skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is if in doing your job you piss off the wrong cops, you too become a target.

I'm a firefighter / paramedic.

Cops have arrested paramedics providing patient care on accident scenes for varying slights.

Cops have come to hospitals where their off-duty drunk buddy runs a red light and t-boned someone else, and demanded nurses do blood draws (without a warrant) of the other party looking for intoxication, and then arrested the nurse for refusing.

All groups that (rightly or wrongly, I'm making no judgment here, just observing) are considered to be "on the same side", are only on that side as long as it is not inconvenient to those cops, then they're as much a target as anyone else.
It's perpetually curious to me when people blame CA problems on a lack of upzoning and then ... move to much less dense places with plenty of NIMBYism.

Sure, you're getting away from the problem, but not because anyone there has a solution - just because they haven't been hit by the same problem to the same extent yet, because "sprawl outwards" works for a long time when you have less geographical boundaries.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/...

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/28/970877930/why-republicans-are...

https://www.salon.com/2021/02/27/republicans-roll-out-tidal-...

Irrational..? Are you really just going to ignore the elephants in the room here?
The parent compared it to insurance, not me. To call it insurance invites comaprison to traditional insurance.

Sure, it can run at a loss. Maybe that's a public service. But I asked some questions that merit an answer if you want to call it insurance rather than, say, social security or something.
Intel slams US subsidies for TSMC in Arizona's clash of chip titans
> simply don't want people crossing the lines into speech that can incite people to harm others.

I think that's very very far from simple, since it necessarily requires the government slowly align, and converge, with those people, so they they are never offended and never cause harm.
Do you support the right of others to host content you consider violent or garbage?
easy physics question here: if the light converges in one focal point after passing through the lens, as pointed in the 2nd animation, that means that the outer light beams reach that point latter in time than the inner ones, right? My point is that at the same speed, they are traveling longer distances, and the animation does not show that, but that they get to at the same time.
A previous employer that underwent a massive multi-billon dollar migration to SOA (and then folks went too far and made everything a micro-service so had to rollup some work) basically because merging became too slow into our monorail as we got to ~O(1k) engineers. We had an in-house solution like this that we used for 2-3 years (and a worse version for years before that). What a great idea to productive it!

IMO the SOA migration simply due to merging was such a heavy-handed solution. If we could have made our MergeQueue way better, perhaps we could have avoided that multi-billion dollar (+ the rollback work) fiasco.

Congrats!
Keras: Conditional GAN
Smoking?
IndieHackers has turned into a garbage site as of late. The quality has plummeted and it's mostly people just desperately cold emailing thousands of people while making less than $3k a month.

Low key, in most cases those people would be better off selling fake healing crystals on Etsy.
a lot of people who say they want an absolute free speech drive/free speech host have never actually worked for a colocation/dedicated server/hosting ISP and seen how the sausage is made.
It's crazy how real live is almost impossible to satirize at this point. Consider this attempt:

https://babylonbee.com/news/to-avoid-1st-amendment-concerns-...
Sure, they could, but imagine they are 10,000 light years away. Such a craft would need to travel for a long time before it could communicate back it's findings.
Going to plug our new subreddit: https://Reddit.com/r/ifa

We need to pass an amendment abolishing copyright and patent laws.

We need to make (old) Napster, torrents, Pirate Bay, Sci hub, legal, and decentralize the control of information. Otherwise it’s 1984 baby.
What's an extreme circumstance? Some people are very hard on themselves and have a higher tolerance for what amounts to mistreatment. To them, extreme circumstances would amount to actual physical abuse or constant, in-your-face shouting, for example.

To someone else, extreme could mean that they sense a strange bitterness rather than team harmony, and they can't focus at all as a result. They can't focus, so they can't work, and they are committed to doing their best or nothing at all, so they leave.

Others get a strong intuition. For example an employee had a really bad feeling about his workplace. It wouldn't stop--something was off. He contacted someone who used to work there. She said she had sued, and won a judgment against the company for an invasion of privacy and discrimination by the CEO.

This person hasn't themselves suffered through that other person's experience; they simply had a bad feeling and learned something really awful about the company. Is that extreme circumstances for them?

IMO there is work to be done around that phrase "extreme circumstances."
> The other truth is we're all outraged when these companies host some stuff that we don't like ... and get upset when they don't host the stuff we do like.

