skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many users subscribe to those subreddits you've mentioned? I have made a similar the observation, I have a few subreddits that are very niche with only a few subscribers -- discussions are very much on point and civil. Usually, the quality and decency of discourse on a subreddit seems to be inversely related to the number of people engaging in it.
>A subset of broadly responsive Type III taste cells contribute to the detection of bitter, sweet and umami stimuli

https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/authors?id=10...
> Nitpicks. Prices are good (specially outside of large cities) but I believe that "Coffee is $0.15" is a typo. A coffee will hardly ever cost you less than 0,5€. And $0,7 is for a 20ml beer.

20ml is a very small amount of beer. Maybe you meant something else?
> Even if it costs more it’s just the right thing to do.

Why not use plastic once and then put it into a landfill?
teacher's unions are one of the few tools educators have to fight back against the chronic cuts to public education that have been occurring in America. this benefits students and educational facilities by helping get more state funding, helps keeps teacher pay at a more competitive level (hopefully keeping "good teachers" in their jobs), among other things

I think the points you raise are valid, but given what an abysmal state public education and unions in general are in America - I think the benefits of teacher unions greatly outweigh the costs
The general term for everyone having to join the union is "closed shop". It was apparently outlawed in the US in 1947: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_shop so I'm not clear how that's still happening.

It was declared illegal in the EU in 2006: https://www.internationallawoffice.com/Newsletters/Employmen...
The world, a couple hundred years ago: We won’t fly.
I personally don't regard this as a technical forum, more like a general-discussion forum of things that are of interest to (mostly) technical people.
Her youtube channel,

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWwKwNdxsTsnNauAblBafLg
Just like you don't do ANSI C there, so a similar constrained version might be possible, not much different from Pascal.

https://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal-avr
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Agreed. For me PaaS seems nice in theory until I start adding up the costs. For something that would generate revenue I'd go PaaS instead of playing sysadmin. But for my hobbies it's not worth it. I want a tiny postgres db, a tiny redis instance, a tiny bit of object storage...basically a tiny bit of everything. Maybe I'm not a good customer, I can accept that. I'm just happy it's possible to pay $5 and get a VM with 512 MB ram and 25GB of SSD storage, that would have been unthinkable $15 years ago. I have to manage everything on my own but I can run a few apps on that one VM.

To steal an old saying, VMs are cheap if your time is worth nothing. My time on weekends is worth nothing. Shrug.
That's weird! I've used it mainly on Chrome so far and I've not yet encountered this problem. Does it keep happening or was it once?
Yep but the way Facebook ads work is you can temporarily promote specific content to help it go viral more quickly.
Yes, Japanese blacksmithing and metal industry is very highly skilled to compensate the poor quality of iron ore available in the region.

The "ore" (called Tamahagane) is sandy/rocky stone material which needs to be forged repeatedly to remove impurities and get a higher carbon content in the steel. Then the forged bars are broken down, pieces sorted by carbon content and forge welded back together. This is a very labor and skill intensive process.

There was a really good blacksmithing video in YouTube about making a Katana from Tamahagane. Unfortunately I can't find it now, but my searches come up with many low quality vids on the subject.

If you're feeling adventurous, you can buy some Tamahagane sword steel ore from here:

https://www.dictum.com/en/steel-cca/japanese-sword-steel-tam...
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Intuitively, I'm not a specialist, if water desalinization with there compound was more energy efficient than the current process, they would be on course to demonstrate it. They would not be working on "water bottles [...] for outdoor activities". Since they estimate a 50% efficiency gain would make it viable, it probably consumes about 125% energy compared to the current process.
That sounds sensible. Probably really didn’t need the quality we can muster today, just quantity and capacity for repairs.

Now I’m curious and have to explore this further.
I’ve been a Toyota fan for a long time. I’m not a super rich guy so it fits my style for having some reliable and affordable.

I’ve been tempted for Tesla many times. Sure being green is cool but the complexity of engineering puts me off.

Electric cars have less moving parts. They should be more reliable and well built than a gas guzzler but I couldn’t say that for Tesla. Too many bells and whistles for my need.

Comma.ai satisfies my hands off highway autonomous needs for <$1000 on my 3 year old RAV4 hybrid.

Just great value for money.
> I'm in agreement with you that this needs to be fixed. However the fact that these problems exist in the US but not elsewhere suggests that it also has very little to do with "free market ideologies", and your insistence to the contrary regardless of the empirical evidence suggests that your approach to this is purely driven by ideology.

This is absurd. That the US is a country where business, markets, profits have been prioritized over people is blatantly obvious for everyone that's not a free market fundamentalist where every single instance of a negative outcome needs to be excused by either "it's not free enough" or "other's are actually also rather free", or ofc, put the blame on the government.

