skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This strikes me as similar to the debate about whether censorship should be allowed in social media. On the one hand, it's clear the constitution prohibits the government from censoring free speech. Analogously it's clear that a facial recognition match, or close match, shouldn't be sufficient to arrest somebody. On the other hand, there is no legal prohibiting on private companies limiting free speech. Analogously, a private roller rink banning a customer has and should have a much lower bar for taking action.

One complication with the analogy is that the social media companies are giant monopolies whereas presumably this roller rink is not. Though maybe it's the only roller rink in town.

What should the standards of evidence be here? Suppose an employee said "I remember that girl, she caused a fight last week." Would you be allowed to ban off of that, even though it may be as or more fallible?

I also think it's interesting how the article doesn't explain how we know the face recognition system was wrong. The girl says she was never at the rink before, but that doesn't seem dispositive to me.
This is a reasonable hypothesis but do you have any more evidence for this than the others?
The other "problem" with the Ben is that it isn't particularly remote. There's a sizable to n (Fort William) quite close to it, and roads run to the north and west.

But the lack of remoteness is deceptive. The flattish top of the mountain makes it hard to lose height quickly in bad weather, and poor navigation can bring you into gullies that quickly become almost vertical. The weather can change very quickly; the UK has a maritime climate and the mountain is about as far north as Moscow.
That’s certainly part of it.

But the EU is certainly an imperialist block in the purely economic sense as well, just like the US or Britain. After all, wealth is extracted towards the centre through the low wages of workers in the periphery (especially Eastern Europe).
As long as "money" means "everyone's money" and not "money for oligarchs", then that's infinitely better than what nations and empires have historically been built on: ethnicity, religion, geography, tribal identity, etc. You basically described every modern nation since 1776, and explained the purpose of international trade agreements. Governments (ideally) exist to allow everyone to coexist and peacefully do business with each other and not hurt each other, and ideally the only points of contention are drawing the lines at which people are considering to be hurting one another. Ideally. In practice everyone falls short of course, but that's why ideals exist, to have goals to try to live up to.
CockroachDB is a terrible technology that causes almost guaranteed data corruption due to its lack of ACID guarantees and is written in a language with a GC which contirbutes to GC pauses. The dev team refuses to listen to feedback to port their code to C ;(.
And even calling for help can be marginal. Not that it's a panacea but if you're really concerned about always (usually) being able to call for help, you probably should have a personal locator beacon.

There is a shift in attitude though. I was having an online discussion with someone who basically said they'd be terrified if they couldn't call for help and, for me, that's the default assumption if I'm away from civilization.
the EU is not an empire. and it’s members are loosely coupled at best. Look at what happened to the UK: they just got their toys and left.

the EU just does not have the cohesion to act like and empire and conquer anything. It’s more like a big market
> economic hostility towards outsiders

Completely incomparable. Economic protectionism vs. invading, colonizing, and enslaving huge portions of the world.
Yes, that’s literally what the article is about.
It’s the UK. You have apps on your phone with the Ordnance Survey maps.
The news stories alone accomplish that, no need to attack anyone/anyone else.
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I'd say almost all countries hold this view that what they do is justified by good intent, their higher moral values etc, whereas it doesn't apply to others. But it only becomes relevant if the country has actual power. The colonial Britain obviously had a lot of power so it's easy to find examples of "imperial delusions". The same is true for other countries today, or a union of countries. But the actual countries that are delusional change based on how much power they have at that time.
Also, a phone is actually a phone. Nevis is obviously not at the centre of civilisation, but the UK is small, so there's a fair chance that somebody with a phone can get working service and call for help if they need it. Good luck calling for help with your paper map.

Every teenager who sits down, and phones mum to report that they're tired and cold and lost and instead of an awesome view they were promised it's just fog everywhere, is safer than the one with a map who is falsely confident this patch of snow is the route safely down when it might just actually conceal a cliff.
Well it's very incidental. The EU is a completely voluntary association. There are those that left freely and there are others who want to join and its powers and purpose is driven by treaties agreed by all members.

Being a colony of the British empire was nothing like this and the quote explains a justification for expansionist military imperial behaviour which has no analogue that I can see in the way the EU was formed.
Everyone knows to work smart not hard. What's stopping them?
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Thanks for the updated URL.

I was viewing it on mobile, copied and submitted from there. I didn't notice that it was an /amp/ URL. Yuck!

dang, if you happen to see this, could you update the link to slater's one that works? Thanks!

(I wish I could edit the URL myself, but that seems to be disabled.)
Factories aren’t generally in cities. In a rural town, your job choices may be work at Walmart, one of two factories, or on a farm. The “hard” factory job may be the “best” bet among the choices.

