skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People in office and writing legislation also tend to be home-owners and landlords.

I recently became a home-owner, and while I live in a place that is undeniably in a housing crisis, I don't want 'them' to make drastic changes to housing policy now that I have most of my net worth tied into a home. From a clinically logical perspective, I fully support drastic changes that would make building more and denser housing MUCH easier. Just -ya know- not so close to my back yard.
1. Your pricing scheme is scary. Hard pass
2. To create a template, the user needs to know LaTeX. That severely restricts your user base.
3. What advantage do you have over "mail merge" in Google docs or Word?
> There is a set of stretches I can share via PDF in a PM. I should put them on a website or similar.

How should we PM you, HN doesn't offer a messaging functionality
Renters vote less. Renters don't show up every week to city council meetings. Renters don't write objections to planning proposals.
At my first SWE job I pair programmed every week with a greybeard who used vim and tmux (and didn't own a cellphone). I continue to be grateful for his mentorship
We went the other way round and built a VBA interpreter instead.
Oracle has added lots of nice things to Java. For Java to become even better, they can start deprecating and later removing the not-nice things.

EDIT: I got to the "Deprecation and removal" section at the bottom of the article. They have deprecated a few of the many crufty APIs. Nice!
I love when I encounter these sites and learn a name for some subgenre or quality of music that I enjoy. I've never really cared to really get into discovering and/or researching songs I like, I just accrete them over time as I hear something that speaks to me.

Apparently quite a lot of artists I like fall under "Big Beat".
I wouldn't say web apps are always preferred over a native app. When people are prototyping, I see a lot of people building web apps to get the idea out. However, as you grow, a native app might be favourable if you can have one cause in my experience they perform better, especially in the background. You don't have to worry about what browser they're using and if it supports the things you need, as long as the OS supports it and you can do more stuff in the background like local notifications which web apps can't
I had this same idea when I was 7. Its just not a unique thought. However, it is interesting that the actual glyphs used are somewhat similar.
Egads, what a terrible source. Can the mods please replace that with (say) the FT?

https://www.ft.com/content/2e52a5b0-29b9-4c7e-8cfb-97bf8edea...

The actual press release is here, but the details of the new reports are buried far down the page:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid...
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Explained: Knowledge Graphs and Graph Neural Networks
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These roles are both asking a lot, and correspondingly we offer strong equity and competitive compensation. The roles are also a unique opportunity to build systems correctly from the ground up to solve a really important problem!

Odds and ends:

Interview process is generally phone and video conversations with the computational team followed by the larger team. We are currently 7 strong with both laboratory and computational people and it's critical that everyone on the team enjoys each other's company. We are also a diverse team across the company and welcome people from all backgrounds.

Onsite would be in SF or Boston where we have our lab, however our team is hybrid/remote for the foreseeable future.

We offer healthcare coverage and typical technology startup benefits.

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Just today I heard that the etymology of swag is "secretly we are gay". It's hilarious and obviously not true. Backronyms are fun though
I thought the joke was that digital = binary = 10 :)
> I could imagine outdoor seasonal differences in temperature and light levels could have some impact on colony logistics

The question is whether that's important enough to justify using as the primary calendar for everyday use. You can always have a "Mars seasons" app which displays current and future Mars seasonal information in terms of the Earth calendar, or in terms of some kind of hybrid Earth-Mars calendar (like my suggestion of using Mars sols but Earth years.)
The wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man of markup
It's more about tax evasion than anything else.
"In Norway, health officials have reported at least 6 of Jab’s 120,000 recipients of such cases, four of whom died.

In Germany, 31 cases have been reported after 2.7 million vaccinations, 29 of which are women aged 20-63 and two men aged 36-57. Nine of them have died.

By March 24, MHRA had received 22 reports of CVST and 8 reports of other thrombotic events with low platelets out of a total of 18.1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine. This corresponds to approximately one case for every 600,000 recipients."
No, the chip vendors had their orders cancelled by ford/gm/etc., so they cancelled their orders with the fabs, who then sold the fab time to other chip vendors for different products.

