skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends build to build. The standard approach is one of 4:

1) The bot initiates the conversation and your initial message gets sent directly to an agent. This is the older model that's in most common use today.

2) The bot initiates contact and based on your responses does some simple keyword matching and delivers help article links where possible or asks for more information IVR style, then when it hits an "I don't know" point or if the agent option is selected, offloads to an agent.

3) This is my favorite style, honestly: The bot initiates the interaction, and does some machine learning backed AI chat, all the while the interaction is monitored by an agent who can take over at any time. Similar to #2, if the bot hits a sticking point, it'll just queue to an agent. This unfortunately is the least common of the implementations.

4) This is the most modern and is becoming the industry leader: Fully AI bot trained against a veritable Everest of chat conversations for that entity/industry, only offloads to a human when you shout "HUMAN" at it enough times or if it gets really stuck and confidence intervals start falling rapidly.

NOTE/DISCLAIMER: I design and implement these systems for a living, and we don't often get much say in the customer-side UX, so I'm sorry if you've gotten stuck with an arguably bad build!

(Edit: formatting)
Any paper in a landfill is going to decompose back into CO2. You'd be better off recycling it and reducing demand for lumber.
Creating a Remote Development Machine
Link to the article mentioned 17776, a piece I very much enjoyed: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
Associated Press Fact Checking
Given Vox's hyperbolic nature in terms of articles and agendas, I'm not sure how big an issue it actually is. Beyond this, I'm frankly surprised it's only 1b this early on... Compared to most startup initiatives, accounting for scale, it's really not bad at all.
"Who knew EVs would be more than a niche/compliance car market?!" -- the people running BMW's i-division.

I'm sure years from now Tesla will get no credit for dragging incumbent carmakers kicking and screaming into the EV market, but they really should get the lion's share of the credit for this. Because I'm certain that without Tesla, BMW and other carmakers wouldn't even have started making "EV platforms" or EVs from scratch until 2030+.
I went back and forth for a bit. Ultimately ivy was faster, though, which meant I could use it for more things. I used ido-hacks before which sped ido up enough to use it for M-x, but ivy is already easily fast enough for that.
Yeah, a place like BestBuy doesn't sell inexpensive cables, even though they're often of cheap quality, at least by my experience.
Standardization is great when it actually happens. USB C cables are anything but standardized.
Maybe this?

https://www.versicherungsforen.at/portal/media/forschung/stu...

Thanks for the pointer! Will be an interesting read.
They talk about the three main uses of sand being concrete, glass and electronics (the third one is actually wrong, only 15 % of silicon produced ends up in the semiconductor industry, the rest is used in metallurgy). I can imagine that one could use desert sand for the last two purposes but don't know how much of an impact that would make.
It's amusing to me that you seem to be struggling to vocalize why anyone would want a website like yours - as if a 'resume' or a 'journal' were the only reasons to keep one.

But, as a reader, I think a website like yours is like having a chance to explore that person's personality in a freeform way. The design reflects their aesthetic (similar to how fashion does for the physical form), the organization reflects their favored mental models perhaps, and the myriad of topics and links makes it a graph-like structure for a book/journal/life. It's strange to me that people question a personal website's purpose - but accept that of a coloring or sticker book. To me, that only says that our brains haven't quite caught up with how to use the medium. (Although, if you have read sites like philosopher.life, then I think you have a glimpse of what's possible.)
Agreed. There are tens of thousands of exim servers still vulnerable. Not to mention Drupal, etc.

If you are not going to actively maintain and update it, let someone else handle it that will.
> Avoid the mainstream media

I seriously had that thought today. I do believe journalists report the facts and are not 'fake' news. But boy, is news opinionated nowadays. Every channel you go to, its all about selling you outrage. The CNN YouTube channel is especially cringe worthy for me. To see a respected news channel turn to click bait titles and circling pictures makes me kind of sad. I wish they didn't do that.
Skiing. I used to visit EpicSki until...

