skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would go as far as to say school is industrial daycare. Asserting that schools provide value to society because people learn things within their boundaries is, in my opinion, like saying that caffeine pills provide value to tired people by helping them stay awake. It's not wrong per se, but it's a hackneyed solution that doesn't address the root cause of the problem. "Our citizens are illiterate and don't understand mathematics? I know; let's kidnap their children and store those children in warehouses for 18 years while they learn morals and social values from each other instead of from productive adults."

The "foundational social concepts" children learn in school are taught to them by full-time teachers, who are only capable of repeating various myths about society that they themselves believe. The effective method to learn foundational social concepts is to live in and contribute to society, not to sit in a sterile, age-segregated social environment and listen to quarter-truths spoken by apathetic non-experts, and then be tested on arbitrary collections of unrelated fact.

I am not arguing against the concept of education in general, but the notion that it can be taught in school is, I think, one of the most damaging problems in society. You simply cannot learn quickly and efficiently as a numbered head in a sea of competitors; good, proper learning takes time, personal attention, discipline, and does not pace itself to a standardized schedule. I offer this essay, not as the foundation of my anti-school beliefs (which are supported by dozens of studies, hundreds of essays, and thousands of personal experiences), but as the same literary aperitif that allowed me to ask myself "what if school isn't good for society?"

https://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
We will pump the earth empty anyway, right?
The introduction of Feature Flag into your system
Honestly, I'm more than happy to see older/niche protocols removed from web browsers. God knows the average browser contains way, way too much stuff anyway[0], not to mention there are FTP clients that are likely far better for that use case than Firefox would ever be. I wouldn't mind if FF (or other browsers) tightened their scope a little more often and adhered to the Unix philosophy a little more closely.

0: https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope....
Is there some Apple induction charging magic which removed the something like 40% wasted energy that occurs when using fields instead of conductors to charge? If anything this would surely matter more if you're carrying around the charge instead of parking it on your night-stand.
Yup, I've noticed my headphone case battery was empty and placed it on top of my phone at the gym. Sometimes it's enough to get juice for a 15-20 minute jog.
Yes exactly, there's no story there
You are kidding, right?

Compare the standard of living of the average person when, as you say, everything was provided by the one and only ruler to BILLIONS of people being elevated by capitalism.

As I said, not perfect by any means, but nothing anyone has come-up with has ever come close.
Long polling doesn't scale very well. Webhook/websocket and events endpoint combined sounds like the sweetspot to me.
Basically, if a site uses the Facebook SDK to start the authenticaion flow, it will be broken because it's blocked.

SmartBlock just stands in for that blocked script, acting just enough like the real API to prevent some common site breakage.

This lets it detect when sites try to open the popup-based authenticaion flow, unload the stand-in script, load the real one, and continue the login flow.

It only unblocks some Facebook resources, as listed here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/extensi...

It only unblocks it for that specific website (the domain in the tab URL), and only until Firefox is closed. Other trackers continue to be blocked, and other tracking protections stay in place (as opposed to turning off ETP for the site entirely).
Can recommend the same during winter. Take the (local, gjøvik ) train nortwards, and then cross country ski back.
Horses' behavior strongly depends on their education, training and the driver. A good one with a good driver doesn't give in to fear. You even can make a helicopter fly next to it if it is well trained. If FSD gets the perfection and you don't need to enjoy your driving it would be dull. It's like having a personal driver. What makes driving a car or a good horse (or whatever) fun is the interaction with them, the handling of your own decisions and your accuracy to carry out a manoeuvre
Samsung gave me a wireless-charging 10,000mAh battery pack for free a few years back. Expensive magnets indeed.
FWIW 100m * 100 = 10bn
Custom logic chips, not universal DSP - this was the early 80s
And only within 24 hours
It is an actual crime. This person risked many people's lives for their own convenience. He did actual actions, not possible future activity.

