skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know what you mean. The world was definitely different years ago when I met my wife. If I was single today, I don't know if I would take the same risks that I took 10 years ago. That said, I still think those are risks worth taking (even if I myself wouldn't have the balls to take them). If you go in with good intentions and treat people with respect, what's the worst that can happen? I don't think there's a lot of viral potential for a video where a socially awkward guy tries to talk to a woman and walks off after being rejected.
> 3. They moved! If you're a service job in an expensive city, many of the people you hoped to rehire relocated last summer and aren't necessarily itching to come back.

From my experience, that point increases in resort towns where hospitality is mostly the only game in town and not so much in the expensive big cities with lots of other kinds of jobs. The expensive big cities are back to their outsized growth mode they were at before the pandemic, the resort towns are really hurting.
> There is no free speech anywhere in Europe

This is a bold and unsubstantiated claim.

> And there is no doubt she would be free in every state in the US.

For this specific action? Sure. For other actions that are protected under the 1st amendment? Depends on whether there is a law against it and if she pissed off someone "important" or enough people. There are various such cases.

edit: will respond to the replies after the rate-limit expires
Even if you're sharing the fridge, you still owe 120k/year. This amount is just due at divorce, which creates an illusion of saving money.
I think this is the most interesting video in the thread: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis/status/1438888791905865730

It'd be probably more realistic if it included random noise or used a GAN model to generate a unique looking letter every time.
Governments have structured financial markets heavily to favor large publicly traded corporations through allowing them access to massive amounts of borderline free credit.

The goal is growth and consolidation. They want every major industry to be completely dominated by a small handful of big players. This makes it much easier to regulate and implement policy.

It would be impossible for them to have nearly the same amount of control over a economy if the economy was dominated by hundreds or thousands of small and medium players. By having 3 or 4 major public corporations they are much more easier to manipulate and keep tabs on. They can 'invite them to the table' to advise and help draft policy and regulations that are mutually beneficial. Also it makes it much easier to convince the public that such regulation is done for the public's benefit.

This model of American State Corporatism was developed in the late 19th, early 20th century and has since been exported across the world.

It is a pattern that is repeated over and over again. Whether it's automobile manufacturing, steel manufacturing, railway transportation, television broadcasting, ISPs, or Social Media.. once the government set it's sites on regulating it you will see markets devolve into 3-5 major corporate players that pretty much control everybody else. All of this heavily encouraged through regulation of capital markets and central banking systems.

The classic pre-internet example is the development of AT&T monopoly. FCC used it's ability to regulate peering agreements to heavily favor the markets towards re-establishing the AT&T monopoly. A monopoly that they essentially lost when the early Bell patents ran out.

They were then able to use that monopoly, through regulatory forces, to gain control over the communication infrastructure during the cold war, which was a national security priority. That is how we ended up with things like Room 641A. (which was in 2003-later era, but is something they did through out the entire cold war)

History repeated itself with the Prism revelations.
Nope, UK
> Are people more likely to read your mail if it has a handwritten envelope?

That is the theory!

> My question would: Isn't it faster to just have some people write the addresses per hand?

Undoubtedly, yes! Our plan was to try to make it a service pre-covid, but then we decided to double down on our main product (doing tax protests).

There are lots of services out there that do this, but mostly they do low volume, high cost stuff

- https://www.handwrytten.com/

- https://www.scribeless.co/

- https://roboquill.io/

- https://handwrittenmail.com/

- https://letterfriend.com/

Lots of stuff like thank you notes, etc. We just wanted the addresses on the outside!
That's survivorship bias. There was lots of junk made in the 70s-80s, it's just not around any longer because it wore out and was discarded. Average quality isn't any worse than it was 40 years ago; most mass manufactured goods are better made today than before.

You can still buy clothes that will last decades, they're just more expensive than the average person is willing to pay. Especially considering the length of time that something stays fashionable.

ETA: I just looked in my closet because I have a Sears dress shirt from the 70s. It is thin enough I can easily see my hand through it.
the unemployment rate measures what proportion of people in the labo[u]r force don't have a job, so the proportion of all people who aren't in it is irrelevant.

IOW, "unemployment rate" means percentage of job seekers not finding a job; people who aren't seeking jobs in the first place don't affect that, and those are in stead measured as "not in the labo[u]r force".

HTH!
If everyone agrees that it needs to be censored, then who is posting it?
I just graduated High school, so Halliday and Resnick. It's by far the most clear classical physics book I've ever read.
That's interesting. Can you elaborate on what this "anti-obesity" forum was like? How was it different from a hate group?
This is true but the conclusion is over simplified. There is of course no looping constructs in script. This is by design as it guarantees the script can be executed without consuming excessive resources. Of course it can represent a single iteration of a larger program which is the point not being acknowledged.

