skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don’t have a Facebook account, so possibly all the positive discussion is on Facebook itself and I’m not seeing it.

We don't like to admit it but the HN demographic is a self-reinforcing "filter bubble" on some topics such as Facebook, Uber, Apple. Outside of HN, almost all non-techies I interact with don't complain about them.

I remember seeing a lady's gardening channel on Youtube and wondered how she got so many lucrative sponsorships since her subscriber count and view counts seemed too low. I later learned it's because the majority of her gardening fans' interactions and video views actually come from Facebook and not Youtube. Same for demographic of sewers for quilts & clothes.

So the Venn Diagram with one circle being female gardeners/sewers and the other circle being HN commenters have virtually no overlap. Hence we're in a filter bubble. The gardeners/sewers aren't complaining about Facebook because it's a positive in their lives and HN commenters never see that. I also read somewhere that Pinterest and Instagram are also more heavily skewed towards females.

(Because I don't have a Facebook account and got a lot of my info about FB from HN, it made me ignorant of the various communities that use FB in positive ways. I often wonder what other ways HN distorts my views that I'm totally unaware of.)
Yep. Just put in a range hood and the spacing for the mounting screws wouldn't allow for attaching to studs (maybe one if you were lucky, but I was specifically mounting it so the duct would go up between two joists (ie: between two studs).

It came with some big screw-in drywall anchors, but I just sucked it up and cut drywall, put in a bit of 2x4 horizontally between the two studs, patched, and screwed into that. Peace of mind was worth the extra day of dicking around with drywall.
Yeah, yeah, I'm familiar with the content of The Prince. Studied politics and listened ad nauseam to all the wannabe politicians that worshipped at its altar. Thing is, nothing you've just stated is fact. It's just a viewpoint. Which is fine, but let's not pretend we have some absolute truth in front of us.

Relevant case in point: I live in New York, where until recently we had a governor that was all about ruthless assertion of power and ruled by personality. Then, when he ran into problems everyone turned their back on him because everyone hates him.
Yang was recently interviewed by Kara Swisher about this. She's a somewhat adversarial host but he had answers for everything.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/opinion/andrew-yang.html
IMHO this is wishful thinking. There are thousands and thousands of questions you could pose in this way, each with a range of answers depending on many details specific to the job to be done. Even just designing a single experiment that is not subject to biases of artificial metrics or incumbent market momentum is incredibly difficult.

For instance your span of control question depends on how much individual bandwidth is needed between the levels, which in turn depends on the nature of the work and how it interacts with partner functions and whether it can be routinized or whether there is an aspect of creative problem solving.

It’s a pleasant fantasy to imagine we could get definitive answers using science but it presumes there is a universal maximum when in fact there are many local maxima depending on goals and the individual strengths and weaknesses you’re actually dealing with. And even then org structure is a pretty blunt instrument which is always a huge tradeoff. All orgs rely on extra-organizational effort to address critical problems, whether it be through formal working groups or just individual hustle and resourcefulness.
Just a heads up, apostrophes are only needed for use with possessives.
Agreed!

Towards that end I would recommend the recently published book _America's Revolutionary Mind_. It provides a comprehensive (and sometimes exhausting!) overview of the influence of Locke and other enlightenment thinkers on the evolving mindset of the pre-Revolutionary war era. It's not just a review of well known names - but shows just how much Locke's ideas really reached a large range of the then every day royal subjects of the crown in the colonies.

Even with that - its still amazing we got something as good as the Constitution.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44807363-america-s-re...
Syrus Akbary the founder clearly has issues, as evidenced by his public smackdown and disrespect of Mozilla employees working on WASM which was hinted at in this blog post.
> Your plasterboard/drywall looks different to what I'm used to. Here in the UK we have plaster with a thick paper surface. The photos in that advert imply to me that you have a woven surface of some sort in Japan.

I just assumed that was wall paper. We had it in a living room of a house built in the US in the 1980s, it had 40 years of paint on it and was never coming off the drywall.
I'm quite curious about how the game works. Should the other players require to buy the game itself, or is the host good enough?
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And sales would come in Vaporwaves.
Replied above, but the staples are almost certainly more difficult. It’s just very secure without any studs and it doesn’t leave large holes.
I don't think it's funny, I think it's sad because most of it comes from the emotional exploitation of parasocial relationships.

Something we used to scoff at in places like Asia, now even casual relationships are utterly commoditized and we taught a whole generation of young humans how that's the most normal thing in the world.
The Octane Fund: $50M to Fuel the Decentralized Social Ecosystem
Democracies criticize authoritarian country for torture which violates human rights.

Authoritarian country criticizes democracies for environmental “crimes” which violates human rights. Says they have no right to criticize since they also violate human rights.

