skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's spoken language. We're talking about written language standardization here.

edit: And arguably even spoken language eventually gets standardized through the written word. There's tons of regional German dialects without High-German, a more or less randomly chosen dialect, people from different regions would have a hard time even talking to each other.
I meant living in Tahoe. I’ve done the weekend trip from SF a few times and with the long drive, the traffic (everyone has the same idea), the cost of hotel, trying to fit everything in a couple days, etc, I find it more stressful to take a weekend trip there than I find it enjoyable. Living there would be great but calling it a perk of living in San Francisco is a bit of a stretch for me. If your criteria for a good place to live is having a beautiful place within a 4 hour drive, then a lot of the USA is included in that. I want to live in the nice, beautiful, low-stress place.

But again, it seems to be a very personal preference. Maybe for some people having the ability to drive 4 hours to get somewhere amazing is a good balance to the things they love about living in San Francisco. I don’t consider it close enough to be a factor in my opinion of SF though.

Edit: I’m not trying to get into an argument about how amazing or horrible the Bay Area is. I’m just saying that some people find it amazing but other people actually would prefer to live in (the suburbs of) Detroit or elsewhere. I have no idea the percent of people in each group, but I don’t think we should take for a given than if all big industry leaves the Bay Area, that it will still be as popular as it is today. Not everyone loves it that much.
> ISPs have to follow common carrier laws.

Firstly, you're wrong about that. This same FCC voted to remove ISPs from common carrier classification.

Also, what do you think common carrier means? It doesn't mean "completely unmoderated" as you appear to believe. As I already demonstrated, even common carriers perform network-layer moderation, since they provide the network layer. Social media provides the application layer, so why shouldn't they be allowed to perform moderation at the application layer?
The important caveat of that claim: it's less complicated than you think, for point to point topologies. I strongly prefer point to point designs just for their simplicity. It makes it way easier to fix any SI or timing issues through write leveling/launch calibration adjustments.

Once you get into flyby or T-routing topologies - good luck!
The point of my post is that I'm also cherrypicking. The point im trying to convey is that if I decide to unmoor myself from nuance and rigor in incorporating data etc, I can make the world sound as good or as bad as I want.
There is an `about:config` setting to enable webmidi in Firefox `dom.webmidi.enabled`. It's not a great experience to have to set that by hand. It does work though, at least in Linux.

It looks like your site isn't detecting whether the webmidi feature is present though, it looks like its just doing dumb UA filtering.
I'm talking about the larger industrial policy. In the 1980s and 1980s, Virginia pursued a very similar approach as California had in the 1960s and 1970s: it invested in transportation and education while maintaining a low-tax, business-friendly environment. For example, the state created GMU as an independent university in northern VA in 1972, and created TJ as a STEM high school in 1986. Virginia Tech expanded graduate engineering programs into the Northern VA campus in the 1990s. GMU and Virginia Tech aren't Stanford, but both are R1 Research Universities, and the tech industry, especially on the government side, was far less snobby about degree prestige back then. Like California, Virginia focused on attracting government research labs and affiliated entities like defense contractors (MITRE, SAIC, etc., were there long before Google). Finally, the Dulles Tech Corridor grew for largely similar reasons as Silicon Valley when it first started. There was plenty of cheap formerly agricultural land that was largely unregulated, but easily accessible thanks to the newly-built Dulles Toll Road. Good for building things like data centers.
i appreciate your response but IMO you aren't addressing the core results or argument of the ICO's investigation. You seem to mostly be accusing them of bias.

>>More damning was the finding that Cambridge Analytica wasn’t doing anything particularly unique. The information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, told parliament that “on examination, the methods that SCL (a company that is corporately interlinked with Cambridge Analytica) was using were, in the main, well-recognised processes using commonly available technology”

I think that is the killer claim and needs to be addressed head-on instead of hand waving and saying they are biased.
Well, that's rather disturbing in context of current trends...
Which means search engines cannot index the comments either, which makes Reddit a much less useful resource for user-generated information/insight.

