skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I avoid all things Samsung for a different reason: I don't want to support the subversion of the South-Korean state. It's become clear over the years [0] that the relationship between SK's administration is deeply unhealthy and anti-democratic. Until the economic power of the corporation is lessened it doesn't seem like the country is able to take effective measures either.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55674712
I've met Wim Hof [1], his mind is not precise when it comes to scientific things. In that sense I'd recommend a huge caution to what he claims about the health benefits of his method. But hey, at least he's utilizing the placebo effect, and trust me, when you use his actual method for things it actually works for, you still want that placebo effect added to it as well ;-)

Luckily though, he does recognize that to some extent. Because of that, he sometimes does research with actual scientists, and I have talked to a few of them. IMO those claims you can trust, or at least trust as much as any scientific claim.

[1] Fun fact: one of the first comments I made on HN was about the WHM :)
I took a private lesson the first time I went cross country skiing and 2 or 3 minutes into it, after getting on the skis, the instructor said something like "the only thing you are probably thinking about right now is falling, so lets get that over with" and then rapidly pushed me sideways and I fell. That worked remarkably well to help me focus on the content of the rest of the lesson.
yea... when thinking about buying this foldable model the rejection was always caused by an intrinsic fear of having to rely on Samsung's customer attention and technical fixing once again... Their terrible service makes u rely on external, non-official technicians every. single. time.
> at least that's how they are historically lumped together under Rabenvögel in German along with crows, ravens, and jackdaws, probably because they're scavengers

Corvidae or Corvids in English (from the Latin word for "raven" I believe): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvidae
Great, now someone should write a Javascript interpreter for it!
Could you also setup an HN cryptocurrency (or token) and grant units according to karma and account age please (or whatever other factors you deem important)?

- let's see what happens then to all the crypto skeptics around here. An about-face?
Ask HN: My last company is stonewalling on how to exercise shares
My last company seems to be stonewalling me on how I can exercise my vested shares. After I put in my two weeks I was told by the CFO that since we were not using Carta that it was a manual process and he'd get back to me on how to exercise my shares. That was well over a month ago, and after a few follow up emails I've gotten no response. Is there anything I can do?
Startup Legal Headache?
What's the biggest legal hurdle you've run into as a founder?
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"
- Dr. Ian Malcolm.
jokes, this is neat.
> If you are saving perhaps 10 hours of time per week for a customer, you can price roughly how much you save them (probably a lot) and then you can charge accordingly.

You're omitting one critical piece of pricing. Saving someone 10 hours per week doesn't mean much unless you can convince them they will save 10 hours per week before they've used the product and you actually deliver so that they stick with you in the future. Oh, and if there's a competitor that saves 9 hours per week at half the cost, you're not going to have many customers.
>Personally, I don't really see a way out of this. China is going to be more powerful than Nato.

This is still playing out, and I'm extremely sceptical of this take. China has a lot of domestic problems to deal with and a lack of allies due to their geo-politiking. Then you have India waiting in the wings, ready to be to China, what China was to America. Keeping in mind, we are all nuclear powers.
Maybe too specific to be helpful, but I’ve heard France is a good place to pass a kidney stone, and India is a good place to recover from tropical illnesses.
It's really only the first days/weeks of snowboarding that you're likely to fall often. Mostly, you need to have an instructor and pick the suitable terrain and snow conditions for a beginner. Really, it's not that hard.

I've also noticed that for an intermediate snowboarder, it's quite easy to go through steep/bumpy slopes or powder where intermediate skiers struggle. But you're usually faster on skis.

That being said, if I could go back in time and learn skiing instead of snowboarding, I would. It's more versatile, and I think less demanding on the body overall (in particular, snowboarding is asymmetrical which I think puts extra burden on your neck.).
I stopped buying Samsung stuff years ago. I have never encountered a brand who products have consistently given me problems like theirs do.

It's not just phones. I've had their TVs (old CRT and flat panels) fail within a year of purchase. A camera with a zoom lens that didn't work out of the box. A microwave which only displayed 99:99 on the display and wouldn't turn on. A washing machine where the hoses to the outflow pump came loose and flooded our kitchen. Luckily I didn't have to deal with Samsung directly and sent all that stuff back to the retailer to sort out, but I did learn a lesson.

As for their phones, they just seem to be a little bit more delicate than other brands. Things like the glass seemingly being easier to break, charging ports getting loose and not allowing for a good connection and physical buttons that just fail.

I know other peoples experiences will be different, but for me I have decided to never again buy Samsung.
Once you get over the edge catching hump, it can be as effortless as skis, and catching an edge is not really something I worry about. That being said, there is only so much time in a life, and if the sort of "balance" aspect isn't clicking, there are a lot of fun ways to get down a snowy mountain.

