skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are great models. But the problem is that we have no idea on the vaccination resisters in different pockets of the country. We will know it after this cycle of attempted mass vaccinations. Perhaps part of the resistance could come not from traditional anti-vaxxers but from people reluctant with mRNA vaccines.

Interesting news from Europe is that there is a waitlist in countries like Austria where most people want the vaccine versus countries like Bulgaria where it is easy to get a vaccination because most people are reluctant to get it (Bulgaria has primarily AstraZeneca and Austria has a combination including mRNA Pfizer Biontech and traditional AstraZeneca).
There's a fundamental disconnect where the way that a bunch of rich, mostly-liberal tech employees in cushy jobs talk to each other does exactly dick-all for people facing the very real social problems in America. They live in separate worlds.

These well-meaning D&I enthusiasts are pushing on a rope -- and then, when another innocent man gets killed by the cops the next week or whatever other newsworthy thing happens, they push harder. That's not how ropes work.
You say barber and I say salon so I wonder if that’s part of the difference. I tend to go higher end places where women are the main customers. I know my stylists too and it’s almost always either been rent a chair and a few W2. Also my experience was a collection of talking to every stylist that ever worked in our salon and that’s a lot because churn is high. But I’d not be surprised if what you’re saying is also true. I have no idea how the chains are ran for example (Supercuts, etc)
All fun and games till 36 people die in a fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ship_warehouse_fire
Offering six months pay is a major own goal by Basecamp.
I dunno, see people are white, and some people are political.

Some people are straight, and some people are political

Some people are men, and others are political.

Having engagement people who's idwntity is political is valuable when you consider how much of the population is straight white men
Managers of high-performance teams recognise that they're not the talent; the job is to enable the talent. You are Brian Epstein, not John Lennon.

Hire good people, give them goals, and the resources they need, then get the fuck out of their way. Let them make their own processes, rules, norms, even mistakes. Most organisations have a prevailing culture, so they'll operate in context anyway; create boundaries by application of Conway's law. Intervene by guidance and with pertinent and impertinent questions, not with directives and fiat. Authoritarianism is the death-knell of ingenuity.
When someone said, corporations are people, it got a lot of flack. And yet, corporations then became people, finding it necessary to have and voice strong political opinions.

It looks like some companies are now going back to focusing on being companies, and less people.
Horses for Courses.

The missing criterion is "What sort of book was it?"

Kindles(etc,etc) are great for text that is in small-format, or free form. For that class of book, there is really no alternative to an ebook reader.

On the other hand, large-format books where you need to see the page as a whole (no matter whether the contents are text or pictorial) are the domain of the physical printed book. If you try to show a single page of a large-format book on an ebook reader, the text is so tiny or the pictures are so tiny that there is not enough definition to discern what you're trying to see. This is the major problem with PDF files especially.
Wow. I would have thought that a DE&I committee would just make sure the company party had enough drinks and snacks.

Of course a DE&I committee would look at how the company operates. That's its entire purpose...
Incidentally the last time [well, more like the 215th time ago, because this thing comes up like 10 times a day] this came up, I came up with a figure for US junk mail's CO2 footprint that was comparable to Bitcoin [US junk mail volume is something in the 6 million ton range, and the figures I got for paper were 3-10 pounds of CO2 / pound of paper].

I'm not bringing this up to dispute anything you just said, more that if you're looking to crusade against industries that generate a huge amount of waste to benefit a relative few, I think there's a strong argument for also killing junk mail along with PoW cryptocurrencies.
There's an argument to be made here for using hosted cloud providers instead of rolling your own servers, keeping your data off premise and relying on their security practices. The problem with managing your own servers and services is that you're constantly playing the security game, and responsible for keeping your systems secure and up to date. People hate on providers like Google, but the reality is they have _thousands_ of top tier engineers and security experts managing and monitoring their cloud services. Using their managed database and VM services are far more likely to provide better security than your in house IT team. When was the last time you heard of a Google Cloud customer falling victim to a ransomware attack? (I'm using Google as an example, can say the same for Microsoft, Amazon etc)
It's a truly amazing book. It's easy for authors to romanticize spaceflight or to write a dry technical manual. Carrying the Fire does an incredible job of splitting the difference between the two extremes.
And when there's a dramatic split on how to move forward, they apparently generously buy out the minority.
Social media could just geofence Flordia, or abide by local laws.
Wouldn't the OS code doing the privilege checking be susceptible to vulnerabilities?
Hey Tony! Not sure who vanilla-almond is, but I'm the Luke Towers that wrote the post and leads the Winter CMS project :)

Definitely should grab a bite again, although unfortunately that restaurant has closed :( Hit me up on the HackRegina Slack some time!
Not sure if you meant this in a disparaging context, but (a) app authors could make use of cryptographic acceleration instructions, (b) this particularly goes double for "Apple keyring" or whatever the Android equivalent, those will definitely get acceleration right off the bat, and (c) people overestimate how long those tasks take anyway. I have KeePass set up so that it takes 1 second per attempt on a fast processor, and my J5005-based NUC takes about 3 or 4 seconds to decrypt it. Probably about that long on my iPhone as well. Annoying, a bit, but it's not like you're waiting there for literal minutes either.

