skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in order to eliminate unlawful discrimination people constantly need to communicate their ethnic background when applying for a job and employers keep track on that stuff? Are they also required to hire from each ethic minority, not the person with the best merits? Why not just skip the ethnic bookkeeping and make the workplace attractive to everyone instead? (same goes for universities)
Humor and hyperbole (both of which you've apparently failed to recognize) are not the central traits of cults.
In this day and age, peoples perception is everything, and facts seem to be unimportant.
The covid passport is enforced in Scotland.
I agree with you. To me, it’s a trade-off. I used dice and man, the jobs that recruiters are sending me are just sad.
Wow, just seeing "pure meat" results like this throws me back to another time...

https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=steak+recipe&profi...
I love Dune. I read all the books. I love it so much that I read some of the books in French (my native language) and also in English ! I did not start by reading the first book of the serie. Instead i begun reading the "Emperor God of Dune" it's probably my favorite. If i had started by the first book i don't whether i would have read all the others. So I did not expect much of this movie. I enjoyed watching it (and giving some details to my wife) but I hope the rest of the story will be adapted in movie. I think the movie is a good introduction to the rest of the story (kind of like the book)
The two chapters on gibbon were a fascinating read. They focus on how Christianity came to power under the Roman Empire… a topic I’d not seen treated elsewhere.

I imagine some improvements in our understanding have been made since Gibbon’s time, and I’d def seek those out before walking around claiming I “know” what happened back then, but as an entry point is was a great, if a little bit too wordy, read.
It tells the difference by looking up the test results in a database. At least that's how it works in Portugal. You can also use the app to look up other health related information.
It varies widely by country. From personal experience and what I've heard from relatives, at private venues:

* Germany: usually quick glance at the QR code

* France: usually properly scanned

* Sweden: not even planned to be used

* Italy: usually properly scanned
On average, black kids in America get treated worse by our schools, their parents have a harder time getting loans, including mortgages, are far less likely to have attended university themselves, are more likely to be harassed, abused by the police, are more likely to be arrested, more liklely to get prison sentences for the same crimes, etc. It's not a level playing field, at all. Over generations, these differences add up like interest on a mortgage.
War over lithium would be totally insane. Every continent has basically unlimited amount of lithium.

Its not an energy source and the ratio of how expensive it is to mine and how expensive you can sell it is nowhere close to oil.

Fighting wars over lithium deposit would be insanely dumb and that will never happen.

Lithium is not a consumable, once you have it you keep it. We need it now to grow the fleet but once the fleet is replaced recycling will be the most economical way to get it.
I'm not following here - if it is not a typo, why would you expect someone to solve a+b here?

But if we are using calculators, then depending on the make and model, you might do a b * c d * +, Which achieves the goal your second paragraph is aiming for: getting rid of (or at least abstracting away) any explicit use of incidental or intermediate state (which takes the form of memory operations in conventional calculators.)

RPN calculators (and programming languages), however, never became popular, and I strongly suspect that is because their expressions are often objectively harder for humans to comprehend, no matter how elegant RPN seems.
> You are meant to

There are no rules except "be good". I've thoroughly enjoyed Dune every time I've read it and it had quite a profound effect on me as a youngster. There are countless thousands just like me and you can't argue with that really.

> It's a bit like building a UI that is unusable without reading a boring manual.

Well, I think the purpose of a UI is slightly different to that of a novel. One exists to be useful while other exists to be enjoyable. If it's useful it's useful. Doesn't matter if it requires a manual or not.
I don’t think the point of contention is whether it’s recyclable. Primary issue is: what is the local environmental impact of MINING lithium?

For folks who don’t live in Maine it’s a no-brainer: sure, go for it! Bring the USA more domestically produced lithium.

But… mining fucks up entire ecosystems and pollutes water etc… and even if companies can “promise” the operation will be clean, come to implementation they likely walk back on that and the damage is done.
The discussion about heroes, technologism, and hopelessness, are all distractions in my opinion.

After 3 years of trying to understand meaningful things we can do about climate change, I've come around to a simple perspective:

The way we mitigate + respond to climate change, and other crises happening around us, is by organizing in our communities.

Why organize? Organizing begets collective action. Individual and collective action are both crucial to dealing with these issues. Building relationships at a local level, listening to issues and worldviews from our neighbors, and organizing to address shared challenges, can help us support individual changes (like lower impact lifestyles) and community-level transformation at the same time.

How do we organize?

Just start doing it. Find out the community activities happening around you, or call over a few friends and discuss some local issues you each care about.

Here's a [simple tool](https://rebrand.ly/just-start) to help you find activities near you (pulled from calendars of community organizations), and resoruces to help you start / publish your own organizing activities. It also includes local data, which could open your eyes about some important things happening in your community (e.g. air quality level, cancer risks from air toxics, vulnerability and resilience indicators).

