jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I don't know what the answer is for a fundamentally multicultural like the US but obsessing about race and "representation" surely isn't it.

I've been thinking about this a bit lately and it reminds me of the "melting pot" metaphors we learned about in middle school. Rather than having a bunch of disparate, competing identities I think America is only going to work well when we form a single united, composite identity. I'm not sure if this is nationalism or not, but if it is, it's an ethnically-inclusive nationalism which seems markedly better than the scary kinds of nationalism from the 20th century and earlier. It probably does imply some assimilation, but it's not necessarily everyone assimilating to some "white identity"; rather, everyone assimilates toward the composite "American" identity (whatever that is). I'm not sure if this is what "multicultural" refers to or if it refers to the more progressive ideal of segregated ethnic lanes competing with one another, but the last 5-10 years makes me feel like the latter is untenable.
Amazing that in 2021 we only enforce the racial discrimination laws in one direction. That's also what they did in 1921.
Can you use extensions on Firefox for iOS? Browsers on iOS can't use their own engine. They're essentially Safari with a different skin on top.
Cubbit's infrastructure revolves around three players: the user, the nodes, and the coordinator

First of all, one thing is important. Cubbit is not actually a decentralised system. At this stage, Cubbit is a distributed, zero-knowledge, end-to-end encrypted cloud storage solution. In fact, Cubbit's infrastructure revolves around three players: the user, the nodes, and the coordinator.

Once a file is uploaded on Cubbit, it get encrypted, splitted in dozens of chunks and distributed around the network.
This process is zero-knowledge. This means that Cubbit and its coordinator is never able to see any data and any information of the file or the user.

Second, blockchain solutions revolve around two categories: customers and storage providers. Cubbit can rely on 3000+ nodes around the globe of technology enthusiast that contribute with space and unused internet resources to the system. Hosting the nodes and providing space to the system without paying the service. This space is then used to store the professional service of Cubbit for companies.
Yeah, because I know that when I am trying to speak clearly to another human being in an emotionally heightened situation, I always do it while listening to my favorite jams.
It is fascinating to see improvement in this space.

People -really- care about good ranking systems. I personally saw this when I administrated rankings for a local fighting game scene. Back then we used Glicko since matches were 1-on-1.
> Is there a serious overlap between gun enthusiasts and the IT community in the US?

Anecdotally, but yes. Same with cars, AV & musical gear, other technical-ish stuff.

I chalk it up to technical / engineering mentalities, disposable income, and US culture. Give nerds money and the ability to blow stuff up... and they'll blow stuff up.
I wouldn't have thought it'd require explanation.

"I am filming you, a public official, doing something bad in your official capacity."

"You are now under arrest for stalking."
For sure, GitLab has a GitHub importer that transfers the repo and issues.
Carpentry.

I thought I knew a bit about woodworking because of my middle-school shop class. Turns out it's an extremely precise and technical activity, packed with lessons in engineering, measurement, statistics, and physics.

I'm really excited to mention it to you guys because I found learning woodworking is a great application of modern technology: I watch youtube videos on it at 2x, and can basically google any problem I encounter. I often say to my friends: watching youtube at 2x is my superpower.
Technical (at various stages)

Python more deeply (used it for years but it's a surprisingly deep language)

Few different open source libraries

Some "big data" stuff (using open government data).

Ada

Javascript properly

Non-Technical

Learning to manage pain (recent diagnosis of degenerative spinal condition)

To be a more positive person
The hard part in a physical bank robbery is to avoid getting caught.
Same as git, and you'll probably get the same reactions.

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In other words, we're already at the point of significantly diminished, possibly negative returns on effort. The last few percent will always require some level of human-equivalent intelligence. I think effort here is much better spent elsewhere, like researching general AI or playing on waterslides.

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http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial...
Sealed classes, oh the humanity. You should maybe have a lie down.

