skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are the main characters from Monica's Gang:

- Monica (Mônica) - has ludicrous physical strength (quite easily the strongest person in the world in the cartoon). Gets made fun of by the boys for her big front teeth and responds by hitting them with her blue stuffed rabbit.

- Jimmy Five (Cebolinha) - Can't pronounce some words properly (as described above). Has exactly 5 strands of hair on his head and is always trying to steal Monica's rabbit, in an attempt to become the "owner of the street".

- Maggy (Magali) - REALLY likes to eat, is able to do so indefinitely. Many stories revolve around how quickly and much she can eat. Is often seen with a big slice of watermelon on her hands.

- Smudge (Cascão) - Has never taken a shower and is extremely afraid of water. The canon is that Smudge has never even touched a single drop of water in his life. Even has his own set of supervillains whose only goal is to get him to take a shower.

This is not even the tip of the iceberg of the shenanigans and characters from these comics. Monica's gang is such a special part of Brazilian culture and I hope someday it gets the international recognition it deserves.
A good portion of this article dealt with energy security. The US producing a ton of oil dramatically changed energy security. And I was specifically responding to the claim that US oil production has not had a geopolitical impact. It demonstrably has
Gentoo was fun, too bad I don’t have time for it anymore. I used to go for nice walks when Firefox was compiling. Great opportunity to go outside and take a break.

USE flags in Gentoo also allows for a much more configurable system.
A repost from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29918004
After having spent a few years working on a chatbot, the allure is this: talking to a real human is better than filling out a form. If we can build a Q&A system as good as talking to a human, people would also prefer it to filling out forms. So that's the pursuit.

I understand the hate, because we haven't landed very close that goal yet, and the intermediate product is much worse than a form. But I am surprised that a technical community is not more supportive of the ambition.
That system sounds like it’s missing the table stakes of what the author describes. Still, there’s something to be said for a “I don’t care, just build it” panic button.
In 2019 the defense budget would have been #3 on your list, under only Social Security and Medicare + Medicaid. Perhaps using a pandemic year with extra outlays to avoid economic collapse is not the best way to discuss overall government spending.

In typical years the Defense spending is equal to each of the discretionary non-defense spending and "other" mandatory spending which excludes Medicare + Medicaid and Social Security. Medicare + Medicaid and Social Security spending have certainly increased the most and that seems to be inline with the increased spending on health care over the last few decades.

It's also worth noting that the non-defense categories still include defense related spending like veterans' income security, benefits, and services.
Why planes might soon have just one pilot
My sister came for a visit 3 weeks ago, actually, no, 4 weeks ago, it was the week before Christmas. We were celebrating her 31st birthday and we went out to a great local restaurant. They serve vegan and vegetarian food and we had a great time. I went Christmas shopping and found a lot of great gifts for my son and husband. Yada yada. Now Christmas rolls around and my husband opens the present - it's a Polo Ralph Lauren shirt I knew he would love. To my surprise, and you won't believe this, I got him the wrong size! I need to exchange the shirt for the right size.

Hi I'm Macy, the Macy's chatbot. Thanks for reaching out! You need to exchange an item, is that correct?
> Accounts with zero balance won’t be impacted and this charge won’t result in any negative balance.

How gracious.
I don't see the new. All this tells me is that entangled particles react to things that impact some but not all of their various superpositions/entanglements. Sounds like basic double-slit stuff to me. The particle that goes through the slit A reacts to its partners going through slit B. The particle that passed through gravity field A reacted to its partners going through field B.
Maximising Differential Entropy to Solve Wordle
The Home of Tomorrow Will Run on Direct Current
This group clearly wasn't cutting in the right people at a high-enough government level. In Russia, the more you make, legally or illegally, the more you have to pay in bribes. Becoming a political nuisance by attracting international attention from other major governments can increase the amounts substantially.
Uh, they started to use an old laptop (presumably that they just had lying around) because they wanted to spend time on their phones less, and here's how it worked out. To be honest that's a fairly common story structure here on HN (with precise details different, of course), what more background do you want or need?
This probably counts as "circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work" under the DMCA and is thus illegal.
I think this implementation and explanation is better: https://github.com/wlad-svennik/memoized_coduals

In a way, the codual numbers are not a different object on a purely mathematical level from the dual numbers. They are merely a different way of representing dual numbers on a computer.
Unambiguously, yes. If possible, release it using some sort of open source license, and grab a DOI for the initial and any subsequent release of the code - you can use Zeonodo or some other tool for this.

I left the academic world a few years ago, but several of the analysis codes/models I published (either as stand-alone tools or artifacts published alongside a journal article) still regularly get used... if anything, there's probably a larger user base for one of my models today than there ever has been, and it's leading to a long-tail of publications where my initial work is either cited or I'm offered co-authorship when I have time to offer hands-on support for improving the model/code and offering my insight as a domain expert.

