skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...or use a credit card. That way the hold is applied to your credit (ie. not your cash) rather than your checking account (ie. your cash).
On an unrelated note, I wish that author's who aren't Gibson would write novels set in Night City. I love Gibson, but often find his stuff hard to follow, and would love an escapist level novel set in a Gibsonian setting.
I think a key fact is the right to unionise in America is protected by law. You could make two contradictory statements like:

> If they cannot afford proper safety equipment then the business is a liability.

And

> If buying safety equipment causes an employer financial distress then it is a liability.

But I think most people would agree with the first statement and disagree with the second.
Likely to get over something else somewhere else (highway, building, roads, river) without having to climb and come back down. High speed rail doesn't want to climb at all if possible, certainly less than normal rail (and much, much less than light rail).
The problem is that most environmental protection laws predate climate change being a primary concern. So even something where it is blatantly obvious that it is going to be a net good for the environment can get bogged down in years of reviews
>Silencers/supressors are currently banned in the US (requires a tax stamp and long waiting period) but legal in other highly restrictive countries like England/UK. They're basically mufflers for guns and not like in the movies. Short barreled rifles would be nice too; we have those now but it's a "technicality," where anyone who owns them for recreational shooting can, on a whim of a bureaucrat, become a felon sentenced to decades of prison. That's not how a free society based on laws should work. Pot falls under the same category. It's still not legal at the federal level and if the DEA decides it wants to start raiding people's homes looking for pot, it certainly can, and people can be prosecuted for it.

Those aren't rights.

Those are (whether you agree with them or not) laws.

Those are different things.

What you advocate is license (definition 3)[0], not liberty.

Those are wildly different concepts.

>We're a society of individuals, not a society of Borg. Freedoms of the individual are the greatest benefit a society can have.

That we are, but we still all need to live together. Unless, of course you want to move to the middle of the desert or atop a mountain, the rights of others must also be respected.

I'd point out that you never did answer my question: "To what end?"

I'll clarify, since a good faith reading of your response would make me think you didn't understand the question rather than ignoring it in favor of your trained-in prejudices.

What would be served (other than you being able to kill people with impunity) by removing restrictions on, say P90s or RPGs?

If your intent is to have the means (and the desire?) to kill lots of people, then I get your point.

But if you wish to live in a free, peaceful society based on the rule of law (rather than the rule of the gun), I don't see your point at all.

As a (small 'l') libertarian, I note that I can only exercise my liberties freely in a society governed by the rule of law.

Having folks around with the means and will to kill anyone they feel like in large numbers isn't a libertarian principle.

Rather, it's a delusional state fed by this idea that your whole life is only the result of your actions, when 200,000+ years of human existence shows us that liberty comes from collective action to protect those liberties.

Having a bazooka doesn't make you more free. Nor is it a "right" per se.

What gives us liberty is the actual work required to maintain a free society.

"I've got guns, so back off asshole!" isn't a libertarian idea. Rather, it's a backward, "might makes right" authoritarian idea.

If you want to be completely isolated from other humans, go ahead and do whatever you want. But if you're going to live in a society, you need to work with your fellow members of that society to maximize individual rights and liberty.

What you propose does none of those things and are more appropriate to a street gang or mafia. Or is that your desire?

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/license
I too once scoffed at grinding leetcode. I’d rather work on side projects or blog instead.

But after 5 years of failing to get a job offer, I finally caved. Putting in the effort to deeply understand DS/algos and grind away leetcode led me to getting offers I liked and IMO has made me a better engineer.

I now have a “gold star” on my resume and am confident I can still answer most leetcode questions. I consider that time spent as a great time investment, since landing my next job will be much easier.

Money wasn’t my original goal when I got into CS, but it eventually became my driving force. I regret taking so long to notice this, and letting my feelings get in my way (of how it “should be”) / resisting leetcode for so long.
That's not an AI problem, it's a concentration of wealth problem.

Giving that power to a person or group of people would be almost as bad.
They're not going after them for that. They're going after them for that plus an incredibly long list of other basic security failures, failing to notify customers that their personal data was now in the wild, and other negligence
Lots of discussion in this thread about the accuracy of the implied claim "vaccination can prevent Alzheimers", but not a lot about the correct course of action.

Which seems to me to be, unambiguously, you should absolutely be religious about getting your flu shot every year. The vaccine is known to be safe and with few side effects (or at least, safer than the actual flu, which is the bar that needs to be cleared.)

And even if it hasn't been conclusively proven that vaccines can avert Alzheimer's, you're at least putting yourself in the best possible cohort, right? Anyone familiar with Bayes' Theorem should be absolutely on board with this.
personal experience dealing with this &#$&^$#@# -- overall rating, probably "proto-VC" is accurate, similar to other primitive life forms. Definitely a taste for publicity, cant deny that.
> If I don't know what I'm doing to begin with, I don't need something telling me all the ways in which I'm doing it wrong.

