skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite apart from the waste, selenium toner is... nasty. I mean the smell. One gets rather used to many of the smells of the darkroom, equating them in one way or another with the artist's struggle and horrible little bedsits on the Boul Mich and so on. Selenium is different. It's the sort of smell that makes platinum/palladium seem like a much better idea.
Stop. Just stop. You may have missed it (surprise, surprise!) but I've already been quite clear:

>I'm not interested in debating the App store or the article per se. I just wanted to point out the irony of harshly condemning him for using strawmen, and then shamelessly inventing several of your own.

I don't know how to be any clearer to you. I really don't. I don't care about the article anymore. You've taken out any potential fun from debating the actual message by being blatantly and unabashedly dishonest about its content.

Please, please take a hint from the replies to your comments here. No one will engage you in civilized debate when you demonstrate such a careless disregard for trying to understand what is written in front of you.

Oh, and a stylistic tip that might help (assuming you're actually interested in having respectful, honest, civilized debate someday): Try using paragraphs in your writing. There's a reason paragraphs are a thing; disjointed random sentences come across as incoherent rambling.

Don't bother replying. I'm not interested. Best of luck.
15-year-old: I miss my friends. Want to do my concurrent-enrollment advanced study classes. She's starting school, we'll see how long in-person school lasts.

12-year-old: School over the internet is awesome! Takes me a quarter of the time and I'm not just waiting for the teacher and the class. Doing an online, tech-focused, home schooling program, with in-person advanced math class and drama class.
Massachusetts: our school district is offering a choice between full-remote and hybrid week-in/week-remote programs, but noting that at least the first 2 months will be all-remote for everyone. Since our kids are of reasonable age, we asked them and accepted their preferences for all-remote. They get to change their minds at the end of the first semester.
That is not a pragmatic view. Law works on assumption that most of the society will follow them (under moral or social pressure) and few rogue people will be punished appropriately. If everyone starts breaking the law, no Police/Govt will be able to contain it.
A pretty well-thought out article, given the inflammatory nature of the subject matter.

I think Apple is right on the line. But I don't see a good argument as to what their doing is being anti-competitive. ~2 million apps are on the app store. Charging a fee for giving developers a huge market that spends money is not exactly unfair. And the rules of engagement are generally applied equally to everyone - the exceptions are noted by the guidelines.

What would make it fair? Lowering the fee? If that were the case, then the problem isn't anti-competitive behavior. If it's the rules, what would fair rules look like that don't harm the end user or the product?

What actual harm is Apple inflicting on the market by their behavior? Developers make less money? That isn't good enough.
What does banning closed hardware accomplish? It won't result in equivalent open hardware, except at the margin where it doesn't matter.
The lake looks concentrated because Los Angelas took all the water.

Look up the Los Angelas Aqueduct.
It's weird how Epic has no problem with closed hardware consoles...
Good to know that Pulsar is on your roadmap. Also, kudos to see user-land tooling around a common painpoint for teams doing any event processing at scale.
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The whole thing is fubar. We're doing our public school's virtual school for our 3 elementary age children. I don't see how its sustainable. This age group cannot do school by themselves, so my wife and I are having to do school while also trying to keep our work going. My productivity is just going to be shot.

This is day one, but here's what I'm going to try this week:
1). Get up earlier. I'm going to try to be in front of my computer with coffee by 5:30am. I'm hoping I can log a couple solid hours of work before I have to punch in for school.
2). Long lunch for the kids. Their school schedule only gives them 50 minutes, but the school is going to have to deal with it. I'm going to do 90 minutes so I can try to focus on work while inhaling a sandwich or something.
3) Bourbon when the kids are sleep.

I really hope we can get a rhythm and my kids can pick up some study skills where we don't have to be so hands-on.
Okay this is going to sound stupid but maybe someone else feels like me about it: I don't understand why Apple has to take such a big chunk from transactions of in-app purchases? Similarly Google.
Why 30%? Why not 5%? That feels like it would be more honest.

Is it just because "they can"?
Being required to inform news media about changes to result ranking algorithms in advance and advise them on how to avoid being impacted also gives news media a unique ability to game search results and takes away Google’s ability to prevent them from gaming results. I would certainly expect this to also seriously degrade the quality of search results. Not only will results become a pile of worthless SEO spam by news companies, Google will also have to use a much more simple ranking algorithm free of both ML techniques that can’t be explained to news companies and advanced algorithm techniques that are valuable trade secrets that news companies would obviously leak with their many employees, poor security, and adversarial motives.
Deciding between a tech that you already know and know will work well for the problem, and a tech you don't know - that's an easy choice.

