skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been more or less normalised in the Tour though. There are hundreds of similar episodes every year, which are just close calls. It's less common early in a stage when the peloton is so large, but hardly a rarity.

Close proximity to "spirited" fans is a part of the culture of the race (and other European races). And it isn't really practical to turn 2000+ miles of public roads into a sports venue with barriers, security, etc on a rolling basis for a couple of days.

While this person is to blame, it's a case of when, not if, future incidents occur with the current situation. For me some responsibility lies with the organisers.
The DMCA provides for a counter claim that would require Google to restore the alleged infringer's content unless the alleged owner promptly shows proof of a court filing against the alleged infringer. This is automatable, fair and allows Google to avoid litigation.
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Good faith is a lower bar than you think it is. Basically you can't screw someone over by firing them.

"Examples of bad faith terminations include an employer firing an older employee to avoid paying retirement benefits or terminating a salesman just before a large commission on a completed sale is payable. There have been relatively few cases in which employers were found liable under an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing theory."

Being fired by an opaque, capricious algorithm is not bad faith. It's likely more legally sound for Amazon than firing someone the "old fashioned way"—There's no potential for personal biases to get in the way, and I'm sure the software squirrels away all the necessary documentation should a wrongful termination suit arise.
In the nineties we came within an inch of having MS Internet. If IE with ActiveX had succeeded at displacing Javascript we would be condemned to having one corporation controlling all end user internet experience. We should count our lucky starts that they screwed up Windows Mobile so badly.
You seem to be talking about WWW and not the Internet. The Internet itself was designed to be decentralized, in fact that was a major motivator (distributed command & control in the case of a major war cutting off large chunks of the C&C groups from each other or eliminating them entirely).

Now, it could've been done in a better fashion, more deliberately, or more broadly, but there are at least two notable early protocols with decentralization/distribution in mind: email (consisting of several protocols) and nntp. Now an individual may still access a, to them, centralized authority for sending/receiving content, but the protocols themselves were meant to support a distributed architecture.
Many different thoughts on the subject.

Some of my thoughts:

1. It's been interesting few months with COVID and many people have been dealing with difficult situations all round, especially around mental health. We've all had more time to reflect how are lives are and the gaps. Know that social media and especially Tinder amplify all these gaps. Also know that Tinder is gamed. Assume many levels of exaggeration and outright lies from whatever pictures and profiles you are seeing. I'm not saying that everything you are seeing is a lie but understand it's not the full picture. So I would suggest stop using the App and others like it. Also, just accept that this is a totally exceptional year and you are not alone with what you are going through.

2. Welcome to the club. We all feel like failures in our life's at some point or another. It doesn't escape anyone regardless of how rich we are or how many friends we have, etc. It comes to us all at one point or another. Accept this for what it is - a desire and a need to change your current self.

3. You have a sense of what would make you more happier. More social interactions. Traveling. Doing more activities with people. Developing more friendships or deeper friendships. Lots of great thoughts on how to do these things. So take baby steps and start doing (exercise, working out, joining activities with others, etc.). Don't throw away what gives you joy in terms of programming and math. Lots of us try to figure out what it is that gives us that joy and you're lucky, you know already. Keep at it but start to take time away from it so you can do other activities. Accept that the feedback loop for going outside your comfort zone isn't going to be quick. Accept that it will take time for you to make changes in your life and it is hard. It's weeks and months and years process. The best thing is you are young and have the time to do it.
We don't need a new season of black mirror, they can't top off reality anymore
IMHO there's quite a difference between what's technically inheritance in an ORM (I am assuming you mean writing "class MyModel(orm.model):", not in-database-inheritance) and Java'esque tree hierarchies of classes.

The former is mostly about invoking a type operator / metaclass [1] to construct a model class from your declarative specification.

I don't know what the latter is about. I think deep inheritance (where deep means like "more than 2") are virtually always a mistake. Stuff like toolkits that go Object>Widget>AbstractButton>PushButton might be an exception but I'm not entirely sure, there's probably a better way.

[1] I think metaclasses aren't type operators in the strict sense, because they're not handed a finished type, but rather the declaration of a type, and then create a type. Maybe there's a word for that.
You can have web pages that dynamically fetch data without XMLHttpRequest. For example, one technique is to dynamically inject a <script> tag referencing the URL of a server-side CGI script which collects the data and sends it back encoded as a call to a JavaScript callback function to be executed on the client. It's not as clean, and it can only manage GET requests—so the URLs need to be unique to prevent caching—but it works.
Presumably, it's in the contract and the contract is iron-clad.

