skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me add a bit of advice to any homeowners out there: learn to do the job yourself! I bought my house 5 years ago and I went from zero knowledge to remodeling the entire thing mostly on my own. Not only does it save you the hassle of having to deal with contractors, but in the cases when you need one, you'll be a lot more prepared to gauge the quote and timing.
The ruling states their EULA doesn't actually say that they are using the data they're collecting in order to advertise. Collecting data doesn't mean you're allowed to use that data for advertising without explicit, revocable consent.
What is the problem that Agile attempts to solve?

That your organization is too siloed and ignorant of the what colleagues do to write proper requirements. And that your engineers are too ignorant and siloed to speak up when requirements aren't appropriate.

And more formality, rote obedience to procedure, and documentation are going to solve this?

Tl;dr - If your organizational culture is fucked up and not working, fix your organizational culture. There's not enough agile in the world to build on top of a cracked foundation.
Why are they '"surprise" fines'?

GDPR was published and companies had time to get ahead of it before it went into effect. There were special recital sessions where guidance was given for what parts of it meant. Many companies put into place a lot of changes to comply. Yes, parts of GDPR could be a little ambiguous, but as with every law, a company can be more or less conservative in making sure they're above reproach.

Why should violations be "presumably mistaken" if a company has a legal department and the resources to comply with the law? If the speed limit is posted, I don't expect a cop to give me a warning when I've exceeded it under the assumption that it was inadvertent, and give me a reasonable period to come into compliance.
Yes, but I remember though that at the time a big selling point was that Google used it.

Similarly it's now for golang, it is a mediocre language, but because Google is using it, got very popular.
Just do Leetcode and research all of the data structures and concepts you encounter.

This was wayyyy better than the algorithm course I took.

It's easy to understand DSandA way harder to use them in practice.

Note: unless you're super gifted, expect this to take a LONG time.

I kind of treated like going to the gym where I try to do it everyday and make it kind of a lifestyle more than a one time thing.
Craig Murray has a lot of fans on HN because he reported extensively on the Assange extradition hearings in a way that flattered HNers' biases.

His actual record as a "journalist" is not great (his reporting on the Skripal assassins a particular lowlight).
> Furthermore, he's been reporting on the Assange case, and that has angered the British government, which is why his appeal was rejected

Whilst not impossible, this is entirely speculation.
If you think the housing market will go up 5% a year, even sitting empty, you'll still make 5% a year (minus property tax). So the expected return is not necessarily 0 in this case for an empty property.

Hope this helps.
It is not surprising, I prefer virtual meetings with clients because I have to deal with them less.
> Spotify uses agile and some of the teams use Scrum

Wait, that contradicts what you just said. Your friend that works there hasn't mentioned Scrum in 10 years!

Thanks for confirming that there are teams at Apple using Scrum, like I said. Dev teams at Apple are pretty insular, I'm surprised your friend knows about what every team is doing! Hopefully we can trust them more than your friend who was wrong about Spotify.
Absolutely agree on your last point. I’m very concerned that most of the discussion on climate these days is driven by the joy of shaming others/elevating ourselves as opposed to actual progress.
Well...it also wasn't really new, POP is just OOP by people who didn't understand OOP (and overcomplicated it)

https://blog.metaobject.com/2015/06/protocol-oriented-progra...
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Love to see it
I don't even comprehend numbers that large moving that quickly. Can anyone better at understanding economics explain what this means to me?
lotta wannabe managers & CEOs on HN

and real ones who don't like that some people think they provide a lot less value to the world than they've convinced themselves

They always dogpile me when I say remote work means you can do 10-20hrs of work for the same pay as a FT office job. That puts them on full tilt - "how dare people work less."
Maybe they've used it so long and are so used to it that they just take it for granted, and that's why they don't mention it any more.
Correct. Lots of people bought into the stock at a valuation in excess of fundamental value, bankers saw an opportunity, equity holders got rinsed, and debt holders got paid in full immediately on a junk credit.
That's an interesting article. I find iOS architecture fascinating and spend a lot of time thinking about it. It seems like "MVC" in common usage (based on talking to other iOS devs) means spaghetti, but I guess it doesn't have to be like that.

To me that article proposes a more disciplined MVC than what I've seen in real codebases. I think a lot of the architectures people come up with (like the second one you linked) try to build that discipline in. I try not to be dogmatic and instead go to core principles. Do I know what this class is supposed to be doing? Are my data and view layers reasonably separated with minimal glue code? Can a new dev easily navigate this project?

