skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Admittedly, the majority of women around me sticks to non-reusable solutions not because they don't know, but because they feel more comfortable with things they can just throw away when dirty.

That being said, I'm on the fence about believing this is more than a question of habit vs an actual thing that will bug you. After all, the average US woman seems to be completely thrown about how you can use a tampon without an applicator. In Europe if you ask for them, most people won't even know what you mean and I don't see what their appeal is, but if that is what you grew up with....

(edit) Just to clarify, I also use a cup and it has upsides and downsides, but overall to me it is a net win.
> Well I suck if my goal is anything other trying to make the world a better place.

Yeah, you do, and so do I if I try to do anything. While people here have a valid question ('wat is this thing?') which you need to address, and perhaps you oversold your case, I feel for you.

Stick your neck out for other people and a common breed of web-dog will stick its teeth in, howling "it'll never work so there's no point trying!". And thereby will ensure it won't.

Disheartening isn't it, but there are plenty of good people though. I can't help you at the moment (tough times here I'm afraid) but I wish you luck!
That sounds similar to the approach my Prealgebra teacher used in 1994. She had an overhead projector with a roll of plastic transparency sheet attached. She wrote across the bottom of the projector and then rolled it up as she went along. Different color pens were available. You could follow along and understand the process, and there was plenty of time to take notes as the material rolled up the screen.
This is not a new phenomenon. When I visited the grand canyon (pre cell phone) every gift shop carried a book called "Over The Edge: Death in Grand Canyon". Most of the deaths were from people urinating into, gazing into, or walking too close to the edge but a whole chapter was dedicated to people who walk in while taking photographs.

(Also good to know that apparently you can have a dizziness spell gazing into a deep void like that, a large chunk were people who stood on the edge, looked in, got dizzy and fell over)

While it's definitely an issue, I'd caution against blaming technology.
True, but the article isn't trying to say that everyone _can_ have time for leisure, but rather everyone _should_ have time for leisure. An optimist may say that with the advent of automation people should have more time for leisure, where a pessimist may say that the poor will grow poorer.
It's not "can run." ClojureScript is a fully supported and viable way to run Clojure in production.
One of the biggest things I’ve learned is that it’s easy to build for people like yourself, but that there are very few people exactly like you. In fact there might only be one.

Focus on a real pain point that people are having, and organize everything in your messaging around that.

Why do people need a document manager in the first place?

What is this going to do for them that their existing solutions don’t do?

How is it going to be better than the existing document managers that they have?

(If you find yourself going down the ‘its Decentralized’ route, don’t, people simply do not care)

It doesn’t have to even be much better than what people have, as long as it knocks it out the park for that use case. Hell, GMail started as conversational email plus a load of storage.

It may make your messaging seem kind of sparse - that’s a good thing. People are time poor, and have time to dig into the features later.

But without it you’re going to end up building something that is kind of a lot of things, but not really good at anything.
In this case they are compressing a solid, which is much safer than compressing a gas. There is no explosion risk if the high "pressure" solid is suddenly released from its container because its volume has not changed by much. Looks like this solid changed its volume by ~2x (fig 2e). For CO2 the change is about 28x. If your high pressure CO2 suddenly gets out of its container, it will immediately expand to 28x its volume.

There is of course a question about how exactly you build a mechanical device to implement this cycle. In current devices the material which changed temperature physically moves around a circuit and removes and deposits heat energy at different places in the circuit as it moves. They definitely don't talk much about how a practical device could be constructed.
The new plastic appears to be a vitrimer, which is a class of thermoset, so not well suited as a replacement for the types of polymer plastics that tend to junk up the environment (thermosets, because of their durability, tend to have very long useable lifetimes -- I have milk crates I use for storage that are older than me!)
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As soon as you made it a personal, moral issue, you lost the argument entirely. If the goal is to get everyone to adopt good habits for the environment, you're going to have to address price and convenience.
I tried making a single player clone of your game agar.io: https://www.agar22.cf : can we be friends or can you share your discord? Did you make Diepix arena 2?
“why action items and owners are a key component.”

We have that too. The only thing that’s missing is follow through :)
My Hagoromo chalk and eraser notes:

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/LinearAlgebra/Video/Cha...

CNN is doing a short web video on this chalk, and I was interviewed last week. They particularly liked my custom attache case for carrying all my colors to teach. When I drew diagrams revealing Catalan number correspondences, they were quite worried that these pictures "weren't math" and I might be hoodwinking them.

The "eraser" is a side category that doesn't get enough attention. At MSRI one uses auto detailing "applicator sponges" which choke pretty quickly with chalk dust, but are nevertheless superior to traditional erasers. Far better is a supply of auto detailing towels; here, Korean microfiber is unrivaled. For classes late in the day, I use one wet to wash the boards, then a dry one to erase as I work. When I run out I do laundry; these towels are indestructible.

