skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once toured a microbrewery which produces beers the same way they did in colonial times. This involved pumping the water up ~20 feet into a copper kettle situated above an elevated brick furnace. The water was boiled, then gravity fed down canals via ladles to other kettles for mashing and lautering.

Now, this brewery was replicating 19th century American brewing, but these ideas probably came from Europe.

How else are they going to get water to a specific temperature before the invention of thermometers?
“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” —Jonathan Swift
It gets added to pretty much every prepared food here whether you like it or not. Even "staples" like bread have sugar added even to the "healthy" brands. It's easy to get addicted when it's difficult to avoid unless you cook every meal at home from scratch. (And even then you have to be careful because some ingredients have sugar added to them.) There are many of us that don't like the situation but once you're addicted your tastes change and when everything around you keeps sneaking it in it's hard to eliminate from your diet.
me: Whats some ideas for comments on this post that will get me lots of upvotes?
paul: You could tell a story about how you got lots of upvotes.

...

So guys, this one time I posted that ^^^, and I got lots of upvotes.
Why isn't there a live demo?
LWN is one of the most important reporting sources for linux and the highest quality. I think it would be awesome if Linux or other projects directly sponsored it (maybe they do?). As a sort of 'inside' journalism it could really benefit from funding, and may give it better access to the inner workings.

Keep it up! love LWN!
Board of WBEZ parent company approves acquisition of Sun-Times
Some people enjoy being close to a city for other reasons that work. Some will go into the city for entertainment, they will want to go to a restaurant, a show, or see a sporting event. Some people like to be reasonably close to an airport. You can have all of these things available to you if you live in the exurbs. You can also have a larger house and a larger yard. Before the pandemic, your commute into the city would be terrible, but that's not as much of a factor now.
Feels more like sheep voting on which wolf to eat them as of late
> The root of this debate seems to be biological determinism. The "right" (loosely defined) side of this debate argues that once overt racism and sexism are removed most of the remaining differences in ability and outcome that manifest are biologically innate.

"Biological determinism" is a huge red herring here. There are lots of causally-relevant factors wrt. social outcomes that have nothing to do with either biology or perceived prejudice/discrimination (however defined). Biological differences might explain some of the different preferences across genders (the broad 'people vs. things' orientation that even seems to show up in experiments with infants), but they're realistically irrelevant to anything else that the "woke" actually care about.
This reminds me of the Subaru BRAT in the early '80s. There was a 25% tarrif on imported pickups. So Subaru added two plastic jump seats in the back of the BRAT, even making them face backwards. No seat belts as I recall just handles. They weren't even really intended to be used. They were just cheap plastic. But they served the purpose of making the vehicle a four-seater car instead of a pickup, with only a 2.5% tarrif.

Tarrif averted, thousands sold!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_BRAT
You walk out, pee, and come back.
After reading the original article I did a quick web search and was surprised to find many places offering isolation tanks or rooms. Reading through the Yelp reviews of many of these places was interesting and you quickly spot trends in treatment by staff, cleanliness, facility layout, etc. I always make sure to read the negative reviews too - even though (unless a place is truly awful) they tend to be dominated by people with self-inflicted problems they can still be a great guide of what not to do :)
> Alcohol is one of the worst "drugs" on a personal/societal harm scale

Addiction is, not alcohol in itself. I haven't been anywhere close to drunk in a decade. I still enjoy a glass of whisky or a cold beer here and there.

People who have problem with alcohol would have problems with "less harmful" (weed I assume?) drugs too, it's a personality trait. I've seen the damage of weed in my friends, it's just as bad as alcohol tbh. I never understood the "it's bad so let's legalise other bad things"
I don’t really see the value proposition of having a compilation step that also prioritises readability when you have source maps.

I love Dart personally and I mostly see it’s compile to nonsense looking code as a feature not a bug because it’s an ACTUAL compilation step worked on by ex Chrome team members who understand V8 internals not just code splitting and running terser over it and calling it a day. Want to get the same compilation optimisations that Google uses to run all of their multi billion dollar ad business? Cool, that’s enabled by default out of the box. [1]

The part where Dart on the web falls over for me is that they have shitty support right now for modern web APIs. They are building against some ancient version of Chrome’s WebIDL files so you can totally forget about things like web components for example.

So in that sense it doesn’t feel like a sensible choice in 2022 for basic web development which is a shame because it’s otherwise probably the best developer experience I’ve ever seen.

[1] I say this somewhat theoretically, I don’t know that Dart is in anyway an obvious thing to point to in terms of web performance from what I had seen casually. I think their goal there you can write huge business critical applications with stupidly large code bases and still get good performance. But nobody’s experience after using Google Ads is to talk about how snappy it was.
Sure.

