skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a leftist, for the most part, and I don't see these industries as biased to the left. They are certainly biased in a _liberal_ direction, but that really isn't the same as leftism. Only in the united states are the identified with one another and that's mostly because real leftist thought is basically obliterated in the United States.

In general the way americans talk about politics is totally nuts. Both political parties in the US are anti-leftist (for the most part) but The Republicans take advantage of a general suspicion against socialism in the US when they call the Democrats a leftist party. Democrats have made it perfectly clear for about 25 years that they have no interest in socialism. The most charitable thing you could say about them is they are the party which wants to privatize things a little bit less quickly.
I've focused on this problem for some time too.

The ultimate solution was to buy a color changing shower head from LIDL. This made it so easy to always be in the right temperature zone when taking a shower.

The shower head has lighting that turns to green when the temperature is between 34-38C°. It's red when the temperature is above 38°, and turns to blue when it's below 34°C.

It also shows the current temperature as a display which you can see while you are under the shower. The sensor setup also seems to be powered by the stream that flows through the shower head and only turns on when water is running.

I hope this helps.
Google’s fastest-growing business is insuring companies against their workers
https://www.foodsafety.gov/keep-food-safe/foodkeeper-app
I overlay the BTC price chart with the chart of Tether’s market cap. The correlation is hard to miss.
Is hypocrisy the true Turing Test?
Are black people actually more violent, or do crime statistics simply show that they are arrested and imprisoned more often for violent crime?

Are Muslims really more violent than Christians or Buddhists?

Numbers can lie, depending on context and assumptions you might find that white Christians are most violent. Often, people argue with statistics and numbers while not understanding the context or they have faulty assumptions.
My biggest concern is half our citizens are seemingly departed from reality. I think our institutions are doing very, very well.
A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Searching this term I found an article with an amusingly similar title:

> Life on Earth... but not as we know it

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/apr/14/shadow-biosp...
> (and as a result, performance)

Citation, please.

Opus (at that time it was called CELT) does have more resource requirements in terms of memory than an MP3 decoder. However, I have run the decoder on things as small as a 33MHz ARM7 and still had lots of CPU left over. An MP3 decoder had no hope on that system.
Or an airplane, or a drone flown out of a parking lot nearby, or frankly even a google maps photo. I agree, the threat here seems sorta vague and silly. Aerial reconnaissance over industrialized democracies is a pretty wide open threat model. If we have stuff sitting out in the back yards we should throw a tarp on it or something.
Intel Extension for PyTorch* for GPUs
Great to see that here. I used to play EVE in the same corp with some of the devs.
Very cool. Very insightful.

Now if you don't mind me, I am going to mindlessly keep making the same mistakes over and over again. :-)
That might be a joke today. Tomorrow may be a different story. I see all the English-speaking five eyes being merged into one country at some time in the near future.
Oral Vitamin D Supplementation Nearly Halves Rates of Suicide and Self Harm
I'm sure if you polled society, you would end up with a similar bias. Punching up is generally more acceptable then punching down.
Exhibit A. People who think these are real problems destroying the country and all the other people who think people who believe these things are destroying the country.
Sourcetable.com | designer-who-codes / product engineer | Full Time | Remote or SF

Sourcetable is building a networked spreadsheet to make data accessible to everyone.

We're hiring for a product engineer / designer to join the team. This is a combined design / frontend development role. The brief is that you will be implementing a lot of your designs, while also taking over design direction for Sourcetable itself (working closely with the CEO).

You do not need a degree to apply, but you must be able to demonstrate that you have worked on hard things. It will also be helpful if you have previous experience at a startup.

https://sourcetable.com/about is a good place to learn more about what we're up to. You will be joining as person no.7 on the team.

