skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dishwashers tend to destroy the handles and edges of knives. If your knives survive... what kind are they, so I can buy some?
The goal of terrorism is to scare people into restricting their own freedoms. It has worked amazingly well so far.

To any motivated anti-society organization or person, this is huge leverage. A few deaths leading to a noticeably more authoritarian state? What's not to love?

It doesn't even matter if the authorities do their job and punish those responsible, the people will still choose to restrict their own freedoms and makes their lives worse for more "security".
now is the time to begin the segregation of society between those who only trust the government ordained science and those who don’t trust their new overlords, we will slowly expand the places that require vaccine passports until over a long enough timeline all these pesky doubters and individualists are finally excluded from our systems, only those who faithfully trust our politically chosen experts and submit to human bio-engineering will be allowed to participate in the future of mankind

Pretty sure I read about this in Brave New World, the naturalist free humans were known as feral savages…
This is an uninformed comment.

If you want “better industrial policy” it would help to have some idea of which policies are better than others - that will get you very quickly into cost-benefit analysis which is very much the wheelhouse of economists.

If you want “[better? any? new?] investment in proven technology,” you are going to need to make decisions about where scarce dollars should be allocated among different options to achieve your goals at the lowest possible cost. Again: cost-benefit analysis and very much in the domain of economics and economists.

If all you care about is achieving a less than 2C increase in average temperature, you have an “easy” solution - shut everything down now.

Once you accept that you aren’t ever going to do that, you need to make hard decisions about how to allocate resources among competing options to achieve your aim. You would like to achieve your goal at a minimum cost while taking into account uncertainty over the range of possible outcomes and the different effectiveness of different choices. That’s literally economics 101.

You don’t have to like what we say but you should definitely listen before deciding to ignore it.
> those other manufactured gasses trap heat thousands or tens of thousands of times better than CO2 does, and are already a big part of the Problem.

If by big you mean 1/5 of the problem, ok. But that is really not big enough to remove the focus from the other 4/5 And the way those gases work on the long term, in that the amount of them on the atmosphere is proportional to the speed of emission, instead of total emissions makes any change of focus from CO2 actually harmful to solving the problem.

And by the way, half of the non-CO2 emissions are methane, that comes mostly from fossil fuels mining and handling, and 2/3 of the rest are nitrous oxides, that comes almost entirely from fossil fuel burning. So "big" is really, really pushing it.

A source:

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases
I bought a bunch of these and slide them out whenever I find that someone is playing D&D. Always a hoot.
Al Qaeda was in the middle of losing Afghanistan when the shoe thing happened, it’s not entirely implausible they’d tell some random person to try something dumb.
Or maybe it's just a lot easier to tell what "the next transistor" is with half a century of hindsight.

You're basically saying "kids these days" except about billionaires.
In fact, the POWER10 launch is live as we speak.
Spread of Delta variant driven by both immune escape and increased infectivity
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> How did you first get into programming?

Asked my informatics teacher in middle school on how to get started and he was happy to teach me the basics of C :)

> What is your experience with university?

Got my Bachelor's after a long break. Didn't have to pay for it as in a lot of EU, but honestly don't feel like I learned much and most employers don't seem to care if I have it or not as long as the job gets done.

> How did you get your first paid work?

Got my first projects and employment trough family friends.

> What do you do now and what do you love/hate about your job?

Programmer. I got into computers because I didn't like dealing with people. But having a job means _a lot_ of dealing with people. Keep burning out every now and then :/
I had a friend fly to a his grandfather's funeral a few years ago, threw all of his kit into a travel bag and ran to the airport. The kit his grandfather passed down to him: kilt, jacket, belt and spooran ...

A 18" dirk from the 1800s ...

Made it through security without anyone saying anything and only remembered when it clanked as he put it into the overhead luggage compartment.
I'll present an argument against quarantine being warranted: Covid-19 is an endemic virus for which there are no sterilizing vaccines and hence "zero Covid" policy frameworks are an insane and hopeless attempt to turn back the tides. You will either live under these restrictions for the rest of your lives, or give them up and eventually be exposed to the virus.
Isn't the same true of 9/11? The FAA oversees 45,000 flights per year and very rarely does anyone die.
For anyone who still believes the non-pharmaceutical interventions are effective, trying taking this quiz:

https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/
Comparing hardware costs (whatever you might think of how they've done it) doesn't really hit at the problems of running a mainframe and the TCO involved.

1) Single supplier. Have a falling out with IBM.... you're stuffed. that's a major business risk. With x86, don't like HP go to Dell etc.

