skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a continual mental impact of always dealing with the nasty side of humanity that I think often gets overlooked- everyone is always lying to you or hiding something, and you get to see a large number of dead kids and wasted lives.
It was. It does use machine code utility routines for various things though. I never looked into it much, but did list the basic part at some point.
Then you might like Andrew H. Knoll's book Life On A Young Planet. Knoll is at Harvard. His book has a long treatment of the global change in oxygen level (which by the way makes no mention of the theory here, that woody plants did it.)
You should explain it clearly on your page, not here.

I also was confused by the model. The model you try to use is obvious for you but in order for people to understand you need to make an effort in communication, because most people are not used to it.

You have to be extra careful because people have fear of the unknown, so you need to also get rid of people's fears, you do it here("if you don't like it,just don't continue the subscription"), but you should do where people take the decision.

I think the model makes sense but you need to explain it in the buying page as a benefit they we will be getting. For example:

With this subscription you will be supporting the development of free open source libraries that will become yours forever.

Now I see that you display this information but I did not see it while being interested on the book, so it is not visible enough.

If I were you I would not try to train my customers, it is too much work, I would offer the book plus code plus 8 months of subscription for just $119!!

Then in the subscription I would give my customers something they can not get easily out of it, like the network connections and support with people interested in this area all around the world(the people that buy your book), so once they are subscribed, and they are used to it, they have to remain subscribed.

The value for me of those open source libraries is zero because I don't use them. Only if people use them, they can value it. You need to get people in the loop first.
It looks like you're using the recipe-scrapers library to scrape recipes which only supports a set number of websites.

If you want to expand that, I recommend parsing JSON+LD and Microformats. Given your parsers folder [2], it looks like you've tried it, but only for specific websites. I would make that generic and check whether the metadata is available on any website. I wrote a blog post on this if you're interested [3].

source: I've built a very similar tool for my cooking app: https://www.mysaffronapp.com/

[1] https://github.com/hhursev/recipe-scrapers

[2] https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe/blob/master/par...

[3] https://www.benawad.com/scraping-recipe-websites/
Threat of violence by governments?
Cut my teeth on Oric Atmos BASIC, and I can verify that my eyes still scan magazine listings intuitively looking for the DATA statements that indicate fast BLIT code ..
I’m not disputing your comment either, but in startupland the difference between 90% and 100% is often the difference between dead and alive.
Yes below 5g it's not that accurate but I've never seen a recipe demand precision like 1.3tsp so if anything you can get more accuracy with weight.
The surface product lines generates a lot of interest.
There were comments on another thread from soldiers being deployed to Bagdad during the surge. Citing rules of engagement, and these were a lot more stringent and de-escalating than police actions against protests in the US.

Also true that US forces are the least restraint forces at the moment. Because all you said is true. And yet, it seems to work at least as good for the armed forces as it does for police. Only that the former is an occupation force on foreign soil, while the latter is nominally there to serve and protect the public.
If it didn't require a reboot, an automatic update wouldn't bother me at all. I hate that my one remaining Windows machine is never in the same state I left it because it rebooted during the night.
Typing this on my Mid 2012 rMBP, I'm very interested in the details.

(I put off upgrading because of keyboard issues, and now with the new "Apple Silicon" coming, plus, the machine is great-- I did replace the battery at one point but other than that it's been completely solid.)
Introducing Regional Services
There was this line from the article:

> I see your point, because at 43 percent a lightning strike will cause the entire atmosphere to ignite since it is so high in flammable oxygen.

Is that accurate, and if so where did the 43% number come from?
Proposal: Please do E2E framework where i can write the same code on client and on server side.
For client side is very important to have Models for further rendering.
Well, the conveniently indicated grams on the packet are not units of weight - they're units of volume. So you've got two kinds of units of volume in your recipes: milli/centi/decilitres, and grams of butter. But it's fairer than the grams of flour I've been ranting about elsewhere here because at least the manufacturer can have some responsibility for fine tuning it to their product!
Completely agree there. With respect to the earphones I think Apple etc should buy them back at a percentage of the original cost and have recycling targets that that are independently audited.
The world-wide rise of authoritarian right, propelled by refugee crisis, which in turn is a consequence of appeasing tyrants.
You now get updates on metered connections too. Plus if the system detects that the Windows Update service is disabled it will start it for you.
Yeah. I see both sides of this argument, and don't really know where to stand. Probably some middle ground. But I think that this isn't as straightforward of an issue as some people are making it out to be, and pretty much any decision is going to piss off someone. But I also see the points of separating security updates and feature updates.
I think in the case its more that Apple has discovered what retail really is in a digital-first world. It's a way to build brand relationship, not a retail storefront. I suspect this will be the paradigm for brick & mortar for decades, and I don't think MS is wrong to copy this pattern (many others are!)
Reminds me of a quote from the Learning Perl book:

"There's a joke among Perl developers that the next economic crash will be caused by a bug in someone's Perl script. Even then, all those redundant economists will have at least one employable skill."
Has the Guardian gotten worse or were they never that good to start with?

