skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "The concept stems from the theory of 'parental alienation syndrome' coined in the 1980s by US child psychiatrist Richard Gardner. The 'syndrome' went on to be largely rejected."

Psychology is not a science and we need to stop treating it like one. So much harm has been done by people giving credibility to faddish psychological theories. For example: https://psmag.com/social-justice/dangerous-idea-mental-healt... https://lithub.com/moral-panic-and-the-myth-of-recovered-mem....

It's not just "a few bad apples," either. These things keep happening because the field isn't rigorous, and can't feasibly be made rigorous.
I am (perhaps unreasonably) annoyed by the mixed units. The narrator and captions are using knots for speed, which is standard for aviation in most of the world. The on-screen display is using km/h, which is standard for everything else in most of the world.
If you look at the IRS rules for deductibility on a home office, they are pretty strict. It needs to be a physically defined area that is used only for work. If you use the same area as living space, or use the same desk and computer for personal stuff, it's not deductible. If you work off of a laptop, sometimes sitting on the couch, sometimes at the kitchen table, it's not deductible. I don't know if California law is more relaxed, but if it is, then I would think that any expense reimbursements would be taxable income at the federal level.
“From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to prove that this is no lie.”

— Hokusai
It depends. This is really up to you.

Here's what I have started doing:

* Don't bookmark, add to a relevant Notion doc instead.

An exception is for tools or pages I definitely will visit again soon because I either use them all the time or I'm in the middle of a project that requires them. In this case they go in the bookmarks bar and nowhere else. (e.g. webmail link)

* Keep a minimal number of tabs open, so that the information keeps flowing through my system and I don't have to go on tab closing binges

* Determine what I'm actually going to use the bookmark for as I'm preparing to either bookmark it or just close it.

Will I try this thing out? Make a YouTube video about it? Read it? Just want to re-evaluate it later?

This determines what Notion doc it goes into so I can do minimal sorting of bookmarks later and just get to using them.

If the answer is "idk, just kinda want to hold onto this", I skip it and leave it to the void.
The overblown population/fertility crisis
With ImageMagick convert, it does take up 1.5 gigabyte of RAM and take quite about 5 seconds. With ffmpeg, it only takes up 150MB and finishes about 10 times faster! I am really curious what makes swscaler from ffmpeg so memory efficient compared to other tools.
CPI adjusted prices were lower in 2011 than they were in 2001, so your dad was probably onto something.

The question is would rent have been cheaper or more expensive than home ownership over the time span in the area he would have bought a house. In many hot markets like California, renting was a better move during that time as rents were very cheap relative to the cost of the inflated housing prices during that time.
The WFH corollary is if your employer started paying for a WFH spare bedroom (which almost certainly costs more than office space for one desk), they'd only pay you for median (at best) rent for that room. Why should they pay for a bedroom in SF when you could just as easily be in Akron.
> since allocating them is usually just a pointer bump, they can be as cheap as stack objects.

I don't think that's quite true. Even with a copying/moving GC, you still need to traverse all the live objects and then copy all of them. Asymptotically as cheap as stack objects maybe, but in reality the overhead is greater. GCs also have some amount of overhead due to all the synchronization they need to do.
UK competition watchdog investigates mobile browsers, cloud gaming, and payments
Without the "ML". The goal is to resell the software, not recruit people below you to resell and recruit more people, etc.
This had appeared a few times before at earlier stages of the draft process...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28088213 [244 comments]

Personally, I really like UUIDv7, except I transform the UUID to a 25-character string which has all the same properties except it doesn't look like a UUID. The last thing I want is my index of time-sortable UUIDs getting contaminated with with some UUIDv4 fully random ones. Since UUIDs may be generated and persisted in a distributed manner, it's a simple way to at least spot this.
> I couldn't find a key combo (or any way to configure it) to navigate between classes and functions in the same file.

That's an interesting use case, it totally makes sense, it's something I don't know I could have, even though I rarely use mouse. I'm just used to Ctrl+Shift+O and search for member names.

I guess that's the real value of a well-designed IDE. It has everything you may find useful and made it discoverable. Once you know such thing exists, you can... https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mishkinf...

> who in the hell decided to bind "jump to definition" to F12

Well, it's "Visual Studio" Code, and Visual Studio had this keybinding for at least 20 years. I understand that it does not work for you, but there is a reason.

