skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would they need to do to convince you they don't intend to punish the UK?

Would they try to force migrant workers to work in the UK, even against applicable UK law?

Other EU politicians have been quite diplomatic and friendly during the whole thing. A lot unlike a certain Prime Minister from a former EU member I could name.
Maybe they want that cheap fuel for their own expanding domestic usage.
Kind of surprising that the article doesn't mention the profits and sway that Big Tech has to afford the approaches he describes. Borrow money very cheaply, buy back stock, profit from higher stock price. As well, Big Tech has market power (not necessarily monopoly) to allow for a lot of flexibility in deadlines.
How do you explain the accuracy going up with more samples then?

Also, it wasn't all 90/10. It was all pairwise:

Among men, the classification accuracy equaled AUC = .81 when provided with one
image per person. This means that in 81% of randomly selected pairs—composed of one gay and
one heterosexual man—gay men were correctly ranked as more likely to be gay. The accuracy
grew significantly with the number of images available per person, reaching 91% for five
images. The accuracy was somewhat lower for women, ranging from 71% (one image) to 83%
(five images per person).
That is BECAUSE they are DISPOSABLE COGS.
We got to where are we because the idiots in charge decided to CODDLE THEM.
But lots of developers actually hates Scrum even when done correctly. The problem is that Scrum is very rigid, it tells you how long your development cycle should be, what your meetings should look like etc. They'd prefer to just do what needs done, have the meetings that needs to be had, deliver features when ready rather than have arbitrary deadlines (sprints) etc. I understand that many developers loves having that rigid process since it is easy to just go and do your work without thinking about the bigger picture, but lots of people wants to do the other parts and feel constrained by Scrum.

And no, "adapting the process for your needs" doesn't work. The problem is having the process mandating meetings and timelines in the first place. If you just do everything freeform as these people wants then it isn't Scrum.
When you cut off your foot with an axe, the bystanders are not punishing you when they observe that you're having trouble putting on your pants afterwards.
UO physicists, colleagues offer new way to control qubits – Around the O
But given that we are talking about using a SQLite database as a container, these features could in theory be added in the future while maintaining the ability for older versions to still be able to read the newer files.

I think that’s still pretty impressive.
I’ve done quite a lot of work on version management on structured data (in my case this was for a version managed GIS database) and it’s not an easy problem, and is likely even harder with something like an AST that is generated from a text file and so does not preserve the identity of nodes. I’m not saying that it’s impossible, but it is more work and requires more tooling around it than people think, and it keeps coming up here and other places as a, “really good idea.”
> What does twitter add to this?

It will (hopefully) provide an easy UX for normies to send funds. Not adding functionality but removing friction.
Russia backs Assad in Syria, who routinely deliberately bombed his own civilians. That seems strictly worse.
I find nobody buys it at full price which makes it only slightly premium. It's designed to be discounted. Always on offer somewhere. Most people just buy a half price bottle at Christmas and that must be a sizable chunk of the market.
Counterpoint: a quick google reveals diffsitter: https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

The output could be a lot more compact, it could do better at adding context (in the same way https://github.com/romgrk/nvim-treesitter-context does, etc), but if you're interested in this it's really within reach, go help out.

I wonder if you can use it for automerge yet.
The media need to be held accountable here.

Everyone in the industry is telling anyone who will listen that there is no shortage of petrol (gas), and there is no shortage of drivers. Yet the media are still whipping the story because it’s selling papers/views/clicks etc for them.

This is yelling “fire” in a crowded theatre, when there is no fire.
There should be prosecutions for this sort of behaviour. Lives will be put at risk or lost because of this.

And seriously, the public need to stop listening and believing the media. They have no morals, and they certainly do not care about truth.

To those downvoting: If there is still a “crisis” next week, I will eat my hat. There is no crisis. You know this. The media will have moved onto the next “crisis” they can manufacture.

From the article:

> Drivers queued for hours to fill their cars at petrol stations that were still selling fuel, albeit often rationed. There were also calls for National Health Service (NHS) workers to be given priority to keep hospitals open

That is just ridiculous. It’s so far removed from reality. Who queued for hours? Who in their right mind is suggesting hospitals might close? It’s just reckless reporting designed to make panic buying worse. And trying to link it to our decision to leave the EU years ago, is just utter desperation.

You all know this is BS, and that in a couple of days, once the story has peaked, and the media has moved onto something else, the “crisis” will be over.
Agreed on the kind of religious adherence which can make the process feels a bit like..a staged show? Stifling instead of open discussion?

