skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've ordered some new 3.3v relay module so I can skip the Arduino, but with the components I had, I was able to prototype this.

The ideia is to have a hose / pipe pouring water from a container to the plant. With the raspberry pi not also I can automate this stuff, but I can also have a camera attached to it so I can view my plants in real time.

Hope you guys like this project.
Only goes to show how ridiculous is the idea of physical borders between countries.
Enforced monogamy and limited movement curbed the expression of the disposable male pattern in cultures, but with the introduction of dating apps, easy physical transport, increasing domination of financial resources by the few, and cultural lauding of "single life" (it drives so much consumption in consumer culture) implies it is coming back.

I would also like to say that dating culture is evolving at lightspeed right now, and as cultural reflections of internet data enter the overall "pop culture consciousness", then dating culture will shift. In the years I used online dating it went from "closet backchannel" for dating to the primary means of mate seeking, and entire apps are coming into popularity based on different game theory rules applied to the process in short amounts of time.

I'd hazard a guess that the evolution is happening as quickly as internet advertising techniques hit a hot streak for about 1-2 years before everyone collectively catches on and they don't work anyore.
Is there a term for the organizational autoimmune disorder where the cost of fighting inefficiency (or, in the case of governments, fraud) is significantly greater than the amount that would be lost without such policies?
I have a soft spot for the IPX.

It was a wonderful little form factor with ”good enough” computing power and its TurboGx graphics. It was no SPARCStation 20 or anything but it still had a lot of charm.

For a while I had a similar “tower of power” with as many SCSI peripherals in Sun cases stacked on it as I could manage.

The *NIX workstations of the 1990s from Sun, SGI, and others had such interesting industrial design compared to their boring beige PC contemporaries.
Everyone: PLEASE stop making the argument that it's "too hard" or even "impossible" to implement spending limits.

As the article points out: Every other cloud does this! They all have non-production subscription types with hard spending limits.

There's a difference between "unable" and "unwilling".

The people that refuse to understand the difference are the same people that don't understand that "unsupported" isn't synonymous with "cannot be made to function".

Don't be that person.

If you have a large account and you're in regular contact with an AWS sales representative, pressure them into making this happen. Even if you work for Megacorp with a $$$ budget, keep in mind that your future hires need to start somewhere, need to be able to learn on their own, and need to do so safely.

Don't walk down the same path as IBM's mainframes, where no student anywhere ever has been able to learn on their own, making it a dead-end for corporations who pay billions for this platform. You, or your company will eventually pay this price if AWS keeps this IBM-like behaviour up.

Think of the big picture, not just your own immediate personal situation.

Apply this pressure yourself, because the students you want to hire next year can't.
Yeah I feel like George Washington's parting letter[0] on avoiding large political parties because they lead to infighting, popularity-only contests, and foreign manipulation was completely ignored.

> Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight) the common

> & continual mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it.

> It serves always to distract the Public Councils and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with

> ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot & insurrection.

> It opens the door to foreign influence & corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

[0] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-...
I understand why somebody would buy a baseball card, even if I would never want to. I understand why someone would right-click and download a jpg of a baseball card, or screenshot one, even if I would never want to.

But when you add "pay $100 in etherium for a reference to a publically jpg hosted on some website" you completely lose me.
Well, I'd argue that the gap between making racist remarks and committing greater acts of racism is a bit smaller than the one between criticizing inequality and emulating the mass genocide of a communist regime. Although the other OP did bring up the Nazis, so I see where he was coming from.
>An equally valid hypothesis is that harmlessly blowing off low-level steam prevents the atrocities higher up in the “pyramid”.

On what basis are you making your claim that allowing people to openly make offensive jokes prevents higher level atrocities?
I haven't significantly worked with Rails since 2015, so I'm not up to speed with the current state of things, but in general I found that architecturally Rails can scale mostly okay, although it can be a bit tricky if you're not very familiar with the Rails internals, but it's not overly complex either in my experience. I was never a Rails super-expert either, and I managed to bolt on plenty of stuff for customers' specific needs, and the results worked fairly well and weren't too overly complex.

I don't doubt there are certain roadblocks though, and that some things fairly "simple" could be very hard and complex in Rails. I just never encountered them.

I've certainly seen a lot more overly complex crappy bespoke solutions when Rails + a few modifications would have been much better. This is like the old Greenspun's tenth rule: "any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." – there are a lot of "ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementations of half of Ruby on Rails" out there.

