skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think eventually market forces will take over in this situation, just like they did with tv, radio, newspapers. Twitter especially, but other big platforms have now taken sides and have lost all trust with the "right". It's only a matter of time before they get "unbundled" from a political angle, Parler is a perfect example.

You can't have moderation free platforms because there are a lot of profane an wierd people. Platforms will need to pick which side they are on, and cater to those users. Just like TV channels, newspapers etc have all picked between left and right.
God creation is a human endeavour. Useful gods persist , others are forgotten. I guess it's interesting that big complex societies didn't manage make small gods work. Maybe when a god exceeds certain critical size, it consumes the lesser gods.
Companies need to get over themselves. Employees, particularly new employees, shouldn't be expected to 'hit the ground running' in every circumstance. It is unfair to the employee to have no expectation of on-the-job training.

Morale is an issue. The constant understaffing and overwork of current employment is often much more taxing than a bad hire. Yes, a bad hire can have a spoiler effect but in those circumstances it is worth the paperwork to remove them. I argue that an indecisive manager who refuses to do the work necessary to manage and staff for the need is far more detrimental than one lower level employee.

Employment regulations protect employees, not the company, and for good reason. Removing them is not going to make it easier for job-seekers, it just makes it easier to exploit them.
It has to be 0.85% of what people invest, so 0.85% of the fund value, which is ~ the capital amount.

So for a £300k house that rents for £9,600 pa I read that as their fee is £2,550 pa, not £81.6 pa... A letting agent would probably take ~15% of rent so ~£1,450 pa.
Repairs are generally charged in addition to the management fee and it's quit possible that they will do the same by deducting the costs from the fund.
What an online Black Friday means for businesses
What have formed your opinion? Do you have any evidence?
Your wording choice for the title makes it seem otherwise. It makes it sound like it's some big warning or big deal. Perhaps choose your words more carefully?
When Apple first mandated kext signing (Mountain Lion?) they explicitly whitelisted certain community built kexts used for Hackintosh. IMO Apple and the Hackintosh community has been mutually benefited until now. Many who have accustomed to macOS from Hackintosh has eventually invested in Apple products.

Considering Apple has only went after those who profiteered by selling pre-built Hackintosh and not everyone who are profiteering from Hackintosh scene; I would say Apple did care about the Hackintosh community in some way.

I thought the higher performance/price Hackintosh, especially with Ryzen might force Apple to act differently but now with M1, Apple needn't worry about Hackintosh performance/price anymore.
Meh, welcome to earth. Lots of deeply flawed people are still celebrated for what they accomplish. See, e.g., Steve Jobs.
That goal wouldn't have happened. He would have been suspended after VAR review.
A good number of lifescience graduates at regional colleges aim for nursing, also because it's about the only paying career that's left. The Department of Education reports a median salary of 54.5 kUSD for a nursing graduate at my regional college, meanwhile a chemical contract manufacturer nearby recently advertised a skilled BSc job for 35 kUSD. It's a mystery how you can make rent and student loan payment on that and have money left over for food.
On the upside, traveling nurses are now routinely making 5-10K a week (and they usually get real PPE rather than be told to reuse stuff) That's far better money than most soldiers (or even FAANG engineers) make, and the risk of being shot or having to write crappy unit tests is far smaller.

Source if you don't believe me: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/24/health/covid-nurses-big-money...

Lmao what's wrong downvoters? Don't like being told that nurses are making more than you?
Maybe we met there too? Honestly, one of the top 5 parties I've ever been to in my entire life in terms of intellectual firepower. I hope I get to go again someday.
The difference is that a screenshot may be fake. If the intermediary is revealing user private messages, it’s a stronger evidence than just making up a photoshopped screenshot.
It tells you clearly on the report screen, before you submit, as I recall.
Ha, when I was younger some libraries would have security tags but they didn't have ID's for tracking, they'd just set off an alarm.

But from reponses and doing a bit more research, it sounds like RFID tags have really taken off since then for tracking.
I use a mac because other developers do in my office. But I'd be just as productive on a linux or windows machine.

For a while osx had the edge because it had a nice interface while still offering a lot of unix. Now windows and linux has caught up in the areas they were lacking before. Meanwhile apple has been caring less and less about people using the cli.
So you think they still had a 1970s mainframe ?
No: Siemens themselves replaced it with an x84 based emulator in the 90s (which ran on a desktop machine).
ive... never loved a region before
Preserving Flash: why emulation is better than migration
> If you care about the well being of plants, you should still prefer to eat plants rather than animals. The trophic level of animals in the food chain necessitates that they will eat more calories of plant matter than would provide calories of food upon being eaten.

To put this into more laymen's terms, meat cultivation dramatically increases the total amount of plants that we need to grow.

