skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is still the subject of debate, and, at some point, possibly a matter for the courts.

What has emerged more recently is that the UK contract was, in contradiction of earlier statements, signed a day after the EU contract.

The UK contract's text was also leaked somewhat accidentally, and it is almost identical to the previously-released EU contract. I've looked at them side-by-side and I'm just not enough of an armchair lawyer to make too much sense of 60-page contracts, but I couldn't quite see how the existing differences would constitute any clear priority for the UK.
"But you're not being measured on what you communicated. You are merely sharing what you' re doing."

This is never true. Its a daily confession of what you did. Its micromanagement.
Also consider that the moderators and admins agree with the kind of messages being posted and turn a blind eye to it.
You'll have to accept that running a house is much less work today than it was 150 years ago when there was no fridge, no hover, no washing mashine, no ready-made food.

Today a single mom with full time job can still run a (not too big) house.

So to be fullfilling there has to be more than just keeping the house clean and people fed, which is probably why so many upper-upper-middle class women have a part-time job running some kind of fashion store.
One of the challenges the EU often has when negotiating is dealing with the need for consensus among their 27 member states, and trying to reflect so many diverse political desires in negotiations.

While the result is a "civil service" style European Commission, the end result is generally some kind of compromise or "average". It's hard for the EU to conduct a negotiation over vaccines when there's national interests lobbying for bulk buying of French candidate vaccines vs. German-made vaccines etc.

This makes it far harder for them to negotiate anything, unless they can all pre-arrange their own position. As soon as their desires diverge, the negotiation gets much harder for them, as they have to try and negotiate a compromise position that keeps everyone equally unhappy.
In a perfect world? Yes. On paper it is very good. And making people accountable for their work is a good thing. So is organizing work to be sure it gets done. I'm not a developer, but my department is developing a product for internal consumption, and using the Agile method is good for this purpose. I'm a terribly disorganized person so I like the structure it brings.

Beyond that, it's just a way of doing things, much like an OS. It doesn't matter if you're running W10, MacOS, or some flavor of Linux. If it's the right tool for the job, then it's the right tool for the job. But if it's not, then why is it in use?
Those "free" photos and videos were still recompressed.
The reason: Live Nation, owner/operator of many large venues in the US, owns Ticketmaster since 2010
Maybe It's just me, but I think the free tier description on the pricing page [1] is confusing.

- (CHECK) Use the full set of Gleek diagramming features

- (CROSS) Limited to 5 diagram files

- (CROSS) Limited to 40 diagram object

- (CROSS) Diagrams are stored on Gleek servers

- (CROSS) Share links to diagrams using your favorite collaboration tool

- (CROSS) Priority support on Slack

There are checkmarks and crosses. The first item seems clear because it had a checkmark and is included in the free tier. But it seems to me that the next two items (limited to 5 diagram files and 40 diagram object) are also included, but they have a cross next to them. While the last two items also have a cross but are not included.

Lastly, I think there is a small typo and the "40 diagram object" should be "40 diagram objects."

Good luck!

[1] https://www.gleek.io/pricing.html

Edit: fixed formatting
I'll pose my own naive theory:

Consciousness is a type of thought. When we zone out, we stop being conscious to an extent. Bugs don't experience those thoughts about themselves so they're not conscious (just a wild guess).

Consciousness ceases when we are focused solving problems. It returns the moment we think about ourselves.

So, what is a thought? Why are there some types of thoughts that only humans can have? I do not know.
Then you also should support the practice of employers not extorting labor or the public at large, and there being a rough process to bring everyone to the table to rationally negotiate a consensus on where the ground rules are when a critical mass of individuals notice a common line of divergent expectations, yes?

That process is called unionization, and collective bargaining. The thing you don't like, is that Unions can also utilize network effects to a similar degree that owners and management can, even if it is now technically illegal due to the Taft-Hartley act to secondary strike, or wildcat strike. It is also, by spirit of the law, illegal to overly frustrate unionization efforts. So if one side is going to play fast and loose with boundaries, I wouldn't expect a great deal of sympathy when the other side does as well and you find yourself on the wrong side of it.

But take heart, don't be a dick, and be open with your workers, treat them with respect, and recognize they could be helping someone else so a replacement of higher quality is not a given and you'll likely never have to worry about a big unionization push! Realize that shareholders aren't the be all end all of the world, and that while they will flee at the first sign of rough times, a worker treated well will weather the rough times for the company, and the other people there.

