skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
D’Addario has a “serial number” check webpage for their guitar strings. If you enter an invalid (or previously used) serial number, supposedly (I’ve never had a counterfeit set) they’ll send you a genuine set for free.

Sure, some people will input fake serial numbers to get a free product, but they probably weighed the cost of counterfeit strings affecting brand image (if I don’t know mine are counterfeit, I’ll assume it’s D’Addario’s fault if they’re bad) with the cost of sending a free set of $5 strings.
FWIW, I've found that companies outside the valley, particularly those that don't see software as their primary product, are more interested in work samples than puzzle solutions.

Try broadening your search to things like aerospace and medical technology companies.
Seriously though, the world needs a solution for Kubernetes like problems that involve UDP and multicast.
Reminded me about "How Computers Ruined Rock Music": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFaRIW-wZlw
Even if they are not yet 100% sure, it's still far better than any other laptop from any other brand who don't even bother trying to do anything about it
You test vaccines by waiting to see if the vaccinated group gets sick less often than the control group, so you need a place with a high rate of public transmission. It's also helpful if that place has doctors with expertise in vaccine trials. Brazil has both.
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Sounds like a loophole if the government official uses a friendly private space. I think private space should lose such an ability to the extent where it is being "deputized" that way for the government official. Thus even banned accounts must be allowed to interact with Trump for example (as long as the accounts stays in the legal space of course).
I don't see China as a bogeyman. I see them as a rising power with global aims, and an explicit objective of suplanting the United States as the premier global power. It seems reasonable to ask questions about whether or not that is a good thing, both for the rest of the world and for the people of the United States. Fair?
Attorney General would still be interested in the fact that you were sold a deep fryer with such a potentially dangerous flaw by Amazon, and the run around they initially gave you.
FWIW, it seems similar in the Seattle area. Lots of people moving out of the big cities. I assume it's a combination of being able to work from home and people no longer being able to afford their incredibly expensive in-city homes due to furloughs and layoffs.
One bit of broader context to keep in mind is that "extreme" left-wingers in the US are merely 'the left' by, say, European standards, where the US as a whole is seen as a right-leaning country.
There is work going on to port Chrome OS to systemd: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=583671
Using Docker-compose for local dev works very well for our teams, and we avoid the overhead of running and learning K8s operationally.
That said this approach may change for us if we were large Health or insurance company scale, but we're not.
> I just think the above argument was made from a fundamental misunderstanding of blockchain technology.

It isn't blockchain which is the problem but wide-spread absentee voting. It doesn't matter whether this is done through mail-in voting, through some blockchain-based app or site, phone-in voting or anything else. The problem is that the person casting the vote can not be assured to do so with privacy and without coercion.
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Until it eats that bug or mouse that slid into the domicile in winter, or escapes outside by accident, etc.
My impression from looking at this a bit after seeing this submission is that yes, it's mostly eBooks in practice, but I think they use the general wording because it's not strictly limited to that - you could pack audio or video publications in the formats too.
To expand on this a bit, the paper can be found at [0] and a notice of republication can be found at [1].

The study's "Methods" section reads in part:

> For this descriptive, exploratory study, recruitment information with a link to a 90-question survey, consisting of multiple-choice, Likert-type and open-ended questions was placed on three websites where parents had reported sudden or rapid onsets of gender dysphoria occurring in their teen or young adult children. The study’s eligibility criteria included parental response that their child had a sudden or rapid onset of gender dysphoria and parental indication that their child’s gender dysphoria began during or after puberty. To maximize the chances of finding cases meeting eligibility criteria, the three websites (4thwavenow, transgender trend, and youthtranscriticalprofessionals) were selected for targeted recruitment. Website moderators and potential participants were encouraged to share the recruitment information and link to the survey with any individuals or communities that they thought might include eligible participants to expand the reach of the project through snowball sampling techniques.

The online forums surveyed were:

- 4thwavenow, which describes itself as "A community of people who question the medicalization of gender-atypical youth"

- transgender trend, whose opening paragraph states "This site is for everyone who is concerned about the social and medical ‘transition’ of children, the introduction of ‘gender identity’ teaching into schools and new policies and legislation based on subjective ideas of ‘gender’ rather than the biological reality of sex."

- youthtranscriticalprofessionals, whose site appears to be defunct at this time.

[0]: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
[1]: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Now, here's a good project for someone into mechatronics. There are many videos of machines for making N95 masks on Youtube. Watch them, and try to design a better one. Things to note:

- They're all running at a rather leisurely pace, about 1 mask per second. That's very slow for a simple low-cost product. Compare textile machinery, progressive stamping presses, bottle making machines, and printing equipment. That's probably because demand for these things wasn't high until recently, and nobody designed a high-speed machine.

