skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that if you aren’t outraged by the state of higher education in the US, you’re either a) delusional or b) an administrator or someone making money off the racket.

Good article: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/marriage-c....
The motor and gearbox probably keep dozens of completely different companies busy though. There are lots of different bits and bobs in there that are manufactured by very specialized companies. Many of those jobs will go away in the next ten to twenty years.
Happy to, though for brevity sake I will make some claims that I won't derive here - so forgive me and caveat emptor please.

The concept of the metaverse is one in which the physical world is connected to "virtual" worlds via some abstracted reference.

For example, I can put a RFID sensor on a doorway (lets call these markers) for example, to which you can then scan that RFID with an interrogator and that will link the physical presence of the interrogation device with the physical location of the RFID sensor.

You can take this example much further and for example use a series of cameras/sensors to take video and then reconstruct that in real time to recreate a "real time" virtual copy of whatever is happening in the real world.

Now imagine that you have a camera on you at all times that is outward facing (like the cameras on the Rift that are used to sense location). If you can build a representation of the real world that itself acts like unique markers that are inherited from the world, then the Oculus system can have a temporal representation of your location (assuming you're wearing such a device), gaze, and all of the associated data that can be extracted from the environment.

So take it a step further a few decades and now you are wearing augmented reality glasses which have an always on camera - for sundry technical purposes that are required for it to work that I won't go into here. At scale, I now have a constantly updated version of not only the real world - because you're updating the virtual representation of the real world state - but also how you interact with the real world, what you interact with etc... such that we can rebuilt a massively robust understanding of you and your behaviors (and everyone else's even if they aren't using glasses) to a degree that would be not just unprecedented but also incredibly valuable to advertisers and companies.

That is worth Trillions and FB (and SNAP and others) has been moving steadily on this path to realize this world for at least a decade.
I don't know a single person across my org that will ever have to invert a binary tree. It's a hilarious problem that helps people who know it's a kind of problem asked, and hurts those who walk into it blind.
Increasing efficiency must come first as using exotic methods to increase supply is very expensive. Just like how cutting wasteful electricity consumption is greener and cheaper than supersizing a solar panel array.
IIRC, it was done for security, to avoid inadvertently picking up a library from an unexpected place. For instance, drop a file named test.py in the same directory as your python 2 script and have "fun" figuring out what went wrong.
I have been really interested in general relativity and watching youtube videos for the past few months. I understood all the words (I would not have a year ago.) I think it does have enough detail to understand what they're saying. There's a lot missing, but I assume you'd go to the paper for that.

But I think the article is well written. It essentially says, "We think this interesting thing is true. It has these nice properties, and should be provable/falsifiable. Please help us prove it!"
> All in all, the article doesn't actually make the claim or even suggestion that rent control decreased the supply of housing

But right there if you even read to the end of the abstract:

"Thus, while rent control prevents displacement of incumbent renters in the short run, the lost rental housing supply likely drove up market rents in the long run, ultimately undermining the goals of the law."

Probably now you're going split hairs on rental supply vs. supply. Ok.

But at least we can firmly state that the original claim "we now know rent control isn't bad" was bunk.
Yes, but notaries aren’t generally public employees. If I need a notary, I go to the bank or Fedex store.

This is something that can totally be handled by private orgs.

But it has to actually be done!
It's not seriously controversial. If you work in identity or health, you know what technologies are being used, tech standards are being pushed out via public health networks, (SMARThealth, WHO's covax, etc.) and the massive changes in privacy regulations and information sharing in support of it are unprecedented. There are probably details that are still confidential in government, but that parties are leveraging the pandemic crisis to drive prior agendas is no secret. To deny that is unserious to the point of the very gaslighting that is creating the mistrust that is impacting the rollout.

Data on ths subject is so politicized it's not even science anymore, it's scientistic policy activism. Arguing in the ivermectin/HCQ debate isn't going to impact policy or rollouts, but a tangible commitment to not exploiting the crisis to impose centralized identity governance would.
Building out a simple website (Google Sites, etc.) that the HOA can update and then share to Facebook is another.

Open web access then exists and yet those who choose FB are not cut off.
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I find it funny how inverting a binary tree is used as an example of a bad leetcode problem. This problem seems more like a fizzbuzz test, anyone who knows recursion should be able to solve it on their own.
What alternative do you propose? Fossil fuels are out because of climate change. Hydrogen is out because of terrible energy efficiency. Synthetic fuels have even worse efficiency. A massive reduction in car ownership probably won't happen in the next twenty years either.
I am so glad this post exists
No S-H-I-Curling-Broom!
You mention goals twice as guiding force. It’s something that I read often, but what seems to mean different things to different people. Can you elaborate on what your goals are?
And this is a very good thing!

