skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And furthermore, there are a lot of working-class voters who depend on jobs that would be impacted by a rail strike.

And the deal the unions were forced to accept was one brokered by the White House after the unions and rail companies couldn't come to agreement. So presumably more than the rail companies would have been willing to settle on, on their own.

So in terms of voters pissed off vs voters pleased, he probably comes out ahead on this one.
It depends where you are. Some states, like mine, require ID to vote. Some don't. Some have strict rules on absentee ballots. Others allow "vote by mail" or ballot drop boxes.
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why not use Hetzner for compute and something like Planetscale with it?
It's a bit rare.
> The fusion component also seems to involve some isotopes of hydrogen (tritium and deuterium), so it would be modestly helpful to have that but my understanding is that it's not that hard to get your hands on these isotopes.

Tritium is the most expensive thing on the planet that any of us can buy, by weight. Only exotic matter (non-naturally occurring elements, anti-matter) is more expensive, and that you basically can't buy. Tritium is not easy to make or get. And it has a half-life of 12 years. Deuterium can't be used instead of tritium.
HyperCard was a fullscreen app. A stack could hide the menu by just… saying ‘hide menuBar’ in its background script.
Paying obese people to lose weight doubles rate of weight loss
As far as I can tell, birth certificates are issued by states and name changes are done through states, so it isn’t clear to me how a name is a federally issued ID or even an ID.

While I am sure the bureaucracy surrounding such discrepancies is enormous, I’m not for sure I understand how it relates to a discussion about national IDs. A passport is effectively an optional national ID, so none of these issues would be solved by a national ID.
There’s a difference between interpolation and induction. You’re not going to interpolate a hash function.
20 years ago, I called ATT expressing interest in being a lineman. They sent me a training manual of sorts to study. It was way thicker than expected, and covered all the electical formulas and concepts and such.

Not sure if that is still around, but it may be worth giving them a call(or scouring the internet if someone OCRd it).
See also: http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtime.htm
Here in NY I regularly tune into AM for news/traffic reports and sports events.
Explosions rock two Russian airbases far from Ukraine frontline
Australia (not to be confused with Austria) has had "anti-hoon" laws in effect for quite some time, varying by state, but with most states being able to impound your vehicle, and for repeat offenders in some states, have said vehicle destroyed.

https://www.liquisearch.com/hoon/anti-hoon_legislation_in_au...
On the balance, aren't the risks still heavily against smoking?

Yes.

So what's the point of promoting one benefit of smoking when you still want to advise everyone to stop or never start smoking?

The first point is honesty, and that should be sufficient on its own. But even ignoring that, the obvious next step is to figure out the mechanism by which smoking inhibits Covid, which may lead to better vaccines or treatments.
Ideally it would be both, and the fall guy would be senior leadership and include the CEO by default.

Quite frankly, imprisoning the company is the next step - no access to, control or operation of funds, assets or company systems for the duration of imprisonment. It should be as much of a threat to a company's wellbeing as it is to the average man.
First attempt it didn't try to respond, just said it didn't know anything about sparrows or coconuts.

I asked it to retry, and got this:

function calculateSparrowFlightVelocity(coconutWeight) {
// Assume that a sparrow can carry a maximum of 1.5 ounces of weight
if (coconutWeight > 1.5) {
return 0;
}

// Assume that the flight velocity of a sparrow is 5 meters per second
// and the weight of a coconut is 0.5 ounces
return 5 * (1 - (coconutWeight / 0.5));
}

// Example usage:
console.log(calculateSparrowFlightVelocity(0.5)); // Output: 4 meters per second
console.log(calculateSparrowFlightVelocity(1.0)); // Output: 3 meters per second
console.log(calculateSparrowFlightVelocity(1.5)); // Output: 0 meters per second (sparrow cannot carry this weight)

Can any Monty Python fans confirm if this is correct?
Non-paywalled:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221205200442/https://www.nytim...
Meanwhile there's a cream shortage here on the east coast US! The price of cream has gone up substantially and was entirely unavailable during Thanksgiving weekend in my local area. No heavy or light cream whatsoever at any store. And now it's 2.5x the price it usually is.
The problem with "getting the materials" is a multi-part problem.

First you need some sort of nuclear power plant because plutonium is not a naturally occurring element in any quantity.

