skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you from an urban area by chance?

Where I live, firefighters are almost exclusively volunteer. They provide their own vehicles and much of their own equipment. There are grants and subsidies, but it’s still a huge investment. They are paid from those grants, which after department-level expenses are disbursed to individuals proportionally to the number of incidents they responded to.

If I call for law enforcement, there’s a decent chance I’ll get a “Justice of the Peace” or a Constable instead of a government employee. These are elected positions, and either unpaid or offer so little compensation no one would ever choose it as a career.

Mail is delivered by rural carriers, who are contract workers. They provide their own vehicles and equipment as well.

All of the above is pretty typical for most of the US (geographically). I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a free market system - after all, what funding there is for these services comes from the government - but I also wouldn’t call it “socialized”.
> The Christchurch video should have been able to be seen by everyone if they so chose

and it was available anywhere you just had to know where to look/know who to get links from

i dont blame public video hosting companies for caving to public pressure on this matter, it sucks but they chose to act in a way that the reeing public is used to with censored mass entertainment outlets
It’s guile. They’re instances of the <service> class (apparently). That is specifically not declarative and the fact that the only example in the official documentation is essentially the same as your example, says this project is not ready for use by humans.

If you (the project) cant show a full example service definition to start something why would anyone bother going forward.
Peter Pan and the Copyright That Never Grew Up (2015)
Seems pretty reasonable.

Basic image searches are looking for patterns so if you can have colors that break lines then you'd get the same effect. You would probably want to go with grey's and blue for city colors.
Head to toe camouflage in the city puts you on the radar in other ways.

But the other trick about camouflage is to look like everyone else.

Hence why all soldiers dress the same out field and rank insignia is displayed in very mute colors on uniforms. This has the effect of hiding the officers in with the herd. Just don't be the guy holding the radio :P
Isn't in more like you're listening to a car owner who removed the 3rd gear from his vehicle and expects the mechanic to make the car work just as good without it?
Just tried to login to AWS Console but just getting a "Website Temporarily Unavailable": https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home
I had the opportunity to be in a small interviewing workshop with Aline, she really knows what shes doing and I believe the tech interviewing world would be a better place if more companies adjusted their process based on Alines/Interviewing.ios insights.
The most valueable number is still:

555-SHOE
Vancouver Unveils North America’s Boldest Climate Action Plan
I found DNS ad-blocking solutions to be pretty lackluster and lots of ads were still getting through. With uBlock Origin only sites ahead of the curve were getting their ads through (porn sites, facebook, etc.). Couple this with Bypass Paywalls[1] browser extension and the web is pretty usable.

I also tried to go one step further and setup mitm-proxy to man in the middle all of my traffic to see if I could do more invasive but thorough ad filtering. Certificate pinning from the likes of instagram, facebook, apple, and google really stymied this approach. So all in all, I don't see much benefit from DNS adblocking instead of ublock origin.

1 - https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
yes but miners(nodes) will only happily accept valid chain. so no spending of coins you don't own.
In the spring, some plants like Araceae can push through dry leaves quite forcefully. The dry leaf acts as a sort of sound board against which the growing stalks scratch. Eerie sound.

(Or was it earthworms? It was just my hypothesis)
The typical micro-optimization while typing without any profiler feedback, just gut feeling, as prevalent across the community.
> The point is that corporations distort the real distribution of power

That's not the claim that was made, which was the corporations are the real holders of power, which was offered as an explicit denial of the claim that a narrow set of wealthy individuals hold power. That corporations are a vehicle by which the exact distribution of power among individuals may vary from what you'd think by looking at net worth alone does not change the fact that power is really held by a narrow set of wealthy individuals. (In fact, it concentrates power even more narrowly in the most wealthy by suppressing the effective power of the diffuse minority of wealth held by broad masses in a way somewhat similar to how FPTP electoral systems dilute the political power of diffuse minorities of votes.)

> Apple's money nominally belongs to its shareholders

No, it nominally belongs to Apple. Shareholders do not, either nominally or practically, own the assets of the corporation, they own a claim to a share of the liquidated net assets after satifying liabilities in the event of corporate dissolution, along with certain rights defined in law and corporate governance documents with regard to governance of the corporation while it is a going concern.

