skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good way to phrase it.

I think it's hard to find these people because they're not putting themselves out there (for many reasons) - but I suspect there's actually a lot of people who would find your job opening very attractive.
If Europe has such a better quality of life than the US then why are the immigration stats so skewed in the US’s favor?

About 3x as many Europeans immigrate to the US than the other way around.[1] These numbers only look at Western Europe, if you added the whole continent it would be a much larger gap. It would be 2 million more if you add Eastern Europe.

[1]https://mises.org/wire/3-times-many-europeans-move-us-other-...
Are there any alternatives to Base as well? What are some main points for using this over them?
Yes, Tokyo and Osaka are up. The rest of Japan is emptying out.
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> Exploring the problem further, I discovered that Slavic languages have a good overlap with the sounds found in Esperanto, especially vowel sounds. Better yet, many professional TTS engines have Polish voices.

There's a strong case to be made that Esperanto was designed to have the phonemic inventory of the dialect of its creator, an Eastern Polish dialect. See http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/index.html#01.
That's probably more of an effect than a cause. In European cities it is often advertised how close an apartment is to a train station.
SHOW HN: Wrote & published a SCI-FI thriller in 5 days. Need feedback please.
Don’t know what came over me. Just a regular hacker here.
Have procrastinated to death before, but this time, I said, fcuk it.
No, “I’ll write it one day”, just started writing.

Anyhoo, Need to know if it is any good. Please be brutal.

Premise:
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Every animal stays and guards its territory. Except Humans.
We have yearned to explore for centuries with sea faring ships.
And, lately with starships.
Why?

Answer: The Hidden gene.

Evolution in nature happens slowly.
Giraffes evolved slowly from Okapis.
But, humans are different.
There is no continuous chain of evolution from the early primates to humans. There is a missing link.

Dr. Sanders makes a brilliant discovery of a hidden gene, but his mistress leaked the discovery to the press for cash.

The world is taken by storm. Many believe that aliens arrived, injected primates with something that sped up evolution into man. Man built technology, and finally the AI that will rule us like we rule the animal kingdom.

This hidden gene programs us to explore the space for the alien masters, who will amalgamate the colonized humans into their galactical empire. They will kill old, handicapped and diseased, keeping only fittest needed to sustain the empire. The empire will do to us, what we humans have done to powerless animals, including raising humans in farms for food.

The possibility scares the world. Anti-AI group rises to stop AI Robotics corp from developing technologies that will condemn us to slavery.

Dr. Sanders goes missing.

And, his son, John, has been paying the price ever since. A missing father. A wife killed in hostage standoff. London is burning.
And, now they have taken his 6 year old, Suzy.

Torn, desperate, and drowned in alcohol.

Will the mysteries unravel? Can John save Suzy?

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Interesting.

Myriad shares similarities to "Million". So maybe Myriad / Biriad / Trilliad / Quadrilliad will scale into the higher orders.

Hmm, maybe I'll make this a thing.
Hi, I'm a vegetarian who is very much interested in Impossible and Beyond Meat as meat substitutes.

Now you've met one.
Rust is harder than many languages, but just because something is hard doesn't mean that it's complicated. I find that the strictness of the compiler ends up all-but-forcing code to end up rather simple.
First Sale Doctrine applies to specific copies of creative works (i.e., a book or DVD).

It doesn't apply to licenses for creative works. When you buy an ebook, you are buying a license to create copies of the creative work as necessary to make use of the license purchased (i.e., a copy in your phone or on your kindle).

FSD doesn't let you sell either of those transient copies, and it doesn't apply to the license itself because the license isn't a copy within the meaning of the statute underlying the FSD. In the rare occasion where the license and the copy are one and the same for a digital good, the FSD would apply.
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Ask HN: What are good learning resources on concurrency patterns with databases?
I'm interested in learning more about coordination techniques in distributed systems using database technologies, in particular using MySQL (InnoDB). For example, it's not hard to find projects out there leveraging technologies such etcd, dynamodb or redis to build all sort of things: queues, locks...

When you need to stick with MySQL or similar relational databases, what are good resources out there? Books, courses, docs, etc?

I want to build a service that could have many instances running. Each instance would promote itself to lead a particular task that needs to be performed. I think that's doable using InnoDB's transaction model but do you know of good examples out there that I could use as a reference?
I’ve shared this a few times on this site but this BBC article [0] is pretty clear - red meat (beef in particular) is vastly worse than veg alternatives. [1] breaks it down a bit farther and shoes that the transport and processing associated with foods is a minuscule part of their impact (mostly) - the impact of processing/transporting beef is more than the entire impact of any other vegetable on the chart.

[0] https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/scienc...

