skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>Do you really see the BLM marches (even the small minority that turned violent) as equivalent to what happened at the Capitol?

As a black American I absolutely consider last year's widespread urban riots WORSE than the Capitol raid. The summer demonstrated a complete unwillingness to enforce law and order, creating an environment which cost the lives of at least 3 black people[1][2][3], and close to 30 other American lives as well. Livelihoods of minority small-business owners were destroyed. [4][5] We can nitpick whether this was explicitly supported by politicians, but it's fairly obvious it was tacitly supported by Democrat leadership for political gain in an election year.[6] As I look for small business investment opportunities, why would I ever put money in a distressed American neighborhood, with such a high risk for destruction of assets in the current political climate? I'll do business with my Mozambican and Tanzanian friends before I ever invest in an American district run by the sort of idiots who steered their own communities towards evaporating wealth instead of building it.
And I bet you we wouldn't have had the upswell in insurgent inclinations that culminated in the Capitol raid if the Trump-supporting extremists hadn't observed the rampant civil unrest for months and concluded "Oh, I guess it's okay to break stuff and violate rules now. There seems to be minimal consequences." Boy were they wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_David_Dorn

[2] https://www.kltv.com/2020/07/29/black-trump-supporter-fatall...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/seattle-protests-CHOP-...

[4] https://www.foxnews.com/us/black-firefighter-devastated-minn...

[5] https://fee.org/articles/here-are-just-10-of-the-many-minori...

[6] https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-hypocrisy-riots-reveals-p...
Keeping a billion for certain is not equal to a 1% chance of paying a billion if, and only if, getting caught. That creates an incentive.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and Preemptible VMs).

You’re kind of racing against the clock though. You could instead have a “load balancing” style layer in front, so that while there is no usable session, at least the person’s connection is just “hanging”.

Feel free to send me some email, as we’re looking to make this experience better (both generally and in GKE, specifically).
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You guys understand that the price of meals would go up to compensate for the lack of tipping right? You’re not simply removing the cash. That extra 20% or whatever is now baked into the price. And generous tippers can still leave their extra bit.

The change is, that by default everyone earns a fair wage.
Time Remembered. The song is so beautiful. I gain new appreciation for its complexity every time I listen to it (I like the live version with Eddie Gomez on bass the best).
I worked at McDonalds in the kitchen, didn’t get tipped.
Employer not paying enough punishes hard work
People tip in Europe but it's nowhere near as formal as the US system - you'd rarely not leave the coin change from your bill on the table.
If you go through a German hospitality school (yes, actually get some education in customer service), you'll learn the standard there is to give people time to chat and relax, so the delays in interactions in some areas are on purpose.
These things look to have completely different use cases.
Ask HN: Engineering problem – How can a fat Dad climb a tree?
I'm 47 and pushing the maximum capacity of a little giant ladder. I would like to install a LTE modem in a tree in order to facilitate a stable connection to a rural home. The home owner is in his 70s and has been a kind supportive friend. There is not the option of hiring a young person but fortunately money is not an issue (within reason). What would be the safest way for a heavy older person to climb and then top a tree, to strap an antenna attached to a pole on the trimmed top of the tree? The tree in question is a fir tree and we are looking at 75' to where the tree will be topped.

I am thinking a platform with a pulley or ratchet strapped ladder might work. Thanks.
Speaking of apprehensive populations, there's another concern on the mind of health authorities--managing the next pandemic. Say a vaccine has VADE or similar ill effects on some small but substantial part of the population. Even if the overall benefit in harm reduction is clearly superior, you may end up destroying trust. Even if your regulatory authorities are cold, calculating, utilitarian, econometric philosopher-kings, the population is not. The next pandemic might be worse, or social trust might continue to tank. Maximizing the long-term utility function might require a level of risk averseness that seems irrational in the present.
There was no real threat to democracy here. It's not like the police and military are going to take commands from some nutjob cosplayer just because they're wielding Nancy Pelosi's lectern.
If you’re in San Francisco there are a lot of restaurants that do not accept tips. Check Zazie, for example. But there are a bunch of lists out there. If you are tipping, you are part of the problem.
Interesting that Twitter is throwing up a sensitive content warning on that tweet. I guess mistakes just happen...
Welcome to the prudification of the world, where the Silicon Valley is the ultimate arbiter of what's acceptable and what's obscene.
> Why do you think we have pilots in airplanes?

