skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Declaration of Independence isn't part of the U.S. Constitution. The words "god" or "creator" don't appear in the Constitution or Bill of Rights that I'm aware of. It seems quite secular.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
Except the alphabet that every written language except Japan, Korea and China uses today. That was only invented once. Although the Maya may have been on their way.
I think that in general, the market does not want to pay for that.
This is a pretty bleak look at the future tbh. Guess the bullies won in the end, except this time the bullies believe they are in the right.
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm, but many Scandinavian countries have apparently learned how to make enough money to provide some of the best public resources in the world, that make the USA look like a developing country
Facebook is a private company. They can decide not to provide you a platform for any reason or without any reason. If you don't like it create your own Facebook and post comments there.
Extremely well paid CEO’s fail all the time. There is zero evidence that rewarding CEO’s with absurd amounts of money makes any difference to the long term outcome of the companies they manage. Any idiot can buy back shares to boost share prices and/or cut cost to make the company more valuable short term and fail long term.
> more RPis (or other compute resources) wouldn't let you mine more/faster.

Essentially, because there is no computationally intensive work being done. Proof-of-Stake is kind of like saying:

"I have 100 of these coins staked in the network that I can't spend, because of my faith in the network, I'd like to validate this other transaction of 10 coins, the network should award me with 1 coin for validating this transaction because I'm being a good validator.".

Another validator has an incentive to prove that those validations are invalid, because if they do, they get the reward instead, and usually an additional fee.

"Not so fast, I have a copy of this ledger as well, and I can see that this transaction could not be possible. I also have 1000 coins staked, so the network should trust me even more than it trusts you! Not only should I get the reward instead, but we should all agree that you'll get no more rewards in future until you clean up your act."

The rest of the validators, along with their stake, then essentially vote on who wins the dispute. All of this is not computationally expensive. The person staking 1000 coins and the person staking 100 coins can do so both on the same hardware, but yet one of them has more "voting" power on the network, and can net more rewards by having more validation throughput.

That's all very over-simplified, but I think it covers the basics.
You know what WFH is way WAY more for efficient and good for? A employees health, wellbeing and happiness! which imho is more important than profits or the company.
The rest of the world might ban you though, as you get to share the same reputation of the assholes your vendor become famous for hosting.

Here's a fun things about AUP: they're viral. Once your upstream provider enacts one, you have to follow, or risk being cut off.
I haven’t read it but I would guess this is a good place to start: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.0313

My familiarity with tropical geometry is mostly conversational :) and entirely on the pure math side. The basic definitions use obviously lend themselves to optimization problems (and I think the field is in many ways an algebraic generalization of classical variational calculus) but I don’t really know of anything specific.
I don't trust this article. The phrase "Losing viewpoint diversity" is of course crafted to make it sound like a chilling trend. Pretty clear what they want you to think about it. But if you drill into what that's referring to, whether you think it's a bad thing is entirely up to what you think of how the viewpoints are changing. "Fewer racists than ever" also maps to "less viewpoint diversity" but is totally a good thing.
Just about best practices.
500+ years? Last I looked into what some major players in computational neuroscience were doing simulating highly accurate neurons they were doing on the order of maybe thousands of neurons. It’s been a few years so maybe they can simulate 100k today. The human brain has 100billion neurons. And that’s just part of a system. I don’t know how many other cells you’d need to simulate to model just the space between your ears. And I don’t think we’re even talking at the protein level yet of simulations. Proteins are notoriously difficult to simulate. If bitcoin had managed to use protein folding as it’s proof of work I’m not sure we’d even be able to fill the current demand for research let alone simulating an entire human. I don’t think I can fathom the amount of compute we’re talking about to simulate a human at the drug interaction level to any real degree of accuracy.
Challenges and opportunities for the Australian edible insect industry
Yeah by drilling oil wells and directing all the profits to the government. hahaa
Using boolean would be much better when it is supported. Why not ?
It has been sold out for months in India :(

Maybe we're too small a market for Sony to care about restocking.
Don't bullies always believe they are in the right?
Yeah seems dumb? The reason child sexual abuse imagery is so serious is because of the victims. Drawings or written text fiction - that's just speech?

Maybe they don't want it to mess with the training data?
Recruiting is a total waste
I don't see any reason why not. If I was going to do it, I would probably make a web page with an alarm clock and embed the video.

Something like this:

https://alarmdj.com/

;)
I feel pretty comfortable saying that all bullies feel they are right.
Has there been any controlled study on the efficacy of Sputnik V? I haven't heard of any.
I don't think you can, I expect different countries to have a wide variety of intelligence budgets as a percentage of military. But, if you did this anyway for the US and China, you would get 3.1x, closer to 2x than 10x.
I've been surprised there's been nobody acquiring legacy telcos just for their easements.

