skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disney may be smaller than Google, but they have a stronghold on media legislation. When it comes to media content, they know how to move the judicial system in their favor.
i think the public media publicity campaign was well organized but the on the ground campaigning to the actual warehouse workers themselves was not. IE there were more interested in a national story and just assumed they had the workers in the bag.
Any thoughts on getting this right using satellite data alone instead of drones? What are the challenges?
It seemed like an answer at first, but actually this answers absolutely nothing and I'm not even sure how it's related to the topic being discussed:

* This guy starts talking about sending USD, but ends up talking about receiving USDT. USD != USDT. And while there are problems with sending USD across the border, there're absolutely no problem with sending USDT. And there's absolutely no problem buying USDT wherever you are. (But, what's important, there might be problems actually converting your USDT into USD.)

* Since we end up buying USDT with USD, the word "Bitcoin" in the middle of the story seems redundant and actually confusing.

* There's nothing about Lightning here. I mean, you can talk about how you use Lightning to transfer BTC inside Strike as much as you want, but if BTC is irrelevant to the user story, so is Lightning.

* I'm not sure how Strike and this user story are relevant at all. It started out about El Salvador accepting BTC as a legal tender, and how using it in actual transactions w/o lightning is problematic due to low TPS. How sending USD to El Salvador is relevant here at all?
I was mostly just referencing him being famously cancelled by the right....
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Now I am curious to look at Swift's strings. I am a big fan of explicit encodings. I have long believed that an ideal text API would not use string as a concrete data type. Instead, encodings themselves (UTF-8 et al.) should be concrete types and string should be nothing more than an abstraction over them for polymorphism.
It is categorically absurd that the state is even considering compensating landlords for this. If anything, it is the tenants who should be compensated.
Once upon a time there was a plan to build a Museum of Crazy Americans. Just to inspire more randomness in the world I suppose. Unfortunately it ran into obstacles with the PC brigades of the day and the plan was abandoned. Always felt it was a very interesting idea to be able to view the entire spectrum of behavior in one place.
The main previous threads appear to be

Learn C and Build Your Own Lisp (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17478489 - July 2018 (86 comments)

Learn C and build your own Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10474717 - Oct 2015 (49 comments)

Learn C and build your own Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7530427 - April 2014 (145 comments)
What sort of trade might I ask?
How are they going head-to-head? The whole idea of strong-arming is that you compel someone to do something by being stronger than they are. If that's not what's happening here, then what's happening here needs to be described some other way.
this Brave logo is so close to ING Direct Bank's (look at their ios app), it's ridiculous. Once they discover you I reckon they'll get legal action to change it.
Bill Gates owned 49% of MSFT in 2007. He could have already hit 1 trillion by doing nothing.
Except NSA strengthened DES against this not-yet-known-to-the-public attack (differential cryptanalysis).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA's...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis#His...
Uhm how do you deal with imbalanced data? Like I mean 99:1 or something? I’m always worried about feature engineering - in the right hands it’s great but I’d posit that majority of DSes out there do not have said hands. Much rather take a random forest with no manipulation and shittier (and hopefully less biased) results.
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Apple launches new AR experience promoting Apple Pay Express Transit
In my head, this is the “we need rms, because we have Larry Ellison” scenario. If you don’t have an “opposite end of the bell curve” zealot, the extremists on the other side drag the “middle ground” as far as then can towards themselves.
I dislike unions. They made me lose work in dire moments of my life when I was out of high school. I avoided and continue to avoid secure good paying unionized positions or positions that has to deal with unions. They are responsible for a lot of corruption and high costs in nearly all government funded projects. During our internships I have had my fair share of unions horror stories.

But still, I can see why their presence or the mere possibility of their presence is beneficial even to me. Even after Amazon employees failed to unionized their wage increased and I'm sure that management got the message.

In Québec, Canada, a journal infiltrated an Amazon warehouse by getting hired there. They run the place like that would make any Chinese sweatshop look liberating. They use AI and surveillance to systematically fire a fraction of their workforce every year and watch them constantly. They run the place the like a bad cyberpunk dystopia novel. They even go as far as to penalize employees who go to the bathroom. Work accidents are common. They make workers rights look like an afterthought.

Amazon's effect on society has become too nefarious for what it provides. I'd rather pay 5$ more per item or shipments on average knowing that the people who are responsible for delivering my goods are treated with a minimum of humanity.
See "Brewer in dispute with real Sam Adams" (2007) https://web.archive.org/web/20071027024211/http://news.yahoo...
How to search Markdown content in JAMstack pattern
I am saving my content in a markdown format blob — our frontend is a WYSIWYG editor and save the whole blob into my Dynamodb.