By the way, WebGL doesn't work in my Chrome install (10.0.648.205, ubuntu). Is it something that I need to switch on?
Find a reason to. This morning I got out of bed early for the F1 race, even though I was recording it (I watched the whole thing with about a ten second delay plus my own replays a few times).

One thing that is going to work very often is the need for the toilet. Drink a lot before bed, you will wake up well and roughly at the right time. I've only ever once woken up too early for the toilet, and without turning the bathroom light on, went back to sleep easily.
If you stop having ideas, you're done for. It's not ideas that suck, it's acting on the wrong ones. In order to have good ideas, you have to let your mind wander, and that means in addition to the good ones, there will also be plenty that are unrealistic or silly, but they all supply wood to the fire. It is possible to work hard, stay focused, and have ideas churning at the same time.
What I've learned from writing a Bash testing framework:

Bash is inherently untestable.

The only way to reliably return something besides a status code is via globals.

That means that most functions already rely on previously set global state. Which is one of the reasons that Bash scripts don't scale (the other is non-existent error handling).

Do yourself a favor and use a proper scripting language.
Young folks can still get the disease and end up in the hospital ward or even the ICU. The only ones who might be safe from significant consequences are small kids, who by definition are sharing their household with someone who might be at risk.
A lot of our allies in the Cold War were former Axis powers, not to mention some fishy ex-neutrals (Spain, etc.).

I don’t think they really liked the US as much as our interests were aligned and we had a gun to their heads.

Did they “like us”? It didn’t really matter.
I can't comment on what's happening in China, but I do know that south east asians especially students fled from the UK and no doubt elsewhere over the last few weeks back home where it was considered the worse was over. I believe Cathay Pacific put on extra flights back to Hong Kong.

It's noticeable Singapore, Hong Kong and China all reporting imported cases.

In the UK due to the lack of Testing no one but the wealthy know if they have or had Covid unless in a very bad way.
I see a lot of people comparing Rust favorably against C++, largely due to C++'s complexity. And yet at the same time, the Rust dev team are changing and expanding the language very quickly.

Is there any plan to feature-freeze Rust?

Otherwise it'll just become C++ 2.0 - a giant mass of features that are progressively designed to replace each other, until the language becomes too complex for any one person to master.
It's needed for displaying Postscript Type 1 fonts. I believe Adobe owns the licensing for everything but it's up to Microsoft to update the Windows 10 DLL.
What about walking pets (dogs and horses mainly I assume)?

California's rules are interesting (well Santa Clara but I believe they are mostly the same). Some points that caught my attention:

- explicit exceptions for visiting elderly or other relatives who need help

- explicit permission to exercise pets including visiting homes where pets are alone

- home construction is exempt, with a meaningless request for low income housing. While SC has a serious housing shortage and low income housing is crucial, the latter is not going to change in a few weeks while its mention might piss off (ahem) certain people unnecessarily. Also I notice Palo Alto's building permit office is shut.

- you're encouraged to go hiking but not to ride a bike, scooter etc in case you end up in the hospital. As there are hardly any cars on the road I'm not sure if this restriction is really worth it.

When I walk the dog in the middle of the day I see more people than usual as they are stuck at home. Dogs seem pretty happy. Driveways are full of course.
It's an adobe component in Windows to handle fonts because Adobe controls/controlled a big part of the font ecosystem. At this point I believe the Windows team controls it and can make changes to it, but it's definitely supporting adobe file formats
For people who are interested in playing MTG, their "new" windows game (MTG Arena) is a pretty decent, modern client, that lets you play for free. Supposedly it is coming to the mac soon, and rumor has it that iOS and Android are planned, but based on how the UI has evolved recently, I wouldn't hold out hope for that.
You have a few :

- https://alpinejs.dev/

- https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/

- https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue

- https://v2.vuejs.org/v2/guide/ (using Inline-template)

- https://unpoly.com/

- jQuery (of course) / Vanilla JS
There are certainly Haskell jobs in the Bay area. No idea about Philadelphia. MJD doesn't seem to have embarked on a Haskell job search so far, beyond the blog posting announcing his availability. So my bet is that he gets plenty of takers.
I wonder why ADHD gets singled out so much. If I look at the suggestions that would help people with ADHD, then I see suggestions that would help lots of people. Eg. not being reprimanded for being late when it has no consequences would help everyone. Good calendar software also helps everyone.

