skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off the top of my head I pay for Amazon Prime, Spotify, Apple iCloud, Office 365, VPS, VPN.
Imagine putting that in a spreadsheet that does a key bit of work, then watching as the orginal author leaves and subsequent users have no idea how the magic works, just that it does, until it goes wrong. Which then throws a part of a organisation into complete chaos as they try to figure out a. whats going wrong and b. how to fix it.

They then call in IT who tell them nothing to do with us guv, we dont support your spreadsheets. Which then leads to hastily calling in a "consultant" who'll charge whatever they want to sort of fix the problem, documenting it all of course so that it can be fixed in his absence. However, people leave again, the documentation gets lost and the cycle of dealing with complex Excel spreadsheets starts again.
It's not feature complete.
No it shouldn't. It's unethical, sure, but the correct way to fight this is to not give money (or your time) to companies that engage in these behaviors.
Confession: I have yet to read the piece; just responding to @wrycoder's question. A colleague of mine worked in hyperbaric immunology to discover protocols for anaerobic wound healing. The only protocol available then were from the Navy and it's "diving chambers" for dealing with "bends".

The game was to take patient something like 300' below sea level (hyperbaric) and then a) start the antibiotics and b) turn on the oxygen flow. The high pressure drives oxygen deep into the tissues, where it would otherwise not penetrate at sea level pressures.

He was working with a 14-gurney chamber at an Air Force base, using an experimental discovery system we were co-developing at the time.
Facebook also tracks the activity of people who have never registered an account while they browse on third party websites.
Ha, wow those are both great, thanks for the links!
Makes a great sound reference for any nerdy science fiction movie.
Exactly. It’s not always the right strong men, but strong men certainly come out of adversity.
Ok, apparently I can't stop...

Source to the claim that elections in 1938, those we are talking about were not free:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111110054101/http://www.uni-du...

And yes, a difference of 20% is quite significant.

Also, German citizens enabled the Nazi, no doubt about that. The situation in Czechoslovakia in 1938 is different:

- the Sudetenland was dominated by a German minority, that German candidates fare better among German voters is not a big surprise

- joining Germany wasn't an unpopular policy, not in Austria nor in the Sudetenland, that a party favouring that policy does well during elections isn't a big surprise neither

- those elections envolved a lot of intimidation to vote for the SdP, that means better results for the SdP

Just one question, what is it with you trying to pin those Henlein election results on women?
It's not so much the absolute value of interest rates that matters, as much as the increase or decrease relative to earlier prices that matters.

Going from 1% rates to 2% is in many ways a bigger change than say a 15% to 16% increase.
If you have nothing to write about, you should not write; Not write about nothing.

You should write about nothing though, it's a good writing exercise. Just maybe don't publish it? Publish what you write after that, when you know what to write about.
> But the current alternative is no action at all

Most of the world is spending huge effort to decarbonize. May well not be enough, but it's very different from nothing.

I strongly recommend that, wherever you get your news from, try looking somewhere else!!
Related:

Cornell Ergonomics Web finds standing desks present their own issues - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2995194 - Sept 2011 (108 comments)
That’s great. Why not combine the three services into one? I’d like to sometimes post lists and pastebins on my blog? It’d be easier to login to one ssh and have a central website.

Unless I missed something.
You can take my espresso machine from my cold dead hands. Then again I don’t understand why Americans pay so much for their coffee. Here 1kg of fairly good single origin coffee is 22€ and the quality is miles ahead of instant. You don’t have to become an insufferable snob to enjoy better coffee.
Doesn't make sense to automatically do this, some changes can be mutually exclusive
Been WFH for many years. I typically can't sit for more than 2 hours. I need to get around and stretch, even lie down on the bed so my back feels better.
Right but you get to keep the phone after these 1-2 years. Once it's paid, it's paid and it's yours.

