skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1.44 MB pretty much fits in my head.

That the size of a zipped plain text bible.

There are some people that knows the bible by heart, and I suppose if you work with it a lot, you have a general idea of the order of all things, and what's going on in each part without having to know the exact words. Like an essay you've been working on for months.

So seems about right.

Maybe it's time for a new metric: 1 floppy is what you can hold. More is too much.
There is historical precedent classifying encryption as munitions, so arguably the 2nd amendment would also apply, in addition to the 4th.
Nobody has problems with traditional pregnancy tests. Pretty much anyone can use them.

The only problem is waiting long enough to make sure they are be correct (5 days before period is due is meaningless for women with irregular periods), but the digital one doesn't help with that.
The approval is likely a big issue. The manufacturer can buy the approved strips, and claim that they are validated and accurate. How much paperwork you need to submit for the digital part is an interesting question. I would expect you do need to validate it, but sometimes there are loopholes that allow you to claim it is not a medical device.

Building a phone app to interpret the stripes would be so much less wasteful, but where is the money in that…
Web3 is ~sortof~ the hypothesized future state where apps/services can use decentralized methods of identity, authentication, and payment to interact with users. This would break the network- and mitm-effects that enable current web2 services to be so dominant.

Over a long time perspective, this is probably inevitable.

But what is the probability that current crypto currencies will play any part? Not high, I think.
American intervention in other genocides (e.g. Kosovo) led to genocide being kicked into high gear.

Arguably it did in WW2 as well. The Nazis originally planned to dump the Jews in Africa, not kill them. The plans for the Nazis industrial slaughter were approved shortly after the US entered the war and the Nazis were slowly being boxed in.

The fact that Germany reacted to the US entering the war with industrial slaughter doesnt mean that the US was wrong to go to war of course, but it underscores the fact that by default military intervention makes everything worse - especially for the most vulnerable.
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This has come up before, there are legitimate arguments for and against this but I’m included to side with the for (certainly after going through the process with my wife twice). LFTs are hard to read accurately, people are very bad at it. It’s something like 25% of the time people get it wrong. It is incredibly important that diagnostic tests are engineered to be as accurate as possible, removing human error is a legitimate engineering solution.

I suppose now we have all spent the last year regularly using LFTs maybe we are better at reading them? That would be an interesting study.

There is a startup here in the UK that’s doing LFTs read with a smartphone camera, they have a calibration graphic next to the result window ensuring a accurate reading. That solves the disposable electronic problem while using electronics for the reading. (Will come back and edit if I find them)

EDIT:

kalleboo found a citation for the ~25% false reading claim:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30231703

EDIT 2:

I think this is who I read about before doing the smartphone read LFTs:

https://www.sensynehealth.com/magnifeye
What's the user experience like? Last time I saw the state of things, you had to run low level CLI tools at least on Ubuntu [1] [2]. It wasn't something that you could assume nontechnical end users can handle.

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommonAccessCard#Google_Ch...

[2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/302115/installing-s...
sent an email to my outlook email and the spam segment wassn't detected.
I really enjoyed getting a mechanical keyboard (Keychron K2), it has a really nice typing experience when compared to membrane keyboards. There's something to the tactile + sound feedback that triggers some emotional response in us, it just feels good.

It also improved my posture a lot from writing on a laptop (but for this objective, any keyboard would do the job ofc).
A good coffee machine at home. Unbelievable ROI, one of my favourite purchases.
Privacy Shield: EU citizens might get right to challenge US access to their data
yet the Reproducible Builds project has been started and driven almost entirely by Debian volunteers:

https://reproducible-builds.org/who/people/
If you can, look at code you wrote, but haven't seen in a long time.

I'll go first... here's some Turbo Pascal code I wrote back in 1987/1988 to do cooperative multitasking. -- http://www.retroarchive.org/swag/MISC/0153.PAS.html

In reviewing it, I'd say I didn't document things quite enough, but even now it's easy to see what's going on, and why. I forgot that I saved the cursor position for each task, which is a nice thing to do for the user of the library. Overall, I'd say I did ok. After all, it was sufficiently useful enough that someone on the internet archived it for me.

If you have a sufficiently old piece of code, try that exercise out, and see how you think you did. If you can, post a link to it, and get critique.
> This just seems like whataboutism.

Much like your original comment, and it doesn’t change that you targeted a political side that you blatantly disagree with. Your statement would be better made without the needless political slant, which as I point out, the other side have done it far more egregiously and in public institutions, such as libraries and schools.

To call this ‘censorship’ I believe is wrong:

1. It’s scientifically proven to be false. Misinformation, be it intended or otherwise brings its own moral and ethical issues.

