jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If you can (data is not sensible), you can update the fixtures with data from prod.

Just make sure all devs use the same days from prod, then. I once was consulting for a dysfunctional team and everyone having different test data drawn from prod made reproducing even easy bugs hard and impossible for more complicated bugs.
I am equally startled by comments like this implying our nature as social mammals is so limited in ways to be appeased, or expecting the only way to be human is to work with colleagues of the same craft on an almost daily basis.

Socializing can be done with people outside that very limited circle. Meanwhile, I can get my knowledge-sharing itch by looking up new techniques on the internet, going to conferences, etc.
I mean, probably anyone could call and start reading off the letters from "correcthorsebatterystaple" and the support tech will go "oh yeah, you're one of those people who thinks they're clever with security; here are all your account details"
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Wouldn't mortality rate drop off a cliff once we have herd immunity?
I wonder if there's a strong correlation between big city/rural dwellers and the work from home joy. I live at the edge of the suburbs with a nice yard that looks out onto the woods. I have a large home with plenty of space. I love working from home. If I lived in a tiny efficiency apartment in a big city I would hate being there all day, even though I might enjoy the benefits afforded to me by living close to lots of live entertainment, etc.
We don't really know the full relationship between substance abuse and mental illness. There's a very well-known correlation between the two, but it's questionable whether the substance abuse causes mental illness or the mental illness causes the substance abuse. It's likely some combination of the two: the substance abuse aids the mental illness and the mental illness aids the substance abuse.
Seriously, if you want something in an emergency- go to somewhere like weebly.com and set up a free site.
How does employee ownership through stock giveaways generate capital for investment?
Not in Italy nor the Netherlands.
Interestingly, it looks like it might not totally be out of the question.

severe symptoms such as loss of oxygen in tissue (anoxia) and multiplicative increase of body volume occur within 10 seconds, followed by circulatory failure and flaccid paralysis in about 30 seconds. The lungs also collapse (atelectasis) in this process, but will continue to release water vapour leading to cooling and ice formation in the respiratory tract. A rough estimate is that a human will have about 90 seconds to be recompressed, after which death may be unavoidable. The low pressure outside the body causing rapid de-oxygenation of the blood (hypoxia) is the primary reason for unconsciousness within 14 seconds. In 1965 Jim LeBlanc lost consciousness after approx 15 seconds of being depressurised.[1]

I wonder if they could have developed some kind of non-space-suit "bag" that would have been enough for a short excursion like this, and easier to get and out of? I suspect getting through the airlocks at each end would have been the big problem.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_exposure
Ahh survivors guilt. Dont worry, it'll pass.

On a little more serious note I believe it has a lot to do with supply and demand. Good programmers just think differently. Whether that way of thinking is something you can teach is something incredibly hard to argue. I think it can be, but I dont really know how and dont think the worlds education systems are even close to figuring it out. Its sort of a sum of life's learning's and experiences. You either pick it up and do well or you dont.

Well that's what I believe anyway. You might not agree but that and the 5 years of education and the 5 years of debt which followed is what I think separates me and the people selling what I create.

Please dont get me wrong I dont think I'm better than anyone else, I just think that my higher than average wage is due to a lack of supply and wanted to lay it all out.
Someone needs to run them through the difference between Weaknesses and Threats. They've got plenty of threats even if they make it through this and ignoring them in the SWOT is laughable.
The Internet is cool like that. You can think of a joke concept, and Google will generate it for you.
Mitogen is a nice speedup if it works for your use case. Some of the improvements from the mitogen architecture have slowly worked their way into Ansible core, but it seems that a number of the major shifts can lead to breakage in some scenarios. Hopefully more of the low hanging fruit can make it into Ansible someday...
This weekend the the biggest (?) Hackathon in the world so far (42.000 participants) was held virtually in Germany, organized by seven organizations and supported by the government.

Many of the teams worked on contact tracing apps, you can find the results here if you're interested:

https://devpost.com/software/corona-tracker-digital-analog

Some posts are in German only, most are in English though!
Note though that such things are usually done by some department of the US army - and that's no accident given that it's the most well funded and some of the most well prepared of such organizations in the world.
The Netflix F1 series includes a segment of driving the sim blindfolded and calling out each turn as it was happening.
Everyone could wear a bandanna over nose and mouth.

If it reduces transmission by 20%, that would be a fantastic win due to reduction in exponential growth.
> As someone who has raced formula race cars and who has been an enthusiastic participant in racing simulations since way back in the old days of Grand Prix Legends let me assure you - a simulated race car has almost nothing in common with the real experience other than your hands are turning a wheel and your feet push pedals. The sensations in a real race car are simply overwhelming - the noise, g forces, heat, and the lack of being able to see much other than straight ahead. Grand Prix Legends and iRacing were/are both tremendous fun and a real achievement - but they are nothing like the real thing.

