skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, that is funny. I can see why they bought Juul — explosive growth and an alleged culture of technology — a perfect compliment to Altria.

Honestly, I feel slightly bad that Altria were hoodwinked into investing in Juul and having it implode like it did, all the Altria executives I interacted with were remarkably precise and lucid. BTW I think the FDA deserves 75% of the blame for their poor vaping policies (and total lack of enforcement.)
I've been spotting BSD embedded in an increasing number of devices -- Playstation 4, Pioneer DJ consoles, hell Mac OS is built on top of it ... my guess is the missing piece is driver (and maybe developer) support
> the goal is not a spot in just any of the 160 schools but admission to eight or nine that are especially competitive, prestigious and largely dominated by white and Asian families

Kind of weird to list white first when Asians are by far the dominant group in the most selective schools. [1] Also, no mention that many of the Asian families in the schools are low-income (50% of specialized school students qualify for subsidized lunch, [2] and 90% of those are Asian [3]), which would make it clear that admission is accessible to those who work hard and prioritize academics.

The article makes it seem like rich/white people are the primary beneficiaries of the merit-based system, when this is far from being true.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/nyregion/black-students-n...

2: https://nypost.com/2014/07/19/why-nycs-push-to-change-school...

3: https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/stuyvesant-serves-needy-...
We already have egui which is pretty awesome.

Not great for accessibility though (yet)

https://github.com/emilk/egui
By definition, 50% of capital outperforms the SP500, which is an average.

What the Buffett bet was all about is that you don’t know WHO will outperform, and with fees being a net-drag, a basket of hedge funds will on average underperform due to the average of them being, average, and then negative due to fees.
By 2055 we'll have exoskeletons.

The speed of progress in this country is embarrassing sometimes. Infrastructure cost many times and takes much longer to build than in other OECD countries.
> Why is "node.js" listed here? Isn't node.js a runtime?

In this context this almost always means node.js with express
Because there is like one project and they had to pay a fortune to find anyone.
If your desire is to destroy tobacco products and to prevent people from consuming nicotine, that's one thing (and Mormons are perfectly happy to sign on to that.) If your desire is to improve public health, there's nothing to do but celebrate. It's impossible for vaping to have wiped out reductions in teen smoking with a rise in vaping, because vaping is not smoking.

I speak as someone who doesn't vape, doesn't like vaping, and will never vape. What I want is for people who want to quit smoking to be able to, and the way you enable that for the most people is to give them a far less dangerous alternative that involves the fewest lifestyle changes.

The antismoking industry long ago became a self-sustaining, self-protecting bureaucracy who cares less about health and more about civil suits and fundraising on new legislation.
I think as long as the ad dollars continue to pour in, the platform will remain strong. As much as it has been affected in the U.S. I wonder how strong it still is in other countries outside of the US market.
> a protection racket.

A racket implies they're 'protecting' you from themselves. I don't think that's true.

If protection isn't important to you, you can give Somalia a try.
I think it would be enough to give a nice tax on all food which contains X amount of sugars per weight unit per type (ie liquids and maxybe 2-3 more). HFCS should be hammered there so tightly there is no way around it.

No exceptions apart from purely medical (=very expensive) stuff.

Another may be trans-fats. All the revenue -> medical system. Your wallet would be telling you all the time how stupid your eating habits/disorders are. But good luck pushing this through society setup like US (aka impossible).
I think there are some IRCv3 extensions in the works for that, but imho it will make it even more confusing since not everyone will be seeing the same thing (at least for the edits), but I guess we'll see how widespread the adoption of those extensions will be.

And even with only partial support the delete function (if it's not limited to the user itself) gives way too much power to the ops/moderator (power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.).
As the adage goes, "Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have"
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199710093371506

It's possible that smokers actually end up saving Medicare and Medicaid money, because they die sooner. I've seen articles that estimate it both ways.
Just wanted to say: nice work typesetting all those equations! There sure were a lot of exotic ones in this post.
There is no controversy: OpenOffice is crapware, use Libreoffice.

