skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a few years ago and I can't find the source anymore, but it was an interview with an ex. executive at one of the large insurance companies who literally quoted the 10% figure and policy.

It may be different or non-existant at other companies.
European. I dream about having to go back to high-school to finish some course, or take an exam covering something I know nothing about. It often occurs to me that I have an university degree, so it doesn’t make any sense, but it usually drags on for a little more before I finally wake up.

I finished high-school 25 years ago.
Right but the point is that there may be nothing special about this particular exercise.

It’s a bit complicated to get the equipment and training to learn how to do this; maybe that effort is better allocated to just encouraging people to get up and go for a walk every once in a while.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_rigidity
If you get to hiroshima, visit okinomimura.
Windows phone was destined to fail mainly because they were the third to show up to a two-man race. If Android never showed up, or completely biffed it at the starting line, then Windows Phone probably could have succeeded with enough time.

The other possible alternative is Palm WebOS, but I think they were too Apple-like for their own good. The key differentiators that helped Android succeed as an iPhone alternative (wide device variety, more "open" platform) apply much more easily to Windows Phone.
The major credit card companies are just as bad, if not worse. Payment processors are one of the major systems that need to be treated as a utility. They've become far too comfortable using their position to enforce ideology.
Indeed. Glorified daycare. All those kids are there just to enable their parents to work during the day. At some point they figured they should do something useful with all that time so they started teaching stuff in classes which has the added benefit of structuring the children and making it easier for one teacher to manage them.
Thank you for providing a source. Although, the claims of censorship here appear hollow per checking currently -

- It's available on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcmNGvaDUs and was posted in April 2021

- It's searchable on Amazon currently despite being blocked in March of this year per the archived result in the article: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Ukraine+on+Fire&rh=n%3A2625373011...

This feels out of date; the movie is not being censored now. It was blocked by private companies likely as a quick response to the beginning of the war, and has since been made accessible again.
Jobs would be even better. Richmond, Burnaby, Langley, and the Lower Delta are all newish built (1980s-2000s), but a large enough white collar job base simply isn't there.
Any advice or resources for someone seriously considering this?
FWIW, when I'm doing a code review, these are the exact kind of comments that I would tell a committer to remove.

That is, it's like it generates these kinds of comments:

// initializes the variable x and sets it to 5
let x = 5;

// adds 2 to the variable x and sets that to a new variable y
let y = x + 2;

That is, IMO the whole purpose of comments should be to tell you things that aren't readily apparent just by looking at the code, e.g. "this looks wonky but we had to do it specifically to work around a bug in library X".

Perhaps could be useful for people learning to program, but otherwise people should learn how to read code as code, not "translate" it to a verbose English sentence in their head.
Are the tech improvements truly the cause? Or are you just becoming less happy/content as you age. The stereotype of a crotchety old person comes to mind.

The Douglas Adam's quote comes to mind
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39828-i-ve-come-up-with-a-s...

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
https://archive.ph/YB0Qx
No, it is economically infeasible because any such professional service would be a lawsuit engine.
I'm late for class and can't remember my locker combination, every night going on 50 years.
I would subscribe to Byte, DDJ, Creative Computing, and Scientific American (pre-1990 to be generous, maybe pre-1970 if I'm not), if their equivalents existed today.
No, I'm referring to the phenomenon that I guess most people are referring to as 'science vs "The Science"'.

Science being the pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and peer review. "The Science" being the use of the imprimatur of scientific legitimacy as a political forcing function and illusion of neutrality to direct money and power in support of one's priorities.

Using science for power the same way the establishment used to use religion for power.
> Let's please not make the mistake of saying all issues that relate to freedom of speech are First Amendment issues.

The problem is when government and social media actively collude to side step the government’s responsibility to the first amendment…the government has dragged the social media companies into first amendment territory.

You have two ways of handling this: one…have the government police itself…which it won’t do, because it is already actively trying to find ways around its responsibility to freedom of speech; Or two, start lawsuits that expose the collusion and start making it expensive for social media companies to collude with the government to censor.
Unfortunately, as an interviewee you won’t have access to as much information as an investor so you won’t be able to value the equity portion of your comp package normally. You can evaluate the industry said startup is in the same as an investor but in terms of interviewing and negotiating your comp - I think the common HN refrain is that value them at nothing.

Doesn’t apply if you are interviewing for a cofounder or other such role of course.
I like how calling you out somehow implies 1984 was not fiction. What a set of hoops!

