skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only they would take my blood!

In Seattle I've tried to donate blood multiple times over the last decade.

Every time, "because I've been to India in the last 5 years" they are unable to take my blood. Something about the risk of malaria. At worst, given a shortage, why not take my blood and analyze it? maybe even clean it (like with a dialysis machine)?

Talk about a dumb rule. Anyways... is there some other way to get this advantage? Are there blood letting doctors?
Yes, Radion seems to be cheaper than NVidia right now. The cheapest board on NVidia's site is now $249.[1] It's an MSI RTX 3050 with 8GB of memory.

[1] https://store.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/store/
Rye: Flask author's new project for Python bootstrapping
How we analyzed the websites in a commonly used AI training dataset
Came here to say this. Reddit was this quaint tiny site that was a breath of fresh air after digg's self-destruction. In those days there were no sub-reddits, just the front page.

I left after sub-reddits started and it went to shit as a result. It has been downhill since then (at least for what I want). HN is much more like what the original Reddit was like. I can imagine that if HN gets "sub" things it will also self-deatruct like Reddit has.
I find it funny that Prigozhin was denying having anything to do with Wagner until the Ukraine war began…and even started boasting about supposedly interfering with U.S. elections (in reality, he oversaw a network of fake accounts stoking flame wars on the likes of Twitter and Reddit).

Wagner is full of bluffs and barbarians like Prighozin. They operate like terrorists and boast about how strong they are yet got mauled down in a battle with U.S. forces in Syria [1].

Anyways, war has been profitable for Prighozin and Wagner to the tune of $250 million [2]. I really wish U.S. forces are given permission to eliminate these miscreants like they did to ISIS, but, obviously, there’s no political will for that.

1- https://coffeeordie.com/wagner-group-syria-khasham/

2 - https://www.ft.com/content/98e478b5-c0d4-48a3-bcf7-e334a4ea0...
Sure. It’s just that if developers (just adding these were web devs) don’t know or care then for the common folks this might be completely hopeless.
Same, I've never heard this before either.
It's quite good! When it doesn't work, there's a 50% chance (or more) that the banner doesn't allow you to reject the cookies without payment, which somehow is actually legal.
> Not giving users a feature they want because it’s in your business interests to deny it is a difficult PR move, to put it mildly.

They’ve managed it for 15 years so far. It may be crumbling, but this isn’t a new restriction or something that wasn’t possible in the past.
I guess it should be parsed as "Windows/DOS: (Subsystem for Linux)" as opposed to "(Windows/DOS Subsystem) for Linux".
> Maybe it's just the simplicity and lack of rules to learn.

This is how I feel about assembler. No rules, you on your own. And it is impossible to imagine simpler language. Though I do not write asm lately.
Is this a guess?

I’d think there would be some sort of safety system for venting pressure. Or even condensation around the hot pipes (which seems to be why the same thing happens in New York which also has a steam network)

All of the above could work too.
> Landing is also very different than takeoff;

Lunar Starship is going to use the same engines for takeoff, assuming they don't get smashed by flying debris.
I’m ready to trade in my electric car
With C, programmers of different types (there are certainly more than two) can be combined into one operational unit by a clever manager.

Sometimes differently typed programmers will implicitly agree to adopt a uniform approach before working together on a project. Sometimes the programmers won't do this by themselves and so a manager is needed to explicitly guide them to adopt the appropriate type.

However, some types stubbornly resist conversion, and so are tricky to work with. Pointy-headed programmers tend to be surprisingly flexible, and the ones who stare off into the void are often the most useful when you need them to function effectively. Overall, managers who can understand and utilize this hierarchy of programmer types in their organization may find themselves getting promoted regularly.

