skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also... What is composting?

Composting is a (1) human-managed (2) aerobic decomposition of organic materials, driven by (3) thermophilic microorganisms (primarily thermophilic bacteria). The result is compost. Anything that doesn't feature all three of the above components isn't composting, it's something else.

Compost is easy to make in your backyard: get enough fencing to create a minimum 1 cubic meter area on the ground (not a paved driveway or something) that you fill with organic material such as leaves and other yard scraps, kitchen scraps, manure, cardboard, dead animals, biochar, etc. It's best to keep wood and large bones out since they won't break down well - you can pyrolysize them instead and then co-compost the resulting biochar. You want air to freely move in and out of the pile, and to keep a thick layer of cover material on top such as dry leaves or hay (best, IMO) to prevent smells. A carbon to nitrogen ratio of around 25:1 works well. Inputs with high CN ratio: dry leaves, cardboard (~450:1), sawdust (500:1), etc. Things with low CN ratio: urine (0.8:1), fresh kitchen scraps (15:1), manure / toilet material, still-green yard scraps, etc. Mixing high and low CN ratio inputs results in a good overall mixture. The compost bin contents must be moist but not wet. I keep a compost thermometer in my pile at all times and currently, my 7-month old pile is around 120F / 48C. This well-above-ambient temperature is the result of thermophilic bacteria creating internal biological heat, a key component that distinguishes compost from other things such as vermiculture. Compost isn't done until it cools to ambient temperature, and then I let it sit for a year.

There are many kinds of decomposition and composting is just one of them. Here are some other kinds:

Combustion: aerobic thermal decomposition, resulting in ash

Pyrolysis: anaerobic thermal decomposition, resulting in biochar

Vermiculture: decomposition via worm digestion, resulting in worm castings, aka worm shit
Solving the 50% case of self driving is something any talented hobbyist can do. Solving for 70% is something that a few companies with billions of dollars will be able to do. Solving for 90% is something that a few companies with billions of dollars of investment may be able to do. Solving for 100% is something that at present no entity on the planet can do. Claiming that you can is disqualifying, it turns you from a 'possible' into a 'must fail' because you lack the realistic constraints required to participate.

Tesla - unfortunately - falls squarely in the latter category, they have set themselves up for failure.
"Today, 1,165 Bob Ross originals -- a trove worth millions of dollars -- sit in cardboard boxes inside the company's nondescript office building in Herndon, Virginia."

That's pretty sad, as they're probably at great risk of being consumed in a fire or maybe even being damaged by mildew.
Filecoin is meant for stable long-term storage; thus, mining the unused space on your personal harddirve is not the intended use case.

Today, there is a lack of Dropbox-like systems to make the decentralized system broadly useful. It's a shortcoming that people are working on solving. It's akin to being given a big ole harddrive: Until you have a filesystem & file browser, it would only be relevant to a small population -- but that utility would explode once tooling is complete.

Some resources to address you question on utilization:

https://file.app/

https://filscan.io/#/home

Also: spending less than an hour trying to grok something new, and then ripping into it seems pretty disconnected. Thinking back to my learning curve on emacs, linux, IRC, BBSs, early www, etc. Hell, I remember spending days(!) wire wrapping that first computer and flashing the ROMs. It took substantial effort to be involved in the "obscure hobby", but look where computing and the web are now! Don't mistake ease of use today for potential impact tomorrow.
Ah, OK, thanks.
I wouldn't bet against you.

I don't think they know enough yet to construct ASICs and decide on consumer-priced sensors. Hellaciously interesting problem though, I wish I were working on it.
If you were making a deposit on a Roadster you were probably already a millionaire (initial deposit was 250k). Also, in an index fund doing 7-8% interest you couldn’t even double that 250k in 5 years. It’s not really fair to make that statement based on actual performance. Your other claims are accurate, but do people care? Tesla fans have shown a lot of patience and they have always delivered eventually. On everything but FSD.
Tuition.
Probably a very low percentage of low level staff today will be high level staff 15 years forward - especially if you microwaving them. If that were the adversary's intention then I would expect hundreds or thousands of our staff to be suffering. As is, it looks like only a few people spread across decades. Malfunctioning of a microwave power source is the only thing that makes sense to me.
You're working off an assumption that Github is a better technology. Many people who make this argument do not have extensive experience using both technologies. The arguments I've seen presented comes down to the fact that people cannot figure out how to set up email clients or how to send patch sets via email. It's not around an actual comparison of how these technologies operate or what compromises one has to make to use email versus Github or vice-versa.
Will Bitcoin replace gold as the ultimate store of wealth?
You don't hold a car in your hand and stare at it all day. But also, cars are mostly painted with a clear coat that can be buffed or sanded and buffed to remove imperfections.
I am building a Serverless version of Redis – written in Rust
100% this. Quantitative easing basically caused epic asset inflation- great for the capital owning class, but royally fucking over the poors and young workers.

