skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really _really_ tried to enjoy The Shadow of the Torturer but I couldn't fall into rhythm I guess. As English is my second language, I had to struggle to know if a word was invented or just obscure English (I found that the author uses a fucktonne of the latter after I finished it). And I hate needing a glossary to read a novel (looking at you Tolkien).

It struck to me like an 80s animated movie: extremely rich from a technical point of view but, well, not a good history and even boring for some people (think about Vampire Hunter D or Angel's Egg. For the record, I love these movies).

Meh, I'll give it another go, after I finish Blindsight from Peter Watts (2006). Thanks for reminding me of that saga!
It's a half-adder in software!
For some firsthand examples, I have a few of the "botanical" sets, and they have things like Technic wing/fin pieces for leaves, flowers made out of car hoods and trunks, and pink frogs used en masse for cherry blossoms.
Truly bizarre conclusions.

Convergence on a model isn’t scientific method, it’s heterodoxy. People rightly criticize economics when this happens, but climatology is exempt.

I’m increasingly skeptical of adoption of methods that monotonically increase doomsday predictions.
Sounds like a proper workout watch like the Garmin or Suunto would be better suited for your use case?

My Garmin lasts just over a week (less if I record a lot of activities, but even recording an 8 hour hike it still has over 50% left at the end of the day).
This is just the latest fallout from the "digital native" hypothesis that people will learn computers by osmosis and thus don't need to be taught. People don't understand computers? Teach them!
I don't work at Google, but do at a large tech firm. Backward compatibility is sacrosanct, breaking older clients, means getting approvals many levels up in the chain, writing decision docs and showing data about what % of customers will be affected. We don't even build consumer products.

"Customer outrage is temporary." -> Till it's not. If I could migrate my gmail (not even sure how many services I'd need to update) and use something else for Maps, I'd be off of all Google services.
Reach out to rtw’s rare disease program

They are a biotech hedge fund that has a non-profit team funding rare disease work. There should be a form on their website
Thanks for the reminder.
The idea was to use signal with a degoogled phone. It would be great if signal could send SMS without the cell network. There are places and devices, without cell connections.
Of course not. All hail our robot overlords!
Agree.. but if only we could stop windows from stealing focus.
I think you've actually misread this article, not so much because of its content but because (I'm guessing) you're unfamiliar with its author and some of its local context.
You are not based in California I presume? Maybe try the change-of-address trick next time. It is a terrible practice though, I agree
Here is advice.

Using Laravel with Breeze and the set up just works out of the box.
> unfortunately range hoods don't reduce NO2

You'll have to quote it, since I don't see that in the peer reviewed research. Here's the entirety of mentions of hoods that I found:

> In fact, some kitchens have “ductless” hoods that recirculate fumes through activated charcoal filters, which are generally less effective at cleaning the air.

Where I am, it's illegal to have a gas stove without ducted vents since activated carbon filters won't prevent death from carbon monoxide. As mentioned, I have a ducted fan.

> Vented hoods have a range of effectiveness and function best when overhanging the stove. (12,13)

As mentioned, this is my experience, too. The average hood has abysmal CFM. If you've ever bought a range hood, you'll see know that the higher CFM come at nearly triple the cost, with fancy buttons and grills. There's no way to purchase a cheap AND high CFM vent from a common retailer. I think most people don't go for these high end fans. A duct fan that sucks 5x of a high end fan is probably on the "effective" side of things.

> Because exhaust hoods are separate from the stove and must be operated manually, vented hoods in practice are used only 25–40% of the time.

> Previous modeling-based approaches suggest that residents are exposed to NO2 levels above outdoor acute (1 h) exposure guidelines 62% of the time while using their stove but not using their range hoods, (36) and people use their range hoods only 28–36% of the time. (15)

This is why I suggested it should be automated, otherwise it's forgotten sometimes. Mine turns on with about 1 second of the oven turning on, and stays on for a few minutes after it shuts off. I think this is very important, and I would worry without this.

