skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised to see you getting hammered for this sentiment. I agree with you and with the parent comment.

Both things can be simultaneously true.

I think you've implicitly agreed that the pandemic countermeasures were authoritarian, and this thread is saying "authoritarian bad." But we all saw what happened to places that delayed or denied countermeasures. If authoritarian bad, then that questions whether non-authoritarian is actually good in this case.
I've gone down this road a bit. Here's one of my basic algs.

1. Given a composition building system where all possible choices are more-or-less pretty.

2. Pick one at random.

(2A. Optional : keep a record of past choices. So when a certain compositional context arises again, do that same choice that you did before. Thus symmetry. Which is generally pretty.)

3. Repeat till satisfied.

Here's an example of that : https://vimeo.com/241051006
So in France, GPL violations are not considered a copyright issue, they're considered a breach of contract. And since the court looks at the damage to the victim in breach of contract cases, which is hard to realistically imagine when the software is given away for free, this is some bad news indeed. Someone uses your GPL code, gets caught, pays a minimal amount in damages, and continues using it.

I'm not a lawyer and stuff.
I feel the opposite. I'm a very social and active person but recently I've realized I don't enjoy it. I have been wasting my life on stuff I don't care about. Now I just want to sit inside and dive deep into this "boring cyberpunk world". I wish I came to this realization sooner.
Surely a lot of these “behaviors observed after X hours of Y” studies are subjective to the researchers and broader social opinions on what “normal” is.

I don’t disagree on the monetization part, but daily life is an implicit game of risk avoidance. We are cognitively tuned to play a cognitive simulation.

My hesitancy is social belief we all must be on board with playing “the real world” simulation as dictated by traditional political beliefs, which heavily influence which studies get funded.

Maybe utilitarian day jobs aren’t the only busy work we should expect of each other.

Frankly as a social scene, I’d rather people argue over DND rules than how much profit they can make if more people went hungry or died rather than get their insurance benefits they paid for.

Perhaps the behavioral economics math we use to advertise and market tribal belief in our teams superior product or service should be set aside to let folks navigate the sim as they wish and real economic activity must adjust to satisfy that?

Social norms have always followed technology. Maybe the perspectives we apply are no longer correct in this contemporary time.
> Ask for the client and salary range immediately. If they don't give you a straight answer, politely end the conversation.

That's... actually a very good advice!

But what if they counter it with "we'd like to hear your expectations first"?

> If someone wants to put that level of effort into his career, he's better off aiming higher.

You are right but I have zero clue how to aim higher, exactly. Hence my idea.
I know you were not attempting to elicit sympathy, but I am nevertheless terribly sorry for your loss.
I spent some time in Germany and something that struck me was the omnipresence of the Unimog. It seemed like for every outdoor job that can exist, there is an attachment you can bolt onto the front of a unimog to do it. Utility trucks are relatively highly customized in the states compared to that.
That would be nice. I'll have to check to see if it feasible for me. Microacquire looks like an all or nothing deal.
Avoiding the software delivery Death Spiral [video]
> Where is your ire for the dozens of Republican congressmen who don't believe climate change is real or believe the Christian end times will happen first?

Oh, it's there, believe me. Just wasn't part of that particular post.
This is what it's like here in Northern Indiana as well. Nobody is stopped from any usual activities, businesses are free to enforce mask mandates on their own premises but most aren't.

And you will generally have no idea whether people around you are vaccinated or not, unless you are in a University or somewhere that enforces vaccination, generally this is only if they are actually large enough to register on the local scale as "potential identified source of many new infections" and would want to stay out of the news in that way – ahem, I mean somewhere that is invested in keeping people safe.

I am planning some cross-country travel for a conference in October (really big one, you might have heard of it) and I am really having a hard time with it. I've mostly been isolated for the past year and a half. I am vaccinated and I would really like to see some people. But I do feel like a plague rat even making these plans.

Given the number of people around me (especially as you drive outside of the city parts of Indiana and into farm country) who wear their un-vaccinated status on their sleeve or bumper sticker, as a point of pride or honor, I wouldn't say we're not a threat. But still generally agree with the sentiment.
Depends on the state but at least in TX parents would be liable for a fine if caught giving their children tobacco (https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/tobacco/regulatory.php). Of course that's not enforceable but it is a limit the state is attempting to create. Wrt porn the parent comment was referring to "creating" porn, which is certainly illegal for a parent to facilitate in the entire US
How are we going to do this
The second articles claims about sugar in Oatly (really oat milk in general, they mostly all use a similar enzyme treatment) are rather misleading.

