skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be the education director at a makerspace and now run a 3D printing company selling small plastic parts and teaching entrepreneurs how to start small manufacturing businesses at home.

Few thoughts:

- Focus on your hobbies and other industries you know well. What problems exist? Where can you make things better? Are there problems people mention over and over again?

- CAD modeling is often THE fundamental skill needed for people to bring their ideas to market. You can make CAD models that look almost real using software you can get for free. This allows you to work backwards, first determining if there's a market, and also working out many of the design flaws before making something

If you're just excited to make stuff, and want to get your hands on something, you can do all kinds of things in a tight space.

- 3D printers are small and provide many automated opportunities
- Laser cutters are dead simple to set up and use to make real products and are easy to automate.
- CNC machines can be had for under 5k and are super powerful
- Portable MIG welders have a small footprint and welding tends to be in high demand
- Leather working tends to be high perceived value though automation is limited
- Soldering and electronics repair requires little space but again, automation is limited

I've got loads of other ideas too but I'm guessing that's good for now. My contact information is in my profile if you'd like to talk more.
W O W.

I had no idea that Einstein was so compassionate, so aware of how other people were reacting to things, and found so much joy in opening things for other people. Amazing.
> Fortunately, VSC allows comments between a // and a following newline.

Yes, that's my point. If a human is required to look at the JSON it's not hard to find a parser that permits comments. So of course it would be supported if it was actually needed.

Even without that though, you can do something like the trick I used in a JSON-based format:

{
"__comment": "For help with this file, go to http://wiki.example.com/...",
...
"foo": "..."
}

That does have the problem that your programs processing the JSON need to strip out keys with that name if it would interfere with the program. So it's probably easier just to add the line of code in your parser saying to permit comments.

Meanwhile, XML comments have issues of their own, as you have to be familiar with SGML rules on how -- are handled to safely use or edit XML comments. So while they are nice to have it's not as if they have no nuance either.
I think they aim to say that ancients weren't dumb dullards. Which I don't think people are saying they were so. We're saying that to get where we are took as long as it took humanity to get where we are (Outside of some fabulous thinking that there existed "modern" historical societies that disappeared).

When Hobbes said life would be 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short' he was referring to life outside of the outcast's society.
I would say that 37% of 37% of the population is quite a fringe position.
this is exactly correct.

i sincerely apologize to any who have been harmed, even slightly, by my oddity.
It only fails in the US because of corruption and NIMBYism. These telecoms buy off the local city council and prevent new development of any lines. Then local residents complain about the hassle of digging trenches, having utility trucks on the block, etc.

When you ban this sort of bullshit permitting process it goes extremely well. Sometimes local authority has to be sacrificed for the long term benefit that residents don't see.
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Something like this happened to me when I was at debate camp in high school.

I roomed with a super-chill guy who had an enormous (at the time) volume of CDs with him. I told him I was starting to listen to rock music more seriously (something I hid for a long time; I'm Black and Latino and got made fun of by people when I told them I listened to Blink and Taking Back Sunday). When I told him I was listening to KROQ, he said "No. Here's a Bob Dylan CD. Listen to this; give it back to me whenever."

Loved it.

He then gave me White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground, which is what basically _really_ started me on punk, which I still listen to a ton of today (less Blink; more SNFU, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, and the like) and has kind-of formed a part of my identity (or at least the part that is always ALWAYS seeking new music and doesn't fixate on the music of my college years).

Sharing music is a huge part of discovery.
> There will be nothing for OpenAI or Google to monetize.

I disagree. FB/Yandex are releasing massive text transformers to the public, but even with the model available to download you need a DGX rack to run inference. Google/OpenAI can make money by charging for access to their hardware.
I had no idea AV1 or any other codec provided for this. Pretty interesting!

What would undermine it is imperfect removal of real noise or grain from the source material: Then you'd have some remnants of the original grain, plus the synthesized grain... an incorrect result. It seems that this scheme requires perfectly clean input images.

I hope this idea is taken further, and it becomes the norm among codecs or wrappers to provide room for an author-defined post-processing shader to be applied after decompression.
> The trick is to drink 1 to 2 glasses per day

here we go again -_-

what are they gonna "find out" next?

> "Lessons from the happiest people on planet"

> The trick is to take 1 to 2 MDMA per day
Thank you! It was the Hacker's Diet. I will check out Trendweight as well.
> Did you know that the US only lost war in Afghanistan because Putin paid a head bounty to the Taliban for every US soldier killed?

Not something the media claimed. This is a claim pushed by anonymous conspiracy theorist patrec, which supports my point. The media said that Trump was briefed about possible bounties (true), the intelligence agencies had low to moderate confidence that Russia was paying bounties (also true) and made no assertions about how much this affected the outcome of the war.

