skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s actually a very good point, when I made the static image our rating was 5 stars, as the only negative review had been removed (because the user was complaining about not getting emails from us, but they had just given us the wrong address so easily fixed) we had that review flagged, but it was eventually added again by trustpilot so the score was reduced a bit. I’m still trying to get that user to update their rating as they’ve been using shoprocket happily since they entered the right email address!
Seems like there are many parallel universes.

In one of them, people who do bad things or even crimes, may be forbidden to do certain kinds of jobs, but the generally agreed-upon ethical framework says that discrimination is only permissible when the crime or malfeasance directly relates to job responsibilities.

For instance, it might be considered too risky to hire someone with a history of DWIs as a driver, or someone convicted of embezzlement to work in finance.

In that universe, there are even laws against discrimination that is unconnected to the offense.
Nice, especially the format output.

See also:

* hck (https://github.com/sstadick/hck) - close to drop in replacement for cut that can use a regex delimiter instead of a fixed string

* rcut (https://github.com/learnbyexample/regexp-cut) - my own bash+awk script, supports regexp delimiters, field reordering, negative indexing, etc
I too make mistakes that happen to align with my dubious motivated activities.
> Observing that, say, parks are being patronized by certain demographics is far from condemning those parkgoers as white supremacist.

I suspect that this is the point GP was trying to make. A criticism of anti-racism I've encountered many times is that most arguments for something (e.g. parks) being racist or white supremacist are unfalsifiable and based solely on a specific demographic outcome (e.g. national park visitors are disproportionately white) while ignoring other factors.
From the Stanford Daily:

>The URGC also wrote that Outdoor House should pursue “meaningful engagement with faculty and staff in the important areas of equity and inclusion to more fully address the cultural concerns of the previous outdoor house that you included so explicitly in your application.” The house’s theme applicants focused on shifting its framework to address issues inherent in centering a house around outdoor culture — a traditionally white and wealthy space. In a Letter to the Community, Outdoor House community members wrote that “Centered on expensive hobbies, the house has not shown enough regard to the people we exclude, the land we recreate on, or perspectives outside the mainstream interpretation of outdoor recreation.”

https://stanforddaily.com/2021/04/20/outdoor-house-loses-app...
Electric Last Mile Solutions to file for bankruptcy
The only problem with this article is that it tries to tie the loss of culture and fun with increasing diversity or something. As if including black people is gonna make it less fun? No, the loss of fun is due to financialization and lawyers getting involved with everything and trying to make everything about maximizing profits and fear of lawsuits. Got nothing to do with equality. The DSA for what it’s worth, throws great parties.
I’m not going to say you’re naive, but I will say that they generally don’t have to answer that question regarding Proud Boys, because they’re often already authorized employees.
Russia’s Oil Revenue Soars
What this article really misses is that if you exploit someone at slight better conditions than they were previously being exploited, you are still exploiting them, and morally responsible for that.
Great quote and it speaks to how we need to curate on where we spend our attention on since there is an over-abundance of information in the internet.
If you actually read the rest of the article it makes some good arguments.
I want to be able to lock the Lock Screen. I don’t want the flashlight or camera to turn in my pocket and drain the battery.

Right now, I can notice it only because the phone gets hot.
16:10 or lower ratios for development please
The author's homepage was last updated slightly over a quarter century ago.
I appreciate this consideration, you're right, particularly in the case of broadcasting.

My thought is that in general, a network of committed enough transmitters can potentially use their communication ability to eventually bring about an unexpected means of broadcasting which is cheaper than the paranoia it would cost to prevent their transmissions. I imagine something like the ending of "They Live", where a small network struggles to affect the state of broadcasting. They bring a deceitful broadcast down in that story so it's not 100% the same.

Either way, just when you think you've found a way to dodge the sword of Damocles forever, you find a new one, somehow, suspended above your new super ultra safe throne.
Meta Optimal Transport
When the money printer prints, the people who touch the money first get to spend it before inflation fully comes to fruition. They use that money to scoop up and raise the costs of assets, which the poor never get to slowly accumulate. Meanwhile, wages always lag price inflation, and wages haven't kept up with inflation for the last 40+ years. Inflation is a slow, exponential wealth transfer that happens a little bit every year.

