skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a bit disingenuous of the ACLU to claim that schools should stamp out cyber bullying and in the same breath claim that schools should have no influence on off campus activity. Guess what? The cyber bullying occurs off campus. And now, thanks to the ACLUs efforts, the bullying will be protected speech.

At least have a little honesty. The ACLU should be up front with their biases that they’re a civil liberties first organisation. They only care about those liberties, regardless of its effect on other matters. Don’t sit there claiming “yes we also care about cyber bullying” because your current work guts the only mechanism for curbing it.
I am a part of a small but passionate group in Denmark, who advocates for giving everyone an account in the national bank at birth.

This account would be able to attach a featureless debit card (using our national standard payment system "DanKort"), and have the same interest rate as the national Bank (so for now, slightly negative).

Employees of the national bank is already able to get accounts like this. So there is precedence.

This is obviously not a particular attractive not sophisticated "product", but it is awfully hard to hurt yourself with, and will have all the functionality that allows you to function in a modern society.

Make banking a choice, and force the banks to make sufficiently attractive products to convince me to participate willingly.
I'm lucky no permanent electronic record of the crap I said as a 14 year exist. I feel bad for kids today, I really do. You should be able to say the odd swear word without ending up at the Supreme court...
Presumably you're being sarcastic, since Chernobyl happened under the communist USSR?
The goal of those encounters is not to communicate feelings. Typically, people you are interacting with don't care about them and nuanced explanation won't change anything.

The goal is and as when men do the same - make them stop or at least minimize. Or vent frustration, sometimes.

Respectfully communicating feelings about somebody being horrible and hurting people rarely achieves anything. Cause horrible people hurting people don't care about your feelings.
I don't think you understood my comment.

Minimizing public spending and government control over our lives is a noble goal. As things stand now, we are headed for hyperinflation, which will be followed by a terrible collapse, akin to the one that happened in Weimar Germany in the 1920s. What comes after that isn't pretty, because we've seen that movie before, a century ago in Europe...

Right now the majority of voters, left-wing and right-wing alike, are perfectly fine with unsustainable public spending. They vote for things they expect others to pay for, and that's contributing to our downfall.
Or the money can be used to research more serious diseases.
For starters there’s how Israel does things, however, border closures were championed as xenophobic. Then there were those saying the US letting people (US citizens) in from China was problematic. The airports aren’t the major concern for points of entry, just take a look at the drug trade. Speaking of the church closures, those are unconstitutional as well as there’s rights to freedom of religion and the right to gather peaceably, except when there’s a virus apparently. The governmental powers are constrained and enumerated, and that doesn’t stop things since power is what power craves, and is really more of a speed bump now and seems like half the states support it at this point. Plus states choosing which Federal laws to uphold (Pot, immigration for example) is pretty fascinating.

As time passes so does the understanding of civics in the US. People think the President is like a king and just decree things willy nilly not appreciating the federal and state jurisdictions and that there aren’t departments which run things without direct intervention. Cheers!
Your battery lasts weeks? I unlock once per day, which is when I put the watch on my wrist.
The one time I went to Mexico, my taxi driver nearly crashed in to a police car because he and the police car both ran their stop signs at a four way stop. The police didn't pull him over, it's a normal occurrence, apparently.

There was more mayhem, but that one is illustrative.

In my experience, the laws are not as closely adhered to as I have seen in other places.
except if your co-workers never know they they never have a chance to stand up for you and demand change. this is a great way to silence minorities because talking about the challenges they face is now forbidden.
When I said "whatever business brought you there" it could be anything.

For example you could be visiting friends, your mother, taking your girl out for dinner or going to a business meeting.

> assuming they have free charging spots

Why does it have to be a free charging station?

Now, you obviously need to use something like google maps to plan your trip, to make sure the place you're going to has a charging station.

But I was commenting on your 'San Francisco to Monterey' trip.

And as time goes on as more charging options become available, those '240mi round trip' options will also grow.
We make tests robust in the face of existing data. For example, each name is "GUID-ified", we only compare specific subsets of rows that we know will be isolated from the rest etc...

We still use transaction rollback for most of our tests, but all tests are written with the assumption of existing data, to accommodate for the few tests that must commit their transactions (such as concurrency tests).
I shall seek out this teacher, whose name I assume rhymes with "Boing".
Wow that was hilarious. I wonder how this "security researcher" became empowered to contact fan projects? I'm sure "the Riot Games legal team isn't super thrilled about" this either.
There's political activism that's related to your employment/career, and then there's political activism unrelated to your employment/career.

Discussing career related political activism at work - such as unionization, or fair pay, because it actively affects you in the workplace - is fine to me.

