skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the person you may be referring to, I'd like to clarify that I was not in any way suggesting they target "hubble data." It was just an example of how a user might modify their search if they were looking for this company but found telescope content instead.

There's no sense in doing SEO for your company name, unless you're at the point where competitors are trying to outrank you for your own company name. (Which is a pretty good tactic, actually: https://www.gkogan.co/blog/alternative-pages/.) So don't target "hubble," don't target "hubble data," don't target "hubble the YC company I saw on HN a while back," don't worry about it. Try and catch the people searching for use cases or solutions instead.
Why "gender studies" in particular though? Why not "global warming," as per your own example? Once our cultural setting stops believing that temperatures are rising, won't they stop rising? Or why not "antiracism"? It's trendy to not believe that certain races are inherently superior - doesn't that just mean that all science saying as much is influenced by its cultural context and therefore just as unreliable as the scientific racism of the past?

(Or is it possible that the endeavor of science is actually a slow and flawed but nonetheless unrelenting movement towards objective truth?)
Please link me!

I've been following the pipe bomb situation pretty closely so I've missed a lot of that stuff probably.
Also, if you've worked for at least 6 months in the past 2 years and your company went under / you got fired / the company did not renew your CDD (temporary contract) / you had to quit because your SO is moving, you're given unemployment benefits (whether you're French or not) as well as help to get back to employment.
My kids (11 and 9) love roblox, but it's too hard to create stuff with it. There is a lot of coding involved and the learning curve is significant, I tried it myself and got overwhelmed (although to be fair, my interest was pretty low to start with). They are much more creative with Minecraft.
University of Utah pays $457k to ransomware gang
>First of all, "Basic economics/psychology informs" does not constitute empirical proof that UHC leads to decreased "innovation" (which is a weasel word in itself).

Either you believe humans respond to incentives or you don't. It's that simple.

> Second, even if we granted the premise that UHC leads to less healthcare innovation, this doesn't mean that there's "infinite harm" in to people in the future. Unless you're claiming you have a crystal ball, there is absolute 0 epistemic basis on which to make this claim. For all we know, not having UHC leads to nuclear war and we all die. Or, having UHC leads to the singularity. Etc.

I'm not making a "butterfly effect" argument where there's no obvious direct line between choice A and impact B. The only axiom I need is that humans respond to incentives, and then what happens when you reduce or remove incentives is obvious. You tend to get less of that thing.

>I would argue that we've picked most of the low-hanging fruit of human medicine and that the marginal utility produced by new treatments is far outweighed by the human suffering of our for-profit system.

If you believe we're basically near the end of potential for human medicine, would you support cutting subsidies and funding for research in the healthcare field?
Intro to Lattices in Cryptography
I found it to be pure hell compared to using a game engine. Slow interface, sketchy documentation.
Well... Considering we can't seem to stop using cars to curb global warming, I only hope the humans of the next supernova are better than us.
Well, you're not saying it right. When a non-programmer (and even some programmers) hear "bad code", they start thinking in terms of aesthetics. In fact, "bad code" is sometimes just called "ugly code", making the analogy worse. Fast, responsive code is probably "ugly" to some people, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Maintainable code is so verbose as to be considered "bad" to some on first glance, but proves its worth when the requirements change. Rather than talk about code quality, we should be harping on product quality, which can only be achieved through consistent software (dare I say?) engineering practices - which, if followed consistently and unapologetically, will accidentally lead to "good" code.
Like the speed of sound and the height of the table where the experiment is.

Note that the pressure of the air changes with height. For a few inches the change is negligible and very difficult (impossible?) to measure, but the effect must be out there.

I had once a problem with the temperature of the room, you usually ignore it, but it has a bigger effect like a 5% variation.
> instrumental in ensuring that disabled employees have access to tools they need to do their job and the support they need

Accommodating disabled employees is a majority view. The majority of people agree with it. As we said, unions are democratic so how did this action get implemented if it wasn’t a majority view? The problem is when you’re in a minority view.

> Your employer does not see you as significantly different to any other employee

And the union doesn’t see me as significantly different to any other member. Just another infinitely small vote they can disregard if they want. What’s the difference? At least there's some impact on my employer if I quit. There's none to a union!

> You have more in common with the other employees

Until you don’t. Like a more senior workforce voting for pay based on seniority when you’re younger.

> Consider it this way, if you died on the way into work tomorrow, your colleagues would mourn and miss you, your employer would be typing up the job post whilst wondering if they could get someone cheaper this time.

I don’t need people to mourn and miss me - I need good pay and conditions.

> I genuinely think you have some serious misunderstandings about what a union can and does do for its members.

I disagree so I must just be mistaken rather than genuinely having a different opinion?

> I don't know of one union that would prevent you from negotiating your own contract or terms and conditions.

