skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my work, we've been told to go back to the office, however the messaging has been vague, contradictory, and ever-changing.

For example, a few months ago the Telecom area announced that they purchased hardware to move our phone system into Microsoft Teams. Phone numbers would be moved over department by department, your desk phone would stop working once your number moved over, and here's some recommended headsets if you'd like one.

Then, after the phone system switch was well underway, an email from the President announced that we'd all be back in the office in September and that WFH would no longer be a thing. On a positive note, the MS Teams telephone integration works really well, so regardless of where I work it's an improvement over the desk phones.

Then, after I'd told my team to prepare for coming back full time, the messaging changed to "We're going to transition back to the office and you only need to be in two days per week, but we'll be back full time by January."

Honestly, I'm not sure how I feel about returning to the office. I'm sure I'll get used to it much like I got used to working from home. And I'm sure my co-workers will get used to me leaving at exactly 4pm (thanks to the bus schedule) instead of staying a bit afterwards to finish whatever I'm working on.

From the rumours I hear though, not everyone is feeling the same way. I know of five people that have left who would have likely stayed if they could work from home.

On top of all of this, COVID cases in my province are skyrocketing (10% of Canada's population, but 35% of its cases) and our elected leaders have disappeared. Apparently the Premier is finishing up a two-week vacation next week, so maybe we'll see restrictions re-imposed at the last minute and returning to the office will be postponed.
>> yet they decided to live their life in Russia.
These are personal choice

Really? Anyone who thinks that America, or anyone else, has any sort of open-door policy towards immigration is kidding themselves. Setting aside whether a Russian engineer would be allowed to leave Russia, the process of immigrating to another country is never easy. It costs money. Lots of it.
It is ambiguous, but it means that this is obviously true and there's no argument about it.
>just displaying it would be fine

Iframes with postmessage() where needed (like dynamic window size changes) isn't pretty, but it's easy to do.
It's arguably an ambiguous statement.
My PS5 already overheats if I play a PS5 game on it with my cabinet door closed. It was never an issue with my PS4 Slim, PS3, or XBox 360.

All in all I think it's the worst designed console I've ever had.

The curvy top makes controllers slide off while they're charging so I had to put a drawer liner on top.

The white plastic overhang seems delicate, I have no idea how I'd ever pack the thing up without breaking it.

And when mounted horizontally, the stand falls off every time I move the console. What's wrong with built in feet?
Some of the examples here strike me as wrong.

For example: being forced between a $100 trip and a $50 trip, both of which are prepaid, if both can't be done because they are on same day. It's not a fallacy at all to choose the $100 one - even if we are not sure in which way exactly, we are still living in a free market so if the cost was 2x without any beneficial differences, it wouldn't sustain itself - so that trip is likely to be better in some way.

Not dropping out of a paid program with a lower success rate in favour of a free one with a higher success rate is a good thing: it very likely means that a free one is a cheap, bs thing that gives no real knowledge (certainly they won't teach you better for free, so if the pass rate is higher it only means that exams are simpler to please everyone). Plus, some time is already lost on the paid program, and time is money.
If you have not at least skimmed through fast.ai, you should definitely do that, as the course itself addresses some of this and the people on their forums are among the most helpful I have ever seen!

Second, this could be more than enough! Especially if you are doing transfer learning.

Third, you can "inflate" the amount of images you have now with "Image Data Augmentation"
Did you try Diaspora?
US tech has a hard-on for ignoring EU law.
This is not surprising.
It’s interesting that atheism still has such a stigma. It’s still inconceivable that an atheist can become US president. It seems women may get there at some point but I don’t think an openly atheist candidate will make it anytime soon.

Even in personal conversations you get an awkward silence when you directly say you are an atheist. Better to waffle around and say you are “spiritual” or “agnostic”
I wonder how much this was encouraged by the Metcalf sniper attack[1] in 2013? A coordinated human action could trash a lot of transformers, and there's no way our society could survive 18 months without an electric grid.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
Yeah exactly, I know lots of people who think I'm mad for cycling through an urban environment and it's everything to do with dangerous drivers rather than the environment itself. The key I've found is to be assertive but not aggressive, cars will dangerously pull out in front of you or overtake in a dangerous manner if you show the slightest lack of confidence or hesitation. It's not an easy thing to do as any cyclist will be acutely aware that Newton's laws of motion are not on their side!

Having said that, I definitely think the pro-cyclist camp (which I do consider myself a part of) likes to ignore that there are a lot of utterly useless cyclists out there too. Riding on the pavement, jumping red lights, being obstructive in traffic just to prove a point for example. I wish all cyclists kept to the highway code religiously because the small minority of bad cyclists or overly militant evangelists seriously damage the reputation of all cyclists, most of whom are simply ordinary people who want to get around without the expense or ecological footprint of driving.

