skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In The Netherlands there's the possibility for severe cases of depression, too. "Uitzichtloos lijden" (irremediable suffering ) is the magic phrase, and there is the fear that it could lead to older people deciding to euthanize when living conditions in homes for the elderly would be worsening. Not that that's bound to happen soon, but imagine not being able to tweet about it...
> Without any actual value it's a zero sum game, folks!

It's less than zero-sum. A significant portion of what's being put into the system, is just being burned, in the form of converting electricity to heat without doing much if any useful work.
Don't worry, you probably won't have to worry about the choice if they will make it mandatory to confirm your "vaccination status".
Well, I thought all wipers had these things integrated, sorry to presume it was a user instead of a UX problem. But thanks for the questioning of the worth of my cimment.

I'd ask for the make/model of your car out of curiousity, but I'm not sure I would want to continue to engage with you.
Although I agree with you, you haven't really explained why it's not arbitrage. If you are not selling back to the grid all you are doing is load shifting. Arbitrage involves buying and selling to reduce spreads.
VS 2019 supports C11 and C17.
That they are subject to some regulations doesn't mean they're subject to all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/us/texas-electricity-erco...

> One example of how Texas has gone it alone is its refusal to enforce a “reserve margin” of extra power available above expected demand, unlike all other power systems around North America. With no mandate, there is little incentive to invest in precautions for events, such as a Southern snowstorm, that are rare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation_of_the_Texas_elec...
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I don't know if you'd count it as a blockchain solution but I constantly use crypto to send money to my family and it's the best solution that I've found.

And yes, I now about transferwise, paypal, swift, etc. And using crypto is faster and cheaper.
Do you think that people doing research at large technical organizations structure their code in the same way as academics? No, although there's always a portion which is active and unstable, they create packages, define interfaces, abstract out pieces which can be reused reliably and depended on. Similarly for other types of researchers in fields where the code is considered an important product. Eg. if you are doing research in compiler design, you're likely to want to create a compiler which can be used by other people. So you make a stable thing with tests, automated builds and so on. And you delimit and instrument the experimental parts.

The real reason is the incentives. Not just are there no incentives to produce good quality code, there are incentives which make people focus on other outputs. Publish or perish means that people put up with technical debt just to get to the next result for the next paper, then do it again and again.
In practical terms the main value of cripto is to people that are legally forbidden to access these kind of services. Even if the Nigerian prince was a scan there are many countries where limited access to financial services is unescapable; it is to them that crypto has the greatest value proposition (whether it will be good or bad in reality I have no idea)
The study is actually rather neutral. All the study says is that people who are less adept at complex mental tasks are more likely to follow authoritarians.

It doesn’t say anything to the effect of people on the left or right are more intelligent than one another.
> So, in grades 7-9, lots of the girls are the prettiest human females ever get and attractive to any man that can still stand

For the sake of international readers, in the US students in grades 7-9 are the ages of 12 through 15.

I don't know why you felt that this kind of pedophilia advocacy (or, to forestall one of the usual objections, ephebophilia advocacy) is a thing that you felt necessary to post on this forum, or indeed anywhere, and I wish that you had not.

You have a history of deleting comments when getting called out on them, and for that reason I have taken the precaution of a screenshot.

To the management here, I understand and appreciate that an ur-principle here is " don't say anything [on HN] you wouldn't say face to face". I would like to think that if I found myself in a face-to-face situation with a person who said, in all apparent sincerity, that middle-school girls are "attractive to any man that can still stand" I would have the basic decency to call them out right then and there.
Except the article also indicates he appealed and the appeal was denied.
While the ecosystem contributes value for many use cases, I don't think you can make use of such things when writing smart contracts that run on a very slow and very expensive computer.
It's sad so many technically-minded people fail to account for this when it comes to trust, especially in the context of voting. You can't get people to trust a system by cloaking it in cryptographic black magic. It has to be scrutable to the people participating in it, especially the voters and volunteer poll workers who most closely interact with it.
The problem is that the purpose of the Blockchain is to achieve distributed trustless consensus. Any time the Blockchain interacts with the physical world you need to introduce a centralised trusted entity (the oracle problem)
It seems Julia has the answer: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/the-unreasonable-eff...
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Agreed. Based on my lab experiences, it might have been more accurate for the author to write that often code is not being written by individuals who are the intellectual drivers of the lab. In many labs the 'thinkers' get far more credit and are more valued than the 'doers'.
This made me re-check the article. I am consistently getting served a redacted version of this article that does not contain names. The only way for me to see the version with names is through the wayback machine. This makes it look like there are different versions of this article for different regions.
The gist of the article for anyone who wants to spare few minutes from having to read it themselves (honestly, spare yourself.

