skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the only possible future and the best possible future. Progress is intrinsically a very good thing. The disappearance of the home-cooked meals can't possibly be anything but a great liberation. We have better things to do than feed healthy food to our children.

We have the results to show for it:

> In the 1960s and 1970s only 13 percent of U.S. adults and 5 to 7 percent of U.S. children were obese.

> The US obesity prevalence was 42.4% in 2017 – 2018.

> For children and adolescents aged 2-19 years in 2017-20181 the prevalence of obesity was 19.3%.

https://www.apa.org/pi/families/resources/newsletter/2012/07...

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html
Motorbike gloves do not include the essential part of wrist protectors, namely the hard plastic backbone which is meant to catch the fall and keep the wrist joint from overextending. If you want to wear them, fine, but make sure to use wrist protectors - with a rigid backbone - as well.
Depends, some do indeed ban all electronic devices, others only ban smartphones and any devices with cameras. Probably after this incicident most of them will move towards the former policy.
Wish to live to be 110 and older? Checklist of things you should be doing
Guinean military officer says President arrested, as apparent coup unfolds
Well said. And as [redacted] himself noted in one of those emails, "there are 20 more sites like this that Yahoo could go out and buy". In order for Google to effectively gobble up the competition, they would need to go on a video site acquisition spree far beyond YouTube -- and they didn't. From their behavior, it really does look like Google was buying YouTube because they thought the two companies would complement each other.
Beautiful story.

I inadvertently trained my dog to recognize Frozen Creek by Circa Survive. Years later all it takes to calm him down is to play the opening to that song. I attribute it to a day or two where I had the album on repeatedly and and he wasn’t feeling well - pretty sure he just ate something he shouldn’t have - and he’d come lay in my lap and sleep.
What’s the “obvious” downside?
You fall quite a lot when learning, my hands were very sorry.at the end of the day when I first learned. (I was 11 though)
after training me over some weeks, my dog now paws at me to give her belly scratches (and reassurance in general). =)
I don't agree that the syntax is "hugely bloated". The return type is part of the business logic. mut and pub are here to make some things explicit, so again I don't mind them. Rust is one of those languages that wants to make more things explicit because the people using it need those things to be explicit.
>Espionage is highly unlikely since nobody important will buy cheapest of the cheap dumb phones

I agree that this event is unlikely to be espionage, but someone important might buy a cheap dumb burner phone. I wouldn't put it past an intelligence agency to wholesale compromise cheap dumb phones for that reason.
They're not the same though; these problems need to be looked at through a combination of ability (to exploit) and motivation. Apple/Google isn't going to try and steal your identity, bank account info, or numerous other "small" things that some unknown and unaccountable company selling malware infected hardware could do.

It's like when people state that online voting should be safe because online banking is safe. I'm pretty sure if a nation state really wanted to steal a few grand from your (individual) bank account, they'd be able to do it. But it'd probably cost them more money/power in doing so then it's worth it.
Electric sleep: the gadgetry tracking and hacking the way we rest
My preferred method is to skip to the end and just carry around a brick. Attaching a message to it and throwing it is a pretty effective way of communicating, provided the recipient is using windows.
it’s not magic. there are inputs and outputs. raise prices by a buck a pizza. people will absolutely pay it. problem solved.
linked earlier: Guinea: Heavy gunfire near presidential palace in Conakry https://africafeeds.com/2021/09/05/guinea-heavy-gunfire-near...
Bank of America introduces USB security key registration for online transfers
Have you tried applying for these programs? On paper the possibilities are endless in Germany. In practice it is hard to even get social security or apartments.

Most money in Germany goes to parasites like friends of the CDU, rich large corporations like Tesla, the state TV cronies, civil servants and the interest group of the day (refugees in 2015).
Ask HN: Can you get a developer job in New York City without a degree?
Is this easy to do or difficult? Are there lots of companies that hire self-taught developers?

What are some things you can do to try to get an interview? Can you get a job if you do well in the coding interview without a degree?
Sure, it "was prepared" - but by whom? For example, by the wife - for whom it would be a full-time job, together with another full-time job of raising the kids and another one of cleaning the house and maintaining it. Or, in richer homes, by a servant - who would often work for little more than home and food, and certainly wouldn't have such benefits as mandatory vacation, sick leave, pension fund, unemployment insurance and workers comp. You can argue a lot about which model is preferable - and people certainly do all the time - but you have to take the model in its entirety here. You can't have people working full time jobs and then have plenty of time for shopping and cooking things from scratch. We'd have to choose one or the other. And we'd have to choose having a backyard vegetable garden, feeding one person, or industrial farming, feeding 7 billions people. If you're rich enough, you can still afford the former - along with a servant to cook your healthy meals - but the whole 7 billions still can't.
The moments that could have accidentally ended humanity
Those who enjoy other mechanisms made from wood may also like https://woodgears.ca/

The drawing mechanism reminds me of this technique from 1958 for generating vector characters entirely with analogue circuitry:

http://www.nixiebunny.com/crtgen/crtgen.html

http://www.glensstuff.com/fouriersynthchargen/fouriersynthch...
Modafinil is literally known as "the Wall Street drug", and it's not because the old people there use it.
I think there is also a difference between knowing and _knowing_ - as in internalizing the information and relieing on it. There are many things that have been taught in school, for example, but made little sense untill I got the tools to truely understand them and be able to play with them.

