skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you're looking for opinions there: I pretty much like libraries like this for development but prefer manual activation, e.g. only when my system is running with a debug flag, over libraries messing with the environment itself.

Thanks for making it available, the output looks neat, looking forward to try it out.
> It's not about whether you think you're causing harm... It's about whether you objectively are.

Not my personal view but I will point out that from the point of view of a vegan or PETA, raising animals and slaughtering them for meat and other animal products is causing harm. And you cannot objectively deny that the deaths and incidental suffering of those animals is not harm. Are they justified in considering you (assuming you consume animal products) toxic and immoral?

Your heuristic is not meaningful.
Sorry I have no time for closed-source things.
This looks neat and might come in handy. I'm concerned about the legitimation, though.

Citing from https://unsplash.com/license:

> This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service.

I'd argue this is exactly the type of "similar or competing service" that is meant by this sentence.

Edit: Did Unsplash give their consent?
Unfortunately MacOS testing is usually extremely slow due to limited numbers of machines to run tests on.
I was looking for something like that just the other day. Cheers!
Very cool!

I have an old friend from high school who does home woodworking and has gotten quite good at it.

It also seems very therapeutic for him.
There are plenty of other good options indeed.
I created it in 2014 since I wanted a service that would give me nice looking pictures, rather than just coloured boxes or similar, for placeholders, there's not anything else to it.
They mean the same. Aerospace commonly uses offgassing too: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/wstf/testing_and_analysis/mater...
Security Flaw in Erlang / Beam (2017)
I want to agree with you, but I'm not sure I do.

It's very clear that Walmart drives down wages among suppliers. Workers clearly don't earn a ton of money. But do shoppers benefit? And are employees worse off relative to their alternatives? I would be surprised to find out that the first was the case, and curious-how-but-not-quite-surprised about the second.
where can i find trading heroes
pinder321@gmail.com
I think this is an irrelevent triviality.
Do you have access to the article? What's about men vs women with a similar education level?
That is the untalented who are interested in the rewards of success moving to gain what is possible to get from talent. They have none, so they have to see it manifested and then they capture it for their benefit. They have no other access to the good stuff. All industries, human endevors, work this way. All power structures, all groups.
Aha, what are you suggesting that they died from? I'm sincerely curious and not sure what you mean
wher can I find trading heroes
pinder321@gmail.com
The Illusion of Trust
Cloudflare just wants access to your traffic info to resell it.
If you use that standard to judge what speech should be censored, then you need to censor just about everything. Perhaps starting with any talk about international relations because it might lead to war, and violent rap music, and criticism of people for their political views. Even yourself for suggesting that Voat users might start executing black people. What if that belief leads to violent retaliation by someone who reads it? That actually happened with Black Lives Matter - its ideas led at least one person to execute innocent policemen.

Before you judge something as morally right or wrong, you have to have a standard that you're judging it by. Otherwise you'll just end up making ad-hoc decisions that depend on your emotions at the moment with no particular meaning or direction. Your morals will wander aimlessly in the space of possible morals, pushed this way and that by peer pressure and the media. They'll also develop internal inconsistencies. What's the use of an aimless moral? You might as well just pick them randomly.
I got a totally different impression of the meaning of this story from the headline, before reading the article.

It sounded ominously like maybe those 270 people had counted the ballots “the wrong way.”
Everyone here seems to be caught up in waxing poetic about how the normalization of evidence is a bad thing and talking about preventing it but there's another side to that coin. If everybody is breaking the process 9x/10 it's not "normalization of deviance", it's because you've got a half baked process that sucks and the people on the ground know it and work around it. Obviously you could fill a library with all the material written on how to write organizational policy but it's not as black and white as "violating policy = bad"
If you can jam the 4G frequencies, most devices fall back to 2G/3G.
Electric guitar(Fender Telecaster clone of the Police’s Andy Summers).

I’m terrible, but Fender Play makes me slightly less terrible.
This site pre-dates the Unsplash license (and before Unsplash had their own API/website even, it started when they were still a tumblr blog), the images used on it is from back when Unsplash still licensed images under CC0.

We're on good terms with the Unsplash team, and think they're awesome.
Looking at your site for the first time, my immediate thought was: How has FB not hired you already?
And/or sweat...?
Regulating Facebook will be one of the greatest challenges in human history
At this point I'm wary of hauling the old Dropbox example, having learned that the author has acknowledged his mistake in being prematurely dismissive. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988051)

Regarding 1MB: looks like a good idea for teaching people how to get a simple website on the web. Like many here, I grew up in the age of Geocities and similar services.

I'm happy to have high quality services like Netlify available for me, but we need more indie services to serve as entry points for newcomers. Netlify and co. may change; we're already centralizing development workflows too much (e.g. GitHub).

