skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use focus mode on my Android phone all the time. Only have phone, messages (not whats app) and a few things I need for work. Basically turns it into a dumb phone. I do deactivate it sometimes and sneak a peak at a website but it seems (amongst my friend and colleagues at least) that noone is using these features nearly enough.
Other bees include mason bees, leafcutter bees, carpenter bees. Other pollinators include green flies, hoverflies, and some beetles and wasps.
I'm working on a PC-based configuration for a drone flight controller. PC-side is std Rust with a stack available. Firmware is `no-std`, running on a microcontroller. It has waypoints you can program when connected to a PC using USB. They have names that need to be represented as some sort of string.

I'm using `u8` arrays for the strings on both sides; seems the easiest to serialize, and Rust has `str::from_utf8` etc to handle conversion to/from the UI.

`String` is unsupported on the MCU side since there's no allocation. I find this low-level approach ergonomic given it's easy to [de]serialize over USB.
More and more, I find that lableak (which started with genuine scientific uncertainty) is not driven by genuine curiosity or scientific inquiry, but by the strength of it's emotional narrative.

Lableakers like Alina Chan started as maybe genuine, maybe opportunistic scientific dissidents who got boosted into the spotlight by conspiratorial-thinking prone rightwing networks. They build and got caught up in echo chambers that for years now created their own self-sealing reality.

However, we know today that the scientific evidence turned out to be entirely one-sided for a natural spillover event and not a lableak, which is why the 'cover ups' have to get bigger and bigger, include independent scientists all over the world, and the establishment, and mainstream journalists etc. and the actual evidence is not much talked about anymore in lableak conspiracy land.

Their problem lies entirely with the evidence already available, and no amount of evidence that is 'missing' can remedy that fact.
We can happily grant a 100% leak rate from the WIV, and it would not move the needle on zoonotic origin any more.
We can grant perfect cover-ups and secret viruses, and it would not suddenly make the available evidence square with a lableak scenario.

That is the reality.
And all lableak proponents have been doing is to distract from it.
Do have analyst price targets and consensus estimates for financials, and will have sell side analysis as an option within 12 months.
I did look at that. I guess I just don't/can't trust the Firefox staff to make sure it doesn't turn evil, before doing a lot of damage. I figure if it does turn evil, it will be noticed after a short while, but lots of data could be collected in that short time.
Ask HN: What is actually being done to solve the chip shortage, and when?
Don't forget house flies.
you can install firefox on linux and run it as an app in chromeos but the performance isn't great on pixelbook i7. I ran into a lot of issues with regard to networking between the chromeos layer and the linux layer, its like they're nat'd or something rather than bridged, so good luck running a test environment for some things without extra steps.
The fact that HN is not selling the users anything really keeps the incentives right. No need to maximize the user base by catering to the lowest common denominator.
You can disable iCloud sync.
A pretty good guide to pretty good privacy
>technology can’t solve economic ... problems

It certainly can. Maybe not blockchain but the old problems of lacking food etc in the west have largely been fixed by technology like tractors and fertilizers and we have obesity now.
Beef and barley soup is excellent.
I really like it. So clean. Lots of whitespace. Even non-serif fonts (for maximum clarity?) :)

Also - nice choice of colors. They're pleasing, and readable.
I thought this was going to be about the impending doom of the Mexican killer bees we were all warned about in the 80s but that never came. It was in the news for months about a cloud of killer bees.
Vipassana meditation makes you smarter. There seems to be no ceiling. But it's also weird. For what that's worth.

I wonder if Mr Keyes meditated.
I still love my Samsung laser (ML-2251N), but it will be my last. On the other hand, I was able to get more toner fairly inexpensively, so it'll keep running for years now.
Beginning with machine code for some simple architecture (maybe RISC-V these days?) might be one good route in.

I can also see (having experienced it myself, albeit I already knew C etc. these were not requirements and many of my classmates did not) beginning with a pure functional language where all the practicalities are abstracted entirely.

Today the University where I learned this begins with Java, which I am confident is the wrong choice, but the person who part-designed their curriculum, and is a friend, disagrees with me and he's the one getting paid to teach them.
What does your code use, and is it vulnerable? It-depends (2021)
> I never said anything about web development

You said software development. Self-taught software developers are very often web developers.

> Employers often are requiring these "software engineering" degree's for basic level software development, and /or web development

Suppose you're right that employers place undue emphasis on academic achievement compared to on-the-job software development experience. This would not be addressed by handing out honorary degrees wholesale.

> If they are being educated in a way that does not prepare them for that job then the degree is less than worthless, and it an out right scam

If it lets them start a software development career, it's not a waste.

Also, again, a degree in computer science is not a vocational course like a coding boot camp, it's an academic qualification. The goal is to impart a basic knowledge of a scientific field.