"Metrics" though drive when something might be delivered which triggers marketing spend, hiring requirements and so on. It says "we're working on this now and that next" which drives all kinds of internal storytelling about priorities and cascades down (or up?) into quarterly calls.

How do you do it otherwise without having ipod summers?
what is better than talking to customers is shutting up and watching them. they will tell you X and then do Y.
This is a very git-centric view. There are other source code management systems.
Refusal to send the army in reeks of BoJo not making a decision until the crisis couldn't get any worse and so he's forced to
It absolutely was not the right choice for the UK (not just Britain, don't forget about Northern Ireland). The EU has definitely shown itself to be quick when it needs to be, and in general has improved life for the average person. There are nothing but downsides in the immediate and long-term future for the UK without the EU — these economic consequences are not easily solvable, and the Tories have not shown themselves capable of actually solving these problems.

The UK had a very privileged place in the EU before, and was able to punch above their weight. When they inevitably rejoin they certainly won't be able to hold that special status again.
Yes I did double check there's no column to indicate compressed format, no idea how they want to extend it in future. Maybe just autodetect from the contents? However that could fail if you want to store already deflated files.

I'd also like (nullable) mimetype column. Can be handy for example to store encoding for text files.

On the other side, come people call for file permissions... I'm not a fan, too system-dependent.
Side-topic: I often wonder how much political affiliation drives personal ideology (and not the other way around).

Particularly in the US with its crazy 2-party system, there does not really seem to be the option of choosing a party that actually aligns with your personal ideals. Instead, most people seem to end up compromising at some point and joining the party they perceive is "closest" to them. However, I wonder how much of this decision is driven by ideology and how much is driven by social pressure ("all my family/friends" belong to this one..."). Then, once you have aligned to a party, does the Stockholm Syndrome set in? How much of that party's platform do you start to rationalize and acclimate to when previously you would never have agreed with some of the ideas?
> Though ivermectin has been around for decades, it’s still a drug and it can have side effects and potentially negative impacts, Bramante said. Not only is there not yet evidence that it works, we also don’t know if it could be harmful.

The side effects and negative impacts are well known, and the safe doses are similarly well known and long studied.

It might not work; but if it wasn't for the political bullshit what would be the harm in trying it?

Colloidal silver is even sillier but if someone drinks it for a week it's not going to harm them and the value for their peace of mind seems positive. Are doctors going to similar lengths to fight that rumor born treatment for... well everything, if you listen to the advoctes.
Lockdown, distance learning likely to increase social class achievement gap
Thanks for writing this, you managed to describe my situation perfectly for the first time ever in the internet.
This one hurt, it's exactly what I spent the past 18 months doing - building a new system. Luckily my director was sympathetic but the Company loves Scrum and Metrics. Tried to change process unsuccessfully, so I quit to work somewhere saner.
American here. I did a semester abroad in Ireland, and one particularly clueless fellow in our group of students made the mistake of ordering one of these in an (actual) Irish pub.

He was firmly asked to leave - and lucky that was all. I imagine he wasn't the first uninformed tourist to make this request. Years later, I likened it to ordering a "9/11" in Manhattan, although it's not a perfect analogy.
It's not "compassion fatigue," it's every kind of fatigue, physical and emotional. People are working 80-120 hours a week just to treat existing patients. They're losing time with family, seeing conspiracy theorists/idiots say that the virus isn't that bad, and watching a lot of people suffer.

Where I live in the South, none of my nearby hospitals are accepting anyone to the ER, so if I get into a car accident, I'm likely to have to go 45-60 min away to be seen by a doctor.

You can easily see statistics yourself by looking for them, but I'm guessing it's an issue of not wanting to.

> "Of the 22 percent of nurses who indicated they may leave their current positions, 60 percent said they were more likely to leave since the pandemic began, driven by a variety of factors, with insufficient staffing, workload, and emotional toll topping the list."[1]

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-s...
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> “It helps to have a friendly and permissive boss.”

I think this is the most impactful factor in achieving pro-activity at a level you are comfortable with. The company might not reward you directly, but being able to change your own job description, find ways you can contribute better, etc. are all more motivating than financial incentives.

It’s easy to get burned out doing too much without a boss that’ll recognize your efforts and encourage you to do less from time to time though. A little bit of love and care, however superficial, goes a long way here.

