skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a future employer asks for a reference from Google she's screwed.

If a future employer checks and see she was asking people to go and harass her former managers and HR, it'd reflect pretty badly on her; I know I wouldn't want her in my team.

And as for what she can do, isn't wrongful termination illegal? Like she could instead open a civil case against Google
Discord is not real time communication, it's notification-based, asynchronous communication a bit faster than reddit, but mostly not like IRC.
Keep telling yourself this. AMP, FLoC, Portals, etc are all browser “innovations” too, are you glad those came around? So many of their features are purely to give Google more ad revenue and power over the internet. I’d be willing to bet that the main reason they fund so much non-ad innovation is to overwhelm any potential new-comers to the browser space and stifle competition (even Microsoft gave up). But too many developers buy into the idea that being able to use the newest Array.findLast() API is somehow crucial to the success of their web product and thus help perpetuate the Chrome monoculture.
It does and I really hope that is the case. Was just wondering if there was someone informed enough reading that could confirm this is indeed the case.
Is there a way to contact you privately? Didn't see anything in your bio.
Porsche too: up until a few years ago they had a very strict policy of "one physical button / one function". Now lately they stuffed a bit too much gimmicks in their cars so they couldn't put everything behind buttons and they picked some kind of a happy middle ground: they've got a panel which physically moves and gives a great feedback (I think they're using quality microswitches underneathh the panel), but the icons showing on the panel can vary. They also have a touchscreen for the gimmicks, but everything important has physical controls.
On the other hand, poster has a point, if it weren't for the likes of Jane Fonda and company who take up a cause without understanding it just for political points, leads us to where we are now. There is no reason we could not be where France is in terms of nuclear power.

This is on those activists who blindly followed anti-nuke dogmatism. Thanks guys and gals.

This is why the public should by and large disregard opinions by celebrities who have no expertise in what they are advocating.
I agree, grandparent comment is pretty brash while also being substantively wrong.

Most of our meat in the US comes from factory farms.

> 70.4 percent of cows, 98.3 percent of pigs, 99.8 percent of turkeys, 98.2 percent of egg-laying hens, and over 99.9 percent of chickens raised for meat come from factory farms.

https://www.livekindly.co/99-animal-products-factory-farms/

This said, the range that beef cattle occasionally graze could be reclaimed, but not necessarily for legume production.

Legumes: https://gilmour.com/planting-zones-hardiness-map

Beef: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biolog...

There is overlap, but no where close to 100%.
I'd argue it isn't the same. Asking for cheapest package/most margin dish affects you most of the time, while paying cash is the same as credit card most of the time.

Although I've never seen a merchant not prefer cash, except maybe big corporations.
>> but at least it isn't apocalyptic.

Maybe not to us in the first world, but that absolutely will have global ramifications and could cause further upheaval elsewhere.
And a good build system
I hope discord pays you to write fluff pieces like this.

In practice, threads are effectively the same as channels with the benefit that if people stop talking after x minutes it self-deletes/archives/disappears, but ultimately works the same where discussion gets channeled into smaller and smaller circles - policing of "this should go here", "there's a thread for that", "just make a thread" etc.

In fact it is even worse than channels because by default threads are not visible. They get hidden behind a button to even view them, and they naturally do not alert you to when a new thread is being created. It adds another layer of inaccessibility to channels that filters down the amount of people you will actually be engaging with at any one time.

I agree discord is great for being easy to use and access, but ultimately it falls apart above say a couple hundred members. At 330k members really you are better off just opening a forum, it's an insane amount of people that really I think you do struggle to develop any sense of community and I'm almost positive that there is very little meaningful interaction between your epic content creator and his fans in this discord server.

And let's be honest, discord moderators are a joke. The majority of the time people who choose or seek to be moderators, particularly in the manner you mention through a moderator "exam", are individuals that are grasping for a small sense of power to lord over people. Moderation isn't rocket science. I'm rather skeptical that it hasn't polluted your view given the way you vaguely name-drop moderating for a large community, a job that is completely thankless and likely unpaid except for in the clout you might gain by name dropping.
The point of all this is to impress others. If others aren’t sufficiently impressed, the steak or the NFT are failures.
AI Will Make Your Doctor Smarter
>always behind on standards

That's awful!

Why can't we as a society add code to web browsers faster?

ADDED. I use sarcasm very sparingly, but in this case, I can't think of another way to make my point that is not a lot longer.
There are "private servers" made by people other than the developers for games that don't release server executables or source code. So the remote side being named a "server" is independent of whether it is available to run(for gamers).
The database is accurate to the information put into it.

Warehouse inventory/control is a great example of something that would be an incredibly poor fit for blockchain.
subtitle: 'From suicide prevention to infection tracking, the U.S. military is applying the latest technology to a host of medical challenges.'

