skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from a rural Aussie upbringing, I arrived on the scene slightly too late it incorporate that into a career. +++ath0 was still fun though.

And the AT set is still used (with extensions) in GSM modems! It's still relevant!
Thanks for posting this. I felt the same way about SF and the Bay Area and ended up leaving for NYC as well. Maybe I’ll see you around!
Thats my favourite answer to my favourite question
Here’s my trick.

Be very disciplined at the grocery store. Then you can relax at home.

My house is full of healthy foods, no sugar, and no bread.

If I’m not hungry enough to eat something healthy, I’m not really hungry at all. I’m just trying to distract myself from boredom or anxiety with food.
Technically speaking, every problem in P is thought to (and known to) be in both P and NP.

You're probably asking about NP-hard problems, where the answer might be no. Primality (which others refer to) was thought to be outside of P, but I'm not sure it was a common conjecture that it was NP hard. The existence of a simple certificate of compositeness places the problem in Co-NP, and so it would have quickly been deduced that Primality is NP-hard only if NP = Co-NP, which I don't think was ever a particularly common conjecture.

Pratt found his primality certificate only a couple years after Karp published his famous paper, so I don't expect compositeness was widely thought to be NP-hard, either.
> I suppose this isn't really a "backup" but rather a "mirroring strategy." But for certain kinds of data -- photos, video, large media -- can you really afford to do any other kind of strategy?

Saving diffs/snapshots will solve the issue. As long as the file doesn't change the cost is almost 0.
Palo Alto is certainly that way as of late
I loved living in NYC for city stuff, but came to miss Mexican and South Indian food, hikes, surf, Fry’s (RIP), talking with other techies rather than being a curio for finbros. Flavor in the Bay, well, Oakland/Berkeley.
And Atherton, and Mountain View, and Cupertino, and Los Altos, … ;)
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I really disagree with those points about Variety, public transport, culture, and weather but I suppose if ones frame of reference is NY or a large euro city then perhaps some of them may be that way.

But variety? That one just is weird. Within a couple hours driving distance is a vast array of hugely different environments. Within bart-ing distance is a huge variety of very distinct neighborhoods and cultures.

And the comparison of living in Poland and being able to walk from the suburb across city districts to having to drive or take a long train ride from Palo alto to Sf doesn’t make sense. I doubt he walked 25 miles back in Poland. I lived in a small German town for while, it also took 1.5 hours to train into cologne. I could walk across cologne like I do SF. But I could not walk to cologne from Juliche. And driving would have been much faster than taking the train, just like driving from PA to SF is.

His points about suburbs are mostly accurate, but sounds like he was in the wrong spot in the bay. Oakland/Berkeley/sf are better than Palo Alto or the South Bay for actually walking to bars and places. He also doesn’t like the brown looks Mediterranean climates have, so NY does sound like a better fit.
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4469
and

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n706

both make interesting reading.
This really hits home, decades ago - I was working at this place that did daily tape backups. I remember thinking, this is unreal - there's literally a room filled with tapes.

One day, I asked if they ever had performed a recovery off of the tapes, as I questioned if the tapes were even being written to. (NOTE: Backups was not my job at all. )

Why had I brought this up? I would be in the server room and never saw the blinky lights on the tape...well.. blink. Everyone literally laughed at me, thought was a grade A moron.

A year later, servers died... Pop'ed in the tape... Blank. No worries, they had thousands more of these tapes. Sadly, they were all MT. They had to ship hard drives to a recovery shop, and it was rather expensive.

I left shortly after this.
On Point 1....Yes; and besides that most Brick and mortar stores have insurance for catastrophic loss...so essentially they have a working backup.
Are events raised, triggered, or fired?
The comment about the lack of seasons was odd to me. I grew up in the Bay Area, but spent about 10 years in Southern California where there truly is no such thing (based on my schema) as autumn and winter. When we were moving back to the Bay, my wife (an LA native) and I were looking at neighborhoods during January or something, and she remarked, "everything is dead here!"

It's winter. We have deciduous trees in Northern California... In autumn they turn orange, and they spend winter without leaves! A foreign concept in LA, where most of the trees are palms or coral trees or other evergreens.

It's true that we don't get snow like many European cities. But I guess the presence or lack of "seasons" depends on what you're used to.
Good advice, but if you go crazy with fruit and fats you can easily still gain weight.
Here's my boring diet for weight maintenance: consume about the same or fewer calories than you burn. Of course, you want a diet that's not just about weight, but also nutrition.
The rest of the bay is catching up indeed
I’ve seen pyDatView: https://github.com/ebranlard/pyDatView which I use for time-series csv files generally. Might be some good inspiration for you too!
thank you for posting
this isn’t true at all. “everyone” isn’t actually everyone. and it isn’t always “clean and convenient”

all you’re measuring is living closer to a city center. and the larger the city the better the story. if you live in the burbs in either location you get a suburb experience
Agreed, you can definitely work from home, but you're being quite charitable -- 'let's assume their behind closed doors with no accountability and do everything we expect'.

