skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the parent poster, and this may or may not be what they were referring to, but FYI, there is an entire field of thought called "Impression Management" which may be of interest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression_management
Alternately: Since natural resources are not created by people, there's no reason why a given person should have the right to profit from it to the exclusion of others. They didn't do anything to create the resource, it was there already.
> The total number of deaths related to torture and murder during this period are unknown, but generally estimated to be around 250,000.

Was there something comparable in Singapore or UAE? If so, I haven't heard about it.

But we hear about human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia and Israel/Palestine all the time, so I don't think your claim that "it's never a problem when human rights violations happen in a countries that are allies of USA" is valid.
Exercise is vital...
https://www.ausmed.com/cpd/articles/exercise-induced-neuropl...
https://www.wbur.org/foodtalk/2019/12/27/food-podcast-resist...

Remember that a good diet is also important...
https://www.organicfacts.net/most-unhealthy-foods.html
Literally? No, it's her storage device and her data on it. This is a figurative argument about why she wants to release it.
Sorry, you are right. It would probably be more accurate to use Spring actually. I was thinking of Cassandra/Zookeeper specifically when I said Apache.
Wasm is getting really big in running stuff outside the browser, e.g. in blockchains. Check out my overview of Wasm in Blockchain 2019 here: https://medium.com/nearprotocol/wasm-for-blockchain-2019-d09...
> That doesn't matter that still doesn't guaranty yielding the thread will allow another specific process to run.

Right, but you would expect the "switch to another thread" function to eventually pick the one that's sitting there with a growing and growing time since it last got a chance to run.

It would be easy to guarantee that if any thread has been waiting for at least x amount of time, then any context switch without long-waiting local threads will pick that thread. (If it's on the same NUMA node, at least.) But in the actual implementation that time can build up to a huge amount with no effect, even as thousands of yield calls go by.

> Especially not if that process is soft locked to a different core.

Yeah, that's the problem, it's getting locked to a core even though other cores are desperate for threads to run.
What I find interesting is that in some cultures people dance together (e.g. as couples or as a group), but in Western culture people mostly prefer to dance alone. And often people even zone out, focusing only on the music and ignoring other people.
Cats get a diabetic syndrome that is very similar to type 2 diabetes. Almost all healthy cats are fed the same basic nutrients. There is usually no added sugar in a cat's diet. Diabetes doesn't select for cats that only ate particular brands of cat food. Most housecats get fat but do not get diabetes. Changing the diet helps but insulin is often necessary for treatment (as cats' pancreases can get exhausted). There are theories that feeding a high-fat low-carb diet may reduce the incidence of diabetes in cats but it hasn't been tried on a scale large enough to know.

Metabolic syndrome is definitely multifactorial and causation is difficult to establish. Not saying you're wrong, but nobody has ruled out its causes.
The "bombshells" according to the article are that her father planned gerrymandering for the North Carolina state legislature... like every single political party in power everywhere where gerrymandering is legal.

The actual bombshell? That "gerrymandering" is pronounced with a hard "g".

edit: I'm seeing from some of the comments that there are worse things in the actual files. more: Hofeller's actions were gerrymandering based on race, which is illegal and wrong.
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RSS of my subscriptions into a youtube-dl script works well enough for me. You could also just watch YouTube with mpv.
Hi, I am trying to write an article in French to introduce Matrix to a wider public. Especially non tech people.

So I'd like to describe the possibilities accurately. Bridges are a very interesting feature, but how do you implement them ?

I went to the #whatsapp:maunium.net room and only saw guys wondering the same thing with no answer given to them.

I went to https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp/wiki/Bridge-setup and understood they have to be implemented from the server itself ? Is that right ? So as a basic user I can't really make any adjustment on my side to join a Whatsapp group from Matrix, right ?
I try to avoid services which use ReCaptcha as much as I can.
I don't know but I think it could be a SV thing as it's probably a supply/demand issue. If FAANG corps in SV tolerate such behavior then it's because they can't find better people due to strong competition for talent. Google in Europe pretty much has no competition at its level and there are way more devs looking for quality work so it can afford to be way more selective with who they hire or keep. Supply and demand. Just my $0.02.
They are busy right now
I built the Spider-Man experience in WebVR – https://github.com/talkol/spiderman
Never just an idea. Remove the "just". It is a realised idea and it was important that you execute the idea and, to whatever useful extent, finish it. Don't allow that negative wordplay. Don't make light of this and think there are no consequences in keeping that diminishing, passivity inducing "just".
I have tried understanding Georgism a few different times, but I struggle to understand pricing: assuming we could fairly solve the transition from a society in which people currently own land, how would land be valued?

