skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Never mind that it wasn't elemental mercury and was perfectly safe to ingest…

I’m sure you didn’t mean non-elemental forms of mercury are safe, but to forestall someone’s taking that meaning: “Organic” mercury compounds can be far more toxic than elemental mercury.

See dimethyl mercury [1]. A single drop exposure (through a latex glove) killed a scientist 10 months after exposure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury

Agree with your post, the amount of thimerosal (Hg-based preservative) made it a non-issue in vaccine safety.
I think right to be forgotten doesn't include public figures.
We don't call the country "Zhongguo" in English, we call it "China". So why do we let them tell us to call it "Beijing" instead of "Peking"? It's craziness. We gave up a perfectly good name for "Canton" and replaced it with an unreadable mess that isn't even in Cantonese ("Guangzhou").

If people who speak Chinese want to use pinyin, more power to them. But English speakers need to stop just copying other people's romanizations even when the romanizations do not connect to our spelling system at all.
Yes, they did support it until very recently.
I have more HN points than you, but a couple of things makes me feel like it doesn't matter:

The lack of any visible sign of new replies removes a lot of compulsion. I only stay engaged with the conversations actually interesting enough to get me to keep reading them.

Compare with Reddit where the best thing I learned to do was to decide when I was 'done' and open the list of unread messages while looking away and closing the tab...
Around here that happens with cars: old Toyotas are (were, I'm not receiving updates from that market anymore?) bought to be shipped off to Africa and competition seemed crazy (multiple buyers calling immediately if you posted certain models for sale, some going as far as being threatening IIRC.)

Source: two close friends of mine sold their HiAces.
My brother asked me for a audio solution for a project of his and proposed Sonos. His use case was basically connecting a phone to the speaker system.

I explained why I wouldn’t take it and my main argument is that any “smart” device isn’t exactly reliable in the long term, be it missing updates for old hardware, cutting out features, servers that stop working etc.

He got a simple Amp with a single volume knob now and some decent passives. Phone connects via line cable.
That's true. USSR had a similar document that was only declassified after the fall.

Even if Union's military was to use multimegaton nukes on rebelling cities, and red army kept 100% loyalty, the military would've still lost due to logistical exhaustion.

Armed forces rely on much more reliable supply train to function effectively than any kind of insurgent force. Armor and air force is useless unless fueled, oiled, armed and well maintained.
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Austrian researchers develop time measurement to the attosecond
"Process or book convicted individuals into prison." AirBnB and Uber for prisoners. Sounds legitimate :)
Have you personally looked at the mountain's of data and come to your conclusions? I mean articles on journals like "Vaccine" Or have you just read pseudo-scientific articles on nytimes and the such meant for mass consumption?

Have you re-created the paper's data analysis from the (typically not easily available) data? Turns out some medical communities, like physiology, suck at data analysis.

Because if not, then you're just as uninformed as the anti-vaxxers with a healthy mix of arrogance.

If you are a researcher in the field, keep up the good work, but this arrogance towards the little ones fuels anti-vaxxer movement.

I despise people who are "on my side of the debate" belittling those they disagree with. Such incivility!
I would also argue that having to mount a defense against an accusation is sufficiently punitive (can easily bankrupt) almost any individual in today's society (at least in north America).

Maybe it's easier to just pay the speeding ticket because to fight it would cost 10x in lawyers fees. That's not justice, it's just economic extortion.
I think i do the same. I shouldn’t have posted this
Is that what that says? That road sign tripped me up so much, since it definitely looks like a "V" to me (the uppercase ypsilon looks nothing like a V).
Moving to zsh
This is pretty cool, it's kind of between a script and a notebook. How well does this work with TensorFlow?
> but without such weights, anyone can say anything about anything no matter what the education or perspective, and have it essentially equivalent to a subject matter in the field, at least until further examination.

We began with institutions whose voices were the authority, period. With the internet, anyone could spread their own ideas and thoughts thereby decentralizing the power. We have now accepted the presence of fake news and voices with vested interests. Is the pendulum swinging back to the established individuals/institutions in response to this?
I sacrificed a couple of other priorities to get a flat within 10 minutes walk from the office. So yeah, no long commutes for me either way. I think around 30 minutes door-to-door is where I would draw the line, personally.
When was the first time Uber made a profit on someone taking an Uber? :)
I gave up FB and Instagram posts because my political view (conservative) and got 2 banned and harassed by relatives and strangers. Life is way better without FB/Insta
This is a fantastic intro to OSM. As someone who's been wanting to do this for my own village, this post gives me everything I wanted to know, and props to the author for doing all of this without being able to read the language at all.
> Shape shoe heels with a knife, and sand them on a buffing wheel for smoothness.

