skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watching little creatures live their lives under the microscope can be calming. Nick Moore has some darkfield microscopy videos of aqutic life that are pretty nice and educational to watch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPhdZFYLanpzdQYgkJoi3...
CAR definitely works when a typical CPU these days has more RAM than an entire PC from the early 90s, but it's something that BIOSes (even pre-UEFI) have been doing for a long time, probably ever since CPUs had built-in caches that were large enough.
Now that I'm more secure in my career, I find that I do more home/garden maintenance tasks myself rather than frantically trying to find someone to pay do them for me, at a time that works with my frantic schedule.

Tiling my kitchen over two weekends was less inconvenient than finding a tile layer who was willing to a) do the job on a day I had home office and b) show me the layout ahead of time so I could make sure they would do it exactly the way I wanted it done. It's also relaxing to do something hard that has nothing to do with my company's DevOps toolchain, where consequences for mistakes only affect me, my husband and our house.

Now off to re-plant my front yard with an annual (one-season) clover so it, too, can recover it full productivity after a frantic period of overwork. Sure, I could have spent this Sunday learning enough about Spring to help troubleshoot it, but that's what I have colleagues and existing real work projects for.
It's only "too big to fix" because Youtube insists on fixing it centrally. They could fix it by delegating responsibility to creators, and implementing some sort of "user-rank" to avoid moderating every single bit of content via paid employees.

If Google were serious enough about the issue, there's an opportunity here. If they created an effective enough, and flexible enough, distributed 'content moderation' back-end, they could probably offer it as a service to other businesses, too.
>I have to keep tabs on the shenanigans of even more, highly technically incompetent, companies to know if I've been compromised.

But why not just assume that your data has already been compromised? It has.

What could you even do with that information? How do you respond when you find out that your data has been leaked?
Wasn’t dieselgate about companies rigging their software to trigger emissions control only during testing to meet NOx standards? And wasn’t dieselgate about trying to trick US standards rather than about European standards?

The irony of your comment...

Edit: I don’t know anything about the impact of the ADA on the choice of EVMs in the US, so I haven’t commented on it too much, but even ignoring how wrong your dieselgate comment is, your claim about ADA doesn’t pass the smell test for me because EVMs are (or were, until courts stopped them or countries realized how insecure they are) being adopted in large numbers in other countries, many of which don’t have the equivalent of ADA laws, and don’t particularly care about the disabled.
I'd have no problem with a money up front approach. It's the projects that become disgustingly over budget I take issue with. For example, the James Webb Space Telescope was sold to Congress and by extension the American taxpayer as a ten year, 500 million dollar project. It is currently a twenty-four year, ten billion dollar project.
I recommend any Mantak Chia books. Take them with a grain of salt but there is a lot of good in there too.
And the chon-honnel is the one from France to England
I was a bit surprised to find that Bellevue Pallace (residence of the German head of state) isn't even listed in the German wiki as an example. For me, that was the first building that came to my mind. The Ha-Ha there also has the benefit that you have a nice incline to lay on and look at the protected estate.
Could they dilute people like that? From 5% to 0.5%? That dilutes everyone else as well though, right (I guess the new shares can be given to the founders so they aren't diluted).
If I would maximize that I'd just go to Facebook or something like that. Sticking to startups for now.
Edit: See replies below. Cloudflare CEO says this use case is fine.

This is a cool project and something I will probably use for some hobby projects.

I would caution against it for anything more than a hobby project as it violates the Cloudflare TOS:

> 2.8 Limitation on Non-HTML Caching

> The Service is offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as a part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Service solely for the purpose of serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other application and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) protocol or other equivalent technology. Use of the Service for the storage or caching of video (unless purchased separately as a Paid Service) or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content, is prohibited.

https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/

For something small, they won't care. If your images make the front page of reddit, you might get shut down.
That's likely, but we could pretend it's 80% with the same reasoning - and it has an even larger effect with regard to drawing attention to the importance.
Oh, you’re right, soldered.
They're not just to protect from animals. You'll often find them in gardens where the area below isn't even open to livestock. The other reason for these is to hide unsightly parts of the view. If there is a road, village or other buildings in front of the house, for example, building a ha-ha could make it look like the park stretches unbroken to the horizon. It could also make it look like distant hillsides are part of your park if your own land is a little on the small side.

Source: my wife is a landscape archaeologist, specialising in post-medieval parks. We visit a lot of stately homes.
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> Even written language in China is still largely intelligible to moderns ....

