skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not necessarily a bad observation but if you look at a lot of dependent observations then you can't simply count the number of observations.

I mean sure 'it has never decreased' is slightly stronger than just the fact that it increased over 2 independent 5 year time periods, but that's mostly because 'it has increased' is a pretty weak observation. The information it adds is that it must have increased quite a bit, which you already knew.

So rather than a bad observation it just doesn't tell you much, hence my tongue in cheek observation that they're basing decisions on the basis that it has happened 'twice'.
It could be argued that they use it precisely because of the ambiguity. The word retains an aura of taboo and evil and one of the worst things a person can be. Then you redefine it to use it against a broader set of people but continue to harvest the power of the previous connotation. A variant of the euphemism treadmill. Instead of dropping a tarnished word and transitioning to a clean fresh one to describe the same thing, you keep using the tarnished word but for a different thing.

Closely related is the "motte and bailey" tactic: depending on the situation you sometimes use the word in an milder sense (new meaning of racist, "we are all a little bit racist", it's just unconscious biases or beliefs about any difference between races), but when people aren't looking you switch definitions (old definition, worst possible thing, "some races must be subjugated and kept away from our social circles as they are subhuman and incapable of participation by their nature and will poison our bloodline").

Indeed many critics of the new social justice movements would have this as the main argument: that SJ uses equivocation in this way as the rule, not the exception.
I'm not arguing that, it is literally factually true. He says he won't give it to anyone else, then goes on to list the person he's giving it to.
> So you have access to other information, just not very trustworthy.

This is equally visible to the liar; you don't have any information that they don't also know about and can control for.

[I already edited this in the original post for attempted clarity, apologies for any confusion]
Do you use Expedia Kotlin GraphQL client on Adroid?

Does it supports subscriptions over websockets?

If yes, which transport/protocol does it use for that?

Did you considered using native Apollo Client with Kotlin on Android?
Is this film available for viewing (free or paid)?
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Vertical farms don't feed people. They are basically a solution to just in time delivery for restaurants and nothing else.

all They grow are great salad crops. Thats about it. If you're going holistic, you can farm fish at the same time. But that introduces a load of complications.

Look, if you want to make the world a better place you need to:

1) come up with a simple system that can create good quality soil (think Terra preta, but different blends for different regions of the world)

2) make a multch that is cheap, safe and sustainable, so normal farmers can reduce water loss

3) create a cheap fast robot that can remove weeds

4) same again but for pests.

5) make a system of payments that allows both mixed crops (ie fruit/lumber/nuts) as well as livestock and arable.

Out of all of them 5 is the hardest. Its also the one that will have the biggest impact on climate (mixed land holds the most water, regulates heat and captures the most carbon, it also can have the lowest yield.)
> After I was a few Units in (3) and thus financially obligated to pay the ISA, they removed core components of the program.

> Where a mentor was paid to mentor you, you are now forced to mentor other students and vice versa.

So Lambda School is essentially an bait-and-switch pyramid scheme purporting to be an educational institution?

For-profit schools are scams in general, but this one sounds particularly scammy and unpleasant.

I'm not surprised to see it's being backed by YC. Yet another example of venture capitalists using their vast wealth to greedily build even more wealth, no matter who is abused in the process.
> 3) The increasing centralization of control over new media in a handful of large technology companies [...]

> 4) The lack of collective immunity to viral forms of political disinformation on new media platforms [...]

Are these new points, or are is it just that the gatekeepers are changing? Arguably media is now _less_ centralised than its ever been. Before it was just a handfull of newspapers and tv companies, and now while we still have the same 'tranditional media' companies (who've gone through their own megers, acquisitions, and breakups) there are now all the tech companies as well getting into media, as well as all the independent orgs/voices (who might be beholded to bigger tech platforms, like Youtube)
As a slight tangent, there have been restrictions on advertising that might affect views from the River Thames in London that date back more than 100 years. In an effort to circumvent these restrictions, a company name was incorporated into brickwork features of what's known as the "Oxo Tower" - Oxo being a brand of stock cubes.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxo_Tower#History
From Moxie:

> This (was!) an article about "advanced techniques" Cellebrite uses to decode a Signal message db... on an unlocked Android device! They could have also just opened the app to look at the messages.

> The whole article read like amateur hour, which is I assume why they removed it.

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1337434126186553345
There have been cities that have banned all forms of outdoor advertising (such as billboards)! Here's some links you might like:

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...

https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/adblocking-the-globa...

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-ki...

A gallary of Tokyo stripped of advertising: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2015/aug/12/tokyo...
As soon as I get ramen profitable, yes, I'd like to. Will make a public commitment once I have enough customers to cover rent.

