skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that on low, it’s too loud and pushes/filters too much air to be needed 24x7. It’s also bulky. I rather use a smaller profile one that can be left on all the time (even if it costs more)

I have the box fan and only use it when AQI is high (wildfire season)
Except typically when you do receive an email, it's a more important message and is more likely to contain important attachments or other information you need to retain vs messages via social media/ online messaging services, even if it's from friends/family.
Worse, not scanning your junk email regularly can lead to missing key information that you've been sent.
The current situation in general with how messaging is done online seems far from ideal, but it's hard to see too many good ways forward. Logically though if there were a reliable way to track who you've given out your details too, it should be possible to simply block messages that aren't from such sources.
It is for your own good.
Think about the children.
You are empowered.
Safe, private and secure.
We value your privacy.
/s
Packing cubes + rolling instead of folding is a great space saver.
The climate doesn't care who benefits from emissions, only how much is emitted.

Air travel is much harder to do without fossil fuels than ground transport or electrical generation, and is essential to civilization on the basis of cargo alone. It's simply not an efficient target for change right now.
Bumpy surfaces may give 2D materials new tricks
These kinds of analyses frustrate me to no end, because there’s an implicit metaphysical assumption that consciousness is somehow independent of our interaction with the world.

Now, I don’t necessarily believe that we will be able to reconstruct what took the universe, physics, chemistry and evolution literally billions of years.

However, I have yet to encounter an argument against the wider understanding of computation as systems with inputs resulting in outputs affected by mutable states, which then corresponds to what plants, animals and humans are on a fundamental level.

To me it seems like the burden of proof is on the people who claim that consciousness is somehow metaphysically independent from the physical matter that makes up a human, animal, plant or computer. I guess we currently draw certain lines between these four things, especially between humans and the other three. But I guess I struggle to identify that difference as something metaphysical.

Although I don’t feel like I know enough to claim that this is anything more than a superficial idea…
Ask HN: Directors and above, why did you decide to play in the game of thrones?
I'm in my mid-40s and my next job is likely pivotal: I'll either decide to be an individual contributor in my field (and manage a couple small teams on the side), or start senior management type positions (managing relationships between larger teams of teams across the enterprise, possibly including a couple of my own small teams, or even go found a company). Either choice comes with opportunity cost. To go the IC route, I'm likely renouncing a lot of opportunities that presently exist. To go the senior management route, I'm likely walking away from my subspecialist skill set to a degree that it may be hard to go back to an IC role later.

Intuitively, the IC role is "safer". I know what I can do, and I can grind it out for another 20 years and, retire, and leave my kids a couple properties. The senior management role seems riskier to me. Press, internal politics, external politics. None of which is guaranteed to fall in my favor. I have led before (up to 53 people). I've seen the C suite interactions enough (I was an EA for a couple years) to know there's a bunch of it that comes down to high school level politics and the vagaries of scheduling. Why would I give up hard science research and clinical impact to play high school politics?

That's genuinely the question: why did you do it?
Do you need a job to support yourself or just to keep yourself busy. I would assume that if you have worked in finance as a quant for a number of years, you would be set for life. Sorry, if my perspective for this is all the quant salaries posted on blind.
> I suspect, just a theory, that qualia are the result of a process that occurs in the brain.

Well, that's just materialism.

Do you or do you not accept that it is possible for a materialist to hold the view that qualia are not produced solely by computation but that some non-abstract physical process is required ?

Because that is the position that the OP is taking and your original comment appeared to dispute it.
Step it up to a comparetto.

https://youtu.be/Y7eL2OAnqc8
I can listen to nothing that Facebook says without wondering how it benefits Facebook. They may be correct, but their credibility is negative in my opinion.
> Fertilizers can be more than urea, like ammonium nitrate

... which you have to keep locked up, because terrorists. Usually they're smart enough to avoid hanging around in rusty white Ford Transits with Irish plates, but you'd probably not be too surprised to see the numbers on that.
>TikTok is not really a direct competitor to Facebook.

TikTok isn't a direct competitor in your age demographic. Almost no one under the age of 20 has a Facebook account nowadays - when I asked high schoolers a few years ago it was Instagram instead, and TikTok is increasingly getting bigger.
IKEA really mussed the chance to provide a way to connect their air quality sensor with the air purifier. I was hoping to have an automated system that would start the air purifier when a certain threshold is reached, but there is no way to achieve this (except with intensive hacking).

Also, the air quality sensor ALWAYS shows green. Did it show yellow or even red for anyone not living in Hotang?
They're referring to "dirtbag" as a lifestyle-movement. It mostly, as I understand it, came out of rock climbing -- people who gave up a regular life to go live by rock climbing spots, getting by on seasonal work and few possessions.