Why would you build chips you know you can't sell?

Also, people talk about how big of an impact car manufacturing is to the economy and while that is true, they aren't chip manufacturers biggest customers. Apple spends more per year on semiconductors than the ENTIRE auto industry. To top that off the automotive ICs aren't high margin stuff, so if I was a fab or chip vendor, I would be focused on higher margin stuff.

The blame for this is SOLELY on the auto manufacturers.
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If consciousness upload is actually practically possible. But even if it is, it's a long ways out. Even if you can't save them all, even if you can't save them permanently, don't just ignore trying to make progress on diseases that are killing real people now. Don't chase your wonderful dream to the exclusion of real progress that is definitely available if we put resources on some of those thousands of problems.
Military people with stars on their shoulders are part of the elite class and they're definitionally 'folks in government'.
Let’s be honest... that’s exactly what GP said ;)
https://archive.is/3CPC4
My broadband provider was down (Wave G) and had no status page. Social media was silent. The only way I could confirm it was an outage and not my local network setup was by using downdetector.

I wish those companies would actually have status pages.
Hi, this looks promising.
I'm currently looking for an app to take study notes, which include a lot of mathematical equations. Would Notesnook support this?
Thank you!
I tried this once, but I can't recall why I stopped.

Do you have any particular issue? Does it give you a real tty?
>But if I told you half of all buzzfeed headlines are machine-written... would you believe it?

Honestly, yeah. Buzzfeed headlines aren't exactly the most creative or hmmm...deep?...meaningful?

There's only so many ways you can write

'10 reasons why x does y and that's bad'

Or

'Omfg x just happened, better y right now.'
Thanks, my intention was actually to be as customer-friendly as possible. From my perspective, the customer can walk away whenever they want (they don't even need to unsubscribe), and they have choice for expiry based on their expected usage pattern/accounting department. Obviously I'm wrong though!

Hmm, that's an interesting idea regarding the membership. I'll think about that as an option. Regarding the dollar balance, I didn't like the idea of using dollars and then discounting how much a dollar actually cost someone, since at that point you're effectively using a credit system that happens to be called dollar. But a membership where you get a base number of credits per month/year and then the ability to purchase more as needed (with bulk discounts) could work and I like it!

Thanks for the feedback and the idea of how to fix it!
The Martian orbit is quite elliptical relative to Earth. Sunlight during the perihelion months is 40% brighter than at aphelion. Not from the angle of Sun, like we worry about with Earth seasons, but the actual size of the Sun in the sky. Furthermore, dust storms are significantly more common during the brighter months.

Assuming the energy on a Martian colony would come from solar panels, a Martian colony would still need to care significantly about the seasons and time of day.
There's similar libraries for python[1], golang[2], rust[3]. Drawing on the terminal isn't that resource intensive so I'd stay in whatever ecosystem I have a reason to be in.

1. https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich

2. https://github.com/gizak/termui

3. https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs

Notably absent is the JVM. Another victim of startup time I imagine.
I assume (generous interpretation and not much of a stretch) that that's exactly what his father meant, and if so, his father was right. It's funny that it would even "seem wrong", but it's not wrong.

Recently published dictionaries do a much better job than they used to, so you will often see "origin unknown, poss. related to X or Y", where an older dictionary simply proclaimed the etymology. So, was the truth recently lost? Or did the lexicographers recently find evidence that their confidently proclaimed etymology might just be poppycock?

So if there are lots of cases where etymology is disputed, and there are, then not all claims can be right. Many must have been wrong, and it stands to reason that not all errors have been discovered. Hundreds of thousands of words, place names, personal and surnames, passed from mouth to mouth by mostly illiterate humans for whom X sounds like "eggs" in a game of telephone ("Chinese whispers") lasting centuries, repeatedly crossing dialect and language boundaries, multiplied by the number of human languages, and does it really seem wrong that "a lot of proposed etymological theories are inaccurate"?

