skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, police unions do exist solely to protect police officers which means their incentives are sometimes opposed to the public they serve, and so they should absolutely not be in charge of things like self investigations and time-limiting records of abuse, etc.

But that's not inherent to a union. Cities shouldn't cede these extraordinary powers to the union in the first place, and if they already have, they should take them back.
No. You can add to the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org via their "save page now" interface... Common Crawl is attempting to be a sample of the web, and doesn't take url suggestions.
Most of the people who can go to Germany can easily go to Switzerland as well where salaries are much, much higher.
I’m confused, is this not a blog post?

It was a good read, you clearly have interesting things to say!

I do share a lot of the same things you describe. I would like to blog, mainly for myself to practice writing and keep a record of things, but yeah, it’s difficult. I also find it’s a lot of work to do the research and all, time I maybe rather spend on building things.
Heh, and you'd get a molten salt heat storage unit for free. Because if you condense that steam you have solved desalination as well.

CEO Nwabudike Morgan likes this (reference to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri in case you were wondering)
And in rat utopias: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
Yeah, that might be true, but it didn't look like they were cutting budgets anywhere else, and we never got an announcement that profits were down or below expectations. Entirely possible they just didn't want to announce that so brazenly though.
I didn't argue otherwise. USA is however not subpar compared to any country hostile to corporations, which is the important part. A country being hostile to unions isn't nearly as bad as a country being hostile to corporations.
But we all think we're the high performers.
This is why I deleted my LinkedIn profile and would suggest others to the same. It has become nothing more than a spammy network that collects way too much personal information.
A bit tangential, but New York City has an operating steam system that's still widely used by commercial customers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system
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I agree that video call setup is important. I’d suggest it is way undervalued.

People don’t understand how important production quality is. Virtual backgrounds and automatic cropping / lighting adjust can be good but aren’t as good as getting it right in the first place.

Setting up quality video conference production for remote interviewing is often easier than buying and caring for all of the clothes in the grooming often needed for in person interviewing.
To your painpoints:

1) This is painful. There are tools to help, but the most effective means I've found are having a policy to only commit notebooks in a reset, clean state (enforced with githook).

2) I don't understand. I've written full testing frameworks for applications as notebooks as a means of having code documentation that enforced/tested the non-programmatic statements in the document. Using tools like papermill (https://papermill.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), you can easily write a unit test as a notebook with a whole host of documentation around what it's doing, execute, and inspect the result (failed execution vs. final state of the notebook vs. whatever you want)

3) Projects like ipynb (https://ipynb.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) allow you to import notebooks as if they were python modules. Some projects have different opinions of what that means to match different use cases. Papermill allows you have an interface with a notebook that is more like a system call than importing a module. I've personally used papermill and ipynb and found both enjoyable for different flavors of blending applications and notebooks.
Your article doesn't contradict the parent. Delaying exposure is the right direction.
I really don't understand the NFT hype.

Is it people who missed out (or maybe people who made big bucks) in bitcoin or other crypto wanting to get in early?
For books on strong fundamentals, you can try the Art of Problem Solving series [0]. They suggest a curriculum to start with prealgebra, move to algebra, then counting & probability, then geometry, then precalculus, and finally to calculus (though a regular calculus book like Thomas Calculus/Stewart Calculus/even Spivak/Apostol would work fine).

The main advantage of these books are its focus on building intuition by visualizing shapes or immediately rephrasing notation (e.g. 4/2 is better understood as 4*(1/2), which better explains why you should avoid cases where you divide by zero; I also found their exponent rules easier to understand, because it encourages visualization instead of just memorizing the rules).

The downside is that they're time-consuming due to a large number of exercises (I'm currently still trying to slowly work through them when I can, but if you need higher-level math in the short-term, it's probably better to start there). They're also not a free resource.

For free lecture videos, I've found Professor Leonard's lectures to be excellent, and equivalent to lectures at a university classroom [1].

[0] https://artofproblemsolving.com/store/recommendations

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorLeonard/playlists
I blocked all email from linkedin on my mail server back in 2005 or so when they were relentlessly spamming _every_ email address they could find. I still have them blocked. I never bothered to create a linkedin account because from what I hear, 99.9% of the content is inane self-promotion and a never ending stream of begging from low-quality recruiters with low-quality offers.

100% of all the jobs I've had in my two-decades-long technology career have been from my real, in-person social network. "Hey bityard, I work at this cool place and think you should too."
Is that work somehow less scalable when done in Germany?
That "or" wasn't meant as "both" or to opine on which one it is.

