skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost of Hill Country quarries: Dirt, dust, muddy creeks, altered rivers
Wasting somebody else’s space is cheap, especially if you’re the one selling them extra space.
Some readers consider the human interest part "information" too.
The country that has the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world, as well as the highest number of prisoners in total. You know, the land of the free.
In my experience: one of Lean's main advantages is developer experience. It's convenient by design, with lots of automation to make easy proofs trivial. You do your work in VSCode or Emacs rather than some outdated IDE, and the server mode makes it easy(ish) to integrate with other software.
> its certainly lacking.

I'm so old I remember Microsoft's white papers on how shitty Linux was, how it couldn't do this and that, etc.

But the cool thing was, like this tractor, you could fix it yourself.
Counter-point: yes it is.

https://www.thelocal.se/20211011/trio-share-nobel-prize-for-...
The spread of Covid-19 in the USA visualized
And it has ad blocking and disables tracking by default.

Regarding the slowness, I don't experience it. I just checked, and I have 506 tabs opened.
Eugene could really use an editor for his top-notch insights.
20 - 30 years off.

As it has been for 60 - 80 years.
I don't know; my neighbors are farmers and their tractors don't have cabins. I'm not saying it's healthy, just that different people place different emphasis on different features.

Having occasionally used a (cabin-less) tractor without power steering for years, I'd pick that over a cabin for instance.

Dust and pesticides can be worked around with masks, goggles or scarves when occasionally found around. A straw hat for sunlight. In any case, this is a base building block, people are free to design add-ons for it depending on their needs :)
> an environment that's on the brink of collapse

This is such a skewed PoV of the world today. In so many ways the world is the best it's ever been: Poverty, violent crime, etc. (the list really does go on and on). This is especially true if you live in a developed nation. So I'm not really sure what you think a child will have to "endure" aside from all of the great joys life can bring!

We can even just focus on climate change. The "worst case scenario" most scientist project isn't really even that bad. Sure there will be worst weather events etc., but society isn't going to "collapse". And what about you? If society "collapsed' in your lifetime, would you really rather have not lived at all?

I'm not suggesting your anxiety about the current state affairs isn't the motivation for your decision (although it is a convenient scapegoat), rather, that your anxiety may not be all that rational and you may want to revisit your decision from time to time!
In China, they're commonly referred to as '阿姨' (aunties).
I was following this project for a few years after 2011 and it seemed to pivot to like a weird homesteading thing.
I'm glad it's doing the tractor again.
PlayDough Play to Earn Games Receives Funding
I take home leftovers and generally eat them the next day.
I feel like the 2000s internet would've just split off and made their own thing(e.g. new protocol) in this situation.
But it seems we've passed the inertia barrier for things like that.
Sure, but even if these planes managed to somehow cost as much as a starlink satellite, it'd still be cheaper to do it this way because having some dude toss it up into the air for takeoff is basically free compared to even a fully reusable Starship flight.
I think the "calories in, calories out" argument isn't so much wrong as it is tautological. It's the equivalent of saying the key to winning in sports is scoring more points than your opponent. It not only answers none of the interesting questions about weight and diet, it implies those questions don't exist.
> So despite large increases in places like Nigeria, we're still reaching an equilibrium soon without encouraging even lower birth rates in struggling western countries.

What are you basing these claims on? Projections that I saw predict further population increase for at least next 50 years. And even though sources disagree when the population will peak, none of them forecast _rapid_ population shrink after the peak.
Do a backup, quick!
If you want to use your device for about 6 years, you have to consider how big these apps are going to be in 6 years. Google Chrome is not going to be 50mb in 6 years.
Also look at leap motion.
https://www.ultraleap.com/product/leap-motion-controller/ (tip: mouser has them in stock and usually the best price) with midipaw http://www.midipaw.com/ (free)

Latency is very low which is very important for this use case. Look on YouTube for demos.
>but this is a serious allegation

Haha, no. Even if entirely true, it's really not a serious allegation.
Solar flare expected to directly hit Earth today
The Jugaad
So we now have models with 0.5 trillion parameters, each the weight of a connection in a neural network.

Trillion-parameter models are surely within reach in the near term -- and that's only within two orders of magnitude of the number of synapses in the human brain, which is in the hundreds of trillions, give or take. To paraphrase the popular saying, a trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking really big numbers.

I know the figures are not comparable apples-to-apples, but still, I find myself in awe looking at how far we've come in just the last few years, to the point that we're realistically contemplating the possibility of seeing dense neural networks with hundreds of trillions of parameters used for real-world applications in our lifetime.

We sure live in interesting times.
Post social-democracy west had decreasing social mobility and minimal wage growth for 40 years, and OECD and every serious economist has written about this extensively:

https://www.oecd.org/economy/outlook/Decoupling-of-wages-fro...