It's an endless discussion with no right answer. Thanks for sharing!
With a stateful iterator, you might need to worry about your cached pointers being invalidated by mutations from other callers.
It's possible that he wanted to, but was advised that making a big deal about it would only draw more attention and make things worse.
To some extent EV batteries can trade off recharge rate for power density. That is, if you can recharge your battery in five minutes you might not care as much that it's range is only 200km. The sodium batteries do have high recharge rates and lower cost. Not to mention being better in the cold.

These attributes make it a good complement for lithium ion and it looks like CATL already has such a battery already to at least the prototype stage.
> They could have stopped it right at the start by quarantining China from the rest of the world

No, they couldn't.

For one thing, WHO doesn't regulate international travel and couldn't quarantine anyone if they wanted to.

(Now, various governments—including the US government which had intelligence on it before China announced anything publicly—could have stopped travel from China, but that's...not the WHO.)
I'd rather them try than do nothing. If you aren't on facebook regularly you simply don't understand how much crap they do find and cut. Also the sheer number of groups they have to remove to prevent complete misinformation and terrorist groups like qanon is insane.
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To be clear, I'm not happy with Apple's approach to iOS. At all.

But Apple doesn't particularly care what I think, so I'm glad they're at least making moves which help preserve the open web, regardless of their motivations.
Why we killed elixir
I'm not sure what the author has in mind, but a standard way to put a topology on this space would be to use the discrete topology [1] on {0, 1}, and then use the product topology [2] to obtain a topology over the space of binary streams. This space is homeomorphic to the Cantor set (see "Examples" section in [2]), so you can think of it as being the same topology as the Cantor set.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_space

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_topology
Does it fit into the standard model? I thought higgs boson was the last undiscovered particle according to the standard model.
I was going to link the same thing except I would say he is talking about exactly that without knowing the academic name for it.
I wonder if the sophons from Trisolaris would have blocked this discovery.
This variant (better known as the epsilon variant) is no longer even classifed as a variant of concern by the WHO [1]. It seems that was likely because it is being dominated by the delta variant.

[1] https://www.who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-varian...
Isn’t information a better unit?
my friend that thinks if he plays the breaks properly on his EV he generates energy, will be happy very hear this.
You're referring to elementary particles. This is not elementary as it is composed of Quarks, which are part of the standard model and are elementary.
I like black holes because once you have one you don't need an accelerator for refueling. https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803
For now. By the time anyone could even possibly create enough antimatter to matter (heh), critical temperatures should be much higher. The record is broken fairly commonly.
I'm not sure if I fully agree with that. It's true that you can spaghetti with any pattern, but I think on multi dev teams it helps to have guidelines about what goes where to ensure a clear separation of responsibilities. Someone linked another thought provoking article here about how MVC does not have to equal spaghetti which I found interesting. But I also think we need to take a step back and ask, "why have so many ended up with the same result?"
I don't like SF Mono.
Reading this, I can't help but ponder the role of mass media in society. How much of our collective worldview is based on marketability of stories in Hollywood? I don't think the writers on Stillwater had any intrinsic interest in retelling her story unfaithfully, but ultimately they are in the business of modifying the story for maximum market appeal. In this case that sucks for Amanda. An incorrect version of her story has entered the public consciousness as myth and I, like Amanda, imagine that this myth will stop much needed debates about the system that led her to innocently going to prison.

How many of the myths that I believe in, and interpret the world by, have been distorted by market forces? It's a really scary question if I'm honest.
Wondering something, if you are using cryptomator and a VPS - so you don't own your data and use a higher level encryption - why not using the cloud storage services (i.e Dropbox, icloud etc.) ?
Yeah, that's what I, and AFAIK rsms uses.
FWIW Valve tried it first in CS 1.6, didn’t really work
tetra-quark: 4 quarks. It's composed of particles that are already part of the standard model, just an a previously unseen arrangement.
With automation, they may not manage anybody anymore, just machinery.
And they may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases.

This being a perfect example. Jedberg never heard of Spotify using Scrum "for 10 years" but they'd been using it the whole time, as confirmed by jedberg.
I use dropbox, and a rsync script to a portable hard drive around once a month. I travel a lot, so i keep hard drives at several different places, which i think spreads the risk fairly well.

The only reason I'm willing to sync my data to dropbox though is that it's all encrypted with cryfs. Works really well normally, although with an m1 chip it's been a bit of a pain.
Congratulations for the discovery of the next epicycle!
Guys, you are onto the same thing I want to solve as a real estate developer. Take a look at HomeLux.ai
We should connect and chat about this market place.