I personally believe the way Google operate Chrome is one of the reasons it is all but impossible to seriously compete with Google Search. But I'm not the judge.
I think you've misunderstood the difference between the proximal and reservoir hosts, because your comment is almost entirely wrong. As noted in the article linked above, scientists researching the original SARS found the exact (within the few mutations expected on any short transmission chain) virus that infected humans in palm civets and raccoon dogs, within about a year. These are the proximal hosts, i.e. the hosts believed to have infected humans. Once a proximal non-human animal host is found, we can be very confident that the virus is zoonotic.

Much later, Dr. Shi discovered that the greatest diversity of similar viruses was in bats. The bat viruses are less closely related to human SARS than the palm civet or raccoon dog viruses; but there's a lot of them, and they look ancestral. We therefore believe that the virus mostly evolved in bats, then was transmitted to the palm civets and raccoon dogs, evolved a little bit more there, and finally was transmitted to humans. This was very important in understand the evolutionary history of the virus, but provided no new information on how humans were first infected.

Knowing one of the classes of host doesn't imply knowing the other:

1. For the original SARS, we found the proximal host within about a year. Much later, Dr. Shi found the reservoir host.

2. For SARS-CoV-2, we knew the reservoir host immediately, because it's closely related to the original SARS. After two years of searching, we still haven't found the proximal host.

If one exists, the proximal animal host of SARS-CoV-2 is probably in China. Since China has seen low human spread (probably more than their official statistics, but clearly far less than the rest of the world), I don't see why you'd expect a human variant to displace the original zoonotic variant. There's also no particular evolutionary pressure for that--a variant evolved in humans might happen to be more transmissible in the proximal host animal, but that's not what's getting selected for when the virus is transmitted between humans.
How is violent video games trying to inflict pain on others ?
The other thing that they can be doing is selling standby frequency response services to utilities:

https://smartgrid.ieee.org/bulletins/january-2016/energy-sto....

Sometimes utilities only need a few minutes of power to cover small gaps while ramping up/down powerplants, or if a cloud passes over a solar generation facility. Since these volumes are very small but critical, the effective price per MWH is extremely high.

When Tesla did their grid scale battery installation in Australia, this is how they made their money. Not via energy arbitrage, but with selling frequency response services. I have no idea if this is the same thing, but there are other ways to make money with energy storage as well.
BTW: if someone is interested to contribute or use the project... my open source project, an evolutionary, immutable JSON data store will benefit from fast random, fine granular access to durable storage as it has to read scattered word aligned page fragments from random locations in an append-only file in parallel to reconstruct a full page in-memory. The crux is that SirixDB is storing a huge persistent tree of tries index over revisions plus user defined indexes, a path summary and shared object fields in one log-structured appended only file. It does not simply copy whole database pages, but mainly stores only changed records/nodes.

So it mainly stores the whole index in one file (append-only) plus an offset file to map timestamps to revision offsets (besides the 32bit revision numbers / revisions stored in the main file). This means that we can store checksums of the child db pages in parent pages as in ZFS and to store the checksum of the UberPage in the page itself to validate the whole resource and we don't need a seperate transaction log despite an in memory cache for the single read-write trx.

https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix and a query processor called Brackit for document stores based on a JSONiq like query language: https://github.com/sirixdb/brackit
Your first link is from TCU (tcu.edu), Texas Christian University. The entirety of TCU is opposed to birth control.

Your second link lists only St. Anthony Family Practice Residency Program as an affiliation.

I can't say one way or the other whether your assertions are valid. But your choice of sources warrants caution.
Speaking of which, what can we do to bring up the mean IQ of Twitter to the level of school playgrounds?
Preventing air leakage is frightfully hard - air molecules are a lot smaller than liquid molecules :)

Apparently these guys have found an economical way to deal with it. If true then I can easily see why Goldman jumped on them.
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There really is no getting away from philosophy. Your entire world view is steeped in tacit assumptions from many of those names you dismiss.
> people who are trying to build businesses on top of other people's innovation and data

How would scraping, say, reddit, differ from the business model of Reddit itself?

> those that are doing it to my platforms are doing so solely to steal data

What kind of data are you talking about?
I'm not sure what you mean - Swift and Kotlin can both do exactly that. Swift works best on macOS, obviously, but it can run fine on Windows and Linux. Kotlin runs on the JVM, so it gets cross-platform support for free.
You can make a solid living doing BI modification/integration for shops that are on Azure. Not dead at all. Especially since AWS has nothing that compares.

Your recruiter only cares about fields that can get candidates placed. Of course he needs to drop hot buzzwords to get people interested.
Quite the opposite. Tons of opportunities with both. Many corporations are locked in to C# more or less permanently.
> program-erase cycling endurance is "one hundred to one thousand times better than flash."

