skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, but doesn't really work.

First, the manufacture of a spoon is going to involve water at many points. The same water that you wash it with, or likely even better because nobody wants to have sediment on their expensive manufacturing hardware. So on that part alone it fails, because the first picture includes the "rebuttal" in its own complexity.

Second, complexity greatly varies. Water purification is an extremely bulk and standard process we already use for a myriad ends. On the other hand, spoon manufacture has spoon-specific steps in it. Water purification is going to scale better because there's so much downstream use, and it's a single thing that doesn't need to be treated as discrete units.
Thanks for mentioning this, fitlet looks neat.
I live in China, I think if our asses were so clean, we could all go there and even visit these reform camps they said they built and are not at all cruel and inhumane.

You can say the foreigners exagerate, sure they do, with their sudden newfound love for muslim people even the worst ayatollahs of the world cant seem to express, but hum, it's not like there's no fire behind all this smoke...

However I've always been careful not to call it a genocide: for me we must prove the mass deaths first.
Young woman with PTSD who survived Brussels airport terror attack 'euthanised'
As an Indian woman that studied and worked for a bit in India, this is not surprising at all. When prepping for job placements in my University, we would sometimes practice answers to questions around why they should hire a woman who might just get married and leave the company for her kids. I remember the recruiter for a multinational company asking me this very question and 22-year old me desperately trying to convince her that I was not interested in having kids. I now understand that this is more tied to the country's culture than the companies themselves. If everyone around you can discuss this without blinking, it becomes normal to ask such questions I suppose.

I've been in the US for the last 7 years now and as a woman in my thirties, it's an incredible relief that nobody ever asks me my plans for kids and the like in my interviews! I know that my child-bearing age shouldn't be a factor, but thanks to my past experiences, I'm always wondering if the decisions behind the scenes are silently taking this into account.

Edit: my personal experiences may be different even from someone of the same gender/age/origin. Please consider this with a pinch of salt :)
There are people who measure language difficulty. The uS state department does it from a US perspective but I’ve seen others

https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/
I don't believe this at all. I see the exact opposite happening in my Indian company. They are encouraging women leaders so much. I am right now working with one who climbed 2 grades in 2-3 years (which normally would take several years), and she has an all female team now (which is discriminatory by the way). Her male Indian bosses encourage and support her so much, while my male managers treat me (a male) like shit most of the time.

Indian companies are required to give paid maternity leave of 26 weeks by the way.

https://www.startuphrtoolkit.com/maternity-leave-in-india/
Do you have suggestions for replacements for Stripe Connect for marketplace usage? The combination of being able to calculate fees and cuts before you tell Stripe to pay it out to partners through Stripe Connect seems pretty unique.

There are several other Merchant of Record alternatives, but I have not found something that can do quite the programmatic approach you can with Stripe.
I read this as a pet interpreter... and wondered how much more difficult, "I want food" could be from "hello world".

Well, here's part of the answer.

https://esolangs.org/wiki/File:Piet_Hello_World.gif
> These images are all fake, and obviously so.

As a photographer, what about these images is obviously fake?

> All the eyes are at an identical pitch

Which is evidence of what? Generally, when booking photos are taken, the subject is asked to look at a single spot to preserve consistency and identifiability.

> when you go to the source you'll find many of them wearing exactly the same clothes, with exactly the same creases.

I find it very unsurprising that people in a prison situation are wearing the same clothes.

All of my clothing is also creased in the same places, but this is no big conspiracy, there are just popular ways of folding clothes…

I’m always interested in getting the whole story, but you’re going to need to share a less sketchy link…
Hrm I haven’t been talking about PHP, but ORMs and static typing.. If you’re working in PHP then yea I see how you’re still using raw sql probably. I don’t know of any enterprises that don’t use either .Net or Java for their large line of business apps. Definitely not PHP, static typing is relatively new to it.

I think we’d need to know a lot more about each other’s projects and experiences to continue as this debate has become a bunch of generalizations.
In looking for more info about pawpaws, I came across https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pawpaw.pdf which I found informative and think others here might like:

"This publication is intended as an overview of pawpaw production, including overall culture, pests, harvest, postharvest handling, marketing, and research that seeks to advance the pawpaw’s potential for commercial development"
How do you feel about the performance tradeoffs of doing so?
The parts of Russia where they grow most of the food is in Europe and would also be affected by the Gulf Stream weakening or halting. Likewise so would Greenland, which will not be good for agriculture anyway, even with serious warming.
Some depressed people will commit suicide, but the government should not facilitate this.
Well, I worked on a company with a performance program (I can really remember the exact euphemism), in which all new employees were supposed to take part when joining, and then if marked as low performer go through it again, with a neat addition... random employees were also selected to go through it again just because.
If you follow the "How it works" link:

> Digital recordings almost always have mains hum on them, either because the device was plugged in to the mains or because it inducts it off nearby cables, lights and appliances in a room.
> overall, professional Americans mostly enjoy very similar welfare benefits as Europeans

From having experience with both, that’s simply untrue.

