skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took out a loan and bought a fancy sports car right after I got my first job. I was proudly showing it off to colleagues in the parking lot, when my manager walked by, stopped and smugly said, "I've got you now!" That snide comment taught me so much about life: Do your best to avoid debt and bad managers and/or work environments.
Funny thing, when I quit (after selling the car and clearing my debt), that same manager threatened not to pay me unless I finished a project (about another month of work). The movie, "American Beauty", had been out for a little bit, and I stole a line: "So don't pay me." The look on his face was priceless.
"There were more homeowners than renters in the survey"
Apple is installing spyware on devices you own and sending your data to law enforcement. This is a major breach.
I'd highly recommend you double check the position of the 2nd precinct station on that map, it's in an area that's very lightly damaged. By my count there are only five instances of property damage closer than one mile to the station, and the nearest is 0.4 miles away. The closest serious damage, a destroyed building, is 2.7 miles away and on the other side of the river.

Not exactly the map of a station in dire straits worried about getting overrun.
A thesis is a ride on a rollercoaster and I don’t like the sinking feeling
Believe it or not, that's still a choice.

There are people on the street not willing to make that choice. Most people on the street chose homelessness in some sense and to some degree.

Someone on r/homeless once said "I didn't choose the choice." In other words, homelessness is often a case of choosing the lesser evil.

They decided it was better than staying in an abusive relationship or something like that.

I wish we would design and build a world with better options and fewer people being pushed into homelessness. But I also wish people would see homeless people more clearly as real people with minds and personalities and some degree of agency.

It is a disservice to them to simply stamp "victim" on their forehead and think no further on the matter.
Nothing more permanent than a temporary increase in government power
> SCUBA is diving without a tether. It’s popular.

Look up saturation diving. The link from the diver to their dive bell — now that's a tether. One critical to human life, unable to be lost for even a moment, and yet which humans freely do freaking oxyacetylene welding around. And yet it still works out fine, in 99.999% of dives. Humans are good at managing tethers!

But to be clear, my point isn't that tethered robots would be preferable to or even as good as untethered robots. Just because humans are good at tethers doesn't mean they like them. So of course untethered telepresence robots would be better, if they were practical.

My point is that tethered human-equivalent telepresence robots — in combination with human operators who can map their intuitive management of their own body-plan into management of the robot and its tether — will be practical in an absolute sense, long before untethered human-equivalent telepresence robots become practical. We'll have tethered telepresence 'bots doing real, useful stuff out there in the world (decomissioning toxic/irradiated structures in non-polluting ways, say—or replacing those sat divers!), long before we manage to make batteries dense enough to power untethered telepresence 'bots for the same purposes.
Maybe CRDTs (or more precisely, their implementation of them) give them some other benefit beyond the disregarded ability to be decentralized. It doesn't necessarily mean they're using them incorrectly.
Awesome Post, thank you for sharing Adam!
No, because the job role was always there.
Absolutely one of the best music videos ever, as far as I'm concerned, with the samples all visually represented: https://youtu.be/qLrnkK2YEcE
Sorry about the misplaced quote. Meant to be a quote from the immediate upthread comment. Looking back, it probably wasn't even needed, the response works fine against the comment as a whole.
Less sugar consumption.
Everything just seems to be a rehash or improvement on C++.

I just want better tools i.e low code that non-programming people can use to express what they want a computer to do - something better than Excel.
We were doing just fine keeping guns off of planes without the TSA. That's why the 9/11 hijackers had to use mace and small knives.

ETA: I base most of my thinking on this on Bruce Schneier's points, so I'm just going to link his blog here. https://www.schneier.com/tag/air-travel/page/8/ And a quote from an Atlantic interview: “Only two things have made flying safer: the reinforcement of cockpit doors, and the fact that passengers know now to resist hijackers.” This assumes, of course, that al-Qaeda will target airplanes for hijacking, or target aviation at all. “We defend against what the terrorists did last week,” Schneier said. He believes that the country would be just as safe as it is today if airport security were rolled back to pre-9/11 levels. “Spend the rest of your money on intelligence, investigations, and emergency response.”
Make it illegal for Private Equity to increase their current large nationwide ownership of over 300K single family homes in the United States, which they rent out, do not maintain, and push rental rates higher nation-wide. This behavior generates large scale misery and should be illegal.
In the comment threads here I see a lot of cynicism and blame directed at the research team, especially Dan Ariely. And I agree that they, and social science researchers in general, need to do more exploratory analysis to validate their data instead of just blindly feeding the sausage into some hypothesis test. But it's hard to believe that any of them knew about the fabrication, because they published the data used to discover the fabrication. They did so voluntarily and not under any duress.

