skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the whole "freedom" argument against basic public health and safety guidance. Almost everyone wears their seatbelt in a car and doesn't complain about how their freedoms are being taken away in the name of safety. So why is this not the same with masks and distancing? Why is it that people think refusing to wear a mask transforms them into Braveheart, fighting for freedom against oppression? Sensible precautions against an airborne deadly pandemic are not attacks on self determination.
Depends on the laser(s) and the weeds in question. Deep rooted weeds require different IR/UV than broadleaf.

They actually kill them because they cook the root. That's ALSO why it has to be autonomous - it can't be done at a run.

We worked on this when I was at MTD, but I think they abandoned the project after I left.
Of course the functionality that abstracts over coloring has the same problems coloring has on any other language. If you don't want coloring to happen on your code, you shouldn't declare it by using a monad.
I'll take that as “no”, then. I mean, you're the salesguy popping into the thread to say we should all buy in to something, you might need a better pitch if you want to get rich that way.
So it's fine for a police officer to attend klan events on the weekend?
> My money SHOULD be worth more tomorrow than it is today.

It is very simple why this is not a good policy.

Let's say you are a software engineer working on some software product/service. You are working hard on that software, adding features, fixing issues, maintaining it, etc. The buyer pays you $100 today for that software.

Tomorrow you release a new version, with lots of upgrades and new capabilities. The buyer for this software says "my money should be worth more tomorrow than it is today" so they offer only $80 for the new version. Boom -- your work is worth less every day!
Are they digitizing cylinders?
> This is why work friendships in my experience are quite easy, even for an introverted hermit like myself. Often common interests between people, and _tons_ of time bonding.

Really depends on your team, in my experience. Nothing wrong at all with being a middle-aged parent who's too busy to do things with coworkers outside of work, of course. It's a workplace, and we're here to do work, not hang out. But my friendships at work tend to happen with people who are around my age and are interested in doing fun things together outside of work too.

Maybe it depends on your definition of "friend" as well. For me, no matter how well I get along with someone at work, so long as we're only chatting with each other over lunch and coffee breaks and the occasional team event, we're just acquaintances, not "real" friends in the sense that you hang out just for fun and help each other out with things that come up in personal life.
Please don't make up stuff on HN - if you don't have something accurate to share or if it wouldn't support your point please still avoid making things up.

Walmart's profit margin is generally 2-3% and is generally $10 - $20B per year. [1]

And if Walmart were making $100B, the comp for their CEO be far from a major expense to the corp.

[1] - https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WMT/financials/
I have always used a Roku for TV streaming, but things like this are making it more difficult.

Something similar happened with Amazon and the Twitch app for Roku. Amazon obviously wants you to use a Fire product to access Twitch, and they completely removed support for the Twitch app for Roku. Even the unofficial Twitch app shut down shortly after this, leaving no reasonable way to access Twitch content from a Roku.

If the Youtube app and available alternatives get removed as well, I'll basically be forced into another device since Twitch and Youtube offer a large percentage of the content I watch.

I can only hope that some future legislation or anti-trust lawsuit makes it more difficult for these companies to force you into buying their specific hardware to access these services, but I am not hopeful.
There is no element of FOMO or being proven wrong when talking about slavery or drugs.

When someone comes out against crypto and I find out they have just sold their stake, that seems really suspect to me.
Careful what you wish for here.

I suspect that if an AI can replace the job of a CEO then all other jobs will be gone as well.
It’s been a whole year since the pandemic started and video calls are still terrible. We've been doing a lot of research into how to make them better and wanted to share what we've learned.

We were aiming for something whimsical and easy to read so the tips primarily focus around illustrations that were inspired by IKEA instructions. For people who are interested in delving into the details we put the meat of the advice behind a "Why?" button.

This was also our first foray into writing a responsive site that renders well on mobile and desktop, built using Next.js and Tailwinds CSS.

What are some of your favorite video call hacks or tips?
I'd generally agree that the first party documentation isn't great. There is a list of code examples[0] that I found pretty useful though. I picked one of the python ones and dug into it to get a better idea how everything is setup

[0]: https://core.telegram.org/bots/samples
Inconsequential is a mutable state of being.

Governments are probably worried about what "consequential" looks like. And they could be coming from a benevolent point of view (might be used to aid in the commission of a crime/evade taxes/etc), from a malevolent PoV (could be used to expatriate capital), or even from a position of ignorance, laziness, and/or position of weakness (we just don't want to deal with the BS, especially objections from large international trade partners).