It leads to a different aesthetic and priorities than the (coming later) techno-nomad movement. Notably, it doesn't kinda-imply that you also have a good-playing remote job, which changes a lot of the calculations... and the aesthetic leans closer to the kind that gets you kicked out of coffee shops if you linger. It also, of course, is focused on spending a lot of time outdoors and engaging in a fairly dangerous activity.

https://www.desktodirtbag.com/dirtbag-meaning/ or https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dirtbag
We should upload this collection as a second source to archive.org. If nobody else volunteers, I can do it.
At least with a controlled circle of people who respect that, say, handing off a doc to an editor means they shouldn't make inline changes any longer, collaborative doc editing like Google Docs.

As the above implies, you don't have great version control and some of the process management is manual. But it works well for people accustomed to working that way and it's much more familiar for people who don't regularly use git (or use it at all).
Regarding "reviews written by people who have actually touched the thing they're reviewing", I'm not sure Consumer Reports deserves to be listed these days either.

I bought a subscription a few months ago because I needed to buy several large appliances for my home, but all I found behind that paywall curtain was computer-generated tables of star ratings and statistics about mechanical reliability. Which is probably useful to somebody, but isn't something I found valuable.

I ended up ignoring CR's data tables, cancelling my subscription, and buying the same models of appliances my parents have because at least I could try those out in person and verify that they worked decently well without any glaring flaws.
Which seems intentionally nitpicky given that "HEPA" is defined and the Ikea one doesn't meet it while the others do. Therefore, "true-HEPA" almost certainly just means "HEPA", and the "true" just means "is actually HEPA" not some other special definition.

The rest of the article's points are good, but this one comes across as just axe grinding.
In life I use the latter, but on computers I try to exclusively use the former. YYYY-MM-DD sorts the same lexicographically or chronologically.
> Well, that's not quite true. The first half of the article is about effects of stress during gestation.

Quoting from the article, the researcher starts looking due to the presumed effects of stress during gestation:

> Finding low cortisol in the 9/11 babies back in 2002 had told us that we'd been thinking about some things all wrong. We'd assumed all along that trauma was behaviorally transmitted: Joseph's problems seemed to result from the stressful, bereaved atmosphere in his childhood home. But now it looked like the uterine environment also played a role. So did the sex of the traumatized parent.

However, ultimately, the key discovery of the article is actually about epigenetic causes and not due to the (current) mother’s uterine environment:

> In 2020 we reported lower levels of FKBP5 methylation in the adult children whose mothers—and not fathers—were exposed to the Holocaust during childhood. This effect was independent of whether the mother had PTSD or not. It suggested that trauma might have affected the mothers' eggs decades before her children were conceived, while she was herself a child.

I agree with you that you can’t rule out environmental effects without a trial that controls for the effects of the current environment. However, the featured article is really about the hereditary effects, ostensibly epigenetic in nature, rather than nonhereditary.
iOS 16 will let you bypass CAPTCHAs on some apps and websites
Yeah that's a good pragmatic approach. "I can't estimate that right now but if I spend half a day on it I can give you a figure".
Of course, but nobody is preventing that information to be shared. When I looked for air purifier last year, there was tons of articles I saw on how to build your own. This isn't hidden, there's tons of good resources out there.

I don't understand why you try to shame us for choosing to buy our own. Of course we are fortunate we can afford it. We aren't talking of a sports car here, it's few hundreds dollar, this is a perfectly fine trade off to decide to buy one.
Amazing! Everywhere needs this
A Blog with No Views Is a Journal
Kable: Usage-based billing for API products
> Europe isn't really a country that just lets people break their laws. If you break them, you'll be fined.

Europe isn't really that much better than the US in this regard. See Volkswagen, FIFA, etc.

> What you are describing is called "using significant market power", and is specifically what anti-trust law is designed to prevent.

Sure if you specifically want to interpret it in the most negative possible light. On the other hand, Apple's position in the market acts as a company who can negotiate on behalf of users (kind of a quasi-union). On our own, no individual can leverage a company like, say, Facebook to have to change how they track users.

> Just say it loud and clear, that you think that anti-trust laws are bad, and that using significant market power to anti-competitive control a market is a good thing, if thats what you believe.

No, because that's a very naive and unrealistic thing to say or think.

Let's actually call this what it is, which is gigantic corporations like Epic and Facebook suing Apple (also a gigantic corporation) because Apple made their predatory business models less profitable. That's all this really is. In every capitalist economy ranging from Norway to Australia to Japan, companies are allowed to create platforms and then engage in business with who they see fit based on rules that they create and enforce on their platform. Facebook and Epic both have rules that they enforce on their platforms. To suggest that the Apple App Store is an anti-competitive marketplace is in the same breath to suggest that Wal-Mart is an anti-competitive marketplace because they won't allow me to sell pornography and Dogecoin. This is made all the more silly when iOS has less market share than Android and you can go and buy an Android phone and install whatever app store you want.

