skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, partially.

Yes, the short-term financial implications (cost of standards) are minor compared to cost of employees and consultants (source: I am a consultant). However, non-free standards have a gazillion second-order effects which tend to get overlooked:

- Potential founders (think YC) can't "just quickly browse a standard" to see whether they'd want to build a startup in that area.

- Individuals not affiliated to a company won't purchase them for themselves (too expensive) and therefore are excluded from contributing.

- People can't write blog posts which freely cite passages from a standard --> Less public information on how to actually implement a standard in a company.

- People can't make presentations (slides) with passages from a standard --> A lot of paraphrasing and beating around the bush, making presentations more useless.

Imagine, for a second, the following thought experiment: Open source software on GitHub would be behind a similar paywall, say, 50 EUR per software package. You could make your argument again: Compared to engineering salaries, that's a minor amount. Sure. But the second-order effects are gigantic, essentially killing the open source ecosystem because individuals (like a random person from a third-world country) are entirely cut off and barred from contributing.

Or, like: Would DHH have written rails if access to Ruby would have cost 50 EUR?
These comments read like from a different galaxy (for me). Here it is very clear why. Management asks: how long does it take. Engineer replies: will take X man month. Management: thats too long, lets estimate shorter.
Important to remember where these allegations originate from.

Timnit Gebru was fired from Google after threatening to quit unless Google reveled the identities of the reviewers of her paper that was not received well while accusing them of sex/race based discrimination.

You can find some of the experiences of her from previous colleagues. You'll find the toxicity that she used in her time there and how she is picking the race/sex card on every situation. This is likely a continuation of that.

Not that the allegations can't be true, but people like this are really diluting the message and making it hard to tell the legitimate from exaggerated hit pieces.
For a technical book I fully agree, my other book [0] is written in LaTeX. But this doesn't seem to be the case for OP, and definitely wasn't the case for my novel, so I'm curious :)

[0] https://nostarch.com/computer-graphics-scratch
A few weeks after I got my first touchscreen phone, I had to google for how to answer it.

I had assumed you'd just tap the "answer" button, but that failed more often than not. It never would have occurred to me to swipe a minimum of 3cm, starting with the answer button, and I must assume this knowledge has spread to users by osmosis rather than discovery.
Yes, there are defensive driving courses offered at most racing schools and they're generally a prerequisite for taking more advanced racing courses but are also pitched as a terminal course for people who simply want to improve their daily driving skills. They'll take you through some of the basic theory of safer driving and then take you out onto the track to practice some basic defensive maneuvers.

People who take the course generally say that it has real, long term effects on their driving as it provides them a mental framework for how to evaluate traffic from a fundamentally defensive perspective and they find themselves practicing the same skills decades after they've taken the courses.

I'm not aware of any long term, longitudinal studies on whether defensive driving courses decrease raw accident rates but any study would be tricky to do since people who self select for defensive driving courses are likely to have any number of confounds that would make observational studies less than clear.
They're rendering at a fairly reasonable size for me, 30x30px.
borland did have codeguard(maybe still does?), which was a more primitive version of asan in 1996.

until some years ago I used to build projects with their last freeware version in windows just validate minimally.

but yeah, the more compilers/ides with support for these tools the better.
You don't have to go as far back as the Romans. The Barbary Pirates (from north Africa) took something like a million slaves from Europe over the 300 years that they terrorised European coastlines, mainly raiding the Mediterranean but sometimes coming as far north as Britain and even Iceland.

More information: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Barba...

Note that Barbary slave raids weren't suppressed until the early 19th century, around the same time that the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended (emphasis on trade; slavery continued in the Americas for decades after the slave trade itself was ended). So slavery of white people was widespread for much of the time that whites were enslaving Africans. (And of course, Africans were enslaving each other for hundreds of years before Europeans showed up and continued to do it after Europeans stopped.)

The only thing more absurd than pretending slavery never happened is pretending that Europeans were the only people who ever practiced it.
Well here's an email date June 2020 that I received from them:

Hello CodeGlitch,

On behalf of everyone at Mozilla, especially in these very turbulent times, I just wanted to say thank you once again for your generous support of our work.

Right now we're all gripped by the seriousness of social and racial justice issues facing the United States; you can read the statements from our Foundation Chairwoman Mitchell Baker here, and Vice President of Advocacy Ashley Boyd here.

Because Mozilla's mission to support a healthy internet is enduring and demands sustained commitment, we are also pursuing the work required to meet this challenge. Your support makes all of this possible — and we wanted to update you about our progress.

