skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me add this to the list of "problems that obviously aren't problems".

The isight camera looks like dogshit glued to a monitor. Why is it so phallic? Cameras have no need for that shape. Seems like marketing bullshit to attract old men. Clearly, it worked—men are primarily driven by their penis, and men want to look at their own penis.

@ y'all downvoting me: lmao, pathetic cucks. Suck it.
That's what I said.

Calorie as a measure sets upper limit of maximum energy you can extract from a given food. If you want to gain 1lb of weight, you will need to eat at least 3500 calories. If you want lose 1lb, you have create deficits of at least 3500 cals.
FWIW I was replying to the GP's comment "When you make $7/hr and do a Bootcamp, and now can be employed by Google"
I like your advice, but I think there is a reason for the complaints. An indefensible complexity has become the new normal. And it's what many people are forced to suffer through at work. If having a chorus of complaining dissenters on HN threads sways even a small percentage of people to take simpler approaches, it has done some good.
Intel didn't beat AMD back in the day because they had a better processor. Intel relied on anti-competitive practices to lock AMD out of the desktop and server markets. They were successfully sued by AMD but the damage was done. Then Intel sat on it's laurels and quit innovating, slowly doling out incremental improvements through their 'tick-tock' release cycle. Intel dug their own hole and I have no sympathy for Intel while AMD buries them in it.
> ...spend an inordinate amount of time doing scene-setting without advancing the plot.

I find I dislike the conversational style. I've tired so much of these characters feeling and pretending to be clever about their strategizing, and it continues in the same style without regard to the change in characters.

I totally agree on the foreshadowing.

I had to stop after a few chapters of the third book. I don't know that I'll make it back.
The instruction manual should say. But in my experience, many (most?) cars have a sticker inside of the door that you flip open to access the gas cap.

Here's a random example I found: https://i.imgur.com/nDkwl0i.jpg

It doesn't actually say "octane", but note that it says "MIN.(R+M)/2", and (R+M)/2 is what you'll see on the pump too, as in this example image: https://img.hmn.com/fit-in/900x506/filters:upscale()/stories...

(This is for the US. I would assume other countries are similar.)
One of the low-key weirdest things about moving from California to Ontario, Canada was that, until earlier this summer, basically no gas stations ("gas bars") had the auto-shutoff triggers. They seemed to make a lot more sense here in the land of actual winters than in Oakland, but eh.
In your particular example, the air in the tube would be at slightly higher pressure than ambient, and because it doesn't have much surface tension (unlike gasoline) would slightly leak out of the hole on the side as well.

In normal conditions fluid has lower pressure if:
(a) it was flowing and is now moving faster because of a geometric constriction
(b) it is being sucked (i.e. being pulled into a lower pressure region than ambient)

Moving fluid has higher pressure if:
(c) it was flowing but isn't flowing as fast due to a geometric expansion
(d) it was pushed (i.e. coming from a higher pressure area than ambient)

Note that in the case of a fan in a tube, the fluid has lower pressure than ambient behind the fan, and higher pressure than ambient after the fan.
>To keep reading this story, create a free account.

No. Stop posting Medium to HN.
The breakaways on the dispensers I worked with in the early 90's had shear pins and were mechanical. We lost 1 or 2 a year at our station in rural Ohio.
Thanks, that book likes exactly what I need. Bought it on Kindle.
The term ansible was invented by Ursula K. LeGuin. Card included it in the Ender books as a tribute.
Yep! Check out:

https://microconf.com

https://TinySeed.com

https://startupsfortherestofus.com

https://StartSmall.com
> where people discover their classmate/coworker is a Twitch streamer

