skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to chat more with you about this, if you're into it, please ping me at hello at permapeople org! thanks again!
Hotter Days Widen Racial Gap in U.S. Schools, Data Shows
University of Illinois Urbana Champagne, University of Michigan, university of Wisconsin Madison, and Purdue are all top 20 in CS.
Yeah, there's a whole category of apps that run on heroku with maybe 10 dynos tops that could definitely be deployed on kubernetes with manual / web ui-based configuration.
Well maybe it has something to do with the Windows monopoly and that they only want you to use their proprietary tools. If you learn too much then you will want to be free!!
This approach is painfully naive.

The State of Texas--which is absolutely full of hunters and gun owners and such--has "shoot on sight" rules for hunting feral hogs. There are no limits and the season is always open.

The problem is only getting worse.
Yes, people who have seen trends of racism in the Midwest against minorities firsthand should be disregarded. They are the real racists.

/s

Have you considered that their experiences may actually be true?
Remote learning isn’t new: Radio instruction in the 1937 polio epidemic
I'm in Texas. This is a big problem in this region of the USA. Texas has allowed open season all year round for hunting feral pigs/hogs. I'm curious what this has done to the population per the article.

More info from Texas gov https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/nuisance/feral_hogs/
They are quite the nuisance in parts of California. If you're hiking, adding feral pig encounter to the existing mountain lion or bear encounter, can be overwhelming.

I found it interesting how hunting backfires (scatters them and increases their range) as it seems to be always pounded into me "hunted out of existence" was a common thing that hunters would do if left to their own devices (I know, there is a LOT of propaganda in this space!) That said, I'm surprised there are not more trapping & slaughtering programs in place.

The engineer in me wants to slaughter the pigs, use the cesium capsules at Hanford to irradiate/sterilize the meat of all bacteria and parasites, and then turn it into free bacon and/or jerky for whomever needs it. Impractical for sure but free bacon right?
>If there had been some public spat with Bose in the run-up to this, and/or they announced a policy decision related to selling their hardware, it would not be quietly.

That's a tautology, or at least a trivial claim. It can be reduced to, "if it were a public spat, it would be a public spat." Hope I'm not being uncharitable here.

Apple didn't advertise they were dropping FortNite. It was not on the front of the App Store (outside of conspicuously recommending competitors). Apple only released legal and policy statements. These are only warranted when there are policy infractions Apple wants to enforce (eg violating App Store Guidelines). Dropping Bose or Sonos was not due to policy infractions, anymore than Walmart dropping Amazon products is. There is a fundamental difference between "We dropped this product for economic reasons, but it may return" and "We have banned this product because it violates the policies and terms we have set out, and it is no longer welcome."

Apple _has_ to respond to policy infractions. Otherwise they're effectively abandoning the policy. [0]

[0] Note: I'm not defending the App Store policies here, but rather saying that the App Store policies discussion doesn't pertain to this discussion.
of course it is a mistake

Look at what happened to Elizabeth Warren when she started talking a lot about breaking up large companies

within TWO WEEKS her lead evaporated and she went to #4

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if someone has a rational explanation for

Democratic frontrunner has 14% lead over #2 (Biden)

Democratic frontrunner says she will break up tech companies

SUDDENLY, within 2 weeks

she is #4 in Democratic race

would love to hear the rationale for this remarkable coincidence

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there is a lot of stuff behind the scenes

If you want to keep going down the rabbithole, Biden's VP just happens to be the most Large Tech Friendly politician on the planet
Or maybe they themselves have experienced discriminatory behavior in the Midwest?

