skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should we plan for the special needs children though? I mean, certainly, reprioritizing when you have one makes a lot of sense, and we should as a society invest to make sure these children lead fulfilling lives.

But... bringing up special needs kids seems a bit disingenuous as a point when they're, I believe, a small minority of all children no?
Now if their AI learns to distinguish AI vs humans players and choose to cooperate with them, that could indicate a problem.
I get what you're trying to say, but would you rather make them sit there and watch everyone else eat? There's a big difference between being easily offended and having a very literal gut reaction.
> A fiercely independent thinker, Viereck (who died in 2006 at age 89) was mostly without a political home.

I haven't finished reading it, but it doesn't seem all that encouraging as a source of ideas for building a center if the article's protagonist never succeeded.
At some point the USPS tried to limit states to one town per name. Buda, TX was originally named Du Pre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buda,_Texas
The illusion of control via rituals, status meetings, spreadsheets,JIRA, etc is a plague throughout the industry. Cargo cult and “making someone happy”. We do far too many thing simply because if you say you do it, your CTO / VP will be happy.
How far ahead to the sensors work? Maybe there is lots of time at 100km/h. They certainly need to look far enough ahead to detect a stationary object in the road and come to a complete stop, as does a human. A car coming towards you in the wrong lane at 100km/h is a different kettle of fish though (as it is for a human).

Over here, the speed limit with road works is 40km/h
I've been using Bing, directly, more and more in the past few years, when Google either gives no useful results at all, or blocks me for trying to use it with more precise queries. Overall its breadth is still lacking, but occasionally it finds useful things which Google doesn't (or won't?) find. It also doesn't try to mangle (only truncates when too long) URLs.
Must have been maddening for the test drivers who had to endure how many life times worth of traffic jam?
I'm not sure that's the case, it's certainly not clear from the flabalanche of writing he has loosed. If he got the joke, it's not mentioned in the review.
Implementer's Guide to Socks (Protocol)
Scrum is one way transparency and those that recognize that are occasionally put off by the fact.
Can I book a slot in your office hour window to talk about using your service or do I need to email you?
And will it go for a 3-way draw or try for a solo win?

What about keeping a puppet ally alive to disrupt a draw?

(And why did I think the parent comment was about 4-way draws?)
Are we back to cancelling the Scunthorpes again too? Dick Assman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Assman) will need to use T-Mobile, poor guy.
I'm sorry. That really sucks.

Clotting clearly does happen for a subset of patients. But it's wrong for the OP to claim that this is because the virus is doing something to the blood. That's a leap too far. Other infections cause similar sorts of issues -- sepsis, for example.

The distinction matters, because if the clotting is mediated by a runaway inflammatory response (e.g. an over-reaction of the innate immune system), it's inherently a problem that will affect a subset of people who are infected (for reasons we don't really understand). Whereas if the virus attacks some component of the blood, it would be expected to affect most people the same way.
The modern far left understanding is that intention doesn't matter one whit. Only outcome does. And if the outcome is that someone was offended, the only valid reason is that you are a bad person and should be made to feel bad -- ideally, as publicly as possible. Of course, this is only true if the offended party falls into one of a number of sanctioned buckets.

I wish I were making this up.
1) All models are wrong but some are useful.

2) What you are espousing here really isn’t all that useful other than as a way of playing “ooh gotcha” in arguments with others

3) Energy is only zero sum in closed systems and the earth is not a closed system. The overwhelming majority of our energy comes from a source outside our ecosystem and a non-zero amount also escapes from our planet. Ergo, it’s not a closed system and your zero sum notions do not necessarily always apply.
> Every recorded song has two copyrights—one for the songwriting (the melody and lyrics) and another for the sound recording itself (the “master” recording). Songwriters and publishers, who are separate from record labels, own the songwriting copyright, earning royalties on sales, streams, performances (radio, live) and the song’s use in television, films and videogames. Labels historically have owned the sound-recording copyright, in exchange for taking the financial risk to develop performers.

The software analogy would be source code = melody and lyrics and compiled/deployed software = sound recording, but the analogy doesn’t hold in that it’s easier to replicate compiled/deployed software from its source code.
The Ketogenic Diet, Stem Cells and Anti-Aging What Is the Connection?
Why ban it when you could just censor it like Agatha Christie's magnum opus
Wow, one of the most impressive things I've ever ready about the scope of science.
This is the leaked plot of the next Terminator movie.
Not having individually targeted ads doesnt mean no targeting it means less efficient targeting. There are also other avenues for promotion. There is no way to offset losing your privacy
Strict seniority rules means no incentive for doing quality work above the minimum.
You're right about the numbers, but still this is tiny at the scale of the grid. 2.8GWh is still only around 5 mins of consumption. You would probably need a few days of storage to run a 100% wind/solar grid, so that's about 1000x more.
> the manifesto, itself is anti-process

I don't think that's true, it's "people over processes", it doesn't imply a "no processes" stance, just that you shouldn't _force_ a process and you should adapt.

