skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gift article for non-subscribers: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/world/africa/black-owned-...
I do not think I have ever seen an electric commercial dryer (hotels/laundromat/etc). The electric costs would be insane in comparison to gas.
Your conclusion exemplifies the essay's argument that we pick facts that confirm our most compelling narrative.
I was visiting Monaco once and noticed that no one had laundry hanging on the balcony. In Beausoleil, France, literally on the other side of the street from Monaco, they had hanging laundry. I'll bet there was a law against it in Monaco. Maybe someone on HN who lives there can confirm.
Some aspects that seem kind of strange to me:

- The article is from 2009. Surely there's some more recent update to the situation described, which also offers context?

- The laundry was being hung in the front yard. This is really rare. While probably not entirely without precedent, it's certainly a significant and rational weighing factor.

- The owner of the laundry said she hung her underclothes/unmentionables inside the house, so essentially the neighbors complained about a feared outcome, rather than making a 100% evidentiary complaint. This is often a bad idea, no matter how good one's laundry prediction skills may be.

- The condominium resident thought other residents would be OK with their personal laundry hanging in a "common area"...this seems pretty cringe. Did he ask beforehand? Maybe we'll never know. After all, 2009.
You jest, but here's an idea: print a block of raised letters (like old typesetting) on a 3D resin printer (mirror the characters). Roll a thin slab of potter's clay, say 5"x 8". Press the text against the blank slab, fire the clay in a kiln, and voilà, your bio or other precious document will last like Babylonian clay tablets.
It provides a counterpoint to the teacher's claims that you're repeated above. Think about it - why would this particular group of students, as opposed to other groups, with other teachers, decide not to learn?

Also, it's not "once". One the best things I've learned early in school was learning to recognise bad teachers and how to deal with them. There are _plenty_ of them everywhere.
> much like Mastodon and friends which are rendered useless by racism and porn.

I think you and I were on very different servers, and considering I've perused dozens, you must have gotten a really raw deal.
To be "more correct" is to have fewer grammatical syntactical or lexical errors.

What is it you know I talk of
> Concerned about misinformation. Cites Wikipedia.
It was in 2017. I wrote a lot about it at the time: https://rodrigohgpontes.github.io/

It was a different moment, not sure if better or worse for junior developers getting a first job. It was before companies were “desperate” to hire software developers, like about a couple of years ago, which made them hire more junior devs. But, it was also before the current hiring market contraction (as a proxy see a post mentioning the low number of posts in Who is Hiring thread). But, it was also before remote work was more common (it was effectively impossible to be hired remotely as a junior back then, now it is just hard). Not sure how all of this balances out.

I wouldn’t do anything different. I still vouch for not paying anything to learn to code. I used freeCodeCamp and it only got better since then. To see how I did it, the blog is a good source.

About not having a traditional background it both hurt and helped me.

I just reread this passage on my blog that I had forgotten:

”People will undervalue you. Chances are not all interviewers will be nice. On a promising application for a cool job, I got a call from the founder. He said something in the lines of "You know, you have to understand that you are competing with a lot of young guys who are coding since they are twelve. You have a lot of catch up to do. You have to expect an intern salary and even so work harder to show you can become a good developer. Because I'm not sure you can." Maybe he was just using some shitty negotiation technique to hire me on a low salary, maybe it was ageism, maybe he thought I was delusional on my aspirations and decided to give me a lecture to be more down to earth. Whether he was stingy, mean or patronizing, it was definitely a place that I wanted distance.”

So it hurted in this case. I also read some discouraging comments here on HN on a thread where I said I want to go from scratch to hired in 4 months. But, it also helped get my first job. I was hired to work a small team that one senior developer that was only 20 years old at the time. He was technically worth of being considered a senior, but had to improve in other areas. They saw me being a 37yo junior developer with a lot of professional experience and good communication skills a good match for him. Also, they valued my diligence and dedication on changing careers. Saw that as evidence that I would be continuously learning. So, my advice is to be able to demonstrate in an interview that previous professional experience will be useful in the new technical job. How do, depends on the background and strengths of each one.

I do think my blog has useful advice still in general.

I do think it is a good career change and possible at 42yo, and I would encourage them. The only small caveat is that they need to realize early if they “enjoy” coding. It is important. Few people are capable of committing to the continuous learning demanded to have a good career in software development “only” for the money.

