skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish articles like this would just get to the point. We don't need yet another explanation of how recycling works, how it has low recovery rates, etc. Given the audience, take it as a given the reader has the basics down.

Further down the author finally starts to talk about their topic (trash picking robots), but then digresses yet again. It's a really terrible writing style.

State what your topic is up front with a brief high level, then you can mix in some more background while expanding on the details further below.
Certainly not in any standardized way. The variance between what someone does in one software development job vs another is just too high to be a good signal of any particular knowledge.
What? There’s a limit to highlands? That entirely depends on where you live. ;)
Everyone says that, but I don’t find it to be true. For context, we run a Gitea fork at work, and I often have to read the source code inherited from upstream Gitea.

There are a ton of things that can happen during a merge, for example. Does anyone know what a smudge filter actually is? Why are there branches, and also tracking branches? There are refs, heads, objects, and blobs, and not all of those have the same operations (list, show) defined on them. There are changesets but also snapshots. Why do some commands have a --porcelain flag and others don’t? Did you know Git has garbage collection? You can’t rename a file in Git. What’s the difference between branches and tags? These are all things that are really discovered only through relentless trial and error.
What about aliasing it, marking String as deprecated in docs, 'please use StrBuf'? (Clippy warning, etc.)
This is a comment by Linus Torvalds from 2012 about Gnome:

"That’s exactly the reverse of the gnome “we know better” mentality, and “We will force Corba/.NET down your throat whether you like it or not, and if you complain, you’re against progress, and cannot handle the change”."
More than one person has come to me with a story that they'd developed a side project without notifying their employer, and now that it was done and they were distributing it were worried their employer was going to claim ownership.

I didn't have anything helpful to say. I've done side projects when I was working for Big Corps, but in every case notified management beforehand and got a written ok. Never had any trouble with it. When I've accepted job offers, I'd also provide a list of projects that were mine and had them sign off on it as a condition of employment. Never encountered any resistance to that, either.

But these poor people were sweating bullets imagining all the bad consequences of their employer finding out.

Just ask, in advance. If you're a valuable employee, they'll say ok. Never heard of one saying no. And they'll appreciate that you asked instead of sneaking around.

But be careful not to use company equipment.
it took your mind 2 million years to develop those receptors. good luck
> Who said anything about resting? I'm talking about exercise. The more you exercise, the more muscle you build, which makes you spend more energy while exercising.

Again muscle vs fat don't change significantly that quantity of calories burned, unless you have some citations.

> False. You can lose fat by exercising, without changing your diet whatsoever.

Not in any practical sense. Most folks don't have the time to run a five-miler for each muffin they eat in a given day.

This advice is just not useful. It's technically correct but totally unhelpful. It's basically the tautology: 'once you've lost weight you've lost weight.'
Also, just to clarify my verbiage on the ground instructor bit, not at all saying that you couldn't do all the other aviation ones too (and you should, they were all a blast to get) and more...just that ground instructor is one you should specifically look into because it is relatively little-known, is straightforward and cheap to get for people like us who clearly find tests easy, and offers a fair amount of practical benefits (advanced ground instructor can teach ground for ANY part 61 rating, also you don't have to retake FOI if you ever go for CFI...flight schools in my area will absolutely hire someone on a ground instructor cert alone). No intent meant to cast any aspersions or to minimize any accomplishments!
> I don't know why the title is editorialized here …

I saw the post some minutes ago and it was with posted with the original titles. I guess the mods changed it. The part about wanting to kill the writer is an exaggeration. It's usual to changed it to the subtitle or a relevant sentence, but without too much cherry picking (the last part is not very clear).

Someone made a tracker to for these changes https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21617016 (366 points | Nov 23, 2019 | 94 comments) Most of the changes make sense (if you forget the infamous case of the asteroid/rocket part).
If we only want profitable people represented, we can skip the extra steps and just have a voting fee, or even just a landowning requirement! Then the poors won't be able to screw up the country at all
It's a little disingenuous to assume the new technology is actually exploitative or dangerous, when accusing one of said tech's defenders of disingenuity.
Depends on your starting point. More overhead than GC, most of the time, so much less than C/C++
Thank you! I edited my post. The part I meant was in reference to " the difficulties I currently have in functioning." It made me think he's probably in a disability situation, possibly psychiatric. And then what he's saying in general is he doesn't fit in anywhere, which I can relate to. Other people noted this may be because he's autistic, and I tend to agree, as I am. That doesn't necessarily have to be true though, sometimes people never find their tribe or their person... the world is huge and the Internet seems to just be funneling people into per-existing battlefields rather than trying to hook people up with other cool people.
Unfortunately I'm not a doctor or researcher to be able to give a definitive answer, but I don't think these things can cause ADHD - though they can likely worsen symptoms, for both people who have it and those who don't. But I suspect such an effect would be reversible, unlike (genetic components of) ADHD.
I imagine since in the US, no one walks and there is nothing of interest outside, anyone who is out standing around is probably engaging in some criminal activity.

