skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly some things are not worth repairing, and there is a cost-benefit analysis to be done but there is just a staggering amount of stuff that is easily repairable that gets thrown away. TVs get thrown away that need a few dollars worth of power supply capacitors. Phones get thrown away over a $10 battery. Refrigerators get thrown away over a $20 thermocouple. Graphing calculators get thrown away because TI was too cheap to solder the battery contacts and the spring contacts get loose after a while.

I think these types of cases are far more common than people putting a ton of effort into something that isn't really worth repairing.
I do something similar, except with a `bash` script and hand writing the titles + dates. I thought about automating that, but work in different time zones so prefer to choose.

One thing I might have of interest to you is a small DNT (DoNotTrack) JS file [1] and some CSS that adds some visual markdown features to the page after the fact [2].

P.S. Your output looks like it's missing `<HTML>` and other tags? And how are you getting automated code colour highlighting?

[1] http://coffeespace.org.uk/dnt.js

[2] http://coffeespace.org.uk/style.css
It's definitely a real thing. You don't have to take medications, but they can certainly help some.
Perfect! This is the covariant/contravariant/invariant distinction, right?

"Read-only data types (sources) can be covariant; write-only data types (sinks) can be contravariant. Mutable data types which act as both sources and sinks should be invariant." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance_and_contravariance_...
There's a row of new(ish) datacenters in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley) where there used to be a row of fabs -- because a large amount of power infrastructure was already available after the fabs were torn town.

All of these datacenters use energy storage to tide themselves over power failures.

Why is it that energe storage works for datacenters but not for fabs?
To be fair, the EU introduced a two-year transition period with the express purpose that businesses should update their processes and basically identify and prepare for potential problems such as this one.

This transition period is ending this summer. Why is this discussion taking place now?
Some of this is tricky to untangle, because it's easy to intentionally or unintentionally conflate genetics/race, culture, and language, but at least culturally/linguistically the people of North India are related to the majority of the peoples of Europe. So Sanskrit, Hindi/Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Assamese, Nepali etc. are all Indo-European languages, as are Latin, Greek, Russian, Danish, Icelandic, English, Welsh etc. Comparison of early Indo-European texts strongly suggest that the first classness of cows/milk in India is a feature of (early) Indo-European cultures more generally. Indian skin colour shows a great deal of variation, including very pale and very dark and points inbetween. Which presumably correlates in part to the India having experienced a large number of migrations over a fairly long period of time.

So India likely has milk-digesting ability at least in part from the same root as the European milk-digesting ability. But the (Indo-)European mutation doesn't seem to have been the only one: https://www.nature.com/news/archaeology-the-milk-revolution-... Also in Western Africa, as well as in the Arabian Peninsula and Eastern Africa there seem to have been independent mutations.
One awesome thing about math is it is self organizing. Many topics are composed of many smaller topics. As an anecdote, we used to say people “actually learned” (high school) algebra in calculus 1 and trigonometry in calc 2/3. In those cases it was more that to solve those problems required using algebra and trig coherently.

So to learn those 1000 pages is to, to some extent, learn a core set of techniques across many different contexts. It compresses the required mental load. For the exceptions to that rule, well, you can skim over them and know enough about them to recognize their applications later.
Microdosing LSD is not just a Silicon Valley trend
Although straightforward, I'm still proud of how I replaced the "un-replaceable" battery of my 4-year old Nexus 5 (still in mint condition). /me even made an opening pry "tool" by cutting an eraser holder into two[+], which worked perfectly well. (Still have to install Lineage OS, though, as Google stopped security updates.)

[+] https://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/Eraser-holder-turned-openi...
What you say may be true...but it has worked out pretty well for us.
> economics cannot override ecology

The annoyance is that economics should reflect ecology.
You are probably right. We, members of the western civilization (Europe + America) increasingly live in a bubble. This is unfortunate, because Europe used to be open to the world and used to profit from that. I'm not in favor of exploitation, just pointing out there's barely any news from Africa, Asia, etc. Polish news are almost all about west and east. Barely any time is devoted to northern and southern neighbors.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you’re not an electrical engineer.
> So vitamin D is the driving factor: either you lose melanin, or become lactose tolerant

That doesn't make any sense, unless it's reinforced milk contains almost no vitamin D (2 IU per 100g, recommendations are 2500 IU/day for children aged 1~3 to 4000 IU/day for adults). Plus there are lactase persistence clusters outside Europe which make even less sense given the Vitamin D hypothesis (e.g. arabian peninsula, Western Africa).