I've been trying to learn telemark and parallel turns on my off-track cross country skis as someone who has basically only boarded downhill, and uh, it's an interesting challenge (and a bad season for it...). The skis have basically no sidecut, but if the conditions are right, I can struggle out a gentle telemark turn.
Your numbers are totally off. When did you bought and installed the last heater?

Modern condensing heaters have an efficiency of 90%.
I agree, it's not a freedive method and shouldn't be used as such. If you do, you can die.
As someone that has been riding for 25 years the best advice I can give is what I was taught; put all your weight on your foot. You will avoid all of the painful falls from mistakenly catching edges.
Slack System Status
Medieval people suffered for fashion with their pointy shoes (2021)
That doesn’t ring true in my decade of management. Some people are just incapable of doing a bad job, and others just incapable of doing a good job. Whether or not they want to work for you.
This sounds like a dream to me. Feel like I can do the opposite: try to ignore heat while cold... I just start shaking.
Yes, there is a similar expression in the Bible to the one you attributed to the buddha 'But test everything. Keep what is good, and stay away from everything that is evil.'. Though in practice, you are right, such advice is often overlooked. My personal encounters with pranayama e.g. reading Iyengar's 'Light of Pranayama' are that the ritual aspects are not strongly emphasised but there is a cultural message designed to keep alive aspects of the tradition which are beneficial - in a way which could be compared to the learning of Kung Fu, where anger is the main emotional enemy of successful practice.

On a side note, I wonder what the general reception amongst the tech community is to Tesla's eccentricities e.g. opening and closing a door thrice before entering a room. Of course, these are mostly seen as expressions of OCD and ignored but I wonder if there isn't any connection between these impulses of Tesla's and his particular genius? I worry that in the process of stripping away superstitions we might accidentally take away more than we desired and lose the authentic character of progress.
Perhaps our natural inability to control our low-level biological systems is on average better at keeping us alive. After all, if we could control any system without really understanding all the interactions and repercussions, we probably would die accidentally more often.
The great employee protection are for those unionized German megacorps in the IG Metall brach, basically the traditional 100 year old German companies, like Mercedes, Siemens, Bosch, VW, Audi, etc. Those have the best employee protections and working conditions, albeit at the cost of usually archaic and crusty management, compensation schemes, heavy, slow and bureaucratic processes, etc.

Your average modern "move fast and break things" SW company or mobile focused startup doesn't enjoy any of those benefits and usually come with overtime expectations and pressure to ship, ship, ship.
Gazprom runs underground storages in Western Europe which they didn't refill before Winter 2021/22. Back then it was speculated to be used to hike prices, now we know it's more about leverage.

https://www.ft.com/content/576a96f7-e41d-4068-a61b-f74f2b2d3...
"As a bonus, today is also a global strobogrammatic day when viewed on a seven-segment display, i.e., for all three date formats, today's date when shown, without the delimiters, on a seven-segment display appears the same when rotated by 180°."
To the Everest? When? He took them to the Kilimanjaro, that one I know, I almost was part of it but chickened out (since altitude sickness might be a thing and some people did actually drop out from what I remember, in the first run no one dropped out though). He attempted the Everest himself and he had to go back. He said that mt. Everest was a different beast, the cold is way harsher there and he didn't even reach the death zone (8.5km). He almost got there though, in his shorts.
The flipside being, when is the last time you heard of a house falling apart because the modern nails weren't good enough?

Sometimes good enough and 10x cheaper is the right call.
Yeah, skiing seems better on average conditions. More edge. Snowboarding is wonderful on a powder day, but I bet nice fat skis are pretty good too.
Your comment has this air of condescension, like the people who downvoted you to the colour of the HN background don’t know what they’re talking about. That would be bad enough.

But in addition it seems like you’re ignorant of China’s Nine Dash Line, which has impacted Philippines and others. And their demand for control of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, which has impacted Japan.

Condescension + ignorance is a killer combination
Could you give a source for that? A German newspaper reports that the green party was against including gas in the taxonomy, but was overruled by the other two coalition members [1].

[1] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/taxonomie-eu-kommission-...
Slack has been struggling for my workspace the last 10 minutes. Can still get messages through (sometimes) but threads won't load at all.
> I was in need of replacing my aging Pixel 4

Come on, seriously? That phone is at most 2 years old. It's not like the specs of that phone are in any way deficient; I guarantee you there is no app that you needed to run that couldn't run on that phone. Phones are resource intensive to manufacture - we should be aiming to keep them for 1/2 a dozen years or more. This mindset of replace with new and shiny "just because" [you're addicted to spending money] is bad for the planet.
Sceptre makes a 55" non-smart TV that only costs $400. Not OLED, but pretty nice.
As usual - status page is green, you can't use slack app or web.
Ask HN: Slack Buggy This Morning?
Nothing on https://status.slack.com/ but many people at my organization have trouble loading channels or having messages send.

