jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The concept of "protected classes" illustrate the difference quite well between the European human right as an fundamental right which a person is inherently entitled to, and laws which prevents government from doing specific actions against specific group of people. The similar difference is between acknowledged organized religions, which is what the US has a list of, and the idea of religious freedom as being any view, experience or opinion held by a human being and thus inherently personal aspect of being human. In the US a demographic group is either on or not on the list of protected classes. In the EU the only group that exist is human and we are all on it.

On a personal note, I find the very concept of people being born into a religion to be at odds with modern thinking. It would be like people being born into a political side. At most people are born into a cultural environment which religion can have been integrated into, but that says very little about the individual.
I've been programming professionally for 12+ years. I haven't had a need to look at CLRS since I took my graduate (!!!) algorithms course in college.

I don't work in FAANG, but I am a senior developer in another industry. It would take me way more than two and a half weeks to work through all of the problem sets in CLRS; two and a half weeks is more for someone who is a year or two out of college. I don't think being able to work through the problems in that book is indicative of a senior developer either...

Anyway, this is why I'll probably end up never changing industries. The barrier to entry is (too) high; especially for those of us who already make comparable money.
https://www.orbitresearch.com/product/orbit-reader-20/
A whole article about "pristine" stations "waiting" for trains and passengers and not a single photo of actual inside.
For criminal behaviour from the organisation, the burden of proof needs to be reversed. The CEO should need to prove they did not know and did not endorse tacitally or otherwise and would have reacted strongly to prevent and effectively sanction those responsible if they had found out in advance.

It's their job to know. Only if they are a victim of a genuine criminal conspiracy performed by other employees and it can be shown without the CEO's knowledge should there be any defence.

CEO's are quite happy to tell people to do things without telling them to do the thing. That has been going on for centuries. Shakespeare wrote whole plays about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...
Yes this. It took me too long to realize that the “discount” was rarely worth the risk and opportunity cost.

KS is really bad, but there are many other crowd sourcing efforts that are worth backing which wouldn’t be available otherwise. I have backed ~ 4 different FPGA dev board campaigns (not on KS).

EDIT: for example https://groupgets.com/campaigns/868-butterstick
Pretty sure GP was including Linux in "PC", and I'd trust the software repository maintainers of a typical distro way more than I trust Appoogle.
> And when that company commits a crime, it should be punished and its stock should lose value.

I agree. That is part of the risk investors take.
I think trying to blame Friedman for the Tiananmen Square massacre is a bit of a stretch.
I think the situation is simple:

People don't care whether their laptop is ARM, x86 or z80. They want to know:

1. will it run my apps?

2. does it have good overall performance (in a broad sense, not just compute)?

3. is it a competitive value?

We've known about the potential strengths of ARM for decades, but nobody has been able to implement it in a way that checks all three boxes until now.

MS was putting out devices that checked 0/3 boxes
The good thing is that matrix can be bridged to Signal[1], to allow for a smoother transition period.

This is also true with Whatsapp[2], but against their terms of service, so you risk getting banned, and built on reverse-engineering, plus you need an android VM of some sort.

I've been personally moving my family to Signal, since that provides the best UX and easier transition from Whatsapp. Once I'm comfortable enough with it, we'll likely transition to matrix.

What Matrix is missing is in my view:

- Client with simple UI, polished UX, and not just a smoking pot of features: FluffyChat[3] is mostly there.

- Server of which I can guarantee the uptime. Dendrite should lower the resource usage for a ~5-100 accounts server, and decentralised identities[4] would allow falling back to another server (such as a friend's).

We're mostly there, so I'm starting to prepare the switch, starting with my more technical friends, by setting a bridge up. Hopefully we can finally break that dependency on phone numbers (ideally, domain names as well with [4]) and move on to bey-based IDs.

[1] https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-signal

[1] Older bridge, unmaintained: https://github.com/matrix-hacks/matrix-puppet-signal

[2]https://matrix.org/docs/guides/whatsapp-bridging-mautrix-wha...

