skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Speaking of cheating though, I heard they have directional speakers that have a spread of only like a foot. With something like that it seems like it’d be easy to cheat."

Yeah, but they still spread enough to be audible, and the reflections are audible as well. In a testing environment it would be hard to completely hide.

I'm surprised so many people speak of these as something they haven't experienced. I recall at least two grocery stores I've been in using these to beam ads at people while they were in line, and that was years ago, and I'm not in SV either, it's not like people around here use cutting edge tech for the heck of it very often. Mercifully, they didn't last long. While I didn't enjoy the ads, I did enjoy the opportunity to hear exactly how they work and get a sense of their strengths and weaknesses.

(It is absolutely true that they are garbage at bass frequencies, and the lower midrange as well. The ads were all voiced by women, because I'm not sure men would even have been comprehensible. I mean that literally. Their lowest frequency response is that high. As clever as they are it's not a surprise we don't hear them more often. They are super specialist gear not suitable for most tasks.)
It sounds like what you really want is an efficient way of copying dictionaries, perhaps copy on write, something like the cowdict [1] project.

[1]: https://pypi.org/project/cowdict/
what about how it felt early on / during the therapy ?

what about side effects also ?
So, the current system? The same strategy that's gotten us the high incarceration and crimes rates we have today doesn't seem like a solution to anything. Seems like a straightforward way to changing nothing.
Not to mention python has an entirely open proposal process where anyone at any point could have commented and expressed a desire to keep these libraries in the standard library. It seems after this entire process not enough people need them in the standard library.
I didn't say who should do what or who is to blame or anything moral. I'm trying to get people not to take a press release at face value.
Why would you write a when statement for something that can't happen?
The police force in Seattle has indeed been significantly defunded, and currently has hundreds of vacancies because officers have been quitting and no one wants the job. I don't blame them.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/seattle-city-council-defunds-th...
New WebKit features in Safari 15.4
Soon that's how Microsoft apps will look like - https://blog.malwarebytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Ad8...
The whole series is amazing. I strongly recommend watching SG1 S1-S7, then stargate atlantis S1 in parallel with SG1 S8. Some of the best television ever made.

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/how-to-watch-stargate-i...
Please get back to them today, this is a prompt or cue to rescue this one from falling through the cracks. You never know...
Because it's not a "free market". The supply of doctors is legally limited... It's illegal to practice medicine without being licensed. And the number of licenses granted is limited.

The license limits could be direct, like taxi medallions in New York City... Or the limits can be indirect, like how the AMA defines the number of medical residencies in the United States.

Even in supposedly "free market" countries like the United States, we often have significant restrictions on all sorts of markets. The reasons vary.
I don't want to look for a new job but it seems like my current company is practically begging me to start a job search.
My job, which I joined last year, moved equity grant to quarterly vesting mid last year and my vesting date has been moved back 3+ months. This directly violates the terms of my offer letter which explicitly mentions vesting on 1 year anniversary of join date. The change was made after I joined and they made the change retroactive. But asking the equity team is like talking to a wall
I think a lot of people were misunderstanding my comment. I never meant to imply that gamma is the only important consideration in color perception, I was only reacting to the statement that it was optional. Even color spaces that don't use gamma (i.e. are linear) must have a gamma applied before you can view them.

https://xkcd.com/386/
is it April yet ?
It's probably not accurate to say that jails are adequately taking care of all a person's needs, and certainly not to match any sort of expectation that they'd have outside of the walls of the jail. Being in jail means you've given up a lots of rights that would be required outside of those walls (such as privacy).
I know at at least one org that is being moved to Bellevue when RTO happens.
And those merchants will still charge those higher prices no matter what method you're using to pay, unless they only accept crypto. So by paying with crypto you're paying an artificially-higher price _and_ paying gas fees.
"Evenutally". There's little reason now, with 99.99% of cars being human driven, where a dropped Twinky has a higher chance of causing an accident than some slightly modified ECU curves.
It depends on what is used to clean the sewage, but I think theres a couple ways to make fertilizer from it. Depending on the animal or type of sewage, if you use duckweed or algae to clean the water you can take that and apply it to fields. You will also have the sludge from the sewage that can also be applied directly to fields. Pig farmers will usually take some of the sludge from their lagoons and apply it directly to their fields, and they will also spray a watery-sewage on the fields. I don't like this method since its proven to travel by air and also can contaminate water tables at high levels

But if the water is high in metals and other toxins you can only do so much with the excess from this process
“GRUB loading… Please watch this 30 second advert before selecting your operating system.”
I got near-daily ads for Safari on Mojave. Pretty good OS, but that just drove me straight up the wall...
A million times this. In conflicts that involve nuclear capable countries, especially Russia and the US, “normal” rules or responses do not apply. For example, if this might be WW3, then that’s exactly a good reason NOT to do more now, because it won’t matter. If there is a 1% chance that it’s NOT going to become WW3, then we should act as though it is not, and continue trying to avoid that. Once the nukes fly, we’ve all already lost.

