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> Very often we have to deal with documents that only use a subset of HTML and they can be parsed by regular expressions just fine.

I agree, assuming the emitter of the document to be processed is a) correct (as in bug free, and as in knows the expected HTML subset and the corner cases of its ad hoc parsing method, and will never make a mistake nor assume the other end has an actual HTML parser) and b) has no ill intent.

In practice, it is neither.

> people thinking they are smarter than they really are

I genuinely think it is the quippy expression of someone who has been burned way too much by the practical side of this that they prefer to frantically laugh at themselves as much as the issue out of despair of people trying to be smart with regexes. They chose to actually not be smart at all, and just use an HTML parser to parse HTML documents.
I do not check stock levels. I am using the google maps Places API to search for keywords. Google has tons of data.
If this interests you, check out Phenome Force, they do weekly webinars featuring the open source/DIY agtech tools people are building: https://phenome-force.github.io/PhenomeForce/

We need more software/hardware engineers in open source ag. Be warned, you may need to live in a somewhat rural area, accept a modest paycheck, and occasionally get your hands dirty, but it's a lot more fun than writing code to shuffle forms or finances around imo
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> Combined with each company trying to build their own awful closed source proprietary data system on top of their sensors, you've got a really terrible time.

The more I think about right to repair, the more I become convinced it's a symptom of hazy interface specifications.

Radical idea: Ban sensor / actuator companies from building software on top of them in-house.

They're welcome to offer a turn-key solution to market, but it must (1) have hardware and software built by two separate, independent companies & (2) publish its interface specs, between those two companies, to all customers or end users.

Things would cost more. But I'm not convinced this would be a worse world, in aggregate.
As a black English man who enjoys a bit of rock and metal myself I have wondered this myself. I have some theories, which I fully admit are half baked and quite possibly incorrect. However, I think that a lot of the culture around rock and metal is off-putting to a lot of black people.

If you look at something like black metal and it's sub-genres, a lot of the culture and imagery revolves around satanism and European paganism; which is popular with a certain segment of European people but would hold little to no interest to those of an Afro or Caribbean heritage. Especially since so many black people have quite strong Religious beliefs. (Less so these days possibly, but many still pay lip service at the very least.)

If you then look at the 80's hair metal and glam metal genres with the emphasis on long hair and make up and an image of sexual ambiguity. I think we can all agree that there (sadly) exists a big homophobia problem amongst many black communities; which means that the aforementioned sexual ambiguity would be very off-putting to them.

Those are obviously extreme examples, but I think I've maybe made my point.

I'm probably talking out of my ass, but those are my thoughts for what it's worth.
> But I think it's more likely that without the hope of getting into a prestigious journal, researchers will try other tactics to coax others into reading and citing their work, and one such tactic is doing better research.

Or clickbait and algorithm gaming. And social networks would be even more important. You already allude to getting associated with big names. It is already common to get one in the author list to get accepted in a “good” journal.

There are already too many papers being published on many subjects, so you tend to follow closely what comes out of a smaller community, and recommendations from the bibliography databases. Honestly, the problem is more with how research is evaluated by institutions and funding bodies than with the publishers, as greedy as they may be.
Sure better be, for the sake of backwards compatibility.

This isn't a problem for mail transport as the recipient is specified in the envelope and the message itself is not examined.

What a client should do in such a case is unclear. I suspect that they all use the first one encountered and ignore the rest.
Why even bother with tablets? A tablespoon of flaxseed covers your Omega 3 and lots of fiber.
I haven't heard anyone among friends or family complain or say much of anything about electricity bills in quite some time, which makes me suspect the 'Sky-High" description.
What's the downside to screening more?
> provide or sell that information to advertisers in some shape or form?

If you're using "provide" in the common sense, then no I don't think so. No one gets a "Josh is a hackernews reader" report. I just get ads for things that appeal to HN users.

There are arguments that you can use this for sort of targeted attacks to get more info, for example if you have a website and can correlate an ad request with a username, you can then put together that "joshuamorton" is interested in things HN users like. But I'm not sure how real those kinds of attacks are (I think a major limiting factor is that they're expensive, since if your goal is to only gain information, you have to compete but also never win a bid, and that's very difficult and like in practice its just cheaper to do your own tracking).

> My understanding is that Google indeed isn't doing this - but that they did do exactly that up until 2017, which wasn't that long ago.

Yes but my recollection is that even before then (at least for some time), gmail data was siloed. It was only used to serve ads in gmail, so this was very much a first party only sort of thing (same as if I run a forum and serve interest based ads on different parts of that forum).

