skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lies to beginners are necessary thing, but things concepts like "strings" "bytes" "conditionals" "lists" "dictionaries" "functions", are not to be assumed. Each one is more than a single lesson's instruction.

They are elementary to your understanding now, but they are concepts not even available to someone who is just beginning.

This is why teaching is hard.
Cope. It didn’t for your kids.
> Probably a modern flip phone (KaiOS?) wouldn't be so broken, but I don't think you can even get those in the U.S.

You'd just have to buy the phone from overseas (one of Nokia's models for example). For someone that particularly decided they wanted to use that type of phone, it wouldn't be a huge inconvenience.
that looks a lot more fun and straight forward than games today hm

a lot of times with nostalgia gaming, one quickly notices how broken and inaccessible the controls are and how much more imagination it requires to be an escape

but this one just looks straight forward and fun
I definitely understand that many employees would rather work in an office, and I think it’s fair to say they should be provided. But whether they live near an office or not, remote should always be an option. Some people like myself are absolutely unable to be productive in an office, and have a good space to work at home, and think time spent commuting is a waste of my life. If it’s truly a hybrid model than great.
Right? It's like the perfect post-apocalyptic semi-portable power solution.
This is really about capturing agent commission at scale since they aren’t renting out houses and can’t bet on infinite appreciation.

This is a great program. The ability to sell your current house and keep living in it while buying your new house is a game changer. It removes the need for contingent offers, which in many markets have 0 chance to get accepted.
> Who profits from plastic waste?

I think this is a hard question. Lots of people want to say that America is because it is consuming a lot of plastic and then shipping it to Asian countries for recycling. But they pay for that shipping and service. I do think there's a problem if you sell the service of recycling and then just dump it in the ocean/rivers. It's clearly a "both" players are at fault, but there's a key difference. One player is offering a service and the other player isn't checking if that service is being done in the way it is being claimed to be done. I don't think these two things are equal when we consider "fault." This comes down to a question of incentives and where those align. This is also why typically in law we come down harder on the person offering a service in bad faith.

So no matter why Philippines is contributing one-third of the global total, we should be talking about and criticizing them. That doesn't mean we shouldn't also be criticizing others (we should) nor that we shouldn't raise awareness of bad business practices. But we shouldn't shift the blame. We distribute the blame.
Seaconspiracy on Netflix was very interesting. It mentioned straw ban was backed by plastic industry because it had minimal impact on their business but it made people feel good.
I used to have an addon like that, that died in the WebExtensions apocalypse. It's great to have a replacement!
This is not logical to me.

So because you now see that SF is a smaller slice of the global pie of pollution than you expected, then SF should not have attempted to address the local problem?
Huge exits of mature companies*

I'm specifically asking about younger vintages, Series B (maybe C) or less.
Of course they would fight it, disinformation is very profitable for them.
If you have an army of programmers working on 1M LOC, there's a very good chance you're working on something overcomplicated for the problem it's trying to solve. Padding out your CV by inflating your budget/team size numbers, eh? :)

Lisp gets a single programmer leverage over large, complicated problems, and puts even complex projects within the reach of small teams. In the 80s, Symbolics had the stated goal of making very large projects feasible by a small team, and anything smaller within the reach of a single developer.

Ambitious, to be sure, but given the CF that is enterprise development, it shouldn't be ruled out as something to reach for.
I think that per-capita normalization in particular is interesting. I have a spreadsheet where I did that, and the Philippines stands out even more then, as does Brazil. GDP is a bad normalization factor here, as the trend is weird. High income countries have very low emissions in general. Low income countries sometimes have high per capita emissions, but not usually. Middle income countries are the most likely to be high emitters, as they are most likely to be consuming large amounts of plastic without having developed the infrastructure to process the waste.
Speaking of which, I'd like to apologize for mistyping "indefinite" earlier.
> I use https://lib.rs/cap which self-imposes memory limit on the process.

How do you choose that limit?
> There wasn't even an actual shortage in the manufacturing of TP

Yes, there was, because COVID-related closedowns of job sites and public venues shifted demand from commercial TP to consumer TP which have separate and not-easily-converted production lines (and aren't convenient direct substitutes, because they aren't made for the same fixtures and the commercial versions mostly aren't easily used without fixtures), so there was no way to spool up consumer production to meet increased demands. People were going to the bathroom just as much, and more of it was at home, but the quantity supplied of the TP for home use was constrained. That is a real shortage.
You can bet whatever you wish, insulin levels are quantifiable. Studies have looked at exactly this question and have been unable to show an increase with Aspartame specifically.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29982723/
Just because something takes a proper grammatical form doesn't imply it has any correspondence to the real world.

"A horse has four legs" and "schmorgles are borgles" are both grammatically correct sentences but only one has discernable empirical value. I can go out and find you a horse with four legs, can't find you any schmorgles.

