skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those icons were actually called Resin Identification Code or RIC, which actually have nothing to do with recycling

"have nothing to do with recycling" is too strong a statement; knowing what type of plastic it is helps with sorting. But you're right that having the triangle doesn't automatically mean it can or will be recycled.
Thanks for the more detailed links!

I'm curious why you call the first one cryptic though? It seems the opposite to me: it refers to all the elements by their actual, real-cryptocurrency-world names. To me, "cryptic" would mean that it abstracted away from all the actual terminology used, and just describes it in terms of pure mathematical finance, which would be cryptic since you'd be left wondering, "uh, what is this referring to? Is this an actual thing?"

I also don't see how it works as a recruiting tool. This is a space that involves exploiting domain knowledge, and it's trying to bring in expert outsiders who just haven't yet used their analytical expertise in this domain. But tweets heavily depend on you already knowing how all these protocols work (e.g. what staking/minting/gauge weight mean). Such a person, if an expert analyst as well, would already be working in the field or exploiting that knowledge themselves, and you wouldn't be plucking such diamonds out of the Twitter rough.
Ultimately the inability to reach an intelligent human at Google that responds with something other than an automated response seems to be the root issue here.

Indeed, Google is actually breaking EU law here (with impunity), due to some 2019 legislation requiring transparent and meaningful communication that is clear, and not automated. Interestingly, that legislation also requires that developers be treated equally, so Google would need to offer that kind of manual process for all developers. Arguably that would be a better outcome for everyone.
Arcade Typography
Unlikely, their most recent software update increased the max speed back up to 85mph. They’ve got feature parity between the stacks now, no reason for them to spend money on radar.
> the time I spent learning Octave/Matlab for Andrew Ng's course was 100% wasted time

Really?

If you have programming experience, you don't really need to learn Octave.

Some formulae were the code.

In case of others, the whole program was written, with one or two missing lines that you had to implement.

I spent zero time learning Octave, because there was nothing to learn.
Focusing mostly on nuclear research
No idea what the arch of a PDP would be like; but the manual mentions 4096 "registers". Would those register actually correspond to memory words in a more modern arch ? Was it possible in assembly to directly address each of those register (without the need for MOV-golfing ?)
> That's not specific, nor explains why USA can legally pursue hypersonic nuke WMDs.

That's easy, the US has a permanent seat on the security council. It can veto any attempt to restrict it with international law. Same for Russia and China's WMDs.
Before Python (Numpy/Scipy) really came into its own (which didn't quite happen until early 2010s), Matlab was among the easiest-to-use scripting languages for writing scientific computing programs. I was in university (Bachelor's + Masters) from 2007-2012 and learned Matlab extensively in my numerical computing classes (I was a Physics major, for what that's worth). When you're ready to run your scientific computing codes on a supercomputer cluster, you'd usually rewrite it in C++ or Fortran (my research group used the latter), but to develop and debug at a small scale, you'd usually use Matlab, although the younger people like me might use Numpy, and there were one or two people who used Mathematica even for numerical computing (as opposed to symbolic algebra, which everybody used Mathematica for).

It was around the time I was in university that Python really matured for numerical computing, but professors (as opposed to grad students) were likely to be already familiar with Matlab, so there wasn't much reason for them to learn Python. Andrew Ng was already a mid-career researcher when he made his course, which was probably based on older materials (I also learned basic neural networks in my numerical computing class in 2008), so it made sense for him to continue to use Matlab, especially because Octave exists as an open-source reimplementation of the basic functionality.

