skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can safely siphon gasoline by sucking the end of a hose but it didn’t come without gas in my mouth many times first. And don’t inhale you are priming it with creating a negative pressure in your mouth but don’t actually inhale. You should not be getting gas in your mouth if done correctly. I have had a lot of cars die on a full tank of gas and not wanting to waste have had my share of syphoning. A clear hose helps as well but often lack the rigidity to get around corners or bends before the tank. Now they have Gastapper a gas transfer pump that runs off 12 volts. It comes with everything to take that gas even the stuff needed to bypass the springs and such newer cars have blocking hoses.
A lot of people decide to become pilots or work for the army.
The problem right now is this strategic asset is so strategic for everyone, Softbank can't sell it to any single entity unless there's some guarantee of ARM's continued independence and impartiality.
Any time CDs/CD-ROMs (as opposed to DVDs) are discussed, I get really nervous unless someone explicitly confirms that the tool being used handles XA/2352-bytes-per-sector data correctly. Supposedly cdrdao will.[1]

DVDs are for the most part pretty easy to duplicate identically. CDs have a lot of quirks, and it's very easy to end up with a useless "backup". Especially if the file format is ISO instead of bin/cue or similar. If one is trying to duplicate CDs/CD-ROMs, it's really vital to cross all your Ts and dot all your Is.

[1] https://consolecopyworld.com/psx/psx_copy_patch_linux.shtml
I'm not sure how to read that as mocking the left - unless the author is saying that liberals commonly overstate Japan's isolationist ideals and tendencies for xenophobia. Even if that was the author's intent, it's a pretty minor mock compared to being associated with ideals of racial purism.
There's literally a 3D button.
> Micropayments are a hassle for any system that has people, actual human organisms, being responsible for a gazillion of small transactions.

When you visit any website, a dozen or so companies are charged tiny amounts of money for showing their ads to you. Charging a single entity, the reader, is much less complicated. So it's not a technical limitation.
> It’s strange that even today, people are still not aware they should be using ad blockers with as many lists as they could live with.

No, it's strange (or rather, it's sad and shameful) that we've allowed the web to become an environment where this attitude even needs to be considered.
This post mirrors my feeling on this topic as well. Just like the author, I'm also working on a programming language which will not be used by a lot of people.

In fact, having a lot of users would make things complicated as I would have to stop making incompatible changes if I want to try something new.

Designing your own programming language is such a nice hobby, and something I believe a lot of programmers do. In fact, I would like to see links to other people's programming languages, just to see what people are playing around with at the moment.

Here is my project: https://github.com/lokedhs/array
I like the software, but I'm not entirely sure about the Comparisons page. I mean, are the top images just default raw->jpeg conversions of some kind?
Because I'm quite sure I'd be able to achieve the same final result in Affinity Photo (which is what I use, Mac here).

Is it that Filmulator gets me there with less fiddling? Or does it give me less sliders to mess things up with?
> The team also continues to look at the possibility of extracting other, lower-concentration materials from the brine stream, he says, including various metals and other chemicals

Lithium from desalination brines seems to be one potential (and promising) such [0], environmentally better in more than one way than the current methods of lithium mining [1].

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313372304_Towards_l...

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environmen...
The tone of the comment is very whiny. There’s this sense of the poster feeling threatened by other people’s preferences. An article discussing how a lot of young people prefer cities is somehow “berating” them. It’s a small-minded and insecure attitude. I know we are not supposed to discuss downvotes on this forum, but that is why people are downvoting it.
Make Boring Plans
The Fell Types
Docker is the best thing to ever happen to scientific computing yet there is so much griping from the old guard. Trying to make a hermetic, CI/CD, within-machine-epsilon reproducible computer vision pipeline opened my eyes to just how un-reproducible your average machine learning project really is. Especially those coming from academia.

