skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there's a positive gain in drawing metals out with the plants, removing the metal content, and producing biochar with the waste. Then you'd be able to use the plants to remove CO2 from the air and metals from the ground simultaneously.

Obviously, there's a finite amount of metal one could draw from any given location, and depending how deep root systems grow there's maybe not a lot of long term value in mining the surface this way. (Though with breeding/engineering programs, perhaps you could get deeper root systems.)

It's the sort of stuff that's fun to imagine in a science fiction context and probably doesn't make much practical sense in the real world. Though, maybe getting metals out of the soil is useful in other ways (e.g. cleaning up mine tailings?)
Can we get a (2005)?
A friend once forgot a bare PCB TV-b-gone in a coat pocket while traveling EU to US. He noticed it right at the first checkpoint.

They asked what it is, laughed at the response, and went "eh, as long as there are no wires dangling off it, we don't care." He stuffed it in a bag and had no further issues.

Why the wires would've made a difference is beyond me...
I'm glad it has had a positive impact on you. Thank you for taking the time to read it.
Yes, as means to achieve performance improvements that aren't that relevant to average Joe C++ dev.

The one doing application stuff in Qt, MFC, wxWidgets.

Or those like myself, where C++ only matters as means to implement native bindings to system libraries, or GPGPU shading languages based on C++.
Correct. "Observer" is just shorthand for "probability collapsing interaction".
Maybe just don't buy any new hardware until/unless Apple addresses this. I expect that most of the forced labor goes towards hardware production, and I don't think that continuing to use Apple software makes you (any more) complicit.
Miracast appears to be being deliberately killed - Intel took it out of some drivers, and sibling comment claims Google have removed it from Android.
This account made me realize how much of tweeting is bragging. I don't think people are like that in real life conversation but on Twitter we're all trying to sell something, be it ourselves, our products, or, in this case, our money.
Who's going to entertain the researchers when they're not working? Or do you imagine they'll simply work every waking hour?
Interesting. Do they say what is the range left for that car? I can't figure it out.
What are some examples of quality apps made with Flutter on iOS?
USA has a broad federal law prohibiting "unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce." (Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act) (15 USC §45))

This appears to be in violation
Make one yourself one with a box fan by taping a cheap hepa filter from home depot taped to the back. It will outperform everything in this market, only it will look a little ugly.
The is great!!

I'll have to pay attention to this, to create a list of VCs to personally avoid.
I meant that I do documentation on the side, not in code. In code, I do human readable comments (using a restricted subset of markdown) where things would otherwise be very difficult to understand.

All of this applies uniformly for the code I write for others, as well as code I write for myself.
> More likely you just haven't tried to define consciousness clearly and non-circularly, and when you do, it just kind of goes away as a concept.

Let me try: consciousness is that which makes you get up in the morning and get something to eat. In general, it's what makes you keep being alive in the complex world, reacting to the changes, adapting for survival. As a human survival entails being part of the human society and culture. This is a concrete, non-metaphysical definition.

Why survival? It's the only self-reliant, self affirming reason.

If you think I am too reductive, maybe you haven't considered the wonderful complexities of reinforcement learning and genetic evolution. There is just as much or more to admire in them as in traditional spirituality and religion. But they have the advantage of being practical and not presupposing things that cannot be seen, including Chalmer's panpsychism and/or dualism.

PS: seems like I hit a nerve, but I am not sorry. Consciousness == eating is my way of crashing the high flying palace of consciousness philosophy into the dirt of the concrete world. Philosophers (armchair or not) need to take heed at the current scientific developments.
yes, a few years ago, i bought a blueair 211+, which has a hepa and activated charcoal filter, and felt a noticeable improvement in my coughing and sneezing right away (and since then).

the 211+ performed the best on wirecutter's own tests, but wasn't the top recommendation for what seemed like arbitrary reasons. you change the filter twice a year for about $100 in yearly costs.

i hvae some air leakage around doors and windows (old building), but it's not enough to overwhelm the 211+ (as noted by my air quality sensor). in fact, i'm ok with some external air exchange, because CO2 levels can otherwise get unacceptably high overnight.
But it's irrelevant if it works faster than intel
It's not just Molekule, consumer air quality products in general are full of dubious junk.

This study [0] fairly comprehensively compared the Foobot air quality monitor to a research-grade sensor setup and found that it severely underestimated the temperature (one of the easiest things to get right in my experience), underestimated tVOC, had low correlation on its CO2 output (i.e. the CO2 output was pure garbage) and overestimated PM2.5.

I wish this was unique to Foobot.