Email eoin+hn@sourcetable.com
Same, nothing but good from my experience. Just a bit finicky to install like most European hardware and fixtures. Oh and their instructions are pictures only and hilariously obtuse.
Pentagon tracking suspected Chinese spy balloon over the US
Counterpoint: Alien life will probably look very similar to life on earth. If you look at evolution then countless species have evolved into something crab-like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvfR3XLXPvw Turns out that their form is pretty good for survival. While biology can take on a myriad of forms, the competitive nature of life will weed out a lot of them. And since the rules for biochemistry are the same across the universe similar traits that are beneficial here will probably be beneficial there.
Disclaimer: I'm a foster parent.

> Society tends to observe almost any mistake of parents as reasons to remove children.

This really varies from location to location (and definitely varies based on race/ethnicity and culture of parents). Where I am there is such a shortage of foster-homes that they really push for in-home services over removing the child.

The only near-universal thing that will get a child removed is if the child themselves directly report physical abuse.

> Which brings is to harm. Removing a child from a home can be life altering dramatic.

Agreed; if the child wasn't traumatized before being removed from their home, they definitely are afterwards.

> Even if a child experiences some abuse they may also experience love in a home.

In my experience neglect is actually far worse for the child than physical abuse (though it's not like abuse is sunshine and rainbows). Each child is different, but given a child who was beaten for minor infractions and a child who was often left strapped in a car-seat for an entire day with a sippy-cup and a box of cereal, I'd wager on the latter having more issues.

Sexual abuse has its own, separate set of issues that this margin is too narrow to contain...
I wasn't really talking about what you said, but I guess this deserves a response, even if "do you hate fun?" is frankly pretty weak.

I also write, but I don't talk about it very often, because it turns out most people aren't super excited to see an involved and wholly unrelated conversation interrupted with a more or less totally off topic plot idea someone happened to have. Unless you're actually at a workshop, that's what notebooks are for. If you don't have one, get one.
Doesn't run on 64 bits
I have the opposite perception of prices. I can buy a $700 to $1,000 iPhone 13 mini or iPhone 13, and I know it will work well and receive software updates for at least 5 years.

I know this because of many years of experience, and I am using an iPhone XS from 2018 right now.

My wife used an iPhone 6 from 2014 to 2018, and we still use it as a baby monitor, I used an iPhone 6S Plus from 2015 to 2020, and my daughter uses a 2020 iPhone SE.

My mom uses an iPhone XR from 2018. The point is, I have lots of data on iPhone (and MacBook Air) longevity, so I trust them.

On the other hand, I still have no idea if any Android phone vendor offers software updates for more than a couple years, much less if the phone actually continues to work well. I had a string of bad experiences between Nexus and Xperia devices from 2011 to 2015, so I learned my lesson then.

The amortized cost for me is much less than any alternative Android.
I’m not sure I understand what you were saying.

My point was just that it wasn’t like 80% of one party and 60% of the other. It was WAY more lopsided.
I am not a CPA, but my understanding from extensive discussions with one is: If the salaries contributed towards the development of new software it is an R&D expense. You must amortize them. Those salaries or contractor fees are not deductible. Maintenance of existing software might be treated differently, and may or may not be deductible. But it's very unclear. For example, is adding a new feature to existing software R&D that must be amortized, or is it maintaining an existing asset and thus deductible? No one seems to know, and the IRS hasn't responded to requests for clarification from the CPA associations.

This is new as of the 2022 tax year, thus the considerable confusion.
Sounds like an issue with your heater. Not sure why your dishwasher changes anything, they normally run off cold water and use their own heaters. Sounds more like you run your kitchen tap while filling the dishwasher, and flushes the cold water out of your pipes, and gives your heater enough time to get to temp.

Have you tried see if you can set the output temperature of your heater higher? Could be the output temp of the heater is very close to “shower” temperature, and a lot of heat is lost heating up pipes etc, something that could be sped up by increasing the heaters output temp, or improving the insulation on your hot water pipes.
What a fun article! If it were, I would probably have tried two simpler tweaks:

1. Instead of bothering to compute tangent frame sweeping along the path, just use a fixed frame that's tangent to a line drawn from the start to the end point. (And then pick a random fixed rotation angle.)

