skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what about DATUM.txt? universal, latin

GDPR, GPRD, easy mistake based on your language
I wonder if one can get some sort of a diffuser/shade for this kind of bulb, so as to be able to point it at the ceiling / top part of the wall, and get a more ambient light via reflection rather than a blinding super-bright spot.

Naturally, this will reduce the lux level, but I don't see how I could manage such bulbs otherwise - I would constantly have to avert my eyes.
To be honest, it never even made it onto our radar, not for any particular reason though :)

IIRC, Spanner relies on precise timing to make certain guarantees, which is definitely relevant to our use case. I wonder how its write performance would stack up against Postgres and Bigtable.
QuizBreaker – icebreaker quizzes for your team
White noise improves learning by modulating activity in midbrain regions (2014)
I mean I agree however who is in the market for an art piece instead of a computer ? Who will buy this product which is more expensive and likely less functional and takes up more space
Is this sufficiently extraordinary? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBtMbBPzqHY

Also, it's already conceptually possible to get around the spacetime problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive (This doesn't imply such a thing would be easy to build; but at least it's theoretically possible, maybe)
Does this book just get resubmitted every year? I see this exact post going back every year to 2013.
Show HN: Kaado.io – Unifying Personal Productivity
Hi HN,

a while ago I discovered a problem with problem with personal productivity tools: Every time you find a tool that works well in one regard (say, habit tracking), you neglect your previously working systems (say, your to do list system).

So I set about to build a system which unifies all the different aspects of personal productivity. Everything is represented in cards (like flash cards) which are defined in Markdown. The following types of cards exist:

* Learning: Classic front/back prompts to memorize things. Think "What is the capital of Argentina?" on the front and "Buenos Aires" on the back. Works with a spaced repetition algorithm so time between prompts is optimized.

* Habits: Recurring actions you want to do - you can set the frequency individually. For example "Stand up and walk around your room" every two hours.

* Checks: Recurring prompts, similar to habits, but always questions referring to the past. For example a daily "Did you drink enough today?" prompt

* To do: One time actions that are deleted upon completion.

* Reading List: Used for books, articles, talks etc. There are always a limited number of reading list items active, which will prompt you to read a page a day until you are done with the given book.

* Other: Everything else - interesting websites, quotes, art or even memes that you will occasionally see.

The idea is that there is a single queue for all types of cards, only ever showing you one item that's due next - whether habit, learning prompt or a random note. This prevents choice fatigue, the dread of lengthy to-do lists and the boredom of endless dry learning prompts.

I've been using the app successfully for myself for quite some time now but would love external feedback. You can check it out at https://kaado.io. It's currently completely free (and in fairly early stage development). Simple email signup is needed but you won't get any unprompted mails.

Apart from that I would love your takes and ideas regarding personal productivity and what works for you.
Seems like it has plenty of disadvantages but no advantages to simply using the canonical method to do the same hack:

/*
// blah
*/

Edit: I mistakenly parsed this as using a dummy selector to hold the comment property, not just putting it inside real selectors.
I feel that currently I pull the lucky health lottery ticket on a constant basis since I am healthy but cannot afford a health insurrance in the US. Every time I hear of a cancer story I am horrified and reminded of how lucky I am but aware that my luck could run out at any moment. And how many of us there are…
Or, you could just take the word of people living in the Bay Area. Not all social situations are best analyzed by passive data observation. Instead, you should listen to people who live or work in these neighborhoods, as they see this happening (going unreported, because why report something if the police don't do anything?) constantly. Really, constantly.
Another take would be providing jobs to refugees who just fled. More job options is better for people than fewer.
Do you think the tax Europeans pay on gasoline might also play a role in their shorter commutes?

Edit: A handy visual aid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax#/media/File:Fuel_tax_...
I disagree.

I believe a majority of people have a dream. Source: my decades in higher education working with families and students - literally everyone has a dream about their future.

What they don't have is a plan.
Thank you, I did not know this. I know that factory workers exposed to concentrated diacetyl are more affected.

I suppose it matters how much of the flavor escapes into the air, but I did not know that it is naturally present in butter.

That said, butter comes with its own issues. For example, 14g/day is associated with a 1% reduction in life expectancy - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927102/
It's more than one reason, and it's not just political views of the person who really wants to do the keynote. Though the replies to this thread help explain the position many who are leaving are in right now: https://twitter.com/kaspth/status/1499431981830086657
Any rando can scan your IPA once they’ve installed your app though.
Jesus. I paid $4.61/gallon yesterday and was surprised.
Henbane is called Schwarzes Bilsenkraut in german. There might be a connection to the city Pilsen in the Czech Republic and the style of beer originatinig from there is called Pils or Pilsener.
That photo is amazing, thanks for sharing! This is the first I've heard of the Z-Pinch device, now I'm interested to learn more about it and how it compares to a Tokamak and other fusion device configurations.
Senators look to lock down Russia's gold reserves
Various reasons are brought up in the replies to this thread: https://twitter.com/kaspth/status/1499431981830086657

Partly in response to tip toeing around this behavior for more than half a decade: https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1499714921726046213
Afaik they detect visible photos that result from muon decay.
Preface, a large part of my job is running a 30k user Zoom account, so take that for what it is worth.
TL;DR: pick one of ( Zoom, Teams, Slack, Discord ) and take time to learn - grok - it together, then find your rythm.