The only problem is that Apache still distributes what they are fully aware is an abandoned husk, misleading people like yourself.
Ha because of Juul's effective marketing and targeting campaigns? I'd wager zero!

How many because Juul essentially randomly went viral and is an inherently addictive product? Unfortunately way too many.
> We were on track to literally eliminate smoking in the US before Juul came along and started aggressively marketing to teens.

Is there any evidence for this at all? That there is a pipeline from vapers to cigarette smokers?

> Most Juul users are first time smokers.

This is just a simple oxymoron; vaping is not smoking.
I suspect they mean that if you have rsh installed for tailscale you need to be very careful with how you run it. If you accidentally let rsh listen on 0.0.0.0 and don't firewall it then you've given attackers a way to guess passwords.

Forgetting to firewall services or accidentally exposing services to the internet is pretty common. ssh is more hardened than rsh, especially with key based auth, so the risk is lower.
Here's what I suggested as a goal for OpenOffice, in September 2016 which is now six years ago, as a response to Apache officer Jim Jagielski ("jimjag") who thought this was going well:

[[[ I urge you, or the Apache board generally, to look at the facts, and not get yourself into the mess of trusting AOO project members' gut instinct that everything is fine or that the board's oversight is the problem and you should just stop looking. For sure, it is possible that they'll actually manage to turn this around. But there are already AOO people convinced they've done it, and there were six months ago, when in fact as you know they were in deep trouble already. Their feelings about this aren't going to be objective. If in say, three months, there's no measurable evidence that AOO is back on course then regardless of what is said by the handful of AOO people, retirement is the right choice.

For example, shipping AOO 4.2 in 10 weeks at ApacheConEU. That's not crazy. Libreoffice goes from feature freeze to release in 10 weeks. A healthy AOO development community should be able to do it, or come so close as to leave no-one in any doubt. ]]]

https://lwn.net/Articles/699680/

Again, I wrote that in September 2016. Did Apache in fact ship OpenOffice 4.2 at that year's ApacheConEU? No they did not. OK, so when did they finally ship the "imminent" OpenOffice 4.2? Never.

Here's what the most recent quarterly summary from the Apache OpenOffice project to Apache's board said about version 4.2, "An alpha and/or beta release is planned for the next quarter". That sounds optimistic doesn't it? Well, sadly that's also what it said in January 2020. Huh. Who writes this stuff? Funny, it's Jim Jagielski, the same guy I was addressing six years ago.

Try to avoid caring whether people are incompetent or liars, you will find it difficult to tell which is which, so if you ensure you can treat both the same you needn't distinguish. In this case I needn't worry about whether Jim was too stupid to know what the problem was in 2016 or just didn't care.
I agree this is a very unfortunate grouping of topics. The irony is that there’s a lot of cryptocurrency stuff that isn’t even well decentralized, so it’s almost an objectively bad grouping.
RoboCop, too.
I would enjoy an HN that lacked the daily fission boosterism.
People should also stop eating crap food and clogging up our 'public health' but yet mcdonalds isn't banned
You risk ending up with something like the date component which is so ugly nobody uses it.
I'm not sure we're the pure antinuclear stand would even come from

He clearly can't build a nuclear power plant so what he can do is build solar and wind.

And sure nuclear has plenty of problems like amount of uran, cooling water in the summer etc.

Independent of this, we have not even seen yet how a real solar society would look like because while we installed plenty, we have not really started to install what would be possible.

It should be a total no brainer for everyone to want to leverage their roof real estate by investing in solar.
Honestly there is, most likely, nothing you can do. You can live with the situation until it reaches a conclusion or you can leave now. You don't really have much leverage.

