skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly does "you won't believe" do?

Whenever people say that I think "of course I don't believe ..." (ie that the topic is stupid, or that the decision of the day by xyz company is weird/bad/good, etc)

why should I believe or not believe in someone who I don't know?

If my mom says "you won't believe me if I told you you are not my son, but adopted" I'd be shocked.

Random youtuber "you won't believe?" - heck I don't believe a word coming out of your mouth! Of Course I DON'T believe you.
These studies say that it can find the virus up to 12 months after covid. Does that mean the symptoms subside after 12 months?
I have no idea what's going on in the algorithm but it's not hard to imagine extrapolation of this sort: https://xkcd.com/605/
It sounds like there's forks that are able to work with <=8GB cards. And I'm not sure but I think the weights are using f32, so switching to half might make it yet easier still to get this to work w/less memory.

But yeah the next generation of models would probably capitalize on more memory somehow.
How inaccurate does an estimation have to be before it becomes a lie?

What happens when a bank teller asks me during a credit application how many assets I have and I estimate about 10 billion bucks, when it later turns out I own the three dollars in my wallet and a strip of chewing gum? Am I (criminally) liable in that case?
I journal computer and software ideas as markdown files out in the open on GitHub. When I get to 100-300 entries I move onto a new repository.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas2
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas3
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas4
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/startups

I create a new markdown heading for each entry and write.

It's searchable and the data is easy to synchronize, backup and use and the solution shall last for multiple decades maybe even longer.

It's also indexed by Google.

I'm still tweaking my first journal that I created in 2013.

At one point I tried to love Emacs and I am yet to use org mode. I actually use the GitHub interface mostly to update my journal. And before that vim and lately IntelliJ which includes preview features.

I would recommend if you want to write notes or create an external mind to improve your thinking just write. The tool you use doesn't really matter. It's the quality and reward from writing and rereading what you wrote.
How much of that is because you're reading it on a screen? It's easier to skip ads in a paper magazine.
No, you don't always have a choice, because C is the only language available (not counting Assembly) on some platforms, and even where Rust is available it is not always a reasonable option for a host of other reasons.
In academia, behavioral psychology is rife with examples if you want to dig deeper. In culture, so is religion.
and yet they tolerate total pieces of garbage that loads a gazillion scripts taking an eternity
It's not a good faith estimate. They know their queries never return a million results, let alone hundreds of billions. Asserting that it's an estimate is insulting.
Author is at the peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve
I get what they are saying. The cost of a lawsuit for any perceived violation of this NDA would easily cost over $40k to fight or settle. If you're highly risk adverse it may actually make sense on a personal decision level to not sign any NDA's for any amount below instant retirement like 8 Figures. If you sign it will always be over your head for the rest of your life.
You need as much permission to be married as you need permission for a visa. The government doesn't acknowledge the status, it grants it by legal authority. Being in love doesn't give you visitation rights or tax benefits, and being married doesn't mean you're in love.
As a non native speaker who has watched everything Monty Python and read everything Adams and Pratchett (in English, i mean they're translatable but it's a HARD job), I loved the old El Reg.

When they changed tone i just thought they got bought out and gave up.
And it's very fuzzy whether when we say 'gut' we mean the organs we call intestines, or the organs plus their contents. Biologically speaking, the former is practically a rounding error of the latter.

There are some theories out there at least partially supported by experiments that some gut bacteria are extorting behavior from us with their exudates. Give me sugar I make you happy.
sight unseen this memory was triggered:

http://www.weedfarmer.com/seeds/

keep in mind there is a hotlink to an EXE on this page.
i had this bit of freeware from a long time ago

the original ware is from slick software and there a lot of imitations.

there used to be a lot of digital seed trading going on between players when the simulated grow produces hybrid seeds.
Must've been brought back after I left, I have no idea what the rationale was.
Only if it's cheap
If JSF has abstractions that encapsulate arbitrary units of logic running on the client, then it is a frontend framework, by definition of frontend framework. If it doesn't, then we aren't talking about the same thing.

Also vanilla HTML/JS does not mean html that works if JS is disabled. It means you are literally writing out the document that is delivered to the user without transformations or a huge runtime library included.

This JSF is not vanilla HTML:
<p:commandButton value="Update event2" update="@obs(event2)" icon="pi pi-check"/>
Unbundled RECs have the exact same "additionality" issue, and I'm assuming if you're creating a market for all renewable energy on the grid, you are talking about unbundled RECs.