You also didn't address my specific question about fed policy when the Chairman himself said he was going to tip the balance of power away from workers. Do you believe the fed chairman doesn't understand economics?
SparseNeuS: Fast Generalizable Neural Surface Reconstruction from Sparse Views
I've kicked around the idea of starting a blog. It would be for me and me alone. Just a way to help myself work through some thoughts. There is always some sort of anxiety that stops me from doing it though. The idea of putting thoughts out into the world is scary. The author says my ideas can help people and I'm selfish to not share them but what if I don't want to my ideas to have a wide reach? What if I accidentally make the front page of Hacker News? God knows people here aren't any sort of kind or gracious. There is a comment in thread that sums it up, it's a single player game until you publish and are on display for everyone.
Sounds like it used to be more... hmm... diverse?
Was it a vinegar-based potato salad? If so, that’s a liability to good taste, but probably not something the school administration should concern itself with.
Sort of, yes. We have signed the contract and should be closing in the fall :)

The house is a bit more expensive than I would like but we can afford it. And we could have afford it before too, but I probably subconsciously thought that I don't deserve it.
Writing is a single-player game... until you get an editor involved.
The title on HN reflects and is almost identical to the original title on Chen's post.

The entire point of the story is to be misleading at first and produce some mild humor.
ARF: Artistic Radiance Fields
Fed Likely to Consider 0.75-Percentage-Point Rate Rise This Week
I was just picking a group that had as little overlap with animal rights protestors as I could imagine.

And I have no idea where you're getting your information about Proud Boys "often" being authorized employees. Mind to share any kind of source?
How Much Is Enough? A Study on Diffusion Times in Score-Based Generative Models
Winner takes all, extreme wealth disparity?
This article seems like a major failure of both imagination and empathy. Paying homeless people $20 a day to be wifi hotspots or paying people's bills on the condition that they become vegan helps in the moment, but these solutions are actively harmful in the long term if practiced as a default response to the problems they ostensibly address. Such "solutions" calcify in people's minds, and provide a convenient excuse to not execute the kinds of large, systemic shifts that a complete solution necessarily entails. These things are so repulsive to the general public because regular people, on some level, understand that everyone has an unconditional right to the safety and dignity that homelessness and living without water or medicine is incompatible with.
Huh? We've been essentially doing this for the past 30 years. Chinese often go back to China with their US/European education and put it to good use there. It doesn't work as a brain drain when China has such a strong domestic market and there's so much money to be made there. There are also cultural and ideological ties that don't seem to be easily broken.
Hippocratic oathes do nothing.
True, I have taken break from LeetCode but not for too long. I will probably restart it in couple of weeks. Going forward, I always want to be interview ready.
When will depositors start shopping for higher rates?
Ceding political and budgetary power to wealthier portion of citizens does not seem like a good way to maintain a healthy society. Even the poor deserve a say in how they will be governed, and where collected taxes will go.
Well, sure but that has nothing to do with approving a launch site.

If Starship was used to maximum extend it would basically replace the airline industry and it would have about the same amount of impact.

If that is acceptable to society depends. Potentially this can be made reusabilty in the future as well. At least its easier to make methane then to make jet fuel.
And without a better understanding of sunspots and powerline radiation? One wonders why genetics is such a priority for some people!

What happens when we learn that your genetics are inferior? Nobody ever seems to think of that outcome. ;)
FYI - If you read the comment section of the article, there are a number of interesting side discussions about this exact thing, along with various arguments on both sides .
Early versions of OS X did run on Old World Macs, I remember running it on my 7500. I think the limiting factor was the Mac had to have Open Firmware, which started with the PCI Macs.

https://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cf...
May I recommend https://sites.psu.edu/ehssan/wp-content/uploads/sites/7257/2..., a transcript of a 2000 talk by Michael Atiyah?

A tiny bit from section 9:

> The 20th century can be divided roughly into two halves. I would think the first half has been dominated by what I call the "era of specialization," the era in which Hilbert's approach, of trying to formalize things and define them carefully and then follow through on what you can do in each field, was very influential. As I said, Bourbaki's name is associated with this trend, where people focused attention on what you could get within particular algebraic or other systems at a given time. The second half of the 20th century has been much more what I would call the "era of unification", where borders are crossed, techniques have been moved from one field into the other, and things have become hybridized to an enormous extent. I think this is an oversimplification, but I think it does briefly summarize some of the aspects that you can see in 20th-century mathematics.
if your goal is networking with people who are mostly too stupid to read, you are correct
https://archive.ph/bNmbX
Police unions are a different kind of animal; not the type to campaign in solidarity with what is typically a Democratic political value.
Is OCSP stapling somehow defective? Aside from being mostly unimplemented on the client side. It does limit revocation latency to two days or so, but that’s probably as short as it’s can realistically be without CAs seriously getting into high availability.
BatNoter: Store notes in your Git repository
Quite often in the news with these stories someone is quoted in the article, would it be that hard to track them down and ask a question or two?
what is wrong here? your citation looks ok and new... get down vote
Yes, really! There is no basis. "History" isn't a basis - try it in another context.
They might be referring to the Mega CD/Sega CD?
They track when you click.

Combine that with Google Analytics, they know how long you stayed there.

They also know if you went back, clicked on another and so on.
> I'm not basing it on statistics, I'm basing it on basic knowledge of the mechanics of infectious diseases. The more people in a population have immunity to a disease, the slower it will spread.