Reddit also broke page age/modified date, so google searching the site using dates doesn't work reliably.
Ask HN: What free, open source OS do you use?
For those who are using their computers full time for work or development, what distributions/OSes are you using, and how? What hardware does it run on, and what makes you choose it over what are likely very similar competitors?
Hmm, not quite. Conservatism is more about everyone being in their proper place, within some hierarchy. For instance when France fell to the nazis they needed a new motto to replace “liberty, equality, brotherhood”. They chose “work, family, country”. You can see where it comes from. A mans role is to obey his boss, a woman’s role is in the home, and everyone is loyal to the state. Everyone in their place. In the United States it’s usually expressed as “god, family, country”, which is pretty much the same.
Why should my employer make permanent improvements to my own house? That would only make sense in a lifetime employment kind of situation. If I have Ethernet run in my house that's going to be usable for 10+ years. Not going to be at my current employer then.
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Does this use the "Web Annotations" W3C standard by chance?
What are you referring to, when you say "we"? Neither is there "one" islam nor is your specific personal faith identical to what muslims in egypt believed around 700-800 AD. Sure islamism is very dogmatic and has a strong ideal of imperial cohesion (as in: "we vs everyone else"), so that might sound like heresy to you, but not only are there many sects of islam, and there were even more when the majority was illiterate and followed their local teachers, your particular faith is probably very modern and thus devoid of the mysticism and superstition that was omnipresent at that time.
Bravo, that’s more or less the TL;DR of all BSD, GPL/Apache endless flame.

I love how these reckonings and syntheses are coming.
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A hook for creating the immutable state with mutations on React
I appreciated the write and liked how some references back to high output management - excellent book. I wrote a similar contemplating piece, being in the role for some years now. Here: https://dev.to/solidi/what-is-an-engineering-manager-anyway-...

The management role is challenging and has affected me to the part where I go on continuous daily walks, thinking about what to do next. I mess up and have broken down on numerous occasions about tackling challenging topics that play out for both the business and the individual in contra. I still care.

Some things I missed doing well: Being a shield. Do this more. But more importantly to me: to leave engineers better than I find them. Ratcheting is the metaphor. I understand that I'm always asking for more.

It's a lot of meta and reflection while the delivering is or isn't happening.
You mean it's not about the letter or the spirit of license at all; it's about the spirit of plagiarism, or sociability, or something.
And here was about to opine about the benefits of a 1031 exchange you can't get from real estate crowdfunding.
You're talking past each other.

Where someone is located in the world is irrelevant to the value they are producing for the company, so what justification does a company have to adjust a remote employee's salary if they move?
I think "person A does X because not X represents a threat to their worldview" is a pretty unlikely explanation for behavior, a priori. I don't watch fox news because it represents a threat to my worldview. I don't watch fox news because it makes me angry. It's not impossible, of course, but there's usually (always, imo) a deeper reason why a worldview needs to be protected. For instance, "If I don't believe X, I will lose my friends, who all believe X and believe that people who don't believe X are evil, therefore I must avoid any potential evidence of not X".

It's dangerous to approach this topic at all, but I would sincerely argue that modern trans-activism is by far the most visible example of this dynamic today. This is anecdotal, of course, but the only enforcement of gender roles that I am personally exposed to comes from this community. If I don't believe in gender identity, and say so publicly, I am liable to lose friends. That strikes me as cultish and regressive.
Liability maybe? The same reason why everything except for TACC with Tesla is considered beta and you have to consent to always be ready to intervene to use it.
AGPL would also force Amazon to open-source their changes to services that they release that use AGPL code.
Sure! One thing I have to note though - the field is fundamentally different than software engineering. In software, it isn't unusual for someone to maintain a software package for a long time, and for other people to contribute. In biology, typically software projects are made by individuals (only supported through their graduate school) and are never contributed to by outsiders (most don't know how Git development and PRs work). There are lots of projects in the normal bio category, but probably aren't useful.