This quote on your site appears to confirm that:

> Most generators don't know they are accruing valuable credits they can sell. If you are a generator selling these credits you could off-set the cost of your system.
I once saw a big display in my local grocery for "organic salt" a few years ago. Which struck me as just fundamentally wrong. We are talking about non-organic material. Of course they meant "organic certified" which just meant they didn't includes additives. But still ... it seems so misleading.
Though not exactly a [citation needed], but certainly [implementation details needed]. Like, what, you're in a Target in Vancouver, WA, you pull out your OR driver license, and now they wave the sales tax? Or save the receipt and take it off your OR taxes later? In the case of the former, okay, I'd do that. For the latter, no, I'm not adding a piece of paper to the pile to save $0.50.
Yeah I agree it is an explanation. My 'nobody wanted to touch it in the last 2 decades' hypothesis isn't justification for keeping around either.

Interestingly, I just did a search for "Google" and when I got to the page 36, the top changed to "Page 36 of 360 results" from "Page 35 of about 25,270,000,000 results".
What counts as "first line" depends on your situation.

On my first team, we managed internal tools. Our customers were other people at Amazon, they submitted tickets to us directly.

For some teams at Amazon, there is at least a filter through some sort of customer support to handle certain kinds of issues. You are still on-call, but it's not like you are interacting with customers directly.

Also, since teams at Amazon tend to be small, the amount of things you are on-call for tends to be however much your team handles on its own. I know of other companies in which the oncall covers areas in other team's code bases - this is not the typical setup at Amazon.

Generally, we don't have SREs. Software engineers usually understand best how their software works, so we get faster mitigations, and they are also incentivized better to not write buggy software.
Only if you are currently emitting more than the post-tax average emission. If you are already below average, you can emit the same amount and get paid.

Poor people are generally emitting well below the average currently. They take fewer flights, have smaller houses and buy less stuff in general. With current levels of emissions, they would be getting paid without reducing emissions at all.

Eventually after the rest of society reduces emissions, they might have to reduce emissions, but that would only be after the rest of society sacrifices much more consumption.
Nobody at the time gave a hoot about "unsafe memory accesses". That is a wholly recent conceit. Nobody then cared about security. Sendmail was how e-mail was delivered, and was, believe it, widely admired.

Java was just enough like the C++ of 1990 to compete, but with garbage collection and a big library, and without confusing pointers, so lower-skilled programmers could use it. That is all. Computers were literally thousands of times slower than today. Java was considered just barely fast enough.

But without freeing programmers from the Microsoft frameworks treadmill, it would have sunk without a trace.
I think bicycles are only responsible for the drop in birthdate. All that rattling around is damaging women’s reproductive facilities!
Why would you use your real name on stackoverflow? Using your realname creates these imagined problems
I remember idly commenting to a colleague once "Scientists don't know how cats purr" (I'd read it on the internet so it must have been true).

He replied pointedly "They must be stupid then, they do it like this ...." and he started purring just like a cat.
The US has several carbon fees/taxes.

https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/map_data
Closed source I can deal with, as long as a strong audit has been performed.

Found this: https://www.enpass.io/security-audit-report/

I'm not a security expert, so not sure if those audits are trustworthy.
That makes all the risk from sharpness much more intense.

And I still have to keep it somewhere and keep it clean.

I'm happy letting someone put the bread through that before I take it home.
> The Lytro camera allowed you to choose how to focus the image after taking the exposure.

This isn't technically correct. Everything was in focus, because the aperture was so small. The software would add an artificial blur, using the 3d models generated.

So, you chose how to artificially blur the image, after taking the exposure.
I'm slightly confused by this. A point on a polyline doesn't have a single normal, as it's incident to two edges, and in general those edges have two different normals. If you push out the edge by the offset amount, that's what Tiller and Hanson proposed in 1984, and one of the things I found is that it performs surprisingly badly. It is in common use though.

If you're talking about a variation of that where you choose some other concept of "normal" relevant to the point, I'd be interested to learn more.
Perhaps someone or a group of people should put up the money to keep this team going outside and independent of Facebook, maybe as some kind of "Responsible Social Media" non profit entity. It sounds like important work and without Facebook or some other for profit employer being able to control what they say, imagine the insights the rest of the community will be able to get.

Something similar happened in Australia when an old climate change denying government dispanded the "Climate Commission" (a government department
tasked with investigating climate change) to save face. The employees of that particular department packed up and left their office, got funding and now they're known as the non profit Climate Council. They have remained a thorn in the government's side ever since and are still going almost a decade later https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Commission
Illness? Health metric?
Flow "early version" (0.1.0) was released in 2014.

Now there's a chance that they had another version used internally at least 3 years prior, but at this point we're just speculating.

But IIRC nothing in React docs at the time mentioned how great JSX is with static types. It was all about render functions.

For now I'm sticking to Occam's Razor and the idea that JSX was a hack to make render functions usable.
There's no sneaking, you can go buy a hot dog without a Costco membership.

