skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in web, and one guy did this for two modules in a non-critical server, just TWO before I flat out told him to stop. "What does X mean" was a common question across people who had actually seen the code before and forgotten, and it was absolutely the first question someone trying to learn the codebase asked. It was a frustrating and silly practice that added to cognitive load and corroded faith in the authors decision-making.

In a team ecosystem where you probably need to optimize for readability and ease of use, try to be simple and accurate and get used to refactoring. Making up random shit is the worst advice I can think of.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature
I bought Factorio about a year ago, but I still haven't played it because I'm afraid to. I nearly flunked out of college the first time around because of Minecraft addiction, who the hell knows what would happen with Factorio?
This includes anyone afraid of having their DNA in a database for whatever reasons. Reading some of the HN posts about 23andMe and such, this includes a lot of people.

You do not need to be a criminal, you only need to be afraid that DNA will be misused in the future.

Political dissident, activists and whistle-blowers come to mind.
You smuggled in two assumptions:

- That forcing people to take a drug authorized under EUA with a relatively novel technology is a "basic safety measure"

- That people who didn't comply with this "basic" measure are not breathing virus particles all over you

I'll leave it to you to decide how good these assumptions are.
Go check out crop yields of your favorite crop for the past 20,30,50,100 years. Plant breeding and biotech have done _alot_ to reduce hunger and keep food prices low. Previous generations may have breed crops for pure survival reasons (they needed the best genetics to propagate themselves to ensure a plentiful harvest next year).

I enjoy the debate around plant breeding, and there are issues with IP and how that IP is protected/enforced/interpreted. No different than many other industries. It would be difficult to adequately argue that IP in the ag sector has been not been net beneficial for most players (companies, consumers, farmers, etc.).
I'm doing this too and it has been great for me in general.

I looked at my fb friends and thought to myself which people I really liked and would like to reconnect with. I messaged "facebook friends" I have not talked to in a while and told them it may seem weird but I really would like to reconnect. I have never done anything like this, as I am extremely prone to losing touch with people.

I ended up reconnecting with a few people in real life and it has been great. I also plan on sending cards and stuff.
The part about germany is obviously not true. If you look at the electricity generation via gas, the share has not grown meaningfully since 2005.

The state has not started large campaigns in other areas compared to electricity to phase out other fuels.
I don't think it's an elitest HN sentiment. Redditors commonly lambast the quality of discussion on Reddit.
That's not the definition of obscene. Obscenity, including in the UK law, is largely about sex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity#United_Kingdom
Couldn't we make a floppy disk sized and shaped thing, which can store much data than the usual floppy disk? Then one would have the same feel.
Coffee in NYC has gone up by a significant amount, both at places like Starbucks and canned coffee that you can buy at CVS or the grocery store. I know this because I buy it everyday, and have been for several years.
Don’t try to emulate entrepreneurs; they are sociopaths.
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Of course opinion != propaganda. What is propaganda is a CCP bot network on Twitter.

I'm ending this convo here. It's become a tedious debate about semantics and nothing productive is being achieved.
Why was an Instagram post shared instead of the blog post on patreon?
In terms of how it’s supposed to be structured the military is heavily centralized but that model has broken down considerably as the US has had to face far more dynamic adversaries than before. It’s a popular perception but most groups in the military branches operate a lot closer to Silicon Valley in many respects than people give them credit for.
He's taking responsibility for over-hiring relative to the needs of his business, and taking corrective action for the long term health and viability of the business. This is the right thing to do. Yes, it sucks for the people who lose their jobs, but unfortunately some risk is always involved in an employment arrangement. It would be far more unfortunate if Patreon overspent to the point that their business had to close, as that would affect their entire userbase and entire employee base.
Yes, Facebook seems to be determined to get rid of as many users as possible by eliminating their core functionality.
Just because Photoshop has this burden of counterfeit deterence doesn't mean other photo manipulation software suffers the same problem. So, since this is a bullshit feature that prevents work from occuring use other software. Now that other software is being used, use something with an AI underpinning to do things like blur people's faces or their shirts or the whatever your AI has been trained to do.
TIL, thanks!

Very interesting but complicated expensive, and limited to very specific cases.

