skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of counting syllables and possibly implementing a sort of structure to it with choruses and whatnot also. Would be cool to enforce rhyming too.
>due to the fact agents must make educated or gut decisions.

That's one hell of an a priori you have there.
ESR making things up authoritatively on the spot - no way.
I feel like car culture and suburbs create some of this.

When I used to spend time in the suburbs I witnessed people filling large cars with groceries to last for weeks. It is hard to estimate in advance what you will actually use working that way.

I prefer to live walking distance from grocers and go every day to buy a small amount of ingredients. I often still end up with leftovers, but I am pretty conscientious about using them before they go bad and before buying more.
"There is nothing comparable in recent US history."

Of course there is. What transition happened in the US in the 60s, that the country is still not completely out of? You'd know instantly if an American was using it as an excuse (as is quite common) for not matching various European metrics.
This falls back to the classic thing - if your market is commoditised, then your product needs to be an experience to drive your revenue. And in all likely-hood, dog walking is not an industry "ripe for disruption" with enhanced experiences. Ride sharing took off because the experience of cabs was (in my experience) pretty much universally abysmal across the globe, and Uber/Lyft etc. actually provided a service that gave you a better experience.

The reality, as the commenters said in the linked reddit discussion, is that Wag has no real way to enforce this. Unsure on laws in the USA, but that provision would be highly illegal under Australian competition laws as exclusive sourcing is a finable offence, so have to assume similar provisions exist over there too in one way or another.
I have a ~2014 GE Profile counter depth fridge that freezes every 3 months like clockwork. Incredibly annoying for a $3000 appliance. It should be illegal.
The movie is The Terminal. Supposedly based on this person

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri

Interestingly, there's also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_lived_...
That's the evaporator fan, and not all fridges have one. The condenser gets hot, not cold, and is outside the fridge. It almost always has a fan. The evaporator is inside, and the part that gets cold.

Ice buildup may indicate a humidity problem.
Somehow the link had CGI escaping in it and I ended up on the 404, hopefully this one should work https://github.com/prg-titech/magritte

Thanks for sharing.
If you're buying a prepackaged meal on the way home then you're likely spending one of order of magnitude more than your parents. They could literally be using half their fridge food for target practice and still be spending less than you.

I now fall back on HN's common knowledge about Electron to declare that you are being bad and should immediately seek to maximize the use of the shared storage areas in your refrigerator.
>Not everyone showing symptoms smoked THC cartridges

Are we sure about that? The article doesn't seem to say that to me. It also says that patients sometimes lie about what they vape.
I just wonder if this tactic will work against an army from the outside?

I mean the HK police are part of the people. I bet the troops would be from non Cantonese speaking provinces. I’m not sure they’d be “shamed”. One can hope that if it came to it the generals and colonels would show empathy, but the foot soldier is conflicted. The brass should be the ones laying down their pins, stripes, badges and stars.

A foot soldier (infantryman) is indoctrinated, but the brass are educated and should understand all the implications down the road.
Thank you for sharing this. I found it a surprisingly good introduction to combinators in general. Reading it also set off a lot of resonances in my brain with formal, Hilbert-style logic systems and attempting to find minimal collections of axioms.

Was recently blown away to find out that propositional logic can be whittled down to just modus ponens and the single axiom:

((((p -> q) -> (~r -> ~s)) -> r) -> t) -> ((t -> p) -> (s -> p))

Anyway, I've been wanting to check out concatenative programming for a while now, anyway. This website [0] is a pretty darn good resource for anyone similarly interested.

I would love to combine the above with my interest in rich type systems. Anyone aware of anything that, in spirit, marries Haskell and Factor?

[0]:http://concatenative.org/
TBH, the few times Ive worked with a few recruiters, they misrepresented the position they were recruiting for. Now, I'm not sure if it was a recruiter packaging the job to be 'ideal' or if it was HR having absolutely no clue what they were doing.

Never the less, when I walked in and sat down, it was nowhere near what I was expecting and what was conveyed to me.

Of course that's the worst situation. The recruiter doesn't get paid and spent time, the company wasted time, and the potential employee wasted time. But I have no issue in leaving money on the table for you if you do a good job about recruiting. And once you're paid after a year, I'll ask for a raise equal to what you got :) That tells me what they're really willing to pay for me.
No medical studies consider alcohol or caffeine harmless, and no study has been able to tell if nicotine is more harmful than caffeine, and everyone agrees alcohol is worse than nicotine (for the doses used typically of both).

Pregnant women should definitely not drink, they probably shouldn’t use nicotine either.
I have used an MCT vape before. I've made some of my own carts with it as well.

I wonder if you have any words on "MCT" being too broad a term. I made my carts with Bulletproof's Brain Octain, which claims to be 100% caprylic acid (C8).

