skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not conflate abilities with capabilities. Clearly abilities depend on economic factors. I interpret this thread's root comment to refer to capabilities. To add more anecdotes to the mix, I work with a few Africans on a daily basis and they are highly talented, more so than myself. Perhaps this is skewed by immigration; that would lead me to believe that intrinsic capabilities approximately average out between the continents and hence my agreement with the root comment.
It's pretty curious then that Airpod Max aren't: that movie watching experience is quite perplexing.

I don't even want to imagine what people will get with non-Apple audio sources.
Yeah, I remember an article from October claiming only 5 cases of reinfection. To me these are more likely to have happened due to the people having compromised immune systems than to some specific property of the novel corona.
I'm pretty worried about this as well - esp. about heatwaves, but I don't think that would result in nuclear war in our lifetimes. Unless China messes around with rivers that originate in Tibet that is.

Possibly my biggest worry is water - providing water for 1bn+ people (and agriculture, and industries) is going to get harder and harder. I'm a techno optimist, so I'm hoping some variant of desalination tech will pull through if things get really bad.

The other big worry as you say is the heat waves. If we do get emissions under control, I think we'll also end up doing some form of carbon scrubbing and don't just sit around in a 2C warmer world. None of our current climate engineering approaches are enough to arrest global warming by themselves but I'm hoping we can eventually control the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
or they could search social media and disconnect users they dislike.
> We try

And what do you do in the end?
A pipe(2) in Unix is actually a piece of memory arranged so that it can be used as a FIFO, written and read to. There really is a physical object corresponding to the pipe, and the "|" refers directly if tersely to that object.

A filesystem is fundamentally a way toorganize blocks of data on a storage medium. It consists of an actual physical medium with various attributes, which is used by a rule-driven system ("the filesystem") to decide where to put data (and conversely where to find it). It doesn't actually work in the same way as a paper filing cabinet, but in most operational senses, the two things are far closer together than they are different.

The CLI is not a metaphor - it's an abstraction. It removes details that you don't need to know about (mostly), but provides you with a way to operate directly upon the objects (concepts) known to the operating system that you are interacting with.

The classic Mac desktop described in TFA does consist of a lot of metaphors. Technically one can see this clearly in the way that the kernel of macOS isn't responsible for most of the way that desktop functions today: this is left to user-space services that create higher level objects for the user to interact with, leaving the kernel to deal with the same sorts of objects you'd describe with the CLI.

Or something like that.
> He should, it's the basis of democracy.

Do you support the election that happened on November 3rd 2020? Then you must support the results of the election, whether you like the election results, or not.

THAT is the basis of Democracy: the peaceful transfer of power based on the votes. If you do not respect the votes, then Democracy falls apart. You literally cannot have a Democracy without votes (while we had a Democracy through WW2 despite the "Office of Censorship").

We have a very, very large group of people who are now using free speech to destroy our trust in the election. We are now left with a decision: Free Speech vs Election.

My gut says that elections are more important than free speech. Historically, we have had times without any free speech what-so-ever (WWII / Office of Censorship). Its a luxury we can do without in times of crisis.

We cannot afford to lose faith in the election process. Period.
Did you read the article? There is nothing in the article in support of government oversight of private companies. Rather, the article argues that private companies should choose to do the right thing, and that consumers should take their business to companies who choose to do the right thing.
Yeah, slack needs this badly.
Snowflake ($120bn)

I interned on their SQL engine team and maybe half of the long-time employees were ex-Oracle, including two of the three co-founders (Thierry and Benoit).
Exactly. It was way too early, in 1993, to be doing that sort of thing in Post. Much cheaper to do it on set.
How do you get health insurance? Does your company have an office in your state? If not, do they give you Californi-based coverage, with most providers being out-of-network?
There is nothing to read here as this is just a curation of side projects. But you may find something interesting to read about from their blogs.
How is the amount of compensation determined ?

How is the program watched to prevent rejecting inquiries to not pay out?
Sudo is supposed to give you flexibility - being able to perform some commands but not others and similar functionality. I think it achieves that _too_ well by being far too big and featureful. I prefer doas [1] - it gives the user some flexibility, but has a simple config format [2] that doesn't need a quick introduction to Backus-Naur form in its man page.

[1] http://man.openbsd.org/doas

[2] http://man.openbsd.org/doas.conf
This works for some lens shapes. For most though, molding is necessary.
You don't pay VAT on intra-EU B2B transactions; the buyer adds the VAT amount at their country's rate to both the amount to pay and the amount to claim back, cancelling it out.
Why just these four states? The vote counts in Florida, Ohio, Texas, and N Carolina are all pretty fishy.
> Is it legal in the US to encourage people to jump in front of a train?

