skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"while there's an issue, but only 200 out of 300 mill people died".

You count the number of people who got killed. You should also included the number of people who "almost" got killed (paralyzed), traumatized, etc.

Somehow your statement also made the whole thing looks "insignificant". I'm not sure why that is because in other countries, there will be a huge uproar leading to change in laws and regulations to the point of banning.
IDK, If he's voicing his support for licensing, or not doing anything about licenses, then yeah it's hypocrisy. But there are a _lot_ of regulations to take down, and this simply might not be high on his priority list. Should his wife be doing black-market hair styling?

Just because someone is compelled into an arrangement they speak against doesn't mean it's hypocrisy.
this has become one of those HN threads that just keeps on giving. thanks for recommendations for publii lektor, googpress, staticgen and hexopress, and the parent article on import doc.
There is a geshtalt emerging in this space that makes me hopeful and curious to see where it leads?
Or buy from Amazon, and then return the purchase for refund when they fail fulfillment promise due to staffing outage.
>we really should focus on our native citizens

Our natives can't do a lot of jobs because they don't have the educational background, and that isn't going to change any time soon with the way we fund schools.

The other thing we don't do is provide low-cost high-quality healthcare to our citizens, and there again, there's not much effort to fix this, and instead the party in power wants to remove healthcare from poorer people.
So what is the argument exactly?
You entirely missed their point and instead put words in their mouth.
I dabbled in electronics, then electromechanics then mechanics.

I'm now convinced that almost no software engineer is worth its title unless he made some physical apparatus on any complexity. Even a pair of scissors.
It's a single point of failure, sure, but you have to consider... How likely is it that AWS goes down? How likely is it that your internal system maintained by a single person goes down?
Certainly what environment you have should be a sort of organic / self developed / self serving kinda system. Make it your own.
I do think when folks talk about little perks and the environment they're not talking about how having the right kind of cake, or three kinds of cake vs two kinds of cake available (just a generic example) is important. What they are really saying is "I see this company has put some resources into making this environment better, and that reflects their values and makes ME feel valued." Heck even if you don't eat the cake it is a sign.

It's akin to the story (I can't find it) where a company stopped providing free soda (or maybe they stopped subsidizing the price, I forget). The engineers were very upset, but it was just soda and god knows they could afford it.... but really it wasn't soda, the fact that management thought it was worth their time to pull resources from soda of all things was a very worrisome sign that indicated the company's values and possibly their future. Soda was the canary in the coal mine.
There is a major boycott of Amazon this week after it came out they're directly competing for military contracts that Google declined to take [0].
It's almost certainly the case that Amazon is helping and urging people to post negative stories about other high profile competitors, Google included, right now. That's just how tech journalism works. Amazon is just much better at it than less successful attempts like the "scroogled" campaign.

This does not dismiss the bad things Google does. However, it does mean that it's a good week to remind people to boycott Amazon any way they can in addition to holding Google accountable.
Yes, this is the concern. Previously this was not the case with the German data center as it was not operated by Microsoft. But now that it’s closed...
> You’ll never have people who spend weeks just trying to get Hello Project” to compile. All of which I’ve seen in other companies.

I'd love to read the back story on this. Was it really a "hello world" project?
Many of these kinds of industrial-history questions can be answered along a few different angles:

* Trade and access to raw materials. This is often one that limits development and diffusion even if the concept is known, and for the bicycle, it's one of the biggest immediate factors. Trade deprivation can often be a factor in historical innovations as the market starts searching for substitutes.

* Education and basic research. The 19th century saw a second "printing revolution" because paper was getting cheaper, enabling the likes of dime novels and penny dreadfuls, but also making literacy a widespread phenomenon, with public schools appearing throughout the industrial world and academia gaining larger libraries and greater capability to specialize on logical-positivist STEM topics, rather than the classical education of nobility and clergy. Less reinvention means more effort towards innovation.

* Market readiness. You can't sell software if nobody has computers; and for manufactured goods the development of an urban lifestyle has to take place. None of the early bicycles do well on unpaved roads. Bicycle adoption trailed automobile adoption, since the latter gave the motivation to pave every street. In the late 19th century, systematic city sanitation policy was still a new innovation and large cities suffered from stinking rivers, open sewerage, and disposal methods that consisted of emptying a bucket out of a window. People were dressing for this reality in heavy suits or dresses and boots, while bicycle usage relies on being less encumbered(and that is still a factor even today).