Link?
That's what I thought it would be too --- the "eyeball" which became the standard icon for a webcam.
This is incredible, thank you!
National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS)
Sorta IMO. The nationwide oil change places, in my experience, check a few high margin parts that they like to replace but don't do any sort of comprehensive periodic servicing like you'd have done at either your dealer or an independent mechanic.
The title isn't fixed, but it'll be the first Bash book from Newline (https://www.newline.co/).
If you're using a dispenser that's particularly slow it's likely that the filter in the dispenser is clogged, too. At the station where I worked we stopped buying from a distributor who continually delivered "dirty" diesel fuel. Right after we took a load from them we'd see our dispensers flow rates decrease dramatically.
Calories in calories out works. The thing you, and many critics of CICO, are missing is that the food you eat affects both sides of the equation.
When do you wash your windows if not when the gas is pumping?
Yeah that was the idea, knowing nothing is certainly better than knowing nothing about the product or the market.
One big reason is that ubuntu splits out venv into its own package basically "breaking" python. People then don't know about the venv module and continues using the virtualenv, both due to this preceding venv, and because that is usually the word used to describe the concept.
You have a credit account for each person in the company.

If you have credit with your boss, and unknown to your boss’ boss, everything’s fine.

If you have credit with your boss’ boss, but your boss doesn’t, something’s not fine.
Comprehensive neighborhood profile for house hunters
Lighting matters much, much more than the camera setup.

What is a twitch streamer? Some kind of gaming culture?
In Haskell (I know, I know) I would probably write something like this, if I were porting the example one-to-one:

getInsuranceAmount status = case
[hasInsurance, isTotaled, isDented, isBigDent ] <*> [status] of
[False, _, _, _ ] -> 1
[True, True, _, _ ] -> 10000
[True, False, False, _ ] -> 0
[True, False, True, True ] -> 270
[True, False, True, False ] -> 160

Personally, I'm not a fan of the early return pattern, since it forces me to read the entire function top to bottom (and possibly simulate a state machine in my head) to understand under what circumstances it returns each possible value, and I'm far too lazy for that.
In contrast, my example makes it very straightforward to see what set of conditions leads to which value, and vice versa.

Tangentially, this probably wouldn't be a very idiomatic piece of code to write in Haskell, since some of the conditions are likely to be mutually exclusive (what does it mean when isDented is False but isBigDent is True?)
My instinct would be to model the status as a sum type, and then to pattern match on its inhabitants instead of writing helpers for 'hasInsurance,' 'isTotaled,' etc, but someone with proper professional Haskell experience might have an even slicker way to think of it.
We’ve banned npm install: It’s simply a party drug and completely unnecessary.
> Programming is a tool and they should not let anyone graduate with a CS degree if they don't know how to use that tool.

CS isn't programming, software engineering, or software development. There are some places that offer degrees in the last two, and some places where you can focus on CS degree on those more practical aspects, but CS by nature is more theoretical and abstract, bearing roughly the relationship to those other things that Physics has to Mechanical Engineering or Automotive Maintenance.

Of course, you don't have places looking at Physics degrees as entry stakes for auto mechanics, but I'd they started doing that the problem wouldn't be with the Physics programs.
Open in incognito window?
I've had a chance to read your materials. Here's a question:

Using the AFC test [1], which seems common throughout the case law cited, how does one distinguish a design decision from a standard programming technique [2] in the context of a programming language's standard library API? By virtue of terminology, it's a standard. Is it defensible because it is a design decision concerning a programming language implementation? Then how does that square with computer languages not being copyrightable? What argument can one make so it can pass the filtration step of the test?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Compari...

[2] Computer Associates Int. Inc. v. Altai Inc.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120310144346/http://ftp.resour...

"in many instances it is virtually impossible to write a program to perform particular functions in a specific computing environment without employing standard techniques." 3 Nimmer § 13.03[F], at 13-65. This is a result of the fact that a programmer's freedom of design choice is often circumscribed by extrinsic considerations such as (1) the mechanical specifications of the computer on which a particular program is intended to run; (2) compatibility requirements of other programs with which a program is designed to operate in conjunction; (3) computer manufacturers' design standards; (4) demands of the industry being serviced; and (5) widely accepted programming practices within the computer industry."
Full page postbacks are not necessary even if you want to go zero dep
Unless it's somebody I really want to hear from, I close Medium links almost immediately.
The problem with this point of view is that you're elevating your philosophy of gender and sexuality over other peoples' and claiming it as a sort of "safety right." This is pernicious.
To someone who has done a lot of sales this all seems obvious, which concerns me. I think the reason it took a few quarters to figure this out, and why most folks are bad at sales is that they don’t know what sales is. They don’t really know.

