skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah it's been awhile since I've set up a python-ready environment, and trying to install this reminded me of the challenge of just getting to the expected starting point.

$ pip install git-delete-merged-branches
zsh: command not found: pip
$ brew install pip
Error: No available formula with the name "pip"
pip is part of the python formula:
brew install python
$ brew install python
...
OK
$ pip install git-delete-merged-branches
zsh: command not found: pip

(look up how to install pip)
$ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
$ python get-pip.py
WARNING: The scripts pip, pip2 and pip2.7 are installed in
'/Users/{me}/Library/Python/2.7/bin' which is not on PATH.
Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed pip-20.2.2
$ pip install git-delete-merged-branches
zsh: command not found: pip
(walk away)

I know there are solutions to all this, and it's mainly that I don't already have my $PATH set up the way that pip expects, etc, but really??
In life, you sometimes learn that what is mathematical or cutting edge is not always synonymous with useful or revolutionary.

"Hackers" of 1990s were just script kiddies by today's standards, because the "bar was low". That doesn't make them any less important as far as contributions go.

All in all, maybe you are right, and maybe he is somewhat of a showman. But perhaps that is what we need more. Someone who masters science but also is human.
A fun trick is to google for the safety data sheet (SDS) of household chemical products. They'll tell you rough proportions of some of the ingredients. (Not all, just the ones they're required to -- the more dangerous ones.)

For example, the SDS for Cascade Pacs[1] tells us that there's ~40% sodium carbonate (washing soda, a fairly strong base), a few percent of sodium percarbonate (washing soda + hydrogen peroxide), and a few percent of an ethoxylated alcohol, a surfactant.

There are also some notes further down about Subtilisin, which apparently is a protease, an enzyme that breaks down protein.

(I'm not a chemist, so my interpretations of what these chemicals are/do is based on search results for the chemical names / CAS numbers.)

I bet if you looked up the SDS for Dawn dish soap, it'd be mostly surfactants, so sodium bicarbonate + Dawn dish soap is a reasonable approximation of sodium carbonate + surfactants.

OxyClean is also sodium carbonate, sodium percarbonate, and ethoxylated alcohols, so it'd also probably do just fine -- whether it's safe to use in a dishwasher depends mostly on the toxicity of those ethoxylated alcohols.

1. https://www.pg.com/productsafety/sds/SDS_2018/SDS_Feb_2018/C...
2. https://www.ahprofessional.com/_downloads/sds/SDS%20OxiClean...
I don’t think this detects a branch that can be deleted after a squash merge to master
I went down the novel design mechanical keyboard hole last year. I had been coding on a kinesis advantage for ages but why not try I thought. I now have a shelf of very pretty but very shitty typing experiences.

- plank/preonic ortholinear boards. Fine, the advantage is ortholinear so the adjustment wasn't too terrible, but the advantage's thumb cluster beats the living shit out of the plank/preionic's bottom row. Also all flat not comfrotable.

- Viterbi (from keeb.io).. this was me thinking, this could work maybe if I could just get over the crampedness of the preonic keyboard i would be happier (Viterbi is split in half preonic mostly) .. nope.

- 60% w/ split spacebar in a nice wooden travel case for travel etc. Working on the laptop keyboard is literal torture, and the advantage isn't very portable at all. It's ... ok, the lack of a proper arrow cluster sucks, got used to layers for Fkeys, the sixcluster and arrows on a layer under wasd and ijkl depending on what hand i wanted to use. It's ok, sometimes it still flys with me.

- Minvan 40% .. mostly bought on a whim, sucks badly, I guess if I weren't coding it would be ok, but the increased use of symbols and non-letters is problematic on all these layouts. Too much cognitive overhead (where did I put the ampersand again...)

Now I knew less keys were not going to be solving my problems.