You also jump onto the wording of course. I mean it in a general sense, free market, capitalist, market oriented society that applies it to much more spheres of society than other countries. So give me a break that I'm the one "purely driven by ideology" when you're writing with a convert's fervour.

> regardless of the empirical evidence

And the differences in worker benefits and welfare (etc...) is not empirical evidence of a society that's gotten way too hooked on capitalism?

> I write software for claims processing and healthcare pricing systems for a living

In a well functioning society your job should not exist.
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> This was partly due to some very controversial and in my opinion unethical guidelines which mandated morphing instead of oxygen for certain groups of elderly (i.e. involuntary euthanasia)

This is an extremely serious accusation. I live in Sweden and have not seen any reference to this practice mentioned in media.
As always, there were crap ones and expensive ones. Same as everywhere. Also quite funny, the most expensive part, even today, of a katana from a Japanese smith is not the blade but all the other stuff.

IMHO, Katanas became or rather retained their religious status with Japan closing down and more or less freezing social development. The knighlty sowrd was somewhat replaced in that role in Europe with the introduction of firearms and the fall of Knights.
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A truely brilliant book that I too think back to regularly.
Because introducing new words with commonly agreed definitions won't help. It would go like this:

life_prolife = life begins at the conception.

life_prochoice = life begins at week 20 of the pregnancy (as an overly simplified example for the sake of argument).

Pro life: it is wrong to kill anything that has life_prolife.

Pro choice: no, it is only wrong to kill anything that has life_prochoice. It is, at least under some circumstances, ok to kill something that has life_prolife but not life_prochoice.

So of course we haven't resolved anything (which I think is your point). Rather, we have moved the discussion to which definition is the one that is relevant to use when we discuss the sanctity of life. And that is a discussion about semantics.
Well, we've been found out. My family and I don't exist. We had a good run.

EDIT: Yeah, this list is absurdly non-exhaustive. My wife's maiden name isn't even listed and it's a common English surname, noun and verb.
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What specific people were both “very fine” and marching with Unite the Right? Trump said “both sides” so there must have been some good people on both sides. But I’ve seen their live-streams. The Unite the Right crowd was loudly and consistently shouting racial slurs and calling for racial violence. A very fine person would walk away upon hearing that.

If people honestly supported history they would have asked the historians. The AHA put out a clear statement that taking down statues is not destroying history.
This looks like a problem because of faceless conversations happening over the internet. But I agree how it can be unproductive. In fact, I spent about 3 hours writing this comment. But can't technology today save us from this pit?

Why not make it fun!!!

First ingredient is a never-ending argument which the author has exhaustively talked about.

Second ingredient is a common availability of the debaters or the various debater camps.

Third ingredient is to make the "debate" for public to access live/offline.

Fourth ingredient is, we need a neutral person who can moderate and more importantly co-ordinate this. Why not ask HN-ers; its just another Ask HN post away? Is it against community guidelines? And if this person is a little elder that the debators, the much better.

The fifth and final ingredient, is a self-pledge. Towards 3 things - tolerance, civility, and, anti-social-dilemma. Think all dimensions of tolerance. Time. The relative age of the OP. What if the OP is a student or a novice? Can he/she speak English properly? Can you tolerate the way he/she speaks? Can you tolerate the speed of his/her broadband connection? Know a bit of the person's background. Can you all agree on a lingua franca? Can you not stoke any innate blood curdling racism? But once the match has begun it is going to be a "social dilemma", after-match. What if I took the wrong side of an argument and now my job prospects have all gone bad...?! It is something to expect. Which is why civility is important. At the end of the debate all parties, irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity, or, time zones, must dissolve peacefully...

I certainly don't want a 3rd world war born out of this... :)

So I am literally suggesting a death match of sorts between the debaters. I am suggesting a healthy way towards unraveling your internet-anonymity. But its important to be civil. Its important to forgo the comfort of the relative pseudo-anonymity we all seem to enjoy while arguing. And the prize is a healthy argument. Sadly we all go home and eat our own cakes. If you want solace, then, take pride in the fact that this is the normal discourse of a civilization, and, you participated in it. We will have lots to love, and, hate. But that is life.

Today, we have the means to make this happen...Google Meet, Hangouts, Zoom, etc.

If this goes as dreamed, perhaps we might see sponsors from some media outlets...that is a plate with a dash of humanity in it. It is something we all might have to live with.

So in essence, yes, the practicality of "this" can be debated. At length if need be. But I think I have covered the healthy and right way to behave on the internet - anonymously or otherwise - especially when having an argument, or, not when having an argument.

Peace out folks!! _\m/
call me a partisan, but Fox News and the Washington Times don't exactly have a reputation for "credible new sources"
Buy two slimline units. An ex colleague of mine did that years ago.
>And you are talking about "old" institutions ; new unions, for "new" kind of companies would not look the same.

