skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I'm sure you are fully aware, sometimes we find that certain concepts don't fully match reality as it is, and we then have to work to update our conceptual frameworks.

Is it that hard to imagine that "woman" and "man" might be one of those concepts? Especially given the amount of scientific progress that has occurred in the past few centuries?

Not saying I have all of the answers. It's just interesting to me how some people seem completely closed off to the idea that we may need to improve our understanding in this area.
This is the restaurant industry so it's more on the level of like, the one that lets you take an unpaid day off every once in a while.
I think it has more of an effect on markets where the marginal cost of an additional sale (or attention) is effectively zero, which results in very bimodal winner (or top few winners) take all type situations.

Not that there is anything wrong with considering success to be whatever you achieve without outside funds trying to promote you, it all simply depends on personal goals and what you are willing to give up to gain an edge.
I think you’re confused because the landing page sucks. I don’t know what a virtual language is either, is it a thing or is it their own marketing speak?

Good landing pages tell you what it is and the value proposition within seconds and I couldn’t even figure out what this thing does on the first page.
Is it possible that crows might also have some form of religion?
If it wasn't for the crazy evil cult thing he'd easily be my favorite Hollywood person.
I just don’t understand how Mr. Pankratz’s opinion is considered acceptable in modern society. It’s 2022. Isn’t it time for humanity to evolve past this kind of thing? Why are we as a civilization still mired in a culture of exploitation and incentivizing suffering?
The XOR trick does the same.
Not polluting the planet and being a rampant consumer for one is a very good reason not to upgrade.

If one is to actually use a computer not as a glorified web terminal, you'll find that for most things that aren't video/audio/image editing computing power really stopped being relevant after about 1998.
Perhaps the assumption is of a couple living together? Also known as: shack up and produce offspring/future worker bees.
Hey everybody! Meet Nemo...

We just opened our limited beta for engineering/product teams to add Nemo to their Zoom calls, helping us understand the kind of requests made to Nemo in those types of meeting. We're particularly interested in the in-meeting language used around workflow tools, for example "what's the update on the Jira ticket about server performance, Jane?".

We're looking for a small number of early adopter beta testers in engineering/product teams to add Nemo to their recurring weekly team meeting (say over a month).
I hear you and I understand what you're saying, those are some good points. Can you express what you require out of a none cringe comedy skit that this lacks?
Does Anyone in 2022 Still Believe Crypto Is a Fluke?
It's both. There's a tendency to excuse bad behavior because they "have to" due to systemic forces, but the system does not have them at gunpoint. Businesses in this system can and do survive without being ruthless and amoral right up to the edges of legality, even when they don't reap the rewards of a positive image because they decline to publicize such small integrities. You're right, however, that the system is the bigger problem.
Why Are Rolex Watches Even More Expensive Right Now?
I am not suggesting that the owners try to make the economics work in an impossible way that makes them go out of business, I know the uncertainty in this environment is making things very difficult. But while owners can look at aggregate data, a single worker is looking at this as a way to survive until tomorrow. They don't want to be made into a statistic, so the owners should keep that to themselves.
Get woke, go broke strikes yet again!

Jokes aside, as an European watching from the outside the US seems extremely segregated atm and no good can come out of this. Even if I don't agree with laws that prohibit lgbt-people from living their lives or women to get an abortion this feels a bit childish.

I've been in California and I have also been in Utah which seems on other side of the spectrum. While I am not religious, Utah seemed a lot nicer to me with less societal problems.

I think the different states and their views on the world could probably learn a lot from each other.
That's your BS detector tingling, they're making up any reason to pay people less and keep more money.

Alternatively, they're projecting more people will need second jobs and take the lower wages if offered.
>Need an X-ray to make sure it's not broken, which your orthopedic already knew.

Not sure where this assumption is from. A doctor can sometimes tell when something is outright broken, but in a lot of cases they need to take x-rays to tell if there's a hairline fracture or something small that might not present with a lot of pain. X rays also tell the actual severity.
Response from Mozilla staff:

- Mozilla has geo-restricted certain content blocking add-ons for users in China because adblockers are illegal in China.

- Mozilla did participate in litigation in 2018 arguing for the position that adblockers shouldn't be banned under China’s anticompetition law, but Mozilla lost that litigation.

Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1371612
Isn't the choice of cartesian axes creating a false distinction here? Where does a tetrahedral snack with a missing face fit?

I think a pure topological approach would be more robust. Count the holes and edges.
Yes, that’s what I was assuming here
https://archive.ph/9KQdp
Trial data is kept confidential due to the risk that access to the data or information about it by research teams could influence or bias the design or conduct of further trials. This is routine in medical trials based on hard won lessons from previous problems due to biased trials and conflicts of interest.

