skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stories we tell are never cut from whole cloth, they are a constant mixing and blending of ancient tradition with contemporary experience. I don’t doubt that any folklore which has reached us from the distant past has been remade a thousand times but the heart of the story has likely survived. The fear of it is so intense it has been bred into us. The thump of something heavy in the night, the bristling silence of a stealthy, lurking beast. The glimpse of a dark fearsome shape. The looming threat of a powerful limb tearing you from your bed. The feeling that this presence is not simply some hungry and fearful animal but a malevolent intelligence that seeks to do you harm. You feel it deep within you, the fear not of tooth and claw but an inhumanly powerful hand grabbing you from behind.
2021 is critical for Tesla. They still make all their profits from selling regulatory credits to other manufacturers. More they make cars, more they sell credits.

FCA / PSA Group, Fiat Chrysler, GM, Volkswagen are buying ZEV credits from Tesla,
but there are so many fully electric cars coming to mass market in 2022 (like F-150) that the ZEV revenue for Tesla dries up fast.

Tesla's Regulatory Credit Revenue Will Rise Again In 2021
https://insideevs.com/news/482452/tesla-revenue-emissions-cr...

Tesla is selling electric car credits to Volkswagen in China
https://electrek.co/2021/04/01/tesla-selling-electric-car-cr...
The word strange implies otherness and inferiority.
Exactly, but it goes a lot further than RDBMSs. For example does the application expect that all items on a queue will be processed? If so then you need a durable queue and Redis probably isn't a good idea, and this will likely reduce the throughput of the queue which might change how it needs to be used.

One I've been bitten by several times is expecting APIs to allow me to read-my-writes, only to find that their underlying data store is eventually consistent. The integration point/API client on our end may end up being twice as complex or more just to handle that.
I sort of think you and antman might actually be in agreement here.
A lot of corporate gains have been at a cost of squeezing on labor resources in some form or another, either time, lower comp, higher productivity, etc. or some combination of these elements. There has been some innovation in general technology making improvements for labor but a lot is really just doing more, for less, and someone else pocketing the gains. You need look no further than AWS treatment of SEs in their PIP culture to see this.

You can only squeeze people so far until they finally step away. The only reason it's being sustained is that people don't have alternative options in many cases and are esentially forced to do it. At some point people will find other options and leave you on your feet but as long as there's a steady stream of desperate people ready to be subjugated to ridiculous working conditions, this will continue.
That may be but it's not necessarily how the covid deaths stats are collected. I believe in the UK for instance, the definition of a covid death is a death that occurred within 28 days of a positive test, irrespective of the cause of death.
"Picture us cooling out on the 4th of July. And if you heard we were celebrating, that's a world wide lie."

-Flavor Flav

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8EyAKh-XWQ
The civilizations in the Americas were certainly large and complex, but in almost all areas of technology they were thousands of years behind Europeans. It's a real stretch to label them "advanced".
I can give you some data from my own newsletter [1]. Newsletter supports both RSS and Pocket as alternative sources for newsletter issues.

~200 subscribers

~6% accessed their RSS URL within the last week

<1% authenticated with Pocket

[1] https://funnies.page
The license for this would be (very) similar to "Community Data License Agreement – Sharing". See all variants at https://cdla.dev
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I need everything to go to my inbox, including newsletters. It's the only place I'm guaranteed to look besides SMS and my calendar.

Then I just process them together with everything else -- take a quick glance at headlines, archive if nothing interesting, keep it in my inbox if I want to read it sometime today, label it if it seems long and I want to keep it for later reading at leisure.

The last thing I want is yet another delivery mechanism I have to check.

If you have a problem with e-mail overload, it's not going to be solved by adding another information source. It's going to be solved by tackling it head-on in your e-mail, and there are lots of methods.
Vote with your dollars folks. I'm 5 years in to an Amazon boycott and hardly even notice really.
But this is in the UK where active users were around 95% in 2015.

https://ourworldindata.org/internet
Are these the same drivers that wear Amazon vests, drive Amazon cars and can only deliver for Amazon? Seems like Amazon is doing some legal loophole with "3rd party" companies to get around actually employing these drivers and giving them the full time benefits they are entitled to by law

I'm so tired of this dumb gig economy that isn't long term sustainable.
I would offer, it would be nice if the title was something more closer to: “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
Frederick Douglass (1852)

When I saw the domain: "teachingamericanhistory.org", I have no context who or what organization it is, so I had no idea what to expect when I clicked on the link (I am glad I did).
HN really needs to look at these types of headlines -

They are written without qualification.

