skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
all those entries list the hours in specific industries. what we can't tell from that table is how many jobs that actually covers.

ig-metall is the largest union representing about 2/5 of all unionized employees in germany. keep in mind that in most cases a union agreement is applied to all employees, not just the union members, so many more jobs than union members are affected.

that said, there is likely something wrong with that 34.5 average because i found other articles claiming an average of 37.5 and yet another of 41 hours.

while i still believe that the 35 hour week has a large impact on the result, it is less large than i thought.
You’re right, people forget courts are the singular arbiters of truth. Discussion is unnecessary
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They first have to understand that reversibility is a feature. One of their core beliefs is that's it's a bug.
I think one of the key things computers aren't as good as people are is communication. There is a lot of info that a human can convey with a short sentence that a computer would have no chance of doing. The ability for a human to effectively communicate with ground, tower and other aircraft in inclement weather is key.
Actually, the key point is not that less ink is better -- the idea is that every bit of ink should be as information-dense as possible, in order to communicate the points desired.

"Less ink" leads to people dumbing down plots for bad reasons. Or in the interest of "clean design" making charts that are uninformative.

Charts should be very detailed when they need to be. But the information should reveal and help the reader to draw conclusions visually, not obfuscate.

He gives these examples, which are highly detailed, and dense in information. Every piece of ink is informative, yet at multiple levels of viewer "zoom" there are meaningful takeaways that can be identified:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c8/18/bc/c818bc89caa283bd4307...

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/images/0003Kf-26845/VEp94...
the sad thing is this recent media hysteria has done more to legitimize Q in the eyes of Qanon'ers than anything else. Since the very first Q post to /pol/ on 4chan back in the end of October 2016, where Q prophesied that Hillary Clinton would be arrested the next day for treason, the community of Conspiracy Theorists have been evenly divided about whether Q is real or a LARP. clearly, a majority of the Q prophecies have turned out to be false and never happened (i.e "Trust Sessions, Trust Wray").

But now that the Leftist media is putting Qanon on the front pages and in the opening monologues of their talk shows, it's causing the opposite unintended consequence: if Qanon was so fake, then why are famous journalists and billion dollar media conglomerates talking about Qanon as if it is real? Therefore, it must be real.

The media always needs a boogeyman. And if no boogeyman exists, then the media will fabricate it. In 2016, it was the AltRight, which didnt really exist in a big way in meatspace. Now in 2020 the new Boogeyman is Qanon, which also doesnt exist in a large physical sense outside of obscure forums and memes.
I really hate how the media does this. It's a form of bullying, to pick a fringe group that nobody takes seriously and elevate them to the next National Enemy. It's also stupid, because instead of the media focusing on real issues, like oh say COVID or the economic collapse or civil unrest in 100's of cities, naw, the media chooses to focus on the lamest most powerless and kooky group of conspiracy theorists.

thanks a lot media. no wonder everyone calls them the Fake News now.

I guess this is the media's version of Trust the Plan.
Pardon me, but most men aren't splashing around in the urinals. If you're really curious what it looks like you could just go in one and have a look around... :)
I think you have to detach the idea of _personal_ blame from it. They're both phenomena which cause problems.
There is an "extension" to .obj where vertex colors are added to the v line, like

v x y z r g b

But this stores a color per-vertex. Vertex colors in Blender, like UVs, are per-corner-of-poly. The ideal way to store vertex color information in .obj would really be

vc r g b
p v1/vt1/vn1/vc1 ...

As it is, exporting per-vertex colors would require splitting a vertex into multiple vertices, one per distinct vertex color that it uses.
I used Blender extensively the last few weeks for a prototype project. It's really a great piece of software but when it came to baking/texturing/painting my models (game assets using the PBR workflow) I grew more and more impatient with the build-in tools it offers .

So I gave up at some point and following some suggestions I finally tried Substance Painter to do these things (Industry standard). Using both tools in tandem was a real game changer for me. Definitely would recommend it if you want to speed up your process. I am sure all this can be done in Blender but it will be a pain to do so.

Some things I was missing within Blender:

- Baking and baking groups (it's extremely annoying to select all the objects each time but I have seen a few extension who help with this process)

- Painting on multiple layers at the same time (e.g. paint a PBR material on a PBR material)

- A non-destructive workflow with support for the above

Nevertheless I love Blender and I would like to be able to use their UI-Framework for my own applications because it works just great.
It was my understanding that the user had installed a version of the Electrum wallet that was not from the official source at electrum.org. (But agree - it was really difficult to identify the core issue from this string of GitHub comments.)
Awesome project. Honestly worth a post if its own.
It's just a process of exploration, people trying out ideas to see what works. Over time, with sharing of results, we will gradually discover more nuanced approaches, but the exploration phase is necessary in order to map a path forward and train a generation of ML engineers and PM's who don't have seniors to learn from.

