skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which assertion is that? My contention since my very first comment has always been that messing around with radio transmission when you don't know what you're doing is dangerous. My anecdote was an illustration of what actually happened when incorrect transmission broke a system for real, how dangerous the situation became, and how difficult it was to fix.

Maybe you disagree but I think the fact that the cause of the incorrect transmission was a hardware fault in that particular anecdote is relevant only if we don't think a user with the ability to freely modify firmware as we were discussing could cause exactly the same effect either negligently or maliciously. Otherwise, the argument being made is merely that not many people actually modify firmware in dangerous ways, in which case I refer you to the nuclear analogy in my original comment.
You’re confusing distinct UIs with distinct feature sets.
I don't entirely agree with you (obviously :) ), but I do admit you have a good point re what you call the free rider problem. If someone could e.g. just scrape the noun project and undecut them by providing the same thing (without having to put in the effort of assembling the collection), I don't see that being a desirable outcome, because presumably the Noun Project wouldn't have done all that work in the first place. Likewise for Netflix, et al. I'm not convinced the reason this hadn't actually happened is because of IP laws though, but I definitely take your point.
You're clutching a lot pearls here, but has there been any evidence for any of this every happening? There's mountains of evidence of how bad cops are protected by the union, the government policy, and even legally (hello qualified immunity, and repeated court deference).

Given the official reticence to hold officers to even the lowest standards of professionalism, what is your alternative? Throw up our collective hands?
As someone who has worked in banking, I guarantee is not mostly "low income" type of "paycheck to paycheck." Most people I saw come in for mortgages were often making 6 figures together if married. The reason they were often dirt poor is they treated their house as a equity fund to cash out on refinances all the time. On top of that they'd just have extravagant spending habits. That's not to say they aren't warranted because they certainly are. This concept of "paycheck to paycheck" should only apply to people below a certain threshold because often these people are the ones that it does matter most. Not people who budget for trips to the Barbados every year, have two $50k trucks and $400k house. These are people you should laugh at for living paycheck to paycheck. Simply because they are living extravagantly but subtly pretending that they have no money.
I really don't want anyone to be rated publicly on the internet. I've good and bad interactions with cops, but all something like this would do is accumulate latent negative experiences probably until all cops have some. This is furthered by apparent social pressure to publicly deride cops in general, and I'd wager that even someone who's had good experiences with cops is much more likely to only publicly describe a bad experience.

People don't only exist at one point in time, neither do interactions. I witnessed a woman start filming and getting in the officers faces long after it was evident that the person obviously needed to be taken out of the space. Maybe she posted it to her Instagram. Nobody's going to challenge that, even though she was more likely just trying to draw attention to herself and getting in the way.
It is not, all these publications follow their own ideological agenda. The Daily Mail is a different type of publication - a tabloid, publishing loads of "celebrity" nonsense - than WaPo and NYT which are more comparable to The Times (of London) but when you look at their ideological agenda they are no more radical than the NYT or WaPo. This is the comparison made here.

Have a look at the list of "reliable sources" as defined by Wikipedia [1] and decide for yourself whether there is an unbalance between the number of green (which translates to "reliable") "progressive" and "conservative" publications.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...
... except for the benefit already explained and, seemingly, with zero detriment because you and the other "I don't want to say please" brigadiers haven't come up with anything.
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It's easy enough to apply outside audits to something like Space Shuttle development, where the goals are not secret and it's pretty well understood what you are trying to accomplish and what your capabilities are. It's a very different situation when it comes to bioweapons research -- how do you let outside auditors into Fort Detrick without running the risk of giving some game away?
If I were to talk to a fulltime hourly worker, I feel like they wouldn't include benefits when they tell me their hourly rate (I didn't when I was one). You make a good argument; perhaps they should. Even if the conversions are somewhat sketchy, I think this would actually be quite illuminating, especially when considering things like minimum wages. A discussion for another day.
Just dump the shredded remains into a water-based mixing device, and then dry out the remains and launch them into the sun.
Smart technology is not making us dumber: study
Especially since most email providers count a single email addressed to 10 people as 10 emails. Get into a back and forth discussion with a moderately sized group and you'll hit your limit after only a few messages.
Location: San Diego, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rust, Python, sql, js, html, css, zsh / bash, linux, ansible, nginx, familiarity with many others. Strong in devops - I am self-taught and a very quick study, so I'm frequently building small projects out in new frameworks just to get a smell of things.