Massive whatsboutism that detracts from the important issues.
Looks like there's 232 holes in the backplate which gives you 464 staples to distribute the 15kg max across - giving ~32g per staple (although I guess it'd be biased from top to bottom because the TV would be a lever in the middle?)

Definitely insane but also impressively bonkers.
Windows 11 launch event is a ‘6D musical experience’ with a free NFT
As a counter point to this. Facebook has (tried and mostly succeeded) to replace community forums that used to be either public or with open registration and without the negative effects of facebook.

Stuff that's running phpbb or other similar software.
It's a bit finicky to get working/set up (make absolutely certain that your USB to SATA adapter has proper UAS support in ARM Linux), but you can boot the Pi4 off of a USB SSD now. Still might not be what you need, but it's way better than booting from an SD card.
Doesn't sound like this kind of complicated string eval would be able to do 1000Hz but then again I also have no clue where you could possibly need that for a snake game. On an oscilloscope you'd need to produce vector lines to move from/to right?
It's so humbling to think about how huge the Sun is, and then, how small it is compared to the really big giants in the universe.
The photo of 1933 looks clearly manipulated even if they repeat several times "trust me, obscure authority figure said that is not".

Well; Is easy to spot a curve in the object that continues in the ocean disguised as waves. It lies too high and the contact between the object and the water is unusually regular and quiet.

Looks like a stuffed animal with four clamps used to fix it to a wood piece (that would explain why is floating so high).
Many of these folks are paid to stay exclusively on Twitch and to not hop around to other platforms, and I don't believe that's reflected here either.
...some are just born into it.
The link doesn’t seem to specify which variant of D. Did I miss that part? Discussion here seems to be mostly around D3.
This is the SHA 256 of a phrase... go for it!

7BB7DB877943832837046863EF45C252D3A08C92A273F7B665210A6E12701095
Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm ever?
Makes you wonder if this tool would be better a code formatter rather than linter?
This is the same logic that a lot of people used during The Fappening. If we think it is immoral to steal this data then we should not condone people copying it and analyzing it as that's just benefiting from someone else doing the dirty work for us.
A person who has never won an election (or even received 15% of votes cast) believes himself the appropriate vessel to dictate the political direction of a nation. Is this persistence or arrogance?

Admire the chutzpah, seriously wonder why he isn't using his talents somewhere he might be successful at fixing any of the problems he identifies.
The problem with "free will" is that there's no physically plausible system that can satisfy the definition. If you could re-arrange the laws of physics in any way you wanted in order to give humans free will, how would you do it?

Randomness isn't free will, you're not making any choices. Determinism isn't free will, your choices are pre-determined. Well how exactly do you get free will then, without invoking the supernatural? You've just defined an abstract quality that's impossible to achieve.

imo it's all a category error - the physical process by which you make decisions is your free will, it just means that your choices are irrevocable.
They're generally designed for that weight with the forces going straight toward the floor (like hanging a picture, a hook for a broom, a coat hook or something). The further you have that weight from the wall, the less weight it can hold.
I mean, yeah. But at some point the pile will become large enough to collapse in on itself from gravity and start fusion, I would imagine.

So, according to Cornell[don't know how to do a citation], "1,000 BTU per hour per ton" is a good heat capture rate from manure compost. Then, according to something called 'alternative energy geek' "the earth receives 82 million quads of Btu energy from the sun each year. A "quad" is one quadrillion British Thermal Units (BTUs) of energy."

So, to recreate that, we would need. Um. One massive shitload of compost to recreate that.

Citations:
https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/2012/10/compost-power/
http://www.alternative-energy-geek.com/solar-energy-per-squa...
Number of subs is often known, and the relative size of channels is known. Unless someone's going to be surprised that someone with double the viewers makes double the money, I doubt there will be any surprises.
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> Presumably COVID also saves the government money, then?

It most certainly does. The retort your parent made is for those who make the argument that a tax is necessary because X (smoking, in this case) costs the country economically.

If you want to make the purely _economic_ argument, it's a benefit to the bottom line.
Can you use GPL code internally (ie run your backend) if you never publish it?
The more drawn out / harmful form is: when you mandate that only the measureable is valid, and something is hard (or impossible) to measure, everyone comes up with reasons it's not important.
ChessCoach – A 3450 Elo Chess-engine with live natural-language text commentary
Not to defend a murderous secret organization, but the problem is more a panopticon of data on the "users" of this data in any democracy.

Lots of information can be deduced by the words and actions of policymakers, organizational staff and lobbyists alone. If you are briefed on secret information and act on it, that process of action alone, if justified is prone to give away lots of information.

Add to that a healthy dose of jingoism, were the source on the ground is always less worthy then the voter at home and you have a perfectly distrust-able agency.
This was really informative, thanks! Also “it’s just like sufficiently advanced technology” made my morning.
From the people who have used it, does it do what it says on the tin?