And ideally that stuff could be moved into an on-processor secure enclave, so it's not executing on general cores at all. That way you straight-up can't even get to the data to try decrypting it, it just stays inside the enclave and the enclave doles out a single password at a time if and only if the password matches.
One idea here could be to have some set of guidelines for a domain like: is not commercial, is not promoting something, has had past HN front page discussions. Then those domains could just have a slightly different color in the new stream.
> I wonder how it will feel to them to become the darlings of people very opposed to those positions they had been taking, as seen in these threads. I wonder if the owners will become born-again to the right-wing side of the "culture wars".

Speaking as a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, right wingers are not the only people opposed to woke insanity.
The amount of benefit is not equal. Imperialist countries (US, western EU, etc.) have extremely favourable terms obtained under military threat. Often onerous terms are imposed, like privatisations or deregulation.

One recent example is Bolivia’s rare earth mining. A German company was offering only ~5% of the value of extracted material in exchange for the capital required, while a Chinese SOE offered 50%. Not long after there was a US-backed fascist coup which was only recently defeated.
He is making a distinction between cost to survive (I.e. food, shelter, etc) and cost to have the job (I.e. transport).

"net pay is below zero" means (In his interpretation) that the cost of having the job is greater than the amount the job pays. This is unrelated to the cost of surviving.
Hooray for open source.
Speaking of runtime support, any reason why C# is using Mono instead of official cross-platform .NET Core 3.x or the latest .NET 5, and it also looks like ASP.NET is unsupported. Any plans to address these in the near future?
By "about to", I meant within a year or so. But call me crazy, if there's a considerable cash out event within a year for equity I hold, I hang onto it.
You don't have to make up an imaginary electric company example when the real life phone company pulled that bullshit (and still sort of do tbh). In the old days you couldn't just buy a phone or something that used the phone line like an answering machine or some other device. No you had to lease a phone from the telephone company that was approved and installed by them. Hell they tried to stop people putting rubber cups on their phone receivers. And they also happened to have a majority stake in the phone manufacturer too...
There is a different minimum wage for minors for the first 90 days in the US:

https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/youthlabor/wages
Achievements in other disciplines can often look like magic (and some are but it usually takes experts to tell which). I think fundamentally engines are engineered like software- by solving one problem at a time. And after having gotten a distributed consensus algorithm to work with a perfect dance of elections and voting etc I feel like there is magic in software too.
The spokesperson said they worried that information in the documents could affect ongoing court cases and might be used to identify witnesses or attempt to intimidate victims.

The documents mention the word “rape” 774 times, “trafficking” 135 times, and “execution,” 437 times. Terms like “terrorist” or “terrorism” also appear in numerous instances, along with other words, such as “private,” “confidential,” “password,” “witness,” and “Duterte,” referring to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.

Not looking great...
Do you feel good initiatives require someone to be political to be apart of?

Watered down a bit more... do you believe someone can be a good person without affiliating with a group in order to do it?

That's very odd to me... Similar in vein to self-studied engineers/academics vs those who need a college group of peers to do it.
It wasn't necessary, but since you did, I'll mark this subthread off topic and collapse it. Thanks for the kind reply!
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/29/fast-food-restaurants-in-ame... This 2019 source has it at median.
> Now, what does adequate mean? I guess a place to sleep, a place to clean oneself, food and clothing seems like a reasonable bar for a wage above poverty. Are there many full time jobs in the US that do not allow that?

I would say, a place where you don't have to share quarters with strangers, be exposed to violence, drugs, have your sleep interrupted, where the housing is stable enough that you don't need to leave work in the middle of the day to attend an emergency court petition to prevent your immediate eviction due to landlords non-payment of mortgage and interception of mailed eviction notifications, where you don't have to leave under cover of darkness with colleagues who know how to handle themselves as your bodyguards so that you can spend a month or two sleeping on a friends sofa while you try and wait for a room to open up in something resembling a half-way house for recently released prisoners.

Cos I mean, those were about the best conditions I could afford while working for a profitable multinational tech company while I was developing a key piece of the Internet infrastructure that everyone on this site uses daily (in a wealthy area of the UK).