So rather than just facts, you have networks of facts and experiences that need to connect for things to make sense and you to truely know something.
Yes and no TBH.

Some Juniper gear emulated the IP2 forwarding asics in software, its fairly decent for what it is. All of the packet inspection stuff runs inside of FreeBSD. The new vSRX is all software and uses commodity cpu power for everything.

For raw speed, pfsense does a really good job on the low end of things but doesn't offer a lot of the inspection/IPS features that JunOS has. Arguably few people actually need IPS anyways.
Basic economic theory says that the price is determined by supply and demand. Investors buying house does not affect supply or demand, since they will simply rent out the house.

If you claim that investors are causing a significant price increase then I think onus would be on you to cite a source.
At least an hour later than when I was getting up to commute into the office. And that still leaves me more time for a morning routine before I start work. I don't stay up much later than I typically did, I'm not that much of a late night person any more.
It seems that flight planning is done on the basis that the loss of all flight computers is possible, and to make sure that your runway is long enough to accommodate that situation.

So thankfully the loss of all three computers isn’t inherently dangerous, and is demonstrated by this incident. Based on my reading of the report the primary take away from this (apart from a an issue with the flight computers software), is that flight plans aren’t and prep by the airport wasn’t conservative enough, so they ended up with slightly less safety margin than they expected in this scenario.
Nothing in practice. The people replying to you are probably privileged and have never attempted any such thing.
Nice guy, knows his stuff.
Beginners Guide to Wind Turbine Charge Controllers
Show HN: A book quotes suggestion app.It's like a Tinder for book quotes
Hey, I made a quote recommendation app. You swipe quotes like Tinder. After you swipe a quote, it will suggest you another one.

By the way its name is Swipewise.

Promo video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMXRmQZCEnI
I did, eventually, first by going to Canada and Alaska to paddle the Yukon down to the Bering strait, then to Sweden 'cause I met a Swedish girl. Had I not met her I'd have moved to Canada instead, that was my original plan. But... the job was fun, it paid well, I was single, I bought a house which I sold for twice the price after 6 years (before I moved to Sweden) so in that respect everything worked out as intended. I would not do this at this time and place given that I'm not single, I have children, I live on a farm in the woods and I have gigabit fibre which makes it possible to reach the world at the speed of light...
Optimistic theory: it really was just for emergencies and was not in active use. Pessimistic theory: the NSA had already moved on to bigger and better exploits, but couldn't be bothered to tidy up.
Aren't tabs supposed to be sandboxed?
Launch HN: JiraCLI – The Missing Command-Line Tool for Atlassian Jira
Hi there!

I've been working on (and using) a command-line utility for Atlassian Jira for the past few months. The initial release is available now: https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/jira-cli/releases

Project Link: https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/jira-cli

Some of the features include:

1. Interactive mode + an option to easily integrate with shell/automation scripts using standard POSIX-complaint flags.

2. Easy search and navigation. For instance, you can easily search for something like "Issues that are of high priority, is in progress, was created this month, and has a label called backend" with `jira issue list -yHigh -s"In Progress" --created month -lbackend`

3. Create a neat Jira ticket (and comment) using Github-flavored + Jira-flavored markdown as a template. Supports pre-defined templates.

4. The ticket details are translated to markdown from the Atlassian document and is beautifully displayed on the screen when you view it.

5. Easy sprint and epic navigation. You can quickly view tickets in previous, current, and next sprint tickets using flags like --prev, --next, and --current eg: `jira sprint list --current`.

6. Fast and straightforward ticket cloning with the ability to replace text in summary and description.
7. You can edit, link, assign and transition the issues with ease.

Check out the project for more details: https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/jira-cli

Your suggestions and feedback is highly appreciated. Feel free to start a discussion or create an issue to share your experience about the tool or to discuss a feature/issue.
I concur that it is unjustified to believe an extra-physical domain is necessary for the mind to exist. However where I differ is your believe that it is "obviously" not necessary.

