skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if a volume collective license agreement with ISPs would do it. I still find good, incisive reporting to be highly useful. The problem is the same as with subscribing to streaming services these days: there's too many. I might read from several sources but they all want payment information, authentication credentials, I have to be logged in, etc.

Would anyone notice if there was an extra $1.50 tacked on to your Internet bill? Some organization collects it from the ISPs and redistributes to the new sites based on viewership statistics from a trusted third party with a reserve for new/independent/grassroots/minority sources. Then I don't have to log in, renew my subscription to each site, and they still get funded for reporting.

I'm not super connected to the media publishing world or anything but it seems to me like a concentration-of-power thing is creating incentives for sensational/entertainment reporting than journalism. A system where billionaires wouldn't have a reason to buy up all of the sources for their circus would be nice.
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I went from developer to product manager. I'm better at developing and have more earning potential as a developer, but I can't stop product managing because I just can't handle staying heads down on a development project while there are big picture problems to solve at product/business level.

I think my ideal situation is running a one man software business where I can do both development and product management, but I've yet to start a business large enough to go full time .
Unfortunately, there are people that take that "we really don't know for sure" comment as a negative as "proof" of whatever thing they are pushing instead. The internet is full of them.
The key part for me was:

> [Lawyer] argued that Riad’s actions — driving 74 mph on a surface street — did not rise to “gross negligence” and should not be considered a felony.

At that speed, the driver's momentum was around 67.000 kg*m/s.

That is an impact about 10 times bigger as getting thrown out of a plane and hitting the ground at terminal velocity.

I'd say it's gross negligence to drive that fast at all on any surface street with sidewalks, traffic lights, intersections, stores, whether the driver is asleep at the wheel or not, autopilot or not, drugged or not.
It's cheaper than many other additives.

Graphene flakes are all that is needed for concrete reinforcement, and it's trivial to produce, even at scale. Carbon chunks are thrown into industrial blenders with water and detergent, resulting in graphene flakes sheared and then separated in suspension. The flakes are separated, washed, and dried.

Large graphene sheets are hard. Tiny flakes are trivial, gradeschool kitchen science.
The optimizations were very domain specific for them to work on anything other than that particular problem, and I certainly don't know enough to contribute to projects like LLVM or GCC.
If internal procedures allow Meta employees to be paid (in cash or favors of any kind) to be internal champions for repeatedly resubmitting bans to the Integrity Team roulette appeals process, “proper” is the opposite of the word I would use to describe the practice.
Shopify Store more predatory than the App Store with its developer cut
FYI this is an old clip. I can’t recall the original source, but I’ve seen this video before. I think the interview was also before Covid.
And Toit. Only null and false are falsey.
(I haven't yet had the good fortune of visiting Europe).

I can see why you said the train takes 221 minutes.

However, "225 minutes" for bus? I know y'all are known for punctuality, but are buses in Switzerland/Germany that precise?!

Also, is it customary to tell such durations in minutes, as opposed to something like "4 hour 45 minutes" or "4 and 3-quarter hours"?

Where I'm at, nothing runs on time unfortunately. Over here I sometimes feel arrival times of trains should just say "morning" instead of showing an actual time like 8:20 am.
I get the satire and I hate to be pedantic… BUT

The phrase “safe and effective” has a legal meaning and only applies to (1) drugs and vaccines, (2) high risk medical devices, and (3) novel medium risk medical devices.

The phrase “safe and effective” notably does not apply to the practice of medicine, which is not regulated by FDA. When it comes to medical practice, you are usually speaking in the language of (CMS) quality / value - “quality adjusted life years” - and then clinical endpoints - blood pressure below X.

I know this is being pedantic, but as someone who has had an up close view of FDA regulatory policy / process from both sides of the table, it literally hurts my head to see some of the inaccurate and misguided stuff that gets bandied about on the interwebs.
True, however in software there are many cases in which they're different. Simple example:

How many checked luggage items do you have?

nil means the user hasn't answered the question

0 means they saw the question and don't have any checked luggage.
TLS libraries also typically still have a fair amount of ASM. I remember when it was pretty much mandatory to have an SSL accelerator board to run a largish website. The optimised ASM in TLS libs + newer gen processors finally killed that off.

Of course, generally, lots of crypto libraries have ASM, but the TLS example is interesting because it's everywhere.
This is a dumb article. I like it.

It's clear the author doesn't have a commercial goal, or really any goals imo, but is just playing around and tinkering. There is something really delightful about projects where there is no revenue or external goal that come up with some fun result.
huh? he was talking about a nyt sub
Yeah it happens with large amounts, I used to take lots of caffeine pills and it could sometimes happen more than once a day..

Now I don't take more than 1 cup on average, and not more than 2 cups on bad days.
> There's lots of things the media has called Autopilot.

