skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But again, motive alone is empty. There is "plenty of reason" for me to do all kinds of terrible things that I consider abhorrent and would never act on.
> Apple likes to claim that the App Store replaced the system of selling software in physical boxes in stores and over the mail.

I guess I had not heard them claim that.

The history of selling software in an interesting one though that has definitely changed with the times.

I remember when selling fonts was a viable business.

I remember when shareware was a thing.

A lot of ma and pa software companies went the way of ... oh, ma and pa video rentals, ma & pa copy (Xerox) shops, etc....
The future is now old man.

But on a serious note - this is a common experience with new technologies. I personally believe the arbitrariness is a consequence of some people just “getting” the potential of the technology. The Internet was originally used for a lot of silly things too until it wasn’t so silly anymore. I suspect cryptocurrencies will be the same.
Do you understand that the vast majority of humans are eating to live? No, most humans could not afford to be vegetarians or vegans. Most humans, although not in the Serengeti as you put it, are in fact, fighting for survival. Most humans choose meat, because it's nutritionally dense and depending on how it was raised, provides a 'full protein' unlike plants. Nevermind the obvious health issues involved with eating "process'ed plant materials" that your body is not at all designed to eat.
What, exactly, is the "meaningful mission" of modern tech-driven finance firms? As you note, you are paid well for helping (typically wealthy) investors make a lot of money, and this is a challenging thing to do. But nothing in your post tells me why that's meaningful.

I understand the point of places like Fidelity or Charles Schwab, that offer the general public effective, low-cost investment vehicles. It's hard to deny that's a meaningful, socially beneficial thing to do. But when people punch at "Wall Street," they usually have in mind places like G-Research, whose only real purpose seems to be making an already rich owner richer.
The crazy thing to me is just how ugly urban areas of California are. All around the bay it is just strip mall after strip mall and post-war cheap single family homes. Other than property values, for the vast majority of the San Francisco Bay area - zoning restrictions solve absolutely nothing. Allowing mixed use zoning around the bay would make the Bay area a much nicer.

Likewise in Los Angeles, pretty much everything other than the beach cities and the hollywood hills are a complete eyesore and look like any random suburb on the west coast. Nothing of value would be lost if most parts of LA were demolished to build high rises.
this is exactly it. sheltered workplaces exist purely to provide a sense of community and actual value to people with disabilities lives. While some of us begrudge working the 9-5, there are a lot of people excluded from the societal norm of the day to day. With the costs of running Sheltered Workplaces far outweighing the income produced (and no expectation for it ever to) these are considered positive expenses for most communities.
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It’s only fair to compare countries based on a per capita basis. Otherwise you are letting some people pollute much more than others because of imaginary lines on a globe
Born in CA, lived in CA my whole life (-1 year) until end of 2020 (last 30-1 in San Jose, working in tech the whole time). Now reside in semi-rural AZ (working remotely for the same tech co as before I left CA). I might visit CA eventually, but aside from those few family and friends still there, I've not found myself missing it at all.
CLT=Cross Laminated Timber
Clara Rockmore is phenomenal YouTube her!
Berkshire Hathaway broke Nasdaq's 32-bit code with its monster share price
Aramaic was the common language of every place east of the Hellespont, including Palestine, and many (not all) jews in Israel had forgotten Hebrew and long ago adopted the Aramaic script even when they did write Hebrew. And from Babylon they adopted the Babylonian Calendar and names for some of the months. That was the subtext of the book of Jubilees, bemoaning how jews had forgotten the proper times and corrupted their calendars with foreign dating systems. That was an amazing and very crazy period if you were a jew trying to hold onto your tradition, because there was a massive Hellenizing push in the wake of Alexander's conquests, and gymnasiums were springing up all over, there was a concerted effort to promote Hellenization as the new "international" culture of global trade and enlightenment, and many jews were even getting surgeries done to undo circumcision as they tried to fit into this new internationalist world. Many were learning and embracing Greek philosophy and the Greek approach to science, as well as the greek language and culture. That created lots of culture wars as traditional factions fought the (pro-Greek) liberalizing factions, leading to revolts, massacres, and significant turmoil in the whole region. The Maccabean revolt can be viewed as an example of traditional counterattack against Hellenizing influences, as can the subsequent revolts against Rome. It's truly a fascinating time period. But remember that even though all those traditionalist revolts ended in disaster, it is in fact the traditional societies that survive to this day, whereas the Greek and Roman empires have long vanished.
California is just at saturation level. There's just too many people for the small strip of coastal land that is inhabitable. All I could think while living there for 5 years was how damn cool it must have been in the 60's/70's with literally half as many people. The traffic, the crowds everywhere at all times, it's all just too much at this point. It's still an amazing paradise playground if you're a millionaire. But any normal person just trying to establish themselves can only tread water, nothing more.
I take your point but I’m skeptical. Has any place ever seen a decline in population lead to an increase in general prosperity?
"There is no royal road to mathematics", Euclid is thought to have said to Alexander the Great.

