skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you pile more inedible crap on my plate, it's still not a bargain. I don't want it in the first place.

The only A&W I ever tried had taken over the old "Sonic" location, and the comparison made Sonic positively glow in every way. I think they stayed in operation 3 months or so; and they were across the street from the town hospital. The hospital had better food.
Reminds me Planetes [0], one of my favourite animes. Hard sci-fi (near future) about a crew working on a satellite debris cleaning business. Great show!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes

edit: quxbar beat me to it, glad I'm not the only one... The part where they stop by the Moon colony and have fun just bouncing around is pretty great.
That's what he means - the people who were cheering about cancellation might go silent now that the right starts adopting their tactics.
Because in reality, all friends and family totally live withing reasonable travel distance of each other and interesting people will always pop into your local bar at the exact time you're there and wear a shirt outlining why you should spend your time trying to meet them as opposed to literally anyone else in the bar.

Email lists and chat servers are just Facebook with extra steps. The only difference ends up being the fact that Facebook-like social networks suggest you people and content you might like from a giant pool, whereas the alternatives have rather limited pools and the signal to noise ratio is pathetic because you get literally everything that is posted and have to filter through it manually.

Don't get me wrong, I hate Facebook and only use it on maybe a handful of occasions per year, but you can't tell me that it didn't enable things that weren't possible for many before it was invented.
That is an annoying thing I've run into as well

My solution is to make a type guard:

function isExample(val: string): val is Example {
return (ALL as string[]).includes(val)
}

I've also found there's no need to even create an object by the way; you can just create a string array and then use string literals directly in your code. Also, TS is smart enough to still give you intelligent autocomplete.

(you don't even need the array unless you need to iterate over the items at runtime like above; in other situations, you can often just make a type and nothing else)
I've heard from someone who teaches Norwegian to newly arrived expats that they simply don't get any Dutch students since these pick up the language in a matter of weeks without help. Between Dutch and German this should be even easier. Simply pick a social activity (choir, dancing, whatever) that's intended for locals, go drinking with friends, etc. If you want, of course.

I've neglected my German and French since school, but found that I could still get to a basic level of conversation later in life by just trying when I was on holiday in those countries while still living in the Netherlands. YMMV.
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Do you also believe that the / operator should return two values, a “primary” result and an error value?
Agreed on both fronts. There's a lot of attempts here to use "race is a social construct" to indirectly claim that race is meaningless, or at least imply that.

People need to realise the following:
- Race is a social construct
- It's also a proxy for ancestry
- Ancestry is a proxy for genetic history
- None of the above contradict each other.

It is possible that we could sufficiently redefine race and ethnicity such that the above isn't true, but as it is right now, race is at least moderately coupled to a biological signature.

What should also be emphasized is that race isn't an end-all. The within race variation is far greater than the between-race variation.
> a vaccine that has proven to be incredibly safe and effective

I understand that there have been very few deaths or serious injuries from the vaccines. At the same time, I am aware of the unexplained menstrual side effects. I completely understand why women who plan to have children, and parents of girls, don't view the vaccine as zero risk.
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I am thinking of something more like go language or python.

In go you can do this:

function (x, y int) (sum, prod int) {
return x+y, x*y
}

It makes a big difference when one is using the same input to generate multiple related outputs.
It's because the scriptwriters tried selling a script where nothing much happened, and didn't even get past the receptionist.
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I admire the confidence of someone who can say in the same paragraph that there are 24 different definitions (constructions) of "species," then deny that they are a social construct at all.
I read about that before, an interesting argument is that if they didnt work as hard, they might have had a worse life because of potential financial instability.
Obesity is also way more complex than taking a shot. Its not as simple as "eat as much as your neighbor". Minor systemic differences in metabolism can have huge long-term weight implications.
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> Not to get political, but your last paragraph implies there's nothing worth fighting for.

Do you really believe I'm arguing that there's nothing worth fighting for when I write that: "We should help refugees get safe passage and eliminate borders"?
Really? Thought they bumped it in the late 90s. I was running IRC servers mostly in the 1995-2000 timeframe and I remember the connection limit going away at one point? It’s been ages, but I largely quit using IRC once I went to college so it had to be sometime around the late 90s :)

Every network also seemed to have its own fork of ircd (and at least one rewrote it from scratch), so could have just been that the ones I used patched it in and others didn’t.
> Racial categories are based on a very small number of superficial traits

Right, but genetic correlates are real. These superficial characteristics evolved along with a thousand other non-superficial characteristics, in mostly (with the exceptions of conquest, trade, and border settlements) isolated regions.

