skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the fundamental problem here is we, as society, tend to tolerate fringe theories just because they are related to some form of cult. There is no logically valid justification for abortion ban - it isn’t any different from flat earthism, other than being harmful. But we tolerate it, because certain religion says so.
Most programming languages start out non-notable. I've built 3 of them. None of them belong in the encyclopedia!
> a historian who wanted to correct common misceptions in articles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Expert_editors

The rest of your comment is extremely vague, and gives no links to back anything up.
> It is, however, hard to find these sorts of razors. If you go into a shop to buy a razor, you will almost certainly not be able to buy one

Maybe where he is, but I was able to find a huge variety of DE razors both online and in a local store.
I'm not sure I understand the situation you describe. If you hire 40 goons to guard your furs, those goons could physically overpower you and take your furs for themselves.

...unless you have convinced them of your moral right to those furs. That's literally the only way a large group of people can be "unable" to expropriate them.
What a stupid, asshole thing to say.
Here is a transcript of the video: https://practical.engineering/blog/2022/2/9/what-really-happ...

Thought it was an interesting example of all the holes in the Swiss cheese lining up with a subsequent failure cascade.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and the fact that you think it could or should be something else doesn't change that.

Wikipedia doesn't claim that there is a universal objective definition for "notability". "Notability" is a term of art on Wikipedia. You can't win this argument with a dictionary.

There may be nothing in the world a true Wikipedian would rather do than explain the project's definition of a word like "Notability", at ponderous, relentless, unceasing length. So ignorance is no excuse! There's more documentation for this concept than there is for Postgres. RTFM, friend.

If you don't like Wikipedia's rules or think it could be something more, you are welcome to fork it.
There's a handful of Romanian billionaires. There are millions of retirees.

This translates to thousands of dollars per retiree. Not enough even if we tax all their wealth.
Biometrics and physical tokens are not protected
> Except if you keep overwriting a flash-based storage system, at some point that flash storage gets destroyed (wear level). You can absolutely achieve such by having a near full filesystem on flash. Mechanical harddrives or partitions don't suffer from this issue.

Wearing out is yet a different thing. I've had this happen on an SD card. It would refuse to write anything new, although it reported being mostly free. But the stuff that was already on it was readable.

I've had SD cards that got full. They didn't lose any data, and once I'd moved the things off them, they became usable again.

Granted, this was with a digital camera, so using fat32 at the time, so no fancy FS.
So, a tautological, non-quantitative categorization: only the subset, of unknown size, that are like this?
they're working on the drone tanks

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2020/12/21/us-army-drone-tank...
> It immerses you into the world of amoral high level accountants of large cooperations.

Hey, we accountants aren't amoral! How many ethics classes are programming folks required to take?
Management culture flows from the top. If the managers are pressured by corporate to be utter assholes, and then they get fired because that resulted in unionization, the fault's not just with them, but also further up the tree.

This seems like CYA from someone further up. Bad thing happened, someone must pay for it, we found someone, they are paying for it.
I can’t even. Is it ignorance? Malice? Trolling? Whatever it is, it’s despicable and doesn’t belong on HN.
> Shaving. It's not a religion.

Depends on where you go. The various DE/SE subreddits it absolutely is.
Sadly, none of this is true. Dalits in the US even the small minority that they are experience even worse discrimination in the US than from India itself.

Where is this happening? I assure you, most non-Indians have zero idea about caste and couldn't care less.

Therefore, I gather that this is happening from other Indians in the US? In other words, you leave India to escape poverty and presumably racism, but then.. decide to live in predominantly Indian neighborhoods where they are racist, do buildness with, and work for, racist people?!

Here is a strong suggestion. Don't live near these fools, don't work for them. Don't move to the US, and then, try to create an Indian culture and neighborhood in the US.

Instead, just become American. Merge with the culture, and no more racist Indians.
Ask HN: How would you explain API to a non-technical person?
> It's impossible to give exact prediction and timelines

Then arguing we need fewer people now based on that isn’t reasonable.

> it's certain that the perpetual growth model isn't sustainable

In the same sense that heat death of the universe will eventually happen — but isn’t necessarily relevant to us here and now.

> most likely, limits will materialise within the next decades

How can you conclude that when you previously said you can’t “ give exact prediction and timelines”?

To me, you seem to be repeating the same “the world is ending!” nihilism that has always permeated society.
The big difference (and please correct me if I get UK info wrong, I am not an expert in UK Labor, I am versed in US Labor) that in the UK you have sector unions, not enterprise unions. A company may have employee's working under several unions, and I believe there are even competiting Sector unions that an employee can choose to join finding the union that best suites them

In the US, typically, the is a 1:1 union, enterprise relationship. If you want to work at company X, you must join Union Y with no options to join a competing union, no options to opt out, and no regress if you do not feel the union is representing your interests.

referred to as "closed shops" there is large amounts of corruption, favoritism, and other negative quality to many US Unions.
I think the fact that you're thinking ahead is a positive sign. Best of luck.
this guy put the fact that he's a gigantic pedant right up front in the blog title, what'd you expect? let him go and do the pedantry thing, it's instructive
> The drone can just fly around the concrete wall and blow up the things on the other side, it doesn’t need to go through.

