jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is it just me or is the quality of meat degrading more and more. It seems as if companies keep finding ways to increase profit margins and are able to produce horrendous meat and literally bleach it until it's "clean" to sell.
A flat torque curve means you get more power at higher revs. Power = torque x revs.

If torque is the same at 5k revs vs 10k (to pick numbers from thin air), when you downgear 10k 2:1, you double the effective torque over 5k at 1:1, for the same output revs.
I was being a smartass :)

unless you are 100% you won't need
multiple front-ends, doing a json
api from the start simplifies things
a lot.

This also presumes that I already know Backbone, Ember, React, Knockout, Batman, Angular, or whichever new JS single page app frameworks have appeared in the last 30 seconds.

Would you agree that it's easier[1] to write a web app that emits HTML than it is to write a web app that emits JSON which is consumed by a single page web app written in Javascript?

[1] Where I define "easier" in this context to mean requiring less wall clock time to get something showing up on-screen and doing something useful.
The "Revolutionary App Architecture" looks like a big red flag. Also, that's the first time I've seen a scrum master credited for an open source project.
It's like we're going back to the industrial golden age where all a companies workers would get subsidized cookiecutter housing and certain amenities close to the plant. You never have to leave your employer bubble now.

The conditions have never been better to work remotely, yet I guess another way to eliminate commutes is to make your workplace so livable you never leave (much). :)
Great thread.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.

- Rainer Rilke

(http://www.onbeing.org/program/wild-love-world/feature/go-li...)
> Last year, a lot of drivers were taking home 6 digit gross income due to driver shortages. That's pretty significant for what is effectively a unskilled job.

Source needed. Might just as well be a publicity stunt by Uber.
It sounds between /x/ and /ħ/ for me. How far is such a pronunciation from the actual Swedish one?
I think you're enormously under-estimating the cost of getting UX right.

Creating really beautiful UX is a brutal slog through the tar pits of hell. The amount of testing, testing, testing, testing, TESTING and endless revision that's required to iron out every little nit-picky detail of a user's interaction with a product is immensely time consuming and expensive. You need top-tier designers working for years with large teams of testers, beta users, etc.

For example: I could not imagine fielding a competent turn-by-turn directions app for a phone for less than $10-$15 million in funding, minimum. Then you'd need millions a year minimum in recurrent revenue to finance the endless polish and nit-picky improvements that would be required year over year to keep it competitive with the alternatives.

Tiny details matter. For example, when you start turn-by-turn directions on Google's Maps app for Android, it doesn't say anything right away if you're already going along the correct route. It's silent until it's time to turn. This caused me to assume something was wrong with it or my volume was down. Almost made me throw my phone out the window.

Think about what a tiny detail that is. Google with all it's funding and team didn't catch that. Apple got it right. Their Maps app starts talking immediately, letting you know it's working.

It's a new age -- the age of overall user experience. Features are now a commodity. They don't matter all that much. Getting something working is only step one of ten. The other nine steps are to get it working well.
I agree in part, as much as someone can hate Linus' style, it's worthwhile to have a toolset to work with people that operate on slightly different social scripts [0] that you want to.

You call this having a thick skin, but I think there is a distinction between not taking offense when directed your way, and not finding the statement offensive in the first place. There is a sliding scale of what levels of language imply what levels of offense and it changes depending on context. And this is just one of many properties in evaluation of environment.

I've started thinking participants in social environments have an at-least-4-tuple for every context: their desired, expected, perceived, and actual social setting. And a tuple exists for every possible context.

The thing that makes for a hostile environment isn't that Linus' posts are "No Big Deal" or a "Big Deal, Indeed", but that people disagree in their desires on how the setting should treat a Linus rant. Especially when there are people that not only expect their opinion to win, but make it imperative to their politics that the culture adapt to them rather than the other way around.

Programming is the most tame, calm, and soft-spoken professional environment I've ever been in. I'm used to adjusting my expectation for social scripts for different environments. I've learned to be comfortable in environments with innocuous swearing and ranting elsewhere, I can take it here too. In the end I don't really care which way we go, but the fighting is certainly getting on my nerves.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_script
Humans only need to approximate creativity well enough that other humans can't tell.
He's probably referring to the New York Times.
Then how does breakfast appear in The Odyssey?
Then use twitter
You may not believe me, but there are relatively modern 386-compatible embedded systems. Some of them run DOS for the sake of very old applications, such as certain industrial control software. Targeting them for modernization without gutting the hardware (which can be perfectly functioning and highly durable) is a valid goal.
Thanks for the example! Sounds like 1.6 GB/s on an entire Tesla K80 (300W TDP).
This is in fact several times slower than our results on Skylake (with half the TDP), but note that K80 is from 2014.

