skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eugenics proponents are finally being taken down.

Perhaps the most prominent is Margaret Sanger, found of Planned Parenthood. Hillary Clinton tried to rehabilitate her, but this failed. I understand PP is now offering belated apologies and is slowly erasing references to it's founder.
Toronto committee pushes to ban robots from sidewalks, bike paths
Note that when surnames came into existence, they were intended to distinguish their bearers from other people in the local area with the same first name. There's no point being called John English if you live in England and everyone else in your village whose name is John is also English, which is why the surnames English and England (and variants like Inglis) are more common in Scotland than in England.

Similarly, Smith is a common surname because smiths, while relatively common, were rare enough that a given community was unlikely to have two with the same first name. There were almost certainly more shepherds than smiths in England when surnames started becoming heritable, but the surname Shepherd is less common.
I can’t speak to what it’s been like in the past, but this summer there were appraisals for basic houses being picked up for $2K. We’re so short of appraisers in our area that they are coming from the other side of the state - and it seems to be worth their wile $$$. On average they are running $800/ house… could it be that the AMS is taking all the money and the appraiser doesn’t get much? Maybe?
> So, it's interesting to me, that, unless they have normalized for I&I somehow which is not apparent in their raw data, the true seasonal variation in concentration is actually understated.

Biobot says:

"We normalize the SARS-CoV-2 viral concentration to a fecal indicator, to account for differences in
dilution. We use PMMoV as this fecal indicator, which is an RNA virus that is commonly excreted in stool."

So they're effectively reporting on the ratio between SARS-CoV-2 and PMMoV concentration, which should be normalized for seasonal changes in dilution.
This is another book with Asciidoc that takes things a bit further: https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/using-sketch-and-ascii...
If weather were the next enemy, why not starting to tell people that weather can be weaponized or a weapon.
I personally like music videos. It's a celebration of the human spirit. A lot of music is the retelling of poetry, and videos add another angle to it, even if it's something goofy like Blink182's What's My Age Again.

Aristotle used to say that music and spectacle were a major part of drama, but music videos invert that and make the plot support the music.

Metallica really enjoy their storytelling, especially in live performances. You can tell they still haven't fully grasped Master of Puppets, so it's explored from different angles, from drug abuse to authoritarianism, from alternative metal to punk style rhythm. Metallica's One is more straightforward. There's a machine gun part that originally just emerged from the riff, but it's increasingly played up and synced with pyrotechnics.

Or if you don't want the showmanship, sometimes it's nice to just watch and listen to Avril or IU singing acoustic. Contrast the pop with their raw version. Take On Me is also a big inversion between their cheerful radio version to the sadder acoustic version.
> Ironically that's exactly because the artwork was not (referenced) on chain. If that was the case any subsequent copy would not be recognized as the original because of the timestamp and wouldn't have nearly the same value.

So the solution is that every artist mints every piece they create before showing it to anybody else. All because somebody decided that a "blockchain" is now what determines who created a piece of art. How convenient for the crypto holders.
Short breaks sound like what I need!

Spot on about working hard there, I'd probably end up learning or writing code most days in my break anyway, just not for an employer.

I'm pretty open to moving down into another company when my time comes (I change job roughly every 3-5 years, as good things take time to materialise). I'm in Australia where there are not as many (good) opportunities at this level (compared to the US) but I can travel once the new born is flight ready.
> The buds themselves have a design flaw wherein earwax will accumulate in its inner grille severely enough to significantly compromise bass response

Not to be glib, but maybe clean your ears more often? You can also take the tips off (invert, then pull) and blow them out from the back with canned air to clear the outer grilles which are integral with the eartip. As fine as those outer grilles are, you'd really have to have wax packed in there for it to extrude through to the inner grille.

