skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He sold a significant stake in it at least, reposting my comment from another thread:

I'm confused. I read Neil Young recently sold significant stake in his music catalog to an investment company [1]. Doing something like this pretty much nullifies that investment. Perhaps the particulars of the deal he signed still allows him to do this, in which case the investment company made a bad deal.

If Spotify is just doing this as a courtesy, without full permission from all relevant stake holders, or specific contractual cover, then the investment company should be looking to sue both Neil Young and Spotify.

Surely I'm missing something.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/neil-young-sells-50percent-o...
> It's like having a kid constantly getting pinkeye from not wiping their ass properly, and then saying toilet paper is pointless, instead of teaching the kid how to wipe and wash properly.

Poor adherence in young populations is exactly the point.
Most flags use the ISO 2-character country code to access their values. However, some flags don't map to 2-character country codes (Scotland being one example). In this case it uses the sequence black flag, GBSCT (for Great Britain-Scotland, represented using the tag latin small letter codes for the letters) then cancel tag to end the sequence. Changing the middle five to be GBENG gives the English flag and GBWLS gives the Welsh flag.
Many of the test aerosols they use to test N95s and similar are smaller than the coronavirus. Also they have done virus measurements from sick people through masks that prove there is filtration happening.
No, I'd expect it does include TOTP. Read it as "discontinue support for protocols that supply one-time codes". A TOTP app would fall under that description.

TOTP apps are certainly better than getting codes via SMS, but they're still susceptible to phishing. The normal attack there is that the attacker (who has already figured out your password) signs into your bank account, gets the MFA prompt, and then sends an SMS to the victim, saying something like "Hello, this is a security check from Your Super Secure Bank. Please respond with the current code from your Authenticator app." Then they get the code and enter it on their side, and are logged into your bank account. Sure, many people will not fall for this, but some people will, and that minority still makes this attack worthwhile.

A hardware security token isn't vulnerable to this sort of attack.
I think that the "shift in mindset" is something that's needed to give up Presence. But you need a relaxed environment as well. If you need to pull out that feature fast, and you're blocked, you want somebody to help you. NOW.

If, instead, you try to see the big picture, and you can postpone your work a bit (until you've had the chance to discuss it with somebody), then it's ok.

A more relaxed environment should be the target. Lately, in many parts of the world and many companies, it seems that, unless you're always on the verge of burnout, you're not doing anything. An honest day's work does not exist anymore.
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I find Directus better because it is 100% even with Role Support. Not related to directus just enjoing it so much AFTER i have used strapi and supabase for quite some time. Don't get me wrong supabase is great and i know this tool is a generic admin interface, but the same is true for directus. you can put directus on top of any DB (sqlite, postgresql, mysl, oracle) and get a fancy admin ui for free.
https://directus.io/
Wearing masks whenever possible doesn't bother me in the slightest. I've been loving it that COVID has normalized wearing a mask in public because I'd like to do it all the time for the rest of my life without being judged for it.

But I don't want anybody mandating it. I've been trying to work out in my own mind why I switched to being more, uh, 'deontologist' if you will, several years ago. I'm just starting to almost be able to articulate it. If you take a consequentialist stance, then any catastrophe sufficient to put your chosen 'utility' at risk instantly justifies literally any measure that mitigates that risk. As long as the measure is outside the realm of the thing you regard as 'utility'. Is free speech for its own sake not part of 'utility' but only a means to increase it? Then out the window it goes when it causes problems. Same for privacy, leaving your home without permission from an authority, pretty much anything we think of as freedom.

It greatly disturbs me to find the Overton Window in a place where I see smart Americans debating every day whether strongly authoritarian and invasive measures are OK, if they save lives.
The mortality of a virus is not affected by whether you were wearing a mask when you caught it.
Agreed, and to add to that, Nevada is quite seismically active. Of course, most locations with mountains usually are (or were).
Usually the best time to show code - and, indeed, to publish a blog post - is when you're still at least a bit embarassed by it.

I've learned over time that what I consider a barely acceptable first draft of either is often even so of great interest to other people and reminding myself that my own perfectionism is in fact mostly counterproductive. Ok, for critical code that really really needs to work reliably I let myself go full pure math grad on the problem but for everything else ... shipping is a feature.

A suggestion to try and help with this - I'll often show stuff to a couple of trusted friends first and if the result is mostly approving noises that helps a lot as leverage against my brain to get it to agree I should hit publish in spite of my reservations.

Either way, good luck, and I hope whatever else happens you have fun working on this :D
The whole world is on aggregate bearish on nuclear electricity - its share of global electricity generation has fallen from about 18% in the mid 1990s to about 10% today. The reason is simply economics/cost.

