skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the stress comes from not wanting to do boring stuffs in weekends, so yeah I actually hate weekends from time to time.
esbuild is 100x faster than js build tools, so in general 100x speed up sounds about right.
There's only one reason phenylephrine is used as a substitute in the OTC decongestant products: the general public can't pronounce or spell the word "pseudoephedrine" and they're intentionally being duped.

They walk into the grocery store, convenience store, or pharmacy after a sleepless night of breathing through their mouth, see the red package that says SUDAFED and a vaguely familiar-looking active ingredient, grab it, and plop their money on the counter.

PsEudoEPHedRINE

PhEnylEPHRINE

This is OTC medical fraud.
I'm in my 30s, and wanted to create an account out of curiousity (and maybe because there might be good discussions that I would be interested in). The sign-up page asks for your birthdate, and then says the community is exclusively for people over 50. I have more friends over 50 than under 50 lol.
> I can only assume that you or anyone you care about hasn't died or destroyed their life due to drug addition?

Actually, no, but slight correction: they were killed by the war on drugs, not the drugs. Similarly, I know multiple people who are almost definitely only alive today due to the existence of darknet marketplaces.
This data center: 160MW

Windpark Noordoostpolder: 430MW
This article is not about phishing scripts.
Unfortunately faster than 2x speed starts to overrun my ability to parse human speech =/ Maybe if I practiced...
So may be the problem is you never understood Anarchism. Because what’s happening in Portland is nothing close to Anarchism. It’s anarchy, with a small a. Now I guess you would call yourself an anarcho capitalist? Please don’t get me started….

You got greedy, that’s all that happened. It’s nothing complicated. You LARPed an anarchist when you were a kid, you traveled around, then somehow made some money, and you were able to end up buying a house in Portland. And now, the very system you used to make that money is destroying Portland and you’re complaining about the people? I get complaining about the government, but you’re putting all this on the people? Do you think people are kids wanna grow up to be addicted to drugs?

Portland didn’t fail because the culture changed, Portland changed because of housing speculation and housing investments and a housing bubble. Portland’s failing because of capitalism.

And this is the reason why I said look in the mirror.

And you don’t have to invade country to instigate a war.
Ok, and checking it I can see that foo.foo.foo increases specificity yet again and so on infinitum I suppose.

I suppose this behavior is specified somewhere and you've read that part of the spec thus explaining how you know it, however as the class declaration is not 'foo foo bar' I think if I were to read it I would conclude that I disagreed with whatever logic was given.

In fact this really seems to take away part of the argument for important, why not just make your rule be foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo when you really want to override something. Add enough foos you're sure to win out.

on edit: why I would find foo.foo acceptable if the class declaration was 'foo foo bar' is because, while I find 'foo foo bar' silly I can see why someone would specify what happens when it occurs. I would also have accepted if the spec said 'foo foo bar' is reduced down to 'foo bar' and foo.foo does not make any sense. I guess I find foo.foo not making sense as being my preferred behavior.
Going on vacation was awesome. Only model I didn’t worry about anything.

Some dude won the lottery / hit the bus. Minimal disruption to team.

Have ADD? Well your pair keeps you on task all day, so your biggest weakness is gone and your ADD brilliance shines through.

Need a few hours focus to figure out something complex. Ok this one wasn’t great.
It’s Our Moral Obligation to Make Data More Accessible
I'm the author of this piece. would really appreciate your thoughts and comments. I’d love to learn about other datasets that could really change the trajectory of society if made accessible. Also would love to read a counter-argument to this.
I was going to say, watching Ben Eater and building his 6502 machine myself filled in so many gaps in knowledge or fuzzy areas around basic computer hardware. If OP sees this he should definitely consider building some of these after Nand2Tetris.
>This is also why basically all GDPR consent trackers are "accidentally" so forgetful about your choice not to consent

They're perfectly entitled to track you as long as you don't opt out.

And when you opt out, they can't be held responsible for remembering it for even an instant, because they can't identify you.

"That's some catch, that Catch-22"
> Cars that have this technology onboard would cost upwards of $65000 which almost no one can afford comparatively.

I don't understand this line of thought. Ownership will be relegated to ultra-luxury status if cars can drive themselves.
Mondex needed special hardware for it's security properties. What we really need is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash
It’s a red flag when you see very precise numbers for things that are inherently difficult to measure.
I agree with you on that; specially after the lockdown & wfh combo. I started a cricket team in my town just because of this. Best thing I have done for my physical fitness!
I'm next door in Nevada.

Scraping together the required documentation for proving her address was problematic. I set up the utilities, I'm the one that deals with them, they're just in my name. She doesn't like dealing with that sort of stuff and at the time most of it was done her English (she learned her first word of English at 43) would have added needless complexity.

