skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a rural Canadian, and the idea of not having firearms in the house horrifies me. As does the constant push by urban Canadians to disarm rural folks (like me) who legally own firearms.

It's ultimately your choice, but I've watched a lot of video on documented home invasions, and a few things are clear:
a) Anyone willing to invade your home while armed will have no compunction about seriously injuring or killing any of the occupants;
b) The defensive use of a firearm, while largely not reported, is an amazing deterrent in probable 95% of attempted home invasions where the homeowner has a firearm. Most intruders will nope out as soon as they see a gun, no shots necessary.
c) It happens in Canada far more often than you think, including in cities. Here's a recent case: https://torontosun.com/news/crime/violent-home-invasion-may-.... Even if this case is gang-related, what are the odds that these people make mistakes and enter the wrong home/apartmnet?
d) In rural areas, police are not getting there in any reasonable timeframe. It would take police probably 30 minutes to get to my house.

Ultimately, my view is that the right to self-defence is meaningless unless you have the means with which to actually defend yourself. I have no problem with people who are uncomfortable owning firearms and choose not to, but it's very problematic when those people force their views on others.

It's not legal in Canada to own firearms strictly for the purpose of self-defence (because our gun laws are quite silly once you become familiar with them), but most rural folks hunt or sport shoot so it's a moot point.

Oh, and by the way - meta-studies on the topic indicate that restricting access to firearms doesn't actually prevent suicides, it just causes people to shift methods to hanging, overdose, etc.
Agree with all of these points, but you’ll need the understanding and competence to rapidly refactor your pain points when you encounter them.

Tangentially, I believe low and no code platforms are perfect for prototyping gluing APIs together to prove out concepts, and once you’ve demonstrated traction (whatever that looks like for your product), it’s time to refactor out into your own business line app to control your product’s destiny.
Non-accidental Americans and green card holders living in the EU also face major difficulties for opening bank accounts and basic investments. The accidental ones are the tip of the iceberg, but the problem need a fix for everyone.
> doesn’t renunciation of US citizenship actually require an act of Congress annually, under which all recent applicants are included?

That's strangely absurd! Also wouldn't it be a bill of attainder (thus against the Constitution)?
> But weather balloons get pass?

Those are licensed and regulated. And I am pretty sure that if FAA sends you a notice to stop flying your weather balloon, you stop flying it. It’s not like this “pilot” didn’t know what he was doing - he received written warnings and chose to ignore those.
The selection of the content that goes on your Tweeter feed is way more transparent than the one that goes on your Facebook.

Tweeter also isn't pretending to be a way to keep in touch with your friends while it actually acts like a propaganda machine. It's much more transparent in that you subscribe to the (propaganda or not) channels all by yourself.
I’m a Journalist. Apparently, I’m Also One of America’s “Top Doctors.” (2019)
The trouble with GitHub discussions is that GitHub couldn't decide if it wanted discussions, or Stack Overflow style Q&A with upvotes, so it morphed into this awkward hybrid.
I would love if there was an option to buy their citizenship for that $2350 fee, hell even double would be a no-brainer.

Strange how some people want to get rid of it and how others want it no matter what.
Isn't that communism?
I am in fact saying “the majority of humans are not capable of defending themselves against every possible criminal, and therefore that responsibility belongs to the government.”

I sincerely have no idea what your problem is.
It may not be anything that was previously unknown but it is interesting to see a direct example of how people of that time decorated their social spaces almost indistinguishably from how we do today.
> You can send someone some python code and ask them to run it, only to find they're missing a bunch of C libs required to build and run the code which is a pain to help them figure out how to solve.

You can send someone a Docker file only to figure out they've never heard of Docker. Let alone don't have it installed and aren't interested in setting up a container system to your 500 line Docker script.

All you've done is move your problem upstream. Unless your consumer is a web developer, you are out of luck.
Ironically, the Mavic Mini seems to have been designed to not be subject to rules, especially in other countries.

Here in Canada, none of the drone rules and regulations apply to it, as it's too small to be considered a drone.

I have a drone ... addiction. I generally use my Mavic 2 for most of my flights, but when I want to fly somewhere I'm not allowed to fly, I switch to the Mavic Mini.

So yeah, all those rules the FAA has in the USA, we have similar rules in Canada and other countries. But they don't apply to the Mavic Mini.
I've never heard of ObjectiveFS, thanks for the share! I am more inclined to try out Rook, OpenEBS or Longhorn as open source alternatives.

I've just added YugabyteDB to my explore list.
It sounds like you are going through what the math community went through upon the discovery of Godels Incompleteness Theorems.