In Seattle back in the day a teacher could own a house in the city and pay it off without a sweat. Nowadays, unless you are a doctor or software engineer or patent lawyer it's kind of ludicrous idea.
Regardless of that, wideband EM receivers exist, and the US has some with incredibly high sensitivities.
Revolut supports one time cards... provided you're happy with Revolut.
>Tesla fans have shown a lot of patience and they have always delivered eventually. On everything but FSD.

What happened to the battery swaps and tentacle porn charging cable?
You can also open a temporary credit card linked to your real credit card using www.privacy.com

If you have problems cancelling a subscription, you can simply cancel the temporary card that privacy.com created for you
And have half your countertop taken up by the device 24/7.
No one needs them. I have no idea why Apple made them.
A system that relies on your consent to operate can be modified by withdrawing your consent; if individuals coordinate, systemic change is possible. Gandhi and his non-violent resistance to British rule in India is a good example.
Right. But I think OP was suggesting that the website needed to include this information.
Might as well go for one of the even older models that ran on 2xAAA. Not like you're losing compatibility with modern hardware.
Notification abuse and autoplay
Processed food is full of oil, and consumers are seeking healthy options while producers voraciously production growth, moving from oil to oil, seeking profits and sales on the trends of diets.

I stopped eating chips with canola oil and only get the ones with only avocado oil, because the canola is rancid for my belly
Solving for 100% is something that at present no entity on the planet can do.

Isn't this tautologically true right up until it isn't?
I have never used a compiler that didn't allocate frames in a single move of the sp, and I've been using compilers since the 1970. Surely "modern" has to mean some change more recent than that.
Yes.

it's... something how this article links to folks that just assume it's easy to do, and do well. Let alone in real time.
Doesn’t the plus code algorithm rely on tiling the globe with a space filling curve? I’d be surprised if that could be done simply.
Meh -- they've done themselves such harm in recent years by embracing activism and deliberate bias that it's hard for me to feel too bad for the industry.

That said, I'll applaud whichever journalists are brave enough to start pushing their industry/art back towards objectivity and diversity of perspective.
> I installed the Docker Desktop I wanted. Then you reached into my machine, deleted it, and replaced it with something else I didn’t want.

To clarify, you installed a piece of software with this capability. Thus, you did not install a piece of software you wanted.

Furthermore, Docker has the right to write software that functions and updates as they wish. You have the right to not install it. It's really that simple.

A lot of software today is auto-updating, where updates cannot be disabled, if they can even be delayed. It's the developers' choice whether they want their software to function like this, your choice whether you want to install it.
> a transformation no different than finding a camera angle

I’ve used PCA a bit in the past and it’s so abstract that one forgets how to conceptualize it shortly after finishing the task. This is an interesting and memorable way to put it, I like that.
> Lately I’ve been learning to play guitar. I wanted to be able to try out a bunch of different pickups on my guitar, to get a feel for what sound I prefer.

I've been playing for over 10 years, and I still don't really care. I have a strat with the standard three single-coil pickups and a Gibson with two humbuckers. I'm sure it makes some difference, but where I'm at, I can't hear enough of a difference beyond the big things that it just doesn't matter.
Almost every job offer I got was through a recruiter reaching out to me through LinkedIn. I don't actively post anything though.
The return of the "Hipster PDA" (speaking as one who did this for a few years).

I believe see also "bullet journal."
i would actually love a video app where people can discuss and debate on a livestream with a reddit like categorization.
Changed now. Submitted title was "My oldest kid made this to raise awareness that composting garbage dumps".
There's a comment in the last chapter of Russell and Norvig's AI textbook to effect of "We've made steady progress, right up to the top of the tree."

There is certainly a school of thought that we'll need to tap into interdisciplinary fields like cognitive science to continue making real advances. It certainly feels as a consumer that things like voice assistants, ML transcription, computer vision systems are not that different than they were a few years ago.
https://d3js.org/ & https://threejs.org/
Wouldn't this just incentivize people to put things in the compost / recycling that don't belong there? I believe this is already a problem even in places that don't have such systems.
Yes, I’ve already known about that. I’m just wondering why they’re not checking peoples zinc levels or why they’re not recommending people supplement with zinc.

The rate of zinc deficiency in India is near 50%!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3702335/
A few weeks ago my Philips coffee machine broke down. It just stopped when I pressed the button for a coffee and went into error mode.

It turned out that despite my google-fu there isn’t a published repair manual to be found, Philips does not offer replacement parts anywhere oh and actually it’s a rebranded machine from Saeco...

So I just started taking it apart as the warranty had expired anyway. Took a bit of doing but ultimately found out that the motor for the bean grinder was broken.