Here are a few of the ways that we're responding to the immediate challenge of COVID-19, the protests for racial equality in the US, and laying the foundation for a better, safer and more open internet.

We're lifting up the voices of allied organizations on Twitter to help everyone understand their rights, get educated, and take action ... and dedicated the latest issue of our Mozilla News Beat to the global fight for racial justice.
We released a special new edition of our Privacy Not Included buyer's guide, that focuses on popular video call apps such as Zoom, Skype and FaceTime ... and have also been working behind the scenes with Zoom's leadership to address security and privacy concerns with their service. And we're delighted to report that Privacy Not Included was recognized with a Webby People's Voice award!
We've kicked off a request for comment on version 0.9 of Mozilla's Trustworthy AI Whitepaper. Read more about it in this blog post from our Executive Director, Mark Surman.
We brought our Dialogues & Debates series (a MozFest staple) to Twitter with a live "Ask Me Anything" session with Mozilla Fellow Frederike Kaltheuner. You can rewatch this session Trustworthy Technology in the Time of a Pandemic here.
We've created the new Mozilla Fellowships for Tech + Society program to strengthen organizations in the Global South by incorporating technology strategies into their work.
We released When Content Moderation Hurts, a collection of six stories examining challenges and opportunities around content moderation and platform regulations.
Together with program partners, we launched an open call for proposals to win funding from the Coil-sponsored Grant For the Web program designed to support independent content creators.
Once again, we deeply appreciate your support, and please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

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(Stephanie, Hilary, Juan, Jessie, Will and Jesse)
> Additionally one person doesn't mean the whole family are horrible people.

Are the royals horrible people? Let's investigate!

* The wealth they horde is unimaginable. They have more money in the Queen's tiara collection than Musk and Bezos have combined.

* They continually petition against policies which would force them to make their wealth even slightly more transparent as this would be fully bad for PR when there are children starving in this country

* They continually protect sex abusers and pedophillic family members

* There may not be any family members who owned slaves still alive today. But they still have the receipts!

* Don't get me started on colonialism

* Let's not tar the whole family with the racist pedophile brush, I'm sure the various babies are currently innocent.

* They gave zero support to Princess Diana and quite frankly I'm not convinced by the opinion that they didn't have her killed.

This isn't just simply lumping in the existing royals with the atrocities committed by their ancestors, they continue to profit and benefit from the atrocities their ancestors committed with zero remorse or apology or disseminating of wealth back to the rightful owners, or be held to any consequence because they are the god given royal bloodline and it does not matter, they deserve all they have "worked for".
I actually had an issue like that recently, where our code didn't handle a special case in ISO8601 correctly. I managed to obtain ;) the standard and could adapt it, but if I hadn't obtained the standard, I'd have had to just close the issue with "WONTFIX".
Makes me wonder if you can just dump the Flash storage chips through JTAG or similar - assuming the JTAG ports are accessible without completely dismantling the phone.
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> We have the most racially diverse Cabinet ever, elected by a massive majority. Priti and Rishi enjoy huge popularity.

insular = ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience.

I have examined Priti Patel's statements and behavior. Her moral and cultural compass would be what I would exactly define as insular. For example, going on TV justifying applying the death penalty to innocent people which predominantly affects minority populations. I would strongly suggest watching this short clip of her talking about this in such a ridiculous way. She keeps repeating the phrase "does what it says on the tin" and "ultimate burden of proof" to justify killing innocent people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DrsVhzbLzU

She's also on record supporting any and all of Israeli policies without accountability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DrsVhzbLzU

She's on record bullying people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DrsVhzbLzU

She's on record making unsubstantiated claims that minorities were refusing vaccines when the data and polling suggests otherwise and some evidence even suggests that authorities are purposely using that as an excuse to deny giving vaccines to minority populations. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/priti-patel-downing-s... , https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9316345/Comedi...

In short, Priti Patel is a pretty insular personality, ie: a person who just happens to have brown skin but in fact reflect a highly insular conservative viewpoint. "Model" minorities such as her are often used by power structures to justify further reinforcement of highly biased policies that perpetuate a cycle of disenfranchisement.

In other words, having a "racially diverse cabinet" doesn't mean anything if they all share the same Etonian viewpoints of how the world should be structured and society should be structured and how and where resources should be expended.
If anyone is looking for more information on SDF (silver diamine fluoride), there is some information here:

https://www.aappublications.org/news/2016/08/05/SilverDiamin...
Why Clubhouse isn't as intuitive as everyone says it is
> it's literally the law. Rear-ending is always the rear car's fault a

Rear ending being the rear car's fault is a norm of the insurance industry that is used to settle disputes in the absence of other information. Furthermore, in the overwhelming majority of jurisdictions the government specifically does not establish "fault" for routine vehicle accidents (the government generally only decides matters of fault inside a court room) and the paperwork that comes with a police report of an accident usually says something along the lines of "we don't establish fault, just record the facts" prominently on it.
sed seriously needs a Perl-regex mode... it's stuck in the Basic/Extended Regex syntaxes, which feel prehistoric and don't support the syntax that you will learn in practically any modern regex tutorial.

