skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If they are well compensated and have proper work conditions, what the shareholders and bosses are making is irrelevant.

So why does the net worth of Mandy Moore, et al., matter?

> Market forces should determine their pay

Residuals are due to market forces.

It feels like you should be arguing against causality0, not me.
I answered upthread.

Sometimes I suspect that there is signaling going on that helps the traffic signals to favor the light rail train here. Then, sometimes, I suspect that there is not.
Incandescent light bulb ban goes into effect next week
The sword analogy is getting a bit awkward here, but the people making the sword only care about how well it protects media and software - because they want their marketplaces (app/music/movie/game stores) to be as attractive as possible to media conglomerates.

They don't give a damn how well it protects you.
we have option to go to huge market and stock for a week, but that's unpleasant, biting long and cumbersome.

stopping by and for small shopping while walking with dog and or biking from gym to buy few fresh things for this tonight is hardly a unpleasant chore... so it's a matter of perspective
There's No Way to Make Space Travel Good for Planet Earth
I honestly don't understand why people complain about this. One of the best parts of software development is that your tools keep getting better. Your value as a developer keeps growing because the code you have written in the past gets automatic improvements.
Lieutenants that "lead" the way you're imagining never see the rank of Captain. They typically receive an early separation with a general discharge that stick with them for life, or get reassigned to a desk where they remain until the end of their contract.
I agree with you re: NULL being a useful thing. I personally use nullable floats in an internal company program to denote unknown values. However, the "billion-dollar mistake" everyone brings up with it has to do with NULL allowance being implicit. In languages like C/C++, Java, C#[a] (and more), any pointer could be NULL and the only way to know is to do a NULL check. In SQL (which we're talking about here), one must explicitly call out `NOT NULL` in the column's definition.[b] Rust (and other FP languages) gets a point here by having "optional" types one must use to have a NULL-like system.

[a]: C# is fixing this with "nullable reference types", but as long as it's still opt-in, it's not perfect (backwards compatibility and everything). I can still forcibly pass a NULL to a function (defined to not take a null value) with the null-forgiving operator: `null!`. This means library code still needs `ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(arg)` guards everywhere, just in case the caller is stupid. One could argue this is the caller shooting themselves in the foot like `Option.unwrap_unchecked` in Rust, but "good practice" in C# (depending on who you ask) tends to dictate guard checks.

[b]: Which is kind of stupid, IMO. Why should `my_column BOOL` be able to be null in the first place? Nullable pointers I can understand, but implicitly nullable everything is a horrible idea.
> How providers do that is up to them.

Sure. You are either demanding the impossible - or effectively banning encryption use because there is no other way how to comply with what the law demands, despite it ostensibly not banning anything.

So that's rather disingenuous argument, IMO. The problem is that the governments not only don't care about technology, they don't understand it either. And tend to imagine and demand things that are about as realistic as a square circle - but it is a law, we don't care how you do it, it is your problem!
You're probably not supposed to stop a car in those places, and when you do, you're supposed to stop on the road, never on the sidewalk. Steep fines for that in Belgium at least, though the odds of getting caught are slim.
Are you a doctor or scientist? What is your credential to critique his view.

Perhaps the questions about vaccine safety and efficacy have some basis in the empirical experiences of practitioners and recipients?

The human immune system is vastly complicated and not even close to being fully understood by science.

Is it unreasonable to want intelligent, unbiased answers to reasonable questions, or is that sacrilege "because we already know"?

A fundamental of science is repetition of experiments. This is how we know and verify what we know: it will be true consistently with repetition.

If vaccines are as safe and effective as claimed the sellers and proponents should have no problem defending them. In fact so doing would bolster their position, if they are being honest.
And that’s also a choice that should be factored in.
This is what Oppenheimer should’ve been about.

Not

SPOILERS

Mediocre politics, sex, boredom biopic.
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I don’t actually disagree about chat logs. (An argument could be made that no-logging IRC was a good thing when it allowed volunteers to run genuinely large networks on the relatively wimpy contemporary machines they had access to, but it’s solely of historical relevance.)

I just think that the general argument that users are only capable of running server software with as much uptime as they care for (in the “easy” < 90% range) is unfair to users. They’re not dumb, it’s us the programmers who have made them behave as though they are and gave them little choice in it.

All that aside, a say 95- to 99-percent-online machine is pretty handy to have when you can code, you should try it if you don’t have one. The best such machine is one you don’t use interactively—an old desktop in a closet, an RPi with a USB HDD, hell, that old Eee PC you have laying around gathering dust works pretty well and even comes with builtin battery backup. You don’t—and shouldn’t—need to have one, but it’s liberating to be able to go “oh I’ll just throw that into urlwatch and have it poke me on Telegram” without a second thought. Now excuse me while I pacman -Syu && reboot my webserver :)
There’s a massive gap between covering the basics and being in rat race optimizing for material stuff.