That is still not enough write operations to let anyone treat this like a bigger version of RAM, is it?
And _currently_ involves hiring consultants to force employees to sit through hours of anti-union fear mongering the second management smells a whiff of pro-union organizing sentiment.

The 'American Factory' documentary has a great example of what this looks like in real life. Hearing that Amazon or Google or whoever else worked to convince employees to vote against unionizing is one thing, seeing what that effort is like on the ground is altogether more eye-opening.
I'm really not sure why you were hoping for that on a forum attached to a venture capitalist firm site.
If the developed countries just said "Let it go", the developed world would be a much different spot than we are today. Definitely we would have been at a greater risk of being much worse. I am not unsatisfied with how we've handled it.
I like the idea of adding rather vague threats, compared to kinetic weapons, with often not clearly or quickly identifiable causers/perpetrators as a possible justification for a nuclear weapon use.

Increases the fun and excitement.

Should become a "launch on warning" criterion.
You can work via an contracting/recruiting agency very likely. Many of them dont do background checks and companies assume that they do. You probably have skills that would be relevant. You would just need to find the right one.
If other companies aren’t better then does Google suck?
What if Google didn't scrape websites automatically, and waited till users submit their domains to them, to mark that they want to be scraped? I think in that case, most users would still submit their domains there, because they want to come up in Google search. You might want your website to be scraped by some people/companies and not by others, but not have to put everything behind a login screen (which some determined scrapers would still try to breach in some way).
The Saturn corporation had a labor-management partnership which did exactly that for standards, and was a subdivision of GM. Unfortunately it's stressful for corp and union leadership when high standards are set, so it eventually lost support despite high worker approval.
I mean, sometimes people don't really care and they have to just adhere to the rules. (Some of those people have already had covid and the vaccines and are at such low risk of spreading it or catching it, the reduction in risk posed by the mask is negligible.) People in the trades, or with similar hobbies tend to have them lying around. Plenty of times I've just grabbed a used up N95 dust mask I had lying in the truck because I had to run to the hardware store really quick and I forgot my more comfortable mask.

More often, it's probably just a lack of training / reading the instructions on how to press-fit the nose bridge.

Then there's people like me with weird faces that fail fit tests no matter how careful with basically everything except the duck masks.
Labor movements are made up of people, yes. Not sure how that is related to unions. Labor organized in every single democracy regardless if there were unions or not. Labor movements tend to create unions, so unions are often a result of labor movements and not the source of labor movements.
Agreed. The confusing part here as I see it is where validation layer A (correctly) asserts the data is valid UTF-8 and safe then assumes the database persists what it passes to it, since no error is reported.

Then, subsystem B trusts reading the database field (since it passed validation layer A).

Obviously more validation layers can be added, but at this point validation layer C called by subsystem B needs to know what the initial input from layer A is in order to differentiate it from the db value which was manipulated - a rather tricky thing to do sometimes. (I guess you could add a hash to the db to check the db is storing your strings, but really.. come on)

Upgrading to utf8mb4 is probably safer than hoping enough validation layers thrown at it solves the problem.
On the other hand, we rarely see HN threads about contractors in which corporations are argued to be a panacea for problems faced by busy well paid contract developers, and anybody suggesting any potential downsides of contractors moving onto payroll is assumed to be a dupe of propaganda pushed by Big Tim Ferriss.

(We can take that comparison further: people on HN sometimes do suggest that Uber drivers might be better off if they could only be hired as salaried employees but almost never say that about highly paid freelance developers. It's pretty similar when we're looking at the respective cost/benefit of collective bargaining arrangements for local bus drivers vs highly skilled developers earning two orders of magnitude more than bus drivers in an job market that offers practically unrivalled opportunities for people with their skillset.)
This is right. Whether masks work or don’t is irrelevant. The policy failed.

If an individual wants to not get Covid, the only solutions are vaccination and distancing.
There's a lot of "whataboutism" happening in this thread.

How about our reaction to something like this is not "do more", but instead encouraging and be happy they are finally doing _anything_? Being negative will just make it seem like they shouldn't be doing anything.
I’d pass on the forced labor part, but make work at a going rate optional. Bring separated from everyone and everything you love is punishment enough in many cases.
It might be interesting to have a union that functions sort of like a cooperative consulting/contracting company with an exclusive contract: the employer pays the union, but the union itself performs hiring, firing, performance evaluations, etc. such that it's beneficial to the union itself to drop freeloaders.