Of course it sucks on the short term, but there is zero chance the field will be abandoned. It has enough uses already.
Lectures will be live streamed starting tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChfUOAhz7ynELF-s_1LPpWg (and archived for viewing after).
My base-model Honda Insight has this feature. You definitely don't need a $7000 option package to get it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enYKUZjvXg
To store $16M you definitely need to take precautions. Someone could steal your identity or compromise your account. It seems like different vulnerabilities rather than one that only exists for crypto.
Domain-specific language model pretraining for biomedical NLP
I know very little about the DL/ML space, but as a full-stack engineer it feels like most companies have tried to replicate what FAANG companies do (heavy investment in data/ml) when the cost/benefit simply isn't there.

Small companies need to frame the problem as:

1) Do we have a problem where the solution is discrete and already solved by an existing ML/DL model/architecture?

2) Can we have one of our existing engineers (or a short-term contractor) do transfer learning to slightly tweak that model to our specific problem/data?

Once that "problem" actually turns into multiple "machine learning problems" or "oh, we just need todo this one novel thing", they will probably need to bail because it'll be too hard/expensive and the most likely outcome will be no meaningful progress.

Said in another way: can we expect an engineer to get a fastai model up and running very quickly for our problem? If so, great - if not, then bail.

ie: the solution for most companies will be having 1 part-time "citizen data scientist" [1] on your engineering team.

[1]: https://www.datarobot.com/wiki/citizen-data-scientist/
>a joy for users
But.. we already have H-l for that!
No. The U.S. intell community does not do that, empirically. There isn’t even the apparatus for doing that. The US IC’s ties to industry, apart from defense contractors and communications, are very tenuous, hamstrung by clearance and classification problem and a very insular culture.

So, in addition to being factually incorrect, is very damaging to the national discourse to normalize CPC’s strategy of wholesale IP theft.
Which is why it's not used for important purchases. Except illegal ones.
Sorry, I completely forgot about the Pueblos. Good point.
Can't edit but

> the sum type simply has a single constructor.

this should be "product" not "sum"
Picking up my copy of Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary and looking up "racism", I see "1. a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race" (which isn't relevant to the point being made) and "2. racial prejudice or discrimination" which perfectly describes affirmative action - people of a particular race being discriminated against because of their race. This is literally textbook racism.

I'm really curious what arguments the downvoters of the parent post have to say and why they didn't say them.
There is no guarantee that v4 UUIDs are generated by a secure CSPRNG. Some implementations have such a guarantee (notably Java), but most don't document this.
The manual to my first computer. Had the datasette storage as well. Loading a program took a good five minutes. Unfortunately the TV I used for it was black and white, so I only saw it in color once when I connected to the family TV.

The manual is amazing from today's perspective. On the first few pages it has cartoons and teaches you how to use the shift key and other such rudimentary things. Two chapters or so later you are learning how to PEEK and POKE (read/set) physical memory locations. It was friendly and assumed you were intelligent at the same time.
I have more faith in the banking system but even there it can get tricky: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222045.
Also, I think it's just the reason that crypto-currency will fail.

If you trick me into an ACH transfer of 16 million, there will

a) Trigger some random human based audits at my bank before the money can leave (likely involve some phone calls)

b) Have actual recourse, like court orders to hold the funds at the other bank

c) Take some amount of time to happen, to allow for A & B

It's not perfect, and it has bugs.. but I would never store actual money of value in crypto anything.
The future value of another career formerly recommended by high school guidance counselors is eliminated.
> Most fresh (killed, butchered and served quickly) food isn't really great

I have eaten raw skipjack tuna that I caught myself and never froze. Tuna, as far as I know, has very little risk of parasitic infection. It was delicious.
Isn't it 250k per account?
AMD helped pay for the development of the OpenCL backend for cycles. Before that cycles gpu support was limited to CUDA. They actually hired a developer to work on it full time.
Having recently started trying to learn to make and setup game assets (I can do CAD but not rigging etc.), I was really shocked how much cleaner Blender is compared to Maya.

I'm aware Maya is more powerful for some tasks, but - considering that other Autodesk tools are not too bad - Maya genuinely nearly put me off doing it at all.
I bet not!

1 > {} // false
1 < {} // false

So the result of sorting will be random.

People are fast to complain..
I agree they aren't the same thing, but I would say that both sex and gender are impacted by biology so I'm not sure that's a useful dividing line. It's true that male and female are two stable sexual categories, but the details of how you identify sex (and how each sex responds to treatments) ends up being very bimodal[1]. So the social categories of male sex and female sex overlay complicated, individual biological systems.

