skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OMG, this reminds me so much of a very pivotal point in my life. It was way back in 1987, and I had quit my very stable job with a telecom giant (Bell Labs) to go to work with a bunch of buddies on a start up company, we had developed a very cool new network management technology for IBM SNA networks (google it, in the way back times that was the shit).

Anyhow, I had been working my ass off, night and day, like you do on gigs like that. My wife of 5 years thought I was cheating on her. HA ! that would have been a lot more fun ugh.

Long story short (you can fill in the blanks, fights etc.).

So one day comes where, the dream comes true, IBM offers to buy us out, but I was in sort of a fog and worried about my marriage and moving to Bocca Raton was probably not going to fly. I get called into my bosses office and he goes through my options, all foggy as hell to me at the time and I sort of grunt and point at taking my profit sharing pay out rather than moving. So OK, in my mind I had just got fired.

I go home and on the dinning room table there is a bunch of papers, divorce papers, my wife comes in and tells me she wants a divorce. OK, so I lose my job and marriage on the same day within hours. So what do I do? Well heck what any sane person would do. I grab my wind surf board and throw it in my Scout (wish I still had it, wife said it was a piece of junk, ha, worth a lot if I had kept it). I grab the dog, she knows the drill, hops in the Scout, I make a quick pit stop for a 6 pack of Pacifico and we are off to my favorite beach.

I take Heidi, my dog, on a couple of baby spins on the board, she loves that. Do a little shredding. Then back on the beach she sits and stares at me, you know dogs know. Sipping on my beer. And it hits me, duh, wait a second, what the heck did my boss say again about profit sharing ? My mind starts to clear, starts racing. I finish that one beer and head back to the house. I check the papers, Fuck ! I am a millionaire, 3 months from now when the deal closes. Oh, let's check those divorce papers, huh, it can be done in 90 days.

So suddenly I am a super helpful husband with the divorce, I will sign everything and run it to the court house of course. Let's just get this silly thing over with, you are totally right.

Anyhow, funny how stuff hits you. Anyhow, never married again. Did one other start up after that. Been done since. Never happier. That was, for me, that moment, I will never forget. I went from the depths of hell to bliss in a moment of clarity.
I'd add the Huawei Matebook 13 to that list. It has comparable specs to the Dell XPS and at least in Europe you get that for about $800 (€750).

It runs Linux wonderfully well. Don't know if they still make new (2021?) versions of it though.
The suitcase more powerful than your ENTIRE setup [video]
While biased towards Tesla cars, at least this is updated “regularly”.

https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
> I enjoyed being a part of new startups, those that were still "scrappy." But each time, once that growth-stage hit and managers started coming in to make things "more efficient", that's when I knew that those types of places weren't for me.

I used to be in this position but then I actually became pretty passionate about making sure startups can make it through the growth phase and still deliver.
There goes the performance advantage.
To be fair to authors of those third-party libraries, some of the blame has to do with browser quirks, and for a rich text editor, bugs in the implementation of content-editable that have to be normalized across all browsers (unless you pull the engineering-heavy route of rewriting everything in canvas).
Yeah, they're probably right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Great_Filter
not very often no.

we're geologically very stable. (but also as a whole continent moving quite a lot)
That's a cool idea. I was doing this in ~2008, and IIRC OCR was barely grabbing "ISBN" in 12pt Times on a white page, let alone RANDOM_FONT on a book spine.

(Unrelatedly I also had a gig OCRing books for someone with a visual disability, which is where I got the idea.)

Today I work in the AI division of a major tech company and I can say with some confidence that you could absolutely OCR spines if your OCR platform is new enough :3
Nothing needs to run Ina container
Containers are just software engineerings latest name for a unix process. Both were designed to achieve similar levels of isolation.