Well, I don't think there's a royal road to teaching mathematics.

First ingredient if you want to be a good mathematics teacher: preparation. When you go to class, just make sure you went through all the examples, all the exercises and problems, and you know them in and out. Be prepared.

When they train you how to teach, they never tell you that. It is just assumed. They tell you about the attention curve (which supposedly looks like a bathtub: high at the beginning and at the end, low in the middle), about body position, voice volume, and other stuff. But for some reason they forget to tell you that first and foremost you need to prepare.

Second ingredient: feedback. Ask a colleague to come and observe you, and, if possible, go with the same colleague and observe another teacher whom you want to learn from. They (the colleague) can point at what you did differently from that teacher, what you did well, what you should work on next. If that colleague is good, they will give you a list of 20 things to work on, but also tell you to focus on the first one or two. Are you stopping to look at the kids and see if they understood? Are you making eye contact with a single kid, rather than cycle through all the classroom? Is your voice loud enough (pro tip: it never is, speak louder). Did you leave the kids enough time to think on their own? Did you give them too many hints? Are you biased in always letting only the best kids in class answer out loud? Are you pointing with your finger when you want to emphasize something (it's natural, but don't do it, it intimidates the kids).

But all these things are second order things. First thing: prepare for the math you are going to teach. It's much more important to not make any mistakes, such as a sign mistake in the middle of a calculation, than to make eye contact. Mistakes erode the kids' trust in you. Avoid them. Prepare.

Once you got to a point where you consistently deliver a flawless lecture, then you can think of becoming the next 3Blue1Brown. But you need to walk before you run.
Not so IME. Kotlin's nullable types don't play nice with option-oriented APIs (e.g. Java Streams), and you can't make Java types transparently implement Kotlin interfaces (and there's no equivalent to typeclasses), so using Java types with Kotlin libraries is harder than with Scala libraries.
Whether or not he owns it, he is single handedly responsible for pumping it.

Look at how he pumped it leading up to 4/20/21 (DogeDay) and then Twitter bots and scammers pumped it on Twitter getting “DogeDay” trending by multiple times and all the uneducated “investors”, if you can even call them that, bought in at the height thinking it would pop to $1 on 4/20/21 DogeDay with Elon’s continued support and instead it got dumped losing 50%.

I wrote a post on here about the scam and said it would get bought back up on the dump and go to new all time highs as the uneducated investors that got scammed sold due to fear and not only did that happen it happened on Musk’s tweets of doing SNL and skits of the DogeFather. It honestly is like a predictable a moral neural net that’s single purpose profit on self created pump and dumps that it is capable of creating with unlimited liquidity.

When I made my post it got the inevitable comments of “so what, it’s no different than X, and the way it’s always been”. Maybe but its always poor people targeted and ultimately hurt, it’s immoral and should be fucking criminal. Especially if he is pumping it just for shits and giggles.
Also there's "crime vs offense". First few times drunk driving could be an offense for instance. Same for other annoyance or statistical offenses/crimes.
Paradise, California was hell on earth.
Yes, this is basically a testament to bad government and failure to address the housing problem.

It turns out if you make homes unaffordable, people leave and look for a place where they can afford to live. Who knew?
It's in the Play store as far as I can see.

Also here for F-droid users: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.smssecure.smssecure
Fibrous composite materials can be significantly stronger than the source materials themselves. The binding agent forms a matrix which holds fibers together and so can be strong in localized fashion to hold fibers. This strength would usually result in the binding agent becoming brittle as a bulk material.

The overall strength comes from the combination of the two, with increased fracturing/tearing resistance due multiple independent fibers. Tears have a harder time propagating when each fiber needs to be fractured. Materials "fail" by cracks or fractures forming. In homogeneous materials the energy to continue a crack is generally much lower than continuing a tear. Sort of like static vs dynamic friction. Once started a crack will continue with a lot less effort leading to lower material strength. Fibers with a binding agent help prevent this effect.

A fantastic example of this effect is Pykrete which is just sawdust mixed into water before freezing. It becomes stronger than concrete (in tensile strength): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete

Here's a link to a general material science intro on composites if you're curious: https://in.bgu.ac.il/engn/mater/Documents/LaboratoryBriefing...
Make the lectures and homework actually prepare for the test. The test questions should be easier than the homework!!!!!!