[1]
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> Eg. In Florida no matter how poor your are you don’t qualify unless you’re disabled, have children, or are pregnant.

There are 4.4 million people on Medicaid in Florida. That's about 21% of the population, which matches up with the national Medicaid figure of 22% of the US population.
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This is a decent guide, but if you are interested in Swift on ARM in general, the crux is uraimo's Swift on ARM project [0], which is a huge resource for the community.

[0] - https://github.com/uraimo/buildSwiftOnARM
Not sure what your requirements for "educational" are, but I very much enjoy Scriptnotes [1]. It's tagline is "a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters". That should exclude me, but I still find much of what they talk about deeply fascinating. So much of it is applicable to any creative craft, and to other types of storytelling.

I keep a finger on the skip button for when they get stuck talking about politics of the movie industry.

1: https://johnaugust.com/podcast
The article is propaganda translucently pushing an anti-poor narrative.

Flagged.
I got fired from Facebook for having a YouTube channel
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/google-se...
How about Harry Potter?
How to update a submodule to a specified commit via GitHub rest API?
This CNN title is rather unhelpful. Some answers I found in the article:

- 3500 is 20%

> There are several other reasons a kidney would be discarded. It could be in bad shape, there could be an abnormal biopsy on the organ, or some other physical issues. But there are also financial and regulatory reasons that they get discarded. An older kidney or one with comorbidities costs more to transplant, because a patient is hospitalized longer and it takes a patient longer to recover.

> the overly stringent and restrictive process of monitoring transplant programs in the United States has resulted in many transplant programs taking a risk averse approach
Yeah of course! In retrospect my initial post seems a bit neutral to negative. I'm really glad this project exists, I'm endlessly frustrated by Sphinx. I'll keep my eye on your project!
I guess people are only offended by heavily processed foods when those foods aren't veggie burgers with large advertising budgets.
Bell’s innovative VTOL cargo craft takes its first successful autonomous flight
This appears to confuse the representation of a number, with the quantity it represents.
If "everyone" were against over-processed food it wouldn't as popular as it evidently is.

Great for you that you don't miss meat in your diet, but is it so hard to imagine others do, especially if they've grown up in places were it is a big part of the typical diet?
The website appears to be from some sort of right-libertarian organization, so I'm not surprised by this.
Clojure(Script)!

I've been learning a little Clojure and using it for work, and it's been kind of an eye-opener. (I've been mostly a Java developer for 15 years.)

And the idea of using the same clean code for the frontend is super attractive.
The loom and the thresher: Lessons in technological worker displacement
We've used this to our advantage when performance testing things on the JVM. We might not write the final solution in Rust, but we'll use it to figure out a theoretical upper limit with various things like Kafka and misc. databases.
It really depends. In this article, they describe a complex genetic architecture, with copy number variations (the entire gene exists in multiple copies along the genome) as well as deletions and insertions. 23andme data, being based on microarrays, probably gives a misleading read on this because the complex genetic architecture is not encoded into the microarray.

I generally recommend against reading primary liuterature or the PR around it and immediately checking genetic tests to see if you "have this disorder". IN complex diseases, many genotypes have low penetrance (IE, the genotype variable is only weakly correlated with the phenotype label), and diseases like this are complex, polygenic, and any individual mutations only partially explain the visible phenotype.
Sounds like Italian to me...
Then why mention oxygen? It's irrelevant. It's like advocating that people should only shoot people with non-lead bullets so the victims don't get lead poisoning.

> If you destroy the forest then you will reduce the capacity to remove the CO2 from the atmosphere and produce oxygen or do you disagree with this?

The linked article explains this isn't true. The rainforest is in equilibrium. It doesn't remove CO2 overall. It's a carbon stockpile.

If you were to burn the forest, it would release the stockpiled carbon into the atmosphere as CO2.
> ... or uphold our end of the deal to mutually cancel debt?

What do you mean "mutually"? the government is the debtor and the banks/funds/citizens the creditors. There's no mutuality.

> Send in military, seize all assets, wipe the records.

No need for such drama. If a government says they won't pay back, that's pretty much the end of it. Maybe check out UN Charter Article 2 (4). Of course such unilateralism is quite stupid so governments tend to avoid it
Too much fun with implantable brain electrodes
I presume there must be, since I use Scrivener and have a keyboard shortcut set-up for "Look Up in Dictionary and Thesaurus". Simply put the cursor within a word, type the shortcut, dictionary appears (then cmd+2 for thesaurus, if necessary).
I agree with others, get with the times. I am pretty sure all the major national fast food burgers are 100% beef, no fillers, no preservatives.

