skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the nit thats getting picked at is that the word ‘compromise’ might suggest sacrifice or debt in that you’re not getting something you want.

In a parent/child relationship most wouldn’t call it a compromise to watch cartoons with their kid because a) some cartoons are great and b) even when they aren’t, just being with your kids when they are enjoying something is a wonderful experience.

Yes it’s possible for that to become pathological in a romantic relationship if there is no balance, but if neither partner has any personal fulfillment in letting their significant other enjoy something it’s going to get lonely quickly.
I've started to move from pre-ground Paulig (finnish brand) to grinding my own beans. Just while reading this post, drinking the left-over Paulig made me wonder if I have COVID. Very little smell and taste compared to freshly ground Italian beans, made even worse by the oxidation.
Contemporary academic philosophy has some rather crazy ideas in it. David Lewis claimed that every possible parallel universe exists (modal realism), and is just as real as this one – our universe is the "real" or "actual" one only because it is ours. Takashi Yagisawa takes that one further, and argues that possibility is simply another dimension like space and time (extended modal realism), and that my existence includes not just who I am in this world, but extends to equally include my existence in other possible worlds, and even impossible worlds (logically contradictory universes).

Daniel Kolak claims that only one person actually exists (open individualism), and everyone is the same person, it is just that most of us haven't realised this fact yet. Graham Priest rejects the law of non-contradiction, and argues that it is possible for a proposition to be equally true and false, at exactly the same time and in exactly the same way (dialetheism), and has even suggested that these true contradictions may exist in the real physical world, not just in abstract thought about paradoxes. Nick Bostrom argues that we may be living in a computer simulation, and if we are not, that's bad news, it is evidence that humanity is doomed, or at least that our prospects as a species are not as bright as many hope (the simulation argument). David Chalmers argues that conscious awareness is a property not just of humans and (higher?) animals, but rather that everything in the universe is conscious, even inanimate objects such as rocks, stars, planets, galaxies, even cells and molecules and atoms and subatomic particles (panpsychism).

Are these ideas "irrational"? Rationality is in the eye of the beholder. But they are just as much "out there" as those of many of the great religious philosophers–whether Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, etc.
If you follow this, you won't be able to relate to neither men nor woman. Womens knowledge and ideas will be ignored and so will be males feelings.
> When your adversary has intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear weapons aimed at your cities, you do whatever you can to avoid those being used, including whatever espionage you can get away with.

Not saying there's anything wrong with espionage - just saying that Americans seem to have an overly adversarial mentality with severe inability to distinguish the difference between real vs. perceived threats. At least from the interviewed submariners, the Soviets viewed their American counterparts as colleagues whereas the Americans viewed Soviets as enemy.

Replying to an American boasting about who was 'winning' during a Soviet-US summit, a commander said through a translator: "tell this young man that when veterans get together, it doesn't matter who won or lost - it's enough that both survived."
Coverage is still a good target to aim for because it ultimately does lead to people writing bigger and better tests.

"…there is a moderate to high correlation between the effectiveness and the coverage of a test suite when the influence of suite size is ignored."
No need to be condescending with phrasing like "It would not take you long to read it".
Different motives. Think of it like encryption: when someone finds a weakness in a cypher people will generally move onto a new cypher that’s harder to crack. The difference here is the purpose of writing those tools isn’t to improve security, it’s to break code open. So keeping these tools hidden keeps them effective.
'foot tails' -> 'coat tails'?
Only true if you ignore the history of American zoning laws, and Americas obsession with the car.

Current zoning laws in most of the US make it pretty much impossible to build anything except suburbs, attached to ginormous parking lots you call cities, by massive highways. It’s not hard to see why building better public infrastructure is so difficult when the current layout of most American cities means it’s difficult to even walk between shops on the same road, so public transport can’t move people between pedestrian hubs.

Changing that fundamental issue with American cities would require people to realise that current approach (which they grew up with, and was touted as the future for most of their lives) is broken and needs to change. As much as it needs to change, I can understand why people have a lot of difficulty accepting that.
It is interesting to wonder what this might look like. There are still limits to what is physically possible, we only have finite resources. I also personally value having a diversity of people and views. I wonder if at least from the points of view of some of the inhabitants the world will be unfair. That said, we should always try and do better.
One of the most annoying blogs I've ever seen.
The Age of Implementation
My sister, who is sharp but not highly educated, gave me a book on numerology once. I read the first chapter at least, just to humor her, and came away with the exact same feeling: zero information.

She’s a very “intuitive” kind of person, if you know what I mean. I do my best to stay curious and avoid judging her narratives about her personal experience; even if her explanations seem nonsensical I can’t deny the phenomenology of it.

