skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you don’t care about the climate/environment, the impact of petrochemicals on human health cannot be understated.

They have filled our biosphere with carcinogens and endocrine disrupters for profit. It’s about more than just energy consumption, we need to eliminate the entire petrochemical industry.
> The main problem with the article is that it assumes that all deaths after vaccination are due to the vaccination, which is nonsense

the main problem with COVID deaths is they are counted as COVID deaths when COVID is basically what pushed already very sick people over the edge. Ever wondered why the large majority of COVID deaths were among people with numerous co-morbidities and already in advanced age?

If you want to make that argument you have to make both ways, and not cherry pick the data.
It took a long while to 'get' what it can do, or how it's doing it. I started out thinking it was a list of lists. After playing with it some, realized that there was no 'nesting' and that all nodes are 'at the same level'. Ended up with the model being a directed acyclic graph (DAG).

I made this structure:

/ a1 / a21
a - a2 - a22
\ a3 \ a23

Then wanted to make a node that follows a1, (a21, a22, a23), a3. [I do realize that the (a21, a22, a23) grouping is only in my head.] So I selected each of those and clicked the '>' button and ended up with:

/------ a1 \
a ------- a3 \\
\ / a21 -- b
\ a2 - a22 //
\ a23 /

This is the graph I was expecting but not laid out as I expected. Showing a grid gives the sense that you are working in a spreadsheet mode with some control where things go. It would be better to show nodes and edges with arrows that rearrange as the graph is changed to more closely set expectations.

One thing that I really wanted was a grouping mechanism where I could treat a subgraph as a node. But then a list of lists fits better than a DAG. What sort of information would a DAG suit better than a list of lists? My above example would be [a, [a1, [a2, [a21, a22, a23]], a3], b]. It seems what's lost is the ability to fan-in from arbitrary nodes and not a single group.

My main feedback point is that the layout I choose also encodes information additional to the actual graph. For that reason if I were to want something more than a list of lists would go for a drawing tool.

I had/have many projects but none that I'm actively working on. If I get to that point, I'll do as you've done and post a feedback for feedback post.
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You know, there's the local state college here that for all practical purposes has open admission. You can see the advertising up and down the highway. The local kids (black and white, but mostly black) try to get a nursing degree but 70 % fail out. There's verious reasons, crap highschool, need to work to support themselves, also stupidity. They could have failed out cheaper at their community college.

What I'm saying is, it's more complex than "choices".
You mean like the insanely annoying AIs that replaced Google search? The idiotic one that files Javascript books under "Law" in Amazon or the insulting one who runs Ad Sense and thinks my wife isn't good enough and I am stupid enough to leave her for some mail order bride?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-terrorism#Groups_accused

There are already environmental extremists, they're quite a small fringe so far.
My emails from my domains to my Outlook account were going straight to spam.

I tried marking them as not spam, to see if it would learn. A dozen later--no change.

I tried replying to them, to see if it could figure out that if I'm actually regularly corresponding with someone they should not be marked as spam. No change.

I tried whitelisting the domain. No change.
Interesting to see someone doing this, it often comes up that we should actually have more levels of version control granularity than merges and commits. Just need an application of AI to generate good commit messages here :)
And it's not even the stores themselves: They were opened in neighborhoods with "broken windows", they didn't create them. Lots of stores are messy.

I have a few near me in my average suburban neighborhood and I've never heard of any shooting, and a search of local crime blotters and newspapers doesn't turn up anything either. In the entire state I found roughly 1 robber per year over the past few years. Convenience stores with many fewer locations get hit more than that, but I don't think they cause violent crime.
The terms and conditions of the debt obligation are known up-front. If the terms of the loan were onerous the borrowers shouldn't have accepted them and declined the loan. Why is poor financial literacy and wishful thinking about future job prospects on borrowers' parts my problem to be left holding the bag for?
It's always been dangerous to express unpopular opinions.

