skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where can you find supplies for these kinds of projects? Each 6ft. section of rack would cost $81 plus shipping from McMaster-Carr.Never mind the other components, that would add up quickly.
I was trying to find some spur gears for a project, but wow those are expensive. I reworked it to use pulleys, but those weren't as cheap as I'd hoped, either.
Any job not burning the equivalent energy of Argentina to accomplish a technical feat that could be done better with psql running on a raspberry pi.
Personally, I find the Rails version a bit more elegant because it is declarative, reusable and composable, while Django's approach is a more utilitarian "just write the dang query when you want it." But both are a great illustration of how a well-designed ORM can give you the tools you need to get good performance.
"Envious" has all but completely been absorbed by "jealous" in the vernacular. People just use "jealous" for both things. Good thing there can never be any ambiguity about which sense is intended.

"To comprise" is deployed incorrectly more often than correctly. Which is silly since, when used incorrectly, you could have simply used "to be composed of" (which is the thing people are confusing it for)—there's no benefit to using "comprised" there, all its elegance and subtle shade of meaning are lost anyway when you jam it into that clunky phrase as a perfect synonym for "composed". I think that's one of those fake-fancy abuses of language from business folks, leeching into everyday language. What synergy!

The apt adjective, rather than various words and modifiers expressing degrees of good or badness—many of which used to express more, but no longer do, as "massive" or "awesome"—seems to be an endangered species.

Awkward use of "less than" inexplicably replacing the word "inferior" in some circles. "We must ensure none of the children feel 'less than'". In the words of my generation: "LOL WTF?"

Anyone have handy any studies on vocabulary among Americans? It looks to have markedly decreased over the last few decades, but I worry I may be falling for the same kind of bias that seems to make everyone think everything's getting worse all the time. Popular writing gives me the impression it's written for an audience with a smaller vocabulary than in, say, the 1950s or 1960s, though.
The Mozilla Community: how it started, how it evolved, and where it is going
The linked article does a nice job of citing their sources, despite trying to skew them. The top handful of recalls are from electrical fires, 1 ABS (electrical) issue, a handful of battery issues, then at the bottom 1 issue with fuel leaks.

Go ask a firefighter which they think is more dangerous.
The way I understand it, this system does not take the bins all the way to the curb where they get picked up. It just takes the bins close to the curb, you still have to move them off the moving platforms manually, and on again after they have been emptied.

Usually, the different recycling bins do not get emptied on the same day, so it would not make sense to put all of them out for pickup. The purpose of this system (I think) is just to make it easier to get the bins from beside the house (where they're usually stored) to the front of the house (from where they can be put out on the curb more easily).
This to me always feels like someone saying it's nice to be able to just pour crude into a couple of buckets and transport them around in the back of a truck when the goal is to build an oil refinery.

This kind of "make the trivial part easy", "get started quick", "need no tooling" approach feels fast... at first, but then very quickly runs into nigh insurmountable problems.

A great analogy I heard was: "If your plan is to go to the moon, you won't get there by making a fast bus."
A lot of other cool things happen when you do that too.
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Update zoning? Humans are breeding creatures. Like all animals, they will reproduce to fill their available habitat and back pressure is needed to keep the population from strangling this planet.
That is given, how else could it work?

This is pub/sub, it's not pull based, so every time you release something it is pushed to the subscribers, your followers servers.

I would like to have a bit of pull based things as well, but ActivityPub is not built for it.

Even though it's pushed to a server, doesn't mean it goes to everyone in that server.
Brain development: If we don’t become “adult” at 18 or 21, can we accept
Another interesting additive in many plastics is glass fibres or beads, they are often used to strengthen the plastic and give it slightly different mechanical properties. The downside of the glass fillers is that they erode the tools much more quickly (glass is very abrasive), kind of the opposite of Tallow which helps to keep the plastic flowing over the surfaces better.

On glass filled parts you will often see a small ring around the "gate" (gates are where the plastic is injected). The gate is under enormous pressure and has a very high flow rate through it, so it tends to erode significantly more quickly. To counter that the gate is often an inserted part that can be changed out easily when servicing the tool, or made from a higher toughened grade of steel. Hence a small ring, a witness mark of where the join is.
And there still are in San Francisco.

And they can go around corners: http://www.cablecarmuseum.org/archive/Anat/Anat.html
I meant that the idea there is little live music any more. Historically people have paid for the time of musicians, not for music. If you want to hear more live music, pay for someone to play at your venue. If you want to be heard as a musician yourself, take your instrument down the pub or onto the street and just start playing.
Not at all. There has been enormous improvements for the poorest.