NATO (including US) must tiptoe around Russia, and they must tiptoe around NATO, both trying to get a bit more of what they want over years and decades, while not tripping any wires that could escalate to nuclear.

The Ukrainian invasion is horrible, and we should (and are) do what what we can to help without triggering forcing Russia/Putin to respond directly. Russia will be doing whatever they can to pick up Ukraine while also not forcing a direct response from NATO.

Here’s a great post on the subject that I hope will clarify peoples thinking on the issue, and encourage them to think hard about the necessary constraints that NATO is under:
https://acoup.blog/2022/03/11/collections-nuclear-deterrence...
Sorry, when did the war on drugs start again?
I partially agree.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/

3-1: if you're EU citizen in the US using only a US service then GDPR does not apply it falls under US data protection however if that US service is using an EU subprocessor then GDPR does apply

3-2: if you're a US citizen in EU you're under GDPR regardless of the service you're using

Also https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/ if you're a US company targeting EU residents you fall under GDPR
Please don't post shallow comments like this, especially not on divisive topics like that one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The "despotic coup" was a popular uprising.

To put "8 years of atrocities" in perspective - according to the official DNR statistics for 2021, Ukrainian mortar and artillery strikes have killed a grand total of 77 people that year, of whom 7 were civilians. That's two orders of magnitude less than what Ukraine has already suffered in two weeks of Russian invasion.

Vote to peacefully separate? You mean those 2014 referendums that were so blatantly fraudulent, the result was announced less than two hours after the vote ended, and the number of "yes" votes was an exact percentage of the total?

And no, I don't get all this from American news. I'm a Russian citizen, and I have friends and relatives in Russia as well as Ukraine.
I like all the things in Google Maps that you disagree with. Maybe you're just not the target audience and should switch to an app that works better for your needs? Google Maps does automatically choose the better route if it finds one, but it gives you time to cancel that action if you'd like before it switches.
This is an awesome news from Microsoft. Kudos to whoever thought of this!

I have been waiting for so long for Linux desktop to gain mass popularity. This move from Microsoft will finally make my dreams come true.

2022/2023 will be the year of Linux desktop!
Bringing this home—there is a Pycharm integration for Leetcode right now.

But it is reasonable that any programmer familiar with the assistance of an IDE would want the syntax highlighting, formatting and more mapped into the browser during live coding exercises.
I think people talk about housing a lot for a few reasons. Firstly, it is impossible to help someone out of an addiction and to help them land on their feet if they don’t have somewhere to live. Secondly, the cost of housing means that someone could end up on the streets for a short period of time just because they couldn’t make ends meet for a month. That can easily turn into something worse. Third, and maybe most importantly, housing is something which impacts everyone. When it’s very hard to find for the average person to find a decent place for a good price, everyone starts caring about it more. As an example, lower housing prices immediately benefits folk’s lives here more than addiction services would. Finally, the perceived changes required for housing are easier to make than other changes. For example, people mostly seem to talk about upzoning, reducing NIMBYism, and making the permitting process faster. Relatively speaking, it’s easier to make those changes than it is to solve drug use and crime.

So that’s why I believe people focus on housing a lot.

Of course the other aspects (mental health and drug use) are extremely important as well. Because someone who is mentally unwell might not want to live in that cheap apartment. But how do you solve that problem? If we have a group of people who can’t or don’t rely on a family support system (which was probably more common 50-100 years ago), we need to create a support system for them. And that is extremely challenging to do compared to “change the zoning laws” or “pay a developer to build a new building.”

So I think it makes sense that people fixate on housing, even if the other parts of it are also very impactful. (But again, how do you solve the social factors if someone doesn’t even have somewhere to live?)
>Citation needed. You called it "CIA-backed" earlier, which is a worse smear.

This tells me you didn't read the citations I provided.
Ukraine crisis: US warns China against helping Russia
The way Twitter displays post images in itself is also terrible UI...

:(
Corrugated cardboard recycling is pretty big because of the volume of material used in manufacturing and commerce.

There are facilities that sort the entire stream, partly because diverting material away from the landfill saves cost there.
You’re missing the forest for the trees: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...
I wish there were a way to use an iPhone or android as spare computers easily (no app). I keep it charged all day, a way to send some JavaScript to it in order to accomplish things like this in a “serverless” fashion would be neat
> even MacOS/iOS are full of ads these days

…where? Mac and iOS don’t have any ads, anywhere, except in a couple of apps (Apple News, App Store, and if you want to be pedantic, Apple Music).
> In other words: the last generation did not train the new one, and usability is expected to suffer.

