skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Partially with much of that pay won via union work or like building codes to prevent a race to the bottom while enforcing some standard for safety. That skilled carpenter might be offered a contract for $10/hour under their union requirement but chooses to enforce their standards instead of subverting their fellow tradesmen.

A good comparison is quality comments and coding standards. Consider if there was an enforceable standard for code structure, comments, documentation, etc like most decent github repos with developers striving to reach Linux kernel level overall quality. This would include a standard training/education process, collective bargaining and action for pay/benefits and standard to changes. It is a field where not every ISO standard needs to be applied in full, but there could still be some base enforcement.

Like, what if every code base was commented, well structured, and followed general best practices like to-code electrical or plumbing work? What if code review or inspections against a standard were enforced time set aside and sign off required before wrapping a project? What if the lowest bidder on a coding job had a floor due to set benefits and standing agreement on rates and max hours per week/day? These are practices the best employers may strive for and are able to apply but are required in most trades.

I appreciate a line comparing how artists are payed compared to trades: If a band is asked to do a show for the 'exposure' they should ask the planner to call the local plumbers union and ask their going rate for 4 plumbers for a 4 hour job. Home advisor has a few estimates but project data puts an average at $317/hour. Maybe a random band isn't worth $1200/hour or $5k a gig but some definitely can command that price. If most bands stuck to a standard rate range the planner will expect and budget for proper pay.

https://www.homeadvisor.com/cost/plumbing/hire-a-plumber/
Because those parents are bearing the costs of their childrens eating habits, rather than the kids feeling the cost.
Not every point in time refers to a timezone.
If I write that 1 january 1970 was an eventful date, I can't/dont want to add a timezone to it. Then you may want to store/format times without dates, etc...
That doesn't really help much. Most enthusiast subreddits are full of posts that are just "look at my [basic standard hobby gear] picture". Even those places are overrun with this.
Thanks - I feel like there should be something to legally strong-arm banned users into staying away. CFAA is one of the most direct: “I have banned you from my site and you keep coming back so I will take you to court to make you stop”. For those users we don’t really want to get damages from them as much as we just really want to never have to deal with them again. I’d even be fine with a restraining order Against the person using the site kind of thing as the maximal punishment.

If it were a physical store and you kicked someone out for bad behavior and then they kept coming back by wearing different wigs or something, it would still be illegal.
You have a distinctly queer idea of physics. Just because many many assholes in the past have used violence to steal land, does not require any of the following:

* current or future people honor the validity of those assholes' decisions and actions
* current or future people choosing to make right the bad things their ancestors did in the past, and giving back what was taken.
* current or future people changing the structure of governance to allow groups to co-exist

All of these things are possible actions humans can take. Physics does not stop it - post war "happenings" are just human decisions. So why does your post read like the current situation is immutable just because it was preceded by war?
Idris is primarily an academic language, much like Haskell. While I don't doubt that people will come to implement such programs in it at some point, I haven't seen anything yet (though I admittedly don't stick close to Idris at the moment so I could've missed something).
Sure, see pages 35-36 (combined with the previous section on poverty) of [1]. Note that most studies claiming otherwise do not account for income level of immigrants, which is what I am responding to here. Higher income immigrants are generally a net positive for social programs, but lower income immigrants are not.

[1] https://cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/articles/2001/mexico/mex...
They can wiretap, sure, but they can’t practically compel you to give up your book cipher.
I understand the to the winner go the spoils...lose a war, regardless of who declared or started it and there goes your land. Human history...but I also think that treaties made at the time should be honored.
Apparently Congress can unilaterally change the treaties, as per another SCOTUS decision in https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/187us553

In a unanimous decision, the Court affirmed the Court of Appeals and upheld the Congressional action. The Court rejected the Indians' argument that Congress' action was a taking under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Justice Edward D. White reasoned that matters involving Indian lands were the sole jurisdiction of Congress. Congress therefore had the power to "abrogate the provisions of an Indian treaty," including the two-million acre change. Justice John M. Harlan concurred in the judgment.
Ask HN: What forums do startup aspiring women([non-]technical) regularly visit?
I am looking to invite others to join my project(details are here: https://bsldld.neocities.org) and want to invite women so as to strike a right balance in team formation. Do you know forums where I can post my project details to invite female startup aspirants(non-technical and technical) to my project?
We need to tell Jeff Bezos about this strategy
Apple makes iOS corona ready
Reminds me of a comment made by Mike Duncan ( history of Rome, Revolutions ) that in revolutions, the later revolutionaries destroy the early adopters.
Mating strategies are not exactly uniform within the group known as mammals, either. A number of things come into play, such as the resource differential between sperm and egg, and then general sexual dimorphism.
the price you pay for living in a liberal toilet bowl.
I think the problem with this line of thinking is that, most often, the difficulty lies exactly in rewriting the real problem into the made-up problems. So, to have useful tests, you need to check if your made-up problem solutions actually solve the real problem, which is difficult to express in the first place.