Yet it is rational to oppose distribution of what you think is wrong and promote distribution of what you think is right. You must have a hidden premise in there somewhere.
There's also a real browser extension in the works by one of our users:
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/577#issuecom...
> the results point to the possibility that the large-scale conversion of housing units into short-term rentals undermines a neighborhood’s social organization, and in turn its natural ability of a neighborhood to counteract and discourage crime, specifically violent crime. Further, the lagged effects suggest a long-term erosion of the social organization, which would stand in contrast to the more immediate impacts that the presence of tourists would be expected to have.

I believe rentals do this in general. Perhaps short-term are worse. You can't meaningfully invest in a community in <5 years.

Airbnb should start a fund get the otherwise incapable into responsible home-ownership. Whatever the negative effects of some short-term units, I'd bet increasing the owner-class would have larger positive ones.
Can you please elaborate? ;)
As a person who has 0 knowledge on the likes of PROLOG, LISP, etc...What makes LISP and LISP-like languages so great? I tried to search YouTube on the merits of LISP or this notion of "data as code" but nothing tangible came up...
I mean LISP is one of the oldest languages with really weird features w.r.t to C-like languages but in practice we only see C-likes...even Rust is not so different from this family of languages...
My understanding is that it's both. If you bring up an alibi during trial, but never mentioned it during interrogation, it is an indication of guilt. If you don't say anything at all during either trial, or interrogation, it is also an indication of guilt.
Yes, their CEO won a Free Speech Award. At an event sponsored by YouTube. Unbelievably stupid.
Of course... Have you not heard of copyright notices leading to termination of services?
Perfect quote paragraph you have there, it would have been ideal indeed. However i agree he's not there yet, but trying to make the transition in public, while boosting his ego = recipe for disaster.

Another way i was thinking about it, is someone on such a high position can't be such a dummy, therefore he might have unconsciously chose to spend some of his accumulated status/power to stoke some awareness to some factor that he believes it should be more spread; and managed to do a terrible job a communication whatever was his thorn.
If they're bad at identifying misinformation, then I'll fault them for that. Has Google had a tendency to censor things on the basis of information that later turned out to be true? Your examples are the judgments of groups that aren't Google and judgments that I don't think the groups responsible for pushed for others to ever get censored for.
> Have you ever been on-call for any project larger than a toy? If you have, you likely noticed that keeping the whole thing up sometimes takes effort, more effort than meets the eye.

Of course, that applies to literally every piece of production software ever, but keeping a webpapp running really isn't that hard, it's honestly the bare minimum of competent software development, if you have a team of SREs up at 3am triaging the site every night you're doing something wrong. Now of course, when you get to google scale, you will encounter unique problems, but if you're at google scale your business has more than enough revenue to pay for the costs.
Yes, that single sentence is definitely accurate. The rest of the article assumes that it's unquestionably true.
I'm not your competitor, but I am trying to make software metrics a good thing for everybody (developers and leaders) and I'm not sure you can make a claim like the following on your landing page:

"Know your star developers."

with the limited analytics that you can gather from a pull request.
Never really understood how they fed them on Hoth either.
> The last model, the 802.11ac numbered A1470, is now more than three years old...considered geriatric at 3 years old

That model was released in 2013. The very last one ever made is more than three years old, but the rest are on average much older.
In case people are not aware yet, please watch this video about "Don't talk to the police".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE&t=1s
Surprised nobody has mentioned ProtonDrive[0] as a near future candidate for eliminating these types of incidents. Since the data is encrypted, ProtonDrive can't make arbitrary value judgements on your data. For me personally I can't wait for it to arrive so I can wean myself off Google properly. It's the one final thing that I need to replace Google with: Proper Encrypted Cloud Storage.

[0] https://protonmail.com/blog/protondrive-security/
According to the current administration gun violence is a public health crisis:

https://efsgv.org/learn/learn-more-about-gun-violence/public...

I present arguments that could be considered "misleading" based on the administrations official position. Personally, I'd like to actually fix the issues, to do so, we need to discuss the issues. With that, I wrote something we can use as a framework to discuss the issues.

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I simply deep dive into the data and found interesting results that differ (this is just a random selection):

(1) There doesn't appear to be a correlation between firearm access and homicides (if anything it's slightly reverse) https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/#Firearms...

(2) White, Hispanic, Asian populations have one of the lowest firearm homicide rates in the world. In contrast, the black population has one of the highest firearm homicide rates are very high, which pushes the U.S. average up. (which arguably could support the systemic racism theory, but is a fact) https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/#Comparin...

(3) The CDC & FBI crime statistics show that <0.5% of the population is murdered by firearms in a given year (~1-1.5% if you include suicides).

