skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto this. My home monitors are:

27" Ultrafine 5K - bought in 2018, so 3+ years old, $1000+.
27" LG 4K - bought in 2019, so 2+ years old, $600+.
27" Dell Ultrasharp 1440p - bought in 2016, $800+.
24" Dell Ultrasharp 1920x1200 - bought in 2013, $400+.

All of these are in active use still - even the 8 year old 24" is still a solid AH-IPS monitor with decent wide-gamut colour support and LED backlighting.

I'd be very disappointed in a $1k display that was showing irreparable issues after 2 years. I'd be positively angry at a $1k display with issues after 6 months.
There is no point.

The fragility index is essentially a repackaged p-value, and serves only to introduce even more confusion on the top of this already often misunderstood metric. See very good discussion here: https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/38/5/346/2422087

Also, trials are generally designed to recruit the minimal number of patients we can get away with, and this is done for good reason (cost, feasibility, and the ethical concern of "using" the lowest possible number of human beings, while allowing any beneficial treatment to benefit the most as soon as possible). If someone's then pointing out that this trial is "fragile" -- well, yes, it was designed so in advance! Would you propose to expose 100 more patients to an inferior treatment just to improve your fragility index?
Meanwhile, and less encouraging:

The study also shows the jab's ability to stop people catching Omicron starts to wane 10 weeks after a booster dose.
Lastpass is not a good password manager, use something like Bitwarden
We had 56k until we upgraded to ADSL in 2003, I'm from Denmark.
As always, Ghostscript is the way.

$ gs sDEVICE=txtwrite -o output.txt input.pdf
>lack of bitcoin

so just submit a pull request

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/feedb9c84e72e4fff489...

i'm half joking and half not :)
Thank you. I thought it was too much but I'm happy I wrote it.
One difference seems to be in the size of the domain. In the interactive example, you know the possible edges to begin with, and selecting them is straightforward. The confidence is calculated based on that. For graph isomorphism, you would have little confidence that you can pull from the full set of graphs, and so you would have a hard time building confidence.

If there is a way around that, I'm genuinely curious as well.
I don't really get what the point of your comment was?

>To be alive in the year 2021 and think that all is bad or worse than some halcyon prior age is, if not ridiculous, horrifying.

and think that [..] -> is your own assumption. I don't think this. Now that you know, maybe we can have a more positive conversation.

>My advice to OP is to figure out why he/she is unable to see enough good in the world and has to ask HN for where that value is.

'Figure it out' is not good advice in any situation. Its along the lines of "If you can't see why you're wrong then its your fault".
I hope you understand you’re very alone In a crowd of sane people if you want to say that your engineers are happy in a $300 chair. A steel case or Herman miller is tablestakes for a decent software shop and if you’re too ignorant or miserly to see it then it’s probably not a great place to work at. A good chair makes a huge difference for ones quality of life. Please don’t skimp on it.
Teaching Information Security
This HN post is useless. The article here is about the Decadal Survey which is about to come out as of the date of the article. It came out literally a day later: https://www.aip.org/fyi/2021/astro2020-decadal-survey-arrive...
That's not really how it works.

Obfuscation is trivial.
The logical conclusion of your comment is that all companies are equally harmful (or that any attempt at distinguishing between them is pointless), which is blatantly untrue.

There's is a huge difference in the harm created by someone working on, say, Jira vs. someone building interactive cigarette ads that subtly appeal to children.

There are also lots of companies much more evil than most: Facebook is the most obvious example.

There are companies that aren't particularly evil at all, like the ones working on carbon capture tech.
The use of stereo in the recording is really lovely. Listen with headphones if you can.
Actually that can very much be the case. Just checked and I signed up for it on Sun, 4 Jun 2017, 08:17, which fits the breach (not sure what was the exact date on it)
I do not support it since it should be up to the person to evaluate the risk, which is very low for younger people. There are exceptions for some occupations, like elderly and health care since the benefit is obvious.

I think vaccinating kids is questionable even if they are potential transmitters. The protection has to be achieved in another way.
The stock market is quite liquid. Why would people bother timing anything? If you feel that the market will move in a given direction within a given time period buy/sell options to cover your positions.

Nothing in this world is 100% safe. I personally believe in having layers of financial preparedness. Some cash and coin at home if ATM's go offline or get over ran, likelihood is low but could happen. 6-12 months of cash in a savings account a credit union for emergencies because life happens. HSA cause stuff breaks the more you age. Retirement IRA where I buy/sell stocks and options. Non retirement account where I do more buy and hold due to taxes. And an online crypto account with half of my crypto holdings, the other half is on a crypto ledger nano s which sits in a safe. https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-nano-s. Damn it they now have them in colors, that is cool. Regardless don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Japan's Paper Culture
The Canadian meteorology department puts out pretty useful stats, and I dropped in on a couple of people in the neighborhood that had windmills up to see what kind of windspeeds they were seeing and how long on average their machines stood still.

