skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the surface this makes complete sense given Nvidia’s CPU ambitions but I wonder what advantage it truly gives them in practice. Apple has already shown you can make the best Arm chips without owning it.
In Denmark its 1-3kr, or 15-50¢, depending on the size and material of the container.

Plenty of cans are collected by homeless / lowest income people, but it's also just about enough that average people will collect them too.

If I have a huge bag after a party, I return them. When I normally only have 0-2 bottles in a typical week, I take them outside and put them on the little shelf on the bin for someone to collect without needing to rummage: https://www.magasinetkbh.dk/sites/default/files/public/style...

New food packaging can only use recycled material collected in this way. The general household recycling is considered too dirty.
If they want to charge Epic and other developers of free apps and games, that's one thing. Apple have made a calculated business decision to charge developers $99/year for those expenses, and it's not like they don't profit anything from having a large game and app library. They're not charging for providing a platform and publicity though, they are forcing developers to use their payment processing for in app purchases, which IMO does not contribute 30% of the produced value for those purchases.

But my main point was that trying to frame it as heroic Apple against evil Epic, where Apple tries to save their users from gambling by taking a large cut of the loot, isn't entirely truthful.
It's always interesting to me to see a platform like this that puts so much focus on raising money while their first tier product is free. In fact it says FREE FOREVER! Their other pricing is custom in which I'd have to contact them. I always have a hard time understanding what the appeal is to a seed investor in a product that is going to be free for the vast majority of users.

Anyone smarter than I am have any insights into this? Does a company like this miss out on product development because they are spending so much time raising money?
You could at least give the event some proper gravitas by using Comic Sans instead.
That notion was taken credibly by sensible people even before the Snowden leak. Snowden was hardly the first leak, after all, just the most spectacular.

If the US government can't even keep its own spy programs secret without repeated leaks, it's hard to believe they've managed near-100% success with their alien guests since '47.
I suspect "recycling" there means something like "separated and sent to Thailand to fuel cement kilns".
I was thinking open-source/nonprofit. Server costs should be trivial until it started to take off for real (and I'd personally be open to covering them out of pocket), at which point a proper nonprofit/donation model could be set up. Ideally the data itself would also be open, for use by others (analysts, journalists, etc).
Symbolics Genera – The Best Software Environment Available (1985)
My gut reaction:

Vetted and official news also can get us to believe lies:

* Iraq has a stockpile of WMD.

* Japanese-American citizens should be rounded up.

* You don't need to wear a mask, so don't go buying them up.

* Collage is a wise investment.

* You should fear $those_people because they will kill you.

* Some civil rights are outdated and you don't need them anymore.
"Security analyst"? Security as in protection, or as in asset?
Unpaywalled link https://pastebin.com/ugZpqfPE
> Yet people are continually intervening in markets, almost always without causing failure. An intervention that produces undesired results can be stopped or modified, provided it it not forced by legislation or biased perception, and something else tried

I find that perspective very naive. Economy doesn't have an undo button. If that was the case we could have reverted all the financial crises, depressions etc before they spiraled out. History is full of such failures caused by or made worse with interventions. Economists get a lot of crap for not being a proper science or not being able to predict the future perfectly, but they are what stands between such failures and the impression of "almost always without causing failure". Economy is like a pool table, in which you might aim for your ball to one hole, but might inadvertently hit your opponent's ball into a hole or mess up the table otherwise. There is no undo once you make the hit. Job of the economists is to find the best angles.

> In the US, failure ever to apply laws on the books enabling direct prosecution of corporate officers, or revoking corporate charters, or regulating behavior of monopolies, are indications of evil at work.

Well good luck with that then, because I don't know any solution to solve "evil" other than calling the priests. When we turn these dynamics into conspiratorial archetypes, we shoot ourselves in the foot because it messes up with the framing of our agency. We either give up in resentment to the "evil", or we need to be a force of "good" and fight it, while forgetting that we are dealing with massively complex, dynamical, emergent systems with parameters too many and too big to optimize by a single person, ideology or solution. Just like we don't debug code by invoking "good and evil" because it is a stupid dichotomy that doesn't match the sophistication of the problem, we most likely can't debug society/economy/ecology with that either.
Hah nice, I remember doing that too! At the time I thought it was important to keep the irc log, which I've just dug up and thrown up on pastebin. I don't actually remember which network this was (EFNet maybe?)

