skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You speak of cuneiform as it is the highest form of expression. That is foolish, for how does it compare to the high art of painting on a cave wall? Rhetorical question, poorly of course. Cuneiform completely bypasses hunting for most crimson okra , blackest ash, and sparkling chalk. And that is before we get to the availability of the writing surfaces. Tablets are cheap but caves are rare! We are talking about pondering for many moons of what messages to send to the far futures versus mindless hammering of most inane things. It is plainly obvious that the gulf between the two is like that of Arecibo message compared to a conversation between two twitter bots.

Given the most pervasive argument that is as a matter of fact is a fact. I am sure you will agree that cave paintings are the most superior form of communication bar none.
You don't need to have a democracy to do science. Many great scientists in Europe or Asia were able to work in the context of absolute monarchies, terrible dictators or a context of patronage. None of those were "democratic" at all.

Having a true democracy would be a bless for sure, but don't think that will magically produce scientists, or revolutionary new points of view. You need to seed, nurture, care for and harvest decades later. And this is one of the causes of decline of science. Everybody is now planned, arranged and forced to fit in chunks of 4 years, so the people now in power can take all the credit.

As bad as dictators are, a stable dictatorship could ironically lead to a much more comfortable environment for scientists than a democracy. The first thing that many politicians do after stepping in power is to fire the scientists identified with the previous government (or discredit their work, or remove their funds...).
I didn't like R at first. Some scientists I work with would say, "its amazing, it just works the way I think". One Biostatistics later class and I get it, Still don't love it but I get it. Plus the RSudio work environment and ggplot2 are simply amazing.
Dijkstra has a certain tone. He can make his opinions sound almost like a mathematical proof. But when you dig into it, he just says 0-based is "nicer".
Submitted title (..reduces Covid recovery) has opposite meaning to the original (..Reduces Recovery Time..) which mean "increases recovery"..
Thanks for replying.

I commented on it because I spotted the Google Ajax calls which sort of lead me to believe that you might have also been using Google for the Geo-Location stuff. When combined with the GA stuff it made me do a 'hang on a minute, something doesn't match up'. Thanks for taking the time to clarify.
Interesting that I missed clap when I wrote that program a few years ago then. In my defence "argparse" is a lot more explicit than "clap" for a such a library. Also argparse's last update was 2 years ago, so there's been quite a bit of overlap.

I guess what I'm saying is that it's an other problem with the current package ecosystem: you often end up finding multiple packages purporting to do what you need, and it can be tricky to figure out which one you want. As an example, if you want a simple logging backend the log crate currently lists 6 possibilities: https://crates.io/crates/log

I picked "simple_logger" basically at random.
It's unfortunate discussions can't be kept over ideas and policies instead of veering towards persons. While I believe Trump is the worst president the US has had in recent history that doesn't mean I'd be unwilling to entertain a discussion of anything he may have done that people think it was a good thing. I suspect in most cases we'll end up with "we agree to disagree" which is fine.

That said, one thing we have to consider is the environment in which the discussion takes place. At work people shouldn't have to get stressed with non-work related things, that's not in the interest of the company nor of the employees. So even if you know you can have respectful deep conversations of controversial current day politics with your colleagues, a better question would be, should you even have those conversations at work?

I feel for people that suddenly need to discuss such topics, it means that they probably don't have IRL friends or friends outside of work if they really feel that they have to talk about no-work related issues at a work lunch. It's sad.
Or "set" and "where"
vue-float-menu – A smart draggable menu for the web
AMD Is Said in Talks to Buy Rival Xilinx in $30B Deal
"predominate source of trending information is well-meaning individuals and not motivated state-level actors intent on disrupting an election."

What evidence do you have that the predominant source of trending information is motivated state-level actors? That is an incredibly bold statement, and the framing you chose is such that there needs to evidence to the contrary, rather than evidence to support such a claim.

Edit:
A bunch of responses are mistakenly thinking I am denying the presence of Twitter bots created and operated by state actors. I'm not. I'm arguing with the incredibly bold statement that they are the PREDOMINANT SOURCE of trending information.
Blows my mind when I'm watching someone just sit in silence waiting 10 seconds so they can skip an ad on youtube
Do you know that tamiflu doesn't do much either?

https://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/effectiveness-of-tamiflu-...

> It found that both drugs shorten the symptoms of influenza-like illness by about half a day in adults (but not in asthmatic children), compared to a placebo. There was no reliable evidence that either drug reduces the risk of people with flu being admitted to hospital or developing serious complications such as pneumonia, bronchitis, sinusitis or ear infection. Used as a preventative measure, Tamiflu and Relenza slightly reduced the risk of developing the symptoms of flu. The review also found no evidence that these drugs can stop people carrying the influenza virus and spreading it to others.

