skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're only looking at premium models, sure. More accessible brands come in less than €5000 for their top end models, with a CVT hub and motor. Standard bakfietsen you wouldn't be afraid to park on a sidewalk are under €2000. Used, they're a fraction of that.

https://www.freewheely.nl/bakfietsen/
"Choose Commitment, Define Evidence, Set Punishment, Select Reviewer"

That does not differ much from my everyday life.
Out of curiosity, how many Pornhub'ers are also here on HN? (I mean employees, not users haha)
Burrowing into minutia: "The Rabbit"-type cork pullers are far easier and faster.

I've seen faster. In a luxury restaurant. It was just a long curved awl with a T handle. No idea how difficult it is to master or how good it is for problem corks. But fast? Sure.

Never seen one in shops.

Edit: curved I mean a soft S shape. No screw.
You showed a screenshot earlier, I know what they look like for you. :) I don't override the font either. HN specifies a CSS font family "Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif", where Verdana is installed by default on Windows but is not a full sans-serif font, so it's a somewhat odd choice by HN. As for the English alphabet, I didn't say there was a problem with it, just that you cannot reliably tell just from looking at letters which letters they are. In practice it is not an issue.
Life is full of small inconveniences and big ones time to time. It's not just one small one. So wanting to stop all that should not be considered illness, but forcing to continue the pain and trauma should be. Life is ultimately a meaningless thing, and most people suffer for it. Some people are privileged and they decide what is illness and what is not based on their own life.

One has to work 9-5 whole life that slowly kills their health and die horribly. That's normal, but if one does not want to continue that, it's illness. One must suffer. There is no other way whatever people here says, the real world does not work in any other way.
This project was deleted by the original author 9 months ago after they were doxxed/compromised potentially in relation to this project. This repo is a copy. The paypal donate link in the readme still goes to the original authors paypal lol.
They didn't. They are saying that if you poll 100 in the grocery store about whether they expect to eventually receive messages sent to them during the period where they were riding through a tunnel or lost power in a thunderstorm, 90 of them will say "yes" and 9 will say "I don't know" and then there's you.
Democratic governments having that power seems reasonable: they have to follow a legal process and seizing a domain is rare — if I was worried about government overreach I’d want, say, physical detention to be as fair a process as seizing a domain or bank account is.

ISPs can’t take your domain and blocking is quite rare - usually just active malware attacks - but that seems like an argument for regulating them as utilities because they’re a natural chokepoint and as such many people do not have the option of switching.
Does somebody have experience with XTDB https://xtdb.com/index.html ?
We would like to use it in our Clojure application perhaps with PostgreSQL as the backend (JDBC) to make it easier to implement a history feature.

Looking forward, instead of backward, it would be great for databases to have some kind of live-patch/ live-update feature so that one does not need any downtime at all if some rules are obeyed (with an automatic check, if that is the case). The same is for operating systems, where we have parts of the technology and even some limited deployment, but nothing of it is the default as far as I know. This situation makes it quite a bit harder to develop and maintain systems without introducing extreme complexity. It does not look like we will have less bugs/ less patches any time soon so we should make updating as easy as possible to drastically reduce the need for a maintenance window without resorting to building clusters for everything.
"I know it’s not entirely my fault, this material glut that accumulates in drifts and droves, turning my apartment, and probably yours, into a way station for wayward objects."

Your apartment, your life, your fault. Lots of people take "reduce, reuse, recycle" extremely seriously: generating very little trash, only owning things they need, not replacing them until they're broken, and then getting a used replacement. And in fact, if you just got rid of that junk by giving it to Goodwill or a Free Stuff Facebook group, you'd be helping reduce the consumption of new goods, too. Having it sit in that drawer is the second worst thing you could do.
Reminders would be a useful addition to this for me, too.
Note that these are still stimulants tho. Vyvanse is unique in that its a slightly modified dextroamphetamine (adderall) molecule that gradually gets metabolized by the liver into dextroamphetamine, sort of a "natural" extended release and has a much smoother (side) effect curve. Concerts and XR are just cleverly designed pills that release two doses of plain methylphenidate/amphetamine spaced out, so there's two distinct peaks with a small lull between.
Even in locales with high speed internet, I find myself sharing a wifi router with a dozen or more devices in classrooms or coffee shops. It is a bit disheartening seeing google docs and slack struggle to stay responsive, and in a college town with fiber internet. I’ve also tried collaborating on satellite internet on a farm and at the end of a microwave-tower-daisy-chain, where youtube works great if you’re the only one in town using the connection.