The problem seems to be that these companies take a bunch of cheap, low-quality sensors (e.g. using inferred CO2 rather than an NDIR sensor or saving cost by not properly calibrating the sensors), put them in a premium-looking (and priced) package and market them as if they were premium products, because consumers won't know any better.

The worst part is that high-quality sensors really aren't that expensive. A bundle of Sensirion tVOC, CO2, RH/T and particulate sensors can be had for under $200 and with proper calibration they work great. Hook them to an ESP32 or something and put them in a case and you've basically got a Foobot.

[0]: https://www.j-sens-sens-syst.net/7/373/2018/
> start throwing C++ exceptions

Well, don't. "Exception-based programming" is an anti-pattern. Exceptions should be thrown in, well, exceptional situations.
While I am not defending Molekule, both the BBB and Consumer Reports act based upon money generated from competitive companies. They are not unbiased, and have found to be biased on multiple occasions.
Right now, the way I see it, I rather help the managed languages I work on reach the point where binding to C++ is kind of last option when nothing else helps.

The other language communities manage to drive language progress over the Internet, which apparently ISO has yet to get in touch how it goes.
there is a difference between tech and science with regard to correlations between recency and quality.

Scientific articles gain credibility as they age and no known exception to elucidated principles is apparent.

in this case the [2005] article is superior to a [2020] article.

i do agree however it is helpful and conventional to include a date of publication
Back in the early '90's I was travelling all over the American Continent and Europe with loads of equipment. I remember a notable last-minute trip to Amsterdam where I had no choice but to take about 600 lbs (272 kg). I had to design a custom 8020-based dolly to be able to move this pile-of-technology around on my own at the airports. The idea was to take it apart, store it in one of the cases and re-assemble on arrival.

For the most part this worked out OK, except for one memorable trip to Munich. All of my equipment cases came out of the plane coated in what I can only describe as some kind of yellow grease. I was literally coated with this stuff after pulling all my equipment off the carousel. I won't bore you with the entire story of what happened at the airport after that. In retrospect it was very funny, not at the time, of course, it was very far from that.
I assume it (a) actually functions as a cable that can charge a phone (b) can enumerate on the USB A connection as various types of slave (such as network adapter or storage device) and use this to bridge into the computer (c) enabled connections to the cable Wi-Fi from a phone as a means to control or monitor the cables activities.

I initially thought this might be used to hack into phones via the lightening or USB ports, but the security on these devices is pretty good. It seems less likely that an exploit of this value would be put into cables like this. I still worry about plugging my phone into random hotel or transport USB charge ports however... I should pick up a USB condom I guess!
Have you been successful in recovering your stolen items?
It's not unreasonable for society to expect both children and adults to work some of the time. It is unreasonable for both children and adults to be separated from their loved ones and to be denied personal freedom to move and pursue their own interests, religion, etc to this degree. Children require more discipline than adults because they don't always have common sense like "don't set a fire in your bedroom."
I think currently one of the nicer distractions on Twitter is interactive fiction, like this interactive Star Trek adventure [0] run by @JoeSondow. If you like Star Trek, he's also running other Star Trek themed accounts like Picard Management Tips at @PicardTips for example.

[0] https://twitter.com/search?q=%23StarshipWonder&f=live
Don was the hardware hacker before Makers became buzz-worthy. The most influential thing he said was that a Hardware Hacker must have a library, he quantified it as at least six feet of books, documentation and literature. Once you got that much you could start weeding out the less valuable material!
If a million people in concentration camps, being used as forced labor for a wide swathe of multinationals, counts as a “random exception” to you, you may need a strong adjustment to your moral calculus.
Quantum measurement measures aspects of system without collapsing superposition
Wow, thank you for dissecting the post and and sharing your personal experience and lessons as well. Those are great learning points!
> Administrators are typically farther along than associates I would think.

I just never heard "associate" used in reference to a title on anything related to informatics.
Well I can afford a complete ABI break (complete) given the kind of code I work on. Most people cannot. Binary incompatibilities are very hard for most people to manage.

So I would benefit from any number of abi-breaking proposals but can understand the committees reticence.
Fined for practicing engineering without a liocense. Institutions will always protect themselves but this is absurd
How can the body, given 5000 kcal in fat not store any of that fat in the adipose tissue?
Using Low Discrepancy Sequences and Blue Noise in Loot Drop Tables for Games
As opposed to Legends of Tomorrow, which is an RPG party doing "adventure of the week" on a timeship. (I enjoy Legends of Tomorrow a lot. It totally feels like the writers are running weekly gaming sessions and turning them into scripts.)
I agree with this so much!

In some weird sense, I feel like mathematics is way easier. I often half-jokingly say that but there's an element of truth in it.