The 2 that come to mind that are a bit more organized and in development are SBOL (https://sbolstandard.org/) and Poly (https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly, self plug).

SBOL is a project looking to make a better format for sharing DNA sequences. For context, the same format (GenBank format) has been used as the standard for sharing biological sequences since 1982. As you can imagine, our understanding of DNA sequences has improved since that point, but we have no way to encode much of that information in a shareable format. So it doesn't get shared. That means a lot of genetic elements can't be computed (data is there, it isn't shared) so synthetic biologists just keep it floating in their heads to make experiments work. SBOL is a new format that has been running for about 10 years trying to change that - it is pretty much the definition of "design by committee", but their design is extremely thought out, and they have the community reach necessary to get acceptance. However, the tools just ain't there yet to use SBOL for widespread adoption. I do believe it'll get there though, but they don't have enough skilled programmers.

Poly, which is a project I've been involved, is aiming to make good CLI tools for biotech (in addition to a kickass Golang library). It's fairly early, but ran by an actual software engineer, and we're making pretty good progress on tooling, and a decent community of biologists. For example of some stuff we're working on right now for version 1.0.0 - universal identifiers for genetic sequences, JSON representations of GenBank files (for interop), codon optimization / DNA synthesis optimization, primer design, and plasmid cloning simulation. One of the exciting parts of the project is an algorithm I designed that is able to extremely efficiently index genetic sequences for search. The goal is to index ALL public genetic sequences and make them searchable through a simple API (Should get a 100-1000x speed up to what is currently available).

SBOL does calls every Wednesday with updates to their work, and Jacob Beal kinda runs the show (awesome guy). Poly has a gaming night every Friday, which is a good way to figure out if the community is right. We're trying to get more issues on Github, but that is a work in progress!
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Yes; however, if our concern is weight gain, then I believe that this passage is more important:

> Compared with fifteen chews, chewing forty times per portion resulted in lower hunger (P= 0·009), preoccupation with food (P= 0·005) and desire to eat (P= 0·002).

If you chew more, then you will feel fuller by the time you finish your meal. That feeling could be the difference between over-eating (going back for another helping), and mindful eating (stopping because you are full).
I think you misread the parent. They're saying the EU and China only have a handful of companies competitive with the SV giants.
What's the dev experience been like? Do you feel like there is good editor support for debugging and such?
I think it worked with Microsoft. They have a much better image now with regards to open source.
Ask HN: How do I contact UX at Dropbox?
Today I needed to get a PDF from the web interface. Last time I used the Dropbox web interface was back in 2010. I want to download a PDF. I click on it and it opens. I scour the page for a download button. Cannot find it. I see on the sidebar "Share \/" I click "\/" nothing. I see "Open \/" and I click "\/" and it has one item called "connected apps". After looking around I finally find a button with 3 dots "..." I click on it and it has a link to "Download".

I estimate ~5 minutes to locate the download button. I think to myself that I should leave Dropbox a note about this. I would think "Download" is a critical feature that should be front and center. So I try to find a contact or feedback form. Nothing. I google "contact dropbox" and find the only options are to talk to a bot or write a forum post.

So my question how can I contact an actual UX person at Dropbox to commend them on how awesome the web UX is!
Like CC-BY-NC (Creative Combine, Attribution, Non-commercial). If you want to use the work commercially (ie for business purposes, commercial doesn't require selling) then you must negotiate licensing terms (or infringe copyright [Fair Use / Fair Dealing aside].
> Have you tried to add the numerical values of Remdesivir letters?

82 69 77 68 69 83 73 86 73 82 are the ASCII values of "remdesivir". For each of those, replace it by the sum of its digits, and keep doing that until each becomes a single digits: 1 6 5 5 6 2 1 5 1 1.

