skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In America you play by our rules, we don’t play by yours. Germany is a guest in our community and they will respect our values and way of doing things, not the other way around. I have nothing but love for the German people and they too deserve the fundamental human right to speak freely on the internet.

Well spoken
I think your brain just turns off since it doesn't have to manage the task anymore. I mean keeping your brain engaged, for example when your spouse or someone says don't be a backseat driver is stressful and you really have no control over it. So I imagine if autopilot is good enough I would definitely relax. The issue with that is you have to be quick enough intervene if the car goes off the rails.
> The authors' argument of "the myth" is basically "smoking is still bad because smokers have worse outcomes if they're hospitalized for COVID, also smoking is bad, mkay" which is just avoiding the point.

The author engages the data directly, as well as broader context about smoking and infectious disease. Now, they may be lying by either commission or omission, for all I know, but the above does not accurately characterize the piece.
Roblox has an age verification system that works. It's just not good for the public. Isn't that what governments are for?
From the article:

is among a few individuals using grazing methods for fire mitigation
Ban lists of activities like this are also not exactly hard to find in suburban HOAs, though, so YMMV.
You got the right link, but the quoted excerpt is not responsive to GP's question.

The short answer is, "yes."

> This is the list of 599 additives in tobacco cigarettes submitted to the United States Department of Health and Human Services in April 1994.
I don't ever want to provide a storable version of my ID to you. I don't trust you or anyone else to keep it safe. I would expect my identity to compromised over and over as companies get breached.
>when was the last time you used the right shift key?

I generally use the shift key closest to the key I'm typing. For keys near the center, I favor the right shift key.

The keyboard would absolutely be the show stopper for me, if I didn't just get a new laptop last year. The lack of dedicated Page Up and Page Down keys is unacceptable.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_in_cigarette...
The issue for me is how silly it is to hard-code these arbitrary and often single-purpose connectors in the laptop.

A laptop should be a general computing device. So why hard-code something as weirdly specific as an SD card reader into it? Give it the functionality to have any IO device attached (USB-C) instead.
Definitely possible on Linux. In the not distant past I had a large on-prem PostgreSQL DB that had a hot standby that we used for backups. Since ZFS snapshots are atomic you can just snapshot the dataset under the DB without worrying about quiescing the database. And then zfs send backups to files that are then backed up offsite.

If you ever cared it's easy enough to clone one of those snapshots and bring it up as another DB instance to poke around at how things used to be...
I saw a friend 'drive' with autopilot, and it was scary. He was basically dozing at 80 MPH. Made me rethink my aspiration to have such a vehicle.
I like reading, but I've found audiobooks really good and tend to get through more books these days through listening as I can consume it in situations where I couldn't read (like walking). Also, quite a lot are read by their authors which often gives it a nice quality (even if you do listen to it at fast speeds).
If you want data on whether Autopilot is harmful or helpful, you could take a look at crash statistics for highway Autopilot-on miles vs highway miles of average vehicles. The Autopilot-on miles are much better than the American national average.

Visual behavior pattern changes are a microbenchmark that may not even be measuring attention at all. Regardless, the pattern changes don't seem to increase crash risk as compared to not using Autopilot in any study that I'm aware of.

If there is data supporting a claim that Autopilot actually increases crashes, I would be curious to see it. "A Tesla crashed on Autopilot once" is just an anecdote; humans crash cars constantly, and the question is whether Autopilot results in greater or fewer crashes.
16:10 isn't what I'd call "highly non-standard". What kind of work do you use your laptop for that makes this such a big issue?
I used to work there and indeed the source code is a huge monolithic PHP nightmare based on an ancient version of some forgotten framework and hacked on by hundreds of developers over the years. There was a huge amount of code dedicated to rendering content that depended on bugs from the application’s earliest days plus new behaviors that were introduced over time. Every request required a full start of the entire tumblr application - they didn’t trust the code to process more then one request per invocation so it exited after sending a reply. Developer turnover was huge due to the code base being a nightmare and no management support for refactoring.

