skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I brought my mouse (logitech m500) because all other mice are just no comparison. Then I asked my boss and he got one for me to use in the workplace.

I've also brought my own keyboard sometimes, because the keyboards they have there are all just... so bad. It's a big clunky thing however so I've only done it 2-3 times. I've recently ordered my first mechanical keyboard, tenkeyless, so that should be more portable. I'll stay on top of whether I'm making too much noise, though.
I'm wondering how much I can de-Googlefi my life (see multiple other threads about G Suite legacy free going away) while also keeping Google Fi for voice and data. :\ It seems like if I keep any single thing, a hook reaches out and drags me fully back in.

To activate Google Fi service on a phone, I need Google Fi app which drags in at least open gapps but I don't know if that's adequate without jumping to the full Google Play Services.
Goldfish especially should not be kept in bowls, and often small to medium tanks are not adequate. They can grow quite large and need companions.

3 gallons is the minimum size you should keep a beta fish in, but many peoe recommend at least a 5 gallon tank. It's possible to keep beta fish in a tank with certain other fish but I don't know much about it.

One of the best things you can do if keeping a freshwater aquarium is to fill it with plants. They help to filter the water, provide oxygen, prevent algae blooms, provide hiding spots for fish, and can even be a food source if done right.

Diana Walstad's The Ecology of the Planted Aquarium[1] is an excellent book on this topic. Easy to find a PDF version online.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91597.Ecology_of_the_Pla...
What does it mean the follow another human in this context? I went to the store today. I believe I did so by my own free will. I wasn’t aware of anyone else going to the store.
Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong.
It's just another hit piece to stay in relevance.
Orion Browser: A Future Best Web Browser for the Mac?
I'm glad you understand the gut revulsion aspect, at least (which in my view applies to the 'A' companies as well, but that's a side topic).

Meanwhile your data points on 'N' and 'S' are appreciated and I will add them to my (mental) notes.
I'm personally just wincing at how much rents have gone up outside the cities with the urban flight due to the pandemic.

I decided not to renew my lease and moved back in with my parents (who I'd seen maybe two dozen times since I started working) to accelerate saving the money for a down payment on a house. Now I'm pretty much there, but I still haven't convinced myself that I see myself still working in the same place in 5 years so I haven't been seriously looking for a house.

Meanwhile, the asking rent for most of the apartment complexes around where I work has gone up nearly 25% since I left a year ago. I was paying $2k/month, now they want $2.5k -> $2.8k for the same exact apartment. It's just bonkers to me. Great for whoever owns property, bad for whoever doesn't...
Well that is exactly what happened last time it imploded - private equity sitting on loads of cash waiting for an opportunity got one. They were buying houses like they came in 24-packs from Costco.

I'm not sure what the "split" among institutional investors is, but afaik most of them want the houses to rent them and create a revenue stream, not flip them for a one-time profit. So inflation doesn't really help them either; e.g. it means they pay more taxes, and requires more upfront capital for the same revenue stream unless the rent they can charge increases in lock-step % (which maybe it does). The fact that the underlying asset appreciates in value is more than just gravy, but don't think it's the point for them. I think they are doing it because it is almost an obvious investment from a risk-return profile compared to other options.
>Wouldn't you agree that if enough people choose to stay in Bitcoin instead of simply buying for cheap and selling at higher price, the structure will stop resembling a ponzi scheme?

Why would people give up the opportunity to cash out the winnings of investments/gambles? People do the same with some stocks.
As someone who deals with APIs, I understand the point of abstraction.

But when you start to deal with performance problems, a high level view of the internals can be invaluable for finding the problem.

Something like a CRC diagram is invaluable

http://www.agilemodeling.com/artifacts/crcModel.htm

To clarify, this then allows you to look inside of the API (to bunch of things talking over more APIs, yay microservices). Then you can see which bit might be causing the issue with the bit of the larger black box you are talking to
Can you just uninstall after activation?
The phenomena discussed in that comic were chosen for inclusion specifically because they actually would lend themselves quite easily and obviously to commercial exploitation if they really existed as popularly conceived. If you stipulate that all of those alleged psychic phenomena are inherently not exploitable in those ways or any other significantly profitable way, you're basically redefining those terms contrary to their popular meanings and just moving the goalposts.
Flash needs to be writable at runtime - things like ram training parameters are stored there.
I use the Zoho $1 plan for one of my domains and have no complaints with it so far.
Yeah, any feelings of loyalty to a company are absolutely one-sided. They do not care about you at all; don’t think that “going above and beyond” will be rewarded.
Four Horsemen[0]

The Creepy Line[1]

Childhood 2.0[2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v6KBGr5IzY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He3IJJhFy-I
This is a strange take.

