skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Try to say Graphics with a soft G.

That's not exactly difficult to do, though it would be spelled "draphics".

It's difficult to see what this is supposed to be relevant to; acronyms are never given pronunciations taken from their hidden constituent words. Try to say "stimulated" with a /z/ (as in "LASER").
Yes, and the FAQ makes it clear by that they mean the current way work is organized, they don't think that no one has to grow corn or otherwise be productive. They don't people won't have to do unfun things. They make it clear their issue is with their management.
Found someone claiming you can survive for 8 days on 10 pounds of rice. Meaning that with a dozen scientists, the "hoard" would only last a single day.
Phones do not have enough spare battery power to be relaying messages on a mesh network.
So from December 2020 to February 2021 about 40lbs where each pound is 3500 calories?

140000 calories over about 14 months? So 10000 extra calories per month is ~330 per day.

That seems like a lot over a long time period.
How are you going to distribute that message? Over NPM? No one is going to read that.

At best the community can stand up and fork which means they have to move ownership to some rando
The English call the Thames river Tims. Spanish call Barcelona Barthelona, and Ibiza Ibitha. So I don't put much in native pronounciations. Otherwise, if they are pronouncing it correctly, they need to go back to spelling skool!!

Don't get me started on Stuyvesant! ;-)

/s in case it's not obvious
Ask HN: Are you a developer and working on a startup?
Hi everyone, I'm a solo dev working on a project which I plan on launching as a startup. My problem has always been not finishing things i.e. motivation/distraction/procrastination/etc. However, I've recently found a solution. Inspired by startupschool/working space.

Basically daily in a slack channel you write 1-5 of bullet points of what you did yesterday and so do other people. Seeing other people take small steps consistently builds motivation, environment and some accountability. Then we have 1 day at weekend to demo our progress. You are average of people you hangout with, so wanna build stuff? hangout with people who build stuff.

Through experimentation I've found the simple rules that work the best for this:

- post at least one thing daily. even if it's as small as paid for a domain name, or researched authentication systems. Just be truthful and do one thing minimum.

- while you post also write down just ONE thing that you're gonna do tomorrow for your project.

- posting highly suggested even if you post N/A, but it's not required, what's required is to show up for weekly video chat, don't have to turn on the camera just show/discuss what you accomplished and any questions

- be a developer

- miss two weekly meetings and you're out

That's it...

- Be a developer
- Be actively working on a project
- Post daily
- Attend meetup 1/wk

It's only 2 people right now but looking to grow to 6 founders/developers.

i guess also speak english, don't have to be fluent
Mirapex, given for Parkinson’s, it’s truly scary. There are entire forums dedicated to the broken families due to the gambling auctions caused by it. My brother has been on it for two decades, so my family has gotten to watch the effects first hand.
From reading Hacker News I expected Texas to be attracting a lot of people... while California is #5 for people leaving, Texas isn't on either list.
Am I the only one thinking how my dad had a pretty sketchy sense of humor in close company and a very professional persona for the public? To me he epitomizes the America’s Dad nickname for exactly this reason
Normal mainstream people don't understand TCP either. They don't need to know about ygdrassil for it to succeed.
You remind me of a relative I've lost nearly all connection with because he now has a hard line stance on DRM. We used to watch movies and enjoy talking about them, but he wont watch anything that requires streaming. And worse, we used to enjoy playing the same video games and talking about them, but he wont use Steam, and he wont purchase video game consoles anymore.

I share his concerns, but when I weight my choices, I sometimes choose the DRM'ed content. The DRM may make my purchase a "rental", but it's often still an experience I choose to have, despite the cons. I have walked away from my fair share of DRM'ed content on principle, but I don't have such a hard-line stance.
seems simple to me. Eggs existed millions of years before chickens did.
I don't think it's at all healthy to equate being blocked on Twitter to being "written off as garbage".
By no less than Luc Montagnier himself. This looks like the nuclear letter by Einstein to Roosevelt. WSJ is one of the very few remaining solid objective outlets in the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier
> As a society, we must intelligently react to these dangers as we've done in the past with threats like the ozone layer. We must plan as if a comet was going to hit the planet, starting now.

Have you seen the movie Don’t Look Up? It’s not gonna happen.
You may also enjoy "Jim deletes the tenth grade":

https://web.archive.org/web/20081020082418/http://www.jimbas...
> Are we living in a simulation?

45% voted yes (of 14,463 votes so far).

Whether we're living in a computer simulation is an absolutely fascinating subject to think about, and I do not dismiss the idea, but do a significant number of people really believe it?
> The unit of measure?

