skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like most people, I started with searching my own conditions, but I was surprised that I couldn't find them. Something like Klippel-Feil syndrome/deformity isn't normally rare enough not to make the list. I also couldn't find it by the more generic description "congenital fusion of cervical vertebrae" or variants on those terms.

Having a whole list of conditions starting from the beginning of the alphabet show up as soon as I click the search box isn't terribly useful. Waiting for me to get at least 2 or 3 characters in would be less distracting and more helpful.
Dialogue over Paternalism
This is why we've been trying to encourage people to think about lightweight data logging as a mitigation for data quality problems. Similar to how we monitor applications with Prometheus, we should approach ML monitoring with the same rigor.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors. We spend a lot of effort to build the standard for data logging here: https://github.com/whylabs/whylogs. It's meant to be a lightweight and open standard for collecting statistical signatures of your data without having to run SQL/expensive analysis.
Somebody unfortunately chose to use ANTLR on a project I am now maintaining. ANTLR is really really bad. Run don’t walk away.
I don't often come across a blog post that long that keeps me interested until the end. It's description of systems reminds me a lot of what I've read about cybernetics. I'd love to know what someone who has studied the topic thinks about the way it's explained.

That said, I feel like a few word games had to be played in order to reach it's conclusion; Especially with what I perceive as a somewhat conflated use of the word "purpose".

Perhaps I have to read it through again to make sure I properly understand it.
would recommend checking out https://wiki.dendron.so

it’s an open source, local first, markdown based note taking tool that is integrated with vscode/cli

(full disclosure: i’m the creator and happy to answer any questions as well on our discord: https://discord.gg/NDYd9nYkM3)
I use reverse chronological feed of my FB friends every day, it's https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

I also use ad block plus. I read until stuff looks familiar, then I'm done for the day.
(hey love your thinkpad posts btw <3)

Yeah I mean, I'm bearish on their idea too; but I'd expect there to be some discussion of it vs. what's in this thread, which is mostly like "this post is thin, feels like just a tricky ad".

Or, idk, I'm open to the "huh, I suppose we now find ourselves on the slippery slope of 'everything is paid/advertiser content', FML" discussion too, which is happening. I guess I just thought there was a world where this company forgot the "by the way our company automates this" on the post, and we didn't need to jump to conclusions or w/e. But, maybe we do?
> How did we get to a point where we think it’s OK to tell someone what they should do with their body?

What do you think employment, literally, is? A gives B money and direct’s what B does (of necessity, with B’s body), both positively and negatively, within some agreed (mixed between explicit agreement and implicit agreement via governing law) parameters.
Everyone condemned Sweden for the no-lockdown.Turns out it wasn't a bad idea
I'll note that even BMW fans write about how awful many BMW drivers are: https://bimmerlife.com/2020/10/31/study-bmw-drivers-are-the-...
Just to clarify my initial comment... I am actually not particularly interested in the biological pathways, etc. My reaction was 100% because it sounds like the sketchy language of every single other weight loss "breakthrough" that has been touted in my lifetime. If you watch any youtube fitness guru videos (which I do not recommend!) you will see that it is a standard trope: "All you have to do is eat this one amazing super food" and they never tell you what it is. I think you are trying to offer a legitimate service, so please don't sound like those people.
Can we get the title changed? I thought this had to do with dynamic programming, it’s actually a dynamically typed programming language.
“but a country with very low population density”

Wrong!
When Auckland is locked down, Queenstown is a ghost town, but otherwise (50 out of last 52 weeks?) we've been pretty busy actually.

So much so that the tourism spokespeople who railed against the first lockdown are saying "Lets lock down hard so we can open up again faster" this time.
Consider which of those possibilities would make it easier to publish experimental results, and consider the distinct lack of clear published results despite this being a topic of significant interest.
The big tech quest to find the metals needed for the energy overhaul
> I'm not sure how one could end up trusting such organizations besides "just taking their word for it"

A legally binding contract with sufficiently punitive clauses. It's a solved problem for people who care about privacy/secrecy. Have you ever worked with highly proprietary or secret data/code in a professional context?

> also this system sounds more flawed than what you could do with cryptocurrencies?

