skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Surely if you allow some device to have such a massive negative impact on your life then this would be the case even pre-90s before computers and the internet became mainstream?

The mechanisms of addiction and socialization are definitely more complex than "it made me do it". I'm not saying that without the internet I would have become World President, but the technology definitely nudged me towards indulging some of the worst traits in my character. It also allowed me to tolerate situations that, probably, I should not have tolerated - which feels good in the immediate but can actually postpone a necessary reckoning. And it heavily influenced my career choices, with mixed results.

> Maybe you might have spent too much time hanging out at your local bar? - Perhaps you'd have been addicted to television?

Maybe, but those are well-known behaviors, fairly easy to spot and compensate for. Bars are actually hypersocial and promote local connections and some degree of personal expression. TV is very passive and boring, whereas on the internet there is always something new to read or do.

It wasn't until the '80s that we got a fairly solid (and popular) understanding of the mechanisms of broadcasting, some 60 years since it had become mainstream; as you said, there are a lot of things we don't know about the new world of 24h online access. Undoubtedly my life choices are ultimately my fault, but "no man is an island" cuts both ways - particularly because I see a lot of my (bad) experiences replicated in a lot of my friends.
Entry level communist ideals, disguised or a bit diluted for easier public consumption
I have passed this conversation to them, and they say that all the records and settings are correct. They say that the problem is the recipients' servers are marking the emails as spam, even though all the settings are correct, and the emails are clearly legitimate.

> ... now you need to understand a lot about DNS and those mail related standards and do a significant amount of work to stay on top of the configuration to have a snowball's chance in hell of your mail getting through.

That's exactly what I pay someone else to do, and they are doing it correctly (as best I can tell).

So ... I just have to live with it. As far as I can tell, short of simply giving up entirely and using Google, I've done everything I can.
I feel like with all the tech advantage Tesla claims to have it should have some way to turn off autopilot in situations where it's not applicable instead of always saying "you're not supposed to use it like that". Just start beeping or something when you're not on the highway and then shut off the autopilot
Tesla should be liable for misleading consumers. They released videos demo'ing autopilot and ignoring their own guidelines of always having hands on the wheel. They call their feature "autopilot"/"FSD" and Elon has been personally promising real FSD next year every year for the past 5 years.

When people's lives are in danger, there should be greater accountability over the marketing that companies are trying to pass off as hard truth.
I think they just mean it won't naturally degrade over time, like other physical storage media might. Obviously if you really wanted it bad enough, you could physically destroy the data.
As a kid, do you even have consent when your parents tell you to hop in the car cause you're going somewhere? As a passenger, isn't consent of trusting the driver inherent when you get in the car willfully ride somewhere? Could a passenger not interject and say, hey I don't feel comfortable riding with you if you enable autopilot?
Oh they had an API 8 years ago too. It’s just that they only let you use that API from JavaScript running on your users’ browsers.

The undocumented tiny ratelimits and threat of bans for server-side API users (while no such ratelimits applied to the HTML pages) forced pretty much every app to scrape their HTML server side.

From my README which quotes their old docs: “Note: The United States Postal Service expressly prohibits the use of Web Tools "scripting" without prior approval. Web Tools scripting can be defined as a technique to generate large volumes of Web Tools XML request transactions that are database- or batch-driven under program control, instead of being driven by individual user requests from a web site or a client software package. The USPS reserves the right to suspend server access without notification by any offending party that does not have prior approval for Web Tools scripting. Registered Web Tools customers that believe they have a legitimate requirement for Web Tools scripting should contact the ICCC to request approval.”

What an asinine process.
They market the vehicles as being capable of full self driving at some point in the future. They don't market them as being capable of such today. It's in the very copy you cite at the end of your comment.

> Current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous. (Control-F of this quote gets you there)

EDIT: You must also acknowledge that you remain in control of the vehicle when activating Autopilot within the vehicle: https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/images/autosteer-e...

You're also reminded each and every time you activate Autosteer.
> it prices on message volume inbound and outbound

Sounds good on paper, but then you get charged for spam emails inbound. Is this the case? So you'll need to pay for unwanted inbound email as well as your outbound usage?
Imagine the spam mail they must be getting.
> However, Apple did not renew its licenses when they expired, and we learned yesterday that Ericsson was therefore suing Apple for patent infringement.

> The Cupertino company is said to be so afraid of this

Significant oversight of not even realizing when key patents that affect your company‘s bottom line are up for renewal?!
Is there a way to get this behavior with the implicit index on the primary key?
There are other reasons too:

* Time pressure - OSS is rarely under deadline pressure so the temptation to half ass it is mitigated.

