skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody who ever said:

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
-- Donald Knuth, 1977.

would ever dare to call himself the GOAT.
For the kind of code comment we started this thread talking about (explaining why some simpler/more obvious process is not used), this seems vanishingly unlikely.
An academic sharing a set of views that are unrelated to the subject matter he teaches, posted on part of his teaching environment.

Make it sound like a noble stand all you want but he was being needlessly provocative in an attempt to get the exact reaction he got and stir up controversy. It’s deeply tiresome.

If a left leaning English professor put up a lengthy memo on racial justice it would be dismissed by many as virtue signalling, as a distraction from their teaching, as a sign of an oppressive environment, etc etc. Yet when this is done by someone on the right the exact same people consider it the pursuit of some grand noble cause. Give me a break.
There are millions of acres of insanely easy to access BLM land but it’s all kinda boring.
1. This is pretty trivial. Why do you think most scientists aren’t aware of their limitations?

2. This is studied in statistics classes. It is impossible to analyze data without a statistical model, so of course your conclusions rely on it. So this is also quite trivial.

3. Again, are scientists oblivious to this simple notion? I doubt it.
This is just my personal experience, after using this app for a good 1-2 months, and not using it regularly since.

The concepts and mechanics behind the app (accepting and feeling your emotions) is sound, but for me at least (and others I suspect), you will probably not get sustained relief by JUST using this app for 5-10 minutes a day.

I think for people who are just starting on their journey of accepting their emotions, using this app to heal yourself is like brushing your teeth, when you really need a deep clean from the dentist to throw off a lot of the bad habits that you've learned in your life.

I feel like once you've done a lot of that heavy lifting (essentially dedicated meditation, therapy, whatever), then this process will have an obvious payoff. Otherwise, YMMV with its effectiveness, and you may lose the will to use it.

Just my 2 cents.
Sure by the time there is a huge population of basically nations on Mars that may be the case but that isn’t in the foreseeable future. The New World existed as colonies for centuries before it had the ability to become independent and even then that more to do with Napoleon for South America and the rest of the world wanting to take Britain down a peg for. The US.
Seems to be Three.js :)
Of course consumers are making the choice. These places don't sell to nobody, they sell to folks who want these products. And so many of the issues with factory farming, like all the issues listed in the article, are a result of supply trying so desperately to meet demand.

When consumer's stop buying, suppliers will stop supplying. As a general rule-of-thumb for whether not any meat is the result of inhumane practices, a safe bet (_very_ safe bet), is that it _all_ is. Just don't buy meat at all and you don't need to worry about whether or not you're ethically sourcing the meat.
"Forums made simple.
Modern, fast, and free!"

How is it simple or modern? I can quickly see what programming language and frameworks are used but no overview of how the administration, moderation, and user experience are simple and modern.
This is obviously a topic that a lot of people have an opinion on, but in my mind both of what you're writing above are compatible with each other.

"Raw output" by which I mean things on the level of "code written/tickets resolved" probably scales pretty directly with undisturbed hours of work, which WFH isolation + no commute is great for. So I can see that type of productivity going up.

However there's a short term trap involved in that - since by optimizing for the above, you are neglecting the ability to get stuff done as an organization - ie benefit from everyone's insight, have things properly stress-tested and socialized, planning company-wide programs, etc.

The second bucket of things benefits from activities that hurt the first bucket (namely, in person meetings.)

Now, it's possible that most of the company is in role that are measured for #1 only, however #2 matters to the overall health of the company and long term excellence. So it may seem weird, if one is accountable for churning out tickets, that they are being asked to work in a way that's not optimized for that, but the answer may be - this enables other work to happen in the company which is required for your work to be meaningful.
Why not let your kids take the school bus to school?

Most suburban areas (and urban areas too) have a school bus pickup for the neighborhood. Showing up at the bus stop made me a ton of friends right there in my neighborhood, and made for some great long-lasting relationships that continue to this day.

Having friends that lived in the same neighborhood meant I could ride my bike to my friends house, or walk, or whatever.
I don’t think the argument was about which is more popular. Simply whether FB has “killed the Oculus brand”, and it seems these numbers suggest that it at least hasn’t been “killed” (though personally, I’m against most of the choices FB has made).
I'm not able to check out the video right now, but I certainly will. I enjoy all things related to the Apollo program.

