skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Defibrillators are full of capacitors to boost the voltage, not current. They also use carefully located electrodes, and come with a razor to remove body hair to create the ideal conditions to affect the heart because they need to work every time. That has nothing to do with whether residential power is dangerous or not.

I said mains voltage won't kill you every time but it definitely can. We wouldn't put it in residential settings if it was instant death. The problem is that the conditions that can lead to a deadly accident don't trigger any of our ape-brain fear response. Like any risk it should be approached with knowledge and care.

If you think any of the things you listed are fine and safe just because they don't result in "instant death" then I would say we have very different ideas about risk management.

I don't appreciate you calling me a liar for presenting facts and urging caution.
Why the heck private gifts are taxable and it is tolerated?
I think this is a great breakdown and analysis, though "‘Terminator’ Really Is a Horror Movie" is something a lot of people at or near the time of its release, including my eleven year old self watching it for the first time, understood intuitively. In my mind (and perhaps even in my local video store) it was always grouped with Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street
Or "absent intelligence" as some others say.
When I was younger I learned that loaning money to friends, and then asking to be repaid, sucks. You're made to feel like you're some sort of Scrooge character. Now I either simply give whatever is asked, and make it clear I do not wish to be paid back, or just say no.

Initially it seemed logical to say OK you need 100 bucks for this or that and you'll get me back. But then a month later I'd mention it and was met with this sort of "why are you being a jerk about it" response. Now I'm in a position that its not a big deal, but back then even that relatively small amount of money was a big deal. It was a tough lesson to learn that some people just use the term 'loan' to make themselves feel less guilty for asking, or maybe intend to ghost you regardless.

I think this also gets into Americans (or maybe just Southerners?) being weird about money and personal finance. Talking about money is taboo.
Drew's use case?!
It is interesting that Practical Engineering is an often-cited channel on HN. Not surprising, but rather a good indication of its content, quality, and value.
This is more or less the same advice that Kevin O'Leary gives in his book "The Cold Hard Truth on Men, Women, and Money". His stance is that money is basically like blood since you need it to live, so it should be protected from predators and leeches
> Non-fiction books are bloated with fluff to increase the page count to increase the perceived marketability of the book.

Is this really that rampant or different from SEO? Padding a book out with fluff has a cost. What's the cost to pad out an article with keywords or lengthen for SEO?
I make multiple cups of day with my Aeropress and a kettle. I am looking to upgrade to a water heater with temperature control. I'm not really looking to replace the Aeropress. I clean it after every use and I've even invested into the ecosystem with a reusable filter and an adapter to brew cold coffee.
i've received the most compliments for coffee when using pour over, also feel it's the easiest way to make a cup/2 and it's portable for camping, travel etc. Plus everything is compostable
keurig always leaves me disappointed just from a coffee drinking perspective
I’ll do you one better: an electric kettle and a French press. Kettle does one thing: boils water. French press has no moving parts and is interchangeable with water and coffee from any source. Lasts forever or until you knock it off the counter. Makes good coffee.
> (unlikely they'd care for $1000).

They certainly wouldn't, since you can legally receive a gift of up to $16k per year tax free.
Credit agencies have no reason to care about their security wrt your data. You aren't their customer, and they don't owe you anything
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1612484342567010306.html
Hmm, I didn't experiment much with that, but most houses are wired with 30 mA differential circuit breakers. If there is a difference of more than 30 mA between phase and neutral, it means there is a leak to ground somewhere, so the breaker trips. Well below 80 mA (though not instantly).

If you're wet though, your impedance is lower, so a lot more current can flow through you. That makes it much more dangerous to touch electrical stuff. Same with being barefoot.

Our bodies also have capacitance (complex impedance), which makes us more sensitive to AC than DC.

What I don't get is why do we still use differential circuit breakers while connecting neutral with ground instead of monitoring line impedance a thousand times a second. You'd trip the circuit breaker when connecting (including touching) neutral or phase to ground, without endangering the user (currently we only detect a user touching phase via the current flowing through them).