Yes
What exactly does a hand recount confirm? What is the point, when the accusation had nothing to do with counting? The accusation is that fraudulent ballots were mixed in with the legitimate ones. Recounting the contaminated pile tells us exactly what?
Yes. For most people buying studio quality is not a good value proposition. I doubt they will get that quality and in general most people don't notice the difference.

Why is being skeptical of a product announcement problematic? Is stone-faced indifference the only acceptable response? Can I also not speculate on a film's quality from its trailer?
Weird, my hand computer only has icons out of those 4.
I was scrolling down, skimming the comments and figuring out how old each poster was.

It was sort of like parents talking about children, except here the children could read, had been parents and were wiser.

No one proposing to ask the elders what they might want or need. People pushing political and social agendas tangential to the core issue (surprise, surprise). Sweeping generalizations with no supporting information or, at best, anecdatum (always one datum). Par for the online course, but easier to see when you are the target demographic.

Old people, like old trees, become more gnarled and unique as time progresses. Some might say more interesting, some say less useful..check out Taoism for more insight there. Young people are more similar and they look to many others for stimulation because they themselves are...pretty boring. Old people are much more interesting in their own right, and each of their old friends pack ten times the interestingness of a stripling, so far fewer are needed. An old friend or acquaintance brings an order of magnitude or more adult experiences, a multidimensional nature, and the metadata of all the times and places in which they were lived. A young person (<30, maybe 40) is a scalar variable, and you’re lucky if it’s double precision.

From a heart standpoint, the older a person gets, the more transpersonal their emotions and energies, in preparation for their next journey. The truly aged are the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, but they aren’t around long enough for the young to realize it. Conditioned love is there, but is “emptying into white”. Best not to muck around too much if you are young, even if you are a family member.
Is Germany post WW2 better or worse the the US South post civil war though?
It works for me on iOS Safari, so maybe it’s just Firefox Mobile it doesn’t work on.
When I hear "model" I think of someone who models for things like clothing, jewelry, accessories, and so on. If your idea of model is cam girl plunging phallic objects in all variety of orifices then that probably says more about you than it does about the commenter.
There are laws against eavesdropping on private electronic communications.

> What does being paid have to do with their enforcement of their own property rights?

Because paying for a service establishes certain rights and expectations that patronizing a free/ad-supported website does not. In other words, payment creates a contract.

> Couldn't they just say in the EULA "we will listen to your calls and disconnect you if you say something we don't like"?

I suppose in theory, though it would be difficult to show that all parties to the call agreed to such a EULA.
The CDC and the EMA both say that Pandemrix did not cause anything. But that information does not match with what happened in Sweden and Finland.

In Finland and Sweden, a small number of young people with specific genes who got the Pandemrix vaccination developed narcolepsy in much higher amounts than expected.

With a larger clinical trial and some more time, those tragedies could have been perhaps avoided altogether.

https://www.nature.com/articles/gene20171
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-39...
I will wait a few months to see if there are any immediate obvious side effects. I will of course continue to quarantine at home in the mean time to an extreme degree, as I have done since March
It's also a footgun waiting to happen, because I 150% promise you a junior dev or even senior dev will somewhere forget to pass by value instead of pass by reference. There is a reason why Julia and ruby encourages sigilling functions capable of mutating with a !. That character is not chosen randomly.

Yes, it is also absolutely necessary for expressive A* pathfinding.

This is unnecessary for someone connecting two web APIs. Correctness in most domains is totally worth not having to worry about pass-by-reference defaults.
That's the movie. In the book he realizes the mutants are the new humans, he is the outsider. To them, he is the monster, the one who steals their children while they sleep and experiments on them.

The title refers to he himself being a legend, something from a previous age.

I love the movie and love it, especially the DC with the additional endings but in this case the book really is the better medium IMHO
I was lucky to have a box of 20 N95 masks left over from an industrial project before COVID-19 began. Since February I've assiduously worn one whenever I leave home (I've only two left now).

This video shows how the virus is able to spread more than six feet, especially so indoors. In an earlier post on COVID-19, I suggested a simple distancing rule that I use and that most people will understand from past experience, and it's one that they may wish to consider using — that's the cigarette smoke distance test.

Think about the maximum distance that you can be from a smoker and still be able to smell his/her exhaled cigarette smoke. If you can smell the smoke then you are breathing in air from that smoker's lungs and thus you may be at risk.

Most of us will say that that they can smell cigarette smoke at distance of at least 3 to 4 times the current safe distance of 6 feet or so, i.e.: some 18 - 24 feet (I venture that that distance may even be greater).

If say you are in a restaurant or small hall where smoking is still permitted then how far do you reckon you can smell someone smoking? Right, even if the person is diagonally across the room, you're likely to smell the smoke and that distance is well in excess of the recommended safe distance.

