skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> don't start with Mars first

On that part we definitely both agree :)

Although, I would say that developing the tech to colonise Mars can be a useful rallying point for tech useful to Earth (if you can put a city of a million on the red planet, you can also put it in the middle of the Himalayas or Antarctica or the Sahara), in the same way that Tesla is useful as a rallying point for electric cars despite all the people I hear complaining about the build quality.
What's the ultimate, then?
I should do a write-up some day of what each molecule does both good and potentially bad. The reason I warn about taking that much magnesium per meal is that some people starting at that level may experience difficulty breathing. There are prerequisite processes to build up to some levels of some minerals and not everyone needs that much. Even taking 15k IU's of D3 per meal can cause hypercalcemia in some people if they do not build their way up to it over time and also use enough K2. Knowing ones renal health is also very important when taking large amounts of certain molecules. Some of those things work together and some can work against each other depending on the person. The list is ever evolving. There is also a myriad of outdated known information about each thing which makes research a lot harder.

I arrived at that combination for myself after years of researching papers on nih.gov, linked studies from examine.com and binge watching thousands of videos by nutritionists and scientists of whom do not always agree with one another. I tailored that combination to me but there could be benefit in researching each thing. The ingredients and amounts will change with time.

Is it anti-aging research?

One could find some of those things mentioned in anti-aging and tissue/organ repair studies.
that thing steals your session cookie without much asking or explaining
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I’m all for culture of writing, but that feels too easy.

Like another pointed out, what about a culture of reading? And further, what are these cultures of writing doing to help individuals improve their writing? Understanding audience, valuing brevity, tone, structure, knowing when not to write, etc are all important skills that the vast majority of people in business (probably including me) lack.

Further, writing takes time. How do you evaluate what writing is worth it, that the time you take away from e.g. coding still adds business value? It certainly may, but that feels very hard to quantify.
This sounds awesome. Is there a mailing list I can join to get a notification when it's released?
I self-publish on Amazon and there are so many recurring instances of royalties not being properly recorded and paid out, mostly in Kindle Unlimited. Page reads don't get recorded due to some apparent incident (sometimes admitted by Amazon, other times completely ignored despite it being obvious that something is off in reporting on a large scale), and when the problem is fixed and we start seeing proper reads again we just have to accept that we're collectively out of luck and will not be compensated for the missing hours/days of page reads. Trying to contact Amazon about this has been completely useless.

This is one of the reasons for the uptick of new and experienced authors ditching (or making plans to ditch) Amazon KU exclusivity and going wide.
I started the comment saying that salaries in Germany are approaching those of London. Probably Berlin is still slightly below, but I think Hamburg have completed the catch-up.

Later I wrote that you get a better lifestyle in Germany with 60K€ than in London with 90K£.
This was surprisingly more achievable than I thought it would be, and provides a nice challenge with some strategy.
Yeah, just because hardware got incredibly fast doesn't mean slow software is fast now, it just expands tothr available circumstances again
At this point, pretty much a desire for survival.

Working remotely, almost perpetually stuck in COVID lockdowns/restrictions in Canada for the past 2 years, not having many friends/family and not being able to visit them (they’re all over 10,000km away) for nearly 3 years now, and a partner who’s recently been diagnosed with depression is all taking its toll.
One idea: use `—-no-install-recommends`.

Also in some cases (not necessarily this one) there may be multiple packages fulfilling the same dependency, so installing a specific dependency package explicitly may also reduce the total number of dependencies - otherwise you could end up accidentally pulling the whole KDE runtime if you’re not careful.
I agree that its dishonest and despicable to return a book that you've completed and enjoyed (or even found mediocre). In fact I wish there was a Audible tip jar that let me give extra money to writers who have changed my life with a great book.

But if you've read enough you've probably had the experience of finishing the last page of a book and hurling it across the room in anger and frustration. It could be that that writer has pulled you though the story by making narative promises that painted him into a corner resulting in a maddening it-was-all-a-dream type conclusion. Or maybe you get to the last few pages of a book and start to realize that the story is not going to conclude and this book is in fact the first book in a planned 12 volume epic that the 75 year old author is going to finish over the next 30 years.

In those cases I think the reader is out more than just a credit. Where do we go to get back the 20 never-to-be-relived hours of our lives that we just poured into this deadend crap?