"GI is a measure of how much of a negative response your body has to certain sugars" is a gross mischaracteriztion, but even if you take it at face value, it's not useful to compare the GI of the component sugars in oat vs. dairy milk alone (maltose vs. lactose). Let alone represent oat milk as being pure maltose in a comparison to Coke, a product with no fibre, protein or fat or micronutrients.
Try these:

https://github.com/corkami/pics

svg: https://github.com/corkami/pics/blob/master/binary/pe101/pe1...

png: https://github.com/corkami/pics/blob/master/binary/pe101/pe1...

pdf: https://github.com/corkami/pics/blob/master/binary/pe101/pe1...
IME, writing code as concise as possible (semantically and syntactically) is almost always the best route. I don't believe superfluous assignments, parenthesis, braces, visibility modifiers or comments make things more easily understood by others. In time, experience and mastery of the language will reveal superfluous code as something that does the opposite as well as much cleverness as mere utilization of the language or abstraction.
Well there are those Boox tablets, there's even a color one. But apparently the software does a lot of calling home to China.
It was a single province, which at the time had around a third of the population indeed.

Their signature was not required for the constitution to enter in effect. It was desired (it still is) but since the refusal was (and still is) mostly political, it is not regarded as a major impediment.

Keep in mind two-thirds is a qualified majority.
I'll mention Idagio. I subscribed for a year and liked it well enough. But then I subscribed to YouTube, so that there would be no commercials, and for $11/month I get to watch and listen to all the classical music I want, plus many other kinds of music that Idagio does not offer.

I never thought I'd be writing these words, but once you pay to get rid of the ads, YouTube becomes and very deep inventory of classical concerts.
If citizens don't protest this is never going to end. That's why I don't understand why people hate antivax people. They exists mostly because politics have failed since the beginning.

For any new measures that politicians make today. The more people are in favor of it the longer we will have to deal with all this nonsense. Politicians contrary to the beginning of the pandemic, are strongly confident that what they do is useful. When in fact it's all completely useless.

Stop complaining about people who protest about the restrictions (whatever the restrictions), and support them. Politicians need to stop thinking that they need to act about covid. That's the only way we will end all that joke
Hostile Takeover of L.A.’s Public Schools
I disagree that the safer bet is to have less government - look at the macro picture, things are better than ever as governments are exerting more controls, so there must exist a process of which allows for better prosperity for all by allowing government to modify our behavior.

Making rules is a function of government, and government is a function of the collective will of the people. So rules are nothing more that what I, and most of my neighbors, believe how everyone should behave, and the process is ultimately a trial and error; an experiment.
It's completely logical to not want a career when executives capture all of the profits. It's irrational to work when the execs at your company make 10-100X what you do and the non-working investors capture even more value than that.

There is no labor shortage and there never will be. When exec pay equals worker pay, then all of the levers will have been pulled and we can maybe start to talk about a labor shortage. Much of which are jobs that shouldn't exist (ad sales), or things that can be automated.
this has been tried before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules

AKA "the spruce goose"
It is ambiguous,

"Two plus Three times Five" as a sentence reads and is naturally processed from left to right for a result of " is twenty-five".

But to anyone who knows math (precedence), "2 + 3 * 5 = 17"
> Mostly off-topic but FWIW "mutable reference into an array" is typically very easy in Rust you just accept a &mut [T].

I had specifically worded it as "a couple mutable references into an array". How do I take a small number of references into an array, say two or three?
Wouldn't people go from stages similar to culture shock?

1) Wow, very interesting company. I didn't know so many things can be done in different ways than I'm used to. Very smart ideas out there.

2) OMG, this company is full with idiots. Everything is done the wrong way but somehow it has not collapsed yet.

3) Yeah okay, some stuff is the way it is because it would't be feasible any other way due to the quirks of the business. Other things are the way it is because of historical reasons and it doesn't make sense to re-do it at the moment.

4) You know what, I think I understand what this company is all about. It's not perfect but people are actually doing great things here.

5) OMG, this business is crime against humanity. It shouldn't exist, I don't know how I'm supposed to do this anymore. Money can't buy me.

6) Well, the world is not perfect and I understand the imperfections and I can function. It's not like they are doing it any better anywhere else. I grew to appreciate upper management, now I understand our business and I'm happy to do my part.

3 months should be enough for a nice honeymoon stage. Both sides can know that longterm relationship is achievable if they have a nice honeymoon stage.
Counters as Complex Aggregators
What about the sudden abandonment of cities in Mesoamerica at different periods?
https://archive.is/Dl8QZ
That is such a refreshing approach to the process. May borrow this next time I hire a developer.

Thanks for sharing.
The disclaimer at the top, where they say their experience comes from being an external consultant is key. Because when I worked in Enterprise IT, we had our own team of senior software folk, and my experience does not match this article. I'm not saying we didn't have our problems, they were just different than described.

