skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As a French person, I can't help but feel like there's some sort of personal attack happening there. Wine and airplanes? Hey, I think you guys forgot to tax cheese and sarcasm while you're at it!

Didn't the EU do the same thing with their retaliatory tariffs a few years ago? They were taxing some uniquely "american" goods, eg. harley davidson motorcycles.
This. At nearly every company I have worked at, some reasonably charismatic C-Level / VP spins up a ambitious initiative which is promised to be a game changer. It looks great on paper and usually contains words like 'change management program' and 'rolling thunder'.

Underneath the fancy slide show is the formula for success, which usually looks like 'Magic + ? = Profit', with the ? being a bunch of tough sledding that inevitably turns into a death march. By the time the death march comes to a head, the executive have moved on or been replaced.
I don't think there is a huge risk when you're dealing with 12V batteries.
I literally write "// TODO: YOU ARE HERE - (Summary of next tiny task)"

I separately keep a TODO file with the list of next major task items, and I break them down into subtasks if necessary.

This allowed me to do a side project in 15-minute chunks on my train ride to and from work for a year
Who are these folks? I have a tonne of suggestions and would love to give feedback!
If bats are a natural biological reservoir then no. Because if the disease is less lethal in bats that's how it will maintain itself.
I mean this is something people from both sides can agree with Trump on. The world has been taking the USA for a ride when it comes to trade. The EU is really defensive , and will protect its industry above else. It does also bully smaller countries (like Tunisia, stop illegal immigration or we reduce trade, etc...); but the US gets most of the bad press.
Arcosanti FTW
It's such a polarizing topic that anyone with a slightly opposing viewpoint will immediately recoil in disgust, for the most part.
Didn't work for me either. I'm not that impressed compared with my usual technique of going to the site's Wikipedia page to see how to access it. Works for thing's like Sci Hub, Popcorn Time and the Daily Stormer.
We already have petroleum Dutch disease, switching to another Dutch disease would be very welcome at this point (:
Should just nationalize it then. Otherwise propping up a company like that is anti-freemarket.
Ditto for Airbus.

One of the risks of consolidation.
Easier said than done.

Either by intentional design or by lack of resources, both EU and US govs have a hard time winning this game of whack-a-mole when these megacorps have armies of top lawyers and consultants who's sole focus is finding legal ways to avoid paying taxes.
How to Be a DailyLearner
> There's really nothing wrong with any of that, unless you're specifically coding to defend against content scraping.

> Worse, but again, was the site even supposed to be designed with anonymity in mind?

Yes! Privacy, security and harm/abuse mitigation must be one of the considerations when you're writing a project. This isn't even anonymity, these are basic safeguards one should put in place. Not doing so is like selling a car with no seatbelts, and arguing that there's nothing wrong with that unless you're specifically manufacturing to defend against car crashes.

This isn't like the argument about how many tests you should have and what kind; this absolutely must be one of the key things to consider when you're creating a project that's going to be used by people to communicate with one another.
But do you have any evidence?

The other guy provided evidence.
It’s interesting to me you left out class in your comparison of red and blue.
I did read link, to ensure he was western European, rather than eastern. My assertion remains the same - under French or German laws Trump would have been booted, and with clear precedent.
Shit’s broken: why we need Mindful Notifications and how to Design them
Intel Teases Rocket Lake Core I9-11900K with 19% IPC Increase
I wonder if these will be useful to them:

https://open5gs.org/ https://www.openairinterface.org/
What does your typical stack look like?
If it’s 100% accurate 49 out 100 times and 50% accurate for the rest, the net is more like 75% accurate. Right?
Nice explanation of two simmilar functions.

I found this simmilar article shows what is going on behind the scenes. For those that are interested.

https://www.eventhelix.com/RealtimeMantra/Basics/CToAssembly...
War is often nobler than what your typical management consultant does.
> The bottom several deciles of income...

Would it be so hard to use Gini coefficient, standard deviations, or... anything other than "average"?

Typical bad faith response to simple observation of growing inequity is "Well, ya, but average income hasn't budged!!" As though 99/10 is morally and quantitatively equivalent to 50/50.

Is innumeracy the kryptonite to rational discourse?

If there's a more effective rebuttal, a better phrase, someone please share it.
Russian startup founders. Who are they?
SOK Battery also has an 100ah battery for $570. They look a little more reputable then a DIY'er, but kudos to him for selling. a product.
I strongly dispute that a Stanford CS degree is needed to be a junior dev who wires together protobufs, but that's Google's business not mine.

At any rate, you were quoting stats for management roles, so undergraduate majors are irrelevant.
Some of the best engineers I worked with were in non-US offices. They were also smart enough to leave.

