skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This basically pushed me into a depressive spiral last year. Spent months wondering if I was just broken or not meant to be social. Even started picking up incredibly unhealthy habits to compensate.

I think my issue isn't WFH, or virtual socialisation (which I was already doing 2-3 times per week to keep in touch with high school friends). The problem is both. 16 hours a day in front of a computer just didn't feel human.

Given the choice, I will never work from home again. Even at work I have a rule of no more than 4-5 hours in front of a screen.
For me the right middle ground was the collaborative coffee break. Different team members or even departments spend ten minutes walking or lounging in the kitchen, and that's where comradery and spontaneous ideas and collaboration can happen, without it disrupting the big chunks of flow in the day. This I do miss working from home.
Weren't the first Facebook users female student profiles stolen from hacked student societies databases?

(I assumed the movie "social network" was somehow telling some truth.)
I've seen many strange mp4s and webms floating around various discord communities. Some crash your client at a fitting moment in the video, some appear to be thousands of hours long, some appear to be seconds long but are actually hours long, some even loop! somehow.
Any JSON parser that tries to handle numbers without big number support is broken. This is why I always raise eyebrows if I see json library that doesn't allow me to deal with the number myself by retrieving it as a string.
I think they want them to lower the volume at the times that other people are still sleeping.
The stuff could be usable in a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaseous_fission_reactor#Energy... a.k.a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb
I remember reading recently that Ireland finally reached pre famine population levels.

Found the article:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/31/ireland-popula...
Two companies control the entirety of the mobile app distribution and mobile app payment markets.

If you want to enter nearly any mobile-related markets, you have no other choice but to have rent extracted from your business by either Apple or Google. Those two companies have stifled innovation in the mobile app market for over a decade now, and they expect you to pay tribute.
250k I'm on already, its going up from there is the hard part.
Still using casperjs and phantomjs. Both are deprecated for many years, but I cannot find any replacement.
Some of my scraping programs are running over 10 years without any issues.
The novel part isn’t the observation but in thinking up new ways to exploit it.
This is bang on. Basically the US have been undercutting the EU for years ever since Clinton brought in the rules allowing companies to hold their profits offshore. Interesting figures regarding GDP, thanks. Regarding the headline rate of tax, although Germany and France have higher taxation rates, I think it's pretty well accepted that the effective rates are a lot less than the advertised rates.
Also, as per the other sibling comment, Ireland's GDP figure probably isn't the best measure of domestic wealth. And another thing to note is that Ireland had a lot of catching up to do for historical reasons (i.e. it was basically rinsed for hundred of years by the UK, followed by a punishing trade war after independence). Having said that, I think this move is probably for the best. It will be interesting to see if it gets past Congress.
I've been burning to Blu-ray and putting a sha256sum file on the disc with the contents so that in theory, I can check the sums every so often and re-burn them to increase the longevity.

Granted I have not been using archival grade Blu-ray's because the cost to store terabytes is prohibitive.
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When I lived in Shanghai back in 2002, old ladies used to do this same thing, but to slower, traditional Chinese music, not this Chinese-dance-pop-fusion music. I'll take the traditional Chinese music any day.
I want less of a social network and more of a time series database
from the various accounts of so called 'feral children' or the few experiments that we know of that have been conducted involving depriving children of social contact and the pretty severe consequences it had on development I always wondered in general how much of the functioning of the brain can only be understood in the context of social groups and connectivity between individuals. i wonder how much of a systems approach maybe at some point will enter these fields where people move away from thinking of cognition in terms of individual tasks and potentially start to think of it like more of an emergent property.
This is the thing for me. If your company has a fully-stocked kitchen, quality chairs, monitors, adjustable desk, and noise cancelling headphones, it might be a comparable to a good home office setup in terms of comfort. What kills me though is commuting. All told, I spend 3-4 extra hours on days I go to the office, and that time comes out of my free time, effectively turning a 40 hour job into a 60 hour job.
Its also important to note that for most systems security critical memory safety is a REALLY big deal, but safety from crashes due to data races is generally not a big deal. Rust has trade-offs to accomplish this.

We proven time and time again we can't write safe c/c++ code from a security perspective. I don't think we've proven that crashing now and then to fix our data races is a bad outcome. There are always bugs to be fixed.
> Gamers aren't going to leave what they already have -why would they?

There are several reasons, based on personal experience with discord's limitations, why some gamer would switch.

1) Lack of accessibility. It is very hard to include deaf people in voice chats.

2) Lack of advanced voice capabilities. There is no way to setup channels where there talkers that are only heard by a subset of listeners. If you are using discord voice to coordinate large groups of players it can be extremely hard to manage.

3) Lack of Bot developer support. There are significant issues with how Discord has developed their APIs and how they treat 3rs party developers.

