skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
-Strong- introvert here, so take this with a grain of salt, but socialization is actually one of the strong points. :)

My homeschool upbringing included team sports, solo sports clubs, debate leagues, sleepovers, group field trips, scouting, community college, and various co-op models over the years.

Here's the difference--you're more likely to have mixed-age groups (particularly for elementary) and, critically, you're going to have much heavier adult involvement and guidance.

This gives a huge benefit: The social culture isn't defined by the kids. You have highly engaged adults acting as role models and vetted by the community. There's no critical mass of same-age peers defining the culture despite the best efforts of a handful of overworked administrators.

Additionally, there's usually a large amount of community collaboration and resource sharing. A key co-op for me in later years was essentially a group of local professionals who each taught their respective fields (writing, design, forensics, mathematics, etc.). Some were other parents with kids in the program, others were local experts. You still have a peer group spread between the classes--I had perhaps 20 in my immediate circle of a similar age, and a few hundred I met statewide during competitions--but by high school, the education essentially becomes student-led private tutoring with parental guidance, with a small-group shell and social extra-curriculars.
Well sure but how has even traditional cryptocurrency removed the centralisation of power? It hasn’t, so yes I’m even less optimistic than you are about this.
I grew up in SF and I was astounded how a city that had trouble getting anything built managed to tear down a neighborhood in such short order. It was as if Brown was in cahoots with powerful developers and used his political power to push it through. Up went a bridge to his liking, down went the Embarcadero, up went a ballpark, and all the SROs went poof. Newsom goes and continues all the policies. Development after development.

Now twenty years later, you have Newsom as governor and angling for the Presidency. Not one peep about how his policies helped cause those problems.

Why was it so easy to build all those tech campuses and tech dorms yet so hard to build anywhere else in the city? People complain about NIMBY SF but where was the NIMBY there and then?
The community issue also means that code sharing is very limited compared to other languages. If it isn't in one of the Mathworks toolboxes (that you can afford), you'll probably have to end up at the Mathworks "File Exchange" site, where you take a look at the existing code that "solves your problem" (in a non-generic, buggy way), cry your eyes out, and end up implementing it yourself.
It's amazing that people say the Kardashians have no talent when they're collectively worth many billions (Kim herself is worth ~$2B).

Her acting and products may not be things you enjoy, but clearly millions of other people do, and that's not easy to accomplish.

There are many stage/screen actors who are much better at acting, much more attractive, and much less successful.
How would you make a subtle mistake while turning != into = due to ligatures?
Noise canceling headphones.
Sometimes there are documents that say why NASA chose what they chose, there might be one for this
It's also about competition. Global business operates isn a highly competitive market where capital gains tax rates will be closely compared. But taxing soda when it's between ten brands by Coke/Pepsi vs Water. People aren't going to water for just 10c more (or w/e the tax is).

I'd imagine with illegal addictive drugs when prices increase 10-20% it won't stop buyers since they are already making a guilty-pleasure/poor choice so a slightly worse one isn't much of a bigger deal.

Some product and service categories operate under different dynamics than most things.
I don't think anyone (except maybe logistics companies) think this is a bad thing.

For almost all other readers of the WSJ shipping costs are just seen as a tax that makes their products more expensive.
Why is the bottom one made of concrete? (i.e. and not just the foundation)
You definitely don't want your bank to decide to unmoney you.

Unfortunately, they can do so for any reason or no reason, so don't post too much wrongthink on the internet, or else
Imagine trying to get people to give up Cream and sugary syrups with a dash of espresso -- Wait they aren't taxing THAT drink.
It wasn’t Democrat boogeyman. It was those people fronting for those interests. Those people in SF happened to be Democrats. And those Democrats are still fronting for those interests. I disagree with the fronting of interests and those Democrats were complicit and still are. If there is a Democrat who won’t front for those interests, I will gladly vote for them. In fact I have.
I am curious why will this scale for all plants. There are a lot limitations for the type of plants they can grow.

What are the factors that will lead to the growth of vertical farming?
I think the original purpose was to clean up typography so that e.g., "fi" didn't look too cramped.
Interesting! Looks like my guess was off -- mea culpa.
Wood doesn't quickly weaken during a fire. You slowly lose material as it burns, but the char actually protects the remaining wood.

