skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The episode of Rick and Morty about Unity has a race war based on nipple shape.

But if you want a really interesting thought experiment consider what would happen if other species of humans than sapiens would have survived along us. Would the Declaration of Independence start with “we the people” or “we the sapiens”? Would the myth of Christ be that he died for sins of men or some specific subset of humans?

But really I don’t see much of a problem with race both being a social construct and a biological reality in the sense that we are talking about two related but separate phenomena. Socially, race is a construct. The idea that judging by your skin color or shape of skull we can tell how smart or virtuous you are is bogus. A lot of people have tried to justify science behind it and all of it has not been science. Scientifically we have a number of genetic differences that can be traced between different origins of our genetic trees. Some of these are inconsequential like some people having straight hair and others having curly hair. Others are more impactful like ability to metabolize lactose as adults. Or susceptibility to heart disease or certain cancers. The kicker is that it is easier to tell the public “if you are ethnicity X you might want to get your heart checked out 5 years before another ethnicity because statistically it’s more beneficial that way” than to say the same thing as “if you have genes A, B, and C”. When my doctor tells me that because I am Easter European my cholesterol is more likely to be elevated, I don’t take offense to that.

Having said all that, don’t use “blacks” or “whites” as a damn noun. That isn’t ok.
Python programmer looking for freelance jobs
Hello, i am looking for freelancing jobs. I can create utility tools and webapps. I have history of working with client. I am from thirdworld country, so i can work for You for cheap. I wrote several project, and helped several people with automating their tasks. I wrote several webscrapers. Some person wanted program to download some scans from this website https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/ , i made program that works by providing URL to some historical act like this https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/zespol/-/zespol/123681?_Zespol_javax.portlet.action=zmienWidok&_Zespol_nameofjsp=skany&_Zespol_delta=20&_Zespol_resetCur=false&_Zespol_cur=1 and then downloads all scans JPG to some particular location. Some person wanted to download all wordpress css themes from repository, i wrote python script that does that.
Seems that their GPU reviewer lives near the US forest fires.
https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1306219044023005185
I know some of my decisions were bad and now i know that could be made better, for example once i wrote python script to buy sneakers from SUPREME website, but it was using selenium, so it was quite slow.

Also another time, when i was writing "screen scraper" type of thing for another client. In short: he used closed-source program that was sending news from https://bossa.pl/oferta/narzedzia/bossanol3, those were news concerning stocks and currencies, and he wanted to get notifications every time news was added. Program is close-source, and news provided by API were late, so there was no other option then take screenshot of monitor every second and, read news with tesseract computer vision library, and send notification if there is new message added. This client had several monitors, and wanted to use 1 monitor for rendering this program. I have only one monitor in home so i was not sure how solve this problem, but i found a way for user to choose which monitor he wants screenscraped. I also wrote Node.js API that provides subscription to Push Notifications + website that renders messages from JSON. This way he was able to get notifications on new messages also for his phone, then he could go to the website, where all messages since beginning of scraping are rendered.

I am very interested in trading cryptocurrencies and researching new ways of doing that. I spend some time working on trading bot. Its interface is made in tkinter, it plots price tickers of any available crypto (it downloads data, and then plot it), i also wrote DeepLearning model for predicting prices based on previous prices, however that does not work very good (now i am thinking orderbook may have greater prediction power, so i learn about websockets). I also wrote rulebased system, basically python program calling CLIPS script and decides if now is good time to buy/sell stocks, its does not work well tho. I am quite interested in AI and machine learning.
I'm not sure I'm afraid... I started programming when I was quite young, and have always been interested in it, and in terms of the VFX / Graphics industry, I've only been involved in that for the past 10 years, before that I was in other industries, so I really stumbled into doing it.

All the graphics / VFX knowledge I now have is self-taught (other than learning off colleagues) as well as experience working in the industry.

I'd say learning how to program is a good starting point, if you are really interested in graphics it's probably a good idea move into low-level programming (C,C++,CUDA) that's used in the HPC realm, because often the code will need to be extremely optimised. However, you can still do cool things in a higher-level language.
The iPhone’s Voice Memos Feature Might Be Tracking Your Location
They did - https://www.britannica.com/topic/jury

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Scandinavian-law#ref469034

Well.. they got it from Germany and France who got it from England.
yeah, my facebook self also has lots of friends and active social life, I barely have any.

before I kill him, I wonder whether there are some useful lessons I could learn from him.
Prior to this Senate session, SC nominees could be filibustered. And every nomination prior to Brett Kavanaugh had bipartisan votes. The Senate is as responsible as the President for keeping the SC staffed with competent jurists. The role is meant to be apolitical. The first salvo was the nomination of Robert Bork by Reagan. He was a terrible choice but was replaced by Kennedy who was confirmed 97-0. Even Clarence Thomas got 11 Dems to vote for him. Mcconnell refused to even hold hearings for Garland or take a committee vote. That's an abdication of his duty.
My elementary school teachers were real old women. Like 20.
No matter how you live your youth, you will probably regret it when you are older. Unless you inherit so much money that you don't have to ever work in your life.

