skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The newspapers appear to be taking the logical response of switching off Facebook comments going forward.

Which is very welcome in my opinion. Newspaper comments sections (whether on their sites or Facebook) are some most worthless comment sections in existence.
Made for the CIA: A Pair of Military-Spec American Watches
I attempted to make something similar to this except the opposite direction at a previous job. It was called Pronto: https://github.com/CaperAi/pronto/

It allowed us to store and query Protos into MongoDB. It wasn't perfect (lots of issues) but the idea was rather than specifying custom models for all of our DB logic in our Java code we could write a proto and automatically and code could import that proto and read/write it into the database. This made building tooling to debug issues very easy and make it very simple to hide a DB behind a gRPC API.

The tool automated the boring stuff. I wish I could have extended this to have you define a service in a .proto and "compile" that into an ORM DAO-like thing automatically so you never need to worry about manually wiring that stuff ever again.
Please do explain exactly how will kids get us out of the cycle?
You get to downvote if you get enough karma from your posts being upvoted. But a certain fraction of users seem to get a power trip from this, and downvote absolutely anything that doesn't tickle their fancy just so.
Do you mean panasonic battery factory? Because that's who Tesla buys most of their cells from (some LG and in China CATL). Tesla has no scale battery manufacturing right now.
Prior to reading this two days earlier I just deleted my social media profile except Twitter for news or updates. I already feel better and I realise now how much of my time was being utilised in social media as a user.
What sensor do you have?

And what is the boxfan hack? I live near very bad wild fires and I need a much better filtering then my current grow filter which doesn't seem to work that well.
Let the free market solve this one. I'm imagining a drone delivery service that sprays a uniform jet of keg juice onto your hotel quarantine balcony from a safe distance. What could possibly go wrong.
There is no buy button.
I thought I read somewhere that there are schools in India teaching COBOL more recently.

So I wonder if it's something like manufacturing in China - it's not just cheaper, it's that the expertise has moved.

You can't incentivize American programmers with a lot of experience by throwing money at them, when they retired ~50 years ago.

I signed up for a COBOL course at a state university around 2000, but dropped it without ever attending a class. I think they still had line printers.

At one point I was amused that there seemed to be a standard for object oriented COBOL...
Anodes are really not a that big deal, even if you manage to replace them with a solid block of lithium.

At max, they make 20%-25% of the modern lithium cell mass. So, even if you manage to just use lithium, you will still need few percents of it that for the lithium itself, and some mechanical spongy structure to hold it.

Moreover, "solid" lithium implies solid electrolyte, and solid separator, which will also add to the mass.
Most people are sick of ads and would happily pay 1/10 a cent to read a quality article, especially if the process was frictionless.

And most creators would love to keep their content open for everyone, but not have icky ads cluttering up their content.

I think you are underestimating how much micropayments will iron out a lot of problems for a lot of people.

Host your own scrapbook page (er, Facebook) for penny's without ads, tracking, manipulative promotion of content... People lose sight of the fact that Facebooks massive server farms are not really there to serve little posts, but to track and make predictions about people.

Those are just two ways

Another is people learning to support many causes they believe in with very small regular donations. I would voluntarily pay 1/10 cent for every wikipedia page I looked at, or 10 cents a week. Doesn't seem like much but that's $5.20 a year painlessly given.

Enough people do that and they could stop their annual funding drive.

They would also have just got an even clearer incentive to up the quality and usefulness of what they do. Greater efforts resulting in greater donations directly.
You need to have karma above a certain threshold. It used to be > 500 (not sure what it currently is) https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...
Electron apps are still desktop apps.

The web however did eat the desktop: everything other the browser and the text editor is now a web app.

I have literally 4 apps that I use on my machine: terminal and postman in addition to the above.

I am wondering why mobile apps too haven't entirely been replaced by Web apps
... "And nobody noticed"???

Gsuite, office365, etc, offer this as a _feature_. People have noticed.

Even as far as election goes, tons of people complain about the higher ram usage, bloat, etc. Sure, non technical users may not know why, but technical users do, and almost everybody notices a difference in some form or another.
They study everything as they should. Normal people should just get the vaccine and go on with their normal lives.
How are Apple and IBM the only companies that can build their own machines? Amazon has their own (arm) CPUs and use Linux. They don't sell their servers but you can use them on AWS.
You're incorrect but that's OK.

I've been writing Golang for 5 years and have never had need for generics.

It's nothing to with resources, it's just understanding how to build software.

Your retreat to C is a bit sad - I'd be happy to help you if you've got any Go you're struggling with?
School as a Weapon and Covid-19 [audio]
Commutation is not a pardon. Canada lines up US charges with Canadian ones, we like the US, regard disclosing classified info as a serious crime that bars one from entry.

