skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cost-effectiveness and return on investment of protecting health workers
I’m getting the same ad on the reddit app over and over again for what feels like a year, and it’s so bad I would never even think of clicking on it.

Now that I write this, I notice that’s actually true for most ads I see because they would require a pihole and I haven’t gotten around to setting one up.

It really feels like the ad business is inherently flawed these days. Who clicks on ads? How many of those are going through with a purchase? There is just way too many and poorly created ads for any brand to stand out from all that garbage people get shoved in their face all day.
I've known a former journalist who could type ~150 wpm. I don't doubt he could keep up with a lecture.
I think OP is referring to the headline snippet "magic of mushrooms," which some may interpret as a hint of their hallucinogenic properties due to the "magic mushroom" slang.
Yelp has always been extortionate (it would be a shame if you were to get a bad review...), but now it has spilled over into adherence to a certain ideology.

This is pretty disturbing, especially in light of the massive damage lockdowns have done to the restaurant industry - now any restaurant, many of which are immigrant-owned, can be targeted by a spiteful mob with this "alert".
Menachem Begin bombed the King David Hotel
The Sweetest Gay Relationship on TV Is Somehow on South Park
You had to perform and write up a practical experiment for the A-Level Physics final exam in the 1980s - I remember it fondly because a friend accidentally set his on fire to everyone’s suppressed amusement!
If youre a new hired, perceived to be top performer, and you under perform, your bosses boss will criticize your boss. Usually you can use this to your advantage

Taking this further, as an employee, you have more leverage than you think
The problem is bigger then that. Apple takes a 30% cut(and the fanboys will say it is legal and fair and theoretically Apple could make it 99% and should still be legal) and on top of that cut they are forcing you not to inform the customer about alternatives, YES Apple prevents you to be informed by better reals and deciding for yourself what is better, so you could say that Apple is protecting you because you are too stupid to decide or you can just be honest and say it is just for money and Apple protects their budget.
I unblock ads on sites I find useful, use frequently and want to actively support. If the ads aren't obnoxious, they stay unblocked.

Sites wouldn't exist without the users, so they should keep in mind user experience when deciding how to monetize.
He mentions witnessing REPL development by David Nolen. Is there a video of it?
There are already several ways to do this sort of bioremediation using mushrooms as bio-sponges (Eg for heavy metals). There’s the question of where to safely store those mushroom after the heavy metal is absorbed.

Important tangent, mushroom’s ability to absorb elements of its environment is a strong case for eating only organic mushrooms from known sources. Heavy metals like lead and mercury have been found in edible mushrooms from questionable sources.
Have burger flippers at McDonalds really gotten 2x more productive since 1968? I highly doubt it. I would expect most low-skill labor has not gotten any more productive.

Also, commondreams.org is a known socialist website. Their claims on economic productivity should be taken with an enormous grain of salt.
I wish it wasn't political, but somehow it seems to have gotten that way.
The actual research paper is here:

https://sci-hub.se/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.10...
This isn't actually the case. That policy was part of a set of changes that were meant to go into effect in July but that Apple rolled back. You're allowed to charge a different price but you can't tell the user that they can get it cheaper elsewhere or that you're paying 30% to Apple.
Automatically Pixelate Faces on iOS Using Face Detection
Thanks for sharing,

Jean-Pierre
I recently got a reMarkable 2 tablet( https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2 ), and I am absolutely loving it.

I have for along time carried around notebooks for note taking and journaling, because I felt the process of handwriting improve my experience of organizing my thoughts. But it was cumbersome and I ended up carrying multiple notebooks for different purposes.

Since I got the reMarkable 2 tablet it has replaced all my notebooks while retaining all the benefits of handwriting. With the added bonus of much easier organizing, backup and being able to view the notes on other devices.
It's available now
Hi Peter, Immigration being one the most convoluted laws to declutter, really appreciate you taking out time to answer some of our questions.

What would be the best way for someone holding a H1B visa to startup in USA? what are the legal complications one must be aware of?

Does partnering with American citizen make it easier?

Also, being a software engineer does the current employer have claim on your idea even if it is out of domain of employers market?

Any resources would really be appreciated.

Thank you.
Some people just don't want malicious code being run on their computers.
> If you’re going to quote that, at least link the article.