I'm not naive enough to ask "Is it safe?" But I'm curious if you think an 8-chain MCT would treat your lungs significantly different than a 12-chain MCT?

I could easily imagine someone learning that you can make carts with MCT, and finding something cheap, only to be unknowingly using 100% C12. Cue the lipid pneumonia.
`mutate` in this code means "altering state". It does NOT hint at a "genetic algorithm". This game is solvable using floodfill where each floodfill state is a series of moves and the boundary condition is whether you've ended up alive or dead.
I can't imagine the debt students are taking on now. Add to that the high expense of housing. Why don't student speak up about this instead of defending all the "safe space" and "trigger warning" nonsense?
You have to really be careful not to buy too much in bulk or too far in advance.
Police is never "shamed" into retreat. It takes decisions on tactical grounds, something that protestors, usually more emotional, fail to grasp.

A retreat usually means that they have the crowd where they want it.
More broadly, the Middle East in general was once extraordinarily bountiful, but the cumulative effects of natural climate change and thousands and thousands of years of saltwater irrigation have unfortunately desertified much of the region.
I've got the exact same problem with my Samsung fridge. It's such a common problem with Samsung, I'm surprised they're still in the refrigerator business.
Considering there is no win condition I think the "War Games" mantra applies.
Why wouldn't you put that in ~/.bashrc ?
They decrease viscosity, making it obvious that a product was diluted.
> Today, Unix powers iOS and Android

How about the vast majority of the web? Have we hit the tipping point of technology ubiquity where people identify their phone more than the sheer size of the internet that actually enables this devices to function? Maybe "back in my day" syndrome has finally come for me too.
Why downvote this? It’s (at least could be) a clever callback to the demoscene.
If they are extracting from trim and other low-value parts of the plant, yeah that is a possibility. Myclobutanil has a boiling point around 200 C, THC around 155 C. They have similar hydrophobic nature. So any extraction process favoring THC will also likely partition myclo. If you are making concentrate from buds, this isn't an issue, as your ratio of active components to pesticide is going to be similar. However if you are extracting low-density plant matter, your ratio of myclo to actives will be higher.

However, the highest number I've seen reported was just shy of 1 ppm myclobutanil. Not great, but that's still pretty low.

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/12/20/37272899/no-one-...
Not only are we supposed to assume good faith comments on HN, reddit-type snark is looked down upon for a reason.

Per HN guidelines, 'don't talk shit you wouldn't say in person.' There is so much ridiculous rhetoric on HN these days, satire is difficult to discern.

Edit: Re-reading the original comment in its entirety, rather than focusing on numbers, I guess it's obvious satire. I naively assumed that's not the convention on HN.
VW Group to pay $96.5M to settle inflated fuel economy lawsuit
Agreeded, what is the alternative? Due process at the border? Do you see the hold up this will cause? We have an appeal process for entry denial.

Edit to add, citizens are entitled to due process while I am only referring to non-citizens
>As heartbreaking as it is, could it be any different?

Not if all those 401(k), IRA, and defined benefit pension funds want fat ROIs.

There is something quite humorous about people working hard to earn money to invest, and then those same investments causing them to work even harder to meet their ROIs.
I think the video makes a clear argument to the increase of number of severity of failure modes in the more modern part, I don't feel that it does a great job at a lot of things.

So both designs likely have a life limiting factor of oil. It's clear that the older design will have a longer life before running into oil related issues. However, he still needs to modify (punching a hole in the housing) the motor to oil the unit. He makes no affordances to the modern unit for doing so. While it might be a pain to have to re-oil more frequently, it's still likely to be an action that occurs on a multi-year basis. At that point, the difference between re-oiling every other year, and every 10 years feels pretty academic.

He discounts the ~6W of energy savings. It's true its not a lot - especially if you take the perspective of - 'let's try to save 6W of power from a 1970's fridge'. However, modern units consume the order of 200W, so an increase of 6W is a 3% increase in energy consumption. Maybe you can justify that for a single component, but how would you justify that across the board?

Do wish they used better caps though.
I feel like my motivation to go to grad. school is driven by a desire to solidify my CS knowledge as well as a desire to look more competitive given the area that I live in / am most close to (NYC). I'd like to apply for more specialized posititons too.
I upvoted this comment, but sadly I wouldn't call METAFONT a “popular” system. The number of people who have successfully created “true” meta-fonts as Knuth intended is tiny.

Nevertheless, when used with skill it can be very satisfying, as in Knuth's paper that I can only describe as a performance (The Concept of a Meta-Font, https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/16.1/... ) See also A Punk Meta-Font (https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb09-2/tb21knut.pdf) where he describes waking up one morning with an idea to create a certain kind of font, going to the computer at 1pm, and basically being done by 4pm.