More power to small creators using their resources to open up spaces for other creators.
Microsoft's idea was very different from what Brooks describes in his book.

Microsoft approach was more about having senior programmers telling juniors what and how to do their job, aka micromanagement.

Brooks is about having programmers actually coding (and documenting), and have other people handling and other important tasks such as clerical non-programming tasks, developing tools, language research, version management, doing adversarial testing, helping with documentation, etc. Some of the tasks he describe are obsolete these days, but the book is from the early 70s.

According to him, doing that "relieves programmers of clerical chores, systematizes and ensures proper performance of those oft neglected chores, and enhances the team's most valuable asset — its work-product".
My favorite is PlaceKitten I've been using it for a decade. Though it sounds like this one is equally old:

http://www.ecologytheme.com/top-10-image-placeholder-service...

There are literally dozens of them.
http://lorempixel.com/

It's pretty old, too.

https://www.awwwards.com/sites/lorempixum
It is very hard to compare Berlin with Bangalore, the climate, culture, vibe, etc are very different. I have been to both cities many years ago, they are polar opposites in so many ways.

I have family who have studied and worked in Berlin. Their biggest stumbling block was learning German well enough for everyday life. Granted that in tech circles English is widely spoken, but you need good German fluency to handle everyday interactions and the bureaucracy. The laws are very strict, especially with regards to traffic.

Knowing English allows you to pick up rudimentary German quickly, but it progressively becomes very difficult. I have studied German to matriculation level and still find it difficult to carry on fluid conversations with native speakers. Reading documents takes a long time, especially unpacking the compound words.

Often people make friends among expats of their ethnicity which in turn hampers the longer term integration into German community / society. Your wife might have more difficulty in this area as she would not have a network of contacts built from work colleagues.

Echoing @frnkng, you might find the purported quality of life hampered by the limited disposable income.
Redlining and depreciating home values closed off generational wealth
Well, it's a theory. How do you plan to support it with evidence? I mean, the world is radically richer than in the past -- perhaps wealth causes less racism.
If your political beliefs are a threat to my existence anything less than death is a mercy on my part. It's not just a 'thoughtcrime' if it's a stance you actively promote.
Well done. I remember looking at this project more than 2 years ago and thinking Wow, this sounds great for my SaaS. Because you were still essentially in Beta and there was missing functionality at the time, I went ahead with another solution and meant to keep in touch with your progress, but, as it tends to happen, I got distracted.

This post is a timely reminder for me, and I will be taking another look at Uppy with keen interest. Thanks for carrying on the good work and getting to 1.0!
Maybe it depends what kind of account you have? Zelle is offered directly through my business bank account interface and it's what the bank recommends using as an alternative to ACH and wires.
Next post: "Why You Can't Trust DHCP"
This is very cool! I'm currently using Netlify to host tiny sites for non profits and local candidates. I love Netlify, but this would be an interesting alternative. Being able to edit in the browser could also be a big deal to allow some of them to edit their own pages. Netlify has forms but they are pretty limited (100 submissions per month on the free plan). I'll definitely give you a try when the next one comes around. Being able to store a little data is another really big plus.
Indonesia has very poorly developed land infrastructure outside of Jakarta. If you look at google maps, going from one side of Java to another takes 17.4hours for 1100km, note that this is the most developed island, if you do Medan to Palembang it's 32h for 1400km.
I'm just saying to get to 1 through multiplication you can always multiply any number by its own inverse (which is another way of saying divide any number by itself)

I.e. X * 1/X = X/X = 1, always.

I guess, technically, it's a division needed to get the inverse, so it's perhaps it doesn't count :-)

Edit: Ah, yeah, now with help from the reply below I see my mistake - you're saying the inverse itself cannot exist since we're only dealing with natural numbers, that makes sense.

I guess that's pretty much the reason that only multiplication in allowed in the OP's original question, allowing division lets us get all kinds of fractional numbers which wouldn't be allowed.
Can't the app maker simply not include the unreleased features in the published package? E.g use a preprocessor to remove them.

I understand the purpose is to enable it programmatically, but what's the problem with simply showing user "Please update, there's a new feature"?
Custard Antenna
I had a pair of Converse that I used for this purpose. Completely torn to shreds and full of holes. Had an Asian lady stay at our Airbnb and she saw them, said people would go crazy for that "distressed" look in Asia (forget the specific country) so I gave them to her for her to take back.
Only inside of individual districts-- eg, a senate race is a statewide popular contest. There are no federal popular vote contests in the US (although there is some momentum towards reform in that regard).

