skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would add that compost is underrated.

I also think that recycling allows companies to waste more, because consumers are more comfortable generating recycling waste than landfill waste, even though for plastics there isn't really much you can do to recycle them.
I am Italian (living in San Francisco though), and I pretty much agree with your observations - in general, and also specifically about Italy.

On a side note, I find the brand "Uniqlo", which sounds very much like the word "unique", to be the ultimate oxymoron.

You can see people wearing "unique" dresses dozens of times a day, everywhere in the US.
> This allows one to take one physical Kubernetes cluster and chop it up into smaller virtual clusters.

What is the benefit, or difference of this over namespaces in Kubernetes? Namespaces provide resource quotas, and they work with RBAC too, the benefits listed in the README and their descriptions, they sound exactly what namespaces already provide.
If you are in the U.S., wait until you become accredited and have enough excess cash that you can do this part time.

Otherwise, make this your full time job and make sure you have enough income to wait 8-10 years before you start seeing return.

You can also invest in a first time fund, where the manager will charge 2% management fee and 20% carry (success fee).

Getting access to entrepreneurs depends on your geography but generally if you make yourself useful to entrepreneurs, with or without investing, you can start generating dealflow.

Start with small checks, you will mess up in the beginning, so make these mistakes less painful.

Read venture deals and watch all the videos from YC investor school.
This is the reason I don't think I'll ever sign up. Pay a monthly subscription and full price for games that'll likely vanish in a puff of efficiency? Thanks but no thanks.
Your phrasing implies Word has a shared code base like BSD and Unix do. The connection of Bravo with Word is that Charles Simonyi was involved with both. You see that with a lot of Xerox PARC projects - the researches frustrated with Xerox's failure to commercialize their research went elsewhere to implement their vision.
Confirmation bias is so strong in most ppl then when you explain to them the mainstream media plays to the narrative that is most profitable for them.

Fake news isn't simply about facts, but news, by definition, entails relevence and importance. I wish i had $10 for things I've seen served/broadcast as news that is, at best, fluffy current events. Meanwhile, real news is ignored.
I'm curious, why it doesn't work in temperate climates? Also, I think it heavily depends on how "rich" / volcanic the soil is in the first place, perhaps?
Both nitrogen and potassium are available in unlimited supply (and hydrogen from non-fossil sources can be used instead of hydrogen from natural gas). It's the phosphate, and possibly N2O emission, that constrain things. Eventually phosphate may have to be mined from average crust rocks, where it occurs at about 1000 ppm.
1. X-b befomes 0 if x=b right?

2. This means anything multiplying this x-b becomes 0 as well when x=b right?

His definition of linear is also wrong in my book.

Linear: f(x) = a x

Affine: f(x) = a x + b

(For some a, b)
Withdraw reflex does not mean learning. You can see this in cases where the withdrawal reflex is repeatedly triggered without learning.
Though Google might still have a start-up culture, general public doesn't perceive Google to be a start-up.

Now everyone, may be except techies, consider Google as an established brand which offers top quality product. General public doesn't know much about startup culture or business.
> I agree that this doesn't prove that insects don't have feelings - it shows that an agent doesn't need to be conscious to exhibit these sorts of behaviours.

This conclusion requires an understanding of what endows something with consciousness. (I won't use the word agent, because the relationship between consciousness and agency isn't clear. Agency may require consciousness, but consciousness needn't necessarily require agency.)

We do not know what part of the human brain is responsible for human consciousness. Anything which we create may also, as a byproduct or an emergent property, create consciousness. Perhaps the only thing consciousness needs is an ability to sense and respond to stimuli.
I sort of dislike this kind of "philosophical" introduction to calculus. Maybe I don't have the spirit of an artist.

The best way to start with calculus is the one by Gilbert Strang, who explains everything on the first page of his book (and the rest of the book are "just" examples).

The first half of the first page shows a drawing of the speedometer and odometer of a car and it explains what they are, and that they are not independent but related in a special way. On the second half of the first page it says that differential calculus is the task of computing the speed from the distance, and integral calculus is the task of computing the distance from the speed. Then it says a lovely sentence "this is not an analogy, this is the real deal and we have already started with the subject, and this is actually all there is to it". Then in the rest of the page it explains in a couple of sentences how can you compute speeds from distances and vice-versa, and why you need a constant of integration, and so on. It also proves the fundamental theorem of calculus. The rest of the book consists in concrete examples and a few more constructions, up to Taylor series.
Efficient Cryptography on the RISC-V Architecture
Startup School
While i 100% agree with your point, the (i'm assuming) highly regulated process of creating and running a landfill site doesnt have the same "fail fast, fail often", "MVP", "rapid development" culture that software does.
Rust as the New C Part 1: Building and Combining Native Libs into C API
Very weird time we are in right now. US Markets at all time high, stronk us economy, faltering global outlook, plus tariffs. Market may go to the moon, or it may collapse.

