skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI - I love my shinobi too but they just released a new pre-order for the "Shura" which I am looking forward to :)

https://tex.com.tw/products/shura?variant=42840179409051
Which MBP model? I think it may matter
> when there's a huge gap in skill level

That's challenging for the teacher, who can learn to teach better.

Not many can put the most esoteric ideas into simple terms like Feynman, but we can aspire to.
The interview/form is looking for potential blackmail or tendency to lie or obscure facts. If you are honest, that's fine, although they sometimes ask that you are currently using as well and that is a strike against you.
Say hello to the new item that people waste hard earned money on.
Watch people trying to justify this expense as an investment.
No, the impossible burgers come well salted and seasoned to hide the fakeness. I don't salt mine.
The report says that Apple's $3,000 mixed reality headset is still planned for this year, probably followed up by a cheaper (but still expensive!) $1,500 model by 2025.

IMHO this would be good news for Meta which has spent years figuring out how to ship this technology in a $400 consumer-level unit.

Apple's entry would validate the market, and make it more obvious what a good deal the Quest actually is (from a pure hardware POV — the quality of the software deal remains in argument).
Note there are actually 3 pages to this. I didn't notice the page buttons (which are below the related articles images) at first.
In practice this hasn't worked for me. I got a new phone and was trying to charge it on the way home (since it was activated automatically by the store despite me not asking for that). It refused to charge in the direction I wanted. It'd reset this option instantly every time
> The thing is that there are many alternatives (falafel, all kinds of different cheese, beans, etc) that are delicious but not trying to replicate meat taste

And not a one of them is available at a common fast food joint, but I can get an Impossible Whopper anywhere there is a Burger King, which is a lot of places. This is enormously convenient for me when I have to go on a road trip.

> I don't get the point of eating fake meats, just eat veggies, learn to cook, and enjoy

Cooking is a time investment and many of these dishes are pretty heavy on the time investment.

How about this: I'll eat what I want and you eat what you want, ok?
In my experience, usually the ingredients in fake burger meat are mostly recognizable nutritious plants, at least in the stuff I buy.
Yes. An electrician re-wiring my kitchen had three adjacent switches differently up / down when all off. He happily redid them when asked, but clearly himself didn't care about the consistency.
Ted Lasso taught me how to write
I wonder if the prototypes they built really are too weak to launch or if Apple management is overestimating the risk of launching this product.
I'm not so sure about that. If you spend a lot of time mentally disengaged, (walking, exercising, commuting, etc.) you have lots of opportunities to deeply consider many things that you have no intention of doing.
Because the amount of effort required in avoiding them is a signal stronger than the noise of appearing normal.

Google is just as powerful as state actors, the same rules apply.

Don't stick out.
too easy - so not done by god? this statement confuses me.
This is unsurprising. The tech just isn't there yet. It may never be more than a niche product and has some fundamental problems (eg displaying black).

Apple generally isn't on the cutting edge of things. Apple's primary positioning is to take something that's proven and make it not suck. There was Internet on phones before the iPhone. There was a time when you had to tell your OS if your Wifi was WEP, WPA or WPA2. There were MP3 players befofe the iPod.
I think we are basing it on what we know about root 2. That it's larger than one and less than 2.
Ordinary physical recycling of plastics (melt them down) runs into problems because plastics get mixed and mixed with contaminants and because the molecular chains get damaged and break down over time.

There are two approaches to chemical recycling.

One of them is to reverse the polymerization process and produce the monomer. This can be purified and used to make virgin quality plastic.

The other one is like what you describe and produces outputs similar to a petrochemical factory that can be used to make all sorts of things.

Both of the above processes are still terribly expensive and environmentally dirty but they are the subject of very active research and they might get practical someday.
Not a book. But a course by Prof Keith Devlin on Coursera called Introduction to Mathematical Thinking.
It was clear the examiner had no sense of humor. So no. But when he said I was being deceptive I asked "In what way?" And he said "You tell me." And so we ended in a standoff.
only real pilots fly without computers
I wanted to try dtrace. Maybe that would lead to some clues. Unfortunately I am on an M1 and I can’t get it working.
Somebody stole my car and the cops recovered it and the thieves left a nice Makita skill saw in the back.

I told the cop on the scene that it wasn't mine and he said he was going to "confiscate it for evidence" and he put it in the trunk of his car.

I dont think he used it for evidence.
So we found out the hard way that having MultiViews enabled in Apache, in your otherwise static folder full of image files, is a reeeeeally bad idea if that folder is filled by automation and contains millions of files. That was a fun support call. :) "Why is our site giving 500s after less than 10 minutes? What are all of those workers doing?"
I would not call myself great at math – I struggled with it in school, in fact – but in recent years I’ve begun “correcting” my lack of mathematical knowledge. The single best decision I’ve made is to first start with the philosophy of mathematics. Maybe it’s because my background is in philosophy, but I also think that for certain people like myself, understanding what math is makes me far more interested in understanding how it works, rather than just doing context-less calculations using formulas I don’t know the history or deeper purpose of. When I learned math in school, it was entirely cut off from any of these deeper questions.