If I cross $250K a month I think I can commit to something like 15% voluntary royalties. And I'm happy to hire engineers and contribute to Ghost when we're not in the middle of support tickets.

EDIT: I mean $250K a year.
Once you're in, why not forget about the quality and problems and just follow the program?

I have only ever gone to low level state schools, but one of my instructors told me that he wasn't there to teach me. He was there to guide me through the curriculum. That stuck.

Stick to the program, sweat out the X months. You'll come out as close to a programmer / designer / X as you would from any other path aside from some sort of paid internship where you can teach yourself on the job.

You could teach yourself. Many do. But most will not.
I built one too, made out of wood (particle board). Arrows are spring loaded and when you step on it, it bottoms out on a metal bar, which make contact with another metal bar on the bottom side of the arrow. Ugly, noisy, but worked really well.

For the electronics I just took a cheap gamepad and soldered the wires from the sensors to the button traces. Cheaper is usually better here. The gamepad was still functional, so I could use it to select songs and things like that.
I got drawn into Lambda School at the peak of their hype early last year and considered myself extremely fortunate when I got admitted into one of their pilot EU classes. Suffice it to say that the reality was...significantly poorer than advertised. Not only because of the much-discussed reasons which are true, but most importantly for me because they lied about having hiring partners in Europe when they didn't, and left the students to fend for themselves after graduating. Most of the students saw this happen with earlier cohorts and there was a steady trickle of dropouts while I was there. To top it off, around October last year, LS suddenly announced that they would be "pausing" the EU programs indefinitely to "focus on improving the student experience" which seriously drained student morale. I'm pretty sure no more than 35% of students who enrolled to Lambda EU have jobs currently and since they're not as loud as the Americans, their plight isn't really highlighted. Most of the students who managed to get hired either did it on their own, or were previously experienced and came to Lambda to improve their prospects. I managed to get a job through my own means, but would unequivocally consider enrolling to LS a mistake, and it's telling that they've not bothered to follow up with me for ISA payments.

Addendum:
This was the kind of delusional fever dream perpetuated by Austen that kind of attracted me to LS last year:

https://www.coursereport.com/blog/lambda-schools-europe-inco...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/people/after-us-india-wi...
This sounds very similar to the phone network that the Chaos Computer Club uses at their events, the biggest one being the Chaos Communication Congress. Everyone who wants can bring a DECT or GSM phone and register a 4-digit extension, and each congress, several thousand people do. The whole venue, as well, as some nearby hotels, are littered with DECT and GSM base stations. There's also bidirectional interconnectivity to the regular phone network. It's always one of my favorite parts of Congress, but it has kind of ruined me since I have trouble taking tech conferences without their own phone network seriously. :)

(Cave-at: I'm not involved with the technical implementation. I just know the system as a user.)
Wikipedia's definition is great but is naturally focused on the social details rather than its nature as an inherently devolving system of resource management. Still it's coverage of how they fall apart is good AFA the system problems.

I suppose I should update more wikipedia entries, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_tree

References an early example of such a problem article: "Binary Tree". An outrageous use of metaphor that should clearly have been named "Data is in no way an oak".
If they are able to produce a Rucola/Rocket, Baby Spinat or Lacusta salad cleaned and packaged for less than 200 kr/kg (27 euros), they will be making significant amount of money. (or anyone else who does it for that matter)
i've done this more than once. nobody cares about a toy i made or its website, even if it looks pretty and i'm proud of it.
Wait, insulin is in demand in a way comparable to illicit drugs? Can't it easily be accessed through prescription?
> we usually describe operations on sets as taking the whole set as an argument, not in terms of what happens with each individual member.

That's something that array languages did right.
The bill is an implementation of an EU directive [0] which was ratified in November 2018. All EU member states will have to transpose it into national law.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/audiovisual-me...
Control.

Even at the lowest level of management, people will do things that enhance their control and power at the expense of goodwill or even functioning of the business.
It's redefining words to retain "the punch", while being able to use it widely.

This is how Google now ended up being called "white supremacist" for firing a black AI ethicist (it was retweeted by a director of AI at Nvidia).

You can say (with a straight face?) that's just how language evolves, but I would find that deeply cynical.
Completely off topic, but this is a pet peeve of mine:

> > Similarly with the boy or girl question, "no" may be stillborn.

> The sex is set at conception.

