skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Who does?

Democratic socialists. Testimony is evidence.

>The "hackers" have a reputation for being a white boy's club war whooping and "big penis" strutting.

I've gotten women internships, tenure, and away from violence in the moment, I'm exhausted by feeling like I have to go above and beyond because some people who share my skin tone are rude when I'm a queer, autistic trauma survivor who often missed out on opprotunities because that type of thing doesn't result in affirmitive action.

>It is not like that everywhere. The community around Rust has gone in totally the opposite direction.

I don't know much about programming, it's why I stick to Python -- anything I wrote in C would be riddled with bugs. Do you mind reminding me what the appeal of Rust was, something about "type safety"? The folks I met who were stanning it weren't fun to be around, so I never tried it out.

>I hope the "Eternal September" is finally coming to an end and we will start working together with love and respect rather than "strutting our stuff" at the expense of others.

I think things in the long term will be better, but in the short term it's a lot like what led to WWII -- you had a bunch of ex Prussian or whatever military officers then who struggled to adjust to democracy/republicanism.

In America, you have folks who volunteered to do war crimes, got traumatized, then hid that trauma to maintain access to firearms since most jobs that give extra points (veteran's preferece) are things like police officer if you're not rocking a buck twenty five IQ and want a decent wage.

I sympathize with folks who became officers to get an education and found ways to do useful work, but I cannot emphasize enough how thoroughly digusted with the level of aggessive entitlement I saw from some veterans during the pandemic, and almost all of the ones acting out in that manner were white guys.

(Eg someone comes into a store without a mask, pre vaccine, gets belligerent possibly due to effects of PTSD or maybe just narcicistic injury, then yells I JUST CAME FROM THE VA YOU MAGGOT and literally starts to urinate on themselves when someone comes up and yells right back I DO NOT CARE, SHUT UP.

They can dish it out, but not take it.

To this day I have an exagerated startle response from interactions like that back before PA rolled out the vaccine to my group (unemployed non-boomers), because members of the hacker community refused to acknowledge my technical skills for political reasons.
The whole idea of The Ship of Theseus is to show how silly this line of reasoning is. There is no Ship of Theseus, there is only our illusion of it.
NuCypher is doing some really fun stuff in this space: https://www.nucypher.com

Basically, you upload encrypted blobs to a P2P network, and you can issue special proxy-re-encryption keys to people that allows them to download the encrypted content, without revealing any of the content to people running the nodes (who store and replicate the data). You can also do really interesting things like revoking keys to remove access for people who haven't downloaded the blob yet.
New UIs are less contrasty because old UIs were designed for low-quality TN LCD screens. Modern LCDs and OLEDs have better black points, so the UI gets grayer to make up for it.

There's a lot of accessibility options like "increase contrast" and "differentiate without shapes" if you don't like it though.
How exactly did they give away the location? I struggle to imagine how those pictures would help, unless they left the exif data. And if knowing it was in Columbian waters was enough to find it with publicly available tools it'd likely have already been discovered.
This is standard practice for all #BigCo. That’s why I will never apply for a job at any #BigCo. I love creating things and solving problems. #BigCo routinely makes that almost impossible.
Well yeah, but neither Omaha Steaks nor meal kits are advertised as being already prepared. Sending frozen steaks or a refrigerated box of ingredients seems far more reasonable than flying an entire already-made pizza cross country.
To be clear I'm not just trying to be a pedant and poke holes in your legalese here. I'm trying to show that it is genuinely hard to draw a line between what kinds of profit seeking are morally acceptable and what are not. People generally deserve to seek out prosperity, and I suspect in most cases trying to differentiate between these cases will end up being a game of "people richer than me have to pay, people poorer get it for free" which is way less morally justified than the current situation with software licenses.
IIRC they were based in Shenzhen (across the bay from HK), I only knew of the connection because I am on Kong Cash's mailing list.
But businesses are people, too!