These days, you wouldn't use anything else but Python for ML, at least until you really productionize the implementation at a large scale, at which case you might rewrite in C++ or Rust (I don't know if they even bother rewriting these days when most of the computation happens in GPUs or TPUs). And it's my understanding, although I'm not really too familiar these days, that Matlab has mostly pivoted into providing a toolbox of all sorts of esoteric numerical methods for engineering-related tasks like finite element analysis, as well as hardware simulation (using Simulink).
How do you have a direct connection between peers without one of them allowing ingress?
HTMX + custom elements + Alpine.js = love
Same reason very intelligent fund managers are buying 10y TSYs yielding 2.8% despite inflation giving them a NEGATIVE 5.2% real yield:

Everyone thinks that 5 years out, everything will be rosy. The metalworker saving 0.6% on a 5/1 ARM vs a fixed 30yr is using the same mental gymnastics that J. Poindexter on Goldman's bond desk is, that central banks are omniscient, omnipotent, and will always magic away the risk inherent in our decisions.
For others that have problems with this, there is an Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous group that has helped me quiet a bit. See here: https://internetaddictsanonymous.org/
I feel like we talk ourselves into maybe half of the economic downturns we experience. It's probably inevitable and maybe even necessary psychologically.
Try Svelte, it's amazing!

I never consciously made a decision to stop using jQuery, but after moving to frameworks like Svelte, there's just not a need for it most of the time (it's been years since I last added jQuery to a project, and I think that was only because I was using some third party lib that depended on it). YMMV of course.
I hate the degradation of English largely brought on by social media. Example: grift. It's used incorrectly 99% of the time.

A grift is a petty or small-scale swindle, a carnival trick or back-alley shell game. Nickel and dime stuff. The type of fraud most "grifters" are accused of is anything but petty.
Also startup’s black swan effects are usually of the form “our service is no more” rather than “your savings are no more”.
With over 5 million downloads ommon sense says the developer is giving up because it is not worth it, ie not enough people buy the software or donate to support its development.

This is really not due to Google. Google does this a lot and not all developers rage quit on account of that.

Android users it is time you forked out more to support free software developers.
You can write libraries against alloc on stable, but not any executables, because executables not using std need to specify the alloc_error_handler, which you can't do on stable yet: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/51540
They removed the radar last year on the Model 3 and Y.
Reading Is Hard
Translation:

I want it to be easy add new ways to strip another person of their rights without being burdened by having to understand the system as a whole.

-A complaint from every developer and legislator ever.
Sorry to hear about your Backblaze travails. I don't use them, just ran across this article because a speaker at a conference mentioned it.

> Also this is from 2018, why is this being posted today?

I posted this because I thought it was interesting.

I often post older content that hasn't been discussed recently that I think would be of interest to other HN readers.
This “default alive” advice is repeatedly shared.

One thing it obviously does not address is the human element of who you cut and whether they will be “default alive” unemployed in a recession. A huge amount of YC advice in general positions founders as protagonists and employees as NPCs then are shocked people pick Google over their startup offer.

Funny thing is I’ve seen this exact advice destroy a company. In March 2020 they did deep layoffs and cited the need to be “default alive.” Then their main market surprisingly quickly grew in the rest of 2020 , they wanted to capitalize on that, but they had laid off too many engineers who knew their infra and had enough outages and slow product development that they lost to their competitors and are now way underwater on their valuation.

They decided to be serious and prudent and go “default alive” which ironically killed them. Of course if 2020 had gotten worse maybe they would look smart but the takeaway is there’s no easy answers.

I would just like to see the human impact of layoffs at least lightly considered in these conversations which it rarely is. And it’s bad for business to as Im sure many people are hesitant to join companies that will have a gut reaction of doing 70% layoffs. If you even think about doing 70% layoffs you clearly over hired and are not making good leadership decisions leading up to the layoff.
To be fair, when you don't own your servers, don't have any contracts with the volunteers who provide those servers, and then they exercise their ability to stop providing those servers, that's more a social problem than a technical one.
Can we steal these from the Chinese once they succeed?
Back in the late '90s, I worked for an inventor dealing with analog dome switches. We took a mouse that had a rocker for scrolling instead of a wheel and I reprogrammed it to "fake" scroll clicks faster or slower depending on how hard you pressed. You could scroll slow enough to read, or zoom to the end of a doc with really good control. Man I miss that mouse.
Oh yeah this would be an option too.
No blue state is actually okay with socialism at any higher level. The Democrat party leadership hates left-wing politics. Just the other day Pete Buttigieg was trying to explain how we can't solve baby formula problems the socialist way so children have to starve for the sake of factory owners:

> Biden’s secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, has argued that this kind of socialist experiment would be unacceptable — even to stop babies from starving to death. “Let’s be very clear,” Buttigieg told CBS, “This is a capitalist country. The government does not make baby formula, nor should it. Companies make baby formula.”

(For the record, "Socialism" would not fix the US's bridge or baby formula woes because they are both the results of decades of neglect and bad policy that can't be undone in a year.)
> The reality is it was the upper-middle class, non finance professionals just thinking they were savvy.

But also lots of highly educated Ivy League Finance folks who thought they were smarter than the were. Hence Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Merill Lynch, etc.
Yeah thats correct. I'll just point out that they use a larger window size, so they will use more memory to decompress, but will still be fast.
Wow, that's a ballsy move. Did the startup fail because of the recession time/lack of funding?
There are only 409k homes for sale: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ACTLISCOUUS

The home ownership rate is ~65%: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N

Theoretically, there are close to 30M HH that want to own a home, but don't.

That's close to 100:1.

More practically, probably only a 1/3rd of them are remotely qualified to buy something they'd want to own, and only a 1/3rd probably actually want to own & are currently interested in houses at this price.

That could still be >10 buyers for every house.
bullshit. there are tons of images in this site most are above 10kb, there are several images I could find which are above 20kb.

Jquery is passive, just loading jQuery in the page itself doesn't do any harm. could be some plugins they are using might be doing something unnecessary.
> All videos of all courses in Coursera are free

> There are some great courses in the full free tier as well.

So the full free tier courses offer a free certification? Or else what would be the difference?
Nobody "hates" jQuery. Code and libraries are a liability. All people care about is getting their job done and going home.

This "trend" has been like 5+ years in the making. And it's simply a result of jQuery becoming less necessary as core JavaScript in the browser gains features.
jQuery is very comfortable and succinct for some DOM manipulation here and there. That is, when you need to sprinkle HTML with a bit of JavaScript.

But if you're starting today and want to have it easy in your career, learn React or Vue. They pay better and they look good in your CV. And I say that as someone who likes jQuery.

If you want to bet on something new, I suggest https://kit.svelte.dev or https://www.solidjs.com
I can’t say I have any special insider knowledge of food industry lobby.

My statement was to preempt the common argument that somehow the sugar industry is so powerful that it was and is able to divert all of our collective attention from it, when it is the real culprit.

The corn industry is a large industry, but so is the meat industry, dairy industry, processed food manufacturers, soy beans, etc. many of them, possibly even including corn, benefit from diverting attention away from their products towards sugar as the main villain. Even if sugar is a revenue source for corn, it pales in comparison for its main product: animal feed.

None of that is to say that I think any of the above industries I listed is “the culprit” I only list them to illustrate my point. Big sugar has lobbying power, but it is all too common that the simplest story gets repeated, “it’s all because of powerful lobbying group X”
Interestingly, Java has been improving lately in this regard, thanks to cloud and container use-cases. There was a big regression with Java 9, but since then it's been getting better with each release.

Numbers for "hello world" on my machine:

Java 7: 43 ms

Java 8: 29 ms

Java 11: 34 ms

Java 18: 22 ms

Python 2.7: 6 ms

Python 3.10: 12 ms

Perl 5: 1 ms
I believe this was criticising the initial operation of post-Lee-takeover freenode, not Libera.
Right, that's where I went, and it didn't have the yields you represented, so I wasn't sure I found the right place.

