skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will this have any practical effect on the protests? Haven't the authorities already declared that protesters are engaged in illegal activity, so what's one more act of civil disobedience?

Also, aren't the "masks" worn by many of the protesters the kind of thing that's often worn in Asia for hygiene and pollution reasons, so this would ban even innocent behavior?
It's weird. Going for a walk doesn't make ideas pop up in my mind. Nor does sitting still on a couch bring up ideas. But sitting in the static toilet environment does.
I'm guessing you mean MEK, which is the mujahedin el khalq IIRC, but please, don't call them Marxist just because they may have professed Marxist beliefs decades ago. They've been a run of the mill personality cult for much longer than they've been Marxist, so it seems disingenuous to use that as their primary description.
Language is a democracy. When people say thing like "My head literally exploded", they are voting for "literally" to be a meaningless intensifier. When I make fun of them, I'm voting for it to have the meaning, "This actually happened".

Think about which way you want the language to be, and then use your vote.
> Isn't this a non-scary consequence of Ancestry.com-like registries?

It's gonna be non-scary to some, scary to others.

Plenty of people donated sperm thinking they'd stay anonymous forever, back before the Human Genome Project was a $1B undertaking.
Yes, well, the green wave is a good idea in principle, but it's sorta mistaking averages for reality.

There is this thing called the "waiting time paradox" [0] (or more generally the "inspection paradox") that suggests a surprising thing, the average time between discrete events observed by many other randomly interspersed observation is the same as the average time between events. This should be surprising, because it suggests that many more people experience times LONGER than the average wait to balance out people who experience a shorter wait because they were randomly closer to the event.

This happens because longer intervals, when they do exist, get a larger proportion of the random observations than the shorter intervals between events. More precisely and generically, when the quantity being observed affects the observer, the observations will be distorted by the quantity in question and have to be normalized.

In the case of a green wave, those rare times when someone waits too long on a green because they were looking at their phone or a naked person in a nearby window and create slowdowns and stalls in the pipeline? Those moments are longer, so there is a longer window where you could experience them.

This actually comes up a lot in observations of things in nature. Imagine if instead of light flips or bus arrivals we were observing clicks on a geiger counter and you'll realize how fundamental this is to experiencing the world.

tl;dr: The Green Wave only works in averages and it can be correct even as your experience of it never working is also correct. :)

[0]: https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2018/09/13/waiting-time-parad...
Dude, they’re just simple lists of products by their base metric, in both cases limited to reputable brands.

No fires will ensue just because you now know Duracell offering X is slightly cheaper than Energizer type Y per kWh even though the pack costs more.

Breathe!
Same thing panasonic does in Japan to improve facial recognition - except they just pay foreigners 5000 JPY and tell you what they do.
There's a road in Berlin (and probably it's not an exception) that has overhead displays showing how fast you should go to be on a green wave. At least that's how I understood how it works from driving there several times. Additionally it has variable number of lanes for each direction signaled by lights.

Here it's street view of the road, it's not perfectly visible, because those are LED displays: https://goo.gl/maps/T7RzQCUS4nk3QVZN9
Because the pre-communism period was in most respects, even worse. China had a century of occupation and decades of civil war. Russia was a backwater, with constant repression and terrorism of it's population. Hell, it had serfdom until the mid 19th century. (Which was reintroduced in all but name through the kolhoz system.)

The repression of the regimes that followed didn't spring up in a vaccum, but was a natural evolution of the political environment they operated in.
HN is flooded with Chinese shills these days and I'm constantly seeing pro-China comments. Unfortunately it's such a large country so unless dang (who has been especially disappoint in this regard) is willing to put a stop to this state of affairs the downvote numbers will always be rigged.
As for why it is a prisoner's dilemma, this paper explains it: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.html

Simply put, cooperation/helpfulness puts you at a disadvantage if it is not reciprocated.
> If suddently the sole meat option is more expensive than yesterdays cheaper meat

My understanding was that they went from three meat options to two, and I saw no indication in the abstract that they changed pricing (but I haven't read the paper), but yes, there are possible scenarios in which they were "forced" to eat non-meat.

More plausible, to me, is that most people who regularly eat meat are not that uptight about it, and willing to try other stuff without feeling victimized. But yes, I also know people who are the opposite.
It's more complicated, it is often implemented poorly if at all, and it isn't really that necessary because of NAT/PAT.

The last one is starting to not be true, but it was a long, long, time getting here.
Absolutely glorious times
Your explanation begs the question. Racism is at its core, based in the idea that superficial characteristics somehow convey deeper information. Your explanation assumes that this is true, that superficial characteristics correctly signal group affiliation, something that is simply not true.
Obviously i am not "pro-China" lol. And i don't advocate actually destroying market economy and (less confidently), democracy.