I have no idea how cryptocurrencies are supposed to help with things like location privacy. Maybe it's suposed to help with the privacy of financial transactions? But I can already buy shit with a combo of cash and visa gift cards purchased in cash; not anonymously, due to cameras everywhere, but again, not sure how crypto is supposed to help.
The flu killed an estimated 50 million people in 1918, which if it was in current times would be about 250 million. People always get mad when others say it is just like the flu, but actually the flu has had way worse outbreaks than covid.
Actually don’t. Knowing how to write parsers without a lexer (scanner less parsers) is the true superpower.
An amusing pattern is emerging with the comments in this post. People are getting downvoted for pointing taking the worker's side (pointing out you can't simply walk into a clinic to get a ibs note for instance), and people are getting upvoted for taking amazon's side.
How to integrate stickers to Android app with Stipop UI SDK
ha! i’m glad you tried it! only one of those (san pedro) is in the city of LA, which i should’ve been more clear about. but those places do indeed appear to have more trees than the vast urban expanse. sadly san pedro does not rate as an above average area (rolling hills would). that said if you want to waste another 5 minutes of your life on this go to google maps again, look at the area between “downtown los angeles” and “santa monica” and find the green areas. really love that you actually tried to do it once already though!
Hanging out with over IRC I presume, not IRL?

Why did the script cross a line with the hackers?

Was that anime character Detective Conan?
Professionals have long leaned pretty liberal, but they had at least putatively neutral principles and honestly tried to put those ahead of personal politics. That seems to be eroding now as millennials have decided that the professions should be vehicles for social justice, and of course it ends up being their left-leaning vision of how to achieve that. In the process, it’s destroying the credibility of our institutions.

The behavior of the medical community during the pandemic has been outrageous. My dad has done public health for 30 years in the developing world. You don’t get vaccine-skeptical people in rural Bangladesh to get vaccinated by telling them they’re idiots and making threats. Yet that’s been the main game plan with less educated rural people here in the US: berate the white ones for not being vaccinated, and then ignore the lack of vaccination among the non-white ones. That’s a profound failure to understand the profession’s role relative to the rest of society.
A few quotes from that document (from 2018):

Each time a phone connects to a cell site, it generates a time-stamped record known as cell-site location information (CSLI). Wireless carriers collect and store this information for their own business purposes.

[...]

With just the click of a button, the Government can access each carrier’s deep repository of historical location information at practically no expense.

[...]

With access to CSLI, the Government can now travel back in time to retrace a person’s whereabouts, subject only to the retention polices of the wireless carriers, which currently maintain records for up to five years. Critically, because location information is continually logged for all of the 400 million devices in the United States — not just those belonging to persons who might happen to come under investigation — this newfound tracking capacity runs against everyone.

[...]

The Government and JUSTICE KENNEDY contend, however, that the collection of CSLI should be permitted because the data is less precise than GPS information. [...] The location records [...] placed [Carpenter] within a wedge-shaped sector ranging from one-eighth to four square miles.

[...]

While the records in this case reflect the state of technology at the start of the decade, the accuracy of CSLI is rapidly approaching GPS-level precision. As the number of cell sites has proliferated, the geographic area covered by each cell sector has shrunk, particularly in urban areas. In addition, with new technology measuring the time and angle of signals hitting their towers, wireless carriers already have the capability to pinpoint a phone’s location within 50 meters.
It's also not super difficult to cross most borders without checking in the authorities.

Admittedly, it's not a risk you want to take if you don't have to, but if you have no other option, it's workable.
Yet another great mind (also an infamous introvert) who used to take long walks to refresh his mind was Paul Dirac. From his 1963 interview [1] with Thomas Kuhn, he describes how a decisive Sunday walk made him see the analogy between commutators in quantum mechanics and Poisson brackets in classical mechanics:

> "I used to take long walks on Sundays and get away from the work altogether, and at the end of those walks I would perhaps go on with my work a bit in a refreshed state of mind. And after one of these Sunday walks it occurred to me that the commutator might be the analogue of the Poisson bracket, but I didn’t know very well what a Poisson bracket was then. I had just read a bit about it and forgotten most of what I had read, and I wanted to check up on this idea, but I couldn’t do it because I didn’t have any book at home which gave Poisson brackets and all the libraries were closed. So I just had to wait impatiently until Monday morning when the libraries were open to go and check up on what Poisson brackets really were. Then I found that they did fit, but I had one impatient night of waiting."

[1] https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral...
>> Lobbying is simply the practice of petitioning the government to adopt a given policy.

Adopting a policy is different from having them mandate what people buy.

Hey, have people buy epipens and keep one at the school for each kid with allergies. Then later we will raise our prices 1000 percent. That's not influencing policy, its fucking people all the way to the bank - with government assistance.
There's no need for any sort of law enforcement, people just need to be nice to each other.
This article is coming from Britain which is also an island nation, yet had a significantly worse pandemic experience.
I'd feel better off with MAD, it's supposed to prevent a nuclear exchange.
Everytime this is posted I feel the need to mention to Brits specifically: this does not apply.

"It may harm your defence if when questioned you fail to mention something you will later rely on in court".

Failure to answer can seriously harm your defence and I've heard of people I personally know (though I wasn't in the courtroom) where the prosecution hammered the point that they "came up with a plausible sounding story" after the arrest.

Obviously Border Patrol is not the same as being arrested; but this is an important caveat for the video posted.

