skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've rarely seen such a one sided representation. How about a less ideologically colored view? Both unions and corporations have histories of violence, lack of efficiency, monopolistic actions, choking off of competition, etc. In fact, you can spread that out to any human institution and add organized religion, sports, government, HOAs, what-have-you to the mix.

When a human group gets too much power in their area, abuses arise. In fact, that was the core historical analysis of the founding fathers of the US, hence the separation of powers. By separating powers in the US Constitution, they intentionally added all sorts of inefficiency in order to allow for checks and balances.

Unions certainly introduce inefficiency into the free market enterprise, but without them, abuses can and have arisen. Figuring out the right balance of power between unions and corporations should be the goal, but instead we have the current political environment, where unions are demonized because of one sided representations of abuses they led to.
Sometimes the average items have a price "per 1 kg", but the expensive ones have a price "per 100 g".

Yeah, you can easily multiply the number by 10, but it requires conscious attention.
>when the car is off

Does it count as "off" when the car periodically wakes up when parked to do everything from check for updates to warming/cooling the batteries or cabin?

(Not trolling, I can't find the actual answer.)
That I'm using linux. Sorry, I should have mentioned that. On mac hardware, but I've never used OS/X.
None of these points seem relevant to what is being discussed.
But that's not what happens, despite what people seem to think. On average 1 of those students will be Autistic, but also 3 of those students will have ADHD, 2 or 3 will have "personality disorders", 2 will experience childhood trauma, 1 will be a high-testosterone child assigned the sex "female" at birth, 3 will have specific learning disabilities and 1 or 2 will be considered "gifted".

When half the class isn't neurotypical, being neurotypical isn't any more "normal" than having blue eyes is "normal".
On an individual level it is.

I did nothing but be born and follow the path expected off me -- handed reliable and cheap electricity, water, free schooling, internet connection; and lastly great jobs giving my primadonna arse more $$$ than I need. Idk dude, I wouldn't mind taking credit but I'm not being honest.
As an aside: My 2019 gas Kona is a wickedly precise car to drive... just amazing really.
Sure. Softkeys - a row of buttons around the edges of the screen - are how a lot of electronic test equipment works.

In fact the UI can be identical for a device with softkeys vs. one with a touchscreen. It causes a few DOH! moments when you are working with some instruments that work one way and some the other, but this isn't nearly as annoying as you might expect.

You still have to look at the screen though. Unless maybe you could 'lock' the UI into one mode (with no sub-menus), which might be a good compromise for vehicles.
Controlling order and forces in active matter via optically defined boundaries
> Which skills?

C/C++, DBA/Architect, Java, DevOps, QA

> 105k is minimum wage for an engineer. That's why it says minimum in the post.

Perhaps it's just me, but when I see a salary listing without I high-end, I assume that's because it's pretty low.
Progressive Relation Learning for Group Activity Recognition
I actually disagree that we'd no longer perform R&D or build new things. Rather, there would be a significant increase in retrofits to existing equipment. For example even cars from 30 years ago used standard DIN slots with DIN rails to mount their stereo equipment. You could easily build something to replace that equipment and retrofit in-dash GPS. And replacing the HVAC and retrofitting AC onto old engines is also possible by modifying the serpentine belt routing and cutting holes in the firewall.

Almost certainly what would happen is manufacturers would build more robust things and there would be more "ships of theseus" where you're running a 30-year old cabinet but with modern materials and components. People would generally have to be more technical and develop more one-off solutions.
Things change. Fox is not the same.
The modules are a game changer of actual usability value which haven't been implemented by any keyboards yet. Ignoring their value and calling them doodads is unfair.

None of the open source firmwares support the modular architecture of the UHK or allow for the easy update of the configuration without using full-blown compilers so they are not suitable for us.

We'll release further UHKs of additional layouts, columnar included.
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No there is a specific political agenda right now to deny or refuse or delay as much as possible. You have to challenge and spend more on fees to get supervisory review, litigate, appeal etc and they know most employers aren't willing to do that for these "disposable" employees.
Blond hair is less common in the US than autism, but it would be considered very strange to call brown-haired people "normal" and blond-haired people "abnormal".
Yeah, because nobody would ship a cheap 5G hotspot with a known exploitable 2.7 kernel vintage linux on it, right? /s

"IoT": The Internet of Unpatched Linux Devices...
I've noticed that wearing long sleeves when I'm typing helps.

I had RSI and panicked as well. But now that I wear long sleeves while programming (even a heavy sweater sometimes, even though it might be hot outside).

Basically I need to keep everything warm.

Of course, you still need to take regular breaks.