I won't name the company, but it rhymes with "Clit Tricks"

> Are there really only two options? Is not that a bit simplistic? ... should we provide them with the exact stuff that people who work 40h a week get ... ?

Is _that_ not a bit simplistic? Is it really so difficult to imagine a world where working 40 hours a week is either a) dignified enough not to be totally demeaning and exploitative _and_ meaningful enough to carry some intrinsic reward, or b) pays noticeably more than the bare minimum required for an existence at least befitting the dignity of animals in a zoo, never mind human beings?
The Panama Papers data breach highlighted the importance of securing legal work. This is of course is a serious problem for the Philippines.

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

In the information security world we use the CIA triad model which stands for Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability.
Clearly we lack the C, not sure of the I and have the A (just not in a good way.)
I'm surprised they would honor any warranty claims where the drive has been written to beyond its specified terabytes written endurance. Is it that this farming causes more damage for the same amount of data written than normal use?
October 2.0 was based off of the code base as of a year ago, so everything that was added to the project in the past year was removed in 2.0. As far as breaking changes in the 1.0 & 1.1 branches go the links are mostly talking about the docs changes that indicated the removal of the recent changes; but there are some that actually cause problems for current projects that aren't upgrading, such as the removal of the wikimedia-merge-plugin which is required for plugins to load their dependencies smoothly.
You are expecting that both projects will thrive? Maybe. I'm not familiar with the product, so I couldn't say what the chances are, but it doesn't seem obvious to me in this scenario.
Why would YC give their hard earned money to the lazy poor startups when they can give it to hard working companies like Microsoft and IBM?
Have they? Most of the tweets I've seen have simply said "due to the recent changes".

The company leadership is framing those changes as a ban on political speech, but clearly there's disagreement about what the changes really are.
A Safer Curl – Bash?
I liked hanging around parking lots being a goofball. Not that it wasn't a privilege to be in that position and that teenagers shouldn't be able to support themselves through work if they need or want to, but I'm also glad I didn't want or need to trade it in for a few extra dollars.
You can't run code deterministically in a multi-tenant system.
I am actually really curious why does Chia take off like this? Any other Proof of Space coin like Spacemesh and Burst coin didn't have this kind of explosive growth.

Why? Why China? Why now?
Plus, kids from unstable homes where the parents need them to earn money will sometimes drop out of school to help their family. It's best not to incentivize that.
As long as we’re talking about exceptionalism, worth noting that this is originally a quote about the Jews which Carlin adapted (Carlin himself is clear about this).
> I've rarely gotten more from a commit message than the content of the code changes in the commit.

That's generally true, but the article is specifically about how a rule/convention/expectation in DNSimple workflow ensures, or purports to ensure, that commit messages are informative. My experience is that it doesn't really matter if the explanation is in the commit message, a bug tracker ticket, or the team wiki, as long as I can go from commit -> understanding, it's good. I also say that if a programmer can't craft a useful commit message, they probably don't have good documentation for it elsewhere.
> If 20 employees were on the "social" committee planning a holiday party, would you consider that as "off the rails"

The party planning committee would presumably not try to dictate which vendors the company deals with and which speaker is at the next all-hands meeting.
Well, that's a pretty decent reply. In any case, we can't freeze it out, so if you're right about how bad that would be, at least we're escaping that particular fate.
Just so we’re all on the same page, since I wrote my original comment, DHH has confirmed this account on his own blog.
How is "don't make fun of our own customers" an 'activist left' agenda? It may have been couched in liberal terms, but ultimately it's a pretty politics-free motivation.
APOLLO 11 & 20 ANCIENT .....

There was NO Apollo 20!!
You should reasonably expect some loss of income stability for at least a year or more, and it will be a business long endeavor to keep that stability.

You could take part time contract work with an agency to help smooth the transition and provide a nice baseline. By part time I mean hourly as demanded not whatever your country considers part time hours.

Cut the rigid lifestyle cost as best you can now. You will have a lot of headspace committed to running your business, the last thing you want to be stressing about is half a dozen subscription services monthly payments looming over you. It helps you be resilient to those income instabilities too and less likely to go back to FTE.

It's not so much about being frugal as it is being flexible. When times are good, I eat out, go to shows, buy things I want, and life is good. But when things are lean, I don't want to have to negotiate payment extentions or work around immovable payment dates.
I'm joking about the quality of the products I make, to be clear.
Basecamp Resignations
That's a different use of class, but an important one too. We want people's choices around families and religion to be free from outside coercion, so we have special protections. Short term disabilities are not a choice but also non-universal, and without the protection they might worsen into long-term ones.