However, I definitely draw a firm line with her on numerology. When you’re talking up theories about historical events and real people and organizations, you’re in the realm of falsifiability and you’d better bring evidence.
This is a rational response if you look at it from a governance perspective.

Pre-GFW, the government was basically in a position where if there was anything illegal online (not just political stuff, but everything from gambling to piracy) they had no recourse. If they sent a takedown notice the company can basically say "why don't you make me".

So it makes total sense to require a local presence if you want to interact with the local market. The GFW in this case is a tool that the government can hit any company who doesn't comply with...

Frankly, the thing that really is worrying is that because this is so rational from an Internet governance perspective we might well see more and more countries follow this path... Not censorship per se but building up mechanisms to create a more fragmented Internet.
Vivid for me as well. This and seeing something levitate there as a child changed my life.

I'm currently trying to build a science museum in Arkansas with the Exploratorium as guiding ideal.
That was necessary to demonstrate that there was no need to falsely recall it. You could just read it. It's three lines, takes about thirty seconds to read carefully, and would have saved you the trouble of posting misinformation.
> Anyone who is building a plan like this needs to seriously consider whether 7% is yield realistic in the long term.

Funny you mention that... I was looking at my bank accounts yesterday and noticed that one of the non-transaction "saver" accounts offered 0.1% interest for deposits over $10,000 and 0% for less. (This is a major bank in Australia.)
Energy density is another big factor. Hydrogen has a much higher energy density especially for automobile use compared to batteries.
> I like the way it's asynchronous first

This has been such a mistake, now it needs "await" all over the code.

Programs run synchronously and only needs to go async every once in a while but things get pretty verbose from it.
science theory do not offer any moral guide. we exist because our ancient was cruel do not mean we should be cruel. we got intellengence, we can chose we want.
Really enjoyed that blog post, thanks for linking it! How long would you say actually finding those two issues took? The attack surface must've been fairly large, but I guess intuition helps.
It’s worth mentioning that, Nortel was filled with Chinese engineers, graduating from Waterloo and other Canadian schools.

Just see what percentage of students in Canadian schools are from China. Feels like Beijing every time I visit a Canadian engineering school.

It seems Canada has a problem with real estate too linked to Chinese investment.

I wonder if it’s any different in US or elsewhere.
I read the piece, and the moment the author mentioned booking in advance I wondered what happens if you've booked in January to lock in lower rates for July, and then they cancel at the last minute?

Suddenly you'd have to pay the higher/normal cost and change your plans at short notice. It feels like that's a risky thing to live with - I've not used airbnb so often, but even booking only a few weeks ahead I've had hosts cancel with essentially zero notice so I have to assume that's a pretty common occurrence.
I’ve literally been hunting airbnb properties over the past week in Florence and northern Italy for a 1-2 month stay for my parents and kids. This is great to hear, and good tip on public transit. Is Turo much of a thing there?
A multilevel model of high performance work system and abusive supervision
Are you familiar with Rutger Bregman and his book Humankind? That gives a fresh perspective into humanity. One that I believe to be true. We're just too deep into the illusion of evilness, that's mandatory for status quo.
If I lived in 10 countries a year I would probably not even reach the minimum wage threshold in any of them at the same time!
> House sells for $450k after realtor’s fees

Hrm, this person is not average.

"According to Zillow, the typical value of U.S. homes is $269,039 as of January 2021, a 9.1% increase from January 2020." [1]

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-home...
Reflect (YC S20) is hiring a software engineer to revolutionize web testing
I've been living with my backpack for a few years now, with 3-4 month breaks in between trips. You can certainly have a bunch of new experiences and achieve a comfortable and quality life more expat-friendly places. Croatia, Serbia, Georgia, etc are slow enough to feel home, but are also affordable. South Eastern Asian countries also make a very nice experience.

I suppose the issue never is the money. Of course it is cheaper to live in cheaper cities that provide good value and comforts you are looking for. However, the real cost is the lack of feeling _real_ home. I can cope with the feeling that I will eventually leave this city, and all the friendships and relationships you build will come to an end. I don't think that kind of life isn't suitable for if you can't make you mind to turn a new chapter every few months.

That, and finding a good Airbnb can be very difficult, specially when you are not familiar with a city. In Ho Chi Minh City, for example, it took me nearly three months to find an apartment that would eventually suit my life, and the time in between isn't really that fun, nor inexpensive.
The United States tax code is an iron rod of oppression.

Were the political system to function in a reasonable manner, candidates would be elected on a platform including reform of that hot mess.

Complexity is a subsidy. A simple tax code understandable by a random high school graduate should suffice.
at least here the situation was that rich kids get chauffeured, upper middle class take the yellow bus and poor kids (who usually live out of district) take public transit.
This may not translate to London etc., but remember that NYC is a lot larger than Manhattan. There are large parts of NYC that are not serviced by trains/subways, and the only option is a bus.