With some luck by typing in some numbers printed on it I managed to find a place that sells them. With that it was a fairly easy fix that cost me 40 euros and an hour or three instead of 300+ for a new machine.

Also there is sweet satisfaction form having fixed a thing
Yep, you're right, I do mean that
> If the [] was after the variable name
"How can we fix that? ... demand for journalism and quality journalism is going to be difficult when folks don’t want or don’t care to read."

The education system needs to be radically reformed to teach kids to value reading, knowledge, and learning for its own sake and not just to pass tests and get in to schools that will get them high paying jobs. Critical reading and thinking skills also need to be taught more effectively.

Unfortunately, such reform is difficult to undertake in a society which mostly doesn't value any of that, and when politicians consider critical thinking among their voters to be detrimental to their own interests.
> Well, given that some sites employ hundreds of trackers and other barely-above-malware stuff, it does make sense for these requests to take ages.

Last time I checked, there were no requests being made client-side in the 1-2 minutes it took to cancel. It was pretty much the same number of requests for both accepting and denying. Maybe they changed it since it's too blatant.

Also, since it should be opt-in, then accepting should obviously take longer.
I don't have experience in this field...but w/ hair, someone can get grafts which supposedly look better than plugs from decades ago?
You can have two of the following three.

Small size (less than thirty meters), low scatter, and power.

If you're going to have a powerful microwave brain frying system radiating over a 50m^2 area there is no way you're not going to light up the neighborhood in EM. Just can't happen, sorry.
People seem to have varying opinions on what (scientific) sources to trust, I hope anyone surprised by/interested in this topic will dig deeper by themselves.
>Harsh but I have to say is there a car company with the kind of hype and fanboyism of Tesla?

You need to drink the Kool-aid pretty hard in order to buy hypercars like the LaFerrari but there's not really anything on the scale of Tesla.
Some cheap (or expensive but old) pickups rattle when you shake them. Here's a tutorial on "repotting" some pickups in wax to fix this.

https://www.projectguitar.com/tutorials/electronics/repottin...

You don't have to be a cork sniffer to hear small things affect your tone. You just have to play very loudly on half-broken instruments - which isn't everyone's cup of tea.
I bet you could use three.js as well
> It is not clear that the required robustness and accuracy can be solved with Deep Learning and cameras alone

It sure is a good excuse for a bunch of rolling surveillance though.
It's not purely speculative. Just hopped on their site to check, these are the features they say you get immediately today:

* Navigate on Autopilot

* Auto Lane Change

* Autopark

* Summon

* Full Self-Driving Computer

* Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control

When Cadillac's Super Cruise option is $2,500, $10K is still a huge premium, but it doesn't look like you can get those features independent of the FSD package from Tesla.
Honestly I think Tabix's bgzipped TSV is one of the less hokey bioinformatics formats, at least compared to the various custom binary formats floating around.

For web browser based genome browsers I suspect this (very cool!) sqlite hack would require many more http requests.
I don't think that's quite right. Even if you have a flu strain with a particular name (H1N1) there are a number of variants within the H1 and/or N1 proteins that the vaccine will be targeted to as well, so the number is quite a bit larger than 198/131.

It's not that hard to make a new vaccine, the process for flu is very accelerated because they're just a variation on the original theme which has been proven to be safe (though unclear on effective until AFTER the flu season hits). If you think about it, we make a new flu vaccine every year, and develop it in 6 months. Each one contains a few guesses as to which of the flus are going to be an issue, it's not just one antigen in the vaccine. Those guesses are just that, an informed prediction, which is why the vaccines tend to be fairly ineffective (40-60%) at preventing disease altogether, though perhaps better at preventing serious disease.

Moderna is claiming to be quicker, so they'd have a more accurate read on what the REAL flu strain this year is going to be, and so it should be more efficacious. The key variable will be dosing. mRNA vaccines can only deliver a certain amount of mRNA so it might be impractical to deliver very many antigens at once. Also delivery issues, the current flu vaccine is super easy to make and deliver to patients, mRNA vaccines with their complicated cold chains aren't. Obviously it's not an impossible problem, but it's less convenient.

Time will tell, it's certainly very promising!

Helpful: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3619640/
Eh. I played football as a kid for who knows how many hours, and never became a professional player. It isn't a waste if you enjoyed and learned something from it.
Most African companies have quota-free duty-free trade with the EU for practically everything.

Food safety is an issue for meat, but Europe imports enormous quantities of fruit and vegetables from Africa (including avocados).
Small point - 'tube amps' unconditionally sound better than solid state. It's a marked difference that doesn't really require a trained ear or anything, if you played a few chords on a 'warmed up tube amp' vs. 'solid state' to someone who's never seen an electric guitar in real life, they'd be able to hear the difference.
Yes, geohash makes more sense, letter numbers are better, since people would still have to memorize words, which is a little similar with letters. They would still write it down or copy paste it.