2. Private companies have the right to choose what they publish/sell on their platform. Preventing them from doing so is also a suppression of free speech.

3. Everyone has a right to an opinion, and to voice that opinion. No-one has an inalienable right to have that opinion published, agreed with or disseminated by any platform they choose.

If anyone has taken choice away, it’s Rogan. Rogan chose to sell exclusivity to his catalog for a very handsome some. Along with that, he chose to forgo certain rights - one being which podcasts Spotify choose to make available.
I think they’re hiring, if it’s any consolation. I’m sure that HN staff does actually have work besides moderation.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/y-combinator/jobs/7D3d...
What you use internally really depends on the application requirements. Different projections have different properties. Depending on the area you need to cover and the questions you need to answer you may need to use multiple projections and to match performance requirements you may need to store all of these projections so you don't always need to convert on the fly
On the other side of avoiding it, I started college using OpenOffice, which worked fine until one day I got queried from a professor about why I had opted to go with a 5 column layout for the assignment submission when he opened it in MS Office for Mac. The content was all there, so it clearly wasn't a case of "Oops, corrupted, let's resubmit after the date".

The doc in OpenOffice that I had made had the most basic formatting, just headings, a table of contents, paragraphs and the required double line spacing. Certainly no columns of any kind.

After that I switched to PDF submissions for every module where they would be accepted.
> I suspect not. As a functioning adult with a developed prefrontal cortex

You proposed ridiculously cruel and unusual punishment. A form of torture, clearly endangering that person's life, physical and mental health, that is illegal and immoral anywhere. Something no court would impose on anyone. You took something that the law punishes a certain way and escalated it sky high with an abhorrent, deranged, and disproportionate proposal, an affront to anything legal, moral, or decent.

This kind of extremist views don't exist in a void, they're accompanied sooner or later by equally extreme actions. Your words and view are no different from those of extremists, people who are a danger to society because they eventually act on them.

Here's something factually correct: sometimes people with extremist or deranged views are locked in prison or mental institutions, or at the very least shunned by society.

So I'll say it again, as another factually and morally correct observation: if all your words and actions had been judged with the same exaggerated and deranged punishment scale you would not be here peddling such disgusting ideas. You would not be here at all. And I now believe you should not be here but presumably @dang is a far more lenient person than I (quite the achievement).
I reached the same conclusion for my own static blog. One step beyond just having an email link is to run an AWS lambda that takes a web form post and sends you an email with the contents. That way you can add a captcha (hCaptcha seems like a good alternative to Google), and your email address doesn't float around on the public internet.
It's fairly low maintenance and easy to replace if you ever did want to step away from AWS.
> I do wonder if there is another way to provide these assurances and comfort without having to put electronics in the thing

Yes - by ensuring the education system (both school and continuing adult education) is actually capable of producing residents who are able to follow instructions and is run by competent educationist instead of letting local marginally qualified busy bodies control it. Making instructions easily accessible eg. through a QR on pack linking to video on unmetered network. Widely teaching people how to use QR etc.

In many developed countries with good education systems, most people - even elderly and school students seem to have no problems correctly self administering Covid Rapid Antigen tests which is likely same order of magnitude stressful.
Yeah, I don't.

Decentralized systems don't provide cryptographically-assured accountability, they require cryptographically-assured accountability in order to function correctly. If you give up the decentralization requirement, and instead federate authority across well-regulated entities, then you don't need the crypto, not as a base requirement anyway. And you still need the regulation, because all this fancy cryptographical assurance does is prevent man-in-the-middle attacks that arise from the decentralization requirement, and you still need to regulate the input and output--which is where all fraud occurs anyway.
You could try yoga. Take some classes, do it everyday. It makes the body fit and the mind healthy. It also teaches acceptance and non -attachment (to achievements, etc), living in the moment and just breathing.

When you feel good about life and yourself, you can attract people and turn your life positively more easily.

It's all a bit abstract and different from the rationality we're used to in tech, but maybe worth a try?
Multi process/threaded programming is multi dimensional.
What even is a meteoritic circle? Or "a variety of space technologies"?
>Why does demand always have to be met in one smallish (geographically speaking) city?

Because wealthy people who live off capital gains live there. Tell them to spend their money somewhere else. People move there because they want or need the billionaire's money.
I got access and it wasn't a good replacement for me, as they don't have SMTP servers to send mail via your domain, just (incoming) email forwarding.
so do I [1] and I render them in an iframe straight from the comment feed. Wouldn't have to be email, could be a web form or be aggregated from HN or alike as well.

[1] https://blog.mro.name/2019/05/wp-to-hugo-making-of/
This just drives me nuts. Lat/Lon. That's the answer.