I grew up using zero Macs, so "go to definition" in my brain always map to "F12 as a single key, or gd in normal mode in a modal editor". Oh, and F12 is easily reachable on an US ANSI 104 keyboard.
The suspected link seems to be a negative one. This paper I found concludes:

Discussion

Our systematic review highlights the dearth of available evidence regarding the risk of skin cancers in relation to dietary omega-3 PUFAs. For SCCs, the combined results of the two
informative articles 34,37 showed a nonsignificant 14% reduction among those with relatively high consumption of n-3 PUFAs.

Only one article has addressed the association of fatty fish and melanoma, and it suggested a significant halving of risk in those with diets rich in oily fish. 35 Meta-analysis of the two
studies with data available for BCC showed no association between n-3 PUFAs or oily fish and BCC. 36,38

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24265065/
Poop != No Poop. I have proven this on the toilet many times. Sorry.
Is Calamari fish ???.
You’re right. A whistleblower has to report illegal activity, and that’s not what the petition does. My phrasing is bad.
I don’t think most people work well from home.
This is 100% true. Genetic predisposition to something != inevitability.
How do you calculate pricing? I have a saas and a lot of customers ask me for a white label solution, so they can resell it to their own customers, but I always struggle with how do I price it correctly.
Apps for Adults Are Spying on Them
You're dismissing the data that is available in favour of speculation and anecdotes. That may be emotionally satisfying on some level, but it's no way to reach an understanding of the world.
Courts are the wrong way to address this. The legal system is both overly punitive and toothless in family law.

It cannot punish other than removing access to children. Anything else punishes the children as much as the parent.

In my opinion the missing solution is a community-based arbitration process that requires the participation of those who know more about the history/reality. Too often people are afraid of taking a side.
For that site, more like anti-seizure meds
Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust? [Transcript of 2018 Talk]
Great project!

However is there any features over just going to developer tools > Sensors > Location and overriding it manually?

Is it just to be able to match your IP automatically ?

I'm currently using it on brave, and there is always an info bar that pops up("Vytal" started debugging this browser session)

Is there a way to permanently dismiss this?, because it pops up with every refresh and its very annoying.
Crop Circles Were Made by Supernatural Forces. Named Doug and Dave
> In the same way there are no criminals or good or bad people.

I'm not arguing that no one bears the moral responsibility for their actions or that there are no laws to determine who's a criminal.

> Sure, I don't believe in free will either,

I didn't make any statements about determinism.

> Of course we're lucky to live in the richest society ever created in history which gives us opportunities our ancestors didn't have. You can thank capitalism for that.

> Sure, I'm thankful that my family could afford a computer when I was a kid but nobody really encouraged me to follow this route or gave me any money.

It's been pretty much the same for me.

I think the main point I'm trying to convey is; hard work is not enough. Many people work hard all their live and don't get anything other than a body broken by destitution.

Hard work is not the point of the "self-made" millionaire; luck is.
> So just buy everything all the time and it will all work out?

No, that's your interpretation.

I should clarify what I meant there: it's about calling the bottom or calling the top, on a short-term basis. No one can do that.

> one can gradually rotate out of overpriced assets and into underpriced assets

that's different from timing the market.

If you think you can do it, then publish your portfolio's performance over a long period of time (10 years or more).
Twitter is a single, centralised source where RSS is decentralised - everyone and his dog can provide a feed which can be followed by the world. No censorship, no dirty tricks with algorithms between you and your audience, no BigTech Beasts™ feeding on your data. In other words, RSS is clearly the superior solution both for source as well as subscribers. Twitter et al might not like this but... who cares?
Short answer, I doubt it. Titles, domain names, and musical group names are all examples of things that explicitly can not be copyrighted. Here's the source:

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html

You may be thinking of trademark. If your online handle is a trademark, you can exclude others from using it in trade. Linus Torvalds owns the trademark to "Linux" but has licensed it perpetually for free:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mark_Institute
Challenge: Pixel perfect design
This was my first thought. Anecdotally when I lived near the beach I ate a lot more fish due to the availability of fresh seafood.
Since its near you, have you tried going there and explaining it to the manager?
the hover power density is insane, 2500W/kg
Linux Mark Institute
No it’s not unrealistic. Any decently bright and hard working college student studying computer science can get that 100k+ even as an intern. So technically this saving can start before age of 21. By age 25 they can already make 300k+. But yes, this is assuming you are in North America.
Obviously in the present context "synthetic" refers to fuel produced using renewable energy. If you are willing to use petroleum, you don't need to synthesize anything because that is where you started, unless maybe you are turning NG into kerosene. But that would be a dead end technology, so would not return investment.

Energetically, the principal synthetic fuels will be anhydrous ammonia and hydrogen. Capturing CO2 to make methane and kerosene is possible but more expensive. In particular, you need hydrogen as input, and must both capture and crack the CO2.

