skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rule one: wait until you have your next job.

Why are you leaving?
If you are going to go to school, then you might want to come back later, I would start dropping hints.

Do you need a sabbatical?
Some places can deal with that.

Since they do not want to loss you, by HINTING, not telling you might be able to work something out.

If you are retiring, then I would tell them now. They will appreciate being able to bring on a new person and having you train them.

If you are going to a competitor, expect to be bum rushed out the door.
Do you want to be able to come back? Or do you despise these people? In general it is never good to burn bridges.
I am only familiar w/ wxc which wxHaskell used[0], but I do not know if they are still maintained. Granted after your sibling commenter mentioned concerns w/ wxWidgets, I may have research to do on concerns with using it in 2020 (e.g. reading the references of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxWidgets#Criticism).

0 - https://github.com/wxHaskell/wxHaskell/tree/master/wxc
Dishwashers are my pet peeve. Visiting family, they all have these dish rinsers that can't actually clean dirty dishes so we hand wash everything then put them in? I have a dishwasher from the 80s that actually washes dishes. I don't think I will replace it when it dies with a new one. Granted, it may never die since they used to make them last too.
I've been using fish for longer than I can remember, but I almost never write fish functions. The out of the box experience is already much better than bash/zsh (out of the box, not including plugins/etc).

I also prefer the basic syntax for things like for and while looks on the command line, the way they get formatted. With bash I always had to look up the syntax because I didn't use it much. Fish, I barely have to look up things because they are pretty intuitive, for the most part.

Also, no adding `export X=Y` to your .bashrc because you can just `set -U` and it automatically saves it between sessions.
Yeah, fusion is not fast to research though, ITER isn't even built yet.

They're all extremely complicated, and while this one is harder to fabricate than a tokamak, fabricating arbitrary geometries is also something we've gotten a lot better at. If this is as complicated as it has to be in order to work as required... well, that's just physics right?

The problem is unnecessary complexity, but whether that's the case here or not is still unclear.
Very true. Veggie and had low B12 once, but then so did my Dad (a meatatarian) to the point he had shots. U.K. people should also take Vit D btw.
> If you get chicken where the chickens are well cared-for, well-fed and not pumped full of hormones it does actually taste delicious by itself.

Yes, I was more thinking about when people get chicken nuggets or fast food burgers. The meat is probably only adding some texture and most of the taste is from the spices, so why does it need to have meat?

I feel people demand meat on principle instead of really thinking about why they're eating something. Most of the time they're not eating meat for health reasons either, despite the usual arguments coming up like B12 and protein that can't be backed up.
Meteorite Landings on Planet Earth
Having just started looking more into winit, I'm wondering how much different druid-shell is. There's a lot of similar ideas, and I know from working on a couple other projects that platform abstractions are often a nightmare to build and test.

How does druid test across platforms like the web, Wayland, x11, macOS, Windows, etc? I feel like testing is one of the biggest missing links in the Rust GUI ecosystem right now.
> and refraining from imposing their thoughts and opinions

This isn't what social cooling results in though. Thoughts and opinions are imposed, it's just that their imposition is monopolized and becomes implicit. Dirty laundry will still be aired in the town square, but it'll be the King's and everyone will be forced to smell it.
I'm with you until the Republican party wedged on breaking core business operations like hiring (foreign STEM PhDs we knew for years) and day-to-day employee concerns like whether our teammates could get married. It just became too disruptive. At some point, it does interfere with mission.

All that was before physically dangerous public health policies. Now not just jobs and employees, but their grandparents too.
Instead of using this creepy surveillance technique, how about calling them to ask if they read your email?
>all the benefits of capitalism go to very few people while huge swaths of people are made "redundant".

While that's true, it's only true from a short to medium-term perspective.

In the US at least (perhaps some folks from elsewhere can chime in on this), nearly 70% of GDP is consumer spending.

As you automate away jobs, that leaves fewer people with money to spend. The very wealthy, while certainly able to consume vastly more than others, can't make up for this.

Mostly because there's a limit on how many pairs of pants, skirts, socks, sofas, T-bone steaks, homes, cars, half-caf soy lattes, etc., etc., etc. that one person or household can reasonably use.

If current trends continue, eventually there won't be enough demand to satisfy the levels of production over the long-term -- which will cause the economy to crash and burn.

As such, creating incentives to raise wages, employ more people and encouraging real investment by the wealthiest, rather than incentivizing the hoarding of financial resources, could ensure a vibrant economy for the long-term -- with benefits to everyone, including the very wealthy.

Yes, it will mean that someone whose net worth could be hundreds of millions may only be tens of millions, but from the standpoint of living a good life, how would that make a material difference?

Please note that I am emphatically not advocating for "forced wealth redistribution" or "nationalization of private industry."

