skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you value health and fitness, and then spend 4-6 hours/day exercising, despite the possibility of still gaining the primary benefits of exercise without spending so much time, how is this any different?

Aside from the health benefits, fitness enthusiasts do it for the community, the feeling of accomplishment, the personal satisfaction, and in some cases, literal addiction.

Those four hours/day on a bicycle don't seem inherently more valuable than three hours on a game and one hour on a bicycle. But someone spending four hours on the bicycle will be held above the person spending three hours on a game. Why?

The two activities can be strikingly similar in some ways (aside from the fitness outcome).

- Spending time riding/playing with other cyclists/gamers (community)

- Spending time riding alone (solitude)

- A sense of personal satisfaction at certain achievements (e.g. riding a century, or unlocking a rare achievement)

But aside from the personal fitness gained, spending an three extra hours on a bike doesn't seem intrinsically any more valuable than spending those same three hours on RDR2, if they're bringing the individual a sense of satisfaction.

I do think that this is all about balance, and as others have pointed out, addictions come in many shapes and sizes. I know people who are absolutely fitness addicts.

> building a valuable set of useful skills seems like the precise opposite of toxicity

Values are personal, and usefulness is contextual. I know plenty of people who have successful careers, make good money, and then sink inordinate amounts of time into their hobbies, some of which might not look valuable depending on your perspective. For such individuals, it's unclear why they must necessarily spend time learning more skills, and why that is valuable when the bases are already covered.

Exercising seems like the opposite of toxicity, but anything can become toxic if taken to an extreme.
Comp at Netflix is all salary whereas the other ones include equity. For some reason, this is not taken into account and thereby skews the whole discussion.
We have a subscription for MapTiler to do our in app maps; including very nice satellite imagery. This data set is obviously not the good stuff.

For reference, I've used ortho4xp to get some satellite imagery based x-plane scenery. I have several hundreds of GB of scenery like that for a few relatively small areas, like my home country the Netherlands, the area around Berlin, and a few more places. That scenery comes in at multiple GB (4-6GB) for just a single rectangle on the map (1 degree latitude by 1 longitude degree, depending on the zoom level. You typically use it at zoom level 17 but you can configure it to go for zoom level 19 near airports, which helps when coming in to land. This stuff is huge. At zoom level 19, you can see quite a bit of detail. It looks great from a few hundred feet up in the simulator.

What map tiler offers us looks like it is similar quality to that. I assume they are licensing some satellite data for this. Zoom level 19 resolution for the entire world is likely to be in the peta byte range. 500GB is probably zoom level 15 or 16ish. Still usable but not great if you want to zoom in and see details.

Edit. Another point is that zl 19 and better does not come from satellites but from air planes and isn't available everywhere (only in populated areas typically).
Well...here goes.

Mom used to have an AOL buddy she always talked to. Di57 was her screen name, and what she called her when talking to us about her. They were about the same age, both married, had kids, etc, so a lot in common. They'd talked for at least a couple years, I guess.

One day the lady asked her if I could write something to see what her family was chatting about... in the guise of 'protecting my family' and nothing more. We figured it was probably about the kids. I forgot what she paid me, $20 or $50. So what I wrote wasn't actually a keylogger, but used win APIs to grab text from IM windows, and store that. Didn't know how to really hide it or piggyback it, so just gave it a name like 'win32xxx' something or other, hell it's been more than 20 years now.

Didn't think much of it really, one day Di57 told my mom her husband was cheating on her with multiple women, telling some his wife was dead, some he wasn't married, some they were separated etc etc. Sad news. They kinda didn't chat much after that.

This is where I get fuzzy because I don't remember exact timelines, but at some point not immediately... I'd guess 4 to 16 months later, her husband died. She was convicted of his murder, and apparently it became a big thing because of cold case or snapped or something or other(I hate those shows). Her name was Diane Fleming...in prison still AFAIK.

I don't say this to brag, or feel any guilt or anything. Just something that always sat in the back of my mind -if- things would have been different if I hadn't done that.

Some of these details and timelines may be off, I guess I never really thought about it much recently. For some reason, I remember us both thinking she was guilty, I think there may have been other pieces of things she'd said I'm forgetting.
Mastodon won't replace Twitter in terms of user base, but it's definitely not going to die. Plenty of niches are active on it.
Seriously, what's the difference from the last time this is shared at HN?
"Critical for humanity": https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1575589049573601280/ph...

