skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, that assumes that people are rational actors. They are not.

Second, if these people were trustworthy, they wouldn't be blackmailing you in the first place.

And once they get the money, what's to stop them from asking for more? It's not like they stop having the information once they get paid.
If someone from the team reading, any timeline on dynamic synonym suggestion and exact word queries?
Could this be solved (in large part) if key makers like YubiKey did I.D. verification on purchase? Then, to do the type of "farming" that's mentioned in this article, you'd need to organize a large group of people to all buy the keys rather than just submit a bulk order to Alibaba.

Of course this idea raises privacy and authority concerns, similar to certificate authorities.
This technology will surely help many people, especially on accidents and sensitive cases that need additional evidence and testimonies. If this will be adopted into the mainstream, I wonder how big that impact will be.
Which part of their business?
Even Shanghai has sparsely populated areas mostly used for agriculture. Someone just visiting the city is unlikely to ever end up there, though.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is not the same entity as the Russian Federation, two totally different political entities with not that much in common (except maybe KGB/FSB).

Usually socialist in the west, that supported the USSR, are anti-Russia today because the perceive Russia as nationalistic and conservative. It is okay to criticize Sanders past political praise of USSR, but mixing that up with Russia today is just nonsense.
Virtually any language can be "like this," these examples are all nonsense designed to stress the compiler. This code isn't supposed to be understood by any human.
This is unfairly downvoted. Much of the cultural indoctrination of Americans was to create a population that could go out and invade territory and commit genocide, which leads directly to this kind of antisocial behavior.
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It's a reference to the Unabomber's Manifesto
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> I believe that if all health records leaked tomorrow, the world would end up a better place

Let's say I'm a Saudi National, who worked in the United States. While there I disclosed to a doctor that I'm gay. I return to Saudi Arabia. This document gets leaked. How exactly does this make the world a better place?

Summary of possible outcomes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia#Su...

Notice the first line:

Same-sex sexual activity: Fines, prison time up to life, and capital punishment.
I don't know. You're just another shopper to them. The shopkeeper wants turnover, no matter who you are. Sure, they will look out for shoplifters more than regular supermarkets because their margins are even thinner, but if you become recognizable (patronizing semi regularly) no one will care. They may at first have some slight trepidation about returns (you buying something not knowing what it is), but if you become even semi regular, you're just another shopper.

I fee like this is a bit of weird "Othering" but dressed up in some weird sense of correctness.
Here's a fascinating Twitter thread about the history of aerosol transmission denial in the medical community, going back to the early 20th century :

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1391111720526024708?s...
(It's 100 tweets long, here's a more readable version : https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1391111720526024708.html)

The tl;dr is that 20th century health authorities went too far in their rejection of the 19th century "miasma" theory of disease transmission, and now the pendulum is swinging back again.
Does this case establish precedent that the fifth amendment applies to people in Kazakhstan?
Maybe in very flat areas where the interstate was preceded by nothing, but curves to avoid things in urban areas or for geographical reasons are more common. And HSR curves are gigantic; the Chinese build their HSR lines with curve radii of 4km. Texas uses a maximum of 1.4km curve radii and they have some of the fastest Interstates around.

The rail solution to that would probably be a tunnel. A tunnel is a cheaper affair with just two tracks than if it has to be wide enough for two tracks and six to eight highway lanes.
People routinely do end to end encryption with email every day using either OpenPGP or S/MIME. Heck, email encryption is where the term "end to end encryption" came from. When someone claims E2EE for some other sort of messaging system they have to at least be as good at it as the email case to be taken seriously.
Then again, considering the JVM's disastrous recent trajectory (Loom, JPMS, renewed wasted focus on Java-the-language, and so on) that doesn't seem like such a great upside anymore.
>No novel is allowed to lollygag around the point its trying to achieve in the way these articles flagrantly waste your time.

With barely less than a second's though: Watership Down, a hugely popular novel in the 1970s, spends untold amounts of text/paper immersed in detailed descriptions of the flora that the characters are moving through or eating.

Why not just say "I don't enjoy this style of writing", rather than trying to come up with some supposedly objective metrics for how other people should write?
This is an egregious strawman of gp’s comment. Gp plainly specified that they mean to distinguish between people of Chinese descent and CCP supporters. And there’s really no other way to play it if you oppose the CCP’s behavior and vision of international order.

The Japan example is ultimately a bad comparison. On the American side, it was much more transitory and contained narrative. On the counterparty side, the CCP is being much more openly hostile and normalizing atrocious, anachronistic state behavior.