As an LGBT guy, I'm always direct when pointing out that I left the South partially because of discrimination, and someone is always happy to butt in to say I'm making it all up and the South is perfectly open and tolerant. It gets tiring.
Sure that's why we hold murderers, rapist and pedophiles in such high regards.
Nobody likes a smartass.
Most of the Big Ten Schools are decent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference They aren't Ivy League, but they do compete internationally. My alma mater, Purdue, boasts the most amount of astronaut alumni of any nonmilitary school.
> 1 bit sign (1= non-negative, 0= negative)

First time I ever saw a number where the leading sign bit has to be set to 1 to indicate non-negative.
I bought a System 76 darter pro and wifi and printing and bluetooth and sleep and so on work equally well to my partner's macbook air. I probably sound like someone with stockholm syndrome for saying this, but there is only one tiny problem which doesn't bother me which is that the laptop randomly hard powers off in the middle of use 1-4 times per week. Since everything I do autosaves, meh.
> What would you do if you were in my situation?

I would use this few hours of feeling "excluded" and "other" to reflect on how POC may feel frequently and in many situations throughout the course of their lives.
That's a good idea. Haven't thought of that. The price of the ending generation would be great while the maturity has peaked.
Last time I checked, this country wasn't "to each according to their need". They wanted it, they could afford it, so they went out and got it :-)
It's needlessly negative to suggest we have to first "lose" to make positive change.
How writing consistently helped James Clear gain millions of fans
Why should we trust you? Who are you? You don't have any information about the company or the people who are involved/invested. You're asking for a lot of high value information while providing us with none. I don't even want you to have my email address, let alone access to my banking info.
> "this is highly unexpected behaviour"

The behavior in question is having an upper and lower bound on a time interval. This strikes me as highly expected behavior.

The maximum on the interval is lower than the author expected; and reading the docs quickly cleared up what the interval maximum is.

The entire rant boils down to "MySQL's choice to keep backwards compatibility is stupid, because I think this interval limit should be larger."
Opening the AI Black Box – The AI Art Corner
Teaching our five year old to code by cheating
Money laundering is just math too.
> All of these have given me the same symptoms: Anxiety. Fatigue. Brain Fog. Breathing issues. It seems like there is another disease going around and no one is talking about it.

It feels great to see someone else with a similar experience.

As someone with a history of anxiety with somatic symptoms, I deal with this stuff, even digestive weirdness. How many times over the course of the pandemic have I felt like I can't breath?

I'm keenly aware of my mental health and how it affects me. I know that there are certain states of mind/dispositions that I need to assume in order to feel stable.

In normal times, I go about life and forget about my anxiety because my daily routine is a good distraction.

Maybe this isn't obvious to people without anxiety, but it's clear to me that way too many people are inhabiting unhealthy relationships with danger, fear, anxiety, etc.

And it's sad cause it seems like politics and technology is trapping people in that mindset.

I'm frankly sick and tired of the people condemning others as though it's immoral to not be afraid of COVID. You can understand COVID is potentially dangerous while not really worrying about it.

This is an essential technique for people with anxiety if they ever want to lead a normal and healthy life, but the zeitgeist is full on fire-and-brimestone moral righteousness and preaching if you're not absolutely consumed with fear and anxiety over a virus that almost all people survive.

I don't want to say "long COVID" isn't real especially since there so little understanding about any of this, but I would say it's more likely than not that many people are predisposed to somatic symptoms of anxiety, power of suggestion, etc. especially when large segments of the population are trapped inside for long periods of time and deprived of social activity.
> Whether or not it needs these for its survival doesn't seem like much of a distinction

Of course it is. If you let someone into your home, and one of them is going to die if they don't steal food from you, which person is more likely to steal food from you?

Google's business model literally does not allow it to be ethical.

> The HN discourse around Microsoft these days really just shows that Microsoft's attempts to buy back goodwill with things like VS Code must be working.

I see a lot of people with your point of view. Are you still influenced by your perceptions of Microsoft from the Ballmer and Gates days?

I was also in the industry at that time, and today's Microsoft is just a different company. It's leadership is different, most of the Baller/Gates people have left, and their policies are completely different.

VS Code is great, but Microsoft isn't doing anything to lock you into it. I don't use it at all. TypeScript and .NET are both IDE-agnostic, for example.