If you can take the time to clean up some code or author a lightweight package, that's amazing! But it's a bang-for-your-buck type thing. If you ever aspire to leave academia, it's undoubtedly worth spending some time to clean up the code, add documentation, add some unit tests, etc - great artifacts to use in supporting a hiring process if you move into a technical role somewhere in industry. But is far from necessary.
I did Gentoo on a 600mhz Athlon. It was certainly a humbling and informative experience.
I have a PowerBook G4 with upgraded memory. The only caveat is the power cell that gets hot quickly so I have to wire power in everytime.

I installed a few applications including a web browser but then got bored. There is nothing a modern computer cannot do what it does, and miles better. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it TBH. I made the purchase based on an impulse and now I'm paying for it. Fortunately it didn't cost too much.
Quantum physics is worse than a waste of time. It actually impedes real progress.

http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~kcy05t/index.html

Enjoy.
Interesting to see Woob here. Most of the modules are for french environment (banks, dating websites, job boards ...). I always liked the irreverence of the module's names and logos (which are authentic MS Paint piece of work).
New acqi-hiring strategies coming soon to a megacorp near you!
Let's allow yachts to be exempt, but only for the miles they log under sail. Make em use the wind!
I went from IT to making gears in a job shop. The pay and commute sucked, but it was something that I could do with my hands that turned out a tangible product.

Working in a job shop means you frequently have to turn a blank into a gear under deadlines because something broke at a production line, and it's costing them money every day that gear isn't delivered. You get to learn a wide variety of things, but most of all, you're exposed to a world where stuff has to work, no matter how quick or dirty the fix, stuff just has to work.

Once you've been in that environment, working with machine tool older than you, you understand intuitively why people are still running MS-DOS based software, and can't upgrade it no matter what the price. Knowing where your code is being used, and why, makes things far more fulfilling on the IT/programming end.

IT pays more than twice what I was getting making gears. However, you don't have the vague worry that you're not actually helping the world, you have physical products out the door that those doubts can't argue with.

Most of the Marvel 8" bandsaws made between 2015 and 2019 have bevel gears I cut the teeth on in them. It's a bit of trivia, but it makes me happy.

I suspect that this knowledge will help once I'm well enough to return to the land of IT. (Long Covid sucks)
I realized the futility of taking an ethical stand in software, early in my career. I was a junior developer, and my next project was to write code to cheat a benchmark. I managed to work up the courage to tell my boss I had a problem with doing that, and he said "Hey, fine, no problem. We treat our developers well here" and was totally cool about it. I got another ticket to work on instead. Bill, two cubicles down, was happy to go and write the benchmark-cheating code.

I still refuse projects and jobs I consider unethical, but realize it's pissing in the wind until there is some larger coordinated framework (like a Hippocratic Oath for developers).
I love this comment. I agree. After work, if I spend a few hours doing "mindless internet stuff", I feel much worse than if I do something that requires more physical effort, but is more rewarding.
Consider that "cleaning and organizing" your code means that it is no longer the code that actually produced the results in your paper!

The fact that your code is a mess means that it might be buggy; if other people can see your code, someone might find a bug in it. As you said, this is a good thing for open science, and makes your work easier to reproduce.
Sure there are many ways to design housing to be more energy efficient, but what about all of the existing housing?
I love that this got a few downvotes.
> I’m not pining for “the good old days,” at all

> The entire industry has now shaped itself into a transient, mercenary, loyalty-free community.

You're not pining for a time prior to when the industry shaped itself into a transient, mercenary, loyalty-free community?

Or you mean to say it was a different kind of mess before, that has now shaped itself into another mess, but mess nonetheless?

If so, my apologies.
Is talking to a human better than filling out a form? I can usually fill out 90-100% of a form with just my browser’s autocomplete feature. There’s also MUCH less chance for errors if I fill things in myself.
What Voltage for the All-DC House?
I’ve read Alden’s analysis before. I can’t say that I have found any particular weaknesses with it.

But as she says, such a change could take place in different ways, with different implications. If it were to happen suddenly it would be a shock, but that isn’t necessarily the case.

Most signs point to a multipolar world order isn’t he future, and outside a complete internal political collapse, the US would in all likelihood be one of those poles.
Not me. I have assembly-olfactory synesthesia and x86 code smells like the bad parts of gasoline.

Kidding aside, unless you’re looking to play games, most apps have either ported to Apple Silicon, or have a Beta of their port that is releasing soon. I think the M1 Pro/Max release was the kick in the pants that companies/projects like Adobe, Unity, Unreal and Blender needed in order to go “OK yeah, professionals use these, time to get porting”.

