skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
would you tell more about why you think ddg is not good? I'm not using it for some reasons so I'd like to know. Thanks
I fully accept that free will isn't real. I also fully accept my ability to change the utility maximizing decision by not respecting people who don't respect others because of the way they were born.
Study Shows No Benefit and Muscle Loss from Intermittent Fasting
Integers are right there in the table on the page you're linking to.

If you don't believe me, perhaps you'll believe output from the machine.

https://tio.run/##K0vSTc4vSv3/3zc/pTQnVcEjNScnn4szuDRJwTcxM0...

* edited for guideline compliance
I think you're still right though. I know Haskell has an unusual approach to numbers, but it looks like the resultant type is indeed different from the type of the operands. I got this from typeOf (/):

Note: there are several potential instances:
instance RealFloat a => Fractional (Complex a)
-- Defined in ‘Data.Complex’
instance HasResolution a => Fractional (Data.Fixed.Fixed a)
-- Defined in ‘Data.Fixed’
instance Integral a => Fractional (Ratio a)
-- Defined in ‘GHC.Real’
...plus two others
No that’s the part that’s hugely disruptive. If a stock goes up you’re forced to sell to pay a tax bill. Then if it goes down the next year the government has to cut you a huge check. Very messy.
Foucault's “Panopticism” – Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975)
Historically monitors has better pictures at the expense that you couldn't look at them off angle, while TVs you could look at from anywhere in the room. I think that is gone today but it might be something that comes up again... Though in the safety critical application I brought up off-angle viewing is a requirement.
Colleges in the US are very skewed ideologically, towards the far left. This has been a very clear and consistent pattern building up over a few decades, but it has become obvious only in the last 5-10 years, where that bias has been exercised much more openly to promote one worldview and suppress all others. I recommend following The College Fix (http://www.thecollegefix.com/) or FIRE (https://www.thefire.org/) to keep up with stories on this topic. There are also other publications like the Chronicle (https://www.chronicle.com/) or Inside Higher-ed (https://www.insidehighered.com/) that feature some of this content.

Here are several examples of political bias/indoctrination/monocultures on college campuses:

- College faculty have overwhelmingly singular political preferences, based on their donations: https://www.thecollegefix.com/92-percent-of-college-faculty-...

- Professor who exposes lack of academic rigor in grievance studies is investigated by his university (Portland State) on "ethics" grounds: https://quillette.com/2019/07/29/when-ethics-review-becomes-...

- College students oppose free speech/thought/inquiry on campuses per polls: https://www.thecollegefix.com/shock-poll-most-students-oppos...

- University debate society bans Richard Dawkins from speaking to prioritize the "comfort" of their students: http://www.universitytimes.ie/2020/09/the-hist-will-not-be-m...

- University uses COVID as an excuse to ban some gatherings but not others based on ideology: https://www.scribd.com/document/477474467/Southeastern-Legal...

- University punishes student for his Instagram posts: https://reason.com/2020/07/24/fordham-university-disciplines...

- Professor threatens to fail students who write about Trump in a positive light: https://www.yaf.org/news/illinois-professor-threatens-to-fai...

- Professor bans student from class because he challenged the professor's views on gender: https://www.foxnews.com/us/college-student-kicked-out-of-cla...

- College tries to censor coursework that paints negative views of Islam: https://www.thefire.org/federal-court-rejects-unsound-lawsui...

I could keep going but this is what I was able to find quickly through search. The reality is that there is no room for views that go against the prevailing culture on most campuses today. Those who share the prevailing views are now in the camp of using the power of their supermajority to suppress/censor/punish/ban anyone who disagrees with them. Honest debate and truth seeking cannot take place in such an environment - and if that is true, then it follows that university environments tell people WHAT to think, not HOW to think, and that constitutes indoctrination.
> The best solution to what problem, exactly? All of them?

The stated problems of poverty and homelessness (and perhaps secondary and tertiary problems).

> Each of those "bromides" offers actual good solutions to each of those individual problems.

I don't think they do, because they are poorly defined. How much money must be given to reduce poverty? A small welfare check? $1,000 per month in UBI? A $6,000/month stipend from your parents? How much poverty is reduced and how?

> Notable also is that the OP did not call it "welfare" checks or "highly subsidized public" housing.

That is exactly why I chose those terms, because OP didn't other than using "money" and "housing". They needed to be more precise, in my opinion so I used an established vehicle for giving money and housing as an example. I actually don't have specific policy in mind here, I just feel being too vague about these things doesn't actually help and tends to confuse things.
It's a sign your boss doesn't have enough actual stuff to do, and so is managing your time like you are a child.

