skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately I think that the frequency of stories like these happens because people incorrectly assume that plastic is cheap and plentiful. I learned this because of a paper about remarkable properties of an alumina-PMMA composite: when I investigated the material costs, I learned that PMMA (aka acrylic) was more than half of the price, even though it was only 20% of the composite by weight.

Plastic has always been a suitable building material. But it's expensive to produce in bulk. It just happens that a fraction of a gram of polyethylene can still make a useful grocery bag, which leads to there being a lot of small pieces of plastic scattered all over the world.

As a method of waste management, this could prove useful. But 500 metric tons of plastic bricks per year (the supply of waste from the article) will only build a few houses, and won't make a noticeable dent in the demand for building materials in Nairobi, a city of millions.

The most interesting variant of polymers in construction I've heard of is the use of fiberglass-reinforced polymer rods as rebar in reinforced concrete. This should be more corrosion-resistant than steel, allowing reinforced concrete structures to last longer. This allows you to use smaller amounts of plastic to make larger amounts of buildings.
When I was an online editor (video) in SF, I got to work with Hal Riney on several occasions. There was this joke among his agency staffers that, no matter what commercial he screened, if he hadn't voiced it himself, he always said (something like), "That's great. I'll re-voice it tomorrow."
You could be infected with meoware
Inflation is high, labor is tight, trade is falling - I'd be willing to take a bet on industrial automation and robotics powered by modern AI and 3-d printing.
I find number of commits is a lot more correlated with development ability than people thing.

People who've made lots of git commits... have made lots of stuff.

Experience and knowledge is commensurate with ability.

Even though we say "lines of code don't matter, it's about the importance of lines of code."

Anecdotally, lines of code is a very good proxy for how much time you spend puzzling through the machine.
> commercial use of a celebrity's image

It's only commercial use if I made any sort of profit from it, which I didn't. So nope, not commercial.
We all knew this would happen
"good faith" is determined by how much money and power the internet service being audited has. If they're rich or powerful corporation or celebrity then it's in bad faith. If it's some mom and pop webstore then it's in good faith. The FBI are just hired goons for the powerful.
Both of the cited tweets were made after he was informed about the article. The journalist did not report this because of those tweets.
I can click the framework v1 touchpad with my fingernail touching the chassis above it. Half a finger width lower the resistance is more reasonable. One finger width down from the top the feel is pretty much the same as closer to the bottom.
> you have to give them the chance to patch it themselves

No you don't. If they're just going to bury the truth and hang their users out to dry then the responsible route is to bypass them.
AIG was not a bank; notice from your own quote how its treatment contrasted with how the banks were treated.
Asbestos is just a natural mineral they said...
You can do that! But you may run into a problem where one of the crates you use detects that you're using nightly, and then opts in to nightly-only features. Except it may be using features that are only available on the latest version of nightly, or an ancient version that you don't have, and there is no version that makes both your code and the dependent package happy.

It's much better to just use stable. Then you're guaranteed to have forward compatibility, and you only have one place where you need to deal with the nightly weirdness.
It could be very uncomfortable for microsoft, politically, in the US, if it turns out they are applying Chinese-appeasing policies in the United States, to US users with their locale set to en-US (or even zh-US!). That's what I want to know; if somebody can prove there are blacklists checked into config files, I'd be very interested.

This is a description of the work:
https://citizenlab.ca/2022/05/bada-bing-bada-boom-microsoft-...

The work is quite interesting to read (having been on the other side of systems like this) but it uses statistical techniques like fisher tests in a fairly naive way. My next complaint is that they use the term censorship. I prefer to use the term "suppression of legitimately interesting results to further a political or business need".

At some point the paper devolves into speculating abotu the complex serving systems that produce suggestions at runtime (they are a function of thousands of feature variables). Probably the best readers of this paper would the (US-based ) technical lead and product manager for Bing, who should read it in detail and plug all the obvious bugs that were found.
Can it be fixed and meet all the demand for beef today? And without making people poor in the process?

Perhaps the solution is a mix of both: eat less meat and only eat sustainably raise meat.
I used envsubst when I can but as far as I know you cannot do loop using envsubst. When you use the c preprocessor or php, m4, etc..., you can.
I haven't heard of half of these or been to Europe for that matter, but it's cool insight. What was your path as an entrepreneur to be able to afford to go to these events?
If you got groped, would you report it?
I felt this way at the first company I worked for; fortunately I started hacking on g++ where I definitely was not in the same grade as the other devs. That started a life-long career in Open Source, where I never maxxed out again.

But I agree with everyone else here: time to move to a bigger pond.
> it is a man-made change

Can you substantiate that claim with verifiable evidence?

New England used to be under a 10-mile thick ice sheet during the last ice age. I think the Earth has been warming for a very long time.