If Ariely were involved in the fraud, wouldn't he have resisted the move to publish the data? It is very easy for researchers to make up excuses to not share data, and very difficult to force them to do so.

In the absence of an answer to this question, I find it easier to believe in shenanigans at the company. I agree it's hard to imagine what their motivation was, but it's even harder to understand why the researchers published their data so readily if one of them fabricated it.

The incompetence of the fraud doesn't really push me one way or the other. Industry and academia are definitely both extremely capable of doing incompetent, dishonest nonsense with data.
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The way to prevent it is to not install their poorly engineered spyware and only use the sandboxed web app.

You'd have to be crazy to install Zoom given their history.
Hah! Only a fool would run it outside of a completely sound-isolated windowless underground faraday cage. Otherwise The Men In Black will find out about your blockers in your stand-up meeting!
Is the savanah really an effective carbon sink, or is this still based on the (recently discredited) humus theory of soil?
Just use the free ones. There are some that are better than Helvetica, just like there are cars cheaper and faster than a Ferrari without the brand name.
Supply and demand informs price. Not the other way around. That's why your argument makes no sense.
I have definitely seen code where the peaks are very shallow, and flattening them does nothing for the performance.
2 years too late
During the last economic downturn interest rates in a few countries fell below 0. This means that banks start to charge for holding cash instead of paying interest. I suspect that he feels that interest rates will have to fall below 0 at some point so holding gold is a good alternative to save money for future use. Another possibility is that inflation will eat up the money's value so gold is a good place to store value until needed. I say it's a good sign that Palantir does not need immediate cash and are able to meet their expenses near term.

Also, Google and Plantir are in 2 different phase in their growth. Google is unlikely to need cash for growth since it's making a truckload of earnings every quarter. Palantir on the other hand is likely to need some money in the future to grow. Gold is a great alternative for Palantir but not Google.
The modern environmental movement got its start in the late 1960s. So that’s consistent, although not with TV shows.
Yes, but how? Monetary authority can change nominal interest rate but has little control of real interest rate, and it's real interest rate you want to change.
This is an example of a transformation that is probably more expensive in compile-time than it actually wins in runtime performance. Gcc has explicitly rejected this kind of optimization in the past for precisely that reason.

In general, compilers face an iron triangle of optimization: do you want a fast compiler, a small binary, or fast output? Optimizations that help all three are rare (especially ones that aren't already implemented in -O1), and even two of the three is often difficult to obtain.
As cities grow in size, the poor 'get nothing at all': study
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There is no 'outcome' YET. The Korean War is still ongoing.

Think of today's situation as a non-combat stalemate. much as happened in areas of trench warfare during World War one. (Both sides maintained a quiet watch-and-wait in various parts of the Front, while fierce campaigns took place in other parts of the Front.)

A question or two for you. If the Korean War is finished, why are there still 30-40 thousand US troops still occupying South Korea? Why does the US interfere with North and South Korean diplomacy? Why is it any business of the US what North and South Korea agree in, anyway?
It didn't "make its way" anywhere, civility (insofar as parliamentary language, anyway) has been there since the very beginning.
You do have to remember that all your containers are running with your host kernel, with your hosts isolation stack (SELinux vs AppArmor), your hosts firewall stack (ufw/firewalld/iptables/nftables) and the container engine ends up integrating with the host in lots of odd ways.
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster – Adam Drake
N95 since it spreads via aerosol
Yes! We have a customer which have blind users. So we are prepared for this!

Here is a quick demo:
https://accessibility-demo.abstra.app/
The problem isn’t/wasn’t with the address bar being on the bottom, it’s the terrible floating monstrosity they came up with and finally removed. Everyone praised Microsoft when they put the address bar at the bottom in Windows Phone 7, and there was absolutely no backlash. Apple should have just copied that. Instead they decided to make Safari into a joke. At least now they give the option to go back to normalcy, and also walked back on the floating bar, obscuring the content.
Why is that valid? You already introduced a new term for this concept, well formed.

Amusingly, this distinction constantly annoys me with contact managers. I don't want to change my friend's phone number to the new one. I want to mark the old one as no longer active, and add the new one. Similar for deceased family.

Back to the point, you seem to want null punning for the empty string. But you still need to check for validity of the value when it is not empty. What does that really gain you?
Because it is made in china.
It's entirely about long-standing culture wars, not epidemiology. In that it's rather predictable, albeit disappointing.

The recent uptick in vaccinations coincides with a partial reversal of tactic by one of the most prominent ideological media sources, and maybe that will push us to the magical but arbitrary 70%. What happens then is anybody's guess.
"Supply" is the "just spin up more instances" of housing. It's an incantation that libertarians invoke to make the elephant in the room vanish. We'd be better served long term by addressing a fundamental inefficiency: literal rent seeking.
True but I want to be bit more ethical than saying noone is forcing him. I dont want to take "advantage" of his situation.
> Colonial governments were mostly out of Africa after the 1960s.