Who determines what land is worth? In a society with property rights, the market bids up land that is undervalued according to society's current needs and expectations and bids down land that is overvalued. When not significantly hindered by government zoning policy, it is pretty good at generating more buildings where there is high demand (see Dallas, TX). If the answer is a bureaucracy, it seems like a system of price controls where prices will inevitably be wrong and misallocate assets. I'm not aware of any country that has yet demonstrated the ability to successfully set direct prices of important economic assets for more than a decade without causing huge surpluses or (more commonly) shortages. A direct price control removes all input information from the market, whereas existing price floors (minimum wages), price ceilings, and subsidies tend to create smaller scale problems.
May be the down-voters think I'm a troll? I thought it was an interesting note about the creator of a protocol responsible for a third of all Internet traffic. Or, does it highlight the alleged ineffectiveness of FAANG-style tech interviews?

Btw, here's a ref: https://web.archive.org/web/20200105225938/https://www.there...
According to the article, that would classify him as a genius. Which checks out.
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Their value to google is high enough to keep them employed but the job is beneath their capabilities.

That's what we call "the perfect job." It pays the bills, but leaves you the maximum amount of (mental|emotional|psychological|spiritual|whatever) energy to work on the things that really interest you ... outside of work.

Of course different people will approach this differently, but I don't want my job to be interesting. I don't draw any sense of self-worth / self-satisfaction / joy-in-life / etc. from my job. My job is just a means to an end, where that end is to pay the rent, pay the electric bill, buy food etc. I have enough other ways to achieve those other things, and an "interesting" (and by extension, "demanding") job just gets in the way.
One argument would be that if someone doesn't have the opportunity to provide for themselves through farming then they have no choice but to work for someone else. That then means that their labor is no longer freely exchanged which is supposed to be the core of Capitalism.

However, my understanding is that Georgism generally applies its arguments to natural resources in general; it's just that land has traditionally been the most important natural resource. You could also probably extend its arguments to other forms of economic rent.
I stand by that - I really think the JVM has a bad GC, and it has cost businesses billions probably. There is no trade off here - the JVM & Java have incredibly high memory requirements due to poor design - and this leads to all kinds of issues (like the bad GC latencies). No other language has this kind of problem as badly as the JVM does, even other GC languages. And we shouldn't accept this anymore - look at how much better golang's GC is for real world usage.
> 2: End the tax deduction companies get for providing health-care to employees.
Right now, large employers receive a group discount from whatever insurance provider they choose. So to bring down healthcare costs in the US, which are 4 times that of the civilized world, this motley crew of economists suggests to eliminate the group discount. That'll work.

That’s not what they’re talking about. They’re talking about the fact that when your employer pays premiums for your health insurance, that a not considered taxable income. That is regressive (higher income people get more health insurance benefits).

> Yes, Joe Plumber's firm pays corporate tax in PA, but any multinational with a decent lawyer pays no tax anywhere. Incorporate in Bermuda, license the IP. In the interest of fairness one could abolish corporate tax, but one could also come down on tax oases. Why isn't that even suggested?

The idea of licensing IP from Bermuda captures the media’s imagination, so there is a lot of coverage of such efforts, but it actually doesn’t add up to much. Most companies simply can’t take advantage of such tricks because they don’t deal with intangible products. Wal-Mart’s effective tax rate is 25% for example. The average effective tax rate for the S&P 500 was about 18% in Q4 2018. That’s higher than the average effective corporate tax rates in say the Netherlands.

Corporate tax avoidance just isn’t a very big deal. Estimates are that legal corporate tax avoidance costs $100-240 billion in revenue across the entire OECD: https://fortune.com/2019/10/16/corporate-taxes-unpaid-g20-su.... That’s just 1.7% of the $15.6 trillion those countries raise in taxes each year. Why does so much media ink get spilled about such a small issue?

> We are supposed to have a consumption tax instead. The wealthier you are, the more likely are to invest. Less wealthy people do not have that luxury, what comes in goes out that month. It seems to be an attempt to shift the tax burden away form the politically connected class.

It’s an attempt to shift to consumption taxes, which economists broadly agree are the most efficient kind of taxes. Which circles back to my original point. You perceive the policy in terms of its effect on the “politically connected class.” But there is a rational, economic reason to favor such a tax regime even if the wealthy didn’t have greater political connections.

The “political connections” reasoning doesn’t hold water to me. We’ve always had rich people. But over the last 50 years, pretty much every developed country has dramatically reduced corporate and investment taxes. Are the rich more politically connected than in 1970? I don’t see any reason to believe that’s true. What has changed over that period is economic theory on taxes. That seems to be the real cause.
Uh... drawing a political district on the basis of race is quite expressly illegal in the United States. What is newsworthy here is that it's a pretty clear smoking gun that that is exactly what was happening.
Vscode does a pretty damn good job.
Nice feature of doing it like in the post:

(filter (every-pred :admin? :mod?) people)

is that a) this arguably conses less, by building only one results list, and b) :admin? and :mod? are just regular arguments, which means they could be replaced by data. I'm thinking of:

(let [acl [:admin? :mod?]]
(filter (apply every-pred acl) people))

This capitalizes on Clojure's interesting design decision in which when funcalled, a :keyword resolves to function that gets an element with the name :keyword from the map passed as the argument.
"gas stations, convenience stores, car washes" I've noticed these places being mentioned a lot in illegal immigration reports.

But you have chosen to use the word "migrant"...
> Rich believes software tools should almost never deprecate features

This is pretty severely mis-stated

He believes the core of a dynamic programming language (specifically the core) has a very high bar for stability in order to avoid a number of problems that other dynamic languages have. This intersects with a number of other ideas, for example Lisp macros can extend syntax from a library and thus keep the change-restricted surface area small since almost anything can be implemented in a library.

I think, don't recall a smoking gun quote for this, correct me if I'm wrong.
Mixed feelings.
On the one hand, we all know that most if not all politicians are corrupt, so the greater transparency that modern technology offers us to expose this truly does help to make the world a better place.
On the other hand, the constant obsessive search by one of the parties to discover “bombshells” from the other while turning a blind eye to the corruption of their own party is upsetting.
I cannot help but feel that this blind obsession to winning the zero sum game at any cost leads you to become the very thing that you are fighting against.
Does anyone have suggestions on polyfills/fallbacks for google CDN scripts? I'd like to straight up block all of Google in my host file, but it breaks about 90% of sites at the moment.
I should clarify that the holes in the wall (outer market) are still there. You may still visit them. But you were also able sometimes to enter the inner market, the big curved warehouse, where the actual fish market is, and that has been moved to Toyosu.
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Certainly that’s one way to look at life. In contrast, I try to always treat people with respect, work my hardest, be honest, and have love for family and friends.

Having a healthy amount of skepticism for your employer and job is a good thing. But operating as a sociopath that sees everyone else at work as someone to manipulate in order to enhance your slacking abilities just seems exhausting. I think being a truthful and good person is the better plan.
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Ned Hall on Possible Worlds and the Laws of Nature
> This blows my mind that in the US one can make such insane money in tech while still being a slacker and retire early with a dream house bought and paid for

Don't feel too bad. As far as I know, only Google and Apple lets you get away with this kind of slacking. Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix certainly don't.

Also, SWE out of college definitely aren't making enough to buy much more than a condo.

That being said, you're still right. I go to a lot of international software conferences, and I when I talk to devs about their work, they are just as smart, passionate, and hard working as the people I've talked to here in the states, but they are getting paid a lot less.

I read a salary report in South Africa and they asked me what I thought, and my first thought was, "You guys need to get paid a lot more".

I hope that with the rise of remote work, this evens out.
Counter example: Latino men tend to be short and date out at a similar rate to Latina women.
Because we design it, so we have the ability to choose its characteristics. The current prioritization of 1% improvements in artificial benchmarks over all else is a disease that is actively retarding progress in the entire field.

Political systems are also designed. If human behavior is in danger of killing us, we must look to the political systems we have created and solve the problems there.
Same. I switched to Goland due to it.
Maybe because some of the "science" today is more about spreading some political view rather than anything else.

For example, there are a lot of gender studies that are presented as a science in my country which I believe is complete bullshit and an ideology.

People are pushing shit like that today and I believe we need more of the hard sciences and less of the soft sciences.
It seems to me that is a variation of the same idea. The only difference is that nomadic groups need access to much more land in order to generate the same number of calories that agriculture does.
What topics/ideas would say someone needs to understand in order to really understand relational databases? Also, can you recommend any resources?
You can lease land and airwave frequencies. You cannot lease coal, for example. You have to buy and use it, and then it's gone forever.

