skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment was downvoted when I got here, but it's very very relevant. Thank the creator that I've never been locked out of an account, but I've seen it happen enough times to be terrified of putting critical infrastructure on a single provider.

GP should be diligent to download his spreadsheets periodically.
> Ah, the linear no threshold theory of radiation.

i wasnt aware this was contested. its what i was taught in the us nuclear navy.

> If background radiation is everywhere, how can there be no safe dose.

this is not a self-evident refutation and is a bad argument. cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in the US, meaning there is an even higher nonlethal occurance of cancer. this is not all radiations doing, but its hardly obvious that bathing in radiation your whole life is a "safe dose"
>It's disrespectful to be nosey into what people are doing

>Good on them. They figured out a way to make money using information that they collected.

These two statements don't jive. Its disrespectful to be nosey, but its fine if people buy data and be nosey into other peoples lives? That's quite absurd
Surely the soviets killing dozens of millions of russians and invading half of Europe is all the fault of the evil West.

Sounds like you went around the world with a narrative preset in your mind.
yeah that is also possible
IANAL but the lawyers I've worked with have said unpaid violations lead to cutting off business relations until fines are satisfied.

I'm sure it's more complicated but the general idea is economic coercion.

Now given that, the class of proximity based apps are all regional (such as dating, dog walking, delivery, etc).

I have no idea if Grindr has a market penetration in Europe to make it worthwhile. Companies have been known to completely vacate markets instead of honor fines or fees.
Same for me at my previous work, kept a log in a txt file for about a decade.

When I came back visiting my old colleagues one of their gift was my txt file printed on paper, it was a few centimeters thick :)
> It's also become increasingly difficult, and in some cases nigh impossible, to avoid items from China.

I have the opposite experience. I find it's becoming increasingly easy. I'm finding myself surprised that most things aren't made in china. So far the only thing I haven't been able to get was a waffle maker -- I can do without! Or I should just actually get a $300 waffle maker instead of something stupid that will probably break after a few runs

The hardest to find was a power drill.

I suspect that much of this is labor costs in china going up and manufacturing moving to India, Pakistan, Thailand, vietnam

Also -- I don't buy much from Amazon anymore, so this is going to b&m establishments
I was just talking about this blog post with a friend yesterday. I’m curious to know the file size of the doc after 7 years.
Why rebase? I would imaging that preserving history would be a feature. An important feature at that.
This. In addition to this, the complexity that each new biological system that's discovered adds to the entropy of the entire system. The classic mantra has been to explain away complexity with "evolution of the gaps" but this article is showing how this isn't even close to sufficient anymore.
The reason this happens is because due to memory pressure, the IO cache is emptied and thus every IO request (even if reading just one byte) is passed through to the actual storage device. This quickly fills up the device’s queue and IO performance can no longer keep up with the system’s demands even for normally-benign stuff such as writing logs.
Let's say there's propaganda on both sides, and a gradient of propagandists from those who would lie to keep you safe to those who would lie to gain political power. One needn't "pretend", merely look for correlation
between cognitive function and what flavor of propaganda a person is predisposed towards. But, assuming that everything you read is propaganda doesn't sound healthy.
For me, when speaker talks slowly, I tend to loose attention. I get bored, start to think about something else or just daydream. Then I have no idea what was told and have to rewind back. Speeding it up helps a lot, I stay engaged.

Imo, speakers in educational videos tend talk very slowly. They do not talk in normal talking speed, they are slowed and speeding it up is basically moving them to normal speed.
Those release notes are a project in their own right. You need a team just for that!
Understood by most on the Rust community, not by others.

Most outside of the community aren't aware that nomicon points out exactly this.

By the way, there are also ways to cause havoc within a single program, example using a file as backing store being accessed by multiple threads concurrently, or accessing database data without transactions.

My goal is not to bash Rust, rather to trigger discussions around these kind of problems.
You are so out of your league here. Whilst you state facts, it is comical to imply that China can hold a candle to the West's atrocities. 18 different border disputes, 18!?? I mean how can you seriously think that's a big number? Just take the American continent itself. Honestly, think about it for a second, what if North America was inhabited by Mandarin-speakers from northern China and South America was inhabited by Cantonese-speakers from southern China? Of course with the occasional "Euro-towns" scattered around selling pizzas. It sounds like a dystopia doesn't it, so why was it ok for Europe to do that? Don't you see how blinded by propaganda you are?
The reason there is no safe dose is because even background levels of radiation will cause eventual health consequences, just not before another cause of death.
“ We apologise for the trouble caused to our respected Chinese customers..”
Andy Grove, a Holocaust survivor, must be turning over in his grave.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29547334
Wife still uses Photoshop CS 2 on Windows, and I've basically told her that when her computer dies, she's getting Linux and open source software, or she's gonna have to figure out Windows 11 by herself and pay the subscription for Adobe. "Fine with Linux" she says, since it's installed on other computers in the house, "... but what can I use instead of Photoshop?". "Use Gimp, of course!" I say, and install it on her computer. Then I watch her get increasingly frustrated for an hour before rage quitting. It's not lack of features, it's UI, UX, workflow.
Well depend what safe means. Maybe we d spend less energy in copy redundancy at the cellular level if werent bombarded non stop ?
>The link between [redacted], the Israeli state intelligence services and the Israeli Defence Force is not a tenuous one

