skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I studied art at Bard. Some of my best memories are late nights in the studios, everyone burning the midnight oil, and exploring the various installations people were building.

A lot of the professors were / are working artists — living in NYC, showing in galleries. Some are older luminaries.

Stephen was always a great presence and an inspiration to everyone. (The various arts departments were all very close.)

The part at the end of his letter reminds me of what Robin Williams said about reading “Goodwill Hunting” for the first time. He was like, “this is all about lived experience. How did these two young guys manage to write this?”

Ultimately there’s no shortage of talent in the world. What’s unique about a place like Bard is the community, the life experience, and the focus on becoming a student of all areas of life and academics.

Another favorite quote of mine was from a visual effects artist who worked on sci-fi shows in the 90s. He said, “you can learn all there is about making movies - but you need to have something to make movies about.”

In terms of commercialism, selling out, earning a living — whatever you want to call it: Andy Warhol has his big break when he was still drawing shoes for clothing companies, and Harrison Ford was working construction when he got his first break.
"about that stock" is not phrased well in that entry. It makes it sound like any information that isn't public that might impact that stock is legally "insider trading".

That is not correct. It has to be non-public *company* information - not just ANY non-public information.

If you discover a comet in outer space that is going to crash into McDonalds HQ. Shorting that stock does not make you an insider.

That's why it's called INSIDER trading. Because it's all about the non-public information INSIDE the corporation in question.
SpeechBrain Toolkit – a plurality of pretrained models and useful audio tools
I'd like to see an actual study on this. Yeah decomposing grass releases methane, but in the wild does it release as much methane as it would being digested by a cow?

Lets say the carbon in the grass goes into the cow and X% goes through the cow's metabolism and is exhaled as CO2 or becomes part of the cow itself. Y% becomes a part of the cow's manure. Z% is released as methane into the air. The carbon of grass decomposing on the ground will turn some parts as methane into the air, but also some parts into the food chain of smaller creatures, some parts as CO2 into the air, and some parts into the soil itself. Cows and decomposing grass releasing the same amount of methane seems unlikely to me.

That's not to say I think we should eliminate cattle. Well managed grazing actually does amazing things for the health of soil, and can even fight desertification.
Very subtle anchor link
My wife asks if this can be used for human males.
Ironically, an excessively large amount of raw data can make study harder, at least at first, since it can be difficult to scientifically discern what is a real case of long covid and what is the result of other external factors.

Raw data abundance may seem like a good thing for study, but when people have time to build their own lore and superstitions, it can make scientific inquiry that much more difficult.
>The environmental issue is tricky

In the same vein of your first point, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
Gates is supporting many good solutions but this quote about trees is false. As outlined in the book The Treesolution, it's just "2 billion hectares of trees to disconnect all present and past CO2 what is produced through fossil fuels." [1]

and furthermore

"Pieter Hoff says that we can replant a hectare for approximately 2,500 USD. We need 2 billion hectares of trees to disconnect all present and past CO2 what is produced through fossil fuels. The total investment to clean the air from the CO2 pollution is therefore 5 trillion USD. This investment is smaller than the costs of saving the bank system since 2008. Both USA and Europe spent over 6 trillion USD to save their banks."

Note: it's an investment, not an expense. ie profitable.

[1] https://www.groasis.com/en/downloads/download-the-treesoluti...
Fair enough. I hadn't found any of these examples. I am not playing at being willfully blind; the avenues I used to research the terms did not turn up any of these results.
If you agree that the sensitive part was in error, then you're just against sharing data with Facebook for ads? That's certainly not some unanimous global perspective as I'm sure you know, since that's their actual business used by millions of other companies.
There totally is. All of those sensors are pretty standard fair. If someone made an open source control unit that allowed a technician to calibrate these sensors there is no reason they cannot be universal. Or at least plug and play to a certain extent. Look at a MAF sensor: it's just a heating element and a temperature probe. If you could calibrate the resistance of the heating element to known temperature; the sensors themselves all behave the same.

Electric motors are a little different depending on specification but realistically the software could come prepared for any motor providing the end user sets it up.

Personally I've always wondered why cars have 3 or 4 LCD screens and I still have to see the dealer to find out why my check engine light came on. I'm one of those shade tree mechanics who would be able to handle the technical jargon.
Yup. Have the problem when all the right people are awake and on-site to handle it.

I was in a building when someone inadvertently powered off the wrong equipment, which had been running for several years, and several of the power supplies failed to come back up. It was 1+1 redundant though, so we could quickly shuffle packs around to bring it back up without redundancy. Then, jogging through the building and asking if anyone had spares, we found a field tech in the lunchroom who had a pile of stuff in his van. Whole thing was back to 100% in less than an hour, and we let the beancounters sort out the field spares being used for office equipment.