Have the circuit self-test multiple times a second, and use 10kV (like livestock fences) with very low capacity to measure impedance: give a serious jolt to the person touching a wire, with no danger.
> On December 13, Nansen, a separate crypto data firm broke the news that Binance had lost $3 billion of assets over the previous week, representing 4% of the firm’s total at the time. A Forbes investigation revealed that, in fact, Binance lost 15% of its assets since a Twitter posting by Zhao (widely known as CZ) on the same day as he downplayed the Nansen report withdrawals. Still nearly a quarter of Binance assets left the exchange in less than two months. Forbes reached out to Binance seeking comments for this story but did not receive a response by publication time.

> Investors’ lack of trust is best seen in the performances of Binance Coin (BNB) and Binance USD (BUSD), the two tokens bearing the exchange’s name. BNB lost 29% of its value in the past two months, and Forbes estimates that leaves about 29 million of the tokens at Binance, 51% less than disclosed by the exchange on November 10. Meanwhile the number of BUSD stablecoins at the firm sank by 40%.
I use a Stanley full-metal-jacket french press on camping trips and for just-in-case situations like power failures. Unlike most moka pots that can eventually have seal failures, only the wire mesh of a french press plunger ever needs tweaking back into shape.
Where did you learn about this "staff engineer" track?

I have worked at two Fortune 500 tech firms. They had separate career tracks where one was people management focused and the other nominally technical. At both firms the technical track was more like "technical management". None of the folks with high-level technical titles were committing code or doing hands on-technical work. The only difference with line management titles was less personnel responsibility. That is, on the technical track you would not generally need to deal with things like disgruntled employees, giving performance reports, sick time, etc.

IOW, the technical track was a lot like being a tenured professor at a major university. You have intimate knowledge of the research happening and you help may design the experiments. But you are not the one who sits down and runs the experiments.

I do not think the OP would be happy on a technical track in a major company, at least not as I have seen those tracks work. Rather, they would need to work with their line and project management such that they level out at a title where project leadership and decision making is not expected. Maybe that is what you mean by "staff engineer track." You get a Staff Engineer title (or Engineer 3, or Prinicpal or Senior - titles vary so much) and never get another promotion while still collecting merit increases and bonuses.
Made this thing in 2010. I can't remember if I saw the trick being used in another website before or not...
https://mrdoob.com/projects/voxels/#A/bnciaTraheakhacTSiahfa...
I've had my chemex for 7 years now, and it's still going strong! I can't see it going wrong any time soon :P
To be fair, the stock market has been invented to spread risk. Better to own 10% of 10 boat expeditions than only one whole boat.
The trick for a two cups aeropress is brewing at a stronger ratio (for instance 25g in with 220g of water) and diluting it with water once it's done brewing.
This change would not be just be for backups or file transfers. It would fundamentally change how big files are stored by the file system. Much like the way fragmentation is handled solely by the file system and an application accessing the file is completely unaware if the file is stored within a single fragment or multiple fragments; the file system would manage the individual 'chunks'.

For example, a 6 GB file might be made up of 3 separate 2 GB chunks. An application might delete 20 bytes from the front of the file. This causes the first chunk to now be 2 GB - 20 bytes. The other 2 chunks are unchanged.

Current file systems do not allow this where a file can have a block somewhere in its interior that is just a partial block.
Not sure what 3rd world means anymore as the cold war is over :), but I think I know what you mean.

What they are called now is a "relocation expert", and they help set everything up for you. They are in no way a symbol of corruption or inefficiency, but rather a professional who knows the system. IE, to get a DL you go this office, you fill out this form, you fax it to x, etc.

