skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read the whole article, it turns out that Americans are often too tall to donate their bodies to science, too: the limit is 6'. The reason is pretty simple: the anatomy labs have tables that accommodate bodies of a certain size. In the good states, if you donate your body but it can't be used, they'll cremate it at their expense and return the ashes. A lot of hedging and hemming aside, I think I've pretty much captured the whole article.
False. This distinction you’re trying to make between personal and professional does not exist with cancellation (and even if it did, which it doesn’t, you’re ignoring an absolutely massive gray area of ‘work friends’). Your personal definition of cancellation does not match what is “normally” understood nor what is documented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture

I don’t understand why you think saying that people shouldn’t believe everything they read is helpful. Yeah, obviously, and who ever disagreed? That’s a straw man and we still have a reality where social media is a powerful force for both good and harm. We still have rampant lies, bullying, climate misinformation, and Qanon. The evidence we have contradicts the claims made in your comments that social media isn’t powerful or that only people in power are doing the cancelling.
Microsoft’s mobile framework: Maui (previously named Xamarin). It’s not nearly as popular as React Native but it’s wonderful to work with and it’s great having a company like Microsoft behind it. I’ve been working in it for 8 years now and still having a blast.
> I think this is less a whataboutism of "But Mexico is worse!", and more general eye rolling at another breathless, unquantified hate-on-America article.

It's an article by an american outlet on an american issue.

Hell, it's a five years old article by an american outlet on an american issue.

> The article even admits it doesn't know if this is actually a problem or not. FTA:

The article literally tells you it's a problem that occurs in the first paragraph. What you're quoting says it doesn't know the full breadth of the problem, because there's no data collection on the subject.

"There is no data" != "there is no problem".
Wow why is it possible to negotiate a criminal charge down to a fine? I can understand if it's a civil charge, but it should not be possible to do that for a criminal charge. One more example of "a corporation can do anything" rule we have in this country.
Ah yes, swapiness. I think Windows is set to something like ... 65% or so. Or was it 85%. I forget, but I looked into this a long time ago when I was having to suffer through having about half as much ram as was ideal for my use case scenarios on both windows and linux. I remember coming across some method to get it changed on windows as well, but I forget that method too. Or rather, I think it's some reg edit that needs doing, but I forget what/where.
Standing desk is actually all I use now! It's improved my physical well-being tremendously.
They use Farenheit in the headline when it's hot to make it sound shocking (usually 100+ F).

When it's cold they can instead say the temperatures have plummeted below zero (C).

They just use whatever adds the most drama.
It's more complicated than that though, you're interrupting a rape, in the victim's house, the perpetrator is their neighbor and they have a gun (so do you) so bloodshed is imminent if you get involved, you're the victim's significant other, but you don't care that much about them, you've been beefing with the perpetrator over who gets to store their car on the victim's lawn. The rape should stop and the perpetrator punished, but it's still not clear who gets to store their car on the victim's lawn (what you care about). You really want the victim to off their violent neighbor so you slip them an icepick and slip out the door.
One of the failings of the simple concept of "survival of the fittest" is that survival just means you pass on genes, your quality of life might be poor up til then or you die shortly after, and fitness is towards the environment you grew up in, you may fail completely at adapting to an environmental shift later on.

The concept only goes so far, and people need to be wary of it being used to potentially justify that harsh living conditions are okay or "better". It can come off as an appeal to nature.
Yep! Regrettably the issue I had was getting JS and HTML5 form validation to work nicely together. The issue was that the HTML5 validation was triggering before the onsubmit which was when we were reviewing the entire form for consistency. So even though we played around with it, and in some places used it for "required" it just didn't work out too well with a lot of the ways we were validating forms. I'm sure we could have made it work - turning on and off the HTML5 validation as needed, using an onclick or some other event instead, but it was easier to just let the non-JS version be validated server-side (which we obviously do as well, as any sane dev would).

I am a fan of the HTML5 validation though - offered feedback when they were working on it that I think made it into the spec like interaction of required and hidden elements...

And, I suspect for most of our forms the simple patterns of HTML5 validation would be fine, it's just that sometimes it wasn't, and it was easier to be consistent in how validation worked and looked... So. Chalk it up to laziness. So long as the forms still worked we decided to let it be.
short programs that do something interesting

https://dwitter.net

https://www.google.com/search?q=bytebeat

https://twitter.com/hashtag/tweetcart

https://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type%5B%5D=4k&page=1
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on ELv2?
Do you consider it open-source or source-available? Does your org use software with the Elastic License 2.0? For COSS (as an org/individual/contributor), do you like ELv2, or do you prefer e.g. SSPL, AGPL, or BSL?
This sounds interesting and reminds of the performance coach in the TV show "Billions". WThat one focuses more on the psychological aspects of workplace performance. We did some experiments internally with this.

