skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the comments here, I think the final doc for this API should have a huge banner saying something like "this API is designed to be used for sanitizing output". Otherwise it would be easy for some folks to fall into a trap of using this function for sanitizing inputs on client, which is dangerous practice (never trust what's coming from the client).
The time you use to self train is an investment by the company that you are expected to carry out. The trappings of instruction are not what makes training educational.
The outcry would be huge if everything went to a pay model.
A determined commuter can ride bicycles/motorcycles on ice just fine with the right equipment. Just need tire studs and some good winter tires. They do it in Netherlands and northern Europe all the time.

https://www.amazon.com/Estink-Anti-Slip-Chains-Spikes-Motorc...

https://www.amazon.com/Schwalbe-Spiker-Studded-Mountain-Bicy...
This is a universally acknowledged truth in civil engineering in the context of seismic design and international building codes.

For sources... I'd say check out ASCE 7-16 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Building and Other Structures, table 12.2-1. For seismic design categories D, E, and F, even Ordinary Reinforced Masonry Buildings (Bearing wall systems) are simply "NP" or not permitted.

There simply isn't a category for "unreinforced masonry" because it will not hold the shear. The problem is it has no ductility. That is essentially the measure of a material to resist force even after deformation. Masonry is very stiff, but it is brittle and fractures as it deforms at which point it loses ALL of it's ability to hold shear in the direction which it is being applied. Reinforced masonry will retain some capacity to resist shear after deformation because the steel inside will continue to resist shear.

In the case of old buildings, you're literally looking at survivorship bias. It may be luck, it may be the effect of soil and rock characteristics acting to dampen seismic ground accelerations at the right frequency of seismic waves, it almost certainly is exceptional construction technique, methodology and design, and it likely combines with several other factors I haven't listed here. Personally, I suspect the load-bearing components of the buildings you're talking about are actually wood.
That's not unhealthy, it's just not as opportunistic as it could be ... and there's a big difference between those things.

The neoliberal view would be 'more immigration because you could expand' ergo 'unhealthy/unoptimized state, increase people to make more GDP'.

But that's only one view.

Given a flat population, it generally actually wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for example to 'let people go' to create more slack for times of economic swings.

Very low unemployment can only be characterized as 'unhealthy' from the view of 'maximizing GDP growth' for the most part.
Sounds like a supply/demand problem; I wonder what caused an influx of out-of-towners buying up properties.
The misinformation crisis – why we must look to what created it to reverse it
Cabal hell is fixed with tooling. Part of that tooling is running tests, but a large part of it is "it compiled together so it should work together" (which is a safety dynamic typed langs dont offer).
Prices are a function of supply and demand, not the cost of labor.
While I agree that returns diminish, I’ll be the first to disagree that those enhancements are unnecessary.

If I do text work on a 1440p 27” monitor I can see the pixels. Anything less than 4K is unacceptable to me. I could see an 8K monitor being a worthy upgrade if I could afford it and my computer could drive it, especially if it meant that I could make the screen larger or wider and still avoid seeing pixels.

Also, we might consider that digital tech is arguably still catching up in some aspects to our best analog technology like 70mm film.
It becomes a reason over time. The raises are less than inflation, so over time the external jobs are more appealing since those postings have to stay competitive. That's why people jump from company to company every 2 years for the pay bump.
You have the problem of potential eruptions sending it off everywhere.

Nuclear Waste has heavy elements that are dangerous specifically because they're radioactive. The heat might accelerate their half-life decay rate but it doesn't "burn" the atoms.
>> In SAT solving subsumption of clauses usually doesn't involve any substitutions.

I guess not, because SAT is propositional so just substituting variables for terms would yield a ground propositional clause. Actually I wasn't even sure we say "clause" in propositional logic. Anyway Plotkin's subsumption is really based off Robinson's unification algorithm and it makes a lot more sense in that context and in the context of resolution theorem proving. Or I'm just hopelessly stuck forever thinking in the first order.

Do you know if Codish et al. were based on an earlier paper for their definition of subsumption? It really sounds like they are simply describing it, rather than introducing it as a new concept.

Edit: of course, the obvious question in my mind now is whether it would be possible to learn sorting networks using one of the ILP approaches that build on Plotkin's work and don't have to perform an expensive search of a large hypothesis space.
oh how wrong you are -- according to Jack Ma in China:

Jack Ma endorses China’s controversial (996) 12 hours a day, 6 days a week work culture
That's one definition. Marx defines it specifically as the class of people who own the means of production.
>I don't think this proves anything at all

It absolutely disproves the statement "McDonald's where minimum wage is $15 don't really charge that much more than the places where it's $7.25"

McDonalds charges >50% more in this comparison of $15 vs. federal minimum wage locales.

