skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok I wasn't sure before but now you must be trolling, I don't think anyone honestly believes that

>Hopefully! We need a lot more of that in the world. More Zuckerbergs, more Travis Kalaniks. The more the better.

Austen's responses and your inane defense of this is the susan wojcicki giving herself an award for censorship while calling it freedom of expression.

Businesses wishing words into different meanings is becoming rampant.
Or because they think the pill will cause stomach issues. I had one medicine that caused gastro side effects: Taking the pill on a full stomach or while eating a full meal was really important, especially at first. This breakfast would have done well.
I didn't mean to imply that the change was necessarily done in bad faith. I'm just used to them matching, and as such commented on the article title without considering that they didn't match.
Of the 6 states that gained an electoral vote [0]:

- Biden's 6-point loss in Texas [1] was the slimmest margin since 1996 (and 92 and 96 featured Ross Perot, a strong third-party conservative); the margins for 2012 and 2016 were 16% and 9%, respectively.

- North Carolina went for Trump by just 1.5%, and has had similar slim margins since Obama's 0.3% victory in 2008 [2]

- Colorado and Oregon both went blue by ~15% margins

- Montana has been reliably red.

- Florida has become more and more reliably red, but not as much as Ohio (which lost a vote) has.

More guaranteed-blue states (CA, NY, IL) lost votes than guaranteed-red (WV), but this isn't a seismic, immutable shift by any means.

[0] https://www.wbur.org/npr/983082132/census-to-release-1st-res...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...
This is like how those horrible antivirus programs for Windows would constantly warn you that you might have viruses and nag you to subscribe to and pay for their services or your system could be at serious risk. I always thought these companies made at least some of the viruses themselves in an effort to self-perpetuate.
> If you're detained or mugged, just looking at your phone will unlock it before you can react and look away.

As far as hypothetical situations go, I prefer this over them cutting off my finger.

More seriously, in a situation where I'm detained or mugged, there will be a lot of external factors which are pushing me to unlock my phone, be it via passcode or biometrics.

FWIW, "SOS mode" (holding the power and volume up buttons) will purge information needed for biometrics to work and mandate a PIN on both TouchID and FaceID devices.
If you're a 50 year old, 5' tall, 100 lbs lady, then sure.

The basal metabolic rate for a 30 year old male who is 5'10" and 160lbs is 1700 calories. So that's how many calories they burn by merely existing and breathing and being warmblooded. Your argument is that someone working from home only uses a max of an extra 100 calories a day over BMR? Doubtful.
Experian somehow has allowed _someone_ to reset my account username and email not once but twice in the past month.

I'm, to put it mildly, not happy, and I've no confidence it's not going to get reset again tomorrow.

Yes, I use a complex randomly generated password.

They do send an email to your previous address on the account notifying you of the fact though, which is the one silver lining.
"I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express." - XKCD 1357 alt text.

> "it's not illegal to think a woman with a beard emoji is ridiculous."

Did you put any thought about anyone other than yourself before deciding this? What thought did you put in before deciding it's ridiculous?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwTt8ov6LGs - 3 women with facial hair talk to Marie Claire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVcHhcIdCSs - Bearded Sikh woman "bullied to the point of suicide" talks to This Morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fIZSKBjXg - Life of a Bearded Girl, interview / discussion with Dr Parameshwar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFpE6moREGY - Bearded Lady interviewed with This Morning.

Appears that it's caused by Poly-Cystic Ovary Syndrome/Disease, which is "one of the most common causes of female infertility, affecting 6% to 12% (as many as 5 million) of US women of reproductive age." says the CDC.
I don't know about SF, but in the South Bay, house prices may be up, but condo prices are the lowest they've been in years. And that is despite record low interest rates.
I'm struggling. When we were in the office there was still some semblance of normality. Particularly in 2021 my productivity has plummeted. I'm considering leaving this field altogether and have started applying for other jobs. At least with a physical job I can do the task at hand. I don't think I can be a successful developer with ADHD and I refuse to take meds full time. If anyone has figured out a solution to their own problems I'm all ears.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is man’s inability to understand the exponential function.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/02/01/understand-exponent...
Back-of-the-envelope calculation: a slacker suffering from insomnia watching 5 streams of Netflix at once × 20 hours/day × 365 days non-stop would otherwise watch the whole catalog in less than a year.