The existing POTS and similar infrastructure are probably worth less now as a going business than if you were to just rip out all the copper and sell it for scrap.

On the other hand, they still have pre-negotiated entry into every house and business in town, and the conduit already sunk. It would probably be cheaper, and certainly faster, to buy a firm like Frontier than to negotiate a comparable footprint from scratch.

I suspect there's some significant legal continuity-of-service obligations that poison the proposal.
This happens in American workplaces, too. In my experience, most people at tech startups think the same, especially non-product people (anyone who isn't in engineering, design or product). If you want to unconditionally love the mission of your company, chances are you have to set aside your own personal opinions.

It is statistically very unlikely that your personal viewpoints are exactly parallel to the company's. Nobody wants to hire someone who thinks for themselves. Which is a bit ironic, because the best people are the ones who don't give a shit what other people think and are willing to call bullshit on their own product and even their own co-workers if they have to. Seen a lot of groupthink in SF tech especially, and it gets old. SF tech is like fight club -- everyone knows it's cult-like, but nobody wants to talk about it.

Nobody wants to be the one misfit who rains on the parade, even if the parade is headed off a cliff. In my experience, VC money makes smart people less smart. Having an outsider's viewpoint is going to be extremely valuable in the coming years, but it's currently out of fashion.
Brilliant suggestions. Thank you!
Telegram here too. Signal has event propagation and rekeying issue
One Benefit of Biden's Capital Gains Tax Hike: Fewer Mergers
To be fair that was an Iraqi immigrant's idea.
what a galaxy brain joke
The PR is titled "Sputnik V statement", is from the "Sputnik V team", and says "Powered by The Gamaleya National Center" at the bottom of the page.
'estimates'

This can be useful if you use it to automate review of regular inspection photos - you might be able to get the computer to recognize strain that would be hard to detect without a strain gauge.
At this point I don't think I really want to "sell" it to anyone. I've got enough things to maintain so I'd rather just have users who use Vite because they actually like it rather than people switching from webpack just out of FOMO.
It's been almost a year since Twitter decided you had to have a browser capable of running some disturbingly bloated JS app just to view what is essentially a series of short text messages with the occasional image or video. I don't use Twitter but I'm linked there occasionally, and the insanity of that realisation still remains a clear example of what the industry has become.
> Only nine percent of the British adults we surveyed described politics as “very important” to their sense of identity, and only 22 percent had shared any political content on their social channels in the previous year

> When it comes to speaking their minds at work, one of these tribes—home of the “Progressive Activist”—is not like the others. “A powerful and vocal group for whom politics is at the core of their identity,” as More in Common describes them.

i see this more and more. the loud few make a lot of noise, the majority just want to do their jobs. companies have to cater to everyone... but at some point there’s too much virtue signaling at work
Using NLP to see what emotions I felt while I was journalling
One of the things I miss most about Google Talk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Talk) was that messages would show up your GMail inbox.
They're sold out everywhere.
It's not only that, but the manufacturer refusal to present all kinds of evidence was very public and undeniable.
Thinking this https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms/display-req...
Just because there was a mid-cycle bump last time doesn't mean they'll do that again.
I suspect many bullies are indifferent to right or wrong.
Unfortunately Matrix still has the issue of key sharing between clients. If you want to read previously sent messages when you log into a new client for the first time you have to do the key sharing dance with one of your existing clients.

For me it's a little annoying, but I find it an acceptable tradeoff. However I could easily see how for many people this would be a dealbreaker.
Messages dont exactly arrive on time with the iphone client. There seem to be propagation and rekeying delays. Its very frustrating
Reminds me of conservatives arguing for diversity of views at US colleges because so many professors lean left/liberal. Even more horrifying than this really, if knowledge of a field informs your view mandating equal weight to ridiculous notions (i.e climate change denial) is would be seriously damaging to whatever scientific integrity existed.
Remembering Jonathan B. Postel
As others have said, it would be good if game devs figure this out. When Nintendo announced it would be getting out of consoles I was distraught as I loved the switch, but Animal Crossing convinced them otherwise, thank god.
The App Store is a gravy train of zero innovation and complete imposition against the rest of the world. The government will eventually step in and shut it down.

Before Steve Jobs decided to control everything, most devices and operating systems supported downloading software from 3rd party sources and running it. After all, you owned the device and you licensed the OS to run your tasks and applications.

Jobs was the villain that came up with this robber baron scheme. It's parasitic.

Tightly and artificially control anything that gets put on the devices your company sells? Genius evil.