You seem to be interested more in the physiological aspects and it makes sense to combine the two. I can imagine a new department within companies with a CHPO (chief human performance officer) role.
How would you compare it to Feathers?
Why would increasing the monitor resolution decrease gameplay? It only should if your GPU isn’t capable.

I haven’t seen a relatively modern 1080p title that didn’t look better at 4k.
> For seasonality, if the arrival rates fluctuate over a long time period relative to the typical waiting time, it makes sense to just do separate calculations for the different conditions you experience. If the fluctuation is very fast, just use the average arrival rate.

Thanks, that makes sense. More quantitatively, about where would get set the bar on "very fast"? Is it ~1x the mean interarrival time, or ~1 million x?

By the way, I really enjoyed your "Nudge" paper from last year. The result about FCFS was very surprising to me!
Or perhaps you have very little knowledge of politics?

From a European perspective, Trump crowd is certainly far right. Shit, even most democrats would be right wing here.
That's already legally possible to put imperial measurements on things now.

The consultation asked whether people wanted to switch to imperial measurements only, alongside other less sensible options.
For fun, programming microcontrollers with Forth. Personally, I find programming an Arduino Uno with Froth much more enjoyable than using the Arduino IDE. You can issue commands from your terminal to your microcontroller to test out different bits of your code. For example, the word "start" starts a motor and the word "stop" stops it. No need to recompile your code.

For work, I like the infrastructure as code space. Bringing order to chaos.
An effect like that has been found with smoking:

"due to a shorter lifespan of 8.6 years, smokers’ mean total healthcare costs during the entire study period were actually €4700 lower than for non-smokers. For the same reason, each smoker missed 7.3 years (€126 850) of pension. Overall, smokers’ average net contribution to the public finance balance was €133 800 greater per individual compared with non-smokers."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533014/
Note that the article predates Covid by 3 years.
I guess you'll have no problem with the Uyghurs of Xinjiang nuking Fuping in Shaanxi then. Eye for an eye and all. Russia was part of the opium wars so maybe they just forget to secure an old warhead. Or India decides that the millions who died of Covid are China's fault and fail to stop development and delivery of a bio-weapon. Nice country... shame if something bad was to happen to it. Everything is transactional and zero sum, greed is good.

Oh, that's right it would be terrible and millions would suffer from terrorism through nuclear, biological, or chemical means so maybe enforcing your own laws equitably would be a reasonable plan?
Chrome itself doesn’t track anything.

Google websites don’t know whether they’re being visited from an incognito tab or not, and Chromium works hard to ensure they can’t know (because knowing a user is in incognito mode is itself a privacy leak), so they track anything they could otherwise track without the logins and cookies which are excluded from the incognito sandbox.
What's going on at the North pole?
Elon Musk is Not Stupid – the simplicity on the other side of complexity
spherical mice.
Flutter web is one of them. It displays on a canvas element.

In the future with WASM, I expect the same thing, a Rust web app that also displays on a canvas for example.
> They had a decisive influence in Trump's election and the Brexit vote.

I strongly disagree with this conclusion. I think it's a convenient myth.
All I have is anecdata.

Early years were extremely urban; still have allergies; learned some things about managing them as an adult. Had a resurgence in autoimmune issues a few years ago (triggered by an initial misdiagnosis); declined doing allergy shots again, absolutely no doubt in my mind that my improvement since would be claimed as a win by allopathic practitioners if I'd gone that route.

I used to spend a lot of time in the woods doing extreme stuff; I've bled all over the place, even got some nasty puncture wounds, never got infected; scuffed my hand in an urban park and got blood poisoning.

I eat produce and fruit from my own grounds. I hug chickens. I pick up and dispose of dead things (carefully). Yes, I've had a tetanus shot in recent memory.

Pretty sure I had COVID early on, barely noticed it. Or it could have been the lisinopril (blood pressure issue also stemming from the misdiagnosis, although it too is improving). I can only say "pretty sure" because I've asked repeatedly for an antibody test and the doctors have refused.

Worked for biotechs, had safety training. Wore N95s throughout COVID indoors most places, taking care when removing them; sanitize my hands; wash them when I get home; avoid public restrooms if at all possible; have only eaten at restaurants twice since COVID started. In summary, I take measures which are probably half-assed, but I'm very consistent.

Haven't had the "flu" either. Moved my annual physical to June starting this year, which is the yearly minimum for ILI around here; the physician had a studied "no comment" about this.

