skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the impression that the space station isn't the most hygienic of environments.

I wonder if that poses any problems for growing something like lettuce, with it's very high surface area, for food?

Edit: clearly I should have read the whole article before commenting...
It isn't (*much).

How is locking your coffee pod machine to only use your brand pods, or annoying a printer user to only buy your "genuine" cartridges to her advantage?

(*) There is a mild degree of quality control at play, but honestly not much.
The M1 macs are insanely amazing machines.

I look forward to using Linux on them shortly.
I'm using HN on 13 inch laptop and I never noticed that search at all! Thanks for pointing that out.
In this way, storytelling isn't fundamental. Storytelling is an exploit. It's how you break a thing. Storytelling is the bad data you have to test against, the overflow you have to trap.

Nobody ever said stories are GOOD.
Stories are BAD. (thanks to Terry Pratchett, well known for telling cautionary tales)
> our location can't be logged and sold anymore

Be cautious about leaving wifi/bluetooth on. Your device's mac address can be logged even if you don't connect, and location data brokers could easily report to advertisers or other parties where you've been seen.
Other countries: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/birth-rate-vs-death-rate
As long as we're discussing the source of this pollution by nation there will never be a solution.
It's not the correct choice. For one, transpiling is an unnecessary word, there is no information value in it and the domain experts don't use it and never have. For another, C isn't the target, C is an intermediary language used to produce the binaries. The C produced by these compilers is highly unidiomatic and not meant for human consumption.
And what about mid levels? I think a 30 year career is more common too. So I would think 1/3 of the workers should be entry or mid level. And let's not forget that people do switch stacks and basically start over.
> Opus is a versatile speech and audio codec, supporting bitrates from 6 kbps (kilobits per second) to 510 kbps, which has been widely deployed across applications ranging from video conferencing platforms, like Google Meet, to streaming services, like YouTube. EVS is the latest codec developed by the 3GPP standardization body targeting mobile telephony. Like Opus, it is a versatile codec operating at multiple bitrates, 5.9 kbps to 128 kbps.

Why 5.9 instead of 6 kbps? Did I want to have some kind of PR victory over Opus?
If you are going to build a pilot plant to test things out, it makes sense to make it small, light and not very energy intensive then use v2 and v3 to scale up. Since potatoes contain a lot of energy, they also take a lot of energy to grow. Lettuce is a good crop to start with precisely because it is not very energy dense.
I would like to try to understand why this is the case. Is it correct to say: Clearcut means the next planted trees are all the same generation, so the trees are of similar height and their crowns are next to each other. Fire can easier ignite a large area when a burning crown of a tree sparks the next one.
Peter the Thiel? How very out of character to be pushing fund raising
What are the odds, exactly?

I don’t see where they say that VC funding should be eliminated, just that this is another option that more people are pursuing.
This has no keyboard.
Afghanistan Meant Nothing: A Veteran Reflects on 20 Wasted Years
Beware of phase differences, they won't show up on a spectrogram but could seriously upset your stereo impression. Before you compress all your Flac content and only figure this one out afterwards. That could be quite annoying.
Survivorship bias.

One person unicorns don't generally exit in the same way, this whole article was about the problems trying to raise for small one person companies.
As someone who pulled this off, it was less about discovery and more about being part of it already. The problems are much easier to understand and address when they're actually problems you're facing yourself.
So we just believe Apple. We can call it security by infinite-trust. Beats even security by obscurity!
As a senior developer in Europe, I'm considering becoming an intern.
Your reality becomes the story, when handled properly. This is pretty fundamental to marketing: see Guy Kawasaki.

The danger is of course shown with Google: when the reality shifts or evolves, the story tends to stay put, and then you're building a trouble machine.
I read that as a 'tongue in cheek' comment.
Two notes on the X, P, and T laptops:

Lenovo's case design does not provide support for the USB-C connectors. The only support is the connector's attachment to the motherboard. If the port is damaged, the motherboard must be replaced.

If you only use USB-C ports with the laptop securely on a table or in a stand, this is not an issue. Sitting the laptop vertically on the floor, with the charger plugged in, and having it tip over onto a chair leg was enough to break the port loose. If you are used to Apple laptops, which provide significant support for USB-C connectors via the case, this may come as a surprise.

If you are coming from a lifetime of Apple laptops: primary cooling is done through the bottom of the laptop. Using it on a lap, pillow, carpet, blanket, etc may adversely impact performance / increase fan noise.

Other than these use-case specific issues, I've enjoyed the laptops. Get the upgraded screens if it fits your budget -- the low cost screens are intended for bulk purchases for corporate use and feel like using a laptop from 10+ years ago.

Current Lenovos: P1 (2020), X1 Carbon (2018), T14s (2019).

