skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with what another commenter said about getting some money and trying it out for yourself.

I'd add on though to try out some DeFi protocols as well. Using things like DEXs, lending protocols, and yield farms. Experience is the best way to learn for sure.
I suppose, but I didn’t vote on it either way.
Currently working out how to create "wall art worthy" generative Standard Model-based particle interaction plots using Physics-accurate Monte-Carlo simulation.

Motivation: Have a blank wall and want an "artistic" Standard Model accurate particle physics simulation.

Current angle of attack is using GEANT4 for simulation. Still working on how to best process the resulting data to create interesting and aesthetically pleasing results.
As others have said, it does not really make sense to search by ZIP code for most consumers. Your chicken could come from anywhere. This is meant to check the processor for a specific package of chicken.
In my (limited) experience, really only New Orleans takes "no big box stores" seriously.

NYC and SF to a lesser extent: big box exist, but there are alternatives.

Can't speak to Chicago or the northern Midwest though.
Joke but kinda real as some US state put sensitive info into HTML and is attempting to prosecute someone for finding it.
From reading the list it’s clear it’s from living in a low cost suburban low rise 1960s-80s apartment complex — which tend to be the defacto standard for international graduate students - average frame construction, low cost electric appliances, cheap to replace mid pile carpet, the cheap vertical blinds, the cheapest glacier bay dual valve faucet [1] - all very efficient to manage and turn over. They have convenient parking and decent amenities for the price. In the rust belt/northeast these complexes are 90 percent (made up number) international and some domestic students and old people (there isn’t much difference in these places and most “senior living” places outside of what’s on the sign out front)
They still don't need one, but will never stop nagging about it. I've been clicking on the x to close the popup asking for my address multiple times a day for about two years now.
Well, they did end up making it a pretty good database. They saved the good parts (great clients, dev experience) and got rid of the bad (original storage engine, instability) add and have a legit database. Good on them.
what levels have those "shelves" occurred at?
Quantum of solace: even physicists are still scratching their heads – Physics
I recall seeing something about Spotify being done with iframes in this style.
Singapore biotech firm raises $30m for US expansion
there is a use for them. I think I've used them three or four times in my career in the last 15 years and they worked great.
It’s not necessarily magical, but we call those devices “judges” and “juries” here in the states, referring to those whose roles in the legal system include judging someone’s intentions. They usually do so without widespread access to telepathy or divination, and so too their UK counterparts.
> They failed, by definition

That's not what "by definition" means...

This article is nonsense, and typical of intellectually dishonest right-wingers. They always claim that it was actually regulation the whole time that caused the problems! Wow! Yet we can look at the regulations the author cites, and what were ultimately the reasons for the end of wildcat banks, and see those were obviously not the cause.

Regardless, the lessons learned are still applicable today. Whether wildcat banks were common or not doesn't change that most cryptocurrencies mirror the failed wildcat banks of the past.
Doing the $LORD's work. I haven't contributed much to RethinkDB but it's such a great piece of software. It was doing things right basically from the beginning -- also has great Jepsen reviews[0][1] (if you ever need to defend it -- it's one of the better ones).

The Admin GUI was one of the things that made it an instant click for me -- it's a fantastic tool and I want to run it as a service someday, feels like the only way it can gain marketshare again is if some company pushes it sustainably.

[0]: https://jepsen.io/analyses/rethinkdb-2-1-5

[1]: https://jepsen.io/analyses/rethinkdb-2-2-3-reconfiguration
The US has jurisdiction over things imported to the US, and apparently over network equipment used in exchanges.

To my knowledge this has not previously been used as punishment for theft of trade secrets (Hwawei was sanctioned for doing business in Iran), but the legal mechanism is there.
Solar and Wind Force Poverty on Africa
You can build a picture of the US based on chunks of similar land area, or on chunks of similar population.

A huge amount of the land area of the US, if visited, very much supports "the pessimistic view of the US". But these are not the parts that most people will tend to visit.

If you focus on the areas where the majority of Americans actually live, you get a fairly different story.

That's not to say that either version is "The Truth About America". Both stories are interwoven and interconnected with each other, and very interdependent.
An accident where it failed to listen to the driver overriding it and did the bad thing anyways, would be an unambiguous case.

A trend where it was frequently (over the background human accident rate) making decisions that resulted in it switching from driving normally to an accident being inevitable in less time than a human can react. Something like it frequently sharply turning the wheels at highway speed.

