skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parent agrees, and further observes that all measures of productivity are "bad".
True story: a few weeks ago, I was trying to debug my Python program, which was reading PubMed XML. It was choking on 'None' as a first name. If you know Python, you know that it uses the keyword None to represent a null element. Turns out the XML used None where an author didn't have a first name, and the Python library I was using interpreted the string "None" as None rather than the string "None", and this was causing some downstream error where another function was expecting a string. I had to write a special Python function to convert the string "None" into a string (an empty string).
> I'm going to go out on a limb and say that political scientists that spend their entire working life studying political science and teaching students the most important questions in political science

Political scientists will know the most important questions in political science as judged by intellectual interest, but that's just not the question being asked here. They are asking which questions in political science will have the biggest impact on the world as judged by a utilitarian and long-termist framework, and I don't see why political scientists would have a confident answer to that.

Likewise, I am a physicist with expertise in what questions are of intellectual interest to physicists, but I don't think that I or my colleagues have good ready answers to which physics questions will have the biggest impact on the world.

> And this community overlap clearly has more of an impact on ...

But the community overlap wasn't a random event that is just now influencing this investigation. The members of the community were attracted to each other because they were convinced by certain abstract arguments. (LessWrong is concentrated in Berkeley while 80k Hours is UK based and the members mostly hail from there and Australia. They found each other through the internet and through the Oxford philosophy department.) You can certainly disagree with the arguments, but chalking this up to having overlap with some dorky community is a cheap ad hominem.
Iowa Farmers Face Climate-Fueled Destruction, Industry Says It’s ‘Just Weather’
And Mac's (subpixel only?) antialiasing algorithm thickens text beyond its true borders. There may be a way to disable this globally though.
Thanks, that's actually great advice. I can't move back home - my parents aren't in the US and with border closures and tax implications I don't want to risk international travel now.

I don't have any visa issues thankfully, so I can pretty much relocate to anywhere in the country. I'm thinking of an AirBnb in a nice seaside town.
Yes, emphasizing their privacy focus as their differentiation is definitely part of Apple's brand identity and marketing strategy. However, Apple is in a different vertical and has a different business model than FB and Google, and may not have the DNA to succeed in businesses such as advertisement.
Hate speech is not generally considered protected free speech. And since you're using American standards, it also does not fall under 1st Amendment protections.

Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater doesn't kill people, people trampling other people kills people. That seems about the sum total of the argument you just made
I guess David Dorn can take solace in the fact that the looter who executed him on FB live stream while his grandson watched was not a formal Antifa member.
Didn't Oracle get founded to supply the CIA with data management technology?
It is really hard to see how this benefits any of the current arm licensees. I imagine the market for high-end embedded and server RISC-V designs exploded overnight. Maybe MIPS will even make a comeback.
Why do you need Either when you have union? All the left types subclass Error so you can easily separate that from the successful value as well. Seems rather a dogmatic choice.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875758

(from a different scientist)
Man arrested for starting at least 7 brush fires in Portland
> If you don't care that much about latency, there's a clear benefit in never having windows getting "damaged" just because other stuff has temporarily occluded them.

Isn't that why X11 provided an (optional) backing store?
True, but that could change in the future :)
Personal phone. No connection to WiFi. Do not give personal email or phone to anyone at work.
Use of AI to Predict Customer Churn in Fintech
No, it works like that all across the world in fact.

It works like that in Japan: say hello to the many giant conglomerates that rule their economy top to bottom.

It works like that in South Korea: say hello to Samsung, roughly 12% of South Korea's GDP in a given year (Walmart by contrast is equal to 2.5% of US GDP, and that's crazy big).

It works like that in Germany: say hello to a parade of big old industrial giants that have dominated their economy for most of the past century and will continue to.

It works like that in China, openly so: they intentionally go out of their way to promote giant national champions at the expense of everyone else.

It works like that in France: their largest corporations and richest individuals are even larger in relation to their economy and national wealth than they are in the US (say hello to Arnault, Bettencourt, Pinault and the Wertheimers).

It works like that in Russia: say hello to the countless, directly state protected oligarchs. Threaten their interests, you die. Their approach is super simple.

It works like that in Italy and Spain, which are both dominated by old, large corporations and family interests. Which heavily explains their forever economic stagnation.

It even works like that in Switzerland: ever see how large their financial companies are in relation to the economy? Who do you think actually runs Switzerland? Their banks are comically outsized versus the size of the economy.

It completely works like that in Brazil and India.

It works like that across all of the Middle East, to a much greater degree than most anywhere else.