I thought it was a fascinating write up about how if you assume ESP doesn't exist then parapsychology research has something important to say about the replication crisis in social sciences.

Going into how double blind solves all this means skipping the interesting bit: that parapsychology can be viewed as a control group for the scientific method.
Don't get your hopes up. I've been waiting twenty years for non-ridiculous house prices in the UK. It's only got worse and worse. And successive governments have proved willing to do anything it takes to keep it that way.
Great, but it's buggy. I guessed the correct word (nancy), but it rejected it. Perhaps there is something wrong with the capitalization.
Every time without fail that I thought about doing a side project, I found that my time was better spent leveling up and gaining skills to prepare for another job that pays more.
I would wager that, if you get a large ant mill going, the level of pheromone signal would become enormous and be sustained for as long as the mill is going and the ants are alive. So, a sustained, very high level of pheromones might trigger some kind of break-glass response where they invert their logic and seek _low_ levels of pheromone, seek if get _off_ of their track. Or perhaps they begin to erase the pheromone trail (if they can).

Which breaks the ant mill, but now you have to get back to having a functioning colony. Don't know how that would work.
If you only fund things that fully work, you'll never get anything new because research takes steps. It doesn't happen in a day.
I keep having 500 errors... Denial of service?

As said elsewhere, server errors should look have a BSoD-like appearance ;)
> OSHA fined Dartmouth $9,000 (£6890) for what it considered the institution’s failure to provide adequate caution, particularly about the shortcomings of disposable latex gloves.

I would think that PhD. chemists would be responsible for buying their own PPE. Also $9,000 is such a weirdly small number
I think I'd prefer populating %c using:

$c{lc $_}++ for map split(), <ARGV>;

(I pondered 'do { local $/; <ARGV> }' to do a full slurp as well, but I don't think it helps with clarity and I'm not actually golfing here even though the resulting code happens to be shorter)

Also, if you have List::UtilsBy handy (which I basically always do),

rev_nsort_by { $c{$_} } keys %c

could be a nicer way to express the sort, although probably as fast because of the block expr versus anon-sub-via-& prototype part.

(I have not executed any of this code, I'm just musing here, so no warranty express or implied ;)
I just realized I'd be much more surprised and exited to see this as an actual desktop application made with something like Lazarus, than imitation of such a program with web tech. Strange times.
Personally I’m desperate for anything that would let the digital creative process escape the confines of the screen and engage my body more. It has become increasingly painful to sit in front of a screen for yet another repetitive, static round of manipulating those purely digital structures through the extremely limited affordances of keyboard and cursor control.

I’ve tried the UI options that are available today for a reasonable price: stylus and touchscreen like the MS Surface, VR like the Oculus Quest. Neither solves much for me, perhaps because of lack of applications.

If Dynamicland could end up producing something that makes my private work experience tangibly better, I’d be happy to accept that the trade-off is that collaboration becomes more difficult. (I don’t do realtime collaboration today anyway, even though it’s theoretically possible.)
I just tried filling both fields, but text ended up as a comment (and I can't delete a post):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30040573
What is a Lagrange point, the final destination for the James Webb telescope?
That is not what WSL is about though. In that case you would probably want a proper VM or use the Windows OpenSSH Server and get into the WSL CLI that way.
I have seen figure-8 ant mills on YouTube, fwiw. It involved a "going underground" step, eg, go through a tunnel, pop out, turn and walk over the tunnel, turn and go back into the tunnel. I'll see if I can find it again.
How Women Can Get Comfortable “Playing Politics” at Work
Correct me if I'm wrong here but it sounds like "emitting more than captured" here just means reduced emissions by less than 50% but still a lot. Seems misleading.
BRIC is an out of date meme from the 2000s that isn't used anymore by any serious economists. B and R were dominant off of the commodity boom and have receded substantially, I has potential but is held back by poor governance, and C is legitimately an economic power (although too unstable politically to hold financial control) but is causing pretty much all the supply chain issues with their stubborn zero-covid strategy and is sabotaging their own economy. Geopolitically, you're right, but economically, there's more threat from crypto than BRICs to the current order
Depends what you and him exactly mean, but since he's talking about the neoreactionaries being correct, I'll assume he doesn't mean the scientific version which posits that race has no genetic basis (ctrl+F "race")

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

but more this variation

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

Even if it was correct, I think if there are no nefarious consequences being pushed for, I think people who want to argue HBD should rise to the challenge of explaining in plain english what they mean and what consequences they would draw from their assumption being correct, instead of hiding behind obfuscation. While I am not necessarily 100% aligned with groups like AntiFa chapters, BLM etc., at least they are honest about what they think and want to achieve.
We used to have a monthly computer show and sale in the DC area. It was like this but in tents at the fair grounds. It was heaven. What an incredible time to come of age alongside modern technology coming of age. I still have bins of computer bits just in case. Like 3.5”IDE to 2.5”IDE ribbon cable adaptors and shit like that.
Yeah, e.g. someone who can, for example, consistently predict single bits of output from true random number generators 51% of the time would be evidence of something very strange going on, but not necessarily usable for anything practical. (Maybe if you could gather enough of these people to overcome the "weak" ability?)
yes it’s just that no one has any use for the network other than as a ponzi/speculative investment. not store of wealth or currency
I hope some picks up the challenge.
It may be uncommon across species but common amongst eusocial animals.