Counterpoint:

In 2013, TopGear took a top rated iRacing competitor (Greger Huttu) and put him in a proper race car. Yes, he had to bow out due to the physical stress eventually. However, He did really well while he lasted. I think it's a stretch to say "they are nothing like the real thing".

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/gaming/geek-rebooted
I would agree with that analysis, but there is a minimum amount of progress we need to pull the curve away from catastrophic failure. The longer we wait, the more extreme the solution will need to be to pull on the curve, in my opinion. We shouldn’t let the current crisis go to waste.

Very similar to mitigating an asteroid impact. If you wait too long, no amount of force and course correction will save us.
I think I've written some CSV parsers until I thought to myself "I can't believe they don't have this in .NET".
Your website needs to have a one sentence explanation of what it does, e.g. measure sleep and wake you up when you're in a light sleep. You pretty much have to read the FAQ to figure out that's what it does. Not saying this makes it seem like a quack magnetic bracelet or something. Just a suggestion.
I think this is actually against the license of the iPad's OS

I predict it may get pulled from the store.
I was in EE, and in short, you can't. At my university, CS people had about 20 hours of classes a week. EE people were pushing 40's. It becomes next to impossible to give the focus required to do anything big. My advice would be to get something going during the breaks, and do maintenance during the rest of the term. Or you can drop out like I did if you're really driven and have options or the ability to create options.

There were people who dabbled in startup ideas, but any of my serious colleagues (i.e. the guy who started Kik) all dropped out/took a year off and never went back.
xUnit testing packages are very simple and intentionally don't try to do much. They provide a basic testing infrastructure that everyone who has done unit testing in any language will immediately recognize.

This does not mean they "suck."
Edit: Realized I should introduce myself (or fall into the same trap as the email!). I'm one of the co-founders of Crowdbooster.

Thanks for the feedback Adam. We will add a quick one or two sentence description of Crowdbooster to our invite email. Apologies for getting what seemed like an unsolicited email from a service you didn't remember signing up for (it has been about a month). Let us know if you have any questions or have run into any issues!

We'll probably start A/B testing emails and tracking conversions on signups for opened emails. Does anyone have good recommendations on email A/B testing. We're using Sendgrid to send out these emails.
I invest in antiques toys, watches and watch parts and some metal by buying antique silver coins and gold coins. With advent of ebay, antiques have become quite liquid. However, just as with any other investment vehicle, antiques require due diligence and knowledge of the market. I have almost doubled the investment in current year. This year's home run was three sets of Rolex Submariner 6536 watch parts sold for $6000 which were bought for $400.

My biggest loss was a Rolex Moonphase Watch I bought on ebay for $14000 last year, which turned out to be a very good fake and even confused a couple of Christies Specialists. So I learned my biggest lesson, if it is too good to be true walk away. Rolex Moonphase in Steel Case with Black Dial usually goes for > $250000 and I should have known better before paying $14000 for it.

Here is my advice on investing your money, start slow, study your market, keep a diverse portfolio, target 10-15% per year return, if you reach that you are already ahead of inflation and increasing your networth. With practice you will get better at it.

Getting good at investing takes time and effort, but its well worth it, for me antiques were a hobby which turned into good investments, for you it might be stocks, land, startups, commodities etc. But same principles apply to all of them, you have to be passionate about your investments, know your market, learn from your mistakes, never put all eggs in one basket and walk away if its too good to be true.
I am not going to manage to finish this tonight. I'm currently on like page 6 (http://www.goodthink.com/writing/view_stories.cfm?id=11&...). Good read though. I really liked the part where he goes and asks the teller if it would be possible to get $95,000 in cash:

How I learned those boxes would be too small to hold that much cash is kinda funny. I asked a teller if the bank could get me a hundred thousand dollars in cash if I needed it. The teller broke out in a chuckle and said, "Nobody's ever done that in the 15 years I've been working." "But if I wanted to, can you get me that much cash?" I reasserted. The teller's chuckle turned to a touch of nervousness and she replied, "We'd have to tell the IRS and order it four days in advance. But nobody's ever done that." "You'd have to order it four days in advance and notify the IRS?" I asked for clarification. "Yes because we don't keep that much cash on hand. The largest bill in circulation now is the $100 bill-- there are no more $500 bills in circulation. And we have to report any cash withdrawals in excess of $10,000." I left contemplating just how much money $95,000 was and I arrived at this: one thousand dollars a month for eight years.
Yes, pretty much. It's all relative. Food and commodities are much, much cheaper in the US than Europe.
When I saw the trademark, I immediately thought the same: Brisket™

And since I live in Austin, I feel especially offended for Yankees trademarking deliciousness.
Wow... I've heard of Slack mentioned, but I can't believe I've never actually looked into it till now.
That's a great point, but I think the point of what Bryan has been doing is to make Linux work with Zones (and dtrace).