It may be less dangerous here and now than most places in history.
Yep, and that's what I basically meant by 'hooking it up'.

I guess you would need a pump to bring the seawater to the device, something to pump it elsewhere (for storage, or irrigation), and also some mechanism to dump the brine back in the sea when you're no longer desalinating.

And for maximum ecological efficiency that could be powered by solar panels.

I wonder how maintenance free you could build such a device, and just leave it to work away by itself for months on end.
You are charging additional for shorter email addresses? Why?
If they "sell" 20,000 cheap knockoffs smartphones, but no one ships them, did they really sell them?

Shipping is crucial to Amazon's business model. The last mile problem is the vulnerable jugular of the e-commerce industry
It looks like you can - the repo for VQ-GAN has instructions for this:

https://github.com/CompVis/taming-transformers#training-on-c...
The frugal little wouldn't lose anything. They'd gain less, which is not the same. Every single day there are people taking really stupid risks and winning due to luck. Do you feel penalised because you took less risks?

If cancelling student debt solves real problems for the population on average, but makes a few idiots multimillionaires by accident... I'm all for it.
That was a good summary, was useful and really enjoyed reading it. The key takeaway for me, which really reified ideas I have about UI design tools, was this:

> At the opposite end of the spectrum is, say, an oil painting, which is also a visual medium but much more of an unconstrained, freeform one, where brushstrokes can swirl in any arbitrary pattern. This freedom is useful in artistic fields, where rich ambiguous associative meaning is the whole point, but becomes a nuisance in technical contexts...[elided]...Drag-n-drop editors arguably lose a lot of the features of ‘true’ languages by giving up structure, and more programmatic elements are likely to still use a constrained set of primitives.

That's the key problem afaics, and why UI design tools + codegen never works well outside of highly constrained situations. There are two conflicting practices: programming and visual design. And they overlap, obviously, but they don't properly mesh. The tool either goes in the programmatic direction, which makes codegen much easier but drastically curtails the ability to design properly. Or it goes in the design direction and makes codegen either very difficult or forces generation of absolute garbage code (for worst examples, see tools that generate enormous amounts of absolutely positioned HTML elements with inline styles on everything). And there's no real middle ground (not that this stops endless attempts to square the circle).
link w/o paywall: https://archive.ph/vDBOh
But what is a disruptive employee? Someone who speaks their mind respectfully and politely outside of work? A company should not be able to claim but someone is disruptive simply because they exercise their right to speak on an issue outside of the workplace. You may have just identified the legal action. Was the employee disruptive? If courts ruled that the employee was not disruptive to the company, then it’s possible a court could rule that their termination was not justified. I’m not sure what company you work for, but I certainly hope it’s not as dictatorial and all powerful
Why is yellow the “neutral” color? Why not black, or red, or white?

Letting people pick whatever color seems more empowering to me.
And park in the most ridiculous places. I wonder who pays the fines.
More essentially (IMHO), it's not a claim of fact that originates with the speaker. It's commentary on a publicly disclosed set of facts ("contents of the BBC show that aired on Feburary 3"), that both writer and readers are familiar with.

In the US at least, it's categorically impossible for this fact pattern to be defamatory -- regardless if the claims are true or false. You can't tortiously mislead an intelligent person by discussing a TV program *that you've both watched*.
At least with nuclear, I believe we can store the reactor energy in molten salt which can then be used later to turn turbines. So you can effectively shut down electrical energy production without entirely losing out on opportunity. Of course, you can only shut off production for so long or eventually you will run out of salt mass to store heat in (or storage capacity for the molten salt), but I’m guessing this isn’t a problem in practice?

> From what I can see, solar and wind seems to be the more economical way overall.

My biggest concern is the storage. We still haven’t fleshed that out very well, and until we do we’ll probably be pretty dependent on fossil fuel plants. I really wish we’d build more of these latest generations of nuclear plants (much safer, better storage) if only to diversify our energy sources and provide some extra capacity for stretches when renewable production is low and also to maintain our nuclear competency until we are really in the clear with respect to energy demand.

