skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve never thought of using substack as a way to manage my startup’s email list, but seeing this comparison made me consider it. I don’t like mailchimp and find the pricing to be atrocious for my purposes (emailing 5k people once or twice a year). How odd would it be to get an update from a company via a substack email? Does anyone else do this?
My last job was physically strenuous. I took a new (desk) job at the end of June and have since acquired a shiny new belly. I'm not sure where it came from.
I agree that the raising of difficulty is problematic. But is it not that running arbitrary javascript in advertisements, and the ever growing scale of said javascript chunked in, is also growing ever more?
You state indeed that it's a mere 7 transactions per second, yet I'm settling transactions over 2nd layer networks like Lightning and Liquid.
Javascript advertisements bring me nothing but distraction and a settled state of mind. I find this a far bigger harm than commodotizing international transactions, how slow they might be.
Dove is a bird and rhymes with Love, not a false irregular past participle for dived.
Route and router derive from french and so are pronounced likewise - root, excepting the guttural french 'r' which no english speakers anywhere are capable of. It is quite jarring to hear the AmE version pronounced like some kind of chaotic battlefield retreat.
It's the power of denial. The sunk cost is enormous.
It was received knowledge well before 11/21, I remember well from that morning on NPR [0]. I read that article and the academic paper [1] behind it. There is nothing there other than thin correlation. No evidence to say a single zoonotic exposure occurred, much less many over several months, over that human to human transmission occurred there. Correlation is great for starting an investigation such as Snow’s [2]. After the map Snow established causation and a mechanism, Worobey does nothing.

0. https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800725826/why-wet-markets-are...

1. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...
CA has been lightening up about ADUs, it's typically not hard to put one in. There were a few legal changes in 2020, allowing larger sizes, less planning oversight, less parking requirements, utility hookups can be shared with the primary building.

The permits are pretty easy to get.
I would probably reroute the end of the rain sprout on the left side of the shed away from the shed, since it would put lots of water at the base of the shed whenever it rains, weakening the base of the shed.
This is quite interesting, what’s the extension called?
It’s my life’s dream to do a project like this.
Motley Fool is now formally recommending Bitcoin (2021)
It is simple. It's just not easy. Lots of cool tricks and yet all the addicts are still there. The most important thing is to start. I even think talking too much about it is a negative because it feels like you're heading towards your goal without actually having done something. Spending lots of time talking and researching uses up energy and makes you feel like you've achived something when you actually haven't done anything at all.
close can take arbitrarily long, it's a blocking operation.

Don't ever call close on the hot path.
Wow this is so weird, I've had this exact same idea before! I don't know if you're familiar with Dark Forest strikes from the Dark Forest book, but in the book, or the one after that, aliens use bombs that slow the speed of light in the space of single solar systems, to prevent civilizations from becoming threats. Always thought it would be funny if actual dark forest strikes were just the bitcoin whitepaper and bitcoin/crypto eventually use up all available resources before civilization can become a problem lol. Hope someone makes this an actual story someday.
Americans also want to check if you know things, you know?

Also for those mentioning words that are lewd or harmless depending on which side of the ocean you're at, those are nothing compared to Portuguese in Brazil/Portugal.
Web3 has been used to mean too many things (NFTs ETH crypto etc). Blockchains offer the ability to fix centralized choke points on the Internet, and some prefer Dweb (decentralized web) as a term to describe this.
I will never understand how people can suggest a specific musical genre or a medium is responsible for ruining society or "destroying values like the value of work" with a straight face. When I ask for empirical proof of such things, there never is any, just anecdotal statements.

As if country music never touched upon these sorts of topics. Or books. Or ...

Moral panics come from old people who don't like anything that's different from their youth. "Kids these days!" And in America, especially so if that thing happens to be dominated by black people.
Or in pop culture, all the Marvel movies.
There was definitely negative population growth in Beijing in 1970: https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/20464/beijing/population

But most of those people probably returned in the ensuing growth.
> "freedom lovers" were demanding that we sacrifice the weak and old

Isn't it the opposite? I recall various right-leaning figures talking about 'sacrificing' the young. Release them in order to get natural immunity, while locking up the old until that process is done. I think that was a rather bad idea, especially with the hindsight of knowing how quickly the vaccines were ready, but that's separate.
Sure but I thought above comment meant sequencing in genetic sense so it bore clarifying
Not wrong. Try this alternative: Relocate your bed within the room, even if only by a few inches. If better, keep the modest improvement to your local environment. If worse, move the bed back and keep the knowledge.
Many probability distributions have a variance[1], not only the standard distribution. Why do you think there is no variance for your "fat-tailed distribution"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance
I dig the site. I have heard before that Pomodoro is a trademark that's enforced, but I'm not a lawyer and don't understand what that really means. [0] [1]

[0]https://medium.com/@vojto/you-cant-name-a-trademark-in-app-s...

