skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've made fairly concise statements about recourse in the moderation on HN.

I've posted a concise question regarding the guidelines set by the venue.

You have waxxed on... arrogance, newcomer, waltz-in, whine, weakness, beneath them...

So, sure. I'm the problem

Edit:
Oh God, you're from FB security...
Climate change is real and has changed the temporal distribution of rainfall, often increasing the interval between rainfalls, while also increasing the amount that falls, during rainy periods.

Longer durations of 'no rain' cause the ground harden to a much less porous, concrete-like surface that cannot absorb the rain, when it does come, fast enough. So the water pools and flows, causing flood conditions.
The same thing every government does: pocketing it or spending it in whatever they think will give them the most votes or influence.
also https://github.com/claytonotey/libsbsms
You can pry my lifetime Malwarebytes license from my cold dead hands, can’t even purchase this as an option anymore.
Based on the articles linked from the organization’s press releases page, and it does seem like this lawsuit is in service of furthering misinformation about covid.

https://nclalegal.org/2022/06/unchecked-by-courts-government...
This is pretty hard to follow.

There are no concrete details in the press release. All the direct quotes in the press release are from the lawyers filing suit essentially saying, "the government is behaving so badly!" And then the linked court filing[0] is 700 pages long, so quite a task to parse through it.

It's a shame the NCLA couldn't summarize their key points more effectively.

[0] https://nclalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Joint-State...
They are fairly easy and cheap to construct, plenty of guides for rocket stoves, and rocket mass heaters.

Want to heat an entire garage 24h with a hand full of twigs? An ordinary oven can't cope.
Perhaps AI will turn out to be jealous of us having beautiful, physical bodies.
100,000s of people in South Korea live in tiny underground apartments [video]
Given how many successful SaaS products are out there it seems like even non-PWA web apps are sufficient to cover a great many needs (a few examples: Google Docs, Figma, Elementor, Airtable, etc.).
permacultures are some super carbon sinks, anti-erosion systems, absorption systems and organic food producers, each one is just a grain of sand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox), but many grains do the job along with lifestyle changes
Not directly, though I can't guess at indirect effects. If 100% of the water from that landed in the flooded area of Pakistan, it would've only added 2.6 mm:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=146%20million%20cubic%2...
Professional AI Whispers Have Launched a Marketplace for DALL-E Prompts
Funding background for this organization:
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-new-civil-libe...
The phrase is the result of a slippery slope on the definition of "terrorism", which once referred to guerrilla groups driven by a religious or political ideology, to violent individuals lacking any ideology at all.

But the slippery slope I had in mind, however, was that once Cloudflare submits to the pressure of Keffals against this odious site, that precedent will be set, and then another pressure group will emerge targeting a slightly less odious site, etc.
A 5-year-old is a bit young, but I wouldn’t be opposed to the idea.

You really can’t do much with just the watch. It gives a way for the patent to track them, and a way to communicate in both emergency and non-emergency situations.

They’re rather expensive and fragile for that purpose, but they’re often on sale through cellular providers as part of a bundle. That’s how my 14-year-old got hers. It’s the $300 version, and was free after rebate when I bought mine, as long as I pay the $5/month for the service. That’s cheaper than a basic GPS tracker, which is what she was asking for. I’m not totally comfortable with her being tracked, but it was her idea; I made sure she knew how to turn it off and made sure we were clear that she wouldn’t be in trouble or even under suspicion if she did. She usually keeps the GPS function off unless she’s at an event or something. That feels like a good compromise.

If nothing else, its high relative value could help teach a younger child responsibility. That’s very dependent on the child, though.
I use the m1 air for web development and the 16:10 aspect ratio combined with the retina screen and the gestures to easily swipe between full screen applications makes it feel less cramped than the 14 inch 1080p thinkpad it replaced. I never feel the need to hook it up to external displays. Of course, YMMV.
How are you going to design database schemas if you don't know Postgres? Controllers and models if you don't know Rails? Components if you don't know React? I don't think design and usage are such separate skillsets.

Put another way, wouldn't you want the Postgres expert to design your Postgres schemas? Or the Rails expert to lay out your Rails application?
I suppose this is racism the same way SNAP is classism.

"WhY cAn'T i GeT fReE fOoD???? This is class discrimination!"

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US gov will just ban Alibaba for nationalistic reasons before that happens. Besides, all the crap you buy from Amazon is coming from China already, and a good chunk of it is just straight off Alibaba.
A sad day for PostgreSQL 15
Andrew Huberman on the Insane Power of Your Expectations [video]
Can you tell me any progressive (or merely non-right-wing) causes the organization has supported? Because it certainly looks highly partisan to me. I’d hope that any organization concerned with civil liberties would make the effort to act in a bipartisan, politically neutral way.
As much as your ideas would work, I don't want to live in the world that you are envisioning in your brain.
Net result is there's not enough trains for everybody so 3-hour delays are not rare. RENFE warned Government free tickets for everybody on short notice was simply not doable. They didn't listen. News will not report this, of course, they would lose their subsidies.

https://twitter.com/acomajuncosas78/status/15654058221207633...
Finding them is surprisingly relaxing, and satisfying when you find a big one. The different distributions on beaches is really interesting, it varies so much both within and between beaches even right next to each other.
> Does Glassdoor verify employees?