"it was bought by Vail and shutdown after they realized they weren’t in the business of forums."

Reddit is not a suitable replacement. Its ephemeral nature makes it a not very good medium to build certain communities around.
Once you’re setting up a BSD, you’ve signed up for lots of post install configuration. The installers just aren’t meant to be as “batteries included” as a Linux installer.

I’d go so far as to say that you shouldn’t touch a FreeBSD or OpenBSD install unless you’ve already done and maintained a gentoo, arch, or LFS install.
But they do offer a small education discount ($50 or so on the cheaper hardware) and almost always have a "Back to School" promotion in which they also throw in some sort of accessory for free.

For the last two years (at least), the "Back to School" promotion launched in the middle of July and offered a free set of Beats headphones, which had a retail price of $200-300.
You're not supposed to suppress it. For example, why would anyone wants to suppress a runny nose? That is literally the body dumping out what's no longer needed inside. Insanity...
"Stopping abuse" isn't actionable - e.g. You can't say today I'm going to "stop abuse"(Unless you're an abuser).

Banning images is an actionable measure - with the goal of stopping abuse.

Not saying it's a good one.
Most Linux images deployed on cloud providers I’ve seen don’t even have swap by default… it’s up to the user to add swap if necessary. I haven’t seen any installers default to encrypted swap, however.
I keep the AC on in my Tesla a lot during the summer. Costs a couple miles per hour of range. Totally worth it.
I can't help but notice that all those videos are just one random crazy talking to a camera.

He also has videos featuring "High Vibration" foods for "spiritual health".
> Then I sit down to actually start playing with it I struggle to think of anything to build that would actually take advantage of the tech aside from purely static sites.

Actually as someone that deals heavily with static sites, if dweb was only used for static sites and perhaps pushed us back to a more document-oriented web I and a lot of others would be quite happy with that. I don't think it needs to be capable of feature-complete replacement of Twitter and Facebook to be successful, and requiring it to be that way as a precondition for success is IMHO a losing strategy for dweb. Start with document-oriented and slowly increment.
Have Work, Will Travel
7 Simple Tips to Prevent Digital Eye Strain
Can you provide an example of a problem that requires multiple tidyverse operations, but could be solved equally well using only lapply?
Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel

https://fstoppers.com/food/what-week-groceries-looks-around-...
The book you're thinking of is probably Hungry Planet[1]

[1]https://menzelphoto.photoshelter.com/gallery/Hungry-Planet-F...
I find the complete opposite to be true. In most text-based websites, I have to zoom in to around 120% or even 133% (e.g. HN) for the text to be readable.
I do a hybrid-static. I just use PHP to manage headers and footers but otherwise all the content is static.
One example, Qiime[1] can now run on windows via WSL. Much faster than the previous best solution, which was virtualbox.

[1] https://qiime2.org/
There's a few different reasons:
First, reading about similar experiences didn't make me optimistic. It seemed like 50/50 between getting someone who would help and someone who would tell you that the case is forever closed without recourse. I got the feeling that the in weird cases like mine these techs didn't actually understand what was going on and it was just the luck of the draw of what tech you got.

Second, I realized how powerful these big platforms like eBay are. I looked around for alternatives in case I did get permanently banned and I sure didn't find much. What was particularly creepy to me was how being an undesirable to eBay could potentially spread: they track your account, name, address, credit card number, IP, and so on and seeing any one of these can lead to bans on other accounts. In a lot of ways this makes sense, but in theory, if I happened to log on to my banned account at my mom's, it could match my account with her IP and ban her account as well. I doubt this would happen in eBay's case as support reps would probably help her if that happened, but it definitely brought to mind the Chinese social credit system where linking to an undesirable can make you an undesirable yourself.

Third and most important was personal. I'm engaged to someone who is planning to use eBay. I wouldn't care too much about being banned off of eBay but I would hate to see her life become any harder just because of some weird glitch.
So is it the cold or the symptoms that are good?

> That is literally the body dumping out what's no longer needed inside.

