skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing. It doesn’t make me feel good if all I give is money.

I generally won’t give anyone money that I don’t know at all. Yet what I try to do when I meet people in the street is give them dignity by just speaking to them like they’re human.

I’ll almost always offer a cigarette and after a bit of conversation my compassion is usually stirred to give them a few bucks or buy them some subway or something. But yeah doesn’t “fix” the problem. I feel like the fix though does start as seeing them as people who for all you know are doing better and more good given their circumstances then others who currently have more would do if they were in the same situation.
This treatment is after they get infected. Do you understand what that means? There is no causal chain of events where the pills are better than the vaccine. If the vaccine kills you then so will the virus. If the vaccine doesn't kill you then your chances of death are now significantly lower. You are more likely to die in a car crash than from the vaccine.

All the pills are going to do is convince some suckers to pay up for a treatment that they could have avoided if they'd gotten a free vaccine. There are no situations in which the pills are any better, all they do is lower the chances of death when people inevitably get infected because they refused to get the vaccine. At best the pills are a palliative measure which I guess is better than nothing but is not a substitute for a vaccine.

Anyway, I'm done with this thread. We're not getting anywhere.

These pills are not even a long term solution. Repeatedly using them introduces mutations in human DNA:

> A drug that’s so good at messing with viral RNA has led some to ask whether it messes with human DNA, too. (Merck’s trial excluded pregnant and breast-feeding women, and women of childbearing age had to be on contraceptives.) This is a long-standing concern about antiviral drugs that introduce genomic errors. A recent study suggests that molnupiravir, taken at high doses and for extended periods, can, in fact, introduce mutations into DNA.

So every dosing regiment of the pills means you are upping your chances of getting cancer. This is exactly the type of trade-off I would expect to be made by people who have no clue how vaccines work.
I imagine the builders of inflated balloon house going are saying 'hub hub' all the time
FWIW the "bloodstream injection" claim is related to a dubious study that intentionally injected an excessive amount of the vaccine into the bloodstream of lab animals and observed heart issues. So we're not just talking about "accidental bloodstream injections" (which is extremely unlikely to begin with) but also massively overdosing by orders of magnitude.
See also zomes.com and geoship.is
High-Performing DevOps Teams [Part 1]
Wouldn't the 2 Is be different characters than the ASCII I and therefore each be subject to different capitilazation rules?
As a person who has talked about weather with neighbors... It's not necessarily about being uncomfortable. All small talk has a subtext, and in this case I think it's something like:

"Hi neighbor, it's nice to see a familiar face. I'm glad to see that you are alive and well, as am I. I am still a normal non-creepy person who lives near you & who cares that you are doing well. If you ever find yourself in a jam eg. locked out, I'll try to help you, and hope I can rely on you to do the same for me. But I don't necessarily want to be your friend, and I realize that you have other things going on at the moment, so I won't bother or distract you with a conversation that takes longer than an elevator trip or requires emotional vulnerability or introspection."

I think we don't say these things in these words because it takes too long, and it requires engaging with someone on a more personal/honest/vulnerable level than they may really be comfortable with given that I'm basically a total stranger.
Congratulations you made me make an account.

Do you have any sources for that story?
I would be interested in reading them because what you are describing sounds so idiotic that it seems like a parody of anti-communist talking points.
To be fair, a determined child with a sharp tool can ruin most houses.

A few years ago, the neighbor kid from where my parents live made a hole in a wall of his room leading to outside.
How so? The fight for animal liberation is the same as any other rights movement. It’s easy to see how those aren’t very destructive.

Also, you misunderstand: you shouldn’t care because I do. You should care because it’s right. Whether or not I personally believe it is irrelevant to anyone else’s moral obligations.
https://archive.md/04FhK
In the property case, my understanding is that people cannot take your property, this you are permitted to defend your property.

