skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. I once taught a class similar in spirit to this, although it was aimed at first-year undergraduates with only a basic knowledge of programming, squashed into a single quarter, and designed on the fly, so we only got partway through implementing a C compiler. Instead of writing a full C compiler ourselves, we considered "cross-compiling" one by taking one that compiled to bytecode, and writing an emulator for that in assembly, taking that to be our first "compiler" and then progressively bootstrapping from there to a better compiler until it became feasible to start writing (or porting) a C-based OS.
those donations gave them some sort of stake, naming right, or voting power in community projects.

You cannot forsee the possibility that the ability to purchase voting rights might result in another "natural" problem?
22 years later I still have nightmares about DiffEq because I received a C in the course when I really deserved an F. I’ve sometimes wondered if the dreams would stop if I sat down and successfully learned the material.
Newcastle-under-Lyme: I guess they’ve done it in a lot of them
This conveys a lack of understanding of the lifecycle of a forest. When old and dead trees are removed, there are more resources available for new growth. Yes, available light/water/nutrients are the limiting factor on new growth in any forest ecosystem.
No. Re-read my comment. Suburban areas only. Try to keep up before you get all salty and make yourself look dumb.
I haven't tried Sonos, but if a product, which you'd assume is more or less just a speaker, requires you to "sign up" or to some extend expects you to manage it via a smart phone, you should generally be sceptical.

What annoys me is that Sonos shouldn't even need to do this crap. The people I know who own Sonos products love them and already pay a premium for the product. How much can they honestly be making of this data?

We know from a few years back, that the experts in violating your privacy, Facebook, will make around $60 per year, for an American, somewhat less for Europeans and nothing from everyone else. I doubt that Sonos is able to make ANY meaningful profit from the data they collect, so why bother?

It's the same with Samsung, how much does it cost to develop and maintain the infrastructure for collecting data, compared to how much money is to be made?
> Especially when "bad" people take them they just become even more of an asshole, or dare I say when stupid people take them they just revel in the intoxication

How terribly narrow minded this statement is when faced with the complexity of the experience.

And to state the obvious -- "bad" people are often victims of trauma, and working with these substances in a directed way can get to the root of these traumas in a way that frees the person from said trauma. It's a process that doesn't happen overnight, but sometimes it does, and miraculously so.
Aside: To Kill a Mockingbird famously had the character of Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose, a virulently racist morphine addict.

Despite Mrs. Dubose's hatred of Atticus, he calls her the bravest person he ever knew. This is due to her resolve to break her addiction before her death, likely a horrifically painful experience due to her terminal cancer.

In a book chock full of memorable people and events, these scenes still speak across the decades as the US struggles with the damnable effects of the Sacklers' unmitigated avarice. The book remains a must read to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_To_Kill_a_Mockingbird_...
I have a friend that I’m positive has ADD. He agrees with me it’s a possibility but it stops there. He was even given stimulants by someone but he hasn’t tried them. He’s not opposed to it, but he’s so bad he never gets around to popping that pill. Actually setting up a doctor appointment is never going to happen.

He’s 33 and has been in college since graduating high school and still doesn’t have a degree, and he’s actually quite intelligent.
In order for it to be anything like an ideal hash function that evenly distributes the keys across buckets, it must be a "avalanche effect" hash function that mixes each byte with all the others. If you limit it to O(1) elementary operations, you can no longer have it operate that way, and are back to assuming significant collisions and iteration over them.
well compare organic to inorganic molecules. there is no comparison in complexity

DNA sequences, which are single molecules, are off the charts compared to the non organic molecules

it is like the game of life. randomly setting pixels generates nothing more complex than fragile gliders, simple cyclers and stable states. the complexity originally in the random distribution quickly devolves to ash

we only get stable enormous complexity with human designs, such as the game of life in the game of life

why should the chemical world be any different?
I really enjoyed Episode 1 when it came out, but it has some seriously... err.. controversial things, starting with the whole midichlorian thing and finishing with the over choreographed lightsaber fights[0].

The "Lucas can do no wrong" feels pretty present there too.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0mUVY9fLlw
I’ve always wanted to do this. I helped my housemates implement a CPU with custom ISA in college (this was before FPGAs, so there were a lot of chips in that CPU) but that’s as close as I’ve gotten.

I kind of feel like you can do something like this in college, or after you retire, but nowhere in between. :)
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More like "illuminati" emerge "naturally" from the "Free Market".
I think what's facile is to discuss the properties of the drug as though the drug itself is representative of the damage that Purdue/Sacklers have done.