That's largely because Chinese characters themselves didn't change, even though the underlying sound and grammar changed. In your English example, imagine "ic" is written as "I", "nihte" as "night", and so on, so that every word is written as the modern spelling of its descendant word. It will be much easier to guess its meaning.
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I've heard "Greeks were mathematicians, Romans were engineers", which conveys the same concept.
Their terms indicate it should be used for caching html primarily. So if they find costly abusers, they could use this clause to get them to upgrade to a paid tier.

> 2.8 Limitation on Non-HTML Caching
The Service is offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as a part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Service solely for the purpose of serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other application and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) protocol or other equivalent technology. Use of the Service for the storage or caching of video (unless purchased separately as a Paid Service) or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content, is prohibited.

https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/
> But somebody needs to break it to him that Lisp is not a functional language

Lisp is not a language at all. It's an idea. And if you grok the awesomeness of that idea you can make any kind of language using it: functional, OOP, relational, whatever.

Bob is talking about Clojure. Clojure is a functional Lisp.
The climate change issue is mostly a political problem, as sustainable ways of modern living have been known for decades, created by society and politicians not caring about the global impacts of local decisions. The almost-dystopian socialmedia/pervasive-ads/misinformation/compromised-democracy internet landscape is mostly a technological problem, an outcome of computer scientists and engineers just building things without thinking of the ethics of their technology. Nobody campaigned to build facebook, like they campaigned to build another coal power plant or another highway. The nerds and politicians alike are on their way to destroy the world - one compromising our minds, the other poisoning our air.

The failure of our times has been just this. Not realizing that when what you are doing has global impact you need to think hard about its effects and be crystal clear on the ethics of it all. Perhaps the original sin was not pushing for more hands-on ethics training for every child and college student.
private company with lots of funding rounds? /shrug

they did have (claim to have) 90m revenue last year, after 10m every year before that.
Well, Hinton himself makes a big deal of this in his Turing award speech. See: https://fcrc.acm.org/turing-lecture-at-fcrc-2019
Americans are eating more beef than they have in a decade? That's really surprising; seems everyone I talk to - not just vegetarians - have started looking at beef as something to be indulged in only on occasion. I assume the climate impact is the main reason.
Well, someone has a bone to pick with the early Middle Ages. What an angry rant to prove that the dark ages really existed. He sometimes has a point but in total it really is a non-historian making some weird arguments to prove that 800AD was terrible (look at the difference in these maps! Just completely ignore any cultural and artistic context that matter why they look the way they do!). I’m surprised he didn’t compare Greek statues with medieval paintings to prove his point.
I saw a pile of leather pieces outside a home, on the street, near Seattle with a sign that said "free leather". I'm not sure why anyone would want it, but it looked sad...like someone had died and they were clearing the home.
which honestly, most people just use for s3 and suffer the rest because the CTO reads too much HN.

amazon today mostly sells based on "you can't get fired for choosing aws", ironically.
While my comment may fit well on article's talk page, I don't think it's off topic here. A few upvotes agree.

I contribute to Wikipedia already by improving maths articles, so I know the process. Your comment appears to have incorrectly assumed certain things, and worse still, you've tried to educate me in a rather patronising manner. I don't think that's in the spirit of HN.
If apt and others could simply allow us (package authors) to construct a URL from which the binary can be downloaded, and then plop it into the user's PATH for them, this would not be a problem. (What I'm getting at is that all it takes to install a custom build of Caddy -- with any number of plugins you want -- is a GET request.)
I was hoping for some discussion of how this was done, it looks like there is some sort of software for hosting a specially encoded version of Wikipedia, and the overall goal is to provide access to a Wikipedia in areas without good internet access, but details are sparse and spread out. I’d like to know more!
Definitely not windows 7 in my town. Looks more like 2k.
This is a great idea. As I interested novice I'd certainly be a early adopter.
Sadly, even the federal government has very little power over this, it will be a battle state by state to force corrupt incumbents like Diebold out.
Why is that true? Either show the logic and reasoning that allows anyone to come to that conclusion or don’t. I don’t care if it’s a Nobel prize winner or a redneck, it’s the rationale that’s important.
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I got this error message while trying to generate a website:

{"message":"Cannot return null for non-nullable field Entity.phone."}
Whether this particular project deserves funding or not, I think the problem is a real one and the solution is valid. It's unfortunate that we live in a society where common goods require private funding to survive, but given that we do, (non-tracking) advertisement is, I think, a necessary evil that we need to be tolerant of.
Do you have any numbers to back up Flink is faster than KStreams, also under what scenario?

I am genuinely interested as use KStreams a lot but the engineering discipline in the API leads a lot to be desired and more than happy to switch the API if Flink is that much better.
>>>A few comments are saying that forests capture a lot of CO2.

