skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> send a powerful message of inclusion to the rest of the world

This only works if you are at least fairly sympathetic to either the (rather similar on this one) liberal or woke framing and values on this issue.

For someone in a democracy in some part of the world that is aggressively hostile to immigration for example, it's probable they see this as something like America doubling down on one of its most misguided policies, a Democratic immigrant-favoured majority enfranchising even more immigrants to make it permanent. Maybe it's time for their country to consider repealing the right for even naturalized foreigners to vote.

For someone in a more solidly liberal progressive background, it seems perplexing. Obviously you need to naturalize these people, the numerically largest and most vulnerable group that supports the moral backbone of the argument. Surely most if not nearly all of the long-term who haven't been violent criminals must become US citizens as soon as feasible. Once that is done, establish a more comprehensive asylum and refugee program and grant asylum or deport as appropriate. Everyone in the country legally as a long term resident, should have a path to citizenship. Now you have almost no residents without status, no associated human rights abuse because of it, you can be a shining beacon of liberty for the world's huddled masses, and you get to maintain self-definition of the political body.

And autocratic societies will simply applaud politely or jeer, depending on whether the universal franchise is something they for PR reasons officially subscribe to. If anything. In the background, they will be insinuating it's just to pacify the American people even more. Their votes never really mattered, and neither will those of the newly enfranchised.
I am with you on your stance on outsourcing. But we decouple that narrative from various countries. Some of the software produced in Germany is absolute crap and I've seen software made locally in India be a lot better in quality. For eastern european countries I onow for fact that the developers there dont compromise on salary esp the educated ones. Just because a country isnt as rich doesnt mean that they are worse in every aspect. By that logic Saudi Arabia or UAE would be a power house.
The gamification part of the app works well, until you make a break. For me it was when I stopped using it because it basically felt like breaking off an addiction, and I didn't want to go back. So it kept me using it for a while, but ultimately it pushed me away from it. My motivation was a trip to a foreign country, and maybe I would've kept at it after it was over, but as it is, I didn't. From my experience then it seems their goal is less language learning, and more engagement in a typical social network kind of way.

I think the app is technically also really good, and in general pleasant to use. And I think it's not a bad way to learn because you can immerse yourself more than by going to a school where a teacher tries to explain things to you. Doing homework is really important, and Duolingo is basically all homework.

How much did I learn in about a month and a half of 30mins per day? Can't say after two years of not using the language at all, but at the time it was enough to get a sense of something if the menu was not in english etc. And when I was in the countryside (in Italy), I was looking for somebody and the mother of the person said just "ape", and I knew that they're taking care of the bees. And recently I walked next to a new Italian restaurant in town, and at the entrance it said "la nostra cucina ________ (forgot what)" and I was like, oh, I know what that means. So it's not much, but it's not nothing.
Malaysia specifically, but I'm seeing recruiters from Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, Thailand recently. So I assume it's regional to SE Asia. I'm experiencing it with mobile dev, but I'd assume it applies to web as well.

Now that I think of it, it could be that richer countries are hiring remote from cheaper ones, as they're hiring remote anyway. But it doesn't explain why Australia has a shortage.
Deep Web Hacks
Yes I totally agree with you but I do not advise hiring a hacker with gmail account. Always hire a hacker using the deep web or you can look more into these Dark Basin forum and they might help
If you've been to a SAT conference in recent years you know that they're basically on the hunt for hard instances, ie instances that are hard for any (known) heuristic. So far, from what I've gathered, this hunt has not been very fruitful.

Guesstimating or even feedback-controlled-cobfiguration/selection of the suitable solvers and heuristics could bring us leaps and bounds.

Encoding techniques you can usually look up. But selecting the solver and heuristics needs years of real life experience. This automated approach could make SAT solving an order of magnitude faster for "the uninitiated".
One key difference is that a lack of exercise doesn't put your office mates at risk.
> it's like "racism is great" vs "racism is awful"

Or like "racism is great" vs "racism is awful" vs "this isn't racism".
"It's incredibly carcinogenic" if you go completely overboard when using vegetable oils. As the ift.org article you linked to explains:

> First of all, cooking with vegetable oil in the home (frying or sautéing) presents very little risk as the oil is typically used only once and heated for a short period of time (often less than 10 min). It is also possible to control the temperature of the oil, which should not exceed 190°C (374°F) and is best heated to 180°C (356°F) or lower. The oil should also not be heated at or above the oil’s smoke point.

Then it explains that the actual risk is from frequently consuming deep fried meals produced commercially.
Even worse, getting this kind of spam through to DDG (Bing?) seems easier than on Google

It seems DDG is worse at finding the more authoritative sites about a subject compared to Google.
This is true. Timezone differences can introduce real delays and slow down the work.
> But individuals will have much more freedom to find a working arrangement that suits them.