> 03:46:49 -crier- THE BILLENNIUM HAS ARRIVED!!!!! Uh, you might want to play auldlangsyne.wav. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!

more at https://pastebin.com/71H7eR8r

For some reason the billennium arrives at 3:46:49, which doesn't make sense - I wasn't in UTC+2, and anyway this should've been at 01:46:40am UTC (40 seconds past the minute, not 49 seconds). Most likely reason is simply that my local machine's clock was wrong.
Howdy, Mek here -- I run https://openlibrary.org over at the non-profit Internet Archive (the folks that bring you the Wayback Machine).

Open Library is an free, online California Library with millions of digital books to read and borrow. It's additionally an open catalog of millions of books which you may track like goodreads.

Best part? If it's not to your liking, the whole project is open source!
https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary

Open Library has a very strong volunteer tribe of book-loving librarians, developers, and designers working to make the project better for our community.

We meet once a week at 11:30am PT. Ask me for the link: mek+ol@archive.org

RIGOROUS BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:
We're also cultivating a 2nd non-profit open source experiment called TheBestBookOn.com (it leverages Open Library's catalog) which allows book-lovers to ask for or make rigorous book recommendations:

https://github.com/Open-Book-Genome-Project/TheBestBookOn.co...

It's a very early prototype (we discuss development during our weekly Open Library call). It's being organized by Lauren Milliken, Aasif Khan, and myself and we'd love more contributors to join the discussion: mek+bbo@archive.org
Either the package manager site allows email resets and the same issue applies, or it doesn’t and you can be locked out forever by forgetting a password. Both failure modes suck.
I don’t mind the post because it’s a cool hack and could be useful for debugging workflows, but I do agree we should refrain from abusing it as a free shell.
The main sand used for glass is quartz sand. I don't know if desert sand can be used.

Through quartz sand is still widely available.

The reason we recycle glass bottles is that it's much more energy efficient to create new glass from recycled glass and it's not to hard to sort/separate glass so recycling glass makes sense for reasons which are unrelated to how "rare" the resource it's made from is.

Note that this is only true for glass bottles (or similar), things like window glass is made from different sand mixes and should not be placed into the glass recycling bin at all.

I have no idea if you can recycle window glass (as e.g. non window glass) or similar. But it's not part of the glass bottle recycling process and is seen as a form of contamination if placed in to large amounts in the recycling glass. (as far as I remember)
Yeah, too bad there isn't a website that understand this issue, and has never had like counts, and whose participants largely deride the idea of like counts-and have for a long, long time.
Clear glass bottles are great for reusing though. I know of at least a few local breweries that reuse their clear glass bottles. When you buy the beer you pay a ten cent deposit per bottle which you get back when you return them. It’s a great system!
IMO, this is one of the least concerning things with WFH.

It's just another trade off. That isn't hard for many people who prefer working from home.
The plan I have is to use an isolation forest with dimensions like requests per minute, unique pages per session, etc. and just present a recaptcha or inaccurate data when they're outside some threshold.
It depends if fully reclaiming it as plastic is the goal. That's the current model, but there are other routes available. Two options that don't quite work yet (but have moderately promising potential) are either to break the plastic down to useful precursors with enzymes, or pyrolise it down to biochar.

To my knowledge, the enzyme approach has shown a modicum of promise in labs but is still impractical, while making biochar is really, really easy. We just need a market for it. Unfortunately, the very group of people who could make the biggest use of it (and are most likely to) are blocked by policy: you can't have an Organic label on your farm produce if you put biochar in the soil.
Pervasive automated measuring for the purposes of Denial-of-Access is an attack, and is a path best walked carefully, or better yet, never trod close enough to to have to worry about it.

Furthermore, of all things, toilet paper? You're going to unilaterally leave someone in a position to not be able to clean up after visiting the toilet? This is a great way to not make friends. If your threat model involves people walking off with toilet paper putting a meaningful dent in your OP-ex, I'm fairly sure you have much bigger issues currently, and definitely will once people really start getting sour and vandalizing your bathrooms/ridiculously expensive dispensers.

And a final point:
You can't take back biometrics, and if you've got a functional setup to do this, you're one step away from either implementing something actively harmful to society at large, or a bonanza target for those looking to get their hands on someone else's biometrics. There are some things that just aren't worth doing this is one them.
I'm sorry but most Americans retirement portfolio isn't an apartment complex in the most expensive city in the country. I'll find a bit more sympathy for them.
California has ~39,500,000 residents. 23,000 is 0.058% of the population.
There's discipline and habits, which are important.

Then there is motivation...

For me, the biggest improvement in motivation came from asking myself questions:

What do I really want to be working on and would enjoy working on?

Lucky for me, I already had experience when I was young writing software for myself and others which made it easier to do more things on the computer. I stayed up all day and all night, focused, motivated, and productive.