Edit to add: Your closing attitude betrays a lot. If you are convinced in advance that American society writ large is determined to hate Asians, that is what you will contort your view to see. Further telling you ignored the data gp presented.
'gnufied mentioned a Windows desktop so the biggest problem would be noise, but what about portable Windows devices?

My secondary computer is a Windows 2-in-1. It's frequently running on battery power, and during that time, I often wake it up, check something, and put it back to sleep - all in a minute or less, repeated a dozen times an hour. If each time I turn the screen on Syncthing is going to run at full throttle for a minute or more, it'll drastically cut the effective work-on-battery time.

(This article popping up on HN reminded me that I wanted to check Syncthing out. But what 'gnufied described is a total deal breaker for me, so I'm not going to bother for now.)
How can there be a comparison without the prerequisites?

The words don't carry any meaning without context.

You could say "the veracity does not depend on the prerequisites" to mean "whoever enters the context will agree to the comparison".
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I needed evidence that 2 years ago I was in touch with that person - what was sent didnt matter, nor did i remember contents of the message at all.

If what's app was not crap you could search by date, but I had to scroll.
There's a tee-shirt I often see at marathons: "There will come a day when I can't do this. Today is not that day."

Marathons sit right at an inflection point of human ability. Marathons are often described as "a 10k run with a 20 mile warmup". That's not just a coincidence: 20 miles is right about how far most people can go on the usual metabolic pathway. At least as it's commonly described: 100 calories of glycogen per mile, and 2,000 calories worth of glycogen stored up. After that, you switch to other metabolic pathways, for which you have the energy but your body is screaming for you to stop.

I don't really know if the biology is valid, but the experience matches. It's 20 miles of basic effort that you've trained for, followed by an hour or two of intense but manageable pain. And when we've managed it, we know it's something we can do this year.

For me it's like checking a box. I do the training so that I can know that I can finish without embarrassing myself; I sign up so that I can force myself to run on the days that I don't want to, which keeps me healthy and in good habits. And all through I get to think of myself as a Marathon Runner, which makes me feel proud of myself.

I believe that pretty much any fundamentally healthy person could at least walk a marathon if they chose to. I've run ultras, which really is a step beyond, but I really like the way the marathon sits right at that point where many people could but most won't because they want to spend their time on other things. Which is cool, but I like that this is my thing, the thing I do.
At the expense of the pot calling the kettle black, this comment epitomizes behavior that I don't like to see on HN: the condescending and incorrect use of technical jargon in an internet argument that adds no new insight. In what way whatsoever are the natural numbers relevant to the post, let alone parent comment?

Please rethink signal-boosting off-topic comments in the future.
I suspect that doing the opposite helps trap people on the page, resulting in more money going to advertisers. If all the info is at the top, who will scroll lower (and see more ads)?
This is the correct take. When have they ever?
https://listentotaxman.com is a useful tool to calculate net salary (and generally stays up-to-date).
Out of curiosity why did you move from the UK to Bucharest?
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I definitely can't, I haven't seen a country where it doesn't work the same way as in the UK. I suspect the author gets confused by the tiered tax rates the same way everyone is, where they think that if you make 45,001 GBP, you are now going to pay more tax on the entire amount, rather than just the extra GBP.
This approach only works for syntax level changes, it wouldn't have helped the problematic changes in Python 2 -> 3.
When people say they are useless, it just points at the fact that they have a NEED to be useful. Unfortunately its hard work to meet that need.

I really like that Chuang Tzu quote but it isn't really true, for the vast majority of people, have no clue which tree produces cinnamon and which one produces varnish.

Very rarely do you come across someone who knows all the ways a particular tree can be used. And very rarely do you come across a tree that communicates clearly what it can be used for.

Some people dont know what they need or haven't learnt how to verbalize it.

Some people think they don't need anything, but keep showing up cause at an unconscious level some need they have is being met.

Some people are very clear about what they need, but want the need met from people who cant meet the need.

The only way to increase consciousness is to place 2 questions on the table -

what do you need from me?

and if the answer arrives - why do you feel I can meet the need?

These 2 questions are hardly ever asked and answered. So many people stay unconscious of the unique beauty in every single tree
In other words, you can't imagine this disclosure of data being useful for research, if it is done in such a way that individual identities cannot be recovered to it for the purposes of discrimination?
And it’s not like we’re running low on graphite deposits.

You need a lot of gas to make a bit of solid.

But maybe the process is better than direct combustion if you’re still able to use the process heat for something like district heating.

Better to get the carbon sequestered in graphite instead of CO2.
How many people do you think live in the EU? Because the largest countries (China and India, respectively) 'only' have about 1.3 billion people each, about 3x the EU at 450 million. Even the entire rest of the earth combined won't get you to "north of 20x" that number.
On writing.