Short of something like that which takes agency away from the driver, the driver is in control and responsible for the vehicle, whether they are using assistive technology or not. Accidents also happen already, it doesn't make sense to insist on assistive technology being superhuman at avoiding them.
All of California is this way now. We were in SF, then Peninsula, now Sacramento and it's just the same that you describe all over. We're thinking Utah or Idaho. We don't want to raise kids where we can't let them go outside without worrying about some psychotic drug user coming across them--I wish that wasn't a realistic concern but it is!
It’s going to be difficult for me to regain trust in WD following recent cases where they swapped out controllers on consumer SSD products with components offering degraded performance following their initial release.
YouTube throttling download through yt-dl
> What does a 14 hour day accomplish over 8? You're not pumping out widgets, right?

6 hours of teaching the courses your advisor doesn't teach, + conditioning to work for free for a predatory academic publisher.
I never like the arguments that state we should not care about `a` because `b` and `c` are equally bad or worse and we have done nothing about them.

Can we just talk about an issue as its own issue? Maybe `b` and `c` are really hard to solve, but `a` is easy to solve.

Many arguments against action are usually framed in this comparison structure - I think it is a weak argument unless you explain why `b` and `c` out prioritize `a` for shared resources.
I'm kind of with you, but I read that sentence a little differently based on the rest of the article.

First, the agreement: I personally would move a lot of money for a better rate, but it would have to be non-trivially better. I'm thinking if I'm getting 0.75% now, it'd have to be 2% or maybe 1.5%. Not positive. Maybe you'd have a lower threshold.

The other point to me, though, was that Wang is arguing that the banks won't feel the need to increase their rates because they are already attracting so much money in deposits as it is. Whereas before they would have to pass on the higher interest rate to their customers in order to attract the deposits, they now are flush with cash themselves that they don't need to attract more deposits. And maybe ALL banks are feeling that way (again, in Wang's opinion, I think). So, the overall competition for deposits is low, which means higher rates are just increased profits for the banks.

Not arguing correct or not on that, just sharing how I understood it.
Is SCMP a reliable source for pro-China news?
Just finished installing a new pfsense firewall. I’m obsessed with ad/group blockers and so on, so it was fun.

Oiling a butcher block with tung oil for a new standing desk.

Being unhappy at my startup. Beginning to look to find folks to work with to found a new startup, or join one.
Dude....this is not how it was. It was much less expensive.

There was so much cracked software in those days.

Security was so much worse.
The "Cal Arts style" owes a lot to UPA, yes. In part because one of the UPA people taught there for a while - see this article from the same blog: https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/what-the-upa-style...
This comment [1] also says youtube-dl is no longer maintained.

[1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30075#issuecom...
That looks amazing!
If you zoom out a little, complexity is killing human society at large - with software you can re-write and migrate most of the really necessary stuff for a few billion and a decade, the rest of society and it's complexity - not so much without some serious bloodshed and misery.
Thank goodness for Obamacare (at least in the mid-Atlantic US). Before Obamacare, individual plans were absolute shit (my individual plan wouldn't have covered my wife's pregnancy with our first kid... her job's insurance did).

Thanks to Obamacare, individual plans have the same coverage as employer plans. Without Obamacare I couldn't have started my company which now employs 9 people in well paid tech jobs (without a penny of outside investment). I'd be stuck in an artificial set of handcuffs imposed by a stupid legacy system of tying health insurance to employment.
Or hers. These days one should be more sympathetic to these nuances.
I understand this doesn't adress the core of your statement (that the US is no longer "number one" and leaders need to ack that) but -

Isn't the prevailing view that nuclear arsenals have made number-of-soldiers largely irrelevant?

I've been told that actual war between powers now means catastrophic nuclear blasts both ways
I don't understand not prosecuting theft at all. There are like 2 things which are super clearly bad and the government should stop (1) theft and (2) violence.

People shouldn't get life sentences for petty theft, but they should get a pretty severe punishment.
Just the other day;

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/10/covid-19...

The tone of this article (“fooled America”, “heroic nurses”, “censored by big tech”) is emotionally provocative, for no reason. Sounds like two more academics with an axe to grind.
I would expect SOME vehicles to do so just fine.

Really hot weather in the Continental USA can be pretty toasty, and if a garage was designed more like a crummy solar furnace, I would expect to see it hit those temperatures.

My car has survived at least 150F interior temperatures parked outside during a sunny Pacific Northwest heatwave. I'm estimating that temp because I had some plastic in the car that was rated to lose stiffness at 150F and it got a bit floppy after the car was parked outside in sunny 105F+ weather weeks on end and the plastic was in shade.