Additionally, we don't know how much coal there is to still be discovered - we know very well how much land there is.
Fastmail has really superb custom domain functionality. Highly recommended.
I don’t want to dox myself here. My level range should be obvious from my salary. I’m a manager not an IC. Yes everyone on my team knows what’s up.
The answer is simple, but it's also one that's completely useless for anyone reading this post. What needs to happen is a gradual realignment in both the funding and hiring criteria across all of academia.

There needs to be less emphasis on quantitative metrics like citation counts, h-indices and other trivially gameable nonsense, and more emphasis on human judgment along with a set of basic criteria to provide a floor to research quality across the board (things that every good scientist should do, as opposed to things that you should relentlessly maximize). This would require the non-scientific managerial class to abrogate some of the power they now wield in the academia and relevant funding institutions, therefore is very unlikely to happen.

And - probably, most annoyingly to the HN crowd - there is nothing meaningful that technological or business disruption can accomplish here. These are systemic social problems that have been continuously and systemically building up since (approximately) WW2. At this point the only entities large enough to make a difference are probably the NIH and NSF in the U.S. and the relevant EU funding agencies in Europe. In my judgment, these are precisely the agencies least likely to institute such change, so here we are.
I understand the narrative that's going to carry after that article the other day, but I've really enjoyed working with GCP over the last 2 years.

The structure for VM use and their Live Migrate capability for upgrading the hardware underneath with no downtime has been excellent on my more long-lived servers.

My biggest wish is some equivalent of Aurora for PostgreSQL.
Bummer this got downvoted, I'm not a huge fan of Marx but he got some stuff right. Noam Chomsky takes a similar view when he says:

"If person does beautiful work under external command, we may admire what he does, but we despise who he is."

This is a quote he takes from the enlightenment.
Sorry. It's an old NHK TV programme (I should have been more clear). It was 5 or 10 minutes long and explored obscure Japanese vocabulary and grammar that even most Japanese people don't know.
Not the OP, but as a working scientist, it seems to me there are two important issues, among many others.

(i) Reproducibility is not a criterion for tenure evaluation, therefore it bears little relevance for career advancement for young scientists. This is an overworked and underpaid group in academia. (In the bay area, they earn 1/3--1/2 the salary of an entry level software engineer but probably work 50% more hours.) They simply don't have the luxury to take time off to reproduce someone else's work.

(ii) No major funding agency would be willing to support the kind of work that reproduces published studies. When something is published, it is considered "done" and not worth spending more money on it.

There needs to be a sea change. But sadly, the academia is at best paying lip services to the structural problems in the "reproducibility crisis". I'd expect it to continue like this for most fields.
You need look no further than the other side of the Columbia River to see the trade-off. Most years, Washington has the most regressive tax regime in the United States, Oregon has the least regressive. Oregon has an income tax and no sales tax.
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Employment is being paid to solve other people's business problems. Other people's business problems are rarely going to bring you passion and enthusiasm.

It's much more practical to find fulfilment outside of work.
Georgism is also compatible with a system where land is auctioned, it's just that the proceeds of the auction go to the state instead of the owner of the land. So you could do auctions and market stuff. Without the possibility of profit from appreciation, of course, the land value would be much lower. But land has value even without appreciation.
Building Eliza – Creating an AI chat-bot with my 10 year old
The majority of users leverage these technologies for a reason. If you use cross-platform technology you can simply reach a broader audience and in the case of a commercial product, generate more revenue with only minimal additional effort.
From my personal experience users don't care at all if the app has a native look or not, as long as the app looks decent and works. I assume having the native UI components of an OS is a very specific requirement, that does not apply to the vast majority of users. In fact, the majority of users likely prefer having the same, highly customized UI of an application, rather than having a completely different looking app when switching platforms.
Take Visual Studio Code as an example. Within a few years, this editor became one of the most popular code editors. The app uses mainly web technology and a browser window and does not look like a native application at all, yet for the majority of users, it feels like a very fast native application.
I think 4chan and its descendants (which include[s|d] SCP) may be the exceptions that prove the rule, as they bought in to the "be slightly evil" advice pretty hard.
A sufficient amount of sleep. What constitutes 'sufficient' is likely quite individual.
"No matter how sophisticated or powerful our thinking machines become, there still will be two kinds of people: those who let the machines do their thinking for them, and those who tell the machines what to think about."
- C.J. Lewis
I think it depends on where you are in Google as in what team/org. I haven't seen much of what this original poster describes on the teams I have worked on.
My limited anecdotal experience, however, is that people work less at the European offices than in the US.