skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Media is a natural monopoly. without barriers you inevitably end up with the likes of Murdoch Media owning everything. You should know better than anyone else considering your employer owns everything from search to ads to videosharing in all the countries without protectionalism. I've had to resort to Yandex or Baidu when it comes to certain information clearly censored by your employer, and I know people in China and Russia do the same when their search engines censor information. VPNs aren't some secret technology only HackerNews elite can understand, everyone I know under 20 knows how to install one regardless of which country they live in. Without protectionalism there would only be Google. Everyone would be subject to the whims of the US government and people like you. I'm not an authoritarian, I'm simply someone who actually understands how information is controlled.

> But if I don't want to read Pravda or GlobalTimes, I simply don't,

And your employer Google makes sure to always keep their articles at the bottom of the search page and label them "state affiliated media", all while reporting searches back to Fort Meade. Whether or not foreign news is accessible doesn't matter if people are trained to froth at the mouth and yell propaganda every time they're presented with it. And that's the comparatively tame stuff. Try looking up videos published by ISIS on Google. You won't be able to find it. I'm sure it's purely a coincidence that the media that isn't liked by Google employees is exactly the media that gets censored first whenever you decide to "fight disinformation".

> I guess my question is, why are you using a VPN, or participating in a website that would be banned in China?

You work for Google right? Presumably you have been to the Bay Area? Did you know that nonwhite Americans exist too? The rest of us have to deal with whatever new fearmongering against whichever ethnicity/religion/race gets associated with the enemy du jour. Doesn't matter what I read if some asshole who just saw 20 coronavirus articles with pictures of Asian people and Asian businesses on their covers tries to smash my grandma's head in.

> you don't trust your own countrymen

Yeah I don't trust my countrymen because they fall for shit like Iraqi WMDs and then forget about it by the time it's disproven. Every time India/Russia/China/Japan gets mentioned on this forum or pretty much anywhere else it's a contest to see who can generalize and villify people from those countries and their "culture" the most. Why should newspapers and social media created by people like you have global hegemony? Why should the people of this forum, who clearly have contempt for Russia, control what information Russians see?

Your whole "free speech" argument is a charade given how much people on this forum and elsewhere cheered on the forced sale of TikTok. It's not about free speech it's about making sure your employer gets to control everyone's information no matter where they live on the planet. If tomorrow Yandex took over the North American search market and the US government bans them I won't hear a squeak from you.
Except that when you own a painting you actually own the physical painting. Not a key to a link to a URL of the file.
How JavaScript works: modularity and reusability with MVC
It would be helpful to hear your definition of staff engineer so that people can provide more specific guidance.
That's an issue with the hypervisor and not the image then, but I do agree that the GPU virtualization is a large and complex attack surface. Regardless, I see these as problems that can be solved with effort.
We could use David Michelangelo (in it's full glory) and i bet not a single Man would be disturbed (maybe quite the opposite)...problem he's mostly white.

It's a shame that a ~naked body is "disturbing" for US-Females.

BTW: Why so many human killing machines as alternatives? I feel offended now.
I don't think he is and taking his book which advertises his investments as a base for argumentation is kinda...fishy.

I linked several studies which clearly demonstrated that investing money in nuclear energy is not only a bad idea financially, it also hurts the fight against global warming because you can spend every $ only once.
I can't speak for the plant in Pakistan, I know nothing about this. But in the case of Germany, these types of calculations are pretty conservative and have been proven to be so over more than two decades.

I completely agree that construction costs of bigger projects are generally hard to predict, which in my book is another argument for a more decentralized approach.
Well done, I particularly enjoy the rug-plot layout and the “marginalized” densities actually being in the margin of the diagram. \o/

Aligning axes across plots/small multiples is such an underused technique imho!

(Have you considered writing the authors of the Distill article/making a PR to their article? Just wondering; your diagram is already nicely presented on your blog.)
Automated Feature Engineering – paper with Python code
This essay combines a number of guilty pleasures. There's the author, Gillian Tett, who is US editor for the Financial Times, and in an earlier life, a goes-out-on-digs anthropologist. She doesn't get to flex her anthro background often but it's a joy when she does, the piece comes from an upcoming book. She focuses largely on John Seely Brown of Xerox Park, still very much alive despite Dr. Tett's past-tense references, and author of The Social Life of Information (2000, 2017), a hugely illuminating read despite a few glaring holes (like the World Wide Web, apparently invisible to a Xerox careerist at the time). It's one of several reads from the dawn of the Web age which have grown on me. And the question of how work, information, space, and distance combine.

Please do give it a solid read. This isn't just another "remote work vs. offices" screed, not even hardly.