Today the hype for rental e-scooters can be followed througn a similar series of developments: while scooters as toys have been around for about as long as bicycles, the early 70's saw polyurethane wheels introduced, and this made skating(on boards and in shoes) almost a new sport, since they were inexpensive and could reliably compress and keep rolling without stopping or shattering like clay or metal wheels; scooter wheels are bigger, but also benefited from this change. A few decades passed and Razor introduced the folding kick scooter concept to mass markets, making the scooter as easy to carry as a skateboard. With the last two decades we got better battery power density and smartphone diffusion, making the "dockless" rental scooter commercially viable, along with electric-powered versions of shoes, skateboards, bikes, etc. But there is somewhat of a market readiness issue, since while the potential is obvious, it's hard to use these devices safely on current streets, and there is no established etiquette to their use.
I agree. But since I am young I have a lot of people who are still trying to upgrade to a "real job" after having graduated in the last 1-2 years and these articles are disproportionately shared by those people.

Usually the articles are about how they sent 200 applications and it was all worth it to get that one acceptance, or are re-share spam about some manager taking a chance on a new hire or some shit. I haven't done any work into curating my feed since I rarely scroll through my feed anyway, but I think LinkedIn could do much better at putting industry-related news articles or blogs in there with less perseverance-porn
I wonder if they sold more 1.5TB MBAs or gold watches?
There was still active research into why bicycles are stable as recently as 2011. Here's a talk about that research: https://youtu.be/YdtE3aIUhbU

If the bicycle was some sort of "obvious" machine, people wouldn't still be studying the basic stability mechanics 200 years later. Very few things are as simple as they seem. Even levers can get a bit complicated.
Right, that's how you could plausibly have made one or two, as a palace amusement, or a circus act. It's a little surprising this didn't happen (as far as I know).

But efficient enough to go some distance, reliable enough not to need a full-time repair-man, and cheap enough to be sold to people who didn't already own a horse & carriage? That needed lots more technology.
So:

1) You allowed your son with the cognitive ability of a 7 year old, access to £3 grand.. I'm going out on a limb here, but I don't think that was wise. I'm unable to even imagine "the correct" way you were wanting your son to use that money. Shorting Symantec?

2) Your 16 year old stole £2k of your money (and then your daughter bailed you out?). Looking for a bright side, it wasn't opiates... and your student daughter already appears to have overcome genetics/environment to get her shit together.

3) "We are technically savvy" (I already know you're not.. but pray continue) - Oh your 12 year old spent the money you gave him access to from his own bank account.. Well I think lessons have been learnt on all sides here - and if you don't think it's his fault, chuck him another £700 and see what happens. I have some lovely magical-beans I'll cut you in on, for his email address.

4) "My 11-year-old daughter has spent over £100 of my money in a day downloading apps that are the same."
Well that's a curious statement. Most stores would say "you already own this".. she was creating new accounts for the thrill of a fresh download? I can't help but feel despite your aforementioned tech-savvy swagger - you have no f'in idea what happened even as you spoke to the reporter. Still I'm completely reassured that you've now given her a PS3 where "No fraud, no online grooming and no bullying"... Three horrible things, but does most definitely have an online store, which is the single problematic thing you mentioned.

Oh I'm losing the will to live now.. and feeling increasingly misanthropic, so I'll stop.
Question: have you ever visited this webpage?

https://myactivity.google.com/

For many people it is enough to be totally creeped out about Google.

Also, that Google remembers context can be handy but it is not essential. Without context, I am sure you would be equally capable of finding what you are looking for, although it might take a little more typing since you'll have to supply the context yourself. Imho, convenience is not a good argument for giving away your personal information.
Even marine chronometers, once they were perfected, were very expensive, artisan pieces that had to be handmade.
The main point seems to be that:

/ d\² d²
D²ₓ = |−−| ≠ −−−
\dx/ dx²
because
(1/dx)*d*(1/dx)*d ≠ (1/dx)*(1/dx)*d*d
or just
d*(1/dx) ≠ (1/dx)*d

In other words, the "algebraic units" are fine, but multiplication on them is noncommutative.[0]

0: Like multiplication on damn near everything else that isn't really a number.
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It does seem to be ineffective on Hacker News, doesn't it? I wonder what that says about the users here.
Newegg had it right circa 2004, but they've been downhill since they decided to copy Amazon and let 3rd party sellers in.
> the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market.

Why?
People who are saying that the author should have used an API are missing the point; sometimes the only way to gather data is by resorting to scraping, and this article details how one could go about doing that, by using an interesting target: HN.

To the author: Good job, I'm sure many people will find your article useful! I wish I would've had this article at hand a couple of years ago when I needed to aggregate data from several websites that provided no API.
The fact that Amazon can easily hire people at $15/hr at its current abysmal working conditions does not mean that they morally should. The market conditions let Amazon get away with it, and collective action changes market conditions.
More importantly, how to at the same time make payment as frictionless and password-free, so that you do not lose any business to people having second thoughts or going to competitors!

