skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've unfortunately witnessed suicides and attempts close enough to tell you that it is unlikely you could have done anything as a non-related person far away.

Taking him to lunch and treating him as a human being would probably been a super nice thing to do for him.

I know you feel that the part where you think "man I should have said something different" makes you feel bad, but people do much, much more regrettable gaffes they realize only after the fact. Like, for instance, a spouse who considers maybe to lock away the firearms, but not doing it (an unfortunate example from real life, not mine luckily).

Luckily most people are not experts in suicide. Even though if you had concrete intuition that something was off, having no experience of this before, you probably could not tell if the intuition was pointing at something actionable, or imagined.

Persons who are under treatment, with their family, still end up performing a suicide.

I know it feels bad for you, having interacted with him briefly before his passing away, but you should not feel guilt (even though its a natural human reaction you do).
> There's no concrete idea in it that we could debate here on HN

Sure there is. The problem described in the first few paragraphs is essentially due to a Goodhart's Law situation and the imposition of deadlines that are not actually related to what the class is trying to accomplish.

These are both things that are ripe for HN debate (and have been debated in other contexts here).
If that's true, wouldn't it be a warning sign if this metric purpose-built for making the government look good started going downhill?
Nonetheless, it's a great time to take on debt. (if you can get a fixed rate)
According to wikipedia, China added 71.6 GW of wind power in 2020 and now has a total of 281GW. Note that 71 GW is more than the electrical power usage in Germany as a whole. And they just added that in one year.

Of course, China is a very big country with an industry that is growing at a rapid rate. So they have to add even more coal to keep up with demand.

But it is wrong to think that they are not doing anything.

As for carbon capture. People have been talking about that for a long time. Today it seems that the most effective way of carbon capture is to plant some trees.

Personally, I think it is great that banning sale of ICE vehicles are already on the table.
Stupid people learn from their own mistakes, smart people learn from other people's mistakes.
I may be a bit slow today, but how did the traveler use a formula for chapped hands ointment to persuade the king of Wu to use it in dealing with troublesome neighbor state of Yue?
Only if wage inflation doesn't keep up with price inflation. If wage inflation keeps pace, it's actually a fairly progressive result since debt loses value relative to wages.

For people without income or assets it's a disaster.
Your link contains is a nice article [1] how the resolution independent "raster type" looks like when zooming in including ancient Windows software to try it yourself. Sadly wine crashes when I try to start it.

1.: http://users.senet.com.au/~mjbone/Fractals.html
Ok, thanks for the explanation. Should have called it 'Checky' then...
Tesla boss sells $5bn of shares after Twitter poll
Well Germany is part of the world, but yes, in Germany too

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58992093

Then you've got the climate change effects destroying places like much of Africa and South Asia, leading to mass migration including into Germany
Are you aware that both Facebook and Amazon have used their market dominance and ability to buy smaller firms to prevent serious threats from emerging?
Uber sued by Justice Department for overcharging disabled people
When searching for an accomodation, booking.com offers a map, which shows the price of each accomodation, with filters applied. This is so useful and I wish other travel sites also had this.

A list of a 200 hotels of $50-100 is simply not enough information when searching in an unknown city. I need to narrow down that list, for example with features like a kitchenette (60 hotels left), but also a location near the city center, and not 20-30 minutes away in some suburb (20 hotels left). With booking.com I can now see on a map 20 pins of hotels with their pricing.
Ok, some hotels are hostels with a Shared-6 room, which is one filter you cannot actually apply unfortunately (hey booking.com, if you are reading this, this is a hint!).

..then I know the hotel names, and search on the hotel's own site or other travel sites if there are any deals (genius dicounts sometimes help). Sometimes, Booking.com is cheapest, sometimes it is not.
It's still a two-sided marketplace regardless of payment services.

Two-sided marketplace can charge whatever it wants, it's their marketplace. They need to charge whatever they feel is right to make it worthwhile and provide enough value to both sides so that the marketplace can exist and grow.

Apple released their marketplace over a decade ago with 30% fee.

Developers ran away from Symbian, webOS, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone and RIM to Android and iOS, thus proving that the charge is fair and the marketplace provides the right value for the cost to be part of it.

RIM, Nokia, Palm and others tried to do something similar, burned billions, but the market (via consumers and developers) has spoken, and those companies are now history and a part of business curriculum how innovation and changing the status quo can disrupt existing markets.