[3] https://web.fluffychat.im/en/

[4] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/neilalexander/...
Thanks; I appreciate the new info.
Summaries are listed on http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/james-burke-connections/ (also previously posted to HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988441)
> Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook also were definitely used to burn down parts of Minneapolis, Chicago, and LA.

Source?

Edit: lol at the downvotes. Anytime someone talks about something obvious regarding society/wealth inequality, all the wannabe Elon Musks come out to demand sources. But infringe on their dear property rights or otherwise critique the current economic system, and oh boy, they have that downvote finger ready. Cheers.
> Their legal cases are rejected. The mainstream media refuses to take them seriously.

Well these last two seem pretty par for the course for illegitimate claims been promoted as legitimate. At a certain point the line of absurdity has been crossed at it is not the duty of society to constantly debunk illegitimate claims.

> The other side keeps deplatforming them

In this particular case, Parler has been host to a number of specific violent threats against the Vice President and members of Congress. Those threats are a crime under Title 18 Section 871 of the United States Code. Threats to others could constitute assault in many jurisdictions.

I really see it as no surprise that platforms hosting Parler entry points are concerned about this. They could be potentially held liable since this type of speech is not protected by the first amendment.
I’m so done with all of this. It’s time to break them up. Who is “them”? All of them.
The bigger social networks at least invest enough in moderation teams to give themselves some legal cover. From what I understand, Parler's community moderation is a tiny team that's wildly understaffed for the task they need to accomplish. The question now will be whether this constitutes negligence on their part. Sounds like Apple thinks it does.
The libertarian types who think the gov't shouldn't exercise this kind of authoritarian power also think their plan is the best for society.
I'm curious as a tourist what happens if you don't have a local contact? What happens if one has nothing but a hotel booking for accommodation instead of a home? I'm guessing that wasn't your case but were there others you heard or saw who were just regular tourists?
I don’t think it’s only culture and this just happened by itself. The leadership of President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) surely was a factor as well.

Culture works in conjunction with good policy and leadership. I would be wary of attributing too much to the relatively immutable and hand-wavy notion of culture.
Ugh--this is not a racial problem.

Lots of people of all different races--including white--use pronunciation and vernacular that differs significantly from the typical Midwestern speaker. I interact regularly with Caucasians that I can barely understand myself, let alone asking a typical commercial speech recognition system. On the flip side, quite a few black people speak in a manner that is indistinguishable from other races.

Universal recognition is the real problem to be solved. We want everyone to be understood.
Similar. Recently I’ve also started using twitter only on weekends, to minimise distraction and ensure it’s more consumption based (who in twitter has the patience to wait 5 days for a reply?!).

Observations: I know longer expend energy thinking about the terrible state of discourse on twitter, the sanctimony, bad faith, etc. Also, my thought patterns seem to be changing, my brain feels like it has “spare capacity” and I find myself starting new hobbies. Just anecdata, but I am certain I am calmer and less worried about twitter destroying humanity!
If the market thought Apple would make 50B a year every year until the heat death of the universe, it would still discount that future revenue to a finite and small value. In fact saying they'll make 50B a year forever and ever amen, combined with exponential depreciation, still means it gets discounted to a finite and relatively small value.

Don't literally read the 10 years; it basically translates into "The market thinks Google and Apple have extremely bright, shining futures." 4 years is also not necessarily literal; for one thing I doubt either individually or collectively people are saying that Microsoft won't exist in literally four years. What it means is that the market thinks they are OK now but are in for decline; combine decline with future discounting and they get a smaller future-earnings value.

You have to consider everything here through the prism of future discounting.