It is interesting to see the ideas from METAFONT basically ignored and misinterpreted by most of the mainstream of type designers (despite people like Zapf, Bigelow, Holmes, Carter and Southall being involved with the Stanford typography project and helping Knuth refine Computer Modern), only to be slowly reintroduced decades later in new forms (variable fonts etc).
While there is evidence showing the short term safety of inhalation, there is no evidence as to the long term effects of consistent repeated exposure.

> Propylene glycol has been used as a carrier for pulmonary inhalers as well as in food and cosmetics for decades.

Propylene glycol was deemed safe for oral consumption, not inhalation. I have not seen any sources of information indicating its use in pulmonary inhalers, do you have some sources you can link?
Once the PLA comes in, they will most likely follow the playbook from Beijing in 1989. Use troops from distant provinces that are already unsympathetic towards the protestors (an attitude China is heavily encouraging in the mainland population already via state media) and overwhelm the protestors with lethal force.

The CCP is for some reason waiting to see whether they will have to resort to these measures. Probably due to anticipated blowback from the international community and the risk of economic damage to HK itself. But once the army does get involved, it’s all over.
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I guess you could say that. I’m in my first year as a farmer growing hemp. It’s pretty fun and interesting stuff!
No one said anything about SPAs. You can keep the site modern whilst still serving content in separate pages with a little JavaScript here and there. Being ideologically against any and every form of JavaScript is being pretentious and holier-than-thou.

As for concrete examples of the above, see lobste.rs for an excellent interface that's still minimal and responsive. Typing this comment on HN took me to a separate HTML page for absolutely no reason; Lobsters doesn't do that and allows you to write inline, preserving the context above.

Old Reddit (the only acceptable way to use Reddit) is another example of good JavaScript. Fuck the new redesign, but there are countless subtle and useful features in the old design that are only possible because of a tasteful use of JavaScript.
Fry’s is a sad story, but not remotely as tragic as what has become of RadioShack.
There's also the computers...

I used to work in a high-rise building that was closed up, and the climate control was not under our control (our department, our floor, etc.). So when everybody was in the office and the computers were running it would be stifling. When few people were around and the computers were sleeping, it would be much cooler and more tolerable.
Is "approved for human inhalation" a thing? Don't regular cigarettes have tar that people inhale?
Using that takes me to "This page will only work with JavaScript enabled"

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=thinkpad

So not nice!
I have a hobby webcomic, and it made me realize how little code you need for any website. Works great on any device and it is 2mb. That 2mb is the actual comic page. It has every navigation and contact button you could want. And I believe it is about 80 lines of html total.

Boggles my mind how bloated and down right creepy the modern web is today.

A webcomic is a far cry from some main stream site, but it served as a good window into how others abuse their viewers with bloat and surveillance.
I don't know about your specific laws (which are different at all levels of policing, and therefore different between states, countries, nations, etc.), but where I live, we have the concept of intent built into our criminal code. Mens Rea is a term I've heard used for it in some areas.

That is to say, possession of something isn't criminal if you didn't intend on having it. If you kept it, that changes the intent of course. But you can delete it. Or report it. If you've done that, you're not criminally liable to it. There are some crimes you must report, but we're talking specifically about the possession aspect.

In that sense, if the image was found in your cell phone trash directory, but also clear that it wasn't solicited and it wasn't kept, then there was no illegal intent. You won't go to jail for being an unwitting recipient. It is a rather backward state that would jail someone in this situation.
>You mean there are two standards in USA one at the borders another in the country.

Yes. Also there are seperate policies and rules for citizens and non- citizens at the border.

>So all countries denying reporters, human rights workers or dissidents or protestors to enter their borders are doing it correct, because the rule of law is inside borders not outside.

This discussion pertains to entry into the US.
When you convince people they're being robbed because of inequality, it's a problem. Envy is the problem. It's a cognitive defect. There's a reason it's a considered a sin. You are not entitled to what other people have, and justifying that feeling is how you destroy prosperity for all.
Why washing machines are learning to play the harp
The other interesting question to consider is: how long do consumers want to run the same fridge? How likely is the fridge to be damaged in some other way that causes the extra life of the 50-year fan to be wasted away in a refuse dump or recycling center? There's a balancing act to do, between too short a lifetime, wherein the customer is not ready to replace the fridge yet when it dies, and too long a lifetime, where resources are spent to make something last a long time, and it gets thrown away anyways. The original video didn't estimate a lifetime for that motor, but I would expect about 15 years is a standard lifetime for that motor, and that about fits with people wanting to replace their fridge at about every 15 years. Sure, some will go to 20 years, and others will fail at 10, but putting a 50 year motor in a fridge is a form of waste. (There's also the angle of increasing efficiency, that also pushes towards a more frequent replacement cycle than 50+ years)
Those people should have really used electric cars back then
Fry's is still a grocery chain in Arizona, though now it's indistinguishable from any other Kroger's brand.