They bribed physicians at scale to boost the sales of their drug. That's the crux of the problem. I am fully prepared to believe it helped a lot of people - I've had family members get oxy prescribed for serious pain - but their physician should not be getting paid to prescribe more of it.
> What about the FDA and monitoring the quantity and velocity of these prescriptions?

Why would you think it should? It had to have a warning as a schedule 2, nothing more. The hindsight that the FDA should have monitored it or that it should have been classified higher, was the responsibility of the universally corrupt idiots that are elected to the US Congress.
Something about Snowden fleeing to Russia makes that confusion difficult to accept.
At my first job we were developing a huge enterprise app in J2EE, where clean build times were around 15 minutes. We also had tons of issues with the toolchain for which the “solution” was “mvn clean install”. So I made a small program which printed snippets of pre-recorded Maven build output in an infinite loop, and launched it on my second screen whenever I wanted some time off from coding that enterprise crap. Nobody would complain that I’m browsing Facebook or swiping in Tinder, as I was clearly waiting for the “build” to finish :)
If you enjoy fetching your rocket from a tree you can go higher.

Back when I was involved with some of the higher power aspect of the hobby(J/K/L/M class) we'd go our to the desert where retrieval was a lot easier. Even out M class stuff rarely topped 1500ft.

Minimum diameter can go much, much higher but usually your flight waiver has a fixed ceiling that you don't want to exceed.
Voters are far more likely to reward disaster relief than disaster preparedness.

National leadership face a considerable disincentive from investing in disaster preparation.

If voters rewarded disaster preparation, elected leaders would fund preparation.
> This isn't your creative writing class

I think it is less this and more just code-usage to facilitate showing that they're part of the in-group. If I use the appropriate words ("Elucidate", "Ameliorate", "in situ"), I'm showing that I have learned the subject from a similar heritage.

Partially an aside, but an interesting talk on academic writing, which I've enjoyed [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/vtIzMaLkCaM
Thanks for this follow-up, I did more research and came across this information [0] on Wikipedia.

I am not aware of how anyone would be able to give a guarantee on duration of action. I'm not a doctor, so this could simply be naivety, but how could they possibly make the claim about how long the medicine would work, when all they know is how long the drug takes on average to be ingested and secreted from the patient's system?

In my personal experience, I have never been able to feel the effects of opioid medicines as long as the prescribing doctor said to space out doses.

Though I have never been prescribed OxyContin or anything that powerful, I fail to see how requiring companies to "guess at" things like this is anything beyond a way to scapegoat a company post-approval when the FDA finds it convenient.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone#Duration_of_action
Is there a reason that Apple wanted them recycled instead of reselling them itself?
Governments. The harder it is to enforce things like tax collection, economical regulation, online behavior, etc, the more power it will seek. And with AI, robots and so on, that is a scary combination.
I'm sorry, what? Like I enjoy a bit of Irish-Catholic bashing as much as the next Irish person (probably more than most, given that I enjoy complaining about the Council of Nicea) but I don't really see how the pre-independence Catholic Church was unethical.

To be fair, though I'm not a fan of the authoritarianism, without the Catholic Church neither of my grand-parents or their parents would have had an education, and indeed the church was the centre of irish social life and community for a very long time.

Like, post-independence, the Church did a lot of dodgy things, but I really don't think you can blame the one organisation which actually provided some services for Irish catholics for our issues with authority.

And it's worth pointing out that much of the remaining corruption in Irish life is at the political level, rather than the bureaucratic level. As an example, you might bribe politicians to get planning permission for a large shopping centre, but you don't have to bribe the passport office for a renewal.

Can you give me some examples of Ireland being horrifically bent?

Edit: incidentally, thank you for Kildare Street!
Serverless machine learning, tuning hyperparameters, and feature engineering
Why does this matter here?
And here I was thinking I must be the only person who deletes their comments instead of submitting them!

Thank you. I cannot tell you how relieved I am feeling right now.
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That's exactly it. This thing was pretty heavy with a battery, Pi, sensors, mounting components, etc. I used an Estes D12-5 engine, which is fairly powerful but there are wayyy more powerful model rocket motors out there that I'd like to try in the future with this.
Late follow-up: argh, I should really have been referring to values (the output of a hash function) rather than keys, because that determines where they go in memory block used for the hash table.
The term specifically indicates members of firms so privileged that they never have to negotiate city streets filled with mud and horse shit so they can wear white shoes or spats that are always clean.
You’re conveniently ignoring the people who produced and promoted (including apparently paying doctors to prescribe) the inanimate object.
There is no force stopping anyone from driving. The vast majority of roads allow cars, nearly every single home will have one or more parking spots. If you want to do everything by car, you absolutely can!

But once other modes of transport are viable, there is just no need to drive that much.

