skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we probably need is a client-side neural net within the browser to notice that certain high information-content IMG URLs (i.e. those with random-looking garbage in the URL) from certain domains tend to result in very low information-content imagery. And that's the signature of a likely tracker.
Those cards said "Sharing good books, good food and exotic music and dance - tender embraces - unusual sense of humor." Handing out such calling cards seems to only be classified as harassment if the man is fat.
Ah, I misunderstood your original question a bit. If the vaccinated were still acting as carriers, the critical mass would still be important (though I'd imagine the math would be different) because the window of transmissibility would be much shorter and drive R way down. Vaccine would mean less viral load, less viral load means less transmission overall. This seems less likely to me than what is actually happening (vaccine inhibits transmission), but I could picture mechanisms by which that would happen.
Reddit "...We built a relationship with her first as a mod and then through her contractor work on RPAN. We did not adequately vet her background before formally hiring her..."

No background vetting was required, the episodes in her life that led to the sacking are public knowledge, not deep dark secrets, and one would have thought they would have cropped up during the relationship building.

I do not know what RPAN is.
When will this be fixed - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658#c10 ?
People are downvoting this but I've also never seen it anywhere. Can anyone cite any sources of people making this claim?
Tires are still going to produce micro plastics that pollute out waterways.

It makes no sense environmentally to keep private cars around.
I was going to reply that “it could be worse: Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird”. But some research says he did not say exactly that, rather he said “ the Turkey is in Comparison [to the bald eagle] a much more respectable Bird”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/american-myths-b...
I am in no hurry to go back to the office either. I am not interested in going back to the office if I have to wear a mask while at work.
The Mess at Medium
This Verge article was updated an hour and a bit ago to say that they have indeed "cut ties".

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22348255/reddit-moderator...
Sure, the London Metro is a fine system. Add half a billion more riders per year, and run trains at night, and you'll be at parity with New York!

The snark is unwarranted, it is unwelcome, and it is against the guidelines for this site.

America is absolutely enormous, sprawling, and suffers from a relatively recent inability to build things, which is very frustrating indeed.

If we were to cram our entire population into, say, Michigan†, I doubt we would have given over our extensive rail network to freight. But, we did, and Los Angeles tram system was bought out in a shady backroom deal, and there were other various and sundry sins. But mostly, we invented jet travel, and trains just don't cover the 4500 kilometers between New York and Los Angeles in an appropriate amount of time.

Admit it: if you were going from London to Istanbul, you could take a train, but you would fly. Well, London to Istanbul and back, that's the distance from New York to Los Angeles. Which you can do by train! But, people don't.

California, that notorious bastion of communism, voted in a high speed train between San Francisco and Los Angeles, and is still waiting for what they paid for. LA has added quite a lot of Metro in the last 30 years, but with a mere 150km of rail, 93 stations, and only a hundred million yearly riders, there's a long way to go. Meanwhile SF can't get the BART to circle around the South Bay for love or money.

† The size of the entire UK, and there are ten states larger.
As a Taleb follower, this concept seems similar to Survivorship Bias or Selection Bias.
>For example the city of Beijing has the same GDP of Sweden and Belgium and it's not far from the city of London.

So? The country itself can still be under-developed.
SAT scores are the closest thing we have to a universal IQ test. I'd like to know the approximate IQ of a candidate.

I recall reading somewhere that Google did a study on hires and found that the only thing that correlated with success at Google was SAT score.

Not GPA, not specific college attended, etc.
> if you're worried about the rise of China's military then you should be tangling their economy up more with that of the West so that they have more reasons not to go to war

That's not really how things work. You become powerful first through economic hegemony, and then you can assert military might.
Hey fellow Digg exile! I completely agree. One thing I mentioned somewhere else: It is quite interesting to see both this and the Stallman FSF issue developing in parallel: In one side (reddit drama) There's uproar trying to "cancel" a person for whatever beliefs/actions they did. On the other side (Stallman/FSF) there's an uproar against cancelling the person for their beliefs/actions. Sure, both are different population, but it kind of shows the diversity of thought and reasoning in both cases.

Personally I try to be neutral with regards to these type of moral judgments. My question is: Did they something illegal in their country? then throw the book at them as strongly as possible. Otherwise... well, my morals are not compatible with US population morals, nor with Iran's population morals, nor with French population morals so I reserve any judgement for myself.
> That's a crass straw man. Being LGBT+ is not a disorder. Indeed, being trans was recently removed as a disorder from DSM.

And who's to say the same won't eventually be said of autism spectrum disorder, or social communication disorder? Like you say, being homosexual or dysphoric was a "disorder" until it wasn't.