Probably is the case, however, a learned lesson sticks better than a taught lesson. Or at least that's my hypothesis as to why our industry ends up operating in a cycle of relearning past lessons.
It seems to me that TurnItIn and proctoring take care of 99% of problems in exams if the exams are well-constructed such that consulting hidden notes wouldn't help much.

The 1% of exams that remain problematic are the memorization-style exams that maybe shouldn't still exist in the modern age.
Shell data processing: vnlog demos
> punishing them for being a certain nationality

A big chunk of humanity seems super keen to direct their hate to out-groups as soon as it becomes socially acceptable
The distinction could be down to the difference between poor and dangerous. Sometimes it's subtle. If you grew up in a poor neighborhood you can fairly accurately evaluate if someone is dangerous or just poor. If you grew up in middle class suburbia it all appears very dangerous.

San Francisco has a lot of poor people, i.e. homeless, and a lot of which have either mental health issues or substance abuse issues. That doesn't necessarily make them dangerous, but the more people like that you see on your walk to work, the more it can contribute to someone's general feelings of being unsafe.

Vancouvers East Hastings and LAs public transit system (Blue line at night) are both examples of poor people who are (mostly) not dangerous. You could navigate these areas with very little chance of being assaulted but I doubt many would opt for such a route if given other options. There are areas though which are both poor and dangerous, certain parts of Detroit comes to mind
I found a local business that was turning seaweed into fertilizer and he was letting the seaweed dry out and then grinds it up and bags and sells it. I'm not sure if the drying of the seaweed will get rid of the high sodium, but that was my first thought is the amount of work that will have to go into cleaning it.

There also can be other fish, and debris that can get stuck in large patches of seaweed. So that would have to be filtered out as well
Futurama did it. Implanted vision devices have been a few years away, for decades. The nerve-wire interface isn't a simple problem.

https://youtu.be/uASUHbFEhWY
> Umm, The cold war never ended. It has waxed and waned, and it has rotated into economic, information, and mimetic warfare over the decades. The US government and NATO have been investing in our military for decades for more reasons than just corruption.

Can we avoid the "We have always been at war with Eurasia" style rhetoric?

There have been explicit conflicts and wars over the years (US/Middle East, Israel/Palestine, etc) but we aren't at a constant state of global war or global Cold War.
You can now install Android TV 11-based LineageOS 18.1 on your Fire TV Stick
This is probably just a lack of familiarity with the playbook for selling B2B. People that have been doing it a long time can intuitively navigate around these obvious objections.

Outside of some rare cases, there are standard positioning techniques to avoid being evaluated for completeness relative to whatever the business has. For example, not positioning your product as a replacement for existing products -- "and" not "or" -- is an effective approach. Trying to be a feature for feature clone of an existing product they already use is a losing proposition, so having a strategy to reframe the discussion away from that perspective is a requirement.
I feel like there's a world of difference between paying a buck for an app and paying for something like this, you could argue that the value delivered is so high the fee would be out of the ballpark for most to be able to pay.

But there are definitely people who are genuinely interested in paying.

Even facebook does provide me with some benefit, but less at present than Alphabet does, though maybe with Oculus that will change?
Do you have something substantive to add to the discussion? Or just a snide remark at them?
It’s unfortunate because the exam cheater is such a prevalent stereotype, yet I have worked with many people from India who were deep thinkers with a love of their subject.

I wonder how many potential visionaries get filtered by association with these cheaters as well as more traditional racism.
>But he can fund his ability to physically live...in an apartment?

From the article:

>Andre lives in an apartment thanks to a city-run housing program, but he doesn’t have a job other than selling flipped merchandise.

His apartment is partially funded by the government.

> Is there another word for a person that "can't be a productive member of society to fund his own living" other than homeless?

Not that I know of. Of the ones that come to mind:

"Poor" just implies you can't afford nice things, not necessarily that you can't hold down a job to sustain yourself

"jobless" just implies you currently don't have a job (ie. unemployed), not necessarily that it's a long term thing.

"NEET" is closer, but is more associated with people living in their parent's basements than of the people profiled in the article.

I guess you could use the term "long term jobless" or something, but it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
Do you believe that incarceration makes people better going out than coming in?
IMDB downrated The Kashmir Files rating despite 220k votes of 10
This has turned out to be one of India's most iconic films in recent times. It's rating was really high at 9.9 and then dropped to 8.3 despite IMDBs distribution showing even their data shows 220k+ votes at 10+

The weighting seems rather odd. You can click to see the rating distribution.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? We ban accounts that do that repeatedly. You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and I don't want to ban you again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>That's like saying the American Revolution was a coup because it violated King George's imperial laws.