While it’s important to know logic systems have limitations (somewhat of an analogue to our understanding of the world), it’s important that we make use of that knowledge by trying to find different mental frameworks that are useful to us and help us move closer to our desires (whether it be a framework for the discovery of more math or a framework that guides us further along our pursuit of happiness)
13, 084 Medical & Public Health Scientists

+= 712,346 concerned citizens

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Take this argument and declaration seriously.[0]

[0] https://gbdeclaration.org/view-signatures/

That being said, I won't be trolled any further.

Enjoy your latte.
Just get a bluetooth headset, nobody will question you. You can record yourself on it too, helpful to playback later..
I see spacex fans hating blue origin, not the competition. most spacex fans are also huge supporters of rocket lab, orbital sciences, etc. they hate blueorogin because bezos plays more politics then builds rockets, and when there is limited money, people and contracts, it hurts the entire industry.
It's probably because Facebook is huge and making fuckloads of money while the narrative about Twitter has been that it's struggling to monetise the popularity of its platform. Hard to make the argument that they're profiting off of hate if they're not profiting.
These are phenomena Google has been dealing with for about a decade now.

Beyond a certain size, you really do have no choice but to have an editorial opinion. Even adherance to neutral tone is a choice.
What air traffic are you talking about? There was none. The thing about buildings is the only thing we could agree on. Who cares (except the bureaucrats) about losing control and signal when nothing could've happened?
Stockholders did great but folks working ordinary jobs not so much. Lots of people got laid off or had to work in dire conditions.

This Cares act also appropriated most of the money for corporate welfare and only a small portion for ordnirary people.
But that’s a whole separate problem, no?

That’s like saying “Accidental lottery winners complain they have to pay taxes, but hey, we need to make sure the tax code is good for everyone” - totally, but don’t paint the article like it’s some massive global problem of lottery winners struggling.
I wrote another comment, before reading the article that says it better than me:

Catastrophe requires multiple failures – single point failures are not enough.
The reason large cap stocks are going up the way they are is because their small- and medium-sized competition is being systematically suffocated by lockdowns and doesn't have the same access to publicly subsidized credit to wait out the storm. The DoorDash and Amazonification of the economy is not some organic development, it is being directly fueled by the pandemic response.

The CARES Act was a joke for everyone except the large corporations to which it made $5 trillion available. A single $600 check and some meager UI for everyone else, and for small businesses, coverage for a measly 10 weeks of payroll.
What about a multinational bank like Citi bank or HSBC etc... I would assume they have experience in these issues.
I don't see the phrase 'Facebook profits off of hate' as false, but rather that it is so trivially true that 'Facebook' could be replaced with not only any social media platform, but any news platform as well, and the statement would remain true as hate is an inherently viral/profitable emotion. So I am not set out to defend Facebook at all, but rather instead to ask 'Why are we only recognizing the problem there, when the problem is a much more general and larger phenomenon?'
Culture is over-rated. Covid is an opportunity to question why businesses are structured how they are, in particular whether process and conformity oriented central functions like talent, culture, and most management can be done away with, in favour of individual accountability and a focus on results. I say this because work from home leads to rethinking work as a place you go to put in time, as it has been at least since the industrial revolution. And reimagining work as a series of outcomes someone wants to pay you for, because they see value in outsourcing them to you. But instead, companies will just make online versions of the same corporate BS that goes on in the office.
This appears to be a two part question. Part one is how space efficient the language representation is (words, sounds) and part two is how much mental RAM is needed to extract meaning. In a traditional CS setting this would be an example of a time-space tradeoff (decompression), but given hefty evidence of special structures in the brain that are adapted for language processing, the processing aspect has really been abstracted away by "special hardware" which places a lower bound on how dense the representation can be to take advantage of it in a real-time streaming context. I find it hard to imagine any popular language system evolving to make itself harder by not using the embedded hardware for processing, so I'll turn the rest of my answer to examining the representational efficiency.

If you look at language efficiency from the information theoretic sense (i.e. most meaning conveyed with least amount of "bits" of data), you can approximate the efficiency of a language by looking at the branching factor and probability of words in its language model. The more branches there are, the more meanining a single word can have in a stream of text (especially a low probability word). However, the more words you have in your language, the more "bits"/letters/memory/etc. It takes to represent the word even if you use a probability informed encoding like Huffman.

If you think of a Markov language model as simply bitstream guided state machine, you can approximate the expected length of output for equivalent length inputs and get an information density approximation of the language model itself.

Traditional Chinese which is not phonemic will have a much larger "word" space but a much smaller branching factor. Each symbol conveys more meaning, but highly constrains the space of symbols which can follow. Where it falls on the tradeoff curve relative to say, English is not obvious ex ante, but we can use this framework to test it.