You can ask for a timeline and priority of it from the executive team. If they are a small company they may have much bigger fish to fry than getting out a comp plan. Growth, revenue, and survival all trump stock plans from a leadership standpoint. Without those for a non VC backed company they will not last long.
As soon as you say "canonical", you invite dogma from those with rigid opinions. It is better to integrate advice you hear with deliberate practice. If you do not see, from you own experience, why it makes sense, then discount it. But keep an open mind to changing your opinion later. Your own opinion that you understand why you believe is a million times better than regurgitating slogans that you don't.

The PRACTICAL rule is always have unit tests. Start with writing tests for bugs you actually encountered. Use whatever testing framework is popular in your current language, particularly if it ships with the language. Always try to test things in the most straightforward way possible. Add automation to run all tests regularly.

BUT keep in mind, test code is code. You're now writing code twice, once for the code, once for the test. Either or both can be wrong. In the future, both may have to change. Tests improve reliability, but are not free.
It's existed for less than a year and you find it indispensable?
https://xkcd.com/806/

https://www.revk.uk/2010/10/xkcd806-compliance.html?m=1
There is a reason why many companies (especially those with few developers, artists etc, so most people run Windows), go with Azure AD as their SSO solution. Then they are only depending on Microsoft not being compromised. But they are already relying on other parts of Microsoft not being compromised, so it feels like less of a risk to those companies.
My experience with powerline adapters is that they all fail sooner or later... I think 230 V is just too much to handle in a small package combined with sensitive low voltage communication chips.
I recently took some significant time off from work and it was a game-changer for my psyche. Tbh I didn't do any trips, I didn't have any absurd adventures planned (although if the circumstances were a little different I might have planned some), but I really just hung out with my kids and spent time bonding with them. It was extremely recharging to have that time to spend with them and also for my hobbies. A great reminder about how I can improve on work-life balance.
Okay so I assume microcontrollers don't need the bandwidth, is this just about spectrum crowding on 2.4 and allowing people to run 5GHz-only networks?
WhatsApp founder donates to organizations that help Ukrainians
> They've always prioritized fidelity of the actual simulation. It's as realistic as they can get it.

Yeah, not really. The models are tuned until it feels like the actual aircraft which is good, however it wasn't until just two years ago [0] that Austin Mayer re-discovered some of the most basic models used for aircraft performance (fixed- and rotary-wing).

He's got a good instinctive way of thinking about it that's for sure, but he seems to have skipped some introductory material during his degree.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WROEk_Jv33w
1Password for Visual Studio Code
Write an M.L. Stine book is probably a good gpt-3 prompt
https://archive.ph/HOcuH
You are distracted by clickbait news and ignoring important advances made since 2008, a few examples which is just scratching the surface because there is a ton I am personally not even aware of:

* Greatly reduced cost of solar panels and batteries
* Things like uber/doordash made taxis / takeout way more efficient
* Transitioning to electric vehicles. In 2008 I'd pay $50/week for fuel, now I pay $10/week to travel the same distance in my electric car. Not to mention savings in oil changes/maintenance
* mRNA vaccines nonexistent in 2008
* Significant progress towards autonomous vehicles, if that comes to fruition on a large scale it will transform our society
It is already switched off, long since. Except downloading.
How long is the beta waitlist at this time?
Yeah exactly - in software development the problem is rarely that there is too much typing to do.
https://archive.ph/OiLuL
At your budget, I'd run authoritative DNS on the free tier at a few clouds. If you can get one resolver in east US, west US and Europe, that'll be pretty ok.
It depends on the reactor type. High pressure and plutonium fuel? Sure! Low pressure and natural uranium is much safer. Thorium and molten salt reactors may be better still.
No. Both models were PMR. I tried to find out more about what the differences are from the manufacturer, but didn't get far. Perhaps someone here can shed some light.