I agree with doing the bare minimum at an expected quality if you are working in an inflexible system, but getting too comfortable there might leave you doing that until retirement.
As a Brit, I think "slightly lied to" is a huge under-exaggeration. Literally everyone I spoke to who voted for Brexit did so entirely on the lies, for example the NHS money thing, specific claims about removing "foreigners", and promises of rebuilding of British-only enterprises.
EB green cards are what all these tech companies are using. They're also subject to the per-country caps. That's what this whole kerfuffle is about.
No mention of lockdown effects detracts from the credibility of that comment.
The solution is to make the job attractive enough that people are willing to do it.
> Try to mininimize the overlap between bounded contexts - loosely coupling domain models.

What if this doesn't lead to a more accurate representation of the domain? What if two contexts are just coupled in the business, for good reasons?

> Default to "too large" to begin with and institute a pattern for breaking down a bounded context into two smaller contexts

This is exactly the ambiguous advice that you are rallying against. How do you know when to break down a context?

It's like, building any system involving many actors and actions is hard, that has nothing to do with software. We're just digitizing the same patterns and behaviors that people have used to run companies for hundreds of years.

People want a playbook to be followed to arrive at a "perfect" domain model or architecture. I'm sorry, that sounds pretty farfetched to me. It reminds me of how we first started thinking about computability theory, when David Hilbert proposed that we should be able to devise an algorithm that could decide the truth or falsity of any logical statement (the Entscheidungsproblem). Hilbert was one of the smartest mathematicians to ever live, and he was very confident that this could be done.

Well, Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel, and Alonzo Church (not slouches in their own right) all smashed that idea with various proofs. The truth can often be counterintuitive. I am sorry that the world is complex, I also wish it weren't so.
How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
It's definitely true that they lack truckers. They don't just grow on trees, and when a few tens of thousands leave, well...
Why not visidata?

https://www.visidata.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CBDTgGtOU

(It does much, much more than pretty printing, but no reason you can't use it for that.)
AFAIK, kafka messages doesn't have "types", and even if they did, you would be relying on an external system, not your type system. If you are not convinced, test it by yourself, create two services and a kafka topic and produce a message from one service to another with different types on each service.
having presentation by flexible and different than the underlying model is a great idea for code

but admit it, tabs are fragile and a pretty weak implementation
Quick Tips Regarding Car Detailing Services in Glasgow
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The prime suspect is actually the grid, and generation capacity itself.

It's a recurring phenomenon every few years.

China doesn't have district heating in Shanghai, and further south, despite climate at around Shanghai latitudes being quit cold. This leads to everybody using electric heaters.

It's like the Texas electricity crisis in USA, except it happens every relatively cold winter in China.
"Non-immigrant visa" means "getting this visa doesn't make you an immigrant". Which is true for the B2 (it makes you a tourist) and the H-1B (it makes you a temporary worker).

It shouldn't be confused with "intent". If you show intent to immigrate when applying for a B2, you can be denied. That's not the case for an H-1B.
this assumes that your business can only succeed if you solve a problem. you don’t need to solve a problem to make a lot of money. people buy things they don’t need all the time. all you need to do is make something they want and whether they want to pay for it. this might not need any conversation with customers at all.
Training robotic hands with a single GPU
‘Hitman’ review bombed on GOG for going against anti-DRM policy
From a purely selfish perspective, the worst outcome of the pandemic so far is that it has served as a distraction and shield for Tories who bungled Brexit and have yet to face any political consequences.
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I wonder how they plan to launch from Europe.

It's not that French guys wanted to build a spaceport in the middle of nowhere in Guiana, just it's easier to reach geostationary orbit from the equator. Also if things go wrong you really need a large uninhabited place to the east.
Lite XL use the freetype library for font rendering instead of the stb_truetype library.

Using the freetype library we do hinting but only in the vertical axis and subpixel rendering and positioning along the horizontal axis. This is the so called "slight" hinting and it was used with subpixel rendering.

The original Lite on the other side doesn't do any hinting and is not doing subpixel either, it just does grayscale rendering.
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>Like the great toilet paper shortage.

I'm drawn to die on this hill every time. The toilet paper shortage made sense.

At the start of the first lockdown in the UK, we were told to minimise contact with others. This meant that it made sense for a daily shopper to become a weekly shopper & a weekly shopper to become a biweekly shopper. And if you're shopping less frequently but consuming at the same rate, you'll be buying more volume each time. Shops don't have the means to react to an overnight doubling of demand, so the shelves became empty.