* Survivorship bias - there's actually a lot of OSS shit out there too but it is much easier to ignore coz nobody is gonna force you to use it.
James Webb telescope mirror deployment completed
A German Teen Took Control of Teslas by Hacking a Third-Party App
I'm not sure I'd bring back the 2022 version of Stackoverflow, somewhere the last 5 years it went from just rampant deletionism to ugly.

Can we take HN instead?
The earliest omicron cases were ~2 months ago. How confident can we be about elevated long Covid from omicron at this point?
No.

It's easy to blame the driver, until you consider whether or not the premise of a "partially automated self driving car" is fit for the road. It is not possible to both "stay alert" to anywhere near the same degree required for manual driving, and let an automated navigation system take control.

If you sell something inherently dangerous to people under the premise that it is not dangerous provided you do something that is impossible (but not obviously impossible to most people) - bad things are significantly more likely to happen, in other words, it is not only dangerous but misleading.
If you know and understand S3 pretty well, and you purely need to generate, store, and read materialized static views, I highly recommend S3 for this use case. I say this as someone who really likes working with DDB daily and understands the tradeoffs with Dynamo. You can always layer on Athena or (simpler) S3 Select later if a SQL query model is a better fit than KV object lookups. S3 is loosely the fire and forget KV DB you’re describing IMO depending on your use case
I think that a lot of people think this in theory, but in practice the "boiling frog" phenomenon prevents them from following through.
What redundancy level do you use for par2?
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/01/19/predictability.html This might be something you are looking for.
> no possible blind study,

Not sure I agree with this.

I am definitely not saying this should be done, but as a thought experiment:

Imagine you worked for Fitbit, and could choose to undercount steps slightly.

You have a cohort of users who will walk each day until they reach 10k steps. You undercount steps for a random subset so that they end up walking 10.5k.

You repeat this experiment so you make the folks with a 5k goal actually walk 5.5k, etc

This is a pretty good blinded study. The difference is slight enough that the users don't notice the extra increase in distance consciously.

(Obviously you have to take into account the risk of churning people from the service somehow.)

If you were to check all cause mortality somehow (look up public death records? Some other way?) That would seem like a pretty good study design.

Again, perhaps unethical to do this without consent; but not impossible; you could ask a cohort of users to opt in to this sort of study.

If the claim is that it's distant dependent, this would likely take you a lot closer to causality.
Basically you're a voluntary data labeller for their deep learning algorithms. If you take the wheel it means they need to train more on similar situations. Are they hoping to eventually experience so many different situations that out of sample data becomes unlikely? Sounds like a pipe dream to me?
... species. One tiny Mexican fish species.
Magic Numbers (2018)
Gas furnaces are about 95% efficient. Burning gas at a power plant, transmitting to your home, and then producing heat with an electric heater is nowhere near that.

What is striking to me, is that roughly 50% of Texas have gas furnaces and most of the rest have electric resistance heating. Nearly everyone has an AC. There was more demand for electricity from those using electric heaters during the cold snap than in the summer from AC's when the state has an average temperature near a hundred. It would probably be worth it to subsidize a heat pump for anyone stuck with resistance heating.
The reason the unit is "steps" is there are now popular inexpensive gadgets that count "steps" so it is a unit for which we are accumulating sufficiently large datasets to carry out such studies. Just like the best camera is the one you have with you, the best scientific data is the kind that is obtainable in large datasets.
Piunora: A tiny-but-mighty open-source carrier board for the Raspberry Pi CM4
I'm going to get flamed for this... but why would you need TLS/https on services that are ONLY accessible from inside your home network? If you have bad actors on your network, you've got bigger problems than un-secure websites.

Anyhoo, if you must, then roll your own CA, get it to generate certs, put the CAs root certs on your clients, and you should be good to go. This route also means you can have something like .myhouse as your TLD if you so wished.
Given the sheer amount of copyrighted music these days, I wonder whether some of the lack of whistle-ability and pure melody might be due to sheer number of melody permutations already taken by previously written music. Given common chord progressions and music scales, it's probably likely that any catchy song your write bears some resemblance to an existing song with a protective copyright holder. There are many examples of lawsuits claiming retroactive ownership of new music.
https://www.zombo.com/
I'm not in the States so I don't have it handy (gave it to my father)...I think it was a late 1970s model? Bolt was pretty smooth, only had a few misfires over the years, and I was running Wolf ammo and barely cleaning the weapon.
screw them going to https://www.hey.com/
It would be nice to see a side-by-side Linux port to log the number of issues that the Morello board caught for a system that runs some software that is actually in production.
1. Cowboy Coding - means no knowledge transfer, bus factor of 1 - bad for business.

