skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in Wisconsin and bike all year. I have a hybrid with studded tires (specifically Nokian) and an internal hub. I'd also like to get a fat bike for fresh/powdery snow, but it's rare that's a big deal. There's of course some trade-off between how much traction/stability your tires give you and how much friction & inertia you have to work against when pedaling. Some people have a few different winter options so they can select the bike that will be easiest to propel but still be able to handle the particular day's conditions.

It's good to have warm clothes for your extremities, but your core gets surprisingly warm when you bike with any kind of coat on. I often just wear a think goretex jacket till it's in the single digits fahrenheit. I wear winter boots, warm gloves or mittens (depending on how cold it is), and a balaclava or gaiter. Also ski goggles for really cold/windy weather. If you don't start off feeling somewhat cold, you've overdressed.
> The command line of the past was machine-first

> Traditionally, UNIX commands were written under the assumption they were going to be used primarily by other programs

Is there any real factual basis for these claims? I find them hard to believe, considering the origins of UNIX and the fact that shell was the primary (or even only) user interface for the system, and it was pretty much from day 1 designed as an interactive system (contrasted to the more batch/system oriented mainframes of IBM etc)
The metro stations are not accessible, though. Getting around Paris without a bike or metro is tricky without a car.
If you looked at the evaluations, then look at the % founder ownership, https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/ - at least a few
With eBikes the number of folks who can go at bike race speeds is incredible

It would only be incredible if that number is higher than 0. An ebike has higher friction than a racing bicycle and even the fastest ones have a top speed of 45 km/h (30 mph). "Bike race speeds" (road races) are up to 65 km/h, so 40 mph. I don't think even a Tour de France-level cyclist could reach bike race speeds on an eBike.
Outdoors alone, is the best place you can be right now.
The number of startups that IPO and 2x or better is strictly less than the number that even make it to IPO. The 10 year window is certainly better than 90 days, but options just increase your chance of being a bagholder.

In the case of an acquisition, options also can screw you. In my view, it’s always better to have either shares or equity most comparable to what the founders have. Be ready to sell early at any time.
> The mechanism for how these vaccines work is pretty straightforward, well understood, and quick acting.

Before 2020, mRNA was only considered a theoretical or experimental candidate for use in humans. Sure, we have a theory behind the mechanism, but that's it. Your implication that we know all about what these novel, unfamiliar mRNA vaccines will do is flat out wrong.

> This idea that there is some sort of known risk of a significant issue popping up out of nowhere months or years down the road has no historical precedent.

That's because there's almost no precedent at all.

https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007%2F978-1-4939-6481...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccines
Not pointless. Having such a bill pass the House contributes to the normalization of cannabis legalization.
Yes, this is typically how politics works. Bills should pass by a very narrow margin. Excess votes represents potential political energy. If a bill passes with a large margin, that means that there was probably something else that could have been added that would have lost some of those votes, but not enough to still not pass. It's all a game of The Price Is Right, getting closest to the number but not going over.
And that's really all that's going on at Reddit these days; let's be honest. It's a thin veneer over the world's largest porn portal.
The war on drugs has been a long Republican policy, right along with family values.
Still not sure if this person/community is also behind the one in Romania, they've only suggested Utah and Cali via pics.
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The fact that this won't sail through congress in a week (it'll never even come up for a vote in the senate) really illustrates how out of touch legislators are with voters. If there was a nationwide referendum on legalizing (not just decriminalizing) it would pass in a landslide today. Instead, congress will dither on this issue for probably the next five years at minimum.

I realize it's more complicated than giving voters what they want. The US has flexed its policy muscles for the drug war for decades, and fully legalizing now would violate a number of important treaties with other countries. However, decriminalizing should be a no-brainer.
I don't know about other people, but I always gave my best when competing with my younger sibling. I have to imagine the tenacity that develops in such a situation is extremely valuable. They don't look to win, since they know they won't, instead, they look for a series of micro-victories. Which means they learn to constantly analyze their opponents and wait patiently for the opportunity to best them in some small aspect.

I used to teach jujitsu when I was younger. My younger (by 5 years) cousin was a student there and he loved to practice with me outside of class. I remember one time we were doing some informal practice in the afternoon, and during a standing grapple, something distracted me at the door of the gym. In an instant, he grabbed my leg and slammed me hard into the ground. I was totally shocked and he wasted no time jumping up and down, celebrating for a good 5 minutes. He was absolutely as excited as he would have been had he won a championship match.

I'm guessing he had that move planned for weeks or months before ever getting the opportunity to execute it.
You're right, biography is definitely a tricky one.