Edited to add note about Apple's cases providing USB-C connector support.
Why airlines no longer use rear-engine planes
Find a product market fit. Figure out how to escape the competition enough time to make a profit. That's about it.
I wanted a minimal smartphone but with maps and messaging. I ended up with a Unihertz Jelly 2, with LineageOS and a minimal launcher that I installed from F-droid. Supports all the Android apps, but it's keychain size make it impractical as a time waster. Highly recommended.
Only pensioners got an exception and could travel from East to West to visit family. Everybody else had to try their luck digging tunnels (mostly in Berlin in the 60s), over the Baltic Sea or make it through the "Death Strip" alive, all ending very likely in death or if they're lucky, imprisonment (one of my uncles and his wife ended up with a 10-year prison sentence for trying to flee over the Hungarian border, and were eventually "bought out" by the West).

Travel from West to East was unrestricted of course.
U.S. could have not cynically installed the most pliant pro-American corrupt thugs to be in charge and told the people to obey, after having destroyed their homeland and treated them like idiot children for an entire generation.
Looks very interesting! Anyone here who’s tried MeiliSearch?
Musk says Starship orbital stack to be ready for flight in few weeks
Canada is 'becoming a police state' somehow, and the answer is to move to a bastion of freedom like Singapore. Just... I... ugh.
That is true, but it seems beside the point as a response to my original reply to you, while its initial "But..." suggests that it is intended to invalidate it somehow. Even if Fullmoon were correct in claiming that Covid is not behind the problem of the ICU bed shortages, it would not alter the fact that this is a problem caused by actual disease, not the fear of it.
No way, I get more than that at an entry position outside of FANG. Senior software engineer pay starts at $25k/month and goes up from there.

Edit: I just noticed base pay–then yes, that's about what it'd be, but base pay tends to cap out very quickly so it's not a good measure of compensation.
The college dorm shopping industrial complex is real
Trump signed the deal, but he didn't plan the withdrawal. In six months, the best they could come up with is handing over military equipment to the Taliban?

> Biden inherited a signed deal that had US completely withdrawn in May, and he even extended it to August.

We can't in good faith argue that Biden had no power to modify, extend or even cancel the agreement. He did so with many of Trump's previous commitments for example.

In the Wikipedia article:

> [..] a full withdrawal within 14 months if the Taliban keeps its commitments.

And then later:

> Despite the peace agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban, insurgent attacks against Afghan security forces were reported to have surged in the country.

Biden had every possibility to cancel the agreement.
San Francisco's Lands End labyrinth keeps getting destroyed. Will it be back?
i spent an entire summer on descent 2 :))
Finding stuff on any shopping site is hell. Search for bike and get bikes mixed up with helmets, lights and weird stuff. Looking at you Amazon but really no one has got this right
This is a very ironic comment considering that the soviets, not the US liberated Europe from Germany. They fought the hardest battles, lost the most soldiers, fought for the longer time and were first in Berlin.

The public just believes otherwise because of 70 years of US propaganda [1]. The only thing US soldiers left us europeans with are a massive influx of refugees of which we have to take care of and for which we are ridiculed by US politicians and their citizens alike.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5814270/the-successful-70-year...
Pocari is well known and available everywhere in Japan (that makes it pretty good choice when dealing with hangover) but OS-1 is better
https://www.os-1.jp/en/
Yep. I have a small toy app that uses it and I keep monitoring the progess. It’s already very useful.
I suspect this includes outsourcing a whole series of functions from support functions such as finance, accounting, tax and legal, to even what would be considered core functions such as UX, coding etc.

Taken to an extreme, the startup could remain a handful of people while benefiting from a much larger team which is not included in the headcount.
> Fortunately I don't think Debian is under market time or presentation demands, so it'll roll on regardless.

Fair enough, I knew Bullseye is ready to be released (on mid-August sans if there's a nasty bug) last month, but I agree that the linked post should go into Debian's micronews about the preparations or into their mail archive rather than a (for someone who's not into Debian) user manual without any context whatsoever.
I had been following its development for a while, but then I moved to Typesense after evaluating this matrix:

https://typesense.org/typesense-vs-algolia-vs-elasticsearch-... (yes it's hosted by Typesense)
Apparently at C# implementation supports promise pipelining: https://github.com/c80k/capnproto-dotnetcore#features

It is missing many nice-to-have features however and is also apparently unmaintained, with the last release 16 months ago...
Define 'startup' and 'founder'. These are not necessarily useful things compared to 'inventor' or 'coder'. But the job is most definitely founding a sort of cult around whatever you say you are, and getting other people to imagine pretty things about what you haven't done and maybe never will do. That's a startup founder.

In a sense, this too is a real problem. People will burn a lot of money, time and resources as long as their fundamental motivation is to chase a pipe dream.
U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan Posts Online Job Listing While It’s Being Evacuated
Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" books.
> Obviously, any posts (like mine) that point out the obvious lie in these statements are downvoted / vote-brigaded because it is in Apple's interest to do so.