I’m not a nuclear purist; I’m just nervous about putting all of our eggs in the wind and solar baskets.
I don't see this resulting in lower taxes. Countries with higher corporate tax rates have their current corporate tax rates for a reason, and this makes them more competitive (by setting a higher floor) which means less incentive to lower the rate.
The only thing I was saying is - just because humans can live everywhere doesn't mean we need to.

If you look at any map of the modern world, there is almost nowhere that we haven't transformed into farmland, cities, etc, and it's pretty good (nice) that we have left the uninhabitable islands to nature. We've consumed most of the land, which is both pretty amazing and also quite bad for biodiversity, as everyone knows.

I'm not debating the "cancer" metaphor which is definitely harsh - it has been catastrophic for other life, but great for us. Maybe that wording can be less harsh, but IMO that's not the point.
Forget about respect, how about basic human rights.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/world/outlaw-ocean-thaila...
When I was in college back in 1978, a friend of mine who was studying Environmental Science explained it to me, calling it the greenhouse effect. He said that within 40 to 50 years it would cause severe environmental events, droughts, fires, heat waves and so on. I thought, well, 40 to 50 years, we have a lot of time, we won't have to worry about that for a long time. Funny how fast 50 years goes by.

I would say, everyone should listen to the environmental scientists.
"essential workers" has been my least favorite invention in recent memory. If a person is providing value to their community, they are essential.
Realistically you wouldn't.
Yeah, can you believe the idiot didn't remember to use the mechanical door release on the brand new car electric car he'd just gotten? Especially when it was suddenly on fire; I mean, who would panic a situation like that?
Bezmenov is great fun but he's hardly trustworthy. His whole professional life was in propaganda. It's like the scorpion crossing the river on the foxes back. He just has to sting.
Amazon competes on price through, especially as Walmart gets into the game.
> all the people who worked hard for the delayed gratification of their long-term planning get penalized and have to pick up the tab for the people who spent 4 years partying without any concern about cost of their education or lifestyle

Are you sure you're not getting these two groups backwards? All the people that I know of who "worked hard and delayed gratification" are precisely the people who are getting penalized by having to jump through hoops that the "partying" type does not seem to have to worry about.
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Silos, not missiles. See my other comment.
What is online sales worth when products can't be delivered?

It takes some time, but things will balance. If Amazon is not able to get the product to the consumers, the consumer will leave for the competition that is a bit more expensive, but can.
Yup, not a data scientist but often do data processing to analyze the outcome of experiments (drone-flight related). I'll use Python/Jupyter if there's a significant amount of clean-up that needs to happen, but R/ggplot is unbeatable if I'm trying to look at the data from different perspectives. As an example, I was trying to look at GPS data the other day and ggplot() + geom_point() + geom_density_2d() was an absolutely perfect way to better grok what was going on.
It is super irritating to apply to american companies, most of them ask for your race (optional input) and list latin and white as different options.

I am white as milk from a Latin America country I dont know what I am suppose to complete. I consider myself latin but companies may think I am not brown enough to fit the category.
Makes sense; I wasn't aware of the meaning of "front office" as a term of art in finance.
> I don't use Safari

I really want to like Safari and I try every release, but I can't use it for more than a few minutes because the adverts that get through are just so unbelievably bad (to someone that isn't used to seeing any). The Apple-recommended strategy of using simple OS-level Content Blockers just doesn't cut it unfortunately. It's such a shame (to me) that all that developer effort on Safari is effectively wasted because of the relentless scurge of ads.

