skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can say from personal experience that pretty much everything there is something I've heard practising teachers say, though not necessarily in those words. The sentiments are exactly as I've seen.

When you're under significant stress with no means to control it, being able to vent can be healthy.

Yes, they are talking about children. Most of the teachers I work with are dedicated professionals being shat upon from on high, and it's only because in truth, underneath, they genuinely care about those in their care.

Fourthly, the teachers I know love teaching. It's not a job, it's a calling. But they hate so much of what they are forced to do by those setting the rules and regulations. This is especially galling given that those setting the rules and regulations have, in general, never been teachers, and while they might have the best of intentions, most of them haven't a clue.

I absolutely agree that the way schools are run must die, and the sooner the better, for the sake of everyone who deserves respect - the children and the teachers.

Finally, your analogy is flawed about diners and cooks/chefs, because it's not the teachers who are the customers, it's the parents and the administration. They are the ones who pay, they are the ones who demand results, they are the ones who places unreasonable burdens on the teachers. And yes, many of the teachers eventually rebel, but it's not by taking it out on the children.

So knowing teachers as I do, I think you are reading this with the wrong slant. I hope what I've said here makes your reassess, even if you don't end up changing your mind.
Transcription factors (genes whose products modulate the activity of other genes) in the nucleus of each cell form regulation networks that are isomorphic to neural nets (with targeted activation/inhibition).

Some unicellular life form even have an eye-like organelle, with substructures analogous to our lenses, corneas, irises, and retinas.

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

There's also evidence for a distributed decision process to open and close the stomata on the surface of plant leafs in an optimal way.

https://www.pnas.org/content/101/4/918

So an absence of nervous system doesn't necessarily entails a lack of complex information processing.

Whether that information processing underlies some kind of conscious experience, and assuming it does, whether such experience is anything like ours is an open question.

Once you reject solipsism, it is hard to put a logical limit to what can or can't be conscious.
>the narrative means all and facts mean nothing.

Few things are as binary as this.

But yes, narrative matters, as well as facts. Narrative built on a complete lack of facts is more difficult to sustain that that which is based on some facts.

Still, the $15,000 or so this dude makes for Patreon (at most!) is likely not worth the hassle of keeping him around.
I have an idea, ask me for more money and I will gladly pay for trash companies to sort my garbage. F them for trying to force me to do their job. Hire an army of hobos and inmates. I don't care.
I think your analogy is pretty spot on. Cryptography is an additional skill on top of general programming, and it's a difficult one to master. And if you haven't mastered it, then you shouldn't be trying to do it in important situations (assuming there is an alternative).
"My personal definition of littering is what matters to me and everybody is free to have their own."
AI creates images of delicious food that doesn’t exist
One way to mitigate spam on Usenet is moderated newsgroups.

Another way might be something similar to ad-blockers for web browsers.
Some comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18892825
Prescription drugs on the black market are typically more expensive than the cheaper but deadlier alternative, heroin.

When people can't afford/obtain the oxycontin anymore many will go to heroin.
Go browse https://www.archive.org -- you won't regret it.

There's no telling what you'll find, in all languages, from all eras, from magazines to music to movies to games to books, maps, ephemera, junk mail.

Ted Nelson kept all his junk mail, for some reason, and now it's fascinating. Old computer product ads from the 60s and 70s, well before personal computing was really a thing. Everything changed, from the nature of the products to the nature of the ads.

https://archive.org/details/tednelsonjunkmail

see also: old issues of Next Generation magazine (half serious tech, half gamer bro, I love both sides of it)

Byte Magazine; Japanese MSX magazines. Old cookbooks. Wargaming magazines. Old books in general on everything from how to write shorthand to ... whatever you want.

Archive.org and Wikipedia are the two best places to get lost on the internet.
And replaced with “reusable” clamshells that somehow don’t count as plastic and they’ll be five times as thick and use way more resources to produce. :-/
I think I read mostly to the end before giving up on it.

