skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporate america markets just about everything based on race and the people wonder why there are racial divisions. You can say similar things about fast food or payday loans.

My opinion is the blame is misplaced, actually there shouldn't be any blaming. A smoker is not a victim. An adult willingly started a harmful addictive habit. The state has no authority to regulate this. It may save lives to ban harmful substances but a government does not exist to save lives. When you buy a cigarette you are well warned of the dangers right there in the box, it is not the government's place to prevent people from enganging in risky behavior because regulating people private decisions is beyond its authority. The government however can regulate when such a behavior affects others like where you smoke, require you to pay insurance for the inevitable medical care you will need and require tobacco companies to advertise against their own product if they wish to sell it. From cigarettes to fentanyl, it is not a government's place to prohibit a substance.
Yes, which is the point of AGPL.
> You'll probably be making less than 60k in that case, if you can even find a job…

Paris has the largest job market but there still a lot of jobs around the country. In my area, which couldn't be further away from Paris, senior profiles take 65-80k gross/year.
I don't know. But they have been thoroughly informed of the issue and have not acted. Thus I conclude they most likely feel they don't need to act.
Does the UK even design with the assumption of air conditioning being necessary and present, let alone designing for it failing?
Maybe just giving the system a kick can be a bit effective (especially in conjunction with a patient trying to change).
30k plus while you are unemployed is not a very significant amount of money in many places in America these days. Not enough to make a dent in inflation imo compared to the wider supply chain crisis that is driving inventory shortages and price hikes on goods.
> YouTube is free to set terms for monetization contracts, including granting attribution to third parties under their system.

This is obviously not the case. This is really the entire point of having Content ID in the first place: Had YT been free to monetize under their own contracts whoever uploaded an episode of Sponge Bob, Viacom wouldn't have had a case.
What's wrong with the author's proposed compromise/solution?
Lisp absolutely took off and had a heyday.

We are decades past "peak Lisp".

Lisp grew in capability and complexity at a voracious pace and required expensive, powerful hardware, always at the edge of the hardware envelope.

Then microcomputers happened, featuring the power and speed of big iron machines from 15-20 years prior.

Almost no software survived the transition from big iron to microcomputers. Pretty much no operating system, and few programming languages or applications---everything was "rebooted". Microcomputers went through their own cultural evolution, with entirely new software.

Customers were buying microcomputers, including lots of new customers that didn't have computers before, and you couldn't sell them software that wouldn't run (or fit) onto those.

Simple as that; nothing to do with macros.

(Unix jumped to microcomputers because it was a lean, resource-efficient minicomputer operating system; the lag between micros becoming as powerful as minis was not as great (decade or so) and basically dove tailed with the Unix timeline. Unix was ready just as micros were becoming ready.)

If it was about macros, we wouldn't be talking about Lisp; it would be entirely dead. HackerNews would be in written in Paul Graham's small dialect of PL/I or something, which would still be here due to not confusing anyone with macros.
Ngl I cannot decide whether this reads slightly ignorant or xenophobic.
good thoughts, largely agreed.

another thread suggested perhaps there be some FRAND requirements on companies getting this money. i like the general sound but not sure if it'd work. Intel happens to be trying to restart this side of the business but kinda early days.

i do think, in general, cost of living, cost of doing business, and a heavy foot of government particularly for zoning &c all contribute to a condition where American industry in general is often remarkably uncompetitive globally. trying to make stuff here has high costs.

i think it's fair to raise criticism that we have given many chip companies vast sums of money already. i like the idea of having more competitive markets. bernie's not totally off. but it's unclear who else we'd give the money to to do better; on that i agree.
Hopefully not 123 -> 312 but e.g 231.

AFAIK phase order matters for e.g. three-phase motors, they will spin in the wrong direction if wired with the phases in the wrong order.
Yes, it's just very expensive (a couple hundred bucks, I think). If you documented the case during the pandemic by calling AppleCare, they'd probably have covered it if you brought it in immediately after stores reopened. But at this point you're probably on your own...
Not sure why so many people are recommending QubesOS AKA a virtual machine for each dev environment. Podman containers are far more lightweight, and secure enough that you won't need a full VM if you're just doing application development.
The British are still investing in development of the Reaction Engines SABRE air-breathing hypersonic engine concept. They have a novel design to address engine cooling but it's unclear whether it will really work.

https://reactionengines.co.uk/advanced-propulsion/sabre/
Try yoga.

I'm the wrong side of 40. I do two 10-15 min practices each side of the day. And have been doing this for nearly six years now. My balance has never been better.

There's loads of types/styles of yoga, and there are specific balance type practices for all levels - just have a hunt round YouTube.
"eat straight up oxidized cholesterol in the form of trans fats"

Trans fats aren't oxidized.

