skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, if you want to keep your job then you don't question your employers' politics. If you're annoying to your manager (or their manager, etc), they will fabricate reasons to fire you. It might take a while (in countries with employee protection), but they'll get there.
Another factor I have other family members who dealt with the city on the technology side rather than construction side is certifications / qualifications.

There are only certain qualified bidders for projects that have attained a level of certification from the city. This reduces the pool of bidders, but it also just adds cost layers.

I have a relative that worked (briefly) at a firm that bids on city tech projects and then delegates all development implementation to tech subcontractors who then sub out most of it to offshore, with a few onshore dev&management.

The subcontractor can't bid because they don't have the scale to get the certifications, so the city pays a 40% margin to the certified contractor who is doing glorified project management.

I would be shocked if the same thing wasn't happening on the construction contracting/bidding process side of city/state/etc work.
The tricky thing about discussing covid-19 mortality is that there are always confounding variables. The disease is deadlier for people with pre-existing conditions, particularly cardiovascular.

A common line of argument online is "it's just the flu, and we don't panic like this for flu season every year." Observing a spike in total deaths puts that line of thought to the test.
Sadly, the absence of tap controls makes it a non-starter on mobile... Virtual joysticks lack the fine controls that allow for higher (skill) levels of playing
You seems to have better ideas how to grow linux ecosystem

By looking at steam stats it doesn't seems to work, but i'll trust your judgement since it seems to.. not work at all.. but that might be the goal, to waste time, effort, money, and they gotta justify the 30% tax somehow, hey we are working on things nobody care about!
Why is PG blocked in Germany?

> As a result of a German lawsuit, Project Gutenberg has blocked Germany from viewing the Gutenberg web site.

Oh...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180306/03423339363/proje...
Or if it is a sub, let's get it out of there to reduce marine pollution.
the US was already more obese than Germany -- and obesity seems to correlate with higher covid-19 mortality
Germany was one of the countries that I remember handling it pretty well in the early days though. Italy, Spain, Belgium, and to some extent UK and France were the ones towards the top of the Worldometers per capita deaths IIRC.

What I wonder from that table though is why does Germany seem to have a higher death rate than peer countries over the prior few years? They are in line with Estonia and noticably higher than all the other countries listed.
Sadly this is standard practice now on every "website" out there.
> the only skin of this kind in Fortnite

An NFT doesn't say anything about the uniqueness of the underlying digital good, it only shows who owns it. That Fortnite skin can still be duplicated endlessly.
From Sequential to Parallel, a Story about Bayesian Hyperparameter Optimization
But the pandemic could have hit the more obese American population harder.
Right; impostor NFTs are rampant, unfortunately.

I imagine solutions to mitigate this will become more common on the big platforms at some point. (I briefly considered maybe trying to work on one.) An NFT listing could contain some kind of publicly verifiable authenticity certificate issued by a separate (semi-?)decentralized service that just does things like authenticity verification.

For example, they could perhaps have a procedure where an NFT minter (such as an artist) has to, among other things, sign and post some message across at least 5 social media accounts confirming they created a token with that contract address and token ID. If after ~10 days the claimed individual re-affirms the signed messages and no issues are found (e.g. account compromise), the certificate could be validated and the NFT could be marked as verifiably attributable.

Theoretically, an NFT smart contract could also maybe even try to bake part of it into the logic and NFT metadata, rather than it being just at the platform level.

We're really still in the early Wild West days of smart contracts, dapps, tokens, etc. It probably will feel a bit less sketchy in a few years. Maybe.
Probably a combination of:

- US letting it rip through vulnerable populations with the promise of "herd immunity" being right around the corner

- Fewer hospital beds available in less populous areas.

- Taking COVID seriously became a culture war issue. So while some countries might've had its youth catch it while mostly keeping it away from older populous, the US had the opposite: less vulnerable youth took it relatively seriously, with lots of 60+ flaunting safety measures they felt were oppressive
I disagree. I think they’d be overjoyed if they could have free distribution on all platforms and that this case would set a precedent in Epic’s favor to pursue a similar outcome with the other platforms.
> and as such it's aimed at the general developer.

Its literally named subtle to discourage the general developer.

In the https web model, there are very few situations where using this api actually makes sense. (Seriously, i challenge you to name one in a typical server-client web app)
Especially for Germany, the statistics are not complete for 2020.
They will be in a few months hopefully.
Are you aware that this classification was employed against individuals long after the revolution?
But it explains the wrong thing. It's a fundamentally ridiculous framing. A basic neural network layer is a linear transformation + constant offset + activation function. Linear transformations are the elementary building block. And Fourier Transform is a quintessential example of a linear transform. But the article doesn't actually discuss that at all. If you don't understand this how will you ever deal with more complicated NN architectures?
Visual novels are classified as a game on every store I've seen, be it mobile, pc or console.
As a sort of counterpoint, I think it might be worth it to watch a classic of the 'free debate' genre, Buckley vs Baldwin[1], that happened in the sixties in Cambridge. It pitted a black civil rights activist against the young Buckley, later a stalwart of American conservatism.