As to moral statements taking the form of true or false statements, again it does nothing to proof that they are in fact true. the reason for this is psychological. Saying "torture is wrong" has just the same semantic content as saying "Ewww, torture!", or alternatively the command "do not torture!". The reason why we frame it in the language of moral fact is obvious, because it's useful to frame commands as being embedded in a moral framework if one wants to universalize and impose them. The language of moral facts is a a way to rationalize moral commands.

This is completely equivalent to religious truth claims. Religions have elaborate epistemological concepts about heaven and hell, afterlife, even a sort of physics of supernatural spaces. Does that conjure them into reality, merely because they are able to talk about them? No of course not. Does it follow that the trinity has any truth or false value merely because someone talks about the concept? Does Middle Earth exist because I can make propositional statements about Hobbits of the same form I can make about particle physics? No.

And as to the last part, yes science is to some degree a game of this very same sort, although it varies drastically by the kind of science you're doing. There's non-normative science largely concerned with making empirically verifiable claims. Science that tries to make normative claims does not progress for this exact reason.
You used YC's connections. You applied were accepted and now are part of that network.

Leveraging YC's rep for selection is one way to break in. You were part of the lucky 1% who make it through the program from application to funding,congrats!

An aside.. How did the company do?
Firefox is smart enough to not block fonts that are used to render PUA characters.

It doesn't help with icon fonts based on ligatures instead of PUA characters (Google's Material Design framework seems to do this) but we can't have everything.
I live at the end of the Pearl River Delta and regularly cross it by boat and travel along the shoreline. There is not a great deal of surface-visible physical plastic trash floating out of the river. Especially additionally considering the huge number of people living here (~100M+ within 100km radius), it is very well collected and managed versus rivers in the developing world. None of that mud-mixed-with-plastic-refuse buildup you often see in, say, India, Thailand, or undredged canal systems.
You can automate and glue iOS apps together using Shortcuts, script them with Scriptable or Pythonista, etc..

It's somewhat analogous to using Automator and/or macOS' Open Scripting Architecture.
I appreciate the mathematical precision there.

Still, my intuition is that it wouldn't work very well for large payments. I mean, if the average payment is $1 or $5 worth of value, but sometimes someone wants to buy a car or a house, how does that work out?

I suppose it would be possible to write a simulation to try to figure it out, although there may be a more elegant and mathematical way to think about it.

Have you thought about creating a whitepaper or some sort of website, or actually starting this kind of project? Or is it just a fun idea?
I would’ve enjoyed a picture of the unfinished work along with the finished one. I was also left puzzled as to why the picture on the tin would be the same at exactly 7x the size, but (apparently) not at some other factor.
What?

Nietzsche's position that "morals" are simply the "herd instinct in the individual", that is, simply the social instinct combined with the norms and customs that have built up in a culture over time due to its particular history and development. He does not assign a value to morals from this anthropological position - indeed his ultimate task was to devise a new system of valuation that would let us do this. It's hard to see how any other position could possibly be valid. Nietzsche was not entirely original here, but he was completely devastating.

There is nothing profound about utilitarianism. It's simply abstract thinkers asking "what do we value most of all, and what are the logical means of maximizing it." There's nothing particularly profound about deontologists either, except, as Nietzsche would have said, they're less decadent and more intellectually honest - right is defined by their moral intuition (which, according to N, is simply decided by the above) or God, or whatever, and that's the end of the story. Both of these, along with virtue ethics, already assume they know what good and bad, and everything falls from that based on the particular method (assumption: hurting people is bad; deontologists: hurting people is bad, don't do it, because that's the rule utilitarians: hurting people is bad unless by so doing you decrease the net amount of hurt people.) Nietzsche's question is much more fundamental. He is establishing the nature of morality, pursuing a history of moral development (which he agrees may not be accurate and certainly not anywhere near complete), asks a few questions about the consequences of different moral systems, etc.
I’m so glad you informed me that I don’t have to use features which are designed to addict me! Won’t you please tell all the other millions of people who find themselves addicted to their phones?
> why run Ubuntu in the first place?

Gotten used to it (first Debian), has decent desktop and server game, kinda "just works" and if not there more people stuck and solutions are published.
For anyone deeply interested in philosophy, the evolution of religion from a cognitive science perspective, or escaping a nihilistic perspective, this series has it all.

I can’t recommend it enough.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY
Almost all Apple engineers use Macs.
Thanks for the tip! I'll look over the collections package for sure. It looks like some of the things of interest to me are there already.

I knew there were historical reasons behind some of these things (just like the old complaints about car and cdr not being called first and rest). Sometimes it feels like this hewing to history comes with some baggage that makes adoption a little more challenging.