If I fire a gun into a building blindly, the chance I kill anyone is low. Should that be legal?
Planting trees it is very difficult to keep up with global production.

TL; DW: planting 20 million trees would equal roughly the CO2 emissions of the USA for half a day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqht2bIQXIY
Configuring OpenSSH's ControlMaster setting here makes an enormous difference. Summary: it keeps a connection open for a while in case you want to connect to the same machine again. If you do, it reuses that connection so the new one is nearly instant.
Actually I’m surprised to see anything from the daily Mail posted here. I would have guessed it was on a block list.
If you find anything let me know. Of course here in the US the nigh-insurmountable problem with part time work is that you won't get health coverage at an affordable rate.
Sneedacity is a better name anyway.
With fast charge being common these days, why not just carry a portable battery (or two or three, for less than $99)?
s/IT support role/support role/

coming from an engine mechanic here...this type of 'bury your head in the sand' malarkey is seriously acceptable for IT?? let me give you an analogy:

customer: can you check the differential too? my team driver says whenever she does a full lockout the steering wheel makes a clacking sound.

me: does nothing

customer: the clacking noise is gone nevermind.

newspaper: two dead after truck wheel shears from axle and collides with minivan.

Just because the symptom goes away, doesnt mean there isnt a problem that could require your attention. "do nothing" is a solution to your own poor attitude and disposition. in the authors example that button disappearing could be a cyber attack, could be malware, could be anything.

you are making excuses for yourself and gaslighting the requestor to avoid handling something you should either automate or investigate.
Yeah, exercise tires me out regardless, that's the core. The difference is whether I get amped up at the same time.

Ive found the biggest difference is how much I've used my body in the past few days - working out for the first time in a while leaves me energized no matter what time it is.
Oil is expensive to store, and leaving it reintroduced the commitment problem
That doesn't pass the smell test for me - with a co-op, incentives are aligned for everyone. With liability that's covered by society, you create incentives that are directly opposed - e.g. you can drive a giant SUV that's more deadly to other drivers and pedestrians - and without mandatory insurance, you're getting the benefits of driving a tank-like vehicle while offloading all the costs and risks onto others.

You'd also need some new framework for dealing with high-risk drivers - e.g. instead of increasing the insurance cost for someone with a DUI conviction, you'd need to simply take away their ability to drive.

There also exist numerous jurisdictions with publicly provided insurance, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_Corporation_of_Briti...
If your set up is good and you are used to regular riding shouldn't be a problem for 30 days of ~120 let alone 3. Assuming proper shorts and a good seat, of course.
Am I just unable to find it or are the dimensions not listed on the page (or the listed support page)? The pictures also avoid any side-on view, giving just a very shallow angle picture with lighting that makes it hard to estimate.

How thick is it? And how heavy?
I know this refers to actual scientific studies, but the same garbage-in, garbage-out problem applies. If anything, meaningless surveys like this are even less reliable.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778
The guy made it all up.
A counterpoint to this is that if you wish to recreate many of the classic (and modern) sounds, that often they were created with subtractive synthesis, the easiest path to a close sound is to also use subtractive synthesis.

If you wish to train your ear and learn subtractive synthesis I'd highly recommend https://www.syntorial.com/, which makes you recreate various sounds in a very structured and interactive way, slowly building up complexity.
Most consistently excellent AWS product: it's a simple thing that does a simple job with minimal hassle. I suspect it will save me the trouble of ever having to run messaging infrastructure again.
They were easy to make with uncomplicated circuitry. That's it.

The original big modulars included oscillator sync - which locked a bank of oscillators together - and waveform mixing. So you could create more complex shapes. (With some effort and imagination, and not in a particularly intuitive way.)

When digital started to become a thing in the 80s you could start using any shape, including your own hand-drawn waveshapes or a custom mix of overtones.

But that turned out to be less exciting than expected, so most people just switched to samples instead.

A sawtooth is not heard an octave lower. The fundamental is the same for both shapes, because the Fourier decomposition has the same f0.