Then when others call you out, you call it semantics games. Rich.
No, but seriously, they're doing this stuff in such a sloppy way that I'd definitely be looking for opportunity, e.g. the wording of one of their anti-CRT things essentially said "no one can make someone else uncomfortable about race" and I'm like "word? I can work with that."
Are there any randomized controlled trials which show that cloth masks have a clinically significant effect in preventing transmission of SARS-CoV-2? I haven't seen any such studies which would meet evidence-based medicine criteria, but if you know of any I would be interested to read them.
> you don't know my position on totalitarianism

We all know your position, and you're not on the right side of history. Period.
Being a good researcher does not imply being a good professor.

As for science it is more about hard work, and long unpaid overwork than being smart.

My previous lab has more than half the staff from asia e.g.
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lpi/people/

Academia is a tough pyramid and at the end of the day the only thing that matters for a faculty position is politics and money not even your publications or ability to teach. Those are valued at much less prestigious places (that still produce amazing people)
From my chat with friends who work in the area of drug design, AlphaFold is accurate for overall structure, but is not that accurate for predicting structure around interaction locations.
In Canada immigrants vote for the Liberal party who are currently in power. It doesn't take long before many of those immigrants forget their past and vote against their best interest for the Conservative party.

The Libaral party (which is actually the moderate of the three parties) pushes for immigration.

Immigrants are a source of cheap labour to be exploited. There is a real shortage of jobs here that pay a living wage.

Immigration raising the population is good for the housing investors who want to see prices continue to climb. Many of our politicians are either real estate investors or have ties to real estate investors.

Canada is a huge country but most people live along the southern border. Services and infrastructure even a few hundred kilometers north are bare to non-existent. Much of the land in Ontario, for instance, is flood plane, conservation controlled, native land or greenbelt farmland which cannot be divided (until a mega rich development company somehow manages it). This means crowding.

Most people think Canada has no corruption and is stable, well that is not really true. Corruption here is just at a much higher level.
"The giant" ? The US is a Godzilla compared to Russia in almost every measurable context (besides land mass)
> They talk about things that are killing people all the time without putting forward any unconstitutional legislation.

Oh give me a break. COVID was declared a national emergency and plenty of legislation was put forward to combat it, mitigate it or otherwise reduce harm. The president specifically saying social media companies are killing people in the context of a national emergency is a not so subtle veiled threat.

I'm not sure what direct quote you want, this was all over the news and if you just Google it you'll find hundreds of articles:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/biden-social-media-platf...

Edit: consider if the US was at war with a serious enemy and the president was making comparable claims about social media companies allowing treasonous misinformation to spread that's endangering the nation and try and tell me with a straight face that that's not a veiled threat.
For me, exams were half of it. The awful kids and staff were the other half. It was sheer misery. I don’t miss anything from that time of my life.
Do you have a link to your technology?

Why is the indirect method so sensitive to extraneous movement? More so than just reflecting the additional energy expenditure?
> I learned during the last two years is how many people are willing to throw me ... under the bus in order to avoid even

Cloth masks and social distancing did not seem to slow the spread. Some people who got fully vaxed and boosted got sick and are still getting sick. None of that stuff effectively protected people, and it caused harms. Those with at-risk medical conditions (maybe you) should take care of themselves by isolating to avoid those busses.
I can only speak to my experience, and experienced just about every major kind of environment (private elite small, public large, community college, regional state schools, elite universities). I’ve met great people everywhere, but in heavily uneven distribution. And in the less great environments, having a culture of either apathy, non-excellence, or simply not having so many great peers does little to motivate oneself, where as having the opposite is like a rocket ship. Videos on the internet are not a replacement for who is around you everyday. Your peers are a well establish major factor in determining your trajectory in life.

The uneven distribution will mean that MIT will put out a lot of great candidates, where as a state school will put out few great candidates. The people who went to MIT were in a culture that pushed them the entire time, so they’ll have maximized their talent, where as the state school lacking this culture will reward the same potential talent for less accomplishment. Thus you see this 80/20 rule manifest.