But this isn't only about the climate. The article also mentions COVID-19 shut downs which were mostly pushed by the left. The IMF is mentioned as some sort of savior and is definitely saturated with left wing ideology.
Holy shit! I didn’t realize Klaus Schulze died too. Between these two and Edgar Froese, the world is rapidly losing electronic music greats. Please tell me Giorgio Moroder is still alive!
> You can find many people singing it's praises, including me.

Until today, I’ve never once seen someone “singing it’s praises” that’s actually written code for one. At best, they’d curse it under their breath while saying it had its benefits. Usually however it was a full throated rant about how bad the experience was.
While you're at it, increase the information density.

Remove or modify the redundant line about flag/hide/fav... etc.
Put it on a right click, put it as a mouse-over or as a button.
Don't use half the screen.

It is better design to eliminate redundant non-content.
I'm no expert, but I live and work in Japan.

As far as I have seen "Shinto as a religion" plays a relatively small role in Japanese society. I am American and Japanese shinto looks almost nothing at all like American Christianity.

Many if not most Japanese people visit shrines (especially on set dates throughout the year), at which time they give a small donation and prayer, but from my perspective this is indeed mostly ritual. Routine you might say.

You could also say Japanese culture has high inertia. People tend to do things because (a) that's what other people do or (b) that's what's always been done. Of course things do change, but without a strong impetus they tend strongly to coast along the same road.

Shinto from a broader perspective, or simply Japanese culture as I am tempted to call it as it's difficult to draw a line, has many other influences other than simply visiting shrines. Festivals, rituals, and so on. But here also I don't see what I would call a "religion" based on a "strong belief" in "higher power(s)."

An example is when a new house or building is to be built, Shinto "priests" are called to perform a ceremony at the building site. Another is the little salt dishes they put around houses and buildings to keep "demons/bad luck" out. Seems to me it's closer to superstition!

Occasionally I come across something like this PDF and it confuses me. It portrays Shinto as very mystic, but that doesn't match well with the reality on the ground of everyday life in Japan, at least through my lens.

Note: my experience is in the last decade and a half. I haven't asked or heard much about the past. It's not a stretch to imagine that "shinto" used to look more like a "belief based religion" some decades or centuries ago.
IBM used to guarantee availability of the exact chips, and did a lot of stuff behind the scenes to make that happen.

That sort of a guarantee way beyond what's reasonable of Frame.work, they don't control their suppliers to that degree. They've already updated the peripheral chips & hardware even within "v1", both for bugs and supply issues.

Frame.work has pretty much implied the form factor will remain largely untouched, so you're likely to be able to swap a component in even years from now, even if it'll be an "accidental upgrade". That sounds quite reasonable to me...
Realistically, what is the other option? Seems that would be just as expensive and risk public attention (even if its completely false).
In a product focused organization, where the users the front end serves are the paying customers (or at least, the dominant stakeholders) this would be a stable arrangement. In small orgs where this is the case you tend to find combined teams.

In many orgs however, money (and other forms of power, such as regulatory constraints) doesn't flow from the end users, but from other stakeholders (advertisers, for example, or large enterprise purchasers).

Conway's Law[0] applies ("Organizations, who design systems, are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."), and the organizations being copied often mimic cash flows (eg. classifying parts of the org as revenue vs cost centers).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
https://www.markegardfamily.com/ does
"The Type 1 suffered from water leaking into the pilot and engine compartment, but due to the nature of the weapon, solving these issues was a low priority."

Funny that.
I run a startup that has a team now so I need to do primarily product / product management by necessity.
Maybe I'm confused, but I'm replying to feral's OP, where they say "Hmm, I don't see that." in response to mdp2021's comment that "Reinforcement Learning is not restricted to Neural Networks."
NPR has set up an HR tip line for employees to report on colleagues
I understand evolution and the time frame. I have no trouble with that concept. What I find difficult to believe is that a viable universe started in the first place to give evolution the opportunity to succeed.
Did they not read the opening screen of incognito mode?

It literally says websites can still track you.
BT is shit. The only consolation: it seems to be equally shit no matter the device/OS/etc provider.

With one exception, a "JBL Go" portable speaker I bought years ago. Rock solid, I take it on every holiday.

But otherwise, yeah. BT sucks, although slightly less than "casting", jeeeeez.
Risk and Vulverability Assessment Mapped to the Mitre ATT&CK Framework [pdf]
An innovative way to view electorates in Australia!