Interesting this account is 2 hours old and seems to have been created specifically to discredit this post. At the same time, another commenter here nullc is Greg Maxwell of Blockstream fame who has become notorious for this exact behavior. These fresh accounts with long winded explanations of the same opinion tend to appear when Greg is near.
Maybe Freenet people are chatting on FMS?
It's NSA/Microsoft walled garden only. This isn't open source - github does not count as open source.
How is this at all interesting? stuff like this happens all the time and is just normal archeology, downvoted for linking a meaningless tweet.
rather a very significant aspect of religion, otherwise spirituality would suffice.
It's just a crazy coincidence this 'con' man has the best scaling protocol. What are the chances of that.
1MegGreg. Honestly dude, just grow up and move on with something else in your life. Your dedication to just try and discredit BSV and CSW at this stage is just getting sad as every time BSV continuously climbs to new heights and proves you wrong by proving BSV actually works and scales. He's never asked for any money and only educated others. your toxic behavior will not go down in history well.
get a life.
Boundaries that delineate these celebrations have been explicit in SF at least since I started going in the early 2000s. The intent is to create a safe space for participants. Within that realm at those times the boundaries represent the presence of that space and that "normal social conduct" is no longer the norm.
There's another side here. Some don't like companies and governments chipping away at privacy. At the same time, they don't trust Shiny New Privacy Startup 2021 to not expose them to illegal material as a result of being overrun by bad actors. I would personally rather an established organization to respect my privacy, rather than move to a new platform that does not have the resources to protect me from liability.
From the second link you posted:

> The two primary differences between Tor / Onion-Routing and I2P are again related to differences in the threat model and the out-proxy design.

This is the first paragraph. No further explanation is given about this point. The fact that it says "are again related..." suggests that the page used to have another paragraph before this one, that was later removed?

I would like to read about the different threat model and about the out-proxy design, anyone has sources?
To many people, the malicious, or at least "counter to their interests but with forced participation" action they have to deal with every day might as well be a world haunted by tigers. I have Adtech clients, and the lengths that are gone to to track conversions are astounding - Sometimes when I'm explaining the pipelines to myself I'm convinced I'm talking about a crazy conspiracy.
Obesity isn't contagious so these things aren't remotely comparable.

It was just a hate group, stop digging man.
I don’t know if they do gain of function research there, but NEIDL is in the heart of Boston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emerging_Infectious_D...
Sure, start with the easy government money, but once you get a track record, you get non-gov't customers.
Interesting enough, you can order the large things of powdered Gatorade for in-store pickup from Target, but they don't have it on the shelves. They don't want anyone to buy it, but if you're going to buy it online then they'd rather sell it to you. On their website they list it as being on a "secret shelf" that doesn't actually exist in the store.

As long as it's 50% diluted, it's still as good as all of the more modern products for most use cases.
Zing! This is how communist regimes work in practice:

* Utter incompetency. Got to promote the 'working class' in positions of authority across the board regardless of actual qualifications. Got to follow ideological prescriptions to a T regardless of real-world outcomes.

* Extreme message control. The communist society is perfect, except for those horrible people that refuse to support the party 100%. And also moving every day closer to perfection. Don't you dare ask questions, because then you become the reason why perfection has not been achieved, and the Party, as the legitimate representative of the people, will be justified to act against you.
It's a literal spambot. While a handwriting robot is potentially wonderful (I'm a particular fan of Jaquet-Droz's automaton the Writer, finished in 01774, which is probably the first programmable pen plotter, containing perhaps the second vector font after the Romain du Roi), that's horrible. This is why we can't have nice things.

Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!

- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl

... all these scenarios are in fact a race to the bottom. Once one agent learns how to become more competitive by sacrificing a common value, all its competitors must also sacrifice that value or be outcompeted and replaced by the less scrupulous. Therefore, the system is likely to end up with everyone once again equally competitive, but the sacrificed value is gone forever. From a god’s-eye-view, the competitors know they will all be worse off if they defect, but from within the system, given insufficient coordination it’s impossible to avoid.

- https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

In this case, the value being sacrificed is that if you write a letter to the government disputing your tax assessment, you get a fair hearing. Stacked on the crooked timber of humanity, the best inventions immediately sink to the worst, most contemptible ends.
> Blundstone seems to be a highly regarded brand, which outsources its production to various countries throughout Asia.

