skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's just because I'm a person of Irish descent in the US, but I've rarely, if ever, heard someone here refer to Ireland as Britain.
I dunno, I have to first put my data somewhere though. But where.. In a warehouse? Silo? Data lake? Lake house? (I really despise that last one, who could coin that phase with a straight face..)
Pacemakers and implanted defibrillators are both, uh, implanted inside your body. Typically they stick them in the front side of your left shoulder. They run the leads into a vein (or artery) and anchor them into the wall of the heart.

They can implant basically under the fat layer or under the pectoral muscle. Beneath the fat layer is easier both from a surgery and recovery standpoint, but less secure.

The downside of that is that it's possible for the device to flip over. They usually try to avoid securing the device to anything because that can lead to discomfort or pain if the device wants to move around, but they can if they have to.

And yes, they do have to repeat surgery to replace the device when the battery gets low. The leads AIUI are usually a lifetime part (hopefully for all the right reasons). For defibrillators, battery life will be maximized if the device doesn't have to deliver shocks and can stick to just pacing. It turns out if they implant a defibrillator, you get a pacemaker for free.
I just drove from Albuquerque to Phoenix via Flagstaff and my entire windshield is plastered with bugs.
Also, the sort of formula shown in that article makes my skin crawl. Not because it's hard – it's mostly a set of sums based on conditional lookups with rounding – but because by the time you've written something like that, Excel is almost certainly the wrong paradigm for your data. It's a terrible IDE; making minor changes to that...thing will half as happily pop an error message and junk it as it will do the right thing. Similarly, you can't exactly git excel formulae alone, and the mixing of data and analysis inevitably causes chaos at some point – just look at all of the examples of financial disasters caused by it. I carte-blanch refuse to touch anybody's attempts at doing stats with it (in a medical science context), unless it also comes with R, sas or stata script..

What the article's really trying to say is "Being good at Excel implies you have a logical mind and the ability to see a way through problems. This is something that others lack".
Gerfin: Extract financial data from German Bundesanzeiger in Excel
The explanation given is based on some premises that I'm not qualified to assess, and others I am.

One of these premises is that their work properly models reality, there seems to be a lot of well informed doubt by subject-matter experts.

Another is that an event with a probability of 0.1-1% is exceptionally rare, its occurrence thus being most likely artificial, and with that I disagree, by looking at endless counter-examples nature provides.

Is the fact that humans found some optimization a proof that any occurrence of it is man-made? I believe most people would say it isn't.
Question for an American that doesn't know bollocks about British politics. Why wasn't he put into the Prime Minister position last time instead of Truss?
I agree with most of what you're saying, but

> People will not get angry about the reality of time being zero sum

My personal experience has shown otherwise. If people perceive you as standing between them and doing their job, they're gonna get angry. Of course, people shouldn't equate "not being willing to do their job for them" with "not letting them get their job done." But it happens.

That's why it's all the more important to be transparent with management about these things. Otherwise, your manager may not be able to protect you if someone tries to stir up drama after you refuse to do their job for them.

(All this is to say, I really agree with your conclusion. I just want to point out that people can and do get snippy about the reality of time being zero sum.)
After low-effort attempts to dismiss risks fail, mockery comes next.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you..."
But he's honest about it, this is known to all shareholders and employees.
> I even know the percentage roughly.

No, you don't. This "principle" is not a law of physics, it's just a rule of thumb that may or may not be wildly off the mark for an arbitrary distribution. Its common usage is like statistics horoscope.
It's still very early days.

Personally I think realms will change the game, there's probably a year or so out, but perhaps we'll see that retrofitted into node as well.

It will be more interesting to see how the landscape changes in 5 years - though, obviously, node is still going to be prevalent.
Great Pay, Many Benefits, but Just One Catch: Simulated Drowning
Some people consider that Britain refers only to Great Britain, therefore excluding Northern Ireland.
Haha first time someone made that connection! It's more around no-code / low-code, but we also like how it means 'not crazy' in Spanish.

Another benefit is that it's generally easy to spell as well, which loads of businesses have a problem with when it comes to search.
No, elements were not "huge" on old CRT's. That's just a fact. Absolute text sizes have remained approximately the same. Have you ever used one? Nothing has changed in terms of information density that would lead to higher contrast now being required. To the contrary -- increased sharpness means you might be able to get away with lower density.
> Symbian was right all along in its approach to mobile OS development.

From what you wrote i'd say that PalmOS was most likely more "right" - after all their motto was that they didn't compete with other PDAs, but with pen and paper and because of that everything had to be instant.

