skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't recycle. If its going to get dumped anyway put your plastic recycling in the garbage. Then it'll end up in a nominally regulated local dump and not in a Vietnamese river.

Btw anyone who has even a cursory understanding of polymer physics suspected that plastics recycling was a scam. The whole scheme was either to greenwash industry throwing the moral responsibility to the end users or to condition us to recycle when they finally figured out how to do it.

For what it's worth, extracting energy out of plastic is probably best way to deal with it.
No, it was an HTML sitemap, just a long list of URLs that's supposedly helping with discovery for crawlers (or link structure? idk, some SEO thing). And it was on a website that you wouldn't usually see in a newsletter.
I jumped into the first analysis class (using baby Rudin) completely unprepared and this course saved me!
This looks great - thanks for sharing.
Wow. Indeed, practically all of your comments are dead. None of them seem off-topic though. How is this possible? Is there a gang of users who auto-flag all of your comments?
I wonder if the issue with checkboxes is that real checkboxes can not be unchecked. "Check all that apply" makes sense when the boxes are all empty. It's doesn't feel the same when it's a list of cookies that are all checked by default.
I still don't see why anyone would do this. Especially on a super specialized forum as HN. Without a clear incentive, the only thing I can think of is malice.
This is a common one. You try something in the same year you (unknowingly) need to apply for a clearance.
I believe that some cables (especially conversion cables) can have some sort of processor. I have no idea if that's the case with USB-C cables, though.
>>The light from a star going supernova or a tsunami hitting shore convey information without any kind of agency nor intent being involved.

Right, and I'm obviously speaking loosely, but the amount of information or information value is the amount of non-redundant 'surprise'.

Receiving the supernova's signal for the first time contains valuable information, but replaying it does not.

>>Are you assuming that humans have some non-physical soul which makes us somehow different from any other deterministic information-processing system?

No, I'm speaking about the current and near-intermediate-term state of AI. This current state is basically a mashup of everything it's 'seen' in training, but without a shred of understanding. It only spits back what is statistically the most likely string of words to occur in any situation.

Ordinary humans do far better because they have understanding. A simple example shows this: Asking ChatGPT this question: "Mikes mum had 4 kids; 3 of them are named Luis, Drake, and Matilda. What is the name of the 4th kid?" [0] ChatGPT utterly fails, even when told the answer is in the question.

As in my example with the deposition, it looks great but it is just a literal mashup of training data, and worse yet, is only outputting the most average data. This produces surprisingly emotionally satisfying results, which may be useful in some contexts (marketing copy?) but isn't close to the reasoning of an ordinary human.

I'm making no claim about whether AI can get there. I suspect it ultimately will. BUT, this layer is only a small component of what must be built to get to actually abstract concepts and wield them like any child. My minor in college was neuroscience and I still follow it a bit; we're a LOOONG way from understanding what it is to get and weild concepts, nevermind how to model or reproduce that in a computer.

That's all I'm saying - the current crop is impressive, maybe even useful in some applications, but nowhere near the kind of "intelligence" that is being touted.

[0] https://twitter.com/FeraSY1/status/1614976003092234241
Similar data is available from Spotify via their API: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...
Everything I listed are publicly given reasons that police departments have heard for the wave of early retirements and transfers out of troubled districts, and police have always prioritized response times based on capacity.
Never understood why WU went after miners first.
I know the new studies that walk back the "read meat is bad for your health" but I haven't heard anything about the environmental impact which puts beef at about 10x worse than chicken and 50x worse than tofu.
> you think the costs of squashing commits is so high that no reason to do it is worth the trade-off.

I think a "measured" approach here would be to say that the evidence required to convince you that this would be a good idea raises which each new domain in which you see it fail. It's not to say that you cannot be convinced; but it's to say that the burden of proof is heavy.
At a prior startup of mine, we needed to set prices for a series of 12-month, fixed-price, fixed-deliverable contracts. Since most tools typically used for planning software projects are terribly bad at helping you make good estimates, we did a lot of reading and then implemented an internal tool that produced really useful estimates.