Your understanding must be faulty, because that isn't how it has played out in practice. I've got an 8 million person state's worth of cases for evidence here. Very well vaccinated, fast and pervasive spread. Based on the official case numbers I can estimate about half the state has had COVID. Possibly more.

Follow the science, not your uninformed opinions, and all that jazz.

> The people you talk to may think this is true, but there is no way anyone can possibly know this.

It doesn't matter what they think, it is impossible for it to be the vaccinated. There aren't enough of them and they've been locked out of a lot of places where superspreader events are happening We had one case in the newspaper of a vaccinated individual who managed to infect ~20 people at a party for example. Or maybe it was 100, I forget. that was early in the 2021-2022 outbreak when a superspreading event was still rare enough to make the news.

> Again, there is no way you can possibly know this. Without vaccines, the situation may have been much worse.

There most certainly is, the failure was so complete it can be observed from the high level statistics.

It can't, the number of cases is basically worse case - we're talking 2.5 million cases with a state population of 8 million. Those are official cases, the actual number of cases is higher. And the case count continues to slow burn/rise.

Now, noting that the vaccine claims a >70% reduction in cases on the Pfizer wiki page ... that suggests everyone in the state has been exposed to COVID. At face value there is literally no impact on slowing the spread from the mass vaccination program.

The picture here is painted and dried. Vaccines provide good personal protection but have had no impact on the spread of COVID cases. Unvaccinated individuals only posed a threat to themselves. Well meaning people - much like you - were saying things that have turned out not to be true.
Quasi-categorically, you can state that protestors outside of an Amazon warehouse are attempting to get Amazon to change something about their operations, so of course Amazon will be at odds with most protesters there - if they weren't there probably wouldn't be protestors because Amazon would have already made the change.

In any case, Amazon may also make mistakes that help the protesters, but that would never be reported on(e.g protesters illegally trespassing, but no one at Amazon realizes it and calls the police)
A city sponsored whole hog BBQ in the town center until the town burns through all assets.
Do you want to reach them? They've probably been maintaining COBOL or are still maintaining Java apps on JDK 8. Still using JQuery for form validation and async HTTP calls. Not working on SPA's but static templates. That's decidedly unsexy, but they're putting in the hours to make important systems work. It's gonna take them work to get them up to speed in your micro frontend app backed by containerized apps on k8s.
Mistaking employees for trespassers, and mistaking your own property boundaries, combine to make a fairly large mistake. You would think the union-busting agents they’ve hired would have better intel on this type of thing...
I guess the lack of context switch seems like it would be easier on the brain. I guess the actual working of static + dynamic bits unlike how it is now with everything dynamic is more of a "how it works is similar" thing while the coding is coherent unlike jquery.
Reminds me of how Facebook wanted to offer free internet access to a limited number of services to people in India and Africa. My understanding is it got canned because people were mad about it not being full internet access. Full gift horse in mouth. The people who would rather others have no internet access than limited internet irk me so badly.
Most of human selfie SNS photography could be argued to be as automatic and undeliberate as these chicken photos.
From the third sentence of the article: "the officers eventually determined that Litrell wasn’t on Amazon’s property and left." He was on public property.

Are you arguing that Amazon doesn't know where their property line is? (Also, comparing classic union organizing to white supremacists who are charged with "seditious conspiracy" in the violent attack on the nation's capital in an attempt to overthrow an election is wild.)
I lived there too! What a wonderful mess it was lol

One of my friends from high school was in Stanford's LSJUMB and while visiting him I got to briefly visit a couple of the Stanford co-ops. What struck me most was how similar the co-ops were despite being on literal opposite sides of the country. If there had been a magic wormhole-esque[0][1] portal that _actually_ linked the houses together, I would've only been mildly surprised

Long live pika! Long live shenanigans!

[0] http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/...

[1] https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/wormhole-connects-stan...
A police force of cowards? Texans will vote to get rid of them.
> Not only it costs more, it also does not really mitigate risk and it just gives an excuse to a manager to punt the problem to someone else.

> You can do it in-house, or you can outsource it

You are 100% correct companies should do this AND better yet this is exactly what is referred to as "Buy vs Build"[0]. You keep trying to convince me and others that companies ARE NOT DOING THIS ANALYSIS. I'm telling you that they most certainly are because it's literally what I do for a living (tech strategy consulting). And guess what, the reason companies keep coming back to closed-sourced providers (GitHub, etc.) is because over and over again we conclude it makes financial sense to do so.

> at least throw some money to the developers of the open alternatives as a hedge and eventual way out.

Now, this part is a hilarious suggestion. No one does this or would do this, because it makes zero financial sense.