Even the property records are problematic on that--we put our house into an estate-planning trust. The correct titling of the property has the trust and then both of our names--but the system only *displays* two lines. Thus it shows the trust and then my name, hers gets omitted.
> Wouldn’t this be solved at the matching level ? You probably found that person online

Believe it or not, lots of transaction happen without finding someone online - maybe most, for most of the world. I think most of my transactions are offline.

> they [waitstaff] can be requested by contract to add it [the tip] to a pool

I don't think restaurants follow laws that closely.
daily use of proctoring software is as useful as daily proctology exams
How does your work relate to tree-sitter, which also manages patches which it describes as "incremental parsing" as well as error states.
Buying a firearm or alcohol isn't illegal but you may well not want your credit card processor and all the third parties they share your data with to know about those purchases.
Doing this in person sounds bad, doing this over Zoom would be monstrous. Back at a previous job I had to do pairing for many hours of the day over Zoom with less experienced developers, and it was unpleasant to say the least!
At some point, mvc frameworks have to do some magic to dynamically load classes. This should be done at runtime, but can’t imagine it’s an easy problem to solve.
Fastmail doesn’t allow custom domains on it’s first tier paid plan, does it?

$50 per year - custom domain, 30GB

$30 per year - no custom domain, no IMAP, 2GB (yes, 2GB!)

That’s some pricing!

The last thing you want is use an email that’s paid and not on your domain! Fastmail’s Basic paid plan is absurd not only price/feature wise, it’s useless just for not letting custom domain use.

I would rather stick to alternatives.
This does not make sense in terms of expected utility.
> Fuel-stops are going to change completely, what's the point of half of the motels on long-haul drives when your car can drive all night and likely recharge automatically at a stop-point.

Impact will be minimal. Truckers don't pay much, and over the years, truckers business has gone down significantly.
Risk adjusted scoring is done in some areas where we have the data for this (healthcare associated infections and antibiotic usage). And this is a place where hospitals and doctors actively do want it to work, because there are financial penalties associated with it.

It's still a fairly hard problem. I've had several very clever data scientists on teams who have gone "Oh, this is just an X problem..." and then 9 months later they're still trying to get a model to perform better than "Just take the average".
> What I’ve found effective in these cases is to lead with constructive energy directed towards a positive outcome. Even if you can’t get your peer’s performance addressed directly, you can often overcome your peer’s bad performance by generating excitement in the direction you want to go. Enough excitement will give the resolution avoidant manager a way to solve their problem without actually engaging with the situation that they’re unwilling to address.

The author arrives at a valuable conclusion in a somewhat roundabout way: The real solution to most problems, including low performing peers, is to step up and lead with a positive example.

Years ago I would have agreed that the authors' dismissal of "hard to work with" is unfair and inaccurate. None of us wants to believe that we are the one who is hard to work with. Everybody else is wrong! I'm not the problem, it's my coworkers who aren't doing exactly what I want them to do!

Yet as a manager, I've learned that the realities of hiring and managing people are very different than my overly idealistic standards when I was a junior IC. In retrospect, my ideas that it was my manager's job to ruthlessly punish or remove anyone I didn't feel was performing up to par or that I shouldn't be forced to navigate difficult social situations were unreasonable.

> It’s a truism that you always want to hire folks with very high standards, but I’ve seen a staggering number of folks fail in an organization primarily because they want to hold others to a higher standard than their organization’s management is willing to enforce.

Having high aspirations for yourself is great. Helping raise the bar through leading by example and mentoring your peers is great.

Running to your manager every time you feel dissatisfied with someone else's performance and arriving with only complaints is, however, not great.

No team is perfect. Hiring is hard. Nobody starts out as a superstar. People learn and grow at different rates. If you want to contribute, lead by example and help people out when they fall behind. As a manager I'm actually well aware of who's delivering and who's struggling, but we don't fire people the second they fall behind. We also notice who's helping the team reach the next level and who's simply in it for themselves.

If your only solution to every problem is to run to your manager and demand that they do something because a peer didn't do exactly what you wanted or expected, I'm first going to ask what you did to help move the situation forward on your own. The first question is usually "How did it go when you talked to them about?" The first answer of the difficult to work with people is "Well... I didn't talk to them about it".
The young folk don’t own anything.
If I had to guess, they're apart of a union and that's what the contract stipulates.
Various sources indicate that Google play made >10 billion in revenue, much of that being profit:
https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/android/254978/google-play-h...

These horror stories would mostly come from publishers that rely on the source of income, from whom the yearly Google play is likely to be at least a few thousands. There's no excuse to not involve a human in a decision as drastic as account termination.
> labs where they are chemicals

I strongly suspect these don't meet OSHA requirements as a respirator.
Thanks for an EXCELLENT answer.
>Maybe Ramon should go onto wiener dog forums, groups, subreddits, and advertise his product. List on Amazon, or partner with smaller, online pet businesses like Chewy

So advertise, but just not on FB?