No, quit the Dunning-Kruger, you're being downvoted because most people here disagree with you. Myself included: I don't particularly like Apple, I'm not paid by Apple, I'm a life-long proponent of FOSS and open systems, and I downvoted you because your posts are uninformed and either you haven't thought this through, or you don't have enough context to know what you're talking about.

Insinuations of shilling/astroturfing are against the guidelines, FYI.
> a terrorist organization will control a nation

those are the terrorists the US created by mercilessly bombing their civilian relatives.
I’ve done some stuff with it. Works pretty well but not perfect.

Insertion times grows linear with index size, up to tens of milliseconds with an index of couple 100k documents.

Go library is very un-go, with not all the options exposed. And had a couple of breaking changes without upgrading major versions.

Other then that, the search part works really well
anyone want to do our own little study? joking, kinda..
"Leave" is wrong idea in this context. If it generates money, hire some support staff and just leave it running. Do not sell, where would u invest anyway? $5m profit over a few years is very common for a small businesses.
Only "unjustly let go"? It was life tragedy for many:

> imprisonment, loss of reputation and livelihood, bankruptcy, divorce, and even suicide

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
Good point, thanks - effectively an MVP approach...
I was expecting a mention of Vannevar Bush' s Memex:

"A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory."
To an extent it's your fault for taking the position and accepting the status-quo, my advise is to get hired where the manager has the same "standards" that you aspire to, if you assume you will be able to "raise the bar", you are not going to have a good time there. It's either already in the DNA of the company, or you will probably have to force it into your standards..
What AI might be better at than us is recognizing joint parts of code, creating a boilerplate for that and immediately offer to other users. Sort of like automated package control with self generating libraries for common patterns
I wish someone tried to compete with iphone 12 mini instead of producing these utterly niche phones:

- just make it comfortable using with one hand (5 inch or less)

- don't put 100W 32 core processor and 16 gigs of RAM

- place a decent camera without 5 eyes staring from the back panel (I get anxiety from looking at the back of that Samsung Galaxy that has these)

- burn the fucking monobrows or cutouts for a cam on a front panel, place everything you need (cam, front speaker, sensors etc) above the goddamn screen

- if you provide a fingerprint scanner, for fucks sake, don't make me lift up this 200g brick so I can grope the scanner on the back

- 3.5mm audio jack? hello? I don't wanna bother about having my earcocks charged

I'm looking for a decent substitute to my 4.5 yo Zuk Z2 and I shit you not, there is no single phone that satisfies everything I described. The closest is Xperia 5 II with 6.1 inch screen, but at least it has audio jack and normal looking front panel...
Jane Street interns are known (maybe not in this conversation :P) to get paid exceptionally well. A typical software engineering intern at a large Bay Area company is probably making something approaching $10k.
Ask yourself why US taxpayers keep pouring money into such a terrible, incompetent system.
I expect Canada to become a police state (its already on the way)

The government added transgendered people as a protected class... it's the October Crisis all over again /s
Today I made one of the most important discoveries of my PhD
The Pro has a CPU fan.

Anyway, the ISA does not necessarily imply higher or lower energy consumption.
I think it shows that the US were no more than a foreign occupation force. Everyone knew how powerful their military was and how much money they had to distribute so perhaps the majority went with the flow but the current events show that this meant little to the workings of Afghanistan and its culture.

In my view there's always arrogance in thinking that GIs can literally fall from the sky and "save" the locals...
Frankly, I live under the understanding that it's semi common knowledge / sense. The body is finite. It has limits. Exceeding those limits and undesirable things happen.

https://www.freseniuskidneycare.com/thrive-central/hypervole...

https://www.renalandurologynews.com/home/news/too-much-water...
> once you configure, you can use it for years without worrying what might break tomorrow.

That has been exactly the case with me and Arch.

And your comment is not just wrong, but it's condescending too.

> Debian is 100% suited for dev centric/work station centric environment

You're way too overconfident. I use a Debian derivative at $work (because I don't have a choice), and we are constantly having to work around the fact that the software in its repos is ancient.
> in my experience [AI] should not be relied on

Have you considered all uses of AI or just a few that you encountered in your experience? AI automates lots of unpleasant manual work.
Show HN: A sonar plugin deploying a rule against Java 'var' usage
NASA boosts impact risk from 'potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu
Provocateur Copyrights a Magic: The Gathering Deck
I was thinking the other day that it seems launching stuff is mostly solved these days but there seems to be a real lack of companies developing "infrastructure" for people once they're up. The only one I know of is Bigelow aerospace, who are working on inflatable space stations that (should) cost a few orders of magnitude less than the current batch of stations. There is also the zero-G ultrapure glass fiber company and the space mining initiative, but they mostly seem to be doing work in space so that they can get the final product back to Earth.

