skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like people on the other comment have said, if you've actually tried getting data from wikidata/wikipedia you very quickly learn the HTML is much easier to parse than the results wikidata gives you.
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I found some coworkers who babysit me on tasks like not forgetting a meeting, talking to me about a memo i prolly didn't read. I'm skimming group chats for stuff i might have missed. I've got a very friendly boss. Still makes me anxious, cuz i always think i missed something when he wants to talk to me in person.

I also keep a journal just throw everything on the pages and mark them.

I've also talked about hyperfocus and brainfog to him and he knows about my frustration with certain processes.

Else i can only recommend Marshall Rosenberg on YouTube 3 hr course but it's worth it...
Despite these unfortunate feelings, it's still valuable and actionable advice.

To me the key is changing the way I think about it - It's not an illness, I'm different. It's not a curse, I'll figure out how to make it a blessing. I don't need meds, I'll work it out.
>Methylphenidate is not meth.

Well sure. In the same way that fentanyl is not heroin.
That's a right thing to do. It should follow Apple to be required to sell App Store, iOS and macOS. Google should be required to sell Ad Sense, YouTube and gmail and so on. This concentration of power is bad for everyone except shareholders.
VS Code is kind of the ideal example of an IDE because it's not an IDE until you want it to be, in the precise ways you want it to be.
And trade them for an entirely different army of weird and biased editors?

Wikipedia has the same problem every major "community-driven" site does, those with the most time dictate the culture. And since there is no real compensation for that time, no one whose time is worth anything is going to be a major factor.
They are doing too well to be considered a minority.
pretty soon scientists are going to have to start doing what celebrities and corporations have been doing for years: paid swarms of contributors and PR teams who write articles that are too robust to be deleted, and negative facts/citations are kept to a minimum.
No, excel does about the worst possible job of handling CSVs.

You can't even hope to keep a file intact upon opening...
Sure but those power editors and admins do a lot of heavy lifting that you're taking for granted. Someone's gotta be updating those articles and who's to say the editors you get for your fork will be any less partial than the ones on Wikipedia?
This is an improvement over their previous stance, which was that young people should change their name upon reaching adulthood [1]. This doesn't go far enough though, because just removing photos isn't enough.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7951269/Young-...
Were the first point accurate, it would instantly become not so upon recognition of the existence of the concept of delegation.

The point about selectively choosing data, how to process it, etc is important, and often overlooked. People are accustomed to working with what they're given, but objectivity may be a step further back.

Regardless, such things can only be better revealed by providing the data.

If the goal is greater illumination, there is simply no argument to be made against greater transparency.
We've heard that a few times. In the future, there definitely could be usage in other markets. Right now we're lazer focused on our construction customers though:)

Competitor wise there are 2 types:
-Companies who still use pen and paper, email, spreadsheets or otherwise paper laden processes.
-A few "generation 1" software solutions exist that are basically material market places that pair suppliers and contractors (Joyne, Agora, etc.).

We're different than those in that we do most of the work for the user.

Without blockchain, these workflows involve multiple companies all sending contracts, invoices, and data sheets back and forth. This is manual trust-building which adds cost and risk. Using smart contracts streamlines many of these processes and provides more transparency.
My Zettelkasten and secure note-taking tool is Passfindr.
My sketch book is a Moleskine notebook.

Most of my notes are URLs, micro-notes, ideas, login credentials for online and other accounts, addresses and everything between. Lots of micro documents. Some of the notes are 20+ years old. Finding these notes and finding them fast is crucial. Passfindr does that with ease and I get information faster than anything else. Fast searching/finding matters. Once you get the idea behind the internal about: commands, you can even enhance the searching and finding capabilities and build your own Zettelkasten.
It depends on how you define "early age" for the universe. Of course it can go on a long time, so in that sense the universe is extremely early age. On the other hand most of the stars that will ever exist have already been born, and every moment that goes by more parts of the universe move forever out of our reach due to the expansion of space. The universe may last forever but most of the action has already happened.
You must not be familiar with US broadband outcomes. If starlink actually services 500k user for only 1bn it will probably be the best ROI the US has recently gotten in terms of rural broadband access relief funds.

Also your link:

> Starlink currently has 650 satellites in orbit, with 12,000 planned by 2026. But even at full capacity the researchers estimate the service won’t be able to service any more than 485,000 simultaneous data streams at speeds of 100 Mbps.

These are not even Starlink's official numbers but some estimate by some researchers without any first hand knowledge of Starlink's tech plan. Moreover, it assumes 485,000 simultaneous 100 Mbps, a ridiculous standard, no reasonable engineer would define the max user limit of a system to be how many user can use maximum bandwidth simultaneously because that is not how network usage happens in real-world use.

