skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's the interest of watching father playing quake/cs 1.6 when I was a preschooler, but I think no other activity could match the amount of joy as playing pc games and surfing the web, so I kinda naturally gravitated towards computers.

Parents got me in the nice school where we're studying QBasic since the 5th grade and I still remember how QB core library contains functions for drawing a simple geometry. Coupled with a for loops you could do some dead simple animations, and it was fascinating.

First two years in uni were quite fruitful and I'd managed to land a internship at internationally known company. Last two years were a liability, and while doing the minimum to avoid dropout, I picked up Sapper/Svelte, then Elixir.

Writing a thesis subject in Elixir/Phoenix was perhaps the highest gain spontaneous decision in my life to date.
Nobody ever learn Elixir in uni as a part of a course, so your adversary candidates pool is tiny, comparing to the vast masses of java/python/js/c++ graduates. Perhaps this was the main reason of me being hired fresh outta college with less than a 3 months of experience :)

But the job itself is meh:

- fully remote, no spying, can spread 8h how I want (4 in the morning and 4 in the evening, doing whatever during the day)

- pay is higher than I would ever get at junior position in mainstream languages

- team is nice

- but ridiculously low-quality legacy code

- previous devs had left with close to no documentation, so codebase ownership is low

- long time lags in processes, mostly due to the management
The important bit:

> It will make its closest approach to Earth around 5 April 2031 at a distance of 10.11 AU

The sad bit:

> Once at perihelion, the comet is not expected to get brighter than Pluto (mag 13–16)... Even if it reaches the magnitude of Pluto, it will require about a 200 mm telescope to be visually seen
People are building things like renewed web standards (Project Fugu, for example) and P2P networks (Beaker, Hypercore), and light clients (Mighty). These projects don't get any attention from the "Web3" crowd because they don't involve currency speculation.
Unfortunately, "web3" being placed next to words like "crypto" and "blockchain" stains it as bullshit full of grifters and leeches.

Edit: forgot about the cherry on top "NFT" another layer of shit on what I thought would be pure and innovative. Grifters all the way down.
To play devil's advocate, the retort to this is that if you don't get the vaccine you're some <100 percentage more likely to get the virus, but if you do get the vaccine you're 100% likely to get the vaccine.

I think the related mistake some vaccine-hesitant people make is that they greatly underestimate their likelihood to get the virus in the future. This is reinforced by some pro-vaccine people (incorrectly) claiming we can eradicate the virus through high vaccination rate.
So is this headline.
Fair point. An overrun issue can be mitigated if a) hospitals would not dismiss unvaccinated staff thereby leading them to be understaffed (an unstaffed bed = not a bed, which is one reason why hospitals "don't have enough beds"), and b) US medical staff would accept more of the treatment options available in other countries (Japan, India, etc) such as ivermectin.
Way two many clicks
Except now I’m supposed to show a digital vaccine record many places I go. Not many open source options exist for reading them either, so I’m just supposed to trust that the data (name, birth date, maybe location) isn’t being sent to some marketing analytics company somewhere.

Edit: Since some HN commenters want to play disingenuous games and insert words into my mouth, I’ll clarify my specific problem is with these apps having zero standards. If my state makes its own app or devises a law to prosecute this kind of use of private data, I would have less of a problem with it as a temporary measure.
no, I was just wrong, your source shows Miami still gets hit more
I think battery research is more chemistry than physics, but of course there's overlap.
Last time I checked even a relatively small 737 is ca. $100 million. You must be related to Bezos if you don't consider that expensive.
Cases are mostly irrelevant, death peak is lower than previous deak peaks
… and, due to the nature of this type of virus, no human efforts to control it would have been fully effective. We can throw blame around and, in hind sight, we can see how many agencies and people could have acted differently and it might have had some affect but ultimately this pandemic was already underway and anything short of 100% lockdown enforced by armed guards would not stop it.
To be fair, in the article I at least outline alternative approaches. And in any case, I believe that by building a commercial product like MM, their makers unwillingly shut the door a bit more for a more standardized approach. Not actively, but simply just by mere existence.
At the time of the 9/11 attacks, the US did not have bases in in Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya. Bin Laden was complaining about US presence in Saudi Arabia and Israel. So even with recent withdrawals, the US presence is only back at the level at the tine of the attacks. I don't see how this can in any way be construed as successful?

