skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mmm, I recalled I had Duracell (bought in 2018, expire date 2025) leaked in the battery compartment and I don't use the device. I just assumed the device was on standby mode and been draining the battery for a while which caused the leaking.

That mean I have to be wary of Kirkland AA and AAA Batteries because they are made by Duracell. This is new for me and I'm surprised about Duracell, and I am not surprised about hedge fund/private equity. This is their MO.
Competitive e-cycling lets you be a champion from your apartment
The grinding is, by analogy, equivalent to the "reader" books in many languages. "See Spot. See Spot run. Run Spot, run!" level and then up. It's very hard (for most people) to jump from "I now know the English alphabet" to "I can read any article in a literary magazine." Many people forget that they went through that process because they did it so young, but also because language (written and spoken) is far more pervasive than mathematics. This pervasiveness means that you have less "grinding" to do, because you get to learn just by being in the environment the language is used in (if it's your native language, or if you can afford or are otherwise forced to move into an environment where it's the local native language).

Unless you're like me as a kid, you don't look around and start counting, adding, and multiplying based on the objects or scenes that you see, and "thinking in numbers". Thus the need for grinding, you need some math fluency (which takes practice to develop and maintain, like any other domain) before you can move on to more advanced topics (at least easily). If you lack fluency, even at a low level, then you have to do a refresher every time you try and get to something moderately advanced. Which is frustrating, at least, if not demotivating to the point of causing most people to stop. The more fluent you are, the easier it is to pick up an arbitrary advanced topic (at least to read, if not to apply or extend).
That 90% could spend more time upvoting articles in New

I wander over there periodically to see if there's interesting stuff. I upvote it when I either think its interesting or think it will generate interesting discussion
Whats funny is they have SEO'd their way to the top and once you are accustomed to it and scroll past them you are also scrolling past the top (or maybe all) the ads on the right hand side of search results.
There are AA and AAA sized lithium ion rechargables, but they won't work in anything that uses alkalines, since they provide a very different voltage (3.7V). They are usually called 10440 (AAA-sized) and 14500 (AA-sized).

There are AA and AAA lithium _primary_ batteries that provide 1.5V and are in stores, but they cannot be recharged. They are far superior than alkalines in most ways, especially in the cold, but they cost drastically more, around $1-2 each. I've switched many of my low-drain applications to these batteries, where they are likely to outlast the device without leaking and destroying it.
Yup - and wiring up a second access point for the upper floors gets rid of all the issues with mesh networks, especially ones from vendors that don't provide dedicated radios to mesh over.

If you don't have the expertise to run ethernet cable yourself, just find local companies that install alarms - they have lots of ways to run and hide cables; it's their job after all!
I absolutely second this! Timpsons are a brilliant employer.
> That doesn't mean the site is bad, but it does mean it's a bad idea to go around posting random tweets on news aggregators, since there'll always be someone tweeting any take you can think of.

We’re not talking about random tweets, we’re talking about on-topic tweets from posters like foone which consistently post relevant content. You’re throwing the good out with the bad and claiming that folks submitting off topic links are bad apples that ruin the whole barrel. I just don’t find your logical argument internally consistent or rational.
I agree companies have a current vs new hire agility problem relating to the market rate. It don't think this is reflective of CoL adjustments.

For the past 10-15 years, the market rate has far outpaced CoL—yes even in the Bay Area (assuming FAANG-like companies and startups)
Did I miss something, or is this everything (for the earth)?

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I've done extensive research on this subject, for coronavirus purposes N95 is equivalent to FFP3. The most important aspect is having head bands (as opposed to ear loops) to secure a tight fit. N95 typically have head bands. FFP2/KN95 (filtering equivalent to N95) typically don't, which is why FFP3 are sometimes preferred. There are also regulatory reasons to use FFP3.

3M also manufactures FFP3 masks. Not sure if they sell them outside EU though.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/3M-9330-Aura-Unvalved-Respirator/dp...
But I can't even tell if that is the norm within Amish communities or if that is just something that some local church decided for one particular case. Another church may have chosen to isolate an abuser from the victim or other potential victims in various ways. A comprehensive study would probably document those things as well.
A 2-3% is tax is a small price to pay for being able to carry out chargebacks against sellers that don't deliver.

Also, pretty sure their cut is more like 1% after you take into account the 2% cashback.
I'm having a very hard time with your suggestions. You begin with,

"For starters, comment sections should be siloed or firewalled nationally. Media entities of significance that wish to portray themselves as reputable news media should be required to have a registration with the government. Their comment sections should be limited to an anonymized walled-garden of citizens of our country only."