Maybe they could take the opportunity to add that. Otherwise I end up needing to

sed -i 's/sed -i/perl -pi -e/g' *
But then you're essentially defining racism as "anything that gets you in trouble."

It's perfectly reasonable to adjust coming anywhere close to discussing race as a strategy to avoid getting fired, but it's insane to redefine racism based on that.

We're doing that, and it results in a constantly expanding definition of racism, to where there are now "microaggressions."

Keep in mind, if you're white, you don't care: as you suggested, you just avoid talking about certain topics and carry on.

If you're a minority group, all these white people are, against their own apparent interests, agreeing that there's pervasive racism everywhere. The minority person has to live believing that all this is true.

We ought to have empathy and get this right so we don't contribute to a pervasive falsehood that makes people's lives seem worse than they really are. What's no big deal for us can be a ton of stress for others.
The "leave meeting" button is not used "at least" once by each participant. It is used exactly once. Same as the submit button.

The reset button can be used multiple times, same as the "enable/disable mic/cam", although arguably the latter WILL be used multiple times.

I believe it is more a matter of "multiple vs single" use that needs to be considered, or more like "on going vs finishing" actions when separating/grouping buttons.
Now I get your point, and agree. Plus, coming out below that estimate will make for a pleasant experience.
Have you taken your time and watched 5 minutes of the linked YouTube video?

HedgeFunds are just starting to get into BTC. The price is still to low for them to allocate even 1% of their capital to it. When the price hits around 500k, then it is starting to get interesting. So, no. It's not.
Sorry you were offended - I was suggesting you would enjoy quotations from Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" where he describes landlords as non-productive leeches. I was not commenting on the use of quotation marks.

My suggestion that you also pay attention to the context was that those quotations really do apply to unimproved land (though he notes that landlords will happily increase rents based on tenants'improvements).

Cheers.
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> an automated P45 printer

For the non-Brits: a "P45" is a form you get given when you leave a job, for example if you're fired.
Not to mention polysynthetic signs - I don't want to be the one to program that.

An example sentence of mostly polysynthetic signs:

"i was out driving, just enjoying the scenery, the nature and all the trees passing by me," (3 signs) "then suddenly" (just raise the eyebrows and look scared at some point in front of you, with your hands still on the imaginary steering wheel), "my car crashed into a wall (or other immobile object) (and the hood got all deformed)" - 1 sign.

So that takes about 5 seconds to sign, but up to a minute to represent all the embedded information in English. But in practice, you'd skip a lot of the embedded information when translating to English, depending on what was actually important. So how do you make the machine know what was important? It depends on who you're translating for!
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Just showing up to gloat about all the money I made on GME this week. :) Turns out all your hot air was just ignorance. Maybe you’re not a very good judge of who is irrational and who isn’t :D
I make something like indie pop rock. Somewhat sadly, my favorite song of mine is now 10 years old:

https://calvinflegal.bandcamp.com/track/when-you-were-around.

I more recently put a song on Spotify. I'm somewhat happy with it, but the vocal lacks confidence vs the first one imo:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6XlWm24ERDdgmK4Z6Px5TD?si=vkN...

Having critiqued myself as above, my next one will have a more confident vocal. Here's a tiny clip:

https://t.co/8qcaYKbT4v?amp=1
I think you're missing a few steps in your development process, or at least one. Normally it goes like this: problem->solution->implementation->testing. Each step has a role associated with this: user->analyst->coder->tester.

If you go straight from problem to coder, you shouldn't be surprised that you don't have a proper solution, because nobody really made a proper solution. That's like building a house without an architect. Hire an analyst.
Today I learned bubble wrap started as a wallpaper alternative and pivoted to the shipping industry. Another good example how your product may be excellent for a different audience than intended.
If the terrans from Starcraft were less war-prone and more into mild psychadelics. Very nice!
This sounds like a flawed development cycle. Where's the end-user testing?

In defence of the developers/programmers, many people are really bad at explaining what they want, not least because it's often not what they actually need.

If a designer is designing something that looks good but doesn't work well (i.e., solve the problem), they are bad at usability/UX. They should be getting user feedback on their design before it's implemented - that's what user-centred design is about.

