skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides that, I was under the impression that even today churches of any significant size tend to be registered as non-profit or charitable entities and qualify for tax exemptions on that basis, not merely because they're religious institutions.
Tell that to Sinn Fein MPs who were elected to the British parliament in all the elections since 1997 but any of whom is yet to attend a single session.

Abstaining from participating in parliament when you're elected or participating in unconstructive ways (i.e. by being disruptive etc.) is a legitimate behaviour. As long as you're transparent about your intentions to behave so to your voters, removing such MPs without an election would be authoritarian.

If he/she is not transparent about this and this is/becomes a widespread problem it's preferable to decrease the duration of office terms or allow recall elections instead of instituting arbitrary rules (which will have to be approved by the ruling party/coalition and therefore will likely be designed in such a would which would favour them over opposition parties).
‘My parents used to do it’, is also a poor standard to work from.

Those incidents I mentioned occurred in Australia. ‘Well the incident rate is low’, that’s because almost all parents take their kids with them. If we all decided to start leaving kids in cars then the number of incidents would increase.

You live in a community, if you take actions generally frowned upon by the majority of people, like it or not you will possibly receive some negative consequences, especially if it involves children. Likewise a business like a pub would be trying to avoid an incident with a child left in a car while their parents played their addictive pokies. No business wants to deal with those negative consequences.
Yeah I always see this expressed as a criticism, like "oh these small companies just hate junior devs! Everyone wants to hire a senior dev, no one wants to hire a junior dev and train them!"

But it's not always that easy. If you're a small company still looking for product-market fit or doing a fair bit of greenfield development, there's just not much work for a junior dev to do. These companies aren't all stupid or lazy or discriminating against new grads for some reason.

It's the same reason estimates are hard - we're building brand new things that we've never built before and a lot of the work is in the design. Junior devs need to be told what to do. The architects/senior devs become a huge bottleneck because they can only design so much stuff at once, so until you can find more of them you can't hire more junior devs because there's not going to be anything for them to do. Until you get to a point where you're doing repeatable work or your design/architecture is solidified enough to keep people on the guard rails, there's just not a ton of work for a junior dev to do.

Finally, you also have the issue that a lot of devs don't want to get into any kind of management but they want to be managed by technical people. You end up with a shortage of decent managers (where "decent" means both someone who's ok at the job of management and is acceptable to the team).

If we had more work to give to junior devs we'd happily hire them - they are so much cheaper!

And one other contributing factor is a lack of unions. Say what you will about seniority-based comp/perks, they do make people stay in one job for longer, which makes it more worthwhile to invest in a junior dev.
10bn in the scope of this joint project between the US, Europe and one other group (Canada or Japan?) is a rounding error over 20 years.
It's doubtful that any of us are in a position to know if they are or not.

Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that 100% of major email providers have stated they do not sell ads based on email content.

Next we have to either: take their word for it or have the means to verify their claims.

Taking their word for it is difficult because many major email providers have a spotty relationship with honesty. This issue of honesty is not necessarily very different from other large corporations and in truth might be a factor in what made them a large corporation in the first place.

(As First Baron Thurlow is claimed to have said: "Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?")

And so we would instead need the means to verify the claims of these major email providers. I'm unsure of how to reasonably do that.

►Perhaps allow Qui Tam claims for privacy issues combined with a statutorily defined "cost" for each false claim instance?

Qui tam allows, for example, private citizens to file suit against bad-actor govt contractors in the name of the govt. The "whistleblower" then receives a share of recovered proceeds.

Here, if a statutory "cost" was defined for every false claim related to using the content of email messages (say $1 per message) then this might provide a way to help verify that the major email providers are being truthful in what they claim regarding their use of content in messages.

Email providers would know their employees are on the lookout for a big payday and might honor their public promises. And if they don't, a few large qui tam lawsuits would quickly get their attention (or drive them into bankruptcy).
Some parts of Reddit are better than others.

For example, almost all Reddit's investing/finance subreddits are dreadful, but there is an exception:

https://old.reddit.com/r/brkb/

There are really intelligent, fun communities on Reddit, but they can be hard to find.
Not just "new," but also interesting. An approach must be both new and interesting to be novel.
People who find out the company is a bad fit. It is very common within the valley for people to leave just after they're 1-yr vest because it was a bad fit. If you can get this bad fit employee out faster, the better.
I did this years ago as well, my phone rings when i get a call and texts/imessages from contacts get an alert nothing else does
.. which apparently now won't work under systemd either!