I was not motivated by money, deadlines, nor having to have a roof over my head and pay insurance, nor wanting to prove myself to anyone. I was just coding, and all I needed was some sweetened black tea in large quantities...

Another question I asked myself was, what does the world need right now, which would make it a better place, that no one else can provide except me?

This one is not as easy to answer, and the answer may not be the same today as it was yesterday. But if you keep asking yourself this question and pondering the answer, something will come of it.

Another question you may want to ask yourself and ponder on the answer:

What am I better at than anyone else in the world, and how can I help others using it?
https://archive.vn/PLQr3
That twitter thread reeks of bias, I couldn't finish or take it seriously at all. If you want to convince me of something don't go around painting people as evil capitalist masterminds...
Given the number of photos I have taken with my phone that appeared to just be empty sky, but if I zoomed way in and scrolled around I would eventually stumble onto a blurry blob that was probably the plane I had been trying to photograph, I'm not so sure that the XKCD you cited is right when it comes to things in the sky.
The philosophy behind thebestbook.com (which is currently just a looks-like demo -- you should help us implement it!) follows this essay on Less Wrong:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-t...

Recommendations are better when you have enough info to draw a line rather than consider a single point.

There are many websites online which give you detailed reviews. But how does their review compare to other similar books? And has this reader also read those books?

Thebestbookon.com requires a reviewer to have read 3 books and justify choosing one of them as a winner (like a college basketball bracket).
People need to adapt. Just because you can't seem to figure out how to read a book now or listen to pod casts because you only did those things when forced to commute, isn't a good argument against WFH.
Receiving your goods doesn't guarantee you weren't a victim of a scam or id theft. Package theft is also a thing, etc.

Similarly, You can't verify a paper ballot was counted correctly (see recounts and how the numbers don't match). Yet we're ok with these systems.

Clearly infallibility isn't a prerequisite for trust.

Besides, as I mentioned elsewhere, auditable e-voting systems do exist and have been used in various parts of the world.
I don't disagree at all, but would like to point out a dark streak of nastiness in some of the older crowd. The funny thing is that there's not much of a good history for racial justice from this style of "environmentalist," quite the opposite in fact. Lots of eugenics and white supremacy in the past [1] which has changed into "population control" (of whom?) these days. A lot of it seems, to me, to center on allowing wealthy white individuals to live in isolation without having to be around other people, and the "environment" becomes about preserving their privilege.

[1] https://www.sierraclub.org/articles/2020/06/it-s-past-time-d...
Watching the video is even more revealing. Future historians will be amazed as to how a border-line aspergers case got away with engineering a virtual monopoly on computing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_2m1qdqieE

Groklaw has some interesting Microsoft Files:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009122612211929
Police and platforms fail to prevent stalking of online personalities [video]
If you have a question about an article posted to HN, try reading the article to see if it answers your question.

"A LinkedIn profile for Gelinas says he works as an information security analyst at Citigroup. Citigroup declined to comment."
Um, what's the deal with editing the headline? The original asserts a statement. It may or may not be true. But why would it benefit HN readers to turn this assertion into a question?
More like:

Programmer: Next iteration of unix-time should include the concept of local time in context of relativity if we are going to travel or communicate over significant distances.

Einstein: Hold my beer
Interesting. I had the reverse experience recently of joining a (global) marketing company/agency as their first CTO - the goal being to build products to sell. The role was very much the same as the blog post - build a team, define tech within the org, help the rest of business and take on tasks I've delegated for years.

I didn't get past the last one and lasted for a year - marketing isn't 'all fluff' but it is a very different beast from the tech industry and has a relatively short term mindset. Build something in 30 days, build something else completely after that, build something else again in the next 30 - I burned out after a year and whilst I'm grateful for the learnings and opportunity it afforded me, I will never stray from what I know again.

I think this is part of the disconnect we have.
What are some examples of the basic concepts?
Yeah, I don't know about working from "anywhere in the world"... I'm sure there's places without good internet, etc... that would make that difficult or impossible.

I can say one thing about it after being 100% WFH for 2+ years now, I can set my alarm clock, to wake me up exactly 1 hour before my morning video conference "standup" meeting, and still have time to wash-up, make coffee, watch the markets open, be properly awake and caffinated to participate in the meeting, etc...

Previously, depending on the total commute time, I would need to set that same alarm perhaps 2 hours or more in advance... the stress of the commute aside, I was getting less sleep on average, and in my line of work ( programming ) sleep is valuable to me, it helps me think better than when tired.

I feel more rested, healthier, happier, less stressed, and I know my productivity has INCREASED over the alternative in-office scenarios...
> A LinkedIn profile for Gelinas says he works as an information security analyst at Citigroup.
> Why would they recommend this book?

