side and explains that GP's basically occur when you have continuous variables in your regression problem like ages or income instead of individual units like countries or chimapanzee subjects. Here is a paragraph that sort of explains it

> But what about continuous dimensions of variation like age or income or stature? Indi- viduals of the same age share some of the same exposures. They listened to some of the same music, heard about the same politicians, and experienced the same weather events. And individuals of similar ages also experienced some of these same exposures, but to a lesser extent than individuals of the same age. The covariation falls off as any two individuals be- come increasingly dissimilar in age or income or stature or any other dimension that indexes background similarity. It doesn’t make sense to estimate a unique varying intercept for all individuals of the same age, ignoring the fact that individuals of similar ages should have more similar intercepts.

The beauty of the author's explanation is that Mixed slope and Intercept models are very intuitive and so are GP's which are just their extension to the continuous random variables to model their covariances.

(BTW The author is explains "regression" of the kind used in Controlled Experiments in like social sciences or botanist and not really as an optimization problem in ML to reduce error; The coefficients are interpreted as effect sizes).
> You can’t just claim that they’ve shifted responsibility without arguing your point.

The point itself is enough. Bottle and car battery deposit schemes show that the system works to significantly reduce littering. Most people take them to the recycling on their own and those who can't be bothered always get picked up by people.

A 10-20€ deposit on phones, a 5€ deposit on small scale stuff like chargers and earphones and a 1€ deposit on batteries would definitely get electronics stuff back into circulation.
I'm confused. Is the memset to the temporary volatile void* observable or not, and is the temporary possibly eliminated?
I'm saying if you made a complier that made reduced that expected 50% to roughly 0%, it wouldn't matter to the user if it was 1E-10 or exactly 0%. Both could be undesirable for exactly the same reason. Again: you can complain that the 1E-10 compiler is still "correct" because there was never a 50% guarantee, but in doing that you're completely missing the point.

Here's an exaggerated example to get the point across. Imagine your Tesla autopilot's accuracy suddenly dropped from >99.9999% to <0.00001% overnight because of some stupid optimization (maybe this one) that was technically correct. Assume there was never a guarantee provided to the user that it would stay this accurate. Now if your 99.9999% became 99.9998% overnight, OK, I think a sane user would completely anticipate that and live with it. But when it drops orders of magnitude lower, do you really think you could shift the blame to the user because you were "technically" not guaranteeing anything? Is it really the user's fault that your optimization reduced that accuracy to 0.00001% and killed them? Can you walk away with your conscience clear at that point that you did everything 'right'? At what point do you feel like some kinds of changes just blatantly unfair and uncalled for, even if they're technically "by the book"?
Google Campus closes in the end of an era for London tech startups
Weird smiley. What's it supposed to depict, "eyes directly above scrotum"? Or "...above buttocks"?
I'm not sure as this single event was simply a strong - even pivotal - step in the right direction.

I now have remarkably low social anxiety.

Objectively: I approach unfamiliar groups, women etc. in ways that baffle others I'm with.
> this industry is not - primarily - about science

It's not rocket science - oh wait, it is rocket science! ;-)

It's also about solving incredibly hard engineering problems.
Provide a user configurable front end interface capable of display topics the individual is most interested in, while retaining the default page as another option.
For example option headings might be specific coding languages,
specific hardware, climate change, world news, etc.
This could allow the user to be aware of information within their favourite subjects.
https://www.worlddata.info/quality-of-life.php
I can also recommend drawing it instead of printing if you hate printers with the same passion as me. Record to beat for drawing a working QR code is 3 tries and I think about three hours (for an SSID of 13 bytes (5 unicode characters) and 19-character password). I did it mostly out of curiosity how hard it would actually be (spoiler: medium difficulty).
Least privilege implies ambient authority and the problems that brings. The capability security answer rejecting it is respectable enough isn't it (e.g. seL4, Fuschia recently)? I'm not sure that was what the quotation was about, but rejecting least privilege shouldn't be too surprising per se.
Is this supposed to be satire or are you so disconnected from reality that you think this makes sense?
I had a very weird moment of cognitive dissonance reading the headline, having just finished rereading the novel Dune yesterday.
If you've come from an imperative style of programming, you may end up fighting R before figuring out how it works best. It has a beautiful functional style, best demonstrated by tidyverse and map/apply functions. R has the fastest data table / tabular implementation (yes, faster than Julia), which is the standard format for most data and statistical analyses.

