skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, most of the stuff is sent to China or elsewhere for actual extraction, due mainly to the environmental factors associated with processing [electronics are made of nasty stuff]. Labor's a factor as well, though the North American companies who do this have got their processes nailed down efficiencywise
We all need some protein and even if we only displace some of that with insects, it would reduce GW emissions. So I applaud the effort, though honestly, it grossed me out.
No we are still saying the same. Lots of people made money on pyramid schemes, that doesn’t make them a good investment. The longer a pyramid scheme runs, the dumber it is to invest in it.

If you truthfully believe bitcoin will develop into a stable alternative to state run currencies, great, I wish you good luck.

I don’t. To me it is like religion - they can’t all be right and they are mutually exclusive. I don’t trust myself to be able to pick the winner among all the losers.
BBC Launches Computer Literacy Project Archive
Subtleties are lost in the unwashed masses, too funny.
No I'm afraid they don't. I confess I regret this conversation. I've gotten very little out of it other than a confrontstonal attitude from you and a bunch of confusingly worded challenges.
It’s worth noting that the job report from this week has explicit data suggesting that jobless people are now re-entering the workforce in higher numbers
Thought this book had good detail without going too deep for some dev work I was doing: "Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50 Essential Concepts" https://amzn.to/2MUmZt7
We did something simple for GCP and CI jobs, when we needed to have VMs in a certain project to launch Kubernetes single node testing - https://github.com/openshift/ci-vm-operator/

The base pattern should be pretty easy to modify, although the use case here is very specific.
Learnings from Design Thinking Workshop
Tangent:

For anyone else curious about the host of this repository, GitGud.io, it's apparently a GitLab instance run by Sapphire [0], a network of websites affiliated with the GamerGate crowd. I'd mostly forgotten about that particular internet garbage fire until now.

[0] https://sapphire.moe/
They reached to that amazing state around iPhone 5 when competitors were years behind. Not sure why the world is not on a riot with that weird pack of icons since iOS 7 but yeah, they're still good, just not much better on each releases.
You're making a very broad assumption and making a very specific suggestion based on it. Even though you corrected yourself later saying that immigration is not controlled provincially, this type of thinking is pretty backwards.

I think it's caused by people reading too much into sensationalist news articles and headlines which exaggerate or hyper-focus on useless details to get attention and views. While in reality, nothing has really changed (or will likely change) that would cause someone to move to another city.

It reminds me of the people who talked about moving to Canada after the last American election. I'm curious to know if the people that moved were actually impacted directly by the election or whether they were just trying to make a political statement.
Post the question on reddit and HN, wade thru 99% bad humor theads, and borrow the best idea
Have you tried Lantern? It’s free up to 500MBs per month and works well in many censoring countries around the world. It has lots of features that make it fast, such as automatically optimizing server selection and using BBR, and it does many things to stay unblocked, including the use of pluggable transports.

Full disclosure: I’m part of the team that builds it.
I'm tempted to register StankBlockPlus.com.
Wow. Such URL. Or: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/post-office-owes...
How about just showing comments sequentially by post date :V
can't pronounce the name easily; maybe/probably noneglish based?

reading one of the posts about ads, the admin writes:

> We are going to have to implement ads at some point anyway

oh that sounds like a fun rollercoaster to ride again.

> I know ads can be annoying, that's why we try to use them in an non intrusive way that can benefit both us and the users.

total wanker. ads do not benefit users, and saying they do means they take users as idiots; or are able to lie to themselves.

So, that right there kills any interest; let alone the site itself being in no way novel or interesting. There isn't an interesting community of folks, or a meaningful platform to engage across.

Actually, this post, and entire posting history of this user(24 days old), are just marketing efforts for the site.
"I hate McDonald's business model. That's why I go to eat there and try to sneak away with their burgers without paying."
Venting and seeking understanding from others are normal human experiences. Of course, all things can be taken too far or done excessively. A healthy balance is important.

Providing emotional support when it is reasonably needed and when one has the energy to do so seems like a valuable way to have generally beneficial interactions with other people.

Some naturally have more energy for this than others. But it is a skill than can be worked on like any other. And also, as one better understands the value of this type of support, it becomes more rewarding and easier to provide it.
Because businesses conform to customer wants/needs, not vice-versa.
Can someone explain how this doesn't create an obvious inflation issue?
Those are not contradictions, you realise that right?

MLM schemes are bullshit, don’t waste your money.

If you buy into Herbalife now you are truly not making a good decision, because there is already a huge pyramid of people above you.