There's a lot of talk here about Meeting time vs. Project time or Manager schedule vs Programmer schedule ( with good reason, given PGs take on it )

What I have seen is that teams will need to find their own cadence for sync points given their familiarity with collaboration tools and the particular work they have.

There is a story about marines in training that goes something like this: At first as they move through unfamiliar territory, they talk all the time. They call out things they see, the call out directions to look and walk, but as they become cohesive they become silent.

Build a "basic training" environment for yourselves. Learn Git completely if that's your toolset. Grok something excellent together [ jira, AWS, Gitlab], and do it in the context of some voice/video chat tool. Zoom or teams or discord or slack, and explore how to track the things you are doing in the conversation you are having. Zoom and Teams ( depending on what else you use ) have chat and app integrations to keep your workflow documented in your conversation. Share you screens to see exactly what you're looking at together, share control of someone's computer to teach, annotate on a code review. Etc.

Explain that this is contextualized exploration. Meet more than you want to and then cancel meetings down to the cadence that works for you.

You may want to meet twice a day if you're tackling smaller chunks of tickets/backlog or have devs newer to the project, or once a day may be a burden.

Set agendas ( or hire a scrum master or similar, even better ) to keep your sync points productive, establish your next period of work and get back to the good stuff.

Keep documentation of your meeting notes in a Teams channel / slack channel / Zoom team chat and check back on it.
Thanks for answering, I really appreciate it because it helps me to better understand your position.

I do feel the same general impetus not to be an ass to people. Not bringing a trash bag to steal all food from a buffet for myself is a part of my rule set too.

However, I feel strongly that websites are not very much alike to a physical place in which I have to observe the rules of the host. In fact, I cannot bring myself to view the website's code as rules.

To consider a web where I am merely a passive consumer of content served to me by an active publisher goes counter to the very nature of the open web with which I have grown up. The opposite view makes much more sense to me: I am an active participant and the website is the passive information vessel.

A malicious website enforcing its will on me feels like a decidedly perverted concept. My best attempt to explain why would be to liken it to an evil magic book which, upon being brought into my home, attempts controlling and limiting my behaviour. It is the book that is the guest inside my house and not the other way around!

I also do care about tracking quite a lot. I do not want to be tracked. To track me against my will feels like an act of aggression, or at least rude and distasteful, quite similar in tone to the actions of the rude garbage-carrying patron in your example.
do you really need Electron for a windows only program with few labels and buttons?
Say I afford some solar panels, should I investigate/review batteries for home use? Or maybe I should wait a few years , maybe prices half and safety increases?
I found an interesting use for Sugru. I've found out that the little plastic piece at the end of the hose and that constitutes part of the nozzle of windshield fluid assemblies is a two part piece of plastic that is held together solely by friction/fitting, it doesn't lock or snap, and when held in the hand, the two sides of it can come apart rather easily. One piece normally is pressed into the hose, the other piece (nozzle) into the hood, and then those plastic pieces fit together.

Apparently the spray/pump power for my windshield fluid is enough to make the hose side of this assembly "pop away" from the nozzle underneath the hood, causing it to fall somewhere and spray fluid between the heat shield and hood.

Sugru was perfect to hold the two sides of that piece together so that it never pops away again. So far it has held up great.
Bay Area heat pump install cost can reach 20k.
The original commentator's point still stands. The initial post-operative complications were chalked up to brain swelling in the end and the lasting damage was fairly minor for the procedure being conducted. All mentions of fear from the operation were attributed to the surgeon performing the operation rather than Dr.Kennedy who was undergoing the surgery.

Another thing to take note of is that Kennedy mentioned the permanent damage had occurred "when he was putting the electronics in", which implies it happened during the second operation (the first operation with the seemingly severe symptoms were for the electrodes).

No where in the article does it indicate his mind was ever close to being lost besides the headline. It even took note to say he stayed in a villa during recovery which the surgeon made daily visits to (with the implication being a hospital would have been best for around-the-clock monitoring if his well-being was truly in danger).

Also, it's against Hacker News guidelines to ask whether someone read the article or not:

'Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."'

