skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a fiction book when I was a teenager. It didn't make me rich, but it forced me to be more social, like at various writers venues or at my own book signing.
Do you have any solid data on how much of the European waste stream ends up in rivers or oceans?

I'm pretty confident that it's minuscule locally (these aren't European rivers: https://www.google.com/search?q=plastic+waste+river&tbm=isch), but I couldn't find solid data on waste that gets first exported, then dumped into a river.
At my last employer there was a similar story. The candidate mentioned he had written a book on Flask. So the dev in the interview took that as an invitation to skip the warm ups and go on a deep dive into Flask internals. The author got extremely flustered and couldn’t answer.
Weird, unsettling photos show that AI is getting smarter
It's a good contribution to the conversation, keeping in mind that Adm. Rickover wrote these words in 1953.

Anyone could have said similar things about computers in 1953, and been just as correct.

Are nuclear reactors computers? Of course not, and neither have practical reactors kept pace in development with practical computers.

But neither is it inevitable that steady progress cannot grind down the latter set of characteristics into the former. Indeed, that's what I would bet on, and I think the Admiral would be disappointed in the progress we have(n't) made.
A couple of years ago I was just learning Python and was playing around with matplotlib. Running simulation of a dice roll 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000, and 1,000,000 times started to show how the distribution starts to catch up with the expected 1/6th probability of each face. I was thinking how good it would be to teach young students this way.
Also, we need controls. How many times does the page title appear inside the page in other websites? Is 14 even unusual or is that average? The methodology here is so sloppy, and the result could have been much more interesting.
Great website, but I think the analogue to Oil and Global Warming is a bit clumsy...

Oil is a finite resource with a hard limit. Social data isn't even quantifiable really, as new dimensions of metrics can be gathered from all users. A better comparison - albeit more complex - is mining & discovering user data vs mining and discovering all resources on earth...

The analogue is almost there, but falls apart in some places... like all analogues I suppose...
People who have gained that skill in USSR have left ex-USSR for US, Europe and Israel a long time ago.
I have a set in my California home made by Miele. I think they're becoming more common. Bosch also makes them, but I found the Miele's to be more efficient - so much so that they run on a standard 110v outlet instead of 220. Highly recommended.
@dang This user seems to be spamming comments...
But the key point is, how much consumer harm has resulted?

I am an iOS user. I like that iOS takes a heavy handed approach to the App Store and controls it completely.

I do not want developers to hav the option to have their own payments. Apple Pay is so easy and convenient.

I do not want developers to be able to distribute apps without Apple approval.

Apples policies probably result in developer harm, but anti trust law is to protect me as a user not you as a developer.

To be frank, I don’t really care that Apple is a pain to deal with. That is why I, the user, pay you, the developer to deal with them.
ITER is not cheap. But it is expected to get to first plasma by 2025. There will be things learned at ITER that will be applied to SPARC and other smaller reactors. ITER is expected to cost a bit over twice what a fission plan costs. Considering the stakes, spending that money to learn things about fusion power generation seems well worth it.
If I was getting it for life, I would take out a car loan on a good car or fund a vacation and just spread the payments over .... 10 years.

Since my creditors would know I get guaranteed income, I could get the credit for it.
"Writing a book is an activity that creates more value than it captures. What I mean with this is that the benefits that readers get from it are greater than the price they paid for the book. To back this up, let’s try roughly estimating the value created by my book."

This is the key - you need to create more value for your customer than you are asking them to pay you. If you do that, you will never be want for income because people actually value having you around. Otherwise, you are just a rent extractor.
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> Now 10 years later? Go to Home Depot and the cheapest options are LEDs, they last forever,

They really don't last forever. I've had to replace over 3 LED bulbs in my house that didn't last 3 years.
When are you going to run that?

GP is talking about JIT loaded functions: 'that is, not defined in your shell's rc file'.
I am not playing games with you. I'm merely inviting you to feel for the blindfold you've fastened to yourself.

Good luck to you.
Not to mention the fees that you typically face when poor, like bounced checks and exorbitant payday loan interest charges.

Or medical costs because your low-paying job offers minimal health insurance.

Or extra costs because the government system designed to help those with low income is crushed under the weight of COVID, so your benefits take months longer to arrange and arrive (something a friend of mine is battling right now).
Summary: return spring.
This would likely be well suited for a short book of rust anti patterns. I love resources that are learning by inversion: here is what not to do, and why.
It was probably my fault in configuration, however the idea was to have a DropBox whereby I could put in files while travelling with my laptop and those files would be taken up with my home server.

Except that it worked in reverse. My laptop was 'emptier' than the home server, so the home server's files were deleted to match the laptop. Hundreds of megabytes of files were destroyed before I managed to stop it.

On top of that, I only had a 2 gig per month quota for internet access while travelling, and all the DropBox activity soon exhausted that in days.