If the claim were really that there are no correct etymologies, that would certainly be wrong, but if "poppycock" meant the confidence of the old dictionaries was not justified, I would say that time has vindicated his claim.
I use k3s in production, and it is great. But as far as daily use, it is not any simpler than kuberenetes. Initial setup and clustering is a breeze with k3s. But after that, you are mostly just working with the same k3s api as a full kuberenetes setup.
See also: a list of open-source game clones https://osgameclones.com
Have not read the article, but the title is a total lie.

Corporate giants like Ambani, Adani wants to lease/buy vast tracts of land (1000+ acres,) & grow single crops on them, on giant industrial scale for pure profit (profit seeking is not bad in general).

As a largest populated country in world, +75% farmers do not own more than 10 acres, with around hslf of them own less than 5 acres. Every generation the land gets divided into 2-5 parts, one part per son (& sons in law in some cases).

Modi government new three laws enable the corporation greed. Simple majority in a village can opt for leasing in the land to corporation. Other half has to agree.

No farmer can go to any court, can just go to District Commissioner at most for any grievance/problems.

Corporation can store as much grains, food as they want in new law. Current laws prohibit that to stop artificial increase in food prices.

New laws allow corporation to set any market price of crops. Current laws make sure minimum support price. Imagine if there is no minimum wage law in US, Corporation like Walmart, Amazon will still be paying $11 to its workers?

The protest is from Farmers (not only Jatts) in Delhi, supported by many others from Orisa, Tamil, Bihar, Bangal, MP, Maharashtra & others.

Same laws were implemented in Bihaar in 2006 (by different party), & now Bihar is in complete grip of corporate farms.

Note: I am not willing to comment or reply here. Replies (any side) is going to get ignored completely, because of too much energy requirement. One's opinion is going to stay, be in favor or against.
Like... Chicken fingers?
Yup, and during that war the trapped seamen came up with their own handmade stamps (accepted as valid postage) which are now collectibles!
Again, the vast majority of the 150,000 are not R&D and don't really have anything to do with product development to even matter.

Yammer, Satyas QnA - which I'm glad you mentioned because organized groups send a representative every time to talk about government contracts - quarterly all hands, etc. Not to mention the Surface/Hololens org, the org responsible for the tech, holds all hands for their teams very frequently. Sometimes, your org head could be sharing your floor, they don't have special offices.

No one's voice is suppressed and no one is being meek, I don't even know how leadership would be able to control that anyway. The simple facts are - 1) there's a small coalition of employees who feel one way about it, 2) not all concerns raised are valid ones and has a need to be addressed - because frankly, it's really a good thing leadership can stand their ground and not sway on the voices of a few employees, no? The proactive action being taken here is the ability to stick with a common sense perspective, not proactively fire your employees for saying mean things about their employer.
What do you think is what they want and what games are they playing? It seems you don’t believe they are doing what they believe is best for the situation. don’t forget that the response is very similar in a lot of countries around the world.
Thanks for sharing - I've been using cloc whenever needed but scc looks like a really sweet alternative/improvement!
As much as I love Jersey club I feel its a pretty big insult to include it and not Baltimore club
If I was running an authoritarian country, I would probably do this too.

But its still kind of an asshole move.
Countries are not free to decide if they trade with Cuba or not. If they decide to trade with Cuba, the US government threatens sanctions which can lead to economic ruin and death, by using violence or the threat of violence to prevent the trade of crucial materials.

Before this regime, the US simply deployed the Navy to fire on anyone who went to Cuba.
Sure. Not clear what point you're making.

What I'm saying is that getting hyper-concerned about money will constrain your ability to prepare for war.
Ayer having tried Swiftkey for a few hours, I've reverted back to gboard. I don't know if my old keyboard knows me more or I know it, but Swiftkey just could not get words right, even when I could clearly see the trail hitting the letters.