That is: it's hardly a strawman to draw comparisons between how homosexuality / transgender identity was historically regarded v. how neuroatypical personality traits are regarded now.
I also recommend switching from coffee to tea if you consume a lot of it. I used to drink gallons of coffee a day. Basically from late highschool to a few years into my career (so like 10 years), I didn't drink anything but coffee (with milk). No water, even at night I was drinking coffee. I quit cold turkey a few times and I basically passed out for a few days from the headaches and feeling dizzy. When I quit I would sleep like 16 hours a day for a couple of days and in a weird way it felt great because I wouldn't be conscious for the worst of the withdrawal symptoms.

As I got older it became clear that this was probably both unhealthy and unsustainable so I switched to drinking black tea (with milk) all day instead. I make a giant batch every few days. I feel much better now and the headaches are not nearly as bad in the morning, I just feel slightly tired if I don't drink tea. I may have undiagnosed ADHD or something because I basically can't concentrate without a stimulant (this was true even before I started drinking coffee), but once I take it I find it much easier to focus. I also drink matcha sometimes, but don't like the taste as much. There's something about the bitter taste of strong tea or coffee plus milk to smooth it out that is irresistible to my brain.
Shameless self promotion, but my testing library, Luna, supports testing Svelte components out of the box.

https://craig.is/testing/code

Full documentation on Github:

https://github.com/ccampbell/luna-testing
> tangling their economy up more with that of the West

That might have worked in the past but doesn't anymore as China actively counters this.

Selling them such machines will just bring short term production benefits to china and potentially gives them a chance to have it a bit easier to copy the technology.

But long term China will have it's own production methods and for it's military they will only use this sources. Currently they are at 28nm as far as I know. Which might be still quite a bit away from stat or the art but is already fairly useful for many use cases.
You have a point, but it is not as absolute as the license suggests.

The problem is that a license is overridden by local law if there is a conflict. For example suppose that there is a law saying there is an implied warranty that goods sold are yours to sell, and you sold a stolen good "as is". In that case the law wins and the buyer can still sue you for having sold tem stolen goods.

And as https://www.klemchuk.com/legal-insights/warranty-against-inf... explains, a common local law is an implied warranty against infringement on others' intellectual property. Which a copyright violation would qualify as.

As always, I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. If something like this arises in practice, you should consult a lawyer familiar with the laws of the venue that the case will be decided in to find out whether any laws apply, and to what extent the generic liability disclaimer won't actually provide protection.
they did so only once their more popular subs went dark depriving users of content. So its not really them being on the side of good by admitting fault but being forced to admit fault

if anything I will not be surprised if reddit's management does not take steps to prevent moderators from doing that again, taking popular subs private.
This is not quite true. The price of real estate is a function of demand. If more people want to acquire the same property (whether to live there, or to work there, or to grow something there), then the price of the property will go up. This is a good thing because over time it ensures that properties are used for the most desiriable and profitable purposes.
Magnetic Field Around a Black Hole Mapped for the First Time
It’s 2021 and somehow disgusting viewpoints like this still exist. Amazing.
> There are some good reasons to escalate a situation. I'm not of the belief that a noise disturbance is one of them.

This mislocates the point of escalation. The first point of escalation occurs when you arrive and the resident doesn't say the words "I'm sorry about that" followed immediately by turning the music down. The second more serious point of escalation (if there happens to be one) occurs when the police arrive and the same thing happens. In both cases the epicenter of escalation is within the person who won't turn their music down when lawfully required.

Everyone else has behaved reasonably and within the law and so can't meaningfully be said to have escalated the situation.
The poster you're replying to is making the point tge Stallman hysteria is just another symptom of a general trend; likely characterized by extreme levels of tribalism leading to frequent and destructive No-True-Scotsman-like behavior that freezes out any attempts at any positive inclusivity.

You're looking at the football stadium, he's commenting on the sports riot in progress.
Or alternative: Gnome devs are OK with missing basic functionality and a broken experience for 2 decades on, otherwise one of them would have gone and implemented it.
Most people I've talked to who are concerned about "cancel culture" are concerned about the dynamic where even a small group of people can get someone fired by being very loud about it. (I do agree with your implicit statement that it's not a very helpful term to use, though - at this point it's been too thoroughly repurposed for weird political battles.)
I've written a fair bit about hiring processes on my blog. My most recent post about is at https://blog.urth.org/2019/07/11/a-technical-hiring-process-...

We use this process at my current employer, and we've gotten mostly good feedback about it (including from people we didn't hire), though some candidates don't like it. The people we've hired using this process have been quite good, though I can't say if that's the process or something else that leads to that outcome.
Reproductive Problems in Both Men and Women Are Rising at an Alarming Rate
As a data person who despairs at the terrible data pipelines I have to work with, this seems cool! Shall follow with interest.
Hey there, this is really inspiring. I did something similar to what you described (writing on weekends while working) except I wrote a novel, not a tech book.

