skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the GPs point is that, starting from 0, both require effort AND are reusable.

The "debate" is usually between people who have committed to either path (creating tools or learning tools) and think that just because the marginal cost of my approach, for me is 0, it must be 0 for everyone else. Which is patently false.
Just read the constant stream of news about it? They keep shutting down power plants in the name of the environment, but just shift the generation outside of the state. It's a numbers game that's meaningless as long as they still consume power, but it lets them virtue signal all over the place to people who don't pay attention to details - which sadly is most of us. How many times when we are give stats do we really wonder about the context around them?
Python has bindings to TCL/Tk in its stdlib. But citing Python is cheating, imo.
What are you talking about, providing you fast internet access doesn't maximize the benefit for me and my shareholders. We need your exact location, eye movement, and heart rate every second so we can do better invasive target advertisements, or sell these to other companies.
> It has become very hard to see a path to its peaceful resolution. But anything else would be a tragedy with incalculable collateral damage...

Why? The article references "Outer Mongolia" too, nobody seems to be clamoring for reunification. State sovereignty splits over geographic areas and populations all the time. Why is reunification a necessity?

> U.S. support for Taiwan’s continuing separation from the rest of China is a perpetuation of foreign imperialist efforts to carve their country into spheres of influence, disrespect the right of Chinese to determine their own destiny...

Oh I see now.

Define "Chinese"?" Do Malay and Singaporean Chinese count? Isn't the author refusing to cede the fact that Taiwanese and mainland Han are diverging cultures an act of denying them self determination? Why must the two groups remain together in perpetuity?

> Beijing has repeatedly emphasized its strong preference for accomplishing national reunification peacefully rather than with a use of force. It has offered to accept what amounts to a symbolic rather than substantive form of reunification to Taiwan. But to “win without fighting,” Beijing must show that, even if the U.S. backs Taiwan, its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would surely win if the two sides were to return to combat, and that Taipei therefore has no realistic alternative to the negotiation of some form of reconciliation with Chinese across the Strait.

Voluntarily come under our sovereignty or else. See, we are peaceful!

> The PLA’s current shows of force are aimed at bringing Taipei back to the negotiating table, which the island abandoned when it elected leaders committed themselves to seek an identity separate from China. So far, Beijing’s shows of force have not changed Taipei’s refusal to talk about “peaceful reunification.” No talks mean no path to peace.

Again, they've democratically opted for self determination and sovereignty over themselves. Why can't the PRC do the same? Where's the imperialism here?

And that comes to the real truth of this matter. The PRC is imperialist. The majority of what we consider to be "China" is under occupation, and has been even under ROC and the Emperor before that. Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, do I need to keep going? These are not regions within China, these are nations under Han imperialist rule, and they have been to different degrees for centuries. Arguing that these nations don't deserve self determination, and then invoking anti-imperialism, the complete lack of self awareness in this article is quite telling.
This is why I tend to pay for the movie on whichever service they are on and then go ahead and download the pirated copy for actual consumption. It is important for me to find a way to fund the creators, but the user experience with non-pirated media is quite bad. I just wish there was a way to pay the creators and artists while also hurting the DRM-pushing middlemen.
Yeah! Came here to say the same thing, Chrome on a One Plus Six.
Sorry, URSS is the italian acronym, I didn't realize until now.
> I can clearly see by the fabric's motion that air is substantially being pulled through the material rather than around it.

I suspect that the fabric’s motion doesn’t mean what you think. You’re just seeing motion from the pressure change. A non permeable plastic film will also move as the pressure changes. This doesn’t mean any air is going through it.

> If my mask is only filtering 80% of the air

If your mask is leaking around the edges, it is extremely unlikely that your mask is filtering anything close to 80% of the air.
This hit hard for me. I was the weirdest student I know in college. Good marks, but at what cost?

It hit especially hard my junior and senior years when I had already identified (and subsequently secured) a position at the company I want to work for (in an industry whose products I still am passionate about: aviation).
One issue is that you may pay ten people 1MM annually to write your software, but the productivity distribution is likely not only non-equal but also non-linearly so.

Those at the top of the productivity distribution are the more likely to be able to find new employment, so you may be losing more than a tenth of your development output by going that route, and finding a replacement for that type of employee may be much more costly and difficult than average.
I've just been hit with a big wave of nostalgia.

Haven't used MS Office for over a decade, but I remember those green underlines.

So if red was wrong spelling, and green was grammatical errors, then what were blue underlines used for? Or was there no blue at all?
Reread what I said about point in time surveys before talking about data - bad, purposefully misleading data is worse than no data.