If they're using collaborative filtering, there probably isn't a simple explanation. Basically, you feed in a list of "<user id>, <book id>, <rating>" and the algorithm generates a feature vector for each book and each user. So the reason some book gets recommended is because... the dot product of that book's vector with your vector was high. You can do this easily with off-the-shelf libraries, like Surprise[1] (I'm using that lib in my startup[2]).

At least this is what happens in matrix factorization methods. Recommendations from k-nearest neighbor methods can be explained more easily, but knn doesn't scale as well.

This is a minor drawback of matrix factorization--people have been shown to trust recommendations more if they understand how the recommendations were generated. Twitter recently published a super interesting paper[3] about how they generate recommendations at scale, and as a bonus their method is explainable. They create a model that describes the communities in Twitter--groups of people who follow the same set of influencers. Users and items are represented by vectors, where each element of a vector describes to what degree a user/item fits in a certain community. When generating recommendations, you can get the user's top communities and then fetch items for those communities. If you generated a text description for each community, you could include that with each recommendation.

[1] https://github.com/NicolasHug/Surprise

[2] https://findka.com/

[3] https://www.kdd.org/kdd2020/accepted-papers/view/simclusters...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwBaL-5o1oc

The response from China's ambassador to the UK isn't quite a convincing explanation to me. Not even his verbal, but also non-verbal communication. There is no reasonable explanation for the footage being shown.
Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
I work in a large tech company and I also hate leetcode-style interviews, but I need to abide by the rules.

My ideal interview questions are as follows:

* No trick question. Reaching a solution shouldn't involve obscure knowledge or an "aha!" moment.
* Only basic data structures and algorithms, the kind that you will realistically use in most day jobs.
* Start with a very basic problem, and ask follow up questions with increasing complexity.
* Extend the problem in different dimension to probe the candidate in different axis. For example, ask the candidate to design an API for the code, or to run it at massive scale.

It's hard to come up with problems that cover all these points, but you can get close. I find these kind of questions allow me to assess candidate without making the process unfair or overly stressful for them.
So you think ARM should be spun-off rather than sold? It seems like Softbank is having some issues unrelated to ARM, and needs the money. I'm also not sure that Softbank ownership has contributed anything to ARM's success.
Telling people to not believe the things they're seeing and hearing is probably one of the common denominators of all cults and religions.
Try to give a generous reading, we're speaking in short paragraphs on the internet. My argument was that a shortened commute is a real productivity increase. That's one of any number of hypotheticals that depend on industry by industry specifics.

If you'll read the thread all the way through, you'll notice that I'm a big fan of offices. I think the issues you and mattlondon raise are real—fitness, mental health, etc.—but those are temporary issues since people will eventually start going back to the office.

We will gain because through this experience, many firms will discover efficiencies from remote work and be able to apply them in a judicious way when things are back to normal.
Addicts never want you to cut their supply off.

Social media is a video game as much as World of Warcraft is. There's no value judgment there; I enjoy video games. I liken it to video games to suggest that perhaps playing video games 5 hours a day constantly isn't healthy, that you probably shouldn't be playing video games while on the clock, that real life usually has a more lasting impact on your well-being than video games, and that, like other addictive behaviors, they often mask a void in a person's life that may be better being addressed directly.

Also, I'm still salty that the general public would've snubbed private Internet use as nerdy in the early 2000s and now has no problem being addicted out in public to the point of awkwardly ignoring real life conversations.
The joke is, OO language have sum types, albeit incredibly broken ones, because any set of classes that inherits from the same base has the base as a sum type.

You can surface this by implementing the visitor pattern.
rats have ultrasound hearing, and children have higher range of hearing than adults, though not in ultrasound. While i don't subscribe to the literary version of a piper taking children away, it may have been noticed by the people back then that animals and children hear some flutes while adults - don't. (An example of a gruesome speculative version of events would be for example that it was used to sort "good" children say from "possessed", especially if children playing in the dirt/etc. were noticed to have say higher infection rate) The story don't mention nor dogs nor cats reacting to the piper, and that is natural given that it is a rat infested medieval city - getting rid of dogs and especially of cats (done back then for superstitious religious reasons ) would be the major way of getting into rat infestation in the first place.
I can see what you're saying in principle, but what if a bug is opened with "this stopped working for me" but evolves into a very specific issue? Should the maintainer open a new bug, link to it and close the old one?

In practice, I find it really useful to tidy up the top message of a bug report (but /really/ like seeing history of it). I also see cases where users spam raw logs into updates and tidying it up (perhaps making the log portion an attachment or changing formatting) makes it much clearer for future-you and other collaborators.