skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, yes there are alot of different sects in Islam but in Islam there is one core thing that no matter what, it never changes and that is the Quran (Islam holy book). How its preserved is an entirely different topic but its a book which all Muslims no matter the sect should follow clearly.

Islam sects came to be from different interpretations of certain verses by certain scholars but some verses/core messages are very explicit that there is no question about it, its what would put you under the umbrella of "Islam", some which include idolatry and that its absolutely prohibited and that statues have no power and they wont grant you any blessings nor protection. This is what I was referring to when I say we.

Of course some people will still go out of their way to say no or might very clearly misunderstood or be quite misguided because they were illiterate which would lead to believing many such superstitions but it would be quite a stretch to say thats all Islam where its clearly isnt
"unless you reuse the reusable bags thousands of times."

That is not what the report in that article says[1]. In Table IV, for a conventional cotton bag, it has to be re-used 52 times in order to equal the LDPE plastic bag in the climate change metric.

For a woven PP bag (which is the most common plastic re-usable bag in my experience), the numbers it has to be re-used is only 5.

[1] https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...
Yes, a 1-byte UDP packet is just about as costly as a 1000-byte UDP packet. Considering that an ordinary PC can drive a 100gbps line interface with large frames, 1tbps is really nothing at all. But 1 Gpps is orders of magnitude more than one machine can normally send or receive.
HR job is to prevent unions or any form of collective bargaining and protect the company from litigation.

Susan Fowler's story can give you an idea of how HR works... https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...
Have you *ever* used BCC when sending an email?
I've had great success with the ~$20 ear pump devices available at your local drug store. They look like a normal squirt bottle with a tube tip, you fill it up with warm water and just keep squeezing. I'm not sure what the scope would do for me... I can hear the ear is clogged, I don't need a visual confirmation.
I don't think German is the poster child for cohesion. Swiss German, Bavarian German, Swabian German, Low German and High German sound completely different and use different vocabulary.

The differences are much greater than the differences between Spanish or English dialects for example.
Same is true for proverbs and folk wisdom.

I used to hate those as a young person. They always sounded trite, cliché. Now I recognize them for what they are - pointers to experiences. Pointers in the programming sense. You just won't get a piece of folk wisdom until you've lived through a situation to which it applies, and then thought about it and perhaps did some introspection. But after that, that proverb becomes a concise and convenient way to communicate to others who also get it, "hey, the situation will likely evolve this way", or "consider applying this pattern of reasoning to the situation".

The best proverbs are phrased in such a way to at least point you in the right direction if you don't understand them. But in the end, you can't skip experiencing the subject of the proverb yourself.
Most languages have periodically agreed on orthographic reforms to simplify writing. For some reason English countries haven't done so, with the result that there is a big difference between the way you write and the spoken language. This is a big barrier for dyslexic people.
Can you explain your question?
Nice. I like the small-businesses license. But I'm missing a license that forbids use of the software for or in conjunction with advertisement and/or user-tracking.
It's from Newton, who it is thought was aiming a barb at Hooke.
My current and former manager are exactly like this, except that both of them do know SQL, really great guys that try their best to help guide the project.

As a little anecdote, my first boss was a technical manager with many years of experience in programming but unfortunately not very good managerial skills. The biggest problem was that he had a clear image of the big picture but when we try to explain to him that "No, we can't do X because Y" then he said, "what are you talking about? Of course, we can It's a simple queue/query/function call", and he would not listen until we show and explain him the code or he tried to do it himself.

It's definitely better to have an empathic and cooperative manager even if he or she lags the technical knowledge
Humankind by rutger bregman is a current book on the topic.
> I feel that you are making a mistake that many native language speakers make in saying that their language has a complex nonlinear history compared to other languages which they happen to not know much about.

But it also seems to actually be the case for english
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/06/28/english-loanwor...

“ In the Max Planck Institute’s World Loanword Database, Mandarin Chinese has the lowest percentage of borrowings of all 41 languages studied, only 2 percent. (English, with one of the highest, has 42 percent.) In part because of the difficulty of translating alphabet-based languages into Chinese characters”

English just does has more loanwords than most other european (and proto-indo-european) languages. And this isn’t an artefact of spanish or german or what have you having been studied less. (Though I fully admit that giving Japanese as an example of a more monocultural language in this context is a poor choice given how many non-native words it borrowed from Chinese).
Exactly right. Security has been on a path of “layer more complexity over inherently insecure protocols” and it’s not going to stop any time soon because selling more products/services is worth too much money.

