skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, thanks, this seems to work for now.
But if you have been committing crimes, then yes, you should be prosecuted, and if convicted have your takings confiscated and be locked up, like other criminals.
Now we just call our coworkers white supremacists if they whisper something unpure under their breath that we don’t like while they’re on the crapper. The thinner my skin, the stronger their ethnic-narcissism.

Btw y’all were right about the WMD lie. Anyone in power who meme’d the public into that deserves to be mocked and humiliated for life.
So, on average, 200ish times the recommended daily dose? No wonder she had problems.
A new company is almost by definition an experiment.
Yes and in fact, that might be an easier start to a Paradox Interactive game. My first PI game was Stellaris which I quickly racked up hundreds of hours in and despite several major changes by the devs in mechanics it's still easy to jump back in to. I feel like it's a worthy successor to SMAC with its own uniqueness.

But EUIII, EUIV, CKII, HoI? Considerably steeper learning curve, IMO! I've spent over a hundred hours just trying to take over Ireland (the traditionally newb scenario) in CKII.

I would not suggest jumping from a Civ to any Paradox title except Stellaris. There's enough of Paradox's goofiness in the space combat ("whaa... I slaughtered the enemy, how do I not get their planets... war exhaustion, wtf is that... oh that kind of makes sense") and lots of visual feedback to keep you interested without making you cry too much.
Covid – The Curve We Need to Flatten Nobody Talks About
I acquired my citizenship through the Automatic Acquisition of Citizenship after Birth (INA 320), less than 18yo, living in the US with my American father. That was about 8 years ago. At that time I only requested and obtained my passport and that's the only proof I have of citizenship. Do I need to also obtain a certificate of citizenship? If so, would my American passport suffice to prove my citizenship when requesting the certificate of citizenship?
Not caring about it is better than caring about it so much we wind up with robots censoring images of onions lest they offend our Puritan sensibilities with their lascivious roundness.
My mom believes that Obama is a Muslim, and my sister believes Breonna Taylor was a criminal who got what she deserved.

The disinformation in our social networks is beyond a breaking point. Its incredibly difficult to have a reasonable discussion when alternative facts exist... I dare say impossible.

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What is your plan to deal with the disinformation here? While my mother is over the age of 60, I don't believe her to be stupid. My sister is literally going for her PH.D (and is an accomplished Masters with multiple years of experience in the CDC tracking stuff down), she's certainly not stupid.

Its an issue of disinformation, not stupidity, that's leading people down the wrong path. There's an entire network of corrupted information that's building up alternative facts.

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> The term 'Orwellian' has become so overused that it seems to have lost all currency.

We're not in an Orwellian fantasy, we're in an all-out information-war akin to "Ender's Game". Peter vs Valentine Wiggin (or better known by their online personas: Locke and Demosthenes).

Several groups have learned how to weaponize information for their own gain. At first it was just ads, but now it includes a suite of alternative facts for political purposes.
Maybe, if your writing pseudo-code to grasp the logic?
Uruguay: E-Peso (2017) – another CBDC trial
Torchbear makes this very simple using the Gut version control system. It's Speakeasy

https://github.com/foundpatternscellar/run-tests/blob/master...

https://github.com/speakeasy-engine/gut

Much better even to parse the data in Lightouch and save it in ContentDB
Sounding more and more like a moral panic.

Can people in the big cities not accept people in rural areas reject everything they think is good? It's not a foreign plot, it's a fundamental disagreement about values.
Right, and while this technology is set to start iterating, fission has been iterating for more than half a century. France generates the majority of it's power from fission since the 1980s, recently joined in this achievement by Belgium.

If this start-up's promises come to fruition then that's a new option. But it's still a question of if.
Data shows schools aren’t super-spreaders
It feels very arbitrary to claim the employees responsible got the gains. Like take Walmart, the biggest beneficiaries by far are the relatives of Sam Walton. Yet they did nothing to build the automated inventory tracking, the statistical modeling, or the digital systems.

