skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While your comment (“let's introduce this elementary mathematics to the illiterate masses by writing it as a Python script. Now everyone will understand it”) may apply to some articles, what relevance does it have on this one? This article is fundamentally about how, starting even with a set of random numbers, simply visualizing it can lead to further explorations that can be carried out again with computers — sure you could replace “Matplotlib and Python” with “a graphing library and a programming language”, but fundamentally the article is not trying to teach any elementary mathematics and in fact it does not even reach the point of proving any theorems (for that matter despite a fair bit of trying I haven't actually figured out yet how to prove the conjecture the article ends with); it's just about the process of exploration (generating hypotheses, verifying them, etc) using computers.
I've taken to using DDG and when I find that the results are unsatisfactory, I stick a '!g' at the start or the end of my query, and it redirects to the google results page.
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Cars/bikes etc don't have carbon footprints to manufacture? This is an idiotic comparison.
Syngas (a.k.a producer gas) is normally made from atmospheric oxygen, and is a conversion process of the stored fuel in biomass through pyrolysis to produce tar gas, which is then reduced by the hot charcoal left over. You are essentially producing fuel from garbage and is worthwhile on it's own. By using pure oxygen you can produce a more pure gaseous fuel, as the final product isn't diluted by the mostly inert nitrogen that is in air.
That is probably because you're using something like ClearCare which is a buffered hydrogen peroxide (with some other stuff) and a case that acts as a catalyst. The peroxide sterilizes your contacts, the catalyst slowly converts all the hydrogen peroxide to water. It takes at least 6 hours and you have to change the case out with every new bottle every month or so or else you get hydrogen peroxide in your eyes, which even in small amounts is really awful. I use to use the stuff by choice because it helped my eyes feel more comfortable vs the other contact lens solutions (except for the days I was lazy and didn't change out the cases or over wore my lenses past the X amount of days before disposal). I had soft contacts, that's why it was a choice, but I'm pretty sure hard contacts require the use of this type of cleaning method. Now I use dailies because they're more comfortable even though they're crazy expensive.
No it was g+
Like I mentioned though, with no dates every page is unsatisfactory. I’m not gonna waste time clicking each link to look at the date before I devote time to reading it
Oddly enough, pawn shops are considered “financial institutions” under the Bank Secrecy Act/Patriot Act. They actually might be even more regulated than traditional banks when it comes to KYC. I’ve never done any work for pawnshops but I’m pretty sure they need to get all the usual ID that a bank would _plus_ a physical description of the customer (height, weight, hair color, race, tattoos, etc.).

Also, the Patriot Act is a major invasion of privacy. SCOTUS says it’s Constitutional but I think there would be riots in the streets if people really understood the kind of surveillance the average law-abiding citizen is subject to under the law.
I have one that has 1000 miles and it looks like new. And just because they put under engineered scooters on the streets doesn't mean they are more polluting than a regular moped.
Good point. Just goes to show that even someone who was renowned for analyzing how families can abuse one another was no exception.
Yes, when you start dealing with companies who make too much to concern themselves with quibbling over a couple of million, your $75,000 bill isn't even worth a second thought.
I’ve got imagine this is to make it appear friendlier. I think it’d be a bit more intimidating to have a person on camera telling me not to use the words “living wage”
you know what I think is funny? if 3% loss is acceptable than why do these people even get prosecuted? deterrent so that it's not 4%? sure but there's something unsatisfying about that as justification for imprisoning someone.

before someone accuses me of being a communist hippie I have a thought experiment for you: every 5 years I do spring cleaning by taking all of the boxes drawers etc of accumulated consumer goods junk I haven't looked inside of in the past 5 year and just take them to good will. I reason that if it hasn't been important in the last 5 years it never will be and that I would waste more time (money) looking closely. now the thought experiment: suppose someone had broken into my house over the last 5 years and stolen something from one of those receptacles that was eventually thrown out. should I be upset? now note that I'm not asking if I'm legally entitled to being upset but whether it would be rational to be upset.

but let me actually put on my hippie commie beatnik hat: there is so much money sloshing around in the economy and inefficiencies that entrepreneurs exploit to become wealthy. most of it is above board but some of it isn't and whether those people get punished or not is largely a function of whether they're caught before they're super successful or not. what is the difference here? these people saw an inefficiency and took advantage of it. to put a sort of hyberbolic point on it: why is this theft but selling toxic cdos not? in both "transactions" ultimately one party profited at the expense of the counterparty.