Yep. That was exactly her. And why she was in the first batch shown the door when the COVID cuts came.
is there not room outside of the right for people who are not that empathetic or would rather not spend the energy to understand these people? I want action on climate change, I want single payer health care, subsidized college, reproductive rights, separation of church and state.

what i don't care about is how many genders an English department can create. I don't discriminate, but I also don't want to expend any energy understanding or empathizing .
For the last two years, I was able to make ends meet writing books, even though the Czech market is rather small (10 million speakers).

The key was having my own e-shop and a set of readers who come to read the blog. Once people buy directly from you, the whole balance shifts. Normally, distributors and bookshops take a large cut before sharing a slice of profit with you. Avoid them and the whole thing turns profitable.
Libertarian paradise.
The disagreement is mostly between C and B, and C and D. I'm actually the only one being fine with C having as much as A and B. And I want everyone to feel the equity split is fair.

Also to clarify, until now we only kept separate trading accounts, so there wasn't really an issue about who own what. Only now we want to put everything under a company.
Conlanging (constructed languages) is, I guess, more mainstream than it used to be. There's an r/conlangs subreddit dedicated to the art. I assume the popularity is due to finding conlangs used in popular films, TV series and video games.

The first conlang forum I stumbled across many years ago was Zompist's ZBB - https://www.verduria.org/ - though sadly the current contents date back only to mid-2018. The original board, with posts back to 2002, is archived at this link: http://www.incatena.org/

The Conlang Mailing List has archives dating back to 1998 - https://listserv.brown.edu/archives/conlang.html

The first website I ever put on the web became a proud member of Scattered Tongues, which was the Conlang webring. Unbelievably, the webring's HQ page is still accessible at http://taliesin.nvg.org/sc/
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Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences. I'm as free to call you an idiot and boycott you as you are to say idiotic things. It actually is illegal to talk about tianamen square in china. You'll be arrested.
Portraying those that disagree with your methods as enemies and part of the opposition is a common way to discredit them and discount their objections. Being common doesn't mean it's excusable.

That you accept any tactic against an organization you disagree with, and discount any criticism of those tactics and color the people doing so as unable to look at the situation rationally only exposes you yourself to the same criticism.

I am not Indian. I do not know a lot of the details about Amnesty International and India. I can also easily spot many instances in the linked article where they are using techniques often used to present half-truths and sway opinion through purposeful misinterpretation and misrepresentation. I don't need to know more about the overall situation because I am not commenting on the overall situation, I'm noting what I see as blatant attempts to sway opinion not through fact and rational discourse, but propaganda. That's worth calling out whenever encountered, regardless of whether you agree with the goals of the people in question or not.
Your assumption is unsupported and, in my experience, untrue.
I never mentioned the contrary.
To me this is creepy. I am sure to "evolve" my thinking on it, but:

I might consider cutting an artificial hand off a silicone doll and registering its hand print.

Carrying a necklace of dismembered hands might creep out the store attendees & shoppers though.
I'm facing a similar situation, and I just decided to quit as I realized how toxic it could be.

I work in a software consultancy, it was all good, but several years ago the company was sold and the management realized other professional service industries do the same thing as you mentioned, and they are really pushing forward this approach. They called it 'promote or leave'.

It's crazy and stressful. People have to juggle several roles at a time: I was just a typical developer 2 years ago. Last year I was actively involved in architecture stuff, there were so many things to resolve while I still have my own deadlines to meet. This year I was thrown at the team lead position of two teams simultaneously, while I still have developing and solutioning tasks measure by days, and often I found myself can only start to sit there after endless meeting and programming only after 5 pm, and I also often need to assemble keynotes at night because all of the sudden there's a pre-sale meeting tomorrow morning.

The best part is people would call these 'challenges' as they are good things. These challenges give people nothing but fragile works and projects. People who had enough would leave, and people who left would only strengthen the toxic atmosphere.
It failed because Microsoft gave up on it, while not having the patience (and money) they had with XBox.

Windows Phone was already reaching 10% mark when they gave up, and were the Android alternative to many Europeans.

The proof being that in what concerns tablets, most people around here not carrying iPads, are carrying 2-1 Windows laptops with detachable keyboards, not Android tablets.
The shift in skills tends to be advantageous to the new experts not the old ones. The great books on using slide rules have already been written, but their unlikely to find a new following.

Java applet‘s and a host of other tech is simply not coming back. Which is why experts often become advocates, they want their skills to remain relevant.
People have said this for years, and yet there still isn't a viable competitor to Cloudflare.

They still have the best performing and most feature-ful CDN available. The competition is not even that close. Fastly is the only other CDN I could really consider, but their featureset just doesn't compare.
Anecdotal of course, but I've spoken to many people currently living in poverty who are firmly against measures like this because they worry people will freeload.

I'm sure it comes down to the news cycle, the American dream (I'm reminded of Wright's/Steinbeck's "temporarily embarrassed millionaires"), personal politics and upbringing, but at the end of the day it feels like crabs in a bucket.