And if they are, shouldn't they pay comparable taxes?
> If you go to any other culture on the globe and talk about non-binary gender, you will either be met with confusion, or just straight up mockery.

India’s not an affluent country, and irrespective of their legal status (Google it, it may surprise you), nonbinary people have a distinctive identity and place in society.

This is not to say that how affluent western countries approach trans rights is better or worse, it just means trans people do have a place in other cultures I’m familiar with. Perhaps others can share examples from other cultures.

> Any instance in history where you can find a similar trend, it tends to be at the decline stage of civilizations / empires.

Elizabethan England wasn’t very affluent or educated compared to today, but even a cursory glance at their literature shows that authors and audiences understood what we’d call intersex or nonbinary identity today (I frequently mix up the terminology.) I don’t think their idea of rights was quite as legalistically driven as modern Western society, but I don’t think being nonbinary was a death sentence either.
> Nabokov himself was a victim of childhood sexual abuse.

Is there a definite source for this? I was under the impression this was just a 'fan-theory' of sorts.
Regulatory risk is part of any investment decision. Investors have to consider that before investing in "Big Oil". Doesn't stop them from filing lawsuits though.

Oil companies aren't going to go "quietly into that good night" in any case. Too many lawyers, too much money, too much corruption.
management doesn't trust the peons

This.
If you paid high pre-recession prices for land whose value has now dropped, that money is sunk; refusing to build a moderate-price building (appropriate to the land's current value) on the land because the land is "too expensive" (in terms of the price you originally paid) is cutting your nose off to spite your face.
Bimodal is not binary. Obviously there are two ‘modes’ - ie peaks in the probability distribution function, male and female, but there’s a lot of overlap in between. The term ‘multimodal’ doesn’t mean ‘bimodal with overlap’ lol, it means that there are multiple distinct peaks in the probability distribution function.

Look up a bimodal distribution for clarification.
> Earlier this week, a teacher was ranting to the club about new guideline goals that either the state/county was pushing, that all (most) incoming 9th graders take Algebra 1.

I hate to say it, but Algebra 1 by 9th grade is NOT a very high bar. In my area, the majority of students should be studying algebra no later than this. IMO, if most of the students aren't making it this far, something is wrong in the system.

Maybe the bottom 20% shouldn't, but talking about algebra 1 in 9th grade like it's a stretch goal is a danger sign to me.
Dave Smith, Whose Synthesizers Shaped Electronic Music, Dies at 72
I don't know about the burgers, but I'm reasonably sure if they did that for the fries it'd be a vast improvement.
It becomes a partisan issue when one party conflates the two in order to write and pass laws to disenfranchise voters under the false pretense of securing elections while people parrot their (erroneous) factoids and talking points.
> no such operating cost, besides dusting off the panels once in a while, and inspecting and replacing failed units.

These things add up.

Here's a study by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), which is very unlikely to be biased against solar [1]. On page 31 they estimate the annual costs O&M (operating and maintenance) costs for a 10 MW solar plant at $144k. That comes at $14 MM/GW, or about $350 MM over a lifetime of 25 years.

Just so we're clear, I read Austin Vernon's piece about why nukes cannot be economical [2]. It's just not convincing. He compares the thermal part of a nuke with a coal power plant. A coal power plant is much more complex, since it needs to move around millions of tons of coal every year. A better comparison is with natural gas power plants.

Luckily, we can check the EIE study I liked to before [3]. I normalize all the costs to 1 GW.

Coal (no CO2 capture): $3.7 BN

Natural Gas (no CO2 caputure): $0.7 BN (yes, you read that right, it's on page 77)

Fuel cells: $6.7 BN

Nuclear: $6 BN

Geothermal: $2.5 BN

Hydro: $5.3 BN

Offshore wind: $1.2 BN

Onshore wind: $1.7 BN

Solar: $1.3 BN

So, Austin Vernon's argument that turbines can't be competitive because we've had coal power plants for hundreds of years is simply flawed. Natural gas power plants can be extremely competitive from the CAPEX point of view (of course, they burn gas that costs money, so overall they are not that economical compared to solar). But if you pair the turbine from a state of the art natgas power plant with the steam coming from an inexpensive SMR, there's no reason to not be competitive.