Maybe its prediction was turned up too high, and yet not correctly? When I finally gave up I had been trying to write The Warmth of Other Suns, and it could not get "Suns," no matter how slowly and accurately I did it, presumably because "subs" or "sins" are much more common words. (Actually gboard has trouble with Suns right now too, but not as bad.)

I'm waiting for one of these to come installed with GPT-3. Presumably a GPT-3 model could look at a sentence and work out which sword doesn't fit...
This is not even the first time that Azure has had single-point-of-failure DNS issues.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19812919

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12505478
I don’t know what this is but I love it
It’s 8 incidents out of 18.1 million vaccinations according to the UK government’s own report. The prevalence generally is estimated to be between 2 and 5 per million per year [1] in a 2016 paper.

Given the population prevalence, you’d expect 36 to 100 incidents in the vaccinated population. Yet they found only 8. I’m not qualified to say whether that means anything.

[1] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.0...
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Correcting myself: the UK reported 22 incidents of CVST and 8 of other clotting events.
It's micrograms of mRNA per dose, not ml.
Hey! I understand the position you're at. Wrote a guide[1] previously about how to find customers and talk to them.

To summarize:

1. You'll find users for product feedback the same way you'll find customers to pay for your product.

2. Look for manual, non-scalable ways to get your first set of users and feedback. Don't do anything passive like joining an email list etc. Direct message, because you want conversations at this stage.

3. Where do your customers hang out? It could be on LinkedIn with a certain designation to their profile, Facebook groups, Slack communities, on Twitter, the specific subreddit where people might have the problem you're solving. Or any other internet community, it could be that they search for "specific phrases" on Google when they face the problem you're trying to solve.

Go to these avenues, write comments, be helpful to the community, look for people who are talking about your problem, or write a descriptive post explaining the problem you're trying to solve and that you're looking for beta testers, ask them to DM you.

In the case of Google, throw together a simple landing page, pay for the keywords via Google AdWords and try to get people to message you with messaging buttons or a live chat on the site. Or have a link or calendar embed for people to book a 1:1 demo with you.

4. Make sure you make an offer to make it worth others. Tell them they'll get 90 days of free beta access in exchange for providing feedback.

Keep focusing on having as many 1:1 conversations as possible. When you try various methods, one of them will work better than the rest.

Double down on what's working and get more people. Eventually that'll become your marketing channel.

[1] https://www.preetamnath.com/micro-saas/validate-saas-idea
It's worth noting that your comment makes slightly more sense when viewed with the original comment it's responding to, which said it's a crowded namespace already. Not sure why the edit happened.
Huh, maybe I am too young and used to the recent style! Thanks for the information.
You can use the AuroraStore[1] to download the app seamlessly. Otherwise, you can use any Play Store APK downloader.

[1] https://auroraoss.com/download/AuroraStore/
Rare open-access quantum computer now operational
Code Smell 65 – Variables Named After Types
>Java seems to improve at every release. What will kotlin have to do to remain relevant

Be more coherent and modern from the start, as opposed to a 1997 design that amasses new features that kinda work together and kinda not?
I end up telling people I can’t come to some meetings, or can’t meet certain deadlines... I try to do this as early as it’s apparent. I try to be as emphatic as possible, but also willing to brainstorm with them on other solutions to my scheduling problems. Some idea might be delegating work or descoping deliverables.

If none of that works, I just find another job with a more committed focus on people.
Those numbers appear lower than the baseline prevalence of venous thrombosis in the general population [1]. Maybe the vaccine is protective?

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dvt/data.html
A wonderful example of Not Even Wrong.
Seoul’s multifunctional smart poles will soon be able to charge drones
It is indeed a legal requirement, and both Google and Microsoft have chosen not to provide services in those areas for this exact reason. Apple is the only major tech company that still operates in China, and has become pretty politically passive in the region. I only bring this up because Apple claims that "privacy is a human right", which I suppose is pretty conditional to what kind of human you are.
I had no idea this existed. I appreciate the link.
“Data means nothing. And I have tons of data to back it up.”