Obviously there'd be a lot of complicated details to work out so the employer can't actually treat the union like it would a regular contracting company (e.g. a tool to keep its responsibilities to labor at even greater length, and fire with even less care).
Yes. I had the exact same issue with '<' in HTML content stored in the database -- cms pages and also some JS that was stored in the DB and injected into the HEAD of all pages.
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Perhaps this is why there is all the anecdotal evidence of people being asses to one another, and especially to “low status” retail workers and clerks over the last 2 years.

(economic/influence based status here, of course all people should be given the same amount of default respect regardless of occupation or income level, but real life seldom plays out that way)
Unlikely. When the USA invaded Afghanistan in 2001 no one was really sure whether lithium batteries would be the right technology.
Addressing the first point: It certainly does make it faster on the happy path. Instruction cache performance is not a major concern when you're running in a tight loop.
I'd be interested to know the distribution of sizes of organizations that write software. What proportion of all software development orgs are < 5 devs, < 10 devs?
It's no longer art if it's for commercial purposes.

Those who have the courage necessary to become artists, and renounce the vulgarity of the world, will continue to do so.

Those who delude themselves into thinking they're creating anything while being employed in commerce, will be managed out.

The deep crevice where the two meet and manage to find compromise, will continue to be filled by wealthy, independent patrons.

Asking others to think and do as we wish is silly.

Ironically, if it's that important to you, why don't you start giving monetary support directly to artists? Changing one's own actions is more impactful than trying to change those of the many (and the prior is more likely to lead to the latter, than if one were to focus solely on the latter).
> If they deprecate "utf8" they will deprecate a standard.

No, they won't. They will be deprecating something they created that never conformed to the UTF-8 standard. That fact that unicode didn't have codes beyond 21 bits at that point is pretty irrelevant.

It was an invalid implementation from day 1, at least with the name of "utf8".
I think we largely agree too, but I actually think the talk about majors in public discourse is a at best a digression and at worst a red herring. IMO, the real problem that should be addressed is why something that is considered a public good (and supported by public funds) has had insane cost inflation over the last 3+ decades.

I'm not saying you're doing this, but you often hear a chortled reply about "underwater basket weaving majors" in these discussions being blamed. Certainly, people are accountable for their college choices, but the whole discussion is based on the idea that college is a business transaction that requires some ROI and ignores the systemic effects that have driven costs to a ridiculous level.
No. I'd just post a link to your resume in that spot. Companies like it but no one will hard pass on you because you dont have one. That being said making it easier for companies to hire you/reach out to you is good if you are actively searching for a new job.
It is pretty ridiculous as Facebook have big competitors in all their markets which aren't even that many. Google has more near-monopolies and in more markets and co-integrated more heavily at that. It's really hard for me to see this as due to just Facebook being a popular target rather than actual solid analyses.
I know an electrician up the street from me who makes six figures in a small town where the median income is less than $50k. Is your brother in law just doing it wrong?

Coincidentally, I also have a brother in law who is an electrician, and he is not doing well. But then again he's a self proclaimed communist and has zero work ethic.
I have apologized for the factual incorrectness of my comment and explained how I had arrived at that conclusion / brain glitch: They are only mentioning Swedish servers in their blog post and for a second I had forgotten that, like any other big VPN provider, Mullvad of course has servers in many locations around the world.

What more do you want? Upvotes are not under my control and I also cannot edit my original comment anymore. No reason to get personal.

FWIW, I still think that it's important to raise awareness for the deficiencies of Swedish privacy law (irrespective of Mullvad and where their servers are located). I suspect that at least some of the upvotes were also given because people agreed with that.
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> Companies in the private sector pay you based on the market for your skills, not cost-of-living.

They problem is if you stay too long, you no longer make market rate and HR "can't give out X% raises" to get you to market because of some arbitrary made up BS rule.
Well I think when we start seeing Cybertrucks everywhere you will know that people really are trying to dodge bullets and run over homeless for their own safety.
I don't know, how much would he make if the NBA wasn't a monopoly?
I once read a comment I wish I'd saved.

It goes along the lines of: W beats X, X beats Y, Y beats Z; in terms of what principle you'd like to apply to your code. One of these letters was essentially representing DRY. I summed things up pretty nicely. Does someone happens to remember?
So what exactly did Google spend their money on? What exactly did these "union-busting" consultants do? Like the other article posted yesterday, this one is remarkably lacking of details. If the pro-union side is pulling out their pitchforks despite a lack of substantive allegations, then why wouldn't the anti-union side do the same?
But we left without taking any lithium. At some point second and third order hypotheticals are just conspiracy theories. There is no evidence we invaded Afghanistan to get lithium, and at the time (2001), we were not worried about lithium shortages or grid storage.