This is basically how we ended up in the replication crisis to begin with. There's little to no accountability and people assume they're working hard and being honest.

5% of all degree granting universities are R1 or R2 research universities, e.g. Harvard, Stanford, etc. The vast majority of professors aren't obligated the conduct research or apply for grants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_university
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/how-...
> Why is there no widespread antibody testing to see if we've reached herd immunity?

Because then the show has to stop. It's pretty dark if you think about it long enough.
Play Factorio [1]

[1] https://www.factorio.com/
A lot to parse here, so I just feel like picking a couple of points.

There exist lubricants for which non-fossil crude oil production sources are possible such as PAG and others. Likewise, there exist many plastics and synthetic rubber that are not petro based, however ethylene, which is a petrochemical byproduct, is still required for a lot of plastic uses. This doesn't matter much, it is totally possible to produce these things without vast ghg production.

The production of lubricants which are not burned do not contribute in large part to greenhouse gas emissions. It is fully possible to produce industrial petrochemicals such as plastics and lubricants that do not produce large ghg emissions from burning. Most lubricants are recycled, lots are done so by burning, these can instead become industrial stock for production of lubricants and plastics given research.

Diesel and fuels can also be produced from non-petro sources, this has been done in people's garages. Diesel engines can burn corn, peanut, canola, waste vegetable, some of them can run on Dexron III (this is petrol) and diesel created in a garage reactor from plant sources. Biofuels are not fossil fuels. Electrification of vehicles removes vast sums of ghg from vehicle emissions, the production source can be any other non-fossil source.

The thesis of your comment, I gather, is essentially:

>that case of not using fuels, such as gasoline, while still having a need for the massive number of heavier hydrocarbons that come out of the distillation process. Great, no gasoline. Now, where to you put that shit while you only, literally, use the bottom of the barrel? Ah, you destroy the planet. Got it.

The economics of gasoline and diesel as a byproduct of petrochemical production makes rather favorable economic rationale for fossil fuel uses, but it does not follow that the byproduct must therfore be burned or drank. CO2 reduction will be required to prevent greenhouse heating and climate destabilization. Once energy production has transitioned away from fossil sources, smaller amounts can be used without the full scale ghg emissions we are currently creating.

Not using gasoline does not mean you "you destroy the planet", you could for example, return it to the fossil fuel reservoir from which it came. Seems pretty stable.
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Probably just repeatedly smack rockets into it, not very Armageddon style.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/smash-satellites-killer-astero...
> That is because to find insertion/deletion place you must first run linear search on linked list and that costs a lot.

That isn't always true. If you already have a pointer to the position in the list, and the list has an API that supports it (which a good implementation would), then with a linked list you wouldn't need to traverse the list again.

That said, in most cases that probably isn't worth the downsides of a linked list, especially if the size of the list is small.
What kind of HW do you have? I did some work with the NI version of the USRP B210 using C++ and was pretty impressed with the quality of the FW and libraries. I hope to give it a try with Julia and UHDBindings.jl
> I'm struggling to think of a reason why that isn't a good thing.

Well it should 'just work', Hit the download button, install, plug it in and forget it. Even for a gaming mouse, the manufacturer gives you the official software for it to work. As long as it doesn't get in the way and it just works after installation, I do not care.

No terminal command copy pasting or config editing like this user. [0]

If the OS you're using is unsupported, 'but libratbagd exists though' well I'm sure using it wasn't any easier before 'Piper' so the user would already have given up and switched back to Windows instead.

Again the reason why people continue to use Windows.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27885294
What "criminal acts" are you specifically talking about?
I'm saying it doesn't matter, didn't affect support for the US President, unlikely to be related to one country's administration, and actually was not timed with Biden taking office because the circular is about an earlier circular a few weeks earlier which itself was about an earlier circular dating back to September 2020

So spending energy pondering on one of many quantum realities, especially the one where its "timed with the change of administration, rhetorical hmmmmmmmm", is the intellectual isolationism because the only cycle being wasted is your own thought processes.

> Are you really saying that the high cycle counts did not significantly effect the number of cases...?

Whoosh, I'm saying I didn't comment on that at all.
Resurrecting Address Clustering in Bitcoin
I upvoted this post, but I also want to call it out as a really humane and also wise post.

I know a lot of folks who work every day in the trades and to a person (don't worry, 'tomc1985, this isn't me being woke, I'm acquainted with women in the trades too) the best folks I know have no stake in gatekeeping. They're excited to bring in new folks to the profession--granted, it helps that they're cheaper to start out, but the folks I've talked to know that eventually they'd like to retire and people are still gonna need drains snaked--and liberal with teaching what they know. My electrician walked me, as a "muggle", through my house's wiring until he was confident that I would be able to understand what my house was doing and explain it to somebody else.

