skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you saying that we should prioritize product quality over the workers who make them?

It depends on the product in question but of course the product should be prioritized, it is what is being produced and sold after all. Without the product, the workers would not be at that company.
It's actually like a badly written logic/IQ problem; it starts off with a man who isn't named and then suddenly three sentences in he has a name.
I know someone who switched law schools after the rankings came out, because #1 changed.
Communism and socialism failed... in 52 countries. Yes, there are exceptions, on small scale. (Co-ops, and small partnerships). But in large scale, it doesn't work.

Law Firms are one example where it could work, but even there you have Partners and Associates. And even Partners have levels (Equity Partners, Junior Partners, Full Partners... etc).
Sucrose is hydrolyzed in the gut by the enzyme α-glucosidase into glucose and fructose. Without any other absorptive buffer, it's basically the same.
Law doesn’t apply to him?
Non-Windows OSS on Lenovo Secured-core PCs is trickier than it should be
As a corollary, new consultants tend to get worse clients because good clients have regular consulting needs and hence are almost always already working with established consultants.

And because they are good clients the established consultants will move the heavens to keep them happy.

And because they are established consultants they can take a loss on a project and still be around for the next one in two years.
Alternatively the police could look up all 4 plates to see which are actually registered, which are on cars that reasonably match other details from the witnesses and forensic evidence from the scene, and talk to the owners of any of the cars that haven't been elimanted. If that fails they could expand the search to other logic permutations of plates. They could even call this process "police work".
Demo available here: https://www.hcpendeavorrx.com/
> Lenovo's laptops caused a disturbance last week after a security engineer found himself unable to boot up a copy of Linux due to restrictions that are apparently insisted upon by Microsoft.

> Matthew Garrett, an information security architect, was keen to check out Lenovo's latest Pluton-equipped wares but found himself unable to boot Linux from a USB stick "for no obvious reason."
There was the threat of military action and regime change if they didn’t. See Libya and Iraq after they decided to sell oil in Euros.
A given (alleged) act or fact can support multiple possible charges.

For example suppose I were convicted for reckless driving for driving 300% over the speed limit in a school zone while school was in session. That same evidence could have been used for a speeding charge instead of a reckless driving charge.

It would not be violating innocent until proven guilty or due process if my sentencing for reckless driving took into account my extremely high speed, even though I was not charged or convicted of speeding. My driving 300% over the speed limit was proven as part of convicting me for reckless driving and the court can treat my driving that fast as a fact.

In the Ulbricht case the murder-for-hire stuff was part of the basis for one of the conspiracy charges, evidence was heard for it in regards to that, and he was convicted on that charge. So the court can take it as a fact because of that and use it when considering the sentencing for that conviction.
This is a 404 for me
You know there are other conclusions one could draw from that.

If unions really do produce lower quality products then there's sort a of a nice cycle that happens (albeit likely over far too long a time period). A company mistreats its workers, the workers unionize, the company's product-quality reduces, the company becomes a better target for competitors.

I'm all for making it easy for workers to unionize, but in a lot of cases I'll hope they don't.

That kind of logic might not apply to scenarios where companies are too huge, but that seems to be a problem best solved with other tools.
Georgia isn't heavily subsidized (unlike most states in the region), they actually rank 36th in federal dependency[1]. Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island all rank higher on federal dependency.

[1] https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal...
When there's a shortage of power the price of power is also quite high so it's probably not profitable to mine anyway.
That's an unexpectedly kind and honest article... I should imagine there are people who needed to read that today and it has helped them.
Tragedy of the commons (or in this case mass immigration to the 'commons')
https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/tragedy-of-the-commons-impa...
example 5
Yeah, there are faint mentions of moon colonization from Musk, but more often than not he talks about Mars.

I do agree more and more that Musk is a grifter (look no further than Twitter), but SpaceX seems to be one of his ventures that’s not a grift. The technology actually works (falcon 9 works, dragon works, Starlink works), and I don’t see what kind of financial gain he has in going to Mars. Possibly hoping the government subsidizes his Starship rockets that he then will use for contracts?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/19/russia-s...

https://legacy-assets.eenews.net/open_files/assets/2017/07/0...

https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-funding-environmental-g...

https://www.newsweek.com/putin-funding-green-groups-discredi...

https://www.transparency.org/en/press/germany-state-governme...

https://www.eenews.net/articles/devin-nunes-claims-russia-is...

in comparison how Russia deals with this internally https://www.nirs.org/russia-cracks-down-on-anti-nuclear-move...
Just got a Retroid Pocket 2+. There's good support for Dosbox with the RetroArch dosbox-pure core, and having a trip down memory lane playing the commander keen games
I hope there would be some investigational journalism to dig out how much money flooded from Russia towards lobbying this to happen..
Not OP but,

I don't have any issue with legacy, but I do with purpose. What's the point of it all? That's my core struggle.
Could you not use htop for this? I was kind of surprised when it showed i3 using about 500mb while pretty much idle. I do have a few extras installed: lxpolkit for mounting with nautilus, feh for a background, nm-applet, picom, etc. There weren't any big whales, either. All of the processes were using only a point or so of ram.
Neither of those things requires a blockchain.

