skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal anecdote:

I've lost around 20kg 2 years ago and were able to fit into a nice pair of slim jeans I used to wear in high school (around mid 00's). I've always carried my wallet in a left hand pocket and my phone+headphones in a right hand pocket. I couldn't fit any modern smartphone into the right hand pocket - the pocket was too short and your phone sticked out of the pocket all the time.

Kinda interesting, how the spread of modern computer devices changed a little detail in mass market fashion design.
Europe: 500 million people.
Why should Twitter be the space for Google's customer support service? This is absurd
Sounds like another financial innovation to avoid transparency.
> Folks know what happens to countries the US deems to contain terrorists.

Obrador's excuse was that he feared that officially recognizing los Zetas as a terrorist organization would tarnish Mexico's reputation. This alleged fear of the US only fits if they feared an outsider intervened to put a stop to the mafia's dominance.
The nurse log [1] is well studied and the hugel gets much of it's benefit from the same ecological processes.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_log
i totally agree. I haven't seen a single apartment complex with a community compost area, even here in supposedly green california.

It should be a standard thing that's everywhere, like parks. and whoever's stopping by can vaulunteer to do the turning, once in a while or there can be a sign up sheet.

Gardeners like myself would kill to get a good compost for our gardens.
ML model to project the impact of Covid-19 on US gasoline demand
Sounds similar to David Deutch's views on mathematics and quantum computational models. His book 'Fabric of Reality' seems to touch on nearly everything you just said.
https://tripleaughtdesign.com/shop/agent-xc-chino/

For office appropriate. I use the jeans.
The Power and Significance of Flags
But not having a `try...catch` for such events is a kind of logic error.

The choice of programming language only gets you so far - it's up to the developers to actually handle errors in a meaningful way.
Does anyone have ideas on what to do in a desert climate? I would love to try a variation on this in Saudi Arabia. I've read much about this but since it's on HN I might as well throw it out there, you often get unexpected expert input here.

Edit: I'm thinking of doing the hugelbed but kinda upside down, under ground.
Other countries with first-past-the-post have many parties. So FPTP does not cause two-parties - that's clearly nonsense.
This sounds more to me like, "I haven't figured out remote work yet."

It isn't for everyone. Maybe the author is someone for whom it just won't work. That's fine. It also isn't for every stage of a product - at the founding stages, remote is tough. But once you are established, it gets easier.

In any case, this article is a great anecdote of someone for whom it did not work, but I'd hardly jump from there to saying it cannot work for others.
I have had something similar happen to me. It was resolved by getting more sites to link into mine. Getting new incoming linkes just immediately set things right.
Hello Can you Hear Me
To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try, you’re going to fall down, but the world doesn’t care how many times you fall down, as long as it’s one fewer than the number of times you get back up.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I have a blog that talks about coffee, the first goal of this blog. it is to give information to everyone there is a lot. my site is not monetized . in fact it's just because I love this passion and I want to share it with people who love the world of coffee.

but it's very difficult to do all the work alone, I want to add the tea category and also need to go further in the coffee section.
all to give visitors the right and exact answer.

I need people who have experience in a coffee or tea and who can and want to write content. you can mention your info on the web site with your articles and also if you have a web site you can link to it. who wants to help me with this?
contact me here or here or ...

https://wirwal.com/blog-about-coffee/

www.facebook.com/coffeeshopnear
Related: A dark green Ford Falcon will still make Argentinians uneasy : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Falcon_(Argentina)
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I see many countries jumping to idea of such gardens, they can get more in property taxes for the surface than a flat one.
Though I don't think it's perfect, languages like Go that treat errors as simply another type and you check as a return value do get closer to treating errors and success symmetrically versus an exception throwing and typing system like some other languages.
In America the bipartisan system has corrupted our culture to the point that there really are only two normative agendas. In other countries, it’s still possible to have agendas that are sometimes in common, yet sometimes differ, without getting hit by either side’s cancel culture. In the US there is simply no common ground between the parties, so no reason not to join a team permanently.
> Trump spent $680B

I think this is not true.

> the upper limit a party is allowed to spend in the UK is 19.5 GBP

I'm pretty sure they spend more than that, as well.
I see no reason why consciousness cannot be nothing more than a fully self-contained illusion instantiated by physical brains operating in a physical universe, an emergent consequence of sufficient complexity of processing.

Our consciousness seems profound and inexplicable to us, but that’s only because we’re completely blocked from introspection of the runtime environment. We’re aware of almost nothing of what the brain is doing, including the process in which new thoughts are queued up into our consciousness.
They have agency patches on too, just for the sake of truth
Matt Levine has been writing about this trend lately:

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-06-23/money-...

* https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-14/everyo...