[1]https://twitter.com/cirillof/status/1228322230251270146
The urge to build a shed seems to be pretty common. I've been thinking about it for a couple years now. As David Lynch said, "whenever you can build a shed, you’ve got it made."

https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2003/08/18/david-lynch-o...
So the ICANN application says they will apply no restrictions to registrants, yet when you try to register they have a requirement that you provide certain content, and by a deadline - is this not in violation of the application?

-- https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/applicationde...

-- "the .new gTLD will best add value to the gTLD space by remaining purely open and unencumbered by registrant restrictions. There will, therefore, be no restrictions on second-level domain name registrations in the proposed gTLD, .new."

-- "Extension Requirements
.NEW is open to anyone but all domain names must be used for action generation or online content creation where the user should be able to “create” something without any further navigation. Examples from Google include docs.new and slides.new, which resolve to a new document creation page. Any .NEW domain name need to be live within 100 days of registration"
try going to github.com/watching

there should be a list of all the repos you watch

unwatch any repo you don't want to be notified of
Hey that sucks. Where do you live?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballer...

21 in 2021
3 in 2020
3 in 2019
4 in 2018
7 in 2017
8 in 2016
9 in 2015
5 in 2014
10 in 2013
8 in 2012
3 in 2011
9 in 2010

Something is different about 2021. I'm not a data analyst, but maybe somebody can quantify how 2021 is an outlier.
I believe numpy is bounded by Python's interpreter (which runs at about ~1us per dispatch to C function from what I recall while working on PyTorch). The number you get is definitely what I'd expect.

If you use larger arrays (and use the "out" variant: `numpy.add(a, b, out=c)`),
you might get similar total throughput at least.

import numpy as np

N = 1024 * 128
A = np.random.randn(N)
B = np.random.randn(N)
C = np.random.randn(N)

import time

for _ in range(1000):
np.add(A, B, out=C)

iters = 1000
t = time.time()
for _ in range(iters):
np.add(A, B, out=C)
d = time.time() - t
print(f"{iters * N * 3 * 4 / d / 1e9:.2f} GB/s")
Maybe a few engineers are making that in SV, but the vast majority are under $200k for salary. With public companies that are doing well in the stock market, total compensation can certainly be $500k. But I think it is an important distinction to make that more than half is from equity and that equity is only lucrative while the company stock is doing well. If the stock market crashes or the company's stock gets in trouble, most of those engineers won't be making $500k.
I'm sure someone can make an ICO to "solve" that problem, write a white paper and promptly disappear after the pump and dump is over.
Ask HN: If money wasn’t an issue would you homeschool?
Oh god, I don't need my domain to be another form of currency.

If Web3 ever becomes a thing I look forward to seeing the chaos that ensues when the inevitable happens, and a major domain name gets stolen with absolutely zero dispute resolution and where the attackers can also hijack all incoming traffic to steal credentials or install malware. Then it will be mathematically impossible to recover without paying whatever ransom the attackers like for the return (if the attackers even decide they want to sell!).

DNS Poisoning was bad enough, this would be a total wipeout.
MLK’s problem with white moderates was not being a middle ground, it was that they urged delay and inaction.

> I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Indeed, he himself was charting a middle ground between inaction and violence:

> You speak of our activity in Birmingham as extreme. At first I was rather disappointed that fellow clergymen would see my nonviolent efforts as those of an extremist. I began thinking about the fact that I stand in the middle of two opposing forces in the Negro community. One is a force of complacency, made up in part of Negroes who, as a result of long years of oppression, are so drained of self respect and a sense of "somebodiness" that they have adjusted to segregation; and in part of a few middle-class Negroes who, because of a degree of academic and economic security and because in some ways they profit by segregation, have become insensitive to the problems of the masses. The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence. It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation, the largest and best known being Elijah Muhammad's Muslim movement. Nourished by the Negro's frustration over the continued existence of racial discrimination, this movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America, who have absolutely repudiated Christianity, and who have concluded that the white man is an incorrigible "devil."

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....
There is definitely a tendency towards some self-flagellation in CZ, though I think this is vastly more widespread elsewhere (just witness the ritual meltdowns in English language media whenever some election does not turn out perfectly "right").