Lately I’ve reimplemented those tools as broadly-available SaaS. It’s fully functional, albeit with rough edges, so I’m hoping to get people to kick the tires and give me feedback! The tool is called DoomCheck -- as checking to see if your project is doomed. DoomCheck is up and running at doomcheck.com, where you can play with a temporary plan right from the landing page, no signup required.

Please give it a try, and let me know what you think! I would absolutely love questions and feedback here and/or through the feedback or contact links on the site. Honestly, any way you can get it to me, I’ll take it.

If you’d like to know more before you dive in, here’s a bit more on what makes DoomCheck different and better than the usual suspects for project estimation:

- When you estimate work, you use two values to define a range, e.g. “{1-4h}”, rather than just a single-value guess. Ranges let you express uncertainty and risk -- a familiar task might be {1-1.5h}, and something new might be {20-60h}. (Factors of 3-4 uncertainty are not uncommon in software tasks.)

- When DoomCheck renders a project, it combines your individual work estimates to produce probability-of-completion graphs based on hours worked. It computes the full probability range for each section and subsection and subsection of your plan. This enables you to interactively explore your project in Graph View to look for particular problem areas.

- You write a project plan as plain text (an extended Markdown format) rather than each task being its own page and requiring multiple clicks to create, edit, or even just visit. This makes it very easy to put in lots of fine-grained estimates, and to restructure the plan at will. It also lets you make the project plan a true narrative rather than a bag of nested checklists.

- You can add labor budgets to your sections and subsections by writing, e.g., “{budget 12h}”. Then you can filter for sections that have low probability of on-budget completion using the slider in Graph View.

- You can also use DoomCheck to track ongoing projects. You can close work estimates with a closed tag, e.g. “{1-4h closed}”, and you can optionally also record labor like this: {spent 1.25h} The Progress graph shows the time-history of the project as the project plan evolves. (You’ll need to sign up for a (free) account to track project history, since you have to be able to save the plan to accrue that history.)

Thanks for reading this far, and I hope you try out, and like, DoomCheck!
Benjamin Franklin would be proud
Reading Euclid's Elements and Newton's Principia really helped me get an intuitive feel for geometry and calculus. They may not be entirely easy (at least the second) without some commentary, but well worth the study.
Could Microsoft possibly be scraping for GPT4?
Show HN: Goo – Golang attempt at JavaScript's underscore, made with generics
GOo aims to port javascript's underscore functionnalities in Golang, because reinventing the wheel is no fun :(

Since it uses generics it is really simple to use.
I would guess that it is because real meat is a commodity, and fake meat is not. That means that fake meat companies do not enjoy the same economies of scale, nor do they experience the same kinds of market forces that help keep prices down.
I find people around me very averse to "fake"/replacement of a real product, there is no way it will replace meat in cooking. What I don't get is why it's not more successful in fast foods. In that setting you are already forgetting yourself for eating not healthy, and French paradoxically love fast food (McDonald's has a strong presence here for example). At Burger King I find it's nearly indistinguishable from real meat, so it should be a no brainer.
The point does seem relevant. Most of the non chemical ingredients are recognizable natural or naturally derived (rice/pea protein). methylcellulose is the only odd one out.
The obvious answer is that animals are very efficient because they use self-replicating biological means to construct the flesh, and industrial animal operations are extremely efficient particularly when they dont have to care about animal welfare, consumer safety, or the environment.

Tax policy is also very favorable, and public infrastructure usage and pollution costs are not internalized.

Biotechnology, taxation, and regulation would be the answers.
Elon Musk made ‘split-second’ decision on Tesla tweet, lawyer says
The externalities of a plant-based diet are enormous, from the use of pesticides which then leads to the decimation of the bird population to the massive amount of fossil-fuel-based fertilizer, to the explosion in the rate of obesity and diabetes -- at least grazing cattle is good for the land and leads to carbon sequestration.
Nitrates in preserved meats have a correlation to higher rates of cancer. [1]

Lung cancer however, you are right.

