skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The MCU films are based on comic book properties that many people have been fans of for decades, they have a long-term emotional investment in these characters and their storylines. It's got nothing to do with the MCU being "power fantasy" media - you see the exact same phenomenon in fans of Star Wars Star Trek or sports teams.

Also, there is the fact that most people who vocally dislike the MCU, superhero films or comic book media in general, tend to do so in a way that derides the intellect or tastes of the fans. When a lot of the criticisms of a genre amount to backhanded insults of the people who like that genre, people can get sensitive about it. I think a lot of people find them particularly childish because of the funny costumes and superpowers and their origin in comic books which a lot of people still don't take seriously.
Depends, if you are a contractor then yes. As an employee you probably also hope to earn some raises and promotions, as the only way to get paid more. And that always involves a lot of politics.
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> "... the tribunal rejected China’s argument that it enjoys historic rights over most of the South China Sea. "

China doesn't recognize the tribunal's jurisdiction in this case, since China previously opted out of binding arbitration on territorial issues, as allowed by UNCLOS.

> Only one of those countries has been building / extending artificially reefs / islands in this area.

At the same time, the US has been conducting provocative military maneuvers in the South China Sea. These days, China and the Philippines are cooperating to some extent in the South China Sea. The US has been prodding the Philippines to take a more confrontational approach.

> China has deemed it very, very important to seize this area.

I think there are two issues. They view the sea as strategically important, and don't want to be at the mercy of the US Navy, which could shut down a lot of Chinese trade in the event of a conflict. They also don't want to lose face, and giving in to US demands that they drop China's traditional territorial claims would not go over well among the Chinese population.

> You think it's reasonable to respond to freedom of navigation operations (also conducted by other countries than the USA) by militarising islands that aren't even theirs?

"Freedom of navigation operations" is a propagandistic name given by the US Navy to very provocative military maneuvers in what China views as its territorial waters. I think it's entirely understandable that China puts defensive weaponry on islands it considers its own, in response to perceived violations of its sovereignty by a hostile military.
Why <insert argument against common industry practice> are useless. Decent way to generate publicity and web clicks
Huh. I wonder if this is a significant factor in the US being so litigious in general.
Except most people are trying to hire distance runners who will be lifting at most 5 pounds (~2.5kg).
"People with little or no knowledge of computers" would actually benefit the most from a LTS-like version of the OS, with security updates _only_, and flexible feature upgrades every two years or so. That you can't get with Windows 10 (as an individual user), but can totally get with e.g. Debian Stable, and without paying a dime. Isn't that a bit ironic?
That's a good summary of all the arguments made by the people who denied it was happening while talking to any audience that would buy that line when they're talking to slightly more sophisticated rubes.

But it's not based in facts, it's just a collection of false talking points.

No one who brings up rare earth in these discussions cares about that issue. Usually they don't even understand or care why they're called rare earths.

But people are still denying it's even happening, others are arguing it's a good thing so we should expect people to trot out well rehearsed lies on the proposed solutions too.

I don't understand why anyone would want to do that, but again it's plainly clear that's what's happening and pretending it's not isn't going to help anything.

The benefit of the doubt has been sorely abused by the "skeptics" in this matter, and now they want to be "skeptical" of the solutions to the problem they claimed didn't exist.

Well mark me down as "skeptical" of these so-called skeptics.

In particular this line about the evil gas lobby being behind the push for solar and wind is the most cynical lie I've heard in a long time.
Something worth noting that likely gets ignored regarding the topic of climate change. Some of the population really doesn’t care if the world becomes inhabitable for humans after they die. As an optimist I’ve observed this outlook and I think it’s because quality of life has actually diminished from the visibility of social media and rising cost of homes. I could be wrong on the cause but the original problem exists and I wonder if society needs to improve for the mid to lower classes before people have the desire to help in the protests.
It's hard for them to whip out fully fake clips, but it's easy for them to sample Disney, or SyFy, or news coverage, or comedy sketches that look very much like real interviews, etc. and cut them into a short clip to publish on social media.
Every version of Windows NT (and later derivations) has had separate server and desktop-targeted releases going back to "Windows NT 3.1" and "Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server".
To waste your time.

> Who really cares about algorithm on daily bases. How often you solve algorithm-heavy tasks at work?

Practically no one and practically never for the majority of developers.

It's a trend started by Google, and since lots of startups don't bother thinking for themselves (and the interviewer wants to sound knowledgeable) some of them also ask these questions.