In practice, this increases the effective relative power of major (even if not majority individually) shareholders and reduces the power of small minority shareholders beyond what share of ownership alone would suggest.
I understand that, I did my undergrad at a super demanding university that was always scoring high in ACM ICPC competitions, beating top 10 often, but average GPA was under 2.5 due to no grade inflation, super demanding classes (A grades were singularities, most grades clustered around the lowest passing ones), and that didn't do anyone any favor when applying to prestigious schools or jobs afterwards unless one had a gold medal from olympiad or similar (even when rocking FAANG interviews, the "unknown" factor was too strong). Then doing top 10 masters was much easier and much more rewarding job-wise. I know Waterloo is top 2 in Canada, but when top schools go through grade inflation, the hard, honest universities without grade inflation put their graduates at a disadvantage.
Eleven Megs And Constantly Swapping!
That decision benefits few at the cost of many (and eventually the few, just later). It is easy to imagine better uses of cash than full dedication to a buyback. Personally, I would make sure that R&D has plenty of funding, buy bonds, modernize old equipment, if necessary get consultants for leasing and insurance expenses,....basically hedge against risks and invest in competitiveness. Buybacks are fine to an extent. I think you know why the debt was cheap.
For what it's worth, a Taiwanese co-worker sent me the link, commenting along with it that in Japan we're too nice about this. In Taipei they raise hell when a mob of mainlanders behave like unruly five year old kids.

This is not about anti-Chinese sentiment at all. Spend five minutes talking to Chinese folks of Taiwan, Singapore, or Hong Kong, or you know what, even with Chinese studying or working in the West ( a part of the world which I am not a fan of, and less so every year ) and see what they tell you. This is a very specific issue about a very specific group of people in very specific circumstances.
"Special category"? This implies that all is forbidden unless specifically allowed. That is a recipe for an authoritarian hellscape. We don't live in that world. Violence is the special category, because some is allowed and some is not.
It’s just hard to be productive in Dart. The Flutter IDE and simulators were so resource intensive, they literally locked up my laptop the last time I tried using them.

Dart is objectively a terrible language to be productive in for app development. The abstractions provided by the language are clunky to use for window elements on a device screen. Don’t get me started on Material Design, either.

Swift, Objective-C/C++, or even Java is way easier to start building apps with, in comparison. The tooling is mediocre for Dart as well.
What We Know and Don’t Know About the Fire at an APS Battery Facility
The authors only claim to have strong results for the studied demographics, make further remarks about other possible biases, and argue these results provide some insight and encourage further research.

This is perfectly fine. Not all fields have the luxury of perfectly controlled lab experiments. If we applied the methodological discipline of experimental physics to social sciences, we might as well give up now.

In the abstract they say:

"Despite this being a well-known and widespread social phenomenon, relatively few large-scale empirical studies have been conducted into this issue. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by examining teenagers’ propensity to claim expertise in three mathematics constructs that do not really exist."

"we find substantial differences in young people’s tendency to bullshit across countries, genders and socio-economic groups"

"Together this provides important new insight into who bullshitters are and the type of survey responses that they provide."

In the conclusions they say:

"There are of course limitations to this study, and many issues on the topic of bullshitting that remain unexplored. First, the PISA data analysed are cross-sectional rather than longitudinal. We therefore do not know whether bullshitting is a stable trait that can be consistently observed for an individual over time, or if it is something that changes with age (and the factors associated with such change)."

Their strongest claim appears to be:
"Despite these limitations, we believe this paper has started to open an important new area of social science research"
"job success" is something that happens in the future relative to a "job interview".

To be able to truly predict whether or not someone will be successful means that the interviewer would have to able to foresee how that person will interact with others in their workgroup , rise to challenges that don't yet exist, and be motivated to remain for a "long-enough" engagement with the company (whatever that means). Predicting the future is just damn hard, and it's even harder when nebulous desired outcomes such as "job success" are used.

To make matters even more difficult, this problem also has "another half" to it which people tend to ignore: the employer doing the interviewing.

These types of questions seem to take the point of view that an employer is presented with a bowl of fruit (candidates) and all they have to do is be able to select the best fruits.

But it doesn't work that way. You may not get the fruit which you want, that fruit may want to go elsewhere or others might have already grabbed the fruit you would have wanted. The fruit which looks good now may end up rotten a short time later. Some fruit that looks undesirable today, may be awesome later. You may grow tired of apples and desire pears, but you've already filled your pantry with apples.

