skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know some sane, elderly homeless people. They generally prefer ready-to-eat, non-refrigerated foods, not canned foods.

1. Canned foods are heavy.

2. Canned foods usually aren't very appetizing, especially the pantry and seasonal rejects people usually donate.

3. Canned foods usually require eating and opening utensils.

Canned foods aren't what the homeless want or need. Instead of "beggars can't be choosers" arrogant rationalizations, maybe donors should do some research to figure out what recipients actually want and/or need?

As mentioned, shrewd food bank buyers will likely do far better at making use of funds on behalf of recipients than any consumer would buying small quantities not on sale at Whole Foods.
Just found the previous discussion from when they published the github repo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20412588.
The amount of otherwise-sane developers that have created their own cloud provider on top of an existing cloud provider 'because Docker/k8s' scares me.
I just surveyed my small team at work (5 ppl). Every single one said they'd rather donate canned foods than cash due to this reason alone. 3 said they would "never" donate cash.
Cans last (almost) forever. High nutrient food in packaging that preserves it. A surge of can donations in 2019 can be used in a donation slump that occurs in 2025.
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The British Plastics Federation have a nice (well, colourful) page on their website detailing the various ways plastic
goods and packaging can be reused, recycled, etc - https://www.bpf.co.uk/packaging/recycling.aspx

To quote from that page: "Disposal: No plastics should be put in landfill. Currently 26% of all plastic in the UK still goes to landfill" ... so if the plastics industry itself has finally got the message that burying their product (or dumping it in the sea) is not a good idea, I don't think I'd want to change their thinking by introducing them to ideas about carbon sequestration in landfills.
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Congrats Blender and great job Epic!!
Perhaps, though I would call it a converse or inverse rather than an opposite. Either are close relations. You can't be a thing's opposite unless the two of you share a lot together. North has more in common with South than it does with East.
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>That's how I see it. In 2005 I worked at a tech startup that was building out surveillance camera networks for Australia to spy on its rail system. I was aghast and the enormity of the project and how much money was involved and that was 2005. That project ultimately failed, but later ones of course have proceeded.

>Ethically, I don't get how we are doing this to ourselves. The bar has to be raised as far what is acceptable here. Otherwise, why did we fight two world wars? Why did we fight a Cold War against this kind of collectivism? We already know it's rancid. The level of freedom of the average Chinese citizen is horrifying. Do we want that for our children? Or are we going to fight for a better world? Tech has to lead the way and not just go there for profit. We have to be better than that.
Look up the charity on https://www.charitynavigator.org to vet them. If you don't trust the charity with money, then find one you do trust with money and give to them.
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The argument isn't against cans, it's against donations of cans. Instead, donate money, so the food bank can buy the cans it needs, rather than the cans you decide to throw at them.
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Is having someone as a student, and then they leave ... beneficial?

I don't have a position on this, I'm just wondering.
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" Current usage
Although the Icon was terminated, the QNX operating system is alive and well, if particularly different from its earliest versions. It is in over 100 vehicle models (navigation systems, telematics, speech recognition, bluetooth hands-free systems), and powers the Cisco CRS-1 and BlackBerry's BlackBerry Tablet OS and BlackBerry 10 operating systems. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX
Are these new T2-based Macs usable with Linux yet?

Honest question.

Edit: For the downvoters, it’s a real concern: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/11/06/mac-t2chip-linux/
Those have gigabytes per second not bits. SATA 3 has 6gbit/s.
I'll sell you one for £55
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Much of the time it was used to create full screen transparent links to other videos, or other obnoxious things decreasing QoL. Still sad to see it go though.
I personally blame social media for a lot oft this. Mob mentality has been a problem since forever, but Twitter has created a nation-wide 24/7 mob which is angrier than ever and never disbands. I blame that for the elections of President Trump, Congresswoman Ocasio, and other such divisive figures. I also think it's responsible for the phenomenon of each "side" seeing the other as morally wrong, inuhame, and almost not people. It's been known for a while we're meaner on-line because we can't see any one on the other side; I think that's a significant part of the problem.

This, of course, begs the question: how do you fix it? I don't know.
Look at how much it costs to rent an apartment in Shanghai.

If you're hiring developers you're not going to put your offices in the countryside just like the US isn't hiring many programmers in rural Missouri.
[random internet advice]

Contracting is relationships. What's not on the paper is always more important than what's on it. How does your plan benefit potential clients? How does it benefit other contractors in your niche? How does the plan benefit a potential employer in the Bay Area next year?