If that same failure had happened during the overnight maintenance window (when volatile work was supposed to be performed), there certainly wouldn't have been the same resources around.
Mob justice only exists because regular justice is not effective against sexual harassment. Victims have no other choice than do "justice" publicly.
Fixing the justice system is the best solution. Only then we can cancel cancel-culture.
That’s why I singled out remote workers. The governments who created the systems that allow people to acquire wealth are different from the ones that collect taxes. The government that allows my employer to exist could invade the one I pay taxes to.
It's difficult to even find non-internet-vendor-locked in sensors/controls/lights... (sensors/controls ideally running on batteries with sane local network API)

So far I've been lucky with cheap zigbee devices but these seem to be getting phased out in favor of locked in items...

and before people suggest - no, I don't have the willingness to build/maintain my own devices with raspberry pis or ESP etc
Thanks for the answer ! I still don't understand what benefits there is in going to the USA. I have startups / companies so I could theoretically be interested in this, but I don't get it
Different physical connectors prevents you from frying a device that gets plugged into the wrong plug.

We should have different connectors for different data rates and power levels. Don't pass the buck to designers, they'll screw up.
2021 BMW 330.

It is under lease and that is the idea but my understanding is that it continues even if or after the vehicle is purchased outright.
Wow. I've been an NFSN customer for over 10 years and just now found out about this. Makes me like them even more!
Only if the woman feel something she'd prefer not to and ascribes it to that action. Or claims to feel something. Ok, yes, it's bad.
In a previous job it slowly dawned on me that the job was making me quite unhappy. This was about six months in. Only six more months until the "vesting cliff"! I managed to power through and get my stock options for the year.

So, while we don't have 3 months notice in the US, we certainly have similar ways to get stuck.
Good luck buying a TV that isn't a "smart" (aka a really slow, hackable, and generally quite dumb) TV.
Definitely not the "absolute worst", they merely lost all DNS records.
> A fiat currency's value mostly stems from the perception of if the country has the military/political might to enforce it's contracts.

Bitcoin's energy consumption for its value now seems quite modest.
> We went from "he grabbed me by the pussy"

I hate having to write this. But this is one of the biggest examples of fakenews out there that “our side” is ok with because we want to be lied to.

As awful as he was, not a single woman ever actually accused Trump of this. His statements were off record to in discussion about how women react when you are famous.

We didn’t even go from “he grabbed me by the pussy”. We went from the actual quote ”and when you a star, they let you do it, you can do anything... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything”. [0]

If we’re going to call out fake things and being intellectually honest about accusations and “canceling”, let’s start close to home first.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37595321
There is a well-established form of counter-protest at Neonazi marches in Germany: Citizens and companies pledge a certain amount of money to antiracist organizations for every person-meter the Nazis are marching.

Counter-protestors are then cheering the Nazis on and hold banners thanking them for their anti-racist activism.
> this is already a solved problem through color coding

Speaking from experience, I don't think most end users are liable to pay enough attention to their ports to notice the color coding. I remember family members being confused by the blue 3.0 ports when those were a thing--now there's also red ones, and different color C ones, and some C ports have the little lightning bolt and some don't, and most users don't know what THAT means.

The value-add of USB C was supposedly you didn't have to buy different cables for different purposes now, you could just slap everything on a C port. But of course that's not truly the case, and we're now in a messy soup of standards and capabilities that even to seasoned tech professionals are hard to disentangle, much less for end users.

Calling this a solved problem 'cuz they slapped some colors on some of the ports is missing the forest for the trees.
What an amazing solution, so simple and accessible to the average consumer. What's the next revelation, that you can prevent the IOT devices from reaching the internet by reverse engineering and rewriting their software?
Sure, but they'd lose less money than if they didn't hire anyone and couldn't sell their crops at all.
> Scala libraries need to be cross compiled with different Scala versions.

This seems like a big turn off. Question to any Scala dev's out there. Does this get in the way? And does it make upgrading Scala versions difficult?
It really hasn't not in flavour texture or nutritional content
> I get the feeling petrol cars will be cheaper than electric cars for the low end of the market for a long long time.

Various reports estimate electric vehicle cost parity to be achieved around 2025 for small cars, and around 2028 for SUVs (source: theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/EV_cost_2020_2030_20190401.pdf)

Used ICE cars will probably remain a cheaper option for another 10 years.
But methane decomposes into CO2 on a relatively short timescale(12 years?) so surely....it's a wash?
DuckDuckGo Blasts Google over New iOS Privacy Labels
We chose not to add referrer to ASPSecurityKit main site [0]. It's a static content site and I think it'd be useful to let other sites know which page (docs/guides/blog) on our site got them a visitor because the content is public anyway. We've applied it on the dashboard though, this same origin-when-cross-origin policy.

0: https://ASPSecurityKit.net
How long ago did you try it?