I don't eat a ton of fast food anymore, and when I do its usually McDonalds, but I have always enjoyed the Whopper. I had one a few months ago at an airport and tried the Impossible Whopper last week. It's close, but the beef version is still better in my opinion.
I just wanted to say that you should have used the word trope instead of meme.
> No reason we can't legally preclude social-media companies from excluding based on their arbitrary and capricious criteria.

And thus social media, and other platforms, are controlled or at least heavily regulated by the government.
Thanks!

Does the fact that the light red shifts towards zero energy mean that the information has been lost, or just that you can't observe it _at_the_moment_?

If the black hole then shrinks due to Hawking radiation, what happens to the object that _never_quite_fell_into_ the black hole?

If it hasn't yet fallen into the black hole, presumably its light becomes slightly-less-red-shifted once more, meaning that you can observe its information again?
Bosch (and I assume Siemens and Neff which are the same company) induction hobs are limited electronically. There is a setting that lets you configure the max power it can draw from 1000W - maximum (7400W for this model):

https://media3.bosch-home.com/Documents/bosch.html?matNumber... see "Basic Settings"
I can assure you, it's Esperanto :)
Well, if it were a Rep v Dem thing, they obviously couldn't smack down Romney for doing something Obama was doing at the same time. So, tin foil hat speaking, hype Obama's version and ignore Romney's and then when only a Rep is doing the mining smack them down hard.
>The contract breech: Property taxes going up so fast that the only possible solution was to sell your home. Now, of course the value of the home was going up, which was what was driving the taxes. But forcing pensioners to sell their homes, disrupting/destroying a life-time of plans and work was never going to be a smooth ride -- who could have thought that it would be?

Financial instruments that prevent that already exist. If your home is worth millions of dollars it's not that hard to find a way to pay the property tax. "Having more money" is rarely a real problem.

> a sufficient number of desperate people saw it as a solution to get it enacted.

No, people who's material interests are in direct conflict with a functional society pushed for it. It passed through a combination of "think of the elders" concern-trolling and libertarian dark money.
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Just because a solid majority of people think something is a good idea doesn't make it a good idea. That's the problem with Prop 13, and with democracy in general.
> "Highly processed flour bun. Processed cheese"

If you choose to make a cheeseburger out of that sort of garbage, that's on you.

> "One cheeseburger is basically a quarter of your fat and sodium for the day."

A cheeseburger is also one third of the meals I might eat in a day, so if anything, one fourth of my daily sodium and fat intake is too little.
Great work! I had been hoping that an alexa-esque voice for Eperanto would be created one day, though I realized Amazon had no financial incentive to do it. I'm amazed it sounds as good as it does when it was a one-man side project. Even as a very casual esperantist, I could understand it without much difficulty. Thank you for doing this and sharing your work.
It’s hard to have sympathy for people whose home has skyrocketed in value and they now “can’t afford” the property tax on their multimillion dollar homes.

What it needed is a way for people whose homes had only gone up a small amount from getting budget busting increments. Once your home has doubled in value, there are other financial mechanisms to solve that problem and you can afford to pay the increase.
It's extremely hard to compare apples to oranges like this.

I'm an American former military wife and Americans have trouble figuring out how to compare the value of a military compensation package to a civilian one because the two are structured so differently. It's so bad, people in the military sometimes think that they would be better off leaving the military for a better paid job, but those who actually do that tend to report money is tighter and quality of life worse as a civilian. You don't get much cash pay in the military, but flashing your ID gets you access to a ton of stuff for "free" that all costs money if you leave the military system and try to access similar services.

So that's within the same country with the same currency, same federal tax system, etc. Trying to compare across countries is far harder.

Decades ago, I saw a study (now completely out of date) that asked questions like "how many meals per day do you get?" It found that less than 1/2% of Americans were poor by the expectations of India.

Many materially poor nations have more stay-at-home moms, stronger social fabric and family ties and other things of value that enhance quality of life and are generally overlooked in studies of this sort.

In some sense, I don't care how America compares to other countries. I just know we do a poor job of taking care of our people in certain metrics. We need to stop quibbling about whether or not it's worse than a third world country and focus on resolving some of these issues.

We need to fix our busted housing supply system that cranks out oversized homes that are a mismatch for our current demographic and creates nothing but a thing I call "suburban hell." We need to fix our healthcare issues.

We no doubt could stand to work on other things, but those two are so bad they are chronically in the headlines.
You totally misread the person you are replying to. They are speaking about fast-food chains general. In fact they only mention one chain by name and it's not KFC.
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You made a distinction between 'real nutrition' and what these foods are. Processing is irrelevant. Food has nutritional qualities regardless of how it became what it is. So I'm asking you to explain your reasoning that these foods do not have 'real nutrition'.
I largely agree with this logic per my other comment [1], but I think your analogy leaves out an important element (as does mine!), which is that the converted version only lives within Amazon's platform; it's not like Amazon is licensing you a tool that you can apply to anything and happen to use on an Amazon-published work.

