skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be wise for various organisations to start funding education on these chemicals so that a culture of sensible use can grow up around them.
I am happy that there is no dark mode for HN.
2021. 21: 2 times 0 is 0, so nothing. 21: double 1, so 11.

Jigo.
Americans really don't have a choice, the merchants are making the rules and offering a service.

Anyway Americans pay pretty high taxes, they're comparable to Europe (albeit not as high as crazy countries like Italy, Spain or France, I have no idea how those countries can even survive). I'm sure they'd be more than happy if the government were spending less and letting them to pay less taxes and buy a private insurance instead.

The problem with the US healthcare and higher education is not being private, it's being too expensive - tldr thanks to government intervention some actors got away with massively raising prices with no competition
They're exceedingly difficult to read on E-Ink displays, which I'm using increasingly these days. Reader mode helps, though it's not always available.
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> but why would anyone would rent clothes just to go into the office?

I’m going to take a guess and assume you don’t wear the gender of clothing that they target?

> Is the HN/programmer bubble messing with my perception of what's normal?

Or maybe that’s the issue. Either way, many women who work in an office want a freshly changing attire that they can conveniently have with a monthly subscription.

Like I’d probably wear a button up shirt and slacks more often if I:

1) had fresh new looks sent regularly

2) that I never had to wash or dry clean

3) and usually don’t have to iron (although that wasn’t full proof with RTR’s delivery)
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30+ years of being the sole data-handling tech resource for a company that's expanded like crazy, just over 1 year to retirement and nobody, but nobody has even started talking about replacing me.
I don't know, just a pattern I spotted.
This is my opinion. I do not think there is a strong consensus on what state and trait curiosity actually are, though I think the following is reasonable.

Trait curiosity is generally thought of as people who exhibit a broad desire to learn, to be open to new experiences, and to be creative, for example. If you like reading books on a wide variety of topics, or studying a range of fields in school or personal life, then you might have a curious personality trait. In this case, it is generally thought that you will rate certain questions on the Big Five Index [BFI] or the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory ver. 2 [CEI-II] more highly than others. I do not research trait curiosity. I collect data on it, but it's not that useful to me, really.

Instead, I do computational modelling of human behavior using performance on discrete tasks and ratings about those tasks, which is more like state curiosity. If you are solving puzzles, or answering math/logic problems, or recalling difficult memory tasks, or answering pub trivia questions, and rating your curiosity levels about the discrete tasks or even individual questions, then that is generally considered state curiosity.

Trait curiosity is part of your personality, while state curiosity is episodic (though with indeterminate time periods). Does that help?
We didn't have enough data from those locations.
I once had a set of headphones (back when Bose Beats wireless were popular and you got a free one on academic discount when buying a MacBook Air) sell on eBay, with receipt confirmed but the buyer did a chargeback claiming the purchase was unauthorized.

I don’t understand all the circumstances, but PayPal let me keep the money. Dunno if they successfully won the dispute with the issuer or if PayPal ate the loss.
Not really. Every processor has an Overflow Flag [1] that can be used to check for overflows in arithmetic operations.

Most programming languages don't have a way to explicitly action on contents of that flag since it would complicate optimisations and program flow, but it's still a pity that this caused so many bugs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overflow_flag
It's an anomaly. I think that was right on the edge of "not enough traffic to report on".
We have an Asterisk exchange at home, it supports a US number and a NZ number - we get maybe one spam call a year from either number .....

Why? .... because the home exchange answers every call and asks for a 1 digit extension number - that's enough to put off all those robo calls, the machines that call ahead for them treat this as an answering machine and move on.

Back when the kids were still at home everyone had a 1 digit extension (and VM box), calls would ring in kids' bedrooms and then in the common space, everyone had their own ring cadence - my daughter got 90% of the phone calls so I gave her the short ring, we never had to answer the phone for her
Thanks. I'll correct that.
Why that ? Anti-bloat philosophy at its extreme ? People can write their own CSS / use a dark mode extension so there is no need for a global implementation ?
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Eh, not exactly. Altough you are supposed to try and resolve without going to court by law ( rendering such a clause redundant ), you ( natural person ) can not wave certain rights such as for example the right to go to court and have justice...
> shells fired by the Phalanx cost around $30 each

That's pretty crazy to think of ... I guess the only justification for that is that the assets that are protected by such a system are worth more than that.