Rather, I'm suggesting that changing the incentives WRT wages, taxes and jobs in a capitalist system could have a profound positive effect in the near, medium and long-term on those with the least, and a profound positive effect on those with the most in the long-term.

In fact, creating incentives to inject more consumer spending (through higher wages, incentives to innovate and engage in entrepreneurial activities, disincentives to using arbitrage and financial chicanery to increase wealth, etc.) is a market-based way to bolster the strength of the economy for the long-term, increase the consumer power of those with the least and ensure the long-term growth and stability of our economy and society.

Let's do capitalism right and create a better world for all of us.
>I agree that a jet pack isn’t as useful as a helicopter, but they are way, way cheaper. Medical helicopters cost millions of dollars and require expensive fuel and highly trained pilots. Jetpacks cost $100-300k, use a fraction of the fuel, and can be flown with a sports pilot license (much easier to acquire and maintain).

I'm not so sure I buy this. Maybe if you compare a jetpack with a helicopter capable of winching out the patient. But small 2 person helicopters are available new for the low 100s of thousands. I suspect they're more fuel efficient than a jet pack, but I don't have anything to back that up.
Most people don't complain because your software does echo cancellation, not because your microphone actually rejects the audio from your speakers properly.

This makes your whole system half-duplex (if someone else talks, they can't hear you). Have you tried using Zoom's "original audio" mode?

Here's an excerpt from an article I'm writing:

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Computers, sadly, are way dumber than you. When the microphone on your computer captures the sound coming out of your computer's own speakers, it can't really tell that it's not you talking. It just hears a sound. The obvious consequence of this confusion is an echo - you can hear yourself. Every single time you've heard your own voice repeated back to you on a conference call, it was caused by someone else on the call using speakers.

The sound engineers at Zoom, Google, Skype, Jitsi are very clever though. They noticed that they could fix that problem by writing software to do echo cancelation - clever algorithms that detect an echo and then remove it from the audio signal. This software is the reason why most times when you hear an echo on a conference call in 2020, it usually goes away on its own after a few seconds (Note: this doesn't prevent people on the call from thinking that whatever they did to try to fix it actually worked). Echo cancellation is one of many forms of what's called Digital Sound Processing, which we'll talk more about in a minute.

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What specific microphone/speakers are you using?
I think it’s generally very hard to force technological progress along by just throwing money at it.

Let’s suppose this proposal works out, ITER will become a very expensive boondoggle. A technological dead end. But if you’d taken the ‘Manhattan Project’ approach and thrown 10x as much money at fusion research 20 years ago we’d most likely have spent most of it on a super-ITER. It might be operational by now and might even have reached break-even on power generation, but in the longer term would now be just as redundant and superseded by this new approach.
I found that adding the "&&" operator recently has fixed that for a lot of common cases. I still prefer the "; and" syntax though.
Oh gosh, the purchaser reviews are even worse. Either they're for a different product, or as I found out when I ordered a pair of earbuds and found a small leaflet claiming to provide a free gift card for a 5 star review, paid for.
Not saying you might not be right this time, but that was literally the view of the mobile phone market in 2007...

Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm: "We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone, PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in.”
Any thoughts on what researchers are actually hoping to learn (article is very vague), is it just measuring things like the magnitude of the benefit/$, the portion of households who improve their lot vs stay stagnant?
I've talked up the strengths, you've brought up the big weaknesses. I think there is some interesting work on both of these fronts, but the developer experience situation is very primitive so far by comparison.

Compile times have been getting better. For reference, on my machine an incremental build of Runebender is 2.3s. Part of this reflects some choices we've made to use platform capabilities rather than build the entire stack ourselves.
The weird thing is that up and down this thread, you can get the feeling that people are bigots, but they feel "oppressed" because they can't openly state those feelings in the public square or at work.
> I'm sorry to inform, what you consider as ultimate source of truth ALT-News is nothing but a propaganda website.

I have said nothing about alt-news. First time I heard of them.

Its you who started quoting from opindia in gay abandon all over two stories on HN. Same links again and again. At that point you gave the impression to the rest of the HN audience that they were a reliable source.

Its only when you got caught out on how shady the source is ( [0] admission on twitter by the editors of OpIndia and 43 cases of fake news) that you now invent an excuse for quoting them.

A person is known by the sources one quotes. You attempted to school me on Koregaon history and on NorthEast. Not sure why, because I was referring to Teltumbde incarceration by the NIA and charges brought on him by the UAPA act that does not even require the charges of terrorism to be proved.

Oh such an inconvenience of proving things, lets just put people in jail just because they disagree.

You may claim not to be a shill, your behavior on HN has been indistinguishable from them.

>I asked you to refute AR.Ranganathan

I see, I should be taking orders from you on whom I should not refute (opindia) and whom I should. OK.