I understand why Apple decided to prevent the install of integrated Ad blockers directly in the browser because it's a security risk, but the reality is that the web is unusable without them. I really hope that there is an Apple Engineer reading this, and that some day Apple will find a solution :-)

Perhaps the solution is as simple as Apple curating their own approved blocking database similar to that used by popular adblockers and baking it into Safari in a secure fashion. Then again, that might open them to legal challenges.
>If I declare a banana to cost $1,000,000 but you can get it for the low price of $1 with a loan of $999,999 today and that loan gets canceled, does that mean someone else has to pay me the remaining sum?

The contract would likely be ruled invalid for being unconscionable, because the fair market value of a banana is like 50 cents. However, if it was something like 10 cents upfront but $10 later that would likely be upheld.
They aren't really in the economy. Private assets are, but aren't public loans held by the US gov? You'd lose the income from I guess interest or payments, but I wonder where that's going in the fed budget?
IMO the “desktop” metaphor for GUI computing was incredibly dumb the day it was introduced, and so it sort of cracks me up when people worry about it being dumbed down. It’s always dumb! That’s why it works for so many people.

As long as MacOS supports powerful keyboard shortcuts, trackpad gestures, and the Unixy Terminal, I feel confident it will remain productive for me. I don’t really care about running mobile apps on desktop, but I also don’t really care about changes to window toolbars and aesthetics either. I learned MacOS once; I’m confident I can learn the 10% that is different from release to release.
I just clicked around for a while seeing mostly dead repos IIRC. If you want assistance for reviewing the age of a load of repositories I was looking into a commit metric similar to what's mentioned in the github thread.

Example output of my script (fetches repos, gets stats, dumps output): https://fundamental-code.com/mruby-timeline/ . From there it should be easy to prune short lived/old repos and then the rest of the process becomes somewhat more manual from there.

EDIT: actually forget that, it looks like there's already a last-updated stat which seems to be in place, up-for-grabs seems to be fine with projects which don't have any activity for a few years based on their existing metric.
purelymail is a better deal
Carbon Dioxide Content in Inhaled Air with or Face Masks in Children
Where do you think the money comes from to pay off this debt? The debt doesn't just disappear into thin air
Pretty much any post using the words "woke" or "signaling" is going to be toxic. The words are intended as synonyms for "hypocritical": "They don't actually mean this argument; they're only doing it to be seen."

It's not just ad hominem, but also the way it comes out reflexively any time any issue of justice is brought up. (Along with "SJW", which I haven't seen as much lately; the terms of opprobrium go in and out of fashion.) That's where the toxicity lays: the instant dismissal of the topic without having to even reference the matter at hand.

Viewed that way, you can see toxicity all over this thread, and all over any similar thread anywhere on the site. The tone is hostile before anybody has even begun to discuss the merits of the idea.
Over a decade ago I saw simple solar stills installed in India with the cascades built of concrete and a glass panel. This was at Maharana Prtap university in Udaipur.

So “proud” of my Alma mater university for developing an exotic technology that uses aerogels and such ... sure, it’s more efficient, but those folks In Udaipur, without a big PR office like MIT’s, built something that could be built by anyone using everyday material.
No? Pinning all the blame on one subgroup in society is not improving society somewhat, it will make it harder to actually make the concerted, collective efforts we need to make to solve the problem.
I think they're just talking about how you have to declare what trait a function implementation is for, rather than having it derived from the type signature alone. The `impl Trait`[0] syntax. In Go, you don't need to declare that the function implementations are being implemented for a particular interface, you just have to match the type signatures and function names.

Rust's way can help avoid some errors. You can't accidentally implement an interface, whereas in Go you can if you happen to implement a group of functions with appropriate names and type signatures. It's unlikely to cause actual bugs (you'd have to misuse the resulting implementation) but can be conceptually somewhat confusing.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch10-02-traits.html#returning...
I wouldn't expect a refund for paying off my wife's student loans, or my own medical debt. That seems unfair.