On later trips my own home server coped very well, with less overall unwanted activity.
> Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences.

Yes it is; that's (most of) what "freedom" means. By your logic, if I would shoot you if you leave your house, then you would still be free to leave your house, 'just' not from the consequences.

Edit, a more proximate example: if the ministry of love will kindnap and torture you for criticising the government, your logic would hold that this does not violate freedom of speech, so long as they do not preemptivly prevent such criticism.
> Tactile, not tactical.

Potato, topato.

> Mechanical keyboard users I've known

It's your own personal anectode and all. If you see plenty of people using the same el cheapo keyboard until it breaks apart from all the encusted breadcrumbs and hair and dust and microecosystems, I don't see what's hard to understand about how people who spend more on keyboards also do the same.
> "They'd be in a pickle if tomorrow OBS Studio were to disappear."

Well it's an open-source project right? Anyone can pick up where they left off.

Side note: Has an abandoned project of this size ever been forked and continued by another team?
Dredged up an old login to comment - this "submit to the library" process was still ongoing when I got my PhD in Chemistry in the early 80's. I assume things got easier once the processes were fully digitized.

And I agree with the thought that implementation > theory. While I studied theory, my enjoyment is making things - tools for others to do or make things. The old hacker ethic.
Exactly how many anecdotes do you need? Notice that the anecdotes all point the same way, there's no opposite story to average.

Differently from taxes and subsides, prohibiting products is a really impactful action for a government to make, it's not something to be done lightly. And we have had a fashion of really frivolous environment legislation lately doing exactly that kind of thing.
Ann Arbor decriminalizes magic mushrooms, psychedelic plants
It's such an underwhelming amount of money buy apparently politicians are really this cheap. Such a shame, you wonder why those guys feel so lousy about themselves they would bend the knee this quickly.
I'm amused because markdown started off with John Gruber inventing his own adhoc notation and writing a Perl script to convert it into HTML ...
I would also recommend little snitch (on mac).

I use apple mail, and turn off remote images.

HOWEVER it has a huge privacy hole. If I forward an email it loads all images.

I found this out when I wanted to forward a phishing email to IT. ugh.
Some software or process (depends on the OS) to tune your camera matters also. A few adjustments to color, contrast, white balance, etc, can make you look much better.

By default, it's not always easy to figure this out.
The SNES didn't have sprite scaling and rotation either, Mode 7 was limited to a single background layer.
You're putting words in my mouth at this point so I don't know what else I can contribute to this discussion to move it forward.

I share the same argument David Graeber was making in Utopia of Rules, you should give it a read.
>Indeed, welfare benefits are often structured to disincentivize marriage, which in turn keeps people poor. Liberals often don’t appreciate that conservative social and economic views are synergistic like that.

I'd posit that it's not the benefits themselves that disincentivize such things, it's the rules surrounding how one accesses such benefits does so.

If our social programs didn't penalize such activities (through a variety of a restrictions on applying for and keeping such benefits) and we didn't make people jump through arbitrary and often degrading hoops to get them, all the while denigrating such folks as "lazy" or "greedy" or "worthless to society" I think that there wouldn't be such an issue to discuss.

What's more, at least in the US, there is a long tradition of blaming the poor for their poverty and assuming that it's their fault. Which makes it much more palatable to discriminate against those without means for many people.

But that's objectively false. There are many factors that impact poverty, some of which include specific legal and cultural incentives (both conscious and unconscious) which disadvantage certain people and advantage others.
Agreed with all of this. The other option I would mention, although it has a wonky pricing structure is Cloudron [1].

I use CapRover on a spare droplet and it’s a really good solution. This looks like a compelling option too.

[1]: https://www.cloudron.io/
In macbooks you can use igpu for encoding, imo works pretty well.
Not sure if OBS supports that, but I was able to use it with ffmpeg
I like older vehicles. I like the idea of electric vehicles but I'm not excited by Teslas and all the others which are packed with tech. Give me an electric work truck, or the equivalent of my 89 caprice.

I enjoyed rowing my own gears, even if were at the point where it's slower than the automatics.
I believe you misunderstood how the process works. Plus, I saw this as working out as Epic had planned.

Yes, the judge Gonzalez Rogers said that she is not convinced enough by Epic's claims to force an injunction onto Apple, which would require Apple to immediately reinstate Fortnite into the app store and leave it there until the legal proceedings are finished.

But did anyone really expect that Epic can use the fast track to force Apple to continue distributing Fortnite while forfeiting the 30% before even going to the main trial? Sure, Epic requested that, but that doesn't mean that they reasonably expected to get it granted, too. Such a large case will almost never be settled pre-trial without an official jury.

So her rejecting the injunction is kind of how this normally works.