In my experience software engineering degrees tend to be essentially computer science degrees but with a slightly different emphasis. Of course, both are more applicable to software development than, say, a degree in biology.

Some degrees have limited non-academic application, such as philosophy, and some have non-academic application but with only very few jobs available, such as forensics. If I recall correctly, computer science and software engineering are among the top degree topics measured by average financial payoff.
P.S. Bjarne Stroustrup and especially Andrew Koenig were super nice and supportive of my efforts in those days. The nascent C++ community was very welcoming.
> but you rarely need the latter

AFAIK, it's because people go with String when what they actually mean is Box<str>. Since they have similar costs, nobody ever sees the need to change it, and the String type does have a much better name.

But the need is there all the time. People just satisfy it differently.
Did you actually read any of what you're commenting on here? She's not using it 8 months later. She immediately called it in as defective, and Dell has been dragging their feet for 8 months, apparently believing that if they send her daily e-mails about processing her complaint, they can get away with never actually issuing a refund or a functional replacement.
Do you provide real time stock price data?
How has the global income distribution changed since 1800?
On Android, you can enable Do Not Disturb, then configure your 2FA app to override Do Not Disturb in the global notification settings. If you're getting text messages instead, you may be able to override on a per-number basis as well.
FYI, exchange subscriptions and data are charged on top of the Bloomberg subscription. You are paying for a lot more than just data, its all the tooling on top of it.
They could have easily gotten a few moderate republicans if they moved to 15 or fewer weeks to move it inline with most of Europe. Plenty of Democrats wouldn’t have liked that but compromise is supposed to leave both sides unhappy, after all.
They never said the image was theirs, they said it was like that image.

So, who’s lying?
neem in my experience is most effective when applied to both sides of the leaf as well, since most critters like clinging under the leaf.
The biggest reason would be the only increasing levels of social & economic inequality.

My working assumption is that there will be some breaking point or a triggering event where people just had enough.

There's plenty of violent acts driven by various reasons, I guess I am surprised we have yet to see "vigilante" type act against people of power.
I'd love to buy a modern Apple-led-by-Woz device, kidding?
Reading around it seems the bulk goods wagons in the EU can move about 56tons each max, are about 13m long[1], and freight trains have a max length of 750m[2] but normally need to be shorter.

In total that means the maximum an EU freight train could theoretically move is only 3,100 tons[3]. So to move 20mil tons of wheat in 3 months (I don’t know the shelf life of wheat) would require about 70 full trains a day. Which I suspect might be beyond what’s possible.

[1] https://railrent.com/en/wagon-overview/bulk-freight-wagon/

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Europe

[3] 750/13 = 57.6 wagons per train. Subtract one for an engine (but I suspect you need more than one engine) give you 56 wagons. 56 wagons at 56 tons each gives you a total of 3,135tons are cargo.
It's wall-to-wall virtue signaling. And no amount of "I don't want to see this" seems to move the needle.
That's a bold claim. Care to share how you aim to achieve that with similar data quality?
Makes me wonder if there could be room for a SimpleString library.

I love/use Rust. I don't think any of this is complicated. BUT, i'm a big fan of just "clone your problems away" for beginner Rust users. Going knee deep into techniques which merely reduce memory usage when people likely don't actually care - at all - about it just feels wrong to me.

So yea, maybe a cursed library where SimpleString is just some niceties around some Cow + Arc thing which is also Copy. Hell, you could probably just apply it Vec and who knows what else.

Anyway, clearly not something i'm advocating anyone _really_ use. But it seems a nice way to make stuff "Just Work" in the beginning.
> I never thought that those “superstonks” folks would be proven right that the system is rigged, but there it is in plain text.

It always has been and it is made for the institutions to rarely lose and be ahead with the smart money over retail traders.
Seems like you're missing foreign exchange and commodities too? How about options trading? I get access to all that via Interactive Brokers. Bloomberg at work also has economic data.
Not to go against, it's not smartphones, it's free high speed internet ..

I have the same issue at home with a laptop. compulsive F5, serial alt-tabber ... nature wasn't ready for this amount of thin stimuli and shallow emotional hooks.
Performing a separate request for the last-inserted row has always struck me as a literally insane idea. Of course it's incredibly error prone! How could it be anything else?

How the heck did it come into existence?
Really cool, congrats for the launch
You would love the UK. Many cities have steam railroads of similar gauge in public parks. They are also run by clubs of old men, but offer rides to kids all day on the weekend instead of hiding out in the hills!
Those systems have some pretty tight weight limits on them, which makes them unsuitable for freight usage. I believe this approach, and why doesn’t work, is covered in the article.
But if we eat the animals that eat the grain arnt we kinda eating the grain... like indirectly? If I grind the grain into a kinda dust and then let tiny organisms eat the dust and then cook those organisms am I eating grain?
I wouldn't trust any word of the meme stock conspiracy theorists. If you can stomach it, visit r/SuperStonk, and it's basically like QAnon of Finance...with many posts screaming Ken Griffin bad!
> It's really not about that, corn products are simply bad for health - too much sugar, to little more valuable nutrients

For the majority, sure. In our immediate family I have to disagree, after many months of (undiagnosed) illness, and after several trips to hospital, my son was recently diagnosed with Coeliac[0].

