skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Triplebyte was trying to do this a while ago, weren't they? My last observations from a year and change ago suggested they were running into what might have been signaling equilibrium issues / risk aversion, but I'd be curious if there's other perspectives around.
Your comment reminds me of a joke.

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A high level official from China's propaganda department visits the CNN, and asks to learn the state of the art in propaganda.

Bemused, CNN receptionist replies: we are living in a free country, there are no propaganda here.

CCP official: That's exactly what I'm trying to learn!
The intent of FSF was always to protect user freedoms - where users can also be developers - and not to protect developer freedoms - where developers are a separate class from users.
> Your idea, if implemented well, may end up being a net positive for society

Thank you!

> but I can't help imagining a future where every child, from the moment they are born, has a biometric ID connecting them to a consortium of companies which provide their education, health care, housing, energy, internet connectivity, transport, media access, and so on.

My idea will not have that side-effect because not only is the project non-profit and open source, but it is also decentralised. And if we keep thinkng of a dystopian future then we won't be able to do anything positive unless we become some sort of social revolutionaries. I don't have those skills. But I can think of small ideas to make a positive impact that benefits everyone though. The idea I listed in my original post above is very simple, it helps teachers, lecturers, or anyone who contibutes to a persons monetary decent life via education get appropriately paid for their efforts, and everyone(i.e. businesses) who benefits from an educated person should contribute towards that.

It is a simple idea but notoriously diffcult to deploy because there is a possibility of this getting caught up in a political slugfest.
Not sure about English, but in my language we have a saying "The fish stinks from the head"

I can tell you, with quite substantial sample size from me directly and from people I deeply trust that every time we encountered an interview like this, we later found out that the company culture was really bad.

Those are not the kind of people you want to work with.
Just because you "feel" like that's the case, it doesn't make it true.
Good grief. This debate is so devoid of reason, it's difficult to have a discussion.

Saying that video games is outside the jurisdiction of the government is NOT saying there needs to be no guard rails.

Further more, yes. There are a lot of bad parents. The people who would be installed as the benevolent parental decision makers for society would be the worst of all.
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I don't know which mountains you were hiking, but the cows in the alps remain there because they get huge subsidies[1] to do so (beyond the subsidies all agriculture gets). The argument being that it's useful and traditional and there's no way to compete under such difficult circumstances.

Anyway, I couldn't find any numbers, but I expect it makes up a small percentage of overall milk production, even in countries like Austria or Switzerland, which have a lot of mountainous area. If we exclusively produces milk that way, it'd be a luxury good.

Again, I haven't looked up the numbers for Normandy or England, but I expect it's similar to Northern Germany, where you do see cows in pastures (which is lovely, I love cows, they seem very happy), but a) most of them are fed additional grains, b) during the winter you'll see much fewer and c) for every cow you see there, there must be a dozen being kept in a stable year-round. Source: cow farmers in the family.

[1] e.g. https://www.bluehendesoesterreich.at/bauernlexikon/bergbauer...
Even Objectivists recognize that the freedom to throw a punch ends at someone else's face.
If you are going to quote the article

> Why it matters: The decision, which is non-binding and will ultimately be up to individual member states to implement, comes after weeks of EU officials criticizing the Biden administration for not lifting U.S. restrictions on travel from Europe.
Sorry for my frustrated tone, I've been grinding my gears about that for many years. Backups are not a game. The fact that I always have to "play the Time Machine Game" when under the stress of needing to retrieve something from my backup tends to make me pretty angry at the interface, yes!

Even if Time Machine were 100% reliable and didn't randomly trash your backup all the time, asking users to wait through all those gratuitous vanglorious Doctor Who animations to find out whether or not they're screwed is not very "Delicious".

If only they'd applied all that unbridled creativity to something harmless like the About This Mac box instead of the backup interface.
The code words all being in the crossword is a sign though that you might have a serious information leak - perhaps not that the crossword was a secret message out to Germany.
what a nice way to reduce consumers' choice
(Montana isn't at will)

Even with at will, the company can get into difficulty with unfair dismissal and other issues.

The few times I've seen someone fired (and fired fired not PIP or layoff) have been for clear and undeniable issues. The "your work isn't up to performance standards" without a PIP falls into the rare bucket (and more likely at the small companies than the larger ones).
What do you mean? I ask as a ham myself..I took my exam [remotely] in 2020. So far all of my contacts in my area have been pretty warm greetings. I generally get the impression that existing hams like seeing new hams pop up.