Lactase persistence overlaps much better with historical pastoralism, which makes a lot more sense: milk is high in calories[0], being able to use these calories when they're available is advantageous. Plus it also provides some fat, proteins and B2, B12 and Calcium micro-nutrients in appreciable quantities (15, 20 and 10% DRI respectively for un-fortified whole milk).

edit: even more so local, small-scale pastoralism: before refrigeration you'd have had to consume the milk within hours so either a few familial animals or a small herd at the tribal/village level. That could also explain why some cultures have a history of dairy products but not of consuming milk directly (and thus low lactase persistence).

[0] cow milk is ~250kJ/100g, and much of that is locked in the ~5g of lactose
In practical terms, away from the nebulous confusion, object orientation means that the actual function to call must first be looked up in the first argument of the function to execute:

x.f(y,z);

<==>

F=ooLookup(x,f); F(x,y,z);

This scheme does indeed allow for polymorphism, but I wonder why we would shoehorn polymorphism into a situation, unless it naturally emerges throughout the programming effort as really needed?

In my opinion, functions should not be polymorphic by default, simply, because there is no reason to complicate things unless these complications truly solve a problem.

Inheritance is then a next complication in which F=ooLookup(x,f) recursively tries to resolve the function from a hierarchical class data structure:

x->class->functions

x->class->class->functions

...

This is even a worse complication, which is even more unlikely to be useful.
It's real in that there are a set of behaviors which correlate reliably with each other that are described as ADHD.

It's not "real" in the sense that there's a single mechanism underlying ADHD. It's not real in the sense that "people with ADHD are affected differently by amphetamines, so it's okay for them to take them."

The way I think about it is that attention is a bell curve, and that at some point on the left of that curve, symptoms interfere with happy, economically productive lives. Psychiatrists try to help those people with stimulant drugs, whose efficacy have been proven in the short term, but are basically unproven in the long term. There are companies making bank on this arrangement.

In summary, I guess it's complicated. You're right, but maybe your therapist is, too. Por que no los dos?
> Won’t adding round trips to the process (by sending letters indicating you’re delaying) just waste more of your lawyers’ billable hours?

There are only four requests in this letter, and they were written by a PWC consultant to appear as intimidating and confusing as possible, so a small business that does not have easy access to legal advice would not find it difficult to convince a regulator as such.

That said, a lawyer can help you identify them and ignore the rest. For the cost-conscious, spending time on the ICO's website will also help you discover them so that when you talk to a lawyer you can be efficient with their time (and therefore your spending).

> most legit consumer businesses...

Most consumer businesses do not keep very much personal data, if the cost of understanding this letter within three months would cause a company to go into administration then they were going to fail anyway.

> the main target of this legislation are the hundreds of businesses you’ve never heard of brokering your personal information. I doubt they have salesforce leads for each person they track

I don't agree with this at all. Who do you think the "main target" of this legislation is?
You're not wrong, but it's worth saying that contemporary racism is qualitatively quite different from, say, Greek ideas about their own superiority or tribal conflicts generally.

It's very nearly a caste system- you can be born next door, speak the same language, eat the same food, think the same way, and you will be treated differently based on racial judgements. That's quite different from "we Hill People hate the River Folk and always will!"

The modern notions of race come from a specific historical moment: the invention of the African slave trade by Western European powers. If the slave trade had not happened, ideas about race would probably be radically different. Chattel slavery on an industrial scale was a new idea and its echoes will probably always be with us.
Those use cases are in almost all of the blockchain 101-s, do you know any site or gallery where legit uses are collected?
All automated tickets in mo
are non-moving violations. So yes you are correct on "points". But mo also allows you to convert almost any driving ticket to a noisy muffler by paying 3x or more the price by paying a lawyer. Unfortunately even DUI (up to a point). It basically encodes the realization that the state just wants the revenue. Randomly assessed taxes on correct road use.

You can always directly fight the ticket too. I can't tell how far it is from legal graft... But I did avail myself of it, it would be dumb not to as the 3x cost for a ticket was still 1/2 what you'd get dinged by the insurance for the original ticket.
Maybe you should rethink hiring people on their skin color instead of their merits.
Samsung's, if they have a tight enough grip on the supply. It strikes me as somewhat unlikely because I thought the semiconductor industry was more competitive than that, but I don't know enough to rightly judge.

It brings to mind those recordings of Enron traders literally giggling as they ordered a power plant offline to drive up prices during the infamous California rolling blackouts. Yee-haw, value creation!
Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley Is a Totalitarian Place
Tell that to someone with adhd who went from unproductive and basically a poor student to highly productive and studious after receiving medical treatment for adhd.