Obviously it will eventually burn, but it's not as fast a process as you might imagine.
You know that a URL can be mapped to any IP including private address ranges via DNS right?
Nurture your skills, but ensure your weaknesses don’t hold you back. And work hard to find blind spots. Everyone can see the happy path. Being able to see and avoid bad outcomes is usually more valuable than raw skill.
> Also, it is interesting that outside of SV and HN crowd, we thought MATLAB is awesome. We had all the toolboxes, there is a gazillion of them. Even obscure RF related stuff. You just can't find a library for something like a phased array analysis. May be you can, but it won't be as high quality and industry proven as this: https://www.mathworks.com/products/phased-array.html

As a matter of fact I find most comments about Matlab here supportive. I actually do find Matlab to be a polished product, specially in the IDE and documentation part. In the end you use whatever saves you time, that's why most people that use Python have chosen Python: because of the libraries. I have personally found Matlab toolboxes quite simplistic for my own purposes. Most people, myself included, actually trust more that SW is used and deployed in the millions than any kind of support.
The Julia compiler frontend I believe is written in lisp.
Assuming most people use the combo modem/router (WAP, technically, since this entire thread is an exercise in pedantry) provided by their ISP, this makes sense from a non-technical user's perspective, if Comcast always ships hardware with the latest Wifi spec. Of course, you need a whole mess of asterisks after that, because I don't think I own a single client device with Wifi 6E, plus network contention, time sharing, etc. Gamers should do what I do and plug a wire thingy from their computer to their Wifi thingy.
> come on, who on earth did think this is a good idea???

Me. It’s the 21th century. It’s bad enough I have to use monospaced fonts because people can’t properly tabulate. I will at least have proper symbols rather than weird combination of glyphes.
Would one be able to achieve a similar effect by simply opening the windows on a regular basis? (Assuming all the other principles around good air-flow and ventilation were following in the building layout.)
The article is talking about mass timber which is a building type that is still pretty uncommon in the US but is emerging in Europe mostly. If you (and she) are American it's likely just a wood frame building.
Same reason black-hat security research exists. By developing a virus in a contained environment, you can study it, model it, potentially develop mitigations or cures.
Wasn't it because they basically told backers that "they didn't purchased anything", and instead of focusing on fulfilling kickstarter backers orders, started selling them in shops, so you could actually get the device faster purchasing it normal way in e-store, instead of backing the campaign, which pissed off a lot of people who started complaining and got muted?
I've heard that even talking about that on their discord is bannable offense, and everything is either countered with jokes, sarcasm or put under the rug.
The one and only time I had to interact with it was while I was in a US national park trying to pay a parking fee for my car. I had one bar of service on my phone, and it just sat there trying to download JavaScript.

Lots to be said for considering where and on what devices your users will be interacting with your website.
> I have been surprised in the past by people I would have described as fairly tech-savvy, who still called hard drive space "memory".

That's not really incorrect, though. RAM is random access memory, as opposed to memory that has other access patterns.

It's less common these days, but among people who learned to use computers in the 80s, you'll still hear some use "memory" to refer to storage that isn't RAM.
Only the parser is, and it was recently re-written in Julia and in the process of being merged.
If I spend 20 years accumulating baseballs, and then go out and drop them all in a baseball field full of people over the course of about 4 days, and all those people really want baseballs for some reason, will it take 1825 days for them to pick all the baseballs up?
That's a mandatory complementary insurance, the base costs are covered by the national insurance. It's a confusing situation that's somewhat similar to the US in that it's wasteful, pointless and mostly serves some private interests, but on a much smaller scale.
> Getting help is also often a problem. Experienced Common Lispers assume a basic understanding of the language, good style practice, and familiarity with Emacs and the associated Common Lisp tooling installed. Asking for help as a beginner, and posting a small snippet of code, more often than not results in a wall of text of replies asking the user to fix their style before they can consider helping. This is quite disuading as a newcomer, and detracts from the user's learning path. In extreme cases, which are not rare at all, the community can be quite inflammatory towards newcomer questions, as they often get very upset over incorrect terminology or improperly formatted code.

It’s a shame to see such posts as you were a cordial and enjoyable member of the IRC community for quite some time. For me, it’s one of the better IRC channels out there and I learnt a lot from the PROFESSORS of computer science who regularly helped newcomers in the channel #clschool. [lisp123]

Otherwise glad to see you have found something enjoyable and curious on how you have pivoted away from CLOS, maybe I should investigate Julia too
What I'm trying to emphasize is that by your standard of evidence, no study could ever answer anything. And that's not an entirely unreasonable position to take. For instance I know of one scientist, who is part of the National Academy of Sciences no less, who believes that the studies against smoking are insufficiently compelling. And it's for, more or less, similar rational to what you're putting forth here.