And for the record, I have a couple of hundred Audible books in my library and only returned one that I completely finished. It resulted in a letter from Amazon fussing at me for doing so and telling me not to make it a habit.
A big reason why Amazon's leadership principles (LP) are so ingrained into its culture is because it's a part of every single formal process in the company. If not officially (promo docs, interviews), then at the least implicitly (corrections of errors [COE]).
2019. Original discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052
I take it you haven't done any construction with a modern laser level? Have fun hanging level ceiling tile grid with your hose, hauling it around and keeping it filled between sites, making sure those walls are level horizontally AND vertically, and while you could use a hose/string for laying tile it's going to be much quicker and easier with a laser.

The only levels where you might have more than a couple buttons and need a manual are specialty ones like for surveying, not something you would do with a hose anyways.
It would change the dynamics of the comment section a lot.

Instead of varied thoughts from many people in replies you’d be much more likely to have the one person arguing their point against replies which is terrible every time I see ot.
At least I’m not as rude as you. You’ll need to be persistent to accomplish your results with the Asahi Linux project - good luck with that.

I had no doubts that you can lose your file if you are moving it and some very lucky power outage hits. I was not “pretending” it's not real.

What I have doubts about, is that it's a real concern for 99.93% of the users. As we’ve found here, it's not even a rare case in other kinds of OS, so users would definitely notice it.

It is theoretically possible, of course. In practice, it's just too rare to consider.

But still, I hope this topic will be noticed by Apple and they fix that low performance issue for fullsync. Also, I hope they will not make fullsync as the default behavior - it doesn't worth the risks (and those for whom it does - should use some Linux for sure).
I am not associated with this product, but a very happy customer.

https://simpl.fyi/about

It is a plugin that emulates some of the now-removed Inbox functionality, and generally makes Gmail more pleasant to deal with.
The results of those templates seems to be a lot different from regular old boring industry standard reusable code, which has design patterns(Developed over the years for everyday practicality) as the templates instead of abstract logic(Seemingly chosen for beauty and ability to express original ideas).

They say you can find monads everywhere, but doesn't that mean that by using monads as a starting point, you'll have more freedom and less structure and predictability than if you used a GoF pattern?
Did you watch the video linked in the article?
Yes, it's possible to have suboptimal situations.

But no, communicating feel-good meaningless statements (like asking for people to both act fast without waiting for the details and to know the details about the consequence of their actions) is an infallible way to create apathy and move away from the Pareto frontier, not towards it.
Yes, seems like people really want to believe stories of teenagers suddenly making breakthrough discoveries. In this case it's probably having some sensors with data, throwing them into a neural network and getting good results on a training set. The question is, does it work at all on real world data...
> Remembering and hand manipulating IPv6 addresses is not something end users need to deal with.

Assuming it's configured correctly. Most devices are not.

> Like everyone else on my ISP, I have a publicly routeable v6 subnet at home and v6 addresses on my phones. I couldn't tell you what they are, but they work just fine.

Why would you ever want publicly routable addresses on devices inside your home?

If Ipv6 was simply a 64-bit quad improvement on IPv4 it would be fine. However, the only valid use cases I can think of are mostly to the benefit of end users.

What possible need could anyone have for more address space than the non-routable private address blocks already afforded by IPv4? Throw in the insecure-by-default and frequent misconfiguration out-of-the-box and you have the current flaming security dumpster fire that is IPv6.
This is because people are told to specialize if they want to move up. I’ve known lots of people who wanted to be generalists, but couldn’t get promoted because as soon as you have promotion ladders, the first thing added is “deep expertise” in something narrow.
knowledge does not motivate people to do great things.

what children need to learn first and foremost is to be good people, create the desire to help others and contribute to society.

once they have that, they drive themselves to learn what they need in order to achieve that.

this kid here had the drive to solve a problem because they had experienced it themselves. it doesn't matter how they solved it and how much help they got, what matters is what drove them to solve the problem in the first place.

if we can create that drive then any of the above, whether it is art, sports or programming will happen based on the kids motivation.
Try RSS, they have it for replies.
When my son was looking to buy his first house I noticed a lot of people putting motivational messages on their walls. These sort of things: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32630732796.html

I just don't understand some people.
It’s quite tiring how often they change this. Gmail is a horrible, cluttered, and slow UI. I have started migration to my own mail server with opensmtpd, dovecote, mutt and Rainloop for web mail.
Here are some proposals:

1. Fix the college accreditation process. Currently it involves colleges wining and dining accreditors for a week. Change the standards to be more practical and open up the possibility for more colleges. We could even change the accreditation so that it allows for things like trade school and apprenticeships. I think that would certainly fix tuition costs.