Talk to british police. If you feel like lying, keep your story straight or give basic facts.
> The other companies said hell no. We have the market.

The other manufacturers would have had to immediately stop selling and possible have pulled all the other saws off the market. For liability reasons, you can't sell a line of saws that chop off fingers next to a line that doesn't. You're basically admitting the former is defective.
I would say it is safe to say, developers, are the most valuable resource period. At least as far as human capital is concerned, and that is going to keep increasing and increasing until AI takes over.
OP here: Yeah. I can see how it can come across that way.

That being said, other companies HR policies are not that interesting (at least to me).

The huge part of a decision making to let a person go happens before HR got involved. I am way more interested in this phase.

>Firing is often challenging

Exactly. And that's why it is a good question.

Everybody can handle a success well. Handling challenges is way harder.
Slatestar Codex did an interesting look at it. The entire thread is worth a read. It's taken a little out of context as he's just joking and playing around with numbers but still interesting to think about.

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Suppose you reopened the economy tomorrow. You tried as hard as you could to put profits above people, squeezed every extra dollar out of the world regardless of human cost. And then you put a 1% tax on all that economic activity, and donated it to effective charity. Would that save more people than a strict lockdown? If a lockdown costs $5 trillion, then the 1% tax would make $50 billion. That’s about how much the Gates Foundation has spent, and they’ve saved about ten million lives. Ten million is higher than anyone expects US coronavirus deaths to be, so as far as I can tell this is a good deal.
""""

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/18/coronalinks-5-18-20-wh...
Professional drivers tend to have a high fender bender rate just from sheer exposure to traffic and a very low "texted their way into a stopped traffic at 60mph" rate because if you behave like that you will have close calls first and get fired over them.
Way to paint with broad brush strokes!
Haha that's one way to frustrate your users.
> You can ask your doctor to simply be vague and affirm that you have a clinically significant problem which requires accommodation.

That's a good point. I think the remaining obstacles left is perhaps getting that doctors note. I don't live in the tri-state area and have no idea how hard it would be in the current climate.

> What we might debate is whether 2 months is a reasonable timeframe to ask for a doctor to write a note, or whether 6 bathroom trips a day should be the threshold that a warehouse should care about.

Eh, true, so I guess we need more info. Were the bathroom trips long? What if they were pretty long and she actually suffered from IBS -- seems like her lawyers are just making an argument she is protected under disability laws? I am not sure then.
like parent commenter said LA actually has a list of acceptable “street trees” that they’ve approved so they don’t kill the sidewalks. some of the most glorious trees you’ll see here are ficus, but those are not on the list because they do blow away sidewalks, streets, utilities. unbelievable shade trees though that require very little water.
>By that measure we get Sweden is at 2693, Denmark at 2399 and Finland at 1741.

Germany at 2651 did much better than Sweden. France is around 4800. Italy is just over 4000. Sweden is closer to Denmark than to either of those two.
Safety features are not free and no one should expect them to be.

If some safety feature is judged too important not to have, as it is common in cars, the government steps in and makes it mandatory, but it doesn't mean there are no more licensing fees. At best, the licensing fees are limited to a fair price.
Run don’t walk away from ANTLR. Unless you are an intellectual masochist. I maintain a high performance Haskell like compiler for a living. Somebody added ANTLR to another tool I am now maintaining as well. It’s a maintenance nightmare.
Depends on your locking program but yes, PAM can be used for that.
I don't understand why partners willingly share passwords.
I was pretty surprised to learn those details much less the correlation between 1984 and Stalinist Russia. You're simply not taught that much about this event where and when I went to school.
Looks like the BBC doesn't like the .html

This appears to work:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58284204
I’m one. Shoot me an email at chris@chrisaalid.com
Proof of direct copying may not be required, if AT&T can instead prove Access and Substantial Similarity.

For access it could be a little tricky, certainly every one that has posted a reply here has had access, and if this post is popular enough it could be argued anyone could or has had access (this happened in some music cases in the last few years).

For Substantial Similarity your definitely in trouble if you have exactly 3 blank lines and probably in trouble if you have 2 or 4 blank lines, but you may be fine if you have like 6 or 12 blank lines.

While I'm being a bit sarcastic about the number of lines being "substantially similar", the legal standard in the US is not if you actually copied something, but if the plaintiff can convince a judge/jury that it's more likely that you copied it than it is that you created it on your own.
I don't know of any distros that don't have Python 3. At times I've seen 'python' linked to Python 2 for backward compatibility, but they still have Python 3.
At the end he mentions openbsd sharing the same ABI (as linux?). Is this correct?
> While most people who have chronic conditions are absolutely willing and able to perform up to task if given a reasonable accommodation, in some cases it's staggeringly apparent that the employee has no intention of ever putting in a full day's work, and is using the claim of an illness as a shield while they coast through the day.

