skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Criminalizing is a big part of this problem. With "medical" weed you can carefully chose a fitting strain just to your liking and condition, like indica for calming and sativa for inspiring effect, in hundreds of nuances even.
But no. Too much money to be made for some groups from this prohibition. Can't have that, denied.
Hanko
These ones cannot. But with intersat optical links, it'd be perfectly feasible to have some percentage of sats as part of the constellation in the future that talked up rather than down, using either radio or optical links themselves (no atmosphere to worry about obviously). No need to have any single satellite do it all. If commercial satellites could simply plug into Starlink in a standard fashion and then it's normal internet from there, no groundstations or any other infra to worry about, that itself would be a big deal in terms of further removing obstacles to wider spread commercialization of space. It's something I haven't seen considered much but I think is another really exciting example of how many things SpaceX is shifting in concert and finding self-reinforcing effects for. Scary thing to be up against though for competitors.
How does that make it a national security issue?
Multiplying 10-digit numbers using Flickr (2011) [pdf]
Let me ask you this. What would you rate as sufficient evidence of systemic, deep-seated misogyny in a company? Or is your argument a company with 10000 employees can not display of systemic mysogyny, because there are just too many people? Is the argument then that a company of that size can not have any systemic behaviour or failures?

If that is not your argument, then I don't sure what you are trying to say. You specifically mentioned that the number of cases brought forward made you sceptical. So would have less cases of harassment been better evidence of systemic mysogyny? If not how many cases are needed to be sufficient?
Except being gay isn't a disorder so there's no "professional help" he could or should have sought.
That would be extremely expensive no? They not only have to buy Tether (using currency they can't print at will) to keep the price up, but also pay significant transaction fees.

Totally agree you wouldn't be able to redeem it, I'm just saying the market seems to think 1 USDT = 1 USD. I honestly can't imagine they could keep that peg through manipulation..it would be astronomically expensive.
As someone who has also been on the journey from early employee into project and team leadership, a formal management role, and then back to individual contributorship, I kind of agree, though at the same time I also don't really care about the title, and I know that being a "senior" or "staff" level individual contributor clearly implies a bunch of those other pieces, including things like soft leadership, independence to pursue strategic initiatives, etc.
zero ego, just trying to find the best position to make the largest impact, love the move and the mark of a true engineer.
My guess is too lazy to cut and re-terminate the cable.
Islam bans alcohol, but it also requires praying 5 times a day and usually a lot of going to Mosque with other Muslims and a general belief of unity and being in a common struggle against enemy types. I wonder if all that cultural stuff protects people from common psychological problems which they might otherwise try to stifle with alcohol. I think alcoholism is often a coping mechanism for some other psychological problem. If you just ban alcohol but don't have the culture to help with people's problems, maybe you make things worse. Mental health care is kind of an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff and doesn't seem very efficient or effective either.
So do amino acids self-replicate on their own in some way independent of DNA / protective membranes etc? A little beyond my 8th-grade understanding of science but trying to get there...
Yet another sad story of Apple's incompetence at running an app store.
no soup(general computation) for you!
That's fine, but until the results outshine the conventional solutions there is no way for an outsider to tell how they were obtained.
This may not have been a violation. Age discrimination is only illegal if the person is over 40. You could easily be “culture fitted out” for being mid-thirties when everyone at a startup is early to mid twenties. And yes, it really is that bad in SV (or at least was pre-COVID, not sure if anything has really changed).
It's strange, it feels this way at Hashicorp, too. I was a little shocked when I was new to see Mitchell occasionally commenting on RFCs, messaging people to ask questions, and updating documentation. If you didn't know his title, you would have thought he was just another engineer. He doesn't elevate himself above others, and Armon is the same.

I honestly think that sort of kindness and respect is actually what allowed Hashicorp to thrive in the open source communities.
Surely that is dependent on the language?

I loved learning Spanish because I found myself using a more emotional style of talking (paralinguistics).

And watching an Italian friend who had English as a second language, it was weird to see them be gesturally and vocally much more boring when speaking English (I think picking up on the more dry language usage here in NZ).
Not being able to travel without being extradited seems like a pretty big downside of embezzleFIRE
Every time one of these articles come up it's always the same:

Article author: "Hey breathing like this can make you relax and focus"

Me: "Cool! Let me keep reading!"

Article author: "Also it cures Asthma and a bunch of other ailments. Don't listen to doctors that call it Alternative Medicine. Some doctor in Russia says it works."

Me: "God dammit"
> I thought Kubernetes is not great for environments with poor network connectivity,

No, it's ok. What you don't want to have is:

* Poor connectivity between K8s masters and ETCD. The backing store needs to be reliable or things don't work right. If it's an IOT scenario, it's possible you won't have multiple k8s master nodes anyway. If you can place etcd and k8s master in the same machine, you are fine.