I live in my Blunnies, I wear them daily but the quality has varied on the 500's over time, generally for the worse. I bought a pair in Australia circa 2002. I had them resoled by NuShoe but eventually the leather and elastic panels wore out. The two pairs I currently have were made in Vietnam, both about ten years old. One pair had the sole crumble and disintegrate, the other is fine. On both the leather is holding up but the elastic panels are shot. My son had a pair of Super 550's made in China that lasted a year before the leather gave up on one toe and a leak formed at the welt. I intend to replace mine with Redwing Heritage Chelsea boots and see how they hold up.

For what it's worth, John Fluevog shoe quality also went down when the manufacturing went from Vietnam to China. My first pair I bought in Canada (no idea of the origin) and ruined the leather, my second were from Vietnam and still look great after many years of light use, the third pair and only ones I ordered online were made in China and the quality is gone- the "angelic sole" is softer, the leather cracked, the stitching is poor, the insole was badly fitted and wore and the inner heel on one wore out. They look cool but I won't buy more.
But even though it is still rising today that does not seem to deter more geothermal heating plans:

https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/city-of-freiburg-germany-endo...
> When families have 2 children under 5, the cost of childcare for both children encroaches the income of one parent alone.

Except:
1) That was true BEFORE the pandemic, yet there was no labor shortage.
2) Salaries have gone up due to the (temporary) labor shortage, so it should be easier for more parents to justify childcare costs.

So I don't see that it has anything to do with the current situation.
Ask HN: People who use iPadOS for professional workflows, how is it?
What do you use it for?
I have genuinely no idea what this is saying.

He was talking about "sensory keys" but the other person thought it was "requestor's keys"? That can't be it - because it's implied the other person heard the term "sensory".

Can someone explain?

(I must refrain from being very snarky and say that maybe the author is not very good at making points. Oops.)
The initial response to the pandemic would likely be the same no matter of the cause; however, the later actions of restricting international researcher access to trace the possible origins is a bit different issue.
Oh my, I did not even know that. That's so toxic. Shouldn't that fall under some kind of monopoly law?
If a unicorn farted to create rainbows, my ability to see rainbows could still be based on their refracting of light. Both could be true simultaneously and not contradict each other.

If the criminal is honest and wants to admit their crime, the Twins scenario will result in one denying the crime and one admitting it, correctly. If you imprison them both it would be unjust for one of them. If you imprison one of them and the other goes free, no injustice is done. If one human did the shooting, stepped into the teleporter, now two humans are honestly admitting to it, what do you do? If you imprison only one of them - one shooter, one person in prison - is that justice? If so, which one do you imprison and why? The other one experiences comitting a shooting and admitting to it and walking free unpunished, that doesn't seem right. If you imprison them both, then you must at some level agree they are both the same person who pulled the trigger, yes? If you don't agree they are both the same person who pulled the trigger and both need punishing, which one isn't and what's the difference about that one?
Everyone moved to telegram. They host your "offensive" memes and chats, they dont care. Right-wing, left-wing whatever you can post it there.

You cant call for violence or show violence, like gore content and terrorist videos do get removed. Everything else is fine (for now).

Download the app from the website not form the stores to avoid googles censorship.
How much would I have to pay to replace the revenue that a content creater would get from my eyeball traffic on YouTube? From what I'm reading it's less than a penny per video. I send about $30/mo to Patreon, that's enough for what, 3000 videos? I watch YouTube way too much, but I don't watch it that much.

Realistically I should be aiming to replace Google's revenue for my eyeball traffic, because that covers all of the costs as well. Still seems very doable.

It would be nice if Patreon partnered up with them and handled the transactions.
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As a queer HN'er - thank you for writing and compiling this! It's quite some amount of work. Like you say, it's so important for a community to know its own history.
There's also brokenness around terraform for_each and providers. If you have a module that creates a Kubernetes cluster and then applies a helm chart to it, you can't convert it to one that takes a bunch of cluster definitions that it iterates over using for_each. Basically, there is no way to do this in a date driven way. Sucks.
Hey! Glad you liked that one.

So it does introduce random variation. I had the employee write each letter ~15 times, and then they are plucked at random and then more "wobble" is applied randomly. So each character is slightly altered from what she wrote. Her original stroke actually never shows up anywhere, which is kinda funny to think about.

Letter spacing, word spacing, line spacing (y pos), line starting point (xpos), and baseline drift are all random as well.

I don't know how to write and or use a GAN model so I didn't. Maybe next time!
Could you expand more on the Windows io_uring bit please?

I have run Debian based Linux my entire life and recently moved circumstantially to Windows. I have no idea how it's kernel model works and I find io_uring exciting.