So why use the sponges in a public setting? We're learning that animals in many particular tasks exceed human intelligence; it's a matter of each creature's focus of attention. Mathematicians like to believe that we're smarter than average, but we're actually just very focused. That can make us pretty dumb away from our focus of attention. A nervous mathematician giving a public lecture is unlikely to recognize what a towel is for, but a sponge has the right form factor. It's like making your modern heating in a bed and breakfast look like fireplace logs, to not confuse the customers.
There are companies that specialize in coordinating large, off-exchange trades. I listened to an interview where they mentioned security practices such as: keys are stored on laptops that were bought new, had the hard drive replaced, and the Ethernet and USB ports epoxied shut. All transactions are offline and multi-sig. Etc...
So, so much better. Nowadays we "use" what has been called "rule of zero". Write a constructor if you maintain an invariant. Rely on library components and destructors for all else.
BPA coatings make aluminum problematic.
Getting access to Zendesk’s gcloud and artifactory from a GitHub dotfiles repo
> Act as a standby for dish pits at the local restaurants - filling in only when someone doesn't show since I don't want to take what could be a lifeline job for someone AND having a standby like me means they can keep their job instead of just being a no-show

I'd like to try something like that. I have no experience in restaurants. How would you suggest I go about it?
How is that different from compiling other software with build dependencies? I mean, if you consider libc etc most applications have quite a large tree of build deps if you need to download _all_ libraries from scratch - it's just that in most cases you already have those deps.

Next time you need to build a golang project you most likely won't have to download all of those libs again, unless you remove them for some reason.
Anything is possible, but I also sort of would be surprised if Apple would have deployed facial recognition.
The difference to the US is that in Germany you have to explicitly opt out.
They also use Donald Trump as an example. I suspect this presentation was done mainly to explain the plan to politicians finding the whole topic technical and boring and therefore they tried to entertain them a bit.
I have never had to provide biometrics at the US border.
In other words getting arrested is his own fault. He should not have entered the facilities of a fascist corporation.
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I do sales. I specifically ask for commission on enterprise sales I negotiate and sign, not for engineering features.

I have contributed to sales in my last two roles and it is the reason that my comp was high.
The right mental model is that, in modern out-of-order CPUs, there is no difference between executing "in speculation" and "not in speculation". There is just a huge pile of u-ops (~200 on big Intel chips) in the reorder buffer, and some of them may be unexecuted branches. The fetch unit plows right on through branch instructions using branch prediction and jams code "from the future" into the reorder buffer.

The CPU keeps on executing whatever instructions are ready (i.e. have data dependencies met), irrespective of the in-flight branches. When a mispredicted branch is retired (~0.1-1% of the time), the CPU can throw away the entire reorder buffer and start over. A CPU can also abort-on-execute, throwing away only work related to the given mispredicted branch. So probably 99% of all cycles are spent with at least one unexecuted branch somewhere in the reorder buffer--the CPU is essentially always speculating.
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Good choices for dry product, but a lot of plastic is used for food and drink. Luckily we do have options there. Aluminum.
The Future of Augmented Reality Depends on Blockchain Technology
I wish there was only 40 hours for work. At my current place 45-50 is more common. Add another 10-12 hours of commuting, at least 2-3 hours for personal grooming (and my wife is probably double that), and exercise/stretching which becomes increasingly important as you age. So, yes, there is little time for hobbies after accounting for my kids, my wife, the dog, the housework, etc.
https://www.displays2go.com/Guide/How-to-Choose-a-Whiteboard...

Seems like a decent overview
>Vendor lock-in is something that engineers care about because they like playing with tech.

Bad engineers care about vendor lock-in, because they want to pad their resumes with abstraction tools.

Good engineers care about vendor lock-in, because all cloud providers have limits you do not control. Your architecture can become insanely expensive or simply stop working if something you do grows beyond one of those limits. In those cases you can either re-architect the whole thing or simply switch vendors.

This is one of the hidden costs of "cloud" platforms everyone suffers from but no one talks about.
The US government has sued land (and won): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._50_Acres_of_L...

People have sued God (and lost): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuits_against_God

People have sued search warrants (and won): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_v._Search_Warrant

So you probably can! But, lacking a fixed address or any way to notify the defendant, you'd probably have the case thrown out. Also, enforcing any judgement would probably be impossible, so there's that.

The moral of the story is that courts have lots of ways to deal with situations like this.
You say that like if Intel flaws were comparable to the ones from ARM and AMD. They aren't.
Why can't it be both?