In the late 1980s in most of the world, the focus of new generation capacity switched to coal and natural gas as it became obvious that the price of nuclear on a per-MWh basis is multiples of times that of NG in particular. Nuclear is not and never was cheap.

The second issue with nuclear is project risk - the industry has a disastrous record for delivering late and way over budget. For example, since 1990 only three new reactors have started operations in the USA. Watts Bar 2 went live in 2016 having originally started construction in 1974 [2]. The other two: Watts Bar 1 and Comanche Peak 2 took nearly 20 years each to go live.

These aren't outliers - in Europe, two projects based on the newest 3rd generation reactor design - Flamanville and Olkiluoko - started construction in 2007 and 2005 respectively and both are years over schedule and are now expected to cost 6 and 3 times their budgets respectively. Work on this particular reactor design started in 1990 - which gives you an idea of what's involved in bringing new reactor designs to the commercial reality.

A coal or gas plant can be up and running in 2-5 years with no long tails. A solar PV plant or on-shore wind farm can be constructed in a year or two with little or no risk of massive delays and budget overruns. And both options deliver cheaper electricity.

It's just too expensive and niche in the modern world. In the age of mass-production where wind turbines and solar PV panels are rolling off assembly lines, the idea of spending $12B (Olkiluoto) or $25B (Flamanville) for a single 1.6GW reactor seems nuts.

[1] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/world-electri...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Bar_Nuclear_Plant
“as long as ranks and seniority are left at the door.”

100%. We had anyone who wanted to join, and nobody’s ideas were better than others. One of our most beloved features was one that our EA came up with in such a session, because she didn’t have the context to think it was hard to do. A few days later, we found an easier way to do it, but we’d never even have looked if it weren’t for the humility and collaboration in that room that day.
Whoa - posts like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Nuclear safety ought to be a bipartisan issue!
Does it really work with multiple kids? I live with multiple kids in a somewhat spacious (for a city!) apartment, and man, it drives me and the spouse crazy when the kids are staying indoors for the entire day, not to mention multiple days on end, for whatever reason (terrible weather, covid quarantines, etc.). I just can't imagine what it would be like doing an ocean passage with them on a boat.

(I spent a lot of my holidays as a kid sailing with my parents, but that was maybe a bit different as I was the only kid)
Why the forgotten Soviet internet was doomed from the start (2016)
But you can, and did, reverse a string. It seems you would need more details, such as a request to reverse the meaning or interpretation of the string, which is what the author is getting at.

If someone challenges you to reverse an image, what do you do? Do you invert the colors? Mirror horizontally? Mirror vertically? Just reverse the byte order?
NFTs in general and BAYC in particular make sense to me as a bunch of bored young men with rich fathers who like throwing their allowance around for fun. I see NFTs as a symptom of wealth and income inequality and BAYC is 4chan for rich kids
Just to push back on your first paragraph, there is no "we in HN". HN is composed of individual people with various degrees of belief in "HTTPS everywhere" and "mass Surveillance is bad", especially since many people here benefit directly or indirectly from money from mass surveillance.
Regex seems like a good use case for GPT3. Most people that I've seen use regex use it so rarely that they end up having to relearn the syntax each time they use it.
Yep. I haven't really had much need for the techniques I learned in my graduate linear algebra course and found the in-class examples to really lack specific usefulness in the real world.

I just looked up my old class: linear algebra basics; Gaussian/LU/Choleski decomp; determinants; normed spaces; condition number; iterative methods; Euclidean spaces; QR decomp; Hermitian geometry; Eigenscheissen; spectral theorems; finite elements method; SVD and pseudoinverses; quadratic optimization.

Can confirm, totally useless in the non-research world. The most applicable task was computing spline curves. Even the Google Images result for "hermitian geometry" is mostly images of research papers. How is that real-world relevant?

The useful robotics stuff for me is either already written as a library I can call or pseudocode I can find in AIMA. Then again, all of that stuff had to come from somewhere and receive the optimization treatment.

I'd liken that entire Michigan mathematics course to the first week of my FEA course. "Here's how to calculate, by hand, a basic example of stress and strain in a very simple geometry using matrix operations. Cool, now that you see how much of a real hassle that is, never do it again because we have Ansys and Solidworks."

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On the other hand, a paper such as http://ras.papercept.net/images/temp/IROS/files/3131.pdf would seem totally inaccessible without a class like this Robotics 501. Maybe that constains good examples of the math being instructed. (Disclaimer: I didn't do more than glance at the course material and watch a few moments from the lectures.)
Surgical masks reduce COVID-19 spread, large-scale study shows

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-mask...