This answer might be a little dense, but is meant to provide some intuition and a thought framework to evaluate your question.
How cool! I was on the fence about whether or not to put up the source code— I'm _glad_ I did!

Do you have a recommendation for a good reference that teaches about the various metrics for point-cloud distance? (I only used Chamfer distance because I hazily recalled it from some undergrad class taken a while ago...)
The takeway IMO is that the reason their transition was so seamless is because they took the time to do it 'the right way' - that is: set up the new system in parallel, duplicating the reads and writes, and verifying that things looked good every step of the way.

That gives you not only a long window to test and validate, but also the option to rollback if things suddenly don't look so good with the new system. It seems like people sometimes get impatient and want to do a 'big switchover' with insufficient production testing and no real rollback plan, but in my experience that's almost never a good idea.
Holding a single options contract is no more or less risky than holding 100 shares of that same underlying stock... if you know what you are doing. The problem is, people don't know what they're doing and make oversized trades that get them into trouble.
Even Zoom admits it
https://blog.zoom.us/improving-our-policies-as-we-continue-t...
It's a fair point and a good example of why there are no absolutes, but hardly addresses the bigger point.

If you have an app that formats JSON files, are you shipping it as a Docker container? Or a linter? How about a text editor?

The number of applications where it makes sense to bundle them as VMs is quite small.
Work upstream: hire carefully. Do they have their ego in check? How do they act when they're right about something? How do they act when they know something? How do they act when they're wrong? Do they try to hide evidence or change the story? Do they find excuses? etc.

Midstream: alignment. Make sure everyone is on the same page and has access to information. Make sure everyone knows what the goal is, why it is a goal, how to get there, what's important, what's less important, what they have to do, that they understand what to do, etc.

Tweak according to people. With some people? Just give them room and don't bother them. They'll come to you when they have a problem and they know when they must come to you. With others, more involvement is required. Tailor your approach to each one.

Downstream: why are they slacking? Is it because they don't know how to do the job? Do they have personal circumstances/problems? Are they lacking sleep? Are they equipped to manage time? Are they not motivated to do the work? Have I talked with them about this?

One good way was to go for a walk one on one, outside of the office. Changing scenery helps. You're walking and talking, and it's amazing that you end up having a completely different conversation than the one you'd have had at the office.

Written emails work, too. When you lay out the problem without attacking the person as in [here is the problem], you get answers like "I meant to talk to you about that but I haven't found the courage. I've been struggling to manage my time and tasks", and you can work from there.

There's sort of an "index" reply here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25367011. Several replies touch on different aspects around the mechanics of getting work done, from reducing the barrier to writing good issues by having templates, to dispatching minutes of meetings so everyone has the same information, to the emails you write to make sure everyone is on the same wavelength, to onboarding documents. Sed "giving a damn" or "what if I disappear" to start.
Leaving aside the modest achievements of the code so far, the missing prerequisite to "automatically" formatting SQL is... just formatting SQL.

Because SQL (broadly) was designed to be "human" readable in the first place, it's grammatically very inconsistent and with a lot of keywords. Much more than other languages in use today such as C.

I've yet to find a pattern of indentation, brackets etc. that satisfies my OCD.

Coming up with an example of a nicely formatted SQL statement is not difficult, but turning that into consistent 'rules' and immediately you find counterexamples using other parts of SQL.
> The economy is already so damaged, it will not recover in our lifetime and will likely result in an alternative currency...that is also strictly controlled by the central banks, of course.

Institutional players are increasingly warming to Bitcoin and it seems like that’s where things are headed imo.
I was intrigued until I saw that the house is in a thousand-person village. It feels like the trades were downhill after the truck. I mean, my cousin bought a house in a 30000-person town for ~5000 usd—likely not much of a house but still.
The reason these laws exist at all is the moral outrage over rich Americans illegally hiding their money overseas. Predictably, the laws have had limited effect on rich tax evaders and huge negative impact on millions of non-rich expats. In general one should be extremely skeptical of regulations which are sold as "not even applying to most people," as the unintended consequences will almost certainly hurt a lot of people outside of the scope of the law's stated target.
What the data say about border closures and Covid spread
For those looking for ways to talk to non-engineers about this topic (without them rolling their eyes and telling you to stop making excuses), I highly recommend the book Leadership is Language.
At the 40+ inches size, monitors are super expensive than TVs . That's the biggest problem. :(
Prop 13 incentivizes cities to reject new housing because it is net revenue negative compared to commercial properties. That and it disincentivizes old people to politically advocate for affordable housing, because they don't have skin in the game / are free riders and thus do not feel the pain like everyone else. They end up ferociously protecting their boomer bank account (house value) because they cannot see beyond their own personal situation.
Even paying zero dollars you still have to file taxes, send in FBAR, invest in a FACTA compliant way, sort out redundant pensions, and deal with the IRS - all at comically inflated costs since software products (e.g. Turbotax) don't do overseas taxes well, if at all. And if you make a mistake navigating an incredibly complex web of under-documented treaty law and ambiguous paperwork you can quite literally end up imprisoned by a country with one of the developed world's most comically broken justice systems the next time you go on holiday. I once won a random prize drawing for a modest amount of cash ($15k) and ended up paying nearly $3k in accountant fees to navigate the double-taxation process safely. My US tax burden was $0, but the filling burden was way beyond that. I haven't benefited from US public services or anything in many years. The US is essentially the only country on the world that inflicts this nonsense on people.
> but GitHub doesn't exactly encourage it.