Also IME having worked with SymbianOS (at least the versions found in mobiles like Nokia 6600, never tried the later ones using Qt) the development experience was beyond abysmal. I remember at a job years ago i made a graphical application - it took me less than an hour to implement the core functionality of the application but about a month to make the full application. This includes writing everything about the UI from scratch using the framebuffer functionality it had because the official APIs were so convolutely braindead that it was impractical to work with them - it was much faster to do everything from scratch and avoid the SymbianOS as much as possible. The amusing bit (in hindsight) was when someone form Symbian visited us they were impressed we managed to make the application in a single month and "normally" we'd need six months for it - meanwhile i had... evil thoughts about their OS (i maintained a polite facade though, i think :-P).

(later i was told by someone else that this was because SymbianOS was originally meant to work on much weaker hardware, but IMO that was a bad excuse since they never maintained backwards compatibility so they could have cleaned up their APIs, not to mention that SymbianOS added so much unnecessary complexity that a much simpler API would actually be both faster and easier to work with)

PS. i never worked with PalmOS myself so it might be as bad or worse than SymbianOS but from a quick glance at a couple of tutorials it seems straightforward to program
Bytedance's payout to creators is much lower than YouTube's and their content-moderation has been more harmful to people who are poor, queer, or not traditionally attractive than competing platforms.

These probably aren't the top of the complaint list for most social media and content distribution platforms so I'm not saying these are reasons to consider Bytedance in a different category than Google or Facebook but they are worth knowing about.
https://archive.ph/pGzma
You should have seen what terms most people searched for when they used a searched engine back in the day. I doubt things changed much since then. It's all of the worst things you can imagine and probably even worse than you think.
Yea, you actually get the card. Not a pointer to it
Humanae Vitae and the Brave New World
Related is not ever, ever, ever telling someone if you've automated your own job away.
Fun part is its deduction of locale by looking at your number/sim card. I usually get an eSIM while travelling, and the company seems to be based in Netherlands. Was in Mexico last time, and was getting a constant stream of content from Amsterdam. Took me a while to understand why.
Every company I've worked for in the past 12 years has had a clause like that in the employment agreement. The companies were otherwise ethical, but it seems like more and more of them are adopting this boilerplate. This is in CA where clauses like this are getting more difficult to enforce, but if the company can make an argument that your side project is somehow related to their current or expected future business, they can ruin your day in court even in CA.
Last '486' I used was a PC Engines WRAP router board (bought around 2005) which used an AMD Geode 233MHz 486 compatible core.
For a long time I've been heavily using terminal based tools for most of my needs (Vim as editor, pg for postgres, k9s for kubernetes etc) but recently I started seeing the advantage in UI-based tools such as DataGrip for database and query management

As a heavy helm user, I will surely give this one a try
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast has a fair bit on it.
Thanks! Definitely somewhat (after being a play on no/lo code obviously). I'd be lying if I said that scene wasn't one of the first things I thought of after coming up with the name.
>Edit: also your pedantry is extremely obnoxious; no one expects a headline to include the phrase "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland."

Well no, that's why people say "United Kingdom" or "UK".
Agreed on WW3. But they still may have enough nuclear weapons that they could end the world as we know it. I'm not saying that means the rest of us have to do anything in particular, but it's something that has to factor into the analysis.
realizing that I would be long gone by 2603, your reply made me really sad. then I realized that your calculation is obviously wrong.

can I sue you for such such emotional distress?
"History probably repeats itself because a massive body of people don’t care about the things that you care about and are being delivered value that they do care about"

Yes, it is known that most people do not care about deep stuff, but about food in their belly and beeing good entertained. Panem et circenses.

Btw. about the romans, in italy the prime minister is now a person who said she thinks Mussolini was a good politician. So yes, history repeats itself, if too many people do not care.

Democracy is actually a quite fragile thing. Many things we take for granted only exist, because people care. And it will erode if people stop caring.

So you are still free to submit to FB and TikTok as much as you like and hope this does not change.

Because, you know, companies knowing all about you, but you nothing about them and their motives is just a receipe for long term empowerment of them and not you.

And in the case of TikTok, there is an actual government behind it and de facto in control, which is not famous for democracy, nor human rights.
For those like me unsure what MMT is: Modern Monetary Theory - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
Teasing is just probing for vulnerabilities with plausible deniability. They're testing you. They're determining your boundaries and testing your response to violations. Officially nothing is happening, they're "just messing with you" and so any reaction seems disproportionate. Such tests often escalate rapidly though until they discover some behavior they can't get away with.
To quote the parent post, "He was too tired to go through the process of getting it sorted out".

I don't know if you've ever been really sick (or just been around someone who's really sick or suffering from chronic pain), but being on chemo is a thing that completely shuts you down. I fully believe that going out to the store and buying a new laptop and getting it set up was beyond what the parent-poster's father felt capable of. Similarly, going out to the library and doing it all from a shared computer would be entirely too much. Anything that's not the well-worn familiar path would feel insurmountable.
Huh. TIL!