I think people assume Starlink will bring high-speed internet to every corner of the globe, but that being the case, there’s more situations where groups of people will share a single downlink, and still every kilobyte counts.
Why is wanting to stop pain and trauma is illness and wanting to continue in more of that useless suffering is normal? I am not talking about privileged here but most people who struggle whole life in world.
I still don't carry a smartphone. If I really need a smartphone (and I rarely do) one is always nearby! [Just look for the unresponsive guy/gal standing still in the middle of the parking lot, or traffic, or ...].

But I help my friends and wife with them all the time! After several decades of IT and being on-call 24x7 with one or more devices, most interfaces are easy to decipher.

You're likely far better off because you were not brought up in a smartphone environment.
Smaller transaction fees are always in the future with crypto. It was a design goal in the beginning and still hasn't happened in 12 years (age of Bitcoin network).
I highly recommend a rotation kitchen stand [0]. We have one, and it holds a bunch of random kitchen utensils

[0] https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=ifdz4x...
Did we? IIRC solar was prohibitively expensive until last decade not sure about other renewables but I'd assume they were significantly less efficient back then. I think it's a bit too late to be pro-nuclear (barring any technological breakthroughs) but had investment into nuclear continued after the Three Mile Island accident at the same rate it did before I'm sure we'd had at least a decade or two head start in decreasing CO2 emissions compared to the current situation.
I have always wondered if it was really a thing that actually happened after seeing it depicted in the episode Blood Eagle (S2E7) of Vikings.
I apologise I didn't realise shadowdead needed to be enabled for the link to work.
> - li-ion energy storage is great for same day fluctuations(storage measured in hours), less so for longer. Other energy storage tech platforms have different economic properties leading to more sensible deployments (the other end of the spectrum is making hydrogen gas via electrolyzer to then convert back via fuel cell - best for storage measured in months)

For the steel making part of this, the idea is to replace coal with hydrogen gas in the iron to steel process, so making hydrogen gas of the electricity is the actual wanted output and not just a way to store energy.
Before I left HPE post Cray acquisition, some of the folks in the consulting/"cloud" division insisted that to use their tooling, we had to insert a windows machine into clusterstor, that mounted lustre, so that they could run their powershell script to gather usage metrics.

What I found working with these teams, was that the desire to flip tables was quite strong after meeting with them. I tried to address their concerns, one point at a time. They were bewildered that windows could not mount (modern) lustre. Really bewildered. I offered to help rewrite their scripts in another (portable) language, so we could avoid these problems. Still they were bewildered.

They were not why I left. Merely a confirmation that my decision to leave was the right one.
>You have many people who believe Trump told his supporters to drink bleach in other to fight coronavirus.

Indeed, he merely suggested to inject bleach in order to fight the coronavirus [1]. Of course afterwards he said that was sarcastic, but even if that was true it's not really much better.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33QdTOyXz3w
> Historically, the concern has been what to do with the waste. But now, because we are investing in nuclear, we are finding that we can actually re-process the waste.

Reprocessing of nuclear waste is by no means a "new" finding. It's been known since nuclear power reactors have been a thing, but it is politically untenable. No country with nuclear capabilities is comfortable with other countries reprocessing spent fuel, as it is a portion of the process used to create material for nuclear weapons.