In reality,there's no such thing as a container. As far as Linux is concerned, containers are just processes with attributes, because that's what they are, we just decided to complicate it a lot
If you don't want to be convinced then you won't be convinced regardless of any ethical arguments or data-backed evidence. That's fine, not everyone can be rational and open-minded, but please don't discourage others from making compassionate choices.
Probably because those 15% of people are driving 50% or more of the spread. One of the reasons Delta is such a big deal is that it raised the herd immunity threshold from around 70% to around 95% (of 2 dose MRNA based, J&J wouldn't be strong enough to provide herd immunity if 100% of people had it).
Get ready for robot waiters from SoftBank and Keenon
Is it really too much to expect the American adult population be receptive to communication above that targeting preschoolers?

It would even matter if Fauci was talking to the anti-van population as if they where children. The reason they aren’t listening is not due to them not understanding the message of being scared of drains.
The only problem is it's an experimental gene therapy with zero study on the long term effects on the inoculated. It is the biggest experiment performed in human history and trying to make you better does not seem to be the endgame.
My favorite theory is that it's from plague times:

"People allowed to go out must bear with them a cane measuring six feet long. It is mandatory that people keep this distance from one another." via https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210107-the-432-year-old...
"Then we had PCMCIA Card a long time ago. Most of my laptops had two bays. No tool swappable. Wide selection."

Even now, in 2021, PCMCIA/PCCARD remains my all-time favorite form-factor for add-ons, etc.
So you won't be getting a vaccine booster?

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/31/biden-booster-plan-...

"The Biden administration’s decisions over when to administer coronavirus vaccine boosters are triggering turmoil within the Food and Drug Administration, frustrating regulators and sparking fear that political pressures will once again override the agency’s expertise."
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Scientific evidence, in this case that the vaccines are statistically effective and safe.
*Note:* The URL is via an Invidious[0] instance (an OSS YouTube front-end). If, however, the link doesn't work for you, try replacing the domain with "youtube.com" to view directly from YouTube.

This series is pretty nifty. It's starting point is the simple, child-like curiosity about ludicrously big numbers. Numberphile has videos on Graham's Number[1], the insanely larger Tree(3)[2], and even Rayo's Number[3] which might be at the limit of describable large finite numbers.

However, this post's series dives into the gory details of how one even encounters such insane large numbers and where large finite numbers touch on deep mathematics. It's fascinating how such a simple starting point can quickly lead into deep questions about Foundations.

I hope you enjoy!

[0]:https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

[1]:https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XTeJ64KD5cg

[2]:https://yewtu.be/watch?v=3P6DWAwwViU

[3]:https://yewtu.be/watch?v=X3l0fPHZja8
I'm not disagreeing with the value of a wired Ethernet connection, but both my new ThinkPads (P1 and X1E Gen 3) have gigabit Wi-Fi. Connected to my Asus RT-AX86U, I got a 935Mbps download on a speed test over Comcast.

I had heard that 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) was pretty good, and it sure looks that way so far. I have some good Cat 8 Ethernet cables, so I will experiment with that too.
> I can easily see myself upgrading the CPU or the screen on an annual basis, or packing in more RAM.

This is the bit I'm most sceptical about. Time will tell if these sorts of upgrades are actually made available.
Honestly would be more productive than the current message.
Good point. For what it’s worth my last MacBook had a TB3 port physically wear out. Thankfully it was covered by warranty, but the connector saver concept is definitely compelling.
Verily has launched a project to untangle itself from Google's technology
Smallpox wasn't eradicated by the vaccine. It wore itself out, and the (incredibly simple) vaccine helped a bit.
This is a very germane topic for a startup forum.

Most wives WILL NOT go along with a plan to start an unfunded startup and WILL leave you if you quit your job and can't support them at the same level as before. In fact, most women have a "backup plan/husband" at all times.

You can read about hypergamy and monkey-branching to understand female psychology and need for security. It's universal, so it doesn't matter what country you're in, although some religions suppress it in practice.

I don't like the overwrought ("beta") presentation of the blog article, but the salient relationship points are very real. He's a lucky guy to have an understanding and agreable wife.