But if you could stomach working with the code the catered lunches from Dos Toros and Luke’s Lobster were epic.
Even a 50% somewhat ok meriocracy would be better than money, promises to people with money and lies bringing selfish and narcissist people with questionable ethics in offices around the world (including Germany where I live, this problem is not US only).
> Reagan did not negotiate with terrorists, either.

The Iran-Contra affair seems like a pretty clear case of negotiating with terrorists.
Interesting. I didn't realize they had their own. Thanks.
Persistence, façades and Roslyn’s red-green trees (2012)
Same thing in endurance sports racing (running, cycling, etc.). Mentally break the race down into little pieces. Just suffer for one more minute. Make it to the next mile marker.
It's also a way to create discussion around a specific part of the article.
Why do we need field permits and park permits to play a game of sports in the first place? It's a park. This is the kind of bureaucratic bullshit that wastes taxpayer dollars and makes people hate the city government.
Get a dry herb vaporizer and vape loose leaf tobacco. Takes a while to find the combination of temperature and herb that doesn't taste like shit, and it's also not the same as a real cigarette but it does the thing.

You also inhale less matter than with an ecig, so I think it may end up being healthier... but I'm like, the only person I know that does this daily so science may never know.
My Scuttlebutt/Patchwork data is about 2-3 gigs of storage. You can also make your experience lighter by making it text only by changing the permissions on the blob storage folder to read only.
the company will either go out of business as people claim costs associated with the breach, or you would get a $10 settlement from a class action.

The watermark isn't worth anything, and doesn't add any trust.
I don't get the hype either. RISC-V is basically MIPS, and probably will replace the latter in all the miscellaneous places it's currently used.
>scanning your passport in an airline mobile app to book an international flight comes to mind

I'm curious as to why this might be necessary.

Whenever I've traveled internationally, while I've had to provide the airline with a bunch of info when booking my flight, I've never had to provide a scanned version of my passport.

Rather, when I arrive at my destination (at both ends) I need to show the nice customs folks my passport.

Which airlines require providing them with a scan of a passport to book a flight? I ask so that I can make sure never to use those airlines. Thanks!
The first modern drum machine
and don't forget shelving their own comissioned reports that didn't fall in line with the pro-facebook narrative:

"Mr. Schultz argued that Facebook should publish its own information about the site’s most popular content rather than supply access to tools like CrowdTangle, two people said. So in June, the company compiled a report on Facebook’s most-viewed posts for the first three months of 2021.

...

A day before the report’s publication, Mr. Schultz was part of a group that voted to shelve the document, according to the emails."
Nicotine vapes have been banned for about a year here, the stupid fucks in government just love to funnel cash to big tobacco.

Nicotine is as harmful as caffeine, no more, no less. Nobody's going around campaigning against Big Espresso.
Yes, exactly, let’s suggest musicians to use USB-C, and every third cable won’t work, and they will be able to make a concert but with no guitar, exactly like the devices in front of us when we try to work.

The only insurance against “the USB-C downtime” is a subscription to Amazon Prime 24hrs delivery and another $68 (no kidding) Apple cable.
> But I don't see a future where the world volunteers to go down to India living standards.

Nor a future where developing countries choose to stop growing to save the planet.

I also think most people would rather pay a bit more taxes to pay for climate tech than change their whole lifestyle. We’re betting on the wrong horse.
> The quartz shocking was a bit weak as it wasn't clear how they dated it to the same time as the theoretical blast

They found it in the rubble layer they are studying? How would it get there if it wasn't produced at the same time as the rest of the stuff in that layer?