I don't know if it's my bias speaking, but I felt that in the debate, Buckley comes across as a bully, with very little argumentative meat, who doesn't really respond to Baldwin's points. For what its worth, I didn't really like Baldwin's delivery either, but at least I felt there were substantive points there that were worth addressing.

In a way, this is probably the best one can hope for when you stage this kind of event - Buckley is, at least, well educated, but I can't help but think the debate might have been far more interesting if it was Baldwin vs Malcolm X - because ultimately the problem with the Buckleys of the world is that they defend institutions that were not built on ideals, but rather economics, and as such the defenses themselves are generally sophistic and without anything really interesting in them.

If I was a student, I would probably agitate to exclude a Buckley, and instead reach for a Malcolm, and I expect somebody would accuse me of being anti-free-speech, since the debate that would result would no longer span a societal divide, and both parties in the debate would be on 'one side' of the broader social issue. However, from an intellectual standpoint, it just sometimes is the case that interesting positions aren't evenly distributed across the terrain of popular feeling and political rhetoric, and a lot of people are simply defending things that are convenient or traditional but have no moral basis. So inviting those people is a waste of time - they're just (at best) going to come up with clever excuses for whatever already exists, or whatever they would want regardless.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tek9h3a5wQ
It's interesting that in "normal" years, deaths go up in the middle of the winter and down in the middle of the summer.
I think you're missing the point w.r.t. BLM and racist policing. The assumption isn't racism. The statistical evidence says racism. And the argument was never that all of these white cops are independently racist in their heart of hearts. It's that they participate in and support a system with explicitly racist outcomes. There is simply no question that the criminal justice system in the US has racist outcomes.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09637214187639...
Thanks for explaining! Your point about miscommunication makes a lot sense to me!
>Amazon is offering competitive wages (especially for Albama's cost of living), and benefits from day one.

No. Amazon does not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/economy/amazon-w...

>The most recent figure for the median wage in greater Birmingham, a metropolitan area of roughly one million people that includes Bessemer, was nearly $3 above Amazon’s pay there, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Also interesting/related:

In speech recognition, we usually use log Mel features, or MFCC features, which do a Fourier transformation on the raw audio frames.

You can also train neural networks directly on the raw audio features. When you do so, you can inspect the weights of the first layer (convolutional layer), and you see that it pretty much learned the short Fourier transformation.

https://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/publications/downlo...
I'm not an expert but the UCI document labels it as "1 main camera, 1 opposite". So I would guess the "main" camera is the source of truth and the other is a backup?

Either way, presumably both cameras ideally need to be aligned to the line as stated. That should be possible and perfect alignment between the two cameras isn't required. I can't see anywhere that it states the two cameras actually need to agree, isn't it fine providing one of them is used consistently.
Yake – AWS Lambda function handlers using a Rake-like declarative syntax
"Third party you trust" is tricky though. Like what happened with Backblaze. I don't think they really intended to scarf private data and exfiltrate it. Probably just a marketing person not knowing the implications. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26536019
Mozilla is funded by Google - it's a questionable alternative at best.
So? Machine learning is not some buzzword fad. Regression is part of ML for sure.

Some people seem to think ML means fancy deep learning GPT-3 transformer running on a TPU farm. Actually ML is a discipline that has existed for several decades and has various theoretical results too, including VC theory etc.

It is also not the same as statistics. They are adjacent but different fields.
I'm assuming tokai is saying that because obese people are more likely to have complications from Covid19, the US saw a higher increase in excess deaths, given that the obesity rate is higher than eg Germany.
Okay but here's the thing. Such a change is good for the app publisher at the expense of the customer except in some vague second order effect about improbable price improvement.

Right now you have no choice but to buy Fortnite on the App Store. In the future you will have no choice but to buy Fortnite on the Epic Games Store. Customers don't really gain anything here.

I'm sympathetic to the whole software freedom angle and that end-users should be able to run whatever they want on their devices unrestricted but I could care less about publishers wanting to get around Apple's platform fees and store rules which for all their flaws genuinely benefit me as a user.

Like it sucks that it took total control, thousands of human reviewers and an iron fist to keep companies from getting away from bright line screwing over their customers but here we are.
I miss those days. It seems like search engines are optimized to find ad-laden spam now.
But then why do those careers earn less money? Why is it that it just so happens that every job that is more likely for women to work also is paid less?
I don't see the paternalism in the comment you are replying to. Nobody is saying that workers can't make up their own minds.