> Adjust felt hammers on pianos to increase tonal mellowness or brilliance, using sanding paddles, lacquer, or needles.

> Review filed tax returns to determine whether claimed tax credits and deductions are allowed by law.

Three adjacent ones there, could be rewritten as:

* become a cobbler

* become a piano technician

* become an accountant
My Chinese SO has been called a "race traitor" by quite a few younger Chinese (of both genders) people who come to the UK to study.

One of her friends married an English man, her parents excommunicated her, saying that she had "betrayed China".

I have heard of Chinese students in the UK unironically comparing black students to monkeys and questioning how they got in (since monkeys are stupid).

I would call it ethno-nationalism.
What I heard is that they only protest on weekends? Are they doing it everyday now?

> All of well of Hongkoners I know myself either: 1.) ran away to Mainland, 2.) ran away to Vancouver, 3.) are on the streets right now

So, among them, what kind runs away, and what kind goes to the street?
"Heretical" is not an objective measure - it's used in reference to an existing belief system. I suspect most "normies" would be shocked or at least suspicious of those ideas.
I'd find that more reasonable if Facebook said "we're not fact-checking anything, work it out yourselves", or tagged these articles as "exempted from fact-checking". Offering to flag false stories creates an expectation which is violated when you fail to distinguish "true" from "unchecked".

Separately I don't think we should equate mental health with mental hygiene here. Mental health might make the difference between "believing untrue things" and "showing up somewhere with a gun and no particular plan", but it's hardly a precondition for accepting wildly improbable and untrue claims.
I've found that for me, caring about such things is a larger pattern of 'holding on' too much.

So I've made it a conscious decision to constantly be getting rid of things I accumulate.

For HN and other such sites, I regularly open new accounts. This is both for ego reasons, as well as doxing: rotating through accounts and usernames helps leave less of a trace.
Never heard of you before mabbo, and I read the comments here every day. If that gives you any motivation to quit.
Most of those I'd class as "left-wing" or "futurist/transhumanist" .. except for "constitutional monarchy". That suggests it's probably going to be Menicus Moldbug and a bunch of "dark enlightenment"/"alt-right" people there. But I can't see how they wouldn't clash horribly with whoever they've got in to discuss e.g. drag culture.

Edit: ah, of course it's going to be someone who's against drag, isn't it?
Transparent as in that you're remote isn't an obstruction or hinderance, I assume, not as in transparent policies.
They already have 5 others, according to the article. There's nothing gcc specific about it.
The wars in Iraq, Vietnam, and Afghanistan would like to have a word with you.
Furthermore, there are about 393 million firearms in the USA, and that's just a minimum as you can suspect that many do not report their firearms.
Considering that plus the fact that about 43% of American households own at least one firearm, this means that in the event of a rebellion against a dictator, very quickly 100% of households are armed. Modern weapons such as nukes, fighter jets, tanks, etc, are effective at completely obliterating an opponent, if they were deployed against American citizens, there would be no country left to rule over.
If your kids are over three or four years old and you have a separate dedicated office, they are old enough to understand that when you are "working" don't disturb you. Also, just because you are physically at home, your kids should still be in daycare or have a stay at home spouse just as if you were at work in an office.

There was one guy who was allowed to work remotely when he moved out of state and when he was on a conference call, there were frequent interruptions from his toddler. It's not professional and it happened often.
I live in the USA, and the only place I've ever seen warning shots being recommended was by the military in Iraq when civilian vehicles would drive too close to a convoy. If a gun is used, it's because you feel that your life or someone elses is in imminent danger. Warning shots can ricochet and kill someone, and bullets can still come down with lethal force if a warning shot is fired into the air. Shooting to maim is possible if the situation allows for it, but warning shots can end up killing someone besides the intended target.
Is production ruby/rails experience really a hard requirement for your backend positions? Do you see on-the-job learning as ineffective?

I've been looking over GitLab's jobs for at least a year, but nothing for the Python programmer in sight...
Surgeon, anesthetist, pharmacist (antibiotic developper), crime fighter and murder solver:

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Conducted by a panel of various learned elders...
Well, because building a decentralised Reddit is really hard. Decentralised user accounts and reputation alone is a research-level problem, let alone questions like "who will run nodes", "why would anyone run a node" and so on.