It's just much hard to explain that than to explain "not used at all", so we stopped entirely.
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The article could stand to have more real numbers, although I don't doubt that the folks who have grid-tied solar are doing it on the backs of everyone else.

It's not dissimilar to some of the EV subsidies (or mortgage interest for that matter). By tying them to taxes, you have produced a more regressive system.
In my opinion Paradises Lost is one of the best books Le Guin has written. If you're wondering which of her books to read next after her two most famous sci-fi novels, I recommend that one.
Humans might not like the idea that the price of energy has been artificially low for a long time since we didn’t cost-in pollution capture.

If the true price of energy is higher than what we’ve achieved by burning fuel, what then?
Normally, yeah, sure. But sometimes not. Sometimes the world isn't such a shitty place. Sometimes an employer will decide to take a chance on an employee and invest in them, and pay them more than they need to. Sometimes that same employee will decide to work harder than they need to in order to achieve the goal they share with that employer.

I certainly don't run my business by paying all my staff the absolute bare minimum I need to so they can do work that is just-as-good-but-no-better than needed.

For a company reliant on innovation and driven by human capital, the dynamic you are describing seems like something that would normally come into play at a late stage of its life. Ignoring other factors, imagine how easy it would be to compete against a company that is entirely run this way and staffed by people who work like this. Literally no one there would even care that they're facing disruption.
So we should burn more fossil fuel? No thanks. Visit Bakersfield sometime.

https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/states/cali...
By the way, in case you missed it yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27080859
Factoring in the delivery time, local will almost always be faster. Since I live in a city I’ll usually just stop by the relevant store next time I’m near it to grab the thing. But if you’re in a suburb and/or spend most of your time in residential areas I understand the difference.
This can only happen if the upper middle class people move away from somewhere else. There has to be some limit to how far away they'll commute to get access to suburban houses, right?
Hmm, okay. Too much in my own bubble with that notion then

The 'order notes' is a field in any e-commerce store, where you (the store) can send the customer a message

Think: "your order has been shipped"

But we write it manually — "your item is authentic because X and Y" — that's our order note. And at the same time our service

What I tried to do with the title was show the scrappiness. Maybe even inspire some hackers to be scrappy or to look for something other than perfection first

Because if you're pitching to a VC that you're starting an authentication company for luxury items

And you'll claim that you'll use the WooCommerce 'order notes' section, you'd be laughed out of the room. And not like the Airbnb founders — without that second part of the story where you prove them wrong
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It's more intuitive for non-technical users, in my experience.
Hmm, okay. Too much in my own bubble with that notion then
The 'order notes' is a field in any e-commerce store, where you (the store) can send the customer a message

Think: "your order has been shipped"

But we write it manually — "your item is authentic because X and Y" — that's our order note. And at the same time our service

What I tried to do with the title was show the scrappiness. Maybe even inspire some hackers to be scrappy or to look for something other than perfection first

Because if you're pitching to a VC that you're starting an authentication company for luxury items

And you'll claim that you'll use the WooCommerce 'order notes' section, you'd be laughed out of the room. And not like the Airbnb founders — without that second part of the story where you prove them wrong
Does anyone actually implement the BURL extension to IMAP? I think pretty much all mail clients just use SMTP for submission.
It's a mess at every level, that is definitely true. I would say that it does not make sense from a public policy perspective. Public money does pay for the research, so the public should benefit from the knowledge.

The situation exists because it just evolved into what it currently is, and until recently no one seemed to care. Before the internet for example, it made a lot of sense for publishing to be handled by a private entity. There were real marginal costs to the production and distribution of journals and demand was relatively low.

Today this is very much changed. Demand is high and marginal costs are zero. So I imagine we will move towards an open access model.
For me Farmbot ( https://farm.bot/ ) is some of the most interesting thing happening in open source farming and they aren't apart of this initiative. None of the projects are really something your need a framework for.

I think what some of the projects involved are doing is laudable but it's not really revolutionary.

Then again I don't do farming though some of my family and friends of my family do.
Is this a better way to transition from GPU to FPGA than the OpenCL tool chains available for FPGA?
I've never read a Le Guin book, but I see some Richard Powers covers there so they must be OK.
Without looking into any details, my electric bill is 30% higher now than 2 years ago.
Same. I know mine has never been particularly notable, except the one month immediately after moving into this apartment where we experimented with running the AC literally 24/7 (not recommended).
How do you detect if a byte swap is needed? I.e. wether the (fixed) wire endianness matches the current platform endianness?
Not true. As recently the 90s expensive niche gear like a pro audio or video stuff was almost always subject to price negotiation, especially if you were a repeat customer or indicated an interest in possibly purchasing other stuff. It still is to some extent.

