skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The First Five Employees
The reason we’re running out of farmers
> Even most cotton shirts and jeans tend to be a blend with synthetic plastic fibers because it stretches and breaths better.

Just look at the labels...
To be fair, it is sometimes not our fault we are "condescending assholes". It's the environment we are in. It could be from management and/or HR not hiring for the right skillset, to underspecified design details from even more condescending assholes called architects, to leadership not leading but just delegating important decisions (and thus covering their own asses) to engineering teams.
Amtrak on the east coast is depressing
Its news that google released a broken product, then fired the development team, and it will not be fixed.
Jet Turbines are actually surprisingly good for power plants. They run on all sorts of fuel and are very efficient. I believe GE refurbs some old airplane engines into power plants.
The planet is ridding itself of its disease, beautiful.
Fair, but you didn't address the part about the cars themselves costing more + the fact that the gasoline is still significantly more expensive per gallon (UK people just seem to drive much less miles per year than those in the US).

In that second link you posted, it lists the starting price of base VW Golf as £38k (around $53k), while in the US the same model costs about $23k. Even if you tack on all the taxes and registration fees and such, you won't get even close to that $53k. After all the taxes and fees, even a midrange Tesla Model 3 (not the base model) costs less than that $53k in the US.
How to create your own app and make money without programming?
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It will be useful for small and large business owners and non-technical founders

Follow the link and share your impressions. I would be happy to receive your feedback.

https://welovenocode.com/blog/tpost/l1y73rgc41-how-to-create-your-own-app-and-make-mone
Would love to know which side caved?
Their talk recording is good. They talked about how dashboard should help the users to increase literacy, awareness and help them in decision making.

https://vimeo.com/299862354
I was quite surprised Google backed down, they might be kicking themselves now.
I'm not actually advocating for this here. Just pointing out potential policy differences that come from a non-equality worldview.

I don't have the time to give an in depth discussion on education etc the attention it would need.

Though to elaborate on the education policy difference, you can invest variable amounts into the bottom performers, even eventually giving up on them. As I understand it, schools currently have various legal obligations towards students that lead to them spending disproportionate resources on the least performant.
yeah, they don't accept those currencies at the grocery store. I'll pass.
That kind of statement is fairly routine from people whose world view presupposes godly origin. The unspoken inference is that there must be some objective source of mattering. Whereas if we're all just material, we're all just dust and nothing ultimately matters. It's a play on our emotions. It feels like things matter to us, so it seems intuitively wrong that things could ultimately not matter.

But it's just wordplay. Things DO matter to me. I can care about the fate of my descendents many centuries hence; or the fate of human civilisation in a few millennia. So what if human civilisation (or any biological life of Earth origin) might not survive after a billion years and nothing "ultimately" matters?

Besides, the way most human religions try to instantiate this "ultimate mattering" seems fairly horrid to me.
Denmark, but it goes for most of Europe in general, at least the places I've been. Any city over a certain size will have a bunch of small venues, and the laws against smoking indoors are EU-wide.

However, I am concerned that a lot of these smaller venues and promoters will struggle to survive the pandemic lockdowns, unless our governments pull themselves together and support cultural venues, instead of focusing so hard on sports. Culture isn't just something you play with a ball :-)

As for the downvotes, probably general disagreement or spillover from other discussions where someone has taken offense to what I wrote.
Diesel engines for power generation will have a governor control that sets the throttle based on the load to maintain whatever rpm is required for 60 Hz (constant speed control). The load in this scenario is uncontrolled and the genset simply follows it.

A diesel locomotive's engine controls are about producing the right amount of power to match the operator's throttle control. Electrical frequency at the generator (alternator) terminals is irrelevant since that output is being rectified to DC anyways. This is great for a train, because it means you can have full power at any speed - the speed of your train and the speed of your engine are completely decoupled from each other. But if you now connect this normally variable frequency AC output directly to 60 Hz loads, you will need to figure out how to set the throttle to best maintain something close to 60 Hz and your power output will be limited.
> programming languages directly influence programmer productivity

A complete re-write (preceded by a very deep analysis) is exactly the opposite of productivity.

> problems with these languages that new languages have addressed.

And new problems were introduced... case in point: this very article.

> Do you think a car from 1985 is better than one from 2015?

Depends on the car...

I think this analogy would be better: "Do you think a hammer and screwdriver from 1985 are better than the ones from 2015?"
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Establishing a New Woodland. Part 1: Planning
Thanks for explaining. Sorry, I never said, I need to use the portable companion but don't have registry access (which is fine). I only uninstalled the addon as couldn't use companion. Thanks.
Academy is not the same as higher education. The other part is people doing research and no teaching. These are people who then publishes their findings in journals for others to see.

