skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curling, as in humidity? A desiccant based de-humidifier changed me forever. I’d never have a house without one.

You can buy cheap temperature+humidity sensors from Amazon to check what your humidity levels are.
Comparison of absolute and relative labor income mobility in Germany and the US
does wasm support more than 1 program counter (more than 1 virtual cpu?) or is it stuck in "single thread" model?

if so, are there any plans to change that?
so what you're saying is, you aren't paying enough for people to want to stay working for you on your projects, and its hurting you in many ways.
Ok, feels good to hear :-)

how unexpected (to me at least) that they did that
Maybe that’s not a bad idea. If we’d all be fire marshalls, our species would never have started cooking food.
Is tyre wear really a comparable concern?

Think about how many times you refuel your car between tyre changes. Contemplate the volume of fuel burned versus the volume of material scraped off your tyres over their lifetime. Whatever the environmental cost of tyres, they cannot compete with liquid fuel.
Im skeptical that fusion will be a silver bullet for our problems. While I agree that producing lots of clean energy is the solution we need for many things, im not sure fusion is going to scale very easy when it is becomes practical for power generation. The sun is only producing thermal power per volume equivalent to a pile of manure, so even if we manage to increase that an order of magnitude, we will need an astronomical amount of plants and infrastructure to make it a primary energy source. And with such scales needed, we could have already done the same thing using other sources including fission.
Correct. But I would argue that they probably measure the right thing. It’s probably better for an airline to have .1% of super-angry customers than 3% of frustrated customers. At least that’s the directions that they all have taken.
To a casual bystander (who at least knows the rules), castling seems a bit arbitrary and so do the other "extras" - en passant et al.

What would happen if chess was reduced to purely "normal" piece moves? What happens if pawns lose their initial two square move? Obviously it would reduce the space of potential games by quite a lot but would it reduce chess to draughts/checkers?

Shall I pick my own stake to be burned at?
Remember that one HTTP header that's always attached to every request every browser makes? User-Agent. Ha ha. Those were the days, when browsers were acting in the interest of their users.
Truly impactful.
When is a product complete? One day it must be unless the builders are hopeless

Surely there must be a point where the product functions as intended and the peak number of users like it like that. Instead we carry on. Everyone has to keep proving their 'value' right? Always changing, always growing. Everything eventually gets iterated to death. Any piece of software or design, no matter how much you might like it will eventually be replaced. It's as true of software as it is of car shapes or curtain patterns.

Just imagine being the CEO of Evernote (mentioned elsewhere in the thread) announcing to the world that they are feature complete. It's a finished product and they are laying off everyone except customer support and marketing. They would be considered insane despite that decision delivering the best profits and customer experience.
Since the beginning of forums there have been trolls and misinformation. There has always been the option to ignore, either by not replying or by blocking an offender from their view. However my experience has been that 1) people are almost universally incapable of ignoring trolls. 2) it is somehow almost impossible for people to stomach banning a troll knowing the troll is still posting.

The closest system that seems to work is for people to downvote whatever it is they dont like and for that to cause posts to have lower priority.
The problem with fissile material is the potential for hurting others. Stopping hurt of others is a reasonable function of government.

Legal adults, however, have a fundamental right to hurt themselves.

Yes, I know there are grey areas.
Software can be done.

I used to get constantly brigaded by people on HN for claiming there's a point of completion.

I believe people in general have come around to this idea more lately.

It's possible to get to a point of "no further improvement, only maintenance"
When a vehicle is registered for use in the UK it is assigned a plate number, you can buy a different ("vanity") plate and do paperwork to change it, within limits, but most vehicles will keep this plate for their lifespan.

The two digits (51 here) signify the six month period in which registration took place. So 51 means between the start of September 2001 and the end of February 2002. The two digits are the last two digits of the year (so 01 = 2001, 02 = 2002, etc) and then 50 is added to indicate the second half of the year, thus a brand new car bought next month here would have a "71" plate, the second half of 2021.

I presume the rationale is that nobody will be confused by a 2055 car and think it's from 2005, since both technology and aesthetic preferences change enormously in such a period of time.

Vanity plates aren't supposed to be fitted to vehicles that logically could not have been registered with that plate, making it appear newer than it is, but it would be permitted to fit these 2001 plates to a vehicle built in say 2019.
I'm sure Tim Bray would be thrilled to know that my org hasn't so much as fixed a bug or investigated a crash on our mobile apps in over 2 years because our product managers have said they're not driving any revenue.
Dogs have owners. Cats have servants.

My wife and I have four cats in this house. We have no illusions as to what role we perform.
The question I always want to hear answered is: how will it be funded?