Btw the study was about American universities. I’m not sure why you’re being so defensive about Europe. It’s irrelevant to the point at hand. You could do the same study in France or China and I’m sure you’ll see a similar domestic result.
I’m 46 and still occasionally have dreams about college. I’m in my last semester and almost failing it’s finals and i cant find the building/roomn the exam is in. They’re always some variation of that.
https://archive.ph/T1hMO
I'm certainly not advocating for lowest common denominator. It is problematic though if for instance in a field the academic tree flows from only 3 grandfathers.
It may amuse you to know that, as a sociology major myself, I always envied my engineering school friends because they didn’t have to do nearly as much reading as me and it was possible for them to help one another on problem sets in a way that doesn’t make sense in writing-based liberal arts courses. The grass is always greener, I suppose!
They should do: C++ by Problems.
So you provide a single, simple method of weight loss and then you edit your comment when attacked and add a single case of weight loss to make your point. You then claim there's no possibility for debate, it's proven, and you reiterate how simple it is
Yeah, someone actually created an issue for this on the repo: https://github.com/steven-tey/dub/issues/8

I'm planning to not allow emojis simply because of the accessibility challenges that it presents to users :')

Emoji domains though, on the other hand, are really cool and more than welcome to be added :)
"On Sept. 7, the government allowed those on nonguided tours who had booked their flights and hotels through registered travel agencies." ← is the "through registered travel agencies" portion dropped now as well? I couldn't discern that from the article.
Reading the code explains what a piece of code does.
I always wondered why DRAM didn't just, after some Moore's law point, have refresh control built in. There's probably a reason I've forgotten about. Nice to see someone at least thinking about it.
How does that lower the population?
If you belong to certain social groups with elevated legal privileges, yes.
Email has the same problem. Long threads, especially with branched conversations, are pain to summarize. Getting cc'd on an email chain dozens of replies long sucks to read through (especially with top posting being the corporate default).

Slack is at least better in how it manages the deduplication of content in the thread.

What we really need is some kind of AI auto-summarizer that actually works and is smart enough to ask clarifying question when ambiguities appear. A virtual administrative assistant. What were the decisions, who owns the next steps, what justifications led to the decisions, who needs to be informed, etc ... Most of that can be inferred from a given thread.
Github once managed to ban accounts of Iranians, even students in the US. Afaik shortly after that GH went to the US government and convinced them that sanctioning every Iranian even outside Iran was technically and politically dubious, which resulted in the sanctions being relaxed in some way.
Very cool project. Would love to seem more projects that use PicoW, 02W to bring 20th century HW into the 21st. And I love BIOS font theme!
No, university policies produce punishment or non-punishment. Reporting is speech. Would you prefer that they report publicly and drag people into the court of public opinion without an investigation instead? Isn't that Cancel Culture?
Bear in mind that at this time, and for many years, data retention policies simply do not apply to uploaded files in a given channel (IIRC it does apply to global retention, but I'm not totally sure of the current behavior). There's a sensitive channel with a short retention period in a Slack for a company I do some consulting for and every few months I remind the admins that images/PDFs/etc that are uploaded to the channel are not purged and they should manually do it... but there's still stuff in there from 2016 if I do a search in:#channel for Files.
The underhanded C contest is a great practical demonstration even "biological intelligences" have a difficult time reading and summarizing code. I wouldn't trust this thing further than I do comments, but I could see it being equally as useful.
how? are you defending the iranian theocracy?
How to handle PROD issues and DEV tasks that are overtaking my personal time?
I’m a senior engineer at a security company and on top of my development commitments, I’m constantly pulled into production issues. The issues are interesting and so is the development work, so I genuinely enjoy both. However, it has gotten so bad that I’m falling behind my sprint commitments and I am working overtime that I loose about 2-3 hours of time with my family. How should I deal with this?
> maybe that effort is better allocated to just encouraging people to get up and go for a walk every once in a while.

This method has been used for decades and the results on the obesity rates do not seem to be very good so far. Maybe it's time to try other approaches.
Tired of this argument.

There is certainly a right to discuss the social impact of a business’s practices.

And complain about unfair denial of services.
Ignorantia juris non excusat
Does it really count as a dog-whistle if it's audible to nearly any living human?
I don't miss it either. The day I graduated was the best day of my life. Felt like I was waiting for my life to begin.
> In all, I don't think the mobilization is likely to matter. The Russian problem is bad supplies, bad comms, and bad morale.

The Russians may be suffering from "bad supplies, bad comms, and bad morale," but I've read in several places that they're also suffering from a lack of manpower. Or, more specifically: too much equipment in proportion to their ground troops, and also too many combat troops in proportion to support personnel.
Expected new features in OracleDatabase 23c: Boolean data type, GROUP BY alias
I sympathize with this take but as someone who was fortunate enough to attend private schools throughout my education let me just say, I also have stress dreams about school. I finished college 8 years ago.
How about just using github? or if you want more how about building a a node/vue app? Or for docs scrounge up any static doc creation system and thereyago. most have some really editing features and BEHOLD markdown with colors!