- Ergodox. I have some minor qualms with the advantage mostly size but also the case is quite hollow and noisy. Also they sell a limited array of switches for it (blue, brown, red .. I'm a brown guy, I like a little tactile feedback). Coming from the advantage this thing just sucks, very much the same layout (with a few extra keys) but flat flat flat, making it much harder to reach characters. Those advantage wells are amazing. The thumb cluster is also just worse due to the flatness. I actually gave this keyboard away.

- Iris (keeb.io) ... slightly better than the ergodox but less keys than the advantage. Tried it for a few weeks, felt limiting for coding. Have played videogames with it, works pretty well for that. It stays on my desk for that purpose.

- Dactyl - Finally I printed a dactyl. This is a great board for a travel board for me. It's essentially an open source kinesis advantage. I already had a 3d printer, had one printed, soldered and running in a week. Put some very nice zealious zilent switches in it. It's awesome. I still an advantage at home (though I replaced it's controller with a custom one that runs QMK, filled it with foam to deaden the din and am considering contacting the manufacturer for some spare parts so I can put some other switches in it) .. My only reservation is around the 3d printing, I wish I could get a solid plastic shell or it milled out of aluminum or something a little lighter (aluminum being extra weight when I travel .. if i ever travel again). But custom work like that is very cost prohibitive.

So anyways, that was my journey down the rabbit hole of niche keyboard designs. I mostly still use the advantage, with an iris for gaming, and a dactyl for travel.
With a little planning like described it gets even better since you can buy stuff when it's on offer, which is never when you suddenly need it.
It doesn't have to be that good a vacuum. It's probably really no more expensive than conventional high speed rail.

The hyperloop proposal is operating at approximately 1 millibar of pressure. That sounds CLOSE to a vacuum..and it is, roughly 0.01 atm, but with vacuums getting down to around there is easy. Getting down to, say, 0.00001 atm is much much much harder.
In biology, if you don't have validation you aren't getting published in Nature. Maybe other fields play faster and looser, but this field demands evidence for claims and support from other sources validating these findings before they are seriously accepted by the community.
Httpref: Handy HTTP reference from the CLI – now with ports reference
That’s what South Korea has done for their OLED engineers, saying that it is a national security issue.

Are nuclear weapons researchers slaves?
Donate to an organization with a CEO that makes 2.5 million dollar/year salary...no thanks.
I never had that at the airport but my contingency plan for the times when drivers decided not to show in an obvious attempt to get me to cancel was to pull up the other ride sharing app and then use that, and leave the original one running.
Not sure about this video in particular, but I remember thunderfoot being pretty thorough and accurate in the past.
Does it matter that much? On my list of priorities in choosing a dwelling, if I'm allowed to change the exterior color is far, far down the list. I do in fact own a fully-detached house and I never bothered to change the exterior color, and nothing in my life would be any different if there were, say, an HOA in place that prohibited me from changing the exterior color.
Looks awesome. Given it takes position data along with images, how accurate must the position data be? Could it handle something like sensor drift in the position data over time?
The USPS isn't given the "private company" treatment in other matters though. They can't set their own rates, or appoint their own chief executive or sell stock. It's hard to believe the intention behind the pre-funding requirement was anything so benign as "fiscal responsibility".
If MDN did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
Ask HN: Dropbox/Drive Alternatives?
Is there a great alternative for Dropbox / Google Drive?

I know this comes up frequently, but I'm hoping there's something new that I just haven't found out about yet.

For the record, I love the old Dropbox, where it felt native to the operating system and just synced files. But they keep adding things.

Google Drive is just maddening experience of figuring out permissions and and where my storage is being eaten up. I get 30g free though, that's hard to beat.
you need to fix your clock, its not 2027 yet.
Here's how it gets done under a totalitarian regime.

Full disclosure: I was a co-founder of Demos.

http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/articles/relcom.htm
Other buyouts I have been thinking about is Microsoft buying Canonical. Although Canonical buying out Firefox sounds interesting as well but Canonical seems to have gone through a similarish phase where they shut off certain projects.