I'm not vegan by the way, I really like salami. just less now.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30850575/
So if I am actually qualified does that mean I robbed someone, too?

Fake it till you make it homie. If you can do the job then you can do the job; there is no over-promotion.
Don't modern filesystems handle this nicely - eg btrfs
I understand and agree on the normie point; my point was geared towards the 'techies'
If we didn't get to withhold for the decades of bipartisanly meandering Iraq and Afghan war strategies, we definitely don't get to do it for a brief outage of the FAA's weather reporting system.

Especially when evaluating the FAA would need to include the absolutely stellar commercial aviation safety record they and the NTSB have created over the last few decades.
Gosh. Better make sure you put it on a timer switch or that's going to get expensive.
Here is a great video about J Dilla and his usage of the MPC. It covers what groove is and shows how to program various timings on the MPC.

https://youtu.be/B_fZVUn44h4
I think it looks nicer if you have few elements with varying width:

[x] bla

[ ] this is a very long label

[ ] lorem ipsum
A long time ago Margarine contained lots trans fat. Nowadays it's fine, but I think that's what OP meant.
100%, and it's terrible for those that can't simply talk to someone because of social phobias. In a perfect world, any manager worth their money makes sure that people are comfortable speaking about their issues, but in reality that's often not the case and if you struggle with assertiveness it can get very hard.
I checked, it doesn't. I see your point.
I will not eat fake meat (including lab grown meat) for one simple reason: it weirds me out. I will happily eat tofu, black bean burgers, and the like, but I cannot emotionally bring myself to eat fake meat.
Sure, Git stores data in a trie. Each file is one blob identified by hash, and directories (called trees in Git) are blobs where each line is a directory entry with a name and the hash of a file or another tree. This means that modifying an object /down/a/long/path/like/this.txt has to create copies of all the trees on the way up. The technical term for this is "write amplification", and in Git it is affected by path length among other things.

Got stores data in a probabilistic tree (GotKV[0]). The number of nodes before you get to data will scale logarithmically with the size of the entire filesystem, not the depth of a specific object.

Then there is the issue of large files. A file in Git is always 1 blob. Syncing a large blob is not easy because if you are interrupted and have to restart, you have lost all your progress. You can't verify the hash of a blob until you have the whole thing. Got has a maximum blob size, so you'll only be buffering <2MB at a time before you can verify that the blob is correct. If a transfer is interrupted, the most you'll have to repeat is one blobs worth, plus any tree nodes above that blob.

Compared to rsync, Got uses variable size chunks and a faster content defined chunking algorithm, recently featured here on HN[1]. I haven't thought about if variable vs fixed chunks is better for file transfer, but for version control, the higher chance of convergence is important. It means you have better deduplication.

[0] https://github.com/gotvc/got/tree/master/pkg/gotkv

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34303497
Bank of America Customers Allegedly Woke Up to Missing Funds from Their Accounts
Is there really nothing standard about USB-C?
virtual monitors, on an m2. Ill come back and let you know how it goes.
I've watched that video several times; as somebody "largely" honest, I need it to pragmatically re-adjust my perspective every few years - because I TOTALLY am the person who would inherently monologue for 3 hours when asked a simple question by a cop :)

The other piece of advice is trickier, and I personally do not follow it too closely (everything in life is circumstantial:). Two aspects to mention:

1. Often, a lie is more harmful than a slightly harmful truth. And opportunities to get caught in a lie start with the application process - some applications have multiple seemingly unrelated or different questions that aim to reinforce the validity of your claims; this will also sometimes be reinforced with interviews, reference checks, etc. And then if you get the job or grant or whatever, there's still the risk of getting caught at virtually any point in the future.

