skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slack does all these things but makes it a royal pain to join a new Slack.

... and limits your search history to 10k messages unless you pay, which is nothing for any decently sized community with a history.
You definitely highlight something many miss, which is that this really is a war waged on people by their fellow countrymen. It's nice to imagine a "them" that wants to repress people, but it's always actually your friends and neighbors. That's why countries have constitutions and charters of rights and freedoms, to protect against a tyranny of the majority. Currently we have chosen to ignore these, or found out they are not strong enough, and I hope in time we can imagine what it would be like if our opponents had broad powers and properly limit what government is able to impose on people.
I would think a US state has a jurisdiction problem trying to impose this on things that operate both inside and outside of Texas. Particularly, say, on a foreign airline or carrier with Covid restrictions. I would also think it's going to be meaningless about things like border crossings as well.
Well there's a massive rise in homelessness around the country that never seems to be mentioned, so there's a lot of people just tapping out of society.
From a French point of view it doesn't matter because:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOMAIR

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMINAK

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_in_Namibia#Trek...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orano_Cycle
"nothing new at all" lol. When I was a kid you could cross the border into Canada without even showing a passport.
Rumor has it the TSMC fabs are rigged with explosives in case of invasion. The beaches are also lined with pipes to spray fuel and prevent landing troops.
Harvard's Beijing academy relocates to Taipei
The commenters here miss the big and obvious reason for this: the unemployment benefits just ended.

There was an enormous supply demand imbalance, because we literally paid people $15/hr but only if they did not work.

It takes a while to undo that.
What are you going to do about it? Cry and hope grandma shows up?
Yeah, it’s an infrastructure problem. I love my commute because it allows me to disconnect from work after I’m done with it. I don’t think my American colleagues understand that, even though i get a lot of sympathy from my European colleagues.

I had to, though, be intentional about setting up my commute so i had time to read a book to and fro, and I’m sure not everyone is willing to think about it in those terms.

I foresee a movement in a few years of “commute forward” people trying to improve on their work-life balance, once they realize how much of life they’re going to be missing once they start commingling work and home life together.
The core of the modern tractor is the "traction engine", an engine for pulling. By itself you could pull plows, disks, rakes, planters, etc, with the inconvenience of raising and lowering the implements manually.

Traction engines were not the first engines on the farm: prior to that, you could find steam engines on wheels that would be pulled by horses to different areas of the farm and fields to run belt-driven machines such as bailers or threshers, which were stationary -- you'd load hay into a baler with a pitchfork, and the machine would compact it into a bale.

Tractors absorbed this function with their own belt wheels or the PTO on modern tractors, which is used to power machines stationary or moving (modern bailers move around the field, but tractors will still be used to power a stationary grain elevator). They also added three point hitches and hydraulics to automatically raise and lower equipment.

But as long as it pulls, it's a tractor.
A lot fewer per-capita deaths?
The switch transformer has already achieved a trillion parameters.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03961
When supply decreases in a market, prices increase. That's what supply and demand are all about.
NIMBYs suck, but it seems wrong to have this bifurcated justice system where different people are subject to different rules, regulations, and laws depending on their identity.
If you have good, progressive ideas and have time and energy, run for parliament. If Hanson, Katter, Christensen and all the other useless junk can get in, you have a chance. We do need a real progressive alternative in politics. Greens are good, but we need more.
Not to mention that raising wages really only helps localized labor shortages.

If you raise wages and get employees from your competitor, then you’ve moved the labor shortage to another company but it still exists.

The only way raising wages helps with a labor shortage is if you hire from a pool of people either currently unemployed or people working in a field with a labor surplus. For the latter, I don’t know what fields have a labor surplus right now and it’s uncommon for people to be skilled enough to do two completely different skilled labor jobs that are worth equal pay that this can be an option for the company.

For the second group, hiring the unemployed, $10 an hour is already significantly more than $0. So if you think raising it more would make a difference, you need to explain what $11 an hour would do that $10 doesn’t.

For instance, some people can’t work because the cost of daycare exceeds the income they’d bring in. Raising wages could change that formula… though I’ve also heard from daycare operators that they are dealing with a labor shortage. If they raise wages then they raise daycare costs then other companies need to raise their wages even more.

Some people can’t work because school is doing remote learning. These people can’t work no matter what the wages offered are.
Signed my contract a few months ago and I am indeed 5/15/40/40 but the first two years I get a cash "bonus" that basically matches 40% of my RSU.
Governments around the world are salivating at replicating the success of the Australia power grab.
With*
Radio signals from distant stars suggest hidden planets
> They have fewer than 10 deaths per state combined with very high vaccination rates. From the outside looking in, it seems wholly unjustified.