This was a major factor in designing the machine the way I did, variable pitch is a lot more work but a machine like that will start up far earlier than a fixed pitch machine. It also had its effect on that stator, which I made with the laminates at a slant over 1/3rd magnet width, which reduced cogging to nearly nothing. This is a huge factor in starting up a direct drive machine.
I kind of get a kick out of the idea that no one actually knows how anti inflammatory painkillers actually work. There are tons of mysteries in our bodies
It's very similar to financial/wealth managers. You don't want to work with a "Financial Manager", but you would probably happily give your portfolio to Warren Buffet or Seth Klarman (there's 1000s of other people in this sphere, whose names we don't know).

I think it's close to the 80/20 principle: 80% of people whose job title would be "third party recruiter" are not (or are just barely) worth your time, but 20% will do wonders for your career and network.

Good recruiters are primarily skilled at building a wide but high-quality professional network, keeping information flowing through it, and, generally, significantly raising the signal:noise ratio of the connection process for both sides. This earns them repeat customers on both sides. Hires convert into hiring managers convert into founders, and good reputation for quality on both ends goes a long way. It's actually not too dissimilar from good LPs in a VC firm, and there's some VC firms that function pretty explicitly as recruiting hubs.

The practical differences: good third party recruiters invest in long-term relationships, with an incrementally increasing quality bar for people and companies admitted into those relationships. Mediocre third party recruiters are more transactional (maybe they see it as an in-between gig, or don't get/want to get the bigger picture) and follow the money with minimal attention paid to quality. The latter are more numerous and more vocal. The good ones exist, but there's probably not a lot of them, and they don't reach out as often.

IME, you can usually distinguish between the two based on the portfolio of companies they work with, if you're familiar with the companies you can draw your own opinions.

However, with anything qualitatively-differentiated like this, it is hard to persuade somebody that this thing exists. You would know it when you see it.
I have friends with model 3's all the way to Plaids and the story is the same. Bad customer service, bad build quality but the car is fun a hell to drive. Long road trips (in the US) expect 100 minutes of charging a day.

I'm still interested.
Yes, there are still many. The reasons can be varied. A lot of times the person might just like where they are doing what they do. Or at least are not unhappy enough to experience the disruption of looking for a new job.

Increasingly, talking to friends and colleagues who are also SWEs, the leetcode interview process is also seen as daunting and a huge barrier that can make someone think twice about switching jobs.

I'd say a FAANG (or similar tech company) engineer is more likely to move - and be capable of moving - than someone at a non tech company.
If you keep having to do 24 hour sprints without refactoring it doesn’t matter.
Anyone know a good drag and drop solution for JS/HTML? I've been having a hell of a time building a magic the gathering sandbox. I've got a ton of experience building UIs but this turned out to be more complicated than anticipated.

I've got it working smoothly but I am in no way proud of my code. Super brittle. Basically resorted to a pub-sub system that works like so:

1.) mouseDown on a draggable component causes a global onMouseMove handler to be turned on, so that moving your mouse moves the component.

2.) mouseUp fires a drop event through the pubsub system with the data of which card was being dragged.

3.) Various instances of a dropzone component are subscribed to that event, and they compare the coordinates of the event with their own to see if they are where the card was dropped.

4.) If the coordinates match, a call to the server is made adding the card to that location and removing it from its original location.

That's the basic flow. A ton of complexity has arisen around it. I just couldn't find a better way.
Hi, thanks for your response.

> Does “rolandog” mean anything to you?

Yep, I think it's my username in the machine, but I think my steam username is different.

> Advanced explosives seems to be a Minecraft mod. Were you developing this mod?

I haven't installed or played Minecraft yet; so, no.

> Are there any mods to the Titan program?

Not to my knowledge! I played a couple of levels a year ago, but I never got too invested to try to find any mods.
> You can't just "hop in". You have to use cookiecutter-styled tools to bootstrap because the whole thing just got so complex so that even a Hello World styled project needs a mindboggling amount of tools all orchestrated and plugged into each other in the right way or it all blows up in your face.

Manually setting up React isn't all that hard, but it's extra friction you don't need when learning to code React (and probably 999 out of 1000 times using it in anger, either.)

So, yeah, using CRA or another template is generally a good idea.