According to CNN, she also said "Fortnite players on iOS have a variety of choices to access the game even if it is no longer available on iOS" as the main reasoning as to why Apple's action is not illegal tying of App distribution to In-App payments. And then she said that she wants to hear what the public thinks.

So effectively, the stage is now set for Epic. They need to manufacture a large enough outcry by regular consumers about Fortnite being absent on iOS. And they need to do so before the trial in 2021. And to me, it looks like Epic has been very effective so far at making people speak out that they would have wanted Fortnite on iOS.

The judge also said "It's hard to ignore the economics of the industry, which is what you're asking me to do." when comparing the iOS app store to other walled gardens like Xbox and PS. I'd treat that as a friendly hint that Epic needs to show that game consoles and smartphones are not comparable industries. That should be easy, because smartphones are essential for everyday life. Game consoles are not.

And lastly, the judge also said "There are a lot of people in the public who consider you guys heroes for what you guys did, [..]". To me, that sounds like an acknowledgement that the general population does not support Apple's reaction, meaning that Epic is on a good path towards showing that iOS consumers in general do NOT have alternative ways for accessing Fortnite.

Also, I'm not sure this is a neutral report on the Apple/Epic battle. The writer is called "James Vincent", just like this guy: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/02/26/ex-apple-ad-chief...
Agreed, this is extremely well-done. Even worse than the general lack of statistical education, I feel the teaching of statistics and probability suffers of the same problems as calculus/real analysis. Introductory statistics classes ramble at length about how random variables are functions from a probability space to a measurable space, but everyone who actually 'gets' the concept behind it eventually thinks in terms of realizations (i.e. much more similarly to what this tutorial does).
Intuition without theory is shallow, but theory without intuition just leads to you eventually forgetting the theory.
NASA asks for help to find new exoplanets
It’s worth mentioning that there’s currently a Kickstarter campaign to open source Sciter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-sci... it’s by the author who seems to have some worthwhile goals for using the money besides simply opening up the code.
It’s not that simple.

Fission’s primary form of shielding is generally large pools of water or other coolant which don’t directly become radioactive. Fusion on the other hand needs to maintain a near vacuum so your pressure vessel is under heavy neutron bombardment. However, small amounts of radioactive materials get dissolved in the fission’s water which the goes on to contaminate the primary coolant loop which increased decommissioning costs. Fusion reactors primarily containment vessels becomes extremely radioactive and all the remote handling equipment also needs decontamination, but it’s unclear if the primary coolant loop will need similar types of decontamination.

And by small amounts, divers occasionally go in the same pools storing years of spent fuel rods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spent_fuel_pool

Running the numbers the real difference is fission reactors need more protection from the outside world and containment for a potential meltdown. Thus thick though still fairly cheap walls, which generally don’t become radioactive. They last for 50 years and don’t actually cost that much to construct. Fusion however is a vastly more complex device which will also increase construction and decommissioning costs.
Manna continues to be prescient.

https://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Are they routine? If we built our infrastructure like Japan we wouldn’t have those car crashes. If we had healthcare for all we wouldn’t have those opioid deaths, or that heart disease. A lot of these would be a lot lower.
ITER is a make-work project, with the goal of demonstrating a brave new world of international coöperation. Any research which emerges from the maelstrom is a nice bonus.
Yeah that seems like the main difference. Like you, I use CapRover for hobby stuff and love it.

But Docker compose could make this really compelling too.
Just purchased a 30 year old house... with older plumbing. Ugly color, but compared to the newer ones we put into our former house - they work incredibly well when sinking the Bismarck.
Instead of banning plastic bags, there should be a 5 cent returnable deposit on them. This works wonders for getting aluminum cans into the proper waste stream.
Symbian's Nokia SportsTracker log files reader in Python
Yes, it's frustrating. At my previous long term job, I cut IT costs _dramatically_, increased reliability to levels management didn't think was possible (it was _REALLY_ bad before I arrived), and made IT much more responsive, proactive, and well liked by the employees. I left, and was replaced by a guy who on paper looked amazing, but in reality was a disaster. I was asked to come back 5 months later to consult to train him up a bit. he told me exactly how he got the job: he paid for LinkedIn connections (his recruiter told him over 500 is a magic number), paid for endorsements in LI, and flat out lied about his skills on the resume.

And here I am trying to work hard like a schmuck.
Fools names and fools faces are often seen in public places.. or something like that.
I was second author of a book on computational aesthetics and first author of a book on drawing. As the only native English speaker, I did all of the final re-write of both. For me also it was a turbo-boost to my ability to write. I thought I could write before I started those books. I was wrong. For this alone it was worth it.
As will old NASA astronauts.
We successfully use it in production at the company I work for, so this is just (1) not true, (2) an ill-informed opinion.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2009-10-15/amazon-tu...