Tons of data here. Look for yourself: https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief
There's been a lot of work on memorization, yes, and you can also do nearest-neighbor lookups in the original data to gutcheck 'memorization'. As usual, the answer is "it's complicated" but for most practical purposes, the answer is 'no': you will get the Mona Lisa if you ask for it, absolutely, but the odds of a randomly generated image being a doppelganger is near-zero. (If you've seen stuff on social media to the contrary, then you may have been misled by various people peddling img2img or 'variation' functions, or prompting for it, or other ways of lying/ignorance.)

But you certainly can get things like watermarks without any real memorization. Watermarks have been a nuisance in GANS, for example - the StyleGAN CATS model was filled with watermarks or attempted meme text captions, even though the cats were so nightmarish that they obviously weren't 'plagiarized' so nobody made a big deal about it back then and they understood the GAN had simply learned that watermarks were a thing in many real images and it would try to imitate them where plausible in a sample.
Even more pedantically, paper made from cotton and linen is paper by most definitions.

Wood pulp paper is by far the most common these days, but that's surprisingly recent (mid-19th century). Before that it was mostly cotton, linen and hemp.
I ran into this issue recently. 2.0 will not need the plugin and work with any Python type checker! So much so that the plugin is already somewhat deprecated.
Otp
My project for the year is to design and produce an open source amateur radio transceiver (HF QRP SSB, for the hams) that anyone can build by schematic. I'll also provide Gerber files for the PCB's if I produce on (not sure...) and a complete online manual for building, testing, and operating.

The other thing: Travel. I've never travelled beyond the western US. I hope to get my passport and fly to one country outside of North America.

For work, focusing on keeping my support team amazing and helping the startup I work at scale significantly.
I know thats a big part of the reason I wish it was accessible natively and frictionless in Python. I'd like to not learn a whole new inferior language to make a decent UI.
The name looks like a pun but I can’t quite work it out. I mean mafs is already a funny way of pronouncing maths, so maybe that’s good enough. But is there more to it?
Sure, they should blame their government instead -- which allowed those foreigners to cause the problems, instead of protecting the citizens they are meant to serve.
Having worked in banking for 20 years and knowing how many fraud transactions are reversed, I do indeed find that false information to be surprising.
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Check out my resume and website for details of the products I've helped create, but they run the gamut from cancer patient support health tech and genetic testing insurance billing to defense intelligence analyst notebook to proteomics lab science and algorithm development.

If you have an idea for a product or service that can truly benefit people, but need help getting it off the ground, please get in touch.
It makes poor sense because landowners are often selfish, and choose use cases with their property that maximize personal benefit and if there is a collective benefit to these decisions it is a happy accident. I'm including local species into the collective in this case. Often a landowner will put up barriers (e.g. a fence around a sprawling ranch or a beltway of roads around a suburban development) for species or will introduce invasive species or otherwise lower the biodiversity of a place through disruptive development.
At a glance, really nice design, and love the name.

This may or may not be stupid, but you could curate/link to snazzy umbrellas, the most functional and most stylish.
I believe that option 2, where it relies on individual encryption at the cost of reading history, is how matrix does it (or can do it if chosen).
Samsung Unleashes 57-inch 8K Mini-LED, 49-inch OLED Neo Gaming Monitors
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A dream job to help build out our MVP, an ambitious product, and hire/manage a growing team.

Top tier venture backed. Run by an experienced, serial founder and former VC.

Hiring for Spanish-English bilingual full stack senior lead.

Ideally LatAm based (Mexico or other).

Preference for Ruby on Rails - but flexible.

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- United States

- Canada

- UK

I'm sure there are countries where that is legal, but effectively they're illegal pretty much everywhere you'd want to work.
I'm kind of surprised that this article did not mention John Philip Sousa, who was both one of the most successful "recording artists" of that time and one of the most outspoken opponents of recorded music.

(If you are American, you definitely know Sousa. Think of any patriotic march you've ever heard. Sousa probably wrote that.)

Sousa was not so much worried about the economic effects, but about how the new technology would change the social function of music. It would change what music was. He worried that instead of people gathering around the family or neighborhood pianist and singing together, they would be alone in their own rooms passively listening.

He worried that children would no longer gather on neighbourhood stoops to make up their own little songs and sing them together, but would all start passively consuming the same music as every one else in the country.