You cut my quote short of the important part which was "and employees complained less about constant crunch mode". It is easier to "trap" engineers in countries where average salaries are lower by offering them 20% over market rate and then threatening to fire them if they don't work constant crunch hours. We were promised very large bonuses that never arrived.

> That said I don't hear the best about the company (long working hours, not the highest pay)

It is a sad situation. The pay was very good and the working hours were reasonable when I started, but that changed for the worse. That is why all of my peers left the company.
Open5GS: Open-source project of 5GC and EPC
Libertarianism == billionaires subbing in for government. this is what we get
Unless you're an expert on worldwide English use, it's best not to make such sweeping generalizations.

A straightforward search for the term brings up large sites in the UK, India, Malta and Hong Kong. "Directory Enquiries" was (is?) the name for the service in the UK where you pay a fee for someone to look in the telephone directory for you.
- Toggl for time tracking - https://toggl.com/

- pen and paper for random perishable notes that don't necessarily fit in a calendar, note app or to-do system
For you it is just the flu, for others it's a death sentence.

The reason to vaccinate for the flu is to stop the spread of the flu to vulnerable populations. The cost of vaccination is a little arm soreness for a day or two (hardly anything).

The added benefit is that you've decreased your odds of being put out of commission for 7->9 days (if you are being responsible). Current flu vaccines are around 40->70% effective. Not great, but better than nothing.

The reason I'm so excited about the moderna vaccines is that it can drive those efficacy rates much higher. That's because they can delay manufacturing to be far nearer to the outbreak. The key to a highly effective flu vaccine is matching the strains. mRNA vaccination presents a way to do that a lot better because you don't need 7->10 months of lead time to make sure there is enough supply.
A union isn't just about pay or safety, though for many blue collar jobs, that's the most important issue a union might tackle.

They probably could look at pay inequality though, if they get their members to disclose all of that to the union.

The biggest question will be whether or not the AWU gets large enough and chooses to use the power to strike. Basically the one power any union has, that individual members can't employ without simply being fired.
From what I understand, Parler was bankrolled and designed to do exactly what it was ultimately shutdown for. That is, be a concentrated anger-machine-echo-chamber. I'm not angry at the public corporations that have dropped Parler. I'm angry at the people that created Parler in the first place. It was basically a poison pill designed to test our feelings about free speech, designed to provoke. Mission accomplished, buttheads.

I think we'll see the angry mob go end up at less discoverable, but more robust distributed platforms. Which is a shame, because it means eventually, when I say that you can find me on Mastadon/Scuttlebutt/etc, the average person will say, "Oh, you're on that extremist network?"

The benefit to Facebook/Reddit/Twitter is that while Parler is dominating the discussion, they can start cleaning up their most toxic communities.
Just checked. Restaurant Brands International which also owns Popeyes, Burger King. Is majority owned by 3g capital (the brazilian company at ~30%). Famous activist investor Bill Ackmans fund owns a smaller chunk!
Element was a group of ex-consultants and a bunch of AI researchers with no market, no product plan.

They were going to do some 'consulting' type work, and then ostensibly use the results of that to come up with product offers.

The obvious fallibility in that is:

1) The companies they are working with will not give up their data and allow them to be used in Element Products. No way. In some cases, maybe for a fee, but in most cases it's not even viable.

2) Making viable products is really hard. You don't 'start with AI and then pick a field'. You need to understand the industry, the channels, develop relationships, develop a brand etc. and have something that's really hot.

Element eventually launched a handful of bland, generic off-the-shelf style AI products for image recognition and a few other things, each one a little bit interesting but ironically none of them worthy of really being a startup on their own.

3) Consultants and Researchers are not Startup types. Of course they can be, but not by default. Definitely some ex-Phds and ex-consultants could launch a great company, but otherwise hiring a bunch of them for big salaries and putting them in a room is not how startups form.

They work really hard, they are really smart, but they're not generally very good at finding seams and opening new markets.

4) Generally the way it's done is 'start small' and when there is 'product market fit' you scale. So Element didn't fit that model. They took on $100's of millions before any kind of product-market-fit and ran around in circles burning it.

It would have been nicer to start with a team of 10, find resonance, then start to pull in the talent.

But in some situations, raising $150M with government and institutional backers is easier than raising from traditional VC directly. Like a big government backed initiative with all the flair, PR, announcements.

The CEO of Element was literally on a public Zoom with the PM of Canada recently.

That kind of company.
Hasura [0], Postman [1], and ERPNext [2] are leading the FOSS charge from India. In ERPNext's case, they remained bootstrapped for 10 years (seed investment from rainmatter.in in Nov 2020) despite having to compete with SAP.

See also: https://github.com/collections/made-in-india

[0] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine

[1] https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman

[2] https://github.com/frappe/erpnext
This is the exact opposite of that...
I am continually shocked that sci-hub still does not have a working .onion address.
Other experts should look at their results and their work.