What would be a good way to build the search index?
- saving the whole content as blob help me to render the contents later;
- but markdown format characters makes the search index noisy

Any good ideas?
For anyone interested in the sport, UDisc is the “go-to” app for finding courses, viewing course maps, and tracking scores. I’m not affiliated with UDisc, but their dev team has done such a great job listening to feedback from users and actually implementing features requested by the community that I couldn’t help but give them a mention.
They don't have the original versions though, just the CGI "enhanced" Jabba version.
> In that case, in 2002, a man named Larry Hope sued Alabama prison officials for chaining him, shirtless, to a hitching post designed for livestock. For seven hours in the hot Southern sun, Hope had minimal water and no bathroom breaks. At one point, Hope alleged, a guard taunted him by giving water to the dogs from the prison’s K-9 unit. When Hope conceded he was thirsty enough that he would drink it after the dogs, the guard kicked it over so it spilled onto the ground.

Wild that Justices Thomas, Rehnquist and Scalia dissented with the court, finding that the hitching post was not obviously cruel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_v._Pelzer#Dissenting_opin...
Well that's sort of a different point - what I was more generally trying to point out is that sometimes you need to optimise for stupid stuff (and win bigly) ... because people actually do stupid things
> undermining progress, improvement, and development

An honest question - whose progress? Whose development? Do workers benefit by turning that screw at 5:01?

There are many companies where laborers do benefit by having the freedom to work outside the box to benefit their careers, learn, take pride and ownership in a long-term project, foster their own creativity, and in aggregate lift the local community. I’d fully understand your point in such circumstances, and agree that certain unions work against those less-tangible benefits for their members, at times in excess.

But Amazon specifically has designed itself to destroy alignment between warehouse workers and company goals. Promotion from the warehouse floor is actively discouraged (this is well documented), turnover is expected and encouraged well beyond industry norms, tasks are rote and automatically fed, no project is long enough to foster ownership, no operating procedure or penny of local profit not controlled by corporate from afar. Does this sound like an a situation where labor and company interests are at all aligned?

Amazon will not change this status quo at the behest of any single individual at any level; it sees no strategic value in empowering any such individual. Organizing is the natural consequence of such a situation.
I wonder how maintainable this is even for clojure experts? Simple feature - add 'jump' control. How long would it take you?
People not able to scrape together enough for a down payment on a house aren't magically going to be able to afford one if landlords need to sell their properties. A decrease in market value of rental properties due to major increase in sales is just going to invite private equity firms that will come in and snatch them up from the smaller landlords that cannot afford to continue. A better system to increase homeownership would be to reduce the need for down payments. Plenty of people can afford a mortgage and the other costs of homeownership but simply cannot save up the initial investment. The government already offers student loans for tens of thousands of dollars with no collateral or down payment, why not do the same for mortgages? Obviously its a little different than college degree, you can't sell your degree to pay off the loan but I could see a future where some sort of federal mortgage program can exist.
It may be hard to model, but I would have liked to see how Asset Voting compared to the other voting systems.

Asset Voting seems to be almost unheard of, even among voting reform enthusiasts, despite being over 100 years old and one of the simplest systems out there. Basically it works the same way as a FPTP election, except that after the votes are counted, the losing candidates one by one get to reassign their votes to a remaining candidate.

It doesn't guarantee proportional representation, but it does solve the spoiler problem and doesn't force voters to decide whether to "approve" of a weakly-disliked candidate, or how to rank multiple candidates. The ballot papers wouldn't even have to change their instructions, and it can be easily counted by hand, allowing the votes for each candidate to be placed in their own stack, which makes the process more transparent.
Ah, the default theme of Microsoft Front Page 5.0
For reference, the total value of US household financial wealth is ~$100tn.

You can explain the rise in the value of a small group of tech companies in terms of the large increase in cash balances (as a result of money printing, fiscal stimulus, lower household expenditure) but, even then, the value of the stock market as a percentage of US wealth has only been as high at three other times: 1968 and 1999 (both times where the market folded into itself, and there were "must-own" stocks that blew up horribly).

Mathematically, it is not possible for this to keep going. MSFT does not produce anywhere near enough cashflow to "pay for" the increase. Eventually, people run out of other assets to sell to buy stocks.

The % of household wealth that can go towards stocks is trending higher. ETFs make investing easier than ever. But the ratio will still, logically, have to fall before it rises again.

