skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a staunch advocate of the metric system, however, I am not the 'fanboy' I once was.

It all makes sense and seems really clever when you are at school with your little ruler with those weird inch things on the unused side. I could bark at any adult daring to use an outlawed measurement unit, to put them in their place.

To a certain extent we do that with Americans and their usage of 'weird' units that make no sense to people outside of the UK. However, as I have got older, I have learned to appreciate why these quaint measurements have survived the test of time. For example the 0.1 inch pitch spacing of integrated circuits is a gentle reminder that Americans pioneered and invented all of this stuff and that, despite the politics and sentiment of the time, some respect is deserved for the non-metric giant shoulders we stand on.

Every British person knows what a metre is but most British people will give their height in feet and inches. Ask those people what their height is in metres and your guess is as good as mine.

Weight has made a slow transition to kilograms in the UK. Stone is still a measurement. But when an American describes weight in pounds the average British person has not the foggiest.

I find more beauty in the vernacular measurements and I can play devil's advocate - 'Metric is French Napoleon conquest bad'.

Nowadays we have electronic gadgets to do the simplest arithmetic. Nobody does long division on paper these days. They don't even have a pen. The benefits of the decimal system are somewhat moot. I can see why base 12 measurements stick around but no idea why base 14 is a thing.

Anyway, couldn't the A4 problem have been solved with non square pixels?
> It's so obvious to me that it's worth doing, and it's extremely low effort.

DMARC, IP reputation and spams are not obvious.
That's sad to hear, and I would love to know the details (Which OS are you running? What did you attempt to upgrade?).

Regarding your conclusion, I totally agree: Don't have only one device, make sure to have a backup. IMHO this also applies to regular (Android, iOS) smartphones, too - device failure of mobile devices is just one fatal motion, one time of not paying enough attention away.
Hi Evan - are you funding multiple companies with $250K EACH, or is this a single investment of $250K from the org?
If you are wondering, as I was, why a chimney would need to be so tall:

> The Superstack was built to disperse sulphur gases and other byproducts of the smelting process away from the city of Sudbury. It did this by placing the gases high in the air, where they normally blew right past the city on the prevailing winds.
They start beeping once moved if they've been separated from their owner for a time (8-24 hours), Apple also makes an app for Android[1] that will let you find nearby AirTags (and has a procedure via reporting the device to the police to unmask the owner)

It's still not ideal (and I'm not conviced small cheap standalone trackers are worth the risks compared to Find My built in to devices), but Apple do provide a lot more tools to protect people than other tracking device companies... and as a result an AirTag is a way worse choice within this category for stalkers from risk of getting caught.

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.trac...
I never considered that the US mispells metre, considering Dutch uses "meter" as well.
Also amusing is that things I wrote for win32 in 2000 still run now on Windows 11.
Who runs their home toaster for hours on end each day? Even throwing the thing out and never cooking at home with it is unlikely to save much electrical consumption.

If you live in a net heating environment then the cost of running something like a toaster is basically zero. You're getting to cook with and getting the heat in the inside of your home as well. Not as great as a heat pump, but there is a reason why heat pump toasters don't exist.
I always wondered how they got their oxes to need resting at exactly the same number of feet ;)
OT: do you have an opinion on these horizontal scrollbars? But it‘s not really a scrollbar, more like an indicator how far you have scrolled in the article.
Great. A link to one of the most formidable paywalls on the Internet...
Thought experiment, you pick up a random USB-C cord, now answer a few questions.

How much power can it deliver?

Does it do data and if so, at what speed?

Does it support video over USB and if so, at what resolution?
Further in the OP thread there is a screenshot of owner's statement:

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1566746606396997635

He says he has a "family emergency" and will be unavailable for a "week or more".
Some hosting providers have a very negative IP reputation. They seem to be unable to stop their users from sending out spam. They don't seem to react to abuse reports, let alone take action to stop abuse from their ASN generally. So I block their entire netblocks, IP-wise. I'm not aware of any legitimate emails being caught up in this. If somebody is unfortunately caught up, my response is that they should use a more reputable provider.