Lay people should be concerned with their opinion, but only after other experts have looked at the results/work.
Lockerbie PanAm
Standby if it's really necessary and I do a lot of git commits that I squash later. Also I create notes where I keep track what I do, so I can present that in the daily meetings.

But usually, especially if it's complex, I enjoy the clean state. If it's too difficult to pick up later, then I ask myself: did I really automatize the things that should be automatized e.g. with a script or makefile? Is my project/code navigatable?
I don't think this really signifies a meaningful deterioration - this has been happening forever. Its diplomacy by trade policy. The EU does the same to us, we do the same to Canada, Canada does the same to us. Usually the penalized industries are just propped up with subsidies in the targeted country anyway. If anything, trade wars were more vicious a century ago than they are now.

In most of these nations, the measures have strong support. You can't expect a Canadian farmer or French wine maker to put the concerns of Americans above their own economic interests. I highly doubt homegrown EU-tech companies were at all bothered by recent measures against US tech giants.
There have been widespread frustration and critique of flash for 20 years. So "finally gone" makes a lot of sense from that point of view.
OpenAirInterface 5G software alliance for democratising wireless innovation
Laws create absurd situations.

In Canada, it was cheaper for pizza companies to buy cheese with pepperoni from the US than buy cheese here.

https://www.betterfarming.com/online-news/feds-close-pizza-c...
Ohh yess.... I've been learning Rails lately (and stimulus, hotwire, et all) and ohhh my goddd... things feel so easy and simple. It's hard to go back to real life and deal with a giant mess of redux, rxjs, an freaking complex NIH libraries each in its own monorepo deployed across 3 microservices for doing just plain old freaking *FORMS*.

But hey, I cannot say this openly or I might be fired, declared an heretic dinosaur and lynched to death.
AT&T has started using a much newer gateway for new installations.
Also, Ebola spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids of an infected person, which has better mitigations than a lot of infections.
I don't believe the Reddit founders ever considered him a founder. Tweet from 2011: https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/93374221685755904
Signal relies on Intel's SGX for certain operations (such as who contacts who?). Does that worry anyone else?
One idea out of many (many have been mentioned by others already): I set linter to always report failure in CI when TODO or FIXME markers are found. So my PR never gets green until I fix them all. I place o lot of such markers if I know that I will not finish in a given focus block (doesn't have to be an end-of-business-day).
> The mental gymnastics of the people defending Parler on here are wild. If Parler was a community of ISIS or any non-white non-christian extremists none of y’all would be insisting on Apple or Amazon’s requirement to do business with them and be complicit.

This is a very typical of the drivel from the pro censorship crowd. Not even an attempt to formulate any coherent principle, just acccusations of bad faith, hypocrisy and racism, without any evidence whatsoever. This is the top comment as I'm writing this. This is apparently the best defense they have to offer.
His actions in the JSTOR situation were ultimately deemed lawful.

But, without passing judgement one way or the other, Aaron's beliefs about free speech and information freedom which informed his activism cannot be reasonably described as moderate.
I think the poster meant that the Polarization is so acute at this point that the Polarization itself needs to be treated as distinct phenomenon (and remedied to some degree) before any progress can be made.

An analogy might be the phenomenon of Complexity in software.
This is a really bad take. This country has never accepted calls for violent overthrow of our democratic system as "freedom of expression", and that's a view that's been upheld by all three branches of government across all eras of our history from the founding (Shays Rebellion?) through the Civil War (which definitively settled that armed rebellion is not a permissible way to settle political differences) through World War I (which defined our current laws about sedition and restrictions on the freedoms in the First Amendment) to the present day. You don't have a right to force anyone else -- individuals or private corporations -- to amplify your views, and you certainly don't have a right to incite violence or rebellion even on your own dime.

EDIT: This would be a less bad take if Parler had been booted just because people on the platform voted for Trump, but to be clear: Parler was booted because it was used to organize an armed rebellion with the explicit goal of finding and executing members of Congress certifying a democratic vote, and its users have been encouraging people to feed Democrats' families into woodchippers while making them watch.
Besides the compiler breaking comments, I also keep a personal "scrum board" of post-it notes on my desk where I write down every thing I would otherwise need to keep inside my head. This also greatly helps in reducing distractions like getting sidetracked into other bugs when working on a feature. You could do this with a file on your computer as well, but having something physical puts it more in your face and at hand is my experience.
Whatsapp is owned by Facebook though?

