skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you’re extremely unlikely to win by conventional means then a high variance strategy is the best way to maximize your chances of winning. Sure, if you play this race out 50 times maybe she only wins 1 time by breaking away and hoping other riders flub up their response. But what were her odds of winning by staying with the peloton? 1/100? 1/200?

As you said, she’s a mathematician - she knew exactly what she was doing.
What culture are you referring to? The working class that uses them to build housing and operate almost every skilled labor profession? Or maybe you mean farmers who grow our food?
In some countries they pay them to be Presidents and Prime Ministers.
Cities have amenities that are supposed to allow for those same things. Fancier apartments sometimes do too.
I wish there was a docker compose file
Reading, writing, and thinking clearly has not always been my strong suit, so yeah xD ; take this with a grain of salt.
So I’m just supposed to “make assumptions” and “hunches” to workout if I should take medicine ?

I really don’t know why I’m paying taxes half the time.
I can imagine that everyone shown here also has a well-managed online presence. If anything, the internet is enabling specialist shops to have a physical presence. We've come full circle.
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You could simply alter the consciousness of simulated beings to believe that the tree is complex and exists fully. This sort of dynamic pruning/altering of conscious reality would dramatically cut down on what needs to be simulated.

We could all be staring at placeholders (if even that) while believing we are interacting with a complex, fully defined world - in the meantime, the simulation modifies our consciousness(es) to smooth over any gaps in what could actually be a crudely defined generative world.
You can't make more land, but you can increase density by putting more units on the same plot of land. This is a totally natural way for cities to develop, but it's more or less illegal in the United States due to zoning.
Presumably there is perceived safety, both from crime and when operating a vehicle. Whether the data confirms this or not is unknown (to me).
Really fascinating. Thanks a lot for this description!
nah, this is nothing like free software.

it's 2021 are we still doing the FUD thing here?
That may be somewhat intentional.

There has been more focus lately on reducing light pollution by ensuring light is projected towards the ground. It's true that LEDs are more naturally directional than other types of lamp, but mirrors and lenses can adjust that if desired.
So now we’re just supposed to work off hunches? See, this is why we’re still in this shit situation.

It’s pretty hard for Joe Bloggs to workout who you trust in 2021.

We’re lied to all the time by politicians and government, then when they want us to comply, we’re just supposed to go along with it?

I’m not arguing against the fact that getting the vaccine is probably the right path to take. I am arguing that if governments want people’s trust, they need to earn it, doing this to Assange is doing the opposite and does things like prolonging the pandemic, it fuels mistrust.
Since the beginning of this pandemic I've had a substantial loss of mental acuity and I've not gotten sick.
It’s interesting to see these attitudes go in cycles.

In the 70s this was seen as sexual freedom and it was conservative religious movements which were aghast at women flaunting their sexuality. And today women are adopting similar but not the same position as the conservatives of yore. Covering themselves to avoid the sexualization that those conservatives of yore warned about.

Now, to be sure, they are not coming from the same place, but they are arriving at similar expressions.

In any case I agree with them. Rate them on gymnastics rather than sexiness.
Ok, those are all good reasons to choose Arduino, for some other applications of which this isn't one.

I would also just use an Arduino here, I've got a box of tiny ones (Adafruit feather) which would be plenty for this application, and I'm already familiar with the platform. From bit-banging Neopixels, as it happens.

But for running an incredibly simple cron job on a standing desk, none of these are compelling. It makes perfect sense for someone who knows Linux, and doesn't want to learn Arduino, to just break out a Raspi Zero and do what he did here.

It's air-gapped, so the risk of it getting pwned to mine Monero or whatever is pretty minimal. There are no real-time considerations for an action which happens once an hour +/- a few minutes, and boot-time for an application where the first action is around an hour from power-on is also not decisive.
+1 for cool title
many do today they just do not know it. on phones alone they are integrated. transfering and having them accross plateforms is a bit more tricky with those though.
Sounds like you're in a sad bubble that's all part of the 40% then.

But it's great out here in the 60%. I recommend you get out of your comfort zone and meet some new people, who statistically will be optimistic and happy.
Mailing lists and USENET mostly, with FTP listing of open source code here and there, followed by transcribing from printed material
Boy, 16, had cardiac arrest after exercise following Pfizer vaccine first dose
Exactly, she was one of many underdog competitors, best bet for her is not a good one, but it can work, get in a break and hope for screw ups behind. That doesn't get you a win very often, but its not very rare either.
Dwarf Fortress was the first thing I thought of when I saw this. It does do a geology sim for map setup.
What the US Could Learn About College Admissions from the USSR
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The Android userspace meant you didn't have to publish parts of your rom, now thanks to fuchsia you can keep the whole thing close. We can only hope Google's incompetence kills it.
An early break is often very unlikely to get you a win and also the best chance you have for a win, at the same time.
Broken treaties and the way of life for numerous Native American tribes
There is no unsafe defaults, all ORMs allow you to run raw SQL so same "newb dev" can do same stupid thing if it finds a SQL tutorial when googling "how to do X".