My mother has had at&t dsl in the a rural town, the only broadband provider in the area, it delivers 2 Mbps *at best* aka when it works at all, even if Starlink delivers 20 Mbps with be a massive quality of life improvement.
This is covered in the article. Also, most Nobel winners are notable for their work long before winning the actual prize.
Are you saying that the tests were purposefully biased in favor of Asians? Were they written in China so that Asians would have a benefit that lead to 73% demographics at TJ?
They are not scanning photos stored on your phone, their are scanning photos stored on iCloud
I cannot tell if this is a joke or not.

If you are serious, then what about just ignoring any files in the zip that are not specified in the standard?
Here's an example using GitHub Actions: https://github.com/badsyntax/docker-box/tree/master/examples...
I would hope in any future scenario we'd avoid burning a living world like the Earth and instead harvest resources from a dead planet like Mercury or Venus.

That said, seems the Earth was once inhospitable around the time Venus was 'alive'. Good documentary which lends weight to what you said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p07922lr/the-planets
Do you have a picture of what typescript code for workflow would look like? Are you thinking of something that calls APIs directly or runs and spits out some kind of JSON instructions in place of yaml?
Do we know if this is different than people hospitalized with other viruses? It’s just common sense that if you get a serious illness there can be long term effects.
Yes fraud or bad information is a $1 trillion dollar problem in construction globally.
That is correct. The problem and market is there for them and other players to take.

Do let us know what you think of us. We would love to provide Karbon card to your company - https://valinor.earth/ .
> After failing to compete with new innovators, Facebook illegally bought or buried them when their popularity became an existential threat.

Illegally bought or buried them?

1) FTC approved all the mergers. So, it is surprising that they'd say that these were illegally bought.

2) Facebook seems to be operating all key acquisitions (Instagram and WhatsApp) as separate products and hasn't made their usage conditional to having a Facebook account.

This is re-writing history and it is just as dangerous when the FTC does it as it is when a political party does it.
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I think by now the problem is more cultural than technical or juridical. I mean many countries have laws in place that would allow for picture removal.

I'm really glad, that my teenage years where before social media and everyone walking around with internet connected cameras on them all the time. All the stupid and embarrassing things I did only live in the memories of the people I was with and it is fun to talk about every now and then.

But when going out these days, there is an almost constant "peer-surveilance" with everyone taking pictures and videos and immediately sharing them online without reflecting whether it is a good idea and just assuming consent of the others. Then when asking people to remove it, the request is often met with bewilderment or mockery why you'd want that. And sure, I could legally go after the person, but that is not really something you'd want to do within a (extended) circle of friends.

I think there are a lot of very cool things that can be done these days that weren't possible in my time. But the complete disrespect of others peoples privacy and their image is really scary to me.
I think it's a bit different: there aren't many barely-trained (or untrained) people drilling teeth, but there are plenty of untrained programmers out there.

However the "software engineer" title is also applied to a lot of untrained programmers, so I'm not saying that this term is analogous to "dentist" even if it should be.
Hard disagree. The Three-Body Problem is hands down best Sci-Fi book I've read.
Have you read all of them (5 books so far) or did you give up?
Easy enough to fix:
"Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia before rise to prominence points to wider bias"

I wish news outlets would stick to reporting the news.
So it isn't the "theft" you object to really, just how it is stolen and spent?
So should Google be the moderator of the entire WWW and resolve every single dispute on any websites posting information about someone who doesn't want their information there? Or should no one ever have their website searchable because a small handful of websites post content which 100% of the people in the content don't agree with? And what if I post about someone who assaulted me, and the criminal wants my content off my website? These are not easy problems and "let's throw it all out" doesn't seem like a solution.
Seems Apple and others take a cut of their sales, so Apple is directly taking 30% on child labor wages.
lol, thanks for the input. Never thought of that. But as a teacher myself, it didn't occur to me. Also, I've seen worse! I was hoping it would be so off the mark that people would guess that it was a product name. Also, wanted it to be unique enough to search for people looking for it. There are lots of "Workbook" type websites out there, so hopefully mine will stand out.

But your point is definitely something I will think about and will ask other teachers. So far, no one else has mentioned it, but maybe I haven't asked enough people.
And in Nazi Germany...
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And yet today, the descendants of ELIZA provide first-line customer support for thousands of companies.
No, that's the point, a woman doing such great work that she won the Nobel Prize had her profile deleted as "not notable".
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I think I just did last week. The interviewer asked me to explain SOLID. I could only remember the O and the L. All of these practices are deeply internalized but without having interviewed in a while, or even used English at work, the little speeches and buzzwords escaped me. Then he brought up REST. “What are important principles of REST?” Ummm, nounifaction? Uff.
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Why does this article about notability deletions not link the notability criteria of wikipedia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#...
They showed that they are willing to do it in one case. Why not in other cases?
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> Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing plans to build new factories in the US and Japan

I can't help but think that this massive shortage is setting up and equal an opposite reaction 2-3 years down the road: a glut as all this new capacity comes online. Especially given that because companies are now scrambling for chips, they're likely to over-order to ensure future supply.
> Targeting and cutting 25% of a single race is a purge.