Google, facebook etc used open source and cashed out and are now driving sports cars, and Linux Desktop is dead, therefore the author has lost trust in open source.

That really is the extent of it.
I wonder how this data is collected and how long it takes for a tower to not be be seen before it drops off the map.

Carriers may be keeping a small (relative) amount of capacity up and running, but in the meantime prevent new activations (ATT does this with there 3G network for example), so "coverage" is a bit misleading in many cases.
You can have sucky products made by good people.

Once you enter a big corp, all that CS knowledge they ask you gets flushed quickly and replaced with learning various internal tools, processes and corporate idiosyncrasies which are unique to each team/project/company.
Not really my point that selling options is the problem.

imo, allowing < 25k account holders to buy short dated options should not be allowed due to their outsized effect on stock price. And the tendency for that price rise to snap back like an overstretch rubber band. It's just creating more volatility.
>Can we all agree that we should stop subsidize existing fossil fuel infrastructure?

Yes, but that's not what this article is about.

>Can we also all agree to stop expanding capacity for more fossil fuels?

Yes, but that's not what this article is about.

>Can we then also agree to stop repairing and extending the lifetime of existing power plants that uses fossil fuels?

Yes, but that's not what this article is about.

This article is a fluff human interest story about an "environmental activist" who suddenly "saw the light" and realized that nuclear power can generate "energy at all hours unlike solar" (their words).

I'm sure the New Yorker journalist is not unaware that solar and wind are a lot cheaper than nuclear power even accounting for variability but it's barely hinted at in the article. It doesn't serve their agenda.

One thing that is mentioned is the "onerousness" of safety regulations piled on after Fukushima.

If you think this article wasn't explicitly written on behalf of the nuclear industry trying to garner some green points I've got a coal fired plant scheduled to break ground in 2024 to sell you.

If you're wondering why they'd spend money campaigning for this, well, it's because they desperately need taxpayer money to stay viable.
> Open source maintainers abandoning projects due to lack of time and interest.

And the occasional demanding users who would rather have us working on their problems instead of our own.

Only about a couple of hours ago, I received an issue[1] which from my perspective was lacking in details and appeared like an issue due to not having read the project documentation. Unclear issue details and demanding behaviour can take a toll on the morale of a maintainer of an open source project.

Many open source project maintainers maintain their projects in their spare time that they carve out of their busy schedules, family, personal engagements and often a full time job. I wish more people would appreciate this. When an author makes a project open source and maintains it, one should appreciate that they are practically offering the project to others as a gift.

[1] https://github.com/susam/texme/issues/21
What they ought to do is add a second audio track that explains and talks about the issues with the film.
This article seems to cover research software that even can be built. I claim the majority of _code_ written to support research articles is a collection of scripts written to produce figures to put in the paper. Even when the article is about an algorithm, the script that runs this algorithm is just good enough to produce the theoretically expected results; it is never tested, reproduced, or published, never mind being updated after publication.

While others here point out that researchers = bad programmers is a lazy excuse, I think it is important to point out just how steep the learning curve of computer environments can be for the layperson that uses Excel or MATLAB for all their computational work. It can be a huge time investment to get started with tools, such as git or Docker, that we take for granted. I think recognizing this dearth of computer skills is a first step towards training researchers to be computer-competent. Currently, I find the attitude among academics (especially theorists) to be dismissive of the importance of such competencies.
Avalanche offers the EVM, fast transactions and low fees. And a lot more than just the EVM on the C chain. Sounds like the ticket, doesn't it?
>Society, Conglomerates, and Capitalism killed free software and nobody cared.

