skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, this is a very American view. In wine cultures (France, Italy, Spain, Argentina), children grow up tasting wine from an early age. In beer cultures (Germany, Czechia, Belgium, Holland, England) it's the same for beer. I grew up in the US but my parents let us try everything, have a glass of wine with dinner, with the idea that alcohol shouldn't be some forbidden / exotic thing that you suddenly encounter as a college freshman and binge out on. But I remember being 17 or 18 and my friends having to hold their nose and chug booze really fast because they hated the taste. I found that shocking. FWIW, all those friends love alcohol now - a bit too much, maybe.

A lot of it goes to the fact that bitter, acidic, pungent things are an "acquired taste" in American culture. That's just not true in countries where children grow up with stronger flavors like real unpasteurized cheeses, fermented foods, and offal.

So what you say might be true as far as ad spending influencing the basic, cheese-puff-snorting American, but the premise that alcohol is unpalatable to most people (at least, most people around the world) is a false projection.

My semi-nightly movie time usually involves a bottle of wine (I change up what kind), couple squares of 90% to 100% chocolate, bowl of homemade popcorn, some American Spirit dark rolling tobacco, and a CBD+THC gummy. All those alkaloids roll around your senses like bittersweet heaven.
This article will explain how to use BleuIO’s multi-connection features, connect to multiple BLE devices and transfer data between them. We will use three BleuIO dongles for this project: one central and two peripheral. The central dongle will connect to peripheral and send data simultaneously.
Iirc you could actually lose by not doing anything? [spoiler]The UrQuan advancing more and more up to a point were you basically just got a game over screen?[/spoiler]
The linked document is a legal brief from Ascension, not a finding by a judge, and represents Ascension's view of the situation.

That said, the judge apparently vacated the order blocking the seven employees from starting work at Ascension:

https://www.wpr.org/thedacare-loses-court-fight-keep-health-...
Be extremely careful with it. A friend of mine developed some horrifying skin issues after relatively light use.
consider the following sentences:

we need to get rid of black people

we need to get rid of black people poverty

we need to get rid of black people below poverty level

we need to get rid of black people hurdles keeping them below poverty level

the gist is that without unravelling a sentence full context, a lot of verbage can refer to a lot of different action.

focusing on profanity is the low anging fruit, so to say.
I couldn't agree more. I've been watching this shift in acceptable standards in America move from intent to perception with considerable consternation. It seems that an absence of malintent in language is no longer sufficient defense. If one perceives the language as offensive, it is. This is an absurd standard because with a sufficient audience size, someone will find something offensive. This standard is a de facto end to all discussion. It only takes one hyper sensitive audience member (legitimate or troll) to shut down all discussion.

This is not a sustainable strategy for society. It is of course impossible for algorithms to parse perceived intent by the lowest common denominator, and attempting to do so is nothing more than defensive legal posturing.
Do you have the magical ability to see, hear, and otherwise perceive reality? It's one thing to have sensory perceptions, it's another to consider them all somehow connected, and it's entirely another to do so while ruling out any other forms of perception which may not be known to you yet.
It's not necessarily tiny. You could use an electrolytic capacitor with a capacity of a few millifarads, for example. However, the tolerance of larger capacitors is larger (usually 20%, and up to 50%) so that quickly becomes expensive. It's more likely that you'll generate a 10 second or less pulse with the 555 and then make it longer using (for example) T flip-flops. A single 744040 ripple counter IC for example can divide the output by up to 4096.
I went down the Gemini rabbit hole last week (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/01/17/0800, and even coded my own minimalist server for it) and tend to agree that both its protocol and markup are oversimplified technical solutions in search of a problem, although I wouldn’t cast it so harshly.

It does feel like escapism/subculture of sorts, and I do believe that retreat from the Web is one of the underlying motivations, but (maintaining a relatively minimalist Markdown-backed site myself) I agree that there are no real technical reasons for it to exist (even Markdown support is something that is relatively easy to agree upon across browsers).