As for the psychiatrist, they don't make any extra money from prescribing. They could make more money if they kept you coming in each month or week for behavioural therapy (which doesn't have great results for adhd anyway, but it's something).
After using several different blogging platforms/tools, I finally decided to use instead a GitHub repo for my notes. Something really simple that lets me 1) create a note in plain Markdown, and 2) run a publi.sh script. That's all. After that, the note is already in my GitHub repo ready to be ctrl-f'ed when I'm looking for something I know I documented. In case anyone is interested I used this tool [0], but it was first time in my life creating a Bash script, so fairly assume the code is, well... you know :)

[0]: https://github.com/almata/BlogGit/blob/master/README.md
You know where you read this?
One way to create runtime service next to OS
Yes and no.
A Fox body mustang beater, a few trips to pick n pull for turbochargers etc and a couple of thousand dollars spent at a speedparts vendor such as
https://www.summitracing.com
http://www.jegs.com

will furnish you with an extremely fast race car. Things get spendy when you start getting into electronics, to go seriously fast previous era engineering is arguably cheaper and faster.
Meh, they could just produce the stuff and not sell it, if they want to reduce supply.
Good thing we now have Bitcoin to solve this...
> Please don't use uppercase for emphasis.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’m not sure your point about the fully burdened real economic and environmental cost being higher than the repair cost makes sense.

First, you’re assuming a world of infinite resources where production and disposal have no burden beyond their direct consumer cost which is simply not the case. Common consumer goods have massive externalized costs that are not reflected in the final price tag.

And second, the idea that I can offset environmentally detrimental choices by volunteering elsewhere also assumes that we live in a world where those original choices don’t compound.
Some accessibility/disability advocates are big on touting "the hidden benefits of x condition". I've seen a lot of this in the dyslexia community (see The Dyslexic Advantage [1] for a full-throated example), and I understand why books/articles like this are popular. They especially appeal to parents, even if the underlying logic isn't the most sound—and often it isn't.

This is the first time I've seen the "hidden benefits" notion asserted in the ADHD context. Based on my conversations with people with ADHD (I work for an assistive tech startup [2], so run into lots of them), there is not much of a perception that ADHD provides them a net benefit.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Dyslexic-Advantage-Unlocking-Hidden-P...

2: http://www.beelinereader.com
Most of this stuff is part of common CS curriculums though. The real answer is just that you have to take linear algebra as a separate class. It's not supposed to be all the math for CS
How many of these requests do you expect?

I imagine most companies might only deal with this once or perhaps twice ever, and if they do not keep very much personal data then automating it would not be very efficient use of their time. That's why in general I'd wait until you get such a request, ask your lawyer to explain it (will probably only cost a few hundred pounds), then decide what to do next.

Only very large companies (or companies that deal with a lot of personal data) will benefit from up-front automation.
> There are two different kind of cross-legged being described here - the OP means sitting in a chair with your right leg on top of your left, while the reply mentions the floor which suggests the feet-under-thighs position.

There is a third - sitting in a chair with just your right ankle/calf (rather than the entire leg) resting on your left knee. I'm in the US and sit like this often, and see other guys sitting like that often as well. For me, and I would imagine most other males due to the male anatomy, it's just far more comfortable than having the other leg fully crossed. I have a feeling that this "anatomy issue" is why it's very uncommon to see males sitting that way, but seen very commonly in females, and as a result that's why it's considered effeminate when you see the rare male sitting that way.
I design a lot of consumer electronics. You obviously notice the way they strip obviously, but you can run them against a file to see how hard they are if you’re trying to choose parts/suppliers. There are other things to look for, like how precise the slot is or how smooth the outer edges are, but that’s not as important. IMO stress (shear, stretchy) tests are almost totally irrelevant for consumer products that have plastic or soft metal enclosures which will deform far before a fastener will break.
Why bother protecting any data, if you can put a footnote in your ToS.
Thiel's opening statement to Fox Business:

"When people are unanimously on one side, that tells you not that they've all figured out the truth but that they're in a sort of totalitarian place, that they're in a one party state where they're not allowed to have dissenting views. I think somehow Silicon Valley shifted from being quite liberal to being a one party state. Those are two very different things."
If there really is such lost value on this, then maybe a startup could capture it, by re-purchasing things, fixing them and reselling them.

But there is a reason why that is not such an easy business. Take for example startups that buy furniture when you move out and have to re-sell it: furniture is worn but usable, and it is very hard to sell at a profit after handling it.

Many times we can see a market "inefficiency" or lost opportunity value,but its not easy to make it real.
But didnt he/she volunteer. Shouldnt then there be some conditional clauses to service- aka, i m only a soldier to this democracy, as long as it is acting in my missions in true self-defense against a unprovoked attack.

Else- in theory, couldnt your goverment just rent you out to the highest bidder as mercenary and you would still have to do whatever this entity demands of you. This cart blanche of action, combined with the chance to loose your life- that is strange.
Well, both racket and guile dynamically grows/shrinks the stack. Chicken does not. It turns everything into tail calls and copies the stack when it's full and discards whatever is not in scope (simplified).