Polanyi is easy. He wrote a trio of short, accessible, and engaging books outlining his ideas: Science, Faith, and Society (1946), Personal Knowledge (1958), and The Tacit Dimension (1966). He was a true polymath, and very up-to-date with psychological science of his day; I would be interested in your thoughts as a specialist.

Rosmini is hard. He was a very bad writer, and wrote very long books, all of them referring to each other, which caused him a lot of difficulties[0]. His magnum opus is Theosophy, and all of his works will eventually lead there. My first book of his was Principles of Ethics, which convinced me of the value of his work, and I’m still trying to untangle the others. If I had to summarize his idea of intuition, it would be “analogical participation of the subject in the objective order of being.” Also crucial is that this capacity is innate.

[0] You can read his biography, he was extremely controversial in his time. His work was (exhaustively) consistent with the ancient and medieval philosophy of the Church, but was absolutely devastating for a certain kind of neo-scholasticism which was the dominant mode of exposition in the Church at the time. This led those theologians to accuse him of liberalism, modernism, secularism, Deism, freemasonry, etc., and all of those groups were happy to claim that the most ambitious corpus of philosophy and theology that the Church had produced in the modern era was an endorsement of their views. Since his work is so difficult, it took a very long time for anyone to recognize that neither of these interpretations were true.
Did they have a spare 100 million hanging around to burn? That seems pretty ridiculous. Why did they not just run cassandra?
Showgirl, mankind, and blacklist don't make it past Microsoft Word's woke filter
Not GP. I personally don’t bother to look further if the homepage doesn’t have a pricing link on the top or on the menu or in the footer, because it seems like the site wants to hide key information from a potential customer.

I couldn’t find a pricing link on your homepage either (using Firefox Focus on iOS).
The long, slow process of carcinogenesis
What about: 'No amount of smoke inhalation is safe for the lungs'?

Obviously, if you live in a city, you're going to find yourself inhaling smoke from time to time, but it's still the case that it should be avoided. It's not extreme to think of alcohol as 'always negative' but also to accept it's a common and basically unavoidable toxin.
It doesn't matter what they do, someone will be unhappy. They fill a niche that I'm glad someone does. They could go for a different niche, but then they leave this one unfilled.
That's because the food pyramid is owned by the USDA, which represents American farming.
Morning. It's nice to have the effect carry with me all day, I feel like it stays with me until I fall asleep for the night. Naps don't seem to ruin it, but a night of sleep will definitely lessen it
Though in my experience schools don't have doors (to continue the analogy), more like a door frame with some tape and a sign saying to please not illegally enter.

Its sometimes bad to a point where you can accidentally DDoS their system by doing completely normal things.
How is ten years of free a bait and switch? Free is free and when things are free the giver of free stuff owes you nothing beyond what was already given for free. It may suck but I don't think someone giving out free stuff owes me more?
> (ie: It's not like the market operators pushed prices up to that point, the operators capped it at that point.)

That's exactly what the article says happened. They brought on extra power generation which dropped the market price, which they then overrode manually.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams will get his first paycheck in crypto
Tesla applies for a new trademark to sell its own audio equipment/headphones
I admit to meeting up with an old classmate in-person after spending weeks with HN as my main source of social interaction, and then regularly referencing anecdotes on old HN threads in the conversation and advocating for Linux/GNU for an OS; talking down big tech companies in favor of living frugally to contribute to open-source projects; and arguing in favor of working at startups versus big companies if given the chance.

I've since matured to avoid citing HN when referencing anecdotes (instead saying "I read once that..."), being agnostic about where one works (as long as it fits your personal career goals), and trying to also develop my worldview through well-regarded classic books.
terrible beauty
Indeed, and cyanide as well for instance. Neither are "necessary" either. I don't think necessity has any bearing on the discussion. Ultimately the question is whether moderate alcohol consumption poses a significant health risk, and "no safe amount" avoids answering this.
The only event focused on bringing together privacy tech key players, founders, investors, domain expert-advisors, and users
It measures the answer to the hypothetical question "If a another bank with good credit came to you right now to borrow (overnight/1W/1M/3M) in (USD/EUR/GBP/CHF/JPY) what rate would you offer them?" Which is a proxy for the banks' willingless to lend. (It had a less quoted counterpart, LIBID the London Interbank Bid Rate, where would you borrow at.)
The original vision of Bitcoin was "a peer-to-peer electronic cash system" "allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party". So yes, something like crypto.com represents significant centralization.
Social Security will still be around in two decades. They'll just increase the retirement age again, raise taxes, and cut benefits in order to close the financial gap.
“Scientism”
One of the two major parties is not accepting the outcome from democratic elections, so absolutely. It's very close.

