skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How we use our everyday language is incredibly important to fighting systemic racism. The words we use influence how we think. To use an extreme example, I've worked with and along side people who were in and around human trafficking, and I know that little things can have a very big impact.

To put it another way, for a very long time we celebrated Christopher Columbus as an American hero. How do American Indian peoples feel about the celebration of a genocide of their ancestors?
List of the largest conventional explosions by magnitude (non-nuclear)
"yoga" example is quite disturbing.
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s/knife/sword of Damocles/
The LF411 is more than 30years old and can be understood as an upgrade to the jellybean 741, but that one is quite shoddy by today's standards. With the JFET inputs and corresponding low bias current, it comes much closer to the ideal OpAmp than a 741, but there's little else speaking for it (well, it's cheap too). LT1028 OTOH is still the OpAmp with the lowest voltage noise afaik (which it buys with fairly high input currents and input current noise), it's still available, but it ain't cheap.

There has been progress in other regards (lower supply voltages, lower power consumption, rail-to-rail operation, smaller packages), but clearly progress in the analog realm over the last forty years has been much more modest than in the digital.
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That's not true. If you don't use any work resources and it doesn't compete with google, Google doesn't doesn't own it (at least in California).

The reason they have this progress is that google does so many things that almost anything could be considered competing with Google.
Most everyone here is missing the point. The real problem is that NIH funding is limited and competitive, and the NIH needs to prioritize funding labs that don't already have enough money. I'm not discounting that some people involved in this process may be motivated by completely different reasons, but having a complete picture of existing funding sources when distributing grants makes sense regardless of the geopolitical context.
Looks like it uses hashlib to check the file for changes, which is a nice way to make it cross-platform compatible.

For those who run on linux, you can use the inotify tools to set up a watch on a file (or directory or recursive directories). inotify uses kernel events and won't require re-reading and re-hashing the file.
St happens when politics meddles with sciences.
Right, I understand that. All I'm saying it's not the important issue. The important issue is that it's legal in the first place to restrict employees in such ways.
on the other side of the coin, Take Two just killed an indie studio that was refusing to cede control over ksp 2 development direction by poaching the majority of its employers

not saying non-competes are straight up good, but it's not that they exist in a vacuum because every employee is the evil guy from monopoly.

I like the solution that we have here, non competes without monetary compensation are immediately void. so if they want to handcuff you, they have to pay for it after employment for as long as they want the non compete to be enforceable.

it's a minor simple thing, but haggling on the non compete handout is much easier than trying to get the non compete removed.
That's actually been done, although it was more a case of someone not putting enough thought into their assignment than actually trying to rename a color.

Target once sold a children's desk that was available in white or black. One day, that changed to being available in white or African-American.

Target was made fun of for a few days on the internet over that, and presumably some employee learned that when a word has multiple meanings and you are only trying to replace one of those meanings, s/word/replacement/g is not the right approach.

I'd expect that employee also got kidded about it for years afterwards, like if he's going to play a game of chess with a co-worker on their lunch break getting asked if he wants to play white or African-American, or if he shows up at a Halloween costume party as a pirate getting asked if he's African-American Beard.
> If that were true, bail would be adjusted much more aggressively to match available resources.

Nearly 40% of all defendants out on bail are ROR (no money required). Maybe it should be more or “more aggressive”, but few in my experience know that much or what ROR even is.

Bail is otherwise pretty uniform (within each jurisdiction) based on the charges (sometimes a defendants past charges will be considered in the amount as well as ability to abscond).

I see your point about matching the bail to the defendants resources...but it would just encourage attempts to abscond and skip trial. I was the victim of a kidnapping and the defendant got bail ($350k or so) and posted bond (paid 10% to a bondsman and they postEd the full amount). In reality the defendants mom posted the bail, the amount (even though not his money) was a deterrent for skipping trial, but he had nothing so if the amount was say $350 instead of $350k there would be no reason for him not to attempt to abscond, but even he wouldn’t run and harm his own mother financially. Still within 7 days Of posting bail and being released he violated the terms of his bail and was rearrested anyway.
Non competes have their place. But it should cost the employers to enforce it.