I do this with mine, but only very occasionally, because my ear hygiene is such that wax very rarely even appears on the outer part of the tip, and almost never in the sound channel. I listen to a lot of podcasts and often run down one or the other bud by 60-80% in a single go, so it seems very reasonable to suggest that if serious wax problems were really that hard to avoid, I would run into them too.

(Of course, if you're using third-party tips without integral grilles - well, I suppose now we know why the original engineers saw fit to include them, you know?)
I can't help but think about POSIWID (the purpose of the system is what it does). This is not obvious for the stated purpose of the system. So what's the actual purpose?

Part of it's to make people feel powerful, like the person who gloried in busting people taking time off. Part of it's clearly conformance to plan, where people are rewarded for marking items in a list done, whether or not they were effective. And I'm sure there are executive metrics that hit targets, no matter how many unmeasured things get worse.

What else to people see?
well, it's pushed to page two now, even though it has a higher score and lower age than some other still-frontpaged posts. but it doesn't say flagged
Re normalization: see this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29468598
How Is AI Accelerating DevOps?
Oh, thanks! Feature list looks very impressive, gotta check it out. I use chocolatey as the package manager for Windows, is scoop more targeted at unix-like utils? Any plans to release komorebi on choco?
Applying for a new job shouldn't be this stressful & them being so unprepared is absurd considering the company.
It definitely speaks volumes about the environment that you will be subjected to for 8+ hours a day & its fair that you choose not to put up with it.
I have also experienced having to quit shortly after starting a new job, I soon realized that my efforts were not going to be matched or acknowledged in a place where there was little to no organization & the supervisor could treat you as he pleased, if he even allowed you to speak to him that is since he was always so "busy". :s
Generating a Realistic 3D World
It actually did. Very few people are needed to do basic farm labor compared to 150 years ago, and way more people are in jobs that involve minimal manual labor and instead necessitate education.
I feel this is true, but more to the philosophical point. I remember reading an article where the Toyota factory employees are giggling because the American companies that try to study them are so obsessed about the actual manufacturing process instead of the central idea. To me, the central idea in Kaizen revolves around trust and flexibility instead of efficiency and "metrics" tracking.

This creates what seems to be opposing practices while in actuality is consistent. They abstract platforms, but have SWAT-like teams to provide custom tooling for the assembly workers for incremental improvements (Directly on the floor, <1 day feedback loop[0], not supplier/consulting tenders with >1y timeline). Every worker are encouraged to improve the process at least 2 times a month.

Another example of flexibility > efficiency is the Toyota practice of having flexible factories that's responsive to demand (to cover for peaks of certain models) instead of every factory has to be a hyper-efficient factory for select models[1]. Having buffer and flexibility (spare capacity) > fragile efficiency.

Software development can't map to assembly line, of course. Agile (the manifesto) maps very closely to the initial principle of trusting the developer and customer/user/domain expert and being flexible (deliver incrementally and iterate many times). Derivatives like Scrum seems to miss the point from me.

If you're interested to see how it works day to day in a modern manufacturing company, take a look at FastCap and their YouTube channel[2]. It seems obsessive around incremental improvements, but I think the Software industry need to take note and develop our own way to make the SDLC be less painful.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5GzHHE3udU

[1]: https://www.thedrive.com/tech/26955/inside-toyotas-takaoka-2...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqtKKkastWk
Please reinvent ActiveRecord in JS
> NFTs don't necessarily represent ownership of the underlying asset

They don’t ever.
It's generally understood on HN that when someone says "I work at X" that they are not speaking on behalf of the company.

