skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When I pay my waste management company to haul away my trash, I do so with the expectation that they'll dispose of it in an environmentally conscious way (as environmentally conscious as dumping it into a big hole in the ground can be).

Lol what??? Have you never seen how the cookie is made and discarded? It amazes me how so many people on this VC-sponsored forum hold such environment conscious expectations. Many of you are in a strange state of mind about the true cost of things. Nothing is made cheaper in consumption; costs are just offloaded to nature.

FWIW: I grew up close to a copper mine, and currently live about 2 miles from a landfill (as the crow flies).
Lunar illumination was once used by Abraham Lincoln to defend a murder suspect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff_Armstrong#Murder_trial
I got a Fitbit in my mid twenties, noticed my heart rate going to 40. Had no idea of what that meant and asking around it turned out “it could be sleep apnea.” Long story short, it was. I no longer fall asleep driving and I assume my heart is healthier than had I not known for many more years when I finally got married and had a sleeping partner (if I hadn’t died on a highway first).

My point is, I think these types of devices are wonderful screening tools. Cheap and imagine all the prevention we could have by screening widely and early.
I don't know if you missed my point below but can Jews in Iran live in a democracy? Do they enjoy human rights and freedoms similar to what Jews enjoy in Israel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews#Legal_discriminat...

"For example, if a Jew were to kill a Muslim, the family of the victim would have the right to ask that the death penalty be imposed, but if a Muslim kills a Jew, the penalty would be left to the discretion of the judges with the wishes of the victim's family carrying no legal weight" - I mean only fair, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews

"There were two waves of confiscation of homes, farmlands and factories of Jews in Iran. In the first wave, the authorities seized the properties of a small group of Jews who were accused of helping Zionism financially. In the second wave, authorities confiscated the properties of Jews who had to leave the country after the Revolution. They left everything in fear for their lives and the Islamic Republic confiscated their properties using their absence as an excuse"

So no, it's is not reasonable to ask Jews in Israel to live under similar conditions that Jews are subjected to in Iran (and really it's much worse than you're painting it). I stand by my original statement.

I think your last statement really tells it all. "makes it dangerous to be Jewish" tells us that the problem really is antisemitism. Israels' critics are the ones "conflating" things and the treatment of Israel by its haters is primarily coming from a place of hating Jews (and sorry, I'm going to put "uninformed" in the same bucket, because if you hate Jews because you're uninformed you're still an antisemite). As a Jewish person living out of Israel I see this in play. Israel is saying that much of the criticism against it is antisemitism and I think that's not way off the reality. It's also true that there's plenty of criticism that's not antisemitic but the bulk of it is. Saying Israel is somehow responsible for this is just victim blaming. If we were more aggressive about antisemitism not being ok/acceptable then we'd just be left with the valid criticism (of which there's plenty) and Israel wouldn't be able to hide behind the antisemitism defense. It's not that hard to tell whether criticism is valid or not, just s/Israel/Non-Jewish country/g and see if it still rings reasonable. That's the test Israel tries to get its critics to apply. Then it's either accused of whataboutism or colonialism or something else by people who don't want to apply this test.

EDIT: another by the way is that Iran is not an Arab country.
An Atari Portfolio from 1989. Eats 6 AA Batteries like candy. (If it seems familiar, it's what John Connor uses to hack an ATM in "Terminator 2: Judgement Day!"
(I will reply in 9gag-style)

Hi, CO2 and work-out Captain here. I don't know how much CO2 you typically exhale when you do push ups but it is nothing near the exhaust fumes by your 5lt gasoline SUV built in 1990.
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The suburbs aren’t necessarily a low cost of living area, especially suburbs of SF, NY, Seattle, etc. The LCOL areas would be more rural or non-coastal states in general.
> Broadcom/Cypress/Infineon CYW stuff

> My conclusion: this entire ecosystem is deeply cursed

There is no curse, but cheap junk sold for premium price! Those components are designed for cheap laptops and tvs. Building networks and servers out of this foolish!

If you want stable WiFi, get Intel card connected over Pcie, not USB! It is like 20 USD with official WPA3 support!
Someone is going to write a trading bot that scans worldwide ADSB data, looking for sudden, unexplained altitude changes - Identify the airline and equipment type and short them both. Assuming this doesn't exist already.
https://archive.ph/ORtO5
It does seem quite odd to say "it doesn't matter one whit whether the information was material or public" when insider trading is defined as: the trading of a company’s securities by individuals with access to confidential or material non-public information about the company.

Further, I struggle to understand how one could learn information which is non-public without "theft" of that information. It would seem that, by definition, if the organization begins sharing that information with individuals who have no confidentiality obligation, they have now made that information public.