Or take the programmers who worked on Walmart.com. They didn't invent the transistor, Linux, or Java. They just used them to build a crud app.
Thanks, that's good info. :)
...well, I don't. Changing obscenity standards is not going to help us with climate change, for instance, or do much against COVID-19.
Currently the mpsc channel on the stdlib is worse than the one found on crossbeam (according to the author[0]). That's one data point.

[0] https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/scaling-back-my-involvemen...
I never said there was not an increase in compensation (vs. wages). I am saying that's not relevant to the economic picture of the American worker today vs 50 years ago. To be perfectly clear: I don't care if "total compensation" has increased with productivity; what I care about is "Is the American worker better off today, in dollar terms, than they were in the 70s?"

Again, I literally don't care what my employer spends its money on in this calculation, other than my paycheck, and discounts on things I would use anyway such as health insurance they pass along from bulk buying. So, you can't say, "well, if they didn't offer insurance, and instead passed along savings in your paycheck, then your income would increase." Yes, I still need to buy insurance, so only the discount I get from obtaining it via my employer is relevant -- my literal bottom line does not change. (Actually, my bottom line is worse in this scenario because I don't get the tax break, but let's just ignore that). And, if a benefit isn't something I would use (let's say a childcare allowance, if I don't have children), that also goes on the company balance sheet and could potentially increase my "total compensation," but literally does nothing for me, hence its value to me is $0.

You seem to be talking past my point, which is that the American worker is getting screwed from all sides by stagnating wages and skyrocketing healthcare, housing, and education costs. In America, for most employees, those expenses come out of wages, so wages are what we ought to be concerned with.
Kinda curious why you despise the other ones except Amazon? I understand why folks can despise all but Netflix.
Anything is possible, of course. However, having been on the other side of this situation I quickly learned that some people will tell reporters whatever they think the journalist wants to hear. The journalist’s goal is to make the story as sensational as possible, not to necessarily provide the most accurate representation of the facts.
'Cause 'murica, fuck yea'

You can hate me for saying it but we all know it's whats going on here.

I see the same garbage approach to politics at work too.
The politics is even more interesting.

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/892
>But at their scale, if they chose not to try and assess the accuracy of information, but instead to blindly amplify it based on engagement metrics, that is also a political choice.

No that's an apolitical choice.

The political choice was not doing this in 2012 when it was Obama benefiting from it.
Agreed, but her problems resolved within 6 months and VitD returned to normal within 18. Quite a difference from the doctor here on HN that has been claiming irreversible issues from taking doses far below what this lady took.
That’s why I’ve never understood the utility of debit cards. When a debit card is abused fraudulently I am out the money. When a credit card is abused fraudulently the bank is out the money.

In both cases neither the bank nor I have done anything wrong. We’re both literally victims of a crime. And through the payments system and the justice system we’ll hopefully be made whole in the end. But the difference is the incentives. When I lose the money the bank has less of an incentive to rectify the situation.
People do all kinds of things we might think is nuts, for reasons often unknown to anyone. But true, some jobs are so crazy that nobody in their right mind would do them. But hey, there still may be people in a different mind who would.

Paul Graham once explained the power of prestige - http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html . I daresay some people would do hard or dangerous jobs primarily because of the prestige of being known to do them.

And as for "dirty jobs", equal wages doesn't mean that everyone has a choice in which jobs they are capable of doing (or which jobs are locally accessible).
Ahh sorry, I really read that wrong!
You should take a look at the ReMarkable tablet :)
Housing, Healthcare and Education. Those three have eaten up a larger and larger chunk of people's paychecks over the years.

In regards to the cost of housing, I came across an adage a while back that has stuck with me, "Housing can either be affordable, or a great investment, not both". I think the real solution is a change in policy for housing to no longer be treated as a great investment. Not that I have high hopes of this ever coming about.
Trickle down economics has created one of the greatest rifts in wealth equality in history. Yet people like the GP still champion the concept and its variants.

