skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its fairly easy actually but you have to be specific or they will charge you $$. So long as you arent wanting like the nuke codes or the location of Hoffa, they are helpful. Last one I did took a few months and I got a big packet in the mail. Cost me $10 or $20 I think.
It’s not strictly enforced but encouraged in my current org. To be honest I do it because ultimately it saves me time though, so I would probably still do it even if it wasn’t encouraged. (Large “fangish” company)
Definitely not embedded into the video stream, at least for Netflix or Youtube. There's actually extensions that take the subtitles and manipulate them (even put them outside of the video stream) so you can use them for various language-learning purposes. Look at stuff like Language Reactor (https://www.languagereactor.com/), previously Language Learning with Netflix. There's specific browser extensions like subs2srs and yomichan (https://animecards.site/yomichansetup/) which are very common in Japanese language learning communities for people to use on subtitle lines to get direct translation/dictionary entries of certain words and be able to send them directly to Anki (SRS flashcard software).
The US seems to be the most lawless of the places that have functioning rule of law. Highest murder rate, for instance.

What are you going to do with that? Fix the society? Well, yes, that would be ideal, but we haven't found a workable plan so far, despite lots of trying.

Failing that, what are you going to do? Let murderers go free? That actually can work, for those who just had a lapse of judgment. For those who are likely to try to do it again, though, that seems like a very shortsighted solution. Fewer people in prison, but more dead bodies on the street? That's not a good trade for society as a whole.

So, given the lawlessness in society, given the visible problems of not punishing crime, less punishment seems unwise.

Actually, less/more is not the correct axis. What we really need is more certain punishment. I don't care how many people that puts away, put away everybody who commits a felony.

But even that's not the whole answer, because we need to revisit things like decriminalizing certain drugs. Would society as a whole be better off, or worse?

The real answer is that we need a society where people restrain themselves, so that the law doesn't have to do the restraining. Lose that, and the only options left are anarchy and oppressive enforcement.
Right, but thats precisely the tradeoff that composing with significant harmonic motion requires.

If you're going to do purely melodic, or purely modal, work, then sure, you don't need it and you could argue that it's even "harmful".
Moderation in eating isn't equivalent to a minor eating disorder. I agree though that some behavior you need to do today might have been seen as symptoms of a type of disordered eating in the past.

But by definition, if it's keeping you healthy, it mostly shouldn't be considered disordered.

I know in the past cutting up food into very small pieces was seen as a symptom of disordered eating because the thought was that you're intentionally slowing your eating so you eat less. Today's portion sizes in the US make it mandatory to break up a pre-prepared meal or a snack into smaller pieces so each bite isn't so calorically dense. In fact, in certain contexts, cutting up food is seen as proper and having manners. If you're eating a big piece of meat, you don't grab it in your hands and chew on it, generally. You cut it up into bite sized pieces.
No. People are more resilient than electronic storage media.
>but they stress that they don't consider themselves mission critical

I'm new to shopping for email hosting and using your own domain. I know sending emails and not get flagged as spam is a hard, but is there any risks when it comes to receiving emails?
Since it is a common usenet/forum/flame warrior method, I have a strong opinion about:

Address multi-faceted comments by breaking them down and using points, numbering and quoting.

Except when the facets are purely technical, this approach trends toward full defensive point by point rebuttal.

Once the points counting starts, the logic of points-counting becomes part of the public performance.

In general, people don’t like to have their comments picked apart in public because it doesn’t solve their problem. And because it is an aggressive response to what is usually just wanting to have ones say.

It is a tactic better suited to the context of private communications and with the appearance of having given the matter a few hours thoughts. Otherwise it tends to “broaden the front” when done in public performance.

It’s not likely to make HN better. YMMV
I would be very much in favor of a free universal ID that can be used to vote. Then there's no objection, right?
Cutting out dairy from my life. I drank a lot of milk as a kid and teen, and never really had any intolerance. I noticed that when I consume dairy I get slow and bloated, and just generally feel a "-30% debuff" so to speak.

I've cut out all dairy and drink almond milk with cereal or protein shakes, and it's made a clear improvement to my health. Give it a month and see what you get back.
The sugar only comes from eating packaged products. Buy groceries to make your own food and there's no sugar problem. Snack on vegetables and tree nuts.
I genuinely feel that CNN’s choice to go for 24hr ad-supported news was the majority of the reason they can no longer be trusted to be objective.