To me the comment is pointing out that we as outsiders very likely don't know what is going on because reporting is probably biased.
Google stands on it.
> that we've created a superstructure that perpetually creates artificial scarcity and "hacks" our stress response.

Capitalism extracts work from material scarcity gradients the same way a Stirling engine extracts it from temperature gradients.
Our planet has way more ocean than land. In what way is that scarce?
They were both intoxicated and Pretty is not a very big name, not even in the Scala community. It's not as if we were talking about Martin Odersky. The guy gives talks from time to time and contributes code to some projects. That's it.

> She was not in a position to give consent there [...]

Of course she was. If all the stated facts in her account are true, then Pretty was behaving like an asshole (In setting her up and then trying to get in her knickers). But she was absolutely in a position to consent. Otherwise you make it very easy for people to shed responsibility. Being in a shitty position doesn't absolve you from bad decisions.

> She ended up crying and panicking.

If that's true, Petty should have stopped right there and then. Pretty much an asshole otherwise.

That said; that's _her_ side of the story and while I'm not _not_ believing her, I'm also not making any judgement on Pretty.
Video games are the #1 entertainment choice for young people (born 1997-2007). TV and Movies are #5 on their list.[1] Avengers Infinity War is the most profitable movie and opened with a box office of $2B. So, $5B/yr for Fortnite doesn't seem wildly out of range to me for an ongoing entertainment property.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20...
Generalizing linear operators in differential dataflow
NFTs are weird. But a lot of things where money meets art are also weird, so you have to take that into account. Photographers selling 'prints' of their photos Vs downloading and printing yourself. Rare vinyl Vs a Flac rip of the same track. Anything that is deliberately limited edition, but could easily not be, like limited edition dvds, games, trainers, vinyl. A first edition book signed by the author Vs a pdf with a scan of the signature.
You could go as far and look at the costs to run their own store on Pc.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/23/us/covid-19-d...

This is close to the analysis of interest.

It’s true there are so many confounding issues, e.g. obesity rates have never been higher and are a huge cofactors, population inversion, etc.
> I think they should at least be given a chance to prove it or not.

Why? What happens if they are not given that chance?

I don't think there is any responsible way to mine the ocean. Not when Musk's rockets are about to open the "Final Frontier" for us. There is one (1) living planet in the entire known universe. But there are plenty of rocks and minerals and metal just floating around out there for the taking. No environment to damage, eh? (Well, I mean, the rockets pollute a bit. But overall they don't kill the oceans. That's the important bit.)

You have to realize that it's not "environmentalists vs FOO", it's all of us vs. our own greed and stupidity.

"The Earth!? That's where I keep all my stuff!"
~ the Tick
> I see no value in NFTs as a means of investing

Do you think people are investing in NFTs or gambling?
White gives you the highest contrast ratio, which continually ranks as one of the best ways to make text more readable.
Not a fan of this guy. He’s been trying to become YouTube famous for the past couple years now and it’s gross to see him use YouTube to communicate this news. I’m just happy I don’t work for him.
Declines in population are not irreversible, you can always build the population back up. Before the industrial revolution most countries had periods where centuries passed and the population stayed mostly even. If we go back to steady state population or a slight decline for a while it’s not going to be the end of the world. We are accustomed to explosively exponential population growth, but in the grand sweep of history that has been a very special period in history.
I use the Octal app on iOS. The developer is responsive.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-for-hacker-news/id130888...
The suggestion wasn't that they were dying from obesity, but from its correlation with covid. Not sure if it can account for the increase, but in conjunction with pretty terrible handling of the crisis during 2020 I could imagine it at least.
We need manganese. We currently get that from open cast mines. Those are pretty terrible, so we need to look at ways of making them not awful, or at alternatives.

Deep sea mining doesn't really do much for either.

Nodules are never going to provide enough to meet demand, so mining nodules doesn't get rid of open cast mining. We don't know what the impact is of mining deep sea nodules, but it's likely to be pretty bad.

If open cast mining had a history of attempting to fix the mines (eg re-wilding) when they'd finished we could trust them a bit more when they want to mine new untouched wilderness. But they mostly don't have that history.

EDIT: for an example of the harm already caused: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02242-y
That's a great visualization, thank you.
And here I was thinking political disagreement was about solving problems and reaching compromises to everyone's benefit. I guess I'm naive.

