skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> vape in the toilets

I am not sure how preventing them from vaping there and then would solve the root cause of the problem; they'll just vape later or learn to hide it better (and focus their resources on breaking the rules and getting away with it, as opposed to learning) and now they have an extra reason to be against you. Also, how is this problem dealt with during recess? Unless there’s someone monitoring them inside the bathroom or searching them to make sure they don’t bring any vaping products I don’t see how you can prevent someone from vaping inside a bathroom stall.

> where I've spent my break cleaning up chewing gum, spilled drinks and crumbs from students sneaking snacks

Why can't whoever made the mess be forced to clean it? That way the system would self-regulate. Those who enjoy their snacks cleanly can keep doing so, those who make a mess have to clean it up and have an incentive to not make a mess in the future if they want their snacks.

> how many of you "adults" have had to sign a code-of-conduct agreement before being allowed admittance to a tech conference or hackathon?

"Codes of conduct" are virtue signalling to appeal to some vocal minorities but I have yet to see evidence of it actually solving the real problem. Someone who wants to behave appropriately doesn't need one, and someone who wants to be a dick already intends to break the (unspoken) rules regardless of a CoC being in place.
"It might be possible to embed a C compiler into a PDF by compiling it to JS with Emscripten, for example, but then your C compiler has to take input through a plain-text form field and spit its output back through a form field."
Experts in viruses, and now in pitfalls of fame
I took the time to respond to what I felt strongly about, and maybe characterizing criticism as a "personal attack" describes how it makes you feel, but that doesn't mean that it describes what it is.
>nothing can be “centered around” anything

Not quite sure what you're getting at here but insofar as progressive education was an explicit philosophy reflected in policies and actions, it was centered.

>But most schools are not organized that way, and there’s only so much one teacher can do to buck the system. As it was, I got fired from that particular job after two years, and it wasn’t because I was too strict, certainly.

No disagreement there, and I'm sorry to hear you got fired. I'm sure your students appreciated you doing your part to make things less shitty.
Do you know of any automated way for extracting 3D objects in PDFs? My main profession is a dentist and I worked with various 3D and CAD/CAM system. I have intra-oral scanner that would capture 3D-colour model inside your mouth. The sad thing is the entire system is a walled garden. It uses its own 3D format (.dxd) and would only offer STL as an export format, which doesn’t contain any colors information.
I worked around this by first exporting to a 3D PDF file. Then I use Sumatra PDF [1] to MANUALLY extract the 3D model in u3d format.
U3D is a very obsolete format that almost no 3D authoring program can read it. So I have to use (yet another) proprietary software [2] to convert it to a common 3D format like PLY or 3DS or even to WebGL [3].

[1]: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html
[2]: http://www.finalmesh.com/
[3]: https://khoadabest.surge.sh
How could possibly something like a "Global Online Freedom Act" pass?

This would only mean that US companies would get banned from most countries shortly thereafter. I don't think US companies would like that.
Six months is a pretty long time. Whether vaccine or PS5, six months is more than long enough to enable you to sell at peak price.
Ah, error on my part. Firehose is correct.
It’s a pick your poison situation. Reputation may have been damaged (who knows really, masses seem to forget rather quickly nowadays) but the alternative might just have caused a lot more trouble.
That is a huge oversimplification.
According the Chinese study there is no asymptomatic transmission. So most of the numbers do not even make sense.

Transmission within a masked & lockdown population is still large. Does not even seem to change... Because there is no asymptomatic transmission. We need quarantine instead of sick people.
Masks have health side-effects, because 99% of people do not follow the OSHO safety standards.

The transmission within a household between partners has an average of 27%. Another extremely weird number.
Did the tests give false positives? Is the disease misidentified?
Or did the others already have T-cell herd-immunity?

So the real question is: What is causing transmission?

And note the R does not show that at all, and focusing on that gives us the wrong solutions.

There may be other factors that create a high transmission. Some doctors listed an extreme long survival time of the virus (up to 16 days under good conditions). So maybe it transmits mainly via surfaces and not via the air.

That might explain why it can spread within a population under a military lockdown.
But that latter might also be explained with the false positives from a PCR test (or similar test). Or the natural immunity of most people creating partial herd-immunity within the population.
Hoarding masks would have been the sort of response that the author is railing against (a hoarded mask isn't doing anything to get R down), except that, being a free-market response, it would not have served the author's purpose as a parable extolling the wisdom of markets.

Asking people not to hoard masks would have been no more effective than it was for toilet paper - I would guess less effective, in fact.
I use qutebrowser in one-window-per-tab mode and EXWM[1] as my window manager (with ivy for switching buffers). It still needs some more integration but currently is my favorite solution to this problem.

[1]: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading

Until HN has something other than just downvoting this isn't true.

If I make a point that doesn't fit the HN groupthink, and it gets downvoted without response, I always mention it because I know people linger around the thread and I want to challenge their assumption that my point is so false as to not deserve specific counterargument.
Show HN: C++ Makefile Example
Calling somebody sheltered is objectively a personal attack on this forum.
>It’s not negative to call out someone else’s negativity.

That's not what I was referring to. I was referring to the actual negative statements you made about the author:

>Some people just want to find negativity in the world.

>I'm going to take a wiiiiild guess here that the author's personal peak was around 1996.

>It's just a reaction to 'the kids' coming after him not being up to how good he (mis) remembers the past.

>This negativity is a disappointing and growing trend among some grumpy old men in our field as that generation approach retirement.

That's not "calling out" negativity. That's a list of snark, broad insult, and generalizations with no supporting information. It's rude, discriminatory, and serves only to diminish the overall quality of discussion.
However TSMC is a direct creation of the Taiwanese government.

In 1985 Morris Chang was recruited by
the Taiwanese government to help develop
the emerging semiconductor industry. In
1986 Morris joined the Hsinchu based non
profit research institute ITRI as Chairman
and President and launched what would be
TSMC’s first semiconductor wafer
fabrication plant on the ITRI campus.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Ltd. was officially formed in 1987 as a
joint venture between the Taiwan government
(21%), Dutch multinational electronics
giant Philips (28%), and other private investors.

https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/tsmc/1539-a...
2020 Book Review
I mean yes, in so far as any statement about philosophy is a philosophical commitment, but that kind of feels like nitpicking no?

In very real ways Godel's Incompleteness Theorems do not address truth. Their proofs are purely syntactic rather than semantic.

> and again, not one shared by Gödel or the logicist program.

The logicist program is a bit tricky to pin down; the major figures associated with it either were no longer active in mathematical logic by the time of Godel's result (e.g. Russell) or were but never made any response to them (e.g. Hilbert).

However, we know Godel's take on the matter. In particular I don't think this is an accurate account of Godel's own viewpoint. It is clear Godel clearly believed that there were mathematical truths that could not be expressed by formal systems.

However, it is also clear that Godel acknowledges this to be an additional philosophical commitment. Godel himself cleanly states this in his 1951 Gibbs Lecture.

> Does it [his incompleteness theorems, in particular his second one] mean that no well-defined system of mathematics can contain all of mathematics proper? It does, if by mathematics proper is understood the system of all true mathematical propositions; it does not, however, if one understands by it the system of all demonstrable mathematical propositions. I shall distinguish between these two meanings of mathematics as mathematics in the objective and in the subjective sense.

Godel is pointing out that his incompleteness theorems require an additional philosophical commitment to "objective" or "subjective" mathematics in order to make a statement on truth (what he refers to as "true" in his comment already demonstrates his own predilection towards "objective" mathematics being the correct philosophical commitment, but the important point here is that he is making the distinction).

As a footnote, Godel's notion of mathematical truth is an extremely strong Platonist position that I don't think most HN commentators would agree with (at least at the beginning; they may be swayed to come around to it). Godel believed there were no truly independent mathematical statements, only ones temporarily independent of our limited set of axioms. Every mathematical statement is either true or false. For example, the continuum hypothesis will be definitively decided one way or the other (if I recall Godel ultimately estimated the continuum hypothesis to be false).
Yes, but you will take cold winter any day over the summer bugs. Lot of water and enough black flies and mosquitoes to drive fully grown moose insane.
There's a big difference between "we're not making spare parts for your car anymore" and "we put a thermite charge in your car's engine, and we're remotely detonating it the day that we stop making spare parts for it".
There are plenty of crimes that are totally victimless for which we as a society "punish" people. I think you're right that the average person wants punishment for someone who has wronged them, but (for reasons only God knows) I think the average person also wants punishment for people that haven't wronged them at all, but just did something they think is immoral. I'll never forget seeing a neighbor call the cops on my friend who was smoking a joint in her own car. He only knew she was doing it because he was trespassing on her property. I couldn't believe someone would be such a dick to another person. I sure hope we can change cause what we do now is sick.
>> I get very angry

Freudian slip?
"This is tricky. GoodReads doesn't let you send messages to your friend connections."

Yes, it does. There is a button saying "more" below the name and next to the photo of your friend. Click the down arrow, and "Message" comes up. Click it and send a message to your friend.
> if you do not understand that then it is because you live in a very sheltered world

This is the part which is a personal attack. You have some time to edit your comment to restate that, if you're up for it. :)
Responding to somebody's life experience with "maybe the people you spoke to were lying" is more a statement about what your priors are than a substantive contribution to a conversation.
> This seems very circular to me. If they don't build very effective antibodies, they shouldn't be putting much selective pressure on the virus, because if they did, they'd be more effective in the first place.

If a normal person generates a dozen types of antibodies to the vaccine's spike protein, and a couple types are strongly sterilizing...

And you happen to have an immune response where you generate 8/12 of these, and only one of the strongly sterilizing variant, and you are more prone to become infected as a result...

Then, once infected, the virus will be under selective pressure during your illness to escape some of those 8 antibodies. In turn, whomever you spread it to will have a harder time.

> Maybe multiple vaccines mitigates this a bit...

Maybe. But the portion of the spike protein they're expressing and the resulting antibody profiles look very similar.

> Given Jan-Mar 2019, I have little faith that the US would ever be in a position to fully eradicate even a small remaining bit, and it would instead fester and mutate in this scenario until exploding again.

Yes, but one silver lining is that there would still be some immunity / cross-reactivity / t cell mediated immunity, etc. People would still be less likely to have severe illness, I believe.
Authoritarianism in schools sucks, but bathroom privileges aren't a great comparison.

In the US, most prisons have an open, bare toilet in the cell shared by a few cell mates. Even if one can technically use it whenever, according to what @throwaway998662 says, in practice this means you can only crap during the 1-2 hours a day when your cell mate(s) are gone.

Yeah, you could get a capricious teacher that says "no" when you ask, but that doesn't seem like much in comparison to the degradation and potential for violence of using the toilet in prison...
WIP.. So its not 'failed' yet nor plan to..
Learnt coding because I had free time (COVID) and wanted to involve son into STEP aspects of coding. Then, I saw machine learning as a motivation for side hustle; learnt some of the better libraries out there and applied in the area of sports predictions. Saw incredible success and planned on pivoting to sports betting and now we have a steady consumption of our algorithim output.
So, we are currently 'sharing' our success with others but plan to monetize it later.
Figuring that part out.
> A silent majority?

Highly doubtful as HN doesn't have downvotes on stories. Given the comment threads, I find it much more likely that a small minority of folks with a similarly curmudgeonly outlook as the author upvoted the story, and the majority is calling out the author on his BS.
All of these things sound like something a tightly controlled vertical farm could reproduce at will, once they figure out the mechanics. They could even come up with new, even more preferred, "terroirs", by adjusting settings.
As the author says "... it’s tough to hack together a demo in a few weeks, get users, and bootstrap / apply to some accelerator like in many software projects". So the financial rewards don't seem to be there in robotics startups. And as a result it seems that engineers in the field aren't paid that well compared to software developers, despite it being highly technical and requiring a rather vast skillset. Will that ever change (the financial part)?
What we call “lived experience” today used to be called, “an anecdote,” and what brought me to places like HN, actually, is that the kind of people who came here understood why we distinguish such statements from data. (There’s a pithy aphorism to this effect, which you may be familiar with.)

The grandparent comment here is very good and I agree with all of it — comparing prison to high school is risible, at best — but that doesn’t mean we should fetishize expression of personal experience above any other kind of comment.
Dude go talk to a work comp attorney. You don’t have to pay up front and this is a textbook stress claim, esp if six months employment. It’s sad nobody knows their rights. Your first clue is the fact that they were pressuring you to resign. NEVER RESIGN.

It sad he will be dealing with this stress for life but never thought that he should at least consult with an attorney??? THIS IS AMERICA. You think HR and those idiots are going to help you??

Anyone who has to deal with this crap, call an attorney!
The lowest hanging fruit today is just avoiding harmful things.
This is a good example of why the arbitrary system of nations restricting free trade by deciding who is allowed to work where is a method specifically designed to aid in this type of exploitation.
I don't think Marcuse should be taken lightly on this point. As a Jew during the second world war and an immigrant to the US, he worked with Adorno and others who regularly (and correctly, in my opinion) viewed the Holocaust as humanity's greatest horror and a turning point of modernity.
Desalination is a good tech to put some research into now as opposed to when climate change happens too quickly for us to adapt.

Another poster pointed out it’s not popular because it’s not needed right now, which I agree with, but it will probably be a tech our race relies on to survive in the coming centuries. We were too slow to act on climate change.
While we're being hyperbolic and unhelpful, guess what? If you leave kids to their own devices they will play video games and watch Til Tok all day. Good luck with that.
Sounds like that guy is a control freak. Some people are like that.

They don't seem to improve the world, when they do crap like this. :(
Where did you see that? What I remember seeing from the WHO and CDC was that wearing a mask wouldn't prevent you from catching the disease, period.
> not for those who were wronged in the first place

What a shitty and presumptuous assumption to make.
How many hundreds of thousands of dollars would it take to lose against Apple?

Obviously there's a chance but this is literally like taking on Oceania from 1984 - Apple's apple-isms and the famous reality distortion field really do make the comparison slightly alarming, thinking about it.
There are toll-free hotlines for reporting teachers engaging in child abuse.

Obstructing a child from using the bathroom who needs to is a form of abuse. If that teacher then physically restrains or otherwise contacts/touches the child to prevent them, especially if it culminates in their wetting/soiling themselves, this starts resembling something along the lines of sexual abuse.

If there's one thing the USA can be relied on it's both society and the law leaning heavily in the direction of protecting the children, to a fault.

This situation is literally just a phone call away from completely ruining the teacher's career if not life.
I don't think there's any indication that this issue is new to the pandemic, is there?

I also don't have any strong opinions about this particular topic, and there could very well be some other explanation. I'm just generally remarking on the common expression of such confusion at other people acting suboptimally; sometimes it's just because most people aren't all that smart or thoughtful.
Yes, I'm aware, but what about vaccinating restaurant, grocery, pharmacy, and meat packing workers?
The original virus and the mutation compete for survival in a host body with a partially effective vaccination.

If you generate only a subset of the typical complement of antibodies that a vaccinated individual does, and are less protected and become infected as a result... then any virus variants that emerge within your body that escape any of your antibodies will have a fitness advantage. In turn, that virus will have an advantage spreading to other vaccinated individuals, too.

It is a low probability event in each individual, but if you generate enough individuals like this and infect them all, it's sure to happen eventually. We can't really estimate what the probability of this happening is, but it's certainly less likely if the efficacy is high and there's less disease circulating.
heh, well, by "important" i meant like freedom, justice, and the continued existence of humanity. but like i was saying up-thread, i think software quality is important, and in that sense, ubiquitous and accessible type safety definitely seems like a Good Thing. i guess they might even help keep us out of trouble in those "important" areas.

EDIT: actually, you kinda cheered me up :)
You'll be much happier with the career results of taking care of this yourself rather than waiting for someone else to do it.

I've seen too many people become embittered waiting for someone else.
It's a very hard read. It took me several times to get into it.
So you’re saying prison is simply a deterrent for the unimprisoned? So it’s okay there is rape and murder in there because it makes people stay on the right side of the law on the outside of prisons? Is that what you’re saying or am i misunderstanding?

I think it’s best for a society to implement policies to reduce crime not to scare people into complying with the law. The alternative is quite negative. Also, let’s remind ourselves that people are imprisoned in the US for stupid things like smoking pot, not paying tickets, scared into guilty pleas. Some of those people harden and become career criminals in prison and in the end it results in more crime.
>Highly doubtful as HN doesn't have downvotes on stories. Given the comment threads, I find it much more likely that a small minority of folks with a similarly curmudgeonly outlook as the author upvoted the story, and the majority is calling out the author on his BS.

Well that's just it, isn't it? The silent majority would be silent -- they would not be those commenting.
I don’t know what to tell you apart from

> Since 1996 almost everything has been cleverly repackaging and re-engineering prior inventions

seems like an ignorant attack on thousands of people’s professional competence and a veiled insinuation of deceit (the ‘clever repackaging and re-engineering’) and

> Suddenly, for the first time ever, programmers could get rich quick

sounds like a moral attack. All in all it’s a shitty thing to say to people. And there’s more and more grumpy people trying to tell young computer science researchers today that they’re useless and have no new ideas like this.

Have you been to a CS conference recently? You may be missing the context that these people are everywhere criticising everyone for not being as innovative as they remember they were.

It’s damaging and not true either. No thanks!
It is not significantly costlier to recycle.

The problem is that there is no money to be made from selling recycled styrofoam since it is competing with products that are themselves extremely cheap. If we imposed a high enough tax on the original product, then it would be cost effective. However we still have the trouble that we have to collect it, separate it out from other wastes in the waste stream, and so on.

So we could recycle styrofoam. But we don't because it is not cost effective to do so. So it is viewed as unrecyclable. And for that reason we have replaced it with things that are even less recyclable.
I absolutely intended to tell an entire category of people that they were sheltered. I disagree with you, but it's true that I've certainly seen the term appear within the context of a personal attack in the past, so I agree that if I had found a better way in which to express my anger and disapproval then that would have been preferable.
Seems like the author used Debian over buildroot because of package manager availability. You can still get a package manager in buildroot.
Could you provide more examples of companies that value companies and do not treat them as "head count" / "human resources" / interchangeable cogs?

Valve?
> for TSMC gigafactory

I thought 'gigafactory' was coined by Tesla/Elon?
Thanks for posting in this thread. I've read all of your comments.

If prison is as horrible as you describe, why do you think it's not much of a deterrent?