- The bottleneck seems to be attaching the elastic loops. The rest of the process is all roll to roll and could easily be 3x as fast. Is there some better way to do that?

- Can you get wider rolls of the source materials and build machines that make more masks at a time?

- At the output end, most machines just dump the finished masks into a bin. That loses order and count.
They then need a separate packaging operation. They come out of the machine in a consistent position and orientation, which can be exploited. A better machine would put 10 or 20 masks put into a printed poly bag and heat-seal the bag. Then it would drop the bag into a waiting cardboard carton. When the carton is full, switch to a new carton. The filled carton gets a shipping label and rolls down a roller conveyor headed for shipping.

Compare [1], an N95 mask making machine, and [2], a paper cup making machine. The paper cup machine is doing a tougher job at 5x the speed. It has a flying paster, like a big printing press, so you can change rolls without a shutdown. The cups are shot out through a pneumatic tube to the cup stacking and packaging machine. That's why paper cups are so cheap.

[1] https://youtu.be/SdCBKB4DhdA

[2] https://youtu.be/x3Vx5y0Yg3Q
LFE is really cool, but I think the biggest thing that LFE has going against it in terms of mainstream/industry adoption is that Elixir is _roughly_ a Lisp (pretending it's not). LFE is competing against a language that has some _very_ well polished edges, and IMO it doesn't feel like LFE brings to much to the table for industry over the Lisp-y features that Elixir already has[0][1][2][3][4].

What I'd really like to see is a Mix LFE compiler[7] that lets you write LFE modules in a bigger Elixir project[5], plus a set of mix tasks like `mix lfe.repl` that integrates with the other BEAM components of your Mix projects.

Long term I think it would be cool if the BEAM community comes together around the excellent tooling (mix, ExUnit, Iex) that the Elixir Team is bringing, I'd love to see other BEAM languages (LFE, Gleam[6]) with top notch integrations that let a mix project include them side by side.

I think the BEAM is a really cool piece of technology, and many of these new BEAM languages offer pretty neat advantages, I'm excited to see the interop story grow over time

[0] https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/meta/macros.html

[1] https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/comprehensions.html

[2] https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/protocols.html

[3] https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/basic-types.html#lin...

[4] https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/basic-types.html#ano...

[5] This exists, but looks unmaintained https://hex.pm/packages/mix_lfe

[6] https://gleam.run/

[7] https://hexdocs.pm/mix/1.10.2/Mix.Task.Compiler.html
In a certain way, they could be, simply because their structure may work better on the type of language that English is. It may not work as well for languages that exhibit other grammatical patterns (e.g. morphologically rich languages, or those that exhibit superficially more flexible word order which nonetheless conveys information about topic/focus).
There’s some automation going on. Check out my reply to one of the skeptical comments!
A more technical, but imo very good, blog post explaining this result can be found here: https://quantumfrontiers.com/2020/03/01/the-shape-of-mip-re/
Does anyone have any experience beyond short programs/sketches with micropython? The most I've used it for is playing around with a microbit. How does it hold up?
English is not my native language. I meant "they work for SIDN at SIDN". Employees.
I don't think it's going to be a wash, or prices wouldn't fall. You're right that this will decrease tax bases, so I guess the real question is "by how much?". Only time will tell what that looks like, but I think that will lead more to rebudgeting/allocating than just objective negative losses.

Your specific examples are interesting though, as NYC's population explicitly rejected Amazon's HQ2 with public backlash. NYC has always been defined by being a city of many industries, both white collar and creative. The day that's not true is the day NYC is no longer NYC. I think SF is a great example of what that looks like if you even compare SF of 2000 to 2020. I was between the two cities when I graduated college, and the diversity of industries is one of the main reasons I chose NYC. I don't want to be socially surrounded by my day job.

NYC has gotten along just fine without having a large tech worker population (in terms of percentages), and there are also plenty of tech workers like me that are staying. While some of my coworkers have moved since pandemic, most have not and are still contributing to NYC taxes you're concerned with.

These are all open questions that we need to answer, but the reason I look at this as a good thing still is that as a lover of cities, I'd much rather have these new issues. The mass influx of tech and wealth that cities have struggled with in the past 5+ years were/are eroding many of the things that define the actual cores of said cities, and when that's complete, you end up with more unhappy people on all sides. SF is certainly the closest to that point, and this exodus, if real, just might give it a chance to be saved.
It's also worth calling out that when people make claims about lowest in the nation, they're almost certainly calculating that based off average price paid across all homes in the state.

Thanks to Prop 13, many homeowners do pay quite tiny property taxes. But this turns out to be extremely nefarious because along with removing a fair tax base and liquidity from the market, it also means that the disproportionate burden for paying California property tax is placed on new home buyers, who are often younger people/young families.

