skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still use Google, but with "reddit" or "wirecutter" or whatever else might have the information I need tacked on the end.
There was a long period where it was promised the vaccines were going to deliver herd immunity and eliminate the virus (perhaps not by public health officials, they're too savvy for that, but they were happy not to push back against the idea as it was propagated in the popular science press), but this is being quickly walked back as it becomes clear the vaccinated can play host to large amounts of virus. It's yet another Covid bait-and-switch, just like "it's just the flu, no need to worry -> oh actually it's the most lethal virus ever and we need to lock everything down," "15 days to slow the spread -> stay at home until spring when cases come back down," and "the vaccines will get us back to normal -> oh we need you to wear masks again".

The crux of the issue is not that vaccinated people are living their lives as normal (or rather, as "normal" used to be in 2019), but that SARS-CoV-2 is an endemic seasonal virus for which there are no forms of sterilizing immunity, so it's going to keep showing up over and over as long as we are testing for it. If we then use those positive test numbers (euphemistically termed "Covid-19 cases" even though they are often not associated with any actual disease or symptoms) to justify lockdowns, school closures, etc, we will be doing them forever.

Australia's seven day average death toll from Covid is at 1, and the UK's death toll from its recent Delta wave was a mere fraction of what was seen in earlier waves. I used to think it wouldn't be possible to maintain the public's level of panic once either the vaccines, natural immunity, or the virus's natural course of evolution drove it to become less lethal. Now I'm really not so sure.
I also have Japanese dramas, light novels, a few normal novels, visual novels and I recently started adding YouTube videos, so it's definitely not only anime.
Natural biodegradation usually releases at least part of the carbon via CO2.
I used the Humongous Book of Calculus Problems in college. Drilling tons of problems was incredibly helpful.
> because of how aggressively it tries to use synonyms

That's a double edged sword.

One of the main reasons regular people fail to find stuff on Google, or at least failed in the past, was that you'd need to be a walking thesaurus to do it effectively (which techies generally are, for example).

They needed to help the less educated, too.
HN's filtering is odd this way. They filter out a lot of unicode, but let some things through, like: ⏯ ⏮ ⏭ ⏧ ⏦

Other interesting comments about emoji/unicode on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26591484

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19482991

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21703050
I think that's a failure of imagination. In the early days of search engines and web crawling companies paid subject matter experts such as librarians and other experts to manually grade and categorize web pages.

Spam pages tend to be filled with Ads and derivative content, owned by spam company domains, and do not provide unique information relative to other sources.

If we as humans can recognize a spam page, why can't the machines? At the very least Google can penalize repeated spam domain owners/domains to help reduce the problem.
Israel has a private system with lots of regulations. It is private though
The CNBC article said 11pc in early trading. Just checked the price and it's 7.9pc down atm. That's still quite a drop, I'd say.
sanoid is a good one. I've been on a quest to run mostly golang-based utilities and switched to https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl which has been running/syncing without issue for a couple years now
The coded words of job adverts that reveal important clues
I have checked your website, and I say that you have an amazing front-end design. It is also quite responsive. Is there any plan to have a free plan included?
This sounds so familiar. I used to scour the internet for reviews before buying anything. Analysis paralysis is real, and I sometimes just give up buying at all.

Over the past years, I found more bad review websites than helpful ones.
I doubt there are any real unbiased reviews.

Go to google, enter the ad trap
Go to your local store, you have to deal with the sales target of the store.
Go to Reddit or a forum, and the people there just want to justify their purchase.

It is all fine as long as you know it.

The authors solution to just go to a local bike shop and buy a bike is in my opinion still a reliable best. I assume he got the opportunity to test ride the bike before purchasing it.

My new approach is to write down what I want from the product. This gives me clarity.
I still read reviews but take them less serious.

I either order online and once I receive my package I sent it back or keep it.
Alternatively I just go to a physical store and try it out before buying it.
This looks great, how do you stack up against something like YJS?
It can be, if the people involved are knowledgeable. In this case and a distressing number of other cases, it's clear the people piping up have no idea what's going on (and some aren't even paying attention when reading the initial question). They're imitating what knowledgeable people do to feel like they're contributing.
Probably being upvoted because of the importance of the education of both sides of this debate.
> patent offices will generate adversarial AI review examiners

What if someone patents these examiners first? :)
A company might use it to eliminate any benefits of the actual human inventor, even if it's just the recognition as many job contracts are already pretty bad.

It would be interesting to see it turned the other way around. If a company owns all inventions made by employee event if it's done outside the working hours without company equipment due to the contract, do they own inventions made by AI running on a computer owned by employee?
.NET Conf: Focus on F#
Well this is a big ole romanticized, generalized version of Alaska and Alaskans.
Haha, great fun! The picture might need a few cycles of JPEG (re)compression to make it even more convincing.
I announced an OpenGrok-based search engine project on 2013-04-01, launching BXR.SU exclusively on IPv6 for the first few weeks of availability.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-Apr...