We want to phase out jobs that create products that are bad for the environment and our heath, and jobs that are bad for the people doing them (long haul truck driving, for example).

In history we've phased out many such jobs, and it's a sign that things are on the improve. Hopefully we'll entirely get rid of coal mining in favour of PV production and installers, and even one day get rid of transport truck drivers.

Obviously it would be ideal if there were resources to help people transition to a new career, but we certainly shouldn't lament the fact "bad" jobs are going away.
Facebook even fails as a tool for keeping your friends and family updated with life events. I quit when I realized that my "friends" weren't even seeing my posts unless Facebook deemed them worthy. When I started jazzing up my posts, adding happy pics and extra emojis, I realized I was being manipulated. I was having to compete with professional spammers^H^H^H marketers for my friend's attention. It's gross.
The other tricks to making SQLite fast:

* Ensure you're in WAL mode. https://sqlite.org/wal.html

* Use prepared statements and transactions.

* Set the cache pragma to ideally hold the DB in RAM.

* Run optimize and vacuum periodically (especially if the data is transactional): https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_optimize

* Pick the synchronous mode you're comfortable with: https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous
What airport doesn't have free wifi?

Of the dozens I've been to in the last 5 years they all did - even Bamako in Mali, Dar in Tanzania, Addis in Ethiopia, etc. etc.
Classifying Job Titles with Noisy Labels Using Reinforce
Donald Trump Rips the shit out of the Xiden Occupation Regime:

Death to Covid Terrorists!

https://rumble.com/vka124-president-donald-j.-trump-delivers...
This exact problem plagues India. The public education system is essentially irrelevant here. Teachers hardly make money, even in private schools are hence incentivised towards joining the after-school private coaching industry training highschool kids for hyperc-competitive college entrance exams which is where the real money lies given parents are blindly willing to spend fortunes for even a small chance their kids might do better. Everyone knows regular high-school hours are quickly becoming irrelevant in a country obsessed with entrance exam coaching. Even many schools are getting in on the action with "intergrated post-school coaching". Education has truly become a gigantic business in your country the day even Amazon wants to get in on the action & does.
COVID IS GAY!
The article mentions a ban on "fattened fowl" which I would guess covers foie gras (a tradition that originated in ancient Egypt). California, and Chicago and New York all banned it in the past 15 years, although the California ban is still going through the courts. On another fowl note, eating an Ortolan is pretty much banned everywhere.
I once wrote a unit test that always failed on the 31st day of the month.
Fuck Masks.
Fuck Gavin Newsom.
Fuck Joe Biden.
Fuck Vaccine Passports.

FUCK YOU!
Death to vaxxers!
And no offense drug dealers willing to sell you heroin are very convenient but I wouldn't recommend taking them up on their offer.
If the meta-analysis didn't actually look at the original data to validate the claims of the original papers, what good is it?

Studies should be assumed false until proven otherwise.
Ws-monitoring: A simple and lightweight realtime monitoring software using Node
I guess you could be right. As a relatively new admin i find it so odd how software that improves administration for windows isnt more common
Python Lists for C# Programmers
That's the rule, but you have to wonder why. They don't get more money just because Google can't spend their own development resources on targeting and validating Blink/V8 for iOS.
There was a lot of frictional jank related to mattermost that just made it less smooth to use and more annoying, with the occasional missed notification and so on.

Slack has a lot more product thought and nice features that keep on getting added. Our competency is not managing mattermost, it's doing what the company is made to do.

If you want to reduce communication, well that is a different thing altogether and you can choose if you want chatroom software for your company or not.
How Do You Keep a Subway from Flooding in the Age of Rising Seas? (2019)
> We have found that the role of the project manager is counterproductive in complex, creative work. The project manager’s thinking, as represented by the project plan, constrains the creativity and intelligence of everyone else on the project to that of the plan, rather than engaging everyone’s intelligence to best solve the problems.

Pretty much wish this was a defined part of agile, most of the time all my boss/pm is good for is maybe reminding me of meetings. They never understand what I’m working on to help, but they have power to make giant decisions and elevate problems I have been waiting for the client on for some time. Idk if this is a common theme.

I read a comment here a while back I agree with: your project manager, a good one, should remove obstacles that could slow you down, and anticipate them. They will only really interact when they notice bad patterns; like you being too slow. And most of the time let you be unless you introduce to new team members or elevate issues. Focus on your major tasks, allow them to manager the small mundane.
NIMBY propaganda: Homelessness is not a housing issue. Empirical data: Yes it is
Imagine a very loud sound.
"How to cripple your workflow worse than Windows 11 could ever hope to"
VB6 didn’t produce native binaries
The two Freespaces
Sounds like what China really needs, then, is a new approach to testing that manages to distinguish deep understanding of the underlying concepts from mechanistic/formulaic memorization.