Good luck to them!
Technically, all of them can, if you put the "persisted" storage in a directory on a ramfs or tmpfs mount :)

This might seem like a bit of a facetious comment, but it does have genuine use cases, e.g. unit tests, or for data that you can easily restore after a shutdown.
3rd reason is that you clothes will last a lot longer (the tuble-dryer lint-tray sais it all)
I'm currently working with very good researchers on formal verification of a part of the software I'm writing in rewriting logic with Maude - formalizing a fairly simplified version of the execution engine algorithms (0.005% of the c++ codebase maybe, 2500 lines of c++ at most) is taking ~a year roughly so far. That's not really viable for general development especially with requirements which evolve all the time.
fetch?
Are you perchance confusing ultrasonic sensors with front mounted radar? In general the collision avoidance systems use either camera or radar, or both. Some manufacturers are trying to add lidar into the mix these days.
Ultrasonic sensors are in general just used for parking and don't last way further than maybe 2 meters.
(Source: I work in this space.)
"Not-my-problem" is a bad response, but the actual response is that without 2FA even more people lose access to their accounts. Anything that makes it harder for adversaries to take over an account almost necessarily adds friction for the users themselves. This isn't a "fuck the people who don't have regular access to a phone, they don't matter" situation. It is a "there is an aggravating balancing act in this situation and no solution will avoid harming everybody."
They could sing Daisy Daisy together.
It's probably more meaningful to compare energy usage per-capita. IMO it's hard to understand what it means when describing energy uses by land masses.

2020 US population 330 million

2020 Africa population 1.3 billion
The order at the top says it only applies to current US citizens and lawful permanent residents.

So even if they were a lawful permanent resident at the time of their offense, if they aren't anymore at this time (and getting convicted is probably enough to have their visa's revoked), no, it doesn't apply to them. @kragen pointed this out in another comment.

Let alone someone who was never a lawful permanent resident, nope, not pardoned.
It’s never too late. I consider myself very isolated and introverted, but over the years collected a small circle of friends who accept me for who I am and also have gone through similar things. I have an old coworker, a couple of friends from the gym, and someone I met at 35 that may become my best friend. I ask I don’t say this to brag but that just because you missed out before does not mean you have to stay lonely.

Just be open, put yourself out there, be polite to everyone but respect your own boundaries, and don’t take it personally if things don’t pan out right away. A lot of my close relationships are ones that were background characters for a long time too , but randomly we were brought back together. There’s no template to life and it’s poison to compare yourself to others. Just start taking control of what you want your life to be like and I promise it is a skill like anything else, you just gotta practice even if you fall
No-one else mentioned it, so I might suggest punched tape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape

There is always a trade-off between mass, durability, and data density. I know you excluded those considerations, but for only 200 years in a time capsule you likely don't want to use large stone blocks or stainless steel.

The tape has several advantages. Mylar is very light and kept in the dark at a constant, reasonable temperature is going to last two centuries no problem. You can read the tape by hand, if you need. An 8-bit tape is an inch wide and can be rolled into a canister for your time capsule.

Of course, for small amounts of data print English words on acid-free paper. For large amounts, tape is going to blow out the mass budget you didn't know you had because of it's low data density. But there might be a space in there somewhere for a tech I loved as a kid.
Anyone who allowed this to hit production should take a serious look at their testing process. This basically looks like axios's get method, which is probably a core use of the library, simply went missing. This should not have been a difficult issue for the most basic automated testing library or manual testing process to identify.

That being said, the ultimate culprit here is the nodeJS system. npm install will add the package with it being setup to upgrade to the latest minor version by default, instead of the obvious choice of fixing it to the specific version that was installed.

Further, the package-lock.json technology is neither well explained by NodeJS, nor well documented. The process one should use is not well explained either. And often fairly trivial changes will lead to significant changes in package-lock.json.
"and their law so restrictive in some cases"

Note that there was no law against this.

"This coming from the country where morons want to own a gun to protect their property and all other bs excuses, it's rather comedic."

This is highly inflammatory and disrespectful language and some might see it as trolling to get us off topic.

"And she received two anonymous notes from neighbors saying they did not want to see her underwear flapping about."

This is what she says happened. There content of the note is not provided, they didn't reach out to the officials, they didn't interview neighbors.

Hanging laundry is normal in some areas of the US too. Although it might not be normal to hang it along the road in your front yard (most have it in the back yard). I'm guessing there are some legal things in Portugal that annoy you, no? That's all that's objectively and factually happened here.