This is a pilot program, but if they decide to expand it: what mechanism will be providing the money that's given out monthly?
I think that's just the nostalgia talking. Spotify has pretty great radio/recommendations if you even bother to use those features.
How could i have forgotten Royal Salute Tribute to Honour:

https://robbreport.com/food-drink/spirits/taste-royal-salute...
It would be funnier if it weren't so common. Everything is a cudgel to people like him. Fallacies exist, not to introspect on one's own arguments, but to assail arguments you disagree with. Data exists only so long as it supports your conclusion and any data to the contrary or supports other conclusions is wrong. Never defend, always attack.
It is a pretty bad analogy that breaks even while he's trying to explain it.

He describes a transistor as two back to back valves. Then he describes the operation as "...some water could be injected in the middle so that its pressure is sufficient to open the upper valve, but not sufficient to open the lower one. In this way, the system allows water to flow only when a sufficient amount of water falls from the top to the middle..."

There's no practical valve on earth that works that way, so now we need to an analogy to explain his dumb valve. It's so awful.

Then he says an amplifier is like ... a flush toilet? When you pull the lever, you get one max-amplitude pulse. That's not an amplifier, that's a fire-detector test button.

I cannot believe this guy is a physics professor.
They need to choose: graduation + great career prospects, or guaranteed career but loss of alternative prospects. It’s not a case of the students being smart or dumb, it’s a case of the agencies realising that making the offer post-graduation gives them less leverage. Hypothetically.
> the results are okay but not great

What results do you expect more than keywords search ranked by upvote on HN? I find it great honestly, it's fast and don't do magics
Cool! Do I need to sign up to try it out?
you can look at jewish data

for a highly vaccinated population 50% newly infected are unvaccinated, 50% are vaccinated and only 1% are getting the virus the second time
> I'm glad they're getting rid of the location numbering, it's super confusing.

In that...?

Locations start at 1 and increase from there. Page numbers are a disaster. In the book I discuss above, page numbers start at 1 alongside "page 1" of the book. There is plenty of material earlier than that, which doesn't have page numbers. It only has location numbers.

The pages of a physical book are larger than a phone screen. So several pages worth of the ebook all have the same page number, which prevents you from jumping to later pages by using the page numbering.

Jumping restrictions are even added in where they aren't needed -- in some books, jumping to location numbers doesn't work. Instead, you jump to a location that is determined by the app as being "near" the location you specified. This has the effect of preventing you from getting all of a particular passage on the screen at the same time, which I want for screenshots.

So no, there's no improvement to numbering going on, just a steady removal of functionality that used to work.
A review is the written feedback authors receive from the journal reviewer. The reviewer can recommend that the authors revise and resubmit, based on the review comments. Usually the review is not published with the final piece, which is what was meant by “confidential review”.
The way people takes photos changed (using phones instead of cameras changes the frequency and type of pictures) so iPhoto had to change to accommodate the new users and usage pattern, or go stale and cater an ever decreasing user base.

You’re damned if you do and you damned if you don’t. If you find a great UX for your app and decide to keep it that way, 5 years later all potential new users will look and say “that’s old, isnt there a modern app for this?”

It’s silly, just like fashion, but software has a user base way beyond tech enthusiasts and that user base is very sensitive to cues similar to the fashion industry.
Pasteur may have conceded that Bechamp was correct on his deathbed, according to Hans Selye[1].

[1]http://www.susandoreydesigns.com/insights/pasteur-recant.htm...
To recycle our components, as well as leaving room for others to replace us. Like bacteria in a petri dish, it wouldn't take long for us to crowd ourselves to death.
> If they had wanted to then there are only around 10,000,000 possible game-states after the first WBBWW and potentially looking at computer evaluations of the whole tree of possibilities could be semi-interesting and definitely very achievable. Probably better and easier to guess instead though to be fair.

This is what I was expecting them to do from seeing the abstract. Instead they just examined a handful of novel lines and evaluated them with Stockfish. An interesting proposed rules change, but a rather low quality analysis of it.
It's no wonder that there are no good apps anymore, we've swamped the market with cheap cheap stuff, and nobody wants to pay for quality anymore.

It's not so much an app thing, as it is a societal thing. "You get what you pay for" was such common knowledge that AT&T used the phrase in its television advertising.

Now there are large segments of American culture driven by a "good enough" ethos, and the notion that cheaper equals better. When it only sometimes is.

You could see it happen when advertisements stopped having the warnings "Some assembly required" and "Batteries not included" because those defects suddenly became normal. The companies pushed final assembly from the factory onto the customers, and somehow we thought it was OK.

There's a lot of blame to go around: China. WalMart. Millennials/Boomers (same animal). Recessions. Globalization.

In my family, we do everything we can to buy quality, and support independent manufacturing when we can. But you can't always. My wife just spent $1,300 to replace a piece of furniture that was $300 Chinese junk from Ikea, because she was able to support a local furniture maker, and she knows it will last the rest of our lives.

