skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to read about your experience with this person and I think you made the right decision taking the legal route to address the issue, and it's important that justice is served. The enforcement of the judgment you obtained is essential, as it holds individuals and businesses accountable for their actions and commitments.

However, while your frustration with Upwork's inaction is understandable, the decision to ban Aaron H. or Ceed Civil from the platform or any other business listing should ideally be in line with the legal framework. If the court's judgment mandates that his business be prohibited from operating on certain platforms or in general, then it would be fair and appropriate for platforms like Upwork to enforce that.

On the other hand, if the court has not explicitly ordered such a ban, it may not be entirely fair to expect platforms to take this action solely based on individual judgments. Platforms typically have their internal policies and processes to deal with such situations, and it is crucial that they adhere to the rule of law.
Wow, this answered some questions I've wondered about for a while yet never thought of looking up. Especially the section on subpixel antialiasing; very neat. I didn't know that was an intentional thing, I figured it was just something that happened on its own.
Interesting how this title has magically now become - “What a musician turned cognitive scientist wants you to know about life” in the article
Sounds like a regulatory failure; an unoccupied building shouldn't be able to retain book value.
There were a lot of gas station explosions in early internal combustion engine history. It's a massive testament to technology and design (both car and pump adaptations over the decades) that these aren't so regularly occurring as they once were. But all the compensating technologies and designs don't necessarily mean that the original lessons weren't valid or that gas itself, an incredibly flammable substance, is ever truly "safe".
RPI clearly had the information and obligation to understand the nature of their problem and to implement an effective solution. Turns out they were unable to do so. One might say that the scientists were not trained on how to implement effective operational procedures, believing instead that a piece of paper with a message on it would be effective. Their claim that a cleaning company should have been able to anticipate their failure and do a better job at operational assessment than RPI seems like a losing argument.
Correct, this is it! It's basically a blend of screen recording and AE. The recording is made and then the software smoothes cursor movements and creates the zoom effects.
Not that it matters now, but the best trick is just going to Costco. Assuming you have a membership. The lines can seem fairly long, but they have lots of lanes, all staffed, and they run cars through each lane three at a time. The only time I've seen self-service be faster is at a relatively empty station where I could slot myself in to an open pump.
Otherwise when you wife asks why you're getting ads for 'single Muslim women in your area' you'll have no defence.
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> That has not been the case with Diablo before.

But it is the case now. You could say the same thing about any change or new feature in D4 but you draw the line at your own subjective opinion of what a true Diablo game is.
I have a partial solution to this I'm happy pretty happy with.

First, is that I dove farther into CS fundamentals. This has made new fads a lot easier to deal with because usually they're recycling old CS ideas. React hooks is a good example. I wrote class components for many years, adopting to hooks took me all of a day because Algebraic effects were something I understood well.

Second - I am firm about which tech I do and do not want to learn the specifics of. I understand the high level of kubernetes but will not be learning specifics.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qkvaam/google-confirms-cops-...

https://heartland.org/opinion/widespread-wiretapping-is-how-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-l...

To post a few
I honestly think it's a "do both" issue.

We seriously need to radically re-engineer most roads around me, but the police also really need to step up enforcement.

Before 2020 I could count the number of cars with either no plates or expired temp plates on one hand, since 2020 the number of cars with no plates is crazy, and the number of cars with months expired temp tags is just insane. That also tells me those cars don't have insurance, since I don't know of any insurance that will actually cover any claims you have with no valid registration.

https://www.thv11.com/article/traffic/arkansas-has-27000-car...

Even crazier to me, it looks like California is going to exact opposite direction and making it something you can't be pulled over for.

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB50/id/2813949
Maybe, but it wouldn't have been a slam dunk, because "have a dedicated writer" isn't a magic wand. I would have spent hours interviewing tech writer candidates instead of writing docs. I would still have spent a bunch of time putting information about the API into words for the benefit of the tech writer.

But the more important thing is, the product wasn't big enough or changing quickly enough to justify having a full-time tech writer on staff. The initial published version of the documentation was a few weeks of work to write and edit (spread out over a longer period since I was also doing other things, but a few weeks total). And after that, it only needed occasional updates when we changed something about the product or when a customer had a question that we realized indicated a gap in the documentation.

So we would probably have ended up hiring a contract tech writer. The writer wouldn't have been intimately familiar with the product. Which can sometimes be a good thing (since it means they have the perspective of a reader who is also not familiar with the product) but isn't necessarily great for efficiency.