Imagine what open source software could be like in a society with basic income. Maintainers wouldn't have to split their attention between their open source work and work that actually pays for them to eat.
$1.5M goes a long way if the work is outsourced. Generally bigger orgs will have internal contracts. For instance IBM Canada outsources to IBM India at internal discounted rates. When I used to work for TCS, a budget of $80k was good enough for team of 4 for 6 months. I can only imagine that at $1.5M, it is definitely going to get them a few teams.
Of course it was against euthanasia, why would anyone get banned for being pro euthanasia?
I have been making many interviews recently. I think they are in a rush for getting people on board with specific talent however the more experience you have I think the more valuable you are as an employee. Knowing a very specific thing does not make much difference. An experienced developer can become quickly effective in a new area. I have decided not to work on many companies and also many of them have decided not to hire me. Which I think is Ok. I mean I want to work for a company where they value what I know. And also I want to have enough time to work on what I like the most at that moment whatever it is. I understand the business is not to consider peoples feelings but the most I learn the most I understand best practices, the more effective I become and if people leading tech stacks don't realize the fact of that the more easy they will end up messing projects down. I don't like project management i am developer i like to create elegant, intelligent software I care about that and nothing else I enjoy that.
Exactly. This is no fundamentally different than a traditional time-stamping service. If the time-stamping service is compromised, all of the previous timestamps are invalid.

The only alternative to a blockchain is to publish the latest hash widely in a verifiable place such as in a well-known newspaper.
I somehow missed this article from 3 days ago https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/
For even better security, you could consider running multiple instances of the application per tenant, e.g. in Docker containers. Or does the data need to pass between tenants?
There's an episode of the (excellent) podcast Hardcore History by Dan Carlin that explores the topic of MAD and articulates it extremely well (IMHO). The episode is called the Destroyer of Worlds [1].

[1]: https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-...
Land that you already own in Denentraland, or an alternate reality Decentraland where you own everything and want to sell it to others? The answer to both of those is yes.

All land sales happen on chain, so you can do it all directly from Etherscan if you want, no need to spin up a server.

Also, yeah, it's all open source. You deploy your own world contract, and point your version of the Decentraland engine at your contract, and you're good to go. You now control all the land and can sell it off as you see fit. You can even have a small property in the primary Decentraland which teleports you to AnimatsLand, and you could let people wear their same NFT outfits and everything.
They left Ethereum due to the high gas prices, didn't they?
How many MAU do they have?
IMHO it's important to separate "open source - the political ideology" from "open source - the pragmatic software development process", both have their place, sometimes they even go hand in hand, but they're just too often confused, resulting in disappointment.

Then there's the whole "Open Source (TM)" vs "Free Software" vs "free as in beer" mess. For myself, I just slap the MIT or zlib/libpng license on my code, and hope the projects don't become popular enough to attract the lunatics ;)
People should stop comparing Apple Silicon to Intel and start comparing it to AMD.
I mean, a lot of those big companies are contributing back to the open source community. Look at Netflix for example, they publish a lot of really great libraries. Google has published an entire open source operating system (or 2?)

I also don't quite get why "Google is making money" is an argument against open source...
Maybe a new blog writing paradigm - make a set of bulleted list of pros and cons and let AI expand that into a blog post.

That could be genuinely useful (if used smartly), but of course it will be heavily used for the SEO crap.
I've been in this spot a couple times, and one thing I found helpful was to ask if I could do the question in a language of my choosing, even if it wasn't in line with their lingua franca. The one that said yes turned out to be a pretty enjoyable interview, because we chatted a bit about how implementation details differ between languages and how X could be done in Y, and vice versa. The one that said no... I think I got a better signal of job suitability from that one question than anything else.

>This kind of problem is exacerbated if your interviewers haven't done sufficient prep so, instead of realising that you don't know anything about a particular technology, they take your poor performance in that area as an indication that you overall suck.

Absolutely, I've been on the interviewee side of this a couple times, so absolutely try to ensure I have a list of questions for the candidate, including a number of references to their CV and github (or other public code repo). I'm there to get a signal on their suitability for working here, not to stroke my ego.
Your project has one of the highest star-to-issues ratios I've ever seen (for folks from the future: ~two dozen issues created while having ~two thousand stars), impressive.
Hey everyone, the goal of Closet AI is to allow someone to upload an image of a clothing item they own or like and then use an AI algorithm to generate an outfit in their set price range based on that item. It currently supports mens and womens clothing and I'm hoping to add support for childrens clothes in the near future. Any feedback is extremely appreciated and I'd be happy to answer any questions anyone may have!
The author should really take a look at who the biggest contributors in many open source projects are, monetary and code involvement.
Just because they don't pick up every small project does not mean that open source does not immensely profited and thrived from capitalism.
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I loved this game, for the same reason other people hated it - to complete it you had to have made the right moves, grabbing the right items, even having the right timing on the ship to finish the puzzles. To complete it without any type of help or walkthrough meant experiencing it like "Groundhog Day", playing through many, many times, trying new things each time.

