skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alcohol makes money, outside weapons don’t. If they could get away with selling you knives in the stadium they probably would.
> The Howey test doesn't apply here. If it's not securitized and it's not tradable, it's not a security.

Do you have a reference for that? Because that aspect doesn't sound relevant at all - the court case the Howey test comes from was about securities fitting your description (and, of course, the outcome was that they were considered securities).

The Howey case actually refers to them as "investment contracts", which I presume is language from the securities act itself. This seems like better terminology than "securities", if only because it doesn't so obviously conflict with the colloquial meaning. I'm not sure how we got here from there, although the "securities act" naming probably didn't help.
The intersection of COVID and air travel is particularly bad.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/08/14/most-covid-19-t...
I specifically wrote that we need further work on ocean deacification, because of all those things you've mentioned.

It's not an either/or proposition: we need to do all of these things:

- restore the ecosystem's ability to consume CO2

- decrease our production of CO2

- develop technology to artificially sequester and consume CO2

Alongside other, non-CO2 related things like restoring biodiversity and ecosystems (where possible, mass extinction is still a thing), reducing our chemical output and destruction of nature etc.
The fact is his papers were rejected from highly respected journals. If I send an incorrect math proof to hundreds of math journals and one small open access journal decides to publish it, I haven't disproven math, nor would anyone think I had. It seems to me this falls in line with most of the anti-PC "scholarship" that does little more than confirm the biases of people who are primed to believe anything that discredits what they perceive as "PC", "SJW", or "woke."
What did Hubble look at on your birthday? [NFT]
Hi HN,

I was frustrated with existing freelance job boards. I felt they were all too bloated, too many features and the service fees are just too high. I decided to build a more minimal, easy-to-use job board that focuses on small jobs.

I built this primarily for startups, digital nomads and people that work from home, as a way to delegate small tasks off their to-do lists, to freelancers.

I would appreciate any feedback you guys can give me.
Methodologies vary, but comparing deaths to any of the previous years, it is clear that they've increased. And the only major change was the new virus.

But of course, never let a good chance go to waste. We'll see an increase in restrictions because of Covid, they're not going away anytime soon.
I’m talking about college football games.
The idea of a "nice" language for SMT solvers is really cool!
Off the top of my head, I think Boogie [0] is pretty similar to OP's plan of building a language that reduces to an SMT query, so it may be worth checking out.

However, I'm not sure that LLVM optimizations will really "allow people to write more robust and complex models". I mean, they might help, but they might also make things worse. LVM tries to make code run fast on a Von Neumann architecture, sacrificing the structure of the input program in the process. But, for an SMT solver, preserving structure may be better than optimizing, for a number of reasons (but basically because solver heuristics may find a solution faster given such additional information).

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/boogie-an-i...
Maybe start with low-grade English and math textbooks? If the book's editor is a bit savvy about hot buttons, I'd guess that rather few cultural warriors have strong feelings about adding fractions, distinguishing adverbs from adjectives, etc. And "eagerly engaging" the anti-big-government types on the tedious details of such subjects might soon drive them away.

(No, this approach could not be extended to American history, science, etc. But some good could be done.)
we actually have two sinks, but one sink is misused as as a drying rack because there is no other space.

not having hands free to turn water on and off is also an issue i ran into resulting in letting water running more often than necessary.
It's not trolling just because you disagree with it.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=97803453...
I love how hodgepodge that looks. In most scifi, the space ships are all neat, tidy and super clean. Everything has a place. This looks like a hacker's workbench prototyping something, got it to work, shoved it in a case, and then runs the cat6 cable across the desk to get it running. Then just stuck to something to get it out of the way from the work space.

Edit: realized i replied to the wrong comment. go up one level
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This actually isn’t the goal of terrorism. I’ve studied terrorism and the definition is essentially non-state actors using violence for political means.

Now we can go in to various conspiracies from “Bush planned 9.11 as a false flag” to “Bush ignored intelligence reports so he could launch the war on terror,” but those are mostly just unproven conspiracies unrelated to what al-Qaeda wanted.
"It feels like a small group"

You're right, it's only about 5% of the population, but they occupy administrative roles inside organizations and reshape them according to their fundamentalist beliefs. They are convinced they are doing good and have moral authority. As such, they have no qualms about ostracizing or firing dissenters. People are terrified of that and go along with it for fear of retaliation, so it seems larger than it is.

Taking administrative roles with an intolerant belief structure and chilling effect on speech is how the Successor Ideology is so effective despite being small in number.
Yeah, they are not really that comparable, but I don't think they have any other z/Architechture vps avalible at IBM (or at anyone else for that matter) so I thought that was the best comparison.
The threat will never go away, but fortunately vaccination cuts the risk of death to virtually zero. SARS-CoV-2 is now endemic in the worldwide human population, plus several animal species, so unlike smallpox or polio it can never be eradicated. Obviously we can't keep the safety measures in place forever, so what are the quantitative exit criteria?
Sorry do you mean that not all b, g, etc. argument values are possible?