Are you implying it's a waste management system, and not an immune response to a foreign agent?
No. It was just loud and clearly it was people telling stories. Maybe it was a play or some kind of theater.

That time we were looking for what was eventually a big fluffy not house trained dog that led to chronic professional cleaning costs.

Having big fluffy dogs taking liberties on our upholstery was something we couldn't afford to constantly clean and we had a no (shedding) pets policy and it's certainly not fair to do some blanket ban on a bunch of users because we couldn't find the actual dog.
Why It's So Hard to Find a Doctor in Toronto
The Met prefers to measure accuracy by comparing successful and unsuccessful matches with the total number of faces processed by the facial recognition system. According to this metric, the error rate was just 0.1%.

Turn the machines off and the error rate will be 0%.
They covered the car, including the back window, in triple-junction solar cells. Last I heard, those were made of expensive stuff like indium gallium arsenide junctions. They were popular on satellites because they do really really well outside of atmosphere and much worse in shaded and indirect light conditions than silicon.

I'd like to know how much those cells really cost and how much power is left when you can see out the back window again. 860W sounds like a high number. Fancy 30+% triple junction solar cells cost something like $200-$300 per _watt_ years ago. As a result, those solar panels might be worth more than the car itself! Even if they've got the fancy ones down to $50/watt, that's still $43000 in solar cells. Sure they've got grandiose claims about how little they'll cost in the future, but I'd like to know about today.

This is same bunk as hearing they've made a new crazy high efficiency solar cell, but it can't be manufactured outside a lab with a mountain of grad students doing the work. Sounds cool, but it won't come to market any time soon.
Smart film/tint/glass on a car window: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7xEcI1oSVs
Same here. The place where I grew up in Devon was beautiful, loads of trees and farmland. Only it was all flattened 25 years ago and replace with big ugly houses.
Marketing for my buy a press pass service (gets you in for free to all kinds of events, concerts, museums, clubs, etc): https://www.magicpresspass.com

Marketing and recruitment for people who want to get paid consulting who have done amazing adventures (like travelled around the world on a bicycle, climbed Everest etc, please reach out if you have). Essentially I want to have a consultancy for people who have done amazing things and want to get paid to consult to people who have done those things before. https://www.adventurecopilot.com

Also seeking suggestions on how to learn marketing, it's a skill I'm keenly interested in acquiring.

And considering a Trump related merchandise business (not because I like Trump, but I think it would sort of market itself). I love businesses where people have strong opinions. Strong opinions travel, positive or otherwise.

Also writing about entrepreneurship and personal excellence at https://www.davidparkinson.com and polishing up my 'find your phone, escape a boring meeting/date service' https://www.phonemyphone.com (fun fact, launched this on Hacker News 10+ years ago :P).

Feel free to rip any of those ideas/concepts apart :P.
The platform is HTML and CSS. If you want to be above average, use the most modern HTML5 semantic tags. Use grid and flexbox in CSS. Use media queries for responsive design.

The language and the compiler is in the browser. The source code is HTML/CSS. Use VSCode, Atom, Sublime or even Dreamweaver to write that code.
I run Gentoo. Very minimal system. Really quick. sway window manager (i3 clone for wayland). It's probably not as bad as I made it sound, though. I use tools and I am always trying to automate away any work in my life. But I like simple tools that I can understand. I don't like magic. I won't use a tool that promises to solve all my problems and make me rich at the same time. I like to stay on top of it all.
Bayes' theorem strikes again. Even if the odds of a false positive are only 1 in 1000, if 1 in a million are criminals then out of 1000 flagged people only 1 might be a criminal.
No. You found the fit raw food vegan who looks at least 5 years younger than his age, in better shape than most of his peers, rarely if ever gets "sick". Friends used to laugh at me too. In the meantime, we all get older, and guess what - they all get sicker. Crohn's, Colitis, cancers, erectile dysfunction (mind you I'm talking about 30-40 year olds), joint pain, whatever. Even the "healthy" ones on all-organic grass-fed Keto are starting to get sick after a few years on it. Welcome, Kidney stones.
What do veteran Lisp programmers think of Clojure? (Answers by jwr, norvig, …)
That chart strangely leaves off grid scale solar? I wonder what explains that mysterious oversight?