I find myself writing the following in some of my projects, for example:

(define-syntax (hash-ref* stx)
(syntax-case stx ()
[(_ hsh k1)
#'(hash-ref hsh k1)]
[(_ hsh k1 k2 ...)
#'(hash-ref (hash-ref* hsh k1) k2 ...)]))

So that I can do something like:

> (define hsh '#hash((a . #hash((b . c)))))
> (hash-ref* hsh 'a 'b)
'c

I feel a little silly each time because it seems like the sort of thing that should just "be there," in the way you can do something like hsh['a']['b'] in Python. Of course there are ways to make it a bit more like Clojure--I think Greg Hendershott created a Clojure-like layer called rackjure--so that you can access using the variable name, etc. It would be nice to have something standardized to make the ergonomics nicer.
Sorry, I edited my comment. I realised that wasn't what I quite wanted to say.

But to respond to your comment, I treat Unicode as a special case, because it is the result of a reform of text encoding from the ground up. Before Unicode, we had proprietary character sets and codepages, mostly mutually unintelligible.

Unicode brought order, interoperability, and the ability to represent in digital writing whatever might conceivably need such a representation, now or in a hundred years. It's forwards-extensible, so future cultures and alphabets will be also well-served.

I think it's just complex enough for the size of the problem, so it's actually a counter-example of the contrived complexity represented by PHP and WordPress.
I can go to several local fed-ex offices here in Vancouver and they will print on demand a file that I provide them, for a very reasonable cost (given that they eat the cost of misprints and supervision of the process).

That sounds more of what I am thinking of. Australia has a population of similar magnitude, but I've never heard of such a thing here.

I disagree that Heroforge is a good example of 3D printing being available to the general public. Firstly it's literally a niche product. Shapeways is more general and I've ordered from them before, but international shipping is very expensive. I can order an Ikea replacement part for $10 and then pay $27 for shipping.

Most of my designs and prints are often for very mundane things. Missing pieces or broken parts that would save you 10s or hundreds of dollars. But most people think of 3D printing as a high tech manufacturing process. Or they think of the hobby as something for making toys. Most don't fathom that you can use the technology to fix your headphones or replace a broken part.

And this is a technology that has direct application to people lives right now. Custom ICs are very cool and even more niche.
It's not a strawman, because you said it yourself:

> Why would we not want to know how that misinformation spreads, and how best to combat it?

You don't get to suppress ideas in a free society, no matter how much you may disagree with them. You can discuss them and even try to win people over to your viewpoint through debate, but at the end of the day you can't force people to believe something without violating the social contract.
Who is "we"?

If it doesn't include Philippines, China and India, it won't do much for fixing plastic ocean trash.

Also, we can obviously keep using one-time use plastics, as long as we don't dump it in the ocean, and still fix the plastic ocean trash problem.
"My friend's daughter uses arch btw."
> Basically, if it's made out of plastic--doesn't matter the use, the lifetime--it ends up in the river and then the ocean.

I'll also say that what you find washing up on shore or down river is filtered out by a number of factors. Not all plastics are buoyant (i.e. less dense than water). Most plastic materials are actually really close to neutral, and some are slightly denser than water. That means that containers that get punctured and eventually fill up will simply sink. If those materials end up in surf breaks they will get obliterated and turned into a microplastic dust that will can still be suspended in the liquid. So you won't find them washing up (as much). The lighter plastics that are buoyant will tend to washed up onto shore just by wind and wave action. So the ocean sorts and filters things by their size and density. What you see on shore isn't what's out there in the deep ocean.

Case in point: plastic bottles are usually PET, which is denser than water. They will actually sink if they are punctured or without cap. The ones you find usually have a cap on. But the caps are polypropelene and they are generally less dense than water, so they float. That's why you'll always find a zillion more bottle caps and almost never find a plastic bottle without a cap on it, at least from wash up.

Makes you realize where all those damn missing bottles are. The ocean floor is fucked.
It's basically why China stopped accepting "recycling" (aka trash): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_National_Sword
Shit. My reading comprehension sometimes...

Well, that guy did say that, whoever he is.
What does something that ended 75 years ago have to do with the culture today of dumping trash in rivers? I knew someone was going to find a way to blame the US.
Seeking a new opportunity while having a job is not a big deal, IMHO. Talking with expert interviewers often helps me find some weaknesses in myself. The most brutal interview for me was with two intelligent developers, one of whom is a core Elixir team member. I felt so well before submitting the assessment code but so bad after they gave their review opinions. I learned harder after that, and I felt way more improved. And, I found myself more peaceful because I perceived that I was not as good as I thought.

>> “I started this new job, but it isn’t what I expected and figured it was better to change sooner rather than later?”