I have some feedback, 5.1 Garbage collection, you write "By chance, Go has a garbage collector." Was this really by chance? I don't know think so, it was by design! You even suggest this with your paragraph before explaining what GC is. Consider changing the word "chance" to something like "design" or another word that reflects the concerted choice by the Go authors.

If you find this helpful, let me know and I'd be happy to continue giving you any similar feedback.
Sure, you can find better GC support in languages that are built around GC, and you can find better functional support in languages that are built around FP, better OOP support in everything-is-an-object languages, but what D does is enable one to mix & match GC, FP, Metaprogramming, etc., in the same program.

Most D programs I write use a mix of these technologies.

As for metaprogramming, D is very very good at it.
This argument assumes away the container shortage.

With a shortage, prices rise until supply meets demand. There is no "100% increase limit" on that effect.
I think your link might be broken. Here's a working link: https://ultralux97.medium.com/stallman-must-be-removed-a3061...
This is an important distinction that you correctly point out. We may imagine the current housing related issues endemic to California may worsen given homeowners will have even more incentive than currently to impede housing development.
Have you used an M1 Air yet? I Because that’s the best computer I’ve ever owned.
Most people don’t know enough Latin for such translations to help with writing sentences that conform to standard grammar.
Somehow I don't think they will be better maintained, but I can see manufacturers trying to improve tires and others parts now that all the combustion engine complexity is gone and they can spend resources on marketing other parts of the car for competition.
Ha! Me too. I was wondering if anyone else noticed it. I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one whose mind immediately went there.
Have container manufacturer stocks gone up?
The next war will be fought with AI. It's essential the West stays ahead in chip technology, one of the few advantages we still have. It could be the difference between winning or losing a war with China.

> tangling their economy up more with that of the West so that they have more reasons not to go to war

This strategy failed, China wasn't interested in becoming like the West. We're in a new cold war, it's time people wake up to this new reality.
I'll be talking about it at the April nwcpp.com virtual meeting. All are welcome.
The grammatical gender of nouns is mostly arbitrary. A famous example is "key", which is feminine in Italian and Spanish but masculine in German. This is also the case in Latin with its neuter. My Latin is very rusty, but IIRC from high school, there are a lot of nouns that refer to "neuter" things, but are actually masculine or feminine, for example "vis" (= strength) is feminine.
I've only dabbled with Svelte, but I agree that it looks like an excellent framework, in itself. Powerful abstractions, succinct and approachable syntax, and it compiles down to a truly compact output. (Not the usual only a few hundred kilobytes when gzipped.)

I ended up not using it though, as the surrounding ecosystem just isn't there. There are two different material design frameworks out there for Svelte, neither of which I could get to work. I ended up opting for Angular+Angular Material, which worked out of the box.
I have an office in my bedroom. Is that ok?
TEU is “twenty-foot equivalent unit”, a measure of cargo volume. (I had to look it up.)
Having gone through Ellen Pao's tenure as CEO, perhaps Reddit took away the lesson that they need to protect employees from harassment by the community.

I don't know if that's the right lesson, and I don't work for Reddit, but as a manager I'd never expect my employees to put up with death threats from customers.
Maybe a good time to fuel research into new material ?
At-will employment is pretty much a US-only thing within western countries (barring the testing period). I believe there was another EU country a bit lax, but otherwise most countries require a valid reason to fire someone. I cannot find the source for the life of me, but it was pretty telling.
I did some React development some years ago, and was glad to move away from it because of the ridiculous churn in the ecosystem. It was like building on top of quicksand. At the time, I thought it was because React was new, and new stuff tends to have churn because people are just figuring out the optimum patterns and false starts are to be expected. When I look into React years later, the churn is still going on, which perhaps is a warning sign it just wasn't well thought through to begin with, or that the ecosystem has been captured by architecture astronauts on a lifelong quest for some kind of pure ideal rather than usability and stability.
House of Leaves goes through a few interesting concepts that seem to divide people (mirrored type, point size changes dependent upon how loud a sound is etc).
Twitter, Please Identify Yourself in Your App Webview User-Agent (2019)
> One stem cell population is adjacent to the substantia nigra, but produces neurons which migrate to an entirely different region of the brain (involving a "cell highway" known as the rostral migratory stream).

However, the migration can be demand driven, in response to disease conditions.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18394605/
Germanic languages (with their retained neutral gender) are probably a good place to start looking at this.
The Andes rival the Himalayas in all respects.

Shipping freight by road to the Pacific means going through Argentina and Chile. I don't think Peru and Bolivia have the maintained roads to do it.

As far as I know, there are only four paved mountain passes between Argentina and Chile. Paso Paso de Jama is probably the most practical, and I think the one carrying the most freight currently.