2. Push for making budgeting a required high school course in more high schools.
Ask HN: What are productive activities when motivation is drained/recovering?
I find that working on hard problems constantly detriments my performance (constantly is different from consistently). When I am intellectually drained and not properly motivated to work on hard problems, what are some productive soft problems or skills to work on?
Thank you for posting this. Signed up!
html gmail works. You used to be able to set it as your default view (well, you still can technically), but they stopped respecting that setting and just send you to the javascript one now anyway. Still, if you change your URL manually after logging in (and possibly answer a prompt of "do you really want to use html gmail?" with yes), you can still get to it, and it's the same interface as ever.
If you're making 74k now and told them that this was your absolute minimum and they came back with an offer at 65k then, assuming your expectation is reasonable for the job, either they have no money or they don't want to pay you more than they have offered.

Either way this is a red flag so I would politely thank them for the consideration and decline as the gap is just too big.
I'm annoyed ktrace wasn't revisited. If the integer was getting truncated, why did ktrace print that the request was still VIDIOC_S_FMT? Shouldn't it have printed some goofy number that didn't match?
....just mine around your base? Create tunnels that span the entire planet if you must? How is all of this not easier than something as exotic as asteroid mining?

Even if the entire surface is irradiated(somehow) you can still launch things into space with underground railguns. It's not what we currently use, but it's easier to imagine this than building a base on Mars with current(or near future) technology.
Thank you for mentioning that lifecycle rule change. I must have missed the announcement; that is exactly the functionality I needed.
> What if https://bitwarden.com/ gets hacked

They only store the encrypted vaults, which is useless without your master password. So even if it is hacked, the only thing the hackers get is an encrypted blob.

> you can use that own its own without an online account.

That is because KeePassX/KeePassXC is an offline app that reads a database (.kdbx file) you have on your computer. Bitwarden is for people who want to use their password manager on multiple devices. So an account is necessary.

How do you use Keepass across multiple devices. Please don't say Syncthing cause that's not an option for most regular people. And if you use something like Dropbox, what if https://dropbox.com gets hacked?

> The fact that I have to create an account

This is for authentication (needed it for syncing it across multiple devices).
How many of these have they killed already? Google Talk, Google Pie, Google Plus to an extent. Which ones am I missing?
One of many great reasons to care about open protocols and the ability to use third-party client applications. Software freedom (protocol freedom? interface freedom?) has _practical_ benefits for the public good. Attempts to deviate towards closed systems and protocols should generally be viewed as monopolistic antisocial rent-seeking by default, in my opinion.
Rotate the parallelepiped so that you are staring down its longest diagonal, or any diagonal really. Now the 3 faces of the parallelepiped directly facing you can be cut into 6 congruent triangles. Slice down these 6 triangles to get 6 tetrahedra. it is then easy to show by Cavalieri's principle that that the volume of any of these tets is equal to the original tet. so the original tet has volume 1/6 of the parallepiped.

However these 6 tets are not necessarily congruent, when I commented I was visualizing the case when the parallelepiped has equal side lengths, but in the general case the 6 tetrahedra are not congruent. However each of the 6 is congruent to at least 1 other out of the 6, since the parallepiped has reflection symmetry.
Attackers don’t have to wait til it’s public to exploit it.
That was basically his stance. It's piracy, and I see no issues with it.

I'm not sure why people got absolutely butthurt about that.
Google launched IMAP for Gmail fifteen years ago. Use that if you want stasis.
Apple pundits will never be able to do this unless the other pair of shoes were made by Apple.
I didn't know about the dot notation, very cool but at the same time kinda awkward in a functional setting, goes a little bit against the other type of haskell syntax, I think someField someValue syntax is more explicit.
I'm starting to see real problems with the continuous upgrade way of life. Giving people clearer and longer cycle of use seems healthier (especially for non tech savvy people).

Less random surprises, less regressions, less relearning, and when it needs to happen there's one clear hurdle to climb, if you want it.
Can Linux use Hardware RNG devices? Are these devices able to generate enough bits of randomness to work for boot?
I'm not saying that there hasn't been substantial innovation. Indeed, these things are major upgrades. But it's still "evolution", not "revolution" - these upgrades don't enable any fundamentally new experiences, it's still 2016 VR style experiences in a more sleek package. The cynic in me thinks that this style of VR is fundamentally flawed, and more major innovations are required in comfort, display, locomotion, and haptics to get VR to the point where we are ACTUALLY all spending most of our time in the Metaverse.
You are implying that the walled garden keeps developers in, whereas in reality those walls are for keeping developers out. One does not escape walled garden; one infiltrates it.
How many (HN) Gmail users still use the Gmail interface? I remember giving up on it as a primary interface in the mid-to-late '00s, my laptop was crappy and the interface had slowed down so much that it was nearly unusable. There was visible lag while typing a message on my circa 2003 cheap HP laptop (I was a student, it was what I could afford). It was like getting sent back to 1996 and typing out documents in Word on a 486 (In 1996, I was only typing at 30 wpm and would easily get ahead of the system. Type up a paragraph, sit back and wait while it appeared on screen.)