There are lots of people who are struggling with the demands of the workplace -- in fact, I'm not sure I know anyone who doesn't struggle with something.

I wonder why employers need a "Neurodiversity program" to make their workplaces less toxic.

Maybe I'm missing something, but are there any specific affordances for Neurodiverse people that wouldn't also help everyone else?
As if there were an actual ''situation''.
I agree that they won't be everywhere, but I can see them changing inner cities very quickly. Where I am, in NYC, your bang for buck (in terms of people per square mile) is huge, the street grid system is clear... it could change the taxi and parking industries very quickly.

The only problem is a legal one - it's inevitable that at some point a driverless car will hit someone. Even if the total number of pedestrian collisions drops dramatically (which I'm sure it would) the questions of responsibility and culpability become a problem.
True. Then it depends on how fast Google & the car companies advance in this category.
Hell's Kitchen has become something of a happening area over the past few years but it wasn't historically considered a desirable area of Manhattan.
> If someone were to ask me to sit down and write something in React/Vue.js/whatever on the first interview, I don't think I could without the docs or a tutorial available

I've been in the web development doing all "ends" since I-lost-count-how-many years and even with a library which has rather a small API surface like React, I also need to search things every once in a while. If they don't allow you to do that in an interview, they have unrealistic expectations.

> I could pick up Django within two weeks if you hired me. I know what it is and what MV(C) is. Isn't that enough?

Most of the time, it is enough. There is also an unlikely chance that they have a lot of complexity and need someone who knows the internals and can fix obscure bugs. That probably wouldn't be you for Django/React. I sometimes was that person in the past and it's very stressful so, it's not something a developer would seek to become anyway.
No. Read the post again. The parent asked why people feel the need to defend piracy. I answered why, in my opinion, they defend it. I also mentioned that I sympathize with the first two cases, which has no relevance to what I personally do (or don't do) or opine regarding movies and/or cinemas.
I'm not a mathematician, but I don't think you can deduce that conjecture from the Ulam Spiral. On the other hand, you don't need this conjecture to show e.g. 4x^2-2x+41 is rich in primes (within the limits of the picture). If I recall, you can show the clumping arises from rewriting the primes in base 6.

EDIT: To hurry along the conversation a bit - it's entirely possible I've been misled into thinking things are more simple than they really are. Wouldn't be the first time...
Revenue per employee makes no sense. What makes sense is profit per employee. Vizio outsources stuff and pays loads to other companies, their profits have a lower ration that 10 million per employee

Edit: AmTran sometimes swallows shipping costs and pushes component suppliers to ensure Vizio's products are high quality and on time. AmTran now gets about 80% of its revenue from Vizio. In turn, Vizio sources as many as 85% of its TVs from AmTran, according to research firm DisplaySearch.
I don't need to justify "stealing" because copying is legal in my country (Austria):

When buying harddisks or other types of storage (USB sticks) I have to pay a "private copying levy" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy). This money goes to organisations that distribute it to the music industry and film industry. On the other hand, you get the right to make a "Privatkopie" (translated: private copy - see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatkopie), which means you can legally copy a film or music from a friend (and neither of you violates the law).

As the law changed recently, but (as far as I know) there practically haven't been any filesharing lawsuits in recent years, it's not 100% sure how this law applies to downloading over the Internet. Most lawyers seem to interpret the law as allowing downloading over P2P networks, but forbidding uploading over P2P networks. The film/movie industrie argues that also downloading is illegal, but there has not been a single person ever convicted for downloading (e.g., when using a patched filesharing client such as Bitthief that disables uploading).