I discovered my love of engineering late in life, about 5 years ago, after a mercifully short military career and discovering that bar management wasn't interesting in the slightest. I would continue to code until I die regardless of whether there were money in it.
I would be an unconventional hire - I'm probably best suited to an unconventional team. I'm looking for a more junior role. I am a direct communicator and a self starter.

I love doing this stuff, and have no desire to break that passion on a FAANG or in the defense or adtech industries. I would prefer to negotiate salary rather than compromise on culture.

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/pksebben

Email: benmorsillo@gmail.com
4 or 5 people at the top of the DNC resigned because of saying mean things about Sanders and invitations to avante garde art shows? That's not how it works.
The harm is not just about the pain of those animals. Livestock farming pollutes a lot more than plant-pased food, it's a major contribution to global warming.

I feel like this is the number 1 concern and argument against livestock farming, global environmental "pain"
Names have been driven by cinema for a long time. The 1970 Jennifer boom is a famous example. This eventually led to a superabundance of Jennifers, and finally a crash.

https://nationalpost.com/news/the-jennifer-epidemic-how-the-...
That's only for lack of good tech — everyone doing it before was going against the grain.

That day is over.

Having a great PWA is now the default behavior for any half-technical company.
Lots of nostalgia in this thread. However, I recently started playing around with IBM's quantum computer cloud service and it has been by far the best experience compared to other players. Who knows, that might be their come back story!
I'd wager the thought process wasn't so much for enforced compliance, but a tax if you do not wish to be compliant.
I'm certainly not making some sort of general statement about "working class people". The specific review quoted above is batshit crazy. There's nothing "communist" about holding authoritarian public officials to account. The "Red Scare" was like 70 years ago. Chicago isn't even in the top ten of most violent cities. There are more black men in prison right now than were enslaved at any point in our history. We have more people in the prison system than any other nation on earth, in the history of earth. (That is true whether measuring by count or by percentage.) Most of these people were thrown in prison during the last thirty years, a time period over which all crime in USA dropped precipitously. Literally every nation on earth in history has been more merciful than USA is right now.

I'm not sure why you would consider an unhinged stream of emotional bullshit to have anything to do with "working class".
> single incidents.

Yes, dozens of them, year after year! Nothing to see here. Def not climate change tho, just a coincidence.
I appreciate the suggestion :) I will add it to my list.

Based on a quick glance at some synopses, it seems the author accurate identifies the role of police in society but perhaps doesn't adequately account for how society would change if the police were removed but the driving force for their existence remained in place.
How are you supposed to manage windows on Windows when it still can’t distinguish applications and their windows?
ActivityPub is the part that requires server-side logic. ActivityStreams is a more basic layer that can be entirely static or even serverless, and ActivityPub is built on it.
Post here -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699702 ;)
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Good point.

It could well be that our brains are more efficient (or more specialised) than earlier human / proto-human brains.

Given the prodigious energy expenditure of the human brain, any gain in efficiency or shedding of unnecessary capabilities could well be a net win.
Interestingly, Samuel Clemens wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer expecting to make money from it.

"By the time the prospectus and agents were in the field [TATS was published in the US by the American Publishing Co., on a subscription (!) basis], a pirated edition of the novel had been on the market for four months. [I]t is [...] likely that [a Canadian publisher, the Belford Brothers] set [the pirated edition] from a hastily imported copy of the British one [published in Britain to secure a copyright there]. Their version of the novel was available in three prices: $.75, $1.00 or $2.25 -- considerably less than the authorized one would cost. And there was no way to keep pirated copies of the book from coming into America along steamboat and train lines. ... The copy in the Barrett Collection graphically indicates what [Clemens] was up against on its titlepage, where someone (the name has been effaced) recorded where and when the book was bought: on the steamer St. Lawrence, perhaps on its way into America, and in September, 1876 -- fully three months before [the American Publishing Co.] was ready to sell any copies on which [Clemens] could make money.

"The delay cost [Clemens] over $10,000, according to his own reckoning, and contributed to the book's weak first-year sales. ... [T]he fate of Tom Sawyer not only soured him on the American Publishing Co; it also seems to have discouraged him as a writer. During the next five years he published only one book." (https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/tomsawye/tomcomp.html)
> You don't teach politeness, or manners, or anything else, as a series of actions to repeat unthinkingly.

