skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to make it black-and-white, there's certainly some degree of personal choice weighing in here - but it's not the core issue and it's probably a distraction. When we realized cigarettes were bad it was partially about informing people, but the main thing was to change marketing laws so you could make sure that wasn't undoing all the good info.

If I give you two loan options with bad terms and you have to choose one, then that is a fiscal policy thing and your choice is ultimately pretty inconsequential. You may be slightly better off than the person who made the other choice but the bad policy is affecting both of you.

Ultimately it's both a policy and a personal choice thing, but as with most society-wide issues the personal choice aspect falls away pretty quickly and we need to get realistic and figure out what a solution is instead of just blaming individuals.
Remember, at the time the Telco was a government department in a country that firmly believes in industrial policy.

De Gaulle had neglected the country's phone network and it was in a piteous state by the 1960s. A popular comedy sketch, "Le 22 à Asnières" by Fernand Raynaud had the hapless protagonist trying to call number 22 at Asnières and it was such an ordeal he only managed to get connected by a telephone operator in New York...

During the 70s, specially under the technocratic president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the French government invested massively to catch up and for several years the Directorate-General of Telecommunications was the single largest government department by budget. They bet massively on digital switching and created huge telco gear vendors in Alcatel. Towards the end of the 70s that massive surge of investment had started to dwindle and the government was trying to figure out what could be the next wave to foster the telecommunications equipment industry, and Minitel was the answer.

It didn't export well. There was a trial in the US with US West, but it didn't pan out. My former boss Jean Lebrun was one of the key people on the electronic phone directory project, and at the time it was the largest real-time database in the world. It was essentially a distributed in-memory database build on 1980s computer technology, and as you can imagine very expensive. Fun story: Oracle tried to get them to evaluate their RDBMS for the project, and even gave them access to the source code, but it was found to be inadequate.
Your intuition is correct, 5% isn't correct. From another comment I made in this thread:

"In a few cases (N < 5) families were dropped from the comparison group because some history of sexual abuse was ascertained."

I think you are misinterpreting. First, they say:

"...information was obtained about any possible unwanted sexual experiences of the comparison females or other family members"

So interpreting it as 5 of 84 women is incorrect. It's min 5 people of 84 families. Given a mean family size of perhaps 3.5 (if by "family" they mean "nuclear family", though I bet they include anyone you know about really--Uncle Bob would count, and one report per family with reports) it's more like 5 out of 294 people, or 1.7%. And I don't think they share their exclusion criteria, which isn't a good sign. And there's a significant selection bias given how they recruited (in a newspaper, for people who have the free time and/or low wealth enough to want to do a study, and in particular on female growth and development).
What are you talking about? The central government even banned a list of popular names to give newborns (sorry Muhammad, you can't have Muhammad Jr.).

They are being culturally blunted and they will likely eventually be bred out of being a distinct group.

https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-we...
https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-pr...
https://www.voanews.com/a/east-asia-pacific_voa-news-china_c...
https://share.america.gov/china-coerces-uyghur-women-into-un...

The latter two links are indeed .gov propaganda outlets, but their reporting on this issue is accurate. It's very easy to find more sources.
hpmor is itself a million words of fake profundities for nerds
Nothing asks for it to be reconciled. The US can be a bad guy too. One's crimes do not justify another's criminal actions
Meta-mistake that covers most small clients: Don't do business with people who are writing you a check out of their own pocket. Prospects that have a professional manager and a budget are a lot less hassle than Ed and Enid, who have to buy cheaper hamburger this month if they pay your invoice.

Related: Admin and client hand-holding eat all the things; consider having fewer/larger clients.

No matter what size your clients, don't sell one-off websites. Sell either a package of annual services or flat-out rent them a website you own.

Clients are never happier than at the moment of delivery; that's the time to ask for referrals.

You can almost never meaningfully raise your rates with a long-term client so start with high rates.