It's the article this entire discussion thread is about.
So, 'tribe' here doesn't necessarily mean an ethnic group. Depending on scenario, it might really just mean 'village'; in some sense, large regions of some countries never _really_ became part of the nation at all.
Dijkstra on the matter: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
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Great input; not flame war enticing, just facts, and I respect your 20 year head start - implicit memory is only attainable by experiencing things first hand, and I appreciate that.

Perhaps not the greatest example was provided, but the general sentiment I was aiming for was when disdain is expressed for tools without taking the time to understand what their intended (and practical) purposes are, and how they are effectively used.

When you have used a tool and understand it well, and witness another person go off on a tangent about how "Android is complete garbage, why would they ever do this this way", you naturally question that person's capability or whether they know what they are doing. In my experience, the person venting about how a tool sucks will 15-20 minutes later realize "oh. that's why.", or otherwise head off to roll their own implementation and 15 working days later realize "oh. that's why." or get into production and cause an outage from missing several edge cases.

On the macOS topic, it is odd that the root user no longer functions as one would expect in the Unix model (for example, cli tools which can no longer list OS processes, which haven't had any issues during the amount of time I've used them). It is frustrating that a wide variety of tools no longer work correctly as a result of some of these changes as well; for example, emacs can no longer navigate my filesystem. All said and done, my day to day work has been via Linux workstations for nearly all of the past 15 years, which is partly why some of those effects are more jarring than others to me.

Again, thanks for your input!
Millions of Americans are unemployed, hundreds of thousands are dying from a pandemic, tens of thousands are in lines at food banks, there are children in cages, women being given forced hysterectomies, and there are literally neo-Nazis that the President refuses to disavow.

If you’re not going to take a stand now, when will you?
Like ads for a TV because you just bought a TV? Target ads are crap. I have never in my life seen an ad that was useful. They miss the target 100% of the time.
I agree, there's no silver bullet, only tradeoffs and our appetites for them.

From looking at the list of crates above, I see a lot that are often part of the stdlib of other languages, such as HTTP, concurrency/nio primitives, and logging.

My perception of Rust's not including such fundamental primitives in the standard library is that Rust is still very much experimental, and the ecosystem values tinkering and experimenting with new ideas. The cost of that is increased dependency hell, especially over time. There's obviously huge value in experimentation for the industry, but it makes me hesitate to use Rust for projects where I just need to get stuff done, and stay done.
>In the France of the universe in which I live, martial law hasn't been in use for over 2 centuries.

As established, the military has been deployed as police. Protests are 100% banned and you're not allowed to leave your home. People are being arrested for thought crimes.

Right... not martial law...
Yeah, though I wouldn't be surprised if your suggested "continuous" ring species exists somewhere, with gene flow possible from both sides at every point but not from one side of the ring to the other (even if brought into the same geographic proximity).

In principle you even could have some kind of genetic helix, where one end of the ring species not only meets but overlaps with the other, perhaps going so far as to do a full wraparound a number of times. But probably the two ends of the ring would occupy too similar an ecological niche (even with all the genetic divergence) to allow for much time of overlap.
Well, while it's important that the minimum wage is $24/hr (or $15/hr), none of these results tell us whether the better way to do that is to mandate that employers pay that full wage, or for the government to fill in the blanks with a UBI/NIT funded by progressive taxation.
Most games aren't interesting anymore. I can't play Revs again after Trackmania. But some of them I still enjoy: Repton, Thrust, Chuckie Egg.
> Esperanto isn't intended to be superior. It's value is on it being equally foreign yet approachable for all the salient parties and therefore a conceivable acceptable neutral turf for everyone to share.

This was not even attempted; Esperanto is a Romance language. Unless you think the only salient parties are Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, and Latin America, this "value" does not exist and was not a goal.
You see, the main reason I block ads isn't because I disagree with advertising. Advertising itself is fine.

I block ads because:

- They are often bloated with CPU-intensive JavaScript that makes my web experience less than smooth. I demand that scrolling and other UI actions be imperceptibly fast, and 90% of the time I find it's ads that are the culprit in making them perceptibly slow.

- They are often loaded with tracking and fingerprinting spyware. I blocked Facebook ads as soon as they started showing me stuff that I had searched for on eBay and Amazon. Like, WTF. Big nope. I was fine with the ads, but not that level of tracking and sharing user data across companies.