Wildlife services is hardly a secret branch, they are also the folks who airdrop rabies vaccine in remote areas. Yes they do take game from helicopter as part of their population management. Hogs in particular are frequently managed by helicopter since they like to hang out on private property.

The M44 device does have it's issues but calling it a bomb is a gross misise of words - it's a spring loaded aerosol. It's typically used for pack management especially with hogs. Most of the concern with them is downstream of the food chain - a nontargeted animal eats a poisoned carcass, dies, and then something eats those remains.
The difference, and I am not an Apple fanperson, is that Apple makes it as easy to buy an iPad with a SIM card in it as it is to buy a phone with a SIM card in it. Lenovo does not. In practice, the equivalence is only theoretical. I can buy an LTE iPad at Walmart at 2am on Tuesday (or at least I could prepandemic). Wireless in a ThinkPad is much less straightforward.
Also very useful:

curl ifconfig.co (shows your public ip)
Here's a description of the m44 device: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/wildlife_damage/fs-m...
Those kind of stores are mostly a marketing tool. That works quite well if done correctly.
Third-party shops use refurbished parts from dead phones, supplied by companies which specialize in this. Still, I believe it should be illegal to sell a device a not sell the parts required for its repair.
I concur. I'd have to reach out to my former colleagues but it seems possible that someone rooted out Perl in one or more departments or even a division but not for the entirety of JPMC. Ten years ago the word I heard was Python and people had shifted from Perl for new things.
I get that - we've lost control of the device, but we now have ubiquitous access to computing - reliable, (relatively) safe access to the internet everywhere for nearly everyone. That wasn't a thing 20 years ago - computers were more arcane and required expertise to maintain.

I totally understand we've lost access to the devices, I'm just arguing that there's an other side to this whole thing.
Dyson is an expensive brand but that doesn't mean a high-quality one.
When Ansett went broke Virgin had just entered the market (further undercutting prices), so there was competition to Qantas. Now what else is there?
You're looking at deaths, not shootings.

I posit that cops have body armor, training, and generally are equipped to take bullets, so to speak. Only 50 officers might have died, but if 1500 were shot, that makes the 1000 civilian fatalities look different; civvies aren't wearing vests.
Incredible storytelling, well worth the full read. Reminds me of David Burke's Connections, where a complex history is distilled down to a gripping human-relatable narrative.

... which matters, because while the objective world is made of complex systems our subjective lives are based on narrative. We are evolved to be a storytelling species, and to have any grip on reality we need to tell the right stories well.
This is cool. I can already image usecases where lambda + sqlite files in efs will allow flexible/state full apps to run. This is great!
Simple solution: let ranchers shoot problematic species.
I will do away with concept of sovereign, a non-elected owner of a territory. Non democratic countries are not real countries.

And screw it all is a right attitude, uncomfortable it may be to gatekeepers of freedom realpoliticking in their safe countries.
> the vast vast majority of shootings by police are unambiguously justified

Is that so? What counts as "unambiguously justified" to your eyes? I don't see how this squares. I mean... let's pick "the dead subject initiated lethal violence first" as a reasonable proxy for what you're talking about.

You're saying that in situations where someone attacks a police officer, the police are 1000/50 == twenty times more likely to win that deadly confrontation than lose? Really? They're well trained, they aren't that good shots.

I think the jury is very much out on that assertion. In this era of pervasive video, we're finally getting a look at a decent fraction of these confrontations, and a shocking number are not justified at all, much less "unambiguously". I don't see how you can reasonably assert that all the unmeasured ones must be...
The internet was originally that pre 2010's
Wow...TIL Microsoft had retail stores.
> why would anyone build a production system around this platform? Why would anyone use this platform?

Long term stable backwards compatible, cross compatible with other popular tools other people are using, familiar to a large pool of employees, supported by large numbers of third party software and hardware vendors. It’s cheap.

> I just cannot imagine owning a business and being OK with some other company having control over whether or not I am permitted to use my computer systems to get work done today.

Not buying any electricity from the grid today? Or any internet or cloud services, or any rented office space?

or just ignoring the group policy options and the months of time you could choose to update, ignoring the “update at times I’m not using it” options, ignoring the bandwidth metering options, not restricting its internet connectivity, and on the last possible day instructing all your employees to hit the “defer updates” button by hand and ... by gosh it’s gone!
> Seems to be common amongst pythonistas. I've run into their tired bashing of perl for 20+ years.

Perlphobia must stop.

say("no");
# make it
die();
# Python's easier? That's a lie!
A new material for light-matter interactions
As a huge retro fan with a collection of over 30 systems, I thoroughly encourage you to pick up C64 coding and give it another go.