If the seat of Durack in Western Australia (1,629,858 Km2) was a country it would be ranked 19th in the world by size.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/geography/largest-countries-in...
Most people grew up with the same mentality, and manipulative people will exploit the benefit of the doubt they're given and will use your scruples against you.
What happened after Japan’s economy bubble burst?
From that link:

> Under Penal Code sections 17(d) and 19.8, if certain offenses are charged as an infraction instead of as a misdemeanor, you can ask that the infraction charge be tried with a jury as a misdemeanor.
XR headsets from big players also coming this or next year, which may bring new use cases and new apps
Bad Therapy
Plastic in a properly designed landfill doesn’t end up in people’s bloodstreams.
> There are so many explanations for this outside of "some environmental factor causing everyone to get fat" that I don't think it needs explaining.

Do you not realise that this point alone jeopardizes your entire argument? If this effect is real, the rest of this discussion belongs straight in the trash.

So yes, very much needs explaining.
District heating is hell.

Most ex-Soviet/Warsaw pact countries tried to move from district to direct gas, or small CCGT plants (as in one for about 10000 people) exactly for this reason: maintenance is hell and losses are enormous. And that's in high-density urban. In low-density suburbs it won't ever fly.
You're going to have to unpack that please. Where are ppl against lower taxes?
i860 did well in embedded applications and for awhile was the mainstay in most RAID controllers and network communication processors. Not what Intel wanted from it but it did have a long life in such applications. I spent many years working on the i860 and i960 and learned to live with its oddities.

As for the Cell it was overly complex architecture and had remarkable performance under very optimized code. The hope was hand tuned libraries would address this; and compiler optimizations would take care of the rest. Neither happened in a meaningful way. We did two major projects with the Cell using it for real-time HDTV compression/direct broadcast applications.

Another one not on the list was the inmos Transputer. Again similar to the Cell; very complex and fast for its time; but not easy to achieve this performance. That was my first job as an EE - we used it on a GPS receiver ISA card in the early days of GPS. It was a good choice as very fast and could keep up with the signal processing that allowed us to roll code updates to add major features as various changes to GPS signals were rolled out (P-code on L2, SA being turned off, and later CA code on L2 being unencrypted). Our competitors had to redesign ASICS to get these new features which means long product cycles and hardware replacement.

Today I find myself doing a lot on the M1 series, as well as Epyc. Now you can give zero shits about clean optimized code and it still runs amazingly fast. Last time I had to do assembler or intrinsics was many many years ago - and I sort of miss that intimacy with the hardware to get the most out of it.
Contact a lawyer to make sure you don’t go to jail and if they say you’re in the clear disclose everything.

Or be the source to some journalist and get protection there? But do disclose this so that affected folks can take action.
It's a blog, talk about over engineering. I liked the web better when it was HTML, CSS, maybe a hint of JS.

Javascript shouldn't be a requirement to read web pages. Just sayin.
My wife and I stayed at a resort a while back on its own tropical island that was pretty technology free. No phones, TVs, radios, wifi, etc. For service, they had a little notepad and pencil which you used to write your request, then you put it in a bamboo mailbox outside your hut and raised the little canvas flag. They'd make the rounds occasionally in Mini Mokes to see to guests requests. Alternatively, you could make the five minute walk up to the main house. It was all pretty fun, especially considering the island was about 100 acres and only had about 25 people on it at any given time, so you really didn't see any other people unless you wanted to. Made you feel very disconnected for sure. But the resort got sold a few years ago and now all that has changed. They put in a big resort style pool, a fancy bar, TV's, phones & wifi in all the huts and worst of all replaced the Mini Mokes with golf carts. Boo.
Why do people keep doing this to themselves?! I really don't get it. Just buy a laptop from a vendor that actually supports linux, like System76.
He didn't even deny it when asked for comment, just said there is more to the story. I will give it time though before I make too many assumptions, but if he knew about this and then went and posted the comment about the left attacking him shortly after that isn't really the actions of someone who is innocent.
Every once in awhile I look up PPP loans of companies I know didn’t suffer any Covid-relates downturn (some even thrived) and am never surprised to see fat checks fully forgiven.

Must be the greatest theft in US history.
well one problem is that as human beings we are not able to judge if someone is truly seeking forgiveness for their actions or just pretending to.

only god can do that.

therefore as humans we must assume that they are genuine and leave it to god to deliver the actual judgment.

i am not familiar with martin scorsese, so i don't know why he doesn't recognize that difference. i am also not familiar enough with the bible or catholicism to know why that difference is not more clear in their teachings.
Yep. And the struggle learning rust is that you sort of need to learn the borrow checker and lifetimes all at once. You can’t use rust at all without any of that stuff, and there’s a lot to learn before you feel productive! Even a year in to rust I can still throw things together a lot faster in javascript. That may always be true.

So I doubt rust will ever displace python and javascript for everyday app development. But it’s an excellent language for operating systems, game engines, databases, web browsers, IDEs and things like that where stability and performance matter more than cramming in ever more features.
The only two architectural questions that I know of were...