"Oh the PhD pinned to a nightly version of some dep and the AUC score plummets when you try to upgrade and customer wants this latest model in production on airgapped machines last week? Aight, stick their Conda env in a container, call it with `docker run`, and sort it out later"

Horrifying? Yes. Solving the problem on short notice? Also yes.

Plenty of more pedestrian uses but that was an actual situation where docker's reproducibility saved my bacon.
It is more like high school pressure to conform
Yep, it does - the underlying technology is based on Miracast and works only with Wifi adapters made by Intel because it's point-to-point. Sadly it doesn't work through an AP connection at all.
What weird intolerances specifically are you referring to? Other than the black hair thing.

Here's a list of bizarre things that my school in Belgium was intolerant about back when I was in school. These are just the ones that come to mind right now, there were many others.

1. No short hair for girls. No bald boys. No dyed hair.

2. No piercings for boys, and only pierced ears for girls

3. No hats. No shorts.

4. No long skirts for girls. No short skirts for girls. Only between knee and calf length or some such bizarre nonsense.

5. No skirts for boys (I tried a kilt once, was not appreciated).

6. No rings for boys. Not "too many" rings for girls.

7. No sitting in boys' laps. Except when you're a girl sitting in another girl's lap, that was apparently fine.

8. No tops with straps thinner than a finger (for girls, I guess).

The problematic gendering aside, all of those rules always seemed bizarre and stupidly specific to me. Did a pierced bald boy with a ring once torch a school? Do teachers have some kind of phobia for specific hairdos? I get that it's a conformity thing, but conformity never struck me as being useful.
They might want to make changes to the standard ISA which only ARM can do currently.

But it's nVidia. No way they are going to do anything good.
I couldn’t find a link to Hermann Hauser’s open letter to the UK prime minister in the article. Here it is:

https://www.savearm.co.uk/
That is the marketing side - reality is different.

I am always running the latest stable version.

Phone sync is terrible (does not work properly), opening gallery view with a few images takes from 30sec to never, iOS app crashes frequently, there are all kinds of UI glitches, etc.

Almost all of these problems have been reported in their bug tracker, some of them have been there for years, but since those are not that relevant for their business customers, they don't really fix them.
Huawei worked on AI that can recognize Uyghurs. Seems like a reasonable extension of that.
A Cunning Engineer Snagged 1.2M Free Air Miles with Pudding
The thing I've heard about Japan is that they're incredibly racist, but so polite it's hard to notice.
You Sold Your Company, What Did You Buy First? Here's What I Did
Drop me a line. kyle@kemitchell.com.
It’s incredible how many people forget that we invented the apartment building before we invented the wheel.
P/E isn't everything. People know those earnings are going to tank very soon.
You mean in the same sense as every alleged policeman is a policeman and every false diamond is a diamond?
>Thing is, it's not straightforward, especially with UK jumping head first with little warning into moving VAT payments from logical place (customs) to illogical place (foreign seller).

This will be the protocol for EU as well, but it was delayed to June 2021 if I'm not mistaken!

But I'm with you, information about such matters is so detached from the "regular" citizen it's weird how in 2021 things aren't straight forward. Like people give shit to Terms & Services of apps, social networks, etc, because they're are ridiculously lengthy and with legal/uncommon language, but a lot of government documentation and laws are written the same way.
Very much this. It's a separate language that, if it hadn't been pushed by BDFL and co., if it had appeared as an independent project (like e.g. Stackless Python or something), would have had to live or die on its own merits.

- - - -

An additional aspect that I see as an old Python user is the "poisoning of the well" of the inclusive and welcoming spirit of the community. We (I'm speaking as a Pythonista here) have had problems with this in the past (remember how grouchy effbot could be? He's a sweet person IRL though.)

We made great progress and got a lot of acceptance in the educational and academic worlds.

Now just read this very thread and you'll find so many people making curt dismissive comments to folks who aren't on board with Python 3.

I still love and respect GvR (I once, with his permission, gave him a hug!) even though I think he messed up with this 2->3 business (and in any event, the drama around language innovation eventually pushed him to resign, as we all know.) He's a human being. And a pretty good one.