As such, I block ads in protest of the above. But if I establish a mechanism that clicks the ads in the background, they don't have to know whether it is me or a robot that clicked them -- as far as they are concerned my residence is a black box, and there are some intelligent beings inside this black box that click the ads, some of those intelligent beings are made of silicon and some are made of carbon, and they don't need to know the chemistry of what being caused the click. At some point in the far future of civilization and humanity, I expect biological chemistry to be abstracted out, and laws in place to not discriminate on the chemistry of a being, and economies will have to be rebuilt around that assumption. I'm just living that future now, and as far as the big companies are concerned, they can start thinking about new monetization models now that better align the collective incentives of my blacxbox with theirs.

Traditional ads don't influence my purchasing behavior much either. I'm not their typical consumer. So it wouldn't have made a difference. My purchasing decisions are based more on a combination of first principles and friend/coworker recommendations.

Now there's the issue of how ads might drive revenue, and that's how the internet is kept free. Sure. But I think there are other ways to drive that than the current iteration of ads. Social-media-ify it, gamify it, make it fun, and I'll actually want to interact with the ads. Make me have to play a game to get a $1 Starbucks discount, and I might play -- and go to Starbucks! You see, carbon-based lifeforms love coffee, and love games, so the possibility of a discount on that might actually make me want to play the game.

But none of this tracking-spyware-CPU-bloat-while-I'm-trying-to-do-something-else please. Plain <a href="foo"><img src="blah"></a>, no megabyte-sized images, and no cross-site sharing of user data? If they can agree to that, I'll stop blocking.
This doesn't contribute to the discussion, besides the incredibly naive viewpoint that allowing ads is the only way to support to a website.
There's No True Scotsman.
That's a super common dark pattern with clickbait sites. It's definitely on purpose (in a lot of places).
This comment is in the category of "not even wrong"
Did they follow the reasoning to the conclusion that humans and pigs have a common ancestor? Is this accepted by modern Islam?
It matters when doing multidimensional index arithmetic. The formulae for ranking and unranking multi-dimensional to flat indexes are neater with 0-indexing than with 1-indexing.
When you will build your own piece of land from scratch then you also get to decide what laws govern it.

The iPhone, iOS and the Apple Store exist because someone had the idea, will and spent tons of money building it. They aren't natural resources that Apple acquired and imposed on people so now everyone else has no choice but to pay the Apple tax.

So I don't see how that analogy applies here.
What ads? I block them all, at home, at work, and do the same for friends and family. The only ads I see are the half second ads during my DVR playbook, and then skip. I pay for the Internet, for email, for the software I use. I'm not suffering through ads. One project I'm working on is sorting out how to get the Pi-hole to block YouTube ads 100%. I don't see them on my Linux latops because of Nano Adblock, but my kids see them on their iPads. For some reason no one (yet) seems to be able to sort out how to block ad content on YouTube 100%. There has to be a way.
Really the the only issue I have with SQL is NULL != NULL. This creates an impedance mismatch with most languages...

MySQL sort of solves this problem with a <=> operator, which I wish was the default for ORMs to use.

There are a lot of other minor nitpicks but a lot of criticisms come down to the actual RDMS not SQL itself.
(throw-away here; mods banned my account, rearranged, hid, and selectively stripped away the context from comments)

That's great input; not flame war enticing, just facts, and I respect your 20 year head start - implicit memory is only attainable by experiencing things first hand, and I appreciate that.

Perhaps not the greatest example was provided, but the general sentiment I was aiming for was when disdain is expressed for tools without taking the time to understand what their intended (and practical) purposes are, and how they are effectively used.

When you have used a tool and understand it well, and witness another person go off on a tangent about how "Android is complete garbage, why would they ever do this this way", you naturally question that person's capability or whether they know what they are doing. In my experience, the person venting about how a tool sucks will 15-20 minutes later realize "oh. that's why.", or otherwise head off to roll their own implementation and 15 working days later realize "oh. that's why." or get into production and cause an outage from missing several edge cases.

On the macOS topic, it is odd that the root user no longer functions as one would expect in the Unix model (for example, cli tools which can no longer list OS processes, which haven't had any issues during the amount of time I've used them). It is frustrating that a wide variety of tools no longer work correctly as a result of some of these changes as well; for example, emacs can no longer navigate my filesystem. All said and done, my day to day work has been via Linux workstations for nearly all of the past 15 years, which is partly why some of those effects are more jarring than others to me.

Again, thanks for your input!
Messenger for desktop. Official native client
I don't think "this is fine because capitalism privileges capitalists by design" is the rebuttal you think it is.
I mean as late as Newton and Euler the division between theology and science was still mushy?