I'd expect a refund and interest commensurate with the earnings I lost being unable to invest that money. Were I an amoral freeloader that's certainly what I would have done, rather than living up to my debt obligations.
The promise was that we would bring democracy to China. I think the opposite happened to a large extent. It's like doing business with the cartel, you're bound to get corrupted.
Nothing has expanded the human lifespan more than petrochemicals. A LOT of medicine/medical machines are made with petrochemicals
I like democracy, but you see this and wonder how many people are short sighted (answer- most people).

Maybe we really do need AI overlords.

Op- you haven't attempted to think of the repercussions of such an event. If you want to weigh pros and cons, you can.

For everyone else, is today's candy of free college worth a collapse of faith in our financial system? Is it better to get rid of college debt and have people never trust investment?

My best answer is that a financial collapse might help the environment. But it would also cause incredible numbers of dead humans.
At what point did they say they were using or needed a similar product?

Anecdotally, the store experience here from Walmart, Target and Best Buy have provided contactless parking lot delivery via app throughout much of the pandemic.

Can't speak for Walmart but Best Buy has a price matching policy and the typical corporate return policy which works fine for me but I'm sure has been annoying for many, just like all corporate policies.

It's so strange to me how defensive people can be over corporations when people are told about the option of boycotting. Just...keep shopping there? It's fine. You don't have to boycott and a mob isn't going to judge you if you don't.

That doesn't mean you have to pretend it's because it's this like inherently impossible thing. It's a capitalist economy and Amazon has won you over. You feel they provide the best options and there aren't any viable alternatives.

In my area there are...but it's just Best Buy and WalMart. "Oh boy, really fighting the power by switching from Amazon to Walmart /s"

I go to Best Buy. Never been crazy about that either but I still don't know at what point we all decided waiting two days was somehow preferable to driving for 10-15 minutes to grab a new PS4 controller or whatever.

Suggesting that it isn't a noble effort to boycott a clearly unethical corporation though just because you don't want to do it honestly just stinks of insecurity over the fact that you buy things from a company that isn't exactly turning out to be ethical.

The situation is far more complicated than that and ultimately each of us get to pick our battles day in and day out. You don't have to pick this one - that's fine.

You also don't need to defend a massive corporation on the basis of their competitive advantage in order to make yourself feel better about not boycotting. Sometimes the point of boycotting is that the competitive advantage has come at some other cost to society which is deemed to be too severe. Do you not agree that Amazon has crossed some ethical lines lately? Because _that_ is the discussion we should be having.

Amazon can, will and certainly already has been known to defend themselves using their vast fortune. Please stop helping them or if you're going to at least go fill out a job application and get paid to do so.
I read my bible as a Christian, so I know what it says. However I'm not immersed in the culture as it actually played out in practice.

From a reading of the law there seems to be nothing, but I suspect there is something I'm missing. I'm not sure if there is something about who/how you can ask for a loan (thus meaning such a loan couldn't be requested just anytime), or if the culture allowed you to refuse to make big loans then even though the law said you couldn't.
Yes, it's illegal.
I've thought about this. My "15%" standard in application is more like. 10% + 50% of 10%, ambiguously round to whole dollar. So if the bill was $45, I think, $4.5 + about $2 is $6.5 so I'll give $6 but maybe I go $7. I never do cents unless it's to force the total to a whole dollar amount (rare).

I'm moving towards a fixed amount. Since, as I mentioned elsewhere I don't see a strict correlation between menu price and work performed. The amount of work to bring me a steak is same as work to bring me a burger; but the steak might cost 3x more. Majority of dining experiences follow the same script and same amount of interaction with waitstaff so I'm thinking of just giving everyone $X and don't even consider what I spent. Maybe adjust up if we had appetizers, extra beverages, or some difficult situation. Having a toddler, I've left my fair share of huge "sorry for the mess" tips and that doesn't bother me at all.
The sandbox editor (napkin.io/sandbox) deploys as you type, but when you are signed in, changes are only deployed once you click "Deploy".