When I was at the clinic in February to set this up, while I was sitting in the waiting room the linen service employee came to pick up the wash wearing dirty work gloves and nobody paid attention; after five minutes I got up and took some sani wipes to the door handles; then they noticed.
A mere $30k for a laboratory grade cookie. I'm surprised coconut oil is the most expensive ingredient at over half the recipe cost.
Everyone else in the world is currently closing their PayPal accounts.
Arguably too large to be a niche, but I love everything web development.

Making projects that anyone can pull up on nearly any device via their browser, without installing anything, is so incredibly satisfying. You can make anything run in browser these days including games and full fledged applications. You can make art and interactive experiences, or you can share minimalist text based content, and either way it's very open for people of all walks to browse and experience how they like.

In some ways I was raised on free internet experiences, from early flash games, to IRC, to forums and boards, to wikipedia, to youtube, eventually to HN... we really are blessed with so much stuff that is so accessible and I love to contribute even small things to the massive ecosystem.
I dunno. There's nice CLI interfaces and there's one's that make things annoyingly hard to do. I haven't used firebase ever but I have had that problem before.
For me it seemed that with Windows 11, Microsoft was attempting to recreate the hypetrain they'd built for Windows 95 -- but without the groundbreaking improvements over the previous version of Windows that Windows 95 had. And the result was just desperate and sad.
> When you visit the page, the title is "How mud boosts your immune system" -- but isn't all the evidence and discussion about children?

You wouldn't be able to find enough people to test if you focused on adults who played in the dirt and mud now, but didn't when they were children. I don't think there's any reason to doubt that it would work on adults, although I wouldn't assume it would, either.
I just switched to OpenSearch and haven't had a reason to look back. It works great, is true FOSS, and is low drama.

Events like elastic getting greedy and turning to make trouble against the very community that made them a success - it's a major turn off, and I want nothing more to do with them.

Life is too short, and already hard enough when everyone is behaving as a good actor.
How exactly does linking a Wikipedia page to some minimalist cult's redesign of Gopher present an argument for Gemini?
> your favorite niche will stop becoming favorite when you know enough about it.

This is a good time to write a "Lies Programmers Believe About (Niche)" piece.
In my experience, the “oh it fails randomly sometimes” bugs are often in some random dull legacy infrastructure component where there is zero attention or celebration for fixing them, and so engineers tend to tolerate losing a bit of time once a week due to them for years rather than someone spending half a day to fix it for everyone.
Are you sure Edge is better? Doesn't Edge add a lot of its own unique, er, "contributions" to the browser experience, so to speak? Why not Firefox or Ungoogled Chromium or something else like those?
Ask HN: Anyone know a tool for historical rottentomatoes ranking
I have twice in the past week encountered a reason to look up what the historical rottentomatoes ranking of a movie was - or what it was or would have been (if RT had existed) when it first came out.

As an example Speed is now rated 94% fresh which I believe is a totally appropriate rating, but I doubt if that is what it rated when it first came out. I guess could take the earliest reviews and derive a rating for the oldest years it has - it has one for 1994, so if I took just the ratings for 2000 and 94 it seems that the rating is 84% fresh, but I'm wondering if there is a more advanced tool/access to more extensive datasource than what I could do myself just going over older reviews on rottentomatoes, or if there is already an imitation of what I am discussing - that is to say something that will give you how fresh something was in a particular year?
> The return is that you hopefully stop or punish the transgressions that caused you to send the abuse report.

How is that a return? What genuine benefit can you draw from stopping one of the thousands of internet-wide scans from stopping your server?
How would you handle "db-notifications" with sqlite - to my knowledge this is a reason why you would need postgresql with its' (pg) NOTIFY
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. And with a new pandemic, literally everyone is incompetent.

We have learned a ton about treating and preventing this disease, and vaccines are still the right answer for preventing mass public infection.
Well yeah, because if I told my coworker to "kill all the Apaches" they will wisely figure out that it means web server processes while you guys will post shit like "There is some evidence that Google is trying to kill Sacheen Littlefeather and commit literal genocide while suppressing whistleblowers".

So logically there's a dude who sits in between the raging unwashed and my pure genius whose job it is to transform my pearls of Platonic percipience into something consumable by the gut flora of the lay people.

This is necessary because the lay people are ever so eager to find witches and burn them - this act mostly out of sheer pleasure than self-defence.
> Sure, you can stitch together specialized stores to make your own accidental distributed database for your app, but the simpler, more straight-forward and lower-latency alternative available.

Organizations like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Cloudflare, and many, many others have been combining specialized data stores for many years. Stonebraker, Madden, and colleagues summarized the argument for this approach in 2007. [0] At this point I can't think of any major SaaS application I've seen recently that did not have multiple data store types. That includes event streams, which are data stores as well.