For example, let's say you want to get some users from your DB in response to an HTTP call. We rewrite this problem in terms of crafting some SQL query, taking some data from the HTTP request to create that query. We can of course easily test that the code creates the query we designed that the query contains the right information from the HTTP request etc. But, if we don't actually run the query on the actual DB with the actual users, we don't really know if our query does the right thing, even if we know our code creates the query we intended. And, if the DB changes tomorrow, our very abstract code that parametrizes a particular SQL query will still need to change, so our existing unit tests will be thrown away as well.

This is the kind of plumbing code the OP was talking about, and I don't think you can reduce the problem in any way to fix this (especially if the DB is an external entity).
> In retrospect, this strategy turned out to be pretty effective.

You think so? It lasted all of fourteen years and did very little to stop the flow of alcohol throughout the country. And I believe it's the only amendment to have been repealed.

If it were a legislative action, rather than an amendment, I suspect it would have been more effective in the long term since legislation is usually more thorough and detailed than constitutional amendments.
This is always a fun corner of programming terminology to me.

A ton of dense, mathy code like hash computation, de/serialization, sin/cos computation, etc. is usually best implemented in a memory efficient C-style way but lends itself to be used in a very functional way; inputs and outputs without any retained state or side effects.

I think that subtlety is hard to articulate and gets lost.
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Evidence-Based Health Benefits of Tomatoes
Almost. Not becomes, can become.
No? There are no fonts built into browsers.
On a state-by-state level, rich districts do not spend more than poor districts: https://apps.urban.org/features/school-funding-do-poor-kids-...

Obviously high-cost states spend more than low-cost states. But their education spending is consistent with the size of their economies. Mississippi has a GSP per capita of $35,000 and spends $8,700 per student. Italy, Spain, and New Zealand have similar GDP per capita and also spend a similar amount per student.
Think this is a growing problem.

Related:

https://segment.com/blog/the-10m-engineering-problem/
Since you don't propose a third possibility, it seems like you just didn't like my language? If I wrote "the reporter is either unaware that widely-available backups of the blog exist (despite apparently quoting from one in this story), or trying to create public speculation that something damaging about Alexander might be true when he knows it to be false", then would you agree with me?
> consider offsets (Z or -0500 etc) required rather than "optional"

ISO8601 without an offset is semantically different to one with an offset, it represents a time in local timezone (context-dependent). It isn't an "optional" offset in the sense that you can just omit it, it is a fundamentally different data type.

Without this distinction, there is no way to specify a local time in ISO8601, which would be highly inconvenient for certain applications. For example, how do you represent an event that occurs at 9am every day regardless of location? After all, dates and times are used for more than just storing absolute timestamps.

You are absolutely correct that offsets are also not timezones, which makes the ability to specify local "floating" times even more important (i.e. you can't just denormalize the above concept into a list of timestamps with offsets for each timezone you care about, as the offsets will change over time [edit: and tz->offset conversion is lossy and not reversible]).
If a website that wants to be archived doesn't opt-in that is a failure of the website. If a website that doesn't want to be archived is archived that is a (possibly non criminal) trespass by the archivist.
There are prohibitive restrictions on lotteries. This is the same reason when you see "buy now win a chance at _" advertising, there's small print somewhere that explains no purchase is required, and provides a[n inconvenient] alternative to getting chances in the giveaway.

More detail here, a quick scan showed it to be reasonably in line with my outdated knowledge on the topic, at least...
https://gleam.io/guides/no-purchase-necessary
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, this makes sense to me: if you have books full of top qualifying candidates, it can be beneficial to have a secondary selection criteria.

I'm not familiar with an academic system like this so I can't really comment if it's giving good outcomes vs. purely academic selection. My country is small enough to have a single top tier university and multiple second level institutions, so I'm ingrained with the idea you should choose the best academic candidates from a limited applicant pool.
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Are we looking at the same numbers? See page 3, subscription revenue is ~2.7x ad revenue.
Nothing is as permanent as a temporary government measure
No, they engaged the arguments, and then also made a character attack based on their reasoning.