Edit: Updated for clarity
> You read about how Apollo 13 the movie with Tom Hanks has a calm Tom Hanks saying: "Houston, We've Had a Problem",

That's what was said in the actual Apollo 13 mission, which might be the source of confusion. Surely "multiple realities" is a bit more far fetched than "sometimes people are wrong in similar ways"?
No, but what was described is ironic.
They think of humans as a plague. It’s a weird form of self-hatred. From a philosophical point of view, I wonder if this stems from the idea of “original sin” in Christianity.
Proof that it was a rumor?

I am under the impression that it was intel with less confidence than originally thought.
Thunder Client Is a GUI Based Rest API Client Extension for Visual Studio Code
HR departments are also being given the false impression that their latest "initiatives" have near-universal support because they only hear words of praise from the usual politically outspoken set. Everyone else keeps their mouths shut.

A large number of employees are in a "quiet seething" mode and are becoming increasingly disengaged from workplace culture (i.e., "I don't want to get to know any of you. I just want to do my work and clock out").

On the bright side, remote work helps with this.
Bad North is a great game.
Recycling is already a bit of a sham, but the single bin system is the worst option of all (it results in the lowest recycling numbers). Just an FYI.

Japanese engineering is pretty amazing if you ask me.

If you want an example of a culture where work is broken into absurd bits, there are better examples than Japan.
I'm assume you're male because you're coming at it from that perspective. Do you believe there is no pressure when you're one of the few women in an engineering course? There's a lot at play here, and focusing on your slice may prevent you from seeing the whole.
"Security" is a broad concept encompassing many things. You might want to figure out what you want to learn.

If you want to learn more about crypto, there's various books (not sure how up to date , but https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7602360-cryptography-eng... is a good introduction) https://cryptopals.com/ is also good if you like hands on.
Oh, I see, I thought they meant that the excess deaths were caused by obesity, not by COVID19 leading to higher rates of death among the obese. That makes more sense.
It was an immediate firing. Early Monday morning, a previously-unscheduled fifteen minute "all-hands" zoom meeting appeared on everyone's calendars for 10 AM. Jack started with an abbreviated version of the "Some Tough News to Share" speech you saw at the link above, before he handed off to the new CPO who started in January, who explained that in order for the company to move forward following massive growth, profitable quarter, a juicy funding round, and despite Jack's insistence to his employees in prior all-hands meetings, "you did this; you are responsible for Patreon's success," that the 36 people being laid off were "not the right fit."

Employees were told that those who were being laid off would have their access suspended by the end of the meeting, while the remainder would regroup with a second meeting later in the morning. As soon as that was announced, people started posting goodbyes and non-work contact in slack channels, though not everyone could get off their missives before access was suspended.

Entire groups were eliminated in the "reorganization." This was not an individual-by-individual layoff. Many fine people were let go, including those who had made major positive impacts in the short time (some less than six months) they were there. There were some among the layoff who had been hired literally less than a month before.
"Therefore, career choice, and the pay outcomes, are not truly based on merit or ability, and can be controlled by unfair external factors. Further, what this means is that the playing field is not level. Some people will have advantages, just because of how they were born - which is the issue we started with."

I could be a doctor, or a lawyer, or some other high paying powerful job, but I chose not to. Does that have anything to do with my gender? Why am I not being paid on my merits and abilities eventhough I chose not to take those paths in life?

The idea that the pay is based on someone's innate abilities or merits is insane. You get paid for your output/outcomes in the job that you work. There is not some unfair external factor based on how someone is born (you can choose your gender). There are people of all backgrounds in every job. If you're claiming some inherent characteristic at birth is fatalistic in determining one's outcome, you are greatly mistaken. Sure, you can be born with intelligence or physical abilities that can make it easier to get to some high paying professional or sports job, but there are plenty of people born with less who work harder to make up for that and are successful.

People choose work because they are driven by money (which your argument focuses on). Other people choose work on if it's their passion. Or they might want to make the world a better place. Assuming it's all about money is a huge mistake.
> If anything, it would be more honest then to, say, arrange to work solid 3 hours in the morning, then have 2 hours off (where you can socialize with whoever you want), and then work solid 3 hours in the afternoon.

I don't decide these things, just operate within the given framework. Which doesn't support your setup in general.
Why SOLID may be useful for you in Elixir
Ask HN: Who doesn’t want to go back to the office?
I’m reading tons of articles about remote work and I’m curious how the HN commmunity thinks about it.
>Carrying water from a well to your house in a bucket every day should go away too. Buckets are fine if they’re all you’ve got, but there’s a reason people install plumbing. More than one, I should say.

Ok, but I am not going to set up plumbing everywhere I go when a water bottle does the trick.

>If we spend more time on our tools, then print debugging will go away.

No matter how much time we spend on plumbing will make the water bottle go away.
Antibiotics became widely used in the last 100 years. We’ve learned a lot as a species in that time.