Many unions agree union rates which can only be negotiated by the union and the employer. You as an individual get locked out. Not all unions do... but when it becomes the majority view...

> In the US you dont like unions

I’m British. One of the very worst things about unions here is most of them fund one particular political party! That alone is crazy to me. I think many many people would find it extremely offensive to be funding that party.

I don’t want to get involved in it.

I’m sure unions are in some cases great for individuals, just like some employers are great for individuals. But I don’t think they’re really any more benevolent. Both are looking out for their own overall interests and I’m the little guy and if I want what they don’t I’m stuck.

Given that, why get a union involved? Why do I want to negotiate with two sometimes-less-than-benevolent masters rather than one?

Can you understand I may disagree rather than just insisting I’m ignorant?
Recently did the exact thing with a Privacy card and SiriusXM (fuck that company). I have a plot twist tho, SiriusXM continued to extend my service after my trial period ended and payment declined then tried to make me pay $10. Turns out, I still had to manually jump through all of the hoops of manually cancelling my SiriusXM account and the $10 is the pro-rated bill between the end of my trial and when finally cancelled.

Seriously, fuck that company.

edit: seems I have a fancy for run on sentences. sorry
Binance P2P Adds Support for 58 New Payment Methods
This is fascinating! For the side dialogues, did you do run the generator several times until it came up with something that sounded relevant/reasonable, or were you able to really chat in that manner and what you have here is the first thing it generated?
>The decline of Firefox is because of one thing only - the enormous marketing and engineering clout of Google and their utterly ruthless, relentless, anti-competitive pushing of Chrome across Android and all their web properties and even through ads all over the world.

The other factors contributed though.
Cheers, appreciate it, will ping you on LI!
That is just not true. It may be the case if the key itself is compromised, but consider that you may have many different accounts scattered on different servers. Once one of them is compromised, the attacker now has access to every other account because they are all chained together.
Why would a university have so much cash laying around? Oh yeah, it's in the business of making money with a side effect of MAYBE educating people. SO DAMN WRONG. Time to hit the RESET button in the higher education system in USA.
What the Hack Is Vite?
apache hbase is full of awful state machine code implemented in a slight variant of "the wrong way" described in this paper. it is 100% unreadable spaghetti. here's one example: http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh5/cdh/5/hbase/xref/org/apache...

not sure the goto approach would much better but this approach ends up just being a poor reinvention of goto in java
Very interesting idea, but I think people looking for wifi are not the people who want to pay for it...

Perhaps a non-monetary payment like a free internet connection, but you need to watch an ad every few minutes on the app
UberEats could be underpaying delivery drivers on 30% of trips
In theory, the idea of regulated, but high, fares for taxis came with a legal obligation to accept all rides.

But that never stopped drivers from playing that game anyway.
CSV is just an example, data vendors can choose e.g. JSON if they want more a sane and well-defined format.
Each individual ride has a price/rate, and the workers of Uber can't set their own rates. Yeah, I know workers don't have a single hourly wage. Pointing that out doesn't obscure the fact that Uber and Lyft dictate completely the most important aspect of working for them. This is totally different from the idea of working as an independent contractor both in spirit and legally.
We don’t consciously choose our thoughts or feelings, we become aware of them
The Evolution of CEO Compensation in Venture Capital Backed Startups
Sure, but in the real world that cost is having to buy a new car, which easily increases the cost per mile by 50% and invalidates the point that "you were already driving a car".
What's the issue with that?
Until it isn't, because the enemy has already captured and compromised your government back home.
> it's not fully known yet why that procedure didn't prevent the accidents

The only way in the 737 Max to disable MCAS, is to disable electric trim altogether. That means only manual trim is available. When MCAS has trimmed all the way to one of the extremes (as happened in the Ethiopean flight), it requires many revolutions of the trim wheel and superhuman strength to return it to a more appropriate setting (see e.g. https://youtu.be/aoNOVlxJmow?t=750).

Previous generations of the 737 had two buttons related to the electric trim: one disabled the automatic trim system, the other one disabled electric trim altogether. The 737 Max still has two buttons, but they both have the same effect: disable the electric trim altogether. The old system could easily have prevented the crash by disabling MCAS but leaving the electrically assisted trim enabled.

Boeing's procedure to make manual trim adjustments possible is to put the airplane in a dive, because that lowers the aerodynamic forces on the trim surface. When you're only a few hundred feet above the ground, that's not really an option. The pilots re-enabled the electric trim in the hope they could use it in their fight against MCAS. It's the only thing they could think of in the stress of the moment, faced with near-certain death and an airplane actively trying to crash.

In hindsight, after reading accident reports and thinking about it in the comfort of chair that's not crashing, there were things they could have done. Lowering the throttle would have lessened the forces on the trim surface, activating the flaps once the speed was low enough would have disabled MCAS. I can't blame the pilots for not coming up with that in the heat of the moment.
You can do so from your iCloud account on the web.
GCC “-Fparallel-Jobs” Sent Out for Compiling Individual Files in Parallel
And you're still protecting them even after they admitted to fraud!