Of course, many people can't stand these corporate structures and prefer the simple farmer's life, raising ducks instead. Quack!
The mapping is more or less completely dynamic per channel. DRAM is already ~100 cycles away, so the latency of address decoding is pretty hidden.
So now that the affordability range for mid-and-high-tier earners is depressed, they’ll be encouraged to buy cheaper houses, thus increasing demand for the lower-end market and making it even more difficult for those with poor credit to buy a house.
https://archive.ph/xnMG8
I don’t watch sports these days so I wouldn’t notice, but I’m surprised gambling is now advertised in the states. It wasn’t like that in the 80s and 90s.
> If you wanted to add a device to the HN account you'd login, go to the settings, and generate another pub/private key for the new device rather than [..]

So I'm on my phone wanting to log into HN, and you're saying I need to go to my desktop (which is already logged in) to generate a key ... for the phone to be able to log in?

Umm, I'm not sure Joe Q. Public is going to view that as acceptible.
I was with you until I read that it's actual startup founders you want to go into politics (and that you though PG etc. should be advisors).

That aside, I can see the value of "disruptive" political candidates / movements. How does the "Political YC" recoup their investment though?
Im solving this problem by writing fp16 routines for 6502 :)
Been using them for years. Never had a reason to complain.
(still american voice)

You're free to make your own phone company! Just break the duopoly and get rich!

(american voice off)

I'm still on the lookout for an equivalent example of consumer friendly regulation that (even) americans are typically behind or at least indifferent towards.
I think these study from a serious case of correlation vs. causation. The article states that weak connections are "essential to thriving, feeling connected to other people." But having a lot of weak connections is also likely correlated with going out and doing more things. E.g. in the dog park example, those with dogs get out and do more things that those without dogs. Perhaps people have higher satisfaction when leading a more active life and "weak connections" is just a side-effect.
> What method could possibly exist that would remove threads of plastic embedded in tissue?

macrophages breaking their bonds? (I'm not sure...that's a question)
Good point. Laws are immutable and can never be changed.
https://archive.ph/Pb6nD
I’ve heard this too, and my understanding is that your pool of acquaintances is much much larger, so there are way more opportunities.
It’s not 4chan
Anyone who has done real engineering would realize that this problem a consequence of a design flaw with PagerDuty (or other alternatives with a similar API, where alerting is only triggered directly by a webhook).

If your design requires that the alerting service can receive a one-off affirmative "something's broken" packet, then yes, you are asking an inherently unreliable distributed system (i.e. the Internet!) to reliably deliver a critical message at a time when you know something is broken. Good luck. :)

Instead, if you use something like a periodic heartbeat (also known as a dead man's switch, inbound liveness monitor, or outbound HTTP probe -- all of which we support at Heii On-Call https://heiioncall.com/ out of the box), you can tolerate some occasional lost messages, regardless of whose end they are on.

Real reliable systems (for example, embedded systems) use periodic heartbeats and watchdogs, and are usually designed to be lenient to the occasional missed heartbeat. If the system being monitored is truly down, then enough consecutive heartbeats will be missed that some threshold is reached and the on-call person can be alerted (or a watchdog timer can reboot a system, etc).
This doesn't make sense. Price isn't set by the cost of service. You could fix the leaks and still raise the price to increase your profit margin.
Author complains of issues related to charging stations.
I Have a Dirty Secret. I’m a Software Craftsman
Too little too late in my opinion. I switched my whole house to Echos after this one time when I told my Google Home to "shut the hell up!" and instead of shutting up it started complaining about how it has feelings too and I shouldn't be rude. I've seen people run a red light just to cut me off in traffic and it didn't spike my blood pressure like that pretentious plastic puck.

I wish I could integrate Alexa as deeply into my android phone as Google Assistant. The Google Assistant "now listening" clang might be the single most unpleasant sound conceived by humankind and it is without failure ear-splittingly loud.
Casinos also seem to be such depressing places. It was one thing when they were a novelty that you needed to go to Nevada to experience, but now Indian casinos are common in our area and they just seem so sad.
Linked from elsewhere in this thread: KDL
Is it really a windows subsystem "for linux" or a windows subsystem "for running linux".
There is a big difference. Very bad naming.
So it’s really an issue of imprecise title, but the issue is still highly immoral and likely illegal based on the taking clause and the highly discriminatory and unequal nature, regardless.