I had a similar experience with Home Assistant a couple years ago, but they’ve made a ton of progress on UX recently. I still wouldn’t recommend for a typical consumer, but should be easy for someone building their own apps.
That's not entirely a bad thing.

We've learned a lot about language ergonomics in the past forty-nine years. Generics are super useful. Lambdas and streams can cut down on a lot of boilerplate. Immutables make code easier to reason about.

And I'm glad that I have access to all of those things in Java. I'm not upset that my workday language is being polluted by outside influences, because I'm not a purist, I'm a programmer. I don't care that records were lifted from Scala and Kotlin ... I care about how they can make my code better.

The idea that we should deprive ourselves of useful features because it makes languages too similar makes no sense to me.
The thing is, if farmers in Australia increase wages and thus their product becomes more expensive, the product on supermarket shelves will not become more expensive. Rather, supermarkets will import food from another country. Food is, with few exceptions, a commodity. The producer does not set the price of the commodity, the market does.

I am telling this as an engineer working in the Canada's oil and gas sector. Since 2014, salaries in our sector have decreased and firms are struggling. "Just raise the price of oil" is not an actionable advice. The price of oil is not ours to set. It's the market's
network.http.referer.defaultPolicy is the correct one
This is just straight untrue. You can throw parts at the car while taking educated guesses, but to cost and time effectively fix the car you absolutely need the diagnostic software.

Crank position sensors, cam position sensors, EGR, Fuel system pressure, per-cylinder electrical failures, etc, etc., etc.. can all be guessed at by a shade-tree mechanic. But good luck fixing it quickly and without buying a bunch of parts. My 2010 Mercedes van require parts to be electronically "mated" to eachother, so even if I know the right part, I need the Mercedes software to tell the computer to hook up with the new part.

I've been a "shade-tree" mechanic for most of my life. I would say '98 is roughly correct when full fuel injection became pretty standard. Once you have that, you need a half dozen or so other sensors to make the system work. And you need precise fuel pressure. It just gets more complicated from there.
Some time after learning about Trees in Computer Science, and IFS (Iterated Function Systems, aka Fractals) in Math, I was one day contemplating trees in the real world, and I thought to myself -- "You know, trees in the real world -- might be Nature's way of holding information... But, of course, we as humans -- have yet to figure out how to parse that information..."

That would also, incidentally, apply to all plant life, too...

One good example of this (to be able to have an intuitive cognition about it) would be the Barnsley (aka Fractal) Fern:

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

Also, for another intuitive cognition -- watch videos of plant growth, most notably tree growth -- sped up many thousands of times -- the branches of the tree appear to move in very strange ways!

The tree looks alive!

After you've seen a video like that, compare this to such biological entities as nerve cells, the way that nerve cells branch out, etc.
Seplat Petroleum to issue dollar-denominated bonds to offset outstanding debts
Yes, of course.

First, we only offer SSH / TCP22 so the transit is encrypted.

Second, we have installed, and maintain on the server side tools like 'borg' and 'rclone'. So while you might just 'rsync' or 'sftp' your data to us (in which cases it would not be encrypted on our end) you can also use sophisticated, encrypted backup tools like (borg, duplicity, git-annex, rclone, restic, etc.)

If you choose a tool like that, rsync.net does not hold the encryption keys. The data appears to be random from our viewpoint.
I'm not sure how much this point matters, because the alternative isn't a field of rotting grass. If the land is undeveloped, the alternative is likely some kind of forest. If the land is developed, the alternative is probably cropland. Also to be clear, we're not just talking grass, there's also a massive amount of industrially farmed grains to fatten the them up, which wouldn't have been industrially farmed if it wasn't demanded for feeding cattle. So there's no real equivalence here.
"... and Stallman writes an e-mail that sounds very much as if he's obliquely defending Epstein"

Complete misinterpretation of what RMS has written about. He defended Minsky, not Epstein.
I totally understand it for security, as ironic as it is (given the topic). For everything else though, I feel like there's a "honeymoon" effect in place, where the theoretical and immediate convenience overshadow the implications.

To make a silly comparison, it's like buying digital videogames on a console instead of their physical versions, knowing you're trading immediate convenicence while giving away control, ownership and future availability.

I would have much less problems processing IoT if the "I" was scrapped and optional by default.

I guess I have an hard time understanding people relying on the internet at all.
Huh? A fiat currency's value stems from a government's ability to repay sovereign debt and be responsible with the money supply. That's exactly why modern economies separate the treasury and the central bank - that system, however flawed, is the reason why investors are confident letting sovereigns borrow their money.
The 737 Max quote "designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys" seems appropriate for USB-C too.
This is where Sigfox has a lot of added value: It is like a simcard, but you only pay per million packages instead of per SIM, and you save the trouble of customers trying to disable your hardware. If you build electronic components and the TV integrator doesn’t want to bother providing ethernet to the power unit, at least the power unit can self-report its location to the grid.
I’m guessing the IT department reported to the CFO. Bean counters have zero IT knowledge but like to think they do. They also by default like to say no to any expenditures. Combine the two and you have a disaster waiting to happen.