The guy who acts like 'tomc1985 describes is the guy who does not get called back for a second job. In tech, we used to call them BOFHs and make fun of them while they thought we thought they were cool. Now we just don't hire them.
It was an awesome short as part of Love Death and Robots https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9788510/
Sure, but why would you rather play whack-a-mole than get lasting change? If you want an actual lasting change in how housing is created and allocated, you need regulation with teeth around the behavior you want to actually alter. Or incentives that do the same thing (often regulatory).

Shutting down large public companies with many stakeholders who benefit is both harder and only gets what you want a little bit and only for a little while.
It's so easy to backup (and test!) these days. There's no excuse other than incompetence.
Sort of a strange comment since January is when everything turns green in the Bay Area.
I don't understand the author's focus on himself and his personal happiness, even though he is obviously entitled to it. This really illustrates the entire Millennial focus on "do what makes you happy" to me.

People don't live in the suburbs because they want access to museums and night clubs for themselves. They give up their own happiness for the sake of their children. They buy a more expensive home to put their children into a higher-achieving school. They live in a remote cul-de-sac so their children can safely ride bicycles and shoot hoops in the driveway. Their idea of "going out" is a drab, desiccated local park in the foothills because it is safe and healthy, not because it's fun or diverse. They put pressure on their kids to succeed so they can afford to live in this area when they grow up and repeat the cycle to become well-paid professionals and suburban parents. People pursue this stressful and family-focused lifestyle away from big, busy cities precisely because they want the same for their children, or better.

When the author says that there is no clubbing or spontaneity in Silicon Valley, he demonstrates just how out of touch he is with our local communities, and how little he understood the motivations of the people living here. It makes all the sense in the world for him to move away and find a better fit for his personality! I hope he likes New York better! People live here because they are executing a very precise and demanding life plan for the sake of the next generation, not because they want to be spontaneous and fun. We don't need that here.
Good point. How could I have forgotten? Added a bullet (11) at the end.
I think the poor public transportation really hurts the city. The time to arrival is a crapshoot and discourages it's use. It's also not a walkable city or bikeable unless you stick to certain parts of the city. I think this + lack of density in certain parts of the city means that SF is largely a suburb with tall buildings on one side. It's not really a city, or at least not on the level of NYC. You are just surrounded by people in Manhattan at all times and I bet that helps promote socializing. You just don't really meet people in SF unless you stick to certain pockets of the city.
It will never stop amazing me that people would rather not eat for twenty hour periods every single day rather than just cut out some comfort foods and portion control. I just listen to my body when it tells me I'm full and work out occasionally and I've never left a healthy BMI, but if I fast for over 12 hours of waking time my body screams at me for food.
Did you used to work for Mozilla before they fired all the Rustaceans?
If you’re wondering why this substance is not available to Anish Kapoor, from Wikipedia:

In 2014 Kapoor began working with Vantablack, a substance thought to be one of the least reflective substances known. Vantablack S-VIS, a sprayable paint which uses randomly-aligned carbon nanotubes and only has high absorption in the visible light band, also called the "blackest black" colour, has been exclusively licensed to Anish Kapoor's studio for artistic use.[63] His exclusive licence to the material has been criticized in the art world, but he has defended the agreement, saying: "Why exclusive? Because it's a collaboration, because I am wanting to push them to a certain use for it. I've collaborated with people who make things out of stainless steel for years and that's exclusive."[64]

Artists like Christian Furr and Stuart Semple have criticised Kapoor for what they perceive as an appropriation of a unique material, to the exclusion of others.[65][66] In retaliation, Semple developed a pigment called the "pinkest pink" and specifically made it available to everyone, except Anish Kapoor and anyone affiliated with him.[67][68] He later stated that the move was itself intended as something like performance art and that he did not anticipate the amount of attention it received.[69] In December 2016, Kapoor posted an Image on Instagram of his extended middle finger which had been dipped in Semple's pink.[70] Semple developed more products such as "Black 2.0" and "Black 3.0", which has similar qualities to Vantablack despite being acrylic, and "Diamond Dust," an extremely reflective glitter made of glass shards, all of which were released with the same restriction against Kapoor as the "pinkest pink".[71][72]
> I think European cities are just "lucky" that they've mostly been built when cars weren't a thing yet, and also organically grew over much longer timespans.

Yes. That's it. This is what a lot of people critical of the design (or execution) of US cities don't seem to understand. This also applies to the many failed attempts to make mass public transportation --and the reduction of automobile-based transportation-- a thing.