Like I said, I love reading HN health comments.
Well, if people try to stay away from polarised politics, that definitely won't improve the situation.

IMO the importance in reading all sides (IMO there're much more than 2 sides, even in US, let alone Europe and the rest of the world) is to learn that all sides deep bellow have some good ideas, some bad ideas and then there's reasoning behind them. And different contexts where some bad ideas actually are an improvement and good ideas would be net negative.

Of course, it's takes energy to read into that. It needs smart and thinking population to work. Personally I think classic philosophy is a good starting point. Pre-modern-era history. It gives some perspective how different contexts shape people. How things change in a sort of circular way. How societies were built and how they crashed.

It's the curse of democracy. On one hand, it's great. On the other hand, it's damn hard work to keep it well oiled.

At the end of the day, I think there's no need to „unify“ people for the sake of it. Different people live in different contexts and naturally they come to different conclusions. What we need is to get people into more intelligent mode. All camps need to get to the root of their issues and think of a constructive way to fix them. Rather than just destroy the world and hope the issue fixes itself. And then we need more autonomy at all levels so people living different contexts can try out their ideas at small scale.
It costs less... in California or adjacent states with both massive insolation and good infrastructure. It doesn't cost less in Germany or Poland which is north of the 50th latitude and has about a third of the insolation per year.

And storage has some very hard physical limits on scaling up that will prevent costs from falling a lot - mostly the actual amount of the elements on earth that are needed for the batteries.
> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia are insane weirdos

Does anyone really stress over these? Everywhere I’ve used them it’s always been use black/flake8/eslint/prettier with mostly out of the box settings in order to get some low hanging fruit standardisation of the code to avoid people stressing/arguing over them.
Maybe for the adventure cyclist. The urban cyclist has long been about the $100 duct tape seat disposable bike, knowing theft is not a matter of if but when.
Every single one of those snippets would have become much more accurate and sensical if the phrase was changed to "Nobody wants to work for free anymore".

Which is true for any age, to the lament of cheap employers in any age.
> One thing I can fault the Bluetooth SIG is that the spec is very complex and full of optional bits which could lead to many pitfalls for the uninitiated engineers, though Bluetooth chips from reputable manufacturers who know what they're doing, like CSR, TI, SiLabs and Nordic are nearly bulletproof in this regard.

Earlier spec versions aren't just incredibly complex - they're contradictory.

That's what led to so many manufacturers doing their own thing in very slightly incompatible ways. You can pick up two certified bluetooth devices and find them to have different behaviour in the exact same circumstances. In fact, some of the best devices are ones that aren't certified, because they ignore the spec and act more reasonable than it demands.

Apple famously skips several of the mandatory verification handshakes to reduce latency in their AirPods. Not optional, mandatory. Because the spec doesn't work that well in the real world.
Does their serverless offering actually support Global Tables? Last time I checked I remember only being able to select a single region. Their dedicated offering supported multiple regions, but started at several hundred dollars per month, which is pretty prohibitive for someone just starting out.

I'm currently using Fauna which offers the same strongly consistent global reads with higher latency writes approach, and their pricing is much better for smaller-budget projects that can benefit from global replication.
This sounds cool, but what makes Altis different from the countless apps out there that tell you how to workout and what to do?
I agree. But if you’re asked to implement hierarchical categories, you implement them as tags underneath. This doesn’t cost you any time. When eventually they realize that categories don’t work (they never do) you can just turn a switch.
I've always had this hunch that the Bluetooth protocol is somewhat underspecified - if you just implement the spec, you're going to have something that mostly works in the happy case, but you gotta do a bunch more to make it work consistently under less-than-ideal real world conditions (which companies like Jabra and Apple then tend to do). Any hardware people wanna chime in and tell me if I'm close or not?
> Almost every hospital, at least everyone that does transplants, will have a landing pad.

Perhaps before they had that, this same line of thinking might have concluded they didn't need one, as they already had a car park.
For half a second my brain thought this post was about writing your own X11 implementation. I admit, I was intrigued.
Well, it's not exactly a rigorous scientific analysis, is it?

I'm willing to bet you can find the sentence "People never had it better" in print all the way back to 1894. What would that prove?
I did that too. I was weirdly disappointed when I discovered it wasn't.
Iä, Iä Shub-Niggurath! Cthulhu ftaghn!!
Date with NPC
No trick, I was genuinely curious. I am surpised the answers are all punitive though. In my mind the issue is that it's simply hard to police in the first place. I think people are over-estimating the power of punishments as a deterrent. The logic is sound, but it relies on criminals being forward minded critical thinkers aware of the penalties, and that you caught them at all.

Admittedly I have no data for my area to back these thoughts up, but punishments are only important if people are actually getting caught, and they are only a deterrent to those who care. People still steal cars all the time and that is grand theft.
Intimate talk to leaders may often reveal narcissistic traits bordering on psychopathy: The delight in feasting on others misery, and getting away with it!

