skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pairs well with today's discussion of multi-stakeholder coordination on a US military airplane: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20792427
My case was really simple. I was done with my ML pipeline and nuked the database, but pics in B2 remained with no quick way to get rid of them and/or to stop the recurring credit card charges.

IMO an "Empty" button should have been implemented by Backblaze.
If this somehow fixes the situations where I have to click pause and un-pause to get a video to actually play, that’d be a step forward for humanity...
It has been proposed indeed, the Surplus Recycling Mechanism: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2011/02/09/what-is-a-surplus-...
Pairs well with today's discussion of multi-stakeholder coordination on managing forest fires: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783166
I've spent this year mostly on Go. I think I'm in a maybe good enough spot to be employable with it? Which was probably my goal all along.

Through Go, though, I've been feeling like picking up a language with a more advanced type system. Usually when I have that feeling I get trapped in analysis paralysis and just never pick anything up. I've been considering just hard-committing to Java/the JVM and taking it as it is. My experience with Java was from college/my first job after graduating (horrible J2EE fintech mess), but it sounds like more modern Java is pretty neat? Who knows.
> But that carbon is all released back as it decomposes after its death.

> On a "whole forest/whole year" perspective, there is normally an equal mass of plants growing and being decomposed, and thus the net oxygen effect is zero.

Sure, if you're talking about a timespan of one hour, one month, one year, etc then it's definitely possible for biological processes in a forest to expel carbon in the form of CO2 in equal volumes that were sequestered by plants. You could even have an overpopulation of some kind of insect or fungus cause a forest to temporarily become a net contributor of atmospheric carbon.

But over the lifetime over the forest, the net effect is obviously massive CO2 sequestration and massive O2 production. If the net carbon impact was zero over the lifetime of a forest, then forests would have no soil. But we know that not to be the case. Forests grow, they accumulate soil, etc.

Despite constant heavy rains and erosion, soil in the Amazon rainforest is often several meters deep and spans an area of over 2 million square miles. That's a lot of carbon sequestration!
It says:

> The good news is that Spravato will be reimbursed at least partly by insurance, which will greatly increase access, says Bryan Clifton, chief medical officer of Kalypso Wellness Centers, another ketamine clinic. But as Calabrese points out, it’s going to be a challenge to figure out how much of the time and labor costs insurance will cover when the treatment alone is more expensive than the alternative, which already has those costs factored in.

https://loricalabresemd.com/blog/the-fda-approved-a-new-keta...
If you want few interesting youtube channels (they are not language learning but interesting normal channels):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvnmumaXaxiPvBDq90YxByQ - Really nice metal detector guy

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7RQMyUPzbQerM6rKRGqhvA - Review of toys, mostly beyblade and collectors toy

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4HCI_GJ2ZsueOlqgjApnFw - weird student
I worked in the area 15 years ago or so.

What the article fails to mention is that some Tohono O'odham members have been heavily involved in both human and drug trafficking due to the cross border nature of their nation.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/tribal-land-us-mexico-border-drug-...

(Of course the morality of laws leading to smuggling are up for debate)
Svelte has been my new thing, and I'm trying to be better at writing js tests even though I hate writing them because hubris
Or change the structure of corporations in practice to many more cooperatively owned and democratically operated businesses. In this way, the actions of the corporations will much more reflect the needs of the people instead of reflecting the needs of an elite board of directors. And in that world, the government only needs to do things like provide legal support for new cooperatives, laws that allow/require employees to purchase the company via right of first refusal laws, etc. Obviously moving control from elite company owners to government bureaucrats is not going to be much better for society.
No shoulder?
“Not all that difficult” is in the context of the brain, where things tend to vary between ‘pretty difficult’ and ‘seemingly impossible’. I say ML shows pattern matching of this sort isn't all that difficult because progress has been significant over very short stretches of time, without any particular need to solve hard problems, and with a general approach that looks like it will extend into the future.

We have this famous image showing progress over the last 5 years.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dw6ZIOlX4AMKL9J?format=jpg&name=...

The latest generator in this list has very powerful latent spaces, including approximately accurate 3D rotations.

https://youtu.be/kSLJriaOumA?t=333

We have similarly impressive image segmentation and pose estimation results.

https://paperswithcode.com/paper/deep-high-resolution-repres...

Because you mentioned it, note that models that utilize multimodal perception is possible. The following uses audio with video.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/04/looking-to-listen-audio-vi...

For sure, these are not showing off the full breadth of versatility that humans have. I can still reliably distinguish StyleGAN faces from real faces, and segmentation still has issues. These all have fairly prominent failure cases, can't refine their estimates with further analysis like humans can, and humans still learn much, much faster than these models.