You need to have a not horrible connection between masters and workers. If connectivity gets disrupted for a long time and nodes start going NotReady then, depending on how your cluster and workloads are configured, K8s may start shuffling things around to work around the (perceived) node failure(which is normally a very good thing). If this happens too often and for too long time it can be disruptive to your workloads. If it's sporadic, it can be a good thing to have K8s route around the failure.

So, if that is your scenario, then you will need to adjust. But keep in mind that no matter what you do, if network is really bad, you would have to mitigate the effects regardless, Kubernetes or not. I can only really see a problem if a) network is terrible and b) your workloads are mostly computing in nature and don't rely on the network (or they communicate in bursts). Otherwise, a network failure means you can't reach your applications anyway...
Will they ever be able to keep a seismometer on Venus for long enough?
What's up with these people seeking refuge in UK and Europe?

They are basically US territory if you are a criminal wanted enough.

English speaking people can also basically live everywhere in the world given how spoken the language is.
No. It would be retaliation under Title IX.
That may be true for your friend, but it was not true for me - caller ID would even display names of people who asked to be unlisted. If it was opt-in I would have no issue, but it wasn't for me at least.
A Berkeley runner went missing. Detectives say it's an 'unprecedented' mystery
Seems like if you filled out the entitlements properly it should be allowed - informed consent.

But that's messed up if you did that.
Ok, so if the customer bought it before they took it down. I could use it for as long as I could?
Why does Russia keep poisoning dissidents? They could clearly assassinate or disappear the targets instead.
I got sad when I read that TokuDB in Percona & MariaDB was being dropped :(

Replaced TokuDB with MyRocks but it's totally different => now finally managed to have good ~constant performance insert&deletes (had to test & tune a lot), but "updates" remain a problem (they write a lot as I understand that any update always has to rewrite the entire row).

Using InnoDb instead of MyRocks is NOK for me (problems with deletes and related hole punching + bad that tables can never shrink when stuff gets deleted), I don't see other alternatives... .

I'm now experimenting with other DBs (right now with CockroachDB but it doesn't seem to be very stable, might then try as well Postgres but I'm scared by the lack of SQL-hints to cover worst case scenarios).
> Here at Jig, we believe that BI should be done by developers.

> Jig apps are written in Javascript.

Validate the market ASAP.
I'd say the jump from eukaryotes to procaryotes is a realistic scenario in recombinant DNA technology.

I have some experience with recombinant yeast and PTMs. Degree of glycosylation actually vary a lot depending on strain used and has a huge effect of protein activity. And of course these PTMs affects the crystal structure.
Outside of missing post translational modifications, can you give a concrete example of a protein that is known to fold differently in different species, not counting, say, stuff getting sent to the garbage bin of inclusion bodies due to the stress of overexpression? My understanding (7 years of grad school researching protein folding in the ER) is that outside of some rare corner and disease state cases, folding is pretty much binary event, and if it weren't for most cases the low delta g difference between isoforms would be just as easily overcome over the course of environmental changes in a single individual as "between different species" namely having a deterministic outcome is important for through-time robustness.
> Maybe i’m missing something

Maybe having pics of your vagina passed around the office might not make you suicidal, but it might make someone else suicidal.

Perhaps one way to find out is to present the facts of the case to a judge\jury with expert testimony and let them figure it out.
Everything's good!

I guess my main thought would be that narratives are written by many different authors, using different styles, telling different stories. So I'd imagine that there's stuff all over the place -- including narratives that heavily focus on text-messaging and others that don't mention it.

Incidentally, if you're finding some of the slice-of-life narratives a bit boring, @deregulateMed [brought up a great point](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27904980):

> As a side note, read science, history and philosophy books. It's mind boggling how much better these books are than social media. If a book sucks, move onto the next one(or tell yourself you will read it later).

I mean, I'm not 100% sure why you're asking about smartphones/texting, but if I had to speculate, you might find some of the stuff on TV a tad boring? If so, you'd be in good company!

As the above comment described, non-fiction tends to be far-superior for intensive consumption (while some light-hearted fictions, especially web-comics, can be neat compliments on the side -- xkcd and SMBC being obligatory examples).

If you do take to consuming fiction, the most interesting stuff would seem to be things that can be viewed from different angles. For example, the concept of "demiurge" has been commented on many times, from ancient philosophy/religion to modern variants, in manga/anime, serial-fictions, discussed in philosophy forums, occult texts, etc. -- so if you explore that, then it's not really just some simplistic linear narrative, but rather can be an exploration through many different lenses in many different media, adding depth not found on TV or in books.

