skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone that bought the first Android phone and now has an iPhone...it is extremely noticeable how much better Android is on these fronts. But depending on the person that gap may not be important. For me, it is night and day. I felt Google had a long way to go on these fronts, so I was stunned at just how bad Apple was :(.
Depends where the spending went. It's fraud to agree to buy something and not pay.

But who is selling anything for Eth?

> Acknowledging this as "theft" kind of undermines their agenda to kill off alternative currency.

Whose agenda?
These sort of networks are also either completely reactive, or show proactivity based on how a new idea "sounds" from a high level perspective.
In that context smashed probably takes on a different meaning as a sound, and the sentence semantics are equivalent to "the pen clattered loudly on the table". Similar to how the word would work if someone talked about "the smash of cymbals". It would be an awkward sentence though.
The Inferno and the Mystery Ship
European salaries are lower, for sure. But nice offices and free snacks are everywhere in the IT-field.

The place I just left had a wonderful rooftop terrace, overlooking central Helsinki, complete with an amazing sauna, a foam-pit, and gaming spaces too. That's a bit of an outlier, but there are a lot of amazing spaces across the whole of Europe.
If we're just going to give anecdotes, I'm usually an Apple fankid but I get super annoyed by autocorrect on iPhone. The Google one when I've used it does seem a lot better, and also faster.
But will Atlassian scale pay according to location? (like Facebook proposed)

That would put a stopper to working from a beach somewhere after this pandemic has been put to rest.
AI becomes US treasurer
FWIW Atlassian has been giving us a bunch of perks to account for this since the COVID-wfh started. We've had extra days off to account for the stress of a different lifestyle and home office budgets to purchase things we need.

It's not going so far as to pay us enough to offset the rent of a dedicated home office room, but they're still quite nice perks. The Australian government is helping out quite a bit too - there are many additional benefits this tax season for those who are working from home.
Great point.

I also find it humorous that the busybodies who insist that stop signs be installed every block of their neighborhood arterial have to suffer from the resulting air and noise pollution.

I drive 'spiritedly', but I suppose the tire wear due to hard cornering is not nearly offset by the saved brake pad and exhaust emissions!
I haven’t seen an Android phone with good face recognition yet.
You type ⌘+⇧+/ (⌘+?) and the help menu opens with the search box highlighted by default. Anything you type in here will search through the menus. using arrow keys or ctrl+n/p will move through the suggests and each menu suggestion is pointed out with an animated hovering pointer. Just press enter to activate the highlighted action.

https://i.imgur.com/vMAiysG.png
I've noticed on a number of occasions what appears to be what I would consider a very staunch difference in Snopes' declaration of a claim vs what they say below in their explanation
I'm sorry I can't take Susan Fowler seriously. She claims she went from zero math knowledge (besides sixth grade) and a philosophy major to studying quantum field theory in a span of something like a year and a half [0].

If this wasn't horsesh*t to begin with, she went on to work in non-physics areas after graduation, and never did any research work in physics (no grad school either).

How convenient.

(likely explanation: either her undergrad program was super lax, passing pretty much everyone who shows up in class and exams, hence useless for a serious career in physics, or she's misrepresenting her background)

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20170314073043/https://fledgling...
Elemental mercury is kind of in the same boat as elemental lead. It's poorly absorbed dermally and GI, so you need continuous exposure to be a real problem. It's worst when you're inhaling it, which is bad news because mercury does evaporate at room temperature, and especially when hot.

I doubt you encountered enough mercury, and for long enough, to be any problem unless you were doing something unusual with it. Eating a lot of fish is much more dangerous mercury-wise.
> Whose agenda?

Governments generally have no interest in alternate currency systems that are not under their control, taking off. So far, crypto currency has been flying under the radar and the ones that have broad support from financial institutions go against the very idea of Bitcoin and Etherum, i.e. they are not providing much of the benefit that supporters of crypto currencies are interested in.
Same experience here. Those laptops have been really reliable.