The "25-fold speedup", as is often the case for such reports, comes from not optimizing the CPU side.
And yet, you shut down the possibility of religion without any degree of exploration.

I don't need you to be religious. I understand annoyance with the fact that the culture you're in is pushing something you don't agree with (I experience that as well on other topics). What I take issue with is the attitude that religion deserves condescension and vitriol, simply because you don't subscribe to it, or because you find it annoying. I see no recognition that faith and logic aren't mutually exclusive.

Don't have religion - that's fine. But don't pretend to understand (and then trivialize)
any religious tenet, if you're unwilling to fairly explore it.

> Science is exploration. Religion is not.

You're conflating religiousness with dogma. Dogma, by definition, is belief without exploration. Religion, however, invites endless exploration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident

> scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house

> spread some of it on the concrete floor

> His six-year-old daughter later ate an egg while sitting on this floor

> She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother.

> Dust from the powder fell on the egg she was consuming

> she eventually absorbed 1.0 GBq and received a total dose of 6.0 Gy, more than a fatal dose even with treatment.

Glowing blue dust that kills families.
"Well ya see, Norm, it’s like this… A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That’s why you always feel smarter after a few beers.”

-Cliff Clavin
Do you understand the underlying technologies of Supabase and these other frameworks? Just curious.

And how are you liking supabase as opposed to other quick start solutions?
Which judge, which misconduct?
I find this beyond ironic. Multiple other manufacturers have outright jumped into the 3d printing community.

Literally today 3d printing nerd posted a video he got a ford maverick which had 3d printing fully incorporated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaV16gLxBeU

The irony to me, Honda made this huge play for Hydrogen fuel and got so far behind on EVs. Some heads rolled and now Honda is rushing big time to catch up. Yet here they are striking out against the 3d printing community? They just don't get it.
What is your specific use case for using Canvas along with D3?
I think the basic concept is a good one.
Specific (and mostly functional) design observations:

- Your logo/header looks like a banner ad. You'd actually be better off with a simple text logo in a neutral sans-serif font. Same goes (to a much lesser extent) for the general design - if you don't want to pay a designer than go for something even more minimal - spammers aren't big fans of white space or grey text.

- The "Please be assured..." text at the top of the forms should be a neutral colour and not warning red

- Having a section called "Payment Details" is very bad for a free service. I realise there's a logical reason for it being called that, but it leaves the user wondering whether its a bait and switch which will end up sending recurring monthly bills. Especially when that underhand tactic is very widely used for "free credit checks" all over the internet anyway...

-Your "I want to" field is too small and outside the main flow of the page - at a glance it could be a search box or newsletter submission form. Instead, merge it into the home page. Break down the main homepage flow into two steps:

(1) What do you want to buy?

Your form field goes below, probably including a second field for the cost as I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to include that. Experiment with dropping the form from the home page altogether

(2) Can I afford it?
"Fill in our free, anonymous financial health checklist and we'll calculate an instant answer"

with a big "Check Now" button to the next page just below. I've also reworded to something less threatening than "Provide us with your financial numbers". Subtle differences in wording mater for something like this - I once had a job where I did have to ask for people's bank details whilst still studiously avoiding words like "details" or "numbers"

"We evaluate your financial health against..." and the associated links goes below this. You might want to test whether the "recently asked" section on the home page is a good or bad thing for user signups
Related / same vein:

Broccoli sprout extract contains compounds which lead to the production of something called sulforaphane.

Sulforphane, a chemoprotective compound, has been shown to rapidly 'detoxify' the body of airborne pollutants and other carcinogens. [1,2,3]

Briefly:

>> In this subgroup analysis, the increases in the excretion of the mercapturic acids of benzene, acrolein, and crotonaldehyde for the broccoli sprout versus placebo group were +54.7% (+27.2%, +88.1%), +21.7% (+1.8%, 45.5%), and +2.0% (−13.7%, +20.4%), respectively.

1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4125483/

2 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276337/

3 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24287881
Incorrect on many fronts.

It is "don't be evil". It was in their code of conduct, not mission statement. It is not removed from their code of conduct, in fact, it is the final conclusion of the document:

> And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/

The last edit is from 2018, not several years ago. And its updated cousin motto "Do the right thing" became more prominent.