That ratio needs to be tweaked at least monthly maybe bimonthly through the rest of this year (lots of uncertainty coming up)
I’m saying that pushing your developers to improve will increase their market value, possibly outside your personnel budget. One possible outcome here is that they decide to leave and join a company that will give them a higher salary to reflect their increased skills.

On the other hand, withholding opportunities for growth is also a way to frustrate employees and cause them to leave. Know your people, and take their changing needs into consideration when planning business strategy. There’s lots of strategies that can work here, but not all of them are right for every company. A few off the top of my head:

- Build a training pipeline so you can regularly hire promising young developers for cheap and help them grow into a more senior position elsewhere.

- As your developers improve, be prepared to give raises and promotions to reflect their increasing value.

- Hire experienced developers with the skills you need at a fair price and offer stable employment instead of fast-track growth.
I recently made a 60"x48" print from a 4x5 negative scanned with a Epson V700 scanner. You're simply not going to get that kind of resolution with a DSLR. I don't doubt you get good results with your setup, but your statement that "the results are better than any flatbed scanner" is nonsense.
It sounds like one of the primary factors was compatibility with existing (or customer-provided) mod_security rules, if I've understood 1.75x speed hyper-you right.
Which Way to the City on a Hill?
Crop rotation was a huge advancement in agriculture. It assists in soil nutrient replenishment. Additional minerals and synthetic nitrogen can be added if needed.
Suggestions for Making Your R Code Spookier
I noticed the use of jQWidgets and I wondered what people had to say about that.
Ask HN: What is an interesting way people use Airtable?
I’m curious how people are using Airtable for interesting applications.
When it's not prohibited by law, it's allowed.

Frankly, I'm glad I don't live in your community.

I just got back from grocery shopping. Before I went in, I stomped off some mud I had on my feet. As I walked down the aisles, I accidentally knocked a bag of something off a shelf, so I turned around, picked it up, and returned it to its proper spot. When I got to the ice cream coolers, I first looked through the glass to decide what I wanted, and only opened the freezer door when I'd made my selection, sealing the door again once I was done.

There aren't any laws forcing me to do those things. But I'm happy to do them, because (a) when we all cooperate in this manner, it makes life better for all of us; and (b) the additional costs of cleaning and shrinkage would make the groceries more expensive for us if we didn't do it.

Have you ever been to a part of the world that doesn't have the same kind of "high trust" environment that most of us in the West enjoy? For example, in America we can safely assume that at a bus stop, people will of their own accord form up an orderly line when the bus comes, each person waiting their turn. My experience in some other nations is that people will swarm around the bus door, each jockeying to be the next one in. There aren't any laws forcing people to act as they do here, but I think we're all better off with the societal norm that drives people to do it our way.
I hate the dummies books too. People that consider themselves intelligent don't want to buy a book that forces you to call yourself a dummy. I'm saying there is another space for people that feel they are intelligent and don't yet have the knowledge about programming and could do it given the right introductions.

O'Reilly speaks to me too, but I think there is entire population of people that aren't familiar with Tim O'Reilly and buy books from his publisher to join that community of thinkers. And that's a shame.
A lot of this depends on how evenly people suffering are distributed through society.

One reason queer rights caught on so quickly is that LGBTQ people are evenly distributed across racial, ethnic and class boundaries. A rich white kid is exactly as likely to be trans, say, as a poor Brown or Black kid. People suffering from drug addictions in the US are more concentrated among certain communities.
The Advantage has been updated into the Advantage II (I have two and adore them ). One of the big changes is the function keys, if that is ever of interest to you.
This is really cool, but on mobile I wast able to see the conclusion - does your top plane design actually self sustain?
Ironically, this is why I personally find the use of "snowflake" and "SJW" so enraging.
I think they wouldn’t do that because their whole thing is to become the only software provider in the world.
I am sure they are due for a regime change for oppressing their people at some point in the future.
...I think I actually understood that.

Not sure whether I should be happy or not, but such is life

Anyway, if my parsing is correct, this poster laments the way that academic publishing was subverted away from doing something unique and covering new ground through actually making substantial scientific breakthroughs in favor of higher visibility and accessibility where the metrics of having published something to be quoted by others became more important than publishing a truly revolutionary piece.

