skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just going to say it: I would have a lot more respect for scientists, and people in academia in general, if they weren't all Democrats. Waving the liberal flag is all people in higher ed do anymore and that have run off even moderate voices. A marketplace of ideas is impossible in such an echo chamber and we're seeing the consequences of that activity daily.

The next phase appears to involve the jailing, if not outright killing, of all who dissent. A Maoist revolution.

Before you get on me with the down votes, realize that I have a PhD, been worked in academia in the past, and have watched over about the last 20 years the intolerance in higher ed go from "mild distaste of differing opinions" to today's radicalized "we must murder all who disagree in order to save the planet because we know we are right and it is all settled, then."
What if the manufacturer doesn't exist anymore?
> The point is to do no harm to your fellow employees. It's already obvious that a sign directing cars to drive off a pier isn't morally ok. Comments, names, and code structures which mislead and misdirect are also wrong.

The primary purpose of the code we write is/should be to serve a function. Being legible to others is a secondary aspect. If the function the code is supposed to fulfill is immoral, then I would really prefer it to (a) not work properly, (b) be misleading, (c) have crappy documentation, (d) build only during a full moon when you hold a beer bottle in a horizontal position above your monitor while standing on one leg.
You have a set of documents you prepare regularly. Could be a Power of Attorney, a diversion agreement, whatever. You can highlight the frequently changed part and substitute information by hand... or you can set up a macro with a form to enter the information and have it automatically generate.

Law firms have been using software to do this for 2 decades. Rather than using macros, they have dedicated document-management systems that can generate templates/documents based on the type of filing, client, etc. that get further customized by lawyers as needed.
Opening, not uploading.
We don't have an independent and fair system. It's been highly political and corrupt for a long time, it's just now more blatantly obvious. Partly, this is because of the internet making it easier to make things public and partly because the rich and powerful are feeling less obliged to hide their actions. Too much power has been centralized into just a few hundred people in the U.S.
But this device won't work for more than a few days anyway.
“Alexa, speak slower”
I can do both of those things separately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis offers the best evidence I can offer for bad science being done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_American_ac...

Goes over the issues related to politics, conservatives aren't as under-represented when you include STEM fields, but pay special attention to the disciplinary variance.

>Focusing specifically on social psychology academics, a 2014 study found that "[b]y 2006, however, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans had climbed to more than 11:1.

Also note what fields are facing the most obvious replication crisis.

I expect you'll want to do your own research, but that should get you started.
Federal tyrants have access to nuclear weapons, missiles, aircraft carriers, tanks, drones, satellites, etc. How do you expect to fend off tyranny with asymmetric military capabilities? At best it would put you in a perpetual state of guerilla warfare, which isn't any less of a tyranny.
But to hear Vanilla Ice explain it is pretty hilarious - https://youtu.be/6TLo4Z_LWu4
> Which, more or less certainly, they won't, so you're basically just self-flagellating in a closet, which might make you feel morally pure but isn't doing anything to change the world.

I think you are factually wrong and condecending in the way you express it.

One case I can bring is the vegan product market in Germany. For many years, individuals were "self-flagellating in a closet" and simply avoiding animals products and buying the alternatives that were offered. That triggered the production of more of these products, which triggered more consumption of them. Today the market is big and makes a meaningful difference. This the result of individual action without coordination by all market participants.

I don't make a claim about the relative cost of individual change. I rather call the thinking that individual cost will only be accepted if everybody changes arrogant. I've heard more than I'd like to count sentences like "If I/we change, the others still continue, so the problem won't be solved", while in fact it will be solved to the degree that I/we are causing it. Demanding that everybody changes just because you change is arrogant.

I'm not saying individual costs are negligible compared to the influence one can have with individual change. There may be good reasons to not change.
There is another entity involved also, the card processor:

https://www.vantiv.com/credit-card-processing/what-is
- Olives rarely make it to hundreds of years. Surely they don’t in Gaza which has crappy soil for olives. Are you confused with the West Bank?

- All water in Gaza are provided by Israel. Are you confused with Hebron or some other place?

- There are no settlements in Gaza since the unilateral withdrawal in 2005. Are you confused?
I feel infuriated by this statement. Did he just not care? The company was burning around him, turning it around should have been his number 1 priority.
What Every Developer Should Learn Early On
You can even do nested virtualization without hardware support, it's just super duper slow and not a lot of hypervisors think it's worth the complexity increase.
Thank you! We are definitely looking at what else is happening in the space with companies like Pachyderm (https://pachyderm.io/) and DVC (https://dvc.org/features). We're also starting to see the development model starting to make its way in to more and more consumer apps as well (Think "document history" in things like Google Docs). Our view is that as more and more of these services specialize the analogous "Version Control for X" is inevitable.
The imperative headline strikes again!
Moviepass worked great when it handed you $2 of VC money for every dollar, but I appreciate the fact that it did end up disrupting the market as it died.