Kids going to elementary? A five-minute walk. Kids going to high school? A 15-minute bike ride. Same for sports, friends, and basically everything else they do. This means they don't need to be ferried around by parents all the time and they don't need their own car at age 16. With some minor infrastructure changes, the roads will be safe enough to do this on their own! This eliminates a part of car traffic, so you actually need less space for infrastructure.

This applies to adults as well. There's no need to drive to work if it's a 15-minute bike ride. Grocery shopping? Well, you pass a store on your way home, so just pick up the ingredients required for that day's meal.

You can still do it the American way and drive everywhere, but not doing so is suddenly an option too!
This also assumes that "nightmarish tasks" don't involve things that could lose you your job. I've worked to dodge plenty of tasks, both personally and on a team, where I felt that taking on that task would set me or my team up for failure in ways that could cause me issues with my career.

There's plenty of "have this baby in a month" tasks that I don't want to become entangled in.
3blue1brown’s channel is also really great for these types of videos. He has a series on DEs:
https://youtu.be/p_di4Zn4wz4
Did you just guess that syntax? It's not in the documentation.

Hidden features effectively do not exist. The parent may have gone overboard with judgement, but this really is the fault of the project maintainers. I'll admit I mentally filed it in the "useless toy" category without this feature.

I went looking for it specifically because it's one of the ugliest and most confusing parts of YAML. To be pathological, what if you have a list of lists?
Scalable Airflow Configuration for Kubernetes with CI/CD
> Like, literally everything in that paragraph could be written about literally any part of the world

Oh come on. If we are able to mentally swap out cultures in the OP to see how ridiculous your claim is, then you are too. And we have to think you did.
Agreed! The hyper focus on solving by hand puts the wrong emphasis on ODEs. They’re supposed to be used as a tool to do quick modelling of a process to get qualitative insights to the behaviour of the system.

I recommend James Murray mathematical biology book for nice examples of how ODEs can quickly give insights into complex phenomena.
But then you have to get the power adapter board.
No, but it doesn't warrant a "What a complete crap?!".
> It's my understanding that relatively few people live out in the boondocks. Is that an incorrect understanding?

The majority of Americans live in suburbs. The majority of counties are rural. https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/demographic-and-e...
In the mid-late 90's, our family got a computer. None of use really knew much about them, but Mom saw it for sale at some rent-to-own place and picked one up. It came with a free AOL trial and before you knew it we were on the Internet.

It was really cool to chat and meet people from all over. It felt like an exclusive club and I soon found myself addicted. It was common to occasionally get in little arguments with other users, especially other young teens. One of these incidents resulted in me being kicked offline by one of the users. When I dialed back up I asked them how they had done it and he was cool enough to show me how to use a punter - a program to 'punt' people offline.

From there I learned about other 'progs', programs that ranged from scrolling endlessly in chats to the more nefarious that allowed one to steal passwords. This intro to "hacking" led me to my first foray into programming with Visual Basic 5, so I could write my own progs.

Eventually I graduated from "hacking" on the AOL service and started reading anything I could find about real hacking. At the time it was believed you couldn't hack on Windows, so I _had_ to learn Unix. Started with some free shell accounts, learned some of the CLI and quickly got banned. I realized my own option was to run it myself. Found out about Redhat Linux and eventually got it to boot. I ran into so many issues that required constant troubleshooting. This sort of led me to fall in love with fixing things instead of just trying to break them. Just stayed with it for the next couple decades.
There's way more to this than just the containers (the apps) themselves though. Orchestration is a very big piece of the puzzle, integrating into that layer is traditionally very cloud specific. Without a common orchestration layer you end up re-inventing the wheel a lot. Containers being a common interface is good, but having the orchestration have a common interface (k8s) is also important.
Why would you need to prove the difference between noise or encryption?

If they claim is not encrypted it's just noise, prosecute them for broadcasting noise.

If they claim it's not noise it's just encrypted, prosecute them for broadcasting an encrypted signal.

What do you think the practical difference in outcome is?
Expect, as in - you want them to spy? Or just accept it as an inevitable fact of life?
They completed the primary task way before that. This was free time and they did it for fun. The fact that they re-implemented their initial task as a program in the OS itself was the cherry on top, to impress their teachers (and also to learn a heap load of stuff in the process).
It's recurring revenue, while they only sell a speaker once.

Anyway, I don't understand why governments don't ban user tracking or targeted ads.
>So what you're saying is that the city doesn't spend what it would cost to actually keep up with maintenance. They're saying exactly the same thing.

We've had sprawling suburbs in this country since at least the 50s. In that time we haven't really seen any municipality go bankrupt from infrastructure or have infrastructure costs come to dominate the budget. And we continue to have roads and sewers and so forth.