My “recourse”, which is to not let the homeless steal from legitimate residents, is the only reasonable solution. I certainly have no sympathy for the large number of drug addicted homeless taking advantage of the naivety of Seattle’s policies. But even for the rest - people need to figure out their own lives like the rest of us. No one is entitled to live in Seattle or New York City or Hawaii or other high demand, desirable, expensive location. Deterring the problem via enforcement and legal consequences doesn’t shift the problem - it addresses it by forcing people to be responsible, as long as other locations don’t try to accommodate them in the same broken ways.
Where did colors in movies and TV go?
Like a giant rotating wind turbine?
Oh right. I was having trouble getting Cyberpunk to work nicely with Wayland when it came out and switched to X where it worked, baring some background sounds. I should revisit that and switch back to Wayland and see how it does. Note: the background sounds thing got fixed in a few weeks.
That was in the 1920s - that's not something I'm legitimately worried about.

But it is a routine occurrence to have picket lines in industrial disputes today, and to deliberately harass people who choose to go into work.

In the coal mining strikes in the UK in the 80s it got to the point where union members literally killed a taxi driver for taking a worker past a picket line.

Google aren't going to kill an Uber driver for taking me to work at Facebook instead.
When will Enzyme and Diffractor hit prod? The default right now for Flux is still Zygote.
> Switzerland and Austria were up there with Romania and Bulgaria

Austria has 73% of the population fully vaccinated, Switzerland 67%, the US 62%. Romania has 41% and Bulgaria 28%. Not at all the same.
Ah, I see what you mean now. The follow up question I have is: so what? Python is an extremely popular language that is built on C/C++. Unless you are a contributor to the rust spec, why would it matter what language the compiler is written in?

The way I take it, the rust compiler team can either spend their time trying to get to being self hosted, or they can spend their time making improvements to the language.
May I suggest to look at https://eradman.com/entrproject/ ? It's like watch but triggers only when it detect file changes.
I landed my current job at one of the absolutely top paying companies through LinkedIn. Meta contacted me a short while ago and while I wouldn't want to work for them they did find me through LinkedIn and it was a serious recruiter directly from them not some third party shady stuff.

It's my #2 source of jobs after TopTal for the last 10 years and comes before word of mouth. I don't think there are any other sources though one guy hunted me down through a YouTube comment which I thought was pretty cool.
I wonder if it's faster than Intel Optane DC Memory and if that's the deciding advantage, such that no additional volatile DRAM is needed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29906049
I agree, there is an incentive for employers to create an environment where employees are being gaslighted by the employer but that might turn into a toxic work culture (IMO).

I think creating an uncertain environment where the majority lives in a myth of being a high performer and salary discussion is frowned upon benefits companies the most.
> Measles has a very similar mortality rate as covid.

Measles overwhelmingly kills children. SARS-CoV2 overwhelmingly kills the elderly and frail. This is why we have historically mandated measles vaccination for children.

You can't simply use "mortality rate" over an entire population to claim the illnesses are similar, when it's trivial to see that they have different impacts.
Why not use spare energy to lift -really- heavy object(s) and let gravity power the generators when there is a shortage?

Million tons of concrete isn't going to suffer any maintenance expenses over decades.
Grinding is training pattern recognition. At bottom I really do think that's what intelligence is. The raw sensory experience of confronting a novel problem and having that flash of realization, "I've seen this before, and I can get what I want."
Shaft mining is often used to reach underground deposits of iron, coal, etc. I believe they'd use the same process here.
Dangerous to model the cost of someone leaving on a spreadsheet like this :) https://twitter.com/benjiweber/status/1480219318273073157
FWIW in the UK it's a legal right not to join or support unions (closed shops are outlawed), and unions can't charge non-members dues (no agency shops either). Lots of people (both company-owners and ordinary citizens) have problems with them anyway. Somebody in my industry recently left the union angrily and publicly, then subsequently criticised the union for not representing their interests after they'd gone. There's no accounting for folk.
>A regular mask is good at “curbing the fanout” so to speak, but not so great at filtering incoming air.

That applies for cloth masks and alike. N95/PFF2 is a protective gear and should filter ~95% of particles where N99/PFF3 is ~99% if given a perfect fit. Beards and other stuff can reduce the efficiency to ~30% though.

> Meanwhile, masks are not free.

But they are not expensive and can be rotated.

> A properly worn mask necessarily obstructs breathing.

Only if you already have difficulty breathing. Studies show no impact on blood oxygenation whatsoever due to the usage of masks in normal situations. What they cause is discomfort due to retention of breath humidity and heat. It sucks to wear a PFF3 while doing intensive exercise,

> One risks becoming infected by their own mask which accumulates virions in circulation.

Any viruses that accumulate on a mask you would be breathing otherwise.

> ...reduced exposure to viruses long-term may weaken the immune system—though.

That makes sense. The nose epithelial cells are the 1st line of defense against airborne pathogens. By reducing our exposure we are reducing the efficiency of those cells.

