skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you prove that cashiers are recorded more than police? I also don’t think there is any indication that police are generally the highest paid government employees.
Despite what the few naysayers in this thread would like to have you believe, there is a growing number of projects that rely on OpenPGP for security. Having a modern library for working with them is a giant plus no matter how you spin it.

A big thank you to everyone who worked to get sequoia this far.
Also if you have a lot of keys set up and don't tell it to use a specific key, you can get login failures as the first 5 it tries aren't correct
The crescent shape has poor efficiency because of the low volume to surface area ratio. A wankel has a similar issue but this looks worse to me.
Two points:

1. Free travel is a right. At it's most basic, walking requires nothing from anyone else.

2. Everyone benefits from the economy being able to function. Only one person benefits from a person receiving a free million dollar medical procedure.
Well there is this: https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine... however I don't know specifically about Africa. I assume they're covered in the umbrella group COVAX which is overseen by the WHO.
Seems like that would fall under the "Programming" category:

> Your time is valuable, so something easier to program may save you time/money even if its a little more expensive.
Grsecurity also uses this 'loophole.' Seeing this scheme go mainstream is really disheartening; I feel that it really undermines the intent and social value of the GPL.
Computers and programs are really complex; programming is really hard; Programming (computer science) will eventually be able to replace human reasoning (and be better at), but the complexity to do that requires deep mathematical knowledge and formal methods (Djikstra was a big fan of formal program proving). Universities aren't teaching computer science, because businesses don't care about that, they just want coders.

I took a few computer science courses at UT back when Djikstra (not from Djikstra himself, though, from Dr. Nell Dale) was there. Everything in the algorithms class came with formal proofs. Loop invariants were core concepts. The book was not yet published, we spiral-bound photocopy of the draft.
magit is a good alternative, it's not exactly a TUI because it works entirely inside emacs

Emacs also has TUI (when running in the Linux terminal or run `emacs -nw') so magit should also has TUI (at least on GNU/Linux where I use Emacs on).
Just out of curiosity, how much is a fancy deltavision microscope? I very briefly Googled to check and didn't see anything on eBay or other sites.

And why not rent time on one? Apparently the University of Arizona (and a number of other universities) rent time on theirs for $25/hr (https://microscopy.arizona.edu/equipment/deltavision-rt-deco...)
> I think the wiki is one of the modern world's most underrated -- and underexploited -- innovations.

Agreed on the underrated front. But I feel like I interact with enough wikis that its not obvious to me that they are significantly underexploited. What is an example of a place where you think a wiki could be used to significant effect?
There's no way you will get rid of cars. Maybe it is easier to contain the externalities of electric cars than others.
Ethics in AI, a long hard road toward progress. I'm glad the fight isn't over.
Given how much these issues are going to be discussed in the coming months, it's probably worth giving [1] a read. I selected that article for brevity, recency, and because the author is well known among HN readers.

[1] https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...
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Gosh..My browsing routine is highly becomin habitual within the set {Twittr,Youtube,Insta,FB, HackerNews, EspnFC} except when Im working on smthng.then there will some Stackovrflw tabs appended to the set. how do u guys break such browsing routines? I knw, Internet is infinite
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Yeah I'm not so sure though. I'm 1900 rated tactics on lichess but a middling 1300 on normal games. Perhaps it might be due to playing blitz where I don't have lots of time to think.
Saw much of that in Hyderabad 2008.

It's one way the lethality of poverty is visible.
Some simpleton at Twitch is moving jerkily or spasmodically.
It's tough to know if your aerobic training program is working without being able to track average watts keeping heart rate consistent, or vice versa. Tracking average cadence can work, but resistance needs to be chosen carefully and held constant
I mean in the US you’ll also need to save 6 figures for the kid’s college as well…
banking on computers to automate human reasoning anytime in the near future is laughable at best, utter naivety at worst
Cool, but I wonder what CPUs they plan to pair it with. Does Intel have any processors out yet (or soon to be out) that support PCIe 4.0?
Car seats are way better than they were when I was a kid in the 80s. I recall that my car seat as a kid was a hard vinyl upright contraption that made me carsick whenever I rode in it for a long time. My mom actually sewed fabric covers for it so it wouldn't burn me on hot summer days.

My kid's infant car seat was a click 'n go bassinet with a soft fabric liner. His convertible car seat stays in the car, but it still reclines better than any adult seat, with more plush padding than the car itself. He actually prefers the car over the bed for naps. Only problem is that he's still rear-facing and his legs are getting a bit too long for the seat, but he solves that by putting his feet up.