Companies aren't people. They don't have consistent cultures, personalities, or beliefs. Microsoft sucked in the past, but they're the only large tech company that I'm not actively angry at on a daily basis anymore.
Are you suggesting that putting Muslims in a detention center and harvesting their organs is somehow "a trumped up boogeyman"? [4] [5]

Having a bad API and letting Cambridge Analytica abuse that data was bad, but everyone who had their data abused still has all their vital organs.

Also odd that you blame Facebook but not the Russian intelligence for those actions - Facebook should have done better but they were inherently on the defensive. Maybe we should blame the foreign intelligence intentionally undermining a foreign election and take action to stop other foreign interference such as TikTok?

[4] - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/world/asia/china-muslims-...

[5] - https://www.businessinsider.com/china-harvesting-organs-of-u...
The end of DLP (over any field) is the end of ECC.
Excel have lots of different uses. It can be used as inventory tracking, sales, catalog, mileages, contact list, and the list goes on. It is useful in many different fields and industries.

You have to remember, Excel is extremely powerful beast. It have many specialized features that will handle any data it encountered with. I used Excel for 15 years and I am still finding features that made the process quicker. Of course, Excel have its limits and I am well aware of that.
The issue seems to be that the .NET core provider for MySQL that OP uses maps the .NET Timespan type to this MySQL TIME datatype. They probably didn't think this through.
How do I know that they aren't giving me misinformation about everything else? Being non-white feels like I have to constantly avoid getting gaslighted in the US about my "race".
I've been interested in permaculture and sustainability for a while, and also self-sufficiency, or at least local food production.

There's an old book called "Five acres and independence" which I think is a reference to the amount of land you need to sustain a family. I don't know anything about the subject, really, but I just jumped off that number.

I'm not in America, but we can use it as an example to do calculation. It's probably approximate to a misleading degree, but since I'm a software developer with a degree in an unrelated field making internet comments, that doesn't put me off:

According to Wikipedia, the US is 3,796,742 square miles. Wolfram Alpha says that's 2.43 billion acres. Using Wikipedia's stated 2019 estimate of 328,239,523 people, that's 7.5 acres per person. So under forty acres for each family of five, roughly. So if we say 5 acres is a good number, in the US you're at 8x the amount of land needed for everyone to live off the land at a small scale. Is 1/8th of the US even arable land? What about all the other stuff we'd need, like factories, mines, schools, the cold fusion powered mag-lev network etc.? Will that fit in the rest? Maybe the occasional forest would be nice?

And then of course we need to consider that the US is no. 145 out of some 200 countries for population density. For the European Union, we arrive at 2.3 acres per person, so you'd need to distribute people evenly over roughly half of the land for each five-person family to have a five acre farm. For Africa, 5.8 acres per person.

But maybe that starting number is too high or too low. I just thought it was an interesting thought experiment.
I don't know why they make this scaling stuff so expensive, I understand we get technology but I mean no-one is actually going to get to that point from start. I was looking into Google App-engine it's so ridiculously expensive I was like hey it's cheaper for me to do my own clustering technology than anything else or maybe just buy a good server and host it myself.
People who are hiring for roles using smaller languages know that there are few people local to them who are practitioners in the language. They tend to do one of two things about that:

1. They don't even bother advertising a position in local geographical "general" job boards. (Job postings on LinkedIn cost money for every day you have them up; they're a waste of resources if you can predict with high confidence that nobody will find the role through there.) Instead, they'll advertise globally but targeted to the language's community (i.e. language-specific job boards, forums and chat groups, newsletters, etc.) This is where the people using the language are looking, too, anyway, because they also know that there are too few local opportunities for it to make sense to invest the time in checking local job-boards for a job matching their skillset.

2. They don't bother hiring for the language. Instead, they hire for "experience with [relevant language paradigms]" and "experience with any of [similar, more-popular languages]" and then expect the new hire to learn the language on the job.