I earn fantastically at work, but any vote I make will always be against the political party that spouts the same nonsense.
Hard to draw many conclusions from a sample size of 1, other than that taking megadoses is a bad idea.
They are introspectable! You could find out. Well, Facebook could.

https://towardsdatascience.com/demystifying-convolutional-ne...
I actually did try UserTrack a couple of months ago using the self-hosting option and it was easy to get going, though was missing a few metrics we use in addition to event tracking.
Thanks Peter for the prompt responses!

For (4), I guess I am asking are these changes permanent? Or are they a temporary change (e.g. only valid until end of 2020 like the visa ban that the Trump admin had released earlier this year).
>Do you think social networks would be less toxic and less abused if all the devs at Facebook or Twitter were apolitical?

It isn't possible to be completely "apolitical" but you can be non-partisan. For me this isn't a left vs right or Republican vs Democrat issue, its an establishment vs everyone else issue. If this policy was in effect in 2002 and 2003 people would be getting censored and banned for disputing "the fact" that Iraq had WMD. Just a few days ago NATO members blocked the former OPCW chief from giving testimony on the (very much disputed) narratives regarding the alleged chemical attacks in Syria. You can be sure the people being blocked and censored by Twitter won't be those pushing the official US government narrative. The argument Twitter is making that, "people are too dumb to figure out what is true, so we will tell them what is true" is very dangerous when Twitter doesn't have a monopoly on the truth, and is run by people with a vested interest and belief in "establishment" narratives - no matter how questionable (or provably false) those narratives are.
Which is 22 years old now.
I'm Jim Roskind, the author of the grammars.

It is an honor to see my grammars still being discussed.

These days I work at Amazon, but I can be found on LinkedIn. If contacted with a comment about the grammars (as opposed to a spam missive from a head hunter), I'll typically respond.

What I really need to (finally) do someday is publish my hacks that I added to byacc to increase usability (I think I called it jryacc).

I've always felt that yacc's "error reports" are kindred to having a compiler error listing limited to:

"you have 7 severe errors, 3 errors, and 23 warnings,"

and a reference:

"to understand the issues, please read the machine code."

:-)

With yacc, verbose output suggests (at best) that you read the "state transition diagrams" <ugh> to make sense of "n shift reduce, and m reduce-reduce conflicts."

jryacc provided the shortest sequence of terminals to reach any state, identifies any non-terminal that is both left and right recursive (a common malady in grammar construction, which ensures ambiguity), the shortest sequence of terminals to construct each non-terminal, etc.

...oh... and not to fear... I have copies of the grammars and files mentioned... so hopefully they won't be too lost too soon.

Thanks again for the interesting comments.

Jim
It's unclear how that Illinois law would apply to advertisements posted on Facebook.
Looking at your comment history, it's clear that English isn't your first language.

The ambiguity is there for a native speaker, technically, but it's unlikely to be triggered. It never occurred to me to interpret it that way.
Julia is in that class of languages. We regularly look at roofline plots when performance tuning.
The more I think about it, the weirder becomes the fact that the one and only part of human anatomy that is specifically made to go into a baby’s mouth is a sex symbol.

If it had been men’s nipples, which are otherwise useless, that had been sexualised, that would’ve been much less weird; but it’s fine for me to go around topless and nobody cares.
>While overall US venture capital investments in 2020 are on par with previous years, those funds haven't necessarily reached female business owners, dealing them a disproportionate blow.

I feel like this is the graph I wanted to see. Literal data rather than a description of what's happening.
Did you make it to La Palma? I did my coronavirus lockdown there. A nice place to be stuck :)
Or, we stop frothing at the mouth every time we hear someone disagree with everything we hold dear. People in big cities seem to think that their morals are the only ones around. To the point where anyone who acts like Obama did before 2012 is a Nazi.
It was not a personal attack per se. This person was insulting all Indian-Americans; so it seemed only fair to call him an "Uncle Tom" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom . I am sure you would feel the same way if a person of your group was insulting all of the members of that group.
Don't write command-line interfaces (and how to write if you have to)
What's wrong with nipples then? I grew up where ladies breast feeding kids in public naturally. the modern world is beyond me.
The title doesn’t match the abstract. This isn’t a study of the tolerable upper limit of Vitamin D intake. It’s a case report of a single individual who was taking astronomical doses of Vitamin D with disastrous consequences.

