skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, most donated books go straight to the "for sale" cart, and if not sold, are tossed straight into the dumpster. When I was younger I was a part-time janitor in a library, and every day there was another pile of books in the recycling bin for me to bring out to the bin outside. Normal public libraries don't want old books; they're busy enough clearing their shelves of books that haven't been read in ages for new stock that patrons will actually be interested in reading.

In other words, just toss them in the dumpster yourself, unless there's a particular reason you're library might be interested in them (for example, if you have a large collection of Tintin books or Bill Peet children's books in like-new condition, they will probably be interested, because those books are timeless).
destroying the planet will cause unprecedented suffering. so your moral imperative is causing literal Armageddon to stop suffering,, while causing suffering? doesn't seem consistent at all
"and can be used to discriminate"

WTF? So can the lack of a designation.

Why all the outrage over this bullshit, when we still tolerate discrimination based on marital status? Why should a personal and/or religious arrangement confer governmental privileges or different tax status?

You'd think there's nothing else left for us to tackle in the USA other than pandering to the gender-confused and non-white.
Firefox is a breeze to use with great dev tools. Don’t even have Chrome installed atm, but may have to soon because of lighthouse.

Definitely pushing for Firefox to be part of default installation at workplace, we need to fight monopolies.
His says his writing level is roughly 6th grade, and the story reads like it too. I believe it. Illiteracy was the standard for humanity not long ago, and yet there were still teachers.
Good for robot and AI futures, allows repurposing of HR systems, taxation, identity and workflow adaptation for nonhuman actors.
There definitely is. However, we must remember that we are enjoying a standard of living unimaginable only a few hundred years ago.
I think the system has some inherent flaws, but it has still served us extremely well.
Heh. Victoria has the IBAC: https://www.ibac.vic.gov.au

They don't allow anonymous whistleblowing though, and all Tor traffic is blocked too.

It's all pretty much in line with "We say we're fighting corruption, but in reality Hell No... we have things in place to ensure it can't be stopped".
It looks like what you're describing is so called "Agile" (with the uppercase "A") methodology of SDLC[1], not true industry best practices.

Agile was invented by consultants who's agenda was to maximize their profits first, not just to improve SDLC.

Also, there is no silver bullet, and everything is a trade-off, so each best practice has to be adapted to a particular project.

Last thing: sometimes any process, even as bad as "Agile", is better than no process at all. Especially for the dead-on-arrival cases like government-related projects.

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1. SDLC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_development_life_cycle
On the contrary I believe many notice, but few do anything about it.
I wonder if this would eliminate single sex schools and girls/womens sports.
Pity it uses Retro68 instead of MPW and PowerPlant.

Other than that, great work.
>So, the “breakthrough” was a brief suspension of questionable bureaucratic barriers. (Temporary suspension of “Dissipation” from the article.)

So as I doubted.

Naturally, the next question would be "What was the questionable bureaucratic barriers" that was temporary suspended. It really blows my mind that the answers to this is not widely known. It is kind of disturbing..
My maximum is about 8 hours for a creative / cognitive task, but that requires pushing / forcing yourself on a level comparable with Apollo Creed's training montage.
Once an organization has grown to multiple layers of management the people on top will eventually become those who are good at climbing the ladder.

How we choose our leaders is IMHO one of the most important problems we yet don’t really understand. It’s partly a function of how we structure our organizations.
If they didn't divest yet, the latter is also the owner of most billboards and bus stop ad places in the US.
This looks like it is being done for reasons that are kinda stupid, but it reduces the amount of data collected by the government. So probably a good move for privacy and so forth.
That’s only true if you price things in USD. If you price things in BTC, 1 bitcoin still equals 1 bitcoin.

If you price items in BTC, those items continue to get cheaper; if you price them in USD, they get more expensive.
You never finish a to-do list. They are endless. You will always have stuff to do, and it literally never ends. My solution is to be at peace with the fact that it's endless and I'll never be able to stop and say, "that's it, I've completed my to-do list."
https://github.com/marigardella/Noisesniffer
I'm not trying to be too negative on it, but it's because there's zero liability. I luckily had a father teach me a ton about home improvement. Half the videos they host should be seen as negligent at best, criminal at worst. But, it's no worse than YT, in fairness. But if any 'real' business did this, they'd spend all day in court.
How would you write the tests to see if the RTL text is being displayed properly on the GUI when switching between LTR and RTL layout mode?

How would you write the tests to see if the GLSL shader is displaying the mesh on the screen with the correct gamma correction factor?
There was a person who fixed dishwashers, who said "don't buy brand X, every one of them I see is broken!"
Can someone please explain to me what is so powerful about QNX ? I keep hearing about how great it is, but haven't really seen concrete proof.
“Way to go, government” in placing a moratorium in the first place or letting it expire?

