skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: Note that I have no opinion here, just answering someone's request for a source.

A cursory Google reveals...

> Neither were Feynman's escapades limited to bars; more than one of his biographies have documented affairs with two married women, at least one of which caused him considerable problems.[0]

Charlie Munger seems to be a source for claims that he would sleep with the wives of his undergrad students[2].

And then there are these passages[1], which appear to be from his own autobiography. This isn't necessarily cheating, but assuming that what he's written is true, they serve to make the accusations of infidelity more plausible.

> "... You must disrespect the girls. Furthermore, the very first rule is, don’t buy a girl anything –– not even a package of cigarettes — until you’ve asked her if she’ll sleep with you, and you’re convinced that she will, and that she’s not lying.”

>I adopted the attitude that those bar girls are all bitches, that they aren’t worth anything, and all they’re in there for is to get you to buy them a drink, and they’re not going to give you a goddamn thing; I’m not going to be a gentleman to such worthless bitches, and so on. I learned it till it was automatic.

>I think to myself, “Typical bitch: he’s buying her drinks, and she’s inviting somebody else to the table.”

>I stop suddenly and I say to her, “You… are worse than a WHORE! ... You got me to buy these sandwiches, and what am I going to get for it? Nothing!”

This Baffler[3] piece also focuses on this subject...

>He worked and held meetings in strip clubs, and while a professor at Cal Tech, he drew naked portraits of his female students.

>Even worse, perhaps, he pretended to be an undergraduate student to deceive younger women into sleeping with him. His second wife accused him of abuse, citing multiple occasions when he’d fly into a blind rage if she interrupted him while he was working or playing his bongos.

[0]https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio...

[1]https://restructure.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/sexist-feynman-...

[2]https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/richard-feynman-a-woma...

[3]https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/surely-youre-a-creep-mr-fey...
Played it for a few minutes, quite enjoyable, very well done.
> where as in North American they are predominantly company specific...

Why do you think that? I'm fairly certain this is incorrect.

AFAIK, North American unions are not generally company specific. They are trade specific in most cases, and in the case of auto-workers it's mostly the UWA.
Unfortunately, web exports are not yet supported. See https://github.com/ashtonmeuser/godot-wasm/issues/18 for more details. Web support is on the roadmap.
Oh, hey, I'm not saying off-duty police officers can't do side gigs. I'm more questioning them using publicly funded resources and authority to do so.

Anyone can try to direct traffic, but cops are paid to do it because they get the car and flashing lights (and I assume the ability to ticket/arrest violations) while still collecting side money.

It'd sort of be like me using my company's laptop/servers for side work, I guess.

e: some random source I found -- of course the answer to the question is avoided, other than "it's for the officer's safety"
https://www.al.com/on-the-road/2009/12/post_17.html
If labour cartels are allowed in Sweden, why aren't pricing or other cartels allowed?
That looks cool, thanks for posting it. I notice that you have a contributing section <https://github.com/cricalix/python-lsp-pyre#contributing> but no obvious licensing information (I checked some files, too, in case the license was in the file headers)
I love GitLab CI. We are too deep into GitHub Actions to migrate out of it. For every bullet-point above we've built something in house to workaround it. Things work, but it took many many months to get to the point where it is usable.
That open corruption is surprising but not surprising, why hasn’t it gotten federal attention?

The problem in Minneapolis presently is that there are not enough police. There are statutory requirements for numbers that are nowhere being met. For that and perhaps other reasons they are not doing their jobs very effectively to the extent that I feel considerably less safe than I did ten years ago. With numbers and personal experiences to back it up.
One of my favorite movies. This scene is thrilling, and the montage of the military occupying the country gives me chills.
One goal of the text field is to attach text that is not necessarily an image description or an image prompt but be more about thoughts and opinions.

You don’t have to give feedback to the AI, you can write whatever you feel.

It’s a bit explorative research. Perhaps the final dataset will be useful but it’s not a given.
I spent quite a few years working for a company unionized under the Communications Workers of America (700,000 members). Neither of these claims were true then or are true now.

A specific job title would have a wage tied to the agreement, that increased based on years in the title and other negotiated increases. There were absolutely performance bonuses... as per the agreement, not at the whim of management.

Management gets to set a wide scope of performance requirements, and those he cannot meet them lose their jobs.

What I do see is that unions do a good job at preventing arbitrary abuses by management... and management really hates that.

*per friends who still work there
Europe didn't have nearly as brutal of an anti-labor crackdown as the US had in the 1870-1920s period.
In practice does anyone buy that? I'm not a "government bad" person, I think it's necessary, if messy. I also think the problem with our government isn't that it has access to a lack of money.