There’s a lot of work and very little money in replacing outdated networking protocols with smarter/more secure protocols. And there’s very little punishment (from customers or regulators) for suffering from massive cyber attacks, even if you expose the sensitive information of people who never even chose to give you their information (like Equifax). There’s no punishment or reputational damages from having your network traffic rerouted from a BGP attack. The consumer pays all the cost and they don’t even change their behavior after paying that cost, so why would companies bother?

Normally this is a situation where governments would step in and protect their citizens, but... well there’s just too much money on the line. So the programmers get the blame and the customers pay the price and security vendors make another $100 million and we do it all over again next month.
I think the idea here isn't that we all need to use/not-use "u" in colour or z in - ize. That makes no actual difference to someone trying to spell a word they can say or say a work they're reading.

The point here is that for many words in English, there is no actual link between the letters in the spelling and the sounds in the spoken word.

I've been learning German for a few years. The spelling is easy. I spell 90% of words right first try. If I hear a word I can spell it well enough to look it up in a dictionary and learn what it means.

The opposite is true in English. Does a word have "ie" or "ei" in it? There is no way to know. Does a work starting with an "n" have a silent "k" in front (or worse, words like honest that start with an "o" sound but are spelt with an h)? No way to know. Does a word end -ite or - ight? No way to know.

There are a lot of surprise complexities that serve a purpose (when you have 2+ words with the same pronunciation but different spellings) or that are just sytlistic (colour vs color). I don't object to that.

But we should stop pretending you can spell out words or that written and spoken words are linked, at least 25% of the time they're not. Just look at that last sentence: there is no W in written and no L in should. No wonder kids struggle with this crap.
In addition to the others, there'd be a long tail of few infections before it's actually wiped out, and during that period I expect too many people to just stop caring about masks for it to actually get eradicated.
Right, that was the “you can remove it” part.
You don't need only flat surface detection, but it should be the highest priority safety check. And it should be the primary check. We shouldn't turn onto one-way streets, of course! Just like we shouldn't swerve off streets when we detect something that can be spoofed ... such as the false positives shown in the article and the false negatives given by other Tesla crashes.

You can actually correct those instances by using reliable ranging devices with dense enough sampling to ensure flat surfaces without intermediate obstacles.

To say that there are no other factors at play is foolish, of course, but it's also foolish to say that somehow we shouldn't be doing this.
Because there are a lot of conservative Trump-supporting HN posters in these comments downvoting everybody who doesn't want the Internet destroyed.
Moon shielding was critical to Earth's ability to maintain its atmosphere
> It's a legislative gift that was given to internet companies to help them grow by granting them a special legal shield for all the highly problematic content that they host and monetize.

No, it was given to them to encourage them to engage in "good-faith" censorship of things that the government doesn't like by not making such censorship move them from the relatively weak distributor-liability regime where they were only liable based on a responsibility to stop distributing content once they had notice of its unlawfulness to the any-oversight-is-on-you publisher liability regime.

It wasn't to "help them grow", which it was assumed they would do anyway, it was to encourage them to try to restrict "bad" content as they grew (it is the one surviving part of the internet censorship Communications Decency Act, and like the rest of that act was, in fact, directed at promoting internet censorship.)
I think it would be a net negative for the internet, attacking the very thing that let it get to this place.
Alternative wording: the ratios of these pairs (13 days / 247zs) and (247zs / t_P) are approximately the same.

t_P being the Planck time here.
This is particularly pernicious. If a private business does it I'll hate on them but oh well, it's their business at the end of the day.

But there should be accessibility laws to prevent government agencies from blocking access to citizens/taxpayers using these proprietary technologies.
The bits per second one doesn't have any points for the past 5 years?! It's by far the scariest one if you just look at the graph
If you haven't, learn to program in assembly. Everything else is built on top of that.
Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line Far More Dangerous Than What They Censor
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It’s worth noting that I don’t use Firefox by default, but Safari, and the messaging only talks about Firefox.

I thought I’d read that WebMIDI was declined to be implemented by Apple because of security issues (including the ability for random webpages to send firmware updates to connected MIDI peripherals), and going back about four months I found an article here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676109 — note the top comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23679063).

I seriously doubt that Firefox is going to implement this.
Both reactors at Diablo Canyon offline during flex alert
Getting away from using excel is something you demand that everyone else do.
Oh goody, now we can search for who is calling me when caller ID says “Unknown”.
I get the feeling the government will step in and regulate soon:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/scowcroft-center-fo...
there is a concept in RICO law called 'piercing the corporate veil,' where lawsuits against a company can 'pierce through' layers of holding company structures, to exactly prevent people from creating shell companies to limit liability.