"Still, neither she nor Dr. Green thinks the technique is likely to be widely embraced any time soon. Forensic labs are not set up to implement it and it’s expensive. Each hair costs several thousand dollars to sequence, and that’s before hiring a genetic genealogist to try to identify its source."
The difference between freelancing and employment is spurious to begin with and is really only differentiated to make collecting taxes easier for the government. Which also means that the government is known to reclassify freelance agreements into employment agreements to suit their favour. 50/50 might be closer to the norm if buyers and sellers had more freedom to choose.
Good question. I don't pay much attention to who posts links. To the extent that I "know" certain usernames, it's based on their comments, not their submissions.
It doesn't matter. Nobody is going to have a rape kit done and then not sign a consent form to give it to the police. Giving it to the police is the entire point.
https://blog.patreon.com/a-note-from-jack
I wonder if you can really forecast without taking into account the lack of availability of resources like copper, because historically it was never a problem, copper and other minerals were just there, but there are only so much of them and in a few places. Even then refining many of these minerals is a dirty business in itself.
Not a trick... an observation. Spengler put it better than I ever could in "The Decline of the West":

If by "democracy" we mean the form which the Third Estate as such wishes to impart to public life as a whole, it must be concluded that democracy and plutocracy are the same thing under the two aspects of wish and actuality, theory and practice, knowing and doing. It is the tragic comedy of the world‑improvers' and freedom‑teachers' desperate fight against money that they are ipso facto assisting money to be effective. Respect for the big number—expressed in the principles of equality for all, natural rights, and universal suffrage—is just as much a class‑ideal of the unclassed as freedom of public opinion (and more particularly freedom of the press) is so. These are ideals, but in actuality the freedom of public opinion involves the preparation of public opinion, which costs money; and the freedom of the press brings with it the question of possession of the press, which again is a matter of money; and with the franchise comes electioneering, in which he who pays the piper calls the tune. The representatives of the ideas look at one side only, while the representatives of money operate with the other. The concepts of Liberalism and Socialism are set in effective motion only by money. … the Jacobins had destroyed the old obligations of the blood and so had emancipated money; now it stepped forward as lord of the land. There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, in the directions indicated by money, and for the time being permitted by money—and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact. The great movement which makes use of the catchwords of Marx has not delivered the entrepreneur into the power of the worker, but both into that of the Bourse.
Even worse, it's been clear in several hearings that Musk's lawyers have squandered their credibility with McCormick--Musk has not generally been victorious in the discovery fights, and McCormick seems to be of the opinion that Musk is trying hard to screw Twitter in discovery (e.g., refusing to give relevant communications).

Most of the legal professionals I've seen comment on the case so far are of the opinion that Musk is likely to lose this case in chancery court, and see few ways that Musk could evade a ruling of specific performance should he lose.
> But that doesn't make it a job. You could do hard work in moving a mountain but that's not a job.

If people are willingly paying you to do something, that's a good job as any other job.
The article even mentions Visual COBOL which is a COBOL compiler to the .NET CLR so you can mix C# and COBOL in the same applications. You can look at the .NET IL disassembly with tools like ILSpy and even get a sense of what the equivalent C# code would look like (and my understanding is that it mostly looks like garbage and nothing like what a good C# library would look like).

One perspective on COBOL and why it is such a "write only" language is that it's barely a stone's throw from an Assembly Language with a verbose BASIC-like phrasing. (Well, historically BASIC derives from lessons learned from COBOL rather than the other way around, but from a modern perspective you get the gist.) Every single line has the readability of English, sort of, with that BASIC-like face. Every single line has just about the simplicity of your average basic processor op-codes, just like assembly. To do anything reasonably complex you need lots of lines building up layers of complexity from the simple instructions, just like assembly. Trying to figure out the high level control flow and analyze the overall logic, just like in any disassembly effort, becomes a mind's eye puzzle because there's few ways to visualize the abstractions in the code because the code is at too low of a level for good abstractions. There's no functions and classes, just lots and lots of little instructions. Endless instructions.
> I'm sure there are commercial (not even paid necessarily) apps that do all this, but this one is used only by us and it's built to perfectly interact with our lives

There is another factor you may not be aware of: shopping apps are juicy targets for acquisition by marketing/data mining company. I mean, there is no clearer indication of what you want to buy than what you put in your shopping list, so it's perfect source of data to mine.

Out of milk is such an example: it was a good app with 5 million users, then it got sold. Users became the subjects of data mining, or their account got deleted (if in Europe). Fun!

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/inmarket-acquires-o...

https://twitter.com/JamesLiamCook/status/1407370148349198341
Out of curiousity, what do you mean by "strong typing" in the context of natural language? Sorry if the answer is obvious to those who know a bit about ML and language models
There is no ethical dilemma here. No DNA evidence collected from a victim to prosecute a sexual assault crime should ever be used to criminally prosecute that victim. To even suggest otherwise undermines the overall goals of our criminal justice system because it erodes confidence in the system overall and specifically for victims. A shoplifter (or arsonist or murderer or warrant dodger) that gets raped is not less of a rape victim, and the fear of being caught for the former should not scare them away from helping catch someone who did the latter. Your past sins should have no bearing on your access to justice.
Perhaps there are multiple groups searching with the same terms, but expecting completely different results. Google takes its best guess at which group you're in. To get better at that they have to gather more info about you personally. I'd prefer to change my search query than give lots of extra personal data to Google.
If the average person's feed has less engagement from their friends, then they are probably less likely to post.