Who cares if you drive a fancy car or a 10 y/o toyota? Both gets you from A to B in a relatively safe manner. If someone does care, that’s his problem. Same applies to pretty much any expenses line. Meanwhile having plenty of time to yourself may help to prevent many health issues and do things that make life wholesome.
My understanding is elasticache does not let you turn them off.
The poor people living in Boston live in Roxbury and Dorchester. Coincidentally, these are the areas with by far the worst car dependency and worst public transit in the city.
“Will AI Destroy Us?”: Hughes, Yudkowsky, Marcus, and Aaronson [Transcript]
iOS Safari release changed the floating point math of the JavaScript engine
Does your employer get to use code you wrote after they pay you? Do they get to market features you worked for after you leave?

Do landlords get to collect rent on buildings after the architects are paid to design it?
Similarly to that, I saw people in awe that when you receive a token via SMS on iPhone it allows you to copy it without opening the message. Something that Android also already had since before. In Android's case it even writes it on the app automatically without the need to do anything at all
... But how many missiles would be used to take down a massive wind farm vs taking down a single nuclear reactor?

Regardless of whether the enemy has lots more missiles, they still have a finite number of them. Those missiles cost money. War is as economic as it is kinetic.

Using those missiles to disable power generation means they can't be used on other targets. Overuse of ammunition eats into stockpiles or forces early resupply, which takes time.

Time matters in war.
This just proves that it isn't an inherent problem, but one that americans created for themselves. Yes, you can just buy smaller car seats, just like you can buy a smaller car. They'll be a little harder to get at first and probably a bit more expensive, but next to the cost of a new car, it will be little more than a rounding error. And as more people start buying them, they'll get cheaper and easier to buy.
I don’t know, I’ve tried joining some discord communities, and they were all like slack with trigger-happy channel creation, in each channel it was really hard to even grasp what the conversation was about because of emoji and meme flooding.

Maybe it’s me getting old, but while I remember quite vividly that IRC regulars liked to flood with emoticons just as much, in five minutes I’d know what the conversation was about. In discord… not so much. And there’s the whole voice layer I didn’t even touch. It’s too chaotic and demanding full immersion, so I just noped out of there.

(And there’s the whole aspect of Discord actually owning it all, and banning you discord-wide if you blow your nose funny.)

The idea of using discord as a medium for conversations you mean to log and refer to later seems like bollocks in the light of above. Also the idea of having work discussions there seems to be bollocks too and indistinguishable from Slack in 99% aspects imaginable.
Surprisingly, more people are opting for Greyhound because of the horrors of flying since COVID-19.

Greyhound is also, in my mind, significantly different than regional public transit. I consider it more like an airline for poor people. Public transit, definitely there are poor people using it, and there are also commuters, especially on the Express lines, which have a premium fare and operate exclusively during office-commute hours. (R.I.P.)
It's interesting to see civilians looking to the military for leadership and management ideas. I'm a career Army officer, and when I was a young officer I looked to civilian books and other resources for management advice. Over the years, however, I've come appreciate more what the Army has written on the topic.

Here's the current (2019) version of the Army's doctrine on leadership, if anyone wants to see how it has evolved and what's being taught today: https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN20039-ADP_6-...

And here's the companion guide for "developing leaders:" https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN36735-FM_6-2...
Notice the word “Some”
I appreciate this comment.

Unlike this article, at least Machiavelli didn’t pretend he was doing science.
Because that’s the contract they sign and they own the rights to the book. Actors don’t own the rights to the movies.
As a veteran in technology with 20 years active and reserve service, this is 100 percent ignorant, prejudiced, and offensive. Typical arrogant take along the lines of "those poor military people only joined because they had no other options."

Unhappy people also can't quit their civ jobs without serious repercussions. Losing your paycheck and medical is not nothing. And I can say that I've seen just as much stupidity and bad leadership in the private sector as I ever saw in uniform, as well as outstanding leadership in both.

You sound like someone who either had a bad experience in uniform and is extrapolating that to the entire DoD, or you never served and you're spouting off what you read on the internet.

Edit: I see it's the first. I'm sorry that happened to you, but this is still a very blinkered take that over-weights your own experiences as being applicable across the board.
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In the short-run, just more practical cars such as hybrids and plug-in cars. In the long-run, it is the inevitable plunge in cost of hydrogen, which will make fuel cell cars the cheaper type of car to own.
> There's no gifted program or tracking/segregating by ability anymore. I guess those are bad for "equity".