Unions are the lesser of two evils. Too much paperwork and drama! Save everyone a bit, and don't make it worth their time. That's all it takes.
Show HN: Tag/Categorize HN users and their posts
Interesting, Wikipedia said something about up to 36 months per parent and per child.
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A 2016 study of 1,171 IVF cycles using frozen eggs found that, for women under 30, each egg retrieved had a 8.67% chance of resulting in a child; for women over 40, that chance dropped to less than 3% per egg at best. More likely closer to 1%.
Reminder: If you are a woman, plan on having children in your 20s. If you’ve frozen your eggs you’ve probably wasted your money.
On the economic value point, my spouse elected to stay home when our second was born as we calculated that with their (well above median pay, PhD required) science job, that with two in daycare or paid pre-school, we were just breaking even on an after-tax monthly cash basis and so they’d be working full-time and the only headway we’d be making from their work and missing our kids’ development was maxing out another 401k account.

For us, that was an absolutely economically valued choice to stay home. Now that they’re in school, freelance science consulting adds to the household retirement savings in a very significant way (when self-employed, you can squirrel away about 92% of the gross income up to mid-five figures), which by now has probably filled in the gap from several years of no 401k contributions and growth and provides them with the intellectual stimulation and contribution in their field that is also desired.
I've never felt like a stand-up with your manager-type-person present is ever net helpful. Stand-ups just implicitly become "what did you do yesterday that justified 10% of your biweekly paycheck" at some level, and people end up talking to the manager rather than to each other.

I'm sure some super special orgs out there can counteract this with their incredible non-toxic culture and such. Most cannot. Ones that explicitly think they can almost certainly actually cannot.

If it's solely the IC's, I think that's where it can be good. People feel a lot more free to not say anything if they don't have any blockers and don't need to put anything to the team. It's much easier to get in-and-out and have a high-bandwidth discussion.

I've felt the most comfortable where we sat down once a week for an hour, went over the last week, and thought about the next. And we had an open-door policy (not literally/physically of course) if you ever needed to discuss blockers or put things to the team. "Standups" happened naturally, about once or twice as week, where people would accrete into a standup in the middle of our pod discussing something that was so interesting/relevant that it naturally drew us out of our offices.

Maybe that was just the only time where we finally had the team and the process mesh on a natural level, and it doesn't prescribe this as "the way to do it" for anyone else. But damn did it work for us, for at least two years, before the org changed enough that our team didn't really exist as the same team anymore.

One thing I have never enjoyed was the "the big boss wants this project done ASAP, have standups every day to make sure it gets done as fast as possible". That and everything related to it was awful.
I don't believe that is all down to the changing demographics of the labor force. Another aspect is the availability of land in desirable locales (i.e. close to metro areas). There are more than twice as many people in the U.S. now as there were "in the good old days" (by which I'm referring to the 50s and early 60s). And houses have gotten larger. And on top of that, people have been generally expressing a preference toward urbanization, with less than half as many people living in rural areas today compared to the 50s. All these factors have had a significant effect on housing prices, the dominant cost most American families pay.
>Not all companies need growth in order to survive, or to thrive.

If your company isn't growing but the market is, your company is shrinking. If your company isn't growing and the market isn't growing, how long will that market last? How many markets are stable over decades?
Counterpoint: let's say I hate the effect that car-ownership has had on society - you can't just tell me "well then you should just choose not to own a car". The problem is that society itself has been reshaped around the assumption that essentially everyone has a car. For the vast majority of people in the vast majority of locations in the USA, it's simply not viable to live without a car, or ready access to one.

That doesn't mean I should be able to reshape all of society according to my whims, but it seems flippant to dismiss the material circumstances that make single-breadwinner families economically infeasible for most American families by saying that people can just choose to live that life if they want.
It's cultural trench warfare. We're in a very profitable (for media companies that harvest clicks off of outrage) stalemate.