Imagine this system was in place in 2000, you watch as trillions are flushed into a pair of 20 year wars. You watch as lax oversight leads to the crash in 2008. And you ask yourself if the piddling sums extracted from your property were well spent, and conclude that it probably wasn't.

If these taxes went into a single payer healthcare system, I'd be a lot more interested, but as just another step in gifting insurance companies another trillion... eh.
> We are told that quantum entanglement cannot transmit information, I am unaware of how rigorously this has been proven/disproven

This has been rigorously proven [1]. If you are transmitting information you are doing something in addition to using entanglement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
We also saw many other claims without evidence in the article, but people seem to manage to engage fine with those.

Is it really that far fetched that a bunch of corrupt cops are maybe racist too?
Methinks the kind of financial 'sophistication' which systemically leads to $2 million dollar luxury apartments does not foster the type of person who wants to deal with paying a manager to manage the staff to maintain a personal estate. Yes, I'm kidding, as they certainly wouldn't do these things themselves. Something something about the 'Apollonian' and the 'Mercurial'.
If you begin with materialistic[0] premises, it's little wonder that life becomes elusive. Indeed, life becomes meaningless as the concept cannot be accounted for within materialism. Now, if you begin with the common sense view that a rock is not alive, but a cat is, and then switch to a materialistic mode of explanation to try to find the reason why one is alive and the other isn't, you won't get anywhere in answering that question. Methodologically speaking, it should lead you to at least suspect your materialistic premises.

I would say that physical living things will need to have morphologies that serve the functions they possess. This much is obvious: I cannot see without the right morphological features to enable sight. But there is no morphological difference between a living eye and a dead eye, so to speak. A dead eye isn't even an eye, because to be an eye is to function as an eye. So morphology is insufficient.

The language of materialism is simply too poor to talk about such things. It is too poor for morphology itself.

[0] Before anyone responds with indignation, please understand that "materialism" has a technical meaning in philosophical and metaphysical contexts. It doesn't follow that non-materialists are people who believe in ectoplasm or believe life requires ghosts. In short, materialism is the position that all that exists is res extensa. Given the Cartesian view of the world, subtract res cogitans and you have materialism. No one lives completely as if this were true, but if some measure of intellectual assent is given to it, it can lead to very stupid conclusions.
Leetcode isn't progression, it is changing to a better track. Progress on that track doesn't require leetcode, just entering it.
Could be entirely wrong, but that was my understanding from unionisation votes in companies, and discussions about forming unions at companies. How does it work in North America? There's a catch-all union in Iceland that everyone who is not trade specific falls into.
No, but that's not the relationship between Google employees and the kernel either.

Google is functionally a third party vendor submitting their own solution for a technical problem the Chromium team wants fixed by changes to the kernel. That's the lens through which the response should be seen imo.

Google isn't a coworker, a teammate or a friend in this situation. They're a third party entirely.
Unions don't set pay-levels, just minimum pay and percentage pay increases, generally.

Furthermore, just look here in California to multiple successful white-collar unions: the WGA (writers), the DGA (directors), and SAG (actors). If you're bad at your job or people don't like to work with you, you won't get hired, yet meanwhile, the unions guarantee everything from health insurance to minimum pay to pension to residuals and therefore allow much greater mobility between studios, jobs, and shows.
Sometimes you can declare "self-learning", depending on the order.

But anyways, that's not really my point: My point is just that in professions it's not uncommon to be expected to perform some kind of extracurricular activities related to your job. Often software "engineers" aren't members of a professional order, but I'd argue that the idea still applies. Tbh learning by working on a hobby project is way more appealing to me than watching some PowerPoint presentation...
Oh, man... That is a disappointing way for things to work. So how would one go about pursuing a complaint in a way that would get case law to exist for a specific scenario?
How are the unions funded? In the US it's a slice of the member's pay which means that even if you aren't in the union you still pay that - if the union instead negotiated its payment direct from the company I think a lot of anti-union complaints would go away.
Walmart hourly salaries start at 14-19 an hour depending on location. They also abide by all the rules. What are you comparing it to? Mom and pop shops that have kids working there in getting paid under the counter at a lower wage?

https://fortune.com/2023/09/08/walmart-cuts-starting-wage-ne...
Nigeria is a large post-colonial petrostate, assembled via British conquest of a wide variety of indigenous nations from ~140 and ~110 years ago. Between suffering from "far-away white men drew lines on a map" syndrome, various civil wars and coups, and population of almost 1/4 billion - it's a classic "every possible generality is false" situation.

I wouldn't advise anyone to count on stability, security, or rule of law in Nigeria...but looking at post-2016 America, I might have similar doubts about my own country.
In the near future you may have little to no idea whether art was made by ai or not unless you see it happen in person. Maybe contemplating this future is necessary?
I’m hypothesizing that removing favorable tax incentives for owners will cool real estate speculation and cause demand for homes to fall such that prices fall such that more renters become owners. There’s an eventual equilibrium sure but it’s probably at prices less than they are now.