There are some unexpected psychoacoustic effects which change the perception of fundamental pitch. E.g there's almost no fundamental in the lowest octave of a piano, but our ears fill it in anyway.

But simple repeating shapes tend to do what it says on the label. (And in the textbook.)
There are many ways to flay this hog, this is more of a thought experiment than a recipe for a TI-CH337. The ultimate hack would be to use a more modern version (with "high-res" screen) and replace/amend the guts with something which emulates the calculator - wabbitemu seems to work just fine [1] - but can also function in other ways. Add some key combination to switch functions and you have a mean lean cheatin' machine.

[1] http://wabbitemu.org/
RESULTS:

Symptoms were present in 385 (89%) participants at diagnosis and 81 (19%) were initially hospitalized.

At six to eight months, 111 (26%) reported not having fully recovered.

233 (55%) participants reported symptoms of fatigue, 96 (25%) had at least grade 1 dyspnea

111 (26%) had DASS-21 scores indicating symptoms of depression.

170 (40%) participants reported at least one general practitioner visit related to COVID-19 after acute illness

10% (8/81) of initially hospitalized individuals were rehospitalized.

Individuals that have not fully recovered or suffer from fatigue, dyspnea or depression were more likely to have further healthcare contacts. However, a third of individuals (37/111) that have not fully recovered did not seek further care.
Is that km/week?
What might happen if both the phone and the battery are plugged into power?
It's $99, I wouldn't say it's for 'the wealthy'.
Mobile Industry standardise on 3.8V, so you have two number to present to consumers, Wh or mah. Since Wh is a smaller number, marketing decided to use mah. Once that got traction, others that were previously using Wh had to follow. And now we end up having billions of consumers using mah as a unit and when they use it defaulting to 3.8V.

It is all too late now. Sigh.
The very very basics of classic analog 'subtractive' synths are that you have a wave generator (oscillator), usually these generate Sine, Square, Triangle or Saw waves. You then pass that through a Low Pass Filter. The Low Pass Filter has a cutoff set, frequencies lower than the cutoff pass through unaffected, higher than the cutoff gets attenuated and monkeyed around with. Thats the classic synth sound basically. But there's loads of other stuff on top of that - multiple oscillators slightly detuned from each other, attack/decay/sustain/release of the volume, using an LFO (low frequency osciallator) to modify the cutoff of the low pass filter, etc etc

If you play with a wave generator and a Low Pass Filter and try the different wave types (Sine, Saw, Triangle, Square) you will quickly recognise all kinds of synths sounds that you already know, e.g. you'll recognise the distinctive sound of a square wave bassline. Or the pure sound of a sine wave (think classic Doctor Who theme)

In Propellerheads Reason, there's a device called 'Subtractor' which is basically a classic synth. This page explaining how the use the Subtractor covers a lot of the different things that analog synths do.

https://www.reasonexperts.com/subtractor-basics.html
There are lots of battery cases on Amazon. They work great.
Also forgetting to quote ~ commands when going through a jump host leads to unexpected behavior — usually disconnection!
An ancient American Indian practice can reduce the risk of wildfires
I'm actually not building the vehicles, just the batteries for aquatic applications. I've got a small zodiac, and I've been experimenting with powering a small electric trolling motor.

The thing is, most trolling motors for a boat this size run on 12V, because lead-acid batteries are the standard for marine batteries. The energy density of lead-acid batteries is terrible, so you need a pretty big battery for a little tiny boat which doesn't make a lot of sense. You can do a little bit better with a lithium-iron-phosphate battery, but since these are the "new" tech in marine batteries, you pay a really big premium for these which is absurd when you look at the price of the cells themself. So you are paying like 3-5x the price of materials just to get it in a waterproof case.