In the positive rights case, the state extends property protection via the law and police, thereby implicitly granting you property rights. This is a grant, and you are not allowed to defend your own property?

That's my rough reading of ops text.
> Strong Towns has been around 12 years, has a huge audience, and is a sponsor and promoter of Not Just Bikes.

St might have a huge audience amongst professional city planners, but in the “public consciousness” NJB is what popularised both ST’s concepts and knowledge of ST as an organisation.

NJB is closing in on half a million subscribers and has 11 vids above a million (one above 3), by comparison ST’s youtube channel is under 20k subs and their biggest video is 10 years old and has 350k views. Their 2 STROAD videos follow with 60k each, NJB’s top stroad video has 1.3m views. Hell, 3 videos of NJB’s “strong towns” series have more views than the entire strong towns channel.

The “bicycle dutch” channel is larger than ST, and it’s essentially a cycling vlog.

You say that ST is a sponsor and promoter of NJB, but NJB has a much larger lay audience and regularly plugs donating to strong towns.
For me Agile is a sort of branded common sense, the programming equivalent of bottled mineral water. I did a scrum course, and the summary is basically "do small bits of work at a time, get feedback on whether it's the right thing". Perhaps also "keep track of the tasks and think about which ones matter", and "communicate and be accountable". All of which are the kind of advice that people get in school, yet don't follow, so maybe it's not entirely crazy to rehash.

But that doesn't sell any courses, and isn't nearly enough to fill out a paperback sized book. So we end up with a bunch of stories about waterfall projects that went wrong somewhere in the FBI or Obamacare, which is not to say they're bad examples, just that perhaps the real question is how a project that tries to break itself down into manageable chunks fails to do so.

We also get planning poker type things, or prescriptions about how often the team needs a standup, or the need for a PO and a SM, and various too-specific things that aren't going to fit every team.
At part 3 now, and it's great. I feel like I might finally learn what all the arcane stuff in the manuals actually mean. Most of the Nix documentation is like reading ASCII EBNF or research papers. This, on the other hand, has just the right amount of snark:

>> A store path Q is reachable from another store path P if Q is in the closure of the references relation.
>
> Good definition. Intuitive term.
I've tried to learn nix and tried to read various documentation. The problem was that there was always a piece of information missing. That was until I've found the nix pills which are a pretty good and structured introduction on people interested in building packages with nix.
Kuala, a marketplace to sell your Accounts Receivable Invoices
are there satellites in geostationary orbits directly above these embassies? we could find them pretty easy, couldn't we?
How did this get funded? What's the game plan here?
Not really? On a language level, sure, but with native IO, web workers, shared memory and Node.js clusters, I don't think it's fair to say JavaScript has no concurrency.
It is hard enough (impossible?) to discriminate between living and dead matter. Counciousness does not simplify things. When choosing the correct action in our daily life requires solving harder problems than whether P=NP I think the only requirement is that we try.
It doesn't matter. You aren't allowed to install after market converters on vehicles in california. Currently it takes 1-2 months to get one in the first place and then two weeks for installation. During that time the insurance company is paying for your rental and you are out a deductable. After 30 days you pay 1k per month for a rental at the insurance rate. During all this you are out time and money driving back and forth dealing with the problem. In all after work opportunity lost you are easily out 5-10k while the criminal barely nets a few hundred bucks. If it's a new Honda your car is depreciating in value while you can't even use it.

There's a reason why we give people the right to defend their life and property with violence. It keeps people civil.

Hell we let people get away with mowing down jaywalkers in LA. Why is it any different for a thief?

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/catalytic-converter...

By the way a new converter for a Honda is 3k right now. We didn't even discuss repairs and missed work from having to deal with it.

