skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. read the manual pages in book form.

2. play a man page quiz with a friend:
- read a random command and ask for the description
- read a random description and ask which command it is for.

I've done both as an undergraduate. The HP-UX manual set remain on the shelves right next to me. Over the years, I found letting candidates compose a pipeline of commands to solve a problem is a great way to make interviews more fun ("How would you solve this problem without writing a program, by combining existing ones?").
Many of the recipe sites you're finding are likely "food bloggers", so their interest is in being a personality/virtual cooking companion more than being just a source of a recipe. You have misaligned interests, and to be fair they're probably less interested in your patronage if you just hop to a page to grab a recipe.

And of course the verbiage is a lot of long tail keyword inclusion (pandering to Google by talking about your diabetic grandma, etc).

EDIT: The whole "I can't stand recipes that have verbiage" diatribe is a bit of a beggars being choosers thing. Personally I pay for America's Test Kitchen and get trustworthy, concise recipes (although there is a narrative about different techniques and options), but most people are too cheap but simultaneously super demanding about the things they get for free.
Oh it's for sure an energy hog and the 20 acres is marketing.

Super interesting especially think of it as in its infancy. Also would be interested to see how the real world results are. I'm guessing it can laser all life but I would be curious to see how well the algorithm worked with protecting certain species.
POWER POINT.

Because I just want some shapes, lines and clip-art to communicate an idea clearly, quickly, and informally.

I remember the UML days and their endless variety of turgid tools, don't want to re-live those experiences.
After the whole HBOMax debacle, I'm not sure if I trust Roku's side of the story and am wondering if the real issue isn't "Youtube TV won't give us a slice of their pie". I used to be a huge fan of Roku when they were the neutral streaming box that was open to all services, but the HBOMax nonsense last year soured me on them.
"It's harder to find people to do that work every single year"

Translation: The wages we pay are crap and we're not going to pay them more.
I tend to play my games in "No Backsies" mode, where available. In KSP, for instance, you can have permadeath for your Kerbals, etc.
finally, we can solve the Mars weed problem
I wish I could upvote this twice. The double standard is appalling.
Ask HN: do we know next to nothing?
I'm often struck by the expressed certainty in the worldview of others and myself.

Only in moments of (subjective) clarity do I entertain the possibility that we know nothing. The big questions on the nature of existence and reality don't yet have answers - and I suspect these questions are quite primitive in the scheme of things.

All beings of a lesser intelligence to us cannot comprehend the cognition of humanity. And I'm assuming that we too have our cognitive limits.

In the midst of musings such as these, science loses its sturdiness. Uncertainty permeates all we know - all rabbit holes lead to boundaries. Mechanisms that we cannot grasp. The pursuit of science pushes on - the { set } of things we know expands, and we take comfort in this island.

Do we forget that it all sits upon the backdrop of an infinite, incomprehensible set. All which can, and cannot, exist. All that has, and will, exist. The void which science finds itself within, dwarfs that of the Pale Blue Dot.

I do not mean to disrespect the scientific method - I hold it dear and celebrate its existence.

For me, this is the only time I ponder the concept of alternative beings. Perhaps we could call this God - though I suspect the set of things our species would classify as God is expansive.

Are the mechanisms and fabric which bring about our experience not themselves greater than us? Is this the only experience able to be generated, and if not, are the processes of generating agency themselves self-aware?

I cannot believe that in this sea of uncertainty, my/our existence is the height of experience. Surely agency/intention cannot only exist within the physical bounds of our planet. I know I have no grounds to explore further than the light science can shine; and yet I find myself here again, and again.

I'd love to have get a reality check, or hear from those who have thoughts of a similar nature.
The video looks like a mix of cgi graphics with unrelated real videos, so I guess they don't have a real machine yet.
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Somehow you got confused. Paying for a meal for somebody at school is not the same thing as paying for that person to go to school.
That's very true but even if these forces catch 99% of significant mutations then you'd still see an increase in pregnancies resulting from that remaining significant mutations over baseline.

But more importantly, our genomes have a lot of "junk DNA" where a mutation will not affect anything at all and almost everyone has these. From the article it looks like these were the mutations the researchers were looking at.
As a chessplayer and programmer these tiny chess programs have always impressed me but annoyed me too.

Why? Most of them skip the full ruleset.

Per Wikipedia:
ZX Chess implements chess rules except for castling, promotion, and en passant.

Those are major rules! You could forgive ZX Chess in 1983 but modern tiny chess variants should not "cheat" by skipping rules.

I'd love to see a list of tiny chess programs that fully implement chess rules as defined by FIDE .