The bigger question is usually why don’t people move from a rural location? And the answer is usually “it’s complicated “. Old parents to take care of. It’s familiar. Friends. Maybe own your simple home. Maybe your church is there. Maybe quiet life is your thing.
What was the business about and why it didn’t let you develop skills etc?
Databases scale just fine. Its called sharding. Azure has HyperScale (with is Citus), AWS has Aurora. The actual problem with databases is upgrading to major versions without downtime. All the other problems are just noise
I think his point was demonstrating that the EU and militaristic and colonial empire of the former UK have very limited similarities other than they both represent entities with international economic power to some degree. A ridiculous notion in the context of history and reality.

He goes on to ask "what's your point?" which leads me to believe he knows how ridiculous his comparison is but is just making it in bad faith.
This is incorrect. In the US new copyright is only awarded for acts of authorship. Minor spelling or punctuation changes, or typo fixes, are not authorship. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow
I think that being able to have separate databases for different domains is pretty good, although it does rely partly on the application layer to keep (UU)IDs consistent.

I'd be curious to know if there's a way to have databases talk to each other to just sync up primary keys for referential integrity. That could maximise the benefit of decoupled databases while still having good referential integrity. And a network disconnection would still mean existing PKs would be in place, it just wouldn't be aware of new ones. Not perfect, but not bad, perhaps.
As an Indian dev, I've always wondered if there would ever be a homegrown tech site. For hiring at least, sites like HasGeek are popular (at least Bangalore.) I wonder if there could be a set of sites built around FinTech APIs that are India specific.
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Now that you made me think, what is your _real_ point?
I am very pessimistic. I think it would need a strong usp or some killer app. Maybe going into hard real time direction might allow it to live in a niche in audio and machine operation console. But currently I don't see a path.
How about issuing every employee with a monitor that detects microwave radiation (since that's what they're saying they think it is)?
The first thing recovered from salvaged batteries will be the cobalt and similar materials in the electrodes. Those are much less plentiful than lithium.
Sounds a lot like the situation with Mount Washington in New Hampshire. As a cold injuries expert I knew would say, it's located where a lot of idiots can go up it unprepared or when they shouldn't. One of the more recent deaths was a woman who was very fit and prepared. She just set off in the face of really bad incoming weather reports that she apparently thought she could keep ahead of. Turned out to be some of the worst weather of the past few decades.
I’d just map ctrl-backtick to backtick.

Ironically I can’t type it on iOS
We did only hire from about 20 schools in the US. The unfortunate thing is that the masters programs did not filter nearly as exclusively as the undergrad programs.
I am no great fan of the EU, but the EU as a whole does not engage in much imperialism, besides that forced on it by the US.
Every country resorts to force if it deems it necessary.
I agree with nearly everything in this artictle but the following question stumped me: when exactly would a software disaster investigation board be employed?

Plane goes down, train goes off rails or passes signal at danger, easy. But at what exact what point did the UK postmaster system "fail" enough for an investigation?
Also worth noting is that the entire automotive industry has a complete system for capturing functional enough used parts -- the core charge when buying a new part. Even shade tree mechanics feed into recycling those things to be bored out, sleeved and resold to a new person. I would expect nothing less of something with such high intrinsic material value.
Yeah, it's definitely possible too. Could be that it affects digestive glycemic index.
This was the same argument for BeOS back in the day.
Depending on your skill set or circumstances, you need a job quick; more hours means more money. What sucks is then you become reliant on that money, and changing careers is near impossible without risking your family's security.

Personally Ive done the 12+ hr/7 day in the film industry, a notoriously abusive industry (tv shows shoot 14-18hr days) but the money is great. We call it blood money, and do it until we need a vacation. We also get health benefits
I wish there was a country specific pricing. I do not mind paying for this, but purchasing power (dis)parity makes it difficult.
(disclaimer: work on RL, have trained models for simulated tasks)

I'm fairly sure that people work on control because general algorithms for control would be very useful (e.g., robot that can skin a cat and drive a car by holding the steering wheel). Such a robot would exist in our 3d physical world, so simulations of of our 3d world are used for training. If this could be done with radically less compute, it would be.
I thought some more about this. I'd like to know how many people with ED have back issues vs the general population. If the percentage is similar, then it's entirely possible his back issues are rooted in psychological stress.
What kind of mistakes? That could make a big difference for the answers.
If there is an attack and not just hypochondriacs, I would consider it a form of terrorism. The main point is to make your enemies afraid; the physical damage done is a means to an end.
> it kills a lot of deep human emotions (desire, ambition, skill, transmission).

Of course it doesn't. It just changes parts of what we care about.

Auto tune didn't kill music, it just made evident what we already knew: a live performance might be the more authentic experience of a particular artist. Other, new breed artists, might never even perform live.