On the other hand, the viable ability to set up an insurmountable standard of proof does not really change the picture here. The data available, under the time frames studied, do not paint a positive picture of the safety or efficacy of these drugs. If you get into section 5 of the study, you can see how both the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies worked to pad the numbers to make them look better, including things like lumping thousands of individuals into the experimental group even though there had been no follow up on these individuals, meaning they had no idea of their outcomes.
I just double checked because this comment made me do a double take, but that isn’t true. Solid was created by Ryan Carniato, Rollup by Rich Harris. Both have R names and I do sincerely get some R names confused in the web tech world. But I’m reasonably certain Rich wasn’t in a band which was the namesake of either technologies, nor has a tattoo from being in that band. ;)
US bars 'advanced tech' firms from building China factories for 10 years
Bugs are like particles in this universe, If you feel like it nothing you will find it.
There is a bit more than just informing users:

If you decide to go down this route, you should bear in mind that other supervisory authorities might be stricter and that you must be able to demonstrate that it’s impractical to delete backup data.

This will require, at the very least, a risk assessment, business impact assessment and data protection impact assessment.
Yes, my family raised pigs and it became unbearable. They were smarter than any dog I had met at the time. They were kind and curious animals. They loved to play and had favourite foods.

After a few years we had a bad slaughter day in which one pig survived a bullet to the head and started making some of the most horrifying movements and screams I’ve ever heard.

We were all aware that we’d killed a sentient creature that we cared for. Not much unlike killing our dogs. We talked about it several times over days and weeks, here and there over months, then not much from then on. We never got pigs again.

Somehow it took me another 15 years to stop eating animals. It blows my mind that I was able to keep it up after that day – it was so gory and brutal, and simultaneously entirely unnecessary. We ate those pigs because we liked it, not because we needed it.
> Malloy writes SQL you can't (I'm pretty sure of it).

Here you go. Malloy looks like a fine tool but it's an unnecessary mental burden for people who understand SQL and I think the below is more maintainable long-term.

with
aggregates as (
select
state,
name,
sum(sum(number)) over (partition by state, name) as state_name_births,
sum(sum(number)) over (partition by state) as state_births,
sum(sum(number)) over (partition by name) as name_births,
sum(sum(number)) over () as total_births
from bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_current
group by state, name
qualify state_name_births > 1000
),

scoring as (
select
state,
name,
(state_name_births / state_births) / (name_births / total_births) as popularity_score,
rank() over (partition by state order by (state_name_births / state_births) / (name_births / total_births) desc) as rnk
from aggregates
qualify rnk <= 20
)

select
state,
string_agg(name order by rnk) as names
from scoring
group by state
order by state
I’m old enough to remember people saying cellphones would never catch on.
ARM is already RISC. Majority of smart phones in the world
But why do I suddenly desire to raise my credit my credit limit?
This is depended on a lot of fiat defaulting and people using these as mode of transaction.

What are you thoughts on the next wave?
It has no choice but to decelerate, as the train itself will decelerate up an incline (without increasing power), and they are coupled. And yes the torque balance is why steam trains could climb gentle gradients at all. However the loss of power due to fewer piston pushes means that the peak 0rpm is reached very quickly. Diesel electric locos can literally increase RPM and power as they start to climb the gradient, with no connection between the slowing train speed and engine power.
The wikipedia article has no references for that Greek/Roman thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_light#History

OTOH 'Link boys' make sense; article explains "In thieves' cant, a linkboy was known as a "Glym Jack" ("glym" meant "light")"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-boy
I know this is really counterintuitive, but last I heard, health care isn't a major contributor to average life span.

A much bigger factor is GDP per person.

I think of it as: The more material wealth you have, the better your life is, and you get less risk of bad health.
No need more merchants, everything shall be a non-counterfeitable Amazon Basics product. Other merchants will have to compete on price while everyone can trust Amazon quality.
To be honest, I feel like a boomer when I say those days where better.

Maybe one day people will admit running your life through an algorithm isn't it.
Google Sheets has this and it works really well.

I had an idea Excel had something as well but maybe not?
I thought most of our fossil fuels come from a time before fungi evolved the ability to digest lignin and other plant tissues. Thus piles and piles or wood and other detritus would end up undergoing very inefficient/incomplete combustion or being buried without decaying for a long time.