Here’s a good starting point for philosophy of mathematics
:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/
Yes. The whole point of three strikes laws were to make low-level drug offenses punishable by life in prison. It would be cruel and unusual punishment to do it for the first offense, so they made it happen after three, and the courts OKd it.
It would be a percentage of what was taken out though, given it takes energy to convert plastic back to oil; it would likely get mixed with other oil products instead so that the companies can cash in on government subsidies for using "green" technologies.
You can win a project from NatGeo and/or other organizations.. but that is not permanent income.
We have no idea how the unconscious works, all we have is a bunch of hacks discovered by trial and error that do specific things, sort of like discovering easter eggs or exploiting bugs in a closed source software program.

Some of the things we can do are really shocking and cool, but they are still pretty random and mostly discovered by monks, monastics, etc. that were basically exploring random things within themselves. For example, Tummo meditation allows us to raise our body temperature and withstand extreme cold. But we lack a mechanistic understanding of how it all works, so we still can't develop even the simplest things on purpose.
Neat! That's one to hang on to.
What makes you think that type of thing is old school? This kind of brute forcing is still very much in use [1], but usually we are better at having computers do a lot of the filtering these days.

[1] - https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/white-sedan-police-found...
My dad served in the army as a cook in Vietnam. He used gasoline stoves to cook dinner for the troops.
Payment culture differs between countries and just because I'm uncomfortable with the American way of doing things doesn't mean the American way is necessarily bad.

I'm used to not handing out my credit card for payment like I'm used to not handing out my wallet to pay. I'd love to live in a culture where I could trust random people to take my wallet, take only what I'm due, and then not abuse that trust.
The original iMac was the first computer to have only USB ports, and no floppy drive. This was controversial at the time but it probably sped up adoption quite a bit.

And the connectors themselves have been great. Aside from PS/2 connectors, most other things use some variation of a DB9 connector. Mechanically, you could plug all kinds of things together that were not electrically compatible.
plastic is a byproduct of the petroleum production process.
Serious question: At what point does the failure of government services warrant the partial withholding of taxes?

This isn't sufficient of course but when the FAA repeatedly demonstrates incompetence, when do we eventually just tell them no, you can't have any more of my money, you're obviously wasting it and making us worse off?
If you're interested check the BBC for a documentary titled "The Magic of Mushrooms" - fascinating, and apparently we're descendants of mushrooms! :-)
A mild recession is when somebody else gets laid off.
What do think are the shortcomings of Git?
Not all cables have chips in them, only things like high-power (5A) cables need a chip. A basic 3A USB-C cable will not have any chip.
> if you are afraid of what people say about you, then you are probably the problem here

This is such a harmful sentiment for people who are socially awkward and/or anxious to be exposed to.
Meta's $400 headset is not an AR platform, it's a VR platform.
I am dubious of the photos that show coloured plastics turning into clear oil.

Does this process really break down all the many types of dyes?
5+ years experience in a language/technology that only appeared 2 years ago!

Congratulations, you will only hire liars. Which I think describes 90% of hiring these days.
> What happened with XMPP?

There never was meaningful money behind it. It seems the only way a protocol can ever grow today is by having for-profit companies sponsoring its development, doing the marketing, pushing it to individuals, companies and public services. That's not too hard to understand: at some point you need people working on it, and in a capitalistic society you need to pay them, and thus you need to somehow make money. Even with all the goodwill and proper licenses and all, you need massive humanpower.

Google, Whatsapp, Fcaebook all used a form of XMPP but never intended to propel it as a federated protocol, only for their own usage.
Awesome! I've always loved bubbles. I really need to do more with them.

Out of curiosity, did you develop this formula or find it somewhere? Also, what surprised you the most while working on this?

Tell me more!
>"designed for this purpose"

I know my blob is encrypted, because I did it. Did you audit your password manager's source control? No?

That is the difference.
I heard about a company web site that had a tick box like that on their download page. Unfortunately they got it the wrong way round so you had to claim to be a terrorist (or intending to build a nuclear weapon: I forget exactly what it was) in order to download the software. The story is that the web site was broken like that for about six months but it didn't stop hundreds of thousands of downloads from taking place. I hope no poor bastard in the FBI was tasked with investigating every case.
Also, Geometry for Programmers but only because I wrote it. I had to update my skills significantly while gathering material and doing all the experiments. Not sure if reading the book would have the same effect :-)
I have an iPad. There seem to be two kinds of toggle switches in the native apple apps; one of them slides and animates, but the other one can only be pressed and it doesn't animate the transition. The latter is less common, but I've seen both in the same app before (settings I think).