> The study also found that Tamiflu slightly increases the risk of adverse effects such as nausea, vomiting, psychiatric and kidney problems in adults, and vomiting in children.
>First, we will encourage people to add their own commentary prior to amplifying content by prompting them to Quote Tweet instead of Retweet.

>Second, we will prevent “liked by” and “followed by” recommendations from people you don’t follow from showing up in your timeline and won’t send notifications for these Tweets.

These are great, I wish we could have these policies all the time, not just election season. This would probably harm engagement metrics (since retweeting without commentary is low-effort) but increase the quality of the feed by reducing noise and increasing context of tweets.
> but in the sense that people want — a uniform standard for hiring software developers — it's not solved at all.

Exact same thing can be said about the hiring process in general. Taxes and employment legal contracts vary from state to state. I am sure employers would love a single contract, no matter where they hire an individual, but that is not currently the case.
I think the “how” is pretty simple: the company is made up of people, the people define a set of principles, and adhere to them. They don’t have to accommodate everyone (and in my opinion, shouldn’t).

I think the hard part is doing this in the face of money. We have all seen how platforms allow awful things to exist because of the economic incentives to do so.
Joked to a friend on the train that soon we won't have windows anymore, we'll have Windows, so instead of hills and fields we'll see an endless landscape of ads.
Inchworm learning
Forced in-app purchases are just a vector for governments to figure out who is using protonmail and how. They are better off avoiding apple as a platform if they don't understand why in app purchases are a bad idea given protonmail's business model.
It's not about flipping. The two concepts are actually commutative. You could in theory create syntax that looks like this:

FROMCLAUSE * SELECTCLAUSE * WHERECLAUSE = SQLEXPRESSION
SELECTCLAUSE * WHERECLAUSE * FROMCLAUSE = SQLEXPRESSION
...

The issue is that not only does SQL syntax force an artificial order on these clauses, but that these clauses Cannot be decomposed to be used elsewhere. I cannot reuse a WHERECLAUSE or a SELECTCLAUSE in another expression.
Yeah, Apple's practices are far from ideal, your insults aside, but I'm not sure how much of that is relevant here. On this thread at least, nobody seems to have mentioned percentages but you.
AlleAktien.de for high quality stock analyses (though it's in German)
"However, networks like Google get thousands of ads that run for only a handful of impressions."

Yes, that is the promise of these networks - that there are exactly 8 people searching for this search string every day and I could show just those people this very targeted ad.

I wish this were the case, but unless something has changed in the last few years, it is not.

You see, google scores your ad on a "quality" metric and if your ad only rates a handful of clicks it will be disabled and can only be reenabled by paying a very onerous (20x, even 50x) premium. Even if the search terms are esoteric and not targeted by anyone other advertisers, google would rather show nothing than show your ad.

So I am afraid this dream of a niche product showing a highly targeted ad to a handful of searchers each day is actively thwarted by google.

Frankly it's no longer an issue for us - the venn diagram of "people smart enough to use rsync.net" and "people not using an adblocker" contains zero people.
That's a very nice hack of github actions. The strength of that is to have super reliable storage but the risk is to loose everything because you don't respect the Github terms of use.

Here is the term of use of Actions if anyone interested : https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...
barely surprising, considering that more muscles are involved for a longer time for writing each letter.
Ah this looks great. My Dad would buy and sell second hand BBCs and my whole family were well into all of the Repton 3 games. I remember loving discovering the level editor too and proudly making my own themed set of levels which I think scratched a similar itch to programming for 7 year old version of me.

I always thought Repton was the greatest game ever. Am keen to see how it holds up now.

I also remember Imogen being very clever, Citadel I found a bit creepy, and everyone loved Chuckie Egg except me for some reason.
That line has negative width. At least 1/3 of polite behaviour is avoiding rude truths. Some say 100% of diplomacy is the same.
It doesn't work the way you think it does. Ads are paid for my the click. Some people never click on ads. The kinds of people who are likely to consider running an ad blocker are the same type who never click on ads regardless if they have ads or not.

The ideal situation is never advertising ad blockers, never bragging about them, never making a big deal about them, and keeping some mild barrier of entry. This way the average person who has less of a concern about ads will not run an ad blocker, and meanwhile the one who never makes money for the company to begin with doesn't have to deal with it.
I was going to ask if it had Nohzdyve, but remembered that it was only for ZX Spectrum.
> Can my company file a greencard application on my behalf as soon as I enter the US

Not a lawyer but having been there... please do this. That goes for anyone else reading this as well. There isn't really a waiting period as far as I am aware. Companies take their sweet time because there's no incentive to do otherwise.

