skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> low political will in many red states to legalize & high political pressure to resist it

And this clearly applies to blue states as well. If it didn’t it would have been legalized without referendum in CA, or in NM, etc.

> I’m very familiar with the legal map, don’t need a wiki link thanks.

Well you do if you think there is something special about red states in this regard.
Is t burning hot enough that the heat could be harnessed like geothermal energy?
> Every decision they make should be viewed through the lens of, “Is this beneficial to the profit of the company?”

Fair. However, we are not they, and should care about more than just Facebook's bottom line.
I assume mantises that don't get enough resources won't be very good at fighting.
> In the AstraZeneca-Oxford trial in South Africa, roughly 2,000 participants were given either two doses of the vaccine or placebo shots.

> There was virtually no difference in the numbers of people in the vaccine and placebo groups who were infected with B.1.351, suggesting that the vaccine did little to protect against the new variant. Nineteen of the 748 people in the group that was given the vaccine were infected with the new variant, compared to 20 out of 714 people in the group that was given a placebo.

> That equates to a vaccine efficacy of 10 percent, though the scientists did not have enough statistical confidence to know for sure whether that figure would hold among more people.
I’m just trying to explain the dynamics of typical HN comments regarding Chinese citizens, where the usually American commenter writes under the assumption that the Chinese citizen is held under this brutal dictatorship and must use any and all opportunity to speak up and/or oppose this brutal dictatorship. It’s a relatively recent phenomenon in American politics and it’s interesting to think about.
An anecdote to give you an idea of a different way of thinking. When I was very young I didn't have any friends and played a lot of games, including quite a few with map builders like warcraft 3 and age of mythology. This was a very early taste of programming.

Because of this however, when we got to learning about equations in school, I already had a more procedural idea of how things work. If I do 2 + 3, something gives me 5. This way of thinking was pretty good for algebraic problems but absolutely demolished my understanding of geometry.I only managed to get over it and understand equivalences in my third year of engineering school because I was doing terrible in the courses.

I'm pretty sure our way of thinking is extremely affected by our early lives and how our young brains optimized themselves to solve ever increasing challenges
> in 2006 china managed to tail a US aircraft carrier and emerge in torpedo range with a Song 039 type submarine, a generation behind the US, which was previously thought incapable of such an operation.

The alternative version of that story is that the Carrier Group commander was quietly commended for not giving away how far out they detected the submarine.
I don’t think that changes the fundamental mechanics of polymer cross linking, do you?
More FLOSS PDF readers: https://pdfreaders.org/.
“talent is just pursued interest” Bob Ross
I think Ken Liu is a writer on his own right first, and a translator second. that might be part of the reason

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Liu
Talent isn’t a myth, but exclusively attracting it is.

I work or have worked with many different companies in a few different roles. Once you hit a level of competence, none of them stand out as having particularly more talented people.
Until we can get the global surveillance apparatus dismantled, the size of the company doesn't matter. Small companies are easily bullied, large companies gain favors from cooperating and are also bullied via the threat of anti-trust.

I don't think breaking them up solves anything.

EDIT: A better but even more unlikely idea than nationalization would be internationalization, i.e. placing global companies under the control of international committees. I'm not holding my breath at this point though and the global dominance of the US means that unless Russia, Iran, and China are given prominent positions of control it's essentially meaningless.
Right but the issue is corps becoming more powerful than government. Needing to act through the government would seem to indicate that corps are not more powerful.
Talent isn’t a myth, it’s a prerequisite. Same for hard work.

I could put in all the hours of practice and guided training into boxing as Mike Tyson and I wouldn’t get nearly the same results. And I [like to] imagine Tyson could spend as much time programming as I have and not be nearly as good.

Talent is a multiplier. When you’re learning something you have a talent for, you’ll know.

For example: in high school I was very into art and into programming. I could spend 30 hours on a digital painting and it looked okay. But when I spent 30 hours on python, I was fluent in a weekend.