Edit: I love the downvotes. What exactly about my comment isn't "curious" as dang loves to exhort. God forbid someone questions the most totalitarian institution the human mind has ever conceived of: the law. HN is no different from every other pointless echo chamber that double speaks about freedom but suppresses dissenting opinions.
Don't destroy it, embrace it. AMP is the low-javascript web many of us pine for. If browsers implemented AMP natively (and it were properly standardized), it would be great, and it has tons of potential for things like RSS readers. Google's heavy-handedness here has a lot of problems, but if they've managed to get publishers on board with a move away from the JS quagmire we should be pushing in the same direction and not fighting against it.
> It's an inefficiency that shouldn't exist.

I completely agree. I think it's an absurdity that shouldn't exist. My point in sharing my anecdote was to validate the prevalence of the absurdity that my comment's parent observed, though I probably could have been more explicit about that.
> constantly served results to outdated tech info

Just to be contrarian... maybe there's some useful signal there about why you might prefer technologies without so much churn.
We use Cloud9 here quite a lot, with great results. I was going to ask what was the differentiator between this and Cloud9, but judging from your post, I am assuming it is a 'cut down' version of C9 with a lot of the bells and whistles removed?

So I assume that it spins up a micro EC2 instance each time someone wants to use CS50?
How is 50% efficiency five times worse than 90%? Isn't that a factor of roughly two?

90% efficiency: spend 100 joules to get 90 useful joules, wasting 10.

50% efficiency: spend 100 joules to get 50 useful joules, wasting 50.

You could say that 50% efficiency is five times more wasteful than 90%, but that doesn't strike me as a useful metric. More useful is to observe that spending 100 units of energy at 90% efficiency gets you roughly twice as much usable energy compared to 50% efficiency (9/5 = 1.8 times, to be precise).
Part of the problem is that insurance has typically mandated which specialty pharmacy, and the two different ones I've used have had almost identical behavior. It's nothing overt, but the pattern seems so consistent and the end result is filling my prescription at a slightly slower rate than as prescribed, which clearly offers them a saving which probably more than offsets the overnight shipping costs.

In terms of shopping around, the most effective tactic for me is to find the job with the best insurance
Seems like it's another form of price-segmentation. Just like some people take the time to cut and collect coupons, some people will spend the time on a 20 minute hold to spend another 20 minutes wrestling with a disempowered customer service representative, to spend another 10 on hold, to spend another 5 with the "supervisor" who is allowed to finally give you the proper rate.

Some MBA bean-counter types figured out there is money left on the table, and the relative hit to reputation and lost customers comes out to less than they gain by doing it.
I was at that concert. It was the best concert i have ever been to. Everything you usually think of as essential for a great concert, like stage energy, and the personalities of the band, was entirely absent. Instead it was Minimalistic, focused, an exercise in precision. It was probably closest to a religious ceremony. It made you "get" songs you didn't think was that special before.

The best part was when they left the stage and left only four displays, showing images of their robots during "we are the robots". Then as the song ran out 5 minutes later, the screens slowly lowered and revealed the 4 real robots back lit. The crowd went nuts and they started the German version of the song.