It can be hard on lead acid batteries and shorten their life, some lithium ion battery chemistries top out at 130F ambient operating temperature, and ABS plastic that dashboards can be made of is rated to about 176F. If its 150F ambient, the dash could be even hotter.
Tossing desperate people into prison makes them desperate people with a criminal record that makes them more desperate. Have you ever known anyone with a felony on their record trying to get their life on track? It's hard, and you might be surprised at what can get you charged with one. Even a non-felony conviction can cause trouble getting decent work.
LHC does basic research which is opposite of what you are asking (applied research). They seek to increase our understanding on particle physics, not make our lifes directly better.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research
Hubble Watches a Cosmic Bat Shadow “Flapping”
You're definitely not a bozo. These defaults are the sort of things that need to be polished.

A simple one page screen on first install that asks a few questions would be a nice:

1. "Would you like to be nagged for your pin every few days?" - Yes/No

2. Are you moving from another device and would you like to restore from a backup? - Yes/No

etc...
> This is happening because theft under $950 is a misdemeanor, which means if it's reported to 911 it's a low priority response.

There is no necessary connection between those things. The problem is the police choose to deprioritize it, in part as a political protest of the classification, and in part because (or as a political gesture to highlight the fact that) the current SF DA won't prosecute it most of the time even as the misdemeanor it is. There aren't retailers leaving the rest of California because of a wave of theft, because other DAs and police departments aren't equally ineffective with the same penal code. This is mostly a Chesa Boudin issue and secondarily an SFPD issue.
No, but people tend to spend more earlier in retirement and he can plan for it. Planning for rising premiums as a single person is easy, planning for a family if he ever wants one is more difficult.
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It's not Aladdin stealing a loaf of bread.. These are organized crime rings that are stealing to resell to "fences" who then resell the goods online or at flea markets. If you ran a business, I'm sure you'd see it differently. Almost no one is going hungry in America and certainly not SF, where we have generous social services.
Not sure but I would guess separate, because Apple did not start calling it iOS until much later. At the iPhone launch they called it OS X, then later it was iPhone OS.
> I can protect my own money, thank you. I do not need a nanny

I love when people out themselves as having never worked on anything significant. Yeah, sure, for your pocket change, I'm sure you can reasonably protect it. For any significant transaction, I want the ability to reclaim my money if the other side turns out to be fraudulent.
The startup I worked for just got acquired. I was one of the early employee and had some equity. Financially comfortable now but need to complete another 2 years in this new company. Looking for ideas in b2b saas, ping me if you have any ideas, Ready to invest.
Holy shit.

In the first video there's a clip with a security guy confronting the person stealing and they just keep grabbing things as if he didn't exist. It's a bad comedy if it wasn't real.
The insurance company handles it.
I’m trivializing the use of the victim of an event as justification to say we can’t have voter id. It’s a strange argument, coming off as if voter id laws and protecting people from spousal abuse must be at odds, so anyone who supports voter id must support spousal abuse as well.

Is the next argument that Hitler wanted voter id? At what point do we get to actually discuss the merits of validating a person is who they say they are so they get exactly one vote?
I LOVE this idea.

I am sure many on here are playing with the same "outside of programming" type ideas.

I've been a budding woodworker for the longest time and even though I keep going back to playing with some kind of tech thing outside my day job, I have been teaching myself how to draw faces (Loomis method), and trying to pick up woodworking again. Each of these require enough time but they're a welcome departure from the usual tech stuff (which I still generally enjoy but has been very intense, working on Pandemic-response projects)
ADS-B demodulation / decoding in Rust, all open source! Also included is a cool radar tui application.

https://github.com/wcampbell0x2a/adsb_deku

https://github.com/wcampbell0x2a/dump1090_rs
Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
I agree, H+ is a dumb approach.
Taiwan Being a Boss
This article had me thinking about the movie Real Steel and rock 'em sock 'em robots with the part about the grappling arm. I'm only half laughing since it feels like an eventuality at this point.
Meanings of the Metaverse: Productizing Reality
Ask HN: Who is up for Meeting? (November 2021)
Please state the location and include REMOTE when that sort of meetup is happening.

Please only post if you personally are part of the meetup. Only one post per person or company. Please explain what your meetup is about.

Commenters: please don't reply to meetup posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the meetup.

-----

(text is copied from the 'who is hiring' and lightly modified')

Idea is from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28946758
San Francisco probably has one of the most generous social service provisions of any city in the world. The latest one I’ve heard of: a bunch of basic income programs explicitly limited to certain
races and also artists for some reason.

> This pilot program will be the first guaranteed income project in San Francisco to focus solely on artists. The other guaranteed income programs include funding for San Franciscans training to become EMTs, Black and Pacific Islander expecting mothers as part of the Abundant Birth Project, and members of San Francisco’s Black and African-American community as part of the Mayor’s Dream Keeper Initiative.