It’s not a disinformation campaign it’s the law, you and I may not like it but it’s been this way for a long time. They aren’t singling out Manning.
I worry about this. It's easy to let things slide in terms of data quality and statistical rigor when building machine learning models, even in the best of times. When it's a problem people would actively rather not have to think about (which of these patients should get a ventilator, for example), that's even more true. Add to this the fact that Epic isn't exactly known for the quality of their engineering.
Yet another example of how NAT only provides obscurity, not actual security.
While I agree with your conclusion, the metric you suggest isn't a good one.

As a silly hypothetical: Imagine that terrorism was really popular but completely thwarted by taking your shoes off at airports. Because its well known that the shoes always come off, the terrorists don't even try. And as a result your dashboard would show lots of money being spent removing shoes but no terrorism. Yet (in this silly example) if the shoe removal spending stopped people would be blowing up left in right, so it's actually a good investment.

Successful measures tend to erase their own effect, especially when applied to intelligent systems.

If you allow observations vs cost to be your guide you risk cutting spending on highly effective measures and preserving spending on measures that do not work (which leave lots of observations around)!

This is one of the reasons that randomized controlled trials are so much better than basic observational science.
USA had become net energy exporter, until January 2021 administration change. We didn't need OPEC. This year we choose to need OPEC.
Ask HN: Should I go from big tech to a startup?
I work at one of the big tech companies. I make what I think is good money, and I generally enjoy my work (although it has been starting to feel like a bit of a grind). I've been here for over two years.

I got an offer from a startup that is doing well financially. The salary is good and the equity seems like it could be okay after some negotiation. I'm not sure precisely what I'd be working on but I do know the general area. The people seem intelligent and fun.

I'm trying to decide if I should make the jump. I really like having an office to go into, the benefits, and the pay of where I'm at. But trying something new seems like a really interesting change, even if I'm giving up quite a bit in my book.

Has anyone else made a similar change (or decided against it)? How did you come to your conclusion?
Event Horizon Telescope Traces Magnetic Fields Around a Black Hole
> A majority of people there still support Putin.

Majority of people are afraid to say otherwise. I've watched some deadpan comedian from Lithuania do some interviews in Moscow. People face change and they immediately walk away after mentioning Putin. Of course the best question was:

"What do you think Russia would look like if Putin was homosexual?"
There are lots of things that are abused but still not illegal, like cars, giving birth. If people can bring someone without their consent to have poor life, there should also a way to exit if one wants. Otherwise life is a prison for many.
True, but I'm at a loss to see how the safety interests of Canadians are threatened by Chelsea Manning. It's not like she's violent or carried out a crime against members of the public. The crime, being against the state, was as much political as the commutation.
My wife and I feel the exact same way - we have it legalized in our will and in statements of health (I can't remember the legal name for them - but documents about what we want to have happen if we are very sick/near death and can't speak for ourselves). Basically neither of us want anything done for us, at all. Just let us die. Please do not try to prolong things through chemotherapy, intubation, tube feeding, etc.
Probably because a lot of people are taking veterinary formulations, which you shouldn’t do because they are designed for horses! We have perfectly functioning vaccines and monoclonal antibody treatments you don’t need to get sketchy prescriptions or horse anti-parasitics!
> children adopt from other countries

Maybe finish adopting all those kids who exist and need families right now, regardless of where they’re from, rather than force people to give birth to more babies that need adoption.
>Calling out her crimes and placing them on the same level of rape, murder speaks to a disinformation campaign that gets unleashed but those in power.

What makes you think she was compared to murderers and rapists? Comments elsewhere in this thread says that people with DWIs get stopped at the border as well.
I explicitly said the general job market, I made no claims about the behavior of FAANGs. Indeed, I think there is little value in considering the behavior of FAANGs in a discussion of the general job market. I was responding to head off the generalizing of the white victimhood narrative which often happens in these discussions.
It seems very clearly worded. They agent was attempting to determine if the action would restrict entry (not let us allow him him), but it was still be investigated (I'm not finding anything yet).
FD was my first programming instuction too, but sadly, I had a bad teacher.

She didn't even teach me the REPEAT instruction for a loop until the very last lecture.
> or else you're only going to be diverting people to other methods of suicide

It's important to point out that you can do comparisons between the US and other countries where guns are far more restricted and a lot of the US gun mortality shows up as other forms of suicide.

> because even if they're completely ineffective at their stated purpose

Ineffective measures are actually politically superior: They don't cure their ill, so you can keep using them again and again.