Sales is the very intimate act of getting a stranger to reach into their pocket and give you their money. To do that the customer has to balance their priorities and desires and make a difficult personal decision. This might mean having less money to feed themselves with (figuratively or literally).

There are a number of ways you can go about this but in the end it’s very personal to the buyer, whether it is in-fact their money or not. Corporate software sales are just as personal, if not more.

So how do you get a stranger to give you their money? You can hustle them, fool them, pressure them, befriend them, help them, be a human vending machine for what you both know they already want, you can help them find what they want, you can do so many things, but just showing off how great you are isn’t likely to work very often. Showing off how great you are is called marketing and that’s a whole other discussion.
What makes you think it's a sacrifice rather than a reverse proselytization (or de-radicalization as some call it)?
It’s good in discussions to define some terms and agree on some specifics. That seems to be the authors intent. To find a place of common understanding and pursue civil discourse from there.

If you’d like to unravel if the questions even matter than there’s a whole different conversation to be had.
I think I misread and assumed it was to pay the legal costs of the winner. But that would be the responsibility of the client, not the lawyer.
This is why I’m such a fan of the meta-bundlers/frameworks, like create-react-app or Next.js

I like the features that we pack gives me, but knowing webpack and spending the effort on configuring it just seems like a waste. I’m incredibly grateful for the CRA maintainers to handle that for me.
Higher octanes are designed to prevent preignition of the fuel in engines that are supercharged/turbocharged or use higher compression ratios. Preignition is when the fuel combusts before the cylinder is at the "ready" point in its cycle (wherever that is for your car, with variable timing and all that).

As others have said, your manual will tell you, but a good rule of thumb is if you don't have a high performance vehicle or an engine with a turbo or supercharger, 87 should be fine.
> Or should we call the Z80 a 16 bit processor?

Z80 is classified as an 8-bit processor because it has an 8-bit internal data bus to the register file.⁽¹⁾

This is visible in instruction timings: 16-bit INC BC takes longer than 8-bit INC B because the 16-bit register access takes two internal data cycles compared with one internal cycle for 8-bit.

Intel 8086 is classified as a 16-bit processor because it has a 16-bit internal data bus to the register file.

This is visible in instruction timings: 16-bit register operations generally take the same time as 8-bit register operations.⁽²⁾

⁽¹⁾ Trivia: Z80 also has a 16-bit internal address bus and 4-bit ALU.

⁽²⁾ Actually 8-bit INC AL takes longer than 16-bit INC AX, opposite way around from Z80. But that's because of a longer instruction encoding, not architecture. MOV AL,BL takes the same time as MOV AX,BX.)
It's always funny/annoying when a teacher confidently presents misinformation. I still remember my biology teacher told me deoxygenated blood was actually blue. (it's dark red)

I'll review those slides you linked. Teaching friction is "rough"...

Wikipedia is still going with black body radiation as the source of the yellow color of fire. Maybe I should find better sources, although normal wikipedia is great for physics. Does anyone have any sources where I could learn more about the color of flame?
I run ~100-200 PB of Ceph object and block storage. I've run Ceph in production at my current and previous employers, both Fortune 100 companies since 2013.

Ceph is used at Fidelity, Bloomberg, OVH, Digital Ocean, CERN, Walmart, and some Canadian and European universities, and last but not least at DreamHost.
You're saying not to look at how almonds are grown in California?
I worked as a cashier in my family's gas station for a few years. I ended up doing contract development work for a retail petroleum distributor about 15 years later.