However, note that (for example) StyleGAN has 26 million parameters, and with my standard approximate comparison of 1 bit:1 synapse, that puts it probably somewhere around the size of a honey bee brain. Given such a model is already capturing sophisticated models fairly reliably using sophisticated variants of old techniques without need of a complete rethink, and the same cannot be said for (eg.) high-level reasoning, where older strategies (eg. frames) are pretty much completely discredited, “not all that difficult” seems like a pretty defensible stance.
Depending on where you're located, it might be worth checking out Langlitz Leather in Portland, OR. I have two of their jackets, my girlfriend has one, and I have friends who have them as well. They are absolutely "buy once, cry once" garments, I suspect my family will be fighting over mine when I am (eventually) dead.
Good genes are nice, but joy is better
>“I was eight months pregnant,” she says. “They escorted me to my desk with a box to collect my personal belongings, and that was it.”

In many a European country the company would be illegal in doing this.

Employers only recently got the ability to fire pregnant/breastfeeding women in the EU, and only as part of mass lay-offs.
In tech: Diving deeper into Elixir and Rust.

Outside of tech: Korean! I find it absolutely fascinating to learn.
Quantum machine learning. I completed my phd in quantum information last year, have an assistant prof job, but looking to jump into the quantum computing industry.
The key here is “uninterrupted” and “clean”. with a well done haha, you can’t tell that anything is there at all. With most moats, you can.
Spravato is a nasal spray.
Not nearly enough rocket engines.
Indeed, SpaceX nearly went bankrupt in the early days because they couldn't get a contract until they successfully launched a rocket. That first contract after their first successful launch was from NASA.
I took a pay cut to go to my last company. Every employee of the original company was getting abused so badly by the founder that I really would've taken anything. It just so happened that the company I was taking a pay cut to go to had tremendous opportunity for growth, and what started as a medium sized paycut turned into a huge pay increase. I'm glad it worked out that way, but I'm certain that pattern is in no way common.

Now, I would probably take a small cut to do something I was excited about. I've been working with my therapist to try and figure out specifically what that would be, but I haven't had a ton of luck.
We support multiple versions in parallel. Currently Jewel (which has just received the 5-year extension) and Luminous, with Nautilus set for release later this year.

Beast is pretty cool. Full performance analysis coming in September!
Yes, there are many gradual paths to learning Unity. I would highly recommend following the official introductory tutorial series. This covers core topics like Components, Transforms, Prefabs, Game Loop etc. After this it gets a bit less clear how to proceed. If you're already a competent programmer I'd go straight to just prototyping ideas and reading the documentation in depth. I would especially recommend reading the best practices guide.

Regarding the development environment, yes it's very integrated and isolated. For me this was a bit of a culture shock as I generally prefer working with text rather than IDEs, but I've gotten fairly well acclimatised to it now.
in Docker that would be something like

COPY Gemfile Gemfile.lock /src
RUN bundle install

even if they don't use docker to run application in prod, it can be [ab]used to perform efficient build layer (build step) caching and distribution.
>Katy Rey was running a large call center in Florida and working long hours when she heard about opportunities at Tesla’s solar panel division. Rey jumped at the chance to work for a company where she felt she could do something more meaningful, even though her salary would be slashed in half. “Everyone was taking pay cuts in the room,” she says of an early training in Vegas. “And the people they recruited were outstanding.” They could deal with the pay cut, Rey says, because they felt like they were “saving the world.”

Well, Musk himself did not take any pay cut, so that should have been a pointer...

>Rey felt like the company found intelligent people and convinced them to push their limits. (...) Six months into the job, Rey was abruptly laid off over the phone

When "changing the world", companies should start with how the treat their own employees...
Safest Countries If World War 3 Breaks Out
Its a perfectly reasonable question. HN is so harsh on people who question capitalism. And corporate capitalism in particular is well deserving of criticism.
That's interesting. There must be a reason cyclists prefer the busy street over the said one. People are not that irrational.

I have seen cases of "improved" cycling infrastructure, for instance, like adding an impractical bike lane someplace, where the real intent is to mop the cyclists out of the way of the motorists.

I have bike commuted all over the US and almost all municipalities get this wrong. When building cycling infrastructure, optimize for the convenience of cyclists and not of motorists and people will use it.
Wasn't it just a couple minutes at the hight of Windows XP?
Yes, two billion in a single bucket is a bit much, index sharding only goes to ~700M if I remember correctly.
You can overflow buffers all sorts of ways in C.
That's likely an artifact of the client side I'd think. While not most of them, a significant portion of clients exhibited similar behaviour on mine. Disconnects before the handshake were quite common (due to simple port scanning), others seemed to perform the handshake for discovery without actually completing/attempting a login. I've chalked that up to things looking for vulnerable server versions (e.g. home routers).