> I can well remember how former luminaries like Tom "Give War A Chance" Friedman, Bill "The war in Iraq was right and necessary, and we won it" Kristol and David "Axis-of-evil" Frum or Stephen "The Connection" Hayes lost their lucrative careers over advocating catastrophic policies

These are news commentators, not reporters, and their articles are clearly marked as such. Their reputations _are_ poor among people who are not partisans, once again supporting my point. You could post more conspiracy theories in other social media accounts, and nobody will be the wiser.

As far as Clapper, he clarified his statement soon after being informed that it wasn't about what the previous questions about collecting dossiers on Americans was about and went as far as declassifying documents about the phone metadata collection program in question: https://www.lawfareblog.com/ic-record-response-times-editori...

That doesn't look like deliberately lying to me.
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I like this quote from the article,

> The correct answer to this question is that often the choice is not between the original film grain and the synthesized one. When video is transmitted over a channel with limited bandwidth, the choice is often between not having the film grain at all (or having the grain significantly distorted by compression) and having synthesized grain that looks subjectively similar to the original one.

Film grain doesn’t compress well. If you buy a 1080p Blu-ray disk, you can get a bit rate of something like 40 Mbit/s. Go watch 1080p video on Netflix, and you’re going to get something closer to 5 Mbit/s. Yes, the codecs are different—yes, you can talk all you want about how everything is going to be fast when we all get 5G—but this is still the ground reality that most people are working with. The bit rate is more of a constraint you have to work within than a variable you can just tweak to get the results you want.

By comparison, ProRes 422 has a target bit rate of 147 Mbit/s for 1920x1080@29.97.
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It does appear to be true for humans. Though interestingly there isn't a correlation between species size and cancer risk [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peto%27s_paradox
MS call it a "lightweight utility virtual machine", and "not a traditional VM experience", whatever that means.
Docker also works on MacOS, with a basic linux distro running under hypervisor that again, I'm not sure qualifies as a 'fully fledged VM' (at least in terms of user access to it).
Sounds like a limiting belief.
Demographically did this happen with covid?

The lockdowns and staying home clearly affected the labor market, but deaths within the labor demographics were not that high.
1. Try to clearly identify what you love and what hou hate in tech industry and working on day to day. 2. Be able to prove your value when talking with someone. 3. Use this value to be picky, by curating opportunities to keep the one.

For the last 6 months, I had job opportunities every day and say no to everything until I find the right one. Your family and friends will laugh at you, but in the end you'll be happier than them.
What! I refuse to believe every American premises isn't wired for fibre. Since we've paid for it so many times. And required it in many lucrative exclusivity contracts.

Some of the spending, for instance:
https://www.jsonline.com/in-depth/news/2021/07/14/weve-spent...
There's omxplayer as a command line video player for the Raspberry Pi.
> governments/employers not wanting to guarantee financial security of elders and offload the risk to the individual

One can argue for a well-fare state that provides all guarantees one wants.

But you're flipping the issue here. First, you have a risk of not aging. But most people are inevitably going to age and retire. This risk is inherent to the individual. Now we can offload that risk to the government (please, it's not the other way around), but it's going to have costs. And I think offloading it to the government is even riskier, because governments make stupid decisions and are subject to massive corruption.
I contribute to open source projects as well - in various capacities - and it's fine for a maintainer of a huge project to use that wording.

He pushed hugo and viper in 2013-2014: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commits/v0.7, viper: https://github.com/spf13/viper/commit/98be071

Steve is a very accomplished programmer, with what hugo / viper became in the go ecosystem by itself. In my view, the projects also jumpstarted a lot of new users who were trying out golang who weren't sold on it yet. I didn't really notice his leadership or advisory roles until now, that's just icing on the cake.

Thanks for your contributions, Steve!

Edit: If it's really big ecosystem, _indirect_ contributions also matter. e.g. in python, even if you're not writing CPython patches or PEPs, community based projects do a lot to shape best practices and even bubble up into standard library.
It sounds weird they say 4 to 14 years. What does that mean? Does it mean on average it adds 8 years? But since this is all about averages anyway why not just state the average?

Or does it mean always 4 and never more than 14?
I haven't really read it to know the relevance, but I think this is the article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/graeber...
For Teams, I'm shocked when it works the first time I click it. Usually because I was signed into another group's Teams and happened to go back to that one.

My bigger problem with teams is their multi-Team model. In between my current and last job, I (part time) contracted with a handful of groups and every single one added me to their Slack or Teams group. With Slack, they popped up as separate orgs and I could move between them as I needed. With Teams, I had to log out of one to open the other.

