skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty simple. Back when being a sexual deviant was heavily stigmatized, there was an overwhelming presumption that any public male-male affection was platonic. Thus these images wouldn't have raised any eyebrows in the time they were taken. Now that we live in an age where any perversion that doesn't involve children is acceptable, normal men are much less comfortable acting like, well, normal men. It's too bad. Even when I was younger, which wasn't all that long ago, it was normal for two boys to hold hands in friendship.
Developer here. We wrote Maria 6 years ago, and this fall I accepted a ClojuristsTogether grant to bring it back into active development. We hope to simplify/modernize the codebase to make it something people can hack on top of to add features & apply to new use-cases.

Repo: https://github.com/mhuebert/maria

ClojureD talk introducing Maria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUBHrS4ZzO4

Description of 2022 grant work: http://blog.maria.cloud/2022/09/30/Maria-and-Clojurists-Toge...

I'll be posting updates to twitter, @mhuebert.

Happy to answer any questions / hear ideas for improvement & extension.
It still uses some "95% less" chemicals to kill plants. Why not laser, some pull-from-ground mechanism or scissors to get rid of unwanted plants?
Unfortunately the crowdfunding accidental ponzi is all too common. If the price paid by backers won't cover production costs (hint: it never will) then the only options are to go bankrupt or to use profits from full-price orders to subsidize pre-orders. If you sue, everybody gets nothing. If you wait, you'll be waiting a long time. Crowdfunding for hardware isn't a good idea.
It's unstable by design and can't really brake hard without getting rid of the rider really fast. If a careless rider/driver/pedestrian gets in your way, you'll likely be able to stop your e-bike in time as opposed to crashing on a monowheel.
Is it any surprise people get apprehensive about stopping medication? We don’t ask people to not use prescription glasses or leave their wheelchair at home and expect them to be happy about it, do we?
> As I grow older, I am more convinced that psychiatry is more of an art than a science.

There's a bit of an educated guessing component to it, but mental health professionals are starting to use genetic testing to take some of the guess work out.

Psychiatrists go through the same four years of medical school that other doctors do. This gives them a broad enough background to help diagnose other diseases that have psychological symptoms.
For your B-movie viewing entertainment: Greenland

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7737786/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

features an interstellar comet (those go much faster than regular comets, you know) which has broken into fragments, and they're all slamming into Earth. One of the fragments is bigger than the Chicxulub asteroid, so it's curtains for everybody! Everybody except the special few who've been selected to go to a military bunker near Thule air base in Greenland to ride it out and then rebuild civilization after it's all blown over.

Since all disaster movies have to feature a parent being separated from their child and/or spouse and frantically trying to find them amidst all the chaos, I'm probably not giving anything away when I mention that plot element.
In Soviet times, the class was called "preliminary military training", and focused more on that aspect - not quite to the point where they'd shoot things, but it would involve timed field-stripping an AK, for example, and reading military topographic maps.

After 1991, the military aspects were stripped out, although in many schools they turned into an opt-in afterschool "patriot club" or some such. These were the primary source of videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxjYfl05ek.

Recently, they've announced that they'll be reviving the old Soviet format, so it'll become mandatory for all high schoolers again, beginning with the next school year (starting in September, 2023).
I believe the parent is offering their explanation that for scenarios that require sustained usage, end users vastly prefer mobile apps to web apps.

There’s a disparity between mobile and web apps in terms of user experience which is why they ended by asking for how long are you gonna run i.e. ignore the difference in user experience by investing in a web app while your competitors embrace it by investing in a mobile app that offers a superior user experience.
However, it might be trained on code with erroneous comments, either because it was mangled by a merge or because it's outdated. The more times this happen, the more confused the AI model will be.