If you, in the midst of a counter-argument, point out that someone was lying in their original argument, calling them a liar is not an ad hominem. It's a conclusion.
Tim Excludes Huawei from 5G Core Equipment Tender in Italy, Brazil-Sources
Speaking as a former working-class person from a long lineage of working class people, this is obviously and overt nonsense. The criminal justice system and the (highly distributed) institution of policing in particular must be improved and reformed, but the idea that they "oppress working class people" in any meaningful way is severely disconnected from reality (well, communist countries notwithstanding).

EDIT: Wow, this post was downvoted the very moment I posted it (<1s). Good work HN.

EDIT 2: retracted claim that the parent was lying as opposed to the more charitable interpretation of their error.
I sign up for this about 5 weeks ago with a deposit of $100 and won $0.63. On an annualized basis that would be around 6%. Guess I‘m a lucky guy!
The article conflates money with income. It could be that people with higher paying jobs find more satisfaction from their work which brings up their happiness levels. As a software engineer I am both relatively well paid and find great satisfaction with my work and life in general.

To tease out the difference between work satisfaction and income, I would like to see information on post transfer levels of wealth. Is someone making $30k a year from a salary equally as happy as someone bringing in 15k a year and 15k in transfer payments?
But "squatters rights" are in fact the law... So a party "squatting" and thereby becoming the new owner is not a counterexample to the statement that "Unlawful acts, performed long enough and with sufficient vigor, are never enough to amend the law." The squatters are not amending the law, they are acting in accordance with it.
Experts Say Profit Motive Hinders Battle Against Online Disinformation
What? My step 2: Go to ip addr and ask your favorite celebrity (whose ip you got) for an autograph and selfie together
> It boggles the mind that people can live with themselves and can carry on living with such guilt. Then again, maybe it’s my western sense of morality that tells me the perpetrator should feel guilt. Perhaps they don’t...

The average westerner walks around in clothing made by incredibly desperate people living in poverty who work long hours in horrible conditions.
Works on tweets and personal emails too!
Covid-19 Cases Are Rising, So Why Are Deaths Flatlining?
It's crazy to me that in 2020, there isn't comprehensive, mandatory Federal tracking of police-involved shootings. There's no reason that this data shouldn't be mandated to be aggregated and researched, other than to continue propagating a culture of secrecy.

From the FBI's Use-of-Force data collection site[0]:

> Is it mandatory for law enforcement agencies to contribute to this data collection?

> The FBI has no legal authority to mandate reporting of any data to the UCR Program. The FBI is working closely with the major law enforcement agency organizations and the CJIS APB, which is composed of local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement partners, to obtain broad support and forge commitments from these members to report this critical information. National support is garnered through working partnerships with national law enforcement agencies as well. The National Use-of-Force Data Collection and community participation to report data will likely continue to evolve.

All data collected at the Federal level is voluntary, that's just unacceptable.

0: https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr/use-of-force
Because the city made it illegal, obviously. Just like Portland. They're not going to operate at a loss. All you're doing is criminalizing deliveries that cost more than 10%.
I urge you to read the SCOTUS opinion itself, and not just the rhetoric you may have heard in the media about the opinion. Because this:

> According to the recent ruling therefore, a President has the power to issue and EO which prevents the enforcement of certain laws

is flatly untrue.
Venmo or cc cards would be great but I guess the fees could be tough
It is quite similar to function of "down votes" on eg. Reddit and Hacker News, where the righteous can hide contributions from dissidents. I feel proper moderation against a rule set is the way to go, not automatic deletion or banning from "disagree votes".
The pattern matching could easily be automated. It's basically a game of 21 questions. Doctors sometimes fail here by getting too fixated on prior probabilities ("this condition is very uncommon so you don't have it").

The expertise, and IME this is rare, is in turning vague descriptions into matchable patterns, prompting for more detail when needed, and explaining things at the appropriate level (which for some patients might be quite high, others quite low).
...or the more interesting and perhaps less plausible explanation: someone who doesn't toe the line, someone who was trying to "take down the system from within"...

I often wonder what goes through the minds of those whose work helps companies exert more control over their customers. Maybe some of them are not so "obedient" after all...
I was joking about failed states
No it's not. An ad hominem is saying, "your character sucks, therefore your argument must be wrong", or focusing your attack mostly on their character rather than any line of reasoning. Throwing in an insult here and there may be poor form, but that does not an ad hominem make.

Especially when the character attack is a result of the line if reasoning you're making. If your whole argument is, "between X and Y and Z, we can see that Politician is corrupt", calling them corrupt is an insult but not an ad hominem.
over 23M people save through Premium Bonds (33% of the population) with over $100B deposited.

Here in the UK it used to be common for children to receive premium bonds as birthday gifts from grandparents who have no idea what children actually want.
Thanks! BTW, I just released v0.8 last night: make sure you check it out, it's quite an upgrade.
> I don't want to rely on my soft skills or work connections to set me up in the future

Maybe don't rely, but please don't feel bad about using work connections.