It's also [open-source](https://github.com/sbutler-gh/just-start) — would love to collaborate, and hear your perspectives, if it interests you.

___________

On another note, if you're interested in three years of mis-steps and learnings about climate change, here's more of that story (see child comment or [blog](https://www.sambutler.us/climate-perspective) — it couldn't all fit in one comment)
The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are impossible to ignore
You mean like this: https://youtu.be/eqvSJp-6qT4

Your points are well taken. The movie could probably have used a bit more teen angst between Paul and Chani or somebody else to help with caring about characters for people new to the book. I loved it because I've read the book and seen the other movie and TV shows, but I can see how it would come across a bit like Blade Runner 2049 where it had amazing visuals but could leave certain audiences bored.
Sure. I've edited my comment to indicate that the application "eases" the limiting of movement of people within the EU. It serves no other purpose.
One of my colleagues, Richard Zanibbi, leads the Document and Pattern Recognition Lab[0] here at the Rochester Institute of Technology. They're doing a lot of interesting work on formula recognition and search.

[0] https://www.cs.rit.edu/~dprl/
Amazing that this simple statement of fact in response to a question merits downvotes.
Battling systemic racism with more systemic racism. I guess as someone who doesn't have systemic racism as normal part of my life I am not qualified to describe just how fucking moronic that sounds. However I can say that the students that are actively disadvantaged against now probably deserve it as much as the students that where disadvantaged 20 to 50 years ago. Get everyone involved a racist of the year award for keeping the tradition alive and well.
see my answer at eejjjj82 below
No, I’m not talking about shutting down the internet. I’m talking about filtering its traffic. I also did not say they would do this. I said that they could do it and have the power to do it. My point is that if the US Govt really wants crypto to go away, it will.
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Also, a composite index on (reporter_iso, year) instead of individual indexes would work better in a single group-by afaict.
I agree. When this method is overused it can be difficult to grok the material.
I don’t suppose there’s a mining expert who could weigh in?
Figuring out how to mine this safely seems like a decent project for the Department of Energy's ARPA-E project. It's worth an evaluation at any rate. https://arpa-e.energy.gov/

Surely there are some National Lab boffins with expertise in environmental protection.
Aside from worse legal protection of platforms, I think part of it just has to do with convenience and in this case language specifically. In the beginning it was about the right place and time for a social network to be successful. There were more at first, but due to their nature people concentrated on a few big ones.

English has a low barrier for Europeans, it is significantly higher for Russians or Chinese. So many Europeans just used platforms of the Anglosphere. It made content even more interesting because there was more from different cultures. Of course I feel sorry for the Anglos that so many people can understand them now, but at least they have advantages for platforms like this.
I can only speak from experience, but I'm very likely to have been that IT guy that your dates have had bad experiences with.
> If the get-shit-done crowd wasn’t going to use SOAP, they still needed some standard way of doing things. Since everyone was using HTTP, and since everyone would keep using HTTP at least as a transport layer because of all the proxying and caching support, the simplest possible thing to do was just rely on HTTP’s existing semantics. So that’s what they did. They could have called their approach Fuck It, Overload HTTP (FIOH)

Having been a developer during that period of history, I'd say OP gets it about right, that's what happened.

For better or worse; it's not obvious to me that it was a poor choice. I do agree it somewhat misappropriated the "REST" term and misrepresented itself as being more "standardized" than it was -- also for more or less the reasons OP suggests: "that would have seemed recklessly blasé next to all the formal specification work that went into SOAP… a veneer of academic respectability".

Although I do recall some people right from the start really were interested in HATEOAS and trying to do it... I think it's practical benefits were somewhat elusive. It reminds me of "semantic web" in some ways, not sure if that makes sense...
nevertheless I don't think it's clever to completely discard the idea. Giving incentives to underprivileged people is a way to counter steer an unfairness. It has to be a temporary vehicle and not a permanent solution though - that's an important point to accknowledge.
In order for this even to constitute lying, colleges would have to define "white". Nobody wants to do that, because it would look exactly like arbitrary 19th-century ethno-purism.
It's more like 5 to 10kg, multiplied by 1.5B cars on earth it adds up quickly.
Should we stop all farming and mining? Should we never mine anything new?

And btw we are not 'strip' planet, we are simply moving things from one place on the planet to another.

Does the earth have some sort of inherent will that lithium should stay where it is?

If only we could kill all humans then finally the planet could heal.
Org Structure Isn’t Everything in Org Design
Thank you for the fast catch. Since it was still within the edit window, I've tagged the story as likely fake.
This is pretty fun, although I knew going in that I would most likely end up choosing Fira Code as I tried many over the years...
>I think infrastructure will be hugely expensive.