I like to think I am pretty resistant to that. So, some earned praise: Czechia is a very safe country which was able to get some things work better than many others (we even have a functioning gun culture without too much machismo or regular bloodsheds - the compulsory safety and legal tests are a good filter against crazies). Our healthcare is fairly decent, though necessarily limited by the overall economic level, which is, by the standards of Western Europe, second tier.

What is really f_cked up is the real estate market. Our construction permit bureaucracy would make the Byzantine courts blush, a normal block of flats may spend a decade in permission limbo before the first shovel touches the ground. As a result, prices have gone absolutely mad in the last few years, especially in Prague.

(Meanwhile, similarly sized Polish capital Warsaw built 100 000 apartments in five years or so and housing is much more affordable there as a consequence.)
I recall a period in the early 2000s when unindicated whole-body CAT-scans were being advertised on television.

That got knocked down pretty quickly but wow a lot of folks picked up a big chunk of their lifetime radiation allowance because of that.

These tests seem to operate under a similar model, disregard the risks of unnecessary testing in return for information of limited utility that may cause material harm.
Seconded.

One would be far more likely to hear "Oi, cunt, the salt" here in Blightly than in the USA.
Tesla Is Recalling 500k Vehicles Due to Crash Risks
If we're not counting the time to zero out the array, it seems that typed arrays are slower than plain javascript because it's converting to & from floats/doubles back and forth. Try the same with Float64Array. My microbenchmark says f32 is 15% slower than f64 on chrome: https://jsbench.me/gnkxxkjag8/1
With few exceptions, if you want to know what's really going on, the insurance companies are the numbers to draw from. They have a vested interest in knowing what's happening and people usually have a vested interest in reporting to them to collect resources.

(The exception is when there are secondary effects. Auto insurance reporting under samples minor accidents, because people don't want to risk their perfect driving record rate bonuses on a fender-bender. But there are no incentives to refrain from collecting on life insurance.)
It sometimes is astounding how cheap bribery can be, right?
Microsoft confirms Exchange Year 2022 problem
Seriously. Humans managed to send a robot to a rock hurtling through the universe, and then took pieces back to look at. And it feels so normal! This is awesome stuff.
The standard textbooks by historians are:

A History of Modern Computing by Paul Ceruzzi

Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray

There are good books by journalists and popular writers. Favorites on HN are:

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by W. Mitchell Waldrop

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner and Matthey Lyon

These and many many other books are recomended and described in
this HN thread from two years ago:

Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692281
I think you commented on the wrong post
I’ve also complained to my doctor about undocumented “side effects” from various non-vaccine drugs.

Even though it seemed weird he immediately suggested switching to something else.

Doctors don’t apply a robotic “this could never happen” approach when dealing with unexpected side effects, regardless of whether there’s empirical evidence for them or not.
In Santa Cruz it is illegal to insulate your garage, lest it become housing.
> can you believe my phone turned that into beliebers?

To be fair, that would have fit your list just as well.
Was going to mention that not way is that roof steep enough for water run off, but I see he encountered that problem already.

Also isn't this going to get really hot in the summer? A small air con unit could work well with a hole cut for the vent?
There’s a confounding effect arising from the difficulty in comparing false negative rates between person-meteor-strike and person-lottery-jackpot. Whereas lottery-jackpot events are rarely misinterpreted as some prat dropping rubbish onto person, person-meteor-strike too often is.
The Bull case is pretty straightforward. There are ~80-100M cars produced every year. Tesla's market cap is ~40% of the total automotive industry. So either they have to 40x their production to match their current market cap or drastically eat into another industry. People like to propose two different possibilities - self driving and energy. Personally, I think self driving will be a race to the bottom. As soon as one person figures it out, they might have one year before others are able to do it. Aside from that, I think it is pretty clear that Tesla is going to lose that race regardless as the money in self driving is having an autonomous fleet. Waymo doesn't need to make the cars or have gigafactories.

As for being the energy provider of the future, as much as people love to hate energy companies, Chevron is not going to roll over so easily. They love oil because it makes money. As soon as it stops making money, they are much better positioned to transform their infrastructure into charging stations than Tesla is to bootstrap that side of their business.

At this point, it is obvious Tesla will be a profitable car company moving forward but I still think they are more likely to end up as another Mercedes-Benz (Daimler market cap is 80B) than eating the automotive industry plus another industry.
About 7 or 8 hours total, slowly creeping up as my half marathon training long runs start taking more time.

Prior to starting half marathon training it was right at 6 though. 3 x per week weight training and 3 x per week 5k training runs each of those ~1 hour.