The gist is that an SPAC is less risky than an IPO for the company (you only have to negotiate with a single entity, and odds of an agreement falling through are much lower) but in return you're going to have to compensate the SPAC for taking on that risk by lowering the price.

That tradeoff is more appealing in uncertain times than in good times.
There are exercise pants for women that have a transparent tight netting/mesh on the legs that run the entire length, and are tight against the skin. I think they are much better for objects that are not rigid.
Author here, it's nice to see Notable linked to on HN by somebody else! I was planning on posting about it myself after v1.9 gets released though, as pretty much everything changed since the last version available in that repo.

If you want to try a not-yet final version of v1.9 you can find it here: https://github.com/notable/notable-experimental/releases It's quite stable at this point and I would trust it more with my data over v1.8, but I haven't written the new tutorial notes and built-in documentation for it yet, and I need to rewrite the search engine before releasing v1.9 final.

If you want to get a quick sneak peek about v1.9 I had recorded a video about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ERHvuhFH8 It's about 2 months old now, and it only goes over a bunch of new features I had implemented at that point in time.

We also have a chat by the way, if you'd like to keep track of the progress more closely: https://chat.notable.app

Hopefully I'll see you back soon once v1.9 gets released, that will be a lot more exiting than the current v1.8.4.
It's not a theory.

This occurred with an actual minivan.
Exactly. The apex of the hugel is fruit trees and perennials. with annuals filling in as they can. Zepp Holzer, the originator of the word, scatters seed mixes with great numbers of different species while at the same time planting out many fruit, nut, and other trees.
I just always grab a paper towel and use it to grab the handle with. Seems like an easy enough solution to me.
Man with a Collection of Tattooed Human Skin (2019)
There seems to be no mention of the Common Lisp condition system, which allows for handling of exceptional situations actually done right. Is this omission purposeful?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23843525 for a recent long discussion about my upcoming book on the topic. (Disclosure: this is a shameless plug.)
I just woke up when I wrote this. The math makes no sense. Please disregard this stupid comment.
Honestly my theory here is that my hand is probably clean, but I am disinfecting to reduce harm to others or myself. Once I touch that bottle, standing in a public place for days touched by hundreds of random hands, I think my hand is not merely unclean, but looks a lot like Emil in Robocop after he gets smashed into that green goop at the end of the movie.

I prefer to use the soles of my shoes frankly - and if I prefer it I suspect most others would hence increasing the likelihood of use and so efficacy of the solution.
Librera is the first ereader app I used before switching to Lithium. Librera is very versatile but rampant with feature creep and feels a bit clunky to use, especially on my low-powered android tablet.
Building on that, the ADT languages with full option types here are fantastic here, because the shape of the data in each case can be taught to the compiler.
The problem with a lot of these is they don't run MacOS natively. Maybe it's great hardware (as is a $2200 thinkpad if you buy one now), but I'm not going to use Windows 10 for my mobile workstation.
I was thinking server side.

Client side Babel makes sense. And packagers make sense. And it all unfortunately makes sense, but that doesn't make it good.

(Ok being able to try out new syntax with Babel is cool)
Yeah, it's just the geography that causes it. It's enclosed on three sides by the Wasatch, Traverse, and Oquirrh mountains which causes cold air to be trapped there. The Salt Lake metro area isn't much different from other cities of similar size and makeup when it comes to actual emissions. It's just that those emissions stick around sometimes during a couple of weeks in the winter. Because of this, Utah meets all the annual mean PM 2.5 EPA requirements but fails the 24-hour limits (we have occasional very bad days but most days are good).
the dolls that the company name derived from were idyllic portrayals of slave life:

https://www.dailycitizen.news/news/lifestyles/town-crier-dix...

https://images.app.goo.gl/rbZRdCejSCa8MHuK8

For reference here is a painting uses the same archetypes that the dolls reference:
https://images.app.goo.gl/E1twLvbmKW4YHNen8

So the cups may be just some good paper cups, but really no way out of where that name comes from.
Has it not changed at all since the article's publication a bit over a year ago? The author expresses hopes of the new leadership changing things at the end but I take it that didn't happen?
It's wrapping lines prefixed with two spaces now. The comment I just posted a couple minutes ago with indented shell input and output definitely used two spaces and it is wrapping on my phone and on my desktop if I narrow the window enough.
Every vehicle is heavily tariffed. Maybe that is the reason why you very rarely see someone on a Harley-Davidson or Triumph. Tractors are usually imported by the government.
Nowhere did I accuse you of secretly siding with a position. I don't believe you're siding with any appalling position but what I do believe is that HN will not survive in the current way y'all moderate content here. Eventually there'll be some sort of controversy or problem that'll pop up with the site as a whole and all of the bad faith actors will come out of the woodworks to take advantage of it. I've even personally emailed you about the people that are outright threatening other HN posters and what do you think will happen when one of them decides to take it more seriously and actually attack someone here? Since there's a lot of people that actually have PII as part of their account info.