So basically that amount of sequestration could not happen again without some technological help now that the “digesting wood” abilities have become commonplace.
I hope they will release a rss feed for the database
This. If SQL injection was infeasible because the language had no literals, then there would be no SQL injection. Given that SQL injection is possible because the language does have literals, we should and do in fact still have SQL injection issues.
I've come to learn that homeschooling is illegal in some European countries. That may be a big reason why.

E.g. Germany

https://amp.dw.com/en/european-court-rules-against-german-ho...
When more than 50% or your customers pay with PayPal, what do you suggest?
The thing is, the less we take out of the environment, the more water is left for things like fish, birds, insects and so on. Desalination is not without environmental costs, but we are not considering all the externalities of diverting water from ecosystems either. Ag use is part of that water rights system that we need independence from. Desalination is one way for that independence. I’m sure there are other ways too.
Related: Apple's $275 billion dollar investment in Chinese manufacturing. [1]

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facing-hostile-chine...
Didn't know the term. Thanks.
Never thought about it before, but I guess SSDs are random access, so it would be technically correct to call them RAM, and that’s my favorite kind of correct.
> That's not nothing, but it's not that impressive either.

Almost all initiatives fighting carbon emissions are on the low % percentages. That's just the nature of the problem.

If humanity wants to stand a chance, we need to catch ALL the low hanging fruits
Location: Pittsburgh, Pa (United States)

Remote: Yes

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I am a quick learner and someone dedicated to getting projects done and making sure that they work flawlessly. I am detail-oriented and motivated to start my career, I may not be the most experienced programmer but I am willing to learn anything and do my best to master it.
Looks great, congrats on launching!

Are any of the demos interactive, apart from moving the camera? Two of them seem to have buttons, but they don't respond to clicks.
Hackers infiltrate second-largest US school district in growing trend
> I stated this very clearly, saying "complex implicit reactive effects seem fragile and difficult to debug and reason about".

It is definitely easier to reason about dataflow in a good incremental library with dependency autotracking ("Self-Adjusting Computation"[1]) than to reason about nondeterministic concurrent rendering in React :)

1. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/students/acar.pdf
> There are any number of other labs around the world working on similarly dangerous research that could get released on accident.

And you don't see a problem with this?

You seem to assume the lab-leak hypothesis assumes malicious intent in creating the virus, but most people are actually concerned about negligence and/or a malicious coverup of the origin.

A definitive answer to the origin of covid could help answer the following questions:

- How much do I trust U.S. public health institutions?

- How much do I trust Chinese public health institutions?

- Should gain-of-function and other high-risk virus research be conducted? And what should the safety standards be of such research?

- Is there a problem of forced consensus/centralization in the broader scientific community?
Landela should not have been able to monetize any of its treasury bill before maturity. Even if this were permitted, the company received far more in U.S. dollars than the bill was worth.
> It seems that Alder Lake no longer support x8/x4/x4 sadly.

Sort of. support is "Up to 1x16+4, 2x8+4" [1] so could be used as x8/x4/x4, the remaining 4 lanes are unused in the x8, as there are 20 PCIe lanes on the CPU.

[1] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/228441/...
has anyone moved US nuclear infrastructure to kubernetes yet?
> If you burn the equivalent of thirty years of forest growth and release that carbon it will take, I don't know, a thousand years to get it back.

Something is wrong with your statement and the answer is right there in your sentence.

If you burn thirty years of forest growth it would take thirty years of forest growth to get it back. A carbon cycle is a cycle, plants die AND plants grow. And the best part is we simply leave it alone to grow.

GP's point is that fossil fuels don't grow like this.
This is looks incredibly suspicious.

Who was it founded by? "A group of friends", the website says.

Really high production values for that.

I wouldn't be shocked if this was well funded.

Edit: did some digging. They have a Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Pay_UK

There's lots of press, too:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/10/dont-pay-uk-camp...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/09/tuesday-briefi...
Ask HN: Good real-world Deep Learning example repos?
Any good example repos where deep learning is being used to do things? Trying to go beyond academic deep learning into more real-world use-cases.
What is the Amazon cut of self published book?
Sure, but having to travel has a cost in both time and money, which is equivalent to a tax, even if it raises no additional direct income for that city.
MATLAB is not. The surrounding engineering and tooling is. Simulink is worth its weight in gold.
You can build an injection-vulnerable language on top of an injection-proof, so in that sense, injection issues can't fully go away. So you're quite right. But it's harder to build an injection-vulnerable language than it is to use an injection-proof language, so having an injection-proof language should help reduce injection vulnerabilities.