There’s a lot of arguments, I just don’t think they’re particularly good.

Don’t misunderstand me, there is a point there, but it’s buried under a load of text.
Dank Mono. Ligatures, crossed zero and crazy italics for comments and the like: https://dank.sh
Yes. Interested.
I think really it has to be a push that plastic is only for extremely durable things that are significant enough to be worth recycling.

Something like https://www.c2ccertified.org/ being applicable to every usage of plastic, essentially.
Does reducing production fit with our brand of capitalism?
Just the "right wing" movements? The "left wing" movements have censored plenty in the 20th century. Go ask anyone who lived in communist china or the soviet union.

It's not a matter of liking "right-wing" or "left-wing". Both are capable of oppression and horrific behavior. That's why I believe in principles like free speech. So that horrible people from both the left and the right can't silence people.

I can't understand people like you. The right wing are terrible because they censored people. So lets be like the right wing and censor?
To build on this: it will result in mail classifiers treating your future emails (even if they're actually solicited) as spam. So not only is it counterproductive (or at the very least inefficient) for generating leads, it's also textbook self-foot-shooting.
Haiku-OS is a another incarnation of BeOS.... a desktop OS created years ago be ex-Apple exec Jean Luis Gassee.
context: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/transatomic-to-...
Reasons: I haven't found a proportional code font I like very much and, more importantly, many—MANY—existing code files include text arranged with the expectation of monospace fonts and if you use proportional, they become a mess.
TK doesn't compile with modern C++ compilers; it has been a real headache for us. It needs some TLC if it is to be used.
I wonder if this has happened in Canada too. We certainly have a big opioid problem.
I hate that the government is shut down. It's stupid that people's livelihoods are a bargaining chip, especially when every administration talks about increasing jobs.

But it hasn't personally affected me yet. I am not a government employee and at the moment I am not in need of any of the government services that are shut down.

As for if they will get paid afterward, well legally the government cannot promise that. Legally it's possible that the new budget may even disband something like the TSA and all of the workers who have been working for free would be even more screwed. But historically every shutdown ended with giving back pay to the workers who had to work for free. They just can't guarantee it.
It sounds like plants hear as much as infants:

They receive a vibrational stimulus and respond to it.

I think it’s you who is projecting too much into then topic, saying that we must accept your entire conception of intelligence hierarchies or else we’re abusing the word “hear”.

No.

My Echo hears me. Plants hear flower usage. Etc.
Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everything slower?
I have µMatrix in my browser, and by default it blocks the AMP CDN. The result of this seems to be horrendous white-screen times for web-pages, beyond what I would expect it to take for a web-server to load these pages, and the delay in loading is very noticeable across all of them.

I have a vague idea of the point of AMP, which is to speed up the delivery of web pages. However:

1) I'm not convinced the web pages were really _that_ slow to start with, so it feels like an unnecessary project (well, excepting the fact that web-page bloat has massively increased as people use more and more javascript libraries &c.).

2) Perhaps I'm being a bit old fashioned, but I don't really understand what was wrong with a browser serving a web page made out of some HTML, CSS, and Javascript. It feels like we're replacing one technology with another (and that latter one comes from Google, which makes me nervous). Do we really want AMP to be the way we serve the web?

3) I haven't properly investigated, bt I'm assuming that this delay is some script which is waiting for the data to load from the AMP CDN, and once that times out it displays the underlying content (I did check and loading this page [1] is almost instantaneous yet the content only displays after three seconds). Any insight into why it's seen as acceptable for this to be so slow when it is unnecessary for displaying the page?

[1]: https://www.ehow.co.uk/how_5840711_test-electrical-outlet-digital-multimeter.html
A new giant type of automated recycling station has been installed around Sweden during the past couple of years, called the "Pantamera Express". I like this thing. You dump your stuff, it processes all kinds of things at a quite decent rate (~100/minute) and in the end you get a value check that can be redeemed in a grocery store.

Here's a cheesy video demoing it (turn down the volume):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWtJdB3-bwg

It's pretty big:

https://pantamera.nu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/BFR_storpant...
You should get Involved! I bet they need nuclear designers.
Um. Yes. They are pretty uncommon.
All my dorms did
How about setting up your own server and use https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea to host your projects there?
For anyone that already uses git for work, it doesn't seem like much of a difference from normal workflows.

I also use git to handling backup and syncing of a bunch of personal data.

One of my projects for the new year is I've started keeping a daily journal both for personal stuff and for work.

I have a git repo with two folders "Personal" and "Work". I run "vim `date -I`" to open a file for the current day and add to it periodically throughout the day. Each time I add something I just commit and push like I do already for work.

I've found that it has been helpful at work in particular for maintaining a running log of what I'm planning to do and what I've actually gotten around to.

Like all new years resolution things, time will tell if I actually keep it up.

But I guess circling back around: Git works really well for syncing things between machines. That's sort of what it's for after all.
It feels like something that will reprogram your mind when you watch it. Like alien technology. Especially with the strange audio. It might feel more relaxed with some Pink Floyd.
It would work, but we can do much better than brute force. What you’re describing is how I’d turn the Moon and Mercury into a Dyson swarm (as the mineral extraction part of a clanking replicator), but I suspect that even in that example someone who only just managed a chemistry BSc could do vastly better than anything I can imagine.
And there is the liability with "clamshells"

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/03/04/clamshell-pa...
Different parts of the UK have different collection policies, but for us, our food waste is collected every week, while recycling (paper/card, plastic, metal, but not glass in our area :/) and rubbish ("garbage" for merkins) are collected on alternating weeks.

There was uproar when we moved to this from weekly rubbish and recycling collection, but most of the time it really seems to work - we recycle far more than I thought we would.
I am guessing that this turntable won't need isolation dampers to prevent needle jumping?!

But on a more serious note, I have always been intrigued as to why the majority of turntables still seem to rely on a belt drive system that goes back many decades. Surely modern technology has come up with a reliable direct drive motor that can better regulate the torque and RPM requirements of the platter, as well as offer better stability?

Is it similar to the 'digital versus vacuum tubes' type arguments that are prevalent on guitar amp discussion forums?
Thank you sir, just read the article, it's about legality, seem complicated problem I think.

But nice to know previously Microsoft has their own JVM, and it's like .NET are successor for their JVM.
Compiled and available solely for MacOS, though. Odd.
That's why plastic should just be "recycled" in a waste to energy plant.
If you define "hear" as "reacts to sound waves", then the Earth hears. Certain sound waves could cause tectonic shifts. How is that an interesting way to define the word?
The ending seemed like the perfect depiction of an AI dying in a late-20th-century film.
They don't know because most recycling is the "feel good" type of mentality. People don't actually know what can and cannot be recycled.
Xcode and Swift running on windows.
I always thought there should have been an enormous evolutionary pressure for humans to have different skin tones in different geographies. If sunlight is bad for skin than we should all be black or tanned all the time. However, if you don't live in a sunny area and you have a tan you might not getting enough Vitamin D. Vitamin D must be very important in order to make us evolve to have different skin tones and to tan according to the seasons.
I have apparently been living under a rock and hadn’t heard of Haiku. Looking at the screenshots, it instantly reminded me of BeOS.

I ended up reading the Wikipedia page on BeOS for some nostalgia and it mentioned Haiku. Glad to see BeOS still around in some form — definitely was ahead of its time!
The lower italic 's' is crazy.
Alaska Mail Bomb – Behind the Badge
Producing high-purity plastics that don't contain any of the many usually toxic ingredients is quite difficult and requires finely tuned and monitored processes. There is a huge price differential between plastics used for consumer garbage and e.g. plastics used for industrial piping and fixtures (when they're nominally the same plastic) which is gladly paid for.
That ratio varies significantly for African Americans, rural whites and African Americans and Hispanic women.
Or cardboard boxes.
b : based on or determined by individual preference or convenience rather than by necessity or the intrinsic nature of something
To add to your point, herbivores eat meat all the time. It's called insects. They'll even eat small rodents, birds, etc when given the opportunity.

Sure, the prominent diet of herbivores are vegetation, but the idea that they only eat vegetation is simply not true.

And every vegetarian on earth eats animals too. It's called insect parts. It's almost impossible for a salad or any vegetarian meal to be completed devoid of insect or rodent parts ( however minuscule ).
You were saying...?

https://twitter.com/reza_rahman/status/1072980245303779330
I remember one occasion ~2002 where a new NIC with a duplicate MAC addresses took down our DC - the whole IT team was floundering for hours before the cause was discovered after I noticed it in Snort logs. I have a strong interest in infosec, and I'd fought hard to get that Snort tap installed only a couple of weeks previously :)
1.List in order if priority.
2. Delete everything #6 or higher.

Done
Eighteenth-century doodles of a chicken in trousers go viral
That's a really impressive achievement I think, those are complex applications running on complex stacks. It's certainly a big step in the direction of making Haiku a system that a developer could plausibly run for the development of cross-platform applications. This coupled with the Libre Office port last year means there's a pretty strong selection of applications for it cropping up.
If you have little bandwidth and lots of time (self-hosted anything implies “yes”!) then you could easily check out a copy of SlackKit and write yourself a tiny API client, or checkout any SlackKit-using app that has a sufficiently acceptable feature set. There are lots (see other comments in this post) and there was an ncurses one a while back too, so options abound. SlackKit would no doubt benefit from your time and attention to it as well!
There was a developed country in the late 20th century which suffered a huge decline in life expectancy: Russia, after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116380/ Life expectancy falls to 58: "“What we are arguing,” said Omar Noman, an economist for the development fund and one of the report’s contributors, “is that the transition to market economies [in the region] is the biggest … killer we have seen in the 20th century, if you take out famines and wars"

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7mfr15/why_d... : Reddit thread with sources

While the situation is not nearly on the same scale, perhaps there are some lessons to be drawn in comparison.
Basically most public sector related goods and services have become more expensive. Would that be right?
Really good read. As someone who can’t really relate but knows someone very close who likely can, if any of you know of any other similar articles I’d love to read some more and have them to share from time to time.
> Hopefully open standards will improve enough so that people who are not tech savvy are able to use them in the future.

The problem is not standards. The problem is apps.

Jabber has been an open standard for god knows how long. Its standard slowly caught up to the modern world of mobile phones and multiple devices [1]. The apps? Not so much.

One of the appeals of Slack is that you have the same functionality across all your OSes and devices (and there’s quite a lot of functionality).

[1] https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html
Today we remember Aaron
This is going downhill. You've constructed an impervious emotional barrier wherein people who disagree with you are not only ignorant, but acting in bad faith. Parsing that doctor's four-word verbal buoy in ever greater detail only seems to be feeding your conviction that he, and everyone else who disagrees with you, is covertly prejudiced. This doesn't affect me, and nobody asked my opinion anyway, so believe what you want.

The real risk to you is that you end up alienating people who are otherwise completely on your side (and your daughter's side), and whose help or support you (and she) may benefit from. For no good reason.

I notice you didn't answer my question.
Oklahoma Sooners vs Alabama Crimson Tide Live Stream
https://nationsphotolab.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360024357114--Game-Live-Dallas-Cowboys-Vs-Los-Angeles-Rams-NFL-Live
https://nationsphotolab.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360024357334--NFL-Live-Dallas-Cowboys-Vs-Los-Angeles-Rams-NFL-Live
https://nationsphotolab.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360024357394--NFL-FRee-Dallas-Cowboys-Vs-Los-Angeles-Rams-NFL-Live
https://nationsphotolab.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360024357414--FREE-Live-Dallas-Cowboys-Vs-Los-Angeles-Rams-NFL-Live
Modernist ruin is an 'albatross around our neck' says church
The advice on this thread is generally great.