Even cloth masks reduced transmission, and "reduce the overall likelihood of experiencing symptoms of respiratory illness during the study period."
It's almost like each new generation of programmers needs to go through the same cycles of possible solutions. Those of us who are older see a rehashing of old arguments. Those who are younger, are seeing those arguments for the first time.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. High schoolers make me cranky and my parent's generation is completely out of touch. My parents and grandparents felt the same at my age. :)
Does anyone else remember a time when different people could have different opinions without getting offended?
> Because the Covid mortality risk for children is already with masks, compared to without masks for the flu

This is false, which we know because we can measure the fatality rates for children in unmasked locales, and they do not differ from those in masked locales.
> Don't need to be contributing to that kind of thing.

I guess you like contributing to actual crimes( vs thought crimes)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_(service)#Controversy
West Elm Caleb Is a Victim of For-Profit Social Media Companies
I've seen so many commplaints about these kind of budget bikes that end up breaking after minimal use. Some of the complaints are totally valid, but what is the plausability of fixing them on your own?

I've had a $300 Dick's brand (Nishiki) bike for 5 years now, and I've abused the crap out of it. Anything that goes wrong with it is pretty easy to repair, I've spent maybe $100 on maintenance for it. My friends that ride $3000 dollar bikes make fun of it, but for the bike theft heavy area I live in, it's served me quite well.

Are these walmart bikes unrepairable? The article mentions a couple of common issues that seem pretty catastrophic, but are they all really that bad?
> But in reality it's fine to sit on the material, in place, and hope we figure out better things in the next few hundred years that we can safely do that.

This is a very optimistic view. There are 56 nuclear power plants in the US alone. It is entirely believable that one or more of them will be shut down and then outright abandoned at some point in the next few hundred years, leaving nuclear waste with no long term containment story. Over the course of history, abandonment of once-important areas has been pretty common. I see no reason to believe it cannot happen to a nuclear plant.

I can easily imagine a plant being turned off and a future government deciding that it’s just not worth dealing with a proper decommissioning, so they just walk away. It’s easy to imagine this because it’s exactly the same stance you are proposing. “It’s good enough for now, someone else can deal with it later when magic (technical advancements) shows up.”

I’m also quite concerned about what happens if one of these “just store it on site” facilities gets bombed at some point.

> I've heard a complaint that this is passing the buck, like we did with climate, but I think that's only true if we assume no technological advancements.

Of course you’ve heard that complaint, because it is passing the buck. Betting on future technological advancements without actually investing in those technological advancements is 100% passing the buck.
Seems like using 4 rotors or jet engines around the pilot might be a better solution.
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> I never understood the hate Leetcode gets

Getting leetcode questions at an interview is ridiculous if the position doesn't require it.
> Some generals would likely find a mobile mill stone quite useful. When your centuria loot a conquered land they can now take raw grains in addition to processed flour without being tied down to the local stationary mills.

Not in the slightest. The legion on the march has no use for a millstone because nobody's eating bread. They would never carry processed flour, because it spoils quickly. They carried raw grain and made porridge from it.
It doesn't matter. Putting literally anything in front of your virus spewing face hole is going to help to some degree. It's not as if the crook of our arms are rated to filter viruses, but that hasn't stopped health organizations all over the world from recommending the vampire cough for years.

It's true that a mask alone isn't enough to guarantee anyone's safety and while community spread is high sending kids into schools is pretty much asking for them to get infected, but wearing masks is still far better than doing nothing, it's just that sadly "nothing" is all some people are willing to do to prevent the spread of the virus.
Clearly the FDA and state agencies are either incompetent or corrupt here.

It's surprisingly that some private organization (Consumer Reports?) hasn't come along to do this kind of testing for oils, honey, spices, etc.

I'd pay more for food with certification of purity that I could really trust. It's sad that even a "Product of USA" isn't good enough in these cases.
> To justify mask requirements in school at this point, health officials should be able to muster solid evidence from randomized trials of masking in children.

I think that's a false premise right off the bat. Even if you stipulate that evidence for masking is not settled beyond a reasonable doubt, it's still at least very plausibly true and very low cost to enforce. I'd need to see pretty strong evidence of why we shouldn't enforce masking.
Keep it first? Like that’s not a gotcha. Your input is a string and the output is that string visually reversed. What it looks like in memory is irrelevant.
How does the FDA not have a standard that any oil with a plant in the name has to have the percentage of the oil that came from that plant?

"We can't regulate soybean oil labeled as avocado oil because we don't have a standard for avocado oil" is literally stupid. Hopefully it isn't quite the case.
The OP said they are a small company, not necessarily a startup.
Yes. I'm a slow learner, and basically the entire training system makes it hard to recognize just how juiced biology scientific communications are. There are legitimate subfields, and journals that aren't as bad as Nature. I mean if you want to be a successful scientist you have to practice some level of reality distortion to make progress.