Agree with your comment in general. On this point, I wonder if this is only true whilst power remains in the supply side of the labour market. When the next recession hits, maybe we'll see a migration of workers to where the main employers are.

I do wonder if remote working suits the workers a lot more than the employers.
>I am not sorry about people like you getting infected or hospitalized.

I was one of those people this time last year. No one was feeling sorry then either.

Don't worry I'll get a booster shot when it is due, but I've done my part. Please don't lump me in with the unvaxxed.

EDIT: to be clear, i was just an innocent bystander who caught covid-19 early on while no one could possibly believe i was having the symptoms that we are all so deathly afraid of now. i survived, i have this persistent feeling of weirdness and random twinges of pains, but i survived it without a vaccine. i don't know what a vaccine is going to do for me (at this junction in time, maybe T+12 months will be different lets see what the science says)
I've been working/managing remote for 15-20 years. I agree with the posters, that the skills which make a manager successful can be executed remotely as well as in person.

Buy "High Output Management" by Andy Grove. Read it. I've read it cover to cover 6 times now and still find gold each time I review it.

It is hard to know everything about your situation from you post, but your more emphasized issue is you seem to be missing a 'real connection to real humans'. Yes, of course a manager needs to be connected to the team, and that empathy/earned respect is essential.... but it can be built using remote means as well as in person. You show respect through words and actions, those can be written as well as spoken. Maybe you personally put a lot of emphasis on the immediate feedback of face to face to feel that connection? Truth is, while that immediate feedback feels great and helps you tune your message, it isn't the foundation. The foundation is the thing you are getting the feedback on.

If the message is "Team, here is the goal for the week and why it matters", the foundation is that each person sees the goal and how their effort contributes to it. It is great when everyone high-fives around the room, but high-fives without the understanding are a false signal.

You are correct that managers are essential to building a winning team. You probably have a list of what roles/jobs/tasks a manager does to achieve this.

You could write down that list, and for each item write your current process for achieving it. You could then think about how you can map that process to a remote work framework.
Correct. Those vaccinations were already widespread enough to where employers didn't need to require them.

Though I understand that healthcare workers were commonly required to get the flu vaccine every year.
This isn’t seasoning. This is painting on a layer of polymerised oil. You may get good results but it’s a different technique to fully saturating the iron with liquid oil.

Heating while you do it makes a convection pattern that hinders the process. Air drying for a few days between coats works better but, again, traditional seasoning by regularly oiling (using) the pan is more trad for iron / steel.

For oak though, drying oils that produce a polymerised surface make a fantastic finish. Add thistle oil, sunflower oil and soya oil to your flaxseed (linseed) oil, or just buy this:

https://osmouk.com/product/uv-protection-oil/
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As a child I grew up in a 200 year old house which had many coats of exterior lead paint ... evidently the lead paint chips are sweet tasting ... my parents have memories scolding us kids to stop eating the paint chips
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It's the hooking of the browser back button in a way that Google does not detect which is the real 'trick'.

Anyone who can do that can rank as high as they like for any search query.
But last year, we saw that it CAN be done fully remotely. Why would going back to the office change that.
Building concrete structures in the sea has many problems as well I imagine, also in terms of cost and generally being an eye sore
You are correct, but that doesn't mean it's anecdotal. At this point we don't know whether natural immunity is 'better' than vaccine induced immunity, and it could go either way. There are many disease (including viral ones!) for which the vaccines are orders of magnitude more effective [1].

The simple reason being that the vaccines have the spike protein as a marker - the part of the virus that we expect is least likely to change significantly.

What we do know is that the current Delta variant, which is a fitness escape but also partly an immune escape, has infected a number of people that had the vanilla variant.

[1] https://twitter.com/ENirenberg/status/1412865782862725125
The episode where arthur punches DW becoming a meme
vaccines / covid are the new politics/religion from speaking from identity[0]?

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
" It's a wonderful freedom, to not care whether you get upvoted or downvoted. Give it a try. "

I agree to that.

But do not agree to just leave comment and leave approach in general.
Then it is not a discussion anymore. You will never experience if there are any counterpoints to your opinion/facts, if you do not read replies to your opinions/facts. But if you experienced you get too emotional ... so aybe better this approach, than the furiated insulting one I guess.
Indeed. The autoimmune response for some children to Pandemrix is one example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix
Pfizer now sees $33.5 billion in 2021 vaccine sales, up from $26 billion, and says a third dose of its #COVID19 shot "strongly" boosts protection against the Delta variant.
This is a very important point. Because of the "curse of knowledge", at a certain point you are unable to communicate the subject you're expert in to beginners. That's why one of the best ways to study is with your peers: the one who gets it first has the best chances to transmit their aha moment to their colleagues.