That said, I live in a very rural area, and imagine that more congested areas(cities) might be less welcoming of new traffic.
Coding interviews should just:

- review your recent resume

- have some conversations around coding topics that dive in enough to know if you generally know what you're talking about

- focus on things you really expect them to do on the job

- if you really love giving algorithm riddle programming tasks, only use them on recent university grads who are used to such things. it has zero (ZERO) usage for experienced devs in our industry

- basically much of the US already interviews conversationally with little or no coding exercise. but for some reason big tech and the valley fail to change (which is funny since they are usually on cutting edge of other aspects of our industry)

TL&DR: don't do live coding interviews, they are a waste of everyone's time
Are you suggesting that African countries have more infections than the banned European countries? Any data to support that?
But do you really not know anyone who plays video games who is as successful as you are?
The most disgusting part of this story is that the highest rated comments on the article all support this authoritarianism.
Even if I assume that these governments are retaliating against each other in bad faith, the fact that we are still in the midst of a global pandemic would certainly give them the justification for their behavior. Once COVID became irrelevant (instead of endemic, which is beginning to look increasingly likely), then that justification is no longer valid.
Vanilla VIM, sorry.
From TFA it sounds like it was not coincidence at all.
But this is authoritarian.

Why should the government control how I manage my time? I'm pretty sure this site would be pretty outraged if the government decided we could only code 3 hours a week.

And please don't use the "but coding is constructive!1!" argument. A good use of time is defined by whoever spends it, not whatever someone else's idea of wasting time is.

As a case in point, playing hours of Splitgate has kept me sane during the pandemic as a college student locked in a room for 1.8 years. I meet on Discord with friends and discuss topics while playing. I've made more friends gaming than physically in the past year. That's pretty constructive if you ask me.
Summary of paper cited in OP [1]:

> The most potently neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 — including those in clinical use and dominant in polyclonal sera — target the spike RBD. Mutations in the RBD that reduce binding by antibodies have emerged among SARS-CoV-2 variants, highlighting the need for antibodies and vaccines that are robust to viral escape.

> we identify neutralizing antibodies with exceptional sarbecovirus breadth and a corresponding resistance to SARS-CoV-2 escape. One of these antibodies, S2H97, binds with high affinity across all sarbecovirus clades to a cryptic epitope and prophylactically protects hamsters from viral challenge.

> S2H97 exhibits notably tight binding to all RBDs tested, making it, to our knowledge, the broadest pan-sarbecovirus RBD antibody described to date.

> We cannot predict which mutations will next rise to prominence as SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve, but it seems likely that they will include additional RBM mutations that affect recognition by infection- and vaccine-elicited antibodies.

This complements a growing body of promising research that will lead to next generation vaccines which should be more resistant to viral evolution. Such research is vital because the current mRNA vaccines induce an immune response that is highly targeted toward the spike protein RBD. Nearly every variant of concern has acquired at least one mutation which confers a degree of immune escape from antibodies targeting the S protein RBD.

[1] SARS-CoV-2 RBD antibodies that maximize breadth and resistance to escape
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03807-6
For those that would like to know how to rebuild civilization, the book The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnell is a handy reference on things to know and do. General bibliography:

* http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/bibliography/

Deep dives on particular topics of agriculture, food and clothing, substances (charcoal, lime), materials (wood, cement, furnaces, glass), medicine, etc:

* http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/further-reading-by-chapter/

See also the more light-hearted How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North:

* https://www.howtoinventeverything.com

Which starts with inventing language (spoken and written), before moving to "non-sucky" numbers, the scientific method, and calorie surplus.
> It's not their fault, there is some mechanism inside their brains which makes them highly suspicious of everything.

Some “highly suspicious” individuals are ingesting ivermectin paste for horses from the farm supply store.
You don't have right to travel abroad. If you doubt it, show up without a passport.
"Sorry, B29 is a mild outlier in terms of sizing - only 5% of the population wears B29 so we don't keep that in stock."

I had this problem when I was younger with an outlier waist/inseam ratio. I was only one inseam size out of "normal" but had to catalog order my pants. I wonder how it would work now with modern supply chain efficiencies. Back then I could rely on a warehouse somewhere having my size, but just-in-time may not allow room for that.

I love the idea though. As someone who rarely finds a t-shirt where I like the fit (either too tight or too long), I'd love to just have something I could count on. I can't even rely on just getting the same size from the same store each time.
Anarcho-communism long predates the Doomers and has always had similar framing. It was real popular in the late 60s / early 70s; the world collapsing is something we’ve known about for a very long time but people have to get fantastically wealthy somehow so we keep doing the old thing.
The consultant thing is usually a matter of budget. Hiring someone is the personal budget that has had an increase of just enough so everyone does not flee and zero real room for a new head. Yet a consulting budget is from a 'different bucket' and can usually scale up and down quickly. Those are taxed at different rates and depending on their accountants how it will work out.