All i am trying to show is that public transport in the U.S. is such failure only as an undesirable externality of strong market and democratic institutions. We should probably bear with it because trying to fix risks, or directly requires, breaking too many other, important things.

I would much rather live in the U.S. than God forbid, China. I still prefer EU where i do live which seems to be good middle ground. And yeah, in my place (Cyprus), public transport sucks, and mainly because of democracy/good institutions (taxi drivers union won't let improve buses) and high living standards (low density - most can afford a detached house with a big plot - but it makes buses routes long and not dense, and their ridership low).
If this report is correct it seems like they were targeting a vulnerable population based on the logic that their vulnerability made them less likely to insist on being treated better than google wanted to treat them. That seems really bad to me.

If you're asking folks on the street and happen to get a lot of unhoused folks because they're around, that's fine. Writing memos telling people to target vulnerable populations because they're vulnerable is gross and deeply unethical.
It's a breach of contract, plain and simple. If he had a written agreement that his sperm would be used to father 5 children and no more, and the clinic violated that, then he is entirely within his rights to sue the clinic for reneging on its half of the deal.

As for guaranteeing a specific number, first, if they couldn't guarantee that, why would they agree to the limit in the first place? And even if the guarantee was violated without intent, I would expect perhaps 6 or 7 children... not 17.
Probably violent protests and war as economic opportunity shrinks to an ever smaller elite class of wealth.
Yes but the act of standing is a crutch, if you pardon the pun. What matters is brevity.
This isn't nearly as bad as the others here but recently our scrum master came back from scrum of scrums and said everyone was massively over pointing stories because apparently it looks so bad to management if you don't complete something within it's estimate.

A week later I finished something early and was instructed to not bring anything else into the sprint because, you know, visibility is more important than actually being productive.

I get that deadlines and metrics are important. And I get that managers/mgmt will never see eye to eye with developers about how long stuff takes. But this is just sheer idiocy, encouraging doing the bare minimum and a culture of fear instead of rewarding good work. If I actually told the next up the chain about it, they'd absolutely sweep it under the rug.

So yeah I'm interviewing looking to go somewhere way, way smaller at this point.
> and you didn't specify these sorts of options when you specify disliking vegetables in any form

I haven't had a chance or inclination to eat much Indian food yet. I'm going to try, at some point.

> If you hate tomatoes, does that mean you despise chili, or pasta?

Not really. Here's the thing: it all depends on the processing, and usually the more processing was involved, the better I like the end result. So e.g. I don't like raw tomatoes, e.g. in a sandwich or on a pizza. But I do like tomato soup and tomato sauces, and I double-plus love ketchup (the commercial kind). Similarly for other kinds of vegetables and fruits. I like very few of them "standalone" - particular few kinds of apples, carrots, cucumbers and bananas. But for instance, I don't want to see any of the four anywhere near bread.

Maybe one day I'll try and note this down to see if I can find connections.
Have you read the article?

How about the tweet from the developer: https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1179108329240424448
No, because the Internet is a voluntary system.
Planimeter's Grid Engine is the largest pure-Lua game engine. https://www.planimeter.org/grid-sdk/
Would you be willing to share how you did that (avoiding procfs too)?
Superbcompanies
Where's the outcry about private jet travel?
I wouldn't say that democracy is dying so much as freedom is dying. You can always vote yourself into oppression, but you can only shoot your way out (2nd amendment) if you first fail to talk (1st amendment) the masses out of voting for their own oppression.
An unhappy mix of accidental fire source and overly complicated intervention process is what I gathered.
Kudos for landing a better job. I guess you were quite young at the time and I hope you matured more than to put yourself in such a harmful situation again.
If you deem that something is senseless, impossible or on the verge of abusing you must say so and stand your ground. It is the right thing to do not just for you but for your coworkers and the larger ecosystem you are moving about. It's what that general said about 'The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept' only this time it was about the standard you put up with.

All the best
"Doesn't sound like anything to me."
Vaguely related, I came across this talk the other day, and it is interesting to see this sort of thing come up twice in short succession for me. The talk is about building an exchange from Jane Street.

Leaving it here in case anyone is interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1e4t2k2KJY
It's not all meat but it it's not healthy either. I can't speak to Cajun food, but fried okra, hushpuppies, and Cole slaw, are all important side dishes where I live. Fresh tomatoes or fried-green tomatoes too are good ones too.
Who would be the judge? Some would say the US should be excluded based on that criteria.
Why some software developers hate Agile
Thanks, I did not know this fact. So the only hope would be then that the private companies would invest into improving the tracks or the government nationalize the tracks(buy them most probably).
I can’t say for Haskell, but I can say for Lisp, which similarly gets these “look how great” articles but also similarly doesn’t see a huge up-tick in usage.