2) Staffing! What's the relative availability of good S/390 admins and devs, compared to x86? IMHO one of the reasons first mainframes, then AS/400, then proprietary Unix lost out to Linux on x86 was ease of getting staff, which is fuelled by the fact you can start out with a home PC and learn the kind of skills you need.
PayPal acquires Japan’s Paidy for $2.7B to crack the buy-now, pay-later market
Pretty much everything is easier said than done, especially in the sphere that the ACLU operates in. Should we expect them to waffle every time the real-world proves more complicated than their stated principles?
> That anyone, given enough determination, can become good at any skill.

That "given enough determination" part is glossed over a bit too easily. Plus, even if it's just an approximation, people radically underestimate how much 10k hours of practice is.

I've learned a wide range of skills throughout my life so far, to various levels of proficiency. One or two things I've been able to achieve what I feel most others would considers an expert level, and have learned a very large number of things ranging from beginner to intermediate.

Anecdotally the confirmation I've found about 10,000 hours is that my area of expertise is something that for years I thought I was naturally bad at. But I got tremendously interested in it, and began studying and practice literally every day for years, and to this day continue to practice and study this area.

As far as beginner/intermediate skills, two typically talent based things I've been able to teach myself are life drawing and juggling. I have awful hand eye coordination, and still learned enough juggling to impress people at parties when the occasion comes up. My hand writing is illegible, I also have awful fine motor skills and I've still been able to create surprisingly realistic sketches.

Of course I'll never be an expert at these things because I'm just not interested enough in them to get anywhere near the 10,000 hour mark. Four ball juggling will likely remain my threshold indefinitely.

The number of things I've gained proficiency in that I had a prior belief and initial experience that they were impossible for me to do is just to high for me to throw out the wisdom of deliberate practice.

Deliberate practice might be hard to define, but at the very least it means "practice that is not easy". In order to do something every day with a reasonably high frustration/failure rate means that you have to have an incredible drive to continue. Most people I've known simply can't endure finishing a day of work to go sit down and struggle with something for 1/2 hour a day. If you want 10k hours you have to do this without cessation, and no end in sight. In my experience no amount of will power can force this to happen either. You can force yourself past the beginner and into the intermediate stage, but expertise can only come from an insatiable drive.

It's also important to realize that expert and world famous are not the same thing. There are many true experts in guitar who are unknown, 10k hours doesn't get you to being John Frusciante.
3 different segments per key/argument, 4 keys/arguments, 2 colors = only 24 random segments inserted
Bad thing that there's almost nowhere to move. Almost everybody has their intrusive model to cope with Covid.
Although it's becoming tiresome I find myself more bothered by software that feels the need to incorporate the programming language into the app name.

I think Go best lent itself to this and for a while it was starting to grate on me that "Go" had to be jammed into every app's name.

Seems like the app and its purpose should be able to stand on merit alone.
What like his underwear? And now we get to go through full body scanners without our shoes. You're much more likely to be able sneak a firearm through than an explosive device now.
Theoretically, you could run a web server and database both written in rust and have your entire dependency stack contained within cargo. Literally deployment with a single `cargo build` and just a couple weeks of build time
Most airline passengers would trade dry flights for pre-9/11 security screenings.
Well, yes, inertia and symbolic action.

But why don't you have to take them off before entering a high speed train?

https://transweb.sjsu.edu/research/SP0520-Terrorist-Attacks-...
It is only your perception that coops are somehow being held back. Cooperatives have succeeded in every industry. The vast majority of industry requires Free Software, a cooperative system. I went to the store yesterday and bought milk, eggs, and flour from worker-owned dairies and mills, to say nothing of the weekly farmers' market.

I grew up shopping at a Bi-Mart. Some folks have entire careers at Mondragon. Worker cooperatives are incredibly successful; we should really be asking why traditional corporations get so many subsidies and tax benefits.
Can we kindly stop using hyperbole like “using the force of the state, in other words violence” as an argument against literally any governmental policy ever?

In this same fantasy universe jack-booted government thugs are beating up people who don’t wear seat belts or who mislabel the nutritional contents on a package of cheese, except that’s just not what ever actually happens in the real world. These kinds of laws can be appropriate when they make society better for us all.

To that point, anti-maskers have almost certainly killed more Americans at this point than terrorists could ever have hoped to. You might consider that when attempting to understand why people are seemingly so hard-pressed to get laws requiring their countrymen (and women) to do the literal bare minimum to protect the lives of their neighbors.
“only works for spherical cows in a vacuum”
Well yeah of course, the issue I'd take is it's on the "cock rocket" table rather than the "fix climate change" table.
I really can't understand where Notion is going. They come from b2c, made b2c free pivoted to b2b smb and started saying more and more that they are a b2b enterprise company (even though their vision is not really compatible with that). And now they buy a company which is clearly in the b2b smb/b2c space. Confused
Also some interesting numbers in this post:

>How much does hosting cost you per month at the moment?

