skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Mind-controlling fungus makes zombie cicadas lure other cicadas to a zombie fate

https://www.livescience.com/zombie-cicadas-lure-victims.html
It doesn't benefit the rich and powerful to bring attention to what is going on in Xinjiang and to Uighurs. Just like IBM, Hugo Boss, Coca-Cola, etc. made money in Nazi Germany, the likes of Volkswagen, Nike, etc. are making money today by turning a blind eye to forced re-education camps, forced labor, etc.
How can it not be less expensive? The private companies don’t have to offer/fund the insane pension benefits that public sector employees get.

The public sector pension scandal is insane.
I think the parsimonious explanation is that it's a political move to delegitimize voting by mail.

It's hard to imagine such intentionally bad management without some sort of motivation.
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Exodus and similar colocations aren't really the same thing. They're selling you rack space with connectivity, you bring the servers. If you outgrow that, or they go out of business, you 'only' need to get connectivity to a new facility and drive your servers across town.

If you outgrown IBM/AWS/etc, you need to get connectivity and servers and run any services you were relying on. That's a lot bigger dependency.
06:00 - 07:40 Wake up & Coffee & Go to work (5 min drive)

08:00 - 16:00 Work (sometimes more)

16:10 - 20:00 Home with family, go out, kids, etc Family stuff

20:00 - 24:00 Gaming/Side projects/Twitch/Netflix/HN :P

00:01 - 06:00 Sleep
Are they de-prioritizing all the spam and useless pre-sort stuff? That would be the first order of business for me.
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He's using Unreal for his latest game: https://www.stevestreeting.com/2020/05/07/from-unity-to-ue4-...
Not giving employees benefits does not necessarily lead to a better service
The specificity and formality of honorifics in Korean or Japanese goes way beyond the formal 'you' (speculating you may be German, Du/Sie?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorifics_(linguistics)

Korean has seven different levels of speech depending on the level of casualness one engages in and the Japanese language has features to raise or lower the status of the addresse as well encoding different feelings in the language.

There is no analog for this in English, and also not really in Western culture. There's a very distinct notion of politeness in several Asian cultures that has no corolarry in Western societies because we don't tie it formally into social status.

There's also a lot of other issues. A lot of major religious traditions rely on revealed scripture whose meaning is only precisely accessible through a particular language. In Islamic theology this would be Arabic and for Jews it is Hebrew of course. It would be an extreme cultural loss for billions of people to lose this access to their traditions.
"Google has far worse compared to Amazon." how is this worst? Google bought the company and owners were compensated for their product. Google can do whatever they want to with it afterwards. Amazon stole ideas and made their own. People's sense of fairness is completely f'd up these days
Well France is the master of all countries at taxation (they invented VAT, amongst many other kinds of taxes...). In particular when employing people, the employer has to pay employment taxes on top of the employee income (same as in the US, but at a much higher rate), and that is not subject to income tax, yet represents "cotisation sociales" (social contributions, i.e. retirement, unemployment, health taxes) that came on top of that.

Use this simulator : https://entreprise.pole-emploi.fr/cout-salarie/ and you'll see that for a 100 kEuro/year employee, what the employee sees is 55 kEuro/year (and that's before income tax). My point is that most taxation in France is not income tax, so even if a marginal rate of 45% exists, that's not where the French are most taxed (although the French would argue that "cotisation sociales" are not taxes, IMHO they very much are). Income tax is not even the number 1 tax for the French state (that would be VAT, see https://www.performance-publique.budget.gouv.fr/budget-compt...).

Not saying this is a bad thing (I wouldn't mind a top marginal rate of 90 % as has existed in the US for most of the 20th century... most people aren't subject to it), and in fact I think the French get a lot (although not enough, the state budget could be better managed) for all their taxes.
I'm not sure you can if the definition of "critical thinking" is forming snap solutions to novel problems in a few minutes. Experience is expressed by coming to quick solutions to familiarish problems and considered solutions to unfamiliar problems. And with experience comes intuition about what is and isn't so important. There is just no way to move braing-teasers to the important side of an experienced intuition when the problem domain resembles that in which a mature individual is experienced.

When I was actively providing advice on the Architectural Registration Examination, I used to see this all the time with the Site Design test. The test gave the test candidate ninety minutes to organize several components on an unfamiliar site against a set of competing requirements and constraints. A common rant in the discussion forum was "I failed even though I've been laying out sites professionally for {N} years," where {N} might be from three to ten.

The first ninety minutes of real world site design consists of opening the civil engineer's email, creating a directory to for the project, saving the attached CAD file, cleaning it up enough to be usable for architectural design purposes, printing the regulatory requirements for the project file, talking with the principal-in-charge about the client requirements, and then going to lunch because it's been four hours and maybe starting on the design in the afternoon or later in the week because that's the way the world works and the client requirements will probably change anyway.