Sousa was worried that recoding technology would change music from active social interactions where we create music together into isolated, passive consumption.

Sousa was right.
The GitHub dataset is a lot of fun. In addition to the ClickHouse Inc version mentioned in the article there's also a current version on Altinity.Cloud at the following URL:

https://github.demo.trial.altinity.cloud:8443/play?user=demo (Password=demo)

It also has tables with NYC cab data (trip data) and the US DOT airline ontime dataset. They are also fun datasets for putting ClickHouse through its paces.

Disclaimer. I work at Altinity.
Are you accepting junior applicants?
We don't have 'much habitable land'. Most of the 'land' is literally a rock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shield
Great analogy. Agreed, checks are insecure and obsolete technology for the reasons you stated.

It does seem, however, that modern digital payment systems (mainstream, non-crypto) have largely caught up with the times. Your bank password is essentially a private key. It's not foolproof, but the challenge of keeping your password private is no different than keeping your private key private. From an OPSEC standpoint it's a level playfield.

Of course these systems are still vulnerable to social engineering attacks, credential theft, outright fraud etc. These kinds of human problems can't be solved with technology.

The old security holes still exist (check fraud, credit card fraud) as the system continues to support ancient/deprecated payment methods. Eventually they'll be obsoleted. I read a report stating that check use has been declining steadily. In 2000 there were 42.6b check payments, in 2018 there were only 14.5b. I'd say we're getting there. The younger generation embraces the new tech, it's only a matter of time.

If this was 15 years ago, I'd say crypto was providing a solution to a problem. But since then bank systems have caught up, and have additional protections of FDIC, regulations, etc. I'd say that modern digital finance is already largely meeting the promises made by crypto enthusiasts, with none of the downsides.

Put another way, if crypto matures and doesn't die in flames, it will basically look like one more competing digital payment system to those already offered by TradFi.

People get caught up in the tech, but at the end of the day all that matters is you can use a password to digitally move money. We can do that now. Crypto is ubiquitous / crypto is irrelevant.
Does it even matter?

Yes, they came from wealthy families. They could have easily coasted on that money like tons of kids do.

It made it _easier_ for them to build successful businesses, but success isn't guaranteed!
Fond memories! I really liked early Netscape, before it turned, well, really bad (was it 4+? ).

I also remember there were lists of websites in printed (!) magazines.
I tried to track this down but I found sources claiming this was added to the 486, Pentium, and Pentium Pro (P6). So if you know for sure that it's P6, please let me know the details.
Turkey. On the coast in a small resort town. 200k per key with 15 rooms.

I have no prior experience but what I do have is a business plan and a local partner. I’m networking with people who are in hospitality and working with a consultant to assist with due diligence. I’m moving there to supervise operations.
Doom Running in the Unity Inspector
Easy answer: NO.

In the first part of the video, it's the autopilot which does all the work. The 'passenger' is pretty much just along for the ride. In the second part of the video, he has to do it all himself, and there is not a good outcome.

Being a pilot means learning lots and lots of things, apart from the muscle-memory needed. Even the knowledge of what the various instruments and switches are for, and where they are placed in the cockpit is too much to "learn" in a very restricted time-frame. ("Where is M1???" - video)

Simple aviation concepts such as glide-speed and how to work on maintaining it safely before it falls away would be too much for a non-pilot to know/learn in a few minutes.

Even a good pilot would be heavily outworked in trying to learn to land an unknown aircraft type such as a 737 multi-engine-turbine at the drop of a hat. That's why there is such a thing as a 'Type Endorsement' in your Pilot's Licence. http://www.pilotfriend.com/training/flight_training/fxd_wing...
> JUST STOP MASS BLOCKING. You literally have no reason to.

So I guess I should just let all the bots and wordpress hack attempts through to waste the very limited resources of my server and network connection?

Seems like a great idea.

/sarcasm
>It is transport agnostic in that the concepts can be used within the same process, over sockets, over http, websockets, or in many various message passing environments.

I think tRPC sort of implements a transport layer for (a superset of) this, no?
Say more? On how you plan to double productivity.
I will continue to build and improve my comprehensive horse husbandry software: https://horserecords.info
The situation gives me a weird déjà vu.
What do you mean? Foreigners can't buy therefore it will decrease the number of people trying to buy there
> "The ban doesn't apply to properties with 4 units or more" - good. If the goal is to allow single family homes and duplexes, condos, etc. to drop in price, it's providing aid in the right place. The goal wasn't to make life easier for people buying investment properties.