I guess what I'm trying to say is Python 3 won. Let us (all of us) be gracious about it.
I haven't done 100 coding interviews.

But here is a suggestion to fix the interviews: Let the candidate bring their own code!

First this gives you a unique inside in the programming style the candidate prefers. Second the candidate knows the code very well and is probably more relaxed when he needs to answer your questions about the code (given that she/he didn't copy-paste the code from somewhere).

It is similar to designers showing a portfolio of their work to a potential employer. So if this works for designers, why not for programmers also? It is called "The Art of Computer Programming" for a reason. ;-)
The key paragraph seems to be:

> The scientists estimated that more than 200 million people—the majority of Americans—have tap water contaminated with a mixture of PFOA and PFOS at concentrations of one part per trillion (ppt) or higher. Andrews and Naidenko say previous research shows that levels higher than one ppt can increase the risk of conditions such as testicular cancer, delayed mammary gland development, liver tumors, high cholesterol and effects on children’s immune response to vaccinations. “It’s a calculation of what would be a safe exposure level,” Andrews says. Even when the researchers shifted their analysis to a higher level of 10 ppt, they still found some 18 million to 80 million Americans to be exposed. Representatives of the chemical industry have disagreed with such concerns. “We believe there is no scientific basis for maximum contaminant levels lower than 70 ppt,” the American Chemistry Council said in statement to Scientific American.

anyone have more context on gauging the safe levels? What are the studies that show 1ppt increases the risk for cancer?

the EPA also currently sets the level at 70 ppt:

> To provide Americans, including the most sensitive populations, with a margin of protection from a lifetime of exposure to PFOA and PFOS from drinking water, EPA has established the health advisory levels at 70 parts per trillion.

https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/drinking....
Around 2015 is when lots of people found all their dependencies were compatible with Python 3 or abandoned and replaced. How much work they had to do depended on if they put any effort into compatibility for the last 7 years. Or even just followed recommendations for Python 2. Writing 100% compatible code wasn't practical in 2008 but distinguishing bytes from text was.
> The average, vocal, “conservative” that you’ll find in US media or politics is a reactionary whose bona fides consist of a few narrowly focused issues that pander to a few core constituencies including now, racists and nativists. They often don’t share conservative ideals beyond that.

I don't watch much TV (especially "news" channels) so I might just be out of the loop here, but how has US conservative media been pandering to racists?
To add to what the other user said, just because you can do something with one tool, doesn't mean we shouldn't promote other tools that are easier to use and that make it easier for you to do the job without accidentally shooting yourself in the foot.
Dying hair is a lot more work and chemicals than shaving, although you dont have to do it as frequently
But virtually every site I visit is tracking me.

It doesn't change the fact that they're tracking me, it just makes me click an "X" or "OK" every damned time I visit some new site to read an article or something.

I could understand your argument if sites were actually removing tracking in order not to annoy users with the popup.

But sites aren't doing that, not in any meaningful number at all. So it's not having any effect on privacy, while annoying basically every internet user ever constantly (before you hunt for an extension to block as many of them as you can).

So I don't see how it's a good move at all, not in practice. It's just annoying, and that's it.
Site.js – Develop, test, sync, and deploy website (using a single binary)
Uniforms are a big thing in the UK. Many jobs require them, even places where it seems entirely irrelevant. Hell, many non-customer facing office workers get a very strict dress code (black shoes, black trews, x/y/z colour shirt).

I never understood why that was a thing.
If you're trying to read with a smaller block size than the media's native block size, then you'll make two or more attempts to read data from each corrupted block that's unrecoverable—making your recovery process much longer.

If you try to read with a larger block size than the media's native block size, you'll get errors for chunks of that size even when part of the data may have been recoverable.