Convinced?
I am personally not a fan of our legislature repeatedly bringing big technology companies in to pressure them to enact the moderation and algorithmic changes they seek. That is very plainly, censorship. The fact that the censorship is being implemented by a private organization does not make it any better, particularly given that it is being driven by government pressure. This article notes that a "flurry" of anti-trust reform bills are on their way, and so it seems to be like that's the legislative threat being used to enact government-driven censorship. Glenn Greenwald recently wrote (https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-a-five-hour-hea...), "the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that the state violates the First Amendment’s free speech guarantee when they coerce private actors to censor for them". That seems like exactly what this hearing is intended to do.
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I would love to see more of your energy. I agree.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1980s-far-left-female...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1980s-far-left-female...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rosenberg

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blm-terrorist-rosenberg/
Yet politics is one of the few places you can impact your workplace. Most companies in the US are authoritarian and it's in politics you can have some say. Democracy at Work is the next stage of work. The "shut up and work" kind of work is a dead end.
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I'm sorry, a process that happens in front of your team so that they can judge whether you're "living up to expectations" is literally a public accountability ritual.

You can't fix culture with (just) process, but process certainly affects culture. And this kind of process directly contributes to a culture where people are pressured based on how they work at an extremely finely grained level. Even if somebody is doing top-notch work and having real impact long-term, if they're not making legible progress day-to-day, Agile is going to make them look bad and feel bad. The process itself emphasizes consistency and incremental work while deemphasizing individual flexibility and agency.

Now, perhaps some teams have a culture that's strong and accepting enough to compensate for this and provide a great environment for people who work in different ways, but if that's the case it's despite the process, not because of it. I've never seen that myself though.
That’s a sort of reverse-Disaster-Capitalism.
And then everyone gets their hands on this tech so the mining difficultly goes up and you are back to square one.
"that no one is willing to prioritize"

You missed that part. "Here is the email chain it was discussed in, including the bit where I raised the concern of what could happen" is generally pretty solid CYA.
Eh I have run hundreds of tests in Django in like 15 seconds
no, he's talking https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1386773744484552715
If that logic were valid, then Garry Kasparov would have beaten Deep Blue in 1997.
Did anyone else also count them to make sure there were 99?
Are other people not already doing this? You just need a shell script and Docker and you can run your own copies of a database, modify them, export them, hell, even diff both DML and DDL, just with the diff command and stock backup/restore tools. Pop it into a CI/CD pipeline and you don't need to write custom SQL migrations anymore.
Yes, and? I think you missed a few steps. Someone then answered that bribery is still possible, and I answered again.
Makes me super pleased to use Elixir/Ecto and their sandboxes with these sorts of hacks that are required.
In a capitalist economy certainly not.
Carl Haber, a guy I worked with at LBNL[1] about twenty years ago pioneered this technique, at least as far as I know. The really cool thing about it is how it can be used to play very fragile recordings without damaging them.

"The method has been used to successfully play several recordings for the first time, including an 1860 phonautogram, the oldest known sound recording of a human voice, and the only known recording of Alexander Graham Bell’s voice."

[1] https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2013/carl-haber
However that has to be secure that a hacker can't simply stop all traffic or cause speeding
This may be a reason why we've been served the private "charter" school Kool-Aid for a decade now... after all, nearly all discourse has been moved to private online platforms.
I'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned it yet, but I don't see it in the thread anywhere.

Have they mentioned its safety around animals? Presumably a neural network would identify most mammals properly, but what about an insect? Could a praying mantis be lumped in as a weed?
> Pfizer is keeping schtum about the detail of the lab tests

I love journalism because I often learn new words to improve my communication at work. “Keeping schtum” is not an idiom I’ve ever heard before but I will certainly consider using it with my colleagues.
NY wouldn't give me a RealId since I don't have a physical SS card even though I have a passport and birth certificate. So it seems like the system is kind of broken.
One of the curses of software projects is "premature convergence", where people to a ton of extra work for an overoptimistic launch date. I have to wonder how much wasted effort went in to trying to be seen as a leader in what turned out to be a hype bubble.

Steve McConnell also talks about a common estimation pattern: managers keep asking if something can be sooner, and are only stopped when some engineer proves that a date is 100% impossible. Normally that means that the launch date starts out with a 1% chance of success. Clearly it was lower than that here, but I wonder if that's because a) it's very hard to prove what's impossible here, or b) the Uber/Tesla hype bubble was so intense that it didn't matter what the nerds said.
Maybe: Lambda School agrees to update deceptive language

Titles are hard, especially with a character limit.
Yes, a facial recognition failure followed by success or passcode unlock will result in the failures being used for model training.
This is probably for the best. Actual engineering (and actual engineers) and Lyft are two very different animals.
Not even per-country, self-driving algos are trained per city. Just in the tri-state area, you have NYC's extreme aggressiveness, New Jersey's jug handles, and Pittsburgh's lefts.
Self-driving cars are perennially five years away.