Most people support this unknowingly, thus supporting scaffolding of psychopathic systems. Even though 98% are not psychopathic, most people will support adversarial and self-destructive systems.
Datacenters always have A/C I thought?
Lisp wasn't necessarily tied to specific hardware, like Lisp machines, but to powerful hardware with lots of RAM and processing power.

The "Unix workstation" of the 1980's was about the most powerful, expensive machine you could get your hands on that still qualified as a microcomputer. No wonder they got some sort of industrial Lisp to fit on it.

Unix ran on a lot less than that before that; what sort of Lisp was there for V7 Unix on a PDP-11, and what were its applications?
If there's an executable file named "python" in your current directory, typing "python" in your shell won't in general execute that file. You need to add the current directory to your PATH, or to run it explicitly with something like "./python". This is different from the behavior with "python -m modulename".

So this security concern applies when you trust your shell and all the directories in your PATH, but you don't trust the contents of the current directory. That's not the norm, but it's quite a common situation to be in - you downloaded some files but don't intend to execute them.

This is (used to be at least) different on Windows: typing "python" risks executing a file in the current directory called "python.exe", though maybe UAC saves you now.
"Nobody" cared, yet the Vice President on the US was picked partly because of his strong credentials on the issue. Gore published "Earth in Balance" exactly 20 years ago, and even then it contained nothing new or controversial outside the Fox News bubble.
See: most of Europe. Few of my friends and family under 40 are married here. Some are getting married now, but more as a celebration of their relationship than anything else.
I buy stupid printers with good cups support and plug them into a printer server. It has been robust for about 7 years, and I have only had to update the raspberry pi once to a new LTS release.

OTOH I am the kind of guy that only buys wired headphones.
What's the Catch?
I’m currently reading The Great Mental Models. The part I’m reading now is called The Map Is Not The Territory, and it is about formulating abstractions.

In this chapter, the author reminds us that we run into problems when our knowledge is that of the map we’re reading, rather than that of the territory it describes.

I don’t think a network of micro-services is analogous to a chain of small UNIX programs piped together. Those aren’t pipes between micro-services; they’re web servers and network requests. It’s a whole different ball game.

The abstraction is an attractive one, and perhaps it’s why micro-services are all we’ve been able to talk about for the past decade. But it’s still not a good abstraction. It’s an oversimplification.
> without a doubt

Not a mark of wisdom to use these words about such topics.

I agree that SSRIs and bipolar are a tricky mix, but they work for some patients.
The media commentary is almost always from employers. I think there are some new/developing factors, but otherwise it seems like inevitable tension from one side seeking to pay less and the other hoping to earn more.

One part of the equation that I think is addressable though is unsophisticated employers, for lack of a better term. If you work for a small business, the owner's personality is a bigger factor in your experience - in negotiating, being paid, handling leave (an owner rarely gets formal leave, so some will resent people asking). Being underpaid is one thing, but being underpaid and dealing with a difficult personality who controls everything about your employment is another thing on top.
Fortunately they're all in competition with each other so they can't subvert the kernel to their own ends.
And here I thought the Einstein principle was that you can instantly make any idea or quote sound more credible by liberally attributing it to Einstein.
One of the many reasons dating can be so stressful. I wonder if 'traditional' values of married couples sticking together no-matter-what reduced this stress somewhat
I think you underestimate the distances involved. It'll be impossible to maintain the infrastructure. How are you going to get these people there? Additionally, You will need an enormous number of tugs. It's' not like there are clearly marked highways or anything. The area to be covered is going to be huge. What are they going to do in bad weather?
Then, who is going to coordinate all of this? How do the tugs know where to go and when? If the weather is bad and there is no fresh tug available the ship will go down. Let's not even talk about how inefficient and slow this will be.

The forces of nature these ships work against are nothing to sneeze at. This stuff is not at all trivial.
> A shitty job at $15 an hour is equally unappealing at $16 an hour.

See a contrary opinion here:

https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/what-does-shitty-job-me...

(Look for the “Wages, Non-Work Survival Stress, and You” section)

If you are payed better than most jobs you could otherwise do, you may find that it motivates you.
Not much of the library is dependent on the GC. For example, only one of the algorithms is.
I think of the Montage/et al as fitting into the synth category. I have an older keyboard like the Montage.

There is feature differentiation, sure. But I think the biggest difference between product lines is the controls. Arranger keyboards need convenient buttons for changing song sections. Synthesizers need dedicated controls for sound design. Stage pianos have dedicated buttons for the common sounds—acoustic piano, electric piano, and electric organ.