(Tangent: Has anyone yet tried to prompt GPT3 to generate "deep" word problems?)
>a gold standard for good reasons.

What does this mean exactly? Is it the best possible? Or the best available?

If it is the latter, then it does not mean much. If it is the former, then your statement is not true.
Windows is Windows, and Microsoft is Microsoft. Extrapolation from those to anywhere else in the universe does not generate a plausible argument.
Bah, Larry Sanger tried to shill me Everipedia at a crypto conference a few years ago. Maybe he is worth listening to on this topic but Everipedia is a complete joke.

All platforms have problems. I don’t like a lot of Wikipedia’s policies. But I’d for damn sure choose a Wikipedia run “Face Book” over Facebook, Inc.
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"As late as 1926, some patterns were still being made with as many as 146 distinct kinds of utensils. To help simplify the situation for American industry, Herbert Hoover, then secretary of commerce, recommended—and members of the Sterling Silverware Manufacturers Association adopted—a list of fifty-five items as the greatest number of separate pieces that would be in any pattern thereafter introduced."

https://publicism.info/history/useful/9.html

A number of comments:

https://www.smpub.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002518.html
I'm not sure what you paid for but I have YouTube premium and have had it for a couple months now and I haven't had an ad anywhere... I got it cuz my router's diversion ad blocker stopped working as well.
small data point I know.. but I recall in circles around dc/va/md in the 80s - you only heard about thai sticks a couple times a year maybe - and when they were around - they were not a marketing gimmck like taking homegrown and adding a stick and string.. they were fluffy, and appeared to have a coating of hash basically(memory is vague at this point)

I have no doubt that places around the country had people try to make similar and sell it as such - but there certainly did appear to be a special type of thai stick that came around once in a while, and not only did it look different, but had a similar effect to packing a bowl with kind sinse and topping it with hash oil before smoking.

Sure concentrations might be higher today across the board, but there was some select groups that had access to premium things in the 80s - even if the average smoker was getting compressed brown bud that had more stems and seeds than flowers - that does not mean that there were not a few trained botanists way back when that could deliver quality and fresh - there just wasn't enough to go around for it to be common.
All metal-air batteries have similar thermodynamic properties. If you can make a iron-air battery with good efficiency, than you can make a hydrogen-air battery with good efficiency too.

Since water is significantly more available than just about any other material, hydrogen-air cells should be the ideal battery for anything that isn't volume limited. Which is frankly a lot of cases. Unless there's some specific need for an iron-air battery where hydrogen-air can't be used, it's hard to conceive of a situation where we wouldn't use hydrogen-air.

Synthetic hydrocarbons are basically extensions of hydrogen electrochemistry. You are just adding carbon to the hydrogen made with the electrolysis step of a hydrogen-air battery. It's even possible to make a hydrocarbon-air cell such as direct-alcohol fuel cells or solid oxide fuel cells.
That’s your view and you’re very kind.
Syntax is almost completely irrelevant.
When I was stuck at incheon for a few hours, I had a hard time finding a place that would sell cold bottled water. It was bizarre how the convenience shop type of store was just missing in whatever branch of incheon I was waiting at. All the water was slightly warm at the least from the few restaurant type places I was able to get water, even if it came out of a fridge.

Also when I arrived at korea where it was a bit confusing for an english speaker to find your way around from the airport. Korea is not integrated with google or apple maps as far as transit directions go, by law I think, so I had to download a korean maps app in a hurry to try to get around, and that korean app was not localized well (or maybe not at all, it was 2 years ago).

We also had to use a bus vs. a train to get out as we arrived late and buying the ticket was not a straightfoward process. We almost missed the bus if it wasn't for a nice bus driver guy who also really didn't know english that well.

While in japan and a whole bunch of other countries I've landed in, developed or not, I've had none of these issues.

Once at our hotel it was a fairly standard experience, and Seoul was quite a nice place to visit! But the airport experience had a lot of weird hitches.
> pharma company doesn't know which ones are handing out placebos..

Not sure I get you. If all the physicians are bribed, then why would the company need to know anything? Everyone can cook up some data and go along with the result that the company needs, right?

Also, about this

>If all the physicians are bribed

I think you should assume that any physician that ends up in a trial is there because they are known to be complaisant. Same as politicians and authority figures are often planted by powerful people with vested interests.
Either you have government action that forces all businesses to adhere to certain rules, or you get the rules that help each business to be as competitive as possible. If there is more profit to be made by shipping stuff from China and there are no global rules discouraging that, than any company which does not do it will eventually be outcompeted.
I multiplied by 3 at the end since kids and unemployed don't pay taxes but you're right ty.
thank you for all the great comments in this thread. I'm a former Li-Ion researcher (Yi Cui group). I'm less familiar with grid storage. Would you be open to chatting a bit more about this? My email is in my profile. Thank You!
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Of course we do, our toxic masculinity demands us to excel at everything...
There’s a difference between being able to solve the problem given some thought, and being able to answer and program 2-3 of these problems in 45 minutes. The latter is what Facebook expects.
It's going to have to be on the blockchain. No way around that.