However, woke politics, like gender equality, abortion, or some other trending topic that is unrelated to your workplace, should be discouraged. Things like that are more akin to religion - it's private, and should be kept off the workplace. Do it in your own private time, with people who also want to do it in their private time.
- While government incentives (tax credits) do help electric car adoption, in the US the ran out for Tesla quite some time ago. So the current growth of Tesla in the US is not fueld by incentives. On other markets they do play an important role though.

- Negative incentives (like CO2 taxes) for fossil fuel cars are going to grow.

- Most importantly: battery prices are in a constant downfall. We are quicky approaching the point where electric cars are cheaper to make than fossil fuel cars. In the TCO they can be cheaper already.
They are exactly like audio point samples.

Pixels are always interpolated, just like audio.

The fact that 1080 pixels exactly fit 1080 screen pixels don't give pixels a shape. And by the way, most modern display pixels are not squares. They come in all kinds of shapes. Triangles for example.
Seems like another bait article intentionally-espousing an unpopular/wrong/un-held position to elicit "engagement" IYAM, basically trolling the readers.

If not and the journalist were authentically dim, then leave it to the pessimism of British MSM to smear FUD like Nutella on specific, immediate, essential solutions to an existential emergency so we can delay, bikeshed, and hand-wring about how ICEs, burning FFs, and net positive GHGEs are so much better than all this EV claptrap. In the larger picture, it seems like there's always a social opportunist who will automatically espouse the opposite of a prevailing-but-sensible view to garner some sort of following.. like flat earthers but without meetings or conventions.
Would we see the same dynamic we are seeing now with "net neutrality" and fast lanes for certain endpoints? Like if you pay for a premium service included in the BMW package, you get to travel at full speed, while the test of the vehicles are artificially slowed down. Or if you are on your way to Disney land with a paid ticket, all the stop lights will change in your favor.
I don't know if the GameBoy PPU has the background vs foreground split. The background processing was pretty reasonable, and once you got it kind of working, it was fun to debug and get it actually working. My favorite thing was when I was processing everything in the wrong order so the menu of the rom I was using to test had all the words backwards.

But the foreground / object sprites have this huge pipeline. IIRC, the PPU determines which sprites to draw in line X + 1 during line X. After that, it has to load the data for each object, etc etc. It was just discouraging. Plus since my frame rate is so low, I have to sit at a blank screen for quite some time waiting for the game to show anything, and longer for the demo to start (I don't have controls)...

Anyhow, glad I'm not alone ;)
This was clever!
One can offer an opinion, and if the motivation is not inherently racist it may have weight. But to your contention:

HBCUs have significant underrepresentation in tech -- despite graduating many talented individuals, they never seem to get hired. A company could see a competitive advantage in recruiting there, where competition for talent is less. The mgmt might also think that the resulting diversity of thought is beneficial. Other potential employees might be attracted to work at such a forward looking company.

What basis would you have for believing that such a goal is bad for a software company? Is it your job to bolster the hiring practices of the past?

Reply to reply:
You're arguing for the status quo, against setting targets for HBCU grads. Why? What is the basis for believing it is any better, when it pretty clearly disadvantages minorities?

I only made one contention: graduates of HBCUs are under-represented in tech. If this is a misapprehension please correct me.
> Who is taking the batteries and putting them into grids?

Right now, hobbyists. There's high demand for used Leaf modules - so much so that they're getting fairly difficult to find these days. Golf cart conversions are popular and easy.
Tanenbaum: “I thought making systems reliable would be important”
I hope we don’t see more of that emo stuff from the valley. Perhaps we need a new angst term, Who Would Jesus Right Size?
Sure, if it hasn't been sitting in your trunk for 6 months and all the charge leaked down.
> The way I heard it that makes sense is that to be optimally productive you need to be "hungry" in the sense of wanting more and not being complacent. But you don't want to be starving, generally.

Being hungry or starving. OK. But I think a more important point is: do you know if it is a temporary thing (2h, half a day) before you get back to the certainty of not being hungry or worse starving ? I think this uncertainty is killing any mindframe you need to innovate when pushed to the edge like that. It will eat at our brain instead and not trigger macgyveresque magical JIT innovation (also: learned helplessness). Also, not everyone can innovate (wrong place, wrong time, wrong social circle or whatever the circumstances: that's not their thing).

> For the same reason, some say the worst addiction is a steady paycheck precisely because it makes you complacent.

