skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the flip side, they are tamper resistant. It would be incredibly difficult for someone to tamper with a Surface tablet siting in a hotel room without leaving marks. This is probably good for travel with a corporate device.
A spacecraft for all
In this example, though, the "liability" works out in the company's favor, since they can unilaterally terminate the contract if they realize a clause is unenforceable. It makes it even more important for the party with less negotiating power to thorougly understand the contract's legality.
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So is privacy at last becoming mainstream? I look forward to the end of people saying "nobody cares about privacy".
Chimpburger... I think your heart is probably in the right place. But think about the wider canvas.

In terms of what might be best for me, were I looking for a job... equal opportunity is fair/good. Of course I would think that... I'm a white male... I am a historically privileged class of person in the workforce. Anything that doesn't adversely my job opportunities is good for me, right?

From the perspective of a company that is trying to build a high-output, innovative team... diversity is really, really awesome: diversity of thinking patterns, backgrounds, interests. I have experienced this first hand and am now 100% sold on the importance of diversity and oversampling certain segments of "talent pool" to reach diversity goals. I may I miss out on some opportunities due to how I am categorized in the overall talent pool.... but diversity is really good for the organization and society in general.

Some sports analogies apply: you can't make a basketball team out of all shooting guards or a soccer team out of all forwards. You need a lot of different kinds of talent to make a good team.

That is just my opinion... I would rather work on a diverse team and I'd rather live in a diverse city/culture.
We live in a different country now. Humanities programs did their jobs
(I'm not sure I'm correct - IANAL!)
"as to enforce equality of income". This is what puts me off of Europe!

I don't mind if group of people voluntarily decide to live in communism and share with each other everything they earn. Like hippies who lived in сommunes.

If high taxes (>33%) are not voluntary then it just means that social democrats are not confident that most successful people in the country will share their ideals.

If European social democracy is so cool, then it should work on purely voluntary basis.

Let's re-frame conversation from arguing to selling. I mean there are lots of top technical talents in India and China. How are you going to convince them to go to Sweden instead of US? It should be pretty damn good reason to decline $300k offer from Silicon Valley and go to Stockholm instead!

P.S. I think selling/pitching society ideals is much more positive and productive than arguing.
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This is one of those areas where I find Python a little contradictory. About 50% of the time it's "explicit is better than implicit" and "there should be one and only one good way" and then the other half of the time it's "here's this cool feature for doing something you could do a different way that looks like hieroglyphics and nobody understands but you should totally use it because it's awesome!
What a world we live in that we have space capsules that can dock autonomously....
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Addendum to The Great Universal Basic Income Debate:

A large portion of UBI funds will
get dumped into places like this.
Here's who you reach out to for that, a startup working with Marvell doing a pre-standard 5G ISP service: https://starry.com

I'm not affiliated with them, I just think it's a good match.
We don't need social media...or software to live happy lives.
Sure; the place to sabotage the launch process would be within the Situation Room, and the procedures make it pretty clear that the President’s word is final. And that does make the nuclear deterrent more credible.

OTOH, an illegal attempt by the President to order a nuclear first strike could conceivably be stopped before the order left the National Command Authority, and the apparent violations of policy would be legally defensible after the fact.

If the President orders a blatantly illegal, unjustified nuclear first strike, the outcome will be millions of innocent deaths and the probable complete devastation of the United States. Refusing to verify the order, physically isolating the President from the ability to communicate down the chain of command, or even more drastic actions could be papered over and excused after the fact a lot more easily than “just following orders” that would lead to the largest and most pointless loss of life in human history.
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Been in need of a solution, but I don't want to go through the trouble of setting up my own servers. Also don't want to trust my information with Dropbox or Google. I've tried Keybase, but it's still buggy, and I've been thinking of trying SpiderOak. Any thoughts?
This is literally how I found out that I had a half-brother.

23andMe. I looked up family members, for fun. WHAM, half brother. I called my dad who, after some prodding, confirmed it was his child. I reached out. The man knew he was adopted.

Now we have a new brother at family events. Likely his Mom and him are going to spend Christmas with us.
Most all knowledge is "statistics based." Anytime you are not 100% sure about something, then your knowledge about that thing is inherently probabilistic. There is absolutely no way around it.

You can't get away from statistics. You can only replace bad statistics with good. If you ignore these statistical aspects of an experiment such as multiple comparisons, then your reasoning is even worse!