My understanding is that the autopilot in the LEM was very capable of flying the spacecraft, but there wasn't adequate sensor or image processing technology to allow the spacecraft to precisely choose a landing site free of obstructions. The human pilot wasn't necessarily essential for the mechanical act of landing, but was (in the first missions, at least) necessary for selecting a safe landing site.
In this context: BLM?
I don't feel that Oculus could have done it alone with the Quest 2. Facebook's big contribution is the $300 price discount that they're eating with every Quest 2 unit sold.
This will sound terrible, but one theory why parents are so risk-averse with their kids is that 1-2 kids per family is the norm today. When it was more like 3-5 it was harder to keep track of all of them and they (the kids) inevitably did risker things. Moreover, the loss of a kid feels far worse if you don't have more.
Bureau of Land Management https://www.blm.gov/
Without regulation businesses can simply say that their chickens are healthier and happier without changing anything.

Are farmer john’s eggs just resold perdue eggs with a markup?
You can learn to push situations (using your behaviour) to obfuscate "what's actually a personal attack" greatly. Wrap your attack and words in the political language du jour, play to the biases of the moderator, there's a million ways to do it.
What, not 996?[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
The prices of e-books, which currently account for less than 1 percent of all book sales in Germany, are regulated by the Buchpreisbindung.

I must be missing something fundamental because I don't understand how you could hope to enforce that. If I was running a website selling eBooks I would not pay the slightest bit of attention as to the physical location of my customers.
Not everyone lives in California. Recreational land is much more sparse east of the Mississippi.
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The premise of this article is strongly supported by literature. Reframing your situation and interrogating your assumptions is the basis of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Stoicism. As a site that prompts you to do this, and helps you see the difference with juxtaposition, I think it is a good example of the practice.

But clearly your mileage may vary and others don't quite appreciate is like I do.

Just read Happiness Hypothesis.
“Upon examining poultry carcasses from Britain’s Iron Age and Roman and Saxon period, the archaeologists discovered these chickens of yore lived between two and four years”[1]

Edit 2: another article that seems legitimate suggests 10 years as the lifespan for the Junglefowl.[4]

I had difficulty finding the lifetime of wild Junglefowl, but they live longer than domesticated chickens e.g. “In captivity, the lifespan of the Red Jungle Fowl averages 15-20 years”[2] which suggests that the wild ancestors lived longer than you might suspect. Edit: Following the link shows that number is made up, sorry “Maximum longevity: 30 years (captivity) Observations: Chickens are considered a relatively short-lived and fast ageing species (Holmes et al. 2003). The maximum longevity in captivity of these birds, however, has been reported to be 30 years (http://www.demogr.mpg.de/longevityrecords). This is not impossible considering the large number of animals kept in captivity, yet remains unproven. For comparative analyses the use of a more conservative value for maximum longevity, such as 15 or 20 years, is recommended. Domestic chicken reach sexual maturity before six months of age.”[3].

This looks like a reasonable article about lifetimes of modern chickens: https://delaneychicken.com/how-long-do-chickens-live/

[1] https://thetakeout.com/chickens-live-longer-bone-dating-arch...

[2] https://wiki.nus.edu.sg/display/TAX/Gallus+gallus+-+Red+Jung...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20120206062215/http://eol.org/pa...

[4] https://animalalmanacblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/29/animal-sp...
U.S. Military Doesn't Even Track How Many Weapons It Loses,It Has Lost Thousands
That is a systemic problem regarding tort and liability, I would not blame individuals at the school or police for that. The solution would have to be systemic reform.
re: HTC - yep. And if you look even harder, you will find they are not selling it to consumers at all, and somewhere there is an interview where they actually explicitly saying they are specifically not selling it in the consumer market because of Facebook subsidising the Quest.
Whoah, missed that.
It's very weird to me that Americans have turned nature into Disney-esque amusement parks with clearly delineated opening times and their own little police force.
These days they may simply throttle entire IP blocks, there was a time when they would purposefully change the manifest file that was served to users to reduce the available qualities thereby forcing the client to think there was no higher quality video content available.
Pwning Home Router – Linksys WRT54G
Also to create a democracy.

> Our sites are all intended to be a sort of representative democracy. Moderator elections are an important part of that plan, but voting on questions and answers is the primary mechanism through which the community governs the site on a day to day basis.

https://stackoverflow.com/help/why-vote
Intuitively I think as long as your activation function is sufficiently expressive (e.g. not a step function or something), you should be go to go in theory since that’s what you’re feeding back. Might take a while.
I can't read the article, but how is this actually a problem?