I think this would be a nice new Category in Discussions; ":heart: Thank you"
I do have a bit of a ban list. Possession, minion, masquerade. The cards that take over the board nearly every time. I’ve not much desire to play yet another minion game.
You forget about Lithium ion battery and nuclear fusion and many more examples. All the problems can't be solved by simple solution you need to do complex things.
The vaccine pioneer the world forgot
We'll have to see how fast the transition back is. You're right that if remote work stays it has to work with conference rooms and larger groups at the office. I think if the transition back is fairly gradual then the office infrastructure and culture will grow and WFH has a chance.
Rest in Peace Homi J. Bhabha
Technology is much more than software, isn't it.
Your points don't address my question.
I'm not sure what GP had in mind either. But if I were trying to build on that statement, I'd say that a single party political landscape hasn't been good. Having at least three or four healthy competitive parties and a need to build coalitions seems like it would be really helpful. But that isn't the American way.
No. Acts of Congress are also necessary to commission US officers.

Similar procedure is used to confirm people to federally appointed positions or allow individuals expidited paths to US citizenship.

Bills of attainer seems to refer solely to acts that render a person guilty and punish them outside of normal jurisprudence.
That's great but irrelevant to my question.
There are actually two exclusions for countries on the treaty list, one is the first ~100k of income, and the other is a tax credit for taxes paid in the other country.

So, if you happen to be an expat in a higher tax country (which is certainly Europe), then you won't owe taxes in the US. You still have to file, which can cost $500 for an accountant to make sure everything is correct, but owing taxes isn't really an issue.
Good for them. I guess they figured out a way to get a positive ROI from those costly US Facebook clicks, but probably they do a lot of advertising in cheaper markets.
There is nothing to do over, as I have not done anything. I am here through a series of events that have been out of my control.

As I currently lay on a bunkbed on a little cottage on a mountain somewhere in Europe, I could have never predicted or actively have made a choice to bring me here. If I believe I did, through consciously setting a goal, the series of events or choice to get me to that point would have been out of my control.

There is no control. Our decisions are influenced by all the previous decisions, decisions of others (our parents, our significant others, our bosses, etc), and external events outside of our control.

External events as insignificant as bus being late. Such an insignificant event but it could prevent someone from having meet their significant other, or to have lost a job, to have escaped a traffic accident, or to have heard an idea that completely changed their lives.

There is no free will. This is freeing and humbling. Freeing because you know you are doing the best you can, with the capabilities you have at this moment. Humbling because you know other people are too.

Sure my life would have been better had my parents stayed together, and my mom not immigrated but then I would have grown up in a third world country and would be confined to that normal life. Sure I went through a lot of trauma, but I have now the ability and freedom to travel the world.

All the trauma of my childhood and teenage years left me with intimacy issues, unable to sustain a long-term relationship. Do I wish that was not the case? I'm not too sure. I like my life, with the travelling and chaos. Had I not had emotional issues, I would probably have a family and kids by now, and be settle down. It's likely I would have enjoyed that, as I would be that guy who wants the family life, but I'm glad I'm this guy. It was not up to me anyway, who I will be in 10 years it's not up to me either.
There's an "ask a question" feature out of beta now that is designed for not cluttering the issues. I believe it has to be enabled on the repo.
Gold / silver / bitcoin / ethereum / real estate (non-commercial)

Anything desirable that can’t be created easily, as newly printed money will flow directly to it.
I was glad to remember ublock origin has a 'block remote fonts' button.
Definitely good. But, very expensive :(
Glad to know it's more popular than I thought. Seems like a good thing to put near a windmill (or a fusion plant if we ever get there) so we can use existing infrastructure and switch from pumping billion-year-old carbon into to atmosphere to just pumping last-decade carbon into the atmosphere.

The wood chips thing is interesting. In the last five weeks I've filled as many trash totes with leaves from the neighbor's tree. I wonder how that mass of carbon compares with the gas I've burned for heat this winter.