skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Almost every day I see some comment by an "ex-Redditor," "Reddit refugee," etc. on HN and similar sites.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the "downvoting comments I don't like" phenomenon that seems to have taken over HN these past few years.
I'm not skeptical but grateful for the vaccines.

The vaccines are paid for by health insurances and the government. Even if you don't trust these institutions, keep in mind that it's in their best economic interest to protect you from this disease (vaccines are cheaper than ICU patients), curb its spread, and allow businesses to reopen (which increases tax revenue).

The US has the most effective vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna). Every other country in the West wants them (but unfortunately there isn't enough supply). There is absolutely no reason to fear a conspiracy. The real threat is that not enough people will be vaccinated soon enough, causing more health and economic devastation. You can do your part by getting your shot and encouraging others to get theirs.
It doesn't affect me at all either, but I'd still be cautious before making any claims hinting that being trans is a medical condition -- if it does indeed turn out to be related, then it could turn a lot of people's lives upside down.
What are some possible explanations for the 'bands' in the visualization of this data? The description at the bottom mentions data sources, but no interpretation.
Let's put it this way. I couldn't find a job out of college, despite having a CS degree. I ended up settling for a very shit job that pays 21 hourly, 40 hours a week. Because the dev team is very small, I ended up with my hands in literally every piece of the programming pie. I put all that info on my resume and took even more lessons from this crap job to interviews in the past couple of weeks, and I just signed an offer from a lucrative tech company for about $140k annually, over a 200% raise.

Once you've done something in the industry, almost no one is going to give a hoot about what school you went to, they're going to care about what you've done in the industry, but at the start at least, you may have to settle for something a little shittier.
> Too many compilers classes get bogged down in grammar classifications and parsing.

Oh so very this.

This has repercussions far beyond students who can't write compilers. It infects the entire culture of software engineering with people who think that syntax is everything, and who spend their lives designing grammars and writing parsers for them. The problem with that is for every new grammar, it's not just that you need a new parser, but some human needs to learn that grammar too if it's going to do you any good at all. So we have this proliferation of zillions of grammars, not just in programming languages, but in config files, data formats, etc. Two examples: XML and JSON are bad re-inventions of S-expressions. And the sieve language (which I am currently dealing with because I'm working on a new spam filter) is just an abomination from top to bottom.
TIL resin identification code.

Edit: the original stated purpose, according to the linked wikipedia page, was: facilitate recycling...

And if it actually will be recycled depends not only on the facility but also on the cost of doing what needs to be done (for separation and transport), and the possibility of what can be done (laminates). However these constraints are not communicated clearly.

I'm 52 years old, I live in Germany, where we "recycle" for ages, about 30 years now, and we tell our kids and grannies and everybody in between to separate the trash because "recycling", and we see benches and other sturdy plastics items "made from trash" and still, only 17% of the collected packaging trash is reliably recycled, while the recycling of other plastics (toys, vehicle parts, any plastics that are not packaging) is also intransparent.

https://bmbf-plastik.de/en/publication/plastic-atlas-2019-fa...

https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/kurzerklaert/kurzerkl...
I grew up around dairy farmers in the Midwest. Anecdotally, yes - different grasses/plants cause changes in milk production/flavor. However, most is homogenized anyway so the differences don’t really matter unless it’s a specialty product.
There's a quaint and quirky thing in the UK called a premium bond, which you can buy and which the government guarantees to buy back from you at its initial fixed value (1 bond costs 1 British pound). Every month, a lottery system pays out prizes to holders of bond numbers, as chosen by "ERNIE" - "Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bond
I wonder what they did with the 5 phases? Use them asymmetrically and let the engine struggle with the unbalanced load? Also it seems like this feed would be no good for powering 3 phase motors, or really any phase-phase load. Although maybe city hall back then was only on single phase power, and they could balance circuits between all 5 phases, with the probable addition of temporary electric heaters etc.
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> What I love about HN, is that its geek news. Is it possible to keep the Political BS off of here?

Yes, you can flag and don't comment if you don't think it belongs and don't have anything productive to add to discussion of the topic. If you can't yet flag, then, no, there's nothing you can do.
No better place to build your own bubble and insulate yourself from any thoughts, opinions, or ideas that might make you uncomfortable.

And don’t forget the massive astroturfing, corporate bots, paid off moderators, and karma system that is designed to be addictive.

It’s definitely undervalued in terms of how great of a place it is to sow division and push people to more extreme political thoughts.
An excellent and detailed write-up of the biochemical mechanisms and effects involved in fructose metabolism is available at:

https://themedicalbiochemistrypage.org/fructose-metabolism/
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You mean this interview?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/l5m2my/gregory_pe...