I'm not making any claims whatsoever about why the price is higher in NYC. I just want people to stop relying on the canard "McDonalds prices are similar everywhere" during this debate.
Indeed, but it bought Sprint last April, so it's got some American DNA now.
Diving straight into books can be hard, since academics write for other academics.

But I recommend works by Paula Findlen and Tom Mullaney highly! Mullaney's work pushes back against a whole bunch of myths about the chinese language and its effect on technological innovation. Findlen's work covers both the history of technologies but also the technology of communication and the nature of information in the Renaissance period. Mullaney is weirdly involved on social media so that can be more approachable and Findlen's work is on the readable side for academic history.

The world is so much more complex than "a new idea is created from the ether, people criticize it, and then a paradigm shift happens and it takes over the world".
Why should they get to offer that service merely because they bought the land first? Why does the service of housing people need to be offered by private citizens?
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> First, he clearly has too much skin in the game to be credibly neutral about it.

I think this is a general and important point (and sadly not at all discussed in his post). When an expert publicly says something that seems wrong, my default explanation is that they have a vested interest that consciously or unconsciously forces them to consider the implications of what they say and alter the message accordingly. Recent case in point: public health authorities telling the public that masks are useless and even harmful during the pandemic (presumably to avoid shortages) and then reversing their stance when masks became abundant.

This is especially true for public statements. If I were a friend of pg and we would go to a pub and he would not stop talking about how awesome one of the startups he invested in are, that would be a strong signal for me. But if he shills for one of his investments on twitter and on his blog just like some influencer-investor would do, I don't find this especially strong evidence that said startup is revolutionary even though he is an undisputed expert on startups.
Yeah, I still don't like it. I used to not mind ads because they were just images, but then came the ones that moved, then the ones that made sound, then the ones that injected malicious JavaScript. Then I installed an adblocker, then I installed a script blocker, then I installed a proxy. Now most websites won't work and I'm fine with that.
> why would a thick client ever be better than a thin client?

Because thick client distribute the load among many computer. With a thin client all that load is way more centralised.

> I would never attempt to train a PyTorch

No one is asking you to do that. We're talking about Mighty, a thin client that:

- runs a beefy VM in the cloud

- runs a single app, Chrome, in that VM

- streams video to the client

If a million people run Chrome on their laptops and keep it open for the entire day (and your browser is usually open throughout the day), that's... just a million people with their laptops.

If a million people run Chrome through Mighty, Mighty needs a million VMs always open, and a million video streams, also always open.

See how a thick client is better than a thin client?
I've been reading about D3 and am thinking about integrating it into my React project. But I've come across a number of posts that discuss how React & D3 don't play nicely together because they both manipulate the DOM. [1] is a good starting point for this deep dive.

Does Observable Plot resolve those issues or do we need still to be careful integrating it into a React environment?

[1] https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/a-comparison-of-data-vis...
Not if you create a system where it's literally impossible to redistribute wealth. If majority of tokens in a crypto system are controlled under priv-keys owned by a small % of the population we'll literally lock ourselves under the control of those people. Scary thing is that we won't even be able to vote ourselves out of the potential mess because the private keys are mathematically secured. Capitalism is going to have a blast!
I guess I didn't ask the right question here. My issue is with the statement "the vast majority of accidents are due to bad policy". I would disagree with this statement. Some people occasionally make bad decisions when they drive or get distracted and cause accidents. How do you create a policy to keep people from occasionally getting distracted or making a risky choice. You can't. Most people who are driving in a risky manner know how to drive safely, know that their behavior is not appropriate and they do it anyway because they don't care or think they can get away with it. Almost every person I have met who is a bad driver says something like "it's a risk I'm willing to take" or "I know the risks" without any thought about the fact that their behavior is putting others at risk as well. The only thing that usually changes these people's behavior is getting in an accident, at which point you just hope they didn't injure someone else too badly. Even then, I know of people who have been in accidents who still drive horribly. I'm convinced the problems are more cultural than anything else.
We use completely separate benchmarks, where our Pyston benchmarks are quite a bit "harder" and PyPy is only 12% faster on them while using 4x the memory.
Probably the most important one: keeping the roof from leaking. Uncontrolled moisture incursion is one of the quickest ways to destroy any structure.
>The author jefftk is getting unfairly downvoted maybe because cynics just see it as a version of, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

I don't think that's why people are downvoting. Speaking for myself, it's because his analysis focuses only on the benefits of ads, and conveniently ignores the actual ethical problems (e.g. large-scale collection of personal information).

In other words, I see no fresh insight and perspective in jefftk's writing, and worse still, it bears remarkable semblance to a bad-faith argument. I'm sure he is a decent person (really!), but this particular essay is neither interesting, nor particularly respectable IMHO. As a result, a downvote feels appropriate.
An uninsulated house sounds kind of pointless, and sounds more like a barn or shack.
It's like they don't understand that (seemingly) forgotten archiectural principle of the internet which says that the "intelligence" goes in the ends: i.e. the leaves are smart, the nodes are as dumb as pipes.