From wiki:

> Papyrus 115 (which is the oldest preserved manuscript of the Revelation as of 2017), as well as other ancient sources like Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, give the number of the beast as χιϛ or χιϲ, transliterable in Arabic numerals as 616 (χιϛ), not 666.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast
i think you have an extraneous 0. It would not make sense for it to take a longer time to get from 1,000,000,000 to 2,000,000,000 than from the unix epoch to 1,000,000,000.

The time I think you meant to post is Wed May 18 2033 03:33:20 UTC+0000 (Greenwich Mean Time).
I have the exact same issue with mine. As a workaround I set a password to install apps from the play store and it works, she never download new apps so it's not an issue.
The point of literally any news item is communication. To the majority of people, Britain and the UK are synonyms despite one being geographical and the other being political. Pedantry at the expense of clarity is a tradeoff no sane person would make when writing news articles and headlines.
> Well, there is about three devils worth of pain in our Unix servers sometimes.

Our machines have been possessed by daemons for years so I'm not at all worried.
I've found it a great return on time spent to show people some basic things (basic to you and me) in excel. It unlocks some of the magic and I've generally found that they continue to learn on their own. The end result is that you end up with more productive people around you and less questions asked.
What if they put your kid in an incompetent teacher's class and the school told you "sorry, we are paying the competent teacher who used to teach this class to sit in a room somewhere, she didn't kiss the principal's ass enough"?
Yeah it will probably be austerity 2.0, which is why I don't see him lasting more than 3 months unless Starmer absolutely bottles it. He can rule out a national election all he wants (https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-sunak-rules-out-nationa...), but by January I think he will be forced to let people vote again.
It can be compelling to think that recycling theatre exists for commercial interests: for the environmentally minded, if you can fool yourself into thinking that the recycling bin is effective, then you feel no guilt about buying multiple drinks in plastic cups and bottles every day.

Without the plastic containers, many sources of revenue disappear. People are conditioned to pay for plastic water bottles, but often expect water fountains to be free.

As a wealthy consumer, it's much more convenient to buy a bottle of water when I need it, rather than carry a metal bottle with me everywhere for when I need it (and then refill at water fountains). The $1 cost of the bottle is negligible to me, so the only thing holding me back is the guilt of knowing that I am contributing to unsustainable economic practices.

In truth however, the same could be said for the meat I eat, the car I drive every day, my luxurious single family home with grass lawn, the luxurious levels of heating / AC I use every year, and so on. Very little of what I consume is 'sustainable' so even if we didn't have recycling theatre it's easy to get sustainability fatigue and buy the plastic bottle of water anyways.
The second sentence in the article:

Engineers have transmitted data at a blistering rate of 1.84 petabits per second (Pbit/s), almost twice the global internet traffic per second.
On the surface, places like HN or the software world in general sound libertarian in a limited sense. Capable people with the resources and skills to make things happen and tinker with projects. There is constant talk of reform or how to engineer the world into a more sensible and freer place.

However, this freedom is only aimed at the users themselves. In reality, venture capitalists, highly-paid software workers, digital nomads and other gentrifying forces are by and large on the side of authoritarianism in the role they play in the world. They produce systems that reward them greatly while increasing surveillance and quantification of the rest of the population.

It's not uncommon to see employees of adtech FAANG companies here wonder, without any trace of irony or self-awareness, why more people don't use ad blockers on their router or browser. There's a reason why the "make the world a better place" phrase is so heavily parodied.
Explaining USB: From 1.0 to USB4 v2.0
Oh the pains of Minecraft administration! I could write a book about cross platform incompatibility, Microsoft account dysfunction, billing issues, and upgrade blocking execution. We’ve spent $100s and it does nothing but get worse.
> "the unnamed developers ... were caught after management flagged problems with their performance"

I feel like this is the wrong case to discuss specifically because they had not been doing a satisfactory job. The interesting question is, if they were able to do an adequate job (i.e. not distinguishable from their peers with one job), would they still have been fired? Should they still have been fired?

