skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kudos to your strength and caring for your siblings.

> I need "the stage".

Maybe this can be fixed easily? Like go on conference on behalf of your company and give a talk?

I also work from home 99%. Recently, we did a non-profit event and sold some kind of lottery tickets. Proceeds were donated 100% for local causes. Getting out there and selling tickets for 3-6 hours actually gave me energy. I had conversations with strangers that just went extremely fluid. I enjoyed that, but would hate to do it as a full time job.
three mile island: no deaths

davis besse: no deaths

k-19: fire in a submarine caused by a hydraulics failure doesn't seem to have anything to do with civilian power plants
Wow, that's a big one. I'm sorry to hear that. It sounds like you've been through a lot. What was it about your job that burned you out? I'm sure this would be helpful for me to know, as well as others who may be in a similar situation.
I am using for dumping security reports (vulnerabilities fetched from other platforms) and then quickly generating views for managers (cleanup and aesthetics in a way they understand). I am using it to manage staff on-call and off hours work as well as freelance contracts. Until now the unique integration I've enabled is to notify some teams on Slack. Anyways I miss some features like adding some math formulas in some fields. It is still very lean tool (few features)
Trebek: Browsers nobody asked for $100.
We have to stop seeing everything through the "profitability lens", it clearly isn't sustainable
> Because bash is thousand blades and no handle.

FTFY.

It really is absolutely terrible tool as programming language. If your script is more than "a bunch of pipes in a trench coat" just use something else. I'd unironically prefer Perl to it.
I would recommend reading 30 lessons for living : tried and true advice from the wisest Americans by Karl Pillemer:

> After a chance encounter with an extraordinary ninety-year-old woman, renowned gerontologist Karl Pillemer began to wonder what older people know about life that the rest of us don't.

> His quest led him to interview more than one thousand Americans over the age of sixty-five to seek their counsel on all the big issues- children, marriage, money, career, aging. Their moving stories and uncompromisingly honest answers often surprised him. And he found that he consistently heard advice that pointed to these thirty lessons for living. Here he weaves their personal recollections of difficulties overcome and lives well lived into a timeless book filled with the hard-won advice these older Americans wish someone had given them when they were young.

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11376196-30-lessons-for-...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pillemer
In a vacuum inside a perfect sphere, the answer is always Lisp.

In the real world, Elixir. On the frontend, the choice is just one, making it the worst and the best.
Hell, Perl is at least consistent in its insanity
You shouldn’t compare roadster to anything because it doesn’t exist yet. It’s at best unfair, and ultimately the definition of unrealistic until roadsters are delivered.
Wasting time on Hacker News
Even if the technical process is just "copying data" there is a whole world of legal and ethical issues around it.

Torrenting non-free products from unofficial sources is illegal.
187 comments in this thread (as of writing), 0 on thea original blog source. Someone should write a bot that tells a user "hey! Your post is being discussed on HN $here"
Curious, anyone have any startups they wish existed, but currently do not?

_________________

Related, YC’s Requests for Startups:

- https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

Past YC Requests for Startups:

- https://www.ycombinator.com/past-rfs
Interesting. I see that 'subsidized' renewables are broken out separately from non-subsidized in one of the charts, are there similar subsidies for conventional energy sources?
Worse, he would have probably bought them on MtGox, since it was the most popular during those prices.
Also the source should point to the author’s site.

“Classic Mistakes”, Steve McConnell https://stevemcconnell.com/articles/classic-mistakes/
Focused too much on making a living in my teens and 20s instead of college and social life. Never pursued artistic interests seriously because I was just too tired from working and stressing out about bills.

Now I’m in my 30s with next to no social life and the realization that I’ve wasted away my time and whatever little talent I have.

There’s a “regret” folder sitting in my Google Drive with two half-finished books and at least half a dozen songs I was too chickenshit to finish and release out in the wild.

Always wonder how things might have turned out if I had more supportive parents (financially, emotionally) and if I had taken a few different relationship decisions.