As much as I want to love nuclear as an amazing source of energy, the cost and issues that arise with nuclear waste are massive and frequently discounted by people encouraging additional nuclear power reactors.
>So, even though in Amsterdam outside the ring you can have a school 300m away, it's not necessarily the school you want to send your kids to.

Which I guess is pretty universal and depends on a neighborhood.
I think that’s fair. It’s the same struggle that Bartz had and Yang before her. As you said, there were sharks on all sides. Yahoo was no longer the leader in anything significant once Google showed up.

Even in hindsight it’s hard to see a winning play for Mayer’s Yahoo. Even if Mayer had been visionary enough to build something like Chrome at Yahoo, Google would have beaten them to delivery or overwhelmed them shortly after. (Chrome might have been a compelling move for Bartz, who could have done it early enough to actually beat Google out the door.) Maybe if she’d seen Instagram coming she could have turned Flickr into that, but it’s not clear that would have changed the trajectory much, given that Instagram itself only sold for a billion in 2012 and Yahoo was trying to justify its continued existence while sitting on top of 30 billion of Alibaba.

All this is to say that maybe Mayer is a terrible leader (I honestly don’t know), but I don’t see that she bears most of the blame for Yahoo collapsing.
The immediate thing I notice in these near-time updates is how the development has worked around trees, even smaller ones.

Any road or pavement changes in the UK seem to come with total deforestation, and sticking some 2yo saplings back in to replace them.
Post something genuine, then someone with bad intentions shared it with something fake. Now you are who is contributing to fake news.
The pandemic has been tough on Papers We Love as many of the local chapter meetups had to shutdown. This had an adverse impact on the Papers We Love Conf (https://pwlconf.org/) as well.

Some chapters (Seattle, Chattanooga, Bangalore) have managed to keep up a semi-regular cadence of Zoom meetups. NYC tried but has a hard time getting speakers (which is a bit surprising tbh.)

If you're interested in running a meetup, being a speaker or volunteering your time hit up @papers_we_love on Twitter.
Articles in the Guardian are worse than useless to me (SF Gate too) because they're propaganda (and that's SF which is its own special snowflake of dysfunction).

From a cursory look at https://www.austintexas.gov/page/start-business it appears that a person starting a business in austin has to go through a wide range of approval processes.

I wouldn't be surprised if more towns in Texas start looking like CA in terms of approval as the density reaches a threshold.
Ask HN: Dual-zone thermostat setting, should 2nd floor be higher or lower?
I’m seeing conflicting advise from HVAC professional on this age-old question. I understand that there will be temperature difference between the floors of a house because of thermodynamics, the obvious rule of warmer air rising to the top.

Given a two-story home with a a dual-zone furnace HVAC:
For winter setting, one camp says to set the second floor thermostat to two degrees warmer.[1] The other camp of advise says the other way, to set the second floor two degrees cooler.[2]
Let’s assume the two-degree variable is the ideal difference , the contradiction here is which floor should be set warmer.

I believe the second floor should be set warmer because intuitively this seems to be the natural equilibrium. Otherwise one zone will be working harder than the other.

[1] http://www.ncwakehvac.com/optimal-temperature-settings-multiple-hvac-home/

[2] https://bardi.com/how-to-effectively-set-your-thermostat-for-a-multi-story-home/
That isn't true at all. Atheism is a positive belief that the statement "there is no God" is true.

For example, I don't lack a belief that an elephant is in my living room, I have a positive belief that there is no such elephant.
Thanks for the recommendation. Found it available for free download at David Spivak's homepage on MIT's Math department website
Please don't try again, I'm not trying to be condescending. If not for yourself, for the people you love. Nicotine addiction is particularly insidious.

Lots of people gave me this advice the few times I was addicted, I ignored them all and simply thought they were talking down to me ("of course, I know it's bad for you", "I can quit whenever I want") so I understand if you interpret it that way. Once you've seen yourself or a loved one go through it and survive (or worse) you have a different reaction, a bit like seeing someone standing on the tracks while a train is approaching. Wishing you good health.
Hah, I'm not even American and I thought exactly the same thing (HN is US-centric, after all)!