Also LiFePO4 batteries have a pretty poor energy density when compared to lithion-ion batteries, which are the current standard bearer. The problem with li-ion batteries is that there's not a great way to get them to 12V. Depending on the configuration, you can get a voltage nominal of 10.8V, or 14.4V, both of which put you a little outside the range of what's optimal to power most 12V motors when you're close to min or max voltage. Also there's some advantages to building a 24V battery instead of 12V. Also you have to be really careful about waterproofing, since li-ion batteries are extremely volatile.

So those problems are solvable, and I managed to make a battery which is about the size of a box of tissues, and can power my boat for up to a couple of hours, depending on how many people I bring with me. It's pretty fun to do, and I have all the stuff now, so I'm thinking about doing an e-bike or electric scooter next.

Also I'm thinking about trying to drive the boat with a brushless aquatic thruster, since the trolling motor itself is not that efficient by current standards. But there's a lot of fabrication involved there which I would still have to teach myself.
No, it is far more likely at that point that you will just trot out some other excuse.
There's a hundred billion distros, so that would be a hundred billion forks.
good-old `ZXing` ( https://github.com/zxing/zxing ) does the job for me nicely, supports non-QR codes, and contains practically zero BS.
The only downside IMO is the forcefully-narrowed scan window, which can cause complications with extremely large QR codes, as the pixels get a little blurry and decoding gets harder for the software.

Edit: you can find it on Fdroid or probably on the project site/page. It's not getting updates, but why would my QR scanner need those, anyways..... also Google doesn't want it to be published anymore, iirc due to it using relatively ancient APIs.
Here's some info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27824587

The dependencies that are known to usually be used by different sites are allowed effectively after you click, while others continue to be blocked. They're only allowed for the site in the URL bar, and other trackers are still blocked.
Yes... and pants were banned in Rome for a while, because it was mostly Germanic people wearing them at the time, and it was a mark of the fall of the civilization.

It is like banning sneakers because there is a certain group that is wearing them.... and then retroactively find the excuse to why sneakers are not classy, etc... yet some of them cost a lot, and proper tennis shows look great.
What is the physics textbook math behind this? Is there a certain magnetic force needed to induce a coefficient of static friction that prevents wiggle?
At least for terrestrial plants, the math just doesn't work out. Plants are really not fast or efficient enough to suck up carbon in meaningful quantities.

Algae can be >100 times as efficient at that than terrestrial plants, so there might be a there there, but even still, fracking basalt probably beats that by a couple of orders of magnitude.
Giant corporations that are allowed monopoly over a vital utility have predatorial business practices and charge exorbitant amounts for a subpar service, more news at 11.
Not completely meaningless, in that it might point to a direction for further research. There is certainly nothing actionable here though.
Poor developers in their safe, respected, well paid jobs. Perhaps the should quit and find something easier on their fragile little souls.
Yep. Consider: you can build a damn reliable & resilient Webhook handler out of a few lines of PHP or Lua, ready to accept a fairly heavy load, zero dependencies, and only default-available packages for most any distro or BSD (anything where nginx or Apache2 with standard modules is available by default) and without tweaking the config at all. You can be live in hours, or even inside a single hour if you want to cowboy it up pretty hard, and despite not taking a lot of care, the webhook-handling part of your service probably won't get you woken up at night with a everything's-on-fire support call (what it does with the data might, of course). Logging? Trivial and standard. Service management? It's the OS' default service definition for a web server daemon, and that's it. Config and deployment? So tiny it'd be nearly no work to document it in a run-once shell script, if you don't have anything fancier at hand. Operationally, it doesn't get much simpler. "Is it working?" checks? You can test it with curl, from any address that's able & allowed to talk to it.

With long-polling, now you're managing a custom daemon, basically. That's a big step down in reliability-by-default, and a bunch more work to do it right.