Right now I mostly write web stuff with Go, which is the exact opposite of Ruby/Rails in almost every way. In spite of being so different, I'm fairly comfterable with both approaches, and I'm not entirely sure what I prefer yet (even though I've been doing this in Go for 6 years now); I certainly spent a lot more time on basic stuff that Rails just provides.
Skytrax seems to be the industry standard.

Edit: nevermind you said SAFETY ratings
> Pedantry over definitions distracts from the underlying issues, while new and inventive and nonstandard usage of language can spur critical analysis and jolt us out of our familiar understanding.

I understand that that’s the intention behind this strategy, but in practice it actually comes off as a shock-and-awe guerrilla tactic to argumentation that alienates rather than invite collaboration. Again, if the goal is actually to get people to buy into new ideas, attacking them (which is implicitly what happens when you expansively redefine “white supremacy”) is just not a good strategy.

> Telling someone “defund isn’t used that way” shuts down the conversation.

Right, and it sounds like the goal is to maintain open conversation! Constantly demanding that people use your definitions and argue with you on the terms that you unilaterally set is an awful way to maintain open dialogue/conversation with people that might otherwise be open to changing their minds. Insisting that people simply must accept whatever new rules of engagement is en vogue just exacerbates polarization and mistrust.

So yes, it’s just as, if not more unhelpful.
What's a good and a bad idea is very subjective. Let them run their business the way they want! Pretty much everywhere else in the world political polemics are not allowed at work as they can divide the workforce and some people could feel harassed by hearing non-work-related stuff they wholeheartedly disagree with!
Thanks for the Vega-Lite feedback. We are huge fans of Observable and D3 and will see what we can learn from Plot.
I answered the phone by saying ahoy-hoy for years as a kid. I loved Mr. Burns’ random antiquated phrases
Is there any evidence for this progression or that censorship halts this progression?

In mind, there plenty of other good reasons to promote good workplace conduct and prohibit racist speech.
Very good point. This is an active area of research, there's been some work in using other similarity measures like MI,Kendall's Tau etc in embeddings as well. And they have been found to perform pretty well.

I found something for MI if you wanna check it out : https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.741.pdf

EDIT: As @rubatuga said,they have been avoided largely as embeddings are continuous random vars and MI is for distributions. Nonetheless I think there can be merit in exploring these

PS: I am the author and just wanted to talk about the familiar basic stuff on this one
You didn't have a friend do the internet church thing to become an officiant? Is that no longer possible?
WOKO HARAM!

Zack! Bamm!
But you missed out on the thrills of getting a triple-boot XP/7/Linux system working, with both XP and 7 calling their own drive "C"!
Typing a large legacy codebase written in a highly dynamic language is not as easy. Instagram is pretty large.

I have seen a very large codebase in a dynamic language at [redacted] that has been mostly converted to use a sophisticated type system. Certain core things have not been converted so far, though, but just marked with a lot of "proceed with caution" and "TODO" red flags. Making them typesafe in any conceivable way would break compatibility for large subsystems.

Sometimes a rewrite is the only way out of such a situation, but very few can afford it.
Really? I had no idea that was an uncommon word. What else do you call them?
Gödel's Solution to Einstein's Field Equations
It was likely an ending event on Venus. But I agree, this isn't certain for earth. There could well be new opportunities for many regions on earth.
Truth. from the "guidance" page:

"More inclusive: Spouses/partners <> Less inclusive: Wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends"
A major problem is that there's no easy way to see all resources in a single view for any cloud.

Azure comes closest in the dashboard but still misses some items. GCP has an Asset Inventory page in the Security section for an organization. AWS can use the Tag Editor to browse all the regions. It's notable that none of them have a single clear page though.
https://newdiscourses.com/2021/01/what-is-critical-race-theo...
Many of the individual businesses within Berkshire are able to act with a long term horizon that I think is uncommon within the stock market as a whole. Profits and float are able to be reinvested within Berkshire in a much more tax efficient way than separate companies.

One example is BNSF. Most railroads are on warpath to increase operating margin as much as possible. Cutting routes, laying off staff, and neglecting customer satisfaction are the norm. Imagine being laid off after your company has had its most profitable year ever. These actions are being dictated by institutional investors. BNSF is the only major railroad not taking on precision railroading. It's possible that this will be a failure on BNSF's part, but Berkshire is willing to take the bet and act differently from everyone else on the idea that this will be better long term. Institutional investors are not interested in that.
30-40 Indigo2’s must have be one expensive lab.
Of course "reverse racism" exists (although, it certainly may be much less of a problem in the USA than non "reverse" racism). Discriminating against someone because of their race because you believe their racial group or background is privileged is still racism and the application of a stereotype. Just because they're White, Hispanic, or Asian (depending on the type of "reverse racism" we're talking about here) shouldn't give you an excuse to be racist against them. Edit: and also it would be illegal if the company is foolish enough to put it in writing and clearly state they are discriminating against people of a specific ethnic or national background, regardless of what background it is or if you personally believe that background is privileged.