The moratorium is meant to protect good tenants from evil landlords but it doesn’t protect good landlords from evil tenants. So it is another special interest group that gets something, that only ends up hurting them.

The government gave what the people desired. “Way to go government”? Is like saying “government why did you give these children what they asked for?”
Or, insert 'use async' inside the target function body (just like with 'use strict' now).
I did the same and was confused. I'm only a 1/3rd of the way through my first morning coffee.
Yes, on .NET, Visual Studio Enterprise.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/live-unit...
On a related note, was watching Olympics yesterday. It was a shooting day, and I was kind of surprised that men and women competed separately. I understand separation in physically demanding sports like weightlifting, but pistol and rifle shooting have no such requirements. And historically war snipers were a mix of men and women.
In case you missed it in the article, it explicitly says that they still suggest sending the data to the government:

> A person's sex designation at birth would still be submitted to the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth for medical, public health, and statistical use only, report authors note.
Awful and confusingly pretentious take.

Being able to see the desired outcome alongside the steps required to achieve said outcome is far more effective for fitness and cooking than reading about them. Not to mention the time saved, ease of sharing the knowledge, reviewing, etc.
Maybe I wasn't being clear enough. What I meant was to simply hide the deductions on the pay slip. Or go one step further, do not deduct them from the salary at the time of payout, but just postpone them and deduct them from the receiver's bank account (and make the bank responsible for making sure he doesn't send the money to Switzerland before it happens).

So the employee sees the huge number being transferred into his account. He can go on the internet and brag about how great salaries in Germany are.

Also, you are wrong here: "Reduced by half because of employer contributions". This only applies to very specific insurances like private pension funds, where there's a split.

Costs for health care aren't split like that, the employer deducts the full amount.

But thanks for the patronising comment. American?
I've heard the opposite about it, that its predictable performance is one of its strength. Do you have any sources?
He's completely wrong, is why.
Fascinating stuff. I didn't think my trust in software could be broken any more, yet here I am.
Have you seen these C. elegans emulations in a robot body?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWQnzylhgHc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_oYLmPX9U
Yes, that's how averages work.
You know the eviction moratorium was put in place to “avoid spreading covid”, so if a tenant still hasn’t been vaccinated and haven’t already got covid they can argue they are at a higher risk of spreading covid, so therefore they should not yet be able to get evicted. Maybe that is how you extend the moratorium.
Put XX, XY or whatever karyotype shows.
>It is kind of like asking "who would burn down 22,744 acres for a gender reveal party?"

There seems to be a massive fire in Turkey, said to have been started by children "burning books".

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/two-children-accused-of-ma...
It is a custom version of “Simple” by Norm made to include some of the box drawing glyphs.

https://lineto.com/typefaces/simple
It doesn’t absolve Apple but it explains why the headlines don’t stick. There is nothing unique about Apple in this regard and they don’t claim to make the phones anywhere else. Who makes their products are made isn’t even part of their corporate messaging.
Do you have the option of using Free and Open Source drivers?
> Heartbreaking..

Civilized society is just an illusion. Imagine. How many people with power and authority must have known about Ian Manuel, and did nothing about it. What is civlilized about that?

And finally the action had to come from a non-government body, even after the POTUS banned the thing?
(and Why) I Run My Own DNS Servers (2018)
They don't do so in Germany though. I'd hate it for someone like Merkel being limited just because "her time is up".
Yes, it would be very convenient and maybe make it easier to catch voter fraud. But the voters couldn't have any trust that their vote was being counted separately from their actual identity.

If the government mails me a ballot with ID #1234 on it at my home address, then they have a way of knowing that Ballot #1234 belongs to me in particular when they're tabulating the votes, which means they can find out exactly how I voted. Now we don't have a secret ballot anymore, and the secret ballot is a fundamental part of our democratic voting system; a secret ballot prevents the government from rewarding people or doling out punishment based on how they voted. It's a safeguard against authoritarianism.

(I think some US states put identifying info on the outer envelope or sleeve that the ballot is returned in, but there's a strict system to keep the envelope-opening step separate from the ballot-tabulation step, so people's votes cannot be personally linked to them as long as the system is followed. And these days there are usually cameras watching to make sure it is followed, and the footage is public.)

If you do get rid of the secret ballot then there's not much of a reason to hide the ballot ID via yellow dots. Just put "Ballot #1234" all over it and/or print a unique barcode. But regardless of whether the ballot ID is displayed or hidden, if you happen to get a dictatorial maniac into power (whatever you personally envision that person to look like) then you would be one step closer to letting that leader use personally-identifiable voting records to punish the people who voted the way he (probably a he) didn't like and/or give the people who voted the way he did like rewards or unfair advantages.
That’s a good theory, but everyone I know that’s worked with game microtransaction data says the majority of money comes from a few “whales”.