Which makes me to think that the AI models should be trained on the code evolution of commit chains and not just on isolated snippets of code. That way, the AI could analyze your own commits to detect when a comment becomes outdated.
This was the key bit fore me:

Toyota says you’ll get 50 percent more all-electric driving range compared to the last Prius Prime, which should mean around 37 miles of zero-emissions driving with a fully-charged battery.

I wish Toyota would lift its plug in electric game.
For something that simple you could check out PHP. Or even google forms, if you don’t mind something really simple and hosted by google.
Smartphones Are Like Cars. So Why Don’t We Maintain Them?
As awareness of homosexuality and acceptance of it spreads, friendly measures like this between platonic friends become less common. This is not a moral judgement, just an observation. People don't want to be seen or feel like they're seen as something theyre not.
Excuse my extremely informal and probably dumb thought process behind this, but can't de-fi be rug-pulled as follows

1) Create code with subtle but privately known "bug" that allows profitable behavior far outside the bounds of what you advertise to the public as your code doing.

2) Wait for liquidity pools within the contract to build up.

3) Exploit the "bug"

Yes according to "Code-is-law" you're not doing anything "unlaw(code)ful." But it's a rug pull in everything but name. De-fi is basically never introduced as "there's contract 0x343cdc.... on the blockchain, go read the EVM code as nothing will be explained" so intent in the way something is introduced is instrumental here.
Larger and softer wheels work great for mitigating pebbles, sticks, bumps or cracks. I roll over some pretty gnarly terrain with 60mm 78a wheels. You could even to an extent at certain speeds roll of the sidewalk entirely and roll back on quickly and not eat it with these wheels.
On that specific example, not my experience at all. (The general point is of course valid, though I think it follows very directly from what I said)
Even going to a pub with a friend and I get strange looks. 2 straight guys having some beers. I guess gayness ruined the rainbow for everybody else.
As I understand it colors themselves cannot be trademarked. The trademarking comes in with the combination of color and product type. So Lyft and T-Mobile can both be electric pink, but Uber couldn’t rebrand to be electric pink.
I think that hard times is what really creates that sense of brotherhood. Unfortunately, in the modern western world, it has become really easy to avoid serious hardships once you get even to a modest level of income. I've wanted to do challenging things with acquaintances of mine, but they just don't pan out. I invite people to the gym, I invite them on long hikes, I ask them to do something challenging with me, but it's so easy go to just stay at home and order Doordash. Once you get older a lot of people have other responsibilities and making new best friend just drops down the lost of priorities. I've just gotten used to it. I try to find satisfaction in life through what I can directly do, and not what others can do for me (or with me).
Skating San Fransisco Hills are certainly for the brave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzgRB8qH4k
Years ago I caught this video about LMU students leveraging machine-learning to find pot holes and other road damage in Los Angeles. I've thought about it many times since and wondered why cities haven't adopted this. There are so many city vehicles roaming the city, that Los Angeles could get a full map of road damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOHLENkL8oE
Set up for minimal notifications and when its time to focus close the app.
It’s not on you. An enormous amount of stigma surrounds the use of stimulant medication, even if it’s one of the oldest and most studied psychiatric meds there is. And the stigma is continuously reinforced by all the people who don’t need it abusing the meds.

Sure, there’s also some risk for patients using them properly, but for them it does not compare to the sheer benefits provided by the meds.
> I know how to fall (intellectually). How do I translate that into the real world?

As a martial arts instructor, here's my advice:
The first month or so of aikido classes is a great way to learn rolling. Start on your knees, on a padded floor, arc your arms/"hold a ball", & practice rolling diagonally (eg right shoulder to left hip, etc)

1. Keep arms in a curve: the arms pattern your fall, rather that 'push the ground'
2. Point your nose into your armpit. Don't let your head touch the ground
3. Protect your clavicles. Super easy to break, especially if you hit the ground with a stiff arm. Clavicles take MUCH longer the heal than wrists, & hurt worse too
4. DON'T learn rolling from gymnastics, if your goal is to survive crashes on concrete. Gymnasts practice on thick padded floors & don't mind that their head touches the floor. Bad idea when there's no padded floor.
I'm pretty sure anon334455 meant "fell" not "failed".
>Are they reading peoples minds or just overfitting a model on purpose?