(I know some of these betas preceded the release of these laptops, but for a few months before these laptops came out it was clear they were going to be nuts)
In a way, that seems to suggest that the investigation is about ascertaining the facts instead of avoiding upsetting powerful allies.
> That's why I would never allow my daughter to be in the room alone with another adult man. You just can't trust people.

No one? There are some terrible people out there who hide it really well, but this seems like a terrible way to live.

Why even have kids if this is how you feel about humanity?
No doubt every agency knows this and can do it too if they want to, which makes it a completely worthless marker.
I don't know. This is a nice piece of thinking, although I did get a bit bored after the first few points, but it perhaps ignores a couple of key realities:

1. Most obvious, people are going to leave, so you need to take that into account. You can't keep everyone and I'd argue you shouldn't try.

2. The impact of someone leaving is highly variable. Sometimes it's a bad thing, sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's pretty neutral. Different people add different amounts of value, and not all relationships are equal.

Of course high attrition can be a yellow or red flag - certainly a warning that you need to look at how management and leadership work - but some amount of attrition is a reality, and the outcome of that reality is not universally a "cost".
What about the energy already spent producing and getting your current car to you, the energy spent doing away with said car, the energy spent to produce said eletric car and get it to you? A car represents a lot of potential energy at rest. A lot of power was used to take those atoms of metal or carbon from all over the living earth and reconfigure them into the shape of a car at your present location.

I haven’t seen very many analyses pencil all this out. I’d assume the greenest thing would be to drive your current car for the rest of your life.
Don't use "Office Space" as a true-life example.
> What are your ethical issues with Apple?

I don't believe you can genuinely purchase an Apple phone at the moment, and I think they're trying pretty hard to move their laptop/desktop machines in the same direction.

Namely - Much of their mobile ecosystem is utterly hostile towards non-Apple developers - including the owner of the device.

They lock hardware/software features behind entitlements that require Apple's permission (and of course an accompanying fee) to use. Good luck using multicast on your personal device on your personal network. Turns out you can't. The hardware can, of course, but only if Apple allows it.

In fact, turns out almost all of the software Apple provides to run their hardware treats you like a user, and not an owner. They riddle (and cripple) the product with digital locks, and do not provide the keys to the owner.

Instead they provide keys only to apps submitted for review to their store, signed with their certs. So again, it's hard to say I actually own the damn thing.
Why the AWS, Azure, and GCP CLIs Need to Die
Thanks for your support! These videos were published 4 months ago, I posted a link to one of them 75 days ago on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29056542 and my channel was suspended on Jan 7.
I don't really get their announcement. The company brand stuff they find worthwhile is to be in no way tied to actual open positions? This is a feature to help companies that aren't hiring make people feel dissatiafied with their own life?
Not that this condones zip tie guy of breaking the law on other counts, but I thought the zip tie cuffs were found to be immaterial to his charges, because he found them rather than brought them with him (https://www.yahoo.com/news/capitol-riots-zip-tie-guy-1906441... or https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/eric-munch...). My understanding is that he claimed he found them and took them away so Capitol police would not use them to restrain protesters. To my knowledge, subsequent charges have not actually determined any further malicious act stemming from the zip-tie cuffs specifically.
Not necessarily. The First Amendment is implicated if the federal government is trying to get these companies to act on their behalf and censor speech.
This is a distinctively US feature. SEPA transfers cost (next to) nothing, and the IBAN has a checksum, so entering a single digit wrong will get the transaction rejected.
Almost no one (~5%) agree with lawmakers being able to trade stocks. This is one of the few things that basically all Americans agree on.

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/588630-76-percent-of-voter...
US intelligence indicates Russia preparing operation to justify invading Ukraine
Depends if the keyboard I'm using is easily cleanable. If not, I avoid anything crumbly, drippy, or apt to leave orangey-coloured dust on my fingers.
There is Arcade for macOS/iOS et al, but no AAA titles or anything like that
None of the studies you linked concluded any significant findings. The most significant, which was unremarkable, was from the first:

"There is limited evidence that MTSD use, and various aspects of its use (i.e. amount of usage, features, tasks and positions), are associated with musculoskeletal symptoms and exposures. This is due to mainly low quality experimental and case-control laboratory studies, with few cross-sectional and no longitudinal studies."
There is such a concept, rights owners just choose not to offer that option, which they're not obliged to.