Not necessarily - at conception, the cells could be XX, XY, but also XXY (not to mention, they could be X- or -Y). After conception, chymerism could occur, where XX and XY twins become conjoined and a single fetus develops having both XX and XY chromosomes in different parts of the body - the sex will mostly be determined by which DNA is used when forming the gonads. It could also end up developing both kinds of gonads. But even if the fetus develops testicles, there is a chance that it has some kind of testosterone resistance and ends up with a completely female phenotype. Of course, there is also a possibility that no gonads are developed. This is all staying well in the realm of biological sex, and disregarding other hormonal complications that could happen based on what the mother is doing and her health, and disregarding any morphological abnormalities that could cause surface-level confusion between biologically male and female sexual organs.
Good thing we will have DoH to secure malware from being detected, thanks Mozilla
With the caveat that security backports go into RHEL first and then into Stream.
Varieties have long been selected to optimize industrial constraints, production, distribution ... Ripe often means colorful, perfumed, tasty, sweet ... and fragile.

Some tomatoes won’t ever get good. They just don’t produce the compounds necessary, have thick skin, etc.

However growing a decent variety in a vertical farming style would produce better tasting fruits.

Collecting ripe fruits with machines is however difficult.
Surely though, for a given total light intensity, dark mode allows for much higher contrast than the corresponding light mode?
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> leading to IoC containers, leading to lots of tools to assemble, intercept and rewrite code at execution time.

Yeah, as a (mostly, currently) java programmer this is where the whole "framework" ecosystem loses me.

Dependency injection - absolutely. Really useful, I can have a setup method that reads config from the environment or wherever, sets up various things and passes them in (you need an SSL context associated to these CAs? Great. And you need one that needs mutual authentication? OK then, here's one I made earlier) . Makes testing easier, and makes it obvious where the setup is being done and how this stuff hangs together.

But 'full' IoC with a framework injecting stuff at runtime? Why? This just obfuscates as far as I can tell, and works around the language, making it harder to conceptualise and reason about.

(Also yes, I don't subscribe to interface-itis).
So you’re correct in saying you’d need more information to draw conclusions, but the big concern at this point in time is that we really have no idea what impact this has. This is potentially much worse than eating a bunch of plastic one time that you’ll ultimately pass right on through (given that these are microscopic particulates in the digestive tract).

In essence the big concern here is cancer. We know that particulates at or around 0.3 microns (the Most Penetrating Particle Size) have been linked to a variety of abdominal cancers in humans throughout the last hundred years.

Critically, these types of cancers can take up to 50 years to form and cause serious enough problems to be detected (and seldom less than a couple of decades), so although billions of people have consumed micro-plastics, we still have no way of knowing what impact that will have on their health in later years.

This is exactly what happened in the case of asbestos - it took so long for the consequences to show up after exposure that it seemed far-fetched to draw a correlation between asbestos and the cancers it caused. When coupled with cover-ups of the evidence by mining companies, the common use of asbestos skyrocketed long after it was known how deadly it was in private - but before public awareness had sounded alarm bells.

The worry is that accumulated micro-plastics could be deadly in later life, but that we don’t find that out until hundreds of millions of people have become terminally ill.
https://ecologycenter.org/factsheets/adverse-health-effects-...
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Both objectives can be worked on at the same time. I don't really like that argument. We could say "let's end hunger first then focus on computer games, or beer, or vacations, etc". Ending world hunger is way more important than those things but you can't expect we stop doing them to focus on something that is already being addressed but is very complex.
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The languages that last in a through-the-ages sense tend to be conspicuously small and own their domains well. Regular expressions are one such example - there are a few variations of syntax, but the basic idea has never changed, so it hasn't experienced the kind of drift you have when you're looking at a large ecosystem with lots of dependencies like browser JavaScript. Data serialization languages like CSV and JSON fall in this category too - they're simple enough to be used poorly, but that's also what makes them good enough.

Once you start looking at big applications languages that integrate a lot of features, it's a great wad of maintenance effort that you're hoping someone else mostly takes care of. None of them are really all that stable over the long run.

