skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cringed because it's not my experience that experienced devs are immune to hype, it's an orthogonal characteristic. I also find it somewhat logically inconsistent for there to exist a push for teaching/mentoring The Way of the Hype if seniors haven't bought into it themselves.
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> An intense, expert-but-amateur community of enthusiasts sharing a wholesome interest.

It regularly happens that 'enthusiasts' are sometimes more knowledgeable about a subject matter than the 'careerists'.
To what extent is the free software movement a political philosophy?
You don't even need networking. If you can create a temp file, you can probably get the creation or modified time on the file.
I would genuinely like to see another example of public figures used in such a way in EU official documents?

D Trump is used generically, it is not asscociated either to a nationality or a figure. NO photograph is provided.

Edit: There is a thumbnail of Donald Trump. However, same principle applies.
But what if our elections are rigged and we don't know it? Is it worth risking a faked election as long as we all feel good about it?
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I also found this surprising, until I realized that property taxes come from and city councils consist of the very people who like their neighbourhood and want it to stay exactly the way it is.
'I also didn't want to go into the grand vision without also discussing what we're working on.'

The comment reminded me of something: in startup school, they cautioned us against pursuing a grand vision and encouraged us to talk to our users to find out what problems they needed to solve. In this case I think there is a lot of overlap but just wanted to say it since I remember the video so vividly.
> but didn't they expect to get fired? I certainly would, if I started publicly protesting my employer

What a sad state of affairs when workers in the supposed 'greatest country on earth' feel that way.
I am generally very concerned leary of libel claims for media but that level of knowing misrepresentation seems to actually rise to it actually being worth considering for once instead of "offended person with big ego and disposable income for a lawyer".

I wonder statistically about outdoor activities like that what is the probable and average life expectancy impact - since while it has hazards all should respect being active is also better for your health than sitting at home.
Fiber: https://youtu.be/xqUO4P9ADI0?t=253

Vitamin C: No one on the carnivore diet, including those who have been doing it for >20 years (even without organ meats), developed scurvy.

> None of the links you posted have any scientific merit.

Therefore this is such a waste of a sentence (aside from your pulling in scientific authority to back your increasingly senseless beliefs). Ain't life grand!
It's definitely the domain if you understand the clientele. I'm also from GA and old southerners are pretty particular which can be both good and bad. They only will search Vidalia Onions in google so having that domain + some good SEO definitely delivers them to you. I bet repeat customers still search that term instead of going directly to the domain.

Their benefit is that they love local things such as vidalia onions or boiled peanuts that they know are grown locally. I'd wager most of this guy's sales come from the south.
I have a couple of thoughts on how this material might be able to be used - but I'm not a mechanical engineer, so what I mention might be (probably is) worthless:

1. Mechanical compression using hydraulic fluid and electric pumps?
2. Could the hydraulic fluid be used as the heat transference mechanism?
3. Could this material be used in a liquid Sterling cycle pump?

I'm thinking a combination of these might be the answer; the material at one end of a closed cylinder with a piston compressing hydraulic fluid, and the reciprocating motion through some means (and the hydraulic fluid) moving the heat from the material one end to the other end of the cylinder (where it could be dumped).
Millimeter-wave 5G will never scale beyond dense urban areas, T-Mobile says
Hmm... I wonder if this would fall under some state's laws regarding things like balances on gift cards and the like.
EU plan for driverless cars to connect by WiFi hits block
It's a hardware issue - ie. it is caused by compromises hardware made to speed up execution times.