Future discounting is pretty fundamental. This is an interesting way to look at things when understood properly; there's nothing intrinsically wrong with collapsing statistics like this because it's the only way for human brains to get a grip on stuff like this. The full totality of detail is too much.
Well, the C64 for instance had complicated enough video and sound to warrant separate devices, plus a bunch of peripheral ports (joysticks, etc) and then you need address decoding logic to support all of that. It all depends how much of it you can bundle up into your "custom chip". The first Apple had no custom chips and generated video and sound with extremely clever arrangements of standard logic gates.
Ah, sorry. My bad, I didn't get the joke from the start. I thought you were simply saying the infographic was so vague that it looked similar to the Bohr model, but I guess you're also adding in the fact that the Caffeine user emits a quanta of energy after a successful search....? Or am I still not getting it?

Re my general complaint about one-liners, it could well be that I'm just not getting any of them....

Again, my apologies for jumping the gun. I shouldn't have been so forthright in saying your comment should be flagged.
This is just a way to overcome the chicken/egg problem when starting a dating site by latching onto Apple's marketing.
This article is extremely poor. For one, it doesn't mention net present value, as is pointed out in other comments. Also, the figure they are using for profit is gross profit, which is before payroll and taxation. The actual net profit is much lower.

In fact, someone with a kindergarten level of finance knowledge knows that the definition of a PE of 13 is that it is valued at 13 years of net profit, and pointing this out would spare us the rest of the stupid analysis.
Yeah, actually, I think my rant is more due to the fact that I don't think I get the joke...is it possible to get an explanation from somebody who gets the joke, rather than just being modded down?

Is the joke "hey this diagram looks like that diagram"?
BREAKING: an individual's family has a beef with that individual's chosen path in life. News at 11.

Them's the breaks.
This should be deleted. This is linkbait and nothing else.
Well, we want to make it easy for you. We’ve created a tool that lets you write SQL queries in plain english and converts them into code. You’ll be writing SQL queries in seconds.*

Simply visit http://ai2sql.io and enter your query into the input box. Voila! Your query will appear on screen.
Indeed it will be very interesting to see how products evolve over time. Open Food Facts also has a "Food Archeology" project. The idea is to find old products and put them in the database as well. Anyone knows soda cans collectors? :-)

Something very interesting as well is to compare products accross different countries, first to identify differences, and second to see if there is a correlation between those differences and differences in the prevalence of some affections like diabetes or obesity.
Tbh your achievement sounds like you added a lot of complexity (treating symptoms) instead of really trying to tackle the core of the problem.
We left the EU but we didn't drift out in to the middle of the Atlantic in the process :-)
> they've harmed no one

Besides the democratic process

> destroyed nothing

Besides the capitol

> the voice of the unheard!

I've been hearing about them weekly for the last 4 years and I'm not even in the US
If you rush impeachment, you will obliterate any productivity you sought for impeachment. The same is true for elections in that these aren't just procedural events, they are soul-defining events for a democracy, and the loss of credibility would be losing what matters most.

Another Mueller would take forever to prepare a case for the American people.
When I say calls out the problem, I mean fascism speaks to the class rift, and tells them all the wrong ideas and solutions. We agree that this is creating even worse problems.

The wealth divide in the U.S. has been steadily increasing, and the solution for the working class (higher education) isn't working like it used to, even making it worse for young people. This has lead to an angry working class who feel justified in blaming their problems on other out-groups, whether that's BLM, democrats, China, Mexicans, tech companies, doctors, lgtbq, etc.

This is what fascism is feeding on in America, and it has to stop.
I watched Mark Weins when he was in Pakistan. Interestingly, during multiple half an hour videos, filmed on obviously very busy streets, there was absolutely no female in sight. Such a disgusting country.
NBC:

on MSNBC: At least one IED was found. It's now in the hands of law enforcement.

https://nitter.net/oneunderscore__/status/134692342971531673...
A long, but interesting, take on the issue. Apparently on its way as a book soon

https://waitbutwhy.com/2020/01/sick-giant.html
The biggest thing I came away with is that their interview process is just as dystopian as at other places.
Hmm...I've never even thought to talk to a human at a cloud hosting company.
I hate infinite scroll. How do you track where you were with infinite scroll? On mobile when rss is smaller infinite websites tend to reset when the web browser clises down, and I have to re scroll half an hour to get to where I were.