[1] https://twitter.com/ScienceVet2/status/1035246030500061184
> who needs to be investigated

This shouldn't be about "who". This should be about a team of several hundred engineers who investigate the hell out of that data at work and figure out if it could be prevented the next time, and if so, deploy an update.

Courts getting involved for every accident with that engineering effort and taking time out of their dayjobs for a legal investigation would only delay the solution and cause more loss of life.

There should be accountability in terms of ensuring that a fair engineering investigation happens, and how to modify the code to make it even better than it already is. It's about which lines of code need to be changed, not about "who" needs to be investigated.

It's precisely this "who" thinking that I think we need to get over, especially when machines already do far better than humans at certain tasks.

Elevators are pretty much all autonomous these days. When elevator accidents happen do we go tracking down which engineer in the elevator design company is at fault? No, as long as it isn't a case of intentional negligence, we first figure out whether the injured person did something wrong, and if not, the team of engineers at the elevator company work together to try to re-engineer the elevators to be more safe the next time around without pointing fingers within their company. And the result? Elevators are pretty much 99.99999% (or whatever) safe these days.
I'd say 98% of the population. There's a very small percentage of the population that even understands what fiat is, and what problems cryptocurrency solves.

For that matter, a sizable percentage of cryptocurrency advocates either don't know or care either; their only concern is how much fiat they can trade cryptocurrency for.
I sincerely hope that you are right and I am wrong here, in a few months we'll see of course. I've been with the Mozilla project for 15 years myself, and I've grown more than a bit disillusioned. I know that these people are trying to do the best thing possible. But I also learned that there is nothing more permanent than a stopgap solution. Once things are released and “work” the pressure is off, and there is always something more important requiring attention.
Portainer 2: now with Kubernetes management UI
I wonder what happened to that old planned feature where the ruby code would be byte-compiled into .rbc files?
After trying blender for the first time the other day I was amazed at how good the interface is for an open source program, it feels really modern.

I'm used to open source programs usually having pretty janky/outdated interfaces.
I'm not an expert in BTC storage, but as far as I understand such an attack could have been prevented if the owner invested in a hardware wallet for $100-200. As the final step in a transaction would be to sign it on your ledger/trezor device, and would be much harder to phish.
The virtues people often use for crypto (trustless, irreversible, untraceable) are almost always user-hostile.
Banks aren’t great, but at least it’s harder to phish $16million.
For a language that says it'll work hard to be IDE friendly, an IDE can easily show you the argument names and their order for any function. On IntelliJ, it even overlay them.

Thus, you can be writer friendly and reader friendly, considering the reader uses an IDE.
The whole point of cryptocurrency on is that they don't believe in ANY of those institutions.
It must be a really fun job to be the person that just makes all these different demo scenes to show off new features
Fools and their bitcoin are easily parted. Perhaps this man has lost his only chance at possessing millions. What an expensive lesson.
Thanks for this. But I wonder if this is of use only if people have already familiriased themselves with the inequality to use it contextually, at which point they mostly have them committed to the memory.
Why would someone holding 1400 BTC use a software wallet instead of an offline hardware wallet? SMH
The cities you list are not exactly diverse economic powerhouses in the same way even Houston is. A comparison of the "GDPs" of those cities would show that much.

Also no one wants to walk through blighted or a high crime neighborhood. American cities have a lot more diversity than any of the cities you mention with income disparities separating various races and stocks of people. Homogeneity of the populaces involved is a factor often totally and wholly ignored in these comparisons of "walkable and affordable" cities.

Walking through even the ghetto-est part of Belfast may not be the same as walking through the same in Opa-locka, Miami-Dade County, Florida. There are no racial boundaries to overcome in Belfast or Budapest. Not even remotely close to the extent we encounter in America. Like I said this metric should be factored into these conversations.
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With that advent of MIRVs it makes most of this moot. A single missile could have a dozen warheads and you can blanket target massive areas.
Okay... where would you store 16m?
I mean, like I also have bees and livestock. Not sure why my parent comment here is getting downvoted like crazy. But yeah some people just don't like the cosmopolitanism. Then again I enjoy Walden and nature. This is getting a bit meta and off topic. It does seem like any mention of cars on HN will get a slew of automobile haters and lovers in a flamewar. Not my goal here. Just saying different strokes, the common good depends on your optics.
> It’s almost like calling Tesla a monopoly power in the automotive industry because they have >90% of the luxury EV market: you’ve already sub-divided the market so many times that the idea is weakened.

The thing to notice about this is that you're talking about the wrong market.

