skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harvard as some sort of historical meritocracy? I really can't agree.
I think one problem is that with small websites run by a single person or small group, a person can feel the website is an extension of herself. So a question about the website in some way becomes a question about the person.
The war over Chinese Wikipedia is a warning for the open internet
I've been on Linode for going on 15 years now. I've hosted a myriad of projects for myself and clients there without significant issues. For $corporatejob all of our assets are in AWS or Azure but my own stuff is on Linode.
Over here (Australia) I’d say that banking and medicine do.

Bank branches have greeters who figure out whether you need a longer appointment or a teller; doctors have receptionists.

Even airlines (which have cut support staff) still have air host(esse)s who will help you in flight.
Do you have to set up the triggers, tables, and procedures beforehand or how does that work?
Aside from the point that most dams don't produce a ton of power, salmonid spawning in the ecosystem also adds nitrogen to banks that encourages vegetation growth, which is beneficial in many ways for both our water supply (e.g. shade helps prevent evaporative losses, trees provide beavers opportunity to build habitat to increase net groundwater storage) and for carbon sequestration via plant growth. The American west has a drought resilience problem and restoring salmon/trout/beaver habitat can be an effective way to attack the problem on several levels. Dams are particularly damaging to Salmonids, both by acting as spawning barriers AND by warming the water to a level that can make survival difficult (salmonids need cold water).

Look at dams like Oroville and Hoover now -- despite producing a lot of electricity, they are not resilient to drought, and river systems lose a lot of drought resistance when you add dams. When you dam a river, you slow and warm the water -- this threatens entire ecosystems adapted to survival where the river runs.

Particularly in salmonid / coldwater fish habitats, dams are pretty damaging. If you want to learn more about the subject, there are a lot of books & documentaries about the Eel river that are worth reading and watching -- the Eel is a good case study in what happens when you dam a river, and what happens when you un-dam it.
Could it not be that it corresponds with family income because intelligent, hard working people tend to pass on those genes to their children?
I think there's a scale issue here - if they email an entity that the CCPA actually applies to (for profit, >$25mil revenue, etc.) then it's likely going to a customer service rep who has a policy to follow and doesn't have any skin in the game, and at that point I'd agree it's not really a human experiment. Like if they emailed google with these questions, I wouldn't bat an eye.

When they email a single person who runs a website, that's very different.
You’re not wrong, you’re just missing the point. It’s that laws should be enforced by people, not by machines.
I remember Sococo. As an employee of a company that used it, I hated the damn thing.

This virtual anime simulated office is just a really bad metaphor. Skeuomorphism taken to the worst extreme.

Slack channels make much more sense.
It’s probably shorter material and from many disparate subjects in a short time?
I wanted to try it out and... there is no easy way to execute JS on an Android phone with Chrome, unlike on a laptop.
Webapp.io people: I really don't get how your service works, exactly. I see the broad strokes, but I don't know how it will fit my own use cases, because I cannot see how it would integrate with my architecture or workflows. Please create some more diagrams with actual examples of all the use cases you hint at on your website but don't actually show examples of (other than your config file examples, which do not answer any of my questions). Even if I could use your thing at work, I won't even try now, because I can't see how it would apply, and I don't want to spend an hour digging into your tech docs to figure out if it would apply.
Yes, I think that ritual is something like collaborative art. People feel good when they play a part in something beautiful. And as I think you alluded to, seeing something greater than yourself can be a very inspirational thing.
Next-Gen Graphics Finally Arrive [Unreal Engine 5] [video]
Here are some short answers:

- The cliff is when you begin to actually own your stock options.

- You (typically) need a liquidity event e.g., an acquisition or IPO or similar in order to actually sell your options, so even though you will own them soon, you (typically) cannot actually decide when to realize the benefit of selling them.

- I say typically above because it completely depends on your company's equity agreement, and the details vary quite a bit from one to the next.

- You can value the equity and determine the price per share you would need for it to hit by knowing a total valuation of the company and what percentage of it you own on a fully diluted basis.

- Whether that amount is life-changing or not is fairly unique to the individual, but of actually getting to that stage is pretty uncommon unless you are either a founder or otherwise own a significant percentage of the company.

- It's difficult to generalize about what most people do with respect to choosing to exercise when they leave a company because: (1) every situation is unique, and (2) the data is very private. You can imagine that a very high percentage of startups fail, so you essentially have to place a bet on whether you think your startup will succeed or fail, and if they do succeed, will they do significantly enough to provide a meaningful return against your cost. There are also tax consequences associated with the timing of exercising.