Older drive:

model number: MB8000GFECR
SATA Version: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
ATA Version: ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5

Newer drive:

model number: MB008000GWWQU
SATA Version: SATA 3.3, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
ATA Version: ACS-4

My guess at the time was that the newer drive had a deeper command queue, but I'm not actually sure, and I think both drives had the same amount of cache.
According to my dictionary, the pronunciation of "libretto" (an imported, but already established English word) in IPA is [lɪbr'etoʊ]. We can extrapolate from this.
Those are probably 16-month (effectively fulltime) coop students working at big tech/finance. By senior year some of my classmates were making 10-12k/month.
Not a big fan of Brave the browser but am excited to see Brave Search flourish!
It's not a racket when it's consistently better than the alternative.
But did they all use PEDs because they knew Lance was?
Okay sure, but isn't that also true for password managers which Everyone Should Use?
China's navy can't go further than 1,000 miles from the shore. They can't protect shipping anywhere outside of their coast.
> I have a Mega account and I think I've logged in less than 50 times in the entire lifetime of my account, including when it was still controlled by Kim Dotcom.

Same experience here. I've logged in maybe once per year, if it suddenly started asking me to login every time I used it, it would be a huge red flag.
As an aside, I find the search-ability of this presentation to be terrible.

I tried looking for word with CMD+F and the section I was looking at completely disappeared!
No that isn't the reason, from TFA:

> in 2019 [Juul] stopped selling sweet and fruity flavors

> The [FDA] has cleared the way for Juul’s biggest rivals to keep tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes on the market. Industry observers had expected Juul to receive similar clearance.
Reading past what the author is saying...My takeaway is that the problem is that power generation is a really really really big problem. Really really big problems take lots of time and money to solve. Expecting it to not take lots of time and money is wishful thinking and the time spent trying to solve them is very much not a waste.
+1. The website is unusably slow for me.
You can also see proof in the form of bone content - it also shows that paleolithic people ate a lot of meat and that no single vegan has been found so far...
I have 2 popular python projects, one with 4.9k and one with 2.3k stars and I don't qualify :/

https://github.com/kootenpv

If anyone knows why pls let me know
So... about 160 qps? (Using the 5B queries annualized). Even if you multiply by 10 to account for a very high peak to average, that's sub-2000.

I wish companies wouldn't try to make something seem big by using "billions". It took me billions of nanoseconds to write this comment...
One of the definitions on urbandictionary supports the usage as we see it here:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fear%20and%2... (second one down)

I too have seen/used "fear and loathing" in this way.

In any case what do you gain by going on the offensive with pedantry?
Facebook done an Alphabet and have an umbrella brand, for which Facebook is basically a side project now and not to be taken seriously. Facebook is still a cash cow for Meta just like Google is a cash cow for Alphabet and fuels their AD business. Tectonic shifts and pivots like this just mean they have the opportunity to branch out into other markets and not rely on singular revenue streams which could become unreliable in the future. It’s a risky bet that could work. Only time will tell and I’m not predicting anything.
That's not going to happen, though. What is going to happen is we'll invest trillions of dollars into natgas infrastructure and then go all whoopsie-daisies-we-can't-afford-to-just-let-it-sit-idle, and we'll be permanently locked into it.

Temporary hacks have an odd way of becoming permanent features, especially when mind-blowing amounts of money are on the line.
https://archive.ph/QvCzF
> US-centric approach. How about if China decides to fill the power vacuum that the isolationist US leaves. How about if they decide to protect their shipping routes with their military so that they carry on with providing goods to the globe.

That already covered by option 2 in the op ("2 The Rise Of China"). It's not a very interesting option to discuss when it comes to shipping (e.g. everything stays the same, except Chinese warships substituted for American).
Unfortunately if we would actually put the foot on the pedal we all would be quite surprised how well solar would work.

We know for quite a while how little solar we need globally and we know how to do it but we just don't do it.
> It releases less radioactivity than coal, just to make things clear.

If you ignore the radioactivity released in uranium mining.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/juul-gave-presentati... appears to be the article I read.
>Solar efficiency is very different from say engine efficiency. A very efficient combustion engine is 35% efficient meaning it wastes 65% of the energy in the input fuel. Solar panels don’t waste sunlight and have no input costs.