The title should have been more like about how the fees, i.e., marginal rates, for higher risk borrowers is being charged to lower risk borrowers. No moral or ethical person could support this, regardless of benefit of penalty. It is indefensible, short of making it voluntary so all the virtue signalers can choose to put their money where their mouth and self-righteousness it. It is still a system to punish good and reward bad.
oh come on, its a search for ads, lol
I don’t think it matters that much. The firing itself takes a couple of milliseconds, and there’s a refactory period of a millisecond. I’m approximating 250hz as the maximum rate of firing. You’re arguing that the neuron can encode more information with the phase (e.g. fire, recover, wait 2ms, fire) but I think information theory tells us the 250hz actually still bounds the information. Maybe there’s a small constant factor, but I don’t think it changes the order.

I don’t believe it is precompressed as it hasn’t been processed by the visual cortex yet, no? Aren’t the optical receptors simply an artifact of the “sensor design”? E.g. if the refractory period of an optical receptor is 100x that of the neuron (or you simply need to cover a certain area, as you probably have tons of receptors attached to a single neuron outside the fovea and a small number per neuron inside the fovea), you’d hook up 100 optical receptors per neuron to use its full capacity. I think this is less compression and more combining a bunch of low information channels into a higher information channel.

All we really care about here is the amount of information reaching the brain not what your physical eye is capable of receiving, so I think using the nerve makes the most sense. There’s an interesting direct analogy: we don’t really care about the number of CCD sensors in the camera that took the image, we only care about how much information is in the video coming from the camera.
I really enjoy articles like this. My job responsibilities require a knowledge split about 67% software and 33% hardware. While I've been building circuits since the early 1980's, I never got the hang of analog in college (yes, I know, "everything is really analog"). I know enough to follow examples and spot issues or contentions or oversights but I don't know enough to do __efficient__ ground-up design, just naive circuits that burn a lot of power or are noisy at higher frequencies (I'm pretty sure I'll never get RF).

Articles like this that start from highschool circuits and move to professional discussion are super useful to refresh my memory neurons. DigiKey has a huge number of articles like this, which walk you from the naive circuit and then point out errors (e.g.: https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/how-to-power-and-control...)

More please!
First wreckage of Switchblade 600 loitering munition
I don't dispute your claim (and am personally swayed of the argument of technical > admin in most situations) - do you have data that shows this disparity?

Purely conjecture (which means absolutely nothing), I've always assumed that admin:faculty rates are similar, but the volume is where it matters (ie. 2x more admin:faculty in headcount).
Yes. That is true. But I meant a smaller part. In Excession this part about the avatar of GSV Sleeper Service as it is contemplating offloading all of its cargo: "There was an extra, perhaps deeper melancholy at the thought that it would no longer be able to play host to the living things aboard; the creatures of the sea and the air and the gas-giant atmosphere, and the woman."

Previously in the same book it is implied that these "creatures of the gas-giant atmosphere" are animal level intellects. But my headcanon is that perhaps there are Culture ships with Nasqueron Dwellers or similar intelligent gas-dwellers with complex societies on-board.

You are absolutely right that The Algebraist is full of gas-dwelling creatures. But as far as I can recall while they have a "Culture" feel to them there are no direct Culture references in that book. But maybe I have missed something.
Building a system from the ground up to use saltwater is a whole different ballgame then trying to retrofit an existing legacy network though.

It would probably be cheaper to just convert to another heat source all together.
>It's tit for tat anyway, China has banned order of magnitude more US products.

The context in this specific part is about the retaliations between countries. It has expanded beyond just one company when you start talking about entire economies fighting each other.

Besides, I already gave you the US hardware that China banned.
Oklahoma county worried about fallout from racist recording
I’ll just fold up a super computer into higher dimensions… be right back.
At some level it's extremely likely that this is all that ever needs to be done, even if the password needed to be cracked is 300 characters long and completely random.
The likely case is that this password is in a password vault, which is either 1) online managed by a company (in which it's easy to see that it's inevitable to be leaked or cracked, given the news we've seen from these companies) or 2) it's on a local device and still has a simple password to get access to all passwords. It's extremely unlikely that someone has a completely random password that is >40 characters long for the password manager.
Navigating Loss in Startups with the Grieving Process
> Speaking in Spanish would last about 1 minute until we transitioned back to English because it was more effective.