(Vegetarian here, who also doesn't like cheap-ass pizza, so it is possible this has changed in the last few years without my knowledge.)
I should have clarified: the project required careful re-architecting of system interactions and flows to split the responsibilities. The commercial ERP system that I led the implementation of assumed only the responsibilities and functions of the top layer financial modules. The higher-volume operations transaction processing was fully assumed at go-live by the in-house developed ERP system you refer to. Prior to and during this implementation I was a contributing member of the in-house ERP development team but that project was envisioned and led by others. The in-house ERP system has been mentioned previously by others on HN and other sites. I consider it a success and was proud to be part of that team.

I left a number of years ago and I'm certain things have evolved since, but the cost/benefit calculus is similar to any make vs buy decision.

In my opinion the primary benefit of an in-house developed ERP system (or any purpose-built system) is that it does only what it needs to do and nothing else. Thus, some types of accidental complexity are reduced, business user cognitive load can be lower, and performance and scalability can potentially be higher. Also of course there is no application licensing cost and hence user count is constrained only by infrastructure and code quality.

Now the difficult part: you spread the cost and risk of development over one customer, and ERP software is not a simple matter to build: essential complexity inherent in modeling business processes in software remains unchanged. You also have challenges finding subject matter experts as most of the folks who understand the internals of ERP systems are already working for one of the commercial vendors and will scoff at your audacity.

To be successful it requires leadership with vision, commitment, and patience; as well as a team of talented analysts and engineers.
I don't understand YouTube's move to remove the downvote button - cyber bullying? What I will say though is it actually hasn't stopped me from being able to identify a bad video. If a "bad" video had 1,000 upvotes and (previously) had 10,000 downvotes, combined with a high view count and engage via the comments, just removing the downvotes still tells me everything I need to know: 1,000 upvotes on a high view count video with high engagement? Probably a bad video.

But again, I don't know why they removed it? /shrug
We've been selling nutritional supplements online for over a decade and I remember reading once about how some dirt on food really helps the microbiome. I considered selling dirt pills for a while. I think we'd have some success.
Very interesting. When I need to make myself work on something (which creates a new problem: deciding to force yourself to do something) I have 2 main techniques (I just realized you could probably do both methods together.)

Method 1. Incrementing time boxes (the first step is similar to yours actually). Set a timer for 1 minute and do it for one minute. Then 2 minutes, then 3, and so on. (At some point you'll be working on it and forget about the timer, and that's ok.) (Credit to Mark Forster[1] and/or Khatzumoto[2] for that idea.

[1] I believe it's in his "Get Everything Done" book as mentioned here http://markforster.squarespace.com/forum/post/2713432

[2] http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/timeboxing-trilogy...

Method 2. Start with a blank piece of paper (or text file). Write down the goal. In outline form, indent and write the first thing needed to do that. If needed, indent again and write down the first thing to do that, and so on, until you have something to start on. Note that I'm not talking about outlining and planning the project, just the first step (of the first step, ...). A great benefit is it helps you focus on deciding where to start, breaks it down to something small enough to start on, and it keeps track of where you are in the process, what you're trying to do. I guess it helps with working memory (which helps with executive function). Proceed to work on the project indenting and un-indenting as needed (i.e. adding sub-item 2 after sub-item 1 is complete)

I'll mention a related idea (it's essentially the same thing) because I had forgotten something I posted on reddit and someone just replied to me 7 years later saying it helped them "tremendously". To rephrase it, (I assumed) when you think about working on something, and then feel anxious, and then do something else (procrastinate) it provides relief and reinforces procrastination (same with how phobias work). So I mention doing a really small part of it instead like work for X minutes or X item(s), but when the thought of stopping comes to mind, then stop. That way you don't associate starting with forcing yourself. But then keep starting again with small pieces.

Your idea about doing nothing for 1 minute reminds me of a time when I had to break myself from switching to working on something else, and I would just set a timer (3 minutes though, and you could stop waiting if you wanted to work on the thing you actually wanted to work on before that) and literally lay down with nothing to do and then go back to what I was doing. Basically I was either doing the project, or doing nothing, but not switching to something else unproductive.
So did you guys win?
The Merge – Google Search
Maybe you could have an accent.

Ahhh me mateys !
Because stable currencies do not exist in the world of cryptos? Dai [1], Rai [2], and USDC [3] are some examples that are all stable, and all dramatically different from each other.

Fees are currently as low as $0.03 on Ethereum layer-2 solutions (!= side-chain) [4]. The fees will further fall as the technology improves, and once L1 gets (data-/dank-)sharding and other L2-scaling oriented upgrades.

[1] https://makerdao.com/en
[2] https://reflexer.finance
[3] https://www.circle.com/en/usdc
[4] https://l2fees.info
VC money is for the situation "we could grow so much by tacking this one opportunity that a bunch of money would help solve" or if you need the clout of having it, or the introductions or advice those investors would give.