Another solution would be a smaller set of easier words, on subgrids like geohash, because gradual precision is really better.
when food breaks down in the soil, the compost is integrated into the soil so it's already used. Plants then grow better apparently, I've never had to buy soil from the shop
Tesla is claiming it is literally around the corner and lets people pay 10kUSD for the privilege. I think this is the difficult part as non-technical people might take the claims at face value.
Is 10x repair cost right? Parts maybe 2x-5xish? For labor, I think it's the same "appliance repair" network as the others, so whatever that rate is, trip fee plus hourly.
So the answer is “yes, it has to download the index first”? None of these comments answer my question.
We also still use mercury amalgams in tooth fillings, that doesn't mean we should pollute the environment with random unrelated mercury compounds.
Solution works really well to databases which will not be updated frequently, like a standalone site.

Although one should be aware of one very important git behavior - git does not diff binary files (like SQLite dbs). That means 2 things:

1. Each db update will generate a new file in git, maintaining the whole old file in history, instead of the diff in bytes. This will accumulate a lot of clutter in the repo

2. As git does not diff binaries, there is a very small risk of corruption (especially if you work in multiple OSs, because of CRLF)

Ref - https://robinwinslow.uk/dont-ever-commit-binary-files-to-git
It is 510.1 trillion m² (google result).

3x3 is 510.1/9 - 56 trillion (and change).

> 196,936,994 m^2

Is equivalent to a perfect square with sides 14km long...they say it's a small world..but not that small.
The number of Americans that race is relatively small. Our houses and property are sold on the per acre basis so its pretty commonly used.
Lots of marketing on the back of the recent embrace of good and healthy fats. They irony of the whole avocado and toast fad is the inclusion of the toast which more often than not is unhealthy...trigger the anti-anti-carb comments.

I too was also lucky enough to grow up with a hand full of avocado trees that fruited every year, and I say that even though I never really cared for them personally, but to this day I do incorporate avocado oil into my salads and wish I had acquired the taste for eating the avocado itself.

I think the marketing has died down but for a while I Felt it was almost on par with the kind of submarine marketing both pizza and tacos get as a favorite food of the masses.
I'm just impressed how bad slack is on mobile. Either I'm getting messages on my computer and phone (on phone after I've responded on the computer) or not at all.
Indeed, one of the more impressive performances to date. But: if half of the cars would drive like this (all over the road, splitting lanes, not merging efficiently, deciding late and braking harder than necessary through lack of anticipation) then it would become a pretty big mess on the road.

Still, those are bugs that can likely be ironed out, at least they didn't pick an easy track to pretend the tech is better than it really is.
> Tell me, in your career, how many times have you seen companies switch source control tools?

Twice. Once from CVS to SVN (where people started using SVN for new projects and left existing projects in CVS). And once from SVN to git where we used tools to get the SVN history into git.

> who really needs commit history from 15 years ago?

It really depends on how old the code is. I've worked on code that was last deployed close to a decade ago and some of the git blame output was showing commit dates from 2008 (not quite 15 years ago). Unfortunately, the commit messages left something to be desired and didn't really help in terms of figuring out what the issue was).

> I loved digging through commit history on code that originally was tracked via RCS on a (at the time) ~15 year old code base. And that was about 15 years ago. I'm getting old lol!

Same here. I never got to use RCS at work, though I learned about it in school :)
I don't think Beta really counts here. Probably the best example of Sony doing this is their Memory Stick, despite compact flash, sd and usb storage being readily available.
I couldn't disagree more! I won't buy an avocado with a label from Mexico or Chile because they are so watery / flavorless. I also happen to live in Carpinteria, CA, where our local avo's are second to none.
I use i.reddit.com. I think it was their old mobile site. Works like a charm.
When I worked at a grocery store I reflected on how the cleaner who came every night was one of the more important workers we had.

After all, who'd want to shop groceries at a dirty place when there's a nice, clean place just a bit down the road?
At least the information describing what tables and indices there are and where to find them - and then it gets what it needs once a query is run. Just like sqlite would if running from a local file on disk.
How can you bemoan what the internet has become and support Amazon in the comment?
Yes. The advances in Deep Learning are very impressive and are already proving useful. Still there seem to be no real breakthroughs in actual intelligence, reasoning or something that resembles consciousness.
Global scale agricultural monocropping using industrial processes and chemicals. Local sourcing implicitly means small scale farms as well.
Food insecurity is not the same thing as starvation. In fact, that's his whole point.
Yes, but that is the point: Tesla claims that they are within striking distance of that goal, to the point that they ask people to pay for it today. Which is - not to put too fine a point on it - a fraudulent claim.
Can you explain why this is a dark pattern? How does slack benefit from you using the native app vs. the web app?