(4) Self-defense homicides are included in the data

(5) Gangs don't appear to be the reason for a high firearm homicide rate https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/#Gang_Dem...

(6) Homicides per firearm are very low https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/#Homicide...

(7) You're more likely to be beat to death or stabbed than shot (arguably guns would save you from this) https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/#_Circums...
Generally yes, but that depends on what we're talking about exactly.

Specifically I noted my willingness to use their services / indirectly support that company if I have the choice.
Damn, what a great idea! Why hasn’t anyone thought of this yet?
If labor is 30% of your costs then you could pay 20% more by charging 6% more for your finished goods or services. For a lot of such companies you could fill those labor hours trivially by making existing staff full time drastically increasing their wages and their financial stability.

Take a fake employee named Susan. Presently you pay her $12 an hour for an average of 24 hours per week. In a normal month Susan receives 4 weekly paychecks for a grand total of 1152 before taxes or deductions with which to pay per bills.

Susan is serving you a plate of food for $15

Now imagine you raised her wages to $14.40 and offered her full time. Her wages are now 2304. She is making twice as much money and now the food sadly must cost... $15.90.

But you say Susan doesn't want to work full time she has other responsibilities, other jobs for example!

This is because you and your industry have specialized in each paying Susan to run around between her 2-3 jobs so she can afford to live so she can get enough hours to live without any of you having to pay benefits. It could also be because your industry pays too little for anyone to afford to live so you have collected workers who have lesser need because for example they are spouses of well paid workers earning supplemental income. As the cost of living rises faster than incomes this isn't a stable equilibrium. Even Sam spare time may find he needs to earn more to live and if Sam moves on to a real job, graduates college, moves out of his parents home etc you can't be sure you can replace him at your less than survival wage.

The service industry isn't a benefit to America its a diseased kidney and if the entire industry as it is died not much of value would be lost.
An obese person has 2x the probability of developing type 2 as a person of normal weight.

Regardless of obesity, Type 2 can be managed with a low carb diet.
Reddit AMA by FB whistleblower Sophie Zhang who found troll farms
"Fantastic for customers" is an overstatement IMO. A well-informed customer can stretch their budget without too many compromises by selectively shopping there. But that's exhausting, it's much easier to just run down your list or buy everything you can remember needing while you're there. This usually leads to major compromises in value, function, and the quality of life for everyone involved in the supply chain. Not to mention the chilling effect on the rest of the retail environment in every market they've decided to i̶n̶v̶a̶d̶e̶ enter.

Not meaning to cast any shade at this insulin product; it looks like a substantial improvement over what the US "market" for insulin was offering before.
> The test is structured as a continuous 1-hour ramp up from 0 to 300k devices.

Number of devices would make a far clearer graph axis than minutes. It's not obvious what you're doing when one axis is milliseconds and the other is minutes.
It's also weird, because I believed that a good live is filled with doing things you enjoy.

But then they used psychology to make us addicted to scrolling feeds.
You need only to invest 500K (that passes AML) in US to get a green card.
We developed an alternative to google and the services that it provides. It's part of a growing open source ecosystem that includes NextCloud for file management.

If you want a totally free and open source alternative to Facebook and Google, that you can run on your own servers, you can find it here:

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform
If I had to guess, there may have been some sort of captive portal in place. I've seen even the "invisible" kind that don't require user intervention cause interference with connectivity checks for some devices.
> [Is two+ months good advice?]

For for not uncommon problems probably. You might want to factor in whether your new health insurance has kicked in.

For something egregiously heinous (according to some definition), don't feel bad about leaving before then.

I left one job after six months. During that time there were three CFO's. The fedgov raided the business and seized the owner's race car, on display in the lobby.

Those were not the reasons I quit.
In the circus of electron, subscription, messload of features and all I gave up and just decided to stick to Simplenote and Notes.app. And paper notebooks/journal which I've anyway used since school.
Yes, literally. Hate speech laws.
> some gun owners fantasy that one day they'll need their small arms to overthrow the state?

Astan seems to have done well in proving an illegitimate state can’t be imposed on an independent polity with ample small arms.
>I'm increasingly disillusioned with this world of hardware costing hundreds of dollars being considered geriatric at 3 years old. Requiring constant replacements mean that you don't really own anything, you're renting your whole life.

So... like most things in life? Off the top of my head:

* house: you're either renting it or paying property tax/maintenance on it

* car: maintenance

* food: you can only eat it once!