Uploading a signed copy of the file to the Internet Archive is probably more effective.
Regarding Olber's paradox, would an infinite number of stars really imply the sky would be uniformly bright? Why couldn't (say) the following alternative explanations work?

(a) The universe is infinite, but has been (and will always be) stretching faster than would allow light from galaxies too far away to ever reach us.

(b) The universe is infinite and not even stretching, but there is enough (dark?) matter in it to eventually block any ray of light coming from infinitely far away.
> Alcohol, food, social media, gaming, opioids, cannabis, nicotine, gambling

and wars.

Hmmm, what demographic frequently buys lottery tickets? How much overlap with demographic of enlisted Army recruits?

I suppose lottery and Army is better than prison.
Quiet flows the Po: the life and slow death of Italy’s longest river
Yes. I like it, it's great. It often shows me novel ways of solving problems, given those are small enough. It won't generate an entire file for you but it can generate a substantial amount of boilerplate that is very useful for rote CRUD operations.

Regarding the ethical aspect, that's simply not something I think about. It's a tool like any other, it's like saying Stack Overflow is unethical because people copy and paste from it. Copilot is merely generating what you would've written anyway from looking at SO and documentation.
> the packages are large, and it isn't traumatic

> And it is hardly ever unexpected. Usually everybody knows almost for sure.

I've never been laid off, but those sound like the exact opposite of everything I've seen from being around layoffs after 25 years in the industry.
> Not much. 100 engineers should be enough to ensure the continuity of microblogging. You’ll have to give up on a lot of features, services, and internal departments, but it’s not going to make any difference for users.

How about departments like sales, marketing and legal? The users won't miss it, but I imagine the shareholders would. You can argue about the other two, but Twitter makes all of its money from selling ads and data. The big money there is in selling to big companies and enterprise sales don't scale like engineering does. You end up hiring a lot of people when you have job listings like "Account Manager, Indonesia".
I’m not sure what explanation you want, NULL is in essence “not a value”, which works more or less the same way “not a number” does. So yes if you perform operations between a NULL and a value you get a NULL, therefore when you sum or compare NULLs with or to other things you get NULL, which is then treated as false in a boolean context.

If the price of one item is UNKNOWN (which is what NULL represents in SQL) then it stands to reason that the sum is unknown, and it is unknown whether the sum is or is not smaller than 10000.

> But the end result has no conceptual integrity.

> Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?

> Extra challenge: explain why using COUNT instead of SUM in the query does correctly return orders with fewer than 4 items:

You don’t need to determine the values of the sequence to see that there are 4 of them, therefore count doesn’t care that some of the items are null.
CAN machines replace mathematicians?

They might be able to replace an average persons need to use algebra, as they have for me, but I suspect they're not gonna replace a prize winning mathematician unless they are AGI.
I tried to create an account on vmware.com a while back, I could not manage to get keepass to generate an acceptable password after many many attempts of including and excluding differenr characters. Must have spent 15min on it. Go ahead and give it a shot lol.
I wonder how much the child's sensory reward system leads to memories and associations. How can artificial neural networks ever "feel" good about anything, and use that to learn?

A child learns that petting a cat is better than hitting the cat. Petting feels better, and the cat will stick around for longer. But how does AI learn the same thing without any pleasurable sense the petting provides?

Also will we see robots throwing tantrums? Children learn this tactic early, and it works to achieve desired outcomes. Later they progress to crafty manipulation tactics, such as carefully executed tone when asking for treats etc.
Habitica is well known in this space.

https://habitica.com
Babies seem to have most of the major emotion expressions and smiling appears to be universal https://www.galvnews.com/health/free/article_c0d6e928-4122-5...
I see no issue shipping parts like this across the pacific. If it fits on a train, it sure can fit on a cargo.
> two objects moving in oppositive directions at 51% the speed of light

> combined their relative speed from each other is >c

We've got to be very precise with the language here. That's not accurate as stated, even though I know what you mean. The relative speed of one of these objects from the other one is not greater than c. You cannot directly add relativistic velocities without making adjustments for time dilation. Adding .51 + .51 to get 1.02 is not how the math works out.