A decade later, after playing part in allowing Google/Apple duopoly to exist, developers now feel they have a basic human right to have access to a marketplace of billions consumers for free.
Yes but through hedonic adjustment fuckery, many CPI measurements, especially housing, are complete nonsense.

Basically, if the cost of housing is rising, but the quality of housing is also rising, then these things will offset to a degree as far as CPI is concerned.

It’s one of the reasons healthcare inflation is so absurdly underrepresented. CPI basically assumes that you could pick any level of quality for a good or a service since the index inception. But you can’t go to a hospital and say “I just have a small cut on my finger, I’d like the 1950s level of care”…you will get the 2021 level of care and 2021 prices. But CPI will say “ah that’s not necessarily inflation because the quality of care has also gone up!”
It’s like you’re saying that someone who makes rape jokes is more likely to be a rapist.
It depends on if the Chinese/Russian/Israel troll farms are working that day.
Elon Musk sells $5bn in Tesla stock days after Twitter poll
This is completely wrong, it disproportionally affects the poor and middle class the most because all they have is their wages and a little bit of cash. Wages are not that elastic and will certainly lag behind.
Rich are heavy on assets and it doesn't affect them at all unless they are stupid enough to convert those assets to cash during high inflation period (it of course doesn't happen).
What was the most helpful thing u did? mock interviews? books?
Get the Best Experience with a Limo Airport Pick Up in Markham
You will book a limo drive for yourself beforehand with no sweaty and dirty seats as in regular cabs, you will definitely say that these luxurious and top-tier services are worth every penny they charge. You sure want to have a try of airport limo taxi in Markham but who does not?
Peptides are actually "short bits of protein" - proteins is what makes cell work. So no wonder here, that they are really big and can do a lot.
Algorithmic tracking is ‘damaging mental health’ of UK workers – AI
It's not an "OK boomer" stereotype (which is rather an insult than a stereotype, by the way), it's a general point. It's obviously true that people putting their lives online may be an issue in that field of work (and also an advantage).

One would think that's a slightly lesser problem of the US government than for other countries, though, because essentially all platforms are American. So it's potentially easier for the US intelligence services to 'scrub' someone's online presence than it is for other countries' services.

For instance, they also need to be extremely careful of leaks of real identities because of this as these days these can be used for online scrapping in order to collect pictures and more details. This is taking into account that, if I remember correctly, the database of federal employees and their fingerprints was hacked a few years ago so that we may assume that China (since the finger was pointed at them regarding that hack) has a list of virtually all US Federal employees, on which they can let data scrapping farms work.
What the hell are you talking about? It was multiple women, independently, over decades, that all gave similar allegations of abuse. At one point, one of the unpaid site administrators flew across the country so she could take one of these women to a shelter. How far would you have had the people who used his site and paid for his lifestyle go to cover their eyes and ignore his behavior?

Also buried in that massive thread is a post by one of the women he abused. An actual court of law, not just a web 1.0 forum, found him guilty of squandering marital assets and domestic abuse. By all accounts, he killed himself to avoid taking responsibility.

Lowtax's was a relentless downward story, where he squandered everything he had with no redemption arc. It's very sad, but it's not the bizarre strawman scenario you've concocted.
Minimum wage is always going to lag way behind inflation. In practice, almost all wages lag behind inflation. But "people without income or assets" is my definition of "poor" and ...yeah, inflation basically takes a meager $1200/mo government check and makes it worthless. they're already on the brink of starvation.
Airliners gather some air measurements, at least CO2. Don't know how widely:

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/25/10/2008jt...

https://newsroom.usra.edu/commercial-airliners-monitoring-ca...

Airline routes are not sampling evenly though, and flying at 10 km height means ground level resolution is very very low.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5
Soviet block and its client states disintegrating.
To be fair, I was looking at the numbers in Euros (which is the most relevant to me), while I suspect other people are looking in dollars.

It does appear that $200k is achievable in Dublin, Approximately $150k seems a lot more likely though.

Clearly, I need to give up on DS and become a software engineer. I suppose I could get a leetcode subscription and start back reading Knuth again ;)
I wonder where all this market has gone. I've looked into selling my 7 year old BMW, and best I can tell by surveying craigslist, the prices are not substantially higher than they were before COVID. I looked at how little I'd get and decided to keep the car.

It's probably like with any other market - low end is super volatile, higher end much less so.
I don't know what kind of assignments you think we give people, but they are things that anyone who can program can do without any thought well under an hour. Whole idea is to weed out people who don't know how to program or don't know how to write unittests or any kind of documentation.