I refuse to get dragged into the muck that you want to drag us into. I think I have made a good enough case to show your intentions by calling out a source that you have been using repeatedly. That's enough of dumpster garbage harvesting for me for a day. The less I do those the better for me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24632299
The lack of associative arrays is what does it for me.
Also note from this paper:

The power density of the reactor is 0.5 MW/m^3, which is 1/40th the power density of a commercial PWR primary reactor vessel.

The reactor (a single one!) uses something like 40% of the world's current annual production of beryllium. If all the world's estimated resource of Be is used to make these reactors, it would be enough for reactors producing just 1% of world primary energy demand.
> If you make bad choices you can be damn sure I'll won't respect you.

I try to respect people enough to not tell them what "good" or "bad" must mean for them.
I started building Owl Mail [1] about 8 weeks ago to make it easy to create incognito address for your online accounts. It's become an essential part of my privacy toolbox.

[1] https://owlmail.io
I think we'll see more low/mid scaled jobs. Capitalism is about continually innovating. The problems of course, are the finite set of resources, and the fact that you can't have infinite growth.

We need to businesses around reuse and recycling. We need a ton of people who can find new ways to disassemble and dismal complicated parts, quickly, so they can be turned into new resources; so we're not shipping all our e-waste to kids in Africa who get heavy metal poisoning for a little bit of copper or lead.

There are lots of things that still need innovation. You throw UBI and people, and you won't get that.

UBI would work if we didn't have resource scarcity. We do not have Star Trek style replicators. We are far from being scarcity free.
My assumption upon seeing the title but before reading anything else was along the lines of, "request" means "browse to the video page" and "downloads" refers to separate ajax calls. Something like that would certainly qualify as interesting...
I mean you can get a TV much like you get a computer monitor except bigger.

That screen has no business connecting to the internet.

Even better is a home projector.
Seems like an interesting variant of SSE (Server sent events) without the JS code for retries. Both of these approaches are simpler than websockets, with the limitation that they're one-way (server push).
I'm extremely happy with my HiSense - it runs Roku, so the "smart" stuff is actually maintained by a company that does a pretty good job of it. The only thing you could call ads are promos for shows. I think their revenue is kickbacks from subscriptions people get through Roku, rather than direct advertising.
Sometimes I feel like VCs, investors and corporate employers have some kind of control panel where they can look up individuals.

It happened to me several times that I had great conversations with investors or prospective employers but then from one day to the next they appeared to back off for no particular reason. I hold very contrarian political views so I'm not sure if it has something to do with this.
> Even if it doesn't have additives and preservatives, a lot of the nutrition is stripped out during the industrial cooking processes necessary to get them to market at scale.

The main place where this might be a concern is canning (similar to using a pressure cooker).
Coulter's Smithing
That's a very good point about Twitter, but the Internet is way bigger than that...
Preliminary libmdbx C++ API – One of the fastest compact key-value ACID database
Yeah, but before that, it was 20 years away for about 50 years, so there is some progress after all!

Seriously though, the article reads like "Remember SPARC? We're still trying to build it." I wish them luck, but if past experience with fusion can be extrapolated, they will run into some unexpected, crippling problems.
I quite like the edge approach (i.e. doing this via server-side logs rather than by adding a script to the client). I already do this with my own website using an ELK stack to ingest and visualies the nginx logs, but I have been wondering if there's a better (and lighter ^1) solution that's specifically focussed on privacy-aware, server-side analytics.

1. I had to increase the RAM on my droplet just to get the ELK container to boot.
According to my county you can just throw CFLs right in the trash. The amount of mercury in them is so small that it basically isn't worth worrying about. I don't live in California however, so your trash service may have different rules.

Of the CFLs I installed over the years I've had mixed results. Some are 15 years old and still going strong. Others I have had to replace more than once, although usually with LEDs now. The LEDs have mixed results too, with them being far more susceptible to heat failure in enclosed fixtures. Annoyingly they're usually built around a number of LED elements wired in series, so if any one element goes bad the whole bulb goes dim or fails entirely.

I know people used to complain a lot about CFLs being flickery and having bad color balance, but I only ever had one pair of bulbs (from a two pack) that were really bad in that regard. The pack I bought from WalMart for reasons that are lost to time. They were truly atrocious, one was orangey and the other more blue, and if you looked out the side of your eye you could see the flicker. They also died within a year thankfully, even though both were in well ventilated fixtures. My final point is that I've had much worse luck with CFLs mounted upside down (with the base pointing up). Except for the Wal*Mart specials and one enclosed outdoor fixture I think all of the ones I have installed right side up are still working.
I'm not entirely convinced. Libraries like React have succeeded in web development due to the complete lack of html having an extensible component model. Native applications don't have to worry about shoehorning a workable framework into stateless document renderers.
> Likewise, there's no such thing as "the best product" at a supermarket.