According to your previous post, I shouldn't do that for DKIM/SPF -valid emails by IP, but I do. I hope this explains I do, and why purely domain-based reputation doesn't work.
Here's the full paper: https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0264410X22010283

As I understand it, these are results from two different trials done separately by Pfizer and Moderna, with slightly different protocols and reporting standards:

"Moderna reported SAEs [serious adverse effects] from dose 1 whereas Pfizer limited reporting from dose 1 to 1 month after dose 2."

"For reasons that are not documented in the trial protocol, Moderna included efficacy outcomes in its SAE tabulations, while Pfizer excluded them. As a result, Moderna’s SAE table did not present a traditional SAE analysis but rather an all-cause SAE analysis. "

Thus, only numerical comparisons between treatment and control within the same trial are valid (assuming proper randomization), not between the two trials.
My reading of that is that some such advocacy is "across the line". Which is which, is a purely practical judgment. A youtube rando with no IRL power would not concern Popper no matter what she said, while someone like Hitler leading a party of fascists obviously would even if he spoke mostly in dog whistles. Drawing the line requires judgment, not an attitude of "it is society's right to crush those it deems intolerant and society will always exercise that right especially if it makes a military contractor a bit more profit". As we see ITT, Popper was wrong, because authoritarians will often demand that the state exercise such "rights" to the fullest extent.

I think maybe Libya war cheerleaders like B-HL must not have read that last sentence in the quote too carefully.
>> (95 % CI -0.4 to 20.6 and -3.6 to 33.8)

> At best, that’s really noisy data.

Yes. That's exactly why each of the confidence intervals have a negative and a positive extreme. If there is a real effect, it's below the noise level.
It is perhaps the market responding about a lack of quality in coding sweatshops. Depending on where you live you can get by without hardly ever doing a test. I love doing coding challenges, code golf and whatnot. But you really have to pay a lot if you want me to do one if we are getting to know each other.

If you accept every challenge you already undersold yourself in many cases. It is a matter of valuation of yourself and others and gamification of the workplace was cool a decade ago in my opinion.
People are extorting big money from drug markets doing this...

It's very easy, anyone with basic grasp of C can modify the Tor client to do this.
Is it possible that the data was tampered with? We are in the midst of a scientific fraud crisis and there are powerful interests heavily invested in making sure this result comes out negative or inconclusive.

For those about to downvote me: my general (but unscientific) opinion is that it doesn't make sense for the covid vaccine to be riskier than covid itself. But as a society we have shown that even "technical" people like researchers and scientists are willing to fudge, ignore, or misinterpret data for various political or personal purposes, not to mention that doing so in domains outside of public health is common practice in academia. So I believe it's only prudent and rational to be extremely skeptical of anything that looks "off".
You know how in modern iPhones they don't let you disable bluetooth from the pull-down menu anymore? Instead it just says "disconnecting devices until tomorrow". That's because Apple really doesn't want you to ever turn bluetooth off. And that is because all iPhones are part of their location botnet. So if you ever pass by someone else's airtag, your phone will send a message to Apple that it has seen that airtag at your current coordinates.
If they have the time and are willing to put in the effort, they can create a myriad of Tor onion servers that are just nginx proxy-cache nodes that forward over a VPN mesh to their application servers. The end-users would have to be aware of all the onion cache servers somehow or their application would have to load balance people across them and keep some unannounced and cycle some in and out.
I'm not here to define hate speech, and I think that you'd agree that HN was not designed to encourage and promote hate speech.

You absolutely can not say the same thing of Kiwifarms. Let's not be deliberately obtuse here.
I don't believe so. I think it was omitted because if it was published in the press (TV and newspapers) there would have been a public outcry of indecency.