You can't just "decide" to not use "statistics based knowledge" any more than you can decide that your experiment is not subject to uncertainty or error. You could say that, but that doesn't make it true.

Bayesian statistics are much more intuitive, however. Baye's theorem is actually the generalization of contrapositivity (If A implies B, then not A implies not B) to situations where we are not certain of A and B.
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I just checked and you are correct. I guess they probably leveled the old building, which was 3030 Corvin. Anyone that was there in the mid 2000s remembers when Facebook heated the place up and they had box fans every where, an extra generator parked in the parking lot, etc.
Playing PUBG in a squad with strangers.

Having to deal with the tens of people involved in my home buying process and deciding how well to treat them based on their impact to the process and personal bias.

Playing Euchre/board games with an unfamiliar group of people.

Trying to get laid in a bar.
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everyone that thinks spacex will transport people soon is naive / drunk on hype. they are at least 5 years away from flying humans in space. depends on how many test flights they can do. you just can’t rush this. it is one domain where “move fast break things” is a bad idea.
That is curious, it looks like it might just be a type-o in the documentation. Since it is written in C and not python, it is not automatically generated. But I don't know enough C to say for sure, maybe someone else can.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9dfa0fe587eae3626ffc9...
> Contractors still do a bit better than employees

Curious if that is actually true when comparing to tier 1 banks/hedge funds full time employee salaries+bonus+retirement+healthcare.

Assume 600 GBP/day * 22 day/month * 10 months (realistically) full time work, that's 132k/yr.

From that take out accounting, illness, insurance, healthcare, retirement, travel, possibly more.

All things considered, once you get above 100k base as employee contracting becomes less attractive.
Strictly as a money move that is, there's other dimensions for sure.
Trivial if you have access to an SS7 network that has a direct access or a roaming agreement with the network of the victim, and the proper tools to do that. But you will not manage to do it within 2 minutes if you have.
And a great example..

Look above, comments from Josh Cole... bots control the internet.. only regulation, govt censorship, and censorship by tech companies can save the uneducated, unwashed masses which could never understand or be left to make their own decisions with regard to the web and information contained therein..

I always get a chuckle from those who have such arrogance and avarice, that only the govt can fix societal ills. It's horrifying. Experts...
bradbury's stance on Fahrenheit 451 is what convinced me that authorial intent is irrelevant.
One could also try to, you know, read what they publish rather than scaremongering about the Evil Kocv Brothers.

Not that anyone so far managed to point at anything particularly nefarious that Kochs do, other than them being rich and active.
What I would wonder is how long of a staying power does this kind of relief have?

If I build a missile factory in Baghdad, Mississippi that runs for 20 years then is closed won't the same problem persist as before the missile factory was created?

I think your point that free trade is the problem is fairly evident in this kind of problem, however, I am not sure that spending on things such as military producers or even national infrastructure is a long-term solution. In the end the project always ends, the product stops being produced, and times change.

Is this just delaying the eventual wealth-death of a town/state or does this lead to a self-sufficient system?
Are there any other countries that are seriously in the software industry besides the US, China, and India?
> This is generally viewed as "bad" because if government simply prints money to finance itself then it suffers none of the short term negative political or practical consequences of doing so via taxation. This means it also faces comparatively little pressure to spend efficiently, which results in serious misallocation of resources over time.

If you proxy government for companies in this sentence I would argue that is what is happening now. A large number of companies borrowed as much money as they possibly could during QE because they viewed it as "free money" with the low interest rate.

The impact being "money is cheap" and a large number of ventures have been engaged in that do not have real value.

Ultimately the "price of money" is always going to have a counter-balance of inelastic goods aka raw assets. While I agree that QE is not the sole cause (low interest rates are also to blame), I do believe it has had a net negative impact, particularly by inflating the price of assets among those who had access to excess (often times QE involved) funds to acquire them.
Looking forward to contributing!
It looks like it's a semi-internal(?) API notation for position-only fields.

That is, you cannot say sorted(iterable=range(10)) because 'iterable' is a position-only parameter.