The media, or Tesla? It's not the media's fault if there's confusion on the several marketing terms Tesla has come up with to imply it will drive for you.
The infrastructure that is used by the planes (air) is way cheaper than the one used by the trains (rail). Air maintenance costs are about zero. Rails maintenance is far from it.

The nature is subsidizing air travel much more than any government ever could.
Isn't everything just compiled to wasm?
well yes I was talking in general, actually for brain aneurysms the recommendations I made are likely to increase mortality because the aneurysm has more likelihood to break with a vasodilated overflow.
compile with --march=native can often be significant.
Now we know what course of action to suggest the next time someone posts "Ask HN: My [FAANG] account is locked"!
You have ADHD. Your anxiety is a comorbidity. Get a specialist psychiatrist. It has to be a specialist on ADHD.
I was once a loyal subscriber to car & driver magazine for many years. then i wanted to take a few years off. At that point I started get highly deceptive and aggressive retention ads from that company: "your subscription has expired", "your bill is overdue", etc, etc. they try to make you believe that you accepted another year of subscription when you really have not. So, never again.

And why won't they let me pay for news the way I want? I'd much rather pay on a per article measure rather than a subscription. As a consumer, there's nothing I hate more than a subscription plan. If anything I'm trying to get rid of subscriptions in my life, not get more of them.

Then there's the quality of most news sites. There's a reason why people on hacker news immediately read the comments before reading a news article: it's because the average writing and synthesis of thought is much better on hacker news commentators than the average news site.
Are commercial air purifiers using something better? Part of the reason I'm skeptical of the commercial market is that when I look at the teardowns of these products they're either doing something questionable where they're sacrificing air volume for noise, or they're basically using regular filters of the same or less quality that you can buy from a store.

I don't doubt you at all that cheap filters work less well, but at the same time, what are the consumer-grade commercial purifiers that aren't using cheap charcoal filters? I don't think I've ever noticed an in-store purifier that took pellets, but maybe I missed something.

Edit: it does make me curious if with a Corsi-Rosenthal box you could hang a non-enclosed/mesh bag/basket of charcoal pellets under the fan inside of the box and if that might produce better results than attaching charcoal filters to the sides. The obvious problem that springs to mind though is that this would make the design a lot more complicated and annoying to build. Might also result in charcoal dust spread around too, which might defeat the purpose of a purifier in the first place.
The State of Application Modernization, 2022
Customs /international shipments. There is a long history of seizing illegal or suspect material at boarder crossings where the actual owner/importer is unknown or not available. A funny-named lawsuit against a box is significantly better than the alternative: zero legal process and no case recorded anywhere.
In most of the spaces I frequent, an edit to change objectionable wording after being called on it is acceptable. Since you've made it plain that that sort of approach doesn't work here, I'll keep that in mind.
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> (On that note, Groot Kormelink noted in a Twitter thread that he has a paper-in-progress showing that “when you do get people to subscribe, the next challenge starts: getting them to actually use their subscription.”)

There's another challenge after that: the inevitable massive price hike after 6-12 months.

I don't even have to scroll the comments to know that HN people are complaining about seeing ads after subscribing, or having to call to cancel their subscription. For me, that's not the issue.

The issue is having a bait-and-switch pricing structure that incentivizes to cut and run after the '$1 trial' period. 3 months later it goes up to $25/month or something ridiculous. And every paper seems to treat pricing differently and have a myriad set of subscription options beyond the base print/digital choices. The article mentions Netflix and Spotify, but doesn't mention the effect of relative price stablility on those platforms that possibly reduce churn, compared to newspapers.
I got the best stuff ever for you: In depth chess videos. I once had bought a chess game (not sure if it was the chess master series) and it contained a whole bunch of annotated games by a GM.

It was interesting but also tired my brain so quickly, that it was the best sleep tool ever.
And yet I seem to remember we were told government would not be making vital healthcare decisions like the greedy private sector corporations. That was supposedly a chief selling point to government managed care.
No definitely not, this is just for WIP branches. I usually don’t even push these, unless it’s something big that I need early review on.
Beach towns tend to have a main road one or two blocks from the ocean that may run for many miles and connect several beach towns. That can easily become a focal point for rolling "car shows".

In North/South Carolina beaches cruising in modified pickups where the front suspension is jacked up and loud mousing blasting is very popular. It's a non-stop car show every night, especially on the weekends.

It's entertaining if you are just there for the week but I wouldn't be surprised if the locals hate it.
Have you considered going the route of technical product manager? It seems like those projects have more rigid criteria than typical product management with all the business ambiguity.
Ok, so what are the restrictions/limits on the amount of "completely free" mail that can be sent?