If you are actually interested in anti-competitive behavior, take a look at schemes like the MLS (Multiple Listing System) in the US, or various other internet companies.
DevOps isn't exactly an ancient field. I know you said you're already junior heavy but even if building someone up takes you six months you're going to likely be better off in the meantime than trying to find someone able to produce the value you need from day one.

My employer is also having trouble attracting senior frontend devs right now and our take seems to be that there's a lot of competition for good candidates, that's unlikely to change in the short term.

EDIT: Not to doom, but times are changing, might be worth evaluating if you really do NEED a senior. A lot of the way people look at used cars, and housing, (and gas prices), and remote work has changed in the past few years. Maybe easily acquiring senior devs is something that is also changing.
> So why not only allow payments in privacy perfect currency if they're so concerned about privacy?

Because perfect is the enemy of good. Mulvad would lose customers and that is not good for Mulvad, nor for the customer.
It will be interesting if LMG can pull off what Linus is aiming for with the massive investment in a laboratory environment. There are huge parts of the tech market where the most critical reviewing you can find is anecdotal accounts of if the reviewer liked a product or not (or the more clinical reviews are drowned out by the anecdotal noise).
cross border multi currency accounts and transfers
YYYY-DD-MM as a folder / filename does not sort correctly. Not a fan.

I much prefer YYYY-MM-DD for its sorting behavior.
Instagram has not faded away yet
the hacking happening means the accounts weren't secure, hence the fines and settlement.

the insecure configuration is not tied to the hack, and was only exposed because of it.

the insecure configuration was there, independent of the hacking, yes, but it was unknown.

so, the hacker only made regulators aware of the problem, and that's what Capital One blames the hacker for. regulators would not have known if the hacker didn't take advantage of their insecure configuration, and now, regulators are fining them.

to you and me, the fault is on capital one for having the insecure configuration, and on the hacker for exploiting it.

to capital one, they did nothing wrong, and were only punished because of the actions of someone else.
Rimgo: An alternative front end for Imgur
Fast Page Maps for JIT
Value Sell Recruiting
> I recommend you create an enterprise tier, put SSO in it, and charge 2-5x your normal pricing

Good luck with that. We have enterprise clients who want SSO, and if we won't implement it, they will--I guess through some sort of browser automation. In short, you price hike has to be less than their marginal cost of turning on their browser automation switch.
"Oho!" said the pot to the kettle;
"You are dirty and ugly and black!
Sure no one would think you were metal,
Except when you're given a crack."

"Not so! not so!" kettle said to the pot;
"'Tis your own dirty image you see;
For I am so clean – without blemish or blot –
That your blackness is mirrored in me."
> Looking at the wattage comparisons the article talks about the "Wirecutter recommended air purifier" but seems to go out of its way to not mention it by name. Why?

He probably wants to avoid possible legal harassment by the manufacturer. It's not material to his point against Wirecutter, and it would poke one other party with resources to annoy him.
In German, Dutch I'll use "twenty June twenty-twentytwo". In English "twentieth of June twenty-twentytwo
> All of continental Europe seems to fit roughly east of the Hudson Bay when shoved into Canada

Your math does not quite check out.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe

> Area 10,180,000 km2

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada

> Total land area 9,093,507 km2
Reasoning from real estate to describe the Internet is a fraught analogy. When "we landed there," the Internet didn't exist; it wasn't built yet. It's not finite carve-able territory like a continent; it's machines, the interconnections between them, and the data accessible on them. And all of those things were always owned by someone (even if the data wasn't under copyright, someone was paying for the electrons to represent and transmit it).

Everything about access to the network has grown as a peer-and-guest arrangement between private owners or government entities (starting from the original systems where most people connected via academia or the government and being fired from your government position or exited from your university cut your access to your email account and other online resources). In this modern era, very few are peers and most are guests, and yes, the ownership situation reflects that. Adjusting that ownership situation by fiat or force is a fraught enterprise. Let's imagine someone tries to nationalize Internet infrastructure that is currently privately-owned and establish a democratic structure for managing it. What government do we trust to do that? Part of the allure of the Internet was how hard it was for governments to control it; do we willingly hand them that power?