You need to teach developers to always escape strings, even if we remove old and bad tutorials you still need to teach the devs about this issues, otherwise they will do the mistake with file names, or with parameters to shell commands. It might mean having to read a book and not reeling on Google and soon on AI to teach you to code or SQL.
It doesn't matter if it is happening more or less. The goal is to always be improving.

Values is about what you believe in and strive for, and when you don't reach the standards you set for yourself, you figure out why, and adjust to be inline with your beliefs and goals.
Meteoroid: rock in space smaller than asteroid.
Yes certainly. I recently started listening to the audiobook A Peoples History of the United States and there is a LOT of history we don't cover. Right now I am listening to a talk by Noam Chomsky about inequality and it's remarkable that the top % of the wealthy that have control over the country also do not go to public schools. It's as if we have a second school system for the subservient class.
Mine will stop if something gets in the way or bumps it. The ones I had at work before COVID were the same and made by a different company. As another user said though, they can be a real pinch hazard. Had one cut a cable once.
I’m a tech lead for Vanilla Forums (recently acquired by Higher Logic).
We have a few PHP positions open (remote or onsite). The core product is open source https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla
If your looking to stick with PHP you can check the open positions or reach out to my contact info in my profile. https://www.higherlogic.com/about/company/jobs/
They continue to employ Luke Harding which seems mystifying.

Maybe it's a really subtle false flag? The spooks have them where they want them so they can't publish the truth meaning they have to publish ridiculous lies which get publicised, then fall over due to contrary evidence and so actually undermine the state's case while seeming to support it? This comically bad example they haven't even bothered to try and salvage their reputation with corrections. Merely added "sources say" in a submarine edit to the headline.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-hel...
If temperatures keep going the way they have been going, it is dire.

Right now, in some areas of Washington and Idaho, crops are yielding half of normal, due to the heat.

If such temperatures were to happen across the USA, just for a week or two, and this killed 50% of staple crops, that would be very bad indeed. Prices would shoot up, the poorest would not be able to afford food at all. If this happens multiple years in a row, tens of millions would die in the USA of famine.
When I moved to Manhattan I started walking about 4 miles a day on average, but I still gained 25 pounds because I could afford all the pizza and fried chicken my heart desires. Biking felt like better exercise, but much more hazardous to your life expectancy.
Use an ORM if you want but parameterized queries work just as well preventing SQL injections

ORMs are a heavyweight, something that is fundamental in your design. Parameterized queries are just regular SQL queries, but safer.
You seem to be taking a single metric out of context and using it to draw a dubious conclusion. Facebook was showing each of our posts to very few of our fans. It was hiding our posts from a lot of people who wanted to see them. Myself, I would not categorize that as 'excellent service'.
> simply rotation so everyone does the unwanted jobs. It's a fair system and people will do it.

I think that what would end up happening is that in even in a small group of people, it would naturally emerge that there are variations in quality, efficient, economies of scale, etc. Even in my immediate family, there are some menial jobs that my wife does 90-100% of and some menial jobs that I do 90-100% of. If we tried to make if 50-50 or have some type of rotation, we would both lose.
My personal experience is that remote onboarding can be a super pain in the dick.

That said, in office onboarding can be just as useless and frustrating.

My vote would be to just have better onboarding period.
> It's a horrible moniker for the concept and most people who use it don't really mean piecemeal growth at all. What they do talk about is usually design where some shortcut allows you to quickly accomplish a short-term goal while completely ignoring long-term consequences. This is the mentality that I see everywhere in the software industry today.

I think the moniker is perfect because that is exactly what piecemeal growth is in nature. That's why code seems to have a biological feel. The rough bit, for we humans, is that code tends toward piecemeal growth because of the economics of change. It is easier to add to something that exists than to make something new, so entities (functions, classes, services) tend to grow in size. We have to step in, as gardeners in a way, to guide structure.

I don't know that it was intended by the original people behind micro-services (Fred George comes to mind), but micro-services are a good example of aligning with natural tendency rather than attempting to impose a design and continually falling short. Part of the intent was that you just rewrite a micro-service when it becomes unmaintainable. That's a direct structural correspondence to apoptosis in biology. Cells live for a while, then they are replaced.
Who has the power then, if anyone?
But by the guy's own standard, the most important thing for him is to make the world better for his children. Even at the cost of actually knowing his children. Subjectively or objectively they may be better off with him not in their lives, but I fail to see how that bolsters his moral argument for how society should work.
Unlike the US, which had lots of people dying every day and so chose Emergency Authorization to get any working vaccine ASAP, New Zealand already had eliminated COVID-19 in their general population, so they did the full (albeit expedited, it's not as though there wasn't impatience) medicines authorization process for the Pfizer vaccine they're using.