"Liberalisation of entrepreneurship"

Are we conflating cutting red tape and enabling tax evasion?
You can see the aircraft used at the Las Vegas airport. It says "Hacienda Hotel" on the side and I think it's hanging over baggage claim.
In quality metrics Econ Nobel is way ahead of literature and peace Nobel's.

> Much of the research done by econ memorial prize winners is walked back or proven false later. It isn't hard science.

This is not just true. Econ price almost always well earned, like now. Maybe there is some, but I can't think anyone who don't deserve it.
>1. We have all kinds of things we apply to children we do not to adults. They are children after all. For example kids are banned from smoking, but adults can.

So the government is allowed to be "your master, your parent, or king" of children but not for adults? Be consistent.

>2. It only applies if attend a public school, parents can opt out by sending their child to a religious school, private school, or home school.

What's the argument here? If you don't want to get vaxxed, then don't use public resources. Not sure how this is a flawed argument.

>3. You assume people that oppose government mandates for COVID support government mandates for children.

Anyone who is 100% ok with mandating vaccines for children but not for adults is simply not being logically consistent. This is the same "point" as (1).

>do you believe the government is your master, your parent, or king. Or do you believe in personal freedom and autonomy

I'm sorry, you are right. I forgot that America was anarchist state. I hope you will join me in fighting for me rights to operate my vehicle whenever I want. Why should the government tell me I'm not allowed to drive when I've had a couple beers? Is the government my parent? I know I can drive well when drunk and the other guys who have killed others were just idiots. Why does the government infringe on my autonomy to drive by forcing me to get a license? Why do I have to be put into a government database? I paid for my car after all. What's next? Will Biden require me to get a license to operate my toaster?
Wallflower at the Web Party (2006)
It's probably a lot easier to make a useful product when you work with what's already out there rather than asking thousands of other developers to make new packages, or doing all the work yourself and only having open source software.

Anyway, Microsoft already has their own package format with MSI, which is not particularly elegant, but it's a reason to avoid reinventing the wheel.
Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan
Complete outsider doubt: Does this has the potential to replace satellites? Or, why did google project loon failed?
Yep, bad faith actors and useful idiots are 80% of the commenters.
OK so back in 2012, I donated to a site that was on everyone's bad list at the time. I had my bank flag my account after that. Not only that, but they texted my mother to inform her of the fraud alert/flag.
Eventually, I called them and told them to quit it. It took a weekend to clear it all up. this has been going on since November/December 2010, actually.
Yeah it makes sense there are no fees for cash back. Walmart doesn't want cash, they want to get rid of it as soon as possible.

The ATM has to be actually refilled with cash, so they charge you for it.
This seems very useful. Any plans to support other hosted git providers, like gitlab? I've been needing something like this for a while but we're not using GitHub. I could hack and slash my way to a bad looking version of something lol me this but your dashboards look good and I cannot be trusted with UI/UX.
Is there a reason you optimized the amount of starting energy in the battery? I know basically nothing about how solar power works, but surely you'd just fill the battery up to 100% with an extension cord on the ground before launching it?
I'm the author of this piece - I've had multiple jobs since then (obviously), and I've always been given pretty substantial raises and bonuses throughout my career enough to nearly 10x my first jobs salary in only 15 years. Now all that isn't from one job, but because I'm a contractor and basically set my rate with each new company, I invest as much as I can either in the stock market, or more recently into side projects and my family run businesses, etc.
No, calorie restriction by itself will not work.

If you lost weight you have burned more calories than you consumed. The other way unfortunately does not work.

Sometimes you restrict calorie intake, you feel ill, your body adapts and starts burning less with other repercussions.

If you want to lose fat you must restrict calories but also provide enough time for your body to use the stored fat, and it can not be used while the insulin levels are high. This is the reason that both IF and keto “work” (if calories are also somewhat restricted).

Ofcourse if you eat 1 meal a day it is more likely that you will consume less calories tahn eating 5 times a day (IF), also if you do keto you will not eat sugars (or other carbs) and again it is very likely this will lead to consuming less calories than otherwise.
- How the Code Probably Got There

The login names are very specific, despite the use of 'like' and wildcards. It looks like an exception list that is added to as login names are chosen, spotted, and banned. Which means someone just pops into the code and adds a new entry as a 'bad' login comes to light. It isn't expected that it will proactively block bad ones but that it will stop already-used bad ones from recurring. Which explains why it looks as it does; it has just grown from a quick hack way back when.

- About the Code Quality

I'd guess none of us would set out to write it like this if we knew how it would grow, but for those original handful of exclusions a database would have been overkill.

There comes a point where you start considering refactoring, but in a business with priorities it isn't unusual to look at code like this and say it's encapsulated, efficient, version-controlled, and in just one place, so other things are more important than changing what isn't actually broken (meaning the location of the code/data; I'd probably have issues with the actual logic but that's a different thing).