For a number of reasons. First of all, to act as a backup, assistant, babysitter, and replacement for the autopilot in modern planes. Exactly what GP says: to cover up for missed edge cases and unimplemented features. Autopilots are great and can do much, but not everything (yet?)

Then, there's a thing called “culpability”. You can’t blame a machine but you can blame a person when an accident does happen. Accidents can be happily resolved as “pilot error” without having to call back the entire fleet of aircraft.

Also, human passengers usually feel much more safe and calm when they know that their potentially fatal transport is controlled by a fellow human, just like them, instead of some soulless machine that can murder you all without so much as a blink if it goes awry. Some time ago elevators were not that safe and had elevator attendants, now they are safe enough for passengers to be fine with a computer controlling them.
If I was the CTO or CIO then to CYA I would pay some security consultant $700/hr for a 2hr briefing on the best practices for handling user data. A beginner should know that experts are knowledgeable, and a bunch of FAANG and VCs should have known that. Then when the consultant mentions having rate limits for media to protect against scraping, you would look into seeing if you're already doing that. It's not rocket science it's just a webapp
> How to actualize those costs better so the equation makes more sense?

Which equation exactly? The balance between effort to stability and other stuffs? Sorry I'm a bit lost
Superoptimizers attempt to find shorter instruction sequences. This may or may not produce faster code - sometimes you can make code faster by inserting nops!

The idea of superoptimization is to find missed optimizations, which a human can review and then implement directly.
No entity with as much funding as Parler had is a beginner. If the actual principals are beginners, they have the wherewithal to hire seasoned experts and listen to them. Either they didn't hire them, or they didn't listen to them. The beginner's mistake isn't the technical failures of working the stack; it's the organizational failure to usefully apply millions of dollars to basic operational best practices.

They're clowns, and deserve to be laughed at as such.
I don't do front end, so follow the advice of the sibling commenter.
You can try to visit Japan, tips are offended there.
Things have changed. But my close circle of friends get by on a closed slack group. we have channels for work, jokes, music, kid updates, etc. a lot better than FB.
Agree, thanks to the tipping culture I can sit in a restaurant with my friends and be asked every 5min if everything is good. Then at the end I can decide how much they will make from me, nothing or a bunch? Maybe I’ll discriminate and judge how much they deserve based on how they look.
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Then if you could change a person and make them incapable of murder, would you not do it? If you could prevent murder, why aren't you morally compelled to? If you chose to let it happen, that means you approve of it.

My position is that reducing murder as much as you can is the correct position, to include making that number zero, just like stopping all rape is better than just reducing the number of rapes.

Is it OK for a parent to have their child circumcised? Or have their ears pierced? If thats OK, I don't see why removing your ability to murder someone is seen as so drastic. Would you not elect to have your ability to murder removed?
Your post made me remember [0]. Can you get any more polarizing than suggesting that your opponent will start the nuclear anhilatiom of the modern world?

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/01/08/pelosi-prevent-trump-fro...
I admit I'm confused about what the author is arguing.

They seem to be arguing that we should just adopt a strict causal predictive approach to data?

I'm not sure what that really means though. They seem to be just assuming that existing observations are the population?

They seem to be missing that every single estimation is a form of prediction. For example, if you estimate a regression slope parameter, you're making a prediction about the degree and nature of association of two variables in future samples. The parameter is a random variable over possible observation samples. That parameter estimate, together with the associated model (e.g., bivariate normal observations) can be translated into a specific bivariate probability distribution prediction.

Lots of interesting issues are discussed but I'm not really sure they understand what they're advocating for.

Statistics is always about prediction at some level, or can be formulated that way. Bayesians believe that data-based updates to models (which are used to predict) should be influenced by information available prior to the data; frequentists do not.
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Do i have to be a monkey.org user?

Yes. This is only for monkey.org users.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, PLEASE GO AWAY.
pyenv and pipenv are two very different things. pipenv is desperately broken, and should be avoided; Poetry is one good alternative. pyenv, on the other hand, is great.
It also depends on what people mean by partially undressed.

Growing up in NYC in the 2000s school dress codes would often treat anything spaghetti strap or with bare shoulder as partially undressed, and the administrators definitely used that language to describe offending outfits.
Here's my favourite essay on it, that doesn't only go into the game details but also the underlying narrative, political and economical philosophy that makes this game one of a kind: https://youtu.be/rxOKEsBx4NU

It all starts with a pandemic.
For those who have read The Power Broker... how do you stand to hold it?