2. Just use value noise instead of simplex noise. Or, hell, just stack a couple of sine waves with randomly chosen phase and frequency.
PyCM 3.8 Released: Distance/Similarity Support
GitHub : https://github.com/sepandhaghighi/pycm

Website : https://www.pycm.io
> It's a proprietary add-on by Google and since it's not part of the spec will simply be banned by many countries.

You sure about that? https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/wp-content/uploads/2019/...

It's an international standard, supported by carriers and everyone not-Apple. Google pushed it forward, but did so in coordination with standards bodies. I'm not sure how you arrive at the above conclusion when the history is not in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services#Hi...
The lead-up to the accident reminds me of the Beirut explosion where customs officials kept asking judges for permission to resell / dispose off the dangerously stored fertilizer for several years but judges refused to act. Bureaucracy is so absurd sometimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion#MV_Rhosu...
The people who raided the Capitol should perhaps start writing disserations en masse?
Nice! I've always appreciated how moddable games like this have traditionally been. I texture-mapped? skinned? myself and my friends onto the models in the Counterstrike installations we had on the four computers we kept LAN'd together in our apartment.

Well. We only ended up playing with them a couple of times, because it ended up feeling uncomfortably gruesome - shooting and and killing your friends in cs_italy or whatever.

Mapping out familiar buildings and locations? A much less traumatizing use of time and resources. Kudos.
Yes, this. Learn a few new things, then start looking for a remote job on the first company's dime. When you get the new job, prioritize the new job until the old job decides to fire you. But, not before soaking up some sick and vacation time while increasing your savings.
You can short it on a decentralized exchange if you want to avoid counterparty risk

You then have a different risk though, protocol (smart contract) risk. As long as the smart contracts don't have exploits, you'll be able to withdraw your collateral after repaying your borrowed Tether.

Of course, this also means you have to be fairly overcollateralized. If you want to short say $100 of Tether you'd do well to deposit $200 of funds as collateral, because each asset has its own collateralization ratio that's not 1:1 to protect against liquidity crunches.

Aave and Compound (v2) would be safe places to execute a strategy like this, as they've been battle-tested for years at this point and have received multiple audits.

There's always risk of course, but I don't think this is any more risky shorting through a centralized exchange, and much more transparent than something like shorting traditional securities
On second thought, I'm not even sure what "transitive" means here. It seems like it should mean that if you trust your friend's movie recommendations then you trust your friend's friends' movie recommendations? Or maybe something like:

trustsMovieRecs(A, B) and trustsMovieRecs(B, C) => trustsMovieRecs(A, C).

Their movie recommendations are likely some function that takes their friends' movie recommendations as input (along with watching them), but that's more like an indirect dependency than a transitive closure.
Very, very unlikely like astronomically so. Most microorganisms are so small they're practically transparent so we have to exploit biochemistry to "stain" them - hence why you'll often hear of bacteria classified as either Gram positive or negative, because of the Gram stain. If the biochemistry is unique or even slightly different i.e. right handed chirality, we'd basically have zero of our usual tools at our disposal.

There's already a whole world of terrestrial microbes that we expect or even know for certain to exist but can't culture, let alone stain, which means we can't really study them. We'd (theoretically) eventually notice them on electron microscopy slides though, which is how we know there's many unculturable microbes, but whether we'd recognize them as alien is a completely different matter. The microbial world is very diverse and there's nothing I can think of that'd set something apart as alien since we can analyze the chemistry with an electron microscope.
The novelty factor is one reason. I can’t imagine being so advanced but not interested in other life forms.
I think things are fine. And you can too. Ask me anything.
Amazon’s cloud business reports 20% growth in fourth quarter, missing estimates
"Safety" is also what my guy said. The problem is that in isolation the answer doesn't make any sense: why should I be heating water up to then re-mix cold water? Is that not a waste of energy?