The other three-- Cardenal Antonio Samoré, Paso Libertadores, and Pino Hachado-- are much farther south.

None of these routes would be cost effective for the international coffee trade at any scale. Take a look at some photos of Paso Libertadores to see what I mean.
You could use D in BetterC mode, and there won't be a GC.
While I don't think these other agencies would have been as interested as pursuing a decades-old cold case as a law enforcement effort, I could imagine that other orgs with codebreakers might try it as a side project or even a recreational diversion, much like trying to decrypt the Kryptos sculpture.

Individual analysts from the CIA, DIA, NIST, even foreign ones like the GCHQ, DGSE, Unit 8200, etc. could have tried to decipher the messages, in addition to the FBI. Surely they have the capacity to break this code, if they were inclined to spend some extra time on it. It's not as if these agencies don't recruit from people who already love solving puzzles in their free time.
Great work! I headed to the context chapter and learned something I was not certain. But regarding the linked list (https://www.practical-go-lessons.com/chap-37-context#linked-...), since a context can be parent of multiple contexts, I feel it's more like a tree structure.
Surprising but welcome: Some of us are fine with technical terms, others have their eyes glaze over. Using common slang makes the polysyllabic immediately apprehensible.

(I laughed too. Especially considering taint t'aint been a word all that long, eh?)
L not for "libre" but for "liberal as in education"? (Which "open source" should already cover, and was the reason for free/libre as something distinct.) At least he acknowledges the root word at the end... And then another new term presented as if it should be as familiar as "shareware" is "public software". This is very confusing to read.
biggest issue of Svelte (and vue and others) is that mutable state is marketed as a feature. If you don't like mutable state anyway then it just seems like an inferior way of writing code.
> I think some of the deflationary pressure is from technological innovation (for example, a mobile phone does everything that thousands of dollars worth of equipment would do 20 years ago). Some of it is due to the deflationary pressure of globalization and the exportation of goods production to less developed countries (namely China). That trend won't last much longer though as those countries become more affluent (if it hasn't already reversed).

The three main drivers of deflation:

> But Inflation is not inevitable. There are numerous countervailing forces that have been at work for much of the past 50 years. The three big Deflation drivers: 1) Technology, which creates massive economies of scale, especially in digital products (e.g., Software); 2) Robotics/Automation, which efficiently create more physical goods at lower prices; and 3) Globalization and Labor Arbitrage, which sends work to lower cost regions, making goods and services less expensive.

* https://ritholtz.com/2021/02/stop-stressing-about-inflation/

For (3): the entire continent of Africa can be further developed.

Generally:

> Put into this context, Inflation is periodic, driven by specific events; Deflation is consistent, the background state of the modern economy.
Surprised to see lithium vanadium phosphate left out of the discussion. Vanadium is a little rarer than manganese but still more common than nickel. But LVP has a very high energy density comparable to the unobtainable LiCoO2:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b04056

A major downside is relative unevenness of the discharge voltage. This is likely to require complicated electronics.
Hello, neighbor :)

I’m a couple of hours east of you, but it’s rare to see other Arkansans on HN.
IMHO (ok not very humble) any ware on crypto, weather it's in the past or modern approaches to it is stupid af and I want to give a metaphorical kick to anyone pushing it.

What many people which push it don't seem to realize is that such approaches undermine national and personal security and any benefits gained for it are likely outstripped by the long term drawbacks.

Drawbacks like making it easier for foreign actors to enact industry espionage or find ways to influence or blackmail people.

The idea of a government accessible backdoor which can't be accessed by foreign powers is just ridiculous. Especially if the access doesn't require physical access to the devices in question.
Its really dissapointing to come to the realization that someone you once admired has a lot of views you think are unbelievably shitty and I wanted to vent.
Thank you for the explanation of the "business or pleasure" connection. That's how I read it as well but with everyone pulling out their torches and scythes for a witch hunt, I was starting to second guess my own opinion and perception of all this. I'm not sure if there's a word for that phenomenon...
Not if you want the GPU to work - or a whole host of other things that usually don't work on recent macs.
Surprised the article didn't mention the Spanish definite article lo, which can be paired with a masculine adjective to form a nominal phrase meaning the abstract notion of the adjective: lo mismo - the same [thing], lo bueno - the good, that which is good. My understanding is this derives from the Latin neuter as well.

Edit: why on earth is this being downvoted? Seriously confused - is something here wrong or controversial?
No, you don't, you need a modest dose of pattern recognition ability to recognize the fundamental pattern behind cancel culture. It's the same thing, different day, and always worth standing in opposition of no matter where you are on the political spectrum, or where the victim stands in relation to you.
do you happen to know if this is true on mock==2.0?