>One of the directors of Carbyne is [redacted]. The chairman of the board of directors is Ehud Barak, the 10th Prime Minister of Israel

She’s a director of a company with a former PM on the board, pretty sure this is exactly the kind of a link that normal sane people would consider “tenuous”.
Zero trolling here. I am modestly in favour of a COVID-19 vaccine "passport". And yes, I have considered the oppression side of the argument. Why am I modestly in favour? Look at how yellow fever vaccination status is handled. In areas of the world where it is still endemic, travelers are denied entry without a recent vaccination and an official UN/WHO card to prove it. (Please leave aside for a moment the idea that these cards can be fake. Assume they are accurate for this discussion.)

Almost by small-d-democratic definition, the yellow fever vaccine requirement is oppressive. However, it helps to reduce the spread of yellow fever.

Please provide your thoughts and comments.
I use Firefox for everyday generic browsing, and Chrome for specific buckets. Chrome profiles are soo good and easy to use compared to Firefox profiles or containers.

I’ll definitely look into portable Firefoxes for buckets.
What is a "on-device title"?
And tech support have to deal with the really dumb, annoying questions.

(I'm not tech support; I'm one of the ones asking said questions of them.)
If you always buy from A instead of from B, whoever they are, you start enjoying a familiarity with A that you don't have with B.

Then, not about minds but about money, you are helping A with your money instead of helping B and A eventually becomes more powerful than B.
Most applications are IO bound, not CPU bound. So wasted cycles aren't always that big of a deal.
As a 30y/o who’s took a very stable primary job with great benefits and who works 3 other jobs +- 1 (engineer during the day… mechanic, photographer, general contracting moonlighting) I also obsessed over retirement and saving for my future. I only try to buy things that maintain value or will be extremely useful or life improving to me. However, I also think that the experience of traveling, depending on how you do it, provides immeasurable value to our lives, even if they do live in our memories and fade over time. Keeping a journal helps with calling back those memories, feelings, and things learned. I traveled a lot in my early 20s while still contributing to some sort of IRA. But I traveled very cheaply. Hostels and splitting bills and it has taught me so much about people, history, and the world that it has shaped how I interact with people daily. I can relate to people of other cultures more easily and have something to connect with which I believe is the ultimate experience, once we acquire the main things that we need to survive day to day. I don’t have many material goods, but the ones fondest to me I’ve taken to these trips or have inherited from others with stories behind their gifts. Having said all that, yes, I think taking vacations at all inclusive expensive resorts or just going somewhere to get drunk is waste, or at least not an ideal way to spend travel money.

I think it’s important to learn about the world and take in many experiences while we are young and capable because too many people don’t make it to retirement or can’t physically do the things they wanted to when they were 20-40
> the final performance it will be tolerable

I had the same thought - if SO says they're fast because they don't use DI, then ok, maybe SO is fast because they don't use DI AND they have an elite group of amazing full-stack programmers who write OS kernels and prove that P != NP over their lunch break for fun. Most programmers fuck things up on a regular basis and don't even realize it until it's broken production for a couple of years for a handful of users who go down a non-standard path every once in a while, and they do it in a way that would have been caught if the code had been run even one time, but they can't run the code, because somebody else insisted on using a hundred static (i.e. global) variables.
Keep up the awesome work! I'm rooting for you guys too.
There have also been at least a couple of strong earthquakes where the system didn’t go off when it was supposed to, so it’s not yet perfect.

Obviously, I don't know the exact details of those incidents, but if the epicentre is too close to you, there will not be time for the alert to occur. The alerts work because the earthquake travels slower than the telecommunications signals. No alert can be triggered until after an earthquake has occurred. Then, however, a warning can be sent to notify people further away from the epicentre before the shaking reaches them.
I was under the impression that blocking people is a normal social interaction on twitter. Why is this specific one newsworthy?
Please don't mistake the amount of luck that went into those results. The ability to consistently challenge top teams is the mark of a top team, not one-off results where luck was on your side and against your opponents.

