skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed - one of the other things to consider is that the vast bulk of i.e. abolitionist momentum in the US came predominantly from the church.

What slavery was doing, from an industrial and economic standpoint was wonderful for the owners, and very hard to quit - all of the objections to it were moral. I.e. "it's great apart from that pesky little detail where it's horrifically evil."

Quite a few antebellum churches desperately tried to plaster over this extreme cognitive dissonance between their teachings, and the practice of their society. You can find plenty of published material to that effect, but all of it has the same sort of flavor as Orwell's "some animals are more equal than others", wherein it has to somehow invalidate all of their core ideological principles, generally without a logically rigorous reason. ("All humans are equal" -> "well, what about them?" -> "oh well, uh, they're not really human" -> "because?" -> "reasons." )
As a non believer I love to see it. Believing in something you can’t prove and in turn trying to shove it down everyone’s throat is the antithesis to the world I want to live in. George W Bush and Tony Blair both admitted that the second gulf war was partially a religious crusade. This is who you’re teaming up with.
My workflow is the same. The results of the exploration phase are like a prototype - plan to throw it away, keep the learning, then build the final, elegant version.
They are a proxy for time and nothing else. An intentionally imprecise and noisy proxy, and worth keeping that way. Their purpose is to be a notional size that can be compared with the rough size of a “sprint”. A sprint might be denominated as points or as time, but since they’re typically time, the point is forced to be roughly time too. Otherwise the unit of measurement doesn’t make sense: what else would you sum up and compare to a duration except durations?

Also: effort-time, not elapsed time. You can’t usefully predict blockers, and when you’re blocked you can usually work on something else, maintaining effort on overall progress.

“Effort” and “complexity” only translate into “time spent doing something useful” and “it’s not all figured out, need time to figure out and probably will take more work than something known simple.

If a point was “effort”, you can work half as hard and take twice as long, or twice as hard and take half as long. Implying a wide range of throttle on your participants. Estimating is always done with a particular throttle setting in mind.

“Complexity” on its own doesn’t make sense. Entering the contents of the Harry Potter series into a Markdown file is pretty simple therefore 1 point but may take a sprint.

I do believe in the value of estimating in points but also in getting granular to identify all the time drivers. Consistency there and constant review of accomplished work to estimated work in a story makes future estimating much more reliable as well as makes progress in a sprint much more transparent.
Actually you probably don't want to do anything with copper/ coax. Not so much because of the cabling but more because of the shitty chipsets and not much competition in that space.

Also copper tends to be quite pricey. If you open the ground, you might just as well lay fibre. It would be ideal to have a pair at each home for redundancy and potential business full duplex 10 Gbps connection or two independent providers each on a different fibre. The extra fibre that you have "just in case" doesn't cost much at all as you just lay it to the nearest node and not further passive MUX/ CWDM/ DWDM or bandwidth sharing can be used from there depending if you want to have active components there.
Reinforcement Learning with Artificial Microswimmers
I really hope this injection of funding does not come with requirements or pressures to censor content on Substack. Thus far, they've been doing a great job being hands off with their moderation for the most part (https://blog.substack.com/p/how-we-approach-moderation-decis...). However, anti-free-speech/pro-censorship activists have been stepping up their usual tactics to pressure Substack into deplatforming authors. Many news outlets have also been running stories attacking Substack for hosting reasonable, legal discourse that runs against their ideological biases.

I am very glad to subscribe and pay for authors I follow on Substack. If Substack ever implements a censorship regime that goes much beyond blocking spam or removing illegal content, I will move on. I simply see no differentiation for such a product if it ends up being another Twitter/Facebook/Medium/whatever with the same old content that repeats progressive worldviews and disallows everything else.
I remember someone coming up with a song to encourage people to wash their hands more thoroughly much earlier in this pandemic.

https://twitter.com/vesselofspirit/status/123748864242514739...

According to the song lyric, "novel coronavirus / has a lipid outer shell". So it seems like some viruses have taken advantage of this.
Machine learning isn't necessarily probabilistic.
E.g a rule based (causal) parser can learn the structure of a document.
The history of software development is of writing code faster, with less care and less skill, and more bugs.

Partly driven by first-to-market advantage, and the ability to patch culminating in webapps.

Maybe this will change if the software market eventually matures... but the trend is for technology and business models to evolve faster, not slower, requiring new software, and reinforcing the importance of first mover advantage.
No. The RNA still needs to be fit in a lipid nanoparticle which is Moderna and BioNTech’s secret sauce.
The Salesforce Tower will stand for centuries, but the employees are gone
Maybe the booster shot can be done with a simple apt-get update.
In most cases I would be fine with Hacker Rank tests, but including a full test suite sounds too much for a coding assessment. Also I guess they don't have many Ruby experts at DRW so it took them longer to dissect your code. "Languages don't matter because a tool is just a tool" says the developer... until it's not. Oh well.