1 indexing is standard for numerical languages. The documentation is referenced to papers on the statistical method - I find it usually sufficient, but depends on what package you are talking about.
if you have 2 big companies they’re “too big to fail” and can better whether lawsuits with massive legal teams, settlement money, pr firms… if you have a thousand smaller companies you can bankrupt 100 and be ok
An honest debate. I'm kind of shocked.

I still come back to the fact that there is no right/expectation of anyone to be able to view anything. The fact that something exists and someone says they should be able to watch it is the entitled bit in my opinion. There is no "god given right" to entertainment. There is no "pursuit of entertainment" set out in the US Constitution. If someone graciously allows you to watch/view their work, then that's great and we hope you were entertained. The expectation one should be able to watch/view anything at anytime is a bit petty. If someone asks to be paid to view that entertainment but in a very controlled/restricted manner (ex: buying a ticket to a limited capacity venu), this seems to be accepted. However, once it was allowed to be broadcast/streamed with certain restrictions (for a limited 3 month period), people feel like this is not acceptable.

At the end of the day, it is the content owner's discretion to allow/disallow as they see fit. People do not like calling it stealling because no physcial copy has been removed from the owner's possession, but the owner is still be wronged by not being allowed to control the thing they created. I do not know what to call that.
People had another cause to worry over back in those days, this being the cold war between the west and the east. With the demise of the Soviet Union came the freedom (for some) and need (for others) to find new causes to fight for, climate change being one of them. The USA was hit by a number of record-setting heat waves in the 30's [1,2] which are probably best-known under the colloquial term "Dust Bowl" - the 1930s (the Dust Bowl years) are remembered as the driest and warmest decade for the United States, and the summer of 1936 featured the most widespread and destructive heat wave to occur in the Americas in centuries [3]. Even though many of the temperature records set in those years still stand [4] there was no talk about climate change because people were too busy trying to survive the dust bowl and the resulting economic effects while still reeling from the great depression which preceded it.

[1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016EGUGA..1815380C/abstra...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave

[3] http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/06/...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_territory_tempe...
> No one has made this static website you’re talking about. It doesn’t exist. This one does. The imperfect app that exists beats the perfect app that is vapor.

Another poster whipped one together since this was posted, because it's so trivial to do with vanilla tech:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27804490

I also don't think anyone has a problem with someone who says: "I dunno, this was just the way I learned and I don't know the underlying tech."

But that's usually not what happens. Instead, there are endless rationalizations for why the obvious over-engineering is not only okay, but preferable.
Delete until next matching parenthesis 3000-ish lines further down is a neat one. Or hex-edit a 5 GB binary. Or doing columnar editing with visual block mode.
>That’s in now way comparable to having treated your social anxiety

Did I say I 'treated my social anxiety'? No.

This event & exposure was a major step forward for me - I had never felt less socially self-conscious & more self-love while presenting.

My outlook / frame on social anxiety was never the same.

I find your comment interestingly dismissive & defensive. Any reason why this might be?
Leave toads alone

5 Meo DMT can be synthesized, but people like to do the “natural” thing.

See “Hamilton’s Pharmacopoeia” s03e01, he interviews Albert Most, the first person to smoke toad venom, and then demonstrates the synthesis in a lab, really entertaining stuff.

I think the episode is not up for free, HBO and Vice have it. You can read about it here tho

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amandasiebert/2021/01/08/hamilt...
That's taking one sentence from one argument from the book, and finding it weak. You should compare the strongest arguments from the article to the strongest arguments from the book, not to the weakest.
At my high school in the US back in the 70’s (yikes), all the rage was to have your school books bound and carried using a US Postal Service adjustable leather tie-out strap.
Of course you could see it that way. However, what about ethics? If work is just some no meaning thing to do, will you care about the ethical aspects of your work? And I think we need a lot more of that in tech jobs.
If Niels Furgerson does not qualify as "smart" for programming I don't and I don't think i have ever met anyone who does.
Unsafe Hell Code review of “Rust for Linux” GitHub project