All of that having been said, I agree with you that tension is there between the origins of the Internet and the modern desire for self-actualization and personal data rights in the use of the Internet. I'm somewhat excited about projects like Mastodon that seem to be trying to decrease the complexity of becoming a peer. I can imagine someone starting a democratically-run service provider, perhaps off the credit union model, to provide more direct ownership to their userbase. Of course, it would have to compete in the corporate world alongside other companies, and there is, perhaps, a reason that the corporate world so closely resembles medieval fiefdoms almost uniformly. You noted "It took humanity thousands of years to figure out that democratic systems work better than feudal systems;" I'd offer the counterpoint that the feudal system describes most corporate structures pretty correctly. But maybe that's just accident of history and there's no particular reason that board-owned or single-owned companies dominate the landscape relative to co-ops.

It'd be a fun experiment to watch someone try to provide a better alternative as a service provider (in the connection, social networking, data hosting, or cloud infra spaces).
The newest version of Firefox goes a long way to prevent this with Total Cookie Protection[0]. You’re basically left with fingerprinting as all cookies are site specific - even third party cookies. Combine that with with a DNS that does cname uncloaking like NextDNS and noscript and you’re about as good as you can get without extreme measures.

[0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-o...
If the mug is gone, could there by some physical token of the 100K achievement?
Sounds like your version of good, and the market of candidate's version of good, do not align.
As noted by the sibling comment, the parent comment mischaracterizes TFA's reference to "true-HEPA." It also makes the same hash of characterizing standards as the affiliate blogspam. Read TFA, which has an interesting characterization of the tradeoffs involved and not this comment.
> My VW engine will probably not work in the new Ford, will it?

There's a whole subculture of engine swaps, afaik, they tend not to use vw engines as the donors, but whatevs. You've got to have or make room, probably adapt the connection to the transmission, plus any engine control, cooling, and air/fuel. It's really not that hard, as long as there is room.
I've been having the same problem. It's actually a lot to ask of someone to be a solid coder but also willing to do on-call support. The direction we're looking is to replace "DevOps" with "Platform Engineering" and retain an MSP to do on-call tier 1 and 2 support.
I have no opinion on orkut.com but Orkut was a nice guy when I happened to camp near each other at Burning Man. He was nice enough to share his grilled chicken with us. And actual cooked food is a bit of a luxury there! Thanks Orkut, and good luck.
In the example case the robber used "multiple money transfer apps including Zelle". How can we protect ourselves? Remove all banking apps from your phone?
Just wait until you see how maggots are used in modern medicine. [1] Not all old ideas are bad.

[1] https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/medical-maggots/
My idea is about that, I think that every developer, when joins the project, must have an equal share of the whole profit of the company, just like the founders do. Otherwise it's not fair, that the product of their labor doesn't bring them any dividends.

But I agree that it's of course strange, for example, why would the builder of the house get the part of profits of the house after it's built? It's also a bit not fair
Presumably there are details linking together payments coming from Paypal and the account number. And obviously there is a link between account number and forwarded port. So following with that, you'd be able to make the connection between the account number and Paypal account, which is definitely not private nor even pretending to protect your privacy.
> In other medical contexts, such as a visit to a general practitioner or a cardiologist, we are fairly accustomed to seeking a second opinion before agreeing to surgery or an expensive regimen of pills with harsh side effects. But in the dentist’s office—perhaps because we both dread dental procedures and belittle their medical significance—the impulse is to comply without much consideration, to get the whole thing over with as quickly as possible.

Around 10 years ago, during one of the dentists appointment, my wife had to perform an x-ray scan of the whole mouth. Besides the stuff dentist wanted to confirm, he found out that she has her wisdom teeth grew in a little problematic direction that might become painful in very short time and suggested to remove them before that happens.

That said, such operation would require narcosis. Both of us are very skeptical when someone wants to do something for us that requires putting us into that state so we've gone to another dentist to get another opinion.

Turned out, that other dentist said that he don't see any problem with my wife's wisdom teeth and warned us, that the operation other dentist suggested was very dangerous and had high probability that it could break some jaw nerves very easily which could lead to partly face paralysis.

So yeah, 10 years has passed and my wife has never experienced any pain caused by her wisdom teeth - maybe got lucky or maybe that 1st dentist was just plain wrong.

But in the end I've always tend to be warned and while having any doubts, it's worth to spend some money just to double check if suggested treatment is really good for us (or necessary).
On the same subject but from another source, some arguments in this video are off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uZKBlwLEFs
Tell HN: Since more the 10 hours is SDF Europa offline
I hear that prime numbers are all the rage.
> seems to go out of its way to not mention it by name. Why?

Bad publicity is still publicity.
Fair criticism.

It was VW's "off-the-chart" emissions that led investigators and regulators to review the claims of all other manufacturers. [0] So it is natural that the media focus on that manufacturer.

[0] https://www.autoevolution.com/news/meet-the-engineer-who-exp...