The CA Dept of Education used to require GATE programs. In 2014, they made them optional, so schools stopped offering them. What's shocking to me is that this happened even in districts where there are lots of high-performing kids, with families that care about advanced learning. When we moved to Menlo Park, we were surprised that our highly-rated school doesn't have any programs for kids who are advanced in learning. They just talk about how all their lessons have a "low floor and high ceiling" which sounds nice in theory but doesn't work very well in practice (at least when you have a mix of kids who range from 1-2 grades below grade level to 2-3 grades above grade level).
Sure we can. We can start spreading Serpentine rock on the Ocean's surface. We just need some billionaires to fund it.

Serpentine rock, which is primarily composed of the mineral serpentine, has been considered in the context of climate change mitigation due to its potential to sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) through a natural process called mineral carbonation. This process involves the reaction of CO2 with certain minerals, like serpentine, to form stable carbonate minerals like magnesite.

The reaction kinetics of carbonation using serpentine rock are generally slow under ambient temperature and pressure conditions, which is one of the main challenges in utilizing serpentine for carbon sequestration. The rate of the natural carbonation process depends on various factors, such as the particle size of the serpentine, temperature, pressure, and availability of CO2.

At ambient conditions, the carbonation of serpentine can take from several months to thousands of years to proceed to completion. The slow reaction kinetics is mainly due to the formation of a passivating silica-rich layer on the surface of serpentine minerals, which hinders the further reaction with CO2.

However, if we ground up serpentine rock into 1cm pieces and sprinkled it on the Caribbean sea between Cuba and Jamaica, we can estimate how many tons we would need to use to carbonize our deficit of 15 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide:

To estimate this, we need to consider the stoichiometry of the carbonation reaction. Serpentine rock primarily contains the mineral serpentine, which has the chemical formula Mg3Si2O5(OH)4. The carbonation reaction involving serpentine can be represented as:

Mg3Si2O5(OH)4 + 3CO2 → 3MgCO3 + 2SiO2 + 2H2O

Here, one mole of serpentine reacts with three moles of CO2 to form three moles of magnesite (MgCO3) as the primary carbon capture product.

Now, let's calculate the molar masses:

Serpentine (Mg3Si2O5(OH)4): (3 × 24.305) + (2 × 28.085) + (5 × 15.999) + (4 × 1.008) = 277.24 g/mol
CO2: (12.011) + (2 × 15.999) = 44.01 g/mol

From the balanced equation, three moles of CO2 react with one mole of serpentine. Therefore, the mass ratio of serpentine to CO2 is:

277.24 g/mol (serpentine) / 3 × 44.01 g/mol (CO2) = 2.087

To sequester 15 Gt of CO2, we would need:

15 Gt × 2.087 = 31.305 Gt (gigatons) of serpentine rock

However, this calculation assumes that the carbonation reaction would go to completion, which is unlikely in a real-world scenario, especially with 1 cm pieces of serpentine rock. The reaction kinetics would be extremely slow with such large particles, and the reaction may not proceed effectively in the ocean environment. Grinding the serpentine rock into much finer particles, using catalysts or additives, or applying pressure and temperature could enhance the reaction rate, would perhaps make it go faster.
So, the Gervais Principle has some backing?

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
The light won't make you safer. It might make you feel safer, which is a different thing entirely.
I don't see any benefit in this product having two identical sensors side by side. Based on the datasheet, the reading between sensors is quite consistent, meaning that there's no improvement in accuracy. What would be better is to have two different sensors, one of which actually counts PM 10.0.

A little-known fact about these air quality sensors is that they don't actually measure three different particle sizes, they typically measure the smallest one and then return some statistically determined value for the larger ones.

[1] https://www.digikey.jp/htmldatasheets/production/2903006/0/0...
They are proving that the present techniques being used to control their models can be reliably bypassed. Regardless of what you want your model to be able to do, there may be things that you don't want it to do. For instance, if you are making a product for children you'd probably want it to avoid certain content.

If you are training you own model, it would be nice to know what, if any, techniques you could employ to balance the effectiveness of it with generality.
This article is weird. It goes on an on about things like QAnon, 9/11, etc. that are simply not connected to anything and exist only to flavor the article. It says this harms people... but provides one random quote and no real substantiation of that. And the 'harm' seems to be that... someone might get punished for breaking the law?

It's also not clear what they think the solution is here, ignore a child being prostituted online because they might not be a sex slave to a cartel? Sure, advertising under certain emojis or whatever may not be "statistically significant" according to some report in terms of whether someone is trafficked, but if there's a child prostitute, maybe it's not a bad thing if someone helps the police go make sure she's not literally a child sex slave?
"Shell shock" becomes a euphemism when you're talking about people traumatized by something other than artillery. PTSD is more general, and therefore more precise in the general case.
> the account merge code could have been narrowly scoped

IMO automated merging/deduplication of "similar" records is one of those incredibly hard problems, with edge cases and race conditions galore, that should have a human in the loop whenever possible, and should pass data (especially data consumed asynchronously) as explicitly as possible, with numerous checks to ensure that facts haven't shifted on the ground.