But for some uses you still need hydrocarbons, at least for now. Given carbon taxes subsidizing synthetics, the synthetics could be competitive.

In the longer term, aviation does much better with liquid hydrogen fuel, but it takes new airframes or, at least, extensive retrofits.
Well flying and driving don’t have much in common so the comparisons break down fast.

Airplanes operate in a completely different environment than cars. Airplanes have radar and radios onboard and rely on ground based information and pre-planning for traffic avoidance. It’s a completely different system.

GM’s vision of self driving cars looked a lot more like the air traffic control system than Tesla’s autopilot.

https://youtu.be/cPOmuvFostY
- You can keep your editor with Jetbrains even after the license expires, you just don't get updates.
- They never force you into updates.
- Many of my LaTeX files from 20 years ago don't work anymore unless I go back and go use old versions.
- Your IDE does not modify your source code so your source code stays in an interpretable format.

I agree that you loose the ability to modify and adapt your editor (beyond plugins but that's still pretty limited compared to what you can do with emacs for example)

Using an editor doesn't force you to stay in a relation for life. if Jetbrains turns into a cash cow, I can go use any editor I want. Outside of muscle memory and preference, I have 0 dependency on them.
The expanded San Francisco font family
I think it applies to humanity as a whole. There's a certain obsession with a false sense of control.
> Well if we're talking about commercial aviation, we're talking about jet fuel not gasoline. Regardless, it obviously matters a lot. A fully loaded 747 freighter has somewhere around 200 tons of jet fuel and a max payload of about 130 tons.

You only need giant quantities of kerosene for transoceanic or transcontinental travel. The lilium business model requires a range of a few 100 km, which is possible with today's batteries.

Very long distance air travel is impossible with today's commercially available batteries, but is possible with exotic chemistries (see below) or with hydrogen fuel cells.

> This doesn't jive with what I've read. It's my understanding that we're already near the limits of what electrochemistry can give us, and future advancements are likely to come from improved electrode designs, with maybe 2-3x better performance possible if we're lucky.

There are several battery chemistries such as lithium sulfur or lithium air that have extremely high energy densities. But cycle life remains very low, which makes them uneconomical.

There has been decent progress made in improving cycle life, but it is still too low to be economical. There are military applications where a low cycle life is acceptable.
When you have used the display config tool in Windows 9x to XP, you see why this API is like this.

The API lets you position each monitor independently on the 'virtual desktop', and sometimes there are constraints which mean certain positions aren't possible - and the API needs to give feedback on if a position, colour depth and resolution is allowed. Then you hit 'apply' and the change takes effect.

I don't really see any better way to implement the API without leaking implementation details which might change in future windows versions.
That's the article I was expecting, also. Lack of foresight these days is a serious problem - with the mis-education current in the US, the younger cohorts are losing the historical perspective developed so painfully over the last four thousand years. What to do is not so important as what not to do.
How much is your cash roughly? Can you survive on only that if you bought the house?
Going from one end of the pendulum to the other is not help.

Budgeting and individual responsibility is important. As are other factors.
I have so many weird power problems with my current XPS, I would not recommend Dell, especially a less repairable model.

My current XPS (2 years old) doesn't hibernate well, and the BIOS will lose UEFI/disk settings if I forget to charge it for a few days. Once I had to unscrew everything in order to remove the CMOS battery, to make it boot again (based on random forum suggestions).

My daughter still uses my older one, and after changing the battery for a generic one, it still works fine.
I really like being able to work from home, or for that matter anywhere I can plug in the laptop. That said, this article is a lot more significant than it looks, not because of labor/management power dynamics, but because California law has created an incredibly risky situation for employers that allow remote workers. And after looking at the statute, it looks like you couldn't even do a home office stipend and be safe from a lawsuit.

> The first is a flimsy premise because companies simply don't have the power to take WFH away and I think they know that.

If you view this from the position of power dynamics, reality is the issuer of paychecks will eventually win, especially because they will be driven by fear of lawsuits like this. This isn't the first time people got ran out of the office: back when 9/11 happened, everyone went remote, loved it, and then had to go back. Yes, tech wasn't as good, but we had WebEx (slow internet, though), instant messaging (better than slack & friends) and email.

> So powerful, in fact, that it's a hiring advantage for your competitors if you attempt to bar WFH.

I'm not so sure this is the case. For a lot of people, there was not a salary adjustment when COVID set them free of the office. A lot of people moved to lower cost areas... and kept their salary. Eventually, salaries will normalize to local prevailing wage, plus or minus for the job title and positioning of the job (i.e. we are a better employer and have better pay and benefits) and companies will use a round of layoffs to adjust this. It makes no sense to pay a developer SV salary if they are in Modoc, Indiana or moved to Estonia now.