In either case, you'll be looking at more work if you want to check any kind of log on the other end for missed messages, but that looks pretty similar for either, and not all systems need that level of accuracy (and if they do, they probably need even more and this whole thing is Doing It Wrong)
Did you check the website? The value prop is incredibly clear: they give you a Postgres database you can query with SQL rather than having to either (a) learn and code to a custom API or (b) setup your own sync system to get that Postgres db.
I like how it comes in a bunch of colors that don't match the range of colors the phones come from, nice job guys.
>> Just plug a Lightning cable into the MagSafe Battery Pack

2021 still not usb-c...greed has no limit
> Because capitalists, by definition, exploit others in order to turn a profit.

This is the kind of thing someone who has never run a non-trivial business of any kind might say.

I'll concede that during the dark ages of the industrial revolution workers needed help. That's the history of humanity. We suck at things until we figure out the right way to do it. Today the average worker in most economies has as much freedom as they want (they can quit and go get a different job and even make more money) and tons of protections (rightly so).

"exploit others to turn a profit"? Hogwash. Please. You might not understand any of this until you are personally responsible for making payroll.
I would use the new k(9) if I have a small team and we can pick. Otherwise .NET Core 5. We use this for all our fintech stuff and it is very good and 'enterprises approved'. We use it with Postgres and Redis.
Some tips for hiring software engineers
Holy moly, thank you so much for all the info.

I’m so motivated now
Amish are pretty much like everyone else though, there are dirt-poor Amish communities out there to counter-balance your land-and-small-business-rich ones.
> I would feel like a king with 20k a year and so I am trying to find the right degree to work 3, maybe 2 days a week to be able to achieve this?

20k? did you miss a digit? That's less than my rent for the year...

for 3 days anything that pays more than $18 an hour and allows for flexible scheduling

you don't need a degree for this.

Medical transcription, coding and billing, working as a PA, Truck driving, nursing the list goes on.
One of those cases here. Symptoms: suddenly out of energy, occasionally suddenly being unable to spell, even mild physical exercise leaves me floored (and I was pretty fit for my age prior to this).

So, 17 months in: it's still not back to where it used to be but if you think of it in terms of trends instead of absolutes it is definitely still improving. The downs are less far down, the fog is lifting and the energy levels are creeping back up. But still, you can have down days every now and then. But they are getting fewer and further between and the downs are less far down. I hope to get it completely behind me one of these days.

When I had COVID I was just one small step away from calling for an ambulance but that was rock bottom, after that it got better and I will always wonder if I had called them earlier if I could have avoided the worst of this (by having some oxygen earlier on and maybe avoiding some of the damage). But I figured other people had it much worse than I did (and I still believe that was the case). March last year was a pretty crazy time.
Yeah, tbh, the hardest thing for building a custom E-Bike battery pack is the ridiculous prices and downright unavailability of cells!

Best I can get are 32700 LiFePO4 6000mAh cells for 5 Euros each... A prebuilt Li-Ion Chinese pack with an extra 2Ah is just 30 Euros more than the cells I would need alone (housing+BMS cost not included). Just sad.
SQS FIFO is like 25-40% more expensive, but you're getting added benefit and additional guarantees in exchange.

For the most expensive tier:
40 cents per million API requests for plain SQS
vs
50 cents per million API requests for FIFO SQS.

Like many AWS Services, it started off pretty basic or limited, but gradually and incrementally improved over time.

I started off pretty skeptical, but over time I've grown to be impressed with SQS and SQS FIFO.
If the webhook events are coming at some sort of a brisk pace, the sender well may be able to reuse an already-open connection. And if they're rather infrequent, is the efficiency or latency likely to be a significant concern?
Maybe you should read the report.

> 2-3 decades later, what was new and dangerous is the now the established sophisticated art,

The report is almost exclusively devoted to violent representations in horror and crime comics, which, rather than becoming high art, have largely disappeared.
I mean, she was down for FIRE. I'm sure they discussed the budget before hand. If things changed, and she wanted to go back to work to live a more luxurious lifestyle, well, she's welcome to? He's under no obligation to do the same. I feel like she wanted him to return to work as well to keep up with the jones's and I can understand him saying no to that.