skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Micro plastics was hard since you kinda have to choose between bottled water or tap water!

Micro plastics have been found in the muscle tissue of ocean fish[1].

Micro plastics are everywhere, not just in water bottles.

[1]https://adfpi.org/2020/04/15/microplastic-particles-identifi...
He also gets coins out of it? That at the moment could be worth more? There are several axis of 'cost' vs 'perf' vs 'utility' vs 'efficiency' that would need to be graphed out to see if it is actually worth this setup.

He is seeing cost as a major concern. Getting coins for a set amount of energy and using the extra heat as offset for his heating bill. So I could see if you did this right it could come out better. But that would need to be graphed out.
It's an authoritarian personality type which exists on both the left and the right. It's remarkable that when we look at the many personality subtraits of authoritarian types on the left and the right, they align extremely closely with one another.
> What would you suggest? We should be in favor of a link tax purely to spite Google? We should surrender our privacy to Facebook just to stick it to Apple? We should protect Apple's ability to restrict what users can do with their devices as a display of contempt towards Epic?

Bizarre - I’m not sure what these suggestions have to do with me.

Epic doesn’t care about protecting users rights to do what they want with their devices.

Nothing they are proposing is about that.

All they are proposing is that they should be able to get a cut.

If Epic gets to run an App Store or payment gateway, Apple’s platform will still limit what users can do with their devices, so we can see that they don’t care about that.

Personally, I am happy for Apple’s customers to choose a closed platform if they like.

But, I am not happy that we have no open alternative.

Google promised us one, but reneged on that promise. Remember ‘open always wins’?

I don’t think it’s Apple’s responsibility to provide people with an open platform, nor do I think we should force our views on people who want a curated platform.

I think it’s up to the rest of us to build an open platform, if we want one.

‘The rest of us’ would include Epic, if they had an interest in user freedom.
Small random changes yes, but long specific sequences become exponentially less likely. People on the other hand can decide to add say the first 100,00 digits of Pi or some other marker for internal use. Picking a useful sequence is hard, but we have the technology to add any specific sequence as long as the plant can survive it.

So it’s not just a question of random chance adding something harmful at this point, but also malicious actors. Someone could easily decide to try and reduce the human population by reducing fertility or whatnot and new GMO crops aren’t tested for such things.
In World Freaking Out over Data Privacy DuckDuckGo Is Ready to Seize the Moment
Is everyone forgetting the part where “Ban Tran” is a very common name?

I keep thinking about when my wife searches for herself, she found a over a hundred people with her name in Santa Clara county alone.
Have you considered that one reason businesses gatekeep based on the degree is /because/ of the well-roundedness that comes from a university education instead of a trade school or online learning?

Many benefits are difficult to quantify, but still measurable during an interview: presentation skills, discussions of how you overcome obstacles, demonstrable research into the hiring organization, insightful questions you ask, active listening skills, collaboration skills articulated through example and past experience, etc.

If an interview is exclusively writing code on a whiteboard, that says a lot of what will be asked of you during the job. Good fit for some, poor fit for others.
> democracy

> democratically elected president

That's not really what I was talking about.
That’s why I always wonder why Asian restaurants have like 100 items on the menu. Maybe the dishes are identical but still seems wierd
Syncthing is awesome for being a dropbox-like service for computers. I've setup a syncthing share as a folder inside of nextcloud which is enabled as "External Storage." This gives me the best of both worlds. Sharing between computers is rock solid. The mobile use cases is a lot more reasonable and I can share files.

I don't like syncthing on mobile because it needs to maintain its connection to sync and therefore drains battery. Also, there isn't a way to have less than 100% of a particular share local to the phone. This isn't usually waht I want on my phone.
Without squashing git blame has too much noise in it for my taste. I don't want to see 90 different commits in a single file's blame, when they were actually related to 9 different features. If each topic branch has a reasonable scope then the squashed changes I think are more useful than each little tweak or fixup.
Also down for me...
An open-source orbital launch vehicle payload calculator by Launcher
I'm writing something to generate screenshots at the moment. They'll be there fairly soon.

I could embed the live WebGL, or a codesandbox embed. I might do that eventually.
So let's assume tether is a fraud. All they have to do is buy bitcoin with their cash received for tether and they are out of reach of us regulators. Is it Fraud or
is it Genius? Yes.
https://twitter.com/LinkedInHelp/status/1364290634459340806

Also: https://linkedin.statuspage.io/
Why would the pronunciation of the equals sign not be "equals"?
Thank you for taking the time to reply, and the confirmation that this might be a valid idea in a situation where the tradeoff makes sense.