* smartphones: battery wears out
You say they never had the incentive to innovate, and then follow up with but otherwise it is the same rocketry. Those statements are contradictory - either there was market incentive for cheaper, reusable rockets, or there wasn't. ULA couldn't even imagine a world where SpaceX was successful at what they've done, which is a different type of rocketry, and as a result, SpaceX isn't doing "the same rocketry."
This very submission is 160 pages documenting this very fact.
Seems like the inevitable result is decision fatigue, where people decide, in the face of 2 irreconcilably polarized viewpoints that it's not worth the emotional stress of all the information overload to try to understand which is correct and simply give up.
That's a variant of what I discuss in another reply, but well underscores my point of just how easy this is if you happen to get there anywhere in the 2.0-2.4 billion window Earth has had prior to intelligence. If you colonize the system in any manner, be it biological, technological, whatever, for Dark Forest purposes that's equivalent to destruction; there is no longer a threat of natural competing life.

You've got two major approaches: Fling a kinetic kill projectile, or if you have the tech to get "something" into the target system at roughly orbital velocities, send some machines to do the job with local resources.

None of these things appear to have happened in Earth's past. Ironically, trying to spin yarns in which they did anyhow still end up countering the Dark Forest hypothesis, because all such attempts must either include significant probabilities of failure of the attempts or the possibility that the life out there is benevolent (to some degree, at least sufficient to avoid simply wiping us out, which on this scale is "benevolence" despite whatever else they may be doing) which itself would imply the forest isn't that dark.
> We should be able to implement services like these, that are free of ads, on globally distributed infrastructure, with no central authority, to have truly free-flowing information.

Yes! And the way we do it is simple: amend the US Constitution to abolish copyright and patents and ensure people have the right to intellectual freedom.

https://reddit.com/r/ifa
Full agreement. "Slippery Slope" may be a fallacy, but establishing a precedent is a real thing and there's no way this stops here.
I’ve walked away from Facebook, but I’m still negatively impacted by their algorithm which promotes anger, division, and conspiracy theories.
Point is Google can offer services like Docs for free and still invest money in continually improving them because it sells advertisement-space on its free products.

Sure you could build your own. But how would you finance the maintenance of your software and its free-for-customers delivery platform? Answer: By either selling advertisement, or by charging people for using it.

The problem really is that by now Google has monopoly. Therefore it is difficult or impossible for you to compete with them.
>This attitude is less hard to understand when you’re not looking at it through the filter of cases where that happened not to be true

Nope, the attitude of "I never make mistakes" still baffles my mind. I get that most people they're dealing with are causing some amount of trouble, they should still regularly doubt their instincts. That would also go a long way to answering demands to "stop being racist."

>It’s a system where day in and day out, almost everyone you encounter is a really shitty human being.

If they hold that mindset, they should just extend it to themselves and the other people in the criminal justice system.
It's also easier for FB/etc to push for laws to be written when they can pour millions into a PAC to get their ideal language into those bills, if not straight up write sections themselves. They can lobby for fines that are lower than profit from acting in bad faith or anti-competitively (who even knows how much money FB saved by buying out Instagram/etc), they can run their own disinformation or targeted campaigns to sway public opinion, or simply minimize anything on their platform to hide it from users. There's a massive power imbalance there between a regular voter and Zuckerberg/etc, even an imbalance between a regular voters who can or cannot vote early or by mail.

I support regulating these groups but that must be done within the right assigned via the constitution, existing precedent where available, and in depth knowledge of how these companies operate and how the tech influences consumers. It's complicated.
Google is not exactly fairy godmother.

They're very commercial entity with the management having very political biases.

Anyone can walk away from Google at any time. No one is forcing the one to use any of Google services.

Every time i use google i assume there are thousands eyes going through my docs.
I accept this as a tradeoff for quality serivces.

If i don't accept - i walking away.
and pay for it with... love?
An innocent person who hears #2 may reason that the police are faking evidence, they'd better give a fake confession because otherwise the police will just use the faked evidence in court. He may not be up to date on the laws about exactly at what steps in the process the police are allowed to use the fake evidence.

Alternatively, he might think that his friend actually implicated him and that he has the choice of saying nothing and being convicted because of that, or confessing to a lesser charge.

Alternately, he might just think that police who'd fake evidence are corrupt, and that corrupt police could do a lot worse, like fake evidence against his whole family or just shoot him, so he'd better confess just to come out of this alive.
Here’s one. I currently have about five or six small PRs open for bug fixes and minor features. However, they’ve languished a bit in review and haven’t been merged yet. In the meantime, I’ve started a fairly significant refactor. It’s not too complicated but involves moving files and changing some core structures. I am dreading having to rebase those open PRs!