skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if you produce fuel with the carbon you capture you still release it into the atmosphere, so there's no benefit there. Plus you have to add the carbon and the cost of developing/manufacturing/operating your insanely large nuclear reactor (including mining the uranium), you still have to transport your fuel around the world, and now you have to deal with nuclear waste, proliferation issues, vulnerability to attacks and environmental catastrophes.

On the scale of bad solutions from 1 to 10, this probably reach 11.
Particularly the fact that Zuckerberg and other companies are using China as a bogeyman to extract favorable tax and other policy concessions while exploiting Chinese immigrant labor.
Trotsky: "You may not be interested in the dialectic, but the dialectic is interested in you."

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky

Merely recoiling from the horror of activities that some may rationalize is no source of safety.
I guess I'd be in solidarity with all humans? Perhaps more with poorer humans, eg there's a reason to buy from China rather than America?

But really, just buy from the vendor that has the best balance of quality and price, I guess.
Thanks for the tip. I have update the post to include this info.
> It blows my absolute mind that these books were written a hundred years ago.

The more you read history, and the actual written words or written speeches of intellectuals and politicians, you'll continue to be amazed. Much of their language is poetic, and their prose seems more coherent than today's, but that's probably because they wrote a lot more letters to one another.
The fact that there are millions of workers who are being exploited constantly in order to produce things or provide labor in ways for which they're not being fairly compensated? I mean the most obvious example of this is how minimum wage is well under the poverty line and there are folks out there still being paid it and expected to live off of it.
Usually PHP. I grab Laravel, Tailwind CSS, Vue and the needed libraries like VueRouter, Vuex and a few PHP libs and see what happens.

The correct answer is mostly what others have said: whatever you know best. But I would caveat that with this: if this is a project just for fun and learning, pick anything you want and the most important part is have fun. If you are trying to do RAD and get something in a market, grab what you know best and go from there.
Never Split the Difference is an amazing book. I use what I learned from that everyday, and I've coached people (successfully) to get out of bad situations with management using those techniques. It is literally one of the most helpful books I ever read.
How is it a vote? Valedictorian is the student with the best grades throughout their 4 years
This should be able to be avoided if the backup target is also ZFS by using `zfs send`.
I’m talking the combination of a chair similar to that and Surface devices. I guess people who don’t have problems with Surface sits less often in surfaces that high and upright.
For science fiction, Dune is a must, and Children of Time is probably the most mind-bending sci-fi I've read since. Both create imaginary worlds that are so detailed and plausible that they make you see our world in a new light.
What do people think of KFC's fried chicken in the US?
Check out JJ's site https://coss.media and be sure to check out his interviews on YouTube, in particular the one with Sid from GitLab and another with Armory

Too much amazing info to unpack here
> Government Accountability Office

Doesn't that auditor owe FRS $17T?
Ah yes, a bunch of idiots throwing around the n-word and making fun of gay people.

Exactly what I want to see on my front page.
it has been a few years, so maybe these issues have been addressed at some point since I used it last, but:

1) there were multiple issues with deeply nested object models not being reactive within the UI code that cause me to explicitly call m.refresh (can't remember the exact api, as it has been a while, but the function that was called forced a virtual dom refresh, which was _not_ good for performance). I ended up writing a debounce function that would make sure the m.refresh function only got called once per paint at the most, which helped, but it was just a band-aid over the underlying problem, which was that the framework was not detecting reactive property changes within deeply nested models. At the time I was using it, there was no other remedy according to issues that had been brought up on stack overflow.

2) this is probably personal opinion, but the hyperscript model for structuring html, while it looks good on paper, lends to a really tedious process of writing html-generating javascript.

I guess I didn't need a numbered list. Those were my main two gripes.
For Mind games, something from the Culture series - Use of Weapons which does have a nice twist.

For sheer scale and sensawunda - A Fire Upon the Deep and Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.
In addition to the classics of cognitive psychology (Kahneman, Taleb, et al.), I would also recommend books on psychological manipulation, religious cults, and con men. The following books offer a multi-disciplinary perspective on psychological techniques to improve awareness and exploit other people, both of which are essential to enhance your perception and protect yourself against fraud and manipulation.

Cialdini, Robert (2006) Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Guinn, Jeff (2017) Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple

Ekman, Paul (2007) Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life

Kahneman, Daniel (2011) Thinking, Fast and Slow

Mitnick, Kevin and William Simon (2002) Art of Deception

Navarro and Karlins (2008) What Every Body is Saying: Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

Nietzsche, Friedrich (1887) On the Genealogy of Morals

Rhodes, Richard (1986) Making of the Atomic Bomb

Sun Tzu (c. 400 BCE) Art of War

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (2005) Fooled by Randomness

Wright, Lawrence (2013) Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief
Looks very nice. Bootstrap and material design were married before in mdbootstrap. Don't really understand the choices for pro items (some very basic components are part of the pro package). I would personally not use it because it's not a drop-in replacement for Bootstrap currently (so I could validate its usefulness) and then decide whether to buy or not
With no IBC this year, their website is a good way to get my Dutch Master fix.
Mathematicians and teachers aren't all computer programmers, so creating animations isn't their forte.