That's a primitive that Joyent has wanted to upstream into the Linux kernel for a long time and has never been able to get the necessary consensus around it (similar to OpenVZ's troubles getting their work upstreamed).

In short, this is sort of a hack to give you zones on Linux without needing to get zones into the upstream. Yes, there's no linux code, but there is a lot of required understanding of Linux code to make something like this work.

It's kinda amazing that they got 64-bit linux to run on top of Illumnos, right? I did not see that coming and maybe that's because I'm ignorant in some capacity, but it's been a pleasant surprise.
How do you expect there to be stats about this? You don't have to register somewhere that you're an absentee owner.
The reason is that programmers try to create new things, whereas physicists try to figure out how things work which are already there, waiting to be discovered (or they are really engineers).

Also, programmers create abstractions such that one does not need to know about the nitty gritty in order to understand how to use something.
You don't mark pointers, you unmap a page of virtual memory. This instantly invalidates all pointers to that page without touching them, and allows you to immediately reuse that physical memory by mapping it to a new virtual address. When you eventually dereference a pointer to an unmapped page the processor's MMU throws a page fault. The VM catches the fault and fixes up the pointer on the spot.

What I'd like to know is how you can guarantee that all garbage is eventually collected in a system like this, and how you can guarantee that you've fixed up all pointers to an unmapped virtual page so you can reuse it.
"Mobile last" is actually a strong feature. Screw working on your tiny phone; make the desktop the target environment.
Oh, that could be beautiful to read! Please, Fibery, do it!
There's a huge difference between regulating what is not ok and "telling everyone what to think". Americans seem to jump on any kind of regulation as equivalent to Big Brother thought control which is just a bizarre overreaction. Any kind of international agreement over regulating speech is going to be very mild by the nature of consensus - you won't get all the governments in the world agreeing to something extreme. You might get agreement around "don't publish lies" and "don't publish racist stuff"
Not true.

Thiel backed COMPASS Pathways which got breakthrough status last year. The Usona Institute, which just got breakthrough status this month, also for a use of psilocybin, is to my knowledge not supported by Thiel.

> Back in late 2018, the FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy status to the ongoing work from COMPASS Pathways investigating psilocybin, the key psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, as a therapy for treatment-resistant depression. A large, multi-center Phase 2 trial spanning the US, UK and Europe is currently underway testing a variety of dosing strategies.

> This new FDA Breakthrough Therapy approval focuses on a seven-site, Phase 2 trial currently underway in the United States. Coordinated by a non-profit research organization called the Usona Institute, the trial is exploring the antidepressant properties of a single psilocybin dose in treating patients with major depressive disorder.
I feel like I experience this in a similar way to yourself.

I also struggle to see images in my head sometimes, I am mostly of european decent (German/Czechia on one side - Australian/English on the other side). Loved reading as a child, although I wouldn't say instead of socialising but I read a lot more than was typical.

Couple this with an addictive personality. I really get into sports, activities, and video games. Obsessed with them for months at a time. I love the idea of building xxx app/business - but I rarely stick with these through to completion. Almost as if I get all the joy and enjoyment from the formulation of ideas and the beginning of the journey but get over it quickly and move on to something else.
The warehouse business is a loss or low on profit. $28000 is a lot for one warehouse.
That's pretty much the norm in Linux.

One typically gets packages from the distro's repository. And traffic with modern repositories uses HTTPS. So third parties don't see what packages are being used. And unless one configures a developer repository, there's never any traffic to the developer.

Also, IP addresses are considered PII under GDPR.

Edit: Still, if one cares that much about ones IP address, it's prudent to use a VPN service or Tor.
I prefer using my TI-89 over e.g. Mathematica. There’s something about purpose-built hardware that lends itself to being able to do things quickly and reliably.
I find FB's requirement that you have a Wikipedia entry most perplexing considering the known issues about what's notable being somewhat subjective.

What's hilarious is that businessdesk.co.nz is cited as a source in multiple Wikipedia articles. Would love to read the discussion on it if I could find it.
1. Click on PDF.

2. Cmd-F

3. Enter profit, hit return.

4. Zero results.

5. Close PDF.
Actually it won't. Think of it this way...

4 lane highway vs 1 lane dirt road. While combining the two makes the number of paths greater the paths themselves are not equal (my equal cost load balancing remark). So, if the router is not taking link cost into account, which it is not, you'll actually have worse performance over all of your connections because the router will try to balance them equally on session start. This means that 50% of the time you start out going to your neighbors connection and fail or go slow. It's actually more advantageous to wait for a spot on the wide, fast link than it would be to take the alternate path.