Broadly, a lot of existential-ist conception can be a basis for such explorations. Like Heaven/Hell -- there a lot of kids might start with the Bible, then expand to other biblical texts (as a starting place: [Biblical Hermeneutics](https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/)), Dante's "Inferno"/"Purgatorio"/"Paradiso", the take from "Paradise Lost", and a whole slew of modern stuff all over religion, philosophy, books, comics, video-games (seriously -- some video-games have neat lore systems!), and more.

In such explorations, Wikipedia and search-engines (like Google) can be great because they help call attention to connections to explore. Because it's these connections to look at things from multiple dimensions that can add depth, beyond just the perspective of a single source.

Anyway, long rant short, my point's that if you're bored, then perhaps time to stop reading old-fashion fictional books in favor of some more interesting stuff. 'cause common narratives really are pretty dull.

(Alternatively, if you like old-fashion fictional books but just didn't like smartphones, sorry for the rant. =P)
was that migration a technical decision or a political one?
Musk might be a weirdo, but SpaceX as a whole is not smoke and mirrors. Falcon rockets and Dragon capsules are a tested, reliable technology developed for reasonable money. When in doubt, compare their development budgets, timetables and flight record to those of the Space Launch System.
Does Inkscape have equivalents to these operations?
Yes it was misread.
>Yes

All that needed to be said. The point is that the statement is a sexist generalization and did not need to be. Nothing more, nothing less.

I find double standards on prejudicial statements to be infuriating, doubly so when they're targeted at me, extra points for when they're accusing me of things that, not only would I never do, that I have called out people for doing in real life.

Minimizing it as a 'semantic argument' ignores the harm that stereotyping causes.
Honest question - what do iOS users do in such situations? I'm using Android and we can always install things from outside the store, or even from alternative stores (eg. F-Droid). Is there any similar solution? If the app is open-source, can you at least build it yourself and sideload it as if you are the developer and you're testing your app? What solutions are there?
It's not incompetence if it's actually their rule. They are competently enforcing an arguably stupid rule.
Agreed on the first point, however the common thing of storefronts like ours is that they start with digital goods, then tack in physical products, email marketing, affiliate marketing, and so on. All on the same interface.

Stripe and SellApp go hand in hand. Where Stripe is a payment processor, SellApp is the storefront that takes care of the pre-sales and after-sales process including product delivery, security, order replacement, etc.

That said, Stripe does seem to have recently launched a new product known as "Payment Links" which may eventually grow out to something similar to SellApp.
Fantastic blog post. I highly recommend reading it in full, and also checking out the work of the European Spreadsheet Risks Group, and Felienne Hermans specifically (referenced in the original post). I've been working on a spreadsheet startup [1] for the past 8 months or so and those folks have a large amount of absolutely upsetting-but-helpful research on spreadsheet usage/errors.

After the past few years working with spreadsheet power users, here's how I like to think about them:
1. Most spreadsheets are just used a lists/trackers [2].
2. Some spreadsheets are very calculation heavy, and are better understood as complex software projects (usually modeling something; s/o to those PE mfs) than as anything else.
3. Spreadsheets make the transition between (simple list/tracker) and (complex software project very fluid. This flexibility usually means that the (complex software project) that is created is buggy as hell.

Spreadsheets give not-super-technical users an incredible visibility into their data. Spreadsheets give not-super-technical users a way to program data transformations in what I would argue is the most generally intuitive way that exists. Spreadsheets give not-super-technical users tools to build software without introducing them to proper software development methods. Ya know, like maybe a test. Or a code review. Or no global variables. Etc.

If you want to see how we're attacking the spreadsheet problem, check us out. Feedback highly appreciated! [1]

[1] https://trymito.io/hn
[2] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/01/06/how-trello-is-diff...
The War Between Web and Game Developers
So you don't want to check some facts, you want to stick to your personal opinion, is that what you're saying?
Anecdotal, but caffeine is the drug that has messed my life up the worst.
An open source energy system model initiative for Africa
> " it's the extrapolation of discrete events into a scathing indictment

How much evidence must we have, to make such an indictment?

Your position is basically unfalsifiable. It feels as if no matter how many people come forward, no matter how many women identify these issues, that you will just hand wave it all away.

When person after person after person comes forward, eventually that makes a pattern.

> that's for the courts to determine

No. It is also for all of us to determine. Everyone can look at the evidence, and decide for themselves if that is the kind of company that they want to answer recruiter calls from, or work for.

If you have some actual evidence to the contrary, that proves anything of value, then feel free to show it.

But don't just be a devils advocate, and ignore literally everything, that anyone ever brings up.

Eventually, if you see enough evidence, that proves a pattern.
Yeah I definitely don't find it odd to like that style, I was just reacting because I found it interesting that the thing someone highlighted as being a strong point was exactly the thing that had put me off. Different tastes as you say.
The most frustrating thing for me is that it's so inonsistent with its UI. There are literally three different sound device control panels now, each with their own style and subset of functionality.