Perhaps one of the citations in that paper say they're not effective, but it's only suggested that they can be ineffective.

We know range hoods can work since they're used for noxious gases in basically every chemistry lab in the world. So, it's a bit silly to claim they can't work (there are standards to measure effectiveness). I think it's safe to claim that the average range hood is insufficient, but I don't think it's safe to claim that all are insufficient. :)

Regardless, the purpose of my comment was to show that steps can be taken to minimize risk and worry. I think the steps I've taken, according to the peer-reviewed research, do just that.
the world would be better if more companies were able or daring enough to fight bullshit patents directly (with prior art, obviousness, etc defenses).

but instead every company chooses to defend themselves by deluging the patent office with more crap, and collective abuse of the patent system to patent stuff even the “inventor” thinks is obvious becomes accepted totally normal behavior.
I may actually still have a Small Parts catalog around here somewhere from before they were swallowed up by Amazon. The last time I ordered from them the box said Amazon Supply and I knew the end was near.
I mean… good? Same with floppy disks. Removing a whole, often needless, level of abstraction from users of all kinds is a great thing.
Thanks! I read NH on my phone and I often press one of the wrong buttons by accident. The worst is "hide" - I end up swearing I saw something and then I can't find it, and it never occurs to me to check my hidden list.
> For engineering, for example, big company employees drastically underestimate how much they rely on homegrown tooling.

Are you in engineering yourself?

I can assure you that people in sales, marketing etc also drastically underestimate how much they rely on homegrown or integrated tooling and support systems.

Sometimes, they don't even know what those tooling and support systems were.

They only learn when they either join a company that don't have those tooling and support systems, or start their own

> if you know how to screen for good founders

What are some questions you ask for screen for good founders?
There's a lot of pressure on Spotify to remove his podcast altogether.

Rogan was worried about Youtube censorship when he negotiated the Spotify deal. Apparently there are some clauses to protect his podcast.

So they can't just remove the podcast and shelve it. That would breach the contract.

Rumble is tossing out this offer because a negotiated split between Rogan and Spotify is quite likely at this point.
BTW, you don't have your email in your profile. The email field is only visible to admins, if you want to make it public you'll have to also put it in About. But maybe we'll chat sometime :)
Thanks for a truly funny comment.
Reading the title, I expected the debunker to be a middle-aged many _studying_ CS.
Are you by chance in touch with the gentlemen behind DexEd[1]? I've been using the Windows port of it and some instruments don't sound right, so I imagine there are some details DexEd doesn't quite have right yet.

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[1] https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/
At least for $30,000 per year you know they are also taking you for a ride, not just locking you in. I’d personally rather hire an assistant than pay $3,000 per year to have my lights turn off when I’m on a call.

Can you even imagine putting a price of $3000 per automation on a glorified IFTT? It doesn’t matter how much better it is.
Yeah, I've long been a fan of rewriting my feature branches to clean them up before pushing. I wrote an extensive blog post last year describing useful Git techniques and usage patterns [0], and I tried to emphasize that as a key point.

I use SourceTree as my primary Git GUI, largely _because_ it has a UI specifically for interactive rebasing. Fork is another good GUI with interactive rebase support.

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/01/coding-career-git-...
X group views Y practice as immoral.
The first question to ask yourself is whether you want to be an:

1. Entrepreneur, or

2. Investor
I tried reading this book few years ago but it was too dull. My eyes would keep scanning the words while my mind would drift off to think about something more interesting, and then I would constantly have to go back and re-read the paragraph my eyes just passed over, and pay attention this time.