It's likely a strange bug, but I think it's relevant since you can't _always_ slide it.
No, I think you're spot on.

If you can point to the requirements you were given, the technical clarifications you sought, etc. and show how you fulfilled them, then you as a SWE did your job. If you happen to have the domain knowledge to challenge the whole thing on principle, that's great - but that's something that should happen before it hits your desk.

I recently got a haircut. It was exactly what I asked for, but it doesn't suit me at all. I tipped my hairdresser (who is great, and I should have paid attention when she said "really?") well, as usual, because it's not her fault I asked for something stupid. Could she have pushed back harder? Sure, but that's not really her job and it would be unfair to blame her for not doing so.
Your argument tells me never invest in any business you create because you will likely crater it. Everyone is hurt by overpaying for labor because you distort the labor market in the exact same way monopolies distort markets above marginal cost, causing dead weight loss for society. A small subset of the harms:The company doing the hiring earns less and so can compensate shareholders less, other companies in that labor market are harmed by being artificially priced out of labor,all labor in said labor market is harmed by the price distortions the overpaid labor often causes, if the demand for labor at the artificially high price isn't durable and long lasting everyone is harmed when it goes away (and it's not durable if it isn't driven by fundamentals and is instead driven by fads for overpaying for labor and virtue signalling about it in the first world because fads change and more rational heads will eventually prevail).
Same, even though I don't mind abstract trees, I really thought it was about cellulose matrix.

ps: well, maybe we should find an article about that and submit it, surely there are people who would appreciate the biochemical intricacy.
Let's hope this ends up being good, I can see it taking twenty years and at some point standardizing a backend into the encryption :(
Similar story here in Finland, real meat is just so much cheaper than the fake veggie stuff. My theory was this was supply chains (being physically far away from the rest of Europe) and a relatively small market size, but interesting you have the same price discrepancy in France which I guess has neither of these issues.

Just speculating here but do you think it is because of the strong food culture and links to identity in France?
That's basically the entire point of Congress
Firefox does. You have to go enable it in about:config, but it still works fine. Even has per-domain filters so you don't even need the body-id attribute you mentioned. See top example in the README here: https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/firefox-css
Tell HN: Exercism needs donations to survive 2023
As a regular user of exercism.io, I am a little worried to see this banner at the top of their homepage which says: "Exercism needs donations to survive 2023. Please support us if you can!". Their donations page says they have 965 donors and they have recieved donations of $32,837.10 since September 2021. I think they could use more help, especially from corporations that have some budget to support such initiatives.

I am worried about the future of this very useful resource for beginners, and I hope they get enough funding to continue the great work they are doing.

Full disclosure: I am not involved with exercism.io in any way except for being a regular user. Wanted to share this only because it saddens me to imagine a future in which excersim.io no longer exists.
This is an HR problem. If they’re happy with their job, it’s not possible for them to get a raise with the current company that likely comes anywhere close to what they can get jumping ship. If HR would be willing to say “Hey, we recognize that this person is doing good work and want to keep them, but also recognize they can realize a 50%+ increase elsewhere. Let’s open the checkbook.” Instead, they’ll say that the most they can give them is somewhere around 10%, maybe the manager can fight for 15%. In the end, they’re going to take the 50% increase, even if your corporate culture and everything else is great.
Still not as bad as kwh/hr. That one is showing up on some car UIs now.
Yes, that's one way to think about it. You could probably say it's closer to Google Drive than a VCS right now but my idea is to make a VCS that's more collaborative than the options currently available. Some people will have no issues with the current VCS that we have now but many developers that I've talked to have expressed frustration with the general user experience of VCSs and when merge conflicts occur.
I thank you for your sacrifice. I thank everyone who buys half baked AR/VR gear as early adopters, proving there's a market while at the same time parting with large amounts of cash for disappointment. I'm not ready to invest anything in this space but I want it to succeed.
The funniest thing is people now in government were members: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/01/why-jo...
> Aiming for all options to be "on" or "off" is some pedantic nightmare that makes settings harder to navigate

This probably stems from config files or in-app defaults where a feature is default-on and so the existence of a value means something is disabled. And then some dev comes along and mindlessly transcribes a bunch of boolean flags into a settings menu and here we are.
I find ground beef smells worse than any of the plant-based alternatives, personally. Give me the impossible or beyond burgers any day over a real burger if we're judging by smell or mouth-feel. In taste, I'd say they're equal. The planty patties lose out and mouth-feel, usually, but some of them are ok in taste, and usually smell good. The planty patties tend to crumble and fall apart which makes them hard to eat as burgers.
https://archive.ph/1GuOQ
Lisa Source Code Release
Note to Thonny's developers: the Apple operating system is currently called "macOS" not "MacOSX."
This (I also generate my blog using pandoc). In another case, I wanted to go from Markdown to groff -mom and it was a totally straightforward matter with a custom Writer in Lua.
But they don't like doing that because it does break down over time and starts leeching into the soil underneath.

