skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird to me how misdirected the mass outrage against tech censorship feels, given that it's really the payment processors doing the most to stigmatize & make untenable any form of speech & commerce they consider risky.
That provide liquidity, open or manage channels for you, watch your channel so you don't lose your money or even hold your keys (as is the case with some popular wallets people recommend).

And the network itself centralizes around large hubs (otherwise route finding doesn't scale).
I’m not sure what secret information the US thinks it has about nuclear science that you can’t just buy from Russia, India or China if you are a nation state.

Though maybe not for $30,000, so if anything this article is more of an advertisement than a warning to others, isn’t it? Though often these kind of information spreads are more about public agencies showing the politicians that they aren’t a waste of money. Because what if that hadn’t been a honey pot, but ISIS or whatever!!! Best keep spending those surveillance billions.
Oh wow, the joys of the HN-community. Do you know the take of the neuroradiologists on this type of modelling? Are the models in a challenge like this already usable for enhanced decision-making by the experts?
Are you conscious about your actions?
## Do you recognise it?

You just have to do something, but you are demotivated.
1 hour of effort feels like 3!

And it also works the other way around.
The time flies by for the things you feel passion for.

I was traveling and working for my own clients.
The problem was: projects took long and I got demotivated.

The more demotivated I got, the less effort I put in.
1 hour felt like 4 hours at that time, so I felt like I put in a lot of effort after 20 hours of work a week!

## The first step: time tracking

I decided to track my time, in my calendar.
I prefer Apple products because of the integration with one another, and I loved the basic calendar app.

I noticed I worked only 20 hours a week, but mentally I was tired.

Every week, I added up the hours to make a summary.
I saw progress for the first moment I was aware of my situation!

I noticed that when I was unaware, I just let it happen.

## The second step: save time

This was working really well for me.
But if took me a lot of time to add everything up.

So, I created an app to get insights/a summary of my calendar.

Every moment I want, I get an instant summary.
I use it now to check progression during the week, and to reflect at the end of the week.
It saves me about 60 minutes at every end of the week, and I can now see my progression during the week!

## The next step: tracking more than just work

I also started to track the efforts in my private life, because why not?
I noticed I watched TV over 15 hours a week, and it totally felt like a time-waste!

I decided free time & relaxation is very important, but I decided to spend this time more with friends, family and social contacts.

## Conclusion

Being conscious about how I spend my time increased my productivity with over 100%!

I also feel like I spend my time more wisely. On both work, free time and daily habits like cooking, cleaning, etc.

I even get less distracted, because I also track the time I spend on social media and browsing internet news websites and such.

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Because there's a civil war in that country, indirectly supported by the US through its Saudi Arabia proxy. It's a nasty, dirty conflict full of human rights violations, and reporting on it would bring to the public's attention many occasions in which the US and its proxy weren't exactly being paragons of virtue. So it's just not reported on instead.
The reason I find that confusing is that cars keep getting new safety standards, emissions standards, fuel economy standards. Adding those new features isn't free. But somehow cars managed to decrease in price in inflation-adjusted dollars. Have there been significant technological advances that would allow car prices to decrease in inflation-adjusted dollars?

Additionally, from my own point of view, it doesn't feel to me car prices dropped in inflation-adjusted dollars. This could be a mistaken feeling though.

This graph seems to say cars increased in dollars pretty steadily from 2014 to 2021:

https://wolfstreet.com/2021/05/27/the-whole-mindset-has-chan...

Maybe that's just people switching from sedans to SUVs though. That could also be responsible for my feeling of the inflation-adjusted price not changing, if I was looking at sedans in the past but SUVs now.
Managing Your Team’s Capacity: An Engineering Manager’s Guide to Saying No
Then it's mail and wire fraud.
I say "always" (for the violin), but that has problems itself. Eg. If you're playing with an equal temperament (eg piano) accompaniment your open G will not match it and there's no other way to play that note. Presumably advanced violinists have to choose their own tradeoffs, but I was always taught to hear the fifth and would always be aiming for a just fifth (tuning an equal tempered fifth by ear would be a neat trick!).