They've now put well over a million jabs in arms (New Zealand's population is about 5 million) and are starting their "big" population wide rollout at the end of July. There is no sign of any significant problems.

The very rapid success of the trial programmes is actually because we did such an abysmal job stopping the pandemic. Trials work by comparing people who got the test jab against people who got a placebo. For many diseases it might take several years for enough trial participants to get infected so that you learn anything. For COVID-19 it took only a few months for strong signals to emerge, because, (outside of New Zealand and to some extent a handful of other countries that had control) the virus was everywhere, so very quickly your placebo group began to get infected and sick.

HN deals more with technology. Imagine your project takes six hours to compile. You have ten hypotheses for the cause of an important bug. Will you fix it this week? Probably not right, that's sixty hours just for compiling -- maybe you can leave it overnight and manage two tests per day? But best not to chance it. So you tell management you hope to have a fix "the week after next". Sorry, that's the best you can do.

Now, imagine a new compiler version speeds up builds, and they only take 15 minutes. You can try all ten hypotheses in a morning, get a fix reviewed, go to production and it'll be done by Friday close of business no problem.

Management are suspicious. How can the new compiler make such a radical difference? Surely you've cut some corners, you'd better go back and test it "properly" this time.

In this analogy lay people are suspicious management and the vaccine manufacturers are the developer. Also being completely useless at preventing a predictable respiratory pandemic is somehow a new compiler version. That part of the analogy doesn't work very well. Sorry.
We're veering from the topic of jobs no one wants to do. No, I didn't make any of my dishes (actually, maybe a butter knife) or make my own clothes, but I don't think these obviously qualify as jobs no one wants to do. I'd love to build my own home. There are people that enjoy woodworking, pottery, metal working, engineering...

> The truth is that a society in which everyone is self-sufficient can’t look anything like modern society.

That much I agree with. I don't propose total self sufficiency. I just think that dishes is a very bad example of a job that wouldn't get done if we didn't pay someone to do it and, more constructively, that a lot of jobs fall into this category. There is an obvious incentive for me to wash my dishes: I want my dishes to be clean before I use them. No one has ever paid me to wash dishes. I've washed dishes for myself, for friends and for family.

Dishwashing is a good example of an ubiquitous chore that almost everyone does without any market incentive, which strikes me as the exact opposite of a job no one wants to do and which therefore has to be paid for.

Work that most people actually really don't want to do is usually well paid for this reason. If you'd said hyperbaric welding instead of dishwashing I might be more inclined to agree that it needs more of an incentive than the mere satisfaction of meaningful work.

> Most of the advancements we take for granted are made possible by monetary exchange

It should not be a surprise that money plays an important part in a society where the allocation of labor is governed by money and those that have it. It does not follow from this observation that there can't be other sources of incentives to innovate and produce.

It should also be mentioned in any discussion where the current state of production is touted as something we should aspire to that there are indications that the current mode and level of production is undustainable and harmful to the environment. It's perhaps something we should change, but the market evidently isn't creating effective incentives to do so.

> And for what it’s worth, back in college I had several roommates who clearly demonstrated that not everyone is willing to do their own dishes.

There's an important difference between jobs no one wants to do and jobs not everyone wants to do.
The point being it isn't partisan.
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If there's anything more annoying than the lingering bad examples of PHP code online, it's people lying about what PHP "recommends", like you do.

Common database drivers like PGSQL, MySQL, SQLite etc. don't accept arrays of values for parameterized queries. This is at C level, in their own client libraries, and their own communication protocols.

This means there's nothing specific to PHP about this problem. Many higher level libraries, including for PHP, abstract over this problem and do offer arrays by binding per query.

So where are statements like yours coming from? Probably just being eager to say something bad about PHP without checking your facts too much.
The book (Debt, The First 5,000 Years) goes over this (IIRC it's in the Games with Sex and Death chapter). It says that these kinds of "weird money" examples like stone wheels in Micronesia, where not really used to trade for goods, but more or less to trade in social favors / honor systems.