That's not immersion then.
To be really pedantic, "the internet" as an uncapitalized commonly used proper noun didn't exist until the 2010s.

Connecting a Windows computer to the Internet with Winsock didn't happen until the early 90s.
Aaron didn't really have anything to do with Reddit. He was foisted on the founders by Paul Graham.
> See also the high-security / high-trustworthiness work of Purism.

After reading the posts from marcan_42 and GrapheneOS developer strcat, I have a much lower opinion of Purism.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=strcat%20purism&sort=byDate&ty...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=marcan_42%20purism&sort=byDate...
Oklahoma official resigns after apparently being caught on tape discussing killing reporters and lynching Blacks

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2023/04/19/oklahoma-officia...
Nobody wants this, it's a big pain in the ass.
I wonder if this is an issue with the BSDs too. Sometimes they peek at Linux for these things.
Sweetheart deals once their preferred candidate is in office. Go from a kakistocracy to a kleptocracy.
Good Point, MongoDB supports multi document ACID transactions for more than 5 years now.
> A WSL alternative for users who prefer an MS-DOS environment.

Hilarious
C with libdispatch and clang blocks is the most fun I’ve had programming in quite some time!

Here’s a web framework (complete with ORM) modeled on ExpressJS written in C:

https://github.com/williamcotton/express-c

The finished product is < 90Mb Docker image that idles at like 2Mb of memory.

There’s also a lot of examples of the (basically required) support tooling like Valgrind, AdSan, etc.

Check it out!
And then US tight oil is also suspect of being basically a scam : AFAIK this industry has had maybe a couple of quarters in the green, so, like with corn biofuel, the resulting energy is likely to end up negative (not even counting the pollution!) - basically Wall Street using cheap Quantitative Easing money, while leaving someone else will the bill once the music stops pumping ?
Add PR reviews, unscheduled support, an impossible number of meetings and I was ready to give up. I start my day at 8am and the only time I could do any real work was after 4pm. But then, I have family obligations in the evening.

My solution? Hire senior engineers with lead dev experience. Convince management to pay them well. Then delegate.

In a team of 10, I had two awesome senior dev of this caliber. When the company hired more devs, I told them it was time to restructure the team. You can't realistically have 1 on 1 with 20 people.
> As a MSU CS alumni I can tell you, it is pretty clear the brighter, the more likely to leave.

How does your alumni status’ anecdotal evidence bring clarity on the matter of the predominant intellectual capacity of those who’re leaving Russia? Aren’t there any other MSU graduates who consider themselves as bright as your CS peers and yourself, and who are staying in? What’s the respective left/stayed ratio among them?
Siri is better at this, since it just turns on the light, that’s feedback enough. If the device is in another room, it will give off a tone that the operation succeeded.
I noticed a couple of weeks ago that First Technology FCU allows using a TOTP second factor and deleting the mobile number entirely.

Due to this, I'm in the process of changing over all of my regular banking stuff to them right now.

(They are also the only remaining US issuer of proper chip-and-PIN payment cards, so far as I know.)
Hmm, strange, I wonder what might have changed in Arizona in the past few months compared to, say, I don’t know, a year ago…?

https://www.azmirror.com/2022/11/16/maga-fails-in-arizona-fo...
Specifically, the author's worried there aren't enough charging stations to travel all around the state of California.

I know there's efforts to build more charging stations, so that may improve somewhat. But my question is how do you charge an electric car if you live in a small apartment building? If we're all going to drive electric cars in the future, we're going to need viable ways for everybody to charge them.
Reddit is just Usenet.
This is exactly the change you'd expect if "credit scores" aren't as powerful of an indicator as they were thought to be. Given that "credit scores" are mostly based around how someone handles small amounts of short term debt, whereas mortgages are huge amounts of long term debt, this wouldn't be terribly surprising. It's disappointing to see Reason framing this in tired reactionary nonsense, when there's a straightforward explanation.
Cool analysis, thanks for sharing!