On top of that, Kenton is a frequent commenter here, and I've never gotten the "air of superiority" vibe from him where such verbosity would be necessary.
I do those in daily stand-ups and other meetings. Does wonders!
Oh nice, thanks for letting me know! I can stop forcing it to desktop mode by default heh.
Everybody's got a water buffalo. Yours is fast but mine is slow!
It's actually a substantive money saver in a shared compute environment. Running Windows RDS or VDA solutions, you can actually watch CPU and RAM reductions across the board by deploying uBlock Origin.
C++ in the Linux Kernel
What statements do you feel he should be held accountable for that he is not? Please quote.
Those are 3 advantages
People have been trying to get low or no code solutions to work for a very long time now. The problem is that they a) they tend to be limited in the scope of the problems they’re appropriate for, and b) if you try to solve really complicated issues with them, you usually run into the same difficulty problems that you do with regular coding.
>Delta has been documented to result in higher viral loads and this is thought to be a factor behind the increased transmissibility.

has it ? I've seen this claim made over and over, w/out documentation.

I've seen documentation of higher nasal swab loads, but not higher systemic circulating virus. Higher upper respiratory loads (e.g. mucosal) would also lead to increased transmissibility, but not higher waste water levels.
Most insightful comment here IMHO.

Vaguely reminiscent of the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars, I'd rather not buy from anyone involved
The next great game: Politicians vs. tech companies
Ah yes, Rocksmith+ that requires a subscription to use, and will not work if you are not connected to the internet (i.e. if your subscription lapses, your purchase is worthless). It's now been delayed until 2022, I wonder if the feedback made them realize that while the board may love the idea of mandatory subscriptions, customers hate it.
Right, it's not only the methanol that you want to discard, there's acetone, and other nasties too.
I did some searching and also asked a doctor (though not an ENT) about it and the overall response was that you should not be be overzealous about cleaning out ear wax unless it’s a medical condition.
One of the first places I actually hit a painted door was from stoplight.io, they had a "share" button and when I clicked it, they sent me to a whole other feedback site to vote.

I aim to make this a very seamless process for others to implement with Samelogic. The UX of voting right within the product and have that sent out to your product management tools decreases our feedback loop time as we're reducing the friction for feedback collection.
> I'm waiting for Enhpase or Tesla, or someone to come out with an AC Coupled grid tie battery that has full generator support.

Enphase either already supports this, or is very close. Their current gateway device (smart transfer switch) for their Encharge 3 / Encharge 10 AC-coupled batteries has connections for a generator and I know the installation manuals on their site describe what kinds of generators are supported and how to wire them up. If they don't officially support that configuration yet it's only a matter of time.
Learned to drive (a long time ago) in PA and now live in CO. You’re right it’s all weird.

In PA, red arrow is just a regular red light that happens to be in a turn-only lane. All laws are the same as normal red light, the lane marking restrict your movement.

In CO, red arrow means stop and no turn on red regardless of lane markings.

Just about all traffic control laws are standardized federally except lights. That feels like the most important one to reduce confusion.
The company could let employees in on key decision making and thus not create the environment of distrust and paranoia. Why is it ever a surprise how the company is doing? Solely, solely to keep employees ignorant of matters concerning their livelihoods. A company has the choices it cultivates for itself.
https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook
Other assets classes can absorb billions of dollars because that's not a lot of money to them while it's a ton for Bitcoin.
The Lab Leak Fiasco
I'll do it for 20k.
You're not wrong, but sometimes simple formats aren't as simple as they look. It sounds like what you want is basically a format like /etc/os-release:

NAME="Rocky Linux"
VERSION="8.5 (Green Obsidian)"
ID="rocky"
ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora"
VERSION_ID="8.5"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="Rocky Linux 8.5 (Green Obsidian)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:rocky:rocky:8.5:GA"
HOME_URL="https://rockylinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.rockylinux.org/"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky Linux"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8"

On the surface this seems great, but those quotation marks are kind of annoying. Is it possible there's an escape syntax that's used in case the name also includes quotes? eg VERSION="8.5 (Green \"Aqua\" Obsidian)"? Is it also possible you can embed newlines in between the quotes too? Who knows... Thankfully with JSON there is a simple spec.
> Another is that you are driving a potential weapon and a dangerous machine.

> It's simply a better system even if not perfect.