Edit: Hmmm, thinking about it the guitar should be easier to tune to equal temperament (if that's what you want) as presumably the frets are equal-temperament semitones apart. For that tuning, it's the violinist who's "carrying the error".
They're reluctant to take on risk, but that doesn't mean they want to have to suss out what's safe for them to transact & what isn't. I'm sure they've had to grow headcount to tackle this expanding question, and they certainly don't consider it as driving up business value: it's a growing overhead to avoid risk, without cutting off too much business, and without becoming too visible/noteable for refusing service. None of these activities are in any way a win.
Instagram has largely replaced TikTok in India and erased working-class creators
Or declare crypto accounts on the new 2020 1040.
The repeated comments about "routing not scaling" are sort of weird, there's no real technical hurdle to overcome. Approximations of route finding are really all that's necessary, there's no strong centralizing force to be found there.
Tesla coils music on Tesla rave party Berlin
Not disagreeing, but also I don't think it's even necessary for any MBAs to be involved (although such a corporate structure would be very unlikely). All that's needed is a set of incentives that reward a certain style of business to the detriment of others. Based on our total set of economic policies, the US has those incentives in many (most?) sectors of the economy.
Working on your own projects won't get you promoted I would guess.
> For $300 the Quest 2 is the product of the decade

Would you also pay double that amount? That's how much it costs where I live and probably in many other places too.
And you can say what you want, even $300 is not an amount I want to risk going down the drain because Facebook had yet another wave of "oops you're banned now too bad" events.

I will not even touch anything Facebook for free nowadays, to be honest. It's only a matter of time until great alternatives exist.
Payment processors are doing it in response to mass outrage, particularly about revenge porn.
The problem with inflation is that it can amplify itself. Most people know this, and think of the way people hoard e.g. gasoline if they know a price rise is imminent. This amounts to hoarding a consumer good, ie. the outputs of production. However, that's just one aspect of the problem.

Another issue is producers hoarding inputs to the production of consumer goods: commodities (corn, wheat, cotton, steel, oil etc.). An example of this is the chip shortage that we're experiencing. Before, most companies would have maybe a month worth of chip inventory. Now, they'd prefer to have at least a year's worth of inventory of chips, to secure both the chip price and their ability to even obtain them. That's more than a 10-fold increase in the demand for chips over a very short period of time.

When commodity prices rise, the exact same pattern occurs for companies that use commodities as inputs. With falling or constant commodity prices (as we've experienced for the past 10 years [1]), companies have little incentive to have much of an inventory. With increasing commodity prices, the incentive for producers to hoard them is proportional to the rate of increase in their price†. And the more they hoard the more the prices increase, which causes more hoarding etc.

† This is a simplification. Interest rates play an important role here: if the company's annual expected price increase is greater than the interest rate at which they can borrow, then it's profitable for the company to borrow money to buy commodities.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=HBTZ
well, as an example, when the 737MAX was grounded, many airlines had already started taking delivery of them and were operating them. Southwest was the largest recipient at that time.

Southwest had plenty of older 737s as well, but the new MAX planes both fly farther and have more seats, so while the grounding was in effect Southwest was essentially paying to keep the things on the ground while scrambling to reconfigure their flight network, and it affected them the most.
GCP's Autopilot k8s is basically point-and-click. Literally takes few minutes to get up and running. It even creates CI/CD pipelines for you.
Disabling telemetry isn't the kind of 'power user' feature I'm talking about though. Power user features are all about providing flexibility in the way you operate the tools, eg, customising layouts, options for workflow customisation, shortcut keys, command-line tools/options, etc. By repeatedly reverting the choice to use a different browser as the default, Microsoft is actively hostile toward power users.
If the choice is between 3.5 million dead, and the rise of authoritarianism and censorship, then yes the former is much less tragic than the latter and therefore the more acceptable option. And that's before taking into account that the survival rate is quite a bit higher than 99%, so it won't be 3.5 million dead. And also before taking into account that the vast majority of the dead will be the very old, and people who took extraordinarily poor care of their health.

Of course the choice isn't that simple or binary in the real world, but there's elements of that choice at play and I stand by the point I'm making.
A question in response to your question: is putting on your own air mask first when the plane cabin loses pressure, and then helping others with their masks noble or selfish?

Giving someone something you have no obligation to give them for free is literally the definition of generous. It is the opposite of selfish.

This doesn't change if you take care of yourself first.
Brevity Is Often Important
I honestly love your life story and that you're comfortable sharing that. And I admire the passion you have for both those things lol.
> Denmark also has the highest food prices in Europe

Really. Higher than here, Norway?
A disgruntled employee (or a few) seems the most likely scenario for something that could cause an extended outage.
It's coming...as unlikely events converge, distracting the populace...
What do you mean, "are becoming"? They have always been. If the payment processors don't want to be associated with a service, they'll refuse to handle payments and then there's simply no way for the service providers to get paid. See wikileaks and other "problematic" sites.

Advertisers are also regulators. I've seen sites start heavily censoring themselves because someone complained to Google and they pulled the ads. Stuff like this ruins the web.
> But: most people I know don’t have the slightest clue that Insta and WhatsApp belong to the FB group.

