skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most compostable bio plastics are made of Poly-lactic acid (lactic acid is the stuff that gives that burning feeling in your muscles after a workout) from corn.

PLA can compost in industrial sites, but (edit: add a not here) in normal environments, perhaps that is the reason for your quote marks.

So at least the bulk of the material in the bioware is pretty safe, especially when compared against PFA/PFOAs. That's not to say that it's impossible to mix PLA with some other, unsafe chemicals.
The Lakers reached their breaking point
At the very least use a language with static types, and maybe concurrency support without a GIL getting in the way when you're coding the non-web frontend portions.
To add, the word quit does not even appear in the man page
The HTML includes this:

<script async="" src="https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js"></script>
<script>window.ga = window.ga || ((...args) => (ga.q = ga.q || []).push(args));ga('create', 'UA-130560367-1', 'auto');ga('set', 'transport', 'beacon');ga('set', 'anonymizeIp', true);ga('send', 'pageview');</script>

The network pane in my browser, when disabling ublock, looks like this: https://s.mort.coffee/d/img/scr-2019-02-03-74462.png
I'd like to add Buck and his siblings Bazel & Pants to this list. Buck is used by large companies like Dropbox, Facebook and AirBnB.

Additionally I want to mention my company released also a package manager that uses buck as a packaging format: https://github.com/LoopPerfect/buckaroo

And so far over 320 libraries have been ported to buck and are maintained by our bots: https://github.com/buckaroo-pm
Apple just wants us to get used to a shitty key feel to open the door to even worse.
It is also problematic to need to recompile code for every different micro architecture. Maybe it could be done if the OS shipped with some sort of JIT/AOT compiler and binaries were all something like LLVM IR.
So you're saying that statistic isn't notable if the entirety of education has less than 1 percent effectiveness... yes, I'd say that was notable.
Yeah, I do realize that and I agree with you. It may be the best idea ever, or an economic disaster. I don’t see how micro studies can figure out which.
Important consideration: homebrew is neither a website nor a service. It is a local software, a package manager, and quietly enabling phone-home analytics in an update after previously not doing such has a different threshold for “informed consent”.
You're right, it's only a solution for niche sites rather than ones aiming at all users. Obviously, Reddit/Facebook/Google/YouTube/whatever are out of luck here, their audience is basically 'everyone on the planet' and they don't have any real way to test that.

And you've also got a point that a certain percentage of legitimate users would be pruned out by a simple, topical question. There are probably a few people who couldn't register on Wario Forums cause of this sort of thing, and there were probably a few who couldn't join my previous sites cause of it.

So your questions would have to be very much tied to the audience. General gaming site? Asking who this is with a picture of Mario, Link, Pikachu or Sonic the Hedgehog would work pretty well. Niche site? A bit more obscure, to go with the audience likely to be visiting there.

That said, I think a few things will need to kept in mind:

1. Firstly, a lot of niche sites already have fairly strict requirements to get in, and have a more drawn out approval process than the norm. For example, quite a few I know of have you required to post an intro in an 'approval' forum in order to get access to the rest of the site or server. So I suspect users on these sites may be more used to having to think/research the process to join a forum than those on Facebook.

2. To some degree, it also filters for people who are genuinely interested in the topic to a more than average degree, which may overlap well with 'people likely to stick around for the long run'. For example, the people likely to remember King K Rool's guises in Donkey Kong Country 2 and 3 may be good users at DK Vine, someone who could identify Rawk Hawk or Flavio would be more likely to be a good Mario RPG forum member, etc.

It's a bit like the comments I've heard about Ling's Cars... the only people who shop there really, really need a car.

Actually, maybe a bit like Hacker News too. The people most likely to 'tolerate' the old school design here are well, web developers, old school hacker types, etc.

Either way, it definitely all depends on how niche the site is.
Props to the author for crediting Aileen Lee for coining the term.
Ask HN: How/Where should I (a designer) learn advanced front-end development?
I'm a UI/UX designer and product manager. I'm very experienced with HTML and CSS and good enough at SQL for what I've needed as a PM. I've worked in several engineering teams and am often opening PRs to refactor CSS or for easier tickets, like text changes, or responsive improvements. I've also built a bunch of custom Wordpress sites as a freelancer but I hardly know PHP in isolation.

I want to take my skills a step further and be able to contribute to building something. I'd eventually love to build a side-project of my own.

Considering my experience, would React be a good place for me to start? I don't know JS apart from using basic Jquery libraries on websites. What about Rails? Should I do a bootcamp?