All your definitions are painfully clear. (How often do you see people disagreeing, only to, later on, find out they actually mostly agree but were operating under different definitions.)

You control every single variable. If I want to create a 'lab' to constrain a variable, you just write down 'Let n be an element of Z' or something like that. Tada, now you're only working in Z. Try controlling variables in business haha.

I'm glad to see behavioral economics and psychology are slowly starting to take off more in business.

Thanks for reading btw.
Agreed in general, but just because free trade is mostly win-win doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve on it through regulations and such.
I think goto is a good thing to have, although (outside of assembly language) it would mostly not be needed since other ways would work better. The example given there probably should not need goto (since it is just a simple loop), although if it uses goto, that isn't much of a problem anyways.

A break and continue statement is basically like a goto, and in some cases is more convenient since it automatically knows where the target is and you do not have to add a label there yourself. But, a return statement is not really the same as goto (although some instruction sets, such as MIX, implement it as such).
Thanks for all this stuff, some of which I wish I'd been aware of at the time, like LispScript.

I don't remember the details, like how it was used, but I recall the metacircular evaluator in HyperNeWS (or do I mean HyperLook?) being called out as a (the?) major pain point in the system for speed of the interpreter.
Thank you for your constructive input, this sounds very reasonable. I'll try to keep that in mind and will try to desist buying new hardware until Apple addresses this.
Jack Dorsey lost control of Twitter a long time ago
> is too new

it's on bioarxiv, what exactly does 'too new' mean?
While this product of additive inverses property does follow from the field axioms, there is a short discussion in the blog comments at https://susam.in/blog/product-of-negatives/comments/ which shows that this property holds true for all rings too.

So it is not just numbers for which this property holds true but for all elements of fields and rings too. Quite simply, (-a)(-b) = (a)(b) in all rings where (-a) and (-b) are the additive inverses of a and b respectively.
You're thinking of public service - I mean the grants given to otherwise unprofitable newspapers. So there's a third option:

- private media without oversight, no requirements on democratic participation of all parties nor equal screen time, in return getting kickbacks by relatively transparent processes
So if i program sdc to drive itself to a charging station when it’s low on battery it’s conscious now?
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People DO do this. This is how things like iPhone Cake/AppCake work (and all the other "alternate" app stores). They register up a bunch of enterprise certs under some weird innocent sounding names, like "Global English Education Co.Ltd" or something, and use the certs to sign apps.
__This is not medical advice. Do not go out and take a bunch of losartan without a doctor, you could die.__

Here's the article's main point (from 2005): Kuba et al showed that by injecting losartan into mice (a common ACE inhibitor that is off patent) with a SARS-Coronavirus protein leads to less lung injury than the controls without losartan. No studies have shown this works in living, breathing humans, but...

(Oral) losartan is widely available (at least right now), it can be prescribed off-label by doctors and picked up today. As its on-label use is treating hypertension, obviously it will lead to low blood pressure, along with all the other possible side effects including life-threatening swelling and more. And since dehydration and sepsis can also lead to lower blood pressure, you'd be playing with fire in life-threatening ways without careful watch by a doctor. You can bet this is a source of ongoing research and trials, probably already underway.

__This is not medical advice. Do not go out and take a bunch of losartan without a doctor, you could die.__
So are you saying that you continually eat only every other day? Or is this just something you do time to time? Curious as much as anything. How long have you been doing this?
Slavery is still wrong. Full stop.
> Any little filter that you can stand in the corner can't do much to clean the air in the room. It may remove some large items like pet dander.

A consumer-grade HEPA air purifier (DIY or < $200 on Amazon) against a wall in your bedroom will commonly cut PM 2.5 concentrations by 10x in a few hours if you keep your windows and doors closed.

Source: I own a PM 2.5 counter and have operated air purifiers in China smog and California wildfires. There's also plenty of evidence out there.
Anecdotally, I've heard similar issues with AMD chip-sets and RAM.
It's a no-brainer for people with asthma or those susceptible to allergies.

The rest depends on your sensitivity to decreases in air quality. Regularly changing a filter in your central AC/heating system is probably enough.
that's why you do property tests with unreliable mock networks.
We need laws that prevent this stuff. If you avoid all companies that have connections with China then not many will be left to choose from. From a company’s point of view it’s also difficult to compete with others who deal with China.

It’s similar to environmental rules. A single company can’t do much as long as it’s possible for others to keep polluting and be cheaper that way.

One of government’s tasks is to level the playing field so everybody can compete while following the same rules. Same thing for workplace safety, child labor and a ton of other things. We need rules for acceptable standards
I’ve changed out the super high intensity blue LEDs on my computers for amber 30 MCD ones. I don’t sleep in the room with them, but if I have someone crash on my couch they don’t have search lights blinking at them all night.