In general the more knowledgeable the dealership/salespeople, the more likely negotiation is possible, especially if you present as a knowledgeable customer so that neither of you are wasting each others' time.
> But even compared to other publishing, like books. From my experience books sell for less (both paperback and e-book), and also a significant chunk of it goes to the author. Do scientist get any of the profit from paper sales?

One data point: we were 3 authors who worked for several months on a chapter of an authoritative book in our field. We got €100 to split. Of course, we get fuck all for our papers.
Net metering makes sense but people should be paid spot wholesale price for their electricity not the retail price.
> Do you keep a few clues secret just to be sure?

Not really. We give away everything we have. As others've mentioned, fake manufcaturers get diminishing results by spending the extra $$$ to go from 95% to 99%

Whe anyway, as part of 95%, the exterior side is 99% done. The last 5 bits are interior details unseen by anyone but the wearer

All they care about is selling more products to fake wearers. And fake wearers care only about exterior
It was large and visible and itchy enough that you couldn't miss it.
Why are you even looking for a job?
> our extremely expensive contracts with publishers/journals were to support the complex infrastructure required to maintain a service like that

> Hosting costs, as shown by Sci-Hub, are negligible

Yes. The truth is these problems and costs are created by the copyright industry. Since copying is illegal, they have set themselves up as the only legal source for this material and that requires a lot of storage and bandwidth.

All they have to do is place their copyrighted works in the public domain. The storage and distribution problems will solve themselves immediately and at zero cost to them. People will literally do their work for them.
That's not how epicycles were used. Ptolemy set up the standard geocentric model with epicycles (and deferents and equants), and these were used more or less unchanged for over a thousand years. When, in the late medieval period, some Arab astronomers began tinkering with modifications, these were motivated by a desire for better agreement with the Aristotelian ideal of uniform circular motion (i.e., to somehow replace Ptolemy's non-uniform equant device with some combination of uniform circular motion), not any desire to match the measurements better.
I appreciate the feedback.

> For example, Capitalism is built on the philosophy of decentralized decision-making, whilst Communism is built on the philosophy of centralized decision-making.

I'm mainly referring to the process of price-setting. Rather than having some all-powerful body that determines the price, the price is determined by market participants. Too high and no one buys, too low and no one makes a profit. The market determing the price of goods is an example of decentralized decision-making.

This aspect of Capitalism is what allows for a more efficient allocation of scarce resources. The gov't doesn't tell corporations what goods to produce or who they should be sold to, instead corporations make those decisions based on prices set by the market. Where can they make the most profit? The answer to this question correlates (in theory and most of the time, in practice) with where the resources are most needed.

So in short, the market sets the price (decentralized decision-making) and the prices determine where resources are allocated.

Communism as implemented in the USSR lacked this aspect which is why the allocation of resources was less than ideal. e.g. Bread lines, two or more years to receive a car that was purchased, etc.

It should be noted that I'm mainly referring to Communism as seen in the USSR and China.

>The Chinese have their own way of implementing Capitalism which is largely informed by the legacy code from the philosophy of Communism.

I'm referring to the Mao Zedong era in which Communism was the dominant economic model. Following that, the development of "Special economic zones" which are "granted more free market-oriented economic policies" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zones_of_Chin...).

China still remains a communist country but is trying to integrate the Capitalist model whilst taking into account legacy code from a prior regime.
My conclusion after years of researching this as someone diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 24 is it's all about gut barrier integrity (and thereafter other barriers like the blood-brain barrier).

The reason we're seeing people with chronic disease earlier and earlier is that the newer generations have grown up with deficiencies and toxins (such as seed oils), going back to the womb.

One of the references I often give and is downvoted both here and on Reddit is a clinic in Hungary called "Paleomedicina" (already with "paleo" in the name some reach for the downvote). It's unfortunate as they are doing amazing work with incredible success for all these "incurable" diseases.
facebook will not be here in the near future
The post I responded to above cited the high school math teacher of Abel. As far as I can tell, the authority of the claim rested on Abel indeed having significant mathematical achievements ("A Norwegian high school teacher from from 200 years once said" doesn't sound convincing as claim by itself to me). My response was just pacing the situation - Niels Abel is just one example of someone achieving a lot, not insignificant but not the last word.
Same here. Race seems such a small subject, relatively speaking.
> Pre-industrialisation life managed itself just fine for millenia.