It works like that in second tier economies, including: Poland, Mexico, Argentina, Romania, Turkey, Thailand.

It works like that in poor countries, including: Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Ukraine, South Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh.
The jump to nuclear weapons immediately in any conversation of the 2A is as many would say a "Strawman" argument.

But to play along, NO, because 42 U.S. Code § 2122 makes that illegal. If nuclear weapons are ever issued as standard individual weapons to soldiers, then they will be covered by the 2A via the Militia Act. Until they are, nukes are not covered by the 2A.

The constitution and current laws, clearly define what you can or can't have under the 2A. NFA laws exist as were voted to control Automatic weapons, SBR's, Silencers, Sawed off Shotguns etc. Until new laws are enacted that change this, it's pretty clear.

I for one don't want new laws written to change my first amendment rights, lest we get to the point where the 2nd is needed to defend the first.
Pocket nukes
Indeed, it was only very slightly more populous than the US.
I am not denying the value of a Wacom tablet, I'm simply considering the teachers' salaries, and comparing the cost of a $100 Wacom tablet with a free CD and pencil plus a $1 notebook.
Technically it could be ported, but that port would require porting a major subset, if not all of emacs lisp as well. This is due to the fact that elisp closures are valid and often semantically critical arguments to src blocks. Defining the features that must be implemented to achieve a certain level of org-mode support and compatibility is something that definitely needs to be tackled in the future.
It's important to keep in mind we can't distinguish between work from home and having to work during a pandemic affecting everyone's daily routine and moral and keeping us from our normal activities.
Android may have all the parts to do it, but you widget instanciation takes way too long, so the app can never hit the frame deadline if it has to show a new widget.
The outcome you're looking for is pumping one full of oxygen and one full of nitrogen - at least to verify care vs nitrogen.
This won't help you any, but we were doing OCR and then parsing a PDF dictionary. The vertical space between entries was usually enough larger than the vertical space between lines within a dictionary that we could distinguish these. Except when a dictionary entry might (or might not) have been split between columns or pages... Especially problematic were a couple entries that were more than one column or even one page in length.
Yep, which is why I linked the one specifically for 20A 125/250V, IIRC that matches the OP's use case.

Surprisingly, there is no physical shape (that I'm aware of) to distinguish between 120V and 240V, it's up to the user to be aware of possibility of alternate voltages. I have seen color schemes used to distinguish voltages.
This is slightly off topic for the thread, but it's always seemed to me that this is Google and The Internet, where the search engine is their "todo-list".
It's possible to boot from USB with the Pi4, I wouldn't run anything important from the MicroSD.
James Clark, open source programmer and standards expert, lives in Thailand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_(programmer) he can probably speak adequately with English speaking Yankees fans - although time zone might be a problem.

That said, I think the whole recruitment/interviewing phase of the whole tech world is geared towards local employees and not sure if it can all be moved remote first at any time.
Hate speech is in fact protected speech, with narrow exceptions.

> The Court held that the government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."[2][3]:702 Specifically, the Court struck down Ohio's criminal syndicalism statute, because that statute broadly prohibited the mere advocacy of violence.

> The Brandenburg test remains the standard used for evaluating attempts to punish inflammatory speech, and it has not been seriously challenged since it was laid down in 1969.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
Agree, the pi is way too low power to handle nextcloud comfortably. In the same price range, it's much better to buy a used NUC (even with a celeron!) compared to the beefiest Raspberry Pi 4 out there.
Recording Footage of Myself Investigating a Performance Issue
Isn’t one of the environmentalist complaints against nuclear is they heat up the water near shore, which changes the ecology?

One of these might not be a big deal, but a thousand? Worth questioning.
Posting this to r/news on Reddit resulted in the post being silently removed.

https://snew.notabug.io/r/news/comments/isx4me/whistleblower... (removed by moderators).

There are no duplicates on the subreddit, and the moderators have not sent any message.
Are we really citing alt right collaborator Andy Ngo, who has already been exposed for spreading misinformation?
I'm a bit hazy on the specific wording, but if you work at a company that makes products, and don't offer engineering services directly to the public, then you're exempt from licensure.

Now, when a product is ready to go out the door, then it gets reviewed, and the review is signed off by a PE. We typically hire an outside company to do that work.
The way I see it, an interview goes both ways. They try to assess your fit in the company, and you're also trying to assess if the company is something you want to spend your time on.

I call this the "game show style" interview. You know the answer, you get $10k. Next question. You didn't know the answer? You're out of the show. Next contestant.