Sounds easy with a tech income. Not so much when you're working a minimum wage gig.
It's orders of magnitude easier to architect modular monolith than to build, test, deploy and manage a distributed system (e.g. microservices).
I think Nix's complexity is a failure. I love the concept of Nix, but I'll wait until there's something simpler to learn.
Not a web framework but running a local docker registry uses port 5000 by default
Ahoy videos are of very high quality, and this one is no exception!
Gustaf Alstromer – How to Get Users and Grow (2018)
ByteDance Is Reportedly Shutting Down Its Edtech Business in India
This was what I've thought, until I've realised that SDS is for enterprise (aka Xeon) processors.
In practice, new cities, when that even happens, doesn't happen out of thin air either, not in the US at least. We don't build cities (too much infrastructure investment required), but even when we do, they don't go from 0-100 mph and go from being a small sleepy town into a city overnight. History of a place thus dictates what the future of it will look like. How we build cities, effectively, involves decreasing traffic capacity in some places. Strongtowns.org has a large number of other changes, not just limiting stroads.
Grapheme clusters and no. Let’s see if anyone has a different interpretation or unsupported use-case.
Super excited for the second sexual revolution after we cure STDs
Depends what you mean by art.

“High art”, where each piece is supposed to have meaning and advance a narrative with critics? Sure, algorithms can’t do that yet.

But for most people, art is just something they like looking at, and algorithms are great for producing that.

Also, the criticism that this isn’t good art because they all look kind of the same, is the same criticism levelled at human-produced pop music or trash fiction.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised to soon see an algorithm capable of producing a novel-length text of similar quality to that on sale at airport bookshops.
I don't have any scientific papers, but I can tell you it's frequent to read in the local newspaper here (east of France) about some cardiac problem on amateur football (soccer) fields.

The last I read last week the guy's heart stopped 2 times before he could be rushed to the hospital.

There's also a list that is circulating on social medias of celebrities that had problems after their vaccines.

Is it linked? I don't know, but before the vaccines these kind of problems were almost unheard of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Manufacturing_Format#Sample...

It's not the dumbest engineering data format I've seen (seen many, this is at least one you can parse).

But ffs, just use HDF5 people.
Capitalise on a Chaotic Christmas
oddly enough, in Italy there will be a protest, but it's none of the people listed in the article: there will be a strike from _drivers_ who deliver on behalf of Amazon[0].

Actual amazon logistics employees already have an agreement with the local unions and I assume won't protest[1].

[0] https://www.open.online/2021/11/13/amazon-sciopero-black-fri...

[1] https://www.corriere.it/economia/lavoro/21_settembre_15/amaz...
They also have programs to tackle drug addiction. The effects can't be attributed solely on the death penalty when trafficking. If that worked, we'd have no murders in US states where it yields death penalty.
I wonder why nobody just changes these regulations. Sure it's difficult and you won't get a majority in most places, but I find it hard to understand why not at least some cities designate a small area as a "model community" and relax zoning and parking requirements.
You can't put geostationary satellites over random points of the globe, they have to be over the equator.
I'm down to discuss application of distributed technologies and various consensus mechanisms for concrete use cases. But cryptocurrency has been debated to death and now needs to prove itself. DAOs without currency would be interesting to talk about, DAOs with currency is just Feudalism redone - and feudalism isn't an interesting technology to me personally.

Edit: I'm also down to discuss interesting cryptocurrency project with clear and theses, not just "change the world". I'd be interested in a federated Cryptocurrency that is meant to be easily "self hosted" in small communities and has a mechanism to convert between these communities according to rules/exchange rate set by each community - with the final consensus mechanism rooted in the social sphere. I'd be interested in discussing cryptocurrency with a built in decay rate once received, to test the idea of inflation driving investment.