And also, I enjoy writing! So it wasn't a burden for me at all, efficient or otherwise.
Right, and so lower collateral for other loans. This is apparently rampant in NYC. It's wild that incentives exist to make vacancy profitable. But there's a LOT of vacant storefronts and apparently vacant apartments (though it's hard to get this data..)
Glad you're not in charge of the App Store, going around banning any apps you don't like.
I mean... no? The number system we used is clearly path dependent on the ways that we measured things. Moving measured things to a single number is precisely why metric works so well. And is why many people in the world know their height not as a single number, but as a combination of two units.

This seems the case for all measurements. Used to, you wouldn't necessarily combine two units that often.

Evidence of the indus valley seems an odd choice? The images I'm finding online about them did exactly as I said, subdivide by half until happy with precision. Indeed, their "lower units of measure" were binary?
Congrats on the launch! I'm wondering how Argonaut compares to Porter (porter.run) when it comes to DevOps as a service. Thank you!
Off tangent, but I couldn't help but think of how Sergio Leone mastered the 3 Body Problem with his spaghetti Westerns, to relaunch what had become a moribund genre. The existence of the 3rd protagonist complicated the plot and maintained tension throughout, exemplified of course by the 3 way stare downs which became the iconic motifs of Leone's movies. Anyways
I looked at the xerox/sdd folder constantly for my first book. If you want to know why the hardware was bit-sliced processors instead of a 68K or 8086, it's all right there.
Conservatism offers no solutions here so we can safely write it off for this particular issue. There is no way to prevent content creators and media companies from running uncontrolled experiments to maximize advertising revenue or user engagement or whatever metric. In the USA we have the rule of law and constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression. The potential benefits of pushing right up to the line are so huge that there will be no voluntary restraint in the general case. Even if YouTube or Instagram were to restrict risque content the creators and consumers would eventually move on to a new service.
You don't "lose" consciousness when you fall asleep. Sleep is not the absence of consciousness, but the consciousness of absence. What's missing is what you think of as your "mind". If that's not the case, then ask yourself who is it that is sleeping? What registers the coming and going of the mind? That's you, the consciousness. If consciousness was going away, you would never know that you slept.
> To be clear, the failure was not in the act of selling itself, but in the decision to not reinvest the proceeds into new housing stock. This is the part that made the housing problem worse instead of better.

The kind of mass sell-off that occurred could only be considered a massive failure. Selling individual properties at market value when the intention is to reinvest that money is clearly without objection. But to this day, the government offers discounts of up to 70% on social housing. It is a direct transfer of public wealth into private ownership and it has invariably led to worse outcomes where it has occurred. Social housing, royal mail, and water infrastructure are the obvious examples but less obviously there's PFIs, energy, and the nhs.
Thank you for the comment! I have to admit it's hard for me to follow what you're saying, I'm not sure what you mean by "innovation" or "middle ground", or where you're getting that the JWT structure (of an OIDC token?) isn't consistent.
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Munk Debate on Artificial Intelligence, Bengio&Tegmark vs. Mitchell&LeCun [video]
It does not create new music from scratch using one of the techniques you mentioned, but just reuses parts from the song, blending the transitions between them. That is a cool idea though!
Where I live the city council deliberately rezones the city on a regular basis in a manner contrary to state law. Each time, it's overturned by the same group of citizens. It's a deliberate political tactic so they can tell voters "well we're trying to fix the issue but the awful government won't let us!". This way they can campaign on the same issues until the heat death of the universe. All the NIMBYs know in practice it is safe to vote for them, as they will never rezone the city.
+1 for international orders, would love to get notified once that goes live. I noticed that there doesn't seem to be a shopping cart to check out with multiple items at once, even if they're all from the same seller. Suppose that's not a big deal yet until I'm actually able to get orders shipped to USA, though. Good looks so far, very promising stuff!
Kinda. Meta and Twitter want you to join their platforms, they aren't general purpose search engines scraping the entire Internet - they're scraping people that join them. Requests from Meta/Twitter are probably from a link someone put in a post.

ChatGPT can't be an impolite Internet citizen (spoofing UA's) and claim to be using AI for the good for humanity, so they're not going to be dishonest with their user-agent.
Thank you. I'll add these now.
Another positive of the free money era on pause.
On the flip side, while on road trips, I've seen start the pump, then go into the store for 10 minutes to use the bathroom and buy a snack, hogging the pump spot for 8 extra minutes unnecessarily

I swear, I was the only person who would fill their tank and THEN park and go into the store.
Louisiana porn ID: how Act 440 is wrecking perfectly normal adult sex lives
STREGAsGate/GateEngine A cross platform 2D and 3D game engine written in Swift
I think it's difficult to make cities more dense if viewed as just strictly taking the current cities and trying to condense them, but that also seems like the less productive way to do it

First and foremost is that the US government itself needs to change how it gives out funds. Instead of emphasizing car and highway development over all, it should give money for cities which plan out multiple modes of transit and also develop 20-30 year maintenance plans (infrastructure maintenance is not currently factored into development). This would result in cities being financially incentivized to build for things other than car traffic throughput

The next place to start is with the new developments, giving them new regulations for how streets should be placed, reducing regulations involving setbacks, lot size, parking and allocating more land to mixed used or denser building, rather than single-family detached housing

As time goes on and roads need repairs, cities can use those as opportunities to connect cycling and pedestrian infrastructure, fix intersections (remove traffic lights, add roundabouts) and properly segregate public transit routes from private vehicle routes

It's a long process but cities only need to change the rules now and start building better developments. People will move to them over time, and they'll be able to convert older developments as people move out of them over time.