Do I wish everything was 100% online and designed with high UX standards? Sure, I also would love if it rained M&Ms on Fridays at 4.11pm :). Both of these things are not going to happen.
Do you really imagine some significant number of Google's search, cloud, etc customers were driven to Google over a competitor because of "good vibes" derived from Go? Google only develops Go because it's a useful internal tool, and I'm pretty sure the marketing team nor the executives spend any meeting minutes discussing Go.
Agree. Using it for weeks now and happy with it. Faster, more focused, more space for code. Love it.
>would you be in a hurry to pay them back

Yes, because i don't like to call myself a shitty human.
Is there an easy way to look all of them up?
That law is not particularly widely enforced, and it seems to only be written to pursue those who use it as a loophole around inheritance laws.
You're right. However as life gets busier, especially in the morning I found that I just don't have the time for the "procedure". I love the "procedure" but it's synchronous so it had to go. Also I was having a very hard time getting the size 03 filters in white.
This is rarely ever the case. If you "loan" someone money once they will just keep coming back and asking for more. Even worse, they will tell people and you will get the reputation of someone who is generous with money, and soon everyone will be asking you for some.
Hahahahahah! Compensation has nothing to do with outcomes. Great trolling!
The foundations of AI/ML are really linear algebra and statistics. But not the kinds of stats most people learn in undergrad: focus on linear models (there are tons of great books on just that; also look up “common statistical tests are linear models” for a great intro into what i’d call useful stats), bayesian stats, anova/manova/permanova, etc.
Its better to not focus on the amounts, as everyone has "fuck you money" at some level. I see it as something that scales based on your financial state.

Surely you've spent some amount of money on frivolity.
> The way. He talks. Is like. He puts. A period. Every. Word. Or two.

So... Like Shatner? Sorry, couldn't resist.
I second react-native for CRUD. If you went WASM, what was your plan for the "OpenGL" part -- I think that would work in a react-native web view.
Nor should it be. Many of my friends handed over their steam accounts to their preteen sons. (As useless as those age gates really are being a separate discussion).
I loaned a close college friend $7000 last year. Due to life circumstances and lack of family resources, he was stuck in a rural area with no developer jobs. He was having trouble landing a remote job and I ignorantly asked why he wasn’t applying to in-person jobs on the west coast.

He told me that he certainly wouldn’t be able to afford to move and I told him “don’t let that stop you”. Fronting him moving expenses was the best decision I ever made, even though it had a chance of not working out. Six months later he’s making 10x the wage he could get in his rural area, and I’ve been paid back with (unrequested) interest.

I guess my message is: sometimes loaning money won’t work out, but when it does, the ROI (emotionally and for society) is extremely high.
In last 10 or so years I've gone a full circle with coffee makers (manufacturers rejoice!) in a quest for better coffee. From Moccamaster, to Keurig, Nespresso, french press, fancy capucino machine or two, and now back to filtered coffee /w Wilfa Classic.

At the end of the day, it turns out I am drinking it for the effect, and quantity (as in volume of liquid, more is better). Although lately I've found some decafs that produce a rather pleasant brew. Filtered coffee from the 'right' (for me) ground coffees seem to hit right balance between ease of use, speed, and taste.

And then there are some studies indicating that filtered coffee might be a bit healthier[0] than other forms.

[0] https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/whats-the-hea...
Radon victim?
I didn't expect to like it, but I do. Everything is still there, and almost in the exact same spots yet it gets out of the way so much better.
Do you understand that crossing into a higher tax bracket does not mean you pay higher taxes on the whole income? You pay the higher tax rate only on the money earned in the higher bracket. I frequently encounter people who do not correctly understand marginal tax brackets.
Out of curiosity do you feel the same way about Alien? Because both movies obviously use sci-fi elements (space and an alien vs robots and time travel) but the plot arcs for both are 100% horror. Frankly outside slasher flicks a LOT of horror has either SF or fantasy elements because things we don't understand are the scariest.
From the abundance of people who are still after this "programming in natural language" nonsense, it seems to me like repetita iuvant.
The aeropress was really not designed as an espresso alternative. In interviews, the inventor said he was designing a better way to do drip coffee for a single cup. He recommends pressing as slowly as possible to not create pressure.
It is cringey how nerds describe their social/emotional lives the way they philosophize about code structure.
You are basically arguing that sr.ht is taking a "principled stand" against google. If that is what they are doing they should just say that and not pretend like there were no other options.