But that let's me go longer with minimal pain.
Most of the lawbreaking and shady activity related to H-1B visas seems to happen when there is this sort of third-party arrangement, where these companies bring workers in, and then contract them out to other workplaces (often through a chain of contracts via other intermediaries).

From that sense, it's good to scrutinize these so that genuine applications have a better shot at the lottery.
Because people whose support comes from other sources have the income-boosting effects of anything that bumps investment yields reduced in proportion to their non-investment sources of income.

Yes, a lot of (especially the upper income segment) of the working class has some investments, particularly in retirement accounts; this doesn't mean they generally see the same income benefit as major capitalists from policies that boost investment yield.
There’s no single source of truth. Experiences are posted on social media and forgotten.
Definitely - I've been doing this for about five years with all my machines. A rough overview of the setup:

- A public repository with a Nix configuration file: https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/root. This does the global setup, installing applications, configuring global services, enabling hardware, etc, and gets me 90% of the way to identical machines with a single `nixos-rebuild switch`.

- A public repository with dotfiles and main application configuration: https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/tilde. Allows me to configure user applications once for all my machines.

- A private repository with secrets such as SSH keys and host-specific configuration like video drivers, screen layout etc.

This makes it possible to get from a fresh OS install to a developer workstation with everything from keyboard layout to my favourite window manager configured as I like it within minutes.

I consider learning configuration management a nice bonus of this setup, but of course that is not for everyone.

The biggest problem with this is how many programs seem to go out of their way to make their configuration hard to version control. Firefox moved to SQLite for everything years ago, but at least there's the Sync service. Some applications reorder configuration items every time they save (I've built scripts to order them properly). And others include things which IMO don't belong in "user" configuration files such as window size, recently opened files and which configuration tab was last open.

PS: I recently moved to Nix on NixOS from Puppet (similar features to Ansible and Chef) on Arch Linux for the system configuration. Nix has several massive advantages over at least Puppet and Ansible, both of which I've used a fair bit:

- Much shorter configuration. For example, `services.fail2ban.enable = true;` is enough to install, enable and start a fail2ban service when building the configuration, and `time.timeZone = "Pacific/Auckland";` means I don't have to even think about where that piece of configuration is stored, or in which of the infinite formats used for Linux configuration.

- Trivial rollback to earlier configurations, during runtime or at the boot menu. This saved my backside when I screwed up a GRUB-related setting - just reboot and select the previous configuration.

- You can install applications as a non-root user to try them out.

- I've been using Nix for less than a month, but it's far easier to just get stuff done with it than with Puppet or Ansible, and the end results so far are just generally nicer.

So if you want a simple system configuration you can copy around to configure everything the same way I would thoroughly recommend NixOS.
“The report says that while fatigue and lack of training played a role in the accident, the design of the ship’s control console were also contributing factors”

I hope this is not just a scapegoat and actual issue is being fixed.
You're not wrong, but Apple won't do that while there are still people who accept and encourage this kind of consumer-hostile behavior.
fear by default?
My understanding is that the opposite is often true. That is: social media companies do not implement algorithms designed to take down racist content because it would take down content posted by many conservative politicians.
“Princess Qajar” and the Problem with Junk History Memes
What evidence exists that definitively says JavaScript is better than perl? Or golang is definitively better than python.

There is no definitive evidence.

You can't even prove that rust is definitively better than assembly language.

Hence where no evidence exists, decisions without evidence are made constantly.

You also need to realize that this not baffling. Collecting hard scientific evidence for every freaking detail is incredibally hard and time consuming. It's part of why the medical industry moves so slowly to get medicine out.

In fact any problem with the word design means that you are working on a problem with no definitive evidence pointing to a definitive solution. You are literally designing a possible solution out of thin air. There's a whole segment of people who do this, they are called ux and ui designers and a large portion of the the content they spit out is not evidence based at all.
This is interesting and may explain the core of many arguments in the developer community (i.e. a lot of hair-splitting!)
They are conceptually two separate things. You can eliminate externalities by making primary productive markets for-use instead of for-profit. Instead of forcing people to do this, you offer incentives (such as much lower cost of housing, much lower cost of running their business, etc) to use software that automates this for them, with the end result being that anybody can see all the inputs to production back to the raw materials themselves for each given product before purchasing it.