This is the front, I think `some` here are some of those psycho freaks who rises to the top by violence (symbolic) and want to fit everyone and the whole world into a survival of the fittest vision to justify their behaviour when rising. Most people don't want to fight like that, type A personalities are imposing these values to their benefits because it makes it easier for them to justify their fighting/cheating/being-violent in rising up by imposing it on the rest. There's also the just world hypothesis playing a huge trick on them by justifying their behaviour after the fact. `I did it like this so it is the way to do it. Now fight for your bread, peasants.`

Even had coffee yet, I should stop ranting :D.
> The ACLU, meanwhile, told Axios that it "often works with companies that we are actively challenging to improve their own policies and practices," noting that it banks with JP Morgan Chase

That's fine, they can do that with _their own_ data. Or is this another "your data is our data" thing?

And the complaint has nothing to do with where they're banking. Why did they think it'd even be a good idea to bring this up?

This seems really two-faced.
That depends on who's renting them?

If it's a business, they will leave it empty rather than lowering the rent
fried never stops talking
Other things: CPU, GPU, and for the love of god, display technology.
That assumes the other car manufacturers aren't growing too.
Most of the car industry has had their best growth in 1st quarter sales for nearly a decade.

It will be interesting to see Q2 numbers - March sales seemed to be contributing most to the quarterly growth, but the chip shortage may effect production.
Update: The Reddit thread had the content removed. You can find a screenshot to what Riot sent to the devs here https://imgur.com/a/E2zld8g
> I forgot the law's name but the said law states that "a machine of a certain complexity cannot build a machine more complex than itself"

Isn't this disproved by the evolution of reproductive organisms? That's not necessarily more complex of course, but it's pretty obvious that over a large enough time scale successive machines can become more complex.
I think by being poor he means having enough money to live, but not so much that all your wants are immediately met by throwing your money at them.
for python - i have a fully setup template that creates a scratch postgresql db, loads the schema and then tears it down.

its pre-integrated with Black, types, etc

https://github.com/RedCarpetUp/rush
Yes, I thought we eradicated Polio, too. I see I was wrong. But apparently we are very close to eliminating a disease caused by a nematode parasite, too [1]. Fascinating.

[1] https://asm.org/Articles/2020/March/Disease-Eradication-What...
I didn't pick up that that was the thrust of the original comment. I don't have strong feelings about government control, of itself. If the government that controls my life is Denmark's, no problem. If it's North Korea's, no thanks.
Looking into history to see what worked and what did not worked is not "defeatist". It is absurd however to take one outlier and then talk about it as if this was the way social issue were solved - ever. Sometimes it works on individual level, but acting like this is how things gets changed, no.

> pretending to agree does not make me believe what i pretend to.

It somewhat does. More importantly, as you pretend you agree, the people who happen to disagree will slowly move themselves out from your company, because listening to you agreeing is uncomfortable for them. And they get better treatment elsewhere.

Also the pull of extreme groups is not just rational where you point out flaws in thinking and logic will do rest. There is strong social (strong bonds to other extremeists) component and strong emotional component (it feels good to be superior, it feels good to see yourself as protector of race - a hero).
I've had good experiences with iPhone batteries from iFixit, and they also have decent directions. I'd recommend them. Looking for that Macbook model, it looks like a 1 or 2 hour process.
It’ll require software strategies such as splitting the working set into multiple pieces and dealing with them one by one. In some extreme cases, for example consider a huge hash table used in a hash join that exceeds the max GPU memory, most systems just simply report OOM.

However we noted that NVIDIA recently announced the “Grace” CPU, which seemingly breaks the memory wall between host and device. This may be a game changer for such cases.
I wonder if this actually why we consider kids more creative than adults. Maybe it is really that they have just less to care for and more self-motivation than adults.
CTSS is the first system, Multics is the second.

CTSS is kind of the great-grand-daddy of operating systems. As well as influencing Unix (via Multics), it also had a lot of influence on DEC operating systems and IBM mainframe operating systems (in particular CP/CMS which evolved into VM/CMS and now z/VM). You can even trace Windows as having ancestry from CTSS via multiple historical paths (CTSS -> Multics -> Unix -> Xenix -> DOS 2.0 -> Windows; CTSS -> CP/CMS -> CP/M -> DOS 1.0 -> DOS 2.0 -> Windows; there's probably even some CTSS heritage in VMS and VMS in-turn influenced Windows NT)
you're not wrong. it's just not explicitly stated, but an implicit understanding that your job is to <do the thing hired for>.

See what happens if you spend more than any trivial time on the job doing something else other than what you were hired for!
I'm glad I checked it out. It is really impressive to draw something like that when the images take such a long time to develop.

Of the images in the article, I like the flower and rear view mirror images most.

I wonder how she times the bruisings. Maybe she draws the subject on paper first and turns it into something like a paint by numbers image? She would then follow her own paint by numbers instructions, only instead of using colors, she pauses for different durations. In addition to drawing skills, experience with the material (banana peels) seems paramount.

