skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of our current issue with covid is that you can find virtually anything to support whatever you want to believe. Myself included.

So I guess it’s 15 minutes of cumulative exposure over the course of 24 hours.

Indoors, sure wear a mask. I wear a mask where required indoors. But outdoors no thanks.

What’s the trouble? A behavior devoid of reason is nothing more than a ritual. Furthermore, it sets the expectation that the behavior does actually provide tangible benefit leading to a false sense of security and lead to riskier behaviors than what would have otherwise occurred. Finally, masks are not created equal. How do I know the mask “you” are wearing is actually worth a damn?

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/10/26/cdc-re...
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Fully-committed shills are not shills.

Edit to clarify: I meant that a shill with skin in the game is less of a shill. Of course a shill can be "fully commited" to shilling, but if they are fully committed to the thing which they are promoting, then they are not a shill in my eyes.
Because Amazon are use their disproportionate position of power to abuse these employees. It is far from an even playing field. This very article we're commenting on shows that Amazon are trying hard to keep it from becoming fair and equal. I find your lack of compassion for underprivileged employees astounding.

> Every employer should be required by law to provide a safe workplace free of discrimination and harassment.

And who is going to sue when they are underpaid and have no other job options available? Litigation is time consuming and expensive and rent won't wait.
How? On your inactive email account?

My experience has shown that they're not great about deletion notifications. They changed how deleted items work in Drive, but never notified me outside of drive (work or personal, my memory backed up by a negative gmail search). Which was fine in this instance, but it doesn't set a great trend.

It's unfortunate, too, because their security group is nicely pedantic in notifying you about things.
The first concern regarding test inaccuracy, sure, that’s the same as saying false negatives should also still quartantine because, hey, the test could be wrong. But we don’t require that.

As to your second point, would you also be saying we should still mask and social distance after vaccination, because just in case?
I'm shocked that Apple hardware isn't 100% failure proof, like Dell, HP, Lenova, Surface, etc. I wonder which of those brands has the highest customer satisfaction?
FAST in China is basically a modern version of Arecibo, isn't it? (with some minor differences) Construction started in 2011 and it was declared fully operational in January this year.

The wiki page actually has a section comparing it to Arecibo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp...
Same - many years of emails just gone. That experience is what made me start archiving all my email locally (simply Thunderbird with IMAP + routine Time Machine backups).
haha.... :'(
Lenovo has several AMD options in the Thinkpad lineup. Personally I'm eyeing an T14 but am really putting it off as I'm hoping System76 actually gets their in-house designed laptops available as I'd like to see those before pulling the trigger on yet another Lenovo.
It definitely has - PS/2 is interrupt driven, while USB requires polling. This alone introduces enough lag to be felt during normal use.
This is kinda huge for me. My app sales dropped by 70% since March.
Doctors benefit from better tools and processes too, but this is all wildly beside the point, because my point was not that we can’t build a better programmer, it’s that we can’t just build a better programmer, for the reason that I then went on to outline.

You bring up a great point, though. Historically, C is often not trusted for software where people’s lives are on the line. Thus bringing up doctors is a great example of how building a better programmer is not good enough. There’s an entire class of “safety critical” programming practices and standards and it was common to prefer a language like Ada that made more bugs and logic errors into compiler errors.
True. But the amount of people who care about that is tiny compared with the masses. For music for example, I'm a happy Qobuz customer because I appreciate hi-res quality and I have the gear to enjoy it, but I know plenty of folks who are just fine with Pandora or Spotify. Same with this. I'd be willing to bet a huge percentage of folks will watch these movies in their mobile.
The anti-nuclear greens share a lot of the responsible for the current mess we are in with regards to climate change with Big Oil.

Big Oil told us there was nothing to worry about and produced oil, anti-nuclear greens made sure there was no viable alternative for fossil fuels for decades.

Thankfully, we are now developing the solar power and battery tech that can provide an alternative, but we lost several decades.
This won't answer this question in full but perhaps some part of it.

Projects like PostgREST (and PostGraphile) use schema introspection to generate the API. When the schema changes it's automatically reflected in the API. Sure one has to keep the changes synced on the frontend but the premise is you don't want to decouple.
When can we just use some kind of CA style PKI and let banks sign customers client side certs to sign payments?

Having banks build payment networks from scratch with all kinds of weird fee structures, security problems, and other caveats really really sucks.
The Most Powerful Real-Time SERP API
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Dupe from a month ago, with multiple 300+ comment threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060973

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25081350

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060882
I don't think more demands can make a set of demands less unreasonable unless it's an either-or type list of demands.
They deleted my youtube vids. Now there is guy in California that claims he invented what was shown as an invention in one of my videos. Got $10 million in startup capital for it. Video was 2009.
On HN, a downvote is an attempt to make a conflicting opinion disappear, and flagging is a super-downvote.
Are you able to give any rough indication of when a Linux client might be available? Are we talking months, years etc?