Which can be caught and prevented, of course, but nobody wants to build a landfill like that.

I too think it should be sequestered, ideally in fairly stable conditions; worst case, it stays there for the next thousand years and the plastic breaks down into whatever it does (entropy etc). But in a good case, they discover a means to effectively reuse, recycle or break down plastics, so that the sequestered plastic can be processed.

But it's not economically viable, not when it's cheaper to export it AND get paid by counties and the government (in the form of subsidies) for the box-ticking exercise of separating it out and calling it recycled.
And the conversion of plastic into oil will have cost much more energy, producing the same pollution in the end.
If I saw "Flubber Disabled" with a toggle next to it that was "off", I'd turn it "on" to enable the "Flubber Disabled" feature.
> My mind never stops and there's virtually nothing in the world I have not "considered"

One piece of advice my mom gave me which I always follow is: don't tell them (a company/job/boss) anything that could be used against you. There's no need to be truthful here, this isn't a consultation with your doctor. So lie, tell them you're healthy, you never had any problems with anyone ever, never admit to anything. Truth is for your doctor or your therapist (and your mom!).

(There's also a fun related video that sometimes makes the rounds, "never talk to cops" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE). I suppose it's specific to US law, but I find it interesting nonetheless).
I got curious and Google'd some of this:

> The dew point in relation to the temperature gives the pilots information about the humidity, and can affect visibility. If the dew point is close to the temperature, humidity is high, which can cause hazy conditions, or even fog.
Reports of cloud decline have been greatly exaggerated
They still could be. Just not now.
That’s not how taxes work. You don’t get to choose how the money is spent (other than indirectly, via elections).

If you did you’d be a consumer, not a taxpayer.
Heretical Thoughts on AI
What Do We Do When Compute and Memory Stop Getting Cheaper?
Mastodon: Work with Us
> 16 bit 44.1 kHz stereo is my endgame

> I don't need "more" than that.

> I'm stockpiling on CDs while they cost nothing

I'm with you regarding CDs, but 16 bit 44.1 kHz is only sufficient if you have good playback hardware (like a good DAC).

If not, a lower-end DAC can give more accurate audio reproduction just by throwing more data at the problem. For people who don't own/store their music but just rent/stream it, going to higher that 16 bit 44.1 kHz makes sense.

Think like screen resolution and text: displaying text shouldn't be that different in 1080p vs 4k. However, due to the algorithms use for scaling that also smooth the pixels at the border of each letter like ClearType (https://www.howtogeek.com/28790/tweak-cleartype-in-windows-7...), the higher resolutions get an advantage unless you use an old fixed-size font.

It's roughly the same with audio: if you use CDs as a source for your FLACs, get hardware a good DAC and the difference is unlikely to be perceptible. Use your ears and experimentation.
Until the failure causes political embarrassment or change. It required the meltdown of healthcare.gov to kickstart the use of modern tooling and methodology in gov't IT.
Measure and Category by John Oxtoby. This book studies duality results between different notions of "small" sets in measure theory and topology. It's the first (and to some extent the only) math book where things just clicked and I didn't feel like I was drowning in a sea of notation and ideas. Here are some more thoughts on it: https://bcmullins.github.io/Top-Books-2019.
Is it them wasting money, or do they have a constrained budget with an ever growing number of responsibilities and scope? Do you think there are fewer planes in the air now then 30 years ago? 10 years ago?
Speed has everything to do with it (although the cable must be rated for fast charging)
Has anyone else seen an uptick in the number of AI generated web design articles and videos? Or has the algorithm got me again?
Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko talks funding and how to build the anti-Twitter
That is when you're supposed to reach for your Bus Pirate [1], aarr matey.

It's a USB-connected Swiss army knife of embedded electronics access-enabling fun. Really really recommended for anyone who has ever had a similar need.

It's by Dangerous Prototypes [2] but I linked to AdaFruit since it's one of the recommended retailers, their site is good, and so on. There is a legendary 4.x version "in the works", but ignore that and get the 3.x if you need to get work done.

[1]: https://www.adafruit.com/product/237

[2]: http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate
“Check out these bitcoin mining hacks! Number four will surprise you.”
According to TFA, even if they had copies of every song they'd ever analyzed they'd still need to re-start from scratch. The reason they're not is:

"…we don’t have the resources and developer availability to perform this kind of research ourselves, and so we rely on the assistance of other researchers and volunteers to help us integrate new tools into AcousticBrainz, which is a relationship that we haven’t managed to build over the last few years."

If the RIAA was to blame, Pandora's Music Genome Project and other music analysis/recommendation systems wouldn't exist.
I had missed that, thanks for pointing it out!