Ukrainians are sitting inside of bunkers with 8-inch concrete doors and 8-inch thick concrete all around. How exactly are you "flying around" that?

Now sure, Russians are absolute crap with tactics and maybe drones are all you need to kill the Russians. But I'm looking at things from the Ukrainian side as well. Ukraine is defending so well that I'm not sure if anything *EXCEPT* a 120mm gun can push into their positions.

That's the thing: Ukraine is forcing Russia to advance with tanks. But Ukraine has a solid anti-tank strategy, so we see a lot of dead Russian tanks. But the alternative (ie: assaulting those Ukrainian bunkers with lol no armor) is probably a worse idea!

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Russian positions are just poorly dug dirt trenches right now. Of course tanks are unnecessary (for now). But if the Russians were actually as good as the Ukrainians (ie: bringing in that thick Concrete to reinforce their positions), then Ukraine would be forced to use tanks.

Ukrainian positions in the Donbas region have so much concrete, that they ask for artillery support and shell *themselves*, confident that their bunkers can stand up to the abuse. (Air-burst artillery shot at your own bunkers will never harm the bunker, while unarmored enemies trying to storm the bunker would all die at the front-door.)

This kind of defense practically requires a tank: you need the armor to protect yourself from airburst artillery, and you need the 120mm gun to punch through the 8-inches of concrete that the Ukrainians are hiding behind. Except Ukrainians __ALSO__ have anti-tank munitions, and just blow up the tank.

Its not exactly easy to figure out how to push into the Ukrainian positions. But the tanks seem necessary (even though they take high casualties).

Its not like drones have much armor. Airburst artillery would also destroy drones (airburst artillery covers something like 10,000 sq-meters in shrapnel per shot). Drones running into those positions would also be destroyed by this simple tactic.
Why would you some crazy aerial methods in locations where humans can casually stroll? The entire point here is to do it in unreachable places.
Labor regulators find merit in accusations by unions at Amazon and Starbucks
I'm sure they have all sorts of fancy stuff but at the end of the day, there's a lot of SEO garbage at the top of the rankings that I would really love to downvote.
Trust is one of the most important issues!

I trust my two-year old to carry his glass to the table because I've given him the opportunity to show me he can be trusted with that.

I don't trust my two-year old to not fall down stairs because I've given him the opportunity to show me he can be trusted with that and he has failed to show it.

That's how it works in an egalitarian society too. You give people a chance to show they can be trusted. If they fail to show that, you stop trusting them.
Does anyone use/know of an alternative to Anki? Maybe I am just picky or I am simply not cut for SR systems but I find Anki clunky.
Unlicensed Vaccines and Bioweapon Defense in World War II
This would have an interesting potential to cut down on password sharing for subscription services like Netflix, Amazon prime, etc.

I think it would be more annoying to call a friend to confirm an authentication on their phone than it is to write down a text password.
Eve is one of those guys I like to read about, but never have played.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B-R5RB

This is one of my favorite stories. Hope this interests you.
Impressive, too bad Apple silicon is still not supported officially, for people that want to build GCC themselves on M1 machines check these GCC forks:

https://github.com/iains/gcc-darwin-arm64
https://github.com/fxcoudert/gcc/tags
Despite not appearing on the CPU (i7-5557U, Broadwell) datasheet, my NUC5i7RYH supports TPM 2.0 after enabling "Intel Platform Trust Technology" in the BIOS, so at least in some cases, this goes back further than Skylake.
Or an EX-friend or partner.
Ah, so I did! A classic mistake. Thanks.
What is wrong with the scrolling behavior? It seems fine to me. I just tried it on Arch: scrolling with Page Down and during Find is instant and works exactly like I would expect. I like that you can configure the Page Up/Down overlap for scrolling as well.
> Spreading seeds from the air you're basically spreading bird food.

How do seeds arrive on the ground from trees, naturally?
While I will never buy another new Apple computer; I've always liked the look of most of their products unless my finances improve.

Would I rather have a ugly product, that I could repair----hell yes.

I thought some of Palm products back in the day were beautiful. I loved my Palm TX. I loved the look, and feel of the product.
That's an interesting point. There are many people who feel more inclined to eat at food trucks than traditional restaurants, and here are a few reasons why:

- Price: Food trucks are cheaper (startup costs are much cheaper than for B&M).