Also do you have a pricing strategy in mind yet for when this moves out of beta? (Sorry if I missed that on the site)
Because this isn't academia, despite the trappings. If I'm working for Reynolds Tobacco Research and wish to publish a paper on tobacco causation of cancer, they're doing to stop my publication under their auspices.
This missing ")" in the title and in the content gives me goosebumps.
Getting to know someone is a process -- talking before and after the movie gets that going. The shared experience of watching the movie gives you something to talk about and reflect on. One need not know everything about a person before beginning to enjoy spending time with them.

If someone is so interesting in pre-movie conversation that you mutually decide that the conversation is better than whatever the movie has to offer, the movie will be there tomorrow.

Also, movie theaters are dark rooms in a fairly safe public space, which is relatively unique. It is a safe place to, say, hold someone's hand for the first time without immediate societal visibility.

If movies don't seem like a great date venue, there are other people out there who feel the same way.
Yeah but with those brands I could factory reset the bios and called it a day, or worst case popped the lid and pushed the nvme ssd back into place.

I don't think it's hardware but a controller firmware issue.
Movie then dinner after gives you something to talk about. It used to work better before movies got so crazy long but it's the same concept of any activity paired with a date something to do/talk about when you have a pause in conversation.
Thanks for sharing.

Curious: How did she 'force him to give up on twitter'?

There's a lotta companies who've hired ticking time bombs like this. They don't get why they were truly hired.
This is kind of... fluffy for an HN post. It makes no mention of distributing your application between availability zones as a first step, swats away at the issues involved in any of the suggestions, then ends with “just configure what you need to configure for RDS and S3 replication and restore the rest by hand from backup.”
Like everyone else is saying: fastmail.com. If you pay for 3 years up front it is like $3 a month.
Good lord, don't touch there! You're risking burning your fingerprints off, then you won't be able to easily unlock your computer and phone!
Sorry, I didn't pay close attention to the source. You got me on that one.

My main point is that cocaine isn't a hard drug until it gets artificially concentrated. I've botched it by being too pedantic and there's probably no point in getting into it with people here today, Sam -- assuming that is your actual name, if we are going to act like we are on some kind of first name basis here and call me "Doreen."
NE2000 compatible sounds like “Hayes AT” compatible: a true blast from the past.
If you are using gmail, you probably could use "Check email from other accounts:" under "Settings / Accounts and Import". It fetches new mails periodically using POP3 or IMAP.

If you host your own mail server, you could use https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html instead.
Depends what other parts of the world we're talking about. I bet you the highlands of Southeast Asia, the foothills of the Himalayas, and the Kenyan highlands could grow some superb coca.

Oh, and Ethiopia. And Java. Hawaii, probably.

Basically if you can grow top-notch coffee, you can grow coca.
China’s dam plan in Tibet worries downstream India
They stop your gmail from receiving inbound emails if you don't pay to upgrade for storage [15gb]. Within 24 hours!

I just reached that, and the first alert I see on my email [1] feels quite threatening. It's like I came home, and there's an unexpected eviction on the door.

IMO, this is way worse that account inactivity. Who remembers that ever-increasing ticker on the gmail homepage that advertised "Your storage with us is always growing", and it was like 10gb + the counter was increasing live.

Ridiculous.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/fBrlu4t
We're in a bad position today - but we should be aware that an under-investment in education and other social services has caused our tax payers to not be the best candidates.
> You’d literally make more money today taking your cash and starting a business than dumping it in some of these worthless pursuits.

Well yeah, starting a business is literally the riskiest thing you can do with a wad of cash. Much riskier than cryptocurrencies, riskier than most casinos. Of course it's going to have higher potential upside, but 75% of companies go completely broke within their first 15 years.
> forced ... to give up on Twitter after she took exception to this tweet

Can you provide a source for this. What did she say?

There are legitimate criticisms of Yann's tweet. Just because he is technically correct about how ML works doesn't mean that what he is saying isn't ALSO a classical dismissal of the concerns people have with AI.

The issue isn't that ML is evil or racist. The issue is that if it is used too objectively detached from the reality of the world it operates in, the outcomes could be used for evil or with racist intents.

AI scientists like LeCun handwaves away concerns about diversity in data sources, just as his employer handwaves away concerns about engagement algorithms surfacing misinformation on the platform.