Your skin tone and eye shape are indeed cosmetic trivialities, but they correlate strongly with muscle fiber density, susceptibility to certain diseases, endocrine profiles, and a host of other things that very much do matter.
When other countries switched to metric they also switched their standard measurements to metric-rounded equivalents. In fact, here in the UK it's a legal requirement that everything (with a few exceptions) must be sold using metric measurements. It's certainly doable.
I know you probably intuit this based on your pre-emptive caveat about anecdotal evidence, but a quick online search seems to indicate that your experience may not be the norm.

"Peers’ smoking is the strongest predictor of adolescent
smoking."[1]

[1] Gecková, A.M., Stewart, R., van Dijk, J.P., Orosová, O.G., Groothoff, J.W. and Post, D., 2005. Influence of socio-economic status, parents and peers on smoking behaviour of adolescents. European addiction research, 11(4), pp.204-209.
Steven Pinker thinks your sense of imminent doom is wrong
Maybe Stripe should make and offer to acquire Justuseapp. It seems like a useful addition to help with subscription management.
Good point - another data point that is actually not one, but many. There are 13 different COVID-19 vaccines around the globe, which work in different ways.

"The overall age-adjusted vaccine effectiveness against infection for all New York adults declined from 91.7% to 79.8%." - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e1.htm?s_cid=mm...

"Two doses of mRNA vaccines were 74.7% effective against infection among nursing home residents early in the vaccination program (March–May 2021). During June–July 2021, when B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant circulation predominated, effectiveness declined significantly to 53.1%." - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e3.htm?s_cid=mm...

"The efficacy figure, which is based on an unspecified number of people between June 20 and July 17, is down from an earlier estimate of 64% two weeks ago and conflicts with data out of the U.K. that found the shot was 88% effective against symptomatic disease caused by the variant." - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/delta-variant-pfizer-covid-v...

"“As seen in real world data released from the Israel Ministry of Health, vaccine efficacy in preventing both infection and symptomatic disease has declined six months post-vaccination, although efficacy in preventing serious illnesses remains high,” the companies said in a written statement. “These findings are consistent with an ongoing analysis from the Companies’ Phase 3 study,” they said. “That is why we have said, and we continue to believe that it is likely, based on the totality of the data we have to date, that a third dose may be needed within 6 to 12 months after full vaccination.”
...... Executives from Pfizer and BioNtech have repeatedly said people will likely need a booster shot, or third dose, within 12 months of getting fully vaccinated because they expect vaccine-induced immunity to wane over time. They also said it’s likely people will need to get additional shots each year." - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/08/pfizer-says-it-is-developing...

So, while it's true that the effectiveness wanes, the same articles also point out that it is still effective at preventing severe hospitalization. If you're vaccinated, you're more likely after 6 months to get COVID anyway, but you are much less likely to be sent to the hospital or die.
I work in the banking industry so I can't just try different strings until it works. These strings might represent real money. If it can't be parsed then something is screwed up. The program is reading the wrong file, the data is corrupt but my point is, there is nothing the program can do to fix it. The program simply needs to throw or log and error and someone needs to research what happened. Here's another example:

// NewV4 returns a randomly generated UUID.
func NewV4() (UUID, error) {
return DefaultGenerator.NewV4()
}

You want a UUID but it might give you an error. What do you do except also return an error?
Race is distinct from Nationality. "Latino" is not a synonym for citizens of Latin American countries, but the name of a racial group which originated from that region of the world.

It gets confusing with countries like China, Japan, and India, which are more racially homogeneous, and where the country name is the same as the (common) name of the predominate racial groups.
From what I understand, race is a social construct doesn't mean that there can be no physical differences. After all, humans have been able to tell* what race someone is with their stupid human eyes. It's making a claim the important aspects of race are a social construct.

If the defining physical differences between races is both melanin and sternum width, that doesn't seem to be more relevant than just skin melanin.

* In many cases. It's more error prone than most people want to admit.
A&W Canada has been unrelated to A&W in the US since the 70s, and seems to be the more successful of the two by far.
You are correct. Most people who identify as Latino/Hispanic in the US consider that to be their race though, not ethnicity. So Census data has a lot of people who identify as Race: Other Ethnicity: Hispanic/Latino.
I'm stuck in this quagmire and have been for 18 months. Right now it's manifesting as a React on GraalJS project written in Clojure. I've learned a lot, but actual progress is, of course, elusive.
1) The ratio of people with a tertiary degree is probably too high. In past decades, only about the top 25% had university degrees:

https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/files/images/graph_month-stat_...