A shitty courier company apparently loaded a fridge over one corner of my laptop while transporting it (don't ask why or how it happened) and the end result was the laptop broke at the corner (imagine loading 200kg on side of a fibre glass plate).

Long story short the hinge popped off, the laptop's display bottom totally teared up and yet lo and behold it's still working since the last 5 years. It looks like a Frankenstein laptop but it works flawlessly and never has given me any issues. My asus laptop on the other hand.. :/
Except the death count has followed cases count nearly exactly with about one month of delay. (R > 0.9 for dumb linear fit, better for other kinds.)

Unless you're alleging that testing people or quarantining them kills them, which would be laughable. Or some grand scale conspiracy theory to make it look like a pandemic worldwide.
I am very sorry, I must have been mistaken.
No radical left in the USA? Have you been following the news for the past 2 months?
Going a week without acohol is considered a category below low-moderate acohol usage? That seems weird to me.

I would describe myself as a low-moderate consumer of cake. I definitely don't eat it weekly.
You sound like a fairly miserable person to be around, frankly.
crouching tiger, hidden dragon

like all of the best wuxia, the fight scenes are dances that metaphorically relate interpersonal conflict and resolution. also, raw ambition and talent without vision and principle leads to (self-)destruction.

bonus edit: spirited away

a young girl comes of age by bridging the spirit world. a child apprehensive of change, an ethereal melancholy, ancestral and karmic deference for life. it’s a masterpiece.
Only some vaccines were given long enough ago to affect the 70 year plus age group.

For example measles vaccine introduced in late 70's I think, and chickenpox vaccine introduced in 90's? https://xkcd.com/1950/
As someone who switched to iOS from android I’ll second this.

Also googles keyboard swipe is WAY better than the iOS implementation
It's true that languages with case declensions (beyond the vestigial declined pronoun forms in English) would be less ambiguous in expressing that example sentence.

English is an analytic language, meaning that more information is conveyed through syntactic patterning involving closed classes of words like particles, prepositions, and articles. These words could be considered "overloaded" as you said, but for non-closed classes of words though, as far as I know English is not known to be more or less polysemic than other languages.
100% the best thing that Mac does with respect to keyboard shortcuts is the fact that the `Meta` key is the de-facto shortcut key. That makes so many shortcuts consistent across the command line and the OS
Well maybe there was an annular region there in the 90s when the FBI's mission was still in-between 'try to assassinate black activists', and 'give fake bombs to muslim teenagers and then arrest them for it'.
Blue by Kieslowski. A movie about loss and freeing youself from the past. I saw it when I was 15, and I still remember how I felt when I got out of the theater. It has shaped the way I handle difficult times in life such as the loss of loved ones. Losing someone close to you breaks your soul, and to keep on living, you have to reinvent yourself every time.

Loss is an integral part of life. Acquiring material goods fools us into thinking that as life goes on, we have more things. But if you make it into old age, you will lose everything. Things go broke, your friends and family die, your health and mind fade, and finally you will lose your life. Being aware of this will help you lead a happier life. It seems contradictory. But somehow it isn't.
> so engineers are encouraged to use more accurate words

These words aren't more accurate in all cases. In some cases these substitutions will be/are used they are less accurate or misleading.
Speculative Dereferencing of Registers: Reviving Foreshadow [pdf]
It's slow and unusable, not unstable. The one benefit of WC is that it's going to be stable for the next hundred years, just like <marquee> still works in 2020. It's unusable because of all the boilerplate it requires and doesn't provide the most important thing of all which is data binding. So you have to bring in some other support code to do data binding such as the Rx/Observables or Redux patterns, but since this can't be shared with other shadow-rooted WCs, the cost of that bloat is multiplied by the number of different WCs you have on a page, which could be hundreds.

In benchmarks WC scales very poorly compared to React. It just wasn't designed for performance. I could go on.