Take those in pairs, 16 55 62 15 11, and do the same kind of reduction to single digits: 7 1 8 6 2, to get 71862 is Remdesivir symbolic number.

What does that tell us about Remdesivir?

Well, add 24 to it - the answer to the ultimate question of life, written backwards. The result is 71886.

Write the number backwards, subtract 1960 - the year first contraceptive pills hit the market. The value is now 66857.

Write the number backwards, subtract 1989 - the year of the Exxon Valdez spill. The value is now 73877.

Subtract 13 - the symbol of bad luck. This gives you 73864.

Flip the number backwards, then divide by 7 - the number of deadly sins and the symbol of magic. The outcome is 6691.

This number, written backwards, spells 1966 - the year Anthon LaVey founded the Church of Satan.

Clearly, we should avoid Remdesivir.

But wait, I hear you say. Why did I use ASCII values? Maybe I should use 18 5 13 4 5 19 9 22 9 18, which are the positions of the letters in the alphabet. That would give 58649 as the Remdesivir symbol.

OK, fine. But that still ties Remdesivir to Satan:

Write the number backwards, add 2 - the symbol of duality. The number is now 94687.

Add 4991 to it - the year Jeffrey Dahmer died in prison, written backwards. The result is 99678.

Add 61 to it - the atomic number of sulfur, written backwards. The result is 99739.

Write the number backwards, subtract 125 - the only number known that contains all its proper divisors as proper substrings. The value is now 93674.

Divide by 14 - the number of pieces Osiris was torn into in Egyptian mythology. The result is 6691.

This number, written backwards, spells 1966 - the year Anthon LaVey founded the Church of Satan.

QED

The above courtesy of one of the best sites on the net: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/evilfinder/ef.cgi?said=Remdesivi...

You can hit refresh there and it will give different numerical connections of Remdesivir to evil.
Open source culture is so much more than the licenses. A license dictates what is legally permissible but it doesn't mean that there aren't other cultural expectations that go with that.

Eric Raymond famously wrote about the customs of open source in Homesteading the Noosphere: "I have observed these customs in action for 20 years, going back to the pre-FSF ancient history of open-source software. They have several very interesting features. One of the most interesting is that most hackers have followed them without being fully aware of doing so."[0]

It is possible for us to have norms of mutual respect beyond what is legally required. I think those norms are actually at the heart of open source and have been since the beginning. I hope we never abandon them just because they are "not in black and white".

[0] - http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/homestead...
The real scam was the co-ordinated way in which it was overblown. Marketing colleges should make a case study out of it.
I'm 100% not arguing that intellectual property is evil. Just that if you can patent chemo drugs, patenting a grape doesn't seem crazy.
Go code runs much more slowly than Nim code in my experience. Nim realizes better ergonomics than Python in some ways (UFCS, command syntax, user-defined operators) and as good performance & lightweightness as C/Rust.

I'm honestly surprised Nim is not the secret weapon of many start-ups. Nim is much more "open architecture" instead of pushing some "single, canned turn-key fits most users" solutions.

Having a juggernaut like Google marketing/pushing/subsidizing something might provide false as well as true peaces of mind. :-) { Such peace is a multi-dimensional concept. :-) }
Europe isn't doing worse, some European countries are doing better, some worse. There is no policy at the EU level regarding Covid-19.
I think this is applied all the time, but we might not always realize when we're using it. Also, while your version of the prompt may be more likely to elicit the correct response, this does not mean the original prompt was somehow wrong.
> So there's a trade off between trying to offer easy but limited success with some entertainment value, and going the whole way and doing it properly - which all but the most musical kids get very bored by, because it's such hard work.

I think the value is in option #1.

My son is 5 years old and just started grade 1; his best friend at school has two parents who are quite musical, and so he's been taking violin lessons. Thanks to COVID, he was stuck in the house, bored, all summer, and decided to spend basically the whole time practicing (mind you, the kid is barely 6) and now he's way beyond the other kids his age and is extremely proud of what he's accomplished.