Americans also like guns a lot more than is sane so you might not be convincing them. I've heard many people say they prefer big cars because they know if something goes wrong, its the other guy who gets hurt.
I believe that the rule goes that for any popular "story" based subreddit with no verification, assume that 99% of the content is False. The more popular the subreddit, the faster this converges. These villain-based story subs typically come with a nice template of "X did Y to me, Y is obviously bad, I responded".
That'd have been a neat co-branding opportunity!

SuperH competed with 68k and mips, perhaps? What do you think made the others more successful than SuperH? I suppose I dont know for sure that they were but I'll guess at least 68k lasted longer.
I have a long list of "thank you"s for gorhill. This guy is responsible for keeping me mentally sane in today's web.
This gets particularly amusing when the conspiracy theorists start saying that Shakespeare's plays must have been written by Marlowe.

They were born only a couple of months apart and had the same sort of background- the sons of skilled craftsmen working with leather (Marlowe's father was a shoemaker) who attended their local grammar school.

Both schools still exist- King's School Canterbury is a much more prestigious institution than King Edward VI School Stratford these days, but I'm not sure how much of a difference there is then.

The course of their lives diverged in their late teens- while Marlowe obtained a scholarship to study at Cambridge, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in some haste as she was pregnant with his daughter...
Actually the opposite thing happens in the stock market. The shareholders vote on the board of directors and the board of directors pay the CEO mostly based on the stock price going up. One way they do that is buying back shares. Another way is buy making money via positive cashflow and giving dividends to the share holders.

Bitcoin has negative cashflow, the only way it goes up is by more people putting money into it. I'm not saying that is a bad thing. Picasso paintings also have negative cashflow when you account for storage and security of the art. The only way a Picasso goes up in value is if more people with more money want to buy one. It is unfair to call Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme because no one calls a Picasso a Ponzi scheme.
Two things about YouTube: (1) they are different to most sites in that they'll let you pay to remove the ads (which I do), but (2) for some reason all the ads they showed me I actually found very useful and were for products I genuinely wanted - if I had infinite time in my life I would have watched the ads, but I don't, so (1).
Do following exercise.

Park parallel to a road with slow traffic.

Observe cars coming from behind you as they transition from rear view mirror to side mirror to your peripheral vision.

Make your own decision on what is right or not (it is your safety anyway).

I prefer to have two small blind spots that can't fit a cyclist in either of them than one larger that can fit a small car.
I like the piano analogy.

A really bad pianist will maybe hit some if the notes correctly sometimes. Like a really bad software developer through sheer luck might hit copy and paste shortcuts on the right stackoverflow post from time to time. But you will fire both very fast.

A good enough pianist will proba ly hit all the right notes most of the time. Like a good enough software developer who will write software that works most of the time because he hit the right keys most of time. Probably a combination of being reasonably good at finding the right stackoverflow posts most of the time and some general knowledge of ifs and for loops.

Then there's the pianist that that actually feels the music on the sheet. That doesn't just read the sterile notes on the sheet. Or a software developer that writes readable, maintainable code in 'no time'.

Theres a nice TED talk on this topic. I think he compares pianists of various ages to show this. Benjamin Zander, a famous conductor. Worth the watch even if you don't like classical music if you ask me.

https://www.ted.com/speakers/benjamin_zander
I would not be surprised if the person on the other end of that conversation would take poorly to the existing contributions made to it by people who have publicly identified themselves as Cloudflare employees.
That is exactly the procedure I am using.
I remember how Hacker News laughed at Facebook during its IPO. Hacker News are also against Google, TikTok, Snap, Instagram all the time.

Investing against the popular opinions of Hacker News is an easy way to get rich.
It maybe a good framework for writing applications, but since so much of the tech industry has run away from it for years it hasn't kept up on other areas like deployments and debugging. Lots of things are 3-5 years old.