- strings as the only native serialization format

- templates are also strings

- messages are passed to children as attributes which are strings

- no way to take advantage of efficient tree algorithms (virtual DOM), just manipulate a giant string every tick like a caveman
I think the point was that we know it's safe (e.g. due to the skin barrier as you mentioned) and we're not likely to change our opinion about soap safety in a decade.

In other words, despite there being many cases of egregious mistakes in safety assumptions due to our bad understanding of science (and/or malice) in the past, we're tempted nowadays to err on the side of caution and probably overestimate the ratio of chemicals we use in our daily life that turned out to be bad, to the ones that we got right.

Sizeable parts of the populace nowadays associates the word chemical with unhealthy. Yet, they buy products that have the word "natural" on it, crafted by mixing and processing products of natural origin. But nature is full of chemicals. Mixing them and processing them, grinding them, heating them up, etc, is what chemical processing is about.
They would also need to have the antibodies tested for in the non-PCR tests. (ELISA specifically.) Which reduces the likelihood of exactly this error to incredibly low.

Cross-testing some similar coronavirus as positive is much more plausible mechanism of failure. However, different tests check different subsequences.
somehow all this makes me think that well maintained metadata would be a real boon to the more untrustworthy elements of the web.
The problem with determining causality through a "butterfly effect" lens is that the criterion is too sensitive.

The question of "what is a cause" loses all meaning when every past event is treated as the cause of every future event. That's what I mean by "blurring the definition of 'causality.'" Please don't intentionally misinterpret what I'm saying (see your last sentence).

People are responsible for the outcomes of their decisions, manipulated or not. Even today, the Iranian government manipulates the superstitions and fears of the Iranian people. Still, the actors who put that government in power were millions of Iranians -- not just Western government actors.

> here we're talking about huge changes to begin with.

In the article, some historians are mentioned as advancing the idea that Western powers are to blame for everything that happened in the timeline of Iran's government, and that's simply not true. There are clear differences between the removal of Mosaddegh and the removal of Mohammad Reza Shah. The removal of Mohammad Reza Shah was, as you say, huge. It's hard to justify the blaming of such a huge action on a few Westerners, but that's precisely the stance ascribed to historians in the article.

> If a witness provides false testimony and evidence against you to a jury, who subsequently finds you guilty, who is to blame? The jury? The witness? You?

I'm not sure I understand what your point is here. Whether you blame the Iranian people or a group of cleric manipulators, the fact remains that millions of Iranians removed the Shah in a drawn-out upheaval process that was remarkably different than what happened in 1953. That's one of the points of contention mentioned in the article.

> if your imprisonment has visible and long lasting effects on your life

This kind of emotionally charged approach to evaluating history is not useful because it clouds our ability to examine what actually happened. Essentially you are saying, "the long-term outcome of the Revolution should affect our analysis of the lead-up to the Revolution." However, in the 1970s the Iranian people did not know what the future held. They only knew what they had (the Shah) and what they wanted (not the Shah).
Thank you so much for that long Laugh!
Oh, and uh... can you give me a hand, I really want to attend DEF Con 28 virtually, but I'm having a bit of a problem logging in with this .EXE file on my Linux box.
Sounds like you might want to use something like finite element software, which is essentially what other programs do. FEniCS is an example of an open source library that could maybe help. People usually use something like ls-dyna or Abaqus
Exactly my confusion!
“What’s your most favourite drug?”
I'm sure your grandfather is very proud.
>put the recirculator on

...and yet, the majority of cars (IME) default to recirc off.
Poetry is far and away the most interesting solution when its comes to managing Python dependencies.
> high rate of battery fires on the road

What exactly is that rate? Is it higher than other battery/ICE cars?
> First, I never claimed there was a parallel between 53 and 79. I agree the two were very different.

The historians referenced in the article did:

> Only later does Stewart confront the geopolitical implications and talk to Middle Eastern historians who blame his father for what later unfolded in Iran: no coup against prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, no tyrannical Shah, no Islamic revolution in 1979. Stewart hotly disagrees.