[0] http://nms.csail.mit.edu/~stavros/pubs/hstore.pdf

Disclaimer: I work for Altinity.
It's highly dependent on performance since quants are tied directly to a PnL number. If that number is really, really good they're making millions. More average quants are still making a premium over senior SWEs, underperforming quants don't stay quants for long.

This all varies firm to firm though, especially depending on what kind of trading they do.
> The first application I wrote for Firebase was back in 2015, before it was acquired. I don't remember the specific issues, but I know I spent about the same amount of time trying to keep it running post-acquisition as I did building the app in the first place.

Nit: Firebase was acquired in Oct 2014. New functionality was launched in early 2016, and the major change that would have affected you at that point was the auth system, but that should have been a one time change with low ongoing maintenance.

> I should point out that averaging a single breaking change every five years means that an application has a 20% chance of being affected each year. I'm not willing to roll the dice, generally speaking.

What technologies are you using on a routine basis that fall into a category you consider acceptable?
Fair enough, thanks for pointing that out.
Thanks for the reference!

It seems that not that many were built:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburg_radar
Supabase has distributes consistency issues and not suitable for multiplay/offline first. I am annoyed at firebase for real technical reasons like Firebase auth can delay page load by several seconds. So the real alt to firebase (on web) is replicache IMHO
I love stuff like this... I'd also like to get away from using the term "pimp" to mean to make something cooler. Pimps take advantage of and often force people into sexual slavery. Nothing about that should be glorified and turned into a colloquial term to mean something positive.
I encourage you to visit the places I've mentioned if you're ever in Pittsburgh. They're not "parks" in the sense of mowed lawns and baseball fields (Pittsburgh has lots of those too, though). These parks contain legitimate woods in the heart of the city, Frick most especially.
I work at GitHub. This is not new, and I promise it’s not a dark pattern.

As a sibling comment noted, someone with sufficient permissions in this repo used the “minimize” function on these comments. This is normally intended for disruptive or off-topic messages, but ultimately it’s up to the owners of the repository how they make use of our moderation tools.

https://docs.github.com/en/communities/moderating-comments-a...

Before I worked here I had no idea how much GitHub invests in platform health. It’s nearly invisible to most users but just like every other part of the internet that draws eyeballs we are under an enormous flood of spam at all times.

IMO It’s a testament to how well the system works that many years after this functionality was introduced this is the first time you encountered it.
I'm not talking about the average load factor, but the minimum output of the installations. This varies from region to region. At e.g. https://www.smard.de you can easily see the range for wind in Germany. The recent data shows such a minimum at the Oct 12 mark. Anything above that needs to be accounted for. You can also very easily see how gas power stations kick in during lulls. Because that is how it is currently accounted for in Germany (plus the aforementioned burning off of excessive energy to deal with short term spikes etc).

That minimum is, at least for Germany, nowhere near 30% of installed capacity. It's just a few percent. And that's how 40GW are in reality just about one or two GW of guaranteed power. The rest will get burned off or you need a very flexible alternative energy source.

A year ago I would have said that to be gas. Seemed like a good fit for wind. Had Germany converted all its coal and nuclear plants to wind/solar + gas, however, the current situation would be more dire than it already is today.

The most reliable way seems to be to accompany wind with storage. A lot of storage. But that's a long term solution. Short to mid term you need alternative reliable sources. If you don't want to go with coal, nuclear is the only remaining option. So I can't blame the Swedes for going that way.
Giving repo owners moderation tools is "really disturbing"?
> Everyone uses it.

I hear this phrase about many software platforms. That's why I'd like to see some numbers before someone uses an absolute qualifier. I have no idea how popular is Zeek against OSSEC, Suricata or Snort these days, I'm just wary of claiming something without providing any justification.
Yandex (Google of Russia) is a large share holder of Clickhouse Inc[1]. Yes, this maybe a European Yandex subsidiary.. I really don't care to dig, but I think its dishonest to say the company doesn't have Russian backers. Has Clickhouse Inc forced Yandex to divest their large ownership stake?

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clickhouse/company_f...
This is not a proper niche, and way to broad, but: "implementation niche" is kinda my thing.

Some examples-

1. Artificial life design and simulation

2. Biological systems simulation and research, like, computational neuro science

3. Implememting math. The "science" in computer science

4. Deep Reinforcement Learning

5. Designing and implementing algorithms

6. Simulating physical systems

7. Computational Math

So, "modeling" in general, loosely. Also "optimization".

Other than these:

I like edge devices and microcomputers. I love everything about them.

Other niches that I exposed myself to, but didn't like:

1. Programming art (NOT ai art like Stable Diffusion, GANs, etc.)- I never found it that good.

2. Networking.

3. Databases.

Kinda neutral about frontend. Don't like, don't dislike.

Seems interesting now, but I know little to nothing about:

1. Cryptography

2. Quantum Information and Computation