2. Agile Manifesto says "working software over comprehensive documentation", which also leads to information silos and no knowledge transfer, and thus bad for business.

Did you ever inherited an enterprise project without any documentation, written in an esoteric language on a proprietary platform, with one-letter identifiers and without comments, and then the new management asking you to reverse engineer it and to explain to them what it does?

3. "Agile"/SAFe/Scrum are incentivizing short-term over long-term thinking. It's like picking up small-value coins on the street in front of a steamroller: you make small profits until you get wiped out. The Demo meetings are like Social Media dopamine injections - you feel good, but it's impossible to build something meaningful in a 1-3 weeks sprint.
Having read the original article and BMJ's follow up I think Facebook is right here. The original article does lack context and is not a measured response to the problems found. Especially so considering it was published in November 2021 after hundreds of millions of doses were given and the vaccine was obviously safe and effective. They should have known better than to give fodder to the anti-vax movement.
I might imagine the former over latter
> Putin ... handouts to ... pensioners

Last year Putin gave each pensioner 35 roubles before elections. This is half a dollar, IIRC. A spit in the face. A few years ago, he stole from the Pension Fund.

I kind of agree with the remaining points, but we should not overestimate Putin's talents. Don't listen to commenters, just watch his interviews. Or the interviews of his crew. Start with Naryshkin. As the head of foreign intelligence he is supposed to be the smartest.
> Facebook HIRED Peter Daszak as a 'factchecker' [..]

Worse, Daszak was also part of WHO-led international mission[0] to investigate the origins of the pandemic(!!) in early 2021, though he eventually recused himself in June 2021[1]

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...
One of the reasons baby formula is in high demand is that WIC subsidies are generous but effectively set a price cap for many customers. If a business wants to make more money, they have to squeeze on the cost side. Buying stolen product can be a good way to cut costs on the supply side if you run a small and inefficient operation.

I hope that helps clarify things for you! The reason it appears sad at first blush is not true, even with any number of financial exchanges in between.

I found the article I linked previously to be highly educational on this subject.
https://www.quora.com/If-a-massive-solar-event-suddenly-had-...

solar flares are predictable with enough notice. If it’s an h bomb, we will have enough problems with or without the empl. So, please stop writing old fashioned fairy tales here.
Here is the label applied:

"The British Medical Journal Did NOT Reveal Disqualifying and Ignored Reports of Flaws in Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trials"

Did the original article claim trial disqualification? It's like pointing out a rotting foundation and someone says "Hey that's not fair! The house is still standing!" Who is doing the editorializing?
I am a non westerners relatively young person. I am in a western country to only make money. When I retire I will go back to Asia.

Western country like USA is good for competition and individualism and you can make a lot of money because of it, and then you bring the money back to Asia, and retire in Asia, where everything is cheaper and community is stronger than in western country.
This would be an interesting watch, I tried searching but couldn't find it, can you share the name of the movie?
Spans – a key concept of distributed tracing
It works like this in just about every US jurisdiction, it's just that most of the time the DA declines to prosecute if your brakes fail. But there's no legal protection, you're still possibly going to be charges.
The site loaded for me. So I can tell you; it does not use IIS. And it's running on a 386 so I doubt there's any USB involved. What he pulled off is a lot more interesting than what you're describing.

It was a fun thing he did to see if he could and when, to his apparent delight, it worked he decided to share his results. As someone who grew up in the era of floppy disks and constant worry about disk space and performance I found the whole thing very entertaining.

Sometimes we need to take a break from all the serious and just have a little fun. Items like this guy's post are why I come to HN.
For 2, in the honors class, the bottom third is closer to the top once the gifted kids have left. So aren't they all able to move faster as a percentage of their capability without the gifted kids? And isn't that what should be optimized?
I really don’t remember, sorry. I just scanned through https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Breaking-Change... and nothing jogged my memory; I’m wondering if it actually was something to do with decorators, though I still think probably not. I investigated a bit at the time because I was looking into using TypeScript on a certain project and the changes would probably affect me, but I wasn’t actually using TypeScript at the time, and it didn’t stick in my memory. Something about some change being spread over a few versions with deprecation followed by a silent breaking change in the generated code, but I can’t remember what.
I guess the point is "citation needed". What you said is "common sense", but the source of that "common sense" is mostly marketing material. At least I don't recollect seeing any hard data, that would support either of those claims.
I've forgotten what the alternative is like. Most of my hobbies, notwithstanding the minimal social media use, rely on the computer. I use it to write, to manage and search recipes to cook with, to use music notation or tabs, to game. I've had to deliberately schedule some low-tech/low-fi activities for myself but they are few in number: there is a barrier of inconvenience in the form of travel, cost, and timing for social activities. Therefore they are relegated to the weekends if anything. I wonder if historically after working hours and time with family, were people primarily engaged in social activity owing to the dearth of ways to amuse ourselves alone? I say this not really wanting or missing more of a social life than I have, I have my needs met with just family and occasional friends. On the other hand I recognize a kind of saturation point with electronic use, that if I rely on them too long it is to the detriment of my well-being.