New entrants are often paying incredible levels of property tax (as it's a percentage of the already highly inflated prices), and because they're disproportionately more likely to be working, they're also the ones paying state and federal tax, along with the miscellaneous municipal taxes which can also be quite high in cities like San Francisco.

Meanwhile, legacy owners make off like bandits. I looked up the property I rent in once, owned by a large real estate holder that's decades old, and it was assessed at a few hundred thousand — for a 5 unit building in central SF. I don't know what the actual value would be, but it'd be closer to a ballpark of $3 to $6M. A differential of ~20x, and this isn't uncommon.

It's this framework that gets you to "lowest in the nation". I tend to think about it as _both_ the highest and the lowest in the nation, largely determined based on when your family moved here.
About ten years ago, the same question was raised on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2760794/x86-cmp-instruct...

A comment was made: “These 1-bit degrees of freedom also provide a covert channel for compilers to "phone home" - they can "watermark" the binaries they produce, and the compiler vendor can ask you to please explain if they find your software with their watermark, but with no license on file.” – Bernd Jendrissek
If they have customers who need that kind of database, I'm sure they will be willing to help out with the testing. The setup doesn't have to be too crazy. Storage appliances with 20-30 hard drives are fairly common, actually. Even for individual humans, not just corporations. LVM allows you to easily create a logical volume out of multiple physical volumes, e.g. https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/creating-logical-volumes.

You might find it interesting to look at the actual sqlite source commits where this change was introduced: https://sqlite.org/src/timeline?r=larger-databases
It turns out the number comes from having a max of 2^32 pages in their database. Their default page being 4 kB each: https://www.sqlite.org/pgszchng2016.html

Working backwards, they must have raised it to 64kb: `python -c 'print(1024 * 64 * 232)'` produces 281,474,976,710,656.
LLN is good but seems to favor anti-features like disabling text selection on subtitles (except in the side pane) in order to push their in-house paid-for features.

Regarding your comment about extensibility, this applies to mostly every software platform other than the web, unfortunately. And even there, it feels like a happy accident. There's much work to be done in this area.
> but can serve to normalize failure

I agree, but it's not like they've given up. They're still working on it, and hope to find a way to permanently remove all the software that enables it, and run their own software instead. Whether or not they'll eventually be successful is of course an open question.

The alternative, at least right now, is that Purism doesn't sell any hardware at all, goes out of business, and then there's no one working credibly on this. That would be an even worse failure, IMO.
Nope, you should still give your cat vaccines. Your reasoning is silly
> The flaw in Unicode is that it punts on the intrinsic complexity---pretending that codepoints have language-independent, plain-text, semantic meaning.

> Pretending "plain text" isn't an oxymoron

FTFY :)
I don't think the knowledge is useless as much as it's properly abstracted away into core libraries for 99.999% of the real-world use-cases.

Maybe the questions started as "IQ tests" (or a proxy for "fresh out of a Stanford-like CS Program?") but my impression is that now it's a mild (or not) proxy for hazing.

"I suffered through this crap and by God you are going to suffer through it to, or you can't join my little club, and by the way I just make a hundred dollars telling you that."

Edit: clarity & speling
> 2. Truthiness should not exist as a concept.

Meh, it's actually quite useful in many situations.
I'm not that poster but I can elaborate. Basically your physician couldn't easily use "biological sex" as a blanket term to accurately asses the risk factors and health needs of a medically transitioned person. Our sex is "otherwise complicated."

The reason for this is that medical transition, primarily through the mechanism of hormone replacement therapy, actually changes some aspects of biological sex and the associated risk factors at a "nuts and bolts" level even though its not touching every single aspect of biological sex. It's not purely cosmetic, though that's a common misconception. Hormones ultimately control a lot about how human bodies express sex and the associated medical factors. In reality "biological sex" is composed of multiple sexually differentiated systems within the human biology that can theoretically operate somewhat independent of each other, and changing the dominate hormone in your body will flip or at least shove a lot of those systems towards the other end of the distribution. I guess a way to phrase this in developer terminology would be that "biological sex" is sometimes a leaky abstraction.