IMO, he was wrong on this; it should have been enabled by default, and then the people who need that exceptionally rare legacy stuff can disable it with the same techniques (/proc, initrd) that he is currently suggesting to enable it.
Elizabeth Thornton Email: request-750152 – WhatDoTheyKnow
No. I'm saying this is how elite Russian and Chinese party policy makers view their own demographic situation. Although they don't really talk about modern Russia or China, Helene Carre and Walter Scheidel probably have the most readable books about how demographic imbalances relate to empire collapses. And if you read them, it's very easy to see why China and Russia are far more reason to be concerned than the West does. Russia already fell off one in 1991, and both nations really are close to another.

(Also, American elites don't really see themselves as struggling demographically.)

Personally, I think they also like being able to blackmail powerful LGBT within their countries/satellites. Historically, when their targets realized that America's fairly tolerant towards foreigners, leftover women, <i>and</i> LGBT people, their targets tended to defect.
Placencia Airport in Belize (PLJ) terminates exactly at a road. The short runway takes up the entire width of the isthmus it occupies, so the road takes a dog-leg to pass it. There's a single arm gate on each road to stop traffic during takeoffs and landings.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/search/placencia+belize+airport/...
I've seen these people get a job in testing and never leave... Or they move to a program management position.

On the flip side, self taught coders can do pretty much anything with bad form. Although even at my job I find myself doing things with bad form unless the task requires it to be written well.
My parents worked. They didn't monitor us 24/7. They just didn't buy us games. They'd check that our homework was done. And they would ground us if we were caught doing something we weren't supposed to (like watching TV on a school night). My dad used to come home and put his hand on the TV to make sure it wasn't hot. Key point: You can teach good behavior without having to monitor 24/7. You can also eat healthy for less than the cost of eating fast food.
This is the problem when people use technical terms loosely and interchangeably with their English definitions. Generative model classifiers are precisely as you describe. They model a joint distribution that one can sample.

GANs cannot even fit this definition because it is not a classifier. It is composed of a generator and a discriminator. The discriminator is a discriminative classifier. The generator is, well, a generator. It has nothing to do with generative model classifiers. Then you get some variation of neural network generator > model that generates > generative model. This leads to confusion.
The world is a dynamic place. If you think this won't have a large impact on the number of people job hopping not sure what you think will.
Practical object-oriented design (Chapter 1 notes)
Ehh, aren't the front loaded grants smaller in total? I don't see front loading as a good thing necessarily.
Eh, even as someone with 1.8 years experience (at least I still feel very junior) I get a steady flood of recruiters and can easily get a pile of interviews.

I think it’s that if you have zero experience, you are a huge unknown. Anything more and work abounds.
> You could have priests giving their parishioners strong 'advice' on how to vote for every name on the ballot. (Not that that doesn't happen to some degree already in practice...)

Tax them and the priests won't work around the margins any more, they'll straight up hand out partisan voter guides and send their parishioners to work on political campaigns in the church bus, using church funds. With Citizens United in play, the Catholic Church could funnel huge sums to candidates and issues of their choice, openly. Politicians friendly to church issues will stand in the pulpits and give stump speeches.
I don't have a link, but seen this on Blind quite a bit
If you want to listen to CB/Ham radio right now, you can find a websdr station in your location of interest.

http://www.websdr.org/
Yes, 512MB might still be usable with a 32-bit distro, as was used in the early 2000s.
What OS are you using. It may use bash for login, but I would be willing to bet it does not use bash for scripting (non-interactive use).

It is possible that many shell script authors do not understand the difference between a login shell (optimised for interactive use) and a scripting shell (optimised for non-interactive use). Thus the comparison could be worthwhile. sh is faster, more portable and arguably presents fewer potential gotchas. FWIW, shellschock affected bash but not sh.

NetBSD uses ash-derived sh as both login and scripting shell. No bash. Debian and many, many other GNU/Linux distributions (including musl-based Void) all use NetBSD-derived sh called "dash" as the default scripting shell. I am not aware of any Berkeley distribution that uses bash as the default scripting shell.
It's possible, but if you enter a lane in a way that requires the car behind you to brake, that's just as bad as not checking. And just letting off the accelerator right after seeing the turn signal would not have slowed the Tesla down enough to avoid a collision, that situation needed braking.

Also, a driver on the freeway continuing to go the same speed should not be "VERY surprising"!
>"To me a decent junior should be able to build a basic Hacker News"

In what time period? With what features? With what non functional requirements? Show me a senior who can!

I have a better test for evaluating anyone's skills:

Write a function that puts Strings in an array. Then write another function that goes searching for a string in an array.

Write a unit test to confirm your code is working. Explain what happens to the performance of our code if we can guarantee our array is sorted.