The most obvious way is to require paying the employee their previous average total compensation, while still allowing the employee to work outside the non-compete. There should also be some form of “as time goes on you need to pay more to prevent them from taking a competing job”. If you don’t want to pay someone to not work for a competitor, then your non-compete should not be valid.
"Deserve" is complicated. To a first approximation that ignores a lot of details... What have they done to "deserve" it? They didn't buy it. They aren't making the process of figuring out what they want particularly easy.

People who don't show up to vote also "deserve" a good government by virtue of being people who have to live in a governed society. It's harder to make one for them if the system for selecting leaders is missing their input, regardless of what they deserve.

Popping out of the government analogy and back to software, power users are also in a position where they are more capable of adjusting their experience to suit their needs. All things being equal, a company with finite resources to develop software should dedicate those resources to assisting the non-power users more often than power users.
Engineers SHOULD be responsible for testing code they write themselves.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with the need for QAs to test as well.

At the very least there is a completely different psychology required in testing, where the goal is to break things, but when you are the person who has created that thing there is sub conscious resistance to breaking things too much.
Big discussion 9 bays ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23426189
If I were Facebook, I’d start building a browser yesterday.
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We're in the center of the observable universe, unless light travels at different speeds in different parts of the universe.
That's why Swift does support unnamed parameters as well, and they can interweave with named ones. If the type of the argument is explicit enough, you can make the parameter name at call site optional.
Try '/MigrateDrivers None' when upgrading (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...).
It seems CCP's only defense of their actions is to attack critics as racist, which is kind of like a false dichotomy.

The reality is it's possible to condemn any given government and its actions and its agents in that capacity, while saying nothing about a people.

I agree, their position is so weak as to not withstand debate, so they fear debate and resort to deflections like this.
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Is this for anything at all? What if, hypothetically, I want to try out some concepts in angular material to learn? Would I need sign off just to put that in a public gitlab repo (because I get free uncapped CI minutes if it is public). At some point the code should be obvious and silly, right? I mean I’m not doing anything novel here, just learning stuff. It has no commercial value.
Tcl as well.
$7850 Bitcoin bounty for an open source tool to export your Twitter followers
> Hertz was in trouble anyway; it’s carrying around a ton of debt to pay for a fleet of cars that no one wants to drive, because we have Uber now.

Do people go on vacation and just Uber everywhere? The times I take an Uber are largely times I’d have taken a taxi, which is to say times I should not be driving.

I still however rent a car on vacation. I like the freedom to just be like “I wonder where that road ends up” and end up exploring 50 miles out of town.
A lot of people think that deciding to call an outbreak a "pandemic" is an important step that triggers action. It's not.

The important step - the one with real legal consequences - is the declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The WHO declared a PHEIC on 30 January, about a month and a half before they called the outbreak a "pandemic."

One WHO official made a funny statement in which he expressed his annoyance with ignorant journalists who don't know that using the word "pandemic" isn't important, in terms of the actual public health response and the procedures laid down in the International Health Regulations:

> A sign of the WHO’s frustration was visible during a news conference this week – one of around 30 hour-long briefings the WHO has held for international media since the COVID-19 outbreak began. A senior official who had been asked repeatedly by journalists about whether the disease constituted a pandemic gave a half-joking but tetchy response: "This is a word you love, right? You just can't wait, can you?"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-me...
That only works for extremely simple projects with very small teams working on "hobby projects". For anything serious you need an independent and professional QA team which essentially does nothing else than trying to break the product all day in and out.

Programmers should be required to do enough local testing to not break the build of course, but the same person who wrote the code can't also thoroughly test it, because they'll inevitably only test the "happy path", even if they don't intend to.
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This really just sounds like nit-picking, the language is miles ahead of most other languages.
Nobody said there wasn’t enormous support for healthcare in the US, so I’m not sure what you’re arguing. It seems like a strawman. Without more information on the population, healthcare systems and income level of the 15 Western European countries, your data point doesn’t really prove anything. Also notable that you focused exclusively on healthcare in lieu of mentioning education or housing.
Where's the pressure to rewrite an existing application in Swift coming from?
Such actions have a tendency to back fire.