I try pointing to single mothers working two jobs, or the disenfranchised, or the honest hardworking people who are just unlucky, or even a mirror, but it never seems to stick. I'd love suggestions on a better argument.
>Care to share your feelings on the far left push to suppress science and mathematics?

It's not actually happening. I can imagine what you're thinking of as "suppression of science and mathematics" is pseudoscience.
That's horrible, I agree, but... I don't think there's any company that doesn't do these. (at least if they want to operate in China)

edit: and not just China. What makes you thing Google wouldn't do this in the US?
Sure, but compared to the 3080 I'd say that the main deal is the bigger RAM for copying reason than the increased core count.
Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya are christianized long back.

But Many media doesn't cover it, but Evangelism very high, in north-eastern states, almost 70% of the population became Christians.

I'm all in, if people with their knowledge want to take Christianity.

But de-generation of native faiths, Money, ... and other facilities for conversion are being provided.

https://swarajyamag.com/culture/how-northeast-india-was-chri...
> You may just encounter an interviewer who wrote the book on that topic who decides to ask you a few questions about it...

Nothing wrong with that. I see it as a conversation starter.
Just this week I had an ad popup with no button. Before I gave up and left the site I tried clicking where the button was supposed to be. Sure enough it worked.

Of course now I'm part of the problem, because some asshole has a graph that shows that (a suspiciously small fraction of) users are able to opt-out so there's no legal liability for having the ads that way.
Current and future display infrastructure changes in Automotive Grade Linux
> White supremacy is a minority view

This depends on how your aggregation function is weighted.

If your measure is "how many people in the US are white supremacists?" then, yes, it's definitely a minority view (though still more widely held than it should be!).

But if you scale it by each person's power/wealth, you get a very different view. If your question is "what is the total power held by white supremacists?" you'll end up with a larger number.

And if you really want to get an accurate measure where you treat each person's white supremacy value as a number that ranges smoothly from positive (actual white supremacist) to zero (not interested in putting effort into race relations one way or another) to negative (anti-white supremacist), your function may produce a number that explains a hell of a lot of US history.
Shamelessly plagiarizing from the Is Y Combinator worth it? comments.

Gist: Writing a book is worth it.

But, it depends more on you than on the book.

Isn't that true for pretty much everything in life?

Yes. That doesn't change the truth of it.
Survivorship bias and security through obscurity.

A 1989 Mazda is old enough to not have anything worth stealing (ie. airbags) and with few cars still running no one has bothered to even try and crack the immobilizer. Your friends' late model Chryslers probably have $3000-$6000 worth of airbags alone.
> I don't remember where I read this but someone mentioned that the judge asked Apple why they charge 30%, which I found to be a bit of a strange thing to ask (and probably a bit of a softball). Why not 30%? Why not 40%? Why do companies have margins that they set that the market will bear at all? Etc.

Presumably, if they’d said “because that’s what Google is/was charging”, it could be pursued as price fixing.
Someone who works in time series forecasting once told me that (to paraphrase) you know that if someone publishes a new method it's not all that good, because if it was they would have started a hedge fund instead.
Some factors are way more important than others for rocket navigation. For instance, the azimuth, the angle you're headed is very important, since a small error in angle gets you way off target. The Saturn V theodolite, used to calibrate this angle before launch had an accuracy of better than +/- 2 seconds of arc, i.e. 1 part in 648000. That suggests you'd need to use pi to at least 6 decimal places (probably more) for surveying and azimuth calibration.

The book "Inventing Accuracy" is about missile guidance (which has mostly the same issues) and discusses the various sources of error in detail and the various contributions to the "error budget".
> If people can't respect you for having a different opinion, they're not adults, and they're certainly not "friends," Facebook or otherwise.

Nah. Not everyone has the luxury that you have, of just throwing away their friends like that, even if it is "their" fault.

Frankly, I personally don't care much about politics at all. It is a hobby of mine. But I don't truly care about it.

Why would I give up a friend, to stand up for ideas that I don't really care much about at all?

For some sort of worthless "principle"? No thanks. Feel free to keep your principles if that's what you care about. I don't really value those, though.
VMware picks up infrastructure automation provider SaltStack
I do wonder how this all shakes out now that many brands are selling out as glorified drop-shippers of increasingly poor quality products.

When brand is meaningless what other signals will consumers use to filter? Will we all need test machinery to vet every purchase?
1Tb/S SOFS from Scality
2020 Global Robotics Statistics (Industry Summary) [pdf]
Litterally the picture I linked, would you like more examples. Here's another where they redefine the "white" in white supremacy to mean more than having white skin.
https://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/article_big/s3/2020-07/whiten...