But being a teenager is a not a choice, and not something that happens to some people but not others. Again, there's many reasons we don't want to promote shit jobs for adolescents because of some nonsense about character building, but I think that's a rational distinct from the others.
I'd expect to see more of A than B.

Taking money that is offered is well respected across pretty well all political groups, especially those that are in charge of hiring

Taking money isn't controversial with anyone other than extreme Marxists.
Impressive didactic gem here, this is what the web was created for.
This is a nice idea. Much of physics has been derived from symmetries/conservation laws (see noether's theorem), which seem to be related but not identical to counterfactuals. For example, spatial translation symmetry directly results in the conservation of linear momentum, which then implies that certain types of scattering scenarios are physically impossible.

It's an interesting thought to try to go the other direction. It isn't clear to me that the chain of logic above would necessarily be bi-directional for all symmetries/conserved quantities/counterfactuals.
An explainable AI system must be constructed in the following way to achieve the best results.

- The rule-based AI expert system is used as the logical reasoning framework, and the rule base (statute law) is used as the basis for interpretation.

- The dynamic rules (case law) generated by machine learning run in the rule-based AI expert system.

- Dynamic rules (case law) generated by machine learning cannot violate the rule base (statutory law).

- If the dynamic rules (case law) generated by machine learning conflict with the rule base (statute law), the system must archive it and submit it to humans to decide whether to modify the rule base (statute law) and whether to adopt dynamic rules (case law).

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow...
The c-suite is DHH and Fried. Three of the people who left are department heads, who report directly to them.
https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/orgchart.md
If generalized to 2D (and over the unit sphere), you'd get Google's S2 library (https://s2geometry.io/).

In 3D, the same can be done with morton codes (or a 3D hilbert curve) to build an implicit octree. Some raytracing systems use this for fast BVH construction.

In either case, this approach differs from mipmaps in that the underlying data can be sparse, and is simply stored in a sorted array.
Drawboard PDF added subscription services after I bought it. Literally the only feature I wanted them to add was a lined paper template and they put that behind the subscription. Like I'm not paying monthly for that. Certainly not more than a few hundred sheets of actual lined paper cost which I would probably not use up for a few months...
Still getting the error? I'll try again later. I was able to access earlier and it looked really cool!
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If they failed the warm up but passed the other two would they get a good rating from you?

If they passed the warm up but failed one of the other two would they get a good rating from you?

The warm up seems pretty unnecessary.

As for your question unless you can determine some correlation with the time taken for warm up and acceptance - why does it really matter how long it takes them? I’d make the question even simpler, making all days of months the same and eliminating leap year logic.
you have no idea what you are talking about.
Not to forget the times where states raise their minimum wage and see the number of people in the labor force increase. The balance of power is almost always squarely weighted on the side of the employer. This can push wages below market optimum.
Apolitical is 1. Mutual respect, 2. Transfer disputing employees to different teams so they are not in continuous dispute.
You could also see the company as being wildly off track? 1/3 is a lot of people
> I'm confused about your quote though: is "remarkably minor" meant to mean "less important than expected"?

Yes.

> Were there other forms of "phonetic writing" at play?

At the time that quote was talking about? No, since at that time, proto-cuneiform (as they call it) would have been the only writing system in existence. Go forward a bit, though, and several forms of “phonetic writing” begin to appear frequently: rebuses (as in the quote), syllabic characters (e.g. [baʼugeš] was written BA-UG₇-GE, Edzard 2003), and characters for individual consonants (unattested in Sumerian, but Egyptian used them extensively).

> If yes, then does that mean that there actually were case of symbols appearing directly as written translation of phonetic "concepts"?

Exactly. (Even my earlier quote has examples of that.)
Given their stated goals, it seems odd to me that Oxide would even consider a chip with proprietary blobs; are there not good open options available?
Also originally submitted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26939729
Federal income tax, state income tax and local property and sales tax. Social Security and Medicare taxes. I agree 30% is too high an estimate for below median incomes, but its closer 9-15%, according to this: https://thecollegeinvestor.com/34072/effective-tax-rates/

And if you include health insurance--which in other countries is provided for and paid for with taxes--then it goes up. A lot.
That sounds like what they're saying. I imagine when they determine warranties they're looking at what they estimate to be "normal" use? Reading/writing to capacity 24/7 certainly creates a lot of heat for a long time.
The government has much better options than mandating a living wage.

It can simply pay you the wage as an indirect subsidy to stimulate production.

It can employ you in the construction of infrastructure. The infrastructure of the US is dilapidated to the point of national disgrace.

It should still mandate living wages, the same way it should not allow employers to lash their employees or own them as chattel, or any number of other practices which are both immoral, and cannot find any temporary justification due to exigent circumstances (eg. literal struggle for national survival...)