skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it your goal to be a junior IT plebian throughout your 40's competing with eastern bloc/south asian workers? Because that's what a bootcamp and half-baked knowledge in a bunch of random trendy technologies will get you, especially outside of silicon valley. A degree at your age won't get you far either -- tech companies what 22 year old grads, not 44 year olds (unless you already have a CS degree and are talking about a PhD).

Why completely throw away your experience as a lawyer? I am starting a company in the legal-tech domain and it'd be very valuable to have someone with experience in both sides of the world.
Linux Compatible Printers 2019
On my commute all of the possible routes are congested. I can be as selfish as I like, but I won't get home any faster. I think we need more roads and more pubic transport and more work-from-home schemes. Autonomous cars may may allow me to chill a bit more in the gridlock I suppose...
Okay, so let's be clear. People love technology. They don't "distrust it", "hate it", or any such nonsense.

Everyone loves this shit. It's gold. There's just a vocal minority.
In the context of the story, destruction is vastly cheaper than protection. Imagine the same system except everyone has instant access to a perfectly guided bunker buster. It doesn't matter if you're better armed. The bunker buster will bust your bunker. And while you need to discover to bust bunkers likewise you only have to be discovered to have your bunker busted. So the farmers die instantly even if they find others like them to band together. The darkness of the forest is key too.

I imagine the effect is similar to the effect air power had on castles.
Yeah... I think it’s hard. Instant access to global data just isn’t cozy, somehow. Coziness usually involves seclusion of some sort. (Gil Fronsdal talked nicely about this in the second part of his currently ongoing course on concentration in meditation.) McLuhan wrote that ever since the telegraph we’ve hooked up our nervous system to the global system in a way that creates dread.
They are not hyped. Capsule nets are in early phase of research.

The bleeding edge deep learning research that tries to push the science forward is trying to develop new ideas. Hinton et. al developed the current deep learning revolution gradually over decades. Next non-incremental revolutions in the field may take similar time to mature.
The only way to be productive... for a developer. The great majority of computer users have little to no need to tile anything, to be productive.
I work on Toptal https://www.toptal.com/#connect-unmatched-coders-now

They filter both the clients and freelancers so you get quality on both sides. My experience is very positive for now.
It's not too hard to get dry ice (or liquid nitrogen) and a styrofoam box to do the low temperature; I'd think that dust ingress testing in Australia would be pretty straightforward ;).

One thing not mentioned, and a bit harder to simulate, is that the altitude is rather high at some stations which can make cooling problematic.
Capitalism helped by a government that doesn't grant land leases longer than 75 or 99 years... so it can give it to the transportation agency.
> ...when a modest portion of the autonomous cars are altruistic, it is possible for majority of the cars to use the shortest route without causing congestion. This can significantly (in fact, unboundedly) decrease the total latency.

how could it decrease the total latency unboundedly? I mean, doesn't the lower bound have to be zero?
Covariance and contravariance in C++
You make it sound like people enjoy paying millions for dilapidated shacks, which I can assure you is not the case. The reason housing costs so much is limited supply coupled with high demand. There could be a 10-story 40-apartment building in place of that one shack. Place a few thousand of those strategically through Bay Area, and the price per square foot would come down big time even if the cost of land stays high. But, NIMBY. Can't reduce the "value" of all that (mostly dilapidated) real estate people already own.
> the big reason buses always win over rail

A bus from where I live to London takes about 5.5 hours, compared to 2 hours on a train. I can also get a meal served on a train and work comfortably at a large table, which I can't do a bus. Busses definitely don't always win over trains. I think they hardly ever do.
The way I found people is that I knew one person who was using Mastodon and the looked at who they follow on there and who the people they follow are following and so on.

There's also the new 'Explore' feature introduced in this release. It will take maybe a week or two until enough people enable it, but it might be what you're looking for[1].

1 - https://mastodon.social/explore

P.S. This works on any instance running 2.7 where at least one user has the Directory feature enabled, just add '/explore' to the instance root URL.
If it's not always more work to retrain people with no tech skills than to not do it, will you retrain every such person in the country? You're already not doing it, so this won't increase your workload at all.
Kurzgesagt – Life on rogue planets [video]
I'm confused by your last point. Are we to assume that people living in denser constructions would otherwise have lived in grass huts? Or, less ridiculously, only pre-existing buildings? I would imagine that the alternative between people living in new apartments in a dense area would be sprawl, where they would instead live in new houses, which are going to (per person) have much higher amounts of concrete and steel used.
Now that they failed to make everything more expensive for no good reason, they bring back old models like Mac mini, iPad mini and now iPhone SE. Truly not a revolutionizing company anymore but just stares at the balance sheet to figure out what to do next.