4) Censorship. Many gamers are irreverant / bot PC and the centralized nature if Discord pretty much guarantees that Discord will eventually face issues with moderation and censorship that will drive people elsewhere.

If Fosscord can keep (feature complete) client interoperability while adding additional features for self-hosted servers, there is a decent chance that a significant minority would move to Fosscord.

I would expect that if such starts to actually happen, Discord will do everything they can to put legal and technical roadblocks in the way of Fosscord.
There is a tremendous negative cost to keeping this little tiny chunk as "just nature." If it weren't for these buildings, we would need thousands and thousands of homes sprawled out across many square miles, requiring roads, and literally millions of vehicle miles every year.

This sort of structure preserves nature and allows thousands of people to experience Vancouver that would not be able to otherwise.

Stanley Park is close by for those who want actual nature, rather than the little speck of lawns that was where these buildings are being built.
Ha, that’s a good one. Considering the plans of the new gov, this is the new normal in Germany and it will get even more expensive.

I’m looking forward to diesel at €2.10/l, e5 at €2.50/l, heating oil at €110/100l and electricity prices x3. What a time to be alive.
Can you demystify what an elks lodge is? I’ve never really understood the concept of these lodges and they seem like some kind of closed off private club or something cult like. I’m guessing I have the wrong perception.
Let's Encrypt Active Incident
you know what they say - something about nature creating a better fool
What you mean is fewer people?
I agree, and I intend for Bagel to be a pragmatic language (striking a balance between idealism and pragmatism very similar to what Rust strikes), which is why I'm not going the monad route. I believe that the combination of the functional subset + reactivity to any state that does exist will get you 90% of the benefits without the learning curve
Do you live in a house?
It seems like the solution is to just play the music at a reasonable level? And if they can't do that then start arresting them.
Dense housing like this is much more environmentally friendly and sustainable.
There exists an area of study emerging in economics covering the effect of companies being directed by a small number of shareholders - for example, if the key stakeholders of all US airlines are (for the sake of the argument) Black Rock, then what effect does that have on the companies? If they same shareholder selects the same sort of execs for all their airlines in their portfolio, how does that affect the strategies for each company? If Delta loses share but United gains it and you've got a similar shareholding in both, what difference does it make.

If significant investors have heavy positions in commercial and residential real estate in particular locations, and also has a significant position in companies who employ workers in those locations, how might that change the perception of how your employer does business? Will support a CEO taking a position that tanks their real estate positions?
Petrol engines are inefficient. Solar panels are inefficient. Your and my metabolisms are inefficient. Suitability to purpose matters more in my humble opinion. Alongside modularity and reusability.

Please contribute anything you know about custom hydraulic lines to https://wiki.replimat.org/wiki/Main_Page - I will approve accounts for any hackernews folk who request one.
There is also a per interface setting, e.g. net.ipv4.conf.virbr0.forwarding
They will simply buy electricity from Poland (coal) or France (nuclear) it they need more cheaper.
Whoever posted this here - thank you! This is my site.
It's not a theory, 50% of all COVID deaths were in nursing homes:

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-sweden-co...

Also the paper you linked agrees with me, The highest age groups, i.e. ages 80 and above, were most strongly affected by the pandemic.
> They could turn the selective availability (which was turned off in 2000) back on

I'm not sure if they can, if I've got the right info, block IIF and block III satellites don't have the hardware for selective availability; and those make up 16 out of 30 operational satellites (and one out of 4 reserve).

But I'm sure if they can't enable SA, they could likely just disable the civilian frequencies or something if needed. OTOH, there's GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou; the US can administratively deny GPS and probably Galileo, but not the other two, which makes SA less useful.
Why do cover letters still exist?
well, help me convert it to WordPress or something like that.
The numbers are even more extreme. Individual dealerships add a lot of additional local advertisement. They sponsor football teams, run local ads and so on. When new products are launched they spend money tell this to their local costumers. I assume that adds up quite a bit and is not reflected in these numbers.

The R&D part is interesting. I always thought Tesla R&D spending was quite low, for what they were actually doing. I think this is because Musk really knows what he actually wants and works on solving those problems specifically.

R&D for quite a while didn't grow much at Tesla and then resonantly it went up quite a bit again. We will see how this will continue to scale as they increase production.

Logically as they get more cars the R&D per car should be dropping quickly as its averaged over more cars. But Tesla is not gone give any dividend, so they eventually will have to spend that money somewhere.

Working on things like robots certainty seems like something you would only do if you had enough free cashflow. Only 3 years ago people would have gone ballistic over Tesla 'wasting' money on trying to build a humanoid robot, calling it irresponsible. But other then people saying its bad idea and will fail, nobody seem to question if they had the funds to do it.