As you indicate, those people are incorrect. But a forest may contain a lot of C02, such that burning it all at once increases the amount in the atmosphere noticeably.
I remember when I was a young student I lived next to a park, and I could hear bats! No longer the case, and not for a long time.

I've loved this blog though, since coming across it somewhat randomly - looking into decoding the radio-broadcasts that update the Helsinki tram-displays. I never got it to work, despite a few attempts, but it is still something I'd like to come back to.

I did get sucked into the world of decoding random 433Mhz transmissions, and doing protocol analysis with ESP8266 devices though. So that if the company sauna gets turned on I can now post to slack..
The vast majority (some 80%) of Chinese characters are phonetic-semantic compounds, that is they contain both sound elements and meaning elements.

So it's actually very useful to study phonetic groups in when learning Chinese characters!! Even when there are tone or vowel shifts, the phonetic groups can really help you match a character to its sound.

It's kind of like the situation where English spelling usually diverges from an exact phonetic representation, but it still provides an approximation of the actual pronunciation of the word which is enormously helpful in matching it to its spoken form.
> Five days to do what? Five full 8 hour days? Does it take 5 days to cut a GitHub release and push it to NPM?

I'm not OP, but I gotta say whenever I've faced questions like these in my career, I find I'm not actually being asked any questions at all, I'm being accused of lying, and it's time to walk.
I agree. But do you think FreeBSD will be much worse than the Windows 7 they have been previously using? I assume they will harden FreeBSD as much as they can (hopefully).

Also, what *is" a more appropriate OS to use on these systems? OpenBSD? Linux?
Yeh, what have the Romans ever done for us?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tvauOJMHo
In support of this comment:

In Australia, I saw a number of students transferred into the public school I attended because of poor results at other schools. They would be taken out of class when we were doing something beyond their level, so they could spend 1-on-1 time with a tutor who was trained in catching students up to their expected level. Some students, when transferred from another school, would repeat a year if necessary.

I've heard of multiple occurrences where an Australian public or private school was been investigated for poor results, and during these times parents were encouraged to transfer their children to other schools as the reduced demand would give the school staff room to improve.

(Tangent: I repeated year 4 (9-10yo) because my Mum thought I was "too small" and would be bullied. This led to me being bored by the materials. I thank the spare time this awarded me to why I discovered my Dad's computer, Macromedia Flash, and ActionScript 2.0. Starting programming at such a young age, especially in a C-style language, gave me a massive advantage in my programming career and perhaps life in general.)
Yeah. I'm lots older, I think. When I was a child, we got ice cream packed in dry ice. Because most people didn't have freezers.
If only we had some sort of mechanism to force China to fall in line. Something that would have leveraged all of the economies of the pacific together against their tendencies... some sort of partnership. A trans-pacific partnership, if you will. Surely Trump wouldn't have backed out of such an agreement on his first day of office.
My response was to directly address the concept of intrinsic low verses high IQ dogma.

As far as optimizing teaching techniques, I can only say I believe there is not an easy answer for that. People are different, kids do not operate as adults would, group dynamics sometimes benefit with change and other times not, and I would be hard pressed to think that personalizing to the extent possible would be a bad thing.

In short, IMHO there is no universally applicable solution to the teaching problem domain. Which is likely why so many of us hold teachers in high regard and remember them so well.

EDIT: preposition and indefinite article use.
>Contrast Europe which has seen vast shifts in control, and utter replacements or eradication of local culture or tribes multiple times, going to prehistoric times, to the present (past century certainly, past few decades quite arguably). There have been very few constant borders or identities, certainly not on the scale of China.

Except you wouldn't contrast that. Those same events have happened in the region of China on the same scale as continental Europe as a whole. Entire societies have risen, conquered lands, and vanished.

The Manchu are the most notable example for coming in from the Northeast and conquering China. They had their own unique culture and language. Native speakers of their language are now countable on one hand.

The Tangut are another interesting example. They had a very unique culture and writing system unlike anything else and had their own empire in the middle of China. They were wiped out/eventually absorbed by Mongols and were completely forgotten for centuries until their writings were recently rediscovered.

Written Chinese today is an evolution of only one of the many, many cultures that formed what China is today. Even Japanese people can read classic Chinese texts with just a little practice, but they're definitely a separate society and always have been.