I also didn't expect nearly all gene therapy would be stopped for over a decade due to a single patient dying in a trial in 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Gelsinger
That sort of educated me ot the fact that people take some medical risks really seriously (OH GOD EGGS HAVE CHOLESTEROL) and others they completely ignore/downweight (like Flu).
This is deep archive offsite tape storage, not something you'd need to restore often.

When I last managed offsite tape backups, I never planned on really needing to retrieve the data -- I had the data on disk and on the most recent tapes. (I did do periodic restore tests)

If I had to restore the data, I wouldn't care how much it costs (within reason).
> I'd imagine so, as you can already have a Google account without a Gmail address on your own domain name.

From the google "upgrade" page[1]

"This new option won't include premium features like custom email"

so, no, having a google account without a gmail address will no longer work unless you switch to google workspace (paid).

Logins using <name>@<custom-domain>.com will still work, but if you need a password reset using email (very common), it will fail unless you set your email up again with a different email provider (e.g. fastmail).

[1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/60217#data&zippy=%2Cif-i...
Free, except for speech. It's sad how an aging rocker who used to celebrate nonconformity and questioning authority now becomes a finger waving old man telling everyone that there's only one truth.
The article points out that children have been relatively safe from COVID, which is true. The article doesn’t really cite much data to support its case. The studies it cites show a positive benefit to masking that it fails to counter. What it also completely ignores is that the masks are mainly to protect teachers and the children’s older guardians and care takers. I’m tired of anti-maskers.
> But kids are in school, together, for 6+ hours a day.

This is probably the relevant variable. If you're sharing the same air space with someone carrying an airborne virus, it probably doesn't matter that a mask is filtering 95% if you're both breathing the same air in an enclosed space for 6 hours. Some minimal viral load is needed for infection, and even with 95% filtering you'll probably surpass that threshold after 6 hours.
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From your username, you might be biased and might know someone who wants the job. ;)
I mean... banks are the worst in this case.

Banks are known to irreversibly close accounts if they think you triggered some random algorithm, you have the same name as a terrorist, you have the wrong job, they don't like how you're using your account, or any other completely random reason. The decision is final they'll usually even refuse to tell you why they closed your accounts.

I had a bank (BMO Harris) close an account because the only transactions I had for about a year or so was "received directly deposited paycheck -> transfer entire amount to other bank account." At least they actually told me the reason.
There is a deep irony in that this conversation concerns schools and yet we're here implying that it's pointless to teach children anything.
Ask HN: Which cloud startup program is best for enterprise focused startup?
Wondering what AWS/Azure/GCP startup program is best, why, and what they provide an technology agnostic enterprise focused startup. What is it that makes it better for enterprise focus?
Look up the cap on fines per year. It's less than $2m.

I've consulted for healthcare companies where that is a literal rounding error on their bottom line.

They. Do. Not. Care.
I think it's honorable to stand up for what you believe in in this way. But in this case I believe the cause he stood up against was a bit misguided.
So you're saying block protocol would be a good fit for Red Star OS?
Interestingly, on my phone the so-called flag is not a flag at all, but "US" in outline.

So python behaves as expected: the 2 character string, when reversed, becomes "SU". Similar stuff happens with the other "flag" strings.

I'm sure emojis in my phone are outdated. I'm not sure how that affects whether I see a flag or letters.
European Council adopts position on a common charger for electronic devices
Compare all of this nonsense to how it’s done in Swift. String APIs in Swift are great: intuitive and do what you expect.
Nothing? They both mean:

1) The oil is actually from the plant advertised and hasn't been adulterated

2) The oil hasn't gone bad yet
Abandoned by her father and abused by her step-dad, I'd say she did alright for herself and didn't become too evil. She skirted the edge without going over for the most part afaik
yes, give your money to someone that pled guilty to stabbing another person... you are sooooo virtuous amirite?
In one thousand years, when there are still ninety nine thousand years to go, what will the people in Europe think of us?

We left toxic waste dumps, of waste that is silently toxic, a stealthy killer, all over the place. Some will be leaking. Some won't.

And why did we do it? To pay for our current consumption.

What will they think of us?
I was trying to synthesize the discussion I've seen here. Your link is interesting but still in line with the discussion I've seen so far. People can point out examples of excessive red-tape in some countries. But no one agrees how much can be removed, because everyone agrees the downside to failing nuclear is grave and needs to be regulated. And since nuclear needs something like a 5 to 10x improvement in cost to be competitive it doesn't seem feasible that just deregulation is the answer.

My hypothesis is that nuclear was our best bet to decarbonize the grid 20 or 30 years ago but meanwhile wind and solar have improved so much and are still on such a steep improvement curve that nothing else makes sense. But I'm happy to be convinced otherwise. It would be cool to have a fourth good source of energy in the clean mix and SMRs do sound better than traditional plants.