skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's if you believe it to be a crime. The law isn't always right.

Sure, but until that law is challenged in court and found to be unconstitutional (or whatever process is present in whatever country), or until that law is repealed, it is the law, and if you break it, you risk consequences.

> Communication is an unalienable right. The flow of information is not something that should be regulated.

That's really just your opinion. I do happen to mostly agree with you, but I don't see how this has much to do with the issue at hand. If you talk about doing something illegal (and especially if you then go and do that thing), and leave behind evidence of that conspiracy for law enforcement to find, you'll be punished for it.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean you have freedom from the consequences of that speech.

> Giving unreasonably low wages should be the crime, not conspiring.

Stop focusing on the word "unreasonable". Whether or not the wages are "unreasonable" is a matter of opinion in this sort of case, and really doesn't matter. The thing that is illegal is colluding to lower wages, where, without the collusion, wages would have been higher.

I am happy to live in a country where a bunch of billionaire CEOs aren't allowed to sit in a room together and decide to artificially lower the market rate for their employees' services.
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It's more absolute deadly, not more relative deadly.
He got so much right on that book it's downright eerie
Bad day for the rest of the animals when humans first learned to control fire. Pretty much game over.
The opticians weren't deceiving you. As we age our natural lens loses its pliability and we're no longer able to accommodate enough to read things that are up close. It's helpful to understanding the eyes' ability to focus distance (plano or flat) light and its ability to focus near (diverging light) as independent processes.

The change in astigmatism they noted is likely related to changes in your natural lens caused by the same process.
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I'm confused: are you taking into account the existence of this movie? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillwater_(film)

It's one of the points of the article. You really, really should take that into account before saying something like

> I'm convinced that, when there's the will, the world is big enough for anyone to disappear and get a new life.

and blame her tweets for the attention she gets.
second dose is to boost antibody levels (tcell also rise, but their effectiveness is... ) . but over the time they go down. third dose helps to boosts it way up

https://i.ibb.co/2YJYSRK/226206675-10219822648699699-6602884...
Requested it yourself and not for anyone else asking you to
I'm willing to bet $100 reddit didn't invent upvotes.
That is actually quite a long time at the quantum scale.
> not getting cancer is luck

I read years ago that 40% of cancers are attributable to lifestyle choices. For example, your odds of mouth/throat cancer increase steadily the more you drink. Getting the HPV vaccine reduces your chances of the associated cancer by a factor of 22.

I post often here about "getting your share" by buying stocks in successful companies, that you can get started at no cost, and can buy fractional shares if you don't have much to invest. I get lots and lots of push back. Last year, stocks increased what, 30%? All those missed opportunities.

(Of course, stocks don't go up 30% every year, and often go down. But you can't get lucky investing in stocks if you never invest .)
I think this is an interesting comment and I immediately thought to ask:

What percentage of the people offending you by looking at you like that have you confirmed are male and what percentage have you confirmed are not gay?

I'm asking without snark, I'm genuinely curious if you've asked people.
I don't know what's the best, but rclone looks like the simplest option https://rclone.org/crypt/
Here's some info:
https://www.moosechick.com/SubMusic.html

If you look at the reviews on Amazon for the NE DVD's tons are music complaints.
are you living in society???
I'm tired of the HN crowd which wants to find BS counterarguments to EVERYTHING as if it's all a huge engineering problem that can be addressed by thinking from first principles.
they need to understand that life as a human isn't all black and white, there's a lot of grey!
and no, I'm not saying that questioning things is bad. being obnoxious and ignorant of society is.
Supporting any additional language would've required integrating it into the browser engine. Which, in 1995, was pretty much either Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer (2.0-ish.) Even Mozilla didn't exist before 1998.

So, while I certainly can't make any statement on what was in people's heads at the time — I'm pretty sure trying to integrate a new scripting language into either of those two would've been a daunting task. And both of these vendors would have had some interest in making you not succeed. (MS pushing VBScript [later JScript], and Netscape had some major involvement in JavaScript AFAIR.)

…oh and presumably your additional language wouldn't come included with the browser, and not having to install additional shit was kinda the entire point of JavaScript…
3500 is a weeks work of pay if you got 180k a year. about a weeks worth of a paid engineers time. How much time do spend on this?
From the looks of it, the Yarn "team" is mostly one guy.

Edit: I retract my previous comment, the additions/deletions count seems misleading.

[1] https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry/graphs/contributors
Remains of ancient dogs found among early human ancestral remains in Georgia
You're right, but I don't think that's the full picture. I once was working on a book that featured several homeless characters, I spent a lot of time talking to and hanging out with the homeless as research (think early 2000s).