Some whales clearly suffer mental health issues (just from looking at the timing and amount of the transactions). The remainder are almost exclusively money laundering of some sort (usually converting stolen credit cards to game assets that can be sold for real money).
Yeah, cultural changes and access to entertainment might be the simplest answer :)
> Buying a portion of Bitcoin is like buying shares of a bank

Bitcoin payments are settled by "miners". It's therefore the miners who provide the service of settling bitcoins transactions, not the bitcoins themselves (which are the things being transacted from one wallet to another). Yes, miners create value by providing this service, and they get paid for it with transaction fees. However owning bitcoin doesn't confer you ownership rights of the bitcoin mining business, therefore owning bitcoin is completely not like owning shares of a bank which does confer such rights.
This is going a step further than what I always thought as being unnecessary: having your sex on ID and passport.

I don't see any real reason why this is still required, or why it matter that the sex of a person be present on an ID document.
The purpose of the ID is to identify the bearer. Most ID are now biometric, meaning the identification relies on unchanged physical features, like geometric relationships of the face.

A simple photo should be enough to confirm the ID of the bearer.
The “r”, which looks a bit like a hook, is what makes this font special. The reason it was chosen is that the name of the website contains an “r”…
Bobby Kotick was accused of exactly the sort of behavior in the current Activision/Blizzard allegations in 2007, by a flight attendant on his private jet.
Which raises the question... Could you copy it at 125% and then copy that copy at ~75% to end up back at the scale you started...?
Yes, we have a full algorithm just for that, it filters out the bad mechanics and the slower ones and keeps the good ones and prioritise their offerings to our users
That's weird as "th" is pronounced "th" in Finnish and there is no "θ" sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_phonology#Consonants
Thank you, will fix!

Note: some CSS attributes for the pre (or canvas) can be set trough an exported “settings” object:

export const settings = { fontFamily : 'Monaco' }
> Ian Manuel was arrested and charged with a nonhomicide offense

Which actions did Mr. Manuel do that resulted in his arrest?
I'm not saying that incremental improvements are the sole strategy.

I'm saying that before you design a 5th gen system, the tech[0] you want to use should be proven as an upgrade to a 4th gen system.

I'm saying that running out of headroom is a normal part of the lifecycle, and trying to cram in the latest everything into a newly designed system in an attempt to put off the inevitable is futile and counterproductive.

I'm also saying that you may not run out of headroom as soon as you think.

[0] Note that I'm aware that I am drawing a distinction here between 'tech' and 'design' that isn't really so clearcut.
Hi @foolinaround, yeah this is why we are now building our new tech, that will allow customers understand what is going on with their cars, after this is done, our database will be able to know weather this is something that can be done on prem, or it needs a pick up and drop-off to the car.
Interesting. I’ve actually seen OCaml being chosen because of its predictable performance. But that was by people coming from Haskell.
Huh? Purchasing power of BTC is obviously volatile.
Twice as many events and medals for competitors, assuming you don't buy into the idea that men have their own competitions so they don't have to lose to women (see also: ski jumping).
They compete separately in Chess as well.
40% Month-over-month for the past 8 months!
It includes repairs but we focused on quick services for higher retention and car tyres replacement for bigger ticket sizes.
We are about to cross an 8-figure(usd) ARR
For me it has gone into being 'Agile'. 'Agile' has been the largest single worse thing to happen to software development in my experience. It may be appropriate for small shops fighting for their lives, but as a 'waterfall' replacement it has no discernable productivity benefits. It just seems to generate a lot of working the work.
Fun fact: Shooting was only segregated by sex after 1992 - when a woman won gold.
Government forces people to start working, gets them highly dependent upon government welfare, forces landlords to house them,
Then they say “landlords you can evict them now”, and probably will pull the welfare around the same time because “lots of places are hiring”, but now those places have automated more, and they’re out of practice, so no job, and yep, they’re homeless. Let’s hope they weren’t getting oxy for their back pain they started to get since they could no longer exercise, because big pharma opiates are just primers for the real stuff, and if they go down that path, it will be that much more likely they remain homeless.
Yeah, maybe.. but like the blog post says:

> Nor are they the kind of study where you round up a hundred undergraduates and perform an experiment on them.

Do we have good clinical evidence showing: lead = lower IQ?
(I'm guessing nobody volunteered for lead poisoning).

