skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As with some other highly technical disciplines I think what we're seeing is the possibility of going down a rabbit-hole of optimizing for 1-2% extra efficiency in various subsystems/components...

For people who road cycle very seriously this will lead towards things like bikes that have a $6000-8000 all up cost with deep aero section wheels, expensive tires, ultra lightweight components to put the whole thing near a UCI-illegal weight, and so on.

It's probably easy to spend $1500 on a road bike combined aero bar-stem package that comes out of a single piece CF mold and has very marginally better aerodynamic performance in wind at >35km/h, but the returns are minuscule.

There is definitely a phenomenon of diminishing returns with increasing money spent above a certain point, that would be difficult to subjectively notice unless tested by a person that rides a very large amount like >10,000 km/year.
Down for me in TX.
I live in Seattle and hadn't heard of this! Excited to check it out.

I'm still mourning the loss of our Living Computers Museum, maybe this can fill that hole in my life at least a little bit.
Okay, so I'm not hallucinating it.

This just in - it's up for me at this instant.
I knew this was the reason that everybody is asking for fluent English on every position
They do indeed but I remain convinced the bulk lives closer to
Mediterranian than Arctic climes. Enough people have ice in their lives it has to be dealt with, at least some part of the year but we'd be mythologising heat engines to say they have significant upsides in this. It's one dimension. For part of the year, for some people.
I haven't used Notion much but if the search is worse than G-Suite, that is bad indeed. G-Suite search is so bad I sometimes wonder if I'm being trolled.
Google is supposed to be king of search, yet I can type in one of the words in the title of a document that I was editing a few days ago, and it won't find it, but it will find some obscure and completely unrelated string in a csv file from 2014 that I haven't opened since I uploaded it. To work around the horrible search, I literally keep a google doc that starts with AAAAA so it will always be at the top that has a bunch of links and keywords in it. When I need to find a document or spreadsheet or whatever in google drive, I Ctrl+F in there and it's a life saver. Also seems ridiculous that I have to keep my own index file in order to find anything.
Hey TX from ATX.
This was mentioned in Matthew Walker's book "Why We Sleep". It's properly called biphasic sleep as the article mentions later. The example he uses in his book is that of an old part of Greece where people live well into their 90s and stores/restaurants close for the midday siesta and re-open at night. I forget what they called the town, but it was something along the lines of "The Undying Dreamers" or something.

When I traveled in Europe this was really common to see many places close in the afternoon. I personally never understood it until just recently. I assume there's many more reasons as to why, but it makes much more sense with the Greece example above and that most cities are more alive at night.

I'd love to see the modern WFH day-job transform into an hour of naps. I know many people are already doing that today, but I mean for it to be acceptable to do so for your health. Being able to set your teams status to "taking a nap" would do more good than harm.

Sleep very well can be the cure for many more things in life that we aren't aware of. Our addictions to bright screens, caffeine, and work surely doesn't help much. For all we know, getting a nap in during the day could even lead to less heart issues.
> a Georgian judge could definitely order a change in ownership due to incorrect data entered into the ledger, so it's not immutable.

There seems to be a misunderstanding. The ledger is immutable. That doesn't mean the state is immutable! Immutable state is not very useful. A judge could absolutely order that the ownership of some parcel is changed, but the change will appear as a separate record and everybody will be able to see the change and nobody can credibly deny that the change happened, not even the judge.
Unfortunately, with this approach it only takes one invocation of bash without your .bashrc (or otherwise without HISTFILESIZE=-1) to truncate your history to 500 lines:

$ man bash
/HISTFILESIZE
The maximum number of lines contained in the history file.
When this variable is assigned a value, the history file is
truncated, if necessary, by removing the oldest entries, to
contain no more than that number of lines. The default
value is 500. The history file is also truncated to this
size after writing it when an interactive shell exits.

(I also like that with my approach I also get the timestamp and current direct rate.)
Which are these climate neutral crypto currencies?
I wonder if AI can help better vet science to see if there's flaws. I was looking at a paper recently[0] about how Swedish men cause more emissions than women. I feel like it has big issues that could be fairly easily checked with an AI system to check for logical fallacies and statistical errors. I think most research is BS and it takes too long to tell if it's real or fake. The most common outcome unfortunately is that research is fake.

My issues are that more men than women live in rural areas[1] so on average men will have to drive more and use more fuel. This data also seems to come mainly from a study in 1998 but they continuously say "men today", the data is from two decades ago. It also suggests that buying local food is better for the environment then importing, but they probably don't grow food in Stockholm so it would come from regional areas. Men also need more calories so even though women emit more from their food, men are actually doing much better considering they are generally recommended to eat 1.25x more calories than women[2]. I'm also very sceptical about the energy used for clothing and furnishing in the study.