> At Glassdoor, we aim to verify as much of our data as possible. Considering the reality of our digital age, however, we're unable to fully confirm our users' identities, the truthfulness of their contributions, or their employment status.

> Through our Terms of Use, we do require users to certify their employee relationships to companies when posting any content. We also require email verification from a permanent, active email address, or a valid social networking account.

https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/Does-Glassdoor-verify-e...

So, they don't. But if you do require verification, using an employee email address is probably the only realistic option.
Somehow I doubt that temporarily subsidizing transit is going to have a big effect on inflation, nor is it going to have a noticeable crowding-out effect.

Also this particular spending is subsidized with a tax. This is income redistribution, not printing money.
Using machine learning to identify undiagnosable cancers
The modern QEMU is magic, but I find the original QEMU even more magical: It did not contain any assembly, and was easily portable to new architectures while still providing (relatively) decent performance -- the new TCG backend delivers much beter performance, at the cost of requiring more porting work for new host architectures.

The original QEMU had an implementation of the required machine ops in C, but instead of calling those ops, it memcpy()d their implementation, thus enabling binary translation without interpreter overhead -- basically using the underlying "gcc" as a code-generator at runtime without including it. Pure elegance and/or madness.

And it worked very well.
> then returning to work but just working 4 days a week for a while (and not very long hours).

Kinda depends on the structure of your job and whether you're able to shift a proportional amount of work to other people.

When I've worked 4-day weeks, people have 'helpfully' rescheduled all the meetings from that day over to days when I'm working, giving me just as much work to do but less time to do it.
Not sure about Glassdoor, but I know Blind requires you to verify that you work for a company by receiving a verification code through your employer email account:

https://www.teamblind.com/faqs
Which fountain pens do you recommend?
Building a WebAssembly Language: Code Generation
This 100%.

You’re not indispensable. Your team will be fine if you come up with a plan. Your manage should step up to fill the gap.

Go spend time with you family.
China tech hub Shenzhen closes off parts of city for 2 days
First determine whether that should be done at all before investigating how others may do it.

The only thing I’ve seen on this is an email address “at the company”, but that isn’t really verifying anything and certainly creates potential for “outing” the employee’s interest in whatever you’re doing.
A few points I'm skeptical of:

simply connect to the seller’s infra instead of locking them in.

One of the value-adds of Amazon is there's a whole bunch of tech sellers don't need to know how to write, run, and maintain. You'd need to understand how big the niche "technically literate to run their own e-commerce business, but selling on Amazon for other reasons" is, then how your operation would answer those "other reasons" to make you competitive to the niche.

If, for some reason, the seller is removed from the marketplace, their software stays with them and they can continue accepting orders directly.

Apart from the software systems, there's a whole bunch of basic business processes that Amazon takes care of, which are less portable. Using FBA? Leaving means learning how to run a warehouse, shipping logistics, pricing, staffing, etc. Not using FBA? How's your Marketing department doing? Hopefully you didn't let it get too anemic or too fitted to "people who are good at gaming Amazon's algorithm."

In short, if your value add is: "Amazon, but you get to take the tech home with you if you leave the platform," then that feels like a small niche of highly competent businesses, then you're stuck with "well if they could do all this on their own anyway, why are they choosing Amazon?"

Hope that helps and wasn't just me blabbering. Good luck!
Yes because scientific names use a dead language and as such has no connotation baggage attached to words.
To a certain extent I agree with you. But when the game doesn't even fit in the RAM of a development system (4mb), never mind the 2mb of a real Playstation, or movement is 5 frames a second rather than 30/60 it's still very hard to get gameplay aspects right. And when the graphics engine, level editors, etc. don't even exist yet, you're not making any game!

In the 10 years I was in the industry (pre the era of off the shelf engines) I never saw a single title in a playable state until the last 6 months of the project, and sometimes later. My era was PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, original Xbox, Gamecube. I left as the PS3 was in its pre-release period.

I think for most games the dynamics are quite well known, and so it's less problematic if it's started later. But, in this case none of the dynamics of the game were worked out at any point, so it was doomed to fail.

On Lunatik I wasn't responsible for the game dynamics, I had one job: make the engine, and make it as fast as humanly possible so that the game and level designers can make a decent game. So, it's not either or, but it does take time to have the initial version that the team can work with (my C reference engine mentioned before).