A couple of these that I can think of:

- The temperatures in our underground storage tanks were very stable, varying only by a couple of degrees F irrespective of the air temperature.

- Fuel almost always arrives warmer than the underground temperature, so you see contraction of volume on your tank monitor as newly-dropped fuel cools.

- Gross volume is the amount dispensed into the distributor's transport trucks. Net volume is the amount dropped into the Customer's tank. Gross vs. Net and temperature adjustment factors are a place where distributors play around to eke out some margin. I wrote some code that took into account air temperature at the terminal (the "rack") where trucks were filled, along with historical rack temperatures, to produce temperature-adjusted normalized costs. When you're making fractions of a cent per gallon margin every little bit helps.
Chez Scheme is a good example on how many compiler passes can be extremely effective.

https://github.com/nanopass/nanopass-framework-scheme/
There are many different blends of gas, and refineries change with the weather (winter fuel mix evaporates faster than summer mix, and will not need summer emissions). Gas stations often choose their own mix of detergents/additives, but otherwise all fuel in a town comes from the same refinery with the same contents.

Most stations just go with the refinery default additive mix, which is typically pretty good. Some national brands go with a slightly better additive mix. Some national brands go with a cheaper additive package. You need to be a large chain to afford to pay a chemist to design an additive mix though, so the majority of stations don't.
Many Americans get news on YouTube
Twitch is a live streaming platform primarily targeted at gamers to stream gameplay.
Please save us, typescript devs.
TIL ..a lot. Thanks.
Thanks :) that makes sense. I don't know who downvoted this but you're a pathetic loser.
I went all-in on a decent mirrorless, lens, and some lighting. Not really for videoconferencing, but I use it for that as well.

It's true that the bandwidth isn't there to push 4k. But being decently lit, with a real depth of field, large sensor and aperture, and the flattering effect of a good focal length, all adds up. I look a lot better than the other people on the call, and people notice and comment on that.

This isn't worth a few grand on its own. But if you have other uses for decent video and photography equipment, or just find yourself needing an expensive hobby, you'll get a substantially better effect with it.
> I thought it was lobsters the libertarians were all on about

No, that's Jordan Peterson and his crowd. There's a lot of overlap, but Peterson is more socially conservative than most libertarians.
You can get that behaviour on linux, if you set setgid bit on the directory permissions, e.g. chmod g+s
Optimizing lighting absolutely produces bigger wins than optimizing the camera, but I've seen plenty of terrible webcams where a better camera could do wonders even with the same lighting.
> I think it's about time that English finally followed suit.

Why? Do you think that languages should all follow the same rules about everything?
An electron density representation is easier to visualize. And far less epicycle-ly than orbitals. And easier to avoid error and artifact ("layer after layer", "electron pairs", etc). Chemistry education content is notable for leaving both students and teachers steeped in misconceptions.

Though how/whether it could be used to teach orgo is an open question. I've only seen a couple of isolated attempts. Needing new content, and non-trivial software, with isolated professors, has made progress unlikely, even if possible.

I've an barely-started lockdown project, using ASE/GPAW[1] to precompute trajectories and densities, for an AR browser interactive - playfully tugging on atoms blobbing as small molecules, realistically.

Imagine we taught elephants the way we teach atoms. Here's an early medieval drawing that looks... yikes (they're actually not that bad, so the analogy isn't great). Here's a table model. And a hose model. And an orbiting cell model that has everyone imagining breakdancing jellyfish. But nothing with the slightest resemblance to an elephant photo or toy. Let alone a realistic interactive.

If anyone knows of efforts to do better, I'd appreciate hearing of them - thanks!

[1] https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/ase/ https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/gpaw/
I don't agree. Anti-competitive practices from Intel were orthogonal to the success of Conroe.