As a personal example: despite my birth sex, it would be a mistake for my doctor to ask that I routinely get regular breast cancer screenings in the same way it would be a mistake to ask a cis man to regularly screen himself for breast cancer. My risk of breast cancer is much lower than a cis woman's and comparable to a cis man's. But at the same time I have absolutely zero risk of prostate cancer, and it would also be a mistake to try and test for that based on any possible symptoms I'm having. An ideally perfect doctor would be able take my history and be cognizant of what risk factors of biological sex, exactly, which conditions were associated with, and then be able to map that onto my body to figure out what I'm at risk for. As you can probably imagine, this is very difficult to do. A lot of times what makes a condition linked to sex isn't actually understood in the first place.
The Best Way to Undermine Yourself
I’m in tech, but I like the Bay Area for what it is. I plan on working remote to be near family, but also intend to use the lower cost of living to save up and purchase a house in SF at some point later in life, hopefully to retire to. It’s a nice area and I think many people will be back after the pandemic (tech people or not); it just doesn’t make economic sense to be here now.
Public transit being another example of close-quarters contact in typically unsanitary conditions. And for those puritans who will inevitably attempt to reduce everything to a moral binary, I am not arguing against public transit. It’s a very good thing in many locations and I have no problem believing it is more ecologically friendly than many other modes of transit.
Which can be both correct and wrong depending on context.

Normally there is no such thing as a capital ß, so it was decided that if
for some unreasonable reason you do uppercase it you go with SS.

But then for some all-caps usages this is not right. E.g. a all caps name of an restaurant as placed above the restaurants door. In which case it was common to have a ß in a all-caps name like FOOßBAR. So they decided that for reasons like this we now have an (EDIT: semi?) official uppercase ß.

So all in all this and other examples in other languages mean you should never do a case insensitive comparison by upper/lower casing both sides, it won't work reliable.
> I can only imagine Amazon is spending more money on the problem now vs then.

They might be spending money, but that doesn't mean the money is actually going towards fixing the problem at hand.

When I go to return an item, I can't even select that the reason for my return is that I suspect or know that the item is counterfeited. I have to lie and choose between several somewhat related options like "Inaccurate website description" or "Wrong item was sent" among other things.

To me, it seems like if Amazon were serious about addressing rampant counterfeiting on their platform, they would collect stats from the customers that suffer from Amazon's lack of quality control.
I'm more on acoustic real drums and sampled drum machines so memory might not help much, however it seems to me that the bass drum attack is a bit too clicky. It could be a side effect of the audio compression though.
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Again, people working at will are irrelevant, as his situation is different. You keep bringing it up for some reason, almost sounds like you're just jealous of tenure.

He resigned because the process was consistently of a kangaroo court variety. He did get the "sentence" to be fired so there is no need to speculate what would have happened if he didn't resign. There was no point to continue to the one last step because there was no reason to believe that it would be any more fair than the numerous previous steps.

You're just finding excuses for his unfair treatment because you don't like the guy or what he did. If a similarly unfair process was applied to a professor you like and respect, you'd be screaming in disbelief at how it's unfair. "Prominent civil rights activist loses tenure", instant 5000 points on HN. And so if you don't care about an unlikeable guy getting a fair process, then I guess you only care that people you don't like are punished by whatever means gets the job done, and that's not something to be proud of. Our society strives to be better than petty tribalism even if the legal protections against that aren't always there.
So many forecasts i hear about the fallout of this, such as everyone living in private fortresses in the suburbs working from home, not going into large groups ever again, abandoning the cities, conferences, and universities for online vocational training seem dystopian to be honest.
The problem with your approach is that you're firmly locked in to the vendor.

And in the case of Fargate, Heroku etc you're paying significantly more than if you had made use of Spot instances or shopped around for a cheaper vendor.
Right. 2019 should be out later this year.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/11/21/state-of-mozilla-20...
I bought a roll direct from 3M a few weeks back. Was well over $40. It would also appear they don't call it kapton, but instead thermosetting adhesive.

Checkout 3M 5413 AMBER. Larger rolls can cost upwards of $300, not cheap stuff.
There are 53 US metropolitan areas with > 1M people.

They all have something wrong with them, but only SF has it's unique set of problems.

So everyone has to figure out what tradeoff works for them.

To me the biggest flaw in SF is the institutionalized Nimby-ocracy and the resulting housing and homelessness crisis, which I think poisons most areas of society.

Texas seems like it has that side of society figured out. It has other serious problems, I know.
> You either produce sperm, or ova - or neither (which if caused genetically is an abnormal variant).

Or both, at least in theory, though true hermaphroditism with both ovulation and spermatogenesis, while theoretically possible and observed on other mammals has not, AFAIK, been conclusively shown in humans.

But, sure, you can redefine “sex” to be restricted to any one of a number of axes of sexual variation that exist in human and result in either a simple quaternary, trinary (or, if you try a little harder than you have, binary) distinction, but what is the point?
>> 60% of people who prefer to work from home

> but why do work-from-homers assume that everyone else likes to work that way?

How did you get from 60% to "everyone else"?
> Try broadening your search to things like aerospace and medical technology companies.

Not sure what the correct name is, but most job listings I've seen for these industries strongly prefer people with prior experience in them because they have to follow strict frameworks / processes for safety reasons.