One other thing that would interest me is Mozilla buying out Fastmail but I am not too sure that would drive the sort of revenue Mozilla needs. There are a few mergers out there that could occur. I mostly mention this one cause it Mozilla had an email service I would pay for it. Especially if its pay only. I want someone who isnt crawling my emails beyond spam detection to manage my email situation.

Heck whats stopping GitHub from buying out Mozilla with its new fatter wallet?
Is the format compatible with other password databases?
I'm in a similar situation. I've found that taking CoQ10 and NAD+ (e.g. Niagen or Elysium Basis) has been helpful.
It entirely obliterates the insect collapse myth in the US. It's not skepticism and caution it's being met with, it's in denial mourning and willful head-in-the-sand'ing at the destruction of a critical piece of propaganda. Accordingly the remarkable, honest, rational, brave and scientifically sound study must be attacked and stopped no matter the cost.
> It would really help if both Facebook and Twitter would be far more pro-active in shutting down these fountains of nonsense.

When I see this, especially from someone who bills themselves as

> "Professionally I get paid to separate fact from fiction"

it horrifies me. What they're saying is that the existing draconian control of speech that is implemented on the social media networks is not enough, that we need to hire even more people to do moderation, that free speech needs to die even harder, because we can't trust poor stupid people to make their own decisions, read what they want to read, and say what they want to say.

What a bunch of elitist bullshit. Small wonder that people are increasingly finding people like Jacques Mattheij to be unpalatable, nanny-state toadies that are to be routed around at best and attacked argumentatively when needed.

Yes, there's bullshit about COVID and chemtrails and aliens all over the internet. Why do you care so much? You're so worried that people are going to make their own choices, live their own lives, make mistakes that impact others?

This shows me that people have not learned what free speech is, what it is for, and why it was a hard-fought right that continues to need fervent defense. Mattheij can't conceive of a world where his draconian moderation system could possibly backfire. Mattheij hasn't looked at what's happening in Belarus, in India/Pakistan, and what happened during the Arab Spring when governments decided to use the power at their disposal to shut down on the people's ability to freely converse with one another, even about Unapproved Topics, even with Officially Illegal Opinions. Mattheij either didn't read any of the excellent 20th century dystopian science fiction, or thought it was a user's manual for how to create an idealized totalitarian state.

Because of course, gigantic corporations and the government are going to choose what's in everyone's best interests. Of course, it is inconceivable that they would have any agenda of their own, or would want to make cultural changes at scale without the full consent of society. It's never been tried, anywhere, right? Never ends badly?

Ahh, but it's to save us from ourselves, right?
I'm not sure that this little nugget of wisdom has withstood the test of time. The average number of hours worked has fallen dramatically since the 30s[0] even as interest in passive entertainment has skyrocketed.

[0]https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/
The 'M' in Mozilla slowly drifting away is a great touch as well :)
That's a really harmful outlook.

If company A decides that they are going to pay their workers (say) $3/hr, and illegally bypass the minimum wage, it _DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL_ if they can find workers willing to work for that amount.

As a society, we've decided that certain offers aren't acceptable, even if you can find someone desperate enough to take the offer.

You shouldn't get to just ignore the law because you're big enough.

(And Yes, in practice big companies do ignore laws more than they should. That's a bad thing, and a reason to do better, not a reason to give up).
The Dubai hyperloop project is supposedly proceeding. The 10km test track was supposed to open this year. Can't find any info later than January 2020.

The Dubai to Abu Dhabi link is the ideal case. The route is mostly flat, open desert. Funding is available. There is government support. There's considerable traffic between those points.
If that doesn't work, not much else will.
They want private companies to pay for the government shortcomings of not providing affordable healthcare and other benefits.
>Have employers provide your home internet access

By 'have' I think you mean 'force'. We need to stop responding to everything with more regulation and required expenses for businesses. This always causes more problems than it fixes.
Everything I know about dishwasher detergent is that it is formulated to clean chemically, i.e. with enzymes etc. that actually break food down over the course of tens of minutes or hours.