Thinking about it, there's lots of interesting discussions to have, but nobody is having them. I guess I need to modify my statement to saying that the discussions that people in the cryptocurrency community want to have are boring because they are all rooted in the "anarcho"-capitalist perspective and that angle has run out of interesting things (in my eyes)
Right now, It's like this -- Ajahn Chah/Ajahn Sumedho
K has this: http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/index.html?run=%20a%3A%3Ab*c...

a::b*c; b:2; c:3; a results in a being equal to 6, and if you update b or c a will update too.
I hope you're not advocating the return of the portmapper?
It’s a matter of keeping your work environment clean and orderly and to separate different parts into different areas.
As I understand it, the problem is that you need to define “sentient” somehow, and whatever definition you come up with should be applied consistently to all organisms. If you want to capture all the organisms you think should be called sentient, trees are sentient according to that definition.
That's some victim blaming right there. If a project has tech debt it is because of management decisions 9/10. They are the ones promising higher management some feature would get done by The Date(tm) without consulting with development if that is feasible. Development then buys time with tech debt (cutting corners, copy pasting, not writing docs/tests).

Then things start getting delayed because developers are paying the "interest" (i.e. regressions due to bad tests) on that original "debt" that was paid to give management what they wanted.
I don't think any American city or police department knows what vision zero is. They frequently include the words "vision zero" in their plans or posts, but then car crash deaths continue as normal or even increase.

Using Los Angeles as an example:

https://ladotlivablestreets.org/programs/vision-zero

https://laist.com/news/transportation/2020-traffic-deaths-lo... for the graphic "Traffic violence in Los Angeles" showing the increase since Vision Zero was adopted.

Then you have enforcement issues like jaywalking laws, the wording and culture around collisions and referring to them as "accidents", etc.

The entire country was REbuilt (US cities were not always like this) around the car. Until that changes, no city will reach Vision Zero.
“Full name” has a minimum length of 1.
I think this would mainly depend on making the vehicle vacuum safe, that is the batteries and all cooling circuits. If they did, it could work reasonably well (with properly studded tires).
Of course, but 10 hours is enough to be very competitive with readers for most use cases. It's enough that if you go away for a weekend and forget your charge cable, and your main use is reading ebooks, most people would be just fine. It makes it much more competitive than anyone could assume before it came out.
From my understanding, this microcode may and will change between processors, so you lose the possibility of running your code on more than specific CPU type / generation.
still no async orm support
These files are pretty much an OOXML file, same structure and even has a [Content_Types].xml
Why is it that the US military has different physical fitness standards for men and women ? Shouldn't standards be gender neutral ?

Men must complete a three-mile run within 18 minutes to get a maximum score on that portion of the PFT, while women younger than 40 have up to 21 minutes.

For Marines between 17 and 20 years old, men must do 20 pullups to get a maximum score; women must do seven.

On the CFT, men must lift a 30-pound ammunition can between 106 and 120 times within two minutes to get a max score. Women must lift the can between 66 and 75 times for a maximum score.

If the standards are un-equal discrimination is natural.
Note: For those who haven’t read it, this article makes numerous references to the Foundation trilogy of books by Isaac Asimov.
What did the monks who could see them do though? Died from thirst?
This makes total sense. Whenever I'm asked to give total feedbacks, I find it challenging, however, when I ask people for feedbacks myself, I wonder why they find it so hard to say their opinion. The points mentioned in this article made things clear.
That is absolutely not comparable and equates to FUD. In a healthy and normally operating ecosystem hierarchies of animals exist and make sure the ecosystem stays in balance. Yes, there are predators killing octopuses and crabs out there in the wild, but it's not to sell them in underwater restaurants and boutiques for a hefty markup to finance the underwater economy. Every animal that kills other animals, apart from humans, does so either for nutritional or recreational reasons. If it's the latter, it is never out of proportion. You don't see a wolf population completely eliminating a population of [animal in a lower hierarchy], they will reduce their population but never endanger the species themselves. What humans are doing is exactly that: we are killing such huge amounts of different species, tagt we are often enda
I was clearly implying that there has to be another apartment on top of yours (so, a 3 floors building). If you compare ground floor vs top floor, then ground floor wins hands on, I agree.
Ownership is managed through the chain of copyright. Not the blockchain.
Thieves are not one big homogeneous population, consisting of lazy ne'er-do-well people that simply don't feel like working - it's incredibly complex.