Yes you do. Everyone and everything is deserving of respect at all times, especially the ones/things you disagree with, or dislike. The same is of every thing from animals to material objects, lest they wantonly waste and/or damage stuff.

This is why _every_ democracy in the world demands their politicians act with respect to their opposition. Some honor these rules more than others, yes, before you quote some breakdown of the process somewhere.

Which renders the rest of your post pointless nonsense.
Even ground includes labeling requirements and such. And it gets complicated knowing what to put. The reality is UPS gives no shots, the USPS is a bit stricter.
I'm not trying to nitpick, just trying to get my head around your original claim, which I'm tempted to amend:

> Black holes [above a certain mass] can't evaporate now because the cosmic background radiation is too hot

And that mass--the Stable-Black-Hole-In-A-Vacuum mass--it's decreasing. And whatever it is at a given time, more massive holes grow, and less massive holes shrink. Do I have that right?

----

I'm trying to extrapolate backwards to a time when the universe was hotter and the SBHIAV mass was smaller. It seems like there ought to have been a point when the universe was so hot that holes expanded greedily, perhaps to the point where the expanding universe couldn't escape. Golly I wish they taught cosmology at my local university...
you should let people photograph their builds step by step and upload them. user generated content would create a nice network effect.
I worked in a completely different world my entire career but I see something familiar with your questions. (I was a policy and budget wonk, a child advocate, basically a lobbyist on local government issues in DC.)

I successfully brought on one new staffer by having her shadow me (in formal and informal meetings with decision makers, community meetings, telephone calls, document prep) for a month and do a TON of grunt work, things like making lists of the various organizations working on a particular issue, what their viewpoint was, identifying DC Council staffers working on the issue, identifying their interests and learning styles.

I know the staffer felt somewhat constrained on the leash, but she ended up being so much more successful than other policy staff who did not go through this and do the grunt work. Though, thinking back, success may have had much more to do with my having conveyed a specific approach to the work, goals for the work, etc.
This sort of work should absolutely get more difficult for western scientists too. We’ve had several lab leaks that through luck didn’t turn in to pandemics. Certainly the costs of auditing and complying with lab safety is far cheaper than a global pandemic.
the gpl is never enforced. companies openly flaunt violations all the time.
If you know any Indian family ask them. Most Indian households make yogurt every day and the culture is months even years old. They will use latest generation to make the next batch.
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Η Τσεχία και η Δανία θα συναντηθούν για το Ευρωπαϊκό πρωτάθλημα στο Μπακού το Σάββατο το βράδυ, με μια θέση στους ημιτελικούς του διαγωνισμού αυτού του καλοκαιριού, για τις δύο εκπλήξεις. Η Δανία προχώρησε στους προημιτελικούς χάρη στην εντυπωσιακή νίκη 4-0 επί της Ουαλίας, ενώ η Τσεχία σημείωσε νίκη 2-0 εναντίον της Ολλανδίας για να προχωρήσει στους οκτώ τελευταίους του Euro 2020. Μην χάσουμε άλλο χρόνο πάμε στα σημερινά Τσεχια – Δανια προγνωστικα στοιχημα Euro 2020
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That's actually a negative for an existing user like me. Every time I upgraded to Neovim I ran into breakage with my configuration. Eventually I burned out and returned to Vim.

Neovim may well be taking the right approach. Capture by existing users has its own costs. But we should be clear-eyed about its intended audience.
> But can you explain how and why that is actually a better idea...

> ...so you should have very good research to back up a claim that the global flat rate tax is the better idea.

Should I presume the "you" in these sentences is me? Or is it some hypothetical future person making such claims? If you did mean me, I don't understand what part of what I wrote was me making any claims of superiority of one system over the other?

My comment was pointing out that the grandparents comments should not be written so definitively, where much doubt exists.
"Imagine computing in such a market. It would prioritize cryptographically secure application DRM, application distribution systems that complied with that app DRM, systems that only allowed approved software to run and systems with tight integration with HSMs/TPMs."

I'm in if it includes ramming the heads of a Commodore 1541 floppy drive against the limit switches to read ersatz tracks for the copy protection information so that it sounds like a small machine gun. (I'm nostalgic.) :-)
This is an interesting small documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_PXI5Ba1Ak

Not sure how true it all is.
Also, once the Symbolics 3600 series was released in the early 1980s, Symbolics looked like they were just resting on their laurels relative to the rest of the industry. There weren’t binary-compatible performance improvements every year or two like the rest of the workstation industry was seeing, it took the rest of the decade to achieve that kind of improvement, and with only source compatibility, in the form of the XL series.