So what? Reasonable accommodation has to include things like this, or the flexibility for the employee to work an extra hour and finish up their duties for the time they missed.

Otherwise, it's not accommodation at all.

And the idea that they're "coasting" when they're working 75% of the time is absolutely ludicrous. Does that mean French workers are all coasting, because they have a 7-hour work day?
What is the basis for this claim? It doesn't sound particularly plausible compared to other safety features, such as car airbags, which are not offered across all products in a brand.
I have fedora with passthrough with virt manager. Works really well for single player games. Not sure if I can get around anti cheats yet.

It wasn't too difficult to setup, mostly just have to have the right iommu groups.

This is also with an matx board, the msi b550m mortar. Only problem being I don't believe you can isolate the other pci lanes, so I can't give it the wifi card as well (for bt controller)
There is a big difference between cellphone / laptop batteries and some random enormous 72V battery you might buy from AliExpress. I have used those big batteries and the word I would use is “scary.”
Any two nationalities where one is typically bullying the other.
Because the farm labor isn't for a tweet.
How is it an example of a perverse incentive? If we don't reward inventors who make genuinely useful things, there's no incentive.
EU data is technically owned and stored by Google Ireland Limited (not Google LLC), but i'm sure Google's own legal data sifter software ensures US investigations can't pull data on locations within the EU.
I wrote something similar to this to query JSON and JSON lines with python instead of awk for text. It’s called Jellex (Jello Explorer) which is a TUI front-end to Jello. Jello is a python analog to JQ.

https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jellex
iCloud (at least for photos) is (effectively) "end to end encrypted". All photos are encrypted or decrypted only on the device (or after being downloaded to a browser), they never exist as human viewable files on iCloud. No one, except the owner of the account, can decrypt the file.
This is why the checking for illegal file has to happen before they are upload. It cannot be done on the server, the encrypted file can never match the hash. What Apple has done that is real genius is that for each image identified as illegal, a part of the key is encrypted and sent with the file to Apple. After a threshold is met, the account is locked, the user notified of the appeals process, and Apple can decrypt and have the files verified. 1 or 2 false positives changes nothing.
Just disconnect the light
> If it's perfectly reasonable, perhaps there's no need for a court case? Or maybe you could concede that there's more details to the story and it remains to be seen if Amazon was being perfectly reasonable

Anyone can bring a civil claim against anyone in America. If lawyers think the reputation damage will get Amazon to settle they'll front all bills for a percentage. Your position is exactly what the lawyers hope for at this stage.

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> But Amazon said she was expected to be seeking more than $75,000, one of the reasons it sought to move the case to federal court.

This is pennies for Amazon to settle. They won't since it'll open them up to more of these, and they'll spend as much time here as possible to send a message on the costs of litigating against them to others in the future.
Have a link? Surely no justice system only uses that evidence, but it could indeed be supporting evidence.
Raced down Porlock Hill on my Raleigh racer when I was 15. Walked it back up... second only to Telegraph Hill on the A38 - now that was stupid.
Where are the reptiles and amphibians?
Why are these called floodgates? Are they designed to do something?
Poor generally have a lot debt and with inflation debt gets smaller.
The idea is to disincentivize the dangerous thing without outright banning it, or imposing complicated regulations such as assessing whether a person has a legitimate need for the dangerous thing.
Redis Labs is now simply, Redis
Python and SQL: Better Together
This time I agree with you (except for me having an iron will.) :) I think it’s important for those of us who understand when legal is the correct route to take to mention it as if it’s a normal course of action. Convincing people to even do a free consultation with an employment lawyer can be challenging, especially for lower earners who could benefit more from the restoration of their lost income.
Denser cities could be a climate boon – but nimbyism stands in the way
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7
I will say this is all true but when you end up managing someone who just doesn't want to work, you may change your opinion. It's been many decades since I was in that position and it has occurred only once in my career, but it happens. Very disturbing experience tbh.
NZ is well on the path to becoming like AU in the next few weeks - it's not at all obvious they'll manage to crush their current outbreak and won't end up like Victoria currently, and their vaccination and even testing capabilities seem to be behind Australia considerably.
One issue is that the pedals could be practically cosmetic, if the power added by the motor is such that pedaling is unnecessary. This was true with some early mopeds too -- the pedals were pretty much good for starting the motor and nothing else. I'm seeing more of this as e-bikes evolve towards smaller diameter, wider tires and heavier frames.

The US "class" system seems useful, inasmuch as it more or less specifies the capability of the bike with and without pedaling. I'm all for adding a new transportation / recreation option, and have adopted a wait-and-see attitude for how the technology and its use will evolve. So far, e-bikes have not affected my use of a conventional bike, except for people asking me when I'm going to get an e-bike.