I'd still get off of it and have been recommending Signal or Telegram to anyone that listens.
Is it just me or is the text practically non readable with very light font on a white background?
I wonder how taxing aircraft parts works. If United reacted to this by flying all of their Airbus aircraft to the EU for any major overhaul would they be taxed on the way back?
ISIS uses AWS in the same sense the capitol hill rioters did, via services like twitter that are hosted on AWS.[1]

[1]: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...
Ways to help: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:FSF/Fight-to-Repair
Long ago I was reading about Ernest Hemingway's approach to dealing with writer's block and one thing he said has stuck with me and proved quite successful for both "coder's block" and remembering where I left off from the last coding session:

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day…
That's fine. With the tariffs China has slapped on American (93%) and Australian (200% !) wine Europeans have what is now the largest international market (and growing) all to themselves.

In fact the US have tried to prop up (and placate) their wine producers since that because the Chinese market completely dried up for them. So I see these tariffs on European wine as killing two birds with one stone for the US government but not necessarily hitting European producers that hard (as said, at this point Chinese will buy as much wine as Europeans are able to sell them...)
China EAST nuclear fusion reactor reaches 100M degrees
Is this major (per title)? Anyone experiencing it? I’ve got two sites in different affected regions that do not seem to be affected at all.
It's true that property taxes are based on the assessment of a home, but it's also not necessarily true that the assessment does a good enough approximation to consider that any house within 1mi of the train is worth 20% more than one 1.5mi away. From my hobby of looking at home appraisals in Boston towns it seems the biggest factor in most towns is square footage.

Another point to consider is that most towns in Massachusetts seem to use replacement cost as the main method of appraisal versus potential income/value. Meaning, 2 families appraise for nearly the same as a single family when they are in reality worth 1.5-2x more in potential income via rent or selling.
Forbes op-ed warns companies about hiring 'fabulists' from Trump administration
Well, if you look at teh rsults of the CS Olympiads, you will see Poland as teh 5th overall (http://stats.ioinformatics.org/countries/?sort=medals_desc)

Having worked (as a French) with dev teams over there, I can assure you they have a whole bunch of A+ devs and the market is very competitive.
Interesting. I wonder if it's a regional thing. Not one of my contacts or any age group uses statuses. They're left on default. The last time I remember setting a chat status was using MSN as a teenager to share my favourite song.

Mind sharing an example of something you've used it for?
Poor guy can’t get a break. They bring out the guillotine in the summer with “eat the rich” signs, then the gallows rolls out in the winter. Tough being one of the worlds richest men.

https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-protests-guillotine-jeff-bez...
Where I live (one of the most liberal cities in the US), it seems that most taxes get passed - even the poorly structured or regressive ones. It's frankly frustrating to see our profoundly mismanaged school district get yet another 10 million dollar bond (generated from property tax) passed every 4 years.
You didn't say it was too far, I interpreted your reply that way because of the context of the conversation - you replied to someone discussing the banning of users that incite violence. So am I wrong to suggest you think it's too far or are you merely telling me "I didn't reveal my position on the issue".
There are lots of solar charge controllers, cheap to expensive. If you want to track charge reliably, you'll need a shunt. Victron energy makes a good one which is monitorable via BT.
> Right-wingers want their politics & claims of election fraud taken seriously while staging a faux-coup in clown costumes? What did they expect, the public opinion not to turn against them? These tactics are so ridiculous that I find it really hard to believe they were sincere in their intentions.

The republicans abandoned "seriousness" with their election of Donald Trump. It turned out to be unnecessary. He did all sorts of ludicrous things, down to the Four Seasons Total Landscaping conference, but those didn't actually affect his grasp on power because they were irrelevant to his supporters.

The coup came surprisingly close to working. Several representatives were successfully intimidated into voting to decertify an election they knew was legitimate: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/01/07/major...

This time they didn't bring guns. No mass shooter, just one cop beaten to death with a fire extinguisher. Nothing like the Vegas shooting. One day the mass shooters and the coup attempters will coordinate.
Unions are political pressure groups. The entire point of a union is to pressure employers to not shoot their employees, give them fair wages and working hours, and so on; the union is a political actor on par with the employer.

By questioning whether a group of employees really is a union, you are attempting to strip them of federal protection from retaliation.
The White House Launches the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office
Reddit seems pretty unprincipled in general. Their decisions wouldn't be so bad if they appeared to stem from a coherent principle but overall they seem to only be reacting and doing whatever is politically expedient in the moment.

Not unlike most orgs I suppose.
In Poland we have 500PLN/kid payment month which helps to equalize gap between cities and rural areas IMO.
A mini-course on how to think about data science more practically
"society's bias toward silencing opposing views."

censorship is NOT the underlying problem here
Since it’s electronic, it’s federal. We know the feds have abdicated their duties to investigate and prosecute people on their side. We’ll see it on full display when all preemptive pardons come out next week. Preemptive because the feds didn’t bother to prosecute.