skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, things like this can be quite funny when you look into them.

One of my favourite staples of chinese food (in the UK) is crispy duck. A dish which consists of duck which has been roasted and then often flash fried to get crispy skin and tender meat, then is shredded and served with fresh cucumber and shredded scallions, hoi sin and/or plum sauce and rice pancakes to wrap it in. A little like Fajitas, it's an interactive meal and you build the pancakes yourself at the table.

I failed trying to find it here in Western Australia, so I did some internet digging and figured out it was quite possibly invented in a hotel London.

(Various forms of chinese roast duck exist everywhere, I just haven't seen this specific setup outside of the UK, where every chinese place serves it pretty much. Note it is quite different to standard Peking duck, it's cooked more like pulled-pork with all the fat rendered through.

I realise this is the internet, and won't be at all surprised to be told not only that I'm wrong, but also where to buy it in Perth ... here's hoping I guess)
Ask HN: Blog style communication with co-workers?
I've been getting into the habit to write 1-10 sentences at the end of my day that attempt to anticipate appropriate responses if someone asks me about work over audio/video the next day. I'll sometimes add links. Ideally I'll have a to do list to start my day.

This habit really helps with having a productive morning. I don't really need to think for the first 3-4 hours of work. I can just focus on building and fixing.

I wish I could post the 1-10 sentences on a company blog so I can eliminate meetings all together. Only schedule a meeting with me if something is very unclear or it is demo day.

Have you ever tried this style of communication with co-workers? If so, how did it go?
Again, there doesn't need to be a conspiracy behind it (as Kanye believes) it's just what the market (and "the algorithm") selects for.

As C. Wright Mills wrote in The Power Elite, "To accept either view -- of all history as conspiracy or all history as drift -- is to relax the effort to understand the facts of power and the ways of the powerful." The precise form of our situation is not inevitable. Just as algorithms are written by people, so are laws and extortion notes. The tools that oppress us may be refashioned into others that free us. We must keep in mind that tools are nothing in themselves; they take on significance when used.

I do agree "that machine sells to everyone". Perhaps it makes sense to compare the situation of teen girls to that of black families like you suggest, since there is a sizable overlap between these groups. Rather than despairing of all the awful media, however, would it be better to focus on better media? The Cosby Show was produced in the 1980s, but surely there are good things happening now? Not necessarily shows on television, which is itself the sort of machine we're discussing. I've heard good things about "Black Twitter"...

Conservatism seems reasonable in the face of the issues you identify, but it's not, especially if you're following Milton Friedman on the minimum wage as you indicate above. The real minimum wage right now is barely half of the inflation-adjusted $12 it was in 1968. Had it kept pace with productivity as well as inflation, it would have been $22 by now. [0] Our enemies don't care about ideology. They happily wore the skins of Republicans before they wore the skins of Democrats, and it will be no trouble for them to switch again.

The lockdown did harm teen girls, even if we can't prove it to the scientific satisfaction of thread parent. That's not even the really bad part. What they have done once, they can and will do again. When it is normal for children to plug into a device instead of going to public school, it will be easy for some asshole billionaires to arrange that the children will just plug into their "education" apps and all the money we used to waste on teachers instead can just go to collateral for some asshole billionaire personal lines of credit. After they've done away with teachers, the McKinsey consultants will start examining whether the children really need parents. After all, they don't need a home if they're plugged into their devices...

But seriously, give Whitlock a listen, especially one of the episodes featuring Royce White. They are both better than Steven "A" Smith, in every respect.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/21/politics/minimum-wage-inflati...
The RIAA is already trying to push for YouTube downloaders to be considered DMCA 1201 circumvention devices.

The thing is, a lot of us here have the understanding that "encryption equals technical protection", and that's not quite true. The law was drafted to talk about any sort of copyright enforcement mechanism, not just ones that employ cryptography. For example, we could imagine a legal argument in which the Linux linker's license check[0] is considered to be a DMCA 1201 technical protection measure, and proprietary modules that lie about their license[1] or modules that wrap proprietary code[2] would be considered circumvention tools.

If you're thinking, "wait, Linux is GPL, the courts should interpret that to override any spurious 1201 claims"... well, version 2 didn't explicitly mention the DMCA, which was signed a good decade after GPLv2 was released. Version 3 fixes that by explicitly saying none of this code is a DMCA 1201 technical protection measure. But this is Linux we're talking about. Linus Torvalds views the TiVo clause as changing the deal, which he does not want to allow, so they're never relicensing to v3, and so this legal argument can still stand.

And yes, advertisers have already used this legal theory to harass uBlock Origin. This is specifically why they don't block paywall enforcement scripts. The developers were threatened with a 1201 suit if they didn't back down.