I will never know how many questions I missed (aka billable hours) and people I annoyed by "ignoring" them when I had simply had to join some other group's Teams to take a call and forgot to come back to their Teams.
I wouldn't normally bring this up but in this case it's a significant oversight: Did you read the comment you've replied to?

Grandparent comment explicitly states a rooted android phone cannot install the Snapchat app.

Snap has ensured it cannot work on a rooted device (as bank apps also do) to make it difficult to mess with the binary and end up saving or harvesting temporarily viewable content like snaps of genitalia or whatever people use snap for.
> The difficulty is not in determining what's possible but rather what's profitable.

If you troll Etsy or eBay or places like that, you'll quickly begin to realize the quantity of things that are obviously made on a CNC milling machine, or a laser cutter, etc.

The customizability can be the selling point - and if you can fit everything on a trailer, you can even haul it to state fairs, town fun fests, etc.

Think those fancy wood name plates you can buy at Disneyland kind of thing. But the big advantage can be you are local instead of some online thing.
This is consistent with my experience. Semantic versioning is very very widely used in the Rust ecosystem, so you're not looking at breaking changes unless you select a different major version (or different minor version, for 0.x crates) - which you have to do manually, cargo will only automatically update dependencies to versions which semver specifies should be compatible.

For crates that don't follow semver (which I'm fairly certain I've encountered zero times) you can pin a specific exact version.
It really doesn't. The whole reason this technique works is that our brain generally processes effects like noise and grain in terms of macro properties, and even if none of the pixels are anywhere like the right value, it will still look "right" as long as the noise distribution is closish.
In this context "navigating the offer" translates to introducing 81st variety of crab rangoons, apparently.
Shrooms. Good stuff.
And yet, what we had was a reasonable state of affairs: there was a sliding scale between more permissive and restrictive abortion options as a pregnancy progressed, and every person could make up their minds as to whether they would seek an abortion based on their circumstances and health within those limits. The status quo was that 99% of abortions were performed in the early stages where the fetus is still not developed, with virtually none of the morally complicated late term abortions actually occurring.

What then happened is that a president elected by a minority of the country appointed extreme Justices, who were confirmed by a Senate that also represented a minority of the country, and they made a unilateral decision based more on their personal religious beliefs than the actual law. Rather than settle the issue as they thought it would, they have thrown the whole country into abject chaos. A lot of reasonable people, and in fact highly distinguished legal scholars (including decades of Justices) interpreted the Constitution as supporting Roe, so calling them unreasonable is, I think, not right and adds insult to injury.

What is certainly unreasonable is where we have landed. State legislatures are passing the most extreme laws they can possibly can, with no exceptions for rape or incest. Forcing 10 year olds to flee a state to get an abortion because she was raped is not reasonable. Forcing mothers to wait until an ectopic pregnancy has ruptured before providing abortive care just because a heartbeat is detected on an unviable fetus is not reasonable. Just this weekend the Idaho GOP moved so far as to advocate for no exceptions at all even to save the life of the mother. That's not reasonable, that's extremism.

Far from this being an issue thrown to the states, now the GOP is turning toward a nationwide abortion ban if they retake the government. This is completely unsustainable and will likely tear this country apart.
Identity politics is a distraction from class struggle.

Marxist theory acknowledges that capitalism provides too much to the proletariat to desire revolution, thus the focus on destroying capitalism and society.
We live in a timeline where conspiracy theorists turn out to be right and now this.
That's neat. What do you use as the source? A bank of UV LEDs?

Never really thought about that but can you get larger "flashlight" style UV-spectrum LEDs from cree/etc? Of course you need to diffuse it and fewer larger elements are harder than more smaller elements but the output power is probably higher with the big LEDs, and I seem to remember some of the alt-processes are quite insensitive (like, leave it outside in the sun for a half hour).

The other way you can do it is, of course, printing a big negative and contact printing outside. It's a little lame with film since you have to go through an interpositive to get back to a negative (unless you use positive B+W slide process or similar - but those processes aren't great either in terms of quality), but ironically those processes are now extremely accessible through digital or hybrid-digital workflows. Scan your negative, print the scan (still negative) onto a transparency, and contact print, done. Or you can take a random digital image and invert it and then print it onto a transparency.

I should give laser-transparency cyanotype a go one of these days, that would be a few fun afternoons.

On the "how do I put out enough UV light for cyanotype enlargment" thing, I wonder if there's a way to get flashbulbs to put out UV light. One of the reasons older flash photos don't have the modern digital "flash" look is because the whole flashbulb lights up, and then the reflector actually spreads out the light from the flashbulb, so you don't have a point source like the xenon tube, it's a highly diffused source. And it's actually relatively intense by modern standards - another weird niche where flashbulb still is viable is infrared photography, IR flashbulbs put out a pretty massive amount of light.
Heh, as much as I hate painting with that wide of a brush it does seem accurate. Something about Google breeds hubris and self aggrandizement.
This is what my Dad does...and he has a lathe in the garage typically producing things for helicopters and airplanes.
> it now sticks to Teams for all non-eng while eng does Slack.