Actually, make the test be a minority of the overall grade - i.e. 80% of grade from homework.
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Love the coincidence of laying on my couch watching LGR on a Friday night at the very moment that I find a comment on HN talking about LGR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46mO7jx3JEw

Some things never change
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> I mean, do experts like the authors of that OWiD article find the same fault with IHME that you do? Can you cite some making similar criticisms?

I don't know. I don't cross-check my thoughts with every "expert" in the world before I express them. I have expertise in this field; I can think for myself.

> Again, I get the distinct feeling that you're arguing with methodology here not because there's anything particularly suspicious with IHME at all, but because the conclusion (that the US is approaching 1M covid deaths, something that should surprise no one) is politically inconvenient.

You have no idea what my politics are. I am saying that this model reflects the assumptions used to create it. Nothing more, nothing less. It is not a validation of the assumptions -- it is a regurgitation of the assumptions.
Sorry @RhysU! My intention wasn't to poo on financial careers. A lot of* what happens in finance is in fact useful and certainly technically interesting.

My point was that _if_ one's primary goal is to get the highest comp possible, it's probably better to go into finance than biotech. No bones about that; we don't pay as well. But that does not mean that biotech universally pays _badly_ for technical skills, as casual readers might assume based on reading this thread. My point was that if someone is both technically-minded and interested in the mission in biotech, it's worth taking a closer look, especially at the wave of companies from the last ten years bringing tech and biotech together.

* Not everything, I'm sure, but neither is everything in biotech!
Archived article with full text: https://archive.vn/8CAFn
1.1 gallons (~4 L) per almond.
Even when the church holds the funeral - often at no charge if its a member of the church who has died, and for a small suggested donation for others - a funeral director handles the body. And that costs thousands and thousands of dollars. My Dad's church funeral cost NZ$15,000 and the church would have seen less than NZ$1,000 of that.
I was thinking a file export, not something the user would deal with. They get their nice HyperTalk with Excel functions.
Shoutout to the Tools teams which develops cross, it's really amazing, did a project ago and had some problems to compiling static with rustls (OpenSSL really bugs with me, who knows why) do I tried Cross and felt in love, just works

If you have problems using musl with some libs, give it a go, you gonna love it ;P

https://github.com/rust-embedded/cross

Edit: my dumbass english failed me, sorry.
You can use Java collections in Scala just as you do in Kotlin, and in fact interop is easier in Scala since you can write typeclass instances for the Java types whereas there's no equivalent for that in Kotlin.

The real difference is that more of the Kotlin ecosystem uses Java's fundamentally mutable collections compared to the Scala ecosystem, and using actually immutable collections in Kotlin is extremely difficult to the point that essentially no-one does it. IMO that's a bad tradeoff in the long term, but you can absolutely take the same approach in Scala if you really want to.
I don’t want to diminish your personal efforts, but gaining reverse engineering skills is something you can largely do on your own for free: it is, after all, a popular hobby of children who have nothing but time on their hands and access to the Internet. You certainly don’t need to buy hardware or have access to special training to get started.

And, to be clear, I do think the current situation of closed systems is not great, and I do think that we do have a lot of engineers who grew up on open systems that they could tinker on going on to design things like iPhone for their children to use. These are real problems, but I just wanted to say that blog posts like these are not the problem; in fact I think they are beneficial as they allow more people to have access to this kind of information.
Have you been keeping up with the Senate Inquiry into Media Diversity in Australia? It's amazing how petty media proprietors can be.
Mercari is pretty close to that. Every time I post it seems to know a good price which usually seems fair to me and actually sells.
That sounds like a deflection. Besides, orchards can't grow in just any soil. What about fabs? Why is California an ideal location?
Google still has search intent to provide most of the value without tracking anything and it's by far the most effective thing anyways. FB still has their internal profile data.
> then the question I have is - was it ever NOT this way?

Yes. The author thinking otherwise is cute; kind of like a child that gets a glimpse of how the adult world works.
This is the reason people take their shit to Goodwill. Cities and counties make it too hard to dispose of broken stuff. My locality won't take anything with an electrical cord or a screen, won't take paint, oil, antifreeze, etc.

This just encourages people to dump it all at Goodwill and let them deal with it, or drive out along some country road and dump it in a ravine.
Have never set one up, but I've considered that you probably need to prune them from time to time to avoid just such a (GMAT) situation.
That is so cool! Will they do it again? (Please!?)
I really like what you touched on in this.

People are responding to fear of past president. One could argue that it is highly unlikely that it will happen again. One could even PROVE that it is NOT happening again NOW - but you are still dealing with someone responding out of fear.

I feel like we are seeing the exact same phenomenon with (SOME) people who respond out of fear of catching the virus.

