skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to stand up on a soapbox and use this incident to flog my pet issue, here. It may not be obvious to everyone how it relates, so bear with me.

Many people wonder how a "free speech absolutist", such as myself, can hold the point of view that we do: how can we advocate for absolute free speech when it allows anti-vaxxers or bullies or holocaust deniers or racists or fake news purveyors to freely promote their reprehensible views? Many people think we must, on some level agree with these terrible views, or at best be severely misguided, in order to so vociferously actually defend their rights to say it.

Not at all. We defend the rights of the least popular, even reprehensible, points of view in order to protect our own right to say and hear ideas with which others may disagree. Remember, many beliefs we hold now, were once illegal: equality of races, marriage between races, that one should worship or not as their own conscience dictates, marriage between same sexes - these were not only illegal - but it was illegal even to advocate for these. In some places even today it is still illegal to express such points of view.

We free-speech advocates believe that a good idea is stronger than a bad idea, and as a stronger idea, will win in the marketplace of ideas. Good medical information will always defeat bad information; good moral ideas will always defeat bad moral ideas, and so forth. By legally suppressing the expression of reprehensible ideas, a government is conceding that they believe that these bad ideas are somehow stronger and more convincing than good ideas. Yes, there will always be people who are convinced by a bad idea, but if the expression of the idea is suppressed, no right-thinking person will ever bother to argue against it.

And now I get to my point: laws such as this one that criminalize defamation, or those against "blasphemy", or against "profaning the honor of the country", or against spreading lies, or even hate speech, are all the same at the end of the day: they might sound like they are helping society, but they will be used in unexpected ways, as we see here. Often they will be to suppress speech that offends the powerful, as we see here. Moreover, they will chill adjacent speech, that is not necessarily illegal, but since non-lawyers are never really sure where the bounds of the law lie precisely, they will be reluctant to cross even imaginary barriers.

Now I'm hopping off my soapbox, and I would love to read your reply especially if you disagree!
Employer payment structure is biology?
So it turns into more of a management role, and less like hard labor. Still not really retirement.
Yes, but not in the traditional sense, like, say ProtonVPN.com or Psiphon.ca or Latern.io do.

Intra merely captures DNS traffic on port 53 and tunnels it to any DoH endpoint. It circumvents SNI censorship because it essentially sees all TCP and UDP traffic and can manipulate it on-device, and it does so in a way that bypasses most (but not all) censorship implementations.
I never felt productive working from home during my previous job and dreaded having to do it more, but I've gotten used to it. I still don't feel as productive as I do at the office, but so far it works.

That said, I think I prefer working from home over open-office hotdesking. If an employer wants me at the office, the least they can do is assign me a well equipped desk, ventilation, lighting, a decent screen, that kinda thing.

I don't get (and yet I do, sigh) why some companies seem to treat their highly paid knowledge workers like cattle / sweatshops. I don't get why some people prefer working in those conditions.
> any amount of payment is a huge psychological barrier.

We thought the same of mobile software. "People just won't pay for apps!" but it turns out they will, they just have to feel like they're getting a good deal.
> Support for big FFT dimension sizes. Current limits: C2C - (2^24, 2^15, 2^15),

What about bigger than big? > 2^29 or so ? Are these sizes for double precision ?
I don't know, but something along these lines:

The airport guard searches your bag, finds the cocaine and proposes you pay a hefty sum to make the problem go away. The taxi driver gets his cut for planting the evidence.
Are you sure it was $15/MWh? That seems more than 1000x cheaper than state of the art batteries.
"Those policies are discussed in the open, "

It's the opposite. French labour policy for example is a giant political boondoggle. It's one series of short-signed populist back-room deals after the next.

What 'serious reform' looks like is the 'Hartz concept' [1] - nothing like it exists really in the rest of the EU.

The results of French labour policy mean consistently almost 2x the unemployment rate of US/UK/Germany, for example. [2]

This is not an example of 'strong' it's an example of 'very weak' and it hurts quite a lot of people.

A perfect example of shortsighted, populist, untenable policy: Hollande's 'Supertax' on the rich [3]. This was an an act of self-destruction, not construction.

While Hartz is widely viewed as being a giant success, none of the French economic reforms made sense, and none of them have helped.

And FYI Europe doesn't have a middle class, and remember includes places like Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Greece, S. Italy which are actually quite poor.