It might seem shady if you don’t know the reasons for it (what are they hiding?). I understand that, but the fact is this is standard practice and releasing the raw data would be reckless and irresponsible.
Politics decided by money again. Yet another example of rules for me and rules for thee. How people in that area continue to elect someone like that I will not understand it.

If the rule is good for everybody it should apply for everyone equal protection under the law does not include the concepts of carving out exceptions for those who are wealthy and are potential wealth generators.
On the difficulty of testing lifesaving treatments, there's a great paper on this topic:

"Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials" [0]

It has some great gems like:

- No randomised controlled trials of parachute use have been undertaken

- The basis for parachute use is purely observational, and its apparent efficacy could potentially be explained by a “healthy cohort” effect

- Individuals who insist that all interventions need to be validated by a randomised controlled trial need to come down to earth with a bump

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/
You are missing the fact Golden Arches on its side conveniently look like В in Ва́ня.
That's with traffic though.

I live about 45 minutes from downtown LA without traffic. Which turns into 2.5 hours with traffic.
Works fine on MacOS on Chrome, just not Safari.
Here's the problem. I've got a family spotify subscription. For $15 a month we get 4 accounts. Each of us listen to around 100,000 minutes of music a year. Lets call that 100,000 songs for $180. If every song has the same payout then my family is being subsidized by the people who spend $10 a month to listen to 30,000 minutes of music a year. We're effectively taking other people's subscription money to pay the artists we listen to.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30793352 got more traction.
It's not the strongest who survive, but the most adaptable.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/sep/07/transport.ukcrime
Adding to the BEAM love; setup ejabberd, and customize to fit your needs. It's a recipe for a scalable chat setup with a small team.
> and though you might not make your name writing pascal software in 2022

You can certainly make money with it. People still pay for native-code software after all.

Pretend you want to write a ... oh, I dunno, let's say Task tracker, collaboration tool, or order-entry, or some other office productivity tool, consisting of only a few forms.

Sure, you can make a web-based UI, and there's many advantages to doing so, or you could make it a native application, and there's many advantages there too.

I've used the Lazarus IDE to make a small productivity application, and it was by far much easier than to make a web-based GUI.

It was also instant startup, never used more than around 30MB of RAM and ran insanely fast compared to the web-based "native" applications we have now.
I worked in sales for a company that requires salespeople text customers through the CRM. If a customer tried to call the number they were texting you, it went to a scam car insurance sales operation.

I personally just faked all my texts for metrics and used my own cell. But dozens of salespeople relied on this system. No one really cared.
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This is why I am still using an arse-old version of Mailwasher - the newer versions started sharing data with the mothership, including your eMail passwords, just so it could transparently sync that data to their iOS & Android apps.

My passwords are between me and my eMail server. No-one else should get that data, for any reason whatsoever.
Saw the movie, and read the first book I think (would have been middle-elementary school aged, so memory is a bit hazy).
The word “afford” is doing a lot of work there. Is paying 40% of gross income for rent “too much”? 35%? 30%? What if utilities were included vs not? 10th percentile rent? 25th percentile?
I think that a lot of society has changed for the worse given the freedom and aggressive adoption of tech companies "disrupting." (What I mean is: They're given the ability to try to aggressively make money at all costs and force their will. Consequences on people, rights, laws be damned.)

Youtube has no interest in curating great content by creators. They just want to keep that money printer going and keeping people on the site. There was a comment somewhere about the views that someone gets.. honest, good, and educational content doesn't get rewarded as much as a person doing pranks that harm people.
It's a system that needs some changes, but also, the bill wasn't for an x-ray and nobody paid $69k.
just make sure to filter it through paper, keep french press/chemex/cowboy preparations as a once in a while treat

and maybe don't have 5 cups a day, shoot for one nice cup, maybe 2 sometimes
That idea ("1 bed room within 1 hour") is simplistic when you consider places like CA that have NIMBY brigades and huge amounts of red-tape making housing needlessly limited driving up prices with bad leadership.

Hard to feel super supportive of massive changes to min-wage for places that literally make affordable housing impossible.

Growing population + massive regulation + NIMBY = you're gonna have a bad time.

Increasing minimum wage without fixing other issues is a ticket to non-solutions.
> if minimum wage was defined as; two people being able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive without traffic.