IMO that's what the agile manifesto is about: adapting.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it ramped up during COVID and it’s worse in western countries (actually would like to know if wokeness is affecting non-western locked down countries).
Why don't you use Remotheour for your office hour? https://remotehour.com
The etymology of the word has nothing to do with race.[1] There are many uses in the English language where colors are used as descriptors in ways that have nothing to do with race.

Do you think we should ban the terms blackout, blackbody radiation, black holes, black ice, black ops, and black markets? Not everything is about race.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting
Exactly. I don't care what your CEO tells me about being able to self-deliver in a couple of years. Show me what you'll be liable for.
Pretty sure that website is not ADA-compliant.
Sounds like one of what will likely become many stupid decisions creating opportunity for an ebay competitors to gain market share in the online auction space.
They are offering it regions where it’s not required by law as well.
You are putting programming on a pedestal. Knowledge of finite state machines is like pretty far down on the list of shit you need to know really well. Of course, if it makes you feel superior, pedal that nonsense.

The fundamental problem I’ve witnessed in the component composability era is that many people have their own mental models on what simple composability actually is. It’s a difficult topic to broach as many will see nothing wrong with their component architecture.

The thing that makes React powerful is how easy it is to compose components, and as a side effect, it’s allowing every developer (of every mindset, of every background), to come up with what they believe makes intuitive sense.

Case in point, you might think a finite state machine lib makes a lot of sense for a Dropdown component. I’ve seen one asshole actually write a whole blog post about it.

I’m not perfect either, and have certainly gone down the path of making a fucked up component composed of essentially my world view.

Another common example is the wonderful json config that gets passed into this elaborate component or HOC component, and allll you have to do is update the params and it will be suitable for all your fancy needs. A truly precious thing to stumble upon, and usually makes me want to just kiss the precious genius that concocted this world saving contraption.

Mr. Abramov of course, the grandest of psychopaths managed to turn a simple pub/sub into derivatives options trading buy/sell order chain of actions and reducers.

Some people simply do not think clearly, and it’s wearing me down.

Over time, the composability freedom of React has made me utterly hate my fellow frontend developers. I hate how absolutely insane some of your mental models are.
>Maybe it'll all fade away? I hope so. Previous washes of political correctness have come and gone.

This wave has very strong economic foundation. Remember we used to laugh 10 years ago about those people taking $30K loans to study for basket weaving degrees? Well, it got worse. This generation took $50K loans to study social justice degrees. And these degrees taught them that the real source of problems are not the colleges that sold them the worthless degrees. Not the corporations that outsourced the production jobs they would have otherwise taken. Not the interest rates and pro-corporate policies that made many small businesses unsustainable. No, they think it's their neighbor who studied 10x harder to get a STEM degree and occupy one of the last remaining spots in the economy that pays well. And now this neighbor is a privileged $BUZZWORD supremacist who dares to have kids and wants to put them into a good school and hence must be dealt with.

And they will "deal" with them. Or, rather, us. Because burning witches and heretics had been a popular entertainment for centuries and the factors that held it back since the Enlightenment age are fading away very fast.
Bizarre PCR truther claims aside, assign an IFR to the disease and work backwards from the 500k deaths we have.. then multiply that by 2% to understand how many people will have "Long Covid" and why it's crazy to play it down as overblown.
African American Vernacular English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_En...
How often does the Typhone routinely travel within a few metres of humans, other vehicles which vary in performance from "the same" to "a fraction of your speed"?

How many traffic intersections are there in the sky? Roundabouts? Wildlife? Domestic livestock?
Sure there's opportunity cost.

Sure there's locally optimal resource distribution that results in a less optimal global distribution.

Sure you're right that entropy wins in the end and the total energy of the universe is fixed.

But there are plenty of transactions and projects we can engage in that result in more value for all participants across the entire lifecycle.
Besides encouraging people to buy things you might think they don't need, what's an actual harm people experience from targeted ads as opposed to non targeted ads?
No Gates, No Keepers
Standard Ruby 1.0
How? There is no racial connotation—black and white had those associations in European culture long before contact with Africa: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/12/light-and-dark-2....

> In Old English, the adjective could mean “very evil or wicked; iniquitous; foul, hateful,” according to the dictionary. The earliest Oxford citation is from a scientific and theological treatise written by a Benedictine cleric in the late 10th century.