Cycling ought to simply be a means of getting around, as normal as walking or driving. I understand this is how it's seen in places like the Netherlands, which is a far better state of affairs than here where cyclists are basically seen as vegans on wheels with all the drama that entails. Cycling shouldn't be a political act; I don't want to tell anyone they can't use their car for example, I'm certainly not saying everyone has to take up cycling and replace every journey with it. I'm not interested in telling anyone what to do with their life choices, I just want to get to work without getting literally run off the road by a mental taxi driver or clipped by a pillock who thinks its important to save the 0.5 seconds it would have taken him to check his left mirror.
https://archive.ph/c39sT
I wonder how effective simply piping the output of one of these cheapo jammers to a Yagi would be at disabling or simply "return to home" area denial-ing drones.
Ofcourse they should be taken seriousiusly. What do you want the "millions" to do instead? Pretend everyone is rational? Once upon a time we tried classifying every chimp according to the big 5 personality trait model. Now thanks to Fuckerberg & Co and their data, you can find almost 100 different traits in the chimp troupe. Who knows what the upper limit is?
Its like the phase chemistry went through where suddenly new elements were being discovered every week. It all just shows us the world is much more complicated than we think.
That's the thing: original plan was to make Tu-160 capable of sustained supersonic flight, to actually get bombs (X-15 missiles - Russian clones of SRAM) - to the target faster. That didn't work out.
Yes Virta Health has shown good clinical results with that approach.

https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/67/Supplement_...
Yes - it’s been a few years since I lived there, but this was effectively the process we used in my California county. I’ve come to admire the simplicity of Scantron-esque ballots vs. many of these overengineered touch screen systems.
The argument isn't that false information doesn't have an effect. It's that your attempts to manipulate people through censorship has the opposite effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Your views are ones that are unfortunately too common in society, the common theme being ‘the successful guy has it easy, if he had my problems…’. The successful probably worked harder than you, made smarter/luckier choices than you, and had to overcome many of the same problems as you. Society needs to stop excusing their own problems as if the successful don’t have them too.
If you are so stupid you need a counselor to get through college, maybe it isn't for you. You don't have to be indebted to harvard over a million dollars through a decade. Why? So you can grow up to mess up more? Zap people with blood thinners? Rot out their livers with statins? Lock down the country over chest congestion, so they can't get a simple blood test anymore to show how you are poisoning them?

Or perhaps you want to be the next Kennedy. I wonder if the atheist international marxists are going to harvest the organs of thousands of American hostages. The starving chinese need organs. Probably to eat. The taliban need weapons training for the billions of deadly systems our treacherous leadership just gifted them for no reason whatsoever. Where's their counselor, after they are horribly tortured to death by beheading? Knowing the moslems, marxist, and chinese hatred, I'm betting they fixing to keep them awake when they vivisect them. Probably already have.
What's your concept of time and its extension then?
It was a legitimate question at the commenters.
Trent Reznor on writing process for a soundtrack
Oh yes completely. Half of ham radio is stories of the one that got away and that contact you made when your antenna was broken.
Current physical models don't have the universe itself (space-time) quantized - only matter is quantized. Even the planck time and planck length only represent minimal measurable distances/durations - the maths still assume that two things can be separated by fractional multiples of these.

That's not to say that physics requires infinities, but current models also don't disallow infinity.

Of course, actual infinity is outside the purview of science - there is no way to differentiate between infinity and something too big/small to measure, even in principle. Apparent paradoxes related to infinity, such as Banach-Tarski, don't change this, as they also require infinite precision to realize, making them impossible to test as well - even if a sphere is indeed made up of an infinity of space-time points, and even if we could manipulate those, we wouldn't be able, in finite time, to extract the necessary infinite subsets of points to create the two spheres from one.
For a somewhat more directed and engaging experience, I recommend Pulsar: Lost Colony (1). It actually just recently (two months ago) saw a 1.0 release after 8 years in early access (2). The best way I can describe the game is that it's a 5-player cooperative FTL-meets-Star-Trek-RPG.

The dev team is pretty small, but from the perspective of having that "Star-trek like experience" they have actually done a pretty good job of really capturing it and making it engaging and fun. Up to 5 people can play cooperatively, but myself and two friends have sunk probably 30-50 hours into the game exploring and progressing (the AI controls the roles that you aren't able to fill). It's also got a pretty active community with games to jump into but it's kind of hard to find other people with equal skill level as you when you are just starting out.

The gameplay is there, but it feels pretty unpolished in terms of bugs and graphical assets and it would really be something special if a AAA studio bought the game and added in some professional-grade assets because it's otherwise a really well-made experience.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PULSAR:_Lost_Colony

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-XbLEvhI_s
Tax-to-GDP Ratio: Comparing Tax Systems Around the World
> Eating too little salt is as dangerous as eating too much salt. The usual recommendation is to eat about 4 to 5 grams of salt per day.