If you're a man and don't understand what I'm talking about above, then expect to be blindsided by your family after career changes, since this happens every day around the world.
Is there any plugin that would give some interesting information to a newbie who has no idea what he is looking at?

I was trying various plugins on this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__Z-UpU01U

But so far none of the vamp plugins seem to be showing anything interesting. (I have tried a random handful)

EDIT: The spectrum view is fascinating. I can see a little bit of additional information on the edges on the Flac vs a MP3. Is there a plugin that can separate the instruments?
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There's also a lot of questionable decisions in the gRPC benchmarks. Thread polling plays a key role, and in the Java examples, the framework allows for a wide range of types.

Disclaimer: contributor to the gRPC Java benchs.
In vim gU makes the selection/motion uppercase, gu makes it lowercase and ~ toggles each of its characters' cases.
It'd be interesting to see a model with ARM64 CPU as well! :)
Yes, the vaccine is f**ng…
Universal Health care doesn't ensure you know the price before hand. If anything, it further obscures it because you don't pay, so you NEVER know the cost... but you DO pay, because nothing is free.
100%. The nature of light that falls on the retina doesn’t change whether it’s reflected off of a surface or shine directly via an incandescent bulb.

What matters to the eye is the flux of light (i.e. intensity) and for that, the emissive screens are better since they are not dependent on ambient lighting. Great point!
Usb c means i can just buy the framework one to use.
Dues tend to be about 1%. 1% of an Amazon software engineer total compensation could go to $3000.
I don't think I've ever not been asked for my passport (or some other form of government ID) when staying in hotels in the EU. Two weeks ago I stayed at a large chain and I was asked for passports of my whole family.
> Paul Pelosi, investment manager and the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, purchased up to $11 million worth of mega-cap tech stocks in May and June, according to a financial disclosure form filed last week.

Doesn't every diversified fund in the world own "mega-cap tech stocks"? And most probably bought during May and June because their increased value meant they took a larger proportion of indexes, and index-following is a pretty widely used strategy.
How to Observe EventBridge Events with Postman and WebSockets
Yes, I'm sure that breaking it down by road type, or by driving skill ( as measured by number of driving infractions before buying Tesla), ..etc would be even better.

But that, to me, doesn't change the fact that the currently released metric is still absolutely necessary to report in any news article, with all of its caveats.
>The other A in FAANG

Oh man. I was sitting here thinking "Albertson's"??? And then it hit me- Apple.
I have read an article that contenteditable is not ideal

https://medium.engineering/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-1...
He didn't make the claim that hypnosis was scientifically sound and better than other forms of medicine. He just said that he tried it and it worked for him. It seems entirely different from what tabacco companies do to me.
It should be fixable by running your own personal "server" that is always online and has a good amount of storage, isn't it? The mobile app can sync to your personal server and fetch a limited history whenever needed.
Yeah, the deaths are high, but the story here is "deaths > births"... and you only get that story when births are pretty low.

That ain't gonna do away once covid-19 leaves the cause-of-death tables.
Yep nothing to see here, this commentary was maybe notable for the iPhone 4 -> 4s. I went from iPhone 5s to iPhone X and even that jump felt like slightly improving on a good thing. This next jump will be the same again. The incremental improvements do accumulate nicely over 5-7 years between upgrading.

Apple may be more on the pulse for consumers hopes and dreams than NYT when considering what they are incrementally improving. The iPhone 13 camera being the best yet for low-light photography does matter to this non-professional.
If the cane manufacturing lobby was stronger, we could have all been walking around with pandemic canes.
I’m sure they are… however…

Sweden has 65% vaccinated and no mask mandates or passports, or mandatory vaccines. It’s purely a political decision and nothing to do with this or that rate.

Previously BC had 1/10th of the infections no one vaccinated and we were open for business.
It cannot scale, but it is a useful tool for specific locations and problems.