- Convenience: Food trucks are often faster. In areas where there are fewer restaurants, and in food deserts, mobile businesses are sometimes the only good ones around.

- Pop Culture: In the past few years, food trucks have become more and more ingrained in our culture, and they have developed dedicated followings of repeat customers. It's cool to eat at food trucks, especially in areas where there are many! There are people who have specific food trucks they love - it's the same idea as having a favorite restaurant - except they want to know where their favorite trucks will be next. There are people who prefer specific food trucks over local restaurants.

So yes, there are a lot of perceived benefits. This article has more reasons: https://prestigefoodtrucks.com/2016/01/8-reasons-why-food-tr...
It's not just change, it's a larger volume of regulation to read and understand.

In the past there were fewer words/pages in the law, and a lighter burden of compliance.

But some processes have become more streamlined, such as paying taxes.
Food trucks can plausibly provide healthier options for food than in convenience stores, which often only sell junk food, according to a research paper that is a literature review [0]. This is especially true for low-income areas where there are fewer supermarkets (which sell fruits and vegetables) as due to the "risk of crime and theft, and [lack of] land for parking." However, the author writes that this hypothesis is not yet conclusive due to a lack of published studies.

Anecdotally, on university campuses, food trucks were the main option for food due to a lack of supermarkets and restaurants nearby. An app specialized for food trucks could also fix the problem where the availability and opening hours of food trucks are less known, especially for certain trucks that occasionally switch locations, are absent on certain days, or change their hours (making them hard to track via an entry on Google Maps).

In short, food trucks could plausibly be seen as a step up for finding fresh food instead of defaulting to a convenience store that may typically just serve junk food, in areas where there are no restaurants or supermarkets.

[0] Journal of Public Health Policy, 2021: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7874560/
> I call on you to withdraw your claim that my remarks were made in bad faith.

I don't want to offend you, but I still do not think you believe the claim you are making. If you actually do believe it, we should be able to formulate our disagreement in the form of a wager and use the scientific method to determine which one of us is correct.

> I still don't know why you felt the need to contrive a complicated betting scenario, when we were discussing a "simpler" scenario that already involved an icosohedral die. If we're using betting scenarios to model good faith, then aren't simple scenarios more useful than complex ones? Ergo, coin-toss is the most appropriate.

The die scenario you formulated is not suitable, because it is unrelated to our disagreement. We're looking for a wager that illustrates the disagreement, e.g. you would be taking one side of the wager and I would be taking the other side of the wager. Your die scenario is not like this, because both of us would be taking the same side of the wager in that scenario; it has no connection to our disagreement at all.

I tried my best to formulate a simple scenario that would illustrate our difference and allow us to wager on which one of us is right. Sure we could use coin-toss instead of dice. Feel free to formulate a scenario.

> But trying to talk about this stuff in terms of physical things like coins or dice inevitably turns into discussion about unfair coins and crooked dice, or whether the caster can influence the outcome; so argument by analogy quickly leads to dead ends, in this area.

The disagreement concerns whether a person can produce a sequence of numbers in a way such that another person will/will not not be able to determine whether that sequence of numbers was manufactured or generated by a random process. A generator like coin toss or dice roll is very appropriate here.
For sure, there were A14 based mac minis given to devs during the switch. The only "missing" components are drivers for the display/speakers etc which is the smallest part of getting a working system (compared to the OS + kernel).

It's also this thing that infuriates me to some extent. Apple can do amazing things if it wanted but... it doesn't appear to care about consumer benefit.
Isn't this a good thing? If the workers were fed up enough with conditions that they formed a union, doesn't that imply the managers were terrible? Shouldn't terrible managers be fired?

For example, my wife is a unionized nurse. The best thing that could happen at her work is for her manager to be fired. The union has no power in that.

I'm an engineering manager at a software company. I get performance reviews twice per year. It's well understood that if I'm doing a terrible job that I will be fired.
They didn't do much colonization because they were too busy fighting wars with each other... For centuries... WW1 and WW2 and even the current conflict is just singular events in long line of internal wars of Europe.

Also something that should not be easily forgotten or ever forgiven is the missionary work by religious groups... Destroying cultures around world. It is sad we have not punished them for that and maybe even banned them to protect the future.
I would also not recommend formatting the disk as GPT and "truncating it to the protective MBR". Not only there's a good chance of the GPT re-appearing on its own, either because some software noticed it was corrupted and copied it from the backup copy at the end of the disk, or because some software noticed it was missing and created a new one, but also there's a chance of it once again being treated as if the whole disk was empty (since the "protective MBR" says it's a GPT disk, and the GPT has no entries). If you want to have just the single MBR sector, then create a traditional MBR with a single partition spanning the whole disk instead of a GPT "protective MBR". But that will not gain much, since you should align your partitions (IIRC, usually to multiples of 1 megabyte) for performance and reliability reasons (not as important on an HDD, where you can align to just 4096 bytes or even 512 bytes depending on the HDD model, but very important on an SSD), and the space "wasted" by that alignment is more than enough to fit the GPT.
Adapton is definitely an inspiration, and I have cited it in previous iterations (and even had it in an earlier draft - if you check the Markdown source, the link def is still there).