I’ll concede to you on the costs flowing to renters in the sense that if ownership costs go up for all owners rents would follow.

I still think as a category the asset is far too tax advantaged at the expense of the poor or the non-home owning to the detriment of society as a whole.
20-25 is high ?

Our AC is set to 27-28. It gets really cold below that :)
Lab leak fight casts chill over virology research
> Brownian motion looks random and meaningless to us, but how could you tell it does not look meaningful to someone?

Random generator is not a CPU either.

>A single atom could hypothetically be powerful enough to compute something.

I agree. But if we cannot extract the useful effect, that potential power is diminished to zero.
I understand your sentiment but I have to agree with the parent. Sure, probably in a couple of years it will get better. But for now, it simply isn't good. Even generative music from the pre(current)-AI era sounded much better, even though it was quite boring.

Really, I am interested, I'm looking forward to new developments, but at the same time I have the right to call a spade a spade, to be euphemistic.
No kidding, you don't say.

Less purchases are being made, but inflation props up the "sales" increase:
"Retail sales, which are adjusted for seasonality but not inflation, grew 0.7% in September from the prior month"
You can work 80% and still earn more, so you have more time your whole life.
One nuisance I found is that it's hard to get the VSCode Pyright to apply the same rules as the command-line one, which is very annoying when your IDE says the code is okay but it fails on CI. Not sure if that's fixed yet.
Thanks again for sharing, that was super helpful. And yeah I agree it is indeed a massive endeavor, I'm sorry it didn't pan out the way you wanted it to.

Are you still interested in this space, and do you write about your experiences anywhere? I'd love to connect if you want to.
> Anyway there is no possible argument that the meanness of those replies is productive; it would clearly be more useful and direct to omit it and speak clearly about the problems instead of implying the person is an idiot for not understanding their mistakes.

Honestly, code review like that would make me absolutely want to work elsewhere. It is absolutely a "good" way to make plenty of people want to have nothing to do with the project, or the reviewer personally.

Even if someone writes code that is bad, that can still be treated as a learning opportunity, with examples of what might be better, or what to avoid. Neither of those call for exclamations, or adopting a tone that makes it seem like the person has an attitude. If being neutral/professional is somehow difficult, then being terse is also an option that's even easier.
Great, you can carry a gun. How does this help you deal with cops?
> realtor lobby has fought hard to keep the mortgage interest tax deduction which helps home owning persons but hurts everyone else

What you're saying is correct, but it's worth noting that as of 2017 the number of tax returns claiming mortgage interest deduction went from 20% to 8% https://www.brookings.edu/articles/chipping-away-at-the-mort...

The reason being the increase in standard deduction, and more people opting for that vs going the itemized route. It's unclear how the current (or next) administration feels about the mortgage interest deduction, but it could be the last days of it.

> Get rid of 1031 exchanges

An exchange involves a sale followed by a subsequent purchase. Without the 1031 treatment the seller just might hold forever, which is probably the opposite of what you're trying to achieve.
As far as I can tell it at least doesn't exclude it.

Edit: Treating someone like a child is probably demeaning enough either way.
For a lot of the above-board police charges in the US the prices have gone up a lot. Anecdotally, I remember this thread where cycling race organizers talk about how the biggest cost for road races is always police. That's to be expected, but a lot of them mention that those costs have gone up a lot recently

https://www.reddit.com/r/Velo/comments/us0ciu/cost_to_put_on...
Unions are like sysadmins - if they are doing their job well, it looks like they're not necessary at all :)

They are like the large looking bouncer at the door of a club, who make patrons (businesses) behave themselves. So GP's coworkers are spoiled because the bouncer has been doing a pretty good job and seems unnecessary.
New York's Gas Stove Ban Is an 'Existential Threat,' Trade Group Lawsuit Says
You might be building a PaaS
(Based on what I've read, it makes sense to me that) we're not. A coin toss outcome seems random only because / as long as some of the initial conditions are unknown.
Uh, no? You have UAW, IBEW, UA, California has a Cashier's union, those are just the ones I know about off the top of my head, and I'm in a non-union state.
The thing I find most striking about it at first glance is almost hilarious to me, and it's best illustrated by this remark:

"Christian commentators adopted a similar system. They placed the Biblical text in the centre of each page, written in larger, more prominent characters, adding the commentary around it in smaller letters, so that as much as possible could fit on the page."

We still do this with modern study Bibles! NET and ESV as very recent printings, for example, both have fairly similar layouts, though NET is probably closest to this since it doesn't contain introductory text typeset differently from the rest of the commentary. If it works...