Which limits the visibility of comments to those who are identifiably citizens. (How often have you seen a comment like, "Things are actually much (better|worse) than what is being reported" on an international story?) Then,

"This suggestion of yours would involve foreign adversaries having to recruit Americans to be traitors in a way that is (A) easily tracked to their personal identity and (B) risks imprisonment. It is true that they could try this method, but I doubt their success. Few people would betray their nation and community in such a transparent way."

You declare anyone who violates that barrier to be a traitor subject to imprisonment.

That seems to me to be, at best, using a sledgehammer as a fly-swatter: it'll do a lot of damage and really won't hurt the fly.

And I say that as someone who is not all that fond of internet anonymity.
I will point out 9.35% when talking about companies that size is a lot of money.

Also worth noting; companies pay taxes on their profits, so while there's a lot of incentive to report high profits when a company is looking for investors, there's also plenty of incentive to hide profits (and thus lower operating margins) or shift them to subsidiaries in countries with lower taxes when companies that don't need to inflate their value. I am curious wether the stats you found take this into account.
>"But now we increasingly have cheaper alternatives that are also censorship resistant."

I eagerly await them. However, I strongly suspect there is a massive network effect in-place that keeps Visa and Mastercard dominant. So many businesses want to stop taking credit card payments but the loss of business is often way too much. Anecdotally, getting my paycheck through direct-deposit means I almost never carry cash on me anymore. I would hope that business can find a new payment processor but I am still skeptical, as those companies also want a percentage of the transaction through fees.
I appreciate the reply. I actually do parse RSS from the main page if it exists. However, not all sites have RSS feeds and those that do lack other interesting information (author, etc). I definitely had that thought earlier on but my focus was on other things.
You have countries such as the oil sheikhdoms where the citizens (not the guest workers) have a lot of wealth and idle time.

They didn't turn into creative utopias, quite to the contrary.
Bitcoin. "Crypto enthusiasts" and the uninitiated will argue that "Bitcoin doesn't scale to Visa levels", but it does through the Lightning Network.

Most critiques assume that you don't need the graph of liquidity-weighted edges that Lightning Network requires to achieve cheap transactions at high throughput. I seriously doubt this isn't necessary without handing over control to a central third party and thus creating something with the same properties as VISA.
At least in Germany taxes aren't bound to a specific purpose, they're not allowed to be. They get thrown into a big pot and then distributed as needed. Then you'd have these OSS developers (whoever represents them) fighting against other recipients.

It would be better to have the FAANGs of the world being forced to pay into a bucket which gets distributed specifically to OSS projects.
MySQL is very similar to PHP in this regard. The good function name is actually broken so a new function with similar name is needed. This creates confusion for new people when adopting the technology.
I have had an on-off relationship with writing for most of my life.

The unintuitive truth about writing is that the writing happens before the sentences happen. Another way people make this point is by saying “writing is really just revising”.

I think it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that writing is the second step in a linear process, the first of which is “finding out what to say, or coming up with an idea or opinion”. No. Simply write. If you can’t think of anything, write “I have writer’s block” then write the next random sentence that comes to your head. If necessary, just write down an amusing string of random words. Follow it up with another. If possible use a pen and paper, and most of all, try to make it a ritualistic practice. Whether it’s once a day, once a week, or once a month the important thing is to just keep at it even if you have nothing to write, even if it’s an exercise in producing garbage.

For every great text out there there’s an ocean of miscellany that went into the trash bin or manifested as (e.g. hacker news comments). You’ll often come to something significant during the act of writing. The only thing you really need to master is getting into a state in which you don’t censor yourself, you’re comfortable with facing your deep buried demons, with your own ignorance, and your desires. Once you do that, the content will flow naturally. Then put your editor hat on and decide what to publish, what should remain private and what should be destroyed.

Thinking is conducted through material processes, like putting a pen to paper or staring at birds. Ever since Descartes, there’s an error people tend to make in divorcing thought/their mental life from their embodied existence—the two are not separable.

When it comes to writing, remember Nike’s motto.

As an illustration of this point, none of the sentences in this post were floating around in my head or formulated until I started typing it out. If you had asked me to dictate a response on this topic it would have been entirely different.
A lot of large companies in the US (including my own) have similar policies for China travel. We are not allowed to take any work devices into China. The company loans us "clean" phones and laptops (without any company data or access to company networks) that we can use while we are there.
There's very little reason to continue using Alkalines in the majority of cases. Rechargeable batteries both last longer, and, perhaps even more importantly, do not leak.
I personally have experienced burnout, and switching between things can help. For a while I switched to low impact stuff that was really easy to get into after burning out on 24/7 deep technical stuff.

After that experience I now have the belief that a large variety of balanced hobbies or interests is important.
"They are even embedded in tech companies under false identities."