I have seen them 5 times, all amazing, but that first time will be with me forever.
is it pointless to attempt democracy when so many democratic states are corrupt?
And $47,261,000,000,000,000 in electricity to watch the stream that long.
Are tamper proof outlets mandatory? The UK has had shutters on the phase that is opened by the earth pin forever. Which is why their plugs are caltrops, and have a plastic earth pin if double insulated (only phase and neutral wired, with no earth wire).

I don't think I have ever seen a US plug where the pins have a non-conductive protective covering at the base of the pin (I think all modern UK and NZ male plugs have that. Although I'll be honest that I think the NZ solution makes plugs less safe due to risk of pins bending then breaking and leaving a live metal pin exposed in the socket).

EU sockets are mostly recessed from what I have seen (some NZ sockets are, but the recess is still is often unusable with old plugs, so is not common yet, but will become so as more plugs are sold that fit properly).
> I asked her why we had to play an hour long cat-and-mouse game to get this done. She had no explanation.

Because she's quite literally given a set of rules that says, "if the customer says X, you're allowed to take action Y."
In the traditional waterfall model, you don't do what makes sense. The Plan has been set, and you have to find a way to do even the parts that don't make sense, because it will be a huge disaster if The Plan isn't complete.

Sometimes it's even the right development model! If you're building the control system for a new power plant, you'd better follow the agreed-on spec even if you realize it's not the best way to do things.
> I'm not sure that I believe them.

You don't have to take their word that people would pay. They already are paying. Millions[1] of people go out of their way[2] to pay creators monthly or per-work.

However, a lot of that "web content" needs to realize the actual value of their content might be ~$0. Advertising distorted the market; a lot of people were able to extract revenue greater than the actual "market value" of their content.

[1] https://graphtreon.com/patreon-stats

[2] While Patreon isn't very hard, having to take the extra step of vising (and maybe making an account) a 3rd party service is not a proper "micropayment" system. The goal of micropayments is to make trivial to immediately pay for something without any extra friction (perhaps a button/whatever in the browser to send a tip/donation, no need to worry about Paypal/Patreon/etc)
It doesn't really help.

Before you could tell what a cable and port could do by it's shape and connector. The wrong cable just wouldn't fit.

With USB-C it's a toss up as to whether this will work or release the magic smoke.
I actually prefer the process of going in to get the shot/infusion, not because I can't do it myself (it's a minor thing, but I find it easier to self administer injected medication than have someone else do it), but because I can just create a regularly scheduled appointment and then all the nonsense with refills becomes in invisible to me

[Edit] obviously it would be cheaper to self administer, but the costs involved aren't rational anyway. These drugs are out of patent, but no generic can be created because of the way they're made, so Abbot et al can charge whatever they want
Ah, I was unaware that that had changed
A Radioactive Lens (2018)
Modern computers are vulnerable to malicious peripheral devices
The Lego Group is also insanely good about this sort of thing.

If you tell them you're missing parts from a product, it'll ship. It happened to me once. The set was missing an entire bag. They shipped one out. No proof of purchase required.

If you tell them you're missing a manual or it got destroyed. They'll ship one out.

A hiccup on their site caused me to miss out on a promotional item. And when I realized, the promotion was over. They sent me one. Just my word was enough.
Nuclear is needed to generate the energy stored by Hydrogen.
Sure but that's not the argument that the article made. Thats an important point to discuss and there may be ways to mitigate the damage of such a compromise (multiple curves, per key escrow). The article made a ridiculous argument for why backdooring is "impossible". Presumably they made it to persuade laypeople but what they really did is misinform laypeople and set them up to be pushed to the other side when they find they've been lied to.

Not to mention you're also fucked if an unintentional flaw is discovered in AES or similar. You still need to be able to upgrade you crypto in response to advances in the state of the art, or leakage of important secrets.
Unless you want to show up to work a sweaty mess. I have a bike I ride for exercise as well, but commuting really only makes sense on an electric scoot / EUC.
I thought HP is still the leader in slowest updates. 1000 days could be them as well. Don't they do distros anymore?
It clearly says in the story they had all vaped 'THC', AKA a catch all term these days for dodgy shit.