The thing that needs to change first, though, is the attitude and belief that car travel above all else needs to be heavily subsidized at the expense of everything else, only then will federal, state and local governments be able to begin making space for people
> There's no reason a 1/2 ton pickup should be bigger than a 1994 Ford F150

It is funny that we still call trucks like the F150, Ram 1500, Silverado 1500, etc as 1/2 ton pickups. Even though they are still officially categorized like that by all the manufacturers, Edmunds, Motortrend, KBB, and so on, they are actually essentially 1 ton pickups. Our "light-duty pickups" (which is their official classification) are actually 1 ton pickups.

The whole tonnage designation refers to the payload capacity of the truck (people and gear in the bed for example). Traditionally a 1/2 ton pickup could carry 1,000 lbs (half a ton roughly). This was the light-duty, "everyman's pickup".

But take the 2023, F-150. It has a payload capacity of ~2,200lbs on all trims above Lariat. And just shy (~1,800-1,900 lbs) on lower trims. These are literally 1 ton pickups being sold as 'light duty' 1/2 ton pickups. They are way more power than the average person needs, yet they are the best selling vehicles in america. When I look at my neighbords, of the 18 houses on my street, there are 14 pickups (3 of which are 3/4 ton pickups, the rest are 1/2 ton). There is one guy that carries a small trailer a few times each summer with a dirt bike in the back. The rest I have never seen carrying anything other than groceries or the occasional new TV in the bed. They are entirely unnecessary.

Not only are they more dangerous to pedestrians, and are worse for the environment, but they also clutter up the streets because they often don't fit in garages,so more and more people park on the street.

For fun, I looked up the current payload of the Ford Ranger, which is Ford's
1/4 ton pickup. And it clocks in at 3/4 of a ton. So again, we have moved up two notches in truck size.
From a quick scan, it appears that file was last updated in September of 2020, but has been around since 1991. https://www.tug.org/applications/fontinst/mail/tex-fonts/199...
Webb makes first detection of crucial carbon molecule in a planet-forming disc
Added DMMT & RS. Refactoring UI is in the works. Thanks! (
If you are a small woman and there are cougars in your area, trail running is also dangerous. You look like prey and trigger the hunting instinct. Pepper spray won't save you either, because they attack your neck from the rear. You're already dead before you are reaching for the spray!

Source: the signs outside Northern California open spaces (and the newspaper)
> Transition to trail running if you can.

Key phrase: if you can. I'm a runner too, and I run year 'round in a suburb that has all of the problems others here have mentioned. It is possible, and I've even written guides on how to do it safely. It just takes more effort. In particular, wearing headphones is even less advisable in winter than it is the rest of the year. You need to hear when vehicles are approaching, even if they're EVs and all you're getting is the tire/wind noise. It's certainly not for everyone.

For those who don't want to make the effort, I recommend cross-country skiing or snowshoes. Work with what you have.
It was certainly "both". It preserved jobs. It increased safety. Whether or not you agree that the marginal safety improvement was worth the marginal "efficiency and economy" lost.
They are not equal, nor approximate either. In this text they kinda use the approximation sign (≈) more like "same order of magnitude". Because if you do a comparison you find out that it's a 60% error between those numbers.
Starlink's laser connections have been active for a year now.
Nah. GPLv3:

> You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License. For example, you may not impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of rights granted under this License.

Given that there are a mix of licenses in use on Red Hat's distribution, they could be in a world of hurt. There's GPL, GPLv3, LGPL, CDDL, Apache, and so on. These all have different terms. GPLv3 in particular is the one that I think gets legally interesting, and I think it would be a neat court case.

Courts have recently taken up issues like non-compete agreements, and of course the enforceability of various contracts and licenses has always been a topic for interesting court cases. This would be the same way. Is the GPLv3 actually enforceable? Can you legally have a license or contract forcing action on the recipient of a piece of IP?