It would implode or we would adjust our standards in every other area to make it happen. We are simply not rich enough to afford that for everyone the way things are currently structured.
With U.S. Focus on Ukraine, North Korea Launches a Powerful New Missile
I am in the process of planning a trip and wanted to visit a city that was bicycle friendly. I figured there must be some index or metric that I could use to compare cities. There are such numbers to compare things like air quality, traffic, cost of living, etc. But I couldn't find any kind of standard for bikeability or walkability. The only related measurements made are for how long an average trip takes for cars.

Without a good measurement, we won't have something to point at to force cities to be better. And making these changes is an urgent must right now for the climate of course and just for the average standard of living, which seems to be going down everywhere due to the sizes and quantities of cars that are arriving in cities lately.

I really support this kind of work and hope it grows. Here is another nice project I found using OSM during my search:

https://pasaentuciudad.com.mx/ranking-cyclability-in-europe-...
> As others have said, all that will do is make it much harder to start a business.

And as I said, this rule would only apply to companies of a certain size and revenue.

> The actual rights embodied in our Constitution and laws are not rights to demand that other people do things for you

Not true. First amendment guaranteeing right to exercise your religious choice is useless if nobody is out there enforcing that right, protecting it for you. Its very existence demands someone protect it for you. If they don't... well, you don't have that right anymore. The fifth amendment guarantees your ability to use a grand jury. What use is that if the jury simply refuses to serve you? Answer: They're not allowed to not serve you, thus they are forced to do something for you.

Monopolies are bad for consumers because no one can compete with them effectively. To offer "just compete with them" as a solution is just ignorant to this concept. With scale comes efficiency, and when you are efficient enough, you don't need to compete anymore.

> start your own business that does the things you complain that other businesses don't do. I think you will find it a very enlightening experience.

It wouldn't be Hacker News without an assumptive, sneering remark like this. Consider that this is a website full of startup entrepreneurs and that maybe you can't safely make this assumption after all.
These chain restaurants have always freaked me out. I know most of the people working there are at the bottom of the barrel, but their job forces them to feign a cheery demeanor. It's like underclass hell--imo.
It’s always interesting to reverse the direction of causality in these kinds of articles and see if it’s plausible. Could it simply be that people with heart problems drink less coffee?
You should also add 'with one job per adult family member under 65'.
There are similarities undoubtedly. I think the major difference is the source of the distorted subsidy. In the market for lemons bad cars are subsidized by people thinking they might be good ones. In the voucher system low cost students are handed a massive subsidy by government pretending they have average cost. I think the voucher market is more dangerous since government ends up on the hook for all the increased costs of education because of the artificial subsidy.
Let the fools burn their money on a metallic status symbol. Most of the Rolex consumers probably don't even like watches that much, except to keep up with the other Jones'.

It's sad, really, like owning art as status when you don't even really like it.
Baby 'Cut' carrots or the ones picked very young?
> A company does not publicly humiliate a customer who makes a detrimental statement to its products

This happens quite often.

It's very common to find reviews on Yelp where someone leaves a less-than-honest review and the company owner comes in and explains what a piece of shit that person was and how they aren't telling the whole story.

If you come into a store and act like a dick towards the staff, you will almost certainly be publicly humiliated.

It even happens with larger companies where someone goes to the media with some BS story, and then the company issues public statements about how that person is full of shit.

I see nothing wrong with what William did. It may be petty, but who cares. If you don't want to be called out, don't be a troll.
The BLS already publishes similar statistics. It’s not rocket science.

GSA does the same thing for travel expenses. You can determine lodging and per diem expenses for every county in the US.
Distribution is 10000x easier with webapps.

As a developer of PC-oriented app you have basically two options:

a) desktop app
b) web app

Option a) is obviosly much better in terms of UX, performance, complexity etc. You have(had) tons of decent options, you can chose language you like, you have native support for many OS operations, etc. But the downside is distribution – you have to compile Windows/Linux/Mac versions for different platforms (32bit/64bit/Intel/ARM/etc). It's painful, hard, long and whenever you have a tiny update, you go all over this process again.

Option b) allows you essentially to distribute app immediately. Your clients just need open URL and that's it. In 80% of cases this is exactly what's needed. All the bells and whistles of distribution platforms like AppStore are just a burden for majority of apps for small/medium software shops. Of course, you'll have to sacrifice a lot - performance and safety, most of all. Even worse, as web ecosystem is just a huge pile of hacks on top of hacks, you forced to use the worst "framework" for UI development – literally the typesetting engine from 80s (HTML), some hackish global classes thing for styling and most underthought scripting thing called Mocha (renamed to javascript later). So the quality of the web apps are typically many times worse and dev experience is terrible, but it's a new norm these days.

Fortunately there is a progress. We have Flutter these days, which is the best thing that happened in UI development worlds for the past 20 years. I do decent Desktop apps with it, and get as a bonus native iOS/Android and Web versions.
Yeah we all do it!
"raging anti-intellectualism of engineers"

What makes you think engineers are anti-intellectual?