MLM schemes are a bad idea at the start because they are unlikely to take off, and they are a bad idea when they are running because they are unlikely to be profitable for anyone at the lower levels due to the unsustainable structure of profit distribution.

It’s just another hot potato game.
Queue the Ugandan Knuckles memes...
What contract did I sign agreeing to let ad companies access my eyeballs, let alone surveil me, in exchange for looking at a webpage? If they want to block me, they’re welcome to (or at least welcome to try), but I will cry zero tears over their lost spying opportunities.
This is all too real for me too. I have commonly made the mistake of offering solutions in response to discussion of the girlfriend's problems when in reality most of the time she isn't looking for solutions and just wants someone to listen, hear it all out, and empathize.

It's a challenging situation for an engineer's brain that defaults to problem solving mode. It's still unnatural for me to turn this mode off and listen without trying to solve. In my head I am probably still trying to solve at least a bit but not vocalizing that, at least in the moment.
True, they have some shared motivations. Here’s Jonathan’s appreciation of Bourdain: http://www.latimes.com/food/jonathan-gold/la-fo-gold-anthony...
Hell yeah I was just telling my colleagues about this technology and an article I read in Wired back in the late 90s on these folks.

Smell has a negative connotation. Scent is generally more pleasant in my opinion. Perhaps it was a marketing blunder.

iScents has both the double entendre and 90s cachet for the "i-thing" naming convention craze.
seems like kids these days are told to write about news instead of tobacco like we were used to.
There’s a healthy debate to be had about the risks of facial recognition, but I don’t think that it gets inherently worse when a company like Amazon streamlines the process. This particular technology is out of the bag.
It is, and has been for decades.
Usually, when I read articles on a topic which I have researched, I find the reporting tends to be "wrong" in some sense.
Charitably this can be blamed on time or space constraints: the articles need to be ready for publication while the story is relevant, so the author has insufficient time to achieve expertise; or even if the author is an expert, they are incentivized to publish only the most interesting (and perhaps most superficial) details on the subject.
Less charitably, you might suspect that the author (or their editor) has a bias depending on what they elide or emphasize.
Herman & Chomsky wrote about this topic[0] examining the various filters that determine what gets reported and from what angle.

However, it's recently become politically controversial to acknowledge this fact, I think because Trump uses "fake news" to disqualify criticism of himself and his administration[1].
But let's not pretend that journalism is without faults or bias just because (on average) the virtues of the fourth estate outweigh their flaws.

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0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

1. He's hardly the first person to have issues with his press coverage, but it seems like he's getting a bit more traction with his complaints.
It helps that he has an observably hostile relationship with the press.
But the term "fake news" was originally applied to right-wing blogspam/memes that showed up during the 2016 election, which were highly slanted, based on cherry-picked information if not outright lies.
I disagree with the claim that fake news doesn't exist

I got that bit, it's just not a thing I argued.
Current options:

1) Allow ads.

2) Block ads. (ea. uBlock Origin)

3) Block ad blocking users. (Javascript)

4) Block the block for ad blocking users. (Userscripts)

5) Block users who don't block ads. (Pesky Adblock)

The only one missing is blocking the blockade for blocking users who don't block ads.
That's just a summary of an interpretation of the original (a copy of which he links to):

https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

(Be sure to copy-paste to avoid jwz's HN referer-trap)

This line also appears just before that paragraph:

> Of course, worse is better is a much catchier slogan than better depends on your goodness metric

Ultimately, this seems to be applicable even to this discussion, where one goodness metric is "correctness" and another goodness metric is "expediency".

In the original essay, it's simplicity of implementation rather than expediency, but I'm not sure that's all that huge a conceptual difference here (other than for the purposes of a slippery slope argument).
Customer: "I want a hamburger for free. Give it to me for free or I'll just take it and walk away without paying anyway."

Business: "No. It's $2. Please pay for the burger"

Customer: "Why aren't you conforming to my needs?!"
Does anyone know of anything similar which can extract human voice out of a video which has other noises including fans, people coughing, electric generator etc?
Why do people assume everything Elon does is a marketing/PR ploy? People said the same thing when Elon put his car in space. Pretty pessimistic view of humanity imo if you think people can't do something out of moral conscience. Not sure what Tesla has to do with saving Taiwanese out of a cave and boring company wont be operational for years.
I personally like Kruschke's Bayesian Data Analysis very much. It does a wonderful job in introducing readers to Bayesian statistics -- a good first text book for Bayesian statistics.

For a more classic approach to statistics, I also liked Builder's Analysis of categorical data. It's focused on categorical data but does a good job in explaining what's going on. A good introductory book.

Both books are well written and really try to explain stuff. IMHO they are two examples of good didactics in statistics.