Much of the pandemic behavior we have seen can be described as two different human mills, one clockwise and one counter-clockwise.
For filling both URL and text field in HN's submit form. Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30040235
My question is why the government is funding Shell of all companies. The ones who have contributed to so much climate change and climate denial in the first place — shouldn’t this come out of their own pocketbook?
As someone else said: "We lose money on every sale, but we're hoping to make it up in volume!"
This is true. In the end all programming languages are Turing complete, so you can't really argue about the power of one language over another in terms of what projects you can do with them. This is about ergonomics, and my point is that there are better alternatives with a lower cognitive load, freeing your brain to think about high level architecture, or other important things such as security, or reducing time to market, improving maintainability, etc.

I have nothing against Rust. I'm sure it is a great language for systems work. I would love to see a language combining the power of Rust with that of e.g. Haskell, so Rust code could be used in the inner loops and Haskell code could orchestrate the high-level parts of the application. But let's not fool ourselves that Rust is the best choice of language for just about any project, which is the impression you get from all of these Rust-oriented blogposts on HN lately.
Wow man that’s crazy. I thought you had to at least go to prison to become a slave in this country but I guess you can become hospital property too if you work for one.
Yeah, I agree with this. There's a larger context here of capitalism evolving firms because they're more efficient, even though they dilute the price-communication value of markets to some extent. As a consequence your boss and my boss are talking about something that might affect millions of people. That results in an effect akin to regulatory capture. So one way to view my case against division of labor is as a case for pushing intelligence to the edges, as close as possible to the owner of the computer running the software.

On this larger level my suggestions are not actually that radical. Capitalism has had a long trend to push intelligence down to the edges. Kings used to use hierarchy to push decisions down. Blitzkrieg was largely about creating an organization that pushes decision-making down. And we've been getting better at it. I think we (i.e. society) can be even better at it by pushing decision-making out of the org and towards the people using it.
I’ve owned 5 personal properties during the charted timeframe and Zillow and the like constantly has a 10-20% error rate between their valuation calculation and what the market value actually is. It has been under/over but rarely correct. I very recently sold a rental home for $100K less than Zillow, Redfin, and Realtor.com think I should have ($500k vs $600k, where $500k is actually near all time record high within 1 square mile of its metro area). Anyways, it’s hard for me to trust this enough to make any conclusions given what I’ve seen from their data.
This depends on your use-case.

I've described e-ink this way:

- Persistence is free. Once set, the display will show that content indefinitely without power.

- Pixels are cheap. Display resolutions are in the 200--300 DPI range (effectively competitive with laserprint), and could be pushed higher at a cost. Line-art and halftone images render beautifully. Gradient-shaded images are limited by greyscale ranges (1--16), and require dithering for best effect.

- Paints are expensive. Both in terms of energy, it's changing the display which costs. These costs are fairly modest, though for mobile devices that's a concern.

- Refreshes are slow. And dependent on display quality: higher quality -> slower refresh. Rates tend to be 1--16Hz for most present devices. Screen animations and even video are possible, though generally strongly discouraged.

- Colour is limited, often nonexistent. Most devices are monochrome with limited greyscale ranges (as noted above). Where colour does exist, it is low-saturation and low-fidelity --- useful for distinguishing elements, but not a faithful high-saturation reproduction. Any graphic design dependent on colour will tend to fail badly on e-ink. Foreground/background contrast is also somewhat limited --- constrained more in the dark "white" value than the by a lighter "black".

- Pagination is strongly preferred to scroll for navigation. Changing the entire screen at once is both faster and much less confusing than scrolling with many repeat updates.

- Display is reflective rather than emissive. On-device lighting is possible, but best effects are with external illumination. Devices perform far better under bright and full sunlight than emissive technology. This is in fact their preferred use mode. This affects both where devices are used and usable (generally increasing options), and the specific qualities of typographic and graphic designs.

These are ultimately properites of the medium, and both designers and users should work with them.