Personally I would prefer not having to pay a "private copying levy" and paying for the content I consume. But it's not my decision and I'm not going to pay for the same content twice (private copying levy + purchasing the content).
The webapp he built : http://coffeespree.com/
Have you figured out how to get syntax highlighting and indentation to work correctly in a file that's a mix of JSP, JS, HTML and CSS?
He's right though. Line diagrams as JPEGs are annoying.
more music libraries or languages:

JFugue: http://www.jfugue.org/

mingus: http://code.google.com/p/mingus/

OpenMusic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMusic

Strasheela: http://strasheela.sourceforge.net/strasheela/doc/index.html

Common Music: http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/

other "music programming languages": http://www.nosuch.com/plum/cgi/showlist.cgi?sort=name&co...
Yes, I think is better to put nginx in front to handle this and sooner or later you will need some kind of reverse proxy as soon as your application grows. The reasons might be load balancing or just to map components of your app like "app.com" and "app.com/api" being different applications.

One big difference to note is that nginx link to the local openssl while node binaries embeds an openssl. If there is a bug in openssl I can apt-get update/upgrade and I get the patch very early.

Personally I think nginx is awesome. They are going to support JavaScript soon, but I have done things with LUA and is great too.
> There are plenty of good developers who could easily immerse themselves in mobile app development for two weeks, and become pretty skilled mobile devs in little time.

It takes more than learning a programming language to become anywhere close to being a good mobile developer. The technical issues such as slow processor, little memory and network interruptions aside, you also have to deal with a usage behavior and human interface which is very different to all desktop application and most web applications. If someone was to ask me for steps to mobile enlightenment, I would probably point him to the human interface guidelines fist:

Android: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/i...

iOS: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/userex...

Blackberry: http://docs.blackberry.com/en/developers/deliverables/17964/...

> There used to be a time where employers would recognize an employee's abilities, and provide for his learning of new subject matter.

This is wishful thinking and I don't believe was ever the case (or maybe before I was born). If I ever wanted to expand my knowledge in a certain direction, I always took it as my own responsibility to ask and demand for it. The company can provide you the resources and learning opportunities, but you have to grab them yourself.
Unless they go all the way back and scrub out PinYin as well, English is always going to be engrained in China.
Any kind of oppression you can avoid by wearing your seatbelt and driving the speed limit is not true oppression.
"There are plenty of good developers who could easily immerse themselves in mobile app development for two weeks, and become pretty skilled mobile devs in little time."

-- That's not true at all. It takes a lot more time to learn a platform well, and know how to tackle mobile client side problems especially coming from the server side.
Nobody will let you close to their production code without some bit of experience as you are more likely to fuck up things. It is very easy to introduce bugs on a client, and there are no unit tests to help you out on tricky things such as deadlocks.

Also the fact that you are not learning on your own means that you are not passionate enough for the space. Most good mobile devs I know have created some silly app at some point, just to kick the tires.

You might not have a full blown commercial app developed, but you should have some significant demo on your hand to show.
From my original post: "...the rest of the world is treating the entire group as the boy who cried wolf."

NOW is the girl crying wolf. "Oh noes, a vampire show depicting sex and violence against a woman!" (It's the media's latest "Outrage")
http://www.now.org/issues/media/hall-of-shame/index.php

If you want people to do something other than dismiss you as one of those "social justice people", you need to disassociate yourself from NOW and their ilk.

Also, NOW explicitly opposes equality when it gets in the way of special privileges for women/minorities. See section 5 of their proposed "Constitutional Equality Amendment".

http://www.now.org/issues/economic/cea/concept.html#THE
What you say is true; indexing does not make writes faster. In fact, it makes writing to the DB slower, which is why I suggested to turn it off. Now, there may be extenuating circumstances (e.g., you also read from this DB) which make this decision more difficult.
devdocs.io is a dramatically faster alternative to MDN, with the same content.
It does now. There was some back and forth for a day or so and dispensaries I work with got some emails to the contrary before the official announcement.