If you spend your youth having fun and enjoying your youth, then when you get to middle age you'll have wished you worked harder and saved more so you could be wealthy and comfortable.

If you work your butt off in your youth and have lots of money and successful career, you'll wish you spent more time relaxing and having fun in your youth.

The key is finding a good balance between working hard and playing hard. Your career won't suffer if you take a week long vacation. Your health will be fine if you sometimes volunteer to do a weekend shift. Do both and you can be successful and happy about how you spent your youth.
That some companies are using it is despite the poor fit of golang, not because of it.
The alternative is worse.
I would like to give you an advice on this matter, don't fight against it at all. Why? Because you are bound to lose . You'll only fill yourself with rage and might be able to help a few individuals, but in long run it's not worth it at all.

Yes there is blatant sexism happening in Indian IT industry's Tech Giants and yes many more people are going to get rejected, but theres nothing you can do about it. Those who don't believe this, just ask placement interview experience from a coed university vs a girls only college. See I'm not against women empowerment or existence of girls only college here, but when one party gets grilled on advanced cp problems and the other gets asked about why should we hire you as their sole question (yes the only question they be asked about for a tech position like sdeI) then theres ought to be questions here. There are companies that are just ticking/filling their diversity quotas. I've many many examples(or anecdotal experiences) from me and many other people I know of and I am willing to share then if anyone wants to hear.

But we've come to a point where anything said against such rigged systems will get you labelled as women hater or anti_feminist. So what did I do? I caved in.
I asked my girlfriend who got placed in a mass recruiter Company with mere 3.4 lpa to prepare for 1-2 months and give interviews for a big tech company in blore region and guess who gets 15 lpa package? I told her small sister who still was in last year of her girl's only college about diversity hiring and she got placed in another tech giant.

Don't fight them, instead go with the flow. At this point no one cares about your hardwork or actually helping under priveleged girls, all they care about is how to fill the diversity quota. Girls in those quota based hiring are already equipped with enough resources to get them jobs in tech giants without any external help, girls in ignou or not having formal degrees but great hands on experiences are severely neglected.

Anyways I know there's a big chance your post will be deleted or shadowbanned, most likely mine too so good luck with that. I just hope this messages reaches you and you move on past this problem.
Its the natural control flow for try-catch exceptions: try it out, and if it fails, clean up and move on

That cleanup phase is generally some kind of rollback, usually in the form of discarding whatever partially constructed datastructures (sometimes in the form of a savepoint and reverting, but thats rarer ime).

The other type of catch handling is to just force everything into some sane default state, to avoid having to care what specifically borked
RFS option for YC Winter 21 application
While YC has listed a bunch of Request for Startups (https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/), there doesn't seem to be a place to mention what what RFS your startup pertains to in the Winter 21 application.
There was a specific question for this in the past. Am I missing something?
> Except it is not really embedded in Java, only in comments.

Java comments are Java. Embedding = in Java source, which requires some kind of delimiter, so the author conveniently repurposed multiline comments for that which is fine. Also, if you read the post, it clearly states you embed fragments in either comments or strings, if the fragments is a declaration vs a value.

> I sincerely hope this dies a quick death.

Why the hostility? If you have something constructive to offer, great, otherwise this is the kind of comment that gives HN a bad rep.
Yes if they aren’t doing it themselves I bet someone is combing through their suggestions algorithms and mining it for recent searches then squatting
A single-build-system world would need to see a build system that recognizes all languages and use cases as equally important.

There's very few build systems that actually support this in a reproducible and hermetic way.
That might explain it. Those fires seem pretty serious.
Mobile banking startup Chime lands $485M mega-round at $14.5B valuation
Devices - no, but it sure can be removed from Play Store entirely (not just US), and banned from using all US based cdn’s and hosting providers... pretty much killing it.
IANAL etc

Recipes are not copyrightable, in general - though that is a complex question in its own right - but the text is. So I think you're correct in saying if someone follows a set of instructions and rewrites them in their own words, they are probably fine. That being said, Lego is awesome and I wouldn't want to annoy them, as they might stop selling me the bricks...
> My personal rule of thumb is: use a "specific" build system if possible, but use Shake the second any build system requires even a tiny bit of complexity

Systems evolve. You don't want to rewrite your build scripts the moment you cross the complexity line.