'Hassan Tetteh has one of the coolest-sounding jobs in medicine. His official title is Warfighter Health Mission Chief for the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. The Pentagon established the JAIC, or “Jake” as he pronounces it, in 2018 to ensure that America’s combat operations don’t fall behind rivals in using machine learning to enhance troop readiness, cybersecurity, joint maneuvers and “lethality.”

Dr. Tetteh, 49, heads the JAIC’s health mission. A decorated Navy captain, he’s also a cardiothoracic surgeon who has deployed in Afghanistan and on warships in the Persian Gulf as well as at Walter Reed hospital. He’s an unabashed medical “nerd,” part of a cadre of physicians board-certified in clinical informatics—the use of statistics and information technology to improve patient care.

“What the X-ray or anesthesia were to medicine generations ago, AI is today in its essentiality,” he says. “You can call me an evangelist, a proselytizer or a broken record—it’s all fine. Vladimir Putin had it right when he predicted whichever nation leads in artificial intelligence will dominate. In the arms race for healthcare AI, I want to make sure the United States doesn’t come in second.”

At the JAIC, Dr. Tetteh (rhymes with “meta”) has had a guiding hand in 30-plus projects using AI tools to fortify war-fighter health, from early cancer detection to improving point-of-injury treatment and suicide prevention. Some of that work is described in his book published this year, “The Art of Human Care With Artificial Intelligence.”'
>Why? I don't know

Cuteness is pretty well studied, it basically comes down to evolutionary selection towards liking things that resemble human babies in terms of proportions. Mainly about the size of the eyes and heads. You can see it in cartoons where characters are drawn with big eyes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness
Paxos Made Parallel
Sure, keep telling yourself that you're the real hero. If folks like you really meant make a positive difference, you would have by now. Instead you endlessly try to take credit for "raising awareness" and "pressuring", which in reality just means leaving the actual work to others. You give yourself every excuse to not contribute anything tangible, then you blame them for failing while acting like some neglected oracle. Good on you for showing us how much better you are.
Natural gas being expensive is exactly what you need if you want people to replace it.

There is no reason fertilizers can't be made with unreliable solar and wind and carbon capture.
Good luck growing legumes on the acreage currently used for beef production… you can hardly walk much less tractor incredible expanses of this land. Beef cattle very efficiently convert the grasses on these lands into healthy, nutritious food for humans.

It’s terrifying to realize how many of the people trying to influence food production have little if any practical knowledge of how farming actually works. People are going to starve to death en mass if your ilk have your way.
I sold my soul in grade school too, but shortly thereafter I bought someone else's and came out monetarily ahead. I'm good?
That's great news! I don't want a fcking touchscreen in my car.
I’m not saying I’m excited about it. I’ve seen other policies go through lately that make level-headed people tear their hair out.
I fully agree, I tried to find out if he got any relief, but nothing was found, so I assume everyone dropped it.

In this day and age, any false accusation can ruin your life, especially if posted on popular sites. In the old days, you could move to started over if need be, not today. So Discovery and Wikipedia needs to make things right for him.
The way Wikipedia generates its content though is susceptible to particular problems that traditional sources did not have. Multiple people—all differing in age (from 7 to 100+), educational status and subject matter knowledge—all editing the same article, often without reading all the parts of it that the others have written.

The amount of scrutiny individual Wikipedia articles receive differs vastly–the article on a top politician or a top science topic like a major planet will have hundreds of eagle-eyed watchers, while more obscure articles like the one discussed here may not be watched at all, and then anything goes. (This article for example had two different birth dates for six years, and then someone made them consistent—both wrong!)

Here are some more examples of the sorts of errors that are specific to a crowd-sourced work like Wikipedia:

https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/16/wikipedia_16_birthday...

Few if any of these—like intentional hoaxes and undetected vandalism or a completely ignorant writer merely pretending to know a topic, by copying another text and then changing the name of one chemical substance in it to make it sound like the text was written about this substance—could or would have occurred in the traditional process of writing a reference work.

Traditional works have different problems, of course—instant obsolescence being one of them—and even the biggest ones have a far smaller scope than Wikipedia. But readers should bear in mind just how the Wikipedia sausage is made. Many seem to somehow believe that the Wikipedia process is, in terms of the results it produces, just like an orderly process with a professional writer and editors and fact checkers that try to verify everything before publication. That is not how crowdsourcing works.
> “Why don’t you just fix it?” I try, but it’s hard when I have a busy day and my edit will be reverted within minutes by a full-time Wikipedian / Expert Wikipedia Rules Lawyer and self-appointed lord of said article.