And of course if you fit the panels at the same time as building the house you don't get any additional deaths and even rooftop solar sails to the top of the list.

I'm sure we'll find another obscure stat to focus on though (even if we have to leave off anything that beats nuclear). Dont let the facts get in the way of a good story.
I'm uncertain about this idea that increase in knife crime means gun control is pointless. I'd much rather get stabbed than shot given the differential in mortality. Even if all gun crimes were replaced with knife crimes the per capita homicide will be lower.
Setting up your vim environment is as cloning a git repository that contains your .vim files. Takes me about ~60 seconds to have vim up and running with all my favorite plugins. That's faster than you can download and install any other text editor. It's what I've been doing on just about every machine I've used for the past 5 years.

There are situations where git is not installed or I can't download those files for security reasons set by administrators, but those situations have been pretty rare for me.
The genetic variability available to the organism can be treated as normalization / quantization of abstract encoding. Map your desired results to this abstract "latent space" and start breeding yeasts. Build environment with various factors' parameters controlled by actuators attached to computer doing ML, maybe even GAs. The environment is the function!
The spec sure is a mouthful, but I find strong evidence that the spec isn't at fault.

The reason is the most common type of error: USB type A to type C cables using a wrong termination resistor value, signalling far too high current. We're talking about a table of currents to resistors with 3 rows: Default USB current (56K), 1.5A (22K) and 3.0A (10K).

Now, if the mistake had been in the parts that deal with orientation detection, PD protocol, alternate modes, or just dealing with the high speed signals pumping up to 40Gb/s through these cables, then we could agree that it might be complicated.

But if you can't pick a resistor from 3 values, then I don't know how one would write a spec that would be readable to you.

EDIT: s/that\ the\ evidence/that\ the\ spec/
Is this similar to Syncthing?
> I didn’t realize we differentiate between applications and sites these days.

I differentiate far more than that. Just as you wouldn't make the same tool choices for a throwaway, ten line script, a command line tool with five subcommands, and a full word processor, you can't expect to do the same for a website.

If what you need to do is put fixed web pages online, then a text editor and an SFTP client is exactly it. Write your HTML and CSS by hand and get on with life. It still works beautifully.

Just past that point is the uncomfortable place where you want to do some templating. And this is where it seems so simple just to hack together a quick script to do what you want that there are a million static site generators, and it's questionable if it's easier to write your own or learn how someone else has organized one. This is a place where no one has gotten it obviously right yet. I still use Hakyll because I got it working a while back and haven't been motivated to change. I've looked at Hugo and Jekyll. I've experimented a bit with writing my own. It's just not worth the effort.

At this point in time, the two things I think would be worth investigating in this space would be either precompiling web components to static HTML so you can use an existing standard that scales to web apps or going into something like Smalltalk and defining objects with content and metadata as objects in a live system then having the code generate output directly.
Who is going to pay for the externalities of the fossil fuel industry? Maybe you will, maybe you won't. But if you have any kids, they certainly will.
Just tried with ublock disabled, it's about 3.1mb and loaded in 3 seconds flat here. I'm not sure what GP is going on about. Amazon was 14.4mb and took about 4.5s to settle down.

I will say, Amazon's above the fold paint was faster, but it did load a LOT after that.
> that, to contribute, you have to turn over copyrights

*grant a copyright license

https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual
its in one of the two charts, as an image.
In the HBO series Chernobyl they claim to have been hours away from causing a much larger incident killing about 60 million people and making large parts of Europe and Asia uninhabitable.

Is there truth to this claim?