Things are different now. I don't have any numbers for you, but the meth epidemic has left us with a whole traunch of society that has permanent brain damage if not permanent psychosis. I honestly don't know what we are going to do with these people, or how we are going to care for them.

I live in So Cal in a city with a large homeless population. I cannot take my daughter to McDonald's-- it's just not safe.

I personally have had homeless folks try to open my car doors at stop lights and in drive throughs. I've seen numerous fights break out. People standing on the street screaming at something. Aggressive and threatening begging-- including one guy who parked his wheelchair behind my car (I've seen him walking, it was a prop) and wouldn't move until I gave him $20 (I didn't).

I have every sympathy for the homeless. But the fact is my local McDonald's is probably missing out on a visit from my family a week not because its not safe.
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Training a ML model to understand how "most sensible, considerate humans" would act is anything but straightforward. I'm not even sure most people would even consider cropping an athlete at the jersey number regardless of race or gender - it just doesn't make sense yet the machine seemed to do it at the same rate for male vs. female. Retrofitting discrimination onto this result only once you learn the label of the data isn't particularly useful. We want to know how to make good non-harmful predictions in the future.
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FWIW, when I wanted a specific pair of shoes, I ordered them directly from the brand.

It's very convenient to buy from Amazon, but it's hardly a hardship to not do so.
In aforementioned hacker IRC channel there is probably at least context or knowledge that they're just screwing around with the double meaning of pentesting. I see it pretty commonly with any combination of genders, including m/m anal-related somewhat tasteless jokes.

In this case it was led with something akin to aww are you lost? where is your boyfriend?, which already provides really shitty harassment context. There's also a pretty large difference when you're in a chill groupchat compared to _representing your employer at a conference_
There are two reasons I don't use Dropbox, iCloud, etc.

First, I want to be able to use open source, audited clients that allow me to access my data in a transparent and flexible way on all of my devices. I don't want to use a closed source sync client that doesn't give me full control over how my data is synced.

Second, and more important, if you don't control your encryption keys, you don't control your data.

Storing my data on a VPS doesn't mean that I don't own it. I still have full control over it, and if the VPS disappears, I still have redundant copies.
> It seems as if you're confident that any day now we'll discover that relativity was just as wrong as alchemy and phlogiston all along

I'm not saying that relativity is wrong. It's correct because it clearly aligns with our observations and predicts many things.

But here's the problem: we don't know what space and time are, in the physical sense. We don't know what they're made of. We don't know how malleable they are. It might well be the case that relativity is just one of the parts of a bigger "theory of everything" that does in fact allow FTL travel and/or communication. There were links to papers here on HN how a warp drive is possible without breaking relativity, by making space "flow around" a bubble containing your spaceship instead of propelling the ship itself. Relativity also doesn't forbid almost-Stargate-style traversable wormholes — we just don't know how to make one and most probably don't have enough energy even if we did.
Probably because mentally bronze is 1 place away from not being a medalist while silver is 1 place away from being best in the world.
Several years ago while camping up north, I swam in a lake in the middle of a perfectly clear night and could see the Milky Way like I had never seen before. With stars all around in my visual periphery, and being weightless in a star lit lake, I had the sensation of not looking up at the "dome" of stars, but standing affixed against a watery wall looking out, over, and into the depths of space in front of me. It was like watching out into space from a balcony.

It was a new perspective for me and I wondered if whales ever see the night sky like that.
The rule of, er, foot, is that any shoe store will carry up to 12 in just about anything, and 13 in some.

14 and 15 are sometimes available.

Anything larger is a specialty store... except New Balance will always have up to 18 in some styles.

Now, width is another matter entirely.
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> unless the aliens started out right next door (like in Alpha Centauri)

They did.
Reminds of Steve Jobs' commencement speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_ptbiPoXM
This being a challenge, if you gather only 20 engineers to participate in it, we’re talking about a pretty sweet deal that can open many avenues of research for the organizer of the event
I've had great experiences with contractors recommended to me by other people on NextDoor.

Thumbtack is a dumpster fire.
- Book stores (which were pretty awesome, actually)

- Open source

- Concentration of compute resources

- American cinema (well, I suppose Disney has a hand in this too)
I believe the principle is fairly easy to understand: imagine you're missing two fingers. Because kids are cruel, your middle school experience involved lots of shaming and name-calling, and that really got to you at the time.

Everything is fine now, because nobody actually cares. But then along comes this algorithm and, for some reason, it crops your profile picture to be just that hand of yours. Of course one or two "friends" from middle school are following you on twitter, and start reminiscing about the times they called you three-finger-bob.

Is it conceivable/realistic/justified that this would, at least for a while, hurt?

Meanwhile, for someone who didn't go through that experience, the algorithm doing the very same thing is just... a curious bug?