And for anyone else thinking about this subject, consider this: every year for the last decade now the following systems have had new programs written for them by thriving communities: Amstrad CPC6128, C64, ZXSpectrum, BBC Micro B, Oric Atmos, Jupiter Ace (!), Apple II .. actually, never mind. Lets just try this experiment: dig out the old computer from your attic, dust it off, get your docs together, and go find the .. rather eager, I'm sure .. community of hackers that are keeping these machines alive.

Honestly, I have a ton of iDevices with App Store crap on them. The only releases I get really excited about lately are for the Amstrad CPC6128 and Atmos, though .. its just so fun to see crazy new stuff being made for these 'ancient' machines ..

So yeah, please get to coding. Docs for some of these systems are easier now than ever!
That doesn't mean there won't be police. Other cities have disbanded their police departments. All have been replaced with a new police department. The idea is to replace a poorly run department when reform isn't good enough. The idea isn't to have a completely unpoliced city.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/09/us/disband-police-camden-new-...
If these figures were accurate far more police would die in shootings every year.
I'd rather not install an extension (trust) and not all browsers I use (e.g. on mobile) support extensions. You can use a bookmarklet pretty much anywhere though:

javascript:location.href='https://plainoldrecipe.com/recipe?url='+encodeURIComponent(l...
Criminals committing acts of violence often are not acting based on rational reasoning. Often it based on emotion/fear /anger.
Insurance rates are such an underrated source for risk assessment.
Ask HN: Has anybody reduced their workweek to 4 days and then regretted it?
I've read a lot about how great working a 4 day week is as opposed to 5. Proponents say it leaves lots of time for personal projects and enables you to be more focussed for those days you are at work. However, I've not heard much about the downsides of working less days. For those of you who have done it, have you found there are any disadvantages of taking an extra day a week off, and have you/would you go back to working 5 days again?
I used to use this a lot, but when I tried yesterday (and same today) I got a Heroku error message :(

Not sure if it's temporary down or fully off.
It's been suggested a lot. It might even work. It boils down to whether you believe rancher's incentives are ever going to reconcile with responsibly pruning dangerous species. Historically that hasn't worked out well.
Sitting associated with cancer mortality in middle-aged and older US Adults
SOME truck drivers (the ones that keep their jobs) will get a lifestyle "increase" because it will be local, but demand will drop substantially.

Even so, these "lifestyle increase" jobs would only exist until autonomous driving gets better. Even if that's two decades it's not something you'd want to rely on as an occupation.

Not saying it's the wrong way to go - it absolutely is the right way to move logistics forward - but there will be significant impacts in a country where "Truck driver" is one of the top jobs in just about every state that can't be explained away with "lifestyle improvement"
Nope, I'm an ops guy. Been banging my head against these tools for 15 years.
Right: a Professional Video Monitor (PVM) CRT—of the kind that game developers were using at the time—looks like this up close: https://d2rormqr1qwzpz.cloudfront.net/photos/2013/07/11/5007...

Notice the bottom-right image: the precisely-calibrated beam placement on the PVM’s shadow-mask, means that you see very defined subpixel-like regions; and yet those regions are themselves actually only partially lit, such that if you just filter for e.g. the red color-channel, you’ll see a clear, continuous waveform shrinking and expanding “behind” the red shadow-mask holes, where a signal that’s getting “brighter” as it travels is actually forming a widening cone of light within the subpixel. This is what “intensity” on a CRT actually means—less like making a lightbulb brighter; more like changing the aperture of a spotlight gobo.

Yes, this is caused by the electron gun spitting more electrons; but the phosphorous molecules those electrons hit can only get so excited—so the (many) extra electrons that land in the center do nothing after a point, while the (few) extra electrons that land at the edge eventually seem to widen the beam as they begin to probabilistically excite those edge regions as well. This is what happens if you “clip” the top of a Gaussian distribution: you'll see a flat top-clipped region in the center of the distribution, that expands or contracts in size, in proportion to the number of events in the distribution.

You can simulate this effect yourself in Photoshop: set a black background, then take a circular gradient of 100% white to 100% transparent (i.e. a white circle that fades to nothing), set its layer to multiply, and then copy-and-paste that layer on top of itself repeatedly. The center doesn’t get any brighter, but the circle seems to expand as the edges fill out.
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On any old API maybe, but not a REST API. It's ignoring the core ideologies of REST, which I'll get to below the code, but despite that it's also just not the same in real world usage either:

cat myData | stripWhitespace | allToUppercase | removeTheLetterC > myData

Versus

var myData RestAPI->get'/records', id=myDataRecordID)
myData = RestAPI->post('/tools/strips-whitespace', myData)
myData = RestAPI->post('/tools/allToUppercase', myData)
myData = RestAPI->post('/tools/removeTheLetterC', myData)

It's outside the scope of a REST API to have transformation endpoints. A REST API is supposed to allow simple access to a systems state, most often records in a database, in order to retrieve, store and update that state. REST standing for Representational State Transfer, and transformations don't fit into that at all. It's not a transfer of state from one system to another if you are giving it your data and having it manipulate it then give it back, it's asking one system to do work for you and give you the result back.