About the only interesting thing I've seen on mine was login attempts using a single compromised key instead of the old brigade of admin/admin password attempts. Although I guess that might just be some known backdoor of some popular network equipment that I was not aware of at the time.
They provide shitty jobs for a lot of desperate people. If we don't work towards a world with good working conditions, we won't work in good conditions.
Made to measure starts at 1kish and bespoke from a nice workshop at around 1.5k to 2k, for normal cow or sheep or goat leather. More than that and you are paying for the brand and less than that and your jacket is probably from an Indian or Chinese sweatshop, like All Saints.

The retail clothes industry is getting insane with all the markup from actually sourcing the garment, the smart choice for expensive pieces if you really know what you want is having it made.
Caching Systems in Python
Yes, children can be put in a more productive environment thanks to this
I think we agree on the sourcing, just we disagree on the definition of "inside".
I knew that but I'm specifically asking about "starting a competitor often requires far more capital than the incumbents needed to reach their position", not where the money is coming from
In this environment, talking about the German government as if it were spending money carelessly seems to me to not reflect the reality.

People are willing to pay money for the privilege of lending money to the German government. Yet the German government, including the supposedly left-wing SPD, is still holding to the schwarze Null ("black zero," meaning a balanced budget). A rational policy in this environment would be to take advantage of negative interest rates to finance stimulus. Instead, they're dogmatically holding to the zero-deficit policy.
Thank you! It's all a bit of a shot in the dark for me and I have set my expectations very low for any sort of revenue - I mostly did it as a learning experience. Hopefully it's helpful to some people though.
"Even though certain economists and politicians know better, they ultimately reflect the political will of the people. So while at an individual level it doesn't matter that someone saves all their income and spends nothing, if that becomes the "culture" then it influences politics (which it has). Even the leftist parties in Germany don't drift far from this orthodoxy."

I cannot believe that we are this far through this discussion, with 80+ points and 120+ comments and not one person has mentioned the underlying cause that is deeper than the "german culture of savings".

None of them had any kids.

Their birthrate is well below replacement.[1] You can't produce an inflationary environment when households aren't being established and the major, overriding driver of consumption has been removed from the lives of so many Germans.

There is a reason they have all this money to save ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany "The total fertility rate was rated at 1.57 in 2017." (vs. a replacement rate of 2.1 ...)
Uhm... can i have this app/script whatever???

I have a beautiful problem space for you: the newly legalized cannabis market.

(Btw im doing a cannabis tech consultancy and anyone who is interested in working in this space the ploblem-scope is very interesting)

Please contact me.
Any thoughts on why it went so badly compared to Colorado?

I think your first and third points are the key to it. CO has lower taxes, and as far as I know, when rec dispensaries were legallized it didn't change much for the med businesses. Dispensaries that wanted to sell recreational had some extra work to do, but they were able to keep their med business going while they added rec.
Improving conditions has a cost. Would you rather see them unemployed?
If only we had a clue where it came from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_R...
And technology and animals from the fertile crescent, efficient crops from the Americas, African slaves and significant military help from local groups.

A lot of merit to share.
I'm not exactly sure the GRRM point hold true. He might write on Wordstar, but the distraction free writing environment hasn't exactly helped him finish books in a decade.
"Most of the time people leave bosses" I feel like is a linkedin clickbait link with almost no data to support.
Alongside pouring resources into the Windows Subsystem for Linux, it would be nice if MS would put some resources into a Linux Subsystem for Windows. That is, do for WINE what they've done for Cygwin.
Why are you still running the "experiment" if the response has caused you to shut down the ability for anyone to post new issues either to your "funding" project or to "standard"? Why run an experiment then shut down all the feedback channels?
I agree that for a "startup" forest, there will be an accumulation of soil.

I assume it reaches an equilibrium after some time, and that the Amazon soil has remained the same "several meters" deep for many millions years.

But I'll admit I don't know that, and you may have a valid point. If real, this effect has to be quite small though.
No, macports is non-native as well and is an excellent, stable alternative, although Homebrew has slightly better coverage. Homebrew's main issue is that it was written from scratch, ignoring lessons from 30+ years of package management experience, and there's no obvious benefit that doing so has brought. Compared to macports, which is based on freebsd ports, Homebrew is brittle and normal operations frequently result in an inconsistent state.

In my experience, unless your needs are extremely basic, sooner or later you'll run into an issue where the solution is basically to commit nuclear warfare on your filesystem and start over again. Also, expect to rely on random blog posts and stack overflow as the de facto user's guide (which maybe is just the state of the world for everything now.)
[RAII](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/raii) to the rescue..
Indeed, /cough/ ransomware /cough/.
See my other answer...

Cannabis tech is where these problems are....

And i have a big network and some amazing work being developed....
We’re on that path, it’s not a sure thing yet. I’d be surprised if all developed countries didn’t have their bonds go negative eventually. Too much capital and not enough productive investments available.
The expense in producing fine leather goods is the labor costs. It's a craft which requires much training and/or experience, and highly-skilled leatherworkers do not come cheaply.
I think this is caused by your browser not allowing auto play video, and the web site not accounting for or checking for this state.