0.001 of Amazon delivery companies shut down

2 out if 2000 delivery companies shut down.

Are both probably more accurate.
FWIW, Jefferson's beliefs were remarkably complicated, to the point where even his interests in abolishing slavery were tied up in his belief that black people were inferior... and so like, once emancipated, he apparently intended deportation as the next, critical step?

https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slaver...
We can now have enough salt to last forever!
You use "wouldn't" to contrast it against some current situation in which he has an actual career that makes him the large payouts he wanted.
I have a decent domain and good knowledge in backend / scaling production servers up. Anyone can recommend a good white label / open source package which I can use to build a Migadu clone ?
> Laschet who was prefered by the establishment was vastly less popular overall than Söder. Laschet is now their candidate

I too was quite baffled when they went with Laschet. I've since heard the theory that the CDU leadership was worried that Söder would transform the Union party into an ego show like Christian Kurz did with the Austrian conservatives, or like Christian Lindner did with the German liberals. If they genuinely believe that threat to be worth taking serious, I can see why they would prefer Laschet. A one-man party is fine as long as the leader is going strong, but falls apart quickly when they disappear.
>Not because the incidence of disease is lower, but because it’s harder to diagnose.

While it's seems true that "High IQ can mask early Alzheimer’s symptoms"[1] I would be surprised if that could explain such a large decline in incidence as they mention in that report that while it did mask the early symptoms, that just made the decline appear more sudden.

The cognitive decline is really incredible, I saw it happen to my grandmother and she went from being a perfectly normal person to not recognising family members and becoming increasingly confused and aggressive all within a few years.

So I think even more educated/intelligent people would eventually be diagnosed (perhaps a few months later) and thus any effect on the incidence would be small (due perhaps to these people dying prior to diagnosis).

Furthermore, the Flynn effect is quite small, no - around 14 IQ points over more than half a century and now some talk of a decline, the "reversed Flynn effect" so it's not even clear how substantial an IQ difference we could expect.

If the decline is due to "improvements in childhood nutrition, healthcare, and education" then I think that's quite good though, as those are things we can control.

[1] https://www.heraldnet.com/news/high-iq-can-mask-early-alzhei...
Comparing packages to deliveries is apples to oranges. I don't disagree that these jobs are rough but 120 deliveries with an average of 3-4 packages per delivery paints a similar picture.
I've seen Normie conservative and libertarian friends posting screenshots of this. I wouldn't be surprised if the anti establishment left are getting the same thing.

Facebook is getting into activism, you should be very worried.
> "We refused their demands and they followed through with their threat, terminating their contract with us, leaving their employees confused and looking for answers," she continued. "We’re doing everything we can to support the affected employees including connecting them with other Delivery Service Partners in the area who are hiring.”

I'd love for that PR person to drive the route one day and see if they can meet the quota. I can't help but to hear a lot of contempt in her statement.
I think you may be hitting the nail on the head.

Spending so many resources creates an image or a sense of urgency. This sense of urgency creates pressure within the organization, which also would pressure even more so the employees that Google is trying to help. No quantity of metrics and calculations are going to reach this type of observation. Google is probably one of the least qualified companies to tackle this being that it is driven by a scientific mathematical calculus and is one of the most corrupting organizations in the world mainly due to their major privacy violations and manipulation as it relates to their search products. Other companies particularly those that deal with artistic areas are more likely to come up with useful solutions to this problem.

Google may be better served sending money to another organization to study and research how to achieve the goals of counteracting the under representation.
Pickle – Python Object Serialization
Bzzzt. :)

Yeah, that's the only one whose meaning you can't guess if you don't read Latin. Inventiones, as it turns out.
Just ask it to prioritize safety
Where Squeak Was Headed ... (1998)
Yes. Spying is way worse but they still do so.
Are these the same people who insist that scientists are lying dirtbags and are trying to implant these freedom lovers with tracking devices?
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins – Book Review
China Is Building 119 Mysterious Missile Silos in the Desert
Maybe? Might depend on the license, I doubt the courts would be amused.

Almost certainly a link would not suffice, basically every license requires that the attribution be directly included with the modified material. Links can rot, can be inaccessible if you don't have internet access, can change out from underneath you, etc.

(I am not a lawyer, btw)
I thought we were talking about our own individual choices. At least we can do something about them.