Many years ago, I had a friend who was questioning a lawyer about a general indemnity clause in a contract. The lawyer said, "Don't worry about it too much. The courts don't like it when someone tries to take away your ability to seek legal satisfaction." I guess that has changed.
There are only about 100k ASNs. It would be fairly easy to solve the bootstrapping problem by just preloading all the keys.
Here's an idea...maybe companies could play "nice" together...and have like a rocket "meeting place" where rockets basically go after they deliver payload. Then spacex's BFR goes up, some robot collects them all inside the ship and loads them...brings them home.... saving lots of money for everyone and spacex maybe pockets a retrieval fee per rocket based on weight or something....

This is assuming small rockets are also expensive and could save money if they could reuse them.
Diabetes rates for blacks is 11.7% vs. 7.5% for whites. That is a ~60% increase, but it's hardly an issue that only affects black voters.
I'm mainly focused on California, with a bit of a look at the US. Transportation is the biggest single sector source of emissions, and completely dwarfs agriculture:

CA (41% of emissions): https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ghg-inventory-data

US (29% of emissions, PDF page 3): https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2021-04/documents...

Industry is a big emitter as wel, but it also dwarfs agriculture. And since California is such a major agricultural exporter, it's not like it's offloading their agriculture emissions.

When I see people talking about meat as a big contributor to emissions, I assume that they are trying to drive a political wedge to stop any climate action. Not eating meat has a small effect for the climate, but causes absolutely massive political and cultural backlash. And it's quite likely that we will become carbon negative by 205-2060 without decreasing meat consumption.
We're getting closer and closer to Manna [1] every year. Dystopian stories are meant to dissuade building the dystopia--not to encourage it! If you're a software engineer working on a project with ethical implications, please consider the kind of world you're building.

1: https://marshallbrain.com/manna
There's nothing ridiculous about the fact that your wife enjoys baking bread.

There's a lot that's ridiculous about bread being so expensive that recreating the entire supply chain in your backyard is the only economically viable option for obtaining it.

The metaphor pretty clearly was not about critiquing baking as a hobby.
I agree and bill gates got it wrong in his information superhighway book “The Road Ahead”… They underestimated the internet entirely.
Users are not prosecuted in a huge number of jurisdictions already, so you must mean making the chemicals themselves legal to produce and sell.

Selling Fentanyl over the counter at Walgreens isn't going to get people off the streets.

It's going to put a lot more people on the streets.

This idea is DOA. Just laughably out of touch with the reality of addiction.
As long as you're grocery shopping in the United States, it doesn't really matter. I've spent most of my life in suburban and exurban California with several years each in New York, Miami, and Seattle so I'm no stranger to farmers markets and co-ops. The difference between homegrown and farmers market is much greater than the difference between farmers market and supermarket.

If I had to quantify it, I'd wager that fruits and vegetables from farmers markets are from 10% to 20% better than what you'd find in a supermarket. Co-ops can be as much as 10-50% better but growing it yourself with proper varieties is easily 200-300% better, especially here in California. Tomatoes with so much flavor that you can taste them through a tablespoon of ranch dressing (not that you'd ever need anything more than a splash of olive oil and a dash of salt with home grown vegetables).
Realistically, even fake meat sold as "lab grown" could be cheaper than normal meat if what they are doing is turning low quality meat into paste and forming it into shapes and stuff.
Like cattle not people?
I tried a few times, and on the second load of the page I got a single hydrogen atom, so I think it's safe to say they aren't excluding things.

There was recently a link, I think on the front page here, to an article about how many chemical compounds there are [1]. Based on that link we're looking at probably trillions to quadrillions of potential structures with atomic weight under 300, which would cover the structures I saw in my few reloads of the page.

Chemistry is wild. For an example close to home, taking table sugar (sucrose, a single type of molecule) and applying heat to caramelize it results in hundreds to thousands of different end products from at least half a dozen qualitatively different classes of chemical reactions.

[1] https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/chemical-space-is-big...
Having eaten goat a few times I'd say a goat is still pretty near inedible so there is no realized gain. Tastes may vary though.
Walmart delivers groceries to my door and lets me tip the driver in the app, have they similarly limited employment opportunities or do they expand them?

I’m not sure at this point, both are horrible corporations I’ve resisted as long as I can can, yet both regularly siphon money from my checking account.
> But it's effectively become the last version of Windows you buy, upgraded for life, and they made that retroactive to Windows 7 (do they still do this? not sure).