When your news runs on ads you’ll optimize for ad watch time and not integrity.
Isn't the gatekeeping standardized verifiability and liability? Those are sorely needed in a lot of software endeavors.
The problem I have with subtitles is the same reason I could never enjoy comics / graphic novels. I can either read and process the text, or look at / process the action (pictures). For me it is the same thing as trying to pay attention to two conference calls at the same time with a phone in each ear (is it just me that can't do this?). And it isn't just the mental processing, the rest of the screen sort of disappears from my perception when reading subtitles.

Now silent films aren't a problem, as the text is shown before / after a given scene. So there is no processing two things at the same time. And it isn't a reading problem in general, because I'm an avid book reader and can consume books quite fast (although I only enjoy them if I read them slower and contemplate each scene).
When did Big Tobacco start using all of the additives to up the addictive level of the things? Does that correlate to the timing of when they started using the "physician approved" nonsense?
It's longer than that, the term "tobacco heart" was around in 1880! I remember reading a short story from around then (I think by Mark Twain), where the character is criticized for the unhealthy habit of smoking.

Maybe lung cancer was 1950s, but health in general? Much, much earlier than that.
How about wearing a N95 mask with the standard issue cloth mask on top?
Your comment seems like it's mocking.

> ...act in a way that makes us more likely to catch covid

This line really muddled the point when I was reading. I don't really understand it.
I got the same impression. I find it strangely reminiscent of a sponsored reddit advertisement.
I'd summarize most of their guidelines here as: "Don't try to game the system, it doesn't work on HN. Honest engagement and thoughtful replies win out."
As in so many other domains, i'm disappointed but not surprised. The corporation let this douche-bag 'cool-off' and is now bringing him back to invigorate the company .. awesome .. can't wait to see how that pans out
Indeed; in general, if you know 1/n of the information in the nonces, you can recover the private key after n signatures. So even subtle biases in the random number generation can leak your key after a few transactions.
Good for you ;) Heh, quite jealous.

I assume this means you're running your own mailserver, which was something I was hoping to avoid.

It looks like Google does allow catch-all addresses on the new plan. https://support.google.com/a/answer/2685650?hl=en . I'm still very tempted to move to fastmail instead though. Email was all I really used the legacy suite for.

The annoying thing is things like toy apps which I have which are all with one of these legacy g-suite accounts (though, maybe those do all continue to work actually ?) What a mess (like, how does oauth work when I signed in with Google and now it's no longer a google account... it won't work.. gah!)
what's the problem? He was just maximizing the CPI and throughput of the employment finalization process.
> All children will benefit from small class sizes, individualized lesson plans, encouragement to pursue their passions, etc etc.

Class size has nothing to do with it. As I've mentioned above multiple times, this is not what we are after. It is also not necessarily something that these programs offer; the program I was in 30 years ago did not have small class sizes.

Equally important, evidence does not strongly support the theory that smaller class sizes improve performance. Most of the studies show no benefit or a small benefit but only for certain types of students (white/Asian, not URM).

Similarly, we're not looking for individualized lesson plans. Just let her do the regular math for a different grade level. No customization needed. I realize that would require matching up 'math time' for her class and another class, but this is a school with 7 classes per grade. There are many ways to make this happen (for her and for other students who could also benefit from above-grade-level instruction).

> I do think on the whole G&T programs are a net negative- if only because they have drained so many resources from the vast majority of students.

> Its heartbreaking that we offer those services primarily to children who are academically exceptional.

I'm curious where you're getting your numbers from. I work in education technology, and the common wisdom is that tons of money is spent on Title I schools and special education. I have literally never heard anyone claim that GATE is a lucrative market.
Sue for declaratory judgment to have court decide if they broke a rule or law. No money in this, but can lead to their losing job.

You can follow up with injunction from court to order them to cease whatever it is. Then contempt of court if they violate injunction.
How would we handle this right?

How much of a knife's edge is this, and how do we protect ourselves?
Build smaller,faster,and more secure desktop applications with a web front end
Par for the course for Gitlab, like how they claim they don't adjust compensation based on cost of living[1] before describing in detail why they adjust compensation based on cost of living[2]

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
I would not have been mad (as in “I’m not even mad, that’s impressive” to paraphrase the quote) if someone abused the moratorium to put every month’s rent in the bank and move out with enough cash for a down payment on their own property.
> The biggest impact I can see, other than the headache of migration, is that former GFYD email address can NEVER be used for docs, drive etc, even on the same terms as a free personal account.

Uh oh. So, let's say I take my custom domain email address and set it up on a non-Google provider. (The whole reason I have a custom domain is to avoid locking me to a vendor).

I can't then set up an ordinary personal google account using this email, it'll be reserved forever?

That stinks.
To reach there, your comment must include either "gitlab" or "devops platform".
A couple points here.

1. AI might be able to prevent bad dubbing/subbing, but it will not be able to compete with _good_ dubbing/subbing in our lifetimes. There's an artistry there that no AI can match.

2. I love subtitles and prefer original audio + English subtitles in anything foreign-language. Besides the voices matching up to the movement of the actors' lips and thus not breaking my immersion, I also adore hearing how familiar emotions are reflected in languages I do not know. It makes me feel more connected to humanity.
I think I see a few misconceptions here. Very few people in LA are doing this crime. This is a product of "fencing". The vast majority of people in dire straights will not decide theft is the answer. Ergo, its a special person who decides, "eh, it's just theft."

Second, you may not put up with deadline punishments because you "have an out" (get another job). If we had 20% unemployment and you have 20 guys and gals in line for your job and there wasn't a social safety net, you'd be glad to have a crummy manager with crummy milestones and deadlines. So, punishment works --it doesn't work if it's subverted (i.e. options). How exactly do you think trannies and communist systems work, people volunteer?
Agree fully. I was in G&T in elementary and middle school and the primary benefit imo was that I went into highschool with a circle of friends that were mostly high-achievers. Unless you plan on being a horrible overbearing helicopter parent, peer pressure is going to determine a lot more than you're expecting about what your kids like, do, strive for, etc. Despite being at a school that sent zero students to Stanford or Harvard or Cambridge, we had a pretty high upper bound on what you _could_ do if you were motivated. Competitive academic teams were the norm in many subjects (math, languages, history, civics...)

Some of my middleschool friends split off to go to local magnet schools instead and looking at the spread, they didn't actually fair any better than the rest of us. Meanwhile, they mostly describe highschool as a miserable experience that made them vomit with stress instead of the excellent time that I had in public school with access to all the "public school stuff" like marching band, large theatre program involvement from the local community, etc. Maybe some of those things have since died, but I'd be surprised if the difference was enough to justify it.
Thanks for sharing your story.

> Poverty may encourage crime, but crime always creates poverty.

It seems like you're using two different meanings for the word 'poverty'. In "poverty may encourage crime", the word 'poverty' means a lot of people not earning enough money to live comfortably. And in "crime always creates poverty", it seems like the word 'poverty' means places being less welcoming, businesses spending extra resources, and public processes being less efficient. By using different meanings of the word in the same sentence, the sentence becomes difficult to understand correctly, easy to misunderstand.

Most property crime transfers wealth to poorer people, making them less poor and reducing poverty. Convicting and imprisoning criminals increases poverty.
Opposing jails in general is in fact a part of the debate over whether certain punishments match the crimes.

It's not even a particularly extreme part/position in that debate.
Is there any backdoor left in Unix or Linux intentionally? by Chris Rapier
Distasteful sure, but why would a company let distaste stand in the way of profit? This is corporate realpolitik. The only bad move is to leave opportunity on the table.
Let's not forget that Google's spam filtering racket has made it next to impossible to host your own email in any kind of practical manner, or even use many hosted email services effectively over the years.
> if every piece of software I use on a daily basis cost me a few dollars

Can I interest you in a cloud license for ls? It’s clearly critical you your day to day work, surely $5 per month it reasonable for a too, you use so frequently???

(Im a long time 1pw user and vocal supporter. I’m now wondering how they are going to generate the expected return in this investment, because I can’t see any realistic avenues for that which aren’t likely to fuck me and everybody I’ve recommended 1pw to in the last decade or so over…)
Are VC money and investments going to dry up? What's the timeline on this?
Even more important is almost all of iPhones market share is in USA. So would apple care about maintaining the market where most of it's phones are sold? Well, ya, of course.
Can you cite some sources please?
That's so cool! It really feels like tech best practices have made lots of headway in the past 5 years within the U.S. government. Looks like this analytics frontend was brought to us by 18F, with the codebase even hosted on GitHub[0]. Other governments in the US also seem to be using this like the city of Los Angeles[1].

0. https://github.com/18F/analytics.usa.gov

1. http://analyticsdash-46.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Its server side HTML5 canvas.
Seems to have lost a hyphen: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/sdd/OSD-R8203_Xerox_Office_Sy... (note Bitsavers has directory listings).
For those that don't know - sytse is the CEO
any other limitations? syntax highlighting sounds like a very easy one for them to fix.
> Is it possible that Apple simply doesn't want to dominate messaging?

Yes, but also that Apple don't want to make it easier for Google to get their grubby little fingers inside more of Apple customers' data than they already do.
Let's say you make $$$/hr with unlimited overtime.

Can you draw a schematic for me to understand how buying a TV saves money?
It depends on a lot of factors, my unscientific rule of thumb is that if the data doesn't fit in the RAM of the server, then that's when you may start worrying about how the data will be fetched from the disk when you query it (if performance matters).

The problem case is when the data needed to serve an average query is "scattered across the disk". This means that you will need to potentially fetch way more information from the disk (because data is returned by blocks/pages, not by bytes) than necessary to fulfill the query.

A worst case example: say to compute a query, you need to get 5000 rows (with a size of 100 bytes per row, 500KB in net total), if they are "perfectly scattered" (i.e. each row on a different page), you will really need to bring in 5000 pages of 8KB per page (default page size in Postgres) for a total of 40MB. By fetching 80 times more data than needed, you've essentially reduced your throughput by 80x.

Note that the example above assumes that an index (e.g. btree) can be leveraged. The index would point directly to the numerous pages, which is likely still much better compared to doing a full scan. But that index doesn't solve all your problems, only part 1.

It may not be a big deal as bringing 40MB from a disk would go fast, but this will limit 1) the number of concurrent user you'll be able to serve, 2) if you need 100,000 rows instead of 5000, then your query will take longer to process and it may be negatively noticeable by your user.

If you can co-locate the data on the disk (i.e. put them on same or contiguous pages) deterministically, then you would feel much better about your throughput. Cluster Index (or Indexed Views as it's called in SQL Server) is the typical mechanism to sort the data on the disk in RDBMS. MySQL does that by default with the primary key, but not Postgres.
https://pastebin.com/HZqbnWep
And yet the Japanese have high life expectancy?
MicroShift
omg it's like I'm Nostradamus!
Maybe I wasn't clear, but tocopherol was not a flavoring agent. It was likely the cause of the mysterious lung issue affecting vapers, that stopped after it was removed.
For anyone that missed it Amazon's Electric Dreams are just PKD short stories. I was rather surprised that they got some big name actors in it.
> Yet, leave it to the Swiss (those masters of neutrality) to give us at least one example of a truly civil war

The same Swiss that banned their citizens from joining mercenary armies after two predominantly Swiss mercenary armies slaughtered each other.
that's exactly what the remaining employees are discussing over their Wednesday evening drinkies too !
Are you using Opensearch for logging or site search? $371 seems like a lot for a low traffic site. You can probably reduce the cost to a fraction by doing some research on alternatives
Weight, finances, like anything tracking it makes you aware. I started counting calories eight years ago (Jan 11, 2014) I do it at the end of each day. I did find that tracking my weight (or my spending) makes me modify my behaviour. Even eating the crap I do I am more aware it it's made my weight stabilize. I can even see a bump in the graph of my weight after I buy groceries or a dip when I go for bike rides in the summer. I also see patterns of same weight for multiple days then a weight change up or down; trends.

I'm not female and not obese but a slightly overweight middle-aged male with hypothyroidism (synthroid pill #1 Mar 12, 2013). So not the typical person most people would think of. But I never had an eating disorder just curiosity.
I suppose that's better than 'Something went wrong'.
USA does not have national voting, as voting is done in the States. It doesn't need a national ID for that.
> "Consider chemical engineering. Chemical engineering is unlike mechanical, civil, or electrical engineering. Chemical engineers create processes to manufacture products at scale, often using experimentation and iteration. But nobody would disagree that it is engineering. Chemical engineering started in the late 1800s, before states licensed engineers. If chemical engineering started now, people would refuse to call it engineering. And they’d be wrong to refuse."

This induced a little painful wincing. Chemical engineering relies heavily on detailed knowledge of fluid mechanics, because industrial chemical processes generally take place in liquid or gas phase, often under conditions of high pressure and temperature, and so you do indeed need the same kind of general approach that the other listed fields of engineering apply. They rely on mathematical models, to ensure that you don't get explosions (ideally anyway), etc. They need to be able to calculate things like the pressure at the bottom of an oil storage tank and so on. Look at any textbook on fluid mechanics for chemical engineers, it's the same kind of thing.

The author may be thinking of something like organic chemists who work in tamer lab settings, devising new reactions at benchtop scale, but organic chemists generally aren't going to be able to scale up a promising benchtop process without the input of a chemical engineer who has a detailed knowledge of fluid mechanics. Nobody refers to such organic chemists as 'engineers' in my experience, I think the more generally accepted terms are 'researcher' or 'scientist'.
Does it matter?

Solve problems for people. Teach them how to solve bigger problems. Learn from them how to solve other problems. Make life better for people.

I don't care if that's called "engineer," "developer," "codemonkey," or "hooman." Just do the thing, and try to always get better at doing the thing.
Your slack channel must be blowing up.