As the problem is described, I don't see any way how it can be approached.

- Don't want ads and tracking — Well, they exist and aren't going anywhere.

- Don't use sites that show ads — Nah, can't, don't have this luxury.

- Install ad blocker — Nah, don't know how or don't have a powerful enough device.

What else is there to do? Keep seeing ads, I suppose. Learn to endure them somehow.
Welcome to the brave new world...
But Copilot won't accurately tell you if it's directly copying code, and if so what the license is. If it provides MIT licensed code that I then need to include, how do I know that? Do I need to search for each set of lines of code it provides on GitHub?

When a person gets code from another source on the internet, they generally know where the code has come from.
It would just be nice to flag it as a misleading headline or something like that. This is from the guidelines:

Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

We should use the original title but something like a misleading flair would be helpful.
Jefferson had some of the most elegant words against slavery while perpetuating it himself. Jefferson the words vs Jefferson the man. His massive hypocrisy is one of those irreducible complexities of American history. And I don’t believe it’s pure cynicism. His words had major impact on the idea of America and were part of the reason the South (at least according to the Confederacy’s Vice President in his “Cornerstone” speech) rebelled:

“The prevailing ideas entertained by him [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. [...] Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it—when the "storm came and the wind blew, it fell."” —Alexander Stephen’s, VP of the Confederacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech
Yeah you’re right, that’s what I mean by manual labour, there’s no ability last I checked to break on any exceptions. But in any case of a reproducible issue you’re not stuck, is all I mean.
Programmers and Depression: Jason Humphrey
Article by Jason Humphrey.

Mental health is a serious topic and often avoided because it’s hard to talk about.

You won’t hear me saying that any one thing I recommend here will fix coding depression.

Instead, let’s talk through actions we can take right now and focus our efforts there.

1. Go outside

2. Sleep

3. Physical activity

4. Confidence

5. Comparison

6. Reminiscing

7. Be a part of a community - Find local events, build projects together, and form a community you enjoy so you get that face-to-face interaction. It’s harder to feel coding depression in a group. Not to say you can’t feel depression, but having the support of a community can help combat it.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/programmers-depression-why-one-talks-8-powerful-ways-jason-humphrey
And throw packages like they don't care, as they should.
What are you using that is even close to the same, offers a similar return guarantees and contactless due to covid?
That's kind of tricky considering how much stronger and more robust an average Neanderthal would have been compared to an average Sapiens.
They openly claim it is an AI. What about the state of AI currently in use made you think that there was any intelligence behind it?
> autists

exhibit a?

underrepresentation is clearly a context, and the context is clear, you missed it and chose to assume everyone else is wrong
If it is so popular in America then the Legislative branch should have no problem bringing it to fruition.
Every front office finance project I have ever worked on has used floating point, so take the dogma with a grain of salt. It depends entirely on the context.
I'm not firmly for or against the concept of Copilot, but it's fascinating to me that it will introduce an entirely new class of bugs. Rather than specific mistakes in certain blocks of code and edge case errors in handling certain inputs, now we're going to have lazy/overworked/junior developers getting complacent and committing code they haven't reviewed that isn't even close to their intent. Like you could have a backend method that was supposed to run a database query, but instead it sends the content of an arbitrary variable in a POST request to a third-party API or invokes a shell to run `rm -rf /`.
They predicted it, all right - it was supposed to happen in 2005. What a joke...

Even now, there is no climate crisis whatsoever. And on top of that, taxpayers don't give a damn about it. The hoax is totally dead!

Only globalists, crony capitalists and climatists care - because they want control, money, and power.
I have approached them with similar questions and they made the change without any hassle.
Facebook has been into activism for a long time. They are just being slightly more obvious about it now.

But, yeah, "worried" is appropriate.
I won't ever purchase anything from Amazon that is edible or goes on my body (cosmetics in particular) because of their counterfeit problem. I also try to buy from best buy or other competitors for electronics. Often the price difference might only be 1% or so.

I'm not sure the average person realizes how bad it's gotten and they have a lot of momentum.
Primitives isn't the right word for the Mesoamericans. They were a socially advanced society; their circumstances just didn't lead them to develop the large scale military hardware and techniques that Europe did.

I would assume they did loot guns and horses from their defeated adversaries, yes. The only scenario in which that makes you more and more competitive is when you acquire comparable numbers of said resources, and can use them as effectively as an army that has been trained in their use. I don't think either is the case, but this is just me hypothesising because I only know the high level details of the conquest.
Yes. For some brilliant reason (probably lack of time) they decided to do the migration in one big batch on the weekend.