At the end of the day, though, the point of treating internal products like products and not projects is accurate. Every good IT shop I was a part of landed at this answer, even if we got there through different experiences.
This is an old idea thats been tried a few times. I think its hard enough to keep code comments up to date, let alone a whole document system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_(programming_system)
These subs are large, metallic, full of electric equipment, and heavy. They have magnetic and gravitational effects on their surroundings. They also have electromagnets to help hide their magnetic signatures. A network of very sensitive satelites with very precise clocks could be used to detect gravitational anomalies -- maybe, I'm not sure what kind of precision would be needed, or if that is achievable.
How would a mortgage lender feel about it?
Ethyl alcohol is easy to define: C2H6O

There's no such clear definition of 'games'. So there is potential for interpretation and overreach.
I have no problem with people doing nothing and collecting UBI. There are tons of rich people doing nothing today and they're taking in a lot more money than UBI would provide.
Agreed. I didn't talk about the Late Bronze Age collapse because it's still very much an ongoing topic of research, but I definitely agree. You can also draw similar parallels to the transition between the Heian court period in Japan to the Sengoku Warring States eras as well, as far as the collapse/change dichotomy is concerned.
Being in the ML community I have a lot of criticisms of it. There are far too many people, especially in production, that think "just throw a deep neural net at it and it'll work." There is far more to it than that. We see a lot of it[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28252634
Wild strawberries taste waaaay better then ones from store. It is actually our contemporary fruits that are super bland - they are cultivated for size and look. Not for taste and not for nutrition.

That being said, strawberries are absurd choice of fruit. They don't last.

Already apples last. You can even store them without that requiring anything modern. Bananas is another good example. In places with warm climate, you have fruits year round.
on wisco: was looking at beef production and not including dairy, my bad: https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/....

on sustainable grazing: there's not enough land to produce the amount of cattle we would need to sustain even the U.S. meat consumption sustainably.. we need something else
I had great success with Robert Greenberg's series on music and music history. I started with How to Listen to and Understand Opera which is available on his site (https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/download/how-to-listen-unde...) and The Great Courses as well. If you want a preview shoot me an email.

He adds lots of fun history to go with it. Bach's Goldberg Variations was his greatest financial success "The Count presented him with a golden goblet filled with 100 louis-d'or." and he was obsessed with coffee. Coffee cantana by him as well.
That simple? Until they decide to make it a felony to evade this system in that way.
>Let's not even get into women's clothing where you can have such ill-defined terms like "size zero".

size zero at least makes sense if it's the smallest, and they're using zero based indexing. It really gets ridiculous when they have size 00.
The sitting president was removed from the de-facto public forum, but you're whining about minors getting their video game time restricted? Authoritarian government is already here. You just missed it because you're on the side of the devil.
Case for Open Borders
> "my forum posts are being de-anonymized via stylometry and someone is broadcasting threatening messages using language that mirrors my recent post

I wouldn't be surprised if that's actually happened to someone, given how intense forum wars and stalkers can get. Especially if it's a group targeting an individual.

There is however the effect that people who leap straight to extraordinary claims for which they get publicity are almost certainly wrong, while the stalking victim to which this stuff has actually happened cannot get anyone to listen.
Frankly I think the argument is idiotic even in one-on-one interactions. There’s a reason assault is illegal.
I wouldn't say 100% your fault. I'm going to blame the camera for a few of my deaths!
If you're referring to the Microsoft product, OneNote's capabilities are... extensive. I highly doubt any company other than Microsoft has written full-featured clients for it.

The only option I see is getting an e-ink tablet that runs Android. Even then, I don't know if the pen will work.
I planned to comment on the conclusion as well. I think these protocols often do not handle things well enough and in the end the apps out there do not implement them properly anyways. You always end up building some kind of CRUD/RPC thing that works via HTTP/WebSocket which is why things like Todoist and etc work well and are able to add the features everyone wants in the end.
https://archive.is/w0wPG
Make no mistake the scientists that are pushing mRNA therapies dont even understand it on a fundamental level. Oh hey major discovery we have no actual clue what we are doing. Dr Frankensteins the whole lot are.
If the new strain is more deadly, or more contagious, it is better to delay the arrival and have the explosion of cases come later--science will typically have more information and better treatments.
That states fell is not disputed. States and civilizations fell all the time in the Ancient world. This is distinct from the narrative that humanity as a whole would collapse simultaneously. As the parent comment says, the Late Bronze Age collapse is the closest we have to a simultaneous civilization ending event as we know in modern history, and it is very much under active research.
Apple? Privacy? With the whole CSAM drama I think it was pretty apparent they no longer care about privacy.
The reason to gatekeep on that knowledge is because the Amateur license is unique in giving you the legal authority to design and build your own transmitters and antennas, and to operate on dozens of bands from 135 kHz to 275 GHz and up, at powers up to 1500 watts. If you just want to operate a store-bought radio, there are much easier ways to go about it, e.g., MURS, GMRS, FRS, CB.