The purpose of the 9/11 attacks was to get the American public to demand the US withdraws support to Israel and Saudi Arabia. This has clearly failed.
> No, you didn't. That number is most certainly not random, there are biases in it, you just don't know there are. Your mind is not random. This is why we use dice and not people to generate random bits.

Can't you say that any single (shortish) number is random? How you can demonstrate 99999999999999999999 isn't random?
no the goalposts that marks the amount of evidence proving safety. no matter how much evidence demonstrating safety somebody who doesn't want to get the vaccine will always demand more and then when they get that more they will demand even more. it's constructing and demanding evidence to fit a preseason idea not adjusting your ideas based on evidence
Thank you for this suggestion! I have a Nova 3 myself and I didn't realize that this "optimization" was on by default. Any clue if there's a way to change this to off-by-default?
I still use old reddit and there’s a setting in Preferences to control comment collapsing. Is that setting not also in new reddit?
There has never been a recorded side effect from a vaccine that occurred more than a month after it was given.
When's a client become a server?

If you need to connect to a fullnode which is running in a datacenter somewhere whose sole purpose is to service these kinds of requests, surely it's just a server.
There is evidence that the vaccine significantly (and not just "statistical significance" - I mean really significantly) reduces the risk of severe infection. Many hospitals (including the 3 closest to me, in a state with 70% vaccination) are completely overrun by patients that are predominantly unvaccinated.
V1.2 of Vim.Math3d C# Library
After two years of production use we have released version 1.2 of our C# library for efficient and portable 3D Math.
I had a similar experience as a intern years ago! Part of my daily responsibility was to manually enable/disable API integrators who had increased levels of traffic as it would take the API down for all partners. Pretty bad. Thousands of requests at peak would bring the server to its knees.

Until I worked out during some minor maintenance task that every request was logged to a flat file. Appended. Every request. The file was probably 100gb by the time I found it and every request log would lock the logging file. The server had been running for a couple of years by that time.

Of course I screwed up more than I fixed. :D
Sadly not sure the ecosystem is mature enough for any kind of standardization yet.
The whole "How did they approve this so quickly" is definitely something I've seen from people across the political spectrum.

The other one I've seen is the person who works 2 jobs, 6 days per week and can't afford to miss 2-3 days of work from reacting to the vaccine because she gets no PTO. One person I personally know in this situation finally decided to get just the first dose.
How to improve your website's loading speed
Fast website load times have been the hot talk for the past 3-4 years - mainly because everyone can get their website to load at an impressive 200ms. I’ll explain my take on how to approach these load time numbers, so all you have to do is put some effort and read through this article.
I don't think a sharded database is "decentralized".
Biden wants the sun to provide nearly half the nation’s electricity by 2050
Did I change something material? If so my bad, I usually only edit for clarity, and add an edit block if I add something. My bad if so!
Working at a blockchain company you would certainly be knowledgeable in stupid ideas
The Johnson and Johnson and AstraZenica vaccines are not mRNA; they are a more traditional "standard" vaccination (adenovirus vector). Are your friends willing to get one of those?
> Only one program ran at a time so no OS was needed.

The Commodore 64 had a simple OS, and it does have all the elements to be called a primitive OS. The features include:

- Devices (0 was the keyboard, 1 was cassette, 2 was RS-232, 3 was the screen, 4-30 were the serial bus where printers and disks lived)

- Uniform I/O calls across those devices (you must OPEN a device, and then can use CHRIN, GETIN, CHROUT, LOAD, SAVE calls to move data, and then you have to CLOSE it).

- Handles (called "logical file numbers", up to 10 open at once supported) - a bit more sophisticated than CP/M really.