To me this is very disrespectful of your time and your capabilities. Once I was pumped to go into an interview with a very well known company in Sydney, but was dismayed to learn that they do this game show interview (with IQ test, no less!). I wouldn't want to waste my most precious resources (i.e. time) for a company that doesn't respect me.
Ask HN: Why don't low-code/noCode providers start outsourcing competitors?
The low-code providers like outsystems, appian, mendix, airtable and others claim to make app development far easier(upto 100x is what oracle apex promises) and cheaper than current traditional processes. Why aren't they starting competitors to TCS, Infosys and other providers by providing a 5x cheaper offering and making a killing?
Ya know, I disagree with this advice. Give it a couple of hours tops. If you don't enjoy the process after a couple of hours and the goal is a whole day away, you won't get there.
If you enjoyed this, check out https://howdns.works/ by the same authors.
I don't think that's a fair assessment of their comment. There are clear guidelines and interpretations of the 1st and 2nd amendment.

The context I believe they tried to share is that if we go beyond what we have established as free speech (to include your comments)_then we start our way down a slippery slope. Small changes will have big impacts.

The same is said for control measures around the 2A.

I don't see op's comment as anything beyond that.
I think the ability to arbitrarily verbify a noun is a powerful and desirable language feature.
Conservation of momentum is, via Noether's theorem, a mathematically proven consequence of translational symmetry in uniform space, i.e. that physics is not affected by linear movement through uniform space.

The bar for violating that is super high, unless you don't believe in mathematical proof.

Of course the space we occupy is not entirely uniform, due to general relativity, but GR addresses that, and the results are not consistent with em drive results, i.e. momentum is still conserved.
MonsterMash – A Single-View Approach to Casual 3D Modeling and Animation
I would expect that VRR helps if you try to make your compositor only start compositing as late as possible while still finishing on time. With VRR, one could delay the next frame slightly if the deadline gets missed. This would work even when rendering at 60Hz.
The genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar is probable the clearest example, which Facebook has even acknowledged itself[1], after a UN fact-finding mission investigated the relationship between social media and the racist sentiment in the country[2]

"The Mission has examined documents, publications, statements, Facebook posts and audio-visual materials that have contributed to shaping public opinion on the Rohingya and Muslims more generally. The analysis demonstrates that a carefully crafted hate campaign has developed a negative perception of Muslims among the broad population in Myanmar. This campaign has been the work of a few key players: nationalistic political parties and politicians, leading monks, academics, prominent individuals and members of the Government. This hate campaign, which continues to the present day, portrays the Rohingya and other Muslims as an existential threat to Myanmar and to Buddhism"

I'm not even sure I can take the second point in good faith. Violence having decreased compared to historical high points has literally nothing to say on whether social media itself causes violence. Other factors can easily explain an overall decline, which obviously is not uniform. If you live in one of the countries in which social media is used as a means to instigate genocides, I can tell you that more safety in a US city will matter very little to you.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo...

[2]https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/FFM-Myanm...
Do you think the first amendment should provide for an individual to use a 10,000db loudhailer?
So idea that anyone in any real number commits political violence is just blow way out of proportion?
> But generally I agree with you that companies should prioritize problem solving skills over technical minutiae.

Unless, the company's goal is to hire someone with technical minutiae that they can pay the lowest wage possible :)
Even the biggest corps in the world usually have their strategic decisions centralised with a few clear goals (all hav something to do with the bottom line). Gov on the other hand are ejuggled between different political interests, election timeline and public interest which it's supposed to care for is neither clearly defined nor as narrow as a corp.
Software Developers Working from Home During the Covid-19 Pandemic
They were keeping the ssh session alive because apparently they didn't know about tools like 'screen'. Seriously. OP confirms this in the original thread.
This YouTube channel has a ton of great Altair videos. I learned so much!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB3mwSROoJ4KLWM8KwK0c...
>While I'm not happy with the supplier, I don't think this was intentional on their part either. They just source AC adapters from someone else in Shenzhen. You can imagine they aren't real familiar with the consequences of trademark infringement. Which is what this was.

So you were their first U.S. customer and they'd never shipped anything to the U.S. before?
> Do you think the second amendment should provide for an individual right to own nuclear arms?