The above is true whether or not the OS has access to the media's raw ECC data.
To implement any of the above, while studiously avoiding anything making explicit the fact that the interpretation of the bytes as a sequence of glyphs is an intended, necessary and separable step on the way, would be bizzarre and tendentious.

I see you have been editing your post concurrently with my reply:

> You can just as well implement those operations on top of a byte string assuming the encoding and language &c., as you can implement those operations on top of a Unicode sequence assuming language and culture &c..

Of course you can (though maybe not "just as well"), but that does not mean it is the best way to do so, and certainly not that it is "totally useless" to implement the decoding as a separate step. Separation of concerns is a key aspect of software engineering.
Is that so? I find I used various open phrases such as “Python developers” without going into the exact semantics of which ones, as I'm sure many objected to it, or “serious enterprises” without naming them, an incomplete list of programming languages, and so forth.

It was certainly an informal statement I made, not a formal specification.

There was nothing gendered about that statement, and most do not seem to have interpreted it as such, nor was it so intended by me.
Why stop at hair?

https://soranews24.com/2016/10/27/tokyo-junior-high-school-d...
This is actually a useful list of gotchas to watch out for if you're just learning CSS and expect things to work in the intuitive way.
Road maintenance isn’t cheap, especially in low density areas. Using current figures isn’t useful because most roads in the US are very underfunded, and we get low scores on infrastructure quality as a result.

Plus it’s not accounting the full cost of roads given that you need a vehicle to access them. On average, something like 15% of a households income is tied to transportation (car maintenance, loans, gas, registration, etc), which is insanely expensive just to be economically productive.
I guess this is obvious, but youtube videos and online articles are micro-products. It would be trivial to charge people 10 cents an article if people felt it would work. You would browse youtube as usual, no technical need for any extra friction at all. At most there might be a legal requirement to remind you that you will be charged.

The challenge is probably mostly that a lot of publishers would need to get together and create a unified account that could be charged.
>which raises the question why they are interested in buying Arm to begin with

Softbank needs to liquidate some of its asset due to the genius work of con-man WeWork losing them tens of billions. The original purchase price for ARM was something like 100 - 120 P/E in 2016. And the current earnings are still 100 -120 P/E with no immediate or short term profits growth. The prospect of the company's fundamentals and future growth hasn't changed since 2016.

Who in the right mind would want to buy a company for P/E 100+ with no visible growth factor?

And since no one wants to buy it, Softbank had to find a buyer. Softbank is one of the largest shareholders in Nvidia. And with its current stock price that was a perfect fit.

Of course that is ignoring Nvidia could have said No. I guess Softbank could decide to liquidate its position on Nvidia instead.
I did think about having correct dates and authors, but then I got lazy and in fact got more focussed on getting all the amendments in place.
Now that the core work is done, I'll add corrected dates (perhaps real date + 100 years), authors and committers in one of the later commits.
Thanks for reminding!
Alright, let’s say it was possible to track all pollution to its polluter, and you could assign ownership. Then what? Tax or fine the polluters? Isn’t that basically the same as regulating the polluting industries in the first place?
Thanks, I almost inhaled my keyboard.
xxx = pollution? energy?

edit: or a certain political guy?
I am not quite sure what you are getting at. Yes, this is the french ideal (and it's not so special, really), and yes, we are not here yet wrt to discrimination, be it for race, gender or sexuality.

This is what the majority of the french people vote for, but of course not all french people agree with that, unfortunately.
Here’s some info for you, googled “wine oxidation”:

https://daily.sevenfifty.com/the-science-of-wine-oxidation/

https://www.winemag.com/2019/04/09/wine-oxidation/

https://www.winespectator.com/articles/why-is-wine-oxidation...
Yes, it very little fiddling and there's fewer sliders to lead you astray.
How to Add Machine Learning to React Native App: Using Tensor Flow and Expo
Great video that explains how to add ML to your react native apps.
To be perfectly fair with the parent; It _is_ a very western ideal about heterogeneity being highly valued.

I think tying emotions to it does us little favours - a prominent successful country that does not value heterogenity at all is Japan.

Does Japan outcompete per capita?

(The answer is no).

Not sure if there are other examples of note here.
Shouldn‘t it be one commit if they were amended? /s
I tried this with lime and lemon a few months ago. It made them taste like fanta/lemonade. Truly impressive but not really something I would do regularly.

Greek yogurt, on the other hand, is incredible. I wish I had tried it sooner. Frozen yogurt is the closest thing I can think of, but it's not really the same.
It should not be hard to do the same to this one, given that the constitution of india came into effect on 26th january 1950.
So this is basically a wrapper for Fanboy's cookie monster list? This is really nothing special IMO.

Plus, the fact that the filters are inside of the app source and not fetched from a remote repo means that filtering errors (false-positives) will take hours or maybe days to be fixed, as the dev will need to push out an update (or pull Fanboy's upstream fixes), it will need to be approved by Apple, and then the user will need to update the entire extension.

Compare this with uBo or Adguard, where one can manually check for updates and pull a new version of a single filter list or every filter list in ten seconds. In uBo, the user can also badfilter the offending line in the list or disable uBo from running on a specific domain.

In general, as evidenced from this issue list, cookie consent lists are somewhat problematic and can break sites. Some of these issues may be fixed by now. https://github.com/ryanbr/fanboy-adblock/issues?q=%22easylis...
This makes me feel very privileged for my mostly liberal and progressive society, for which it seems I take a lot for granted, like the right to dye my hair.

Also, I was surprised to hear this, because, in anime, characters very often have colorful hair.
I know that at least a bald friend of mine had to get black wig to get employed / taken seriously in Japan.
By backdated, do you mean correct dates for the commits?
I'll add that in one of the subsequent commits: both corrected dates and authors.
This is the most beautiful thread I've read on Hacker News. Thank you.
“ They’re revenue sources and attract the kind of tenants they want occupying their new building.”

This a huge problem. They mainly want to install them to gouge people. To attract people it needs done at cost.
Increased breast cancer risks have recently been reported: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/permanent-hair...
I tried Wozi, I heard about it through Pioneer.

I really enjoyed it. Once I applied the powder, everything in my fridge tasted like candy - fruits, yogurt, etc.

Now whenever I'm hungry for a snack, I quickly apply some of the powder, and have a delicious, healthy snack.
We should really start using PdM, PjM, PgM as disambiguation in contexts where that’s necessary
Having an ARM license has zero relationship with performance.

An ARM license is only for unit cost benefits. Nothing else.
You need to do more then just link an article about a Communist country doing something shitty. I never advocated for a particular style of government. So linking some horrible thing the USSR did doesn't further the conversation in anyway. And if your only response to Capitalism is bad is to show worse form of government then you really don't have an argument to defend Capitalism.
Interviewing is mentioned. I'm currently doing a lot of that and I agree it's challenging to assess engineering skill. We currently use a fairly simple coding challenge that shouldn't be a problem for anyone with some experience. We basically pair program with them for an hour or 90 minutes (remotely for now) to see how they work through problems and write code. It has been pretty successful so far.
>A vision of the future, perhaps, in a post-peak world: smaller populations crowding ever more tightly into urban centres. And outside, beyond the city limits, the wild animals prowling.

That seems inevitably tied to the increasing specialization and efficiency of agriculture. What was the original reason for humans to spread out in rural area, if not to get some farming land for yourself? Economic activity isn't much tied to land use anymore. It's seems hard to fathom any reason why would humans just go back to rural areas if not for some unforeseen technology to make this sensible, considering all the advantages living close to large metropolitan areas provide – and no, WFH isn't it.
I see it's sticking around for strictly senior level employees. Junior level, and management will have to stay on site, just because almost no one has the maturity to stay on task working remote at their first job.

I'm seeing full remote jobs at 200k or so. I reckon I could move to a small city, live off 60k. Then retire at 40.