Once you have this and attempt to purchase uranium on the open market you can face being blacklisted. Do you know why this is the case? Because the jump from uranium to plutonium is actually easy.

The second is you need to use a specific reactor design. Again referencing the article some designes can be targeted to produce plutionium. This is where the bulk of the US plutonium came from.

But again, all reactors produce plutonium because even "enriched uranium" contains both U235 and U238.

U235 splits and creates energy and free nutrons, U238 captures nutrons and transmutes to plutonium.

Reactors like what we have here (Canada) actually "burn" plutonium and are not really suitable but yet India got its plutonium this way

"India's first nuclear explosion in 1974 used plutonium from a heavy water reactor that was a gift from the Canadian government."

As an added "negative" our reactors also produce Tritium which Canada refuses to sell to anyone who intends to use it for weapons.

> fuel for reactors does not contain enough fissile materials to present a problem which is why the security around it can be much more lax.

This covers "reactor grade plutonium" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactor-grade_plutonium

I'm not sure security is "lax".. the nuclear power plant near me has armed guards 24x7 and "deadly force authorized" signs.

It also provides citations of how this was actually used to build a 20KT proof of concept weapon.

You are mixing Plutonium vs Uranium devices to suit your needs.

Sometimes you reference "pits" which are plutonium devices, sometimes you reference "gun" which are antiquated uranium devices.

I don't know if a "suitcase nuke" can use uranium given its "critical mass" is 107 LBS.

On top of this you need a "gun" to launch the two together with sufficient speed.

"Suitcase" nukes are almost guaranteed to be plutonium based because its critical mass is just 22 lbs and is far more destructive.
> “Are we now expected to…”

I think you are jumping waaay past the assertion you are replying to.
Amusingly ICAO (the UN aviation standardizations organization) has specified the ID card format for Machine Readable (Official) Travel Documents. And the passport card conforms to those specifications. But the only use of it that they officially encourage countries to accept is the Crew Member Certificate.

In all other cases, acceptance would be based on agreements between the involved countries. In theory, any country could choose to accept any such document without an agreement, but they have little reason to do so, and it is not really compatible with paper visas. Furthermore, they should refuse it if there are unmatched conditions printed on the back of the card, like the passport cards have. The result is that they are of pretty limited use, and most countries that do use them will restrict them to specific scenarios where there are agreements in place.
The article doesn't mention it, but McKinsey in France is currently under judicial inquiries for at least two reasons:

- They worked on the presidential campaigns of Macron in 2017 and 2022, and were awarded huge government contracts with little or no bidding afterwards

- They didn't pay any taxes in France since 2011, sending money to the mothership instead to reduce taxable profits to zero; and their managing partner, who is accused of having lied to parliament about it, resigned in the wake of that discovery.

Here's one article (of many), in French:

https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/affaire-mckinsey-une-...

(Disable javascript to bypass the firewall).

So it's not just South Africa, UK and the US; it really is everywhere.
4-8 hour runs! I can't pretend to understand. I'd top out at ~3 hours at max marathon long run. I would love to do an ultra someday, but not sure if my knees are gonna let me. Take a few extra steps for me next time!
Appears to affect ELBs.
Accenture has over 700,000 employees. Pretty easy to see how they'd get lumped in given they are everywhere, working for everyone.

I am not nor have I ever been an Accenture consultant.
> It is only a matter of time before local development becomes a thing of the past.

Hahaha. Good luck with that!

Remote development was a reasonable, real thing 30-40 years ago, when faster remote computers still made up for the large network latency in between.

Today, when development machines are mostly as fast as any other computer on a workload that usually matters for development (single threaded workloads), we are already getting frustrated with the "devops unification" speed of docker-based development setups, and now introduce network latency and fragility into the picture, and you'll get hordes of developers signing up for it.

To be honest, there will be hordes of them, but there will also be hordes of those running away from this. If you are one of those who gets demotivated with 15s develop-test cycles, it's clear what camp you'll be in.

Sadly, consultants (like the OP author) will try to pitch this to C-level executives who don't understand the focus of a developer "in the zone", and we might end up with this being a requirement for some gigs.