> I believe programming, in this regard, can learn something from writing: when writing the first core of a new system, when the original creator is still alone, isolated, able to do anything, she should pretend that this first core is her only bullet.

@antirez: why `she` and not `they`? I know you are not a native English speaker (so am I), but I believe that's not the case here and was likely written so intentionally.
There was a paper here a few weeks ago suggesting that those who had Covid and the vaccine had the highest rates of immunity against the variants. The antibodies you generate to a natural infection will be different from those generated by the vaccine, and a diverse set of antibodies seems to be the best bet against random mutation of the virus.
I generally agree with the advice in this article; I feel like a lot of the pushback here is people who don’t like the system this post is describing. That’s totally fair! I share many of those complaints. However, in my experience the post is correct as a descriptive matter.

The one point I’d take issue with is:

> You have to be performing at the next level for several months.

This is definitely what you’ll be told (and was the party line at the FAANG company I recently left). I don’t think it makes a ton of sense though (so you perform at N+1 for a month, get promoted and then slip back to N?). And in my experience, it’s more often used as an excuse to avoid promoting people when they should be promoted and then avoid having to justify the outcome. (“Of course I agree with you that you’re performing at an L5 level! But you need to do that for just a little longer, wait until next cycle.”)

This is a somewhat cynical view, and doesn’t apply to every situation. However, I would advise any engineer who gets told this line (you’re doing great, just a few more months!) to not accept it as fact and push back against it every single time.
Price comparison example: https://shucks.top/ sometimes gets blocked by cloudflare. Most recent was getting blocked from checking B&H.
Try depositing 50k at any US bank. Instant paperwork. Try depositing 10k. No questions asked.
So I have 730k in bank account, but instead of using it, I borrow 730k and spend that money (how do you even decide "which" money you are spending anyways, it's all money) and pay interest on the loan? Why would I do that?
I believe Russia has the flat rate income tax. The author applied for visa in Tehran, so possibly that's how it's in Iran as well.
Throwaway account because you're not proud to take credit for what you're claiming? Don't worry, I didn't downvote you, other than with this post.
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> my recruiter disagreed. They were screened out.

Question: CAN this person do the job successfully?

WOULD they do they job?

Can you LIVE with them?

Sadly, the average corporate recruiter lacks the intellectual curiosity and bandwidth to probe for potential talent.

There are lots of amazing misfits out there, who don’t check off all the boxes.
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The super annoying thing about the Biden plan is that it retroactively affects stuff that happened this year that people weren't planning for. It should be a law that any changes to tax policy kick in the fiscal year after the law is passed.
Generally it seems the crypto tax complaints are from those who don't have any experience paying taxes from capital gains on stock sales or dividends.
I think this is a common misconception of its own. The three letter agencies would love to be able to see the content of messages. But the code makers have run so far ahead of the code breakers that this is effectively impossible. So they settle for only meta information and tell the people that are funding them that this is now sufficient for them to continue to do their job.
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This kind of firestorm was the result of bombing raids against Dresden, famously, but also in dozens of Japanese cities including Tokyo, where 100,000 people died in a single day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
The comment below the post saying a ~500 words "wall of text" is off-putting. :facepalm:
Participating in YC was hugely valuable for our team, we had great mentorship, access to an amazing network of founders who have provided advice as we launched Moonshot, and of course investors. I don't know what their criteria is for accepting us, but I think the fact we were multiple time founders that had built operational and technology company and that there is a big opportunity to apply technology to every step of acquire, operate and grow in our model. We also love the idea of building something like Startup School for ecommerce entrepreneurs. One day we hope that ecommerce entrepreneurs want to be a part of Moonshot the same way we wanted to be part of YC. Finally as we build tools for ourselves we could potentially make those available to the millions of ecom sellers out there.
In the global and indirect sense, it's for better for grandma in the same sense as it is better for the whole of society and the entire world. Privacy is something well worth preserving instead of selling to a large corporation and/or overreaching governments.

In the local and direct sense, it is no worse for grandma, and that is the point everyone is arguing. It will work for her use case while also being better in the global sense.
How long have you been working there (deposits are a major factor in mortgages here)?
Many European countries have flat rates.
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Sure, the goal of writing a piece of software is to have a piece of software, and the goal of writing a novel is to have a novel. That's trivial, though.

When I write a piece of software, I have more concrete goals that just write a piece of software. I'll usually have a goal (a TODO app), and maybe some ideas about which features. Sure, I might not know exactly how I'll get there, and along the way I might come up with the new ideas, but you don't start with the goal of writing a TODO app and end up with an application that processes DICOM images.