Books have pictures that do a pretty good job.

Animations are pretty and interestit but that isn't the same as teaching all the math.
I meant, to Germans Aldi and Lidl are the norm. Whatever you found normal at Walmart is unusual in Germany.
I'd focus on things like how to write good documentation, diplomacy, negotiation, mentoring, presentation skills, etc. Non-tech stuff. You're basically a city planner now.
With roadways emptier, speeding and reckless driving is surging
The math scares people. I like how Knuth casually throws in references to prior art in the form of a book that was published in 1734. Including the page number.
They shouldn't be the same price: as soon as you select a license it updates the price. Do you have JavaScript enabled? Perhaps my ecommerce software is a bit wonky in that regard, and I'd love to know more about your situation so I can fix that :)

Did they show the correct price when they were in the cart?
Loved his take on Siddhartha.
> Those are his companies, which he founded

Elon provided the majority of Tesla’s series A, but he wasn’t a founder in the conventional sense of the word.
I carefully read the entire article and I don't think it made Hutchins look good. But it does describe, accurately in my view, the kind of rationalizations people apply to cross line after line until they see no way out.
Are people actually not wearing masks? When I go to the grocery store 90% of people are wearing masks, and I live in a conservative state where it's not a requirement.
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I wasn't aware of that offering, thanks for letting me know.
I like it! Only issue I have though are some less than accessible design decisions. A lot of them could be fixed based on implementation (including `for` in the labels), and including a label with the select dropdown, but other than that I like it.
"Hey, Bob, it's great to see that you're keeping busy, but why are you still running Excel '95?"
I bought this on Kindle after seeing it in another HN thread but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. After reading your comment I think I'll bump it up higher on my priority list.
With source available, you can't use the words open source anymore. These licenses are starting to be rejected by the OSS license committee.

IMHO, the companies using these want to have their cake and eat it too.

Look at how Google has partnered with these companies that did this relicensing primarily because of Amazon. Look what Amazon did with elastic search
Totally true - I forgot about the pitch black areas.
that's a fancy way of sayin they were just bullshittin about nothin
The Deno Handbook: A TypeScript Runtime Tutorial with Code Examples
Remote work can also be a source of socioeconomic inequality
The Glass Bead Game is one of the few works of fiction which has really had a lasting effect on me throughout my life. Amazing writer, amazing work.
> A book? It's hard to have a free trial.

Publish one chapter of the book in an anthology, on the web, etc. I've purchased several books after reading one chapter in this manner.
Given that there are cancer's that strike the young as well, I don't know if that would actually work out.
Honest question, what's so bad about `this`?
I love the little quips that Knuth adds to his writings. There are little subtle things that have to be there to be funny and just below the surface meaning of the text, because taken literally they would be absurd. I remember seeing a couple in there and a couple in his book Concrete Mathematics.
Oh if you can, try looking for similar recommendation threads from communities completely alien to you - law enforcement forums, midwife communities, car mechanics, biologists.

HN is very insular in its interests as you can see with many posts here repeating. Midwives' recommended books probably have a higher chance of truly bending your mind into novel directions.
Does it need it's own SKU? It is scanned when discounted.

The important information is "We did too much of this cheese sandwich today" and correlate that with stuff like store location, the weather, public holidays, travel, etc. That's the valuable data. Then when double-discounted there's a further scan "We really did too many cheese sandwiches today".

I'm not sure where the value-add in projecting future demand is with a mass of low-value-add information. Not giving it a unique SKU seems like a saving to me. If anything, doing random sampling might be worth it, but in measuring flow of what comes in and what goes out, it's going out on discount or trash in the end. The goal is to not overproduce, not waste time tracking overproduced/allocated stuff.

But I'm not a supermarket expert.
> - be realistic - most businesses don't need super-high-tech-microservices-based-kubernetes-mesh-powered architectures ;)

At my company, we developed a monolith that eventually reached the point where it couldn't scale anymore with the same design and was becoming more difficult to modify and update. Then over time migrated to a super-high-tech-microservices-based-kubernetes-mesh-powered architecture.

Which is to say, I agree with you. It is counter productive to start with the super-high-tech-microservices-based-kubernetes-mesh-powered architecture at the beginning. We certainly would not have came up with the specific microservices and technologies we ended up with, and never would have had a viable system to refactor at all as the microservices would have taken much longer to develop up front and iterate on than the monolith approach.
What are the the company's expectations of your new role? Do you have the tools to implement your mandate?
Biggest issue I've seen over the years:

- Unclear role: so you interpretation might not match upper management's expectations.