And it's not necessarily a matter of "set me up": If you work well with someone at one company, you'll probably work well with them at another. It's win-win.
That's an interesting observation. I do agree that the shows you mention might have multiple Far Side-level gags in just a single episode.

But as the other commenter argues, at the time it stood out. I'm perhaps a bit too young to have experienced The Far Side in its heyday, but I vividly remember the truly awful cartoons I'd read in the various newspapers I'd find in my day to day. Garfield was probably one of the better ones, and IMO Garfield is pretty shit, at least in hindsight. And yet I remember having Garfield collection books.
> but I dont have a high confidence of redis with persistent storage

Anything that kills redis persistence is also going to corrupt whatever else database you'd have used instead. In fact redis persistence is such a simple model, I'd be surprised if most RDBMs weren't more likely to corrupt data.

I've been running a redis database since 2013 and haven't had a case of lost data once and never even had to restore from a backup.
The entire sidebar of that is "Inciteful Link" awards. Is Reddit really rewarding users when they "incite"?
That's fair. The only real reason I disagree with you (and probably him) is he _did_ continue to publish personal information. Enough to identify him, even without the last name. If someone repeatedly reveals their own first/middle name, location, and occupation, I think it's silly to call "we'll publish your last name" doxing.

It seems like he might have just freaked out over a series of poor choices and didn't really own up to it. Easier to blame the NYT for "doxing" and do the honorable thing to protect his patients.
Honest question from someone about to graduate - why do you have a 10 day email backlog as a recent grad? Are you getting that many recruitment emails?
Your are free to develop new skills. That is also part of the freedom :)
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Correct. It was a policy to encourage Native Americans to move to the agricultural model used by European Americans, as well as incorporate socially. It was relatively easy for a white American farmer to set up a farm in the state administered squares, but it was relatively difficult for Native Americans to roam nomadically- it essentially reduced the density of available foodstuffs in the checkerboard by half. The presumption was that Native Americans would/should start farming and adopt American social and economic norms.

Another somewhat common practice was splitting up reservations into homestead sized blocks and assigning each block to an individual Native American adult male in traditional common law property ownership ways, which didn't map to any Native American social/economic norm.

There was a lot of effort put forth by the US government after the Reconstruction to coerce Native Americans to act like white Americans. Which was bizarre considering citizenship wasn't fixed until 1924. You would have thought they would have led with that.
Also the church of the apathetic agnostics: "we don't know and we don't care."
> And I think that the funding story is flatly untrue. Because the dominant source of public education funding is from local taxes, there are vast differences in the per-student level of funding across the country.

This is patently false. Local governments provide 45% of K-12 educational spending. State governments spend 47% and the federal government spends 8%: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/styles/optimized_d.... State and federal funding go overwhelmingly to erasing the disparities in local funding.

Look at the funding numbers in your own state. Here is mine: https://i2.wp.com/conduitstreet.mdcounties.org/wp-content/up.... The funding differences are based on cost of living, not local income. My solidly middle/upper middle class county has spending near the bottom because it’s pretty rural. Baltimore which is very poor has among the highest. Montgomery and Prince George’s, which are opposite sides of the income spectrum, get almost the same amount of funding. You can also see in that chart how differences in local funding are more than compensated for by differences in state funding.
This was obvious to me as soon as I wrote my first unit tests. I was all about uncle Bob's philosophy till I realized it doesn't work and discourages creativity and problem solving. Now I remove most old unit tests as they are a liability. They break while the code they supposedly test works perfectly. Maintaining them is a waste of time. I do have some unit tests for specific algorithms written in functional languages. They can be helpful but are no substitute for proper testing that actually catches bugs, whatever way that's achieved. In software, people love fashion. Unit tests were and are to some extent fashion. Like microservices and other ideas that only apply to the top 0.1% of companies, unit testing is generally useless in apps. There is some use when used with specific algorithms where the inputs and outputs are always constant and known. Libraries, programming languages, etc. But for apps, they are mainly a liability.
Say you want to be apply for a Lead Frontend Engineer role @ GlamourCo. They're asking for experience w/ React, UX, training junior devs, and customer facing experience.

Now let's say you've been working on as a Fullstack Engineer @ BlandCo. You're confident that your recent work experience has prepared you for the frontend position at GlamourCo, but it's not an obvious fit.

Would a recruiter @ GlamourCo look at your work experience from BlandCo and think "holy moly, this person looks has the CV that makes me wanna call them first!" If not, why not? You need to make your application a package that the hiring team wants to open sooner than later.
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