I'm not sure that the average voter really considers the electoral college today. Voter comprehension of it has historically been very low, at least. But you're right that many non-swing-state voters stay home after (correctly) figuring out that their votes are meaningless.
View the same comments from the profile page of their authors and they’re days old. This feels like some zombie post resurrection trickery with the time stamps.

dang?
I use physical world analogies:

The existence of another sandwich shop, even a successful and tasty one, doesn't mean I can't open up one of my own - or that my sandwiches need be exposed to constant criticism for lacking some arbitrary ingredient such as, say, tarragon or sage. Not all websites need to offer the digital equivalent of say beansprouts with hollandaise spread even if you really like that (it sounds magnificent tbh).

Nor do they need a new spin on sandwiches or a new innovation in sandwichcraft. All they need is to execute well: offer fair prices, quality service, and use decent ingredients. That's quite enough. It's not the French Laundry, ok fine, who cares?

We are at a point of tech where people are opening up internet sandwich shops. That's fine. A well executed me-too nothing-new thing is totally absolutely fine. The internet is big enough for all of us. Have a good time and enjoy building stuff.
So how many small business out their are bootstrapped making $400K to 2 million net? A sibling poster mentioned making $200K a year at a FAANG.

If you have a household income of $434K, you’re already in the top 1% if you have a household income of $600K you’re in the top .5%.

If it were that easy, don’t you think more people would be doing it?
Let me chime in. I've been consulting crypto(graphic) projects for years and systems that are developed by one person are way way clearer and simple than systems developed by nultiple developers. Things like TLS become a mess once multiple developers start collaborating. It's weird. My theory is that one dev working on a project can refactor it many times during development, whereas this would be an insane thing to do when collaborating.
That reminds me of this very cool video from a gaze-tracking study of someone walking on rough terrain: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8bzdr8/gaz...
Well, and they did it right, too. In the image caption,

> The Anhei tokamak is the first facility in the world to generate 100 million degrees Celsius (212 million Fahrenheit)

In article body,

> Most recently in November, it became the first facility in the world to generate 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million Fahrenheit)
If you don’t need a degree, most universities have visiting student programs that are less expensive compared to their degree programs also. Maybe lambda school should partner with a university non degree program so students can have access to an online library and a .edu email also.
Are the photos scraped automatically from Unsplash or are they manually curated in some way?
I'm wondering because it looks like that website classifies photos by category (animals, architecture, fashion, food) but that information is not on your API.

I think it would be really useful to be able to get a picture of a random animal or a random landscape rather than just a random anything. But I'm not sure if that's outside of the scope of the project.
Yeah I used to use Voat right after /r/conspiracy started getting scared, things were civil and small scale and I had some fruitful discussions, that went to hell once the racist subs started getting hit.
I presume you mean "musical" instruments.

Yes, keyboards, violin, saxophone, etc. Have been playing since my teens. Over the years I have been practising less and less - which is a pity. Only get an hour or so per week. Used to be that much almost daily.
Never been to PayLess, is it any good, or rather was it?

Also, should mention TJMaxx has decent stuff. Never bought shoes there but I get pants, shirts, and random stuff for the house. My wife gets plenty of clothes there though.
Thanks! It is very therapeutic indeed.
I dropped a negative there: I would be surprised to find out the first was not the case.
Completely agree. Thomas Pornin told me he wrote 10 TLS implementations before writing BearSSL. And it shows.
Are you having them repaired? The shoe repair shops in my neighborhood are aging out & im worried it will stop being an option.
CPython is already a JIT
I'm personally partial to PlaceKitten[1] though around halloween I will sometimes switch it up with PlaceZombie[2]

This one looks nice in that you wouldn't be embarrassed if it goes live since the images are generally nice looking but part of the appear of YAPHS (Yet Another Placeholder Service) is that it is really obviously a placeholder so you catch it before it goes live.

[1] https://placekitten.com/ (warning: contains fluffy kittens)

[2] http://placezombie.com/ (warning: contains images of simulated violence)
If Facebook Wants Our Trust, Mark Zuckerberg Must Resign
I agree there is a problem. And there would be precedent for breaking up a company. But she is going further than that. How about the definition of platform utilities for companies with annual global revenue of over $25 billion (see article for full details). There is more too, I won´t repeat the points of the article. I am pretty liberal but I think this kind of regulation is risky.
Brooks idea was even more radical:

Put non-coders to work under the chief programmer. Let them help instead of control.
Don't forget- there's 4 million Americans who are ineligible to vote for president due to the fact that they live in territories, not states (and DC since 1961).
That is mostly my thought as well, meaning that the parent's boss made the right move in saving money with no loss in productivity.
addictive is quite a loose term, things like weed and acid may not cause a chemical addiction - but they are extremely habit forming.
The comments might have been folded/combined with another thread's in a way that reset their timestamps.
So as someone who follows fusion somewhat I'm embarrassed to admit I'd never heard of this. For reference, pB here means proton-Boron [1].