What does tend to happen often is that others assume "public" means "written in the news" and that is certainly not the case. There are plenty of things that are knowable by the public but not obvious, and it's perfectly fine to trade on that.
But do they want to, or are they forced to by the companies they work in? I mean, I have to use Powerpoint for collaboration on presentations, but I’d be very happy to never touch it again.
There was a legal case where the speed of light was used to identify insider trading. Information was publicly disclosed at (fake numbers) 12:00:00:001, yet trades benefiting from the information came at 12:00:00:002, which was faster than possible for the information to have been learned and acted upon by the involved parties.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/3/4798542/whats-faster-than...
> Maybe external parties will somehow enforce a two state solution.

IMO, this should've always been the solution. What has happened is akin to parents letting teenage brothers bloodily beat each other up for many many decades without properly dictating a peaceful intervention assured by a much more powerful force. The world needs to acknowledge that these two parties have shown they are unable to form a peaceful equilibrium, and it's just enabling killing to continually be hands off. Get all the world powers positions on the floor, split the difference, tell Israel and Palestine these are the borders and security arrangement, guaranteed for X decades. No more lives will be lost as long as support for upsetting that agreement (intifada/nakba/etc.) is severed. Letting two extremist right wing sides religiously duke it out over "the holy land" isn't acceptable in the 21st century.
To hide a truth would imply having one to hide in the first place. Watts and McKenna were just hangers-on--people who saw an opportunity (spinning yarns for money and attention) and latched-on to it. L. Ron was of a similar sort, but was far better at it.

The motive force, the spark, was Esalen. 60s counterculture gurus are all one degree of separation from it. Esalen (Huxley) being one of the later institutions of the syncretic religion project--which has a clear genealogy through the Traditionalist School (Guenon), Anthroposophy (Steiner), Theosophy (Blavatsky), Masonry (founded shortly after Rome shut down the Templars), Knights Templar, early Church Gnosticism, Neoplatonism... probably going back to pre-history. There are many organizations I'm leaving out here, but these are the ones that occupy the most real estate in Western minds.

The Masons already had the Greco-Roman and Egyptian content. Theosophy (Blavatsky was just the front-woman, the handlers were Leadbeater and Olcott) was to retcon the newly discovered (to Westerners) Vedic and Buddhist content into the project. Steiner did much the same with the Zoroastrian and scientific content. Then Guenon, being a mathematician and a better thinker, chooses to operate in the opposite direction. That is, rather than try to justify the hypothesis (all religions as corrupted expressions of the same primordial truth) with a number of creative writing projects, Guenon suggested that "going deep" into one's own traditions--regardless of which--was a faster route to the destination.

What was Esalen's contribution to the syncretic religion project? A syncretic religion isn't very syncretic if it's leaving material on the table. What was left on the table? Shamanism and entheogens. Where would a brilliant Englishman go to research this? The Americas, of course.
Show HN: Dsu (daily stand-up) Ruby gem
Reactions from the OG iPhone release seen in a new light
As featured in RubyWeekly https://rubyweekly.com/issues/687

dsu is a ruby gem that enables anyone practicing Agile methodology to record, keep track of and manage their daily standup (DSU) activities. Give it a download and a GitHub star. Lots of fun to use :)

- dsu uses no network connections whatsoever.
- dsu stores all of its data locally, in .json files.
- dsu is a simple (but powerful) command-line tool for users who love to work within the terminal.
- dsu versioning follows the semantic versioning standard (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH).
It doesn't sound like they have a great security team, they added the "Associate a secondary email address" feature recently. This isn't something that has always been in the software. It seems more like they were cutting corners and not properly testing through ways to exploit their own new feature when it was related to account security.

On top of that it looks like they had a 9.6 CVE that allowed integrations to perform commands as other users...

From the outside it looks like they are trying to ship features faster than they can keep them safe and tested. Perhaps because they are having an incredibly difficult time monetizing well? It makes sense from business standpoint in some respects, but also the security stuff could just absolutely tank the business when the whole point of a (self)hosted git solution is essentially just account management.
I recall learning in law school that “if there is no tipper there can be no tippee”. In order for there to be a tipper, the person has to have an intent to provide a tip improperly. Imagine there’s a CEO talking in an obscure foreign language in his own backyard, to a colleague on the phone, he is not a tipper — even if someone who happens to speak that obscure language is walking by his fence at that moment. As a result, that person cannot be a “tippee” because there was no tipper in the first place.

