skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>First, green does not have the most energy of the visual spectrum, Blue, or more specific Violet does

The article is correct. Blue photons have more energy, you're right. But more green photons are emitted by the sun, and even more reach the ground through the atmosphere than blue, so the total energy from green photons is significantly greater. Google blackbody spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiens_law.svg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/eDhfILMl70XZ-WUchpgo...
>, this gives the news corporations the right to exert complete control over all "comments" on their news articles on these "digital platform services", meaning that, for instance, Hacker News or Reddit, if covered by this law, would no longer be independent sites to discuss news, but would be forcibly placed under the control of the news site.

Using Google search, I don't know if I found the canonical draft but using this pdf[1] as the source, the excerpt says:

>Which digital platforms must participate in the code?

1.29 A digital platform must participate in the code if the Treasurer has made a determination specifying a designated digital platform corporation. The Treasurer may also specify one or more designated digital platform services. [Schedule 1, item 1, section 52C]

1.30 The Government has announced that the code will apply to Facebook and Google. Accordingly, the Treasurer is expected to make an instrument specifying Facebook Inc. and Google LLC as designated digital platform corporations.

1.31 ‘Digital platform’ is not defined in the Bill, but is intended to capture platforms that deliver a wide variety of services such as social media services, search engines and other digital content aggregators.

1.32 A ‘digital platform service’ is a service that is provided by the designated digital platform corporation, either by itself or together with one or more related corporations. A given digital platform will normally
provide multiple digital services, such as messaging, search, content curation and other content sharing services.[Schedule 1, item 1, section 52B]

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The way I as a layman read it is... "the law is targeted at giants like Google & Facebook and not Hacker News".

So, HN is spared not because it doesn't meet some strict criteria of what "digital platform is". Instead, HN won't be a target because it's too small to bother with.

[1] https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/Exposure%20Draft%20EM%2...
I think it's coming. More and more people are having problems caused by the position used with standard keyboards. But it will take some time to educate everyone, starting with doctors who need to keep up with 'modern health issues' caused by using the computer whole day.

Let's be philosophical: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step. We'll get there.
I would assume you'd need to rank well at more than just Danish music to compete with YouTube in general.
Sample size of 21.
With macros to add a reply button
So it's not impossible to get around CORS, but it will be expensive if you are dealing with video. One option is to load the videos through a proxy server to ignore the CORS headers.

Really lame though. Reddit needs an embed thing like YouTube, but I have feeling they want people on Reddit, which is why links to Reddit media take you to the comment section.
A better hiring process which is still scalable is possible.

For example, some simple leetcode question that will filter out a fair number of people. After that it should just be based on first come first serve.

Why?
Becauae as you keep increasing leetcode difficulty, you're going from one extreme (can't code fizzbuzz) to another extreme (competitive programmer or someone who just got really lucky).

Most will agree that there's lots of luck involved in the interview process so why not have most of this luck simply be a matter of applying on time?

By having the luck factor in leetcode, we have to keep those skills sharp for the rest of our careers.

This is also a loss for the employer since the leetcode prep is a significant time sink which has nothing to do with the job.

If when you applied was the factor used to break ties, recruiting cycles would also be shorter and candidates would bring more job relevant skills.

Overall it's a win for everyone but it won't happen because the people who could actually change this have no incentive to do so.
In some countries the decimal symbol is a comma.
So, the latter.
> Nor is pretending to everyone - including yourself - that you're just fine with the past when you really aren't.

I don’t think forgiveness is about pretending you are fine with something you are not fine with. It isn’t about covering something up or lying. It is about taking back control of your feelings about the situation so that you can move toward a place of healing. Most people have suffered some form of trauma in their lives, and some choose to dwell on it while looking for the person or situation that brought that trauma to apologize or try to make the situation right. This is giving control of your feelings over to some third party. Forgiveness is saying “I am releasing my own need for you to be part of my healing journey.”
Yeah, to its credit, the article brought it up but then kinda hand waved away "envoy had many more security issues than nginx". Having a huge load of C library dependencies in a user-facing service seems like a bug these days.

Part of reducing dependencies in my own software was a conscious decision to minimize future CVE exposure.
Main benefit of PLAs over ROM is that for many "useful" logic designs the resulting array is significantly smaller. In fact, ROM is simply an degenerate PLA where the AND array is fixed and only the OR array is programmable.
It depends on if others follow. Australia and New Zealand are outliers when it comes to freedom of speech/expression anyway. They officially censor the media through a censorship office. I believe this doesn't affect the news directly, but movies and video games (I don't know about books) can't be published without government approval. That hasn't really had much of an effect for the rest of the world other than people making fun of Australia.
The sun is actually green (that is, is approximated by a black body emitter with a peak in the green region of the visual spectrum, see [1]). Its light appears white because that is how we are conditioned evolutionarily. ("True" white -- i.e. equal spectral energy -- appears blue-grey to us.)