Some pointers. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0436/

> / Establishes that all the proceeding arguments are positional-only. For now, Argument Clinic does not support functions with both positional-only and non-positional-only arguments. ... (The semantics of / follow a syntax for positional-only parameters in Python once proposed by Guido. [5] )

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0457/ ("PEP 457 -- Syntax For Positional-Only Parameters" - draft)

> All parameters before the / are positional-only. If / is not specified in a function signature, that function does not accept any positional-only parameters.

This is only for documenting API signatures. There is no way to implement directly in Python code. Eg, that PEP goes on to say:

> This PEP does not propose we implement positional-only parameters in Python. The goal of this PEP is simply to define the syntax, so that:

> - Documentation can clearly, unambiguously, and consistently express exactly how the arguments for a function will be interpreted.

> - The syntax is reserved for future use, in case the community decides someday to add positional-only parameters to the language.

See also https://bugs.python.org/issue21314 , "Add support for partial keyword arguments in extension functions"
My objection is semantic but the semantic seems important in this case. We know all groups in animal kingdom have some sort of weird, sometimes extremely rare non-sexual reproduction patterns, except mammals. If the original title was correct, then this would be ground-breaking, we would have to go to Wikipedia and change some lines.
Most used Slack channels at our company:

#freefood<location>
I really don't understand the downvotes. Can you explain?
Money is always debit based. It can be private debit, or government debit. Some government debit is also interest free. But it's always debit.
> but the US seems to be dealing with it just fine

I don't think we have seen the full consequences as of yet.
Contracts involving illegal acts are not enforceable.

And I'm with you - I've never been shy with my viewpoints and refuse to start now. There's no way I'd sign a non-disparagement.

In fact, it would be interesting to compile a list of companies that do. It would increase both job-market efficiency and help rectify a bit of consumer informational asymmetry. (If I know former employees are gagged, I'm going to discount company claims on the assumption that they wanted the gags for a reason.)
Spacex telemetry is live. People use it to calculate things like flight path and performance of each launch.
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>by chipping in to SpaceX's efforts...

What guarantees do tax payers have that the money won't be wasted at SpaceX just as it's wasted at Boeing?

Why not scrap it, and just save the money. Full stop.

If Boeing and SpaceX are not able to do their things without NASA continuously pumping new billions into them, then we should take a step back, reevaluate, and consider a total rehaul of the future roadmap. Because obviously things aren't working.

But we're not at that point yet. The only thing we've proven thus far is that giving out lots and lots of money does not seem to solve the problem of project setbacks.
> The “utopian principles of free speech,” as Google describes it, are now being compromised by bad actors and difficult situations.

It's funny that Google would frame it like that, because here is an article from 1995 clearly stating that you can expect trolling to come from freedom of speech. This was a known issue with the internet from the get go. It's just that since society has become ultra-political that points of view from "the other side" has gone from being obnoxious to being something that must be wiped off the face of the earth, by force if necessary.
I don’t think so.

It can be cached by very small chance. Or it can be cached if the developer did profile-guided optimization. Otherwise it’ll be evicted from these registers pretty often. There’re not that many general purpose registers, so unless the processing code is trivially simple like CRC32, the compiler will reuse these registers for something else.
Unrelated to the article: the 'x' on the newsletter popup doesn't work on mobile. Makes the article very difficult to read. If the author is reading this, you should fix that!
You won't be buying any cars in future...
Python has a bit of a wart in that arguments can normally be passed as keyword or positional. Python3 also added the ability to pass keyword only args (the ones after the `* `), That is

def f(a, b):
return a+b

can be called as `f(1, 2)` or `f(b=2, a=1)`, although I'd look at you funny if you did the second.

Certain functions implemented in C also have positional only args, so the function of signature

weird(p_only, /, pos, kw=None, * , kw_only=None)

can be called in the following ways (1 is p_only, 2, is pos, 3 is kw, 4 is kw_only)

weird(1, 2, 3)
weird(1, 2, 3, kw_only=4)
weird(1, pos=2, kw=3)
weird(1, pos=2)
weird(1, 2, kw_only=4)
...

but not

weird(p_only=1, 2)
weird(1,2,3,4)
...
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> Economists have predicted 10 out of the last 3 recessions

On that spirit, engineers have also predicted 200 of the last 5 bridges that felt.
Custom styles would be nice... I've always wondered why the only editable part of an account is the color of the topbar.

But they don't even have to go that far to improve readability, just apply some basic typography rules and eliminate the unnecessary grey on grey text. On text submissions, the latter is done purposely to make them difficult to read, which is not only malicious, but counterproductive for a forum.