Which is how experience made it easy to fail the test because of the ways the test did not reflect the real world. The real world has depth and a lot it-depends and experience pays off precisely because it handles the depths and makes informed choices about all the it-depends.

Or to put it another way, Fizz-Buzz in TensorFlow, https://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
What are you doing with Python that somehow this would help at all?

I am really curious, specially given there are many other languages out there to move to vs js.
That reasoning is absurd. Obama talked about being "on the right side of history." Does that make him a Stalinist, just because Stalinists used that phrase 75 years earlier? I don't think so.

"Globalism" is a legitimate term used by proponents, critics, and neutral parties. It is not a dog whistle.
Hell, even if it's a larger expense, for an office which regularly gets very warm for extended periods of time you bite the bullet and get a proper reversible heat pump. That way you have proper AC in the summer, and lower heating costs in winter (or if winters are so harsh the heat pump won't work you at least save some during spring and autumn when the heat pump suffices to keep the office warm).
Thanks for the idea.

There are two water levels that could be monitored, the stainless reservoir and the brass boiler. Despite the metal I think it would still work for the reservoir, because this seems to be how new models work.

It’s the boiler I mainly want to monitor however, and it is very hot and is pressurised.
Humans certainly get infected with mind-controlling memes. How sure are we that there aren't fungal/bacterial/viral sources of change to human behavior? Maybe an infection could make us more peaceful or warlike, authoritarian or laissez-faire, pious or agnostic, obedient or obstinate. Political and religious movements sure seem to spread like biological infections. I wonder if there are epidemiological measures that could tell the difference. Velocity of spread could be discriminator, but you'd have to test that on populations that are culturally but not physically isolated and visa versa, which is a tall order.
>What they found was that patients were significantly more likely to follow the doctor's advice if the doctor was the same race as the patient.

I heard that story/podcast too, and it may surprise you to know that I am totally on board with its findings. I am totally not surprised by that situation, and I know there are legitimate reasons.

But here's where I'll probably get roasted alive for believing: I think whoever needs to be treated by a doctor of the same appearance and race, is not going to be as successful as others who can put aside their emotions and be treated/learn from/emulate people who don't just look like them. Why do you read books, visit HN, discuss and learn from people who don't look like you (or you cannot even see)?

The amount of potential benefit in this world is far greater than your own race.

It's part of the growing up process to be able to extract information, sort out what's right or wrong, choose leaders, administer society regardless of what the person you're dealing with looks like. Suspicion, mistrust, need for "role modeling", etc. You've got to learn to leave that behind to make progress.

Elect someone to represent you because they look like you, have lived the exact same life? Ok. But I think it will also hold you back that you can only ever be represented by such someone.

In my view, the attitude you're pointing out will never help someone get out of their bias in the long run. It may temporarily help, but generally only reinforces it.
This seems like pseudo-self help nonsense.

What exactly are you suggesting, other than "be a good person?"
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It would appear to be the goal: scuttle the post system to disrupt voting by mail.
Here's a story about a smaller incident in Berkeley:

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/07/31/covid-19-us-post-off...
Boy, it sure is coincidental timing that Trump appointed a new Postmaster General two months ago that immediately changed policies to prohibit overtime needed to get mail delivered, just as we're about to have an election that will see large parts of the country having to vote by mail.

Now if only Trump could get his supporters to not rely on voting by mail, such as by playing up the message that the Coronavirus is not a big deal and that everyone just needs to go back to work and school and that they'll be fine by the time they need to get out and vote in person.
You need to check out who is in charge of usps..
Even the Pony Express failed financially and as far as I can tell those guys were the definition of grit. But technology and the dangers of the times got the best of them.
> What would your opinion be on that matter, answering your own questions?

I'm honestly perplexed. Maybe I should study what those fields did, if they made any conscious efforts to address diversity mismatch (compared to demographics of the general population) . Or if some other barriers came down that allowed male dominance to reduce in these fields(in some cases to be replaced by female dominance).
Joining Spotify and Rakuten. Honestly hope there'll be more to come. The recent situation with Google and Danish record companies being in a stand-off and Google deleting Danish music from YouTube shows how bad things can get if left unchecked.
As long as they also pay you for the office space you would have used had you been local it seems fair to me.
I would love a hardware/software solution that makes it easily to backup my data (ideally with integrations to Google Takeout, Facebook, etc.). Perhaps it exists already?

Edit: of course local-first does not mean merely "backup", but instead the (redundant) hardware serves as a primary data store. I would welcome that as well!
I've written many shell scripts.

Trust me, /bin/sh is not a stable, non-moving target. Not even on GNU/Linux. Go further afield and there are a great many quirks.

Even on Linux I've encounted four major flavours of /bin/sh: Dash, Bash, Ash and Msh.

The available variable interpolation syntaxes vary considerably. The only portable way to do most string things tend to use combinations of 'echo' or 'printf' and 'sed', and even those aren't portable without some platform detection. Something as simple as adding the right number of backslashes to a command, for example to quote a command given to SSH, is tricky in shell and quite version dependent.

Bash isn't a non-moving target either; I've had Bash scripts break when moved from one Linux distro to another, due solely to different behaviours of different Bash versions.

Some of the things Autoconf does to workaround /bin/sh differences are quite exciting.

If you consider /bin/sh scripting to include the behaviour of commands run from it, which you probably should, the situation is much worse. Very standard things like 'ls', 'echo', 'cp' vary across platforms in meaningful ways.

In comparison, Perl is much more consistent across platforms and versions. If it does something in one version on any platform, it almost always does exactly the same in any later version on every platform.
Yes. Courts all over the world are discovering and dealing with the difficulties of imposing their own nation's laws on an international communications network. Currently it is relatively easy to become anonymous on the internet and avoid the consequences of free speech, especially since brazilian law enforcement is not as sophisticated as organizations such as the FBI when it comes to cyber crime investigation.

The end result will be the regionalization of the internet. Instead of one global network, we'll have several national or regional networks. This will be possible because internet providers are centralized services which are easily controlled by the governments.
I agree with that intelligent machines pose a risk regardless of who has the best intentions, but its also true that certain countries (namely china) have demonstrated that they are more willing and motivated to use it for devious surveillance purposes.
One other reason why vinyl sounds better is that how it’s mastered. For streaming, tracks are optimized for low quality headphones and phone speakers. Loudness is all that is required.

Mastering for vinyl, however, takes effort. Do it wrong and the record becomes unplayable. So when you have to put in the effort anyway, might as well make it sound good at the same time.

A/B some tracks some time. Chances are the vinyl version sounds more polished with a bit more dynamics instead of having everything slam into a limiter. This has nothing to do with sound coloring or “warmth”.
Personally I don't see a lack of ethics - the people aren't owned by the company. They have no obligation to the shareholders. Now any IP the shareholders do own and they would have an obligation towads if they want to use it as an IP holder in the system.

(Hypothetical Alpha Centuarians observing and pirating the tech would have no ethical issues at all, there is no social contract, they aren't even accessible and couldn't pay even if they wanted to being lightyears away but that is a silly tangent.)
Honest question, is code a very important part of our job as a developers, seniors or junriors? I truly think about code as an implementation details, I don't really care how the code looks as soon as is quality tested (and cross-functionally testes, ie: security). I agree with the sense of the article in general, this code lacks basic engineering/programming concepts, but I generally disagree on the fact that code as a piece of text that execute a software have any meaning of "beauty" standard as such. Code is just the way we have in this specific moment in time to describe the solution of a problem, very far from being the only one ore the "final" one. Therefore I would not invest much time in putting lipstick on cows.
I think it's the opposite, by design. This administration installed a loyalist (with extreme conflicts of interest) to de-legitimize the postal service prior to the election, which will largely be held by mail.
It really only assumes the solution gets better if you throw more money at it. And that, frankly, is essentially certain given the fact that they need to pay for human eyeballs. Also, the problems facebook has are somewhat misrepresented often - they don't actually need to moderate everything equally intensively - most of the impact will be there with the things that get shared publicly and are viewed often. Comparing the amount of moderator time with total posting volume is thus misleading, trying to make it appear like a hopeless case. But look at it the other way around, not from the poster's side, but the reader's - clearly reads aren't distributed evently; so it's plausible you might catch 90% of post readungs with just 10% of post writings (I don't know the proportion, but I'd expect it to be heavily skewed).
Thank you - I’ve been playing with this and it’s really neat. It’s an amusing workflow in ESPHome as you have to work out when the device is awake to run an OTA update.
We have a toddler, 2 full-time jobs, and a nanny who comes to our house from 10-4 during the week. I'm an early riser and also breastfeeding, so I take the early mornings, and I feed the baby about 6 times a day, wherever it fits into my schedule that day.

6am - me+baby wake up, breakfast and coffee.
7:30ish - husband wakes up and takes over baby while I go for a run or do housework/work.
9am - baby takes morning nap, I work.
12-12:30 - lunch
12:30-4 - work
4-6 - me+husband rotate between child care, work, and making dinner
6-7:30 - dinner and baby bedtime routine
7:30-9 - relax/watch tv/putter around
9pm - bedtime
4am - baby's favorite time to scream for no apparent reason
I've never really seen them as comparable. But I would choose Ocaml over Rust because OCaml is easier, less complex, and more expressive. Also, Rust doesn't support functional programming. OCaml's performance is really quite good and I've never had problems with the GC.

Unless the project absolutely couldn't tolerate GC, why would I choose a low level language like Rust over a high level language like Ocaml?
I don't know of any study showing they are more efficient, but if they were, they would achive that efficiency by refusing to serve difficult markets. As part of their charter, USPS provides coverage to remote and rural areas that can't be easily served and that private services neglect.

Also, the USPS has had potentially businesss-killing policies legislated into their finances by a hostile Congress, like requring pensions to be pre-funded seventy-five years in advance over a ten-year period.

That's not to say the Post Office is as efficient as it could be. But the services it offers (e.g., bank substitute in impoverished neighborhoods for check cashing/money orders, not to mention significant employer) are vital to American small businesses and communities.
The USPS is uniquely shackled by a ridiculous requirement to prefund 75 years worth of pension and medical benefits, and is also barred from raising rates the help pay for it. There is no way any organization can operate that way.
Why does this thinking only apply to the post office? Obviously we could cut nominal costs of the far larger US military if we threw out its universal health care, housing, and retirement benefits. The only way this kind of thinking makes sense is if you simply don't believe that the mission if the postal service (or the army) is worth accomplishing. After you decide that, you can obviously just throw all their benefits under a bus because now you're just trying to drown the agency. You can achieve the same kinds of (short-sighted, naive) cost savings by disbanding the fire department.
Not only that, but you're at your most tired as well. Early morning and late at night after a long day. Driving tired is like driving drunk.
From a US perspective that type of prior restraint on free speech prior to a criminal conviction just seems bizarre. Regardless of whether or not the suspects accused in this case are actually guilty, it gives the authorities too much power to suppress dissent.
Like toxaplasmosis? We don't really like entertaining these things because our identities are very attatched to the idea of free will.
If the best source of capital you can find for your company is the government of a third-tier Chinese city, maybe your company isn't such a great idea in the first place.
For a lot of these businesses relying on foot traffic, ads would be futile anyway during widespread lockdowns. So really just free point-grabbing.

This whole thing would've been avoided if Mark grew a pair and permanently banned the first companies who did this from ever using FB services again. I really hope he bans media companies who are trying to extort FB right now, the antics would be dropped quickly.
I don't get the reasoning that because the cheapest possible vinyl player sounds horrible, all vinyl players sound horrible. It really goes the other way: vinyl record is a medium that depends on fine mechanics and amplification for very low signal levels to work, so it just takes a bit of money to build a decent record player and preamp. Because of the vinyl boom of last 10 years or so, the current record players may be better and more affordable than ever, but this one is just sub par.
I mean, many brokerages will extend margin for free during ACH transfer (or any settlement event for that matter). So using a margin account and buying the ETF will save you one basis point in fees every year. If you have a 30 year horizon it becomes ~20-30 basis points depending on contribution+return schedule. 20-30k on 10mm is not super much but not negligible either since it takes no effort.
Considering this, was the tech and other media coverage of the "boycott" fair or accurate? Really looks like it was agenda-driven activism itself.
UPS has a very strong union and benefits so not really following your point here.
Is the whataboutism necessary? What does Gaza have to do with China?
Among other reasons, this is in big part happening due to a large push toward mail-in voting come the next Presidential election. It seems that certain political entities think they will suffer at the poles due to the fact that it’ll be easier to vote.

easier voting -> more votes -> undesirable outcomes
> Nobody's willing to defend them? I think you mean you can't be bothered.

I mean, I do also write to MPs and various offices. What I mean to say is it's very difficult to build a grassroots movement that opposes the establishment, Brexit being the big exception to the rule.

Anyone campaigning for say, digital rights against government surveillance could get cancelled by the media very quickly.
TIL I have astigmatism from an HN comment. Now the headlights + traffic lights thing at night makes sense too...
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This is problematic to voting in the same way closing polling sites is, framed as cost cutting or inefficiency reduction with the intention of reducing access to a subset of the population.

This is just frustration, but the fact that we could pass a massive defense bill (again, I know), but are unable to fund basic services shows the integrity of our government. Moreover, it shows the culpability of most of the elected officials, from both parties.

We don’t need a labor movement, we need a people’s movement.
This is a truth, but usually you leave a large enough amount that people can't argue you were swayed. I've heard of $2000 to $4000 being an amount for a larger estate.
Through the App Store Apple make sure IOS apps are high quality, which won't be possible if developers start publishing apps all over the place. The fee is too high, that's a fact and that's the problem. The fact that you cannot download apps outside of the App Store is not the problem