I think the core observation behind the job of the spreadsheet guys is that, at scale, the choices within a family of products will approximate a normal distribution - so there will be a "best product" within each family; with a limited shelf space and a lot of different products to sell, this gives them a clear way to optimize for maximum revenue.
DT fusion would be quite useless in space. The reactors are necessarily much larger than fission reactors, especially space reactors that can use highly enriched materials. And like fission it produces its energy as heat (from the neutrons.) Why use a large, complex heat source, when one can use a small, simple heat source?
The Wii Shop Channel predates it by a few years.
THe Kiva video is not state-of-the-art I think. Check out this automated grocery warehouse, something right out of Factorio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKrcpa8Z_E

Humans would just get in the way and get mangled.
> This is a recurring theme that I despise. People need to start to talk about the government in a democracy as "we". You are the government, the state is a collective you are part off and have power over. You are in fact dependent on others, that is the point of a society.

I take your point, but for an individual this is only true in a very abstract sense. The People may govern Themselves, but I do not govern myself in any meaningful way.

BTW, this idea came up recently on a different article and got some good discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24528467
> The 'cancel culture', as it were, is just a subgroup of the left. And frankly, there is a cancel culture on the right, too.

Yes. On this I will agree with you strongly. Both varieties of cancel-culture are essentially the bulwarks of the false dichotomy of American politics - serving as backstops to try to keep people in the middle, which itself is a controlled position.

You're to the left of that. There's actually a lot more to discuss out there, and out to the right of it, than many people realize. For example, broad agreement on rights for workers to a fair wage, benefits, etc. - you'd be surprised how popular that is with the modern American right, when you can get them out from the GOP paradigm and weak, unhelpful talking points.
Mozilla shuts project Iodide: Datascience documents in browsers
Alex Schultz Is Facebook's New Chief Marketing Officer
> Safari has proved to me the web has potential to be much, much faster and more memory/battery efficient than most believe who just use Electron/Chrome.

I've been using Safari more recently and it really is a lot better than Chrome, and especially Firefox. I don't know how Apple does it, but they somehow made a Porsche in an SUV world. Thanks for the ultralig.ht pointer, looks quite interesting!
A nice of pair of hiking books can be had for $100-$200. I can spend more than that and it may be worth it to do so for specialty purposes. But you can buy a pair of what may literally be the best custom 3-season hiking boots for ~$700.

Are those a good buy? If you do a lot of hiking, yes. (Though they're big and heavy so I only wear them for some things.) In any case, they may be at best 10x of the cheapest pair of boots you can buy at Walmart, which are incredibly cheap footwear historically.
> > or even any serious scholar (in any field) arguing that there is no biological basis for sex?

> Sadly this is a thing:

Neither of the things your point to argue that.

They do argue that biological sex is not simple or binary, but that's very different from “there is no biological basis for sex”.

> It's a motte-and-bailey argument going from "a small percentage of people don't neatly fall into either the male or female category" to "the concept of biological sex is meaningless and the only relevant factor is a person's self-identification".

Except it's not; another thing neither of the sources you point to argues is that the various biological sex features don't matter: each of them matters; where they matter differs.

Unless, of course, by “matter” you mean specifically “provide an excuse to base socially ascribed gender on something other than gender identity”, in which case, sure, but it's hardly a motte-and-bailey argument, then.
Possibly a slight generalisation, but these would mostly be aimed at people who eat processed food anyway, not those who cook. That is, the market isn't current vegetarians/vegans; it's people who eat processed meat.

That said, I'm not sure how bad the environmental overhead is. The main source of protein in these things is often either soya or peas. Soya is a bit of a tossup depending on where it's grown; it can be either very good or very bad (though probably still less bad than meat). Peas are generally pretty low overhead; in particular, they're nitrogen fixing (as are soybeans), so need less fertiliser.
Sorry, how have I argued there has been no progress?

I would certainly say that on social issues I do not believe there has been enough progress, but there absolutely has been a lot of progress.

On the specific issue of bubbles, I have argued for a complex view that the nature of the boundaries of people's social bubbles have changed. As I don't think there's a good way to measure this I take as a baseline that it may have largely stayed the same but the way we experience conflict over it has changed.
Except that would be untrue. You would not be an “author of a book”, but an author of a chapter. Which is still a nice thing for the résumé. But if you overstate anything and are found out, that will be fatal poison, and a stain that could follow you forever.
There are still a few places where I use incandescent bulbs. Inside of my oven for example. But I'm totally fine with them being relegated to specialist niches.
Matomo is open source and can be self-hosted. How is pricing an issue?