You could also argue western European cultures are all just Rome since they retain parts of the Latin language and writing system and can make out some words if they squint enough.
I found that, for me at least, it kinda works to not outright disagree, but to say that you 'read an article' that disputed said fact and now you're confused about whether it's actually true. I usually see one of three things happening: they say something along the lines of "oh, I don't know a lot about that, so I can't tell you" and the conversation moves on, they tell you "it's obviously bullshit, because I read it in $magazine", or they'll engage with it to try and lift your confusion. In the latter case, you can feed them arguments and facts, but since it's not a debate ("you're wrong" - "no, YOU are wrong"), it's easier for them to see when/where their beliefs fall short.
Ask HN: How to shift focus at work to study+work rather than work only
I tend to focus on doing tasks. I feel like when I'm learning stuff at work (watching a video or reading a book - all tech) then internally no matter what my manager would say I feel like it's not what I need to do at work. Do you also have that feeling how can you shift the focus to this and feel great? PS it's not only the feeling it's also the attitude difficult to focus on this stuff while focusing at work tasks is much easier as it involves immediate action result satisfaction, more tests pass, more functionality, better performance, new design document, new wiki page, new refactor, new idea about design improved architecture all those have the trigger response satisfaction rather than just watching a video or reading.

It's like the context switching of to learning is just never in the mood at work (at home it is) if anyone has succeeded and has tips to be able to make this change would be happy to learn.
Let's demystify how plants "produce oxygen".

They do it by splitting CO₂ molecules. The oxygen part (O₂) goes into the air, and the carbon (C) part becomes the plant.

So for the Amazon to continually produce surplus oxygen to the atmosphere, it must also continually produce an ever expanding amount of plant material ("wood") that would form an ever growing pile there.

This is not happening. Because forests don't produce surplus oxygen. Our atmosphere doesn't work that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis
We have to meet them halfway, too. Trumpism and its ilk isn't helping at all.
Elm's FFI is a bit painful compared to Clojurescript's. With Clojurescript you can target Node, browser or mobile (with something like Re-natal), but it truly shines when you have Clojure on the back-end. Clojure runs on JVM and many people (for all the wrong reasons) don't like that.

You don't need to learn React to start using Re-agent or Re-frame.

IMO among all alt-js languages, Clojurescript is the most practical and production-ready.
Romans valued pragmatic skills over theoretical discussions. They clearly knew their math and the numbering system was not an issue for their engineers. They just didn’t care for philosophizing about the nature of geometry like the Greeks did. They preferred someone inventing an odometer or a way to detect tax fraud.
> So it was news to me that (a) photons without a common history, and (b) photons indistinguishable in all degrees of freedom could be entangled.

Oh no. It is definitely possible to entangle two photons from two different sources. Say two hydrogen atoms emit a photon each; then you just need a non-linear crystal to entangle them, or use linear crystals and post-select good results. Here is a recent example for the latter for quantum repeaters [1], though this has been done for decades now. And making two different photon sources indistinguishable (or controllably-distinguishable) is like the first thing you do in a quantum optics lab.

> I also understood entanglement...

That's not a correct way to think of entanglement. Two particles are (maximally) entangled if

(1) you do the same measurement on the two particles, the results are (perfectly) correlated.

(2) if you do orthogonal measurements on the two particles, the results are (perfectly) uncorrelated.

And all this happens in a way that no local classical theory can explain.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.05351.pdf
How much space does the full instance take? It would be interesting to have a personal article recommender based on the stats form your own Wikipedia instance
Congratulations on living in a bubble.
One Strange Rock documentary on Netflix makes the same claim.
According to links I found on the page, it looks like the software being used is provided by Kiwix [1], and the file format used to archive Wikipedia (and other sites Kiwix archives) is ZIM [2].

I agree, it's an interesting project. I would like to see more specifically about how many users they can serve at once from a Pi Zero. Unless they just stuck Cloudflare in front of it?

[1] https://www.kiwix.org/en/

[2] https://openzim.org
We're responsible in large part for withdrawing from the TPP, yes
That we have spelling tests and spelling contests through secondary school is indicative that it takes roughly forever.
There are actually a couple pretty serious limitations of the Google Photos API:

https://tip.rclone.org/googlephotos/#limitations
I was taught with phonics (not English) and one of the reasons was that reading is taught at the same moment as writing. So you learn to write first letters at the same time as you learn to read them. Iirc the first two were M and A
That’s only for our traditional service. For Workers the ToS is different. Don’t see anything troubling about this project!
It’s cheap but it’s proving unacceptably slow for me - sometimes I see 2.5s TTFB for accessing tiny audio files in my region (Berlin, EU). Server uploads are also quite unreliable, had to write a lot of custom retry logic to handle 503 errors (~30% probability when uploading in batch).

Great for it’s intended use (backups), but I’ll be switching to an S3 compatible alternative soon - eyeing Digital Ocean Spaces or Wasabi...
I think B2 is still only single-datacenter.
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