Typically in the scale of millions per year. Which is nothing to walmart guy. The scale of millions to billions is something completely else. When you get into multiple billions it's funny money. Society has rewarded you with so much wealth, society trusts you will use it correctly.

>All these things will be better when doing them collaboratively, instead of individualized. You'll need taxation to pay for them collaboratively.

That's the thing, this walmart guy isn't just paying for all of it out of pocket. There will be people who live and work there who pay taxes to his government.

>But they should be designed and built up-front, before anyone starts living there - because otherwise people will start doing things the wrong way (i.e. traveling by car instead of public transport) and after that it is very hard to change.

That's sort of the thing. The saudis are going to build a long city. When everything is straight, it's easy. Cars will be fine in their design. It's really what your intentions are.

In my design. I have a few things to consider.

The idea will be to generate a new giant city in northern ontario. With the idea of capturing: https://www.mndm.gov.on.ca/en/ring-fire Society needs to start mining that stuff now.

But nobody lives there because the weather sucks bigtime. So we make it a dome city. We at the very same time are designing dome cities on mars. So it's a win in many ways.

>Also: paying for utilities and infrastructure from rising value of land seems not very sustainable at all. It can't cover maintenance in the long run. Many US cities already suffer from that.

I dont understand what you mean here. I suspect you're referencing Detroit as a key point.

>Utopian dreams like these usually do not end well. It took many decades for visionary developments that were planned in the Dutch polders (Almere) to become something approaching a good city, and the results are quite different then the original vision.

this is north america in a nutshell. Virtually everywhere you go there is examples of success, it just takes more than a lifetime for them to become so. Infrastructure that lasts is everything.
I find 600€/900€ phones quite easy to ignore.
It's okay to point out problems with a path to the future. It's also okay to still take that path even though it's not perfect. Eyes wide open. Lesser of two evils.
Yeah, I never used Pascal (I cut my teeth on C), but it does seem like a nice language, especially for its time.

For something like Java or Python, though, it makes sense that the argument is implicitly a reference to the object it takes (at least as a default). 99% of the times you don't want to pass around stack-allocated stuff.
nothing really matters
Fine-Tuning Sentence Transformers
I'm not married to either one of the approaches and it's fairly trivial to switch between the approaches if I might change my mind.
I haven't read the book. I thought the plot was easy to follow and exciting enough. I don't know what really needed a more thorough explanation. I mean, the Butlerian Jihad certainly sounds interesting, but now that I know about it, my opinion or understanding of the plot hasn't really changed.

In general I'm not a fan of the type of movie where everyone knows there's going to be a sequel so the emotional climax of the movie is closer to the middle and there's not too much suspense towards the end. So, overall, I just thought the ending was pretty dull.
> The inspiration was humans surfing freely through interlinked web pages, but API clients just don't naturally do that.

There's nothing unnatural about it, it's just one extra step to use a name that the service must guarantee is stable rather than directly accessing a hard-coded URL which can be unstable. You're used to:

var client = new HttpClient();
var result = client.Post("http://somehost.com/api/hardcoded-service-resource", /*pass some data*/);

The resource URL is hard-coded with a specific structure and meaning, which means the service can never change it without breaking clients. A simple REST equivalent would be:

var client = new HttpClient();
var entry = client.Get("http://somehost.com/api/entry").ParseHypermedia();
var result = client.Post(entry.StableNameForEndpointIWantToCall, /*pass some data*/);

There's nothing all that unnatural about this. The key is that the entry point returns a description of the API using hypermedia which maps stable names to unstable URLs. This allows service to change its internal structure as long as the entry point returns a hypermedia result that has a stable structure.

You can think of HATEOAS for APIs like DNS for API URLs. Calling it "unnatural" is like saying that hard-coding IP addresses in your clients is more natural than using DNS names. That's just crazy talk!
The balkans also didn't have a dangerous pandemic in the 90s. Ignoring this little fact is outrageously dishonest.
Yeah, this is straight up journalistic malpractice by Intelligent.com. Publishing facts that are clearly contradicted by more reliable, obviously available facts is going way beyond gutter clickbaitery and veering straight off into propaganda. I look forward to having to correct this misconception in the coming years as it gets repeated ad nauseum by people who "saw it on the internet".
Android 10 on an LG device
They've not really stretched it at all, Dune is a long dense book, and to try and do it justice in a single film would result in a confused mess. Just look at the David Lynch version, which even as a huge fan of the book I can't even begin to follow.
It is a nontrivial fact that both these ways of modeling computation are valid.
Could you explain how a culture pushed you opposite side of the political spectrum?
Because absolutely no climate science says that increased CO2 in the next twenty years will lead to humans living entirely inside with AC’d units? Again, this is basic science.