What would happen if some organization was able to "figure this out" and truly maximally optimize their candidate selection using interview techniques? I am not so sure it would be easily distinguishable from what other similar competitive employers are doing. Predicting the future can only go so far.
What units are used to measure complexity?
Nuremberg Trial audio recordings: saving the original records of Nazi atrocities
Your comment was published 20 minutes after the submission. If you were 17 pages at that point, it makes me wonder if you were just pointing out that you found the paper somewhat insulting.
> I don't know about you, but several of my acquaintances have reported phenomena and experiences that I have no reason to doubt, that are not solely 'in their mind' (because of the external consequences of what happened), and that cannot be explained by mechanistic laws because they involve 'backwards' transfer of information and so on.

I have those too, and no offense to you personally, but I call bullshit on both mine and your acquaintances. In case of people I know, there was not one situation for which I couldn't find a more plausible explanation - which usually boils down to that for enough trials, even the rare coincidences sometimes happen.

> there is no a priori reason to believe science can answer all questions we have.

There is this one reason that it's literally the job of science. Science isn't a bunch of fixed methods from a holy book, it's the aggregation of everything that reliably works for extracting information about observable reality. And to be clear - I'm not saying that as someone who has Faith in Science (as opposed to religion). It's just that the sentence "science can't ever answer a question about reality" is a category error - it's saying "the set of ways you can answer questions about reality with can't be used to answer a question about reality". Nonsense.

> consciousness and subjectivity is unlike anything else in the world and bridging the qualitative gap between subjective experience and the mechanistical world is a completely different task than explaining, say, what makes a stone roll the way it does

But is it? The hint is given by the fact that there's more than one thinking human in existence. You may feel that answers about your subjective experiences are out of reach of science, but to the extent subjective experiences have any impact on reality, you can use science to study my subjective experiences (as expressed by me), and I can do the same to you.
Amazon fired hundreds of workers a year from one warehouse over ‘productivity’
> They don't know how to judge expertise (otherwise they wouldn't be hiring you).

I've had this realization many times that, in most cases, I likely sound exactly the same as the 5 BS artists that came before me, and there's very little I can do to distinguish myself outside of long-term relationship building and delivery.

Others before me have said the exact same things, just not delivered (or hosed up a project beyond belief). Me saying something may sound exactly the same as the previous X times - they've heard it all before.

I've got a few clients I've worked with for years - they trust me implicitly because I've delivered (and when I haven't, I've made good, pushed through, fixed stuff that needed fixing, etc). After years of experience, there's deep trust. When I say "XYZ", they have a high degree of confidence in my ability to deliver. Outside of spending years developing those relationships, I'm not sure how else you can get a level of confidence even close to that.
2015-2016 in Antarctica had one of the biggest sea ice extents on record. Way above the average (for the 40 years or so of data that they actually have)
What Makes a Good Error?
Not the parent, but you don't. I run a Galaxy S9 but as far as I'm concerned, the phone will be a paperweight in 1 or 2 more years.

iPhones have better longevity, hence their higher resale value.
For me the question was more, isn't Rust supposed to have fearless concurrency meaning no "unsafe" part to modify data between threads.
Tesla’s autonomy event: Impressive progress with an unrealistic timeline
> It only took Apple a couple years to unseat Nokia as the top phone seller. Tesla, today, still sells less than 10% of the volume of the top car makers and still struggles to be cash flow positive.

Apple had successful business in related fields before starting to sell phones, and the consumer purchase cycle for phones is much faster than cars. Unless traditional automakers take note and make big structural changes, the same pattern will happen here--only more slowly.

> We already are seeing legacy car makers introducing EVs so the race is all but over.

You're missing the point if you think being a good EV is the only significant differentiator Tesla has. It's probably only 1/3 of the things I love about this car that traditional automakers will be unable to compete with easily.
If socialism is the public ownership of the means of production, how exactly is a government controlled healthcare program for all considered, "Socialism"?

When it comes to insurance, what exactly is the "means of production" there that is being owned by the people?

Is any publicly owned and managed entity socialist?
How many prodigies exist ? How much demand is there for developers in the market at present ? Does the demand for developers match the number of prodigies available at any given time ? Some prodigies know their strengths early and some prodigies are to be discovered. I think the author refers to the latter.
WhatsApp bans Podemos channel days before Spanish general election
Not only promotes, favours, enables and prefer them.
And to further complicate things, neither jobs performance nor broader economic performance (i.e. GDP growth) correlate really well with the stock market. So beware trying to market-time on macro indicators alone -- sometimes bad times for workers can be good times for corporate profits and hence shareholders.
> So (3) is hardly better than (2).