The only conclusion from those set of facts is that Strongtown's argument is fundamentally flawed. And indeed it is. For all their case studies and imaginative math they have one glaring and fatal flaw. They can't point to one city or town and say this city is no more because they couldn't afford their infrastructure.
I'd like to eventually start working with those more high-powered motors, but for a first flight I wanted to keep things manageable.

... and I also had a 400 ft limit with my permit.
They have the opposite incentive. At a company (A good one), if you try something risky (New technology) and it doesn't 100% pan out, you can cut your losses. In a system with low level buyers managing the contract and alot of higher ups able to say 'no' you get this self defeating cycle. However, Elon was able to bully his way into contracts with his solution (Boring Company) cause:
A.) he's famous,
B.) He's protested to the GAO a number of times when he didn't get his way. (SpaceX, and original chicago build)
If you observe animals long enough you'll notice they have that knowledge of plant properties, and will seek out specific plants in order to self regulate.

I have watched my dog and cat seek out tansy (tanacetum vulgare) and rub themselves on it. Tansy is known to repel ticks and intestinal worms. The two of them regularly eat grass, dandelion and mint leaves.
If the Soviets could afford to build it, shouldn't the presumably wealthier post-Soviet governments be able to afford maintaining it?
I made a comment a while ago to that effect:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22909240

His thesis falls apart already if you do a back of a napkin calculation.

Here is another case study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22913531
In 1983 a friend got a ZX Spectrum, and I found a magazine for it which had game listings in it. So for my friend and I it started on a Saturday afternoon spent typing code into a ZX Spectrum.

A year or two later my dad would let me play on his PC at work on Saturdays. Found myself in a large bookshop around then and picked up a book on GW Basic which had listings in it for things like text boxes, sort/search, input/output, COM ports and so on. I was hooked.

In '89 I was consripted and wrote some software to order incoming messages by priority and recipient or something. Wrote that up in my first resume and was hired after my first interview in '90.

Since then I just kept wanting more, and so I worked my way through stuff like tariffing and billing for cellphone operators, building a frontend for online banking, and so on, which led to a job at Microsoft, then Nokia, and on and on... until today.
It was a wiring closet. I've been in some of these, possibly the same one. While there is more valuable stuff than telephone punch-down blocks in them nowadays, it is nothing like breaking in to a server room.
My leanings are complicated. I’d boil it down to a mix of pragmatism and pro-rights. I’m pro choice, pro 2nd amendment, pro gay marriage, mostly for a small government, etc. I usually lean republican nowdays due to the democratic side of the aisle being more likely to actually take rights away.

I don’t think what we know he did deserved the punishment, especially the picture where he was pretend groping. Nobody would have batted an eye at it at the time.
Curious what other boards you considered?

You mention using Adafruit libraries & working in Python. The Adafruit feather boards focus on low power situations & some include battery slots.
https://www.adafruit.com/feather
>Really if you can't established a way to recognise customers how can we (as customers) expect you to competently do 2FA and competently store data without losing it.

This is an insanely hard problem to do well. The recognition of customers is literally through which phishing attacks work. This is one of the most common avenues that people get access to systems and data they shouldn't. GDPR mandates that virtually every site needs to deal with this problem now.

Also, I'd say that reprieving all data on someone is not a trivial problem. Imagine you had a forum and somebody requests all of the data on them. However, another user has made a copy elsewhere on the forum with some notes about that user's personal data. Does the requester get access to that copy?

And now keep in mind that you complying is based on your understanding of a regulation that companies have spent millions on lawyers to figure out and still aren't entirely sure. And you have to follow this regardless how big or small your website or business is.
The recycling label, presumably.
Not a big issue, they last for decades nowadays
I can testify that LSD microdosing does something.
Fires are not a major cause of erosion. I'm not sure why you would think that - fires do not obliterate the organic material that binds soils together. You are conflating human land clearing with forest fires.

Any loss of plant life due to a forest fire is quickly replaced as new growth is able to take advantage of new light/water/nutrient resources.
Familiarity with React might be tempting to reuse it for games, but there are plenty of HTML5 game engines out there which will do a better job. In fact React is successful in web apps because it is basically using a game loop. For a quick example: https://www.babylonjs.com/community/
In the article Stamets very clearly uses the term "heroic dose" -- meaning, he's differentiating from the experience one has when casually dabbling.

(Note I am not recommending that one takes a heroic dose -- experience and a guide is absolutely required here -- only that transformative experiences tend to happen during high dose experiences and that lower dose experiences are mostly just topical, relaxing and fun.)