And if we’re talking about public universities, these researchers are already crowd sourced.
> What's the end goal? To remove the need for naval ships to carry a supply of freshwater?

No, to improve the survival chances of shipwrecked sailors.
Airdrie baby born at 22 weeks finally leaves hospital
Google came to the conclusion that they couldn't legally extricate themselves without pulling out of Australia entirely. Since the bill forced companies to treat the news content in question the same it's all or nothing for removal. Facebook faced losing all news content in Australia, Google faced losing the golden goose in Australia. They had more incentive to come to an agreement.
YAML is one of the worst formats I've ever encountered due to its mind-boggling complexity.

There's a ton of ways to represent booleans, a ton of ways to represent dates, a ton of ways to represent numbers of a ton of different bases, a ton of ways to represent strings of various line-endingness'. It really has caused a significant number of easily avoidable issues in my experience.
Jurassic Park is probably ridiculous. Most likely, cloned dinosaurs would not be able to survive in today's atmosphere for the same reasons we still have roaches and dragon flies but they are no longer huge like they once were.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-history-of...

Mammoths only went extinct 10k years ago. They might be viable, though I imagine they wouldn't be happy with what industrialization has done to the air.
If you want another piece of trivia related to film, both film projectors and the 1401's card punch use a Geneva drive. The idea of a Geneva drive is that a drive wheel with a pin quickly rotates a second wheel and then locks it into place, before repeating the cycle. It rapidly alternates between quick motion and stopping and holding steady.

In the card punch, this is used to advance the card one row and then hold it stationary while the holes are punched. The punch can punch 250 cards per minute (more than 4 per second), and each card has to be stopped 12 times to punch the rows, so it's quite a remarkable high-speed mechanism. In film projectors, the Geneva drive advances the film by one frame and then holds it steady without vibration while the frame is projected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_drive
> that name and the image to show that I'm not too serious. This is a fun project but not ready for production use.

I'm not sure if that image is the best way to communicate that status, given that the sudo sandwich logo exists (which coincidentally bears some resemblance to your moldy bread). A big bold "not ready for production" at the top of the README is probably a better way to achieve that.
> This is a good example of how so much economics is meant to distract you from what’s important.

I think your assumption of malice is unfounded. A likely benign explanation is that Cowen focused on areas there economists are in broad agreement without intent to mislead.
> Now Swan, an epidemiologist at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, has written a book, “Count Down,” that will be published on Tuesday and sounds a warning bell.

This article is a submarine[1] for some guy’s book.

1. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
It's absurdly complicated, but....as I understand it, yes.

1. CCIV sold shared at $10 each, raising a bit over $2b

2. Those shares were trading around $55. This price represents a "pre-pop"; the price spiked on rumours CCIV would be merging with Lucid. There's still only $2b of money in the pot though.

3. CCIV is agreeing to value Lucid at $24b. The $2b of cash will buy around 8% of the company.

4. A seperate (PIPE) investment is adding another $2b of cash to the pot, but what terms the PIPE investment is getting and what valuation they're using is unknown.

5. So yes, if you bought a share in CCIV for $55 (or held onto it rather than selling it for $55), and are opting not to redeem, you're saying that you think $10 worth of Lucid at a $24b value is going to be worth over $55 at their "true" valuation which would be....yeah, at least $132b.

See also: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-19/michae...

That was written a few days ago before the deal had been made when there was speculation of a $12b valuation, and it already seemed a bit wild

So...yes, either I'm missing something basic, or a $55 share value now is basically a gamble on Lucid having a market cap of well over $100b once it's trading.

(Talk about first day pops; with SPACs you don't even have to wait until a deal has been signed to get a several hundred percent pop....)
When something’s this bad it would be much better to act now based on the evidence we have and figure out the full picture later. We know enough about how bad plastic is, even based solely on how it affects the environment and goes through the food chain as microplastics basically forever.
In the US there is no academy, to my knowledge. It’s another word for school.
I was going to say: but the casting template is spelled 'mould' not 'mold'.

Looked it up and realised that the US spelling is actually also 'mold' https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...
STOP COVID Treatment Trial at Washington University School of Medicine
I drove a Twizzy around Manchester once it was so cool! Like a little go kart. And got loads of positive attention from passers by. Cold though, mine had no doors!
Precision Sourdough: A Smart Lid for Your Starter
My instincts have told me not to do any of this. All my life I've seen people microwaving stuff in plastic containers. I find it repulsive. I don't even own a microwave. I keep leftovers in bowls and reheat it in the oven or in a saucepan. I've always hated everything plastic really. And anything that decreases air quality. How people can spray tiny droplets of god knows what into the air and subsequently breathe then in is beyond me.
"But the reality is Bitcoin is a political project that threatens to fundamentally disrupt the Davos-led economic system, with everyone from Janet Yellen to Christine Lagarde expressing fear about its rise and demanding it be regulated."