As I linked elsewhere, Bloomberg seems to think they were the "first successful online retailer to embrace consumer views".
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/04/25/the-changing-prof...

> While it’s well-established that married parents are typically better off financially than unmarried parents, there are also differences in financial well-being among unmarried parents. For example, a much larger share of solo parents are living in poverty compared with cohabiting parents (27% vs. 16%).3
Or the publicly traded private equity / credit investor?

Or the parent company of University of Phoenix Online?

PS the private equity firm actually owns the education company since 2016... think about that confusion
It's not guaranteed to break if you actually work with the distro maintainers. They don't want your packages breaking either.
My relatively new Bosch (about 2.5 years old) cleans better than any dishwasher I can remember having. And it's near-silent, too.

New models can be good!
In Biden vs. Trump survey, tech company staff less liberal than often assumed
Gogs -> Gitea?
Yes, you're right. The point is that there are too many "professional investors" out there and they are chasing fake companies like NKLA as well as real companies like TSLA. But at the end of the day the person with the money is the person that actually makes real things. Not NKLA and not the investors.
I find it hard to believe Anonymous actually met his advisor. Bret Weinstein has fully called out the tactics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3sPIDm9bPs
Elon Musk doubles down on Covid-19 skepticism, won't take future vaccine
Definitely! Also, not just young students. If you can get over code-phobia, doing random experiments in a class can be really illustrative. When I teach hypothesis testing, I always teach it both from a simulation perspective and from a traditional perspective.

For one, by doing the simulation part directly it's easier to see the "under repeated sampling..." logic inherent in frequentist procedures. Additionally, it's possible to do simulation-based procedures where traditional methods break down (think: permutation tests).
OpenOffice maybe.
I believe the point is to illustrate how hideous dysfunctional people can avoid consequences for whatever they’ve done by issuing a glib, polished apology and moving on.

Doesn’t work all the time, but it seems to work enough of the time.
i see how that came off a bit direct. i agree the 24 hour news cycle is way way too much. and one issue after another is totally depressing. but we can't ignore problems as general advice, that's not how things get solved.
In my tests using Gmail website, I see the read receipts right away.
> While the package on the shelf might seem the same price as in a more mainstream supermarket, it in fact holds less contents.

They are often just the same packages at higher prices, the more “upscale” supermarkets can make up for the lower margin on goods both stores sell with higher margin goods that wealthier clientele will buy alongside core goods (things like in-store cut deli meats and cheeses, high-end alcoholic beverages, gourmet cheeses, in-store kitchen prepared ready-to-eat food, etc. When both kinds of stores exist within a radius where they compete with customers—the wealthier being more mobile—they use this fact in marketing, too, because this also let's them win same-good price comparisons.
Let me clarify:

1. Epic spent the first hour of the hearing arguing that the relevant antitrust market was the "iOS app distribution" market. The judge pushed back hard on this because there were alternative distribution channels available to Epic, saying: "I know that's how you want to frame the issue... I'm not convinced that you have."

2. With regards to Epic's tying claim, she said she was not particularly persuaded with their section 1 argument. Referring to IAP, she said: "I just don't see this as a separate and distinct product."

Those points imply she is unlikely to conclude that Epic has met the threshold of likelihood to succeed on the merits to win the preliminary injunction, yes. But they will also be considered during the trial itself.
Or are they fish?
I think "dish rinser" was meant as a put-down for "bad dishwasher" — I live in the US and I haven't heard of "dish rinsers" either.
I recently saw an article on setting up jitsi on a pi, and I thought it required 64-bit.

https://gist.github.com/krithin/e50a6001c8435e46cb85f5c6c78e...

I guess there's a 64-bit ubuntu 20.04 server
I don't know, but even if they end up in a landfill, they still take a long time to break down. If they take longer to decompose than their life cycle, there's going to be an ever-increasing number of plastic bags in the waste. That's clearly not sustainable.

Say it takes 1 year (probably less) from when a bag is created to when it gets thrown away. After it gets thrown away, it takes 100-1000 years to completely decompose. That means bags are entering the landfill faster than they are "leaving" via decomposition. That's going to be a problem. After enough time we'd just be like a malicious or poorly-designed AI that covered the Earth in plastic bags rather than paper clips.
I've written a good number of GUI applicions and have found requiring inheritance is more of a limitation of the toolkit than inherent to the problem space. With PyGTK, I rarely, if ever inherit. With PyQT, I've had do to some abstractions to allow composition.
This is not even pedantically correct.

I quote ISO/WD 8601-2:

Representation of a decade must be exactly three digits, leading zeros, if any, must be included. Thus the time interval 200 through 209 is represented as ‘020’ and NOT ‘20’; the latter would represent the time interval 2000 through 2099.

Here you can clearly see that the ISO definition of a decade is in keeping with the common understanding, not whatever oddball misunderstanding you've chosen to promulgate.