Targeting?

The change proposed by activists (and opposed by the author of this piece) was to introduce a lottery admissions process that involved all students who met a certain minimum threshold of GPA and accelerated math enrollment. That is the polar opposite of "targeting". I am curious what a policy change you wouldn't consider to be "targeting" looks like.

> More will get cut next year and the years to come.

How? The policy is the same for next year.
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That's more common than you think. A respectable company Thoughtworks hired this way and boot camped and mentored people well the first couple years of their careers. I always like looking at the code and working with projects from their teams. Communication, working nicely with others, humility and the soft skills help you build a network so that when you need help you don't spin your wheels.

The bigO crowd will disagree but even the hard core comp sci types will go much further with real soft skills.
First two books of 3PB series were good imo, but the third one was a bit of a drag and I couldn't get through it.
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Some numbers and some history to explain why the union is stuffed
Population figures show why people sometimes wrongly describe the UK as "England" - and why Scotland wants independence
General rule of thumb is that if there's high cash then there will be fraud.
I've used all kinds of legal and illegal "speed" for studying and for work and yes, it is usually extremely effective. The biggest benefit is improved focus and concentration, and it can also help you stay up late (or all night).
Typical

Wrote up a long description about how the equipment I used for my master's worked (fleshing out a stub article). Only to have some moderator (being extremely polite here) revert the whole thing because it was "uncited".
When challenged I ended up getting temp banned for telling them "I know how it works I just built one". Haven't trusted or contributed since it's moving closer to a collective "what we want to know" information service which makes me want to invest more in an actual encyclopedia.
Just subsidize it. I'm not asking for the Fab Czar, I'm asking for the NSF, DARPA, and national subsidies for it. Accelerated permitting, tax breaks, tarif support, state vs national investments, accelerated green cards for key personnel, and price breaks for a "buy US Chips" initiative for the first 5 years until things get serious and exports ramp up. I'm spitballing over morning coffee, but come on, this seems obvious.

Exports won't offset operating costs here in the USA, but perhaps we could apply some ingenuity to that through national research investments and the ensuing startup ecology. The ancillary benefits of funding research and small business infrastructure around the big fabs would be huge.

Sandia national labs has a ~3.5 annual Giga$ budget! That's _entirely_ publicly funded and represents about half of TSMC's operating budget (https://investor.tsmc.com/english/encrypt/files/encrypt_file... , looking at 50% profit yielding ~12 G$)
Before rise to prominence? Presumably she did not publish the work that won her the Nobel and win it on the same day.

Surely publishing Nobel-level work in your field means you have already "risen to prominence."
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The temperature T associated with a black hole's Hawking radiation goes as 1/M, where M is the black hole's mass, i.e. it decreases with M. Meanwhile, its surface area A goes as M². Plugging this into the Stefan-Boltzmann law yields a total power output P of

P ~ A · T⁴ ~ 1/M²

So while a larger total amount of energy can be extracted from a supermassive black hole (because it's more massive – duh), it also takes much (much!) longer to extract a given amount of energy: A supermassive black hole's mass is in the order of 10⁶ to 10⁹ solar masses, i.e. 10⁶ to 10⁹ times the mass of a stellar-mass black hole, meaning that its power is just 10^-12 to 10^-18 × the power of a stellar mass black hole.
There's not a single work by Sanderson on this list? Really surprising
Amazing, a standard to define the characters we couldn't standardize on.

If you can decide this file format, couldn't you just normalize the CSV file instead?
I'd say it's a wiki go edit it but I refuse to given my contributions have been kicked in the past.
I think the first one, whilst not super special, was pretty good. Definitely a promising debut.

The whole gender neutral thing felt pretty awkward and like a gimmick though.

The second book felt rather pointless, however, and that incessant obsession with tea sets was baffling (and with risk of sounding sexist, not particularly gender neutral?).

So I haven't bothered with the third book yet.
For cutting copper, maybe for THT, but it's not rigid enough for SMT traces.

For additive (inks and resists), probably.
What, no concern for those who are exactly 18? :P
I'll be honest. I really like projects like these (Spacemacs is another one that comes to mind), I've been a Vim user for a decade or so. Now I use IntelliJ since I primarily work with Spring, but for other side projects or one-off tasks these setups are really cool.