And there really are two kinds of code projects - the ones where you're maintaining it and the ones where someone else is maintaining it. If your work is open-source and popular you can end up being more of a maintainer than you anticipated, and really, you only have headspace for one or two of those maintenance projects, so while they're good learning experiences, you don't want to take them on lightly.
Such systems help you get the structure of things up into YOUR head, so it becomes a mental ladder for YOU.
The main shared network folder for my company is organised like this, it makes it easy to figure out "do we have X/anything about X", and it makes it easy to figure out where to put stuff.
We have other systems, e.g. a wiki, but cruft accumulates in the wiki, because no employee can grasp what's in it, the wiki is just a black bag of "lots of stuff someone put in there at some point". Because the clutter isn't visible, nobody feels an urge to clean it up.
They can still just split and launder the money, the mechanics are not interesting
It’s going to be genuinely fascinating how the Reddit communities react to this. I know a lot of the more obviously objectionable people have moved to other places now but I find it fascinating that Reddit is trying to chase an entirely different demographic. For me, Reddit’s core product is broken and they seem to have no interest in fixing it. I find it hard to see Reddit co-existing with Dubsmash. Maybe they just pivot?
6) reduce waste, stop feeding meat instead of people
And this is just common sense, I guess? If I wind up hurting the project that would be killing the goose that's laying the golden egg. I'm trying to make good software accessible to people who couldn't use it otherwise. The Fortune 500 will still use the official Ghost Pro offering, I don't have any doubts about that.
Show me a single project where the functional specs were complete when given to the developers and external concerns didn't dictate any implementation details. All of the projects I've been on have had changing specs, right up to and through release.

I love the architecture weenie role. It's tons of fun. But eventually you need to build something and only with experience do you discover the first set of complications, then marketing starts promising features and you've got the next, and management refuses to allocate more time.

Did you do something wrong at step 1 by building a prototype before knowing it would be perfect? And if so, how could you know that and what would you do to get there?

I write the code, and tag releases, but I don't determine what ships. I, and 95% of us, are not engineers and even those who are have abrogated their responsibility to make the bridge stand - we're all just building individual struts because someone told management that things done in a vacuum will all fit together properly in the end.

So I agree I guess, but don't at the same time.
Well, one would presume our own nation state could, for starters.
"Possession is nine-tenths of the law."
Of course you could teach yourself, but why pay 30 k for the pleasure of doing that?
Testing against external dependencies is only one form of testing.

Unit testing with mocks is another form. One does not replace the other.
> It’s very unlikely you will end up with a hundred categories.

The Internet Advertising Bureau uses a similar structure to categorise things. For example:

- IAB20 Travel

- IAB20-1 Adventure Travel

- IAB20-2 Africa

The problem is that sometimes you cannot find an appropriate category despite there being hundreds of them defined.
I knew that someone would point that out..

But I figured most mathematicians are IT people, too. But there is at least also a third group: philisophers. They have formal logic, too (in university), but seldom math.

So in the spirit of the joke:

"Only to IT people though. "

Would have to be:

"Only to IT people and/or math people and/or philosophers, though. "

Desire for formal correctness satisfied?
$30K is the loan which is usually 1-2% APR. In Finland, which more or less copies Sweden policies, also gives you subsidized housing (50% or around 250€, which ever is less, median where I went to was around 400€ for 1bd apartment), subsidized food (2€ lunch and dinner every day of the week, median lunch when eating out is around 10€), and around another 250€ a month in general student aid. There are also a lot miscellaneous student discounts for public transportation and it is common for private companies to also offer a slight discount to students only.
There's some give and take over time, I grant. But compare the situation today not to the 1950's, but to the early 2000's, when there was a thriving ecosystem of independent blogs and bookstores, to today, where a few big media platforms host the lion's share of conversation, and Amazon dominates book sales.

I think it was easier to maintain an independent voice 15-20 years ago.
https://www.ibroadcast.com is a real dark horse.
Fills the same role that Google Play music did for me - uploaded library with streaming and cached offline playback.

Upload your own collection, they've fairly powerful web and android apps. Various upload clients

Currently free - they promise a free plan going forward.

Been around for years, I don't use it as I've been waiting for them to deliver some concrete plan for monetisation before committing to the upload, but I've been following the project.
That was a fun read. Was that original research? Great job if so.
You don't need me to get on that bandwagon. I almost despise mocks.

Mocks usually over-specify implementations by setting up expectations of a specific implementation conversation rather than an outcome. They're painful to debug after refactoring implementation - they end up write-only - and they generally inhibit refactoring of the mocked API - often mocked instances of APIs outnumber production invocations.

I try to encourage people to replace control flow with data flow where possible; messages, command objects rather than method calls; iterators, streams and consumers composed together, rather than loops. Data flow can normally be trivially redirected into a container, and if the data objects are simple inert immutable tuples, they're trivial to construct as inputs or assert against on outputs.

Fakes are good too, better than mocks in most situations, since they are easier to refactor.

Although, IME, integration tests, while slow and often brittle (especially if you have any async components and define failure conditions in terms of timeouts), have a significant upside in permitting large factoring while still being able to test a substantial amount of end result functionality (i.e. the stuff that matters, not implementation details).
Denmarks only source of fresh water comes from their ground water. They do not have water shortage, but still.