So that makes it more like a derivative work Amazon is distributing than a client-side format shift.

So then, let me tweak your analogy a bit. Let's say a studio sells copies of a movie to theaters. They sell the color version and the B/W version, and different rooms/times might have one or the other. The theater sells out all the tickets for the B/W version, but can't any sell tickets for the color version.

Thinking quick, the theater management decides to sell tickets to a color showing as a B/W showing, and when patrons come in, they put some layer over the screen so it looks B/W.

In that case, I could kind of see how that would violate the copyright/license agreement of the studio -- you're selling showings of the B/W version you didn't purchase. [2]

Your scenario would be more like a customer coming in with filtering glasses that make it look like the B/W version to that customer only, in which case, yes, it would be harder to make the case that it was copyright infringement.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20800777

[2] And yes, in practice, the studio wouldn't turn down the money, but let's say they're stubborn about it for some reason.
Guy gets fired from Facebook for having a YouTube channel
It is rarer than many minerals, yes, but not enough to justify the astronomical prices. The global diamond supply chain is controlled by a handful of powerful companies that cooperate to maintain scarcity and keep prices high.

The idea that engagement rings "must" have a diamond only dates back to the '40s and is entirely down to De Beers' marketing. The same company spent a fortune promoting the idea that synthetic diamonds are somehow inferior and developing tests to distinguish them, even though they're chemically identical and the only way to tell them apart is that natural diamonds are lower-quality, with more flaws and less clarity.
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Basically, they are using the connotations of common venacular usage of 'meat' to market something that is the opposite of the venacular 'meat'. Newspeak is all about naming one thing by its opposite, and using the connotations of the latter to hide the real meaning, like 1984's ministry of truth.

So, it leaves me with the impression that this is not merely normal advertising by association, but a more agenda driven marketing move to modify people's consumption of meat by modifying language. For some reason, that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

If eating meat is really so objectively bad, why do you have to try and trick people into not eating it? The more someone has to rely on tricks and deception to achieve their goal, the less likely their goal is actually in everyone's best interest.
Somewhat disappointed this isn't about installing and using Debian Linux 2.0 on a PC now 2 decades later, and comparing it to the experience of a modern Debian. I'd even watch a video (does LGR know anything about Linux?).
The problem is that social programs in the US are extremely [fragmented](https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/i...), and a well designed program has to work in aggregate.

Any solution to this has to be cooperative between federal/state/local authorities, but given that welfare programs are one of the most politically charged topics in the US, there's little chance that this cooperation will happen.
That is why Prop 13 will not go away in a foreseeable future, but the whole idea of tying all your savings to your house is flawed. Apart from putting all your eggs in one basket, it also creates all sorts of bad incentives like Prop 13.
No, scroll down. It gives you the option to download the JRE as well, and that's the one that requires a login. If this were some obscure link you had to go out of your way to reach, it wouldn't be a big deal. However, depending on the alignment of the moon and the sun, the link might be the top of the Google search or it might be second or third. I refreshed a couple of times and got slightly different results, it was always near the top though.

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre...

This is the direct link Google gives me and it's the one that requires a login.
You’re cherry picking numbers and doing Apples to Oranges comparisons.

The Midwest has been losing people for a long time Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio are some of the worst. The Dakota’s are only gaining due to fracking booms.

New York City expanded outside its historic area and into Jersey and any surrounding areas cheap enough to build on.

https://www.csgmidwest.org/policyresearch/0616-demographic-f...
>You are ignoring my point. No one is doubting that Minsky associated with Epstein.

i am not. your point is that since he was a famous academic his name was as easily recognizable as dershowitz and pinker, who are generally famous.

>What would be valid evidence of truth would be something like a third party (like, say, Greg Benford) confirming it.

sorry that's not what we as a society has deemed sufficient proof. though you are welcome relitigate literally all of common law dating back to the magna carta though if you believe it should be otherwise.

>Minsky was the oracle of AI, the head of the MIT AI Lab. He influenced AI from the 1950s to the 1990s.

means literally nothing to general public and therefore doesn't substantiate your claim.

>And what is 'Society of Mind' but a popularization, widely read?

i concede this one. i was not aware of this book.

>Oh, well, that settles it. I'm glad we had this discussion about critical thinking.

so do you then doubt all depositions or just the ones that implicate oracles of AI?

>The deposition only claims that she was told to have sex with Minsky, and not, as far as any media coverage I've seen goes, that she actually did, and Greg Benford states he was there and that Minsky turned her down: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/339725/

my point was only about the validity of her testimony. yours (initially) was the defense of minksy.
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