For your last Q I would say a lot of the same points still matter. They are going to want someone 'local'. Someone who can come in on a moments notice when they are in the thick of it. Also keep in mind a business is not programming. I would suspect what you are really asking is 'how do I sell things'. That is a much different topic. But targeted advertising, cold calling, trade shows, emails to former and clients and colleagues. It may be worth looking into hiring an advertisement firm for some small ideas. Do what you want your customer to do and hire an expert. If you do not have the cash for that you are going to have to do it yourself. Your personal network is probably your best bet for starting to grow your business network. My dad a former insurance salesman spent a lot of time in bars selling and meeting people. They had hundreds of hours of training they took to be any good at it. It may even be worth getting a short part time job as a salesman to get the idea of what to do. Think of it as just as there are jr devs you are jr salesman. But keep in mind, there are several types of sales. Those that sell themselves (they were already going to buy it, it is just from who that matters). Those where you need to work the sale. This is the harder type. You have to basically sell yourself to them. This is either showing them they have an existing need that is not being fed, or faking it by 'creating' a need they did not know they had. Another way is to associate yourself to one of the consultant groups out there. They take a cut but can help with lead generation.
So secures western dominance in eSports competitions. Like everything in life computer games are diverse enough that they can be harmful/predatory to high/mid level programming. I struggle to keep my son from gaming all of his free time away, but he also has learned Lua and C# to a pretty large degree doing this stuff and I cant be too mad about that. This weekend we are going to put together his first gaming rig from parts he started researching. If he didnt care about gaming, he would not have any of that...
There is not much we can say to alleviate your pain. I just want to say that I am truly sorry for your loss, and can only fathom hoe horrible it is to not only lose a child, but be alone and not be able to share the pain.
Take care of all of you and may she rest in peace
Family of Kids Killed in U.S. Attack in Kabul Cry Out
It is easy to read the above comment that way. Often people confuse governments with people. Americans vs American Government. Chinese vs CCP. Etc. We should be clear about the distinction because certain factions have a vested interest in promoting this.
The idea of collapse is just fear porn for people that are online too much. Kinda sad to see it on a forum like this, a forum otherwise devoted to rationality and using words that meaning.
personal anecdote: I've played hundreds of hours of driving games, my girlfriend has never touched a controller. When we got our Tesla, the backup camera view was perfectly intuitive to me and I was immediately comfortable driving the car backwards using just the display, but she was not. As we go into the future of computer driven everything, people comfortable with controlling things via computer interface will have a significant advantage over people who've only used analog control.
> This will not work well for people with multiple kids.

Ah, fortunately they planned for that way ahead of time.
How you play Spades is how you play life
It's being used as a tool in a political war. You'd have to have your hand in the sand not to see it.
they are not buying Primephonic, they are buying their users and now will make them go by Apple rules
Kids can't be criminally punished/sued, not for things like these.

Kids can be sued for damages to others which ultimately their parents/guardians would be required to pay which doesn't exist in this case.

This is similar to how age restriction for alcohol is enforced in the US, interestingly, age restriction on alcohol consumption wasn't enforced in China, though made into law.
What are the odds that this isn't an effort to get kids offline, and instead an attempt at freeing bandwidth or reducing energy consumption? This feels like when they banned bitcoin mining at the same time they were having rolling brownouts - the issue wasn't the mining but the resources it consumed.
I've generally found more people flunk this sort of interview than flunk a whiteboard one.

Namely, if you've had only boring, uninteresting jobs so far, you might not have a truly interesting "tricky technical challenge you solved," and similar gaps around the other questions. Like, you can't name many of the ways a big, high-traffic site might slow down, because the internal tools websites you work on don't need caching or proxies or load balancing or...

Whereas tossing an algorithm question or two at them too to see if they can figure it out at least potentially screens for potential in a way this conversation doesn't.

So I always make sure we do both on interview loops, because I don't want to reject you just for lack of good past jobs, OR because of lack of studying algo problems recently (the good senior candidates crush the conversational one even if they're rusty on the algorithms).
An interesting bit of history.

A small nit: The assertion that secrecy, i.e. absence of information was the key espionage tactic at play here is not quite right. Instead, the allies put a massive amount of effort into misinformation.