The USA and China are powerful trading partners. If one of them says, "ban crypto," the smaller country is likely to comply.
If it was up to me the product development and designing sample manufacturing lines I would leave to some sort of world pharma organization that should have set a participation budget related to GDP or other similar factor (thus also poor countries would be able to afford such an participation and benefit from it).

All the data and information produced by such an organization should be free to any participant countries. The rest could be up to participating countries itself (eg. production licenses given for free to a company offering lowest end price of final medicine).

Marketing? Viagra drugs maybe need it ;-) But I would be scared of medicine doctor prescribing me a drug for cancer based on advertisement he saw somewhere :-D (they do actually have a databases of drugs and they just browse it if case is a bit more unusual and requires unusual drug)
Doing this would require an AGI, which is currently out of reach.

A more useful/practical question would be: what tools can we build to assist CEOs in their decision making and make them more productive? I think the answer will come out as "not much", since the job is so high level and abstract. You'd have a better time targeting lower-skilled jobs or technical jobs like software engineering.
This job seems like fun :-)

Even more fun if you were allowed to social engineer your way into the office and steal someone's powered on not-screenlocked laptop :-)
I guess I would say it the other way around: phishing services operate identically to legit services. If we outlaw everything that someone has attempted to phish we’ll eventually have nothing.

If a user trusts plaid to handle their credentials, so be it.
I basically watch no live TV except when possibly a disaster or other live event occurs, but for that if you live in a coverage area of https://www.locast.org/ it steams OTA transmissions of various regions.

They're being sued by broadcasters of course - with the EFF defending and a trial expected mid year this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locast
> 1. No more societal and political discussions at Basecamp. Today's social and political waters are especially choppy. Sensitivities are at 11, and every discussion remotely related to politics, advocacy, or society at large quickly spins away from pleasant. You shouldn't have to wonder if staying out of it means you're complicit, or wading into it means you're a target. These are difficult enough waters to navigate in life, but significantly more so at work. It's become too much. It's a major distraction. It saps our energy, and redirects our dialog towards dark places. It's not healthy, it hasn't served us well. And we're done with it at Basecamp.

I wonder what's the context here
It definitely used to be easier to schedule around big shows and sports games. (That is, schedule a trip to the store or nice dinner somewhere while so many other people were watching TV.)

I think some people just hate phones, and some of it may well be justified, but I don't see what's so unproductive about using your phone on the bus instead of just staring off into space like we used to. I used to stay up late to sit on the couch and watch SNL, now I can watch clips while doing dishes during the week and go to bed at a normal time. It's by definition a more productive use of my time, unless I allow myself to spend too much time scrolling looking for a video.
> This puts the business into the situation where they have an incentive

If the payment is a one-time advance payment, I would imagine this disincentives the business to truly do their best, since they already have your money.

I would think, idealistically, maybe the best model would be an advance payment but with a money-back guarantee of say half the payment if you don't find a match through them.

Legally establishing that you don't find a match could be troublesome though, since the "couple" that actually liked each other could both claim they didn't match, get their 50% back, but you as a business would have no recourse if they got together and lived their lives happily ever after, behind your back. You don't have "rights" to their personal life together as a business.

Unless of course it was a government-run dating service that had marriage, housing, and financial records of everyone. That might work. And for many reasons it's in the best interest of the government to get as many people married as possible.
Posted many times, as can be seen with the "past" button. The original post had much discussion.
Sounds like a board could make a killing by hiring a competent CEO on the cheap instead of their friends. Or maybe the reality is that the CEO compensation is a drop in bucket compared to the CEOs positive or negative effect on the bottom line and so it doesn’t make sense to cheap out.
0.0037sats is currently US$0.00000197. We have a deal but I'll transfer another currency since the transaction fee is several orders of magnitude greater than your quoted price.
Make it configurable and everyone is happy.
>I conduct many actions a day which do not make me complicit in the status quo.

This is very true, but there's also an argument to be made that our everyday life and almost all the actions we take count as 'reproduction' of the system - whether that's reproduction of religion, the economy, the state, or whatever else.

Althusser picked up on this a while back. Not only does the economy need to reproduce itself using inputs from other production processes, but everyday life and society needs to reproduce itself too. This happens at the most basic level with the accumulation of thousands of small decisions, combined with particular ideologies (e.g. the religious person sees a particular action as rational or irrational in accordance with their ideology; the economic actor sees an action as rational or irrational on the ideology of the market; the state sees a certain action as rational or irrational on the ideology of control and parameters set by budget).

That's not to say reproduction is bad, or individually morally blameworthy in most circumstances - but it is there. When you work, you reproduce the economy. When you sing in church, you reproduce religion. When you pay taxes or vote, you reproduce the state. When you send your kids to school you reproduce the education system. There is very little room to be 'revolutionary' about these things, and that's a shame.
> Citation needed.