Funnily enough though, while you couldn't see the facts that were glossed over/not reported, you could see the same opinions echoed (without some of the strong language/nastiness) in the public "have your say" parts of the "mainstream news" as Kiwifarms forum members. So their opinions were widely shared with regular people.

I assume this is why some people say that Facebook is a better news source than the "mainstream news". I don't agree on that, but I do like to see all of the _facts_ regardless if they would hurt feelings.

Kiwifarms has a lot of hatred and nasty comments, but I tune that out. As I said, I've seen worse on Twitter/Facebook/Youtube comments.

> How did you verify it was actually true?

The same information was published in other places, just not on the TV/newspapers where I read 95% of my news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicas_(film)
Again? They don’t mess around do they?
I'll have to check that out. Thank you.
De-platforming works.
Basically none, because that isn't how capacitors work. Capacitors voltage drop linearly with respect to the amount of stored energy. They are useful for transients in the very high frequency regime, not multi millisecond long periods.
Some people are deaf or hard of hearing.

In my experience, though, the worst sidewalk speeders are on skateboards or scooters. (I'm not saying you shouldn't skate; rather, when there was a close call or a collision, that's what they were barreling by on.)
Pyramid Counteracts Neuroendocrine and Oxidative Stress in Rats
I use Lunch Money: https://lunchmoney.app/

I have a referral link as well, but use the link above if you're not comfortable with that: https://lunchmoney.app/?refer=9tdo95yk
This isn't meaningfully different from using onionbalance, the attackers will still be at a significant advantage.
It would have been good if the feedback wasn't green (and for bonus points; not the same) for wrong answers.
It wasn't? The article leads with that argument.

"The reality is that none of these companies — or any other quantum computing firm, for that matter — are actually earning any real money."

I don't see any argument that the technology is fundamentally unsound or doesn't scale, even though that's an argument I'm pretty amenable to.
Sure! We just need websites that organize brigading and harassing trans-people, women, and minorities until they commit suicide. Its an utter requirement of civilization. /cringe

But sex workers, they're "immoral". Which is why cloudflare dropped THEM without fanfare or warning. https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xk78x/switter-down-cloudfla...
I'm a teaching assistant, and I use this calculation every time I have to organize a written exam

"so every students needs 11 sheets of paper... times 234 students... times 5 grams... OK I need help to bring everything to the exam building"
> But to me things in Germany still seem to be a bit more rational than all the things that are going on in UK politics since BoJo became prime minister...

Johnson's antics are a rounding error compared to the damage done to Europe this year by the German state's energy policies
But it was mere decades that the NT began to take shape. The article you've linked says it was all written before AD 120. So, 87 years - fewer than 9 decades.

And practically all learned people - all the movers and shakers (so to speak) of the Reformation - understood Latin really well. About as well as the Hellenic world understood Koine Greek in the Apostolic Age. So they already had direct access to both Scripture and Tradition (chiefly being the sacred liturgy in Latin) and the Eastern Orthodox already actively translated the latter into vernaculars.
A pedestrian with headphones needs to ensure that he can hear any relevant traffic noise, e.g. my bell or an approaching car. Noise-blocking headphones or loud music impeding the hearing of a pedestrian are a traffic offense.
Russia’s War on Wikipedia
LSM trees are mostly for persistent storage. You can do a lot better in memory with a btree or a different data structure. LSM trees have a lot of operations that need multiple scans or are O(n) instead of O(log n).
That msgid should be at the top of the “references” header in all thread replies, right?
"The earliest websites are viewable on modern browsers."

The problem with this statement is that a website is not the same thing as an application. The web was designed to publish documents, it was never intended to build applications. Saying that a document from the early web is still viewable while a fully interactive application from the same time is not is a bit disingenuous.