There are always restrictions --- even when it is "unlimited".
I am so impressed how quickly LiveKit has developed and become polished. If you missed it they wrote a really good article on it here[0]

I also really love as a company how LiveKit operates. I work on an Open Source library they use (Pion). They contributed so much upstream and take an active part in the community. They also publicize that they are using it. It is great seeing people doing the 'right thing' succeed :)

[0] https://blog.livekit.io/livekit-one-dot-zero/
I did in fact mean TCP/non-TCP over TCP (or more correctly, datagram semantics over TCP)! While this is possible, it usually removes all the performance benefits of using datagrams over streams in the first place.

That's presumably what Google is referring to with their statement about TLS not working well for non-TCP (more precisely: non-stream-semantics) traffic: Encapsulation of datagrams in streams is possible, but very inefficient. That's why VPNs using TCP generally suck for performance sensitive operations. (They usually also do TCP-over-TCP, which is even worse than stream-over-TCP.)

TLS does require stream semantics to work efficiently; its security guarantees don't break in the presence of reordering, duplication or datagram loss, but all of these would be interpreted as active attacks or severe uncorrected lower-layer failures and probably either cause abysmal performance or even application-level errors due to unexpected/unhandled alerts.

And why go through the effort if there is already DTLS, which is to UDP (and other datagram layers) what TLS is to TCP?
Make medecine great again /s
Looks like a Datasette[0] clone which runs on top of something (jupyter) which runs on top of Python (ipython). I think I would like to see how much time it takes to open a massive dataset in Mito & in Datasette :P

[0]: https://datasette.io/
You are literally giving anecdotal evidence with N=1.

> But the Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawaii (B.E.A.C.H.) found that “plastic bottle caps are one of the top 10 items found during marine debris beach clean-ups and are the second most littered item after cigarette butts.”

https://sustainability.weill.cornell.edu/recycling/bottle-ca...

> The 2017 International Coastal Cleanup, an annual beach cleanup event run by ocean advocacy group Ocean Conservancy, reported that plastic bottle caps were the third most collected item worldwide

https://resource.co/article/what-should-you-do-plastic-bottl...
No one’s confused. From a technology perspective, the Autopilot was driving the car at the time of the crash. From a legal perspective, a human is always in charge of driving the car. It’s time Tesla claims were tested in court. No other manufacturer makes such grandiose claims, yet their systems are at par with what a Tesla can do.
Duchamp’s Urinal pops to mind. It had something to say, at least about your point of view.
Take it as evidence until the owner goes to trial. If there is no speedy trial, return it to the owner.
You have ADHD. Ditch Lex. It's ADHD, get a specialist on ADHD.
I’d argue all 3 criteria have been met (though, to be clear, I also don’t agree with your definition either):

- beauty is in the eye of the beholder

- this has been enshrined both in paper and digitally on the internet. That’s far more resilient than most peoples personal backups.

- and it’s generated discourse. From you in fact.
To get to news I have to search through an immense pile of junk littering the news outlets and social media. I have to extract one bit worthy of news from gigabytes of junk.

I go looking for news and I get, old news, comments and opinions on situation X, political activism, other kind of activism, half fake facts, completely fake facts, tabloid news and things that do not interest me.

Why should I pay for junk? If somebody would be in the business of delivering news, not junk, I would pay. But it's hard to find that someone.
It starts with the users themselves, in r/linux this type of news is excluded. In other places, they'll just cut you off and say you're a hater.
I used Dexedrine some years ago because I was dealing with a lack of focus, tiredness, and brain fog.

For the month or so that it worked, it was pretty awesome. My mind felt like it was hammering away and as sharp as I was in my twenties.

Unfortunately, that feeling didn't last more than maybe six weeks. I was advised by some to just increase the dosage, but my heart was already fluttering in my chest at the dosage I was at. Also, my sleep was odd, with weird dreams that would wake me up, preventing me from falling back asleep for hours. Added to that, my blood pressure got stuck over 140 and wouldn't come down.

If I could get a prescription that would give me the benefits of those first weeks of use, without destroying my health, I'd be all over it.

Eventually, my GP noticed that I had a thyroid deficiency that I'm not treating with thyroid hormone. That's helped a great deal with the tiredness and brain fog.
I disagree. The worst part of my day is getting up and forcing myself to get ready to go to a job I absolutely hate. Having to only do that 4 times a week versus 5 is far more important to me than getting home at 4pm instead of 6pm.
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I've always thought it was strange how acceptable it is to refer to a certain class of people as "rednecks" but referring to the same class of people with a different skin color as "wetbacks" is a bigtime no-no.
For those of us of a certain age, does anyone else recall a series on PBS from the early 90s (maybe earlier) on physics and calculus? I remember whatching these programs well before I took those classes so that I didn't understand all of it, but when I finally got to them in school, the concepts in the videos made much more sense and the videos helped make sense of some of the textbook learning too.
Journalists are by and large full of shit and even most "high quality" reporting is filled to the absolute brim with nonsense. What is left after you take out everything that deals with facts? Opinion pieces. I can get those talking to my neighbours, for free.
It's effectively dead now that "not having it" doesn't kill your organic traffic.