David
DavidS@HomeLux.ai
Any good resource for someone to learn how computer (is digital the right term>?) audio works? I have no clue what the raw/output/input formats are and how we compress that and such, but it's incredibly interesting and I'd love to learn.
Now do it for:

* US DoD
* Walmart
* McDonalds
* USPS
He was warned that his blog posts and his hinting at identifying people was considered contempt...

... and then he wrote a Yes Minister-esque fanfic which fairly bluntly painted very direct "clues" to those identities, and then told his readers "read this carefully and you'll get those identities", and then acted shocked when the court didn't say "Damn you, Craig, you foiled and outsmarted us!", but instead "Posting 'nudge nudge wink wink' hints to people is effectively the same thing. You know it, because you told people that's what it was, and we know it. So we're treating it the same".
Ask HN: What are some of your must follow or unique News/RSS feeds?
I want to expand the sources I read for News, especially tech news, and start utilizing an RSS reader to follow it.

The Default suggestions in many RSS apps seem to be all the same and I would like to find some unique sources to follow.

What are some sources that the HN community follows?
It's so simple and intuitive I can't believe someone else hasn't thought of this before!
It really doesn't matter what she thought in context of the situation. The fact remains her boss, the President of the United States of America, the most powerful person on the planet, used his position on his employee to get sex.
Very hard to even use their services.
> But no one will consider me for jobs other than oracle DBA/developer for the salary I know have. So it is kind of a trap.

There is definitely the other side as well.

That is to say, let's say you have a database problem that you can't solve. You hire a consultant for three days to sort it out. Two people apply, one is laser focused on database performance optimization, lists lots of previous engagements solving similar problems. Second one is a "full stack developer" who asserts he can solve database performance problems as well.

I reckon the first one, the specialist, can command a much higher daily rate than the second, the generalist. Even though the second might well be able to solve your problem.

I think it's because it looks like the first one has been spending all their time solving problems similar to yours. Whereas the second has spent some of their time solving problems similar to yours, and the rest of their time doing other stuff.

I'm not saying I like this state of affairs, I think generalists have a lot to offer, but this is how the market for consultants works I reckon.

Consultancy is obviously not the same as salaried positions. But still, I think it's worth pointing out that being a specialist doesn't always have to be less lucrative, it can often be more.
A nice abstraction, but unfortunately in practice it's a bit leaky and clunky. Want to mount a volume? You need to create a directory with a name like /mnt/myvol first. Why? I thought the mounted volume was the file? Nope, you need to make a useless file first.
He stridently accused Bellingcat of photoshopping a picture which showed one of the assassins on a wall of honour at a Russian military base (under his real name). Bellingcat subsequently released several more photos from different angles, IIRC some of which were still online. Crickets from Murray...
> She perfectly walked the difficult line of knowing when to call BS on someone and knowing when to trust their explanation.

This, 100%. The best PM I ever worked with had exactly the same skillset.

If your PO / PM can't internalize the technical edges of the product quickly, it's better to have no one in the role.

And that's a difficult ask, because it's extremely hard to reason logically about something you had 12 hours to cram for, with people who are experts at it. But nonetheless, I've known people who can do exactly that!

Unfortunately, there are far fewer of them than open PO / PM job roles...
From the article: "real examples and applications are messy, with ugly roots made of decimals or irrational numbers"

Maybe we should move to an all-calculator future, and just do everything with decimal numbers. We should stop trying to figure out that 1.41 is really sqrt(2) and there's a simplification, and instead we just plough ahead with typing the 1.41 into our calculator apps.

My high-school kid just finished off a math class. So many examples included a "and now simplify the fraction" step. As a person with an actual math degree, how about no? Real-world mathematics doesn't require simplifying fractions.

For example, I have a great book on sundials which includes tons of formulas for calculation where the sun will be on arbitrary days in arbitrary locations. And half of the exposition is all about when you can ignore part of the equations, or when to convert long constants (1.2345) into shorter ones (1.23).

Either you're only doing the calculations occasionally, in which reading about the approximations takes far more time than the calculation. Or you're doing a bunch, in which case you'll write a little program (or Excel function), and the approximations aren't useful.
AWS hiring C++ devs for open source work on MariaDB
You're not compelled to put something in your body.
you can also save it as a pdf with cntrl + p
Yes sir. People would have fun doing .entryList() or map.each do {} end which seems trivial but however with something as functional as Elixir, we can only achieve this with the Enum module for example. There is no iteration but only a bunch of methods from which to choose based on your requirement
He literally wrote a (not so) cryptic piece of prose after being warned, that spelled out how to identify these people - and then told his readers if they read it carefully, they could do exactly that.