Related: There's no reason in the world every client needs the same rate. The same piece of work you do may solve a $50k problem for one client and a $5 million problem for another; why would you charge them the same?

I've seen some comments about providing as much detail as possible in invoicing, time tracking, etc. That's one way to do it but, in my experience, small clients want simplicity. Flat rate for a fixed scope, no time tracking and a one-line invoice.
This wouldn't work without military occupation, since such dictator wouldn't have support of Ukrainian military/population.
I used youtube-dl as my primary way to consume YouTube content (mostly lectures and podcasts) for a year when I had very limited internet access.

youtube-dl -f bestaudio [url]

then convert to 12kbps Opus with

ffmpeg -i [file] -b:a 12K [file].opus

I could even do this from my phone over SSH but eventually made a simple web frontend for it. I haven't opened it to the public though, because of, well, news stories like this one.
A little off-topic, but I liked the "fighting game" model that rewards skill, for example, the Mortal Kombat series on arcade. Only the new human challenger would have to pay the quarter, and if you beat him, you continue to play the next person and the next person without having to pay again. I recall in the '90s playing MK3 literally all night (hours of play) on a single quarter, with a line of people paying $0.25 over and over to lose to me in 15 seconds. Ahh, the good ol days of gaming.
I think I would've tried Pop!_OS by now if not for the name - I know it is totally irrational, but having a ! in there really pisses me off.
2) This doesn't appear to be a crime if it wasn't a hit-and-run, and generally police do not send cops to the scene for incidents like that. Also, not all cops are patrol officers. Many of them actually have desk jobs. Are you really getting mad at people for doing their jobs? How would you like it if someone came to your office, saw you on GitHub, and got mad at you for browsing the internet?

3) Four hours to investigate and prepare a report is ridiculously fast. So, there was a lot of latency, but it sounds like they were actually quite efficient once they arrived. Note: I'm not sure I believe the bit about calling a private security company, as that wouldn't make any sense; they couldn't have filed a police report for you.

4) Sounds right. Cops are bound by jurisdiction as a matter of law. If something isn't in their jurisdiction, they aren't allowed to do anything. This usually happens at county/city borders (where it's a case of figuring out which set of cops has jurisdiction to act), but it also applies to court orders. You haven't provided sufficient facts to say why state police would be enforcing a judicial order in this case.
I think this should've gotten more attention. No worry, you got my attention. And upvote.
The only legal platform should be iOS, anything else should require a federal license.

Only once regular people can no longer write dangerous code will the music industry finally be safe.
Pretty much all over Europe but it's not for illegal copies: it's for legal copies as in "copy an LP you own to a cassette for use in a car" (that's the original use case).

Of course everybody knows that it's practically covering missed royalties from illegally copied content, but according to the letter of the law it isn't.
> the US is clearly the provocateur here

In what sense exactly? What is the provocation?
Remember - Ukraine isn’t offered a NATO membership.

Also remember, in 2014 the same story unfolded but then the boogeyman was the EU.
I was under the impression that private student loans were also guaranteed by the government, but based on my searches trying to source my information, it seems Obama administration changed this since I went to college.
In my experience it's fine if you keep its scope limited. The scripting language for an MMO I worked on for example is simple and effective.
>300 (released in 2006) was the first popular film that did this

Does Spider-Man count in 2002?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM7Eou4bV-Q&t=56s
We might be on opposite sides of the Chalmers/Dennett divide, but we don't know how consciousness (as opposed to human-level intelligence) arises. Here's my reasoning for why the Chinese Room isn't (phenomenally) conscious: http://fmjlang.co.uk/blog/ChineseRoom.html
Just wait until we reach the proper space age and start traveling at speeds close to the speed of light. Taking into account the relativistic effects is going make more than a few coders switch carees to organic farming.
Oh, my god! If it succeeds you'll have to support it forever!"