I suspect a journalist had a diff bot running on the code of conduct, created a story around it about removal, because that would actually constitute a story worth paying journalist wages for, and then the media ran with it, without doing checks of their own. And now, here you are. And I am ignoring the fact that an evil company announcing its future plans by removing references to "evil" in their mission statements is downright James Bond-level of ridiculous.
It also used to be very common for people to turn off their computers when they were done using them.
I’m all for cooperation with China and the diminishment of national culture (not forgetting it but also accepting others) and a better understood global culture.

What I’m not ok with (and why I think there’s backlash toward the cooperation with China by these companies) is the way the Chinese government treats people.

Harvesting organs from political prisoners and the violence toward protesters isn’t ok. Ever. I don’t care if it’s Trump or Merkel or Xi that’s doing it it’s not ok and that’s not something people should cooperate with.
> Pushing blame on the employee being tracked is ridiculous.

I’ve never worked at Google, so while I can’t say for certain, I doubt the calendar has a “notify me about the juicy bits” checkbox. It’s certainly useful for me to know when my manager will be in the office or in some meeting, and if my manager marks the meeting “private,” I can know that he won’t be available at a particular time even if I don’t know what he’ll be busy doing.

If he finds it creepy that I know when he’ll be at the dentist, or be in a 1:1 with his boss, he needs to make sure the appointment is marked as private; I can’t do anything about it.

So, yes, I believe in this case, it makes sense to blame the people being tracked for publicity posting information that they didn’t want others to know.
> These people were using the notion of unions to further their desire to push their POLITICS. They didnt care about safety or pay.

Not true, the reason they where trying to organise a union was because they did not feel safe with their employer spying on them [1].

Ironicly they where fired because other employees did not feel safe being spied on. So google obviously recognising that spying on employees is a legitimate safety concern.

[1] https://time.com/5709653/google-employee-spy-tool/
have you considered consulting? Companies love to pay extra for experience, but only in small doses.
> minimum makes perfect sense because otherwise businesses pay slave wages

Why is being unemplyed at 30U$S better than employed at 3U$D? It is clear that there are non-salary benefits to work that arent covered in MW. Thats why internships exist. Places that serve housing or food, like colleges, shelters, kitchens etc could afford to hire more people.

> As a taxpayer I don't want to my taxes spent on food stamps for employees working 40 hours a week just because some greedy company wants to put money that should go to those workers into their own pockets.

That is a complaint to the government. A private business has no control over subsidy policy. When you say you dont want to pay for those subsidies, why would businesses want to do it for you? You are merely transferring a burden from yourself unto another.

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Another important thing: MW is taxed significantly. Why doesn't the gov raise actual wages by reducing the tax burden? MW in california is taxed at 20%!
This is simply tu quoque - clearly there are limits to free speech in every country but where possible the right to free expression should outweigh the the state’s desire to silence political opposition.

Twitter was a pretty good example of this actually - protecting people’s right to hear from the President (despite him saying and doing many things that would have got regular users banned) right up until the point where he led an insurrection on the Capitol. I don’t think you can argue anything other than Twitter taking their responsibility to free speech incredibly seriously - to the point where they were often accused of being complicit to juice user metrics. And perhaps do some research into Joel Kaplan before you claim the same of Facebook.

Clearly this is not in the same realm as Holocaust denial (which is incidentally also legal in roughly half of the EU countries).
I got into a very similar conversation with Chase's robo call the other day. Went like this:

C: bla bla bla, if you want to speak to a representative say "representative".

Me: representative

C: sorry i couldn't understand, please chose an option or say representative to speak with one

Me: re-pre-sen-ta-tive

C: (same answer as before)

Me: REPRESENTATIVE

C: (same answer as before)

Me: GO FUCK YOURSELF

C: Ok, I'll call a representative

I want to believe that their system either sensed the tension in my voice or saw the expletive and decided to call for adult supervision.

I'm not an native English speaker so I have an accent (which isn't too heavy, but still). Using any form of speech recognition is an instant fuck-show.
Yeah, that's really annoying, sorry about that! Thanks for the feedback
As someone who lives how you say OP should, caravans do have downsides. They're not usually made very well and if you're traveling a lot they're not well suited to it. If you're moving to a new place every few months or something they're alright. If you're moving every 2 weeks or few days, a van is where it's at. There are different ways to live a nomadic type of life and vans are more suited to a more extreme nomadic life than caravans.
> Also, please don't judge me, I just have a morbid curiosity to see what these people are talking about and how they think.

I read thedonald.win daily too. It feels like r/watchPeopleDie, some sort of morbid curiosity. Currently they're claiming Trump's concession video yesterday was deep faked. Very entertaining and scary at the same time.
This is why *chan websites have gotten so popular. Being anonymous in everything you post is refreshing. Short of posting illegal content, almost anything goes.
I'm going to skip over defamation for now, both because I'm not a lawyer and because it's slightly more complicated. You can tell that's different because nobody preemptively censors defamation - it's a suit brought after-the-fact and then argued. Skipping it...