Not only that, but those colors have similar associations all over the world, for example in India and Japan. It has to do with nighttime/darkness having foreboding/negative implications.

> Berne notes that the ideas of light=goodness and dark=badness existed in ancient cultures (including Egyptian and Greek), and can be found in Asia and around the globe.

> Joseph Campbell, writing in the journal Daedalus in 1959, says it was the Persian philosopher Zoroaster (circa 600 BC) who put the seal on the concept of darkness being evil.
I'm guessing it's more of the idea that Japan will tolerate 100 possibly dangerous vehicles to further their engineering goals.
Diversity of opinion is about much more than ethnic background. Also, just to be clear, I haven't said anything about Trump in my three other comments in this thread. CTRL+F me.

> As you noted, he wasn't booted for supporting a mainstream viewpoint; he was booted for harassing other YC founders with his political views, harassment that took a decidedly racist/xenophobic turn.

The original comment didn't link to additional information, and simply said the dude was booted for saying "build the wall" to someone else. Seemed like an extreme reaction by YC, so I asked if that's really what happened, which is when the link was provided and more nuance was commented by others. Check the timestamp on my comment. There was another guy, too, who had the same reaction as me at around the same time, but he was downvoted to oblivion for some reason (again, the intolerant SF zeitgeist) so you may not have seen his comment.

> I do admit it's possible they're much quieter voices

Bingo. The extremists on one side are so quick to cancel the extremists on the other side, that the people in the middle just shut up and keep their heads down. The end result is actually a worse public conversation, polarized and undamped.
There is no line. Language has always evolved and will continue to evolve.
Thanks for the xkcd link!
To Wit: Why the Biggest U.S. ESG Fund Has No Direct Renewable Holdings
“We hesitate to overplay the ESG hand,” says Parnassus Core Equity Fund Co-Manager Ben Allen.[1]

[1]:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-03/biggest-e...
> I'm not confident L3 actually exists

It's pretty "easy", actually, by making the take-over optional. I.e. you need the driver to take over within a few seconds if you can't navigate, but you'll fall back to a safe stop if the driver can't take over. So your auto-pilot doesn't need to handle all situations (well), but you can safely be inattentive; it might just cause a sub-optimal response.
Busybodies at ArsTechica should trash the central-planning idea but as all good statists do they want to fine tune it.
In reality, if you try doing that, the movement will get spearheaded by a small group of cronies that will use it as an excuse to get rid of competition. I bet you can't be very power-hungry in North Korea unless you are a part of the ruling family.
Which part of the "the ads are not the problem of the ad-funded economy" of my comment did you miss?

Do you want to have ads without tracking to fund the development of your service? Fine. Is that the case with Youtube?
> gradually titrate them out of the gene pool

Are you advocating for eugenics?
"If you make a social media site that organises domestic terror"

You do realise that most of the organisation of the "domestic terror" was done on Facebook right ?
Ads are a waste of time and resources
Some people put more effort/work at community college than CalTech too, but when people don’t have all of the information and you’re making guesses based on probability, people use shortcuts like assigning probability of one’s motivations, work ethic, capabilities, etc based on the school they went, the employers they worked for, the jobs they’ve held, the fitness they’re in, etc.

One of those things these days, for better or for worse, happens to be the type of work you get after college.
If I've learned anything from a masters degree in nuclear engineering, it's that the internet comments are always right on this topic.
I think the point the commenter above was making was this:

"If women cannot work while simultaneously having/raising children there will always be at least a slight difference in the amount of men vs women in the workforce."
Scrum, for me, is not for development but for Operations, I don't even like the term scrum but simply WhiteBoard Meeting. Flatten structure, everyone knows what everyone else is doing, chance to mention things on one's mind, perhaps a hiccup from the day or shift before, not hosted by a ScrumMaster just rotate around the team, everyone has a voice, strict visible time limit.

It's super in Operations.. not super in Development.

Sprints make no sense at all. If you can do it you can do it. Stay at it and go on a spectrum of pumping consistent results to once in a blue moon creating something special. Sprint adds nothing to that other than a phrase to use in a conference call to hide ineffective working practices. I have Sprinted on a 35 hour working week, I have also worked normally on a 35 hour working week. Results are similar aside from stress others show where Sprint = Haste, and Haste != Speed or Quality.
Notably: Springfield - A small rather anonymous town in the U.S. which Cobra secretly operated as a base.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_(G.I._Joe)
Back in my day I.T was learning how to use microsoft word.
Done right, I see scrum as a good way to get a team ease into an agile methodology.