The real effects of climate change will be difficult enough. We don’t need to waste energy on inventing fantastical ones.
That choice is akin to saying: allow China to use the cheapest methods to extract ores in Africa.
I think it balances out with forced "diversity" hires that shine a very negative light on their respective groups. It actually back fires in that it's probably a "thing" now and people have learned to be doubly-sure about whether an ethnic person is really good or just a diversity-hire. It's just layers of non-sense, BS and marketing when we really should just be treating people as individuals.
Yes. And that matters if you believe in race as a diversity criterion, and an important thing to keep similar to the rest of society.

You will also find that the representation of Manchester United fans vs Liverpool or Chelsea fans will not be representative of the general population. For instance somehow my friends from the subcontinent seem to all be Liverpool fans.

But what is important is that people who want to do something are not discouraged on the basis of things that don't matter directly. For instance I studied engineering, and there were maybe a couple dozen women out of 150. What matters is not that half of people are women, but that whatever women want to come are allowed to do so, and not told that they can't because they're women. Do we want a society where we cut down the number of male engineering students to match the number of women? Or where we allow women into the course who didn't pass the same standard?

I think this ratio-matching or whatever you want to call it is poisonous. It actually creates a less diverse society when you try to distribute everyone proportionally to their characteristics, rather than letting them try whatever they feel like.
> There's one bookshop I liked in Bologna

Libreria.coop Ambasciatori?

It looks large but not dense in books (and it is also a trattoria - which makes sense if you spend long hours there including meals hours): probably around 50'000 volumes?

How many international titles?
Putting LEDs in parallel isn't a good idea. Using a resistor for each is better:

LEDs are different one from another, so the one with a lower voltage drop will have more current flowing trough it. A lot more, and it will heat more.

Luckily, heating it up will make its internal resistance higher, so all LEDs will end up with the same current. It will shine brighter though, and fail earlier, especially if it heats a lot.

What happens after it fails? If it fails open, which is usually the case IIRC, more current flows trough the other LEDs, making them fail earlier. If it fails with a short, the other LEDs turn off, and the resistor dissipates all the current (with a higher voltage drop, so more current). If you're lucky, it stays at that. If not, you can burn the resistor, and/or the power supply due to increased current.

Always use a single resistor for each LED, except in very specific cases (like putting them in series).

Don't put diodes in parallel.
I don't have any influence over secular trends that are guided by the purchasing decisions of millions. It would be the height of arrogance to think in such terms.
The comment is indeed sarcastic. It seems to imply that the US is not a white supremacist society because otherwise why would white people pretend to not be white? During a period of racial segregation like the one cited in the comment, people were not pretending to be non-white (the comment used sarcasm again stating "I'm sure that it happened all the time").

So the point of that comment wasn't that being non-white has more downsides than upsides, but rather that people describing the USA as a country where white supremacy is the dominant ideology are exaggerating.
> I would prefer to give the benefit of the doubt to elected representatives

You and everyone else marching India towards authoritarianism. Following the tracks of every failed democracy that didn't fall to an invasion or military coup fails: not understanding the difference between majoritarianism and democracy. (I was actually surprised to see the Supreme Court pushing back on the government--I didn't realize India had such checks and balances left.)
>Bitcoin holders have no say in this.

Not entirely true. If holders decide to sell massively and buy into a fork they perceive as "a better bitcoin", this surely has influence.

Because of network effect and inertia, the bar is very high for a contentious fork to take over, but if push comes to shove, holders selling massively to buy into the contentious fork does carry some weight.

Also, spinning up a ton and a half of "nodes" on some random cloud isn't that expensive these days (in terms of what you can gain in gaining the system), yet no one has done it so far.
I'm curious about the saunas to gdp per capita statistics.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/111853-mo...
I imagine that it will be much like the dotcom bust, with a handful of resilient applications outlasting the 99% that are weak or straight-up scams. One wonders if Gamestop is going to pull an Amazon or a Pets.com.
Oh yes, surely nothing more dangerous than a pandemic was happening in the balkans in the 90s, that would make border crossings problematic at the time.
Signed certificates are the reason why vaccination was eventually successful in my country.
Ye, at the time the Cinema flyer guy actually did read the signs and we got the flyer, but almost no other flyers.

The mailman proper, if I can call them that, did however deliver all stamped mail no matter what. The "no adds"-sign does not work for stamped adds, or like flyers put into the newspaper, etc.
They only make an appearance then, but throughout the book Irulan's commentary is interweaved between chapters. It feels like that could have been a useful path for a bit of exposition on the things that aren't explicitly covered in the plot.
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I was talking more about the average situation.

I would assume serious mental health issues are the edge case in this scenario.
Not familiar enough with Go to know, would this aid hacking?