Also the Technician-class ham license has an easier test than the General-class one linked above. It's certainly reasonable to start with that one.
I buy boxed sets of classical CDs precisely b/c I want to truly own the music and to have a high-quality backup. I also like the books that frequently accompany boxed sets.

There are two downsides though: 1) they take up a lot of space and 2) I spend a lot of time correcting metadata. dbPowerAmp's CD ripper, though, helps a lot with the metadata problem.
May I ask why? Won't you have to isolate forever at this point? Covid can not be eradicated. Animals carry it. For example, 33% of White Tail Deer (n-481) in the USA sampled have ben found to have antibodies for it. It's assumed cats and dogs can carry and spread it.

This isn't like polio or smallpox - this would be like trying to have 0 cases of the flu, forever. The best you can do is get vaccinated to at least take some pressure off the hospital system if/when you get infected. Somehow we all went from "flatten the curve" to "no one can ever get sick again".
True, but here in Netherland, you can give out 3, 1 year offers before you forced to give a permanent contract.
For whatever if anything it might be worth, I would recommend Beil’s book if you find the ideas in the article interesting.

I mean the American Method is still running round in photographic circles as obsession with corner sharpness as a marker of self seriousness…and that’s where the book starts.

If I had an unmet need, it is the entirety American focus of the book leaves me a bit blind to the bigger picture. What was it like, I wonder, in Japan?

But then again, good books should raise new questions because new questions are the mark of learning. Beil’s book certainly feels like a potentially “important book” on US photographic history to me. YMMV.
I thought it was kinda cute, but immediately clicked reader-mode. It's better than the Guardian's evolving background images that totally break scrolling and readability...
Even predicted the acquisition by apple!

#2 was also more prophetic than many here will want to admit.

#7 predicted facebook's "fact checking" operations.
> Mandatory quarantine would likely help somewhat.

It helps a lot. However even strict quarantine leaks, and New Zealand has shutdown to try eradicate its current outbreak. Delta is incredibly transmissible and resistant to controls.
I've been using KOrganizer[1] for longer than I can remember. For better and/or worse, it's pretty tightly integrated with the Plasma desktop. For now at least, I use it with Google Calendar as its backend. Every once in a long while, it gives me some scary-sounding error message about failing to sync — but so far as I can tell the sync works just fine, albeit sometimes with a bit of lag.

I recently also started using it with my work-mandated Office 365 calendar. According to some docs somewhere that I can't find right now, there were quite a few hoops to jump through to make that read/write so I settled for read-only.

[1] https://apps.kde.org/korganizer/
It blew my mind when I learned that some curved sections are actually greased periodically in order to reduce the friction.
Nope. 301(a) is talking about things like common law copyright. The notes to that section from the Cornell LII [0]:

> Nothing in the bill derogates from the rights of parties to contract with each other and to sue for breaches of contract; however, to the extent that the unfair competition concept known as “interference with contract relations” is merely the equivalent of copyright protection, it would be preempted.

If you think about it, if what you said were true, then you couldn’t make any contracts regarding copyright works and expect them to ever be enforced. Disney wouldn’t work as a concept. Sounds a bit extreme, is a bit extreme.

[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/301
Spades has long been the standard card game in the US military, which is at least partly responsible for its widespread propagation. That is where I learned it, and most other people I know either learned it in the military or from someone that was in the military.

That said, I never played it that much outside the military. These days everyone seems to play poker.
Yes this is it.

EU citizens have been banned from traveling to the United States for ~18mo now.
There is no 2 page manual at IBM ;)
It depends on the type of recruiter. If you're working with an external recruiter (like an agency recruiter), they're not going to do that. They'll just give you the client's expected salary range. I've never had an external recruiter play this game with me.

If it's an internal recruiter, you might get that question. In that case, have a good idea of what you're looking for, and throw out a number at the top end of the range. If you're talking about a senior software engineer job, and you know that, in your area, they generally pay $120-150k, then say $160k. If you want, condition it based on total comp and benefits. Most Fortune 1000 code janitor jobs will offer a nominal bonus, anywhere between 5-20% of salary. Nothing like the huge FAANG bonus structures. But saying "depending on TC and benefits" gives you some leeway to ask for something even higher later on. And it tells them that, if they can pay you $150k plus a 20% bonus, then you could be happy with that. It leaves the conversation open.

If that makes them walk away, then you didn't want to work there. And don't feel bad negotiating like this even if you're going for a code janitor job. Compensation correlates with negotiating skill more than software engineering skill. It's just the way things are.
I had no idea about this cultural history. A bunch of us in high school comp sci used to play the online version bundled with Windows XP once we were done with our assignments...we'd try to queue up at the same time to get matched in the same game.