Now corn products are now a key component of his diet.

[0] https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-disea...
I'm, going to echo a bit of whats in the comments to robcohen's post but the single most productive cert I hold is my pilots license. I do not fly for a living, Im a software engineer (mostly). I hold other certs, some technical, others non technical both work related and non work related by a sizable margin my PPL is the the most productive:

Back story: when I started working for my self my first client was a pilot, he encouraged me to get my PPL or at least do a demo flight. I did an intro flight and was instantly hooked. 3 years later I had a PPL, Instrument Rating, High Performance and Complex checkouts. One of the best experiences I have ever had, I was fresh out of college, had a few bucks in my pocket and not many obligations. Anyway heres why its been great:

- I have found there are basically three types of people that bum around private airports where general aviation ops occur. 1) people successful enough to afford to fly private jets or charters when they need 2) people successful enough to OWN their own plane. 3) People who are liable to become types 1 and 2. In general pilots are a nice bunch and a talkative bunch. Ive met some really great people (read business connections) just by lurking around the airport. That first client I had, had lots of similar buddies who were pilots that I got to meet etc. etc. By far the most productive business networking I have EVER done occurred near an aircraft.

- Flying keeps you sharp in all aspects and it WILL change the way you look at things. It keeps you sharp on doing paperwork, sharp on staying current on a topic, sharp on thinking ahead of things, sharp on staying in at least some sort of decent physical shape. I have built a lot of productive habits in my life to ensure I can fly.

- It hones your decision making skills, a lot....

- It re-shapes how you view getting around and enabling your business/work. Both pre and post pandemic life. Meeting with client within 500 miles, Im not dealing with trains or regional jets, im coming and going as I need. This has enabled same day travel, taking meetings i normally wouldn't have and being able to generally buy time back.

- Putting my PPL on my resume has been the best talking point, stand out item, liner note I have ever had.

- Its just good fun.
Well, maybe not completely random.

Recruiters are generally random and have no qualms about adding people.

People also will add people at the company, even if they don't work together, or even colleague of colleague type connections are pretty standard. Doing so on FB I think would be weird, especially across genders.
Exactly. That combined with incredibly low interest rates for years motivated people to put more and more cash into the stock market because CDs and saving account returns are a total joke nowadays. The total amount of cash that has flowed into the stock market over the last two years has been insane.[0]

0: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/09/investors-have-put-more-mone...
In the past our stories had "the wise fool" and "the noble pauper". We don't really do that now. All of our heros are rich, smart and beautiful. It's a crassification no doubt. Maybe a shift in the target demographic is to blame.
I just tried again. Same error. My domain's mail is hosted on Google, which is of the major email providers.
I think that has been fairly heavily disproven. That language defines culture.

I meant my anecdote to be that I grew up in America, and didn't see this behavior at large. Outside of movies.

Completely agreed that it is an interesting topic.
> Well, except those Reddit videos

Reddit videos are something, it is horrible on all systems/networks I've tested. :D
I think it's mainly because unlike Java, where a StringBuilder is effectively an optimisation over concatenating Strings, in Rust managing that memory would be a total pain, so you tend to keep the mutable thing around.

Once that happens, Box<str> becomes kinda unnecessary. There are many cases where it would be the correct type, for example reading from a file in a read-only manner, but most of the time you're going to be doing something to that text, so it makes more sense to just load it up as a String already and avoid the unnecessary copy.

Either way, it's mostly a naming problem. &str/String sucks :(
The best thing you can do is FULLY TURN OFF notifications from any social media app (twitter, facebook, instagram, etc).

Anything that would result in a requirement to swipe down from the top of the screen on android and look at a notification/popup and either slide it away to dismiss it or click on it.

It's easy to do in android or ios.

You should only see content when you specifically choose to open the app.

This is by no means a complete solution but goes a long way to reducing the compulsion to check things every 5 minutes.
If you're trying to help bumble bees, they tend to like to build their nests in the ground under/around rocks, or occasionally in dense duff like straw bales/wattles.

Last year I had a plant to move a flat stone behind a masonry retaining wall on my property to be a hat on a low stone wall that extended off of the end of it, hoping to create some bee habitat. The rock turned out to be too heavy to move, and as soon as I started jostling it, bumble bees came out from under it to see what the ruckus was. So apparently that rock was working just fine where it was. Instead I bought some new stone, but I haven't observed any bees so far this year.