[0] - https://medium.com/adobetech/when-to-build-vs-buy-enterprise...
I wish I was like, six foot nine

So I can get with Leoshi

She don't know me

but yo she's really fine...

You know I see her all the time everywhere I go

but even in my dreams I can scheme my way to make her mine...
I'm fifty years old. I've been good enough at drawing to have people pay me to do it since about 2000.

There's a point where it's just... what you do. Where it's become a major part of your life and you get to regularly remind yourself that even when it gets kind of tedious, you're still paying your bills by doing this thing you essentially love doing. And then you get to figure out how to make it more exciting: bigger challenges? new approaches? working with other people to make something bigger than you can make yourself? or just shrugging and accepting that this has become Work instead of Play, and enjoying being able to do solid work in a tenth of the time it once took, and enjoy more leisure time to do other things you enjoy?

I mean, what the fuck else am I gonna do? Get a day job at the bottom of some other career ladder?
> two groups

"fires" refers to termination of employment, not firemen.
Credit goes to Chris Lee: https://www.chrisleeportfolio.com

Explanation when you click “Wat this?”:

> This is a Streamlit app I prototyped for performing semantic search on the King James Bible. It conducts full text search as well as semantic search, which is useful for surfacing passages that are similar in meaning to the query, even if the passages don't explicitly contain the query keyword(s). Suppose you wanted to bring up all verses that reference the infamous snake that tempted Eve. In a traditional keyword search system, searching for 'snake' wouldn't yield any results because the KJV uses the term 'serpent'. A semantic search system would take that 'snake' query and retrieve the relevant verses that contain 'serpent' as well as similar verses like ones about reptiles.

> Under the hood, I've generated vector embeddings of every verse in the Bible using SBERT (https://www.sbert.net/), and stored those embeddings in a vector database called Pinecone (https://www.pinecone.io). Every time you submit a query, it's converted to its vector representation using SBERT. That query vector is then sent to Pinecone, which performs an Approximate Nearest Neighbor (https://www.pinecone.io/learn/what-is-similarity-search/) search, retrieving the top n verses that are the most semantically similar to our query. The verses returned are ranked in order of most to least similar.

(Full disclosure: I work for Pinecone, but I have no connection to this demo.)
if you aren't looking for interaction or a following - then why publish? Write your thoughts out for yourself and see where it takes you.
Can't believe the negativity I see on some of the top comments right now.

Congrats and thanks for sharing, you rock :)

It's really nice to get updates from folks who posted an Ask HN. Especially with a positive outcome.

It's really not uncommon for humans to find energizing work energizing, and for that to affect their overall quality of life. Plenty of people are comfortable checking boxes and going home early, sure, but that can be a slow death to a lot of folks (even some who might not realize it).
It's important to take security seriously, and to be rigorous about it. It does not follow that people should take a rigid, maximalist approach to things like SOC2. What SOC2 wants you to do intersects only somewhat with what you should be doing to secure your company.
Whatever the name of their organization, the police are no friend to labor. Using arrests and police violence to intimidate union organizers is a classic unionbusting tactic with centuries of history behind it. Have you ever seen a cop on a picket line? In your memory, has a police union joined another local labor union in a strike or action?

When workers have had to literally, physically fight and sometimes die for what we now consider to be workers rights, who were they fighting? who killed them? Often it was the police.
Time to Do One Thing
Interesting the Washington Post ran this story considering it’s owned by Jeff Bezos.
> these solutions are actively harmful in the long term if practiced as a default response to the problems they ostensibly address. Such "solutions" calcify in people's minds, and provide a convenient excuse to not execute the kinds of large, systemic shifts that a complete solution necessarily entails

Is there any evidence this is the case, or is this just a thought experiment?
Your first paragraph does not come across as considerate.

Your second sounds like good advice to me too, if a little presumptuous. How well do you know OP?
Tried to use it and got:

AttributeError: This app has encountered an error. The original error message is redacted to prevent data leaks. Full error details have been recorded in the logs (if you're on Streamlit Cloud, click on 'Manage app' in the lower right of your app).
Traceback:
File "/home/appuser/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/streamlit/scriptrunner/script_runner.py", line 475, in _run_script
exec(code, module.__dict__)
File "/app/bible-semantic-search/app.py", line 11, in <module>
index = PineconeIndex("qa-index")
File "/app/bible-semantic-search/pinecone_index.py", line 16, in __init__
self.index = self.connect_to_index(index_name)
File "/app/bible-semantic-search/pinecone_index.py", line 30, in connect_to_index
index = pinecone.Index(index_name)
File "/home/appuser/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pinecone/index.py", line 34, in __init__
openapi_client_config.api_key = openapi_client_config.api_key or {}
Most people in the US don't go to college. If you believe the theory that jobs get less valued by society when women join them, this is going to happen here as well, since college is increasingly something women do more than men.