skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I voted for it because it describes a real problem with journalism as it is practiced today. Journalists focus on the most attention grabbing tidbit that comes to mind from recent events. They do not attempt to get context on it. And do not attempt to inform.

Then when it becomes clear that they have screwed up, they double down on their position because they are important people. They are journalists, and therefore they are right. At least in their own mind.

But I have never seen journalists report accurately on any story that I knew well. And their failure to even attempt it causes great harm to the American public.

Now about the subject in question, as an atheist I oppose the LDS and all it stands for. However this was a man who made a tremendous impact within the Church and around the world. While conservative by today's standards, he was relatively progressive compared to society for most of his life. Even while I dislike his work against gay marriage, I still applaud his work in rooting racism out of Mormon theology. And hearing about his real life accomplishments has left me more informed.
Very good article. I presently live at less than one kilometer from my job, so I go by feet to work in a quarter. And guess what ? I have never been so productive. When I arrive at work in the morning, I am not stressed. When I go back home in the afternoon, I have time do personal projects at home. The strikes of the Paris region ? Not my problem ! I am ready for the big collapse.
> If you have a growing business making money it should be fairly straightforward to get a loan under your business name

That's a tale told by everyone who read books about business or took some MBA classes.

It is not the case.

You can only be guaranteed to get a loan that is collateralize by FCF. FCF loans are stupid because you pay interest on a loan that is given to you in the amount of FCF. If you already have FCF, the only reason to get that loan is to build a business credit history by, quite literally, paying for it. That credit history is irrelevant for next 5-10 years because conventional financial vehicles do not care about your credit history until it is about 10 years long.

That's why VCing is the thing. If you are small, you have growth and you have FCF, your rapid path forward is with VCs, not conventional loans
Cal Newport's _Digital Minimalism_ goes into this quite a bit. It's worth the 250 easy pages, I think.

In the first half of the book he makes the case that smartphone addiction in particular is much more harmful to society than immediately obvious. Many people nowadays spend literally zero time just alone with their thoughts, ever. Unlike with the previous decade's simpler "Internet addiction," even those brief moments when we used to be forced to do so, whether we liked it or not -- like waiting on line at the store -- are gone. He argues that this has extreme deleterious effects on our mental health. The situation is especially dire with the generation that has grown up knowing no other way.

The second half of the book consists of various techniques ("practices") to combat this in our own lives. (More useful ones, than e.g. "delete facebook")
You had a computer? Back then I wrote C programs on paper, then executed them by hand...
After the global climate, and before adolescent social habits, the biggest impact of the automobile has been on built environments.

A frequent auto-apologist has again reiterated in this thread that alternative commuting, particularly by bicycle, simply doesn't work for most Americans simply on account of the geography of most American cities.

Where do you think that geography came from?!!!

When "transport" meant "walking", or for the very lucky, horse-drawn, or beginning around the 1880s, electrically-powered street-cars, cities were a mile or so across -- about the distance a person could walk in 20-30 minutes.

With 30 minutes of expressway travel now being about 30 miles, you end up with cities 30-60 miles across, particularly if they co-evolved with the automobile. This is no accident.

Activities and services which might have been co-located, or closely-located, aren't: housing, work, factories, offices, schools, parks, shopping, entertainment.

I've commuted, variously, by bicycle, boat, bus, train, and far more often then I'd care to admit, by car. When living in cities with post-1930s layouts, the latter is virtually almost necessary. Even in cities whose downtown cores were laid out in the 19th century, late-20th and early-21st century patterns prefer offices, shops, and other activities spread widely across the landscape, with poor bike accessibility.

The best cycling options have been relatively compact, fairly flat, and dense areas (with a few exceptions). Under such circumstances, and with cycling highly encouraged by design, cycling is not only possibly but vastly the suprior option.

Transit-based commuting is an option where high densities and high service levels support it. Even then, there are very few US urban regions in which this is truly an option, and there, most usually only within the urban core. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston make up most of those.

An allergy to density, aversion to new construction, a preference for sprawl, racist legacies concerning both land-use and transit, and grossly misguided attempts to inflate real estate assets rather than maximise regional and national common weal, are other factors with large contributions to this problem.

Mail-based commuter incentives are like trying to ignite a bonfire in an iceberg. The conditions are absolutely inimicable to the goals.
On the contrary, just pay them a few hundred thousand/year.
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> the West was openly contemplating disconnecting Russia from the international payment services

This is a claim made by the Russian government with little actual support as far as I know. It comes up every once in a while when the issue is mentioned, and is usually uncritically accepted.
oh kids! i used to crank the wheel by hand on my analytical engine that my hacker friends and me built after there was a leak of babbage's plans! he never knew!

you kids and you petabytes of ram! back in my day....