A harder choice is when you know the tech you known doesn't quite fit. Do you go with what you know, or do you try something new?

Concrete example I'm currently considering: If I want to make a web pages that does some background work, should I use Django and Celery like last time, and spend months tweaking Celery settings I don't understand and still feel like the system's kinda clunky (like last time). Or do I use Elixir where there's little difference between handling a HTTP request and running a background task, and where I can just spin up a few thousand threads to monitor background tasks?

TLDR: What do you do when "what you know best" isn't the right choice?
The resistance is not constant and is in fact a function of temperature [0]. Line sag is a proxy measurement for line temperature, since things expand as they heat up. From [1], most materials have positive alpha coefficients so the resistance increases with temperature.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resistivity_and_con...

1. https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/direct-current/chp...
Maybe painting a gaping artificial mouth snarling with long pointy fangs on a cow's butt would help too?
Having looked at the graphs on the CAISO website, I think they had a supply problem and the New York Times is being a little disingenuous here. You can bring up the renewables graph for the 14th here (change the date): http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.aspx At 6 PM, they had about 5.2 GW of solar still coming in. That rapidly and predictably dropped to zero over the next hour and a half. If my rough maths is correct that alone would be enough to wipe out almost the entire 12 percent operating reserve. There's also a really interesting graph of demand vs net demand minus solar and wind on the other page; you can see that total demand flattens out near the top, but net demand - which is what the grid operator has to find generating capacity to fill - continues to ramp up aggressively right up until the peak.
> I have seen multiple times that Western culture somehow seem to try to extract something out of it.

I wonder what you think about yoga in the West? I think it gets competitive.
Here's the response they got asking their n00b question:

http://jsoftware.2058.n7.nabble.com/Spatial-trees-td25879.ht...

Link in article was dead
Every year you hear about horrible heat waves and fires in California but I'm here to tell you from my first-hand experience that This Time It's Different. I've lived on the SF peninsula for 10 years. We bought a brand new spec house. It was built without air conditioning. The developer said we wouldn't need it. We installed it anyway because we came from LA and a house in California without A/C did not fit into our worldview.

For the first few years, we rarely used the A/C. Then one year we had a Horrible Heat Wave that lasted two or three days. The A/C ran more or less continuously during that time, but managed to mostly keep up. And it always cooled off at night.

In subsequent years we had period recurrences of 2-3 day heat events that caused our A/C to run quite a lot but still keep up. This latest heat event has seen the A/C running three days now with no relief forecast until Thursday. Worse, it's not cooling off much at night the way it always used to. For the first time in ten years we are having to run the A/C at night instead of opening windows in order to sleep.

Frankly, the trend scares the living shit out of me. The speed at which these changes are manifesting themselves in our little microclimate is just mind-boggling.
> Should closed hardware even be legal to sell?

I don't see why not. If it's a problem, then either a competitor will emerge, or people won't purchase the product.

If it's truly a bad business practice, it'll lose out in the end. Besides that I actually love the closed system of the iPhone + App Store, we can't just go around banning things anytime we think we might not like them. Every time I see this story it just annoys me. I want the iPhone and App Store to be a closed system. Opening it up is the bad idea here.

Philosophically, amazon.com and Facebook are closed systems too. As is Wal-Mart and UPS. I'm not sure why we're only focused on hardware systems here, what's the meaningful distinction?
The Version 6 (7?) UNIX code that BSD is based on was re-licensed to a 4-clause BSD license in 2002.

http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/
interestingly the response to that comment:

"Maybe you're new here, but your comment punches below the belt and isn't acceptable in a community like this.
If you disagree, be civil and give reasons rather than throw insults."
I should have been more specific and said owning a car. It's more convenient to use a car in many situations and modern car rental places (Zipcar/Turo/Getaround), along with the traditional car rental companies, mean its easy to rent one for a few hours or a weekend. Depending on where in the city you live and how often to you go the mountains, the cost of car payment + parking + insurance may or may not be worth it compared to renting as needed.

It's not a personal bias when most Americans share the same bias. I've found Americans are only slightly weirder about their attachment to owning guns than owning a car, but far more Americans have this religious attachment to having a car.

The pandemic has even driven car sales, so it's entirely normal. https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Car-sales-surge...
My first programming tutorial, Gatsby and AWS
Yeah, none of that is true. There was a recent article about how it works in Colorado: https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/16/colorado-denver-mail-v...
No one in astronomy uses TIFFs. Most scientific images are stored in FITS format, either in integer form for some raw data or in floating-point form.
And they didn't even start with the lawsuit, they just broke the terms of service explicitly and then surprise pikachu faced when Apple slapped them down.
Are you familiar with how stock markets work?
Right, thanks — that’s what I meant to say. I just edited the comment to fix the mistake.