I just dug it out again. The start of Chapter 11, over 190 pages into it, may be hinting at the issue:

"Thus far we have been largely critical, and negative. We have identified problems without really suggesting solutions. Can we identify an appropriate set of elementary concepts that will on the one hand serve as a general base for modeling information (in our limited use of that term), and on the other hand be an appropriate base for computerized implementations? Let us try."
I have to say that I don't really miss the McMaster-Carr catalog. Back when calling them on the phone was the only way to order, getting a catalog out of them was like pulling teeth. Things are far better now with online ordering: they'll sell to anyone.
Whenever I hear "smart" I think "planned obsolescence" and "walled garden".
The author of the article is talking about specifically actions occurring fully within the confines of how members of the military carry out their duties. A superior officer can order one of the soldiers in their unit to guard something. They can order them to carry a rifle while doing so, and can order them to do it wearing a mask. Asking that soldier to force someone not in the military to wear a mask or undergo a strip search may be illegal (I honestly am not sure and it's a moot point to this discussion).

TSA agents are not members of the military, though. They are employees of the TSA, and the relationship is not bound by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but to an employment contract and normal civilian laws around labor.
Except (unless something has changed very recently) you can't backup/restore your chat history to a new desktop client... Security over general usability.
https://pinboard.in/

Simple, enough features to sort and search and works on multiple devices.
Yeah but you can terminate an unpaid service for no reason, that’s well established. It’s not even governed by contract law because there’s no consideration.

The real reason small claims is a bad idea is that this should be handled through a class action.
Have a look at https://neutralino.js.org/docs/api/overview/
If your foundation is good try to get a lot of $10-$20/month donations. Then use that to fund one researcher. Someone who can focus without needing to worry about funding can do much. If you can't get one, maybe fund a grad student who does research in your area.

Though if you are trying to get clinical trials you may need more money, but just the act of having a lot of small donations can work wonders.

Of course some here will donate to your charity, and all money is useful, but consistant money is something you can budget around.
I enjoyed vb 6/net why did it die?
Different problems, 1D vs 2D. There's some overlap, but they attack the problem from different directions. Flex child elements determine their own size, while the parent grid determines the size of the child grid elements.
I’ve long wished the same, banning political parties. As you’ve said here, it makes not thinking about who you’re voting for easy, which is a negative.
> Graph of random numbers is even better than the graph of actual numbers.

,,To Signal'' it is a graph of random numbers.
> Does it, though? Their ToS almost certainly allows them to close your account for no reason

Whistleblowers can't be fired from at-will employment for the similar reasons, i.e. massive legal exposure. Sure, an employee can be fired for no reason, but companies choose to settle (i.e. pay out a lot of money) instead of firing people outright if the situation can give the barest whiff of retaliation.
Speaking more broadly than capital markets, it can result in more economically efficient outcomes, especially when some economic agents create disproportionately large negative externalities for others.

For OneChronos, we're a uniform price clearing mechanism that will eventually support submarkets, which can enable (among other things) what's effectively a mutual opt-in repeated play game of reputation and the ability to bid based on reputation. So we don't support any form of price discrimination at present, and what we will eventually support has the nuance to it that both parties chose to opt-in (and Expressive Bidding means that they can bid in multiple submarkets simultaneously without exposure risk). This induces a meta-game of sorts — a market for reputation. We're including it as a cleaner and more transparent version of existing behaviors with the efficiency gains to go with it.
This is one of the many reasons that causing plant and animal species to go extinct is bad for humans. We really have no idea how many potentially live-saving/health-enhancing/etc. medicines we are annihilating!
As of December 2020, if you have a series 7, 63, or 82, you now qualify as accredited.

https://www.sec.gov/corpfin/amendments-accredited-investor-d...
I neglected to take a picture of it before picking it up, but I found one of these growing out of a neighbors yard. It had picked up a little baby plant that was frozen in the top. I have seen a lot of crazy ice formations but never this, thanks for solving the mystery (I think)!
I agree that the system is just "reality" right now. I think the idea of a cryptographic data commons is an interesting idea, I'm just trying to imagine how it'd play out in my day-to-day research. If a system would tell me that my hypothesis is correct, but I couldn't look at (and share with colleagues) the raw data being computed, it'd be tough to believe that system. Maybe there's some type of zero-knowledge proof system that could facilitate this, though.