Perhaps this type of interview is more popular in some places rather than others - I've never had one like this, although occasionally people ask questions like "how many piano tuners are there in your city?" (answer: "let me check on Google..." or "why, are you thinking of starting a piano tuning company?").
Well the video plays for me with SMPlayer, but not the audio. Some .rm files play audio fine. The video quality of these is pretty low though, so hopefully they have a higher resolution master to work from.
Did I say no other layouts exist outside of AZERTY and QWERTY? I was pointing out that the assertion that the parent comment made about AZERTY = Europe and QWERTY = US was wrong.
Here's how they're tackling that challenge: https://www.bloodhoundlsr.com/the-stability-of-transonic-and...
It's mostly about personal connections, network and nepotism.
I had to deal with some alpha-kids at school, but at the time, nobody called that bullying. I also never viewed that as a problem, because I was never heavily beaten and I would also hit back, I hit once a kid so hard that I broke his jaw and nobody ever touched a finger on me and I made very lasting friends after that episode. That made me grow as a person as well, but it wasn't very necessary. I'd rather have not went through this.

Other kids on my class didn't fight back and have been abused, which is quite bad. School has very similar dynamics to prisons and the earlier a kid finds it out(or has parents that explain to them), the better. I also helped a lot of kids that got bullied on school, but there is much more kids willing to bully than kids willing to help. At least that made me also long-lasting friendships.

I think those "bullying" dynamics happen similarly when you become an adult, where police is there to hit minorities and displaced people. Where those alpha-kids with good backgrounds fare very well while bullying employees and doing their own schemes, and when things go south, their banks get bailed out.

Meanwhile you as a working class have to keep pushing forward, accepting to do overtime and so on. Getting bullied forever is something humans just accept as a fate.

Some kids, just as some adults, really fail to fight back and find their own space in that system and end up in a bad position. I'd say that those who failed to fight back at school also end up failing to fight back as adults. At least in the adult world things are a bit more civilised at a times, which gives the impression "that is just life and it's working as expected". But it is still there.

My mother, even though we were very poor, since I was very young, used to tell me how it is important to have an edge/advantage over people and how society is basically made of that. The more I can get away with, the better I'm positioned and that I should pay attention to that and use that to guide me. It took me a while to understand that, but I'm very glad she took the time to teach me that.
You're right, thanks for pointing that out. I didn't express that thought correctly and I've added a note to my previous comment.
Researchers have designed an andquot;artificial sheet&quot; producing clean gas
I wanted to point out the same thing around socializing. We set aside 15 minutes for standup. The business part of standup takes 5 minutes and folks get to hear what their colleagues have been up to at work or outside. Its critical for a remote organization in my eyes.

The way the author talked about standup made me think they are a developer/designer/maker. The 15 mins of standup cost way more than 15 mins if its at an inopportune time. This can be where async standups help out. Get the information out without disrupting someones day.
Well, just another blog extrapolating personal anecdotes to general statements. There are more than enough posts of that kind on the internet. What we need are more substantiated claims.
At some point, every fully developed education system splits kids by ability. Not everyone goes on to advanced studies, engineering school, law, or medicine. Not everyone learns a trade.

That split might not happen until age 18, but my wager is that it does happen everywhere. The question is when is the optimal time? I tend to think earlier rather than later.
If you have multiple different points where you measure, which all have this overlapping signal problems but at different strengths, couldn't you hypothetically build up a model that "solves" these different weights and untangles the signals?
Yeah there were a few kids you could always rely on to give you their lunch money
And yet, they do not have a mathematical italic "h" letter, using the reasoning that the Planck constant (ℎ) already exists. But this character looks out of place compared to the rest of the italic letters in many fonts.
While I'm loath to endorse any sort of widespread "big data" on our genetics, I can't help but wonder what other gems we might glean if metrics like genes and medical outcomes of everyone ever born were somehow made safely available to researchers.

(Maybe some kind of decentralized and anonymized project with voluntary participants?
Some googling found https://www.labiotech.eu/features/blockchain-control-genomic...)
And copyright shares a lot of the same problems. When everybody carries in their pocket a device that creates perfect copies of all kinds of information, the marginal economic value of a copy is reduced to zero, and you need to create artificial scarcity to support selling copies as a business model. That's why everyone is moving to "software as a service".
You could argue lifting 5 pounds running long distance demands a lot more energy than lifting 5 pounds and dropping it. And I'm sure they carry a lot more than 5 pounds of gear.
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In elementary school, I was in the "Gifted" program. It meant 1 day per week I would go to the library with a teacher that taught special stuff like "logic problems" and doing research and making slideshows. It was a lot of stuff.

This is where I learned to program. This single skill was hugely impactful to me.

But the rest of the time was probably actually more helpful, as I was forced to do all the rest of my classwork for my regular classes and pass all my regular tests in addition to all the work for Gifted. This kept me much, much more engaged in education than I would have been otherwise.

