skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do find a flaw in that logic. International waters are not and should not be under anyone's authority. The system the US implements, like the one which proceeded it, is a fundamentally decentralized system. The US guarantees free navigation, but there's nothing stopping any other nation from doing so as well. China could, Russia could, Guinea-Bissau could. Indeed, the US is not the only nation engaged in anti-piracy operations. You don't need the US to act in good faith, the system is stable in that every country doing what is in their own best interest is also in everyone else's best interest. Really, every nation should independently guarantee free navigation, but luckily that is unnecessary.

In practice the US has such an immense navy that while it guarantees free navigation there is no real need for other nations to, and if it were to oppose free navigation there is no navy that could stop it, so at the moment the US de facto decides if free navigation is guaranteed, but there is nothing de jure entrenching the US in that position - should it ever derelict its duties or otherwise grow weak there is nothing stopping another nation, or group of nations, from taking up the mantle.

On the other hand if an international body were to be set up to do the job, then we become totally reliant on its efficacy. It's impossible to have a truly independent organization - the people who compose it, as well as the people who provide material resources to it, are not independent and unbiased - and unlike a nation which benefits from the trade it protects, this organization's only incentive would be to appease its backers. Even if it avoided malicious corruption, it would fundamentally entrench the geopolitical status quo, and getting everyone to agree to remove it may be impossible even if it strays woefully far from its mission.

The US's position may rub a lot of people the wrong way, they see the US as being some sort of self-appointed overlord and fear if it has nefarious intent. They fail to realize the level of gross indifference that the US has towards the larger world. We just want to be able to import cheap crap, any benefit to other nations is purely ancillary, and we will continue on our course for precisely as long as it is the easiest way of maintaining our steady supply of cheap crap.
Even at replacement levels you'll shut down your natural production and risk never being able to naturally produce your own T. Needing to do intramuscular injections for the rest of your entire life is usually not a consolation prize people want to sign up for. Plus, in the U.S., should someone lose their health insurance and not be able to afford exogenous testosterone anymore they'd be in a pretty awful situation.

Also you'll likely end up infertile.
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What other products are you using that aren't acquired by Google yet? Asking for my stock investments.
> if Jeff Bezos said he was selling $30bn of stock to contribute to charity right now so he could get critics off his back and concentrate on Amazon

I wonder if a lot of people would view that as the CEO version of a politician saying "I'm stepping down to spend time with my family", and immediately try to find the "true" reason he's selling the stock. Perhaps even causing more of a problem than if he had said "I'm selling this stock to buy a _really_ fancy yacht"
Why on earth would Xi allow his wealth to be known? The media in China isn’t even allowed to cover basic actions of the CCP. But China is a country run by bribes and guanxi. And all bribes flow up. It is possible he has decided to not accept the payments, but very unlikely.
Careful, with that argument incitement charges become impossible.
What I find amazing is how the richest person in the world also happens to be a really good person. Bill Gates generally just seems humble, kind, and... normal. Imagine if Bill Gates were instead a corrupt megalomaniac - it wouldn't be too hard to slip into amoral hedonism when you have that much money.
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Note that the comments regarding indexing should be attributed to Bing, the underlying search engine that DDG uses currently. I too switch to !g occasionally when searching particular niches.
People protesting against authorities killing innocent people (ostensibly, at least partly the basis of racism), is altogether a different thing from people trying to stop the validation of an election, which is to say, overthrow the Republic.

One is civil disobedience in the face of a legitimate problem, however the other is a coup attempt.

And of course, there's nothing wrong with people paying for other people's bail, there is however, something wrong with financing a coup.

Hopefully, those involved in civil disobedience who really did break the law by 'looting Target' will face reasonable justice irrespective of their bail, and those attempting to stop the transfer of power between Presidents will face proportional charges.

Edit: I should be clear I don't mean to be supportive of any of what is going on in any direction: BLM/Trumpland/Apple/Facebook/BLM/COVID/Free Speech/Hate Speech etc. Even as most of the press hides under the veil of 'technically truthful' there's quite a bit of strong narrative building going on. Sufficed to say, the 'insurrection' on capital hill was of another league altogether what with the legitimacy of the Office of the President being maligned to support the interdiction of the transfer of power. That's a 'really big deal'. In 200 years we will remember COVID and Trump for dubious reasons, while the BLM protests and FB/Apple/Twitter wars won't like make the history lesson.
Legally, yes. But given the prominence and importance it has with regards to disseminating news and opinion, I think it’s their responsibility to take their obligation seriously.

The phones at one time we’re not “utilities”. Social media may become the next regulated utility given its importance.
Hormone production is something that the body controls. It doesn't require multiple generations or genetic selection.
The flipside is that there are 4x the job posts for data engineering as there are for "that guy".