They would have found out this week when they all went down. Most people know who owns what. They just don't care that much. We know Nestle is terrible but still buy their products because they taste good.
In my opinion, burnout happen when people that care, work in mismanaged/misaligned projects. People that get burnout are very often the best employees, but they are forced to work on impossible deadlines, without enough control and support or within a team that just do not care.

In most organization, middle management is not accountable. An incompetent manager can make a trail of failed, unfinished and walking dead projects, get promoted and move to another company. Same with principal engineers/architects that create impossible to maintain architecture and move on. What is left is an organization that is often without enough resources in critical sections and new managers starting re-write projects siphoning more people.

What is needed is better ways of managing middle managers without another layer of management. There need to be a ways to have safe feedback loop that can remove incompetent managers and promote good one.
You're misreading the graphs, the chain size can grow at most by 576MB a day.

A maximum of 4MB per block, 6 per hour, 24 hours per day.
> Luckily the assembly language is one of the nicest in existence.

Ah, this I totally agree with. Brought back memories from my undergrad days, programming with PIC was a joy compared to AVR in assembly.
Do they have a safeguard against becoming like the US? By which I mean doubling down on core support base rather than seeking to convert opposition, and using populist rhetoric rather than traditional debate.

If not then it is only a matter of time. A new charismatic leader who says the right things emerges, and system is pushed to breaking point. The US might be the first, but Trump's lasting legacy will be proving to the world that politics can be played this way.
Yeah on stage, the 'playing in a very loud setting with all the band preparing' thing, or between tunes or (useful) to just cut my sound, avoid feedback or other stage shit. https://www.boss.info/us/products/tu-3/ is a Workhorse.
The global economy is just one enormous JIT system now. Great for efficiency not so good for stability.
This is fabulous, thanks for posting… and it’s not just MIDI files either, lots of classic game music running under the appropriate sound emulation also.

I suspect the reason why nobody has commented so far isn’t because they didn’t like it, but rather, they entered and never came back… :-)
Black Swan 2.0 is coming...the manufactured port "crisis" is but one of many converging "events"...
It’s very different, much more like AWS or Azure. The underlying infra is there, you just allocate resources using config and APIs. For example there’s a server farm for running server applications such as batch processing or web applications. To stand up a new application you develop the app on a local instance of the Quartz Python runtime, check it into version control, then to deploy it by configuring a YAML file in version control that defines which server farm it runs on, the path to the code in VC, the schedule and various resource limits. That’s about it. Job done.
Reluctant because they aren't taking the initiative on these things. Some lawmakers or activist groups created a lot of pressure and they bowed to it.

I don't think they want to be dealing with any of this as it is costly (compliance staff and lost revenue) and fraught with political peril. But when the alternative is press releases arguing that Visa is helping aid sexual exploitation, they are going to choose to wash their hands of the market segment.
> This is almost certainly due to heightened expectations after the initial phase of covid where people thought the disease spread through transmission from surfaces, and the norm in most of the service industry in 2020 was to keep things visibly shiny clean.

Or it’s almost certainly from the service industry being understaffed post-covid.

I’ve talked with proprietors in the US and Europe, and it’s common to hear you just can’t find people to work these jobs right now. One hotel manager was now doing food service, some laundry, and some cleaning.
Linux needs IME? :O
>rich exitinvest elsewhere

Worry not, they're already fucking up my country realestate market.

There's a general growing feeling that we're being pushed out of our own country - I don't think this is going to end well.
IMHO this mess will hurt Java on the medium-long run.

All of this is unnecessarily complicated and confusing, as a developer it really feels like they don't want me to use Java.

I have the feeling that, similarly to what happened with the Roman empire, greed, laziness and burocracy are going to drag everything down.
Python assumes that all assignments assign to the current scope. So by default when you reach "x = 22", it would create a new variable called "x" in the inner_function() scope which overrides the variable "x" in the outer_function() scope. So when you print "Inner x" you would only be printing the inner_function() version of x, not the outer_function() version, which would remain at 11.
While true, almost every market in the US has seen some level of price appreciation since Covid hit. Some have seen ridiculous increases in appreciation while others not as much.

Your point about the type of home selling (larger) is no doubt true, but there is still significant underlying appreciation happening.
This Sneaker Does Not Exist
A tuner built by people who are not you for people who are not you is not on your lawn.
TilinGNN: Learning to Tile with Self-Supervised Graph Neural Network
> Recognized by whom? You have to be a specialist in the area to see what's good and promising, and what is not.