This seems like a massive gap though, and the counterargument doesn't make sense. Surely high-density housing is (should be) cheaper than the alternatives, and provides fine homes for many people who can't afford/don't want a suburban single family home with all the expenses that entails? (Car, maintenance, etc.)
I spend a lot of time in Chicago and always find it safe and pleasant. Yet when I talk to some people, typically of a conservative persuasion, they describe it as an urban hellscape in the same way some posters here describe SF or Portland.

A failed city that people are fleeing, with impossibly high taxes, no remaining police, rife with crime, and with corrupt bureaucrats suckling on the government teat at every turn.

I can't square the circle. I know so many people in Chicago and it doesn't seem like they're even describing the same city.

So when I see these hit pieces against the governments on the west coast, and hear anecdotes from west coast Republicans fleeing to the south to escape their purported failures, I take them with a massive gain of salt.

I have no doubt that Portland has its issues, but I can't take these pieces very seriously. As with the mythical failed version of Chicago I keep hearing about, I suspect there is a group of people pushing an extreme version of a narrative that is only loosely based in reality.
> 3. Rules in life are just constructs that we as humans have created.

Corollary to this is that human rules aren't like programming rules and that the words that make up the rules get interpreted by a human.

One thing that this means is that you can't "hack" a human rule by picking the semantic meaning of a word which works best for you. You have to actually convince the arbiter of that rule that they agree with your meaning. If they don't, and they have a hundred years of legal ruling behind them that they've read and you haven't, then you're screwed.

And good human rules usually do have exceptions to them ("yelling fire in a crowded theater" being the most well understood). This is also why "the exception that proves the rule" is not a stupid saying.

And this is a feature and not a bug. The worst rules we generate are usually the ones that require the human arbiter to be rigid and mechanical. That tends to produce injustices like "three strikes you're out" and "mandatory minimum sentencing" (or any attempt to make the handball rule in soccer/football be objective and just winds up making it worse).
Use the before:$date keyword if you haven't before

Example: "hot or not before:2004-01-01"

I don't think Google purges their crawled pages ever so it should turn up?
No one looks up the zoning code before having kids. Zoning is also not related to the carrying capacity of an environment, usually its decided by busybodies who actively ignore the literature on the subject in favor of perpetuating a status quo.
>At some point, Intel implemented consistency between cached instructions and memory. This ensures that self-modifying code will run the latest version of an instruction rather than a stale instruction in the cache. I couldn't determine exactly when this was implemented; various sources say the 486, the Pentium, or the Pentium Pro. (If you have a definitive answer, please let me know.)

It's definitely not the case on the 486, the linked HN post written by me was incorrect about that. Tried running self-modifying code on a 486 and it required a jump to make it work.
Ask HN: Best news/journalism sources that are ad-free/lightweight (paid or free)
Hello HN,

I'm frankly just so tired of the modern web when it comes to reading the news, journalism, or many other kinds of content, since it seems every website is an absolute mess of javascript trackers, cookies, and invasive advertisements. AD blockers are effectively useless these days, since paywalls all detect them now, and I understand that blocking ads is itself an ethically murky thing to do since there are a lot of good honest people trying to make a living in a space where advertising is the only way to do that.

Even my paid subscription to The Atlantic started nagging me with Ads recently, apparently they have introduced a higher paid tier with no ads. Fine, I'll upgrade.

I'm happy to shell out some money for a few solid subscriptions so that I can have a better internet experience.

If we had a "web 3.0", rather than some VR or blockchain, I'd love to see a "light" web. No tracking, no advertisements, just content. I realize this is likely a pipe dream.

So my question is, what are your favorite subscriptions that allow you to get great content without annoying ads and other invasive tactics?

At least with podcasts, I can skip the mattress advertisement that I've heard 50 times already with cat-like reflexes while I'm out for a jog..
No.

Owning housing produces a certain income for the owner. Either as the rent you can charge from tenants, or increase in the resale price. Both depend on the local supply/demand situation.
I’m working on Nimbus Web Services[0], a managed service provider (think redis, object storage, etc) for Hetzner and later OVH and LeaseWeb.

I’ve been chipping away at it for quite a while, but I’m finally in the position of standing up the production coasters and letting people on.

The last 10% seems to always take 90% of the time!

[0]: https://nimbusws.com
Does handling these plastic banknotes expose you to PFAS?
The past tense of "lead" will be dictionary-accepted as "lead" within your lifetime.