- And the Straw Men

As for the article this thread is discussing I'm not a big fan. The second half says "This whole validation should not even be in SQL". Yet the only reason that's even up for discussion is because the first half suggests it. The code certainly didn't. Which makes most of the article pointless.

And the reasons to complain include "how can you manage that txt file of or statements?", "What do you do if you want to change it to something else?", and "copy paste each phrase in a 1000 lines?".

It's simple - you manage the txt file (actually a file of source code, but whatever) by editing it and versioning it. Want to change it? Then change it. There is no reason whatsoever that it would result in copy/pasting 1,000s of lines when only the ones changing need changing.

- And the Overhead of the Proposed Change

A tool? To maintain a database list? Why waste sprint time creating a tool to replicate basic textual operations in code that is simple, isolated, and fast.

- Summary

Sorry for the rant. There's good code and bad code, but there's also good enough code and whilst as I said I'd never set out to write this there's no real reason to change it.

YMMV. Five developers have five opinions plus a sixth for the consensus. We won't all agree. I can live with that.
Wow!... if this is true (little reason to think otherwise), then it's completely disheartening.
The effort to be honest and upfront with this person would be minimal, and realistically would not even have to change anything from Microsoft's side; after all they are free to develop whatever tools they want.
Playwright is similar to Puppeteer, but can use different browsers not only Chrome.
Gotta love it when the prize document itself highlights the pitfalls of the methodology used by the winners...

> Despite the enormous increase in labour supply, Card found no negative effects for Miami residents with low levels of education. Wages did not fall and unemployment did not increase relative to the other cities.

> while people who immigrated at an earlier time are negatively affected. One explanation for this is that the natives switch to jobs that require good native language skills, and where they do not have to compete with immigrants for jobs.

If this isn't terrible methodology I don't know what is.

Literally using bad data to say immigration doesn't affect the labour market, then saying it does for same-language jobs. So it obviously does but language is a barrier to entry for some jobs. Literally invalidates the first point.
"the only diets that work, work because you take in fewer calories than you burn."

Yes, but how many calories do you burn?

It's determined by your metabolism, which is influenced by what you eat. It's not a simple equation.

And, how many calories do you "take in" when consuming a unit of food? As another poster pointed out it depends on the unique characteristics of your body. Also influenced by what you eat.
This model requires a much more rigorous definition around the words "should" and "needs".
I’m looking to roll my own Plaid-like service so I can download the CSVfiles from my bank account and credit card. Would selenium be the way to go?
I didn't want to accuse you of something like "not being an engineer" (which is perfectly fin as long as you're not working in digital marketing :) ), i'm sorry, it was poorly worded.

I've read the paper, it is very interesting, it does not talk about machine pumping carbon out of the atmosphere however (the figure appeared low, now i know why). But yeah, DAC might be a solution. I'll rather take the IEA rapport on this [0].

Removing CO2 from the atmosphere and removing carbon is not the same thing. You then need to either seal the CO2, or transform it ( in a power-to-gas station? ). Also their base case of 15% capex/year can go outside see if i'm there.

[0] https://www.iea.org/reports/direct-air-capture
> Any guess as to why the human species is predisposed to pressure each other into having kids?

Are they predisposed or is it learned behavior that more people in your tribe means more resources for your tribe?

I assume pretty much all animals have children because their instincts tell them to have sex. Children are a side effect. Although, humans have the capacity to evaluate the costs and benefits of having a child, so humans may choose to have sex in order to have a child.
I appreciate the link, his whole site seems to be a wealth of really great stuff - https://jan.newmarch.name/books.html
Funny, I have a similar tuner that is permanently attached to both poly and (significantly more fragile) nitro guitars, and never saw anything of the sort happen.

Also I thought poly was virtually indestructible, those guitars never age...

If you want something permanent, I can recommend a D'addario. They can attach to the tuner screw and won't be in conctact with the wood.
Thanks for mentioning this effect; I sadly seem to primarily have friends in the 'can't gain weight no matter what they eat'-group, and if I try to keep up with their eating-habits, I gain two pounds a week.

And yes, I do exercise a fair amount and all that, but I also seem to be quite efficient at extracting energy from food. I tend to joke that at least I'll survive longer after the apocalypse.
My first question is whether this has the capability of being adapted to interpret/translate American Sign Language (ASL)?
That seems like the kind of things we ought to know inside and out before starting.
Why are people downvoting this? Not only is it a funny comment. It's also true.
"Public sector workers also buy investment properties"

I am really confused by this obsesssion with public sector workers?

"We should do drugs"

"Public sector workers do drugs too!"
Ill give anyone 100-1 odds on a wager that these changes will not result in improved math proficiency of any identifiable groups of students, whatsoever.
You need more karma.
It also ignores the role of macronutrients and digestive absorption rates entirely.