If there is a keyboard that “does it all”, I’d guess that it’s something like the Genos. It costs a couple grand more than the Montage.
JWT Decoder
Basic JWT decoder chrome extension, couldnt find a simple one, so I wrote one. Thought other people might find it useful.
Why aren't you adjusting for LDL subfractions? Seriously, yes having too much LDL can be a sign of having harmful subfractions but that doesn't mean high LDL actually is harmful or low LDL is healthy.
> because you come across unnecessarily hostile

And possibly justified.

A lot of us are armchair psychiatrist from reading articles. OP that you're replying to lives this type of medication and attributes being alive right now to it while a lot of us who have only read articles sit and debate.

A number of these comments can come across as "just eat healthier" to an overweight person or "don't be sad".
On any given day, our hospitals — by design — operate at 90 to 100% capacity. That's why we have sought waivers to allow critical access hospitals to operate above their licensed capacity Peel wrote.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/01/jeff-jacks...
This was where my head was going as well, how many people are actually caught? Barely any of the actual thieves I bet. I imagine the sales rings get busted sometimes.

That video of casey neistat's where he steals a bike in front of a crowd, the three officers there had been NYC officers for 10 years and had never seen a bike thief amongst them.
And I would actually expect that it is equipped to handle 40-degree outside temperatures year-long (same in zones in southwestern US - I meant 105-degree heat because freedom units!) London didn't historically experience these kind of heat though, only peaking to 37-degree in an hour.
You're not. When something in bt doesn't work it's caused by two things: a regular bug in the stack, or a feature of the spec that was implemented incorrectly which comes from ambiguous wording in the spec or simply the fact that it's several thousand pages long. This is usually not a problem if you have two devices using the same stack talking to each other but normally that's not the case.
If you compare these to planes, planes have airways, and have different flight levels on a same airway (and all the technology you mention + 2 pilots capable of using that technology + air control) .

If you compare these to cars, cars have roads.

Imagine a very large square where cars are free to go up to 180 MpH with the "only" rule that the car coming from the right has precedence, which is more or less what boats/ships do now (but they do this at 0-40 MpH top).

Not that the possible issues cannot be solved, but surely there will be the need of a license that - if not directly comparable to a commercial airplane license - will be anyway much more complex than a plain boat license.
Is the execution hard no matter what, or because the concept is vague or being addressed at too broad a scope?
What is your view on why did Ruby missed Python's current spot?

Did it miss the data science/ML boat?
Yet every month my Apple AirPods stop connecting with my Apple iPhone, until I hard reboot the iPhone. And a $70 Bluetooth headset that wouldn’t connect to a brand new Apple laptop until I restarted it 4 times, rebooted the Mac twice, and toggled the pairing mode about 8 times. And Bose headsets that don’t connect to iPhone for 2-3 attempts.
I'm not following, aren't 123,231 and 312 all in the same order?
I guess it used to be more of a problem before languages started shipping their own linters and code styles (like Rust does), or agreed to use a single tool. Kind of a legacy artifact.
312 is also a clockwise direction; the anticlockwise ones are 132 213 321.
> Until you realize that metric would only be meaningful per capita

Why would this metric only be meaningful per capita?
The lesson you took from "American Factory" was that the Chinese workers "seem to care more"?

In the west, work is a job, and we work it for (usually) 40hrs a week. The Chinese workers were often hundreds or thousands of miles from their families, living in cramped company-provided housing and seeing their families a few times a year. It showed me that work is a lifestyle.

My impression was that while the company wanted it's workers nominally "happy", productivity was of supreme importance. Safety, legality, and all of that was red tape to be handled in some way, but productivity was most important.
My impression was that the workers were all seen as cogs by the management, and all were replaceable.

I'm sure it's true that there are lazy people out there. But I think the point here is that there are people who will do the work in the right conditions for decent money.
That's not the same as saying they support the EU's regulations. Just that they'd support America imposing regulations. The issue being discussed here isn't whether people are in favour of privacy but whether they're in favour of international governments imposing restrictions on the way their home-grown corporations operate.

I appreciate from a high level the two questions overlap in this specific case study. However it's the framing of the question which really matters here, not the practical overlap.
I have over a dozen Bluetooth audio devices & near no complaints. across my various personal & work laptops & phones, everything works reliably & great. some of my oldest headsets have some dropouts while exercising and that's about it. it's very confusing reading anti-bluetooth articles & posts. i don't feel like we're using the same technologies.
Yep I am in agreeance with your last paragraph, that is where my curiosities were. How do you effectively catch bike thieves? I think it's infeasable to catch them in the act, it's just too easy for thieves to be discreet and out of the way. But maybe there are ways to catch them after the fact.
Many European countries had their own version of this. Germany had Bildschirmtext (aka BTX), which failed mostly because the state controlled which terminal could be used, and it was metered in minutes, which in turn were expensive. The UK had Viewdata and later Prestel.
A VIN number ? For a bicycle ? Or maybe you are talking of motorbikes ?