But majority of them? No waaay!
There's no way a neural network could ever learn a hash function directly (unless it had every possible input and output in its table), and if there was an indirect way to train it, you'd discover that it was interpolating between (say) possible hash functions by working in a larger space, for example if it was trained to generate and test C programs that computed hashes.
It's probably quite large, as it would include those who support the rule of law.
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Would kill for a way to play on a mobile browser. Currently only the left flipper works when tapping the screen
They ignore it as long as there is a vocal contingent of people against cycling infrastructure because of cost or because it may create a slight disruption to a car.
When we are browsing internet, read some articles, or searching for information, it will be very helpful to have ChatGPT as an assistant. This extension opens ChatGPT as a sidebar, wherever you need.
But is there a demand for desktop-based sync?

You can run your caldav/carddav service in your local network, if you are so inclined. You will get local sync, and the client authors do not have to build specific desktop-based tools.

I for one do not want to return 15 years back, to serial/irda/bluetooth sync, having to think about sync, and eventually forgetting. Running a local service is much preferable, with devices syncing themselves as they see fit.
Pressing "See it in action" shows an empty black overlay.

Opening that link in a new tab works, but the demo/story isn't as helpful as it could be. For example it talks about screen recordings, so I was expecting to be able to play one back. If a live demo isn't practical, I think I'd prefer a short video showing typical usage.
Yes, but also keep in mind that the pointing devices in use were very primitive compared to what we have today and that many users were not as proficient. All contemporary operating systems had thick borders and some had very prominent resizing handles.
haha, I definitely saw some of that at Amazon

This highly-paid factory efficiency expert was enthusiastically explaining how he works. "You just listen to the workers. They know where the inefficiencies are"
Yeah, but the product didn't break down. It'd be a bit like you had a book in good condition, and the company came by and stole it out of your home after 10 years of using it (despite selling it to your for life).

I don't live in England, so maybe it's different there, but in the US you would not be able to claim partial completion of a contract in that case.
I would think the intestinal bacteria would remain (by biological design) in the intestinal parts of the animal, at least for 12 hours. No data on this though. You may be right
A name is not a government ID. And aside from mistakes, what is the issue? If you change your name, get a new passport.
Most coding jobs will not be gone in 5 years. Remember when "automation" was going to take all the trucker's jobs in 5 years? That was about 5 years ago and I'm not seeing many automated trucks on the roads. Of course code is different and some things are being automated, Copilot and similar projects are amazing and the next iterations will likely be mind-blowing. That being said, there's a looooong tail in programming where ML-aided code just won't be the final solution for a long time. (I'm guessing more like 20-30 years from now)

I also think there will be a long time where a programmer's job turns instead into writing extremely detailed comment-like code where you define nearly every requirement of the code (down to the "this button should be padded 5px from the top right and hover states should function as such..").

Until we reach the day where a designer could feed a design into an ML alg and out pops the backend, frontend, and infra to do the job and scale perfectly without bugs.. devs will be needed.

This will follow Gates' law, which says we overestimate the impact of technology in the short-term and underestimate the effect in the long run.
I ask it/him/her about heroes of the Forgotten Realms (from Dungeons and Dragons). And it/he/she is pretty aware of the lore. [much more than I am!]
It's not always so formal or sinister. I've seen consultants build relationships with younger managers and "rising stars" by buying them lunch and drinks, and even doing some free work that makes them look good. Then the consultant is an easy connection when there's some dollars to hire consultants.
AM radio is a pretty poor standard considering how much power and bandwidth it uses, due much to the very limited modulation technology available in the 1920s.

DRM (no not that DRM--Digital Radio Mondiale) is a modern digital standard that promises much better spectral efficiency, power efficiency and range. See https://www.drm.org/. It is similar in concept to DAB, using an OFDM carrier, but with more robust error correction and equalisation, and lower bit rate codec to handle larger broadcast areas.

There is a hope that this could upgrade existing AM broadcast infrastructure, allowing rapid coverage of large areas without the expense of building out new towers.

The MW/HF bands are great for coverage because of the longer wavelength, relative to the VHF bands used for FM and DAB.
"Consultants are hired mercenaries in coporate warfare, they don't care about you, they don't care about your company or the rivalries or the squabbaling."

"They are not brought in to solve problems"

I've known people that worked for consultancies and the biggest value add they think they have brought is when the problem is the rivalries, politics, and squabbaling has led to inaction and they've needed outside support to come in who don't care about these things.