I had so much bad experience with infinite scroll that I want to curse that whoever invented inf scroll is a P, M and I.
Only in the sense that food stamps benefit everyone with kids and medicaid benefits everyone with a body. Is that what you mean, you're valuing prop 13 as a potentially-out-of-the-money option / a safetynet?

The people who are actually receiving the value of the benefit for prop 13 are those who have made lots of money on their house -- the more money they've made, the more benefit they get.
WAIT. Be careful. That is a super expensive product with a high likelyhood of lockin. It doesn't support all SQL features. Also! I run hundreds of GCP databases and never ran into: "but the mandatory downtime on their Postgres CloudSQL", maybe it is only Postgres?
Don't know where you got the logo from, but it isn't a PNG on the W3C's SVG working group page (there it's an inline svg):
https://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
> We should be incentivizing folks to make efficient use of land.

Yes - why don’t we invest in places where house prices are lower?

Stockton keeps being mentioned.

The incentives are for people to live there and for businesses to set up offices there, and amenities to be created for the people who live and work there.

Why would you be against developing areas that are not as nice right now?
If you were a civilization that was a million years (or tens of millions of years) farther down the tech road from us, perhaps you wouldn't view a small outpost of intelligent apes that are barely able to visit their own nearby moon as a threat. The larger point is that its far from certain that alien beings would see us only as either a threat or a useful commodity. Both are possibilities but both are from from the only possibilities.
Yes, that’s exactly the point. A local monopoly’s deal with Netflix or even just their chose to exclude data sidesteps the free market and is thus bad.

If you had the choice of say 500 local ISPs then net neutrality isn’t an issue.
It's much simpler to use one language rather than two. And Rust code isn't much harder to write than JavaScript (especially if you're using TypeScript).

Rust also gets you:

1. Better performance

2. More importantly: much better safety guarantees. Rust web services tend to be set it and forget it. They don't break. they don't crash. They only rarely have bugs.
I've interviewed hundreds of "experienced" engineers who could not code for the life of them. Not sure why you assumed the process is broken without first asking about it.
Isn't Go more like the new Java? Python is probably still going to grow and Ruby possibly as well, while Java is disliked fairly heavily in many communities.
The comments here are of especially low quality for some reason.

Anyways, the article simply says that they found teeths with Neanderthal like roots, but Human like shape. This can possibly be fossil evidence of interbreeding and thus hybrid. They haven't checked the DNA yet, but there's prior art in modern human DNA that show some 2% coming from Neanderthal.

So the difference is we might now have fossil evidence as well as DNA that interbreeding was possible.

There's no proof of any explanation of why Neanderthal and Human would have interbred. Or if that is the single cause of pure bred Neanderthals disappearing. The discovery doesn't even make any claim to it from what I could tell.

Finally, there's a possibility the fossil isn't from a hybrid at all, but from some independently evolved specie or Neanderthal who developed Human like traits on their own. Though that seems less likely since they know the area the fossil comes from was connected to the rest of the continent.
I wanted to make Firefox my default Android browser, out of principle. After 6 weeks, I uninstalled it and am back in Brave.

The Firefox address/omni bar seemed designed to lean 90% toward a search engine search, even if I had completely typed in the hostname of a previously visited page and hit "Enter". The cynic in me guessed this was deliberate to reap referral commissions from Big Search Engine. Pissed off, uninstall
Then we’ll end up with a csprng getting used in a tight loop iterating over every pixel in a raytracer...

“Lazy people who don’t want to type” are not the sort of people I want writing the code I might use or interact with that requires cryptographically secure random numbers...
We are also writing code so we can read it ourselves in a few months or years and still understand what it does!
I personally am not surprised this happened - the definition between concrete species is terribly fuzzy depending on how far back in time you go. There's different ways the evolutionary tree can fork, from geographic to functional to reproductive isolation. Usually the environment selects for random mutations that differentiate two similar groups of organisms.