You wouldn't think "the breathing apparatus of a fish" before "the unit of measure"? When was the last time you saw something measured in gills?
No it doesn't. If I heat my home with underfloor heating and a heat pump that provides significantly more quality of life than a coal oven while also using a fraction of the energy. GDP and energy consumption have been decoupled in industrialized nations for decades now.
300 calories a day is roughly +1/2 a pound per week. That actually adds up rather quickly, 2 pounds in a month, 12 pounds in 6 months, 24 pounds in a year.

To get rid of that, you need to drop 600 calories off what you got used to, for the same time period. So I wouldn't underestimate the effort here.
The article was about the NFT containing a name. This thread is about "NFT points to a content hash", to quote toomuchtodo. You can't change the content and keep the same hash.

Similarly, you can prove to others that the version on your disk the version pointed to by the blockchain by having people check the hash.
It's actually hard and absurd not to believe in a Creator.
It may be an effort thing... or just fun reusing old hardware. I know I enjoyed running PIIIs up until 2012 or so as servers, and that was nowhere near energy efficient.
Yes! I forgot about Battle Chess!
> I don’t think philosophy says

I'm a professional philosopher, and I and 100% of my colleagues agree with you.
> It was originally "Structured English Query Language", or SEQUEL.

Sounds like you meant it was originally "Structured English QUEry Language"?

Not the most inspiring way to form an acronym.
Yeah, GC inevitably leads to hideous memory leaks.

In some cases that's totally fine! For example, if you have a stateless fleet of server-side applications and you can restart any of them at any time, or if you have a CLI that runs for short amounts of time.

In other cases, for example long-running stateful servers, games or GUI apps, it can quickly become a real problem.
Before this fungus came along, trees would fall over, and just pile up, every forest was a vast carbon sink, no matter how soggy the ground was. That's where our fossil fuels came from.
Back to work after a nice vacation
back to work after 15 days all these days no scrum, meeting it was so peaceful. what are some of the hacks that i can reduce my anxiety of what would something go wrong? what my manager talks about my pending tasks, thinking of all worst scenarios that may or may not happen.
Could be, a lot of meds can effect your ability to concentrate. A psychiatrist will tend to see everything through a psychiatry lens. Sure dyslexia and mental illness are both brain related but psychiatrists generally only deal with the second, so that is where they will first look for an answer. Get tested anyway as it can't hurt.
This guy again? Last time I seen something posted they were being looked into for bomb making after some kind of fire.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/resident-of-nyc-home-with-susp...

The irony is that the guy was once banned on here for spamming their startup Nodejitsu

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodejitsu
I think just a brief "too slow" underneath the input would suffice.
Health care is turning into a consumer product
Yeah, that one has really thrown me for a loop. Just how willing a large segment of the population can be to "score points" against the other side... by killing themselves.

It is kind of funny, the pandemic could have been politicized the other way as well: "wear a mask to protect yourself from ethnic group's disease", and such.

But as it turned out, the primary concern was with just one man's ego, and trying to pretend that everything is fine... until it clearly wasn't.
Personally, yes, I think so.
Here's another hidden gem of open source icons:
https://phosphoricons.com/

very stylish!

P.S. I tried to sell stock icons in early 2000s, hehe. Hard to imagine that now. So many excellent open source vector icons.
Thats fine. Go forth and find your circle of Twitter users who share that view and correct them and receive corrections from them and be happy.

Mr Stross seems not share that view. That's fine too.
Political parties don't need the data itself. They can use the advertising platforms and their algorithms for a nominal fee. I mean nominal in the grand scheme of controlling the populace through digital graphics and social commentary. That is real and it was applauded when the Obama administration was won. Since then, all politicians leverage algorithms and digital channels to spread their messages.
Ah you're right, they measure the closed eye alpha signal. I'm just skimming with ctl+f and didn't see it, did they mention specifically what electrodes they used for their measurements?
Reminds me of a similar potential gotcha in Postgres

https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/on-rocks-and-sand/

The linting story for postgres schemas isn't as good as it is in golang tho, so harder to automatically detect/solve for.
Yeah. You can try to compare the mass of quality material in one vs the other and I can see why Trek would win that faceoff. But the universe of Wars is just more relatable and this sort of kneejerk biases that way.

• Gritty vs clean

• Thieves and scoundrels vs naval officers

• Genuine clothing vs color coded uniforms

• Misfits save the world from pervasive evil vs bold leaders discovering some weird new thing

• Magic vs Science

• Jumping into a gun turret and swinging it around at your enemy vs “Mr. Worf, target their ships!”

• Swordfights and maulings vs redshirts getting blown up.

I think each of them has its own milieu that it speaks to more, but the internet is for sure gonna pick Star Wars over Star Trek if they just are asked “X or Y?”. Star Wars still has a cool factor while Star Trek still has a dorky factor.