Even better if these programs implement UCI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Chess_Interface
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We have dramatically fewer journalists now, but a great deal more news. There's more noise now but there's also more of what journalists traditionally did. It isn't great if you relied on journalism specifically to pay the bills but the rest of the system doesn't seem to have suffered too bad.
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Yea, I like the idea of having freely draw diagrams where you aren't constrained to a certain syntax. I used to only do hand drawn diagrams until we started using miro at my company. It's really intuitive and the simplicity and the control just make it so much faster and easier to generate and maintain diagrams. It's been great for design and has been useful for debugging issues in unfamiliar architecture.
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I cut my cable TV (and cable landline) cord last year because I wasn't using either much. But I went into it knowing that it would mean giving up live TV because if I were going to subscribe to something like YouTube TV, the difference in cost wouldn't be much at the end of the day.

(My cell, even with WiFi assist, and other calling mechanisms also aren't quite as good as my landline but, again, not worth the money as essentially a backup.)
It doesn't really matter how you version. Just pick something and be consistent.

You should plan your API to be backwards-compatible, plan major version changes about 2 years apart, and put the sunset time of your version in big bold red lettering on the front of your docs. That still may not stop clients from begging for longer support, so again, the more backwards-compatible you are, the less of a pain in the ass it is to abandon old versions. And for God's sake, have the developers consider the pain of customer migration when they develop the new versions, and provide clear, feature-complete migration paths from the old version to the new.

Plan on using a single non-Apex hostname (and possibly region-specific) for all your APIs, and do not change it, because again, pain of support/migration. Then put the version number in the URL, because it will be much easier to run analytics on usage from web access logs, and it works better with a shared domain. With this scheme you can always have a reverse proxy redirect specific URI prefixes to completely different backends. For simplicity, make each new major API version a fork, and run it as a separate set of backend network services.

Please make all of your teams follow the same API conventions. Don't make me write 5 different API calls 5 different ways because you had 5 teams that didn't work together. When I see APIs like this, I know the company's tech management are lazy morons, which means the rest of leadership probably is too.

Being backwards-compatible is different from evolving API functionality. If you just evolve everything, eventually you will reach a high level of complexity for each call that requires massive flow charts to decipher. It's better to create entirely new functions that are simpler to reason about. But don't do this if you can wait for the next major version and consolidate functionality then.

Make sure you follow good distributed computing practices, like giving clear error messages when your server is too busy and the client needs to enable an exponential backoff with jitter.

Please don't use gRPC, for the love of God. It's not compatible with every other API out there that (today, anyway) uses HTTP. The fact that there are multiple "gRPC proxies" is proof enough that an incompatible interface is just a future pain in the ass. Project owners / managers / team leads: Don't let developers pick the technology just because they think it's cool or modern or the best practice, and definitely don't let them choose something they've never used in production before. Consider the actual cost of the thing long-term to your organization.
Thanks for sharing this, seems worth a try at least.
That's great, sounds interesting, especially the airplane parts, always one of the best parts in KSP for me to build space-planes. Thanks for taking the time to write such a elaborate reply!
The impossible part is time. You can make a car from ore that you dig yourself - if someone provides you food and shelter you could finish this task in 30 years or so. You could even make the atoms in a super collider given enough time (well energy is probably the limit).

But we need vaccines today. That means we are limited to what can be manufactured today by existing processes and factories. If you need a round iron part accurate to .001 inch (or similar metric) I know plenty of machinists. Need it more accurate and you have eliminated a large part of that supply chain, but I can still get you to .0001 inches, more than that is hard to find anyone who can handle (possibly impossible - temperature becomes a factor).
Could you add a link to your extension please ?
So the author says she and other female students were touched in appropriately and in an unwanted manner and most discussion here is concerned with her criticism of Feynmann.

Doesn't it make more sense to be primarily concerned with professors inappropriately touching students, of any kind, in any way, shape or form?
There's a video on YouTube of a walk around. https://youtu.be/fK3AQgt47z4 The CEO of the company describes it as "an all diesel hydraulic system." Essentially there's a big generator to drive it around and provide power to the pew pew lasers.
https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines For new code stick to the core guidelines to make life much easier. I think c++ is imperfect, but it is de facto the best/fastest/most-powerful language in existence right now.
We're bringing up rights because Jacobin framed in the terms of rights. And within the specific context of the article, we don't need to sorry about worrying about repercussions - Moderna has effectively granted a license to allow 'random countries' to make their vaccine without being suited for patent infringement.

Jacobin's point is that the pledge is meaningless because the patent lacks sufficient information to make the vaccine anyways - it's all locked up in trade secrets. Jacobin then frames this in terms of rights.