By contrast, consider two couples, each with the same number of kids, where in each couple, one parent works full time from home and the other works full time from an office. The parent at home has shifted work hours earlier in the day, and cares for their kids beginning from the mid afternoon after school. The only difference is in couple A, this is not regarded as an economic transaction, and couple B decides that one parent will pay the other for this ongoing, unequal childcare obligation. The care-giving parent in each case dedicates the same time to care-giving. In couple B's case, should they be fired for having "another job"? I think most people would give a firm "no." If a childless full time employee dedicates the same uninterrupted time to working another job as the care-giving parents from couples A and B give to child-care, should they be fired? If so, is it merely because of "dishonesty"? Or is this a value judgement, that employers of full-time, salaried employees should be able to decide that some activities away from your job are legitimate and others are lesser?
Being given an incredibly easy, remote role at your existing salary is dehumanizing? Seems a pretty mild circumstance to throw that term around for.
My bad, thank you for the correction. I had converted it properly to 2033 but decided I wanted to switch to the format with ms. Ended up adding a zero in the process without checking the output (other than the .000 being there). Edited
"Britain" is a commonly used synonym for the UK within the UK itself. See the styles guides of the Guardian and Daily Telegraph:

- https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-u

- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/style-book/places-and-people/
Hours of debates, and you still don't know his policies.

They are specifically not austerity 2.0, that is why they are raising taxes (Osborne reduced taxes significantly whilst cutting spending). All the measures to raise taxes were in order to sustain spending levels because there is no way to cut the large spending areas in the short-term. His approach has been to do that in the most fair way possible (the increase in corporation tax is combined with the introduction of a new small company rate which stays the same).

...and what was the alternative to furlough once the govt announced lockdowns?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/616_(number)
If you want a book, Managing Gigabytes is still pretty good.
> The real way to address this would be to not make users hate updates.

That's basically not possible in some cases. Not all of us are on super-fast broadband, even in places that are nominally 'first world'. The _best_ my parents can get is 8Mbps on DSL. Every time an update starts auto-downloading, you know immediately because all other connections grind to a halt.

(Now why a minor point update security fix for Monterey is 1.6GB I have no idea. But presumably that's not something Apple is capable of/interested in fixing)
We don't refer to just Ireland as Britain, but we do refer to the UK as a whole as Britain.
Yes there is more, it is disabling sharing, not removing the file.
Wow, I thought I was expecting nasty stuff to be mentioned there, but what is mentioned I would not even imagine in my wildest. Humans are capable of truly nasty and even more so put it on line for every one to see?

I would love to know from people working in this space how they handle illegal videos. Are they responsible to report it to the authorities in the respective countries? The company will not have a presence in many of the countries the app is used in, so even if they wanted to report to the authorities it's impossible to keep up. Do they just delete and move on? The legal, ethical implications here are staggering.
> In short, mild cases of COVID may cause these changes in brain tissue because the virus disrupts normal NVC [neurovascular coupling, a mechanism for supplying brain tissue with nutrients] in the hippocampus and surrounding areas. In turn, this may block the process of neurogenesis and lead to brain shrinkage and progressive cognitive decline and short-term memory loss. The same tissue damage can be detected in aging patients and those with neurodegenerative disorders (such as Alzheimer’s disease) or traumatic brain injuries.

COVID-19 produces seemingly treatable brain damage, similar in symptoms to people with Post-Concussion Syndrome (PCS). Treatment with protocols for Post-Concussion Syndrome seem to help.
It might not 'break' anything but apt tends to run just after login, which reduces the user experience to molasses as it thrashes around.

It should really be delayed by 10 or 15 mins so that the user has a chance to start working on their immediate tasks.
2.7 The prohibited activities set forth above are not an exhaustive list and Zayo reserves the right to take appropriate action to remedy any conduct which it deems to be a violation of this Policy or otherwise may be harmful to Zayo’s Network, its Customers, or Internet users.

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Sanctioning a motor is becoming akin to sanctioning 3M glue.
Sure, but I bet they don't have to watch all kinds of traumatizing events as they do it.
What's the value in a spyware ridden laptop?
That would be great. However if you wanted to benchmark relevance ranking, how would you do that?
Fair enough, there are similarities. However, alphabetically written languages are the same as their spoken - learn how to pronounce a hundred letter combinations and exceptions, and as long as you know the spoken language you're good. However with latin, pronouncing it wouldn't help with comprehension. With logographically represented languages, the characters have more to do with meaning than with pronunciation. It's part of why Chinese characters were used for completely different spoken languages (Korean, Japanese)
There are a fair number of scientists on HN actually, obviously with a bias for more computationally-heavy fields.

If you had a specific (sub-)field of science that you were looking for, you might have better luck with your search.
Integers and rational numbers are also reals. What aren't reals are imaginary numbers.
> So a website used by millions should become what you want it to become, not what others use it for?

The name is irrelevant. The vast majority use it for hosting. What someone wants or doesn't want has already been decided in the market.
Have you considered writing your comments in a way that makes it clear what you actually mean? Because your top level comment, which I take to understand was written from the point of view of this grandma, lacked the context to make this discernible until you had to write this explanation.
What problem does it solve for your customers? Focus on that. If it solves their problem, it wont matter that it's a work in progress.
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