>It may be easier for Ramon to click “sell to people who have wiener dogs,” but why shouldn’t a business be in charge of their own marketing?

You answered your own question. Marketing is hard work, and FB makes it very easy to target a huge customer base. Conversion might be good on reddit, but you can do that in addition. Why is FB off limits?
If you think about it, cash is a pretty amazing technology hack: All that meaning and power are embedded in a piece of paper that works securely, easily, anonymously, instantly.

> tracking

Though I wonder: The serial numbers on US cash look quite machine-readable. It seems like banks could trace the bills you take from the cash machine and the bills the restaurant deposits, and connect dots - not perfectly, but form a pretty good idea, especially using patterns over time.
Why Is Scotland Apologizing Now for Witch Trials 300 Years Ago?
One shortcoming that I found recently as I was selling my car is we don’t seem to have a good system for instant payments for large amounts of money.

Having lived in the UK for a while I noticed how bank transfers there seemed to be instant regardless of the amount (just my experience, never did anything over a few thousand).

But I was stuck in the position of either asking for way to much cash that I would be comfortable having to then take into the bank (and probably hard to find a bank that even had that much to withdraw in the first place) or accept a bank cheque which while most people say it’s “as good as cash” I noticed certain banks like NAB have a disclaimer that they can cancel them if they are reported lost or stolen.

I ended up accepting the bank cheque on Friday afternoon, couldn’t deposit it till Monday and then had 3 nervous days of waiting for it to clear.

While PayID and Osko seem to be taking us in the right direction, the limits are still too restrictive for large in person transactions like this.
Everyone here has been talking about how blog comments add little value. On many blogs they are right. But John D Cook's blog regularly has interesting comments, some of which he'll make posts addressing later. Maybe it's because he has a bigger blog or maybe it's something else but blog comments are capable of adding a lot of value.
I wonder how long their battery backup can keep up, if at all...
I think that someone newly interested in this should consider the longer history of distributed OS concepts too. What are you trying to do differently? What set of tradeoffs give you a well-defined solution space which is a gap in current approaches?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(operating_system) was a project at UC Berkeley that ran building-scale networks of workstations as a distributed OS. It ended in 1992 but produced innovations such as the log-structured filesystem along the way.

Various commercial products like Domain/OS or SGI Irix also were distributed operating systems at different scales. It seems like these lost out to the more typical HPC solutions with distributed/parallel OS instances limited to each node. Or on the other extreme, mainframe systems continue to be a kind of distributed OS built for high availability and scaling in a very controlled environment.
Yeah, one website I visited recently helpfully showed me the cookies that it would save if I accepted their cookie agreement. The first one on the list was the cookie to remember my response to their cookie agreement.
This really depends on design goals of course.

Usually browsers are tend to sacrifice memory consumption (e.g. caching) for rendering speed.

In Sciter, for example, this page on HN occupies less than megabyte in RAM. Sciter has quite different design goals than browsers.
These apps are pretty much not useable in rest of the world.
I'd like to see more attention put into carving out a subset of Mastodon's functionality that would allow you to host your fediverse node on a static site, à la blog feeds powered by RSS/Atom.

The discovery problem can be handled pretty straightforwardly: if you want notifications of replies to your posts, then that's just another feed that you subscribe to—a separate service. You don't exactly need an always-on "instance" providing an inbox endpoint to relay notifications to you.

You give up private channels (DMs), but you gain a lot more flexibility. It's a shame that there are so few server (and client) implementations for "the fediverse". We should have at least half as many options as we have in static site generators themselves. (In fact, with this approach, your preferred static site generator could become part of your "client"...)

Imagine your corner of the fediverse being reachable at $YOURNAME.github.io.

Prior art: Fritter <https://github.com/beakerbrowser/fritter>
When I used cash to buy something at the store, I have to take out my wallet, count the appropriate amount of cash, wait for the cashier to give back any change, confirm I got the right amount back.

If I use a credit card, I just insert a piece of plastic into a slot, and we're done. It's more convenient.

Negative side effects of using cash also include having to carry a bulging wallet when I'm constantly trying to minimize the stuff I have to carry.

Side effects of using credit card is that all my transactions are tracked, but the side effect of that side effect is that I know exactly what I'm spending where. And no, I'd rather not do a manual bookkeeping routine, which is what I'd have to do if I used cash.

Yes, there is the side effect that third party entities might also know what my transactions are, but I simply don't care. Maybe there is some far off scenario in the future where it can be used against me, but I view worrying about that remote possibility as premature optimization. I have far greater things to worry about.