But it doesn't always work for everything. Especially things like household basics.
Hmm, they didn't discard it so much as bury it alive[1], though?

1: https://dvd.netflix.com/
As long as there is a demand for US dollars, they can print to finance UBI. That's why US, EU, US are in unique position to print, because exporters love to exchange physicial goods with paper currency. The same exporters don't want Zimbabwe's paper money. That's how this logic works.
Nope. I pay this out of my own pocket (I’m a full-time employee) and it’s not deductible expense in the USA.
Why Italian Apple Farmers Are Coating Their Orchards in Ice
This is such an awesome fix! I'm curious as to what portion of the aero / solid rocket motor causes these violent vibrations, specifically in the 10-12Hz range? Maybe I should've just finished my mechanical engineering degree instead of switching to EE / CS haha...
> Music player UI is a solved problem.

No it isn’t. Not even close.
The only feature I want from Evernote is the one they fail to deliver: if I know I have a note about something, and I search for that note in the Evernote mobile app, I want it to find and display that note.

Instead, about half the time it returns an error screen that says (paraphrasing) "That note can not be displayed right now, try again later"

I do not want to look at my note later. You have one job: show me my notes!

(I have nearly 3,000 notes in Evernote spanning back over more than a decode, so my hunch is that I'm tripping some edge-cases that most of their testing fails to cover)
> Just like it's fair to call wood-fire heating carbon-neutral (even though it's not so great from a particulate standpoint).

As long as you grow these trees specifically for burning. Once you start chopping down forests without replacing them, you're still adding to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
It is fascinating how copyright holders are forcing the removal of some of the history.

"EDIT: Had to remove about 3.5 mins of this due to a claim by "April Wine"...I really tried to get them to understand that this was an historical archive, *not* an attempt to steal money from their band....They didn't want to hear it...All the other artist were totally ok with this but "April Wine" said FU. Go Figure : / EDIT: EDIT: Video was taken down again because Cliff Richard suddenly decided that I was ripping him off and shut down the video...I wrote back trying to get him to change his mind but no deal, had to chop Cliff out of the video for it to be posted again. Sorry everyone."
Can the first of two moves be a checkmate, as in the reverse Fools Mate?

e2-e4, f7-f6, g7-g5, Qd1-h5#
Credit/digital payments as a whole are backwards. Currently, you give your payment information to some organization, and they can bill you whatever they want and you hope they don't take your money indefinitely. If someone takes your money and you try to get it back, your own credit is on the line when you try to resolve it. Even with chargebacks, your credit card company may only accept so many.

Instead it should be client-controlled, they give you some sort of payment token that you can pay or not pay. For recurring payments, you could trust a particular vendor you like (and then untrust them at will), but it should entirely be under your control. Unsubscription should be automatically handled by this as well.
I have now added a plot for "fraud". There weren't as many mentions for specifically "securities fraud".
Show HN: Open-Source EMarket Online Store
Developers get 1-2 years at a job before they fall behind in compensation.

So my resume always needs to be fresh. I can’t be working with older technology because when it comes time to jump again, I won’t have the skills to do so.

Asking an iOS developer to work on Objective-C is asking them to sacrifice their future prospects.

Devs have a lot of the same incentives product managers do.
Of course it does. When was the last time you heard a squeaky dinosaur?
> certify new candidates by saying: "You're a doctor of mathematics when you get five professors to sign off on 3-5 papers you've had published."

Or one big one.

Basically, take the "honorary doctorates" some Universities give out to people retrospectively to people who have made major contributions to their fields; do it more often; and then make it the only path to getting a doctorate, such that they're no longer "honorary" at all.
You can do “layer 2” transactions that settle on ACH or wire transfers, like Venmo or square cash, what’s your point? This is just more shameful greenwashing to pump up bag.

You would have to do literally millions per on chain transaction using bitcoin to match ACH, visa or a proof of stake chain.

This is of course after you consider opening a single LN channel for every human on earth would take 75 years and 300 billion dollars if the chain did nothing else. Like putting in a request for a Soviet phone line. LN has quadratic routing efficiency and is boat anchored to garbage.
Thanks for such an insightful comment
Directing to someone who has a lower price.
Oh, the Fed is totally looking at Japan, that is why they started "yield curve control" a little over a year ago, because inflation was clearly going to be a problem for us. Japan is the best and nearest real world model that allowed the country to survive their bad policies, which the USA has way more issues to work through. Undoing all the financial regulations and laws from the Great Depression was super fucking stupid. There would never be anything too big to fail had those remained intact.
Everything is being spreadsheeted to death. Shave a little here, a little there. Start talking about worker productivity instead of customer productivity. Make every decision based on "returns to the shareholder".