What I do like about it is the Lagrange browser, and the extremely legible reading experience—-I consume most of my content via RSS feeds and Reader Mode on websites I visit frequently, and I like the uniformity and predictability of the layout, as well as the lack of ads and distractions.

I’d be happy enough if Lagrange’s unfettered visual style became a sort of “forced Reader mode” in standard browsers…
A healthy criticism of things is great, however, I feel context needs to be brought to the table too. What is this Bitcoin being compared against?

We need to understand the current fiat system, how is fiat money is made? How exactly is the USD brought into the world?

Many of you might be quite shocked on how the current system works, all based on debt, or just arbitrary printed to suite the needs of big government. Its quite interesting. Did you know 40% of all USD in existence was create last year based on nothing for instance?

Fiat, and crypto have their merits, and failures. Some obvious issues, others underlying, and needing to be addressed.
We didn’t find that.

What we did find is our operational expenditure over three years tripled. So basically capital expenditure.

I’m not sure how they warped that into self congratulatory success.

The people complaining now complain that it turns out the promise of total automation was a lie. None of it is very robust and all of it is painful.
Expected this to be about Nokia, instead it's some summary of how people are connected through different services/apps and suggestions for startups.
I'd say, web standards are an antipattern anyway. Look at this dark theme: https://randomnixfix.wordpress.com/2021/10/23/why-the-freebs... should such things be supported? If not, how much effort would a browser implementation take?
> Just as one example, CDC quietly changed the definition of vaccination from producing "immunity to a disease" to producing "protection from a disease".

Enough with this bullshit. No one batted an eye when every single year everyone had to take the flu vaccine, and still some who did still ended up catching it. No one batted an eye when the BCG vaccine is advertised to have an effectiveness between zero and 78%. And in spite of that now we are supposed to mobilize out militant ignorance to rail against a specific vaccine because it's not a silver bullet? And this is a vaccine that was quite literally a makeshift, better than nothing, solution for an ongoing problem?
> Honestly believe if you give me enough time and money I can make anything. Worth it.

Same, but it didn't take a week on modafinil to finish a crazy project for me, I just always just liked making cool shit ever since I was a kid. Currently more on the software/kernel side, but I've done my share of hardware projects.

For me, after bouncing around a few universities, I realized how much of a broken joke the system was and resolved to go the easiest route to get the piece of paper (an on-line university), which I'm glad I did because the one time in my life I needed it it was important... but uni never taught me anything I couldn't have learned more efficiently on my own.

I distinctly remember that time in a microcontrollers class where the book was wrong and teaching the exact opposite of the solution to the problem it was trying to teach, and I'd known about that one for like 7 years at that point, and when I offered to the teacher to write a little article about it so we could all learn about it, he said yes and never even read it...

Or that time where as a sophomore I was helping a team of seniors working on a project to build a CubeSat, and I designed the PCBs and all the firmware and we won the competition to get funding and actually launch... and the uni's response was to kick us out of the lab we were in because "we were using too much space" (about 1m of desk space there). That CubeSat never launched.

Also, there was one part of that board designed by a professor instead of me. It was the only part that didn't work. And I thought it was dodgy at the time, and with my current experience I can confidently say that design was utterly insane and broken and he had no idea what he was doing.

Meanwhile in Calc II they wanted me to memorize three dozen identities because... why? I liked math until I got to that class, because even though it wasn't exactly being taught in an engaging way, I could work out the underlying concepts and understand and appreciate it, and work from first principles. Then it got complicated enough that doing that at the exam was no longer viable and I was just expected to become a computer and memorize all the damn formulas (and it wasn't just a few), understanding be damned. I cheated my way through that exam ("yes professor, I promise this TI-84 emulator on my Zaurus PDA is exactly like the real thing and I don't have a little formula database app in another window"). I damn well know what integration is and how it fundamentally works and how to apply it, but storing rote trivially looked up information is what we have paper and computers for. I don't go around memorizing programming APIs, I look up what I need and whatever I use often enough comes naturally.