As mentioned in my other comment:

> 70-75% of soybeans grown globally are for livestock, only 6% are used for human food products (meat eaters often try to claim that soy production is terrible for the environment; surprise, surprise, meat consumption is the main driver)

So, it's a bit counterintuitive, but globally switching to a plant-based diet would actually dramatically reduce the total amount of plants that we are raising, and therefore would dramatically reduce overall suffering of plants (if they suffer)
These incredibly vague regexes are hilarious. But I guess if it works, it works (until it doesn't)
I'm having trouble figuring out your meaning in this context. Care to explain?
It sounds like one of the weirder "freedom" arguments. Who is going to pay extra for a Mac without key security features?
>In his[Alberto Caballero] paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint server

That looks like a citation to me. This isn't a defense of the article, which is bad for a variety of reasons. I'm just saying let's stick to what's true, rather than pretending they didn't cite a source just because they didn't have a hyperlink.
You'll notice they never specified how big the writing was going to be.
Imagine all the iconic moments we are missing due to the sport of handwaffle not existing.
Probably the Title: “ How the US Used Disinformation and the ‘Jakarta Method’ to Change the World “

>The Jakarta Method is a 2020 non-fiction book by American journalist and writer Vincent Bevins. It concerns American support for the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66.
Rip.
Maradona is the Michael Jackson of football. Out of this world both on and off pitch/stage. A larger than life charismatic eccentric. See the other goal he scored in the hand of God game (a world cup semi final no less) to see a complete picture of what he was all about.
The challenge is when every problem becomes a hammer in search of a nail — corn and soy being the hammer in industrial farming.

Industrial agriculture is phenomenal, and a miracle of the 20th century. But at the same time, the negative externalities (to borrow a fifty cent phrase) have basically caught up with us. Monocultures are environmentally costly, and land use change is a major driver of climate change.

Personally I’d love to see a patchwork of local, regional farms supplementing an ever larger share of the food supply. There’s appetite for this type of produce — wealthy suburbanites are more and more willing to spend extra for “organic”, as flawed as that term may be.
Agreed. Transitioning into tech for this very reason has yielding amazing results for me.
> So there is literally no benefit.

If there were no benefit, Apple wouldn't be able to decode 8K video with a low end Mac mini. People wouldn't be seeing vastly better battery life when viewing videos and using Zoom.
The Betsy GPU texture compressor
I guess that depends on whether or not you think there is a political party that stands for “unwanted sexual advances”.
Are there any group buys that could be set up? Surely there are at least 43 people in the world who want to buy that part but don't want to buy the full MOQ
I've been trying to build QEMU but keep running into road blocks. Will work on it again today.
RIP - Best football player of all time
Negative this is a horrible idea. MRI would sap all the nutrition from food.
Now we have three problems...
Vidl is a great free alternative based on youtube-dl https://omz-software.com/vidl/
Why Was Aristotle, Freud, & Many Others Fascinated by European Eels?
I think there may be a probabilistic argument for some of these points.

While a sample size of one is not much, it's more than none. We know we have life on our planet, so we know it's possible in an earth like environment. So the only evidence we have points to earth like planets being more likely.

The interstellar space craft is of course possible, but since we don't have any ourselves, but we have radio for a while now, it seems more likely that the signal originated from a planet, since the interstellar space craft is much more complex technology for which we don't have evidence yet.
An Early Stage Startup Can Operationalize It’s Way to Product-Market Fit
"Company of One", by Paul Jarvis, the co-founder of Fathom Analytics

he goes through lots of stories and anecdotes from companies, consultants, and agencies who found that staying small can be a strategic advantage

growth is a means to an end, but not an end in and of itself

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Company-One-Staying-Small-Business/dp...
No you dont. It would be silly if you needed a license to open or concealed carry on your own property. That would make it impossible for most Californians to perform gun maintenance at home or defend themselves from an intruder.

Here's a decent summary from Gabby Giffords mentioning the right to carry at home and at work (requires permission of business owner but NOT necessarily landlord): https://giffords.org/lawcenter/state-laws/location-restricti...

If you wanna go straight to the source, section 26035 of the CA Penal Code is a good start:

"Nothing in Section 25850 shall prevent any person engaged in any lawful business... or any officer, employee, or agent authorized by that person for lawful purposes connected with that business, from having a loaded firearm within the person’s place of business"

25525 PC is also relevant as it reiterates the home & business exemption to concealed carry laws
Here's an experiment to that end: https://github.com/SwiftObjects/SwiftObjects
How does your argument apply to humans then? How long until you consider an embryo a living human?
Because building in a parser is inappropriate; it isn't generally worth it. You use a separate tool or framework, you don't build it into a language.
I assume its a holdover from the Government Secure Intranet that was designed in the 1990s by Cable and Wireless, one of the UK's main telecoms infrastructure companies at the time and which was only privatised in the 80s. C&W was taken over by Vodafone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Secure_Intranet
Other ways of cheating you listed require preparation which proves intent. Hand usage sometimes happens unintentionally.
> Get to know your customers before selling to them...The easiest way to go about this is to solve your own problem.