For things in a sediment layer to not be of equal age, you need some sort of transport mechanism to move the quartz there from some earlier or later period, and there's not much convective motion in dirt.
Ask HN: Anybody already investing time to prepare for Y2038 problem?
As the question mentioned. Is anybody already preparing for this? Does one need to prepare for this? Will this be fixed by recompiling? How about mainframes?
I am building Jig (based on observable): https://www.jigdev.com

Because I believe that BI should be done by people who have a mixed set of skills between stats and programming.

A programmer alone can’t make the stats, and a mathematician can’t build a reporting tool.

Jig is a shortcut to build reports quickly, but I am somehow convinced by javascript is just not good enough to do that job.

I think I might have to try and design a language that has indexed containers as first class objects…
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You linked two pages with practically no data. I'll paste all relevant data from both to save others the trouble.

> Scuttlebutt can be transformative for society, decentralizing and enabling local community development free of big corp. It is a fast growing decentralized social network. As an alternative to the large corporate social networks it enables autonomy for the users and a free zone from big data harvesting...

> Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) is a peer-to peer communication protocol, mesh network, and self-hosted social media ecosystem.[3][4] Each user hosts their own content and the content of the peers they follow, which provides fault tolerance and eventual consistency.[5] Messages are digitally signed and added to an append-only list of messages published by an author.[6] SSB is primarily used for implementing distributed social networks, and utilizes cryptography to assure that content remains unforged as it is propagated through the network.[7][8]
TIL and it's actually the fact that causes the seeking behavior which eventually forms the addiction. Epinephrine causes the kick and beta-endorphin the drop. Neat. I went and searched it up because I was curious and you surely are correct. Not sure why they're dumb categories though
This has been common in the SF Bay Area for 15 years now. They are adorable and fun to spend time around– it feels like living in the old country.
That happens with technologies where there's a strong benefit to standardization. Standardizing on USB and Bluetooth means your devices can interoperate.

There's already no "standard" laptop design, just a set of desirable properties people want. And there's already no push to converge; there are many laptop vendors. There's plenty of room for a new vendor with different priorities (like modularity); there's more room for such a vendor than there is for one more undifferentiated vendor.
Yeah, being limited to only 4 ports is a complete non-starter for me especially when you are required to use one of them to charge the laptop. So practically everybody is going to end up filling one of those modular ports with a USB-C module, when they could have easily fit two dedicated USB-C ports in the same space, with no practical loss in expandability.
Was excited to read a feel good story about good relationships and the ability to strike out on one’s own. Then got to the “~taxes~ theft” and it killed the buzz. Why even include that? Whole article built on the privilege of being able to build your own business but calling the thing that built the infrastructure to make it happen theft :\.
Please don’t quote dead comments to continue arguing with them.
Yes, why do we care that Boeing withheld crucial information about the MCAS? Is two crashed planes a lot compared to other plane models? Why do we determine the root cause for every crashed plane, there aren't a lot of those anymore?

There is statistics, and then there is addressing obvious design flaws. The latter is worth doing a lot more than the former.
> Yes, exactly, let’s suggest musicians to use USB-C

Not sure what you mean - I said didn't really apply to analogue.
High precision hardware means that you can mathematically prove the correctness of motion within a very narrow margin of error.

I think there what you are really trading though is precision in the mechanical components for precision - and speed - in the sensors. If I can detect the slop I can correct for it. If I can't (or don't) then success is dictated by the input, not the output. If you can't detect the slop fast enough you have to slow down to avoid slamming into something fragile or immovable.

The human brain has a motor cortex, uses proprioception as the primary feedback, but touch and sight are used as sanity checks. In my experience with physical talents, you're training your proprioception as much as anything. Probably because it's faster than touch (and has fewer consequences), and cheaper than sight (you can't focus on anything else if you are watching your hands).
Putting sensitive information about children on the internet, in the hands of a major corporation (a gaming company, no less).

What could go wrong?
Given the distribution of land vs. sea, a recorded once per century event is probably once per 25 years or so in actuality (it just usually happens over the ocean).
But only for WASM, and has cold starts (Workers don't)
Would kids be able to play at an MLS Stadium?