I'm being a little silly there but my issue isn't that this isn't valuable software in the right situation. My issues is that its presented as some sort of magic bullet for a specific documentation issue when the problems described are generally not software related or software solved.

Most of what is presented in the article isn't about BS doing what this person attempted to do for 2 years. Its about switching paradigms and letting folks document in their repos instead of in a centralized system. One could just as easily look over the repos in a github org and go to those files in a repo. Both solutions require standardizing where things are documented..... so does a centralized system.

The big callout should be that when trying to centralize docs that align to apps they become disconnected from the apps themselves and thus its a pita to get everyone to do everything in 2 places. I'd be very curious if they completely turned off BS if there would be any loss... if not why bother with the overhead. Templating and other things are well handled by MS Clis, cookie-cutter or other more portable concepts and who needs yet another team and resource mgmt system. Splunk and other off the shelf systems can easily provide more comprehensive and robust stats and generally speaking there is a more enterprise level solution for just about everything it does.

Yes BS is a swiss army knife but when was the last time you saw a chef use one of those in the kitchen?
Android is not really all that open anymore, at least not in the sense that it was in 2010 when AOSP was basically just a de-Googled Android. The AOSP today is more like Darwin is to macOS than Chromium is to Chrome.

I think today's ruling reflects this, as much of it has to do with how Google handles the licensing of their proprietary Android bits.
Ergh, MPEG1 Layer 1. At least DAT’s (the “competitor”) have full PCM support.

Given CPU power of the day PCM should be easier to decode, just the excessive bandwidth (for the time) would be the expensive part to deal with.
It is truly crazy the pace of updates. It's the first single topic I feel like I can't keep up with no matter how much time I spend with it.

It's like how they say Da Vinci's was the last generation that could know 'everything' but now we're getting into real-time too much new information!
No dashboard, or web interface even - the idea is that you just use CF's worker analytics for usage stats. There's no storage / db sitting behind it, just a single file to deploy as a worker.

Logical next step would be to hook it into KV and include a basic auth/admin API for editing routes and retrieving stats. But even that would add a bucket load of complexity to what is essentially 20-30 lines of obtuse logic currently.

Definitely no plans to deploy as a service with custom domains and enterprise offerings :)
This would be invaluable for communicating with my teenagers.
> The presence of bias is purely numerical and is allowed to thrive due to the lack of controls.

This statement is wonderfully self-contradictory. The study overwhelmingly proves the first part wrong. The presence of bias is numerical, certainly, but it is not purely numerical and must actually exist, which is acknowledged after the "and," in contradiction.

> Prestige is an unrelated red herring masking the very human behaviors that account for social gravity in many walks of life.

The study conclusively demonstrates that prestige most certainly is central to academic mobility. Also, biases are among the very human behaviors that account for social gravity.

> This is commonly referred to as implicit bias

Again, contradictory to immediately previous statement. If prestige is a red herring, it can't also be implicit bias unless the implicitly biased individual is intentionally misleading themselves, i.e. demonstrating cognitive dissonance.

> and is generally the most common cause of various forms of selection bias,

Prestige is highly unlikely to be the most common cause of selection bias. Systematic error is a far more common cause of selection bias.

> including racial discrimination from both the majority and minorities alike.

The surprising claim here is that prestige causes racism. But racism has many causes, the most common being that it is learned. In origin, I think it is probably caused by a combination of low intellect, lack of education, irrational fear of diversity, and narcissistic self-interest. And it should be noted that the idea of reverse racism has been employed wherever white supremacy is diminished. It is, IMO, neither legitimate nor valid conceptually and fundamentally a tu quoque fallacy.
You spent all this time writing a comment calling out this study as a fraud appealing to lazy people, but it seems you were too lazy to read the article and truly understand the device's role...
Which T&Cs did PayPal say they broke? Is that why being a skeptic and asking questions no matter what political bias / spectrum you're on gets you banned as well? [0] The same also done by the opposing side too? [1] So, due to Flipper having their funds seized by PayPal for no reason means that they are a scam despite successfully shipping their product? [2]

It seems that you being a PayPal apologist without having a clue yourself being able to mention what T&Cs all those examples broke, essentially proves my point as to how PayPal can do this arbitrarily to anyone for no reason and they don't care if your business or non-profit dies.

[0] https://twitter.com/llsceptics/status/1567658400573448192

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/21/paypal-shuts-acc...

[2] https://twitter.com/flipper_zero/status/1567194641610465281