There's nothing wrong with your plan. It may underestimate the usual degree to which contracting requires paying dues, time spent selling, and commitment to solving other people's messy problems. The typical consultant who lives away from a client base has gray hair and grown children because it takes that long to develop relationships and reputation and experience.

It might be possible to work for five years and semi-retire. But it's statistically unlikely.

Good luck
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Actually both Obama and Clinton had major stories relating to Russia including the failed 'reset', the annexation of Crimea during the Obama administration, obama's "red line" of using chemical weapons in syria which was circumvented by russia, and Obama telling Mitt Romney that Russia was not a threat in the 2012 presidential debates. So yes, they have huge stories relating to russia. And your autocomplete results just bolster the evidence that 'hillary clinton email' has been made a special case and is not organic!
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this is awesome news. I like Brendan's System Performance book a lot. It will be a nice addition to my library and a good read.
If you have a Safari subscription, you can read the rough edit now!

Pro-tip: You can get free access to Safari by becoming a member of the ACM.
The feds certainly can control who can enter the US and go to school. Legal authority isn't a question.

If they should or what is another story, I really don't know the answer.
found these gems on recycling on NPR:
Episode 925: A Mob Boss, A Garbage Boat and Why We Recycle - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834...

Episode 926: So, Should We Recycle? - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834...
You can kiss your privacy goodbye
>there is no evidence to indicate that the movie influenced their naming decision

I'd like to add that the existence of a popular contemporary movie whose title is simply a list of names, half of which are the entirety of the names in question (said movie supposedly being a cultural touchstone for RSA's generation, the Boomers), makes the latter hypothesis the less likely one by default, in my view.
The cash machines at the Barclays at 67 Grand Parade, Green Lanes, Harringay do, or at least did recently. I'm not entirely sure why. The local shopkeepers are fortunately unfazed by them.
I really loved the Hans Zimmer music too. I got pumped up every time I heard it. I felt some bloat at times when they really dug into that 1202 error. It just kept coming up again and again.
What does it mean for a system to contain a complete model of itself?

If I can fit all the firmware, schematics and silicon mask layouts of a laptop on that laptop's disk, in what sense does it not contain a complete model?

Concretely, consider that the CAD files describing a terabyte of flash are less than a terabyte, because most parts are repeated in a grid. And you can add more terabytes without increasing the size of the model noticeably. So the storage capacity of a system isn't limited to the descriptive complexity of the system. It's probably O(log N) with a huge constant. So you can have as much disk space as you like to store a model.
The biggest bummer of these machines is apples lack of vp9 hardware decoding in macos, it makes 4k youtube unwatchable. For high motion content (mountain biking videos) 4k is the only way to watch even on a tiny laptop screen due to youtube’s horrific compression. Its an absurd limitation considering the hardware has full support for it! I know it sounds insane but I returned mine for a quad core 13” mbp just to brute force software decode playback of these videos.
Look up the Political Compass, I am Libertarian Center. As such I believe you have the ethical right to own your own body, your own labour, and the product of your labor. You may use it, trade it, dispose of it, however, whenever, wherever, and with whomever. No one not even a “duly elected” ruler may ethically threaten you with violence, as long as you do not initiate threats of violence against others and do not infringe upon the equal ownership rights of others.

Authoritarians do not believe in Individual rights, they believe in collective rights, they believe the "good of the community" or "society" should be more important than anyone individual. They believe governments have the ethical and moral right to impose rules and regulations upon society to achieve a subjective "good" like Universal Healthcare, Jobs for everyone, or some other utopian vision of the world. Never mind that history tells us when people set out to create a utopia is normally ends in suffering and death

Most Republicans are Libertarian to Authoritarian Right, Most Democrats before 2006 where also Libertarian to Authoritarian Right, Post 2016 they have shifted radically to the Authoritarian Left aka Communism, Socialism, etc
It's probably because there is a healthy tech industry in China and it's home.

If could take classes in China and possibly get a job making 50% more there, I'd probably come back to the US instead. A 50% raise isn't enough to justify being half a world away from my family.
A probable explanation in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14804399
Shoot, it's not even Toronto. I live in a 2nd tier Canadian city and those numbers wouldn't fly.

You might be able to swing it for a few months and not die, but that's not really any way to live.
It’s 3GigaBYTES/s, not Gigabits/s.

Nvme drives really are massively faster than their SATA counterparts.
Fair - but isn't it better to donate cans than nothing at all, which is probably the more common usecase?