We need to develop new rhetorical and ideological tools too push the conversation in any meaningful direction. We also need to be able to disseminate them.
What podcasts do developers listen to? (hint: it's not only about coding)
If someone has never learned a language, what do they think in their head? Is it like the sound effects in cartoons, like "arrgh!" and "huh." and "mmmmm!" ???
Oh well... I was expecting there would be a baby boom, considering all the folks that are 'working' from home, and was thinking that they would get 'busy'...
See, this I do not understand... With 50/50Mbps I can't game and watch 1080p60 videos on YouTube whilst family stream, there will be a very noticeable lag in game and stream will start to buffer.
We now get 140/140 for just under $25 (Europe, Denmark)
Better yet, broadband should be defined as having no data caps.
This is going to have a huge impact on colleges and universities in ~18 years. Imagine an 8% decrease in high school graduates in one year, on top of the already projected drop in high school graduates over the next 10 years. The decline in high school graduates over the next 10 years is largely due to the drop in birthrate during the 2008/9 economic crash and recession.
By dramatically changing the available defaults.

If most browsers aggressively blocked ads then more sites would test to see if blocking ads breaks the site.
Interestingly, single, childless women are also the happiest population demographic.

(https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/25/women-h...)

I don't disagree homemaking should be less stigmatized, but the real problem is American startup culture that expects this kind of around-the-clock all-in hustle mentality. The vast majority of businesses are actually just small firms with a few people that make a decent living. That's the lifestyle that should be celebrated and desirable. There's no reason running a business can't be compatible with having a family, we just need to re-define what it looks like to run a company. The focus should be on sustainability and balance, not growth at any cost.
Once your library gets large, local storage is just too hard and expensive on a laptop. Photos.app seems to hate using external or network drives.
Well, some people don't understand the scope of it. I for the most part think it would be a good move, but it certainly would throw off the web for a good while.

>You appear to understand the situation, so I'm not sure why you bring this up as a problem.

It is a problem, just not one that I think is more important than the benefits it comes with.

>If a business is utterly incapable of operating without resorting to an unethical business model, then the solution is to shut down the business rather than abandon ethics.

I agree, but weigh the impact of other industries that rely on that business as well. It would be a very unpopular move, and given the lobbying in the US, it's unlikely to pass here. And if it passes in the EU that might have other negative impacts in partitioning the web even more. It's a balancing act, and the solution is not as clear cut as "ban tracking in advertising". Knowing lawmakers, do you think this would differentiate between a paid service keeping a user logged in and, say, google ads? I bet the paid service would have an option in the subscription menu to upgrade, is that tracking in advertising? Probably not to 99% of sane people, but can lawmakers (or anyone for that matter) express what they want out of such a law in a concise enough manner to not be misconstrued in a major way?
EU made a deal with AZ back in August when AZ still didn't have a ready vaccine. That is why EU pays vaccine at $2.15.

Later, UK and US agreed to buy AZ vaccine and are paying 3$ and 4$.

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n281

Now all of the sudden agreements with UK and US are fulfilled and with EU are not.

Countries are currently outbidding each other and stealing the supplies. It was naive of EU bureaucracy to think that the cheapest price is the priority.
Following this logic, Niger must be filled with stability and optimism, and Norway is similar to the US in instability and pessimistic outlook for the future.
I object to the spelling of “author” because it's a historical contamination derived from confusion with “authentic”. The speling of “auctor” was more common till the 1800s and is still favored in certain arts circles for the aforementioned reason.

Similarly, you will find me favor the spelling of “lim” over “limb” or “hole” over “whole”.

I actually object less to “author”, than I do to “limb”, as many actually pronounce it as it is spelled, but with “limb” it is introducing a silent letter without any etymological justification, simply because other similar words such as “lamb” are spelled as such with etymological justification, as the “b” was once pronounced there.
I opened Discord after 2yrs of not using it, remembering a simple Slack like chat that was slightly better.

I opened it again recently with all my old channels and it looks like they added a hundred new features I have no idea what they do or never would need.

Discord is still a good product but makes you miss the simplicity. Or a simple IRC interface (although I've seen some IRC servers with a million plugins).
My point is not that these behaviors are inherently those of a man. It’s that success should be defined much more broadly than “things men traditionally do”. I think we are in agreement on that I may have not done the best job at capturing the point.
The down stream effects of our system could be that the successful, educated, intelligent women and men dont have children, and the more aggressive, more risk taking, less educated among us have many children.

This has the potential to massively harm our society in the long term.