FWIW, my current company's stack is Laravel and Mithril but we may be moving to React soon. Should I learn those first?
Yeah, or Akamai.
What is hw support for GC mem tagging? I didnt realize such a thing existed.
Normal users don’t run multiple OSes.
I second this. Build abstraction ladders. Built platforms, and build it such that you don't have to build everything, something users can extend to meet their own needs.

Application developers need to open their platforms. Had Keep made their application open and layered, your new features would be locked behind the Keep gate.
Fascinating. I've always assumed that the expeditions were funded by patrons. That never really seemed right to be though, because Charles Darwin wasn't very sociable IIRC.
I haven't read the decision in question carefully, but I did skim some of the briefs in this case. My understanding is that the decision basically said "broadband is providing both telecommunication and information services, so it's acceptable to classify is information service." Mozilla et al. is arguing that the information services broadband--e.g., Usenet, personal website hosting--used to provide are no longer being provided, so that broadband companies are no longer providing the information services needed to let them be classified as information services.
I think the article has it backwards. The US and similar nations will be the least affected by this. Nations like India will be hit the hardest.

Humans are flexible. Machines typically aren't. The more automation exists in a facility, the less flexible it becomes.

Until we hit AGI, I think there is a cap on how automated a facility should (not can) become.

A critical piece of this is that highly automated systems are expensive, and difficult to upgrade in a piecemeal fashion. Thus, using humans to tie systems together limits the amount invested in automation, and can save you money in the long run. US manufacturers are already aware of this, as some are dealing with the effects of aging overly automated production lines.

All of this depends on what you're making and what quantity, but until we reach AGI, over-automating is a mistake manufacturers have made and will make again.

In the US and similar, we've automated about as much as we could given existing technology. Newly available technology raises the automation cap a bit, but not that much.

Contrast this with nations which are just getting to the point where mass automation is available and have a spiking per capita income. They're much more likely to see massive amounts of automation, proportional to their increasing wages.
> But even with those definitions my question would be if broadband isn't a telecommunication service then what is the telecommunication service it is over?

When you state it like that, the answer is really, really obvious.

Too bad the courts won’t allow us to treat this equally simple.
The most important mission in a dad's life is make sure his kids are bored out of their minds often enough and need to come up with something to do on their own.
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Description: The Core Products Team maintains and develops new features for all of Datto’s backup appliances (SIRIS, Alto). In a nutshell, the backup appliance is a physical (or virtual) appliance that takes block-level backups of Windows, Mac, and Linux machines turn them into raw disk images and stores them on a local ZFS-based disk array. In the case of a disaster, our customers can then restore these backups/disk image instantly as KVM-based virtual machines, iSCSI targets, Samba shares, and many other formats. We also offer a virtual VMware/Hyper-V-based appliance and integrate with their hypervisors. We write code in modern Symfony-based PHP (with some Python and C sprinkled in), but we strongly rely on our Ubuntu-based Linux stack. Our appliance has a web UI (much like a router), but the main magic happens in the backend services and processes. We do amazing and exciting things every day, such as detecting when a VM has booted successfully, injecting drivers into the Windows registry before boot, or generating vmdk files on the fly. [More about the job on the website (see below)].

Responsibilities: You’ll work in one of our three Scrum teams, developing our SIRIS and Alto product. Each team consists of about five engineers. Work hours are usually around 9-5, though we're pretty flexible with that. Working from home is also possible, although not encouraged.

Qualifications: We're looking for a senior engineer with deep Linux know how -- ideally with knowledge in virtualization (VMware ESX, Hyper-V, libvirt, KVM/QEMU), software defined networking and file systems (such as ZFS and Ceph).

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

”They can be as small as a tennis ball, but they can also be bigger than a car. Most snow rollers are a few inches/centimeters wide”

So, they might be 50 cm, but if so, they would be large examples.
> Rarely finishing a game till the end.

Today's games don't have an "end". They have a journey.

But seriously... can you blame game companies?

How many millions are made by one-and-done games? Even block busters the likes of Final Fantasy and Zelda?

How many millions are made by never-ending games like Team Fortress, Clash of Clans, Bubble Bobble, etc?

Game companies are rewarded for not having an end.
> greedy corporates will always test the boundaries of the law to the maximum, to maximise their profits, testing the limits of the government to see what they can get away with.

I don't deny that penny-pincher execs are looking for loopholes, but how much of that is triggered from ignorance and not greed?
CMake suffers from a lack of conventions. If you want to follow some set of conventions and have one directory for your headers and another for your sources and another for your tests etc you still end up having to write a hundred lines or more of error-proned CMake.

