skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And even if it did get a crystal clear picture, you'll be lucky to get someone to look at it.

Yep. In some jurisdictions, you file burglary reports over the phone. Police don't even come out. They've prioritized burglaries out.
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Only if it isn't invoked as "evim", "eview", "vim -y", or "view -y".
It's more likely that Epstein's case was a suicide than Cazes' in my opinion.
> general consensus among professionals

Who told you that? Have you talked to a spectrum of professionals yourself, in an environment where they aren't afraid of social repercussions for speaking against the 'approved' party line? Or did you get that from the media?

Personally, I read the journal publications and see what experts have to say - and not just the experts trotted out by the media.
>> But this potential privacy feature also comes with privacy risks, says Ryan Calo, associate professor at the University of Washington School of Law, in Seattle. “Fixed cameras can be avoided, whereas mobile ones can’t, which can make it impossible for a child, spouse, or roommate to get away from the camera,” he explains.

That is a contrived argument. The first time it launches without my permission, i would knock it out of the air and immediately return it or trash it.

It’s not like you would just continue to own it when you’re scared of it
Jessica is Jessica Livingston. From Paul Graham's tribute [0], Livingston was a shrewd judge of people, which was an essential complement to the rest of the team's skillset. She is not a self-promoter. Her YC bio mentions her book [1], Founders at Work. The story from Sam Altman and Paul Graham is that diverse talent and decency was necessary for YC's success, and I would say the sentiment on thread here is that that is neither necessary nor sufficient for replication of YC's success. My view is that decency is under valued in business. Perhaps if it were easier to measure ...

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/library?query=Jessica%20Livingst...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early-...
I have no idea about the availability of legumes or the like in such places. I know that there are street markets where you could buy them, at least in Central and South America.

I honestly do not believe making stews of any legumes is a difficult task; it is fairly easy. It is time consuming though, but in such cases I just cook, say, a stew of lentils for 3 days (amount-wise).

It is pretty sad that people in the West "don't know any better". They only have to pick up very basic skills and do some planning. I have been to the UK, but I forgot to check for the availability of ingredients as I did not stay for long, and during my stay I lived on buns, salami, and butter. :D
We should stop making the tutorial prominent and stop worshipping it. I've used Emacs for 20 years and write emacs-lisp packages and I don't use all those weird keybindings for moving around the buffer. That's what the arrow keys are for! There's an international aspect to this: those who went to school in the USA typically touch-type; but in some other countries one does not learn to touch type unless one is aiming to become what used to be called a secretary.
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Pine64 is making a privacy focused camera gadget, but it isn't out yet. Not sure what the story around the apps is going to be though.

https://www.pine64.org/cube/
I get that - I was arguing that dealing with dissenting opinions has nothing to do with the age/generation of the people.

I think it has more to do with corporate structures set up to look like democracies when they absolutely are not. That's not the IC's fault, it's the company's so they should have to figure it out.
But how much went to them, vs investors, taxes, etc? It's not like they started YC with $50 million.
So more telemetry is not a guarantee for bugs being fixed.
I think what's really at the core of this is whether crows would figure out such advances given sufficient evolutionary pressure to do so. One could reason that crows are smart enough to avoid most situations that would cause broken bones but if something forced them to adapt, would they for example evolve thicker, stronger bones. Or if their common predators disappeared, would that allow them to build more permanent communities where they had the spare time to learn about their environment enough to manipulate it?

Humans by and large, especially in less forgiving environments with harsh winters, are helpless without the ability to manipulate their environment seeing as they are hairless apes who without modern medicine could die from an infection from a mere scratch.

Basically, it's an apples-to-oranges comparison.
People always mention writing, but in my experience that's a platitude.

Most senior devs I've been downstream from throughout my career write extremely carelessly. Their email, code comments, and docs (if they ever write them) are often borderline incoherent. It is the interns and junior devs who carefully "craft" emails and tenderly compose comments to remove any hint of ambiguity.

Once you're so senior that your company relies on you to announce new tech to a broad audience, you will almost certainly get the help of a technical writer.