Does anyone know of serious companies working on in-orbit manufacturing machines or agricultural equipment? Just a proper CNC lathe or milling machine seems like it would be a giant first step for orbital construction. Perhaps combined with an orbital smelter for making metals out of asteroids.
If you're using a good parser, switching between begin-end and curlies should be a one minute job.

Now, updating the tests and the library code.. that's a different story.
Ah! I'm sure we'll find a way.
What extra did you do to allow it handle 10k requests per second?
> The only thing US soldiers left us europeans with are a massive influx of refugees

Don't forget the military bases and the half-secret spy networks linked to terrorist attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

https://www.italy24news.com/local/143373.html
Americans love to say this:

"China, at least, is not limited by public perception, and will have no qualms about doing war crimes, and they will call it conquering."

But, really, China is pretty peaceful compared to US thuggery. I prefer China. At least they are rational.
This seemed like a somewhat reasonable article, but once I saw the "suggested links" at the bottom - all by the same author, I've got a bad feeling this is pure astroturf.

The guy has a series of articles that are almost formulaic "list of clichéd right wing talking points" - but critically, they're things that don't have anything to do with each other. The only common ground is merely that.

An actual activist who cared about an issue wouldn't have a spread of topics like that.
Funny, of all the investments I've done to date not a single one would have any of these attributes.

And of all of the investments of all of our customers I think I might be able to point to one or two cases where one or more of these were true but I highly doubt they were the deciding factor because the bulk of those did not go through, mostly because having such a relationship - and having it declared - would cause a lot more scrutiny on the fund managers than would happen otherwise because they'd be open to claims.

Now of course it is possible that a bunch of them passed under the radar without being declared.

WeWork - and SoftBank in general - are weird outliers, there is very little logic (to me, maybe they do understand) to their investments.
Years ago there was a tradition of an annual Christmas letter that contained an update on the status of the family for those far flung members of the family that you didn't keep that much in touch with.

Perhaps write the tings you want to share down and send them out as a quarterly update? That would have the effect that you are not imposing too much, and that you have some time to reflect on what you want to share (so you are less likely to share pieces that make you angry or that only have temporary impact).

I am not on a social media with my mum, but when I see something that might interest her I send her the link in an Email.
Body Synth
Can you really use the number of lines of code in a comparison of MeiliSearch and ElasticSearch, or Sphinx-Search?

Arguably I'm not the biggest fan of ElasticSearch, it's a way too complex to manage and interact with, if you just need to add search to a product. However, ElasticSearch i also much more than just a search engine. I would never use Bleve or Sphinx as a primary data store, but ElasticSearch is a perfectly good document database.
I'm not necessarily doubting this, but I feel like this is always a convenient goto excuse to criticize any terrible, unethical military strategy the US is responsible for. Is there good evidence that certain powerful corporations/people made so much money and have so much power that they could and did successfully pressure politicians for two decades across a bunch of administrations into staying in Afghanistan? Not only successfully pressuring them to start the war but successfully pressuring them to stay there for so long?

(I of course don't at all doubt that the big military contractors have been making a ton of money from the wars, but I'm specifically referring to their corporate influence being the primary/secondary/tertiary/etc. force behind why we were still in Afghanistan after two decades.)

My own uninformed Occam's razor assumption would've been that it's primarily a matter of tangled geopolitics rather than a military-industrial complex scheme from day one to today. That is, that the State Department and top-level strategists and policy advisors are mostly the people to blame.

Maybe it's all of the above or some complex mixture. But what I want to know is the actual individuals responsible, or at least where they're contained. Not just an opaque storm cloud labeled "the military-industrial complex" or "the Deep State". For example, it could potentially be the case that this narrative might actually unintentionally help to shield the people who are truly culpable.
I see he references it in his post about building Monocle

https://thesephist.com/posts/monocle/
Porn Spam on Google Maps
Yeah agreed - my wording is off at the end of my post. A comma makes it slightly better but it’s still not clear:

>> You're clearly NOT going to be an expert in the language after 2 weeks but you're going to be productive, as [you are] an already experienced developer.
Right. You probably get weeds that look identical to the crop — at least for the neural network powering the robot. Interestingly similar to research that tries to fool image recognition software, but carried out by Mother Nature.
Biden would disagree:

> Q Mr. President, some Vietnamese veterans see echoes of their experience in this withdrawal in Afghanistan. Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam, with some people feeling —

> THE PRESIDENT: None whatsoever. Zero. What you had is — you had entire brigades breaking through the gates of our embassy — six, if I’m not mistaken.

> The Taliban is not the south — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...
Natural selection will lead to weeds that cant be seen by the cameras over time.