To do a bit of an apples to apples comparison, look at the Apollo and Sun workstation lines versus the Symbolics workstation line from 1983/4-1991/2. That takes you from the Apollo DN300, SUN-1, and Symbolics 3600, through the Apollo DN10000, Sun SPARCstation 2, and Symbolics XL1200. They all started at about 1 MIPS but ended at very different positions.
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GP didn't mention global warming though. They're just observing that there appears to be an awful lot of bad things happening lately.

Re: climate change, I don't quite get the call for "less conclusions from single incidents". It's not like research is non-existent or contradictory, is it? Just a quick google search leads me to articles like this[0] saying there's well over 300 studies supporting the idea that extreme weather events can be blamed on humans.

I feel like saying "correlation is not causation" when the world is quite literally on fire is about as close as it gets to the "this is fine" meme...

[0] https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-climate-change-affect...
Hanlon's razor disagrees.
Time doing things that make you truly happy is not wasted time.

H.r. is not on your side, ever.

Promises of future compensation or promotion are meaningless.

Spend more time outdoors.

Learn a hobby or skill that doesn't involve a screen.

Your health isn't worth what they're paying.

A businesses relationship is just that and nothing more.
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Gratuitous multimedia tricks. Here is a text-only version. Links to images in all available sizes are provided.

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firefox ./1.htm
In my first full-time job at a call center I was given a packet that described total compensation including 401k contributions, insurance etc.

There was a bigger number that included all the benefits and perks, and a smaller number that represented actual weekly take-home pay. I was able to divide the bigger number by 40 just as easily as I was able to divide the smaller number by 40.

I guess I’m the only one to do that? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> All of these issues are only going to be correctly handled by legitimate authorities anyways,

I don't know why you believe this, because there's mountains of evidence contradicting this very thought. A simple google search for "poilce misconduct" will give page after page of both studies and individual cases where officers were known be abusive or committing perjury or mishandling evidence and yet this this information remained secret, and the officer remained employed for decades.

For instance David Cimperman had a long history of comitting felonies, perjury, and evidence tampering, and yet he became the Chief of Police for Amsterdam, OH. In what world is this considered "correctly handled"?

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/0...
I see what this comment is trying to do, but I'm not sure what the author thinks this comment is going to achieve. Many if not most hacker news links are going to leave someone unhappy; it is the nature of hacker news. Either a navel gazing techie is confronted, or a victim of tech myopia does not receive justice. As we know, unhappy people are more likely to leave a comment than happy ones, so if this comment is actually read by people, most people who read it, regardless of their IQ, will just dismiss it as written by someone who probably doesn't care about police accountability in any form.

As this comment will have no bearing on whether the website will have its intended effect, whether anyone uses the website, whether public records of negative interactions will spur reform, or anything else, all this comment really does is serve as a platform to shit talk the website. Now, there are definitely some websites that deserve to be called out for not achieving the effect of full scale, immediate nationwide police reform, but commenting about it on Hacker News really won't do any good.
Note: real mahjong. Not "mahjong solitaire", which has nothing to do with mahjong. Also, let's not mention the housewives-in-the-US "maj" thing. It happened, people can look it up, it does not warrant talking about, like most things moms do when they have too much free time but no idea what to spend it on.
Thanks.

Forbes-via-BLS reports $89k average for the same time period, but it seems they are not including overtime. A ~20% increase in median pay from overtime is pretty substantial. It'd be interesting to see nominal and actual compared by state.
Interesting. I have a Master's in Cognitive Psychology (from long ago, the 1990s), but it was in the domain Human Factors, so I view "cognitive psychology" in a very different light than these example. See some common examples like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

Also things involving haptics, echo-location, alarm response, etc...

What these things had in common, I think, is they treated the human mind as pretty much a black box, the dependent measures were not much subject to bias, and the experiments were easy to run on large samples of people. Such findings are pretty useful when designing things like nuclear power plants, airplane cockpits, shock trauma resuscitation bays, etc...
That sounds super interesting to me, do you have a link to something about where and when that happened?
There is no such thing as properly licensed code because it is a function of the what is legally acceptable for your company and what it intends to do with the work.
But it could! I’ve always suspected some form of domestication syndrome affecting our species. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_syndrome