At this point all legal states deem it essential and most are legalizing delivery too.
Not sure. Happened the last time htmx was on the front page too...
And seems to have some connection to laso.ai? No idea what that is
For most it is the start up costs.
"there is strong circumstantial evidence that the virus didn't originate in Wuhan after all"

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...
I mostly did work around nomadism and the early neolithic in the Northern hemisphere, but I also worked privately in the southwest for awhile. It's a fun gig, but they don't tell you how much paperwork is involved in finding anything until you're 10hrs from the nearest civilization and ankle deep in mud. I miss fieldwork a bit :)
Except that strong AI is not current technology, or even near-future technology. In other words, "hmm, this wouldn't be a problem if only we could do abracadabra and solve it with magic; therefore it's not a problem. We can't do abracadabra, and hence can't solve it this way? La la la, I can't hear you!"

(Not sure I'd call that a technical solution, but let's assume so.)
Ew. This guide is missing any information about isolation and safety requirements :(
Our intelligence services are at war with Iran. Nearly every budget point, every effort, must be justified in terms of our struggle against the Iranians.

This is not that different than when we were in a cold war against the Soviet Union. The support structures of our government change slower than world politics and so our efforts against Iran can seem like a farce with us putting the same effort into their defeat.

We lost our chance to bring the Russians in as our allies and we will probably lose a similar chance with the Iranians with the nuclear negotiations happening in Geneva/Lausanne/Montreux right now. The bureaucracy moves too slow.
Obviously this is another "limited audience" type of thing. I expect it to only be of interest to pilots.

Known issue: the text can overlap on smaller devices (phones). Seems ok on tablet. Haven't tried on Apple devices.

I made this because (as a flatlander) density altitude has always been a difficult concept for me to internalize. I saw a Koch chart and liked it a lot. I figured I could make it interactive (you can drag the indicators up and down). I also realized that I knew a lot about how the airplanes performs at sea level on a 2000, 3000, or 4000 foot runway; maybe density altitude could be adjusted to show "runway equivalent length"? That's kind of my main experimental idea. So instead of focusing on how much longer the takeoff roll is, I present it as how much "virtually shorter" the runway is.

For example, if I load up Aspen, it tells me that today (a cooler day), the 8000 foot long runway is like a 2800 foot long runway at sea level. For me,that's a real eye opener for what density altitude means!
> you will probably live 30 years longer than if you were born 2 centuries ago.

Is what the OP said, and it's false. I will not. The average may be 30 years longer, but that's a fairly meaningless statistic.
Agreed. If you're calling parseInt on a variable it's simply not a bug.

parseInt(1) seems like a whole different class of bug to me :-)
>He's asking people to fight because the courts have refused to even hear testimony. Texas brought a lawsuit and was dismissed in three sentences for not having standing, in the only court legally allowed to decide cases between states.

You have been lied to.

Here's some actual information[0] about what the courts did (yes, they did take evidence and hear arguments, and where they didn't it was for appropriate reasons.).

Don't believe me. And don't believe anyone else either. Read the complaints, arguments and rulings yourself. Then make up your own mind.

[0] https://electioncases.osu.edu/2021/01/summary-of-post-electi...
I’m talking about the people at the top, not the guardsmen, who were activated iirc.

There are credible reports of a vacuum in terms of communication or response from the pentagon guard brass. Seems unusual that you have a insurrection at the Capitol and the governor of New Jersey is activating people, sending State Troopers, and trying in vain to reach someone in the Pentagon.
I don't want everything to be better. I want nuclear warheads.

Nuclear reactors really, you can't imagine what you can do with a piece of derelict land when you throw enough power at it.