The weak memory model:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170817-00/?p=96...

Inability to address low-power designs:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM

"According to Allen Baum, the StrongARM traces its history to attempts to make a low-power version of the DEC Alpha, which DEC's engineers quickly concluded was not possible."

The other major problem with the Alpha was the high license costs of DEC operating systems, which greatly helped put it in the grave.
Clay and other concrete based bricks must be cheap enough already, and work well.

If we intend to reuse plastic in bricks, maybe use those bricks for building things in and around landfills or things like storing nuclear waste - so that toxicity is concentrated. Otherwise, plastic bricks seem like one of those things that will be discovered to be toxic eventually.
There isn't going to be anything more than hearsay. Any evidence released would be claimed to be fabricated, if the individual herself came forward people would say she was lying. We've seen this play out multiples times with rich, wealthy and/or powerful individuals.

What should be considered damning in this case is Musk using very typical tactics to try and get ahead of the story while also claiming there's more to it (a tacit admittal that it did happen) even though he's refusing to elaborate.
I bet you can since you can use Google translate offline.
Find a strong engineering team and learn.
OK, since it is for a teenager I would assume just basic computer competency (how to install programs and stuff like that) but nothing else, so apologies if some of these things are pretty obvious/basic..

I would (assuming zilch knowledge and tools).

- Install Python. https://www.python.org/downloads/

- Install VSC https://code.visualstudio.com/

- Install the python extension for VSC https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-pytho...

- learn a little bit of python. This is a good resource, but there are several more, even the official documentation is very good

http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/

- After some familiarity with python one option is this free book:

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

- Another, good (but paid) option is this book: https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Machine-Learning-Scikit-Learn-T...

Or a third option is indeed Andrew Ng's course.

Now, for any of those 3 options a little (or a lot) of guidance and patience will be needed so hopefully you or some friend/peer can help with that. Good luck!
Big G has burned me too many times! I have a vanity number or 2 through them and that is stressful enough!
In the early years, the SPUs were not all functional due to the fabbing process. The ones that had all 8 functional ended up in servers, and the ones with about 6 ended up in PS3s. This still happens all the time with clock speeds, and core counts on modern processors today. I’m sure the fabrication process improved over time, but they disabled the 2 cores to maintain backwards compatibility.

Unrelated: Every time I’m reminded about Cell I’m reminded of the OtherOS fiasco. I purchased a PS3 for the processor solely and I was very upset when I only got a $2 check for it. I never cashed it.
If it is true now, then how was it not true then? It's about things that happened then.
Genuine question: what does homebrew do to market itself? I found about it word of mouth many years ago, and haven’t noticed the marketing.

Great docs, website and overall experience though. Kinda sells itself
> Yes it’s horrible when I’m not plugged in and you have to shutdown before closing the lid for transportation.

Why? Does it not hibernate?
Miami Vice had two memorable tunes, miami vice title song, and the crocket's theme (more nostalgic like feel). Both were made by Jan Hammer. If you want to see cool stuff, checkout his "beyond Mind's Eye", one of the earliest 3d music videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zMtCvWhG0
AMD PSP is NOT the same as Intel ME. AMD PSP is a "trusted execution environment" (the first sentence in your link). Intel's equivalent is Intel SGX. Trusted execution environments are a security feature that does not offer remote management. It's not a privacy concern like Intel ME is.
Execution is hard.
Heh, ok. Never had a car with those features, and I've never been in an accident. I even drove professionally for some years before such features were available.

I do wonder whether those features train people to not be able to check a blind spot by turning their head, or just being more generally aware of their surroundings on a highway.
I guess that’s pragmatic but having native arrays and “scientific arrays” be totally different incompatible things is just so unsatisfying.
Very true, it was the end of the DEC Alpha as Compaq chose the Itanic.
Two hours and change before Musk tweeted that.[1]. He could possibly be anymore transparent that his tweet was an attempt to preempt this story.

[1] - https://twitter.com/johnjcook/status/1527421611070177307
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Yeah, it's good, but the author forgets to mention some other bad chips from before the late 1990's

- The Intel i432 - too far ahead of its time, in Itanium for the 1980's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432

- The TI CMS320 series of DSPs. So full of silicon bugs it hurt TI badly.

- The Transputer T9000 - very ambitious, but vapourware for so long it killed its parent company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer#T9000
Do people of color ever roll their eyes at websites like this? Does it ever just seem silly?

edit: I am white, and my question is not for white people. I call it “peopleofcoloronhackernews” :^)
Tunisia is a) dependent on Russian and Ukrainian wheat b) about to strike itself off the democracy list

As a friend of mine told NPR: “It’s not that Tunisia’s democracy is threatened. Tunisia’s democracy has been shot in the head.”