To be efficient is to stop being resilient. The world runs on JIT. And if you buck that trend and make things resilient, you can't compete on price. So it's a race to the bottom where all it takes is one off-white swan event for things to fall apart. Does your country have food security? Does your country have energy security? If it does, what would it take for that to stop being true?
Previous discussion with 160+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28632373
Storing AST instead of source code is one of the goals of the very interesting Unison programming language: https://www.unisonweb.org/

Part of what's nice about Git (and plain text in general) is that it's the lowest common denominator for a lot of things. This is why traditional Unix tools are built oriented around streams of bytes. Text is a low level carrier protocol; you can encode almost anything in it, but you need to agree on some kind of format.

The good part is that you can use very very generic tools on almost arbitrary pieces of data. The bad part is that you might have to do a lot of parsing and re-parsing of the same data, and you have to contend with the dangers of underspecified formats.

Git follows the Unix tradition in this regard. As a result, it is nearly universal in what it can store. You can use it to store pretty much anything, but you are now at the lowest common denominator of support for any particular data format.

Git-for-ASTs will no longer have this universality property, but will gain a lot more power in the covered domain. This is a design tradeoff.

One thing that's nice about Git is that you can specify arbitrary diff drivers with the "attributes" system. So even if the Git database is storing plain text, your diff driver can parse your source code into ASTs and present AST diffs to you when you run `git diff`. Perhaps more impressive, you can configure custom merge drivers, so you can (theoretically) implement semantic merging of ASTs right inside Git.

There are probably some fundamental limitations of this system, because the underlying data is still stored as blobs of bytes. But you can get pretty far as long as you don't mind parsing and re-parsing the same text over and over.
Area hospitals face tough decisions as vaccine mandate deadline approaches
It's not that you're going too far, it's that you're not going far enough!

It's not a Git question, it's a programming language question. There's no reason source code need to be stored as plain text[1]! Editors show it as text, we edit it as text, but why wouldn't it be _stored_ as an AST? Not only does formatting becomes an editor concern, but code could even be edited as a tree, as a graph, as whatever you want

[1] - well, actually there's plenty of reasons: chiefly because plaintext is very interoperable
I think this was my favourite line, absolutely redolent of Britain in the 70s: “Two policemen came in this afternoon and demolished the whole bottle between them.” They were probably planning a frame-up.
Thanks for sharing, this is really interesting
> What happens when you have uninformed parents? I'm reminded that these tech companies are using strategies meant to hide the knowledge of what they're doing from the people they're doing it to. How do you handle that part of the equation?

I think if we had enough transparency we would get less uninformed parents. We force slot machine manufacturers to put addiction warnings on their machines, and only a couple hundred people use one of those per day. Facebook has no warning labels and they use the same techniques. It is no secret today that gambling is dangerous and addicting.
I have been using voice memos for field recording and recording different ideas. I am excited to give this a try!
There is a massive shortage of HGV drivers across Europe and has been for years. 'It should be noted first and foremost that Britain’s driver shortage is not a new phenomenon. Even in the heady days before Covid or Brexit, the UK was already lacking around 76,000 drivers, according to Logistics UK.'[1]

[1] https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/supply-chain/the-real-causes-of-...
Yes, but only if it falls back to text diff as soon as there is the smallest doubt it can't provide a good AST diff.
no other country with a lockdown is having the same problem, and GB sort of stopped their lockdowns a while ago, didn't they?

Workers aren't prevented from travelling because of Covid restrictions, but Visa restrictions do apply. Also it's not a good prospect to move to a country where you feel like you are on some kind of a migratory ejection seat...
Such a beautiful story, you are lucky to have those memories. I have memories of my father locked up in his office working on his computer and ignoring me - I ended up learning the computer to impress him and it didn’t.
> The issue is that you’re implicitly trying to find a way to say that these people’s speech should be protected, while the free association rights of their bosses and colleagues should not be.

Yes, that is what I am saying - I personally value right to choice of business association lower than right to speech.

> There is no principled way to consider racist trolling free speech, but not also those calling for their firing to also be considered free speech.

You can call for anyone's firing. That too is protected speech. Of course, firing is not speech.

Re Popehat, there is a difference between legal obligation and moral obligation.
In the northeast it was typically bread and milk (and also toilet paper) people would stock up on before a big storm often causing shortages. I've seen "French Toast Alert" used but it's a bit too cute to quite capture it.
[1]https://www.universalhub.com/french-toast
Which is why I said mostly. Unless you'd care to exactly quantify the reasons?
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I guess your ex wife not giving you a blowjob after your divorce would probably give you the impression she was 'punishing you for leaving'.
The headline title is misleading, to say the least. It should read “Pumps run dry at some gas stations in Britain”. This is normal and to be expected due to record high crude oil prices and logistics/shipping prices.