Research on batteries will certainty continue to be a huge part of what they do. They have seriously put themselves into 'competition' with LG, CATL, SK, Panasonic in terms of battery research and bringing that research into products. To do that fully vertically integrated, including the manufacturing part, not just the chemistry is a herculean effort.

Elon has been wanting to develop electric super sonic planes for more then a decade, and eventually they will certainty start R&D for that sort of thing, and that a great way to a couple 100M.

Overall I expect Tesla R&D to continue to be higher per car even as they start to match some of the other big car makers in terms of pure volume. Not as big a difference as there is now, but vertical integration will force them to do that.
Google's Privacy Budget doesn't add up, says Mozilla CTO
Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Intervention
On some sites with a video duration limit that don't do transcoding, at least those that allow vp8 WEBM uploads, you can change a few bytes on the input to report a false duration and upload longer videos. If you're uploading audio only, with a static image, you can sometimes upload hours of audio before you hit the filesize limit.
* In mice and ferrets.

Still, gene therapy as a research area looks very promising.
Most phone companies don't want you to know. A central office has a telephone switch inside.
> I still see "Atomkraft? Nein, danke!" stickers here and there and am sad at the ignorance displayed by the people who sport them.

https://www.thelocal.de/20160520/german-nuclear-plant-pumped... :

«the plant used the cover of the Chernobyl – which had released a cloud of radioactive waste over western Europe – to pump their own waste into the atmosphere, believing no one would notice

“It was done intentionally,” Schollmeyer said. “We had problems at the plant and I was present at a few of the meetings.”

The problems related to balls of radioactive fuel getting stuck in the plant's pipework.

“Some clever dick suggested we clean out the pipework by pumping helium through it. He thought that no one would notice because of the Chernobyl cloud.”»

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_THTR-300#Emissio... :

«The emissions from the THTR were initially not noticed. However, an anonymous informant from the workforce of the THTR-300 informed supervisory authorities and environmental associations about a hidden radioactive emission on May 4, 1986.»

«Only when an unusually high concentration of 233Pa was detected in the exhaust air of the THTR-300 from the chimney, which could not come from Chernobyl but only from the thorium of broken fuel elements of the THTR-300, it gradually became clear that there must have been significant radioactive emissions from the THTR-300 into the environment.»
Agree, although this might have the effect of scaring someone from posting again after a long while.
I like this!

I guess the founders would mostly argue that boilerplate is the price of admission for angels these days. But it would be great to see it work this way.
A Tale of Two Optimisations
How much did Tesla pay for it? Answer: nothing.
Not yet. Most still have switching equipment inside. This serves the analog customers who are left.
Probably because all (usable) waste (the fuel rods) needs to be disassembled (reprocessed) to enable usage somewhere else. With new casings. Which then needs to be disassembled too, after the contents are 'sucked empty'.
> Gemini's proponents purport to be interested in a set of values. Proponents defend Gemini's design in terms of those values; the values form design constraints that inform all aspects of the project (including, for example, its markup format). Given that it is possible for Gemini residents to demonstrate a commitment to those values even with vanilla HTML and HTTP—because one is forcing anyone to make use of any of the Web technologies that Gemini omits—then we should expect them to do exactly that.

> you've used selective quoting of the linked FAQ to present a narrow target

If there's a part of the FAQ I've not quoted that commits Gemini's proponents to the value of making websites "look [...] like those found on cr.yp.to", please let me know.

That is: I don't think it's fair to argue from the idea of judging a "commitment to values" that aren't explicitly claimed by the project. That's not suggestion; I'm just saying it. If you can't be explicit about what's been committed to and how the commitment's been broken, then it's not me being "suggestive." If you do want to elaborate on that, I remain genuinely interested to hear it, because I still think it's possible you have stuff in mind that I don't know about. I broadly agree with you that it's fair to judge Gemini folks by their HTTP/S sites. However, for it to have anything to do with "how deep their convictions run", that judgment has to refer to their actual convictions, not just your preferences or mine.
I have no idea how that law could be enforced? who's get to be the judge on what's "Keeping similar items that are traditionally marketed either for girls or for boys separated makes it more difficult for the consumer to compare the products and incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate"

I guess you just randomly place toys all around the isle in no coherent pattern until the consumers get confused and just walk out and type "toys for 10 year old boys" into google.
When they went digital they were downsized. But for the most part they're still there.
China must obviously gain cutting edge node fabs or associated knowledge and processes from seizing Taiwan given the claims you've made about Taiwanese being prevented from being hired by the Chinese Government.
I do that reading and skill-training for unrelated tech things on the company’s dime, not mine. They are paying me highly to be a professional.
This was already posted a few days ago. I thought HN automatically assessed submissions for duplicates?
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The buildings are called Central Offices. The switches inside are the actual pieces of equipment handling the calls. Yes, "telephone exchange" is also used, but not so much in the United States.
I think you misread his comment. He's saying that what you're describing is a privilege developers in many other countries don't enjoy.
> Because we are in the middle of a global pandemic.