If I am sitting in the middle, observing both objects, then I see the distance between them increasing at greater than the speed of light. But that concept should not be called "relative velocity" of one object with respect to the other. That's different.

No observer can witness an object receding at or above the speed of light. At that point the redshift would completely suppresses the information from arriving.
> Your claim doesn’t invalidate my claim.

Yes, it does. Ross Ulbricht is not a political prisoner, he is a run of the mill criminal prisoner. Sorry if that offends you.

> Too bad for Ross that he wasn’t smart enough

Too bad for Ross that he laughed in the face of the authorities, deliberately built a criminal trafficking organisation and profited from the trade of known illegal substances, while attempting to order hits on people. He's a scumbag.

This equivocation about the pharma industry is utterly laughable, the situation isn't in the slightest bit comparable.

> Start by freeing all political prisoners.

Which would leave Ross Ulbricht still in jail because he's not one of those.
Xiaomi violating GPL Licence by not releasing source code
In most US states, you do not need to give any notice to your employer when quitting. However not giving notice can burn a future bridge. Similar to how a poorly done layoff, (such-as coinbase) can prevent talented candidates from considering the company.
I used to give them data, conversation was much easier, repeating my comment[1]

I take data from previous feature requests that were completed and number of bugs reported/refactoring etc. to create a rough cost estimate for maintenance in terms of man hours with the understanding that this is not perfect and there could be +-10% variation and this is only an estimate for planning. It worked well for me, other org's were not able to argue with me as i just showed them the data. Estimates were surprisingly accurate(its anecdotal) but i did not saw estimates overshooting/undershooting the +-10% variation. Later on this was adopted by the whole organization. I left but my guess is they are still using the same methodology

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31106593
I would get in the habit of practicing talking about your experiences and your projects and your passions on a regular basis -- not just while job searching! Being able to speak confidently about yourself and your accomplishments will get you far in a lot of different ways, like presentations, generic social engagements, and even dating. But perhaps more importantly, it's a great way to sell yourself within your company. At 1:1s with your (new) boss, practice talking about your projects. Your goal is to sell yourself, to make your boss think you're all that and a bag of chips. (Hopefully, it's true!)

I know this doesn't help that much right now while you're looking for a job, but it really helps to practice all the time.

For a more practical solution: I go for a 30 minute walk every morning, and during that walk, I often talk aloud about whatever is on my mind. Very often, I'm practicing a pitch that I want to make to someone else, or a speech I want to give, or a witty, snarky comeback that I should have given when Bob insulted me in front of the cashier at Starbucks. I do it every day, and I've noticed that in my "real" life, I stutter less and I come across as more persuasive than I did years ago before I started doing this.

So to answer your last question: every day for at least 10-30 minutes :)
> BMI is the WORST indicator of body fat precisely because it does not account for muscle mass. BMI is only suitable for population level studies, it is not suitable for individual health decisions.

It works for the people who need it most.

Sure you might just be some 5% body-fat tren cycling bodybuilder with an "obese" BMI... but in reality for most people the higher up you go, the more urgent of an indicator it is that someone should lose weight for their health.
No no no, socialism is when the government does things! This is basic knowledge here...
How though? If you buy the car and either don't enable it or bypass it, they still made a sale. Everyone who pays for the feature is pure profit. There's no downside unless potential buyers opt for a Mercedes instead of a BMW. But once they are all doing it, the die is cast.
Is it just me or is there a sudden hype around writing?

There seems to be a whole bunch of popular courses and content around how you HAVE to write or you need to write to think.

Most of these articles seem to boil down to "writing gives you clarity of thought".

Why must it be only writing and not drawing or just going out and thinking?
This Kurzgesagt video is a much better explainer:

https://youtu.be/5iPH-br_eJQ

These directives are mostly common sense knowledge which anyone in modern world will know. No mention of iodine tablets for fallouts.

Besides if modern nuclear devices are detonated will they be a Hiroshima type? (Hint hint: No. Emphatic No).

The MIRVs of US are typically rated at 275KT going up to several megatons. Similar scale for Russia & China. Unless you're in reinforced bunkers with heavy steel doors, you are most likely toast. Incineration by the thermal blast is most likely outcome.
Communism can work if you can kick out bad actors. That’s why kibbutzim have historically worked. But for any sufficiently large system that’s not possible, which is why it failed to govern countries.
I am leaving to the Caparthian mountains to pursue building violins and to open a wedding destination so I can play them as much as possible. I am very close. I don't hate software but I really do miss the physical aspect of work so I think I found a way to "bridge the gap". It's also hard to really play after thinking all day.
https://julian.bearblog.dev/the-internet-from-rocks/
There isn't some global conspiracy to prop up nuclear.