The fuller answer, I think, is that the "raw" hot line additionally goes towards uses that can take scalding water, one or more of the dishwasher and the laundry, depending on whether you have either or both of those in your dwelling. (I hadn't thought of those, since my concern was on the shower. I also can't see the piping, in my place, so it was a black box of sorts.) For uses that might interact with a human, then it's a safety thing, then it makes sense to do the mix with cold. (I believe the other line, the shower bound one, is called the "tempered hot" line.)

My guy also refused to raise it too much, or disable it altogether, citing codes and that it couldn't exceed like 140℉ or so. Which was fine, really, since I was asking for it to exceed 95℉…
There's nothing to learn from his incorrect perspective. It means available at no cost.
Their. Their outdated porn collection.
"Them" is a metaphor for aligned incentives. If there are incentives for something to happen, it will happen. These incentives create a self-organizing conspiracy where the participants don't even need to communicate with each other, but they are co-operating anyway, just by acting in their own interest. It doesn't matter whether "them", the NWO or the lizard people are real or not; the end result is the same.
https://www.flightradar24.com/2f0ea6cf.

The balloon isn't on there, and the (presumed) fighter jets that are escorting it aren't either but you can see the fuel tankers.
my house of 2 people has probably 15-20 active devices then. I bet they count airpods as well.
Hard agree. I canceled TV and blocked political sites in NextDNS and feel much better about the world since.
Your claim is that math education was better before Common Core, when, as you say, not even teachers understood the fractions they needed to teach?

I made no such claim.

To the contrary I pointed at a 50 year old book on how bad math education was, and said that there have been wave after wave of reforms since, each driven by the failures of the previous one. From this you should infer that I think math education has been broken for a very long time. Only the details of how it is broken change.

Furthermore you point out the past failures of teachers to understand the fractions that they needed to teach. But you haven't said anything to indicate we should believe that it has improved since. I don't believe it has improved. Teachers STILL don't understand fractions properly.

The Eureka books show how to solve the problems on the page adjacent to the homework. Eureka website has free parent resources on websites. If your teacher is sending home mystery homework, that's just a bad teacher.

Classic. Just blame it on the teacher.

She didn't pick the textbook, and printed out the prepared homework sets which went with the textbook. She also didn't have a choice about how much homework - that was school policy. As was not having the kids carry their textbookshome.

While there were problems with the teacher, this one really can't be blamed on her.

But it gets better. My son was in this course in 2012. According to https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2019/10/06/a-great-minds-com..., the contract to create that website was awarded in 2012. We would have needed access to a time travel machine to take advantage of a website that did not yet exist! (I don't remember what textbook we had, but it certainly did not then have a website associated with it.)

So stop blaming the teacher, who was essentially also a victim of the system. Instead read through my explanation of why disaster was guaranteed from the start.
The issue of "if you lose your keys at night, the first place you look is under the lamppost" problem with searching for alien life has bothered me too, since I was about the age of this professor's trip to Hawaii. But unlike her my musing never resulted in anything useful.

I'm so glad someone is thinking about this and that that person sounds like a broad thinker!
I, too, created a 3D model of my high school... a little "I am Spartacus" moment on Hacker News.
Coffeezilla really is miles ahead of the MSM in reporting on this. To such an extent that his video from over a year ago covers the same territory as this article.
I did contact my Congressional Representative but I would love to know what interest groups are working on this actively that I can support further.

Thank you for sharing your own experience with your CPA as well.
Happens enough that CPS basically ignores reports from ex-boyfriends/ex-girlfriends around here.
Woah Canadians are more disadvantaged than fit people!
I dont think it is clear at all that every option in worse.

You might make a case that federal employees would do better than 3rd parties, but this beside the point I am trying to make.

