skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, scientists must absolutely be aware what ties authors have if those authors are arguing in bad faith to push an agenda:

> First, researchers must learn to identify authors of research, and their relationships with industry and with non-profit groups that have specialized agendas. How the tobacco industry paid scientists and physicians to serve as advisers and consultants to undermine the body of evidence pointing to the harms of tobacco is extensively documented. More recent examples abound. For instance, the non-profit International Life Sciences Institute, based in Washington DC and funded by leading companies in the food and chemical industries, promotes doubt about science that links ultraprocessed foods with health concerns, and provides experts to promote personal responsibility rather than regulations on junk food in policies to combat obesity.

Edit:

> What we need is scientists who have backbone, who have an unwaivering unaltering desire to get to the truth at all costs.

This is one part of what this article is demanding. It's arguing against efforts of entrenched interests - often businesses - to obscure the truth or make it harder for the general public to tell truth from untruth.

The second part is about taking action. Informing is one part, but at some point courses of action have to be decided - and for many problems, it's not enough to delegate this to individuals, the decision has to be taken on a collective level. Because we will never have 100% knowledge, a certain amount of uncertainty has to be tolerated when deciding on a course.

What this article also argues against is tactics that specifically target this unavoidable amount of uncertainty with the interest of delaying action.
Did those modules fail readonly, and the SMART data showed that their write limit had been reached?

Or did the entire module electronically fail, as distinct from the SSD "no more writes" case?
Because you're on a site where a significant portion of the population probably have poor social skills / are unlikable but have high degrees of technical skill.

If you had this conversation in the real world instead of the internet, everyone would just say "yeah, duh".
When the timeline from "problem first appeared" to "problem is fixed in all cars" was less than 2 days, then I'd say 8 days later for a recall is a long time.
> The price for housing has gone up substantially in the last 20 years

This is the result of supply and demand. How does demand for housing increase? Falling mortgage, downpayment assistance programs, government guaranteed loans. That increases demand.

And housing is also larger than 20 years ago.

> We wouldn't tolerate the price of food going up by the same percentage.

This is just silly. It is not something you "tolerate" it's something you cause.

Food prices also rise when demand increases.

The public has 100% control over demand as they are the ones bidding up the house prices! Now they do not have 100% control over supply. But house prices have not risen because of a decline in supply.
I've always suspected, but never can confirm, that this incentivization is already the case: the reason why app search seems so bad is because revenue trumps any other aspect of relevance, and spammy apps generate more revenue out of unsuspecting users.
People keep conflating my example with non-assigned work, ie: "spend time working on the wrong issues or going down rabbit holes because their vision is superior to those around them"

Clearly this would be a problem, and I understand why people are conflating it with what I am describing because it is both related and relatable.

But, I'm talking about doing your assigned work - maybe calling out the specific Postgres example is why everyone assumes it's just some jackass running off on their own... in the hypothetical I posited I did not mean this. I also did not mean to paint the hypothetical worker staying back at the office as rude/a jackass...

Truly - there are many people who are only interested in keeping their nose down 100% focused on what work is assigned to them vs. the amorphous "culture fit" socializing. Hell - lots of them for fully rational reasons like social anxiety.

Many people want to come to work to work, and then go home.
You can only be suggested as a name for someone else's photo if you've turned face recognition on.

"If you’d like other people to see tag suggestions for you, you’ll need to turn on your face recognition setting."

So you need to opt in to it to let others tag you.
Although a tad bit of a tangent, I've been fed up with the entire new past couple generations of game consoles needing to be online, and having no physical media. I've not had a gaming console since the Xbox 360 era due to this. I do not like needing to be always online to play a game, and I do not like how it can need to be patched and updated on a whim. I want to buy a game, play it how I want, and have the physical copy. I want it to be a finished product when I buy it. Devices and games (webapps, modern console games, even smart phones apps and games) that require being online, I hope to only be a fad. I won't support it.

As pertains to lowtechmagazine - Love these guys, love the idea, love the minimalist culture about it. Fully support it!
Mega-Caps suffer from the following problem:

1. There are more engineers making more divergent architectural solutions such that there is never a single place where you can make changes across the group.