All of which to say I have no idea how I ought to organize life around computers differently.
One of my favorites, they have since been called out on it and had to fix it:

This statement "We did not even have a federal income tax in this country until 1913." was rated "mostly true"[0]

While this one "the U.S. federal income tax rate was 0 percent until 1913." was rated "half true"[1]

What more evidence do you need that this whole thing is sort of arbitrary?

[0]https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/aug/24/jim-webb/j...

[1]https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/jan/31/ron-paul/r...
just like pizza with pineapple, people do occasionally give out downright bad advice.

I really don't understand this pineapple on pizza meme. I think it's delicious!
Topic-Oriented Authoring (2010)
As someone who’s in the middle of purchasing a 4bed home in US and needs a new network, thanks to OP as I would’ve never thought to ask HN this.
I’m leaning heavily towards an all Ubiquiti setup with their UDMP and WIFI6 APs. It appears to provide the most seamless integration and easy management.
> Also, what good is the added capacity if it's being used up by bitcoin?

The new capacity replaces the old capacity, which replaces fossil fuel power plants, which eliminates carbon emission output.

> On the other hand, if we capture that energy and turn it into heat, which is essentially what bitcoin does, we're adding heat to the planet that, as you would have pointed out, wouldn't stay here in the first place.

I think you need to review some physics, the sun's rays are already hitting the planet, causing "heating". This is inconsequential because it dissipates naturally. Capturing the sunlight and turning it into energy in no way introduces more energy to the planetary equilibrium. The problem is carbon emissions causing feedback mechanisms by trapping heat.
Unfortunately, especially historically, psychiatry intersects with "managing bothersome people". Children who wouldn't sit still. Elders who wouldn't stay quiet. Wives with independent personalities. Lobotomies fixed those "problems".

It hasn't really fully separated itself from that today. Some cynical types describe the extremely high rates of psychotropic drugs used in American schools and retirement homes as "chemical lobotomies". In many cases, the drugs are being used to make someone "manageable" (i.e., quiet and compliant) rather than improving their health or quality of life.

(Of course, a mentally sick person who's truly unmanageable, is in fairness, unlikely to have much health or quality of life. But that's the linchpin of justification both historically for actual lobotomies, and today for the widespread use of these drugs. Much caution in medical treatments to make it more convenient to "manage" people is warranted.)
> It's in the very copy you site at the end of your comment.

Most of the way down a long page, in faint small text in the middle of a blurb. Nothing could possibly scream "we don't want you to read this, but we're required to put it in so that we and our fans can continue to make bad-faith defenses of our marketing program" more.
I've had a few floatation tank sessions. Not really total sensory deprivation though.

Pros: Everytime I leave the tank I'm deeply relaxed and not tired. I would be walking and talking afterwards deeply, calmly and feel good. The floating is easy, and it's in shallow water.

Cons: One thing for me is that it made my neck hurt. I usually use a pillow to support my head in bed, but that not an option in the water. I don't have neck issues normally but the tank brought out this. I've the usual bad geek posture I guess. Any minor pain quickly went though.
Yes sorry, I meant I'll be curious to know how many requests per second that floppy can handle. Well for sure it's not enough for instance since I still get 503 :). Since I am curious so I'll just bookmark for next time.
I am old enough to have lived in USSR. Can't really transpose my youth experience to contemporary Russia, though.
It appears they charge for mailbox capacity. e.g. 5GB for the $19/yr. Is that total, for all users/mailboxes? Even 30GB doesnt seem enough, I have 10-12 family members on GSuite but I certainly won't pay £600/yr for them.

We send emails with photos/videos to the kids addresses so capacity needs to be a little more than 5GB shared for us, even if I kick all of the extended family off.
RTM-Z80: Retro Tiny Multitasking System for Z80 Based Computers