Jacobin claims that the way patents are usually discussed will imply that patents are about 'positive rights' - that is, if you have a patent or license, then you have the ability to commercialize (or whatever) the thing that is patented. Jacobin then claims that in reality, patents are just a negative right. Having a patent, or a license to a patent is just a freedom from not being sued for commercializing a product - since the real positive right that people want - the ability to successfully produce the object is actually wrapped under trade-secrets. The article is basically arguing that this split is injust, or at least extremely misleading, and is trying to call out the bullshit.
I assume ventilation is a big factor, big fans to cool the lasers. Probably some form of liquid cooling with pumps and coolant media tubes and whatnot.

Really cool product!

I think what this product may lack if anything, is some RGB LED lighting and a name with X or Z in it, eg "CarbonX LASER-Z". Especially now with eSports increasing popularity, perhaps we may find eFarmingSports finding a niche, where the most zapped weeds per time unit wins.
Which is basically what they did; upthread, someone links to the specs and they have an onboard Cummins diesel generator.
FreeRDP is not quite reverse engineered, the software built based on open specification for RDP[1]. That being said, I would be surprised if the FreeRDP contributors did not need Wireshark during development.

[1] https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindo...
I tried ImplicitCAD for SDF modeling, but it was just as slow as OpenSCAD and the quality was worse. This looks promising.
Farming equipment is typically fuel based. And this appears to be the case for this robot as well: it uses Diesel.
Awesome news. Hopefully this technology will prove out and mature. Pesticides, while useful also have long term negative affects that will be around for a long time.
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Farming goes from broad selection against pests with chemicals to introducing a massive selection pressure towards biological mimicry and adversarial image attacks.
I don't watch sports but do enjoy cooking, travel and home shows (don't judge me!). I also did not like paying a huge monthly fee for mostly channels I don't watch. I've actually found Discovery+ to be a really great deal as it has Discovery, Food, Travel and HGTV content all bundled and on-demand for $5 a month. It's all of the content I wanted and was paying > $60 /month for, with no commercials and on-demand. It's a pretty great deal if you like this kind of content.
Exactly - I suspect that often "unplug, wait X seconds, hit power, plug in" would do most of it but the "wait X seconds" part is what people have trouble actually doing, so you add the busy work.

The ones where weird sequences do something are with power still plugged in (the chipset can react differently when it notices the power button is held down as it turns on, etc).
>Also seems odd to have it be something that is self-powered and autonomous rather than just something you pull behind a tractor on the three point hitch

That doesn't seem odd to me at all. The whole point of this thing is to let it run all day killing weeds while you do other stuff. The fact it only has a max of 5mph (and likely significantly slower when there are actual weeds to kill) means you would spend all day every day in the field trying to take care of weeds.

When they spray for weeds they're going significantly faster than that and cover a massive swath in one pass, and that's generally outsourced to someone other than the farmer himself. This looks like it's good for maybe 3 rows at a time.
Kentucky Baked Chicken, duh...
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Some detail here: https://popculture.com/streaming/news/roku-founder-reveals-w...

"Roku's standard terms for partner channels include 20% of subscription fees and 30% of ad inventory, which has driven away Peacock, as it is currently airing fewer than five minutes of ads per hour. Meanwhile, WarnerMedia has been looking to retire the HBO service now sold through Roku to promote HBO Max, which Roku has turned down singularly."

To me it just reads like Roku has grown it's subscriber base to the point where they can negotiate with content providers in the same way that cable companies used to. Which isn't great for end users, but it is what it is. Both HBOMax and Peacock ended up on Roku, so some deal was reached in both cases.
That was pretty much my thinking too. Cutting my cable bill by $100/month opens up a lot of "budget" for a la carte content. I still lose out on live TV but honestly that was a rare thing for me given I watch very little sports.
There is a reckoning coming when agricultural robots will overtake manual labor. This is going to lead to a giant calamity of agricultural workers, specifically migrant workers, who are suddenly going to be without a job. I love the robots, I think it’s great, but we should be prepared for a human concern that WILL come.
I don't use any tools at all. Keep diagrams in my head - if they are too complex for that then there's a different problem to be solved.
Curiously, I'm perfectly fine with roguelikes since long ago, but I can't muster emotional energy to get back to XCOM: Enemy Unknown (the modern one) since one of my characters on a team died there (I still vaguely remember the map), even though I could theoretically reload a save from before it happened. The feeling doesn't seem to wane, and surprises me to no end every time I think about that.
Same here. But I also recall that when the health department would do spot checks of bacteria and coliform counts on the machines, they were always in or near the danger zone.