>about ~$2600/mo of pure expenses on servers/domains, not counting “work time”, “buying laptop/furniture”, etc. ($100…300/mo covered by donations + $300…500 by ads)

https://blog.archive.today/post/659383959382294528/you-said-...
Then there’s remembering airports (and flight patterns) that do “one-stop-security” and which don’t.

London Heathrow doesn’t. They re-screen all incoming international passengers, so that 500mL bottle of contact lens solution that the ultra-paranoid Americans allow me to carry-on gets seized by Heathrow when transiting there.

I’d think if the UK disagrees with another country’s rules, they should just ban flights from there.

If it’s safe enough for me to fly in with, it should be safe enough for me to fly out with.
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Ummm yeah, so guys like these can get into the airport?
https://youtu.be/NWNyxDUSriA?t=40
This just happened last week. It probably happens every week. Since the attacker is white, we dont classify it as terror. If the person were Muslim, he'd be in prison already.

Firstly, we already profile Muslims extensively. Secondly, a non Muslim person with guns, usually motivated by GOP/church/nation regularly commits atrocities, there is a news article like every other week.

Apologists like you like to look the other way.
Lots to unpack here. First, consider the delta in PPM between present day and pre-industrialization [1]. Next, consider that the ocean has acted as a carbon sink [2] (you mention this), but to great detriment to its chemical composition (more CO2 = increased acidity). We should absolutely not rely on it further as a carbon sink if we expect to use the ocean for aquaculture and to sustain life. Finally, soil, plants, and trees are in no way able to absorb CO2 at the rate necessary to mitigate climate change. This leaves air source extraction as a critical need. I'm partial to Climeworks [3], but any technology that can sequester CO2 underground in a stable form will do.

[1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

[2] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/srccs_chapte...

[3] https://climeworks.com/
Thanks - the only thing I'd say is that as I'm currently living in the 'burbs (close to my spouse's work so she didn't have a commute when we were in-office) I don't feel like I'm more on top of people than I did living in a mixed-use neighborhood that I could bike over to the coffee shop, wine store, or grocery store.

In Columbus we have this place called German Village [1]. I'd like to see all of America built more like this (not exactly necessarily, but more like it).

[1]https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g50226-d110220...
I once worked for $CORP that did a cost/benefit analysis of their mainframe, and it came out way cheaper in terms of TCO than the alternatives. The biggest challenge was getting staff, so there was a big line item for costing out 'training and nurturing whole-career staff'.
It is also possible to link to a specific version: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bojinka_plot&oldi...
> Considering how many crazy, extremely radicalized people are out there, I'm surprised attacks like this aren't much more common.

The media overreports on how radical these people are. There's very few. However if COVID restrictions keep pushing forward I think that may change. Many people are at their breaking point right now.

I'm fully vaccinated and I've already decided I'm never going to wear a mask again and avoid stores that actually enforce mask rules (most don't, even if they put labels on doors mandated by the state).
Bronze: yeah I should have clarified that for bronze i mean the whole bronze business, including making moulds and such. Iron and steel is like photography compared to painting you need less raw skill to be commercially viable once you can get past acquiring the stuff to get started

Mass technology: I was thinking of programming. You have a class of people distinguished by their skill. Sometimes you even have a representative in the pantheon (Wayland)

Pottery and agriculture is “too easy”
In your opinion, how important are the lives of people aged 65 and older?

Also, for death rates being higher in the elderly... isn't that going to be true for most diseases? Pointing this out seems tautological to me.

And what does "very few" actually mean here?

Is death the only negative outcome of COVID-19?
Putting on cloth masks doesn't produce a statistically significant decrease in symptomatic infection rates.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-mask...
> what if we just built medium density mixed-use neighborhoods, and I could ride my bike (or walk) down the road to a farmer's market style store?

I think you might like Europe
Pre-check screening is the EZPass of the security state. Exchange your privacy for convenience. Submit to a background probe and permanent residence in a government database (and god knows what other consents are required) and you, too, can join the upper tier of society. Leave the filthy plebes and their shoeless drudgery and pat-downs behind you as you ascend into the clear air of the Verified(TM) elite. You pose no threat, quite the opposite! You support and serve the power structure. Welcome aboard!
I noticed this as well. The claim is an order of magnitude off the mark IMO
Maybe the point of the simulation was the leaves and you're the unintentional by-product...
Oh, somehow I've missed that one. Thanks. Agreed about numerous scenarios. Personally I think there is value in managing the models since getting the multiple T/GPUs and setting up REST apis is not trivial. Serverless style GPU rental is a little tricky right now in my experience. But, HuggingFace is doing something similar and the moat isn't too wide.
>>distributed security works better than slow centralized security and a vulnerable public

Except that it literally doesn't. We know from public verifiable stats that people who own a gun end up hurting themselves or their family several orders of magnitutde more often than defending against an attacker or actually using it for self defense. It happens, but the numbers clearly point that it's massively ineffective for that purpose.