If you want to grow slowly and focus on solving problems and are already doing well and at a pace you are ok with, then they don't have what you need.
Assuming 40k is worth two months salary, the actual amount you'd end up getting will be closer to 20 something. It's all about perspective. 20k is a lot for someone making 100k/year or less. 20k is not a lot for someone who works for Big Tech and pulls in a lot more.
> my weird brain quirks made me a highly paid professional rather than that annoying car mechanic who might solve a hard diagnostic problem quickly but takes forever to get around to your oil change

Thank you so much for being humble about your skills. I wish more of us took this perspective
The library was utterly necessary, purely because the people the language was meant for would have been completely at sea without.

The contempt Java's designers held for its users fairly drips, in what they write about it.
Goldfish: A Provably Secure Replacement for LMD Ghost in PoS Ethereum
This used to be the case, and Target was exactly one of the companies that made it exactly like this. You'd show your Oregon ID card and the sales tax would be removed (the seller could claim against their sales tax due for a non-resident sale).

However, this was intended to benefit border cities--Vancouver, WA in particular really liked it--but Washington State has no income tax and so is heavily reliant on sales tax. So, as of July 1 2019, the exemption (on state sales tax; local sales tax isn't covered here) may only be claimed post-transaction by the buyer: https://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/retail-sales-tax/sales-tax-ex...
As always these things tell us how transistors work, which is fine and all that, but that's not enough to tell anyone how to use one which is almost universally done incorrectly even in some high profile textbooks. They are a little more complicated than this video can muster. In fact I'd argue that it's probably worth skipping this and delving into the mathematics properly.

Wes Hayward W7ZOI explains this side of things rather well in his book Experimental Methods in RF design. Some of the content is duplicated here discussing bipolar transistor feedback amplifier designs: http://w7zoi.net/transistor_models_and_the_fba.pdf
"I'll sell you about 1,201,000,000 paper clips."

"OK."

ships 231 paper clips

"Hey I only got 231 paper clips, not 1,201,000,000."

"That's right. 1,201,000,000 was an estimate."

"You said about. So you estimated 1,201,000,000 paper clips but you actually only had 231?"

"No, I had the full 1,201,000,000. I sold them to you but I didn't say I would ship all of them. What kind of idiot uses more than a few hundred paper clips anyway? Plus, it saves us money on shipping costs."
Or you can just go buy one: https://raytrix.de/

The Lytro camera was on the market in 2014.
Hidden room, with a subtle if not disguised door. Need not be that big; never know when it'll come in handy. Even a small cabinet sized space may be useful.

Depending on how much work you want to put into things all sorts of things may be doable. Fancy stairwell with a fireman's pole is probably a bit ambitious.

Stone altar / sacrifice pit with plumbing and chimney can make a wonderful center to a den / conversation area room. Cook hot dogs or heretics with the neighbors.
We must be eating very different types of bread then because slicing bread produces way more crumbs than pre sliced by a considerable margin and always has. Main reason I buy sliced bread, really.
Car-centric city design is a terrible mistake done by many countries.
Fortunately there is a growing awareness of the negative externalites cars and car-centric urban design brings to our health, society and environment.
I found youtube's https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes an excellent eye-opener
Youtube, please fix your search function. Only show me the content I'm searching for, not something completely unrelated to my search "just in case I like it", also work on your recommendation system cause it still sucks... and stop trying to shove "shorts" don't my throat as well... There is a good reason I use Youtube and not Tik Tok...
Forth behaves the same way. The vocabulary is really a stack, and you can define words, redefine them, and then pop them back off to return to the old value.

It's really not useful for variables, but can be very useful for functions, and since they're pretty much the same thing, you get the behavior for free. Although I haven't touched Lisp, my understanding is that Forth and Lisp have some conceptual similarities, but Forth is written by an engineer and Lisp by a computer scientist. Limit you for your own safety? Not a thing in Forth.
> The EPA’s resolve to rein in ethanol emissions faces a new test this year as Congressional mandates for expanding biofuels expire, placing the future of the RFS at the agency’s discretion.

Great. They should just stop this charade then. There are 30 million acres planted with corn used for bioethanol production. Out of 90 million total acres planted with corn. For comparison, the US has about 800 million acres of forests.
Didn't realize this was a thing until hearing today that my parents were visited yesterday by people that I'm assuming are either from their pharmacy or insurance. They were told that the machine is remotely monitored and that these their org noticed that my parent who uses the machine wasn't sleeping 4 hours straight at a time and that 4 hours straight is a requirement in order for the machine to qualify as "doing its job". As a result, they took this machine away from them even though it's a medical necessity for my parent.

The negligence alone is disgusting, but this is also next level absurdity/surveillance.