skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, there's a song I like called Cop Killer by John Maus.

Lyric wise, it's pretty sparse but here's an excerpt

> Cop killer

> Let's kill the cops tonight

> Kill them, cop killer

> Let's kill every cop in sight, cop killer

I feel like to some hard pressed reviewer just looking at the lyrics, they would easily be seen as violating the following:

> Content that advocates or glorifies serious physical harm towards an individual or group includes, but may not be limited to:

> inciting or threatening serious physical harm or acts of violence against a specific target or specific group

Needless to say, I haven't been compelled to kill any cops as a result of the song.

Here's an excerpt from an interview about the track:

> "I've always wanted to do something with that lyric," says the excitable Minnesotan, words gushing out of him in an enthusiastic torrent.

> "Cop Killer is the perfect way of putting over the idea that any worthwhile political or artistic agenda should be seeking an undoing of the situation as it stands. Whether the status quo is a political state or a musical language, the idea should be to kill or overthrow that. The song's not about killing a human being, but about overcoming inhumanity; destroying the machinery that turns us toward an end other than ourselves."
Or even simpler just download the JS and put it next to the script if single file isn't a hard requirement (which I don't see a use case for besides simplicity)
This doesn’t worry me too much, the value seems like it should be the exact same hash for any iOS Safari visitor with the same screen resolution and browser language? I’d be fingerprinted as part of a group of (probably) several hundred thousand.

8d666b05c42878d6d6d364c410a4eef2

It’s a shame that browsers leak things like font presence, but of course when sites can read back canvas contents without querying the user is when it all goes out the window.
One degree of separation (socially). The implication being that if OP doesn't know someone who would fit as a partner, someone (s)he knows does.
I had this issue using JDK17 and 18 as well, so at least by default things are not better. =)

I wonder if there is a way that does not involve using `numactl`. It needs the container to run in privileged mode and that is not how the containers are run in the drag-racing benchmark...
Hey, sometimes I talk to customers too, so it's like I'm with others behind a computer. On a serious note, the pandemic really exacerbates this.
sorry for this guys...

A note taking system that works like my thought process does AND lets me very quickly add notes from my phone. (Android)

needs search functionality and RTF.
You should consider writing. Some people only begin to care about something when they find out that someone they care about or respect has experienced it.
TL,DR: it's not the audio, it's the video (Dance Dance Revolution de-sync)
There really is a sucker born every minute.
There is no such thing as truly unbounded exponential growth, it's always an S curve
So... A train?
I'm just over 50 and I'm finding it harder to stay in programming.

Most companies want to push me upward into management (which I don't want to do) - and I feel like I'm aging out of eligibility for most development jobs.

How did you manage to stick with it? I still love it.
I have the same experience. I watch lots of educational YouTube content and share my premium subscription with my wife and kids. I could never go back to ad-based YouTube.
Bored Ape Yacht Club and neo-Nazis: So much reaching for just four bananas
Here's a Wabtec video [0] about their battery-electric locomotive. They are not limited to yard service; they're also marketing them as "hybrid consist" pullers, which means that if you team them with a standard diesel-electric locomotive they reduce the diesel fuel needed to pull the train and they capture some of the train's braking energy to recharge the batteries.

Left unstated is whether the diesel-electric locomotive in the consist could recharge the batteries of the battery-electric locomotive as the train is rolling. I expect it could but it's probably pointless because it's more efficient to let the diesel-electric pull the train.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIgmNOxa5aI
> [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_arrangement

A bit off topic, but I find it mildly amusing that most of the article is taken by the huge table that is entirely about steam loco wheel arrangements, and moreover all of those various arrangements actually have their own article! Rather thorough for a decidedly obsolete technology.
> It probably has to do with the apertures in the lenses

This seems extremely unlikely. The aperture in these lenses is fixed, so the aperture is just a circular hole.
The term you're looking for is LCA (Life Cycle Analysis).

Includes energy and emissions calculations that take into account embedded costs.

Might also search for Sustainability Engineering.
Grid Style Sheets 2.0
I've never seen vegetables or fruit being refrigerated in supermarkets, have you?
Been reading it since 1985ish. It has changed somewhat since then, although nuclear fusion is still 25-50 years off.

Somehow it has avoided some of the pitfalls of the last 20 years that have reduced editorial independence that has beset other titles. I have no idea who even owns it today but I consider it pretty unbiased except when that is justified, given what it is.

Not cheap but you get what you pay for.
You must be trolling. European countries are considered the most free in the world.

https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores?sort...
The amount of fibre in vegetables is enormous compared to most other foods, especially including “high in fibre” manufactured foods.
You can work 2 jobs 60+ hours a week and still be poor because wages have not kept up with cost of living increases, especially when it comes to housing and healthcare.
We use a VPN to watch on the BBC for just this reason. The BBC hosts don't over analyze the coverage and the focus is on the competitors and they don't create artificial drama. Their para-Olympics coverage is top notch too.

Forgot to add advertising in the US is out of control.
It’s great to have an initiative this large to tackle cancer.

I’d love it if also included large amount of effort into reducing exposure to chemicals that cause cancer.
Just try it - you will not regret it!
The joke was that they want Pinterest removed in Europe as well.
Well, the creators of the content you watch do have to eat too. They are the ones that make most of the money from those ads, and the ones that hurt most if you do not support them.
I've been using Plexamp recently and supposedly they're adding a similar feature to Spotify Connect relatively soon: https://twitter.com/plexamp/status/1489024846033915908
You ask the wrong questions.

If you are considering doing something, ask yourself if it's a win for yourself and whoever you're relating with.

Is it an important relationship to you? If the answer is yes, then consider investing in it. Otherwise, don't waste your time.

If they are asking for help doing something they are perfectly capable of doing themselves, you should consider passing.

If you help someone who doesn't reciprocate or takes credit for your time, then you're just enabling bad behavior. Don't do it. It's not good for you, it's not good for their growth and it's not good for your company.

So, if it's a win-win, just do it and with confidence that it's right for you and right for them and don't waste energy on /hesitation/trust-issues/feelings/whatever.

"Helping" others in of itself doesn't make you a good person. It makes you a caretaker. Caretaking babies is appropriate and a good thing to do. Doing things for capable adults that they are prefectly capable of doing themselves isn't. It makes you a tool and people will lose respect for you. Even the person you just helped.
Yep. Sometimes: "this is no longer how we would handle this today, but at the time it made sense because of X" is a common finding if you dig deep enough.
A long time ago, two Canadian computer scientists published a paper where they had written a 1-page Lisp program that got a passing grade on the British Columbia written driver's exam. It relied on the fact that in those days, all questions on the exam that started with “Must...” had the answer “yes”, questions starting with “May...” had the answer “no”, any question containing “pedestrian” was answered with “stop, the pedestrian has the right of way”, and a few others. “Immediately notify the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles” was the default answer.

As I say, this program passed the exam, and the result was presented at a Canadian AI conference. They've changed the exam since then.

By the way, when I did my exam (long before this experiment), the person in front of me failed.
Saves manufacturing costs. When I make a door I want to make one model that will function for every use case. The "pull bar" can be used for push and pull so I put it on both sides and be done with it.
At the moment all the build-deps are installed as binary packages, so I think this wouldn't work? I thought of trying to figure out which packages had shared build dependencies and building a tree of images that way, but solving the dependency constraints to get an efficient tree sounded unpleasant.

I did experiment with just preinstalling the top 300 or so most common build dependencies, but this ended up causing more problems due to conflicts (and not just version conflicts – some packages behave differently at build time depending on what's already installed; an example is any R package which will use my old nemesis xvfb-run if it's present on the system [1]) than it saved in time or space.

I do feel a bit guilty about how much I'm hammering the debian repos though, so I will probably set up a local apt mirror and point my sources.list to that instead next time.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/dh-r/-/blob/master/dh/R....
Probably contractors built it as a mistake and then users use a cheap hack rather than pay to replace it.
presumably, friend of friend
Managers with this attitude are dangerous.
Best part? When you have raised the your own children, grand and great-grand-children start trickling in! YAY!
Yes. Faxes are still a thing and used. Amazing how many things accept faxes but not emails.
In California, you’d end up paying almost 50% of that in taxes. Take another $100k for living expenses (could be much more if you have kids and an expensive mortgage), and you’re left with ~$400k to save per year. In 5 to 10 years you get to something like $2M-$4M (plus market returns). Doesn’t seem that insane of a plan.
I remember reading that as a (not exactly wealthy) student just arrived in London. I felt lucky living on £5/day.

It also shows very convincingly how the presumably fair enforcement of unjust laws and norms can be a weapon in a context of class warfare. It was then that I realised that things I had internalised as normal (like rules to prevent rough sleeping) were in fact reactionary weapons to punish a group of people who were in that state mostly through tough luck of mental health issues. As Anatole France wrote, “the law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
Try it, is free to try. The experience is quite great without ads but do not trust me or others, try for yourself if you watch YouTube and want to support creators but hate the ads.
I was fortunate enough to make the move after a layoff that left me with a bit of a runway. I basically made phone calls and met with people, telling them what I was interested in doing (X.500 mostly, some PKI (hey, it was a long time ago!)) and asking them not if they had work, but if they knew who might.

I made sure to get at least one strong contact from each call/meeting. As time went on, the quality of referral got higher, until I was talking to two people who had work and no one to do it.

I ended up getting both contracts, and they kept me busy for my first year (making better money than I had ever made as an employee).

Your network has more value than you might think, and working that network can be as simple as “hey, who do you think would be interested in...”
Hmm: read another philosopher—a pragmatist like Rorty. First you have to get beyond the notion of Truth and Reality with capital letters. Those are now regarded by many philosophers (and by me) as quaint historical residues. 1931 and Gödel’s proof plus 90 years of quantum carpet bombing has left us with dust and mud rather than grand edifices in philosophy or even physics. How appropriate for a post-Darwinian era ;-)

Accept life as a beautiful mess to fill with kindness when possible. That is pretty much Rorty’s pragmatic message.
℠ is often used when the registration is still pending
"We agree on the same facts, but differ in our definition of fact and the conclusions made from and consequent to those facts" seems more appropriate. There are a lot of "facts" that are really just assertions, with varying levels of evidence or proofs or universal applicability. The idea of rights is a good example of facts per this definition.

If it's facts like mathematical or logical axioms, or similar such things that are virtually undisputed except by the utmost extreme fringe elements of humanity, probably we agree what a fact is. If it's "scientific consensus" well... maybe still, but it's getting hazy. If it's "lived experience" or "history as written by the victors" then we aren't agreeing on what a fact is anymore, in my opinion. And there are many levels of variability below that.

The conclusions made based on a fact are progressively more impacted by the amount of variability. The consequences arising from making decisions based on those conclusions even moreso.

If the conclusion is "my children will be treated like prisoners in public school and informed subtly through virtually every lesson plan that their skin color changes how they are supposed to behave and how they should view their positions in life" are that I vote for somebody who supports charter schools and voucher systems, the consequences might be that I end up campaigning for that single issue regardless of party or candidate.

Or maybe it's just taking my kids out of school and using one of the many pre-made self-learning curricula for a variety of topics and give them a laptop and frequent checkups to ensure they're learning. Or maybe I outsource it to my church. Or maybe I outsource it to YouTube and Wikipedia.

Or maybe I say fuck it and let them go play in the yard all day, or go to the mall, or go to their own protests all day, or join a street gang, or try to get tiktok views, or invent some thing, or write a book, or overdose, or chat on discord all day, or get a job, or join a club. Lot of options, lot of ways to "fail to educate" on any given topic.
I see targeting police as a really stupid, monumentally bad move since they are the only ones who can reliably identify the bad actors in their midst.

But they don't. They do just the opposite. They get off the hook unless they are caught on video, and even then police and their supporters will make excuses.

They spent decades digging this hole. They will not earn that trust back easily even if they stopped shooting people in their sleep tomorrow. Which they show no signs of.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/592816-video-shows-...
Seems to me this would be about as unlikely as Facebook following through with their threat to pull out of the EU.
This reminds me of a quote from John Carmack that gnaws on the back of my brain during day to day development - "A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in." Seems it would also be relevant to most of modern inventions.
Isn’t the author the furry producer of blocked and reported?
Maybe?... except, while I have heard a ton of stuff about this Spotify/Rogan issue many times a day for days now, you are the only person I have seen mention this angle or that coming episode (and it was dumb luck that I saw your comment, as I wasn't expecting anything new and so was just kind of glancing over this thread for what the splash damage of Spotify's "rules" might be).

If you are correct about the reason for this "recent heat", the strategy for people to misdirect the issue about something else and then drown out the actual issue while tiring out the media on the overall subject does seem like it could bypass "telling people not to look at or talk about X makes them want to look at X and talk about X" as you are making the whole issue about some unrelated-seeming Y.
> every cost

A good salesman, contractor, etc., will size you up based on your clothes/car/house and will adjust their prices accordingly.
Why is an Australian news outlet running a hit piece about some random Florida burbs lol
I disagree with this. Not saying it's impossible to build a reputation on haggle or whatever but networking and getting to know people (potential employers) and their problems is more important.

I've been on both sides as a contractor and hiring contractors. I've never seen anyone go for the "smartest" person or a popular person in the field. It's all about comfort working together, and being top of mind when there is work. For the latter point, some kind of "presence" on social media or whatever may help, but I still think there's a massive wall between media and reality (like I'd never consider reaching out to a social media celebrity if I need work done). Regular calls and check-ins, pitching ideas, getting to understand clients. That's what wins the work. And once you're in, just do a good job (again be understanding the client needs, not really by being smart) and you're good.
It's been an ongoing fight in Texas for a few decades. This is a major issue since Texas buys so many school books they tend to drive the market but this is lessening a bit.

https://relevantmagazine.com/current/texas-board-education-d...

This is one example. There are lots more.
Should they mainly be concerned about performance at the cost of security? Especially given that Python is widely used by so many people who don't specialise in programming, risk mitigation in the core libs seems just as important. If people are actually passionate about urllib's inclusion, maybe this will spur them to maintain it.
Cool, thanks! One thing I really like about colemak academy is that it has you go back and correct errors, instead of just blowing past them. That's much more realistic for my everyday typing.

In terms of using real words: I don't mind that I'm typing slower per se, but I do notice when I do typing tests that involve real words, I have a certain muscle memory (at least in the common parlance — I assume it's actually more brain training) that allows me to type many long words quite quickly.

I assumed that it would be useful to improve my technique using real words, with a focus on the words that I'm not great at. I will be interested to see if typing gibberish words with similar patterns will lead to improvements in real world typing.
Can you elaborate on "contracting through recruiters"? Did you respond to recruiters who were reaching out to you with full-time positions and say "no thanks, but what about a contract instead?" If so, do you have any particular strategies for getting to a "yes" with that approach?

Or did you mean that you reached out to recruiters and worked out a finder's fee arrangement if they brought you contracts? If so, how did you find recruiters to work with who weren't already engaged with clients and might therefore have a conflict of interest?
Toucan Events | Remote | Full-time | Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

Toucan is a post-COVID virtual gatherings platform that makes mingling at an online happy hour as easy as circulating around a physical room or just standing around with a drink and waiting for folks to come to you.

Our Stack

Frontend: React, TypeScript, Tixi (homegrown PixiJS-like library using CSS instead of WebGL), and Tailwind CSS.

Backend: NodeJS, Hapi, TypeScript, MongoDB, Redis, AWS Chime, EC2, ECS, Postgres RDS, Redshift, Lambda, and Kinesis.

Candidates with experience in other frameworks (ie. Vue, Express) or other cloud providers (ie. GCP, Azure) are encouraged to apply.

To apply, email me at risto@toucan.events
From what I understand her coworkers at the agency were all ideologically motivated to hate her and stonewall everything she did, so it was difficult to make progress. This was her philosophy:

> states and local districts should make education policy, not the U.S. government.

It would be a breath of fresh air for a philosophy like this to be implemented but you would have to fire everyone in the department of education and start over to actually get anything done.
I wish the author would have added this last sentence to the rule:

> There’s so much I don’t know.

To become:

"My willingness to judge something should be proportional to how much I know about it and there’s so much I don’t know."
Nonetheless, given that the individual regional banks are have directors that are elected by the member banks, control over certain levels of fed policy are in a sense private, whereas that is nowhere true for the postal service. At least not to my knowledge.
No good reason. The book he mentioned here talks about it.

> Sometimes things really are poorly designed (check out The Design of Everyday Things)

They're sometimes called Norman doors after the author of that book. (Seems weird to me to name something after the person who pointed out how bad it is, but whatever...)
I'm a base R purist personally, but that's mostly because of how long ago I picked it up and don't get any improvements in development speed from dplyr verbs with a few exceptions. But I disagree with this take for beginners especially non-programmers, with the advent of tidyverse it is incredible how fast newcomers pick up enough fluency to handle basic data massaging, analysis and visualisation.

I think exceptions where base-R is necessary can be taught as they arise.
50MW is too high (I overestimated freight train speed); I revised to 15MW on my previous post (too low).

> The locomotives are 3-4MW peak and I rarely see them use more than 3 or 4 of them on a train.

3-4 locomotives is typical for a "small" 3000 tonne train.

When you get to the 10,000 tonne monsters, you might have 8 GE Evolutions distributed, capable of 24MW sustained.

It's also worth noting this is not really enough. If rail freight was a little faster, it could be used for more things.

> 50%, which is totally doable

The US rail freight market and scale is different from Denmark. I don't think you understand how much goods travels over track which is near nothing and very long. Especially in the Western US. E.g. Los Angeles to San Antonio is just one of many major rail route. It's through 1200 miles of largely desert with nothing around. Estimates are that it would cost $5M/track mile to electrify.

Just to note the scale difference: Banedanmark moves about 2.6 billon tonnes-km according to Wikipedia. BNSF and Union Pacific railroads-- the #1 and #2 rail freight carrier in the US-- move about 1500 billion tonnes-km.

On the other hand, it takes about 12L of diesel to pull a tonne of freight across the distance.

We'd be far better off trying to just move more freight to the existing rail network than to try and electrify it, if we're looking at things from a standpoint of reducing CO2 emissions.
Looks like we might be leaving the golden era of music streaming like we are past the golden era of video streaming. Was a good run where basically all content was available on all platforms, but it looks like we will be facing pretty bad fragmentation from now on.
Low Tech Magazine: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com