Because we're stuck with the hardware we have, we can make software fixes - however they are going to require either slowing down or removing certain features until we get a hardware fix for the issue.
Speculative execution was developed by IBM in the 1960s, before Intel made CPUs.
One wonders if the ability for a technological "mind" to wander could be the threshold of the singularity.
You're sacrificing the speed and low level nature of Rust though. If performance is not critical why would one choose Rust in the first place? It's neat, but I don't see any need or use case for this.
It’s related in that mass amounts of AirBnB are only sustainable when you have a lack of hotel supply. Unlike a shortage of housing, though, a shortage of hotel space is agreeable to most voters if not downright desirable; short term visitors don’t have any incentive to respect property or their neighbors. If you get a noise warning for your stag party does it matter if you’re leaving in three days? And the kitschy businesses that rise up to serve tourists are also often awful and push out other commerce.

Go to a major tourist destination and they all have their own Checkpoint Charlies or Times Squares that the locals hate and would like to keep as much of the tourist activity quarantined there.
Hoovervilles for the sharing economy
I'm intrigued. Was your "simple JVM web app" written in Java? What kind of JVM optimisations were used and do these also apply to Clojure?
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Karpathy: “Computer Vision: we are far away” (2012)
If we grow so large that we hit the limits of whst AWS can handle, I think we will have enough investor money flowing in to be able to afford rearchitecting.
I'm not claiming this is my specialism, just contrasting the claims of a delivered product with a webpage full of nebulous uncertainties.

I mean, to say that this project has delivered where others haven't, yet say what it has delivered is yet more blockchain infrastructure is odd to me. I could, sure, I could put in the time to learn the ins and outs of these protocols as you say, but I'm not sure why I would absent any actual use cases. And I'm not seeing any here -

It makes flurbing the flooz 100x easier!

OK, so .. what use is the flooz?

This question is still unanswered AFAICT, and cosmos does nothing to answer it. Or at least its front page does nothing to answer it or anything much else.
Your story sounds made up.
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I think there’s a headline in there with the double meaning of “Save the web.” Something like... “Save the web. Polar helps you archive, search, and take notes on what you read online. Whether it’s the web-based documentation you need to keep that one piece of infrastructure running, that PDF for your dissertation research, or anything else online you’d like to keep your own copy of, Polar can help. Plus we think by helping people save their copy of the web, we can fix the web too. Learn more.” But with better examples from how your customers are already using Polar. I’ve been looking for an open source solution to this problem (basically, how can I have my own search engine built from things I’ve read) for a while now. I’m not ready to add a new tool quite yet, but am keeping an eye on this. Good luck!
To gain access to thousands of Python modules would be my guess. A billion years ago, I wrote PyInline do that you could easily write C code in your Python program. I was stunned at how many people actually used it for real projects.
Website is down, not serverless I guess :)
Because now you can prove to anybody which way you voted, opening yourself to blackmail, bribery, or duress. The secrecy of the vote is crucial to its integrity.
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I think it's even better if the slides are posted prior to the lecture so that interested students can make their notes annotations on the slides - this allows them to fill in trouble spots while not having to copy down all the material (I find it distracting to try to rush to copy everything down, personally).
I don't want to go too far down the path, but I don't think the motivations behind the 2017 US tax cut had anything to do with addressing middle class issues. The motivation wasn't about solutions as much as a sort of tax and government nihilism.
I never said they were not. All I said was that in the long term, it will only be as viable as long as people are willing to pay that cost. If his onions are truly better than the onions you get in your local supermarket, then it will continue to be viable.
I found that the process of making a pitch deck really helped me to flesh out my last product attempt, it was very educational for me. Next time I try to make something, I will make such a deck at the ideation phase.
Anything to sell a story, right?

It’s not even necessary in this case. A selfie-induced death is interesting enough without a manufactured tale of an “epidemic.”
The bottlenecks for raytracing are primarily in scene traversal/intersection testing--which does not benefit from a GPU-accelerated array structure.
You know what else is verifiable?

Paper.
I highly recommend java devs use the concurrent collections and avoid using the synchronized keyword.
Paper ballots solve that problem pretty easily
Well, you'll be pleased to know its very easy.