So by toggling the pause / play button, you get the video control in a state that finally mirrors the browser's state.
If you were as productive as Donald Knuth, you would have reason to be very proud.
It used to be $0.0049 for the free egress plan so that's changed then. They do have lower storage pricing if you are on a paid-egress plan which is the same as Backblaze.

Either way, Wasabi is about simplicity and doesn't have any concept of storage classes. It's true that there's a 90-day min storage fee involved but that's only an issue if you're deleting constantly.
My friend’s farm in Mendocino is 100% organic. He grows for Flow Khana.
Longtime Mac/Hackintosh user who has been dabbling more into Linux in recent months. I come to it from the mindset of an advanced non-technical professional user—someone who only sometimes has to write code as part of a day job, but is comfortable in a terminal and has a strong understanding of the underlying systems even if I’m not writing an app anytime soon.

I’ve been using PopOS a bit of late, and have found their tweaks on Gnome to mostly work pretty well. I have had to swap around keys to get used to the format some—basically my big thing is having the special characters available through the Alt/Option key is important to me as I do a lot of writing and frequently use things like long dashes.

One thing I found helped a lot was replacing the caps-lock functionality with the super key, which makes the super functionality easily accessible while still keeping the extended characters within reach.

There are apps I wish had stronger equivalents—Alfred immediately comes to mind—as they have helped speed up my workflow in MacOS. And some apps (Photoshop, InDesign) don’t have a replacement strong enough to use as a daily driver.

While I’m still mostly MacOS these days, PopOS is pretty likable.
Peter Boettke responds[0] by quoting Hayek’s Nobel banquet speech in which he warned about economists making pronouncements outside their respective areas of expertise

[Hayek’s worry about establishing the Prize in economics] is that the Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

This does not matter in the natural sciences. Here the influence exercised by an individual is chiefly an influence on his fellow experts; and they will soon cut him down to size if he exceeds his competence.

But the influence of the economist that mainly matters is an influence over laymen: politicians, journalists, civil servants and the public generally.

and pointing out the op-ed piece’s mistaken diagnosis.

The problem with narratives like Appelbaum’s isn’t that he is suspicious of the pretensions of economists, it is that he is blaming the wrong culprit for the mess we’re in. Here it is important that every one of these critics read Gregory Mankiw’s very important piece[1], published before the financial crisis, on the macroeconomist as scientists (read Chicago New Classical and Monetarists) and the macroeconomists as engineers (read MIT/Harvard Keynesian and New Keynesians).

[0]: https://www.aier.org/article/blame-economists

[1]: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20.4.29
According to Wikipedia:

> the incidence of obesity in French women in 2014 was 24.0% and among French men 23.8%. Overall adult obesity rates in France were significantly ahead of the Netherlands at 19.8%, Germany at 20.1% and Italy at 21.0%, but behind the United Kingdom and the United States at 28.1% and 33.7% respectively.
Are you saying you wouldn't be able to work with someone you disagreed with politically if you were aware if the disagreement?
Oh and since this is about Germany: in Germany "Bundesanleihen" have already negative interest. It will become really impossible to save some money securely for "bad times".

And if people want to tell me I should rather spend some money to push the economy... seriously? I don't need a new tv/phone/car/whatever every few years..

They tell you in the news to save the environment by doing "xyz" daily but just restrain on buying shit you don't need?? No that's too easy..
How did you learn? Immersion?
Beef and hide are coupled goods. One cow produces about X kg of beef and Y m^2 of hide. If demand for beef is extra high, then it will depress the price of hide because the ratio in supply is roughly fixed between them.

There are other examples in modern society. Chlorine and caustic soda are produced in strictly fixed ratios from NaCl salt and electricity. Extra demand for one will depress the price of the other. The effect is quite sharp in this example, since both products are expensive to store.

Similarly, the hydraulic fracking industry has somewhat depressed the market price of natural gas in the US. The miners are really hunting for high-value liquid hydrocarbons. The gaseous hydrocarbons are quite low-margin by comparison, but come along for the ride in the shale being exploited right now. The effect is more modest in this example since new home construction, new electricity production, and industrial process heat can all be biased towards natural gas. But its still there.

If electric and other high-efficiency propulsion technologies takes off enough to impact gasoline consumption, then a side effect in the US will be an increase in natural gas prices. The source of the increase is twofold: Decreased production of liquid hydrocarbons will decrease supply of gaseous hydrocarbons, and increased demand for electricity will raise demand for gaseous hydrocarbons.
> the only person I know personally who retired so early is wildly successful. Far more than he was at work.

If he's wildly successful, did he really retire?