Kid stuff is one area where I've been pleasantly surprised by how technology advanced when I wasn't looking. Car seats, strollers, baby gates, and toys are all way more advanced (and cheaper, inflation-adjusted) than they were in the 80s.
I believe it’s more about available time. When you only have 20ish minutes to pack as many gags as you can, and the narrative setup is fundamentally immovable (i.e. episodes are entirely self-contained, there is little or no substantial continuity), subtlety will soon go out the window, and characters will become stereotypes who exist to trigger jokes.

Also, that sort of narrative setup tends to accrete over the years: if you’ve seen Barney being the idiot drunk for 5 years, that’s where your mind will go as soon as he’s in the picture, even if he’s had the occasional redemption story (he’s a poet, moviemaker, etc).
> It explains why otherwise "rational" intelligent westerners make no sense a lot of the time. It is very easily explained if I just refer to the Bible.

That assumes they aren't making sense and that it needs to be explained. That hasn't been demonstrated.

> Even that is not true. A apex-predator-less ecosystem can function just as well, albeit differently. Look up bottom-up trophic cascade.

The existence of other ways of controlling population doesn't mean that those other ways are the only way. Not all food chains are controlled by bottom-up trophic cascade. some are controlled by apex predators and removing apex predators changes the ecosystem, sometimes in ways that result in collapse.

> Not necessarily. Bottom-up trophic cascade takes care of that.

You're shifting your explanation. Earlier you said that humans could replace apex predators. When I pointed out the problems with that, now you say it can be controlled with bottom up trophic cascade. Is it possible you just don't understand this issue as well as you think?

> However, hunting will be more available, reducing reliance on industrial food farming.

Not if humans aren't able to replace the apex predators functionally. Not if the volume of food produced is different. Industrial food production is less subject to seasonal variations. Have you considered that?

> There is no need to copy a particular behavior. The species in the environment can epigenetically change to adapt to various predation patterns or lack thereof.

Thats basically nonsensical and doesn't respond to my point. Humans wouldn't replace the apex predator therefore the ecosystem would change.

> In the real world, humans co-evolved with very specific eco-systems and have nothing to do with most of the rest of it.

In the real world, the ecosystems are interdependent on other ecosystems and no barriers can be drawn except by choice.

> That's a huge leap of faith.

Not at all.

> They would happily get rid of them if they had the means.

Of course they would, animals have no concept of biodiversity. That doesn't impact on the well-established thesis that biodiversity is healthy and ecosystems with fewer species are more vulnerable to disease and catastrophe.

> Biodiversity of what? Bacteria and viruses? Or mammals? If we didn't have pangolins, some of which are endangered btw, we'd probably not have COVID-19.

Biodiversity of everything. The pangolin theory is interesting but its equally likely that if humans hadn't been destroying species at an astonishing rate over the last 50 years we'd likely also not have COVID-19.
Not sure if there are solid evidence established to prove this, but Cockroaches are believed to be capable of surviving large amount of radiations (like from nuclear bomb), hence they thought it would be apt for a geographically distributed DB.

https://sciencenotes.org/can-cockroaches-survive-nuclear-bom...
Well, wonderful... It was a huge mess. Maemo was gtk based until Nokia bought Qt. Guess there was some friction in the conversion. Maemo was deb based until Nokia management brought Intel into the boat for no technical reasons, then they switched to rpm. Well, the packaging is a relatively small detail, but many other parts of the distro saw similar switches from choice A to choice B for no real benefit. Friction after friction.

Elop was an incompetent leader, but he had not been involved in creating the mess. He went for a worse option, but that does not say that Meego would have ever succeeded.

Yes, I am stuck in the past myself, typing this on SailfishOS. But one has to see the realities.
Entirely setting aside the current debate on whether police have enough accountability for the unique powers they wield...

Public sector employees are subject to extra scrutiny that private-sector employees are not. That's simply part and parcel of being employed by a democratic government. Your employer represents the general public, and therefore you are accountable to the general public.

For example, government employee salaries are public record. And not just in-theory records, this data is often easily-searched online databases. If you're employed in the private sector, having your compensation disclosed is considered a breach of privacy; it's considered mandatory in the public sector.

So yeah, I think it's reasonable to expect a certain level of workplace surveillance in the public sector that would be unacceptable for a private company.
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Vim is meh for Lisp & Scheme, and I'm a Vim fan. Emacs is great. If you're a Vim user check out Doom Emacs.

There is always spacemacs: https://www.spacemacs.org/
> Zoom is using experimental API in production. Just another on a list of their cowboy tricks.