The headline is good advice but being your own first customer is rarely good.

First the bad:

1: if you have problem X and have the in house skills to fix it, it’s likely that your potential customers can fix it for themselves too.

2: you are not the same as anyone else: you can fake yourself out by believing that your potential customer thinks the same way you do. If your prospects are quite different from you (say you’re a programmer writing a tool for doctors) you’ll work harder to understand their real and perceived needs.

But sometimes this is good advice:

1 - Even if you are different from your customer (say you’re writing something broadly applicable like a web site design tool for small business), “eating your own dog food” will find bugs and infelicities faster.

2 - if your customer has the same needs as you perhaps you already know how to meet said customer easily, such as trade groups you’re already in.

In general the advice in this post was pretty basic and generic but I didn’t want to let the issue above pass I commented.
Just don't quote anything from Dieter Bohn
Perhaps the death is less pain-/stressful for the egg since it isn't aware of its surroundings yet? (Or is it?)
Huh. That feels like potentially coming very close to germ theory.
> Plus, in 5 years they will be reconsidering workplace setup due to back pain and/or carpal.

This is where I'm at.

I don't know if other people are built from sturdier stuff than me or what, but typing on a laptop to any significant extent leaves me with tendonitis for several days. And staring at a laptop screen too long leaves me with neck pain.

Laptops are a nightmare in terms of ergonomics.

It's been a bit of a blessing for me because I only have a laptop at home, and it basically means I can't take work home with me.

But I'm pretty seriously considering upgrading to a traditional desktop sometime in the next year.
I started this year with a couple dozen chickens, a motley crew of heritage breeds. Our (formerly 3) roosters definitely started showing aggression before 6 months. Furthermore, the repeated mounting of the hens is pretty abusive - chicken sex, I'm sorry to say, is pretty much rape.

That said, as you noted, on an industrial scale you would separate the roosters. But it's not clear that there's any market at all for rooster meat. Chicken meat is incredibly cheap and adds surprisingly little margin above the main input cost - feed. Roosters consume just as much feed but produce a lesser quantity of inferior meat. The margins are likely to be negative.

It's an efficiency story yes, but of the "you'll go bankrupt with this idea" sort.
> It's hard to see how rent can be disconnected from the property value because if the achievable rent for a property skyrockets that will pull the property's value up.

It's the other way around that disconnects happen: rents stay the same and property prices go up.

But that's not why you got downvoted, no. You misunderstand price controls. It doesn't mean that everybody should have access to a nice apartment in a sought-after area. It means that I should have access to a nice apartment in a sought-after area.
Here's a picture taken (not by me) with the 6mm lens:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RASPBERRY_PI_PROJECTS/comments/gnww...

It works well as a macro camera for super close up pictures, but otherwise it's pretty terrible when compared to my other lenses.

I don't know which lens Jeff used in his video, I would have to rewatch it and I'm not inclined to do that. If he used the 6mm lens he would have likely cropped the image or used post-processing to remove the distortion.

Processing the image is a solution, but it has tradeoffs and I'm not sure how easy it is to do it in real-time on a rapsberry pi zero.
No, he would have got a yellow card at the most. In the 80s? Not even that. A regular fault and move on.
Great little app. Just tried it and seems to be working flawlessly, even with many files at the same time.
> But that doesn't keep me from recognizing the ethical issues with killing and controlling other beings to survive.

We don't undergo photosynthesis, so fundamentally we have to kill and eat other beings to survive. Plants are other living beings too. And a revolution is underway in learning about plant intelligence -- while not a nervous system, trees communicate with each other and share resources. [1]

My primary reason for trying to eat less meat is the environmental harms -- not the individual rights of animals -- as I think might eventually find ourselves in a place where we recognize that we cannot escape denying the rights of another organism (plants included) for our own nourishment given that we aren't photosynthesizers. Unless we become fruitarians and only eat fruit that naturally falls from the tree -- but obviously that is ludicrous.

[1] https://mothertreeproject.org/about-mother-trees/
"Enterprise software is boring"
Windows 10 phone can turn into a full PC (2015)
Why we rewrote our JavaScript SDK in TypeScript
I hate to be that guy... Would you be kind and post some sources of that information please?
I think a seasoned developer needs about 3 months to get familiar with a new framework/toolset within the same environment e.g. moving from React to Angular. What can a person without prior in-depth knowledge learn in a Three-month, full-time software-engineering course?