Issues seem to exist across web app / mobile app / desktop app.
They show in the news only what they want you to hear. Everything was agreed upon and scheduled long before February, including US,EU,Russia and even Ukraine. Macron was flying all over the world for a reason
thanks for the content! However, I was expecting a bank of links to tools, courses, examples... That would be a great gig!
Yeah nobody is forgoing work. The only people who left the workforce could already afford to do so before 2020.
Even at the height of the cold war, the Soviet Union did not shut off gas exports.

Even 2009 at the former height of the Ukraine Gas dispute, exports only got a little disrupted, mostly to Ukraine itself.
It's much simpler than that. Invading a neighbor comes right out of the dictator's playbook.

Putin's invading Ukraine to distract from his own domestic issues and to try to boost his popularity with the general Russian population.

I don't think this has anything to do with China.
> Was coconut oil manufactured and consumed in large quantities before industrial age? Was it a staple of local diet?

Probably? Coconuts were certainly cultivated and used in prominent societies dating back to 1500 BCE or earlier, and the oil has been used for nearly as long, although it's unclear to what extent this was for culinary purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut#Origin

> Were people there healthy and not unusually prone to various diseases and not overweight? In some island nations being overweight was beneficial for travel and times of scarcity. So tradeoffs of their diet might not fit us so well as it fitted them.

This is also unclear, although I assume the same ambiguity applies to animal-sourced fats which were consumed in cultures very different to our own.
Im just saying that Germany will transition from state 1:
Where it imports N amount of gas for cheap

To state 2: where it imports N amount of gas expensive.

Germany loses.
Yet a few comments above in this thread[1]:

> I feel it's missing the quality from C/C++ that they are a very thin abstraction over assembly.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30419248
I wish we could get rid of accents. It is frustrating to head to the deep south and not understand anyone. I have no doubt that other people feel the same way about my accent.
> Something’s gone awry, and we’re having trouble loading your workspace.

Same here - UE
I'm a bit worried about the EU consequences by this, given our already high inflation rate and energy prices being very influental in that regard.

However, they assure us this won't be overly bad although there will be short-term consequences.

A winner is obviously USA with the shale gas production but I'm sure EU will diversify in otehr regards as well.

Altogether this feels like a painful but important step for a healthier energy supply in the future.
Everyone at my organization having issues this morning
Except you can't do that, because these screens are made of soft plastic and are incredibly fragile and scratchable. So there went that idea.
definitely a source of potential memes!
No, their health page is the worst place to look for honest information. They don't want to lose another decimal on their uptime percentage.

Try down detector. https://downdetector.com/status/slack/
Something’s gone awry alright
Having major issues with threads, bots, and some channels loading. Just reached out them.
This is really some armchair psychoanalysis on my part, totally not worth anything in the way of intellectual attention, but I always found this interview with both Typescript and Dart leads to be interesting. https://youtu.be/5AqbCQuK0gM

I can't help but infer that Lars is quite often a little bit frustrated with the emergence of Typescript. But on top of it being embarrassing for me to imagine up such personal rivalries based on hardly anything, you could view the interview as Dart-hostile given the interviewer.
https://downdetector.com/status/slack/ a more reliable status page
Wow, this might be more disruptive than the AWS outages. Remote companies should have some sort of backup plan for when this happens.
I knew customer support is dead everywhere, but damn. I'm only buying 100 to 200 dollar phones so I can just trash them in this case.
Technical analysis of hack with running process (reading code from memory dump)
Hmmm, when the Romanian (and some other) communist regimes were overthrown in 1989, people cut out the socialist coat of arms from the center of their flags. Now I'm thinking, maybe at least one of these countries should have had the good sense to make the hole in the middle of the flag official? Would have been a nice curiosity...
When I first encountered this term, I had the same reaction and it seems like a reasonable response but (like one of the replies you've received) you're assuming your definition of racism.

The definition that's usually used in sociology involves structural power and, perhaps most importantly, white supremacy. Particularly the latter point means that the term racism, in the academic context, always refers to power dynamics that flow out of white supremacy.

There are still valid critiques (such as, arguably, unfalsifiablity) and, personally, I don't think the directionality built into the term help us as much as it hinders the conversation—especially given the divergence from the colloquial meaning of "racism". At the same time, though, systemic power is on the side of (certain) white people and the effects of discrimination are compounded by systemic power differentials. It seems important to bring that aspect of racism into the conversation.
I notice you carefully avoided mention of Korea. Were you hoping no one caught that China has dominated Korea for centuries?

Or that there were failed attempts to conquer Japan? Incompetence doesn’t equal a peacenik attitude.
Ukraine is still a kleptocracy. The money would be largely stolen.

Also, there is no such thing as "irrevocably". Ukraine had just such irrevocable security guarantees granted when they agreed to let go of their nuclear inheritance.