So b1 g2 for example might be possible, but b2 g1 might not exist?

i.e. are values truly random / uniformly distributed?
Carbon capture is just marketing for oil companies; it doesn't make sense energetically. And just looking at the numbers provided in their marketing page, it's clear that it's absolutely useless. In 2018 Shell extracted more than 4 million barrels of oil a day [0] -- with 430kg of CO2 per barrel [1], that's 1.591 billion (with a B, a thousand million) kg of CO2 extracted from the ground per day.

Meanwhile, on that page that you are quoting, all of those projects are on the ballpark of a million tons (a billion kg) per year. With luck, all of those projects put together (by the most ""climate responsible"" oil company nonetheless), each year would cover 15 days of Shell's carbon extraction. And that's without taking into account the fact that these projects have emissions of their own, which are definitely not taken into account for these totals.

Carbon sequestration is an interesting effort for sure, but the only use it has is give oil companies excuses for their existence.

[0] http://priceofoil.org/2019/05/20/shell-emissions-still-going...
[1] https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gases-equivalencies-ca...
I'd love to discuss helping out with this project, but I don't see a way to contact you on your HN profile or on the site. Is that something you are open to?
Is there any career overlap between software engineering and fighting climate change? New to the field and not sure where to start.
That attack was overhyped by the media, which suggest a way to stop them.

Personally I am far more concerned by the rent/steal truck and mow down pedestrians mode that we have seen in France and Germany. You might be able to do more about gun safety. You can't really prevent a madman from driving up on the sidewalk deliberately and almost any person can rent a van.
It does seem like that's the right numbering, thanks. I said "3rd" because the flight was hijacked around 9:30am EST. And I assume what they heard was news of the first two planes, rather than the one that hit the Pentagon.
By accident really, I wanted to be a sysadmin actually. My uncle was the only successful person in our family, I wanted to be like him. I studied linux, worked my way from helpdesk to pc tech. I was waiting for someone on the systems team at my job to quit so I could apply for their spot but no one left. I had made a reputation for myself by scripting a lot of my work. Like if there was a common issue that I could resolve I'd write a script and then just type in the name of the computer and resolve the issue remotely. One of the devs for the company was aware of my skills and told to apply for his position when he left. That was 12 years ago.

Books and blogs? I paid for my own O'Reiley subscription which gave me unlimited access to the entire library of books they have available.

University? I skipped it. I'm a HS dropout, I have a GED I worked my way up from the bottom of the IT ladder I honestly think its better that way.

First job was with a bank taking helpdesk calls. Work my way up to PC tech. Moved to a university, PC Tech to Jr App Dev. Jr to Mid. Jumped ship to Charter as a Sr.
Very impressive!

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16936/ibm-power10-coming-to-m...
We can and should focus on both.
I have this (ours is a Bosch) and it’s wonderful. Cutlery goes from being a jangly hassle to an absolute breeze, and it also means there’s more space in the rest of the washer for everything else.
Thank god.

If I can get a train to go from A to B, I usually take the train. You can arrive at the train station 5 minutes before departure and make it to the train. It's just an overall more comfy experience, mostly thanks to the seamless process of getting on it, not having to worry about the water bottle in your backpack and arriving almost directly in the city center with just a few minutes to get off the train and train station.

You can't hijack a train or a boat and make it crash wherever you want. I also assume it's much easier to respond to a train or cruise ship hijack and avoid having to kill everyone on board.
This is a good idea. I did this with about 38,000 books in the public domain and hosted and indexed the text files on the page so I could do quick full text searches of all of them: https://www.locserendipity.com/Google.html. Interestingly, it is not nearly as good as a RegEx search of a directory of the same content, revealing some inconsistencies in their search algorithm (at least for custom search engines).
Hasn't Tom Cruise been in the news about doing this same thing? Only, once again, the Russians do it first.

Edit: clearly people dont believe me:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52556699

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/russia-racing-beat-tom...
> Aaand you just moved the goal posts. Notice how you switched your argument from "currency" to "good currency". So dishonest.

I think you want a binary world where things are either A or B and not somewhere in between. BTC is being used as a currency in El Salvador and it is government mandated as a currency. Thus it is a currency by that definition. But my argument is that it isn't a good currency based on its properties (which I listed some and also linked to an article on desirable principles of a currency), rather it has the qualities of an asset.

I think I haven't changed what I am arguing, but I think you misunderstood my argument as something much more simplistic than what I was actually saying.
It reads like Foell was mostly citing Wagner, not B or P. Did you read those?
> This talk about "Draconian" lockdown in Australia needs to stop.