First, education here is free - technically university is a couple euros if you are rich enough but free-adjacent - at all level. Medical coverage is not tied to your job and covers everything properly including chronic disease, heavy procedure and potential long-term inability to work. Unemployment last two years and fully covers your salary for the first six months.

You will win a lot more in the US if you work in IT because the salaries are incredibly high in the US but for anything else I would stay in Europe. Well, I would even stay in Europe for IT personally because I hate the US culture but that’s another story.
You're right, people's accounts aren't getting hacked that often. This is because of a wide array of security measures - the ones you're suggesting be disabled. The frequency of breaches goes up significantly without those in place, especially when coupled with the kind of weak password likely to be chosen by struggling, marginalized, vulnerable people whose priority is not keeping bots at bay.

In short - yes, but the consequences defeat the point.
Thanks for being a decent human. In my experience, such is more rare than you would think.
Seems like the thesis might be true for overweight individuals. This might be key information missing from the title.

as per the article:

“Researchers had 16 overweight patients…”

I would suggest to suffix the title with “for overweight individuals”
This is true but also dependent on your "other circumstances". The US is decidedly a bad place to be a parent from what I can tell. Parental leave, even when graciously granted by the company is short and frowned upon nevertheless (generalizing here of course but this seems to be the overall majority of cases).

Taking a few months of parental leave right at the beginning was such a big help. All of the above becomes so much easier when you simply do not have to worry about work. Baby is not sleeping from 2a.m. to 5a.m. every night? Or only sleeps when having body contact, such as sleeping on your chest? So what! Stay up, do some chores, play some computer games or watch a movie w/ baby on your chest (yes there's ways where you do not have to worry about baby falling off and you have both hands available, so you definitely can get lots of computer gaming done in that time ;)). Go to bed at 5a.m. knowing you don't have to get up to get to work and be expected to have a fresh mind. You just fall asleep, exhausted and wake up for lunch time and it's fine! It just totally takes the extra stress out of that time (of course you're still gonna be tired from having your sleep rhythms effed up and such and sometimes baby just doesn't want to sleep at all, no matter what you do etc.) and I believe that can make for better parenting overall. Back in the day some of that would've been taken care of by living w/ your parents or in-laws.
You are misunderstanding what the 5 years is: it’s a protection against being fired. You know as retaliation against actually having priorities that trump your employers emergency-through-incompetence-while-planning.

The actual leave time is typically around a year. Which is roughly where you can give children over without them crying. But yeah the workload of that parent will have to be picked up by additional staff
I would say the real bug is this, that is, in the astimezone() method:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.dat...

"If self is naive, it is presumed to represent time in the system timezone."

presumed is kind of a bad word in Python. I would never write an API today that "presumed" something that can be lots of other things and I would not allow any tz conversion on a naive datetime without requiring the existing known timezone be passed.
Yep, is a screen in their consumer-site that shows all active billing plans. Two clicks to cancel. And that page is easier to find now (was buried before)
You proved my point. That says it doesn’t correspond to the usage of a particular social group (educated people), which is a scientific statement. It doesn’t say it’s “wrong”, which is a value judgment.

Obviously, linguists don’t dispute the existence of more or less prestigious varieties of languages.
This is absolutely fascinating.
> most things are written in the languages they use

Do you know anything about India or are you merely talking out of your ass? This is patently false—nearly all documents are in three languages: English, Hindi and the state’s local language.
Not five years of leave. Five years of protection that one wont be fired due to having taken leave is the way I read it.

Also in the system I work under, all employees pay a government tax that is used to pay for the parental leave. That is, the money isn't coming out of the companies pocket, but coming out of a national bucket designated for the purpose. The company pays nothing when the employee is taking this time.
I know the quote. A lot of people voted for Nixon, and a lot of people agreed with him and his administration at the time. I don’t like it but that was the process, and we’ve spent a long time changing it, using the same process. For the most part that movement is working, and it’s working because the outcome of the process is respected. If you thumb your nose at the process when it doesn’t go your way, you can’t use it to get your way.