Now I think about it, here in the UK I don't think I've ever actually seen "NY" in reference to the "New Year".
If i understand you right, by IP based you mean you are switching from a system where anyone can call anyone on any system to one where both parties have to be on the same ecosystem (proprietary app). That is not a win for communication.
I believe the company is referred to as MindGeek.
The thing about everyday problems is that they are every day. It isn't just looking at having to do your homework today, it's having to do your homework tomorrow, the day after that, and the day after that, out into what may as well be infinity.

Homework isn't a great example, but you can substitute anything that causes you suffering. For me, a lot of it is about my weight. I went through more suffering than most people can imagine to lose more than half of my bodyweight, and I was pretty happy with the result... until I started letting myself do the things I'd had to give up to get there: eating out with friends (or even attending any event with food), not doing intense workouts more than 3 days a week, having the occasional snack, eating something other than protein bars every meal, etc. My weight started increasing, naturally, and I realized: I never get to stop going through all that suffering if I want to maintain my weight. Ever. Ever. And without being able to maintain that weight I instead get to feel like a fat piece of shit for the rest of my life instead. Given those two options, the idea of just ending my life here and now doesn't seem so bad.
Ideally, in a perfect world this makes sense but will not work in reality. This just gives a way for any larger player to easily get something in the public domain from a smaller player with less resources. The tax concept is a good concept, maybe like how we have large banks under more scrutiny over a certain level - but this may lead to small IP companies that just hold ip in order to get below the threshold. Star Wars LLC licensing to disney to be under whatever threshold is designed. Copyright in reality should protect the smaller players from the bigger players, a 30 year time frame for an author to profit before the public domain, so a company can not horde IP makes more sense.
How is `/usr/local/bin` not in your PATH?
Japanese firms are interesting to work with. I enjoyed the culture, personally. I have two anecdotes.

The old white box PC shop I worked for, back in the 90s, quoted PCs to a Japanese-owned auto parts manufacturer. The Customer accepted the quote, paid an up-front deposit, and requested the PCs not be built and delivered until some construction at their site was completed in a few months.

In the meantime component pricing went down and speeds/feeds went up. When the PCs were built we ended up being forced to source higher clock speed CPUs and larger hard disk drives. It took some cajoling to get the Customer to take delivery. They felt they should pay more for the upgrades. (We were actually making more money on the deal even with the upgraded components anyway!)

My current company once pitched a support agreement to a Japanese-owned firm. We offered a discount for annual commitment versus month-to-month. I'd copy/pasted the month-to-month terms for the annual but forgot to alter the minimum notice period for ending the annual option. Both month-to-month and annual indicated a notice period of 30 days rather than the intended 180 days for the annual option.

The Customer's contact questioned the notice period being the same. He asked why they wouldn't opt for annual commitment, get the discounted rate, and also have the 30 day notice period. My partner, who had worked with Japanese firms in the past, responded: "We know you wouldn't choose the annual option if your intention was not to work with us for at least a year." The Customer agreed and we ended up getting the gig on an annual basis.
EXACTLY! I just came back to add this observation. I started to code at 14.

At 20 i was consulting and ran across my first system with a mouse. I quickly realized that there was no profit in using it with my right hand since that was needed for numpad and shift selects etc.

So I moved the mouse to the left and never looked back. My hand just goes there when it makes sense -- never breaking my focus or the close-contact my right has with the keyboard. That has made this entire discussion about mouse good/bad a non-issue.

It may take some time to train yourself if you're not a puppy anymore, but its worth stepping out of that argument and into something else.

"for crying out loud", "they even moved the f-keys to the top row so that you can have the mouse on the left of your keyboard!" /<smiles>

(p.s. op .. at 36 i learned to play the conga and that allowed me to go crazy with the ambidexterity like nothing else, ever. just buy a set and give it a go!)
I wish there was a good way to implement this sort of double hashing in web apps. Doing the extra salted hash client side ensures that the value the server sees is globally unique, even when the user is reusing passwords across sites.