Chemistry was more fun. We were allowed one index card, handwritten, both sides for the exam. I developed an electrical arc sharpening mechanism for mechanical pencil lead, so I could handwrite it all in 4pt size or so. Give me limitations and I will make the best use of them :)

Yeah, the system is broken.
This was new to me, and it makes me feel better (Only ten years? Great that they still have enough fuel for twenty years! Oh, so it isn't useless after that? Even better!):

> When its tank gets low, engineers might command the observatory to push itself into a higher orbit, to make sure it doesn’t crash into any objects closer to home. If that happens, Webb could remain in orbit around the sun for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. It would no longer be yoked to the Earth in the same way, but its mirrors and scientific instruments could keep working, and Webb could still phone home, Yu said.
Hi, I have experience with 2 startups in Germany and recently incorporated in the UK and I have to say UK is much better option (no notary requirement, everything online, more options for 3rd party support i.e. seedlegals). We have also raised some capital in an EU country and brexit wasn't problem at all. Look also into EIS/SEIS for tax relief in the UK which makes it easier to find angel/early investors. Also there much more money in the UK than anywhere else in the Europe.
As my old colleague used to say: that's my 50 cents ;)
Ask HN: How Do You Remember?
I have never really had a good memory - short term or long term. My working memory is pretty good, but that's about it. I have always envied people who have the ability to remember a relevant quote/figure or recalled the reference to a book/film/tv show etc in conversation. I read frequently but struggle to remember the characters names and plot points. I watch films/TV shows and struggle to describe the plot a day or two later.

Is there anything I can do to improve this type of memory or is this just a reality of my mind? How do people of HN remember things? Any particular tools, techniques or resources used?
Not sure why people decided to kill the parent post (confused by what flagging is for? We will never know...)

Anyway, it is exact same thing as the submission but actually caught on camera and posted on youtube.
If you know that A and B are “friends with many mutual friends”, and A posts baby photos, and B comments “She's so cute I'll have to kidnap her", that’s enough information to conclude that the remark is more likely to be experienced as innocent than threatening.
Yes but some people ask questions rather than try to look for answers in the documentation, since it is perceived lower effort than looking in the documentation themselves. It is quicker to ask a question than look through the documentation, especially if you are not sure about the right keyword for your query. Plus if you ask a question you get to define the criteria for a valid answer to include an example that almost exactly matches your situation.

Edit: I feel like I should point out that I agree that RTFM is an incredibly offensive term, but some form of answer like: “it is covered in the documentation” actually conveys one important bit of information: The answer can actually be found in the documentation.
Having had caffeine headaches in the past, I just take some aspirin + ibuprofin and turn off the lights.

I would expect society would have a bad weekend, and then people would get over it quickly.
Marcel Duchamp Research Portal
and yet, when refining a query, oftentimes I need to exclude results (like striped shirts) to get what I'm really looking for
It's a common misunderstanding that meditation leads to tranquility, that you somehow become a calm person. In the moment it does, but the bigger picture is that it gives you tools to deal with life with more equanimity and balance. The offshoot might be a sense of calm but it's an effect rather than a cause.

The "infinitely tranquil" thing needs some unpacking too, mainly because it's not exactly easy to define what that means... Are there people whose whole life has been hugely and meaningfully improved through the practice of meditation? Yes, absolutely.

This in my opinion is enough. We don't always need to fly.
How is that relevant?

Is the argument that if country X does Y then Y isn't bad for the US?

Belgium requires people carry id with them all the time. Does that mean the US should be like Belgium and require everyone carry id?

Sweden requires either an id or someone with an id who can vouch for you, which is less strict than some of the US states.

Most of those countries have a national id system. Why wouldn't that be a prerequisite for the US?
I love many BSDs, but yeah sadly they’re hardly usable desktop OS’s for me.