- Super results with no powers: Sometime you are expected to do X, but have no control or 'power' to enforce your vision. Persuasion only goes so far, employees will ultimately go with the person who signs their paychecks...

Best case is when everything is clear for all the stakeholders and you feel you are truly overseeing the technical horizon and steering your team in a way that is a force multiplier.
The deceptive Covid marketing tactics used to sell proptech
Where's San Francisco's spirit of tolerance came from
It's just, I'd feel more sympathetic if Facebook hadn't spent the last several years being unethical
I think they've iterated on the design a bit over the years, but my primary criticism is that it can be hard to distinguish that an input is, in fact, an input. I think Google has since changed their design to have a filled background or border, which definitely helps - but this particular implementation doesn't seem to do that (except when the input is disabled, which sort of defeats the point).

There's also a lot of problems around how the placeholders and labels work - particularly in distinguishing them from each other.
> How do we get public perception and public discussion of energy and climate centered around evidence-grounded models, instead of tips, soundbites, factoids, and emotional rhetoric?

> Furthermore, the point of embedding a model is that the reader can explore scenarios within the context of the document. This requires tools for authoring “dynamic documents” — documents whose contents change as the reader explores the model.

I've long-appreciated Victor's perspective in this article. But the general public understands very little about how models work and what they promise. I've seen little evidence that making them explorable in the New York Times has done much to move the public (and thus lawmakers) in the United States to move on gun violence or climate change.

Technologists can build better tools for storytellers and whistle-blowers. This mostly involves facilitating the disclosure, formatting (cleaning), and analysis of data.
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my linear algebra professor began his first lecture with a 5 minute rant informally titled “how you could have gotten an A in differential equations last semester without ever having taken calculus”

That certainly got our attention. I’ve always found linear algebra to be kind of ... almost soothing.
I really love the idea of ossia but it had some rough edges when I gave it a try. I'll give it a revisit sometime soon :)
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Correct. I would hazard a guess, after accounting for discounts (in 2012, there were 250 GSV cars on the road [1]), that the camera kit (inc. sensors) could easily cost > $50k. The list price of the the LIDAR scanner used is $8k alone (the cars use 2).

[1] https://petapixel.com/2012/10/15/a-glimpse-of-googles-fleet-...
Show HN: Smart tool to capitalize your essay, thesis, article, blog, etc. title
Also, I think the key point to reflect on here, Marcus had the domain knowledge and intuition to know where to start hacking literally within minutes/hours of plugging back in and getting the source.
You need to liaison differing personalities to communicate and come to consensus. First are your customers, presumably business types, to your development team, stereotypically introverted nerds. Second is the interaction amongst your team. Those introverted nerds will have opinions and you need to drawn them out to civil debate. Best case scenario in the latter is they arrive at a design themselves with you coaching, otherwise you end the debate and select for them. For the former, you need to jokingly tell the customers about the golden triangle... good, fast, cheap... pick two and only two. Then make sure they know you aren't joking any more.
> just because everyone is adding GPU support doesn't mean that professionals will switch their entire pipeline and render farms on their heads just to use it.

You’re right, it doesn’t. The fact is that it’s already happening with or without you. Widespread GPU support being added is a symptom of what productions are asking for, not the cause.
GP said that the salaries would make senior engineers in Silicon Valley pale. That implies that they're much higher. Instead, they're actually much lower, as I suspected.

This is true even for the senior engineers, at around half the compensation or so; for the principal engineers and directors, working somewhere like Google or FB gets you 3-5x what's quoted for Lidl.

> So they are largely comparable to SV salaries at Google/Facebook

This is completely wrong. Compensation for senior engineers at Google/FB is around 350k USD: https://www.levels.fyi/#

> And that's at places like Berlin which are cheaper to live than SV.

Agreed. Nevertheless, the salaries aren't going to make any senior engineers in SV "pale", when they're half as much.
Check links in your Markdown documents
I agree wholeheartedly, spite is an extremely significant but hard to see and often unmentioned motivating force behind people's actions. Significant enough that I believe something should be done about it.

But first:

- what might be the underlying causes of this spite?

- what might we do to decrease it?

The parent comment to yours says (somewhat spitefully, by my judgement):

>> Yeah we can't even get people to wear a mask in public when it literally saves lives today.

It's true that we can't currently do this, but saying that we can't do it at all is speculative and defeatist, in my opinion. There have been all sorts of things throughout history that we "couldn't" do...until we could, because some people chose to roll up their sleeves and figure out how to do it, rather than indulging in petty (but oh so enjoyable!) criticism of their outgroup, which makes the spite problem even worse.