I understand the benefits of using cash even if I don't find those benefits valuable for myself personally. But I don't understand how someone can find using cash more convenient than swiping a credit card.
I listened to a podcast about Ramon's story and it certainly had the ring of truth - the guy was an internet marketing specialist who bought the weiner dog ramp business as he sensed it was a good product that was failing to find its potential market. Through the use of highly targeted ads he was able to find potential customers at a cost lower than his profit on the goods - so he turned it into a successful business.

Throwing money at internet marketing without a lot of thought is probably throwing it away for many businesses. Hiring a specialist to do your marketing is often not really any better because the industry is rife with shysters.
> Out of 52 weekends, I didn’t work more than 30% of them.

Assuming you are working a standard Mon - Fri, the correct amount of weekends to be working is 0.

There is some tradeoff point if you make overtime and you need the money. If you are salaried, then just say no.

I occasionally get asked to work a late night or a weekend. It's never a real emergency - nobody is blocked, it isn't software that impacts live users, etc. It's just scheduling fails by some middle manager somewhere. My answer is always the same:

"Oh, sorry, I can't. Already scheduled."
Don’t work weekends. Don’t read the news. Spend time with loved ones. Make art or enjoy art.
> It's only a matter of time before no grocery store will accept cash. The young will prefer the convenience of digital payments and won't care enough about the slippery slope to do otherwise.

People trying to push an agenda (not you) love to create a sense of inevitability. Don't believe it.

Lots of people have no access to digital payments, and objectively, how are they more convenient than cash? Do they save time? Seriously, add up the time: what is the net gain or loss? Is cash hard to use?
maybe for your utility function
Thanks! Looks great.

I often find myself opening Outlook just to look at a calendar.

It also doesn't let me mark dates easily, like yours does.
I think you might find yourself arrested, regardless of your legal theory.
its only crazy if you're not affected by the terms
Don't do boring things! Go build a robot in your backyard. Learn to sail a boat. Take up martial arts.
Google official Site Reliability Engineering site
I agree with you! I hope to reduce this to 0%.
I guess I don't see why your family doctor won't be open to referring you to another specialist. My experience was probably not normal in Canada since my parents are doctors.
Can you clarify your comment? There is a shortage of truckers in the US (and many other countries from what I understand). What do you mean by "Truckers don't pay much"? Truckers don't pay much to whom?

At the same time, motels aren't likely the big losers here as I believe most long-haul truckers sleep in the beds in the truck
I can think of a certain recent virus that fits that description
I’m not saying this is a great way to do it but — you can go somewhere that if you can’t stay passionate, you drown.
On the other hand: tracking clinical outcomes actually tells us if a treatment actually works - a net positive for the species, I'd have thought.
not in the slightest. it's a portal to the web for a very large amount of people.
I'll suggest Searx/SearXNG as a search engine. It's self-hosted, but you can find public instances at https://searx.space/

If you decide to go the self-hosted route, it's trivial to deploy with searx(ng)-docker. Being a meta-search engine, it can pull results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, dictionaries, torrent sites, etc; this gives it a degree of customisability that traditional search engines don't have.

I'll also mention Whoogle, which serves as a libre front-end to Google, although it doesn't currently support any other search engines.
Plenty of restaurants are cash only. They do not want to share their very thin profit margin with the electronic money vendors.
It really depends on what job you’re going for. There are seven big sectors with tons of variation in culture and processes between them. I’m actually trying to find experience full stack devs right now, so if that’s up your alley we can definitely talk. If you’re looking for something else, I can for sure point your resume toward the right department.
One extremely important factor is that the physical length affects the radiation pattern. Roughly speaking: as the EM waves go back and forth through the antenna wire, the electrical current will reach different peak values in different parts of it. The parts where the current is higher are the ones that irradiate most. Sometimes you want to adjust and interfere in this process to create certain patterns of interest. E.g.: an antenna to talk to other ground-based stations should irradiate more to the sides, while one for satellites should irradiate more to the sky. There are many ways of building patterns of interest, and tweaking the antenna length is one of them.

On RX/TX antennas, those patterns apply both to TX and RX, i.e., they will pick more signals coming from the same directions they irradiate more strongly.

It's a fascinating field. There are many things I don't quite understand yet, and I see some controversy even among professionals, it seems that sometimes they can't settle on a single explanation for certain phenomena.
Also known as the "The Daily Telegraph can quote someone saying "against its will" when its only 20% against it, as long as they also have doubts about it".

What would you consider "the will of the UK" to be on this issue?

What did you consider "the will of the UK" to be at the last election, or over the issue of Brexit? Presumably we need some mechanism to decide the answer to such questions, and a majority is the one we've leaned into for some time.
Can't agree more.

Sometimes I just want to build and customize some models alone. Lego or Gundam or some ancient ship.

No phone calls, no friends, families and socializing.

Even though I love coding, but sometimes I do feel exhausted. Don't even want to touch the keyboard, gamepad or any electronics.