It's more like a consumer loan than a subscription in my eyes.
And punch/punch press, laser, waterjet, plasma cutter, mill, projectile and, of course, shaped charge.
Compared to other sciences, I'd still say it's quite new. We're still improving the automobile and that's far older. There's a way to go yet with software.
Acoustic modems are indeed common in underwater applications.
Just like the ideal solution for climate change is to stop eating meat, stop flying, stop driving, stop heating, stop air conditioning, and, for good measure, stop using computers.

Heaven forbid that we seek a political/regulatory solution.
Is £500/y really worth a difference you'll rarely notice? Streaming needs 20Mbps max, so it's only large downloads like games which will take an hour or two.

The savings pay for a high end phone every year, or a complete desktop upgrade every other year.
It also wouldn't surprise me if the demographic streaming music is getting older, as the older generation are still increasingly getting online. The pandemic certainly helped this transition. They probably won't change their taste in music as they start renting their streaming services.
Ask HN: I need some advice from intelligent people on my situation
The following situation is at hand.

I am in my early 20s and I am “grinding” my way through life. I am pursuing different fields of interest like:

+ Investing

+ Practicing Martial Arts

+ Going to the gym

+ Studying AI (Distance learning university)

+ Reading business books (Right now – Ray Dalio – Principles)

I tried to involve people into my circle to go through this path with me. With more than 10 different people I tried to start something, every time something went wrong. People wouldn’t stick to the plan, or people would break loyalty for short term benefits while blending out the long-term outcomes (Me myself did mistakes also). Through a long time of self-reflection, I realized that my expectations in terms of work-ethic are very high. And this could be the thing why I can’t be with some types of people (I guess that in my close real-life environment there just isn’t that much potential to find – most of the people here can’t even get a basic school degree). Also, I am a very direct person, I’m not going to talk around your problems, and mine. They will be addressed immediately. Not caring about small talk is one of my “skills” also, if it is not somehow related to the goals that are set in place, my subconscious gets bored (I can’t really control that, if I try not to, it is hard).

So, for better clarification - the plan that I am following is:

1. Get money for moving out of mom’s apartment and starting my own business (In AI – with investment profits)

2. Creating a company in the field of artificial intelligence (don’t know the specific product or service yet)

3. And while doing that – maintaining Gym, MA, and book reading (self-improvement)

The most important one here is the actualization of the AI company.

These are a lot of questions, and it would be nice if somebody could give them a look:

+ So, I am here and asking you guys. Do you have any tips to find running mates or a small community with “smart” people that are believable and capable (Focus on: Business, AI, and self-improvement overall)?

+ Or what would you do in your early 20s if your endeavors would be similar as mine? Do you have any general suggestions to proceed better/more efficiently in these areas? (For e.g., good books, structured daily routines (which were beneficial for your progress and goals), networking strategies, tips on working effectively for a "normal guy" with big temptations but also huge ambitions.

+ How would you a structure a basic "get-out-plan" out of your mom's basement if you are hitting all these areas with the 20/80 principle? The money is by any means - simply put - too low, without a well-paying job.

+ Should I just patiently wait and follow my usual grind while studying and managing all these other areas with a 20 percent input (gym, reading self-development books etc.) or would you consider a smarter way to get out?

It would help me a lot to get thoughtful answers, thanks!
Funny, just looked at one of my previous blog posts and it's strangely appropriate! https://www.atomic14.com/2020/08/25/how-do-we-debug.html
As someone who was trying to conceive while the vaccine rolled out, this isn’t surprising. People were regularly reporting basal temperature spikes, delayed ovulation, and delayed periods. This is a community that is extremely data-oriented, since with the right measurements you’re able to predict your fertile (or non-fertile) window.

I was disappointed to see how little research there was into menstruation at the time. We were told that the vaccine was perfectly safe, and even questioning the vaccine made you ‘anti-vax.’ Now over a full year later the scientific community is confirming what random message boards have been saying all along. It may be safe, but nobody really cared to look at the impact on menstruation or pregnancy beyond confirming that the rate of miscarriage is unchanged.
A fascinating engineering insight worthy of follow-up.