There's other examples of things which could be retroactively turned into DMCA 1201 circumvention devices as well. Remember those old right-click scripts that yelled at you if you tried to open the context menu? Well, the purpose of blocking that was to keep you from copying the content on the page, which under this legal theory makes it a DMCA 1201 circumvention device. Doesn't matter if it's hilariously easy to disable, or if browsers already disable it. If copyright owners can just will technical protection measures into existence, rather than them being very specific and obvious things like media encryption or software license keys, we're screwed.

[0] When loading a kernel module, Linux checks a license string field. If the license is not a GPL-compatible one, the linker will refuse to resolve "GPL-only[1]" symbols for that module, and it will also mark kernel bug reports as "tainted", i.e. "please don't bother LKML about it unless you can repro it without proprietary code in kernel space."

[1] Linux ships with a special GPL exception that says that the user-space API does not trip GPL copyleft. So the symbols that proprietary modules are allowed to access are ones that are equivalent to user-space.

[2] One particularly egregious example was to store nulls in the license string, e.g. "GPL\0 for everything in the GPL folder" (which was empty).

[3] e.g. NDISWrapper
You know, call me an optimist but I think humanity could muddle through without us SWEs. But, kinda do need that housing though. Confident 10/10 people would choose house over software engineer. Especially anyone whose identity was stolen in a breach, whose kids are addicted to or victimized by social media, or scammed by crypto, etc etc etc.
It's kinda sad how the best way to get attention for serious environmental policy issues these days is to make a screwball comedy starring some Hollywood heavy hitters playing against type.
FWIW, ThrillSeekerVR who helped who provided some unpaid feedback on the development of this headset, also mentions in his video that he personally measured the FOV as higher than the specs list and quotes the CEO of Bigscreen as saying that he plans to "underpromise and overdeliver" on that front: https://youtu.be/mieWJ9vupqw?t=183

Screenshot from above video: https://imgur.com/0JVeyRC
Maybe 1/1000 of that much.
I suspect it will be - most of medicine uses the idea of 'reference ranges' to establish normal physiological state.

The reference range is simply the range of observed states of whatever characteristic is being measured. Here, I would be interested in a study that maps caffeine doses to changes in various characteristics such as alertness/acuity and latency between periods of falling asleep.
> I don't think we should care if someone has to sell their current home at a loss due to market conditions

But they are only selling at a loss because under the proposal they would be heavily taxed if they wanted to hold on to the house and rent it out while they wait for the market to get better.

> taken to its logical conclusion you're saying people shouldn't lose money which to have a functioning economy you have to reject

No, they are saying that you should let people decide when they want to sell instead of making them sell when they will take a loss. That doesn't mean they won't lose money when they sell. It just means they can decide based on market conditions when to sell--which is what you want if you want a well functioning economy.
> What I haven't seen is any actual reporting. You know, talking to an expert, someone who has any actual knowledge about what steps are being taken, what the threat is, what steps should be taken but aren't, etc.

https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-de...

> “I think it was not in the best interest of human health and welfare and the environment to simply cover it up and keep going without at least a preliminary evaluation to determine if the level of vinyl chloride that was present in the soil was going to create a potential contamination threat to surface or groundwater,” said Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice who has a Ph.D. in soil science and has been working for Bennett & Williams Environmental Consultants since 1986.

> Weatherington-Rice said it’s possible vinyl chloride can travel through the ground as rain and precipitation move through the soil. It then has the potential to reach groundwater and eventually hit well fields.

> “It’s not a question of whether it’s going to be an issue, it will be an issue, the question is how bad of an issue is it gonna be, where is it gonna go, and how long is it gonna take to get there, and what’s gonna happen when it gets there,” Weatherington-Rice said.

https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-de...

> “We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open,” said Sil Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist.

> Caggiano says ethylhexyl acrylate is especially worrisome. He says it’s a carcinogen and contact with it can cause burning and irritation in the skin and eyes. Breathing it in can irritate the nose and throat and cause coughing and shortness of breath.

> Isobutylene is also known to cause dizziness and drowsiness when inhaled.

> “I was surprised when they quickly told the people they can go back home, but then said if they feel like they want their homes tested they can have them tested. I would’ve far rather they did all the testing,” Caggiano said.

> Caggiano says it’s possible some of these chemicals could still be present in homes and on objects until you clean them thoroughly.

> “There’s a lot of what ifs, and we’re going to be looking at this thing 5, 10, 15, 20 years down the line and wondering, ‘Gee, cancer clusters could pop up, you know, well water could go bad,” Caggiano said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/residents-ohio-tr...