In practice, however, it is another line of defense, because you have to argue in court for each layer to peel back.
The feature request comes up regularly. In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966 the admins are not opposed, though right now browser extensions are the best work-around.
Surprising no one except whoever was deluded enough to pay for this thing.
Yea that's pretty similar to what I'm currently using.
Notably, subsets of English are already standardized in domains where this would be useful. For example, Aviation English and Simplified Technical English, maintained by the ICAO and ASD respectively. This approach whereby a language is only "standardized" for use in a specific domain makes sense to me.
Why Target's gig workers are striking over an algorithm
> No, background radiation makes nuclear radiation a noisy and ambiguous signal.

You make a decent measurement -- my former speciality. That's not waving a Geiger counter surrounded by concrete or granite. (It just wouldn't have been worth the effort at the time of the original cold fusion nonsense.) Sure, about atomic reaction products if you can analyse their appearance as well as neutrons and gamma rays.
I don't agree that's a non sequitur. We typically sell "access" to the idea, even though the supply of access is infinite. If you want to account for human labor and cost, then you're describing novel ideas, not "an idea". novel ideas are scarce, access to an idea is not.

That may seem pedantic, but that distinction is the thing we charge for access on.

The reason I'm harping on this is to make it black and white crystal clear, that the existing system we are using is a kludge. It would be shocking if such a system was flatly the best way to do things.

No idea what's better, but there are much smarter people out there than me.
Uh, wow. To say the least, this does not look like a reflection of reality. This looks a bit like a list of companies with PR problems who are working hard to whitewash their Glassdoor reviews, because they are having problems recruiting. I'm not saying they're all bad, but it looks closer to a list of companies with internal culture problems who would rather buy their way around the consequences of that, than really fix it.
Gotta plug one of my favorite books: "Strangers to Ourselves" by Timothy D. Wilson

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674013827

TL;DR: we think we know why we do stuff we do, but we do not.
FTR, the letter linked in the NY Times article actually advocates the precautionary principle (which implies there isn't enough evidence, only suggestions of such).
Both can be true. Patents and "intellectual property" in general are evil, and expanding them to include genes is even more evil.
That's a straw man. In other languages the rules are also defined by usage. Nobody institutes changes in a language just for the sake of adding new features, like we do in software. The difference is that countries speaking the language agreed on setting common rules, with the goal of making official what is already becoming standard by daily use. Without such an agreement, there will always be some small area that wants to stick to old rules, making communication harder for everyone.
Yes, I have taken many, many psychedelics, in high doses up to ++++ on the Shulgin scale.

Delirium was the wrong word, delusion was what I should have said.

cf: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Delusion#Delusion_of_enlight...
Regulations would help if they were truly enforced and, in the case of fraud, criminal charges were pursued. White collar prosecutions are so rare, there is no longer any real deterrent.
You'd have to help me on that one.
Submitted because it's an interesting counterpoint to the usual positive feelings toward fission as a base load supplier. Having 1 GW in a single failure domain makes it harder to operate the grid.
You can detect geometric hazards like potholes with reliable ranging devices.

I'm sure what I said was poorly worded. What I meant was that reliable ranging with dense sampling should be the primary mechanism that self-driving vehicles use to determine what areas of the road are safe to drive on, and probably what is even a road at all. I think efforts to avoid this are based on cost, not safety or functionality.

Other signals are just too transient to be safe. Vision-based classification-first regimes are not guaranteed to detect hazards as reliably as a point ranging device, is that controversial?

Potholes exist, but are geometric negative space. Clues to their existence can be provided by imagery or other sensors (which are subject to all the weather effects also, by the way), but a positive detection of good road or pothole should have priority.
I used to professionally audit spreadsheets that were used to back up million dollar decisions. I say “back up” because it was fairly clear the decisions were made independently. But they needed to tick a box saying they’d had it audited so they paid us for a two day audit. In that limited time, which included writing the report, you’ll appreciate we rarely had time to audit anything more than the top-level summary sheet.

There was always at least one mistake that put the numbers out by 8 digits.
Ghana is another that's starting to really pick up some traction in my audience. Smaller than Nigeria in size but growing even a bit faster.
I think you meant to write "Zetta" there.
> coronaplague

Go ahead, make people not take you seriously.
They used the water currents itself as a pump to empty out the water and create a space to build on - that's brilliant!!
Of course you are right. I don't know what I have been thinking...
Excel has similar capabilities (since Excel 2010) in the form of PowerQuery[1].

It can pull in 3rd party data sources (including custom HTTP calls if you want to reach out to an API), has data types, can both process and store substantially larger data volumes (data is cached/stored separately from the spreadsheet data in a compressed, columnar format and processed by a separate data processing engine), and every step of the data processing pipeline is shown and easily referenced/reviewed (including the ability to leave comments in the code).