You’re totally correct!
Has blockchain based voting been tried anywhere else in the world? This is a very neat idea but would it's application even make it to this year's general elections?

With the attacks USPS is under, I hope something like this comes to life.
> I actually ended up writing my own just to gurantee a stable interface.

Yeah, I do the same. Just write a thin wrapper and hook torch in the __init__.py.

But ragging on pandas isn't cool. Pandas is probably the most important factor driving python's popularity over the past decade.
Single dad here in a small apartment with a 7yo whose school went fully remote.

I switched to a reduced-hours contractor status at my day job and went "full-time" on my side project so I can make my own schedule.

I do the bulk of my focused work either after my kid goes to bed or before she starts school for the day.

During the day when she's in class, it seems like every class period, there's at least one or two tech issues she needs help with. To keep that time productive for me, I do household chores, meal prep, and any easily-interruptable work-related tasks (like writing correspondence).

It's not ideal, but I feel like I can make it work for us indefinitely.
Physicists and mechanical engineers simply do not wield the same amount of power that computer scientists/software engineers do. FYI the article does not suggest literally putting CS in the social science department. TFA is just arguing that in light of how CS is applied in society, computer scientists need to be more broadly educated. I was a cryptography PhD student for awhile and I can tell you by-and-large CS academics are so far up the ivory tower it's a wonder they don't die of asphyxiation. To ignore the reality that algorithms, and those that design them, hold an enormous, and growing, amount of sociopolitical power is not just willfully moronic, it's arguably leading to the death of liberal democracy.
Sorry there are a lot of emotions in your comment but very little substance.

>Eh, my observation is about a recurring behavior from China

Can you clarify which behaviour you are referring to? It's been pointed out that the Chinese goal was to stabilize their fishing fleet size to around 3000, which given their normal growth focused policies seemed like some thing worthy of planning. And not propaganda as the parent comment was implying
> It's important to bear in mind that meditation is a religious practice specifically aimed at causing ego-death

For a lot of people it's simply a 15 min break in the day, between work, kids, netflix, games or whatever, we never just sit down, do nothing, relax and listen to our inner selves

I think that's why it became hype in the last few years, it's not so much that meditation will "heal your soul" or whatever pseudo science bs, it's more that it allows people to truly relax for a bit, unplug their brain of the incessant flow of information and distractions for a few minutes and reconnect with the baseline
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Based on the [B4] benchmark, we can predict the size Yjs document representing the complete editing history of the Linux kernel (probably the largest Git repo ever created): 864 MB. The size of the Git repository is currently 1.1 GB. So Yjs has better encoding.

If you would load the the Yjs document containing the editing history of the Linux kernel in-memory, you would use about 13.8 GB of memory. Of course, you wouldn't write the complete Linux kernel in a single file. As of 2011, the project consisted of ~37,000 files. If you represent each file as a separate Yjs document, you would use, on average, just a few kilobytes to load a single file.

The editing history of the Linux kernel is a very interesting benchmark resource. Maybe I will add it to crdt-benchmarks.
There's nothing stopping you from putting a Blu-ray player in your rack next to the Prima box and the cost is trivial.

There's a common-sense argument that a person is only going to have one phone, one phone carrier, one ISP, etc. and thus those companies shouldn't hold their customers hostage. Turning that into a legal principle is left as an exercise for the reader.
I dunno, for philosophy, it seems to me most decades between 1800 and 1920 were more momentous than the 1920s. I have no idea what Walter Benjamin and Cassirer are doing in there with Wittgenstein and Heidegger either. I mean, I like me some Walter Benjamin ... but I never thought of him as a Philosopher. Cassirer is just obscure; I can think of a half dozen better known philosophers of that time.

Pretty good decade for physics though; haven't had one like that since then.
I’m not confident that’s an accurate description. Companies are certainly beholden to their shareholders, but e.g. there’s no legal requirement to maximize profits.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-co...
I believe this is the same project that surfaced a while back and the algorithm is remarkably effective for its simplicity, but I do agree that there are probably some others that would catch edge/sneaky cases.

The bigger issue are planes that are't showing up anywhere. I think it would be interesting to pair some audio and computer vision resources with existing ADSB network to train what planes sound like and possibly even which altitude/direction they are traveling based on sound energy alone.