There's no question about it - they're overfitting a model on purpose.
The way I frame this is that in modern generations, there's a good likelihood that one can and does enjoy many different forms of media: social media, youtube, movies, series, sports, video games, books, music.

They all have their hooks to keep you in as much as possible. You have to draw a personal line for each or even all if you want to make progress in other pursuits (even just other media forms). The time sink should only be done in small amounts unless you truly have nothing else you want to be doing.

Also to note I think is to be mindful of how these things make you feel after consuming/participating - if it just leaves you as tired as you started (or just from being seated for hours on end) or in other ways doesn't make you feel at least the same or better, it's probably not worth continuing.

Of course, tastes change over time as well. I can't game nearly as much as I used to in my childhood because 1)I know I have more fulfilling things to do (work, friends, hobbies) and 2)The sense of achievement finally started feeling fake for me, and I can't justify this "junk food" for my mind.
My hypothesis is that the years are getting longer.
Fair enough, and strongly agreed on the last.
I think you're arguing the exact opposite point of the parent (and agreeing with them), they never said they look down or think less of people who use meds, they themselves use meds.
So are you also avoiding all the classic nursery rhymes and stories like Little Red Riding Hood (eaten by wolf), King Midas (slavery), Cinderella (evil step mother and sisters), Puss In Boots (trickery, deceit, murder of the mouse), Hansel and Gretel (cannibalism). I can go on and on. I didn’t even touch Mother Goose yet.

Millions raised on such stories yet we somehow still have a society with morals and ethics.

Children don’t internalize everything the way you seem to think.
Let’s be clear homophobia (with a root in misogyny)“ruined the rainbow” for everybody else. The only funny looks you’re getting are from close minded people. And it’s only ruined for you (the hypothetical you, not making assumptions) because of your own shame in potentially being perceived as gay by others.
I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was about 27-28. I've been on medication since then, and the impact has been amazing. It makes me wish my condition was diagnosed much earlier. So much unnecessary difficulty (Especially in school) that could potentially have been avoided.
If anon334455 didn't want to leave a comment, anon334455 didn't have to.

What's the point of anon334455 commenting except to warn others to be careful?
nice to see competition against zapier!
But in this case surely you're better off with

input = fixInputFormattingIfMalformed(input);

or even

if (isMalformed(input)) input = fixInputFormatting(input);
“Like SARS-CoV-2, the transmission of RSV, flu, and other seasonal viruses can be reduced by simple health measures like mask-wearing, avoiding crowds, staying home when sick, and hygiene measures.”

Almost every child gets RSV before the age of 2. I don’t think we can go putting masks on babies, keeping them out of daycare, and encouraging them to wash their hands.

Not that adults can’t get it and transmit it, but my understanding is that it pretty much just washes through daycares in waves.
China rescued 70% of the world's poor [video]
Thank you!

Yeah, I run a WebRTC stack and gstreamer+nnstreamer application to stream video from the Pi. I'm running a TensorFlow Lite model on-device for object detection. Getting that stack to run on a 32-bit SoC without an operating system would be tough.

That said, there are some incredibly talented people in the world advancing the field of "TinyML" https://www.tinyml.org/ - it's not like you're suggesting something ridiculous! There are already specialized camera + NPU (Neural Processing Units) boards on the market for specialized edge CV tasks. PrintNanny's workflow/automation requires general computing capability though, which rules out a lot of specialized CV boards.
Having recently interacted with Google I have no idea why anyone would choose to do business with them unless they absolutely have to.

Every interaction with them you can feel the disdain they have for human interaction. It makes me wish I was doing business with comcast instead.
Turns out he is bored and wants a challenge (he isn't employed or contracted with twitter yet, afaik):

https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159295542717976576...