But the societal consequences remain for others to deal with.
"Developer Mode" exists in many new devices, eg. Chromebooks, Oculus Quest, Android phones.
Except that they really don't. That may change post pandemic and would change in the long term due to policy decisions. But global offices tend to organize around specific functions and/or products. A lot happen by acquisition. You need, not just the talented employee but all of the support systems in place around them to operate in that country. That cost is a lot higher than bringing them over. Then you have the risk of them leaving too. Way more expensive than employing 4k H1Bs.

Then once you get that office established you can bring people over on L1 visas I believe.
The graphs on this article do not appear to show that the U.S. has decarbonized as much as Germany. I guess I’m missing something?

Also, as I understand it, Germany’s government did pay a higher upfront cost for solar panels, but in doing so, single-handedly enabled economies of scale in solar panel manufacturing that didn’t exist before, spurring the dramatic reduction in solar panel prices we’ve seen over the last decade.
I had more in mind things like "Cast Away" or poor souls who were held in captivity in a remote foreign country by the government there or local pirates or terrorists. When you return to "normal" life you even loose your email, photos and everything just because you could not log in for 2 years :(
And get them to work more unpaid OT
Wow, this is really well articulated and a great analysis of modern Twitter-driven social complaint. Please consider expanding this (IE, iterating over the various techniques used to "win" social arguments on Twitter). You can see her other tweets and replies, but I'd also include and contrast less progressive tweeters (such as the president's supporters).
It is not the job of the US Government to ensure "the best person for the job gets retained" or "the process is more fair to non-nationals". Its primary goal is to do whatever is in the best interests of US citizens and the United States. It's possible to argue that it fails to achieve its primary goal, but unreasonable to expect it to prioritize employment opportunities for citizens of other countries.
Serious question: Why doesn't AMZ just buy TimeScaleDB instead of building their own? Time series db's in general seem to fit their vibe pretty well: it's a new hot tech, it's usually deeply embedded into infrastructure, and requires loads of bandwidth & storage.
I'm with you.

I've had my share of Apple skepticism over the years (and even some unwarranted Apple hate earlier in my life), but these days, I use Apple products because for the most part, they just work.

There are absolutely valid criticisms of Apple and their products, but this is not limited to Apple. It does seem that critics are especially vocal, and this drowns out the happy users who don't necessarily have reasons to go around proclaiming their happiness.

Squeaky wheels and all that...
> What if scientists don't understand reason?

They do.

> Do they see science is subject to reason

Yes, the scientific method is a specific kind of probabilistic reasoning that works remarkably well in practice: you make a guess about how the world works, you design an experiment, and either reject the theory or not. You can only reject a theory, but never confirm it with absolute certainty. Theories that disagree with experiment are rubbish. Theories that pass the test of many experiments are believed to be true only with very high probability. Theories that can't be tested are outside the realm of science.
> No, she didn't say that.

Citation needed. Gebru could publish it — she's not exactly silent — but chooses not to.

It's perfectly reasonable to think that someone hiding something has something to hide.
I fully agree and treat my databases the same way. However, there’s no reason a stored procedure couldn’t be treated the same way with a random weight determining which version of a stored procedure is run.

But I still wouldn’t.
It's why I use POP wherever possible.
Kubernetes dropping Docker is not that big of a deal
Definitely not everything. Non-compositing window managers on Linux (non-wayland of course) work in the old way.
No problem, my fault I misread your comment. `row_id` is a unique identifier for the row, for example my API will need it when the user wants to delete the specific row. Since it's possible for multiple rows to have the same `time`, even for the same `user_id`, I cannot assume uniqueness there.

Partitioning on the row_id by making it an ordinal instead of a UUID could work, however I feel I would be missing out on TimescaleDB's advantages for querying based on the `time` filter?

Consider that my main queries are:

* DELETE FROM t WHERE row_id = xyz AND user_id = xyz

* INSERT INTO t (...)

* SELECT FROM t WHERE user_id = xyz AND time > xyz and time < xyz
Wow, so everyone who's in jail or going to jail will lose their accounts
Why would do they do that? The grand-parent post shows that those nuclear plants would be generating electricity in massive excess of what Germany needs (see the part about exporting). In addition, unlike renewables, the generation is stable not depending on weather or time of year. In that scenario, coal plants would be completely uneconomical to run.
This doesn't mean anything, you need to make an argument as to why you believe that for an asset to be successful as a currency, its number of units needs to expand or contract in relation to value being produced.
> if you are a researcher in academia you won't be asked to retract your research because it makes someone look bad.

Not entirely accurate (worked in academia). If your research makes someone look bad or have a chance to jeopardize financing, usually you won't get a chance even to send the paper, because it will be shut down in your research center by either your mentor or other peers.

Sound mentors are well connected with publishers, and even if you somehow send it under the radar (which will be the end of your research career), someone will call either your mentor or management for confirmation.