> You could imagine firing fewer rounds per salvo

If I learned anything from games, it's that you want AoE damage for swarming enemies ;-)
It took me a moment there to understand exactly what you mean (not sure why, since your comment is clear).

I think I was always part of this category of people without even realizing, until I read Peter Watts’ books, and in particular Blindsight.

I read hard SF, and I enjoy the genre greatly. But most of it just lacks something that is hard to pinpoint. It’s both something about human psychology, and where the case, especially about the aliens. Not Blindsight, tho. Not at all.

Btw, there’s another hard SF author that I have a huge appreciation for: Ken MacLeod. His style is different, but in my opinion he gets things right too. Some of his books I read multiple times too, and I really don’t do that often, having limited time for reading and being rather picky about what I read.
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Think of Bitcoin as your personal reserve currency rather than a directly transactional currency at least today. You use Bitcoin as your store of wealth to transfer your life savings safely across borders. Then once safely in a refugee camp or other safer place you could use the local black market to exchange some Bitcoin for the local currency so you can spend it.
If that were to happen in America, an entire industry would be put out of business.
I feel that as a White male, I am subjected to a racist and sexist work environment. It is made clear on every occasion that I am on the lowest rung of humanity and I have to make space for others.
A net?
A common case is an unused variable. It may be hard to avoid if macros/ifdefs are involved, or if it's an argument of a function that must match a predefined API.

To "fix" such warnings people add a cast to void, self-assignment, or some other dummy code that makes compiler think it's "used", until you get a compiler with better data flow analysis that can see through the faux-use code.

__attribute__((unused)) solves this properly, but technically it's a GNU extension. And it's just for this warning, not a general solution for hundreds of other warnings you may get.

Other cases:

• Implicit conversion warnings. This can happen due to platform's headers using slightly different types (e.g. disagreeing on signedness). You add an explicit cast, but now there's a third type involved, and if it wasn't the right type, you're worse off.

• Tautological or side-effect-free expressions. Platform-specific code and macros can make them. You add more ifdefs, which is a hit on readability, and more opportunity to mess it up and break a platform you don't have CI for.

• Cast to a type with a higher alignment. It is a common pitfall, and could cause UB, so it's good to be warned about. But if you've done required pointer arithmetic or aligned allocs, you need to be able to say "I know what I'm doing". You can't, apart from trying to obfuscate the code to confuse the compiler (and human readers too probably).
Wait till you hear about how they treat amazon warehouse workers. But AWS is pretty cool huh? lol
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I think you are confusing M as in thousand and M as Million.
> I then wouldn’t expect such homogeneity of battery lives that they would all drop out of the sky in such a short range of time.

Well, they have all been doing a synchronised routine. Presumably they were purchased as a batch, and operated together.

And if these were mini-drones that only had a 10 minute battery life to begin with? I could believe they'd all run flat within 60 seconds of one another.
For many ADHD sufferers there’s literally a healthier form of crack. Well actually meth. It produces most of what of what you mention, except the sense of euphoria. The euphoria comes from quick rushes of dopamine and are what lead to many of the worse outcomes of meth/crack like dropping hygiene or eating properly. Conversely meds generally help ADHDers with basic hygiene, motivation, etc.
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Though, I assume by "had trouble getting in" means something boring like "was delayed by a few min until someone already inside pressed the exit button"

And they probably "fixed it" by putting someone near the door to let people in.
Reminds me of gradient descent. Trying to find the minima of a function by exploring random points that are outside of known minimums.
I've historically measured my professional success over many other axis, which has lead to a detriment of income. I was fine with this in my 20s to 40s, but now in my 50s it seems a mistake. When young, you have the belief that you can always make up the money later, or the effects of not having it are small. When it is later, you realize how little of a window you have left.

So while I would agree that professional success should be measured on multiple scales, if you were to run a PCA on the multiple dimensions then income should be the largest principle component.

NOTE! I am speaking only of success in your career. However, since this is where most of your energies during your adult life go, it is a dominant factor in your success in other areas.
Very nice!

Apparently this topic was actually researched: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28749131
which is that Cloudflare is the last company that should be criticizing everyone else

There is no criticism of Facebook in our blog post.
> I'm sure a lot of people will disagree with me, but I think reddit is basically the anti-twitter, and is a lot less toxic as a result.

That entirely depends where you are. The big frontpage-able/default subreddits are strongly moderated (with at least some pressure on the mods to behave), but other subreddits have ended up as self-reinforcing cesspools, especially when moderators collude to ban any opposing viewpoint (as happens with r/conservative). And then you have the subreddits that were explicitly created for toxic purposes (e.g. T_D, c..ntown, fatpeoplehate, and a boatload of others listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...).
And if it was in hands of a single person who made the technical mistake (and we're humans, we make mistakes), the real question is: how can a single person, mistakenly or deliberately, have the power to update BGP config to take the entire infrastructure offline? This is plain wrong, and it shouldn't be possible in the first place.
I did not even realise it was down till it was over… I ignore my WhatsApp messages for as long as I can usually!
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The reward is that when the richest person on earth is running out of exciting new things to buy, "going into space(ish) with William Shatner" scores rather high. Wouldn't be surprised to see Bezos join that second trip.
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1) You're burden for many life decisions. You're burden if you decide to smoke, if you decide to eat junk food and you're burden if you don't excercise. Still government should not have power to decide this.
2) So does natural immunity and it's frowned upon
> In this case things weren't nuanced and complicated and whatnot justifying a 40x performance drop when rendering colored text. In this case things really were simple: turns out this was just a horribly inefficient solution (like Many products written by Microsoft are).

My original point was that the reason for the performance drop likely wasn't related to algorithms. In practice, algorithms rarely are the issue. To clarify, in practice, what you use 90% of the time are plain arrays and indices / pointers. Occasionally you'll use a hashmap to lookup (distributed) or cache something.

Performance drops in the real world are most often explained by lack of understanding what certain library calls do, lack of understanding what are their performance characteristics, and/or lack of understanding what needs to be done to satisfy the requirements, or what the requirements should even be.

In most real-world programming domains (probably including the issue discussed here), most problems look somewhat like the following example: Someone reads byte-by-byte from some input stream by calling the read() system call, instead of using a buffered variant (like stdio fgetc()). They might not even notice that they are doing this, because the calls are hidden below a library abstraction. Now for each byte read, there are ball-park 1000 cycles wasted due to system call overhead and other related performance decreasing effect. So there is an overhead on the order of 1000x maybe. This leads to terrible performance, but it's not related to "algorithms" (asymptotic complexity is not the issue here, we're just pumping data).
Perl is not a bad language. Neither is PHP. I'm using both. And to be honest - it's all about collaboration. Writing something for myself? Perl. Writing anything which will involve anyone else? PHP.
Okay, but perhaps you need to accept the help?
Just reading psychologists is boring. Someone needs to get writers, game designers, artists, priests, politicians, salesmen, public speakers, musicians all in a room to get choice arch right.

These are the tradional master crafts of persuassion. Each individual domain has its tools honed over centuraies. When you nudge through speech, writing, visually, procedurally etc its all different routes because there are so many routes.
Do you think the Ardupilot people were blind to the military applications of what they were making? I personally can't imagine anyone bright enough to work on drone autopilots to be simultaneously ignorant enough not to realize that a drone could be used for harmful applications.
Noticed how badly built hotels were in Alaska. How it is living in with one-glass windows in midwinter? I have 3 layers in Helsinki, and it was little bit chilly when it was -35°C in 1985.
FB is a paper clip optimizer which optimizes on "engagement".
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https://github.com/mliezun/mliezun.github.io/blob/master/src...

Seems quite verbose.
Any coincidence of the recent drone pen-test suite? I'd hope not!
It's still possible to design a badge system on an independent network (think just switched within a building) which syncs a local copy of the authoritative ldap from the corp domain, so your badge readers stay working if the link to the corp domain goes away.

It's just more expensive and another thing to maintain, and still doesn't account for _all_ failure modes (what if you sync really frequently and a bad change was made deleting all accounts?)
I have always had a 401k in all my years in tech (or telecom before that) which allowed me to change what the investment mix was in drastic ways. Sure, it was limited to whatever the 401k provider (aka Vanguard/Fidelity/etc) offered that my employer at the time used, but I still wasn’t locked into an investment I didn’t want to be in.
…but there are highly vaccinated populations with high infection rates, right? If the vaccines actually stopped infections, this should not be possible. There is a brief window (1-2 months) where the vaccines reduce infections by up to 95%, but that number drops quickly. After six months, there is virtually no reduction.
> Against drone swarms you kinda want directed energy weapons, either microwave or laser. Which don't exist, currently.