Unfortunately, that's rather true of all software.
Israeli scientists teach goldfish to drive a robotic car on land
While trying to read more about the actual case of the trader who didn't know what he was trading, I found [1] which contains this quote:

> The “green” in green Douglas fir refers to the fact that it has been newly cut (it has not been dried), just like someone who is new at something is referred to as green.

This was interesting/funny to me, since I was sure that the name "green lumber" comes from the fact that it is green if you look at it (being plant material which was recently alive). I'm not saying a full-size tree will be green like your kitchen garden basil stalks inside, but e.g. under the bark there are green hues.

I would never have thought it came from the "green = n00b" connection. Am I the mistaken one, now?

[1] https://with.thegra.in/green-lumber
You're right. And even then, that $10M goes a lot further in Afghanistan than Switzerland.
While society would no doubt benefit from outing abusers, teen births as a whole are a tiny portion of births. 10% of a small number is a small number.

Given women cheat at the same rates as men, blanket genetic testing would break up a significant amount of families. That's why some countries (France for example) ban paternity tests.
I don't like Rust, but between Gnome's JS abortion lagfest and Rust, please, use the second.
LOL thanks for that I never saw that one
Russia's recent demonstrations, like Admiral Kuznetsov's problems, leaving Armenia faced with Turkey and Azerbaijan, weak drone program shows that in reality Russian military isn't that strong against serious opponent. Even more importantly, a serious military operations will undermine the power within the country.

It's doubtful Russia would go to fight Ukraine even now (it would be rather disastrous), but even more doubtful if Ukraine would join NATO.

Ukraine has its own internal problems for now.
I hope the HackerNews crowd reads this and takes this seriously.
We seem to be stuck in a vicious cycle.

1. There are bad laws and structurally perverse incentives. Individual police peons can't change the laws but are blamed for their effects.

2. People have bad interactions with the police. Public respect for the police falls. Good police quit. The proportion of bad cops increases.

3. Voters want politicians to do something. Fixing the perverse incentives is politically expensive. Grandstanding and Other Side blaming is politically expedient. This fixes nothing but makes tensions even higher. Goto 2.

Why is the murder rate in Baltimore more than 20 times higher than it is in San Diego? Is it really solely attributable to the quality of the San Diego police department, or is this maybe a problem with solutions that exist external to the police department?
John Hughes watched it at the festival of Cannes in 1989, after this article (in French): https://www.bfmtv.com/people/3615-code-pere-noel-le-film-fra...
Speed of signal propagation though wires on modern chips is much slower than the speed of light. A bit less so on an old Xbox chips, but still a big difference.

On a modern core the delay is enough that you can't come close to reaching from side one side of a core (not to mention CPU) to another in a single cycle.
Yes they do. It's not just about data being stored, it's data processing as a whole. You cannot casually pass EU data subject Personal Data to US-controlled infrastructure.

CDN is processing of Personal Data in the clear. Please read Use Case 6 of the EDPB's recommendations, specifically what they say about US cloud providers (https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/default/files/consultation/edpb...).

And I'm not interested in commenting on what I think Plausible would or wouldn't risk, as it's not relevant.
I find it amusing your comment was greyed out when the the insight was so good.
I think >1 μM activity can be ok depending on what kind of target and what kind of IC50 assay is done. Of course, as you know, comparing IC50s is famously something that cannot/should not be done, because they are assay and condition dependent, even for the same target, which is another reason why a μM cutoff is not set in stone for me. A value like that can be OK when trying to find a (clean, well behaved, synthesizable) early hit for later optimization into an actually useful probe or drug. However, in this case the IC50 are high double digits so I agree you will never get these kind of concentrations in humans without causing problems due to off-target activity.
That is called the Microsoft tax. As you pay extra for your OEM hardware even if dont plan to use Windows.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51207744

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/what...
Bullshit! It is you who have been coddled by police. Without any respect to color or background cops are the most hostile gang many people in most american cities have to avoid. "HN posters" you think you know anything about arbitrary posters' background just because they are on HN? The stuff you see on social is only a small sample of reality, reality is worse than that.
Just another example of "Netzpolitik" ;D

Sorry, couldn't resist.
Good question, and thank you for the question. Both at the time of my initial development several years ago, and including now when I just tested it, scraping has faster response times (cache invalidations) to profile updates than the API. This saves the user of my site being frustrated that they put the code in their profile, but they keep smashing the "Check again" button to no avail.