European nations individually have 'decent' Gini coefficients, but if you do the 'EU-wide' coefficient it's quite bad. Average Slovak is nowhere near the average Swede.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept

[2] https://data.oecd.org/unemp/unemployment-rate.htm

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/31/france-drops-7...
I hope (also for myself) that employees get a stipend for working from home; they need a workspace, internet access, electricity, etc to do their job effectively, which was previously provided by the employer at the office.

If they downsize their offices they will be saving a lot of money; at least give part of that to the employees.

I mean how much does an office for a single employee cost in SF?
Bionic Duckweed: making the future the enemy of the present
> the CCP which is ideologically opposed to the United States

Really? They seem quite fine with the states last I looked, you 100% sure that statement shouldn't be the other way around?

Does the CCP demand everyone on Earth follow their communist ideals? Does the CCP send drones to go bomb weddings and children in far away countries they really have nothing to do with?

Honestly they are a refreshing superpower and do far less horrendous shit to the rest of the world if you ask me. Sorry about your failing broken nation but someone needs to say it.

Even the EU is over your constant need for war with Iran/China/$NEXTBADGUY and not playing ball, perhaps get a bigger toupee for the president and stop building an entire economy on perpetual warfare next time?
Looking at this page [1] it seems China takes about 5 years to go from start of construction to commercial operation of a reactor.

I'm pretty sure they have no NIMBY lawsuits to content with, so this seems like a realistic timeframe.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors#China
Belgiums experiment in a new kind of democracy
Yes you can do that, here's one such commercial fork: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/solutions/collabora-office/
How to deliver a remote training with code-katas and randori in pairs
For low-resource languages, or anything of great linguistic distance, neural MT is still not there. That is to say, you may find some language pairs where it works OK, but there's a huge sea of pairs where all you get is gibberish – and still they publish these systems and let people use them to produce more gibberish which they put on their blogs and spam sites, making the non-English web into a corpus of dissociated press ramblings.

Baidu recently added Saami to their system. They manage to make a Wikipedia article about wolverines into one about spreadsheets, depressed buttons and famous chickens: https://imgur.com/a/m91SbRw

A rough translation of what Baidu gave:

> No one is greater than zero. There are new things for spreadsheet[here Baidu used the English word for some reason] and all the things in it.

> English is an active wolf, but the background as wolf indicates that the active button is depressed.

> Too many places to install. Sweden was released from 1968 and July 1973. Probably number of times the alarm is to be reapeated within 39 minutes. 2010 is in total 66 chickens, but later a famous chicken and chickens 12th of march 2010, with a total of 54 chickens

Apertium's translation is often stilted, but it gets the meaning across: Wolverines are the largest animals in the marten family, etc.
Google Translate isn't half bad at Norwegian→English, so you can even combine them to get a sort of Saami→English:
https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=no&t....

I tried Baidu again now with the same input, just to see what they would give into English, and now it's about old ports, finished volcanos and civic computers:

https://fanyi.baidu.com/#sme/en/Geatki%20(Gulo%20gulo)%20lea....

(but at least "Berners Convention" is slightly close to the input …)

It's amazing how low a bar big companies have for publishing ML models that just completely fail in the most absurd and spectacular ways, as if GM said "hey marketing department it looks like people want electric cars now, that seems easy just strap a battery on a chicken and hammer some wheels onto it and call it a day"
I use libre office. It's excellent. Very grateful for its existence.
There are few, if none Chinese apps that have that level of market domination TikTok has.
The Indian government has a long and varied track record of messing with the Internet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India
In Bangkok it was mainly tuk-tuks taking me to places I didn't want to go and many attempted scams (magicians, dealers in jewels, someone pretending to be police). In Chiangmai I had my worst couchsurfing experience, really unpleasant guy who I went to town with and was dependent on (he took me half an hour or so on the back of his motorcycle) and who got really drunk after I asked him to please stop drinking (because of the ride). He told me not to worry because "if we die we die together" and a couple of times gave the impression of trying to leave without me. Then I ended up in another hotel which turned out to be above a brothel and to have used condoms in the room, but couldn't really leave because I had gotten food poisoning.