Look at the way Medium articles are formatted - designed for readability, not designed to discourage it. Hacker News should look like that, IMHO.
Greetings, fellow human! I, too, am excited by the idea of an emergent material phenomena somewhere between oil spills and a small pox pandemic!
Exactly. I kept reading and waiting for an explanation, but they keep dropping things like "American capitalism fueled by a perversion of Silicon Valley could result in the decline of America as a whole." with no evidence. It's absurd.
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> People aren't that stupid. They know what they're trading for these great free products we all use.

I would say the average user has no idea what exactly they are trading for.
From food stamps and survival to writing the songs you know
Deer are mostly crepuscular and other than that more active during night time than day time. What you saw likely has little to do with the street lamps.
Most gene testing services aren’t nearly as accurate for people of non-European descent. I saw this when getting some prenatal screening - there’s a whole suite of tests for various European sub populations, and almost nothing for people of African descent.
Is software making us better or lazy?
I spent most of my 20s doing all kinds of things, from installing security cameras, to running cable, to on-site IT work - a lot of it in and around law enforcement (jails, police stations) - and I was often amazed at the kind of access you could get in some places just by showing up with some crimpers and a box of cat5 and telling the person up front that you're here for [whatever].

Like you said, in many situations if you just act like you know what you're doing no one will question you.
I should have been clearer: a video chat with Jamal Khashoggi (the missing, presumed dead, journalist).
I would say that the argument of evil country buying weapons form evil country so we should sell weapons instead to them has some flaws.

One of the biggest is that both China and Russia military weapons are somewhat behind the tech curve

And of course is the other flaw...bu we already know that flaw in the argument
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> If what you do doesn't make an impact for customers and/or other teams in the organization, was it really worth doing?

If what you are doing isn't making an impact, why is it being assigned to you in the first place?

Or, to put that another way: a worker is hired to do things. Their comparative advantage is in doing; time they spend in any other role than doing is labor that would have been better allocated/delegated to someone else, to clear them up for more doing. (It's very clear when you think of high-status "workers"—for example, surgeons. Time the surgeon spends inside the OR is worth tens of thousands of dollars; time they spend outside the OR isn't worth anything. If you can hire an administrative assistant for $30/hr to take admin-work off the shoulders of the surgeon, to ensure that the surgeon spends even one more hour inside the OR per week, then the admin assistant has paid for themselves.)

A manager, meanwhile, is hired to prioritize, delegate, lubricate channels of communication, ensure their team of workers has the resources it needs to "do", and then defend the workers from anything that would take away from their "doing" time. These tasks are the manager's wheelhouse; it's where their own comparative advantage lies. Time a worker spends managing themselves is company money wasted, because a manager would have been able to get that work done far more effectively, for less effort and time input.

You don't want a doctor spending time reading charts to triage patients (i.e. assigning work to themselves.) The intake nurse does that. And you don't want the intake nurse spending time trying to diagnose someone after taking their symptoms. That's what the doctors are for. Each role has their comparative advantage. Let the roles bleed together, and overhead goes up while lives saved goes down.

Why do "old" organizations like hospitals understand comparative advantage better than FAANG? Why isn't it seen as a failure of management to prioritize effectively when everybody isn't always doing the most important thing they could be doing at that moment?
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A fair distinction I failed to make, and a point well taken. To also be fair though, I think generally when the layperson (me included) considers NASA and things under its purview, it's easy to blindly scope it within the context of aerospace, especially beside the context of this particular article.

Also, I'd think at JPL you guys would have a bit easier time getting funding/latitude to do the research you do vs a lower profile lab, given JPL's track record.
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> Rents go up when people can afford higher rents

Or is it that rents go up when people can't afford to buy homes due to higher interest rates and down-payment requirements, which ends up putting a lot more people in the renters market, thereby raising rents in a supply-demand price war?

Asking, not stating.
Honestly, I never viewed Slack as synchronous. I kept all notifications off, and checked it whenever I had a few minute break or wanted to catch up on our office's conversation.

Slack allowed anyone to contact me by tagging me or @here, so it was obvious when someone wanted it to be synchronous (therefore breaking my communication), but the grand majority of communication was asynchronous unlike email - which does a poor job of differentiating between messages that should (and shouldn't) break attention.