With writing a novel, well, very often the writer has no idea where it will go. This varies--some authors spend a lot of time planning everything out, scene by scene, chapter by chapter. But a lot of authors discovery write. That's what I do.. When I write, I'm waiting, hoping, to surprise myself. I want to go---oh what the hell is that!?

When programming, I go, Oh, I need to do that, to get this working. While writing, I'm constantly feeling my way through each word. I re-read it, outloud, tasting each word, and constantly asking myself: how does it make me feel?
Romania for example has a flat rate income tax for everyone regardless of income so you can just negotiate your NET salary directly.
One of the problems with acquiring e-commerce business is that most of them are not very well ran. Most do not even know their COGS or margins, thus making them horrible acquiring targets because you don’t know what you are buying. Might work at scale though. Good luck with the venture though, good idea.
First, this isn't true. The MLB operates like socialism for the owners. The value of the television contracts are overwhelmingly due to a very small number of franchises, but the revenue is split between all owners to subsidize markets with small fanbases. So you don't need to directly support a specific team for the owner of that team to get rich anyway. This is effectively why rich people bother to buy teams like the Marlins and Rays, gut the entire roster, get by paying the minimum payroll the league collective bargaining agreement allows playing to empty stadiums with no fans, and sell for a profit anyway.

Second, I haven't lived in Los Angeles for a long time and have never bothered to pay for any sort of subscription service that allows me to watch the games anyway because they tend to air well past my bedtime, so no, the value of MLB and LAD television contracts is not in any way directly contributed to by me personally.
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To explain this, since it took me a minute:

Rust has a syntax called "turbofish" for disambiguating ambiguous generic calls. (Coined by Anna Harren on twitter, the first reply is an illustration from Karen Rustad Tölva, the inventor of Ferris [1]).

Although Vec is generic over any item type, you can normally just write

let foo = Vec::new();

If you're doing something complicated where the compiler can't infer the type, you instead use the turbofish syntax

let foo = Vec::<u32>::new();

Some people hate this syntax. One of the better arguments I've seen against it comes (I think) from ManishEarth, who points out that it's very hard for the compiler to detect that incorrect attempts at writing a turbofish are in fact attempts at the turbofish and offer help.

That test case (minus some excellent poetry) is

let (oh, woe, is, me) = ("the", "Turbofish", "remains", "undefeated");
let _: (bool, bool) = (oh<woe, is>(me));

That is actually comparing the string "the" against the string "Turbofish" and the string "remains" against the string "undefeated". The test case is there to point out that if the "::" in the turbofish is removed (Vec<u32>::new() instead of Vec::<u32>::new()) there will be cases where it's ambiguous.

[1] https://twitter.com/whoisaldeka/status/914914008225816576?la...

EDIT: Fix my misspelling of ManishEarth
Of course none of this is new, but the lead time from Kotlin adoption to Java adoption of all of them is near identical.
It's a spectrum, not a black or white issue.
I’d start by introducing the same rules for the print media as there are for the broadcast media in this country. I.e stories have to be fair and balanced. show both sides of the argument
I honestly don't understand which bit of this quote, from your own source you don't understand:

“Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!” he wrote. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”

Is he saying that N95 masks don't work at all? That they only magically work for healthcare professionals?

Or is he very, very, clearly, even within the limited confines of a tweet, explaining that N95 masks are better allocated to frontline medical staff than being randomly worn by low risk people in low risk locations doing low risk tasks? That using those resources more effectively will save more lives and that people in those lowee risk situations can easily get protection by keeping a safe distance and following other sensible precautions that they list.

I can see how someone could intentionally misrepresent what he says, but I don't see an honest way to make that mistake.
I agree that it doesn’t make a lot of sense, but its a real thing:

>One second generation immigrant I spoke to said some Pakistani people campaigned for Brexit because they wanted to “control immigration in a way that was favourable to the Indian subcontinent”.

>“One of their arguments was that, if we leave, we’d be better able to accept people from the Indian subcontinent, professionals such as doctors, rather than taking them from Europe,” he said. “There was that strand that we’d lost control of immigration, that lots of people from eastern Europe were coming over, but, therefore, people from the Indian subcontinent weren’t getting a fair crack at the whip and it was that disparity. They felt the immigration system was unfair.”

>While EU migrants generally benefit from freedom of movement, those from countries such as India and Pakistan are subject to visa and work restrictions – a distinction that was played on by Vote Leave’s Michael Gove during the referendum campaign when he suggested that Britain’s immigration system was “racist”.

https://bylinetimes.com/2019/04/08/the-story-of-brexit-is-th...
I wouldn't blame MySQL for that. JDBC's default mode since 1.0 is autocommit set to true, and surely predates MySQL's success.