Fair enough to say that speaking this out on a company zoom call in a lot of places would get you in trouble though and speaks to a lack of understanding of tech workplaces - it's only smart self-preservation to stay far away from politics, especially racial politics, in company workspaces unless you're sure you're 100% aligned with the currently dominant creed.
Our CEO had to do this last year.

Due to rising costs, the company decided to outsource some production. The end product was just as good in quality and much cheaper, even after shipping and import taxes.

A few employees were concerned about outsourcing to that specific country and started to discuss and petition the senior executives.

The CEO clamped down hard and said it was a business decision and if anyone didn't like it, they could leave. No politics.

In the end, those employees are still here, but the quality of their work has definitely suffered.
He isn't making the claim, he is saying both claims are equally valid hypotheses (before you test against reality.)
Understanding Homelessness in San Francisco
And in no case has any student been harmed by it. In general people on HN waaaay overestimate the danger of banal data sharing.
Deconstruct the term "loser", the universal label for an undesirable man applied (stereotypically) by women.
mines only 6, shes defeated some child locks and found a "cheat" in one of her kid games on the iPad and presses every button on every machine she sees. Hack the planet kiddo!!
Oh I see, sorry. I’m not making that claim. I’m saying that there is equal evidence (none, as far as I know) for that claim as there is for the claim that certain jokes are somehow the structural foundation of genocide. Neither should be given much credence without evidence.

The null hypothesis is that jokes neither promote nor prevent genocide, and I see no reason to reject it.
For some odd reason I thought logos software finally made hacker news. Alas. https://www.logos.com
In My use of DC I’m referring to a single physical building.
If you have a treatable form of depression, go get treated. If you have a personality disorder, the person you're responding to is the lucky one, not you.
> It was ‘just’ $200, that’s not the end of the world

A $200 charge would have been devastating to me when I was in college. As in, I may have to beg for food devastating.
Sometimes copy the text and type into a quote that I email, to share. Sometimes take a photo, and attach. Still primarily by email, which can lead to more thoughtful discussions. I think email gives everyone more time to think and edit responses, discussions.
So, pale shadow. Thank you, this is what I needed to know. Time spent learning rr looks like a good investment.
Goodness - reading these statements makes me laugh - "sinister" "evil" "by design".

Reality - very few folks want a hard billing limit.

To stop charging you AWS would need to delete all your EBS and S3 volumes, stop all EC2 instances, release all public IP's, delete all AWS directories and the list goes on. The idea that AWS would build this giant data loss footgun into their system is ridiculous.

Somewhere in AWS someone said, how could this blow up, and they came up with 100 ways, including misconfigured cost accounting etc.

That said, the GCP project based model makes more sense to me, give you more control etc.

That said, if there is such demand for hard billing limit playgrounds (I'm sure there is but not by folks giving AWS a lot of money), someone should be able to do a hosted solution for AWS that bills into their corp account and gives you a playground for learning (with a real hard billing limit). That type of approach is used in a lot of other contexts already.
a true hacker :)
Microplastics are everywhere – but are they harmful?
Bring back drunk driving too while your at it! Fail.
> I don't know what was said at the meeting. But Singer did start making comments about white supremacy in America at a meeting about banning political discussion at Basecamp

I'm sorry, but do you or do you not know what was said at the meeting? Those two statements contradict each other, unless you're talking about two different meetings.

I quoted something provided by an employee who was there, at the meeting that this article is about.
"Husband" is banned? That's mental - I'd consider that a hostile work environment.
I'd say what we're talking about is both toxic masculinity and toxic femininity working together.
Proof of stake is the dead end. You do not want large holding players to controlling the emission of a coin. They will corrupt it. The only way is fair emission by public mining. It is a good thing that energy is used over and over again. One should not be able to leverage their holdings to control the future of the coin.
You own the timevalue from an UTXO create date until now, the future timevalue is owned by others when you move it.

Proof of work is the only thing that works -- in this case DOGE is merge-mined with LTC (using the scrypt algorithm). With doge at these prices, it is twice as profitable to mine LTC as it was last week, so consequently many more miners will switch to Scrypt. DOGE is 'free', in that the energy has already been spent mining the LTC. Doge is a good thing.
Here are the "409a valuation" reviews on FounderKit:
https://founderkit.com/legal/409a-valuation/reviews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_table
It's based off of amateur radio yes. As a ham this is actually really really cool. A Raspberry Pi is able to transmit detectable WSPR off of it's 10dBm output from the GPIO and an antenna if you have a callsign and want to try it.