I bought the paper book after reading another one of these threads on HN, but it's so large that it makes my hands sore to hold it (or my neck if I lay it on my lap to read). Since there's no ebook version, I wonder how you all manage to get through a tome like this.
One thing I’ve always wondered is why can’t people give themselves a price such that if they’re killed or otherwise a casualty the names price must be paid?

Of course people would name exorbitant prices but that’s exactly the incentive you need monetarily to disincentivize bad behavior. If McKinsey had to settle for say, 1 trillion, they would be finished. If they knew this before engaging in this behavior even the most basic risk analysis would’ve said “don’t do it!”
It's been tried in restaurants many times and usually with negative results. People balk at higher prices on the menu.
This is a reasonable comment, and seems a fairly popular idea. But is this the most important comment thread, to be voted to the top, on this particular post?

The topic of the post is alleged blatant theft of tips. The question of whether there should be tips in the first place could be a diversion from the more immediate topic.
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That makes a lot of sense, thank you for the detailed answer!
Would you mind sharing some of your experience? I'm super interested.
You still want to send SIGTERM or equivalent to the processes so that they can flush their state if needed. Just abandoning ship is often less good than using a few seconds to cleanly shut down (if only to exit and send a clear message that you have).
>When I lived in Berlin, the doors and ceilings felt as if they were built for a race of giants -- much taller, and much wider, then they needed to be.

>And it was wonderful. It took some getting used to, but I could feel the difference.

Fwiw I concur, this was my first impression of Berlin the first time I went there too, and it felt amazing. Compared to NYC or the SF Bay Area where space is more at a premium. Berlin has the ability to build outwards and use space generously, where the other two are horizontal space-constrained and can only build upwards (and SF chooses not to).
For development, the "install everything locally" that virtual env provides. This avoids conflicting, incompatible versions of packages being installed in a global or per-user location.

Python isn't at all the only language to suffer this problem. e.g. "DLL hell" and its variations like Haskell's "cabal hell". With Ruby, if its packages are installed with bundler, then these packages are installed locally in the project directory.
Wow. You just blew my mind. Been a user since the late 90's and to see the intention...
Another possible benefit of opening it up is that maybe someone else would see a way to speed up production because they have an outside perspective.
Very true! Aside from all other benefits, bringing the Dev team to meet customers is highly motivating to everyone, including the customer
You're assuming people won't create great things without ad profit. I submit Open Source and Wikipedia as evidence to the contrary. Not making a profit on the original creative act might lead to larger profits for society overall and indirect advantages to the original creators.

And usually content created for profit is quite untrustworthy, I prefer content created out of passion. It's the ad based content creators who are lacking in diversity, not the passionate creators who go in deep the rabbit hole.

Also, there's nothing wrong with ads, but they need to be topical to the content at hand, not targeted to users.
I can assure you, under most meanings of the words "uncommon" and "common", microfluidic devices for manufacturing these nanoscale encapsulated mRNAs are definitely "uncommon." In fact, I would wager that there are probably a handful in the world at most. Moreover, it's a fair bet that no two are alike.

Additionally, until this brand new mRNA vaccine technology actually demonstrated efficacy it was not quite so clear cut that we should put a huge proportion of our resources into making more of these devices, rather than explore different vaccine platforms.
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In both scenarios, no free will exists. I didn't trigger my brain processes, only observed them. Neither did you.

You are trying to paint a single scenario in which there is an important distinction and then ignore any other scenario where your reasoning fails.

For instance, if I chose to kill myself, and you stop me, and I later thank you for stopping me from killing myself, is that difference important? Yes or no?
I made some photo sharing PoCs about 10 years ago. Step 1 was strip exif data at the earliest possible point. It isn't just the CEO, there were any number of people that could have applied the basic level of diligence to this problem.

Clowns.
I don't know why this is #4 on the front page, guess HN is bored tonight? monkey.org is a sort of loose collection of University of Michigan and/or Ann Arbor folks. Many of the people in the users section were early contributors to OpenBSD or went on to found and work for various startups in the area, some of which you've probably heard of.
If your wife is broadly viewed as attractive and working in the half of employees at her business which interacts with the public she may benefit more than average from tips which provides a poor justification for making a decision if the broad welfare of all employees in tipped industries is concerned.
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And don't forget Mode X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_X
Perhaps somewhat ironically, Washington state requires restaurant workers to be paid the normal minimum wage regardless of tips.