Turns out I did find the right place, you just posted long-obsolete figures as fact without checking, in a thread where the actual values were the central point of discussion.
Despicably deceptive: Big Tech's Save Our Standards campaign lies about SEPs
I remember the first large crypto wave, when bitcoin shortly shot over $1k. Just for it to sit under $300 for around few years before bouncing back... And bounce back it did.

I'm sorry but people like this have no idea what they are talking about.

Crypto will go back up, it may be 3 years from now who knows.
That might complicate things a lot more with regards to potential export restrictions, etc.
Octopuses torture and eat themselves after mating. Science finally knows why
It was just a reference to the person in the story, not an allusion to "because he was old he didn't try to update his knowledge/continue learning".
This also confused me a lot. I’m not sure I understand the threat model…
Wondering if it is hitting the installment tech companies like Affirm and Afterpay.
A more likely scenario: you’re heading out to attend a million man protest. The government disagrees and disables your car.

https://hothardware.com/news/bidens-infrastructure-bill-mand...
Discord has absolutely hurt IRC, and supplanted it in many cases. Once upon a time, e.g. subreddits had their chats on Snoonet IRC, now it's all discord. Tech is still IRC-heavy, but Discord, Slack and Matrix all have sizeable presences now too.
https://www.instagram.com/arcade_army/

For people who are interested in arcade things
MicroPython's authors call it a "subset of python3", and that is a fairly large subset - all the familiar data structures, co-routines, module import, filesystem I/O, FFI, ...; Interpreter is much smaller than CPython and can run on a microcontroller with 256KB code/flash + 16KB RAM.

Another step down is snek, where complete interpreter code can fit in 64KB. Although, this is a much more constrained subset of python (for example - yes dictionaries, no list comprehensions): https://sneklang.org/

PikaScript appear to be even more compact at 32KB code (and is even smaller subset of the language)
I had the opposite experience. I was really into chess when I was a teenager, but after getting back into it in my 50s, I find it a bit "samey." I also picked up Go and Shogi. I like both of those games better than chess because they both seem to have more variety between games. The Duck Chess article from HN yesterday did pique my curiosity though, so I'll have to give that a try.
Ian Goodfellow, director of machine learning at Apple, is joining DeepMind
> If public spending is socialism

It isn't, my comment is a jab on US politics and discourse; though neoliberalism and "minarchism" has corroded the existing infrastructure through "austerity" (money redirection towards forever wars and imperialism) and red-scare tactics.
IANAL and not a startup founder who incorporated in the US, but answering as someone with some general knowledge on the subject and some experience incorporating on different jurisdictions (with the usual disclaimer that this no legal or tax advice).

Generally, you can 'incorporate' in the US as a non-US person. I put that in quotes because LLCs are not technically corporations (US LLCs are 'unincorporated associations') so normally the term used is 'organized' or some such. You can also incorporate proper, having a C corporation in the US. As a non US person, what you cannot do is be a shareholder of an S corporation, which is a special type of corporation that is pass-through for tax purposes (in short, meaning that the shareholders pay tax directly instead of the corporation itself being taxes).

If you want to go down this path, it's good you're looking for a good lawyer, as they can advise you on the best way going forward. That said, there are many online formation services that take care of the paperwork for you for some nominal fee (say between $200-$500), and some jurisdictions that are popular for non-residents are Delaware Nevada and Florida. As far as I know, for Delaware this is partly because of some perceived tax benefit, plus it being a place with a good reputation for doing business.

For question number 2, if you'll be working from outside the US, I don't see how it can be an immediate problem, since immigration laws that restrict you from working usually would apply when you're in US soil. As far as I know, there's no restriction on working from abroad, so long as you otherwise follow the law. You could probably even be an employee of your LLC in your local jurisdiction.

You don't say why you want to incorporate in the US and maybe you have good reasons for this. However, some of the negatives are that you'll likely complicate things for yourself, as now you'll have to report to the US authorities (taxes, etc.) in addition to to your local jurisdiction, you'll likely need US and XX accountants, etc. Plus, LLCs are sometimes problematic from outside the US, because they're not really corporations, which from what I hear can cause issues with things like opening local bank accounts, registering with local authorities, etc.