Despite my inclination to coast, when it comes to finding work, I've found out that I do better in "trial by fire" situations, than the traditional round-after-round of tests method of evaluating a candidate.

Taking a startup job I had, for example, I was contracted for 40 hrs/week work with just my resume and an informal interview at a coffee shop. No code tests- the founder just wanted to know me in person and I got the job in a week. The pay was low, but the pacing was pretty relaxed for a startup. I can't find many places that hire programmers that easily anymore and that's what makes this so tough.

Some people have trouble learning how to code. I have trouble learning how to interview better.
This is fun. I was a Tony Kart and Ducati racing team mechanic for a few years and although really taxing on the body, it’s always fun and new. The challenges are tangible and so are the results.

When you start getting into high dollar and highly organized teams, it just feels nice. The shop I was in was kind of a mess. Like a crazy scientist kind of mess. The owner was the Doc Brown of 2 stroke engines and so I was the one keeping the sanity of the place. We worked closely with an Indycar team and when I walked into their shop it was amazing.

Everything is much simpler than expected. The specialized tools for the cars are not that complex, just tailored and simplified for the task. Everyone has everything they need, but only what they need. Sorted, organized, high quality and dependable setups. Lots of light, and cleaner than my fridge.

My shop was high quality but trying different things and tackling many mini projects so it was all over the place, but our engines were damn fast and we had some rule bending tricks to stand out. Both seem very fun.

Many of the pit mechanics at Indy races are there for free. So many people want to work there that why even offer money
I have to say that I'm impressed that at the scale of google they have the ability, and the desire, to approve and turn around small fun things like this so quickly.

I assume there must still be a fairly deep process to get approval to do something like this, but, one which must be hyper-efficient and streamlined. If google took even 24 or 48 hours to approve a change like this the moment would be gone.

I'm very curious if you know, and could share, anything about what that process looks like? Is it actually a formal process or are people just encouraged to bring up off-the-wall ideas to senior leadership who are empowered to approve things like this?
The ability to inline arbitrary JS seems like a big difference.
Which makes me wonder. Could you place the entire virus genome in these liposomes and get them to hijack the machinery to make an entire virus? Like plasmid but for viral structures?
I like the decentralization aspect, but every time I've had to send patches by email... it definitely has not been as straightforward as the pull-request workflow. I suppose part of that has to do with the project I have experience with using Debbugs (which requires that subsequent patches in a patchset be sent to a newly created address rather than all of them being sent to the same email address). I might like it better if I were contributing to something using lists.sr.ht and could just set the default list address for the project and not worry about it.

I do also like being able to update an existing PR as I'm making rapid changes though, and just pushing up to whatever branch my PR references is also really nice. (It's, what, 5 keystrokes to push my latest changes to my remote for that branch? And that's assuming I don't already have the git status buffer open.)

Applying a PR is also straightforward, which matters especially for newer users. Uh, you press a button.

I'm all for decentralization, but this is the UX you're up against.
> As per the article, the FTC alleged that some customers waited weeks to get their money back.

Now I know that this is bad, but I have seen worse behavior from banks like Wells Fargo. Why is it that those banks just get monetary fines, but this new startup is forced to shut down ?
Am I crazy, or is this a reference to one of the cheat codes on Age of Empires?
It's also short enough to post the whole thing to Wikipedia, so that's probably inevitable along with some very entertaining edit wars.
I’ve owned unifi at home for about 6 years now. Their access points are a different kind of value for money. But their software stack is really annoying. First it needs java. They have switched to Apps as option but that limits the settings (and I like to fine tune). I think the UDM Pro is a great home router for up to 10G internet but I don’t find their software stack convincing given their phoning home was also under fire a while back. I think building your opnsense box and a managed switch is little more work but if you are buying udm pro you are skilled anyway to get it done on a weekend.
I have a difficult time believing this didn't go through multiple layers of review.
I turn everything except calculator (and settings menu) off, so this problem goes away.

I never really want to use spotlight to browse to some random directory or file on my filesystem, for me it's strictly for calculator and opening the Bluetooth settings...
We need an excise tax on advertising. It’s more destructive than alcohol.

And a prohibition on adding it to any product after purchase.
Jitendra Malik, Computer Vision fame, calls it "the fallacy of the successful first step". Look ma, I can leap! It's only a matter of time till we get to the moon.
Bill Hwang got back into banks’ good books – then blew them up
The point is much more clear when taken in context with the longer speech. When taken out of context it confuses the central point.