“That car is running really well. Why don’t we dismantle the engine?”
It's kinda like NYC, where the prices are still astronomical, but the demand is just not there. They just aren't willing to negotiate the price, because the other's aren't changing their prices, so they all sit vacant.
It isn't the LNP or ALP which decide which security laws are implemented.

If you'd like an explainer on how security laws such as TOLA are enacted, this channel is a great resource:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu4rT3-GcHgLIHyrzA8RWzA
To summarize the book, people with a growth mindset rarely ascribe their circumstances on restrictions imposed by others and instead focus on changes they can make. Those with a fixed mindset avoid changing themselves because they believe much of their life is determined by things outside their control.

It’s like a spectrum where few people are fully one or the other. And some people are “fixed” in one part of their life and “growth” in others. Virtually everyone has both traits and must work to find opportunities to be more growth-oriented — assuming of course, that’s something they really want to be.
More like confederate vs union each permanently settled a chunk of land but with no ceasefire nor surrenders
Hmm so purpose of the response was to avoid deaths, and now that that happened you downplay the situation to say "See ? We didn't need it"

That's like saying "I haven't died in 10 car crashes with my seatbelt, that must mean crashes are not really that bad so there's no point in using the seatbelt"
New edition of Norvig's Artificial Intelligence book
Made a few million and can afford to be a professor again. :). Academic life is the best life.
This is the same thing people accuse Facebook of and nobody has convincingly proved Facebook does it. I despise Facebook as much as the next HNer but I am loath to make it seem more capable than it is. Likewise with Discord, I sincerely doubt they can handle combing through voice + text data to build profiles of users, and I'll keep that stance until someone convincingly proves that they do.
HP’s new 34-inch all-in-one PC looks light years ahead of Apple's iMac
Please don't forget, he is also a SAINT no less. Directly from his github profile:

Improving the world w/ quality software · Husband, Father, Latter-day Saint, Teacher, OSS · http://TestingJavaScript.com · http://EpicReact.Dev · Be Kind

https://github.com/kentcdodds
Melbourne’s Eternal Lockdown
It is an interesting article, but the hardest thing to me is accepting the premise: why do we want "scaling startups" in the first place?

As a consumer, I'd be hard-pressed to think of a company that can make my life better or deliver better services because of its size.

As an engineer, I'd rather work in an organization that can be more efficient and profitable by being super-focused in the core business and commodifying/outsourcing/open sourcing everything else. I get depressed thinking about all the brainpower that we waste by having these huge corporations competing for market share in areas that would benefit immediately from collaboration/interoperability/open standards. Google and its 20 different messaging solutions come to mind, but I also don't forget that Skype was sold by 7 billion dollars and then wasted away. And history likely repeating itself with Discord.

As an entrepreneur, I'd rather have a Basecamp-style company with < 50 people and constantly profitable over an unicorn where I'd have little to no control and would be dependent on VC money.

Every day I am getting more and more convinced that the problems of Capitalism could be mitigated by not allowing corporations over a certain size. Over 150 headcount? Instead of fighting to get the company culture in place, just break it apart.
> shooting people who leave their homes with rubber bullets,

Talk about misrepresenting facts to mislead.

People who were rioting were met with force. These protesters weren't being peaceful, they were attacking camera crews and reporters. They were assaulting police officers.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/21/victo...

> it's normal to be required to take surveillance photos of themselves in their own residences

It's not.

If you're talking about the quarantine system that's under trial, yeah, I'm not particularly keen on that either. It's optional. You can choose to stay in hotel quarantine instead.
The literal medical definition of invasive: ‘involving puncture or incision of the skin or insertion of an instrument or injection of foreign material into the body’

It’s not a subjective term.
"New to this edition:

This edition reflects the changes in AI since the last edition in 2010:

• We focus more on machine learning rather than hand-crafted knowledge engineering,
due to the increased availability of data, computing resources, and new algorithms.

• Deep learning, probabilistic programming, and multiagent systems receive expanded
coverage, each with their own chapter.

• The coverage of natural language understanding, robotics, and computer vision has
been revised to reflect the impact of deep learning.

• The robotics chapter now includes robots that interact with humans and the application
of reinforcement learning to robotics.

• Previously we defined the goal of AI as creating systems that try to maximize expected
utility, where the specific utility information—the objective—is supplied by the human
designers of the system. Now we no longer assume that the objective is fixed and known
by the AI system; instead, the system may be uncertain about the true objectives of the
humans on whose behalf it operates. It must learn what to maximize and must function
appropriately even while uncertain about the objective.

• We increase coverage of the impact of AI on society, including the vital issues of ethics,
fairness, trust, and safety.

• We have moved the exercises from the end of each chapter to an online site. This
allows us to continuously add to, update, and improve the exercises, to meet the needs
of instructors and to reflect advances in the field and in AI-related software tools.