In many cases, it requires the implementors to start by thinking about all the concerns and interactivity requirements that e.g. a Git-style merge conflict would have, and try to make simplifying assumptions based on the problem domain from that starting position.

Looking at the Mastodon source [0], and seeing that there's not even an explicit list of to-merge-from IDs passed from the initiator of the merge request to the asynchronous executor of the merge logic, it seems like it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.

This is not a criticism of Mastodon, by the way! I've personally written, and been bitten by, merge logic with far worse race conditions, and it's frankly incredible that a feature like this even exists for what is effectively [1] a volunteer project! But it is a cautionary tale nonetheless.

[0] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/workers/a... (note: AGPL)

[1] https://opencollective.com/mastodon
George Carlin's take on the words:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSp8IyaKCs0
I have this problem a lot in rimworld. I solved it by running more than a single line. I feel like that's a viable solution for attacking transmission lines in the real world, too.

Transformers less so, I suppose. I'd imagine those could be hardened. Is there a reason we couldn't place them underground?
The thing speaks for itself.
It does today. You have a retry queue and you can use a persistent storage for it.
If you read the link you would realize that property taxes don't even cover 25% of the ongoing maintenance cost. The rest comes out of the general tax pool at everyone else's expense, regardless of whether we live there or not.
>“I don’t memorize trivial information that’s easily looked up in books”

holy X

I get accused at having a poor memory A LOT!.

And I constantly tell people, I have a great memory - there are just things I dont choose to commit to memory.

I can tell you every single password I have typed into a machine. FblQ00Ho <--- ix.netcom.com 1996

But I cant tell you WHAT YOU TOLD ME you ate for lunch yesterday and suddenly I am a jerk.

"Why cant you recall what I told you yesterday??!?!?!?"

UH, because thats ephemeral information I dont need to hold in my head?
> …there is a search function on the bottom of every single YC page

Weird, in all seriousness, I never noticed.
yes - the US tells them who to fear and who to hate, and why.

the entire anglosphere follows the beat of their drummer. it's obvious if you ever travel outside of the 5 eyes countries + NATO, which i'm guessing like 90% of english speakers don't, and never will.
In the long-run, likely FCEVs. They are also EVs, just without the huge batteries. Advances in production are likely to reduce cost to ICE car levels. Advances in hydrogen production will make green hydrogen follow the curve of wind and solar, which is extremely cheap.
Yeah, a celebrity is someone who is celebrated. The “quick rise to fame” explanation seem like a folk-etymology.
Its a wholesale club. Replacing an item at full price would be the complete opposite purpose of the store and membership. Its not about the available supply of a product, its about Costco using its purchasing power to buy the product at a cheaper rate in bulk. If the supplier changes the price that item it has to be re-evaluated.[1][2]

"If Costco feels the wholesale price of any individual product is too high, they will refuse to stock the product. For example, in November 2009, Costco announced that it would stop selling Coca-Cola products because the soft-drink maker refused to lower its wholesale prices.[96] Costco resumed selling Coca-Cola products the following month.[1]"

Info on Kirkland Signature[3] information.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco#Kirkland_Signature

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20091216131039/http://www.ajc.co...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/05/business/costco-kirkland-sign...
Specifically, right through minority neighborhoods in cities. You can't ignore the explicitly racist history of urban "renewal" when discussing freeway planning.
Do you have a roadmap of the changes you are looking to bring? Any changes to Otel you’re looking to add as well?
> Having bad leaders in an authoritarian system (there are many in the military) effectively amplifies the problem they create which is likely where this bias comes into play.

Additionally, good leaders in an authoritarian system can be more effective. It's just that no one wants to make the gamble for society at large.

It's more or less necessary for grunts where ultimately someone will be mandating another endangers themselves. I don't think modern society has enough bloodthirsty people to field a military completely composed of willing participants. We do have enough that think they're bloodthirsty to field our "voluntary" forces.
It is a self-reinforcing cycle. Upper management hires a manager the manager meets all of the sales/service metrics but the employees complain about the managers style. Upper management feels they set the metrics high so this managers style must be working so they promote the manager and dismiss the employees concerns as complaining.

If the manager starts missing metrics, manager start firing employees to cover up for these misses and maybe moves to a different region because they have laid as much destruction as one place can handle.
The movie was based off a book, which was about Oppenheimer hence the title.

I thought it was amazing, sure some parts were a bit long.

Makes sense if the movie Hiroshima is more focused on Hiroshima than Oppenheimer.