"The commies are among us!" seems to historically have done more damage to us than it did to them.
Snowpack, ESBuild, ..., all promised us nice frontend compiles, yet I still turn to Webpack every time I actually want everything to work - you always hit roadblocks you can't solve in these other tools.

That'd be my recommendation to you, still, sadly.
Is there any chance that you can keep your current job and work remotely?
>People already have WiFi enabled lights and other sensors so providing a standard for object & people detection will make those use cases even better.

Yet another reason I prefer Zwave for my home automation communications. Sure you could probably use it in the same way, but it won't be handed to you on a silver platter like the wifi stuff discussed here!
Looks like any Github pages served with CloudFlare are getting blocked, I am trying out a fix.
Totally agree! My Game Boy Advanced power light is green for about an hour then red for hours and hours on my eneloops. Also my Tascam field recorder has the option for alkaline or NiMH batteries.

I still have some kitchen scales that won’t work with NiMH though :(

I’ve had my energiser batteries for almost 10 years and I’ve been rotating them through devices and the charger. Only recently have I begun to lose some cells.

Time to upgrade them all to eneloops!!
Why don't you want to use LinkedIn? It's a low effort tool to get used to.
Well, something doesn't add up.
"The phone number tied to that Vkontakte account — 7617467845 — was assigned by the Russian telephony provider MegaFon to a resident in Khakassia, situated in the southwestern part of Eastern Siberia."
This number looks bogus, mobile phone numbers in Russia are +7(three digit provider code)(seven digits of actual number); given number is one digit short. We could assume this number is (three digit provider code)(seven digits of actual number) , but there's no provider with code 761 in Russia.
I don't know if it's "on purpose", but that's a correct result of how the animations are defined in the CSS, not a browser bug.

The stylesheet defines a single set of animation keyframes going from top to bottom at constant speed with a small bounce, and then applies the default CSS "ease" timing function to the entire animation. That results in an incorrect non-zero vertical initial velocity (making it seem like the ball was thrown downward rather than dropped), an initial downward acceleration that's vaguely in the right ballpark, and then a deceleration that's completely incorrect.
And lions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_spelaea

IDK if these lions hibernated, but their bones are definitely found in caves all over Europe. Often with human remains or artifacts nearby.
That was normal in the age of steam. Having lots of tiny steam engines on the factory floor does not make sense. Keeping them running is too labor intensive, they would be fire risks, and they’re less efficient.
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yea, definitely struck me as odd too, most people bullshit a bit on CVs so whether there was more to it I don't know: TBH you don't usually ask people for details of why they're inside - it can get ... problematic.
I'd agree with most of your points - the nature of the MS stack, Windows dev being a mess, docs polluted by related-but-deprecated technologies/versions etc.

Where I'd disagree strongly is dotNET being a mess of forked versions, the language being behind Kotlin, and the runtime behind the JVM.

The DotNet versioning annoys me, but it is actually straightforward. The Windows-only framework stopped at v4, then cross-platform Core began at v1 and now we've reached the point where Core v6 is just DotNet v6 because there is no non-core alternative at this versioning point. If you set aside naming/numbering confusion, you have a forward-moving framework up to v4 being overtaken by a rewritten cross-platform framework catching up then replacing it. There were some mishaps on the way, but this is not a mess of forked versions it is actually a pretty fast deprecation and replacement of a huge system with a massive high quality effort.

As for the main DotNet language, C#, it is generally not considered to be behind any other language out there. Perhaps in some areas different approaches have been taken when it comes to syntax, structure, tooling, but it is a very well designed language that is professionally respected, advanced, and innovative.

As for the runtime, it really isn't behind the JVM. It is supported on fewer platforms, but those it is supported on are very well catered for. Including not needing a (shared) runtime at all as builds can produce single binaries too, as per Java.

So no, the problems don't continue.

I do wonder if your recent experience of it may well be true, but is influenced by it being Windows development. Outside of internal enterprise tools, the main work is on the web/network (not Windows) and that's where it excels.
Hospitals were frequently overloaded by other seasonal respiratory viruses before 2020 but they just dealt with it and mandates weren't imposed on the rest of society. What's different now? It seems many physicians have a different perspective.

https://youtu.be/GklHGYY8vN8
> Most citizens have access to free (but under strain) health services

(UK here). I politely and strongly disagree. Accessing healthcare is extremely challenging, made 3 times as more difficult because of COVID. There is a myriad of systems/policies designed to put you off, dissuade you and stop you accessing healthcare - it's adversarial.