Everything here makes sense, but hardly seems like a refutation to me.
The problem is that you can decide to pay a lot of attention and drive safely, and still can get hit by a car.

Or even just walking: you could get hit by a car, or get robbed
> Just imagine if Microsoft had taken a 30% cut from every developer who ever compiled software for windows

Microsoft has the whole code-signing racket going on for Windows, but that's at least a flat fee in fairness.
Doesn't matter. From a quick glance, no one would be able to distinguish MUMPS monstrosities from the monstrosities that are the tax .m files. Maybe this M and MUMPS are even related.
Some months back on holidays in France: turned on the TV, this was BFM a news channel. There was a demonstration in the center of Paris, riot cops in full gear.
It was hot and one had his vest open, showing a "LONSDALE" brand t-shirt where conveniently, the center part of the word that remains visible with a vest says "NSDA".
If you are clued up on this you will know NSDA can stand for National Sozialistische Deutsch Arbeitspartei, ie. the forebear of the Nazi party. It's a know thing among certain wrongheaded folks.
Consider this a public service announcement. I have not gone back.
> Literal thought crimes.

These are explicit acts, not thoughts, and not new offences.

"Contempt of public official", I think they mean "outrage a agent" in French, does not mean the feeling but the act of showing 'contempt' as in insulting or threatening.

For example, if you take part in a demonstration and you insult a police officer for whatever reason they can arrest you for "contempt of public official".

"Participation in a group with a view to committing violent acts", which is not an offence specific to France, allows the police to arrest and charge people before they commit violent acts when it is clear through their actions that this is what they are planning. In relation to public demonstrations this may mean a group of people showing up with helmet, shield, or legal 'weapons' (e.g. slingshot and steel beads, or what not).

Likewise for the ban on face coverings, it is primarily to deal with people showing up with bike helmets, gas masks, etc. in order to (a) protect themselves against tear gas, and (b) not be identified (usually while they commit violence against police and property).

> "“It is ironic that a country with such a long and proud tradition of collective action for social change is criminalizing protest in this way"

On the contrary, it's because France has a long tradition of 'collective action' (i.e. really riots and revolutions) that a body of laws to counter violence has come about.

> The French authorities must stop criminalizing people and amend all the laws that hamper the right to peaceful assembly.

The offences mentioned above are not related to peaceful assembly.

Amnesty International is being rather disingenuous in this article.
Thrust is a masterpiece
The points he makes are so extremely minor... You could just as easily say that natural language and mathematical convention are index-1.
Right, I didn't phrase that well. It would be nice to be able to treat covid early in the infection. However, research time and resources are limited. To work with your analogy, at the moment we are trying to put out the active fire of people at risk of death, rather than installing fire extinguishers and smoke alarms in an actively burning building.
> I understand the gut feeling to be suspicious of any large org to filter information. People on this very thread are screaming "censorship!" as if they were Orwell in the streets warning us the end is nigh.

I mean, these companies have a monopoly or near monopoly on communications, and they have openly said they are going to arbitrarily remove information that they don't like, without any kind of transparency or accountability.

Is the fact that congress is not enacting a law supposed to mean that it is not censorship, and that we can't complain about it?

Would you be ok with other private networks doing it?

Besides, if we must have censorship, could we at least have someone more deserving of our trust do it? These policies of removing "fake news" greatly worsened COVID-19. As late as February, they were removing "disinformation" that it was infectious human to human.

Telling someone to mask up in early March could get you banned.

Posting first party evidence of the chaos in China in January could get you banned. It was fake news and disinformation. They were protecting us.

These companies should be begging us for a second chance to filter the truth for us.

Not just are these companies fallible, but they also have a very obvious neoliberal agenda. I've watched every single progressive podcast I liked get shadowbanned or outright removed from every major platform over the last year.

Why are people so eager for this?
You can see the effects in China where state control of the narrative, achieved in large part by oversight of companies, has made their population completely unaware of the Uighur situation.

Granted, FB is a private company so the extent to which it's a concern is not as big, but given the control that FB has over information flow and the network effects of FB, similar risks are present. Think: swaying elections by permitting misinformation that supports only a certain side. It's an extraordinary amount of power that has the potential to be used maliciously. At the moment it remains a hypothetical but given the China example it is not an unreasonable concern.
The nasty part about this is it creates a positive feedback loop where easily-manipulated people see that "consensus" normalized and begin reproducing it elsewhere.