Going from memory… In his book, The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan reported that the Germans knew the location, the approximate dates, and had even determined what signal would be sent to the French Resistance (a particular stanza in a poem read in a radio broadcast.) Getting higher ups in the German apparatus to believe that they had figured it all out was the main failure.
This seems exceptionally realistic.

I’ve sat next to former employees who almost certainly get paid more than I do because they know the process and no one else can match that knowledge.

I generally don’t work nuclear plants, but in my experience they are a magnitude more expensive in everything.

Compared to the cost of downtime, it’s a small price to pay.
Sustainable grazing is happening in the real world, just not at scale to really matter. But we can change that. And the political will to change it is likely far higher than political will to get everyone to stop consuming these products entirely.
There is a real difference between the two. The primary goal of playing an instrument is to make something that sounds good. The goals of video games are generally manufactured.

The exception are games like Minecraft. But if someone builds a computer in Minecraft or finishes a beautiful build that can actually be captivating to people that don't play it.
I've thought about this some. Utah and Juno are specific place names in the United States. Would the average British person in 1944 have even known what Juno is (or where)? This not "New York City" and "Miami". Overlord is not a common word either. The others are more common in usage.

Edit: missed the roman goddess not alaska town bit my fault
Read a paper: Producing wrong data without doing anything obviously wrong
Apple Music is now becoming an experience totally unlike any other, what with this, lossless audio, spatial audio and the whole AirPods ecosystem -- nothing else compares. When this classical service comes out I think it might be the last push I need to drop Spotify, because even though I'm not an audiophile, I want to be able to accurately find and curate classical music.
Photography technology has influenced what people consider a good picture
Let's Stop Pretending About the Covid-19 Vaccines
It will be interesting to see if others are similarly taken off the table. I've been tremendously impressed by the Berlin Philharmonik app, for instance; they've made a subscription service available on nearly every platform (AppleTV, iOS, Android, and even including the random Sony BluRay player I got for $35 on Amazon). The music is live-streamed with HD video like you were there in the hall.

Have folks seen other classical apps or venues with a savvy approach like this?
Conspiracy theory I just made up, don't take seriously:

This is to control the demand for GPUs, as there is now such a drastically psychotic situation around the supply that a nation-state must now intervene to allocate cards for their AI projects.
why does everyone think this is a political thing? I didn't even know there is a ban on US travel to EU and it's not something being discussed a lot in europe. This summer had a lot of issues already (fires heatwaves floods afghanistan etc) and delta is gaining ground quick despite vaccinations so it makes sense to prepare for 4th wave as soon as holidaymakers return.

I also think that americans are underestimating the situation of the upcoming months
speed is a poor proxy metric for injury/death, but it’s mediopolitically expedient and as such used regularly to misdirect conversation and policy. to reduce injury/death, we need to address distracted driving, reckless driving, and impaired driving. notice that all of these share ‘inattention’ in common. also note that it’s very hard to legislate attention, which is why the conversation gets misdirected toward speed.

however, there are measures like narrowing car lanes, adding street trees, and installing bike lanes that have positive effect on attention by making collision dangers more obvious (without making them more likely). these measures tend to also lower speed, but lowering speed shouldn’t be the primary goal, lest we implement more ineffective measures like speed limits and speed humps rather than the effective ones.
Rule #1 of parenting 2020+:

“Don’t stand in a way between a 9yo and Roblox”

They will absolutely send you in jail rather than give up Roblox/MC/Youtube.
It's even dumber than that. Want to listen to Brandenburg Concerto No. 5? You'll find an album whose track names start with "Johann Sebastian Bach -- Brandenburg Concertos -- BWV No. XXX" and because the strings are cut off by the UI, you can't see which one is which.
So, I set it up this week-end on a vps and subdomain and today it's blocked :(.

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> A value-test I use is: “how useful/feasible is this activity if I don’t have a computer or similar technology that is predicated on significant infrastructure?”

That would discount most hugely important activities like, say, medicine. In general, I don't think testing against dependency on modern infrastructure is useful, except when you're preparing for a post-apocalyptic world.
The FAQ indicates that they're providing a pro-rated refund for all current subscriptions.

Like a number of other commentators, I'd never heard of this service despite being a fan of classical. If they can improve the state of classical on Apple Music -- playlists, metadata, discoverability, etc -- then I'm sure the founders are thrilled that they're going to have far more of an impact than they were having.
Yeah not disputing that, just pointing out the Russians might rather extend the trans-siberian railroad to their own colony.
Glad I don’t live in China
This is not about Kids gaming and it ruining their minds. This is about Chinas gaming kids playing games where people can talk/converse with/to them, and thus depart "information" without much official control.