[1] https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy20osti/74840.pdf

[2] https://austinvernon.site/blog/nuclear.html

[3] https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost...
Were the Romans thinking it was only gay if you were on the receiving end a sign of cultural strength or decline?

Of course, even though they're one of the more famous cultures to have "declined", that's only if you artificially don't consider Byzantine Rome, and there's plenty of people living in Rome to this day.
Yeah, most f150's just tow groceries ;)
I'd rather not mention my county for personal privacy reasons, but I will just say the data in question is arrest/bookings/mugshots. The county uses some really unusable software to manage a "roster" of inmates, and to see arrests you have to catch it before someone is released. Even then, it's just highly difficult to use.

Here's a county that isn't mine, using the same software, so you can see what I mean:

https://www.dallascountyarsheriff.com/inmate-roster

People are dropped from the roster immediately upon release.

One of the main users of my site is a friend of mine who is the crime editor in the local paper. It helps him to not have to sit and refresh the page all day.
Susskind seems to think that Kolmogorov complexity is deeply related to quantum gravity: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6OXdhV5BOcY
This is a fluff piece on a man who was a pox on India's political development in its nascent years. Nehru in addition to being a dynast who doled out plum postings to his family and friends, Nehru was illiberal beyond belief [2]. He gave his sister Vijayalakshmi Pandit, the posting as India's Ambassador to the UN, when she had no diplomatic experience or formal education.

Wikipedia's list of banned books shows that Nehru and his daughter, Indira, were the most prolific banners of books. Nehru's reign saw over 14 books banned or roughly 1 every year. [1]

Since his daughters murder in 1984, by Sikh extremists, whose movement she had originally funded to topple rivals, the pace of banning has notably slowed down. Only 5 books were banned since 1984, 3 for critiquing Islam (including the Satanic Verses) and one for a critiquing some Hindu saints and one by Seymour Hersh, a known political conspiracy theorist.

Amazingly, no books have been banned since 2014, the year Narendra Modi took power.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_in_India

[2] https://www.firstpost.com/india/nehru-was-liberal-no-doubt-b...
because not enough americans seem to want it.
You realize that Rosetta is over 16 years old right?
A downvote is just one person and so don't over-generalize it to the entire site.
There is probably something wrong with the machine. If it's M1 it really shouldn't be slow unless it's under serious memory pressure. If it's Intel, it's more possible, but could still be dust in the fans or low disk space or such things.
You are a cog in the machine whereas you are often the whole machine at small shops. Working for big companies allows you to become anonymous. There's usually no hiding place at small places.
In economics data, they tend to do seasonal adjustments. I would be curious to see if there’s seasonality here.
>Climate denial is the dominant force today

I don't know where you're seeing that, all I've been hearing for decades is how we're all going to be underwater in a few years, and starving and wet bulb temps will kill millions etc. It's a non-stop doomer cult for as long as I can remember.

And I absolutely believe in climate change. But call it what it is. It's alarmism that is giving kids no hope for the future, and then we wonder why they're so depressed. Well, we keep telling them they'll be dead in a few years. Bang up job.
I realized about a decade ago that I don’t actually care about the code being open source as much. It’s the data and file formats that need to be open.

That way I have a path to migrate to a different product. That’s the true lock in for me.

Never noticed any difference or cared between gitlab being “open source” vs GitHub being closed source. As long as it’s an unaltered git repo and there are apis for my data.
Yep. Time, energy, and mental freedom isn’t fungible, and you can’t “just” give away the best 30-40 hours of your week so you can live your “real life” in the remaining 2/7 of the week.
You have to write the "complicated solutions" anyway. SQL just lets you paper over the problem for longer. 99% of webapps lose data and don't notice or care, ACID is just a stick to beat other datastores with. IME something like Cassandra offers far more actually useful advantages (collection columns, true master-master HA out of the box) than an ACID/SQL database ever can.
Maybe they're pushing/funding these little guys to test the climate on this kind of court action. (Ha!)