As a platform for developing interactive applications the web is simply terrible. There is no good way to develop a UI in HTML/CSS/JS, all attempts to do so rely on layers upon layers of wat are essentially hacks to build something resembling a UI toolkit on top of a document markup language. The result a UI that is unnecessarily complicated and fragile. Laying out and rendering HTML and CSS is incredibly complex compared how traditional UI toolkits do the same task. That complexity comes at a cost, both in development time and in UX.
Any plans for an EU presence?
All bubbles are not equal in risk, folly, or long term sustainability.

In the case of the Internet Bubble stocks were down 78%, but it was not hard to do well in the end given diversification and a long enough horizon.

In the case of the Dutch Tulip bubble there was no good ending for anyone except those who got out early.

Some bubbles like NFTs generate strong opinions but have yet to have final judgment from history.

I think the quantum computing bubble is different than all three, but closer to the Internet than to Tulips. In which case the conventional strategy would be to diversify and expect a long time horizon.
My opinion is that the powerful decision makers were about to retire - so they just didn't much care.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212204

But is there ever a time that you said “I really wish I had to pair my headphones to each of my devices individually and had to adjust settings by clicking on a button on my headphones and decipher the various beeps”?
>Doctors were even talking about not treating the unvaccinated

And this is the definition of a lie of omission: the reason beleaguered ER docs might have considered this, even privately, probably had something to do with the fact that the deathly-ill unvaccinated took up all the beds, dying horribly on ventilators over a long period, cared for by bunny-suited staff who were beginning to tire. I believe the word is "triage".

There was a feeling that this was unfair to all those who got the vaccine and thereby had much better outcomes when they got the 'VID. Put more straightforwardly, there was a feeling that, if not for those who didn't get vaccinated, the healthcare system wouldn't be full of those who didn't get vaccinated.
(Author here.) The estimated savings is roughly 24 Euro/year assuming the AP is completely idle (which it mostly is at night). So, that's the savings from just disabling one of the radios. Europe is currently experiencing an affordable energy shortage. So, everyone is encouraged to cut energy usage. One AP doesn't make much difference, but this change is something almost every AP — residential and business — could make to cut waste. It should probably be a first-time setup question: do you want to save energy by disabling the 5 GHz radio between 23:00 and 07:00?
I don't think anyone is actually DDoSing kiwifarms at any significant scale.

If they end up running the site on a server with no DDoS filtering at all, people will probably DoS them because it will be super easy.
Also, Apple re-enables Bluetooth on OS updates even if you disable it in Settings, and Apple says this functions as intended. https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/bluetooth.html
Why You’ve Never Heard About Nintendo’s U-Force
Most battery powered trackers have a battery life of about a week. AirTags last a year. That's possible because they're pretty much passive and Apple's network of iPhones does the actual tracking. No other company can do this.
This is really annoying in a family household. I use my AirPods connected to my phone when I am cleaning the house, cutting the grass outside etc. My son and daughter love to watch videos on the iPad. My AirPods randomly switch to the videos they’re playing on the iPad without me ever asking for that to happen. It irritates me that Apple does this.
Mastery Through Deliberate Practice
Show HN: Aggregate-fn library that provides savings when you deal with API eco
Yeah this is a good point. My roof used to be shaded for most of the day.
GCC only took off because Sun decided to split their UNIX into user and developer editions, and other UNIX vendors followed.

Still same rule applies, when a UNIX shop paid for UNIX developer tooling, usually languages like Ada and Modula-2 weren't in the box, you needed to pay extra.
Linkedin is a reasonable way to search for consultants.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722374
> AirTags take advantage of Apple's global "Find My" network of hundreds of millions of Apple iPhones. No other tracking device has this capability.

I guarantee I can find a cheaper device that does not need to use apples network and is as easy to use; it's even more perfect for stalking because there's no information on the owner and no risk that the tag notifies the person nearby.

Apples devices are low power and do not have GPS trackers in them; it's pretty trivial to have a higher powered device with a GPS tracker in it.