In a similar vein, the Olympics 2012 bid for NYC would've been where Hudson Yards is now, but was rejected over concerns about bursty event traffic (the area already hosts the convention center.) This location is even less able to handle bursty traffic, it's not near any express subway lines or commuter rail terminals.
> performance

https://wccftech.com/intel-and-amd-x86-mobility-cpus-destroy...
Lol.

The headline says "Thiel claims..."

The first paragraph stays "an associate claims Thiel claims".

Pretty deep into hearsay and were not past the 4th sentence.
The Actor Reentrancy Problem in Swift
Could it be done with just a shock collar and a geo-fence?
YRMV. I've damaged 3 laptops in ~ 15 years. All have been during international trips when fatigue and unfamiliarity grew and Loki struck.
What does spam even have to do with proliferation of misinformation to begin with?
I think Urbit solves some of the issues that remain unsolved in Scuttlebutt. When you have non-zero cost NFTs as IDs on the network you make spam a non-issue and moderation 'easy'.

Avoiding blockchain in the actual system design also gets rid of the storage-intensive protocol issue, it's my favorite approach of the attempts to pull off these decentralized systems. It's also the only one I thing could truly work at scale as a new underlying system that applications can be built on top of from those I've seen.

The ability to update code across the network and the built in incentives for infrastructure nodes (stars) are really interesting. I also think the functional OS design is pretty cool.
What's weak about the ORM? I've been working with Django for the last year or so and find the ORM great, but I don't have much experiences with other ORMs to compare to.
Oracle has nothing to do with it, given that Kotlin and Android Studio are fully dependent on the JVM ecosystem.

If that was the reason Dart would have been a better option, but I bet the Android team is not that keen on having Fuchsia take away their party, hence JetPack Composer.
Space rock that destroyed ancient city may have inspired Biblical story of Sodom
Nicotine is more addictive than caffeine. I'm not going to find peer-reviewed, double-blind studies to back up my claim. I'm going to go with the anecdotes I've heard for decades and from personal experience.
"These stupid mother fuckers trust me" - Mark Zuckerberg, about Facebook users

Don't forget for a moment that Mark Zuckerberg is a monster. From the start he only cared about one thing: getting your data.
> I didn't write or imply that.

Well, that’s how I interpreted it, in large part because you flat-out replied ”this is definitely not true” to the person who was making the point I pretty much reiterated in response to you.

> A Union is not a benevolent thing, it's just a power centre acting in it's own interest

Yes, the interest of its members, which is the whole point.
Lorry Driver Trying to Bully His Way Out to the Main Road
I'm pretty sure its just a lil joke
pure backend/data roles are interesting because when building infra for multiple consumers, you can give many teams leverage over their problems. It’s like building a great tool they didn’t have before. For some people this feels immensely satisfying. Especially when they get immediate feedback from fellow devs.

In search, for example, I’ve seen teams turn Elasticsearch reindexing from a task that takes weeks down to hours. So many teams can build on that and it unlocks tremendous abilities for them to even care about improving search.

> Data roles heavily focus on particular enterprise products (Kafka, Redshift, Snowflake) at the expense of engineering fundamentals.

I’ve heard the opposite, ha! That “App dev roles rely on just prebuilt web frameworks and canned RDMSs, not the breadth of the full menu of fundamental problems out there” :-p.

In reality there’s a huge menu of databases and data processing systems that backend/data roles play with from spark, flink, Kafka, analytical systems and so on…
Dr. Peter Attia has a podcast with detailed medical information on the effects of nicotine.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama23/
We do have this data.

Here are your damning statistics: self-driving cars have a higher rate of accidents and fatalities per mile driven than human-driven cars [1].

[1]https://www.natlawreview.com/article/dangers-driverless-cars
>they continue to work on their own personal homegrown BI-suite in excel.

