skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditch the meter! Your brain is a better computer!

http://www.fredparker.com/ultexp1.htm
Also the compression algorithm seems to be too computationally intensive for poor server to be hammered by Hacker News crowd.
Usb micro was such a garbage cable. After 6 months of using my phone, the connector action felt completely smooth, and you could pull the cable out with no force. usb-c has been much better, feels much more consistent and has a satisfying click.
I should have asked what is "advertiser friendly" as opposed to not advertiser friendly.

I mean, advertiser friendly websites do better because people who like to make money using websites participate and drive up engagement. Shocker!

On this website, the "advertisers" are software development firms.

This entire line of argument is weakly defined if not started in bad faith.

update: I get where the OP is coming from now -- more oriented towards concern over consumerism and astroturfing, less concern trolling over politicization etc...
Right, but if e.g. it were fixtures with socketed bulbs they could be replaced.

I built large bookshelves last year (though not as cool as the posts) and didn't integrate lighting for this reason-- and it's really good that I didn't because it turned out the strip I was using at the time didn't last long.
There's also no reliable way to distinguish a cable's capabilities other than plug-n-pray.

That's not good when cable charger combinations can damage devices.
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In defense of this hypothetical employee (who may or may not exist) I would give them the benefit of the doubt that they didn't go in to this thinking "I'm going to work 2 jobs" but rather:

- Interviewed at the other company, and received an offer

- Took time away from main job to start new job, with the intention of resigning after his onboarding (just in case)

- Came back and wanted to clean a few things up before resigning.

- Kept doing that

- Realized everything was fine and never quit

Not saying it doesn't still have issues, but it's easy to see how someone with "normal" intentions could have slowly ended up in this situation.
> 0.1% reduction in death rate

73% reduction in death rate, but also 0.95 percentage point reduction.

> 50% chance of being ugly?

No, a less than 50% chance of a condition that can (but does not always) produce ugliness.
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This particular GPS example is slightly flawed. If you MRI cab drivers their brains are slightly different. Evolutionarily it makes sense why direction would be particularly important.

My dad drove a cab in grad school to pay the bills, and even now his sense of direction (which should be relatively close since we share genetics) is relatively absurd; stuff like “I drove past this place 7 years ago I remembered it was a left turn here”.

So we might be slightly off track with the GPS example.
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If you ignore laptops, then Micro-B basically did charge everything in my house. The introduction of USB-C made things worse, because now I have to deal with both connectors.
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> Access to your camera is necessary, but no personal data is collected.

suuuuuuuure
You're right. # of database queries certainly isn't evidence of misuse. But, it is highly suspect when it's being utilized this heavily in a city noted for it's high crime rate. I suspect that the police are faced with big challenges there and suddenly had this large new database to access...

"For the third consecutive year - and the fourth time in the last five years - Thunder Bay was the homicide capital of Canada in 2018."
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The couple daily use cables I've got have lasted years. Only cables I've had break regularly are headphone cables.
Thanks for answering.

> Thats pretty much the situation I was in before I started taking on more.

During that time, if you didn't work, would it have been possible to pursue a completely different activity such as going hiking for example? Or did you have to be "on standby" at home?

Why are you looking for small teams in particular? And how did you make sure that there aren't too many meetings in particular?

Sorry to bother you with so many questions.
For your original question, I guess it's a little bit hyperbolic to say that I can't find my way home. I like to think that my sense of direction is fine. It would be more accurate to say that I can't find my way to an unfamiliar place a second time, if I didn't manage my own navigation the first time.
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No problem on Firefox 82.0b1 on Windows 10 19041.508
But that's not a USB-C problem, that's a consumer protection issue. I'm surprised that we don't have a bunch of class action lawsuits against Amazon for misleading advertising through their marketplace. (yes, I know many of the vendors are the ones to blame, but Amazon facilitates the transaction and is a large target to go after).
Yes, on the airborne bus routes, upgrades are harder to come by. I would sometimes even take an earlier/later flight to maximize upgrades. (If I'm already away from the family for the day, I'd much rather a 0600 first-class seat than an 0730 economy. Same with 2030 departure over an 1830 on the way home. Either way, I arrive after the kids are in bed; I might as well do some emailing and work catchup from the lounge.)

I was really happy when the airlines started holding the exit row seats for their frequent fliers. I could book an exit row and chance an upgrade to first. If the exit row ACDF seats were all booked at ticketing, that meant my upgrade chances were also lower.
I believe pain is relative and she is obviously under a lot of stress. I have decided that I am not in a position to judge what others are going through. I hope others would extend me the same courtesy.
The patient actually started work as a carpenter
I think we probably agree in this. The extent to which you use your position of power as a platform for espousing your political views is the key. In my mind, a football player kneeling is akin to a colleague wearing a BLM pin in a prominent place on their clothing at regular company meetings. This kind of "activism" is acceptable in my mind; it doesn't interfere with the activities or purpose of the setting.

But if the football player interrupts the game and starts running around with a BLM flag in the middle of a play, that's inappropriate. Or if my manager decides to use the first 5 minutes of every standup to have a group discussion about libertarian ethics.

There's no bright line between which speech is appropriate and which in inappropriate and it's all subjective; and I would certainly oppose any sort of legislation that impinges on the expression of free speech in this area. Society can negotiate these rules in the course of social etiquette, not in the court of law.