> Andrew Whelton, a professor of environmental and ecological engineering at Purdue University, said it's possible the burn created additional compounds the EPA might not be testing for.

> "When they combusted the materials, they created other chemicals. The question is what did they create?" he said.
You can't really believe that brain-damaging chemicals in the air (and soil and water) is the same thing with lightnings in a severe thunderstorm!
"But when it comes to child pornography, I think maybe Colour should make a difference - if we're going to ban it at all, it should matter where it came from. Whether any children were actually involved, who did or didn't give consent, in short: what Colour the bits are. The other side takes the opposite tack: child pornography is dangerous by its very existence, and it doesn't matter where it came from. They're claiming that whether some bits are child pornography or not, and if so, whether they're illegal or not, should be entirely determined by (strictly a function of) the bits themselves."

I see what you mean about the "who did or didn't give consent" line. I don't see how "consent" could be a mitigating factor in determining whether or not something qualifies as CSAM.
In a world where the Ukraine war ended Covid, balloons in the sky can certainly keep environmental catastrophes off the front page.
Does she pick and choose what environmental causes are worthy of her attention?
>If we slap taxes on things we don't want people to do, then why do we literally tax work

Because we don't have a choice. You need resources to survive, you need to work to acquire resources.

The government wouldn't hesitate to tax breathing if they were confident we wouldn't hang them for it.
I’ve also been doing native windows without too much issue. I have run into difficulty setting up libraries like detectron though.

For the record, I loathe working in the windows terminal. But for people like me, conda is a lifesaver. The m2-base packages bring a pretty good number of tools into the terminal and significantly resurrect its usability.

I’m a little tempted to try wsl again with this improvement, but my last experience wasn’t great with it and I’ve gotten comfortable enough without it.
A city under the sand: The Lost City of Cecil B DeMille
The vacancy rate doesn't tell the whole story. Short term rentals and self reporting likely mask the effect I've mentioned.

I generally agree, SFs problem is 100% supply. But I think that ends up being caused by slow approval processes and highly restrictive tenants rights. Why would you ever subdivide your property in SF to add another dwelling unit? You can't give a tenant any amount of notice to end a tenancy. You can't ever merge those units back together. SFs property market is really crazy in this regard: older buildings with lots of units are often worth less than large single family houses. Properties with tenants sell for 25-50% less than vacant comparables.
The article disagrees with the title. A "career path" implies growth. As the article explains, the jobs that are "opened up" are low skill, commoditized, dead-end work. Robots are widening the economic gap between the poor and the disappearing middle class, and their operation is geared towards ensuring that customers never need interact with or even see the poor. Dystopia here we come
We are being asked to believe that on the cusp of the election Hunter Biden dropped off one to three laptops depending on source in a state he didn't live in rife with unencrypted evidence of crime and corruption to a Trumpers computer repair shop and never bothered to look into them again until the owner decided to do a possibly illegal trawl through his customers property and just happened to turn over this evidence not to the police but to a republican operative in the days before we vote.

Now even though the prior is astounding enough we are supposed to take it on the word of a known prolific liar who recently lost his license to practice law because of lies about the very same topic and ignore the ordinary practice of treating chain of custody as gospel.

but wait I hear you saying didn't experts authenticate the laptop? No, no they didn't they authenticated a few emails divorced of context. In other news half of the starlets out there had their nudes stolen from their iclouds a few years back. If you provided a true stolen picture of their boobs then concocted an elaborate fiction around it the very real boob pic wouldn't prove the elaborate fiction, wouldn't prove the authenticity of a machine you planted the pic on and wouldn't prove any narrative you wove around it.

In fact the selective spare morsels of data are as damning as the miserable liar who pissed all over any sane chain of custody discussion by grasping any such machine in his oily hands. If they had him dead to rights they would have leaked the entire email box or better yet a hard drive image for nerds to go through with a fine toothed comb.

They didn't because they didn't trust themselves to produce a convincing enough fake that could take any in depth analysis. This is also why you don't see any impending prosecution.

This didn't deserve a fair hearing in the news in the days before voting it was an attempt to corrupt the fair election that was about to take place. See Obamas birth certificate and the swift boat nonsense.

One conspiracy theory at a time please.
Dang I need to learn the techniques to rapidly putting these out I get stuck on things like DB managemen, accounts, security, and netcode
It is almost as if monopolies are bad.
> ... someone would immediately fork the project and do it for free

He said he's tried to find others to maintain the project and no one will help. Dunno why it'd be any different if there was a fork.

> ... not expect every installer to give you a dollar.