More than likely, given how this hasn't happened in the rest of the WORLD, they vaped something extremely dodgy that they knew was dodgy.

if you need me to spell this out for you, this has NOTHING to do with vaping and everything to do with dodgy drug dealers.
To combine few-shot learning with active learning you can

- use active learning to expand the training set, and

- revise your model training procedure to account for the sampling bias this introduces in the training set.
We already have "smart-meters" that enable time-of-day billing. They just need to monitor usage on a per 5-minute basis (and I suspect they do). They don't necessarily need to report it every 5 mins (otherwise how does the current system know how to respond to demand?).

I do feel like we should start billing on per-5-minute increments, then the responsiveness will come.

I think overnight we'll have a thousand startups selling devices that turn on/off your HVAC or car charger accordingly and save you money overall. Possibly even with a warmer home in winter or cooler home in summer, by being strategic.
That's good. If you had Kaiser, as I state above, the doctors won't send you for the test and the cancer will grow undetected. It doesn't matter if you insist they test you, they still won't. If you're lucky they won't delay long enough to kill you. But you will be worse not having gotten crucial treatment for months because the doctors are part of the racket. On the other hand, your family and friends can be happy that your suffering and death helped Kaiser get richer by saving money on critical tests.
There was a Home Depot anti-union video floating around yesterday. [1]

What really struck me is how much they remind me of the cringey anti-drug videos we used to watch in like middle school, “If you see a suspicious person smoking something that looks like a cigarette but smells funny, cross the street to get away. They may offer you a joint for free to get you hooked. If you smoke that joint, before you know it they’ll be giving you free crack. Cool kids just say no.”

I mean, obviously, just like everything, unions have pros and cons, but does this kind of cheesy fear mongering actually work? If we could see through it and make fun of it as children, surely a grown adult would find it as off putting as kids do?

[1] https://youtu.be/QrmNojOCiak
One problem I wish Google would solve is this. When I'm looking to solve a problem I've found that tons of first page results are dated but years. Adobe cc for example, they are churning updates, lots of people are having the same issues once I actually go to Adobe but the results are sometimes a decade old!
I went to see him give a talk in London in the 80s.

He was clearly drunk and not very coherent. It was sad.
It seems that as a college freshman he was already a competent programmer.
I think that was the point - if they add at the current rate, we'll be OK. If they started adding at an exponential rate we'd have trouble, but that's highly unlikely.
Target made one back in the day: https://archive.org/details/TargetAnti-unionPropagandaVideo
This.

I’ve had the same experience. I’ve wondered what the cause of using !g less is.

Is it because I’m giving google less and less of a diet so it’s ability to cater to me is eroding?

Or perhaps DDG is just truly getting better?

Or is there a subtle feedback loop between man and search engine where we learn how to search better and better given a certain tools behavior?

Would love to hear what others suspected.
Not yet! But, that's a really good suggestion. Thanks!
It's asinine. I might as well include the CO2 footprint of the wear on your shoes and pants from walking.
I ran into a very frustrating but unsurprising Null case last week: a value on the client having three states: "not retrieved yet", "no value", and "value".

Javascript's ugly parts called to me, "use undefined!" but that's such a bear trap. I ended up with a separate enum of the possible states for the value's variable.
I had always though the difference was an assertion of the speaker's values: HK protesters are cooperating to stand up for their rights vs The Phoebus cartel is colluding to the disadvantage of consumers.