The person I plainly insulted and called a liar is a great example of that sort of poster. You can literally look at his post history and see how he's been arguing and you even noticed that he's created multiple accounts to fuel that shit. As I've mentioned before flagging and upvoting only works as a preventative measure if the community can collectively deal with people who are not engaging in good faith. But when the person I was arguing with was explicitly advocating for the destruction of dissidents [1] there is no other side to be had.

But you know what, I'll go ahead and say I'm done posting here. I appreciate your restraint in dealing with me but I've said my peace. I've noticed older users start to become fed up in the same way I've been and once the people that were managing the commons leaves, who will be left?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23866956
> I feel it's very risky to depend on Google for your traffic at this point.

Yes, but what choice do you have?
How Hackers Infiltrate Open Source Projects
I spent a lot of time recently looking for a good note taking app. Notable (electron), QOwnNotes (Qt), and Joplin (electron) are very similar, with a markdown format with the ability to switch to the rendered view or have them split side-by-side. Joplin has an experimental combined rendered markdown editor view but it's still a bit rough around the edges.

Ultimately I settled on Zettlr. It can be used as a normal notebook, and most importantly it's killer feature to me is that it allows you to paste images from your clipboard into a note, and then view that image inline in the markdown editor instead of having to switch to the rendered view to see the image. All of the other applications show a markdown ![image-filename]() link inside the note editor, requiring you to switch to the rendered view to see the actual image. The only other applications I found which can do this are: Joplin with the experimental editor, OneNote (no linux support, proprietary format), Bear Note (Apple devices only), and a few desktop note taking applications with a non-markdown format and no mobile application. With any of the markdown ones you can sync to Syncthing, NextCloud, Dropbox, etc. and then access them on your phone with the Joplin mobile application. But Zettlr just feels better than Joplin on the desktop, has some nice themes, and the editor is more refined than Joplin's experimental one.

Given this, I don't really see any reason to use Notable over Joplin and Zettlr. QOwnNotes is also good if you really don't want electron and can live without inline images. I used all four of these for quite a while before forming this opinion.
>> Twitter is a blip within ...

Not any more. The US has had for several years a person occupying the Presidents chair who makes major policy announcements first via Twitter, from abrogating treaties, to immigration policy, issuing pardons/commutations for friends, etc. These pronouncements often surprise even his closest senior staff, and are expected to be acted upon

This is a far cry from the original trivial "look at these beautiful scallions I had on my breakfast plate!"

The platform needs to be treated with the appropriate seriousness.

Sure " thermo-nuclear war" is at the far end of the scale. Hacks using Twitter or other SocMed would likely be lower on the scale.

But it is definitely true that with control of all and any verified accounts, including Presidents, commanders, military commands, news outlets, etc., one could craft a series of messages that would at the very least create widespread deadly panic in minutes, if not start an actual war (Go look up the results of Orson Welles's "War of the Worlds" broadcast.).

The problem is that with the right attack, a lot of things going right WILL cause major problems. The entire point is that it would not require 1000 other things to also go wrong.

As to Facebook, there is more than plenty of evidence that it successfully influenced the election. Not primarily through forming major opinions as through Fox, etc., but by targeting specific demographics down to the individual level (using data stolen from other channels including voting rolls) with tuned messages to generate a specific response, and more on the side of suppressing or diverting voter turnout for HRC than generating it for DT. It took only a few 10K votes in 3 states.

These technologies are far beyond mere juvenile startup toys. Their scale, influence, and valuation show how much power they wield. We need to hold them to levels of responsibility commensurate with that power, not continue to make excuses as if they were children's toys.
I have been trying on and off to come up with just such a device for decades. Leverage and profile are the big problems - and a door that opens inwards is a bugger.
Getting wise to Neowise, our first visible comet in decades [video]
I’ve been considering hugelkultur as one option for the massive amount of poplar we will soon have on our hands. It’s taking over, and a hazard to our structures, so it’s gotta come down. (We’ll replace with more appropriate trees.) My one concern is that the poplar will simply start sprouting again. It root-suckers, aggressively.

One other thing to note is that if you do anything on a slope, it would be wise to at least chat with a structural engineer about it. I’ve heard tale of people building hugel mounds on contour / swales, and basically creating landslide conditions.