I also liked it about eight years ago, but the developers still using it like to use all the sugar and auto-magic. Which leads to spaghetti code.
> Is this satire?

No. It's the fancy Sonicare. I'm the kind of person whose brain is shut off when I'm going to bed, and given that I have dental issues, something that coaches me in good brushing is well worth it.

The toothbrush is great. The app needs a lot of improvement. A good friend who is a dentist just uses the toothbrush without the app.

FWIW: For years I used the $10 Sonicare that uses AA batteries. Turns out the motor is different and the vibrations are different. (My periodontist can point me to actual academic studies comparing the two toothbrushes.) I can't wait for the patents to run out because a toothbrush like this shouldn't be ultra expensive and rely on an app written by amateurs.
Knew you were from Australia as soon as you mentioned your old speed.

100Mbps isn't great for fibre. I'm on 100Mbps just on plain old HFC.
I think these are great examples of voluntary "advertising" yourself and inadvertently the brand. I remember coming across examples where even school children would get sucked into competitions for drawings that included implicit brand advertising.
This begs the question though: Did her colleague truly believe that a client keeps a record of all DNS records for the entire internet? This is the unspoken result of a belief that DNS is push vs pull.

Otherwise, this is just a simple misunderstanding about which systems are clients in the relationship, which I suppose is less fun to write a blog about.
Fun game, what does svg2newyork do and is it better than svg2texas?
llvm has a cool tool to statically evaluate your code on a model scheduler [1]. Not sure how many backends are supported beyond x86, but it looks pretty handy.

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.html
There's also the podcast ‘No Such Thing as a Fish’, by four of the writers of QI. It's a mix of trivia and buffoonery—pretty much like the TV show, just with a more small-room feel.
didn't china already ban mining lmao
You could just set up a NAS and a Plex server to do the transcoding for you. In all my years I have personally never had any issues. I have had to struggle with x265 once or twice, and even then I just found a different non x265 torrent and went with that. Not that hard, there are often 10 torrents for a single show, each of varying compressions and qualities.

And I bet that you can find anything you could ever want on nyaa. If an anime/manga exists, it almost certainly is on nyaa, unless it is highly obscure in which case it may not even be there on paid streams.
my heart goes out to all the victims of abuse, but not the ones that one time were on an email chain and their bosses-boss called the team they were on a bunch of "dumb dolphins"
How are these maps generated. I see a reference to Hillbert curves, but was generated with code?

Interested in using this myself.
The reason the properties are cheap is because the government isn’t pro NIMBY bullshit. That has nothing to do with liberal views. Even the deep red states have college towns with cheap housing if you can’t stand to live in a place where there are people with different views from you.
I wonder if you could replace most of these with roundabouts...
I think a lot of us have run into this exact clause because of Oracle and then other database vendors. We are well aware of what happens when you violate one of these clauses.
> I knew you would get downvoted

Hold on though. You don't have the full context/relationship between GP and the people who downvoted them. It would be irresponsible for you to jump to conclusions about Hackernews or those commenters based on just a one-line grayed out comment.
In general, the situation is the exact opposite: companies want to claim authority, but when an employee makes a statement they don’t like they want to have the deniability of “oh they weren’t representing us, if you want our real opinion please talk to our spokesperson”. Corporate PR is a strange mix of wanting engagement but also being incredibly risk-averse, and it’s very different from how people typically communicate.
> their post doesn't come off like mud-slinging, at all.

The post's current title is Lies, damned lies... and the article's synopsis is,

> This nonsensical conclusion provides a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead. Read on for an analysis of Cloudflare’s testing methodology, and the results of a more scientific and useful comparison.

That is definitely mud-slinging.
Cool! Is there a good starting point for instructions on porting to a new architecture?
I took my driving test in Boston, in the snow, and still got involved in an accident in the suburbs in winter. I generally think i'm an apt "city driver" which yes, is a different skill, but really doesn't translate very well to the rest of the roads.