Why aren't you providing your dashboards via Excel, then? What exactly does the fancy BI software do that Excel won't? I have used Qlikview but not Tableau or Informatica, and I'm a bit fuzzy on what people mean when they say "Power BI". Is using Power Query what you would call Power BI? Or does that mean using the data model stuff? Power Query is the part of Excel that I particularly like because data kind of stays where you put it.
I like Django a lot and use it for my projects and with clients.

> One of the best thing about Django is, it's never gets involved with bubble type technologies until proven reliable and useful.

Django has also chosen not to get involved in tech that *has* been proven reliable and useful.

For example moving to incorporate a formal API library like DRF years ago. It also has not indicated plans to adopt a type-based API library like FastAPI or Ninja.

Often this idea of supporting REST API building as a battery of Django is used as a cudgel against modern front-end frameworks. The comments are generally aimed at React, but broadly anything in Javascript that requires an API.

However, doing so has also been expense of making Django a first choice for microservices and ignores the important role of serving mobile app clients.

Django has also been slow to discard technology that is no longer reliable or useful. For example, jQuery is still endemic in the ecosystem.

I'm all for stability--I've invested a lot of time in Django and it is very productive. However, the biggest threat to this framework is the effusive self-praise for this attribute.

People would do well to remember that Django displaced Drupal because Django was iterating rapidly even though it made upgrades very challenging at times.

FastAPI and now SQLModel are showing how valuable adoption and use of Python's type system can be.

There is no reason why a new Python-based framework (apart from Flask) could not unseat Django as the framework of choice. It wouldn't even endanger Django. People still build using Drupal today.
power consumption, other then that i also dont see it.
i have laptops with 16:9 16:10 and 3:2.
I find the 16:9 worse.
I am not sure if you are being obtuse or not, but the "unconventional" part is referring to the practice of using goats.
Will we eventually end up with this same sentiment but for cannabis? Something which is gaining widespread acceptance and becoming a regular part of every-day life, at least in some parts of the world. Is it "smoking" that's bad or "smoking cigarettes"

I started smoking occasionally before the pandemic. Since the pandemic my usage as increased to nightly. It has without question helped me manage my anxiety levels (and isn't the only tool I've used along the way) but I'm not sure which is the lesser evil. At this point I teeter between wanting to stop and really appreciating the help. I convince myself I'm at least a little safer by using a vaporizer (flower, not oil based) and keeping the temps below 400.
By procrastination, really.
It's a lever that pries open the non-qualified 'more speech = more freedom' argument, by demonstrating very succinctly that in order to maximize freedom, we, ironically, have to restrict it.
Happy to answer any questions. I am the first author of the WIT dataset / paper and the above blog post.

A twitter thread: https://twitter.com/krishna2/status/1440423443804024839
and a linkedin post:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/krishna2_announcing-wit-a-wik...
It takes some experience with writing to learn to remove asides like these that detract from the main point. It’s extra weird that they did this on the company blog. Hopefully a couple extra editing passes are done in the future.
> My biggest questions with this setup is how they keep the cost down from setting up an electric fence in order to create a good fire wall

They don’t. Friend of mine owns some land north of SF and was quoted $5000 to have goats come eat the grass.

I suspect his land is too small to be worth the hassle for the goat service provider so he was quoted the go away price.
>Here's a wild idea... How about not collecting the personal information of children?

Here's an even wilder one:

How about not collecting personal information?
Full stop.
Unrelated to the article, but NYT is forcing me to login before reading the article. I guess the days of opening a private window to circumvent the three articles per month limit are over.
In my experience BI has no business being done by technical people. You need business people who are just technical enough to use the system for what they need. You need domain knowledge and deep product understanding to know what data to be looking for, not a stats and CS whiz. In 99% of cases, SQL backed by a fast distributed analytics database and Tableau+Excel is enough for that.

Even as a software engineer doing basic analytics charts for the service I own I don't want to be writing JavaScript. Ideally I wouldn't be writing SQL either.
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