Set up a permit system and call it a day. They already do that for popular trails/activities.
I have a page on my website where you can listen to a lot of bootleg recordings of Miles gigs, mostly 1950-70s. Enjoy!

http://www.adamponting.com/miles-davis/

All these can be found through SugarMegs search page http://tela.sugarmegs.org/

For best possible audio/video quality, join DIME torrents, which is where SugarMegs gets its stuff. http://www.dimeadozen.org/

Warning: If you're new to SugarMegs, prepare to lose a few days of your life. They have so much great stuff. Also, if you come across a set list that you can improve significantly (like you know all the song names), send them an updated HTML set list file, they really appreciate it.
Someone has thrown down the gauntlet at Square. [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/Square/status/1405222258206031873
> I hypothesize that productivity can be maximized with a 7-day workweek but a shorter workday to keep the # of hours constant, eliminating the loss of productivity between weekends.

I take it you don't have children, elderly or disabled family, other responsibilities outside work, or even hobbies?

Having a day free to go shopping, take a hike, do laundry, and even just not have to worry about stresses from work is critical. Having two of them sequentially provides even more benefit because for one of them you don't have to plan to get up the next day and go back to work.

The answer is obviously not 7 day work weeks, and obviously not 0 day work weeks, but is 5 on 2 off optimal, or is there room for improvement?

I have family who switched from 5 8 hour days (plus substantial overtime and on-call) to 3 12 hour days, and the difference in their health, mood, and energy levels is enormous. They get more done better at work than they did before, their job satisfaction is way up, and even their personal finances are night and day compared to before, even though they're making the same exact yearly dollar amount.

> 7-day workweek but a shorter workday to keep the # of hours constant

Why is 40 hours a sacred value? Why is it important that employees perform exactly 40 hours of labor per 168 hour period?

> eliminating the loss of productivity between weekends.

As a software developer with pretty free reign to do whatever helps the business the most, I would bet a paycheck that weekends create more productivity than they "lose". Over the weekend I've come up with ideas that saved hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. If I didn't have time to myself to relax and gather my thoughts, if every day was sitting there churning out code, I can't imagine I'd have even considered those things.

Thinking about it I bet I could even go over my past work and compare average productivity to weeks where I was just on-call over the weekend. I imagine there'd be a measurable drop after on-call weekends, even if I never was actually called.
Oh, I hadn't heard of that feature yet! Thank you, I'll check it out and let you know!
City of Shadows
What a BS headline
I don't think inkjet printers have anywhere near enough resolution to get WiFi/BT or even NFC tags - those things are incredibly complicated. I expect it would also take a whole bunch of engineering to get the printed ink perform well at such high frequencies
"Incompetent legal dept" is not a bug in the product.
Funny thing about quantum mechanics... we use numbers to describe probabilities and functions to describe probability distributions. But the mathematical models we use are incomplete (and, looking at neutron decay, incompatible) so can we really conclude that numbers are the right abstraction?

And no, not poems. Elements of finite groups are not numbers, but they crop up in physics frequently. Topologies are not numbers, but they're also significant in physics.
I was in Moab when the author of this article was. It was busy, but not honestly that bad, especially if you went to the park in the evening. We entered the park at about 5:30pm with no line, was all the things we wanted to see, enjoyed the stars coming out, and were home by bedtime.
Maybe? But the ironic thing is - if the prof let the lazy student be lazy and silently condemn them to mediocrity, nobody would raise a peep and everyone would be fine. It's only when the prof cares about to go take a personal risk to try to get through to the student (which they would only care to do because they care about the student) can someone complain.

So I think your comment is mainly unhelpful. The people you're responding to are making the bold point that the unpopular approach WORKED, HELPED and possibly CHANGED THEIR LIFE. Which is probably not in line with the traditional definition of bullying which is bothering someone out of malice, which sounds like is NOT what is happening.
If you read the author the original work, Gladwell got 80% right, 20% deviation on non-essential issues. Of course a pop science book can be said not representing the original research "accurately". I think the author focused more on the difference because there is Gladwell's book received too many backlashes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_(learning_method)#Del...
If the cookie is never used until a later date e.g. conversion, when the user clicks through an agreement, do you still need consent?

Edit: I honestly have no idea, I haven't read the regulations and I'm curious if any experts know. Seems sleazy regardless!
>"...Americans have turned nature into Disney-esque amusement parks..."