If the router was taking into account link reliability and speed (overall cost) it would only give a small percentage of connections to the worse link and only if the main link was saturated from a bandwidth perspective. None of this is happening by round robin load balancing which means more of your connections are worse. This is why routing protocols that have these features exist.
That's weird. Since it defeats the purpose of expanding their WiFi hotspots coverage. If people have capped plans, they are likely to disable that hotspot altogether and use their own routers to begin with, to avoid anyone switching it back on. If they wanted such thing to work, it had to be excluded from both monthly data caps and active bandwidth limit.

That's besides the point that monthly caps is a completely nasty rip off. Luckily I never had one. Are they common in Comcast network?
Link to the paper [1] (with microscopy images) in the Journal of Applied Physics leads the 3rd paragraph of the article.

[1] http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/117/3/10.10...
Author here - I tried to keep "on topic" and constrain myself to files, but you're right I did drift into filesystems too which probably wasn't helpful.

I think the core argument still holds though - which is that some people (Fred included ?) see files dying out as inevitable, whereas I'm not sure that's true (for the various reasons I cite).
How about "raises to increase the supply of programmers" instead?
Exactly (well other than "if let" here.)

Every time you have a Boolean if condition with an unwrap, it means you are not taking advantage of the type system.
The problem here is that "Freedom" in "FreedomPhone" does not seem to be "freedom" the way free software advocates define it, or privacy advocates define it; it seems to be "freedom" the way far-right activists use it as a dogwhistle. If people are a bit focused on the company's politics, it's because they put those politics front and center.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if there was some company doing the inverse of this -- marketing to the segment of the far left that believes tech companies are, if not explicitly conservative, explicitly uber-capitalist and willing to pander to conservatives at every turn to prove how "centrist" they are[1] -- and was doing the same thing that the FreedomPhone is, then the discussion on HN would be pretty similar: we'd be going, "Hey, this looks like it's basically a rebranded phone with dubious software that's being marketed to people with a political chip on their shoulder." The flavor of the chip isn't irrelevant, but it's not what's specifically curious and scammy about it.[2]

[1]: I am sure there are conservatives who are reading this and scoffing at the idea that leftists think social media companies are biased against them. All I can say is that I probably follow more leftists than you do, then, and you're gonna have to trust me on this one.

[2]: There is an interesting and weird history of marketing scams that specifically target conservatives, and evidence that there's more of that on the right than the left (although by no means is it exclusively right-leaning).
Looks like the build system will be using Zuo.

https://github.com/racket/zuo/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31017057 [104 pts, 27 comments] (Apr 14)
He just really wanted to say Common Lisp.
I have lived in Sydney (manly) in 2020, it is a beautiful city, but indeed crazy expensive. I have left to the outback to save money and kickstart the nomadic life. I really hope I will be able to return to australia when I am older to do exactly this. There is a big community of (mostly older and retired) people roaming australia with camper/caravan. To me, it would be the ultimate life.

To the OP, please come and visit Hopetoun VIC, free camping at the lake, you would love it here
Signal requires a telephone number. This makes the privacy bit is a complete joke, even if your chats are E2EE. Your Signal account is bound to a KYC identity.
Teams does this. Join call from phone. Then join from computer. Computer will ask if transfer or join w/o audio. Choose join w/o audio.

Best way to be on calls. Need to walk around no problem. But can still see full screen when desired. Also can work if your home internet is spotty and you transfer to phones internet service.
Why? If we are certain that values of free speech are important for national success, then if others suppress them, fine! It only provides us competitive advantage, let them suffer from their mistakes.
> [..] something is impossible to demonstrate conclusively and/or via observed reality does not automatically mean it can't be true [..]

An even greater danger than "SuperAI" which needs immediate attention. [0][1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma_Kumaris#Criticism

[1]: https://archive.org/details/newbelieverssurv00barr/page/403
> It looks like Wittgenstein eventually points out the problems with the Tractatus in his later works like "The Philosophical Investigations"

Yes, he came to the same conclusion you did, that what he attemtped in the Tractatus was misguided at best and impossible at worst.
As a product of the United States you would hope that they would stand up for freedom of speech/expression as much as possible and take a principled stand occasionally.
Why not get a CM4 with the IO Board? PCIe on the regular Raspberry Pi seems too niche for them to consider.
I'll leave this here in case anyone wants to argue YPG is not PKK. YPG is a literal terrorist organization. Imagine ISIS had a Facebook page.

"Senior US general explains rebranding YPG away from terror group PKK"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHpaIO-Pj10
SGI made such nice machines. The out-of-the-box demos were amazing; you'd get hornswoggled into thinking you were going to be doing all that kind of crazy stuff with the computer. Remember Iris Explorer?
http://yohanan.org/steve/projects/iris-explorer