Can't have good things when the only thing the people making them care about is money.
This could be useful if you want a web site that will survive after you're dead. (Otherwise you face the issue of your web site only lasting for as long as you've paid up your hosting and domain registration fees!)
Scientists read 14,000 research papers to write the IPCC climate report
> I’d like to know the input impedance at resonance.

The lack of radiated energy means the real part of the impedance must be zero (or close to it?) There's some energy being stored, but no guesses as to sign of the imaginary part.
In engineering and financial services, my experience is that they don't care. Some weight is given to a PhD but not a Masters.
Yes, I agree with this.

Lisp is tremendously powerful, and like all power, it can be abused. But when used properly it can produce some very easy-to-read and maintainable code precisely because of its malleability.

Take a look at this for example:

https://flownet.com/ron/lisp/djbec.lisp

In that code I used an embedded an infix parser and macros to allow me to write modular bignum arithmetic expressions as infix. That lets me cut-and-paste the infix versions of elliptic curve point addition algorithms and use them directly without translating them into s-expressions, which eliminates the possibility of transcription errors. The resulting code is much easier to read than if I'd had to actually translate all the modular math into standard Common Lisp.
This has nothing to do with anything Apple has done other than expand from serving a niche of self-identified tasteful customers into serving half the planet.

It used to be that if you wanted to reach the niche of tasteful customers who would for good software, all you had to do was target the Mac. Obviously it’s harder now.
I never had any issue with Scriviner syncing between my windows machine and my iPhone using Dropbox. Took like 5 minutes to finagle into working. The setup instructions were top result on Google when I did it a while back. You should be aware though that merge conflicts were handled exactly how you said you didn’t want. You get a conflict folder with the date on it and a second copy of the document in it. It’s up to you to decide if the conflict version or the main document version is the right one.
John Ousterhout (creator of Tcl (mentioned in OP paper)) also wrote an interesting paper about the “scripting” vs “system” language dichotomy, “Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century”[0] which some may find interesting.

[0] http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/top/ousterhout-scripting....
You can install on Linux and macOS.
The part I find baffling is how companies like Spotify justify paying high salaries for engineers just to deliver trivial improvements over what Windows Media Player was offering 20 years ago. If they were piling this effort into reducing costs or making the app more resource efficient I'd be happy - but I'm not interested in trivial UI tweaks.
FTA: "Sixteenth-century English chronicler Raphael Holinshed wrote that, when consumed moderately, whisky’s many medicinal benefits include preventing the “head from whirling, the tongue from lisping... the hands from shivering, the bones from aching.”"

Just before reading the article, I had a shot of Famous Grouse (a blend), and it caused, not prevented, head-whirling ....
Maybe for the A10 it was a 'first time', but aircraft have been landing on roads for a century or so.

That includes jet aircraft also. The German Me-262 was using roads as runways in 1945.
If anti-vaxxers just hurt themselves, there wouldn't be nearly as much animosity around these issues. They pose a legitimate risk to other people. Not just through direct infection of other people, but by offering themselves up as a breeding ground for more effective versions of the virus.
I worked at a 3rd tier (being generous), rural private liberal arts college that has had roughly 50% of the department leave within the past 3 months. Some (including myself) due to the essentially mandatory return (they have a new WFH policy that requires multiple approvals, but they just don't grant them, "why not come into office for a few months and then we'll reevaluate the situation") and others for general displeasure with the organization as a whole. Their entire schtick is "we are a collaborative family as a university, so we need face to face contact" (they required nearly all in person classes, too) and it ended up driving away the competent people who have worked in jobs outside of academia. The only people left are the lifers who have never worked anywhere else and are fearful of finding a new job. It is 100% the college overplaying their hand and entirely ignoring the workers and current state of the labor market.
My kingdom for a widely-supported cross-platform standard for file metadata and tagging.
For me, running more than one Electron app at a time for too long is a recipe for kernel panic.

I only have two on my machine: VSCode, and Microsoft Azure Explorer. If I run them both at the same time, there's a 20% chance I'm going to have to reboot that day.

Microsoft has enough money and resources to make a real program, but it chooses to be lazy and cheap.
I found this to be a novel perspective on your question:
https://samoburja.com/the-centralized-internet-is-inevitable...
This reads like a failure of the NCMEC, and the legal system surrounding it.

It is insane that using perceptual hashes is likely illegal. As the hashes are actually somewhat reversible and so possession of the hash is a criminal offence. It just shows how twisted up in itself the law is in this area.

One independent image analysis service should not be beating reporting rates of major service providers. And NCMEC should not be acting like detection is a trade secret. Wider detection and reporting is the goal.

And the law as setup prevents developing detection methods. You cannot legally check the results of your detection (which Apple are doing), as that involves transmitting the content to someone other than the NCMEC!
> Spanish Flu

Which the Spanish called “French Flu”, and which many signs point to it actually being “American Flu”: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/