Whether you’re a student fresh out of school, or you’ve been unemployed for 10 years as a sysadmin, or you’re an expert programmer already, Common Lisp is accessible to you. Those examples are real; they’re backgrounds of folks I either used to or currently work with. Being paid helps immensely.

So it’s not that the language is unlearnable, unreadable, or out-of-reach. (The pot-shots that random commenters in forums like these take on the language are usually shallow or even outright wrong.) In some cases, it’s even demonstrated to be asymptotically more productive.

So what’s the deal? I personally think it’s just that productivity isn’t in and of itself incentivizing enough. You know Python and C++, you’re relatively proficient at them, you know how to get the job done with them, why learn something new? Haskell/Lisp won’t get you a job (necessarily), it won’t allow you to do something with a computer that you fundamentally couldn’t do before, and it’ll suck up a lot of your time to figure out what’s going on with them. Moreover, there’s no big organization behind it (like Mozilla or Facebook or Microsoft or ...) so where’s the credibility? A bunch of researchers at some university? A bunch of open-source hackers?

I think one has to be personally invested in becoming a broadly more knowledgeable and more skilled programmer, just for the sake of it, and (IME) most people aren’t like that. I think one has to also have a penchant for finding simpler or more fundamental ways of solving problems, and that has to turn into an exploratory drive. Even if one is like that, learning Haskell is one of a hundred possible paths to improve oneself.

My comment shouldn’t be misconstrued as supporting a mindset of it being OK to just know a couple languages well. I think the hallmark of an excellent programmer is precisely this broad knowledge of not just tools, but ways of thinking, in order to solve the gnarly problems that come up in software.
Trump, for all his flaws, is fundamentally a good human being, or at least is entitled to being assumed to be such simply because he grew up in a democratic country. The same cannot be said of the Chinese.
I just went full vegetarian at the start of the year and my biggest issue at first was I kept trying to find replacements for everything, which just wasn't the same. Some replacements were good, some were just awful, but I always compared it to the real thing.

After I started embracing just vegetarian/vegan dishes without them being replacements, I realised I had loads of things to discover and just treated this change as a way to explore new food. After I did that, I loved it, so I agree 100%, while I like some replacements, that shouldn't be the main focus.
> Could you elaborate?

The idea is that a good publishing record gives one better career prospects. By accepting and rejecting papers journals are giving a signal used by academia in their hiring and promotion decisions.

If you're an administrator overseeing a scientific department your skills are probably in administration, not chemistry or physics or what have you. What you would really like is for a team of top chemists to tell you who the best chemists among your staff or hiring prospects are. That level of consulting would be cost prohibitive but the journals are providing a similar service that is apparently being exchanged for exclusive publishing rights.
As a non vegetarian, there's only one meat I don't eat for moral reasons, and I wouldn't want to eat anything that pretends to be that meat, regardless of whether I like the taste.

Quorn cubes, or Quorn mince I can understand, they're generic. Vegetarian bacon is supposed to be a specific part of a specific animal. And I've never heard anyone argue, vegetarian or otherwise, that vegetarian bacon tastes anything like actual bacon anyway.
I can see high school English being more time consuming than average, and certainly more than elementary school.

I've never understood why subjects and student age aren't considered in teacher pay scales across the board. My experience is limited, but I've never seen an instance where anything other than time and credentials (generally degrees) were considered.
Sounds to me like constructive dismissal
It does suggest we should delete it, which is pretty helpful. It's a terribly liability.
Seems like if you think an act is cruel to be honest to yourself you simply shouldn’t do it.

I would feel hypocritical were I to do this.
"Cheap" is another one that bothered me as a kid. It means both "of low quality considering its price" and "of low price considering its quality."
"brakes make my car slower, so I'd expect my average velocity to decrease if you fixed them"

Just to be pedantic... in some contexts better brakes actually allow you to go faster. Consider racing on an oval track... a car with better braking ability can maintain speed longer as it approaches a corner, then scrub off speed more quickly to navigate the corner. A car with inferior brakes has to start slowing down sooner or risk crashing by taking the corner too fast. So better brakes can lead directly to faster lap times.
You're generating a new set of data files, which IMHO is the same principle. (There's nothing wrong with this, it's just telling folks you can't just drop in a bin bin/postgres and run it blindly.)
Zircle: A frontend library to develop zoomable user interfaces

http://zircle.io

Smart home dashboard example: https://zircleui.github.io/docs/examples/home.html
Those examples don't use literally to mean "literally" (or "figuratively").