I also met some really nice people in Thailand, but I do feel it has been a bit ruined by the wrong kind of tourism.
You can't build pumped hydro storage. You can only "discover" suitable sites.
That doesn't sound like a "random question" to me.
Does Sweden want more kids? If so, I don't think someone having 12 kids is really abusing the benefit, but rather providing Sweden with what it wants.
Space bar handling in media players is a particularly hard problem because space bar is also the key that users expect to trigger the currently focused button. Some users rely entirely on keyboard focus.

So it starts to intersect with some non-obvious accessibility issues.
Would you mind sharing some of these evidence ?
We just got given it whenever we took our daughter to get weighed and checked over during the first year of her life. You only need a few drops so the couple of bottles we got given lasted ages. Maybe that’s specific to London? Was that not your experience?
Yes, I loved those films, as well (that's a funny scene indeed, hehe). Good thing I watched them before the David Suchet series.
CPUs are very constrained on the kinds of reordering they are allowed to visibly exhibit.
> The economic reality is that battery on the grid is out-competing gas peaker plants in a lot of places because even with the current scarcity and price levels in the battery market, it seems economical to buy them by the MWH.

Do you have any citation for this because I've seen no evidence that this is true. The largest grid scale lithium battery is barely a drop in the ocean by comparison to the energy consumption of the grid. It is only used for short term grid frequency stabilization, which it does admirably.
It's a vicious circle:

* the world is getting more and more complex with every day

* people are getting more and more "informed" through the internet, everyone can basically fact-check anything you write, almost in realtime

* news orgs are under economic pressure, so they cut specialized roles and force journalists to be even more generalist than they were before and work even faster than before, with an inevitable fall in quality

* people notice the fall in quality and stop reading, increasing economic pressures. Goto 1.
Wow. From that page

> India leads the world, in the list of Internet Shutdowns. In 2018, as reported by Access Now, out of 196 documented Internet Shutdowns globally, India accounted for 134 of them.[124] The reasons for the shutdowns range from protests and political unrest to elections and exams.
Thanks for sharing, I didn't know there was a ActivityPub Conf (but I guess there is a conference for everything)!
> Just because you can conceptualize the entire codebase's type system in your big brain

I can' t

that' s the problem

Erlang is not typeless, it' s not Javascript, it has types

But they are simpler to understand an to use

Especially for people coming from different backgrounds

It helps coders to focus on the structure of their code, instead of the rigid grid of types they have to be forced into, that most of the times create monsters because they immediately google a solution to pass compiler checks, they find a low level stack overflow answer, copy and paste it and call it a day.

Whoever says it's not true, is lying or is living among super humans that devoted their life to be perfect.

> doesn't mean other don't have a rational reason for preferring static typing.

It' s what I' ve been trying to say all along!

If you prefer them, go for it!

Is it a scientifical measurable phenomenon?

It is not.

Joe Armstrong would write safer code than mine with any language.

> Every time I refactor, my dude.

If we accept that bad types are a programmer' s fault, not checking your calls is a programmer' s fault as well

I argue that types force you to have a big IDE that checks the types for you, because they are enforced (stupidly most of the times) without any real benefit

I find that pattern matching and function clauses work much better than having to decide if a param has to be a float or a double an int or an unsigned int, 16 or 32 bits?
StartOffice was German and when LibreOffice was forked, a massive effort was started to translate and update tens of thousands of German comments from the code base so the new developers who do not speak the language can safely navigate and contribute.

The effort lasted for years: https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-08-05-under-the-...
I actually like those. For me it's strange to never see colleagues in real life, on the other hand I'm also a big fan of remote. Having a day every other week is great to keep a balance there.

May also be because I'm from Europe, even if the office is on the other side of the country I can just take the train and don't have to stay overnight for the non-remote day.
The video presentation at GTC clearly discusses it.

They moved into Optix 7 as backend.
Covid-19 test reports must also state cycle threshold value: Doctors
I basically have a private office right now (WFH, lol) and I'm the only person on the project right now, so for me it works. But previously I've always worked in teams, 3 - 8 people. The noises from one's own team is almost never noise, because it's pertinent to the project you all are working on (if everyone is working on something else you're not an actual team). The noises from other teams though, ugh.

Last job I had, we had "team rooms"; thankfully I was able to provide input and managed to steer them away from doing an open office. That is ideal, I think, if you've got teams working on different things.

I've worked in a fully open office with about 8 teams, that was too much.