Really? Maybe I forgot because here in France it feels like we've kinda gone back to business as usual, as long as one can show proof of vaccination (necessary if you want to go to the restaurants, cinemas and museums).
Fair enough, but there's no guarantee you'll want to socialise the people who inhabit your office either. I highly respect and value my colleagues but I don't have a huge amount of interest in socialising with them either.
I'm not sure if I should be disappointed or relieved that it isn't a high-energy remote zapper.

I kind of expected a Bluetooth jammer.
It's not. Third world countries have much bigger concerns than policing the first world's imaginary property. Mostly they'll just ignore any violations for as long as economically viable. If it's important enough, HIV medications for example, they'll even make the fact they don't care about patents official.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110105/01260212521/paten...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world/brazil-ignores-us-giant...
The demo site even says "Discord"...
https://dev.fosscord.com/login
Sorry just reading along and felt a need to point out that it seems you’re likely being your own biggest obstacle, more so than “the system”. Systems are meant to be hacked.
Also - as the webmaster of the site, I'd like for donations of pictures. Please contact me via the contact form on the site. Thanks!
You can, you just need to download the maps for offline use. Google maps makes it easy:

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6291838

It's very useful for navigating crowded touristy areas, remote nature preserves, sports/music events that jam the towers, etc.

Some more specialized apps also support doing the same thing with other types of maps, like USGS quad sheets.
I was just in Seattle for the first time in about 5 years. The situation was... not good. And this from someone who has spent a lot of time in SF and always had a not totally positive take on Seattle with respect to the grunge factor compared to other PNW cities.
Electrical engines are more and more becoming a thing, especially for sail boats, where they server more for harbor and anchoring than covering distances.
There is a school of economics that claims to oppose the upwardly mobile rich but in fact mostly harms the upwardly mobile poor. Linguistic patterns are no proof of motive but they certainly indicate who an author is writing for.
All right, Thanos.
apt purge'd it, reinstalled and updated my Windows client, now getting this entry in the Wireguard log:

2021-10-11 15:18:30.313: [MGR] Failed to connect to adapter interface \\?\SWD#WireGuard[REDACTED]: The system cannot find the file specified. (Code 0x00000002)

So, again, I'd like to use it but... dead simple it ain't. Googling that error shows 5 month old reddit posts and not much else.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WireGuard/comments/n6yocf/unable_to...
This is so accurate, especially the 3rd bullet. When WFH, all interactions are centered around your immediate work responsibilities; although minimizing social interactions at work sounds great for some, it can make it much harder to gauge where you stand in relation to all the people you work with.
100% agree. I remember going camping just before pandemic hit. It wasn't peaceful at all, more like a rave party.
Would be nice if we could go further and remove ads completely. Surely all that infrastructure consumes a fair bit of energy, not to mention the unnecessary consumption encouraged by said ads?
Have you ever had a 1 month long holiday? Not sabbatical, just regular PTO.
This is the reason Weather reports and forecast are so important for people on boats.

Most people living in boats actually live on ports and don't get very far from the coast most of the time.
And the sad thing about that central office is that it used to house a ton of equipment. And toll operators. Now it's a packet switch. Probably taking up the back corner of the first floor.
We have tried four decades of your "let's limit housing" plan in California. In contrast to improving people's lives, it's made everybody's lives worse, through these means:

1) massive commutes by car
2) astronomical housing prices
3) forcing people out of state due to these massive housing prices
4) increased pollution because of increased commutes from further and further exurbs
5) massive homelessness from those that aren't able to move before they run out of money, or who hit a massive car or medical expense as the struggle to pay for housing.

Take a peak at the carbon consumption of households in dense areas and suburban areas across the US:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/cmjones/viz/USHouseho...

Dense urban living is sustainable, suburban living is burning the planet.

The world needs a lot more of these towers. If there's going to be less of any sort kf housing, it's time to tear down suburban homes.
When was downtown the fun evening getaway? I've been here 15 years, and unless you're looking for a Frat Bro party in Belltown, Fremont/Cap Hill/Ballard were always where the real social life was. They're all doing just fine now - you wouldn't know there was a pandemic on.
People with responsibilities in a fixed location probably should not take traveling salesperson positions, generally speaking.
This phenomenon occurs in Hong Kong too. When I asked a local why he disapproves he said it's not actually HK culture but a relatively recent thing due to the influx of mainlanders.