skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read my whole reply?

> I mean, in the year 2020, sure, democrats want legal weed but I am talking about the history of the drug war in America. Democrats have never been leaders.

And it's not all the democrats that support legalization. I bet you the democrats would not be able to pass this in the senate even if they had a majority. I would put a lot of money on this wager.

You can call things "horseshit" all you want, doesn't move the discussion forward.
Fairly simple example, but assuming a little bit of nature in the nature vs. nurture argument there are probably a fair number of men out there who get a real kick out of being violent. I encourage them not to 'be yourself' except in some very specific circumstances.

A much better strategy than 'be yourself' is 'try to understand why other people think you are wrong'. That is a strategy that can improve over time. 'Be yourself' literally locks in whatever mistakes a person is already making.

Not going to judge anyone who goes with 'be yourself' but let the record show it is a bad way to approach life unless a body is very lucky in who their self is.
It has 5 upvotes which doesn't seem like much of a ring. More likely a mod is consistently promoting them or this person has just looked at the quietest times to post when it's most likely to reach the front page with few upvotes.
May I ask why you left finance for tech? I'm considering going into trading instead of SWE because the environment may be more social. I also spend a lot time analyzing current events, so why not get paid for it, too?
Would that happen? 100 smallish farms can be a pretty big area, it would be atypical for 1000 additional residences to be mixed in (they would tend to concentrate).

Also, when I lived in a rural township there weren't any household services, the township did things like look after a couple of roads and zoning and had a little park. We had a well and septic and contracted with a private trash hauler.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2020)
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.

Bonsai (YC W16) (https://www.hellobonsai.com) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.

Note from dang: I tried to retire this thread because there were many cross-postings between it and the other whoishiring threads. But people asked for it to be brought back and I relented.
Some Thoughts on Numbers
> I could spend a lot of time on a Boyer Moore string matching algorithm

Could you?

It's like an hour to copy/paste a reference implementation and set up unit tests. Maybe an hour or two fine tuning the implementation for your language and benchmarking some use cases.

I'd been using the same C# Boyer-Moore impl for like 15 years, and happened to have just recently updated it for Span support. I doubt I have 8 hours into it in total, and it's thoroughly benchmarked and tested.
No, at least not on my Mac. Nothing's crippled, don't worry.

If my screen is already at 100% brightness then there's no HDR effect. 100% brightness is true 100% brightness, the max capability of my backlight.

The only difference is that if my screen is at less than 100% brightness, the HDR content can be brighter than the rest of the screen because it has the headroom.

Does that make sense?
A good leader doesn’t ask people to do something they themselves wouldn’t do. If the leader has no clue how to code or debug then they have no clue what they are asking their subordinates to do. That is a horrible way to lead in my opinion.
I think you mean abstruse or obscure, not obtuse. Obtuse means stupid.
Even though dnetesn is John Steele from Nautilus, I don't think anything underhand is going on.

This article was originally submitted yesterday, but was entered into the second chance queue.
I'm not arguing that it is impossible to provide a best-effort mechanism. I'm arguing that it's a bad idea for a messaging program to even consider accepting deletion requests by default, because it sets unreasonable expectations.
Thank you for writing this! I've been meaning to get a Jupyter notebook set up with Rust.

By the way, I tried to sign up for the newsletter – since you also offered a 10% discount there, and was going to buy the book using that – but it returns with a 404 when processing via https://newsletter.datacrayon.com/subscription/form.
So you'd be in favor of plowing under Central Park and covering it with apartments towers so that everyone could be closer together?
This is 100% unbiased and objective. It is painfully obvious that all those knuckle-dragging conservatives and religious people, who are categorized in the very first part as narrow-minded by this screed, have no business as part of the public discourse. Clearly the work of a deep thinker.
I'm not clear how those require revealing sources?

If a source reports a war crime, people should be going after the war criminal, not the person that called them out
I'm admit I'm not totally clear as to your point. If it is that software is terrible because it's not accountable to its users then yes, I agree, this is often one of the reasons why.

In our case our group is funded primarily by an endowement. We use (dogfood) our own software, therefor we are accountable to ourselves. We are also developing it for our friends, collaborators, and other scientists who have traditionally not had access to the types of tools we work on, we are accountable to them. The bits that exist are because our users need them, have co-designed them, and have given us a ton of feedback as to how to iteratively improve them. We don't have to sell ($) them a product (yes, we understand there are long term issues with growth, support, and sustainability that will take hard work to deal with).