This is in response to someone saying we need to look out for each other. Our fellow devs and employees.

Y'all need to stop being so nice. Your founder isn't. You need to stop trying to play fair, your founder isn't. You need to put the people you work with on a higher level than your founder and get over this appeal to authority.
Is NG really over 5X cheaper than electricity? It seems like a NG genset that is better than 20% efficient wouldn't be that hard to build, yet I don't see people running their houses off of electricity that way.
This guy is writing a bad joke. Paraphrasing...

"France is in terrible shape. We've voted in a system that has an enormous regulatory environment that stifles business and kills small and medium size endeavors, which move to the US if they are to succeed.

But it could be worse, we could be the US."

Okay. Sure. That makes sense.
> Mac gestures are discrete, not continuous

Continuous: pinch zoom, rotate, swipe between pages, swipe between virtual desktops, swipe between fullscreen apps, show notification center, show all windows on current desktop ("Mission Control"), show all application windows ("App Exposé"), show Launchpad, show desktop

Discrete: browser back/forward I guess?
There is a whole lot of nuance and middle ground between gender essentialism and what is currently put forth as scholarship in the humanities. Criticizm of that scholarship and field is well warrented given the mess it is making. The evidence and defeatablity that is built into STEM has been thrown to the wind for option stated as fact in "gender studies" that you are a bigot or other fun word if you disagree with.
I still play MUME from time to time, and have been playing it since it started: https://mume.org/

Can not recommend it enough. It's like interacting with the living world inside of Tolkien's books. It's really good.
I saw the title and thought that it was about Muddy Waters and was disappointed when I clicked through.
BTW. The Electric Mud album was recorded using Muddy's regular band and then the psychedelic tracks were remixed in. If you listen carefully you can hear Pinetop Perkins, Willy Smith and the rest of the band. I remember hearing a remastered version without the psychedelic tracks and it was much better.
Our innate fixation on categorizing everything has given us strange blind spots all over the place. Take the whole thing with plants in a rain forest communicating via chemicals and intermediate fungii and all sorts of things - we insist on thinking of them as separate organisms mutely battling each other, or (hippie hat firmly in place) as a single cohesive whole living in harmony.

In reality it's neither, it's a disparate bunch of organisms in a complicated web of iterated cooperation and defection in a cutthroat battle for individual (and therefore often communal) survival.
As I understand it, most co-ops don't even enforce totally equal pay across the board -- they just ensure that there are no extreme income discrepancies. Rewarding workers who do a great job with a bonus makes sense even from an egalitarian perspective.
> The social distancing is having a negative effect on people psychology in my opinion.

I know that I personally have been a lot snippier with people as this has gone on and on.

Honestly at this point the only thought I really give to Coronavirus is that I wear a mask at the grocery store as a courtesy to others.

We avoided all our friends from March - July. The past two months we've started just seeing them as normal. It's been beneficial for all of us.

But at the same time, we used to go to a coffee shop as a family every day for lunch. Haven't done that in six months. Don't know if it's a habit we'll pick back up or not when someday things go back to normal. On the one hand, we spend a lot less money. On the other hand, we miss out on a lot of spontaneous interaction with our community.

On the same note, we used to be pretty involved in our church. We went weekly, had our kids in Sunday School, went on Wednesdays during Lent and Advent.

Now? Haven't been in six months. Thought about going back, but they (fairly) care more about avoiding any possibility of risk than getting bodies back in pews. I have no desire to make three preschools try to sit through a church service wearing masks and not interacting with anyone.

My prediction is that the lockdowns will be absolutely devastating to religious observance in the US. At the very least, I expect it will drive a lot of already financially-precarious churches to permanently close their doors.
Those effects are vastly overstated.

https://lwn.net/Articles/825602/

If you participate in the community, you can be a boon or you can also be a drag (if you just use the software in the privacy of your home, report problems and ask questions, without every giving back in any way, not even by answering other folks' questions).

If you want your open source developers to eat, they need cold hard cash.

From the lwn link above:

> Words fail me to express how beyond-utterly-broken the
existing TDF / desktop model is for the ecosystem around selling
Desktop LibreOffice.

> Collabora - despite C'bra still putting a lot of work into
LibreOffice Desktop, having an outstanding support capability, doing
lots of marketing, being the largest code contributor to LibreOffice,
and having lots of existing happy customers / references for desktop
LibreOffice, ... etc. etc.

> We have not had -one- -single- -new- Collabora Office
customer since 2018 - zero.