Even if you are not from the two backlogged countries, a successful application will most likely take years to complete. In the mean time, you would be dealing with the stress of the concurrent L1 or H1 extensions, which have become much harder lately, are RFE-prone and sometimes you get crappy 1 year extensions.

Another thing to note, specifically for L1: you need to prove you have company-specific skills that can't be found elsewhere, which is why they need to transfer you. That's different from H1, where you need to prove you have skills that can't be easily found in the workforce, but they don't need any company-specific knowledge.

But, for the PERM process, you have to prove that you have skills that are difficult to find in the broader US labor pool - and generally, that you had those skills before you were employed by the company (because, if you didn't have them, it means that they could hire a US worker without those skills and train them, just as they have 'trained' you). In fact, they will ask how long would it take to train a worker on your 'skill' level.

So you can see how the two skill sets (for L1 and PERM) don't overlap and how complicated the application can get. Another reason why you should start early.
Yep, it's hard. Let's try to figure it out instead of just throwing our hands up and letting the trolls take over.
THIS is why it’s so insidious. BLM is a well funded political organization with self-described marxist founders. It has about as much to do with black lives as the Nazi party had to do with “national socialism”.

Nobody thinks black lives don’t matter. This is very different from supporting BLM, however. Many prominent black public figures have come out denouncing BLM, and it isn’t because they think their own lives don’t matter.

The name is purely orwellian PR trickery that you can’t argue with, just like “antifa” is. It’s a remarkably effective tactic because most people assume it just means what the words say.
«prosecuted simply for carrying goggles or masks to protect themselves»

This is quite a dishonest interpretation of the facts. They were arrested because they participated to an unregistered (therefore forbidden) protest, there was proper communication from the police that such event was not authorized because of the expected violence issues, and the goggles / masks were proof of participation.

It's pretty easy to start a protest rally or march in france, you just have to declare it to the prefecture. Sometimes they are not accepted, for instance when a protest with violence history wants to pass in certain parts of the city with a lot of shop (they are regularly attacked). It happens that violent protestors such as the yellow vest types declare a march passing for instance the Champs Elysee avanue (famous locally for its numerous shops), knowing it will be rejected, then calling it a dictature when it happens, and doing it anyway, and there the violence begins. The Amesty report says nothing of this context, I have no idea why (I can guess it probably is because they support the yellow vest movement).
Wow, that's a cool idea! I wonder, how do you handle bad responses (e.g. HTTP 400/500) from the server? It might mess up the logs twice if it's committed...
Nice steps, but seems a little late. I hope Twitter doesn't actually believe we are currently "ahead of the 2020 US Election". The election is already underway. More than 4 million people have already mailed in their ballots [1]. I guess better late than never but any social media company still figuring out their 2020 election policies is way, WAY behind.

1: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-early-vote/m...
Adding my datapoint: I was voted Innovator of the Year for 2 years in a row in a major Fortune company, where the Research department is stocked with MITs and Stanfords. I was rejected for EB1. I am still on H1B 12 years going. The lawyer explained that I have patents by no papers which might be the reason. But in truth no one knows.

(I can't publish, as most of my work would be viewed by my employer as trade secrets).
I seriously doubt that. Most companies are pushing internal "respect your coworkers" rules that can be linked with politics but that's not really discussing Trump. I suspect that even Coinbase with their newly declared "apolitical workplace" rules does have plenty of anti-discrimination, harassment, etc rules, for one because lacking those can result in very bad consequences for the company in a trial.
> Can you imagine a world where Google decided they wouldn't filter spam because it was too controversial?

It would be like email: you can run an email client with a spam filter. If you don't like how it's filtering, you can configure it or even download a different client without abandoning your email address.
I think if that happens `curl` returns an error status which kills the actions script before it gets to the commit - so you get an error message on the action but nothing is committed to the repo.
Or unless there's regulation, as happened in the EU.
Rewards programs got largely killed in the EU by the interchange fee limits in the last few years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee#European_Union
Card fees can be below 1%
are there any usable implementations of QUEL in the wild?
Another awesome resource for BBC Micro/Electron software: https://www.stairwaytohell.com/bbc/index.html

That one is especially cool IMO because it provides archives of the old cassettes in UEF format, which aims to preserve some of the audio properties as well (i.e. phase switches, dead spots, etc.).

Not super practical, but it does let you experience the screaming speed of 1200 baud while the computer makes loud noises at you!

Someone even wrapped it with a JS decoder, so you can assault your eardrums in your browser: https://www.8bitkick.cc/playuef.html
> I think my main concern is the potential for politically biased vetting, which could lead to an election being swayed.