We're fortunate enough to have time to think and engage with concepts that startups that must have to sell products must master, thus we can "dream" about what game interfaces might bring to the table.
Places with high property taxes disincentivize beautiful building. The nicer you build, the more you pay yearly. LVT does not have this bad incentive problem.
Reminds me of one of my favorite youtubers, Design Doc: https://www.youtube.com/user/Warbot40

DesignDoc focuses heavily on UI/UX in video games and is one of, if not my favorite youtuber. I bet he would love this website and maybe one day will mention it.
I started on some RFCs, but due to life events, I don't have time to finish them out.

https://github.com/ellisgl/PHP-RFC-Struct-Data-Type

https://github.com/ellisgl/PHP-RFC-Static-Class-Type

[edit: spelling]
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Of which I presume you have lots to share with the HN community?
There’s a bug in Python’s interpreter that causes True to equal False
All it takes is one band of ruffians and a truckful of roundup to destroy.

As good as this is for tourism, the risk for that organism can only grow larger and larger now.
The idea behind the LVT is that the tax is based on the best and highest use of the land. But zoning is a component.

If the market is begging for a 100-floor tower on a piece of land, but the zoning says you can only build a single house, the LVT would be based on a house sitting there.

So, if you had a historic or otherwise significant structure, you’re going to have to downzone the land to prevent the loss of the structure. Naturally, that’s going to be abused. Connected people are going to get their property zoned for smaller structures, while unconnected people will get their property zoned for huge structures.
> It seems obvious that this only works if the amount of the land tax isn't large enough to cause these behavioral changes.

It's about the speed of the transition to LVT, not the stateless amount of LVT.

> But then you get the opposite problem. Real estate prices crash, because there are suddenly twelve story buildings going up everywhere and the prices need to fall to the level that building more of them isn't viable even against the tax advantage. Which is well before you're saturated with tall buildings.

Only if the LVT goes up to quick. Because the value of the land depends on the improvement to adjacent land, we can think of human building as a puddle of liquid that LVT makes more cohesive.

If we crank of the cohesion too quick, we get tiny beads of liquid everywhere, you scattered 12 storey buildings, and no walkability. It's just a modernist landscape.

If we grank of the cohension slowly, we get bigger beads, i.e. new manhattens as the surrounding suburbia is drained. This is exactly what we want.

The increased density itself creates more derived value, and so a big crash is unlikely.
It’s directly in the email Timnit wrote, among just the first few lines. If you were unable to find it, then either you did not try whatsoever, or you are disingenuously pretending like there is some other potential way to interpret Timnit’s email that miraculously causes it to not refer to the explicit labor tasks of the Google employees she sent it to.

The direct quote (which can be read in the link [0]) is:

> “What I want to say is stop writing your documents because it doesn’t make a difference.”

This is a direct, explicit, unequivocal reference to researchers and ethicists employed by Google to write research and policy documents on fairness, DE&I, and bias, within machine learning, staffing and hiring, and other areas.

The phrase, “stop writing your documents because it doesn’t make a difference,” cannot be falsely made to apply to any context other than actively encouraging coworkers to specifically stop performing their direct job responsibilities.

My suspicion is that you would try to falsely misrepresent Timnit’s imploring to stop work as instead being about some type of non-work related activities or optional / extra-curricular activities that Google wouldn’t have a formal labor productivity stake in - and if that is in fact what your response would be, it is completely and wholly false and wrong.

[0]: https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...
Some of us love CLI programs or using ncurses. Rougelike video games which can be played in a terminal (nethack) would profit heavily from a fast terminal
As a counterpoint, Manhattan has plenty of charming street-level shops in an area where multi-story apartment buildings are the only reasonable thing to build.
The "rules" are mostly unspoke conventions but the BBC tries to do its bit to damp down racial hatred and the like and give Islam seems to get in the headlines mostly for Islamic State type stuff I think they feel a need to counterbalance that a bit.
That's a bold universal statement.

Imagine we live in a world where everyone is issued housing. To make that more sustainable, we create a lot of group housing. Now imagine that someone in that group housing gets it in their mind that it would make them a YouTube star to burn their house down live. They succeed in their arson and burn their house and the house of all those around them to the ground.

This person doesn't deserve to be without a home at least for a little while?

[Edit

I forgot an even more important class of individuals... The homeless we refer to as hobos (aka the intentional homeless population who choose it as a lifestyle where they are freed from the demands of society and in turn be undemanding upon society). Do not these people deserve to have their homelessness respected? They are a small portion of the population but it seems a valid life strategy and I have had a conversation with the man who described his homelessness in this way and claimed to have friends who felt similarly. Reduce your expenditures sufficiently and it takes very little investment income to have a sustainable life of no obligations. The ethics of economic rents aside.

]
That still sounds worth the coverage. Why are these agencies wasting tax payer money on these? They clearly have too much budget
Muslims have been divided along ethnic and ideological lines as much as Christians or any other ethnic or religious groups.