Its meaning in those is closer to "pretty much", "as good as", or "almost like". It's more of a metaphorical intensifier, but there's clearly a metaphor being implied.
Why doesn’t the model trained on one race generalize to different races? That sounds inferior to human vision.
I generally agree- its a clear shot across the bow that the company no longer wants you there.

A funny story though from about 10 years ago (IE financial crisis): A sales person my wife worked with was put on a PIP. It had very clear revenue goals, modified his commission plan to be more performance based, but he could make more if he exceeded those goals, etc.

To everyone's astonishment, he started selling like crazy. There was only one problem- his boss forgot to "unfire" him with HR. Right after the PIP period expired, he gets a big deposit that isn't his commission check in his bank account- it was supposed to be a severance payment.

The guy immediately withdrew it from his bank account, and kept as little in there as possible so they couldn't get it back without confronting him, and later claimed he thought it was a commission and claimed to have spent it. They made him pay it back on a payment plan in the end, but only after forcing them to admit it was a severance and all that. He left as soon as he could find a better job.
This is actually really cool! I am definitely gonna try this this weekend, awesome work :)

How complicated would it be to do something like this for Ember, is it tightly coupled to react and redux? I might give a try at forking it.
Pretty sure that doesn't mean all distant API endpoints need ipv6 addresses.

Just means no hardcoded ipv4 or incompatible API calls. So that ipv6 to ipv4 gateways work.

So, the app is ready, but apple isn't dictating much about your backend.
"Died" is already an intensifier -- and a pretty extreme one. But because of overuse, it's become meaningless; and so now people feel like they have to add more intensifiers: "seriously", "totally", "literally", etc. Eventually all those will be so overused that they become meaningless too.

I think saying "I died laughing" is a fine idiom. But the continual slipping into "cranking up the volume", and having more and more words mean nothing, is bad for the language. So, I vote to oppose this.

You have a vote too. Think about the way you want the language to be, and then vote by using it that way, and / or arguing with people who use it the way you don't like.
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Let's ignore India specifically, and call out "the whole rest of the world that isn't the US, Western Europe, and Israel".

Why isn't it fair? You're saying "the best vegan cities in the world" and ignoring the vast majority of the world. Should I take this list as the definitive list of the objectively best vegan cities, or some westerner's take the subject? If you don't want to be judged on the world stage, don't bring the world into it. Say "the best vegan cities we've been to" or "the best vegan cities in europe/the US". They wrote a list, I'm critical of their list and process.

Here's a better list IMO, if you're trying to talk about the world. https://theveganword.com/vegan-friendly-cities-2018/

Also, you can talk about "contemporary western veganism" but that's very different from "veganism" in general. You're moving the goalposts sir.
> someone with little or no coding experience can be in a leadership position

I had one where the leader in question had coding experience but didn't know Haskell at all.

Despite this [1], they tried to read some code (that the Haskellers has no issues with) and couldn't, so he deemed the codebase unreadable and eventually called for a rewrite. Worse, during the debate about the rewrite, there was constant discussion about how the code was unreadable and bad, but it was never sourced to this leader. Instead it was asserted with weasel words only.

[1] Maybe it was because of this..this leader was driven by confidence in their experience and seniority.
So, slightly better than current San Francisco situation!
Ok. That makes more sense to me now. Thank you for taking time to explain it. I was genuinely looking for information.
Is this actually what the system was attempting to observe? I was under the impression that most of these race conditions were unknown and indeed were supposed to be implicit.
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I'm convinced that abomination called "cheese" never melts.
Is that true? Iirc Openapi lets you define schemata for csv payloads in POST body sections. Whether they are validated by the backends is another question...
True, rural eastern Germany is particularly difficult.
That helps that posters arguments.
You run the risk of the computational equivalent of speedo not beeing 100% accurate, e.g. clock innacuracy.
Poor pay is often a result of a downward spiral of dysfunctional/failing organization. Your manager gets paid poorly, your coworkers, other teams. Best people leave first and new good people don't want to join. Demotivated teams lacking any talent produce bad product. Poor product looses customers, which forces management into freezing/cutting salaries. Everything compounds. After certain threshold there is no way back, but it is surprising how long can organizations with no hope stick around, and just keep people miserable.
I'm sorry, did you just seriously say, "The Chinese are not fundamentally good human beings"? Because I'm trying to read your comment as anything other than unbelievably racist and coming up empty.