European here, let's talk personal experience. The americans have a very unhealthy situation wrt unions, and i'm not surprised people with do-it-yourself and can-do attitudes common in tech are soured up to them. And my impressions are relative to polish culture, where unions are traditionally quite strong.

I was responsible for selecting several tech conferences for my boss to visit, both in USA and Europe, Middle East, and Asia. Having read most of the documents proffered, I was shocked to find the amount of red tape that was specific to union arrangements in USA, and USA only. Stands, decorations, electrics, cargo large and small. The rider of one american general contractor was the longest document I had to process across 3 continents. We're talking "young institutions" - tech conferences, organized mostly by, and for, "do it yourself" kind of people.

Were the problems insurmountable? No, certainly they were surmountable.
Did it have a sour taste and impression of a lot of wasted effort on both sides of the contract? Yes, certainly it did.
The technology developed by the French Company Carbios[1] is really promising on that matter.

This Company creates a new generation of fully biodegradable plastics with a controlled lifespan, a process enabling infinite biorecycling of plastic waste (PET) and a new biological pathway for the production of competitive biosourced polymers.

[1] https://carbios.fr/en/

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I had a similar idea: build a kind of "stackexchange" of search engines.
You start with a "generic" search engine infrastructure, and each community runs its own instance, tweaked accordingly.
This would mean:

* The community chooses what goes in the search database, the rules for the crawler etc.

* People in the community can vote on stuff, etc.

* The engine can be customized to have some "semantic" understanding of what is scraped (i.e. on a math-oriented instance, it would understand latex, in a cooking one, it would be able to parse recipes if they respect schema.org).

I really believe in this kind of concept of "user curated, community oriented" search engine, since this means taking pretty much the opposite approach to what google does, thus:

* this wouldn't compete on google's own ground ==> higher chances of success.

* you could keep more control on the data

* the engine wouldn't pull any tricks on you by trying to overfit what you meant

* lots of customization options, etc.

But I never had the energy to try and start something with the idea…
I think not because they're going to be hard to find and casual players aren't going to F5 the page all day trying to get one.
I'm watching the talk now, the way the speaker describes the things he does seems to me like hes making fun of the Silicon Valley type lifestyle. I think the talk is really great and funny, thank you for sharing !
Here's the front page from 10 years ago if people want to compare: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2010-10-07
>In public. You have that right in public. Twitter is not in public. Twitter is the equivalent to you coming into my house.

You too are muddling things a bit, and this is important and goes to the core of the point of what US 1A "rights" actually are. A person's right here encompasses not having force used against them, directly or by proxy. If you have someone as a guest in your house, they still have "the right to generally say what they wish", they cannot be criminally prosecuted, fined, and you may not just shoot them or punch them in the face or the like either. But of course you absolutely may say as you wish right back, give them the boot, refuse to help out with a cab fare (you didn't previously contract too), tell other people about it, never voluntarily associated with them ever again, etc. You may freely discriminate based on ideology. Their 1A rights don't go away in your house, and neither do yours.

And all that is "Free Speech" as well, because it's not a single solitary thing, it's a system. It's not that ideas are all equal and deserving of "fair treatment" or the like, it's that they're not, but we don't have an oracle to tell us which is which. Keeping consequences to social and economic balances some level of stability and pushing people towards what many/most consider to be good ideas while allowing room for those dedicated enough to try to go against the current accepted wisdom and convince others. A process which may well take years, decades, even centuries, but the hope is that with enough time good ideas and information will tend to succeed better then false, so long as the system remains dynamic.
It seems like a very cool thing, that's mostly inaccessible, due to being so archaic, to non kernel programmers.
Don’t forget about access to capital. The relative ease of raising rounds in the US compared to Europe due to the more concentrated networks of investment capital pushes salaries up because startups need to hire ASAP to build their product.
Again, I don't think this is the person going out of their way to get scarce launch units.
My wife and I decided to have our kid in Portugal so he could get both of our surnames without adding hyphens or changing our own surnames. If we had opted to have him in Germany we would have all had to adopt a single (probably hyphenated) "family name".
The world, a couple hundred years ago: Our world is everlasting.

You seem proud of our current predicament.

There have been huge technical advances. Incredible progress.

But equally huge destruction and incredible externalities.

You seem to enjoy fireworks.
I've said this elsewhere in this thread, but there's a difference between predictable pricing and controlling runaway costs.

Predictable pricing means that each month my bill is the same: I'm on a $15 plan, I pay $15 a month. No nickel-and-diming, no hidden fees, life is simple. This is a good thing.

Controlling costs means that no matter what happens, my costs will not exceed $x/month. Service might degrade if necessary, but I will not pay for anything above some upper limit.