There's often a gap when it comes to understanding requirements - between the end-user and the developer, between the designer and developer, etc. Requirements gathering is actually a specialised skill and one of the key duties of a business analyst.
What I'm reading from the description of this situation (this BBC article is scant on details, previous posts had more information) is that the suggestion for medical leave came only after a prolonged, repeated escalation/appeal of a relatively minor complaint.

Let's assume that the complaint was accurate, it wasn't a misunderstanding, and that there was an incident in 2019 where a colleague intentionally verbally insulted Benjamin Cruz for some reason. That's bad, but it's not a major issue, that's a single incident, Cruz did not claim that it was a pattern in their work environment, or that they had to continuously work with a colleague that kept insulting them, or something like that - their claims of abuse stop at that single incident. HR looked into the complaint and, one way or another, came to a decision which Cruz did not like. So far, it's a "meh" situation, not nice, but something that's still within bounds of an acceptable work environment no matter which side is right. Okay, a minor bad thing happened, people talked about it, hopefully people will try to be better. If it repeats, then you would have a reason for escalation or further complaints.

However, if a year has passed after a single insult and a HR decision you don't agree with, and you can't let it go and keep escalating that issue because it still affects you so much that it hurts your work and causes serious personal anxiety, then that's a problematic overreaction. Letting go seems like a reasonable option, seeking mental help seems like a reasonable option, and quitting seems another reasonable option, and IMHO that's it, you should pick one of these - which was exactly what (according to Cruz) was suggested by the HR.

In your opinion what should a perfect HR have suggested for Cruz to do in this situation, assuming that they have determined that some punishment to the other employee (which - in my guess - is what Cruz might have requested by asking HR to reconsider that investigation) is simply not justified?

If you expect that you'll never ever have a minor personal conflict or one-off remark at your workplace, that's an unreasonable expectation. If you expect that in every dispute with a coworker the HR must take your side and you refuse to accept a judgement that's reviewed more than once, that's an unreasonable expectation. If you expect that employer will ensure that any assholes get fired after their first asshole utterance, that's an unreasonable expectation. If you can't work because these unreasonable expectations aren't met, then that's on you, not the employer; deal with it or leave.
Most vessels will have some form of connectivity on board right now. It depends on their vicinity to coast.

Right now data sizes of an email are industry standard. As you go into 100s of Mb you start to see people really struggle.

I would look at BIM systems for a parallel with ships.
Ships are incredibly complicated and often self reliant. Shore based monitoring is hated by the crew but vessel operators see return from it.

A simple example would be an extension of the IoT devices already on board probably around engines. Anything with tangible benefits to Efficiency and safety would see investment.
I don't see why banning those things should be controversial or extreme in any way. Predatory business interests need to die.
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Wanna re-read what you just wrote, sport?????
This is cool, I made a similar command line tool for generating the same sort of thing:

https://github.com/Miserlou/chords2midi

Demo: https://clyp.it/f0g1ko5b
Forms are usually left aligned, so the keeping the form button on the left aids usability.

https://uxplanet.org/buttons-alignment-policy-a26de4ce0c70
It's disappointing but it's not worth assuming any malice or continuing flamewars. There's been some discussion on the project's GitHub page in the past about licensing.

What's worthwhile is to share and talk about why the license selection may result in proprietary and bloated applications built upon the stack, and the resulting inefficiencies and security issues that could occur years in the future as a result. Perhaps it'd even be possible to speculate about what incentives create and support the conditions for those.

If enough people agree and understand the situation, perhaps we'll see change. If they don't, we'll continue on for a number of years and maybe those hypothetical problems will occur, or maybe they won't and the concerns will have been unjustified.
They've been in a steady linear downtrend of coal production for more than a century. Then stopped producing the stuff roughly on schedule for a prediction made in 1970 or 1980.

Occam's razor here is they stopped producing coal because they ran out of coal, rather than because of any political will.

> There is a large amount of coal still available for mining in the uk - but lack of demand and low prices coupled with high extraction costs have destroyed the industry.

That is what running out of coal looks like. Based on the 100 year trendline, Occam's razor is they can't sustain their lifestyle using coal. It wouldn't surprise me if they struggled even with new forms, their energy use figures [0] are eye watering.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_Kingdom#O...
In a just world — where the basic human right of privacy counts as much as the basic human rights of free speech, free travel, free reproduction, not being tortured or enslaved etc. — they would be forbidden. Let them figure out a way to be profitable without infringing.

Unfortunately, the Americans, the Russians and the Chinese are against pervasive privacy and pay only lip service to the UDHR at best.
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