Scroll Up. Find https://lwn.net/Articles/854319/ point 2

Consider:

Aditya is not an author on the hypocrite commits paper.

Aditya admitted his “garbage” commit when made aware it was not correct.

Aditya is author of other papers on static analysis.
Aditya’s other commits have generally survived this bulk review.

Aditya maintains his claims even as other members of UMN have explained their role in the hypocrite commits.

Aditya’s commits come from a UMN address where as hypocrite commits came from gmail.

It seems likely Aditya is a bad static analyst not a malicious committer.

Greg’s accusations:

> You, and your group, have publicly admitted to sending known-buggy patches [1]

The “you” there is false. Aditya consistently denied being part of the research they has Greg so worked up.

Greg also wrote:
> Please stop submitting known-invalid patches. [2]

The evidence above strongly suggests Aditya never did that.

Greg KH has accused Aditya of submitting known buggy patches. Aditya did not do that. Greg should apologize to Aditya for the false accusation.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah...

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH5%2Fi7OvsjSmqADv@kroah.c...
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> footguns to the uninitiated

Well, that depends on the uninitiated. Those who come from a more "user-friendly" language, e.g. Java, are pretty much safe - they can continue with C++ and its Standard Library as if it was Java (as long as they respect the RAII principle). The C people, on the other hand, should expect to be bitten on the ass many times (try, for example, to use the pointer to an element of an std::vector after you have pushed some more elements into it!), and so you are right, those people are, unfortunately, better off knowing the internals.
> you can't just expect to call into the kernel and then merrily compose that with whatever libuv is doing.

Quasar Fibers, which eliminated function coloring for Java async versus blocking IO, I wound up doing the equivalent of that in the Java ecosystem, and it works in production extremely well.

Defeating the coloring problem makes gluing all sorts of really valuable stuff together much easier. In a world where you can’t just rewrite from scratch the things you’re gluing.
The incentive for the dating app is to keep you unsatisfied, but with some hope, to keep dating and failing over and over. Or I suppose the business models could be either “subscription” based where you keep using it forever or “contract” based where it’s a single fee.

I think the okcupid papers called out how free dating is better aligned with users because they wouldn’t have to compete with the natural tendency to want to make more money through ongoing subscriptions.

Of course, I know friends who are continuously dating and plan on staying that way.
Yeah, it can tie in really nicely with a static site generator.

I use Notable rather than Obsidian, but it works the same (folder of .md files). My blog builds with Bridgetown, and I wrote a little bit of extra code to handle the wikilink formatting and build up an incoming link list, but it runs pretty cleanly. https://blog.tracefunc.com/notes/
While I support the general proposition that students should not be punished for off-campus speech, there is more to this case. My daughter is a cheerleader, a voluntary association within the school, which has a strict code of conduct. There are rules against public intoxication, sexual promiscuity, and disparagement of the school. So, it is a case of a student violating a voluntary association's code of conduct and being removed from that association. I think this is distinguished from a normal school/student free speech relationship. I look forward to reading the court's opinion.
This case will be irrelevant to workplace firings. It's the specific situation of children in schools having fewer rights than adults in the workplace that's the issue here. Some courts have already ruled that kids don't enjoy a full separation between school and personal lives because what they do at home can be disruptive at school, and this ruling is expected to address that specific line of thinking.

And really, any grown adult who says the same things about their employer that Levy did about her school should expect to find themselves unemployed as soon as word gets back. I don't mean that to diss Levy, who was a kid at the time, and besides, what kids don't privately rant to their friends about school? It's neither appropriate nor desirable for a school to say "you don't like it, then quit" to a child, whereas it's reasonable for most work settings to fire a disgruntled employee.
Here's the rationale[0] for the naming of the group:

>“Persuasion” stands for:

>1) A commitment to a free society in which everyone gets to pursue a dignified life.

>2) A belief in the social practice of persuasion, which necessitates free speech.

>3) A determination to persuade, not to mock or troll, those who disagree with us.

In my view, they are succeeding admirably in meeting these 3 goals.

[0] https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1278707858188664832
My favorite original movies of 2019:
Parasite, 1917, Once upon a time in hollywood, midsommar, uncut gems, ford v. ferrari, the lighthouse, knives out, jojo rabbit, us, a number of shows that have shifted towards a streamed series format vs. traditional film

I think the film industry is alive and well.