This guide from Holloway is an excellent canonical reference on startup equity compensation compiled from many, many experienced people in tech. Well worth the $25. You may be able to find a promo code etc to make it even cheaper, but what you're asking are all common questions that are well addressed in it.

https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation/about

I don't know of an equally high quality open source repository of knowledge or I would point you there as well, but I do highly recommend the guide and think the value it provides is far beyond its price point.
Here is my writeup: https://christine.website/blog/princeton-study-2021-12-17
What confused me is that the effect does not actually require the circuit to go through the resistor/lightbulb. Instead of thinking in terms of a delay, you could just have the switch and power supply in their own closed circuit, and the resistor alone with maybe an antenna to boost the effect.
Be careful not to confuse average load with peak instantaneous load. Bursty workloads are the bane of capacity planners everywhere.
It's actually a full-stack framework. The Remix build process effectively splits it into a separate frontend and backend, though single files have both bits of code
It enforces pro social behavior. Something that doesn’t come to humans naturally.
> We could probably add some SSG functionality very easily, but it’s just not that compelling when you can run your app at the edge for pennies. I mean seriously. You sacrifice so much flexibility when you prerender everything. But when you’re running your app at the edge on CF workers you can have SSG speed without sacrificing the flexibility of SSR.

Kinda true, except that with no focus on cache hit rate and no discussion of (for example) pre-warming HTTP caches, this is mostly unrealized for a large class of websites. When you’re running on a CDN with a large number of nodes (like Cloudflare), with a lot of dynamic pages that change frequently, and a geographically broad visitor base, you’re likely to have a bad cache hit rate in production. And the trouble is you won’t really notice it for your demo tweets, because you’re gonna get mostly cache hits from your own CDN node.

There have been demo tweets from Remix (and other similar frameworks too, I suspect) that boast about their 50ms response times and attribute that to computing at the edge, but really they’re just setting a generous max-age and getting a 50ms cache hit from the traditional CDN (not edge compute) node. One such demo I saw on Twitter had a much more bog-standard React SSR response time of more like 350ms when you get a cache miss. At that point you’re not getting anything from Remix related to “edge compute” other than maybe the slightly reduced network latency from server to client (but that’s unlikely to matter much when it’s 300ms to do the React SSR render).
The Tokio ecosystem is tremendously important for people considering Rust for professional networking stuff. It not only has great libs / features, but will be well maintained for years to come - this is my firm believe at least and of course what you need for professional projects (as opposed to personal).
The point here is that the LED is 1m away from the source. The signal still reaches it after a light-speed delay, but it doesn't travel along the wires, it travels through the air.
Trivy – Scanner for vulnerabilities in container images, fs, and Git repo
Some small part of it is. The vast majority is transmitted along the wires.
OK how about this:

The primary fan base for World of Darkness was aging goths. nWoD was doomed from the get go because the existing, shrinking, fan base was going to be pissed at any changes at all, but the material was still too "90s" to draw in new fans.

Then White Wolf tried to just re-release old Vampire stuff, but who cares at that point, since the majority of those fans, while very vocal, had aged out of playing a game that requires obscene amounts of preparation.

And then let's not even mention the obscene WTF investment it takes to get started playing. You get to read a base book, and you have to read it as a novel because White Wolf was incapable of arranging a book for use as reference, and then you get to read at least 1 book for the actual system you want to use.

And then you have to find players willing to do the same.

Each book is full of dense prose in a hard to read font. When I started playing nWoD I was in my 20s. Soon as I hit 30 those fonts became WTF hard to read.

While amazing to sit down and read through as just a book, the (very well made) books are useless when it comes to actually running a game. I had to write up my own condensed guide to the rules.

White Wolf was trying to do a thousand things with a tiny team. They kept publishing new splats (Mummy!) while their existing splats had giant holes in them.

And finally, EVERYTHING WAS A SHADE OF GREY. There wasn't ever a big bad, or as a ST the big bad was so amorphous I had shit to work with and I was expected to work my arse off fleshing out the thin plot threads the source books gave me.

At least old WOD had fucking bad guys. "The technocracy goons are going to kill you!" vs nWoDs "Strange secret organization may or may not be doing bad things, or maybe they are the good guys, who knows, fuck it, you figure it out yourself".

Like, sometimes I don't want to construct complicated worlds of political intrigue. Sometimes I just want the players to have something they can go blow up and feel good about it. I mean sure because it is WoD I'm going to make them feel a little bit bad about it, but holy shit grimdark shades of grey gets old after while.
I'm not underestimating anything. I am advocating for the right tool for the job. I have a hard time believing, despite the skewed sample size in this thread, that most people think using postgres as a message queue for most cases makes the most sense.
This is the best demonstration of EM fields I've seen. It kinda demonstrates what Derek was going for, but with resonant antennas the power transfer is way more that his theoretical setup.

https://youtu.be/lslHtCUSfN4
Is there?