What can we do to improve upon the current state of affairs?
Ok this is actually more along the lines of “Mind bending books to write and never be the same as before”, as in I wrote it and has certainly had that kind of impact. I wrote a collection of essays documenting various interests like machine learning and entrepreneurship. An ongoing project, currently on book four. It’s a lot of fun! “From the Diaries of John Henry”, available online at https://www.turingsquared.com
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill.
Sometimes I feel like "The People" need the equivalent of the NRA. An advocacy group that will advocate for their tech civil rights.

The real power of the NRA is not the money donated to it, but the huge group of single issue voters they can whirl up at a moments notice.
Thanks!

I agree, and this was done intentionally. The free version offers a solid and complete foundation for most projects. The pro version offers that extra edge of functionality, along with templates for sections and pages.

Think of the free version like a demo, but not crippled in functions like most demo's, and the pro version being the full swiss army knife toolkit for your project.

What do you mean with not a drop-in replacement for Bootstrap? It builds upon and extends Bootstrap, so it could replace it (as it includes it) and has more to offer (selects, tags, better carousels, etc.).
You could try out the free version and see if it is up to your requirements, and buy the pro version if you want the extra functions.

You're welcome to email me or join my Slack to have a chat, both links can be found at the bottom of every page on the main website :)
The Magus, John Fowles

Dune (all 6)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig

Manufacturing Consent

The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan

If This Is a Man, Primo Levi

Light, M. John Harrison
>Iyashikei games, shows, and movies are “healing” because they help us celebrate the ordinary parts of everyday life

I'm really not sold about the game part. Like Shenmue is pretty much the quintessential ordinary life simulator but I'd not call it a iyashikei. Same with Ni No Kuni and Yokai Watch. Sure for Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon but once battle and fight involved then personally I think it's already another genre. And people wouldn't call Pokemon a iyashikei either yet Yokai is 'just' a more modern 'clone' of that
Can't agree more. Though, Romans >> Greeks.
Maybe introduce lightweight architecture decision records in the design process?

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/lightweight-ar...

I think it's a nice way of sharing with other engineers why and when decisions have been made about the use of a technique or technology.
Yes, but it's not hidden, people are aware that it's a threat. And these things do get checked at least, people fuzzing opcodes to expose hidden functionality. It's still generally a terrible idea, but it's not yet "backdoor in a box" like the (so far unfounded as I undestand) allegations against Huawei. Still, if I'm Cisco, I don't run my Wifi off of Huawei access points.
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This is a cool project. Generating 'new' and creative images with computation is very interesting topic. I was particularly curious about the architectural and interior explorations from this user [1].

I signed up and explored what the free account permits [3,4]; however, I have to say I feel the same about this project as I did about "NLP Tool for Technological Research" (30 days ago) [2]. Unless you can upload an image you're familiar with, something you've worked on, I just don't understand what I'm seeing.

Personally, I enjoy studying composition. I enjoy abstract works of Suprematists, Cubists, Futurists, Abstract Expressionists. All of which I think could be more or less reimagined with computational means.

So for my WOW, I want to see what Artbreeder does to an image I'm already familiar with, or how it can imitate other visual styles.

In the last case I really need to see the input, because if the results appear similar to the input there will be copyright issues. In one of my experiments [5] I used the mixed images feature. This provides a graph which gives the appearance of showing how the image was created. Then again, not seeing any code, I don't know for sure what else was used which may or may not be subject to copyright. I'm not saying the project should be open source, but maybe there is some detail that can be exposed, and used to recreate the effect with a different image. If you can do that, then QED the result is not cribbed from un-cited sources. It's just computational pixel-pushing (heck, is it?).

I did some graphic design work early in my career and when we "appropriated" an image to be part of a photoshop composition, the rule of thumb was always you should not be able to reference the source from what you sampled. Some people spoke about 5-10% of an image; however, if you were doing something with any significant visibility and didn't pay for the source, the first rule was make it unidentifiable.

I don't have any particular need for images right now. This is just my first impression based on my experience and what I can't get enough of--more abstract art, or something that takes an image I've studied, have intimate familiarity, and says, This will look much better upside down! haha

[1]: https://artbreeder.com/lineage?k=03b855cd8c852c56b338

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22847429

[3]: https://artbreeder.com/lineage?k=ee55675001b83a64f71f

[4]: https://artbreeder.com/lineage?k=14366daddf2f12087211

[5]: https://artbreeder.com/lineage?k=a8ec4e77d27dc33f92f3
The links in the footer are not very visible to me.
Okay, but I wasn’t saying COVID isn’t more dangerous for children statistically. I said you are misusing the idea of statistical significance and and are overconfident about the long term effects of a new disease.