I'd also say that dr. sleep only barely qualifies as a sequel if we're in the mood to complain about hollywood cliches.
and an application ... what can I use it for?
My n=1 anecdote is that is largely depends on the phones being used for the video chat. My OnePlus 6t works great when talking to a Samsung Galaxy S10e, but is terrible when talking with someone using a Galaxy S9+
I'm impressed by how clear the article is for a layman. I only know the very basics of graph theory and Ramsay theory and I understood the topic perfectly. This is in comparison to the paper [1] which at a glance seems terse and difficult to understand.

If anyone likes Ramsay theory and these kind of articles, I recommend Erdős' biography "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers".

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04994
I'm surprised this is the first time someone tried to push their weight and try and get what they want.

But it does seem to be a baseless claim, we have no idea actually what was asked. I think it's a little too early to jump onboard any side.
You’re definitely putting on rose—colored glasses for that era:

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2001/08/28
"her"? :)
The analogy would be the officer (the state actor) refusing service to someone who exercised objectionable speech.
Hey, I get it, needles are scary. You don't need to make stuff up to justify a completely rational fear of getting jabbed with a needle.
We've had smartphones for over a decade now. I think we would have noticed by now if it had some huge impact on global productivity.

I think phone addiction can be a problem for health, but I don't think there's been any evidence that they're destroying everyone's productivity.
Yes I agree. It's difficult to switch to a new code base (government) because the legacy system (current government) also has authority (most citizens recognize government with the most enforcement), incentive (lawmakers want to keep their power), and power (military) to keep itself there indefinitely.
You're assuming that everyone uses online dating platforms to find one (1) long-term partner with whom they'll be monogamous, which is not the case.

There are couples looking for other couples or thirds, there is the BDSM scene with people looking for casual play partners, and so on.
The "cheer industry" is a incredible cesspool of dirty tricks and corporate malfeasance that would make the tech industry blush for shame.

https://www.commercialappeal.com/in-depth/news/2020/09/18/ch...
It's also perfectly feasible for them to pay more rent for their stores, or pay their suppliers more for their products, but why would they?
Why not Sling? I find it much cheaper than YouTubeTV
You're asking people to document their own bias, so I think it is only fair to point out yours.

Do you believe that cryptocurrency as a whole is an abject disaster? Do you support efforts to reform consensus with alternatives to Proof-of-Work (eg. Proof-of-Stake, Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance, etc.) or do you think cryptocurrency is a lost cause?
If this is true, could you imagine if Google tried to pull this on Apple? Making YouTube music show up when using the siri remote. These allegations are serious, and if Roku isn't lying it's straight up crazy.
Maybe, maybe not? If I'm in Google Maps, should Siri offer me Google^TM-themed recommendations?
Yep, along the same lines I've always found that it's much faster to get to know people by doing something immersive with them, even if it's only for a day or a weekend, compared to seeing them regularly but only for an hour or two. Spending a whole weekend together can be equivalent to months of weekly interactions or years of monthly interactions.

So if you want to make friends, I'd suggest looking for multi-day workshops, retreats, festivals, tournaments, conferences, etc. over weekly or monthly meetups.
Because all evidence points to such an endeavor being out of reach for the foreseeable future
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I wish i reborn as the martian. Have u ever going to the tunnel and could not find the end of it? If u don't have parents, that's what u got. Nobody wants to be your friend instead enemy...
That would incentivizing matching people with those whom they want to message but aren't likely to start a relationship with.
So downstream from the LB it's no longer HTTP? Or is every component just protobuf "aware"?
> Your functions can look completely synchronous, but yield to the event loop when they invoke a blocking API.

Haskell does that, and it is great. But there is no chance at all that I would want anything like that in Rust. It would be completely out of place, and break the entire concurrency model.

That would make the language unfit for any task I use it for today.
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Because you are finding the secrets of the Universe? Because math is fun?

Not all work has to have a real world application ($$$). It would help if the you included at least one real world application of writing your comment.
It is configurable. Google is asking Roku to override the user's chosen configuration.
> A more useful/practical question would be: what tools can we build to assist CEOs in their decision making and make them more productive?

They are called data scientists. An AI would be able to crunch numbers, but someone needs to read and interpret the results. You can't automate that part yet, humans are still the best in interpreting data into social and business context.
If I'm actively using Google Maps, I'd love for Siri to respond to "get directions to McDonalds" within the Google Maps context instead of opening Apple's.
And someone from Mexico? Venezuela?
I think the Yucatan art we be more where they came from. As where they went though its pretty well known they went east, due to mound building etc. Then they went back west on the trail of tears.
Yes it is unless you label the clan as a terrorist org. But yeah that’s the kind of edge case you have to allow for in order to have freedom. Cause today it’s a clan rally but tomorrow it could easily be a BLM rally and the state has historically been more harsh on BLM rallys.