Companies understand that you can't hire five of that guy and get things done. If you have 5-8 years of experience as a technical product manager/data science combo then you are very happy as the magician. But very few magicians are being hired out of college, and a lot of "software engineers in data"
What has Google done with your data ? Even I was expecting a /s at the end of your comment.
What a negative and dark place ( insert any social media here) has become.
Yep. Languages with a simplistic syntax (and a simplistic paradigm) make writing compilers for those languages easy, but they do not make creating programs in the languages easy. We can think of Lisp, or even more of Forth. It is also a common characteristic of "esoteric" languages: providing very little syntax, very few keywords, instructions and ready-built features, is an ingredient of their recipe for obfuscation.
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I know from testing that mine would be perfectly normal ... if I were in my eighties and had to use a walker to get around, according to my doctor. He hypothesized that I may never have had normal levels and I am inclined to agree. Unfortunately, treatment is complicated by a metabolic disorder I have, so I would have to find an aromatase inhibitor to suit as well as something to put a halt to 5-alpha-reductase.

Admittedly, I find myself somewhat afraid of a variety of small factors. Certainly I would like to keep my hair, but more than that I am concerned that I simply wouldn't know how to deal with the drive (normally one would say "renewed" here but I have been take-it-or-leave-it about most things).
Yeah, it's a performance discipline like any other (competitive gaming, athletics, etc) where only the top few % can succeed. If someone isn't very driven then they won't make it.
> The list could go on.

I'd think the biggest would be more freedom with respect to making work more compliant to social distancing.
Most libraries load entire notebooks from top to bottom when executing, and I believe papermill does too. (Please correct me if I'm wrong, as I've not used papermill.)

This is great for making a dashboard, a report, or some other kind of analytics, but when it comes to a service the customer uses, you typically never want to load the whole notebook. This is where the industry standard way of loading the whole notebook tends to fall on its face.

What we do is the cells that will end up in prod are written as functions inside of the notebook. This helps reduce globals when writing the notebook, so it is good form when prototyping, but also it allows just those functions to be called from the notebook, instead of running the entire notebook.

You will probably want to write your own library to do this, but in the mean time there is one that works for this purpose https://github.com/grst/nbimporter (Ironically the author doesn't recognize this use case.)

Using nbimporter you can import a notebook without loading it. You can then call functions within that notebook and only those functions get loaded and called.

In my notebooks I have a process function which is like main(), but for for feature engineering. On the prod side the process function is called from the notebook. Process calls all of the necessary cells/functions for me in the correct order. This way the py wrapper only has to call one function, then the ML predict function gets called, so it's pretty small on the .py wrapper side. There are tests written on the .py side, IO functions and what not too.

Data engineers love their classes, so it's easy to write a class that calls the notebook, and best of all calling a single function this way does not load globals, so the data engineers are happy. It's a nice library, because otherwisw you'd have to write your own (which you may end up wanting to do).

This way if the model doesn't work as intended in production it's my fault. We log everything, so I can run the instance prod caught on my local machine, figure out what is going on, update the model, and then it can be deployed instantly.

Version numbers on the engineering side I can't comment on as they have their own method, but on my end the second the model writes to a database then I strongly push for having a version number column or a version number metadata table in the database, so it's easy for me to access for future analysis.
They've been talking about a 100% transient (read: contract) worker population for some time now.

A lot of the developers I know rotate between contracting and FTE work. They're FTE timeframes line up with your assertion. They stay at one place, get some new tech knowledge, work a few projects and then move on after a few years.

The think the age range has greatly expanded though since most of my group is in their mid 30's now. Maybe more people are starting to contract younger so to them, they see it as a more normalized work career than some other people who want to get one gig, settle in and be there for 20+ years?
This is a common theory.
https://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134196209/study-most-plastics...
People cashing in on the Equifax hack most likely.
Can we use testosterone to absorb excess CO2??
https://data.ers.usda.gov/reports.aspx?ID=17833
The past decade it has been only about 10 billion a year with fixed direct payments largely eliminated in 2014. 2020 will obviously be an exception due to Covid-19. Most of the recent payments are Market Protection Programs to prevent exports from being wrecked by retaliatory tariffs under Trump.
https://www.farmers.gov/manage/mfp

That's very much a means-tested program to prevent farmers from being driven into bankruptcy by tariffs on things they've already produced. It's not a magic money fountain.
I would tend to think the education level also plays a role, and considering wealthier individuals usually have a better access to education/are more educated (read correlation not causation here), said individuals might have a better grasp off what is happening.