Actually, telling people to stop talking is what needs to stop.

Here in Victoria we're in our 6th lockdown. 220 days of lockdown since last year. Today there were 221 covid cases reported in Victoria. 87 people in hospital - that's not a daily rate, that's total. These are not big numbers.

We have an angry Premier who yells and threatens. Together with his side-kick health officer, they condemn people for taking their kids to park or watching the sunset. [1]

When watching the sunset is considered immoral, it's time to break out the word Draconian.

We have a curfew here in Melbourne. This means everyone must visit the supermarket in reduced opening hours, increasing density in those places. There is no evidence curfews work. Mask mandates outdoors even when by yourself is another useless signalling technique. Australian authorities love their signalling and behavioral manipulation.

They love blaming the lockdowns on the community. They love their new unchallenged surveillance powers and privacy compromising backdoors. They are ecstatic about the idea of mandating apps and vaccine passports for entry to cafes and venues.

People here are vaccinated enough. A high proportion of older and vulnerable people are vaccinated. Young and healthy people would not fill the hospital beds if lockdowns ended. There may be a small surge, but it would level out, we would deal with it. Lockdowns are doing more harm than good at this point. 80% vaccination target is not a magic number from the Gods.

[1] https://headtopics.com/au/andrews-slams-sunset-lovers-breaki...
I got started because I lived in a town of 400 people and there was nothing to do. My family weren't farmers, yet all my friends were. One day Dad brought a computer home with a 300mhz processor and it was either learn to be entertained by that, or twiddle my thumbs.

The first burst of inspiration that I wanted to do software was neopets.com. The idea of neopoints somehow magically being stored in this thing called a database and shared through a virtual economy created a deep curiosity in me. Enough that the early days of apache, php4, and mysql were enough to slog through as a kid (truly painful back then!).

I didn't get a degree. I went to a day of university and dropped out because they wanted six figures for things I already knew. Financially it was worth it to do that, but I am sad I wasn't able to live the 'college life' my friends did, and didn't make the same connections they did. Freelance life can be lonely unless you put the effort in to network.

My first paid work was SEO and content writing, then when WordPress 1 launched I found gigs making websites with it. I found clients through online forums and then asking those clients if they knew anyone I could do work for. The best gigs came from those referrals. Honestly I'm not sure I could do that in today's atmosphere! Back then there were no freelance websites (like Upwork) or video call systems to verify you weren't a 17 year old kid. Today it's much harder to find gigs among strangers, especially if you're young. My best months I was 19 and making $10k/m without my clients knowing I was so young :)

I'm an engineer today but have dabbled in other roles like UX, design, PM, bizdev. I love the flexibility and the compensation the right engineer role provides. I wouldn't say there is anything I hate about it, life is good!
As a software engineer, I am seriously considering going back to college and studying nuclear physics.

I believe an abundance of emission-free energy is about the only thing that can move the global economy to where it needs to be. Fossil fuels need to be out-competed with very cheap electricity. Once you achieve that, capitalism will ensure that all fossil fuel burning devices will gradually disappear. Other methods that try to fight capitalism (e.g. CO2 taxes) are ultimately losing battles, because the global political goodwill will never be there.

Solar is great, and cheap, until it's not. You need to cover vast areas of land in solar panels to power the whole country (incl. cars, freight, industry, ...), which is impractical and extremely costly, and still only works part of the day/year. It's an important part of the solution, but not the solution.

Nuclear is about the only thing that can provide continuous abundance at a reasonable cost, though we need new technologies.
https://archive.is/Wve79
I think a major source of the loss of wages and benefits despite a higher than ever per-capita GDP is an insane increase in rent seeking by government and land owners. When taxes, fees, fines, and rent all go up, small business owners are forced to cut into something to make the books balance. You can see spaces looking like Golem's cave renting for $15k a month.

It's tempting to say they should just raise prices, however they are competing with massive organizations that can run at a loss for decades and have capital to burn. There is just no way anyone will pay $30 a plate for hole in the wall Mexican food when they have to pay rent on their $2000 a month 1 BR apartment. Especially when Chipotle down the street is offering comparable food for $10 a plate.
I started programming at seven on a ZX Spectrum that I still own. Basically I wanted to make my own games and the only way to do that was to learn to program. I spent a lot of my teenage years making games, mods and websites. All the books that are relevant for that period aren't really anymore except for historical interest. I also got to grow up as the Internet grew up for better or worse.

I went to Uni for four years studying Computer Games Technology. It was great for meeting likeminded people and networking with local companies as well as providing space for making more stuff. Won a few awards for my student work and went off to work for a startup after I graduated. That folded after a few months and I ended up at a local AAA studio. Sixteen years later and I'm still making games. I got that first job with just a casual chat over coffee the day after I was wrestling in jam and am still working with the friends I made at the first big studio!