All you need is one kid that didn't wipe their ass correctly before assembling the beaters and you've got a health problem in the making. The self-sterilizing machines were designed to prevent this.
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You’d be dragging that wire over your rows of crops, potentially damaging them.
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It sounds like it's got a generator on board, so it needs enough space for that.

There's no sense letting it get rained on, so it needs some sort of cap (especially given that it's presumably electric high powered lasers).

It doesn't seem to move fast enough to care about wind resistance.

A cube is a nice easy shape to build... so why not a cube.
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I would say people's attitude is much less conservative these days.

Sex out of wedlock, attitude to drugs, display of violence, government taxation and regulation, freedom restrictions - they are all a magnitude more than in the past.

What changed is that previous examples of innocent nudity are sexualised, probably because of our highly sexualised culture.
Where is here, out of interest?

As from my perspective (EU-based, so maybe not comparable) I’d happily give up more than 10% of my monthly salary just to stand a chance of getting a vaccination this quarter.

(I fully appreciate that it’s easy to say this when you are in a wealthy nation and have a lot more disposable income than many people in the world… but I guess what I’m saying is for such a unique and important situation as the pandemic, it’s probably not an unreasonable price to pay.)
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"you either are part of the solution of [X] or you are part of the problem" is an oversimplification and it's probably not meant to be taken literally.

First, nobody can have the knowledge, time and resources to work on each and every problem in the world.

Second, people can be overwhelmed by problems in their own lives and focused on getting to the end of the month. And there's no shame in that.

> we really must find better ways not to ascribe malice when some unknown group of people does something ordinary without consideration of politics

Yet we have to realize that there are hundreds of millions of people in developed countries that have access to information (e.g. Internet, documentaries...) and have enough spare time to learn and take a position.

And yet they choose not to.

Without ascribing malice, it can be uncomfortable and even painful to look at many problems in the world and admit that our lives could have been 100x times worse if we were to be born in the wrong place.
My guess is because it can. Size is not a concern for farming and it being large aids cooling and helps to store more energy. Apparently it has a 75l Diesel tank for instance.
No not really. Delivery times are pretty similar to other made to order manufacturers.

Demand does seem to be growing to meet thier increasing production volumes though.
My metadata problem is that I still mistake Cal Paterson, who produces mostly troll content, with Cal Newport, who doesn't.
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> India is a democracy, where it has always been OK to criticize the government - at least up until 2014,

1. 1975-77: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India)

2. 2011: https://www.telegraphindia.com/7-days/when-net-is-gross/cid/...

3. 2008: https://www.theregister.com/2008/05/19/google_india_gandhi/

No Indian politician or government _likes_ criticism. Modi is almost unique in the staggering amount of abuse and vitriol that has been directed towards him over the last twenty years. If it had been any one else, they would probably have lost it by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJigArURZWU

(Video of an operating unit)

There is nothing particularly unbelievable about the device, and it seems, as such innovations tend to be, quite obvious.
There is DVR software that will strip out the commericals for you. Post processing DVR feature, and its awesome.
I often look at web versions of man pages because it's just plain easier to deal with when researching mega-commands like curl or openssl. The green-screen-text-only bastard in me argues vehemently against this, but the pragmatist in me doesn't care. It's just plain easier.
"The most tedious work I do right now is adding "one more" scalar or complex data-member that has to travel from Point A in Method 1 to Point B in Method 2 - I wish I could ctrl+click in my IDE and say "magically write code that expresses the movement of this scalar piece of data from here to here" and that would save me so much time."

All of this is possible today and not even that hard (though it's harder than meets the eye, there's a lot of issues that description glosses over that you have to deal with, especially in conventionally-imperative languages). The main problem you face is that the resulting code base is so far up the abstraction ladder that you need above-average programmers to even touch it. (I am assuming that this is merely a particular example of a class of such improvements you would like made.) This is essentially the same reason why Haskell isn't ever going to break out of its niche. You can easily create things like this with it, but you're not going to be hiring off the street to get people to work with it.

Or, to put it another way, a non-trivial reason if not the dominant reason we don't see code written to this level of abstraction is the cognitive limitations of the humans writing it.

I know HN doesn't really like this point sometimes, to which I'd ask anyone complaining if they've mentored someone a year or two out of college and fairly average. You can't build a software engineering industry out of the assumption that John Carmack is your minimum skill level.
Plus, once the pandemic is "over" at least officially, their best case scenario is that other manufacturers did implement their parents.. because they can start collecting license fees, and those manufacturers are likely to have made investments in ways that commit them long-term to using processes covered by Moderna's patent portfolio.