> I’ll put my money where my mouth is. I’m down for a 12 week internship at Twitter for cost of living in SF.

> It’s not about accumulating capital in a dead world, it’s about making the world alive.

https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159297764564540211...

> I’m not the guy if you want long term stability, but I really enjoy diving in to complex codebases and think I could help document and clean up some of those 1000 microservices in 12 weeks. Reverse engineering!

https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159299053441478656...

> Eh, this is why it’s 12 weeks. More like a contract than a hire. I will take the work in the 12 weeks very seriously, as I do with all contracts.
That's cool, but its a really bad article. It seems very skeptical about the chip, based on the previous one. I suppose that's fair, but without any data, it is pure speculation.
The “look down on it” bit hit a nerve because it is sort of true: there’s an archetype of bro-y “I do _real_ science” first year grad students who do think that. They (usually) grow out of it eventually, but usually not before demoralizing a classmate or two. I don’t think this is the general consensus among most neuroscientists though (I am one, but do neurophysiology rather than fMRI). Jack Gallant’s group, which I linked below, has produced a bunch of very smart people. There are some fMRI folks in the National Academy of Sciences, at the NIH, etc. It’s the real deal.

I’m curious where you’re seeing newer glucose PET stuff. We have a radiochemistry group downstairs and I thought most of the excitement was now custom tracers for specific receptors.
> I hooked it up to a light switch it could toggle with {light on} or {light off}, and controlled it with speech recognition.

This _has_ to be the most complicated way ever invented of blinking an LED. :-)

(But, seriously, kudos. Sounds like a fun experiment.)
The best parts of that job was when you stood still for a minute late in the season, completely oblivious to the stream of fire ants pouring into your boots
With solar and wind being so competitive on price (both per MW and MWh) I don't understand why there's not more of it.

Wouldn't investors build massive amount and undercut other plants? Is it simply because the capital costs are already sunk, and the running costs are still competitive?

$100 for this is really bad, other energy sources are 1/3 of this. To me this spells the end of this project.
Yes, the current ways of doing intensive farming are hard on the land and ultimately very wasteful. If you look at the progress in pesticide free organic farming and indoor/vertical farming, what they have in common is that they leverage a more data driven approach where you simply don't need to pre-emptively correct problems if you can manage the environment in which you grow plants better. Avoiding the conditions that cause pests and weeds to get out control is much more efficient than dealing with them after things get out of control.

Basically, intensive agriculture is compensating for its destructive nature by just brutally suppressing any "undesirable" growth. In nature, pests target the weaker plants. Basically, you stress out plants by mismanaging them and they are fair game for a wide range of fungi, insects, etc. E.g. under or over watering them, depleting the soil, etc. all stress plants out. If you have unhealthy soil, it's hard to have healthy plants growing in it.

Intensive agriculture starts with disrupting the soil (by plowing it). This causes the soil to degrade over time and releases captured carbon into the atmosphere. The natural response is for aggressive weeds to start growing in disrupted soil. To "fix" this, farmers use a mix of pesticides and fertilizers. The pesticides kill a lot more than just the pests and weeds and then further degrades the soil and the bio diversity in and on it. And finally the fertilizer is just bleeding out of the land straight into the ground water and surrounding areas. It works but it is resource intensive. You need lots of water, chemicals, energy, etc to grow a single crop at the cost of literally anything else. Basically modern intensive farming grows mono cultures on top of artificially created deserts.