As someone developing GUIs with Qt bindings for Python daily, and has been for the past 8-9 years, I respectfully disagree.

Understanding of the underlying types and memory management is rarely an issue (e.g. once every 3 months), and when it is it's incredibly straightforward (e.g. maintaining reference to a window you've just created else Python garbage collects it for you).

Topics like these appear every now and then and remind me how there are still developers out there that still struggle to find the right combination of language and framework, some resorting to Electron because of assertions like this. This is a solved problem for my line of work - VFX and workflow related tools.
One thing I've been wondering for a long time when I see the quasi-sado-masochist relationship between engineers and hiring processes is: are bad hires that 1) costly, 2) frequent ?

In my 12+ years career, I've worked with so-so engineers, but never truly bad ones that would ruin a project. And even the ones that weren't great, what damages did they really cause? I've seen many more companies failing because of a bad product, bad sales strategies, bad market fit, bad business model than engineering teams using the wrong programming language, or not building microservices the right way.

I find this constant obsession around identifying "rockstars", avoiding "bad" engineers at all cost to be truly unhealthy.
The reverse is also true.

I had read about trust being crucial to innovation, teamwork, execution. But had never experienced it.

Then I got paired with a marketing manager who was fantastic. We truly had a trust-based relationship. Everyone joked that we acted like a married couple (in a good way).

That experience kinda ruined me. Once I learned what trust in a competent person feels like, I had a hard time suspending disbelief, and zero inclination to play the game with bullshitters.
Yes but its not enough and its not soon enough. Tesla needs to stoke demand this quarter. Humanity needs to be driving toward zero emissions yesterday.

IMHO privately owned electric vehicles will only ever have been a historical oddity of the transition between personally owned cars and shared/pooled cars.
Vim Makes My Daily Life Easier (2017)
I Am Deeply Sorry
Hmm... The premise is interesting, but c-suites haven't touched the assembly line in many decades, regardless of industry. I have anecdotes of plenty of CEOs from all sorts of industries - ones that never flipped burgers, never played a video game, never pushed steel through a furnace, etc.
What they could have done was have an entirely different business model.

Guy sets up super-projector pointed at the moon, lets people submit videos to a website and vote on which ones get projected on the moon. Pretty soon it's playing gore porn. Guy takes it down as soon as he finds out says "oh man sorry about that, don't know what I could have done to stop that", but then turns the projector right back on because every so often it plays an ad and those are paying his bills.

Some things are just a fundamentally bad idea and there's no fixing it. I don't have a great solution for it. I'm pretty sure the entire Internet has proven to be a bad idea, in fact, but like so much technology you can't put it back in the box so now we're stuck with it.
I am happy with posteo.de.
Politicians that use it are extremely rare.
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks
I recently put up a job post for a COO position for my company and the number of bullshitters with MBAs bragging about their accomplishments on blockchain has been astronomical. It’s amazing to me that bullshitting comes so naturally to some people that I almost wanted to interview them just to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Using Data Science to Make Sense of the Mueller Report
It may sound ridiculous but consider this: most cigarette users looking for harm reduction have already tried e-cigs and found them unfulfilling. This product, even if a hackjob, has already achieved success internationally.
> I'm constantly surprised on this site by comments like "I would gladly spend $50/month on this"

If someone's willing to spend $50/m on something, the pain point being addressed is usually perceived as worth $50 or more in terms of money, time and/or stress.

Pricing is usually set based on a specific target market, so if you only value that pain point as being worth $5/m, then you're likely outside of the target market.
My understanding is that this isn't a free/pro distinction, but a "Feature on the Roadmap". But I'd be delighted to find out I'm wrong.
"Fake it till you make it" means, sound like you're way more confident about what you're saying than you actually are, until you become the sort of person you're presenting yourself as. It's not people making up random shit, it's people making up totally plausible sounding shit.
>that if particles and their configurations are finite, then moments in lived experience necessarily repeat themselves

I don't know much about Nietzsche, but this statement does not seem correct. One can have infinite configurations of a finite number of particles. The only way a finite number of particles would imply finite configurations would be (a) space is finite, and (b) space is not continuous. That is, if you imagine the universe as composed of discrete slots in which particles must exist, and the number of slots is finite, then his idea makes sense. But, is there a reason to think this?
Objective-C and Swift help sell Apple's hardware.

Besides Ad Words, there is very little being sold by Dart.