Edit: another thing I’m curious is how advantageous the water retention actually is. A lot of species really want a lot of drainage, and won’t survive with wet feet.
Is logging in that hard?
"decline to identify themselves as law enforcement"

while wearing agency patches, and a patch that reads "police"?
Looks like Sam Altman says otherwise: https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kVKaMHgOTP4

"The way we recruit the best people in the world is by reaching them via multiple channels. So the alumni work is really important, hacker news is really important, putting great content online is really important"

pretty sure this isn't what I was thinking of, so still looking
I think it can be quite hard to make a jacket which won’t sag too much or have a weird weight distribution with things in the breast pocket. And you may get a visible lump depending on the size of the item and fit of the jacket (again large flat phones against a not-flat chest doesn’t help, and neither does the trend for clothing to fit quite tightly).

That said, I agree with you that internal pockets in jackets are great (though obviously it can be harder to access the contents once you have taken the jacket off).

I do also have a jacket with a pocket on the upper sleeve. It’s tiny and weird and basically useless and I’m not really sure what it’s for (credit card? Tiny MP3 player? If it were a skiing jacket then I might guess it was for a lift pass but it’s definitely not a skiing jacket and it’s a weird manoeuvre to try to get your upper arm to a reader at waist height) though sometimes I will put my keys there because their lumpy shape makes them uncomfortable in pockets closer to the skin and I rarely need to access them
From Almost Perfect:

Alan continued to teach at BYU, so he was in a perfect position to recruit BYU's best computer science students. He was a tough grader, and anyone getting an A in one of his classes was a candidate for a job offer. When Alan found students with exceptional talent, he and Bruce would offer them part- time jobs and put them to work on one of the programming projects. By the time they graduated, their work had helped the company grow to the point where we could afford to offer them good salaries. Eventually we used Alan's old grade sheets to search for good programmers who had already graduated.

40 years ago Mormons were making startups in Utah.
Nespresso's machines definitely occupied a cost niche, but were too troublingly wasteful for me. Fellow addicts looking to decapsule-- but not interested in buying a 2k machine which will be killed by scale in 1 year can check out Flair (https://www.flairespresso.com/)

It makes professional grade shots, has no unnecessary waste, and has nothing to really break.
The experiments you mention are woefully inadequate compared to the complexity of the problem.

Especially, the decision delay results have not been reproduced once the decision presented was no longer random. In fact, the best explanation of the original experiment seems to be that, when presented with a random decision, we act when the noise of our brain activity has a large enough random spike.

Either way, even the ways we are collecting information about brain activity are still far from certain to be correct. Drawing grand conclusions about consciousness when we barely understand language is at best reductionist.
Forgive what might be a bit of a nitpick: there's really no question whether dogs are conscious. Like us, they have brains, show every sign of being capable of joy and suffering, and respond to anaesthetics. You'd have to do a lot of acrobatics to make a case for dogs not being conscious.

We all know this, it's why we answer the question of Is it acceptable to torture dogs? with No, of course not.

Someone who believes dogs lack consciousness would presumably answer not with Yes, but with What do you mean, 'torture' a dog? You can no more torture a dog than you can torture a glass of water!

From what I've read, Descartes and his disciples held exactly that view (I don't have an ironclad source for this). They mistreated dogs awfully, saying that the dog might appear to be suffering, but that it wasn't truly capable of suffering on account of it not being a human.
What crates did you use? I'm curious since I just started trying Rust.
85% of quotes on the internet are made up. - Abraham Lincoln, probably underestimating the percentage considerably.
That’s incredible, and very compelling. It would explain the relatively sudden development of behavioural modernity over the few decades from 70k years ago.

I’ve read competing theories about the sudden development of abstract thinking and it’s propagation through speech as a form of memetic contagion, but I never really found it convincing. This makes perfect sense.
The Russian words are a way to briefly emphasize the fact that it's not a mere concept but developed organizational skill-sets and practices used in asymmetric warfare, the parenthesized English translation for ease of reading.
Russia used to have few car manufacturers and produced almost every car part rather than importing it. After USSR collapse those cars were not very competitive, especially with used cars from Japan and Europe, unfortunately, so those factories either died or optimized (like VAZ which is part of Renault-Nissan now and is moving to just build western Renault designs rather than develop and improve their LADA cars). That's quite tragic situation, plenty of people are losing jobs, country is losing an expertise.

I'm living in Kazakhstan and we have foreign import tax and "localized builds" (very minimal work is done). But actually we're in economic union with Russia, so most of new cars are built in Russia and imported without much taxes. So it's not that bad here. AFAIK Uzbekistan recently joined EAEU, so, I guess, situation should improve over few years.
The abolition of mandatory retirement, and how it changed America (2011)
Malware Tech on it:

https://mobile.twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/1284605277...
It runs Linux perfectly.
>If Russia proclaims success in the hunt for a vaccine before other candidates, it could create a world of duelling vaccines and geopolitical battles over who gets supplies.

You could exchange "Russia" with "US" and it would be almost the same. The only difference is that you might think/fear Russia will do so but we know the US will, as Trump has said he will.