Camera would be nice, also passive radar given that most of these ADSB tools are using existing software defined radios.
The problem is that we’re terrible at assessing the morality of companies. We tend not to care about what startups do, even though the “doing whatever it takes” mentality sometimes leads to deeply concerning behavior (i.e. Instacart/door dash tipping dark patterns, Zoom security practices, online advertising startups generally, etc.)

Part of it is that business models are getting increasingly complex, and it’s getting harder for laypeople to really grok how a particular company makes money, especially when consumer data is involved.

The public tolerates quite a bit of unethical behavior by companies if they determine the value of the product to be worth it (i.e. Facebook). And some entrepreneurs see these examples and think that there are no consequences. There really is no concrete mechanism to assess morality in companies. Marketing gets to dictate most of that.
I have a first grader. Our public school system, which is ordinarily great, has a very vague plan that begins with a hybrid system that operates two mornings a week.

In response, we teamed up with five other families of first graders in our area, and have contracted with a tutor to handle the other three-and-two-half days of the week. We may switch to the remote learning option, since it seems like 75% of their class will do that, which would the benefit of in-person social experiences, but simplify logistics. When not in school, the five kids will be in a basement apartment at one of the families' houses with the tutor, working on their distance learning.

We still have a zillion and a half things to iron out, but it's both progress and ridiculous.
> Eventually he died of a bear mauling

Wow, same year and two months later than Timothy Treadwell, "Grizzly Man".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell
Date and Time Gotchas
2 kids in high school. They started last week with online only. Their schools offered the option of online only or in person classes and each student was able to choose. Even though the class list for online only is much smaller than what's available in person, we thought it safer to go that way.
You mean this blog with default CSS? And barely any site navigation?

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation...
> But John D. Cook recently posted an idea (https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/07/25/worst-tool-for-the...) that I also thought useful: Try to choose the worst tool for the job.

There are some killer ideas for new perspectives in this thread! Thank you!
That depends on what you mean by God, and what you mean by control. If something controls the weather, perhaps a combo of Physics, Geography and random chance, could that be a god worthy of respect and study?

I think we can agree on what we mean by weather, but I’m not certain of that either.
That's much better phrasing, thank you. :)
http://archive.is/Z50Fw
If we all thought that way, this place would be dead.
True. I don't remember it being so bad in 2016 - but then again I spent much less time reading HN then.
LOL they're referring to Rock Creek Park, not the National Mall. RCP is probably the single best "urban" park system outside of Forest Park in Portland. I can walk out my door and be in nature in just a few minutes... you can walk or run all day and never leave the forest, yet still be in the middle of the city.
I hope you don't want to play the "hydrogen fuel is the way to go, look at japan" card. There are very good reasons for japan to invest in hydrogen that are not applicable to the rest of the world.
It seems like people have very short memories with this company. This is the same platform that crashed hard for multiple days back when stocks took a dive in March 2020[1]. This is also the same company that opened a savings account with 3% interest that they had to back out of as they were claiming it was SIPC insured, it wasn't[2]. Basically as the timeless saying goes "Caveat emptor".

[1] - https://fortune.com/2020/03/09/robinhood-crash-third-time-st...

[2] - https://beta.trimread.com/articles/33225
I think vanguard is perfect for the type of investor they attract. I probably log in to my vanguard 2 or 3 times a year. It is set to autodraft from my bank account and buy index funds every month and reinvest the dividends. So it is set it and forget it.

A slick interface and UI team that is trying to figure out ways to increase user engagement is just asking for your users to get in there and gamble away their retirement savings.
Mozilla Must Survive
I think that's ok though. I think that we handicap ourselves by trying to find universalizing systems and rules, and then throwing our hands up when we can't do so. I also think that this sort of thing is tacitly encouraged by incumbents because usually giving up benefits them.

Size matters. If a child hits you, you scold them and tell them not to do it, but you're likely no worse for wear. If an adult hits you, they could kill you, we call it assault and it has legal consequences.

The contradiction you feel is like saying "well I don't think we should punish children the same way we punish adults, so maybe we shouldn't punish anyone?". I know that when I put it into this type of metaphor it seems obvious, I'm not trying to be insulting, merely that when you change the context we suddenly see that it does makes sense to weigh different situations with different consequences differently.

Trying to find a common legal framework to cover a 2 person ramen startup and the continent spanning wealth and power of Jeff Bezos and Amazon, or Tim Cook and Apple is something that seems fraught, and the consequences for the actions that each group takes are vastly different. I think we shouldn't be afraid to judge or regulate them differently as well.
Some customers buy into the Apple ecosystem because of its walled garden. Not despite of it.