The sun "looks" orange because when you can look at it (sunrise/sunset), its light is heavily filtered by the atmosphere.

[1] https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f9bc312e4d114e9e32a627...
A very different story from my friend still living in Russia.

In Russia, a lot of companies are issuing debit cards for their own employees, and those are often their sole bank accounts, especially for people low on social ladder.

Once the employer got a whiff of the person switching jobs, he fired him, and tipped the bank to block his account on "fraud" suspicion. Banks are known to tacitly play along in such scenarios.

Of course, an avenue to sue is still open for the man, but how do you sue if you have no money to pay the court fee, and your usual income will still be drained if you go to court even for such a trivial case.

The man lost 80k roubles, which also close to around $1k

Advice: anybody in such relationship should never hold any money in "hostage" bank accounts. Always cash out your income from salary accounts, and, for businesses, their merchant accounts with acquirers (paypal, we are looking at you.)
It's $405413. Using Spanish formatting I believe. (comma as a decimal point and the dot for thousands)
A new default Referrer-Policy for Chrome: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
I am going to give you a long winded answer, because this is important to spell out as well. Copyright is dead and the various efforts to keep the idea alive and relevant are nothing more than the desperate attempts of certain industries to avoid finding a new business model when faced with new technology.

Copyright only worked because for most of its history copying at scale required specialized industrial equipment, and one could expect that anyone who could make an investment in that equipment could afford to pay the teams of lawyers needed to work out copyrights. There was never an expectation that an individual would have to consider copyrights when using their personal tools in their own home. Deciding whether or not an action infringes on a copyright ultimately requires a lawsuit of some kind, which is what IA is now involved in. Individual authors were not the intended beneficiaries either, and for the most part authors receive only a small fraction of the money publishers make on their work (or in the case of scientific publishing, nothing whatsoever).

The reality is that today's technology allows individuals to copy on a global scale from the privacy of their homes, using tools that are almost universally available. Copying is a normal part of the use of a computer. The majority of people do not spend a millisecond considering the copyright implications of sending a copy of something they were reading to someone else. It is beyond unreasonable to expect that ordinary people, who do not work for some copyright industry, are going to consult with lawyers every time they use their computer for something common and normal.

IA is an organization with lawyers available to advise on copyrights, and with the ability to fight a copyright case in court. On some level IA could be expected to work within copyrights, and in fact IA has done so by, among other things, imposing artificial limits on how many copies they will make available at a time, and forcing their users to use a copy-restriction system (DRM). You can complain all you want about copyrights but IA went out of their way to try to work within the system.

So-called "lost sales" are a red herring. There is no way of knowing whether or not a person would have paid for something if they had not received it for free. It also makes no difference how much money an author might have made if the world were different: we live in a world with the Internet and with computers in everyone's homes, and that means people are going to copy and they will do so without paying attention to copyrights. The sooner society as a whole accepts that fact the sooner we can stop wasting our resources on obsolete ideas and start building a new system that works well with the technology we have.
> Nothing happened after i reported it, either.

That's what's so infuriating about Amazon. Amazon should proactively police their store for counterfeits, but they don't. To add insult to injury, they won't even respond in a timely manner to reports of physically and economically impossible counterfeit items that are sold as part of a well known type of fraud [1].

[1] IIRC, I reported some "2TB" microsd cards selling for $10 a few years back, and the listings remained up for weeks. Had the same experience reporting price-gouging on N95 masks and hand sanitizer early in the pandemic, too.
Ubuntu Snap auto updates broke my setup and there is no way to turn them off
Types in Ruby 3, RBS, and Sorbet
As per Wikipedia[1]:
>> Page and Brin remain co-founders, employees, board members, and controlling shareholders of Alphabet Inc.

Forbes article referenced by Wikipedia:[2]
>> At Alphabet’s annual meeting in June, multiple shareholders criticized the fact that Page did not show up given that he and Brin have more than 50% of the company’s voting power, thanks to Alphabet’s multi-class stock structure. That structure will not change despite the management shift, the company said.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jilliandonfro/2019/12/03/larry-...
That would weed out the worst companies and VPs fairly quickly
Hard to judge without knowing how much more Koda wants compared to other content providers. Anyone know this?
I don't think the cost of the reduction is usually the problem. Most reductions to 3-SAT I've seen are either linear or can be made linear with a little work. For example any boolean circuit can be reduced to a <=3-SAT instance with a number of variables proportional to the number of gates.

The problem is that current solvers are heuristic and may fail or take too long (ie. degrade to exponential time) on any particular instance.

If a polynomial-time algorithm is ever discovered for all 3-SAT instances (ie. P = NP) then of course its actual complexity would be the determining factor.
This part is not totally clear, but from my reading, the process works like this:

GWEI sends money to google, to have them runs text advertisements.

These advertisements will say "please send money to GWEI"

Some of this money will be used to buy additional advertisements. The rest of it will be used to buy GOOGL shares

EDIT: The above text is wrong. GWEI reference a "network of hidden websites", and I guess I don't really know what that means.
> suggests this only applies to the news agency's own social media pages

1.88 seems to indicate that pretty clearly, providing this example:

“In the case of a social media service such as Facebook, this rule deals with the situation where the news business has posted its covered news content on the news business’ own social media page. Comments on the news business’ articles posted by somebody else on another Facebook page are not covered by this law ”
The point of my argument is not to challenge their expertise, the point is to either understand the technical motivation or to uncover non-scientific (e.g., political) motivations.
And this, in turn, forms ground for another lawsuit...
> companies may be using this as an opportunity to hire 'cheaper' workers in markets where you don't need that type of income to pay rent

That's not a bad tendency in the long run. In case remote work gains serious traction, tech workers would be eventually dispersed around the whole country, and that would drive down rents in previously expensive areas. With workers living in less expensive places, they wouldn't need an SV salary to afford a good lifestyle.
I could also be misreading this, but that caveat seems to apply only to 2(a) and not 2(b) or 2(c). I haven't yet read the surrounding context so it's possible those are further restricted as well, but I don't think 2(a)(ii) applies to the other two sections at least.
Citing Coronavirus, Hong Kong Postpones Legislative Elections for a Year
The site is apparently in the HoD phase - could I ask a polite TL;DR?
We are all hoping the following plan will work:

1. Government supports the economy while vaccines and treatments are developed.

2. ???

3. Economic activity returns quickly to pre-pandemic levels.

There's no "guarantee" this plan will work... but we are all acting as if it will, because the alternatives are too unpleasant to contemplate.[a]

So, much of the economy is "faking it until we make it."

The tech sector is no exemption.

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[a] We all prefer not to think too much on the possibility that large swaths of the economy could remain under stress for a long while -- office buildings, malls, retail stores, restaurants and bars, movie theaters, airlines, conference centers, etc. These businesses employ a gazillion people, use a mountain of assets, and depend on a ton of software and technology for everything. We all want these businesses to survive as intact as possible so they can thrive in a post-pandemic world and continue to buy technology.
> If you're not willing to have a discussion in good faith

> You deriding other commentors

Accusing me of not having this discussion in good faith is what exactly? I guess if you can’t support your argument you’ve got to pivot to something - but that doesn’t contribute to the discussion.
It's the latter, many non-American countries flip the usage of the comma and the period symbols in numbers.
Working the Third Shift: Tips to Avoid Counterfeits
Hardly heard any Danish music ever. Reading reviews, listening and downloading now :-)
For an article called "GPT-3 on Philosophers" it really goes to a lot of lengths to avoid saying a single thing about philosophers.
Write emails in text and let your email client format it.
Yes, I should clarify I was not intending to ring the alarm bell as if Hacker News is directly under attack. Most likely HN is completely not subject to Australian jurisdiction, and even if it was, there's no money to squeeze from HN anyhow. I just meant it as an exemplar of a type of site that could be affected.
As was pointed out last year, given stock growth and splits, if they actually bought and held that much stock, it's probably $2M+ by now.
> How often have you actually relied on community generated subtitles?

Almost never, since all the content I consume is in English. But several channels made posts about that upcoming change and there was quite some feedback by people depending on this (as far as I could tell, especially the Spanish speaking community).

> In practice, in the real world, features that have few takers are removed because the maintenance burden doesn't justify the benefit.

By that measure, traditional TV stations better scrap subtitles too, since the number of viewers actually relying on them is a minority, and maintaining it probably takes some effort too.

I think community generated subtitles, just like regular subtitles on TV, enable people to access information (or entertainment) they otherwise couldn't. There should be a better measure for its value than just how much effort it takes to maintain that functionality vs the number of users, otherwise there would be little reason for any kind of barrier-free technology or efforts really.
My point was a PhD alone should not be taken as an indicator of skill, it is a very weak signal at best and is no substitute for good evidence of ability. Showing that most who are extremely successful have a PhD does not prove that having a PhD itself is a good indicator of ability, even a small amount of real evidence will override that information. This is why things like basic leetcode interviews are so important, "phds" will often fail these.
Well that seems awfully close minded. “Good writers” are those who can engage their audience, your perspective of a “Good writer” is simply a reflection of you as a target audience. No need to put everyone in your box.
If you are really performance concerned, you wouldn't use Python to begin with.

That said, there are many use cases where performance does not matter as long as it is not "too much", for different values of "too much" depending on context.
Yes, this tool seems ideal for the people who unintentionally create databases in excel. I realize this sounds insulting, but providing tools to the people who know their business is useful. Perhaps you could brand it as MaxS?
reduce the payment provided to composers and songwriters for YouTube’s use of music by almost 70%

Yes but pirating is bad.
If they actually held that much stock, it would probably be very tempting to just cash out as well.
Tell HN: Happy SysAdmin Day
Thank you SysAdmins.

Let’s face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the globe, will be showered with expensive sports cars and large piles of cash in appreciation of their diligent work. But seriously, we are asking for a nice token gift and some public acknowledgement. It’s the least you could do.

Consider all the daunting tasks and long hours (weekends too.) Let’s be honest, sometimes we don’t know our System Administrators as well as they know us. Remember this is one day to recognize your System Administrator for their workplace contributions and to promote professional excellence. Thank them for all the things they do for you and your business.
Other countries use the comma as the decimal separator and periods as the thousands separator. It's just something you get used to eventually.
Merck preps study for coronavirus drug
(HoD = "Hug of Death" - please don't use obscure TLAs* - it makes people feel excluded)

(* three letter acronyms)

EDIT - and it means something like "site down because it's been linked to from here and can't handle the traffic)

EDIT2 - "tl;dr" is at least easy to google...
Could also be due to cheaper labor and easier immigration.
The took the right message... for Google. Underinvest in tools, set up metrics that show that users don't use them, present those metrics as proof that "users don't need these features", remove features.
>> We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the end "we" own it!

> I thought websites paid Google to have their ads on their ads network. Isn't that how Google makes the bulk of its revenue?

Google will pay 3rd party websites to display ads from their network, which is probably what this site is using.

I believe that was one of their first ad products: text ads displayed on third party websites that targeted to website content. At the time, web advertising consisted of loud, garish banner ads, so Google's ads had a pretty good reputation.
When you finish a bachelor's degree, you know everything.

When you finish a Master's degree, you realize you know nothing.

When you finish a PhD, you realize nobody else knows anything, either.
Exactly what happened for google news in Spain.

I suppose this includes the search engine. So if these people don’t want their thing to turn up in text results, why not update the robots.txt and close shop the next month?

I have no sympathy for Google and even less for Facebook. But that’s a shitty argument to make. It makes me want to create a client side google news clone, but that actually steal all the article content and remove all ads. Try blocking that.
Don't forget the failing Google cloud.

It is way too "Googly" for its own good. I did a shootout of six visual recognition APIs a few years ago. I got five of them to work in under fifteen minutes. Google Cloud has an authentication system modeled after

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWEvp217Tzw&feature=emb_logo

and took much longer, trashing my Anaconda installation along the way. (IBM Cloud sticks out because it is still sending me spam.)
I want to feed URLs to a service which would assign relevant subject tags automatically. Can it do this?
A real shame this hasn't broken through to the front page. Well-documented anti-competitive behavior from Amazon should be something all founders are aware of; taking on a competitor willing to take $200M before acquiring you is pretty remarkable.
I think the reason for this is that there's more to gain from inventing your own system that gets popular than there is from contributing to an already existing one.
I think there's reason to be confident it'll work. In many areas people rushed back to those things even before the pandemic was over. I'm not saying this was an unreasonable concern to have, but it seems to have been disconfirmed.
My understanding is that they have a 'hidden' network of websites that display ads from Googles ad network (AdSense), and they use those earnings to buy GOOG.
I didn't think that one was obscure _here_. Point taken.
Orange is red and green. The intensity we perceive is also not the absolute intensity of that part of the spectrum. Neither is the luminosity equivalent to the power (as in energy over time).
Greek startups in the enterprise tech and infrastructure space
Yes, I think the last line in the anti-discrimination section is there specifically to thwart that, but one can still easily imagine a lot of legal acrobatics to get out of that.