If they can past this test, you're already better than most candidates in my eyes, and it takes about 10 mins to find out.
Yeah, it's a heavily optimized technical system, it simply has to attract nerds :)
Given how many houses there are and how expensive they are, I'd think there's quite a chunk of change coming in - property taxes, sales taxes, permits, etc. - so I think financially it should be enough, but I haven't seen this really being addressed. And building new roads when the existing ones are already choking up would be really tough, they need to do it now before all those new houses are fully occupied. Doesn't look like they realize it, at least from my vantage point (I of course have no inside info, maybe they're working on it day and night...)
Yes unfortunately almost all US and likely other computer science degrees are geared largely at making you a good researcher. I was lucky in that i loved playing with some home servers and with that led to figuring out how to build my own software before finishing school. I think college does a very bad job of preparing you for the real world use such as most having people turn in zip files and not even using git (maybe this has changed).
New Zealand (Population: 4.8 million): 2013

New York (Population: 8.49 million): 2011

With populations like that, I think that is comparing apples to apples.
Are you offering remote? That might be a big factor that could influence things at this point in time.
Not sure I understood you.

Did you describe PWM?
You didn't start the Fly.io

It was always burning, since the world's been turning
I wouldn't say that HFT arbs out only the "obvious" things. We try to arb the non obvious things as well, with more or less success.

HFT just means you trade a lot and you have low tick to trade latency. It doesn't say much about why you are trading.

For example you could have a HFT stat arb strategy in which you are arbing higher dimensional factors that are pretty far from obvious.

In general, the speed wars are over and everyone is reaching deep to become as smart as possible. Or in the other words, just being fast is no longer an edge, it's a commodity.
They already got a root shell without being at SNOW RANCH.

Satellite provider firmware images are a nice target. SpaceX is not the only one. I also inspected some.
There’s a vast literature you can read.
But why would human male genitalia be so different from other male animals in the regard? I'm pretty sure soapy water isn't part of the cleaning regime other animals have...
Being very generic. One can define a very efficient array structure, define its Monad instance and be able to use it in comprehensions. The point is that comprehensions are not fixed to a particular data structure by the language, and can be used with any user-definable Monad.
How do people find these instructions?
Don’t come across many Dune references these days.
Is it really "the works" if you have to move to SV?

I'm profiting 100k/yr in the Midwest, and it's a junior-ish position.

Could be worse, could be Tesla 90k/yr revenue.
Have you done actual research yourself or is this also a gut feeling?

The number of active address per day is currently about 750,000. For a supposed population of 130,000,000 users that's 2 transactions per year per user.

~50,000,000 Americans own bitcoin and I highly doubt it's because of the crumbling economy or USD failing. Same for the vast number of UK/Spanish/French/German speculators with either a strong country currency or the Euro to fall back to.

Then there is the matter of transaction times, 10 minutes is good. 20 minutes is common. 30 minutes isn't unheard of. Other than speculating large sums or transferring large amounts between regional currencies what could the average person use bitcoin for? A 20 minute checkout delay while grabbing bread? There are other crypto options that solve this problem, why would people be using BTC even if crypto was their answer?

It's not that there is nobody on Earth that uses Bitcoin instead of speculates with it it's just a tiny minority of that 130,000,000 number. I'm sure there are some places that find value in a place to store cash for long term but you're listing places like Nigeria where half don't even have power yet is supposed to be crypto usage heaven?
Awesome! It's actually would be nice to have something like a library of MIDI snippets that you can record and store under org-mode bullets, sort them by tags (mood, tempo, genre) and then quickly copy them into a DAW. It would give another dimension to musicians, not only they can store verbally formulated ideas about their music in form of notes, but actually have a library of materials they can use.
> Another person watched a video about software rights, and was then recommended a video about gun rights.

Do all videos about gun rights violate Youtube policy? Maybe the content was actually problematic, but presented like this, I'm wondering what was the problem on this one.
Sorry you had to go through that.
I was not aware that could happen so quickly, thanks.
Amazon is trying to persuade Aetna and others to cover its medical-care service
How often do you take them? I have access all the time (hopefully dried P. cubensis are not toxic after months in a vacuum container), but they're not addicting and I keep forgetting about them :) My first dose was 7g (was supposed to be 4, but my old kitchen scale didn't measure properly) and I can assure everyone curious that it's not fun, lol
I did this.

Engineering was more rewarding than software, but software pays better.

I do engineering in my personal projects now.
That's already a risk in tech, because wages are so high but ramp-up times are pretty long.