Enough with the inanity.

BTC's are numbers traded between speculators for no reason other than speculation.

Aside from the potential for money laundering, just ignore it, it's irrelevant.

It's power is it's own PR, generated through ever more ridiculous claims to valuation.
Show HN: Make work feel less remote
I understand that more load reduces frequency and less load raises frequency.

Maybe something got lost in translation and "specific, constant RPM" was describing (a feedback loop of) "watch the frequency and keep it steady" as opposed to "always use this value"?

--

Also, wow. Seriously, wow. A locomotive running flat out could power several hundred homes. Transportation is expensive, both from a relative cost perspective, and also from a resource(-wastefulness) perspective. Electric (specifically grid-connected) trains also suddenly make a bit more sense.
i dont know. i did all of the bad stuff and surely wasnt a very health aware person (smoking, drinking, weed, late nights, slight overweight, city life) but got my wife pregnant within one period cycle and we did that two times (two kids).

its probably a factor.

but very nice to hear that it worked out for you. most have been a stressful period
At one point, all of Germany's air traffic control message routing was in Emacs
New languages lack most of what is needed to be highly productive. Tooling is minimal to none. Libraries are sparse and still catching up, this takes many years. Many gotchas remain undiscovered and will bite you in production.

To get actual product work done with optimal efficiency, a mature ecosystem will always win.
A json parser can discriminate between the integer 42 and the string “42”, but it cannot discriminate between the date 2021-02-23T08:10:19+0000 and the string “2021-02-23T08:10:19+0000” because in json, the date 2021-02-23T08:10:19+0000 will have to be encoded in a string.

That means your json parser either will accidentally parse some strings as dates, or will have to be told which strings are (or even might be) dates, introducing a partial schema, or it will have to leave it to the application to convert strings into dates. Workable? Somewhat, but not ideal, just as not supporting numbers, and leaving string-to-integer-conversion to the application (after all, JavaScript will happily convert strings to integers in eval) would be ‘not ideal’.

Also, are you going to accept 2021-02-23T08:10:19Z, too? Leaving out the seconds, minutes,…? for interoperability, you would have to specify that.
Have you managed to isolate the mental impact of furlough from the mental impact of the pandemic and possibly killing granny if you go out to meet people?
In the press conference they said they've spent 4000 man-years working on it.
Tesla don’t really cater for the U.K. or euro market - where’s the fiesta/corsa/golf size range? Or even the focus/fabia/astra size?

The model 3 is too big and too pricey compared to things like the leaf.
Soy isn't that easy: https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Medical-me...

There was one study with 99 participants. A counter argument is Asia, where men eat a lot more soy and don't have reduced sperm count.
Nikola’s contract with GM was to buy from GM.
> Australia needs to step out of their illusion and stop shoveling snow up an avalanche. The only way to benefit from the age of internet is to embrace its realities.

Unfortunately you're 'shovelling snow up an avalanche' (what a polite way of putting it) if you expect that Australian governments will change any time soon.

Both major Australian parties are far too captured by corporate interests to do anything so radical.

The current Liberal[1] government trashed our attempt at doing a nation-wide FTTH rollout and cancelled our attempt at a carbon-tax/emissions-trading scheme.

Labour are uninterested in going down that path again because they lost last time, in significant part to the attacks from Murdoch and Packer owned news organisations.

Embracing the internet, clean energy or other things risks upsetting major empires, which those empire-owners are decidedly against.

[1] For the non-Australians: The Australian Liberal Party is a center-right/conservative party. Think sort-of like the US Republicans prior to the Tea Party/Trump. The Australian Labour Party is more center-left/progressive party.
> whole point of the academy is to insulate thinkers from this sort of thing

This might be how it was before, but in a lot of fields, your success going forward is directly proportional to the valuation of the impact of your work so far. This as you note invites perverse incentives.
“The Worldly Philosohers” is very good. Economics is full of controversies and contested ideas so it’s best to take them head on rather than pretending it’s physics.

If you’re looking for a textbook, this is the best (it’s also free):

https://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/book/text/0-3-contents...
How to Get Started with Cypress? A Simple Guide
Is there any evidence that RYB is more than a historical mistake which our culture has been slow to grow out of? We know now that the correct subtractive primary colors are CMY. Your informal experiments with art students may speak more to how they were (mis)educated than to anything intrinsic about color perception, no?
As usual, a fascinating read!

Maybe interesting in context, this page contains a description of how the DEC PDP-1 (announced the same year as the 1401) did it, using bootstrap code and a loader format that can be traced back to the TX-0: https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside/insidespacewar-space...
But that's actual work too.

Yes, it's a few weeks of coding at best. Maybe more if they need to integrate with some external systems for data ingestion.