• Overall, about 25% of the material in the book is brand new. The remaining 75% has
been largely rewritten to present a more unified picture of the field. 22% of the citations
in this edition are to works published after 2010."
> Deadlines, at least from my perspective, got even more ridiculous since WFH started.

This. People keep talking how much more time they have for work now that they don’t have to commute, and don’t realize how terrible that is for them.

For me, the dealbreaker is the groundhog day effect that working from home has. Never heard anyone one describe it that way, but it’s so true, i will probably steal it. It’s the primary reason why it still feels like April of 2020 for me. Time paused then, and hasn’t moved since.
Being against anti-union tactics involving privacy and surveillance issues is not the same as being pro union.
let me tell you about a broken way of working

i have been programming since i was 14

the first programming job i wanted to get i couldn't because i was not 18 yet

so fuck it, we go through trying to do the school thing because of how things are working out

school thing did not work out

so fuck it, we try to get a job

getting a job was met with constant berratement, harassment, gas-lighting, trolling, by dipshits and their taco sauce that honestly i would still like to murder them and their families

then you finally get into a job after months of dealing with said above

then the real issues start

fuck you

fuck your country

fuck your prisons

fuck your borders

fuck your presidents

fuck your society

it's gonna die

most of you are going to die with it

get over it

no one in the future wants this bulslhit
No, androgynous dress did not originate in KPop Asia. That is an incredibly shallow and probably wrong take. Look at Little Richard or any other androgynous star from the 50s and 60s. It was a thing long before that too.
Florida population is 21 million, Australia is 26 million.
AUD 300 billion to save 70,000 lives, that's 4 million dollars per life saved.

The median covid death is 85 years old. We spent 4 million dollars to save one 85 year old person for a few more years.
That's heinous.
StyleGAN3: Alias-Free Generative Adversarial Networks
All the EVs I’ve encountered with white noise output have been quite reasonable. At the lower spectrum, it is only audible a few meters away, and you can tune it out easily once you realize what it is.

Whether phone speakers are good enough to replicate that experience, however, I’m not sure.
> Consequently, a result is significant or not because of all the parameters of the study, for example measurement characteristics, number of samples, etc, but not its results.

This is true, but sadly in most reports it jst mean p>0.05 in spite they should use a smaller value due to the look elsewhere effect and other stuff.

> A DBRCT'd mean you'd have to refuse care, which is not possible.

No, double blind means that both arms must receive the same visible treatment. It can be a new drug vs sugar pills, or a new drug vs an old drug. If there is some standard treatment, in most cases the control group receives the it.

> Moreover, the medicine was experimental, you can't double blind, as the doctors in charge of the patient must be able to react quickly, and those might not be the clinicians in charge of the study.

What type of reaction is possible if the doctors know in which group each person is?

I agree that in some cases a double blind experiment is impossible or very difficult, but looking at many of the proposed miracle drugs against covid-19, one of the patterns is that most studies have a "control group" that is not a real control group.
This wasn't a generic meeting - this was a quarterly event with hundreds of the top leaders at the company where they debate strategy and can see early access to financials (read: material to stock price). Invites are not just randomly handed out to anyone interested.

Joining a generic meeting might be ok if you have a legitimate reason. But not this meeting.
You would immigrate to where exactly?
I absolutely agree with you, although I'm a little more optimistic.

2PP has Labor winning the next election. Some key figures in the Liberal party (Frydenberg, Hunt) have some tough campaigns ahead of them after the massive bias against their home state that's been on display.

Then there's the whole friendlyjordies thing, which I've heard commentary about in circles where I would have never expected it.

I don't know if the usual election lies will cut it this time.
>Type annotations link is fixed, thank you!

I'm not sure about that - it's still `<a href="mypy-guide">type annotations</a>` which jumps to https://sadh.life/post/builtins/mypy-guide and then jumps to your homepage.
Excellent: you have achieved orders of magnitude fewer deaths than the annual cold and flu season. But at what cost? You have also surrendered your entire society to an enforcement apparatus that looks like it was taken straight out of a work of mid 20th century dystopian fiction.
Are you talking about [1]? All that paper says is that you can't add a borrow checker to C++ as a library feature. You can add such a thing as a language feature.

I hate that paper. People misrepresent it all the time.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSt2VB1zQAJ6JDMa...
I will attempt to rationalise the "surveillance photos of themselves in their own residences". It is vastly preferable to the hotel quarantine system. I was the "victim" of the hotel quarantine system, when I re-entered a Covid-free Queensland from in-the-middle-of-an-outbreak-New South Wales a few months ago.

Australia has been mostly unvaccinated until recently[1] due to a botched vaccine procurement process[0] by the federal government. After a quarantine leak in NSW[2], harsh interstate border controls were implemented by all other states, including quarantining of all interstate travellers from NSW in hotels. Cases leaked into Victoria and the ACT and started their own outbreaks[3,4], but the remaining states are still Covid-free.