There's probably a threshold where this problem starts feeding itself, and a threshold where it stops.
I'm not sure about the "HN way." This site has more "How can I freelance?" posts than useful freelancing advice.

For a long time I used a Google Sheets template for tracking work and generating invoices. Print to PDF, email, done. Every client will have their own requirements for reporting your progress and work results, and for invoicing/payment. You will have to conform to their system: send invoices they can process through their receivables system, and accept payment however they can do it. That will mean EFT, wire transfer, PayPal, Square Cash, even paper checks (in the US). You don't want to spend a lot of non-billable time or create friction so stay flexible. Remember your goal: get paid fast. Don't try to train your clients to use your system or pay you in a way that makes you an exception at their end. As "How do you normally receive invoices and pay your other vendors?" and do that.

Likewise every client will have their own mode of communicating. Mine mostly use email, Slack, phone calls, in that order. Some will want you to join their Jira, Basecamp, whatever. Just like with billing and payment, when it comes to communication you want to reduce friction with the client and keep your non-billable time to a minimum. Don't try to force your clients to use your preferred system, file tickets, or impose lots of process on them. If you don't keep communication simple and responsive to the client's needs they will find someone who will.

In 2014 I outsourced the marketing, legal/contracts, and invoicing/billing to an agency. They take 15% of gross but negotiate better rates to make up for it, and keep more of my time billable. You might want to look into that. In business terms that's called "focusing on your core competencies."

Mainly you want to focus your time on billable work and maintaining/enhancing the relationships with your clients. I generally prefer long-term clients who trust me and find me easy to work with. Those clients will refer business to you and give you good word-of-mouth marketing. Part of maintaining a good relationship comes from eliminating friction and potential sources of conflict with the client. Dictating the terms of the relationship to the client and remaining inflexible won't work out long-term.

As for organizing all of the information for a project or client relationship, you will probably need, at minimum, a password manager, ability to search email and Slack threads, and a filing system. I create a folder in Google drive for every client and project and put relevant documents, notes, emails, etc. in there. Google can search the contents of files for me. Sometimes the client has their own system I have to use, but usually they don't and I have to bring some order to their setup.
I have a ML/Data Science background. It's hard to collect data on because doctors are bad at diagnosing and are highly inconsistent. Additionally there is political pressure to skew the data as well as social pressure to suppress data. We know because many people have gotten sick from the mRNA covid vaccine, myself included. In these groups there are sensible people who will tell you privately and with no ulterior motives that they can trace down the onset of symptoms to shortly after the vaccine. It's strongly and reasonably suspected to do with the spike protein and the ACE-2 AAbs created by the immune system in response. This protein is the same in mRNA viruses as in the covid virus. We know EBV is a trigger again due to timing of onset of symptoms, most people are doomed to catch it but usually only catch it once. It's not like MS where there is a long delay before onset of symptoms that would muddy the waters. There is plenty of literature around this point.
http://www.jamessawyer.co.uk/pub/08_29_2022_Economic_Indicat...

I published this, Shows the UK Gas reserves. It's not looking good for winter!
That would be the low risk strategy. Just run it as a cash cow value business and extract as much profit as possible until it dies.

However, Mark Zuckerberg has chosen to bet the company on AR/VR and is investing $10B into that area. If they get it wrong then he'll look like an idiot. If they get it right by building the next major platform for humans to communicate then he'll look like a visionary genius. We won't know which for at least 10 years.
Or touch them at all. People say "I always wear N95 for maximum effect"