Some folks I knew could take those 30 hours of drawing and produce a painting that would take me 3 months. Even after adjusting for baseline skill.

Their rate of improvement was simply beyond anything I could achieve. Same as my rate of improvement in programming was beyond what they could pull off.

Crucially: Talent isn’t a measure of how good you are now. It’s a measure of how fast you improve with practice.
A key factor is confidence, anecdotally speaking. The difference is leader vs follower. The same psychological principles apply. Tech isn’t special.
Idyllic: An unopinionated language for building APIs ridiculously fast
Thanks! Very promising. Another thing that surprised me is low latency and usability: I signed up, clicked "New Project" and it showed me editor. Like INSTANTLY.

I hope it'll be more or less on the same level later. It feels like magic especially after extremely slow and laggy Figma (seriously, modern 3D games with tons of polygons are working much smoother than web-based tool for drawing colorful rectangles).

Awesome work!
Gotcha. Given how ecologically screwed up that area is, it seems like it'd be tough to separate that effect. We can at least hope for a silver lining.
The world has voted with there feet that this advertisement sales channel is the public plaza. Its not nice. Its horrible in my opinion, but one cannot argue with the network effect. It just is. A fact. A snapshot on reality.
And parent is right. This company is censoring the public plaza. Which it owns. Which is very strange.
Talent is at least partly the ability and propensity to put in thousands of hours of dedicated work. People differ in complex, often stochastic, ways in their specific learned and genetic propensities to be good at things or motivated to do them.
Because it accounts for the relationship between intelligence and talent.
Perception of talent is also a function of how boisterous the claimant is.

Leetcode script kiddies get in, jump from project to project, not spending more than a few months at each, make a filthy mess of every codebase, and leave it to the silent but persevering, a.k.a real, talent to clean up the mess, and steward the ship.

You can focus on the serious tech challenges, or you can be boisterous. You can't be both.

edit: "can't be both" == "improbable/competing-factors, not impossible"
So a quick explanation how it works:

Initially everyone is muted.

When you want to speak, you press a button. When you're done, you release the button.

If no one is currently speaking, you will be unmuted immediately. Otherwise, you will be queued and unmuted as soon as other participants finish speaking.
The compensation distribution chart on this article is from Levels.fyi: https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/San-Franci...
Break them up and regulate the collection and sharing of personal information. Invalidate the freemium model by finding ways to make it more expensive to retain personal data.
I agree with most of what your say but I'm not sure how it relates to the points in the article?
Do you seriously believe

1) in doing this, facebook was discriminating against JA because he’s australian?

2) that you or anyone but facebook has any interest in filing a criminal complaint for a facebook employee committing “unauthorized computer access” against facebook?

Don’t be absurd.
But read the post I'm replying to. Most reptiles are FAR larger the adults of this species even right out of the egg.
Can you name the dates and major events within the Great Leap forward or Cultural Revolution without googling and reading wikipedia?

I'm not trying to assert authority here but you could look at the last 500 years, the last 200, 100, years, the last 50 years.. cherrypicking a 25 year period that happened between 70-45 years ago is kinda weird if you're after understanding rather than scoring points.
Main assumption here is that a top 1% developer costs top 1% salary, but that is probably not correlated at all, bc the real way to make money is to attach yourself to the largest possible business and then climb, and the real way to get good is to hack a lot on the most interesting unsolved problems ... these are not just orthogonal but possibly even diametrically opposed
You can carry gasoline in an open pail, spill it all over yourself, and even throw a lit cigarette right in the pail, all without harm, all while having very high energy density.

Sodium is not remotely in that class.
War is almost never about hate or love.

War is a tool of diplomacy.