Corporations have a right to participate in the process just like you and I. Don’t like the outcome? Then do the hard work to change it.
Customer support doesn’t scale so it is minimized. Stripe is not unique in this regard.
I'm Irish and am pretty sure I'm 'BAME'. The Poles definitely are. I don't know if Italians / Spanish are 'LatinX' or not.
I was actually just thinking about a Tamagotchi-like program that required regular productive activities in order to keep a virtual pet alive, healthy and happy. A computer program would not need to deal with all that messy real world hardware; it would all be virtual.

You could also add a function that makes your virtual pet unhappy if you spent too much time reading Hacker News. Instant productivity boost.
Interesting factoid from Europe: at least in Germany, you are effectively unhirable if you are in a PiP. You actually have to warrant that you are not, before any company of any size will consider hiring you, and of course lying about that would be a firing offense.

I get the logic, but as an American I was surprised… I was never PiPed but I too would have assumed it was better than the alternative. Not always!
CMU Intro to Database Systems / Fall 2022
Getting ‘into’ the sport is not the measure of merit. It’s an imperfect filter meant to manage the finite space available and to select people who are even actually able to finish the race.

I can’t count how many Ivy League classmates I knew who thought simply being admitted was the end game that proved they were superior. Cheating was rampant. 5.0 weighted GPA perfect SAT Eagle Scouts dropped out.

People angry at the morality of an imperfect collectivist fix in favor of an imperfect collectivist filter are on grounds of curious firmness.
Article misses the point that the cost and schedule overruns are really the whole point of the project. A project's nominal purpose -- train, tunnel, nuke plant -- is just there to fend off pressure to pull the plug. Sunk-cost fallacy keeps the money coming.

Solar and wind megaprojects seem to avoid this fate by a combination of easy accounting -- unit cost x total units = expected cost -- and incremental delivery -- they can start delivering power almost immediately, both demonstrating progress and helping fund further work. Those that fail to deliver early and on-budget are easier to cancel. (Cancelled big solar and wind projects are called failures, but are successes of project management; and equipment can often be sold on to other projects.)

For most big infrastructure projects, nobody really knows how much it ought to cost at each stage, or how far along it really is. The stakeholders who gave it the OK expect a piece of the action, continuously. They never want the money flow to cease, which would happen on completion.

America's innovation is that the corrupt money flows to stakeholders are wholly legal, with no risk of indictment. This makes it easier to start projects, even though harder to finish them. The people promoting the project can't afford to buy off gatekeepers, but the project budget itself can. The bigger it is, though, the more backers it will need, so it is easier to estimate low, and overrun.

Sometimes, if the money will be cut off anyway, it can be face-saving to deliver something at that point. Thus, Olkiluoto, Second Avenue, and Bay Bridge. NASA is required by law to buy a new, useless SLS every time they shoot one, but can delay launching pretty easily. The sooner SpaceX SuperHeavy starts launching cans, the sooner the obligation might be lifted. Expect to see a big new missile program approved immediately after that.

Thing is, most things somebody would like government to spend $billions on really shouldn't be built. So we need gatekeepers. And, some should be, so they need to be overcome sometimes.
Plausible is a very low bar. We have to weigh what is more likely. She may not be outright lying, but it seems significantly more likely this isn't the full story and may include exaggerations.

"that's enough for me to assume it true for the purpose of idle commentary."

Why don't you assume what I'm saying is the truth? This is a story with terrible journalism. There's really no reason to assume this is the whole story, or even an accurate one.

"That's consistent with there being a serious problem. You can't compare "raw number of bad things" to "raw number of good things" like that. Trivial example: if 4% of a neighborhood is shot at that's a neighborhood with a big shooting problem."

Please read the context. We aren't talking about shootings. The prior comment implies bad neighbors being common in the US. I'm saying thats not the case. Clearly assessing what is common would be useful to compare raw numbers.
Yeah just wait for GTP-4. Of course by then you might as well wait for GPT-5.
Agreed! I’ve complained about this before recently on HN and was flagged for this.

Also, a lot of these accounts appear to be new accounts (less than 1 year tenure on HN), so most charitably they might be users who aren’t used to the norms on HN.

On a separate note, Dang can you please moderate this entire section? The dog whistles and mean spirited comments on here are insane.
Not sure why this is flagged. It explained last night why my emails were it appearing in peoples inboxes during a small window
Date libraries and small API surface areas are not usually things I associate with each other.
It's very common for customer support to be under-staffed at big companies, especially in the financial area--nothing at all unique about Stripe.
It's used to be the case that, high caste people (Brahmins mostly) are the ones who can afford higher education and in turn they can speak English fluently compared to others in India. They were also the first to emigrate and likely hold high level positions in many companies.