2. Failures keep happening, so process is instituted with many checkboxes for engineers to work through.

3. Engineers on the small scale stuff get stack ranked against the engineers on the big scale stuff. Everyone needs to show that they can do the work and are "fungible". This leads to small internal systems having the same operational standard as large public facing systems.
Great! But if it is not without the consent of the person involved though, it is your "convenience" breaching someone else's privacy. I think it is important to think about this.
The people could always fix this by removing zoning bylaws, or moving somewhere with less restrictive bylaws, but it’s much easier to blame billionaires than their own voting preferences.
Okay, you just want different things from this MVP than the developers want. That's fine.
This article may not be a sign, but a different[1] article is a pretty decent sign

Zillow is also selling individual homes, not just this package. In their main algorithmic buying market of Phoenix they're selling individual homes, 93% of whom they payed more for than the new current listing price (and they usually do renovations before listing)

So Zillow VCs are essentially paying people to take a discount on houses in those markets. pretty sweet

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/zillow-offers-ibuyer-sell-ph...
> I've resorted to giving people edibles (the regular kind, not the psychoactive kind), but it feels thoughtless.

But...it's the thought that counts.

Why would a gift of food/drink/whatever be less thoughtful? Particularly if it's homemade, isn't it moreso?
New nerve cell type discovered in retina could play role in signal processing
I'm a relatively new govcloud user and this is impacting my work today. Does anybody here have a sense of how long outages like this typically take to resolve?
it has been used https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-concentrating...
Ok, we've inserted currency into the title above.
Every person or corporation that owns more than one residential dwelling should pay increased property taxes based on the number of residential dwellings they own.

This is an easy problem to legislate away, our politicians are just too cowardly to decommodify housing.
on the contrary reading it in Latin actually make it an enjoyable read, the English is downright dreadful.
> This setup has a benefit; namely, it is now impossible to brick the system with a bad BIOS/EFI flash, and you'll never need to use a hardware SPI flasher to recover.

T2 could have been designed to store / recover the rom in an SPI flash too. It's just cheaper to store it on the SSD
Microsoft Brings JavaScript to Excel
The ability to create bootable backups on external drives as you describe, does not necessarily conflict with the inability to boot from external drives as the post link describes.
I’m happy but I don’t believe it.
https://archive.md/mNMiD
Show HN: Screegle – Clean Screen Sharing (macOS)
"What we need is scientists who have backbone, who have an unwaivering unaltering desire to get to the truth at all costs. "

Well, they also need to eat. So you'll have to pay them for it, as directly as possible.
"it's actually neosvr", "it's actually [insert thing here]"

Maybe it's always been here, perhaps it's just another abstraction or simulation of a perceived reality.
One could say that MUD systems are metaverses(metaversi?)

What I would like to see are more decentralized simulation systems with extensive accessibility features
Yes it is. It is a legitimate reason against eating heavily processed food including plant proteins, and you have made zero legitimate arguement against it, saying no its not is an invalid point.
They won’t argue with it but they’ll certainly ship it.
Discussed at the time (of the article, of course):

How to Read “Gilgamesh” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21270962 - Oct 2019 (50 comments)
> If true self-driving cars ever become a reality, there's going to be a big demand spike for more and bigger roads

Why would there be a need for more roads? It seems like the opposite would be true: self-driving cars don't need safe following distance to each other. They could form a massive train (the more you look at self driving cars, the more they look like trains), with 1 inch of space between each vehicle. Highway lanes are so wide, that small self-driving vehicles could sit 2-across, with an inch of space between them. On-demand self-driving-cars could cut the total number of cars on the road by a big factor. Self-driving cars might never crash, so they won't need all those tons of safety equipment that each car lugs about, saving a pile of net energy.
This looks promising compared with collaborating in word
Time to call Governor Hochul
I wasn't even complaining though. I'm just demoralized due to the extreme and ever increasing complexity. I don't feel like it's worth it to update my C++ skills.

My real complaint about C++ is the utterly insane ABI situation. Only C++ code dares to touch C++ code, no other language can interface with it without a C interface in between. The new standards forced even C++ compilers to break backwards compatibility with themselves due to requiring certain data structure performance characteristics. There is such a thing as C++ code that won't even work with other C++ code produced by the same compiler.
This is a nothing article, with zero substance, no data to back up assertions, and no real use.

For example:

>So, if you behave like sleep, or not sleeping isn’t a big deal by not trying to control sleep, your brain will eventually take the cue and stop stressing about sleep as well.

The brain is not an entity outside yourself. It's literally you. You can't trick it. You can train yourself, though. . . .

By using 'sleep hygiene' advice on how to sleep better, such as avoiding strenuous tasks before bed, eliminating screen time before bed, no caffeine/nicotine/other stimulants, and setting a bedtime and waking time every day as much as you can and sticking to it.

Edit: and the person who posted this/only other comment seems to be the author of the blog post. So that's not great.
You must have been very popular in Q2 2020.
It's less the cable than the connector, so, similar trouble with nvme ports (and ram slots, for that matter). I've barely had exposure to supporting laptop hardware, and have seen "thing shimmied loose" or "contact corroded" as the root cause of problems more than once.
Which looks like Quip, which looks like OneNote, which looks like a million other note-taking apps before it.