Seems that DO has the former but not the latter, because if things get out of hand (caused by an attack, a bug in my code, going viral) the customer can be stuck with a bill. Alerts do not alleviate this risk. Pricing that is generally predictable does not alleviate this risk. Only a hard cap does. I want a plan that says "you have 250 GB of traffic, after which requests will fail and you'll get an email". You can make it nicer by sending me a warning email at 200GB so that I have time to upgrade my plan if I want.
Great to have you on board, commenting here and there :)
Unlocking new possibilities with Open Protocols in eMobility
Open Standards in eMobility, powered by technology take charge. With end-user needs taken into account, a good option to widely adapt to various mobility providers is no longer an option. Deloitte rep https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/uk/Documents/... forecasts:
~45,000 EV sold in 2018 (1.9% of all vehicles sold)
~7-10 million EVs in circulation by 2030
This requires ~28,000 PUBLIC Charge Points by 2030

eMobility Service Providers (eMSP) and Charge Point Operators (CPO) can cooperate on many levels, reducing costs and increasing the net.
We know very little about how the human nervous system actually works. Virtually all psychiatric illnesses and treatments lack any known mechanism- yet that doesn't prevent us from discovering effective treatments.
While this is a neat idea, isn’t it insecure against just sniffing bt mac addresses and masquerading as the correct one?
Just tell them your name is Big Dick. They always bring your order immediately by foot without name calling.
> Instead, I see people twisting themselves in knots to defend positions they would normally denounce.

This is actually a rational behaviour (in an f-ed up system/incentive).

Any admittance of failure will be used against your candidate, and the opposition will defend their candidate just as strongly. Consider how when celebs get involved in scandals their PR isn't always to admit fault.

Its the same thing of "repeat a lie enough.."; even if the defence itself is not accepted, it can still soften the blow of the scandal by resisting the death-blow of unanimous condemnation. Humans are sometimes herd creatures, visible support is a universal defence in itself, even if only to threaten/dissuade attackers.

In other words, this is how political theatre works.
Yes, but air travel is already something everyone (in the developed world) can afford. Same as almost everyone can afford a VW Golf, Ford Focus, Toyota... whatever. What Boom wants to build is the equivalent of a Ferrari or Lamborghini - it does the same thing as a normal airliner, but faster and in a more resource-consuming and therefore expensive way. And, like most people can't afford a super sports car, most people won't be able to afford a ticket for their supersonic airplanes (same as they couldn't afford a ticket for Concorde).
Other resources on feature stores that help clarify the difference and when to choose it over a data warehouse

https://medium.com/data-for-ai - several blogs discussing feature stores for machine learning

https://www.logicalclocks.com/blog/feature-store-the-missing... - in depth explanation

featurestore.org - list of all feature stores available and in production
Well, they are withholding the information needed to verify their research. That is generally frowned upon in science.

Plus, they are called OpenAI but producing a closed source product...
SBCL.
Point C is like a slap in the face of entrepreneurship by making it seem that only after X years of 'bonded labour' will these people be worthy of starting up.

All companies started off by students who came for an MS/PhD & happened to be successful were borderline of the grey-area w.r.t. laws.
I know it’s a tough pill to swallow sometimes, but best to let it go, as the site guidelines say. (For the record, I didn’t downvote your previous comment).
So I guess the answer is no, given that the first two comments are not technical comments, and while they were perhaps pithy or correct in their observations, they were not quality comments either.

Of I course I myself feel that I have been unfairly downvoted in the past, but I do have a more strict rule for when I would downvote someone than most people seem to have. On the other hand all my upvotes have been 100% totally deserved, I'm just lucky that way.
I don't think that's quite right. An early name for Steel is Wrought Iron. The Iron had to be wrought, or worked, to remove the impurities. The main one is reducing the carbon content, when the metal is folded it allows the carbon to burn off as carbon dioxide, when the process is repeated often enough you can get the carbon content down to the low single digits. Until the invention of crucible steel this was the only way of producing steel.

Certainly perhaps the Japanese steel may have contained other impurities and been harder to refine but certainly European Iron had to be worked to make Steel.
Jesus, that prebaked password on the Jive platform was really bad. Especially as one could ultimately access nearly the entirety of Apple's internal network from that.

Makes me wonder, if these guys could do it, how many Chinese industrial espionage units have?
Solving the Knapsack problem is pretty easy, it's probably the textbook example for explaining branch-and-bound algorithms. What you probably had in mind is that it's NP-complete, meaning that we don't know any polynomial-time algorithms and most experts think that none can be found, although nobody has been able to prove that (this is the famous P=NP? problem).
There were lots of people protesting on that day in support of the statue that had nothing to do with the neo-nazis and white supremacists, in exactly the same way that there were lots of people protesting against the statue who were are not affiliated with antifa.

Those are the people that Trump was presumably referring to, given that he explicitly said he was not talking about white supremacists (whom he condemned totally in the exact same speech).