What a sad society where this is the case.
The projects now are of a level of militarization comparable only to the (failed) Strategic Defense Initiative in the late 80's. Today the pursuit of artificial intelligent targeting in such a system is what makes it particularly threatening to humanity.

I've observed that Mike (and other supporters of this) are very religious. I suspect they are OK gambling with our collective future. Maybe they believe God will intervene or something. Well some of us don't want to play that game.
I agree, it needs to ensure no verbatim code. I also noticed that there is also an option not to use public code. But I actually like the idea of using open source code. In one breath we (software devs) have recommended reading open source software to learn coding, then when someone try's to automate that using AI so that it try's to contextually help you write code, some people seem upset that we can automate extracting code knowledge / patterns because we didn't do it with our wetware? I think it should be highly encouraged for people to extract knowledge from open code, even if at the moment it is far from perfect. The boiler plate stuff at the moment is great, and from time to time it writes some good contextually aware stuff as well. So, in summary, if humans are allowed to learn from open code, then I think AI should be allowed to learn from open code too.
I believe this is already a feature that you can activate for Github Copilot.
I don't know how closely this is to OP, but even before the pandemic I was looking for 'a third place' to hang out after work before commuting home as public transit can be too busy for my liking. There's a lot fewer options than you might think. Few coffee shops are good to staying more than 10s of minutes (annoying music, too much traffic, etc). Not many libraries in the city core. I often just had an early dinner trying something new if I could and sat for a while more, which isn't quite what I was looking for.

Now with 'the office' being the same as home, I really need to find a 2nd place. The only thing I'd found was driving less and walking to stores and coffee shops within distance.

I tried some co-working spaces, but they were too worky. Seems like an opportunity: co-hanging spaces. Some places were good, but after I had a coffee, a tea, biscuits, I didn't know what else do to but leave.
There was an amusing experiment recently where they trained an ML model on different languages to see just how regular their spelling it:

https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigtyp-1.1.pdf

English scored the worst on reading by far at 31% (the next lowest was Dutch, at 55%). It also has one of the lowest writing scores at 36%, beating only French (28%) and Chinese (20%).

It also shows what a well-designed phonemic orthography can do: Serbian scored 99% for both reading & writing, indistinguishable from Esperanto.
> Please make sure to keep voting after you move

Absolutely. My geography does not absolve me of my responsibility to do so.
This book was on my reading list in 9th grade! I cried at the end. I felt for the main character all throughout the book.
One of his videos had some don’t try this yourself disclaimer (it was a particular straight line video where they faced a lot of challenges), which confused me. Is he really some kind of professional (at something outdoorsey)? Because that’s what that kind of a disclaimer seems to imply, or the way I tend to interpret it.
As much as I hate the entire concept, I would have a hard time articulating a substantive difference between this description of the ai mixing together bits of stuff it saw and what I do myself when I'm writing something that I fully describe as mine.
After haskell strings, rust strings actually felt reasonable
With modern urban lifestyles requiring (for many people) a lot less calories than ancient lifestyles of running around some great plains this is actually a feature to some degree for many people

People need to take up protein. If the protein comes with significantly more calories than they burn, they're more likely to gain weight.
In theory you could do something like this, but it would be a lot of churn for a questionable amount of gain. I probably wouldn't support it today; Rust is past being able to make these sorts of changes imho.
Also, and I’m not saying this to deny climate change: variations between the coldness of a given winter and when spring onsets will, in general, greatly affect insect populations. Climate affects both how many survive the winter and how they migrate. Add oscillating patterns to that as predatory animals react delayed to that.

Some years you will see huge winged ants, other years will be heavy with mosquitoes, other years will have giant hornets.
To add on to the other answer, for folks with ADHD symptoms it was likely there before smartphones too - you/they just didn't realize it (like I didn't myself). A doctor however is far more capable of this judgement.

Another simple test - after a week long (say) tech detox, do they (permanently) improve, or are the benefits very little (tending to perhaps even being distracted during that week)?
when I was 11 (1992) my family moved to the US (kansas) I barely spoke the language, spent 2 years in kansas, had to build a whole new friendgroup but kept in touch with friends back home through the just beginning internet (israel) I dont remember if it was hard to make friends, I do remember some people being complete shits to the foreign kid but oh well.. made some friends, graduated middle school...

when I was 13 we moved to Los angeles, I didnt know anyone, in a fairly small school, had to make all new friends, learn to socialize again, still kept in touch with israeli long term friends (we visited once a year at least), but no one from kansas. Slowly gathering friends here. then right at the end of highschool I realized a lot of people were just circumstantial friends. Social awkwardness caught up with me, folks I thought liked me were just there because of proximity.