This is paralleled by the shift in attitude w.r.t. programming languages. In the days of computing yore, the emphasis was around trying to wrangle the machine into doing what you wanted it to do, and you stayed as close to the metal while doing as possible to keep it fast, because you had to squeeze as much out of what you had as possible. You were comfortable with the software/hardware boundaries being present because that's what it took. As languages developed however, much of the "skill" at the time was chipped away at in the name of abstraction, modularity(many functions getting implemented as libraries), and linguistic/runtime hand holding by things like garbage collecting VM's. This overhead allowed more accessibility in terms of the initial knowledge and kill barrier to entry to be significantly lowered, as the challenge and prestige of wrestling with the machine to get things done performantly slowly gave way to maintaining an encyclopedic knowledge of libraries and frameworks that can be kludge together to give a roughly working facsimile of the desired system. Programming therefore degenerated from somewhat harder scientific endeavor to make breakthroughs in fully utilizing more performant hardware to the max with highly optimized and performant code, to using increased hardware performance as a buffer to allow sloppier, easier to think about abstractions to do the lifting, making software development a glorified popularity contest where frameworks of the week competed for more programmer mindshare for the sake of competing rather than actually doing something in and of themselves. This had the end goal of making terrible (in terms of minimal footprint to run) software easier to write, and easier to hire people to work with.

That's what the poster seems to mean by "the Ferengi hired tons of mercenaries and defeated the Borg." The Borg being the 13 year old purist, the Ferengi being those that wanted terrible software that did well enough.

Shift this back to academia, and you see the same dynamic. Academics are pushed to publish or perish, so the actual quality of scientific breakthrough has nose dived in favor of throwing as many results out there to be added to someone else's mindshare as possible. The entire network and incentive structure behind it being fiscally motivated by the interest of the closed access journals.

Damn. Not the most straightforwardly worded, but I can see where this guy is coming from.
Boeing 737 Max Grounding Could Stretch into 2020
Pretty excited about what you are working on. If you can get this up and running at critical mass it could be HUGE!
Controversial articles need controversy
Their data don't point to that, they are interpreting the data as if it does which there isn't any scientific evidence to support. Only speculation (it could be other things like the sun, natural variation and so many other things which they haven't been able to rule out)
Most neuroscientists would certainly agree with you already: hype notwithstanding, we’re nowhere near figuring the brain. Hell, we can’t even figure out the nervous system of a worm (~300 neurons, vs. 86B in humans).

It is absurdly, fractally complicated, from the level individual ion channels (which have properties akin to cells), individual neurons and much larger neural circuits.
Emacs 27.1 to improve performance with long lines
Your definitions of cartels & force are different to mine :)

Legitimate opiate producers compete in the same market with illegitimate ones. The force they use is police, dea, etc., instead of guns directly, but the techniques are the same.

After all, a state is what happens when organized crime expands its time horizons.
> Outrage is profitable.

Reminds me of what have been happening in the past few months on "Weibo" (think of it like the Twitter of Mainland China). Didn't know the details but surely some people have been trying to profit from deliberately inspiring outrages from feminism issues.
Same goes for individuals. How many people wait until they get a heart attack before they change their diet or quit smoking?
It’s basically every other popular post on Reddit that isn’t a cat picture or joke. Twitters ranking algorithm loves outrage, their highlight reel too.
salt, sugar, and flour aren't natural?
Journalists don’t use Twitter as the source of truth unless there is no other way to get info. Eg the current POTUS doesn’t even have regular press briefings and uses Tweets to broadcast everything.

Journalists do seem to like Twitter as a platform to debate though. This was where they found it very useful, and why so many of them were early adopters and continue to be active there.

Why do they like Twitter?Today’s issues are so complex that writing long form articles on every event can limit the scope of your views to one or 2 main things while you may still be interested to debate other things. Twitter is a low cost, easily setup platform to do that.
Oh, right. Try the experimental packages: http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-users/msg01557.html
Detect number of faces from an image in Python using OpenCV
...but these pay for themselves?
Again way too many barriers to entry. I just need $100k to prove my idea. These funds have billions. They won’t lend 100k because it has a prototype app, a handful of interest, but no investor pitch? But they will give $1m to someone who can pitch a dream with no product?

Please come to me with $100k and I’ll offer you simply a guaranteed 0% return (no loss on investment) so I can pad my bank account and make “real” investors interested because it makes us look like we can manage our money.

It’s all smoke and mirrors and I wish I could get access to the same cheap money big corps get. $300k at 6, 7, or 10% interest is just robbery when public companies and home owners are walking away with 2-3% APRs
Your point is fair but I have read too many stories of people not preferring Google cloud services exactly because they think Google can't be trusted in long term. Also, I believe data is available to at least show that Google Cloud is behind both AWS and Azure in terms of clients.
Pac-Man Ghost AI Explained [video]
Scientists Just Unveiled the First-Ever Photo of Quantum Entanglement
For anyone looking for K8S multitenancy - here is an excellent talk by Alibaba / Alicloud about their approach:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptOLV2wjQUw

- https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/kccnceu19/3f/kubecon-s...
I have an abundance of empathy, and agree that suffering should be minimized. I do my best to minimize the suffering of those around me.