Current schedule is
M/W 1 hour weight training
T/T/S/Su half marathon training with long runs on Saturday. Those are starting to get above an hour as the mileage increases. In another 3 weeks or so all my runs except Sunday will average above an hour more than likely so probably get into the 8-9 hours per week territory.

At 42 I'm now healthier than I've ever been. All that time in my 20's making excuses about how I didn't have time to lift/run whatever was BS. It's far easier than people think to get into very good shape. That hour or so per day is just one less hour dicking off on the internet or watching TV or something - you won't miss it.
Haha, in theory that's true. But in practice comments are frequently flagged that the majority demographic of HN disagrees with, even breaking no guidelines. It's exactly what the OP to my comment was saying.
Mortality rates are basically up in all countries (at least those who can adequately measure it). My bet is that "after Covid" we will see rates under the pre-pandemic value for a couple of years as Covid was most lethal to those that would have died the next 0-5 years anyways without it.
I unfollow everyone on social media except close family. The trick is to remove the potency of your social media.
I removed all my friends from FB, so now I just use it for very specific information needs with Groups.

I blocked myself from checking any news sites or social media from my phone, only desktop. That way I don't get stuck in bed or delay wind down.
> Working from home can remove a lot of the accountability that keeps addicts in check.

This is a cruel twist, given that suicide deaths actually decreased in 2020[1], probably for the reason you've mentioned: spending nearly all of your time with others makes you accountable and removes opportunities for self-harm.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/VSRR016.pdf
Very similar to people using node.getenv in hot sections of code and the resulting not understanding what's happening.

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3104

When you call out to the sys or libc things are going to happen and you should try and be aware of what those are.
Nigerians beg to differ: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/31/out-of-co...
This is gold!

Considering Humanity's capacity and even drive for destruction (entropy incarnate, that's us), by having handed us this concept they will have certainly accelerated the destruction of potentially hostile civilisations... but also their own, the rest of the universe, and whatever surrounds it.

There is some really good fiction to be found in this vein on https://old.reddit.com/r/HFY/
Even if we use the definition in sense 2 (and I definitely don't think we should) enforcing a contract is not censorship. As far as I am aware, Marjorie Taylor Green was over the age of majority and of sound mind and body - and therefore fully capable of agreeing to the terms of a written agreement - when she agreed to the Twitter terms of service.
If it wasn't clear, I'm suggesting regulating nonviolent interaction is paternalistic, as is weaseling around it by expanding the definition of violence.

I agree we shouldn't let people physically destroy internet infrastructure. I don't think this is controversial. I don't think we should regulate how people peacefully interact.
It’s a really good book and I’ve recommended it to several people.
> Rather than scapegoat Bitcoin for our climate crisis, start by...

I too enjoy whataboutism to distract folks from the environmental impact of my favorite Ponzi scheme.

> Do those things, and Bitcoin will literally subsidize and accelerate clean energy infrastructure investment.

If you invest in massive solar and wind plants then use that energy to roll rocks up and back down a hill forever like Sisyphus, that's just more waste. Different waste, but more waste. Any energy you spend rock-rolling is failing to de-carbonize the existing grid.

Bitcoin isn't incentivized to chase renewables. It's incentivized to find the cheapest power it can get its hands on anywhere on earth and then waste it. That's why PE firms are re-opening fossil fuel plants to mine with.
This whole thing is just a fire hazard but this is just dangerous advice to be giving people:

"PRO TIP Use screws for everything; if you mess up, remove the screws and redo it; with nails, it’s a lot harder to do that."

Please don't, screws shear. Don't learn constrtuction from someone who hasn't learnt it himself.

As for writing about your experience like this, write a blog about something in your own field or otherwise don't give advice. It could end up with someone getting hurt.
There is tendency to suppress this in discussions, but Model 3 sucks in so many ways - everything rattles, even a empty coffee cup in the holder. The car is good as long as I drive on a smooth road. The seats are not very comfortable, the car is absolutely stripped of any artistic detail. On the other hand, AP rocks(invaluable in high traffic commutes like bay area), and I don’t think other cars do it just as confidently. And it keeps updating. The steering is extremely precise and handles like a champ in corners. It feels like we have a to choose between traditional comfort and tech, which sucks. It’s almost like it is a specialist car like a subaru wrx
> What that really meant was someone else had rejected delivery of that specific vehicle.

Do you think they should scrap the vehicle if the original buyer rejects it? Of course they will deliver it to a different customer.

> They're like everyone else, push hard to make the numbers, screw the QA.

That's the usual Tesla FUD - If they don't make the numbers - busted growth story. If they do - their QA sucks.