> Now consider real life, where not everyone wears masks, and my guess is depending on where you are easily less than 10% of mask-wearers wear masks properly. They don’t wear masks over their nose, leave huge gaps between the mask and their face, take off their mask to sneeze or cough (I kid you not). They try to make it easier to breathe, and by extension defeat the point of wearing a mask.

True. Where I live masks are not enforced, we are in the summer and >90% of those I see are not using it. But the few that are still using it are doing it properly.

> Nevertheless, a measure has been taken, and local policymakers may now rest with a false sense of security.

I agree with you but not because I don't think masks work. It's just that people think that now that they have took the jab and put the mask they can do whatever they want including staying for hours in a fully occupied and closed room where a guy is coughing non-stop. It's just that people are stupid and irresponsible.

When I studied workplace safety and health we learned that protective gear is the last measure you adopt. If you have place where exists a risk of people falling you first should attempt to eliminate the risk and improve the ergonomics of the place, like installing guardrails. If that isn't possible you enact administrative policies like forbidding from transiting in the dangerous place unless they have authorization and a reason to be there. And only then you provide protective gear for those.
A big part of it you're missing is that it's a joke. Anime fans definitely know they're weird, and are very passionate about the things they like (and are conscious of that), and thus a lot of humor in the community is self-deprecating and ironic (for example, calling your favorite fictional character your "waifu" or "husbando"). The fact that outside observers might think it's "problematic" is kind of the whole point.
I would want a language I can run natively on every platform with the syntax of Swift/Kotlyn.
This is literally the thing the person who started this thread is asking for:

> This isn't the right definition of success. The first minimal requirement for this to be a successful initiative is that the community lost weight overall. Or even gained weight, but more slowly than other communities.
But at least Postgres has much better tools for learning about the query plans it might use. The Postgres output of “EXPLAIN” is much much better than MySQL.

It’s a shame that almost every job I worked at uses MySQL and not Postgres. But that could be because those companies all got their start like a decade or more ago when Postgres was not as well known.
There is this one (from myself) : https://remy.grunblatt.org/static/wordle/wordle.svg (dynamic version: https://remy.grunblatt.org/static/wordle/).

It's not optimal at all, but works for every wordle word; it's built by finding the word (guess) that minimizes the maximum size of the possible words (to guess), a bit like Knuth Algorithm for Mastermind.

For an optimal strategy, a backtracking solution with pruning / maybe a branch and bound approach would work, but I didn't manage to implement a fast enough implementation for my small 8 threads CPU.
> Elm: not general-purpose enough (only useful for UIs), plus has a tendency of making drastic changes between versions (remember how loudly people complained here?

Not really, it just has a slow release schedule. Over time it is relatively stable.

Not a single thing has changed about it the last two years and the creator has communicated that it will probably stay mostly the same for quite a while.

Yes, there have been some bigger changes in the past but that is fair game for software that hasn't hit version 1 yet and it was communicated that it might happen.

The drama is mostly an issue caused by misaligned expectations: Many people assume that open source projects should be developed openly with everyone being able to contribute and having a say about the direction. Evan, the author of Elm, prefers to keep tight control of everything. The approach has some advantages and disadvantages and I can see why people might decide to stay away from the community but honestly if you just want to get work done in Elm, it is not much of an issue either way.

Elm is probably the most stable and reliable choice for frontend code and helps avoiding the churn that happens in the JS ecosystems.
Base classes tend to limit what your abstractions are though. In practice I've found that while different classes share common behaviour, it's not always so straightforward that it can be arranged into a tree. A mixin type approach, where behaviours can be attached to different classes (particularly if those behaviours don't define any new state) works much better.
Yes, bpython is good. I have plans to make the documentation better (https://github.com/jupyter/papyri) but so far I only have a few hours per week I can spend on IPython. Jedi from david halter should also get some love for better completion.
Cola's have never been for companies. It's a specific mechanism of government redistribution programs. Companies use their own internal metrics to determine when and how to adjust salaries.

I don't think I really had to tell you that though.
Good luck deciding where the line between products is.

Is the Gmail spam filter a product, or part of Gmail? Is Gmail a product, or is GSuite the product?
Surgical masks also require training. Many people wear masks below the nose. It's often said that this is "malicious compliance", but I've seen them do it outside, in times when even wearing them inside wasn't mandated.
This is a level or two up the stack and I think it's more "meet in the cloud", but the Home Connectivity Alliance was just kicked off at CES to make appliances more interoperable:

https://staceyoniot.com/will-a-new-standard-for-smart-applia...
I agree - I have a D600 myself and still use mine occasionally, Nikon's backwards compatibility is great! I am equally impressed by the AI manipulation by modern smartphones and their ability to take handheld shots that say a 10 year old APSC camera (with a huge sensor comparitively) might produce a blurry mess with. That being said I don't really know what modern APSC cameras can do nowadays!
+1 I think this point is really important.

