skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha! You described me to a 't' and all that makes sense. As a programmer I didn't want to risk my fingers even with a SawStop cabinet so I invested the money in a Festool tracksaw and Domino instead. No crushed foot injuries yet but man I wish I had a tablesaw to cut thin pieces from stock that aren't wide enough to fully support the track.
> For Russians happiness and prosperity are not associated with the smile

This is a very questionable claim. I think such association is true for humans in general and even for some mammals.

Their culture just discourages happiness. Look at the Russian literature - that's an ocean of suffering.
Chris Olah posted that he is involved.
Ah ok. I guess my comment came across as smart-ass and contrived. But I actually thought of the prose like this.
I don't know, honestly. I don't use folders. Either my email is in my inbox, it's archived, or it's deleted/junked. Most of my email doesn't stay in my inbox for very long.
Makes a ton of sense, thanks! Though the idea that critical banking information is just chilling on cluster-local drives rather than in replicated and continuously backed-up database systems is... a wee bit unnerving!
That reminds me of the slashdot moderation system - when a user gets modpoints they get to spend them on posts as they browse and indicate why they spent that modpoint that way (e.g. 'Troll' or 'Flamebait').
My company is buying back millions of its own stock, giving 0€ raise to employees.
You example is an example of the system working. It eventually got removed by mods, and the parent comment you're linking to called the behaviour out.

I'm not sure what you'd like to see changed in this case?
These "state aids" are coming from the mandatory unemployment insurance scheme that both employees and employers (in this case, Booking) are forced to pay in.

It is silly to now blame companies and employees now making use of the insurance that they paid in for years. Imagine crashing your car and the insurance is refusing to pay you, arguing "but you just bought a second car! you don't really need the insurance money!". You can claim it is morally wrong, ultimately the government set the conditions for these programs.

Also one thing to keep in mind: we don't know the exact conditions of these bonuses, they might be simply legally required to pay out the bonuses.
The real error here is public money being given to private companies.

Let them break

Fund people, not companies
Your comment contains a number of erroneous assertions about requiring "infinite" suppliers/customers and products being "fungible".

I am struggling to think of anything more fungible than electricity, and water, mail, and internet access follow closely.

Rather, the reason that competition is problematic in these areas is because they are natural monopolies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
It’s only work if you don’t like it. I worked far less last year on my military deployment but it was really stressful work that raised my blood pressure 40 points and resulted in serious weight gain.

Now that I am currently working from home where I can pet my cat, tend my garden, watch Netflix, and still work as much as I want I am happy as a clam.
>> Vaccines can be targeted to many different parts of a virus,

Same antibodies even if it is a subset.

It's the reason that the vaccine works whether it's a full set or a subset it still has to create the same antibodies that attack the natural virus.

That's also why antibodies targeting Ebola virus don't work on Corona because they're not the same Corona antibodies.

You're splitting hairs with flowery language and it feels a little disingenuous.
The reflection of the laser!
Probably another reason for a lockdown.
It was a deal where companies wouldn't discard the workforce in exchange for money.

It didn't come with a ban on bonuses, but it did come with a bunch of middle-aged white men frowning at different middle-aged white men for not pausing the bonus culture.
Reminds me of when I was tinkering with a little laser DLP/LCoS projector. I didn't have laser protective glasses, but I wanted to observe the open internal optical path of the projector, which probably had several watts of laser diodes in it, so I got a big cardboard shield, cut a little window, and sealed an iPad to it to watch the projector through the camera.

The iPad camera doesn't show any signs of damage so far, but it was not exposed to the direct beam path of the laser I suppose. I watched it for about a minute or so this way, and recorded a video of the little scanning lens in it with the 240fps feature.

On the other hand, this was a projector, so I'd assume the laser output can't be TOO dangerous, else the projected output would be hazardous to view.
This is a risky hypothesis, but could it have something to do with access to guns?

In a society when every stranger can potentially be armed, it might be prudent to somehow display the 'I intend no harm' sign upfront, and smile might be a good proxy for that? The 'the armed society is a polite society' thing?

Living in Europe, where owning guns is not common (and carrying personally very very rare), I don't feel compelled to display or require upfront any bigger signs of 'friendliness' to/from strangers, other than 'Hello/Guten Abend/Adieu'. If the situation becomes unpleasant, I can always leave w/o physical consequences (excl. assault situations).

In a gun-loving culture, I'd probably put more effort to lower risk of misunderstandings.
I think the point is that wind/solar have scaling limits. Sure they work today, and in the immediate future, but what would it look like to have 100% of daily usage delivered by wind or solar?

Don't forget political boundaries. Not all countries/regions have enough water for huge windfarms or deserts for solar panels. Also remember electricity usage generally grows with time, so how long do you think we can increase by x annually if land use has to increase by 470x?

Today there aren't any large regions where 100% of power comes from renewables and we really don't know what's it's like managing renewable generation at large scale. It's not a concern we should be totally dismissive of.

Think of the "worst" case more like we're trapped growing a solar installation and need the land from your home to do it.
Same thing is happening here in the US. For example, Trump's law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres took a $10m forgivable government loan for COVID relief [1] despite earning a profit of over $2m per partner in the preceding years [2].

1. https://pppwatch.com/loan/9581937109

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasowitz_Benson_Torres
(Not to pick on this project but) I think if potential volunteer developers first immersed themselves in the issue by volunteering directly for 10-20 hours at a local food bank, they would have a much easier time starting at a working solution (giving people food) and then fleshing out the existing/better solution using tech going forward. Another aspect could be donating some money and then following that money through the food bank system to understand how it works. That way the direct efforts would help and also make implementing a better solution much more efficient.
Quick story.

Got new internet service at the office a few years back, and got a bundled 'phone number'. One of the guys at the office (coworking space) needed heavy fax so... we got him the line and a fax machine. 18 months later, he left, and... owed me money. I tried to cancel the phone line part, but was told it was "bundled", and the 'internet only' service was now $10 more than the old bundle service.

I called every 4-6 months to ask for the service to be removed and to get lower pricing. Nope. Nope. Nope.

A few months ago I called and explained the situation to the woman. I then said "fine - give me the higher price. I just don't care any more. Joe still owes me $500, and every time I see that stupid phone line on the bill, I think of Joe and I can't deal with that any more. Charge me more money so I don't have to think about Joe any more."

She laughed. A bit. Well... chuckled any way. "hang on, let me look up some stuff..." Silence. "Are you there?" I asked. "Yes, just give me a moment". More silence. I waited. And... started to play guitar. Just strummed a few chords.

She laughed again. "What's that?"

"I'm playing my own hold music, since you don't have any on your end".

I got a strong chuckle out of that.

"Any requests? Any favorite chords?"

"B".

So I played a B chord.

Then waited a bit longer.

"OK, I can get you back on the previous bundled price, but without the phone line any longer. Will there be anything else?"

SUCCESS! It just took 15 months of calling and a B chord.
The site guidelines say "Be kind" for deep reason, and we attempt to encourage that in every way we know how. I don't know who you think "hn considers to be its audience" but the answer is: anyone with intellectual curiosity. That's basically everyone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm biased of course, but I also see more of this place than anyone else does (at least I hope I am, since I get paid for it), and comments like yours do not reflect the community at all accurately. "People on this site care only about decorum" is a cheap shot, and—speaking of syntax without semantics—is a cliché at this point too. People in this community care about considerably more than that. ("Syntax without semantics" is a great phrase, though. Did you come up with that? I like it.)

The denunciatory generalization you're making seems to me an example of unkindness, and so a little ironic whilst denouncing others for unkindness. I don't like seeing anyone unjustly accused.

If you, or anyone, has a good idea about what we can do to make this place more kind, I'd love to hear it (as long as it doesn't reduce to "ban my ideological enemies", which turns out to be what a lot of people would prefer, but is not viable given the mandate of this site).
I'm surprised anyone is surprised.

Here in the US we've spent several trillion dollars on Covid relief so far, and there's more to come. When you're dealing with a torrent of printed cash of this magnitude, there's of course going to be a lot of it that ends up in the wrong hands for the wrong reasons.
Have I Been Pwned Teams Up with the FBI on Password Leaks
> Dampier found that Charter offers 200Mbps service for $50 a month "[i]n neighborhoods where Spectrum enjoys a broadband monopoly."

Wow, and that's still a better deal than I can get from monopoly Comcast Xfinity service in Baltimore, where I pay $80/month for 100Mbps.

You read that right. I am paying substantially more than the monopoly rip-off price in this article, and have no broadband choice but comcast...
Check out the thesis of the recent bestseller Breath by James Nestor. Native American and other traditional cultures put serious emphasis on nose breathing, strictly avoiding mouth breathing. Apparently, consistent nose-breathing can affect nasal and upper-palate development, favoring a spacious mouth and straighter teeth. It can also help avoid dry mouth at night, apparently favoring resistance to dental caries. There is a book by a 19th century ethnographer who discovered some of this, titled Shut Your Mouth and Save Your Life.[1]

[1] https://www.consciousbreathing.com/articles/shut-your-mouth-...
Sounds like a good user story.

As an application user, I want to start a career as a software engineer, so that I may save my data from a deliberately crippled application.
> yet this list parades a Rust counterpart to Shellcheck as if it’s automatically better just by the fact it’s written in Rust

You're perceiving a sentiment from the list that I just don't get. All it is is a list of alternatives written in rust. The fact that they're written in rust, is really only valuable to people who are already interested in rust.
> Men tend to be ok with dying at work.

This isn't quite what you are referring to, but, back in the days when I had delusions of becoming a college professor, I had always thought I would die in front of a blackboard, with a piece of chalk in my hand.
I highly recommend checking out his YouTube channel [0]. He's an _incredibly_ thoughtful person and provides good lessons in staying focused and keeping scope down.

I consider him a mentor and his approach to software is something I really resonate with. He has a keen focus on software quality but understands he can't make everything perfect in one sitting. This approach helped me get away from decision paralysis in my projects and at work.

This isn't even mentioning how much I've learned about software in general from his videos. Whether it's debugging kernel bootstrap assembly, porting doom, writing a live feedback GUI editor, implementing syscalls, to messing around with the dynamic loader. He's really got a video for it all.

And he tackles each video with such clarity and careful consideration. I really can't speak higher of the man.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling/videos
All those interesting aspects which are not about synchronous listening are not stripped out when you have a personality-curated centralized list with a community and instant access. The problematic part is the “tune in and see what’s on”. Which is why many radio talk shows are also available as podcasts!
To get production EXPLAINS for problematic queries you can activate auto_explain on a postgres instance. For my transactional system i have set it up to log EXPLAINS for all queries that take more than 2000 ms.
Cannot agree enough. I joined a startup that very clearly initially hired for Russian cultural fit (friends hiring friends) and the mood was like attending a funeral on a daily basis. During interviewing, the hiring manager very cleverly had the minority of native-born Americans speak to me so I never got a feel for the actual culture.

I couldn't imagine working long for a place where every day seemed like solitary misery, especially remote during a pandemic, where rapport and ease of communication matters a lot. Didn't help that the quality of engineering work was absolutely abysmal (see friends hiring friends). Was contacting recruiters within a week.
> It is not entirely clear why or how this information became publicly searchable. Quizlet’s website states that all flashcards are set to public visibility by default — users can then change privacy if they choose.

Just a sign of how deeply flawed the base of our thinking about information is these days. Everything is public by default, in part because of the warped Google/Facebook worldview has been drilled into us by the likes of Schmidt and Zuckerberg.
How powerful are these passports for travel?
Russians can be the sincerest friends you know, smiling to you. They also can be your fiercest enemies, still smiling to you. Sometimes I think this is the source of the hollywood/McCarthy myth of bad russians. TL;DR: If all russians would play poker, the world would be broke.
A recently completed starter task for the project you are working on usually is a good idea. However, you need to make sure that the task is truly a starter task, not just a task that doesn't require much code. It is easy to create a task that requires too much time to do.

As for simplification, I think it's a trap and not worth thinking about. The problem with LeetCode is that it's the result of oversimplifying. People focused too much on a "hard" part of software engineering, that, over the years, they filtered out all of the other skills that matter: making sure that the new functionality makes sense, figuring out how to make code testable, reading other people's code, already knowing existing protocols, making progress even if you don't know everything, knowing when the quality isn't good enough, and asking good questions.
I think all businesses will charge more when there is no competition. It's basic economics.
To those curious: IIRC Extension fields can be described by polynomials.

Example: F_2 = { 0, 1 }.

f(x) = x^2 + x + 1. (This is "irreducible", which basically means it's "prime" in a polynomial world.)

Note that F_2[x] is the set of polynomials with variable x and scalars in F_2.

F_2[x]/f(x) = { 0, 1, x, x + 1 } (for each polynomial, take it modulo f(x)). This is because we know that x^2 + x + 1 = 0 => x^2 = x + 1
(please read = as "equivalent" - really, these relations should be modulo x^2 + x + 1).

|F_2[x]/f(x)| = 4. 2^2 = 4. This is not a coincidence. The degree of the polynomial
determines the size of the resultant field. For F_p[x]/h(x), where p is a prime and
h(x) is irreducible with degree d, |F_p[x]/h(x)| = p^d.

Another Example:

g(x) = x^3 + x + 1. (This polynomial is also irreducible.)

F_2[x]/g(x) = { 0, 1, x, x + 1, x^2, x^2 + 1, x^2 + x, x^2 + x + 1 }

|F_2/g(x)| = 8 = 2^3.

Edit: Also, I forgot to mention that the values in the
resultant fields F_2[x]/f(x) (and F_x/g(x) correspondingly) should really
have the form [v]_f(x), where v is in F_2[x].
That is, they are congruence classes modulo f(x)
of values in F_2[x].
Thanks for answering. Not being able to use the flag feature when a article is being used as fuel for culture war is an answer to the question I had. Emailing sounds like a useful feature through I doubt I will be using it myself. What I find as being an really good article getting unfairly flagged might be very different from others.

A standard version that I often see is when articles get sunk by shitty comments are when the author is controversial. The negative comments are focusing on the author, and often that dominated the article comments until the article get flagged to death. Fair? No. It is however a pattern that keep repeating itself.
Anyone selling "warp drives" that do not go faster than light kind of missed the point of why people are excited about warp drives.

And if the video @gmartire just posted is explaining the paper correctly, this warp drive also doesn't accelerate anything. You have to figure out how to speed up on your own.

I don't really see why anyone would bother doing any of these things. To dilate time better? I'd rather invest the same amount of mass towards a larger engine/fuel so that I can go faster, dilating time further and getting me there sooner.
PayPal's Data Warehouse Migration to Google BigQuery
While booking in fact got rid of 25% of their workforce
My dad's crusty friends refer to that as deflation for things you want, inflation for things you need.

Also official reasoning about housing costs ignores that there are huge variations in that prices people have to pay to house themselves. The focus on average market rates hides the reality on the ground.
Because they have too much piano and not enough slide whistle. https://youtu.be/EyofqsBQS5I
Not really. I've participated in public communication since I was a kid. IRC, public forums, etc...

Advertisers and platform monetization are definitely part of the problem, don't get me wrong. I just signalled that I'm willing to iterate on that problem. When my mother gets a call on her cellphone by a recruiter looking for me when we share zero relationships online it signals a pretty desperate issue in how data is being used, correlated, and exploited. The public side of these APIs is just an exacerbation of those issues, because they're the same APIs an advertiser uses.