Conversely, my son hates fine motor skill activities; he's not good at them, so he doesn't want to do them, so he doesn't get good at them. We couldn't convince him to practice drawing, writing his letters, anything; he didn't want anything to do with it. Until, that is, we told him (not entirely falsely) that improving his ability to use a pen, pencil, marker, etc. with precision would also help his ability to use a Switch joy-con thumbstick with more precision.

Last year, in kindergarden, he would get extremely (disruptively) upset when he even thought it would soon be time to do art, drawing, letters, whatever. Now he starts every morning in class by drawing. There are other things he could be doing, apparently, but he draws, every morning, because the idea of getting better at video games got him over his initial resistance to try something new that he wasn't good at and to improve at it.

I doubt I could ever get him to really practice piano, or to even get him interested in it, but if I put something in front of him that showed him how to play the Super Mario Bros theme I think he'd be pretty excited about it. I think I'll try this afternoon.

Sometimes it's not about getting great; sometimes it's not even about getting good. Sometimes it's just about starting in the first place.
There is, and will always be, a gap between what is strictly allowed/legal, and what is considered ethical/courteous.

There's a number of things that are strictly speaking legal, but still considered rude. Often, the reputation of a person or business is based at least in part on whether they do the legal bare minimum, or if they hold themselves to some level of higher standard.

I also think there's a difference between attribution because a license requires it (commonly buried several links/pages deep in some obscure "Here's a laundry list of ALL the open source packages we used to build this"), and acknowledging that a _specific_ library powers the core of a new product. I don't know of any license that marks that line.
Sure - and that's a totally reasonable view. One that I share in large part, in fact.

But there's a reason that publications adopt the tabloid UI, and it's almost always to do shocking, sensationalist journalism. It's a UI that is suited for that format.

Additionally, many other publications do shoddy journalism in different ways, with different formats, and different UIs.
What about Microsoft/outlook.com?
If you're a remote working who has been living and contributing from NYC for 5 years, what is the justification for a company giving you a pay cut because you move to Kansas? Your contributions remain the same. The responsibilities remain the same. The costs incurred by the company remain the same. You may even keep the same hours by adjusting your working hours in the new time zone.

I don't see a justifiable reason for it either direction. Living in an expensive city is a choice, now more than ever with more and more tech-focused companies moving their devs fully remote.
For sure, lots of things start changing with a meditation practice. I had a similar experience of needing to stop when I was younger and was practicing with no teacher in my early 20s, it became overwhelming.

I picked it back up about a decade later and found some texts really helpful that I'd recommend to anyone working at a meditation practice:

- "The Other Shore" by Thich Nhat Hanh

- "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" by Shunryū Suzuki

- "Zen Training" by Katsuki Sekida

There are of course tons of others, but better to start with fewer than an overwhelming collection of things when getting situated.

Also, yeah, the sinuses thing is weird and was also surprising when I started noticing it!

Edit: Also, a physical yoga asana practice really brought me a whole lot deeper into my meditation practice. Find a teacher you connect with. Typically yoga studios that have "Mysore" or "Hatha" practices on their schedules will be teaching something that isn't just calisthenics. That'd be enough to open the doors and get going.
Indeed. It didn't take me long to figure out who the seeming douche bag of an ex-board member is, despite being half a world away from the US and Valley intrigue. Yet, if Ryan Caldbeck chose not to name and shame, it is not my business to out someone.

I liked someone's comment about preferring to let the focus be on Ryan's journey, and I suppose that many others here must be feeling a sense of kinship with a fellow entrepreneur as he described candidly and courageously his version of "The Struggle."

Sure, so that the lesson isn't lost, though, we may want to learn from Ryan's sobering experience and think harder about this too: Which investors we choose to collaborate with, come due-diligence time.