Remember, Greece won Euro 2004 but have struggled since, often not even qualifying. Greece are not a good team. Period. By the same token, just because the Netherlands failed to qualify once or because Germany were knocked out in the first round of a world cup, that does not make either a weak team - they just had an off-day.

All said, i agree with the original point - i won't be surprised if the USA men's football team is a force to reckon with in the next decade. Same goes for the Canadian men's team.
I guess I kind of feel like we are barging into a conversation between scientists and doctors and demanding that they write down to our level because we are "curious" and someone linked to it from HN.

I would expect a journalist writing about this kind of article to actually be able to understand the abstract, at a minimum, or they shouldn't be writing about this.

I know I'd be annoyed if a bunch of doctors started reviewing my architecture documents and criticized me for not explaining s3 or etl or snowflake or redshift.
Configuring a server for high traffic, networking, various safety measures against fire/power, backups, connectivity to your external DBs, etc. etc. As a 'feature dev' of almost a decade, I could bungle my way through this and probably leave a bunch of security gaps open. I'm highlighting the fact that it is a specialized skill and a specific part of the stack that feature devs like me and many other early startup engineers forego for other skills.

To your second point: We still own the data for hosted solutions. We have our backups, we have direct access. Barring a catastrophic failure and wiping of AWS, our data is there and ours. The value to our customers for using cloud providers is the time saved on building infrastructure is instead spent on delivering value to the customer in the form of features/bug fixes. And yes I know the argument of "you end up spending more time debugging AWS", but I think you don't need to reach that point if you keep things pretty simple, especially early stage.

I think you're vastly oversimplifying the task. And if I had to guess, it's something you're pretty familiar with so it makes sense that it's easy to you! I'm sure an early stage company would be happy to have you to save a ton of money in their early days on infrastructure costs
You can collect as much data as you like, its what you do with it that counts.
Yeah too many slave labour-fueled projects going on to be upset with all of them
The tendency by FIFA and especially UEFA to prioritize money for its partners and for its officials above principles and sport has turned me away from organized football. I find it repugnant that when BBC and The Guardian (among others) reported back in 2013 on Qatar’s labor conditions in sweltering heat, the deaths, and what is essentially slavery to build stadiums, it was met by the football community and larger news media with a resounding thud. It wasn’t until the last few years that footballers who had nothing to lose started to speak their minds. It’s honestly disgusting to me to the point where I don’t know when I’ll ever want to watch the World Cup or Champion’s League again.

I used to get excited by these events because the sport still seemed to be prioritized and people got genuinely excited by seeing talent rise to the level. I came of age hearing just how good Messi would become after his early appearance for Argentina in 2006 I think. His rise has witnessed the transition to players representing teams and entire brands. It hardly feels like sport but lifestyle, prestige, and entertainment, something Qatar is desperately trying to purchase as their oil money starts to dry up.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-24394971

Maybe there was earlier reporting on this but this was the best I could do on my phone.
Incentives are more in the vein of psychology than behavioral economics but the two fields are clearly adjacent. And this "debunked pseudoscience" led to a Nobel prize a few years ago. And many of the observations that led to this--relating to people not always being economically "rational"--are very clearly true.
I'm not a huge football fan, but I'd argue part of the excitement of the sport comes from the fact that it is low soring - individual goals matter a lot, rather than just being a minor tick towards the overall score. Higher scoring games could dull those moments significantly.
Do you have to pay for gas to post? I really don't think this can take off
> Good teaching ressources are the exception rather than the norm

I have to disagree here. There has never been a time in history where it has been easier to access high quality educational materials. See, for instance, MIT OpenCourseWare. Many other great universities have similar programs (Stanford, Berkeley). That, combined with the countless people putting out educational content on platforms like YouTube and Coursera, means that it’s basically possible for anyone with an internet connection to learn from some of the world’s best teachers.
You don't have to be living in a country where homosexuality is illegal to not want your presence on a dating app - straight or gay - to be public knowledge.

Speaking from unfortunate experience about half the men on Grindr do not put up identifying pictures. Many are in relationships with men and are cheating. And many present publicly as heterosexual or are married to women.

It's a blackmailer's jackpot.
Resistive heating means using 1kw of electricity to get 1kw of heat.

Heat pumps use 1kw of electricity to get >1kw heat.
On the other hand, the players whose decision to boycott the games would have the intended effect of bringing some of the corruption to light and putting pressure on FIFA to not do something similar again almost certainly already have enough money to buy Bentleys and attract trophy wives.

So, if a star player really feels a certain way about this, I'm not sure the money has as much sway over them as it would over someone else, like you or me, or some lesser known player (whose boycott would have much less effect).
I used to have that quote posted on my bathroom mirror - now it's just ingrained. It applies to so many parts of life, whether it's exercise, productivity, starting a business or building relationships.