Taking time to write well is a waste and an affectation, and it carries the stigma of insecurity. One should avoid it.
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This is why we have secular principles. Enlightenment (sub-text religious authoritarianism) doesn't come with the knowledge of international air borders, or income tax distribution.
Of course there is no "benefit of enlightenement", it is itself its own benefit.

It is a real gift, and I know many people who do their best to help as many others achieve it as they can.

It is considered a service and a sacrifice to forgo one's comfort to help others achieve enlightenment.

You may be imagining someone being pushy or insistent, but this does not have to be the case.
Experimentation.

If you are doing interesting work it is important to run good experiments. Bad or ineffective experiments can be a huge time sink.
Ask HN: Company only considering female candidates for role. Is this legal?
Not trying to start a flame war. Genuinely trying to explore if this is normal, or legal. Sorry for the throwaway, but this is a sensitive topic.

The leadership of a large tech company I work with openly stated internally that they will only consider female candidates for a particular new executive-level role, to promote diversity. No male candidates would be considered.

After over half a year of searching, they were unable to find a female candidate who had the qualifications, experience, and skills at the level of billion-dollar multi national companies, who also wanted to relocate during a pandemic.

Eventually the company expanded the search to all candidates, regardless of gender. After many months later, the company found a qualified candidate for the role, and hired them. This candidate was a white man, and it was brought up at several company-wide meetings about how hard the company tried to only hire a woman, but was unable to get a qualified candidate.

Is this the new normal at tech companies? Is this even legal?
The Verge also had an article about Facebook moderators[1]. Absolutely atrocious. Not just the content they have to deal with, but the working conditions. Barely any spare time or support despite the fact that people have to deal with crazy shit, employees who turn into conspiracy theorists after being exposed to it, people who do drugs at work to deal with it, simply crazy.

That looks like the future of tech. A bifurcated economy where a few developers collect stock options and enjoy fancy food delivery every day and an army of serfs who have to crawl through the garbage.

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
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Anyone who lives below their means can do this. Not everyone can do that, but a substantial portion of people reading this comment on hacker news can do that.

If someone earns $50,000, spends $40,000, in four years they will have a year’s salary saved up. With that in the bank you have a fair margin of safety.

Most people don’t need a year to get a job, and can also reduce expenses in such a period. By doing so, you effectively buy freedom.

I’m guessing you wrote this because you are not able to have such a margin of savings. But I’m leaving this comment for the many readers who could do so, but have not arranged their lives such that they have it.
Indeed. I use the Dvorak layout (a choice I made twenty years ago and have stuck with since my typing speed did improve, by virtue of finally learning to touch type properly), and many shortcuts make no sense. On the other hand, I actually found emacs much more comfortable to use.
Just to add links to the SO surveys mentionned here :

- 2019: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-e...

- 2018: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#development-e...

- 2017: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-_-...

- 2016: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-de...

- 2015: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor

What's really amazing is vscode just appearing out of nowhere (7% in 2016, 35% in 2018). Blindsiding everyone. Cross platform, excellent to good enough UI/UX (very much inspired by Sublime Text but free), easily extensible in a widely available (and widely taught) language. For better or for worse.
You're assuming that because you can create raw pointers in safe code, they were not introduced because or belong to Unsafe Rust, which is an incorrect assumption.

If you still think that both my contribution and the official documentation are incorrect, you're welcome to start a discussion on my contribution's PR, and open an issue on the official documentation repository.

As I said before, I'm all open to suggestions on how it can be better worded to not cause any misunderstandings, but these have to be constructive suggestions that would actually improve it.
Yeah, to an extent I agree. If you're just using your text editor as a text editor—and you're willing to have fairly limited support for integrations and other stuff like that—worrying about market share is unnecessary. If you rely on complex, IDE-type features for languages that move quickly, you might be better-served by a more popular editor.
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I agree with your underlying point, but it's also important to point out that computers are also singularly wonderful in that it's usually much faster and easier to reverse failures, and then to diagnose and debug in a non-impactful manner.

To take your second example - if I could then flip the light switch back, and the pool reappeared, then I'd be miffed but not particularly annoyed (assuming I was able to fix that obvious-bug either myself or with an update in a timely fashion). If the pool stayed gone, then yeah, I'd be pissed.