That said, PowerQuery is a graft onto Excel, originating in the SQL Server world. So "Excel" skills aren't very helpful/transferable; it leverages Microsoft's M language[2] instead of Excel functions, and the usage paradigm is far more natural for someone with a programming background than an Excel background.

But as someone else mentioned in another comment, Alteryx is anything but cheap. PowerQuery is already widely distributed and available to anyone with Excel installed[3]. So for anyone looking for this type of operational discipline around data, it's a handy tool to pick up. Bonus points that PowerQuery/M-code is portable between a variety of Microsoft tools (SQL Server, PowerBI, Excel, and a variety of Azure's data services).

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/power-query-overv...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/

[3] Traditionally only available for Windows, but the base tech has recently been added to Excel for Mac and is being brought up to parity.
And the cost of living is so high that despite the fantastic salary most software engineers in Silicon Valley will never buy a house there.

Great place to make money before retiring elsewhere though.
You generally spend time in the hospital when your condition is critical. So, if it cut hospital time, it would improve survival.
I feel like, ideally, such a system of incentivizing novel ideas and information should be decentralized. Bug bounties, for example, is a decentralized form of incentivizing public works.
yes. usually for people submitting a form in google sheets, and replying to all via BCC
I get about 33% for that simple case (single, $221K W-2, WA, add the employer portion of payroll costs [same as employee contribution]). It's ~28%% without the addition of employer FICA.
Right. So WordPress has no protections if you post bad content. So probably WordPress goes away.

No problem, you say, I'll self-host my content on AWS and use CloudFlare as a CDN. But AWS and CF also have no section 230 protections any more either and probably won't do business with you unless you indemnify under some kind of insurance policy (which you won't be able to afford as a small blog).

Even if you run your own server and install it at home, the lack of section 230 protections will probably make your ISP responsible for content you publish (remember: your ISP is not a common carrier - thanks FCC) so you're probably going to find that all consumer ISPs are going to have terms of service that prohibit publication, and technical implementations that enforce that.

I mean, in the non-Internet world, if I want to make a newsletter and mail it out to a subscriber list; I can at least do that. All I need is a laser printer, and a stack of stamped envelopes. The postal service is a common carrier, at least.

Today's internet is a composition of platforms, all of which are really only possible due to the existence of section 230. It blows my mind that people are so blasé about the idea of tossing it out or reworking it in a naive way.
That is a very interesting tool.

I’m always interested in visual programming tooling. Thanks for sharing.
Ok, I was too strongly worded, and you can read it as a reduction to basic ranging. That's fine.

I can rephrase: Reliable ranging should override other sensor mechanisms for detecting driveable space and presence of hazards.

Tracking with dense ranging (e.g., LIDAR) is not as challenging as the alternative: ensuring that non-ranging system will reliably segment all possible hazards.
We're about to wrap up a conference dedicated to that very subject: https://sharkfestvirtual.wireshark.org/. Session videos should be online soon.
Some strategies I've used previously in various consulting engagements:

Cost+:
how much did it cost you to build, and how much do you want to add to offset and then secure a profit from that outlay (taking into account the fact the you will repeatedly sell the same software over an over). You could build discounted cash flow models and other spreadsheets to model the returns over time and use this analysis as a guide.

Market-based pricing:
Find competitors or analogues of your offering in a similar/the same sector. Price yourself competitively against their rates.

Value-based pricing:
What is the value that the client will attach to the solution. How much will it save them? What is the opportunity-cost of not procuring the solution/offering to the client. By modelling this and pricing your offering competitively against this number, you could make a sale that the client considers a good deal.

IMHO, Value-based pricing can often yield the best profitability, but you need to make sure you are pitching at the right level, and your patter is good.
My interpretation of this is a junior SDE position where you mostly update system configuration parameters all day instead of writing code or designing systems. People in these positions still get paid SDE salaries but aren't gaining any useful software development experience.
In general yes. But we've been neglecting everyone's quality of life for the past months, making an exception here makes no sense.
This is exactly the opposite. English is spoken in different ways across the world, however its written version is dictated by the media of the main countries UK and USA. The way English is managed is as an archaic written language that doesn't take into consideration the way people speak it.
Presumably, making it more targeted means they can use more, potentially to the point that the effect on the tumor would correspond to a lethal systemic dose using a course of normal doxorubicin. The patient wouldn’t feel any better while undergoing the therapy in that case, but worse tumors could be successfully treated. The effect/toxicity ratio is the key factor in a lot of these kinds of drugs.