I would be really interested to learn more about why some people 1) are fearful of government tracking 2) are fearful of the virus 3) aren't fearful of either.

Personally I've watched my self move between all 3 over the past year - it has been a WILD ride
There was a study published in 2014 that estimated that the false conviction rate for defendants sentenced to death was at least 4.1% (https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/04/23/1306417111)
If you bought a PC-compatible clone in the 80s you had a good chance of being able to find documentation of some kind to tell you about how pieces of the hardware itself worked.

Not at all the case for other kinds of hardware, or any software.

Companies being required to release documentation would increase the cost of development (passed on to the consumer) by a non-trivial amount.

As it is, people inside companies usually cannot get good documentation for the things the company develops that they need to interface with. Been there, seen that. It’s unfortunate, because that can also increase costs, but usually people just muddle through with poor documentation and many email chains to ask questions about the things that are poorly documented.
We are not saying to "postpone" history lessons, but to contextualize them with other historical facts that are more important. While the holocaust is extremely important, I believe that a celebration of their shared culture, including the Torah, occurs first in Jewish homes, as the accumulated wisdom, the greatest and longest-lasting achievement of the Jewish faith and peoples.

Likewise, in a documentary series on any given people, perhaps episode two could focus on the difficulties, after episode one contextualized them with their successes?

I don't believe anyone suggested hiding or otherwise not sharing the history of oppression of any people in this comment thread. I recommend that you look back through and consider why you came away with a different impression.
Why bamboo salt is expensive
nah. you have to look at the whole population. so the numbers are comparable. less people may try heroin than alcohol for a reason.

but even without that: everyone should be allow to tweak themselves how they see fit. that's just basic tolerance to me.

putting people in cages because they trade chemicals that people seek to induce happiness is to me the main atrocity here.
I never used Hypercard back in the day. But I recently started using Obsidian, and it has the idea of cards/notes and linking to them. It’s built on Markdown files, and you can use it for Zettelkasten if you wish.

Linking notes (or even creating them) is as easy as type [[ and then type the (new) name and ]] and boom it is linked or a new note created (as you type the name it searches for existing notes of course).

A powerful idea, but it appears that it is anything but new lol

https://obsidian.md

Use for free on Mac, Windows, Linux. Support them for early access to iOS and Android beta apps. Stores all your notes as plaintext markdown files.

Optionally pay to sync (encrypted) with their sync across devices.

I really like Markdown - that’s what brought it to my attention.
> The starlink antenna is a $499, and the subscription is $99 a month.

So your whole argument on pricing is based on a beta product with limited availability currently. Because prices have never dropped significantly once the product has actually reached mass market adoption?
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Can you share more about some of the technical problems Streamline works on?
> What, exactly, is the "meaningful mission" of modern tech-driven finance firms?

Suppose that such a firm accepts money from a state (or other) pension plan. Then part of the mission of that firm is to provide a stable retirement for every participant of that particular pension.

Know anyone on a state (or other) pension?
I was also disappointed by the recent removal of static linking support in GTK [1].

It worked for a long time and now was made impossible.

The reason given was "don't want to support it".

That would make sense if it was a maintenance-intensive topic, here the only thing required is to use Meson's default options. I don't really buy the argument of "preventing to use internal APIs"; no FOSS developer in their right mind will link to internal symbols anyway.

In my opinion, an application developer should be able to choose how to link their program; toolkit developers should not forbid one way if there isn't a good technical reason.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3774#note_109943...
If people's rent went to producing more housing and paying for the labor and materials of that housing, and we simultaneously invested in the trades to make sure there was consistent and good pay and that there was enough labor, there would be more than enough money.

If we try to take money from income taxes, it won't work.

We need to stop transferring wealth to unproductive rentiers (landlords), and instead transfer it to labor which will produce what we need.

The reason this doesn't happen is that the rentiers control the zoning boards.
Networks that need to constrain themselves to limited typologies to avoid traffic magnification do so at the expense of robustness, especially against active attackers that grind their identifiers to gain privileged positions.

Maybe this is a space where efficient reconciliation ( https://github.com/sipa/minisketch/ ) could help-- certainly if the goal were to flood messages to participants reconciliation can give almost optimal communication without compromising robustness.
Wow. That is surprising.
> less people may try heroin than alcohol for a reason.

Isn't the reason that heroin is way, way worse?
All the semitic languages omit vowels (although there are some mater lectionis). The vowel requirement is not required for alphabets, particularly in languages where vowels play a somewhat ambiguous role in the language itself. Even in modern Hebrew, the nikkud pointing system is only used for the Bible, if you read a newspaper or novel, you aint getting any vowels (again, excluding mater lectionis)