If it was to serve its original purpose, it arguably might need to (just as private ownership of the heaviest artillery was in the early Republic not unheard of) but any hope of it serving its original purpose has been lost since at least the late 19th Century with the expansion of paramilitary police forces, and the final nail in it's coffin was drilled with the transition to a fully professional military after Vietnam, and what weapons are covered doesn't really matter any more to it's intended function, only to the degree of incidental harm it inflicts while failing to protect from the harms of the isolated culture of large permanent military/paramilitart internal and external security forces.
The pattern of hiring young, passionate, ambitious workers, then telling them their job is of critical importance to the company (and, in this case, society at large) while simultaneously underfunding their team and providing them with completely inadequate leadership is REALLY common in Silicon Valley companies. These same companies will actively stigmatize saying "it's not my job," and so you have very green employees who end up doing work that's wildly outside their zones of competence and comfort, internalizing all the stress that builds up along with being put in that position and not even understanding that speaking up is an option.

Many of these people lack the experience required to see the forest for the trees and they draw similar conclusions to the ones in this memo. "There's no bad intent, we're just overworked and underresourced" (paraphrased) is something I've heard time and time again from people working on supposedly important problems at companies making money hand over fist.
> Gamers are actually probably the consumers with the most complex audio pipelines because you're mixing a lot of sound sources in real-time with low latecy, reverb, and other spatial effects.

There's a GDC talk out there about the complexities of audio in Overwatch, a competitive game. Not only do you have invaluable audio cues coming from 12 players at the same time, but also all of their combined abilities and general sound effects, like countdown timers and such.

One of the bigger problems talked about was that in a competitive game you can't just scale the loudness of an opponent's footsteps by the direct distance between them and you. You need to take into account level geometry, and so the game has to raycast in order to determine how loud any single sound effect should sound to every active player in the game.

Edit (link): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF_jcrTCMsA
The (New) Ionic Vue Beta
I use a VPN + static IP or DDNS to get access to my home cloud/server (both the VPN and DDNS can be setup on my router). Also, there are free DDNS providers.
Yes, the impressive thing to me was discovering just how many such pieces he managed to cram in to a such a small amount of source code, and the judiciousness with which he chose them.

While working on an encoder for it (for a future post!), I did find myself wishing that it'd also had a deblocking filter. But that might have been asking for a miracle.
That link is broken. I think you meant this: https://github.com/oakes/Nightcoders

And that is now a read only project. So, I guess it’s defunct.
It was in the U.S., less than 20 but more than 10 years ago.

I don't know anything about the cost.
> Craigslist is a for-profit company and makes quite a lot of money.

I thought they just made a modest amount of money.

However I believe their benefit to society is significantly higher than fb just because of R number 2. (of "reduce, reuse, recycle")
You're unlikely to find "chairman's" in a dictionary. Spell checkers (which at least for languages like English usually use table lookup) often succeed with common apostrophe-s nouns, but fail with less common ones, because even for English it's often considered impractical to store all possible possessive forms.

Where dictionary lookup really becomes infeasible is in languages with a great deal of inflectional morphology, like Finnish. For languages like that, you need some kind of morphological analyzer. Hunspell provides a fairly simple one, while a number of finite state transducers (xfst, foma, sfst...) provide more sophisticated mechanisms to build a morphological parser with.
Electoral College votes aren't distributed by population; they're distributed based on representation in Congress.

So each state receives 2 electors from the Senate even if only a single person lived in them.

But of course the Electoral College should be abolished.

Because in fact, in a truly dystopian scenario, someone could be elected President with only 44 votes in their favor.

That is, if only one person each voted in the 41 states with the least amount of electors (2 people for Maine and Nebraska which split their EVs) and DC, and all voted for the same candidate, that candidate would receive 280 electoral votes.

Even if the other 9 states voted 100% against that candidate, representing ~100 million voters, our system would declare the first candidate the winner.
> hyper-narrow focus

Lol -- you chose to focus on those 2 specific items, not me.

> squash potential competition

Virtually every single feature of Microsoft desktop OS'es could potentially be provided by an alternative provider. Many were and still are -- disk defragmentation, disk compression, anti-virus, firewall, web server, ftp client, image editing, database drivers, etc etc. People used to pay money for 3rd party utilities to expand beyond DOS's 640kb RAM limit... should Windows be prevented from handling memory management in order to not suppress competition? Seems like the most basic function of an OS. Early on, you couldn't print a spreadsheet in landscape mode without a 3rd-party utility... should the government disallow Windows from enabling landscape printing? Does Putty have an anti-competitive claim now that ssh is included in recent versions of Windows 10? How about accessibility features... should disabled individuals be denied use of standard Windows releases because the inclusion of a screen reader, magnification, etc would be anti-competitive with commercial alternatives?

> crushes nascent threats

Microsoft "crushed" neither Java nor web standards, both of which are doing fine and outlasted Internet Explorer, the focus of the government's case. Most of the problems Java does have, starting with poor stewardship, are entirely Sun/Oracle's own making.