Apple was 5 years ahead of everyone while Jobs was around and now struggling to just stay relevant. I still like most of Apple products and use them daily but they should do better.
This is still my goto diversion whenever I end up in an Apple Store - trying to get Star Wars going on as many computers as possible.
When I was in Lille several years ago, you were supposed to buy a ticket but it really wasn't enforced at all. The ticket machines were to the side of the train entry, and there were no turnstiles or anything like that. My first time I got on without even realizing I was supposed to pay.
This system is just amounts to indirectly funding public transportation with taxation, just from taxing local properties via rent instead of funding it from general tax revenue.

Perhaps it results in more public support for some reason, I'm unfamiliar with the politics of Hong Kong.
That's just about the time people started to try the bigger screen for the first time. If the ratio goes side ways or lower, it means people aren't as interested.
Yeah, I've found that enough things change between installs that it's really tough to automate the process. Instead I keep a document that lists all the steps I need to set up my dev machine from scratch (with a data backup), and each time I go through the process I update the document. That makes it much less taxing than trying to figure out and remember everything without a guide, but is flexible enough to handle the inevitable differences from one time to the next.

If you're provisioning machines on a regular basis it's a different story, but if it's your own personal machine that you're reinstalling maybe every couple years this seems like the most straightforward approach.

Also: Use LVM and snapshot before updating to save yourself a lot of headaches.
Maybe there's pressure from the publisher. Many artists have terrible contracts
Automated deployment and the like is worthwhile whether your system is microservice or monolith. But no amount of automation can eliminate the overhead a network boundary brings to local development.
I figure I can shepherd my collection of Logitech Trackman wired wheeled trackballs until I find something else with the correct feel. I love just using my thumb as normal mice do cause pain.
The scarier aspect (though the thought of the number of ways counterfeit ski bindings can fail and kill you is...alarming enough in itself) of counterfeit outdoors equipment is that it's probably more likely that beginners new to a sport are going to be buying equipment off Amazon. These are the people who don't yet have the specific knowledge to spot countefeits (unless they're blatantly obvious). And they may not know enough to realize the possible risks.

Amazon's counterfeit problem is only getting worse, and there's no reason to expect anything to change anytime soon.
Have you been to Europe?
Google launches an AI contest for social good
Counterpoint: I switched from Mac to Linux two years ago. I am comfortable with the command line, but it’s also great to just do what you wanna do. Clone a disk? Use dd. Forgot the command? Ten helpful tips in the first page of google results. (Actually I quit google too so DuckDuckGo). I’m not as happy with the polish, but 90% there and none of this “remind me again later” bull shit.
I don't think my position disagrees with you. I make a distinction between theories in theoryspace and parameters in parameter space (given a model we all agree on). I define theory as essentially a causal model and explanation of some phenomenon, whereas a model may or may not be causal.

Much of science (particularly the life sciences) is estimating model parameters, and not actually positing new theories. For example, if you're testing a small molecule drug to see if it lowers blood pressure, you want to know how much it affects blood pressure. This is a parameter estimation problem. We all agree that the molecule will get into the body and interact with other molecules, we just don't know how much these molecular interactions will affect blood pressure. Since Nature publishes a lot of life science stuff, it's no surprise that most of their papers are about parameter estimation given an implicitly agreed upon model.

This sort of parameter estimation is important and very different than positing new theories (e.g. quantum mechanics or germ theory). It doesn't make sense to talk about falsifiability of a parameter value. It only makes sense to talk about falsifying an entire causal theory.

"All swans are white." is a theory about swan-ness and should be falsified.
"What proportion of swans are white?" is a parameter estimation problem and it doesn't make sense to talk about falsification.

Theories must be falsifiable and subject to falsification. I don't think this precludes gathering corroborating evidence for a theory and then updating your belief about that theory, but it is very easy to find corroborating evidence for theories so falsification is the most practical means of actually finding truth without fooling yourself.

i.e. it is very easy to posit two different theories that make the same predictions in some domain, therefore all evidence in that domain supports both theories. The only practical way to distinguish them is to find another domain where they make different predictions and falsify one or both.
Pretty shallow analysis, how AVs will be deployed depends very much on the region and how it complements with existing infrastructure (especially outside the US).
I can already travel at 200km/h while working in a train today - that does not make me want to move further out of a city. AVs will have a tremendous impact when it comes to last-mile connectivity or supporting a more suburban life-style, but the impact on public transportation will be limited IMHO.

I can recommend the series from a16z on the wider impact of AVs https://a16z.com/2018/02/03/autonomy-ecosystem-frank-chen-su...
see also: http://www.kevinbeason.com/smallpt/
Laws are kind of a non sequitor. Maybe one could also find better ways to motivate people to treat each other decently.

But I’m going to continue funding homicide investigations.

“Don’t make things livable in small and practical ways, just hold out for total structural revolution and the solution to multigenerational and intractable social problems” is an infuriating line that unfortunately guides much of San Francisco policymaking.
Specious argument.

1. It assumes that each immigrant’s carbon footprint will suddenly leap to typical American consumer levels. But desperately poor immigrants are likely the lowest producers of emissions. Thus, admitting more would actually lower America’s per capita carbon footprint.

2. Addendum: This "1M/year kept from entering" hypothetical is utterly ridiculous to begin with. Even if the wall was 100% effective -- which is absurd given it can be climbed over with a ladder or tunneled under -- only 190K/year cross that border illegally to begin with.[1]

[1] https://qz.com/1525779/how-many-undocumented-immigrants-cros...
Don't try to motivate Apple to make everything more expensive as it will fail them.
Everyone (well, in some sense of "everyone") complains about the danger of getting counterfeit goods from Amazon. I've personally never noticed goods I've bought from Amazon being counterfeit, but I none the less feel like they've wrecked what used to be an excellent online shopping experience in a different way.

If you search for anything that isn't (1) a book or DVD or (2) a specific item from a specific brand, you are likely to find that the top, oh, several hundred search results are near-indistinguishable things presumably drop-shipped from China, each of which is supposedly made by a company with a weird six-letter all-caps nonsense name. Perhaps some of these are actually excellent products, but the only way to tell whether they're any good is from the Amazon reviews, and we all know how reliable those are.

I want a checkbox that says "only show me products from manufacturers with names I might recognize" or "don't show me anything that is shipped directly from China" or something.

(Not because there is anything wrong with things being made in, or shipped from, China. And these might, for all I know, be excellent products. But I have no way I actually trust of knowing whether these particular goods are actually bads.)

Random example: I was recently looking for an external USB-connected DVD drive. If I put <<<external usb dvd drive>>> into Amazon UK's search box, the "manufacturers" I get on my first page of results are: Rioddas, Rioddas, Patuoxun, Patuoxun, Oudekay, Asus, Oudekay, HOCOMO, LG, Rodzon, LG, PIAEK, Patuoxun, Amicool, Blingco, Inpher. This is actually an unusually good case: LG and Asus are "real" hardware vendors. So far as I can tell, the others are all Amazon-only pseudo-vendors.
I have a firewall rule set up in Windows to disable outbound connections from Edge purely for this reason.
That assumes that once anyone enters the US, they will, on average, produce the same amount of CO2 emissions as present US residents. That seemed dubious to me... so turned up this: https://cis.org/Immigration-United-States-and-WorldWide-Gree...

> The estimated CO2 emissions of the average immigrant (legal or illegal) in the United States are 18 percent less than those of the average native-born American.

> However, immigrants in the United States produce an estimated four times more CO2 in the United States as they would have in their countries of origin.

So I suppose the overall logic still holds, just slightly adjusts the math.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/

Linked from the README in the repository you linked.
Stories on HN can't be downvoted, just FYI.
Working in a system where people say:
"STS has a low temperature environmental chamber which is used by STS staff for equipment development and testing down to −85 Celsius. It may be possible for you to use this chamber to temperature test your own equipment"
is what science is about, we have learned from our mistakes, can we help you to not do the same.

The reference to XLR connectors, an aged technology, shows the ruggedness of the the design, a good example of the evolution of survival of the fittest in design. It is not the best, but the most fit.
Living part time there, this claim is false.
Boy or Girl? It's in the Father's Genes
Flynn Effect (Rising IQ Scores Over Time) Reverses
Companies trying to make money off somebody else's work are not the only consideration when choosing a license.
I have a NUC5CPYH (it was very cheap). It was too slow for my liking, but everything worked, including Ubuntu, OpenBSD, Haiku, etc.

ChromiumOS is perfect for it. It's distributed by Neverware as CloudReady OS.
That's pretty much true of everything Linux related. It has or will get better. The state of WiFi on Linux around 2009 was horrid. It would break with every update. It got better.

I've been using Linux for almost 2 decades and I've abandoned numerous projects over the years because the community was so unhelpful. The most recent was an Asterisk box for a home VoIP server back around 2012, before that it was a MythTV box in 2008.

The main problem is that until it gets better it ends up alienating a lot of people because the standard support from the community is "did you RTFM?"
I'm curious how the patent will impact it's adoption. Was regular concrete patented when it started to be used? Depending on how strictly he enforces it, this could easily prevent Ferrock from becoming widespread.
> I don't think the K&R one is worthwhile either. It's far too outdated and teaches some bad practices.

It’s old, but I didn’t see anything horrible in the book. What bad practices does it teach?
I find SizeUp to be a lifesaver. Good example of a finished app. It does what it’s supposed to and is incredibly stable and reliable.
<slaps forehead> You are right about the resolution. Apparently I did not have my coffee because I work with voxels all the time.
I find it hard to believe Kendrick Lamar falls in that bucket and with that, I can't take this article very seriously.
It depends what you mean by "faster". In some cases you'll be better off with something lighter and accessing the DOM directly.