(No clue if they played whatever semantic games in their home state or not. I assume so, but it wasn't clear to me from the article)
The fact it is undisclosed to users, unjustified (they could get the same result by sending the header to GTM) and impossible to disable make it nefarious.

Google have a header being sent to advertising domains that can be used for tracking purposes, Google didn't ever disclose this fact, and Google made it impossible to disable.

Already that's nefarious.

"Just trust us, we won't abuse this!" is not good enough, considering the way it was implemented is already cloak-and-dagger suspicious.

If this were innocent, it'd be disclosed and you could opt-out. Google made a deliberate choice to not disclose this tracking to users, and made another deliberate choice to have it to be impossible to disable.

Coupled with the other highly questionable choices Google has made with Chrome, such as the giant amount of telemetry available through JavaScript that ad networks are actively abusing and it's hard not to think of Google as nefarious.

For ad networks, including Google's own ad department, Chrome is like a candy store. Firefox and Safari have tracking prevention and cookie mitigations. Chrome on the other hand has undisclosed, impossible to disable ad network tracking headers being sent to DoubleClick explicitly. Chrome's cookie security is similarly a joke, designed for the benefit of ad networks.

Chrome puts ease of tracking above security, time and time again. Not only is this choice made repeatedly, but billions of dollars are made in the process.
> there are far better ways to handle them

I did some research a year ago. Found a few alternatives, yet none of them was good enough. Here's the issues I remember.

1. It's complicated. Cubic segments can self-intersect or contain singularities.

2. Stroked curves are used a lot. To build stroke edges from the curve, need to offset the curve by half width of the stroke. When you offset a polyline you gonna get another polyline. Yet the offset of Bezier splines is not generally representable as another Bezier spline.

3. In some use cases, hardware-implemented MSAA is the best way of AA. Polygon pipeline gives you that for free. Producing SV_Coverage in pixel shaders to achieve same effect for mid.points of triangle is hard and inefficient.

4. Games have been pushing GPUs for high polygon count for couple decades now, GPUs became really good at that. Also GPUs have early Z rejection that drops pixels or even larger blocks before pixel shader stage. You can't have that if you sending large primitives and computing curves in pixel shaders. Polygon pipeline is not necessarily slower.
My point was that once you reached a certain scale the US regulatory environment is less relevant than the strictest regulatory environment in which you do or hope to do business. It’s not sufficient for Ford and GM to merge with only the US gouvernements blessing as they do business in Europe and the EU would never permit it. They’d need sign off from the EU, US, CA, AU, CN, etc.
> Your point of view is that the western world represents absolute justice,

How did you come to that conclusion? That is not, in fact, any position which I have expressed.

> and you can judge us based on your value system, this is not the case, at least from our viewpoint.

Of course, and it's kinda bonkers to think that I would use someone else's value system to make my own judgements.

Also, please make the petition I suggested. I would like to find out how it goes.
What’s going on with your thought process?

Is everything in your life going well?
Honestly, in my experience, R's DSLs are not a bad thing. When you are doing analytics day in and out you basically are speaking the DSL anyway, so what if you have to learn this slightly different language if it expresses what you want to accomplish clearly?
But hasn't this gotten very similar to the upstream AOSP 10 app settings? I know they are somewhat hidden, but you can change a lot about an App's behaviour and even fake location data for a specific App.

I didn't use Lineage with Privacy Guard (too old or too new devices)... so what's the TLDR on the featureset that's missing?

Might be worth creating an alternative for 10+ if there isn't any.
This is perhaps an unpopular opinion, but why do you think sites such as these deserve any sort of high place on a search engine? The goal of a search engine is to present results which are -useful- to a user. These "independent web" sites are a neat relic at best and completely useless to the everyday user at worst.

Compared to the tens of millions of competing -useful- sites, they are markedly less deserving of a spot. In fact, it would be unfair to award one to them purely because they are "independent".
I've been tempted to try one of the Kensington offerings (one of my Logitechs has a dying button and I'll need to replace it soon) - have you tried the expert mouse or the slim blade? How do they compare to the Logitech?