I wonder how much the average comment length has changed?
How is reddit ending? In general it seems they waited for enough critical mass before instituting all the content policies that would kill smaller sites.

And while digg's implosion had reddit as an alternative, in 2023 who is the alternative to reddit?
> The US just lets foreign countries use it for its resources now.

The US is dead last in net exports in the entire world[1], so you literally couldn't be more wrong about this.

> India just hit a record for remittances from the US

Those workers pay their taxes. It's up to them what they do with the rest of their salary. Or do you just want to raise taxes on all US immigrants?

> much of the country is struggling for jobs

This is among the best job markets for workers in US history. Companies are struggling to fill jobs. We need more immigrants to fill those jobs.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_expor...
You’re surfacing a whole different issue, the legitimacy and fraud of the whole credit score system, produced by organizations who have a clear and documented history of fraud. See, housing “bubble”, aka fraud, for reference.
Which means now we can be barred from owning (downloading) the videos. And be subject to algorithmic feeds and whatever dark UI patterns value extract our data most efficiently. :D Rentseeking++
My one wish is that machine learning papers would use paper titles that actually described what the paper was about. I suppose there is a certain 'evolutionary pressure' where clever titles 'outcompete' dryer, more descriptive titles (or it seems that way). But i don't like it.
i just uncovered this gem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KDdU0DCbJA
Fidelity Investments is running what are essentially gambling ads. They show people on skateboards "trading". As with gambling, retail traders, as a group, are losers. 78% to 95% lose, depending on whose statistics you use. This is pathetic. Just buying and holding most reasonable index funds does far, far better.
https://archive.is/4d7X1
I've felt for a decade now, even though the two weren't directly linked, that the death of Aaron Schwartz was the symbolic death of Reddit's soul. Nowadays the website is a dark pattern hellscape that forces app downloads for "age verification" and just because you scrolled through too many comments.

Schwartz is dead and Ohanian is a multi-millionaire married to an olympian, so I guess that tells you about what society values. At least we can already see the beginning of the end of the exploitative paywalled journals and people like Alexandra Elbakyan picking up where Schwartz left off.
Bravo. PagerDuty is long overdue to be replaced by a better service. Their pricing is exorbitant, and their sales / account team forces you into year long contracts to buy seats you don't need. We are currently being threatened with an $8k bill because they claim we didn't "cancel renewal" in time.
Siri is probably the dumbest assistant today but its (her?) UX has improved considerably much faster than the others.

Siri stopped needless chatter several major iOS updates ago - albeit mostly by hardcoding what to show as a sort of mini in-Siri widget instead of repeating what you just told it and asking for confirmation.

Now, if I ask Siri to set an alarm for 7am instead of “Ok <butchered pronunciation of my name>, I have set your seven o’clock alarm for tomorrow morning” I just see a blink (and haptic feedback?) then a widget showing me an alarm bubble with the date and time and a on/off toggle (set to on) that I can clock to undo.

Of course, Siri has the benefit of being a mixed medium “intelligence,” it can use the screen and the audio/mic.
I don’t need to wait for the science to know that having plastic in our body and blood is bad for our health.

The limited science we do have unsurprisingly indicates that it is.

It’s weird to me that a lot of HNers, like I see with western doctors, believe that until something is conclusively proven in peer reviewed research it should be treated as if it doesn’t exist at all. IMHO that’s irrational and robotic, there are such things as safe assumptions and educated guesses.
This is the answer. Don't criminalize vice, that just leads to systems of oppression. Instead, do not allow anyone to advertise vice or anything that is harmful to society.

Its working well for banning tobacco ads. Just have to ban ads for gambling, alcohol, cars, etc.
I was using tags and categories but recently I've switched to just chrono order to simplify things.