The statement about atheists not existing is hyperbole used in passing. He doesn't mean there is absolutely no difference between religious and unreligious people. He means they are often similar in non-obvious ways.

The central point of the full speech is that people should be intentional about what they choose to think and care about. It's not too far from stoicism which seems pretty popular in SV/HN.

The chain of points from this passage back to this central point are:

- Atheists and religious people are similar in that they both have a need to find meaning in their life.

- The alternatives that people find for sources of meaning (power, money, looks, etc) are often psychologically harmful.

- These harmful sources of meaning are often adopted by us unconsciously ("by default").

- It is important to be intentional about what we care about because if we are not, we will default to the harmful sources of meaning.

I agree that there is likely some projection of DFW's own psychological issues onto non-religious people at large, and that a lot of people can live happy lives without some form of veneration.

On the other hand, I think his advice is useful for some. I personally find his message about choosing your values intentionally valuable.

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Even when taken in context, I admit his writing isn't super clear to a general audience. DFW was fond of experimental writing and also believed that writing should be tailored to the audience. His audience in this case was a liberal arts college, so he may have felt comfortable stretching his use of language.
You got me there. Seems like effect of being mindful of language while updating my git branches from 'master' to 'main'
I don’t complain about how slow NBN Co was. I complain about the fact that it was meant to be FTTP instead of FTTN (premises vs node), and that the only reason it didn’t end up that way is that the Liberal party said basically exactly what AT&T are here: that ADSL2 speeds are enough, and those last miles from the node to premise can be delivered over Telstra’s existing (horribly degraded and unmaintainable) copper network.

So, instead of 95% of the population having gigabit fibre, we have this hodgepodge of FTTP, FTTN with the last hop over 5G, and FTTN with the last hop over copper, all of which cost the same and which you get depends on when it was installed.

Don’t get me wrong, the NBN is certainly better now than the ADSL of old, but it ended up costing significantly more for the mess we have now than it would’ve if we’d successfully seen FTTP through from the start.
It works really well.
> a poignant example in television, where episodes of Jeopardy! are intertwined with their shilling quackery like Prevagen to an audience using the fear of aging.

Episodes of Jeopardy, now temporarily hosted by Dr. Oz.
looks good in lynx
I said that they should have all the information, regardless of whether they are able or not. That's not for me to judge. What more do you want?

So, do you want them to have all the information or not?
> Tremendously. Just as the Robinhood CEO and watch videos on the mechanics of why they did what they did. Then come back here and hang your head in shame.

I'm very familiar with that situation, lol, no need to get hyperbolic. A small tweak to liquidity requirements is all that's needed to rectify that. Not burning the whole system down.

This reads a lot like the engineering preoccupation with rewriting instead of refactoring because reading code is hard and writing it is easy.

> It's the centralized systems of disparate parties which causes this. You clearly don't know what you're talking about here.

No, I'm saying that decentralized systems leave no recourse to correct errors. SFYL. Centralized systems do.

When you speak with such hyperbole and unbridled, untempered enthusiasm it raises questions about your answers. Especially when the system you espouse has had no end of issues, of bigger magnitude, constantly. Robinhood just taking that opportunity to exit scam or shut down would have been "just another day" in crypto. At least Vlad didn't fly off to India to open an orphanage, fake his own death and tell everyone to get stuffed. The entire space is one step from collapse at all times haha.

None of that changes what I said: a non-blockchain solution that's new, clean and modern would do just as much good as a new blockchain solution. Possibly more. And definitely more efficiently. Why approach this from the solution domain instead of the problem domain?
Fuck you to whoever thinks it’s ok to diss on tar.

Your mom was ill-specified.
I'm grateful that I have a career outside of engineering where I had success and played a sport at a high level and had success. Both of those are in my past now and when they stopped being a huge part of who I was it was really difficult for a while.

However now I'm much better at enjoying things outside of work and sport. I cant imagine what having that realization at 40 or 50 would be like. It would probably feel like the majority of your life was a lie.
I agree that Semiotic serves probably 80% of data vis use cases in real world. But at the end of the day it is a high-level template-based library that's less expressive than D3. If you take a random vis from observable's "trending notebooks", chances are that it is not reproducible with Semiotic. Those two libraries are really for different purposes.
Ask HN: What is your favorite website right now?
Please give examples. I would like to learn more about it (even if subjective)
"ceteris paribus" -> "all else equal"
I LOVE <center> and still use it sometimes because it's too goddamn complicated to center anything days.

"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" what the F???

"width:500px;margin-left:-250px;left:50%;" what the #$#$@?