Fortunately, this situation is changing rapidly. I don't see any caste discrimination in my line of work (urban IT companies). Nearly none of my coworkers know my caste, they don't care, neither am I.

It does happen in rural villages, specially inter caste marriages are still frowned upon. But it getting less effective over time. Determined people go make money and caste is not a hinder in many cases.
Same for me but “It’s fine I can always Google the solution” or “It’s fine I just use 5% of the functionality and that bit works well and I can remember it” isn’t really a stellar review of an UX either.

The UX isn’t really tested at all when just using the 10% of the product even if that’s enough to do 90% of the job. It’s tested on that last 10% of tasks when we need to bring out that last 90% of git.

I’m the unfortunate “git guy” of our team so my job is resolving people’s problems. Hooks and aliases oh non posix shells. Auth plug-in uses like windows/Mac auth store, problems with CI servers having made a checkout without LFS so borked their working copy etc. People creating branches differing only in case like /feature/Foo/2 and feature/foo/3 and all hell breaks lose when you have systems with mixed case sensitivity.

Now add some monorepo pain like GVFS, or submodules or shallow checkouts etc and the warts really start to show.
No, I think I understand the point of the post perfectly fine, and I also happen to think you don't understand mine. The post is kinda like when someone says they don't buy things with "chemicals" in it and you take the opportunity to make a joke that highlights how naive they are. Doesn't mean there isn't a valid point being made if they were able to convey it better.
I know it comes from the Angles of Angaland.
Again, this seems like a stereotype that you have with no actual experience.

I would bet there people in your own country who do not agree. Sounds like you're marginalizing them, which is not nice.
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> And merit is transferred down the generations. Privilege begets privilege. Etc. This is the issue that we are rightfully trying to counter.

As a migrant from dirt poor family from ex-Soviet Republic, I seem to forgot to collect my generational merit, where and when can I do that? And can I add it to my own merit?
plastic sprue kit building exists digitally too tho, the only thing missing is the glue and paint thinner smells

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164250/Model_Builder/

on the heathkit note i got the same feeling a few years ago soldering a QRP+ kit up. comes as mostly bare pcb and 100s of through hole components. winding all of the tuning inductors by hand and about 6 hours of soldering later i had a working 5w cw rig

https://qrp-labs.com/qcxp.html
When people are victims of discrimination based on their race or sex they are likely to complain about it. The fact that some people believe the discrimination is justified is little solace to someone who is actually subject to said discrimination.

If that makes you feel gross then you’ll just have to deal with it I guess.
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Project Liftoff: Universal Intelligent Systems by 2030 – Carl Hewitt
Carl Hewitt is the inventor of the actor model of concurrent computation.

See paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3428114

Project Liftoff(TM) to develop and deploy UIS in this decade stands to be a huge development effort comparable to the Apollo Project. Education will be crucial to the success of Project Liftoff because there is an enormous talent shortage.

US has yet to commence Project Liftoff, but there is a growing consensus that a large effort is required to address issues of universal Integrative Intelligent Systems. China is racing to develop its own indigenous universal secure intelligent systems as rapidly as possible [Liu, 2020, Cheng, Feifel, and Shuia 2019, Xin and Chi-yuk 2018, China State Council 2017, Lewis and Litai 1988. Evan Feigenbaum 2003].

Discursive(TM) is a proposed architecture for universal Integrative Secure Intelligent Systems with the following technology stack:

• Actor myriad-cores architecture with: ActorScript(TM) for massive robust concurrency, strongly-typed without extra tag bits architecture to protect security of Actors including dynamic relocation and automatic pause-less storage reclamation, 10ns average communication latency to provide quick response time to users

• Services for underlying operations, e.g., interoperation with datacenters and other Citadels

• Massive Inference-Robust Ontology [Guarino and Musen 2015, Hewitt 2016-2019] for operations on massive amounts of pervasively inconsistent information including statistics and correlations

• Matrix [Bender, Flickinger, and Oepen 2002, Bender et. al. 2010] for discourse, rhetoric and narratology

• Experiences [Gurman 2017, Mundy 2016, Shapiro, et. al. 2015] for collaborations, gestures, video, etc.

• Citadels [Hewitt 2019] for increased performance and robustness with no single point of failure and rectifying mistakes ASAP

The Discursive(TM) system outlined in this article can enable Universal Intelligent Systems by 2030. The task for the proposed project Liftoff is to implement the Discursive system.

Discourse Technology is enormously more powerful than Correlation Technology (e.g., “Deep Learning”), which will not by itself produce Universal Intelligent Systems in this decade.