- A rudimentary notion of standard input/output (called the "default" input and output device)

But this primitive OS definitely depended upon what could be considered a single background task to read the keyboard (SCNKEY) and update the timer (UDTIM) - triggered by an IRQ that was set to fire off 60 times a second (50 for PAL). Tape I/O overtook this IRQ and messed up the timer though.

However nothing in this primitive OS except for reset routines even acknowledged the presence of the SID chip or features of the VIC beyond the text display, so you were definitely on your own there.

> How does one approach a simple hardware project of poke at bitmaps and pixels stored in the Intel GPU from a "modern" Operating system.

Linux exposes a `/dev/fb0` device, doesn't. Can't you `mmap()` this device and peek/poke to your hearts content, assuming something else isn't trying to write to `/dev/fb0`?
What's the difference between Ireland and Cuba? Both are small countries dominated by a nearby power and both are highly Catholic. Yet somehow Cuba managed to make it work with the Soviets. It's true there's differences between the countries (Cuba wasn't quite as Catholic as Ireland), but I don't see how TFA's comment is a forgone conclusion the way you do.
It is not 16:9 it is 9:16, in mobile height is more than width.
So after you already start the x-ray process, they take you aside and make you do the shoes, belt, and the rest?

If I sound confused, it's because I am :). I don't get a pre-check card, it just shows up as a notation on my boarding pass. I scan it just like normal, then shove my phone into my backpack and toss it on the belt. No removing my shoes, belt, etc.

They also won't touch my bag, and I have to be the one to push it onto the feed belt of the scanner. They have to have a pretty good idea that it belongs to me.

Coincidentally, I just travelled through ATL a few weeks ago. It's never as smooth as my home airport (PDX) because it's a much busier airport, but I don't recall anything out of the ordinary happening.
I am knowingly going to take a bit of a heterodox view here, but in my opinion, this is actually the most functional of the solutions proposed:

def factorial(n):
return prod(range(1, n + 1))

I think the essence of modern functional programming is not recursion per se, but the factoring out (no pun intended in this context) of recursion schemes and making them first-class citizens. Granted, to understand what is going on you need to understand the basics of recursion, so I'm not saying to skip that per se, but I don't think recursion should any longer be taught as the "distinctive characteristic" of this sort of modern functional programming. What's interesting is the factoring out of recursion schemes, the composition of recursion schemes with other recursion schemes (i.e., putting a filter on a map, as the simplest case), and the composition of recursion schemes with other functional tools.

In practice, when programming in Haskell, you recurse a lot less than non-Haskell programmers may have the impression that you do, because you more often use these defined recursion schemes. Recursion is still used, certainly, but even then it's often as some one-off scheme that may be extracted later, or simply as a somewhat hacky way of tricking the compiler to do certain optimizations with no reference to "good code" at all. You can get a long way in Haskell without writing explicit recursion yourself.
I think emulating existing darknet market infrastructure makes sense to address a couple of the issues you mentioned- like public reviews & messaging for employment + moderation & escrow/multisig for transactions.

+ your third point, I think another issue is basically verification: what's stopping cheap, non-refugee laborers from scooping job postings from refugees? I don't think it would be possible to verify the refugee status of someone without leaking identifying info.

I guess your last suggestion sounds like the best thing to do.
Had seen a few of these "protecting" malls in Beirut... Eventually I'd borderline ignore the mall security guard operating the worthless device.

Shame they weren't using them near the port...
I built one using these instructions and a ESP8266:
https://www.pieterbrinkman.com/2021/02/03/build-a-cheap-air-...

It publishes its data via MQTT, and you can use any system that can subscribe to a MQTT queue to process, display, etc. it.
> But after a few weeks, and after adding in a manual temperature adjustment to compensate for that sensor's inaccuracy, the AirGradient has been a very stable and helpful addition to my home environment monitoring.

When you are DIYing this sort of thing, I would think you would need to make at least a couple of them to see if they calibrate to the same measurement, assuming what you are after is greater precision and control (why else would you DIY it?). Even then, both devices could calibrate to the same very imprecise value.