If you are having time pressure challenges with our assignments we also don't want you.
Docker and Kubernetes comes to mind.
I make the worst joke and I hope you wouldn't consider me a domestic abuser.

Given how our judicial system works, if I had an public known history for jokes about rape, it would be even easier to mount a case of domestic abuse on me.

If a divorce will grant me unique custody of my children or money and get rid of my ex, I would be ready to lie my way out.

Unless there is proof, these are just allegations.
And if I were to lose my children due to the court system being biased, I'd be pretty devastated as well.
Booking.com is to hotels what Ticketmaster is to live events. Total scumbags, terrible customer service, over charging, false promises. I might use booking.com to find a hotel but I'll always book direct once I find one.
This is an odd take.

> I truly wish that allegations of any and every sort were considered not credible by the general public.

If someone steals my phone at the bar and everyone at the table sees them do it, then tells you exactly what happened with the same story - would you say "no, this is _not credible_. It is not something I am able to believe could happen and it is not plausible". Surely not. It would be a credible allegation.

> This isn't against women. How many of us, given such an arbitrary and powerful weapon, would have the character not to use it, especially against someone we hate for personal reasons?

Given the ability to you would falsely accuse someone and ruin their lives? Have you considered that you may be projecting that onto others?

> Accusation is not guilt,

Which is why we have different words to help explain the differences.

> and we need to stop assuming that every accusation is credible.

We don't. That's why it is reasonable to mark some of them as credible.
I'd like to see an infographic of the number of micrograms of lead consumed as:

* Someone living near an airport where avgas is used

* Someone living in flint during their lead trouble.

* Someone who lives in an old house with lead paint & roofing.

* Someone who licks 'highly lead comtaminated' toys made in China...

Knowing the scale of these issues would surely make things better, and all the news articles I can find don't even have estimates for number of micrograms...
> [typed] Je travaille en tant que développeur au sein d'une grosse société allemande spécialisée dans les nouveaux médias.

> [generated] Ma mission consiste à développer des applications pour tablettes, smartphones et PC. J'ai aussi un job de musicien au sein du groupe de jazz Fusion The Black Trombonist.

Wow, I never knew I am into jazz and live the double life.
Faulty hardware?
The invalid instruction can be caught by the kernel, which can inspect the instruction, see that it's avx512, mark the process as avx enabled, and only run it on p cores.

Some sort of settings or policy could be set up so that processes don't force themselves onto the p cores.
You can audit a browser based solution until the cows come home but unless you are willing to audit the code that was sent to you on each and every interaction you will never have any real security. I don't think browsers are a platform for secure communications based on code sent down the wire at run time, it is much too easy to replace that code by other code.

And that's before we get to Whatsapp == Facebook.
> Also beware of employees that are overly eager to have more access than they should

Another side of the coin, I always felt shy to ask for access to tools in big corporations that I worked at, unless I am offered access directly by a manager or co-worker directly.

This can backfire, if you act too strictly around tools, some employees will never even try to get a hold of the tool you potentially pay 100K$+ a year.
> you are making enough money to afford premium without thinking much about it

This is a broad assumption, what makes you think everybody on this site can afford £12 a month for something they can get completely for free with uBlock Origin and YouTube Vanced?
I personally upvote posts I disagree with that nonetheless improve my thoughts and productively challenge my assumptions. I prefer a voting convention that increases the probability that I give my attention to worthwhile content rather than trendy sentiment.

[clarification: I suspect you agree and do not mean to imply otherwise, though I do not know]
That doesn't sound fair. I don't think the army would have been successful with the ointment alone. Ointment doesn't make you a competent army commander. You can make the same argument with most things - food, a warm cloak, knowledge about the weather.. all those things that make survival and even comfort possible.
Very cringey article, tell me you have limited creative abilities without telling me you have limited creative abilities.
Most humans are imperfect. Some guy once said something about casting the first stone. A more recent guy pointed out that analogies with Stalin and Hitler are usually not illuminating.
This will not work, because then people will assume that everyone who disables dislikes does it for reasons of bad content, not because of cybermobbing or similar reasons. Disabling it for all is a social solution to protect everyone together.
> Yeah, they're jokes, but when I stopped being a child that stopped being funny

Autists often don't pick up on that and continues to make unfunny or cringe jokes year after year. That makes them prime targets for false accusations, since the world is full of people like you who will assume they are guilty just because they are socially unaware.
How OpenSanctions deduplicates companies and people across data sources
> and assessments like this provide sufficient evidence that WhatsApp's claims are not bunk.