IPv4 was added a few weeks afterwards.
> The cheaper beer I see at the discount grocery stores is often from Brazil

I assume you meant beef instead of beer. While brazilian beef is the cheapest option in the EU, it is increasingly expensive in Brazil. Brazilians are starting to have to wait in line for the donation of the leftover bones by butcher shops[1].

[1]https://g1.globo.com/mt/mato-grosso/noticia/2021/07/17/acoug...
Regulators should pay absolutely zero attention to stock market. If the stock price crashes, it's because the company's value was derived from the exploitation and abuse that regulations are supposed to prevent. They were never supposed to be that valuable in the first place.

Regulations should cause as much damage to stock price as possible. We should measure the effectiveness of regulations by how much they tank the stock of affected companies. Real change often affects the profits of corporations. If nothing happens, then I doubt the new rules are actually gonna change anything for the better.
I think it is also the result of the whole "Ok, google" voice assistant push. It seems like Google switched to natural language processing and the old-school system of keyword searching is no longer effective.
Something like five billion people have yet to have a single dose, I wouldn’t be too worried about “pockets” of holdouts yet.

Yes, variants have shown to be less inhibited by vaccines… but that’s just it, less. Ever had a cold? Influenza? Variants make some vaccinated people sick, but almost none of them end up in the ICU, they’re full of unvaccinated people.
Brought to you by the same government that had a leader who tried justifying spending public funds on a pool for his personal house as a "fire pool". I love SA, but their oversight overall on things like this is non-existent.
Liquidfun [0] diverged from Box2D at v2.3.0, circa November 2013.

liquidfun-wasm [1] is my effort to rebase the liquidfun contributions onto latest Box2D, v2.4.1 (October 2020), and to distribute it in WebAssembly with TypeScript typings.

this work is detailed in liquidfun-wasm's first release notes. [2]

I've also enabled WASM SIMD acceleration (via LLVM's autovectorizer) on supported devices. Haven't yet measured what performance difference this makes.

[0] http://google.github.io/liquidfun/
[1] https://github.com/Birch-san/box2d-wasm/releases/tag/liquidf...
[2] https://github.com/Birch-san/box2d-wasm/releases/tag/v4.0.0-...
Exactly. There is a certain logic to "Somebody will do this and I am somebody." But anybody taking the money also has to take the moral burden that comes with the work.
I suspect that from a strictly economic standpoint, the only thing their PR department should be doing is keeping everyone in the company mute.
Hard to avoid thinking about that being the reason many defend USA holding dozens of countries in a sleeper hold with military bases.
I wonder what happens to the contaminant styrene monomer? I guess it's just another poison we're throwing into the water.
Total massive cock-up plus some arrogance they had time.

It actually happened to a few countries in the APAC region. Vietnam had 2,000 cases total earlier this year and now has a nationwide curfew, 8,000 cases per day and 110,000 cases total. 5% of the population has been vaccinated.

And clearly they’ve done a better job than the US and Europe in controlling cases but mostly through some pretty draconian measures. When they shut down all eating establishments the owners are left to find alternative income.

They thought they had it under control and could wait. Clearly Vietnam is a low income country, but the economic impact has already exceeded the cost of vaccinating everyone.
I use Forvo for this, it is great: https://forvo.com/
DNT does not mean no cookies.
I don't get why you're downvoted. That's exactly why these things are failing.
> The old is still gold when it comes to language learning.

Absolutely. Maybe I'm just inclined to the grammar-translation model, but I've found the older editions of books like Teach Yourself so much more helpful to me. Couple that with self-created immersion and it goes a lot quicker.
My "theory" is that learning a language is like learning any other discipline to a high degree of fluency. If you study a couple hours a week even if you don't forget what you learned in short order it's something which requires a period of immersion for you to be able to recall it as well as the day you learned it. To be able to expound at length on a topic at the drop of a hat you essentially need to dedicate a few hours a day every day. I think languages work the same way.
Can you explain which parts are making it difficult? The sentences run a little long in that academic fashion, but the pieces are relatively straightforward.

Some of the key bits:

* Ostensibly colorblind laws can be applied in racially discriminatory ways

Example: Prosecutors, police, and judges all act on their discretion. Both unconscious bias and explicit racism can cause some people to be charged, prosecuted, and sentenced differently, regardless of the law.

* race can intersect with other identities (such as gender and class) to produce complex combinations of power and disadvantage

Example: White women campaigning for the right to vote had a choice: include black people to expand their base, or exclude them to avoid scaring off a large contingent of racist white men. The movement as a whole chose the latter, and arguably it was the most effective choice for them. Similar pressures today put divisions between groups who could in theory band together. The sheer number of groups, and the differences in strategies they choose, tends to reinforce the status quo.