A slide presentation on the technology:

https://slideplayer.com/slide/5197762/

Accompanying paper:

https://trid.trb.org/view/1263933
Thanks for making a whole blog post out of the anecdote mentioned yesterday. Really excellent to see the whole story!
It was rejected as trickery because the escalation in Vietnam was unfunded. Johnson knew that he had to raise taxes to continue the fight in Vietnam and implement Great Society, but he was tricked into believing that the government in South Vietnam was legitimate and would be welcomed as the true government of Vietnam with just a little help. When that turned out not to be the case, he failed to make the tradeoff explicit. Had it been explicit, the correct choice would be obvious.
Well, that's true. But if performance is more important to you, just skip it and go for binary formats that can be orders of magnitude more efficient.

In general text formats are a compromise. They are bulky and and inefficient to parse. What you get in exchange is ease of development.

If you are willing to complicate the format just to improve performance, at some point you no longer get ease of development and you should just switch to binary altogether.
> I'd be really interested to know if anyone else has started doing this?

We used to do this at the office and it was great. For private meetings between 2 people, go for a walk!

It has worked great for mastermind calls also.

But now at a new job that’s fully wfh it somehow didn’t stick. I tried a few times but I’m asked to participate too actively and people get frustrated with background noise because they aren’t using headphones at home. Laptop speakers are just not high quality enough to make it work even with voice isolation.

Plus I have too many back-to-backs nowadays and walking outside creates too much overhead. Kept missing things.
> Now you swoop in and say "Facebook is evil, and if you don't get off of it, I'll cut you out of my life!"

I said no such thing, and I'd thank you not to put words in my mouth. As I explained in a different subthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32131334
ServaRICA "Polar Bear Storage Offer".
> Just when HN seemed to have settled into semi-intelligent tech talk we get this

Oh, HN has always been like this on topics not directly related to tech.
It's not 100% accurate to say that tether is the only practical method. Untethered AUV/UUVs are quite common in the industry.
Blood Exchange and Alzheimer's Disease
Cmon dude
WebAssembly isn't owned by Oracle.

That's the most important reason to use WebAssembly instead of Java.

It's also nice that it can do all kinds of things Java can't, but that's just icing on the cake.
Floating point is just not very fast on ESP8266 (I believe it could even be softfloat, so emulated in software?).

Nevertheless it shouldn't be that difficult to change the interpreter to use floats instead of ints as base type (mixing the two would be more involved I think).
Plus one for the shaped charge! Waterjets are pretty cool so...
People talk about 'bad coffee' but many times they don't say what constitutes bad coffee. We all have different preferences. There are some very expensive fancy coffees that I dislike because I taste them as overly sour or acidic. Meanwhile I can drink very expensive blue mountain or a very cheap nabob full city dark in an aeropress and enjoy both.

I used to occasionally get starbucks on the way to work but the line ups at the drive through have made 'fast' food not fast, and the price of starbucks coffee seems to have risen so high it wasn't hard to stop doing it.

I've had maxwell house instant, its not great, but its also not sour or acidic, so its just drinkable. Nescafe instant is fine too.
The worst thing about using Firefox is that the longer you use it the more things you have done to un-fuck it and the more work it is to replicate all those things on a new system.
This works really well, especially the year subscriptions - buy, cancel, get the year's worth. If you're using it, you'll notice when it dies and can resubscribe.
The Hypocrisy of Elites
I agree in part I use a clever dripper with supermarket beans - just picked up 500g of alleged peruvian beans from lidl for £3.50
I like the taste of my drip coffee and I find most instant coffees harsh even the upmarket ones with micro grounds.
However in europe I do like my nescafe 3 in one sachets
I think coffee is stuational
Recent and related:

Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32117489 - July 2022 (249 comments)
North/central along the Kankakee river near the Indiana border. Way back in the day it used to be the "Grand Kankakee Marsh". It's been mostly drained for nearly a century now but there are still quite a few sloughs and stands of flooded timber throughout the area. Even the drained areas in the flood plain (which is immense) start turning back into marsh pretty quickly after an extended rainfall.