I reckon it’s still not too late, but something tells me that it is…
Me seemed to be a little bit luckier as only 80% seemed problematic after around 10 years. But the result were the same, I had to dump all of them directly except those I did not wish to lose. But even after multiple attempts, still suffered very significant loss.
Nitpick, but you are off by about one order of magnitude for the number of movies available on Netflix. It's closer to 20,000.
> single-thread performance and clock frequency have plateaued 10 years ago

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

It's amazing how often this is parroted. Anyone with a passing familiarity with the numbers knows this is actually not true at all.

Better caching, branch prediction, plus vast amounts of SRAM. There's been a slow & steady increase in the vast variety of single threaded workloads grouped together by "instructions per clock."

Both at the peak of the voltage frequency curve for workstations & overclocking, the apex of the optimization curve for data centre, and especially at the bare minimum for mobile devices with idle workloads.

Yes, it's a small fraction of the old days. It's still double in 10 years.

And as anyone who's migrated from an Intel Mac to Apple Silicon knows, "merely doubling" is a LOT.
Wait till you learn about Python lmao

For simplish parallel runner https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ is excellent, can even automate stuff like "copy a file to remote server then run command on it" so you can make simplistic cluster computing with it
yeah, this is a key component of supabase (which you get out of the box if you host postgres with them).

I doubt I'll ever host postgres anywhere else but supabase at this point. The cost is competive with AWS/GCP but you get a ton of tools (like auth) built in.
As said elsewhere, it's actually 'sodium nitrite' and searching for 'sodium nitrate' does not show the relevant suggestions. For anyone that might be curious to search it from this comment.
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RIAA Thwarts Yout’s Attempt to Declare YouTube-Ripping Legal
> Ventilation is not HVAC.

That 'V' in 'HVAC' must have an industry-specific meaning beyond "Ventilation" then.
A quick Google search reveals they had a nuclear reactor till 1992.

https://universe.byu.edu/2011/06/13/byu-once-housed-undergro...
That is interesting thanks for the insights. I am worried about trying it out but i find it tempting particularly since i have a few dots that need connecting in my mind. Just super worried about the side effects.
I prefer to buy my products from a company with a history of supporting them.
web3 is a scam.

that is the short, long and elaborate answer.
Critical flaw in open source WebPageTest remains unpatched
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244872

(622 points | Nov 30, 2020 | 136 comments)
that's largely a regulatory and volume issue, as most post-three-mile-island safety improvements have been driven by fear rather than need, and as nuclear has been stigmatized to the point we're still recovering from brain drain to Computer Stuff

there was a time nuclear was too cheap to meter. obviously we can't get that back, but it's likely that a nuclear-friendly environment lasting a decade or two can cut that levelized cost to half or less
Without a response from the parent, I'm guessing they wanted it to be in wasm, and Rust is one of the more popular languages for wasm development.
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Sorry for you loss!

I do think that NHS staff did their very best to follow protocols (one of my parents went into great detail about all of the steps they had to go through in between seeing each patient). However, the idea that disposable plastic smocks and perspex screens will do much against an infectious airbourne respiratory virus is just silly on its face.

Really, given the sheer amount of people who caught Covid in hospitals, they should have shut the hospitals and let almost everything else remain open.
Lánczos Interpolation Explained
For simple web apps? Netlify/Vercel for frontend + Serverless for backend (AWS, Lolo)

1. Maybe a day
2. Not a lot
3. You learn event-driven architecture but it wasn't new to me
4. It's free for me as long as you don't attach a company github with Netlfiy or Vercel (then you move out of free tier) and then AWS has enough free credits, Lolo is free for your first two apps (although a bit of a hassle to have to re-deploy every 7 days if you don't want to pay 9€)
5. Web platform primarily with maybe 10-30k hits per month, but also a few web apps. Maybe move the Serverless api from AWS when it increases to not incur too much of a cost.
Volumes XVIII, XIX and XX: closing parens.
I want this exact thing for SQLite, nothing good exists
I always thought it would be a fun prank to create a book of sudokus that were all permutations of the same puzzle. See how long it would take for someone to notice that they are solving the same puzzle over and over again.
At first approximation, the number of logical deductions just goes up (exponentially?) with the number of missing digits. That's why you see many sudoku books grouping puzzles by "difficulty" by just stating how many digits are given.