To expound on what the commenter here has said: neutrons are a big problem for hydrogen-fusion reactors for two reasons:

1. A high-energy neutron represents a loss of a lot of energy, reducing the overall efficiency of the process since that neutron is basically "lost". It obviously has no charge so can't be captured.

2. Additionally, high-energy free neutrons tend to destroy their containers. I don't know if this will make the reactor itself radioactive or not. The commenter seems to think so.

Hence the idea of aneutronic fusion, which is fusion that produces no neutrons or very few. This is part of the attraction of Helium-3 fusion [2].

The neutron problem seemed so fundamental (in that neutrons are required to trigger fusion reactions, which is why you use deuterium and tritium rather than protium (Hydrogen-1) but those neutrons are the very problem that (so far) has made this method impractical. I remain skeptical if this particular problem will ever be solved. Neutrons are fine for stars. Stars are big so that neutrons don't go that far and they're big enough that gravity solves the containment issue.

It's also worth noting that there's no such thing as "free" energy. There is energy where the fuel is free (solar, wind and even fusion) but that still doesn't mean the energy is free. The plant that produces it costs money and takes up space. It must be maintained and it has a shelf-life. Look at the total cost of the plant over its lifetime and divide that into the power it produces and there's your baseline energy cost. So a $50B plant that produces 5MW for 5 years for no fuel cost isn't much use to anyone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Proton-boron

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Fusion_reactions
By what metric of 'better'?
What they hate is losing power. They want power that they can only get by using the power inside others. Hate is just the energy to justify oppressing and using other minds for things theirs can't do. Also known as capitalism. What they hate is not owning and controlling their own little world.
Yeah. As much as I think "toxic" is overused, it's definitely not helpful to you or the person you "love" or the person they love to pine after the "beloved" forever.

I mean, wouldn't you feel weird if somebody had these very strong feelings for you that you just could not reciprocate? Would that make you want to keep the relationship going, or would it make you feel a queasy mixture of guilty, flattered, and uncomfortable?
It almost seems to me that there are two very similar, overlapping mental models* of "primeness".

The first is: "numbers that can be multiplied together to get all other numbers". This mental model by necessity excludes 1.

The second is: "numbers that cannot be 'made' by multiplying other, smaller numbers together". This mental model is "looser," and ends up including 1, and maybe 0 and -1.

The first mental model tends to be more mathematically useful, so becomes the official definition of prime.

\* Note that I explicitly use "mental model" here instead of "definition," because I am discussing different ways that different humans try and _understand_ different sets of numbers.
I don't really get why they're rolling it out so slowly.
Planetary Defense Conference Exercise – 2019
What about Akamai or Cloudfront?

Cloudfront certainly aren’t the first CDN, and I highly doubt they’re the largest.
Review Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition, at London's Design Museum
The 8-part series this comes from (starting here [1]) was a really good read. Very informative, regardless of one's stance on emoji.

[1] https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2018/08/emoji-part-1-in-the-be...
They are mostly from Unsplash's curated collections a few years ago.
How about a reusable cup? $0.10 off at Starbucks.
Used Tissue for $79
FWIW, I didn't find it strange, just interesting.
> German med school takes six and a half years to teach the same amount of knowledge

I think the difference is that many students enter German (and other non-US) med schools immediately after high school, while US med schools only accept students who already have a 4 year undergrad degree.

So in reality US medical training takes 8 years (4 years of pre-med undergrad, 4 years med school) which makes the 6 years look relatively efficient.

Also those non-US doctors graduate with substantially less debt.
ISPs/Carriers are MiTMing all kinds of traffic [0]. A VPN that promises to protect you from this, in addition to offering low latency due to their superior network and routing tech, might be a big plus, too [1][2]. I think its too early to dismiss VPN-for-all as an idea dead in the water. Time will tell. From what I know and what I've read so far, Warp might indeed be the VPN that you've wanted all along but never knew.

[0] https://techscience.org/a/2015103003/

[1] https://patents.justia.com/patent/9736710

[2] https://patents.justia.com/patent/20170086092
This emotional attachment to the land creates a fundamental economic problem - inelasticity of supply. The uncomfortable reality is that the US is making too much food and has too many small farmers. Federal and state governments spend billions of dollars on farming subsidies, they create indirect subsidies through programmes like crop insurance, bioethanol mandates and food aid, but it still isn't enough to keep small farms profitable.

Unless we introduce some kind of guaranteed minimum income for farmers, their long-term prosperity depends, sadly, on farm closures. We simply have more farmers and more small farms than the market can possibly sustain.
for now :)
Project Dustbunny: Is Shakespeare’s DNA Hiding in the Folger Library’s Vault?
Maybe if you have 10 pairs of shoes and you are sure to wear each pair the same amount, and you don't walk that much. That or you basically never walk on non-carpeted surfaces at all.

I suppose you could also have be having them repaired, but cheap shoes don't tend to be very repairable.