>>Fully expect to get downvoted for this on HN...because its HN.

You mean because people on HN frequently believe in the power of statistical analysis and logical thinking when it comes to deciding when something is worth doing or not?
I think you are both saying the same thing, which is the WHO bares large portion of blame for letting the virus develop into perpetual pandemic, and so do most of the our governments
I think the particular word choice is causing some people to mentally think "you're not part of my tribe, that sounds ridiculous," but that's not a fair assessment of what was said.

How many people on HN have been deeply inspired to build a better future because of SF? I certainly have. And that's exactly what that phrase is talking about.

Literature is a very powerful tool for orienting human goals and finding inspiration to perform feats and labor that we might not otherwise do.

One such work that does exactly this (for me) is Kim Stanley Robinson's recent book Ministry For The Future. A lot of people found it kind of dry, but I appreciated the thoughts about tech and science. It's a fantastic encapsulation if all sorts of the best knowledge on the subject in 2020.
People freaking out and being aggressive on planes about much less these days...
Mazes and Monsters, starring a young Tom Hanks, was sponsored by Procter & Gamble Productions. Now decades later, it appears that they keep trying to pander to people's baseless fears.
Not to mention geographic resilience.

You can’t just own one of something.

Plus, when you are at 95% capacity, your only option is to buy 100% more headroom.
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Statistical atlas of the USA, based upon the results of the 11th census
If you're not willing to spend ~20-40 hours getting an Arduino-class object to, say, talk to a MMC/SD/SDHC card using only your own code, no libraries (this is something I can do easily as a rusty hybrid EE-FW guy who is now mostly EE), then I don't know what to suggest.
> What are we doing this for?

At college football games this is all done to drive up the price of concessions.
It is. There are some people who believe that lightning causes a "worst of both worlds" situation where you are reliant on intermediate processors for everything and the network still emits gobs of CO2.
M 33. Sr Software Engineer.
It all started with online gaming. Was playing Tribes PB Mod from 2000-2004. In 2004 my clan leader quit and left me the clans website (on a .tk domain back then).
The website was in PhP and there was also a PhPBB Forum attached. In editing roster changes it was my first experience into code, or code editing.

Due to the popularity of forums, I also got into creating Forum Signatures, which were little images that you could create and add to the end of your posts. Some forums
also supported little code snippets. I started designing these signatures for clan members and friends and tried to get a design position on clangraphics.com. I failed a few times but the pursuit ultimately got me into design and abstract art. Paint Shop Pro 8, PS 7, Bryce 5.5, Apophysis, Terragen, etc.

In my senior year of HS, I had a Sr Art Show and displayed all my computer graphic work, got great feedback and decided I wanted to get into design. After applying to a for-profit design school, I started following more interesting artists doing web designs, etc (DepthCORE, DeviantArt) and started to do some Web Design stuff.

At my day job, I listened to the Boag World Podcast, which taught me about Zen of CSS Design, Don't Make me Think, Sitepoint, nettuts, etc. Started playing around and coding some rudimentry designs I made.

College made me bitter after transferring to Chicago (whole other story), and realized it was my portfolio, not my degree that mattered to my potential employers. After 8 months of hardship, and some very small freelancing, scored a contract position at a design agency who eventually hired me full time (2010).

Was a long journey, but definitely worth it. I still joke with my mom that online gaming got me where I am today.
I am curious to understand - why was it flagged?
The target is to save lives. If the threat is still there, we need to keep the safety measures. And covid measures have always been dynamic. Safety measures have been removed or reintroduced based up on very hard statistics man. I don't know how you don't see that.

edit: My first sentence was a bit garbage. The target is to save lives from covid and avoid its spread. Hospital utilization and mortality rate from the disease are good KPIs for that. Almost all responsible countries are at least trying to follow those KPIs.
I'd agree, it's always been a "collective action" problem, we could all have adopted a carbon tax years ago and the problem would have solved itself. But, if one country or one political party defects, then they can profit themselves at the expense of everyone.

I'm also a big fan of the effective "regulatory funny business" that have been regularly maligned, like seperating the carbon and electricity components of electricity production, and offsetting carbon for flights with easy wins of replacing kerosene with solar in developing countries.

It's the simplest and easiest solution, and it's not primarily technical, just about creating a market. But it's been viciously attacked for so long it's all gets done quietly when reactionary voters aren't paying attention, even though it's worked really well wherever it's been used.
Why is "glob" called "glob" ("global")?
I suspect it's not about protecting the people (your college stadium example), and that it is about protecting the expensive airplanes.

If I'm being charitable, it might also be about protecting the buildings that planes can crash into.