This study was widely shared in places like NPR[3], The Guardian[4], CNN[5, CBS[6] and The Independent[7]. I feel like the issues I've pointed out are super obvious and if there's a reason they are not problems then they should talk about why those issues are not relevant, especially in the news articles.

I haven't read the whole paper, I actually just looked at the study to see how much clothing emits per person(after an article on fast fashion was posted on here). It's very concerning to me that that is published in "pro-science" news papers. Perhaps even worse is the original paper is not even really casting blame but the articles all do.

[0]https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.13176

[1]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074301672...

[2]https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/wha....

[3]https://www.npr.org/2021/07/21/1018796496/men-spending-carbo...

[4]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/21/men-caus...

[5]https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/21/europe/climate-carbon-gender-...

[6]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carbon-footprint-men-more-women...

[7]https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/sustainable-liv...
$1800 is nothing for an actual profitable company. SaaS companies like Vercel try to find features to separate out small indie developers and actual companies so they can charge them differently. They're probably assuming that someone needing password protection is a company vs an individual.
Many responses already commenting that science (the process) is intentionally capable of addressing these issues, but that timespan can be longer than we’d like.

One major point in this comment and in many others in support is the observation that the quality of research output is increasingly poor and degraded. It reads to me there is an implicit assumption that because of this the overall process is no longer valid.

It’s not at all clear this is the case, and jumping to that conclusion is taking a very emotional and unscientific stance. Many academics get a shock at some point early on when they look into how things actually work at a small scale, and often later in their careers come to see the effectiveness of consensus and reproduction (or don’t care and just try to get credit for them and theirs). Jumping to the conclusion that science is somehow falling apart requires taking about change over time, not point observations.

Now I’m not providing evidence either way, and definitely see reasons why it could be the case. But at the same time the volume of scientific output is larger than it has ever been, and many fields are developing at an unprecedented rate. And we’re seeing the result of this in rapid technological advancement in many fields, so it’s clearly not all complete horseshit. It’s possible, likely even, that due to comparatively rapid advancement in comparison getting to solid consensus appears to take longer.
I don’t care for Neil Young, but did you read to the end of that article or just the first few paragraphs?

In his 2002 biography of Neil Young, Shakey, Jimmy McDonough writes “I had found out that Young was planning on donating the proceeds from the ‘Philadelphia’ track to the Gay Men’s Health Crisis center. He acknowledged it was true but didn’t seem anxious to publicize the fact. I got the feeling there were other chartable acts I didn’t know about
Raspberries, coconuts, and coffee... I never realized how much I love drupes.
"The fact remains that if one were to assume that every single scientific discovery of the last 25 years was complete bullshit, they'd be right more often than they were wrong."

That doesn't sound like a fact to me ...
>This just show that fascism means different things to different people.

Fascism is a very specific political ideology, based on Marxism, and involves (what they call a third-way economic policy) transforming the state into an amalgamation of trade unions working together to create a socialist state. It does not have different meanings to different people. It has only one meaning. The problem is just that many people refuse to know what the word means because it is a dirty word and they don't like how similar it is to their own ideology.

>There are indeed several aspects to it: - suppression of labor unions and other political organisations that go against the interests of the ruling class, using mob violence

This is the exact opposite of fascism. Not only were trade unions the center of the fascist state, but it was mandatory for people to be a member of one.

I was going to go over your other points, but they are so vague that I can't really even discuss them.
I'm a bit confused by the use of the word hostage - surely someone at Channel 5 has a backup?

This is an absolute nightmare, though, losing Patreons because of Vimeo bring a fuck up is infuriating. I'm also confused why Andrew isn't trying to get Paterson to figure this out, since they're the ones using Vimeo on their platform?
That’s one of the problems that people were worried about that have turned out to not actually be a problem.
For public health choices for your family, I say do what the majority of experts in the field are doing. And only listen to actual experts specifically in the field of study that pertains to the public health issue. I.e., don't listen to a non-practicing celebrity cardiologist (Dr Oz) about immunology and virology.

For example, you will be hard pressed to find a virologist, immunologist, or epidemiologist that isn't vaccinated and having their 5yrs and older kids vaccinated.

I also like to get my health information direct from doctor groups like the American association of pediatrics. Another good resource is directly on the website of groups like the mayo clinic, Cleveland clinic, or the editorial board of the New England journal of medicine. All of these groups are made up of many expert doctors and issue guidance based on input from a lot of experts.
Patreon not Paterson.
The rule was not made to protect passengers, but to protect the crew who are stunk in a tin can with hundreds of different people every day. The risks will add up over time.