* white supremacy as an intersectional social construction which serves to uphold the interests of white people

"White supremacy" here is a confusing term, in that people tend to associate it with white robes and hoods. The term is accurate: many white people implicitly believe that the average white person is superior to the average black person. That holds even for people willing to vote for an extraordinary black man, have black friends, etc.

It shows up clearly only in its aggregate effect, making it easy to dismiss any individual's contribution to it, but it's very clear when you're exposed to it every day. In some ways it's worse than the robes-and-hoods version of racism, because the latter is easy to reject and most people do, but that allows them to believe that they've done their part without having to closely consider their own beliefs and actions.

And it leads to a catch-22. The people most likely to outright reject it are the ones defending their own egos. It's easy to dismiss any individual behavior and treat the aggregate effect as the fault of black people themselves. You'd basically have to live the life of a black person to disprove it, and that creates a No True Scotsman situation.

What's clearer, though, is the way this is weaponized by the robes-and-hoods type racists to portray people honestly trying to get this across as a conspiracy. That this kind of out-and-out racism is still so prevalent should make it really easy to see why this entire question is still coming up.

Does any of that help?
Lots of fishing and tourism jobs. And they have a year-round port where containers are loaded onto the train to Anchorage.
The GME/AMC nonsense will get downvoted on more serious subs.

The one that started it is called “wall street bets” and people openly call each other “retards” and “autists” over there.
Selection effects. The poor and elderly are likely to be on Medicare and other public programs. If you can't afford healthcare and get it for free of course you'll be happy

It's like my charcoal Weber. I found it on the side of the road. Its dirty, dinged, and the wheels are falling off. But it was free and I can grill on it, so I'm extremely happy with it

On the other hand if I paid for a Weber and got that, I'd be pissed.
There is Consumer Reports in the US: http://cr.org They are a nonprofit that has been independent for decades and have strict policies against accepting gifts, sponsorships, ads, etc, and take other steps to remain free from influence. For example, when they review new cars they send an undercover individual to buy it at normal price from a random dealer so the company and the dealer don't know the buyer is CR (and maybe sweeten the deal or throw in upgrades or take steps to improve its reliability or whatever). They also review a lot of household and kitchen appliances, mattresses, etc.

The New York Times now has their "Wirecutter" reviews of tech and household stuff, but they do rely on affiliate links for income so take that as you will.

There is not a single independent consumer organization that can test every product out there, so if you're looking at road bikes you may end up with a different set of trusted reviewers than if you're looking at computer hard drives or roof shingles.
This feels like a misunderstanding of what it means to have a good bike. If you aren't a regular rider, odds are high that no review will actually be relevant.

From how you want to be seated to how hard you can take a climb, bikes are stupid personal. Even tire choice is one that will float above entry level concerns.

Ignoring that bikes are heavy in ebike mode right now. And reviews are, by definition, expensive. I can tell you that I like my bike. I can't compare it to more than a couple of others, because I can't afford that many bikes.
If you're still alived/hospital resources aren't overrun, then technically, they have "worked".
I assume they don't mean to refer to the physical building, but to the organisation responsible for the building and its physical security. Anyway that's a thing for auditors to have fun with (so you say you're hosting provider is certified, can you show me their certificate?) as you're not supposed to lean on their website information anyway.

I don't think many of the competitors in this space (eg Linode and DigitalOocean) own their datacenters either.

As Linode put it: Linode as an entity is not ISO27001 and we rely on the data centers we colocate with to obtain and maintain these certifications

Or DigitalOcean in 2017: Our FRA1 facility is ISO9001:2008, ISO27001:2005, and ISO22301:2012 certified.

(DigitalOcean later got their own certification)
> Recruiters are getting pretty damn aggressive these last two months

I've noticed this as well. The trend of sending 5x followup emails when I don't respond drives me up the wall. I get something like 10 recruiters reaching out to me a week, and most of them do not deserve a response.
Perfect, thank you! Please let me know when you release, I'd definitely be interested in it.
It is absolutely activism. Not all activism is good. Activism is also the reason we have too many single-homes and not enough low-income housing or transportation—because we tend to give too much weight to the few individuals who are vehemently opposed to these changes, and not to the much broader good they can generate for the general public.
That's the one! Thanks
I have about the same length of a career, and the majority of managers I have had have been poor. Except for one, the best managers just left me alone. The worst are the ones that try to help and be involved and caused great people to leave, screwed up projects, and caused a great deal of damage to organizations.

However, on the opposite side, technical leaders are awesome. Most of mine have been great. They are team captains, leading through inspiration and excitement and performance. I love leaders.