There is no way to stop a determined despot via diplomacy or economical pressures. Putin is trying to replicate the first few years of Hitler's intimidation blitz and the world would do well to not appease him in any way.
So we are talking about Samsung because they spy to much on us and the phone you recommend is the one from Google? Interesting...
My understanding fits with the dictionary definition.

megalomania
/ˌmɛɡ(ə)lə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/
noun: megalomania.
obsession with the exercise of power.
delusion about one's own power or importance (typically as a symptom of manic or paranoid disorder)
other than constant dissipative losses perhaps, I fail to see how speed of computation would effect efficiency for irreversible computers. you can use arbitrarily small amounts of energy to perform a computation with reversible computers.

can you explain why racing to finish with a laptop saves energy vs computing the same thing at a lower clock speed?
I was looking into it but man that's all so boring. How can I motivate it to consume this content and learn something from it?
I have zero interest in crypto, but that was seriously the only ad I even remember. My friends and I talked through most of the ads (and even the game), but when that came on we all patiently watched it, waiting for the floating QR code to hit the corner. Pretty smart.

The only "flaw" was that I didn't scan it because I don't trust random QR codes without any context. But I'm sure most people don't share those reservations
It's cheap to implement. Why would anyone bother trying to secure it? It's just going to cost a bunch of money for very little gain.

If someone gets free bandwidth or free TV shows, nothing is really lost in the process. It isn't like having your car stolen.
I think I support your latter point more generally, but I'm not sure I need to further substantiate my comment with evidence, given that the evidence for the shafting is provided in the article.

My comment doesn't provide new information — it's merely a laconic summation of arguments implicit in the article.
> it completely sidesteps a lot of the platform-specific woes

This is the key point where Flutter wins over both React Native but also the native Android and iOS toolkits. When you design a screen in Flutter, it will behave as you expect on every different version of Android and iOS. You just check it does the right thing as screen size changes (which is usually pretty easy to implement, and very easy to test) and then you get predictable behaviour. It is so rare that you need to fix X screen on Y phone running X version of the OS because it has odd behaviour, and that happens all the time with any of the native toolkits.

That said - I haven't used Swift UI, so it's possible the situation has improved (although I wouldn't bet on it).
I would say that the Pep Guardiola led Barcelona already had this watershed moment, with their possession and passing focused play, built around tiki taka and dependence on phenomenonal playmakers like Xavi, Iniesta and Messi. No other team has managed to replicate this success so far though, not even Barcelona itself after Guardiola left and Xavi/Iniesta retired.
Is the ultimate game for the West to ban export of chipsets to Russia? I mean, the West controls IP for x86 (PC) + ARM (Mobile) + PowerPC/MIPS (Network gear), and Russia cannot probably run their infrastructure on RISC-V alone, and their Elbrus ISA probably didn't take off?

The West can ban Chinese companies and dependent states (S.Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan) from exporting chipsets and devices containing them to Russia.

It'd be an interesting thing to see, how Russia would try to go around this. They will, but it will still be a big problem.
that would not encumber a human at all nor make a human pick a different outcome - there's a dozen places you could nicely nestle a pound and never realize it.

You clothes weigh more than that, your shoes WAY more than that, and we walk around all day with it... this is a weird point.
I'm sorry if this is off-topic, but why do people make websites with 250+ characters per line? Like, I can copy the link into Safari and press the "Reader View" button there to make it actually readable but I'm more wondering that if someone puts so much effort into writing content why don't they take the ~1 hour for some very basic CSS to get the default experience to be enjoyable?
Why not limit it to one email every five minutes or something?
Wear celebrity masks as you go about your business?!?

I've also heard that certain types of makeup can confuse things.
I am seeing a lot of errors with the following message: 'Message undefined (message missing text)'
Yup, same here. (eu-west)
I expect that Germany (the state) will shoulder some of those costs. But I'm not a German so I'll have to see what happens, because right now the project was officially put on ice.
I always wondered... does the battery power the disk so the writes are done or does it just hold the data in the RAID controller until the computer is re-powered?
Yeah, a simple yet effective technique. Had to join a Discord server and they're doing something similar for some other site.
> If Facebook is successful not innovating, why would they want to hire innovators?

There's a larger question that I'm still trying to work out.

Meta has something like 71K employees at this point and spends over $21B a year in research and development.

They don't give head counts for how many personnel are performing R&D work, but if you assume that most of their R&D costs go to employee salaries and that the mean salary at Meta is around 500K, it looks like at least half of their workforce is engaged in R&D.

What are they getting for this investment? Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus were all acquisitions. Facebook Messenger came out in 2008.

I get that some of them are working to optimize their advertising revenue stream. Does this require 20-30K+ highly qualified engineers and support FTEs?

Something else is going on. My guess is that it's a form of Parkinson's Law, only with IT engineers instead of British civil servants.