When discussing pay versus employee retention, the toy model people present often implicitly assumes a high percentage of employees will leave if pay lags. But the economics totally change based on the percentage, and empirical data suggests the percentage is actually pretty low.
Since masks mean less interaction (contrary to what you wrote) people are looking to fill part of that information void through mainstream media. Which is a fear machine at the moment. More fear -> More masking up

Nobody said media is talking about masks all day.

We are at the point that the damage is visible on children so I don't care about bowing to HN's liberal readers anymore.
It is clear as daylight, mask mandates are damaging our society.
You're misreading that comment. "Better" refers to how well the mask functions at blocking the virus, not to a moral judgment that beards are sinful.
MParticle acquires Indicative to address data entropy
I’m not talking about “poor fit”. I’m talking about a significant visible gap. As in I could probably put my pinkie between the mask and their face. I see this a lot and while I understand fitting masks can be hard, this it’s hard to explain like that.
> people in a normal year is not worried about the flu for children.

People in a normal year vaccinate children against the flu.

> When are you going to admit pediatric flu deaths in a normal year is around 190 and not 1?

When are you going to understand that I never disputed that, and none of my arguments are affected by that? My point was that Covid is so bad for children that even with severe mitigations in place (so severe that only one child died of flu), it outkilled the flu in a normal year without those mitigations.

> Yes, you can lock a kid inside to avoid the flu and car accidents.

That's a silly idea. We could vaccinate kids instead, and that's what is going on.

> Your proposed policy of vaccinating kids severely increase young kids risk for severe conditions such as heart issues including stroke and long term risks are unknown.

Viruses, including the one that causes Covid, are an even greater risk of heart disease, including a more severe form called MIS-C that has resulted in amputations.

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/viruses-are-the-most-common-...

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/covid-19-child-ra...

> long term risks are unknown

They are well-known because any long term effects will be observed at most days after the vaccination or infection. There is no mechanism by which a change can take place in the body that does nothing until years later. What has been observed is that the effects observed within a week show that long term effects will be far worse for the disease than the vaccine.

> How do you know the reward outweigh the risk of vaccinating kids that are at low risk for covid?

Just as you were wrong about the PCR test article, you were wrong about the FDA advisory panel, which concluded unanimously that vaccinating kids is better than letting them contract Covid.
> Why? is your theory - are companies adding COLA to new offers and no COLA to existing employees?

Yes. Internal raises are commonly 2% - 4%, but you can get 20%+ consistently by jumping ship every other year, and that was before inflation went to the moon.
> This isn't really creativity is it? I like to call stuff like this statistical copying

Or, through decades of AI research, we're just now starting to better understand what actual creativity really "is"?
The classic sniffles that kills millions a year that we all know and love, right
Good people don't accept annual pay cuts. That's why companies looking to retain the best talent are doing yearly salary evaluations. Look at what Basecamp and Netflix are doing. Your managers job is to ensure that you're being paid in the top 10% of people in your field in the most expensive COL city in America. That's how you retain the best talent.
NP, thank you for pointing out my mistake. It's a good feeling to see HN being nice.
From my experience a BA in anything just proves you can read.

Most employers, aside from I guess a few select fields, don't care what you majored in. My degree's in some non sense, but I know it helps me get past automated filters. My first decent job was with a startup which are easier to get into.
> But membership is mandatory if there is a union at that corp

This is untrue in every state. In some states you have to pay dues even if your aren't a member, but closed shops aren't legal.
Apple removed a bunch of clones yesterday.
...and one PM to manage all 4 teams and ensure that there is no feature-drift between the various OS-target versions. </sarc>

I am really just trying to emphasize that there are tradeoffs lurking everywhere and they are often hidden by assumptions.
Removing the PhD-level knowledge requirement from this particular mode of being an asshole doesn't sound like much of an improvement
Over the long term your risk of exposure approaches 1 regardless of whether you wear a mask in restaurants.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
A more realistic model would see “1 person leaving” happen every year, too.

Also, “maybe 25% in recruitment” isn’t all the costs. You have to get the new hire up to speed in your company. If that takes that employee 3 months and also 3 months of the time of the remaining colleagues, that’s $50k in itself.

Finally, you can’t keep not correcting salaries for inflation for many years. The number of people leaving per year would go up dramatically, and you wouldn’t be able to get new hires.
utf8 is an encoding for unicode codepoints. Those codepoints are spread on a space that is extremely vast (up to ~4 billion) for which that can be represented with up to 4 bytes. It turns out emojis are positioned in a place where the first byte will never be 0, so even if there were only one it would require the full 4 bytes to encode them.
I mean that's fair. I think even getting to Windows parity, warts and all, would be good.