If you're into ML you might want to choose something else though.
Thanks. I think I agree with everything you wrote- it's good to know I'm not insane for thinking like this.
If you have any suggestions on how I could have been clearer, I'd welcome them. I'm always glad to learn of flaws in my writing.

Can you get linear time even on Haskell's arbitrary-precision `Integer`s?
You have no knowledge about me or my compensation practices.
While Obamacare fell fall short of the medicare for all that is needed by business - imagine not having to worry about covering healthcare for employees for your startup

Businesses don't have to worry about being the primary source of food or housing for their employees either, and somehow this is true without the government taking over agriculture and real estate.
Overall,there would be less lane changing and cars would leave the freeway faster. The pricing can be adjustes or subsidized for low income drivers.

If you pay a toll anyways,this is an opportunity to save money and use the tollway,where as you would normally take the slow and long unpaid route. This would actually make toll roads accessible to the poor. No matter how I look at it,if you add lanes,they should be paid for so that it would be more affordable abd practical and actually incentivize drivers to cause less jams.

Also,traffic jams are not exclusive to the USA. Maybe it should be modeled in a more politically convenient way? How about fuel tax deductions? You get n deductions where you lose more deduction points by using left lanes? That way there is no added cost to the driver,the tax payers as a whole pay for it.
> I am well aware that most people on Hacker News hate Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies

It's not hatred of Bitcoin to think that it's more worthwhile as a white paper than as an investment vehicle.
Politics is never about optimal or about doing what is financially sane. It is about staying in power... We do not elect or raise to power people with the best minds and intentions.

Yes it is malice. There is a joke I find descriptive:
" Two young people discuss about their future. One of them says at some point that if they want to make money, it seems their only options are to become a thieves or politicians. The other responds: "Well I want to lead an honorable life, so I guess I will become a thief."

They just don't care to get informed or about the future. Simple. If there were time machines people would be coming back killing politicians en masse.
You don't need Trump for this, just taking the term for what it says. Are there are various quality problems with journalism? Sure. Is journalism as a field plagued by a problem of straight-up, unchecked fabrication of 'news'? Not really. That problem is not a journalism problem.
Quite the interesting story, and a staggering surprise that 3.24% of bought but unused stamps is over $70,000,000 in revenue. Guy made out like a bandit. Good on 'em.
There is really no reason to involve the blockchain here unless you care about who leaked it first and who gets to claim credit for it.

Just put it up as a torrent and share the magnet link.
hey, i fixed it on firefox. it should work fine. not sure why it didn't recognise those words, I will check in dictionary.
> People who stop searching for jobs are excluded from the official unemployment rate

The official employment stats cover both. U3 is the unemployment rate, which correctly covers only the labor force, while U6 covers the labor participation rate, which covers the population.
After a few minutes I gave up on evaluating this tool. It looks interesting but there's no "hello world" or even a simple use-case explanation in the first few pages of docs. Couple that with the no-warning switching between JS & TS in the code examples, and it is too tedious to try to figure out.

I have no objections to TS, but if this is a "JS" library for consumption in JS, please write your example jobs in JS please! Don't make me try to translate TS to JS in my head–I don't care how easy you might consider it to be, I don't want to do it.

I like the idea and will revisit when docs improve. I recommend user testing your docs: put an unfamiliar JS dev in front of your README, set a timer for ~7 minutes, and when the timer dings ask if they think they'll use your library. If they're still confused after that time, your intro docs are not clear enough. That may seem like a small amount of time but there are 10,000 JS libs out there, 7 minutes is far more time than I can devote to developing an initial impression of each one.
I use mine for PCB layout. Wish it was faster. Note: it has removable batteries so I bring a spare and swap it out.
Also its not automatic, you have click on each letters of word, then if its valid word then it will disappear.
>Since Mr. Rogers Neighborhood first aired in 1968? No, race relations are much better now.

I disagree. I think they never improved or went anywhere. We had Rodney King in the 90s and Michael brown recently (among others) nothing has changed, nothing has improved and it never will.

Who are the white supremacists? Would a nation run by white supremacists ever have white poeople become a minority? America has the most bungled "institutionalized racism" I've ever seen. They racismed a black president and then white supremicied themselves into minorities in many major cities and an absoulte minority within 50 years. If that's white supremecy then you should hope they stay on track.

Mr. Rogers says that feeling are important and you should be able to discuss your feelings, hmm I hope you have the right feelings or you probably shouldn't discuss them.