Because that is the purpose of a smartphone - to funnel the user's money to the true owners of the phone. Any barriers to that must be removed.
Why leaving the second part of the headline out?

Biologists think it's for the best
At this point, why bother buying a new MacBook?
And nearly 800 have been shot in mass shootings, that's wild for a country as developed as ours (and that's ignoring individual instances of gun violence, and how easy and catastrophic it makes suicide and domestic violence).
For other HNers out there: I Promessi Sposi really is a great book. If you are looking for something to read this summer, I'd really reccomend it.
Poor people generally don't live in suburban or exurban areas. And if they can't afford decent transportation then they will either face very long commutes or move and be stranded with whatever jobs are in the periphery exurban area.
I actually did that after a particularly bad WebEx call, suggesting we try Zoom (ironically) for our next call. Anyway, although generally better, Zoom also proved to be something of a disaster so there were obviously other factors at play. We then switched to Fuze for the next call (client's new corporate standard), and it was still a bit ropey.

After that I decided it was best to just roll with it whatever they use because, with any videoconferencing or VOIP service, it's impossible to guarantee good performance on the day.

Still, I maintain that WebEx has been a fiasco ninety-plus percent of the time I've used it, which is way worse than anything else. The majority of the time Zoom, Hangouts, and even Microsoft's Teams seem to work well.
> Is that desirable, and should the charity leadership be compensated handsomly for that?

It depends on the overall efficiency, doesn't it?

I'm not saying this stuff is easy to evaluate. I'm saying there are vastly more important qualifications than "I care about this work", and if we have decided large charities are effective then clearly we want competent people running them.

I'm perfectly ok with the answer being: "no, the best bet is very small, very local, entirely volunteer organizations".

The worst case to me seems to be poorly managed large organizations, which will then just bleed resources at every level.
Its missing the bar from the pedals to the back tire. If you sat on this bike, all your weight would rest on the joint under the seat, bending the front half of the frame away from the back tire, at least sending the pedals into the ground, if not snapping the frame outright.
I have seen bicycles built using bamboo. I mostly agree with the assessment that the tech and need just wasn't there in antiquity, but I would definitely stress that it could have plausibly been built using the materials available.
You do not understand. These was no road perse in 1929, just two deep grooves for carriages and cars. It was impossible to bike on that. The first coast-to-coast american biked on railroad tracks. They were bumpy obviously but evidently much better than any roads.
If they didn't "create anything of value" why are they there doing it? Why does Amazon have them doing what they do in the first place? The point is they do in fact play an important role in the generation of the value by Amazon and they are asking for their fair share.
Thunderbolt gets to be an entire extra dimension, thanks to cables that support thunderbolt but not USB 3.
We used to drink "bug juice" at summer camp.
Amazon is still far from being a monopsony. If you've got evidence suggesting otherwise, please share. Otherwise don't spread falsehoods.
The Nobel Prize equivalent of Computer Science is called "The Turing Award" and has been coming out since the 1960's (and no Turing didn't find them in the same way Alfred Nobel funded the Nobel Prize)
Healthcare is actually pretty good in big Chinese cities. China is actually getting close to universal insurance coverage. At this pace, it seems like the US might end up being the last country on Earth without some sort of government-backed universal coverage scheme.
I would expect cord-cutting to increase with the addition of more services. More streaming services means more incentive, not less, to cut back on traditional cable tv service, or eliminate it altogether.
This is cruel. Someone that is donating should think about the welfare of the recipients. Otherwise it's just massaging one's own ego.
You're literally just saying you're a terrible person.

Congratulations, you're literally the problem.
They make some excellent points. I fully support the idea that the best way to help a particular cause is usually to give cash, not in kind goods.

But having done a lot of volunteer work over the years and also spent several years homeless, I would rather see a whole lot more emphasis on creating a world with less need for charity.

We will always need some charity. This article talks in part about charitable giving following a fire. Stuff happens. The world will never stop having crises.

But some problems would best be served by social justice, not charity.

"Give a man a fish, feed him for the day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime." We have a world in which we glorify giving away fish while often actively refusing to "teach a man to fish."

Example:

Discussions of homelessness routinely dismiss the idea that such people can be meaningfully helped to resolve their problems. They get dismissed as crazies and addicts who simply can't be helped.

Meanwhile, my efforts to develop useful websites while homeless and monetize them was snidely characterized by someone as me "panhandling the internet" and people generally didn't want to hire me. I was clear I needed more earned income to get off the street. Charity wasn't going to give me my life back. But I couldn't seem to get taken seriously by anyone.
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Plagiarism. Thanks dude.
That would result in less consumer spending, so yes.
What do you mean? From an approach perspective? Shouldn't the first thing you do to understand the problem is to see it from the other persons perspective? Empathy is not the end all be all. It's a start.
https://medium.com/@gennai.jen/this-is-not-how-i-expected-mo...