2) Fertility is heavily influenced by the availability of housing. Without immigration, house prices will fall and wages will rise, providing a boost to fertility until the population equalises.

https://www.nber.org/digest/feb12/impact-real-estate-market-...

With mass immigration you shortcut that, and simply end up replacing the original population, probably with negative overall effects if the incoming population is not genetically (average IQ, predisposition to violence) or culturally (respect for women etc.) aligned.
A bit like wework, far less loss though.
If they can't find staff then the companies don't have much choice but to raise wages. They'll lose more sales if they have to close their business due to lack of staff.
> We're making Tibetan sand art. Our 'purpose' is simply to enjoy our time in the sun.

I like that metaphor :)
A $20 injection for 70% (for now) of about 8B people is around $100B which no longer carries any legal risk. That’s a lot of incentive to overcome.
If that happened, people would just break intellectual property laws left and right until they became unenforceable.
In principle yes, but did you read the paper? They do a lot of completely crazy things like blurring the image until it's just fuzzy blobs, or doing a high-pass filter on it until it just looks like noise (they comment that a human could not even guess that it's an x-ray picture), and they still get very high accuracy. Basically no matter what they try they can still get the race out, with slightly lower percentage numbers. When reading it I also thought this is too good to be true, and they may have some kind of bug in their code...
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It's definitely normal to blame everything and everyone but yourself for your problems.

In some cases, it's justified, but the vast majority of time it's just avoiding responsibility.
I understand wanting to remove the overcomplicated Security Manager, but we have one use case which, as far as I can see, has not been mentioned at https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411 : we install a custom security manager to prevent the software, when run on a developer machine, from accidentally connecting to non-localhost network addresses (we actually use a whitelist). I wonder how we'll do that after Java 17.
gonna be very hard due to restrictions and general distancing
That makes sense, given the fact that they made "new Foo()" pretty lightweight anyway (for CPU, not for RAM).
>NO ONE was calling it 'the Trump vaccine.'
While most didn't say trump vaccine directly, they alluded to trump being the main push behind it.

>. No one on the left was polarizing response to Covid other than complaining that the current government was downplaying the severity.

It apparently was racist to close the border for china. MANY people called trumps response overblown, until suddenly it was way too little.

>Even when it was apparent to the entire planet that this was a serious pandemic the right was pretending nothing was wrong.

"The right" was much faster to react than the left. That includes initial response and calling for opening back up.

>Then it was not really a problem because the first places it hit were large urban centers (aka Democratic-voting areas) so maybe this wasn't so bad after all and we can just wait for 'herd immunity' was the claim of the Trump crowd.

I have a hard time finding any source on that. Could you link me any?

>You have a serious problem with reality and the truth if you think that people on the left waited until after the election to start pushing for a vaccine and for trying to take active steps to contain and control Covid spread.

I am not saying that EVERYONE on the left was like that, just that I first started seeing the politicization come from the left. Quite an important difference.

These are examples that took me just a few minutes to find again with people who flipped their opinion quite hard, along with that, trump has been pro vaccine for a long time.

https://twitter.com/santiagomayer_/status/129788766548059340...
https://twitter.com/santiagomayer_/status/138942463249149543...
https://twitter.com/taradublinrocks/status/13026569683775488...
https://twitter.com/taradublinrocks/status/14211889001778667...
https://twitter.com/CheriJacobus/status/1334201006108839936
https://twitter.com/CheriJacobus/status/1421641394645577732
https://twitter.com/tonyposnanski/status/1304144185419800579
https://twitter.com/tonyposnanski/status/1386686118691844100
https://twitter.com/Martina/status/1298300531614658561
https://twitter.com/Martina/status/1414910318782861323
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1306762734076342273
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1429803419108249606
you're somehow making a dissonant "people are too stupid for their own good" argument couched in a "don't talk down to the people" argument. but this dichotomy is wholly unnecessary.

the simpler reframing is to tell people the truth, and do it so it's not overwhelming to folks ("having empathy") who have many competing attention-grabbing issues in their lives (i.e., they're busy, not stupid).

and regarding masks, the simple truth is, they don't help in most common situations (i.e., out in public, where distancing does all the work), and it's extremely hard to get folks to use them in the one common situation where they can be effective: social/family gatherings. masks were never going to be an effective mitigation for this one reason alone, but because of their visible, performative value, became immediately politicized.
Right, but the age cohorts that are screwed are only going to get older over time (unless policy changes).
It was the Chicago School specifically which prompted much of the misunderstanding, though my read is that Smith was used by advocates for specific policies, many of which he would not have endorsed, since the 19th century.