This does not sound to me a programme wherein they genuinely want people to get into software development.

But disprove me please, if you have experience about this.
Parking Minimums: From 101 to Taking Action
Ask HN: Would you find a browser extension that screens for toxic text useful?
Hello,

I and a couple of friends had the idea to make a browser extension that can use AI/NLP to screen comments on sites like HN, reddit, twitter, etc. to detect toxic or negative content (and warn you before you read it, basically, if you have the extension set to be on). But, we are not sure if there is much of a need there; would this be useful for regular HNers/redditors? Any chance moderators could chime in and let us know their take?

Thank you!
> but also wouldn't cut its price so it got steadily worse value as time wore on

This has long been an issue for Apple products. It's why the best time to buy an Apple product is right after an update.
Object Oriented Dynamic Dispatch in Haskell
To put some numbers in perspective:

In the US, the sale of public lands for everything west of the Ohio River was on the basis of the Public Land Survey System. The smallest saleable parcel was a "quarter-quarter section", or 40 acres (~16 hectares) of land. The Homestead Acts would grant (at various times) 160, 320, or 640 acres of land to free for anyone who would farm out. In other wards, the "small" pioneer farms of American history are in the top 1% of all farms.

Put differently, the large number of small farms is driven by the size of subsistence farms in the intense rice-growing areas of Southeast Asia (rice being more productive per acre than wheat, especially if you're not dealing with industrial inputs). Then, you have the subsistence farms of less-productive crops like wheat, mostly in Africa.
The problem may be, you're getting a lawyer after the fact. Maybe your contract sucks and you have little to no recourse. You need a lawyer up front, reviewing your contract.

This is relevant for every contractor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
Yeah. We have all the efficiency we need in growing food, and more besides. (At least in terms of output - maybe not in terms of sustainability and environmental damage.) But as you say, we really want resiliency, too.
>This doesn't really differ from the germ theory of disease as we understand it today.

I disagree. Germ theory also covers stuff like non-airborne transmission (food/water/bodily fluids). The only thing that it got right is "you can get infected by invisible things in the air", but even then it's not that accurate. Do people really get sick from the air near swamps, or is it the mosquitoes?
It was changed after the event and is now 12 hours. Which is probably more appropriate considering that most people don't restart their applications every few minutes.
A better comparison might be Heroku, which, post SF acquisition, hasn't really changed to become more SalesForce-y as far as I can see.
Hasn't it always been this way? The only difference is now there are a lot more computer-illiterate people using computers.
> What we need is another category of transitional employment, with both much lighter regulatory barriers to turnover as well as more relaxed cultural expectations about job security.

I'd usually call this a „trainee”.

> The biggest thing from the employer side is that the cost of a single bad hire can be potentially enormous.

You haven't mentioned the „lost” time for other developers. Unless the hiring company has a very efficient onboarding process, any new and „bad” hire will cost _a lot_ in terms of productivity. Some people are certainly able to contribute meaningfully after a 3 month bootcamp and continue their self-study on the job. But many just won't cut it in an environment where everyone else had a 3 year acadamic/vocational training or other meaningful experience before even being considered as a hire.
There is also a recent netflix series about him as a coach in Mexico. I found it entertaining and learned a lot about Maradona.
Well, it’s time to ditch slack. What is a good alternative that isn’t Microsoft or Google owned?
AWS internal Kinesis outage in us-east-1 causes errors in many services
Hopefully, but the NIF should really stop pretending it's about anything other than developing nuclear weapons. This is after all a research project that has publicly failed to reach its basic science goal for a solid 45 years across four generations of experiments (to compare with the 2 and a bit for tokamak experiments).
Sit Straight Up: How Dieting Is Like Posture
>with a small number of animals to live reasonably natural lives and produce goods for realistic, high, prizes to be consumed as a luxury or exotic thing. Sorry, I'm a dreamer I guess, continuously disappointed by a world that doesn't seem to be able to set any significant goals nor pursue them at large scale unless it's for profit and likely at the cost of the rest of the world.
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Tell that to the kids literally starving in Yemen... Or the 8 Million people that died of starvation last year. Your holier than thou stance is kind of disgusting in the face of immense human suffering.
Of course it is a scam. Learning how to print "Hello World" and counting to 10 is not software engineering.
Which grocery store? HEB?
There is no 'perfect' store of value. If you have a lot of value to store, crypto should absolutely be part of your portfolio. Stocks fluctuate by large percentages and people put their entire retirement savings in those. Property fluctuates as well. The dollar itself may be fluctuating more than usual soon given amount of unchecked spending that happened this year.

No store of value is safe, do what financial advisors says and diversify evenly across asset classes. It's not about making money, it's about maintaining what you have.