When I was replying I was thinking of some common "complaints" about Wikipedia like "why the hell we need an article for every single team's 1928 season in 3rd tier Polish football" etc.
What a pea brained response.
I agree completely. We intentionally designed the old interface to be information dense. When we made it slightly less dense, there was such a strong pushback that we had to add an option to go back to the more dense mode.

But there are a lot of users who don't care. And maintaining two interfaces is double the work of maintaining one, because you have test everything twice. And it's actually geometric, not double, because you have to test every new option combination in both interfaces.
It is your choice, in Git:

git config --global help.format man
Laravel: Unique Validation with Another Column
The more useful outcome is CAD for proteins. Studying existing proteins is just a small fraction of the possible uses.
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Eh, it's a broadly popular policy with huge moderate appeal: https://news.gallup.com/poll/323582/support-legal-marijuana-...

Centrist Democrats have been trying to get this moderate base for a while, and leftist Democrats are obviously gonna support legalization, so this seems like the rare case where they actually get to be aligned on something broadly and would push it if they were in power.
The Georgia elections on January 5th decide whether this will remain the case.
That makes Ocaml and Haskel into scripting languages.
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NFL Teams That Score 16 Points Win More Often Than Teams That Score 21. Why?
I see this in wrestling all the time.

First off, the biggest influence would seem to be having a parent who is a coach or competed at a high level. I don't see how this would change by birth order as all the kids are likely wrestling before they walk.

For kids with parents new to the sport, I see a couple possible reasons. First and foremost I would say that having an bigger/stronger sibling to spar with benefits the younger child more than the other. I can also assure you that at least with wrestling, this happens throughout the day, anywhere in the house. Even for other sports, I can see this happening. Show up a bit early and pass the ball around, or warmup with techniques. The younger child will be be exposed to someone with slightly better technique on a regular basis.

The other factor I see is that the parents just have a better idea of how it works. Which tournaments/camps/clubs to sign up for outside the regular scholastic season.

Also, the younger sibling may just start earlier. You're already dragging them along to all the tournaments and clubs anyway, may as well sign them up, too. So they end up starting a couple years earlier.
I think it got hugged to death.
Poll shows 61 percent of Americans likely to take Covid-19 vaccine
It’s almost like the US is a representational republic, not a democracy.
> Coverage is an interesting heuristic but 100% code coverage is not 100% bug free code.

Absolutely correct. But at the same time, <100% coverage means you’ve got code where you can’t be sure there are no bugs because it doesn’t even get tested.

Strive for full coverage that hits every line AND tests the appropriate scenarios and edge cases.
Employees have the choice in that they are free agents and can choose to accept or reject any contract. And they themselves can go and found a company just like the founders on the other side of the table.

Would it be nice if employees were given options to wiggle fixed comp to adjust to their own risk profiles - so they could choose more guaranteed pay with less risk, or more possible upside with more risk? Sure, absolutely. But I don't see how that should be a requirement, nor do I think companies not offering part-ownership are doing something wrong.

And I don't understand why employees would ever be compensated for the "full value of their labor". When you work for a company, your labor generally only makes sense within the context of the larger organization. Could that context explain the differences between what employees produce for the company, versus what they are paid?
Wouldn't it just be "in brackets"?

I used to hear that quite often - not so much in recent years, if I think about it, but that may be by chance. I think it is what I would say.
modern reddit is a terrible experience.
And AMT can mean a $5k/year accountant if you want to play it right. IMO AMT risk not worth it unless the comp package is well north of $1m.
Comments like this add nothing. By this logic, the inverse is also true.
The difficult part is not expressing it. Rather, it is persuading the compiler that the target implements the instruction. gcc and clang have to be convinced they are generating code for an amd64 chip manufactured since 2002 (for which "-mpopcnt" usually works). Common Linux distributions don't turn on any such flags. MSVC offers no way to persuade it, but it will issue the instruction anyway if you use its intrinsic, _popcntN(x), where N is 16, 32, or 64. Shipping Microsoft code doesn't; it is all supposed to work on the oldest amd64 chips ever made.

C++98 gave us std::bitset<N>(x).count(). With C++20 we have std::popcount(x). But getting the compiler to produce the instruction reliably and portably is no easier than before.
You actually could script against applets, it was just incredibly clunky and slow, and so not worth it.
Back in the day, compiling a Fortran program that didn't do any input or output would get you a "Program is trivial" message (and nothing else).
Creating Dynamic Dashboards with Streamlit
Maybe I am wrong and my take is too simplistic/naive (as I admit, I haven't thought too much about this topic), but imo aggregating publicly available data shouldn't count as stalking. Acting on that data in a way that could be constituted as "stalking" definitely is real stalking though and should count as a crime.

For example, if someone's ex (who was explicitly warned that he was unwelcome) continues showing up at the doorsteps because they remembered your address from a long time ago, then it is stalking. Them knowing the address isn't.