And even after that the person who finds this "good science" and sees it has no citations will likely be tempted to rebrand the original idea and present it as his/her own, without referencing the original work.
The labor analysis with Amazon instantly caving in to a strike is also hilarious

Their history shows they do not do that at all for business even more vital to them than AWS - it could be weeks until the zone is up, and disgruntled enough workers may be willing to sabotage the infrastructure as well so you cannot even migrate.
The Necessity of Discrimination and Detachment for Students
I like it :D
Came here to say exactly that. The MAX232 is a staple of RS232 connections to microcontrollers. +5v/-5v (maybe it goes higher?) with a couple of electrolytic caps and that's it
Google and other advertisers are also part of the problem. They set policies on what is and isn't acceptable for sites with ads they serve. Sites will literally censor themselves out of fear Google will pull their ads.
interesting threat vector. would CEO having sole access to Cloudflare R2 clone satisfy at least data durability? since full continuity without AWS is probably impossible for most real life scenarios.
You can define type aliases at the begin of the file to reduce verbosity, as example:

using dic = System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, string>;

Otherwise you can use an anonymous type:

var person = new { name = "frank", address = new { city = "Berlin ", zip = 12345 } };

In this case you get a plain object, but all fields area read only.
Using wikipedia.

Wikipedia can't disclaim the information on wikipedia.org if they want to be a credible organization.
Everybody wants to become a "reluctant regulator of the web" if it means them getting a cut of all economic activity (as the new tax man) without any liability

Let us not be naive. The decades long preference for oligopolistic rather than competitive markets is what created behemoths (both new and old) and now the only question is who of them is going to be granted the keys to the digital kingdom by fiat.
In the cafeteria later that day, the elusive hottie Karen from accounting, that only dated the jocks, walked past the table and said "Hi Mandatethis we should go out some time" while handing over a pice of paper with her snapchat and a big lipstick kiss next to it.
Housing costs is interesting (no pun intended) - does that include mortgage costs? with interest rates at near record lows I'd have expected housing costs to have come down.
> should these people be employed if they make choices I disagree with

This is a disingenuous way to frame it.

The current govt is anti-Nazi, but it's never tried to mandate that all employees found to be Nazis must be fired.

The reason vaccines are an issue of employment (only at larger employers, by the way) is that unvaccinated people endanger their coworkers.

People have a right to be unvaccinated, and the rest of us have a right to protect ourselves from them.
User authentication with passwords, What’s SRP?
> a set of incentives

money, responsibility, prestige

> that reward a certain style of business

profitable, growing, innovative
Oh, it is "368.664K Megabytes", not "368.664K Bytes"?

The day before yesterday it shows: 368.471K

Yesterday it shows: 368.664K

So "0.193K" up in that day.

What does that mean? 193 Megabytes?
Dear Privacy Aware Android App Devs
"no real technical hurdle to overcome"

Uh, this kind of route finding is still an open problem, and there's not even an idea of how to address it.

Approximations don't scale, as routes will start failing more and more as the network grows(due to liquidity issues). Therefore routes will go through well-connected and well-funded nodes, which is the centralizing force you're looking for.
i got a pizza from the store the other day and the damn thing looked smaller. i thought i was just tired until i got a closer look and saw the weight, yup, 2 oz less.
No. It's a meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-saw-flying-lotus-in-a-groce...
How many people search before creating another Ask HN, which was discussed already many times?
Except it doesnt work like that at all. Oil does not explode like that. The oil vapours which float on top of the oil and mix with oxygen can explode, but thats just a teeny tiny portion of the ships volume. It could crack open however, which is arguably much worse.
He didn't say they couldn't explode, he said the fuel itself can't explode, because there's not enough air and it's not vaporized.

Liquids can't burn in air, only gasses can.

(Technically it's possible to make a liquid oxidizer and evenly mix it into the fuel, in which case it should be able to burn, but that's not something that can happen normally as there are very few room temperature liquid oxidizers. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triethylborane and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triethylaluminium ))
I've seen people in large tech companies compulsively editing all texts about their sales across the world to change "XX countries" to "XXX countries and territories", it turned into a habit for them. And there's basically just one country they care about in that instance and which is worth mentioning.
Attempt is a crime.
So is conspiracy. His wife was in on it.

But there are two questions: how did the FBI find out about it? Was Toebbe targeted by an informant?

Secondly, which country was he offering the secrets to? This makes a big difference. "Enemy" or ally? Maybe he felt sorry for the way France was effed over by AUKUS and wanted to make amends.
You have entirely misread what I wrote. I have answered two questions of yours and made no argument, so the problem lies entirely with the fantasy argument you claim I made but is based on massive extrapolation from what I wrote. The problem in the argument is yours.

You have not answered my question.
cultural cohesion?

we have often delayed calls because it's often hard to explain it to some "foreigner"
I don't know, blockchain.com has a history of showing just complete garbage information.
More critical fixes for software once known as A Patchy Server
To be fair, they used `>` to quote the article, and then included the article's `"` to indicate that the article itself quoted someone else.
Most American States have laws against selling ersatz narcotics.