Right now I'm lead of the Community Engineering team for a web-based game development platform called dot big bang (https://www.dotbigbang.com) so running a small band of multi-talented people making games for the platform, live streaming and that sort of thing. By far one of the most fulfilling jobs I've had as I help out other game developers all day and enjoy a lot of creative freedom.
Modern phones have parental controls that let you limit app usage, of course that doesn’t apply to friends’ phones, but if they are socializing in-person with friends close enough to lend their phone at least there’s some level of child development success there.

And phones are hardly the worst thing friends can get your kid into... I remember the main concern being alcohol or drugs, which I think have since declined (at least among youth).

I have to say I am not familiar with the attacks based on browsing history you speak of though. How/why does this happen? Are you forced to make it public?
Too much money in alcohol to ban it.
Due to the behaviour of people on planes now, some airline have temporarily stopped serving it but passengers could still get it at a bar at the airport or buy a bottle of alcohol at a duty free store and drink themselves stupid before boarding the plane.

I dont think they can easily ban that.

edit:// OP clarified this was meant for sports games.
I appreciate the concept, but IMHO when software is only available for Mac, this should be highlighted in the title.
The entire patent system needs to be dismantled. It's simply hampers competition and prevents free trade. All of us in the technology industry know that the simple facts are that building a business is 99% perspiration and 1% innovation. Further, any new idea is based on a mountain of previous human innovations. Even the largest leap in human history was a miniscule percentage of the entire knowledge base it rested on. For someone to claim ownership over even a small bit of something that is based on all the sweat blood and tears in human history is nightmarishly wrong.
But in the college football game example, there's no discouragement right at the gates, no security, and they don't even bother with hitting an unsecured target at the same venue.
There are historical aspects that the US must contend with, even some 150+ years on after the official end of slavery (the American Civil War) and 50+ years on after the practical end of slavery (Civil Rights bill). Many injustices will take generations to work through. It's not something that will just happen naturally over night - humans are messy creatures. However there are people, mainly of the progressive left, that are pushing for these changes to happen much faster than they naturally would and that's fine up to a point. Many, many of them, driven mostly by ideology and internet points, have forced the pendulum of reconciliation completely off it's course in favor of their own power grabs. It is no longer about putting everyone on equal footing. It's about moving perceived power structures away from some and towards themselves. The US education system is a pivotal battleground because that's where many young minds are molded and formed. It's actually kind of brilliant that the secondary education system was one of the first institutions to be captured by these radicals. But now that the public at large is starting to wake up and realize what's going on the radicals are using the other tools at their disposal (censorship, shaming, rioting, attacking other normed institutions) they are being called out and brought to light. Boghossian did just this and on their turf, and is currently being ostracized for it.
you really think it'll be cheaper to lay power cables under the atlantic ocean than build some nuclear plants to power the American continent during the night?
The problem is it cuts the other way too and spooks those who believe in open speech. I'm now uninterested in Lemmy because of this "feature". Anyone who would try to limit the speech of others cannot have my best interests in mind.
AFLD Sold Access to Bogus Covid-19 Treatments–and Left Patients in the Lurch
>The target is to save lives. If the threat is still there, we need to keep the safety measures.

Ok your argument just fell apart. Do we not always have the "need" to save lives? The "threat" is never going away.

That's ambigous and completely subjective. What is is not is an objective measure of any sort. Which means it continues indefinitely until our leaders decide otherwise.

The fact you cannot give me a set time when it will end, or what status we need to meet for all of the safety measures to end is pretty telling.

>I don't know how you don't see that.

Because you have no data or facts to back up your claim. You can't even explain it yourself.
> To believe that humanity has now arrived at the be all and end all of economic systems is sheer human arrogance and folly.

Says the guy trying to dictate what everyone should get paid. Also, that is a strawman argument since no one claimed we are at the 'end all be all' of economic systems.
>Yeah, plus they're practically the only country that hasn't had serious government threatening civil unrest for 160 years and they still brag about guns.

There was that miners strike which got bombed.
I don't deny that policy is important, especially on a local level, but these folks are off in Northern Virginia / D.C. doing lord-knows-what. I also can't help but think they are preaching about things we already know need to be done. Almost like how the Susan G. Komen foundation spends so much more on breast cancer awareness than actual research.
is there a magical tool for the 100 <= employee <= 150 gap?
what's the url to the actual website?
No. I think it's really sad. It's really hard to get Linux on POWER boxes too from them.

I find it perplexing too, but I guess they don't want IBM Cloud to eat away from their high-margin SKUs.
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