For example read up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen

This was a scientist who was forced out in the 50ies and he ended up founding modern Chinese rocketry, including their ICBMs. Of course they would have eventually done it anyways, but it would have likely taken longer.
How does that work? I have a hard time believing this. If they employee writes a sci-fi novel in their free time, does the company own the copyright for that?
That's a false dichotomy. You can worry about politics and other "essential" debates, and still worry about language and better defaults. It's low-gain/low-effort, but that's not really a reason to object.
We are very unlikely to be in the center of the universe, and all evidence points to the universe having no center. The observable universe is centered around the observer, by definition. This article explains it better than I can in a HN comment block: https://www.livescience.com/62547-what-is-center-of-universe...
That’s already there, you can edit and post on the web
> What Google is trying to do here is to drift the web from its most iconic components: the URL

A few months back, people on HN were wondering why creating a new tab in Firefox causes the URL bar to become magnified.

I wonder if this is part of the reason. Perhaps Firefox believes they have to educate users about the URL bar because Chrome is attacking it.
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
Thanks for the feedback! It now autofocuses when not on a mobile breakpoint. I originally had autofocus enabled, but on mobile it would cause the question to scroll off the screen before you had a change to read it which... wasn't ideal :-).
"Lauer also presented data on the nature of the violations that NIH has uncovered. Some 70% (133) of the researchers had failed to disclose to NIH the receipt of a foreign grant, and 54% had failed to disclose participation in a foreign talent program. In contrast, Lauer said, only 9% hid ties to a foreign company, and only 4% had an undisclosed foreign patent."

Based on this, many foreign researchers that cooperates with the United Stated, and there are several thousands of them, should be severely punished in his/her country of origin. Most researchers in foreign countries cooperate with American research organizations that transfer technology to US the industry. Just for an example, my home country exchanges information about the Amazon with American institutions, and much of that information is passed on to pharmaceutical companies operating around the world. This is a despicable action that targets China in a way that is racist and hypocrite.
No, I believe the argument as a principle. The alternative, that certain people somehow have a right to employment at private companies, doesn't make any sense.

Labor has market power as well, if it chooses to employ it. Somehow, I don't think a guild of columnists is going to amass to protect Sullivan, though.

As an aside: do you think it has ever once been persuasive to write something like "you must realize you don't mean what you say, but rather this other thing I'm convinced you think"?
This is not really surprising to me. When you have a prolonged zero interest rate policy, and “there is no alternative” then the only thing left to do if you want to make money on your money is gamble. To me the Robin Hood traders are not creating this phenomenon, rather they are just making it plainly visible as it goes mainstream.
Wouldn't the feds just overrule them anyway?
They do this in finanance, New York has relatively enforceable non-competes. Typically they'll pay you your full salary for the period of time you're not working.
At least you have heard of him, and obviously you know how to operate the "flagged" button. A nice toy for everyone who wants to play thought police.
> their leaders said that “asymptotic transmission is rare” which is a deadly lie

How it is a lie? People talk a lot about the presence of asymptomatic transmission, but:

1. No one knows for sure if completely asymptomatic people are contagious, and the extent of such contagiousness;

2. People equate asymptomatic with presymptomatic, which is a totally different story;

3. The evidence is at best, inconsistent. There is one case report of a non-contagious "asymptomatic" (reading the paper, the symptoms were there, just not the usual ones), and Singapore contact tracing of a number of completely asymptomatic people did not seem to find infected people in contact with them.

Presymptomatic state is a different matter, and it looks more contagious, but again, a lot of it is speculation, because it's really hard to measure.

This transmission is there. The extent of it is not known.
> when you are the person who has created that thing there is sub conscious resistance to breaking things too much.

Definitely this. I'm primarily a developer, but while I can do a good job of QA on someone else's code, I find it almost impossible to do a thorough job on my own.
>>not-release anything so that I have plausible deniability if/when I quit.
This, obviously. You're basically supposed to.
10^-12 before FEC strikes me as outlandishly low.

Why would applications even care about the BER before FEC?.
There do seem to be some strong indicators there might be a push in that direction. The rising levels of fear mongering directed at others has me a tad concerned.

At the very least, I think people should be aware this may be happening.
Developers are <1% of users - anything outside of dev tools is not changed with them in mind.
You can enable logging and write everything to the same system as the server. For individuals, the best thing is to set up an IRC bouncer that everyone can connect to and preserve messages.
It sure was convenient that both "black" in English and "niger" in Latin meant "evil" during times of dehumanizing and enslaving others based on the color of their skin.