Both of these men were simply professionals doing their jobs. The one attacking, the one defending. It's unlikely they ever hated each other or even really thought a great deal beyond how to accomplish their respective missions at the time.
I was about to reply that the "front-running" has been widely reported, decided I'd better google a source, and came across a fantastic article about how payment-for-order-flow actually works. You're right, it's not front-running, and it gives retail traders a better price than they would have gotten on the market itself.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-05/robinh...
The public is one entity- and will aggregate elsewhere, repeating the process. Humans aggregate, to expect a change in human nature is - a flawed approach.
tldr The expression likely derives from "Foo was here," scrawled by Australian
soldiers in the Great War. The precise moniker "Kilroy" is disputed, the
prevailing theory crediting a technician James J. Kilroy of Braintree, MA who
chalked the "easter egg" epigram on panels of WWII battleships (panels which became
inaccessible after the ship was fully built).
You’re assuming that we continue the current version of capitalism. Your interpretation doesn’t fit if you assume something like automation-funded UBI.

I feel like if we live forever, we’ll have to drastically re-think money anyway or if parents put in money with compound interest at the birth of their child it might provide that child financial security forever.
HN: “No one is using Facebook, and no one needs it for anything”

Also HN: “Facebook is essential and any limits they put on anything is a censorship”
This may be true when viewed at the micro level, but it's highly debatable at a zoomed out level.

Put it this way, is it in Facebooks best business interests to be viewed as endorsing every single thing it hosts?

Note that the more they pick and choose who to deplatform, the more the ones left will get their implicit seal of approval.
Talent definitely exists.

However, it takes more than talent to achieve things in life.

Most successful people in any industry leveraged some talent, with drive, persistence and LUCK to become successful.
Probably because everyone knows people who "show talent" without having put in thousands of hours of work, and aren't aware of anyone who put in that work without having identified as having talent first.
Are you really that sensitive that you can't look past a potentially poorly worded part of an otherwise amazing write up? That's some sad shit, that you can't take the positive with the negative, and look past a personal opinion which, in context, is correct as the author is specifically addresses Janet Yellen, who is white and a horrible choice for that position in my opinion.
> their liabilities include that prosecution.

Yeah sure. But this whole case isn't about the New York Attorney General merely seeking fair restitution for liabilities or charging them with fair fines.

Instead, what they want is to dissolve the organization.

This second goal is what the NRA will be able to effectively avoid by declaring bankruptcy.

They will be charged in court and pay the fines if they pay the fair prices for the fines for the fraud, ect, but by selling the assets they will be able to get around the real goal of the prosecution which is dissolution of their organization.
I'm talking about the men in this article. Both of them were career military officers. It's fair to say that that was their choice.

Certainly there's propaganda that goes into recruiting naive young people in the US, but it's quite a stretch to equate that with child soldiers. I chose to enlist and so did everyone I served with. The vast majority of us do not regret it or feel that we were conned.
If you find yourself in London, head to Slimelight at the Electrowerkz.

It's (supposedly) the longest-running dark/alternative night in the world, starting in 1987. The venue was built as a two-level horse stables in the 19th century, so there's a strange, sloping ramp to the first floor. It was an electroplating works for much of the 20th century, before being squatted in the 1980s by the punks and goths. The back of the building is now a specialist scrap metal merchant, which is a source of some of the decoration -- there's an old tank outside, bits of ex-military aircraft, the seats in the "quiet" area are rocket launcher ammo cases, the industrial signs saying "Sellafield Nuclear Authority — Restricted Zone" and the like are real.

Bits of the building have been used to raise money at times; e.g. a restaurant, film shoots, weddings, other club nights, but the main goth/industrial party is on Saturdays, 23h-07:30h. They at least used to sell cake and jerk chicken. When I first went, you had to be signed in by an existing member, but you could also bring your own drinks if you didn't want to use the cheap bar. That's no longer the case, and the bar is OK-for-London prices.

I'm rarely in London on Saturday night nowadays, so I haven't been for a while, and I don't know how many people go to the club. (In the past, there have been periods where it's been a bit quiet.)

It looks like they just received a £78,000 grant from the UK Arts Council, which is excellent news [1].