I have some great ideas on how to accomplish this all via voluntary participation. Obivously, it would take some time, though.
I'm not an expert here, but I feel like Bell's theorem has something to say about this. Do you have any comment about that?
But... macro compile time may be seen as just one pass of reading, evaling in almost the same runtime and saving an image for later reuse. If we got these (var st = x), (var y = 1), (function main), etc in column 1 and then just run one pass of js, we would be able to “compile” it, i.e. (exit (save (optimize (eval (read))))), and then run main() with no IfStatement defined. I mean, isn’t compile-time a little vague term when macros are ‘evaluated’ in essentially the same rich environment, and it’s only wanted coincidence that the point separating compile/run time is the same as the execution stage where no macros remain unevaluated? (ed: but still no io performed except for source codes and static resources)

When we write say heavily templated and const_expr’ed C++ to output the results of these exprs, do we pretend that we then run a binary or that we ran a C++ program once and cached results in an executable format?
This is a tool that I've been using for past five years.
Works really well for me: https://gitlab.com/happycoder97/dotcastle

Example:
https://gitlab.com/happycoder97/my-dotcastle
I’m going to sound like an asshole, but part of the reason to pay 750k+ for a basic home is so that your family lives in a neighborhood with families of a similar socioeconomic background... what is the benefit of integrating housing to the people paying a premium for the privilege of living in an exclusive neighborhood?
As long as you're honest with your equity investors about your desire and intention (as best as you understand it) to have a lifestyle business, there's nothing at all wrong with taking their investment.

Once you make it clear to them, though, you're unlikely to face that conundrum.
> Fortunately, there's actually broad classes of both. But they often didn't go to Stanford...

What do you mean by the Stanford part?
Except that's a false dichotomy. The hypothetical guy you're talking about is almost certainly the one whose family is gonna be negatively affected the most by climate change.

And this isn't in some hypothetical future. It's already happening.
> What's interesting is how it's been found near cities and Agriculture but also in remote areas. I'm curious how much of a role the waste treatment centers have played which was noted as a potential source.

There are generally two main sources. 1. agricultural runoff related to fertilizers. 2. Urban sewage, because birth control products get flushed down toilets and the wastewater treatment plants don't even try to filter for hormones (it's not part of the Clean Water Act). And even if they tried, the methods to do so are nascent (https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/06/19/4153363...).

> I also now understand what Alex Jones meant by "gay fish" in one of his popular rants he was mocked for.

Yes, he got unfair criticism for calling attention to this -- it is actually a huge environmental problem that needs more public awareness. The ecological impacts are huge, and yes because the water treatment plants don't filter, you might be drinking similar concentrations through tap water. (edit: to be clear, the concentrations that harm fish are nowhere near enough to cause the same level of harm in humans, so no you will not turn gay from drinking tap water)

He's still a nutcase con man though, IMO. Mixing in a few grains of truth makes the poisonous ideas go down smoother.
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> Namely, why do opinions tend to completely trump evidence for technical decisions?

Because evidence that isolates the effect of the technical choices under discussion from all outside effects and is directly and unambiguously applicable to the context in which it needs to be applied basically doesn't exist for most technical decisions in our industry.

The evidence which is clear tends to be on questions which are distant from business value, the questions the get directly at business value tend to have unclear/ambiguous evidence.
“Manipulate” or “correct”?

They need to slide, and—frankly—crater.

Musk is an idiot and his continued rewards reveal our species’ nature as morons.
The Termination Risks of Simulation Science
Yes! Me too!

I've noticed that wearing long sleeves when I'm typing helps.

I had RSI and panicked as well. But now that I wear long sleeves while programming (even a heavy sweater sometimes, even though it might be hot outside).

Basically I need to keep everything warm.

Of course, you still need to take regular breaks.

But that let's me go longer with minimal pain.
Everything else we've ever observed has initially appeared to be random. There was a long slow process of proving individual bits weren't random and then a sudden jump in progress after several thousand years of recorded history when Newton and contempories showed it all to pseudorandom. That is to say, it was never obvious that the macro level was deterministic.

For a statistics perspective, given the youthful nature of Quantum Mechanics as a field it is more likely than not that we're observing a deterministic phenomenon from the wrong angle, so it appears random. This is because that is how first contact played out with pretty much everything else.
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But it is super easy to use 120MB by including images or other resources, or by creating elements, SVG, javascript etc.

A browser requires a generic solution to prevent denial of service due to excessive resource consumption.
One I have found helpful in a professional context is to think "If I were fired today, what would my replacement do about this?"
It really is the worst of all immigration outcomes for all but the employer.

You come into the US, but entirely as a kind of guest worker. You demonstrate you have great skills and work ethic, but there’s no path to permanent residency or citizenship. The relationship turns exploitative. So you go back home and do great things there instead of here in the US.

We could have had a smart, productive addition to the American workforce through a more thoughtful approach to immigration. Instead we gave you up to your home country. Your home gain a skilled and experienced knowledge worker bolstered with your experience at a US tech giant, we cycle in the next H1B to repeat the cycle.
Ah, but your expectation should be for thoughts to intrude. Even the greatest meditators experience this and you should expect this to be especially true for you as a beginner.