To be fair the API's cache invalidation does seem to have improved since last time I tested it. It only takes up to 5-10 seconds now, but still this is an eternity to an impatient user.

Also since you imply you work for HN, I'll give you my little secret: If you randomly capitalize the letters in the HN username it invalidates the cache. Otherwise scraping the profile would indeed take as long as the API approach. I'm taking a risk with you fixing it now. :)

I hope that helps clarify and I look forward to your thoughts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
The pay isn't that low in many places. Seattle police officers start at $65k+ with many (a majority?) earning $100k+. Benefits, good union, unlikely to get fired.
amazing tool - loving it so far
Joke is on them as everyone is switching over to yt-dlp and other forks.
Can you name an example of one of these invasions?
I didn't say that that's what you said. I tried to communicate that whether or not the input is trusted is besides the point.

Unless I'm deeply confused, the idea in parse, don't validate is about doing something like this

parseFoo :: Text -> Maybe Foo
parseFoo t =
if textIsAFoo t
then Just (Foo t)
else Nothing

f :: Foo -> IO ()
f = _

Rather than something like this (which seems to be more common)

f :: Text -> IO ()
f t = when (textIsAFoo t) g
where g = _
Yeah, the only winning options long term, as a skilled worker is to get out before 40 and either start your own company or become a sort of project manager at a bigger company.

Neither options are super easy.
> Not sure where it can get cheaper than Ohio.

Apparently lots of places, since the national average is substantially lower than the Ohio numbers.

But, more importantly, both UCLA and Ohio University are flagship R1s. Likely literally every other public university in Ohio is cheaper than OU, and I'd be unsurprised if UCLA is one of the more expensive public options in CA (wouldn't know, never lived in CA).

e: sure enough, the total cost at Youngstown State is 22K (tuition 10K, the rest is food and housing).

As an aside, including room and board in college prices always struck me as a bit odd (except in cases where living in a dorm is required, I guess, but that's somewhat rare). Do non-college-students not eat/drink/sleep?

Colleges/Universities and expensive enough and screwed up enough that exaggeration isn't necessary.
Solus OS' BOFH got tired of Gnome and he will switch the entire stack in to Enlightenment. And inb4 "E17 and such have Gaudy theming", last E has a flatish theme, so something like Arc for E would be really easy to implement.

https://www.enlightenment.org/
Unitree's AlienGo Quadruped Can Now Wield a Lightsaber
> The US is basically saying we don't care and we are going to do it despite your objections

By framing this whole thing as a hostility by the US towards Russia, you're saying that Ukraine isn't a sovereign nation, which can choose to ally with whomever and join whichever organization they want. So yeah that's Putin's narrative: Ukraine is a part of Russia and doesn't get to make those choices. That's the Russian perspective.
Being HN, I may have given too much credit that a comment would be taken at face value and not focused through a nationalistic lens or viewed as some sort of attack.

I made no claims that it changes whether the practice is morally or ethically correct. I also didn't claim "America bad too."

I merely pointed out another data point relevant to the GP comment about it being an old tactic to annex land.

*btw, it's Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of California. The book Blood and Thunder is a great read about the history of expansion of the West
Yes, there is clear and really big difference between autocratic ideas and the wishes of the population. Unfortunately Russians are weak to keep autocracy off their backs, so they have to suffer from it.
What if it wasn't transactional and people were just given what they needed?
You're not necessarily wrong but it just doesn't feel like the right context to share this perspective, given the subject matter of the OP.