/s

(i'm looking forward for these comments to be commented on a certain website i'm not supposed to name)
A scientist intends to prove he found life on Mars in 1976
If you're interested in going through "Seven Sketches", John Baez taught an online category theory course in 2018, with "Seven Sketches" as the text. Check out past lectures (and student discussion) here:

https://forum.azimuthproject.org/categories/applied-category...
Thorentis has a good point. Wondering how folks know they weren't hired because they are female. I am a woman. I have learned that we actually do not speak up for ourselves, are less likely to ask for mentorship - from a universe that tends to be male - and we position differently. IE: I learned (and have observed in myself) that (generally speaking) we need to check off all job requirements in our background before we will apply for a role, whereas men in general do not do this. (again, in general). I have learned as a senior staff member to open up job descriptions to be able to open the funnel, and proactively reach out to diverse candidates. I think there is a ways to go to understand the true benefits of diversity in order to proactively apply and leverage for good, for progress. It is nicer, nonetheless, to see more diverse teams at the senior level though (speaking as an investor).
Big, long-held salute to Mr. Peddle and his team for their remarkable achievement. Their chip changed the lives of millions of us. We can only imagine the number of friendships and careers spawned by their little startup.
If your product is good, it can break into markets by word of mouth. You ignore the fact that incumbents can easily pay for advertising out of economic rents they collect, and do.

Ads can be disruptive, but they are also frequently deceptive and simplistic, not to mention distracting. I loathe the industry with a white-hot passion.
Does it support cython bindings as well? I thought there were issues but that was awhile back.
I was living less than 5 miles away from work for years, it made it very easy to commute by bike (although winter really sucked at times).

This year, that got bumped up to about 12 miles (work moved, not me). At that sort of mileage, it takes much longer to bike, and doing it consistently 5x a week with a physical job is iffy. Not to mention, bike infrastructure to that location is much worse, mostly because the only option runs along a 6-lane road, and resulted in me crashing due to road debris in the dark. Bills from that incident could have bought me a car.

Other options are mainly limited to public transport (buses). Typically takes me about 2 hours one-way, including wasted time at the start of a shift.

Then there are cars. Guaranteed to save me a minimum of an hour a day, with much lower chances of personal injury.
Yeah. Not long ago I thought I can finally try Twitter, but 20 minutes in (just enough time to follow a couple of people and to start getting familiar with the UI) I found UI to be totally blocked by the demand I submit my phone or else. Naturally, I figured I don't need Twitter that much.

So to call a feature nobody asked for which they went a long way to introduce a "bug"... yeah.
I lock my bike with both a strong U-lock and a thick cable lock. Never had it stolen, even when I spent a summer in Baltimore. (Though I would take the bike in at night.) You don't need to have impenetrable security, just better security than the bike next to yours.
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This was an intriguing read, so I'm kind of reluctant to go OT... but is selling blood and/or plasma really a thing in the US?

For background, I'm from the UK, where people donate blood, plasma and platelets, and AFAIK, it's illegal to sell such things. I read all kinds of things about US health care on HN, but this isn't something I've come across before. If true... I don't know exactly, it just feels very, very strange, especially for a "western" country.
FCF == Free Cash Flow
> Is there a way to get a disposable number that cannot be tied to your identity somehow (in the US, at least)?

I have never had to present id when buying a prepaid phone in the US.
He started with "You’re confusing" which is pretty personal. He said "We’re no where near" which is fine if he is an engineer, he is probably "no where near" in contrast to people doing research in that field. I stated the obvious, he is not active in the field.
Rather than just downvoting, could someone answer the genuine question about how the optimization that's been done compares with the work on linear algebra which underpins so much? As a specific example, there's libxsmm for small matrices.

There's no aspersions cast on Hyperscan at all, just a query about what makes it "truly rare" for the benefit of people who don't have time to study it. It would also be interesting to know how it compares with hardware regex implementations, of which I haven't heard anything recently in connexion with bioinformatics where the interest was.
That's a strike. A strike that has no effect on other companies and people doesn't mean anything... That's the whole point.
The 6800 was a $300 chip for comparison.

[edit]the original Apple I was $666.66, which tells you how much the 6502 made it possible.[/edit]
accessing an API? I question how ethical what he did is, but I don't see how it is illegal. I think it's a lot like scraping, which LinkedIn failed to sue people for.
Nobody abused anything. If anyone should be sued for that, it's Twitter, not somebody who used their service exactly the way they invite you to do.
depending on how you configure your kernel and what storage you're using, it might be doable.
Your publications track didn't suggest it.