What does scale is using fire to fight fire -- prescribed burns, and allowing natural fires to burn while monitoring them for safety. In parallel, lots can be done to harden home in the Wilderness-Urban-Interface.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-18/how-pres...
Which Stocks will perform well during High Inflation?
Was wise.com not an option? I use them frequently to receive payments in the US from Europe.
I wonder if this is a good hackintosh machine..
> undercover money generating platform

i felt a genuine shift in the volume/quality of posts pre-Gamestop/meme stonk era vs. post-
I never heard of Urbit, but a search returns it got funding also from Peter Thiel, which is famous (among other things) for Palantir Technologies. I'm not sure I would trust it.
Amplitude has been incredible, at my new workplace. Fast and lots of pretty graphs are easily generated. Also used by tonnes of different people throughout the company!
FB Recruit at 2011 by @rsa
Birth rate had a significant fall off, but the death rate is high, even if you substitute in previous years birth rates, deaths would still be more than births.
You can’t tighten “the border” without tightening all borders. Land, sea, air, visa overstays, etc.
Another simple set of rules for talking to children is keeping fixed vs growth mindset approaches in mind

Edit: this was a positive intentioned comment. Not sure why the downvotes
One datapoint fwiw, but someone recently asked me why I hadn’t moved to the US. I reflected on it a while.

First point, I’ve travelled a lot to the US and would definitely not live in SF due to the insane levels of inequality and homelessness. I also like diversity and think it’s a competitive advantage in some domains, SF seems to be a bit of a monoculture. But I do like cities like Boulder and NYC. So it may depend on where in the US you’re looking.

I did consider a move to the US. The biggest deciding factor was the lack of social services, primarily a national health service, but also a welfare state. Partly this was for selfish reasons - I want a safety net for me and my family - but also because I don’t want to see other people suffering.

The U.K. is headed towards the same inequality and poor social provision as the US, we’re both already outliers in the western world, but the additional factor of older family here means I’m unlikely to move to the EU (if I can), at least not yet. So if anything, I’m headed in the other direction.
She tried quite a bit more than a gas tax, but was blocked at every turn by Shirkey and the rest of the legislature. The roads are a never-ending cash-flow for well-connected businessmen who consistently fail to deliver what is asked for, and instead skimp on materials and deliver roads designed to break down just fast enough to keep them constantly milking the public coffers. At this point, I think splitting the state and leaving the UP to fend for itself instead of parasitically controlling the cash that comes from the LP is the only solution.
I had a couple week period earlier this year where I would have been eligible for unemployment, but they couldn't make the standard verification work and I got stuck trying to use ID.me and failing over and over. Never occurred to me to download Chrome and try that.
You could potentially also speed it up a bit by, after the first pass, trying to read first blocks that are unlikely to be written again soon (normally the longer a block has been written last, the less likely it is to be written again soon). This would implicitly leave blocks that are being written over and over for last.
Honestly, I appreciate reading about your experiences, and bottom line, I'm happy that you're able to access medical care.

Your experience hints at some of the flaws in US healthcare:

> For ER care individual doctor ratings are unimportant, because you have no idea who the doctor will be.

Right, and if the ER doctor you happen to draw is out of network for you, RIP your savings and/or credit score. Isn't this a decently common problem, where even an "in-network" institution employs practitioners who are "out of network" for you, so you thought you were covered by your insurance company's rules, only to be surprised days after treatment?

EDIT: this "out-of-network provider at an in-network institution" problem was so common and frustrating that Congress has had to ban the practice, as linked in the article: https://archive.is/50VQv

> take me to the ER of my choice (that is, my insurers choice)

Leaving the choice of ER to one's insurer doesn't sound like my idea of "free market" healthcare. What if they choose your area's "bad" ER? I suppose you can indirectly pre-choose your ER by choosing an insurer which covers the ER of your choice -- that is, unless you get insurance through your employer, in which case I guess you'd have to purchase private coverage for your ER of choice.