If so, and if such failure modes are possible, I’d say that current deaths per kWh is not be the best way to estimate risk.
In theory, the solar roof should absorb ~30% of the rays a cars is exposed to, so it won't heat up as much. Not sure if the effect would be significant, though.
Sure, but what color sparks? In my experience, standard orange sparks mean you just killed a component. Blue sparks mean you just did something very interesting, but not too healthy. Green sparks mean you're scraping thin the boundaries of reality, and Eldritch horrors are looking at you in hunger.
I'm actually not sure in terms of car AC. Local wisdom says that on hot days your AC will sap up to 10 HP from your engine. Not sure how accurate that is.

Looking around on Telsa forums and the like, I'm seeing numbers between 1 and 3 kW. My house's mini split AC unit draws around 9 amps (according to documentation, anyway), so around 2 kW. Actual numbers seem to be closer to 3 kW in the summer.
I've worked in a previous position that expected 8 hours of billable work for many of the junior devs, who didn't have meetings or documentation. It was crazy.
> At some point there will always be someone who something doesn't work for.

So your basically saying screw them all since it's impossible to include everyone? I just outlined for you the most common disability, it's particularly easy to avoid since they can still actually see.

> the rare person who is monochromatic can use the same solution as someone who is completely blind.

...how would you like to be told to learn brail in old age just cos your eyesight isn't quite good enough to read some small print?

No, that's just awful. Shape first, colour purely as an extra, then brail if the symbol is not relief or discernible enough, this is absolute basics of accessibility. This also helps everyone and functions in very low light since we all have low sensitivity to colour compared to luminescence, more so the older you get
Examples of pointless types of RSpec tests
There is lots more beyond what you have been conditioned to think about food, life, our existence.

http://earthsongfarm.com/energyoffood.htm

https://inspiredbyhilde.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/The-e...
Not sure on medium but I think ev A/C like Tesla's are 15,000 btu units. A 15k btu a/c should be between 1000-1600 watts depending on efficiency.
If you do care about the telemetry and ads, try a Linux computer
If they can bring the cost down on that, for other types of panel manufacturing for non automotive markets, that would be pretty amazing. 22% monocrystalline silicon 156mm cells are a commodity now (such as to build a 60 or 72 cells panel with and sell it under $0.60/watt), but 30 to 34% GaAs cells are incredibly expensive.

Until very recently GaAs triple junction cells have been so costly they are only used on satellites and other spacecraft.
I honestly think this kind of hits the nail on the head. The industry (in my opinion) is far too tolerant of asshole behavior for many reasons, and it's basically just created a safe place to be a jerk without any repercussion. I largely wrote up what I did because I'd like to see this change, we should treat rude and annoying behavior the way that most other industries do by making it something we culturally don't accept. The same folks who realized they could be jerks and it wouldn't hurt their careers will simply figure out that now it will and knock it off.
It would be fantastic if it could be re-planted with trees.
there was a time when DNS wasnt so critical.
We would remember a servers IP address, or keep a local DNS table and customize whatever literal URL names for the IP address,now the URL or the link is usually inhuman[mangled; shortened; redirected, incredibly long or complex]
and we need DNS.

The DOH is an interesting front.
Im thinking about how could someone deny traffic hops to machines with no visible DNS traffic, so if you cant block based on IPs then you can block based on DNS opacity
Not that I'm aware of. All reactors, bar none, require safeguards to prevent the owner from making weapons-usable material on the sly. Civilian nuclear is a fairly impractical and round-about way to get weapons material (just use centrifuges... way easier), but if you think it's easier to get a nuke than a centrifuge, or if you are a corrupt leader who takes over a country that has nukes, you can generally make some pretty good U-233 or Pu-239 with any nuclear reactor. Yes, even Thorium reactors (they're the ones that make U-233).

China, India, USA, Russia, France, UK, Pakistan, and Israel already have nuclear weapons. If you look at the fraction of world energy that that set of countries and their collective military allies uses (nevermind Israel), you can feel pretty good about transitioning more to nuclear even given a non-zero risk of proliferation.