And a lot of that factor comes back to the fact that Trek is better known as syndicated TV. The constraint is that the episodes may be shown in random order, and so every episode or every two episodes, the state of the crew and the ships needs to be returned back to the baseline. The dorkiness comes in part from that aspect where the system gets returned back to where it was.

That's not all of it because Deadliest Catch also has the same aspect where every Deadliest Catch episode is basically the same thing, hah. Firefly kind of can be viewed as the attempt to take Star Wars’ grittiness and somehow make it syndicatable, “we finish the job and you see us a month later seeking out the next job.”
In browser land, the less code you ship, the better. Removing dead js code is hard, because of its dynamic nature and using common js imports making it harder for treeshaking algorithms.

So, people had incentive to write and use smaller packages.

Now, the situation has improved. If you use esmodules all the way, and only import what you need, then your bundler can remove unused modules from final build
This is one of my favourite jokes but nobody ever laughs when I tell it. Which makes me sad.
Some years ago when getting started, I did a lot of research ahead of time by reading books and talking to other people who had done it. While there are always new situations and the learning never stops, the single most important thing in my mind is to manage yourself as a business. In addition to doing the work, you have operations like healthcare, retirement, vacation, and services like accountants and attorneys. My wife helps with that so I can spend more of my time on billable activities, but business aspects are still something you have to pay attention to no matter what. When you negotiate with customers and/or recruiters, you're representing your business. Your loyalty resides with your business. Recruiters are an easy way to get started. I asked my attorney to help understand my first couple of contracts (there are good ones and very bad ones) and learned most of what I need to know over time. The more work you do with different companies, the more you can build out your network. As you build a network, take care of other people and make referrals for them (whether permanent opportunities or contracting). Occasionally, people might do the same for you - that's how this thing works. There will be gaps between contracts, which is normal. If you're too successful, the phone will always be ringing and you can work yourself to death - so set boundaries and take care of yourself. Therefore, when determining your pay, you need to consider the operational aspects of the business, gaps between gigs, and how much you want for payroll. BTW, my wife gets a paycheck and benefits too because she is doing work for the business. Then do research on what the market might pay for your services. There's likely a gap between what you need to live and what the market will bear and that's the space you negotiate in. If you take less than what you need, you and your business suffers. One of my early attorneys wisely advised me - you have a right to make a profit.
Plus it's a forgotten Linux distro.
Did some research for a client of ours. Suggested it to them. I think they are still using it. Their tech support is really good. I think it's worth checking out.
Frank Stallone
Or we get a culture where upstream writes in more detail what an upstream is supposed to contain and downstream verifies that the update indeed does what they write. If this leads to fewer updates overall, I have no problem with that.
OK. So the obvious thing to do is to put a phone and message app on it. Has anyone done that?
I figure most people recognize it from Minecraft than wherever Mojang got it from.
Wouldn't you want to wait for at least two providers before rearchitecting your life around a product like that?
The maintainer was already temp-banned from GH around 2013 for "creating a script that forced people to watch a library that [he] created", whatever that means: https://youtu.be/varf6oWaFtU?t=202
Is there a community or conference that is a good “watering hole” for ideas like this one? (Ideally not web3/crypto related - real decentralized solutions - not scams and hucksters)
> DMCA is an entirely different beast, and it's not Github's fault that whole system is broken.

Microsoft and co. probably have the leverage to move that needle a little if they really wanted to.
An older Das Keyboard mechanical keyboard [1] that's worked flawlessly through years of big writing jobs. Love the crisp key feel.

[1] https://www.daskeyboard.com/
Yeah I guess then we can just shrug and go on because there is nothing we can do to stop our app from randomly breaking tomorrow.

> So the only practical way to stay secure-ish is to reactively patch software as vulnerabilities are publicly discovered.

But this is different from just blindly accepting any update that upstream gives you.

> And also defence in depth.

This sounds increasingly like security theater. You can always more layers obstacles to make things harder for malware that is already on your system, but it's not clear to me how much this actually reduces your atrack surface.
Perhaps this will lead to evolutionary changes where edge folk eventually die off?
Valid critique and explanation of crucial technical differences between commonly compared projects is neither scary nor the start of a flamewar. This comment is far more inflammatory than anything that Micay wrote in the linked thread.