But it's not a lean agile MVP for a startup. Redtape is just as much a deliverable as the function itself.

And 2000 hours for a 4 person team is a quarter of a year. Sure it might take less for a full stack ninja with 5 years of rockstar experience, but those folks are not available for some reason (Pink Floyd - Money!).
What percentage of all Australian user engagement is driven by the sharing and discussion of Australian news media content?
That is nonsense and you seem to spread this misinformation in a lot of places. You should also add a disclaimer that you are part of the Arch team.

AUR: Anyone can create an account and upload PKGBUILDs. There are no checks at all. AUR users should verify whether PKGBUILDs are not malicious. In practice, a lot of people use things like yaourt to install packages from the AUR without verifying the PKGBUILDs.

nixpkgs: anyone can contribute a PR with a new package, package update, or package modification. However, changes only get added to nixpkgs after someone with commit privileges verifies the PR and merges it. Also, a common misconception is that nixpkgs package maintainers can merge changes. This is false, only a much smaller set of committers can merge changes in the actual nixpkgs repository.

nixpkgs is more like the Arch Community repository, where committers are long-time contributors with a track record of high-quality contributions. Parts of nixpkgs are like Arch Core/Extra, because they are marked using the GitHub codeowners mechanism and changes are generally not merged unless approved through the code owners.

Disclaimer: I am a nixpkgs committer, former Arch user and AUR contributor.
4x is a large jump, is that referring to sperm count? It might be anecdata but given that you were seeing a fertility specialist it could be more valuable to hear your lifestyle changes rather than much of the noise that is out there.
> today it remains controversial for Christian theologians to go on the record saying they’re one and the same.

You are incorrect. That is not controversial. In a sermon delivered by Apostle Paul in Athens, he even tells the pagans they may be worshiping the same God but not know it. [0] Paul was probably the least flexible or accommodating of the first Christian teachers.

What is controversial is the details. While Muhammad was inspired by Christian teachings, specifically Nestorianism [1], later Islamic scholars declared that Christian teachings were corrupted [2] thereby nullifying any contradictions between Jewish, Christian and Islamic teachings.

So yes, a Muslim theologian might truthfully say Islam is a superset of Christianity and Judaism, but they are not referring to any known version of Christianity or Judaism.

Christians on the other hand consider themselves a superset of Judaism. For the most part they don't dispute Judaism (as it existed before 0AD) and think of Christianity are an updated/evolved version.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areopagus_sermon

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahira

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrif
The animal was fed something we could have eaten. It doesn’t do us much good to shun soy fed beef for corn fed beef. Agree with you on local and chicken.
Measuring human digestive efficiency vs. a flame
> military test missile

above a civilian airplane?! That's pretty scary
His nephew has created an e-trike and is taking pre-orders: https://www.grantsinclair.com/
How to Choose the Right Software Development Company? (Part 2) – Soft Skills
This is a bad article; struct embedding is not inheritance, and mistaking it for such is a classic case of "Java/Python programmer tries to use Go and shoehorns concepts from those languages in Go" that the post mentions.

This entire website seems pretty ... meh. It's like the W3Schools of Go.
Well, lucky you I guess. For some of us it’s a harder road and requires more work.

For me, cutting out those things did make a difference on multiple tests that trended up as I cut these things out. All of the above have varying degrees of evidence to support that they affect sperm.

The problem is that you’re on a tight deadline and have no time to isolate your variables. Your only option is to go 100% on everything.
This is amazing to see a baby survive from this age. I imagine there is a long road to recovery still to go
It is still a contract of some repute with 11% stake. Do you think GM would sell to just any other startup with no history, if it wasn't for the hype??
Yup, exactly. Some lessons are timeless.
> but it's a lot easier to fix N+1 issues at the GraphQL resolver level,

It definitely isn't. And, once again, dataloaders are just the first step.

> With REST, you end up either creating ad hoc endpoints or changes to solve each individual problem in isolation, or you end up building a lot more flexibility into your REST API to solve it in a general way

Even with a "general way" your REST endpoint knows what actual request or a type of request it's solving. So, instead of doing several requests to the database where each request is essentially "SELECT *", you'll be doing queries optimised for the specific request type.

And there are many-many other things. Like caching. For which Apollo has to unpack and look into every single request and response, for example (and libraries in other languages don't solve at all).
What is important?

Not freezing, or culture?
Anecdote: I avoided all these things and more out of pure hypochondria for decades, and I impregnated my wife the two times we didn't use some form of birth control. I even have a sort of tic I integrated where I pull my testicles out from between my legs when they get constricted, and hadn't remembered why I started doing that until you reminded me that I read something about heat being bad for sperm in the 90s.
Why not both? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-497_Black_Beetle
News gets pushed into your feed, so you don't have to remember to pull it yourself. Like email, except more people actually check it.