In summary: "not an accident, in any way shape or form".
Antibodies generated as a response to vaccination that target the SARS-CoV2 binding domain, which is what makes the initial bond with an ACE2 receptor to enter a cell and begin infection, are less effective against some variants that have a modified binding domain. Rather than addressing relative risks, this paper is more about understanding the mechanisms involved which appear to be a combination of modifications to the structure of the binding domain and rearrangement of its disulfide bonds.
Also important and useful, but that's a different percentage. That's the percentage reduction as compared to a non-vaccinated (hopefully otherwise matched) group. This is the percentage of the population (here, healthcare workers) who got it. Which, frankly, is the percentage I care more about, personally, although for Phase 3 testing of vaccines of course the percentage you're talking about is what matters.

Given that my daughter, who got the Pfizer vaccine, is unlikely to be exposed to covid-19 virus MORE often than a typical healthcare worker, this is good news. I wish we had as good a study for Moderna and J&J, but hopefully we get one soon.
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Anyone has seen stats on yarn 2 uptake? I’m still on yarn 1 and I know I’m far from the only one.
I recently finished The Three-Body Problem and The Dark Forest, which explore the concept of aliens using their super advanced technology to mess with the results of Earth's particle accelerators, thereby stopping humanity's ability to develop technology based on new physics.

Is this discovery exciting? Or are we living in The Three-Body Problem?
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I should clarify the purpose of x-heights and how it relates to legibility.

Taller x-heights leads to better optical legibility in small sizes.

Shorter x-heights are usually found in fonts such as Source Serif Pro for obvious reasons - it leads to be better shape recognition of the words and improved readability. Excellent in long prose and text use. Usually "Book" fonts have very short x-height. One of my favorites is Nexus Serif: https://www.martinmajoor.com/4_nexus.html

For UX/UI - ever wondered by EXIT signs are in all caps and not written as Exit? It's because of the relation of x-height to legibility at small sizes or larger distances. This is the same for avionics, warning labels, etc.

Inter isn't a good font for UX/UI IMO for the same reason why Helvetica and SF Pro aren't. They're general purpose fonts - neither good at text nor UX/UI but somewhere in the middle.
My understanding is that there are two issues. First, modern deduplicating backup software like borg/restic/duplicacy store data in a repository in unique chunks. This avoids the issue that incremental backup software like duplicity have where they can create long chains of incremental changes which is slow to restore and increases the likelihood of errors on restore. Second, both deduplicating and incremental backup solutions aren't suggested for long-term archiving as they chop your files into lots of little pieces and the chances of not being able to read the repositories 10 years down the road are high. For that reason it's good to have a local backup in a simple, standard format like tar/zip or just a folder. As an example, see criticism of the Perkeep software [1] which is marketed as long term storage, but uses chunking deduplication for no particularly good reason.

[1] https://perkeep.org
People still like to get out of the house and go do something

I second this, but movie theaters no longer fill that gap for me.

I can only speak for myself. I used to enjoy going to the movies. At some point, how theaters are managed changed dramatically. If people were disrupting the movie, I could have the manager remove the person. This is no longer the case. Every manager I have interacted with in the last few years was passive and hands-off. I can't even get a refund if I have a bad experience. So my options are put up with the idiots, leave the theater, walk into a near-by theater playing the same film or risk a police incident if I remove the person. I have removed people and even had the manager thank me, but that is super risky and not my responsibility. Needless to say, movie theaters are no longer an immersive or enjoyable experience for me.

Or I can watch a movie at home, as many times as I wish without interruption. I have invite as many people as I wish. I can implement any sound system I desire. I don't have to wait for what might be a boring scene to use the restroom. It is a fully immersive and enjoyable experience. I just watched "Nobody" at home, twice. Great movie btw, highly recommended if you enjoyed John Wick but wished the fight scenes were a little more realistic in terms of the main character getting hurt in every fight. Some day I will get VR and make the movie even more immersive.
MengerSponge's article is raising an extremely subtle point about how we translate modern physical theories into English: we do it poorly.

Conservation laws (Noether's theorem) are dependent on the way the physics is voiced, mathematically. Saying "energy is conserved" is the moral equivalent of looking at Newton's laws and just ignoring GR. GR tells us new, precise, and amazing things about conservation laws. It's just that, unfortunately, they're a little hard to translate into English.