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Although not the F-22, modern fighters such as the F-35 can cost 100's of billions of dollars in R&D[0] (~150 billion iirc, with ~1.3 trillion total program cost).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
Nothing wrong with ops work, it's good to know how apps are run and deployed, as a backend dev I do both and I'm glad I do as it enriched my skillset and understanding of production software a lot more. Embrace it.
The alternative is that they basically keep working on the same things. Maybe now there is some integration project.
What more can individuals do? It sounds like the commenter isn't interacting with big industrial entities. Local produce, not flying / driving etc. Fighting with their wallet and personal decisions.

I agree we should be self critical and vigilant about calling out climate posturing but if we shame people / ourselves for anything short of al gore wetdream ecoterrorism aren't we in danger of creating a convenient nihilism narrative that justifies not doing anything at all?
What coefficient of power does the book assume for heating air and water?

Our water heater is a heat pump, and draws about 100w on average. It has a COP of 3-4. The house idles at 500w, with it on. I probably have about 100w of computers, and the balance is probably refrigerators (still optimizing the house...)

Anyway, switching to a heat pump changes heating from the dominant load to "maybe I should power down the backup NAS and a switch or two".
In a military scenario nuclear weapons have been used precisely once (twice if you don't count them as a single strategic maneuver) and it ended the war. I'm not sure we have enough data to go on.
This is sort of a brain failure on Hacker News: "I won't believe anything unless you show me some ostensibly unbiased data and a reasonable analysis".

Garbage. The city has a serious theft problem that is obvious if you go visit a number of places (and then go visit the mission or other sales locations to see your stolen goods).
I was thinking about this a bit over a year ago while automating ID3 tagging on my library and started thinking about how there's no standardized lyrics in music. I was using ID3v1, which I think explains my issue, but I guess it still wouldn't have helped since I've never seen the option in a player or anything.

It's a real shame the industry didn't treat lyrics in a song file as important as subtitles in a movie.

Mini rant: back when I was in high school (I'm a college graduate now, for context on how long it's been), Spotify had a lyric feature that was good enough. It was out of sync a lot, but pretty alright. One day, the button to display lyrics started saying that they were working on the feature and it would be back soon. Then, in the near future, they just removed the button. They added it back for a good chunk of popular songs a few months ago probably. It works pretty alright, but it's a shame I have to use a proprietary service, and it wasn't a priority for the biggest music streaming service to have the lyrics to a song.

In reality, not a big deal, just annoyed by it.

It's a real shame that I haven't even seen lyrics in music I purchase on Bandcamp.
I like this because it flies a little further than some of the other explanations for puzzling aspects of events. However, it seems that all these goals could've been achieved much cheaper, with perhaps a little more time investment?

COVID would have provided a much better excuse for isolationism without sending troops anywhere. I think Russian troops in Ukraine has to be read as "Russia's rulers want to control more of that territory."

The apparent ineffectiveness may be an argument that the route to world peace is bureaucratic sclerosis and the inevitable realization of the SNAFU principle.
I want to read that book someday. If you liked the book, you will also like Mr Becker's podcast with Lex Fridman. Can you give a summary of the book? Thanks a bunch!
Yes. There is a Twitter thread with a large group of Rails contributors chiming in on the related problems: https://twitter.com/kaspth/status/1499431981830086657
That’s question is akin to someone saying what happens when you don’t have a calculator. Everyone has one in their pocket at all times.

How would the typical person go about calculating the normal distribution by hand? Are we going to call everyone blind because they haven’t memorized e to arbitrary precision?
I think more people are alive now than have ever lived.

I also think that means the next generation or two will have so many people on the planet that literally everyone who ever lived could still be alive and it would be the same.

Scarcity is not the problem. Death is so far inevitable, but it is not necessary.
Bitsy is the small video game engine with a big community
European Union to slash Russian gas imports by 66% this year
I lost interest in Avatar over a decade ago.
Musicians are hooking up synthesizers to plants for new sonic possibilities
It's particularly damning once you begin to age. To pull a number out of my ass and give a piece of advice we all should focus on reducing mTor by 40.

David sinclair has a bunch of great material on the subject. On his own youtube channel, in talks with others.
AFAIK Google also has EPAM employees from Belarus as external contractors.
A Village in Uttar Pradesh: Chandauli
If you need something that exists outside the repository it can get complicated. Even playing within the repository can have pitfalls at least on Guix which is what I've mainly used (like having a package appear in two profiles can cause issues that are non-obvious or like using "guix shell gcc binutils" instead of " guix shell gcc-toolchain"). Some of that has to do with the fact of what an expected *nix install is supposed to be and expectations of what should be installed on a users system and so are not marked as dependencies or requirements when they really are.