I only have a rudimentary understanding of blockchain technologies, but a system where pieces of a research puzzle are stored on chain and each user can claim ownership of those findings, a resultant drug's profits could be proportionally split by every entity which contributed to the research.

Another idea would be to completely socialize all biopharmaceutical research, but that type of system would require an extremely radical societal shift.
Yeah when I read this review, it sounded like something Rich Hickey would advocate for! Basically the fact that static schemas and types are brittle ... they frequently clash with "reality".
Here's a count of AZs based on the AZ IDs:

Format: `region (launch year): count`

us-east-1 (2006): 6
ap-northeast-1 (2011): 4
ap-northeast-2 (2016): 4
us-west-2 (2009): 4
af-south-1 (2020): 3
ap-east-1 (2019): 3
ap-northeast-3 (2018): 3
ap-south-1 (2016): 3
ap-southeast-1 (2010): 3
ap-southeast-2 (2012): 3
ap-southeast-3 (2021): 3
ca-central-1 (2016): 3
cn-north-1 (2013): 3
cn-northwest-1 (2017): 3
eu-central-1 (2014): 3
eu-north-1 (2018): 3
eu-south-1 (2020): 3
eu-west-1 (2007): 3
eu-west-2 (2016): 3
eu-west-3 (2014): 3
me-south-1 (2019): 3
sa-east-1 (2011): 3
us-east-2 (2016): 3
us-gov-east-1 (2019): 3
us-gov-west-1 (2011): 3
us-west-1 (2011): 3

(As reported by SSM's `/aws/service/global-infrastructure/availability-zones/` endpoint)

EDIT: Some curiosities of note:

- apne1-az3: In the list, but some things, like NAT Gateway, aren't available; seems like most (all?) people can't provision new instances there.

- cac1-az3: Not in list; jumps from az2 to az4. Supposedly launched for internal use back when cac1 only had 2 public AZs because S3 and some other services require 3 AZs for redundancy.

- cnn1-az3: Not in list; jumps from az2 to az4. Same reason as cac1-az3?
I can't imagine that there's a FOSS project which directly provides mission-critical, "press this button to stop the war" functionality.

I think there are still one or two steps/precedents needed from this memo to a real pipeline of FOSS projects getting DoD funding, but these projects would be foundational things like video transports protocols, container orchestration tools, etc. (to name a few).

In addition, if there is a mission-critical fix which needs to be made to a project, this memo authorizes + encourages DoD personnel to contribute to FOSS projects!

> Employee participation in OSS projects used by DoD is often in the Government's
interest, and is typically a legitimate use of government resources when the Government uses the software in question, either directly, as a component of a larger government system, or as a component of underlying government infrastructure.

> (1) Government employees may contribute to existing OSS projects (including being the primary maintainer) as part of their official duties, so long as they consult with their supervisor first to ensure a common-sense approach for contributions that preserve Operations Security (OPSEC) and further the Government's interests.
It has not been the only semi acquisition, though I agree the most significant.
Nationalist/populist leaders losing support love looking strong for polls. Putin is losing support internally and is trying to look strong for the polls. Two sides both playing a game of chicken is risky and would be helped by internal pressures.
Hatred is a very strong word. There's a new simple view library made every week at this point. Look at the popular ones, look at their source code, and pick one that fits your needs. Just because it's not on the front page of hacker news doesn't mean it's not a great option for your use case.
Motor Function Restored in Patients After Complete Paralysis from Spinal Injury
> Why would supposedly secure communicator use actual phone number as identifier is beyond me.

It's pretty simple - user friendliness and sign-up friction.

Signal's main market is not us HN user tech bros who want (pseudo)anonymity. It's main market is closer to regular people, the same people who are fine with using WhatsApp or Facebook messenger or whatever, with their phone number.