Are they kidding?
German Researchers Find False Memories Can Be Planted and Then Reversed
lipofectamine is used for in vitro transfection, not in vivo gene delivery. The vaccines use lipid nanoparticles rather than liposomes
> However, only around 30 countries currently support the ban.

While it's completely pragmatic to pursue autonomous weapons due to peer competition, I wonder if it will paradoxically erode US warfighting edge when effective algorithms becomes ubiquitous. Why Arab Lose Wars -> Will Arabs Lose Wars. Incompetent forces previously limited by poor institutions and traditions that would otherwise take generations to cultivate can be improved closer to global parity by importing competent murder bots. Wonder how monkey models of exported AI weapons will have functions limited.

>Provided their use is authorized by a human commander or operator

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/d/da/Dimes...
neural network are extremely inefficient at learning symbolic reasoning by design and I doubt a radically new kind of neural network will be discovered, we have pretty much made an exhaustive analysis.
I didn't know about that regarding yarn 2. Is there a good link to read about this? I did a search for yarn 2 and didn't find that immediately.
Freecodecamp on YouTube
Commonmark is pretty close to 1:1 compatible with Github Markdown as far as I know. And Commonmark literally is a standard with a spec.
Considering that ByteDance is the only IT company which owns a social-app product popular in every area in the world, the value is some lower than expected.
You know, it makes me think of William Gibson's idea of Slitscan:

“[Slitscan's audience] is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.”
We have had social and mainstream media fueled riots across entire country last summer, based on a whole bunch of untrue crazy beliefs too.
Its even worse. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/05/china-five-yea...

Grifting western diplomats and politicians slobber up their BS.
Mafia fugitive on the run since 2014 caught after posting YouTube cooking video
a fellow linux user. ubuntu?
I’m not sure I understand it. It prompts you to draw a certain thing, then it “guesses” what you drew, but of course it already knows because it just told you exactly what to draw. Maybe I’m missing something but the game makes no sense. If I told you what to draw then tried to tell you what you were drawing I’d get 100%.

It would be better if it just said “draw something.”
The so-called 'separation of church and state' bromide comes from Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists, not the Constitution.
> The third one in the group is the Ever Globe, the same size as the stuck ship.

What could go wrong.
So since there's no response, we can assume that not one, not any, Qonservative leaders follows the major tenets of the teachings of Jesus, right?
No response? HOW QURIOUS.
VERY QURIOUS that there was no response to this Just Asqing Questions QUERY.
A framing on this that Friedman made, which many would find more charitable is that executives of a corporation should not be engaged in social policy within a democracy. Corporations are bound by the laws and regulations established by democratically elected bodies, but they are too powerful and prone to capture to allow the c-suite to try to shape society themselves. Individual owners are free to use profits from businesses they have invested in to do whatever they want, because as citizens they are the best unit of participation in democratic society.
Nothing Logitech has worked for me in USB 3.0 for half a decade now and I can't believe they don't yet admit to it on their front page in big letters and make 2.5 or 2.6 GHz or whatever adjustments are necessary to avoid interference.

The only thing that has worked for me is to plug the Logitech receivers into a USB 2.0 only hub.
No, this makes no sense. No bank would allow you to withdraw cash. Because what is stopping you from withdrawing cash at one branch and then again at the same branch down the road, or a different branch a state away?
If you squint you could say that viruses are already doing that. A lipid bilayer is a key component of several kinds of membranes. All of our cells have a lipid bilayers separating the inside from the outside. The corona virus is also built from these same lipids, which is why it's vulnerable to soap.

Anyway, I think the important thing that the other commenter was saying is that mRNA needs to be carefully packaged to be medically useful. You can't inject pure RNA as a vaccine because not only is the mRNA going to be quickly degraded before it gets anywhere but if the immune system sees any RNA floating around by then it kicks itself into a frenzy because free-floating RNA is usually a sign that something nasty is afoot.
The God I was taught was an entity that actually spoke, or otherwise communicated. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob all spoke to him, as did Jesus. He said certain things, which means he necessarily did not say other things. If he said all possible things, he did not say anything at all (see Claude Shannon's work).

I don't see the utility of a God (or the belief in a God) that is everything, or "being itself". I already have words or phrases for those concepts ("everything" and "being itself", respectively). God, to me, was a supremely good entity who created people and who communicated particular ideas to us directly or through prophets. That describes a subset of "everything". For example, I am not God, and my cat is not God. The stories that the ancient Greeks tell about Hades or Zeus or Dionysus are not true of God. Would you say that they are?
Some do: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_envelope
This is the most interesting take on this thread. What is otherwise a lot of atheists misunderstanding the English usage of worship by religious people and those familiar with them.