AI playing chess did not make chess players obsolete. It just shone a new light on the game from a different angle.

I can see AI becoming talking heads type of hosts, but they will still need human insights and skills (or "guidance") to function appropriately. This is what we'll use to assess the performance, then.
How stupid can people be that a device that can store vast amounts of information, be updated constantly, can track your exact movements and contact people instantly across the world not be more useful than some ink printed on a fragile piece of paper.

The fact that a bit of paper easily destroyed by some water (not exactly unknown conditions for Scotland) is considered essential should be a source of embarassment for the tech industry, not smugness.
That’s a pretty demeaning way to look at people.
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It's still poor on a controller. I tried an Xbox controller on Windows 10, with no additional software (but I hear that third-party joystick/remapping software may improve this?)

1. The triggers are detected as an axis, the throttle axis by default. Hold LT for 0 throttle and hold RT for 100 throttle. Release them for 50 throttle. This is .. not ideal. They cannot be remapped to, say, use the triggers to fire your weapons.

2. The right stick's horizontal axis is not usable at all.

3. There's no support for button combinations. So you are very limited button-wise.

4. You can switch around the mapping for the axes that are detected, so you can put pitch/roll on the left stick.. but that leaves yaw on the vertical right-stick axis, or on the triggers. But TIE Fighter's flight model is not the same as a space sim's, so trying to fly it like one may not be advisable.

I tried to play this like I play Elite: Dangerous, which has very robust controller support. But TIE Fighter really, really wants to be played on joystick and keyboard (which is how I played it when it was released). Alas, I don't own a joystick now and I am not sure I have room for one anyway.
I wonder how feasible it would be to surround it with a coil of wire carrying a strong electric current, to slow its rotation via magnetic induction?
Have you mistaken me for a Brit? I am not and I never even visited Britain in my life.

From a random Czech point of view, EU is the most relevant big entity involved in my life right now, so of course it is on my mind, especially when the ideas of moral purpose and historical necessity are explicitly mentioned. That is the tenor of the pro-EU argumentation, yes.

As far as colonial style relationships go ... once again: this is an economic empire built on money and thus the colonial style relationships are built on money as well. Just look at the internal flows of money within the Union. A lot of the total profit accrues to big holdings in a few countries.
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They have no right to disallow photos. Salvation Mountain wasn't built by them and has become an artwork that belongs to all.
Sure. Not sure if this is the best resource as the site plugs it's own affiliate program over others but may help you get started:

https://woorise.com/best-affiliate-programs-in-the-saas-spac...
Customers are a little tricky, needs to be handled with care. Trade show contacts and ex-employees and former investors, board members are all good people to contact. But you may have message the fact that you are shutting down the business first. Also if you had co-workers from a job you did before your started, reach out to them. Many of them may be VPs and CEOs by now, and would value you as a coworker.
I do not see the EU even close as an empire. Are you perhaps British? Or Greek? The EU don't even have a common foreign policy or a cohesive monetary policy across its member countries. The EU is imo a protective "members only club" if you're in you get good deals if you're not then tough luck.
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This reminds me of the now legendary Detexify tool, which performs handwritten symbol recognition for LaTeX [1].

[1] https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
This delta variant is no joke.

If you have the vax, you’re still protected from dying or hospitalization, but it’s definitely more contagious to vaccinated people than the original variants.
>>The usage of the word “money” in other contexts supports this plain meaning. For example, the Uniform Commercial Code defines money as “a medium of exchange currently authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government. The term includes a monetary unit of account established by intergovernmental organization or by agreement between two or more countries.” U.C.C. § 1-201(b)(24). To be sure, the U.C.C. does not control the use of the term “money” in § 1960. But the U.C.C.’s widespread adoption and its purpose—to “simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing commercial transactions, U.C.C. § 1-103(a)(1)—makes it a useful barometer of the ordinary usage for a broad, non-technical term like “money.”

UCC §1-103 was brought up[1] when El Salvador announced they would adopt bitcoin as legal tender[2] on September 7, 2021. The defense should perhaps remove this argument from their motion as a result.

[1] https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1401334424160047107

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-approves-...
This was Spring 2020. It could have been they were afraid of tourists bring in Covid.
> I'm assuming that the lack of interest from recruiters is due to me working for myself for too long.

Based on experience, this is probably not the reason. It's likely that your resume is poor.

I've always held the opinion that a resume's job is to get you the initial screener. If you'd like me to take a look over yours and provide some candid and actionable feedback, my email is in my profile. Some career-focused anecdotes are in my comment history as well.
> are huge moneymakers as a ticket to working in the US.