Also, as I've noted in a separate comment, the food banks themselves often sit outside grocery stores with shopping lists that can be comprised of 80% cans.
This number does not mean much. In the old days, more Chinese students rely on full scholarship to study in the US. Now, more and more rich Chinese kids (mostly come with very poor academic background) can study in the US.

So the overall number does not reflect "brain drain", because not all international students can be counted in "global talent". A more meaningful number should only count those graduated from good universities, or having scholarship etc.
This was a tough one for me as well, but I appreciated it as a kind of mind-bending exercise. I plan on checking it out again this year to take another crack at it.

As someone who’s largely self taught, I was fascinated by the concepts around modeling the complete input and output space of a program, and being able to fully reason about its correctness. I also liked the elegance of some of the approaches.

I guess overall I’d say that it’s a nice way to stretch out of the comfort zone, and think about programming in a different way than a lot of us learned.
there's another effect, you donate food, it's food and it's most likely going to be used as food[1], if you donate money there's zero guarantee that those money will be used toward the purchase of food. it might be used toward a fundraiser, for a greater total effect in the best case scenario, but still, giving food is a statement of intent that a charity cannot convert in liquidity assuming the worst case scenarios.

[1]there's a lot of stuff actually going on behind charity, for example here clothes bank don't donate clothes around to the poor, clothes get sold in bulk by weight and the earning go toward sustaining the charity operations first and what's left is sent to the poor in various ways. which is fine, as long as 'operations' are kept lean, but nobody really looks so there's a bit of everything going on.
That's great news. I've learned Max and Maya, but my brain could never wrap itself around Blender. I'd definitely try it again once the update comes out.
$11 per day for meals is low, most people who live alone will spend roughly $15 a day (a single meal from McDonald's for instance is $10.95). The cheapest 'eat out' option is roughly $6 for a single meal at Costco/Ikea. Even peanut butter + jelly for every meal, and water for a drink is over $3 a day. Also, for rent, it's more like $800 for a single room in a shared unit, a bachelor is closer to $1500.
Sure if it's a large operation for 10000 family drive but a lot of food drives can just store their food in the church basement or a managing members garage. Plus if you are buying food with the money you have to do that anyway. Just offload physical donations first.
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That would only be the case if by equal you mean "Equality of Outcome" and not "Equality of Opportunity"

I think all individuals should be treated exactly the same by governments. That is a Libertarian position

Authoritarians want the government to treat people differently to achieve some perceived and subjective equal outcome at the other end. Taxing some people more than others, giving some people rights and privileges that others can not have, etc. That is not equality that is equity
a colleague told me of a 'remote-only' company which ... cut mobile hotspots for 'on call' engineers. "no no no, this isn't a cost cutting measure". But the 5 people who were expected to rotate being 'on call' 24/7 - who had previously been able to schedule some 'away' time knowing they had hotspots - suddenly couldn't. The hotspots were ~$60/month, maybe? So, cutting $300/month, but still requiring the 24/7 rotation - this was a big morale hit.

Oh, and later they gave every - (60+ people) a half-day 'off' to spend 'reducing your monthly bills' - they all got an email detailing how to call your cable company to save $10/month on your cable, and scripts to use to reduce your cell phone bill, etc.
Thanks, that makes more sense of what kind of data this is for. Still annoying that the DMV doesn't notify you about it up front, or have an opt-out from the start.
The "Manipulating instant search results in favor of Hillary Clinton" claim has been independently debunked and anyone still standing behind it are only signalling their technical illiteracy and/or political agenda for playing a victim card. [1][2][3]

That's not really off-topic - The fact that the author still supports the claim calls into question their ability to make further claims about the subject.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/google-manipulate-hillary-...

[2] https://www.vox.com/2016/6/10/11903028/hillary-clinton-googl...

[3] https://mashable.com/2016/06/10/clinton-google-search/
Delta is also known for using old jets (including MD-80s, a lot of 757s, and until 2014 the DC-9. 25% of Delta's current fleet is these old planes) and is famous in the aviation world for having a stellar maintenance program and few safety issues with them. Up until ~2014, American also had several hundred MD-80s (and still has many 757s) in its fleet, and yet it still didn't have nearly the rate of safety issues that Allegiant has.

Many of the issues Allegiant was cited for were also not only due to the plane being old, but also because Allegiant's maintenance crews (which apparently are very understaffed and underequipped) totally missed the issue and erroneously cleared the plane to fly.