But more importantly thank you for Your contribution to reducing air pollution by electrifying airplanes!
I have a visceral memory of a jump that I Just Couldn't GET and the joy of finally hitting it. Looks like you can play online here: https://classicreload.com/below-the-root.html
Your example actually tells something. Nobody would believe your JFK baby eating story. It is easy to write a fake story, but it is not easy to have lots of people believe your fake story. "Misinformation" can spread because they seem plausible to enough people, not because they are "bullshit" like your example.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'd embrace and extend your remarks with two other illegal or semi-illegal reasons:

One is employees who are deeply in debt can be more easily abused than, for example, wealthy skilled tradesmen. You can do all kinds of things to woman with a student loan debt larger than a mortgage and she'll have to put up with it, whereas a journeyman electrician, in addition to being paid more, would simply move to a competing jobsite the next day.

The other reason is colleges highly promote diversity in freshmen accepted class statistics but always cover up graduating diploma holder statistics. You can kind of legally/illegally guarantee you hire a white woman or certainly tilt the odds against PoC, by demanding the office receptionist hold a bachelors degree in something "to maintain office culture because everyone else in the office went to college and we wouldn't want her to feel left out". Presumably those type of places where PoC need not apply, will soon require their janitors to have a four year degree in some sort of liberal art...
No, you probably have it right. House members pretty regularly do weird performative things they don't really expect to lead anywhere; it's increasingly seen as part of the job.
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Thanks buddy, what you saw on video is something I recorded for one of my friend, showcasing Automatio. And then another friend suggested to put that on the homepage, because he said he could feel my energy, even its 35 min long video.

And yeah, that video 9 months old, and we did a lot of things on Automatio till then. It's much more powerful.

Tnx again for deciding to share the link, u made our day/night here!

Peace
"I was in a school science lesson learning about Pavlov and thinking 'stupid dogs'. Then the bell rang and we all had lunch." - Gary Delaney.

> "I know some shithead lawyer or safety “activist” somewhere is responsible for all the bullshit beeping I have to deal with in my life."

Probably not; whoever set the Unix/Linux CLI to ding aggressively whenever you do literally anything is guilty of something or other. It's not just the nature of the beep sound, 8-bit music can be fun, it's combined with the nature of "safety" beeping being an audio wrap-on-the-knuckles for doing something "wrong" like ... pressing backspace when there's nothing to backspace DING! or turning on the induction hob DING! or turning up the power on the induction hob DING! or not hurrying quickly enough to the finished microwave DING DING! or reversing a large vehicle BEEEEEEP! or not plugging in your seatbelt NAUGHTY! (Not being awake for capitalism productivity time RING RING!)

They're not just audio noises, they're psychological soup nazis. Cracking twigs and sudden barks are sounds that somehting is coming to eat you, screeching is a sound that your infant might be about to die, none of it is relevant to trying to adjust a volume control one percent higher than it can go. DING!

I've run Windows with all sounds off, and Linuxes with muted error bels for so long that I can't imagine what it would be like if the entire computing audioscape was nice, encouraging, pleasant, positive feedback like message notifications on smartphones tend to be.
The scientific approach to knowledge (everything we know so far) is fundamentally limited in its ability to understand complex systems. Physics & co. are the low hanging fruit (tautologically)... modular systems so it’s very easy to isolate the system or control for external influences (so experiments are repeatable, and knowledge is generalizable), then nice linear/quadratic system models which are amenable to tractable mathematical modeling, etc.

If (for eg) I wanted similar (analogous to how well we understand mechanics) understanding of the health implications of going vegan, or dropping fertility (ref: post on HN front page currently) where would one even begin to research that question? Even assuming one can unilaterally bring to bear all of humanity’s collective resources on this problem, the scientific method is not powerful enough to generate timeless generalizable truths for this problem. It’s very possible that the ideal diet might easily change when we’re talking about humans living in a Martian colony, or a century into the future with different climate, or living in a different continent different from their native ethnicity.

Questions of that nature/complexity cannot strictly be answered “scientifically”. We continue with traditions (as a baseline) and occasionally experiment with tweaks and gather empirical evidence when we can, to iteratively improve our dietary practices (as our food technology improves).
they don't even have a decent CLI client for file syncing, I know you can use any webdav client but the GUI client seems more efficient than anything else I've tried.
That's a long conclusion to make.

The statement that it had not been determined that blunt force trauma specifically caused Officer Sicknick's death doesn't make the attack BS - there's video footage of him being hit with one. And dying within 24 hours from a hemorrhagic stroke is definitely not enough to rule out the proximal impact of fire extinguishers and other implements used to beat him.
Can you get four years worth of government-backed tuition money out of a student when the degree only takes. a year?
OP got that wrong. It's very simple to exchange USDT for USD, you can do it on Kraken and Binance and withdraw to your bank account. No problem at all
The East India company which ruined Bengal, enriched a few English elite. Yeah sounds about right.
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>A healthy market of affordable education cannot be build on this foundation of 16th century elitism, exclusion and zero-sum principle.