It’s certainly possible to take too much vitamin D without coming anywhere near the silly doses this person was consuming.

Anyone taking aggressive vitamin D doses should invest in a vitamin D test after 6-12 months. If you find your serum results approaching the upper end of the reference range, reduce intake slightly. There are no known benefits to excessive vitamin D serum levels, but there are documented health downsides.

If you find yourself reading pop-science articles with unbridled enthusiasm for megadosing vitamins, you’re probably not reading scientifically accurate health advice. Supplementing with moderate doses is fine, but megadosing anything is almost always flimsy pseudoscience.
I'm unifying Rust's async HTTP implementations H1, H2, H3 and Google's tarpc in Rust~Actix~Torchbear. I just don't have a lot of time now sice my house got broken and I don't have enough money to rent anywhere. It also needs a lot of work on the parsing layer, and the laptops with my notes on them are hard to keep with me as I move around.

https://github.com/google/tarpc

https://github.com/actix/actix-web/tree/master/actix-http/sr...

https://github.com/hyperium/h2

https://github.com/djc/quinn/tree/main/quinn-h3

https://github.com/speakeasy-engine/torchbear/blob/master/sr...

~

There's beauty in this with the fluency in which complex applications like the coming secure social network, Radiojade, are built. See this example:

!# https://github.com/foundpatternscellar/ping-pong/blob/master...

Curl users, do you really want to stick with Bash's syntax instead of this??
Taking 130,000UI per day for 20 months is insane. Most of the over the counter doses are ~ 5000UI.

I'm curious, as to what was the patients diet like? Vit D is a fat soluble vitamin and its my understanding that one needs to eat healthy fats for it to be absorbed by the body.
Don’t forget the very lucrative business of “reducing tax exposure” where small firms get millions by knowing the smallest loopholes.
Those thoughts aren't welcome on HN any more.
StimulusReflex launches Morphs for faster web development
>The group ideas are only as good as the smartest member

Even the smartest members tend often to not realize the brilliance of a random idea they have (out of their list of many). A cohesive group of people that you trust and can bounce ideas off of is valuable, both in case of bad and good ideas.
This is a reliably solid way of finding passwords and access keys
Linux "server"

I am slightly miffed at that. I'm running some docker containers and a Sambashare NAS on a Raspberry Pi, are you claiming what I have is not a server?
Had expected to read sth about Datalog, rivaling SQL at least in academic DB literature.
Because it creates an automatic subconscious response (excitement) in males. I guess brain is built that way for the sake of reproduction of human population.
> You will notice hardly anyone is building nuclear power plants

If by "hardly anyone" you mean "most of the world" [1]. Most of the world by population lives in a country building nuclear power. This claim is throughly divorced from reality.

> Yes, you've repeatedly claimed I'm wrong. You're the one who is wrong. Your objections are spurious, as I've repeatedly explained.

Yet you neglect to actually point out any such inaccuracies, just insist I'm wrong without any specific criticism.

Meanwhile, I've actually pointed out which of your claims are false: the notion that we can use existing hydrogen infrastructure ignoring the problems of hydrogen corrosion, assuming that underground hydrogen storage is ubiquitous, and trusting highly optimistic claims on the efficiency of electrolysis.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country#/me...
I'm curious, have you lived outside of a 100k US city in the last 10 years?
> I think it has to do with wages.

It doesn't, you're literally paying a middleman to take away the risk and hassle of hiring an employee. That's the added value here.