Good for them, if so. I like cheap electricity in my house and going places in my vehicle for $perGallon != $fkme
The server can't tell if or which articles you accessed in a query.

If the server has removed an article, then it's possible it would send back a broken response to you, but the server would not be able to tell if that happened. There would only be an information leak if you reacted to the broken response.

If you mean observing that you made a query at all, versus not making a query, sure that's observable.
If there are productivity gains they will be invisible: you wont make the first feature X twice as fast (dev time), but you might make the 100th feature twice as fast due to
lack of tech debt, but you wont notice as every team gets used
to their cadence.

The lack of tech debt comes from there not being the horrible OO
sins. OO is great but there is a lot of “assume not null” and L in SOLID
violations in practice and it all adds up.

Haskell has explicit opt-in nulls (optionals) and there is no L to worry about as there is no subtyping.
How having health care workers handle nonviolent police calls may impact crime
No, but I do. I also regularly tow 10,000 lbs hundreds or thousands of miles.
This is why I left the games industry. I love working on games but it doesn’t outweigh the cost.
If you want fast HTML parsing in python+lxml, use html5-parser https://github.com/kovidgoyal/html5-parser
No, comments comment. They have a purpose, to communicate information to a reader. Moreover, they don't pretend to be syntax that does anything else. And we already have two ways to do comments in javascript.

Type annotations in a language that don't actually annotate types for an interpreter of that language literally do nothing. Might as well just use the existing comment formats to do the same thing, and be more syntactically explicit:

function foo(bar /*TS:int*/, baz /*TS:int*/)
Anyone with an RV (trailer) does.
What you linked is the opposite of what you said.
Largely missing from discussions around what course of action we should take during the COVID-19 pandemic, unfortunately, were statistical lives, their assumed value in dollars, and the quantitative tradeoff between the costs of decisions and the cost in DALY/QALYs. I really think that should be a regular exercise in any discussion of politics.

Happy to see this on HN, it's a fascinating topic.
My personal tax rate is in excess of 40%.
From a layperson perspective maybe something like Fermat's Principle is what you are curious about. It also seems one can usually encode/send combinatorial problems into some other space or representation and decode them back into the discrete world. Generating functions and such.
Those not familiar with flight terminology may wonder why it needs an aircraft to fly the legs of unknown animals across six states. :-)

Headline may be an example of a Crashblossom [1].

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/crash-blossom-...
How does stuff like this happen. It's just so wasteful, and there are so many folks in Malaysia, and the world over, that could benefit from simple things like medicine or clothing.
I skimmed the paper, and it makes more sense than a lot of SPAs.
If the polished boot fits in your mouth with a smile on your face...
Here’s one thing that could happen next: suits filed to seize the nation’s assets abroad, while the business and others like it leave the nation in question to its own devices. The consequences for the nation are unfortunate as the economy degrades.

Case study: Venezuela. It didn’t go before this specific kind of court that I know of but they totally seized foreign oil companies’ assets. Their tankers, and tankers with their oil aboard, are subject to being impounded in some jurisdictions, to compensate those whose property was taken.
Three cheers for PWAs!
Flywheel generators or UPS? AFAIK, flywheels are only temporary energy stores while diesel gensets are spun up to peak power.
Intel freezes hiring in PC chip division for at least two weeks
>240V DC doesn't win you anything because converting that to 12V DC is more trouble than converting 240V AC to 12V DC

It is true that it doesn't win you anything, but it's not more difficult. In fact you can connect DC voltage to ordinary switching power supply just fine.
Because of traffic.

Walking around the buildings in our business park in Hitec City isn't bad, there are sidewalks. But even going a half mile up the road is hard if you're not comfortable with how Indian drivers and pedestrians interact.