The push back to the office is at least 50% driven by managers that are freaking out because their uselessness has been revealed. Many orgs and people I know of have been performing better during the pandemic - now it is tough to correlate to overall remote performance, since the situation is different. In normal remote work, you can interact with other people easier, can visit your team on fun trips, and generally be more social, which has the downside that you aren't as focused on your work, either. Also, you don't have your kids at home, which is huge.

But if I were running a company, I'd take notice at the fact that many managers can be cut, and that a good chunk of management is merely gaining and holding on to power via social manipulation.

I've done management and leadership throughout my career, although predominantly I've been an IC, and I see managers taking credit for the good things that happen and believing they are responsible for them, and the opposite for the bad things. When in reality, many bad things are the managers fault, and rarely do they have much responsibility for the good things.

I have a very dim view of management in general, although there are the rare really good ones, but they are almost always the "get out of the way" kinda.
earlier submission with 30+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27995275
+1 for fish shell, it really is great. Powerline prompt with it is also super useful.
Let's not forget data mining. People build whole businesses on this and a lot of them are parastic. They are profiting on data that is sometimes costly to obtain.

All the companies that scrape linkedin tied it to other socialmedia and build power profiles on people such that CIA is clapping with smile.
At some point Google is going to let you simply narrow your search to the dozen or so sites you regularly visit.
The rest of the web, outside the top 100, is dying.
> This has existed for at least two years: https://www.duolingo.com/stories

I'm aware of stories, but given that it's only available in a small minority of languages, I'd say it's fair to say DL doesn't offer it when the majority of their languages don't (and likely won't ever) have stories.
For me keyparts are more syntax decisions that are being made to a language and how easy it actually is to write, import and export parts of a program. This is why I really like V or Deno. When it comes to size I only care about the output size and compilation times. If I import one part of a file I really just one only that part and ofc dependences.
It's a bit of a Stackoverflow trope, so much so that it shows up in these "parody questions" that surface from time to time.

In some cases the people answering have the experience and breadth of knowledge to understand the "real" question being asked, even if the OP doesn't quite have it yet. Other cases, it seems like arrogance and showboating, and doesn't contribute much where a simple direct answer would be best.

The one that gets me is seeing an answered question, with a bajillion upvotes, locked by mods as "off topic" or "not useful" or whatever. Clearly a relevant question with a useful answer, as evidenced by the many comments and kudos. Ugh.
> people want to go against things because of the people telling them to do something.

Yes, it's reverse psychology. The effect is to maximize death rates among the demographic group to which anti-vax has been successfully marketed.

> SJWs shouldn’t tell me.

SJWs aren't the ones campaigning for vaccines. Center-left technocrats are. Big difference.
My intention was not to flame you individually, but to emphasize that the argument "well, the lines are shorter" is pretty shallow without some background information on what that means in practice.
Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Charged with Lying to Investors
There is no price too high to pay for zero COVID
I completely rewrite the calendar program using the C++20 standard
Shame most of the content is moderated to an epic level of uselessness.
Well the answer is everyone on the losing side. How the punishment is carried out would probably be the same as in WW2. Prison time for most, to varying degrees, more severe punishment to main leader, probably limited clemency to the highest ranks so they can work in other countries to pass on their knowledge and skillset.

I speculate
Anymore, my only comfort is existential: we won't wipe out all life on earth, so maybe there will be beautiful ecosystems that re-emerge in a few million years after we've collapsed this current one entirely. Everything about what's happening the natural world is deeply distressing and depressing, but as it seems to be a mostly foregone conclusion scaling out my view of "life" has helped me cope.
And yet, while many american insurers cover expensive gene therapies, European autorhities simply pretend the drugs are unsafe and refuse to cover them.

This sort of thing goes both ways
:-)

Well, if the bird in question used an LZ77 followed by Huffman, he could compress all that wood/chuck stuff down to almost nothing. So he could chuck a lot :-D
It's so funny how much of an impression bad experiences in school make on you. I occasionally have dreams where it's finals week and I realize that I haven't attended any sessions or completed any of the homework for some class. (Sadly all too realistic, I really struggled to have my shit together in college.)

I've often thought that if I ever became wealthy enough to not have to work, I'd like to go back to school and do a better job of it. Looking back, I kick myself for wasting so much of a period of time where I could have been filling my brain with useful knowledge.

Oh well, though - I got enough education to land my first programming job, so it wasn't a total waste. And a lot of fun was had along the way. Hindsight can be a bit illusory.
I think what you are talking about with the former and technical leads and product owners, not typical people managers. There is overlap, as it gets fuzzy, but most managers I've experienced have terrible technical insights and are instead an active blocker to great results.
> Last September, Hindenburg Research said in a paper that it was short-selling Nikola stock and labelled the company a "fraud", a charge it denied.

Shorts win! Thanks for the market function