My first stab at it was simply following a youtube tutorial on how to make it based on what you can buy at the supermarket (bread yeast, mineral water, honey and some raisins). You mix it all up and leave it to ferment in the water bottle. This turned out rather well.

I then bought a basic 'kit' off amazon, and a couple of books. The recommended reading is 'The Compleat Meadmaker' by Ken Schramm and 'The Complete Guide to Making Mead' by Steve Piatz. Start off with simple meads. Then experiment. :)

Making friends with the local beekeeping association and LARP group is also recommended. :)

There is tons of info on the Internet as you would expect.
Drove me crazy in the past when I got pressured by CFO to look into cutting infra costs which weren't even that high and the company was facing much great technical challenges (which were pre-requisites to even thinking about optimising infra costs). Always wanting me to kick the tyres with this provider or that provider. Unbelievable waste of time and resources to try save a few grand here and there.
In a type checked language. Your software is guaranteed to have no type errors. How hard was that?
I can buy frozen vegetables and fish at the supermarket, which are packaged only in paper boxes (no plastic inside). For example : https://www.vomar.nl/g-woon-Tuinerwten-Extra-Fijn-450-g
Considering Hetzner (hetzner.com) offer VPSs with 2Gb RAM for 2.99 Euros per month I think it's fair to say we've left the 90s behind as far as RAM is concerned.
Interesting to review this post 7 years later in light of Tesla's update yesterday.

> I’ve seen some arguments that all we need is lots more data from images, video, maybe text and run some clever learning algorithm: maybe a better objective function, run SGD, maybe anneal the step size, use adagrad, or slap an L1 here and there and everything will just pop out. If we only had a few more tricks up our sleeves! But to me, examples like this illustrate that we are missing many crucial pieces of the puzzle and that a central problem will be as much about obtaining the right training data in the right form to support these inferences as it will be about making them.

Really echoes his answer about how much data they gather (his answer: it's not about how much data we gather, it's about which data).
> Steven T. Johnson, 27, works in social media advertising

What does that mean exactly, in his case? Is he an "influencer" like TheYachtGuy (https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-lonely-life-of-a-yac...)?
I used this video tutorial series:

https://youtu.be/xSGIPmQdV6M
Author here. Let me know if you have any questions. :)
Do you feel you're sufficiently qualified to make that call on behalf of all your users ?
As in put in my savings into the biz and work on the side?
The particulars are believable. Even the idea that it'd happen directly to the guys face is believable.

I've seen it happen. One of my friends felt sorry for another because he was merely a "mechanic" and we had gone through university, but as it turns out he was a Porsche mechanic pulling 68k which was a lot more than what a recent grad international studies intern makes.
"The secrecy of the vote is crucial to its integrity."

Secrecy is also what makes it possible to stuff the ballot box with fake votes.
Over here it seems CO2 refrigerators are increasingly common for supermarkets, warehouses etc. AFAIU it can be made about as efficient as HFC's, but the up front cost is higher due to higher pressures. OTOH CO2 is cheap, as you say, and there's no risk the next iteration of the F-gas legislation will make your new investment EOL.
Thanks for your reply. I am very glad to hear this! Cljdoc looks great as well - much needed :)

Btw, thank you for all your open source projects and comments on various GitHub repos.
Has more to do with Google than vendor lock-in. They're always up to this kind of backdoor shadiness.
And while you’re adding the extra complexity just to avoid lock-in, you’re not adding features that can acquire customers or get your existing customers to pay more.

No, your CTO is no more going to uproot your entire infrastructure from AWS/Azure because you promised that it will be “seamless” than they are going to replace their six figure Oracle installation with Postgres because you used the repository pattern.
If you want to have strong opinions about voting security, you should do as Matt Blaze recommends and sign up to be an election judge. I did it after my business partner 'lvh did, presumably at Blaze's urging, and he's right: you really can't comprehend fully what's going on in an election until you've worked on one firsthand. A lot of things you'd be inclined to think are major security problems probably aren't, and the converse is also true.