Putting aside the question of whether the tech is there or not (and I would argue it isn’t there for commercial consumer use), the infrastructure and the laws will take years to catch up. This isn’t an overnight problem and many of the barriers are things that tech can’t just design around.
This whole system with credit scores is utterly broken in the US.
Most regular non-trivial maintenance is also on your plate as a homeowner. Need a new roof? That's on you, and isn't reflected in the standard monthly payment. If you rent, its on the property owner.
I think it probably is fraud, even legally, but only because “qualified education loans” subject to rules against discharge in bankruptcy are also eligible for tax deductions on interest, so while falsely claiming the status was intended as a dissuasion against recourse to bankruptcy for past customers (and not fraud, though clearly unethical, when that’s all the claim serves as), it also was a material misrepresentation which could encourage new customers to purchase services based on it, which is fraud.
This article unfortunately doesn't address the business side of the problem. Fast food restaurants, or place like "Dale's" mentioned in the article, make very little profit. It is most likely below 10%. Here is an estimate: https://www.restaurant365.com/blog/what-is-the-average-profi....

A 10% profit is very modest. That's not the story of the "fat cats getting rich on the back of the workers" that the article is alluding to.

The problem for the business is that the financial model is set by the fixed or imperative costs, i.e. the cost of rent, the cost of maintaining the capital equipment, the cost of cleaning to meet codes, insurance, etc. The cost of labor, for cooks, wait staff, etc. is often the biggest part of the expense budget for restaurants.

With such a small profit margin, arbitrarily raising everyone's wages is likely going to kill the business. There is no room in the budget. The only choice is to either automate, which will reduce the labor requirements, or raise prices and hope that customers won't just go down the street. But they will, they will go down the street--until everyone's prices go up and there is nowhere else to go. And all of this is free market capitalism at work. It is a continuous process of reinvention.

In short, I'm not saying that higher wages aren't necessary, I'm just saying that both sides of the equation need to be examined, i.e. the plight of the worker AND the plight of the business. And we need to understand that things will probably get ugly before they get better. Because that's how capitalism and free market economies work.

But watch out for technology and automation...that is the part of the equation that has been "solving" the labor problem for some time now...
Not sure how Django handles exactly it but it works really well transparently. The only issue is when the code you are testing rolls back a nested transaction, I seem to remember that caused issues but there is a workaround at least
FWIW, I drove a BMW 328i for 20 years. Paid $39,000 for it. Put 230,000 miles on it. I loved that car dearly.

I replaced it with a Model 3 and put 70,000 miles on it so far. Paid $49,000 for it, which is in the mid-point of what you'd pay for a new 328i. It's even more fun to drive, with operating costs at about 1/4 the BMW.
Planting tulips isn't an instant thing. It takes a season to grow. Not that different from mining? And not really part of the tulip thing; that was all about the bubble.
I am the planner in my friend group. I used to be like, “This thing looks cool, we should all go do it sometime.” Even if we all agree that it’s awesome, it usually gets forgotten except for the occasional, “oh yeah! We still need to do that sometime!” I have found that if I really want to get something together, adding a date and time to the mention of it makes it a million times more likely that it’ll happen. “Would anyone like to go the the fair on Saturday at x time?” We may have some back and forth about times or days, but just having something to start off of really helps get everyone into gear and thinking about their schedules.

Also, I used to be really scared to invite people to do stuff. I didn’t think people would want to go out. Maybe they were saying no cos they secretly hate me. Maybe I’m bothering them by inviting them places. Just silly anxiety fears. Now, I just throw stuff out there and see what sticks.
Do drug R&D departments do off the books clandestine testing of compounds to screen them before moving onto the official testing steps?

With the expense of testing being so huge, it seems like there would be huge economic incentive to be able to fail fast.

I wonder what percentage of pharma researchers are bold (and unmonitored) enough to test their creations on themselves - based on the chemists I've met, it almost certainly must be nonzero...
Awesome! They should totally go all out investigating this.

The rest of us should totally not get too excited. Many drugs go into phase 1. Few come out. There are more phases after that. Tamiflu got through all of that and still hasn't been a game-changer for something that kills tens of thousands in the U.S.A. alone every year.