I've worked in a half-open office which I was really sceptical about at first (we moved into it while I was working there), it wasn't just an open office but it was three floors with an open atrium in the center. But it worked, somehow; there wasn't too much noise coming from the atrium, and every team had their own area cordoned off with half-walls (whiteboard walls) so you could walk around them, but there was no visual distraction and noise was muted / indirect. I think that's the best way to do open offices. Wouldn't have minded if they put some noise insulation in between the whiteboard walls though.
> However, I do notice that "because science says so" is becoming a more and more common "you are not allowed to argue with my conclusions" kind of add-on to any assertion. It is an oddly religious, faith-like use of the word "science".

True.
I don't care with what science says, I actually tried to use a light theme and I just couldn't do anything.
Not every major distro ships with coreutils.
There’s an absolute ton of pro Trump material on TikTok made by young people.
Electrifying heating doesn't improve this situation, it worsens it drastically. People come back home after work and turn on the heat or AC right as the sun goes down. A big part of why renewable generation is so high in Germany is because they mostly heat their homes with gas (which emits carbon, but doesn't factor into electricity generation statistics).

Using car batteries for storage doesn't solve the fundamental mismatch between the staggering amount of batteries that get produced and the amount of storage that is required. Not to mention, I'm dubious if this scheme would even work. Why would I hook my car storage up to the grid? It's going to eat away at the battery life of my car. This essentially just offloads the cost of battery storage to consumers by decreasing the battery life of their EVs due to the constant charge and discharging.
I think having 12 kids is a lot harder than going to work...
When you put it like that I see your point. I was thinking of my own country, the UK. I think places without the insanity of US medical insurance prices may be able to do this sensibly. As other have pointed out some counties are doing this already for kids.
Or Office, same prices for similar features.
You can delete it after running. Each run on an (ISP, state) combination gives a new test point.

Thanks!
>A giant black solar installation captures a lot of heat that would’ve been reflected back into space.

Nuclear plants take energy sequestered in matter and unleashes it to a form that ultimately will decay to heat just the same. This outcome is the same regardless of the power source.

If climate change is a relevant concern to the discussion then alongside discussing of sustainable energy there's an equal topic of how we re-sequester or eject the additional energy we've so far pumped into the atmosphere in the form of energy decaying to heat. Not to mention how to curb our energy demands so that we don't continue to worsen the situation.

>Wind farms slow down wind (obviously..)

Yeah quite a lot on the scale of large farms, slowing wind speeds by up to 50%. The optimist in me thinks this could be a beneficial thing given our atmosphere is generally expected to become more chaotic with stronger winds as a result of climate change, but the realist in me thinks it's largely irrelevant since turbines can't operate during the extremes, which are expected to become more commonplace.

>Are there any studies in this area?

Not sure, but it's an interesting question.
is cadmium still even used for new solar panels?
Check out Mr Carlson's lab and Practical Engineering (if your into Civils and Thermo Fuids)

https://www.youtube.com/user/MrCarlsonsLab
https://www.youtube.com/user/gradyhillhouse

Also for history students Mike Duncans Revolutions is amazing
Fed government could simply order all federal employees off tiktok or any other service without legal hurdles. What is the point of banning for the general public.
Bangkok is arguably the foodiest city in the world, and has the best contemporary art scene in South-East Asia.

Just to name a couple things I find interesting there; your interests presumably differ.
I can buy location data on millions of people across the world right now from American companies who make free apps

What exactly is stopping the Chinese from buying that same data? Name one hindrance they will face, please.

The delusional jingoism on HN is painful to fight.

https://apnews.com/f6a83c0b8e0a65563e4c76955c37c0ab
Allegedly it collects a lot more than just location; https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...
> TikTok is the generation that is most malleable to propaganda in a way that can undermine an entire generation

Unlike the Boomers, who most definitely haven't been brainwashed by right-wing propaganda on Facebook and Fox News?
I like to have one
One pf the original creators. Braben was only one of the two developers, Ian Bell was the other one. There is a version of the trading portion of the game available in pure C on Ian's web site[1].

[1] http://www.elitehomepage.org/text/index.htm
Same here, but with the source code for Microsoft basic on a Dragon 32, and then later again with the MOS and Basic roms for the BBC Micro.

It is really nice to be able to say you know what every byte in your computer is for.
I've this discussion with some friends AWS lovers: now it all has to be a lambda or a cloud container, even for a simple CRUD server for a side project...