That being said, if this is intended to be widely adopted/viewed like Spacemacs, the marketing and presentation need a bit of work. Between the 'Chad' signifier and the screenshots sharing a color scheme with a tricked-out desktop and other terminal tabs, it's hard to tell if this is a serious standalone project or, to be frank, someone just showing off.
Why limit it only to under-18s?
probably this one: https://www.meta-nomad.net/avoiding-the-global-lobotomy/

It's an incredibly concise "survival guide" for the modern "normal" way of life. It also raises way more questions than it answers so it's a great conversation starter.
Honest question: do you have any credentials/qualifications in the ADHD-neuroscience arena?

I ask because your sources don’t really serve your point, and are part of a broader body of literature that you’re not contextualizing: there’s a robust body of evidence, primarily based around MRI studies in real humans, showing that stimulant-based treatment of ADHD in childhood and adolescence does cause significant changes in brain structure. In a good way. Normalizing deficits in areas of the prefrontal cortex associated with executive function relative to controls.

I realize your comment itself is focused around abuse of these drugs rather than genuine treatment, but your citations don’t make much sense in that context, and there’s an *immense* body of research studying the long-term effects of amphetamine and MPH (especially amphetamine abuse). The assertion that we’re “just beginning” to understand this stuff is quite an overstatement.
> Intel’s ATX 12VO standard ... allows for a much smaller power cable — 10 pins only, as opposed to the current 24.

What I don't understand is that they didn't take this opportunity to combine the main power cable with the 4 or 4+4 pin CPU power connector, making a single 14 or 18 pin connector instead of keeping the existing (and confusing) separate power connectors.
Used cars have surpassed new car prices in the past. Generally because new cars can't actually be bought at any price. A car today is sometimes worth more than a better car that doesn't exit.
It's an appealing narrative but Kessler Syndrome is something that would stand in the way of Musk's primary mission of getting us set up on Mars. So even if one holds the belief that he is highly profit motivated beyond the scope of funding his main project, it should be evident that this would divert much needed resources and time that put a hamper on the Mars timeline.

I highly recommend the Starbase tour with Everyday Astronaut, especially Part 3 [0], for perhaps the best existing look into his thought process and development philosophy. Throughout the tour he comes across as humble, ready to incorporate ideas and truly entertain questions from a studied layman. What also really speaks for him is how he is treated by his employees, how he treats them, and how involved he is with the ground level of the operation. It is evident to what deep level of urgency and importance he approaches the undertaking that SpaceX is and so I do not believe they would seek to profit from controlling Kessler Syndrome.

[0] https://youtu.be/9Zlnbs-NBUI
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I know it's cynical, but what will come out of this? Another $10m fine for a company that makes $3.5b a month (1)?

(1) https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
Conversely, engineers can be "registered" and relegated to other adjacent roles because their credentials have been eclipsed by their lack of meaningful experience, and their ideas are no better than the smart programmers in the room. So I do understand the haphazardness to a degree, anyone can engineer, but not everyone can be an engineer.
I think I might be missing something. I don't see any mention in the post regarding a tool being "introduced."
Follow up meeting discussion:

https://www.otsukare.info/2021/03/02/capping-user-agent-stri...
I was hoping this would pop up. An example of why:

> Two members of the right-wing "Order of the Rising Sun" are arrested in Chicago with 30-40 kg of typhoid cultures with which they allegedly planned to poison the water supply in Chicago, St. Louis, and other cities. Experts say the plan is unlikely to cause health problems due to water chlorination.

Imagine planning a terrorist act, and never bothering to check whether it could work even in theory. I wonder how that conversation went.

“Been hearing a lot about this typhoid stuff.”

“I know a guy that can get some.”

“Sweet, I just so happen to know how to get into the local water plant. Let’s drop it in and see what happens.”

jail happens

“What’re you in for?”

“A plan that couldn’t cause harm even in theory, to further my political agenda.”
No it isn't. Survivorship bias would have been me claiming that because my cars lasted more than 50 k miles that therefore all cars did.

I merely added a small counter argument to the idea that cars of the period were necessarily short lived.
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It's a terrible list, but what do you expect from a survey of NPR listeners?

I read an enormous amount of science fiction and fantasy and didn't even recognize more than 10% of the authors on their list.
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Yea, I'd probably of ended up using cmark too.

It is nice though to learn about NIFs and rustler, there are a lot of high quality crates out there that you can wrap and take advantage of from elixir code once you get comfortable with doing it.

So possibly a sub-optimal approach, but the author indicates in another comment they had customized the rust version and wanted to be able to share code, which seems legit. Always good to stock up that toolbox though with more neat stuff, and rustler NIFs are seriously neat.