One final point is that it's less about early optimisation and more about poor management, short timescales, and the balance of cash given to a team when signing with a publisher. When the money runs out, then you're in the lap of the publisher gods - it can go either way for many different reasons, some of which might have nothing to do with the game.

I suspect it's more professional now (and with better tooling), back then it was still pretty much a cottage industry: quite a large cottage industry, sure, but still pretty amateurish in terms of project management and planning. There wasn't a title I worked on that didn't overrun.
Update: Hey, after reading the rules, I don't believe I've written anything egregiously violating, except maybe push back on some opinions, which were themselves based in ideology. I don't flame without any reason, I just respond when I feel strongly that something that posted is wrong on some level. And I don't press anything either, just express an opposing point of view to some statement that obviously needs it. Thanks for the warning though, all the best!
http://archive.today/wAhwp
Flagging because the original article is completely content-free grandstanding.
> Are you not worried about running into legal trouble with these things? It seems like a gray area.

No, not really. I get the occasional nastygram from Hogan Lovells, but just shrug them off. I don’t do anything interesting enough for them to bother litigating.

> Also, what platform do you use to sell these things?

There are many, swapd.co is a good one.

> Or how do they know you won’t take payment and refuse to hand over the credentials?

Reputation, there are also a plenty of reputable escrow services available.
The reality is there is a great deal of overlap of races and socioeconomic status. High crime areas for instance tend to be not white.

I've been involved in a business that was sued for discrimination simply because the target market was low income. Which happened to mean the majority of customers were not white even though we didn't track any customer demographics. They won the suit based simply on that fact. Literally zero proof of any bias occurring. They couldn't even come up with how the business were exploiting them and what the benefit was to the company. Simply that there were a disproportionate amount of customers that are not white is good enough.

The DA(district attorney) kept asking for our racial data and would never accept that we didn't have any. I had to sign so many things saying that I was indeed providing all the data we had and that in fact we did not keep racial data on customers.
I've been following your MPS branch and have run it but couldn't address the issue without this explanation. Thank you!
The U.S. ‘warming hole’–a climate anomaly explained
They are a "right-wing" litigation group. But if you think everything "right-wing" is wrong (their stance on fossil fuels, gay rights, abortion is not my cup of tea), you need to step out of the echo chamber. "left-wing" is also wrong from my point of view on many things: starting with equity and positive discrimination.
Price. You can multiplex as much as you want. See the undersea internet connections.
I'll answer that with an examiner's question:

Please provide a T-F truth table to show that the proposition is false.

Clue: you already have the answer and Sun Tzu has provided three-quarters of it

:-)
> Its about SO much more than how open the backend software is.

Wrong. I own a small shop in Vermont and I love recompiling my shop software every morning to get customers. I tweak a couple of things - - yesterday I lowered tcp_orphan_retries - - and, boom, more customers!
Yeah just imagine if a billion people completely changed their way of life.
"How Snowflake Fails"
GPU Engines Are So Strategic China Will Have to Use Its Own
I think it's a political problem, not a technical problem. If we can imagine that our best climate models could drive decision making to enable geoengineering... why don't our best climate models drive earlier interventions?
These guys cover it, and despite the cheesy Youtube thumbnail, cover it with reasonable nuance:

https://www.heatgeek.com/should-your-heating-be-left-on-all-...

> heat loss is not the same as fuel consumption.

> That is to say, if a property lost 40kW/h of heat through its walls throughout a 24 hour period, that typically doesn't mean you have used 40kW/h of gas from your boiler or 40kW/h of electricity from your heat pump.

> If the boiler has consistently run at 85% efficiency you will use 47kW/h of gas. If you can get 93% efficiency from that same appliance you will only use 43kWh gas.

> And therein lies the problem. Many arguments for turning the heating off are talking about saving heat loss, not saving primary fuel usage. The difference between the two relies heavily on the first variable we need to ask ourselves, what is our heat source?
The first amendment has judicial precedent for not yelling “fire” in a crowded theater. Most vaccines require mass public uptake in order to work.
What a horrible viewpoint to have. Unionization is one of the best things happening (albeit slowly) in these sorts of industries right now. How can you not be for it? Amazon working conditions are terrible and turnover is so bad that Amazon is rapidly running out of people who haven't already tried working at Amazon and decided it's horrible. If working conditions and pay improves, we will all reap the economic benefits -- more capital in the hands of consumers, probably less broken or mismatched packages because workers will have a more reasonable workload and more incentive to do a good job, better outcomes for the majority of the population, etc, etc,. Bear in mind more than one in 10 people works in some capacity for Amazon in the U.S.. That's a huge economic sector if their pay and working conditions improve.