See my previous comments, the Deltec Deputy CEO claims that he was simultaneously Professor of Finance in a Lebanon University, administering Swiss investment funds, oh and working for a company in Jacksonville FL. He gave his interview from his gaming setup, and talked all about seeing all the Tethers personally from their operations (Why? You're just their bank).

You're going to forgive me on being a little skeptical here.

Especially when his LinkedIn has him graduating HEC Lausanne in 2001 with a Masters in Science...

when he was fifteen...

Funnily enough, Deltec bank removed him from their website when this interview was published, then re-added them when people asked questions, and then arranged a very quick website complete "redesign" (I use that word lightly - this looks like a WordPress template that they've struggled to fill with any content whatsoever - most of the pages are effectively empty, many of the buttons to "learn more" are not linked to anywhere).

This is such a scam.
Panasonic Nicobo robot is supposed to be a cat that can fart
Also amazingly on page 158 shows the same ergonomic typing position still recommended (and generally disregarded) today!
I'm currently testing a new appliance setup with Nextcloud which includes the ability to use containers as a default for everything, if your container can be moved to an empty VM, nothing gets deleted as I didn't touch it. I would be really happy if this helped.
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> Does the change in Google’s story converge to a positive or a negative light?

Like all stories, the meaning and message of the story is formed in the mind of the reader, not the mind of the writer.

Every reader will make their own meaning, and fit that into their own story.

It's impossible to say whether this change results in a positive or negative effect: it will be positive for some, negative for some.
Yep, small disciplined commits take valuable time. If you rarely revert or get other benefits from them they might be a net loss for you. Especially in solo projects when you can keep a lot of what's going on in your head.

It's a bit like testing - there's a lot of posts about where you need them and not many discussing where you don't.
> Personality and behavior assessments. Automate everything. chatbots to save recruiting.

Literally every one of those things I would dismiss a company for using.

During my last job search I even politely called out a couple of companies for using them. I did get a nice response that could be summed up as: "yeah we figured someone would say they are bullshit and we agree"

I did get interviews with those companies but declined

It's not like having a bad date, it's them fucking up even asking you out on a date

Now not politely I would say that assessments and personality tests and all the other BS thrown an applicants way are stupid, easily game, a downright waste of everyones time and give an immediate indicator the company sucks. The person that thought it was a good idea at the company should be replaced.

Ideally candidates should be able to toss an assessment back to the person doing the hiring to take on the companies behalf

What's good for the goose after all
I feel the sound -> stress connection palpably. Especially sudden loud noises like a horn honking cause me to feel upset for a long while after being startled.

Seems like a convincing argument to me for car-free spaces, although honestly I just wish we had stronger social norms against unnecessarily using a car's horn.
Well, can't we buy some and keep it? I know the fresh stuff is tasty, but let's not go Winnie the Pooh. :)
> Not related to Stadia, but I had some issue with my Pixel 3a yesterday that it just stopped charging and had to get in touch with Google's support to try initiate a repair (turned out to be a software bug, thankfully).

Yes! Android 11 has difficulty on the Pixel 3a negotiating the USB mode and will just randomly fail to charge after updates. I found moving it between a USB C PD and USB C port on an actual computer will at least bring up the notification where you can then select the USB negotiation mode.
GameSnacks brings HTML5 games to Google products
What about posix_spawn() with POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK? That saves some of the overhead. See eg https://github.com/rtomayko/posix-spawn#benchmarks
If you can reply to them they aren't shadowbanned.
The moderator problem was noticeable years ago: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/16/the-moderator-problem-how... and has become more evident today.
Maybe I'm being pedantic, but most of the stuff done to refined oils are physical processes, not chemical
> so many its not even funny. AI this and that. Personality and behavior assessments. Automate everything. chatbots to save recruiting. BLAH BLAH Fucking blah. Some have certainly made sourcing and outreach better but as iwang mentioned very few of these address the personal side of hiring engineers.
The idea that you can assess an engineers ability to code AND collaborate with your team in a 3-5 hour window is just a losing battle. Hackerrank and triplebyte are good for the very large corps to rule people out and slim down the funnel. Not a real reflection of the work, code, or problems you will be solving in the job if hired.

These tools are fine if you are a top 5 firm in your area and offering a 6 figure salary. Everyone does the Google take-home.

If you aren't Google, your completion rate for whatever assessment you use is going to get lower and lower the less you pay or prestige you have. Because strong candidates are already moving to the next stages at better companies.