Reddit has fallen to this same problem with subreddit moderators. A subreddit moderator can remove posts and comments they don't want anyone to see.

A lot of the popular subreddits and many of the more obscure subreddits are moderator-crafted echo chambers. Some moderators have unbelievable amounts of free time to observe the subreddit and surgically remove discussions they disagree with.

Worse, it's all invisible. These subreddits become an extension of what the moderators want without the moderators having to show their actions at all. When you visit a subreddit, you could be reading a carefully constructed echo chamber of a single moderator and have no idea.

I think the Reddit situation would be very different if it had a "showdead" style option that let readers see removed comments.
This looks nice but I can't what the target audience and intended usage patterns are. It's somewhere between

1. "simple text editor to use on servers/whenever I need to edit something quickly". That place is taken by nano that is easy enough so that people don't have to learn it, or vim for those who mastered it. In this niche it's important for the editor to be ubiquitous enough and present even on the old machines.

2. Regular day-to-day code editor. Micro has _some_ autocompletion, syntax highlighting etc. But for a modern editor to function, it really needs an LSP client implementation. But this seems to not be happening so far: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/issues/1138

Micro has some features in each bucket (simplicity, ease of usage vs. IDE-like features) but does not seem to really excel at either.
As another Canadian, I wouldn't be against becoming a republic, as long as the new system can guarantee things working as well as the current one. We're currently in the top ten of The Economist's Democracy Index:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#By_country

And 8 out of the top 10 are also constitution monarchies. Plenty of symbolic-president republics in the top twenty though.

Whatever replacement system that is proposed needs to have a decent track record.
European farmers would like to use manure more, but idiotic EU policies (changed in 2019) are preventing it. So typical...
> Some of the sites are oriented to align to the sunrise on certain dates in Mesoamerican calendars, suggesting the ritual processes involved cosmological concepts tied to the movements of the seasons

I always wonder how justified these inferences are. If future archeologists discover the ruins of, say, MIT's Infinite Corridor, will they conclude that it was a ceremonial site for the winter solstice? Obviously archeologists have additional historic context to feed these inferences, but you do have to wonder about the degree to which highly-visible and naturally enduring-- but possibly superficial and culturally unimportant-- features of these sites lead to skewed conclusions.
Yep. Few more Chornobyls, and CO2 level will plummet back to 200ppm then.
I think the engineering and decision making at Three Mile Island had a much bigger impact on the current state of nuclear power in the US than Jane Fonda.
current prices can be see here: https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/gx_gr210.txt

in Maryland where I farm, there has been a surplus of chicken litter on the eastern shore. Good for farmers there, but moving it around is expensive. I get litter from an egg operation near Gettysburg. It used to be free but now is $10/ton. I just bought 5 truck loads (120 tons), cost me $700 per load. I expect that price to go up. On-road diesel just hit $4.00/gal in our area which puts off-road prices over $3.00/gal. Input costs are getting to the point where there is no net profit in raising a crop.
>your ilk

I didn’t say I was excited about it. But, the way things have been going lately, it wouldn’t be a surprise.
There's liberapay and of course patron.
I came here to say this. I read it 4 times before giving up.
> They're pretty rad. You can even get a few (dozen) for free: https://blog.gpt4.org/jaxtpu
> Incidentally, that blog runs on a TPU. You can just SSH into them.

As someone without machine learning background, I assumed a TPU is something like a GPU. Aren't they used for ML as well? So I'm surprised you can run linux userspace on it?
Thanks a lot! (Though it does not work for me.)
>Wow, you just somehow denigrated both 9/11 victims and drunk driving victims

how? by pointing out that their opinions don't get an automatic free pass because they were victims?

>while attempting to defend the right to drive drunk. Congratulations.

Congratulations on generalizing everyone who's against such measures as "defend the right to drive drunk". That's exactly the same argument as surveillance supporters, who claim that if you're against surveillance you must be a terrorist/pedophile/criminal and/or support them.

You can be against drunk driving, but be skeptical or against this specific implementation of anti-drunk driving measures. As it stands right now, you haven't provided any justification for why it's warranted and is worth the costs, aside from "ask [drunk driving victims] if they agree".
Agreed. I've tried several times to use Discord and find the entire experience to be a clunky, spammy mess. The interface is awful.
Grazed cattle doesn’t need fertilizer
"Otherwise ring me and give me your password and I'll read the emails to you"

uh, this is smart and very KISS! really!

So YES: somebody read our emails and in the meanwhile get rid of useless content!

out of curiosity: if our friend who reads our email create ad audio file while reading, I guess we cannot send the super compressed audio file as DATA (to save on international phone costs)?
getting an enterprise license isn't hard, see: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...
Keeping up to date also has issues in the JS ecosystem. There were a couple of recent examples of npm packages that were hijacked and new versions released with embedded malware.
The car ui’s to get to car play usually make me want to poke my eyes out.