Meditation is not actually about being free from thought. The goal of meditation is actually to notice when attention wanders, thoughts come walking in and pull back to the breath. That's the muscle you're strengthening. Each time you notice an intrusive thought, is actually a moment when you're actively meditating.
In terms of the physical universe, all of our models/theories and laws are based on incomplete knowledge and observation. That being saaid, our models and theories provide a means of investigation of the universe. Where we need to be careful is coming to the idea that we "will" be able to "know" what is happening. We do not have "infinite" knowledge (there is always more to learn) and so any models and theories we come with can (and will) be superceded by later data that we collect.

"Randomness" in the small can and does appear to be non-random in the large - we make predictions as to what we will see over large numbers of events when we are unable to determine if any single event will fulfill that prediction. Radioactive decay is a good exampe of this. Two-slit refraction patterns are also another example. Much, if not all of our technology, depends on this, whether this be semiconductor design or manufacturing any material products such as steels or concrete.

What does happen is that we have more and more interesting research areas in which we can investigate the underlying principles that govern our universe. But, we must not make the mistake that we will "know" what those principles will be be. We can and do develop workable and useful models and theories to help us get a handle on understanding this universe we live in. We live on one small planet in an isolated region of our galaxy in an extraordinary and immense universe. We do not kave the ability to explore that universe in any detailed way except by proxy observations. So, instead of getting caught up in being "sure", let us have fun in exploring everywhere we can and continue to gather data and discuss what this data means and develop workable theories and models that we can use.

As a disciple of the living God who created all the that we see and do not see, I consider that the universe has a set of specific rules and laws by which it operates and that we can and should try to understand what those laws are. For me that is an act of worship to investigate and understand the what and how.

For those who are of other belief systems, whether that be Hindu, Buddhist, Moslem, Atheists, etc., there is just as much an incentive to study the universe around us and understand what and how it works. There may be additional questions that might be raised from each viewpoint that is not of concern for any of the other viewpoints like "why".

BUt what it all boils down to, is that we live in a wonderful and extremely interesting universe and there is much to learn about it and have fun while learning about it.
anyone know where you can get a copy of this app?
I don’t agree with this sentiment entirely, but I’m starting to wonder if we long ago hit an inflection point between what we can mandate/criminalize and what we can effectively enforce in a consistent or meaningful manner.

It’s been on my mind lately, but it seems reasonable to think the thicker our codes of law with all the added complexity, the less useful the law might actually be. If that’s the case, it might be worthwhile to actually reconstitute our laws into a more useful system.

The barriers to doing so would be:

1. Maybe it isn’t actually worthwhile, as of right now I cannot meaningfully make the case that it is worthwhile.

2. Even if it is worthwhile, there are many wealthy and/or rich interests that would run a counter-campaign to protect the status quo as it pertains to them.

3. Even if there wasn’t a counter-campaign, refactoring the law just isn’t a sexy endeavor, and in fact runs counter to some very entrenched traditions in Anglo-American law.

Even opening this door for discussion would provide an opening to attack and place new limits on the natural rights of men which have been under a disgusting amount of strain as it is in the past few decades.

That said, we can mandate things like recycling and composting, but it is a dead letter unless you have recycling facilities or people willing to take the compost. You can mandate privacy and use a heavy handed enforcement mechanism, but that isn’t actually a solid guarantee to your own privacy, and there isn’t really anything that can guarantee your privacy and information security anymore. Even living in the middle of nowhere puts you under the thumb of reconnaissance satellites, airplanes and drones.
I don't think so because it wasn't actually me who cared about the produce, it was my partners idea to change suppliers. I just went a long with it and thought nothing of it.It wasn't until I realized I was enjoying salad that I started asking questions and I found out he was using different methods and not just reselling other farmers produce.

I must admit I noticed right away the the produce was far more visually appealing then what I was used to, more saturated colors, I put it down to it being washed more thoroughly.

I think it's also important to note that once I stopped receiving the better produce, I tried very hard to continue liking salads, I just couldn't do it.

On a side note, I'd like to say is, it's a shame people miss out on eating the flowers of plants, they're really delicious and a visually impressive addition to salads.
Completely on a side note, but I've just recently realized how much of a noise-cancellation magic comes buil-in with Zoom. My wife was grinding coffee literally next to me, and no one on the call could hear it. Now I'm learning that the whole standalone startup exists dedicated to doing it for all the platforms. Cool!
That used to be the case. But Google has long ago given certain sites a pass on that.
Huh. My experience in nyc is that most of the coffeeshops tend to have hordes of people on laptops with earbuds on ignoring each other.