Why did the other depts stick to Teams?

Your comment seems to precisely prove my point, when reading it from my seat :D
_Is it_ up to Mojang/Microsoft to police this? Most multiplayer activity takes place on third party servers (I'm pretty sure this is the case for their Bedrock edition as well as Java edition), which have their own teams of moderators and administrators, or are small and private. Not quite sure how phishing etc. plays into this.
Infrastructure is a natural monopoly [1]. The cost to enter the market is unfavourable, and the incumbent has all the margins.

Privatizing it is always a bad move for the citizens, and a good move for the private company.

At worst, countries should keep one publicly owned company that owns the infrastructure and rents it to others, and also keeps the playing field leveled with low prices for the customers (this is the case in some countries but not all..).

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
>The pandemic made it clear that elites are ok with mass death and debilitation

I don't know what elites you have in mind but the average Spring Break attendee seemed to be significantly more okay with an uncontrolled pandemic than Bill Gates

the few members of the political elite who were okay with it usually happened to be put in their positions of power by the not-so-very-elite section of our democratic electorate.
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We've spent about $50k getting going, but we are on a farm so have options others don't. Our equipment was $10k, the rest went into refrigerated containers we turned into a kitchen grade dehydration space, prep room, coolroom and storage.

I'm fortunate to have a sister in the food retailing business who was our first customer. We started dehydrating lime slices to use up the excess limes from our yard and control fruit fly, and found we couldn't keep up with demand. From there it's gone really well.

We are in Australia though, YMMV.
The rapid increase of Korean IQs demonstrates this very clearly. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235327743_The_Flynn...
> I disagree that it isn't an API, but that's a definition quibble.

I don't understand: An API is an application programming interface, i.e. it is meant to be consumed by other programs. How does that go together with

> REST and HATEOAS are for humans

?

And how does that go together with the requirements of "no interpretation needed" and therefore "little coupling" between client and server that were mentioned in the article? Any API must be interpreted by the calling application – i.e. the caller must know what they are calling and what responses they might get. Otherwise they cannot do anything useful with it – at least not in an automatic (programmatic) fashion.

I really don't understand how something can be a REST API on the one hand (clear, well-documented interface; used for programming), and on the other hand is supposed to be "for humans" and devoid of "interpretation" on the client's part. (Leaving aside that, even if this were possible, the interpretation would simply be done by the very final client of the API: The human.)

All in all, I simply fail to see how ideas like "REST is for humans", HATEOAS etc. are supposed to be actionable in the real world.
REST, noun, acronym.

1. A term to indicate APIs that use HTTP as the transport protocol, and typically JSON as representation.

2. (archaic) A term conied in a paper from 2000, indicating a model that describes how the internet works.
Even with .Net ... on small to even medium-ish scale, you can deploy a couple Dokku nodes, deploy to all three, set them behind a load balancer and use the hosted PostgreSQL + replica. This can handle a lot of load with minimal startup cost and scale relatively easily on almost any mid-tier provider at a lot less cost.

You can still deploy with Github actions, still have redundancy on the front end and pay a couple hundred a month vs. many hundreds or thousands.
Imho anything that is a natural monopoly (where it makes zero sense to build two of them), that requires a regulator to stop citizens being taken to the cleaners, should be owned by the state. Even if run “inefficiently” (you can find examples of both, this is not clear), it is typically better for the people.
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Interesting, 54% of pro-choice folk say "common sense" is their greatest source of guidance, comparable to 52% of pro-life folk saying religion is theirs (on top of 34% going with common sense).
It isn’t but we haven’t found another system that works as well yet. The delusion really gives purpose to life. We haven’t found another way to provide a comparable delusion.
I can come up with an argument against this. You have no major premise. All you have are two minors premises and two conclusions:

* X actions ought not to be done, forced organ donation is a type of X action, therefore forced organ donations ought not to be done.

* X actions ought not to be done, forbidding abortion (like forced organ donation is an X action) is a type of X action, therefore forbidding abortion ought not to be done.

But what is X category of actions!?!

Is it:

* Violations of autonomy?

* Deprivations of moral agency?

* Distracting the proletariat from organizing against the capitalist class (why abortion was first legalized!)?

* Causing greater pain and suffering than it relieves?

You never actually take a position on why forcing organ donation is bad. It simply sounds bad, and scares people, so it must be bad.

Why is forced organ donation wrong?