Allegiant's issues may have been partly due to old planes, but as evidenced by Delta/American, if Allegiant had a decent maintenance operation the old planes would not have been a problem. The fact that they still had issues does not speak well of their overall safety program, which is more than just the types of planes they fly, and also affects their current fleet.
It's an investment because the more lucrative jobs require turks have hundreds or thousands of successfully completed tasks. So people will take one penny jobs simply to build credibility.
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Thank you for clarifying. Is it possible the data brokers themselves are buying the update and then selling it onward then? During my last move I received a boat load of direct marketing mail after my COA but before I updated any other accounts / license (took a vacation before arriving at the new home). Many companies I'd never heard of, included some health insurance scams.
I have a 2014 MBP 13 as well, any other differences (positive and negative) you noticed in switching to the new MBA?
Different strokes for different folks. Some people (by which I mean me) honestly don't like the "work a solid day and go home" model; I don't have the kind of mental switches to stop thinking about personal stuff at 9 am and stop thinking about work stuff at 5 pm. My current company gets 50+ hours a week out of me, but nobody complains when I watch a Youtube video and I don't need permission to leave early when it's necessary - I consider that a fair trade.
I hope it's no strings attached.
Im totally shocked that someone who doesnt give to those in need is okay with them using panhandling money for alcohol or drugs. Its always okay when its not your own money.
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My family came here legally as immigrants as well. We just showed up at points in time where the only requirement was that you not have TB.

I understand that things were hard for you, and therefore you want them to be hard for everyone else. But I hope you can eventually see that your view is one based on jealousy, envy, and hatred; and that it is not based on any sort of sense.
>Non profit ceos make 100s of thousands of dollars a year. That money comes from cash donations. People don't want to line a ceos pockets they want to help their neighbor.

Do you think this factor outweighs the efficiency factor from the article?

Worst of all, the average consumer is buying their canned goods at four to five times the rock-bottom bulk price that can be obtained by the food bank itself.

That $1 you spent on tuna could have purchased $4 worth of tuna if put in the hands of non-profit employee whose only job is to buy food as cheaply as possible. The savvy buyers at the Calgary Food Bank, for instance, promise that they can stretch $1 into $5.
There always have been money extraction schemes targeted at kids Pokémon, Magic the Gathering and so on come to mind. It is the parents responsibility to counter that.
likely only for tenured professors and possibly universities. professors hold immense power and likely benefit greatly from someone motivated to finish + move back and earn massive sums relative to rest of population; the university i'm guessing benefits to some extent financially/prestige of said research group/professor.

edit: losers are general public, whose taxes go to public universities who then train up a generation of students who won't contribute those benefits back to the country. private universities have different funding models of course, so not so clear there.
If not intended as a learning exercise, why not use the existent API?
Harry Collins developed a more nuanced framework for discussing tacit knowledge which I find quite provocative and useful:

https://i.imgur.com/tp3eLb4.png

https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo84...
Not the perfect solution, but I think changing your user-agent to iOS makes youtube deliver x264 instead of vp9
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It is not on Safari right now, but should be soon.

Good tip!
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If the point is to more-or-less represent the views of the people, our system does an exceptionally poor job of it, between this and lots of winner-take-all elections + gerrymandering (sorry, other 49.9% of the population, better luck next time). I'm probably less on the "more democracy is always a good thing" side of the spectrum than most in the US, but this stuff is subversion of democratic will to no clear systemic beneficial purpose. Quite the opposite, as far as I can tell.
The hostile environment for ethnic Chinese people (especially academicians) in the US is about more than, and predates, Trump's tweets. https://supchina.com/sinophobia-tracker/

It includes visa restrictions and harassment (e.g., computer seizures, pressuring your job to fire you) from agencies like the FBI and NIH. It also impacts people who have no connection to China, like the Taiwanese Wen Ho Lee.
HTML scraping should be the last option you consider to get data after all else fails.

Even though the Hacker News API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API) is somewhat old, it's a much more kosher way of getting data.

Even better is to use the public data dump in BigQuery (https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi...). Quick query to get all top-level comments in posts by whoishiring:

#standardSQL
WITH whoishiring_posts AS (
SELECT id from `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
WHERE `by`="whoishiring" AND type="story"
)

SELECT text
FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
WHERE type="comment"
AND parent IN (SELECT id from whoishiring_posts)
Great list! I actually created this as a playlist for anyone who wants all of these segments queued up in one place:

https://freshairarchive.org/playlist/53

FYI anyone can create and share playlists like this:

https://freshairarchive.org/playlist/create
Yes.

https://ordrespontane.blogspot.com/2014/07/brandolinis-law.h...

"The bullshit asimmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."