This is unrelated to this conversation, but this is my main beef with Rust. I love Rust (like a lot), but it's just not good for prototyping. End of non-pertinent rant.
A better firm would have performed better, regardless of what happens to crypto. Short selling should be a part of any sophisticated strategy. But this firm bet the farm on the price going up. I thought hedge funds were smarter than that, bit apparently not this one.
Tried that. Didn't work.

We need building. We've done enough planning for 10 lifetimes, and all it got us was a crushing housing crisis.
If you buy a computer from ASUS, you can download whatever browser you want. If you buy a cellphone from a Android-manufacturer, you can download whatever browser you want.

But if you buy an iPhone, you can only download browsers that are using Apples own browser.

Just because smartphones have traditionally been locked down, doesn't mean that it should be like that.

PCs were also pretty locked down the beginning. And Windows have tried a couple of times to move in that direction. But fortunately, we have a relatively open ecosystem when it comes to devices we use for "producing" things on. It's just missing that the devices we "consume" on works similarly.
We could have built the interstates around urban cores and connected them to existing thoroughfares within cities. Most of our urban cores have expanded out to where those highways would have been built then, anyway. There was no need to go right through existing neighborhoods.
Every city in the path of an Interstate should have a ring road around it, instead of cutting the city in two or more parts. Basically, a giant roundabout.
> Just as a note: Peking was a corruption by French missionaries, not Americans.

What? Peking wasn't a corruption at all. It accurately reflects the pronunciation encountered by... most Europeans who interacted with Chinese. Mandarin received official status in the 20th century.
Who is the digital version of you?
> Where are you located as digital nomad in EU?

HR

> There's also a digital nomad visa option in Croatia too AFAIU.

It is, and I'm there as I write this, but there is no path to citizenship and it's a yearly process.
Just another vaccines don't work and bring the big buck to big pharma message.
Beverly Hills routinely approves single family home teardowns as long as you replace with another single family home.

But replacing with an apartment? Not in MY backyard!
Hey, I can add all the references so noone else has to:

- http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

- https://xkcd.com/882/

- (honorable mention: https://xkcd.com/552/ - gets cited less often but is relevant nonetheless)
Having used Angular 1 then migrating to 2, and then trying it again very recently I wonder if a lot of people were burned by early Angular and unwilling to try it again.

It’s leaps and bounds ahead of what it was in terms of end user and developer experience. The tooling is dramatically improved. If you asked me 6 months ago what my position on Angular was, I probably would have said something like “I haven’t used it recently, but older version were pretty awful. Bad DX, incredibly slow builds, huge bundle size, etc”. Today I think it’s pretty compelling for the right projects.

Like anything that doesn’t just fade away, there’s a reason people still use it. There are some talented and intelligent people driving it forward. I’m not eager to use it, but I was really glad to see how much it has improved.
This survey (1) shows that the majority of orgs develop their own operators, perhaps related to what you say here. Do you think industry standards for operators would move things in the right direction?

(1) https://dok.community/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DoK_Report_...
I remember having pole position as a cartridge for my Atari 800XL, plug it in, turn it on, and instantly into the game! I played that game a LOT.
Maybe try being a little less confrontational with people if you want to have actual dialog. Otherwise many people just write you off and, worse, flag your posts.
This is traditionally accomplished with ring roads that go around the city. Take Minneapolis for example, you'd be crazy to take I-94 through the heart of the city. If your driving through on your way out west your going to take the 694 bypass.
I'm not so much concerned about full size HDMI vs small size (plenty of good quality custom length cables exist that are one size at one end, mini or micro, and full size at the other) but lack of SDI out port.

generally having an SDI out port is a clear dividing line between serious/non-serious video cameras.
It takes politics to change politicians.

This is a many year process:
to bring into public office people who care, willing to change laws, or city ordinances, and department values and priorities (street / public works) and budget money for the new priorities, and to flex the electoral muscle by the organizing (an increasingly important and larger number) of voters to pay attention.

Like it or not that is the game you are in. If you are not playing to change the game, you are doomed to play by the same rules you complain about.

The handicapped / wheelchair access to sidewalks, now visible nation wide in the US, started with zero curb cuts everywhere in the 1960s, and wheelchair non-accessbility to many essential services, such as grocery stores, post offices, other public buildings, including schools, court houses, social services, and municipal governmental offices. Hospitals had figured this out, mostly, but not entirely, by that time.
reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxtyeFVn3w
Google for Sound
I test in Epiphany, and have resolved some Safari bugs that way.