This comment makes me think you've never been to North America. The stretches of wilderness are truly vast; it's nothing like Britain or Europe.
Not true. I inherited the best codebase I’ve ever seen about 3 years ago. I make small improvements here and there, but the thing is a beaut.
Maybe could chain the networks together. An exit node on one onion routing network might automatically send traffic to another onion routing network.
Unsung Heroes of Britain's Canals: Lock Volunteers [video]
Wow I feel attacked. Its hardly Disney-esque, there are some delineated trails for safety and restrictions to prevent them from being destroyed by the millions of yearly visitors. If you want federally owned but chaotic there's millions of acres of BLM land, particularly in the west. Not every American is a blithering idiot.
I love National Parks and have done a ton of federal contracts with as a producer and photographer. But when I go camping - it’s far from the parks. I just spent 5 days out near Fort Rock in Oregon. Absolutely incredible high desert landscapes and epic skies. Nary a soul to be seen for days. Cougar tracks were visible on the trail. Creating a National Park here would ruin it. Sadly.
I disagree with one point on the video: at least in the suburbs I've lived in (various places in the South SF Bay Area, and Los Angeles), you could bike places. And I regularly did starting around 8 years old. I would regularly ride up to 4 miles out. And you could retrofit many of these suburbs to be more bike safe.

I think the far larger problem is cultural. It doesn't matter how safe bicycling is if there's a chance for your children to be taken away from you for letting them take advantage of it. That is also why my wife is hesitant about this stuff.
> People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

-- Banksy
Why is it weird to preserve and strongly regulate natural landmarks?
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I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

Americans like nature too much?

We protect it too much, including with rangers?

We have specific landmarks that are absolutely amazing and popular?

If you want to see specific landmarks (Yosemite valley, Arches), then they're going to be crowded because they're popular (for good reason. they're amazing). If you want to be deep in the wilderness with no one around, there are a massive number of options.
I suppose I don't care enough about shady altcoins to care about tether. I agree that tether's downfall would be a struggle for all those altoins. Bitcoin or Ethereum on the other hand will hardly notice.
Ew. Yikes. Wow, that's a special kind of special. The mind truly boggles. It had a score of 4 when I first checked it, but it looks like it got slashdotted by this thread/link and now it's -1 and probably still falling.

Good.
We Can Dance Around Environmental Problems All We Want. We Eventually Reach Overpopulation and Overconsumption: https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo....
I was going to comment about whether you were aware of SSM after reading the ssh keys one, only to be surprised to see the rest of them reference SSM

We don't even add a break-glass KeyName since SSM is available on all client OSes we care about, Ansible has it as a "connection:" mechanism if we need to do things to a lot of instances, and kubelet for everything else

I hear you about the cloud-init output, though

I would love if they used some browser trickery to grab control-w while an SSM session was active, though, because muscle memory is a harsh mistress :-(
Matt, I'm curious to know why?

If a person has jumped through hoops to say they don't want to be tracked, why look for ways to still do it?

It's like putting up curtains to keep people from looking in my window, but then you realize you can still see inside if you crouch down really low and look through the 1/8" space between the bottom of the curtain and the window sill.

This puts me in a difficult position of supporting legislation that might be overly harsh like the Do Not Call list back in the 1990s. It pretty much killed off telemarketing for a while. Sad, but the public got fed up with an entire industry that showed it had no regard for the public.

I've got friends who are in marketing and ad-tech and I care about them, their business and success. But when I want to withdraw my consent to be tracked, I want that same level of care and respect.
Also, Palmer Luckey is a weird libertarian/asshole, so who knows.. FB acquisition might have been a net benefit.
Economic policy is implemented by the parliament and the executive branch. It rarely closely follows advice by the economists. Even the Fed chair is a lawyer!
They're hardly amusement parks. Many don't have gates, but the most popular ones do need to control the flow somehow. There are roads, and trails, and sometimes lodging. People can buy souvenirs from affiliated nonprofits. Aside from that, though, there's a lot of emphasis on education, not entertainment.

Also, I've experienced an order of magnitude more joy and awe in various National Parks than in any amusement park.
National Forests are a nice balance between the two. Most trails are lightly trafficked, especially when you get more than a couple of miles from the trailhead.
Presumably they're not actually blocking the current location - just not using it to inform their selection.
That's true I forgot about the third designation.
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Very cool idea! Love it!
Every online shop has to consider the location of the customer because of legal requirements.
Don't forget National Wildlife Refuges!
Bureau of Land Management was in the news during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff
Map of "BLM" lands:

https://i.imgur.com/Czj3jmX.png
Personally, the nagging "I wonder if Google results would be better" is enough of a reason for me to not use Bing/DDG/etc. A search engine is a tool and it is hard to be productive when you can't trust your tools.
Great library. I use it to extract the references from scientific papers in my personal project and it performs well even on tricky PDFs.
It provides VPN-style protection against your ISP and does also protect you against IP address tracking. This means you and people in your household have one fewer data point that links you.
Maybe try the DarkReader plugin (for FF - not sure if there is an equivalent for other browsers)? I use it since hardly any sites that I visit have a dark theme available.