I upgraded -- for free -- a laptop running Windows 7 to Windows 10 about six months ago, long after the free upgrade period ended. I have a Windows 7 box that brings up a nag screen that Windows 7 is out of date and I should upgrade to Windows 10. This screen shows up every few days. So, they still do it.
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> How many yards is a mile??? How many feet? And… how many meters is a km? How many cms

Why do people always say this kind of thing as an attempt to criticize the old system? Miles, yards and inches are for measuring things in different orders of magnitude. Knowing how many yards there are in a mile isn't useful. If it was, everyone who uses miles or yards would remember. It's no harder than remembering the year in which you were born.
TAI is International Atomic Time. It is used as the reference point for UTC, which is defined as TAI minus a fixed number of seconds (currently 37). To add or remove a leap second, the TAI - UTC offset is adjusted. Leap seconds have no effect on TAI itself, which always runs at 1 second per SI second, as measured by a consensus of atomic clocks.
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I mean, Github Sponsors has been a thing for a while, but it doesn't seem to be too popular.
> I've no idea of the history of say Tabasco

The Tabasco story is really interesting and it's essentially the Sriracha of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tabasco is a private, family-owned company. They still grow all the seeds for its pepper crops on the same island they did in the 1800s [1]. Some family members were friends with Teddy Roosevelt [2]. I remember hearing, but cannot find a source right now, that Roosevelt like the sauce so much he had it included in military ration kits.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tabasco-hot-sauce-industry-60-m...
[2] https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Blog/Item/John%20Ave...
There is only one protocol, for file transfer.

Consequences:

* There is no live user tracking.

* Access control can be user/password or ssh keys

* You always have an archive of what you read

* You always have an archive of chats

* Everything is in principle decentralized (whether it is in practice depends on whether people keep files.

* Clients are in control.
This plus Safari desktop support for html5 date and datetime inputs will mean that soon date input and handling will be a lot less of a pain in the ass. I'm jealous of the young devs who will never even know how stupid js dates used to be.
Users have better things to do than constantly click "report spam" buttons on minor variants of the same content a million times in a row. People see spam reporting as equivalent to filing a complaint i.e. the company failed and they're informing it that it needs to do better.

Automation detection and privacy are orthogonal. The ideal bot detector yields a single bit of information: bot or not. It doesn't need to try to de-anonymize users or anything like that. As for UX, well, spam is a bad UX.
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This. I think there are so many changes that I'd like to make, but a lot of them stem from switching from everything being public and out there to being private and with restricted access. I would only hope that assuming things would be untrusted from the beginning would lead to a more securely designed web from day one. I'm sure that's wishful thinking, but still.
What about vertical launch from 10k feet up, or even higher on a mountain or something, would that provide a better energy savings?
> These sort of things usually end in tragedy.
> Hope you don't have any pets, children, or slow moving adults around.

What aspect of a garage door status monitor do you consider a safety item? This has nothing to do with the various safety systems built in to garage doors (IR sensors, pressure sensors, etc) - it just alerts the owner if they forgot to close the garage door. The bypass silences those reminders.
Do the restrictions govern how packets may be sent? Or do they deal with taxes, handling user information, etc?
Some things just need more memorization than others. I used a ton of flashcards for Latin vocab and learning the farsi alphabet but almost none for my CS classes (used notes for those).
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> Most states in the US have at-will employment

In the sense that 50/50 is “most”, yes.
The US health care system combines everything bad about government-run health care (slow progress due to heavy regulation, layers of bureaucracy, government-enforced drug monopolies) with everything bad about free-enterprise health care (inequality, market price fixing, uneven quality, lots of quackery at the edges of regulation).

We need to pick something. If we're going the free enterprise way we need competition, price transparency, quality and outcome transparency, more open markets, and much lower taxes. If we're going the state-run or state-insured way then we need to whole-ass it and vertically integrate and drop the state-backed private insurance hybrid nightmare.

The US does this pessimum thing all over the place. We are taxed almost like a more "socialist" country (unless you are rich enough to offshore and play tax loophole games) but do not get the benefits of one. Either cut my taxes down to Costa Rica levels or give me benefits at least as good as Canada please.
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Watching my med student girlfriend use Anki the past few years has been horrible. The syncing in particular is bad, as you pointed out - and bad in a "irreversible data loss" kind of way.

I've thought about trying to create something better, but Anki itself is so entrenched in some communities that there's a strong network effect - both through shared decks and add-ons. (Also, I don't personally have an application for rote memorization, so someone who does would probably create something better.)
Contractors get protections afforded under established contract law and principals of executing a contract in good faith. If Amazon has built a system that they know to be inconsistent or unfair or otherwise flawed then they are violating the terms of the contract.
IE6 was released in 2001, 3 years before Firefox 1.0.

At the time, it was indeed a gift and Netscape was already on its dying legs with Netscape 6, bloated beyond recognition
Anki has a lot of features and it's been around forever. It's tough to keep something like that smooth and sleek. But yeah, my original impetus for creating this was loving the idea of Anki, but having a really hard time sticking with it because of how clunky it is.
Funnily enough, also a "luxury" brand.
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You're only looking at it from one side.