My wife and a few of her friends have been HR managers at quite varied corporations, and universally they lament that people get fired over an insignificant lie. What they lied about might've been a verbal "Hey don't do that" or a formal reprimand, but lie got them immediately fired.

2. Variation of that but, perfection and/or fakeness can stand out. Not to say there aren't people who can lie/fake perfectly, and sometimes many of us think that we can pull it off better than we can. But while I cannot claim that I have never fibbed or concealed in my life, last few decades I've been lucky enough that I didn't need to.

And luck is an important word; I've been lucky professionally since I came to Canada, which enabled me to have good success going counter to that advice: e.g. to every new manager, I proactively indicate explicitly that I "Attended university but have not graduated", I came extremely upfront when I started photography business even though it had nothing to do with my IT dayjob, etc. I find one's experience at large companies is partially shaped by formal policies written by people far away from you, but also hugely by the actual people surrounding you, and I've been lucky / chosen well over the years. Milleage most definitely WILL vary, and I've been in sufficiently different / more precarious or dangerous situations to be fairly aware of my current privilege.
There needs to be a Godwin's law for sex crime metaphors
> It tastes great,

Agreed:)

> it is the healthiest possible food, and it is the most environmentally friendly option.

These two require a huge citation. I've never heard of meat being the most healthy food and I've only ever heard of how its one of the worst foods for the environment due to the huge amount of land and water it takes to grow.

I've always grown up learning that greens(vegetables are the healthiest food you can eat).

What citations would you put forward to show that meat isf the most environmentally friendly food you can eat and the healthiest food you can eat?

I found this:

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/study-environment....

> The environmental impact of meat versus vegetables is staggering. A serving size of meat compared to a serving size of vegetables is linked to 20 times more greenhouse gas emissions. It also takes 100 times the amount of land as consuming vegetables. Unprocessed red meat has twice the water impact of nuts.
Is that entire course just wading through the wreckage wrought by Gödel?
For what it's worth, it's still more expensive in the US, too. I think it's likelier simple economies of scale + branding than anything else.
I don’t believe plastic burning is a widespread energy source.
Thanks, I think it's the remnants of mom never getting me a powerglove as a kid.
> What mental fences do you have that you have never "considered" such an obvious course of action in the likely billion of seconds of thinking?).

Honestly I think it may just be semantics. When I think about the usage of the word "to consider," there does seem to be two different and distinct meanings. When people use it in the sense of "to consider a course of action" it actually has a different meaning than when the same word is used in other contexts.
Meta comment: might be good to add the level of mathematical maturity needed to enjoy the book.
I don't know about that, I did multiple degrees and I'm working on a PhD and I smoke and use edibles all the time. I know other people who are similar.

Almost like cannabis use is independent of productivity and the lazy stoner stereotype is a drug war myth, weird huh
I recently wanted to unsubscribe from one of those corporate emails. When you click to unsub, the web site brings up "Notifications: " and a toggle next to it. It is not clear which way does what.
Some vegans believe that it is unethical to kill animals, and that they should have the same rights as us. Of course, they're wrong because animals aren't able to think.
Others believe that meat is bad for the environment, however I don't know if that is correct as I haven't done any research on the topic.
Wasn't this already achieved in 1955? Or was it 1985?
Beef is not factory-farmed. All cows are raised grazing on grass and are taken to feedlots for fattening only just prior to slaughter. Cows don't go through the torture that chickens and pigs go through.
I am guessing battery and display are the biggest problems. When you try some AR app on an iPhone the battery starts dropping like a stone.
>If the key to decrypt the vault never leaves your device,

>If

And, if you get infected, it is all moot anyway.
Aka the “I’m going to break all my toys to force mommy to buy me new ones I like better” mentality, projected into chronological adulthood.
I don't think of myself as old, but certainly grumpy and this comment rubbed me the wrong way.

In my time as a dev I've worked with CVS, SVN, Mercurial, and then git. I can confidently say that no dev I've worked with ever kicked up a fuss when they switched, because each iteration brought improvements.