Cities evolve. And these cities are no exception. By the time they reached scale it became pretty much impossible to re-engineer them to fit a new vision of how things should be.

The best example I have is the absolutely failed California high speed train. We are about a hundred billion dollars into it and have nothing usable in place. I believe they built about ten miles of low speed track that you can't even use yet. To make things even more interesting, it was supposed to cost ten billion (that's how it was sold to voters).

This high speed train goes through so many towns and counties, each with it's own rules and issues, that the probability of it ever approximating something like the TGV or the Eurail ICE I usually take from Amsterdam to Munich during my visits is kind of laughable at best.

We'll see what happens at a trillion dollars, I guess.
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>The South Bay has Caltrain, the East Bay has BART. SF has... a few systems, but mostly Muni

Americans are so cute in their assumption that what they have aside from cars is a public transport.
This brings nice old memories to me..
Some forty some years ago, as a kid, I wrote a morse-to-text decoder program in Basic that took it's input from the audio in port that Tandy's Model 1 had to load code from audio cassetes. Big was my surprise when the text coming out was mostly few letters long amateur radio "codes" sparkled with actual words here and there.. pretty much uninteligeble stuff. Still it was a great experience for a young kid of the time.
I'm the same. I like Wil but not as a narrator. I did not enjoy Red Shirts. I think I just prefer a different style. I'm a big fan of R.C.Bray. I think it's just different strokes for different folks.
#6 is missing. Are 7-11 off by 1?
> they do not and have never claimed to be neutral, so using the force of law to make that so would be an infringement on the companies' rights to speech and association.

You are not being creative enough, with how we could apply these laws.

One big reason why phone companies are claiming to be neutral in the first place, is to get certain protections, that those laws give them.

They claim to be neutral, to get certain benefits.

Phone companies are claiming to be neutral, for a reason. Its not because they simply want to. It is because they are doing that, on purpose, because the law is strongly incentivizing them to do so.

A similar strategy could be used against Facebook. What can be done, is we take away certain protections, that we currently give them, and only give them back, in exchange for them following something similar to common carrier laws.

The most common thing that people bring up, of a right to take away from them, is section 230 protections.

When the smart people talk about repealing section 230 protections, it is not to actually remove those protections.

Instead, the strategy, is to make it so, if companies want to keep those protections, they then have to follow other requirements, by making those protections contingent on acting a certain way, such as by following common carrier laws.

That is the way to get around being unable to force Facebook to follow common carrier laws. You don't actually force them to do it. Instead, you make the alternative, extremely difficult, by making previously necessary protections, contingent on following new neutrality laws.
I get you wouldn't want to name the institute, but that is shocking.
Left 1 Jan 1998.

Not sure I'm better for it.

But there are certainly green pastures elsewhere...
It seems like it wouldn't be a stretch to make a USB webcam that presented an "animated" infrared image -- would that defeat this fix?

What I'd really like is the system to consider every new USB device untrusted, and require specific approval before it's added as a device. This should apply to its capabilities too (eg: if a "keyboard" suddenly is presenting itself as storage, that causes a prompt). Think along the lines of "Acme WebCam XYZ wants to add a Camera and Microphone. Allow?"

And while the computer is locked this should absolutely be impossible.

I went looking for some commercial stuff, and there seems to be products aimed at businesses -- but seems these are centrally-managed, work by whitelisting specific devices ahead of time, and are more focused on data exfiltration than preventing a rogue keyboard, badusb or rubber ducky. Is there something that does this?
The Lancet is no stranger to promoting pseudoscience. John Snow challenging the miasma theory of cholera really ground its gears.

Plus ça change...
"Ads serve as a reminder to watch less youtube."

This is actually what made me cancel my Youtube Premium. I hate ads and make every effort to eliminate them from my entertainment, but I found myself mindlessly watching hours of youtube without them. Back on the free tier I find I can't watch more than one or two short videos before I get so frustrated and move on to something more productive. Very useful.
Sigh...here we go again. "algebraic geometry is like plotting the equation of a circle" this description and definition is as helpful and accurate as saying a circle is approximated by a square. Pop math writers need to stop likening something as complicated as algebraic geometry to high school algebra.
Minimizing added sugar/processed carbs while at home (mostly ate what I wanted when out to eat with spouse, made slightly healthier choices with friends), stopping all drinking outside of special occasions (weddings, anniversary's, birthdays), and exercising 3x/week (using Fitbod) led me to lose 25 pounds in ~8 weeks. My main cheats were dark chocolate and a weekly trip to In-N-Out.

I didn't need to lose a ton of weight but I had some elevated liver enzymes and my doctor was mildly concerned about fatty liver disease so I looked for the easiest changes for me to make. The biggest lifestyle changes were no more almond lattes (almost all non-dairy options are sweetened) and eating a ton of eggs instead of a daily breakfast sandwich.