Also, male doctors and nurses are require to shave before donning their masks for a shift because even the slightest overnight stubble will ruin the seal. The chances of general public wearing an N95 correctly to get the most benefit out of it is close to nil.
Corba was a spec that had a number of implementations. Some Orbs were great while others were crap. Unlike DCOM however it was an open standard. For some reason at some point it was declared highly uncool. And now is being reinvented hard yet again by the hipsters of today with grpc etc. Looks like every generation of programmers has the urge to reinvent RPC.
Eastern European here. This has been happening for a while. I haven't worked for a local (Hungarian) company for 8 years now. And even then it was just 6 months. In the past 14 years, since I've left my last 'real' job (except for that 6 months mentioned before) I either worked for US or Western European companies or my own startups.

So I've been thinking for a while that it's actually a pretty bad situation for local companies who want to develop either custom software (internal or a product) or the ones that have local clients and try to hire local talent. They are, in part, competing with US and Western European companies. And while 10 or even 5 years ago I didn't know to many people who did this, it has accelerated quite a bit.

I'm running a largish (~15k people) job board group on Facebook and I saw the pretty rapid raise in the salaries offered to people. Also, the increase that one can expect in the first 5 years is pretty steep, 200-300%. Meaning that the average senior level salary offers are about 2-3x as high as the entry level ones. (And senior apparently means 5 years in this context.) I'm not sure about the US situation (especially not the entry level salaries), but it seems that at least in part it's about the fact that as a senior you can find a remote job pretty easily.
Not every app has a Log In With Google option.
The only person who really understood how to do independent validation. Of course the code MUST be different.
I read something 5-10 years ago about some Netflix engineers who created a startup to do this. They looked at all sorts of signals to determine how likely an employee is to quit. I remember them looking at things like posting more on social media being an indicator.

Sadly, I haven't been able to find the company again.
There's an upcoming UI to input stock transactions and will explicitly request capital gains, so, there will be fewer opportunities for error.

https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/818
You can do somethings like this using the .init and .fini sections in a dynamically loaded shared lib.

https://maskray.me/blog/2021-11-07-init-ctors-init-array
You don’t need to code to get started with Hugo. You just copy some template files around, write your pages using any text editor in the very simple markdown format, run Hugo in the command line, and get html files ready to upload. None of this is actually “code”.
I think the "in service" days in both posts above are the number of days the car is in the shop, not days it is being used.
Unbalanced Equation Argument: 1 x 1 = 2
It goes far beyond the first layer, to the ultimate layer: what is the basis of our presuppositions about knowledge? How do we authenticate what we think we know?
Meh, I disagree, as someone who uses the app for way too many hours a day. It's not just for gay people, it is used by a lot of people who identify has queer or trans or NB.

It's also not just a hookup app, but that's not really a strong argument given how 99% of my interactions go on there.
One of their more impressive efforts has resulted in the resurrection of their crashed #3ESS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUUsAK21f20

That machine crashed hard one day, and it took a great deal of effort to get it even partially running again.

The higher the tech, the shorter the horizon as a working exhibit. Something like this depends on semiconductors that will never be made again, not to mention relays that require exotic materials and advanced manufacturing capabilities. Also, the 3E had few takers, to the point that spares are unobtainium.
Well, not really. The end of the cow-product-based Argentine Golden Age didn't come from US feedlots; those were still decades in the future. It came from the Smoot-Hawley act and its beggar-thy-neighbor brethren worldwide: our economy, which had grown fat from its abundant and fine exports, suddenly found the gates closed to those exports and the drawbridges drawn up, almost everywhere in the world, precipitating the fall of democracy and the Década Infame. Within three years exports had fallen by almost two thirds, an economic disaster in an export-driven economy.
A LOT less effective, especially for filtering sub-micrometer aerosols.

https://imgur.com/a/Of4rDAu

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00375
Okay, so basically, tell other people to code. Got it.

The only special thing about someone who ‘can code’ versus someone who ‘cannot’ is their persistence to do whatever is necessary to solve the problem at hand. At some point that skill was required. ‘Coders’ end up doing everything in a business: talk to customers, validate use cases, test, financial projection, write marketing copy, design interfaces, make a presentations to investors, build a web site, manage the database, onboard new hires, interview. They just do it for someone else to take the credit, because they’re too busy to play that game.