I wouldn't have a huge problem with that characterization, I'm not saying all coups are bad just call it what it is though. The main difference in 1776 though is there was no new leader put in place into an existing government system. The entire government was rebuilt from the ground up. In Ukraine, they just installed their guys.
The medical student who found a surgeon to implant bluetooth in his ear could have instead paid that surgeon for tutoring and kept his ear canal open.
This was selective breeding of plants in order to take advantage of fossil fuel and mineral fertilizers and industrialization of fossil-fuel-powered machines to produce more food per unit land.

Says so right on the wikipedia dot org web site you showed the link to:

>It was associated with chemical fertilizers, agrochemicals, and controlled water-supply (usually involving irrigation) and newer methods of cultivation, including mechanization.

Bioengineering to convert petroleum products into something people could eat. Really, preventing famine and causing populations to increase are the same thing. A food surplus lets populations grow, a food shortage causes famine.
> Could be a great target for a retro style mini console thing.

I've been playing with this thing. It's quite neat: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picosystem?variant=323695...

(Note that it's a dev board; if you just want to play AAA games, not the thing to buy. If you want to program a game and show it off, it's what you want.)
I would expect the game to be short if you abuse a bug to get massive amounts of gold and skip through the progression way faster than you're meant to.
Well apparently it's not heavily enough used that any of its current users were motivated enough to discuss the PEP and make a strong case for keeping it in the standard library. The discussion was open for _three years_ and had hundreds of comments: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-594-removing-dead-batteries... The outcome is that there isn't enough usage to merit this being in the standard library.
I mean, it's not like they are going to ask wikihow.

Updated versions of their books and medical journals, or even a stackoverflow-like platform where they could discuss and read answers would be magnitudes better.

Maybe humans memorizing tons of information was the best approach for medicine a century ago, but it's not the case anymore
Microsoft act with utter contempt for their users. I now recommend to anyone who asks me that they purchase a Mac instead. Their machines will last longer, they will get better customer support, and they won’t have to put up with stupid shit like this. I can’t in good conscience recommend Windows any longer.
I'm pretty sure there will be a way to hack things... e.g. blocking the ad servers in your host file...

Not saying it will be great, but screw the system if it only works against us.
Well, you don't so much define the groups up front as that you define the number of groups up front, the distance function is what will eventually result in the mapping of inputs to groups if you use the groups (for instance: sample texts in those groups) as a part of the scoring system.
What kind of harassment is it? I'm British and it's fairly normal for homeless people to ask for money or whatever here. But they don't often approach you, they are not persistent and I've never been followed or anything like that.

When I first visited Paris I was shocked at how different the homeless people were. They were actively going around targeting people and trying all kinds of tricks to get you to give them money. This was in the major touristy areas too. I can't say I ever felt unsafe, but I certainly felt less inclined to spend time outside (and I was wearing a money belt at all times, nothing valuable in my pockets).
It’s not in the same ballpark, and shouldn’t be compared. It is pretty annoying on its own, though.
I've been teaching my 11 y.o. son programming with Julia and Project Euler. My personal opinion is that Julia is the best language to introduce to new programmers. First of all, it has very good "IDE" support in various editors with LSP (VS Code being a great newbie choice). It supports a nice mix of language features, mainly imperative constructs, but it also excels as a functional programming language.

I was considering Haskell as a language, but unfortunately Haskell often feels like it gets in the way of your learning sometime. Want to teach for-loops for instance, well you gotta break out Monads.

Python is a popular choice, but I think it's a horrible pedagogical language. I don't want to teach OO concepts, instead I rather have him think about the algorithm and basic computer science principles. The only reason I think people choose Python is that it's super easy to get started, but I think all that simplicity is just a wrapper around a fairly complex runtime. With Julia the abstractions are generic enough that they can stay as abstractions. With Python, I'd feel like I'm just teaching a package (i.e. numpy) and the concept of generic programming would just get ignored.
I feel your pain, and am feeling very disconcerted on my own behalf too, having Win 10 and no plans of upgrading until network externalities positively force me to stop using it (at which point I'll probably give Linux on the Desktop another shot instead of upgrading to Win 11).

But I'm finding it hard to believe that there isn't some escape hatch there. I absolutely cannot imagine that MSFT's corporate customers would play ball with something like that, and they still represent a powerful interest group where MSFT's decision-making is concerned. So there's got to be some escape hatch. Is it a Home vs Pro thing?