Can you point it out to me? I’ve looked, but haven’t been able to find it. I imagine it’d be somewhere on this page, in section 107 or later [0], but I haven’t actually found a clause which looks like it either has the intent or side-effect of making “data minig” exempt from having to obey copyright requirements.

[0]: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107
And how is this different from the iPadOS app “Cloud Battery”?
> An example of something that's not human subjects research would be emailing people who have websites and asking about their privacy policy.

No, that's an example of human subjects research that may be exempt from the regulations due to specific reasons, such as by only interacting with subjects through surveys and interviews (while adhering to further restrictions, that this research probably runs afoul of since it's not anonymous).

> For example, if a researcher calls the director of a shelter for battered women and asks her for the average length of stay of the women who use the shelter, that inquiry would not meet the definition of research with human subjects because the information requested is not 'about' the director.

What a terrible example. They've only demonstrated that the director does not qualify as a human subject, while ignoring the question of whether the women staying at the shelter would qualify as human subjects!
I agree with you somewhat, but there's something unique about the internet I think is dangerous: there's no clear boundaries of when to stop. Radio stations would stop broadcasting, you reach the end of a book, and tv shows end. But, the internet just keeps going. You can just keep scrolling and clicking through website after website until you die, with very little prompt that it's time to stop.
I strongly suspect that video as a medium (especially video social media, but also including TV) has been eating literacy (including text forums) for a while and will continue until we can program our video social media apps by talking and gesturing.
A long, long time ago, before I realized software makes more money than being an EE(albeit with less life satisfaction), I went to school for EE. I like the Veritasium video for the debate it is spurring, but I really hate his impractical assumptions(funny, since 80% of EE is 1st and 2nd order approximations with 10% tolerances, but I digress). I get that he needs to simply things dramatically because of the audience he's trying to reach, but light year long superconducting wires and a light bulb that turns on with infinitesimal current just bother me. I guess normies wouldn't get that interested by talking about transient EM waves... but the video just leaves a bad taste in my mouth and I understand why EEs are making response videos. I wish he at least mentioned that the power reaching the light bulb would be practically useless. Oh well. Hopefully it spurs a few young minds into sacrificing higher pay for a career in EE or physics.
An aside, I find it a bit interesting that at some point we stopped talking about internet and game addiction. It used to be a hot topic, but I guess now that we are all completely addicted after decade of intense behavioral experimentation, none of us are interested in reading about it anymore.
Is there ever a bad Cantrill talk? thanks for the link.
I don't really see the issue with this. Nothing stops someone from mass sending fake CCPA/GDPR inquiry emails. It seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to ask.

Is asking people their favorite type of ice cream unethical because a very small percentage or going to have a negative mental/emotional reaction?
I have definitely replaced my book reading with the web. But I did that at least a decade ago. I still "read" a lot of books and novels, I'm just listening to the audio version now. Not as good for recall, I will readily admit, but on the other hand it does let you re-listen again with almost equal enjoyment. I've replaced all television watching - except for live sports and news - with YouTube. All movies are now watched at home.

Information consumption habits change as the media does. "Reader's Digest", among other magazines, used to be required reading for any well-read person and now it basically doesn't exist.

I assume this trend will continue apace.
Google will fire unvaccinated employees
Neat! How’s it implemented?
How is this different from reading books? Most people are likely not "reading with great comprehension rates" when they read a book either.
The reasons people want high damages are to discourage future GPL violations as retribution for the high damages proprietary software companies often demand where their copyrights are violated.
> Whenever such usage comes up when movie or music piracy is discussed any such usage is quickly objected to.

How can you state "quickly objected to" when the commonly accepted term-- including here on HN-- is "music piracy?"
It happened similar to us. A payment arrived late and everything was deleted.
I promised to never use DO again, but the low price makes sense for a small project being made by an indie games company, so here we are again.

Luckily for us we added redundancy on payments and alerts, so I hope we won't be in the same case again.
Not at all,

1) this is clearly not an exempt study, which is a category of its own that the IRB reviews and makes a judgment on. The authors would immediately have been able to point out the protocol number of the exempt study if it were exempt. Rather it's not considered human subjects as the authors clearly state on their FAQ.

2) it seems like you're thrown off by the example, because if you ended your sentence as "The bit you've quoted is intended to clarify that "about whom" means the subject is the patient" then we would be in agreement, and it'd be more obvious that the subject is, in fact, the website's policies/procedures. Here's an excerpt from the written text of the common rule,

"“About whom” – a human subject research project requires the data received from the living individual to be about the person."

https://hso.research.uiowa.edu/defining-human-subjects
Why would there be a Black-white gap (two groups that come from the same American culture) but not an Asian-white gap (two groups that come from different cultures)?
The court ruling was reversed today so apparently the OSHA vaccine mandate on large employees is back in effect.