> Personally I think small companies would be far better served investing in sourcing tools to attract and located the right talent. Have your leadership pitch these people directly hunt talent versus tools to automate volume (95% of which are not the people you are seeking any way).

Spend less on tools and more on signing bonus. Campus career fair is probably the best place to start, along with referral for more senior positions. Also, keep in mind HR is there to sign documents and offers, not to screen technical candidates.
Haha fair - "we don't differentiate" is a totally fine answer! It's a tool that should be more widespread. The reason I was asking is historically these companies haven't done well (AllerDrops is another example), and so I'm curious as to if you've looked at them at all, that's all. :)

FWIW, SLIT didn't work for me, but shots did. Everyone's different! :)
What's the actual claim behind the lawsuit?

I hate lootboxes, but what's the basis for damages?
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> Exactly. Going full vegan requires real effort to get enough of all nutrients you need.

This is really not true with the possible exception of iron, which you can mitigate by eating a lot of citrus (this helps with absorption; plants have lots of iron, but heme iron has much greater bio-availability).

I am not vegan since I eat dairy and eggs still, however this is purely because I enjoy them and not for any particular dietary reason. I allow myself these luxuries while understanding that's what they are: luxuries, not requirements. We are all human, after all, and we can't all be monks who optimize every behavior. I think it's important to be honest about that and truthful about our motivations when we decide to eat animal products, because it is really not by necessity (at least, not in the western world, where plant-based alternatives are affordable and readily purchased).

If everybody ate mostly soy and legumes it would solve a lot of problems, even if they still have a steak or cheese every now and then. But they don't need to have that steak or cheese to be healthy :)
At one point there was a site where you put bounty on Crypto Tokens to solve your programming questions and problems. I just cannot seem to find it.
A disincentive to continuing the activity the class action suit was brought for.

In theory, class action lawsuits are either or both 1) compensate victims 2) "force" company to stop activity society deems "bad"

Victims care about #1, the rest of us want #2 so we don't become victims in the future.

In this case, stop exploiting addiction and other human psychology for profit via loot boxes.
Since perf is at utmost importance for this project, and intern has been found to be used a lot, maybe a pinch of small optimization is to move the static ConcurrentMap out of the function, hence avoid atomic<bool> check on whether it's initialized -

static Symbol *intern(std::string_view name) {
static ConcurrentMap<Symbol> map;
return map.insert(name, {name});
}

to

static ConcurrentMap<Symbol> map;

static Symbol *intern(std::string_view name) {
return map.insert(name, {name});
}

probably though it won't bring much, but for the sake of squeezing every bit out there (and it was the easiest I could find - lol)
That's a huge question and can only be answered personally.

NYC has cleared out and rents are finally somewhat cheap. But I would prefer almost anywhere in the EU to anywhere in the US, so the financial gain from the move would really have to make it worth it.
You are technically correct, but also missing the point.

It's like saying an alcoholic can still responsibly drink by stopping at one.
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I am not sure why I should trust kraken, but even if I trusted them completely, this only proves tether has enough liquidity to maintain their peg, not that they are "mostly backed." That is to say, it only puts a relatively small bound on their reserve ratio.
The mobile experience has improved for “normies” looking to consume funny pictures and videos on /r/popular, not the power users who comment or use niche subreddits.

The Reddit app’s push for live-streaming and their recent acquisition of DubSmash makes me suspect they’re looking to compete with TikTok as well.
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Journalists have a social norm that it's okay to investigate people and publish their details, and as the rest of us come around to seeing that as invasive and rude, they're lagging a bit behind. (See also: The slate star codex guy.)
Almost all fiat deposits into Bitfinex create USDT.

Thats an additional fact that the amount is in line with the amounts that would be deposited into any big exchange.

If Coinbase minted USDC whenever someone deposited, you would see the same kind of growth.

The basis of your entire post is assuming impropriety based on pretty normal behavior with the addition of the business quirk of when USDT is created.

The ability for impropriety is a good enough reason to avoid it, and their unilateral willingness to do so without any discussion can reinforce that. But people thought everything you thought since the beginning of Tether in like 2014 or so, but the reality is that it “only went fractional reserve” in 2018. Its kind of like they threw up their hands and said “well people think its a ponzi anyway might as well cover this business debt!” The irony being that the NY AG investigation actually proved that prior to 2018 it functioned exactly as promised, barring their 2017 distress by having nowhere to put their fiat deposits.

But if you assume that it hasnt come crashing down because Bitfinex does what they said, then it still does make sense: crypto prices pump after Tether mints because it is people depositing into the exchange and then buying crypto.