It is incredible that it is going to happen again. Two huge bubbles within twenty years of each other. Incredible.
Are you familiar with the pioneering early 20th century work of Edward Bernays?[1]. He founded the PR industry.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Faulty handwriting recognition causes data loss. Instead of relying on machine learning as a crutch, we should design systems and UIs that can do recognition, but don’t discard the original data.
Exactly. DIDs don't need to be global identifiers. I can create multiple DIDs. Maybe one of them gets issued an identity VC. When required I may use that DID to prove my identity, otherwise use the other DIDs.
Great pic, didn't know its origin. I know it from being on the cover of one of the games in the Cossacks game series.
Do a few more tests, especially complex queries, you will see a pattern emerges. In my tests, It is definitely using the Bing index (not necessarily same ranking / filtering algorithms or the same version of the index)
>You'd be surprised how many times I've replaced a GBDT with logistic regression and had negligible drop off in model performance with a dramatic improvement in both training time as well as debugging and fixing production models.

Not only reduced training time, but also less data needed for training. Which is particularly important if training on time-series data for something that changes over time, as older data is less useful.
This definitely resonates with me and my peace corps service experience. The ability to communicate in not only in their target language, but also in their native language conveyed a since of, "if I can learn it, you can too."
Found the Amazon shill
"Are highly effective" is a massive understatement; they finance their campaigns and provide their unofficial retirement plans. The reward structure is what it is, and the behaviors that optimize for that reward structure are unlikely to change without somehow demolishing it and replacing it with one where the rules and their many workarounds aren't written by the beneficiaries.

"A politician is talking" should also at a minimum be treated with the same skepticism as when you encounter any other form of advertising. Even assuming the person speaking is completely ethical and aligned with your specific interests, it's literally their job to convince people of things. Assuming their job is "making laws" or "governing" is a lies-to-children version, they have to get a group of people to agree on some specific set of laws or policy for any of that to happen.
Things that can affect the credibility of your analytical data
Twitter is opening applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows
Not mocking people with mental health issues isn't "PC nonsense" but common decency.

I imagine people like you during Turing's time would have built museums to "crazy homosexuals" to mock them.

Thankfully, saner minds prevail.
Micronova.
A little unnatural for English, but this would work fine for Chinese script. Each character and punctuation mark is a monospace box. In fact, students practice handwriting by drawing characters in boxes. You can buy little elementary school booklets that have grids of squares for this.
Please somebody explain why it's downvoted. Ignoring digression about XRP, this is exactly what I read from the parent comment. Judging by the user-story above, all this talk about how BTC is being "sent" (which, as we all know, is a small lie on it's own, since unlike fiat, BTC is never really being sent anywhere) seems just to distract us from the fact that we just end up buying USDT for USD. No BTC involvement required.
In this case, a "well established method" simply means common-place methodology, not necessarily a robust scientific protocol.

The problem is the humans. We are not reliable witnesses, even of our own pasts, and unless we are following very strict diets, most of us essentially follow a mostly random walk with our food intake across a narrow range of food groups (even caloric intake can be wildly inconsistent over time). I've met enough people who completely underestimate their consumption of desserts, e.g., that they mentally reduce the occurrence of such events in their personal historical narratives. That alone could put many from both low-carb vegans and low-carb meat eaters into the high-carb category.

Which is the point, the worst failure of this methodology is that there is no evidence that human memory, regarding food consumption, provides an accurate measure over long periods of time. If you cannot establish the trustworthiness of the most basic tool of your methodology, then almost by definition it's meaningless. The error in self reporting could be high enough such that the true classification of 80% of the low carb group is actually high carb. Or the vegan group could be nearly half high-carb, etc.

Without a thorough vetting of the accuracy of the instrumentation used in the research (FFQ in this case), we cannot know the margins of error. But we have apriori reasons for believing the accuracy to be significantly high. Adding more people to the group doesn't increase the accuracy in this case, it only increases the volume of the noise. Is the True Low Carb ratio of each group 10% or 90%? Who knows.

If we can't validate the accuracy of the tools, it makes the results essentially a random choice between the possible conclusions. It means they haven't disproven the null hypothesis.

Which is why I favor some form of sequestration of smaller populations of similar genetic makeup (multiple groups for each type of diet), etc. But that is mostly impractical.
Hey, this is a book announcement, which I realize is a little thin on content for HN, but if anyone has any thoughts about what they'd like to see in the book we'd love to hear about it.

Masato and I are writing this to address what we see as a gap in Japanese-specific introductory NLP resources. There are a lot of great tools for Japanese NLP, but long time practictioners basically pick up knowhow along the way at some point, and beginners are confused by out of date documentation and tools that offer choices without explaining them.

Our goal with this book is to lay out why things are the way they are and explain why you need tools, what problems they solve (or don't), and how to make good use of the available tools, whether classics or recent innovations.