Unless you recognize that human ability is not equally distributed. In which case colleges need to be exclusionary to maintain prestige. And that prestige is an important signal in a universe where success is dependent on competence.

Conversely, when prestige signals are eroded, there are gradual, self-reinforcing downstream effects, wherein all of our institutions - industry, media, government, academia - are gradually populated with cohorts of reduced competence, and society at large becomes less capable of recognizing merit, particularly given that when once clear signals like alma mater are no longer accurate, laypeople are more drawn to the nonsensical belief that all humans are equally capable.

And slowly the withering of these institutions, and recognition of/appreciation for competence, lead to a withering of society and, I think, this phenomenon is one of the drivers behind the ongoing collapse of the American Empire, for better or worse. The intent behind lowering standards for entry is amiable but based on a faulty and ultimately dangerous assumption.
The question today is "how many" but the question tomorrow will be "what are their names?"
Hi Alan,
We've been working with people from both end of the spectrum (on the tools and in the office). I completely agree that the system may not have any appeal for the guys on the tools who don't give a shit. There are definitely plenty of them out there.
What we have found that there are also plenty of guys on the tools that do care and do want to do a better job. They like the tool and want to do a better job.

PS> we are already working on the next iteration of the product tag to make them more hardcore.

Cheers
Many of us do that, and it's not just a new developer thing. Git actually enables this, because you get to pick and choose what to add to the index (`git add`) before committing. So that little tweak you made in the unrelated function? -- no problem, just `git add` that later, and commit it under a different message. Not all SCM tools give you that kind of flexibility.

On the other hand, there's a diminishing return to placing every tiny change into a separate commit. Commit messages like "Fixed multiple small things" might make some people clutch their pearls, but sometimes you just need to get shit done and move on to solving bigger problems.

My suggestion is to consider breaking your commit into two: one for "fixed this big issue that everyone cares about", and one for "a bunch of tiny cleanup stuff that I happened to notice." (Maybe call that second one "refactoring" -- it will go over better with your audience.)
I wish they would be working less like a company and would engage more with the research community on the topic. The topic of On Intelligence, Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) was never open sourced, also didn’t have published math, and was thus treated by the community as weird and not actionable, and in the end ignored.
>That said, I haven't heard of anyone using the "just the flu" argument since the first couple months of the pandemic.

I'm jealous of the circles you run in.
I think it's not good - not because a CS degree needs to be more expensive, but because the liberal arts degrees are over priced.

A poetry degree should not cost nearly what it does.

CS education tied to ISAs makes education more accessible, not less.

The current system harms the poor.

As it is degrees are already tied to supply and demand economics, the supply is just constrained by admissions (often this is true of specific departments too).
Co-author of that book here. Thanks for reading. :)

I think overall you are at the part where Rust's documentation is at its weakest. Several people are working on more things here, but really, the basic advice I'd give you is to read and write a bunch of Rust code. The more you read, the more you'll absorb stuff like this. The more you write, the more things you'll need to figure out how to do, which will involve you looking at existing solutions, which will lead you to figure it out.

I wish I just had a second book to point you at, but alas, that doesn't really exist right now.
Worth noting that one of these members is the representative for CA-18 (Eshoo) which includes parts of silicon valley:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_18th_congressio...
Netflix still seems to work perfectly fine in both Chromebooks I have (one dell that is perhaps 2 or 3 years old, and one HP that is about 6 months). Netflix experience is identical on each (but the Dell's screen sucks) - don't think DRM has anything to do here.
One of the problems that I've had with static code analysis in github is them spamming my PR with comments pointing out trivial problems.
Ironic it's called OpenAI but GPT-3 is locked away because it's too dangerous.

Eventually others will reach the level of GPT-3 and they won't lock it away. What happens then?

Maybe we should open it and build tools to detect fakes just like we have pretty good tools to detect deep fakes that even humans can't detect.
Yep, makes sense, thanks for the explanation!
The bi-partisan Senate Intelligence Committee report detailed collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian nationals/intelligence assets.
We used a variant of this[0] when I was at Canva (and I'm sure they still do). Having a hard requirement that you are able to fake out any external dependency in dev environments provides a massive boost to dev speed. The investment is tiny too - often a single interface and a day of dev time to build out a functional fake service for, say, S3 or SQS.

[0] https://product.canva.com/hermeticity/
Acorn, a precision farming rover from Twisted Fields
Solving Probability Problem with Code
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I strongly empathize. I usually wait a few seconds, then just flash my high beams for most situations.
It's really interesting to see what IoT is becoming in reality versus the hype from 5 years go.

I guess the industrial cloud is actually a thing.