As "Exhibit A" shows it did not go as planned.
Sounds like this dude was not versed on the safety features of his own car.

In case of electrical failure there is a large, easy to grab and pull, mechanical door release shaped and positioned similarly to door releases on most cars.

Super intuitive even once you are in fight or flight mode.

How do I know it’s super intuitive? Pretty much every passenger immediately finds it if I don’t first ask them to instead use the electronic button.

So my guess based on the article is that when he “threw his weight against the door” he didn't realize, and maybe still doesn’t even after the fact, that his hand naturally grabbed that handle which unlatched the door.
> an average of 3-4 packages per delivery

Do you have any source for this? It seems like a really weird assumption to make, especially given that Amazon will already bundle multiple orders into the same package.
Wow, bees nest upkeep, is a bit similar to people and their goverments.

I wonder how much of our society is directed by pheromones and dna mutations.
I know what you mean. There is a disturbing uncanny valley, filled with centipedes and Elder Ones
Totally agree with your "other side of the coin" assessment that this gendering of everyday objects could diminish the importance of gender overall.

To my original point, one of the most interesting examples that I can think of is how you gender groups of humans in Spanish or Portuguese. If I understand correctly, no matter the distribution of the group, the group becomes masculine once there is one man in it. It could be 999 females and 1 male and the proper way to label it is masculine.
I used to work on similar project around 4 years ago, It was a Java Swing application that received all the data about the layout from the backend. The system was around 14 years or so, they implemented themselves most of the things like IoC container, custom XML markup for constructing UI, custom Swing elements.

It worked surprisingly well. The thing that impressed me the most was the amount of documentation which even included tutorials on how to make new UI elements, Screens, etc.
Tools like xsd or T4 (in the .NET ecosystem) are great time-savers, but you would never consider directly modifying the code they generate. You would leave the generated code untouched (in case it ever needed to be generated again) and subclass it to make whatever changes you intend.

I think Copilot is so unfortunate because it's not building abstractions and expecting you to override parts of them. It's acting as an army of monkeys banging out Shakespeare on a typewriter. And the code it generates is going to require an army to maintain.
So far in this whole thread I still haven't seen anyone mention Cortana, even in a list like yours that included Mycroft!

I don't know I just like the image of MS's product being that irrelevant.
One of the remaining gems within my reddit horizons is the /r/AskHistorians subreddit, which maintains an FAQ that (amongst many other things) contains a plethora of academic responses to GGS. I have included below a link to the top and presumably most comprehensive response [1] for those who are interested.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2mkcc3/how_d...
> I'd take any notion that it « influences attitude » with extreme carefulness.

For sure. Similar to sociobiology, my original line of thinking can quickly lead to some offensive ideas.
No offense, but this makes my head hurt. Is that the real problem, in your opinion? I tried to read the article. I don't understand the point of the point.

It's a purely academic, useless bla bla at a time when we may be witnessing the actual sunset of American democracy, and in fact, Western democracy.
They show lots of desserts, it seems like the tobacco companies banning advertising for the nicotine patch on their cigarettes TV channel.
It did actually! All the brain scan images of the actual IT operations folks involved showed very strange signs! /s
They had better tech and horses. Certainly not "outnumbering" them. That + their immune systems is why they won.
It would be super easy for me to not say anything for two years for a million dollars.
You seem to be assuming there's no reason these tools need a login system at all. Assuming they do and they're storing some kind of state or data for the user, how do you handle forgotten passwords if the user can't receive an email? A second free tier for people who can't be bothered to add a recovery email is too much work for a tool that's free anyway.

To the parent: Just send a validation email during the onboarding process. Don't create the account until they validate. And DO rate limit the number of these sent to any given address and the number of signup attempts by IP / fingerprint. Captchas are also good, but just for slowing fakes down.
Illinois EnergyProf did a pretty good video on this!

Natural Nuclear Reactor / 9m26s => https://youtu.be/pMjXAAxgR-M
What’s creepy about AI images I believe can be traced to the inputs. Give an AI images of people and it doesn’t have the same sensitivity to its own existence to preempt what we meat puppets find shocking and gross.
Isn't that arguing that MSM report what people want to know as opposed to people knowing what the MSM report? It's hard to know about something MSM doesn't report.
So you want to make a fiction podcast?