Middle school had 1 class per day the same way, but it was a pale shadow of the Elementary version.

High school had "Honors" or "AP" (Advanced Placement, IIRC) classes that totally separated me from the kids that were just there to put in time. They had no interest in learning and were actively against it, but I was no longer associating with them for Literature, Science, and Math classes, and there were no class clowns to slow everything down. We also had dual-enrollment classes where college classes were taught at the high school for credit in both.

Missing out on these 3 systems would absolutely have stunted my growth and I doubt I'd be where I am today without them.

My wish isn't to separate kids, though. I wish they could all enjoy learning like I do. We haven't cracked that nut yet, though, and it seems like separation is still necessary in order to give everyone their potential.
Yes. Thanks for the explanation!

The 'opposite side' of that is also true:

I'd rather see a carbon tax than eg photovoltaic subsidies.

The latter requires picking winners, and the recipients need to interact with bureaucracy to claim. The former rewards simply consuming less just as much as eg switching to renewables; and you don't need a lawyer to claim your (relative) rewards of lower taxes.
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This is something I need to write about, I was born with a cleft-pallet and was heavily ridiculed and bullied throughout my childhood.

This had serious ramifications which prevented me from finishing high school with my class, and I started using drugs and alcohol when I was 14 to cope with the verbal and physical abuse.

This was over 20 years ago though and schools today are much better about addressing these issues - however, I am in a much better position mentally to talk about it now.
I learned all this at university, over many hours of classes, exams and practice questions.

I'd be interested if people with a science/tech/math background, but no specific training on laplace transforms, managed to understand this video. If they did, it might be a good time to replace all those university classes with this video!
Do you mean that you don't expect the gains of investment to offset the losses from inflation? Because I would find that surprising.

$3M is a lot, typically the rule of thumb is that you need 25 years worth of living expenses to be financially independent. That means you expect to spend $120k yearly? That's up to you of course but that fits exactly in what I said about choosing how much you spend. My monthly expenses are currently < $1500 per month (for 2 people, in Sweden), and I think it's more likely that I will taper off working (work fewer hours, more fun but lower paying jobs) than that I will stop working altogether. That means $300-400k would probably be enough to provide a significant level of freedom especially once my girlfriend graduates and has an income as well.

My salary is far from an SF salary and I do work full-time but I find my work quite fulfilling. If it weren't I wouldn't have much difficulty finding work with more freedom for e.g. part-time employment.
1. Ageism (prefer early 20s)

2. Making switching jobs harder
Looks interesting. You may want to make the "Browse by Topic" view the default, instead of the blank grey screen.

I found a dead course link: https://learnawesome.org/items/e03a9b40-d16c-424b-98a0-55c7b...

And a course duplicated 3 times on https://learnawesome.org/topics/8ae28f64-31d9-448f-9d94-b9d0...: Computers, Waves, Simulations: A Practical Introduction to Numerical Methods using Python
Having investigated the use of OpenStreetMap data in the past year, I have to say that it's still disappointing and not complete enough to be used as a serious solution.

If I look at university nodes that have a website in France I find 241 unique values which represents less than 10% of the total amount.
I’m a proponent of team socialization, but it generally works out a lot better to do team lunches and the like—a quality hour or so to socialize over food on a Friday perhaps—rather than jamming in 10 minutes of chitchat during the morning or whatever.
Seems like a poor strategy to me. You can do that sort of thing to rile up the choir, but you have to actually preach to the non-believers.

An [x] shill making poor arguments the those on the fence is going to do less good for their employers than a shill making the strongest possible case for [x].

If anything, you'd assume the 'irrational' nuclear shills are actually being paid by natural gas and renewables interests, and vice-versa, to make the other side seem obnoxious and crazy.
> let me check on Google...

First of all, Newsflash! that's illegal in a programming interview, please solve this question using a whiteboard instead, show a mathematical proof if needed.

/s
What is a "legacy newspaper"? Is it just a newspaper?
People want to be a part of his story and enjoy his donuts at their convenience so they can invite their friends for donuts and retell the story.
Why exactly should a company make switching jobs to them harder, for the benefit of their competitors?
Who decides what's tax-exemption worthy journalism versus yellow press filth / entertainment?

Any reduction of taxes on a special category means a relatively heavier tax burden on other necessities. Like tampons. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampon_tax for equivalent outrage.

Btw, I'm all in favour of allowing people to put arsenic on pizza, as long as its clearly labelled.
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It might work as an intelligence test.
This seems like a reasonable place to ask this: Is there an alternative available to Google Places Text Search? E.g., I provide a query that's something like "hardware stores" and a location and I get back a list of hardware stores within the location?