Unfortunately the only way I know how to implement that is to have the server send JS down to the browser that instructs it to perform the hashing. For certain types of compromises server side, the attacker would just modify the JS to get the unhashed password. I'd also need to fall back to pure JS hashing for old browsers (5% users?), so there's a UX concern if I perform lots of rounds.

I kind of wish there was a different password HTML field that could run the client side hashing without JS, so the browser would manage that. Ideally using different UX so the user understands they are using a "safe" password field. The end result would be to deny access to the raw password, which is likely reused on multiple sites.
> it's that the existing institutions don't recognize you as part of the institutional club and block your messages...

How common is this if you’ve setup DKIM, SPF, etc.? I’ve only heard about problems in that context where someone hadn’t done the basics or was trying to send from shared IPs and hit some spammer’s past reputation.
Thank you. I had recently looked at that quickly but I'll be more thorough soon.
Get a cheap bike (you can literally find one for 50 euro on used sites) and hook up a cargo trailer to it (another 30 euro) and you got yourself a cargo bike.
Multiple family medical issues. Bad rating are work with an effective 4.7% pay cut.

Edit: Really, down voting my troubles...
That is the format of that blog, in this case it was a bit short I do agree. The problems with anonmizing creeps up quite a bit on Flowingdata

https://flowingdata.com/2014/06/23/lessons-from-improperly-a...
https://flowingdata.com/2010/08/03/what-online-marketers-kno...

It's also mention regularly in posts not specifically about that.
Empirical is statically typed. Python and q/kdb+ are dynamically typed.

I spent years using those products in finance. I would set-up a simulation that would crash after four hours because of a misspelled column name. Empirical prevents that by refusing to run a script that has a type error or unresolved identifier. No more crashed overnight sims!
Crowded dorms,no flush toilets and food crawling with worms at iPhone plant
How to Share Text Quickly Via Your Browser (No setup or installation required)
The socialising bit might be confusing to car drivers. On a bicycle, it's very easy to match speeds with someone else and just strike up a conversation.

Whenever I'm forced to drive a car, I really hate that the most expressive I can be toward other people in traffic is various lengths of honk or light flashes.
Cork pullers for expensive wine are just two metal flat prongs that slide down the sides, and you twist the bottle and pull. It keeps the cork intact so that old deteriorated cork doesn't fall into the wine. Both the most minimal and effective uncorker, and of course nobody owns one except chefs, sommeliers and rich folk
World need Terrafactories ! 20 of these, and we complete the transition to EV.
This factory is a drop in the ocean
Linking World War I to an oil race between Germany and Britain is... really pushing it. To the extent that Anglo-German enmity played a major role in forming the alliance blocs pre-WWI, that is more because Kaiser Wilhelm canned Bismarck in favor of a more aggressive foreign policy that, quite frankly, pissed everybody else off, leading to German diplomatic isolation.

The idea that competition for oil was a major player in that is only viable if you ignore the minor fact that causes happen before actions. To summarize the underlying assertions: the Berlin-Baghdad railway, built in 1889, was needed to transport the new critical resource of oil from its discovery in the Ottoman Empire in 1908 for the insatiable demand of coal-fired dreadnoughts like HMS Dreadnought (1906). (Yes, coal-fired--as far as I'm aware, all of the German capital ships built or planned before or during WWI were primarily coal-fired. The decisive move from coal to oil happens largely at the tail end of WWI, way too late to be a major factory in strategic thinking to motivate foreign policy in the run up to WWI.)
think about it like this, have you ever tried to get a lay-person to switch platforms?
windows->linux
MacOS->windows

android->iOS
iOS->windows phone (RiP)

they will bitch and moan all god damn day long, especially on the desktop even though all those systems are basically the same. Even people who only use browsers and word/excel in desktop will HATE to switch windows<->macos (mac also has word/excel)

a lot of it (not all) has to do with the "native feel" of apps