To really validate this, you would need to put it in an controlled environment with known air pollution levels. Just placing it outdoors when the weather report says 200AQI wouldn't work since that's an average over a large area, not a point measurement.

I imagine the sensor manufacturers have done some calibration - the article mentions a self calibration period for some, but once everything is in the final package, I'd expect the behavior to change.
That sounds fine to me.

On another note, I get that the “take as long as it takes! Don’t rush!” thing is a response to companies with short-term thinking who rush unfinished buggy products, but I worry that when applied to indie creators it can lead to a kind of perfectionism that can make it difficult to release things at all.

My preferred way for developers to deal with this (speaking as a consumer here) is the Early Access method: Release a stripped down MVP, people who like the idea and want more will pay money to fund development, even if development halts they at least walk away with something (so there’s risk, but it’s lower), people with suggestions will offer them and possibly buy if you implement them, you quickly figure out what the big problems are, and you can keep building steam with iterative progress.

I’m sure this has backfired on some devs (perhaps a game makes a big splash at first but the iterative updates don’t bring new customers) but a lot of my favorite games of the past 10 years have been developed using this strategy or a variant of it that focuses on iteration: Factorio, Kerbal Space Program, Elite Dangerous, Dyson Sphere Program and Industries of Titan to name a bunch. (Btw, if you’re into one of these games but haven’t heard of the others, check them out. Dyson Sphere Program and Industries of Titan are a couple that are particularly slept on)
That is generally how arguments about claims of fact work, yes. If you genuinely believe that, say, the earth is round, then your position isn't going to be that the earth is probably round but there are valid reasons to believe otherwise, or that you can have the opinion that the earth is flat, or whatever. It's fundamentally not a matter of opinion, and part of your belief is that it isn't a matter of opinion.
I dunno, say, Brave browser??? Just spitballing here.
Twitter is a cancer. Only a fool uses it
Blindboy Boatclub, Irish artist formerly of The Rubberbandits, credits Joe Frank as an influence on his podcast style, tracing it back to Samuel Beckett as a potential influence on Joe Frank, who taught Ira Glass of This American Life, and may also have been inspiration for Chris Morris of Blue Jam and Brass Eye, programs that Blindboy experienced as a youth.

(Shoutout to spaced repetition with Anki for helping me remember all this. It was one of my cloze cards to help me get back into using Anki and I didn’t expect to actually reference it)
There is no immediate penalty, normally the opponent notices the illegal move and points it out, and the player has to undo the illegal move and continue with a legal move. Now if the player disobeys, then the opponent is able to declare the game forfeit.

An interesting edge case is if the opponent does not notice the illegal move. See FIDE for details.
Didn't realize people used it for anything other than getting around paywalls.
Are you anti-science? Because the vaccine advisory board in the UK says COVID vaccines aren't worth the risk for children: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-advisers-decide-against-...

Getting a vaccine obviously involves a personal risk assessment that varies for every individual. The idea that you can make that decision for everyone is laughable, and calling people "anti-vaxxers" for rejecting your ignorant pronouncements is counter-productive.
Published in 2012, based on electricity mix at that time and assuming a vehicle life of only 93,000 miles.
Apparently, it is common practice in some regions to wash dishes under a continuously flowing stream of water from the taps. Practices vary widely by region. Russian seems to favour the "let it flow" practice. Germany and several regions with a history of water shortages and rationing (Australia, South Africa, California) equal or best even the most efficient dishwashing machines.

There the usual practice is more like:

- Fill wash sink with dishes to be washed. (Excess sit on the counter next to the sink.)

- Fill wash sink with hot sudsy water.

- Fill rinse sink with cold clear water.

- Place drying rack on counter on opposite side of sink to dirty dishes.

My preferred workflow is right-to-left for all this.

- Let dishes soak in washing-up fluid for a few minutes.

- Scrub off any attached food w/ sponge and/or brush.

- Move to rinse sink.

- Place in drying rack.

(This is second-nature to me. Apparently it's a revelation to some.)

