skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a weird spat over an author deciding to omit an admission of illegal activity from his published works. It’s quite amazing that Harpers went so far as to commit to defending him and financially compensating him to extreme degrees (including the value of his house, if seized) in the unlikely event that he was prosecuted.

It’s strange that Pollan would turn around and try to shift blame rather than simply staying quiet. What does he think he stands to gain by throwing his former publisher, who went to great lengths to support him, under the bus? Why not simply let it stay in the past? Or admit the truth and give credit where credit is due?

I have to say, the more of Pollan’s work I read the less I enjoy his writings. He seems intent on riding the current waves of pro-drug and anti-enforcement sentiment to propel his own notoriety as an author. This also manifests as very one-sided portrayals of drug use that glorify and exaggerate the benefits while downplaying the negatives. In his book “How to Change Your Mind” I felt that every pro-psychedelic argument was presented with little questioning, while he only offered easy strawman counter arguments as skepticism, easily dismissed by the reader after reading a few more chapters of his pro-psychedelic writings.

“How to Change Your Mind” was very popular several years ago and continues to circulate in certain circles. I’ve read many anecdotes of people who sought psychedelics after reading his book with the expectation of life-changing experiences or psychedelic treatments for their conditions, only to be disappointed when they didn’t experience the miraculous experiences and transformations he describes.

I wish we had a more engaging alternative writer to reference about the realities of psychedelics and other drugs. Someone who was more interested in delivering realistic, albeit necessarily less boring, descriptions of the realities of this space. Some of the depictions of psychedelics as miracle cure-all medicines have gotten out of control and have become completely detached from the actual research, which puts a heavy emphasis on many (10-20 or more) therapy sessions surrounding the guided and monitored psychedelic administration. These books tend to downplay the realities and instead glorify the romantic notion of mushrooms as a forbidden, mystical cure for all ailments. The realities are much less clear-cut and definitely not always as positive as they sound in these modern psychedelic mysticism books.
Hm, we could have the best of both worlds if source maps (can already be served to browsers and are supported fine) could be proven authentic.

I believe right now, I could use foo.min.js and serve you a cruddy foo.min.map.js to mislead you.

If I served you the original sources foo.concat.js and a build script to go from foo.concat.js => foo.min.js instead, we could have both the speed of the minified version and the (proven by the browser) accurate source code and maps!
At this point, you are just trolling & not addressing any concerns that real people have. You only have condescending platitudes that can easily be read from a cue card. Enjoy shilling for the megacorps & the government. I hope they pay you well.
Vipassana
Sometimes you are on the Titanic and no matter what you do the boat will sink anyways. It’s important to learn to recognize those moments and prepare for the freezing water. When I found myself in those situations, first asked for a raise, and then started analyzing alternatives. But sometimes after hitting the iceberg, the mood and the environment were unbearable so I resigned. Peace of mind is everything.
The fact that one of the largest famines in the Western world as of late was caused by an economic system that led to people relying on monoculture crops to feed themselves[1], the fact that ours results in monocultures, as well, should be worrying.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Causes_...
As an engineer with more than 15 years professional experience, my definition of "junior shit" would be thinking you can hand-roll a foundation or framework better than something that already exists.
I Quit Google
Economies of scale, when viewed from the perspective of a cattle beast in a feed lot are a horrible thing in agriculture.

Modern industrial agriculture with its expensive inputs, ruination of land, and abuse of live stock is a quite horrifying thing and is impoverishing the people responsible for the base of our food supply.

It is the most efficient in terms of output per input, but not by most other measures.
I remember the acid house generator, but I missed that constellation of samples sounds really interesting. Would love to see it if you had a link.
I found that "Automation"[1] by xkcd (R Munroe) closely captures the lifecycle of my "clever" scripts.

I have a few of them glancing at me from the corner of my desktop and I hope to do something "over the summer".

[1] https://xkcd.com/1319/
Yes, but we often don't feel what we think we're feeling! The patch changes Mario's speed when he hits a brick, which will have implications for when he hits the ground.

I'm far from an expert player, but I really think the physics are identical once the patch is in place. I sometimes wonder if it was really a mistake at the factory—something they didn't catch until 20,000 PCB's in, and didn't want to change in revisions for consistency.
Not the OP, but do you know that you can do most things without (gasp!) using any framework whatsoever?
Every time I watch that I get so emotional. Imagine being in his shoes. Stuck underwater for days, knowing that you are most likely going to die there. Then just by dumb luck you are rescued. The relief this man must have felt.
But can you really be, let's be modest, around the baseline of developer competence not knowing the difference between RAM and disk space?

Hard to believe to me.
> although there is a lot they don’t know

That "although" is the whole point.

Knowing the technical basics (language syntax, getting things to work) is the easy baseline. What's missing in every studente (unless they went back to school after a solid stint in industry) is the experience of understanding the processes and approaches required to build something lasting and to operate within a larger team.
Chinese breakthrough allows physicists to build the most powerful laser
I believe some like Blue Iris do support this, but other open-source stuff like ZoneMinder is not as close. ZM does support controlling many PTZ cameras, which is really fun. :)
>based on technologies I haven't used in a decade

Pretty sure most recruiters don't read beyond "keyword exists".

$ grep android resume.txt && send_email
> Oodle is a family of data compression solutions with incredible world-beating performance. Make your game smaller to download, make your levels load faster, and compress your network packets for better player experience and to save money on bandwidth! Oodle slashes the time from download to playing the game.

http://www.radgametools.com/oodle.htm
He did this for fun, his motivation wasn't to find the cheapest way to host his content.
Not sure what kind of work you do but whenever I hear frontend devs don't use a framework/view library I have a difficult time taking them seriously. More often than not that means they're using some mess of a pseudo-framework that they created themselves.
Ask yourself if you use this principle IRL? Do you give your cleaner the house keys and make yourself scarce so they can work in peace or do you treat them like an evil maid and watch their every move? Which approach has better long term outcomes for your security?
Just took a look at the docs, looks neat!
>zsh: command not found: qrencode
My experience as well. On top of that, those types of engineers usually have a terrible and arrogant attitude and often attribute any disagreement as "ageism."
you have a senior developer who is also the CTO..but he did not do anything and that is the problem.
Why would you trust a random page on the internet and go paste your wifi password on it?
The original GP's post had two points:

- most PM 2.5 pollution is produced by brake pad and tire wear

- which [i.e. PM 2.5 pollution produced by brake pad and tire wear] is made worse by EVs due to their weight

These are direct quotes from my links:

- "A large fraction (50-85% and up to 90%) of traffic generated PM10 and PM2,5 is not due to the exhaust emissions by the motor, but rather to non-exhaust emissions (brake wear, road wear, tyre wear and road dust resuspension)"

- "A positive relationship exists between vehicle weight and non-exhaust emissions."... "Electric vehicles are 24% heavier than their conventional counterparts."
>A lot of developers only know the new, needlessly complicated ways of doing things.

Yeah that was inevitable in an industry that moves quickly, likes new stuff, and prefers fast, superficial learning when that's all you need to get your product out of the door. Google and StackOverflow are probably controlling a decent chunk of decision making these days such that you don't need to think about solutions too much.
Rick and Morty is available on HBO. It's also on Netflix, but they don't have season 5 yet for some reason.
Because it is now trivially to let other people connect to your wifi.
Thanks! I did end up figuring everything out this week I was trying to do (basics of syntax, 3rd party libraries, etc.). I posted the original comment just to document my experience on the path to figuring out these basics.
>” Just like no one wants to think about spending money each time they turn on a light in their house or take a shower?”

No, in the same way that Netflix is different from renting movies on Amazon Prime. It’s SVOD vs TVOD vs something like youtube without a subscription that is AVOD. There’s a reason that Spotify is hugely popular while it’s a lot less common to buy an album on iTunes. It’s the reason AYCE KBBQ and buffets are popular. Even if pay-per-use ends up cheaper, flat-rate subscriptions are easier for people to see value in, and they can consume without concern of overages.
You can have a younger picture, you can remove older jobs on your resume to appear younger. It gets you the interview, you can pass the coding test but then get told that they don't think you're a 'cultural fit'.

I think the underlying reason is when you have far more experience than your future boss they are intimidated by you.
There are plenty of pro-union posts here. Of course it's a divisive topic, but it's a cognitive bias to see the other side as "9 out of 10" (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Most generalizations people make about HN are subject to this sort of distortion (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

When put in "unions" into HN Search and look at the recent comments (excluding things like SQL and credit unions), opinion seems split, with a mild tilt in the pro-union direction. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=1&prefix=true&que...
Unfortunately yes - although in many cases of course they are much more fragile than the bigger studios. Indie game developers are a part of the labor aristocracy - they still create artificial scarcity where none need be.

Overall I see our world as a black box hellworld. I don't think most hardware and software are high quality at all. Proprietary tech is a straightjacket. I believe we can definitely escape it though. Some even say overcoming proprietary tech is essential if we want to make it out of global warming:

"The current political economy is based on a false idea of “immaterial scarcity.”

It believes that an exaggerated set of intellectual property monopolies – for copyrights, trademarks and patents – should restrain the sharing of scientific, social and economic innovations. Hence the system discourages human cooperation, excludes many people from benefiting from innovation and slows the collective learning of humanity.

In an age of grave global challenges, the political economy keeps many practical alternatives sequestered behind private firewalls or unfunded if they cannot generate adequate profits."

In other words, the problem lies with our outdated capitalist property and money systems, and the way proprietary tech slows and even stops the development of science and technology. Today we do not evenly distribute those things that belongs to all of us.

I am excited by both Valueflo.ws and Holochain as proposals for the new economy and system: they are the backbones of an agent-centric, mutually sovereign, non-black box architecture for the distributed web.

Using it we can 1) de-commoditize knowledge and science/technology (since thanks to digital tech knowledge is now already a non-rivalrous good as it has a zero marginal cost of reproduction) and 2) kickstart the use of transparent p2p supply chain protocols as prototyped by Mikorizal and Sensorica (they call them Open Value Networks), which can end the rentierism of money (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCegQVljdY) and give us novel new democratically governable tools and systems to measure, follow and steward material and immaterial value flows.
I don't think scihub is the future. OpenAccess is the future. I know that in the UK you basically have to post your accepted papers in publicly accessible repositories if you want your papers to count for the Research Excellent Framework exercise (which basically compares Universities every 5 years). I know many grants now have openaccess requirements. Plus in the field like physics, basically everyone posts the papers to arxiv anyway.
Can you actually point your phone camera at a QR code and have it connect automatically, as the website says? I generally avoid QR codes as they obfuscate the target URL, but I thought you needed an app for reading them on Android and possibly also iOS.
Both those sources are the same paper, fyi. Found a PDF here: http://www.soliftec.com/NonExhaust%20PMs.pdf

And the claim is a bit dubious, imo. It looks like they're counting "resuspension" (kicking up existing settled PM2.5 in the wake) as a source.
Drywall? Who would make a house with drywall? In my country everyone lives in a stone palace. Americans are so cheap, interest rates, unions, Boomers, NIMBYs, short-termism, speculation, etc.
This used to be a "meme spread by copier" back in the 80s/90s.

https://www.amazon.com/Phases-Project-Coffee-Ceramic-Wellcod...
Haven't you ever had to create / take a new notes or edit an existing one on the go (on mobile devices)? if yes, how do/did you do that? If No, how come it is a 'No'?
Checksums are for error correction, I think you’re referring to digital signing, unless I’m misunderstanding the issue being referred to
I haven't yet - my projects (all based around https://datasette.io/) need full Python support, and it looks like Cloudflare Workers still only with with JavaScript or stuff-that-compiles-to-JavaScript. I don't think I can get Datasette working via the Python-to-JavaScript route, it has too many C dependencies (like SQLite).
If I had done this project it would probably use node.js + gulp + sass + pug + browserify + babel + bootstrap ... or maybe Webpack instead of gulp and browserify (depends on the project).

Why? Because I have a website template that solves many things for me, like:

- I see no reason not to use SASS or the latest ES even though I know how to. Or pug, for that matter... which I like. I also have a SASS template with some utilities and a particular code organization.

- Using an ES bundler allows you to throw in libraries from npm. I would not write the QR code myself, for instance.

- Automatically watches sources and recompiles.

- Adds hashes to asset filenames in order to cache-bust changes in CSS/JS/images (critical when using a CDN).

- Has placeholders for things I'll probably need, like the
metadata for building previews in social networks.

- Is prepared for dealing with i18n, if the need arises.

- Future-proofing, since 80% of projects you think are small end up becoming larger. This is a single-page site, but if I wanted to publish this in Europe it'd already need two extra pages for the Privacy Policy + Impressum... so the single page site suddenly needs to worry about navigation.

- It's prepared for quickly deploying to AWS or Github Pages. It could be quickly tweaked for working on Cloudflare Pages or other hosting/CI environments that do the compilation for you.

And most importantly...

... my stack does not negatively affect the end result. All the extra baggage is just part of the development environment. If you want to skip my tools, they're quite easy to bypass and replace for any other transpiler... or you can just ignore my sources, reindent my compiled files and work on them directly.

PS: Back in the 90s I drew complex table layouts on graph paper, typed them down with vi, and ftped them to the hosting. I'm well aware of the alternatives. My current workflow + templates + helpers are based on the need to efficiently juggle A LOT of completely different projects every year as a freelance developer.
this is correct, it shouldn't be called engineering at all actually.
> I personally think Snapchat shot themselves in the foot with bad product strategy.

Seems to have worked out poorly for them.
Since OP intended to learn a bunch of technologies while developing this project I'd be amused to see a version of this based on qrencode complied to WASM.
Are deaf people forbidden to drive where you are?
Yes, until reload. Permanent settings are always per domain.
Most phone cameras nowadays have a built in qr-code reader.
No reason to feel ashamed. I had a similar-ish experience. At first, I also felt bad about it, but looking back, it's a good thing we got fired.

I had just taken the job, being a nice upgrade from the previous one: it was a bit more in my personal interests, and I could get a "hands-on architect" or "senior systems designer" or whatever you want to call it role. The team was small: a front end designer, me, one trainee with a BSc in CS who wanted to learn more, and a team lead annex director of the local branch. But the chain didn't end there. There was an account manager (although there wasn't an product yet) stationed 6000km away, there was a team working on a product that we were supposed to incorporate, 1500km south from him, and the overall bosses were 2000km further west. All had different expectations. So, three months in the job, the CEO from the mother-mother company came over, and fired the whole team working on the new product, because reasons. They apparently had almost 200 people working on similar products (in various companies), and they were going to build it. As a European, I was shocked. And embarrassed.

In hindsight, it really was an absurd project. Not that it couldn't have worked, but it was just set up to fail. And it turns out that, years later, the company is still selling the old product, and has bought one or two more companies in the same field (library software, if you want to know).

Strangely enough, it opened the way for me to work on a wonderful project, which unfortunately never was a commercial success.
Haven't you ever had to create / take a new notes or edit an existing one on the go (on mobile devices)? if yes, how do/did you do that? If No, how come it is a 'No'? (added this as a comment to the original question itself.)
I hope all those gets replaced under warranty?