Who recommends 4g of salt as a minimum?
Time-Restricted Feeding improves athletic performance
No: us atheists say - "there is no independent, testable evidence of any gods."

Further to your point: we also say there is no evidence for the tooth fairy. My daughter truly believes in the tooth fairy. My position vis a vis the fairy is not "exactly like her belief, but the opposite."
I have a lot of respect for Nicklaus and am a big fan. I even got married at his club in California. But I do have to point out: Nicklaus was a big Trump supporter. That doesn't really square with painting him as a paragon of family values, or work-life balance.
https://archive.md/O2EsV
I think that point of view assumes bad faith.

No one sets out to create programming languages that tie people to their beds. If people add restrictions, it's not to make users miserable.

It's fine if you like being unrestricted, I like that too.

However, when you see people going out of their ways to add barriers to their own work, you should assume they reap a benefit that you're not fully appreciating, not that they hate fun and want to outlaw ice cream.
Best resources I found for understanding Decentralized Finance (Which I think is the most interesting thing in decentralization right now, from a tech perspective)

Finematics on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/finematics

Bankless Podcast - http://podcast.banklesshq.com/

Modern Finance (by Kevin Rose, also covers NFT's a lot) - https://modern.finance/
I thought this post was one long gag until I found WUFFS on GitHub:

https://github.com/google/wuffs
Which translation does it use?
The further you dig into the matter, the more you realize that most people’s definitions of “good” and “bad” languages map onto their own personal preferences, not anything concrete about the language or how it’s used.
Ambiguous and indirect double-negative
You fail to mention parity. I worked for $100/month 25 years ago and that was the average income in the country, a 2 room (1 bedroom, 1 living room) apartment in Bucharest was $8,000 (I bought one). Yes, nominally an US plumber was earning more, but his living condition were below mine at that time. I am taking my example because we used to be part of the Eastern Block, Russian engineers were earning a bit more.

Now with $3000/month ($36,000/year, before tax) you live pretty well in Bucharest, better than the plumber in US that is making the same or more.
While I’m kind of with you that there are added barriers that don’t seem to make too much sense there’s a very real purpose to making you take something like a literature course while studying physics (for example).

Those added requirements are intended to make you a rounded, thinking human—not just a short circuit to more money and a comfortable life.

In my experience employers are caring less and less about a university degree.

What employers do love is pedigree in workshops. “We’re an ex- Googler, ex- Amazon, ex- Palantir, ex- Goldman Sachs” suddenly means the company is inexplicably inherently more valuable and trustworthy. Is it?
It was (and still is) lot easier if you're a scientist or a skilled worker.

> whether a Russian engineer would be allowed to leave Russia

Why not? I live in a country that is not US nor Russia and I know few very good Russian engineers. They worked in US too, some of them returned to Russia eventually. So I don't understand where you get your basis. People are allowed to leave Russia they're not trapped (not to mention the many I've met when traveling was allowed)
These responses just make me sad. Family is, by far, the most important and redeeming thing in my life. We have one child, an amazing and talented and beautiful girl, who along with my wife is worth more to me than all the money in the world. You could offer me $50 billion in exchange, and I would turn it down.

Unfortunately, this concept is unknowable until you experience it for yourself. That is why our civilization is in trouble; when people choose not to raise a family, they forego a natural and essential part of life, they have little understanding or empathy for those who do have children, and society becomes ever grimmer and coarser as a result.

Mr. Nicklaus could be a millionaire or a poor man and his words would ring just as true.
> I can't exactly meet your challenge, but I think it's obvious that they should have kept Bagram and used it to stage the final retreat.

The largest concentration of civilians that needed withdrawn were in Kabul. The biggest problem with the evacuation hasn’t been security at the evacuation site, but the problems with people who need evacuation getting to the evacuation site because of the absence of freedom/safety of
Staging the evacuation out of Bagram would have made a secondary problem easier while exacerbating the primary problem.
You can change it between any pair of curly braces.

E.g.:

void foo(int N) {
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON
// This applies only to the for loop...
}
// But not here, for example!
}
I like this. I dont know if it is your goal, but I'd like to see you (or an alterantive) to succeed and be used by big companies, a la Stripe. Need to share a document? No need to reupload, it's already part of Securr. Share with the company for a limited period of time, Securr make it hard to copy and to store (and illegal), etc.
Possibly fear that "asking team" builds the dashboard themselves, in a custom way, then asks the "dashboard team" to maintain it.