I've only used it since when needing to type a long form email or grab some critical information from an email while traveling and borrowing a friend or family member's computer. I haven't even done that in years thanks to smartphones.
With a "humanity" like this, maybe a bad idea... Maybe fix some of the bugs first with that money? Mars does not run away, you know...
I was just curious and very aware of the possible blowback. I even doubted for a while to delete the comment ( no shallow dismissals ).

But it isn't and it is a question that comes along with the subject of 13yo geniuses.

I was curious and now I have an answer ( not from you ).

edit: In a broader, more contemporary frame : It is now we need to be ever more critical of news we get served and rejecting that under the guise of 'think of the children' is just lame.
For values of use which tend to 0. The only useful button is "open in desktop app".
Anecdotally, I've heard lots of negative things about working at Amazon, no positive. In contrast I've known many people who work at Google and they seem generally happy with their jobs, have been there for years. The people I know who work in tech and are more desirable candidates would never choose Amazon as their first pick. I'm surprised that Amazon works as well as it does, as a company. There's a real cost to high turnover.
What do you see missing or not well explained in AWS documentation that newer devs wouldn't understand?

I started using S3 early in my career and didn't see this problem. I always thought in data retention during design phase.

My opinion is that lazy, careless or under time pressure developers will not, and then will get bitten. But it would happen to any tool. Maybe a different problem, but they'll always get bitten hard ...
The problem is the lack of an alternative.

To put it bluntly: you might like your nanny filter but other people might have different preferences.
I like the AppStore and want it to be good. Clearer, more consistent app reviews and better developer experience would increase the quality, quantity and variety of apps available to me in the AppStore.
Firefox already have better ad/malware blocking today and companies are not using it since they can just use middleboxes to do that in a central location without then having to worry about each computer configuration.

If companies wanted to go to that route they can do it today for free, and they are not doing it, so changing firefox from free to charge for enterprise stuff will not help in any way..

also, google will not replicate the ad/malware blocking capacities from firefox because they are the leaders. not firefox..

If ever chrome marketshare goes down to below 5% and firefox rise to chrome position above 60% then i bet that google will be willing to do better ad/malware blocking if that means changing the game..
Do they prefer or are they not given a choice?
Ampere and Rigetti partner to develop Hybrid Clouds
This has been addressed by dang before, one representative pastequote from a recent (ish) comment:

Yes, I think we'll continue to avoid the notification system, not just because of flamewars but also because (relatedly) it's not so compatible with curiosity. Push notifications seem to jack up the nervous system in a way that's good for engagement but not necessarily for users—we all experience this elsewhere on the internet, and on HN we're in the blessed position of not needing to juice the numbers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22937472
Is it a prison that I don't have to install a hundred different launchers ? that I have a reliable way to refund my purchases ? That I don't have to share and trust a random developer with my credit cards ?
What do you base this upon?

Why are people confident about their genes not more prone to feel responsible and compassionate to others’ less lucky ones’ needs, just like many rich people donate great sums of money to charity (in extreme cases) or famous musicians giving charity shows?
The way it works on a typical QMS (quality management system) of the type you use in healthcare is when someone leaves the line manager or quality manager has to go through and reassign any documents owned by the individual (and they're always owned by an individual) to someone else. It's very much part of the normal rhythm of business and you have to do it because if you're working in medical / life sciences you need to be accredited, and as part of the accreditation your QMS will be checked to ensure it is up to date and there's no-one one there that shouldn't be.
It's half paywalled -- try incognito or something if you want to read it.
That's not how logic works. The burden of proof that there's a secret cult is on you.
Did this exact thing 13 (wow! Time flies) years ago and never looked back!

You have to put in the hours but you know that you run that stuff!

Even after four major migrations (roughly one weekend every 3 years) and all the bullying from the big hosts to accept your mail I still wouldn’t change my mind!
Why not switch to a paid-for email provider?

Not only Google cares about locking you in their platform (they need your eyeballs) but they also intend to use your data against you (to influence your purchase decision and provide more pricing leverage to sellers).