In light of this, I don't see how it matters whether they remembered the address from past experiences or just found it through a website that aggregates publicly available info. As long as the data was obtained legally and without breaking any other harassment clauses, why would just the knowledge of something be a crime?

I see it just like firearms. Having a firearm (in a lot of US jurisdictions) is not a crime, as long as it was obtained legally. Doing harmful actions with it (such as threatening people or shooting someone who didn't pose a threat to your life) is a crime. Having a firearm feels like just having data, in this scenario. As long as you don't use that data for criminal actions, why would just the potential of you being able to do something criminal with that data is a crime?
Worker protections raise the cost of doing business. Is it hypothetical that manufacturing facilities relocated to China to be able to sell products at cheaper prices than their competitors?

Is it hypothetical that a business that a retail business offers their employees lavish benefits and sells commodity products will be put out of business by lower prices from Walmart/Target/Amazon/Best Buy/etc?

Both of the above examples have happened, and capital flight is real. A few countries with better safety nets, who don't have a comparable emigration situation like in the US, does not mean that one of the two parties in the US is not trying at least a little bit.
Inquiry doesn't need to reinterpret facts.
You don’t believe that if someone makes billions they should be able to pass it on to their children?
I don't feel represented.
This isn't a universal solution by any means, but for people you regularly interact with you, you could provide them transparent masks, that allow for better lip reading.

For example: https://www.walmart.com/ip/UMfun-4PCS-Smile-Communicator-Fac...
As long as source code resides in plaintext files, writing in columns (i.e. vertically aligning blocks of text) seems like an excessive endeavor with little gain.

We are not typesetting; formatting resources should be kept to a minimum to make the code easy to handle in plaintext. Fortunately, code is restricted enough that we can do pretty well without those.

You don't write spaces to align text in Word: it's a nightmare to maintain and the software provides better tools for that purpose. Why do we still write code as if we were using a typewriter?

You may think you are improving readability by aligning columns of text, but then, the impossibility of standardizing such baroque formatting rules goes against that. Furthermore, you are preventing people from using a variable-width font, which is actually better for readability.
There is a lot we don't know about the terms of her resignation/ultimatum and early termination.

For all we know she is still getting paid for X weeks but was asked to not come in. Unless she files for unemployment it doesn't really matter though.
Jeff Dean about Timnit Gebru and Google's approach to research publication
> In all seriousness, isn’t the Republican platform weaker central government?

In all seriousness, no.

Though weaker central government is something they trot out tomjustify opposition to functions they don't like government doing, while cheerfully increasing central government power when the central government is doing things that they approve of, like regulating substances, for instance.
There are no answers at Reddit, and even if there were, the interface would hide them under the fold of the post, and take several seconds to expose. If I stumble on some terms that have been SEO'd by them, and their posts are at the top of my search results, I add "-reddit -site:reddit.com" to my search, and carry on. I wish I could just block reddit from google results, like you could in the old days.
There is harm done to no one. The Dothraki demean no one. An opinion that their clothes are unlikely, were it even demonstrated to be true, is not an argument. Historical inaccuracy, in a fantasy novel, is not an argument. "The Dothraki are a cruel mockery of the Sioux" would be an argument if that were the argument, but it's not. "The Dothraki is a demeaning stereotype of the ancient Mongols" is absurd. "Let us examine the ways that the Dothraki are like, and unlike, the historical peoples who raided Europe and caused political disruption" would be interesting and worth following. "Let us examine that and the ways the Dothraki's historical inaccuracies cause vague demeaning harm to... someone" is insufferable.

I can't state my objection to the piece more clearly. If you find it unconvincing, let's just politely agree to disagree and move on.
Both unions and UBI try to address the same problem: make it so that people do not have to choose between abuse and starvation.

But they are completely different approaches to this problem. For example, unions do not protect unemployed people, while UBI protects everyone. On the other hand, a union is something you could create tomorrow at your workplace without waiting for the rest of the country to change their minds.

In some sense, they are competing solutions, because if we had UBI, unions would be less necessary, because everyone who feels abused would have the opportunity to walk away... without ruining their life.
I've found synthetic workout clothes last pretty much forever. I have a pair of 15 year old basketball shorts that look about the same as they did brand new whereas the cotton stuff I've bought all would have holes and have faded in color by now.
WTF? WireGuard Combined with Pi-Hole and OpenVPN
It is insane for a browser to be a runtime for every desktop app. This is why people complain about 16 GB memory being too little.
What's POMLIWIR?
I briefly read about it, it says the method is similar to just converting numbers to hex (modulo + lookup in an 'alphabet', then shift, repeat until you are at zero), but with a shuffled alphabet. That doesn't sound secure _at all_ -- if an attacker can cause you to generate a bunch of IDs very quickly, it's likely that some of them will be sequential, and from there it should be easy to figure out what the shuffled alphabet was.