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/17/1065401498/bidens-osha-vaccin...
Insane that people who commit first degree murders get away with a smaller sentence than this poor truck driver. It baffles me how he would “deserve” anything more than 5 years.
I get that it's hard to find the best balance in a headline let alone in a summary article. Yes, evidence of a problem in a portion of a trial is indeed evidence of problems in the trial.

I can see room for misunderstanding no matter what. Emphasize the portion of sites where the problem was observed and it wrongly can be inferred that the other sites are fine even if they have no evidence either way. Emphasize the problem as a generic feature of the trials overall and it can be wrongly inferred that the whistle is being blown on some aspect of the trial that doesn't have any site-specific aspect.

The story that I'm hearing in all this is that the whistleblower brought out issues that were specific to certain sites in a way that has no direct bearing on other sites besides being a reason to scrutinize the rest of the sites as well.

Maybe an analogy would be helpful. If a whistleblower observed a disregard for safety protocols at a food processing facility, that's not a randomized sampling that indicates a high likelihood of the problem being throughout all similar facilities, but it doesn't indicate otherwise either. It opens the question whether this is a typical problem in such facilities or if that facility is an exception. If the facility was supplying brand X, there's at least some sense to criticizing a headline like "whisteblower reveals brand X unsafe food handling" instead of "whistleblower reveals unsafe food handling at facility run by brand X". The former implies wider issues, the latter errs toward not making that presumption.
Meritocracy is a fine ideal, but in practice is based on selection algorithms, and like any algorithm it can be and is used to launder whatever biases you like. Who decided what was meritorious? who wrote the tests?

Given what you're replying to, it sounds like you're suggesting that Asian Americans dominate power in this country, which I must be misinterpreting because that's ridiculous. I do agree with the general sentiment that what high achievers deserve is not necessarily what's good for society, but I'd say we should strive for equal opportunities, not equal outcomes.
What the hell is this nonsense?

I clicked on "Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction" to see what this was all about, and got a PDF. I clicked on the first linked entry in the table of contents: "DISMANTLING WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE IN MATH CLASSROOMS." And I got a page-long list of stuff that has nothing to do with race or white supremacy.

Is this someone trying to do bog standard mathematics educational reform under the hip guise of BLM? If so, I should note that basically all of the critiques on this page are addressed as part of common core.

What is the point of this?
India antitrust watchdog suspends Amazon’s 2019 deal with Future, imposes fine
Newtonian physics is the easiest example to criticize, because it’s precisely what I said: special relativity was a new model to fix blatant flaws with the previous model. Occam’s razor only concerns comparing two theories which account for the same phenomena. Special relativity was a new model that accounted for more phenomena, so it’s really not surprising (and certainly not a violation of Occam’s razor) if it was less simple.
Anecdotally - no, I've yet to come across one.
This 'study' is effectively a survey. Can you explain what ethical survey
1) does not inform its participants that it's a survey, 2) poses as a fake individual persona to conceal the identity of the surveyor, 3) cites either knowingly or unknowingly scary legal jargon to coerce participation, 4) does not make any attempt to disclose confidentiality?
I think a "last resort" is warranted to stop such blatant copyright infringement as this or the Onyx violation of the Linux GPL.
I wonder how much difference it would make to the pumps sucking in Martian air to create fuel and pressurized atmosphere.
Desert by Anonymous
Wouldn't that breed resentment amongst high achievers who get excluded by arbitrary factors beyond their control though?
Studying for how to game the SATs is not actual learning, in the sense of being generalizable knowledge or skills. It is learning how to game the exam.

It is also incredibly time and resource dependent, as you have surmised. Guess which strata of society tends to come out on top in that environment?
What s the cost of running it past the usual people so they can give an opinion ? Why do it in the shadow ?
What are the options to use Postgres pub/sub with Java? Because the usual Java libraries don't seem to support the pub/sub functionality well, you have to actively poll when you want to subscribe.
you might enjoy this comment thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29399051
>If you back basic high school skills then you're not only probably not suited to Engineering, you're also probably not going to cut it.

Quiet part aloud right here.

What you're saying is that if you haven't been raised in a certain way (in an environment that prioritizes formal schooling) then you're not fit to be a professional (engineer in this case) no matter how smart/talented. There's a word for this: classicism.

But I'll tell you something. As someone who grew up exactly like that but is now getting a PhD in CS at a top school and who has excelled in several FAANG internships: you can teach/learn high school skills. You can't teach/learn aptitude though.
So if you think it's some kind just/effective/correct that these kids are kept out (just because they don't have good essay writing skills or something) well I have to wonder if you're just someone trying to keep the labor pool small to inflate your own salary (or for other reasons...)