I think the more interesting aspect is the extreme coauthoring; it looks like the underlying tech is open source as well which is pretty interesting for a lot of applications: https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework
Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software
Honestly, /r/experienceddevs has a little bit of /r/antiwork vibes too.

I created a post about making time for side projects some time ago (link: https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/piioin/how...)

Some of the top rated comments as of 2021-11-02:

- "I don't do side projects. Once I started working professionally, they stopped"

- "I don't. I code enough during work hours."

- "I try to support anti work activism so that someday people can spend their life on the things they feel are important in the world and not forced to sell most of their best years."

Lots of posts there had this sort of vibe.

Part of me feels bad that so many people hate their jobs (or work in places that treat their employees like dirt). It's really hard to talk about work (even when going through a rough patch) amongst others since I really like what I do.

But another part of me isn't okay with a world in which the vast majority of people do nothing (or do something that doesn't really produce value) while forcing higher-income people (like many of us, myself included) to fund that lifestyle.
No - we are not going after both - the AG's take high profile low hanging easy target cases.

I've personally tried to get police / DA / AG type response on a fair number of white collar type cases. Crickets.

Stolen checks / AP fraud, even stuff that would be pretty damn easy to track down (ie, whose name was on account that cashed this check) - there is almost no follow-up. It really can be eye opening.
Yeah, I'm from SE Florida, so that timing sounds about right.

I recall when it was first being rolled out, it was some sort of weird hybrid service that did phone-up/cable-down. Not sure how long that nonsense lasted, because they weren't doing that anymore when my parents finally got it.
can you really clone a broad category? Wouldn't we just call that an alternative implementation?
This is the 100x Dev myth, and straw man that devs are either 100x or -100x.

As it turns out most devs are somewhere between 0.8x-1.2x. With a few 2x and 0x outliers. In many roles a 0.8x who plays well with others is vastly preferable to a 1.2x who cannot work as part of a team.

Unless you are at the most prestigious, high paying, selective firm.. then maybe you have possibly higher performing people, but by your selection process they will also be clustered themselves.. just on a different range of the band.
i hope so. is really nice language.
Serious question, has anyone ever used a collab product in the way described (3 cursors and several people typing)?
I was wondering recently if it might be possible with today's GPU hardware to create a Minecraft-like world with similar dynamics but with fully simulated physics across the entire world. In Minecraft terms this would be a global simulation "tick" that allowed things like gravity to work, more sophisticated creature behaviors to play out globally, etc.
> The client will also disconnect if your IP address changes, or there is a temporary loss of connectivity.

Not to mention CGNAT doesn't have large enough memory to respect TCP keepalive, it will drop your connection in a heartbeat if you even look at the session funny. I only have mobile internet at home and it was a pain until I wrapped it up in wiregaurd permanently.

Using SSH is now bliss... TCP keepalive is respected, an idle prompt will actually stay alive for the full 2 hours, which is basically impossible on any consumer internet connection today. I can switch physical connections without worrying about it dropping too... even when packet loss is crazy high wiregaurd ensures SSH doesn't know enough to drop the connection. I no longer worry about losing connections enough to usually not bother with tmux until I actually need multiplexing.

My internet experience in general has improved ever since using wiregaurd.
People don't use them as bargaining chips most of the time--it is explicitly against policy. I'm sure it happens some times.

What they do do is send one when someone else does something nice (like fix a bug from a project they have left or whatever else). If you ever need something similar again, the person you peer bonused has warm fuzzies about the experience and a hint that they might get it again.

People also use peer bonuses during perf time to demonstrate that the work they are doing impacts other people enough for a somewhat uncommmon thank you.
Reading between the the lines, it sounds like you are getting into disagreements with family and you feel that you "know better".

There are a few things to consider: the first is that many things are not as black-and-white as you might be lead to believe (a good example of this is american politics, which tends to be boiled down to popular talking points that get parroted ad nauseam, but those often focus on rhetorics more than matters of day-to-day practicality). One thing I try to do is to try to put myself in the other person's shoes or play devil's advocate with myself. It's very easy to e.g. scorn religiousness, but much harder and humbling to understand where they come from and come to terms with the fact that some people are just fundamentally different from you. Through actively seeking a "grand unifying theory" of religion, I've come to an answer that is both religiously compatible and scientifically compatible, which means I no longer feel the need to convert people to "my" side.

This ties into the second thing: what practical purpose is there to discuss these topics? We live in a society built on specialization; if you are interested in complex niche topics as a means to personal fulfillment, there are appropriate places to discuss them. Generally speaking, the intersection between those circles and your family/friend circle may be non-existent.