Mr. Rogers was a lovely caring man who couldn't exist today. There are no Mr. Rogers out there right now, society is polarizing and cynical and hateful (in many directions) a Mr Rogers cannot exist in that environment. Mr Rogers comes from an essentially homogeneous cultural and ethnic environment which doesn't exist today. The America Fred Rogers grew up in was Christian and >90% white, that America is gone. His lovey philosophy and outlook can only come about in the particular time in which he lived.
Spiders float using electric fields
The Probabilistic Method by Noga Alon and Joel H. Spencer.

I took a seminar on the probabilistic method and my advisor recommended me to read this book. This book is for scientists. It lays out the foundation of the probabilistic method and a theoretic background.
It appears to be a bit different now, but apparently you used to be able to send unsolicited stamp designs to USPS and they'd sometimes get selected. Now they want you to send a portfolio [1].

A family member had a Christmas-related stamp selected in the 80's. I'm guessing it was a bigger deal then.

[1] https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/csac/artwork.htm
I remember reading about this mess shortly after moving to the U.S. (and visiting Vegas for the first time). One thing that struck me about Vegas was an immense and everpresent feeling of fakeness. Seeing that fakeness reproduced on official stamps felt somewhat telling, and I've since entertained quite a few people with the story due to the sheer ridiculousness of it.

I had no idea that they'd continue to use and sell stamps with that design for years after discovering it was a picture of a fake Statue of Liberty.

Learning that this embarrassing saga has now also resulted in a lawsuit awarding a ridiculously large sum for damages kinda feels like the whole thing has come full circle.
USPS is going to fold before I receive my package :(
I’m okay with just listening, I can avoid problem-solving, though it helps to be given some cue to avoid it. I have a much harder time with being expected to say something that’s not problem-solving but still somehow helpful; it’s like the problem has been handed over to me but I’m denied the tools to do something about it.
I think the value would be with recording a location and time with the plate number, not just that a plate exists.
what websites of the highest quality do you visit that are light on ads?
Yes. That's why the argument against basic income of "it removes people's incentive to work" is so frustrating; to the extent that it's true, it's even more true of the current system.
Just in case you haven't tried it, I have found that about 80% of the time, they have some frontend JS regex that blocks the form, but using the wizardry of one's choosing, if you managed to get the email address posted to the endpoint, all is well.
I've been through the interview process at several of the majors now, and there are some critical differences from when I was a new hire: a clear emphasis on the entire product life cycle, a probing for you doing requirements gathering for everything you're asked to do, and many behavioral questions where they ask you about times you have done X or Y, and then they'll drill into the situation, why you made the choices you did, how you structured your solution, and the resolution (did it work or not). When I was a new grad, there was much more emphasis on knowledge and coding type questions because I had not yet had those experiences.

For what it's worth, I didn't make the cut as a new grad. I did as an experienced engineer.
Optical cryptography with biometrics for multi-depth objects
A container is not a process. The fact that you say this makes me wonder if you understand what K8s and how it works.

K8s is not going to solve the issues you outline above (logs, proper monitoring, etc). Even worse, you’re gonna have a bad time migrating them to a proper solution.
There's a difference here - the transaction of physical goods. There's also a big difference between, "You offered me a burger, you have signs saying I could get burgers here, and there are large groups that index you as the best burger."
"That was last week. Now you don't get to know about the burger until you pay $2."
Fun: http://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/

Rigor: Feller vol 1, Casella & Berger 2e
When visiting Mayan ruins outside of Tulum, Mexico the guide told me his father still lives in the Yucatán forest and his primary language being Maya (and unrelated, smokes a lot of pot apparently). I ignorantly assumed these languages disappeared with their civilizations.
It sounds like you are talking about people who have significant issues regulating their emotions. I definitely agree those situations are much more difficult. Sometimes, if possible, the winning move is to not play.

Perhaps you could have explicitly stated your context in the beginning, as it seems most others were assuming two relatively well-adjusted individuals.
Steve Ditko Dead: Spider-Man Co-Creator Was 90
they are young but:

1. They have parents which should know better. (especially when cosigning loans).

2. They dont have to go to the most expensive school. I could have gone to a much more expensive school like NYU or USC but chose to go to a UC because thats what my family could afford and I didn't want 100k in loans.
I wonder what panel technologies this is supposed to improve? The only one I can think of is a portrait rotated LCD.
I don't get it... the USPS licensed the photo from Getty. Doesn't that license cover the use of the photo?
I find it surprising, but indeed, firearms per capita amount is pretty high for Saudi Arabia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_c... .
Or you want to make a fortune on a new LeakCoinTokenICNo

What would get the most buzz?
FreedomChain?
"YAGNI" is the first thing that pops into my head. d:o)