Different institutions have different reputations in single-payer publicly funded health systems too, so I'm not so sure if that's the crux of the matter. What upsets me is that those people who are in the most desperate need of healthcare are almost by definition in the worst possible position to make an informed choice. Picture an unconscious victim of an accident, violence, stroke, heart attack, etc. Oh, and it seems generally impossible for even an awake and alert person to "shop around" by comparing price quotes for the healthcare they need, preventing competitive choice.

Then there's the issue that ERs must stabilize and treat anyone who enters, regardless of ability to pay. Someone has to cover the cost of this.

What kind of "market" keeps prices secret from incapacitated consumers? I think MereInterest summed it up perfectly: The nature of medical emergencies prevents actual markets.
But quality is still a subjective measure to a large extent.

Sure, if something is so salty it's not palatable or your cheesecake is lumpy, one can have a more objective assessment.

But even if "professional tasters" agree on what balance means, that's still a subjective measure agreed upon by a select group.

As someone who has eaten at Michelin star restaurant and had a mediocre experience, I'm of the mind if I like it then it's an enjoyable experience. It's pretty irrelevant what professional tasters think.
Goats also make great yoga partners.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/12/health/goat-yoga-oregon-trnd/...
I don't think either of the two antitrust agencies in the US are empowered to give approval, they are only empowered to challenge at the time of the review. They can always review more later and challenge if they want, but never give a 100% okay
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“Although security.txt is not yet an official Internet standard as approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its basic principles have so far been adopted by at least eight percent of the Fortune 100 companies. According to a review of the domain names for the latest Fortune 100 firms via gotsecuritytxt.com, those include Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, HCA Healthcare, Kroger, Procter & Gamble, USAA and Walmart.”
Just wanted to point out previous HN discussions on this topic if anyone is interested:

Cosmic rays and computers (1998) (nature.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25218687
I don't know. The rules seem to revolve around simplicity in communication. I've always found it powerful that, although every member of the US Armed Forces is expected to have a 12th grade level of knowledge, all of our military manuals are written to a 7th grade level.

Choosing simplicity is not necessarily degrading. Speaking to people with the same kindness, conscientiousness, and simplicity exemplified by Mr. Rogers' brand might not be such a bad thing.

This isn't to disagree with your points. I agree that American adults ought to have facility with communication that falls outside of these ideals, and I don't think these edicts would obviate any or all of the problems we have today. But I do think there's a reason to value such communication, and it would be interesting to see it applied to the communication of public affairs.
Then I need to put a specification label to every cable.
Not to nit, but Richter is also not just log_10: a single point increase is ~32x more energy. This is due to the relationship between energy and shaking amplitude:

> The energy release of an earthquake,[27] which closely correlates to its destructive power, scales with the 3⁄2 power of the shaking amplitude[why?]. Thus, a difference in magnitude of 1.0 is equivalent to a factor of 31.6 in the energy released.[28] The elastic energy radiated is best derived from an integration of the radiated spectrum, but an estimate can be based on mb because most energy is carried by the high frequency waves.
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The show’s final cuts reflected many similarly exacting interventions. Once, Rogers provided new lyrics for the “Tomorrow” song that ended each show, to ensure that children watching on Friday wouldn’t expect a show on Saturday, when the show didn’t air. And Rogers’s secretary, Elaine Lynch, remembered how, when one script referred to putting a pet “to sleep,” he excised it for fear that children would be worried about the idea of falling asleep themselves.

Rogers was extraordinarily good at imagining where children’s minds might go.

The more I learn about him, the more I feel he was underappreciated in his time.
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https://time.com/6092368/americas-frontline-doctors-covid-19...
Congressional reps of both houses have no business trading in securities. The potential for conflicts of interest is too high.
I don't need a government telling me where I can or cannot go. Absolute tyranny. What's next, a license to butter my toast?
It was new to me that cars even stop for me. But there was a brief period ‘12-‘16 may be, where I truly felt comfortable walking and biking. This was before Uber and lyft and also before smartphones where this addictive. Most people where still browsing Facebook on their computers.