My uncle (who clicks on popup ads, and installed spyware twice a day until he got a non-admin account on a non-Windows OS last year) doesn't care about that. He doesn't know what an experimental API is. He wants to click the thing and have a video call open with his coworkers, kid's teacher, and family. There are alternatives. None of those people use them.

This is how open standards die: by convenience and cowboy tricks. Get with it.
>Most software devs make more than that per hour.

if your definition of software dev ends at the borders of California, then yes. Otherwise, not so much.

And even then, although I could afford it I'm not paying 50 bucks per month for a bike for the same reason I don't buy 7 bucks bottled water, because I don't want to flush my money down the drain
Second that: the partnership/cross-promotion suggestion is a good idea.
The goal of this library was not to visualize the graph, but to embed it in your own software.

So if you want to use cairo to render the graph in your native app, you can use it. The renderer is really simple because the go library does all the computation of how to actually render the graph. It tries to be as close looking as possible as "sourcetree" algorithm.

Not sure if this is clear explanation or not !
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Runkle going from a very competent and slightly weird agent in Californication to a constant punchline is a crime against the character
Solution, allow doctors and surgeons time off from bday!
They mentioned it being quiet, Rotaries are far from quiet.
It hasn't required nightly for... I think ever? Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're asking for.
It seems that Apple's contribution for OSS is weak even though they used. I heard that Apple is Java shop, but they don't contribute to ship JVM for Apple Silicon.
Same here.

I have a few "masters degrees" worth of books... physics, math, origami, Japanese, art/design, photography. I've had to force myself to slow drastically buying in favor of reading the ones I already have. Also, I'm running out of space.
Illustrator has a lot of this too despite many different UI decisions. I tend to describe it as “designed for aliens and people who think like aliens”.

Which includes me, it’s been my main art tool for twenty years. I’ve seen a lot of people scream about how terrible it is that it doesn’t work like Photoshop.

So really I think that “a serious vector editor” is just gonna be hard for a lot of people to wrap their heads around.
Do you have a writeup or know where one is that could be of use in setting this up? I don't know much about v6...
I found this book a good education in critical thinking skills when consuming news sources:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Make-World-Add-Up/dp/1408712245

Video link and summary of some of the books points can be found at:

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/keep-...
I have recently gone from a Mozilla fanboy to a Mozilla hater in the span of under a year. I'm sure this won't be popular, but I refuse to use Firefox particularly, and would rather use chromium at this point, which, if you'd heard the way I trash google, you'd ask me what on earth was going through my head. It has gotten that bad.

They keep progressively crippling the browser. There isn't a single Firefox major update, either software wise or news wise, that amounts to good news. They try to dress it up but the substance is always bad for the user. Recently, they artificially limited the extensions available in Firefox mobile. I uninstalled Firefox immediately on all my machines.

Now they're firing the Rust team? Are these people stupid? Rust is pretty much the only thing Mozilla has going for it. I guess it's time for Thunderbird to go as well.

The idea that Mozilla is somehow the only thing standing between Google and control of web standards is laughable. I used to buy it. But Firefox is funded by Google, and they'll get what they want. And you can see plain as day that they're getting what they want. At this point you're more disconnected from Google's influence using ungoogled-chromium than using Firefox. So that's what I do. I feel more free online using a fork of a Google product than I do using Firefox. Imagine that.
I can't tell if 2 body problem is a play on words for a relationship or simply a physics problem. :thinking:
I'm not certain I grok all of that correctly, but the last bit sounds kinda like DMVPN [0].

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Multipoint_Virtual_Pri...
This is why we here in the US call it a free country. It is very different from the democratic freedoms of other countries. We founded this nation because of misuse of government power. You should always be skeptical of government oversight. Our constitution was written by very bright people who understood that mob rule and government overreach are very easy to fall into. Think of how phishing attempts sometimes use your emotions/anxieties against you, “Urgent, this is your boss, I need your email and PW to log in.”

The same fear mongering has been used to shut down schools across the US when there is little statistical evidence showing spread occurs in schools. Many other nations know this and kids are still going to school. This is a prime example of when government overreach is entirely misguided and political.

Edit: Thank goodness we still have free speech here. I fear many of our freedoms can easily be eradicated by the, “saving just one life,” argument.

Edit edit: Also not trying to be too inflammatory but China has all the data in the world and they fudged the numbers they sent out. We already have entirely data driven societies and you can ask Hong Kong how much they wanted it.
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You really can't. If you want a new drop bar road bike the cheapest models start at $500. And they aren't very nice to ride; the group sets in that price range are kind of crap.
It's common in tech two.

Of the places I've worked that promise some form of bonus, I have only been paid a single one - $172.