Especially for the English version of the book, we know there are people who will be interested, but we're not sure that they form a coherent community, so we'd be interested in hearing about what you'd want from a book like this, and what your position is that makes you interested. Are you an NLP researcher who wants to know more about Asian languages? Are you an engineer at a company with a multilingual site who needs to add Japanese support? Are you a CS student studying Japanese? There's definitely something we haven't imagined yet, and the more we know the better we can make the book.
Have classes for everything, this way everyone is in their own special class and everyone is a world champion. This way everyone will be happy right? /s
Windows 10 can do that really well too
Because security mitigations contained in micro code updates regularly impact performance.

I mean, no offense, but that is literally the focus of this article and this discussion.
Time for a two minute silence for the genius who predicted in 2008 that "microsoft is dead".

Thank god though, he's not into vc or tech related business, otherwise his utterlack of insight and foresight into markets would have gotten him kicked.
same. having read through microsoft’s horrifying open source code i thought they were doomed long term (they still might be). but either the market can stay irrational longer than you and i can stay solvent (and it will fail eventually), or it doesn’t matter that an implementation is so awful, software is so profitable in the limit that horrible coding practices are irrelevant.
I glued a small buzzer, battery and switch to my disc in the beginning to help track it down.

The Doppler effect was pretty sweet when you let it fly :)
I didn't say avoid discussion, I said avoid flamewar. You could start by dropping snark, name-calling, and cheap shots.

The idea that "the topic made me do it", i.e. that the appearance of some topic compels internet commenters to sink straightaway into internet dreck, is unconvincing. On HN, we want thoughtful, substantive, respectful conversation. Other users are doing it, so it's clearly doable.
Scribble has been less useful than it appears. Like you I simply write notes as I always have. It’s when I want to grab a bunch of writing and paste it as text into a message or other document that the limitations appear.
If you're looking for a good tennis autobiography, I can recommend Agassi's Open. I've even seen people not interested in tennis read and like it.

For a more technical one I can also recommend Sampras's Champion's Mind. An amazing tennis memoir.
With hyperinflation coming from all the freshly printed money there will be many more companies crashing valuation barriers in the near future.
So what? still better than "stuck with a kernel that's never updated, ever" ARM.
In addition to the coyotes that everyone else has mentioned, this is also terrible for other animals in the neighborhood.

Cats are FEROCIOUS hunters, and can quickly have a deleterious effect on the local small wildlife. On top of this, they frequently patrol other people's property, and, if they have indoor cats, can cause serious stress to said indoor cats.

It's just not a great idea.
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The missing automatic updates part is the thing that bothers me more than anything else. Browsers are very popular attack surface. And if you need OS update to fix those issues, many won't install the updates immediately.
I’ve worked in a union shop before, and that’s not how it worked. When push came to shove people would work overtime (and actually be paid for it!). I remember one department was under intense pressure for months, and the people there were literally running around to get their jobs done.
That is not true, and it is referenced as a symptom as early as 1993 in Driven to Distraction, the book I brought up earlier.
Same in Australia, is considered irresponsible to let them roam unrestricted, especially at night.
Unless you drive by car and say you are in 'transit'. Nobody in Schengen will/can stop you (or even check). With the exception of the border police having reasonable doubt you are a border commuter/worker.
The next ~30 years are going to be pretty interesting if EV and Green tech scales down oil requirements.
The point wasn't to excuse any facets of religion, simply to point out that there are stronger similarities in operational tactics to totalitarian movements than there are to garden-variety religious organizations, which in the modern age tend to calcify around dogma rather than act as engines of motion via constant revolutionary purges.
Yes, building the next level of abstractions and inferences.
I've actually run into this problem before. You just haven't, is all.
I'm assuming you're thinking of this Farnam Street post: https://fs.blog/2021/05/slack/
> couples live longer because they have more robust gut bacteria

Could you explain that a bit further please?
It would be nice to periodically screen law enforcers (edit: and correctional officers) for psychopathy.
Maybe recrutement should actively try to reject those most likely to be authoritarian bullies with power complexes.
> Even in the "good old days", labor in the U.S. won a rather Pyrrhic victory in that organizing became shoehorned in a narrow legal framework with narrow goals.

One factor in the fate of on organizing is that much of the agenda was codified into law. The 40 hour week, overtime, workers comp, etc. Not that these haven't been substantially eroded...

If they pull this off it will be remarkable. The president of the Teamsters is an accomplishment free 80 year old product of institutional nepotism that's been warming the chair for almost a quarter century.

I'm not holding my breath.