But, hey, you have to take a lot of shots on goal before you get one, so I'm glad they're going after it with a sense of urgency.
I can't say I enjoy everything KK writes and I went in a bit biased thinking I probably wouldn't find the list particularly useful but turns out I agree with many of the bits from personal experience.
Looks interesting - Unfortunately the homepage is currently inaccessible. http://smormedia.gavagai.nl/dist/quickpiggy/
First wearing either t-shirt is no way to approach these subjects as they are very nuanced.

Dispelling a myth here, the Bible doesn't actually say "women aren't supposed to hold seniority over men". It is true that it has been used in this manner and interpreted by certain organizations as such. Strong lined Complementarianism [0] espouse this belief.

However, the conclusion is not supported by the text and context nor by the rest of the Bible. [1]

To use a verse already quoted here Galatians 3:28. "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus". This verse has everything to do with equality and nothing to do with the topic it was used for elsewhere in this thread. ( read it in context and you will see ).

I know I may get flamed/down voted for this but it is extremely important.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementarianism

[1] https://almostheretical.com/episodes/authority-over-a-man
The terrifying truth is that we have no idea what the future holds and what the long-term result will be of our actions.

Since the future and the result of our actions is uncertain, society is basically executing a search algorithm. This covid crisis has focussed society on finding a local optimum. Though this focussed search will only get us so far. To find a better _global_ optimum, we need a lot of random, seemingly counterproductive search.

Don't get me wrong, I strongly dislike a lot about the current state of society. But I think it's irrational to think that we can predict what will be useful in a hundred years.
I’m using answers that are deliberately (but consistently) incorrect.
Then you'll love what United Airlines used to do (still does?), which had me selecting answers from a dropdown list. Too bad if your 'favourite sport' isn't listed!
AI/neural nets are good at detecting patterns, but only marginally so.

Humans have such incredible pattern recognition that we have built-in fear mechanics for when things are _not_ a pattern we recognize.

What percentage of the time do you experience fear when performing a task such as driving? Think about it - that's the margin for error that humans have in pattern recognition for that task.
> zap any non-native invasive species it sees

Given the climate change it could be the other way around. Zap some native saplings, which can no longer thrive.
The vulnerabilities allow for code execution in the context of the Cellebrite application via the parsing of a video file. It doesn’t matter what the application was designed to do, you can now make it do anything you want just by getting it to scan a phone with a malicious video on it.
>I have wondered if the COVID-19 pandemic might lead to some results, like extermination of the common cold, that humans would look back on and say that it was a net benefit.

I'm not sure if you could attribute COVID-19 to such a success. Several highly skilled teams are working on this and other concerning diseases like Tuberculosis (independent of COVID).
it turns out hcq is actually quite effective, shame it got culture-war'd: https://c19hcq.com/
Atlassian's market cap is almost $60B, Basecamp will be pretty happy if this small change leads to that sort of success.
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It is a cross between detecting the face is obscured, and recognizing the face if deformed by a tight-fitting mask. If you can get around the obscured face check, you can use the alternative FaceID profile while wearing a mask to deal with any nose/cheek deformation.

If a mask is on the tip of my nose and loose fitting, it seems to work.
> Trudeau's Federal government recently said that even a 10% correction in housing would be unacceptable.

Could you please provide a source? I cannot find anything on the web.

> it's a 30% (or better) government bond

This cannot possibly be true. First of all, 2020 was a special year for asset prices, not just in Canada and not just for real estate, but for all assets all around the world. Second of all, even if the first assertion is correct, there is a world of difference between not allowing prices to decline vs not allowing them to increase any less than 30% YoY. Third, 1.3^27 is 1192. Average home prices in Vancouver is over 1 million CAD. Do you honestly argue in 27 years, the current homeowners could sell off their property and net a sweet >1 billion CAD? That we would have millions of billionaires in Canada in 27 years?
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Congratulations to Teri Radichel for independently re-discovering something I'v been quite vocal about for the last few years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/a23071/how_...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25196015 5 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21073179 2 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13477264 I first noticed it 6 years ago, but didnt investigate thoroughly beyond "hey, why is it doing that"

Somewhat good news is after complaining repeatedly Vivaldi devs decided to add "Google Service DNS to help resolve navigational errors" checkbox in Privacy section allowing you to completely disable this. Bad news are

1 its enabled by default overriding user DNS

2 its clearly NOT used to "resolve navigational errors" because it triggers when browser receives perfectly valid DNS replies
Mount Hamilton Road is available all year. Once you get above the cloud cover, the Milky Way is visible without an Observatory!
No solution is perfect, but I can't doubt that the world would be a better place if more people tried a little compassion and outreach first instead of going straight to assuming the worst and shunning.