Thus they insist on making the nodes (the servers) smart and the clients (leaves) dumb.
Simple tool for remote learning and teaching
Since the current bottleneck is lumber mill capacity, I wonder how many new mills are being planned and how long it would take for them to start producing.

Are there any disruptive technologies out there that might allow for smaller new entrants to enter the industry more quickly?
You're dismissing the reasoned arguments against the fundamental value proposition of advertisements without argument against the reasons themselves, which is essentially flamebait.
main( ) {
extrn a, b, c;
putchar(a); putchar(b); putchar(c); putchar('!\*n');
}

a 'hell';
b 'o, w';
c 'orld';
They're often in a worse-off position, as you can run a family diner with a family; I've seen a number where it's a husband/wife team with maybe one "employee" (as owners don't need to be paid a wage). Franchises usually can't get away with that (maybe Subway could).
That is true, but it is why I said "nearly". The largest cost in any fast food restaurant is almost certainly labor.
There are plenty of good ads. And Ads is also news in a sense, it is there to solve discovery problem. Just like your $10 ticket to see all the latest wares, which are all Ads.

We know what bad ads are, not in terms of ads quality but the amount of tracking and personal information gathered and sold across different companies.
The whole point of running inside another ecosystem is to reuse existing solutions. Many wrappers hide mutability and provide an immutable API. And more java libraries are being written with immutable classes.

I also failed to understand the "everything is a java.lang.Object" sentence. It doesn't make a clojure map mutable. In the end it's all just ones and zeroes, but that misses the point.
I wouldn't be surprised if they took it as part of their "day job".

Vadim - "Oy Aleksei, we are getting Neutron spikes in Sub basement 4A"

Aleksei - "Ah noi, eh cheeki breeki, iv damke"
It's amazing the narrative that is spun around cars and the deaths they cause.

Take a closer look at the "accident" reports you see in newspapers. It's disgusting how many times reports of people and children getting hit on sidewalks, sitting on benches, etc is spun as their fault for not getting out of the way of the person driving the car!!

There's been a bit of a grassroots push to get journalists to stop calling them accidents and start calling them crashes, so drivers aren't automatically pardoned in reader's minds.
> Elephant’s Foot was so hard scientists had to use a Kalashnikov rifle to shear off a chunk for analysis. “Now it more or less has the consistency of sand,”

Interesting how that changed.
> The time you use to self train is an investment by the company that you are expected to carry out.

Then contracting has been no different to perm work in that respect, for me. :shrug:
There are many things, but start with the basics: 1st) Tell the salary upfront; 2nd) tell the interview process (luckily it's non-bullshit and not too long).

AFAICT there are many permanent senior engineers that are happy in their jobs and couldn't care less about yet another job offer without salary info because it may seem like yet another clueless recruiter wants to lowball them and waste their time. And going through excruciating process to get 5% more is also not something that many people will do. But your offer might actually be better than what they expect, and it's a good starting point.

Also, senior engineers might actually care more about work life balance and stability than crazy high contracting rates. (Of course depends on the person).
Powering the Lunar Base
Why would you want full time permanent workers? In theory, you shouldn't have to match FAANG rates since you should be hiring a different class of developer (who couldn't make it at FAANG, like bad at LeetCode).
Ah now, the OP definitely has a point.

When Trump didn't condemn Saudi Arabia it was the worst thing any US president had done, when Biden does the same it's crickets.

Like, I hated Trump and I'm pretty happy with Biden, but to say that there isn't a substantial difference in media coverage is really just not true.
Couldn't disagree with you second point more: you shouldn't let dangerous tech "play-out". It's much easier to kill snakes just as they've hatched. Basically every bad thing about web and software in general was born as "play it out" and then it grew to big to be killed.
It's technological manifest destiny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k&t=36m48s
Well, this idea of a remote browser has some predecessors but the true lineage goes back to VT-80 and mainframes.
The "other side of the world" wars are mostly fought by the young, because they haven't developed enough skepticism to ask whether what they're being asked to do benefits the country as a whole, or only certain actors and industries. The old and rich start wars, the young and poor fight them.
Right, 10 years ago is e.g. Sandy Bridge Core 2 Duo systems. Thinkpad X220, things like that. Potentially even has USB3 and an SSD already, or can be upgraded.

20 years ago is AMD Duron and Pentium 4, pretty much just getting past single-core 1 Ghz (various 1.x GHz variants were announced during 2001). very different world.
* There is also a general understanding *

Got it. So when it was asked, "how many know they're on the chopping block if they work remotely" and it was redefined to ask "how many know their chances for promotion might be affected by working remotely?"... The answer is "almost everyone".