Of course humans can make much more interesting puzzles, where you are expected to make a certain string of logical deductions to reach the solution. But simple "machine-made" sudokus seems to sell well enough, so I see no reason to exclude them from the definition.
But that's pretty much a fundamental issue - you can't create information about the system that just isn't there.

I think the only way around that limitation is to have a node that's always on - make sure it's always known what order the changes were made in.
ADHD people are more sensitive to boredom than normies; they are boredom canaries if you will. Normies can deny themselves the excitement/novelty marshmallow in exchange for other rewards later; ADHD people have much greater difficulty with this.
Vegetarians by Country
Except for India being on top, the next highest were totally unexpected to me
I ordered an ASIC miner back when they were first coming up. My shipment got held up by customs and they asked me to pay a hefty import fee. I didn’t have the extra cash at that time so I just let it go and forgot about it a few months later.

If I had plugged that machine in, I would have probably retired by now. A few months of mining back then was enough to have life changing amount of BTC today.
If you keep a domestic model running 24x7, you are probably right. But if you just do cold archive, my last check were after around 12 years, all drives spinned up normally without any issue. No noticeable data loss at all.
Show HN: Traffic Counting with a Raspberry Pi
We try to open up traffic counting for citizens. The device is a combination of a Raspberry Pi and low-resolution camera. Results are published immediately online and available via an api. Example of a location: https://telraam.net/en/location/349570
Right. But not clock speed.
I've got a pixel 6 currently, and I'm put off ever buying android again. The underscreen fingerprint hasn't worked for 6 months since a software update, Bluetooth just stopped working one morning forcing me to factory reset, the giro frequently (and randomly) flips north and south, meaning I've caught the bus the wrong way many a time relying on Google maps.

I guess that's just my buyers beware, yymv :)
The reason for this though is that we do have a marine gas terminal infrastructure... unlike Germany.
Apache foundation is retirement home for projects so it checks out
nitrIte, not nitrAte.
No, that could definitely happen. Not sure how to estimate how many duplicates there would be. It would have to depend on the specific puzzle you started with.
The Iran nuclear deal wasn't a treaty, which is why he was able to pull out.
> Find the deaths. We'd love to see better research.

LNT is used at the low levels of nuclear accidents because the deaths are impossible to find (and because LNT is mechanistically plausible). They are lost in a sea of ordinary cancers, statistically undetectable by any practical experiment.

Note that there is no good evidence that LNT is incorrect. The NRC responded to a recent petition to abandon LNT with a polite slapdown of the petitioners, for this reason.

This does NOT mean cancers predicted by LNT can ignored. Regulation is not a game of technologies being innocent unless proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

If anything, nuclear stans should fear abandonment of LNT. Without it, the regulatory framework could become more conservative, with the assumption that the number of cancers caused is the maximum not ruled out by evidence. For low levels of radiation, this would result in LARGER estimates than from LNT.
Years ago, I was suffering from painful defecation, had mucus and blood come out. I always thought it would get better by just eating healthier or whatever. Never even thought about visiting a doctor. When I finally went, the doctor tested my butt for STDs and what a surprise, it was chlamydia. A round of doxycyclin quickly got rid of the chlamydia, but the damage they did lead to a (peri?)anal abscess, which turned into a fistula. I had a surgery to implant a little "piercing ring" into the abscess, so it could drain and stay drained. Had it in for a few months. Then I had a second surgery to split it.