Edit: Remote working is also easier when you have an office job

Edit 2: I hope more research like this will come out so we can prepare and protect the ones who are more at risk when the next pandemic comes. Uderstanding the risk factors and how a disease spreads is the first step of debugging it. Sadly it is the first pandemic where we have the necessary tools to track all the information and analyse it. We have been lucky the death rate was not much higher
> The straightforward meaning is that ultimately I decide what is acceptable or not for me, and you decide what is acceptable or not for you.

I disagree that this is straightforward in meaning. Even if I do have a good idea of what is unacceptable to me, I need someone external to screen for that. If the point is to avoid personally facing the content that I find unacceptable, it's impossible for me to adequately perform this screening on my own behalf.

I can instruct or employ someone (or something) to do this, but then ultimately they will make the decision for me. It's only plausible to do this at scale, unless I'm wealthy enough to employ my own personal cup-bearer who accepts the harm. So, it makes sense to band together with other users with similar requirements.

Your claim seems to be that delegating these decisions is a bad thing that should be avoided, but it is an essential and inevitable part of this service - I have to delegate that decision to someone else, or I won't get that service.

This is not to mention legal restrictions on content in different jurisdictions, which define a minimum standard of moderation and responsibility, that may include additional risk wherever they are not fully defined.
Ahh. Got it. There is some truth to it as Ag is net net extractive.

Land has to be rotated for fertility and even then it takes decades and decades to build an inch of top soil. At our current global population , we are treading on thin ice..or rather upon eroding top soil. Sad truth.
Ah yes and torrent sites don't host any content either :P
Golly, if hunter-gathering means I'm stuck in whatever group I was born in, and that other more organized groups can keep us off their turf, then maybe hunter-gathering just isn't that great.
According to the late David Graeber, this has been going for a while now. He defines one category of "bullshit jobs" as flunkies. Typically people who are hired to make someone else look good. For example a CEO must have a secretary or an assistant or analyst so they hire one. They do perform a role of sorts, but their output is completely irrelevant.

It's really not far from suits, especially white ones, white gloves, or high heels. Such apparel demonstrates that you don't work, in fact that you can't work. Ancient Romans liked to have feasts while laying on their sides - it's very inconvenient to reach for things and you must use servants. Another status symbol is a wristwatch with dials but no numbers. Female shirts are unbuttoned from the opposite side - so they're comfortable to unbutton for the servants.
I don't get what you're saying, every phenotype is something "that the body controls."
A consequence of picking Tk as GUI toolkit, once loved across the UNIX world.
> Exactly. Saying NPM has millions of packages is completely misleading. There will be 20, 30, 40 packages that all do the same thing.

And the one with the obvious name hasn't been updated in 18 months. Maybe it's complete. Maybe the developer has moved on. Then there are a couple half hearted forks. All of these dependencies bring in 1 to 100 dependencies each and you have to spend a days on the treadmill every month or two to keep things updated.

I loved Node development despite the packaging mess but I really appreciate how the Elixir community tends to coalesce around key libraries/frameworks/methodologies and focus on making them the best possible.
Yes, the strip was popular enough to receive t.v. series adaptation.

I quit the strip in what must be around the same events of the story as the sixth episode — I could not bare with how awkward the protagonist was, and how everyone either really liked him or outright fell in love with him despite being a nervous train wreck who constantly embarrasses himself.

I'm not sure it's “bad”; it's as said quite popular and it's probably very good at what it attempts to do and what I consider flaws are probably features.
What are the optimal testosterone levels?
This is all true but I would still consider it surprising that it's such a strong predictor of mask wearing and staying physically separated from people.

The behaviors they studied cost nothing and are equally available and beneficial to the rich and poor alike so it's odd that it has any correlation to income at all.
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I was thinking the same thing. A 90 minute movie where he doesn't say a single word. It could be one day in his life just being there for his different clients.
Interesting, how many books have you read on the topic of confrontation vs argumentation? I think you need at least two to have a sufficient background to discuss the concept.
Yes, and people have to right to tell random strangers to fuck off and give kids the middle finger.

Doesn't mean we can't try to talk someone out of doing that or discuss how such behavior makes society slightly worse.
People do ignore encumbrance/exhaustion a lot, kind of annoys me when I have to remind my players: You can't carry a battle axe, longsword, longbow, crossbow, two fishing nets, and a boulder. I don't care that you have 18 strength and it's technically something you can lift, it makes no sense to be able to run with all of that, let alone expecting to keep up with unencumbered opponent.

But this is one of the great things of this hobby:

1. There are thousands of systems to select from.

2. No one forces you to play it RAW.

3. If you do want RAW, you can probably find a system that works for you.

The most important parts are: what's fun and conveys the sense you want for the game; agreeing on the rules (either RAW or house) with some consistency (What do you mean I can't jump down 10'? You let him jump off a 50' cliff without getting hurt just last week!).
Putin had $200 billion in 2017 if you believe this senate testimony. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/31/financier-bill-browder-says-...
"‘I just had a burrito for $6. It was amazing.’