You cant have abusive legal guardianships without state involvement, contractors or not.
hear, hear...and for the fast turn from 8.0 to 8.1
> almost anyone can afford 36 $50 payments. Most fast food employees can afford that.

except if those fast food employees ceases to be employees in a downturn.

The problem is that taking on debt for consumable products is not a good financial decision. You don't need an iphone - you can live with a low-end android that could be had for less than $200.
Win what?
Browsers ought to be able to do something about history hijacking. Maybe limits on history shenanigans across domains.
Any attempts to capture it? Is it flying too high for fixed wing aircraft?
Rickrack (Real-time Color Kit) – a free editor for generate harmonious colors
Been too long since we've had a nice grainy photo of bigfoot.
> "A lot can happen in 3 months"

> "See where OpenAI was a year ago compared to today..."

3 months versus 12 months - a 9 month difference. OpenAI wasn't actually far from today 3 months ago.
There's also this by ITV: https://www.itv.com/watch/deep-fake-neighbour-wars/10a2895/1...
I got hooked up on this 2 years ago. It got so bad, I had to block the site on the router and use a random password that I put on paper and hid somewhere in the house, so it’d be just too much of a hassle to unblock and play.

Scary.
I had to look, I couldn't help myself.

https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/blob/e516cd13f9be...

It's actually not terrible.
A comment to the posted-article, from "Frellus", who identifies as ex-Goldman, suggests RabbitMQ might not have been used so extensively:

Ex-Goldman person here. To the best of my knowledge, RabbitMQ was used in spots but not where reliability was critical. Instead the main message brokers were IBM MQ and TIBCO. RabbitMQ would certainly lose messages in the event of a crash, and I'm not sure it would have been used for the main message bus given the rate of events. Additionally, Erlang was used for SecDB queries quite heavily. This was the bread-and-butter of the firm (https://github.com/saleyn/secdb)
Actually a good example, you should look at the actual losses incurred by investors in Madoff's fund. It would probably be educational if you think tether could "go to zero".
I agree with this but would the intelligent beings on other planets be the same size as humans? Could there be giant creatures that are just as intelligent as us?
Is it an Eastern bloc level intersection?
They mean there is no proof they issued tether for real money, and instead they could have issued it for collateral in crypto or IOU by other crypto entities.

Which would explain why nobody in the financial industry knows them even if they supposedly manage 60B$.
i suppose impersonators that are caricatures and are obviously impersonators would be legal from fair use?
These exist:
https://www.build.com/digital-showers/c131744?facets=applica...
Ha! Same here it was about $3/hr but you could also buy a monthly thing. It was about 2002.

Everyone showed up for CS or Red Alert it seemed!
Americans have been gaining weight for as long as records exist
Direct seawater electrolysis by adjusting local reaction environment of catalyst
Hey!

I just read your Twitter thread about HN linked here.

I hope that you'll notice how people here are just discussing the topic of your post and interested.

That people ranting about Twitter posts and pronouns are a vocal minority.

That many people actually appreciate your work and that ending up on the HN front page is a sign of this.

I understand and respect that you don't want to have to deal with this vocal minority who is not nice with you, but I wish they hadn't this much power. They don't only bother you but also a majority of us.

Most people silently read you, most are willing to honor your pronouns, too many of us need frequent reminders not to assume he/him, most people who don't like reading Twitter will not complain and just not read and that's fine.

Maybe HN guidelines could use some update to ask people to stop bitching on one's choice of pronouns and use of twitter to post things like you do. Plenty of tools exist to read them comfortably anyway.

In any case, a lot of love and of course you are free to not want to deal with HN as long as it is not an adequately welcoming place.
If interested in this later part of FSF’s life I would very much recommend Sheila’s Graham’s book Beloved Infidel (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheilah_Graham). They were together for about here years and he died in her apartment.
Fast food usually picks up in downturns. It’s the fancier restaurants that lose business.
So...

What's the paycheck like?