They get weeded out relatively quickly and usually run out of desirable employers, though. That's why employers are skeptical of employees with multiple short-duration stints or gaps on their resume.
Go to https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor... and sort by total death.

In the first position is Peru with ~6000 death/million. After that there are a bunch of countries with ~3000 death/million including Czechia. And then the number goes down.

Czechia has ~11000000 habitants, so 150K/11M is like ~13000 death/million that is the double of the current country with more death/million and like four time bigger than the other countries.
Can't say I agree with modifying a ham radio for CB. It's illegal, and the high power of ham radios can basically act as a denial of service to a large area of CB users. Ham radio folks try to police themselves, and if you are regularly abusing the regulation they might well decide to track you down and report you to the FCC. Yes, this is a relatively common activity for hams, triangulation of a moving target can be challenging.... and fun.

Emergency prep is all about practice, so get your equipment, learn the equipment, learn how to use it well, and meet friends and communicate with them often. Sure various hacks will let various radios use frequencies they weren't intended for (FRS, GMRS, marine, CB, emergency frequencies, etc), and anything goes in a real emergency. However you should stay legal when there's not an emergency. Don't be the ass bragging about their 1000 watt CB setup and blasting across large areas to a bunch of people who can't even reply back to you at their legal power levels.

The RF frequencies are a valuable and limited resource and the rules exist for the benefit of the community.
> Especially in JavaScript, regexes blow in comparison to languages with named matching groups and all that

Good news (well, probably). JavaScript (ECMAScript 2018+) now supports named matching groups.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...
I'm curious - when a user deploys their new code to your product, does that kick off a new Nomad job, or is that managed internally, kicking off a koyeb-managed Firecracker with Kuma for service discovery?
Where Thoughts Come From (part 1)
Yes. The inevitable defeatism that will show up in these comments is

"Oh, but China will do it anyway, so there's no point."

Which is pretty easily counterable:

1) We don't know if China would cooperate with a ban. We haven't tried. China is very complicated, and if you think you can predict what Xi will do, you are wrong.

2) If AI is truly a global existential and moral crisis, the US _could_ absolutely shut down China's AI research capabilities. There are a few avenues here, some less pleasant than others. Think outside the box.
If someone stabs you, and you have enough time to post about it on the internet, for sure you have time to take a few pictures of it. Me, personally, it would prob. be the first thing I would do after making myself safe, so I have evidence to show.

But who knows, the only safe bet is not to believe stuff you read on the internet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: Sorry for being rational, but there's no evidence on either side.
well - prepare for a lot of them after the movie comes out...
Makes me wonder what these kind of notifications are really worth. All they do is make me immediately mute the app from ever notifying me again, and leave a bad taste in my mouth. How many people are really seeing this and impulse purchasing an Uber ride somewhere? I suspect close to zero.
> I know personally I turned down a few opportunities at promising startups simply because I was young, in my twenties, and a year felt like a long time. I found the probability of a life changing event that would require me to move and leave a company too high, and didn't want to bust my butt for 10 months with a salary cut, then have to leave and get no equity. So I said "no" to a few opportunities that otherwise would have been great.

I'm curious: Did you try to negotiate? I have had luck negotiating the terms of equity in the past, but I'm not sure if my experience generalizes.

> Currently incentives first your first year are to focus on not getting fired. Now it can be on making an impact.

If someone is so unmotivated at a job that they're not making an impact, I don't know if removing the cliff would help; they likely shouldn't have taken the job in the first place. If you join a new place and realize that it's a poor fit, it's usually best to cut your losses and move elsewhere immediately, even if your equity hasn't vested. The presence of a cliff doesn't significantly change that math.

I agree about missing out on hires because of the cliff, I just don't think it's that unreasonable to have one.
Nobody needs cookies to track users cross-site. Cookies are just convenient.
The SF product designers have the power to influence billions, but there are no consequences. So long as there are no consequences, we'll keep asking questions and merely propising these hypothetical limiters to prevent the world from being distracted.

I have a feeling that the mechanisms of addiction are tied to evolved human instinct, and we will have to essentially fight back against our own genes to have any chance at succeeding. I like to view the author's suggestions as that being a part of that fight.

The fact that we were directly responsible for wiping out tens of thousands of species of life while remaining unaware of the destruction we wrought thousands of years ago should indicate that some kind of a limiter against instinctual human reward mechanisms is needed, technological or otherwise. We are going to eat ourselves.
I know that in the past legitimate programs did obfuscations like this for anti-piracy reasons. But do they still? Or can it nowadays be considered a red flag?
> “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

Great. We aren’t!
I've done research myself. Thanks.

You should read about Lightning Network.