Here's my current thinking on the topic. It all depends on whether you want to model your problem as a tree or a graph (see also [1] for some great discussion of that tension). If you model your problem as a graph, then a general purpose incremental computation engine like Adapton (or Incremental or Salsa) is great. However, if your problem is a tree, then constructing the explicit dependency graph requires a nontrivial amount of ceremony. What Xilem does is represent the most common tree-structured flows of information in a very lightweight manner (mostly just plain code that builds views), while allowing you to insert arbitrary graph edges if you like with more work.

I think it's a discussion worth continuing. One thing you could do is integrate Adapton and Xilem together, where the implementation of most view nodes in the latter becomes queries into the Adapton engine. How well would that work? Really only one way to find out.

[1]: https://glazkov.com/2022/02/06/tension-between-graphs-and-tr...
they end up at other companies of similar size, its part of the circuit, colloquially called FAANGs.
Interesting that you've had problems with someone with that many sources/public image.

My project has stalled, but there was a point when I was putting together a Wikipedia page for notable composers of the 20th and 21st century. I came up with some criteria that would filter out most of the composers listed on their respective "list of 20th century composers" and "list of 21st century composers". If you haven't seen these lists, they are HUGE and thus pretty useless IMO.

I started going through each composer and so many of them were unknown, barely sourced/dead sources, no website, no music online, recently graduated college, etc.

I flagged a handful of pages and all of them were rejected for deletion. Sometimes the page creators popped out of the blue and fought me on it (and got to vote on the page remaining). I think someone of them had direct connections with the composer.

There are so many tiny pages dedicated to forever-invisible composers, it's awful.

You can see my progress here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:List_of_20th-_and_21st-c...
(Replying because I can't edit - the italics are accidental, I intended to use an asterisk for the Things 3 point)
I guess they mean 'GUM PerioBalance'? but everything i find about it seems to be press releases of the company who patented the strain (sunstar), even the wiki page reads like an ad...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limosilactobacillus_reuteri
Not a big deal, just makes it harder to identify, and occasionally people will collate past "Ask HN" topics for various purposes.
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I worked at a place that was forcing zsh on its developers, mainly because it has been "deprecated" on mac OS. It's not like you couldn't install the newest bash off of MacPorts or brew. Production ran on Linux, and zsh wasn't installed there. Better to be consistent, stick with the least common denominator: bash.
The EVE API got me into programming, real life investing and trading (through a "could I apply this in real life?" light bulb moment), and unleashed my interest for mathematics.

The game itself also made me into somewhat of a cynical and incredulous person - I'm undecided whether or not that's something negative :)
Heh yes, somebody else caught that. I think the current state is ok. This closure won't capture any locals, but in general closures in the view tree will. I'll take a PR if you think it should be improved further :)
Have you tried carrying a power bank with you on longer travels?
Why do we need legislation? Formation of unions is protected by freedom of association in the 1st amendment. Not sure why we need another federal bureaucracy to intervene in the negotiating process. Not sure why we need the whole all or nothing union voting process. What if 33% of employees want to join the union? What if managers want to join? Why can't they just join?
Single payer?

Medicaid as an option for everybody?

A public insurance option?

Cost transparency or anti-trust regulation that helps further commodify health insurance and drive down costs?

Stealing ideas from the several dozen other countries that have solved the point-of-care cost problem?
I don’t believe the goons would be operating on the principle of your moral right to the furs, rather they would be taking the more practical approach of believing you can provide them with a better quality of life than the next guy (and that they don’t have the skills to acquire furs on their own)
> The company has already planted more than 50,000 trees

That does sound a lot, but I am not sure how they can justify their expected rate:

> Each of our drones can plant over 40,000 seed pods per day

Their long term goal is in line with the second, not the first:

> and aims to plant a total of 100 million by the year 2024.

Well, they only need 3 drones then... 3 * 40k * 365 * 2.5 ~ 1e8
that's an assumption. union existence should be tied to the perseverance of labor rights and collective bargaining power, not dissatisfaction.

its mere coincidence that there is a correlation to workplace/compensation satisfaction and interest in a union.
At least two alternatives:

* The state maintains a public, affordable health insurance service

* The state directly funds a public network of doctors and hospitals
A virtual battle that has its own Wikipedia article. Quite impressive :)
Good point, but I have my reasons for suspecting they can't tell the difference https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31296953
Highly religious Americans more skeptical of human enhancements