The removal of Mosaddegh was a four-day affair where a bunch of politicians were paid off. The removal of Mohammad Reza Shah was a two-year affair involving millions of Iranian protesters and thousands of casualties. This stark contrast is the basis for all of my comments in this thread.
I came across this because it was posted a solution for the need gap - 'YouTube like public chat for ecommerce websites'[1] on my problem validation platform.

But it seems to suffer from 'Chicken and Egg' problem like any other network based tool. Wanted to pick the minds of HN users on how that can be addressed and if there is any other alternatives for the need gap itself?

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/141-youtube-like-public-chat-fo...
Synecdoche, New York

As to why, Roger Ebert said it best[1].

[1]https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/synecdoche-new-york-2008
Normally yes, but we have one major difference with Atlassian - our teams are split between SF and Sydney (for the most part, we have other offices but those are the major ones). Even before COVID we had a pretty strong remote culture. We were doing video chat based meetings where everyone dials in separately even before COVID hit. We also acquired Trello, which was a remote-first company. There's a LOT of push internally to make sure remote people are first party citizens in the company.
That was about when it became directly measurable. One of the early 1980s results came from an earthquake related system in California which used lasers to measure distances between mountaintop stations along the Pacific chain.[1] That could directly detect plate motion.

GPS came later.

[1] https://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/deformation/edm/
Portland, Oregon
Even if we use our IRC client, I wonder whether it would be possible without any form of browser extension as we need to get the URL of the web page on the 'browser'.
For anyone who still doesn't get it, yes, they're jewish.
Is "Wybory" the same slavic root as the chorus singing "pick me" in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuSf1UcFRq0 ?

(Russia is not subtle about encouraging deep rural population growth! The Subaru w/ spoiler and well-depreciated tractor are stereotypical village rides here, but we, being more densely populated, also have monoaxes. And you remind me I ought to explore "disco polo" sometime. Or do you have any recommendations for a more refined genre?)
I agree. Never had any problem with it so far.
I don't find anything unique here that I don't see at big companies, it's just handled more deftly.
Here’s the comment:

“Turn the HN angry mob mode off - it’s not helpful. We’re all in this together.”

When asked by non technical people “Should I install this app? Is my data / privacy safe? Is it true it doesn’t track my location?” - say “Yes” and help them understand”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22986426

And here’s an article:

“Australian tech darling Atlassian is among the five private companies that helped the federal government build its COVID-19 contact tracing app.”

https://www.innovationaus.com/atlassian-and-the-covidsafe-te...

The fact that they didn’t wait for Apple and Google’s contract tracking API and instead went for an app that needs the phone turned on and in the foreground for it to work properly is the reason why nobody is using it :headdesk:
Another Python packaging system? I thought we were done when "wheels" replaced "eggs". ("Eggs", of course, replaced "setup.py" files.)
Ah, I think we might be talking about different things. I think the larger promise of the semantic web is a categorically different thing than adding a bit of meta data to pages to know basic things like author, content type, description, etc.

It’s the latter I think is clearly valuable, in order for us to have competition for the likes of google and Facebook. It lowers the barrier for creating competing search engines, modern rss readers, and even things like distributed social networks.
> a decades long attack on the secular, parliamentary oriented forces

This is a bizarre argument. Secularism and westernization in Iran during the 20th century were almost entirely a result of Reza Shah's reforms, as well as his closeness with the British monarchy -- itself a parliamentary system.

> Iran had a large communist movement

By the time of the revolution the Tudeh party and other communist groups were quite weak. They contributed to the upheaval without having any credible chance of installing their own leadership in the country.