Trying labelling an Iranian as an Arab to his face and see the outcome. (hint, it never ends well)
You might like this: https://gurlic.com

More about it in my comment history...
Its not even complete- not once mentioned sumerias influence- the whole base 6 numbers system. 0-360° 0-12-24 h in a day, etc..
As far as quickly standing up an effective gui for python, I'd recommend gooey.

https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
"First Do No Harm" - A memoir from a brain surgeon.
Japan’s Hayabusa2 capsule returns to Earth carrying asteroid samples
The (IMHO) best critique I'm aware of is at https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/ (discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23062072 )
At this level of approximation, so to rises the wealth of society to afford such stupidity.
How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything: Yes, Anything by Albert Ellis
It is not new, but the Icon language has at least one or two.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(programming_language)

Also maybe Self and Joy (IIRC).
The apartment tower also has massive costs. It requires high-capacity water, sewer, electric, and trash service. It requires specialized fire protection services including extra training and equipment to fight fires in high rise buildings. It has a massive carbon footprint.

Why should a property owner who does not impose any of those costs (or imposes a tiny fraction of them) pay equally for them?
Germany’s prevarication on Huawei 5G is bleak news for the free world
He mentions it in the footnote of this article:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone...
Gravity Hill
Bit of a random rant, but despite being so common, 27” at 4K is a really poor combination for a computer monitor. At 1x scaling, everything is too small, but at 2x scaling it’s far too big. So you have to go for a non-integer scale, which on macOS at least results in reduced image quality and graphics performance (it renders to a different sized frame buffer and then scales it).

The ideal is 5K, which is double 2560x1440 in each dimension, but essentially the only 5K displays available are the LG one made in partnership with Apple, which is over a grand and has numerous quality issues, or the one built into the iMac. It’s really annoying.
P.S. I think the key to understanding „HN culture“ is to realise that it sees itself as a continuation of the „hacker culture“ started by the earliest computer nerds, back in the 50s. There is a pretty direct line that can be drawn from those early computing labs, through the early Internet and the FOSS movement, to Silicon Valley startup culture, to HN.
So, you're saying it is the way I described but thought must be wrong?
Nim has lots of cool things and could probably but it really needs to chose one domain to focus on (and data analysis could be it, even though it sounds like a tough challenge given how much love Julia is getting as the new cool kid in that place). Today it looks like it's chasing too many games at a time with limited success.
It was great to work with Pixo. They developed the logo, and homepage, and we ran an experiment together where they built out an interface against our APIs. I learned alot about all aspects of software development from the process, and they learned a little about our science. Would recommend.
I honestly don't get it either. The inverse of the read spec is the write spec. My guess having not dug deeply is that they don't distinguish between required and optional fields, that said, they should still be able to write what they have based on the read spec but could potentially be still an invalid file.
Central Park isn't empty land; it's in active use. Also, I think an argument could be made that Central Park generates enough (intangible) value to cover its LVT. When the government pays tax to itself it nets out to zero anyway AFAIK.
I don't think that's any more ironic than it is to point out that LLVM is backend agnostic, yet we always end up hooking it up to backends that lock the end result to a specific architecture. It's not ironic; it's the advantage of the design.

In git's case, its decentralized nature ends up being an advantage because it decouples centralization from the VCS itself, which has allowed the centralized aspects of code and project management to evolve independently and be tuned to specific use cases.
On conventional LCD displays you are presumably losing some contrast in SDR content here, because running the backlight brighter to allow for this will also elevate black. The rumor mill suggests Apple is planning a move to Mini-LED displays with thousands of local dimming zones, which would handily address this.
Define dangerous. A study was just released by Stanford University with the objective of estimating the infection fatality rate of COVID-19. The results are as follows: "In people < 70 years, infection fatality rates ranged from 0.00% to 0.31% with crude and corrected medians of 0.05%."[1]

Is it much better to "err on the side of caution," when the numbers are so low? And if someone is a high risk individual, they can avoid putting themselves at risk by getting food delivered to their home. Should the entire state shutdown and destroy the economy in the process, just because a small percentage of the high-risk population wants to eat out? Shouldn't they also be able to make that decision for themselves, if they're OK with taking that risk or not?

Some things to think about.

[0]: https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf
Rust is a language that you need to sit down and read the book. It's not for casual exploration in the same way that JS/Py are.

People in the Rust ecosystem will tell you to either unwrap the error or use https://docs.rs/anyhow/1.0.34/anyhow/ to completely ignore it. Great thing - it's simple to ctrl-f and turn your one-off code into production code with powerful errorhandling.
I tried that, but everyone besides me found the interface annoying to use, they preferred the Smart TV's slow and crappy UI over a computer desktop.

So the AppleTV has been a nice compromise, plus support for various media formats such as Dolby Vision, and HDMI-CEC are really nice to have.
I am also interested in this... I used to like Reddit a lot, but I feel their push to reach a broader audience has pushed down the quality of the front-page subs. It is dominated by a sense of moral superiority: "Am I the Asshole", "Justice Served", Leopards ate my Face" are very common now.