You painting me as someone who is trying to avoid repercussions is interesting. Do you normally assume the worst about people when you debate them?
Stop using marketplaces and book directly, these companies have no risks and take 16% to 30% commissions. If consumers start booking directly, recovery from the pandemic will be much faster.
Anyone have other "novelty" terraform providers which are interesting to share?
Getting into gender biases is a touchy subject to many but I would highlight that (and this is all generalities, please don't assume this applies to everyone who identifies as this gender) men tend to be a lot better at single task focus while women tend to be a lot better at multi-task focusing. I'm in an extreme camp here as I'm a man with ADHD and thus tend to hyperfocus on tasks (or be unable to latch onto them) to the detriment of other tasks.

But I'd actually disagree about gender being the primary drive of this - I'd instead state that the "young" (vaguely defined) tend to be more willing to invest everything singlemindedly compared to the "mature". With an understanding that gender also seems to contribute this but also contributes to maturity with women tending to mature to the idea of having a family at a younger age then men.
I don't know about in the mines, but there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_diamond

I imagine a similar phenomenon exists for other mineral resources.
British Cops Thought They Were Raiding a Weed Farm, but Found Bitcoin Instead
So if I design and build a bridge using sub-standard materials and the city discovers it before it collapses and kills people, you shouldn't be able to charge me?

There are lots of areas of law where this concept, or similar ones, crop up - that's all I'm saying. Pretending it "doesn't make sense" is illogical, because we've made (legal) sense of it.
Likewise, thank you — what you say is new knowledge for me :)
Yeah, the form lists me as a limited partner in the partnership and lists my purchase price of the ETF as "capital contributed during the year" and my sale price of the ETF as "withdrawals & distributions".

I really don't understand why trading that particular ETF triggers this tax form vs listing the gain or loss on a 1099 just like every other stock or fund I traded. Probably something about the underlying currency trading? But if I had known it was going to mean spending hours researching the correct way to file, I probably would have skipped that particular investment.
I am in favor of the way the prison system is run in Sweden; more broadly, the so-called "Nordic Model".
I like what you say. I also think once you are used to an environment, you can type in such a way as to make errors that will be caught by the compiler/linter/tests. So once it compiles it works. Sort of leaning more into the design side and less into the is this variable defined side. How ever, in my experience, there are design points you won’t get to without building up state in you thoughts for hours and hours. Deep focus can give you diamonds that cut thru the thousand little decisions that you encounter during implementation. That is why for big projects I don’t like to really start typing till I have the three or for maxims for the project.
"Paid less than $1 a day children are primarily coerced into cobalt mining work due to injury or death suffered by parents in cobalt mining, the inability to pay school fees, ..."
I don't think an ambitious all-or-nothing approach will pass in the voting chambers. It needs to start with moving to 4 days. In fact in some places 6 days is the normal work week so for them a change to a legal and cultural expectation of 5 work days would be a big step.
Thanks for the shout out, I’m half the team behind pgMustard, happy to answer questions here if anyone has any
But that's exactly it - if the goal of this language is to prevent the type of failures that lead to the mars orbiter issue, then its an obvious failure. There's no possible way an interpreted language only usable on windows or mac would be controlling a mars orbiter - it just doesn't have the features neccesary for that usecase. Mars orbiters don't run Windows (nor should they).

That's ok of course, no language can be all things for all people and its ok to have a niche. But when the primary example justification for the language is a problem that the language couldn't possibly address, it suggests that it is hardly a well thought out language.

Almost none of the criticism here has been about the language itself, it has been about the blatent disconnect between what the language is and what it claims to try and do. Maybe its a good language in and of itself, hard to tell. At a glance it doesn't seem particularly groundbreaking, but it doesn't seem terrible either. However, I stand by it being an abject failure in terms of the stated goals of its marketing material.