[1] http://islingtonnow.co.uk/electrowerkz-grant/

https://www.facebook.com/SlimelightOfficial
It certainly hasn't been flying over the Soviet Union.

It became obsolete in 1960. That doesn't mean it was no longer useful anywhere.
Sounds like a bot to me.
This reminds me of "The Mundanity of Excellence" [1] which similarly argues that talent is a useless concept:

- Talent just obfuscates the qualitative attributes that contribute to excellence.

- Individuals are identified as talented usually after they have invested effort.

- Talent is a quick and spurious "explanation" or admittance of unexplained variance.

[1] https://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-mundanity-of-excellence-an-...
This doesn't reflect my experience from the UK. In the UK a club to people I know is thought of roughly as:

- Late (22:00 - 03:00 probably been core hours)

- Music/dancing being the primary activity

- A small amount of seating, either VIP tables, or some small area or bit near the dance floor

- Alcohol (and perhaps drugs) being consumed quite liberally

- A lot of the clientele looking for a short term partner

The dress side of it just varies, there are places with little to no dress code, places that require shirt and shoes and others inbetween, but I wouldn't specifically say the dress code leads to fundamentally different places, except, the more relaxed dress code typically means more relaxed, diverse people, where as fancy dress code can be a bit more mainstream/think-they-are-something-special.

Places you sit down at tables and drink are typically pubs or bars. These days the two are pretty similar, at a push the more traditional feeling places are more likely to being pubs.

When I was younger I went to the above type establishments not just in the UK but in pretty much every country in the EU and something I found in lots of the EU is something I call "europop" nightclubs, which is a bit harder to explain, but it is venues which are really laid back, everyone just wants to have fun (no aggressive behaviour, male dominance/competition) and plays a whole host of music that has never come to the UK, but everyone over there knows. All of my best club experiences have been these type of places - it's where a 30 year old rock influenced person can be dancing away next to a mainstream 18 year old student and they can chat without barriers.

I do see an increasing amount of younger people that don't really drink and fuel their social interactions from Tinder and other social media, so I have wondered a few times if clubs will fade further out over the years.
Total commander is the one and only windows app I miss on a mac. I know there are “clones” but none of them comes close to TC.
I suspect they'll lose everything then.
Here's the documentary film that was created about this encounter:

https://optimisticfilm.com/videos/docs/the-second-meeting/
For older projects and wordpress based projects I still use gulp. For newer ones, webpack.

The reason why gulp is dissapering is because newwer js frameworks like react and vue need webpack to be effective.
I agree with this broadly.

I find it interesting that most of my friends/social set will (rightly) dismiss "high school health class" fearmongering over drugs, but when that drug is anabolic steroids suddenly every warning is true.

It seems reasonable to me that the same skepticism applied to claims about any drug's danger - claims which frankly derive from government sources interested primarily in social engineering - should also be applied to steroids.
Used an event queue for sending emails and stupidly set to continuously retry when the event failed. The events were failing but only after successfully sending the email, so hundreds of customers received 20 of the same email before I realised what was up.

To be expected tho when you hire a junior and give them no senior oversight
South Africa halts use of AstraZeneca vaccine
The issue is that you're presupposing that there is a commensurate increase in production in the rest of the market so that you can import it. If you had a closed economy where only the secondary finance sector was growing, you wouldn't see any increase in production at all.

And not all information/knowledge work is non-productive. In fact, the vast majority is productive. Just not finance, as nothing is produced.

Commensurately, if you had an economy where abstract capital is being accumulated, but production isn't increasing, you're in huge trouble.
"The only person on the Terminator movies sets who could lift the gatling gun was Arnold."

The mini gun was an M134. Those weigh between 41 and 85 lbs, depending on the model variant.