The requirements described in [5] are a significant easing of freedoms for interstate travellers. I would personally have loved to have quarantined in my own home, and if I need to send a photo of myself occasionally, so be it. I think it is a justified exchange of privacy in exchange for, in the example of Queensland (population 5.185 million), only
558[6] local cases and 7 deaths over the entire pandemic.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/world/asia/japan-south-ko...
[1] https://chrisbillington.net/aus_vaccinations.html
[2] https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_NSW.html
[3] https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_VIC_2021.html
[4] https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_ACT.html
[5] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-23/how-will-south-austra...
[6] https://covidlive.com.au/qld
This is part of the irreversible trend towards a post-scarcity economy , funded by a combination of federal transfers (such as Covid stimulus) and ballooning appreciation of private sector wealth. Look how well google and tesla stock have done. US population growing at 1%/year while assets are appreciating at 20-40%/year (such as FAANG stocks,start-ups, crypto, S&P 500, Nasdaq, real estate, etc.). Hence more $ for everyone through trickle-down effects and less need to work. As the number of new millionaires and billionaires keeps rising, so too does the $ that flows downstream from them such as friends and family, such that the probability approaches unity that someone will know someone who is rich and may not need to work. I know young people in such a situation now where their parents are so rich that work will not be needed. Go on Reddit fire/investing communities and plenty of posts about large inheritances.
this could be the link...
Analogies are Fighting Words - update - Scott Adams Says
https://www.scottadamssays.com/analogies-are-fighting-words-...
though it looks like the content has been updated(removed)
Honestly I'm a founder not investor, but one of the reasons that prices are so high is because of terms. Would I invest in a public company that may be overvalued (say Tesla) if I could get preferred shares, liquidation preferences, pro rata, etc? Yes.

So pro rata is just one in a basket of investor friendly terms.
Memcached's consistent hashing is really its killer feature nowadays, but to put this into play you need large clusters of hosts where you expect regular rotations in and out of the pool (hardware failure etc.). One of the links at the bottom of the article is a good overview: https://holmeshe.me/understanding-memcached-source-code-X-co...
Exactly right. It’s extremely dehumanizing, ultimately making a tool of a human, and that will probably make it easier for people to exploit others.
> Neither the client nor the server are what makes discord however... What makes discord is the community around it... Gamers aren't going to leave what they already have

Just on this, most Discord mentions I've come across on HN describe how the user experience is what separates it from the competition and I'd agree.

The networking effect across communities doesn't seem anywhere near as strong as traditional social media where one might argue it's what keeps users retained. Few I've observed in the years I've been on Discord seem to care or recognize who someone is across 'servers' (Discord meaning), which is made less obvious by the encouraged feature of changing handles/avatars across communities to maintain quasi-distinct identities (even across related gaming chat). It's also not uncommon for some users block all PMs and friend requests from communities merely due to spam issues.

The communities using it that I've experienced are often doing so since it's the most convenient service for their purposes. Users can join with invites without signing up (a la IRC, traditionally), supports inline attachments (acting as an all-in-one image/video/file host), includes persistent, easily searchable message logs and just as importantly is all free.

A decent number of the communities I've encountered (ranging from software, subreddit/forum chat, game modding, media creation) could migrate elsewhere if there was an alternative suitable for their own needs. A number of them have migrated from other platforms before and one of the gaming-related ones even discussed potential future alternatives. If anything the self-hosted aspect would be the main drawback to a Discord-equivalent alternative (ie: the costs, maintenance).
> If Rust would have just used a C-style syntax instead of this wacky quirky stuff that's needlessly hard to read

A lot of the "whacky, quirky" stuff is to avoid the clusterfuck that is C and C++ parsing.

People want IDEs. They also want their IDE to do smart things. Having to compile the universe to get the IDE to do something smart doesn't work very well.

Take a "simple" task like "Is this is a variable name? That is a type definition?". C and C++ have to practically do a full compile to figure that out (see: typedef and templates). Rust, on the other hand, just has to read a few tokens and it knows definitively the answer to that question.

And, you may call this stuff "quirky", but practically all the languages designed in the last 10 years have converged to similar goals and syntaxes to Rust. Language designers know that people don't like "different from C" but they do it anyway.

Think about whether your arguments are stronger than those who are designing new programming languages that they want adopted.
This is unfortunate. I immigrated to Australia 10 years ago, and when I arrived, I was shocked by the level of acceptance of surveillance and even the police rights to search.

I'm not an Australian citizen, but I make sure the Australians I know are aware that it isn't like this everywhere around the world.

If you don't like it, it's better to try to change it or bring awareness than just leave.