Next up we're going to be paying for the content we stream on the Internet. Just wait for the next wave of tech land owners. You'll pay more for certain classes of traffic.

Before you rush to defend it, ask yourself if you'd still be happy if Microsoft had won the war and there was no iPhone.
'For two-thirds of the population, talking politics sincerely, on the job, is uncomfortable. People who hold certain, commonplace views, stay silent believing that expressing those views will carry penalty not reward. '

This sounds like a recipe for disaster for any company. When I worked in the UK no part of my job description was about 'talking politics sincerely' or sharing my 'commonplace views'. I did that in the pub afterwards.

'Ethical Systems' appear to be a great way to stir up rancor and division with the usual cocktail of racialisation (the new segregationists) and genderisation of everything. I can't see how this would help productivity or enhance people's work lives in any shape or form. It reminds me of the first frame of a Dilbert cartoon.
The ‘artisanal genius’ of creating iPhone-breaking hacks
Honestly I'm shocked that nobody has embraced this.

Google obviously wants to do the Unix "lots of small tools" app composability thing, but that depends on having a strong shell.

The contact list should be a shell. Let me click a contact and see all my texts, hangouts, calls, etc. in one unified log, and initiate whatever communication protocol be it video-chat or chess from there.
Yes and no. It looks like there are at least two different tools creating users on my platform. One of them looks likes it's using chromedriver, and the other one has a varying user agent but some other constant things that they do.

In my case, it's pretty easy to tell a real user from who has an email that matches up with the username and what form they used to signup.
Classic whataboutism, executed masterfully.
Something I never really put together until seeing it written up in the recent threads on HN about UML is the way in which it was largely a dead evolutionary end for software and that other approaches (e.g. agile) took a different evolutionary fork and appear to have won out for now. Thinking on it now the comparison is more than the obvious "waterfall sux" reduction, but entire ecosystems of support tooling, with millions of man-hours, billions of dollars, and entire forests of printed material was built on a faulty metaphor.

UML reeks of bad academic thought. What I mean is that strange sort of thinking that seems to infiltrate certain upper strata academic circles where some obscure thinkery is apparently "all of the work" and the detailed work of actually building the thing is just hand-waved away as "something the research assistants will grind out and I won't be troubled with". It's where folks who build an overly complicated wall-sized "design" diagram declare that the project is done, even if literally tens of thousands of hours remain to get to lights on.

More constructively, it turns out UML does have its place in some niche areas for design, and it's a good skillset to have to document certain complex systems for turnover and as inspiration for communication-via-picture, but it's not fundamentally a good toolset in its original incarnation that comes from a valid set of assumptions.

I found when learning it in college software engineering courses that there was also a subtext that came through which I believe drove the sudden adoption in enterprise. The long-standing desire to turn software development into a consultancy and drive development into commodity. Remember, UML's heyday coincided neatly with the drive to offshore complex software projects to warehouses full of cheap barely skilled development labor.

Billions upon billions of failed, intricately designed, software projects now pave the paths of the agile botanical garden reserve.
> No other country handled the pandemic worse than brazil.

Yup, even Bloomberg agrees: Brazil is at the very bottom of the resilience rankings.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/
Is there anywhere else that is dense enough to connect besides the bay, la, andnthe dc to boston strip? Thats probably getting close to a quarter of the population so even that would be a good deal. A lot of smaller cities could use better bus systems, but they take hours to get anyi with all the stops amd switchovers.
With re-zoning this won't be a problem. Just rezone it to residential. or residential/commercial.
You can download the BlackBerry apps on any Android device[1]. But the Android version of the Hub is gimped because there are no apps that were designed to work with it, not like they were on BB10.

I still use the BlackBerry keyboard app on my Samsung Galaxy S10e because it's overlayed suggestions UI is so much better than any other keyboard (even though the keyboard has a few bugs, like where it inserts an extra space after closing brackets or quotation marks).

I used a KeyOne until mid-2019, but it was falling apart, the camera sucked, and the battery wouldn't keep a charge anymore. But I still miss the physical keyboard.

[1] https://cobalt232.github.io/blackberrymanager/
The $1B is investment. It's not bloat or inefficiency. In theory, that $1B that they were not able to invest this past year has a return greater than a billion dollars.
This article suffers from the assumption that all viewpoints are symmetrical. Supporting discrimination in the workplace and opposing it are not equally acceptable political perspectives.

Equating the two from a management perspective as equally problematic is simply absurd. Excluding racists from the workplace is not the same as excluding people based on their race. The first excludes a section of the workforce and the second opposes that exclusion.