IT reporting to finance/CFO is always the worst decision.
Yeah, it has gotten tremendously better in the last couple years when it comes to cryptic compiler errors. But even then Slick was a particularly egregious example. I had many WTF moments using Slick a few years back.
I’ve seen lots of projects succeed in Scala, and I’ve seen some fail. The latter was usually caused by writing spaghetti code crap instead of language complexity itself. Obviously some programmers blamed the language, but the harsh reality is that competent engineers can make things work beautifully.
I think the parent commenter was not annoyed by the fact that they could use an app but that they have to.
The corporation over the programmer.
- static using

- interface methods

- annotation preprocessors

- PGO caches

And now file level namespaces and raw string literals.

After all it isn't only Java copying C#, it also works the other way around, and that is good as it improves both platforms.
Every now and then there's some good news that upsets socialists. That's just great!!!

Peter Schiff is right: no matter how little they pay, it's too much.

To the raging HN commenters: if you claimed any deductions, that's also tax avoidance. You could pay more but you chose not to.
They are all similar enough that a programmer fluent in one can start writing code in the style they are familiar with in another. Remember the old saying, "You can write FORTRAN in any language[1]"? Well, with the aforementioned set of languages, you can write one of them in another and it doesn't even look wrong.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/you-can-write-fortran-in-any-l...
What if you don't get your feed from the rainforest? I'm confused with the cause and effect of your statement.
Let's not forget about the Mythical Man Month. Sure, specific people amd money can fix the problem, but we can't just assume that throwing people and money can fix this.

I would anticipate a mix of: the people who know where the right bodies are buried, the right incentive (yes, that includes money), but also people to look over the entire program, a designer to make sure it is designed correctly, an organized person to make sure it is properly documented, and someone to make sure it is adhered to in the future.
>Humans eat meat

I guess you meant "some humans eat meat", or else I cannot be human by your definition, and I sure look like one.

But then, some* humans also kill each other, rape their children (etc). But no one was trying to describe what some humans do/did but what they should better do if we're trying to live in a peaceful and sustainable world. Why should we care that some people eat meat? I don't care that some people burn their own houses unless it threatens mine or my neighbors'.

In the future, we may well learn that people were eating meat and some continue to do so. Just like some people still commute by horse.

*I realized that the easiest way to curb climate change is simply to stop eating meat. I'm healthier and can cook more dishes than ever. Why would the world not go vegan? I can't find a good reason except "because I believe so". Then, again, more and more people become vegetarian so we can only bet.
Newer cars have more electronics, but that's because electronics became cheap and software features are expected (some even legally required). EV isn't causing this, it's just correlated with cars being new.

ICE cars are already full of proprietary locked-down electronics. What drive train they use is irrelevant. For example, Renault, Peugeot, and Hyundai have cars in both EV and ICE versions, running basically the same software for both versions.

If you're alluding to things like self-driving, then EV has nothing to do with it either. For example, Uber's self-driving prototypes are ICE.
Not eating cows or drinking cow milk reduces your carbon emissions from cows 100%. You actually don't need technology or a start up to solve this issue!
I was not wrong, and I believe I understand the law well enough in this case to have an opinion at least as well as you. I did ask a question for a point of clarification, but the spittle brigade downvoted it into oblivion.

In any case, making things personal is against HN guidelines. If you don't have anything useful to say, don't say anything.

If you have some evidence that I'm "factually wrong" about something, please, by all means, share it. I would be happy to learn.
There are already threads on Porsche forums saying don’t drag race against Model 3s. When the 911 starts getting spanked by every other electric Honda off the line, you’ll hear their customers change the tune.
Sovereign writers and Substack
This is horrible. There is no difference between the AZ vaccine and Pfizer. One is not "crappy" - you're literally posting this on a thread that says it's safe and effective in multiple studies.

The EU is becoming a disaster zone of vaccine propaganda. I would never have imagined that national governments would become the primary source of anti-vax nonsense. Make no mistake about it - European politicians have been attacking the AZ vaccine because it originates from the UK and they are ideologically blinded by hatred of Brexit. They've been systematically lying about this particular vaccine and no other one right from the start.

They claimed it didn't work: false, based on a "misreading" of a German report. They claimed the UK had blocked export of it: false. They claimed AZ was in contract violation: false. They claimed it was dangerous: false.

Every time one lie is dispelled, another immediately emerges to take its place. And it's coming from people like Merkel and Macron. Unreal.
CVIP: A Protocol for Complex Interactions Among Connected Vehicles [pdf]