Unfortunately that's not enough, for two reasons:

1. Safari is the only browser that is still tied to OS release versions, the WebKit version used by Epiphany is rarely the same, so results will likely differ

2. Epiphany has no mobile emulation mode. (E.g., I had to work around around an annoying input zoom bug in Safari/iOS by blindly applying the least stupid solution I found searching the net)
> IMHO, the core of the problem is that elected politicians are asking constituents in the first place.

Those constituents are the ones paying for said projects, so yeah it’s kind of important that everyone is on board before committing money.
>Are people in a comma not human?

People in coma do have brain activity. People who don't aren't "less human", they are clinically dead.

>so if it [hydatidiform mole] is strictly a genetic condition than I think it is a human.

xD

>If that is the case then why do so many reputable biological text books and biologists state life begins at conception?

Because in the biological context this is true. However, your whole reasoning is based on reusing this in a completely different context, wrongly assuming that every bit of homo sapiens, regardless of its state, is a person. That's why its absurdity would be obvious to a nurse: it's obvious to anyone who knows about both contexts and thus can tell the difference between them.
I always end up qualifying as a NIMBY, because all of the projects proposed are endless 4-on-1s that look exactly the same as everywhere else with no parking, or godawful commercial real estate. If there was any taste in development, I'd be a YIMBY.
As a current (longtime) resident, I see comment threads like this and scratch my head wondering which sensationalized coverage led to the belief that the city is so dangerous "it needs people who believe in it to move there".

May I ask: which neighborhood(s) did you live in, and/or is there specific coverage or a precipitating event that made you lose faith?

Crime has increased in some areas, yes, but the reaction to those increases have been extreme, and do not seem proportional.

It's one thing when people who don't live here are just reacting to the news cycle, but I'm pretty curious to hear your perspective as someone who has lived here.
glxinfo is also handy, especially if you aren't sure which driver the system is using.
I don't have a source, nor do I fully believe the original poster, but do consider:

7x population growth,
shift from 80% rural to 90% urban. Where "rural" is low economic engagement and "urban" is a job-holder.
shift from single-earning families to dual-earner, where again a stay-at-home mom does not increase the size of the economy while a working one does (and please, I know this is unfair and the tremendous value a full time Mom provides).

Multiple these three shifts and you get a pretty big increase in the economy, with zero increase in productivity.
It's true some swag has endeared me to companies, like my awesome, color-changing Weather Underground mug. But the vast, vast majority is low-quality garbage that I wish never existed, and certainly wish never become my burden to dispose of.

I say, aim for a tiny amount of high-quality swag. Or hell, just give people branded gift cards!
There's a completely bland, ugly, brutalist movie theatre in the downtown of my city [1]. Probably from the 80s? There was talk about tearing it down and replacing it with a much nicer looking (IMO) modern mid-rise [2]. A local news organization posted about it, and the comments were flooded with old people who live in the suburbs moaning. One just posted a link to a YouTube video of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" ("they paved paradise/and put up a parking lot"), absurdly.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4255478,-123.3621296,3a,75y,...

[2] https://www.cheknews.ca/officer-tower-proposed-for-capitol-6...
Not deprecated. You can still use it. You need to manually opt-in using `git config core.sparseCheckoutCone false` since the default has switched.
> Meanwhile, most trains are pretty unpleasant--many cars wreak of piss, smoke, etc, people free-style rapping, trying to start fights (especially people of questionable sanity), etc.

The problem is not public transport, the problem is not homeless people, the problem is not mentally unwell people. The problem is poverty and there is a solution: housing first policies and healthcare for everyone.
Doctor needs his sick visit money. You can't just treat that routine infection yourself.
Wow, this is brilliant!
Will start adding some products.
Yet populations across Europe are not shrinking. Birth rates may go up and down but people still want to move there. Seems to work, so far.

To use the phrase “die out” stinks 30’s Germany to me, and I think you could stand to think twice before using such verbiage.
Mobile games today seem to have Atari’s “easy to learn, difficult to master” design philosophy.
Fines or threat of jail time is just trying treating the symptoms. Bigger issue is that companies use SSN as a way to authenticate a user. Government should mandate only allowing SSN for tax identification purposes. Passwords need to go away and with webauth, we are almost there. The average person is re-using the same password across sites so it’s pointless protection.

An e-commerce store hack shouldn’t give hackers the data needed to access customers financial accounts.
I always found that side:left/right should also be expressible as rapport:antecedent/consequent as in propositional logic, rather than limiting these relationships to the geometric representation of Venn diagram.

And maybe a shorter alternative might be tie:arm/leg.
As per NIST 800-63B:

> To maintain the integrity of the authentication factors, it is essential that it not be possible to leverage an authentication involving one factor to obtain an authenticator of a different factor. For example, a memorized secret must not be usable to obtain a new list of look-up secrets.