Sure the poor will grow more poor, and also have a lot more free time due to not having employment. That's not necessarily a good thing, but it does agitate for both the optimistic and pessimistic views being likely at once in the future.
In the first example, the author is trying to claim that the woman died on a quest to take a selfie in a bikini. That woman was a mountain climber. She died trying to summit a 10,000 foot plus mountain. It seems disrespectful to focus on the selfie aspect and place her in the same category as a man who tried to take a selfie with a wild bear.

> It’s easy to write off these tragedies as catastrophically bad judgment.

Yeah, because they are. I have never once thought about risking my life for a selfie. The only thing the author offers to explain why this isn't true is that some selfie deaths occur while the photographer is engaged in “non-risky” behavior. That would make them accidents. Whether someone was holding a phone when an unforeseeable accident befalls them seems pretty irrelevant.

Overall I'm not sure 259 people dying in six years worldwide can be called an epidemic, especially when you consider that they may have died this way even without handheld cameras to document it. It seems very silly to call it “our obsession” with photographing risk-taking when obviously the overwhelming majority of people do not do this.
Perhaps this is because you don’t, as you say, see the point of rest. It may be that the time is used for other, very important things. Perhaps someday a robot could do those things without stopping, but for all we know it’s a form of Mark-sweep GC.

Your position is similar to the view of so-called “Junk DNA” which was initially thought to be literal junk but some of which does in fact appear to modulate gene expression at runtime.
Not to mention he's actually having a lot of fun doing this, and he specifically throws shade at what you've described above (and what we typically read about here on Hacker News)

Them: We leverage automated machine learning to enhance your existing BI visualizations with more proactive insights

Me: I sell onions on the internet

So good.
".. they still end up perceiving the item in the small paper box as being lower quality than the one in the giant clear plastic .."

You are right, but I suppose you mean "we", like in "we the people".
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This is really inspirational: who knew that such a rudimentary site could be a viable business?
The article builds up to this:
"By encouraging our minds to wander, leisure activities pull us out of our present reality, which in turn can improve our ability to generate novel ideas or ways of thinking."

Then wraps up and ends.

We don't have a killer app.
Many of them are, as they are ignoring local regulations for private hire vehicles.
It was a fun read. But also a bit sad that it takes thousands of dollars and a lot of available time (which many people don't have) to do something as fundamental as this.
Much like welfare and food subsidies in my view its morally unacceptable when you start judging an individual's worthiness rather than their need.
I had this experience in the early 00s. I helped quite a few (of my parents) neighbors with PC and Windows-related problems. It didn't bother me to do it for free, I offered everything for free. One of their neighbors was, at the time, a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch. His power supply was on it's last leg and he was dealing with his machine randomly crashing. I swapped in an unused PSU that I had at the house and he couldn't believe that I didn't want to charge him $200 or something.

These days I'm lucky to even see my neighbors or get a friendly "Hello" back from them.
>Vendor lock-in can make or break startups if you're not careful enough.

And it's often worse for bigger companies. Startups can often just rewrite their crap. You can't do that overnight with several years worth of legacy systems if they rely on vendor-specific features.
The "many kids" part of it isn't by choice; in some countries it's because it's expected that not all will live to reach adulthood. Fortunately infant mortality rates have been falling worldwide for years, as have fertility rates in some of the world's most populous countries.
Housing should be plentiful enough and of a reasonable cost.
Failing that, it should be supplied by the state.
This isn't difficult.
Pinterest’s employee No. 2 left before his equity vested (it cost him millions)
Could you speak more on the use of macros and bottom-up programming as well as REPL-driven development at Walmart Labs (if applicable)? Would be interested to know if those lisp-like attributes play as important a role as functional programming and the JVM in general.
5G Microdata Centers Will Disrupt the Cloud
For all the perma-bears out there...Bitcoin is well off last year's low and now around $5500. Crypto has been trending up for weeks. Some top tokens like BNB (Binance's token) are at all time highs.
Berglas: A tool for managing secrets on GCP
The question should be how much you can save by not tying an anchor you don't control the weight of around your neck in the first place.

The anchor in the metaphor is using large tech conglomerate without being able to quickly pivot away from them at a moment's notice.
I should clarify this comment a bit since it seems to be the most controversial.

When I say the attacker was persisted via CM, I'm pointing at his own notes, nodding to broken CM, the requirements of supporting the CM and availability of the config files.

I also sanity checked the sshd_config file on my systems, they're all set to a sane default:

"AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys"

FWIW I prefer to treat CM data as "valuable" information for this reason.
Thanks! It was around 5 months of full-time work, give or take. However, this is end-to-end i.e. idea to finished product, so the time includes UX and UI work (which then again includes user testing and research) as well as coding, figuring everything out technically (I used a tech stack I wasn't the most proficient with), devops, soliciting feedback along the way and iterating, etc.
I genuinely find it hard to determine whether I should buy some products with or without plastic packaging. Is it better to buy produce without plastic wrapping, even though that means a bigger portion of it went bad and needed to be thrown away? Should I buy some sauce in a glass instead of plastic bottle, even though it made the transport less efficient?