The last burrito he had in San Francisco cost $15."

I remember burritos going for $2.50 in San Francisco in '96 ($4 got you a monster burrito, I never could have finished one of those).

Now burritos is not where most money goes, but I can't help to wonder if the absurdly increased cost of living in the S.F. Bay Area in the last 25 years isn't an impediment for start-ups. Most of those won't be able to pay 'competitive' salaries, but feed their employees promises and hope instead. FAANG employees can afford to live in S.F., but how do those living on a shoe-string budget and working for a start-up manage?
Not only could Germany not get any credit because of the Dawes plan, but the Great Depression caused Germany's creditors to start calling all existing loans.

It caused central banking failures all throughout Central Europe. Germany's banking system collapsed in the early 30s. In the wake of the Depression, European nations had very protectionist trade policies. With weakened international trade as a result of such policies, countries like Germany that did not have global empires had to resort to military force to acquire raw materials.

WWII was inevitable and that summary of the Weimar Republic's problems is overly-simplistic to the point of being misleading.

It's not enough just to look at trade imbalance from the lens of balance sheets. It's about what resources markets are (un)able to provide. You can look at the Opium wars similarly, which we think based on the name are about Opium but really were largely about the Silver trade from West to East and China's refusal to circulate that Silver back into the market.

Defecits are fine as long as everyone thinks they have reasonably fair access to the same resources. Notice the soft trade war that started mostly as a result of global manufacturing shifting to China and China's theft of IP...
Not sure how to respond - you’re not necessarily wrong, but Tcl is also not Brainfuck[0]. The GP was indicating:

> it takes forever to wrap my head around the syntax.

... which (from observation) is often from second-guessing or overthinking the rules.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
Not really.

You just get seen as the product owner/project manager.
Thanks for mentioning desertification. This is a very important and crucial problem..and one with no easy answers.
Poorer folks in New York City have drastically less space available for...pretty much everything.

Even in relatively spaced-out areas, this is true. If you go to Central Park, you'll find that the density of people on an average day is far higher at (say) Harlem Meer than it is further south. There are simply more people who are sharing the same recreation space that is within X miles of the place they are living.

Central Park is actually a silly example, because it's far better than most other parts of New York. Go to Fort Washington Park on an average sunny weekend, and the density of people is dramatically higher than Riverside Park, further south. And that's just recreation...poorer people have less time for that than rich people do. Go to Flushing, and people are cheek-to-jowl at pretty much all times, even though there's a big empty park right next door.
I'm not doubting you for a minute in terms of whether it would work, but the occupants of a car (and especially not a Tesla!) are unlikely to be carrying sparkplugs. Ditto police officers.
Google 83%, Bing 9%, DDG 3%, Yahoo 2%.

This time last year: Google 89%, Bing 6%, DDG 1.9%, Yahoo 1.9%.
None of our engineers had to do a coding test to get their Google offer. :)
This was the other post, which I had trouble finding quickly: https://mastodon.social/@stevelord/105510258237207655

I'm sure you can imagine how I received that: "we don't care what you actually believe, we only care about appendix L of the documentation."

People have been calling us Nazis since day one -- we have several German developers so we make VW and BMW jokes about 'German engineering' and of course all the early-cold-war German rocket scientists. It's the reason we've got the photo of Bowie at Victoria Station -- photographed while waving to the crowd, he had to repeatedly deny being a Nazi afterward, because it sure looked like a Nazi salute in the photo.

Once the actual Nazis started showing up we had to get more explicit in our condemnation of their evil, and that's okay -- rejecting hate is the easy part. Defending ourselves against the people we agree with is much harder.
Probably not, because at present there's no legal framework for domestic terrorism. Even if one were created next week, it wouldn't be retroactive because the US Constitution bans ex post facto prosecutions.
Both this comment and its source are remarkably thin on details: the claim that people are not returning money to bail funds seems to be based on a single tweet from a single organization. I've given regularly to bail funds for years, and most report being able to recover and reuse bails for subsequent cases[1].

But even more saliently: nobody was "paid to cause destruction." People we being bailed out following mass arrests in the midst of a pandemic and unprecedented social unrest. Whether or not a particular fund has failed to recoup its bails is immaterial to the fact that nobody gave to bail funds as a mechanism for direct wealth transfer. That just wouldn't be very efficient.

[1]: https://bailproject.org/faq/
We already did this in the past for dog poop: https://www.vettimes.co.uk/app/uploads/wp-post-to-pdf-enhanc...