These guys reckon they can detect, locate, and take down drones and drone swarms by jamming them with directed RF (not energy weapons as such): https://www.droneshield.com

These guys build "remotely operated weapons" that include 5.56mm up to 30mm cannons (as well as grenade launchers and missile launchers), and a "Counter Drone Defence System" that can drive them: https://www.eos-aus.com/defence/

I don't know it this works anything like as well on moving targets, but what you see at about 30 secs in this video looks like it'd take down most significanbtly-smaller-than-Predator drones pretty reliably at 900m out: https://vimeo.com/429825806 And I suspect 7.65 or 5.56 would probably work just as well as 50cal for that (though perhaps less accurately at long range?)

Not anything like as vicious as Phalanx, but if you're trying to protect against quadcopter or fixed wing drone swarms instead of cruise missiles, I'd bet they're remarkably more cost effective.
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Curiosity and not Smart: down the conspiracy rabbit hole you can go

Smart and not curious: who knows? psychopath?

Both: fun person to talk to at a party
Or have you mislabelled your internal experience? No observer could describe you as curious. Identifying unknowns is universal but if it doesn't motivate you into action, surely that is the definition of incurious? Laziness is no doubt one of the reasons behind incuriosity just as poor impulse control one of the attributes of the most curious. Would it be more accurate to say this experience was the "desire to be curious"?

Anyway, it's all a word game which is why I would expect a researcher to focus on observable phenomena and not define it in terms of qualia.
But in many cases the contract as written is very over-reaching. In many European rights, the language of the contracts sign away rights which can not be signed away.
If only half of the people that think they have it (5%) actually have it. Doesn’t that still mean that 2.5% of all COVID cases suffers from persistent issues?

That’s still a fairly high incidence rate. At least to the extend that we can’t really ignore it.
Falling back onto default icons is, arguably, just as tricky, if not more so.

Workbench cares about "real icons" because they are more likely to contain information relevant to the applications which created them (tool types, default tool, etc. are likely set to specific values). A default icon may be a convenient placeholder so that you may delete or rename the associated directory entry, but that may not be what matters to the user.

There is a side-effect in using default icons: they have to be placed in the drawer window so that they are visible and do not overlap with other icons. Workbench tries its best, but its internal data structures lean more towards memory usage efficiency than towards making non-overlapping icon placement efficient in terms of complexity and speed.

I would love to know about an algorithm which would render non-overlapping icon placement less complex and more efficient. The current implementation contributes its share to making directory processing slow. It scales poorly with the number of icons it has to check. This is why the "Show all files" view option is not particularly fast.
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Another science scam!
How does it come that while the US is swamped with robocalls in many other countries (e.g. Germany) this is not just not a problem, it's complete unheard of.
It's free, financially.

Windows 11 is Microsoft's attempt to hoover up Edge and Windows Passport evaders.

It's a shame, I was just getting into Windows 10 as my personal dev desktop. I guess i'll give Ubuntu another shot.
Well, I'm not sure what my sangha member had but she was perfectly healthy, a very active outdoors person, then she got coronavirus, and then was basically bed-ridden for about 10 months. Basically completely weak and chronically fatigued for that period. At least, I am quite sure that her long-term symptoms were due to coronavirus. I'm sure there are many false attributions though, as is bound to happen with such a public disease. For example, I know a lot of people who are convinced they had coronavirus just because they had a cold at this time or that time or whatever.
Very enjoyable even though I guess I would not build an apple 2. Did building a 6502 with 6522. Wonder whether this could fit in the next stage of that project.
Sheep are interesting animals. I was in the Rockies last week, read a newspaper article about a female sheep who killed a bear who was threatening her children.
It’s the companies responsibility to ensure their own workplace is legal to work in. If a manager insists on violating OSHA, that’s the company’s problem for not firing the manager, because it meant the company isn’t taking OSHA seriously and even if this manager is sued personally the company has no incentive to prevent future unsafe workplaces.
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that crime/misdemeanor deterrence is a duty of the criminal law, while civil law is only about righting the wrongs of specific people/legal entities. In any case, I'd LOVE to go through whatever the guy came through in exchange for just $1m (a completely life-changing amount of money for me), let alone $137m... These verdicts ARE insane.
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It's even more fun if you operate cross border because on top of all the usual fees there's a cross border fee (of 2% if the buyer was in the US) and then a markup on currency conversion of 3.75%. We used to put a lot through PayPal's merchant system but are now almost entirely on Stripe due to this non-stop nickel and diming.
It should be extremely illegal and looked down upon.