Somehow a city like Tokyo manages to make do without many of these supposedly necessary programs. Weird, right?
@dang - what do you think? :)
> Tossing desperate people into prison makes them desperate people with a criminal record that makes them more desperate.

Misdemeanors don't result in prison (or very significant jail time). They may even lead just to a diversion program or community service.

Visibly having no consequences for crime, OTOH, does lead to more crime.
Five minute video compares military recruitment ads for (1.) China, (2.) Russia, (3.) USA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfe6d6MzeLM

Summary: Chinese and Russian ads focus on discplined men training themselves for war. The USA ad is about a girl raised by two lesbian mothers who joins because, in her own words, "...I need my own adventures...."

There's pure comedic gold in the comments.

'Russian soldier also has two mothers: biological mom, and MOTHER RUSSIA!!!'
Working on my take on the metaverse: https://substrata.info/
Pretty exciting.
Please add an email to your profile so I can reach out directly - I shouldn't doxx myself that obviously and if I post the name of the org I will
Interesting thoughts, I like the miner analysis, esp. since a lot of these companies have moved from OTC to NQ listed recently. I keep a watchlist just to observe how they react to BTC pricing, and pondering some of your thesis it's got me revisiting the thought that miners might be a great target for a "short the VIX" style strategy. There's also the new "BITO" ETF which is most certainly being used by some big brain quants to build some asset basket that nets them a near zero-risk long-term win. Wish I had more financial brainpower to put to it.
The first commercial use will be slamming them with advertising
What you described is the opposite of "stable" so I'm highly concerned by the terminology being used here.
I turneda hobby into a job teaching whitewater kayaking and swiftwater rescue techniques. COVID sent so many people outside that I was able to quit a tech job June 2020 and have been able to do this during the warmer months and play doing other hobbies all winter long.
That's not really true anymore though. The ACA made it so individual health plans are really similar now to what you will get through an employer. And no denial for pre-existing conditions, etc.

Fk you money where you don't ever need to work again and* maintain a big lifestyle is a totally different story though. Doesn't mean OP can't take a break for a year or two though.
Except the shell is bad for those things, except pipes I guess.

I just hate doing things with files in the shell, all those stupid escaping rules, and god forbid you have files with spaces or quotes in the names, or leading or trailing spaces.

It's just spending time learning hacks to get around shell limitations instead of actually getting things done, and at the end it's an ugly mess.

Or maybe I'm just bad at it, but I don't think it's only that.
Distinctive epigenetic features of the human cerebellum
I've been making homemade pizza. I make a few every few days.

It started out pretty bad, but now it's delicious and my kids get excited to eat it - they think it's the best crust ever.

It's not the recipe at all, either. The technique makes all the difference, at least for the dough.
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Factorio Speedrun Guide
Timely post. Been evaluating newsletter services for a new project so may give this a try.

FYI – All of your site pages have the same title, or are missing page titles.
Our entire internal site [let us call it a CMS] is made using iframes. We are about to move toward something different because mobile. Suggestions welcome. We're a php shop.
Omg am I finally going to profit on all my unused bulk electronics parts orders?
Brain's movement control centre may have had key role in our evolution
Making my own SaaS during my free time, and trying to not overengineer everything
Not yet, no. I will look out for it. I am definitely I'm in an early phase where I'm just finding things "cool", without noticing why they might be awful. But I do wonder if there are senior devs on each side of the this C++-is-awful fence?
The contributors to this piece are almost entirely (tech) entrepreneurs and content writers and editors at tech companies. Most of these people aren't known best for spending years of their lives understanding, say, combinatorial optimization, or the phylogeny of anoplogaster brachycera, or covert prestige in Kanjobalan–Chujean language speaking communities. Which isn't to say that there aren' experts of this nature among them, nor that people should be best known for this sort of niche and academic work if they've since gone on to do other things.

But it makes me highly suspicious, to be frank. For instance, the first "expert" isn't even an expert -- he's an amateur data scientist who happened to build an accurate model of COVID-19. Did we all simply forget how both amateur and professional data scientists publishing bullshit COVID-19 models last year stoked the flames of misinformation for the sake of a cool portfolio project?

I'm down to shit on academia. Who knows how much knowledge production have been squandered by its administrative excesses, gatekeeping and abuse? And I love that the internet has leveled the playing field in a lot of ways. But at the same time I have little faith that the private sector and tech in particular will be the great equalizers, and I'm surprised that anyone does given how much knowledge production is squandered by their gatekeeping and walled gardens.

And guess what else? At the end of the day, there are lots of hard problems that can't be solved with Google, grit, and a little python -- you actually need to sit down, do the reading, do the work, listen to people who've been doing it longer than you, and do that for years.