Wherever you are, it's probably easy to sign up (I did online) and they'll likely pay you to do it.
1. Build a budget for drinking. Nothing caps it like limiting the amount that you can spend on it.
2. Have your socializing focus on activities as opposed to drinking. E.G. If you are bowling you'll be more focused on the game and than you are on the drinking.
3. Drink a glass of water in between each drink. Double bonus for reducing hangover effects
4. Buy a breathalizer. Yep! A weird one but you can keep the BAC below the driving limit and you'll be pleasantly surprised.
5. Change locations often, and walk in between locations. First this is great for getting quality time with your friends. Second, you can use this trick to save money (happy hour in one place, dinner in another). Third, there will be prolonged periods of time between each location that you will not be drinking.

Sounds like you could also benefit from just imbibing drinks that are limited in alcohol content. Session Beers, Campari spritz, some sakes etc.
> Coding in Rust is like an investment: it requires some commitment and slows you down initially (for the right reasons!), but pays huge dividends and return grows exponentially over time.

Kind of my point. Sometimes you don’t want to make an investment, sometimes you just need something to show.
Developers build luxury units not because constructing middle income housing not “economically viable” but rather because constructing middle income housing has essentially been banned in most cities by modern zoning codes and building regulations. Most cities either allow new housing as a single family home or as part of a 25+ unit building with minimum space requirements and 2 parking spots/unit. These regulations (parking, unit size minimums, the nature of constructing a 25 unit building, scarcity etc) make the housing more expensive. Minneapolis has recently changed their city wide zoning laws to allow for 4 unit building city wide, which will allow for cheaper “missing middle” type housing (2 - 6 unit building w no parking) that used to be constructed across urban neighborhoods in the US. There are new 2br units in 6plexes in Portland selling for ~350k. It’s possible to create new housing for the middle class, we just need to allow it.
Thanks nostrademons, these are great examples. You're right, name and email are just for illustration.
Would you mind if we use your feedback and some of your examples to improve the article? If yes, should we credit your HN account?
Because I'm concerned with the end price including butchering, my memory of the cost breakdown details is not ironclad. Take these numbers with a grain of salt. The price varies from year to year, but we tend pay in the neighborhood of $3-$4/lb live weight. An adult live cow tends to weigh around 1,500 lbs, iirc.

All in, including butchering, there isn't a lot of saving here -- per pound of finished meat, we end up paying on the low end of supermarket prices.

However, and I can't emphasize this enough, the quality exceeds that of much more expensive meat. I never understood what vegetarians were talking about when they mentioned the "smell of death" on meat until the first time I bought it like this. The meat I buy doesn't have that smell, and once I encountered the difference, I absolutely understood what the vegetarians were saying.

The rancher doesn't butcher or package the meat. The rancher will deliver the cow to a local outfit that does that (and freezes the finished meat). We select what cuts we are most interested in, what cuts we want ground, and so forth. Then when it's done, we just show up with a truck to pick up the packages. They're packaged just like you get from most other butchers, wrapped in plastic with an outer wrapper of waxed butcher paper.

The only "party" aspect to it is that none of us has enough freezer space to hold an entire cow, so we have to coordinate so that we can divvy up the packages and take them to each of our homes immediately.

I should mention the other nice thing about doing it this way -- we (or one of us, really) actually go to the ranch to make arrangements and select the animal. That means that we can see with our own eyes that the animals were treated well, are in good health, and so forth. Doing this has made visible an awful lot of what used to be invisible and mysterious. In terms of feeling good about the process and intellectual curiosity, this is invaluable.
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Day 2 at Cloudflare here.