This works for them as most people do not how the technical know-how to break through the DRM and most people are therefore discouraged by it.
I think we can trust the President of Russia...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0hTrnaa8aE
Yep, a syndrome commonly known as a derangement.
>> Simplify pricing

I wouldn't call moving from a single lump sum to a subscription model a simplification. What they are doing is replacing one-time payments with a slow trickle of multiple payments. With interests rates where they are, that slow trickle is worth more than the lump sums.
I published some of my Academic code like a tool for simulating superconducting circuits [1] or a tool to manage lab instruments for quantum computing (or other) experiments [2]. It's super niche but both tools have found users in other labs that even keep developing them (at least for [2]). And it's nice to look at your code after 10 years and realize how much you've grown as a programmer :)

[1]: https://github.com/adewes/superconductor
[2]: https://github.com/adewes/pyview https://github.com/adewes/python-qubit-setup
You said, "the FDA science advisory panel rejected vaccine for kids." It did not. It unanimously approved the vaccine for kids. You said the PCR test confuses the flu with Covid. It never did. You said the flu caused 400 child deaths in 2020. It did not. I'm tired of correcting you, especially because you never admit your mistakes. Instead of considering the evidence, you have chosen a belief, and then you misread articles to fit your beliefs. I will no longer try to correct you because you are not interested in facts. Good luck.
green != renewable
Yes, if you feel you have to make it "release ready" then you'll never publish it. I'm pretty sure a good majority of the code is never released because the original author is ashamed of it, but they shouldn't be. Everybody is in the same boat.

The only thing I would add is a description of the build environment and an example of how to use it.
Google search results show their repeated response to questions like that on their forums is anyone who disagrees with them in any way or criticizes anything they've done is literally Hitler. They're apparently very hard to get along with.

Its a rather interesting and extreme solution to endless bike shedding arguments. Should "our" editor be vim or emacs? Well anyone who disagrees with me is literally Hitler so we're going to use XYZ and you'll like it or go away. That's an interesting strategy to save time on eternal discussions.
> The book "Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail" by Ray Dalio compares the rise (and decline) of the American "world empire" to prior world empires.

Why should I put much stock in historical analysis done by a "American billionaire investor and hedge fund manager" [1]? My gut feel that someone like that probably has so much other stuff on his plate that the analysis would be in many ways superficial, and such a person likely has enough status that large numbers of people would indulge his pretensions at being a polymath even if it's not actually true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Dalio
> There's a lot of untapped efficiency out there.

That's especially true with houses. However, speaking as someone who has renovated their home for extreme efficiency (and now uses 75% less energy than their neighbors) the problem is that the upfront cost of efficiency - both economic and in learning curve - is still very high, at least in the US.

Unless one is willing/able to take on a big and expensive project in home building or renovation, it's hard to make big leaps in efficiency. This is compounded by the reality that the construction industry is very conservative and doesn't like doing things in new ways.

AFAICT, the only "easy" efficiency change that is close to a "no-brainer" is replacing your existing gas or electric water heater with a heat pump water heater, because it generally doesn't require replacement of an entire system, just one appliance.

The other things that make a big difference to efficiency: sealing/insulating building envelopes, installing heat pump HVAC, are much more invasive procedures.

There is a small industry of tools and contractors who specialize in those, but there's not a lot of standards or cost-efficient ways to achieve high efficiency yet. And at least in the US, high home efficiency and comfort are targeted primarily at wealthier people, and the goods/services are priced with that demographic's means in mind. Unfortunately, a few thousand wealthier people with efficient and comfortable homes does nothing for the grid or the climate.

Europe seems much further along in this area, with efficient technology and design being better captured in building codes and off the shelf technologies, and with a focus on energy efficient multi-family buildings.
> Only people who haven't run MySQL multi-master HA at scale praise it.

This statement (and the following phrases) is so vague that the only sensible thing that I can reply is that you're probably using it wrong, and that you should go back to the fine manual.

We run (several) Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) and even though there is some occasional crash (usually a node that goes into OOM) it's very stable. We never had, so far, a whole cluster go down. In the worst case a single node was still up, and was operative while we recovered the other nodes.

Of course stability doesn't come from for free: we spent some time using PMM (Percona Monitoring&Management) to find bottlenecks, and we keep PMM around for developers to troubleshoot performance issues on their own.

At the same time we just don't grant risky permissions to developers. One of the riskiest grants when dealing with PXC is ALTER TABLE, which requires the appropriate tooling (pt-online-schema change from the percona toolkit) and also requires following a procedure. Need an ALTER? Open a ticket. Ez.

What can I say?

If PXC doesn't work well for you, you're probably using it wrong.
With something like Puppeteer [1]. That said, if we're now headed towards a canvas + WebAssembly world, things could get far more difficult.

[1] https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer
Huh? So if a person generates the wealth in someone else’s name then the organized people are not screwed? How does that make sense?
It's honestly not that hard. You will likely have a better customer experience at literally any other retailer.

I know you also get streaming access and other digital rights, but the only value proposition for me is the free shipping - which is pointless when the contents are broken/fake garbage ~50% of the time.