What bothers me is that scrum masters are being groomed as the next-gen MBA.
Artificial Intelligence for Minimizing the Use of Duplicate Images
Which is all stuff they are doing anyway. Cable modems, even when not integrated with wifi don't last more than a couple years before someone adds a couple more channels, or tweaks the spec. Etc, Docsis 3.1 modems were available in the local best buy for probably 5+ years before my cable company would even provision them in docsis 3.0 modes.

They might have some excuses with the amps, but again, those can be upgraded as they age out/die too. This was the excuse 20 years ago when the amps didn't allow any upstream signals through in many areas. If a cable company hasn't been preparing/slowly rolling out new equipment as soon as the specs are available that is their own fault. Like any other technology you either get on the train, or you get left behind.
Fussell’s primary objective with this book is neither to inform or entertain, but to tease the readers about their class and attendant insecurities. Teasing well of course requires more accuracy than simple satire because the readers have to recognize enough of themselves to feel targeted.
Seems overkill since plan is to execute the plan we discussed in the sprint. So, why do we need to remind everyone daily that we're just following the plan?

If I am blocked, I don't need the rest of the team. I will fire an email or document and tag people on Github that its blocked.

Also, why are emails not a thing anymore? Email is amazing. Apparently, its old fashioned now. Whatever is happening in tech companies, we need to stop and evaluate what the hell are we doing. It would be a great experiment (I think Gumroad is doing it? I don't remember) where there are no meetings, no slack, and only email, adhoc 1:1s.

I feel like we're not talking about the elephant in the room here and finding ways to justify stand ups or scrum or whatever.
Eco Based Community Startup. Feedback Appreciated
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I appreciate the response - I'll look into it.
Stop messing around and go waste 100 times that at on a federal project at Deloitte.
I often think about how every generation I can think of had a fight over what was OK. The younger generation would set down some new standards, and everyone who grew up with the old "normal" thought it was ridiculous that the standard was changing.

So, whenever I think some "new standard" is ridiculous, I try to think on that for a moment and err towards not wasting too much time worrying about it.

Does using the new term hurt me in anyway? Does it help someone else? Alright, then. I might not get it, and it might feel ridiculous to me in the moment, but I don't want to be the guy yelling about how calling something "gay" isn't homophobic.
Standup is a thing you do in scrum but I don't think it's the most important thing. I think the most important thing is getting better at estimating work over time and leading to better ability to plan realistic chunks of work, and the mindset to respond to changing plans. It lets you impose a predictable rithym on unpredictable life.
This is spot on. I think the biggest indication that you are in cargo cult psuedo scrum is Sprint with deadlines, the road to burnout.
No different to the Toyota Century, or the Nissan President, or (to a lesser degree) Alphard etc. The major Japanese car makers have quite a few vehicles (or options) that don't get exported, but whose features show up later in a Lexus or similar.
India downgraded from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’ in democracy report
Oh woah, thanks for catching that! The ability to change each neurons facet on hover was added towards the end, but seems to be blocking one from clicking the <a> tag.
"In the full version, players can negotiate."

No. In the normal version, players negotiate. That is the point of the game.
You miss my point. Every action even in darkness requires energy expense. Including sleeping at night.

A product is either limited by an actual concrete supply or if the product is abstract it is limited by energy.

When you trace the origin of everything back all the way to inception you will find a limit.
This makes me dream of making social media decentralized again. If there were some way to make it peer-to-peer so that it didn't require running servers and yet some way to make it so that visibility is reduced to only your actual connections or maybe sometimes one degree from your immediate connections so that you could get introductions from others and explicitly made impossible thereby to spider or otherwise hoover up all the data by any party, effectively making it part of the 'dark' web. So if you want to search it should be the small dataset from your own connections and local to you.

At least that's the vision, to make the web "smaller" again like it was before Eternal September, and to create some protocol implementing a vision like that to take over and wrest things from giant oligarchs controlling all social media. I have no idea if making that is even feasible, though I've seen some attempts vaguely similar to that. I see tons of practical challenges with actually implementing such a thing, though, but the idea would be to make all the communication opaque and explicitly take it away from harvesters.

Granted, there's no way that could end things... I'm sure clients might get subverted via various methods to re-enable harvesting but at least it would limit their scope and you could remove such folks as connections if you knew.
Who do you think are your customers. As I understand, using your API’s anybody can start a small business lending program. Ok but then how do your customers make money. Do they do collections on lenders or do they just generate leads and pass them off to lenders?
I think the general demographic thesis on human population peaking relatively soon is that it comes from people voluntarily having fewer kids as conditions improve a la the demographic transition model. There’s no expectation that we hit earths carrying capacity
I could use an assortment of crisps in unusual flavors while you’re at it.