Engineering is an intellectual discipline, after all.
Why is a retailer better suited to be a cloud provider?
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30716844
I agree as well. This particular thread oozes the classic eat-the-rich trope that dominates Reddit and doesn’t match the culture here.
The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF
If anything, it shows that there isn’t a huge effect.
> That being said, the real challenge for independent artists is getting "blessed by the algorithm," so to speak, where they actually start showing up in Song Radio and Discover Weekly algorithmic playlists.

This mindset is unfortunately why most musicians fail to gain traction. Relying on an algorithm for success is fallacy, because all of these algorithms are based on input, not random chance. If you're not steadily supplying new listeners through your own direct efforts, then the algorithm isn't going to perceive value and you won't get any benefits from it. Playlisting represents approximately 1% of the independent music industry puzzle.
> Take a substance like chlorine. It is put into municipal drinking water because it kills things - things that can kill us or harm us. It is credited with making municipal water a lot safer.

> It has been shown to be safe and effective for most people.

And yet it wasn't until I was well into my 30s that I learned that not cleaning your shower head often enough or thorough enough can block the effects of the chlorine and spray aerosolized bacteria everywhere.

It doesn't matter what kind of medicine you have when there are plenty of problems that would be prevented if not for the obscene asymmetry of information and poor cultural health habits. But as long as big tech continues to believe that steering people toward political propaganda is what's best for society, that will be the narrative of the day rather than real progress.
Don't understand why so many of these ideas keep popping up. What is so wrong about CSS that devs need to find alternatives to work around having to declare styles using the CSS language?
His other article is really interesting in what data they collect https://smitop.com/post/whiteops-data/
The distinction you allude to is so well known and understood that there are not only papers about it, but also special words to distinguish them: efficacy (performance of an intervention under ideal and controlled circumstances) and effectiveness (performance under ‘real-world' conditions).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3726789/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3912314/
I agree they may need to cut their prices. How would this email have been received if it had said:

We are facing headwinds and may need to cut prices

To stay viable this means we need to cut costs

One way to do this is offer lower starting wages. Though this wasn't viable in the recent past, it may be possible now. That's because our pool of workers are feeling pinched and may need to pick up extra jobs

I understand he does not talk about the need to tighten the belt on prices in his email. But obviously all restaurants have been under pressure with COVID and inflation. It may be understood by the recipients that they need to cut costs wherever possible.
Having someone in here arguing for the ethics of this sort of thing is not better. Just because it looks like we all follow an official style guide in here doesn't make what is said here automatically better. It has to do that on its own merits, and as long as "arguing persuasively for evil, as a thought exercise" is considered a good thing here that can't happen imo.

Civility and debate themselves are not virtues! What purpose do they serve for us? What are we doing here? If you want to make an argument that we're superior to reddit you need to make it on more than the aesthetics of the prose bc that isn't shit in the end.
Or, you know, have a Cost of Living/Inflation adjustment every year. That's such a simple idea to me and it's sort of insane to me that not only is that not something that happens, but no one seems to be even suggesting it (or at least, no politicians are campaigning on it). Hell, adjusting the 70's minimum wage to today's dollars puts it at like $24, so just hearing that, I don't know how it shouldn't be around there today, but people talk about $15 like it's crazy.
Is this going to save enough to offset the other price increases introduced this week? How could I even tell?
One of the defining features of a Chemex is the paper filter it uses
Doesn't Chemex use a paper filter?
This is also true for X.509, there is exactly zero reason to generate new key (if it was not compromised) or even new CSR for certificate renewal. Yet people tend to do this which only increases the opportunities to fuck something up in the process. (Well, it does not make much sense, but over last year I have seen at least three instances of somebody overwriting the only copy of newly generated private key with the old one…)
not a surprise, a lot of the fingerprinting code attempts to use every feature possible, that's why you'll see random messages in the console sometimes saying "site tried to access $feature' where feature is location, canvas, etc. etc.
The logic only works because we're coming out of a period where workforce participation fell off a cliff.

Rising CoL because of energy and inflation -> people need the jobs more badly -> more labor available -> reduce wages

And before anyone tries to score a few easy points building a strawman, I'm just explaining the logic. I'm not endorsing it or saying it's ethical.
Right, What are the odds some regional manager is actually putting this out? An investment banker would predict more people taking second jobs as expenses rise and charge a lot for the information. It takes analysis, skills, a budget...
I think you overestimate the mobility of a lot of these people. For many it will push them out of work if the wages stop covering the costs