It is a myth that the US has been continuously functioning and advancing democracy. The US democracy has advanced, then it collapsed during the Jim Crow era, and slowly recovered (Voting Rights Act of 1965). Same thing can happen again.
Again, I'm not against legalization. But I'd like to see more concrete mitigation of the downsides. Just stating that we should aim for consistency does nothing about the blowback. "Legalize it to be consistent" seems as facile a solution as "Prohibit it because it can be dangerous" in that they ignore the complexities of implementation.
This is also available in Microsoft Edge. Still, would be awesome to see support in Firefox and Safari!
There could very well be a non-anxiety effect and I'm not trying to dismiss that.

For me, I've experienced the difficulty sleeping, early morning wakefulness, heart rate, nausea, stomach issues, and sweats as physical symptoms of anxiety. A big/scary event (getting covid, death of family) can make the physical symptoms more apparent.

Not sure about low grade fever, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Again, doesn't mean it's not something else but I think people tend to dismiss anxiety as someone not taking the claims seriously - when to me anxiety symptoms are serious and miserable, they just require different treatment (unfortunately Hypervigilance makes things worse when anxious about symptoms and thinking they're not anxiety related).

I still have a hard time telling the difference between actual infection/physical illness and anxiety personally even knowing all this about myself - it's hard.
Yeah, no problem, just trying to help you QA-ing a bit :)
MetalLB is the best baremetal LB (for k8s) but far from perfect indeed. For the IP conflicts, there are other private IPv4 range that you can use, just pick something in the CGNAT range (100.64.0.0/10) or in 198.18.0.0/15 ("Used for benchmark testing of inter-network communications between two separate subnets")
> I don't think sex is linked to many bad health outcomes.

Sure it is. STDs, risk of injury, etc.
Symbols are very well supported in TS today. You even get proper type enforcement and intellisense when using symbols as the names of methods and properties, for instance. Whether you should use them for enum-like purposes or not has more to do with how you want to use the values though. For instance using symbols for defining numeric protocol values doesn't make sense. Same for HTTP methods, where you are always ultimately passing a string down to the http client/server interfaces
The point is you will have it.

G-Suite Legacy gets converted to Workspace.

Once you stop paying for Workspace, you lose functionality (GMail, Drive etc.).

Nothing stops you from *still* using that account for purchases and moving your e-mail somewhere else.
Google's Play Store crusade against all things 'free' getting more ridiculous
Right now, I'm letting people off the waitlist a few at a time. Want to make sure the product is the best it can be (no bugs, features adding tons of value) before I open it up to everyone.

If you say you came from HN, I'll take you off the waitlist asap.
Ok. Super cool that you have thought so far ahead in designing this. Looking forward to being able to use it in production!
Like any rule of thumb, it's fallible and game-able. For example "cultured celery extract" is something you probably want to avoid even though it sounds benign.
Done. Thanks. Check it out.
If we had to emit light just like a flashlight vs a lighthouse, aka roughly equivalent wavelengths, you'd be right, however we only have to beat the sun in a single wavelength. An extreme uv laser is probably the easiest option there. We also only need to beat the sun's output in a single pinpoint (in cosmic scale)

Also to damage the example a bit, we can easily detect a flashlight shining from behind a lighthouse. Our eyes are just logarithmic and suck at detecting smaller absolute differences like that.

Isaac Arthur does a good video on this topic and talks about some of the specifics of such a beacon starting at around 14 minutes https://youtu.be/DHoOjIEcRV8?t=829
In theory, but in practice getting a patent invalided is a fraught and unreliable process. The courts have been generally deferential to the the USPTO decision, which may be a problem if some examiners have allowed patents to go through on the assumption that the courts can fix it later if they get it wrong.
> How effective are patents at protecting an under-funded inventor?

My own impression, "less than they used to be". I read patents from time to time, and there's a huge difference between, say, one of Tesla's patents for which he clearly wrote the application himself and a present-day patent, where the writing was clearly done by a professional unrelated to the technical field.

That said, I wonder how out of reach the self-filing route really is. My own patent cost me 2000 Canadian in consultant's fees, essentially to have them proofread my draft and make suggestions. I still had to have a bit of back-and-forth with the examiner, but none of it felt out of reach even today.

To my way of thinking, the whole idea of a patent hearkens back to a time when kings granted monopolies and the people getting them took care of the rest. It doesn't make much sense for an inventor today, who would ideally want everyone competing to execute on their idea. There are probably a lot of better alternatives to the patenting system that properly harness the tendency of data to be copied. Maybe some form of a value-added tax for getting into new business segments that automatically get remitted to the inventor? To no one's surprise, coming up with a better idea than the patent system isn't the hard part!
This is satire, no?
The volume is limited and the density is higher. Once you're on top of everything you found interesting you just turn away and do something else.
What do you mean by woke?
It's really great to see this level of hardware innovation and investment into security! Although it's a bit of a shame that we're down this path because of the inertia of unsafe programming languages and systems that put performance first. In some sense we're starting to pay back a big debt.