There is a database & map of current WSPR activity on all amateur bands. I frequently use it for propagation indicators.

https://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map
Alternatively, you exhibit the kind of people skills that should be a baseline qualification for a senior leader. You don't draw lines in the sand, you don't internally frame this as an them-vs-me thing, you certainly don't try to give your staff condescending mini-lectures about basic topics in social criticism such as how framing works. Brinksmanship isn't going to lead anywhere good, and someone has to take the first step toward de-escalation. While anyone can theoretically be that person, if you're the ostensible adult in the room, then it's your actual job to put aside your sense of honor and be that someone. So you take a deep breath, and get to work: try to be a mediator, understand where these frustrations came from, and figure out what you can do to alleviate them.

Alternatively, if you can't feasibly mediate, because it's basically all your employees airing grievances at you, then you screwed your job up long ago, and it's time to cop to that. The longer you put off eating crow, the more crow you're eventually going to have to eat.
To understand a narcissist you have to look at their immediate area of control. When they can't control the thing that gives them relief or it falls apart, they will proceed to destroy it. This exists at every level and is only countered by checks and balances on power. Or you can choose to exit.
I’ll be sure to place my bid at $2…
> perhaps they want to go down in history

Many people have done things like that in history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herostratus), but that's also hard to reconcile with disguising one's role and responsibility and preventing proof of either from being established, isn't it?
Everyone, please stop SMS as a 2FA. It's not. Cell carriers are not secure by any stretch of the imagination. Your entire identity should not be in the hands of these companies.

At this point there needs to be legislation or lawsuits, as it's out of hand. Apple is the worst offender, you can't create an account without it.
So, would you say the same thing about a person talking about abortion if the company culture was conservative?

This goes well beyond 'consequences'. its being used as a weapon against people you disagree with or are just political enemies and the end result is thugs and bullies gaining power that didnt earn it and dont deserve it.
For which claim?
Statistics 110: Probability
This is the article that underscores much of this work on tracking: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w43gu64vn7jvmxm/Using%20the%20WSPR...

Quite fascinating.
> Is it possible that they were doing exactly that in trying to focus the staff on work itself?

A lot of the complaints or commentary I've seen across a few issues, leaving aside this more acute issue was that DHH and JF were entirely comfortable espousing _their_ opinions and feelings on things, but a lot less interested in hearing other people's.
Can't they just throw an event to EventBridge
I wonder what the WMF will do when the H.264 patents expire and all these videos needs to be transcoded.
The AWS default view feels more crisp for me, compared to the GCP one which feels very "floaty".

Their UI toolkit for that at least is on point.
Don’t assume their spouse’s gender. /s
I'm not sure if this applies equally well to large complex systems as it does to comparatively simple and limited systems. A polished flat globe with a uniform climate would still be a very complex system.
Tungsten cube was one of the best purchases I ever made.
Automated Nano-Capital?
I've been rolling around a thought experiment for automated nano-capital but I'm not sure whether 1) it's been tried or 2) it's possible.

Basically, I'm thinking of super small, early-stage projects - one or two people building a tool or service with a few dozen (no more than 100) paying users. Instead of taking a loan or going to traditional venture capital, they provide programmatic access to their payment provider (e.g. Stripe) to the nano-capital platform which pulls the their data, runs an evaluation, and returns offer terms in a couple seconds.

Personally, I like the idea of this term offering being along the lines of the Shared Earnings Agreement (https://docs.google.com/document/d/10KNj6HJpfF9EjssJzRaGIw2LBxEdawjWbtfLZCGLFl8/edit) offered by Earnest Capital (https://earnestcapital.com/).

As far as existing approaches, CaaS (https://caas.socialcapital.com/) at Social Capital (https://www.socialcapital.com/) seems to be close with a quasi-automated, quantitative focus. Also, Pipe (https://www.pipe.com/) could be seen as similar since it's trading existing monthly subscriptions for annual lump sum value.

But what I'm thinking is even smaller - super small amounts like $500-$5000 that are just enough to help builders scale their MVP.

- is it feasible to calculate a nano investment on such a small user dataset?

- is this amount impactful enough for builders to be interested in applying?

- is a shared earnings agreement the best vehicle for extending the terms?
I'm surprised Kotlin has a Slack instead of a Discord. The biggest React, Vue, Svelte, and Deno communities are on Discord.