The washing sink holds about 2 gallons / 8 litres of water. The rinse sink another another 1/2 gallon / 2 litres.

And dishes and tableware come out clean. I frequently find myself re-washing what comes out of the dishwasher. There are also items that cannot go through the dishwasher, meaning that there's some hand-washing regardless.

My view is that it's ... a wash. Efficient hand-washing is about as efficient as a high-efficiency dishwasher. If hand-washing dishes isn't a chore to you (and/or you live in a small household), it's fine.

I also find it far easier to determine what's clean or not, and to put dishes away, from the drying rack than from the dishwasher.

Studies from a few years back on the machine-vs-hand discussion.

https://slate.com/technology/2008/04/is-it-worth-the-effort-...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140716153651/http://www.landte...
When I am in a stalemate between a couple of options I find it easiest to use a decision maker app [1]

If I feel bad about the decision I try again until I feel good about it. Letting go of the choice and leaving it to fate to decide kinda sets you free.

[1] https://easydecisionmaker.com/
let me know if you have any questions
correct me if I'm wrong but the live virus is capable of killing you within a week right?

what level do you have certainty would you require before you think making something mandatory would be appropriate?

do you have any reason to believe any of those concerns are even rational or theoretically reasonable? or you just afraid of them because they might happen?
They're quite loud about it, it's not difficult to know what they're thinking. "They don't know what they're making", "it's big pharma selling to you", and a thousand unfounded conspiracy ideas to try to justify it.

If they had good reasons they'd find it in actual research, not 24/7 news, podcasts, and Facebook posts.

The research into mRNA COVID vaccines is tremendous, the scrutiny applied larger than probably any other medical treatment. More so than other vaccines. Yet it's the COVID one that gets the hate. It confirms that this isn't about facts or research, it's about feelings. They feel it's bad, and someone they trust told them it's bad too.
As of August 16, 40% of African Americans were vaccinated.

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/percent-of-total-p...
Perhaps not surprisingly, all stereotypes about the differences between scientists and engineers vanish if you've worked with both.

Disclosure: Scientist
About reliable email adresses: I'm using my university alumni "email forwarding for life", but this loses me some emails due to DMARC and friends.
What are the alternatives?
even if we archive everything, hundreds of years from now all of “the worlds information” could very well be unusable and unreadable for a variety of factors(no one remembers how to deal with the file formats, EMP, bit rot). books however will continue to work just fine as they have for thousands of years
Regardless of your views on CRT, the fact that teachers lied about teaching it to parents and then chose to break the law by teaching it after they were called out confirms that yes, they are intentionally trying to go behind parents back in what they teach kids.
There have never been mRNA vaccines widely distributed
Why is this person’s house 82 degrees?

When I lived in the desert, 82° was comfortable for me. Generally, the humidity was below 10% (NWS reading, as most cheap consumer sensors are not precise below 10%). But even in monsoon season, when the humidity would spike, it was still fine.

I guess you get used to it. My wife never did, so when she came home from work she'd turn the temperature down to 78°.
The only way I can see your comment being correct is if you're open to redefinitions of “blockchain” which do not require either immutability or the global public ledger. The current blockchains handle a vanishingly-small fraction of global financial traffic using far more equipment, data, and power — there's no magic wand which can allow you to scale up by many orders of magnitude without architectural changes.

That could be solved by splitting into local blockchains so the global network only handles transactions between local banks but that seems like it's basically giving up most of the benefits claimed in blockchain marketing.
It would be nice if they would do that.
The definition of 'Victim' is thay they are not the one at fault
Honestly, it seems like there's a long list of things to monitor:

* Radon
* Carbon dioxide
* Carbon monoxide
* Nitrogen Dioxide
* Sulfur Dioxide
* Ozone
* PM2.5, PM10 (any others?)
* VOCs
* Temperature
* Humidity
* Pressure

It is an opportunity for someone to make a "suite" sensor so you could scatter them around the house for good average measurements.
A simple "okay" followed by compliance also works.