There is a reason this is a philosophical question, and not purely a matter of science. The reason consciousness is special is because we viscerally experience it in a way that is undeniably more significant than any discrete physical observation (such as your example of insulin production). Of course that doesn't prove anything one way or the other, but to unilaterally declare that consciousness is purely a result of mechanical and chemical biological processes is quite a leap and not something that is easily falsifiable.

For empiricists and other logically-minded folks the idea that reality begins and ends with the physical world can be comforting—after all, that would mean that everything could likely eventually be explained through physical observation and continued rigorous application of the scientific method. However this line of thinking also relies on faith just as religion does: the faith that our perception of reality is representative of the whole of reality and that there is no facet beyond the reach of a cleverly designed experiment.

I am of the opinion that it is hubris to declare one way or another. It's easily conceivable to me that the reality we see and experience is but a reflection of a deeper reality which our meat-sack senses and ideas can not penetrate, but that nevertheless exists and interacts with us.
You can buy an ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) to convert old analog phones to VOIP, and then use it with whatever VOIP service you want. Just be sure that the adapter supports pulse dialing since you want to use it with a rotary phone (not all does).
Restaurants run the gamut from the dinky places not much larger than kiosks that simply microwave your food on demand to really fancy and expensive businesses. And the dinky places do have higher profit margins, assuming they don’t overstock the place. Of course, people applying for jobs in the dinky places don’t expect to get paid more than people working at fancy restaurants (with slimmer profit margins and higher labor costs).

And that’s not considering people willing to lose money so they can own a coffee shop!
Definitely a fair comparison between a S&P100 bank CEO dining with the president regularly and a corner taqueria owner struggling to meet the payroll.
MicroRaft – Raft consensus protocol implementation in Java
You didn't mention Sheets/Docs/Excel -- do you ever have a need for that? Because they're not good on an iPad.
Exactly, I didn't know it's also legal in the US. Even more so confuses me - why hire security at all, if they aren't doing their job?

In Germany, you'd fire the security if they wouldn't go after thieves. Also, there are no liability problems... But then, people with guns or knifes are very rare.
My mom used to say watching a dog's life is like seeing a condensed version of our own journeys. Through infancy and adolescence into old age.

You're right to say it's hard, but so is life. The companionship is worth the grief for me.
I'm still crossing my fingers for a defer mechanism.
Agreed. I think that battery production, unlike solar panel production, will be highly incentivized today be local. Batteries are very heavy in kg/€ compared to other products.

There are big advantages to keeping this somewhat local. Shipping batteries over seas or cross continent, after the raw materials have also been shopped long distances, will likely be economically inefficient.
The 75 move rule is, though.
I've read that food margins have been extremely thin for many years - well before the pandemic. Maybe the owner is just tired of working his ass off for not much in return, and staffing problem is just the straw that broke the camel's back.

Maybe the owner would be better off with unemployment!
JavaScript Anti Debugging – Some Next Level Shit Part 1 (2019)
I always assumed that the movie Airborne killed it.
Well that’s kind of what happened. The primary flight computers all failed, to the plane fell back to “direct law”, which means pilot input is directly transmitted to control systems without a computer attempting to interpret intent or protect against pilot error.

As a consequence a lot of the more advanced functions became disabled because they rely on the primary flight computer to indicate when it’s safe for them to operate. Presumably because accidental operation of those features in flight is extremely dangerous.
To be clear you can write

let bytes = std::fs::read(“path.txt”)?;

If you’re trying to actually do this in real code. The example is how you’d write this function yourself, but if you’re just trying to Get It Done, it’s significantly easier than the example.
So how do you make the difference between public and private code without a pub keyword? And for the "explicit return types", I think it makes the code more readable. You seem to think that what is your personal preference (something that looks like Julia) is best practice. It's not, it's just a preference.
Checking the youtube channel, the operator of the machine has continued to refine his design, in the last video it barely shakes (https://youtu.be/ZddqSR1wXkE?t=3025), if it shakes at all. Weird fun dedication to a passion project ^^
Humans are good at human things. I think the mistake is equating human things to exceptionalism or intelligence.
Business usage is observed over time instead of known up front though. In a way this is sort of like the query planner. Couldn't your usage be observed and used to determine appropriate indexes?
When I lived in the Mission in San Francisco 10 years ago, I found rollerblades to be the best way of traveling medium distances in the city (e.g. to the Civic Center). I didn’t have a safe place to store a bike, busses are super slow (and if I’m going longer distances, I can take them off and hop on a muni). I never heard of the homophobia angle either.
Each time they do something it costs a ton - they have 800 complaints pending for their latest efforts to get through.

The Berlin Brandenburg Airport took 25+ years to get build, 14+ YEARS of construction. So germaney often does take it's time. Project costs went from $2.xB to something like $10B plus.