Even more amusing: The red ink connections bring to mind how Logos (the Bible software) works where each commentary or other text that references another text are all interlinked within your library and can be clicked or moused-over. And we think our modern era is so novel! Hah!

In all seriousness, it'd be interesting to see how the sample of OT texts in this compare to the LXX since the article (to me) seems to suggest this contained comments specifically to help with the Septuagint's peculiar grammar (and I didn't get from their remarks that the verse text is changed or updated?). Absolutely fascinating!
>Most people don't care.

Most people aren't given the choice. When they are actually presented an equally simple decision between more privacy and less privacy, nearly everyone chooses privacy.[0] Making privacy just as easy as not-privacy is exactly what needs to happen, and that is likely to only happen through regulation. We can already see how hard companies work to avoid complying with GDPR and the cookie law.

[0] https://www.flurry.com/blog/ios-14-5-opt-in-rate-att-restric...
Don't go into the communities/favelas (unless you really want to, then find a guide) and you'll be fine. New Years in Rio is high profile and well-known enough that any incidents with foreigners/estrangeiros would be a huge scandal so it's relatively safe at that time.
My go to side project right now is training a neural net to operate a bio-mechanical process to automate waste management for consumers.

By which I mean I'm potty training my 3 year old.
Uh, this seems like a turtles all the way down problem as faith has just pushed the problem over to this nebulous soul thingy that has no strict definition or means of identification. How do you falsify what a soul is or isn't?
Not this one eh? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O_mFtQiI0EY

If not I'd love if you could find it
You're wrong about the immigration part. They now have to use the army to fight the gangs in Sweden.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66964723
I think some of this perception is due to many people on HNs primary experience with union jobs is through government employed unions (e.g. public school staff) where there is essentially zero wiggle room for pay; it's a simple algebraic formula that you can calculate yourself. They also seem to be loath to fire people at all, to a degree I haven't seen in e.g. factory union jobs; I think the whole "If the guy next to me fucks up, I could end up injured" helps in those cases.
Rest assured that the article linked here does not include any images, goatse or otherwise.
That's kind of an interesting analogy, since DC itself is an overwhelmingly Democratic city. They themselves would love to be rid of Republican leadership, who have a strong influence on city policy via Congress. They did not select them; they were sent from elsewhere.

If you offered to blow up the city in order to take out Republican leadership, more than a few would at least be willing to consider that tradeoff.
Honeypot? Bored at work? Internet Candy Jar?
Ah, "too deep to stop digging now", I've been there -- good luck!
You'll be able to buy this flying car for $190k in 2024
0-day in Cisco iOS XE software is under attack
A lot of times, off-duty police are the only people licensed to carry concealed weapons. Santa Clara Sheriff's department decides to approve an application or not so they prevent any competition for armed security. They solicited bribes in exchange for permits for Apple corporate security.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-26/apple-sec...
ReadySet is a new caching layer for PostgreSQL and MySQL that does not rely on TTL or cache invalidation, instead, it keeps a dataflow graph with dependencies and registers itself as a replica to keep cache entries up to date.
Very touching story.

> PS Please excuse my not mailing this — but I don’t know your new address.

Not out of character for how I always imagined his personality.
Hotty Toddy!
One Year After the Merge: Sustainability of Ethereum's PoS Is Uncertain
Have you guys thought of borrowing a page from the in-flight tanker/jet refueling playbook and having hot-swappable battery packs that would enable multi-year in-situ sorties with a dedicated swap aircraft or would it just be cheaper to send a replacement vehicle up to rendezvous and take over when it's time to swap out?

I imagine that with the general improvements in high cycle-count rechargeable battery chemistry and power/weight density improvements the payloads and sortie lengths would get pretty attractive even in the 4-5 year technology horizon.

What is the commercial application for this? What is the economy vs LEO satellite constellations? What is the expected equipment payload and cost of the 110ft wingspan prototype?
Beyond Quantum: MemComputing ASICs Could Shatter 2048-Bit RSA Encryption
Luckily it's not rendered in an iFrame!
>In the Nordic countries it is quite easy to get rid of workers

What, where? In Sweden it's definitely not easy to get rid of workers. If you're doing layoffs rather than firing an individual you can't even pick and choose who to fire, you need to follow LIFO.

You're allowed to have a "trial period" for new employees though, during which it's easy to fire them.
The second wife was the one that reported him to the FBI for being "a communist" or something like that?
I'm a bit confused by this. I've never worked a union job, so I'm not entirely familiar with it. But I thought a lot of the unions in the US were cross-company. United Auto Workers. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Screen Actors Guild. Service Employees International Union. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. National Education Association. American Federation of Teachers. Teamsters. United Food and Commercial Workers. Air Line Pilots Association. All of these are cross-company unions, and they're the ones I hear the most about.
In Latin America, Economic Equality Is a Precondition for Democracy
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