HIV was probably spreading in the Belgian Congo in the 1920s. It likely spread to the US in the 60s. It takes a decade for HIV to turn into AIDS, which is why we think of the pandemic as starting in the 80s.
I didn't mean it to sound grim.

>An engineer who can adapt their output based on constraints and requirements deserves to be well compensated for that flexibility.

Yes, but somebody that is not motivated by money will have no incentive to adapt to the constraints and requirements. Which is what the whole thing is about.

Except perhaps if they are motivated to make the rest of the team happy I guess.

Most businesses exists to make money. I think having everybody in the room on the same page is very valuable.
Good, put this in an email and send to tcook@apple.com. If you don't like EFF's stance on this that's fine, I wrote my own email to Tim instead.
The EFF’s articles were full of lies and false assumptions.
Is Reuters a particularly untrustworthy news source?
Whatever you're interested in. Seriously.

Don't try to pick a job based on arbitrary metrics. You need to pick something that you'll be interested in doing, because you're going to be doing it five days a week for a long time.

Start with something you're extremely interested in, because you're going to need that natural interest and motivation on your side.

FWIW: ADHD diagnoses aren't all that rare in 2021. You'll find people with ADHD diagnoses in literally every job out there. Don't try to build your career or even your personality around an ADHD diagnosis. The diagnosis is just a tool for helping you navigate your mental health, not a defining feature of your personality going forward.
> We're also dealing in hindsight.

The entire purpose of the justice system, including the police, is to judge people in hindsight. Why can’t we judge them in hindsight?
The CDC estimates that the ratio of cases to deaths is about 156 to 1 since the start of the pandemic. The ratio is now dramatically better for vaccinated patients who are far less likely to die if they do get infected.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
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It's a direct rebuttal to the false statement "Also for the same reason deployment would be faster allowing a faster phase out of fossil fuels."

Fossil fuels had better be phased out soon, and fusion cannot be available in that time.

IMO, the prospects of fusion reaching a practical state are so remote that even the current level of funding on it is difficult to justify. There are fundamental engineering constraints that render it inferior to fission -- and fission is now going extinct itself, being too expensive.
I don't think languages will really "progress" much, in the way that art doesn't progress. That's not to say it wont evolve to suite it's environment.
Developers always ask me why their service needs authentication when it's only accessible to every network in the company (or, a little better, the network specific to their app) and doesnt have write access to a dataset. This is as good a reason as any.

Assume your service is a remote exploit machine, and that you want to make it as inconvenient to exploit, and as easy to fix, as possible. (If you don't think your service is a remote exploit machine... I have news for you...)
I think framing it as a war is problematic. We’re not waging war against pollution and CO2, we’re trying to limit and manage it. Disinformation and misinformation can be conceptualized similarly as information pollution. Our brains don’t have magic powers: garbage in, garbage out. Just like AI.
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...and all this pain, expense, complexity, and degraded UX, for the sake of _someone's preconceived ideas about the RELATIVE value to the brand of that particular font vs a generic font_. Yikes.
> therefore should be quoted as O(size^2) (quadratic)

It's actually O(size^1.5), not O(size^2). Well, assuming you're talking about θ(n) when you mean O(n) as most people do.

[If you're not familiar with the difference, Θ(f(n)) means a function that grows as fast as f(n), up to a constant, whereas O(f(n)) is a function that grows no faster. So n^2 is O(n^3) but not Θ(n^3).]
I’m not sure about DX12, but my understanding is the Metal was put into production a good deal before there was even a working draft for Vulkan, which makes its existence seem more driven by an immediate need to replace OpenGL ES.

I suppose they could’ve dropped Metal right away after Vulkan became usable, but developers tend to get grouchy when APIs change out from under them that frequently.

That said there’s no reason they couldn’t support Vulkan alongside Metal, likely with one being a first-party adapter layer for the other.
The TLD part matters as some part of the email format is defined through the format of a valid host name. "something.com" is a valid host name, but "something.something" isn't currently a valid host name. So an email address "something@something.something" isn't a valid email address (currently).

But at the end of the day this is all moot, imho. The "only" sane test to check the validity of an email address when someone shows you one is whether you can successfully deliver mail there.

Because even an address is formally valid doesn't mean it will get accepted by all systems on it's way. Almost nobody follows the under specified, confusing, and contradictory specs to the letter.

That was my point in the first place: Trying to validate email addresses is a rabbit hole. It's for sure everything, but not "simple", as claimed above.
For some people eating less is easier than getting vaccines. I know people who have panic attacks over the thought (they had to be put under to get vaccinated).