One point that many WFH enthusiasts (I am one) tend to miss (I prove myself the exeption) is that telecommunications actually amplifies the power of locality, in a sort of perverse paradox. The logic operates somewhat akin to Amdahl's law of computer parallelisation, in which the degree of parallelisation is limited by the unparallelisable portion of processing. For remote work, the limiting factor is the obligate localised functions, or the functions in which local access is superior to remote.

Tett's essay addresses several of these, most especially the difficult-to-capture, difficult-to-engineer incidental communications. Water-cooler chats, conversations overheard down the corridor, incidental meetings in tea rooms or canteens or lavatories, car pools, shared lunches. It's why Steve Jobs designed the Pixar studios with a centralised bank of washrooms. Being in a space, crossing paths with people, being familiar with their faces or voices, can be useful.

(It's also often not so, especially where both dissimilar and incompatible activities are placed proximate to one another. But the opportunity exists.)

And in a work environment where all the remote-comms tools are excellent and as good as possible, the temas working in proximity will still have the advantages afforded by localised contact. They'll also benefit from activities which cannot be provided remotely (though those may also substitute for services which might be provided at home or locally to a distributed workforce). Still, though, since Adam Smith and before, the power of cities and concentrations of activity to support a richer, more complex, more nuanced, and more specialised set of activities has been recognised. And telecoms simply cannot answer all of those needs, especially where physical presence of people, equipment, and/or activity are required.

Even if telecoms could do so, it would have to be conscious and aware of the affordances it is being called on to replace, and the role and impace those had on earlier practices.
Exactly. You could actually do something with that. This is a pre-step to a full return to the office....
Yes, but if your system is hacked, then any application (including your backup software) might "see" the file as unencrypted.
I've done +200 interviews at Amazon and I have never seen this happen. I only remember one single case where a HM was pushing to hire a clearly unqualified candidate. The Bar Raiser pushed back and didn't let it get through.
> Truly curious, is there no concept of sexual harassment in Europe?

Even in the US, nude art is not per se sexual harassment. Most workplaces will ban (non-work-related) nude art as part of an effort to create a massive buffer space around potential liability (among other reasons that don’t rely on it necessarily being sexual harassment), in part because the US has an unusually pro-initiation-of-litigation legal system (for instance, having a very high bar beyond merely losing before the loser of litigation is ordered to pay the winners legal fees.)

(There’s a weird sort of positive feedback loop where, despite distance from the law, people subjected to sexual harassment trainings in which employers, etc., imply that everything within the wide buffer space around liability that they are trying to create is “harassment” drives, if not the law, the public understanding of harassment, leading to pressure to expand the effective workplace definition further to create a buffer space around not only actual liability but the things people are likely to understand as harassment.)
Asked or told? Because it sounds like Told.
I really love my pinephone, but frankly, what doesn’t lag on it?
That was a barely noticeable bubble. Was it even a market? Just because a tweet and a song got sold, and others sold some art, doesn't mean it was a real market. It was a popular trend which ceased to interest people. Like fidget spinners.

It will probably become trendy again, once Bitcoin hits the 80's, if it ever will.
Many classes seem to derive 0 benefit from being in person. The help you can get online for a subject like statistics is light years beyond the classroom. If you can self motivate, both individual education and remote work can be your superpowers.
Well yes, exactly. The original painting has value exactly because it is not a copy. And "owning" the first tweet ever sent? What does that even mean??

At the end of the day "ownership" mostly has any meaning within the legal system. NFTs seem to create something akin to a shadow copyright but which makes no sense. Oh well, maybe I am just a simpleton.
> Why buying a company if you don’t want to make any change?

To collect its revenue.
> Human knowledge stand on the giant shoulders of others and patent and copyright with ever-greening and useless litigation are making it hard and difficult. Can't fathom someone can copyright a rectangle drawing and sue phone companies for launching rectangle phones.

How is this even an argument, given that patents expire?
Next laptop may come with a cryptominer, courtesy of Norton
Well, it's game hardware for "disabled", so this is one of the best threads similar to my question. Where people could have the same interest or know about something already.
I have had the privilege to visit concentration camp museums. I actually didn't have the feeling these were unintelligent savage places.
It was actually trying to be orderly, efficient and exceedingly bureaucratic. These institutions were very much a part of civilization. Everything was thought through.

They weren't run by man children.
Allocating 255 elements is not the end of the world. Unless the decoder is supposed to run on a memory-constrained platform, this is barely noticeable.
I think it's similar to all the super-liberal OS licenses that permit any usage of OS SW without warranting any kind of compensation for the original devs. Licenses that the devs themselves are putting in their OS SW. Why they do so I honestly don't know.

Which leads to a number of weird situations like maintainers begging for compensation from simple users while behemoths make tons of money out of their SW or pretty basic SW being undermaintained (I vaguely remember a case pertaining to a security related library a few years ago where everyone was waiting on an overwhelmed and unpaid maintainer to provide a security fix).

Dunno. Some things just don't make sense to me. FWIW as far as my projects go I license under GPL. If it's free for you let it be free for all. I'd hate to be in the shoes of Redis contributors. To me, if your work is being used you must be compensated. Anything else is just plain wrong.
You're confounding the work of art with a kind of certificate that is nebulously attached to the art.
You can pedal to your heart's content, but with the motor you will be going faster than you would otherwise.
It seems Accessibility measurement broke on web.dev/measure (the report mentions lighthouse 8.0.0):

Background and foreground colors have a sufficient contrast ratio - Error!

axe-core Error: Cannot read property 'filter' of undefined

This website had ~80 in accessibility before.

Edit: this issue was known before release: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/11384
> What constitutes "possession" of a key? How do we treat multi-signature arrangements?

These are solved legal problems. Cryptographic possession is a well understood legal concept that comes up all the time in contexts like custody of financial instruments or digital evidence.

> What differentiates a cryptocurrency key from a non-cryptocurrency key? Would this criminalize the holding of any private key at all, even if intended for non-cryptocurrency applications?

Intent, primarily, so no. The applicability of intent to the criminality of an action is also a well understood legal principle.

> What happens if I generate a key for non-cryptocurrency use and then someone later sends cryptocurrency to it? Am I going to jail? Do I need to rekey immediately? Is it my duty to monitor for this situation? If I'm evil, can I cause trouble by "spoiling" an enemy's known public keys in this way?

In this thought experiment with this hypothetical ban, this feels analogous to mailing cocaine to someone's house. Again, well-understood legal principles around intent cover this without issue. Based on relevant precedent for physical contraband, you'd presumably have no obligation to monitor for it, but you would have an obligation to report it if you discovered it and turn it over to authorities.

Blockchain ledger technology makes relinquishing contraband very straightforward. Once you discover that you are in possession of cryptocurrency, you can simply send it directly to a government-controlled blackhole address, and investigators will be able to trivially verify that this transaction is the only one you initiated while in possession of the cryptocurrency.

> Here's an exhaustive list of all bitcoin keys; you're now in possession of all bitcoin in circulation: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/dio/

The legal system has been around the block on this one. The concept of criminalization of the possession of certain bit sequences when they correspond to some meaningful embedding is well understood. Child pornography is the classic example. Any arbitrary sequence of bits could in principle be child porn expressed in some highly unusual binary format, and yet somehow the legal system has successfully avoided criminalizing the possession of arbitrary random numbers. But if you happen to have a decoder for said highly unusual binary format, then you are going to jail.

Likewise if you happen to know that your "random numbers" are in fact cryptocurrency-controlling key pairs and you harbor an intent to traffic in cryptocurrencies, lo and behold, those "random numbers" suddenly transmute into a cognizable thing that can be criminalized.

Intent matters in law.
Conceptual stuff like that is tricky if you don't already know it. I've found that visual explanation works best for building an intuition.

My approach for day / night type of questions:

- a soccer ball
- a toilet roll
- the lamp in your phone

When you shine your lamp through the toilet roll on the ball, you get a neat 'terminator'.
Tesla to buy more than $1B AUD of Australian battery minerals a year
Or even use an array of size 3, but include the IDs in each element and linearly scan for the right ID. As the whole array will likely fit on a cache line and you want to access all three elements in a short time anyway, this is likely no slower than a hash table.
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It appears that everyone mentions commute as a massive energy/time sink that erases many potential benefits of working in office. Every other claimed benefit of WFH is all very subjective and you will either enjoy it or not enjoy it.

But so many of us actually stay very close to our work places. Commute is either 15 mins one way or sometimes even lesser.
It is as much of a cheating as the co-pilot thing, yes.
I guess it shouldn't be applied to multiplayer competitive games.
That's somewhat true. Though in practice, you can just accept it provisionally as an empirical observation.

(Math is just as applicable even if you have your doubts and are missing absolute certainty.)
"Scientific consensus" seems a little bit like a dogma. The science of the mind and the philosophy of life on nowadays hegemonic culture is so in daipers that I wouldn't try to take it so seriously. I won't talk about your beliefs, they're yours and nobody is entitled to question them. The thing about scientific consensus though... Not so much.
> You're lucky your income tax rate is only ~50%. It morally could be much higher.

Can you explain the moral reasoning behind this? I don't understand how taxes figure into this. Those taxes aren't used, nor will they be, to improve the lot of those factory workers. If anything, governments are cooperating with China, and are thus definitely not improving the lot of those workers.

Those taxes, where well spent, will go towards attempts to strengthen those "shoulders of giants", that you describe as immoral.

I would think the moral argument of taxes is critically dependent the morality of governments. And when it comes to international politics, that morality is not just lacking, but they often act outright evil.

If you truly want to improve Chinese lives, it seems to me that your best allies are the US and Taiwanese military. The US, who is a clear break on the ability of the Chinese state's control, and those limits are the reason things are advancing in China. And the Taiwanese military who are prepared and "trying" (not able, just trying) to introduce democracy in China, which is the only way real improvement will happen. Give your money to them. Both have donation accounts.
The traditional method is to just write that stipulation into a normal legal contract. That's already the payment model for some types of art, most notably actors getting a forever cut of backend profit on films. This tends to lead to some creative accounting whereby profit is impossible, but it's still in the contract already. No need for the contract to be on a blockchain. Nothing was stopping Jackson Pollack from writing a stipulation into the sales contracts for this painting that he gets a cut of all future resales.

The only possible advantage of a blockchain here is if you don't trust the law, since the technology itself enforces a smart contract and doesn't rely upon recourse to a legal system. The downside is you have no recourse to a legal system, so if some owner of a digital good sells it off-chain (you give me cash, I give you possession of the wallet), there isn't much you can do.
In other words: par for covid drugs.
All IMO:

To be honest, that example is also the weirdest one to actually break through, and together with Snapchat the ones who took it farthest into almost unusable and still made bank.

(Yo, and I think a number of other tried even further down that street but has failed AFAIK.)
> "my fear is the biggest cost in the long run is all the single young men come in five days a week, and college-educated women with a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old come in two days a week, and six to seven years down the road there’s a huge difference in promotion rates and you have a diversity crisis"

And also divorce crisis in couples where she assumed more equal split of work and things turned out much worst then previously.
I would not be so sure about it. I am pretty sure, there are parents whose children have a (imagined or real) fructose malabsorption and therefore have to avoid fruits as unhealthy, or will investigate, that the fruits in the picture are from too far away, propagading a climate-harmful livestyle etc. etc.

And I bet most people did not know, that the picture in question is from Playboy, I did not. But still, so what?

It shows a attractive women in a slightly seductive pose. Is that really sexist? Why?
> It makes no less sense than a painting.

Well, the high-end art market is kinda scammy, is it not [0]?

I think it's pointless to pay millions of dollars for an original painting when a decent copy can be had for a fraction of the cost. And it would look just as nice.

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[0]: https://qz.com/103091/high-end-art-is-one-of-the-most-manipu...
After my last trip to IKEA I got a different impression. I get a feeling they are starting to cash in on their brand, you can get furniture with better price/quality ratio elswhere.
Google's Web Vitals page tracks things like Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), First Contentful Paint (FCP), and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). -- All of those metrics are visible in the Performance tab and are recorded by lighthouse.

From [1]: "The first reason is that cumulative layout shift will become a ranking factor in May 2021."

[1] https://huckabuy.com/2020/12/30/introduction-to-cumulative-l...
Hackernews, dino, FVWM, and vim don't.
Yeah, but how often is the entirety of Europe "cold, calm, grey"? Europe's power markets are pretty integrated. Just recently a new power line was inaugurated that gives Norwegian hydropower better access to continental Europe. Combine this with batteries, other storage technologies, offshore wind, natural/biogas plants and those nuclear plants that can safely be operated and all white papers and studies I have read say that we can shut down lignite coal pretty quickly and at prices that are competitive to a nuclear scenario.
This is my main pain point using default HN UI. I could easily forgot what current comment replying to. Good job!
Looks like these frozen funds resulted in gamedex.co not being paid for
I personally rather like the idea of NFTs.

NFTs could become gamechangers, in the literal meaning of the word. The project Enjin for instances focuses on NFTs in the gaming world. One selling point is, that you might be able to collect items in one game and transfer it to another. Collect a rare trophy in Fortnite and show it off in your Steam VR Home, the trophies uniqueness and legitimacy verifiable by everyone. Of course, achieving this is easier said than done, but an appealing vision for the future of gaming.

Also, it has historically been difficult for digital artists to get paid well, considering that copying their work is easy. I'm all for changing that. Yes, the image can still be copied, but ownership is it's own thing and some people are willing to pay for it.
You could try submitting the documentation/demo page for that new JS UI framework.