Although I do disagree with the use of anonymous notes and getting the government involved in petty stuff. But for every story of bad neighbors doing this, there are orders of magnitude more unreported stories of neighbors helping each other.
A browser extension that uses that method to add a "download" button to Youtube videos alongside the upvote / downvote buttons seems like a useful thing.
In practice this doesn't happen because numerically unstable NNs tend to have bad loss. A simple way to see this is that instability means that the network is highly sensitive to the inputs, which means that the network will give wildly different results for basically the same input which is wrong. Furthermore, if the weights of your NN are such that you are getting dramatic overflow/underflow that prevents it from correctly predicting, that will have a high loss, and the process of training will move towards parameters that don't have these rounding errors blow up.
i feel like an alien too but without the drug part (maybe the internet). Not hooked on anything yet still unable to pursue meaningful relationships outside the preexisting few I have left. Lately I stopped expressing ideas to people, since most of them are just rejected or get swallowed up by the void. All i'm trying to say is that there *might* be something more to the social part.
Before you dismiss this as another kooky consciousness theory, please let me add that this the only mechanistically precise one out there

It doesn't seem that unrealistic to me. The staggering number of elements making up the system we call a brain is likely to lead to some truly unintuitive solutions.
Open source family has an issue attracting good designers. That applies to web design too.
I find the idea that X won't / can't happen on a 3 month timeline, in this political climate, silly. Is there such a thing as stability bias? Because folks had best recalibrate their expectations for rate of change, starting a few months ago. I won't be taking any bets on Facebook, but the thing I'm replying to sounds like 6-months ago thinking.
That's precisely how some of these therapists saw their jobs. There were interviews from some therapists who helped people recover memories where they said they didn't care whether the patient was actually abused as a child, so long as they came out of the sessions feeling better.
And who will pay for that openness and decentralization? Let’s hypothetically say that Twitter is closed, millions of users discover Mastodon and move. Mastodon instances will be down in matter of seconds. How do you approach this? By volunteers adding more instances(that they can close anytime)? This will not change anything. Everything cost money and living in an “free” world bubble isn’t helping in any project adoption.

So I do not see any advantage in federated system. It’s cool as technology and all, but completely unprepared for huge traffic or real life scenarios.

PS. Please do not say anything about “anyone can start his own instance”. No, average Twitter/Facebook consumer can’t start his own instance.
Why wouldn't he legally be able to pardon them via executive order, the same as he can pardon anyone else? The president's pardon power is not restricted to citizens and permanent residents.
The issue is described further in the Tweet chain: Physical property retention is more or less impossible; these people typically end up getting their phones stolen every month to 4 months. The same would be true of IDs or other paperwork that could be used to prove their identity.

They get phones from a government program. Each new phone has a new number, and due to the above challenges, it'd be challenging to port numbers and keep a consistent number.

Authy accounts are keyed to your phone number, and to set one up on a new phone you have to receive a verification call/text.
As someone who lived through the Google Reader era, there was no way in hell that I would trust Google with my money on a service like Stadia. It's the kind of situation where you only get burned once by a company.

Stadia was dead on arrival for me. I live in a 3rd world country so they didn't ever bothered trying to sell the hardware over here. The internet also probably wouldn't be able to handle the needed downstream of a high quality gameplay footage, and even if it could it would have a ridiculous lag without servers in the region. Even if they managed to solve all of those problems, they were literally asking me to buy games that not only I wouldn't own but couldn't install or mod in my own way and trust that enough people would do the same so they wouldn't cancel the entire thing and run with the money? It's too much to ask.

Heck, is the promised refund actual money back into the bank account or "gift cards" to spend on Google services? Wouldn't surprise me if it's the latter.

I don't think Google was ever all that much successfull with products that only attend certain small regions. For Stadia to have a better chance, it would need at least be coupled with a service similar to Steam or Epic Games, where bought games are ran on client machines and that could be operated worldwide. A simple game store would make the service much more reliable.

I think the biggest problem of Google now is how much they try to *control* their users. Google+ was really annoying to use because they kept making demands like real name and surname, not giving proper API so people could automatize posts with little effort, etc. They literally killed Google Reader just so people would stop using feeds and use their proprietary stuff instead. Stadia demanded the user not just to relinquish the ownership of the game but also the machine where it ran and how it was installed, so you couldn't modify games or manipulate saves. They also demanded people to use Chrome even though they could make it run on any web browser. It's all about control, control, control.

I'm at a point where I don't even use Google Chrome. I know they will fuck it up somehow by being too "controlley". Oh wait, they're already trying to get rid of Ad Blockers, aren't they? That will surely work and in no way make people just use other browsers like Firefox, I'm sure... /s
The whole project just screams desperation. I don’t know what they are making or who they are making it for. It is utter nonsense.