Telsa is a private company, so probably can't afford overruns in time / cost of this nature (ie, 10 years later to open the factory, $8B over budget etc. Germany also seems eager to maybe balance some of the things that make everything go slow with getting something done.
Those are all trade-offs. Ditching fully-specified function signatures makes type inference more difficult and results in poorer type inference errors
The mental activities are the computations, it doesn't matter what you call it. It's the same predictive model of the environment thing, which is thermodynamics.

Of course we think that humans are special, but a gerbil, a cauliflower plant, even a metal spring does this. Granted a cauliflower can do much more than a spring, but then a gerbil can do more than a cauliflower.

https://nautil.us/issue/104/harmony/plants-feel-pain-and-mig...
Yeah, the spin out lowered the product quality for sure.

Pulse is a winner from a UX standpoint, its "ok" from an admin/operational perspective but its not great. There was a while when some simple netconf commands would crash Pulse.
I brought this up at a BAJUG meeting and the engineers there said "yeaaaah, don't use netconf".

AFAIK Pulse is still based on the old Neoteris codebase so who knows what else is still in there...
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. - Thomas Jefferson
If you have no doubt that ivermectin doesn't work against COVID-19 then perhaps you should tell the NIH to cancel the large clinical trial they're running.

https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initi...
this is a ridiculously disingenuous argument. it doesn’t take a $50 taco to pay a living wage, no matter what the size of the business is.
> I don't own a car, I don't pay for gas. I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary, even with haircuts. If my haircut price did go up, and the barber's wage did too. I do not resent it.

I've definitely noticed prices going up, but have been mostly dismissive of it as either being pathologically pandemic-caused and likely temporary (lumber prices for instance, I happened to be building a new roof throughout the pandemic) or opportunistic vendors not wanting to let a good crisis go to waste and gouging in the fog of the pandemic (a local organics market abruptly increased orange prices 300%/lb a few months ago, without even updating the displayed price).

And you can already find numerous news articles documenting cases of "shrinkflation" in staples like cereals [0], which is just a sneaky way of raising prices. I haven't personally noticed this since I don't consume such goods, but that doesn't mean it isn't happening.

My assumption is cost of services rendered by small businesses will be more variable and laggy in responding to the reality. Some will delay increasing prices, some will aggressively do so while the pandemic scapegoat is still fresh, some will just close their doors. When it comes to cases delaying price increases, they'll no doubt be exploring all avenues like cutting staff/hours/wages to eat the difference. The problem is, those cases dragging their feet on raising prices, their mentality likely reflects the mentality of their clientele/community. It's a collective of people operating in denial that shit's getting expensive, and yes, your $50 gets you a haircut, go ask for a raise, USD is inflationary.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/07/06/1012409112/bew...
"Useless" accurately describes the majority of published books in the industry these days. So you can spend a lot of time finding the right book... or you can just dive straight for the spec.
… and msnbc and Russia today and a whole bunch of shitty networks doesn’t really excuse any of this
So you're saying the proper response for the employer acting to raise pay to the line workers by raising prices is for you, as a customer, to act to lower pay to the line workers by stopping the tips? That'd show the greedy owner!
Surely in some world that must make sense... but it's not our world.
World class mental gymnastics to insert gender identity politics into a conservation about pet ownership.

> Unless there's some stereotype about men who like cats I'm not aware of?

Yes, there are plenty of stereotypes about "People who like cats".
It depends on your niche; as a person writing cryptography libraries in Rust, I have never needed to make a HTTP request.
That was a very good. Sharing with a few people.

I like the part of the US learn some lessons from China, when possible and appropriate.
I know many people on a government startup stipend. Doesn’t seem that hard.
Not quite, reading around it seems that flight planning requires you to assume that reverse thrusters and ground spoilers don’t work.

So you land, your reverse thrusters immediately fail, and you’re now required to stop using your manual breaks and consume all of the breaking distance you originally planned for, with presumably a bit of margin on top.
I think people who don’t want to be called gay are homophobes. It seems like you implied that though. It’s very normal to not want to do things that make you unpopular.
I wonder if this is a side-effect of rust function signatures being very precise, as in the function is very clear about the allowable type and ownership of its parameters and return values, where most languages can't even express things at that level of precision so people's eyes glaze over when reading it.
Far and away the most interesting theory on this topic for me is from Hoffman. I recent read his fascinating book The Case Against Reality - mind blown pretty much sums up my experience of the book. In short he advocates that consciousness is fundamental and that what we experience as the material world...people, objects, atoms is the product of our consciousness and not the other way around. Space time he argues is not fundamental.
Glowforge / ESPHome / Home-Assistant Light Color Controller