Part of living in a society is understanding others' boundaries and conducting yourself appropriately in a given context (i.e. there's nothing wrong with the guys wanting to watch SuperBowl instead of doing a chess party, and there's nothing inherently inferior about family wanting to spend time on superficial travel/food photos instead of engaging in philosophical discussions about Monet). Intellectual pursuit is not the only goal in life, and that's ok.

And third, live and let live. There's great wisdom in various religions about what things are under your control, what things are not, and how being cognizant of how those differences can affect your mental well being. You cannot control how others think, but you can control your expectations, your goals and how you channel your energy towards achieving those goals.
Bitcoin is much more volatile than modern stores of value.
I think you're focused on the domain chosen by the author and not the more general technique.

Replace the steps with "Releasing a build to my app store" or something else.
My point is whatever approach apple is taking, I'm not getting a lot of spam on iMessage, and the one time I did it was pretty easy to mark as spam if I remember.
Stephen Axford: How fungi changed my view of the world
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, or take HN threads on generic tangents, which tend to be predictable and boring (and usually turn nasty, in the end).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(p.s. This moderation comment is purely about HN and doesn't imply anything about the topic.)
> But there are plenty of examples of density leading to lower prices, in the suburbs.

Do you have specific examples? The only places I can think of are economically depressed (e.g. in the midwest, or in Florida swampland) and aren't particularly dense.

Maybe Houston? Houston is famous for having almost no zoning, but even Houston seems to be heating up these days.
Thank you for the recommendations. That's very helpful. I'm less bullish on bilingual editions (I know Ancient Greek well, and Latin a little less well, so I'm not totally uninformed) but I'm unlikely to ever be as proficient at Akkadian as I am at the languages I studied in college so I'm glad to know those exist.
Seems to integrate to Teams. At least on the website video it shows you can create a ”Loop thing” in Teams.

Maybe this is using Fluid [1] framework and can be embedded to other apps.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_Framework
Do you mean to say that when you top up with USDC, it converts to USD? It's 1 to 1 and instant so in practical purposes you are using your USDC directly. I have no issues doing so on my card.
many adults feel this way as well
Perhaps you can consider this one instead: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14.
Not exactly. From the perspective of building data of concern, simply uploading photos won't do that. Uploading photos just potentially creates databases of rando faces.

It is the tying of these faces to a name (identity) that's the challenge. Further, the crucial data comes from a human's act of tagging a person in a photo.
It's Croquet. Which was Alan Kay building the metaverse -- as a mere stepping stone to his real goal which always was to build the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from The Diamond Age.
It's always comforting to know that if you weren't good enough to achieve anything of note in your youth you can always earn accolades for being stubborn enough to do it in old age. I have some unreasonable rock climbing goals that seem less likely but more impressive as I age. Also a 42 year old man just became the light heavyweight UFC champ last weekend so I guess... Keep fighting.
Hey, I really like the animated diagrams in your posts.
Could you share a few tips about how you create them?
Netflix Games starts global rollout on Android, with iOS ‘on the way’
Show HN: A New Browser Automation API
It's okay to not be okay
That was pretty much the standard in the late 19th and early 20th century. The lines were often economically non-viable and were shut down in the 30s, but on the eve of WWI you had villages of under 1000 people with their own train stations (as small as 20sqm), gauges so narrow you had to walk sideways to fit between the rails (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_ft_and_600_mm_gauge_railways), and sometimes closer to trams than regular rails with the rails bolted straight onto road surface.
Thank you for the recommendations.
Well, there's this...

https://github.com/couchbase/query
An ASAT weapon is pretty small. It can be launched from a small platform like a fighter jet and produces nowhere near as much light and heat as an orbital rocket or an ICBM.

Most likely it hits you before you know what hit you.
The neosvr team is doing just that with the open source bepu physics engine :D
> We need batteries, more reliable clean base generation if we want to use less dirty peak generation.

Options that are often cheaper than massive batteries and "more reliable clean base generation" by which I assume you mean "build new nuclear".

- don't shut down existing nuclear

- hydro as implicit or explicit storage

- interconnecting regions

- better green energy mix

- overbuilding green production

- geothermal

- demand management aka variable pricing
Yeah, I’m going to put those in my rc file. I’m surprised they aren’t the default options but that’s not a big deal.
Hi Microsoft!

Please show your love for linux by doing the same with Microsoft Office!
I looked up "synecdoche" (to see if it would give me this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-n1vGeVIXo), and a few of the examples are of people saying "Schenectady" but mis-transcribed. I guess you can just use your judgment to filter out a few mistakes, so no big deal.