Weird Stuff, I miss you.

My Fry's was the Palo Alto store, the truck painted with the Fry's logo parked at that parking lot on El Camino Real showing when to go.
I actually don't think this is all that bad. (I'm not sure if it would be enforceable---the classic common law rule is that liquidated damages clauses have to actually be a genuine estimate of the party's damages, not punitive... but it's also been a while since I've done contract law.)

It seems like the defense of this is fairly simple.

(1) People ought not to be able to use their matchmaking services without giving them a cut, that's shitty, and why not use contracts to enforce it---just the same as other kinds of matchmaking services, like job placement agencies, do.

(2) Also, it's probably safer for consumers to use their platform to have things like built-in verification of transactions, maybe(?) insurance(?) etc. anyway. Same reason it's a bad idea to take the AirBnB or Ebay or whomever transaction off-platform, because that's how crooks siphon away recourse for their frauds.

So why not use a little bit of coercion for everyone's good?
Failure to standardise is a sign of a disfunctioning organisation - effectively the embodiment of Conway's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law)

Have worked in organisations where they would rather build something from the ground up every 1-2 years because the organisation has shifted so heavily on what it wants to do/achieve with the same product, and engineering wasn't given the time to properly architect the solution to be adaptable. But the business would insist on having X feature from before and often the easiest way to achieve that was to build micro front ends.

The solution to that wasn't "building them right", it was making them as bad and horrible as possible to point out that the business, their culture and organisation was the problem, not the technology. And when that didn't work, resigning.
The noise that my brand spanking new high efficiency Samsung fridge makes is completely unbearable. It’s not the fan, but the compressor itself. I’ve tried coating the entire compressor compartment with dense material, like you would find in a nice car audio installation, to no avail. The fridge is in an alcove on top of a dense rubber mat, designed to absorb sound. There are foam acoustic pads on the wall behind the fridge. Doesn’t matter what I do, the damn thing is obnoxious.

Worst part is... it’s well within “spec”. I had lots of ear problems as a kid culminating w/ surgery and ironically my hearing is hyper sensitive, as opposed to being worse off. My wife thinks I’m nuts to be so annoyed by the sound (she hears it, though) and technicians who come out say the same.

Fuck I hate this fridge.
To solidify your knowledge, read. A lot.

To look more competitive, do something worthwhile with what you know.
It's probably worth it in your case, but you'll need to be very careful about planning how it directly gives you an increase in return on investment. College is ridiculously expensive in America nowadays, and I would be very hesitant to go back if I wasn't certain it would lead to a drastic increase in income.
I'd like to remind everyone of the trial of Tim Heidecker, which was a case similar to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWotb3gci0A
Nuclear war has a chance of not happening, so I don’t see how it can be substituted for climate change.
I grew up in the suburbs, with a large car (and I still have one), so I doubt that's the only big factor; it's probably more related to people with a "this is cheap/sale, so I'll buy tons of it" attitude without thinking about the rate at which they'll use it, what they already have, and how long they can store it for.
>Due process at the border?

yes

>Do you see the hold up this will cause?

no
Isn’t RadioShack completely dead? Its name and brand were sold of for chump change a few years ago. Anything after that isn’t actual RadioShack. Or is that what you meant by “become”! That they completely died out.
I've breathed fire with MCT oil (the storebought stuff that is basically liquid coconut oil). It's somewhat irritating, and I imagine if deliberately inhaled chronically it would cause harm.

C8 is really fascinating because, I reckon, it's too short to set off the inflammation cascade directly, so it would be up to macrophages to alert the body "hey this doesn't belong". However you still have the usual risk from hydrophobic product in the lung.

Personally, I would use vegetable glycerine and nothing else if you can at all avoid it. PG is a bit more irritating than VG, but any short polyol is going to be diffused away into the mucous much more easily than hydrophobic products.
Yep. It’s dead. It died a long time ago though, before it went belly up.
You might want that. And I do too. But that doesn’t mean there’s actually a profitable market in 2019 for what you’re seeking.
I'd suggest that "watts per second" might just amount to a colloquial way of saying "watt-seconds". I mean, you have a number of watts "during" or "over" a second, so that is kind of "per" second.

While yes, multiplying and dividing are opposites, and "per" generally means division, it seems to me there is a linguistic thing where polarities get switched or are just inferred from context.
It's 3% difference in energy consumption, at a cost of replacing a fridge much earlier. Fridges being replaced more often means fridges being made in much larger quantity, which eats up all potential energy savings and then some.
China and Russia sure, Israel perhaps. Turkey? Probably? Pakistan maybe? What about Libya, Iran, or North Korea?

Everybody knows the specifics now, and even the less well funded adversarial agencies will have a much firmer idea of just how good the adaptive optics of KH-11 are.
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