To say that RH did nothing wrong might actually come down to the legal fund at IBM of course, since courts are neither fair nor free.
The poster is most likely referring to laws like those in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's "anti-riot" bill, which was passed but eventually found unconstitutional. It gave civil protection to anyone who ran over protesters with a vehicle. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt also signed such a bill, House Bill 1674 in 2021, which says that people who run over protesters if they "feel threatened" can't be held civilly or criminally liable. North Dakota (HB 1203), North Carolina (HB 330), Florida, Tennessee, Rhode Island, and Texas also proposed similar bills. It is worth noting that several of the bills do say that if a driver wilfully runs over a protester, it's not ok, though language varies.
That sounds like a very one-sided argument. If you want a functioning government you're going to need money to pay for it, and if you don't have sales tax it means you have to get it elsewhere; it doesn't "make it go away".

If the argument was supposed to be 'a smarter, well-functioning tax system that pays for government facilities' then say that. But such a statement would need some references to back it up.
I see exactly this in Oakland, CA a lot. If someone slows down even a bit, people will rip around them and pass them in what should be turning lane. I think people are stressed, traumatized, maybe disabled from the pandemic/long covid. I also think instant gratification devices/apps have made us super impatient. And there's next to no traffic enforcement in many cities now.
I think the majority of the increased deaths are probably from the higher grills and weight -- instead of tumbling over the hood of a sedan, you get hit center mass by a truck or SUV which is far more damaging. That said, great point on jaywalking more, compared to when I was living in Germany or Estonia, we jaywalk far more (and engage in riskier activities in roadways like with scooters and ATVs) than those places.
> Your choices are consistent with the view that bodily continuity is necessary for personal survival. You risk death on the spacecraft, allow your mind to be messed around with by the virus and allow your soul to be destroyed so that your body (or at least your brain in a body) can have a chance of staying in existence. And it does.

apparently i have survived. the "virus vs silicon" choice was very easy, i already took something that changed my entire personality and rewrote my memories (mtf hrt)

> But is this survival of you? Is it enough for your body to continue to exist if your personality, wishes, beliefs, desires and memories do not?

it's the survival of a version of me and that's enough imo
Good to hear they are responsive to PR opportunities. Too bad their interview process doesn't match this level of enthusiasm.

I had a recruiter reach out from DB late last year. I wasn't looking for new work but it seemed like it'd be worth a chat. I had to move my schedule around to fit it in and then get up extra early to be prepared for the chat...only the recruiter never showed. Didn't follow up about missing a meeting they had scheduled. It's been crickets. That is enough of a lack of professionalism really stood out as a red flag. Hard pass.
I see this repeated whenever pedestrian fatalities are brought up, almost like clockwork. Is this really an epidemic of phone-gawkers that is causing a consistent increase in instances of cars killing people for their crime of entering a roadway on feet instead of wheels? I suppose it's a possibility. What I know for sure is that since the inception of the automobile, car companies have been extremely successful in shifting all blame and responsibility for cars killing pedestrians onto pedestrians. This talking point stinks to me as more of the same.

In the case of SUVs and trucks, we are talking about a few tons of steel accelerating to speeds that easily break bones, maim, and kill people with the slightest of errors. If you are going through neighborhoods or places with high pedestrian traffic at a speed that you can't reactively stop on a dime, and/or are driving a vehicle that has poor line of sight especially for small humans, that is a problem.

Maybe there really is an epidemic of people walking into the street without looking, I've just never seen it happen personally. In any case, if pedestrians are guilty of walking into traffic while looking at their phones then I can almost guarantee that drivers are even more guilting of staring at their phones while driving through neighborhoods and other areas where pedestrians are likely to be. The notion that distracted pedestrians are more of a problem than distracted drivers does not come close to passing the smell test for me.
Kris Jenkins wrote this page about functional programming, which is the best quick explanation of why functional programming languages matter: http://blog.jenkster.com/2015/12/what-is-functional-programm...

And then you mix that with Larry Wall's famous quote: "Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy."

So you mix these two references together and you get the idea that maybe Lisp and Scheme and ML make functional programming easy. Python, on the other hand, makes it easy to avoid the key feature of Lisp: separating concerns and managing complexity.

This doesn't mean Python is a bad language, and it doesn't mean you can't use python to craft programs in a functional style. But it's A LOT easier in Python for an inexperienced programmer to do things that Lisp and Scheme are trying to force you to avoid (by exposing unnecessary state to a function, conflating concerns and avoiding abstractions for manipulating complexity.)

I think this is why Scheme was originally chosen for SICP over contemporary languages like C or Modula-{2|3} or Bliss. It's simultaneously good for CS pedagogy and a small team can build decent, extendible, testable and debuggable programs with it.
It's an approximation. The sentence is perhaps confusing since it might imply that n! ≈ 10^n but that's not the case, the article uses 24 and 25 as the cut point where the approximation is true.

The linked post is more informative: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/06/22/mentally-approxima...