As to how they are going to score this: it cannot be scored only quantitively, as they specifically say in the description. They are going to read your hypothesis–something like the above, but maybe a little more serious–and score it, probably along a a few categories and by a few different people etc.
What is in it for contractors?

Or to put it another way, what evidence do you have that the market is inefficient?

Or to put it another another way, how will you overcome the fundamental economic rational actor motivation? Qualified tradespeople will prioritize: repeat customers such as real estate companies and landlords; large jobs over small; and high paying work over guaranteed affordable prices.

The best tradespeople are busy serving good clients. The best clients are busy keeping good tradespeople busy. There are business relationships.

The home repair market is a market for lemons on both sides. Inexperienced amateur clients and contractors who can’t stay busy.

Ok. I am sure there might be a longer play. I am curious about that. The “don’t you wish home repair was free” pitch not so much.
And the way things are going with everything becoming subscription including the recent push to normalize the idea of everyone becoming permanent renters, the actual cost of a middle-class living is outpacing wages for pretty much everyone that makes below SWE-equivalent salaries. The squeezing of the middle class is just slowly ratcheting up a few percent every year.
> This is also a huge problem with WFH. WFH doesn't build valuable social/work connections. It's easy to overlook the contributions of WFH people. It's easy to forget their names.

This is definitely true. I started working from home a year before the pandemic to help take care of a sick family member, and I felt like I was forgotten about. When COVID hit and everyone was forced to WFH, it was actually a boon for me because I was now on an even playing field with my coworkers and they suddenly remembered my existence.

My life circumstances have changed somewhat so that I probably could go back into the office, but our company is still fully remote so I'm glad to be at home. I'm really just trying to figure out what I'll do once our offices open back up. I'm thinking going into the office 1-2 days a week is probably enough to help me capture some of those opportunities while still keeping the benefits of WFH.
How often was the bronze winner a surprise winner or a runner up and gold and silver winners the favorites?
I'm 45 and I was out meeting friends, going to restaurants, shopping through the entire pandemic. No mask of course either. Met my friends as usual.

Actually was a very nice year, because we could work remotely. No open offices was amazing.
In Road to Wiggan Pier, George Orwell wrote that the worst housing available to people weren't the major corporations or business that owned numerous properties, but the petty landlords. The ones who barely could afford upkeep. We also noticed that after the Land Consolidation Act in Britain that food outputs shot up enormously so as not to waste peoples time being minor farmers who toiled a lot for little in comparison to major institutions that could create much larger outputs at a fraction of the effort.

What I'm getting at is, small towns and the like tend to be dominated by petty landlords and what have you. Or someone wealthier elsewhere that can fund endeavors there because they can't where they live. The unfortunate aspect is like the events George Orwell stated. Lots of rundown or lesser paying places.

The notion that consolidation of markets is somehow bad because it drives down people's autonomy has been around for ages and all we've seen time and time again that it actually benefits people more often than it doesn't. You don't have to worry about crop yields, you worry about a boring office job. You don't have to worry about house maintenance, just who to call to fix these complex things. It allows for people to specialize in fields instead of making a population of "Jack of All Trades." The latter make for a better system when you're predominantly agrarian. The former is better when you've got a system so complex that you need people to hyper specialize in something specific so they don't have to worry about other minutia work.
Why is "1 in X" so much worse than "X in 100"?
> Critics say those freedoms are now under threat with China's recent moves and the UK has accused China of flouting the terms of its handover agreement, but China denies this.

To be more precise, last year or so Chinese government has issued a statement (on record, googleable) that HK handover agreement is not valid/recognized by them. So far there had been no consequences.
They don't provide it for download in a usable form - their download is in a .dmg Mac image, which inside is packaged as a single file .pkg.

You can't easily use it or even extract it on other platforms. Also:

> Subject to the terms of this License, you may use the Apple Font solely for creating mock-ups of user interfaces to be used in software products running on Apple’s iOS, iPadOS, macOS or tvOS operating systems, as applicable. The foregoing right includes the right to show the Apple Font in screen shots, images, mock-ups or other depictions, digital and/or print, of such software products running solely on iOS, iPadOS, macOS or tvOS. Your use of the Apple Font shall also be subject to any specific use restrictions with respect thereto as set forth in the Apple Font or Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines. You may use this Apple Font only for the purposes described in this License and only if you are a registered Apple Developer, or as otherwise expressly permitted by Apple in writing.
Is that a thing that happens to you? That sucks.