The malconstruction of the "invisible hand" quote, which is drawn from a very carefully re-edited set of passages spanning hundreds of pages and multiple parts of the original book, comes from Jacob Viner, of the University of Chicago.

Popular use of "the invisible hand" expanded greatly after the publication of a set of essays by Hayek, Friedman, Stigler, and other Austrian School / Libertarian economists, by Regnery Press (now largely know as an alt-right / white-nationalist imprint) in the early 1960s. (Use indiated through Google's Ngram Viewer.)

Both points noted in my Reddit essay.

Smith's name itself was co-opted by the Libertarian "Adam Smith Institute", part of the Atlas Network of over 500 "think tank" institutions (the Cato Institute, Heratige Institute, Heartland Foundation, and Manhattan Institute are among the better-known American entities). Milton Friedman's Free To Choose (book and television series, now its own propaganda institute) is responsible for much of the misportrayal in the public mind. (The book and series were part of my own intro economic course, taught by, I later discovered, a rabidly libertarian professor.)
> Is returning mammoths to the wild a viable solution to climate change?

No. I can say this unequivocally. What a stupid question.
> which combinations of genes that express the features that we attribute to race

If an arbitrarily large grouping of genotype combinations is necessary to categorize people, perhaps that categorization scheme is not useful? I would imagine that the number of "races" generated via the mechanism you posit would measure in the hundreds or thousands, rendering it unrelated in practice to the word "race" as it is used.
Maybe not hunting nets per say, maybe just a huge trawling net, or some sort of trawling-foam since we're in space. As high velocity objects begin to hit it, the foam will gain speed, but overtime, with presumably random speed-object collisions, the foam and its captured contents should have their speed reduced to 0 and fall. Doesn't need to be in foam or net form, but it does need to be a massive-entanglement-object, or MEO for short.
The research the GP's quote is referencing said Instagram made 41% feel better, 31% worse, and no impact for the other 28%. It's not clear why that can be used as evidence that it makes some girls feel worse about themselves but that it makes some girls feel better about themselves.
Except that's not what happened if you read the other comments
Since it's effectively the same anatomical structure, presented in a grayscale image, I think bone density would change the average color of the image regardless of what level of pixelation was applied. The chance of detection through some other method isn't ruled out though. It could be hitting off of something mundane like the margins on the edge of an image, how centered the torso is in frame, foreign objects in the body from procedures, any random thing that could bias the data can also lead to false positives. The only way to verify would be to use a new data set, ideally from new hospitals, and see if it has similar results.
Thanks ya, fixing that up now.

edit: fixed
A generational issue. Middle age business men vs. a new generation.
"We try to make it easy to get in touch with the humans at Stripe"

Do, or do not. There is no "try."
You say only, but I find that to be much more fussy.
> Does this excuse Intel’s form of market segmentation? No. They almost certainly disable, for example, hyperthreading on cores that support it - just for the segmentation.

I think even this is a bit unfair. Intel's segmentation is definitely still overkill, but it's worth bearing in mind that the cost of the product is not just the marginal cost of the materials and labour.

Most of the cost (especially for intel) is going to be upfront costs like R&D on the chip design, and the chip foundry process. I don't think it's unreasonable for Intel to be able to sell an artificially gimped processor at a lower price, because the price came out of thin air in the first place.

The point at which this breaks is when Intel doesn't have any real competition and uses segmentation as a way to raise prices on higher end chips rather than as a way to create cheaper SKUs.
They are, because they have to be cooked to death to reduce any chance of food-bourne pathogens. If you took a McDonald's quarter pounder beef patty and cooked or grilled it at home to medium doneness it would be as good as the same thing made with supermarket ground beef.
Very cool libraries, thank you for sharing!
> or simply straight up forgetting/confusing
> that a certain model isn't reality.

That's partly to do with the way that high school science is taught. If we made the context clear at all times then people would have a better grounding.
From that perspective, I can understand why Xi wants to limit power of individuals he sees in US ( they do wield tremendous amount of power ). He obviously understands it is a threat to the system ( and by extension himself ).

I have long argued that too much power in one individual is a bad thing ( and that includes billionaires ).
You're assuming their motivations. As stated in the Twitter posts, the issue only occurred when a connection to the server was established, but the server returned an empty response. Microsoft fixed the issue after being contacted about it by making the servers completely refuse connections.
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