EDIT: 10s of searching, it's even magnetic: https://www.amazon.com/Tracki-Magnetic-Required-Worldwide-Mo...
If the output side is saturated with work load but the input side keeps growing to blow up without significantly changing the output, or at worst affecting it negatively (quantum blockchain buzzword bingo), it may be fair to speak of a bubble.
I always loved the cyberspace sequence. I was like "hey wow, this is actually a really good and doable representation of what the metaverse could be like!"

For reference : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzRjtvMQds4
Swalbe.jl: A lattice Boltzmann solver for thin film hydrodynamics
I was sort of hoping this was someone using Stable Diffusion to render actual Street View content in a BotW style… next project?!
Should be, but I'm not so sure about Outlook, which is usually involved in all such reply-all-storms. Replies and threads in Outlook are very weird.
Hello guys, I'm going to present you my latest Javascript open source project: chrvadala/aggregate-fn. It's a tiny library that can help you when you have to deal with the API economy world.

I found different services that you have to pay for the number of performed api requests. At the same time, they provide you some "bulk" API that returns multiple answers paying just for one request.

I wanted to optimize my project and I made aggregate-fn in order to aggregate together, requests coming in a short window. This library took inspiration from debouncing and throttling methodologies, but with a focus on Node.js and Promise.

I share this project because I think that I found a common pattern that this library can efficiency manage, providing savings even for your project.

Do you think that this project will help you in the same way?
LMK in the comments
https://github.com/chrvadala/aggregate-fn
It’s end-to-end encrypted, so the only other devices able to read the location of your phone/AirTag/laptop/etc. are devices that you own. Nobody else—not Apple, not the government—can access your location data in any way.

This network used to only exist for iDevices, making it very easy to track down a lost or stolen phone or tablet. People didn’t have any concerns about stalking because it’s not practical to hide a phone to stalk someone (and the battery would only be good for a few days anyway). The game changed when AirTags were introduced, which are both easily concealed and have replaceable batteries that last for years, hence why we’re seeing critical articles like the OP.
I always get mixed feelings on this. I mean we're getting paid to solve problems and we shouldn't "fall in love" with our solutions. If the cofounder pivot the business we should just accept it, but I know that's not how it works.
Seems very similar to paddle shifters in a gas CVT. There's no mechanical connection between the "clutch peddle" and "shifter" to the actual transmission, it is all just fed into a computer and a simulation is created to give the driver a warm fizzy feeling.

If this makes people feel better during the transitional phase, I guess that counts for something, but this is a manual car simulation only.
Two of the "lolcows" prominently featured on the front page are Ethan Ralph and Nick Fuentes. They're not nazis (they're antisocial morons), but anybody who would call the KiwiFarms a nazi site would call them nazis. The News's approach to Fuentes has been to pearlclutch and basically make him look cool to the young guys he recruits for his political cult. If anyone remembers all the embarrassing stuff that came out about him recently, guess where that information came from. Genuinely the KiwiFarms does a better job of keeping people from falling for fringe politics than the people who set out to do that. Sometimes laughter is the best medicine.
Fair, re military. But at my government job as a programmer at a university I was "forced" to vaccinate as well (unless I wanted to change jobs). I didn't mind, personally. But the descriptor of "forced" is pretty accurate.

And not just jobs. Heck, I went to a concert and had to prove vaccination status.

I think that requiring vaccination was justified at the height of the pandemic. It is unfortunate that the vaccines were not more neutralizing/preventing. I've had three doses and got the virus twice. I ended up being okay; my unvaccinated brother-in-law very much not okay. Like most people do, I have relatives who either died or were severely disabled by covid.
I wonder whether "botnet hosting" will become a thing over time. I mean one could buy "malware installs", so theoretically one could buy "decentralized storage app installs" as well, something like Sia/Filecoin/Storj.
Why We Can't Wear White After Labor Day
It's not the speech that people are objecting to, it's the part where they get people killed.