Many people will happily choose to work remotely, even if it makes promotion harder, because that's a good trade-off for them. Exactly like people will happily work from other offices.

So what's the problem?
Just wanted to mention I appreciate seeing a different perspective here.

I know there's a lot of negative reaction to it, and I can empathize with that because there's a long history of negative behavior by the advertising industry. But there's no doubt that there are benefits too, and seeing some nuance on HN is always a win.
Clever (YC S12) Acquired by Kahoot
10 year old laptops with 2 RAM slots can take 16 GB RAM (32 GB for the 4-slot desktop replacements), you don't even need to find some esoteric artisan slimline Linux distribution, you can just slap Ubuntu/Fedora on it and call it a day.

> The statement that "It's just a browser!" is not a good argument. The modern web is very resource intensive so you need a decent computer.

The modern web is resource intensive, but not that resource intensive, unless you insist on keeping a myriad of tabs open and active.

A Linux desktop with half a dozen webapps open in Chrome (and more tabs suspended) can still stay under 3GB RAM used (I'm clocking in at 2.2 right now), so it's still viable on 32 bit hardware.

3GB RAM dualcore notebooks were available 15 years ago, and for the past ten years you could retrofit them with SSDs for reasonably cheap.

Both together are like 150 bucks according to a brief ebay survey, that's a very low bar for "decent".
Aside: isn't it weird how often "email addresses" is shortened to "emails"? At first glance I had to contextually infer whether it was 215M addresses or 215M messages (pieces of mail) because we also often shorten the latter to "emails" when working through our inboxes.

If you're running a marketing campaign and say "today we finally hit 1000 emails" without further clarification, nobody will know if that's 1000 subscribers or 1000 newsletters.
Huh? Plenty of sites do that. I've noticed many US local news sites that block EU users. I assume that any other company that isn't already blocking EU users won't do it because they want those users.
So tossing it in wouldn’t cause an eruption or burn off the radiation. But if the volcano erupted then it could send radiation everywhere.

Interesting.

Is research being done to try figure out safer disposal of nuclear waste?
The auction house was just a terrible, awful idea. It became pretty obvious that they broke the entire premise of the game loop: do farming runs, try to get good gear that aligns with your targeted build, get real excited when that thing you were chasing suddenly falls into your lap, update build and go for more loot to realize it further. Instead you would just grind hoping for general "good" things, flip them on the AH for gold, then use that money to buy the exact thing you wanted from said AH for your build. Completely killed the little human spark from the loot roulette that basically underpins why people play it.
Read my comment again. You will see that what I'm actually saying is that McDonalds and other large national chains would actually end up stronger after hiking minimum wage.
I never see your conservative media in any of my feeds unless I specifically go out and look for it. To us Europeans it looks like you Americans blindly approve of everything Biden does because that is the news you choose to show us.

I don't think it is healthy that you need to go to the other sides newspapers in order to get a proper evaluation of what Biden does, why should I have to dig through fox news to understand the narrative?
> what else is there to do other than troll rando life forms (farmers)?

I would love it if we really lived in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe and "teasers" were really a thing.

> infinite energy, what would you gain

Also "they're coming for our water!" despite more existing in the asteroids and moons outside of our, and the Sun's gravity well. There's literally very few reasons to come to Earth other than to say "hi!".
I doubt the heat in volcano is enough that change anything at the nuclear level. Heat is just motion of atoms/molecules. The temperature has to be high enough for the atoms to undergo high-energy collisions.
Reading the article I now suddenly understand why this game is called what it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Cher...
This is neat. The german sailing forum has some guys doing ambitious DIY boat related electronics:

https://www.segeln-forum.de/board194-boot-technik/board195-o...

https://open-boat-projects.org/
Does anyone know anything about Klara Systems? I’ve seen their advertising pop up here and there but I don’t really know what they do.
What are your most frequently recurring points of criticism and what type of ads you find elicit the least criticism?
I've heard of proposals to do cooling via microfluidic channels, but the lithographic steps problem seems inevitable. at least unless you can somehow pattern multiple layers at once, which would destroy the feature size.
Jeff have you ever considered giving to specific people? It's quite ridiculous that college costs what you might give in a year, but $264,727 could concretely allow several people to attend college each year (state schools, community colleges, etc). Or how about removing bad debt, letting people rebuild their credit and start to save. I can think of myriad reasons why this is harder and less desirable (finding them, funding them, ensuring it has real impact, etc). But curious what your take on this would be.
Capital is the most conservative thing that exists. Any little sign of trouble and it flees. VC is not different, they just play the odds and invest in a way that the money is guaranteed back, but the optics is that they are "taking risks". They then lobby to have the goverment take that risk away, lobby against employees having power to never have any risk and so on. Capitalists are the most risk averse people.