Related is that motivation is fleeting and only leads to individual acts. Discipline on the other hand is what builds habits. It's what you do day and and day out that leads to success or failure.
Dozens of millions? You want to talk history? How many slaves were taken from Africa? How many Indians did Churcill starve? How many Native Americans died from colonialism?

You think you have a big number, but you don't even know the half of it.
I do something pretty similar.

I have a big, append-only TXT file that I keep in Dropbox. Most of my notes and bookmarks go there. I sometimes add hashtags, I use #book for books that I might want to read in the future.

If I have too many notes of some kind, I make a separate file for them, I'm considering moving my to read list to its own file, for example.

I kept a separate file with a calendar until I switched to Mac OS, I use the built-in calendar app these days.
It appears to be the nature of large governments that they turn into bullies. Pretty much whatever they think they can get away with.
Squishy in the sense that many things are neither purely external or purely internal.
Would never speed up something I was watching for enjoyment. I was slightly puzzled when I saw Netflix enable speeding up video, I suppose someone out there must have wanted it.
How are websites and apps going to make money though? Like it or not, the reason the internet became this popular is because of all the free stuff on it. If everything was behind subscription fees it possibly would never have taken off. I don't think I would've ever used Google if they had charged a fee for the service.

This would effectively make political interests entrenched even more on the internet, because they'll see it as worthwhile to make free services. They get to feed you politically slanted ideas - just like free political newspapers.

>Operating in the EU is not a liability if you treat your users data in a respectful and responsible way. Common sense alone would answer your questions on what is and what isn't allowed in the vast majority of the cases.

Relying on common sense is playing with fire. Common sense says that with this many people using the services of these companies that people are okay with what these companies are doing. That's not what GDPR says and that's not something I had any vote on or anything like that.

You might prefer the cable TV model, but I prefer YouTube. I like that I don't have to pay anything to go look at a large variety of topics. Far more than any paid service would ever provide.
https://blogs.umb.edu/quoteunquote/2012/05/08/its-a-much-mor...
Unless you get a leak and people find out and your reputation is ruined.
And now lets quickly check how many billions of $$$ the world spends on totally pointless military expenditures, and how much we could improve life for people in underserved communities if we just re-tasked 10% of that money.
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I mean considering the fact that all the very best players play in Europe, and that's how seasons have been scheduled for the longest time, it does make sense
"The more actively you try to learn the better you learn" category conclusion.

Any tools/frontends for ultimate youtube-based learning? Some things I miss:
- highlight code screencasts (so I can copy and paste)
- 3x (not all have 2x in youtube)
- transcript extract and keyword search and jump to that location in the video => there must be someone doing this

PS: Not trying to promote any project by asking this, genuinely curious.
Where this required (package labeling on OTC medications, for example) the FDA requires that it be written at a fifth grade level.

OTOH the so-called “label” (package insert) is written for doctors and pharmacists.

I would hate it if I had to break out words like “page table”, “TLB”, “pointer swizzle”, etc when writing a paper. I have to assume the reader has some basic knowledge of the topic at hand else they are unlikely to understand what I’m talking about anyway.

You see this in the uproar over “Critical Race Theory” or a lot of the Covid misinformation sites: the basics are not misunderstood or ignored so the argument goes in strange and incomprehensible directions. The problem is deeper than a little vocabulary.
Ancient Athens had ostracism [1]. It was against a single person and not against ideas but given that the numbers where smaller and heads carry ideas, it was more or less the same thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
The next tweet responds to your point 3.

https://twitter.com/nick_beauchamp/status/147355576211076710...

For your point 1, this is a smoothed average. I suppose they should have used wider bins, but "failing the eyeball test" doesn't say much. The point isn't to fit the data, but to collate it so that you can clearly see the overall pattern.

There's the additional prior here that we know there were significant increases in COVID infection at the same time, which has a well-studied symptom of loss of taste and smell, that nicely correlates with these.
The more important message hinted at in the article I guess is that Web3 is being driven not organically by consumer desire or need but VC backed entities hoping to make it their garden you can play in.
As you just said, it is not easy for people to meet people in a culture where looks and small talk with romantic intent is frowned upon, puts peoples jobs in danger and is generally already going extinct. Plus grindr is used for hookups, and it makes it a lot easier, something that does not have a safe equivalent in real life.
Because recognition is incredibly flawed and biased and leads to false accusations ruining lives and costing people tens of thousands of dollars
For other readers who are not familiar, here are two newspaper articles about it:

https://hongkongfp.com/2021/12/23/breaking-fears-for-condemn...

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3160744/universi...
I’ve taken a look but I only have a mobile phone at hand for a few days. I can’t find any info on how this works, where the data is stored or a privacy policy. Is there a link when you are on the desktop version of that website?