Dish soap does NOT do that. (It's also why you shouldn't wash dishes by hand with dishwasher detergent, because the chemicals are too harsh.)

I don't doubt that this "hack" does some cleaning, but for things like crusted-on tomato sauce, hardened cheese, dried egg yolks, etc. -- it's just not going to work as well. Dish soap simply doesn't break these things down. It's not meant to.

(Washing by hand with dish soap works because you're applying intense pressure and abrasion, neither of which a dishwasher can do -- which is why it does it chemically instead.)

I just don't find it credible that "the results are identical". Either the author isn't paying enough attention, or else they're doing extensive "pre-washing" of their dishes before loading them, or they're washing so incredibly quickly after eating that food never has the time to dry/harden in the first place.
No outside party can force a founder to take dilution, but unless you are the hot oversubscribed startup, rounds are often just enough money and you find yourself coming back hat in hand to be diluted over and over.
I also find it to be highly meditative. Its almost like a mental switch when I put on the gloves now. Sometimes I find myself avoiding washing dishes temporarily because I subconsciously know I will be forced to think slowly through whatever is bothering me instead of frittering away time clicking across the internet at hyperspeed.
The money is there, it just mostly resides in the hands of the few. The mean net worth of an American household is almost $700,000 - that's total net worth of all households, divided by number of households.
The systems described in this article are "passive". They are simply listening to the sounds around them. This is much more common for submarines than "active" sonar - which ensonifies the water around you and then you listen for echos. It is those loud pings which can threaten or frighten wildlife. However they are also like holding up a big lit sign that says "there is a submarine here!" - and the whole point of submarines is stealth. They say that if you hear a ping from a submarine, it is too late - there is already a torpedo heading your way.

source - used to be a sonar tech
It's a music publishing company as much as DoorDash is a restaurant. You use DoorDash to get food, but DoorDash is not the person actually making the food. Likewise Apple sells music, but said music is actually recorded and published by some other entity.
ADSL. No fiber to my home.
Do you not think that uber has some employees and some contractors?

What about the people that just work for a little side hustle. Like 5-10 hours a week?
thanks! hadn't seen them before.
How Smart Is Bert? Evaluating the Language Model’s Commonsense Knowledge
Or perhaps learning Git just requires a different approach: you understand the model first, not the interface. Once you understand the model (which is quite simple), the interface is easy.
Firefighters seem to be the first people hurt in this type of incident when responding to fires before realizing radiation is involved (granted the Chernobyl area is a big clue nowadays)

I wonder, has it become protocol to check radiation levels during fire response?
Elon seems to have moved on to non-vaccuum underground tunnels via The Boring Company, which is actually doing real projects.

Though apparently there are still Hyperloop competitions planned. The 2020 one was supposed to be "in a 10km vacuum tunnel with a curve", though that may be stalled by, well, obvious current events.

https://tunnelinsider.com/the-2020-hyperloop-competition-wil...

No one else seems to have quite the combination of money and crazy to go much further with Hyperloop.
I think they could do it if they wanted to.

Uber has over 22,000 employees [1]. They have HR professionals whose whole job is managing those employees. And they have billions of dollars available to do whatever they need to.

If they wanted to make every driver in California a W-2 employee, I am confident they could do it as quickly as they wanted. And the court wouldn't make them immediately stop. They wouldn't need to shut down. They just need to begin transitioning. Courts are generally reasonable. They'll understand changes take time.

Shutting down is entirely their way of giving the finger to California for making them do something they didn't want to do.

[1] https://www.uber.com/newsroom/company-info/
Is this startup accelerator a scam?
Just got this e-mail in my inbox. Just replaced my company name.

Subject: What's Beta's post-COVID plan?

Hey Tima,

Looked into Beta today--pretty cool what you're doing.

As a remote accelerator, we've had a spike in applications recently from startups forced to go remote because of the quarantine, and much of our investor network is still investing.

We’re interested in what you’re building, and since many companies are gearing up for the post-pandemic economy I thought Beta would be a good fit for our accelerator.