That ship has already sailed. The problem of politically biased vetting is a universal fact of life on literally every media platform in existence; people just need to be judicial in their consumption of media.

> It's possible that the fact-checking orgs that have been chosen really are neutral but given the political power they hold in their hands, and given my experience with human beings, I still do harbor some residual concern about this.

I am sure they will be quite flawed, but I don't see the problem with that, of course they will be flawed, why is that such a problem?
I worked at Subway for 6 years while earning my CS degree.

I sometimes miss the mindless simplicity of the work. I miss knowing exactly what I need to be doing every day.

But I certainly don't miss with dealing with the general public, where a very vocal minority has decided that it is socially acceptable to yell at service workers. It's even worse when it's their own mistake, like they ask for mustard when they meant honey mustard, and somehow I'M the idiot for not knowing which one they meant.

Or they ask for "light mayo" and I ask them to clarify if they meant a small amount of mayo, or the low-fat mayo, and they snap an answer back at me as if I was being a smart-ass. The answers were close to 50/50 by the way.

Damn maybe I don't miss it after all. I could go on for hours about how shitty some customers can be.
IBM will spin off legacy business to focus on cloud and AI services
If someone shows up with your debit card and pin, which is similar to knowing someone's account credentials, wouldn't the bank give you that cash up to some amount (without further verification) because it's insured anyway?
I tend to run these against things that are unlikely to complain about it - most government data sources are OK in my experience.

If you're scraping against the terms of service of something you'll probably want to pay for a private repository.
Exploring Flask-Rest API with MongoDB and MongoDB-Atlas Using JWT
Hard disagree. It’s inevitable with any company in their position. There should be no company in that position. We need to decentralize and federate. Mastodon is AFAIK the prominent implementation here but regardless, we need to start pushing for and exploring networks and platforms operated under completely different premises.
That's not the point. The point is that the majority of educated scientists in the middle east emigrated to Europe!
Yes, and product improvement is largely attributable to R&D, rather than assembly-line-level production. Those gains disproportionately flow to high skill white collar workers.
That's a lovely theory, but the money is in Youtube and its pretty obvious.

Nearly all the major tech reporting sites have died: TechReport, Hardware Canucks, Linux Journal, etc. etc. When you look at who can actually sustain a modern tech reporting site, its the Youtubers: Linus Tech Tips, Gamers Nexus, etc. etc.

Even then: when the tech reporting sites were around, they were mostly on Google Adsense. The others are on Facebook Ads.

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The sites that are making it possible for small-style discussion to thrive again are new "networks" like Patreon. A lesser evil for sure, but a "Skyscraper" nonetheless.
I notice I accidently do similiar thing with parenedit. I can accidently move forms in and out of where they should be. Not an issue if the functions are small but with longer ones I might slurp off screen.
Their recommendation engine is not harmful in all cases. I used to use Twitter to follow some machine learning/programming profiles and remember the recommendations being quite good.
Should have written "Not Sure"
New headline: Reuters accepts - without any evidence at all - UK Parliament's accusations of Huawei collusion.

Could Huawei be colluding? Absolutely. They might also not be. We simply don't know because UK Gov offers no evidence.

Given how western agencies that source these kinds of allegations, also have long histories of bald-faced lying to the public, it's wholly unreasonable to trust them by default.
I gotta say... this is an incredibly naive analysis.

To demonstrate Reddit Ads isn't doing click fraud protection, you should try to generate a fraudulent click yourself. Looking at what is getting through and finding that a lot of it as easily identifiable as fraudulent is NOT a valid signal.

It's incredibly likely that there are far more bots that are being blocked and that the bots that are getting through have invested a lot of effort in to fooling Reddit's fraud protection, but really don't care at all about fooling the landing page site (and of course, there are a lot more such sites, so it's a lot more expensive to design & operate a system that would fool all the other sites). Consequently, they're "easily identifiable" (though in truth the author is unfortunately use a very crude model for identifying fraud which will include a ton of false positives) by the landing page, but not by Reddit.
Many comments are focused on "But why should minimum wage jobs pay scale rise with productivity? The jobs haven't gotten any more demanding."

But isn't this logic applied to average CEO pay, which has gone up many times faster than productivity? CEOs work isn't any more demanding than it used to be, either.
Font-Size: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property (2017)
If the productivity of less-skilled workers has not kept pace with average productivity, this was by design. It was not the fault of these workers; it was the fault of those who designed policies that had the effect of devaluing their skills.

From Baker's article.
The Handwriting on the Wall, from Aaron Swartz:

> I recently attended a talk at Stanford by Walter Bradford Ellis, a too-little-known activist and writer on the issue of global poverty and world hunger.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/handwritingwall