I still kill insects sometimes, but do my best to ensure that it is as painless and swift as possible.

Empathy is also a driving force for me in my interactions with others. I have a deep desire to end societal problems that cause suffering, and I deeply oppose war.
People became more sympathetic to LGBTQ issues when people started coming out of the closet and they learned that their neighbours, cousins, nieces and nephews were being prevented from marrying their loved ones. We didn't need to "turn more people gay" to accomplish this.

Similarly, we need to raise the visibility and openness of dealing with drug addiction, to come out of the closet so to speak, not increase drug addicted people.
Is that comment for me or about the referenced page? If it's for me, I'm not sure what you're saying.
https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-001-calculus-online-tex...

I guess this is the one?
Glad it’s working for you, but part of this doesn’t make any sense to me. One of the big selling point of medium format is how much more resolution and detail you can capture than if you used 35mm. You are suggesting applying a 35mm system resolution at best being applied in a lossy manner.

I’m sure you can get well focused results in this way, it it sounds like you are throwing away most of your resolution. Am I missing something? Are you stitching I ages together? If so how are you managing positioning?

If I haven’t missed something: if you compared this to a digital back on a ’blad with otherwise the same image and blew them up I expect the difference would be blindingly obvious.
The X1 Carbon is somewhat an attempt to have an Apple-like glass trackpad. But other models have different trackpads.
Your refutation doesn't address my statement, and I think you continue to undersell the problem.

I said housing prices are growing much faster than wages in nearly all of the largest US cities. You responded saying that things are affordable in most cities, citing your map. But to take in example where I have ties, 38% of NOLA pays >50% of income towards housing, up from 24% in 2004 [1]. "Affordable" is in the eye of the beholder, but I have ties in NOLA and I know housing prices are a top issue in politics and daily life.

Those numbers are for Orleans parish, but a) the same trend is true for the broader metro area, and b) if people now have to move to Abita Springs to afford "New Orleans", then my broader point (that it's becoming harder for people to come up by moving to the country's power centers) still seems pertinent.

[1] https://www.datacenterresearch.org/data-resources/who-lives-...
A lot of early computer work was classified. NASA was able to leverage this work which made evolutionary changes seem revolutionary. But, that’s simply because so many of the intermediary steps where hidden from public view.

PS: The enigma cracking for example is very well known now. But, that’s a surprisingly recent revelation... After the end of World War II, the Allies sold captured Enigma machines, still widely considered secure, to developing countries. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine. This meant keeping the machines that could crack these codes secret was important for decades.
For people who haven't met Craig Newmark in person, it's relevant to point out here that he is one of the gentlest and biggest-hearted tech people in public life.
Bird has ‘positive unit economics’ with its custom scooter model, CEO says
Do you have a source on racial/class distribution for lgbt? Would be interested to see it
Recycling consumes energy. The better strategy is by far designing products that last longer or can be reused.
> That's one company spending half an ITER a year.

No it's not even close to the total cost of ITER. It may just pay for the cost of actually physically constructing it.

The R&D that got taxpayer funded scientists to the point where we are able to construct it at all is going to be a multiple of that.

> The problem is that industry has decided, quite rationally in my opinion, that fusion power is not one of those ideas.

So you're saying that things like fission reactors, spaceflight and GPS, treatments for some rare and not-so-rare diseases, the Human Genome Project, ARPANET, everything that came out of CERN, etc. were bad ideas just because no private company could be assed to develop and build those first?

No. It's a fact that all of these were vitally important to get our species where it is today, even though they would have looked like a terrible investment of time and money from the perspective of a private company. Today private companies have happily entered some of those spaces that have been pioneered by government funded scientists.

It's true that many moonshots fail. That's why they're called (sometimes literal) moonshots. But it's important to try anyways so we can advance as a species.

And most of the time we learn a lot even if we fail.
Hey, not OP but I’m interested (London based). What’s the best way to reach out?
The average temperature for cities in middle America will raise 10F in 30yrs? That sounds really a very big swing and they claim it’s their “most conservative” prediction.
Are you comparing SF to Switzerland?
I know of no better way to both learn, truly understand, and enjoy calculus than the visual approach of 3Blue1Brown in the Calculus series of videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUvTyaaNkzM&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
The piano keyboard is pretty poorly designed from a pure user interface standpoint; its design is mostly dictated by the direct mechanical connection to a big bunch of parallel strings.

Tons of pianists get RSI, which can seriously impact their careers. It is important for serious musicians to figure out a piano technique which does not require putting too much static load on any of the joints.

An improved piano keyboard could help quite a bit, but it’s pretty hard to change piano keyboard layouts, since there are several centuries of repertoire built up around the current one, and pianos are very large, expensive, and difficult to modify.
Building a hackable editor in the browser