If it's the only real option and it's half baked (performance-wise), fine, but I'd be really concerned if the replacement for buggy code didn't actually do what was promised.

On the plus side, SQLite seems to be pretty stable on iOS, so at least there's a chance of it working out.
there is no substitute for hitting a stud. drywall anchors for holding up cabinets is blasphemy!

try french cleats screwed into studs instead.
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The curious incident of Sherlock Holmes’s real-life secretary
> breakfast the most dangerous meal, if your goal is avoiding fat storage.

That's counter to the evidence.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6658129/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5990470/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3756673/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25724569/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23512957/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9040548/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26948400/

I recommend that most people skip breakfast because it's the easiest way for most people to fit a fasting window in around their work schedule. However, if you have more flexibility, it looks like there's a marginal benefit for body composition and metabolic fitness to having your eating window in the morning.
Sony To Make PS3, Vita Stores Nearly Unusable by removing credit card support
It’s an informal way some people write SQL if they’re developing a script.

I’ve done it this way before because it was quicker to edit, and and remove lines. But it’s not a format I’d particularly like to share with others because it looks weird.
If you're throwing everything the customer have input then you have a poor written application.

Not inserting bad data is much better than trying to make sense of inconsistent data because you don't know what is true or not.
I do not understand what is the fuss about deleting your Facebook account.

1. Create a VPS
2. Install one of those Facebook scraping tools
3. Use your account credentials and start scraping.
4, Facebook will freak out, lock you out and ask for passport and ID cards. Do not provide any.

During their next account purge, they will remove your account.
Do you run all service on the new kernel or is there a roll out process where some services are canaries?

I have one service that is low traffic that I use to test out new base images and core api changes. It’s easy to generate synthetic traffic to see how it behaves, as a lot of its traffic comes from the build process of more complex services.
Source-Code of ChessCoach (GPLv3): https://github.com/chrisbutner/ChessCoach
You're raising interesting questions. It's a hard topic, but I think it's inevitable that we will have to tackle some of those questions. Sometimes we want to avoid a debate because we don't know the solution, but a good debate helps us find a solution.

Not trying to deflect, just disagreeing with the OP's comment that such debates are BS.
This is also known in Python as the "ask for forgiveness not permission" idiom.
Actually it's everyone else in this thread who is sheltered and privileged. They are exhibiting typical sheltered, privileged, educated class values and rhetoric around the issue of class. I think I tipped over a particular sacred cow here. Could it be that the library institution is regarded as sort of the modern equivalent of missionary work? And so it is easy to slip into blasphemy if you're discussing libraries. In America, libraries offer the hope that the throngs of unsavory rabble out there can be converted into odor-free-farting, educated liberals, cast in one's own image.
>> Adults need to be careful in life.

> No, they don't.

Atheists like me can go to Saudi Arabia (or Uganda) and say and do as we like without pause for the consequences (unreasonable as they may be) to myself and the people that dependent on me?

Come now, this thread is just getting silly.

I will have to bow out now.
That is perhaps pedantically true in a way you almost certainly don't mean, that there is no longer 'the GDPR', there is now the EU's GDPR and the UK's GDPR (both using that name) ... but basically false.

As I said above, it was kept with the necessary amendments. That documents title: GDPR - Keeling Schedule. Introductory paragraph:

> This schedule has been prepared by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is intended for illustrative purposes only to assist the reader in understanding the changes to be made to the retained General Data Protection Regulation by the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc)(EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (as amended by the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc)(EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (subject to Parliamentary approval) when these come into force.
Oh great, it seems that population growth globally is slowing due to low birth rates and aging populations. The population/climate bomb cultists like Bill Gates should be pleased by this… it’ll give earth and its parasitic inhabitants easily another decade or two of (admittedly miserable) existence :)

Kidding of course. I’ll be eating cheeseburgers and driving a V8 full sized pickup into oblivion (even if I have to become a cattle rancher to do so). No regrets, the world that the “Great Reset” is creating is not one worth living in.
In my experience, SD cards and eMMC chips on the Raspberry Pi Compute Modules are night and day in terms of reliability.

Brand-name SD cards will fail in 6-12 months of running a typical mostly-idle Linux installation (yes, I've heard it all: power supply quality, improper shutdowns, counterfeit cards, etc. etc. It doesn't matter - SD cards just die all the time)

I've yet to see an eMMC chip fail on a Compute Module. I'm aware of one Computer Module that's been running for around 3 years as a CI/build machine, so it's under a pretty write-heavy load all the time. I expected it to last 3 months. It has not died (yet).
TFS converting to Git/Azure DevOps here. Be the change you want to see in the world! There's a chance that some of the people in your org that don't use TFS could use the organizational tools built into GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket/DevOps. If you get enough teams on board with that platform that also happens to use Git, then you can make that push to IT!
Yes? I thought that you did not assume good faith from me. I did not think that you were not acting in good faith.
Or....just click throught the form few times and have it deleted this way, what's the big deal?
The psychological impact of remembering those exact pictures can be very jarring.
>Thing is, nothing you've just stated is fact. It's just a viewpoint. Which is fine, but let's not pretend we have some absolute truth in front of us.