For text and data use, with limited animations, and limited lo-fidelity use of colour, e-ink is very well suited. Large-ish displays (up to 13" and larger) can be hand-held, or fit to a stand rather than permanently mounted on a desk. They're available as external displays for desktop and laptop computers. Power draw is quite low. Outdoor use is excellent. Use as incidental informational displays is also well-suited, e.g., news and weather wall-mount, information, messages, or notifications.

As tools for image, video, or video-based gaming, e-ink is far less suitable.

Back in the day, a frequent refrain of Linux enthusiasts was "Linux is not Windows" --- the two operating systems have different capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses.

In the same vein, e-ink is not emissive. There are strengths and weaknesses. Attempting to use e-ink for tasks to which it is poorly suited will end badly. On the other hand, it has capabilities which emissive displays cannot hope to match. Play to its strengths.
> So why blame the developers and not the government?

Because responsibility comes with power. Developers are hugely wealthy and have incredible lobbying/bribing power and they are happy to use it.

They know very well that "lobbying" and creating housing bubbles is not a victimless crime and they do it anyways.

Politicians still get blame for accepting bribes but they are not billionaires themselves and it's understandably not easy to push back.
And yet some things do have causes.
And I really object to the comment I'm replying to getting flagged. I get that some people will disagree, but flagging it as if it were somehow inappropriate is a misuse of flagging power.
"None of the real problems of C are even mentioned."

In your opinion. It may surprise you to know, others might have differing opinions.

At least from how I read it, I completely agree with the post. C makes it hard for programmers to write safe code in general and the author was pointing out one example of this behaviour and what causes it.
That’s a wildly impractical position to take and isn’t really true in my experience. I spent several years at a seed stage startup where it was me on backend and one other engineer on mobile. We would specify a JSON API and then could work independently (and very fast) to realize the functionality because he’s an expert at mobile programming and I am an expert at backend. We didn’t have the luxury of working at 50% output for a year to learn each other’s specialization while trying to get the product off the ground. He didn’t need to learn the ins and outs of rate limiting with redis and I didn’t need to know how to animate a custom UI component for each of us to be maximally productive.

Division of labor and the interfaces which enable it exist for a reason. I suspect it’s because it reduces the complexity of collaboration between engineers with different specializations. It facilitates the separation of concerns.
Ethylmercury is used insted of (di-)methylmercury, because it is cleared from the body faster: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/index....
The music was definitely there back in the day
From their point of view, it probably goes something like this: "The worker is supposed to work extra hard, but now they are resting, AGAIN! Now I'm gonna say something so they finally start working again" without considering any other perspective about situations.

"Because Amazon never trained me in the basics of my job as a supervisor. Which is to understand obvious the fact in order for our workers to be sustainably productive, they need to take healthy rest breaks now and then -- especially during crunch time. Otherwise Amazon will lose. And because whatever natural sense of intuition I may have had about these issues was thoroughly beaten out of me by the time I got through all that Core Values training they made us do."
>And successive governments have proved willing to do anything it takes to keep it that way.

That's basically political NIMBYISM and is in every government in Europe (And I guess in the US, Canada, Australia, etc.) and it makes sense they would do that as the politicians themselves plus the majority of the population (over 50%) in every country owns some form of real estate, so they have a vested interest to make themselves and over 50% of their electorate richer on paper since it's a good way to get votes and support for your policies. Those less than 50% who don't own anything can go screw themselves basically since being a minority in terms of votes, they don't have the democratic power to change anything in their favor, so the housing policies reflect their lack of leverage.

The ship will only change course when(if) the percentage of the owning class dips significantly below 50%, causing the democratic power to shift to those who don't own anything and we might start seeing things like larger taxes on your second homes or larger inheritance taxes.
Maybe this is because you're not missing out on a housing market rocket by renting? With a reasonable tenant's rights framework, I think the benefits of home ownership are mostly aesthetic. That's not to diminish the aesthetic value, but I think a lot of people have this hierarchy where renting is below owning, and my guess is that's almost entirely to do with building equity in a home. You can imagine a alternate conception where home ownership is seen as more of a labor-intensive DIY project (which it totally is) and thus cheaper than renting, so only people who are into house DIY stuff would get one. Everyone else gets the equivalent of Gmail for homes. To be clear, I think this is currently the case, we just don't conceive of it in this way, either culturally or financially.
>Inflation is wiping out pay increases for most Americans

Wrong.

Most Americans have not gotten pay increases.

This is not quite Voodoo Economics yet and we're not even going to progress that far unless some leadership comes along with a decent understanding of at least Business Math.
No its not as you pointed out but didn’t clarify. Ethylmercury is not the same as methylmercury.
I've brought peripherals in the past. Not because of germs, but just because I preferred my own equipment and my studio did not offer trackballs as a standard equipment option.