They also want it to be as easy as possible for new users to sign up. Simply enter your phone number and boom you have a signal account. With email the sign up process is not insanely difficult - but its still more steps than phone signup for the regular person.
Agree! But shouldn't they be able to lobby for themselves? Shouldn't the responsibility rest in the hands of the person with the power who is being lobbied to resist or to be fair?
I'd like to make my life's principle one generally shared by everyone.

No human should ever have to blindly trust a program to do the right thing. That is the job of the operating system.

The OS should make it easy to select the resources that a program is allowed to access. It should be as easy as taking a dollar bill from a wallet.

The OS should make NO other access possible for the program to be run.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is Capability Based Security... something we've needed since the 1970s, but everyone dismissed as too complex, slow, or unnecessary
Zolgensma comes to mind - one time gene therapy treatment for a rare disease (tens of thousands), billed at $2M.

Not sure if there's as viable for OP since only a few hundred people have been diagnosed.
You could do this with Uber for many years also. The need to specify a destination location corresponded with fixed price rides, at least in New York. None of this changes the fact that you can only specify a destination with a cab if there is one to get in, though.
There's few other generic-ish space sets you can find just by putting "space" into the search bar on the Lego site:

https://www.lego.com/en-be/product/lunar-roving-vehicle-6034... (cheaper, similar play value)

https://www.lego.com/en-be/product/lunar-space-station-60349 (slightly more expensive, bigger)

https://www.lego.com/en-be/product/lunar-research-base-60350 (more expensive, but much bigger)

The space sets are definitely there in general, they're just a sub-theme of "City" now for some reason.

There's also a few space fantasy sets under the Monkie Kid line, like https://www.lego.com/en-be/product/chang-e-moon-cake-factory... and its rabbit-piloted moon mecha.
I use Sublime Merge (same people as Sublime Text), and the licence was money well spent.
> That's what the story about, but non-accredited investors aren't only prevented from investing in those particular companies. They're prevented from investing in the good ones, too. You say that the casino will pay your unlikely winnings, but the thing about casinos is that unless you actually have an edge, the more you gamble, the more you lose. The vast majority of games have odds that result in the house making a profit over time. And yet we're allowed to spend our money freely in casinos.

Casinos have to be licensed and follow particular requirements about e.g. payout rate. Companies can solicit investment from the public, they just have to register and follow particular reporting requirements; a company with $310M can certainly afford to be public (there was a time when IPOs were much smaller than that).
A very basic request: Tell me the pricing. Don't make me give you an e-mail address before you tell me the pricing, because... I won't.

Love the backing tracks idea. Not sure why they're behind a paywall when a good chunk of them is shared by the original creators on e.g. YT? Also, you might want to make clear how they benefit from your paywall.

Fretboard was oddly zero-on-right at startup, and then flipped... on disabling root notes???

If you must have a light/dark mode switch, please label it.

I'm not sure how useful the Chord mode is. No separation by position, and beyond that, I know I'd certainly prefer text mode over a drop down box.

For tuning, please please please give me the common ones as a drop-down. I don't want to click 15 buttons to get a drop-D.
Agreed. Apple sort of tanked the value proposition of the iPad as a laptop replacement when they introduced the M1 Macbook Air
I'm not using tiling windows management, but KDE is great in general for sure.

Currently I'm waiting for Plasma Wayland session to iron out major bugs before switching to it.
I can't believe I got all the way to the bottom without seeing a mention of integromat.

As an automation addict (and a no longer coding coder) this is what you should be using.

Prices range from free to cheap and I'm sure it does 99.9% of what "tines" does
By enabling a contractual path to supporting FOSS projects/foundations with real funding, the DoD becomes a valid (authorized) player to support the community. Additionally, the memo enables (and encourages) DoD personnel to contribute to open source software as part of their job's responsibilities. This brings thousands of developers into the OSS community who otherwise may not have engaged/may not have been allowed to engage.

> (1) Government employees may contribute to existing OSS projects (including being the primary maintainer) as part of their official duties, so long as they consult with their supervisor first to ensure a common-sense approach for contributions that preserve Operations Security (OPSEC) and further the Government's interests.