If you want to see this principle in action, try giving a coder a critical assignment from any other department/discipline, anything that is obviously more critical to the business than whatever they are doing. Watch them attack the problem relentlessly, failing over and over again until they get it. Then find someone from any other department: ask an HR person to do the CFO’s job, or a sales person to do security operations. They’ll tell you they don’t know how to do that, and that will be the end of it.
So… how are their locks? Easy to pick? Fragile? High quality?
Consignment stores are great
Even more so, the worst coworker I ever had once wrote a script that accepted neither, and (when run) would default to trying to process data (and deleting it whether or not it was fully handled) _in production_. The first time we ever ran it (unsuspectingly) was after he'd left for Facebook. Good riddance.
You are right in that Microsoft is the giant pillar sustaining a ton of big and small companies, I'd randomly guess more than 90% of them.

Macs and GSuite are more of a long tail that anything, but these would precisely be the companies that would go to Notion I think. They will have way less incentive/lock in to push Office365 on the bulk of their employees.
As I suspected, there is nothing here anymore
Apple II emulated inside Unity game (KansasFest 2021 Presentation)
Not to forget: 29" wheels have the same rim diameter as 28" wheels used in road bikes (622mm). Obviously.

(The reason: mountain bikes use lager tires than road bikes, so the complete wheel is larger )
> t there is a long history of cases where the established scientifically accepted ideas were actually harmfully wrong, particularly in the medical arena.

This isn't actually a problem so long as those past errors were caused by the limits of what we knew at the time and efforts are made to help prevent similar issues in the future when it's possible. It's inevitable that as our understating of science and medicine evolve we're going to discover that what made sense before is no longer a good idea.

The problem comes when we weren't wrong because of what we didn't understand, but because people who knew better just thought they could get more money if they manipulated results or outright lied. We had the tobacco industry pay off scientists to lie about the cancer risks the industry knew to be a problem. The resulting rise in people with lung cancer wasn't a mistake. We had doctors pushing opioids on people at insane doses because they were paid kickbacks if they did. That wasn't a mistake either.

What we need is strict regulation and oversight so that when science and medicine do get it wrong, it's because we couldn't have known better given what data we had at the time. That'd be a huge step up from where we are now.
Ugh, Seattle has really expensive gasoline and we get squeezed by refinery shutdowns all the time. I’m not even sure most of the oil we refine still even comes from Alaska anymore, their production has been tanking for awhile now while oil sands production from Canada has been increasing.

Washington state has plenty of hydro, but it’s a west coast market for the energy produced (surpluses can easily go to California) so our electricity prices are increasingly normal. A lot of wind production along the Columbia river, however.
If you want to make a simple blog, what technology you use likely doesn't matter.

But if instead you want to play around with SSGs, just go ahead and play with SSGs.
that's the thing. You can freely talk about covid death rates and long term effects, but you can't do it about the vaccine.
So you’re basically paying them US salaries?
>every time some crazy idea is repeated it is automatically flagged with [...]

This is basically "fact checking". In theory it's good, but it inevitably degrades into a farce with stuff like [1] or [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/msnbc/status/785299708730339328

[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o95
Noticing a new type of security question popping up everywhere
I recently signed up for a new credit card and checking account as well as updating some information on old accounts and I've been getting a set of prompts (both over the phone when talking w/ customer service reps and online) from multiple different institutions that look like:

- Which of these cities has xyz family member lived or owned property in?

- Which of these universities have you attended in the past?

- Which of these cars have you been associated with in the past?

This isn't information that I've ever provided to any of these institutions, and the questions are all framed/styled similarly, so I'm assuming that there's some new third party security question provider in town. I'm very curious who they are, if they're mining data themselves or just buying it, and how they've become so seemingly prevalent so fast.

I've gotten extremely disillusioned about the privacy of my data recently, especially after finding out that my employer and many others are reporting my salary data to Equifax behind my back [1]. It's somewhat disappointing to see that we've reached the point where it's become socially acceptable for companies to know information about you that you've never given them. I feel like just a few years ago something like this would have resulted in public backlash, but no one seems to care at all anymore.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753
I've worked in 3 companies with the classic Silicon Valley starter pack consisting of Slack, GitHub (not part of Office 365), and GSuite, and found it overall pretty good! What features did you find missing? Personally I shudder at the thought of using SharePoint, it's the worst designed product I've seen.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27028185
however this presentation is slightly more recent and you can see it actually working.
A guide to Web3 for Web2 front end devs
For every proponent of a bill that protects user rights, there will be three opponents who claim censorship is needed to protect the public, to stop misformation, etc
> German government (and Western European governments in general) are better at that than our government

Debatable, Germany is notorious[1] for its bureaucracy still.

[1] https://m.dw.com/en/germans-and-bureaucracy/a-16446787