FreeBSD tends to be the best still, but the lack of 802.11ac support and the occasional odd problem with “supported hardware” makes it hard for me to go with, when I can just use Linux and everything works.

NetBSD is amazing, especially as a retrocomputing enthusiast (there’s an active VAX port, not even OpenVMS has a VAX port anymore), but dear god the hardware problems I’ve had with it. Last time I tried to use NetBSD, it was on a lower end laptop I wanted to try to squeeze as much usability out of and for some reason, the installer refused to work with the eMMC attached. In that last I’ve also had all sorts of issues with supported network hardware causing kernel panics.

DragonflyBSD seem cool too, and probably has the nicest kernel maintainer I’ve ever seen. Sadly I’m not sure if it’s whole schtick still applies today, and the lack of any video drivers except Intel made it unusable for me. Yes there’s generic framebuffer drivers, but dear good they are barely usable.

Don’t have too much experience with OpenBSD, but I wouldn’t use it as a desktop either way. The lack of LKMs is a turn off for myself, who’s always swapping in and out random weird hardware.

If I had the time, energy and patience to learn these kernel, and figure out how to inject myself into projects that are probably long ongoing and with people much more experienced than myself, I’d love to help, but sadly I do not have those things.
> Seeing a CEO who publicly complains turns me away from even wanting to try the product.

Really? That turns you off? What a lame argument. Your criteria for using Stripe is that "the product works" but not using Bolt is "CEO who complains".
And words with multiple meaning (and opposite meaning) depending of context or voice intonation.
Sounds like a Mormon or some other form of American.
AlphaFold-Powered Drug Discovery of a Novel CDK20 Inhibitor
With slightly more detail.

"Stand at the brink of the abyss of despair, and when you see that you cannot bear it anymore, draw back a little and have a cup of tea" ~Elder Sophrony of Essex
If you like shiraz but aren't big on the full bodied style try some from Pokolbin. I don't know if it just didn't follow the trend or if environmental factors come in to play but it's generally lighter.
I'd be at "waiting for product designer in a dark alley" level pissed. Self destruct is not acceptable default product behavior.
>EU web hosting is way more competitive and US VPS offerings have traditionally been way overpriced

US offerings being way more overpriced than EU alternatives also boils down to the much larger capital/war-chest US tech companies have at their disposal to spend on Ops to conquer a market, a fact reflect in those prices but also in things like dev salaries, office equipment, etc.

EU offerings are better priced because most EU companies, who aren't bankrolled by some mega VC fund, cannot afford to pay US levels of pricing.
To be honest there is no singular intended solution, I deliberately designed it so that there were multiple approaches that could make sense (especially in combination). Intended solutions include but are not limited to:

- Guessing by hand.

- Bruteforce by programatically feeding input into QEMU (as in that writeup).

- Bruteforce by only emulating the "important" code, via something like Unicorn.

- Bruteforce by reimplementing the algorithm in another language (There are some tricks you can use to make it go fast - maybe I should write those up...)

- Reducing the search space by grepping for likely keywords.

- Bruteforce of remaining bytes of the RC4 key (also as in that writeup).
I imagine there's also some manual steps going on.

Making sure it's not an account compromise(also just waiting to give the actual owner a chance to notice), checking with compliance, manually getting all the data that's not been automated yet, getting data out of cold storage, checking over the final data set, etc. Many of which would be sequential

Disclaimer: I work at amazon, but not on this
A chewing gum that could reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission
It's absolutely mad that the temporary restraining order was even approved from the outset. No court should be able to compel people to keep working at a private employer on pain of contempt of court, in some perverted form of indentured servitude.
UK Covid Dashboard: Data management and reporting the vital statistics
No age limits, anyone (including non-citizens) can vote, and there's no registration system?

And people can vote as many times as they want, in as many districts as the like?

All of these are current state controlled processes which restrict the population from voting.
That is the only sanity-preserving response.