I personally feel okay with the smaller intersections near our office there, because walking steadily and making no sudden moves seems to do the trick. But any bigger road is essentially blocked for me if I don't have a native from the area to lead me across. Even so, it's quite a thrill getting across a halfway busy road on foot, no matter how skilled you are. Nobody is actually trying to kill you, and in fact is certainly avoiding you, but they aren't giving you more than a few inches of clearance.

Kinda related, it's still on my bucket list to drive from Hitec City over to Charminar and back. But since the pandemic hit, my twice-a-year trips to Hyderabad have stopped and I think it's entirely plausible they will never restart. It may be that if I'm ever to enjoy Absolute BBQ again it'll be in Illinois :(
A contractor or construction worker working a city wouldn't need to travel long distances between job sites.
Small Oil would never do this, we need to go back to grass roots pollution.
OK you want motive. If you do accessibility with priority, you will get a whole new set of users who are always overlooked. A less competitive way to get easy money or user base depending on your product's model. ;)

I recently had a scare with my eyes. Freaked me out. I started looking at my developer tools completely differently. You are not out of the woods buddy. Anything can happen tomorrow. :)
> It seems expensive and seldom used.

You Have (1) Missed Call from:
1-800-FLOWERS
Stewardship of JS may align more with TS and may be better for the future of JS than TS going its way.
Athletics is a pretty poor excuse for hampering a child’s education.

Athletics should be separate from schooling and run by the community (as is Europe).
>> “…it is unacceptable to have eighth grade Algebra I classes and gifted education programs that disproportionately exclude Black and brown children.”

> no one is barring access to these classes on the basis race. can you even imagine that?

A test for a gifted class that measures _knowledge_ rather than the _ability to learn_ will create an "elite" class full of students whose parents had them study the advanced topics. Even if they were not "good" at it. In this case high SES -> advanced knowledge -> good test scores -> elite class that excludes Black students primarily because the entrance test results are predicted by SES.
With COPPA in effect in the US, you never want to pick an age under 13 or your account will be disabled.
The President's Daily Brief
former CIA Officer Bryan Dean Wright.
In the context of interface/product design, gender identity is just another data point for marketing purposes. I cant think of many products that are genuinely gender specific.

When data collection and manufacturing supply chains were more crude, it was easier to make blue and pink gi joes and barbies.

Now we have the abilitiy to collect more nuanced data about peoples preferences and efficiently service the long tail, it makes sense to let customers define their likes on a spectrum rather than as binary choices.

I dont see why you would feel so strongly about restricting how people choose to define themselves.
ISDS has already been used in this fashion by cigarette companies suing over advertising rules in Australia [1]. The tobacco firm lost and had to pay costs.

As far as I've read, these things are specified in trade treaties, and are intended to pull disagreements out of local courts. Otherwise, everyone will end up in US courts, and everyone other than the US doesn't want that.

The rules are typically "equivalent treatment". If you put in a new law, it must apply to both foreign and domestic firms. None of the "doesn't apply to companies with theme parks" carve outs.

It looks like the Energy Charter Treaty states that states can't seize assets without compensation. This is important because.... [2] [3] [4]

Non-signatories have a bad habit of seizing and nationalizing oil companies.

Increasing royalty rates to make extraction uneconomic? Maybe? Setting a carbon tax on all CO2 extracted and/or consumed in country? Maybe?

France, has some oil companies of their own, they want to be part of the treaty. If they really wanted to just prevent extraction, they could leave the treaty. However, I would expect TotalEnergies to run into problems?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-40552304

[2] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-17-fi-oxy17...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-oil/update-4-venez...

[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/05/02/b...
presumably someone manually reviews the collided post and allows it
Facebook managers have used sushi to motivate employees to complete the internal employee sentiment survey routinely every half for the last n years (something between the novelty and properties you describe) makes it attractive to folks

Kind of shows the difference in worlds between plain old tech (sushi as motivation for a half hour survey) vs gaming (food as incentive/etc. for ridiculous hours)
Tim Pool Daily Show
Tim Pool