I would however say that modern devs carry with them modern baggage. There are far too many bootcamps churning out devs who say "this is git, everyone uses it, heres the minimum you need to know". These are the devs who will struggle with this sort of change, it would literally change a magical system they don't fully understand for reasons they may not fully understand.
As long as its clearly marked "Mode Execute Ready"…
Aedifion decarbonizes buildings and portfolios through AI
So here's a strong opinion: "Never use gotos."

The opinion itself is strong because it's absolute. It will be weakly held if, when presented a case where gotos really are a better solution, you give it up and decide to modify it to, "Never use gotos, except in a handful of well-defined cases, such as X."
L'appel du vide in one of its more commonly manifested forms.
If there are two ground pins in the connector and the cable shorts those two ground pins, the connector could use the presence of continuity between those two ground pins to know a cable is plugged in but not connected to another device. Something like that.
Dendron. Blazing fast search.
It does do some things better and I appreciate calling it a new name and 'starting over' instead of another fork, but what's not covered is metadata. If I want to add author, license, tags, keywords, description, etc. there is no in-document way to do this. Almost all other media format types from images, audio, to other documents like ODF have a way to do metadata and this (and Markdown) doesn't cover said important use case.

Seems there's a long-standing (for the project) open issue where it's still being mulled over.

Imports are also very nice for writing longer texts--especially how AsciiDoc lets you +1 all of your headings so the heading hierarchy works as a standalone document and a part of a larger whole.
It's not much different - Pizza Express isn't anywhere near as posh as it thinks it is, and I'd bet the average spend per customer is lower thanks to the constant Tesco Clubcard deals.
please elaborate, all-knowing-one
I've been very bearish on AR and especially headset AR for years. Building useful UX in front of someone's face is incredibly hard and doing it with such poor visual precision is impossible. I worked at a digital design shop a few years ago and they were throwing devices at us and asking us to come up with just some compelling demos and I don't think we really succeeded. We need multiple optics breakthroughs before we can even think about what these could be good for.

Magic Leap pivoted to enterprise and the US military just paused the Hololens project. The market is not clamoring for this stuff and industry has not convinced anyone in 10+ years of trying.

Phone-based AR is both more vivid and more accessible and still hasn't really caught on at all. Word Lens and Pokemon Go were so long ago at this point and there's been no major followup.
I'm sorry, but "looking out the window" has been obsolete for thousands of years. What aviators really need to use is the Weather Rock [1] and its associated documentation.

If the rock is wet, it's raining.
If the rock is swinging, the wind is blowing.
If the rock casts a shadow, the sun is shining.
If the rock does not cast a shadow and is not wet, the sky is cloudy.
If the rock is difficult to see, it is foggy.
If the rock is white, it is snowing.
If the rock is coated with ice, there is a frost.
If the ice is thick, it's a heavy frost.
If the rock is bouncing, there is an earthquake.
If the rock is under water, there is a flood.
If the rock is warm, it is sunny.
If the rock is missing, there was a tornado.
If the rock is wet and swinging violently, there is a hurricane.
If the rock can be felt but not seen, it is night time.
If the rock has white splats on it, watch out for birds.
If there are two rocks, stop drinking, you are drunk.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_rock
ty.

> I can’t help but imagine a skilled drummer quietly chuckling inside when they see someone going to so much trouble in order to avoid learning to play the instrument skillfully.
They are doing both. The recent XR headset Quest Pro and a R&D phase AR glasses. It is no wonder they acquired a AR glasses / eyewear company. [0]

Oculus will prove to be of significant value to Meta in the coming years, beyond VR.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/30/meta-acquires-luxexcel-a-s...
> apparently we're descendants of mushrooms

That sounds very difficult to believe.
ACLU says Arizona illegally obtained 145M money transfer records
Huh? Everyone already builds landfills like that. They have to be clay lined anyway and leachate collected for a number of reasons.