But c'mon, when we're at work we're here to get shit done, just let us focus on that. If a group of coworkers wants to organize around common political goals, do it amongst yourselves. Go ahead and use a conference room and work laptops even, if it's after hours and not disrupting business.
Yes that’s what I meant — my interpretation is the same as yours
Python mostly. Although NodeJS will also be nice.
How many turns / complexity is there’s though? Arguably 2 miles in London is harder than 100 miles in Arkansas due to the sheer cognitive load.
You could use the same argument for bank robbers.
Huffman coding [1] and all derived algorithms do. They find the most common "words" and assign them shorter codes.

Language models, among which GPT-2, do essentially the same: they learn what is likely to appear in the text, albeit in a much more elaborated way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding
I don't think it's meant to be xenophobic. I think, in USA at least, a peso is a better comparison because a) it's not worth much, but more importantly, b) you can't use it to buy anything.

SkyPennies would be more accurate since that's about what they are worth, but to me implies it has some monetary cash out value.

Just my .02
I like this idea, but I don't like how they target Facebook and YouTube, and not Twitter, Instagram, and Google Search. There seems to be a moral sorting here of FAANG products that is weirdly selective to me and matches what I saw in "The Social Dilemma." Frankly, I think it's politically motivated.

Google Search has a larger potential than Facebook to manipulate elections, Twitter is the most hate-inspiring of all of them, and Instagram has a proven negative effect on self-image.

I'm not sure Facebook and YouTube are net positives to society, but they are the only tech giants I get any use out of. I have learned a lot from people on Facebook Groups and educational YouTube channels. I find I can still get somewhat uncensored or balanced information from them, even if there is some bias and censorship present. If you're going to roast big tech, be balanced in your roasting.
This seems to be one of those narrow stats that misses the meta around it.

There's more meta around it.

People in this age group seem to switch jobs a lot. This roughly falls in line with what Gallop found with regards to your average Millennial: https://www.gallup.com/workplace/231587/millennials-job-hopp...

Anecdotally, among the people I graduated with, I'm unique in that I'm with the same company and field since graduation. Almost everyone I know who is about 35 has switched jobs once or twice. A lot have moved from tech to other areas too.

... parental leave, better working hours and the ability to show apathy towards your job. Tech gives you none.

I 100% disagree here - it depends on your employer, this isn't a "tech" thing. Again, this is anecdotal, but my employer offers parental leave above and beyond what is mandated by the state and federally and was allowing all kinds of work from arrangements and flexible scheduling even before COVID. Of my female colleagues, none left their job, let alone tech, because of work related issues after recently having a child.
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Thanks Robert, we think so too!
I think this is a common misconception. Views on gun control are far more varied among leftists than many will have you believe. In my experience, those who might be characterized as "anti-gun" skew much closer to the center, whereas leftists who disavow liberalism tend to be much more "pro-gun".

Not speaking on behalf of any particular viewpoint here, just stating my general observations from having interacted with people all over the political spectrum.
I got a USB-C to lightning cable and it works great.
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I couldn't forget it if I'm honest, I have to use an Oracle PLM product daily! :)

The overlap between PLM and MDM and PIM seems to be an area of complexity.

Do you think there is a clear direction here? Seems there is some overlap, but both are still needed as well as integration between these systems - since PLM usually doesn't master parties, financial data, etc. but rather engineering/manufacturing design item data.
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Fair enough, people seem to prefer stores to flea markets where haggling is permitted.

But stores bear product liability for dangerous products, vicarious liability for employee misconduct, and are bound by employment/labor law.

You can't claim to be a flea market when you are really a store.
How are you defining "grows slowly vs grows quickly"?. What is the ideal rate of growth?

The executive branch by itself has grown from 699 to 2079 since 1940 to 2014 [1]. That's a growth of just under 3x. By comparison, US population has grown from 132 million to 318 million in that time period according to Google. A growth of ~2.5x. The US GDP has grown by 14x in that time period [2]. Just to imagine that size, the US economy today is larger than the world economy in 1940 (now sure there's some inflation along with that so the numbers aren't strictly comparable.

However, if you look at the total federal government size itself, it appears to haven't really changed since 1984 [3] so this growth in the executive branch is just shifting employees around. The government hasn't been growing since the 80s.

So I'll reask my question. What level of growth is acceptable? Why has 0 growth in 40 years still not been enough to achieve the "ideal" "small government size"?

[1] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-docu...
[2] https://www.thebalance.com/us-gdp-by-year-3305543
[3] https://www.volckeralliance.org/true-size-government
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> and screaming RACISM if they don't have an immediate answer

Oh I can tell you plenty of stories of suppliers giving you lower prices depending on what human language you speak with them. It happens, and people should know that it happens.

> even cabling can go into the tens of thousands of dollars

For those types of products, great, I'd like to know that cabling will be ~$10K-$50K, fixed costs will be $10K, and support contracts will be ~$1-5K/month. I just want an order of magnitude. Is this $100, $1000, or $100,000 that I'm looking at? I want an order of magnitude before a phone call. If such a plugin existed, at least I could see the distributions in pricing among past customers.
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Turns out Brotli was included as a dependency, and it ships with a list of common fragments that are frequent enough that they justify hardcoding.
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You may take a page from FFmpeg: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls (although currently open PRs probably need to be closed somehow for that to be effective).
One problem with Reddit is that every major community experiences something akin to Channel Drift [1]. Like the subreddit you linked to (r/pics), they all become some version of r/politics-lite where the majority political view gets shoved into every possible sub-community, even where it's not relevant.

It makes the default subreddits totally unusable imo. Sometimes I just want to see funny pictures, not be lectured to about why I'm a racist or how my unconscious biases blah blah blah.

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Neal Stephenson's Seveneves is a great read kinda along these lines.