Edit: you flag me while I am stating that his publications are not ML/AI, go and check it yourself.
I disagree depending on the circumstances.

If you are just trying to make ends meet, then yes, probably don’t go for it.

If you need access to working capital to hire more people, increase production, etc then it’s completely worth it.

For reference I founded a consulting company. We landed large projects. Had to pay employees to produce the deliverables, but did not get paid until later.

Basic math here is: Typically Net 30 terms. Usually have to pay a month or so worth of salary before hitting milestone to allow billing (then 30 more days to get paid). With $80k/mo in salaries we required working capital.

Even at the criminal levels that are charged for startup loans (plus personal guarantee) it is worth it when you are making 60%+ margins.

I have since paid down the loan and then sold the consulting side to focus on some products with a small in-house team. Funded for years at this point.
I think this is one of the pitfalls of working remotely. It's hard to gauge how your work is being received and similarly how managements requests are being received.

Have you talked to management about this concern? I think the solution is more about communicating expectations and consequences rather than something that you should be fixing just on your side. At this rate, you will burn out, it sounds like it's already starting. No one wants that to happen. They probably need to hire more backend devs which is another discussion. You should also be careful to distinguish what you interpret from requests from their intentions. It's possible management has no idea that you're being overworked unless you somehow let them know and they're just keep giving you work because you perform so well. I wouldn't however call them blameless.
My first few PCs weren't even PCs, I didn't know what they were until I was a little bit older. Somehow I intuited them naturally though; I liked exploring and being curious about what I was looking at.

First one I remember was a Commodore 64, along with a 600 page book full of BASIC that you could type out and record on cassette to have your own game. The book was total gibberish to anyone else; it was just pure code with no explanation. But that's what the C64 gave you; an interactive environment on boot where you could program a new game and write it to a cassette. By default. If you wanted to play a game you had to type `RUN` or maybe one or two other things to set it up. But you wouldn't know that, because you just had an interpreter on a basic blue and white screen.

Worst bit was the 10 minutes of spasmodic strobe animations that showed you the game was loading. But also each game controlled those loading animations. You had to know what game you wanted to play, and be sure of it, or otherwise you could just flip to the B-side and get a different game.

After that I think we had a BBC Micro at school but I'm not sure. All I remember is an adventure game and one of those classic 5" floppies. I still really love the look and feel of inserting a floppy and manually locking it in. Floppies and cassettes and VHS's minidiscs were truly fantastic for the time. They were still mechanical, unlike CDs.

Then on my dad's side I and my siblings got an Acorn PC and a bunch of random floppies. None of them made any sense but some of them did cool things when you ran them. I remember hiding from my family and putting in the floppies that made flashing colours and watching it until time passed.

Must have been 11 or 12 years old before we first got a PC and by that point I was utterly fascinated. It was some shitty off-the-shelf eMachines thing but it was the best we could get; I managed to retrofit a decent graphics card in it a little bit later.
I get that, starting over in a new place can be tough. I would approach the looking for a new job and looking for clients as the same process. Your skills might not be something that a group needs part/full time but it could be something that they purchase your skills for a week or two a month/quarter and you would be full money wise and still have time to work on your Startup.
God. I had to take over R&D of a service at work and despite the rest of our division already using 2 unit testing libraries and 3 testing idioms, they picked a fourth and a totally different reporting tool.

To be fair, one of those I introduced, because the oldest one we were using was demonstrably broken and prone to human error. I followed it up by shopping it around and getting others on board. One guy I deputized got a promotion in part from finishing what I started. The old one is just barely hanging around due to inertia and fear of breaking changes, but the coverage (% of overall, and I'm pretty sure LoC as well) continues to dwindle.

These guys picked a new one and then did nothing. Never talked about it, never pitched it to anybody, just forked our testing process. If that was the biggest problem with this code I'd just roll up my sleeves and fix it, but they broke so many other rules too - ours and ecosystem rules - that this is the least of the problems with the code. I might get around to looking at it in six months. I've been working on it for three months already.
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Approach a stranger who needs money, somewhere well out of view of any cameras. Pay them to buy a prepaid phone from Walmart or the like, using cash, on your behalf.
What about cameras and facial recognition?
Reputation is usually something that affects you regardless when you are on a board. Plenty of board members invest little time or commitment, though.
I use an antiquated version of Lightroom on Windows that I shelled out for years ago, but I seem to recall that Darktable got Windows support 1-2 years back - I'd love to see a direct comparison to see if it's worth making the switch.