Although that might still be a time-saver for the backlogged "dashboard team".
If we're being pedantic, I should've used the word "parameter" instead of "variable", but surely you know what I meant. If not, see the "What's in a shape?" section of

https://nostarch.com/download/samples/Learn-Scratch-05.pdf

It starts at the bottom of page 92.
Yea, but in those languages you have a garbage collector working in the background to clean up after you. You don’t always want to pay that cost. From time to time I work on an open source application that spends 60–70% of its time in garbage collection, at least on jobs at the extreme end of the size we can handle. I’m starting to think about ridiculous hacks like combining millions of moderately–sized objects into a giant arena. With no pointers into the arena (just indicies), I can eliminate a huge chunk of the time wasted scanning the heap over and over again. But at that point, why am I writing this in Go? My Rust prototype is very incomplete, but for the parts that are implemented it uses way less memory and completes a lot more quickly. And I haven’t done _any_ performance optimization or ridiculous hacks there yet.
Well, infinity is inherently unscientific, as there is no way to scientifically differentiate between an infinite quantity and a really huge quantity (same for infinitesimals), in finite time.

What this means is that a universe that contains infinities is, even in theory, entirely indistinguishable (in finite time) from an universe that contains really large/small but finite quantities.
Arithmetic is just decategorified set theory. The main advantage of teaching arithmetic via set theory is that it allows for building intuitions about counting.

It shouldn't be surprising that two sheep plus two sheep is four sheep. We can go further. Suppose that we have lots of longhair sheep and shorthair sheep. If we choose some sheep, how many ways can we have some shorthair and some longhair? This gives exponentiation intuitively, so that we could ask how many ways we could choose zero sheep from a collection of zero sheep, or in other words, why zero to the zeroth power is one.

The parts of category theory that you're imagining, with the morphisms and natural transformations, doesn't have to be taught before arithmetic. It can be taught when lambdas are first introduced, when we write "f(x)" on the board for the first time.
The idea entered my mind, but I am not happy with such cop-out, especially on my own site ... I would at the very last like to see iteration progress, which, while not 1:1 with time, is at least informative.
Yes, I read the book which is in part responsible for my previous comment. But it not only that. The older I get the less I am willing to spend energy to interpret the UI I have in front of me: even finding out which is the app I want to use in the wall of blue apps on my phone is wasted time.
Going back to an old unhealthy lifestyle is largely irrelevant. The discussion here is what causes obesity. The answer, by and large, is eating too much food and doing too little exercise (either in quantity or strenuousness). So yes if you make a change, you'll lose weight, and if you change back, you'll gain the weight back. It's tautological.
We have it similar in the Czech Republic, except it's around ~700 eligible voters per polling place. Since the upcoming parliamentary elections are likely to have a ~60% participation, a team of several people at any random polling place is facing the insurmountable task of counting ~400 ballots in several hours.
Interesting to hear. Thanks
> Are vein patterns even static?

Nope. I had surgery one time to deal with a varicose vein of sorts. The key "engineering bug" was that the problem vein hits the collector vein at a 90° angle, instead of a "sliplane" (been playing too much mini motorways), causing congestion. The fix is to simply cut that connection. The body routes around it, increasing throughput through other networks. I don't think any entirely new routes were created, but I'm sure the size, geometry, and paths all changed.

Worked well for about 15 years before the primary issues resumed.

I'm yet to be convinced by the accuracy of this forensic method.

Like, it would be one thing if they could actually provide stats, bayesian analysis, p/r curves, etc.
Then he’s not a chaplain, his title should be changed.
The general discussion is about Ada ...

GP said it depends on what the language does with that concept, and then I linked some extra info about what Ada and SPARK do with the concept.

As for whether it's useful ... it's absolutely useful.

Side effects break basic blocks. The smaller the basic blocks, the less optimization can be done.

Side effects also require special handling when using theorem provers. If you can specify that something should be free of side-effects, it's less work to requalify the system after making changes.

The purpose of SPARK is to be formally proven, which is why it implements the feature.
I found the article quite interesting and funny (in a good way) and I have trouble understanding why anyone would think it's written in bad faith. He's not attacking you personally for being a Haskeller, he's just making light fun of the fact that Haskell requires monads to do IO and won't let you do it any other way, how is that bad faith?
> has already happened

This isn’t well-defined for events outside your light cone. Of course we could introduce an outside-one’s-light-cone tense.
I'm not sure that civilization's problems (especially given our massive overpopulation problems) can be ascribed to a general lack of "empathy" on the part of people who don't have children.

Actually, I am sure that they can't. I'm sure we've all observed plenty of people with kids who seem to lack all empathy.
I read with showdead=yes as well and can vouch for your experience. You are not contradicting the parent post, IIUC, however: I take it seattle_spring was talking about how HN would be if it lacked the system or something like it at all.