For example, one could drink one cup of olive oil daily and get ~2000 calories into your body. You would probably start suffering immediately on that type of "diet" because 1. your body isn't going to run on pure fat forever, and 2. your digestive system isn't going to process that amount of olive oil effectively.

Therefore it's not helpful to just say "Calories in, calories out" without actually looking at what you're eating.
You can't boil what happened down into a black-or-white simplification. Because what happened is more complicated than that. Some people went over the line, absolutely, but that doesn't mean any criticism of the project was overblown or inappropriate. Lodging criticism against a project doesn't have to imply any sort of obligation on anyone.

There was some pretty bad misuse of unsafe in actix-web. And as I recall it, the author was resistant to fixing it, even when patches were provided. This is the author's right. It's their project. But it's anyone else's right to make this sort of thing visible, and to advocate against holding up actix-web (at the time) as a good example of what Rust programmers could deliver.

A lot of people can't or won't communicate effectively, and often blur these lines. Either assuming there is entitlement where there is none, or expressing entitlement when they didn't mean to. But there is a reasonable position underlying what happened, and unfortunately some took it too far.
I like to fast for other benefit in terms of time, money, cleanliness -- not just for fat loss. Seems odd to run a study on lean adults and compare fat loss numbers as a goal. If they're lean, why optimize for fat loss?
Seeing as $1.5mil investment from Nvidia is all it took for Mozilla to kill its DeepSpeech program

https://venturebeat.com/2021/04/12/mozilla-winds-down-deepsp...

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-partners-with-nv...

someone should really look into any grants/investments/deals Mozilla did with Oracle at the time of WebSQL decision.
That's great if we all live in control rooms. The part 'calories in calories out' misses is that what you eat, how you eat, where you eat, how your body reacts to what you eat, who you eat with, where you live, what food is available, the price of food....all impacts how much you eat.
In the immortal words of GEOTUS, "Everything woke turns to shit."
The cab frame it's self has me a little worried as well. It looks like it is all bolted steel tubes and I am not sure how well those would handle a roll over event.
It works for me (esp. with ublock origin), but I also use Safari, Brave, and Firefox depending on the situation.

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
To the extent that these things are unhealthy, it’s probably something that only shows up in aggregate. Individual health issues probably aren’t related back to x-icide exposure. At least I’ve never heard of such a thing and I come from a large farming community.
The title should mention “for Atom”.
Cloudflare's protection is quite a b*tch to circumvent with any headless or python library.
The family actually protested pretty much immediately, not knowing that Sveriges Riksbank was trying to make another Nobel. That's why the name 'Nobel' was stripped from the prize in 1971 while it was working it's way through the court system.

So no, the Nobel family isn't going to approve another because they didn't really approve of this one and aren't likely to sign anything anymore that's trying to sneak one in.
Makes perfect sense - drug dealers don't want to kill their paying customers.
Probably/unfortunately not really a Starlink competitor, right?

They don't specify the "cruising" altitude, but I assume it's ~10 kilometers at most, probably less?

Airbus would need quite a few of these in order to build a global internet connectivity service then.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Zephyr says ~20 km.

Starlink sats (will) operate at ~540-570 km:

https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/04/29/spacex-launches-60-mor...
Backpropagation is a particular implementation of reverse mode auto-differentiation, and it is the basis for all implementaions of DL models. It is very strange for me to read this as though it is very obvious and commonly accepted fact, which I don't think it is.
This is great and points to how solar in some cases already can facilitate continuous operation without the need for refueling of planes, boats, cars, you name it. Expect this to grow as battery and solar cell tech develops further.

My favorites atm are the yachts that are capable of sailing just about anywhere in the world without a drop of fuel. The price is prohibitive, but considering that you might not need a house anymore it is actually getting close to possible for a reasonably senior tech employee.

[full disclosure: no affiliation]

https://www.azura-marine.com/aquanima-45/

https://www.silent-yachts.com/silent60/
Has there been any update on the legality of using this kind of model? Is it ok to just crawl the web, take any content you want, train a model and sell access to the model like OpenAI/GPT-3/GitHub Copilot?
Would love something similar for VSCode
Gasoline-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers to be banned under new California law
It's wonderful to see his OSS work celebrated. One can only hope to be recognized for great work like this at the end of their life. I don't do much open-source work, and most corporate systems I worked on will probably be obsolete by then. Alas! A life comprises many things.
It's awfully reductionist to describe the whole of personal computing, the internet, and mobile phones as "Netflix in your pocket".

I recognize that household income has stagnated and there's significant disparity in wealth. However, if you're going to claim that the median standard of living has decreased in most of the West over the last 50 years, you're going to need to cite some evidence.

It's shocking to see pushback on the transformative nature of modern computing on Hacker News of all places.
It won't magically happen by itself.