Maintaining an unequal status quo is not a value-free position.
Jesús is a popular name in Spanish speaking countries...
> Thanks to mistakes and possible crimes commit by the Brazilian goverment, when rejecting other vacines

Well, that's the first COVID-19 vaccine the Brazilian government has rejected.
I'm confused by this comment. It appears to imply that FD_SETSIZE is also very small (63?) on Linux. To be clear: I am no an expert on Linux kernal params, nor select() and its friends. However, recent Linux kernels appears to have FD_SETSIZE about 1024.

Red Hat says: <<FD_SETSIZE is hardcoded to 1024 in /usr/include/bits/typesizes.h and can not be changed.>>

Source: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/488623

If I misunderstand, please let me know.
For the same reason I always look skeptically on other research about "polarization". The trend tends to be that in the past it was common for otherwise-sane people to advocate crazy stuff like bans on interracial marriage. Now the only people who are against interracial marriage are straight-ticket crazy people, and this sorting of society is superficially "polarization" but I can't find the negative in it, because there is a wrong side of those issues.
Funny that they don't mention what "certain, commonplace views" people "stay silent" about. That might put a different spin on things.

As I mentioned [1] about the Basecamp debacle, you can't get full "viewpoint diversity" and full "identity diversity" because some viewpoints are hostile to some identities. Given our society's long history of those viewpoints being endemic, and given the slow movement away from identity-based oppression that has sped up a bit recently, workplaces will have to choose whether they value "viewpoint diversity" or "identity diversity" when they conflict.

[1] https://twitter.com/williampietri/status/1387409628271562755
The key to being a successful failure is persistence, don’t stop now.
RIP FriendFeed. It was really the golden age of social media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed
>What you are seeing is someone who previously did pure mathematics wheel out a personal obsession and then (unwisely) chastise people for not caring about it.

Hanlon's Razor suggests it's more likely that tropical algebra is just one of a relatively few examples of rail planning theory that the author is familiar with, not that he has a pernicious drive to promote the study.

As I understand it, it mostly is a transformation of expressions like:

Exp(vars, max(,), plus(,))

to give expressions like

Exp(vars, plus(,), times(,))

where solutions to the latter can give solutions to the former under some conditions. It seems plausible that some specialized versions could be explained to someone with a reasonably good understanding of high school math. New math doesn't have to be abstruse.

But all I know is I ran into a tropical algebra problem once and it was intractable.
Technically Wrong: When Bayesian and Frequentist Methods Differ
Please don't start nationalistic flamewars on HN. Last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Exactly that, usually a team directly run and managed by the CEO directly. I see a lot of security positions placed in these types of structures.
Please don't feed nationalistic flamewars on HN. Last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you are concerned about bullying, you might also look at the long past history of oppression that we've been undoing in recent decades.
I'm not sure I understand the significance of India here. Where's the Made in China, or for that matter, Made in USA collection?
Many startups (e.g. Slack) aim to replace email, but this is backward. Email is open, standardized, and has been around for decades. The main challenge of the current information environment is multiple independent queues of items that ask for our attention: email, texts, chats, app alerts, social messages, social feeds. This would be much easier to manage in a single location, and email is the location where users have the most control. The control the user has with email is exactly the reason so many companies are trying to replace it.
Please speak for yourself. This is not true for everyone.
And yet this is exactly sexism.

Even if men statistically have larger bodies, can you correlate that to military success? Are you ignoring qualities like grit, confidence, strength, courage, strategy, and leadership which are not “male qualities”?

And interpersonal skills and communication: I’d argue these are not “female qualities”. Does your comment factor a possibility that external pressures around gender norms might create a cycle where women put more effort into these skills, thus demonstrating them more often?
That's because it was built around the Android notifications system that simply wasn't designed for such a use case. The BB10 notifications Hub was fantastic.
Should companies cater to racists?
My friend once described it as “the only place that’s modern but not western”
In places like New York City the unions are easily able to stop the work of any private contractor. The private contractors know this and collaborate with the unions on ensuring that they are able to ensure that the contracts mandate union labor.

This is not how most unions in the United States operate but they do operate this way in locations where the dominant political party has not changed for a hundred years, see NYC.

It's rather condescending to indicate to someone that they don't understand what a union is. You should research a little bit more before you assume that unions aren't able to influence private companies that employ them when negotiating contracts with local governments. It's simply wrong.

I'm very familiar with these details because I had to do a detailed analysis of labor costs for the WMATA which has to negotiate with unions to operate the DC metro system.
It means all the consulting companies are also going to report better than expected results; no travels, food etc expenses. Clients don’t always reimburse that.
You don't really buy an Apple phone. You give them money and then they decide what software can, will or will not run on the device they hand you down.

Apple owns your phone.