So, yeah, it was heavy, but not crazy heavy.
That's not an oversight. Stealth is a continuum, not a binary thing.
Researchers can use qsim to explore quantum algorithms
Facebook itself is effectively a spam bot that uses people and their invasively-assessed psychological proclivities to proliferate. To hold it up as somehow distinct from other unethical and invasive mechanisms used to "drive traffic" is hopelessly naive.
Come on, starlink already has 1000 satellites in the lower orbit.
...Things shifted when we all moved to cities for work, international travel, our flats became 30 square meters large and we were “unrooted” = not having the social fabric to know someone who has a house. Best case, we’d rent something from AirBnb for NYE in the mountains. Things stayed in bars until we started having our own houses, so between 20 and 35-40...

The problem of “unrooting” (emigrating, being nomad and torn from the social fabric) is a serious civilizational issue, similar to when workers in XVIIIth were poorer than farmers of the same social level, because they had no land if things went bad.
NY Times Journalist falsely accuses Marc Andreessen
You guys need to be careful, having given the responsibility for funding public broadcasting to the government. That’s dangerous.
There is a kind of club I have only seen in American movies, but which I assume have a real-world basis: People mostly sit at tables, but there is an orchestra and an emcee, a glamorous singer and perhaps choreographed dancers with elaborate costumes. Does this still exist?
That's great. I wasn't familiar with it, but thankfully archive.org has a copy. https://archive.org/details/completestories01asim/page/n99/m...
There is a factual error in the article. Middle C is not 440hz, which is an A...
From this data it can be deduced that females don't want mating at all, they just want to eat.
It's almost as if HN were a community made from people with different perspectives and opinions.
Anybody worth their salt can admit corruption isn't race related. It doesn't matter if your white, yellow, brown, black, purple, orange... corruption is a universal human issue.
The difference is you can directly edit the file in a text editor (possibly even in the github ui) instead of needing to unzip, edit, and rezip.

It makes find and replace across all files trivial with your editor, whereas that would be less fluid with a zip.
You’re right, I had missed that. I had watched the original segment but evidently missed that part. Partly probably by design because how the information was obtained and collated kind of distracts from the subject matter.
I call them red yuckies. Apples are seasonal. If you can get them fresh, the better they are. Apples are also put in cold storage which means that the first ones out are the "freshest". People also have different tastes. Some prefer sweeter, mellow apples (like an envy or gala). Others prefer tart (like granny smith or a cosmic crisp). There are so many types that are fun to try.

Kiku, Kanzi, Sweet Tango, Braeburn, Fuji, Ambrosia, Yellow Delicious, Lemonade, Mcintosh, Empire, Gala, Envy, Cosmic Crisp, Ginger Gold, Honeycrisp, Jazz, Macoun, Opal are all examples of good eating apples (in no particular order).
I just can't see how clubs that are basically on some continuum of the sexual socializing scene (from meat market to more meet/greet) aren't getting completely undermined by online dating/hookup/meet apps.

Maybe corner bar for first meets, but who would take a first date to a zoot suit club?

Drug/experience/rave/music clubs should all rebound though.
The GP is suggesting the doors should have had zig-zag edges.

However, from what I've read, it sounds like radar reflectons from the doors themselves are dwarfed by radar signals bouncing off the upper bulkhead of the bomb bay. If they made the side bulkheads of the bomb bay at 90 degrees to the upper bulkhead, then an incoming radio wave bouncing off both the upper and side bulkheads will leave anti-parallel to its incoming direction... right back at the sending radar. (This geometric identity is used on the laser reflectors left on the moon. They send the laser right back at the sender without having to track the Earth.)

Though, maybe the reporting I've read is just imprecise, and maybe the doors do have a larger radar cross-section than the bomb bays themselves.
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Monopoly of what though, social media? They don't have any bearing on my life, and I'm sure that's shared with many people here specifically. They aren't murdering people and they aren't stopping the water supply, food supply, or anything essential to anyone. It's Facebook, we all love to hate them, but them saying they don't want to platform a seller of something is hardly equivalent to the government imprisoning someone for speech.