Some people use old pots for this task, but I know people, and an upturned pot is going to be inspected, potentially destroying the hive. Kids in particular would be both more prone to this, and more traumatized to learn what they'd done. A big ol' rock is less of an attractive hazard.
IMPEACH Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett for lying or misleading the Senate before their appointment to the US Supreme Court NOW!
Selling nothing, aside from the startup life, of course! ;)
Ok, take Spain. Quality of life there is just substantially better than pretty much all of the US.
What's happening is that the environment in which these technologies have to work is changing. When fossil fuels were cheap and CO2 untaxed, it's really hard for renewables and storage to win.

But that's not going to be the world going forward. Fossil fuels have to be phased out, which means raising CO2 taxes as high as needed to make that happen. In that environment, it's suddenly highly profitable to push these technologies, and they will go from nothing to dominant in very little time.

The supposed advantage of nuclear, that it has already been demonstrated, means very little. Nuclear had its change to get better, and it got worse. It's already demonstrated it's a loser.

The market is already making the judgment on how this will turn out, whether you like it or not. Money is flowing into renewables and storage; very little is going into nuclear. Nuclear is old, tired, and slowly dying.
There was the documentary 'nicotine bees' (2010) too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnAoOPiimfw

Colony collapse to some degree is also supposedly normal, see 'beepocalypse nah' (sarah taber) https://soundcloud.com/farm-to-taber-podcast/farm-to-taber-0...
They think Istanbul is in Western Europe while Budapest is in Eastern Europe, I'm not entirely convinced that rest of their report is worth reading.
highly educated people [...] have built up conservatives as such a boogeyman, they don’t have a solid grasp on what’s within the realm of political reality and what isn’t. I detected the same hyperbole in your post.

Just 15 months ago, you wrote 'Of course, overturning Roe isn’t really in the cards. There are just 3 votes for it.'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26311034

I don't know whether your analytic powers are less good than you imagine them to be, or you're being strategic; but given that you now write as if such an outcome had been obvious and inevitable all along, I'm not inclined to rely on your estimates.
Chargeback experience can definitely vary from credit card issuer to issuer. I've personally never had Wells Fargo ever push back on any credit card chargeback, but I can concur with your example about ApplePay being one of the more awful customer experiences I've had. I asked for a chargeback for a book that was never shipped and no tracking was ever provided. Apple Pay asked me to provide this and pushed back 2x on the chargeback instead of making the vendor provide a tracking number--I ended up spending about 2 hours just to get my $12 back... As such, I'll never use Apple Pay again. Vote with your dollar and if Capital One isn't meeting your expectations, take your business to another company.
This is probably enough information for the folks at the Science Fiction & Fantasy Stackexchange (https://scifi.stackexchange.com/) to identify the story, they get similar story identification requests all the time and are crazy good at it.

If you do ask make sure to include approximately when you read it and please let me know, I'm curious about your story too now!
Do you care to explain? How can you have a worst history when the `main` / `develop` branch have a linear history? I rather have a linear history where git bisect is trivial to use then a mess of merges and a hard to follow history.
Senator Cornyn: Now Do Plessy vs. Ferguson/Brown vs. Board of Education
No, probably not. Mostly it gets said because sweet corn is tasty when prepared simply as a whole food, and it's what most people think of when they see the word "corn".
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The bee apocalypse is still here. The bees haven’t come back.

Other fauna have declined as well, without us noticing.

I go to northern Maine a few times a year and I’m always looking for moose. I used to be able to find them. Now I only see them when I’m in the air (from a plane).

My friend showed me a study the state did tracking 60 newborn moose calves. Due to overwhelming winter tick population, 90%(!) did not survive the first year, and therefore could not reproduce. This problem has led to a massive decline of moose.
How would you distinguish between ADHD vs modern distractability?

Especially if someone showed no ADHD symptoms before smartphones

Everyone has some distractability so curious about threshold
> a tablet
A little bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization

Best use of maize, IMO, is fermentation. Let the yeast have it first, take off the volatiles, then feed the mash leftovers to tasty critters.
unless you have actual experience in helping, your "help" can quickly become a liability, no matter how well intentioned.

not to say you shouldnt get a rescue cert, but that alone is insufficient if you have no actual and recent or long term experience.
Will have international securities shortly
How about us who have lived in the US and have been coming and going since the 90s as well as having done that in a few places in Europe too?

The 90s were peak US. The last 6 years have seen a very, very quick decline.
Sorry, what's "fishy" about me doing an image search for a visual aid of something similar to what someone else's laptop looked like when I saw it 8 months ago, exactly?
The world needs less of proof of work, as it is synonymous with proof of burning energy.
Check now? Thanks for your cooperation :)
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What Copilot means for open source