In any kind of graphic design work if you're communicating with printers, pre-press, etc. you say Width x Height. Like paper size. 8.5" x 11". But once in awhile, a client requests something that's described in height x width. Usually the giveaway is that billboards aren't 17 feet tall.

But in some cases, if they're from the South, I know I have to ask them three times to make sure they're telling me width and height. The third time they'll get that width is the left to right size.
All the more reason for open firmware for everything.
> Besides, since it's a private company, equity is what the board/executives say it is.

Can you clarify that?
Hello, are you looking for remote candidates within US?
You cant edit email subject of mail items or group by category. 2 dealbreakers for OWA.
Fair question. I think jo does tend to get more crufty if you're doing anything reasonably complex with multilevel structures, especially with arrays.

But jo does come into its own when you're wanting to use shell variables.

> jo mypid=$$ set_or_not=$WEASEL

> python -c 'import json,os;print(json.dumps({"set_or_not":os.getenv("WEASEL"), "mypid":os.getpid()}))'
> I am single and haven't had a serious relationship for many years now.

Get married, start a family. Stop trying to find meaning in tech or alcohol or money. Good luck.
I'm not sure what's the problem. I have done MRI twice in the last year, I always told I don't want music and I don't see how someone would find it weird. I don't want to damage my ears - the music was super loud, and if they turned the volume down I would probably hear the noise anyway - and what if the music sucks? And I have to lay still listening to it, now that would be torture. The white noise is quite relaxing actually - and also funny, sometimes it feels like a word repeating over and over.
> you set up guardians which is a group of people, organizations, and devices you create that allow you to recover your account

And you call this an improvement over the current state of affairs?
Try depositing a million. The bank will ask.
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Man, this is the WORST place to ask for advice. A quick scan of the suggestions:

* Have you tried medicating these feelings away?

* Have you tried drugs?

* Get on a plane! Travel and "find yourself!"

* You have money, why aren't you happy?

* How about you do everything again that brought you to this place... But in a different career field?

About the only real suggestion here is to exercise, find a hobby, or start a family -- but even those posters have an absurdist take that it is a meaningless pursuit. The Mr. Peanutbutter take: "Life is about occupying yourself with pleasant nonsense until you die."

What an indictment of this culture. Their solution is either to therapy this feeling out of existence, distract yourself from it, or ignore it. (Or alternatively, utterly fail to comprehend why you could possibly feel this way when you have money.)

I'm of the opinion that these feelings must be confronted directly. When I was in a similar position, I read the book of Ecclesiastes. I'd start there.
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What one can make, another can break. Skeleton keys are impossible to secure.
How about a bluetooth enabled covid test? The digital pregnancy test really isn’t complete with a radio transmitter if you ask me.

https://hackaday.com/2021/10/17/electronic-covid-test-tear-d...
As gold price increases, more mining can be afforded. This helps stabilize its price because of increased supply.

As BTC price increases, more mining is still afforded, but this does not result in an increased supply and stabilized price, only in unmitigated high price and more energy spending.
Have you asked your parents yet? They have a lot more experience being old than you.
For people who don't understand: What changed is that Youtube acquired such startups, and started developing automated censorship based on copyright which has both a lot of false positives as well as venues for manual abuse when someone claims to be a rightsholder when they're not.

Turns out Youtube was right in the first place: this can't be an automated process, unless you accept more than half the videos that will be deleted have nothing to do with copyright infringement.
> a much better alternative in the meantime is to do what Edward Snowden did

He also wouldn't use WiFi or email, so his advice is far from practical for most users.

While the base PinePhone is admittedly underpowered, it's far from unusable. The Pro seems like a considerable step up that would solve most of the issues with the base model. The software is still not there yet, but it will also improve. I'm actually pleasantly surprised at how usable a true Linux phone is in 2022.
Thanks for the suggestion. I actually do a kind of yoga (though more focused on long poses and stretching) and it indeed does help. So does working out. I do feel calm and content while doing it, but that feeling does not last very long beyond the practice. Once I get back in front of the screen, it's back to the usual self.
There's not only the woman happily waiting in her own home and lit bathroom for two stripes. There's also the woman being in a shitty situation doing the test in secret dreading the second stripe.

I guess your wife (and mine, for that matter) belong to the first category and it's just common to do such a test at the end of the cycle. I doubt women of the second category care for getting experienced in reading the tests.
- a wrist support brace: no more wrist pain when using a keyboard/mouse
It was never going to be 10%. The virus is too localized on the elderly, who isolate and vaccinate themselves well anyway.
They copied the style of the Microsoft product.
I think I understand what you're feeling. I'm lucky to have found my way through my period of feeling lost, and have come to a pretty good place as I approach 45 (fathered my first child two years ago, have increasingly good relationships with my partner, family, friends, etc, and have new career/startup opportunities taking shape that are exciting to me). But it's been a long road of feeling very lost and doing deep soul searching to get here.