Of course, that whole argument goes out the window when the tech in question isn't controlled by you. Which is often the case.
I said it once I'll say it again: Have the government send everyone $200 worth of vitamin D3 and end all lockdowns and lifestyle restrictions.

No need to draw this thing out we can end it now.
I think the person meant in terms of identifiable trait/philosophy/focus. Swift and c# and maybe even kotlin are languages that are just a big piles of feature and does not really have an principle behind its design like stupid simple of golang or lazyness of haskel
The hypothesis that Emacs is used for many things is consistent with the hypothesis that Emacs usage is rare. This is because many humans have existed over the years, so a staggering array of tasks can be addressed in even a small fraction of those person-years.
Looks like a good alternative to Google's Trillian.

https://github.com/google/trillian
No, metaprogramming is a stain on software engineering that all ecosystems are moving away from. Except Ruby.
I wanted to find out whether there are any statistics on how this feature is used, but only found this Phabricator ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227904 Looks like they put doing research on user needs into the backlog for now.
This always annoyed me but it looks like this behavior is gone in Big Sur. You can ⌘⌫ to your heart's content.
that doesn't seem to be a problem with the video system, but with the police department.

Police in many places don't do all the things that they do on television anymore.

In some cities, burglaries may not get a police response for days, if at all.

Police departments all across the country have to juggle finances. Sometimes this means deciding what types of crimes get investigated, and which do not. When I lived in the capital of a medium-sized eastern city in the 90's, the mayor and police department had a very public back-and-forth with a big list of crimes, and placing a red line on that list deciding what the police will look at and what they wouldn't.

For example, until last year, police in Las Vegas dropped car crashes from the list of things they would respond to. Unless someone was hurt or killed, they were deemed civil matters and people were supposed to take pictures and let their insurance companies figure it out.
"Swift is slowly evolving into a formidable competitor to ... Rust"

"Swift uses Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) to manage memory."
Enlightenment is the action of achievement, even in a moment, of the state of Nirvana. Nirvana can mean "quenching" (like from a forge) or "blowing out".

There are definitely various interpretations what this actually means, but the early texts indicate it to be the extinguishing of Dukkha (stress) in the target subject.

The subject arrives at this state (of no suffering) by way of understanding the origins of stress to be the fact of impermanence of all things, including a soul.

Of course there are thousands of ways to become enlightened (science for one tells a lot about impermanence), but there is a single effect of those ways which is the most direct for the given context.

If you really want to see behind the curtain, go sit in Vipassana. This is what Buddha suggested, if one is interested in this attainment!
Not saying this is the way to do it but there is a remacs which is working on rewriting Emacs in Rust and fixing the C level issues in the process: https://github.com/remacs/remacs
Privilege is highly underappreciated.

Take Mozart or even composers coming from poverty like Beethoven or Brahms. They were all privileged in various ways, either from being born in a musical family that recognized the prodigy early on (Mozart and Beethoven -- a poor musical family for Beethoven), and I mean extraordinarily early. I think the greater shame would be if we did not appreciate their prodigy. That people have different potential for different things is an inherent consequence of human diversity. As long as individuals are significantly different both culturally as well as physically/mentally (and as long as variation is as unpredictable as it is -- which is probably inherent), we'll need to discover and give opportunity to the right individuals to lead or create what they have to create. I think diversity (and its limitation -- which also allows understanding each other and our internal worlds) is one of the most interesting traits of the human condition.

I certainly would prefer we had a wide ranging system for detecting potential and providing exceptional conditions for the development of certain people (I don't know if this could be called privilege or not), less sensitive of their initial economic condition, class, or place of birth.
Couldn't agree more, it's been very strange reading through this thread & multiple linked launchpad threads to see how critical people can be of things they themselves can't (or aren't willing to) fix - then the understandably irritated responses being pasted out of context all over.

I don't understand this hypercritical way of looking at things, especially considering how powerful and useful Calibre is. I plugged in a very old e-reader to my computer and tried a variety of things to put books on it; Calibre was the only thing that worked (including the actual ereader software!) I can't imagine how much work something like this would take to maintain.
I can't count the number of times I've wanted to to get into flow and couldn't because the dev experience doesn't get enough attention.