> Billing for fractional usage is not impossible nor difficult, and you can bet if a company was billing a customer for fractional usage, they would have it down to an exact science.

The point the article is making is that employees suing over de minimus costs is really bad for workers. The energy star tag on my monitor and laptop say I can power both for $28 per year. The guy in the article is suing over $50-$100/month. Seems like there's a lot to argue about... so there is substantial risk. It will cost the employer $18k-$50k to deal with the lawsuit.
> But it's always strange to me when people say the same thing to mean the opposite, that prosperity is just luck, and not the result of anyone's work at all.

It's easier to achieve success, when you're born in rich family, rich country. It's easier, when you have good health, high intelligence and great people skills. In modern world these factors make difference between success and failure. That's why being "self-made" in most case is over hyped. We can compensate our flaws, but some start without them. In almost every case, you won't reach the top from bottom, because gap in wealth is too huge. "Self-made" is survivor bias.
That’s true but runways are quite long and we need several of them at least.

And we wouldn’t need the same level of centralization for small landing pads.
What I miss in Java, the perspective of a Kotlin developer
I agree and it sure seems like people are being intentionally obtuse about this. As if no one has ever expressed exaggerated frustration in this way. Comparing this to Trump is a bit ridiculous.
This repo contains all the free versions including Pycharm
Splitting Words the Unicode Way
Minimum effective altitude for parachutes on light aircraft is about 400 ft agl, but the exact number varies depending on the flight regime. For powered lift aircraft there is likely a small "dead zone" in the flight envelope: too high to survive a crash, too low for the parachute to be effective. This may or may not be acceptable depending on mission risk tolerance and the reliability of other systems.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/march/flig...
> What can possibly be done to make the system more equitable?

There was a man who had to take his dead wife's urn into school because they repeatedly insisted on talking to "the child's mother".

My kid's medical records are literally attached to my wife's medical records - I have to login with her username and password to view after visit summaries etc.

In effect, child related institutions like schools and family doctors systematically treat fathers as second class parents.

And then family courts look at things like involvement with schools and doctors to decide who gets custody - as if those institutions weren't biased against fathers in the first place!

We should have laws to (1) prevent discrimination against fathers by all these institutions (2) order courts to take into account that discrimination when determining custody to avoid perpetuating the existing bias.

(And if you agree these should be laws - please call your legislators and tell them! Nothing will change if people don't tell their elected representatives how they feel about these issues.)
Biofuel is an obvious dead end.

The future has no place for biofuel in any substantial amount.
Gee, I wonder why Iran restarted its nuclear program...

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/pr...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/08/iran-advances-nuclear-p...
I've never bothered looking at Google's interpretations of menus on Google Maps. When available, I'm just always going to go to the actual restaurant website and look there instead.

What I have found occasionally useful is the (presumably automatic) categorization of photos into a menu category. Those at least generally let me know whether something's up to date (especially useful the last couple years as restaurant concepts have fluctuated wildly), and are very helpful for places that don't have much online presence - street food stands, pubs, local fast food places, that kind of thing.
I so want to own this coin, and was initially disappointed by this news, but then realized that by an application of hard work and a certain amount of investment, it is possible for me to own just over half of the total market cap. Good thing it is provably safe against 51% attacks.
Yes, I've considered the possibility of it being intentional on Tesla's part. It's impossible not to consider it with all the conspiracy theorists and short sellers repeatedly bringing it up on Hacker News and elsewhere.

However, I don't buy into the theory, for the reason that Tesla's proactive, frequent, and aggressive informational notices clarifying the point are impossible to miss when you are in the car, and that goes completely counter to the theory.

And their informational messages are also there prior to that during the buying experience.

And prior to that in the marketing.

Why would Tesla do all these reminders about the human needing to maintain oversight and control, if they are trying to trick you into thinking the opposite?

Haters latch on to the marketing as if it's the only thing, and ignore the caveats in the marketing, and ignore the informational messages during the buying process, and ignore the in-car information and the in-car active measures the car takes to make sure you are paying attention.

Haters dismiss all that and pretend it does not exist.

To what end, I'm not sure, I think it is to stay in a comfort zone regarding a delusion they have about their opinion being the right one. Confirmation bias doing its job.

I do appreciate you bringing up the point. It's a fascinating phenomenon.
Zero chance of helicopters in cities after 9/11. You can’t fly helicopters over SF or Manhattan anymore except for medical purposes.