But maybe there is an objective detectable difference, perhaps related to defection reluctance. It would be great if there is some additional force at play that differentiates between them.
With Zoning Changes, Des Moines Says No to Density
I've been wanting to learn clojure for a while but for someone in webdev who never coded in a functional style, I never could grasp it. Do you have any good resource to start with clojure?
Show HN: Daily emails with new cryptography papers
Does it surprise you that a place named "Hacker News" is usually welcoming to non-experts who try to find ways to hack all variety of "systems" that experts claimed wasn't possible?
Or one of the twelve messaging apps that got ignored by the masses because no one longer trusts their products
I don't really care if labour is cheap. You're gonna be paying Singapore /Australian prices regardless. The point is more around when you pay those prices in sg or au your also paying for the government and the infrastructure that they fund with your tax money. What exactly are you paying for in Bali? To sit in traffic because no one thought to build footpaths or plan the town? It's just bad value for money and I feel the locals are getting robbed. All the costs (pollution etc) are internalised by them because they have no choice while all the benefits are privatised.
Sounds like an interesting story. What made you snap - if I may ask? No judgement. Had episodes too but w/o hospitalization.
Show HN: Share a spreadsheet with embedded web analytics (pre-launch)
They Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. 8 Years in Jail for Not Leaving
Study: Malaria Drugs Are Failing at an 'Alarming' Rate in Southeast Asia
I, for one, would prefer my unused stuff went to a charity of my choosing than a thief.
Ah ok fair enough. I have to admit i haven't tried running windows 8 or 10 in a vm since the preview builds. I assumed any instability was from the lack of polish on the OS itself in its state at the time.
Three animations I have implemented:

1. bounce of badge when message received and badge number increases (no sound). A la Mac.

2. After modality viewing item in list on mobile, when returning to list highlight the item to show what you have just edited (easy to lose place, animated highlight helps show new summary).

3. On closing a drawer, animate the closing so you don't lose view of next item.

I loath animations (and I really loath coding them) but I will use them if I think it improves the UI, if they are fast, and I don't use them for "design" (I'm an engineer not a designer!).
Hah, gotta love that animated photo: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/
Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 2: Networked Key-Value Store
Or use mpv. It even works with URLs, supporting youtube-dl to handle many streaming sites.
The planet is about 1C above baseline temps. Which is pretty much where the models predicted. Some a bit above and some a bit below, but not way off as you say. When I've seen people trot out this argument it's usually based on a dishonest reading of the models. Using model runs based on much higher emissions scenarios than what actually occurred.
How is that a plot twist? The situation is symmetrical.
"can't be stopped once started..." what a shame, what a shame.
> “People want to deal with someone who is smarter than they are and who will fix their problem,”

This is exactly the worst kind IMHO. I once had a support person telling me to listen to him telling me what my problem was as I was describing it to him.

Me: "The device doesn't work..."
Him: "Listen. Listen! LISTEN! Your device isn't connected."
Me: "Uhm, no it's ..."
Him: "Listen. Listen! LISTEN! You haven't plugged the cable in."
Me: "If you would please LISTEN to me maybe we can get somewhere?"
I don’t buy this at all. I get much better results from Google compared to DDG even when I’m using Tor.

Google just has a really good results, it’s not that they’re customized for me.
The tall skinny 1L smartwater bottles are perfect for backpacking, haven’t carried a nalgene in several years now
embrace something else. It would be lovely if it was implemented natively, disentangled from google, and without google strongarming websites to their own implementation and CDN.

They didnt win publishers because of their wonderful implementation, they are literally blackmailing them with deranking if they don't (I suppose I could use a carrot analogy but i m more suspicious)

There is so much evil that can happen if AMP becomes the de facto walled garden of the web. I imagine if that happens, then we 'll end up needing google's review before websites can even be reachable. Or a government could order google to effectively shut down a bunch of sites instantly. The current version of amp is worthy of destruction before it grows to become indestructible
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There's an Instagram user who independently tests, meaning he pays to have an independent lab test the samples, (THC) carts for pesticides and solvents and posts the results for all to see. He's a hero, as far as I'm concerned.

There's so much shit in these cartridges. They are concentrated, so pesticides used during growth can also be concentrated in the cartridges.

It's completely absurd to me that this stuff isn't more regulated.
It's their premium service.
AES Encryption of Files in Go