> she didn't present the results of her research in a light that favours the company's goals.

The same is happening in academia, but let's not open Pandora's box :)
“In 2 separate places “
"Diem" like the assassinated Vietnamese President, no doubt.
Is there an automated version of this?
> this is exactly Ponzi without a CA

Which would be...not a Ponzi Scheme. What makes you say that besides "junk on social media?"
I personally never liked movie going, it was worse than video games. At least with those you can still talk to your friends but with movies you have to sit in complete silence with just about zero interaction for over an hour. Honestly the whole thing felt like an almost complete waste of time.

Yeah you get a shared experience out of it but I'm not sure that's any better than just independently watching the movie
Good idea. And now they can fill up container ships with cubic acres of coke and go straight to Portland.
Just logged on and downloaded all my photos!
Like I said, the world is what you filter it to be.
I read the article as spanking Germany rather than patting the US on the back.

I would summarize the argument as the German effort was so misguided it had a proportionally similar effect as the US non-effort.

Edit: and therefore Germany is not an example for the US to emulate.

As for me, I've been against shutting down working nuclear reactors, but I don't feel qualified to decide on the other components of the plan.
This is reasonable.

Delete some filter emails won't take you 10 minutes
Sorry, I meant the original.
Yes, that's my first name.

I didn't put your name in scare quotes, and you should do me the favor of doing likewise.

Edit: forgot to add, the point is that THC is a partial agonist, while cocaine is a dopamine reuptake inhibitor. They act on completely different systems in completely different ways, and in particular, the more cocaine you take, the higher you get, right up until it kills you.

This isn't true of THC, they simply aren't comparable in the way you're trying to compare them.
I think its still news

Its a “they did what!?!” as much as any article about company or VC or influential person
Sure, but you can't give an ultimatum like "... then I can't work here anymore" and not follow through with it.
This article is about Facebook hiring H1Bs as full time employees. You can't sponsor green card for your contractors. Also Facebook doesn't hire a lot of contractors compared to other big tech companies.
If you are on an L1a then you should be going for an EB1 and that is unnecessary. If you are on an L1b then you are probably going for an EB2 and that application does require a PERM. But neither type requires one to bring you to the US in the first place.

https://www.path2usa.com/l1a-vs-l1b-visa
> I like using my linux desktop because I can set it up exactly how I want, and macOS just doesn't roll that way.

I'm not trying to have an argument here, but I've never really understood what is the "exactly how you want" that Mac OS doesn't provide? Would you mind sharing some details? Is it just a matter of not being familiar with the places to change the defaults to something more to your liking, or is it actually missing the ability to do something you need?

I've been a Mac user since the 80s, I write software for a living, and I understand that among tech folk there is a continental divide between convention and configuration, and I think that might translate to choice in OS, too. Seems to me that most Mac users are on the convention over configuration side, and most people who are anti-MacOS are the opposite; they want to configure every bit. Just wondering if that's the case here, too, or if there's more to it specifically.
Windows has built in unzipping too, but I still find WinZip really useful (for zipping, and fast unzipping the way I want).
AI ethics researcher sounds like a fluff position anyway, she got hired to give Google a shine of inclusiveness to the non technical people that think AI is going to take over the world and doesn't understand that the current state of it is nothing more than pattern recognition and statistics.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but it still bothers me that people like this get highly paid positions to point out problems seemingly without any technical knowledge. And then she's delusional enough to think that she can misbehave and make ultimatums?

The article links to a "landmark study" that shows that black women are underrepresented in training datasets and therefore misclassified more. Sure, that's important to fix, but it sounds like an undergraduate project, and it's not something I would call AI.
You’d also find that most public companies don’t increase their earnings growth substantially over extended periods of time, causing one to lose value correspondingly.
So I don't know enough to make a well informed opinion; however it seems part of the aggreivement on her part is that she was not given the names of those who peer reviewed her paper.

If internally she has a history of bringing race or sex into every discussion I could see why they'd rather be anonymous. Even being accused of being racist can ruin someone's career in this current climate.
It's a very unique name combination, no one else on earth would have a legitimate use for it. It's more a matter of just making sure I own and control it so I can give it to them later. I'm thinking more of a situation with spammers/scammers registering the address or something.
Databases are engineered for high reliability - data integrity above all else. That means they develop more slowly and are perpetually behind what you expect from a modern programming language.

If someone created a database with the intention of it being a good development framework, it would probably be more pleasurable to code against, but would you trust it with your data?
Thanks Steve. I have studied the "200 lines" book a few days ago, but was still confused. Only after seeing your talks, everything becomes so much clearer. These talks should really be part of the "async book" :)