We need to ascribe virtue to having children. We need to ascribe an extremely high amount of virtue to being a good parent.
>That makes entire sense, but designing a tax system that does not overwhelmingly affect the poorest is hard. That was part of the debate with the carbon/fuel tax in the past decade, that rich people don't care to pay more but poorer folks will certainly loose a lot of buying power with something like this.

I think we're both talking about the same goal, but differing on how to get there. I don't think it's realistic to expect legislate device longevity, nor to expect consumers to opt for it. People knowingly spend tens of thousands of dollars extra for cars that are not repair-able. Everyone has the choice of buying a Toyota, but for whatever reasons, they still buy other brands.

Therefore, my solution is to simply make people pay for consumption. It doesn't matter if you're poor or your rich, the knock on effects of consumption are the same. The matter of poor people not being able to consume as much as the rich, or the rich consuming too much compared to poor people is a different problem, easily solve by wealth redistribution, aka give poor people money.

But sufficiently high taxes on goods that we deem harmful to society is what will be the easiest way to solve the problem of over consumption. Unfortunately, I don't think it's achievable politically.
Yeah; trying to "system-2 all the things" is indeed ludicrous, and is simply unsustainable in terms of energy, which we can well attest from our own experiences. Kahneman himself doesn't advocate that extreme, but he does nudge you in that direction.

Also see: the failed collaboration with his intuition-focused colleague, Gary Klein. They tried to map "the boundary conditions that separate true intuitive skill from overconfident and biased impressions." They couldn't arrive at an agreement.

They documented their failure to reach an agreement in their paper: "Conditions for intuitive expertise: A failure to disagree"[1].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19739881/
Monte-Carlo Estimation of Pi
I can't speak to the legality, but i've seen countless places (retail shops, restuarants, etc) where they were playing radio over the speakers. Also, i've seen playing over spotify.
> That said the advice to freeze your eggs (ie work now, live later) rubs me the wrong way.

That seems to be based on a lot of assumptions. I consider working a fulfilling job to be living. Whereas raising children seems to be the fulfilling... life role.. to you? I don't view them as separate delineated things.

I think freezing eggs should become cheaper, more viable, and covered by insurance, and there are a couple ways to improve the process.

A lot of times I find dating 28-33 year old women to be predictably annoying because many stigmatize options like freezing eggs while still rushing to check the boxes on various rites of passage, as if freezing eggs is a form of defeat. Whereas older women have just gotten over it, already done it, or something else. And younger women haven't gotten around to "wondering where this is going". My experience, corroborated by some other men. I wonder if that contributes to Leo's age limit. I don't have experience dating men, so I wouldn't know if they do something similar at certain age ranges.
Yeah, these are good questions and to be fair your questions are shared by many.

My basic worldview is that we need to have 100-1000x more people reading and auditing open source. The original value of open source was in the ability of people to read the source. If we don't use that ability then we don't really get the benefit.

The world today focuses on APIs and ignores implementation. I would argue that's the biggest source of problems today, with security holes, data breaches, user-hostile UX and so on.

If you accept that being able to read sources matters, hopefully it makes sense why reducing the number of languages matters. Every new language you add is more code to read, another language to learn and become proficient in, a new source of gotchas and subtleties to spend 10 years learning. Another set of tools, another set of moving parts that might not build on your computer because of some subtle version mismatch.

It's a hard problem. So let's make it easier for ourselves by relying on fewer languages, and being more thoughtful about the dependencies we introduce into our projects.
Investing in Whatnot
What you are really saying is you dont know how to market an alternate approach. So hopefully grandma or someone else shows up and does the work right?

I am fine with Signal. They arent Facebook. And they arent Russians. Anyone who has an alternative go spend some cash and energy on marketing cause thats the hard problem not the technical details.
Cost of goods index
I used to have 25/5 and from time to time it was tight for me alone (but I never fiddled much with QoS settings).

Under "normal" usage it did work, but then there were from time to time complications (e.g. OS update, Android update/installations, send/receive funny videos, etc...) and then when 1.5 years ago it became from time to time as well difficult to work from home (bigger SW-updates on the company notebook, more communication by antivirus/antispyware/antiwhatever) I gave up and changed to 1gb/1gb fibre => with what started happening last year I've been veeery lucky to get it just a few months before that the whole Covid situation made working from home a permanent situation :)