In addition to this video, several labs did similar tests earlier this year. One lab said that the virus was able travel 13 to 17 feet and the other, if I recall correctly, said about 27 feet—and that it can say active/on the wind for several hours. From those results, I reckon my smoking test distance isn't too far off the mark.
Yo, grab the "launch.africa" domain!
Given that the Alien and Sedition Acts took less than 10 years after the passing of the Bill of Rights, and were passed by many of the same people working on the original Constitution, I would dare say that it wasn't all that unanimous.

But, and perhaps more importantly, relatively few people at the time could vote - in 1789 it was about 6% of the population as a whole. On the federal level, there was basically no protection of the right to vote at all - there was that bit about states having to have a "republican form of government", but it wasn't codified, and the broad understanding was that property requirements, poll taxes etc are all compatible with it. So, it was a very different environment overall.

(I'm not disagreeing with your basic premise - I support, it actually. But US is not a good historical model for it. I don't think there's any country that really is, or ever was. Those of us who believe that democracy is dead without radical free speech, have to figure out how to make it all work in a way that is, at least, tolerable to those who disagree with us.)
Pretty American,though now it's illegal to keep black people our of your store
Stupid people believe stupid things. Their wishful thinking doesn't alter the reality of their loss.
Is your method perhaps "rank voting"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting

If not, this page might help you find the terminology you seek:

https://ncase.me/ballot/
Sounds like the village that Microsoft Bob's house was in.

I don't actually think the ideas of things like Bob were bad, though, I just think they were cumbersome. Using the post office example, a top down map would solve everything, and be close enough a "start menu" that a totally fresh user might feel confident trying a computer without balancing wheels.
Perhaps short options are unreadable. But if I see a shell script that contains a long option with only one dash, I will definitely be confused... I don't think that saving a dash makes a shell script more readable. It definitely doesn't improve the situation enough to justify messing with people's preconceived ideas.

I don't even know what to say about your assumption that I'm biased because of my username. One might even claim that you're the narrow minded person to be judging people's biases based on three letters in their username.

Which programs don't allow you to combine short options? Other than perhaps hastily written shell scripts. getopt(3) is POSIX AFAIK so there's not really any excuse for POSIX programs to not handle combined short options.
> “We do know that they were all made sacred,” he added. “Turned into gifts for the gods or even personifications of deities themselves.”

Just asking: Do the Crusaders' victims get the same grace?
>so they can be replaced every 5-10 years

Recycling of highly radioactive materials, aka the entire reactor vessel every 5 years, is cost prohibitive.

That short of a lifespan will create massive amounts of waste to deal with.
It's been there at least since 2008 - https://web.archive.org/web/20080518203408/http://ycombinato...
No, they should not be forced.

However, YouTube should be shamed for the bans, and everyone should be encouraged to think worse of them for it.
Ah I forgot about that database in the cloud
Optimizing ML Models for iOS and macOS Devices with Amazon SageMaker Neo
Bank robberies rarely ever happened like Point Break to begin with. The average bank robbery is a quiet affair conducted with a slipped note and the implication of a gun.

I interviewed a family friend who had then recently retired from chasing bank robbers in the FBI for a school project a decade and change ago. The biggest take-a-way was his assertion that, at least at that time, anyone could get away with robbing a bank once. It's not getting away with the crime itself that's hard: it's not leaving a pattern on the next one.
Microsoft in the mid-90s didn't seem like it was having much impact on Seattle itself. If there was a staffing explosion, it just wasn't evident in town. Redmond and the rest of the 405 corridor? Yeah, maybe. But not so much Seattle itself.

By contrast, the "Californication" period (say, 87-94) and the tech boom actually took place in the city itself. Keep in mind that in the 87-94 period, Boeing and UW were still the two largest employers in Puget Sound. Companies like Microsoft were "good" for the economy, but they weren't quite the behemoths that they became as the tech boom happened (and, coincidentally, as I left :)
Don't forget that often (but certainly not always) CEOs will look ahead and try to get a feel for which locations may be a good fit both for their personal and company affairs. Usually due to taxation, regulatory, hiring, cultural, cost of living and a range of other realities. They may make the move themselves ahead of their company's move making it seem like the company later moved merely because of the CEO's new location, but they'd already made the decision that the company move would follow as the sensible thing.
New article this week documents it

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-explains-...
They are a democracy in a sense that people are allowed to vote. But do people get access to all the information they need to meaningfully vote?

And, frankly, stuff like ASBO makes it hard to take UK as a good example of a free society.
Just as some have noted that "It's expensive to be poor", I would argue that in many cases it "It is time-expensive to be time-poor".

When strapped for time, people make rushed, short-term decisions which end up costing more time to fix later.