He isn't asking for every installer to pay. He's asking for enough financial support to work on core-js full-time, which seems reasonable given how depended-on the library is.
I recommend "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal" by Loehr and Schwartz.
> US companies make money from stories about Chinese weather balloons. They lose money when horrific things like this happen.

The carrier will lose money. But a news company would make money, wouldn't they? Bad news is good news after all, and environmental disasters are bad news.
It was a genuine question. Good to know that this is possible! It was my understanding that it was not the case.
Yes, they would be paying for developers' time, and most likely never notice the difference.

The value added doesn't automatically translate into a viable model where that money ends up in the library author's hands. Companies sponsor projects for exposure, street cred, or pay for commercial features and support. They will not hand out the realized savings out of goodwill.
Here's some data from the federal EPA (what they're measuring and where and what the numbers are),

https://response.epa.gov/site/site_profile.aspx?site_id=1593... ("East Palestine Train Derailment")
We'll be stuck with UTF-16 as long as we have Unicode, it would seem. The character set itself has to have a hole in the middle of it for the sole purpose of working around UTF-16 limitations.
Mostly because of the Flint thing in my other comment, but also because I spent an inordinate amount of my childhood on 4chan listening to people peddle their own coverup theories.
> The point of large open source projects like this is to parlay it into career opportunities

Yeah, you are in the minority with that belief.
I appreciate this comment because it is one of the few I have found that succinctly puts a finger on why people hate Teams so much. People say it's awful but they don't explain why.
The previous HN comments were also filled with “the media is not covering this!”. With the HN post linking to the Guardian and the top comment I saw at the time being a link to the NYTimes.

There may be legitimate arguments about whether it should get more coverage relative to other news, but it isn’t a conspiracy. It’s simple. People don’t want read/hear about this stuff in the US and US news, unfortunately, is a completely eyeball driven enterprise.
My self hosted matrix instance just imploded and we had to move 20 users off of it. I'm sure it was due to a sloppy mistake during a server upgrade or whatever but it seems pretty brittle to me.
Don't understand why the world's media hasn't converged on the area.

At least partly because it's not clear that it's safe to hang out there.
God, that footage is grim. Every railroader I know (BNSF & UP) has been super vocal about the working conditions for years. I know a guy who left his engineer position with the BN just due to how much the schedule sucks, this guy took a ~50% pay cut simply because the schedule and working conditions are so bad. All of this is preventable, but the railroads would rather chase higher profits and cut down on salary expenses.
What is it about? Is it about trying to construct an incoherent false narrative that it is being covered up?
Outrage about this story is directed at Norfolk Southern for operating the train without modern safety gear, for the Trump administration for rescinding the Obama era rules that would have required them to install modern safety gear, and the Biden administration for breaking up the strike that the workers were making over the safety conditions (among other things).

This accident was going to happen eventually and all of the people who had the opportunity to stop it were either denied or were actively fighting against preventing it from happening because it might have impacted the $10 billion stock buyback[1] that lined so many billionaire's pockets.

[1] http://www.nscorp.com/content/nscorp/en/news/norfolk-souther...
No, I disagree. Flint was a disaster because it went for years without being addressed - if this has a cleanup process starting less than a week after it happens, it's already being handled better.
If you look at the xkcd image again, he's near the bottom of the house of cards, whereas Dwarf fortress are at the surface
Yes, that’s exactly what I am doing. I don’t see an issue as long as you’re up front about your intentions.
In my case, the words help with self-documenting; knowing why I'm doing the calculations I'm doing.

I feel like over time, I spend a lot of time going over old Excel spreadsheets exploring the formulas I've put together and wondering what I was thinking, re-learning how they work, wishing I had something there to explain it that is more than just those "Attach notes to cell" things. In some of my spreadsheets, I've actually taken to writing docs in a separate markdown app, and then taking screenshots of the rendered pdf and pasting them into Excel. It's clunky.
> Java has more build tools then Clojure

First of all, than*, not then.

Second... no, it doesn't. Gradle and Maven are the standards, and they both use the very well documented, incredibly successful, Maven Central repository. They are just two different implementations using the same, reliable, battle proven approach to dependencies. You need a library? Add it to your build file, with its version, and you're done.

And yes, whether you spell it "wat" or "what", both these words are a dumb way of participating into a discussion that do nothing but expose your ignorance of the topic you are trying to debate. Voice your concern, question, challenge, in plain English, or you'll just come out as childish, combative, and not educated enough to take part in the discussion.
I'm surprised the "capitalizing a 32 character string" example is actually one second faster than adding two 32bit integers. Still super slow, but I'm curious why. I'd assume that if the string_cap.cc example takes 256 wires, wouldn't add.cc take 64 wires?