My guess is Mark Zuckerberg is gone if this fails. It is back to the drawing board. They will need to bring in someone to shore up the core business and then extend to new opportunities.
> There are proportional methods for STAR and approval as well, there's no reason they couldn't be the stepping stones from this perspective

Proportional approval voting is extremely confusing (and expensive) to compute the winner, people won’t accept a system that they don’t understand how it works.

> Yet that doesn't try and stop people from duping voters into eg only ranking Palin, even though RCV is basically the only system where there is practically 0 reason to not rank additional candidates.

It’s the first election where people used it so they will learn about that. Also some people might just want to vote for Palin and are indifferent after that. While I would fill out the entire ballot, most people won’t bother, and that’s fine.

> if someone were to eg bullet vote in STAR to help their first choice win, is that really tactical voting, or just an honest vote/admission that they care so much about their first choice that all other opponents are equally bad?

No it does not necessarily mean that, it could plausibly mean that they do have a second preference, but are afraid of giving them points so that they don’t overtake their first preference. Think of a Bernie, Hillary, Trump election where some Bernie voters don’t want to give high points to Hilary, even though they much prefer her to Trump, for fear of her beating Bernie. RCV allows them to confidently vote Bernie > Hillary > Trump and not worry about this problem.

> I think the best use of approval is in primaries where the top two candidates proceed to the general.

I think it would be best to ditch primaries completely and have everyone run in a multi-winner general election with RCV. So few people vote in primaries, so the highly engaged extremists influence the outcome for everyone in the general. Also why do I need to vote twice for the same position, it’s annoying. It would be nice to only need to vote in one election, the general.

> With RCV the two dominant parties no longer have to worry about the spoiler effect, so there is even less incentive to reach across the aisle and receive influence from a third party than before. Whereas before you might want to take some token talking points from a third party and siphon some votes from them, with RCV you might be able to assume you'll get those voter's 2nd choices for free.

It seems like you are talking about two things at once:

1. a major party moderating their position to get votes from the other major party

2. a major party taking a (more extreme?) position to get votes from a third party

When you say “reach across the aisle”, to me that means #1 above, i.e. Democrats and Republicans moderating their positions to appeal to the median voter. I agree that would be good and RCV does encourage that!

RCV doesn’t encourage #2, and I think that’s also a good thing.

I would love a robust multi-party system, but for that we really need proportional representation. Trying to get it with single-winner elections, no matter the system, isn’t a good approach.
I'm a bit surprised, homeless people have phones and email addresses?

Sorry for question, but it is a bit mind blowing for me, in my country homeless people are rare and the ones I see don't worry about anything besides something to eat and alcohol. So having a mobile for them would be like having cash to buy the mentioned things.
> It still weirds me out that people in USA are such bad neighboors

Don’t mistake single news articles for cultural norms.

Things like these are in the headlines because they’re weird, rare, and noteworthy. I assure you this situation isn’t playing out across the entire US. Stereotyping an entire massive country based on a single news story about a weird dispute between neighbors is just illogical.

This is outrage journalism. The entire purpose of the story is to make you think “that’s outrageous!” and get angry. The journalist who wrote it might have even exaggerated the situation or left out key details to make it as sensational as possible.

Don’t take the bait.
>The on boarding process could try to determining if 2fa would actually benefit you or not.

How?
Static assets should be loaded from a CDN. You can render the initial HTML in 200ms and load the microservices client-side later without making the user wait. Or even better, don't use microservices. Caching can also help.
> It doesn't move your toots

does that even count as migrating then
> the eSIM is "stuck" in your phone if it physically breaks

Wait, does this happen?
> Vote with your wallet.

Just so you know (and stop using that phrase), there is no way scientifically or otherwise, to attribute the effect of non-sales to a feature, a service or anything else.

Your opinion on the matter just never shows up during product decisions, planning or analysis.

Your "vote" just doesn't exist.
Not always a possibility. Many banks require phone number based 2FA, for example. And you're required to use it any time you want to make a transaction that exceeds some threshold.
In my admittedly still short life, I have started to notice something: you can broadly divide the world into two groups - those who do things and those who keep wondering if they should have done things.

So for what’s worth, here is my advice to you: drop Gladwell and self-help books, if you want to and can switch to a new job, do it. Should it work or fail, you will have experienced trying. If you don’t feel like it or find yourself unable to because banks won’t loan to you, you can’t be hired or it’s finally not financially viable, don’t do it and rest in peace knowing it was your decision/you tried.

You don’t need an external reason like being too old or outside validation, you are old enough to make your own choice.
When I lived in the Czech Republic for two years I didn't have a dryer, had to air dry my clothes. There wasn't a smell issue, but my underwear felt like sandpaper compared to how it felt after going through a dryer.