Thing is that crime reduction could be cultural, or simple widespread video games :)

(Maybe it's a bit everything, and lead probably isn't the only environmental improvement we've made)
How to reduce your rate of return
The blog post author discusses that point and dismisses it. The lead-crime hypothesis is big in the world of Criminology and a statistical study finding no correlation between lead and crime most certainly would get published. For certain, there is a publication bias against negative results but it is not at all clear why it would apply in this case. Furthermore, statistical studies can take many man-years to conduct so why would the study authors throw away all that work rather than attempting to publish a negative result?
I Put My Mind Under Version Control
The Great Incompetence: Factor productivity increases only if the factor (=new technology) can be fully applied. A better factor can even decrease productivity if less of it applies than from the previous factor (=old technology). I'd say that most people make neither the fullest nor any reasonable use of technology, especially information technology as far as the office and standard company processes are concerned. Either they can't, or simply won't, either by their own volition or by instruction.
There are very persistent rumours that exactly this is done in Japan at every election. I can't find a Non-Japanese source right now.
You sir are a hacker at heart!
Fox is garbage. What's your point?

Every media organization sacrificed their credibility wholesale over the past five years.

The federal government accomplished the same for themselves over 2020.

Americans now live in a world where the institutions underpinning public life have lost all of their credibility with the public itself, outside of Blue enclaves.

We don't know where this goes. We really don't. Historically, nowhere good.
Efficiency isn't limited to execution speed. Memory protection is efficiency, even if it has cost in execution speed. Better abstractions make it possible to write more complex programs, at the cost of some execution speed.

I've programmed on very slow hardware in the past, and the only thing I miss from those days is my hairline.
This person claims to get it but they clearly don't. My feelings built until they misattributed the meaning of "ecco" in an album title.
This is one of the weirdest for me, because there's literally no barrier that can justify this separation. And GMs like Hou Yifan for example can go toe to toe with anyone now.
If a conspiracy theory is popular, then rejecting it kind of means you have to believe in a conspiracy to promote the conspiracy theory.
I read 4 chapters before reading vaporwaVe correctly.
It's not true that the theoretical 51% attack is cheap. It either requires buying lots of ASICs or paying existing miners to collude with the attacker.

At best, a 51% attack allows double spending a few transactions while destroying the miner’s business.
This has been a part of Go culture from the beginning. You avoid style conflicts because you just run everything through 'gofmt' before checking it in.

It's slowly catching on in other languages, eg. Clang now has clang-format and IntelliJ can auto-reformat your code according to a rule config you set before each check-in.
> How do you think it would go showing anonymous death threats to the police? I can tell you because we’ve tried! Not well. They laugh you out of the station.

There's several reasons for reporting anonymous death threats (even if I find it weird that police would openly laugh in your face):

1. If you need to make a case in the future you have documented evidence. You can bring a police report to court.

2. When statistics are being crunched on such things, having the reports on record help identify a problem.

> You think giving advice to “not doxx yourself” is useful advice? It is not. We are hyper aware of our safety and still have to be afraid of unknown creeps - anonymous trolls who we can’t “do something about”.

She is publishing under her real name - if death threats are a serious threat, use a pseudo name. I understand the "she shouldn't have to" argument, and in a perfect society no crimes would ever be committed - but unfortunately humans are not perfect and we must compromise our ideology in favour of realism.

> You can’t go 1 week without hearing about sexism in our industry.

You can't go a day without hearing about murder either, but I don't go hunting it out in the news or writing about it. I pick and choose my battles for my own mental health.

I'm not denying sexism in the workplace is a real problem, I'm just suggesting that the author has over burdened herself with a large problem she has little control over, and it's made her unhappy. She sounds as if she genuinely believes somebody will send her anthrax through the post - do you really believe that is a real possibility or do you think her battle with sexism in the workplace has gone slightly off the rails?

> Being in denial about it because it doesn’t impact you personally is a predictable and weak move.

I'm not denying it's a problem and I haven't suggested that it doesn't impact me personally - you just made these assumptions. It's also not denial to not stress about every problem that impacts you personally.
36mb ram? that is a like a power house!
Why it happens is because you cannot find a genuinely creative person with the drive and motivation needed to keep pushing a juggernaut like Blizard forward who would be willing to drop their own creative vision and adopt the one of the original founders. Who knows what they'll do? When its time to eat plates of shit will they do it? It's far too much risk to put an unknown in that position.

Your only option is to send in the corporate fleet because they're predictable. Even if they've failed before they will never surprise or throw out any curve balls to investors and shareholders and that's valued far above the possibility of a new creative spark achieving something.
So just like PHP tutorials then.
Godot engine can export foe Web and has also been ported to run in a Web browser, although the desktop editor is probably more performant/reliable:

https://godotengine.org/

https://editor.godotengine.org/releases/latest/