There's an interesting/cheesey B list documentary on the area called "The Everglades of the north"
You can't just say something is unethical, you need to provide a rationale for why people are ethically obligated to preserve a company's revenue stream in their usage of its product. I don't think a consumer owes Facebook any responsibility in terms of protecting its revenue.
This is opt in, not enabled by default, and requires you to intentionally pick 'Strict' which has a warning as its first line of text that says some sites may break.
Thanks for engaging! Right now we are experimenting with different services and seeing what sticks. We have lofty ideas of combining everything into one service or at least a service that aggregates them. We will chat about this idea in #pico.sh on libera so feel free to join the convo!
The author is missing another huge area: plugins/modding/scripting/etc. Think IDE plugins, Minecraft mods, or running user-provided untrusted scripts.

The benefits WASM brings are:

1. Sandboxing - security
2. Isolation - if a plugin crashes, it won't bring down the whole program
3. Interoperability - write a plugin in lots of different languages, not just lua or js
4. Speed

I'm hoping to write my thesis for my master's degree on this topic this year. I'm also in the process of writing a game like screeps, where users provide a WASM script to control units for an RTS-style game (without combat though) https://github.com/JMS55/botnet.

It's amazing how simple it is to constrain memory usage, runtime duration, and secure exported functions to a WASM VM. Performance is also great - currently about ~6 microseconds per tick per unit, up to ~200 microseconds when doing expensive pathfinding. All that, while letting you program your units in Rust - the same language as the server is written in, while being able to share code with the server, and not having to use something more script-y like lua.
Hit / SIT / ReHIT interval training for health benefits
Not really, you're just trading off one set of problems for another if you work in one position all the time. Given that most modern standing desks are adjustable, it's pretty convenient to have more options.
Perhaps skip 12 minutes 30 into the YouTube video to where he starts talking about George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) if you want to avoid a long-winded intro.
I've never felt the need to pay extra for whole-bean, locally, ethically roasted, gourmet coffee.

Even when I started making way more money I've stuck with the can of ground coffee.

The reason is cause most days I just down the cup really quickly, black. Or with a little cream.

I don't savor it. To me, coffee is a utility. Not a lifestyle.

I just need a couple of cups to stay awake and do my job.

But after that I don't touch it for the rest of the day. Not if I want to fall asleep at a reasonable time anyways.

Every now and then I will pay for an expensive gourmet coffee but that's not the norm.
You mean "just" require everybody else to read that article and follow the setup instructions with shared keys _and_ set up a different sharing folder and shared key for each distinct set of people you share with.
Tesla to Integrate Valve’s Steam
Seek whatever you like. I don't think those are comparable examples.
Your prices are starting to make more sense. Wild stab here, but I don't think most people read "decent coffee equipment" and thought, "espresso machine at a minimum"
I actually do this quite a bit, and I've found that getting a kit of USB-C-chargeable devices (phone, headset, and laptop) plus a battery pack and an effectively unlimited tethered 5G data plan means I can work from anywhere I please. The down side of it is I find myself in these epic places staring down three hours of back-to-back meetings when I just want to lean back and look at a tree.
A busted compiler is no more serious than a busted kernel, or busted shell. And yet so many shells can provide /bin/sh. Good thing or my shebang would have to be customized a million times for different people.
On the contrary, no one accepts bitcoin.

Alphabay2 is the only market left and it's monero-only.
Yeah, for your mother definitely makes sense to already have more than one weekly phone call, but I was thinking about other family members.