Aside: Was the entry on your blog about being hugged by a significant other while in line at a hard store a fan fiction? Seems like you have to be on guard all the time as a woman in 2021, again, that sucks.
First Nations and Canadian Government agree to $8B settlement
Sure, but if the competition finds out they did this, they could then band together to destroy this "smart company's" business. Which also might be illegal, but by the time the wheels of justice turn, it might be too late for that business.
Now we are using advancements in our control over energy resources to make it so earth is unable to sustain human life.
That's what this thread is about, but it's not what this subthread or the post you replied to is about.
The additional cost might be a small percentage of the budget but what does it buy you? If you can't justify it, it will get cut. All the other frivolous things have pointy haired managers advocating for them.

This happens a lot for any sport considered fun or prestigious. For example the prize money from competitive programming in the 2000s was actually pretty decent (topcoder paid out 100k total). Then they realized the top people will still show up even if there's no prize.
Amazing news. Love to see the push for workers rights in tech.
It doesn't include team sport and the paralympics. But I wouldn't include the paralympics anyway, just like I wouldn't include the youth olympics. Team sport actually does have to be counted. But I don't think it changes the conclusion. By far the most olympic sports are solo.
I fully agree here - MVC scales terribly. Of course, it's not impossible to come up with a well designed MVC app at scale, but it takes a ton of skill and feels like you are fighting the framework at most steps.

One particular challenge is lack of modular components and component nesting. For example, if you have a list view, it's very natural to have one component define the list, and child components define each entry in the list. Something like React makes this trivial.

On iOS on the other hand, you are encouraged to use a UITableViewController with UIViews for each cell. This immediately pushes you towards one mega-controller which mixes the responsibilities of the list with those of the individual cells. To overcome this, you could try to have a UIViewController for each cell (uncommon), or have the UIView of each cell start taking on more responsibilities of a UIViewController (breaking MVC).

In general though, iOS's MVC is a perfect storm of being both bare bones as well as opinionated at the same time. For these reasons many large corporations have moved away from MVC to their own custom in-house architectures to handle scale.

Facebook - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLSeEoC6GjU.
* Uber - https://github.com/uber/RIBs
* Square - https://github.com/square/workflow
Looks like it scheduled for 14.2 (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/330929). I hope the `needs` ticket makes it into this release too

Keeping my fingers crossed it mades it!
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This could change everything!

Lenders might now have to consider earning potential of underwater basked weaving degree-holders before loaning out $200k for them to get PhDs in it!
Not that simple. From the law’s viewpoint you own your car or house, but there are legal ways of compelling you to do certain things with it, or even surrendering it.
If they made office chairs, when will we have some office beds in the market?
I found the answers - the tree uses 256 children by default, implying ~16kb node size on 64 bit architecture. The size of the tree in the benchmark is 1M nodes, so ~16GB tree. Pretty hefty tree! :)

It's the seqential insert/get benchmarks which benefits the most from path hints. You'd only have 1 hot path down the tree in this setup (the rightmost path). Is it possible the CPU is caching multiple non-contiguous blocks (ie the hot path)? That would explain why memory access doesn't have as much of a factor as I originally thought.

In other words - this technique may be useful in DBs! Disk and memory are both heavily cached in the CPU, so CPU optimizations can help for sequential/repeated local accesses
If you are on mac, this is a known docker issue because in non-Linux systems fs access is virtualized (docker runs on an Ubuntu running on a vm). Becomes pretty unusable.
SystemVerilog (IEEE 1800-2017) has 248.
That's a million great poaching opportunities for recruiters if there's a better deal.

For scale, one in how many Americans is an Amazon consumer?
Honestly not the worst idea but I wouldn't be shocked if studios are heavily influencing prices. Disney recently started demanding 60% cut of tickets. Those ticket sales are probably somewhat of a backbone to the theater chains, but the real money that keeps the ship afloat is the concessions, which Disney does not demand a 60% cut of (yet).

I love, love, love going to the movies and do it as often as I can. That said I spend 75% of my mental energy anxious about shitty theater behavior. When my kid is old enough to drag along $20-30 for the latest Marvel movie at home is going to become an increasingly good deal.

We've got a great art-house/rep theater in my town that plays an astonishing variety of films, but even that is often filled up with idiot frat boys laughing at the serious parts and occasionally yelling things at the screen. I'm seeing the new Nic Cage movie, Pig, tonight and because he's in a lot of schlocky movies (apparently this one isn't) I'm dreading the crowd response.
I am unclear if they produced a tetraquark particle, or they simulated the particle.

> ... used Google’s quantum computer to demonstrate a genuine ...
The older I get, the more I think “yeah, so?” This is the sort of behavior that 10M years of sexual reproduction has delivered. Males of a certain age range tend to have testosterone and want to hump everything that is vaguely feminine.

Insisting that we act completely unnaturally seems futile and counterproductive. Castigating based on a natural response seems unfair.