In fact, the two dynamics have some overlap, since poverty has been shown to reduce cognitive ability[0], and obviously having limited time can reduce the quality of one's analysis and decision-making.

[0] https://www.medicaldaily.com/poverty-lowers-iq-how-financial...
This is the best explanation of the dangers of mega publishing platforms I have seen on Hacker News.
Turn off wake-up by alarm in BIOS, if you can. Windows just wakes up whenever it wants and if you, somehow, manage to make it stop in the settings, it only works till the next update. At least that was my experience.
Between 1970 and 2013, the % of Americans working in agriculture dropped from 4.4 to 1.5. I’d say we have continued to make excellent progress, it’s just not as sexy as robot fruit pickers.
Damn I’d just like to own one lol
Some judicial venues say no:

“A Massachusetts woman [Michelle Carter] who sent her suicidal boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself was jailed Monday on an involuntary manslaughter conviction nearly five years after he died in a truck filled with toxic gas.”

She appealed to the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and the conviction was upheld (unanimously).

https://apnews.com/article/320866bd419a49c8a82b55e39390f2c8
I'll take the bait in the spirit of casual friday night internet debating and recognizing your tone as purely sarcastic. I would ask then...

What if, there was in fact an organization comprised of people smarter than you and obviously better than you at figuring out what is true or not - and I would go further - one that can tell you how to make better/more optimal decisions than you would have made without them?

Would you then cede your decision making to them if it were demonstrably better?

Would you argue that you should be free to make measurably worse or less optimized decisions for yourself - by virtue of the value of you being un-baised was more important than you making a better decision?

This is probably my favorite topic where optimization and normative economics converge, so I'm curious the replies here.
I don't know where you're from that you heard that. But from where I'm from, we were told that:

- it was just only the beginning of a massive sh*tstorm, not just "2 weeks of lockdown and we'll be ok"

- the lockdown in April was to mitigate as much as possible the first wave

- a second wave would almost definitely arrive in the winter (hello! it's here! we're in lockdown again, pretty much as planned)

- nothing will be back to normal before we get the vaccine, and even then, it would take months if not years for it to be a thing of the past, and that until then we'd have to do our best to follow the guidelines.

You can't compare scientific proof that something works vs. a government decision taken to "mitigate things".

The spring lockdown helped free beds in hospital and ultimately it saved thousands if not millions of lives worldwide. Period. This is UNDENIABLE.

Also, maybe if some people weren't so doubtful that these decisions were for their own good and stopped throwing tantrums about their "fundamental right to breathe air", we wouldn't have had a second wave at all. Maybe.
Wow, just seeing this thread now. Ran on Townlake 4x a week for 2 years. I also love the dam section! My personal favorite is the boardwalk in near Oracle and then the stretch in front of Auditorium Shores- so much going on there and the best water fountains.

Made my day to see this!
We're talking about porn being processed by VISA in the USA vs VISA International.

CP is illegal everywhere.

VISA International isn't going to let you pay for this stuff in the EU either.
I wonder if it would work more like Canadian mortgages, that are renewed every five years.

Or maybe like in other countries, the price of housing would decrease to a three year loan instead of thirty.
As someone else already pointed out, my claim was in fact "government is massively inefficient", with a wealth of evidence to support this claim.
Was expecting a bit more than a handful of paragraphs and three tests from this article.
Heavy batteries are actually an asset in such scenarios because light tractors often lose traction when plowing compacted soil.
But that's not democracy.

Go is arguing that free speech is required for democracy, and that democracy is why we want free speech.

The founders didn't like democracy all that much though
> the impact of these COVID-19 vaccines on infection and thus transmission is not being assessed. Even if vaccines were able to confer protection from disease, they might not reduce transmission similarly.

> Challenge studies in vaccinated primates showed reductions in pathology, symptoms, and viral load in the lower respiratory tract, but failed to elicit sterilising immunity in the upper airways. Sterilising immunity in the upper airways has been claimed for one vaccine, but peer-reviewed publication of these data are awaited.

Italics are mine.

> These observations suggest that we cannot assume COVID-19 vaccines, even if shown to be effective in reducing severity of disease, will reduce virus transmission to a comparable degree. The notion that COVID-19-vaccine-induced population immunity will allow a return to pre-COVID-19 “normalcy” might be based on illusory assumptions.

I can't sense any tone of favorable expectation in the link you shared.
He was good at CABAL
I have a 60-volt electric mower, and it's much quieter than the small engine powered mowers I grew up with. Most of the noise is definitely the engine.
What's the best entropy bang--for-your-buck < $100?
I think this opinion is short sighted, because it assumes that we can trust Youtube (or other governing body) to rightfully and honestly decide which content is worth deplatforming. Isn't this idea central to the concept of freedom of speech?
Because YouTube has a practical monopoly on user-generated video in the US.