I can keep going if you want me to.
> tied to the device and not let leak out

there are laws against facial recognition (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/portland-becomes-the-first...)

how is palm recognition different from facial, aside from scanner proximity?
I felt that way too, until the interviewee had no answers to some simple questions about the topic.
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Very different experience for me.

Wrote a book about Redux (https://leanpub.com/redux-book) brought about $15K for 4 months of work. (Granted, did no marketing at all)

It always feels strange to say "I wrote a book" and it never seemed to really impress tech people or cause an inflow of consulting work.

But it is very fun and you get to really get into the tech (other projects, sources, blogs, testing ideas).

Prob would do again one day
Sounds like Blipverts in Max Headroom.
> This removes the incentive for anyone to work out how to defeat an incumbent who is using the strategy, since they are forced to stop using it by law and not because a better alternative has emerged.

If my goal is to win through innovation, I would rather fight against multiple smaller non-innovating incumbents than one big one that can crush me with money.

> That would create an even stronger incentive to lock in their advantages through other means.

> It might well have tilted the playing field in a direction where Apple chose to adopt Facebook style addiction dynamics as a strategy or risk being outcompeted by someone who did.

> The way out of the Apple walled garden is for someone to build an alternative that is better.

Or they make an alternative that's Facebook style addictive...

It seems to me like one consequence of your argument is that encouraging innovation is dangerous because Apple might innovate in a bad way.

That makes most of this irrelevant to deciding whether market caps are good or bad. You came up with a scenario where caps lead to something bad, but the same kind of scenario could apply to a world without them.

And remember that if someone actually does start taking market share from Apple under the current laws, they still have the option to do the bad things you listed, and they'll be just as effective.
> Google could do whatever they want, but sane and reasonable regulations would keep them in check.

I may be naive, but Google's move seems like evidence that the regulations are keeping them in check to some extent.
UK supermarket Tesco sets 300% sales target for plant-based alternatives to meat
> investments in public transit are seeing as benefiting "special interests" in most places

Perhaps that's because they do?

In the subject article there is a link to another article on the author's site about intercity rail in Minnesota, in which I find the following interesting fact:

"Like most states, Minnesota had a large intercity rail network operated by private freight railroads. With the formation of Amtrak in 1971 this large system was reduced to a skeletal system of just a few routes, and then just one after 1985."

It never seems to occur to the author that perhaps Amtrak is the cause of the problems he sees, rather than the solution to them.
The issue with Africa is demographics. Most of their high risk population is already dead.
My opinion was more shaped by accounts of education when state power waned - By the accounts I've heard Rome, the USSR, the Ottomans etc all tried to retain power by tightening control over institutions of education. It's a natural lever to grab for when things get worse, and it's also when these institutions most need to be independent.
While true, there's not a good way to prove why others aren't posting; maybe it's "social cooling" or maybe they just got bored.
Cube Dev raises $6.2M for its open-source data platform
> Shouldn't a judge look at what is allowed by the law, instead of being the devil's advocate and say "those guys have done it for years, so it's fine"?

This has been done in the past regarding firearms law - “the law has stood for decades, so it must be constitutional.”

I find that reasoning specious, but it’s happened multiple times so it’s apparently accepted by at least a plurality of our judiciary.
Yes. Many of these shops follow the same design patterns. Ports for hosts at L2 that they bill on that are part of a big Vlan/L3/SVI interface that has tons of customers. I've seen these configs where folks have hundreds of "secondary" ip addresses setup where any customer can steal other customer IPs in addition to lack of anti spoofing. It's slop and it's tolerated.
No, there actually exists an email header to request a notification email to be sent back whenever the original email is read. This header exists since at least the 90s, and for instance Thunderbird has options to both set that header, and to honor that header (sending the notification emails). I vaguely recall that the default, at least when I last configured Thunderbird, was to not add that header, and to ask before sending a notification email.
That's the point, it is broken. It's how "white supremacy" has gained so much traction in the US. Of course it will have gained traction if you expand the definiton to include almost 50% of the population.
> Examples: I'm entirely dependent on online banking, as the nearest bank office is 30 minutes way (and it will be closed by end of 2021).

Still, it's a convenience and a habit, not a neccessity. Before the Internet, people were simply taking that 30 minute trip to the bank. Hell, I have a friend who, in 2021, does not even have a bank account.
If you have cats, the 'proper way' to hang the TP is the opposite way of what you absolutists think is the One True Way.

I'm starting to suspect that the loudest voices are cats who have either learned to type or to pay for lobbyists, trying to push your feline agenda on the rest of us.
Can you please write a detailed analysis on this and perhaps publish on Medium? Right now you have 1-2 data points without screenshots. It's hard to understand what you’re talking about. My bet is Explore page is buggy as hell and there's no intentional promotion here.