(for context: the former LibreOffice development team of SUSE joined Collabora in 2013, so they're not a scrappy new startup completely disjointed from Libreoffice)
Not a single mention of colonialism huh
That would be useless against non-conductive debris, which is most of it. The only protections are kinetic.
For some reason, it never occured to me that transistors could be placed in parallel in a circuit...

This (along with the proper wire sizes to handle the additional power) apparently results in the equivalent of a single larger emulated transistor electronic component, able to handle much more power/current.

And, interestingly enough, these larger "emulated" transistor components (which are actually electronically equivalent to single transistors, just at higher power/current), could ALSO be stacked in parallel!

In other words, it should be possible to take many of the smallest, weakest (in terms of power/current handling capability) transistors, and build them up to larger and larger "emulated transistors", then build those up, and eventually have a single transistor (well, virtualized, emulated, call it by whatever term you want!) that can handle a ton of power...
It's the first time I've seen it
I have done it in Germany. I had to register my website as a business, and documented how to do it on that same website.

Honestly, it wasn't so hard, and I can honestly say that I made it a little easier. The hardest part was taxes, and the honest solution is "hire a tax advisor, pay 300€ a year, be done with it".

The biggest problem for me is the cost of health insurance. As a self-employed person, you pay double. I pay 850€ a month in health insurance, and 550€ a month in rent. The fix is to switch to private health insurance, but that has its own caveats.

Here's an overview of what must be done: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/start-a-business-in-german...

https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/become-a-freelancer-in-ger...
Problem-Solving Techniques That Work for All Types of Challenges
You can still run it on the Raspberry Pi (up to version 3, the Pi 4 is not yet supported).

It works pretty nicely too, although no doubt it could do with some tender loving care to bring things up to date, as it's somewhat abandonware.

Certainly it makes the Pi hardware feel snappy in a way that desktop Linux decidedly does not.
Understand Big-O Notation Complexity of Algorithm
It’s relatively cheaper to increase aircraft safety because you also save the aircraft at the same time you save the people. Crash lawsuits are also much simpler vs say soft drinks. That alignment of incentives is very different than say coal pollution. Airlines directly save money when accidents are avoided, but power plants only lose money when they add scrubbers.
Some direct-to-consumer tests are a scam

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/everlywell-at-home-lab-test...
> In super cheap eMMC the controller usually has the largest chance of dying early

Why is that? One would assume the NAND was the most likely point of failure.
Hyperion: Building the Largest In-Memory Search Tree
Linus's Jan 1992 post on comp.os.coherent is interesting:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.coherent/c/3dSbdErXdUc/m...
I think there's value in having a huge learning set, but there are also limitations, as you're alluding to.

But I also don't think we're miles away from computers learning some sort of reasoning structure. Some sort of causality-type thinking where you have hierarchies which at some level are reasonably simple, because humans can only fit so much. But when the computers figure it out, they don't have that problem.

At the moment, yes, there's a huge corpus of patterns and you can make some smart decisions just by being able to learn from the huge library, but it's the difference between knowing that one move tends to beat another, without knowing the why. For instance in sports, you have man-marking vs zone-marking. The naive thing to do is just tabulate how often a team did one or the other vs how often they won. Then break it down even more by who they were facing and various stats. But if you don't have a theory of marking, you're a bit lost for explanation, even if the tabulation clearly says zone marking tends to win. A causal explanation might sound something like "man marking allows the other team to pull you out of shape and gives them the choice of which players face which". It might also tell you that sometimes it's actually smarter to man-mark, eg when there's some player you really feel is dominant and needs to be taken out.

I gather that people are working on this causality type AI though, so no doubt we'll see something interesting soon.
> Yeah, but my metabolic processes sometimes do have an effect many kilometers away.

You mean like ordering pizza to be delivered?
“Setapp” the alternative to Apples App Store - Now on iPhones and iPads
Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments
I imagine it has to do with the quantity. And the FDA did indeed ban it:

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfr...
Once (if) the other guy has ejected and is under canopy, then it’s important to be a good sport again- no shooting at him while he’s defenseless, and if you capture him then you have to treat him with dignity as a POW.

But what if the simulation is a Spielberg movie and if you let the AI go, later on he'll kill Tom Hanks?

It's like the Trolley Problem but weighted by how much you liked Joe Versus the Volcano.
Comparing incomparable.

Linux (as a kernel) is alive and thriving because of the server market not because of power users tweaking their bash powerlines.
I chose 'web feeds' since it covered both RSS/ATOM and avoided the need to define their acronym meaning.
My view stats were very low last time I checked, but I haven't done much in the way of promotion either. (I did look into keyword advertising but that was prohibitively expensive.)
I'll probably try for another round of organic promotion once I do the site overhaul.
They seem to active Apps via MacOS using a QR code, thus going around the Apple App activation feature.

I'm thinking that they might get legal issues with Apple over this, because you're not paying Apple their 30% any more, you're paying Setapp.