The pain from the abcess/fistula and the two surgeries was unimaginable. Long after the second surgery, I still suffer from bouts of pain, some weeks it's gone and some weeks it's so bad, I can barely work. If the pain is there, none but the strongest of pain killers and illicit drugs will stop it. When it's especially bad, I visit a proctologist, but they all say there is nothing wrong and it's post surgical pain we can do nothing about. I kept my stool continency by the way, but sometimes I can't hold my farts now.

So, chlamydia. Extremely easy to treat and practically harmless if you discover it early. My regret is that I didn't go to the doctor sooner.

The fun continued when I got, you wouldn't believe it, monkey pox up my butt! You know those famous monkey pox sores? I had less than 10 small, harmless ones on my body, but the inside of my rectum became a bubble waffle. Doctors believe you get the strongest outbreak of them at the place where you caught them, e.g. face/mouth/throat, penis or butt. I had to take sleeping pills for 2 weeks to keep functioning. Getting off of those is very, very hard. My doctor told me he had someone with monkeypox up their urethra and that guy got catheterized for a week because he couldn't piss from pain. As a bonus, the monkeypox also gave me myocarditis. I am still healing from the sores up my butt, 2 months after I could leave quarantine. I will have an MRI of the heart in a month.

I am dumb and unlucky and yet still I deserve this because I just can't stop having casual sex with strangers.
Similar story here, though fortunately "only" 6 years. I was at a startup, and though I'd come to disagree with the direction of the company, I'd put so much work in that I was always operating on a sunk-cost type hope that success was just around the corner.

Of course, it wasn't. I've been out over a year now and getting into a position to be able to walk away financially and then doing it was one of the best decisions.

I'm hoping the lessons I've learned balance out the psychological damage I took pushing through burnout for three years.
Of course it's not ironic. Perl's raison d'entre is to replace bash+grep+sed+awk
When we have rolling blackouts with regularity and the realization of a years long deindustrialization process sets in, the public attitude towards nuclear power will shift.

Until then, I’m afraid it’s been sufficiently demonized that no amount of logic or will overcome the emotional fear of it.
It's both excellent satire and a very well written argument. It's some impressive writing if you ask me.
Clicking 'cancel' on a buy order for 110 bitcoins at circa 2$ each x)
Russia vs. Ukraine or Civil War in the West?
"Poisonous" is not the right word, but at high daily intakes linoleic acid begins to have various detrimental effects, like preventing the synthesis of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids or competing with various other activities of the liver, which now has to convert the excess linoleic acid into other fatty acids.

The cheapest vegetable oils have a very high proportion of linoleic acid, so when they are used for cooking it is very easy to ingest an excessive amount of linoleic acid.

Among the oils with a good proportion for the linoleic acid are the olive oil and the so-called "high oleic sunflower oil" (not the traditional sunflower oil). The canola oil also has a good proportion, but I have no experience with using it.

Among nuts and seeds there are some with a high content of linoleic acid, e.g. pine nuts or poppy seeds, but such nuts or seeds are unlikely to be ever eaten in a so great quantity as to cause problems, unlike the cooking oils.

Many nuts, e.g. almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios, cashews, peanuts, have a good proportion of linoleic acid.
You could also check out rtorrent: http://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/, but I remember reading that development has stalled on that project.
Think we have few of those too
There is a ZIM file that contains all of stack overflow. Super useful if you have to program without access to the internet.
Being born. No, thanks!
Those offices have a tendency to become unofficial "permanent" offices, often "owned" by management.
It's more of a pidgin. Syntax and semantics made up on the fly to suit the need of the moment, and then made permanent once used. No overarching design or consistency.
That same page makes it perfectly clear that white phosphorus is not considered a chemical weapon.

My degree is in chemistry. Phosphorus is indeed a chemical, so is lead.