And further:

> Methods that do not prove possession of a specific device, such as voice-over-IP (VOIP) or email, SHALL NOT be used for out-of-band authentication.
I can think of some positive applications. The thing that makes me cynical here is that all the evil applications seem like they're going to be far more profitable in terms of either money or power.

This would be a continuation of what's happened to the Internet in the last 10-15 years. The Internet is amazing and has tons of incredibly positive uses but all the money is in mass surveillance, addictive "engagement maximizing" stuff, and gambling and scams.
Do they really? I'd think everyone who drinks already has a couple. I've got two at all times (one that's part of a multitool, and a separate titanium one from a Kickstarter).
This comment makes me realize we really need standard phrasings for where a CRDT stores its data, and what behaviors are allowed/expected by each common scheme.
The NIMBYism crisis in Canada has also reached a fever pitch:

https://www.tvo.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-cmhc-says-aba...

That's the Ontario provincial public broadcaster.

Canada currently builds a measly 286,000 homes per year, but the housing crisis is so severe that the government thinks we need to build 5.7 million homes over the next 9 years to alleviate the crisis. Which is basically impossible. And the municipalities are still crying about Character Of The Neighborhood and the importance of democratic local control.
An independent inquiry into Covid’s origins is long overdue
Detecting duplicates has a cost you can't just hand-wave away. UNION ALL tells the engine not to worry about it and just output as it sees it, usually going faster. Depends on your data needs.
>Does it matter that you prefer one definition over another?

Well, (obviously, since I bothered to post about it) yes it does -- to me.

Are you somehow claiming that I must prefer something just because it's in the vernacular?

>Every time organic food is mentioned on HN, someone is quick to point out "haha does that mean food that contains carbon haha", and the word simply doesn't mean that in this context. It's tiring.

Well, "organic" does (you know, ISTR someone saying that words sometimes have multiple meanings. I wonder who that could have been?) mean "contains carbon."

Perhaps you should have a nap now, as you seem to be a little cranky.
Want to second what a great app Libby is: it's like a "management" layer on top of your regular library experience, paired with integrating services seamlessly (libraries, eReaders) that makes it wonderful.

Also, some really smart UX/UI decisions in the app. And: I'm super-jaded about this stuff, but find the subtle "delighters" and microinteractions actually helpful and enhance the experience.
Honestly, I think it's because a lot of folks go their entire careers avoiding set-based thinking. Many of these folks are talented programmers so I would assume they'd become quite decent at SQL if they devoted time to it. I'm speaking more on the DML side than the DDL side here.

In my experience <20% of developers are good enough to be dangerous with SQL, and maybe 5% what I'd consider adept.

The rest range from "SELECT * is as far as I'll go; where's the ORM" to "why the hell are you using cursors to aggregate"

SQL is powerful, elegant, and reliable. With modern DB support of JSON, ARRAY, statistical functions, and much more, SQL is probably the #1 most underutilized/improperly leveraged tool today. SQL-killers have been coming out for 40 years now and (for its domain!) SQL's lead is pulling farther away if anything.

*yes there are some questionable implementations, so please replace "SQL" with "PostgreSQL" if nonstandard SQL implementations have caused nightmares for you in the past.
Note that the constant 0 being the null pointer is not an assumption but it is guaranteed by the standard. Whether that maps to address 0 it is an implementation detail, but any implementation that doesn't do that is looking for trouble.
Agree. Back in he day, people were discussing how to put 10k connections into a single core FTP server.
I'm pretty adamantly of the opinion that the only politically viable way to increase public transit usage is positive incentives. If you just try to punish drivers (as many in the anti-car crowd are want to do, even if it means punishing bus riders too), you will end up creating a bunch of political opposition. I think you really need to convince people that investment in transit will beget more ridership, and if you can't make that case then more public transit may not be appropriate.
Wait - it almost seems like you think having a higher birth rate would be good for America? How so?
> Why do they still need to be injected with supplements like vitamin B12?

I've had this conversation many times before: maybe animals need to be supplemented with B12 where you live, but not where I live and I'm pretty sure not in most of the world, either. If we couldn't get enough B12 from meat and animal products we'd have been in real trouble a very long time ago. Like a couple hundred thousand years ago, at least.

But I should not use the word "efficiency" in this kind of context because it's really so vague what "efficiency" means that it can be used to mean anything at all and justify any kind of conclusion at all, even completely contradictory conclusions. For example: are chickens "efficient"? Sure, because you can pack a hundred of them in a square meter! Aren't chickens really "inefficient"? Obviously, since you need one chicken to lay one egg a day!

Mea maxima culpa. Animals are not "efficient" producers of B12. Instead, eating the meat of animals is how we naturally acquire our B12. Regardless of who actually makes it. How does that sound? Better I hope.