Any way glad USDC and DAI are growing a lot now, which have grown by the same orders of magnitude.
> and you may need an environment as large as your production one.

Yes, but isn't that exactly what the author suggests?
Samuelson literally self-censored his textbook in the wake of the Mccarthyite campaign against Lorie Tarshis. A similar campaigned blocked Galbraith from chairing the department at the University of Illinois. One thing Cowen has in common with Hayek and Mises is his university salary is supplied by the inherited wealth of conservative activists.
Well the issue is eventually if DOJ steps in and convicts the founders can all go to jail. Jail is a good deterrent.
> In my opinion the news creators should be grateful to facebook (or google etc.), bringing them interested visitors, potential customers.

I'm not a fan of Australia's policy in the least. But I understand why they made it and your comment is about as misguided as Australia's policy.

Yes, publishers benefit greatly from Facebook.

Facebook also benefits greatly from publishers and content providers content. Facebook is the forum, the news and articles people link is a good chunk of what draws people in to Facebook. If it wasn't for outside media, people would quickly blow through the pictures of their friends and family and be off the platform.

Baby pictures don't foster long debate and engagement, people look at them and move on. It's the media (aka news) which causes engagement (and debate). Engagement is where Facebook makes their money.

So Facebook needs the media, the media needs Facebook, no problem right?

Well not quite. The problem is, while they both "need" each other, there is a lot of competition for news, and Facebook is a monopoly. The end result is Facebook (and Google) sucks all the profit out of the room.

As I mentioned initially, Australia's policy is crappy. But the current situation isn't sustainable either.
It's easy to forget that old designs are not necessarily bad designs. The "original" shingles are wooden shingles, clay half-pipes, and slate shingles. These have some good things going for them:

- Modular design makes transportation, storage and installation simple.

- Modular design makes it easy to replace just a small section.

- Simple design means it's easy to understand edge cases and failure modes.

- Simple, standardized shapes make it easy to replace parts even if the original manufacturer is out of business.

I can replace a shingle on a 100-year-old roof, no questions asked. What will people do when one or two of their custom Tesla roof shingles fail in 20 years? 30 years?

Newer (or fancier) is not always better.
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> Inflation can happen to assets, and PragmaticPulp is analyzing Bitcoin as an asset, not a currency.

Actually PragmaticPulp was doing both.

In the comment I quoted, they stated:

> They’ve also spread an idea that money printing is the singular source of inflation, which isn’t true at all.

This is specifically referring to currency inflation.

They then went on to say:

> Bitcoin, for example, is an inflating asset due to hype-driven demand.

As you say, this is asset inflation.

These should not be compared like this, which is why I noted that "this sentence makes absolutely no sense." I stand by that statement.
Allopathic medicine is a disaster, the overwhelming majority of the modern medical establishment refuses to acknowledge that diet has anything to do with health, where in reality diet is easily the largest contributor.
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When code is king: Mastering automotive software excellence
> Since when is it the role of the U.S. Government to arbitrate and enforce precepts of “journalistic integrity”?

Cable is a regulated service and a raft of interacting concerns about content quality, standards, and viewpoint diversity have consistently played (shifting, as priorities and assessment of current state shift) roles in the regulation of that industry for decades. Assessing and understanding what is going on in terms of journalistic integrity fits well within that, and does not imply that the ultimate legislative outcome will be censorship. Greenwald is treating his speculations (that conveniently fit the one-note political narrative about the Democratic Party that has been his constant refrain for years) about what the legislative outcome of the investigation might be a if it were news of what is, which is the kind of thing he wouldn't be able to do if he still wrote for an outfit with an editor aimed at enforcing even the most basic norms of journalistic integrity, like distinguishing between facts and the reporters own fanciful inventions.

> the only conservative cable outlets: Fox, Newsmax and OANN.

Even if you restrict to news-branded outlets rather than conservative outlets that carry some news-branded content, that's not accurate. CBN, for instance, exists.
I don't think there's much reason to think she's aware anyone is looking for her, or that she's particularly trying to "hide". It sounds like she just dropped out of the industry 30+ years ago and none of her former colleges kept in touch.
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> Nibs and ink filling systems are usually imported

How would one go about finding these components (in hobbyist volumes)? The fountain pen components I have seen for sale (in the US) are quite expensive and limited in options/quality.
Reddit is so popular that the “quality” of users has become very poor just by sheer virtue of the number of people using it. Also the 25-75%ile ages are probably like 17-24 so there is a good chance you’re having a conversation with actual teenagers