Reading your post, it seems Facebook is a bit of a recreational activity to keep them sharp and social, which is good. What I was thinking is whether you need to participate in it, since the people this age I know is more than willing to keeping me up to date on all interesting stuff by talking. But of course each family is different so I'll just assume you know what you're doing!
> I'd also wish for similar rigor from people developing whatever filesystens my data is on. :-)

Stable storage is a key factor in making this philosophy work. [1]

[1] https://qconlondon.com/london-2012/qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-lo...
This is a bad theory.

The Russian collusion angle has to do with the fact that a literal Russian spy met with the Trump campaign, then Trump opined on TV that maybe the Russians could "find" Hillary's emails, then Russia which had a distinct horse in that race then made at least attempts to interfere in the election by hacking and by promulgating dinsinfo on social media in part with the help of data harvested by a Republican think tank.

This perception of corruption was furthered when he made positive statements regarding Russia and Putin including telling the world he believed Putin's statement over the word of our intelligence apparatus and deepened when he was caught withholding aid from the Ukrainians whom had been initially invaded lest we forget in 2014 not 2022.

None of the above is even slightly controversial. What is lacking is specific proof that there was any quid pro quo between Trump and Russia without which is closer to a denial by Al Capone that he knew or had ordered specific hits than a legitimate protestation of innocence. At best He and Putin had interests that aligned with minimal coordination needed and he stood to gain by the illegal actions of a foreign power he had aligned himself with.

Furthermore although the Russia angle was a source of division and much interest on both sides of the aisle it has little to do with support for Trump. Trump is and was a charismatic figure to middle to lower class white America because he told them accurately that they had been left behind in a playing field dominated by the rich and powerful who had long been tilting the game board so that most of the wealth created in large part by hard working Americans ended up in their pockets.

He just managed to put most of the blame on the left and brown people and forgot to mention he was one of the rich elites screwing the little guy and intended to deepen and broaden the corruption that allowed them to keep doing this.

Compared to this Russia was a side show.
You are thinking of Windows NT family which is not the same as Dos based Windows 1/2/3.0/3.1/3.11/95/98

And as Windows NT was a pure 32 bit OS, where the Dos based Windows were 16/32 bits.

Windows NT was designed by Dave Cutler and released from July 27, 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT

By that time there were already 5 editions of Dos based Windows: 1/2/3.0/3.1/3.11.

The first Dos based Windows was released much earlier: November 20, 1985

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0x

To add to the confusion there were a Dos based Windows 3.0 and 3.1 and a Windows NT 3.0 and 3.1.
From what I've experienced in my firm, literally no one, whatever their age/demographic hates working from home. They seem to love it, even people that were firmly against the idea before the pandemic and now totally for it. Everyone saves money, is healthier and they avoid the commute. What an odd article.
This looks cool! Lua obviously is a much more mature language. I'd expect it to use a fairly complex interpreter (LuaJIT is not available for esp8266 I assume..) so this is likely a bit less efficient (even though the Lua interpreter is probably well-optimized, it is simply more complex) but obviously much more functional than my toy language.
More like Google will be/is compelled 100% by any random state court or not-a-court-but-cops-directly-because-we-decided-warrants-are-for-suckers to provide data (you don't need a warrant for "give me who you think was there" queries -- that is a different wtf). So Federal lawmakers should make it clear that Google (and any Google) should not be doing any of this.

Might as well use the whole branching of the government and make use of the checks and balances for mankind's good and welfare.

And if one needs more convincing I would point them to look at the whole 19th and 20th century history.
Ok so you were referring to the fundamentals of programing and not computer science. The term "fundamentals of" can mean different things depending on what you're referring to. The fundamentals of C programming could be said to encompass understanding the stack and the heap and how memory is allocated and operated on through pointers. Or the fundamentals of Python could be said to encompass understanding that the program is a made up of statements that are executed in order, and that there are loops, variables, and if statements. Learning to write basic Python program doesn't take years.
Somewhat orthogonal to your point, but it is interesting to me how easily some will dismiss perspectives or ideas by referring to them pejoratively as "western".