... or because my story is vaguely defined I have to stop a few times to get clarification.

... or because I need a decision from several people.

... or because I need help from someone who only checks email twice a day to avoid distraction.

When discussing breaking flow, HN tends to focus almost exclusively on meetings and communication (eg email or slack). These things are a big problem for maintaining flow. But I find they aren't the only thing, and many other flow breakers exist that are solved by meetings or communication.
Surely you could extract stills for the reviewer in some way and no sound? Feels like a management issue.
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I tried Ergo Emacs, because I like Xah Lee's attitude to modernization, but even somebody so willing to abandon old defaults can't make Emacs feel modern. Emacs makes assumptions like "a document has a backing file on disk" and "a cursor has a location on screen" that only make sense with obsolete hardware. The weird janky feeling is embedded too deep for any easy fix.
It's over 40 years old but it has fewer and fewer users younger than that. VS code is rapidly taking over it's niche and without modernization, of many kinds, emacs will die out in a generation.
The sibling comment posted to a general overview of UV light, but I think it's a shame that it seems so dismissive. UVC, while higher frequency, can't penetrate the outer layer of skin[1]. At low energies, I'd imagine it'd be dangerous enough to virions and safe enough to humans for it to be a useful area disinfectant.

Most of the studies I've seen use very low power sources that appear to be fairly safe, but I'd imagine there's long term exposure risk.

Here's another article[2] worth reading. It appears to me that the specific wavelengths most of the research has focused on is far-UVC which is probably different from the frequencies of UVC currently more well studied.

So, I think the answer is "it depends."

[1] https://www.klaran.com/is-uvc-safe

[2] https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/are-ultraviolet-sani...
to the contrary if he played the Public Enemy song loud I think they'd fear being counter ambushed by some thugs unless the house gave away the identity of the owner. In otherwords the criminals may recognize that specific song, or at least discern some hard old school rap music.
I am not sure what do you mean by 'part' and 'whole', but if by 'part' you mean a situation for example, and by 'whole' you mean the universe, well, the situation is very subjective, and you can't really know the whole.

If you are an empiricist you can't be sure about anything, you can't be even sure that your theories are describing what 'is' the world, they are just a way to look at it.

If you are rationalist, you would believe that there are some kind of innate features of your brain, now where those features came from?
This is my interpretation of events, and maybe I’m off base. PG used to comment often. Around 2010-11, there was a months-long crisis of sorts over the perceived declining quality of discourse here. PG was actively involved in trying to mitigate. Afterwards he all but disappeared. I took this as tacitly washing his hands of it.
From the Department of Justices perspective value is tied to price. They wanted to stop Apple from asking for price parity with other outlets because it would drive prices up.

And what happened after their victory is that prices didn’t go down, they look like they went up.

Of course this has little to do with the artists, they typically don’t get to price their novels, and only get a royalty that’s not likely impacted much either way. Higher prices are higher royalties per unit, sure, but if they lead to lower unit sales it’s not likely better.
> Could Orion have got hundreds on tons to Mars with the technology of it's time?

Yes, but having dangerously irradiated our own planet in the process
This PDF goes into detail on Joy Christian's algebra error.

http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~gill/christian.pdf
Spoiler alert: it's not.
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you get most of the benefit out of a security camera before you even turn it on

Reminds me of how in the 80's, Radio Shack used to sell fake car alarm stickers.
User Experience, Design, Product Management.
The key roles and skill sets most engineers are collaborating with on a day to day basis.
> On the other hand, if I'm being honest, all of my really hairy merge conflicts are not things that I think could be resolved by this---not without changing the way we think about code from being about text to being about ASTs.

With the trend towards automatic code formatting, I don’t think that would be difficult to do.
Not if launched in space.
The last time I prototyped something in python, we ran into issues with gevent while crafting up a multi-tenet mail transfer agent. Spent a couple of days banging heads against it. Then someone on the team did it in Go in like half a day. The language you choose for prototyping depends on the thing you are validating. I'm also partial to prototyping in the language that the real thing will be written in. At the time, we were not a Go shop, but we are now.
If I understand correctly, the rats smell TNT? What are the problems in building artificial TNT detectors working like the olfactory systems of animals?
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