There was an attempt to do this once. It was USENET and it's been abandoned because nobody was incentivised to improve it. We may argue about whether or not Reddit's more and more activist moderation activity is an improvement or not, but, nobody can deny that the structure of a (supposedly) for profit company was great for incentivising them to add features and maintain the site.
Re-defining words that don't have hard, universal, definitions is a powerful, if dishonest, debate tactic.

Orwell wrote many essays about this. Orwell wrote very many good essays.
Nah_ dude. You're dad didn't listen to Minor Threat. You're still cool. (If you're not, then I'm not and I refuse to accept that and I have the bad tattoos to back me up.)
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Out of curiosity, why is the version number so low? It's been around forever.
I love this article. Thank you for sharing. I'm on a similar journey.
>guns have one purpose - shoot things

There is another one you are missing: deterring people from violence against other people, given the knowledge they might be carrying a gun. In a similar way to how nukes are actually used in 21st century.
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Maybe they have the equivalent of small claims court...
They still pay very well in lower cost areas.
> I would also expect that any climate scientist who is not also a climate alarmist would have no chance of employment

Are you saying that almost every climate scientist is a climate alarmist?
I hate having to work in an office almost as much as I hate commuting. I've certainly never felt like I was "missing out"
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Or maintain two locations.
Good counter-point.

A social network is not inherently bad. It could be a simple extension of our analog life, a simple tool to stay in contact with friends an family or share things with people that we do not have regular interactions with in our day to day life.

The problem is not the social media, but the way is has been instrumentalized to capture our attention, since this is the product being sold to advertisers. All the mechanisms to keep the user hooked -- akin to the way slot machines work -- have been pointed out many times already.

It doesn't have to be that way, we could design a neutral platform that is built around fostering personal connections with the people we care about.
Exactly, it's more about applying existing AI techniques to specific African problems and bootstrapping a vibrant community.
Huh! I always wonder how much of my day is actually spent working 100% on what matters.
I don’t think seeking attention is bad as it’s the process of individualization. The opposite is far worse. Being expressive is the only way to connect with others, and often shameless, provocative or wild expression can be charming and relationship building.

The problem is our mindsets, our shallow culture and our lack of resilient thinking. We’re being provocative about the wrong things and we’re focusing our creative wonder on only the superficial.
Instead of a conference why not just an internet forum that focuses on user anonymity (not even nicknames) so that writers can both express exactly what they think and readers can focus on the messages instead of the posters? After all the idea is about the messages themselves being the "heretic" aspect, not the people.
I think it helps with tooling, linters, refactoring tools, code generation, etc., if you have a "standard" lexer and parser. The reason being these tools can rely on reasonably standard parsing libraries to take a spec in a common format and then translate input to an AST to take actions on.

If you haven't heard the term context-free, you haven't done much parsing; it's ubiquitous there.
> Maybe it's the fact that technology keeps getting more complex

This is a component of it, but I believe the conclusion you draw is a faulty one. I can relate, though, because I once had the same lamentation.

Hackers, in the traditional sense, have just moved on to more specialized and niche communities because the technology space became more complex and specialized itself.

Generalized "hacker" communities are not going to draw in people with specialized skills and interests, unless they have an interest in content creation or pedagogy. You'll find them in other communities that interest them.
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The Sonos experience was amazing. Great sounds, really simple to use, being able to play music in different rooms is cool, etc, and just plugging in the speakers into the power outlet without any extra cords really made for a great experience. It's much cleaner not having to worry about running speaker wire everywhere, or having laptops or rpis everywhere.

But they brick their older hardware or render them purposefully useless so as far as I'm concerned they are evil as fuck now.
Time to re-read Stephenson's (well, "Stephen Bury") Interface. I don't remember it as a particularly good read, but it might be great fun to contrast the innocuously blunt politicization of mediatech envisioned 25 years ago with the realities of the Trump/Johnson way of playing democracy.
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man they missed the opportunity
"death of a startup, uber weak coffee is the first omen"
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Hm, you don't need a crazy pursuit angle if you're way up ahead. Just use your time advantage to climb until you've exceeded AF1's altitude. Now, in a shallow dive, your speed will exceed AF1's.
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This combined with the WeWork news is not doing anything to counter my opinion that startup culture is both practically vacuous and morally bankrupt.
if they didn't pay oracle for the help and facilities then it is fair enough
I get that part. I want the language/compiler to allow me to use it where it makes sense (as an argument) and prohibit doing things to it that don't (as you demonstrated).
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