As ugly as things like Maven and Gradle are, if you follow all of their conventions they get out of your way.

In addition:

- no cross-platform way to require a compiler version or way to set compiler flags

- linkers are not abstracted from you (good luck trying to get cross-platform support for relocatable binaries; cmake really bungles up rpath etc)

- also good luck trying to link both static and dynamic libraries and targets

- third-party libraries aren't really a first-class thing

- no simple way to specify "build all these things into the target directory with a conventional file layout"

80% of projects need to deal with these and not a lot else. Why is there not a list of "follow these conventions and you don't really need to write or look at cmake file"?

(To be fair: compilers, linkers, and OSes share some blame in not being more consistent but the goal of a competent build-system is to handle these things for the 80% case.)

It doesn't really matter how terrible the syntax and internal implementation are if most reasonable use-cases don't need to look at it.
This is a fairly common optimization that is normally performed by the linker. [0] is a blog entry that describes Microsoft’s implementation of identical function merging.

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050322-00/?p=...

Edited to add link.
And it will remove minerals, making the water unhealthy. Drinking distilled water is a horrible idea.
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A California man is first to receive jail time for SIM hijacking scheme
+1. tiddlywiki is exactly what I was about to recommend.
It seems that a distiller would remove those chemicals whose boiling point is above the boiling point of water.
PFOA/PFAs are also widely used as DWR (Durable Water Repellant) for clothing.

Even Patagonia still uses chemicals in this class (or did as of 2015):
https://www.patagonia.com/blog/2015/03/our-dwr-problem/

More reading here:
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/ski-clothing...
Well the GPL is standard and short, while most licenses are long and custom.

But I agree: I've long wondered why the GPL is treated like kryptonite, as really it's just like any other software license except 1> the "consideration" only applies when you distribute it and 2> the requirements for distribution aren't paid in cash (just provide the appropriate source code).

If your corporate lawyers can deal with you licensing, say, VxWorks (or Oracle!) they should find the GPL trivial by comparison.
There are two separate issues:

A. 1,000 ft view: drugs are bad. Both chemical drugs and electronic entertainment that is engineered to be addictive. Light weight drugs in small doses are less bad: 90s vs now.

B. 50,000 ft view: the real problem. When rats are put in normal laboratory settings they choose drugs over food and water if given the choice. Most of our research on addiction is based on this. In a study where the rats were placed in a healthy environment they chose food and water over drugs.

We live and raise our children in the former. Humans evolved to be raised in an environment much closer to what is happening over in Germany with Forests kindergartens https://youtu.be/31eBV6ZTNDQ
>European potters like Wedgwood were desperately trying to re-create the purity and beauty of the Chinese product.

Oh, how the pottery turntable turns.

>Chinese manufacturers like Huawei were desperately trying to re-create the purity and beauty of the American product.
I'm a big fan of dtrace and I use it daily. However, the system call tracing that the author did here could easily have been done without dtrace. Eg, via strace on the curl process (or truss, ktrace, or whatever your OSe's system call tracer is).
Here's the Google cache until the server regains it's bearings:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xWcDCg...
Yes but do we want to be extracting trees from app data graph (and then work with the trees)? Or do we just want to work with the graph?
It's the new "e" icon.
> The problem with that is that all the languages seem either to inherently be dynamic or static. Any attempt to add the other kind is hamstrung by the language's inherent tendencies, and it doesn't really work. Perl or python, for instance, have optional typing, but it's not checked at compile-time.

Python optional typing is checked in an optional pre-compilation step. Except that there is no opportunity to use typing for optimization, this isn't meaningfully different, when used, from being checked as part of compilation. In fact, other than using type information for optimization it's pretty much what most compile time type checking does; compilation isn't an indivisible atomic step.
I'm a big fan of stand-up. I love the old stuff a lot (Richard Pryor, Billy Connolly, Bill Bailey) and I'm happy to see so much emerging talent that has hit the scene in the past decade with smart+critical content. (Sarah Silverman, Bo Burnham)

My fav one right now is Stewart Lee. He is often called the "comedian's comedian" and I think people here appreciate smart content so you might enjoy him. ("Content Provider" is his latest show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1UCt5iItcw Stewart Lee is incredibly smart without being overly offensive - something that gets old after some time (e.g. Jimmy Carr or Franky Boyle I both like but it's a bit shallow imo and lacks an overreaching arc in their story).