I hounded Dell for months and got them to replace I guess 2 or 3 dozens of Optiplex DL270 motherboards and it felt good: forcing them to take the cost for their shoddy work.
I posted this because I was completely unaware that there is something of a high powered lasers race in physics right now. The creation of matter via high powered lasers was a possibility previously unknown to me. Thus, this fed my curiosity and seemed appropriate to share with HN.

This project has been in the works for a few years now, so it isn't so much of a breakthrough right now. The real breakthrough seems to be that China is funding this project while other nations have less ambitious projects or more ambitious but unfunded projects.
why don't u just make a new languae instead of trying tom ake language do htins it wasnt desirned to do

sql is ehre rfor a reason
A DOI to IPFS directory would be cool. Is it still a copyright violation if you write a hash, but don’t put a IPFS link?
> It would be more efficient and cheaper for companies to create a recycling process and include that in the purchase price.

A totally fair point (one that I also happen to agree with) but not in the spirit of OP’s comment, which suggests some sort of moral trickery by the likes of Apple.
I don't care if it's nasa or musk branded debris locking us in. Having Musk's name on it doesn't make it any deadlier
Ah, okay agreed. Documentation on base R isn’t great. I was more so coming from the perspective of packages which I realize isn’t the full picture.

Regarding first timers, I think that once they’re aware of RStudio and the content they put out, learning becomes much more friendly and modern.

Still, I definitely agree and would appreciate a modern manual on base R.
There's a lot less decision-making involved in turning on a light, or running the faucet—it always does the exact same thing. It's hard to know in advance if an article will be worth reading.

People have also had an entire century to become inured to utility pricing.

A better comparison might be data-limited cell phone plans. Even though spectrum and network capacity are legitimately scarce resources (especially in the early days), basically all of the carriers have been forced to offer some kind of quasi-unlimited data plan, where you might be throttled but you won't be charged overages, or you won't be charged on specific streaming services.
S3 compatible machine learning pipelines on Azure using Kubeflow
But the thing is... he claims he's never posted there. So how did they catch wind of him even existing?

It doesn't make any sense to me. Of course what they're saying in those threads is inexcusible but I don't think cookieengineer is giving the full truth either.
Ever greening patents is standard practice today. This is why insulin is so expensive. Another good example is Disney's bs. They have kept thinks out of public domain for over a hundred years.. The 20 years thing is for the little guy, if he can ever afford the 50k patent and legal fees in the first place.
But does it automatically recognise it as an SSID and password and connect as the website suggests?
We need to bring back the Glass-Stegall Act, which kept banks and brokerages separate. It's not really about competition, though; it's about isolating broker failures from bank failures. That was in Trump's plaform, by the way.
>"...in hope of finding advises on how to actually do that but didn't find any."

because it's difficult and for everyone different.
Gizmo’s Freeware Says Farewell
https://apnews.com/

uBlock or AdGuard Home for everything on your network does pretty well at cutting out most ads.

Cable linear TV was / still is expensive and gates trash content behind unskippable awful advertising, so paying is not always the solution. We must demand better journalism, even though everything seems to be trending toward entertainment and sensationalism.
Suket and I met here on HN after I posted my own blog [1] about leaving Google for a 1-year sabbatical. It's been fascinating for us to compare/contrast motivations. There's not much to contrast though, our top-level motivation [2] and day-by-day strategies [3] are remarkably similar.

[1] https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical/prologue

[2] Suket: "I’m playing the long game. I have conviction that if I focus on building a solid foundation, I can climb to greater heights and enjoy the journey along the way."

[3] Suket: "Foundations are a collection of healthy habits that yield compounding returns. A strong one acts as a force multiplier. A weak one creates drag."
What are some of your opinions that can't be shared freely on at least some platforms? "Conservative opinions" don't count, because if they were actually censored then I wouldn't have to have them rammed down my throat every minute of every day from every angle.