What takes longer is for prezygotic (functional) and postzygotic (cellular biological) reproductive barriers to form to prevent direct genetic mixing. Their absence would allow human and Neanderthal populations to mix DNA pools and merge even with some biological differences, especially if the human population arrives in overwhelming numbers.
It’s one thing to do it with fiat currency, because ultimately there’s a central bank involved as the first lender.

With “fractional reserve crypto” all hell seems like it can break loose - much like the pre-central banking era of monetary instability.
> Which other nations?

The ones doing really well are:
China, Vietnam, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, Singapore, Iceland, Ireland, Thailand.

For some pure numbers comparison:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Sort by "Total Cases/1M Pop, ascending". USA is 215 out of 221.

Sort by "Total Deaths/1M Pop, ascending". USA is 213 out of 221.

Sort by "Active Cases, ascending". USA is 221 out of 221.

Sort by "Total Deaths, ascending". USA is 221 out of 221.

So, uhm, most other nations? Every time this gets discussed we hear how the USA couldn't do what other countries did because the USA is: Bigger/Smaller/Not an island/Testing too much/Not testing enough, etc etc.
Pine64 announced last year that they will be doing exactly that: https://www.pine64.org/2020/12/02/pine-store-community-prici...
It's not FOSS, merely freeware, but, having not myself found a good alternative to Microsoft Office, I've taken a liking to SoftMaker FreeOffice.
Genuinely did not see the RWW post. I found this randomly elsewhere.
There's a serious amount of moaning about this subject. I don't think it helps to fill up HN with these topics.
That "engineering" you speak of? That's the source of the human error.
Sure now, but I wanted to know why they didn't do that from the beginning.
Somehow I added in a 12 hour free time slot. I WISH I had 12 hours free but I don't. I can't get rid of the 12 hour free time slot.

That's the end of the road for me and this app.
We are looking into this now.
When I read the title I believed an AR.Drone from Parrot (http://www.parrot.com/usa/) would fly to me and read my mail ;-)

(They have an API I think so that may actually not be too far-fetched...)
By upkeep, I mean that investor's would not have to deal with the inconvenience of maintaining an apartment, etc.
Kinda misleading title, because if you take a look at the code:
https://github.com/ppelleti/json65/tree/master/src

It's only the core (https://github.com/ppelleti/json65/blob/master/src/json65.s) which is written in asm. The rest are C.

Seems neat anyway, let's fire a 6502 emulator :)
I just started Clubhouse the other day, which is great. Join some groups in your city and start chatting with the neighbours!
The author's frustration with GTA Online reminds me of my own experience with Borderlands 2 taking over 1 minute for its "searching for downloadable content" loading phase. I hate DLC, so having to wait for it was especially aggravating.

I did not ever consider inspecting obfuscated assembly and hooking functions to fix the problem myself. Very impressive work!
The syntax of those defines sure looks weird. In what dialect does the name of the function being defined appear as the CAR of a list, followed by the parameters?
> What are we scared of here? People coming over the border to steal Little League coaching for their children?

Yes, exactly this. It happens. It really does. In all sports. And not just parents seeking out "good" teams and coaches, but coaches recruiting kids to play. It gets to the point where parents put their kids in online schools, or private schools operated by a travel sports organization, so that they can get more practice time and more games.
Because unfortunately, in order to draw something on the screen, you need to determine what you draw first. So, before each screen refresh, a thing called "game simulation tick" happens.
Basically a DJI Phantom 4.

Edit: Phantom 4 is 1.3 kg and blades are 45g
Is the 6502 the peak of hobbyists writing assembly? I think it fills a fantastic niche of being well-documented while also not being completely terrible to write by hand.
Yup. You came in and said it before I could get back to this...