Didnt know the college system well enough so went into a local community college, made some interesting friends, kept a couple from highschool kept in touch kept doing things together but mostly slowly rebuilt my "group" eventually figured out I love animation and art, applied to a real art school, and lost touch with all my community college friends..

in college again I built a group, small, I would socialize get close to, but eventually graduated, and lost touch, by graduation I had 2-3 close people but between pickiness and awkwardness I lost mostly everyone again.

as a graduate again worked hard, used okcupid, used meetup made a nice group of friends! ... 3-4 years later people grow apart until a big event happens and everyone breaks off on their own...

working a real job now and this cycle has repeated... maybe 2-3 more times making, keeping friends is a part time job, organize social events check in on people, assume there's always going to be a turnover, I still have friends I knew when I was 5 years old but we talk... rarely (though comfortably when I visit israel) and you simply cant stop life from eroding at that.

to not be alone, at least in the current world, I feel like I have to constantly make NEW friends, find new activities put myself out there, I've met people through dating apps, roomate situations, second hand connections, love interests, I'm NOT the most socially capable person but I keep hitting my head against that lonliness wall and at this point there's a nice deep dent in it to remind me it's not futile.
>Huh that is surprising! "There is no federal general common law"

My reading of the particular passage[0] in the Wikipedia article is that while Federal courts are no longer independent sources of common law, they operate along with other systems that are, and often impact the common law of the several states with rulings that set the limits of Federal, State and individual power.

As such, the reality is a bit more complicated,

N.B.: IANAL and this is not legal advice.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#United_States_feder...
> f you cannot afford to feed yourself how are you going to afford the doctors, diapers, extra room, school, clothes, etc. etc.

People do this all over the world.

> Strangers are not going to help raise the child, like back in tribe ages where there so many children that everyone in the tribe had a part.

and

> The social benefits from government when you have a child are abysmal even in the "good" states in America.

So why are we not addressing these things? But actually, that is what adoption is all about. True? Stranger raisin your baby?

> When discussing value of life people usually pick their preferred side.

I don't. I do not discuss their value monetarily at all. That is incomprehensible. By the way, I am homeless, and yes, I see both Democrats and Republicans treat me like garbage. They both do not care about life at any point.
Maybe, I haven’t used it. Is it good?
The copyright issues are downloaded to the user/developer.

If co-pilot suggests anything under copyright and you publish it you get sued.
I cannot take seriously all these fleeting pastimes and bucket lists and ultra-specific cultural critiques when the world is a horrible place that is going to implode soon if we don't do something about it.

At one time, we bonded with a short list of people physically close to us because that's all we had. We were forced to do so.

Now we can to some degree "choose our tribe" by going online and talking with people with similar interests rather than whomever happenstance tossed us in with. These are people who may "get" us better than siblings, parents, cousins, neighbors and coworkers would.

Or they may not.

So that's likely part of the issue for the author and many others.

But the other thing is the pull quote, above. Climate change. Eight billion humans. Etc.

It seems too big and too nebulous a problem for anyone to solve. It seems like an apocalypse.

But historically lots of people experienced local apocalypse. War came and wiped out their tribe or village or caused famine for the region and widespread illness. However, a lot of those stories died with their victims, never got recorded and passed on.

We have more knowledge of suffering, more ability to broadcast our stories no matter how much of a nobody we are, more awareness of a larger context that seems like too big a problem for anyone to solve.

If you are at all upbeat, people act like you are in denial. They can't believe a rational person can know what they know and feel like "It's the end of the world as we know it...and I feel fine."

It ends up being a self-reinforcing loop where you don't let in other perspectives.
So that is a reason to abort a baby? Rather than fix the society?

You see what I mean?
Fair. I meant my claim there more as a question. I only have vague memories of the Sapir Whorf hypothesis. Quickly scanning, I can't find anything definitive. Probably the criticism from Pinker, is what I remember?
Wild digression: Just reading the title, I thought this was going to be the story about someone who had a huge amount of server traffic for some innocuous image he was hosting. He eventually figured out some Wordpress theme publisher had used a link to it in a theme they wrote and sold. So all these web-sites that were using the theme were loading this image from his server - costing him traffic and money.

So he changed the image to something disgusting along the lines of a goatse image (and this is where my brain went to, "If you website's full of assholes...").