If you need to do something at scale, then you may choose React. The benefit here isn't from just something as simple as changing the items in a list or the text in a header, but when you need to have large amounts of state in an app that is represented by a complex DOM tree.

The benefits of React here are that the virtual DOM can prevent unnecessary updates to the rest of the tree when your state change should only affect a nested element, for example.
They are kicked out. The doors are locked.
The facts are irrelevant at this stage this is purely politics. The poor and middle class do not want to be penalized for climate change (French yellow jacket protests are most visible example of this). This is just bluffing between economic groups.
If you decide to change your managed host, you take your domain name and database with you, so outwardly, nothing changes and you lose nothing.
This list should be named after someone, so that we could refer to their eponymous list of eponymous laws.
Ask HN: Would you buy a fast-loading, accessible website template in HTML/CSS?
Are there any opportunities in designing (and selling) website themes that are fast-loading and accessible and written in plain html and css (not Wordpress, or a CSS framework)?

In another Ask HN on web design [1], posters say don't offer design services. But presumably, even when you're developing the backend, you need to reach for a front-end design or template - either free or for sale. The market for HTML/CSS themes is completely saturated though - is it fruitless to pursue this avenue?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18945658
Upgrade Your JavaScript (Weekly Screencast)
There are a lot of other portland cement alternatives that are not exploited despite being very cheap.

There are literally mountains of flyash laying around in Europe without anybody wanting to use them for concrete.
Dense urban construction typically uses more concrete and steel. New homes in low rise areas can be built mostly out of wood, for example.

Not saying sprawl doesn’t have its own impacts, just that we should properly account for the footprint of concrete and steel construction.
Can't discuss the subject without mentioning Robert Rodriguez's "10 Minute Film School" series, how-to shorts included with many of his video releases. The first famously describes how he made the relative blockbuster "El Mariachi" on just $7000.

https://indiefilmhustle.com/10-minute-film-school-robert-rod...
Haha once again Greek and Spanish conflate :)
I haven't been to Antarctica but have done a lot of cold weather hiking (mostly in Iceland) with various electronic equipment.

One tip relevant to this article that you can use to increase the performance of battery powered electronic equipment by keeping it heated.

Of course you're not going to bring along dedicated heating equipment, but you yourself function as a portable heat generator.

So e.g. if you need to carry a radio you can arrange your clothing so it's strapped to your chest with the battery facing your body, with all your clothing going over the radio, and a hands-free headset on a wire going up to your neck to use the radio.
I don't understand all the negative comments here, K8S solves many problems regardless of scale. You get a single platform that can run namespaced applications using simple declarative files with consolidated logging, monitoring, load-balancing, and failover built-in. What company would not want this?
I had it in docker first, but because I just have the smallest server on Digital Ocean with 500 MB RAM and already running redis and Postgres, using Docker made it obviously start complete new instances which would fill the RAM and swap and make the load go up to 20. After reusing the already running services and removing docker I could easily fit everything in the existing RAM+swap and the load would go down to 0.15, that is why I decided not to use docker, even if it is much nicer for deployment.

The smallest offering at Digital Ocean is $5/month, if I want to go up with RAM it's additional $5 per GB of RAM, to get it running nicely in docker it seems I'd need to pay 3 times the monthly fee of what I'm paying now.
Why leave zero/oh confusion possible by not slashing the zero?
I went looking for a square the other day. An "engineer's square" or "machinists's square" or whatever it's called -- the chunky 2-piece super accurate kind.

After scrolling through the listings & reading reviews I just got anxious about getting a bad one and gave up. It didn't matter whether it was a $6 knockoff or a $55 fancy one, EVERY listing had at least one review that claimed to receive an out-of-square one. Oy.
when people are tested repeatedly they learn the demand characteristics and become better at performing IQ tests.
many of these tests are available in some form online as a game or puzzle, or a total reveal of something that was quite guarded from general knowledge. the cat is out of the bag, IQ testing needs to be redeveloped.
We are still learning about eye health. The most profitable lenses for the optical industry are "progressive" lenses for 50+ and these should be avoided for computer use. See previous thread on alternatives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16194580
I'm surprised they didn't cross or dot the zero. Surely differentiating O from 0 is important when eye fatigue is a problem?
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I think reading is on a different enough level (depending on what you read) that it shouldn't be compared with idling on youtube. Most of the people who have really great ideas have read thousands of books.

As for podcasts, I listen to them when I am not in a position to be creative, e.g I am not going to write code when I am driving, or vaccuming the house, or shopping, etc.
The rules are rather simple and constant. The burden of proof is on the EUTM holder. Easy.

McDonalds knew this, they knew what was expected, and they messed it up.