I haven't fully ingested this paper, and I'm still getting caught up on all the details of things, but https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cloudflare-v8 talks a bit about this. I gotta run right now so that's all I can say at the moment.
Why do we talk about this guy as if he is some sort of genius? He lost 99% of his wealth in the first dot-com bust. The only reason he is still around is he happened to invest in Alibaba. This doesn't demonstrate anything other than that if you have enough money, it doesn't matter what you do or how stupid you are, you'll remain rich.
The fact that it's been running for 5+ years seems to suggest otherwise, mate.
yeh I do the water trick often.

I've been thinking of just doing a simple - no drinks past midnight. yet to be tested in practice.
I have a friend who is a skilled woodworker. I asked if she ever thought about selling her work, and she replied, "Then it would be a job." Wise words...

On the other hand, my wife was volunteering, and the organization offered to pay her for a day or so a week. It let her be more involved in the functioning of the organization, so the (nominal) pay let her contribute more effectively. They'd like her to move toward full-time, but as with my friend, "Then it would be a job."
I have 4 hives now out of 8 that made it through the fall. I can't seem to keep the hives alive in the winter even with treating. This spring it was Hive Beetles that killed them.

I'll split any hive that looks healthy - walk-away splits almost always work if you are careful to get a frame of brood into the queenless half.

One year I made $5,000 off of 6 hives, but usually $2,000 to $3,000. Except for the glass that is mostly profit. I can charge $12 a pound in a New York suburb. I put a sign up at the end of the driveway and 10 days later I am sold out. I harvest in June/July and again in October (Ragweed and Goldenrod make great honey).

https://www.westnyackhoney.com
Sorry, pasting error. I've reposted. But for anyone who ends up here, the link is: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22/1960-the-year-the-sing...
Many replies are vouching for churches, but while religious community work is certainly beneficial to selected parties, it's only a little better than other forms of private philanthropy in that the services are selected by a limited number of participants, to benefit a limited number of participants, rather than democratically as a government would do. [-1]

For example, in cases like the Salvation Army, a portion of donated money goes toward lobbying against certain types of free speech. And they have been caught many times discriminating against LGBTQ. [0]

[-1] Not that governments are uniformly perfect. They are at least beholden to the majority at numerous pressure points, unlike churches.

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-salvation-armys-histo_b_4...
Kawa was my first Lisp / Scheme and I dug it quite a bit. I wrote some wrappers for Processing called ProKawa which probably doesn't work with the latest Processing releases, but it was all very fun. Quil on Clojure is pretty good, and in general I'd say I've gotten more milage out of Clojure for sure.
So chip makers should have redesigned their hardware to match the erroneous assumptions JS vendors were making about how memory protection works?
There haven't been a lot of things that I miss after moving from OSX to Windows, but one of the things I do miss is iMovie.

Windows Movie Maker was an OK substitute, but it's basically no longer available.

There definitely is a market for an inexpensive quick and dirty editor. I purchased Cyberlink and Corel video editing software, but because they're more "powerful" than I need, I feel as though I need to jump through UI hoops to do simple quick cuts, which is most of the video work I do.
At work, we make high performant drone control systems in Rust. But for testing and debugging, we simply use Matplotlib (a Python library) to make plots of simulations, etc. So we prefer Rust for the control systems themselves for the speed and reliability, but for plotting results of simulations, we don't care much about performance and rather just use something with all the features we need.
Out of all the open source code you use, how much of it have you ever inspected and not treated as a “black box”?

Most of AWS’s proprietary services have a way that you can simulate running them on your laptop.
True. You could to some extent. I think part of the story is the opportunity though. The domain name, the boxes and the time are all things that grant him the opportunity to do it. He probably could have sold them in plastic bags on eBay (someone probably already does), but it wouldn't be same thing.

We all seem to agree like things like this is a good thing, but then we undermine people's ability to do it by favoring things like real estate, domains and "middle man businesses" instead.

I guess bunnie said it best: "supply chains are made out of people" https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4266
The ethics council was ended so ... it would seem to follow that there would be less work on AI ethics in some way wouldn't it?

It's hard to know what is going on in detail.