Without explaining my whole process, here are some general tips from trying to do this various ways over the last few years:

- Regularly review your TODOs, and keep them up-to-date. This is way more important than the tool you pick. Pick a slot in your calendar, fight to protect that time, and stick to it. Ultimately all these systems are just a UI veneer on you regularly deciding what’s important. It’s easy to focus on tools and not sticking to a regular process.

- Start small It’s very easy to barf everything you want to do into a system and then be completely overwhelmed by it. If this is a problem, use the review process so that you always have a list of what you actually expect to do in the next day, week, and month. Be realistic.

- Have goals at different time horizons, and have reviews for them. The GTD system of daily, weekly, monthly and annual reviews works well for me.

- Become comfortable with putting complex multidimensional things into coarse little buckets. E.g. this is a task, this is a goal; this is kinda for project A and B, but I’ll put it here; this deadline is self-imposed, this one is for a release, etc. etc. There’s no trick here apart from keep doing it, realize that these are only abstractions which are supposed to be useful to you. You’ll change them over time, but...

- Aggressively separate doing your review system, and improving it. It can be easy to sit down to review what you want to do in the next week/month/year, and end up fiddling around with how your system works. Both are neccessary, but the reviews must happen, and improving your system is a separate activity which you can schedule when appropriate!

Finally...

- Dont sweat it. It takes work, and everyone’s system is more of a mess when you look at it vs. hear them explain it. The most important thing is regularly dedicate time to thinking about how you want to spend time.
I really like the simplicity and even the UI of Keep, but I can't help the fact that with this being a really useful and lovable Google product comes a clock in the back of my mind slowly counting down.
I don't understand your response.
"non-event unless you were cashing in" pretty strongly implies it wasn't necessary.
Wow, I remember lots of buzz on HN about Transatomic a few years ago and did not realize how much they had to backtrack on their initial claims:

- From 75X electricity per ton of uranium all the way down to 2X

- No longer re-using spent fuel

What happened? And are the competing startups using molten salt doing any better?
It is odd.
Oddly, I caught Font Disease around the time I also caught Old Age and my previously perfect vision became less perfect.

The symptoms are: first fiddling with font size, suddenly 10pt was too small! Then I frobbed colour scheme for a bit, then boom, I'm downloading fonts. And trying others (eg: eval over a weekend project) and spending hard-money on font libs. By the time I realised I had it, twas too late! (Also, I'm using Hack, 16, Atom Dark)
> Also it's 90/10 not 50/50.

If 90/10 from the company perspective. From the employee perspective, it sounds like everyone at SpaceX went home on Friday wondering "Do I have a job come Monday?". To each and every one of them, the prospect of having a job versus NOT having a job would have been 50/50 as they had no insight into the decision making process for the layoffs.

Sure, for an employee who may have known they had made a lot of mistakes or were obviously underperforming etc., their knowledge that the chances of them being fired could have been skewed higher, but I am willing to bet that there will be many people thinking "My work is mission critical and I am a hard worker, I think I will be safe..." who will still unexpectedly get the pink slip on Monday.
Too Many Workers Are Trapped by Non-Competes
Thanks, but I will stick with postgresql + redis. It's scary to know that the database vendor might change the license to force you to either pay them or open source everything you write.
Now released as free download for Linux/Windows:

https://bram.itch.io/sprinkle-sprinkle-little-star/devlog/63...
I used KT back in the day, but found LMDB to be much more reliable and performant.
>and none of the reprocessing methods we've tried so far are viable (which is why we don't try it anymore.)

This is an outright lie. Fast reactors which produce negligible waste (and which can be fueled by existing stored waste) are proven to be viable, have been used in the past, and are currently in use now in some places. The reason they are not being widely developed is entirely political.