I’m not sure that not being a tippee means you’re completely in the clear, since you have material information. But it’s presumably not non-public information since hundreds of people know it, and thousands more are finding out by the minute.
I had an HP from 2010 that supported 1.5TB of ram with 40 cores, but it was 4U. I'm not sure what the height has to do with memory other than a 1U doesn't have the luxury of the backplane(s) being vertical or otherwise above the motherboard, so maybe it's limited space?
Spreadsheet errors can be disastrous – yet we keep making the same mistakes
I’ve had two Apple watches and never charged them in an Apple charger. I have a third party charger that works great and a different third-party battery-based charger.
If you overhear insiders discussing something, say in a restaurant, you aren't an insider (and I believe there is case law on just that point). In general, you need to have encouraged or conspired with the leaker, if I understand correctly.
https://www.oregon.gov/oem/Documents/01_ORP_Cascadia.pdf

looks like I slightly exaggerated a couple figures and understated others. 3 years to restore healthcare in the valley zone.
Brave's video chat service works for me in that situation, but i suppose you’re probably referring to just the largest players.
Not really. With caching it becomes quite fast. If you need extreme speed, look into a small go service or similar, but for most cases Django will be fast enough.
I have seen issues with apple (Mac and iPhone) devices loosing connectivity on wpa2 after each rekey. Symptom is the device drops offline for several seconds, sometimes connecting another network if one is available. This wreaks havoc with FaceTime calls. I’ve also seen iPhones drop off wifi entirely if another network is not available until you disable and re-enable wifi

I found that extending the rekey interval makes it happen less. I think i set the interval to something very large
Undoing the damage of 25 years of internet addiction on my brain
I've been terminally online every since it became technically feasible in my area (14400 baud modem anyone?). Lately I've decided to heal some of the brain damage caused by this through mental exercises and I wrote an article about those exercises. (qBASIC code included lol)
yes, a large threat I have also identified is displaced people trying to survive.
Oh I want to write: so we can all cycle downhill towards the centee to our work without any effort!!!

(sshhhh... don't mention the ride back home)
Companies already tried offshoring several years ago. It was a disaster for any core competencies, and companies already make extensive use of offshoring (and near shoring). This isn’t going to happen suddenly.
> I don't understand why people insist on paying hundreds of dollars for a "name", when the watch you are describing is only worth $50, give or take.

Why do people pay for The North Face, when you can have knock-off brands for 1/5th the price?

Part of it is paying for better quality assurance, more predictable and coherent UX, and so on. But a big part is that yeah, this day and age, watches are fashion / status accessories. They do nothing your phone can't. That doesn't mean they have no value to the buyers: the continued popularity of pricey mechanical watches is proof that there's more to this story.

The problem is that smartwatches never really positioned themselves as particularly... interesting. They don't signal social status, they aren't pretty, they don't do anything mind-blowing. They're just somewhat cheap-looking and oversized black slabs that display messages from your phone, clumsily.

So far, the closest to a "killer" application for the tech is trying to gamify everyday activities by tracking steps, sleep patterns, or heart rate. But how many people stay fixated on this and really keep it up in the long haul? As for the fashion part... there's only so much mileage you can get out of the ability to change wallpapers or bands.
It’s a better question to see if it meets colloquial definitions of arbitrage.

It’s an advantage only a few people have, and you paid something in order to be put in that position.
Dryer lint is likely to be plastic particles rather than natural fibers, depending on the materials you’re washing. You may not want to use it indoors or to prepare coals for cooking.
You're thinking too narrowly.

Example: logs of search queries that suddenly trend with adverse information about companies. Those logs are not public, in fact you need to buy them, but they have real signal (thus material and nonpublic), and are perfectly legal to buy and use. Satellite photos to estimate material stacking up outside a factory, or how many cars are in the parking lots of retail stores. Mobile data that has been statistically tied to foot traffic in stores. Credit card purchase data (not public! very material! perfectly ok!) I could go on forever

Go ask a lawyer this is a big space

EDIT: Yes exactly, ITS HAS TO BE CONFIDENTIAL TO THE COMPANY AND THUS TAKEN FROM THE COMPANY LIKE I SAID ABOVE. Your explanation implicated all the cases I described. You haven't seen how explicitly rich are the sources that I mentioned above, they are very very definitely information about the companies that are traded
Personally, I don't drink, and I've noticed sleep to be the best indicator of my coding performance but YMMV
All software is buggy... whats the news. Software is a lot like humans.
Fancy sand!
>Our conclusion was that the large difference in winter temperature between western Europe and eastern North America was caused about equally by the contrast between the maritime climate on one side and the continental climate on the other, and by the large-scale waviness set up by air flow over the Rocky Mountains.

Huh, when I started the article, the Rocky Mountains being the cause might have been the last thing I guessed.
Only if you were an employee of apple (or one of its vendors working on the iPhone).

If you independently discovered it, any other member of the public could have discovered it (assuming they had the skills and time).
Walking normally would probably result in you falling forward.

This is basically like walking on ice, except you slip more slowly, and you also un-slip (your feet are actively moved) occasionally to recenter.