It's difficult because to get to the level of a beginner you need to force yourselves to make many oversimplifications, moreover, you have to deliberately be imprecise otherwise people won't understand you. But some people do have this talent: even though they are experts, they still can transmit their knowledge at various levels of difficulty. Keith Devlin is one. Feynman of course.
Don’t be silly, that’s not a hard question to answer. Because github is by far the world’s largest accessible repository of source code. Training on microsoft’s code would be incredibly restrictive and only cover some languages.

Actually sorry, was that a joke? Microsoft’s code for Windows is said to be pretty bad.
Google Intends to Remove the Sip Calling Service in Android 12
It's one thing to say that there's more computing power in a coffee maker than would fit in a desk 40 years ago - but to actually demonstrate it is mind blowing.

Even a run of the mill smart phone can out compute IBM's Deep Blue's 12GFlop from 1997.
When I saw this website it reminded me Mark Pilgrim's diveintomark website CSS.
Garlic is 0.5% fat according to Wikipedia.
Immersion is absolutely essential to language learning and English has an abundant amount of resources, as you say.

I understand the difficulties you've had with getting immersed with German, given that my target language while in the military had very little content period, let alone things I was particularly interested in. It might be worthwhile to look for German translations of works you've read/watched in your native language or English, though, if you're still interested in learning it.

> I feel duolingo has the same problem - no matter how much you "learn" with the app, it won't ever stick unless you can practice somewhere in the real world.

Yeah, there's too many methods you need to use to facilitate language learning and while Duolingo can potentially fill a lot of these holes, I don't think it can be your holistic one stop shop.
Pure carbon is already pretty much broken-down, chemically, unlike longer carbon-based molecules.

You can still oxidize carbon, to form CO2, rather than ... probably graphite or similar forms.

Plants themselves don't do much with soil-based carbon. I'm not sure what the microbial activity based on it would be.
Evolutionary pressure selects for less deadly viruses over time. You're right though, there is still longitudinal risk as this does not preclude a vastly more deadly strain--but at that point the effectiveness of a vaccine is similarly unknown.
Yup. Those domains are the same thing, and redirects to the same thing. There are even more domains.

Never seen anything on this scale before. I can search for basically anything(tax rules, baking, stocks, property, hygiene...) and Google will most likely show those domains somewhere.
If your code is on public github you’re evidently happy for people to read it. VS code is open source.
I haven't used `git bisect` before, but a month ago I used it to find a bug in the RTSP part of VLC, https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/25812.

It's one of those utilities that makes your life easier in so many levels.

I was wandering if there was no `git bisect` how difficult and time consuming the bug hunting would be.
> with predictable consequences

I predict that the consequences will be less COVID transmission among their employees. Shudder.
> The Bell breakup didn't really help, as some of the Baby Bells later merged into AT&T, though alernate equipment mfgs. and long-distance providers emerged.

Breakups work when they separate a vertically integrated monopoly. You separate Unix from AT&T and it thrives. Netflix is better than Cable TV specifically because it isn't the cable company, and separating TV service from the last mile provider would be useful. In general, prohibiting a monopolist from operating in any vertical markets is useful, because it prevents the monopoly from being extended into the other markets.

The baby bells were separated horizontally -- and they each still had a regional phone monopoly. That doesn't work.
Who is saying not to analyze the event? And who is saying never to engage with others? I’m certainly not saying either of those things.

Did you respond to the wrong comment?
It's not reasonable, but if you want that vaccine quickly for your citizens, you can be sure the company making it won't want to assume liability.
In Germany, our economy pretty much depends on weapons and cars, so that.

But apart from economic reasons, not really.
I would have looked at that as a stretch goal, and very stretching at it. Because I won't need very soon an autopilot to take me through the woods, especially if it's that trustworthy as it feels to be. I'd be happy to have one to drive reliably highway and wake me up when we're in close range from destination.
For me, Nextcloud's web calendar works well. Though I use native apps for most of my calendar usage.
Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’
Well... the process of that seedling growing into the big tree over 40 years is what takes carbon out of the atmosphere. The carbon just goes into the tree's biomass. So - long term, if you have a steady state where the biomass of the trees you're talking about remains roughly constant (or dips but comes back to the same level) - it is carbon neutral. Even if you're cutting down big trees and planting seedlings.