They're exactly the same kinds of waste. A 35% efficient IC engine wastes 65% of the energy in the fuel heating itself up. A 20% efficient photovoltaic cell wastes 80% of the energy in the light heating itself up.
> 15 years ago, I positively enjoyed spending a weekend (or more) trying to figure these things out, but now I am old and grumpy and want my stuff to "just work"(tm). [...]
> In fact, if I wanted to run a BSD on my desktop, I'd look at OpenBSD first (unless I want/need Bluetooth to work...).

That's sort of my case, and given how I don't have much use for Bluetooth, I went with OpenBSD for the desktop. Couldn't be happier - it just works!

If I'm not in a mood to mess around with it, I don't have to: it gives me a nimble computation environment and steady upgrades. If I want to mess around, `cd /usr/src` and it's right there, ready to play.
Others have mentioned the Attic, but I think the other crucial thing to be aware of here is that to the Apache Software Foundation, it's all about community. When a project wants to graduate from the Incubator and become a top-level project, no one asks what cutting-edge technology and new innovation is available for download, they ask about the health of the community. Are there enough active contributors? Do they come from a diverse set of employers? Is the mailing list traffic stable? Are you actually making releases and getting people to vote on things? There's no rule about how much work has to be in each release. That may, as you say, lead to bureaucratic ghost towns where the technological innovation has stopped, but that's why. That innovation is up to the individual communities. And as long as the community is there, Apache governance will not just barge in and tell you you're done.

I was on the PMC for a project that is now in the Attic. The project had been dead for a long time already. There was a discussion about killing it - only one company still had any interest and even they weren't actively doing anything. Apache wanted to see 3 active PMC members, so I volunteered to be one of the 3 if other people were interested, but then the next time they asked it was clear that no one was actually going to do anything. No releases. No mailing list traffic. No votes. THAT was what killed the project. The project had basically stopped innovating soon after graduating to a top-level project and had been that way for years - but there WAS active maintenance and an active mailing list of users. And Apache is fine with it - it is, as they say, a natural part of the life cycle of a project to go into maintenance mode.

As long as people are responding on the OpenOffice mailing list and releases are happening, Apache can consider that community alive. That they're not keeping up with LibreOffice or making major releases is not really a big concern. If the community really dies, yeah that's what the Attic is for.

That said if they don't plan to change, I'd love to see the community endorse LibreOffice as a successor.
Pornhub owner’s CEO and COO resign
Wait, so is there no increased chance of getting muscle cramps when swimming after eating? I thought this was gospel!
Very true. Just a few months ago I realized I couldn't just flat out order dual 4k screens for my team despite being the one that approves expenses. It's not top-down tyranny. Its tyranny of the norm and the molasses that it brings. Being out of the norm is hard and you have to doubly prove yourself at every step because the status quo has an aura of just being the "right thing".
That's a strong position on a complex topic.

There are plenty of reasons why some individuals might choose not to take a given vaccine. Some are rational, many are not.
Seeing the 10 dollar price tag has convinced me that you are right. This is a ploy to make a service that replaces developers not help them.

No way Microsoft made this investment for a measly 10 dollar subscription. There are not that many developers
An iconic, distinctive and instantly recognisable design.
FWIW I think the database is an integral part of one's service, and should often be included in unit tests (depending on the size of the unit of course).

E.g. if you have CRUDObject and want to test GET and PUT of that...and that is the unit you want to test.. mocking away the DB is (IMO) not as good as including a real database with no data in it (they come in Docker images and making a fresh DB namespace within a running sql server for a single test can be very cheap / cheap enough).
No, unless work pays for it or provides some sort of stipend.

And even then, drastically limit exposure of number to people.
I so rarely hear of Express in the context of backend JS. People always just say Node. Curious convention.
The ponzis are being built by people on top of slowly evolving layers of useful technology. Of course the actual building isn't tied to the hype cycles, but from the perspective of most people it's just ponzis swelling and bursting.

There is real innovation happening though, fuelling the FOMO every time another bubble forms.