What a joke.
The irony of posting these kind of takes on a highly popular internet message board.
You do database migrations or you handle data with a variable shape. Where do you want to put your effort? The latter makes rollbacks easier at least.
Strongly disagree. If it takes 10K hours to become an expert that person has probably spent more than 2k hours across the different COD’s. Apply the 80%/20% rule and you’re going to be at a pretty solid level of playing after investing that much time. I’d say enough to get a gig playing in a local band and more than enough to impress your mom.
I'm guessing that going from free to $0.01 is the biggest hurdle. Once people agree to pay they're willing to pay a decent amount.
Interesting that Jack keeps the tracking code on Twitter shared links
Short-Seller “Turned the Tables” on Espionage Op Targeting Nikola Whistleblowers
Is it still very difficult for generic programmers to program an FPGA for their particular application?
Not a fan of what feels like an advertisement hijacking the OPs post. Most would probably prefer you just make a separate HN post.
I've been lucky to have worked on and have built what I consider both 'meaningful' and 'impactful' software throughout my now 25+ year career. I wrote code to help detect and analyze cracks within nuclear reactor steam generator tubing, code that allows US Army battlefield commanders to communicate intent and plans, and most recently code that is democratizing access to adaptive learning tools for higher ed.

How did I learn to program? I learned how to write code starting in second grade, learned how to write production code as a member of team in my first couple of real world jobs.

How did I learn how to build 'meaningful' things? Beyond coding skills, I had to learn how to communicate effectively with people. I had to learn how to present my ideas in group settings, I had to learn how to listen to folks when they talked about their needs and wants, and how to dig in and really understand what was needed, coding-wise, to meet their actual real use cases.
You might notice that the only way to create a declarative language is to use an Imperative language.

Declarative languages are basically a DSL, which (hopefully) translate the desired steps into efficient instructions. Nonetheless, your cpu will execute imperative code at the end.

SQL is an example of a very well established and generally well done declarative language, but that doesn't mean that declarative languages are inherently better.
Because it's just Postgres, connecting Jupyter notebooks to Steampipe via SQL works really well :-)
Do you have a link to the domain? Perhaps it can be determined why it is triggering.
Since you claim "This is why we don't bomb Ukranian cities" is a "simple fact" that "never gets to western ears for some reason", you admit you don't believe Putin has bombed Ukranian cities.

What is your proof of your belief in that lie that's contradicted by so much evidence?

Since you're so concerned that proof Putin doesn't bomb Ukrainian cities never gets to Western ears, then speak up now and show us the facts that proved to you all those videos and eyewitness accounts we've all seen are fake, so it finally does get to Western ears.

Or do you just believe the lie that Putin doesn't bomb Ukrainian cities without any proof, just like how you believe all of your baseless Covid-19 conspiracy theories that you spread?
> One of China’s Huawei-supported proposals for the International Telecommunication Union would fundamentally redesign internet protocol (IP) addresses into a less secure, state-controlled model.

I'm not the first on the thread to cite this paragraph.

Good luck with that. Maybe they ought to review the last time(s) [1] governments tried to manage network software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Open_Systems_Interc...
If I understand correctly the patch at the moment doesn't affect system calls at all, only entering and exiting virtual machines.
The ‘GrayKey 2.0,’ the Tool Cops Use to Hack Phones
Author by the way is a very active researcher in planetary science. Man has h-index > 60.
> -if- things would have been different if I hadn't done that.

She would have found out some other way and probably with the same result.
All platforms can detect overflow in one way or another; for example by checking for an unexpected sign change.
Yeah, it's so weird looking at these when they're not "total comp". When I worked at Google, half my W2 income was equity.

It just misleads other companies that are competing for the same talent. "Why is everyone taking a different offer? Our salary is above Google!" but startup equity != RSUs, which you can autosell and treat as cash that shows up every month, just like salary.
Trust Google, get burned.
What’s really going on with Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, and Donald Trump
that’s a depressing thought.
Interestingly, one of my coworkers from India expressed disbelief in the trust that cafeterias had in their customers wherein one gets their food from a fridge or hot service and then, with the food in hand, voluntarily walks over to the cashier to pay for it instead of just walking out not paying. He said that system wouldn't work in India (whichever locale he is from) because nobody would voluntarily pay.

I agree with the other child comment to you that such systems only work in a highly trustworthy society.
Let's talk about that when it happens, I feel like it's not a very realistic scenario
Tldr for those opting out of tracking: melanin protects from cell damage due to radiation, frogs found inside the contamination zone were darker than those outside.
I see local news, but I doubt the guy with a local news site is gonna get a cut.
I did discuss this with close friends who have just become parents, he works for a FAANG company, she works for a big European retailer, no way any of them would discuss this publicly at their work-place or mention anything about it on their social media profiles, for obvious reasons.

True, though, we tend to discuss more about how expensive things became (this is more recent, though) and the perennial subject about real estate (and how expensive it is), but this is a general topic of conversation among the Western middle-classes.
Sounds pretty cool. How much?
Have you considered that your service, unbeknownst to you, may have been compromised at some point in time, and the source of some phishing page or other malicious material?