My wife would take a train to a train to a bus to get from one part of Queens to another. 90 minutes on a good day. Driving - 25 mins including finding parking.
I think it's likely indicative of the fact that the JS ecosystem doesn't really understand the meaning of open source (or the distinction between "open source" and free/libre software).

The author's comments are quite enlightening of their incomplete understanding of the licenses they use:

> nanocolors implementation and API are the same as

> Colorette. You essentially pirated my work.

After using a license that explicitly allows others to take their work, it's suprising the author thinks that someone "pirated" their work.

Hopefully this signals the start of an awakening within the JS ecosystem, with more and more developers switching to licenses like the GPL that actually respect the developers.
> New apartment blocks are build without providing the required parking, and people aren't willing to pay for parking when visiting the city center.

What exactly is the “required parking”? Here in london most new developments are prohibited from building parking, and are also frequently ineligible for parking permits, because we want less cars on our roads not more. The roads are already full to bursting, and you can’t build more of them.

The number of people who need a car to go work in London is minuscule. We have fantastic public transport, and rapidly growing cycle infrastructure. Today travelling by bike or tube is normally twice a fast as a car. And when I say bike, I don’t mean Lycra clad speeders, I’m talking about casual cycle through the city in normal clothes and no sweat.

> For when you're just going to a cafe, restaurant, or shopping, I don't get why people can just pay the parking fee, it's often not nearly as expensive as people make it out to be.

Most on street parking is

1. Full, so you probably can’t park. Not an issue with a bike, bus or tube.

2. Strictly time limited. Unless you wanna move your cat every hour or two, parking probably isn’t going to work for you.
> this project has been part of our overall endeavor to develop the biotechnological production of daily and familiar commodities that are conventionally produced by agriculture.

I'm afraid I have to call BS. The nutrient medium used to feed the cell cultures will contain glucose or sucrose most likely from industrially-grown corn or sugarcane as a carbon source and other nutrients.

I.e. in this case biotech isn't getting rid of an agricultural production process and magically replacing it with something sustainable - it's simply shifting the agricultural supply chain more upstream and out of view.

Could it still be more sustainable compared to traditional coffee growing? I doubt it very much given all the input required to run commercial-scale bioreactors. Those things are energy intensive, produce waste water, and require complex nutrient broths and sterility. If you're claiming sustainability benefits in such a fuzzy situation, at least have an LCA to back up the claims.

What about commercial feasibility? Extremely unlikely. Most if not all of the dealbreakers recently outlined in the context of commercial-scale lab-grown meat will apply here too [0].

But perhaps they can bioengineer some novel coffee characteristics unobtainable otherwise and sell it for $500 a cup.

[0] https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-sca...
This becomes a problem in over criminalized society where most people commit some violation of law with out even being fully aware of that fact or what law they violated

This allows for for selective targeting and prosecution based on all manner of reasons form political to personal.

It is not something we should just simply excuse away as "well everyone else does it so it valid and OK"
> For Nim you can't even use case insensitive search because of the underscore thing! Better practice your regexes.

Not at all, unless you decide to mix different styles in the same codebase.
> Tesla FSD/Autopilot are already saving lives.

Holy overstatement
not everyone has raised a child, but everyone has had the experience of being raised as a child.
The bulk blend that Finns consume in large quantities "Paulig Juhla Mokka" is made from high quality beans.

I looked it up. Looks like typical super market coffee to me. Some of the big roasters produce a fairly decent blend. They use good quality arabica. These guys are probably no exception.

I've had the opportunity to get bags of coffee of a couple of brands with a recent roast date. Within a one to two weeks. Perfectly good. But get those beans through normal supermarket supply chains and it doesn't matter how good the coffee was, it'll be stale and taste bad by the time you brew it. Even worse if the beans are pre-ground and vacuum packed into bricks. I'd rather drink instant.
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1 We are gonna get more stackoverflow questions about AI
2. Typesystems will reach a breaking point, since more dynamic Data types will be introduced.
3. Functional programming is gonna be space language.
4. Compiler AI are gonna happen.
5. Storage would devastate performance.
6. Earth is gonna be represented in 2D as flat earth.
How do you handle your text/feature extraction?
I used to put money in https://www.twino.eu, which offers plenty of guaranteed loans at about 10% interest. The main risk is the company defaults, but they have a healthy balance sheet and have been around for about a decade.
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That's way more thought than I'd ever put into it. Once I die, I won't care.