As far as I can tell, the geocoding APIs from stuff like MapBox or Pelias aren't intended for this use case (more like finding a specific hardware store).
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Oh here is our weekly "stand ups are useless" on the front page of Hacker News.

Every team has to figure this out. I understand that people don't like them, I'm sure they have valid points. In my team this works great.

There is this trend of thinking "it gets in the way of people actually doing something productive" [sic]. I find it very reductive. How do you define productivity first of all ? Is work only about producing value ? How do you evaluate it ? Especially, as a reminder, in a field where estimating the complexity of a task is extremely difficult.

Work is sometimes a bit more than being in the zone from 9 to 8.
Manager of Managers
By codifying the limit of unethical behavior, regulation also ensures every participant operates at the limit.
Exactly what I thought when I saw the GDPR.

"Does any one else than big, established, companies have the means to really properly comply with that? Heck, I don't even know how to comply!"
P0RTAL (hardware compartmentalization) devices to be commercially available
When people write - why X is useless, I have this impulse to not read. Especially when X is proven to be good. No offence to the content, but the title is quite clickbaity
Reminder that every single sentence in the IPCC report must be approved unanimously by a panel of government-appointed authors from various countries, including e.g. Saudi Arabia. Therefore IPCC reports are to be considered as quite conservative (the seriousness of the situation is often leveled down).

Nonetheless, that's what makes them an irrefutable source. Anyone discrediting the IPCC reports findings can and should be dismissed immediately from the discussion.
I get your point about people being stubbornly ignorant, but I learned this today so I thought I’d throw it out there.

If ocean rising has gotten so bad that Miami is underwater the accompanying acidification of those oceans will have reaped havoc on marine fishing putting 500 million people’s food security at risk.

Half a billion people in underdeveloped countries without to a vital part of their diet. Half a billion, and that’s just people that rely on fish. Inland people add to the numbers if their farming suffers.
Are people prepared to do this?

I get my car to drive to me to work and then it goes out and operates like a taxi while I'm working. I'd be worried it comes back damaged or vomit all over the place.

No thanks.
That’s the kind of appliance I can get behind.

The washing machine in my house does something similar, if somewhat less smart: put clothes in, tell it what kind of materials they are, it rotates a few times, figures out the weight and distribution then starts and tells you how long the wash will be. Certainly wish it had a heat pump mode.
The first time I got in an Uber and saw two other phones on the dashboard with the driver working Lyft and another competitor at the same time I knew it was game over for these companies. Both the drivers and the riders were taking the best deal each ride and the VCs were in the middle subsidizing the whole thing for both sides. It’s a race to the bottom.

I enjoy the product and will enjoy the cheap rides while they last but the business mode seems flawed.
I actually used this math at home! - one of my LED lamps was flickering in cold weather, and upon opening it up I saw a primary side controlled flyback transformer to act as a constant current power supply (for ~20 LED's in series).

The flicker was due to oscillation, due to a pole too close to the right half plane. I was about to stick a bigger capacitor in the feedback compensation circuit, but a bit of maths told me that that would make the problem worse (and probably blowing up my LED's) - so instead I used a smaller resistor value, and yay - perfect flicker free light!
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social pressure?
Same here, but I recall my parents doing side hustles working nights at the drive-in, on summer breaks filling gardens for cash, cutting firewood, doing renovation projects on rental properties we would buy to fix and rent, running a snow plow truck 12-16 hours during storms (teachers get snow days in MD, so snow plow is a near-perfect side hustle), etc.
You might want to watch this video [1] from 2013, showing a near standard Mercedes S-Class in autonomous drive mode. A current overview can be found here [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIJeqD3Ax40
[2] https://www.autotrader.com/best-cars/7-best-semi-autonomous-...
I am all for interoperability, and personally I wait for a Facebook API to write your own news feed filters, that will open so much new possibilities. But I am afraid that, at least in the beginning, it will only make "hateful, extreme bubbles" worse, because of two things.

The first, most fundamental, is that these bubbles are created not by the business model, but by connectivity alone - we crave extreme content, and now we can get it all time because of https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood. That craving is quite similar to our craving for calories, extreme news are 'high bayesian calories' and used to be useful for quickly updating our Bayesian brains, the problem is that now the probabilities of these news are completely outside of the ranges our brain evolved around.

The second is that if the new commercial Facebook filter startups use the same advertising business model as Facebook then they will do the same engagement maximising as Facebook itself.
> I don't understand why anyone would want to do that

Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway covers that pretty comprehensively. Often it is the very same think tanks, PR agencies, and people who are quoted "the science isn't certain" across decades and multiple damaging products and activities. Sowing doubt is their service, built out into a career. The common factor appears to be an irrational fear of any and all regulation - no matter how necessary.