Most of the big chain now offer Moviepass-esque premium services. AMC now charges like what, $12 a month for 2-3 movies / week? That's how much individual tickets cost in the bay, so as long as a person watches even a single movie a month they're breaking even!
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
IDK. If they put it in a stuffed animal like the pic in the article, how many would rip it open to see what's inside?
I would say well deserved! I am not anymore into web design nor did I ever liked it much (I went low-level and to hardware design) but when I needed to do it I used webflow and it was delight. Easy, intuitive and really great tutorials were there.

Thanks Webflow team!
> Are the snapshots instant?

Yes, it just copies & stores the block at the top of the filesystem[0], in the same way naming a git tree will keep its content recursively alive.

However all the data in the snapshot is retained as-is until the snapshot is destroyed, so as the system keeps being used and diverges from the snapshot the snapshot is slowly going to "increase in size" compared to the live FS.

[0] there's also a more recent "checkpoint" concept which "saves" the entire pool by copying the uberblock.
Often ordering would be enough, but sometimes you do want to wail until the changes are on disk. It's a mess.
Well, I'm not stupid enough to give up all my rights no matter what argument is posed about it. Deal with me individually, based on a set of laws that don't put me in the position of a slave. Whether or not you are right wing, you must basically understand that governments that don't interact with people individually are totalitarian and thus inhumane. And what radical environmentalists want is an excuse to lord over people and dictate their lives to them and sorry, not going to happen.
FWIW, a Google search for "single-celled protein" turns up a bunch of scientific papers using that term as well. I would guess that it's just a situation where both variants are acceptable. Maybe it's a regional thing like "color" vs. "colour".
> I'm questioning whether you have actually worked for a firm because your expectations for firm billing are wildly inaccurate as is your understanding of how billing works in a firm.

Let me end your speculation: All of my time was in 1 and 2 person law firms. The inflated billables are anecdata from my classmates. You may rightly call those out as anecdata. As for myself and the firms I worked in no attorney ever exceeded 1K billables in a year.
> 'organic' does not mean sustainable

Certainly true. There is a particular sustainability problem I have been thinking about for some time: the "organic" versus "low till" conundrum.

Reducing chemical usage through organic farming practices is good. Reducing tillage is very good for the soil biome -- soil that has been undisturbed for 5 years has hugely more organic matter, hugely more worms and other healthy organism, better water retention, better aeration, the list goes on.

Here is the conflict: In order to achieve low- or no-till farming, chemical weed control is usually necessary. In order to avoid chemicals and stay organic, mechanic weed control is the norm, causing much soil disruption.

Wholesale conversion to organic farming practices will never let us restore the soil biome unless we come up with a new solution for weed control that is cost competitive.
>If someone is selling dollar bills for 75 cents, who cares what their motive is, or if it's sustainable or whatever?

People who don't want to encourage fraud, e.g. con-men telling people about some great opportunity to invest in, and then living off of their dollars, while selling the rest for 75 cents to buy time and appear as "successful"?
I am not saying that criticism of gender studies is absurd, I am saying that conflating climate science with gender studies is absurd.

The validity of the social sciences as "real science" has long been in question, long before the concerns of modern day politics. This problem is inherent to these fields, because instead of studying the objective physical world they study literature, history, politics, art, etc. Many social sciences are more accurately called liberal arts in my opinion, and they co-opted the word "science" to lend themselves credibility.

Then on the other hand you have climate science, which does study the objective physical world. The science around this involves collecting data and building models to describe the physical world instead of speculating about the nature of mankind. It is an apples to oranges comparison.

Just to illustrate, forget about climate science and gender studies because they are politically charged. If the above poster had criticized something like the study of French medieval literature and used that to argue that particle physics is a systemically flawed and biased field, I would also call that comparison absurd.
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I agree in the context of not being in the office when his team needs guidance, this is bad.

But asking "what do you think we should do?" shouldn't be lambasted as an indicator of incompetence. In my experience, leaders who feel like they should have all the answers are the most incompetent ones.
For those thinking Star Trek, they literally address it a few paragraphs down :)

The name quantum teleportation brings to mind a technology out of Star Trek, where “transporters” can “beam” macroscale objects—even living humans—between far-distant points in space. Reality is less glamorous. In quantum teleportation, the states of two entangled particles are what is transported—for instance, the spin of an electron. Even when far apart, entangled particles share a mysterious connection; in the case of two entangled electrons, whatever happens to one’s spin influences that of the other, instantaneously.
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I've found spaced repetition a great way to increase the size of my vocabulary whilst learning a language. You're right that it's unnatural, but a large unnaturally-learned vocabulary can then be polished by practice in more natural contents, and I feel like the net result is more efficient than using the natural contexts alone. This is especially true since I do not have easy access to native speakers for half an hour every day, but I can practice with the Anki app whilst on public transport during that time.

Last time I learned a language (German), a small vocabulary was my perpetual weakness. Now I'm learning a different language (Spanish) with a different approach that makes heavy use of spaced repetition, and vocabulary is no longer my weakest point. Instead, listening comprehension is now my weakness. But with a decent vocabulary, I am now working on improving the listening comprehension using podcasts. If my vocabulary were weaker, this would be much more difficult as I would need access to a native speaker who would considerately restrict themselves to mostly use vocabulary I know.
Here's one paper:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Keyboard_Acou...
The early days of the drug war, the ban on pot, was very much a racial thing. There were "scientific" studies and political speeches focusing on how dangerous it would make the negro population, how black men high on pot would be raping white women. Generations later, the crackdown on crack cocaine, as opposed to the more expensive normal cocaine, also broke down along racial lines. The drug wars in other countries, those without America's racial history, have been very different. What makes the US drug war what it is, as opposed to say Canada's or the UK's, is its grounding in America's 'unique' race relations.
Police at Twitch HQ in SF after possible shooting threat
AMC changes their pricing based on where you live. It's $24/month in California
> and have been developing a different online experiment each year until 2017. The 2013 experiment was by far the most successful. It allowed visitors to draw their own postcards with 6-axis symmetry, creating a snowflake-looking drawing almost no matter what was being drawn.

Nice. What were the other experiments you tried doing besides snowflakes? Any reason they didn't work out?
I lament that everything is measured by cost, even a college education. A liberal arts education is very important because it stimulates the mind to explore ideas. Add it the tools of mathematics and the sciences and you get a thinking human being.
Nah, gotta be aliens... ◔_◔
Word has Track Changes built in already,
The "unarmed black man shot and killed by police"

The issue isn't just being killed by police - It's also being beaten by police, having things unlawfully seized by police, being unjustly cited or arrested by police, and so on. So yeah, being unjustly arrested and spending a weekend in jail waiting to be arraigned on Monday is better than being killed, but it still sucks.
It's interesting that the first two - listen even without comprehension, and deprioritize grammar - correspond significantly to advances in NLP on the last few years. Unsupervised language models (that learn to predict text without any labeled task) turn out to be valuable through transfer learning in specific comprehension tasks. And old school NLP methods that focused on grammar tree construction have fallen behind attention and transformer based methods that learn softer, more abstract representations of structure.
WIX is a publicly traded company.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wix-reports-second-...
Just my opinion man. But I have heard those companies pay well.
Racket does allow usage of brackets and parentheses interchangeably, as far as I know:

> [define [plus i j] [+ i j]]
> [plus 1 2]
3
No, "Als achter vliegen vliegen vliegen, vliegen vliegen vliegensvlug."
Do you enjoy history? Your first year classes will be like taking history lessons from caselaw. If it's remotely close to "yes I like it" and if you can do it without going into debt then go for it.
There is a fundamental difference in scale between MMO and RPG.

MMO's argument for online portions of their service were based around that scale. There are plenty of online only games, loot boxes, microtransactions that can happen outside of MMO/RPG style games, some existed before MMO's even took off.

To ignore the fact that MMO's absolutely do need more hardware and need to be split between client and server shows a clear lack of understanding or knowledge about client-server models, large multiplayer games and development.
Most people have used lots of Qt apps and lots of Electron apps, which is enough to get an impression of the general performance characteristics of each.
I think the interesting part is that I contact founders that recently launched a project. Maybe after the launch they get exposed to a lot of new pain points, for example now they have to write invoices or do customer relations management which they never did before. That might be a good opportunity to catch their attention.

It works like this: I have a list of places where startups get featured and I select the startups from those websites and contact them. Those are all projects that have recently launched.

Womenhustlers sounds like a good fit, other founders are a good target audience I guess.
Not at all. I'm not complaining about Cloudflare or Voxility dropping customers. I'm complaining about the press using their influence to pressure those companies into dropping customers.

You're still free to drop a customer for whatever reason. I just want the press to be held accountable for the torts they're committing and the economic harm they are causing.
> They said Lowe ordered that the passwords of a small percentage of power users be changed, preventing them from logging onto the app and ordering tickets.

Genius move! Truly diabolical.
Great plan, but we have to test it. Can you upload a sample dataset of you typing for 1 week so we can try this approach?
The writeup says that Lowe was installed as CEO by the company that bought MoviePass, Helios & Matheson Analytics, and that the shift down to the $10 price point was the brainstorm of H&M's own CEO, Ted Matheson.

Put yourself in Matheson's (presumably quite expensive) shoes for a moment. You're in the process of acquiring this company, MoviePass, and you have some Big Ideas™ for it. Who would you want to have sitting in that company's CEO chair? Not an independent-minded entrepreneur who's full of ideas of their own, that's for sure. No, what you'd want is a yes-man, an amiable non-entity who can be counted on to do what you tell them to do while otherwise staying out of your way and letting you play with your new toy.

It's not uncommon for wealthy people to have a few people like this in their entourage, people whose job is to fill a chair so as to prevent someone who could cause the rich guy trouble from filling it instead. It's a job whose only requirements are that you get along with the Big Guy and are willing to unquestioningly do anything he tells you to. In other words, it requires all the business savvy of a block of cheese. But it definitely pays well.
> "...but how is any American supposed to do that when the President of the United States uses it as his platform?"

you really have to understand twitter as trump's personal marketing/branding channel, not a presidential communications platform. it's safe to ignore. anything of import will be released through a myriad of other media.
Just assume Windows does not have privilege separation, don't rely on it. The way things are on Windows is convenient, especially with all the legacy software, but don't rely on it to protect users from eachother.
On the other hand, salaries for most starting attorneys (i.e, associates) are fixed nationwide and proceed, generally, in lockstep, so almost all firms will pay the same, regardless of technical skill.

This is not true at all. Salaries for starting lawyers at "BigLaw" firms are generally fixed...but only by firm and by location. So Firm A in NYC pays $XXXk but their LA office only pays $YYYk. Firm B probably pays close to $XXXk in NYC but might pay $ZZZk. And if you go down to the smaller firms, they could pay anywhere from $40k to $XXXk based on location, type of law, etc.

After the first year, very few firms are lockstep with regards to raises...in the past few years, I think only 1 or 2 major firms is still on the lockstep model. Raises after 2nd year are almost universally based on performance, which depends heavily on technical skill (technical meaning legal, not programming, skills).
So when there isn't a template to do what you need, you have to know CSS and HTML, and must code yourself. The premise is "no-code". The uniqueness of this editor is it's ability to play nicely with anything you write yourself.
Also hardware/horsepower. MMO's work at a scale different than 2, 4 or even 8 player games do. Often its not possible, practical or more prone to issues to try and have a client only model for some games.

Eve Online is a good example of this.
you don't need the password, you just need a string that when hashed produces the same hash as the password e.g. the hash of "insecurepass123" has a hash of 79054025255f, which is the same hash as "%AZQ%ɟr7<[؂>1V4[m6S49cH͠3BW".

If you know the hash is, either will match the hash.
Yikes, talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water. I've been through the grinder and have my grudges with academia but what does that have to do with scientists in general?
And what if you can't obtain that evidence because the person in possession won't hand it over? What if your only 'witness' is a corporate entity? What if your witness just doesn't like cops? Probably a hundred more scenarios I can't come up with at the moment.

In your world guilty parties walk because the state has no power to make anyone do anything. Everything is based upon the prosecutor being Sherlock Holmes and always finding exactly what they need. The real world doesn't work that way.
Ask HN: How to Work with a Data Warehouse
With tools like segment.io it's super easy to collect data from multiple sources and quickly build a data warehouse with highly accurate data. But what are my options for working with the data? I want to run email/sms campaigns based on user events for example. Should I just make a lambda and build everything manually?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bijsl9p55qo&t=38s
Source, without all the TechCrunch "OMG Hackers" stuff:

https://securityintelligence.com/posts/package-delivery-cybe...

Do everyone a favor, mister mod.
No, but I felt lucky that the refunded the fare for the flight that I didn't take.
They also serve as a fall guy for the real decision maker(s), in case things go south.
"Shooting into a crowd" is an intentionally reductionist comparison meant to remove nuance so the reader reaches a specific conclusion. The fact of the matter is that we (we = society) do not condone any level of shooting into a crowd whereas we find certain situation specific levels of drunkenness and speeding perfectly fine. Speeding, public intoxication, etc. in the typical cases don't have victims because we as a society have decided that we are not victimized by small increase in risk of a negative outcome. However, there is some situation dependent hard to pin down threshold where we decide society is victimized and basically everyone agrees the crime is worth prosecuting.
>Why would i "thank" someone that puts unnecessary restrictions on how i can use the program i paid them money for?

You could thank them for writing the program for you in the first place, if they didn't then you'd have to do it yourself.