> Also, there are more than one cookiecutter-styled tools and you have to choose the right one

No, you really don't.
Go to bookshop.org. Buy the book you want. Then download from libgen or z-library guilt free. If you don't want the hardcopy, you can pass it on to a friend. Start a tiny library in your neighborhood. Or just leave it on a coffeeshop table to entertain some random person.

Bookshop.org is basically a coop organized by booksellers across the country. A local bookstore will fulfill your order and get the proceeds. Your purchase will support local businesses as well as pay the author.

Bookshop does offer ebooks via My Must Reads, but their ebook format looks to be non-standard. Still, you could buy via Bookshop / My Must Reads and still download a friendlier version from libgen, etc. So there's an option which would avoid getting an unwanted physical book while supporting bookshops and authors.

Kobo has a partnership with local bookstores, and supposedly gives them a cut. I don't know much about this, but it might be worth looking into. Kobo DRM is easily stripped so it would be a viable option. But Kobo is at least partially owned by Walmart and that might be something you'd rather not support.

https://www.kobo.com/indie
Norway does have substantial subsidies for electric vehicles and other less co2 producing tech.

Teslas are now the most sold car brand in Norway thanks to that and their cheap hydro power.
I work at one such "top company". Internal mobility is very, very easy and well-supported by the company (great business choice IMO). I am not sure if would even make sense to talk about "sticking around" at the company level. One can easily choose between 1x5yrs of experience, 5x1yr or anywhere in between.

(This is obviously orthogonal to your point about perceptions and attitudes, but I felt compelled to chime in.)
A 'warmer' (aka 'qualification') means finding out if there is likely a material, beneficial connection between the parties.

In almost 100% of the cases, if a Recruiter is able to get someone a job, it's immensely beneficial to the new employee, far more so than for the recruiter.
this is just more proof to me that we, as a species, are far more confident of our maturity and understanding than we should be.

there is so much that we think we know, but that we actually don't, or are just plain wrong about.

Almost anyone familiar with human jaw muscles last week would have bet all the money in their wallet that all the muscles connected to the jaw were known, in their entirety.

Every single one of those people were incorrect.

What else will time prove that we are wrong about? not just as a species with a collective scientific pool of knowledge, but as individuals?

where are we each placing our misplaced confidence, and are we open to correction?
Japan was occupied and rebuilt by the United States immediately following the war. There was tremendous cultural and technological exchange during this time, and after occupation ended, Japanese cultural and technical exports rapidly achieved parity with the West in a way that the other countries you listed did not. If you were a tech-focused kid in the 80's, it was Japan that had the fascinating imports. Japanese cars went from being a cultural laughingstock to economic powerhouse in less than a decade. Japan was simply present in the US to a degree that no other Asian country came close to.

(South Korea is the next closest competitor in terms of having the West's attention, and it's not a coincidence that it is also the other major east Asian country to have gone through an occupation and rebuilding phase, with the concomitant cultural exchange between the two.)

Taiwan is the odd one out (IMO) in that it also has a strong history of ties with the US and cultural/technological exchange, but it doesn't seem to have captured attention in the same way as the other two. I don't know why.
What you do is release the new code under GPL with major security fixes and sue if they backport.
My point is, it’s almost unheard of that a good movie has a boring car chase. Or at the least the movie is a good action movie. If you’re watching Fast 5 or whatever, of course the chase is campy but the entire movie is campy. What are you watching the movie if not for the chase? The plot?

Even in the Bourne films with ostensibly better story lines, I’m struggling to understand how you’d be interested in watching those movies if you’re actually not interested in watching the chase scenes fully. I often just watch the chase scenes on YouTube to give where I’m coming from. I rented Bullit and Ronin and watched then just for the chase. So I suppose I’m the opposite.
> I'd be interested in hearing more about the public rituals that you attend, or any groups that you are aware of.

Thelema's ecclesiastical arm is called Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, and its main purpose is the public performance of The Gnostic Mass (AKA Liber XV) by Aleister Crowley: https://sabazius.oto-usa.org/gnostic-mass/ It is a public ritual Eucharist intended to communicate the principles of Thelema to all:

> I believe in one secret and ineffable LORD; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name CHAOS, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes.

> And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON.

And so on.