Of course in the real world, you can put whatever endpoints you want into your API, and there are dozens of wildly different APIs being called RESTful, but regardless of any of that, rarely are they conducive to being used in pipes, because the point the GP was getting at is that tools are made in the UNIX ecosystem with the pipeline in mind, and that is not the case with REST endpoints.

Thanks for the discussion by the way!
Headline-crafting has gotten out of control; headlines like this really play off people's anxiety/insecurity, just to get a view.
That's what Australia does for feral pigs, and it works pretty well.
very interesting on the verge of their new console hardware launch.

the stores had a such a strong "games" presence that I assumed it would be critical showpiece of them-- especially if they have an All Digital hardware edition which meant (albeit dying) retailers like Gamestop would probably not carry the console.

it's a shame, regardless. i always had such a good customer experience there.
Virgin won't get special treatment, but the Australian government, like all governments, will give the whole commercial aviation industry concessions and benefits to help keep it afloat, as it is of importance for economic and security reasons.

It's a different scenario to when Ansett went under, as back then the problem was isolated to Ansett, and the industry was still fundamentally strong (due in part to the entrance of Virgin, which at that stage was an up-and-coming low-cost carrier with solid backing from Branson and other early investors).

The AU government wasn't willing to bail VA out of insolvency, but now that a private buyer has come in to restructure it, it will be able to get the same benefits as Qantas.
Until recently, it was a lot easier to lay your hands on a decent set of measuring cups than a good electronic balance. The spring ones weren't very precise, and weights are easy to lose and make a mess. Measuring cups are cheap and simple, and doubling and halving recipes (the most common operations) is elementary-school math.

Even European recipes still measure small amounts for flavors, leaveners, etc. in volumes. A scale that's precise to sub-gram levels is more expensive. So it's not as if you're not familiar with the concept.

Now that electronic ones are cheap it's clearly the better choice, especially for flour, but that's only in the last decade or two. People are switching over to scales, but the volume measurements are perfectly adequate and they're what our existing cookbooks call for.
Sourcegraph is all-remote: https://about.sourcegraph.com/company/remote.
Great point. What if all the data were available for everyone to access? Would it feel ok then?

(Not sarcasm)
How much is this MS deciding they’re really not a consumer brand - but rather one focused on cloud and enterprises?
I know simple math, thank you. As I pointed out in the other reply, the rate of assult to US police, who are armed and more hostile to you is only about 25% lower than UK police where the majority of them don't carry a firearm. Actually we don't know the proseuction rate so we don't even know it's that lower.
Very sleek design - I like it very much.
The whole idea of recommendation systems is based on the assumption that you're gonna keep doing the samething over. Its accuracy is depending on whether you are a person of habbits or constantly changing. While in some aspects having a pattern is good (work or routine life tasks), in many others it's an indication of something unhealthy or not optimal. You don't want to be that person that seems to have a limited vocab and just keep using the same phares. You also most likely dont want to keep buying the same stuff or reading just that one particular genre/author/news outlet. Autocomplete particularly never worked to me and I'm happy that I cant seem to be typecasted by a machine. As a software developer, I wonder what the people who made these engines think. Are they actually happy that their code makes people more predictable?
This is a really interesting area with lots of development.

Have you tried https://redwoodjs.com/ or https://blitzjs.com/ ?

They both build on Prisma core data abstractions and provide a more full-featured experience. There will be talks later today at prisma.io/day
Investors get their money back, employees get their wages, and Amazon gets their non depreciated capital goods and work product
Lovely thing about the BBC was the I/o breakout that meant you could easily wire it up to another processor and do stuff. For those of us at the time, growing up with alternative systems, such features were a real wonder, and a reason to lug everything over to my BBC-owning neighbours place for a weekend hacking ..

I love it that this ethos has persisted in the ZX Spectrum Next design[1], which also allows for the .. limited .. 8-bit (well, max'ed out actually) machine to access a .. rather large super-computer, by comparison, and by that I mean a raspberry-pi Zero ...

I wonder, if ZX Next is a paradigm which develops further into a viable market (imho, this already exists, elsewhere and otherwise..) then what sort of crazy machines might we be sporting on our wrists and in pockets, soon enough?

I mean, ZX Next ideology, in a PDA ..

[1] - https://www.specnext.com
I have seen so many videos of cops beating up a person and then charging that person with assault. These statistics are meaningless.