Your argument that AliBaba can somehow come into the U.S. and not be subjected to the same economic and cultural effects mystifies me. If AliBaba came here they would experience unionization, and it would be a good thing. Also given the extent of Amazon's monopoly in the U.S., and anti-china AND anti-middle-east sentiment in the U.S. being as high as it is (AliBaba cannotes "arab" for a lot of americans), there is just no way AliBaba could ever enter this market successfully unless Amazon was broken up into multiple companies and AliBaba rebranded to something appropriate for the U.S. market. So yeah, your comment is really bizzare.
Correlation is not causation. Manhattan has many thins because thins are more likely to make more money and get better jobs in high-standard-of-living areas due to commanding more respect. (Which they mostly do not deserve, being mainly the beneficiaries of good genes, but I digress) Also, most people move out to the ‘burbs to raise kids, so Manhattan is strongly weighted towards the under-40 set.

> any other country

OK let’s pick Germany. (I’m German.) Most Germans are thin because they don’t eat many carbs at all. Orange juice is expensive and piss-poor compared to sugary American OJ. Breakfast typically consists of unleavened-style breads, mustard, and meats. Gas is super expensive so everybody walks or bikes. But guess what? Obesity is steadily rising there too! Gosh, I wonder why, with all that walking and biking? Wait, I know… They just need MORE walking and biking, that must be it!
> I’d hope that any organization concerned with civil liberties would make the effort to act in a bipartisan, politically neutral way.

Funny, because you could say the same about the ACLU, but swap progressive/conservative.
Blind forces you to sign up with a work email address (matching domain name) and verifies the address. I'm not sure Glassdoor does any verification.

If you really need to verify that the user is an employee, validating an email address at the proper domain seems to be the best option, IMO. If you don't want the privacy implications of storing the address, just don't keep it around (make sure your logs don't have it either).
Prokrastination: Tipps um die ewige Aufschieberei für immer zu besiegen
Doesn’t sound like a great life choice, but rather a symptom of terrible work/life balance.

I also worked at a startup before where the CEO and her husband were both working there, and it led to a terrible dynamic.
If you're new to fountain pens, you can't go wrong with a Lamy Safari.

https://www.lamy.com/en/lamy-safari/
This; and they have a legion of well educated MLEs in China working for much less in a cut throat competitive environment
I'm in USA and would love to apply for a engineering role, but looks like all the positions are outside of USA. Are they open to hiring anyone from USA? Thanks for any information.
For Clojure coders: a lib for quadratic programming
Small lib wrapping java api of optimization software from FICO
For those wondering, this is not a final decision.

The case will now go to the NLRB board, and then the courts of appeal. The local administrative law judge (in-house NLRB court) is only the first stage.

I would not expect the NLRB to rule for Amazon at the board level, either. The first chance of a friendly court will be at the circuit level.
States where marijuana is legal have lower incidence of opioid use.
It's not "ignoring your job" when you take advantage of a policy set by your company (mat/pat leave). Give plenty of notice and work with your team as best as you can to help with the transition.
Any link to read about this 0.5 - 30 inch/hr conversion? Cultivated soil or already wetted soil will absorb much more readily than not, was this a carefully controlled experiment? Anyway it would take some serious modelling not handwavy yes or no as to whether permaculture/regenerative techniques (and a well defined definition of success of mitigation) could work. I absolutely admit that it could help on the margins, but would it have really have changed the image featured in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32692060 ? Is the supposition that this water would find its way to some aquifer?
Browsers used to be. They used to let the user apply their own CSS sheets to websites, and some extensions still allow tem to manipulate pages ("user scripts").

Web technologies were designed to let the user do what they want with the document they receive. But "the web" then evolved in a different direction.

Case in point: TFA, like many other sites, is unusable without Javascript. And it's not even "because CDN". Why do I have to execute code on a page that could be 1:1 replicated in pure HTML ?
Reminder that population is Pakistan's population 6x it was at 1950. In 2050 its expected to be 370 million people compared to 37 million in 1950. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Pakistan
> I believe this is one of the largest challenges when trying to make effective changes in the system to address climate change: those whose actions can create the largest changes are not the ones who have to bear the burden first or directly.

You mean the corporations and companies that continue to produce emissions on a massive scale while trying to constantly shame me and tell me what a bad person I am for having the audacity to drive to the grocery story once a week or so?
That's an aspect, but the thing I find the most maddening is that people cast doubt on the science by saying that the effects of changing the mixture of gasses in our atmosphere are ultimately not completely knowable. That's obviously true, but to me that's all the more reason why we probably should avoid doing it as much as possible.
Will there be low wages with huge bonuses for the CEOs while the workers have to struggle to pay rent? Young people know the future is not bright, and I encourage them to enjoy their lives while they still can.
Cannabis products are a pharmaceutical. You're putting drugs in your body, just a different one.
My Contribution to Markdown
“Weaponized” custom lego made using nail clippers:

https://ibb.co/2SK2Q4x