> Initially the Shah supported the ayatollahs

This is a rosy but false claim. Khomeini and Khamenei spent a collective 18 years in exile under the Shah, and faced house arrest while in the country. The Shah arguably gave ground away from his own power base (aristocrats) during the White Revolution, but arguably this was intended to subdue anti-monarchical sentiment and solidify his power. That doesn't mean he "supported the ayatollahs."
Ask HN: Leaving the Bay to Where?
Hey! I work for one of these big corps that is going to remain fully remote for a while. I’m paying an absurd rent for a crappy one bedroom in San Francisco. I really think it makes no sense for me to stay here. Considering that I want to stay in the US, and perhaps work from different places (via AirBnB). What are good places that one could work from in the current Climate.
What is the use of sedation and anesthesia in dentistry?
Anesthesia is used in many treatments. In sedation dentistry, people are given dental treatments by providing them an accurate amount of anesthesia so they fall asleep or loose their consciousness. This treatment is for those specially who cannot deal with dental anxiety and are afraid of treatments.
https://stoneybrook.dental/family-dentistry/
Having seen this at a young age, before I ever read (or even heard of) Descartes or the allegory of the cave, I have to second this one.
It is possible, although a browser extension could still be provided for convenience. One way would be to add a command to the IRC server which will determine what channel to use for a given URL, I suppose. The user can then copy it from the browser by themself, if they do not have the browser extension to do that automatically.
This is also my experience, but I’ve always worked with pretty down to earth people. The better leaders I’ve worked under have made it a point to always ask new employees if they would prefer any non-alcoholic options in particular before any events, rather than assuming.
It introduces a non-work ritual into the workplace that is exclusionary to non-drinkers. It is naturally divisive to the workplace by encouraging social bonds between drinkers and excluding non-drinkers without a regular alternative.

It's like having a basketball game every Friday and expecting the guy in a wheelchair to show up and keep score. Sure, they can socialize a bit, but its inherently ostracizing and annoying especially if the person doesn't want to keep score.

Sure, voluntary social drinking among employees is fine whenever. And work sponsored drinking on occasion is fine, same as a work sponsored basketball game once in a while. Wheelchair guy won't have a problem with that. But every week? Ostracizing.

But having the sole, weekly, work-sponsored social event as something exclusionary is cult-like and creepy. It makes drinking integral to regular social bonding at work.

Sure, people can sip a sparkling water and play along. And they do. And sometimes it's fun, but it's almost never the context under which that individual prefers socializing. And once people have had a few drinks, it is ostracizing because they are not drunk. They cannot discuss their drinks, offer shots, or engage in drunken antics.
2020 U.S. Intelligence Says Republicans Are Working with Russia to Reelect Trump
Yes, one of the few current film critics who bring occasional originality and insight to their writings. Film reviews seem to be almost universally idiotic and insipid (also ideological, although Brody is not excepted from partaking in this last quality) these days. Another occasional exception in the same vein is Armond White.

Writing an entire book to spite a critic for writing a bad review strikes me as being a bit of a "self-own" so to speak. From the summary, there also seem to be some borrowings from better imagined fiction, such as the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, and the short story The Aleph.
I give them all the due blessing, but it would be immoral to continue to let US companies be complicit in helping them
Apple launches Big Sur public beta
What percentage of the air in the cabin actually passes through the cabin filter? Cabin filters are too small to filter the amount of air required for more than one human, let alone a packed car with 5 or more. Air gets in through seams and gaps and cars aren't very airtight.
So you're getting mad at people who are reacting irrationally to you speeding through neighborhoods?

I think there's more than one problem here.
A bit of typo on the book - it's finish reading not writing, to be clear.

The book, The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, by Mike Figgis (not the original edition by Polti) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thirty-Six-Dramatic-Situations-Mike...

It's more up to date on cinema, and takes some risks, which gives it the low rating, but I like it.

Trope simulator: https://random-character-generator.com/

Hopefully there will be an update by the end of the weekend, or mid-week!
I liked your first post, but this one is in line with the article.
Yeah, let's just ignore the 1.2 billion Muslims in the world that don't drink and assume they're untrustworthy. What a sophomoric article! الله اكبر
Network (1976)

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Care to elaborate for us muggles