It got to the point that I could whip through the early puzzles in a few minutes, and then spend all my time going through the odd dream-like sequences on the ship, getting the tea made, etc. I never did finish the last puzzle of the game and get the door open, but I read later it also was a timing problem where you had to have completed all the earlier puzzles before Marvin came by to open the door.

In any case, I really did enjoy it as a kid.
What about government spending? All the way from taking taxes to paying vendors. Including the spending of all politicians.
(Minus a reasonable “dark fund” for military and whatnot simply because it can be important to hide your cards from other countries)

If citizens can see exactly where their dollars go it could make corruption very difficult and lead citizens to be far more engaged in their democracies.
Yeah. Twitter's enforcement systems have a) an inability to handle clear sarcasm and b) a corresponding inability to handle coded language that's a clear violation of TOS to a human reviewer.
It's used in the application I'm trying to maintain / rewrite as a backup / revert mechanism; the database migration will create and update two identical databases, on save the revert database is attached and data is copied over. On revert the data is copied back.

I mean the author didn't use transactions or anything so if there was any issue while reverting the user would end up losing data, but it's clever I guess. Not the best though. I'm rebuilding it and will likely be using versioning instead.
Like all IBM projects, it'll go from a small amount to hundreds of millions, and result in still a fancy powerpoint and broken system.
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Where did you get that "doubt" from? Aside from "a labor theory of value" Marxism (as in Marx himself) wrote about ideology, alienation, the origin of family, revolutionary tactics, current (his era) politics, the historical development of economy, religion, modes of production, and several other things besides.

(This is not whether Marx was right on wrong on these topics. Just pointing that he touched extensively all of them. Marxist thought is not constrained to a "labor theory of value").

Here's the most basic Marxist expression of the rich (the bourgeoisie) driving technological innovation, from the Communist Manifesto:

The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part. (...) It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades. (...) The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. (...) The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. (...) The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground — what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?
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> why would anyone get banned for being pro euthanasia?

Because it's explicitly against the rules.

"You may not promote or encourage suicide or self-harm." https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/glorifying-se...
I don't know why you are downvoted, while you state correct viewpoint IMHO. The accessibility is not just about screen-reading but also options that make our contact with the virtual product be more pleasant (e.g. resizeable UI, non-transparent background under subtitles). There are also many indie, slow-paced games that do not have any kind of voice-acting (well, most of tycoons), where even Windows Narrator will be enough. Please note, you don't have to be a blind person to use assistive software - there are a lot of people wearing a corrective glasses, who might use some screen reader.
Why Does the Pandemic Seem to Be Hitting Some Countries Harder Than Others?
Man, it would be legit amazing if we could just sleep off extra fat. If that would include a proper rebuilding of damaged tissues, just wow. Sleep will have to suffice for now.
> https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.0071...

" to describe the potential influence..."

So no actual evidence of anything.

> https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-011-0051-0

"Stereotype Threat".

"A meta-analysis by Flore and Wicherts (2015) concluded that the average reported effect of stereotype threat is small, but also that the field may be inflated by publication bias. They argued that, correcting for this, the most likely true effect size is near zero.[19]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat#Criticism

The third reference wasn't available, so can't comment.

These types of "studies" tend to suffer from causal inversion, i.e. "wet roads cause rain", in arguing that the perception of these fields as male-dominated causes women to not enter them.

The simpler and more plausible explanation is stereotyp accuracy: people correctly perceive these fields as male-dominated because women tend to not enter them. That such a perception is an effective deterrent seems implausible given the many other fields that used to be completely male-dominated and are now female-dominated (for example veterinary medicine).

As a feminist, I also can't get on-board with a view of women as such delicate fragile flowers that such perceptions would prevent them from doing something they like, and it doesn't match the women in my life...but maybe I have been blessed with unusually non-delicate women, who knows?

Finally, who says it is female underrepresentation? Maybe it is male overrepresentation? And in fact, there is strong evidence that this is the case. Both men and women who score well in both verbal and math SATs tend to go into non-STEM fields. People who only do well in math tend to go into STEM fields, partly because they don't have a choice. And that group is largely male.