Under transfer pricing rules, you're likely not going to get any tax benefits from operating a US entity, and you could if fact end up double- (or triple-)taxed, depending on where you are and where your clients are and the tax treaties between all those places.

Since you say you're not in the US and mention EU-clients, maybe consider incorporating in some EU state instead?
Here's the numbers I commonly cite: https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2022/04/27/april-2022-web...

31% nginx
23% apache
8% Openresty (which I've never heard of, looks like it is an augmented nginx)
5% cloudflare
In increase in pay? During a layoff where they're trying to save money?

And then there's the 3x increase in workload.
Also in this line of thinking: hosts can be assigned an entire subnet, and applications can get individual /128s. This way, a single host can provide a bunch of independent services, which can be broken out into real machines as the system grows without renumbering.
If you want to be depressed, go to Los Angeles and tune into a radio station that caters to people living in poor neighborhoods. Every 3rd or 4th ad is for a loan shark.
>Moreover, it's much easier to send a malicious packet directly to another player than it would be to send it to the server and convince the server to proxy it through bit-for-bit

What prevents you from putting the same validation logic into the client, thus rejecting malicious packets at the destination?
> I doubt that there is anything as perverse as voluntarily blocking your own breathing hole.

Well, then I would recommend you to look more around you, very few to no animals intake air directly through their trachea, we evolved noses to both filter the small particulate with nose hairs, change the temperature of the air and later evolved the use of smell

So yeah, next time you go out I would recommend you to carefully review the faces of the beings you see around you and realize the existence and plurality of noses and "noseholes", and yes, noses themselves also inhibit oxygen flow vs "open trachea holes"

Lastly, you are welcome to give yourself a tracheotomy if you'd like too, just be careful, or maybe not
One particular reason is that it can be hard to avoid or get rid of, if you are using third party UI modules- even "modern" ones, intended for use in a framework like Angular, might use jQuery as a dependency.

This is also problematic if your project has a dependency tree that needs multiple (incompatible) versions of jQuery.
No company got it right - they all charged the same percentage regardless of which side of the street you lived on - so you didn't have a choice in the matter.
Oh. Yeah, I apparently can't read today, that's fair.
The article debunked the claims, and was published because those inaccurate claims were receiving widespread attention in efforts to prevent the WHO pandemic reporting protocol from advancing beyond the failures that the Chinese reporting of COVID-19 exposed.

If you disagree with the article, could you please cite some sources with fact check scores in the range of the AP News as the basis for your disagreement?

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/associated-press
how do you scroll with just your thumb?
how do you paste into your terminal?
Very very excited to check this out.
If you can't get a DEXA scan there is an equation published in December of 2021 which approximates it well:

The new equation [%BFNew = 6.083 + (0.143 × SSnew) - (12.058 × sex) - (0.150 × age) - (0.233 × body mass index) + (0.256 × waist) + (0.162 × sex × age)] explained a significant proportion of variance in %BF5C (R2 = 0.775, SEE = 4.0%). Predictors included sum of skinfolds (SSnew, midaxillary, triceps, and thigh) and waist circumference. The new equation cross-validated well against %BF5C when compared with other existing equations, producing a large intraclass correlation coefficient (0.90), small mean bias and limits of agreement (0.4% ± 8.6%), and small measures of error (SEE = 2.5%).

Generalized Equations for Predicting Percent Body Fat from Anthropometric Measures Using a Criterion Five-Compartment Model
Zackary S Cicone, Brett S Nickerson 1, Youn-Jeng Choi 2, Clifton J Holmes 3, Bjoern Hornikel 4, Michael V Fedewa 4, Michael R Esco 4
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PMID: 34310492 PMCID: PMC8785250 (available on 2022-12-01) DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000002754

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34310492/