Absolutely! I would like to see a political entity led by Kantian ethical formalists. My opinion is that such a faction couldn't come into power. Let's hope I'm wrong.

>Relevant case in point: I live in New York, where until recently we had a governor that was all about ruthless assertion of power and ruled by personality. Then, when he ran into problems everyone turned their back on him because everyone hates him.

Sure, the history is littered with the corpses of the Hitlers and Mussolinis (and the mountains of corpses they have caused), the small petty tyrants who thought brutality and charisma it was ALL you needed to rule. They meet their ends alone at a moment or another, but this doesn't make a case for the success of ethical leaders either.
Take the right you just proposed. Why is it limited to a “who”? Why is it linked to sex or gender? Is this a singular love or is polygamy a human right? Does love need to be reciprocated?

What’s the fundamental human right? Shouldn’t we be worried that these so-called human rights are being newly discovered relatively recently?
Thanks for this clear account. This proves that it is possible (at least occasionally) to describe a chemistry project using ordinary language to a non-chemist.

By contrast, every single chemistry poster session or talk seems instead to consist of inscrutable walls of long technical terms and impossibly convoluted flow charts. I’ve often wondered whether this really all makes perfect sense to chemists themselves? Like, if I were to surreptitiously change one syllable out of a 10-syllable word, or reverse a couple of the arrows on a flow chart, would anyone in the audience notice? If not, then why is the information being conveyed in this way, seemingly without any effort at comprehensibility?

Edit: don’t mean to condescend to chemists. The question is a genuine one. Does it really have to be so inaccessible from start to finish? Maybe yes is the answer, that’s the nature of the thing. Physics is not like that, for instance.
Thanks for the clarification, I have actually seen this now that I think of it and this indeed is closer to control flow than error flow.
Tech companies are focused around asset growth, which is more easily converted to profit. The profit margins are usually huge, so profiting is rarely ever the problem. Revenue usually is. They have a lot of cash and it's easy to cut costs too.

From the linked article, it says, "In 2018, 81% of U.S. companies were unprofitable in the year leading up to their public offerings."

This is the most unfair way of judging it. This is like saying students have a negative net worth a year before graduation. It's missing the point - students take debt so they can make much more money later. Startups go cash heavy and take losses so they can make money after the exit.
It's not that languages develop a word for blue last, but that there's usually a specific order in which terms for colour enter languages. It's roughly as follows: all languages have words for white/black, if they have 3 terms for colour the third will always be red. After that it's green and/or yellow. Only then do you get blue or blue-and-green. This can also be seen in the writings of Homer where honey is described as green, and hair is described as... blue, that is, the same term was used to describe the sea as well as corn flours (i.e., a dark colour). It's with Empidocles that we see the classification of colour the Ancient Greeks would have used: light, dark, red, and yellow.

After blue/blue-and-green the order breaks down a bit, but new colour terms obviously come into use after blue. In English for instance the terms for pink, orange, and brown all came long after blue. Coincidentally brown is usually one of the last colours to get its own term, and in English before the term brown was used to refer to a colour it referred to dark or dusk.
That is literally the top earner in the community made up by a team of people.

The media/VC etc community has been hyping e-gaming as the new sports domain. That said the top salary for a sports player is $168M / year for one player (Lionel Messi) and number 99 is $35M/year (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_sports_contrac...)

It really shows how much of a step change there is between the sports & e-sports and I would be curious how much of this Twitch is keeping to themselves instead of paying out.

Not to mention how much uptime e-gamers have to put in.
My understanding is that SD cards have a certain write count before they fail (or require a reformat), and that eMMC doesn't. Or that the number of writes before failure is much higher. Is that not correct?

Regardless, I understand that hardware dies. But generally speaking I'd like to be able to deploy a single board system and not have to worry about having to physically maintain it unless it literally fails for some reason.
without trying to be extra provocative, but we are A-OK with rich people ripping people off by exploiting their weaknesses, addictions or lack of oversight, so the reverse is not much different.

Capitalism has a place for borderline, gray, unethical-but-legal 'frauds'
no you ride on rainbows with fixies and drink chai latte...and then taking care of the money part is the "toxic" part
Bullshit.

The UN has no right to give privileges or take away rights.

Globalist scum.