What do you mean by that, specifically? Clearly we benefit enormously from what has happened since, including food, shelter, peace, freedom, knowledge, etc. etc. I just got something called a vaccine, which protects me from a deadly disease. Someone stuck a needle in my arm, but they had figured out how to do that perfectly safely. The vaccine was driven to the provider, kept cold in refrigeration, and I also drove the provider after making prior arrangements via telecommunications. You're literate and reading this on a website using a computer, a vast collection of manufactured items ... You get the idea.
Yes. If you're going to hire a mercenary, you should hire one who is unbothered by killing. But don't just take their word for it; many people will be confident they can do a job that few actually can.
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A lot of stores have a price match even for online prices to keep you from doing this. So if you're so cheap to do this, then you could at least reward the local store for providing you a service rather than cheating them out of a sale.
Worth mentioning that Zalgo predates the StackOverflow post (a̷nd̡ t̕h͟i̡s u̕niver͠s͠e̵).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text
It's true that the title was sensationalistic, and I'm the OP. I probably hang too much in the 'build in public' sphere where it's all about the numbers

I mean it'd obviously benefit me more if we kept the old title, but that'd be too much me, and too little for the community

Title got corrected and I'm actually grateful the post wasn't fully taken down (or that I wasn't banned)

EDIT: And thanks for the comment below saying u upvoted!
But then you're buying your competitor's products.
Perhaps, but very effective.

Most good restaurants I’ve been to don’t actually have a menu you choose from - you get what’s seasonal and what the kitchen has planned for. The only real inputs are how much you are going to eat and how drunk you want to be at the end of it.

I’ve been to one restaurant in the lower price range that also adopted this concept, though with a twist. There’s not really a menu to choose from, you get what you get, but the waiter will update the blackboard with “what you get if you order now”.

The reason I prefer this is because it tends to focus on what’s seasonal and what is the chef good at.
The main outcome from there, for me, at the very least, is that we all have synesthesia - ones have it stronger, others weaker. But we all have it.

"Round fond is associated with sweeter taste" - this is it.

Synesthesia helps make perception of world more vibrant and memorable.
I'm assuming you mean when there's not a global pandemic
That's certainly not the case for the EU.

"All hospitality establishments in Europe are now required to declare ingredients contained in their foods that may induce allergies or food intolerances."

https://www.wko.at/branchen/tourismus-freizeitwirtschaft/gas...
PG&E electricity bills average about 50% more than national average. On the other hand California houses also cost 50% more than houses in other states, so it's possible you don't notice it as a fraction of adjusted income. That's sort of the article's point, that the burden of these high prices falls more noticeably on the poorer people of the state.
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Hey thanks! I was curious to see if handling the topic of luck did vibe with people. Thanks for taking the time to mention this, as it's very valuable to me
Could you at least make a guess at the relative frequencies? My understanding was that hundreds of animal sarbecovirus strains are known, and of those only the two that you note above had an FCS (and not the rare CGG). On the other hand, I understand that adding an FCS is a common technique for lab gain of function, so that perhaps 5% of genetically-engineered SARS-like viruses would have one. That's how I got my ~3x.

It would be nice if each individual piece of evidence were all or nothing, either perfect evidence of lab origin in itself or perfectly irrelevant. I don't think real evidence usually comes that way, so it seems valuable to me to try to quantify even weak evidence.

And not that Nobel laureates don't have an unfortunate history of incorrect beliefs later in life: but I assume you're aware David Baltimore considers the FCS significant? He doesn't seem to have said anything else obviously crazy (unlike Mullis, Pauling, etc.), at least.
Could we time travel back without killing everyone with germs from the future?
Not securing cyber and our infrastructure will kill and destroy things.

What would be an example of a civil liberty violated by for instance standing up a large Brigade or service of tech soldiers who secure, patch, work to shore up our critical infra and services? + a lot of funding; we already prop up the lockheads of the country.

I agree that it seems our Gov. can't be trusted not to intrude into our communications and other civil liberties.

But this is more about industrial control, supply chains, the foundation of software etc.

The gov didn't react or try to stop speech attacks on digital platforms even though they knew it was happening. They didn't even report it was happening because of I think naive political concerns.

Personally I liken it to missile defense and other existing programs which we spend a HUGE amount of money on.

Not securing our infrastructure could have even bigger consequences.

We're already in a growing cold war, personally I think decent potential to go hot within a decade.

Even looking at the little publicly reported easy hacks the, let alone the unknown advanced capabilities of state actors, the first salvo attacks will probably wipe out a huge portion of both sides infrastructure and basic digital necessities to function in our society. At least we're getting more serious about defending space because the military has their owned assets up there.

Maybe MAD would focus these attacks on military targets but I don't trust these nation states, or perhaps our own, to limit the radius. And maybe it's not even possible with how inter connected things are.
You have misunderstood the meaning of basic text twice in a row.