I would say it's OK. What matters is passion. If you quit the new job because you're chasing for something you love, that's fine to me.
For the folks that want to make music in that amiga tracker style- check out the Polyend Tracker. It’s a usb(a phone charger battery will run this thing for hours) powered self contained groovebox/synth/sampler with an 8 track tracker style sequencer. I just got mine a week ago and it’s already one of my favorite pieces of kit. I can go outside, lay in bed/on the couch and make music that I would have to be at a desk with my other gear and Mac to make otherwise. It’s small enough to throw in your laptop bag but large enough to feel like real gear. Highly recommend!!
Missed the point. Hardly anyone is a farmer. We all have many luxuries because people who otherwise would be farmers are to some degree instead doing useful things other then fighting gophers and locusts.
I bought the phone on Kickstarter. When it arrived, pretty disappointed with the form factor. I was expecting like a zen like iPhone but got a Kindle from the 90s instead. Don't recommend it.
> defined something to be "wasteful" if it has no positive value already, so by definition banning it is not a negative

not "by definition" really
No, I get it. Everyone needs to do their part. But western countries pioneered plastic waste, and they need to lead the way on solving the problem. It's the same conversation as CO2 pollution. Clean up at home first and then help others get started down a better path. Otherwise it's a Mexican standoff with finger-pointing.
Python unit testing common gotchas
> Then it is less about the big that you’re tracking and more about this customers experience.

Obviously. (Isn't it? Not sure why this explanation is appearing as a reply here. How could the previous comment have been written without a strong understanding that there's distinction? Why would it have been written unless there was a strong belief in the distinction?)

> we still track it until the customer is unblocked

As you should... in some place that isn't the bug tracker. (See "muddled.")
Not complaining at all, but why should a for-profit, wholly-owned subsidiary of a nonprofit pay 10x what I make at Brave? Mitchell’s answer was because she could make $3M elsewhere. True or not, that doesn’t settle the matter unless Mitchell is the only possible CEO ever. Perhaps she is, in the scenario where Mozilla has to collapse back into a nonprofit due to Firefox losing too much share. She could sell Firefox to Private Equity, as a prior CEO wanted to do. These are the hard decisions that only a long term leader might make, and sell to enough folks in the community. Nothing looks easy from here. But the minimum price of a CEO is not $3M/year, I can tell you that!
It was a day hike with plenty of taps to refill your water along the way.
> I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone complain about non-plastic straws...even my 83 year-old uncle who lived through WW2...can't stop moaning about the tiniest inconvenience in his life.

Because it is obviously theatre to anyone with an ounce of intelligence and integrity. Another chance for unworldly Westerners to signal their grace without making real, substantial change.
They are using numbers for a fucking fun size snickers, ie the tiny ones people give out at Halloween that are a single bite.
It would be nice to see this forced by law.
Looks something pretty short distance from lab to fab ?
Also won't work for https
Not 'becoming'.

'IS' and has been, long since.

If you're not part of the Establishment's 'circle-jerk', you literally are a non-person. Both of the traditional parties are included in the Establishment: in other words, both sides of the same coin. It's been like that since about 1983.
> not-easily-converted production lines

So don't convert them, sell the commercial stuff to consumers. It's TP, either home or enterprise edition is compatible with any ass.

That's exactly how I got my TP when I needed it, I ordered from commercial supply websites.

But ban the eBay hoarders who exacerbated the problem for consumers; they were literally lining up at 6am to clear out shelves out of the local supermarkets to resell on eBay to make a quick buck.
Amazing article clearing up some quite confusing concepts with unittesting. Other than that for those copy pasting:

for python3 replace
from mock import patch
with
from unittest.mock import patch

and ensure print statements use brackets.
Global Warming Begets More Warming: Paleoclimate Researchers Find “Warming Bias”
I believe he's referring to the hypothesis (I think tested) touted by Bret Weinstein that lab mice breeding has led to strains with extremely long telomeres, a feature that makes them resilient to all sorts of cellular damage, but makes them also susceptible to cancer; Bret's point being that they aren't good for either cancer nor non-cancer research. Lab mice breeders may have responded to this idea, but he alleges it's been swept under the carpet, too many studies at stake. Or something like that.
There's an interesting book that discusses this, "To Sell is Human" by Daniel Pink that I think is worth a read.
Maybe they just ship it to USA which ships it to poor countries?
“Matches” (Stop Motion by Tomohiro Okazaki)
in my case, I learned by writing a brainfuck compiler last year. Now I'm working on a compiler / vm for a 30 year old esoteric mud language.
Touring the US in an RV while working is a pretty decent fallback plan. Don't discourage him either way!
Well, it's traditional in that it doesn't promote wanton dependency vendoring
IP addresses were distributed on an per need basis. Now it became a lucrative investment (people didn't originally pay millions for this block!)

Why should IP addresses be private property? Why not simply reclaim unused IP addresses instead, and re-distribute it using the usual mechanism?