No. If "real danger Democracy can be lost" is your measuring stick, then whatever "Democracy" you have in charge is free to defend itself against any speech that may fight it. It's free license for the government to shoot down dissent and not reasonable.

Think of it this way. There is a lot of harmful speech which, in a perfect world, we could prevent. But because power corrupts, we cannot afford to give out the power to prevent speech because it is too easily abused. The benefit of preventing [harmful speech x] is not worth the cost of granting the government the power to jail you for speaking counter to what it believes is right.
> Since so many parts of the base specification are optional MAYs, and there is no prescribed mechanism for feature detection, there is no way to figure out if a server supports a particular feature of this spec without trying to do something and failing

> The spec has made many breaking changes on the road to 1.0

Interestingly, most of the breaking changes on the road to 1.0 were about drastically reducing MAY in favor of MUSTs.

Optional features were moved to named extensions, and there is now an explicit way to negotiate about those extensions.

For anyone who was put off earlier on by the number of MAYs, know that we heard you loud and clear. It may (no pun intended) be worth another look.
Merge - Xamarin are getting out of the language game and instead focusing purely on mobile. As much as possible the new MIT licensed .NET will replace pretty much all of Mono that isn't Mobile (iOS/Android/Mac) related.

https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/581068613542649856

https://trello.com/b/vRPTMfdz/net-framework-integration-into...
I enjoy and appreciate explanations like this but why oh why does it have to be '<fucking> with me'? I am hoping no explanation for my comment is needed.
Surprising to see recent headlines. Who here is still maintaining this. I am so nostalgic and intrigued.
Ultimately, the result of this fragmentation in streaming will only be that more people turn to piracy. Yet again the media industry shooting themselves in the foot. The solution is a spotify for films and tv, not an ever-expanding myriad of niche streaming services.
PLEX with a gigabit connection is the ultimate streaming service
Clarity is underrated. There's a confusion here: No AI - no human for that matter - can recognise emotions. At best, they can recognise an expression - a physiological response - associated with an emotion. This distinction is essential because:

//> every conference had those emotional recognition tv screens/camera gizmos and people had so much fun playing with those, mainly because how easy is to fool them

//> the same stimulus can trigger every single possible emotion, depending on context and personal patterns

//> emotional responses are both instinctual and learned (inuits seldom show anger, while other cultures make a spectacle out of it)

This whole AI story is a cold path. Without context AI is an idiot savant. Wanna' see what is actually going on?

I do behavioural research and inform messaging. For this, I need to understand what makes people behave one way or another. Turns out, every emotion is like a little app that tells you what to do. People churn from your app on-boarding process? They encounter an unexpected barrier and their emotional response is mediated by anger, making them ragequit. My intervention is too manage expectations better and the emotional response is diminished. On-boarding rate improves 21%

All I need is a small randomised sample (200 for every 100k users), I recognise emotional patterns and grade them with something similar to Bayes factors.

I share the feeling of others here: this AI story is just another application of surveillance for the purpose of manipulation. So if it's not stupid, it's evil. And of course our collective response is to avoid or deceive.

How about empathy? Things would be much better if we would feel actually understood not manipulated.
Until something goes awry in that crypto scheme and some intelligence agency decides to use that as leverage to undermine the security of Signal. Moxie, on his own, may be resistant to pressure, but when there's a secondary company involved that might be pressured by threats of losing several million dollars...

This commingling of business interests means there's more angles of approach, and much more risk exposure.
Modules have nothing to do with shipping libraries (or dependency management), they are purely about encapsulation of interface and (API) implementation.
People who can’t be arsed to rotate their subscriptions will steal.
Wait do in the EU you cannot disclose things like phone numbers without permission of the numbers owner? So if I told my brother the phone number of my mother without her permission I could be charged by thee state?
The risk is giving a megaphone to manipulative and charismatic people whose words may lead many astray.
Look, all metrics can be gamed.

Look, now it's obvious you didn't carefully read the original comment! (Left as exercise.)
It seems like a nice project. I like that you don't need to know a particular programming language to use it.

The way you define services feels a bit awkward though.

Also, it seems like install.sh scripts for various platforms would lower the barrier to entry. The installation documentation is nice enough, but really that should all just be scripted so it can be condensed to:

curl http://cast-project.org/install.sh | sh

Running runit scripts out of a user home-dir (as in the example) does feel wrong to me though.