Actually, no that's not sufficient evidence. That's only sufficient evidence for those interactions between the auditors and whatsapp's servers, it doesn't say anything about your interaction with whatsapp's servers. And that's the heart of the problem: using code shipped to a browser for e2e encryption is a flawed model, it would be trivial to target you with a version that has broken e2e encryption but subtle enough that you would never notice.
> Facebook seems to be releasing a lot of news about their projects, lately.

A cursory check at Facebook Research Blog will tell you that there is no connection between the Research Blog and Facebook business news [0]. If you are looking for correlations, you can check the time for Conference paper acceptance / occurrence and you will typically see a better correlation. The paper linked in the OP will be published at EMNLP 2021 and guess when the conference happens? Surprise : November 10-11, 2021 [1].

[0] https://ai.facebook.com/blog/

[1] http://www.statmt.org/wmt21/
Experience shows that many people straight up lie about their programming skills to a point where they can't write a FizzBuzz to safe their lives.

But also if the person is so unwilling to co-operate that they can't so basic programming skill then I guess it wasn't meant to be.
Something people don't get about commits is they have multiple purposes. A lot of this is due to still entrenched assumptions and practices from older, inferior version control systems.

There are at least two types of commit in git: a savepoint and a version.

A savepoint is what happens during development on a branch. Git makes it super easy to make many, many savepoints throughout the day. These help you as a developer because it gives you something to fall back on if you make a mistake. But most of them should never be exposed to anyone not directly working on the branch.

A version is what you share with others. A version is a fully working version of the software that can be reasonably checked out and put through a release process at any time. Usually a version will be unit tested but not subject to the same rigorous tests as a release.

There is a direct analogy here with database transactions. Just replace version with transaction.

Often while working you will find it's possible to write the version commit right away. This is usually for more trivial fixes or in some cases when a commit is required for something like a database migration (when things need to be deployed in stages). Other times you will need to make several savepoints before you get to a new version. This is what rebase is for. Many of those savepoints don't belong on the master branch as they are often fixing stuff you haven't even committed to master yet.

Git has a few tools to help you defer rebasing until later. In particular you can make fixup and squash commits. These will be normal savepoint commits, but they will be labelled in a way that later you can issue an "autosquash" command to automatically rebase these into version commits.
It's 2.5% ROI, on par with inflation and well below the market. It's hard to reasonably justify it. Unless you bet on a stock with an extremely high P/E to get a much higher P/E.
Sorry if this is tangential, but I just love this discussion. Rather than debating about things, this discussion thread is full of informative tidbits, and fond (or not so fond) reminiscences of image decoding programming.
Let me amend that: anarchies cannot deal with external threats when hierarchies have the military edge. I don't think the bit about angels has much to do with it.

Cf. Orwell, "The Atom Bomb and You"

https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/ABomb/english/e_abomb

> It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found generally true: that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon — so long as there is no answer to it — gives claws to the weak.
I agree. I'm not ashamed to admit though, I'm still a little baffled by Buffet's backing off into "cash" - or out of the market - I guess cash means different things to different people...
The ointment gave them a tactical advantage against the Yue, who couldn’t fight with chapped hands
Allegations need not be true...
They should also remove comments at this point.
Access to tools is one thing, access to unfiltered large amounts of data (say: production database copies, backups, reporting tools that have themselves unfiltered access) are a real risk and should be handed out with great care and oversight.
Maybe the second deep link isn't working correctly, but look at the ICU beds used for COVID-19 patients graph. Also the first link. Also from yesterday: "Meanwhile, German authorities issued threats of a new lockdown, while a top virologist called for immediate action in the face of overburdened hospitals. ... Several hospitals have said in recent days that they are again working at their limits and have ICUs so full of COVID-19 patients that they cannot admit new patients at the moment. Charite said Tuesday it had to cancel planned surgeries due to the number of staff members caring for people with COVID-19. Authorities have said most of latest patients are unvaccinated."

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-digest-france-tightens-vac...

For every English article mentioning this situation, there are 100 in German.
I don't disagree with the overall point that it's likely that inflation will hurt a lot of economically vulnerable people.

I do think defining poor as unemployed is way too narrow. There are plenty of people who are employed and also poor.