It's important to be highly critical of and precise when talking about security and privacy oriented projects since the stakes are particularly high. Any discussion around technical choices and their impact on security and/or privacy does not diminish the work of project developers or call into question their effort and abilities.
I have noticed this happening a lot more frequently since Covid.
Go’s philosophy seems to be a very minimal/low-feature language, that’s fairly low level, even if that means somewhat more awkward or mistake-prone code. Go’s current approach seems more Go-y than an annotation like this.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Montagnier was a promoter of the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2, the causative virus, was deliberately created in, and thereafter escaped from a laboratory. Such a claim has been refuted by other virologists.
Even if it were in a readme, the developer knows the default version of npm install is a version lock on the major and they made it a patch version so that it would intentionally be picked up by almost everyone. I think I actually am going to file criminal charges.
That's an awesome perspective! I will link to it in the post!
Right? Definitely a lot of trolls out there claiming they don’t like pineapple on pizza.
To be totally fair, note that the E in laser is in fact pronounced identically (/ə/) to the E in emission.
Question for the experts, as I haven't yet seen a good explanation of this: Why are both SPF and DKIM required to prevent fraudulent emails? My semi-naive intuition is that maybe SPF alone is not sufficient, because of IP address spoofing, but DKIM alone should be sufficient if mail servers adequately protect their private keys. Does SPF just help in the cases where private keys are stolen? Maybe something about DNS cache poisoning, since that's where recipients get the DKIM public keys?
so we're judging it by the count of good movies included in the franchise, and not actually how good those movies are?
And the install process may hang / crash / lose power etc. There are lots of reasons for one to rerun a post install that aren’t an upgrade.
Junk is also a verb meaning to throw something away
Plaid Class Action Settlement Proposal
Your conception of free software is not how free software is generally understood; free software is about the rights of the users, not the expectation that people contribute to it. Sure, if you _define_ free software as being about a lack of ownership by one person and expected contributions, then you can criticize this.

But what happened here is that free/open source software doesn't have a consistent stance on paying maintainers or contributors, and this author feels that it's unfair and (potentially in the midst of other personal issues, it seems?) took advantage of a problem with how the ecosystem pulls in dependencies to complain about it.
IMHO the by far most concerning part about this is GitHub blocking the original author.
What I want to know are who are the 29% who think daylight savings time is a good idea? There are zero good arguments for it.
I view COVID-19 as relatively uniquely able to become a global pandemic.

1. Delayed onset of symptoms. That you can spread the disease for a couple days before you first have symptoms has caused so much spreading. If, instead, people were showing symptoms within 12 hours, they'd be much more likely to not be out and about the next day spreading the disease.

2. Wide range of symptoms. Some people felt nearly nothing. Others dealt with it like a minor cold. And others it killed, but not a high enough percentage for most people to take it seriously enough. "Oh, even if I get it, it won't be that big a deal..." kind of thinking. If everyone got at least a "worse than the flu" like reaction to it, everyone would have been taking it more seriously.
Apparently the WSJ is against polio vaccination mandates.
It looks like the sample rate is more than high enough to differentiate between the typical alpha, theta, and delta waves, which should be enough to discern sleep stages. The hard part is a quality electrode-scalp contact which maintains relatively constant impedance over the course of sleep, especially after movement. EEG is all about signal/noise, because ultimately you are amplifying tiny currents which are easily drowned out by noise from contact movement and I think even RF interference (you can trivially pick up 60hz mains noise even if you're sitting ≈10 feet from the nearest powered appliance/wire).

OpenBCI sells electrode caps which they claim are sufficient for sleep studies, unfortunately IIRC they are somewhat inconvenient because the electrodes require wetting and/or gel which must be applied to each electrode every time the cap is worn. I have yet to shell out the $500+ to give it a try, but that's still way cheaper than medical grade devices.
Uhm, Norway has massive hydro resources, which not everybody does.
> Maybe we're reading this somehow very differently, but to me these looks at worst highly compatible points, and at best, the same point.

I'm reading a nuance difference into it - the first statement, to me, sounds like it puts some blame on the people, while the second one (and, I believe, Moxie's article) puts the blame on the technologies that forced this situation.
And other virologists share Montagnier’s assertion that the proverbial pangolins had nothing to do with this fiasco.
What happens if you print out the source code and publish it as a book? Can the courts prohibit a book?

Phil Zimmermann asked this question in the context of export controls on "cryptography technology", i.e. the PGP software. MIT Press published the source code in 1995. But the US dropped its objections and this wasn't specifically tested in court (AFAIK, though similar questions were).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
Why on earth would anyone think for a second that the inventor of a technology has any input on the pronunciation of the name of the technology?

Imagine if someone said “well actually the inventor of the paper clip pronounces it with a soft ‘c’ so it sounds like ‘paper slip’”

This seems so clearly absurd that I don’t even really know how to argue against it.
> I would not first describe them that way should they choose to premeditate harm against others.

That's why a judge often has to determine if the person is mentally ill or just a criminal.

There are plenty of situations where someone has hurt other people and they've been literally insane.

If your insanity causes you to believe that someone is doing horrible things like murdering children you might decide to do them harm, thinking you're the good guy.

In reality you have paranoid schizophrenia or a litany of other mental health issues.

It's not cut and dry :-/
I can’t read the article, but guessing it puts very little weight on the severity reduction vaccines grant. Or is there new data showing that’s not a thing?