In my experience, bonuses are almost solely a carrot to hang over people's head. They rarely actually get paid out even if the company is doing well.

Stock and options have there downfalls, but at least their terms are in writing.
> hand tracking is a thing, and on its way to a user friendly input

Which is about where it was last time I checked in. Most VR games require use of controllers do they not? As long as you have cumbersome interfaces like handheld controllers or hand tracking that doesn't handle occlusion you can't maintain a suspension of disbelief. If it's not clear why controllers are a negative, you're not really getting what VR should be. I don't criticize the PS5 for having a controller because the main focus of game consoles isn't the display technology. The screen has succeeded as a timeless medium for bringing people into another world. It's less awkward and cumbersome than VR, so it's actually better at creating a virtual reality than an HMD.

> 50% more pixels, for a device where pixel density is important for usability. A 25% ($100) price drop, in a device that is now significantly cheaper than gaming consoles.

Resolution is actually one of the least important aspects of VR (unless of course, the rest of the experience is so mediocre that it's all people can focus on.) The breakthroughs in VR will come in the form of human interfacing improvements. Only once a device can truly understand your intent can it become believable. For as long as you have to hold a controller or think about how you interact with the device, VR will continue to be a gimmick. It's a UX problem as much as it is a hardware problem, but the UX will be obvious once the hardware is solved.

> "nobody is buying these things" appears to be incorrect, literally and directionally.

I guess it took the entire world sitting at home to get 3M people interested enough to buy the latest VR system. Cool. If it was actually what people wanted, everybody would be scrambling to get one. 3M says to me that it's more of the same. I feel like I've taken a time machine to 2005, being told how great the latest Palm phone is while knowing the iPhone is just around the corner. Can't you see that the technology just sucks compared to what it should be? Only once it is what it should be will it be what you want to believe it is today.

> me and my friends haven't bought one

Again, why would I buy a device I can't use?
I mean, I do. The 2-3 that I mainly use work fine. The only one that ever gave me trouble was some "youtube download" kind of thing, but there are a hundred of those.

I know there were some breaking changes, but I assume they were for a good reason, and Mozilla obviously left a path forward.
I actually like the VS code tooling better than Cursive. Not knocking it, but have never felt lacking doing Clojure in VS Code.
Partial Birth abortions.

Deliver the baby feet first. Before the head comes outs. Stick in a tube in its neck and suck the brains out.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-1996-09-27/html/CRE...

Of Course sometimes they alter the procedure to make money off the body parts.

https://pregnancyhelpnews.com/planned-parenthood-officials-a...
The point of anti-trust isn’t to punish individuals but to remedy harm to the consumer. Who cares if people involved with google make more money.

Honestly, a broken up Google is worth more than a unified one. Cynically this may be a ploy just to unleash the value that google has pent up.
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Few countries have done as poorly as the U.S. It has 4% of the world's population, and 19% of the world's COVID-19 deaths. Vietnam, a country far poorer than the U.S., with a population of 95 million, has seen 35 die from COVID-19. The U.S. has over 2000 healthcare workers who have died.

As it turns out, it's not just a result of cultural and social incompetency, it's also malice to intentionally want people to get infected, establish a policy and talking points to encourage it, and denigrate your own public and private sector scientists who say you do not want to get infected.

What about the freedom to go out in public without pants or underwear on? My exposed butthole doesn't in fact risk your life. Whereas my piehole might risk your life. But you're seriously going to take the position that pieholes shouldn't be covered if people don't want? And buttholes should be?

Guess what? Both uncovered holes are uncivilized behavior!

Suggesting it's a matter of personal choice or freedom to engage in behavior that can get people killed is proposing it's OK for people to engage in criminally negligent behavior. This society charges people with crimes who knowingly spread potentially deadly communicable disease.
What size and resolution is your eReader? I can read PDFs on my computers fine, the screen is large enough. On my eReader I can't both see a whole page and have the text large enough to read, even with my reading glasses. I end up zooming in to bring the text up to readable size and then I'm only seeing part of the page and have to scroll left/right/up/down to read a page.
> papers about programming languages that attempt to use data to make arguments about productivity, safety, etc. always seem unconvincing to me

Productivity and safety are aspects of human interaction. No programming language is safe, or productive in a vacuum. It is impossible to make claims about safety or productivity in a programming language without relating them to human use.
Not really ground breaking news here. Exercise helps but weight loss all starts in the kitchen and comes down to calories in vs calories out. Debate all you want about fad diets but to lose weight eat less calories. This website promotes intermittent fasting. Nothing wrong with it but shockingly the reason it works is when you skip a meal you eat less calories.
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