The kicker was the theme writer actually contacted him and asked him to "fix" the image as it was upsetting their customers and effecting their sales. Apparently the theme publisher no longer had access to whoever they originally had write the theme, and lacked sufficient skills to publish an update with a link to a different image themself.
I always called them flying cotton balls. They're also not aggressive, so working around them isn't likely to get you a sting, as opposed to those damn yellow jackets. I get all species are important but I hate those things.
Personally I hate autocomplete. I've had peers that were shocked I prefer to type everything out manually, and my IDE is essentially a text editor with syntax highlighting. To each their own of course, but I find the increase in productivity very quickly becomes a crutch for just remembering things.
Unix was originally created on a PDP-7, and later ported to an 11/20.

Neither is substantially larger than a rack-mount PC.
Teslas Are Safer and Here Is Proof
Outside the context of crime: loitering, yes, foot traffic, not really.
It's possible this particular phrase is a euphemism used in crime reporting, I don't know, but if it is I don't know why they wouldn't just say "officers no longer suspected dealers were using this place" / "informants/word on the street was that distribution moved to xyz ... "

That sentence read strangely to me as well; I think foot traffic is great and my favorite places in America are built around promoting it.
It’s almost as if the US actually does have a good rail system, except it’s been optimized for freight. /sarc.
What's it take to be a locksmith?

In some states, carrying lockpicks is presumptive guilt unless you're a locksmith, but I never figured out whether that's a certification or just a business license or what.
You know what’s best for you. I’m wondering though if you’ve tried the non-pharmaceutical options already? Daily exercise, time outside, eating healthy, limiting screen time, sleeping well, and all that.

A lot of studies have found doing these things to be at least as effective as SSRIs. They can create hormonal and neurochemical changes that are just as strong. Check out some of Andrew Huberman’s podcasts for more on this. I wish you the best in any case with whatever route you take!
> balance is ultimately more important than having good roads

...or ever-increasing numbers of humans living an ever-more-consumerist life.
“The Lazarus Heist” explains North Korea’s wild hacking spree
> doubt
You mentioned supporting your kids with school. University is quite expensive in the US compared to Germany, even if your children decide to go to an “in-state” college. You might want to look into that, especially if they will be out regular school age within the next ten years.
I found an article about it because I was also curious.

https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2022-05...
You are misinformed, if you think it was the “Republicans” who were running the “segregation academies”. The problem won’t be solved until the partisanship decreases.
I think this is really cool. Something that enhances your actual social life instead of acting as a parasitic replacement for it.
May not work due to student visa. May also legally not be able to sell as well but that could be circumvented through a third party.
I hope you share that despire with Wall Street.

No one says "Wall Street cashed out", they say "the market crashed".

The market gets inflated with borrowed money and the bills gets paid by retirement funds having record loses when the big ones run away with the money.

It's the biggest ponzi of them all.
SANS certs? CCIE? GSE? OSEE?
Well, let's see.

First, reporters are incapable of discovering this information on their own. They just don't have the tools. Investigatory bodies do, and reporters would have to wait.

Secondly, there were multiple plausible ideas about what could have happened. The drum was beaten on only one of them. Trump got caught with his pants down because as with everything else he's ever been a part of, he was woefully unprepared and out of his depth.

Third, and tying in with the first point, the more important story to virtually everyone was not how the first people were infected, but what the response and fallout of the infections were.

So again, you had a bunch of clueless, embarrassed political partisans who got caught with their pants down, and their base ate up the blame-shifting because of their xenophobic tendencies.
I can’t seem to find any comments here, or anything mentioned in the article about the fact that free people made their own decisions and had to absorb the risk. I don’t know what’s wrong with that.
He got into some hot water with the police at one point for crossing an active railway. Adding the disclaimer may have been part of his informal "plea deal," so to speak.
What I find sad is to see startups here in Switzerland where we already separate and recycle extensively that offer a service where you just toss everything that can be recycled in the same bag. So batteries are mixed with plastic and cans. These bags compete with government collection facilities and are "reprogramming" people to be lazy. Regular trash is very expensive here and people who want to safe are forced to separate and recycle what can be.

The hardest task of recycling is the separation of items. Centralizing this does not scale as you need to hire more and more underpaid worked to do this task. The task that was done for free before by the person throwing the item out. All the facilities had to do is sort the remaining small percentage of miss sorted items instead of all items.
Stop going to Slashdot, problem solved.
> Microsoft also soon abandoned its object extensions to C and went with C++.

Anyone have any info on what those abandoned Microsoft extensions were?
Bro, you're the one being uncivil. Don't make me laugh. I may be arrogant. But being arrogant isn't uncivil. When you insult people and try to "trigger" them that's what's uncivil.

Also that guy I responded to, wasn't asking for clarification. He was dismissing my comment without reading it.