Organic farming avoids doing that. Try not to disrupt the soil. Kill off (and compost) weaker plants rather than trying to rescue them. Use nature to keep pests and weeds in check. Etc. It works but it is more labor intensive. You need people to look after things. You get healthier and tastier produce (cooks love organically grown stuff for this reason). However, automating that labor makes it more scalable. That's the opportunity here.
There are people who believe this is real AI, not just aggregation and interpolation. They really believe the software understands code generally.
Check this out: https://github.com/1Marc/modern-todomvc-vanillajs
I disagree with this. For me, the energy is because I have to use less energy doing basic day to day shit. Unmedicated, it takes far more effort and work, and leaves less energy for later tasks.
Sadly, if you measure "worse" in selfish financial terms, the site being down is probably worse for you.
Yeah, I wanted to express that there can be a consesus that can be achieved. And that such extreme moves as in the article undermines that process.

Clearly I shouldn't have, because this turned into a flame war.
Carvana lets you test drive your car for 7 days and return it for no fee. What other dealer does that? Yes, you do all the paperwork before you get possession of the car, but you have 7 days to return it for any reason, they even provided a credit towards taking the car to your own mechanic for an inspection if you wanted. I bought from them because they took all the risk out of car buying.
> wooden wall loving

The walls are not made from wood.

> fires won't spread as easily

Search for "intumescent paint" or coatings.

Here's a video demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAr1lWbf3XQ
I've made a great career of being a code janitor and doing what others don't want, while having a good attitude. In the last few years, I just rewrite everything I possibly can in Rust and I've yet to regret it.
> I actually don’t use any indie web product

The only indie web product I use (and have used for many years now) is workflowy. So simple, so beautiful. Wish I invented it.
Thanks, I forgot to exhaustively enumerate all the exceptions, that make sense in my eyes. Like rape victims.
There's a reason many languages have large overflowing repositories of modules (or there are well known libraries) that can be downloaded and used that provide boilerplate solutions for many things.

Most people don't like writing that boilerplate once they know how to do it and have done it a few times, and would rather just call a function do_that_thing_need_done_on(input1, input2).

If it can't be factored out like that and is actual language boilerplate beyond a few lines, that's a failure of the language.

If these AI models are suggesting the code that could be called in a library/module instead of the the code to actually include and call a well known and trusted library or module, I'm not sure that's progress. At least when someone notices a bug or better way to do it and updates that module or library, consumers of that module can update and benefit from it, or at a minimum see that there were bugs in the version they're running they might want to address at some point.
I would say only smart people can get things so wrong. Experts are those who can dig the deepest, even if it's in the wrong direction, like psychologists before neurosciences, astronomers before telescopes, etc. To get the wrongest ideas, you need to ask an expert.
There are some interesting things being done with pivot spans. Hummingbird runs nozzles back and forth on rails suspended from each pivot span. But they’re difficult to keep running.

Ag is hard. It’s dusty. The weather can be brutal. Stuff gets left out year round. The turnover is high. Schedules are dynamic and unforgiving (when the weather turns, you have to adapt your whole operation). There’s not a lot of highly technical staff to maintain things; bailing wire and bandaids is a real thing. The tradition of “hacking things” to keep them working comes from farmers.

The more complicated your machinery, the more your MTBF product goes up. So complicated units don’t scale well.

If a single sprinkler on a pivot fails or misbehaves, there’s nearly 400 of them and there’s some overlap. If your “robot” stalls out with some grit or a power supply issue or a bricked update, or leaky hydraulics, you just lost 1/10 of your pivot. Pray it happens on an inner span, rather than an outer one.
Some more details here
https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/they-were-b...

The promise was there:

"In an ideal world, blockchain might compress that T+2 settlement time to real time by allowing payments and ownership records to move simultaneously. A lot of the reconciliation and administrative processes taking place all day in broker and investor offices could be streamlined if everyone knew everything about an equity simultaneously."

But it seems part of the problem is vested interests and not technical.

"At the heart of ASX’s spectacular failure was the unsettling nature of innovation to all those market intermediaries: what the ASX saw as potential savings, registries and other companies profiting handsomely from clipping the tickets on trading and company actions saw as an attack on their revenue bases. Australian investors pay about $1 billion each year for registry services."