Not just the US. Most countries in Europe offer international master degrees in english that serve the exact same purpose.
All the reports I’ve seen show that, from a CO2 standpoint, an EV powered 100% by coal still produced less CO2 than gasoline even though there is additional CO2 produced during the battery production. It takes about 14K miles for an EV to reach the point in its lifetime where it is producing less CO2 overall than a gasoline car. After that, it’s all upside. EVen then most electric grids are not so dirty and include a mix of coal, oil, gas, hydro, solar and wind with the renewable percentage increasing.
Tax write-offs. You won't see actual upside, but this allows people to make an impact in an area they are passionate about instead of paying it to the government.
What I'm curious to understand is how Iran and Iraq came to be pronounced differently in this guide (or otherwise), when they are both spelt almost the same way. The social phenomenon explanation, while I get it, seems too broad.
Same! It felt like a weird premise for the game before I started and I was a bit uneasy about it. But it was a bit of a lesson on how things are not always black and white like that (the protagonists had actual motivations), and also on "hey you know what, it's just a videogame, why not be the baddie one in a while?" at the same time. Kinda ahead of its time, but very well executed.
> This is the exact same thing with Long Covid, or Gulf War Syndrome.

Is your example trying to argue that Havana syndrome isn't physiological? Because that what I get from your tone, but the data you provide argues the opposite.

Both times a collection of unrelated people reported consistently reported broad but similar/overlapping symptoms, and in both cases (Gulf War Syndrome, and Long Covid) they were later shown to be objectively legit even though they weren't taken as seriously at first.

It seems like the same thing with this - in my book its a bit too coincidental at this point. Not to mention happening all around the same time period in a new location.
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I'm sometimes worried for the kids that grow up in homes with voice assistants, where "hey Alexa" is the authoritative answer to everything.
Is it technically difficult to detect abnormal microwave energy in this kind of situation? I know you can get a microwave oven leak detector for about thirty dollars.
My guess he is Czech. I have heard similar sentiments from former East Bloc's.

I can't blame 'em.
Why the hell aren't they just shielding the embassies against microwave radiation already? If I was a diplomat I would be walking around with a tinfoil hat and underwear, and I'd be quite furious about the lack of defense.
I mean this in the nicest possible way but you don't know what you're talking about. Do I use GPS? Of course I do. But maps on tyvek or protected by plastic are not exactly fragile. Batteries are always going to be an issue especially in cold conditions and I wouldn't want to put myself in a situation where a device problem left me in a really bad place.
You make zero sense. If you can't trust a map, what can you trust? Or should it be less reliable because it's an app?

People aren't stupid, it's we - devs and designers - who have designed apps that confuse and deceit them, sometimes dangerously so. Let's stop blaming users and fix our shitty UIs.
According to the article, "Most people make between $16.50 and $20 an hour".

So, at 84 hours a week (46 normal pay, 38 overtime at 1.5x), thats $1700/week on the low end, or $88k/year.

I dont think that excuses the forced overtime and I would absolutely expect severe health and/or mental health issues to result from the overwork. But, these people can quit (and according to the article many do) - I expect the only reason folks do stay is because they cant make the same money anywhere else.
According the the study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, an EV powered by 100% coal produces about the same CO2 as a 50mpg ICE car. Very few grids are that dirty. Once you get out of those areas, the EV is much cleaner.
Of course I had to test this by drawing an Interrobang: ‽

It got it right. My first drawing didn't have interrobang at the top of the suggestion list, because I didn't have the top closed. So there is some bias from the font it was trained on.
I had one at launch.

This comic accurately describes the experience:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/06/13/lame-boy-advan...
"The EU is a completely voluntary association."

Not for the members who accepted euro as a currency. There is literally no legal way out of the euro, it is meant to last forever. And a country leaving the EU, but staying in the eurozone as a full member is a completely unchartered territory.
Conspiracy theories are a lot fun when not affecting public behaviour badly(That's why we have huge number of literature and films around conspiracies). Therefore it's intriguing to speculate on a mystery.

Oh and these days everyone is an English speaker, at least most diplomats are. Whatever the US ones read, the Spanish, the French, the Italians, the Bulgarians, the Russians, the Brazilians read it too.
Realtime audio on hardware that isn't sold by Apple would be quite a killer reason to use Haiku. Especially seeing Apple is progressively abandoning the Pro, configurable market again.
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The real problem is cost of living without a job. It is just too fking expensive to live with little or no income.

As a result, people in less than abundant job markets are forced into taking up jobs to merely survive.

If someone is trying to imagine an alternative world, they should visit non-tier 1 cities of SE Asia or India or China. People routinely survive with less than full time income. Sure, it's a life with less material pleasure but it is a surprisingly adequate survival life.