Feature-wise, Lightroom is great - my main beefs with Lightroom are performance and stability: it's slow, and crashes occasionally.
>But the journalists present this story as Russia's voluntary step towards isolating itself from the global internet. I am not sure why.

Because Russia is the bad guy du jour... They have to gal to try to not sell their country and assets wholesale to foreign interests, plus something kleptocracy something (which the West never minds when it comes to allies, or their own behaviour in Asia, L. America, Africa, etc).

So you get the usual barrage or news items, and people who can't even point Europe on the map (much less such subtlety as to point to e.g. France or Russia) feel like they can have an opinion.
Does it support application level conflict resolution and transactions retries? Or does this even need a special support on the application level?
You might be right.

I thought having a varied structure is better because it allows people to talk about whatever they want to talk about, however they want to talk about it. But when I watch or read good interviews (not job interviews), the interviewer asks good questions, listens a lot, and asks subtle (yet effective) follow-up questions that creates an engaging conversation because of the stories or details that you learn. Bad interviewers get in the way by not listening well, talking too much, or asking bad questions.

I'm just not yet sure if there are universal questions that can be applied across all job categories and functions, that will also get people to provide good anecdotes and details. For example, are there questions you ask a football coach that are equally applicable to asking a software engineer?
Because sometimes people need to get places at specific times. One obviously doesn’t want to be late, and, being very early can be a colossal waste of time. Taking the specific train that gets to the destination a little early (but not too early), or on time, solves that problem.
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You need cash to run a business, wherever it comes from. Otherwise you don't have a business in the first place.
Terrible advice. I see a lot of sites which haven't been updated since the previous millennium, but JS still reports "(c) " + (new Date()).getYear(); or somesuch.
Nobody wants ads banned.

I do. I'm OK with magazine-type ads I suppose, since that's a format where advertisers can provide information to the consumer who may or may not choose to study it. If I am soliciting information about products or services through whatever medium, fair enough. Likewise I don't especially mind watching trailers when I go to the movies, since it's reasonable to think that I would be willing to consider spending money to watch other movies in the future.

But most ads are about hijacking my attention, which I greatly resent.
I'm not a journalist and I had to leave Russia because of Putin's regime. Maybe I just know more facts, but for every citizen it's clear like day that all this fuzz is about blocking sources of information. Try to search about "FBK Navalnyj" and you'll find more info.
Seems like it's not that far off the conventional monetization route of a recruiter. If you could increase the recruitment/candidate success rate after 12 months for new hires, even by a little bit, that'd probably be a pretty nice selling point.
They is the only available standard gender neutral term. The only alternative is "it" which is generally considered offensive when applied to people (try calling a new baby whose gender you don't know "it" and see what kind of look you get).
I've never seen this site. Thanks!
Yes it is, as is in several else. At least back 10 years ago and for about 5-6 years I hosted around 10 different guests (or groups of guests, e.g some couples, some sisters, etc) and have been hosted around 12-15 times by others. Some are still friends and in-touch...
Do you appreciate the irony that your article that brags about writing your own comment system was taken down by a bad comment?
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Huge fan of DarkTable. As someone who doesn't want to lock my whole photo-processing pipeline into a subscription-based model for the rest of my life (Lightroom) it's by far the most powerful tool at my disposal.

That said, pain points for me have included:

- Managing multiple databases across multiple machines. My use-case is I have a central database with all photos on one machine. Generally do initial edits on another and then move the files across. I have yet to find a workflow - with the "Local sync" feature, or simply moving files and their edit files across the network - that feels simple. Should be noted that dragging files + their XLF's from temporary machine to primary machine wont import into the "database" for you. And you have to make sure all your directory structure and naming schemes are the same on all your machines.

- The community around "styles" (presets) doesn't scratch the surface compared to Lightroom's. There's one main website [1], but it's not really curated. I'd like to see more blog posts and pros offer these.

[1] https://dtstyle.net/
>Such things as adding duplication to increase clarity is often papering over a problem, when it would be better to solve it.

So much this, lately. I've found myself unsatisfied with the convoluted code needed to share some functionality across two similar but distinct areas, and trying to figure out if the repetition or the convolution is easier to understand for the reader, and what it means for maintainability.

But really what's tickling me is that there is a better solution waiting in there somewhere.
If you are just delivering images and text in a blog then I expect your site to work fine without JS.

I dont get when I go to what appears to be quite a simple blog and it's completely unusable without JS...

When that's the case I'm just not going to bother with your site / blog.
The price fell precipitously over just a few years, too. By 1978 it was going for about $8 ($31 today) for large quantities, and by 1981 you could purchase them for $4 ($15 today) individually and well under $3 in bulk.