What if I want to quit?

If I can't be fired, then the complement to that would be I cannot quit.

There needs to be a balance where I can quit the company and the company can quit me but where companies don't abuse the system (ex Amazon in this example). I don't think there is a great solution, other than a command economy (but there you are not quite free to change "companies" either).
IE6 was actually a perfectly fine browser at launch, the trouble was that it stayed current for so long that getting IT infrastructure to abandon it took far longer than it should have. XP and Server 2003 had a similar predicament.
Haven't heard of this before, but after some research they willingly didn't comply with any of the regulation. They allowed money to enter from US bank accounts. Binance has verification for the Fiat onramp for UK citizens. What i was discussing above was using already purchased crypto and trading it on binance on a VPN using leverage/Margin. A.) pretty unavoiable and B.) pretty untraceable.
For all the mistakes made with IE6, the modern web would not be possible without Microsoft's introduction of "XMLHTTPRequest".
Good for you. I try to as often as I can, not that it makes a difference though. I also definitely try to buy more things locally but sometimes Amazon is just by far the cheapest plus fastest option.
How is it a catastrophe? Why does the environment need domesticated livestock? Why does the food chain need us to be a predator?
>Microsoft, like Apple, is responding by doing what they do best, but, because it’s Microsoft, it’s the exact opposite of Apple: instead of more deeply integrating and doing everything themselves in an attempt to appeal to consumers, they are opening up and removing limitations in an attempt to appeal to developers, and by extension consumers who don’t want to be bound into Apple’s ecosystem.

This attitude is why I think Microsoft will continue to be successful and why Nadella is a much better CEO than Ballmer.
>I was trying to get her to give up on her no-carbohydrate ambitions

..but why?

It's already very hard to follow a low-carb diet.
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I don't disagree. The main problem I'm attempting to solve is the non-anonymous case. Even discussions on social media, where people are either "friends" or have the same shared interest, still devolve into discourse where few come away satisfied. Instead, many people feel either negatively critiqued or that other posters "just don't get it." Every time this happens, the sense of group cohesion frays a little.

I see this is as a problem of the medium of discussion more than anything else.
I grew up on Heinz, but nowadays it tastes overly processed and heavy (and too sweet) to me. I'll usually get Annie's if it's available. I'll still eat Heinz if that's what's there, but I don't prefer it.
How about mixed buildings? Lower floors with offices and upper floors with apartments.

This will work well for younger workers with no families who live with roommates. Almost no commute.

Once people have families they can move to other areas.
If you actually have concurrency, and you have the hardware able to handle it, why do you not have parallelism?

I.e., simply spinning up an actor obviously does not imply concurrency; the classic Erlang 'ping pong' example shows processes waiting to receive a message and responding when they do. Not actually concurrent, despite multiple actors and multiple processor cores it's a sequential program, not a concurrent one.

Likewise, if you have 5 processes all adding a list of numbers (independently and sequentially, one element at a time), but only 4 cores, you would have only 4 processes running in parallel at a time; a hardware limit. Up the cores, you can have all 5.

Can you give me an example of a concurrent program that is not also parallel, due to non-hardware reasons, in Erlang? Because switching the goalposts around - as you say, Erlang encourages you to write concurrent programs, even before CPUs allowed true parallelism, and because of that, once the CPU allowed true parallelism, it only required a VM tweak and suddenly Erlang programs were running in parallel. But you say no, that that wasn't the case; just because you wrote things to be concurrent, and now the hardware has changed to allow them to be in parallel, they aren't necessarily parallel. I'd love an example of that.
But that does not make for emotion inducing tweets.
I don't have a substantive response except to thank you for giving me a helpful analogy in future discussions on the topic.
Huh, not entirely sure what you mean. When you say readily available and updateable, what are you hoping to accomplish?
I dont think you can compare what Apple and Microsoft are doing at 2 completely different points in the evolution of the internet. When microsoft embraced the internet we didn’t have ubiquitous TCP/IP yet. It was essential. Today we have the bottom layers so what businesses choose to do on top is their, well, business.
...sure, like Carob was a foregone conclusion to replace chocolate:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/how-c...

As someone who actually had to eat Tiger's Milk bars as a kid, good luck at it.
I don't think you're using the word "executive" in the way that I usually understand it.
Guessing that site's showing composite-images?

Many of the images seem reasonable. They can have odd asymmetries that may give an unnatural vibe, though most don't seem to have majorly overt issues.

Most of the more overt issues seem to be melding facial wear (like glasses and ear-rings) into skin.

The most overt oddity was a woman with "stuff" splattered on her face.. I'd be curious how/why that'd be something that could be generated..

A lesser oddity was a man who had a mustache that appeared to be shaven on one half, but not the other.