Perhaps we should hope for companies to have leadership teams where they are able to cut through this intransigence, but unfortunately all too often with old companies stuck in their ways this isn't the case.
There was legislation, some slow movements towards ID, but nothing really happened. The general public weren’t required to carry ID. But yes the conservative and Lib Dem coalition repealed it

> Only workers in certain high-security professions, such as airport workers, were required to have an identity card in 2009,[clarification needed] and this general lack of compulsory ID remains the case today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006
The odds of replacing markdown and all it's issues seem nearly impossible given its ubiquity and I've run into many of those problems but, this seems just as arbitrary in many ways,

For example:

> Block-level elements can't interrupt paragraphs (or headings), because of goal 7

It then goes on to show they do interrupt paragraphs

- this then - this other thing

vs

- this then
- this other thing

The 2nd is 2 list items but it's just the first with being interrupted by a block-level element.
I agree it is easy to believe that AI will replace engineers, but in history the tractor increased yield allowing farms to harvest more grain. Take a project and try to craft a prompt such that the ChatGPT generates a similar function. Although impressive the code won't "fit together" on its own. It is al so important to remember that things such as high level languages and api's have already been abstracting software higher and higher through the years. Software is largely copy pasting code according to your own mental architecture of how things should be created. ChatGPT is only replacing the copy paste part of that process. Yes it's possible that systems integration and prompt generation will play a larger role in the future, the need for software engineers will be present until you can get solid answers for: ChatGpt {"Generate a software package to improve yourself"} actually works.
Here's an example of that with a smaller BERT model: https://pair.withgoogle.com/explorables/fill-in-the-blank/
Don’t confuse assets with cash. That the company has something with a book value of £1.3M does not mean that they should be obliged to spend their rest of their lives maintaining mIRC for free.
ChatGPT already gives wrong answers. When I asked it to cite sources for its incorrect information it made up a non-existent journal article and provided fabricated direct quotes from the non-existent article.
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Firing people for organizing a union is explicitly encoded in law as being illegal. Refusing to publish people's content on your website is covered by no such law; instead, there are laws to the contrary.
Obviously there's no shortage of ugly history in Europe, but Europe doesn't have this particular historical context. I would expect Europeans to be naive about this. I've had this discussion before.

> You don’t think black people can get ids?

Statistically, they are less likely to do so.

Edit: For me, an eye opening tidbit was this admission by a Republican strategist that the late 20th century discourse was about shifting from overt language about racism to more covert, abstract, economic talking points that are still rooted in racism. This is a left wing source but has the actual audio recording of that admission. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa... -- the takeaway is that you can't take a surface level read on a proposal and trust that no direct mention of race implies that it is not racist.

I think what Atwater predicted in this clip somewhat came true. Enough time has passed that young people have unironically embraced the dog whistles as idealized abstractions about small government and economics, states rights or federalism, without realizing they used to be dog whistles and not genuinely held when popularized.
not a doctor, but i noticed an increase in calcium leads to an increase in air wax production
I suspect the reason for this is that it postpones the need to resolve the action before providing relief to the workers. Without this notice, Amazon could continue to to illegally fire people and eventually might have to pay a price. With an injunction and a threat of contempt the stakes for Amazon to do that are much much higher. Contempt it not something you want to mess with either as a lawyer or as an entity. This basically says "if you continue to fire people and we find (now or later) that you have done so illegally you will be in contempt.

Probably the issue for Amazon is whether they will be able to successfully argue that they had no idea what they were doing was illegal. I'm unclear on what will happen to a lawyer (if anything) for knowingly participating in contempt. Not a lawyer and not a legal expert so just guessing.
What you perceive as a contradiction is non-absolutism with regards to the freedom of association. In the collision of two rights, balance is found in nuanced consideration of the particulars of a situation. Here, you're contrasting the rights of workers with the rights of shitposters.
> Bugpilot automatically collects screenshots, screen recordings, steps to reproduce, user info, and console logs, so you don't have to ask.

Sounds nice, most of my bug reports are "it doesn't work", and that's literally it! and of course most times the software is perfectly fine and it's the user that's "broken".
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Putin canned Serdyukov pretty quickly, so you can scratch the 'rebuild Russian military" off the list