Suppose I want to use an unnecessarily specific product, like the 2015 Ford Focus SE Flex Fuel with 5-Speed manual transmission, and talk about the market for fuel for that vehicle. Well actually it can take regular 87 octane gasoline, which you can get at any gas station anywhere, so nobody has a monopoly on fuel for that vehicle, no matter how specific we get about the vehicle. It's totally irrelevant whether it has power windows or cruise control because they don't affect what kind of fuel you can put in it. We can specify any of those things and it doesn't help anybody to show a fuel monopoly unless the thing being specified is relevant, which most of those kind of details aren't.

Now we want to talk about apps and phones. If you have a "phone" -- the broad product definition you want to use -- then do you have competition for app stores? Now you've got a problem. You can't actually answer the question, because the answer actually does depend on what kind of phone you have. The details are relevant. That's how you know "phones" is too broad of a product definition -- it doesn't actually allow you to answer the question about app stores without being more specific about what kind of phone it is, because different phones use different app stores.

When we're talking about app stores, the relevant market is the set of customers that can use the same set of app stores as one another. And then you know it's a monopoly if the set has only one entry.

> If iOS is a monopoly then so is Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. The dynamics of that market are quite similar.

The strongest argument that this isn't the case is that it's common for people to buy multiple different consoles at once, so if the customer can't get a game on one console, they could still get the same game on another one because they actually own multiple consoles at the same time. I'm not sure if I actually buy this, because a lot of people don't actually own multiple consoles, and to that extent they do have a monopoly.

But for sure hardly anybody carries multiple brands of phone in their pocket.
Here [1] is the explanation:

I had 1,400 BTC in a wallet that I had not accessed since 2017. I foolishly installed the old version of the electrum wallet. My coins propagated. I attempted to transfer about 1 BTC however was unable to proceed. A pop-up displayed stating I was required to update my security prior to being able to transfer funds.

I installed the update which immediately triggered the transfer of my entire balance to a scammers address.

[1] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5072#issuecommen...
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Yea it's too bad. If the core team was more open and/or communicative I'd use Elm for production. Maybe you've already seen this but there is a pretty solid blog post detailing the state of Elm: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-im-leaving-elm/
The conspiracy that was continually undermined by its own members and collapsed after just 6 years? I think that reinforces their point rather than yours.
Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304191
And I think I got banned from Ycombinator from uploading website link.
Ah I remember when my bank app had a bug and someone stole $15 million dollars from me then when I asked for help they said not your keys not your dollars. Such is life!
I don't think Coal Seam fires are "dismissed".

They're common enough that the risks are known to coal-towns. But they're uncommon enough that most people don't seem to know about them. There are many coal-seam fires across the world, all of which take decades (or centuries) before the fires are expected to burn out.

In contrast, nuclear disasters are so rare that pretty much every nuclear disaster is known by everyone. Nuclear disasters are your "black swan" event, so to speak.

I doubt there's any conspiracy, or detractors to the coal-seam fires. Its just not a very well known fact.

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There are literally hundreds of coal seam fires around the world right now. Small enough to be obscure, large enough to not catch the attention of anybody looking for novelties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam_fire#List_of_mine_fi...
> This is a very interesting question and one would hope that non repressive societies are more creative and have a higher scientific output. Im not 100 % sure thats the case, however.

Even if the repressive societies have lower overall research effectiveness, it may be higher in some areas that really matter geopolitically (e.g. military R&D). IIRC, many talented Western scientists boycott military projects for moral reasons, because they live in societies that celebrate taking personal moral stands like that. The talented scientists in a repressive society have different social influences, any may be far less likely to have a problem with military research.
> somewhat technically literate

But doesn't know what IRC or freenode is, as illustrated by a comment in that thread.
It sounds like Facebook is allowing advertisers who already have names and contact into for people (which is widely available info, so not too surprising that they have it), to target ads to those users. Is that what you meant by “selling dossiers”? That doesn’t sound like a dossier. I could see describing the user’s ability to download their own data as a dossier, but that’s just compliance with GDPR, not “selling dossiers”. I feel like there is some confusion happening here, where the data about yourself that you can download is being conflated with the name/contact info that the advertisers already have and use to buy ads, and these two separate things are being mixed together and described as “selling dossiers”.

To be clear: GDPR data you can download about yourself includes the information about the advertisers who already had your contact info. Those advertisers don’t get a copy of the GDPR data portability document.
That's true but given that HN (via dang and the rules) often states that it's supposed to be a more highbrow forum I think the subtleties of the title should be left to the author of the submission.
This is wrong. The link says $68.34 per week, not per month.
This is absurd. How are we supposed to discuss mitigation strategies for a problem if we can't talk about the problem?

This is a total head in the sand mentality.
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Until you can't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito