skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't want to be associated with stuff like that. I think its well within my rights to turn work like that down.

Worth noting: under federal law that's your right regardless of the outcome of this case.

At the federal level[1], political affiliation is not a protected class. This makes sense considering the issues that formed the Civil Rights Act (primarily race discrimination); it wouldn't make sense to grant the same rights and restrictions of assembly around serving a person of a particular race and serving a person who's political belief was people of that race are inferior. So a Klansman, for example, has a right to representation, advocate representation in the justice system, and freedom of speech but no particular right to be served in a bar (and bars can and do kick people out for wearing obvious signification of political affiliation, see https://www.upworthy.com/bartender-explains-why-he-swiftly-k...). Backing an anarchist or communist party can (and famously did) get you fired from a job, also.

[1] Some states grant additional rights in state law... IIRC, California does put political affiliation in the protected class in its state law
Yeah, none of this is true. There is federal and state income taxes with 7(?) states not having income taxes. 3(?) states do not have sales taxes. My states sales tax is 2%, but the locality has a 6% tax, so total sales tax is 8% and is higher on thinks like alcohol.

Filing your taxes is free, but depending on the financial moves you make (selling stocks, rolling over a 401k, etc) you may need to set aside money throughout the year to pay the bill.

In most non-tech jobs you will pay hundreds per month for health/dental/vision/life/etc insurance. Among of required insurances, home/renters/car/etc can be a couple hundred per month.

Agreed on cars - in major cities you may not need them, but they are required everywhere else.

I don’t know anything about net differences so you are probably correctly that earning more in the US is still worth it, but I don’t think your characterization is accurate.
Save your Phantom wallet details in 1Password
Ultra-Efficient Bike Has No Chains and No Derailleurs
I feel like you really need to have a reason to use ext3/4. I stick to xfs for daily stuff and btrfs if I want any sort of extra functionality. It's super stable in basic configs.

For example, I have a /data drive formated xfs, then I mount a /backup formated btrfs, rsync the 2, take a btrfs snapshot, and unmount /backup.
Not gonna happen. Tibet will get lots of freedom fighters courtesy of Uncle Sam and Aunty Indira. Same will happen at Xinjiang with groomed mujahideen fresh from Middle East plus American weaponry courtesy of free gift left in Afghan. China now is riped for breakage as inscribe in 5000 years of belief. One of American strategy to reduce China dominance is to accelerate breakage to 7 pieces (Xinjiang, Tibet, HK, North China, South China, Inner Mongolia and Heilonjiang). Attack on Taiwan, will have all the CCP children in America under internment similar to American Japanese during WW2. Would any parents able to meekly ignore that? Kill the emperor and save your children is a persuasive slogan. An economic blockade on the sea front and devastating India recovery of the western Aksai with Heilongjiang getting eyed upon by Putin while Japanese reconsider Manchuria. Most Chinese soldiers now are product of 1 child policy with very weak will to fight. Furthermore a breakage of world biggest dam would enough to wipe off 1/4 of Chinese capability on political and economic front. And remember the last few years strange prophecies happening in China. One notable one is June snowing in Beijing. Pandemic occuring in China history also signaling a change of dynasty. All in all, it is extremely unfavorable for Chinese to do a Putin Ukraine invasion. Putin is incredibly bright. You can go watch some of Putin's speeches on Youtube. Current Chinese leader is widelynknown on China to be not that well educated (due to Cultural Revolution) and lack eloquence. In short, attempt to take back Taiwan by force will end the China that we know now. People will care more about GPUs and CPU than the lives and prides of Chinese people.
The Gendermerie are already full on Linux, so why not?
We'll be able to have reviewable prototype units in a few months. Depending on how many critical components (displays, primarily) we have we might be able to set up some way to test it for non-reviewers.
No thanks, there's Joplin for an all-in-one solution, or Synching + Mark Text or any other markdown editor, completely free and open source.
I live in a dense city where it's very hard to find peace and quiet. I like to wake up before 5 AM and go on long solo bike rides, since it's the only time of day when the roads are empty and the city sleeps. Around 6 AM, buses and grumpy commuters appear, and by 7 AM the sun is rising and the roads are packed again.
I asked that you pay me and the other HNers reading this enough respect that you avoid littering your responses with straw man arguments, and yet you provide one that is bloated with them. What kind of useful discussion is possible when you're doing that?

None, so I'll ignore them.

> > because the farming of animals is so inefficient,

> As non efficient as any other process that has been improved over the last 4000 years at least.

This is wrong, for several reasons, the main one being the most pertinent - less calories are yielded per unit of farmland in animal farming than in non-animal farming. That is an objective difference in efficiency.

You wrote “what California needs now is to plant more almonds that suck all the water”.

From [1]:

> Animal feed, which includes irrigated pasture, non-irrigated pasture, and other feed crops, has the greatest water requirements (15 MAF), followed by alfalfa, straw, and hay (5.5 MAF). Together, these crops provide the primary inputs to California’s meat and dairy industry.

Over ten times the water use of almonds and the largest use of water in California farming by far. It takes 84 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of almond milk, and 880 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of cow's milk. That is an objective difference in efficiency.

You wrote “In arid places there are less things more efficient than a camel or a goat.”

Arguing from an exception isn't a winning strategy but it doesn't matter as I'm all for goats using mountain pasture. By all means, use camels in the desert instead of trying to grow wheat or whatever. Did I mention straw man arguments?

Speaking of which, if you wish to amend the essay you've provided which reads as an argument to someone else, (as I'm not in favour of a vegan utopia - whatever that is) then I'll be able to respond to it. Otherwise, you'll only be wasting your own time from here on in.

[1] https://pacinst.org/publication/assessment-of-californias-wa...
Yes, the only real problems are edge cases. I use it all the time.
I agree - the causal link is very important to note.

In terms of born premature vs born early, I understand that premature is the medical term. As a medical student, I also understand that it can be helpful to use more precise words in describing a situation.

However, I personally think that a lot of our medical jargon is due for simplification. For example, is there really any benefit to saying "epistaxis" rather than "bloody nose", or "rhinorrhea" rather than "runny nose"?

In the case of "born early" - premature and preterm are already interchangeable. I wouldn't mind adding born early to the mix.
I'd love a machine learning powered shakespeare-to-modern-english translator because I feel that this is both beautiful and that I'm barely understanding it (but I'm also not really a literature guy).

> Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow

What is this trying to say, for example? When love is happening too fast, every moment apart feels like an eternity and thus the next time together always arrives "too tardy"? And... wait, what? I feel like I'm not quite grasping it
Introverts of the world unite! Seriously, night time is great because having large chunks of unstructured time is good for creativity. There's no one to interrupt you or be offended by your (unpredictable) results.

My waking hours are typically 12pm-3am. Can confirm that eating during the early morning (i.e. when normally asleep) puts a noticeable strain on the system. Which must be connected to the scientific fact that night shifts are bad for health. I presume partly because night shift people don't do night shifts all the time and thus have to continually reset their circadian clocks, which will include eating at the 'wrong' times.
For most people it will take ~4 hours to do on their own with free software.
Would you agree to go to jail if a user posts something illegal on a forum you run?

No? Fair and reasonable. Neither do I. Now let's ask ourselves - would ANYONE reply yes? A bit unlikely? Therefore the result is absolutely no more forums/hosting of any kind.

I'm not talking pornhub here - even a cake recipe sharing site, a scientific forum, a community of model train enthusiasts, Stack Overflow, your MMO guild's site, even HN itself... nothing. No Discord, no Slack, obviously no social media (which I happen to dislike, but I'm quite firmly in the minority, I'm told), nothing at all.
remember the Russian Empire has an economy the size of Italy. it does a lot of posturing and no doubt it can cause a worldwide mess if it stops exporting energy, but they're an empire in name only.
> "we have moslty kept those on your left, but some of the new ones we're building are a not as dirty, and anyway last year was weird."

Where do you see that? Coal is falling about as quickly as the fastest rate it ever grew, natural gas is falling (I didn't expect that one 2 years ago). The only fossil fuel growing is oil, very slowly and from a low initial level.

And the growth on renewables continues on an exponential curve. At some point the exponential must stop, but here we are, on the double digits of market share and still exponential. (Click on the "Relative Change" box if you can't see it on the main one.)

Anyway, we have more than 10 years if we start strong and right away. The more we do right now, the more time we have to the hardest problems. And once we have electricity surplus (solar will almost certainly give us that), we can extend it indefinitely.

> Do you believe coal plants are going to close "viraly" in the next few years ?

They have been doing that for the last 3 years.

> Do you see a wave of gasoline cars getting out of the road?

That will take time. I see a wave of diesel trucks getting out of the road, but not cars.

About your edit, yes, if you restrict your time frame and geographical area, your data gets noisier.
Well, it can work out OK if one particular person has a strong enough association with the name. Lincoln is a great example. It seems unlikely that anyone with that name will become so infamous as to tarnish it. The voters of Lincoln, Nebraska or the board of the Ford Motor Company (owners of the Lincoln automotive brand) are pretty safe from needing to rename those things.
The whole point was controlling points of access for international funds (ie. the GoFundMe, GiveSendGo, crypto).
> Here again, ministries drag their feet when politically convenient (covid data), or just play deaf.

What Covid-related data are you finding lacking? Honestly it seemed like pretty much everything was made public rather fast.
> can't keep too much of difference in level if they both have same "X" years of experience.

This is not true in general.
Looks great, and I wish you luck, but I'd rather pay for a binary+license for major updates, not pay monthly for a lock-in subscription. That, or a large one-time lifetime license like Plex
In a sense, image recognition is like that - multiple different images hash to "cat", for example.

For the purpose here, robust hashing seems to be the relevant term:

https://www.netclean.com/netclean-report-2019/robust-hashing...
Really? Name a single successful Intel acquisition, especially open source.
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ has to go on the list for contrast against expectations of the home page of a $700B company. It does load fast.
Ahhhh :D
Honestly it was really great until it wasn't. I was there for almost ten years. The pay left a bit to be desired, but for the most part, everything else was so awesome that it was cool.

Then after some management changes, everything that made it great melted away and we were left with a job that underpays, has poor work-life balance, doesn't appreciate employee time/contributions, etc. It was still a pretty difficult decision to leave; management issues notwithstanding, the group of coworkers I actually worked with every day were - and still are - really great.
Here's another couple arguments for you:

1. Crypto's primary use today seems to be money laundering and other unsavory "darknet-ish" things. It seems like it would be an unnecessary risk to associate your financial persona with such illicit activities.

2. When markets tanked due to Coivd, crypto went right down with it.
Intel have been making balls-out plays (i.e. they could've just sold the fab business and MBA-ed themselves to death) and making good money but their stock is 30% or so down from last year so I am inclined to agree.

They'll never have a run like they did from Nehalem through to Zen's launch, but I think they're about to prove that they still have it and that they know how to sell chips.
Discussed a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30378139

(Disclaimer: Former Submission by me)
I think Rust has grown way beyond the point where it makes sense to characterize the community as a whole. I imagine you could get entirely different experiences depending upon whether you were engaging with people in some HN thread, or Reddit, or IRC, or Discord,...and even day by day or thread by thread.

Where specifically did you encounter the toxicity?
> Have you considered it's just really early days?

How many years do early days last?
I don't know if this would be of interest to you, but https://lancache.net/ is really fun to setup. I assigned an old (unreliable) 500gb SSD to a Linux VM and run Lancache on it. A couple tweaks to Pi Hole and every system in your house will use with no configuration (and fallback to Steam if it's down).

If you only have a single gaming system it won't matter but if you have a few it's fun to watch the second one get 100MB/s Steam downloads in a house with 20MB/s internet.
Simula is working on a paradigm shift of computing. We're looking at the price and comparing it to buying a smartphone or gaming console. The Simula device doesn't aspire to be a secondary device. It wants to be a primary device, replacing your laptop.

The closest device in comparison to this one is not a Quest 2 or even a Valve Index. Those are both secondary devices that do not offer anything other than canned, theme-park-like experiences that sit completely aside the rest of your computer. The closest competing device is actually a HoloLens 2. HoloLens with Windows Holographic is the only device on the market that has support for a general purpose computing interface. And HoloLens 2s are still US$3500/ea.

Whether you agree a VR computer as a primary device is a good thing is a different issue.
Another example of this is Dan Abramov's post from 2018 about things he doesn't know - https://overreacted.io/things-i-dont-know-as-of-2018/

As a very well known figure in the React community, the creator of Redux and currently working for Facebook on the React core team, he says people often think he's an expert in everything.
It'll always be a series of temporary things though. Companies will always use whatever makes a convenient, reasonable-sounding excuse to carry on doing massively stupid stuff that kills the planet if they can. They expend huge amounts of energy thinking up reasons to not do good things. It's not even for the sake of profit, because a lot of the time these things don't make them any money. They just lurch from one thing to another in order to put off a dip in the share price because shareholders are terrified of losing any money (plus people working in the business have taken a big chunk of their salary in shares, which incentiveizes maintaining a higher stock price...)

So sure, they're not doing whatever they're doing today permanently. They're doing a series of temporary things forever. Because that's different!
We've had a few users complain that they had issues downloading large files from Github -- either S3 was blocked alltogether (China) or just very slow (Australia). That was a couple of years ago, don't know what the situation is like today.

I think offering BT as an alternative would be a good idea, especially for downloads > 100MB.
I've found the most readable text is often the text that is natural. The more you torture the wording by over-thinking it the more you diverge from natural language. Sure, you may improve it from an analytical standpoint, but a large portion of reading is a subconscious process and your subconscious doesn't like it when the writing has been poured through ten filters before hitting the page.
I don't get why pay range guidance isn't just completely standard. I have pretty much always had them and it's really helpful to weed out bad fits. As a job searcher, it also helps me to understand what opportunities to look for, and save everyone time. I don't think this needs to be regulated, but I feel it's a good practice period. The best reason I can think of for not displaying it is because of some other regulatory concerns. Removing regulatory barriers could maybe help here.
>In my opinion, employers need to do more to significantly reward existing employees they want to retain. Right now, I can see how frustrating it could be for tenured employees when new hires come in with (quite a bit) higher comp packages than them, while they get a measly pay bump in accordance with inflation (sometimes even less).

This is literally what happened for me a few days ago

I've started as a student working for minimal wage, but I had some not small experience with C#, but I've still been around beginner level

After 3.5 years I've gained shitton of experience (that was smaller company, so you do everything from software, to deploy, to support, etc) and meanwhile I graduated and been arguing about software on the internet for years

but my compensation was around 130% of minimal wage <LOL>

I decided to quit and multiplied my salary by around 3.4 - 3.5 times

and meanwhile I told my friend who had like month or two experience with C# from college, that he should apply there, told him to learn about databases/sql and do some C# programming for like a month - so basically we have really newbie with little experience (let alone commercial) and he received like 140-150% of minimal wage

ridiculous, ain't it? but I'm happy with both outcomes :)
If we take the nocturnals at their word—that they simply like living this way—they complicate one of our core assumptions about human psychology: that all people have the same fundamental needs.

This basic problem, assuming some base commonality that turns out to have a much larger variability within a "normal" population, seems to plague a lot of the results coming out of the social sciences. It's one of the primary reasons I don't put a lot of weight into the research in these fields. I often find my lived experience very different to what they find. Maybe it is a necessary step on the road to a fuller understanding (we've got to start somewhere), but I think we end up over-simplifying the complexities of what it can mean to be human.
> market cap

People keep using this word and don't know what it means. Why it's used for crypto still boggles my mind.

> USDT fully diluted market cap is about equal to that of PNC Bank, America's 7th largest bank. If PNC Bank's reserves and market action (eg. questionable "minting") were anything like USDT's we would've seen investigation and likely indictments & convictions.

You're comparing apples and bananas. They might be related but they're not the same.
Russia Prepared to Withstand Sanctions. Why Wasn't Europe Prepared?
You can use the language and ignore the parts of the community you don't like. I've made similar observations, but still conclude the language is top-notch.

It also seems like a large portion of the posts I see in embedded Rust are about generics and/or async. I have no interest in them. (Most of the embedded code I've seen using them can be written more plainly without). It also turns new people off the language due to the syntax clutter. So, they think "Rust is hard to write/messy". It's not the language - it's how parts of the community use it.

I also dislike the condescending attitude when C code comes up .
Why can't I pay for major versions? V2, V3, V4.. if I don't want V5, fine.. I can move on
I use btrfs with snapshots for my backups. Not only do I get file checksums. The differences in files if I'm hit by ransomware or large-scale file corruption will draw my attention when the disk fills up.
Cute Lego digger: https://linutronix.de/videos/Linutronix_Bagger_1080.mp4
I have this thought that your mindset will affect your sensitivity and body reaction.

If you're eager for something, the cons feel less so, and it probably triggers a positive reaction. When outside in the cold, if I'm mentally low, I start to crumple and shiver.. but when I'm up.. I don't care much and just move more so to get warmer.
You're probably thinking of a perceptual hash. [0] It's a relatively new field, academically speaking, so only a few players dominate, and there is a huge amount of research going into it.

There are other techniques for automatic flagging of similar files, like PhotoDNA's [1] enormous database - which I believe PornHub are already using.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna
These claims are an expected byproduct of Elon Musk's cult of personality.

For anyone who hasn't seen these ridiculous claims before, they hinge on both people typing "bloody" and "order of magnitude" at some point in their public lives.
When I first read that, I thought the core conclusions were still mostly correct, but the delta claimed for Rust over Go was too large. Rust will certainly beat Go on this metric (I expect Rust to even beat C and C++ at scale [1]), but by a factor of 3 is probably on the large side.

There are other things that I would consider questionable as well; Haskell might be capable of beating Go if you really, really work at it, but what you might call "casually written Haskell" isn't going to perform anywhere near as well as casually written Go. And the degree of knowledge required to write high-performance Haskell is much higher than high-performance Go. You have to have more than just knowledge of Haskell as a language, you have to have a fairly deep understanding of exactly how GHC compiles and optimizes it. This can be scaled to the Shootout, but scaling it to real code is very difficult.

Still, I think the general point is well-taken. I'm less worried about the environmental impact of my code because my code runs at scales where even if my code was running for "free" from an environmental impact, it wouldn't save much of anything. But having used Go for a while, I'd have a really difficult time moving back to a language that is literally dozens of times slower, and, yes, consumes dozens of times more energy as a result. Part of the reason why my code runs at such small scales is that it's reasonably efficient code. I have a couple of services that I consider trivial, but if I were writing them in Python, would be non-trivial. Still not exactly monsters that would be eating clusters of machines at a time, but there's still a lot of practical operational difference between "This occasionally spikes to 25% of a CPU for a minute at high loads" and "This occasionally spikes to consuming 10 full CPUs for a minute at high load", and that's a fairly reasonable multiplier. I have several services that would have deltas like that.

[1]: A previous comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25625362