My personal job-criterion for hiring Elixir devs is "a polyglot in several different language paradigms, fluent in at least one functional language." I find that that filter actually predicts better whether they'll be a good Elixir dev, than actual experience using Elixir does.

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As an aside, there's also the fact that languages like Erlang/Elixir (or the MLs, or the Lisps, or Prolog, or...) tend not to be languages used for everything in a company, but instead tend to be languages used for the secret sauce core component of a company. A lot of the time, companies don't talk about using these languages, even though they do, because they consider them a competitive advantage over their rivals in whatever niche they occupy.

Heroku is an obvious example: much of their architecture was written in Erlang [nearly everything at first], but they never advertised that fact once in any official capacity. Likewise, HFT firms never mention they're using ML or Prolog, but many do, because trading bots are often just souped-up expert systems. The only time you find these things out, is when having a beer with ex-engineers from those companies.
I just tried it out with a Jekyll site I have running on Cloudflare Worker Sites. It detected everything and is deploying but one thing I noticed is that deployment is kinda slow. My GitHub Actions pipeline to build the Jekyll site and deploy to Cloudflare takes less than 2 minutes (latest run took 1m 43s). DigitalOcean took 6 minutes in comparison. Sure, its not crazy, but 3x the time still seems excessive.

It seems the bulk of the time was from installing ruby gems for Jekyll. Maybe GitHub Actions mirrors them or something so it can run faster?

Besides that, it works great. Actual live performance seems as snappy as one would expect from a static site and setting it up was almost one click. I'll definitely be looking into this in more detail.

First impressions are good and I may well migrate over for static site and API server (API server is currently running on a droplet as a single docker container, so seems like a nice way to lower the effort I have to put in). Everything else is running on AWS for.. reasons.. so this looks like a nice way to simplify my non-AWS stuff. I'll be experimenting with it over the coming days! The bandwidth limits are the biggest concern.
You’d think this would be the headline:

In neither the placebo nor the malt vinegar group was there any change. But those consuming cider vinegar saw an average 13% reduction in total cholesterol, with a strikingly large reduction in triglycerides (a form of fat). And this was a particularly impressive finding because our volunteers were all healthy at the start, with normal cholesterol levels.
"Bringing cholesterol levels down like this", Dr Brown told me, "can significantly reduce your chances of having a heart attack in the future. So we were really excited to see that finding."
This gives me flashbacks to the DOS filesystem timestamps. It's exactly the same mistake. By splitting the date into multiple fields, bits are wasted. If they hadn't tried to be smart and just made it one number, it would've been more precise with a wider range.
>so users like my mom unknowingly start using it. I find that very deceptive.

Which is exactly how Chrome got so popular. Two wrongs and all.
Coffee shops, bars/pubs, cinemas, theaters, opera houses, bigger and nicer libraries, real, physical bookshops (at least for people like me, who visit them regularly like how other people are going to church), and I’m sure I must be missing some other stuff.

As an anecdote, I went through a dark time about 10 years ago and living in a big city and being able to see strangers each and every day on public transport helped me tremendously, it meant not having to live with my dark thoughts. I could have not had the same experience had I lived in suburbia or in the countryside.
There are well known theaters in Minneapolis that focus on indie films.

The restaurant scene regularly wins James Beard awards.

Asian food seems to lean more Korean, Vietnamese (possibly from the large Hmong population in the state), and Thai.

Also, it would be hard to sound more pretentious.
Not to be pedantic, but those services are funded at the state level, so it would be odd if they allocated part of the Federal budget for it.

Not that that would be bad, it's just that there are norms for who-does-what in gov't, and overlap of responsibilities is usually bad.
PaaS came before K8s, it's the minimum that K8s is better than PaaS.
Apple Announces Digital-Only Event to Be Held on October 13: iPhone 12 Expected
Australia fought a war against invasive wildlife in the 1930s, and was famously defeated by the Emus. America is much more powerful than Australia, but it has had trouble winning wars recently. On top of that, this one would be fought on its own soil, which is something it has not experienced in more than a century. And of course, pigs are much stronger and much smarter than emus. Americans would be wise not to underestimate the threat.
> There are plenty FAANG engineers minted from the top Midwestern schools - think CMU and other state schools - even if they rank behind the top schools on the coasts.