Just to give you a quick run down:

-We run several cohorts per year for startups in the Pre-Seed, Seed, & Series A stages, investing up to $250k into the top companies.
-We've helped companies raise over $150m+ in funding.
-We help companies with marketing, fundraising, growth-hacking, and even exit plans in our curriculum and 1-on-1 advising.
-Our program includes free resources like Foundersuite, AWS credits, Microsoft Azure, etc.
-We've always been a remote accelerator well before recent events--our entire program is designed around connecting founders with mentors and investors remotely.

If you’re interested, you can read more about the program and apply here: https://launch.newchip.com/apply-now

-Ryan

P.S. We’ve been working 24/7 reviewing investments for our cohort companies from our demo day, but feel free to message me if you have any questions (might take me a day or two to respond but I will!)
Ah ha. Seems it could be struggling more than I had thought. Still, doesn't seem to me like it's in such an urgent, dire state that it needs to be addressed before the election.

Thanks for the back and forth :-)
This is how we got into this mess in the first place. Google was the "good guy", up against Microsoft and Apple, and funded Mozilla. After all, Google didn't care about web standards or building a browser! They were a search engine.

So Mozilla became dependent on Google, and here we are.
I think this is a bit overstated, because Rust does not yet address all use cases of a language with tracing GC (such as general graphs, or some specialized concurrent data structures), so something like Go will still be useful in many cases. Though this might change in the future if Rust itself gains better support for "pluggable", local allocators, whicn might subsume tracing GC when needed.
Regular slow rail and siphoning tax dollars? Sounds like an Elon company.
Sounds like a cool idea, but I couldn’t figure out how you bootstrap. Do you rely on warm hearted homeowners to take a cut in their potential profit from the potential for renting ?
That's not magic. And it costs hundreds of thousands of lives.
It just reeks of incompetence and laziness, not to mention failing to go after the real problem of not having proper healthcare and other benefits that is the job of the government to provide.

They could easily survey drivers to determine how many hours a day they work, who's doing it full time, and if they are, why. However, it's just easy to make a new broken law to add to the already broken laws.
What if the workers actually controlled the factory and not a commissar sent by central planning? There are lots of different ways to do this.

For central planning, one proposal I saw offered that the workers could be organized into sectoral unions that participate as a sector in government. This weight and common interest allows them to counter the weight of voters that ask for too much. It's also large enough of an agglomeration that the workers still represent society as a whole to a great degree.
Five humans, all home most of the day. We cook a lot.
Minimum one dishwasher run daily, maximum 3, average is about 2.

And all of the pans, special cooking / prepping utensilien are done by hand.
perhaps the worst typing experience ever. Though I did have one of these I took to burningman to hook up to the camp's mp3 server circa 1999, it lived in a box with a lot of filtration, the keyboard just lived on the playa and worked like a champ. But I wouldn't want to type on it for more than 2 minutes.
Ask HN: What graph database you use and why? Any alternatives you had?
You vote for politicians whose ideology is to micromanage your life including taking a cut of your money, you get exactly that.
> But adding floating point numbers isn't associative, in general. Sometimes you need to do it the right way to avoid catastrophic cancellation.

That exactly proves his point. Systems that are associative can be processed by the parallel algorithm he was thinking of. Floating point numbers, if you care about their non-associativity, cannot be processed by that algorithm. So the validity is that algorithm depends on whether the system is associative.
Also, good job and congrats on learning to type well!
I'm not sure if you're serious or presenting what you think is an absurdity, but I instantly knew human photosynthesis must be an existing science fiction trope, even though I don't actually know a title offhand.

Frankly, I expect this sort of thing before fusion power that is "too cheap to meter".

See:

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/151099/story-inclu...
An individual taxi driver owning a cab, a license if necessary, paying for his insurance and getting the money from his passengers is an individual contractor, yes.

It's just that he contracts with the individual riders, not any higher-up monopolistic business entity that sets arbitrary business-driven rules that all taxi drivers have to follow.