If $random_gun_restriction actually worked passing it would diminish your ability to campaign on gun issues in the future. This bad incentive applies on all sides too, not just pro-gun control. The gun control lobby is one of the single most effective promotional tools of anti-gun-control politicians.
I've worked with 21T magnets (NMR), the head just in the unshielded parts of it (you cant really get your head inside these as the bore size is small but you are right where the field lines start to bend). Never noticed anything. Colleagues working on larger bore but lower field magnets told me that moving their head fast around them was making them feel weird.
There's this thing that works more or less the same way, except it's free, works 24 hours a day, needs only light and water to function and looks beautiful while doing so... What's that called again? Oh right, a tree.
Eventbrite sheds most of its SF office space a year after mass layoffs
As a horror writer I cannot help but imagine moralizing scenarios where in the west, we vaccinate and lockdown and hoard vaccine and have immunity from vaccines, while in the Global South and places forced to reach herd immunity are realized to be immune to all variants while we must race to make and inject ourselves with boosters against each new variant. A variant arrives that is even more deadly and it wipes us out while the Global South survives better and ascends. I'm always writing stories!
Nobody is forgetting it; they think it's stupid and wrong.
Moving to user-space is mentioned in the paper.
Source on that? All I can find is a spike in calls, often framed by the headline as a large percentage increase in total ivermectin related calls, but the actual numbers of poisonings are trivial. As in 5 per year increasing to 16 or 17 being reported breathlessly as "245% increase in ivermectin related calls..." blah blah blah. It's statistically irrelevant. Even if it all happened in a single day it hardly seems like a busy afternoon for poison hotline agents.

Ivermectin has been politicized and the narrative is that idiot flyover state citizens are "overwhelming" various systems, but this is demonstrably false. It plays to the sneering smugness and self righteous outrage that seems the preferred political prod of late.
Hundreds of milliseconds is not normal for NTP.

What is normal for NTP is to have an error not greater than 10 millisecond.

If you see such huge NTP errors, you should change your reference NTP servers. Make sure to have more of them, e.g. at least 4 or 5, and they should be from some reputable sources, not from your local ISP.

Also make sure that your hardware RTC clock is adjusted to the value of the NTP clock at power-off, to prevent a large difference between the RTC clock and NTP at power-on, which would require a long time for the local time to reach the network time. For the same reason, your NTP might need to be configured to make a time jump at startup, instead of trying to very slowly diminish the initial difference, which could be of many seconds with a poor RTC clock.
I haven't figured out everything, but here is how I don't crave `screentime` as much as most other people.

Reading is a good option. Physical books are still better, but I find it equally lovely to read on a Kindle. I invested in a Kindle Oasis, and I know it is pricey, but this is totally worth it. I try to make sure I have enough books around so I can pick up my choices. I also tend to read multiple books at a time.

I also write with a physical pen and paper, no screen distraction. Sometime in 2018, I started to maintain a physical notebook writing for my two daughters. It is on my table, not hidden. My elder daughter has seen it and reads it at times, and we would talk. Why do I have a rather complex handwriting style? Why am I training her to write regularly and develop her own style of writings -- etc.?

An Apple Watch is surprisingly good to detach you away from your phone. I never carry my phone on my walks or cycling, which I do as part of me just `inspecting` what's happening around the community I live in.

The phone is set to perpetually Silent and DO NOT DISTURB[1] from 12:01 AM to 11:59 PM (there is no way to set 24hours per day). I set up a group called `!DND` and added those who can call me - selected family members, few friends, and selected business people. I have come to a stage where if I had my phone sound on by mistake and it rings, or that snapping sound while taking pictures, it is foreign to me.

I do not have any apps with streaming updates from people - Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. Even if I had them, they should have been offloaded by now. The idea is not just about NOT having them on your phone but not having them as a regular must-have thing in your life.

I used to do photography, and it was very fulfilling. However, with better Phone cameras since iPhone 6, I have stopped. I'm going to get back to photography with a separate camera.

I have also been transitioning to mostly plain text for whatever is possible in my quest for digital minimalism. A lot of learning and fascinating things are happening.

1. https://no.phone.wtf
Your expenses will still include shelter, unless you've found a way around property tax.
The PM is losing an election, the last thing he needs right now is to be seen supporting another Omar Khadr after taking massive heat on Afghanistan.

Give it a few months and if re-elected will roll out the red carpet for her.
You talk like they're entitled to that. When you make software open source, the social contract is that you accept free contributions, in the form of commits, issues, and code reviews, in exchange for being held accountable by the community to ensure you provide the best product. If another company provides a superior service and support, that's part of the risk. If they want to go back to closed source, they can't be surprised if everyone jumps ship.
Micropayments need to be frictionless. If a 1 cent payment requires more than 1 cent of a persons time, it is not a workable system.

Many people would love to auto pay 1 or 2 cents a page view, to no longer see ads.