Basic knowledge of the English language also shows us that the word black does have to do with race. It means something for sure to black people.

The word black is both a personal identity around race, and it is often used to mean "evil" or "bad" in the modern workplace. While "white" is used to mean "good" in the workplace: whitelist. And white is also a race. I would hope that just about anyone can see why moving away from using black to mean "evil" in the workplace and moving to using more accurate words like denylist is not just easy, it would also make the workplace feel intentionally more welcoming to our black colleagues.
This "URL eliding" makes parameters impossible to click and select. So annoying. I filed a bug for desktop Chrome:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=108440...
Why would he give control of the company he's been building got 25 years to some low level employees who don't give a shit?

I swear, the slacktivists went nuts over the "fight for $15!!!", Amazon gives them $15 and suddenly it's not enough all the sudden.
Just last Friday we talked about that, why not send just a kind of PDF to the printer.

We got a month ago new printer in our company. Now we just print, walk to any printer in the company and login with the card. Now we have to choose our printer job and we could change from color to bw. But we can't change the paper size.
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> Of course they would have eventually done it anyways, ut it would have likely taken longer.

why? what was he waiting for?
Low interest rates are destroying everything.
What's really weird is that sometimes the audio works of you navigated to the page, but if you refresh the page it breaks.

For as much as Google engineers talk about "don't break the Web", they break the fucking web all the time.
Kim Jong Un’s sister threatens South Korea with military action
In the next step, assistant can become CEO while CEO plays golf.
For what it's worth, source stability is definitely a much firmer constraint now in the minds of the core team: https://forums.swift.org/t/principles-for-trailing-closure-e...

Of course this comes with its own concerns, as you can see from that thread.
You could also try Mumble or Matrix. I'd stay away from Slack, Discord or other proprietary services.
Im curious about 100+ distribution too. Live in amazon area, cant imagine a single employee making under 100k, even 5 years ago
I think the reason is that there is no interfacing between federal money and their currency, it's the equivalent of bartering only with the agileness of currency notes instead of cows, lamb and sheep. To your question, if cryptocurrencies stayed in cryptocurrencies with no interfacing to fiat, it would be the same with no government having any ability to govern it aside form outright banning by force.
Using color to convey information is very difficult to make it be accessible while still working with themes and being aesthetically pleasing at the same time.
If there are several Mac apps that you want to run, maybe getting a Mac wouldn't be a terrible idea.
Long as hell post with a clickbait title documenting how the author found out (1) one can insert multiple rows with a single INSERT statement; (2) the RETURNING clause. Spend your time elsewhere if you’re already aware; maybe pick up a SQL textbook if you aren’t...

This is not an uncharitable read btw. Actual quotes:

> The first thing I learned was how to insert multiple rows with a single INSERT statement: ...

> Scouring the docs I discovered the RETURNING clause of an INSERT statement.
I didn’t mention opinions which are claimed to be factual matters. I mentioned factual matters. The fact that people can lie isn’t exactly new.
The answer is that nothing of this seems to be a crime, and scientists are not in the business of filling reports, but doing research. If you get money from the USA, there is no law saying that you cannot get money from China. The science is the same and the money is the same. What the US is trying to do is to stop innovation and criminalize the collaboration with Chinese institutions.
== The US is very culturally diverse, so "one size fits all" is likely much more difficult.==

Seems like something the “greatest” or “richest” country should be able to figure out.

Are you suggesting the culture of rural Japan is the same one-size-fits-all as Tokyo? Or that Melbourne and inner-Australia are culturally the same?
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I am currently reading the Aitareya Upanishad with commentary by Swami Chinmayananda (founder Chinmaya Mission), but you can find multiple well rated ones online.
For Puranas too there are multiple options though I don't think one could go wrong with the translations by Dr Bibek Debroy (leading Economist and Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. Look up his limericks on twitter) who has also translated the Ramayana and only the third person to translate the unabridged version of the Mahabharata.

Otherwise if you can read Hindi and manage to find physical or electronic versions, would recommend Gita Press versions. English ones often come with a multitude of pronunciation symbols (due to the limits of English) which unaccustomed readers may find a bit irritating.