Nobody can prove anything to their employer. And, you don't owe them anything. So, sometimes the best that can be done is to leave them to fail without you.

It sucks, though, when it is a bridge you know will collapse.
Seems to be news items from the financial press - FT, BI, etc. Not really anything value added since all those outlets broadcast out their headlines everywhere. If you are a trader or investor this information is not going to get you anywhere as far as an edge is concerned.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but I can’t remember it including anything with dolphins.
I believe wpa_supplicant is still needed for wifi access on freebsd (or, it was in 2017 when I was last using freebsd on my laptop).

OpenBSD has better integrations with ifconfig and wpa though, it’s possible they are ported over now, but wifi config is the same as in Linux (or had been for quite a significant amount of time) on freebsd.

Completely agree about the opaque and incidental complexity of the systemd ecosystem though, I’m glad people love it but it’s not for me.
Yes, using fabricjs for that, we are improving it everyday but yes, it took few days to make the MVP of the editor.
Whenever I see posts like this, I'd like to point out that both is possible at the same time.

Full on self hosting your own cloud comes usually with a lot more services than "the" cloud does because thats usually why the hoster is considered "small".

In Hetzners case you will for sure at least have to self host a decent RDBMS and it better be replicated, which means more maintenance and servers.

But you do not have to put all your eggs into one basket! There are more than enough ways to split the load and you can even add dedicated servers in the mix too!

It should not be "yep we are on azure, or yup we are on hetzner" but "my job as an architect is to combine the two for maximum value" ;)
Ah yep, makes perfect sense.
Deny all.

In Safari I've unchecked "allow websites to ask for permission to send notifications" but it doesn't work - I still get banner ads in the page asking me for @#$@#$ notifications. No, just no. And don't try to evade the browser preference.

Law of "Not our popups": For every browser feature designed to improve the user experience, web designers will think that users could never (ever!) want it to apply to their site so they will do their best to break the feature and deliver the unwanted content or feature (pop-up windows, tracking/unblockable cookies, auto-playing video, etc..) in direct contravention of user preference settings.
Hippos can recognize familiar voices, new study finds
No LISP syntax support, I see. Now that I think of it, I don’t believe Panic’s previous editor(s?) had it either.
It’s all done with CSS animations [1].

The background specified in interconnected-2020.css [2] lines 8–9:

background: #cdecff; /* lightest-blue */
animation: changingbg 600s infinite;

Followed by the animation specified in lines 12–35:

/* Calculated using
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/gradient-generator/
in LRGB mode with precision=8 and linear easing
Colors: #CDECFF #FFCDEC #FEECCD #9EEBCF #CDECFF
*/
@keyframes changingbg {
from {
background: hsl(203deg 100% 90%);
}
8% { background: hsl(233deg 68% 92%); }
17% { background: hsl(293deg 52% 90%); }
25% { background: hsl(323deg 100% 90%); }
33% { background: hsl(344deg 98% 92%); }
42% { background: hsl(16deg 97% 92%); }
50% { background: hsl(38deg 96% 90%); }
58% { background: hsl(78deg 44% 87%); }
67% { background: hsl(137deg 50% 84%); }
75% { background: hsl(158deg 66% 77%); }
83% { background: hsl(185deg 62% 84%); }
92% { background: hsl(191deg 87% 84%); }
to {
background: hsl(203deg 100% 90%);
}
}

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Animati...

[2]: https://interconnected.org/home/static/styles/interconnected...
The camera zooms in and out to keep both ships on the screen. If they are close together, you can have the planet appear on screen suddenly
> In 1395, Philip the Bold outlawed cultivation of the Gamay grape in favour of Pinot Noir in an early example of agricultural regulation related to wine quality
Yes its very easy to build.
This is enlightening.

I do see they have a marketing / landing page which makes me feel there is a product charter beyond half-a-SWE: https://edu.google.com/products/classroom/
Close enough.

- a mathematician
Astronaut: Low View YouTube Exploration