Also, lots of people come from communities that were experimented on by big pharma which explains rate differences amongst races.
This is where we're at now? Every single time a Microsoft employee updates a typo in the README of CBL-Mariner, someone will post on hacker news about it? Why is it noteworthy again? Oh yeah, because it's Micrsoft! Sworn enemy of the Linux user! Karma points and farmed reputation are sure to follow anyone who posts the words "Microsoft" and "Linux" in the same story.
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I'm sure they do, for the platforms they already support. But the blog post talks about using the C code to run on other platforms. I don't think there's a library for my ppc64le workstation.
The fastest way to shut down any debate or public discourse is to casually throw that word around for anything you dislike.
This makes me feel bad. They could have minted so many BTC. Only digits of Pi is more useless. If anything they should compute Tau.
I expect overtime work, evenings, nights, on call type work to get more expensive, since before, a person with dependents might have felt pressured to need to earn the extra income working a second job or extra hours, but for a single person, they might not feel the need to give up their free time.
Polluters can make hundreds or thousands of people get sick or die due to cancers, respiratory illnesses, etc as well as making species go extinct. That seems worse to me than even the worst mass shooters, but there doesn't seem to be proportional prosecution of these crimes.
There is a million ways to keep critical data away from public (mostly) data like Name and Address. Seems like they weren't even doing the most basic separation of concerns here.
I don't think this is flamebait/unsubstantive.

A decent part of German population has first-hand experience with living in an overt mass surveillance state that people in the US do not have.

As such, we can expect Germans to be more aware of surveillance issues, simply because many have seen where that road leads (while we in the US have not).

The parent message is akin to saying that one should take advice on workplace safety from a person injured at work seriously due to them having first-hand experience of the consequence.
I agree, except in 50 years the productivity of the world will be so high that building this, even if it costs 500B in today's dollars, someone will pay.
Funnily there's D3D11On12 ie a DX11 wrapper for DX12 amongst, I'm sure a sea of other wrappers out there.
I haven't seen KS talk much about incarceration rates, but that's because his focus is on bw, and bm who are successful businessmen.

What KS brings up specifically about the black community is that bw don't respect (ie. despise) bm, which doesn't happen in other groups, and is really the focus of his show. (His bw guests invariably admit that at the end of the discussion.)
Not bad! The only slight problem I noticed is that NVDA (a popular open-source screen reader for Windows) announced that the plain text above the edit box was clickable.
only as long as they stay in business.
We saw limitations on all libs we tried, so we decided to implement drag-n-drop by ourselves using setIntervals, getBoundingRects and absolute positions for arrows and other visual elements
US doesn't have the money or internal stability to defend Taiwan anymore. Defending Taiwan means risking WWIII and the average American couldn't even point it out on a map and doesn't understand why it's important at all

hell, the pandemic showed our supply chain is so jacked up that we couldn't even handle a minor disruption of goods from China. How would the civilian population that is already a tinderbox due to politics and the pandemic going to react to shortages and price increases?

this isn't the 30s or 40s, the US isn't capable of fighting an all out war anymore
But it's actually quite relevant here. For example with the informal notation you can find all the prime factors of a number N in "O(N)" time , if someone doesn't understand the distinction then they might believe that theres a polytime algorithm for factorization.
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Did you see the scientific evidence of persisting spirochetes after repeated courses of antibiotics?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.6280...
They may be, but this case is not related unless someone is paying big bucks to know the pid of gnome-session.
My phone is not a service provider.
While it's basically certain as can be that anthracite is fossilized plants, on account of the leaf imprints, locations, and so on, the evidence for oil is far less conclusive. At the end of the day though it makes no difference. Whether or not the Earth's oil reserves are buried sunshine, primordial hydrocarbons with biological contamination, or both doesn't make much difference. More isn't getting made on human timescales.
Janus caught my attention when I was looking at WebRTC servers (SFUs) last year, but I couldn't find any good FOSS web apps for it. Do any exist?
I just want to note that for many deaf people (including practically all people that were born deaf) sign language is their first language, and thus, technically, English isn't their native language.

edit: I'm also curious to know more about what kinds of analysis/algorithms you do to detect the accent, if you can share a little bit. Can your app distinguish between different American accents? Or could it hear the user talking in African-American English and assume it is "incorrect"?
Same with the ones that destroy your liver.
I'm more worried about our jokes.
> But to the point: the major driver of the early explosion of HIV on the continent was almost certainly large-scale vaccination and medical treatment campaigns by colonial governments, which injected staggering numbers of people in rural areas without adequate disinfection of needles.

Do you have a citation for that? I’ve never seen it authoritatively claimed and “almost certainly” seems strong for something which isn’t at the standards for inclusion on the Wikipedia page.