It lingers only because poorly funded media websites have to pay someone to help them migrate off of it.
Was just a statement of fact. 11 years at one company with only 20 engineers runs into limits of your scope pretty fast.
> The Hacker News crowd should be developing a 'red light camera' system for excessively noisy vehicles. Inspiration already lies in the 360 degree conference room camera systems.

It already exists. Last year it was pilot tested in a few cities in France and this year they've apparently started rolling out the technology nationally.

I couldn't find an article in English. The tech is called a "méduse" ("jellyfish" because of the way the microphones hang down off of it) or "radar anti-bruit" if you want to try searching.
Can't help for the 2nd one. For the first one, I assume it's a mix of rust is amazing, a few initial libraries made it easy to set up crypto projects and it has grown into an ecosystem, for low latency bit banging like you might need to do trading on a Blockchain Rust will be much nicer to work with than C++ and finally, cryptocurrency needs to project as much legitimacy and safety as possible to keep up the charade, so on top of "military grade Crypto" why not throw "memory safe language, fearless itération, borrow checker makes complexity safe" etc. onto the pile and hope people assume because one part can be technically safe, everything will be
If you have to decode n+4, you know the result can’t be in S, as its elements are mapped to {1,…,n}.

So, the result is in T. You subtract n, leaving 4, and use whatever bijection you had for T to decode that into an element of T.

If, on the other hand, you had n-4, you know it must decode to an element of S, and directly use its decoder to find that element.
There was a great TV show about the line that runs up the west coast of India from Kerala to Mumbai. The line that the British didn't build due to the terrain was built by the locals privately and despite the poverty of many people in India, the one profit making service was the train that took the small trucks from the south of India up to Mumbai. Quicker and cheaper for the lorry drivers and profitable for the railway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkan_Railway
This. I don’t want to know there’s a nodule and then hear “but it could be nothing. Don’t worry about it.”

Because then suddenly, I’ll become hyper aware of every potentially significant symptom and have to resist the urge to constantly google and check if there’s a chance it might indicate something. Is that pimple a pimple? Hey, I don’t remember my neck feeling this lumpy. Boy, I sure do seem to have sinus issues a lot. Are these joint aches normal? Etc, etc, etc.

As a kid, I felt absolutely invulnerable to worrying about my health. The first time I experienced true health anxiety is when my doctor pointed out a mole on my back and said “do you want to check this mole for cancer?” to which I replied, “oh, I guess so?”… only he didn’t. Because he checked with insurance, and insurance came back negative on it.

I am still in my 20s. I’m not in the best health, but my everyday life is pretty uninhibited by health issues. I don’t wake up with coldsweats. So yeah, it could happen to me, but frankly it’s worth being skeptical at my age.

But when the doctor pointed out that mole, they shattered the mental barrier I had between myself and cancer patients. I knew mentally that of course it could happen to me, but I had absolutely no idea that the signs of it could literally be hiding on my back, and I would be none the wiser. I googled and I learned a whole lot, and my intuitions were very wrong. In fact, I had many symptoms that can indicate various cancers. I heard stories about pimples that were not pimples, back pain that was not back pain, etc. people living normal lives who just went in for a checkup and suddenly faced certain death.

I’ve mostly snapped out of the hypochondria mindset, but still today I wonder about some symptoms in a way I never would’ve before. My life is altered by this one thing a doctor said off hand.

And for what it’s worth, I’m not saying he should not have done that. Insurance should’ve covered the biopsy just in case. I’ve outright noticed that sometimes, doctors will slightly edit your responses to things to get insurance to OK a diagnostic, and I think it’s in some part because they know that if you don’t get that peace of mind it could be damaging. Being hyper aware of your heart beat or super concerned about sleep apnea is not as bad as suffering from actual disease, but it’s certainly it’s own kind of hell.

It’s weird to me because much like cancer patients, I viewed myself as separate from hypochondriacs and immune to it as a whole. A lesson learned the hard way, and now I feel a twinge every time I see a new headline about cancer or hypochondria.
Loved your post, but as an aside, this stood out to me:

>It was the first class I'd ever had where I actually really needed to study

I wish we had a way of challenging every smart kid with proper material. When I got to university and suddenly had to try, it was quite a shock to my system. I could, in theory, have used the first 18 years of my life much more productively.
> I have been sailing 9 weeks non-stop from Ushuaia to Lisboa.

What an incredible experience it must be