Gambit seems to also not grow the stack dynamically, but I could be wrong.
I don’t seriously have to explain the concept of two wrongs not making a right, do I? Hopefully by the same token, you’re not really confused by the notion of waiting a month before making something public, vs. being told to never release it. It’s possible to be disgusted with large companies treating security as an afterthought, and people pushing a release in 24 hours because of their disclosed financial interest in the outcome. Likewise, I can support your argument that independent researchers aren’t beholden to AMD or Intel, etc, while finding your total lack of espoused ethics disturbing.
As someone with a single crack across his phone, i assure you u do not slice anything.
Exclusions apply. Garage door opening mechanisisms, pull chords for starting petrol powered tools, window blind
slats, really old plumbing that is cast iron or lead.
I’m sure there are more but I won’t be touching those things again.
Are you referring to the Aryan invasion theory? If so that's been debunked a long time ago
It _can_ become unmaintainable but it entirely depends on how you define your view state, you can still create large applications with jquery if you refrain from creating overly complex state UI (speaking from experience). One thing I find overly shunned in favour of heavy MVC is CSS, CSS is a bloody state machine, it's perfect to manage your UI, you need one DOM call to update one piece of state... define the reset in CSS and your MVC UI component suddenly seem over engineered.
That’s a ridiculous statement.

I still run several games on Facebook platform. It’s much easier to acquire and retain users than on mobile and it’s much more profitable because there seems to be a higher propensity for users to pay.
Nobody really does, IMO. You read it so you know what kinds of things are topics in the field, what the most important results are, and mostly to get a feeling for what people in the field focus on.

Then when someone mentions a term from the course, you know roughly what to expect and where to find details. Also, you know how big a bite you're taking. "Quantum Mechanics" might be several books. "Vector Calculus" maybe a few chapters. "De Morgan's laws" maybe a few pages.

It's just like any other math you do. Does anyone memorize all the trig relations, Laplace transforms, and geometric relations? Of course not. But you've seen at least one large example of every topic and you can reconstruct it from there.
It’s a data breach in the same way “social engineering” can still be considered hacking
Why should a family be allowed to buy a recently built house by a motor racing track and then get the track closed down? That is essentially what has happened...
I'm wondering if the method should just always exist? If you have a state machine that transitions in response to events, it usually is the case that events can arrive regardless of the current state. So the method should always exist and do something, perhaps report an error.

You might also want to know which actions are valid for UI purposes, but validating an action is more complicated than just checking the current state. For example, a withdrawal action may or may not be valid depending on the amount.
I think one of my biggest challenges is focus, sounds like you are the same.

It also sounds like you are doing ok. So push on and be happy with what you have in the meantime.

I'm sure I am at the bottom of the successful entrepreneur pile. I'm also sure I'm much more content than many others.
This comment is so completely different from my experience. I'm a woman who does not want kids. It has always been extremely difficult for me to find guys who are on the same page as me on not wanting kids. This might be because of where I live (bible belt).

However, the explanation that makes the most sense to me is that it is a lot easier for a guy to seriously say, "I want kids," then it is for a woman to seriously say, "I want kids." Being a sperm donor is a heck of a lot easier than actually going through the pregnancy. Even after the kid is born, in a lot of places, including where I live, the majority of the child-rearing responsibilities fall on the woman by default.
As of ~4 years ago when graph api 2.0 was released that’s not true.

The /friends endpoint only returns friends of the user who have also already installed your application.
Stripe specifically has a great subscription model. When Zuora was getting started and gaining momentum they didn't. We've recently onboarded a Stripe Subscription with their connect accounts even and it's been extremely smooth.
It’s not where you are, it’s what you do
They kind of reintroduced it in the Rise and Fall expansion for Civ VI.
No. Even less so with the pastry dough squashed into new dimensions.

Or when a citizen turns into a soldier -- an army camp is like a soldier factory/constructor. Hmm, how's that for a mixed metaphor?
"Diversity" is a problem that can only be solved supply-side. If you want particular demographics in your field, the solution begins in early childhood, it begins in the home and the school. This preserves the still-essential meritocratic aspect of hiring while making an effort to diversify your culture.
The best way to counter this nightmare letter is to freeze your credit. It works better than monitoring, imho. You switch from opt-out to opt-in. It should be the default for most people. It takes a little planning to grant individuals access to your credit file.
Big environmental goals for me:

1) belching less into the air to combat climate change and acid rain.

2) less industrial and agricultural runoff to keep the seas more healthy.

I used to be worked up about making less waste, but as long as we have good landfills that don’t leak much, I’m not too concerned directly with the amount of waste. Recycling is kinda a joke.
Differently, perhaps not. But the benefits for relatively small doses (5-15mg) are tremendous for those with ADHD.

ADHD is, ultimately, as real as climate change. The experts say it's real; have been saying it's real for many years. The people who disagree don't trust those experts.
Yes but others have asked on how a brain works on system level.
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