Any other way you end up with the same outcome. If one party has full control, it will eventually abuse it's position.
Anything like this for the web?
I was curious and went reading to learn more about this. Seems to have been Hoover acting as Secretary of Commence before presidency. I wasn’t able to find a lot of additional details on this, but there’s a discussion on a silver forum I found interesting [0]

> In 1925/6, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, responding to a silver shortage, ordered the Bureau of Standards to limit the number of pieces in a flatware pattern to 55. Arbiter of manners Emily Post approved of the restriction, declaring, "No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use." Elaborate silverware has been on the decline ever since.

[0] https://www.smpub.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002518.html
Yes, but these magazines are something you have to actively buy and read. As the uncle of three girls I'd say what has more impact is peer pressure in social media. Girls from your class/school displaying images of themselves fulfilling certain body stereotypes. Seeing the same images in advertisements makes things only worse.

Putting female people into certain position doesn't turn them automatically into liberal challengers of the status quo, who rationally question the things they learned their whole life, certain kinds of pressure comes in the worst forms from other women (mother, grandmother, aunts, colleagues, etc).

E.g. if you are a girl in a typical family in Italy cutting your hair short, getting a tattoo, or not wearing a bra is something your relatives definitly will mention negatively to you. The only reason being that they have an idealized image of what a woman must look like to be a "propper woman". If you don't look like that they might think you are a lesbian, have psychological problems or similar silly causal connections.
If you haven't tried a nice pair of sunglasses, you should. It's a game changer. I got a pair of Maui Jim at company raffle, it was one of their high-end ones and man, I can't believe how clear I see on sunny days. Like I said, 'buy nice or buy twice". I don't think you need to buy the absolute highest end on everything, but cheapest is almost never the right choice.
The video seems to indicate the product is intended for live play. I think emulation wouldn’t work in that case since there are often unpredictable latencies when running available emulators on consumer OSes. Sometimes emulators skip as well, which would be terrible in a live setting.
Thinkpad X1 user here, but would change to the framework as it is upgradable. My problem is the black lines between the exchangeable port - why not just make a black / matt black version?

These exchangeable port look so big not giving the choice to have 2 USB C, 1 USB a and 1 Hdmi. That would be my min configuration.

Cheers from switzerland (swiss german keyboard necessary;))
Nice effort, but why?

1) There's no need to capture CO2

2) There's no need to record that on a blockchain or use crypto - you could use Github or Gitlab or IPFS with PGP-signed notary statements. Or push commits to all three.

3) Most enterprises are already forced to capture (or pay for outsourced capture, buy CO2 credits and other nonsense), so in order to make CO2 Coin viable in terms of (voluntary) market demand, you'd have to stop the government climate racket first. Good luck getting your friendly government department to give up on the millions of dollars they collect.

4) Considering how expensive global warming racket has become, I can't believe enterprises or individuals can be incentivized to use such a coin. It's much better to just ignore the schema - once the government is out of it (necessary condition for a CO2 Coin), damage from not participating in the racket would be negligible. Nobody wants to pay for it - if they did, we wouldn't have CO2 taxes and excises and no meaningful voluntary contributions.
That was the Apple party line when the iPhone was first released – the only Apple-blessed way to build iPhone applications was to build mobile-friendly web applications. There was a backlash – everybody complained and demanded native applications; the App Store was opened the year after.

https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-...
If the crypto is strong, wouldnt the leftovers be equivalent to not overwriting?

The only better is less wear on the disk
Here's one plan, they were paid $400 to $1,000 a month.

CDPHE Vaccine Campaign Communications Plan (Colorado)

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21014896-cdphe-vacci...

"For video testimonials, a video template will be provided and influencers will be walked through the process of recording themselves using the template."

"Lastly, the training session will provide further guidance about how to manage potential dissenters. This will ensure influencers are prepared for COVID-19 vaccine naysayer comments. Each month influencers will receive a link to an updated Social Press Kit, which will have all pre-approved messages and social media content with their respective graphics and images."

"While initial guidance is provided, influencers are encouraged to relay messages with their authentic voice. Monitoring will focus on safeguarding consistency with campaign messaging, while not flagging content for a small degree of deviation."
I think this is a bad idea as well, but you're not eligible for unemployment if you've been fired.