It was a better processor: https://www.anandtech.com/show/1963

I agree that Intel did engage in a lot of horrible anti-competitive things, but that has nothing to do with how incredible Conroe was. I find it kind of funny how this whole AMD vs Intel competition gets people's emotions running as if its their team and turf.
Yeah not-giving-a-damn-driven-development is also the only way to stay sane and not be over come with paralysis from being surrounded by a thousand broken windows in need of fixing.
Life Beyond II: The Museum of Alien Life
If most people (ie your audience) can't tell the difference, then why go with it?
Work and passion – not the same for most of us
There is generally one refinery that all stations in a given town buy from. Shipping fuel from a different refinery would be enough more expensive that you wouldn't be competitive.

Sometimes stations have their own additive package.
No. The food you eat affects both sides of the equation. Different people will also have different responses to the same food due to factors like genetics, gut microbiome, etc. Calories in calories out works for everyone. Saying eat X calories per day to lose weight does not.
I'd never heard about the Jim Carrey routine. Great story, thanks for the post OP!
A lot of hardware audio interfaces were usb2 which demands cpu time as the system has to poll the usb device rather than act on an interrupt. This caused very low latencies to basically never work without dropouts. I can distinguish a 20-30ms latency and above that it becomes too difficult to ply anything meaningful. Even my semi-pro tascam interface could only sample between 11-14ms. Faster cpus over the last 5 years and ultimately Usb3 solved the polling problem but is just now picking up traction in newer devices due to the usb-c connector.
When it comes to phone calls, I vastly prefer calling with Facetime Audio/Whatsapp/Messenger instead of the cellular network. The difference in audio quality is enormous.
Are you talking about when they said Subway chicken was only 50% chicken? Subway sued, lost, and had to pay legal fees. Pretty happy with that use of my taxes tbh.
Honest question: How is that any different from someone coming up with a set of design decisions that required rustc + cargo + crate modules in (target/*/deps)?
When people are complaining about this kind of stuff at work, it raises the question of what the alternative is. The person you're replying to describes a great methodology for smaller projects, but in many cases there are great reasons to take on dependencies. Not taking a dependency means you pay in person-hours to reinvent it, and sometimes that cost is much higher than a couple extra seconds of build time.

And, once you have a lot of dependencies, ES modules won't save you. People expect web apps to load fast, and code is big. Things like Webpack help make it a lot smaller.

My point isn't that this is good, it's that it's not "indefensible". There are very real practical reasons that big companies deal with the debt of dependencies and bundlers.
Planet Mars is at its 'biggest and brightest'
> Ewwww. Why is university press the worst? If we are still evolving and this isn't just about genetic recombination then by definition mutations are involved.

The use of "superpowers" alongside it indicates they're referring to pop culture mutations (in the sense of the X-Men).
Yea the CBC takes its cue from left wing American media which it poorly imitates
Italian teenage computer whiz beatified by Catholic Church
You’re supposed to ground yourself by touching your vehicles before the gas pump

Source: workplace safety videos I was forced to watch, years ago
Climbing the cosmic distance ladder: Terence Tao book announcement
Nope. Having traveled a bunch myself and talked to many other people who have traveled, traveling to a place can easily be one of the worst ways to actually learn about how the people live. Being a tourist in a place teaches you nothing about the voting process there, the community councils, the property tax codes, etc.

Essentially, traveling to another place without living there for many months only gives you an understanding of the most superficial aspects of life.

> we would be more likely to get the kind of international cooperation we need to tackle climate change systemically

This doesn’t even make sense. People who live in the same cities struggle to cooperate on even super local problems like housing. Ted from Kansas City flying to Europe to eat a steak in Florence is not going to help anything.
There's nothing wrong with tapping in on a cheaper labor, and that has nothing to do with "business model being broken". Ambitious ideas need a lot of money, you take investment, depending on your finances, you contract some work abroad. A lot of startups made it work, eventually they brought people on H1B, but don't mix up their initial stage with later stage.

Business model doesn't have to work initially. Facebook didn't have one for a long time.
That is all fine for personal projects. However, professional web apps typically have more complex requirement than just supporting the latest versions of major browsers without any further optimizations, so the only viable way of filling them is to use the complex tooling.