Some places I'd recommend looking for guidance/inspiration/support:

- Writers/speakers on topics relating to "the meaning crisis"; people like John Vervaeke, Iain McGilchrist, Rafia Morgan and Jonathan Pageau. There are some good video interviews with them and others on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube channel.

- Consider a men's group (assuming you're male; equivalent groups exist for women and other identity groups); I've been in a local chapter of Evryman for the past couple of years, and others I've known have been in The Mankind Project. These kinds of groups can be a great way to connect with other men who are seeking meaning and encouragement to achieve better life outcomes. I've seen some amazing transformations in the men I've known to go through these groups.

- Don't think you're "just depressed". While of course it's possible you could have a clinical condition, and it's worth exploring that and seeking treatment if need be, don't let people tell you that feeling lost in this world is merely a sign of depression. It can be a very healthy reaction to notice that the world is pretty messed up and to feel that there must be a way to find a more fulfilling life path.

Also, feel free to contact me (email address in profile). I'm thinking about starting a new kind of community for people who are looking to heal and grow.

All the best to you.
> My take on crypto at this point is very simple: At least we have the transparency. There are so many scams going on in the financial industry. But it's hard to undercover, because all is opaque.

How do you square this idea with the fact that the cryptocurrency ecosystem is widely recognized as being disproportionately riddled with scams?
Worse still, the fact that few are using the bike lane to nowhere is used as a justification for not building any more of them and completing the network.

It's just incredibly backwards.
> if you’re already inside some Python script [...]

You're not going to shell out to `jo` and that's fine - it's not what `jo` was created for; it's explicitly a shell command to help you work around the annoyance of getting quoting right when constructing JSON from the command line (which I've had to do a lot and I'm pretty sure many people have to.)

> If you are in a shell session [and want to create JSON] ... that’s not a realistic assumption.

Of course it is. People create JSON in shell scripts all the time! That's why things like `jq` exist - because this is what people do!
A good issue report requires some knowledge and expertise though. Anyone can say it doesn’t work as expected, but it’s harder to identify and reproduce the problem and provide all the useful details.
Yes, almost always the case that security has been neglected but to save face a advanced hacker group or some nation state will be blamed when it was probably some low end criminals that purchased some ransomware services probably with their personal credit cards...
I finally gave in to reality and got reading glasses for coding. Didn't realize how much I was suffering.
Just prefix the Longitude with L, for Longitude, that will clear up any ambiguity
Climate change is altering the smell of snow
why would I use 'my' email address?

The blog is on a domain, that comes with tons of email adresses. Doesn't it? So just ínvent a dedicated one that well may float. Change once appropriate.

Catching a form-post on the server doesn't take AWS (unless you only ask the Amazon evangelists). 50 lines of bash cgi do it for me.
> There are so many scams going on in the financial industry. But it's hard to undercover, because all is opaque.

What scams?
Privacy coins give you plausible deniability. Attackers don't know what you own, because the balances are private.
I'm not sure what your background with therapy is, but, it's certainly not an opiate. In fact a good therapist will help out and encourage one to confront one's problems directly.
> I'm not rejecting the cantillon effect wholesale, I'm asking for a quantification ..

You might as well ask for a quantification of the Matthew Effect [1] ... you won't get one. Would it be helpful? Yes, probably.

But more important than having a quantification is, that people register the fact that such effects exist. Depending upon how most people would define fairness, the conclusion from the existence of these effects could then be: there need to be measures taken (taxes, subsidies, ...) so there's some degree of compensation, otherwise society will find itself in an (unnecessarily) instable dynamic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
I didn't call you a shithead! This may be a classic case of me using the general "you" and someone taking it to mean you, personally. I'm not talking about you personally. *unless you're Ron Watkins. I'm saying if (someone) wants to run a board for conspiracy theorists and it includes amplifying defamation, e.g. saying someone drinks the blood of babies and doxing people, then they should be held responsible for the content posted by the shitheads they allow to post. Very clear.

Not about you.
50 is the new 30.
Especially women in shitty situation do do those tests in secret in badly lit environments.

Of course, education is gonna help and reproductive health and contraception are incredibly important. But up to the point where problems in this department are eradicated, some women will need easy-to-read tests.
That's because there are other legal reasons to keep that kind of data.

But that isn't a reason to keep all kinds of data related to a user account.

Monetary transactions, claim data for insurances, but not support requests for instance.
No longer developed, but does the uzbl browser fit your vision? https://www.uzbl.org/
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