This comes off as extremely insensitive and tone deaf to me.
Someone could hire an army of programmers in a lower COL area/country.
In 2011? That was a UN sanctioned operation after United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.
I complained about that Venmo thing on Twitter and got an interesting conversation going about it, including with comments from the CTO of Plaid who are the company who built that integration.

https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1479174549266526209

Short version: OAuth for banks is finally starting to happen, but in the meantime the password anti-pattern fills the gap.
> This wouldn't work without military occupation, since such dictator wouldn't have support of Ukrainian military/population

Not necessarily a permanent presence. Belarus and Kazakhstan's rulers aren't popular and don't require permanent support. Parachuting in soldiers lets Moscow amplify its strength. (America does this too.)
States of Product Teams
I wouldn't be the first time a web browser has been confused with a server agent.

And as long as DRM software is in browsers it's a somewhat understandable confusion.
It's not just you.

I have trouble going near CockroachDB because of its name. It's absolutely unjustifiable from an engineering perspective, but the effect (for me, at least) is real.
> [In this article, time pressure refers to both budget pressure, e.g., eight hours (budget) to do a task, and schedule pressure, e.g., a task that must be done by tomorrow.]

Aren't these the same thing? the latter being somewhere around 24hours give or take
I'd agree with all of these caveats. I'll also say that I suspect part of the reason why my experience is good is my PC is hardwired, and my headset is ~2 meters away from my wifi router.

I'll also add to what you mention about the initial setup - it's an absolute pain in the ass... every single time. Takes me about 10min to do the setup dance each time I set up air link.

In general though I see all these as being fixable. A dedicated transmitter and improvements in the UX of this can address all of these.
One of my favorite bits from Tim's videos was during a tour of Firefly Aerospace's facility when they talk about engine cooling. They discuss EDM machining small holes into the coolant channels just before the throat, which lets a small amount of cryogenic coolant out to cool the interior. The funny part is that you can purposefully undersize the holes and they will melt larger until they are big enough to adequately cool the engine. You basically pre-season the engine with a test-fire and let it choose how much internal cooling it needs.

https://youtu.be/ac-V8mO0lWo?t=2203
Don't tempt me to break this rolling cipher with pen and paper.
> The public make the mistake in trusting those who rule over them.

Like we're supposed to trust corporations more? At least the government has some degree of transparency and it's at least theoretically possible to vote people out or make changes.
Right, that's my point in responding to the parent comment about fitting 5 people in a Camry; it's not so simple when 3 of them require car seats.
> jumping ship and capturing the payoff for my investment all for themselves?

Tragedy of the commons. Coase theorem.

> what's to stop

Reciprocity. If an employer is good to me, I'm inclined to be good to that employer in return. If an employer acts like a greedy self-interested econ, then I, too, will act like a greedy self-interested econ.
>Rogan subreddit is full of people groaning about how awful it has become

It seems like lately that Reddit has become a reference of credibility, not unlike the "as seen on TV" moniker proudly displayed on cheap consumer products.
Do you like to argue just to argue?
3 visible at ~1600 here. I then set the timer to 1ms and it got a few more points and then put the ball in the very center of the circle. When I clicked, the game ended.
Yes, a number in a separate comment that I won't duplicate here.

While I have had some unpleasant experiences with some jackass cops (mostly when I was still a public defender), the majority of my experiences with the police have been them doing their jobs.

In fact, the number one complaint from the cops I interact with is all the jackasses that give the rest of them a bad image. (And before you ask why they don't do something about it, they can't, in the same way that most of the programmers on this board don't have the power to stop programmers at other companies from doing what they do.)
Do you think P-Zombies are actually a meaningful concept?
For some (many?) problems, there is a point beyond which it is more difficult and painful not to build a compiler, interpreter, or other "I have no desire to" piece of software.

The trick is to recognize that point before you have a giant, unmanageable ball of ....