Yes - there's organized crime, where theft is basically just part of their business, but on the other hand you've got junkies, desperate poor people, people that are marginalized and completely locked out of the workforce, etc.

I think the Opioid epidemic is a shining example of how companies can legally turn normal citizens into addicts, and down the road into full-blown junkies. Then you get all the problems with petty crime, that's related to this lifestyle.

One of many examples where profits trumps human life, and where the criminal justice system has to deal with the aftermath.
Adele wants you to listen to her album in order, and Spotify agrees
Amazon now almost has Black Friday month, since I think the 8th they had "Early Black Friday" deals, since yesterday it’s "Black Friday Week", and after BF it will be "Cyber Monday Week".
The Saudi women’s rights activist who found freedom and horror on the internet
> Most countries with good social safety nets also come with good rule of law and enforcement.

The US has good rule of law and enforcement. Even SF, as much as people complain about it, has historically low crime rates. Police stats show crime hasn't drastically increased, but videos of crimes are being shared virally, increasing the perception of crime. The police haven't been defunded, the prosecution rates for most crimes are similar to before Chesa (some are higher, and others are lower, but none are drastically lower). The most visible issue is the crime rings that are wiping out stores, and those crime rings are profitable enough to pay much higher than a living wage, which is attractive for desperate people.

This isn't a non-sequitur. You're looking at countries that have good social nets and saying they also have good law enforcement, but if you look at countries with poor social safety nets and high crime rates, they also have tend to have tough crime enforcement. The common thing across countries with low crime rates, is good social safety nets.
this looks interesting: https://github.com/rednaks/django-async-orm
Bringing Async Capabilities to django ORM
Singles Day is starting to take hold in Germany as well, hundreds of shops already celebrated it.
What does this mean in practice? By this definition, surely normal farm animals are sentient, but they are eaten, experimented on and frightfully frequently abused, so... what’s the change?
It seems a good trick. It works on kids, it also works on aggressors. Just the other day girls at work discussed self defense and apparently they've been taught to throw a reflex slap to anybody trying to jump them just to send confusion. There's a weird thing about humans and their behavior where a lot of intense ones seems like semi-programmed feedback loops.
My take on the 'string like types' languages should have:

# Simple indexed access (often an array, possibly an array of arrays)

raw / octets -- Not-classified sequence of raw bytes

# Fancy strings, which MAY be validated (but don't have to be), and MAY stay validated (if the operations are known to be simple enough), and MAY also have multiple types of index for speedy access to specific points by raw byte, unit run of encoded components, complete display units (a single displayed element), or even a cached last known render left bound on an output.

UTF-8 / WTF8 / UTF8 / ASCII -- A fancy string with octet components of possibly multi-byte (variable) length

UCS-2 / USC-16 / etc -- A legacy string encoding format that no one should use as it too is variable length but suffers from endien confusion in raw data storage.

In an object based language the latter two would probably use the first as a raw storage mechanism for the strings, while they'd also have some associated attributes for the desired encoding, if it's validated, how it is known to be normalized, and storage for different index aids.

Crucially the system libraries should have the same interface. If there isn't library support for converting / normalizing encoded text the results should always be raw octets. If library support is included then WTF8 should probably be the result target of any operations, possibly upgraded to UTF-8 if the results are theoretically still valid.
> Replacing property is still depriving others, just in aggregate

Not if the original property is retrieved or the thief is made to pay.

I'm not sure in the context of this discussion, the worth of a human life, that your plea to consider where stuff comes from is that important.
This wiki is a treasure trove. Thank you for publishing it!
Futon, originally, designate the japanese bed, not the weird couch bed hybrid the author is talking about.
It's not meant to be used as a couch but, often, to be folded so that it can be stored while the bedroom can be used for other purposes