Lee is more demanding than shows that are made for mass-audiences (Michael Macintyre, etc) and will probably always remain on the fringe. He also has some great tips about writing vs not writing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrXVaytvJtQ incredibly intelligent guy which seems to defy all the traditional rules of the trade. He also helped Noel Fielding and Julian Barrett become popular with "The Mighty Boosh" material at the Edinburgh fringe. (TMB is incredibly obscure but once hooked people usually either love it or hate it (it's hard to feel just partial about it).
It’s based on extracting confessions. If you’ve confessed, naturally you are guilty.

They just don’t actually charge anyone until they’ve already confessed.

The only problem is that insane structure where they basically lock you up until you are so tired of it you confess to basically whatever they want out of desperation.

I’m fairly sure that if he just waits it out he’ll go perfectly free, and I suspect he knows the same.
Two-factor auth with public-key cryptography
> Anyone easily confused by how to quit vim should not be using a computer at all, much less vim.

IMHO - Anyone easily confused about how to converse constructively should not be using social, knowledge sharing websites at all. Much less Hacker News.
Wow. This is big.

Do you have some blog? Explaining technologies, knowledges and etc about this app? How did you grow to reach 100K users?

Thanks in advance, and congratulations.
It's not even bots that are breaking them much of the time. The spammers just get people in third world countries/using mechanical turk type services to break them. Captchas like this cannot stop a human determined to break the rules.
Hollywood's Kinder, Gentler DRM Didn't Even Last a Decade
Over the past 30 years or so, build tools for C and C++ programs have converged to what you see today.

For example, with GCC you can use the -M options, and then you can -include the result in your makefile. This was not always possible. You had to manually specify the .h files for every .c, and if you omitted one, you could get a successful build but a broken program!

Then consider the process of building a shared library, which is different on different platforms, but if you restrict yourself to GCC on Linux with GNU Binutils it’s damn easy.

There are a few other, minor failings of Make. But you’re right, it’s very comprehensible and straightforward. I still say that it’s a low bar, though, by modern standards.
That's the plan. And for the iPhone XTRASEX in 2025, you'll get the amazing ability to plug in any headphones (yes, including studio monitors!) via an analog 3.5mm jack!
At least in the US, you are definitely not required to obey unlawful orders. Otherwise the police could tell you to commit a crime and you’d be in a Catch-22.

Now, the police will never tell you whether an order is lawful, they’ll try whatever they think they can get away with. So whatever the citizen/police equivalent of “Caveat Emptor” is, it definitely applies in these situations; asymmetric information is not your friend.
Does anyone want to discuss website find.xyz?
I have a hard time finding information on the internet. As they state on their website, if you google something it's SEO game and very often how much the article matches your keywords and not specifically highest quality articles first.

However, I find it hard to find information on find.xyz that interests me. When you click on tech you see a lot of Benedict's tech news (Maybe he is investor?). Maybe the problem is the site seems to be new.

How do you find information online? I tend to find best articles here on hackernews and on twitter, but it is very random. I wish there was a way to find high quality articles on stuff that interests me without googling for hours.
I used to believe that cast iron were more work, but I moved house, got a (cheap, $20) cast iron pan - and it's less work. I t sticks less than non-stick pans. Very notable when frying eggs. I hadn't have an egg stick yet, while I had it all the time in the non-stick. Also, you can be rough with metal tools without worrying about damaging the non stick coating. And can overheat without damaging the pan.

It's also easy to clean, if you get over the impulse to use detergent. Just clean it in hot water and then a towel or paper towel. If one uses detergent, it needs to be oil coated and heated again, which is annoying.

I'll never use anything but cast iron again. It is heavy though.
If this were written today, Karpathy would have to call it "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Convolutions". Since 2015, convolutions, causal or dilated convolutions, and especially convolutions with attention like the Transformer, have made remarkable inroads onto RNN territory and are now SOTA for most (all?) sequence-related tasks. Apparently RNNs just don't make very good use of that recurrency & hidden memory, and the non-locality & easy optimization of convolutions allow for much better performance through faster training & bigger models. Who knew?
Was this your plus two project ?
Nobody has personal time or money to do the research required. We need some organization to centralize the work and indicate what's safe and what's not safe with enough robustness that unsafe products aren't easily sold to the unwary.

We generally call these things government agencies, but any other body with the same function - private or public - will be susceptible to the same kinds of forces that government agencies are. All we can do is try and build institutions good processes, adversarial audits that ensure processes are followed, and mechanisms to adjust processes when they're found to be lacking.

We generally call the latter mechanisms democracy. It's not great, but it's the best we've come up with.
Looks like they have tank treads
Just get a reverse osmosis system which remineralizes the water. Can be found on many good RO systems
The second version of Ultralisp.org is available now