I wouldn't mind it so much if it wasn't for the fact that Windows 10 always refers me to the less functional (but prettier) sound control panel when I search for "sound". If I want to actually get to the settings I want, I have to dig through things to find the "old" windows sound control panel. It is antiquated, but still holds all the functionality I need.

I do feel their pain, though. They want to make things simple for the average user, but still cater to the power user. It's a very difficult line to straddle, and I think they end up upsetting both groups of users.

I have really come to love OSX. It just works. It's secure. It's easy to use. The UI is simple and consistent, but I can still get to the power user settings very easily.

Pretty much the only thing I use my Windows computer for anymore is crypto mining and gaming.
(Now I realize that you are one of the designers of Julia, I feel deeply honored by your answers. I really love your job with the language!)

> how one would disallow non-commutative operations. How would you know if a definition is commutative?

I don't think that this is possible without solving the halting problem. But in practice, you can do that by documenting this enforcement and making it unfeasible to overload a commutative operator with non-commutative code. For example, the callers of the overloaded commutative operator can and do assume commutativity to optimize compilation; as in, you fill a matrix with "f(i+j)" and it may only evaluate the upper-half of the matrix (this is even more interesting for the associative case). I think that Mathematica does a similar thing, I recall several symbols for operators to be overloaded assuming certain symmetries. As another example, in C++ you must overload "<" with something that is an order relation, otherwise the sort function fails. Being more fancy, a test option of the interpreter may run each call of the operator in a random order, etc.

Also, related to Mathematica, using juxtaposition for product is very natural to mathematicians. It is indeed hard point of friction when moving from Mathematica to Maple or Matlab.
643 billion dollars worth of incompetence over the year 2020.
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Ref (2012): https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
> "It's just easier for children". Yes, in a round about way, it is easier, but those reasons are purely social. Given that some adults do demonstrate the capacity to achieve fluency, yet are not living anywhere near a completely, 100% immersed life like a child does, there is clearly some natural advantage that adults have that makes up for the lack of nurture.

I like this argument, it puts it very succinctly!

On a completely different note, seeing that you're developing VR applications for learning languages: How is that coming along? Is Diplomatic Language Services already using it in production? And what improvements in learning/teaching compared to non-VR applications (and non-VR private classes) have you seen? I mean, I generally understand the appeal of VR but I hadn't heard of it in the context of language learning yet, so I'm wondering what the advantages might be since it's a purely visual thing, so a priori not necessarily more conducive to teaching a language(?)

PS: Now that I've seen you mention your alma mater on your website: What a coincidence – I once went to Shippensburg for one of my boxing fights! :) What a beautiful place!
To what extent is the Galileo effect described in that episode really just a kind of survivorship bias? If you've eliminated all the failures that can be caused by non-redundant systems with no failsafes, then the only remaining failures are those that can be caused by redundant systems with failures (or at least slipped through). The way to see whether those redundancies and failsafes are working is to see whether the overall failure rate is decreasing, not solely whether failures are being caused by those redundancies and failsafes.
Thank you! And yes, we post regular product updates on both our Discord as well as Twitter (https://twitter.com/AppSell)
>Why is it legal for them to sell personal data?

Because there is no law preventing it.

>why are companies allowed to just offer it?

Because these users did just offer it to a stranger. That's what is so confusing to me. Users claim they would not offer this info to a stranger, yet they gladly post it on social. Maybe there's still confusion on how private settings do/don't work??? Maybe people just are not capable of understanding the difference of the stranger/social post??? Maybe they don't really care, and are only saying they wouldn't give info to a stranger because they don't understand/like the question, and just answer how they think the questioner wants to hear?
No, sorry.

I won't comment on his guilt/innocent. I don't know either way.

My smile is bemused/embarrassed that we've reached a point where he will go and stand trial in another country for an allegation of something that happened here, and whether he is found innocent or guilty won't really effect my opinion of him because my faith in the system is that low.
iOS users have mostly chosen to accept the walled garden. If they hadn’t, they would be android users.
Eh, it's kinda like the term "stakeholder." It just reeks of bureaucratic bullshit, but otoh it's a very real important concept that we just don't have another good word for, so we stick with it.
OK sorry :-) thanks
When I was younger, my family couldn’t afford a laptop, but I have the distinct memory of wanting to learn to code on the iPads at my school, and being unable to find any app which would let me just write and execute programs. Looking around the App Store now, there do seem to be a couple of apps which would allow this, but it’s still really disappointing to see this kind of removal. The majority of kids these days will likely use a phone lots more than they use a laptop. For those who want to learn to code, why doesn’t Apple make it easier?