Indeed, from hashids.org:

> Do you have a question or comment that involves "security" and "hashids" in the same sentence? Don't use Hashids.

and then they link to a blog post with a detailed analysis (which makes it look like their characterization as just converting a number to a shuffled alphabet doesn't capture all the details) demonstrating that it's weak.
Point taken, I understand what you're saying and that plays into the mix. My next thought is that having the separate sick days with the expectation that people will only use them when needed introduces several less-than-optimal problems: 1) some employees will lie about being sick, 2) some employers won't trust their employees, interjecting the need for unnecessary dacotr's notes, etc and 3) some employees who follow the rules will resent those who don't.

Everyone getting the same combined amount of day mitigates the above, with the understanding that might be 45 PTO days instead of 30 vacation + 30 sick. This would seem to leave the problem of people who are genuinely sick for longer 15 days, under the 30+30 they'd not be dipping into their vacation days as quickly.

There will always be some number of people who run out of sick days, no matter how many you have. Maybe the policies around short-term disability should be adjusted, and the more drastic situations handled with that (requiring doctor visits, etc).

I'm currently reading "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber, something that rings a lot of bells for me. I'll admit to having an very questioning attitude about workplace culture lately :-)
This is very different. DeepMind submitted their solutions to a hidden test set at CASP14, with a known metric and a value that the subfield considered to mean solving protein folding. They cleared the bar with AlphaFold2. This is not a PR stunt by a company trying to spin their meager results.
I think one issue with this viewpoint is that while a successful company may be doing wonderful things for its users... not everyone is a user. Even the users themselves are not users 100% of the time. So, even if a company is not actively exploiting its workforce, customers, or suppliers, it might be exploiting its non-users without ever giving them much opportunity to object.

Again, Airbnb is probably the best example: users who book stays and users who rent out rooms/homes may love the service, but other people who live in those neighborhoods or buildings may not. Airbnb overrides those objections by exploiting a few issues: ambiguities in local laws; inadequate enforcement agencies who cannot handle the number of listings in their area; the inability of local residents to sufficiently organize and force their local governments to prioritize enforcement, etc...
Thanks for the response. I’m currently using them and liking them. Not as sexy as CF workers but I can have 100 delivery domains per site so my customers can point at me for essentially free.
Also don't forget about long-polling (long running request), or an iframe that refresh itself.
> and fully legalizing now would violate a number of important treaties with other countries

I'd be fascinated to know which countries. Obviously Mexico and Canada couldn't care less. Which other ones haven't already moved on?
One way I could hear people interpreting your comment--I agree on the framing point by the way, there's also external framing now with a hate-billionaires view--is that the steps to get to the thesis make sense but the thesis is not palatable. I'm not sure you'd agree with that interpretation of your comment; I'd love to hear what the problem is with that interpretation
This is the problem with both parties, I'd say - the party platforms are somewhat consistent with the views of their voting base, but the actions of the politicians don't align very well with either.

The general impression I get is that a majority of Republicans would support federal decriminalization of cannabis. Most of those support legalization as a specific goal, while others would support through their view of federalism.

A supermajority of US citizens support legalization at this point - only around 1/3 poll as be opposed as of last year, and that number is consistently falling over time.

It's honestly not a partisan issue at this point - it's a "politician" issue.
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https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.mersenne.org/repor...
I agree, but in a distributed world I wonder how we could ever end up enforcing something like that in a positive way. Like, if we add some inheritance tax that ends up being prohibitively large, at some point the amount of money these people have seems to make it impossible to enforce.
:) python3.9 -m pytest for me. My point was more that not every line of code should be treated the same way.
Big policy changes spends your political capital.

You are going to be getting angry phone calls. Better to get those angry phone calls in exchange for a spending bill that goes to your donors/constituents.

Elections have razor thin margins. What benefit does the politician get?
Using JAX to Accelerate Research
> Unlike older methods of creating vaccines this has a much lower risk of side effects because only a harmless portion of the virus's genetic code that allows it to infect people is being injected, rather than deactivated virus cells.

> Apparently the Moderna vaccine is also based on the mRNA tech: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/moderna-covid-19-vaccine

That's exactly what I have a problem with: mRNA vaccines have never been approved for use in humans, and they're only getting an emergency approval this time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccines

Don't tell me it's 'pretty interesting stuff': tell me that we're not using an experimental drug that's not using a novel type of vaccine that's never been used in humans prior to this year, for which long-term side effects are pretty much unknown.