I am reconsidering my organ donor opt in though. It's a minor thing, but why would I give away anything to a system that never helped me?
When you say speaking, I'm guessing that you're referring to conversational skills (which also includes listening and comprehension) rather than public speaking, which is often a problem even for native speakers.

Assuming that, I think the most important thing is total immersion. You'll need to spend a lot of time having conversations in English, preferably with native speakers. Depending on your circumstances that advice may or may not be easy to follow. For example if you're not very social or have family you converse with in your first language those can be obstacles.

The other thing to be aware of is that sometimes people have developed habits of speech or pronunciation that make their speech difficult to understand (or just sound strange) and they aren't aware of those habits. So you should also seek out some friends who are native English speakers and ask them to honestly evaluate your pronunciation.

I'm a native English speaker and that is how I learned to speak French at an acceptable level, after a number of years of living in France.
It really depends on your intent. If your intent is to just have a temporary place to live until your permanent place is ready, yeah, it's never going to feel like home and you're going to hate it. If your intent is to use your new freedom and live and explore new neighborhoods or cities, then it can be exciting.
Contrary to popular opinion, a lot of VCs do read cold emails
Would you encourage radical muslims to stay with their faith and continue their worship? What about even more marginal religions? If not they which exactly religions are you going to encourage? What's the "good list"?
Maybe you haven't tried ruby but fun matters.

Why would anyone want to write in a verbose language that can't get things done through natural human thinking?

Most languages are acceptable in that regard, so maybe you don't care.
Ignore the next sections, I can’t read and the comment is just wrong.

This is a thread about parking in European cities. Experiences of NYC aren’t exactly useful data points.

Also as a related point. It’s a real shame that the US doesn’t invest in proper bus lanes and busses. Buses don’t need to a shitty form of transport, it’s really on in the US where busses are worse than driving in city centres.
I can’t help but think that press like this just helps play into the dubious idea that “the metaverse” is some exciting new thing and not just this year’s rehashing of the virtual spaces that have popped up over the last couple of decades.
It's easily agreeable that attribution should have been given before publishing, but the level of hysteria in this post is excessive.

The author of the fork immediately complied and had likely just made a mistake in a hastily published fork. I suspect the original author was more frustrated with the fork existing.
> It's primarily a testament to how simply mind bogglingly slow Python is

No, Nim is truly among the top fastest languages when writing idiomatic code as shown in many benchmarks.

> But Nim is only one of a whole suite of languages that easily cruise to a 10x performance win over Python

...while also being very friendly to Python programmers, intuitive and expressive. Unlike many other languages.
Agreed. It's like this person's fan club is out in full force to defend their honor. Impossible to see this as anything other than both unethical and a violation of the MIT license.

The issue only being resolved [1] when public shame was involved should close this case.

1 - https://github.com/ai/nanocolors/blob/main/COPYRIGHT#L1-L3
Some people need to read a book to realize or justify their incompatibility
Hum, I don’t know think you understand what I am saying:

If you are out of money, all of your services needs to be destroyed immediately: including all of your database hard disk drives, because every single piece of infrastructure yields some regular cost.

It means that it is NOT going to be “a simple unplanned outage”, it’s going to be more akin to formatting your hard drive with all of your family photos on it.

Pretty certain AWS just finds it easier to sometimes write off costs rather than implement something so radical that customers may be even less happy afterwards.
I went through the swe generalist interview pipeline 3 times at Google, so that's about 15 interviews. All the questions have been standard , except this one dumb question, which was along the lines of "explain how multithreading works". I suppose he wanted me to follow up with some questions to narrow down the topic, but I was stressed out enough that I just started with the basics, like cores, processes, OS threads, and shared memory, trying to explain it in simple terms. He interrupted me about 5 minutes in and moved on.

Having interviewed people myself, I think that's an overly broad question to ask in an interview and if the candidate starts answering it as asked, then you're not going to get a lot of signal from it.

Otherwise I thought the problems asked weren't that difficult, one was even directly taken from Cracking the Coding Interview - if only I had read that chapter ahead of the interview...
Still you can't really expect a constant 7% return. Looking at S&P 500 since 1990 there haven't been that many years when growth was between -10% and +10%:

2018: -6.24%
2016: 9.54%
2015: -0.73%
2011: 0.00%
2007: 3.53%
2005: 3.00%
2004: 8.99%
1994: -1.54%
1993: 7.06%
1992: 7.06%
1990: -6.56%

in all other years it was double digit in either direction (of course it more often increased than fell). So it's still a huge gamble, if you start this at the beginning of recession and/or need to eat into your capital it won't end great.
Heh. I think you go little carried out with you coffee enthusiasm.

It's called light roast here and everywhere. I challenge you to find any place on earth where normal people (not coffee connoisseurs) drink lighter roast.
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