The early mesopotamian cilivilazations got debt and credit before there was coinage. Farmers bought goods on credit, the debt set in grain for example, to be payed on harvest season. Grain, would be as good as money since that's what you paid your taxes in. The whole region had a sophisticated credit culture and the effects of debt were pervasive. That's why the old testament has provisions against usury, the jubilee, etc.
If you can explain it away, and the explanation is credible you don’t have the problem. Period.
So? There will always be someone worse or more harmful - that doesn't excuse the bad actions of anyone else.
I wonder if these shops developed in contrast to, or rebellion against, the uniformity created by communism in East Germany (or just quirky German culture).
> we are the only rocky planet that has both plate tectonics and a natural satellite

We have the oceans to thank for plate tectonics.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/253303432_Are_Ocean...
I dabbled with a number of music streaming servers, including Ampache and Subsonic (and it's many forks), and had trouble with either web interface loading times or app connectivity and couldn't find one that worked 'as advertised'. In one of these similar music streaming discussion threads, HN member epoupon mentioned the system they'd authored: LMS[0] (Lightweight Music Server), which I found ticked all the boxes and was quick and easy to setup - and there's also a docker image[1].

Not affiliated in any way, just a satisfied user.

[0]: https://github.com/epoupon/lms

[1]: https://hub.docker.com/r/epoupon/lms
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>the whole point of society is that we don't need this ridiculous "natural" nonsense. We beat it. It can stay outside. We replaced it with society.

When the silent part is said out loud. "We" didn't beat anything, and "we" certainly aren't gods that managed to counter natural law, despite the current zeitgeist that likes to pretend it is so.

Humans are predators, and to pretend otherwise will be the folly of our species. One need not look any further than the political, corporate, or social elite to see what predators look like in so-called civilized society.
If the team likes the new outfits (which look good) and are more comfortable in them, that's great. Likewise I see some other athletes have specified a preference for leotards which is also fine. All good as long as the athletes have a choice. Not sure I agree with labelling bikini-cut leotards as 'sexualized' though.
Choice of exercise matters because of our age. For instance, a person will start to lose muscle mass after age 35 or something, and the bone density will decrease as well. Therefore, weight training becomes increasingly crucial as we age because it reduces the rate of reductio of our muscle and bone density and it keeps our remaining muscle strong.
you take the reply you got back from a the judge and send it to sympathetic media to get public eyes on a judge abusing the law for their social goals. There’s no other way to fight against corrupt officials when the system is corrupt.
Do you have stats to back up your statements regarding your area?
Does this mean the tomato plant doesn’t want its seeds carried away and would prefer to have the ripe tomatoes to fall to the ground?
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The vaccines prevent the disease from becoming bad enough to need hospitalization. That's about it. This answers your question about why hospitalizations are mostly unvaccinated people without negating any of the GP's points, which are well stated.
Maybe this works, maybe it doesn't, but I'd think the contingent of unvaccinated people who are intentionally avoiding vaccination are going to see this story and think, "Why would they be spending so much time and money trying to convince us to get the vaccine? Now I really think the vaccine has mercury/5G/mind control, etc."
Bad lighting can actually make things worse because of (blinding) glare and shadows:

* https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution/lighting-crime-and-s...

Proper lighting does seem to help reduce crime:

* https://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/projects/crime-lights-study

* https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/5/9/how-something-a...

Study is ongoing:

* https://theconversation.com/the-science-of-street-lights-wha...

I'm curious to know if motion sensors can be used to turn off lights when people aren't around, but switch things on as they're in the area, and a few lights down the street as well so they can see what's up ahead. I doubt there's many folks around between (say) midnight and 5, and so some energy could be saved.
> In their defense, I tend to think social science is shoehorned into an academic formula that it can never really fit into.

Pesky reproducibility!
"... The point is to use legal system to ruin one person to scare any people from running similar actions ..."

+100
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Sweden was actually like "our law requires us to consider extradition requests on their own merits."

I don't know if he knew that or not, but it's kinda weird he didn't flea to the embassy until his extradition to Sweden was imminent. The UK could've arrested him for extradition to the US any day he was out on bail.
>If security was really that important to Signal, where was the urgency there?

If the cause is a random database key collision you can't immediately discover it obviously. You have no idea what was causing it, so you'd have to do logging.

>and what were they doing? Testing cryptocurrency payments.

Yeah I'm sure they just decided to abandon their core value because they wanted to hurry a feature they had advertised to no-one, and were thus in no rush to deploy.

If this was an actual issue I wouldn't care if it was my own app, I would pour a truck load of bricks on top of that.
I'm usually optimistic, and I think there are bright days ahead.

But about this poll-- it seems like it happened before Delta version of Covid got traction. I think if they hold the same survey today, they'll get different results.
because of the layers beneath the Teflon that are used to stick the Teflon to the metal
Uh yeah this is totally wrong. Life has never been better for the vast majority of the world's population.
Anywhere they don't use lane width for flow control, of imagine.