Of course, you're right, there's nuance there. If you start with a mature forest, cut it all down, and replant it with seedlings, that's not a steady state (yet) - particularly when you take ecosystem effects into account, I suspect.
> not everyone has to be destined to be a teacher. It is important to know that you are not (if you are not), and to thoroughly appreciate those who are.

Well, this should be understood, but it's not. Especially in the current academic setup the professors - experts in the field - should have the skill to transmit their knowledge to students. Unfortunately, many spectacularly fail. They'd better focus on research and leave the job of teaching to more able individuals.

My pet peeve is linear algebra. You can present it in an extremely boring way, and this is what most professors do. It's like they wanted to make this fascinating subject as repulsive as possible. Maybe you could get away with it 50 years ago, but now we have all the tools and areas of application that make teaching linear algebra in the old way a crime.
It's gratis, but not libre. Some people value this attribute of a software, choosing their toolkit exclusively or primarily so. And for these people, a nonfree software is a not a replacement for a free software.

Also yes, because it's only distributed as a web app, one day it might vanish and that's it. If it were AGPL licenced, for example, anyone could fire up another instance or embed it via Electron, and the software would live on.
Cloudflare is not a public institution. It troubles me that they get to define, draw, and then maintain that line.

However, I do agree - privacy unveiling like that should require a judge's order.
If you take land that doesn't currently have trees on it, and plant a bunch of trees that you periodically cut down and replant then you're at worst carbon neutral. Unless that land would have otherwise be planted and left alone entirely.
> edit: one other thing I have seen, but it doesn't mean it is always spam. All The Words In A Title Are Capitalized - it's something to pay attention to whether it is spam or not. Conventionally, titles are usually not like that in Norwegian.

Another big one is that Norwegians like Germans write words together, just one example from one of the stupid ads: "Spesial Reportasje" is a dead giveaway not only because of the capitalization.)

(Oh well, sadly because of pressure from Words incompetent spell checker over years and lenient teachers this is getting worse. I fear we are seing compound damage here as kids that got away with this are now becoming teachers...)
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> Number one argument I hear is “If vaccines are so safe, why does nobody take responsibility for the side-effects?”. And to some extent, they’re right, you know.

Aren't people saying the government does compensate people who experience side effects? https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html
I’m from Sweden and most of my friends are old or current coworkers except for my oldest that’s from my school or university days. Is this not common elsewhere? If it’s not I think I should consider myself lucky as I believe that is a big factor in how much I enjoy going to work.
I’m somewhat split on remote or not. For me I enjoy work more at a office with my coworkers but having a commute around 30 minutes and not having the possibility of just eating whatever’s in the fridge or being able to split the responsibility of a sick child in smaller pieces than a full day makes the practicalities of remote work very nice.
An offshore branch imposes a lot of inconveniently long distance work (set up and recruitment or acqui-hiring, and then management) on the "home" staff, while an offshore contractor is always high risk compared to a close one.
Frank is also interesting

https://github.com/frank-lang/frank

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09259
Same. In this case, Kotick, in his statement, publicly promised the conversations would be confidential, retaliation would not be allowed and managers impeding the investigation would be fired.

Note that doesn’t necessarily mean I think employees should talk to the investigators.
Just allow speculators to short sell?

In any case, a link to the so-called tulip mania doesn't answer my question, does it?
Well, I guess the bottomless money pit that is Uber is completely justified.

They never need to turn a profit, they're a public service now.
This is the funniest cold war thing i've ever read.
I think the food safety concerns are a bit exaggerated. I guess you could get some sort of mold in there. Most safety concerns are alleviated because the pan is presumably heated through regularly on account of it being a pan. Maybe I suffer from a lack of imagination regarding the magnitude of the pitting.
what i think people forget is that this isn't (IMO) about what the company wants or whatever, it's about the fact that offices are a nasty space where everybody breathes everybody's air - and diseases simply don't give a crap about where that happens. I'm pretty sure if google were an outdoor office complex where everybody sat 10 meters apart from each other they wouldn't give a crap about your vaccination status.

If anything, i think it has highlighted things like how cramped public transport, bars, clubs, etc really are and we just never paid it attention.

At the end of the day, this is one of the mitigations of a disease's spread and an office is somewhere it can happen. Let me flip it: Remote work ends and you now have to go back in, you're not vaccinated because [whatever reason you want] and you inevitably end up contracting the virus (along with it's risks). (My pessimistic guess is: people then sue the company for unsafe working conditions.)
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Not sure. Eg BitCoin futures were introduced in December 2017. A new marketplace for BitCoin. And promptly, we saw a nice price drop shortly after.

Perhaps that was because those BitCoin futures allowed short sellers to take a position?