Besides that possibility, if your business is truly being "destroyed," have you contemplated retaining counsel to escalate things with Microsoft?
That's really interesting. I think people would be surprised at how much medicine is not evidenced-based -- not because doctors are bad at science, but because gathering medical evidence is hard. Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard, but declaring "We're going to gather up a bunch of trans men who expect to become pregnant and randomly assigning them to continue testosterone or not" is going to be logistically challenging and ethically complex.

The point that women with PCOS are not given androgen blockers is fascinating. I wonder if anybody has tried that and observed anything.

In the absence of evidence, doctors are forced to muddle through. It sounds reasonable not to alter the hormones when the body is doing something where the body is already setting up a specific hormone mix, even if imperfectly. But that's just caution in the face of ignorance, not a factual statement.
This expresses it perfectly.

And given the web of interdependencies among the counterparties, every counterparty should be assumed to be overly exposed to a systemic risk that everybody is currently discounting. If that risk happens, it will be difficult to predict who will be affected, and it will be impossible to unwind the deals in a hurry.

We have had a number of financial crises that have required external intervention to keep the whole system from melting down. Most famously, 2008. And they show how quickly a solid counterparty that everyone trusts becomes a source of contagion that poses a risk to everyone touching them.

If we have a long planning horizon, what kinds of shocks should we be prepared for? Well here are a few sample scenarios.

1. Russia collapses, leading to nukes floating around to bad hands.

2. China finally invades Taiwan, threatening everything that needs computer chips.

3. A US government shutdown finally results in non-payment of Treasuries, causing a "risk-free" investment to have to be priced for risk.

4. A repeat of the 1859 Carrington Event happens, with damages in the trillions of dollars. No seriously, https://www.space.com/the-carrington-event shows how plausible this is.

The financial system treats all of these as unthinkable and therefore impossible. But between all of them, over a period of decades, the risk of SOMETHING on this order of magnitude happening is significant. It is a problem that the entire financial system fails to appreciate that there IS a risk, let alone fails to do anything to mitigate it. Indeed, quite the opposite, the 2008 bailout has let the financial system believe that the government will always bail them out. And so has become complacent about their role in creating various minor financial crises.

But there is no guarantee that the government will always be in a position to do that. The result has been a normalization of deviance that has to end badly at some point. See https://www.ostusa.com/blog/normalization-of-deviance-defini... if you're not familiar with the phrase "normalization of deviance".
It's not just the save file in games like this, it's also all of the virtual currencies users paid real world money for. If someone has played 6k hours on RDR2 they likely bought a LOT of in-game currency and other in-game items. A huge potential for monetary and time loss.
Sessions are a unique identifier that index into some server-stored data, which requires the server to store that data. Tokens include the data itself (along with a signature that verifies it's actually from the server). For example, Discord bot tokens include the user ID of the bot they're associated with. So do user tokens.

With sessions, you have to keep track of every client that may be used to access an account. With tokens, those clients self-identify. You have to store less.

Some services unify multiple clients into one session but this is uncommon in my experience.
I had always assumed that there was some different word for when a journal retracted a paper, rather than its author. I suppose it's the same action: in both cases they are removing an endorsement of the validity of the paper.
Why scientists fear monkeypox spreading in wild animals
hey Joe, how can I get in touch with you regarding a RE project similar to what you did for Golem a couple years ago? I don't see any private messaging or ways to contact individuals through this site, so I am just responding to your most recent post in hopes to start a dialog. Do you still work on RE projects?
6000 hours sounds like way more than a hobby. I play videogames too, but that is downright obsession
Pretty sure Google's army of lawyers made sure they promised nothing other than a chance at The Golden Ticket.
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That he took a walk everyday is somewhat informative, given how much of his philosophy is centered on normativity, but I prefer the anecdote about how he was a billiards hustler as a student, because even more pointedly, Kant's philosophy is about making space for human freedom in a world of Newtonian mechanical determination.

Great love for Wittgenstein, Russell, Frege, the Vienna Circle—their philosophical and logical writings—and I do feel alienated when I encounter their popular treatments, because it makes my ego feel special having read their most important works, but I bet the Wittgenstein-Russell fame was good for lots of people getting exposed to the path: I heard about them in a Time Magazine special edition retrospective on artists and thinkers of the 20th Century 22 years ago.
Interesting! I’d always assumed the yellow objects UK soldiers seem to have on the ends of their rifle barrels when simulating an engagement were to catch an accidental live round, but perhaps they have the purpose you suggest.
> the equivalent would be if, a very modestly able coder, were to insist on this forum that because the database is up 99.9% of the time, there's nothing wrong with not handling errors,

That’s what the margin calls are, no?
I wish we would, but I’m just not that confrontational, and am worried about getting in trouble for that. Plus half the cars in question are for cops.

Would rather the law be on my side
> I've always wondered why they don't put the shift symbol on the keyboards when all the other symbols exist.