You could look up a local OTO chapter and see if they know of any performances planned -- http://www.oto.org/

There are online recordings of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhUpJubHlAc

Local Wiccan or Pagan groups might be willing to allow you to attend one of their celebrations of the times, like the recent Yule or upcoming Imbolc. I'm not up-and-up on how they find local chapters -- my Wicca and Pagan knowledge are stuck in the times of Witchvox!
And to think, now the spammers run the Internet. How things have changed...
Excellent list, thank you!
There's a bunch of committment schemes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment_scheme , but a simple (although I'm not sure it's ideal) one would be to hash a random value concatenated with the message, transmit the hash as your commitment to that message, and to reveal it send the random value and message so the verifier can confirm the hash comes out the same.
So they had waited all these years, before they act on those Password? Seems like there should be some other explanation.
It's just an excuse to protect corporate interests. If they really cated about consumers they'd make testing as accessible as possible. Best case in point concerning these persevere motives is what they did to the X-Prize for the medical "tri-corder".
As an individual who certainly doesn't have any satellites in orbit and really doesn't have any space-specific skills beyond KSP, but who has enough money to blow on $10/minute fees, is there anything I could do with this?

Not illegal or nefarious things either, but could I do something like listen in on data being transmitted down by an existing satellite (say something like Hubble or Landsat that will eventually result in public data anyway)?
Rapid COVID tests were much more widely available in Europe than in the US this past year, owing to differences in regulation.

Also related:
https://www.propublica.org/article/this-scientist-created-a-...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/briefing/rapid-testing-co...
I think it certainly has an effect. My rationale is comparing the earliest writings on algebra and calculus to the present-day notation. Al-Khwrizmi used no symbols or numerals in his text. I can't guess at Newton because the text is in Latin, but the notation looks pretty difficult to me. At the time, you practically had to be a philosopher to understand that writing, much less do anything with it. Likewise I think Clerk-Maxwell's electromagnetic theory was impenetrable until Heaviside created a new notation for it. And we just had a HN thread talking about Mary Somerville's translation of Laplace.

Today we teach algebra and calculus to schoolchildren. I believe as bad as the notation probably still is, the improvement from the original texts is nothing short of qualifying as its own revolution in mathematics. So it's interesting to imagine it being even better.

But I also believe that we only teach one side of math in school, basically manipulation of expressions. We barely touch on other ways that people do math, through the exploration of data, computation, and theory (proofs). So we're painting a distorted picture of what math even is, making it all the harder to justify why it's important beyond just being a gatekeeper.
>By that logic then (which may be entirely fair and I don't necessarily disagree!) Web 3 is not the web either since blockchain is not a web protocol but rather a different type of P2P protocol also built on TCP/IP.

Yes. "Web 3" despite the name, is not the web, it's an application on the internet. The web is also an application on the internet, separate from Web3 (and Gopher and FTP and everything else.)

>But also, to my sort-of point. Web 1 was static plain HTML pages. This linked page is most certainly not "Web 0".

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this, since it's just a semantic argument. To me, Web 0 was static plain HTML. Web 1 was possibly the introduction of CSS and JS. Web 2 was AJAX and dynamic websites.

And my hot take on Web 3, not that it matters, is that it's properly multilingual computation on the web. Specifically being able to run applications compiled to Webassembly, and containers for legacy native applications.
same thing happened to me (deletion error; could not log in again)
sinus issues?
Sounds basically like a project spec or RFC-style document/Slackbot spam. I have a feeling a lot of project management apps probably started from these kinds of thoughts. Just add featuritis. :)
> community-moderated

So’s Reddit, though. I’ve become skeptical of the sort of people who volunteer to moderate.
The branding comes off as pretty self conscious, but it sounds pretty neat. I’ll give it a shot when I’ve got some time.
Got the same thing. Doesn't engender any trust at all as there's no confirmation that account is actually deleted. Changed some key passwords again just in case. Switched to 1password a while ago and really hope it doesn't suffer from these kinds of issues.
If you repeatedly toggle one and the same line on the outermost edge, over and over, the confidence level steadily rises to 99.99%.
I once did something similar with a Windows ebook reader that nicely let you copy up to 10 characters to the clipboard. I wrote an Autohotkey script that would mouse down->move the mouse->mouse up->copy to a variable, and then start again. Lost the source code but never came across that format again. Still have a video of the program running: https://youtu.be/umou8uuNIPU
Game Genie got me into programming. After figuring out how that worked I moved on to reverse engineering and exploiting the first mmorpg's.
The entire premise of protecting people from "their own reactions to test results" is so horribly infuriating :(.

The context that is missing here, which I am super curious about: Is this article written to send to a court or some legislative body? Is it maybe the moral equivalent of an amicus brief? Is this "merely" detailed research that might be cited by someone else in such an argument? Is there any real organized opposition at all to the FDA doing this that one can attach themselves to?
If one accepts that the Constitution grants a right to an abortion then by the same legal reasoning an individual’s choice trumps vaccine mandates.
But would your example commitment work in this case when the verifier never receives the "message" of the graph that's being committed to?