I like Quora because of specific authors that write high-quality answers (mainly mathematics).
99%+ of muslims are not that way and were born into it. So you can look at that stuff I guess.
Twilio's Covid-19 Digital Engagement Report
Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia, Ronald K. Siegel

A collection of stories showing some of the ugly parts of being a psychopharmacologist, based on the author's own experiences.
Julian Baggini and Peter Fosl, The Ethics Toolkit, 2007.
Could a coin be made by selling a micro sd card with it set up on it?
Plainly not inevitable. Crises can continue to get worse instead, and surely that's much more likely.

However, I'd love to be pleasantly surprised, and occasionally am, e.g., apparently Baden-Wurttemburg (the German state that includes Stuttgart) has recently passed a LVT scheduled to be implemented in 2025 https://libdemsalter.org.uk/en/article/2020/1382897/germany-...
Why should someone who has no clue how to code or debug lead people doing those activities? It’s like the seeing be lead by the blind.
Note: almost all of this would be paid by my employer on my behalf. I'd be on the hook for ~$350/month
I'm sure they'd get capture credits.
Is there a way to get Windows to behave better? I was sorely disappointed by how things look in HDR mode, especially the fact that gamut seems to be abysmal compared to the same display in SDR mode, not even considering the terrible black level artifacting :/
Well, yeah, it was an analytic department. I also happen to think that's the "right" view.

To clarify, I don't think reading the original texts is a bad use of time if you're already in deep, just that it's not good for a first introduction (for the reasons I mentioned). Plato was simply confused about a ton of things and makes egregious errors while reasoning through ideas. We don't read him because he was right, we read him for other reasons.

For a more detailed treatment of this issue, see this blog post: http://fakenous.net/?p=1168.
I've done some work to curate my sub-reddit list to just those that I care about and it's a pretty great experience. YMMV obviously but with some pretty minimal setup Reddit can be greatly improved.
Gotcha. So your boss also shouldn't be giving out spot bonuses to employees, because "everyone and their dog" will start applying for your job. Do you not see the fallacy of your logic?

If the supply of labor into Western tourist-oriented industries increases, the odds of getting a big tip reduce, and average wages remain the same. This restores the equilibrium.

> neglecting all the jobs that would actually be important for the local community.

Waiting tables, cooking, cleaning, and driving taxis and buses aren't important jobs for the local community? How do you define "important"? If these people had skills that paid more and/or led to higher prestige opportunities, don't you think they would take those jobs instead?

And what do you think they do with the occasional big tip they earn? They spend it on local goods and services, stimulating the local economy and providing opportunities to local entrepreneurs. They spend it on educating their children so they have better opportunities than waiting on wealthy tourists. They pay direct and indirect taxes (even unreported cash tips are spent on taxed goods) that allow their governments to fund infrastructure improvements (more opportunities for local entrepreneurs) and social services.

If you're too stingy to tip 15-20% when you go to poorer countries, just say that. I hate tipping culture in the US. But don't say you're doing it for their good, because that's just not true.
So basically until displays advertise their physical specifications to Windows, and the Windows display stack takes advantage of that to auto-calibrate, it cannot match this kind of output.

I wonder what happens if you try this on the LG 5K hooked up to a mac. It is physically the same panel that's in the iMac, so in theory it can present the same range. But if the OS needs to know the exact physical abilities of the display, it might not be able to detect that LG display. Or maybe apple does detect it, because they partnered with LG.
Keeping the TV disconnected from the network is a good idea, and using it as a dumb disconnected screen could mean that those firmware updates aren’t critical anyway.
The most convincing argument for job guarantee over UBI I saw was plan jefes in argentina.

It started out as a job guarantee, where women were given jobs as caregivers and got shifted to UBI where the women were told they didn't have to do the jobs but they'd still get the money.

They still did the jobs when they didn't have to. They said it provided them with a social network and social interactions and most importantly, with purpose.

One of the things that bugs me the most about UBI is the idea that people would rather just laze at home and do their own thing given the chance and the money to make that possible. I don't believe that's true. I think humans have a deep seated need to be part of a community, to have purpose and to leave a mark.

The new deal was a spectacular illustration of that. The people who took part in public works projects were justifiably proud of what they'd done - building bridges, art works, schools, sewers, streets and more.
By saying I “have a couple” of Apple TV’s, isn’t kind of obvious that I don’t think it’s a bad choice?

As far as usability, look at all of the comments mentioning hacks solutions instead of just ordering a commercial product and plugging it in.

I went one step further with my parents. I just bought them a Roku TV and called it a day.
Already Free by Bruce Tift