That limits both the speed you can pretend to walk, and the speed at which you can be moved back to center; because both relative movements are working against your natural balance.

You will never be able to work with or against the inertia of your body weight. That is the core limitation of any treadmill.
It would be nice if we had an open-source eSIM software emulator. However I think this requires secret crypto keys that are only available to chip manufacturers?
Contrary to published work comments, many dod openings DO show signs of chips/dents, scrapes and cuts (especially some of the larger opposing openings and the largest opposing openings – damage is not just from oxidation). This damage is due to the weapon heads being removed, and in some cases from using as a jig (see Corbridge dod), or ‘can-opener’ pry bar when ‘in-service’ weapon heads are broken-off at the head and wood needs to be removed in anticipation of a new shaft being inserted.

It's the original 'Swiss Army' multi-tool created by Gallic blacksmiths (ordered by Negotiatores/Roman arms merchants in conjunction w/ Roman Auxiliary troop arms officers) for measurement/procurement/maintenance of Auxiliary troop, polearm weapon shafts.

https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-use-of-the-Roman-dodecahe...
Even with all the data we have now, I'm not sure there's any real silver bullets. Don't just look to the US, but look everywhere. You have a really wide sample of approaches. Some countries went ultra authoritarian and forced just about every intervention imaginable - and then some beyond that, while other countries did pretty much nothing, and then you had a mixture of everything in between. Yet after all is said and done, when you look at the actual death rates - everybody tended to fall within a fraction of a percent of each other, with outliers largely due to demographic reasons. For instance India had an extremely low death rate, but that was probably mostly because they have quite a young population.

And essentially all interventions came with major costs. For a hypothetical, imagine that we know for a fact that school closures saved 5,000 lives. But you also know that you damaged the mental and social development of millions of students. Development from which it seems many of this generation may simply never recover from. It's not like there's a good choice, because both options completely suck. Of all the things we tried, it doesn't seem there was any sort of "free lunch" where you got a really significant benefit with no cost. Everything came with costs, and those costs were often extremely high.
I’ve long thought that the airlines have systems that was sports leagues. That when team A is out of the running or team B makes it to championship that the price of tickets to or from are automatically adjusted m.
Or in short: Western Europe's climate is what you would expect from a place close to an ocean. Especially when by Europe you mean the island that's Great Britain. It's the US East coast that's weird, with a climate that's a lot more continental than you would naively expect.
My read was it’s the chip/driver combo.

And the Pi is not the only thing to use that chip, it’s just very popular.

So even if one’s attitude is “get a real computer” like the first post in this thread you may still find yourself with this same chip.
That would be my multimeter - a Soar ME-540, like this one:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/soar_digital_multimeter_me_540...

Bought originally by my father, most likely when he was on contract in Kuwait in the 80s. It fell out of use as he stopped doing any sort of electrical work citing typical age-related issues.

The battery cover is gone and the plastic body feels kind of loose, but otherwise it's fully functional(even if de-calibrated). The original fuse is still there, but I wouldn't use it for any high-voltage applications.
Anecdotes from my experience, in a large US bank (millions of customers), specifically in a product with active investment:

Yes, processes for getting things done are dull and frustrating. Team leads often urged minimizing time spent on them by using political clout with the gatekeepers to expedite them.

Tech was not too exciting, all the open source stuff used were mature, vetted by security folks/scans, and possibly had in-house layers built on top of it.

Did get to see where my projects fit in end to end, including contributing to data shown in a widget high up on their mobile app’s dashbord, and also to several thousand internal users who are movers and shakers.

Standing up a new REST API and exposing it to the internet required much upfront design and lots of approvals. But at the end of the day it’s to ensure minimal risk while making maximum impact on the tremendous customer base.

Pay was not approaching the FAANG stratosphere. Had two WFH days per week. Office had a section of a floor reserved for the group, and hotdesking with “soft” reservations based on history of actual desks used.

Overall did learn a lot about tech, business, and leadership, but the cog feeling was still definitely an undertone.
Asking what you meant is not weasel wording, goddamn.

(Some of the distinctions you're making still make no sense to me because you think they're so evident you won't elaborate, but at this point it's definitely not worth the effort.)
"Here's a nickel, kid." http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/eta/doc/dilbert.gif
The doesn't seem to fit with the comb analogy.

I still don't understand.
Disney researches / develops some really cool stuff. Their Disney Research Hub channel is a goldmine.

One of my favorites is Touché. The world becomes your touchscreen: https://youtu.be/E4tYpXVTjxA?si=Sbh97JURR9NGdeiS
I would love to see congressional members and their families banned from the same.

It’s a big ask though. Where do you draw the line?

So either that, or I can get Pelosi ETF.