>Project Veritas has edited the video to make it seem that I am a powerful executive who was confirming that Google is working to alter the 2020 election. On both counts, this is absolute, unadulterated nonsense, of course. In a casual restaurant setting, I was explaining how Google’s Trust and Safety team (a team I used to work on) is working to help prevent the types of online foreign interference that happened in 2016. Google has been very public about the work that our teams have done since 2016 on this, so it’s hardly a revelation.
I remember that classic TDD (transport tycoon) was also turing-complete. You can make logical gates there using trains and railroad signals.

Minecraft is not only turing complete, there are multiple complete projects of calculators and microcontrollers done using red stone.
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There are ways to address that: One of them is to provide a downloadable copy of the web app. Another is to offer a browser extension to verify integrity. Here's an example from Cloudflare (https://blog.cloudflare.com/e2e-integrity/).

But even without code integrity checks, client-side encryption of user data should still radically improve user data privacy compared to the status quo of storing it in clear in a database owned by the app developer.
I'm sure it's a very widespread view, amongst "entrepreneurs" benefitting from a ready mass of overworked and under-compensated workers, and workers one generation past poverty who have been culturally indoctrinated with a belief that accepting extreme workloads is a sign of virtue. That doesn't excuse it being uncritically repeated by others rather than treated as the toxic and exploitative sentiment that it is.
They have a $15 hour/minimum, so $22 isn't double.
Yes but traditionally the media has not portrayed poles positively.
Yep. And this thread illustrates why threading is hard, especially in C++ :)

Oh, and sig_atomic_t is not guaranteed thread-safe, only signal safe. The difference is when you move your code from a single cpu to dual cpu system it breaks. I ran across this some time ago moving stuff to an ESP32.

Atomic so far works best across the chips I’m poking at.
As a free open source project blender is always going to be playing catch-up with Maya selling 1K+ licences unless the development is severely mismanaged.
We kill house insects all the time, for no reason other than they bother us.

The fear of some technologists, is that someday, super-optimizing sentient AIs will treat us the same way.
Yeah that’s a whole extra layer of fun. On top of the incompatible matrix of protocols you’ve got all of these devices (the Apple charger, the Nintendo Switch Dock, the Raspberry Pi 4, probably any number of cheap gadgets with bad USB-C ports) that don’t even work with things they should be compatible with.

USB-C is the wild godammned west.
If people here are cool with CEOs making hundreds of thousands of dollars in salaries, then everyone working under him or her should make a better-than-average salary, all the way down to the line workers, who'd normally make minimum wage.
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They are only close to being correct if you are running a bigger organization. There is a rather large difference between large charities and community centered groups trying to help their fellows. People should know the actual situation and needs of the specific charity and skip following generic advice. Know what is really going on.

I have no idea what the sigh was about.
If a food bank didn't want cans and would prefer money instead, why would they accept donations of cans? Whenever I offer to donate anything to a charity, wether physical goods or money, I assume they have agency and can refuse donations that they don't want or need.

Am I so naive to assume that any organization that accepts cans must be OK with them and any that doesn't want them wouldn't accept them?
And you can inline display latex fragments. Not the prettiest display but it does the job!
Picture the downward force generated by sitting on the bicycle causing the rear axle and bottom bracket to spread away from each other, causing the seatstays to break at the seat tube. This is what chainstays prevent on a complete frame.
It is missing the part of the frame from the rear wheel to the bottom bracket.
regardless of how you view the criminal justice system, the nationwide backlog of rape kits feels unconscionable. These are not quality of life or minor drug offences, so I'm surprised there isn't more public outrage.
> It's less than a month after the US president saying he would sue them because he felt they didn't give conservative sources favorable enough index ranking.

Keep in mind that this is a hunk of crap.
This looks like a re-discovery of a 2014 University of Texas at Dallas paper - https://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6173/868 ?

I am missing something? You can see the hackaday article about this here: https://hackaday.com/2014/02/21/researchers-create-synthetic...

Here is another, earlier iteration also from MIT: https://gizmodo.com/mits-new-plastic-muscles-could-bring-us-...
The back fork should be connected to the seatpost with a pair of horizontal braces.

It's an exaggeration to say it would immediately break. But if you put weight on it, it will tend to spread out (imagine putting weight on a bent piece of metal shaped like a ^). Still, the front fork isn't braced, and bikes exist with quite a large rake angle on the front fork (think a Harley-Davidson style chopper). So maybe you can make this design strong enough to bear a person's weight.
Given Amazon is such a large part of that market, they do in fact play a large role in the perpetuation of that market. This strike action is in fact those people pushing back both against Amazon and that larger set of conditions they are in.