They’re plenty bright to see in daylight, and personally I like the retro charm.
I got filled with righteous internet rage when I read the headline, but then I read the article.

The particular strike was implemented by withholding fall grades, which seems to unnecessarily burden students who are to be buried under crushing debt, no? Also, they are apparently unionized and this strike was against the extant agreements.

The consequences of not getting a grade can affect a student’s entire career and ability to sustain themselves financially.
How many bytes a boolean value takes in Java?
ARB stands for AT1R blockers ( angiotensin II type one ) and they represent a major class of antihypertensive medications. These drugs end in sartan.

They will not block ACE2 which is a protein which gets expressed in the lung tissues.

Please Do not get carried away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiotensin-converting_enzyme_...
> When a process is running user code, it is not being garbage collected and vice versa

That doesn't make it 'not a garbage collector' and it also doesn't make it 'not concurrent'.

> tuning may be required at the extremes

that is very rare, and if that is disqualifying for a concurrent GC, then Java is disqualified as a concurrent GC.
Fantastic actionable advice, I heard that they assembled the trash can mac pro in Austin, Texas. Unfortunately not any longer tho, if I am not mistaken. Thank you for your advice!
Should you be a product company or a project company?
The difference is that Gucci doesn't claim that their pocketbooks will protect you from Coronavirus.

People paying for a Gucci know what they're getting: a pocketbook that conveys a particular fashion, status, and personal brand. People buying Molekule air filters don't know what they're getting.

If Mlekule air filters could be picked up at $5 at your local 7-11, this would still be predatory false advertising. The price doesn't matter.
While I agreed on everything you said - I simply cannot get over the fact you mentioned Mike O'Hearn as someone who is natty. While this definitely is not a place for arguing about someone's physique or what's attainable naturally, I do not think duck eggs make you get and maintain that much muscle with height of 190cms and sub 10% body fat year around. Do not get me wrong, I have nothing against someone using steroids, but lying about is a bit unethical.
Lisinopril is a competitive inhibitor of ACE that prevents it from converting Angiotensin I to Angiotensin II
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Samsung still has Smart View; not sure what protocol(s) it uses, but it seems fairly general.

One of the things that kills these common standards is that every company has to tack on its own obscuring trade name. DLNA, HDMI-CEC, probably others I can't remember have all had this.

It's kind of a wonder that SMTP managed to be known as just "email", but even that is largely eroded into branded experiences.
Covid-19 quarantine leads to surprise medical bills for US family
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-9700K-vs...

Comparing the similar priced Intel and AMD CPU's shows Intel has a slight advantage.

Reading the conclusion, it seems for Overclocked performance, AMD is the winner, especially when factoring in large core workloads.

As games and typical "home-user" scenarios are not designed to take advantage of large multi-core CPU's, Intel would appear to be the better choice at the ~$350 CPU level.
If you want to solve this by designing systems: I found the Dutch [0] one quite interesting. The way I understand, citizens kind of vote for their preferred content providers with air time / resources distributed accordingly.

But for me a critical aspect is their mission statement and whether they adhere to it. I expect the media in my country to be a check against politicians / the powerful. I understand having a system keeping this stable would be nice and being dependent on gov money has drawbacks, but just having such a culture is what I'd consider most important for the label free press.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_public_broadcasting_syst...
Wasn't the same true for child labor in various industries? Seems like outlawing slavery doesn't get rid of the slave owners, instead they just move to the next unprotected group.
This is for a premium economy class. The existence of premium economy is already us reaching the point where people are prepared to pay more for more.

Airlines believe that they can make more money selling fewer seats at higher prices -- at a price point typically 50-100% above economy, for about 50-70% more space.

The thing is, most flights only have 3 rows of premium economy (except some ultra-long-haul Singapore Air flights) -- right now, most people still want to buy whatever is cheapest -- partially because international travel is actually out of their budget, and so taking that basic-economy cheap fare is part of finding a way to go at all, and partially for a reason that I don't think airlines appreciate (they've made people expect service and comfort to be absolutely horrid, and so many customers wouldn't pay more for better because they don't trust the airline to be capable of providing better, and assume the higher prices are just a rip-off and not actually a better product.)
A famous trope is that the jester is the only one who can mock the monarch, and monarchs ignore them at their own peril. They are the only ones who can criticise them frankly, and provide a view closer to the common people in a way the rest of the court can't. Doing it by holding up a mirror is just classic, really.
That's unbelievably kind of you. Hopefully our paths will cross again!