Your mention of Shake is nice though. However, I'm not sure if it could gain widespread adoption, since it's based on Haskell which is not very popular unfortunately (and has a bad name when it comes to learning curve).
It’s “funny” you use an example of how Democrats went right as a counter example to things shifting to the right. Because it’s just highlighting exactly what was claimed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way
it's much worse and 10x bigger budget
Depends on whether you have a stage. If you're playing audio to go with a TV you don't want it drifting much. But when the scenario is playing music over an area you end up with a bunch of mutually-contradictory centers and it doesn't matter if they shift over a little. And music over an area is what sparked this talk.
Almost everyone needs reading glasses by 40.

Not if these eye drops can help it!

http://fdaaa.trialstracker.net/trial/NCT03809611/
It wasn't an attack. They're just stating a fact from their own experience.

I hated being a recruiter and pivoted out of it.

That's definitely helpful to know. Thanks for clarifying.
>Intercepting supply chains for stock parts inside of China is not [the NSA's] specialty

>Another attack, given the open source nature of the device, could be distributing cheap, compromised units broadly after the fact to ensure they are widely adopted.

I like thinking about high-level threat models as much as the next guy, but these two statements seem to be at odds. Unless by "compromised units" you don't mean what I think you mean.
I realize that my comment is now lacking context because koolba's is flagged, so you might think I'm trying to argue about the protests. This is not the case.

Koolba said, paraphrasing from memory, "only the left is violent, and only left-wing leaders refuse to criticize that".

So I posted a news source talking about right-wing violent protest and a right-wing leader refusing to criticize it.

I'm carefully avoiding arguing about the issues here, so I can talk to koolba about their skewed perception of the behavior of the sides.
Possibly they did not want the attention of the legal departments at two very large companies given they developed GUIs that look very similar to their IP?
Actually, it seems like they can delete it from devices. FTA it's just a push notification :(
Why isn't space — with less than one atom in every cubic meter — a true vacuum?
Your body just won't work like it used to, even if you do all the right things to keep it up. When I was in my 20s I could spend all day working the yard, cutting, raking, digging, sweeping. I would stretch afterwards and be find the next day. Now, despite having an even greater level of day-to-day physical activity and more exercise, it will take me a few days to recover.

Once you hit 40 you start feeling random pains in places. Sometimes pretty intense pain. Your doctor will have no idea what caused it and tell you it's normal, but let them know if it happens again. And after a while you'll just stop telling them, because it's just a thing that happens now.
Why would they need to pack the court? They already have a political majority, do they not? No need to break a norm when it confers no additional benefits (as the breaking of the previous norms did).
I guess the reciprocal is “no mental models”, which would involve making decisions without the power of these “general thinking patterns”.
Great article. This answered a lot of questions that I was wondering about.
Ethereum: On-chain token qualification oracles
Trump Signs Off on Deal Allowing TikTok to Continue U.S. Operations
OOP: History, and challenges for the next fifty years (2013)
I looked at that list, expecting to recoil in horror as you said and... it's pretty much okay?
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I'm not a lawyer, but I think you are misunderstanding paragraph b:

> In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.

I think what that means is that just because your copyrighted work describes or represents some system it doesn't mean that you have copyrighted the system itself. For example if you write a book that describes an operating system in general terms it doesn't mean that you have any rights to the general concept of an operating system as it exists in any form apart from your book.

So I don't think that paragraph is relevant to whether a work made of LEGO bricks is copyrightable or not (I think that the answer to that question would typically be yes).
Sure. It's not a perfect experiment. But the result of 2% vs. 50% ICU admission is astounding. And sure, the sample size is small so it could have arisen by chance (not very likely though). Personally until I saw this result I listened very patiently and mostly agreed with the people who argued correlation vs. causation, lack of data, or random other non-data backed arguments. I think now the balance of the scale has shifted towards until proven otherwise I'm gonna be supplementing vitamin D and if I do get sick with Covid19 I'm going to be asking for this as part of my treatment. And if placebo is so strong here, then I'll get my placebo effect anyways ;) Until there's conflicting evidence or more studies I think that's a reasonable position/risk balance.
I don't see your quotation in the given reference; none of the three answers seems to correspond to it.

But you can find an answer e.g. in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Eligible_works; it depends on the juristiction. A sculpture or industrial design could be made from LEGO bricks; if these are covered by copyright laws in your juristiction there is still the question of originality, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality.
E.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission
First was referring to supply chain interdiction for third party fabricators attempting to produce non-compromised units. Second was referring to active fabrication and distribution of compromised units to unsuspecting consumers.
So, in our household, my wife makes way more money than I do. Taker her worst earning year and compare it to my best earning year (including cashing in stock options after multiple splits), and she still made at least three times what I have. That pattern hasn’t changed over twenty-plus years.