I'm ok with saying "google should do better!" But the compromise solution from the Go team seems reasonable to solve the immediate issue in a way that doesn't harm end users. The author should at least address why they have chosen the more extreme solution.
At the beginning of the article he mentions that Telegram channels where attackers discuss methods have been sharing the method, as part of their plans to steal money from people. If the red team wants it, it's probably worth their while.
I'm using the AirThings Android app, they definitely have one.
PyTorch Poisoned in Software Supply Chain Attack
I agree, I wasn't trying to rag on Breaking Bad. But BB didn't use the Mexico orange color grading for the entire series, they used it to convey a specific sense of location. Meanwhile The edits I linked were applied to the entire film indiscriminately.
My simple Keurig has no clock, size options, cleaning requirements or any fancy features and it's been rock solid for years (knocks on wood). Maybe this guy/gal just needed a more simple... Keurig?
This is off the beaten path, but consider Abu-Mostafa et al.'s "Learning from Data".
https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Data-Yaser-S-Abu-Mostafa/dp/...

I adore PRML, but the scope and depth is overwhelming. LfD encapsulates a number of really core principles in a simple text. The companion course is outstanding and available on EdX.

The tradeoff is that LfD doesn't cover a lot of breath in terms of looking at specific algorithms, but your other texts will do a better job there.

My second recommendation is to read the documentation for Scikit.Learn. It's amazingly instructive and a practical guide to doing ML in practice.
very cool!

here's several games in 280 characters or less

https://www.dwitter.net/h/game
my experience with anything I ask it is garbage. ok, in that case it is an AGI of value 0.0000000001
This is essentially why I decided not to give up on all these years of experience building tech.

Not to claim any special insight, but taking just a couple years out has been enough to see that the flaws of the current generation are not inherent to the tech, that things can be built differently, and that I can be a hopefully more mindful builder.
> Learn the keyboard shortcuts. You will be 10x (barely an exaggeration) more productive if you learn to use the keyboard shortcuts. I die a little bit inside anytime I watch another person reach for their mouse and navigate around the editor at a glacial pace.

Some of us spend quite a bit of time doing tasks other than development. We use the IDE's UI and if we do a particular task a lot, then we start to look for/memorize the shortcut key.
Yes. Im not overly concerned with how someone made money but i am concerned at being a person that thinks other people don’t deserve what they have
Doubtful. Most people (including Mcgee) probably don't want the world to know they didn't pay back a debt for nearly 3 decades
Makes sense. I think the OP is not unsympathetic, although not as familiar with what it's like to be a designer.

> The only advice I can give to designers is this: try not to add to the problem. I'm not asking you to move mountains, but maybe consider working somewhere else if your career exists solely to add more bloat to the world. (Easier said than done, I know). Or keep doing what you're doing. What do I know - I'm just some guy who rambles on the web.

Designers in graphic and physical design, with regard to over-complexity and physical waste, which the OP was talking about with the coffee maker -- have been talking about this, and about what the designer's ethical responsibility is in an environment where the business constraints/pressures may be to create things that don't make things better for people... for 50 years now.

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/why-ken-garlands-first-things-f...
That's a good justification for buyers of outdoor grilles to purchase one with a side burner that has enough output to bring a kettle or pot of water to a boil. No electricity needed.
In /r/keto they say "first rule about keto, you don't talk about keto".

There is a certain stigma about it as it's commonly associated with extreme fad diets. Keto posts typically get quite a lot of hate on generalist communities (like HN and reddit outside of the low carb subs) or even IRL.
Don't forget about his writings as well!
https://www.nps.gov/lacl/learn/historyculture/early-years.ht...
> most of us are more concerned by the identify theft

To give a single datapoint, I am much more concerned about automated discrimination than identity theft. (I do agree with you though that the bill ought to cover more information).

> addresses

Until recently, everyone's address were printed in a big book that was sent to every household for free. I lived for years in a country where the government published everyone's address online and never experienced or heard about any issues.

> banking information

Many jurisdictions required banks to (eventually) make whole anyone impacted by theft of banking information.

Don't get me wrong: I wish I had more privacy around my "identity/administrative" data. But we understand pretty well the risks involved there and have some legal mitigations in place.

I think we're just seeing the tip of the automated discrimination iceberg. This data props up almost all of the marketing industry these days, and is spreading faster than laws can be made or than people can comprehend what's occurring.
When you say source do you mean in the email headers? Spam scores should always be in the email headers. There are some scripts [1] out there that try to reverse engineer all the spam scores but they are not perfect. Google has a tool specific to GMail. [2] To my knowledge very few mail providers hide this information but it can seem obfuscated as each provider may have their own proprietary in-house tools.

[1] - https://github.com/mgeeky/decode-spam-headers

[2] - https://support.google.com/mail/answer/29436?hl=en
I've seen that movie. I don't know about 'hugely', but I definitely would agree it's highly likely that at least one of Spielberg or Lucas had seen it. Overall it was a very mediocre movie though.
You want to know how the Tetromino does memory allocation and garbage collection?

I don't think the infinite board is that big of a deal. Turing Machines and Lambda Calculus have no limits on their memory space and we implement analogues of them in our limited memory space.
Back into the Trenches of the Crypto Wars
Unrelated to the content: I really like the phrasing of the title. Not "…you should follow", not the tired "best practices", simply "Things I do".
Wallgreens is a national retailer, so excess shrinkage at one or a series of locations is offset by below average shrinkage in other locations. Just because a national retailer can absorb something like this does not mean a local retailer with many fewer locations can.

It's still a massive problem, just not for national retailers.
I am still using PyCharm 2021.2.3 which I think is the best version.

New versions have messed with the diff window which I use in my workflow.

In addition, I have to "trust project" when opening a new project. I don't want to trust ANY project to run code on my machine without me inspecting it. And every time you open the project it nags you to do so. Paradoxically you need to suffer through the nags while you figure out what the project wants to run (IF anything).

I mailed them about this, and their response was to open a ticket in their tracker. I couldn't be bothered to reset my forgotten password.

Judging by the screenshots, this new UI shows 2 more lines on the screen for the cost of having to click around until you learn what the new icons do. What is the point of removing the text labels? The toolbars are mostly blank anyway.
Aviation uses HF as well, for communications with ATC on oceanic routes.

(Many airplanes on those routes now have satcom as well, though it's not a requirement.)
Didn’t that person actually die from cancer and not radiation per se?

I understand that cancer can be caused by radiation, but that is actually treatable and not always fatal, whereas radiation poisoning is afaik fatal.
Apple Reality Pro VR headset set for fall release date, first reveal this spring
He had Alice and...that was about it. Pretty much everything else he slapped his name on was a flop. Then he did the sequel to Alice and it got lukewarm reception.
That last example is also completely unhelpful for figuring out what he’s talking about because it doesn’t actually show you the keystrokes it uses.
In the US, gifts of up to $11M or maybe $12M are not taxable.
This has taken off in the Vue community w/ https://sfc.vuejs.org/ and https://uno.antfu.me/play/ and they use the fragment so it doesn't get sent to the HTTP server
Pure TeXnicians are a thing. Besides, what do you expect him to use? it's his creation.

The point is he created TeX for himself and expected others to supercede it with a proper implementation. Didn't happen though.
IIRC, I remember from discussions with other scriptwriters that BTF was rejected SO many times (and he redrafted it each time, afterwards) that the version that got filmed was like v12 of the story. Very, very tight and plotted.