Car maker supplied GPS is terrible too. Just give me car play and Siri or the android equivalent.
Interview with Charlie Munger on Controversial UCSB Dorm
More Composting would be a solution to this.

My coffee habit and bokashi of food waste should create significant soil for my spring planters.
It may depend on the org, but in my org at Google there is a ton of oversight in PIP construction. I've not ever personally seen unobtainable or subjective PIP targets.

It'd also be extremely odd to be on a PIP after receiving a Consistently Meets Expectations rating. Only a subset of Needs Improvement ratings actually get PIPs. CME, by definition, means that you are doing your job sufficiently.
The Simpsons did it first.
Only because Jane Fonda used it as a tool to promote her anti-nuke activism. The atmospheric release was insignificant but she scared Americans away from nuclear-generated power.

She could have used her activism to promote better processes for example, or incremental improvements rather than kill the industry.
> [...] Linux do the same thing.

My Arch + AwesomeWM setup I've been running for the last 5+ years would disagree with you. Kinda one of the reasons I went with this setup, I have total control over all updates, installed software, etc.
I don't think the deterministic Newtonian world has any room for free will. But does the randomness in quantum mechanics allow for it? Googling "quantum mechanics free will" yields essays on this topic.
> That way, population centers don't completely overshadow more rural areas.

So ((one person) ≠ (one vote))?

Why should people in rural areas get more representation than non-rural areas?
Interesting: I have a dormant twilio account that I better refresh a bit :)

btw: does Twilio have some tools to send data splitted in text messages (with a proper client to re-compose the whole message)?
My washing machine is so annoying. Instead of a nob I need to press a touch screen to set temperature. And the selector goes in a circle for each press so to go one step colder I need to press around the circle ... old dishwasher UX were so much better.
What bothers me in articles like this is that no one mentions that ammonia is not produced with natural gas. It’s produced with HYDROGEN.

The cheapest source of hydrogen is usually steam reforming of natural gas. (But this wasn’t the case until about 1950 when steam reforming became cheap and widespread. Before that, cheap hydroelectricity-produced green hydrogen was common for nitrogen fertilizer production.)

Not mentioning this means that the average person who reads the news (including the typical politician and HN reader) has the mistaken notion that fossil fuels are essential for making fertilizer.

My 2cents: Two consequences (which kind of go in opposite directions) of this are:

1) You really think we need to push hydrogen cars right now when we’re not even producing a significant amount of green hydrogen for fertilizer? Unlike the electric grid (which is 40% clean already in the US), almost no hydrogen for ammonia is made with clean electricity.

2) This should provide impetus for locally produced green hydrogen efforts as food security, insulation from fossil fuel price swings. (Blue hydrogen doesn’t have that advantage since it’s still fossil fuel based and is worse in other ways.)
> There is no reason fertilizers can't be made with unreliable solar and wind and carbon capture.

Yes there is. It's not just a matter of needing to use energy, natural gas itself it part of the process for making fertilizer.

"Nitrogen is a key component of most synthetic fertilizers. It is made by combining the nitrogen in the air with hydrogen in methane to produce ammonia (NH3). The ammonia is then used to create other forms of nitrogen including ammonium nitrate and urea (ammonia + CO2).

Natural gas is used to provide the methane and a heat source for the process."

You can't just replace that process with 'solar and wind'.

I actually didn't realize this myself until I started reading Countdown by Alan Weisman recently, about overpopulation, where he went over this process because it's the only reason why we're able to support and feed so many people today, is because we discovered this process for creating synthetic fertilizer and we're making so much of it today.
I don't remember where but a guy made the comparison between NFT and those companies that sell stars, or land in Mars or the Moon, like they'll sell you a paper that says you own Proxima B.

This is the best way to understand NFT.
Slaves and slavery were extremely different in Pompeii and Herculaneum then what we usually think of as chattel slavery as the default and only slavery that ever existed. An interviewee either doesn’t understand this or made very sweeping claims.
> “This is a window into the precarious reality of people who seldom appear in historical sources that were written almost exclusively by men belonging to the elite, and who as a result risk remaining invisible in the great historical accounts,” -
Many slaves were captured and famous intellectuals (Aesop is a famous example) or educated and used as tutors, they were not as modernists assume to be universally ill treated and abused. Slaves in Herculaneum were able to become free and it was a very racially diverse place where being a former slave of different racial background did not mean you were unable to have social mobility, many of the wealthy people of Herculaneum were indeed former slaves. Slavery was not a permanent state of being and the very elite the quoted author complains about often did write about slaves at least in name; the former slaves would take the last name of the old master and records were excellent.