I try to choose my words carefully (these kinds of conversations can get pretty toxic pretty quick). But honestly I think in the long arc of history, C will be regarded like asbestos: very obviously dangerous in retrospect. I respect the designers of C immensely and the amount of work many thousands of people the world over have put into that entire toolchain and ecosystem, but we can't blamelessly have that conversation yet, so I guess I'll stop here.
Chris Lattner: Modular AI
JSwall: https://archive.is/SDJ5x
> plenty of USB devices need proprietary configuration software (like any fancy mouse/keyboard), razer has a whole pile of online crap already

Which is the primary reason I will never purchase another Razer product.
Looks like 4D toys is VR-supported: https://store.steampowered.com/app/619210/4D_Toys/
Honestly, yes, COVID is now ineradicable, if there even was any chance of eradicating it. Let's pull our heads out of the sand and be rational about it. We just have to accept the consequences of having it around forever and deal with the likelihood of catching it throughout our lives as best we can:

- accept reduced life expectancy for people who are elderly or overweight

- spacing and strong ventilation in public indoor places by default

- reduce our reliance on IRL entertainment and socializing

- spread out our cities to build less dense housing and more suburbs

- on trips outside the home, avoid public transit and prefer personal vehicles

- reduce our reliance on mass public education in overcrowded schools
Fair chance that they exaggerated the financial impact and just used it as an excuse to push through a lay-off they were planning anyway. 'Never let a good crisis go to waste'.
For a highly techy audience, you'd think people could have figured that out, but I guess outrage is better.

You don't have to lose access to anything except the core products - gmail, drive, docs, calendar. You still get to log on with your Google Account to access your purchases.
The salespeople always promise magic and handwave CAP away.

But data at scale is about:

1) knowing your queries ahead of time (since you've presumably reached the limit of PG/maybesql/o-rackle.

2) dealing with CAP at the application level: distributed transactions, eventual consistency, network partitions.

3) dealing with a lot more operational complexity, not less.

So if the snake oil salesmen say it will be seamless, they are very very very much lying. Either that, or you are paying a LOT of money for other people to do the hard work.

Which is what happens with managing your own NoSQL vs DynamoDB. You'll pay through the roof for DynamoDB at true big data scales.
White House orders federal agencies to raise cybersecurity bar for national
Curious as to why there isn't a vegetarian option as one of the diets. Seems like a glaring gap to me.
Ack. I've used PubMed for over a decade (since it was taught as the de facto way to search the science literature in my Canadian university) and it never occurred to me that it was a US federal government website :facepalm:
Moderation keeps most people 'civil' in a formal sense - avoiding dang action. I still quite honestly find the tone here mean and condescending a very significant part of the time. Every one of my subreddits is refreshingly wholesome by comparison. Of course, one can individually quit any subreddit they find irritating.

However, after begging my therapist for help with my doomscrolling, I deleted the Reddit app. We'll see if I end up resorting to blocking HN somehow.
> A burst pipe will leak water when the pressure is restored.

Why on earth would I turn my water back on after a freeze without also checking for leaks?
And the SOFR is only an overnight rate. There is no official Term SOFR. The CME has forward SOFR contracts for 1, 3, 6 and 12 months -- which are not really the same thing, but if you squint hard you can treat them kind of like forward looking term rates.
Can confirm. Went through the process for two domains.

- one that never had google workspace (had to signup for Cloud Identity Premium, then cancel right away, and add Cloud Identity Free from the Admin)

- one that had google workspace, removed the subscription to workspace form the Admin, then added Cloud Identity Free

So far it looks like you don't have access to Mail and Calendar, BUT you do get access to Google Play, Youtube and Google Drive and Docs!
I strongly agree that most early stage businesses should be on Postgres. There's simply too much churn in early stage data models. Also, unforeseen esoteric needs jumping out of the wood work that you can knock out a SQL query for instead of having to build a solution come up constantly. However, this does assume that your development team has a competent understanding of SQL.

I've been in a couple startups that went Dynamo first and development velocity was a pale shadow of velocity with Postgres. When one of those startups dumped dynamo for Postgres velocity multiplied immediately. I'd estimate we were moving at around 1000% and the complete transition took less time than even I expected (about a month). Once the business matures, moving tables onto dynamo and wrapping them in a microservice makes a lot of sense. Dynamo does solve a lot of problems that become increasingly material as the business evolves.

Eventually, SQL's presence declines and transitions into an analytics system as narrower, but easier for ops, options proliferate.
My department was very far removed from the issues in the scandal. I doubt investigators would have had much interest in us or found anything of use from interviewing any of us.
Can someone translate the first sentence of the article for me? I have literally no idea what any of this means.

> Eagle-eyed viewers of Friday night’s Celtics-76ers tilt in Philadelphia will have noticed a sudden absence of the ubiquitous Color Star banners recently seen splashed on every available flat surface inside the home team’s arena