It might take a while, but I think eventually most people not in financial hardship will be happy to do that. (And people in financial hardship are not the best people to put ads in front of.)
In my experience supporting and administering enterprise MFT software that interfaces with these mainframes, it's largely emulated z/os.
General Richard D. Clarke – SOCOM Commander on SOFcast Podcast
“I’ve just joined this initiative.“
> Neither the laboratory findings nor the mask-trial findings have been peer reviewed.

Then why are Nature reporting on them in such conclusive language?
One thing that the author brings up is that (at least in 2005) Lisp had a very "roll-your-own" culture in which a programmer was expected to write most of the code they use, which is alien to the workflow of most programmers in the 21st century.

But starting around 2010, Quicklisp (a module system for Common Lisp) began to gain traction, and while it has fewer packages than say, Python, the principle of bringing in modules written by others to avoid reinventing the wheel is pretty much the same these days in Common Lisp as in other languages.
I believe if I collect enough information the best decision will stand out. Yet rarely is this the case. I continue to rehash the same thoughts, think there's information I'm overlooking and so continue to search. But the yield from doing so continues to diminish. Then I read the following from the book On Being Certain:

Without a circuit breaker, indecision and inaction would rule the day. What is needed is a mental switch that stops infinite ruminations and calms our fears of missing an unknown superior alternative. Such a switch can't be a thought or we would be back at the same problem. The simplest solution would be a sensation that feels like a thought but isn't subject to thought's perpetual self-questioning. The constellation of mental states that constitutes the feeling of knowing is a marvelous adaptation that solves a very real metaphysical dilemma of how to reach a conclusion. [0]

This clicked to me. I try to think my way to a decision. But what I really need is a feeling.

[0] https://www.rburton.com/_i_on_being_certain_i___believing_yo...
I would love to read a blog post about this. Hell I'd read a book: sounds like there might've been much more to this venture than you're letting on
If coding salaries get higher, more people go into coding. (We're actually seeing that happen already). Whereas it's de facto illegal to build homes in SF.
It's like Google and Amazon decided to swap roles in the "clearly naming your product" game for this line of products.

"EKS Anywhere" is a lot more clear than "Anthos".

Granted, "Anthos" has grown into something of a larger brand for GCP, but GCP is usually a lot more literal than that.
Probably because nobody should be taking horse paste when perfectly good vaccines are available for free! We aren’t exactly in desperate need for solutions here, we have them!
It's all ancedotal, but my dad is a doctor and, in talking with him, he agrees with the author and says every other doctor he knows concurs. He is in his 70s and not in the greatest of health (he was in a car accident years ago that seriously led to a decline in his health). He hasn't changed his mind at all as he has gotten older.
Strong door to flight deck, and policy change to keep door closed and locked, eliminated hijacking risk. Everything else is an expensive show which air travellers apparently enjoy. They keep paying for it.
Never gotten mugged, then?
One could argue AWS brought much more attention to Elasticsearch than Elastic could have ever hoped for on their own.
It would stink really really bad, you'd get used to it if you stayed inside, but if you leave and come back that stench will smack you in the face.

https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/profiles-strategie...
Scrum affects developers – The Good, the bad, and the ugly
But surely there is a shortage, and you can't just pay more.

My mom knew COBOL. She retired in the 1970s. You're going to have a tough time hiring her now.
“Nihilism is OK” is not OK
Yes the pulsed fields can definitively cook you. It is often a limiting factor in saturation experiments (used to hide a signal in a sample to increase dynamic range) that increases experimental time. I've seen solvents boiling in samples analyzed in NMR magnets. And it usually messes up your experiments way before that anyway because temperature make some of the signals shift in the spectrum you acquire.
Certainly could be, and if so it’s a delightful coincidence and a story I would tell often to fish for 1990s country music listeners. Although I doubt they actually flipped the coin in that exact way, unless they were inspired by the song to do so.
>I am wondering why mobile apps too haven't entirely been replaced by Web apps

Harder to track people and feed them ads.
I feel like if the answers to those questions change the outcome, then the problem is more nuanced than a single line quote followed by "that's just insane". Especially since I think it's more than possible to come up with a list of questions that justify the court's decision.

(Probably something like "does the news org initiate the discussion, do they have the ability to moderate the discussion, does their branding appear prominently on the page").
You MUST do cost benefit analysis. A lot of people say "well if TSA saves one life..." But at what cost? A billion dollars? A trillion? A quadrillion? You may argue that it may never cost that much, but it can if you don't do those analysis.
And what about non monetary costs? How many lives are you willing to forfeit to save just one? A lot of people claimed to take to the roads after TSA was formed. Yet car travel, per mile is deadlier than air. So theoretically it cost more lives to save just that one.
High efficiency windows and doors don't tighten up a house when it comes to air leakage. They bump up your thermal performance/energy efficiency.

And even if the installer air sealed your doors and windows, there are plenty more places for air to leak in.

You really need to run a blower door test to see if you need an HRV/ERV.