But then they were the same mask for a week and play with it/adjust it 100 times a day.
Are you Captain Sully? :)
I suspect its because of the way that COBRA works: COBRA would start for them on October 1st (their active employee insurance would cover them until Sep 30), so they are getting three months. I have never seen a health insurance that supported two week increments, so you couldn't do the 'two weeks for tenure' thing. You could, in theory offer an extra month per year beyond the first, but that's a lot of extra work and expense to go into, offering it, for something that I suspect will have very little pick-up. My guess is most everyone who is laid off today will have a job which will offer insurance by Jan 1st.
Bitcoin slumps 7% on high inflation report
Technically they can do it legally. Few years back in Kansas City (iirc), some guy was basically prank calling the police on a gamer, but got the wrong house, police just knocked on the door. No weapon. Killed some the dad, and walked. No repercussions at all for the police. The prank caller got like 5-10 I think, as he should. But there's something wrong when somebody dies by cop and they are unarmed and don't serve time.
Interesting. I haven't had to enter new data for any subscription service when a cc expires for years now. Somehow the new info gets relayed to the service without my input.
For some topics, you can go through the years and see dramatically different articles on the same topic that have been entirely overhauled, sometimes removing sources and detail to mask nuance unfortunately. The incentives are high to influence what is written for certain articles on there when everyone and their mother says "just check on wikipedia" these days for the source of truth on anything they don't have expertise with. How could they not be?
Not being in the know, what are the serious competitors to Patreon? Utreon? Buy Me a Coffee? Youtube itself?
I cannot imagine thrust initiated in the last tens of milliseconds being able to ramp up and operate sufficiently to cause meaningful deceleration, and also cannot see how this could do more than "round off" the deceleration curve (lower the spike of force/stress).

I take your word for it, I just... can't imagine. That's a failure I guess of imagination and reasoning by analogy instead of looking at the math. It sounds like trading being punched with impact for being punched by 10ms of thrust then a slightly softer punch of impact!
That's the choice of the person who posted the Instagram post at HN instead of the actual blog post that was posted before the Instagram post, obviously.
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I agree with you in principle, but we now have the benefit of foresight.

Imagine Patreon's position during early covid: they had a firehose of money pointed at them. I'm sure they knew it will end, but not "when". They had to react to it, if for no other reason than to prevent a competitor from getting ahead.
The "modern flexible HyperCard" would be something like Swift Playgrounds today. SwiftUI might have all sorts of problems for building large apps or getting very specific with UI design, but it absolutely excels for building "informal apps".

Only problem is that there's no iOS version. :/
Calling patriotism ridiculous is insulting to Trump supporters. Doesn't mean we don't have the right to express that opinion.
> Surprising your manager unpleasantly never leads to good outcomes for you...

Not quite 'my' manager directly, but a client's PM. They had a ... PM/PO type person who was quite insistent that we had to have feature X by date Y. Slightly aggressive, but... sure. Between that insistence (over weeks) and the date Y... that person left and a new person started.

4 days before a walk through (where new items were demonstrated to stakeholders, and company owners), I sent the completed functionality over to the new PM (he'd been there a few weeks, but obviously still... new). "looks good" he replied. I checked that he'd at least watched the video I'd sent over.

Demo happens and I show the functionality, with the "this is vital to have" from the previous PM. Silence. Then "we didn't know that was being worked on". Behind the scenes I was somewhat thrown under the bus, even though I had jira tickets, paper trail, video evidence and assorted other info. "Lowercased is ... subverting the process" and I made a whole team look bad. Even though... they all had signed off on what I was delivering. But behind the scenes, new PM had told people "feature X won't happen" (i have no idea why that was said) but apparently I made a lot of people look bad, because I'd delivered something they said wasn't going to happen.

So so so weird...
> Nobody looks like they are going to lose their livelihood over this

We don’t know everyone’s unique situation, even if they did go beyond what most companies do.
Well, since then various factions that emerged have only come to hate each other more, a prominent "middle ground" member of the community disappeared after accusations that he was a sexual abuser, and the ecosystem seems to have firmly split between Zio and Cats, so I wouldn't exactly say things have gotten better.
Pulling offers is always considered a _very_ bad look. I would be extremely surprised if Google did such a thing given the optics, but it wouldn't be the first time Google has surprised me with it's stupidity.
You probably got removed from the list because it cost someone a stamp to mail you the letter. These days if you respond to anything, that just puts you on the 'real person' list that gets distributed to all the spammers. Email and robocalls are essentially free so there is no incentive to take dead ends off the lists anymore.
Except Search volume and MAUs are still growing like a weed, whereas FB's growth has slowed dramatically.

Search is not perfect, for sure. It has different problems.
Some samples (Midwest suburb):
* Chickenwings $.89 > $1 > $3 per wing

* Subway $5 subs are now 9.89

* Lawn mowing 35 now 55

* Cars 32k now 46k

* Garbage collection $30 now $45 (plus $3 gas surcharge)

* Electric $200 now $350
> I also am increasingly of the opinion that humanity is not wired to connect globally.

Sociologists generally agree.
No, there is, until legislation is passed. This isn't something which should be left to police discretion, it's clearly a valid search under the law.

It needs to be placed in the category of evidence inadmissible in other crimes, because it's not there right now.
Who are those competitors? The subject company is tho only one I know of like this. But I am not really active in the creative space so I'm ignorant.
As predicted, Brexit has shifted the power balance in the EU, which is now squarely and only in Berlin.