There are of course the obvious ones, like those flimsy bags for loose produce, and I try to avoid those. Any advice for the non-obvious cases though?
Mu kids called all tablets iPads at some point, so I had to teach them the difference between iOS and Android.
It sounds funny until you run into this over. and over. and over. and over. again.
I work professionally in the space, and not understanding nitty gritty blockchain protocols is like saying you don't understand how audio drivers work, or media codecs, or database locking mechanisms. You won't understand it unless you put the time in to study it.

Cosmos is a very interesting and novel technology, and it makes creating an application-specific blockchain perhaps 100x easier (2 orders of magnitude).
Julia just got to 1.0 last year, and it does have areas where it's already between the best options in scientific computing such as differential equations solving and mathematical optimization. Regardless of not being the most popular (against the behemoths that have many times it's age and support), you shouldn't have trouble doing most stuff with it from machine learning to statistics. And it's a pretty fun and fairly unique language to learn and use.
A robot doesn't have a preference. It wouldn't "rather" do anything because it's not sentient.

Machines don't need rest because they aren't capable of regeneration. They run and damage accumulates until they break. Then they're done. You can run them less and have the damage accumulate slower so they last longer, but they don't heal themselves without somebody else to perform maintenance.

Living things on the other hand, do repair themselves while they rest. In fact, they even grow stronger to better endure the stresses they experience. So, that's the point of rest.
Yes, Rocket copies very specifically, but that does not invalidate my point.

Germany VC's will still very rationally imply what I wrote above.

If Rocket is behind this, well, they might have laid a bridge too far.
I understand but that's an utilitarian view of life. And also how do you value things like that .. again, we're back to the relativistic nature of money.
there are Over The Counter (OTC) trading desks/companies who can help with that. One of them is Circle. I think Kraken also offers this service.
I find another benefit of blackboard presentation is the order of information. The lecturer can build something up rather than simply showing the finished article and saying voila.
It's a good narrative for raising more cash for Tesla (which they will need to do soon)
Respect :).. thanks.. No good deed goes unpunished :)
With the exception of metal and glass, recycling is largely a myth. Most paper and plastic that is “recycled” gets dumped in a landfill or sent overseas where it gets dumped in a landfill: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/climate/recycling-landfil.... It’s getting worse now that China has stopped accepting US “recycling.”

The meal kit industry is particularly insidious for that reason. They invoke environmental concerns heavily in their advertising, but those individually plastic wrapped ingredients obliterate whatever incremental environmental benefits there are from organic ingredients or substituting meat for vegetables.
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So I’ve followed the development of polar for a while know. Recently I stopped and uninstalled the program. I might return to it later but at the moment the thing which is most important for something dealing with content gets the least attention: simply dealing with content. For instance, a pdf which loads instantly in Skim or preview on my Mac takes 20 seconds to load in polar a simple webpage took 4 seconds to load. While polar focusses on saving webpages adblock isn’t implemented yet and pages often don’t save and/ or render properly.

Even though polar is supposed to be open a non standard format .PHZ was implemented in polar and polar’s database is far from open or useable with other programs. Feels like a lock-in.

This along with a slew of other bugs, polar being webtechnology and the focus on getting more users and developing the web version instead of focusing on developing an app which is robust and feature full (or at least expandable) makes me think my values and the values of the polar dev don’t align and polar simply isn’t worth my time.

In any case, I hope I’m wrong and polar will be better or someone else takes the core ideas of polar and makes something more stable etc out of it. I hope I might be able to do that, but at the moment I’m unfortunately far from being knowledgeable enough to do this.
Previous discussion (Show HN): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12619694
In summary:

If you depend on cloud services, a good idea would be to write tests when planning the system so you can easily switch vendors later if the business relationship sours. Poster thinks "hexagonal architecture" is flexible enough to do this.
Wheat and Chessboard Problem
Would you mind expanding on this? Quite curious as a LastPass user.
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Norwegian study: Kids are more social when gaming
Eh yes and no.. There's plenty of people who do part-time work just to make ends-meet that have a lot of leisure time.

Work to live or live to work.
Ah, I see your point now. Fair enough.
But how practical is it for anyone to really spin up cloud infrastructure based on those github repos? I'm skeptical that it's much more than a PR move.
its mostly about school districts and housing costs. people don't want to rent forever and buying property in the city is generally prohibitive unless you're in the top sliver of income earners.