You are either deluded, which is unlikely, or deliberately lying in the hope of winning an argument. The latter is more likely to be the case: therefore, I have contempt for you. We won't interact again.
DVD and BD (read-only, such as a DVD or Blu-ray movie) 10 to 20 years

Why are they so bad compared to a disc that was burnt?
yugabyte looks quite interesting in that space. From what I can tell their OSS product allows for "Row-level geo-partitioning" https://docs.yugabyte.com/preview/explore/multi-region-deplo...

I haven't used it for anything yet, so I don't know how well it works.
Binance blockchain suffers $100M hack
How Government Expenditures Finance Themselves
nncp uses neural networks, but 'trains itself' as it goes, so there is no big binary blob involved in the compressor.

The only reason it isn't eligible are compute constraints (and I don't think the hutter prize allows a GPU, which nncp needs for any reasonable performance).
That’s what happened to me with my second burnout. The first one hit me like a brick. I’m glad the second one isn’t as bad as the first one mentally. I regret not taking enough rest during my first burnout as I never fully recovered, this time I’m taking things more seriously.
Ironically, you have to keep rooms quite hot to have anything to recover - and you're committing quite a few kWh to run the ventilators. If your house is new enough to seal properly and you really do want to be hot indoors, it's definitely more economical. Some big "if"s there. But skipping the heat and ventilating naturally is free :-) Can't beat that. It wouldn't be a practical plan in places that regularly get serious cold, but Britain is not one of those places, barring a few Scots mountaintops.
It's only too late when you lose access to your drafts
Stealing the keys is effectively stealing Bitcoin. Otherwise you get into semantic mumbo jumbo because Bitcoin isn’t owned by anyone, it’s just assigned to an address that is controlled by a private key, etc etc.

If I steal your keys, I steal your Bitcoin. And it’s easier to steal the private keys to $40M in Bitcoin than it is to steal $40M in gold (700 kg).

What I meant with my poor analogy is that if a bank is planning on blocking customers from withdrawing funds, it’s much harder to ship out the gold to their friends than to ship out Bitcoin. It’s pretty trivial to allow Bitcoin withdrawals. It’s just logistically hard to coordinate the transport of 700kg of gold out of the bank and to somewhere else.
Is quoting a stoic on HN the same as playing 'Stairway to Heaven' in a guitar shop?

I do love this quote of course (and all things Aurelius).
Not working on myself as much as I should (physically, confidence and focus).
A good example of calculable performance vs perceived performance. There's more sudoku puzzles in existence than anyone can memorize, therefore there's infinite sudoku puzzles from a human perspective.

From a computer's perspective there is only one sudoku puzzle. Writing a sudoku solver is a college level weekend exercise
IOW: intelligence is data compression.
In your 30s it is not too late to do really anything apart from elite sports (with the exception of long distance running).

Difficult to tell from your comment but if you did bring yourself some financial stability, it was unlikely time wasted.
Agree, this is the way.
The study is written by morons.

If they can't divide a number by another number they should stick to eating glue.
it was marketed by media. she always did what she told she would. she is a religious worker like every other religion has. media just liked the idea of a woman saving dying people in the third world.
Still no sequential downloads :(
Don't feel so bad.
I've seen, from a distance, more than one friend tear their life apart trying to help an addict, to no avail.
I think that your chances of making any difference at all were slim.
He made great jokes exclusively in a format that is usually reserved for bad jokes. He was a genius.
Why is this a problem?

She’s representing a client and putting up what she thinks is the most effective way to argue their case. Amazon will put up whatever they think their best defense is. A court will decide who is correct.
Even provincial French people I know complain about Parisiens being rude and unhelpful. Personally I’ve never had an issue as an English person who learned metropolitan French at school. Montreal though… wow.
And in general, if growth is dependent on this, then there is no plan and you should value the equity accordingly.
Does Moore's law require transistors to double on a chip made from a single die?
This should affect people only if they're not using specific versions and not using package-lock.json. It's exactly what those features are meant to do, updating should be a deliberate action. It's really bad that it's affected production sites so the devs will hopefully make use of package lock.