My keyboard doesn't have any key for the symbol ⌥ or ⌘, either. Or do you mean that all the other modifier keys on Mac-branded keyboards are labelled with their symbols, whereas shift isn't?
You might consider the fanboy annoyance list which blocks the cookie dialog: https://fanboy.co.nz/

Practically I'm not really sure what this does in terms of actual tracking but personally it's the dialog that annoys me more.
Everyone is NOT getting a refund, only purchases through the Google store are being refunded, if bought hardware from Best Buy etc. you are not.
What if it's a true flag? Your website might be compromised and serving malware.

What sort of business is it? If it's something particularly scammy, it might be being screened for that reason.
Amazing, thank you! just bought her hand painted :D cant wait to have in the office https://kareprints.com/products/hand-painted-japanese-woodcu...
Depends on your definition of disaster.

In the hair-dryer case, all six actually do turn on -- but only for a few seconds. The circuit breaker heats up and trips before the wires in the wall get hot enough to ignite the wood. Which sounds scary, but that's part of the design that enables normal spiky power usage of refrigerator compressors starting up, running a garbage disposal for a few seconds, etc., without constantly tripping a home's breakers.

If USB-PD has some way for a single supply to "overbook" its commitments, then it could model this system. Otherwise, its competition will be people plugging lots of individual USB power supplies to AC power strips, which is bulky and wasteful, but extremely functional.
Sorry, I didn't mean to justify it. Just to point out that it wasn't only the British engaging in this behavior. Also I find it a pretty funny historical fact, large part of the British Museum's Egypt collection actually comes from French raids.
I run PiHole on my home network, but it's not my default DNS server (for technical and other reasons); I have to configure custom DNS. I'm disappointed that I can't do that with my Roku devices.
The missing or badly implemented navigation UX and associated gestures are probably one of the most immediately evident tells that an app isn’t native, and probably one of the most frustrating. When I instinctively swipe from the left with my thumb to go back to the previous screen and nothing happens I immediately feel an impulse to go find a different app on the store.
I guess it comes down to how much wiggle room is in "roughly". If you watch the video closely the horse briefly gets a 5th leg when the front left one moves the first time. And yes the legs and joints are sort of right but they don't match up with the direction the horse is moving and wouldn't work in the real world.

It's superficially close but when you look at details they're all slightly off. To wit:

> the knight's body absorbs the force of stomping on the ground…

But the Knight doesn't have any way to see through the helmet.
I've memorized my private key it's the only way to be safe in 2022.
The Psychedelic Escape from Depression
This seems odd. If the situation is so bad, surely you can cover a salary for a traffic inspector to do the rounds? Even at one ticket per hour you should be able to pay the salaries of the inspectors needed to make a dent in the problem.

Why do we need to vigilantize the populace? Just enforce the laws!
Wow. My primary SSD on linux (with 32gb ram) has 2598 hours uptime logged and only 2.4 TB written so far.
Funniest lawsuit Signal message release ever.
> except for a brief period in 2010 where we thought we could kill it

Unfortunately, we never actually tried to kill SQL. We tried to kill relational databases, with the death of SQL as a side effect. This proved to be a stupid idea - non-relational data stores have value of course, but so do relational databases.

SQL, as you point out, is 48 years old. It shows. The ergonomics are awful. It uses natural-language inspired syntax that has fallen completely out of favor (with good reason imho). The ordering of fields and tables precludes the use of autocomplete. It uses orthogonal syntax for identical constructions, i.e.

INSERT ... (col1, col2, ...) VALUES (val1, val2, ...)

vs.

UPDATE ... col1=val1, col2=val2, ...

And worst of all, it comes with such a woefully inadequate standard that half of the universally supported features are expressed in a completely different fashion for each vendor.

It is very common to argue that its longevity is due to its excellence as a language. I think it's longevity is due to its broad target audience, which includes plenty of people in less technical roles who are high on the org chart. Tech workers are happy to jump on new technology that improves ergonomics (or shiny new toys that are strictly more interesting because they are new). Executives who's primary way of interacting with the tech stack is querying a read only replica are much less open to learning a new language.
What they mean is that OSM is not a commercial product that licenses satellite or aerial imagery, so the website does not include this (it's really just a showcase of various info that's in the database, not meant to be fit for any particular purpose, although it's surprisingly good for general use).

However, some image sources are available under free licenses, or in Bing's case, a special license for drawing roads in OSM. Many of those can be found if you go into the edit mode, because the default web editor (iD) has those in the background layers menu.
Sounds like he's just trying to speak Elon's language to me.
Only very recently. Like, all that old Aqua stuff wasn't vectors, it was done in Photoshop.

Bitmaps are much faster to draw and can be made pixel-precise up front. With vectors it's easy to have pixel cracks or blurry lines because it's offset .5px.