Yet, we do try very hard to equally share the burden of the household chores, and pre-COVID, we did have a house cleaner that came in every other week, and folks who came in more frequently but on a less regular schedule to help us with the bigger job of decluttering our lives.

We do have different standards of what it means to have a clean house, and hers are higher than mine, so sometimes I do get a bit exasperated being asked to help clean something that doesn’t seem dirty to me. But I try to keep in mind that the important thing is that she feels it is not clean, and therefore it needs to be cleaned. I don’t always succeed at that conceptual leap, but I do try.

Any kind of partnership doesn’t always work. But if both parties continue to be willing to try to make it work, then it usually works well enough the majority of the time.

However, in the case of the author, it seems like her husband was never willing to do his part in making the partnership work.
Interlocking blocks are like words. You can string them together in any number of ways, most of which have no value.

However, some of these ways are aesthetically or mechanically interesting, and are up to the designer to discover.

After this pattern/arrangement is discovered, it’s exact layout can be copyrighted.

Now, modifications by others to the layout would not be protected so long as it was different enough. (Fashion has this same issue, the difference can be extremely minor, and then it is not covered).
I have nothing against the library itself, rather the fact that it is made by the hardware provider. Good or not, It looks like a marketing goodie given away by the manufacturer.

History shows that hardware providers are not good at maintaining software at a high-quality level. Think of Sun/Sparc/Solaris or IBM/Power/Aix ... both excellent when it comes to hardware and loosers on the software side even after decades of development. It is simply not their "favorite stuff". Note that, linux, developed independently of Sun/IBM, is doing a good job.

There is probably a lot of nice improvements to do at the hardware level for Nvidia GPUs, not to let their engineers work on this kind of disposable software. Please, Nvidia, Let someone else make that software. As a customer, I only need the next release of that Good Old hardware GPU !!!
ESA Sky is way better. https://sky.esa.int
DDD the Lost Discipline
So sounds like the election fraud encouragement could somewhat reasonably be termed treason.
My current theory (not a lawyer) is that a sound recording is 1 expression of the idea (captured in that specific way). That makes it copyrightable.

I think Lego falls under merger doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea%E2%80%93expression_distin...
you know something is wrong when Hacker News has better investment advice than all the 'experts' on Wall Street

anyways, very happy to see so many people get it
It sounds reasonable: we all know taxes should be collected to pay for community services and such.

Then at some point you realize that other places which do not collect 4% tax still have street signs, garbage collection, police, fire service and all "those sort of things". Often of a higher quality than those in NYC.
Fund your retirement.

Don't waste time with romantic partners who don't love and respect you.

Don't waste time with people who don't have your best interests at heart.

Get as much education as you can handle and ask for help along the way.
Yep, they can. AFAIR this feature was used once in the past after a court order to delete an app that was very popular in south america (brazil?), but contained a nasty sideload.

I can't find an an article backing this up though.
How long has this vulnerability been known but kept quiet for use in the NSA's library of exploits? EternalBlue was based on a Windows exploit they knew about but withheld from Microsoft so they could continue to exploit it. That deliberate withholding of information has cost many organizations a lot of money:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/05/25/as-eter...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/us/nsa-hacking-tool-balti...

Is this another problem that could have been fixed a long time ago?
This all hinges on if their work is the sculpture itself, or everything around it, if the sculptures of made of lego bricks are recipes.
Thanks for letting me know about The Work Number, I had no idea. This in itself is a downside - I don't now what unpleasant surprises I may encounter.

I have thought about how I would handle my resumé/LinkedIn. I would not update my LinkedIn, because I haven't in a long time anyway. But this in itself could a hindrance to finding new opportunities in the future.

When I finally do update it, I would simply say I only worked at current large co until Oct 2020 - no overlap. This in itself could have its own risks/downsides.

The whole thing is fraught with risks/lies. The only upside is extra money, which I don't desperately need. Thanks for your comment - I think I am answering my own question.
Scientists Hunt for the Source of the Universe’s ‘Missing Gold’
Isn't Ellison a big financial supporter of Trump's campaign?
> The issue — whether the McConnell Rule is now binding precedent

The rule might be law.

> Whether McConnell likes it or not, the McConnell Rule is law.

The rule is law.

> if McConnell still were to maintain that the McConnell Rule is not law,

The rule might not be law.

> McConnell’s claim on March 16, 2016, to be bound by it [...] was a lie

Yep.

> This is obviously too great a cost for McConnell to risk.

Nope.