I'd love to see a teardown of one of your grease guns and how you keep the delicate components safe.
I was wondering if anyone knows of a resource in the same vein as [1] or [2] but to implement a prolog interpreter instead of lisp.

1: https://github.com/kanaka/mal

2: http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
I wonder if ear plugs help at all. My partner snores so I wear them at night.

Even then, sometimes I get woken up by the low frequencies of large trucks idling (snow removal operations, mostly). The vibrations are not even felt in my ears but through my entire body.
The University of Oregon charges based on credit hours so more or less its an identical price for any degree (sans scholarship). I've always been under the impression this this is the norm. I'm glad your school offered reduced rates for some degree paths but I think it is an outlier.
I'm not sure I agree. I don't have a lot of experience with other humanities, but history is a verb rather than a noun. You learn history by doing history rather than reading it. I do think that universities are often too conservative about getting students into the archive quickly but a bunch of institutions are rapidly equipping students with archival and analysis skills and sending them to do history. This is very difficult to obtain from a raw library.
Lucky them, here in France we're probably far from ever seeing such laws given the high percentage of bikers who simply don't care about making harmful levels of noise even right next to small kids.

I've considered reaching out to my neighborhood council about it, but I'll probably have moved again due to motorcycles before it goes up to the city/county/department/region...
When the emphasis is on her gender, it's hard to tell if she's actually significant for her work - Wabbit which itself is significant mainly for having a female character? Or just for having an unusual body type. If the latter, then does it really matter? The world is full of engineers and entrepreneurs who nobody knows about and don't get their credits written on the things they build.
Jade Sacker doesn't work for CNN.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-woman-capitol-n...

Feels like you are just getting played and then propagating your problems further here.
They generally aren't that high quality in terms of classes, and the humanities they offer are "transfer credits" when they aren't practical skills. I mean that there's little chance to go to a community college that has a strong English section, or gives any more than the basics of history or psychology.

CCs are mostly there either for cheap transfer credits, or technical programs for local industry; things like cad/cam, aviation tech, etc.
They haven't "functioned properly" because they promised audits, transparency/openness and independence, and none of that happened even back then. They then found out that they can keep up the empty promises and started dipping into the sauce, and now finally one investigation caught up with them.

Your selective omissions imply advocacy - at least this is how it seems to me, and I'm not saying that's bad/good.
I found this impressively hard at first glance. It just goes to show how difficult getting into context is in an unfamiliar codebase. I think with any amount of knowledge of anything allegedly involved (or, you know, a compiler), these examples would fall apart, but it's still an achievement.

I'm also pretty sure there are formatting, commenting, and in-string-text "tells" that indicate whether something is GPT2 reliably. Maybe I should try training an AI to figure that out...
> Here is another one: Why do I need to complete a bachelors degree in order to join a CS master program?

Some masters programs let you join with no bachelors. I have a masters and PhD in CS but no bachelors in anything. It wasn't any kind of special programme and I'm not any kind of gifted student either (my grades were quite low.)
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Look at the list. It's pretty much a right-wing only list.
The history of Erlang is also intimately related to Prolog, as explained by Joe Armstrong in this article:

https://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/year/2009/course/TDA381_Conc...

It's quite amazing how one can implement Erlang or basically any other language prototype as a Prolog metainterpreter.
If you check my earlier comments, I often praise Nextcloud and the team behind it, but this is even more crazier by their own standards!
> It’s hard to be that low profile unintentionally.

On the contrary, it'd be hard not to have an extremely low profile with such a common name.

Add in the fact that it's been 40 years, and nobody has cared one single bit for the first 35 of those years.

Add in the fact that she probably didn't get any author credit for the game, so probably didn't even realize people knew her name.

Remember that the internet didn't exist in the eighties. I wrote a few video games in the 80s, and this is probably the first acknowledgement on the internet ever that the Bryan Larsen that wrote games for T&D software is this Bryan Larsen. And I'm much easier to find than most, since I'm the type of guy who uses my real name on forums like this.

I highly doubt anybody is going to care about my games, and I'm sure she never thought anybody would ever care either. She was wrong, but I'm sure I'm not.
The same way the fascists and the democrats can't seem to unify?
> Lauren Witzke is a Q Anon supporter. Do you think Q Anon supporters should be given a voice here on HN?

Sure, I believe everyone deserves a voice? Kind of weird to say that.

Further, it's the content of the video that matters. There was nothing Q related in the tweet.

> Also, why does it matter how many people died during the attempt to overthrow our government by far right extremists? How many deaths are acceptable? 1? 7?

(1) The previous post has a video of far left extremist perpetrating the storming of the Capital.

(2) I'm not arguing any fatalities are acceptable. I'm simply pointing out the figures are inaccurate; which is important because we need to have a basis of facts to have discussions. Facts, which are currently being exaggerated for political ends.