Every single facet of healthcare in the UK is crumbling or has failed with the possible exception of A&E. We face the following issues:

- A doctor and nurse shortage

- A GP shortage (importantly: GPs are the gatekeepers to almost all non-emergency healthcare)

- Extreme difficulties getting GP appointments (we have a system where you have to phone up as soon as the lines open in the morning, to get a same-day appointment...along with 100 other people all trying at the same time. Yes, this is as stressful as it sounds)

- Overloaded A&E departments (in part because of the GP shortage - people skip their GPs and go to A&E)

- Lengthy wait times for ambulances (up to 12 hours)

- Near impossibility to register with an NHS dentist (particularly bad in England & Wales)

- Lengthy wait times for consultants/treatment (plus all kinds of tricks to kick your treatment down the road)

- Hospital bed shortages due to delays discharging people because they've nowhere to go, due to a broken social care system
It's important in the context that RL does not have performance ceilings.
If you have the sort of thing they would be interested in you probably have to check your hotel for bugs as well. I wouldn't access anything I want to keep private from within China.
Oh the good old "mysql_real_escape_string"[0] days...

I forgot most of my PHP knowledge but that somehow got stuck.

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Yes but the question is, is prolonging the pandemic in such a way that minimizes strain on vital services worse than just letting many such services collapse under the pressure?
A corporation in the US is a legal fiction that creates a pseudo-person distinct from the owners, providing privileges to operate and legal protections for the owners. A corporation does not require many employees, which you seem to imply are required. The owners are the main component of a corporation not the employees.
Wordle and IP law: What happens when a hot game gets cloned
If you're using Gradle + jcenter repository, it will fail.

I ran into this when building a Flutter mobile app, relying on Gradle to fetch dependencies.

There is more information here: https://blog.gradle.org/jcenter-shutdown

I was able to find all the dependencies I needed on the Maven Central repository, so it was a quick fix in my case.
I went to Harvard Extension School. At the time, about half the classes were shared with the engineering school's undergrad program and those tended to be the most fun courses with projects that I mentioned previously.

In many classes I chose what project to work on and I chose to push myself to work on difficult projects (e.g. I could have chosen to implement a basic stack machine with a small instruction set, instead I chose to implement an ARM CPU, which lead to many overnighters to meet the deadlines; the 3D game was my choice as well - I could have picked to implement an easy visualization in opengl).

In all honesty some of the intro courses were not worth the price tag, but the advanced ones I'd consider taking again just for fun. If your employer covers the tuition, then I'd say that any course taught by instructors at SEAS (Harvard's engineering school) is absolutely worth taking.
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I've been in the same niche for years and can certainly tell you what I could and couldn't figure out. There's no magic in what I do, else only 23 year-old geniuses who think outside the box would be dominating all the patents. Even nobel prizes are on average awarded for work done at middle age.

Just do peer review and get experts' opinions. Don't tell them how to make it work, just tell them what it does. E.g. make the inventor provide a carefuully-worded abstract. By the way patents that claim the category of problem itself as the invention (as opposed to the specific method for solving the problem) are another big problem that needs to be eliminated. Those broad first claims are the ones shot down in challenges. For example "use a computer to processs transactions", or even "use a convolutional network to classify faces". These are not inventions; they are problems that still need to be solved, and it can be done many ways.

Anyway if you're uncertain about 6-months, how can you justify giving them 20 years of monopoly?
Isn't there the danger of an echo chamber if a small number of superusers generates the majority of content?
I love how he made it clear where it was assembled in. Every time he said "Made in USA with Global Components!", I was like yea more like made in China and rebranded in USA.
Not my experience. Both esbuild and vite have been great for my usecases.
Honestly, Eneloop's advantage is overstated these days.

Amazon Basics is likely an older Eneloop design for example (Panasonic makes eneloop, and seems to be making Amazon-Basic NiMHs). Energizer's "AA Recharge" series is also LSD these days, and probably easier to source than Eneloop.

Eneloop deserves credit for shifting the market-perception on NiMHs a decade ago. But the other companies have caught on and have created well functioning, low-self-discharge chemistries of their own by now.

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I'd recommend "whatever is cheapest to ship to you". Energizer mostly for me, since I buy from Walmart / Home Depot (etc. etc.). A lot of people buy from Amazon, so "Amazon Basics" tacked onto your next order is probably a good idea.

Eneloop commands a higher price and has some advantages. But I find that Energizer / Amazon Basics are both good enough for me.
There are products that do this. Gigabyte's I-RAM GC-RAMDISK is one.
Spoiler: they're all obsolete cost-reduced leaky pieces of shit. Use Eneloops or other NiMH rechargeables when possible, lithium primary cells otherwise.

For a while you could avoid leakage by steering clear of Duracell in favor of Energizer, but that's no longer true. Do not use alkaline AAs or AAAs in any equipment you want to keep.