Great discovery, thanks for submitting!
If you read it, I have a question: I read two times already the (unsourced) assertion that the renewal of a court system in western europe was due to the crusades. The caliphate had a tribunal system that the crusaders imported back. Is it grounded in truth?
Your latter example is also expressly undesirable in the workplace. You are hired to build product, not obsess over the diversity of the employee base, unless you are hired in a DEI role specifically.

Asking the questions you are asking is political. Discussing people’s membership in groups like cis or Native American or whatever else IS an unwanted political act. Those group identities are fundamentally political tools. Treating people as anything other than individuals is a political act.

Discrimination happens against an individual. If you see discrimination happen against an individual, and you privately and discretely address it with the appropriate people (could be with those directly involved, with superiors, with HR, whatever seems appropriate in that situation), that is not a political act, it is a moral act of taking care of a coworker.
> People have different starting conditions and different current situations, if what's described isn't relevant to yours--why does it bother you so? Let the people who find value in it find value in it.

Those advice are most of the time given as being universal, that's why.
> do the work that produces the value.

who then got paid for said value.
DiEM25 advocate for this and it's a great idea. I hope it happens in Denmark and that the rest of the world follows suit.
Working link: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-p...
I tried iPad Scratch, to me it really seems like a desktop app that was directly ported to iPad, awkward to use. Also I could be wrong it seems like it is not really designed to engage kids directly, as much as it is to be used as a tool to be used in conjunction with some other sort of content. I appreciate the effort but it doesn't seem as high-quality as for example some of the mathematics apps like MathTango.
I support neither such ban.
I think you're right. The California regulator forced Lambda to make the agreement much worse for California students. Can we fine the regulator (which is totally useless, btw)?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/prestoncooper2/2020/08/21/calif...
Tesla cars are not interesting for many customers in EU (except maybe nordic countries), they will go with VW/Audi/BMW or other brands. You can't easily extrapolate the growth from US to EU or other parts of world.
I agree that they also need to bring those things to the table. But "talent" is a personal trait right, so I guess that includes dedication and gumption.

Plus, being able to perform under high stress, being a great communicator, organiser, putting processes into place, dealing with all kinds of personalities, convincing customers, providing certainty in an uncertain environmemt to customers, employees and investors, etc.

Your claim that anyone can do that is simply not true.
> I also would let the bounties be set by users rather than centrally.

So you mean go to an issue and say I will add another 50 bucks if that get's resolved. Makes sense and will certainly would require a system.

Having a dedicated HR found sound good we have been wondering how to call/do this.

Thanks for sharing your experience - it certainly helped staying realistic. It seems it will not magically lead to all issues being resolved by others. It was a slim hope but yeah probably more a dream then anything . It still seems worth a try
if the lobbying relates to the business/bottom line of the company, then it's "non-political".
> You are hired to build product, not obsess over the diversity of the employee base, unless you are hired in a DEI role specifically.

pssst those two things are connected

> Discrimination happens against an individual.

This is just weirdly wrong?

> If you see discrimination happen against an individual, and you privately and discreetly address it with the appropriate people (could be with those directly involved, with superiors, with HR, whatever seems appropriate in that situation), that is not a political act

This is an incredibly political act.
That's true, but you can't separate them when making donations.

If I donate to Candidate X, I'm taking her economic and her social policies at the same time.

In practice, this means that many large companies have to choose between issues they support. Microsoft may want lower taxes from Republicans, but they also want easier immigration and gay rights from Democrats.

If a company takes only an economic perspective, they may end up doing something morally repugnant to their workforce or customers, which turns a social issue into an economic one.
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This is useful I think purely for the meta tags and the opengraph properties and related magic values you need to make things like twitter show images and descriptions properly when a link is embedded.
> Over the following 10 years, these inventions saved 4 million lives and saved 15 million days of lost work/school.

I have a more pessimistic view on that. It means that it took 4 millions death to realize that we could use resources to save millions of preventable deaths if only we invested a bit more in R&D.

Eradicating diseases is not technologically hard, but it requires budget. I wish as a society we would find it more commendable to invest in the obviously good endeavor of saving lives.
Don't use the environment to justify full EV. From that perspective, Tesla, ID.4, Mach-E, these are all a waste of precious battery resources. For the environment, all that matters is increasing total aggregate EV miles driven. One Tesla battery can be used in four PHEVs. 95% of single trips are under 30 miles. A 50 mile PHEV could easily cover this on pure electric even with cold weather. Instead of wasting a 80kwh battery in a Tesla, that could go into building four PHEV, basically increasing total EV miles driven four times faster.

So don't talk about the environment and say full EV is better than PHEV. Make other arguments if you want, but don't use climate change for your position, the math is clear, one Tesla = four PHEVs and 95% of trips are under 30 miles.