I am curious about how a system designed from the ground up with this in mind might be better.
This is a sobering perspective for all digital currency advocates: State-owned digital currency can lead to total control of population. Putin doesn't want Ukraine, he wants to isolate Russians to better control them.
Being a couple of years in the IT industry, what are my takeaways?
This book goes deeply into his personal and leadership style development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_Steve_Jobs

I liked it more than the Isaacson biography.
> But after a burst of publications on the topic, Robock, Toon and their colleagues struggled to find funding to continue their research. Finally, in 2017, they landed a grant worth nearly US$3-million from the Open Philanthropy Project, a privately funded group in San Francisco that supports research into global catastrophic risks.

> The Los Alamos group used its own models to simulate the climate impact of India and Pakistan setting off 100 Hiroshima-sized bombs. The scientists found that much less smoke would get into the upper atmosphere than Toon and Robock reported. With less soot to darken the skies, the Los Alamos team calculated a much milder change to the climate — and no nuclear winter.

So basically scientists that are funded by a group that has an interest in catastrophe comes up with a model that predicts catastrophe. On the other hand, Los Alamos which has far more expertise, data, and computational power, doesn’t show nearly the catastrophe and especially no nuclear winter.

I am going with the Los Alamos model.
The rise of Canva, the $40B design juggernaut
I work for a large tech company based in Warsaw and they’ve found it incredibly difficult to hire as they scale up. The talent pool for niche industries is quite small, so once you’ve hired a decent sized core group there are not a ton of good candidates left.

But to be fair, they are also really struggling to hire in the US. So perhaps it’s not a Warsaw problem after all.
Perhaps @dang should change the link to this thread: https://twitter.com/kaspth/status/1499431981830086657
Does regret on deathbed matter that much? We live 30000 days NOT on our deathbed, and 1 day on our deathbed. Even if that 1 day is horrible, as long as the 30000 days are good, it should be fine, right? Just because it's the last day doesn't make it more important than the other days.
Sooner the better. This is a pain Europe needs to feel (as a consequence of some fairly bad decisionmaking) and we need to get through it.
I think I disagree. I think Jobs personality was such that he would have either ended up founding a company (or perhaps ended up in prison for selling narcotics).

I sense his manipulative personality (my words, for other's you can substitute "reality distortion field") was always there. I'm not disputing Wozniak of course, but I think Jobs growth was in learning how to channel that personality toward selling product.

Jobs got to where he was because he had a smart friend. But there were a lot of smart people in the Home-brew Computer Club and elsewhere around the U.S. and world — and a lot of friends of these smart people.

Maybe it was a happy accident of history, but I think Jobs was the right person with the smart friend, just looking desperately for "the next big thing".

The Next Big Thing was not, as he found out, "blue boxes". But I bring that up as an example of his entrepreneurism showing itself at an opportunity even before Apple.
Did WWII blacken the planet with soot from firebombing? The bombing of Tokyo alone was 1.6 megatons of bombs, for example.

I honestly have no idea, and perhaps our sensors were not accurate enough at the time.
Ah, the good ol' days of javascript text animations in the status bar. I remember them too
On the web, and most of the rest of the internet as well for most practical purposes, WHATWG’s URL Standard is now the normative reference for URLs, and obsoletes IETF’s RFC 3986 and 3987. (Source: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#goals.) There, this concept is called a scheme-relative URL (a much more sensible name): https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#scheme-relative-url-string. They’re not the most common, but they’re not especially rare, either. HTML compressors especially will normally support emitting URLs in this form—you tell the compressor “this file you’re compressing will be served from the URL https://1.example/path/to/foo” and it uses this knowledge to rewrite URLs inside the page, https://1.example/path/to/bar into bar, https://1.example/path/from into ../from, https://1.example/baz into /baz, https://2.example/ into //2.example, and http://1.example/ into http://1.example.
Been using Musicolet. I agree that it's great.

https://krosbits.in/musicolet/
Izabella Kaminska... I always had a laugh about her features at FT I am glad she is doing the same shit posting at her own outlet. I am still not sure if she tries to do satire or if she is serious but you have to give it to her she is entertaining.
> Ukraine's regular military forces are vigorously resisting the Russian invasion, not parts of Ukraine

There is widespread protest and limited insurrection in occupied cities, together with mass enrolment by the population in the military. The Ukrainian people, perhaps more than the state, are repelling this invasion. (In strong alliance with Moscow’s military incompetence.)
That is actually a very counter productive response. A likely one, but not a productive one.
...the same way as non-database indexing? e.g. a lookup table for values in a different order than they're stored
To the best of my knowledge, these aren't sanctions, just companies acting unilaterally to support Ukraine.

So many stories of it having an impact on those on our side, that just happen to have a Russian or Belarusian passport.

Even people that have already fled after previous crackdowns. They don't just get magical new passports.
Humans are like rats, we can live everywhere by adapting. It'll take more than thousands of warheads to wipe us out.

Civilization OTOH is quite fragile. Hundreds of warheads is likely enough to wipe that out.