Otherwise, you could just hire the worker directly for what that middleman is paying them. Working as a contractor, you get a pretty good idea of what your "rights" are worth in pure dollar terms.
4D chess time: Google wants to steal market share from Oracle, and Oracle offered a perfect opportunity by trying to shoot itself in the foot by making Java forks risky (thus ending innovation from the open-source world). I expect Google to invent a new bytecode language that looks and feels like Java, but isn't Java. Oh and it'll come with a promise not to sue if you copy the API, not like that big bad Oracle.
Can you explain the 2FA risk?
How about VLC?
Blinded trials of active doses of a psychedelic is cargo cult science. They tried that in the Good Friday experiment: it was silly, when someone has taken a psychedelic, they know it.

That does mean there are certain assurances of neutrality we simply can't have. It doesn't mean that efficacy and safety can't be studied: they can.
As someone who's worked at a big social media company — no, that's not at all what consumers want. They want chronological feeds with zero garbage mixed in. It's okay to have a separate recommendations feed, some (not all!) people want to discover new things, but it's totally not okay to meddle with the main one, and it's nothing but mockery to give users no control over it. People also want their preferences respected, they certainly don't want them reset every now and then.

The only reason people keep using services like Twitter is because their network keeps them there.
I had family who worked in banking for a long time

The policies across the board are to just hand over money. As a result, there's essentially zero fatalities from bank robbery. Maybe a few every year, usually the criminal themselves.

However, bank robbers only get away with about 10% of cases. Clearance rates are super, super high now. And because they're usually serial, almost every single bank robber gets caught. There's a whole slew of tactics used.
As if I didn't know that.

ps: viaweb was ages ago, it was cool and famous and world didn't care. Social structures are odd and people want to belong to their own cult, php, js, python were a 'better' fit for the uneducated people of that time, now they are the world and still only care about their own little world. Until they get a new idea, which they now see the value of and will integrate them shamelessly. CL nowhere to be found. It's a sad fact of life, CL heads don't have the desire to dominate, so their language features will be assimilated silently.
Maybe, I think MWB barfed. Later on it didn't complain. Maybe it was temporarily in a blacklist?
It’s surprising with the level of scrutiny and regulation they're under that there isn’t a regulatory requirement for a minimal level of customer service.
How much of this is getting what you paid for? how much of this is inability to build and grow professional relationships, willingness to learn cultural awareness? I've worked as an engineer on both sides you mention.

You get what you pay for, there are companies that charge you more and some that charge you less. There are companies that hire good talent, pay them well, have experienced engineers who have worked with range of people/projects and consequently are generally well travelled and culturally aware. And, there are companies that just hire inexperienced engineers etc. Irrespective of which country, if you want a good team of engineers, you got to be willing to pay more.

And, while working with people from a different country/geography, instead of just expecting the people you work with to be culturally aware, you got to be willing to learn and get culturally aware too. Did you put in any effort? For instance, if you go in with I won't even care about trying to pronounce your name right or a bias that "your culture is just not good for innovation/critical thinking etc" attitude, you wont get anywhere.
Anyone have a link to the actual image? The one in this article is a stock photo (caption even reads: “These onions were not flagged as risqué”)

For news story about a photograph, I can't imagine why the subject isn't included?

EDIT: The Daily Mail has the journalistic integrity to include it :) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8823925/Facebook-bl...
Anathem is really good, and possibly his best. Several big ideas that will make you close the book and go for a long walk to think about, and it also has a real ending. Deserves and rewards multiple readings.

Reamde is a lightweight page-turner, but fun.

Seveneves and Fall: meh.

D.O.D.O.: can't say anything good about it. Only Stephenson book I've donated to a drop-box.
For me, it sends me to a secondary login page that asks specifically for the Symantec VIP or hardware token. If they are appending it to the end of my password, it's not evident to me.
Really? I saw no options on the website. Do I need to use the mobile app to set that up?
> the french adminstration's code must by law be made public

And this time, the code isn't printed on paper and send by post mails, which is a neat progress ;).

See, https://www.nouvelobs.com/rue89/rue89-nos-vies-connectees/20... (in French) on how “making code public” was just a few years ago.