CMU is a private school, ranked number 1 in CS, and is not in a Midwestern state! That said, there are lots of top CS programs in the Midwest.
Hey markosaric! Very interesting product and I'm really tempted to try it out. One suggestion to add to your documentation: you should mention drawbacks in your "comparison" pages.

For example, the page where you compare Plausible to Google Analytics lists only advantages and doesn't indicate that Plausible could in any way be worse. But based on the description of how Plausible works, I'm fairly certain that people behind VPNs will not be properly counted (everyone with the same user-agent will be counted as if they were the same person). Use of VPNs is fairly widespread, so lack of fingerprinting will actually prevent you from accurately assessing how many visitors a site has.
Well DigitalOcean usually have pretty amazing docs, which was something I found lacking with caprover. DO documentation feels like it was written for humans instead of.. I dunno caprover just feels too technically written. It activates the CBA "I'll find something easier to use" feeling

Or yes, use their one click droplet and be using DO anyway except you manage the server if it breaks. Also auto scaling? That's on you
Since you mentioned it, some posts I wrote a while back about Frama-C:

Applied Formal Logic: Brute Force String Search https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2017/06/AFL-brute-force-search....

Applied Formal Logic: The bug in Quick Search. https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2017/06/AFL-bug-in-quicksearch....

Applied Formal Logic: Correctness of Quick Search. https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2017/07/AFL-correctness-of-quic...
Genes Renamed to Stop Microsoft Excel from Mistaking Them for Dates
Wasn't the Appsail nanobox? IIRC, it was planed to be DO's PaaS, so it's cancelled and then DO's PaaS is based on k8s instead?
VR-controlled robot shelf-stacker starts shift in Japanese stores
> Bose definitely not because their R&D work is legendary.

Is it? I've always found Bose sound quality to be objectively bad compared to other brands at similar prices.

They're not absolutely bad, just bad in terms of sound-quality-for-dollar. By a lot. Compared to e.g. Edifier or Klipsch (for speakers) or Beyerdynamic (for headphones) which fall around the same price ballpark as many popular Bose products but IMO sound way better.
Seems like a 20-25min drive into the city
Recall one youtuber trading in his Model X for a hybrid Honda Accord (he had a valid issue with long family trips and the supercharger network in his locale) and it got 1.5m views and lots of dislikes and some really crappy comments.

Outsourcing PR to the "fans" ... nope.
Product "placement" failure is a marketing communication failure. If you can't communicate well enough why your product is competing in the price point that it is, that's a classic marketing failure.

"Looks" and "feels" can be addressed by marketing narratives. (And some of the differences between "economy" and "luxury" in cars are marketing more than cost basis. If the American version of the Leaf wasn't tweaked for some of those "luxuries", that can also be a failure of marketing imagination.)

As for performance, I'm assuming you've either never driven a Leaf nor owned a sub-$15,000 ICE car? No EV "performs like a sub $15,000 car", in terms of torque/pickup/handling. That that isn't more well known is itself a particularly larger American industry marketing failure that's left the average American consumer behind the world market.
> As to changing the laws, this is all well and good, but it's hard to see that happening under a divided government,

I think the laws ought to change. I agree that it is likely that a combination of a divided government, plus political capture of Democrats by the tech industry, means that it unlikely we will see a shift towards economic justice any time soon.
This is brilliant! The text is could be used for reading as well, but the book selection is quite excellent. Do you think people could add contributions of text too, like submitting book texts? Thank you!
Big thanks, that's a useful explainer.
I did the same thing, I traded a third of an acre in Los Angeles for over a hundred acres in Washington State.