Wasn't aware of any adoption of io_uring ideas in Windows land, sounds interesting
So full-auto-pilot (Tesla) is the same as auto-pilot (planes) and also the same as not-auto-pilot (English)
Yes. I visited /r/hermancainaward the other day becsuse I wanted to check it out, and I was stunned at how hateful the comments were against people who, sadly, had opinions that lead to their death.

I was sad that people could be so misinformed/misled, but the subreddit seemed genuinely happy that these people died. That sounds very much like a hate group to me, and I'd like to see it as banned as fatpeoplehate (which has hate in the damn name) was.

It's not about the subject of the criticism, it's how you go about it. These subreddit are toxic hate-pools, they aren't a force for good. They're reveling in the misfortune of others instead of trying to somehow help, and that's what makes them hate groups, not whether or not being fat or an antivaxxer is bad.
Would you like to put those numbers in deaths per 100,000?
I think this is actually the better definition of property based testing, written by the same author: https://increment.com/testing/in-praise-of-property-based-te...

My take: don't shy away from the logic perspective of what properties are, because it's the simplest explanation. A property is a logical proposition, e.g. "p implies q". Property based testing randomizes values of p and q as a proxy for all possible values, since exhaustive testing is practically impossible in almost all cases. The hypothesis is that running these tests for long enough will eventually expose a bug, since more and more of the input space gets generated over time.

PBT is an addicting tool. I used it on a personal project involving a lot of date filtering, and it found so many edge cases related to date parsing and timezone handling. In my experience, you just also write way less test code since the test library is generating the test cases for you.

The two major downsides are the difficulty in expressing useful properties, and test runtime. Regarding expressing properties, it is difficult, but I wonder if it can't be improved with practice. Hillel Wayne wrote a bit about properties here: https://www.hillelwayne.com/contract-examples/

Regarding the test runtime - it's just something to be wary of. You can easily start running tens of thousands of test cases depending on how you configure the library. It makes things like testing against a real database really impractical, unless you really control which inputs get generated, which defeats the purpose of random data generation.

I think parallelization and non-blocking test suites are the answer here. Locally and in CI, they can be run with a reasonable N so that obvious errors hopefully get caught, but large N's get saved for an async test suite that can benefit from high parallelization.

My last point about them is, even after all their benefit, example-based tests are still easier to write and serve their purpose. They also allow you to test specific edge cases explicitly.

Like everything else, PBT is just another tool in the shed.
I get your point and I know there are many kinds of tasks that have a similar issue: difficulty of generating a validation test ~= solving the issue. That's why I imagine cases where it could be easier to have a set of inputs and then compare submissions by several freelancers at once (this would be the validation criteria). Given than (in my experience) hourly cost of a dev in SV > 10 x hourly cost of dev anywhere else, there should be still some margin
Let's talk about the importance of following your own rules [video]
The license of the source code doesn't apply to the content hosted.
Zoning laws are not the thing restricting affordable housing supply, certainly not in Berlin and rarely elsewhere either.
You'll have a hard time convincing any creator to cut off a revenue source like ads for ideological reasons.
Er, it's detailed in the comment to which I responded.
Yeah, k6 is great, super easy to use for programmers.
See also why PGP failed.
> The fancy/official term for this is usually Lecturer.

Not sure about that[1], but acknowledged.

Graduate TAs were par for any course with a lab component or recitation, even courses that were taught by a lecturer; never felt like I was somehow being shorted opportunity in those though. It's the infamous adjunct part that my experience draws a blank on.

[1] https://fora.aa.ufl.edu/docs/10/2019-2020/Faculty%20Senate%2...
Price curves are very nonlinear, especially surrounding the point where supply = demand. Housing prices in the Bay Area have about doubled over the last 10 years, while the population has increased by about 10%.

Anyhow, the point of all of this legislation isn’t that duplexes alone will necessarily provide enough housing. It just gives cities a fair chance to meet their housing targets via duplex building and preserve some local zoning preferences. If they fail, the state will step in to void local zoning laws and approve dense apartment buildings.
> We cannot know what a character on TV is actually thinking—that’s the very purpose of acting, to allow us as much access into a character’s thoughts as their expressiveness allows. Novels, on the other hand, are an intrinsic medium, wherein consciousness is directly accessible. The writer can lay bare the contents of a skull to a reader.

The author appears to have an idealistic and mistaken idea of how semantics work. The author implies that words have absolute meaning, and therefore one's thoughts can be made "directly accessible" through words alone. This is clearly false. Everyone has their own semantics.

Communicating clearly, minimizing ambiguity, is a non-trivial task. It is ridiculous to assert that all authors are somehow more capable of this than any actor, if indeed this is even their goal (beyond entertainment).
i can still remember the times when something like a screen saver was actually exciting.