There's no big nuclear. Big oil is a thing but nuclear is driven largely by people that are interested in science and technology. No one will profit more from nuclear success than the children of tomorrow.

The greatest minds of the 20th century were dedicated to figuring out the nature of our universe by looking into particle physics. It's easy to see why it's appealing as that was arguably the last great scientific leap we've undertaken in our understanding of the universe. It just so happens we can generate a shit ton of energy with particle physics.

There are lots of other 'green' organisations that go against nuclear that play into the hands of big oil and prevent a technology from displacing traditional carbon heavy energy generation.
I mean, I don't believe it's a cover.
From the perspective of a company why would you ever want to lay off ($) people when you can push them towards wanting to quit (no $).
You don't seem to factor in the glycemic index. If someone spreads such meals over the day, it keeps spiking blood sugar levels (potatoe meals have a high glycemic load) and realsing lots of insulin. That doesn't sound too efective for weightloss.
Back in 2014 when the source code was released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8326883
Journalism needs to be paid for. The open information you want is often unreliable, unverified and amateur. Yes, of course you can point to the vlogs of Sabine Hossenfelder, but she won't tell you about the problems with review sites or the tensions in German politics over Ukraine, nor tell you about the James Webb telescope in easy words, nor review the latest Marvel movie. You know who will tell you that for free? Breitbart (). And why? Because someone else pays them to push an agenda. Don't be their enabler.

() Breitbart is just one example. An ugly one, though.
That if enforcing the rules against a popular sports star would be unduly harsh, so would enforcing them against anyone else.

One man's modus ponens is another man's modus tollens, but clearly something isn't right about how these laws are applied at the moment.
Distribution of Earth's Mammals
I love this idea that the state is free of illegal elements. Maybe that sort of thinking is part of the problem.
Or unionized firms have a culture where employees are more empowered to report dangerous and defective products to regulators without fear of getting fired, and so are more likely to have product recalls than non unionized firms. See, I can draw unwarranted conclusions based on my own prejudices too.
That's because she weighs facts without prejudice, not that she ignores them entirely; which, is likely why she also has the scales. Or are you suggesting the message is truly "justice is completely blind?"

If a defendant has been convicted and then goes on to hold the court publicly in contempt gets a harsher sentence than someone who is truly reticent and has taken actions to attempt to restore their victims even before sentencing.. I don't see how justice has been unequally applied. The two defendants _are_ unequal. That's the point.
Um, Sandra Day O'Connor went to Stanford for undergrad and law school.

Also, this is a thread that's largely about undergrad, so I'm not sure Rayiner was talking about law school.

There are different rankings for law schools, and Yale has been considered the most prestigious for many years. I think SLS nabbed the top spot various times in the last decade, but Harvard is definitely not the uncontested leader in law schools.
Maybe they installed a whole lot of SSDs on the same day 4.5 years ago.
It has nothing to do with the quality of the undergrad degrees. Even most top tier programs suggest going somewhere else for grad school because each department has its own research culture and it is good to pick up on more than one
> But I felt something—I wanted to eat other foods, to jump onto a higher curve on the above graph. I don’t think this feeling has a good name, but it’s basically what you feel when you have trouble turning down that after-meal iced cream.

English doesn't have a specific names for this, but in Khmer there is a related word: "tralowahn".
It means the feeling of being full of whatever you are currently eating. Usually used to describe the feeling after eating creamy/buttery western food. Cambodian people use it all the time, and being aware of that feeling seems to go a long way to prevent overeating.
My 9 years old son passed it very easily, with no prior knowledge of police things, although he watched the first season of Paw Patrol.
Layoffs are not necessarily your own fault, after all steve jobs was laied off by his company ever.
Outside of the biggest multi-national companies or banks/Fintech/oil, 90k is really hard to get past in NL.
We don't have a "failed welfare system". Welfare works. The only "failure" here is our failure to keep adequately funding it.
Ahhh, thanks. I must have read it wrong and kinda was wondering why a long description for basic wood splitting. I think you're right, they're splitting an entire tree lengthwise. I've never attempted such a thing, so have no idea what would work best. I'd probably start it with an axe, then try to finish with a maul, but that's a complete guess.

But it's just pedantry anyhow, as many people in the US use 'axe' to mean everything from hatchets to mauls to fireman's axes. I do wish people would use the correct terms in general, as it causes a ton of consumer confusion. There's a really light felling axe I like, and every bad review is a broken handle trying to split giant pieces of wood.
The blog post’s path was edited:

- Old: https://julian.bearblog.dev/the-internet-from-rocks-a-high-l...

- New: https://julian.bearblog.dev/the-internet-from-rocks/

They should have also set up a redirect. Cool URIs don’t change.