jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>> why doesn't he write blog posts? why he has so little online presence?

>> bellard is a programming genius and true C hacker. his works are so great ...

It's probably related. Obviously it's his and only his decision, but I wonder if him slowing down to share the knowledge and skills could have been more productive in the sense that others could do similar work.
Ah, a "Foundation" for "Economic Education" that has a libertarian agenda...

I guess it's "education", but their version of it.
Why? Joker can just buy monero. The daily trading volumes could easily accommodate these amounts.
2020 called and wants her easy questions back! ;)

Immunity to cold viruses is so prevalent, there is no chance the effect is pronounced, by now. It has been researched tho, so you may find some studies discussing the issue.
> spent a huge portion of his life trying to help others get value from his thoughts and ideas.

Did he really? Or did he spend that time satisfying his own ego and tell himself it was for the sake of helping others? Certainly it sounds like he managed less actual helping others than those of us "earning a shit load to peddle ads".
In case you are looking for the answers -> https://pastebin.com/tbrJreNn
The handelsblatt report is (probably) based on a draft from the STIKO, which included a 6% effectiveness rate (most likely a different draft), but with a huge confidence interval (https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n414), so it's probably correct but irresponsibly misleading.

The EMA allowed the use of AZ for patients over 65 (because they guess that it'll probably be effective), but the STIKO and other government institutions of the various EU countries restricted it.

I don't think it'll make a huge difference, since more than a third of german vaccine doses were used based on occupation, where AZ can be used. The obvious scapegoat for slow vaccinations is that AZ cut deliveries by a large amount, which might not be AZs fault, so the different scapegoat wasn't needed.
Nothing will replace the media, and it's ridiculously easy to get to the truth nowadays insofar as it is known already - very often the truth is merely a few mouse-clicks away, as opposed to the past where you had to study for hours in the National Library, interview experts and witnesses if necessary, and scan through old microfiches if past events were involved.

We're over-informed nowadays and spend too much time on news without even distinguishing properly betweens news, editorials, and infotainment.

> Now, the media is completely being driven to the sidelines.

I still see zero evidence for that. As far as I can see, there is a bunch of political zealots who for various political and personal reasons state something like the following (roughly and deliberately polemically paraphrased): "The 'mainstream' media are crooked and wrong. Everybody is mislead by them and a victim, except for me, I am a victim but also know everything better than hordes of journalists. I am reluctant to back up any of my claims, though, because my sources are mostly opinion websites and blog posts, but if I must and you pressure me, I am willing dig through the Internet to selectively chose a few random articles to back up any claim I made, no matter how unfounded it might be. I do not really know any 'non-mainstream' media that would hold up to superficial scrutiny but I'm hell-bent on insisting these exist. The reasons why I do this are psychological and irrational, I feel uneasy in a complex world and spend too much time online."
So the author mentions that the reason for picking KDE was its screen management. I feel like KDE does not get enough credit for that. I'm on a laptop. I regularly switch between two external monitors at home, various projectors, and of course using no external monitor or projector at all while traveling.

KDE remembers each individual set-up, so once I have arranged my two external monitors, I know that the next time I plug them in they will automatically be arranged the same way. Once I have set up a particular projector to be virtually above or aside from my laptop screen, it will have the same arrangement next time I plug it in. This should be the default but back when I switched to KDE a few years ago none of the other environments I tried gave me this experience (I hope it's better now). And indeed, is was the main motivation for me to give KDE Neon a try
> their data

The "data" is under creative commons. It does not belong to them.
Yes, in which case you just make your cluster bigger or delete some data. Seems like a reasonable compromise to me.

Garage has advanced functionnality to control how much data is stored on each node, and is also very flexible with respect to adding or removing nodes, making all of this very easy to do.
If I have 10 different errors, but the root cause for all of them is that I forgot to do something I should have done (initialize a variable), then the cause is the same across all 10 different errors. If I don't start initializing the variables, then I will continue to have erros (which may or may not be similar to each other), thus making the problem reproduceable.

The errors are not the problem, but the result of the underlying problem.
Clickable link for stackoverflow survey: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-demog...
The explanation seems to work even in base 10.

Let's do the average of 85 and 95.
The leftmost digit of both is equal, so we leave it: X5
The "xor"/2 is the sum of the non equal digits divided by 2 (respecting their powers): (8+9)10 = (17)10 = 85
Now, we add them: 5 + 85 = 90 (which is the average of 85 and 95).

Let's take now 87 and 89:
The rightmost digits are equal: 8X
We do the 'xor'/2 for the left most: (7+9)/2 = 8
8X + 8 = 88

Let me know if there are some examples for which it would fail (I only spent a minute to test if the explanation extends to other bases).
> I'm unclear on why them having the information you cited

First of all, my wife and I actually read and attempted to analyze Path's Terms and Privacy Policy before joining. They did not in ANY WAY have our permission, either implicitly or explicitly to collect private information about our children, who are, 3 and 4 years old.

> along with dozens or hundreds of other contacts from your address book

From path.com/about

Path should be private by default. Forever. You should
always be in control of your information and experience.

I was never once asked, agreed to, or gave consent to allow anyone to collect sensitive information about where are children are schooled at, what buses they ride, where they receive medical treatment at, or OTHER PLACES I LEFT OUT OF THE ORIGINAL LIST BECAUSE THEY ARE PRIVATE TO MY FAMILY. :)

> for millions of users

"kill one, it's murder - kill 1,000,000 it's a statistic" - this isn't about your children - it's about mine. ;)

> constitutes some kind of terrible threat to your children

Where did I say this was a "terrible threat" to my children? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't - bottom line is we did not consent to it. And perhaps we just want to protect our underage children from having behaviorial profiles or credit risk assessments built up on them before they reach kindergarten .

Interestingly enough, according to Path it is VERY reasonable that I should protect my children's information:

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information
in an effort to prevent loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure,
alteration and destruction. Please be aware, however, that despite our efforts,
no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and no method of data
transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

Combined with:

(You)...accept all risks of unauthorized access to the Registration Data and any other information you provide to us.

My risk, right?

> But maybe there's a specific threat in mind that I'm not thinking of?

Yes, there is. And I acknowledge that you might live in a world where you have no problem allowing anyone in the world to know any detail they can illicitly sneak out of your phone about you, your family, and your friends - but most of the rest of us don't.

For fuck's sake a UIKit dialog box and handler code is less than a dozen lines of code and then NONE OF THIS WOULD BE AN ISSUE.

> Anyway, just thought your response was a little over the top, and more informed by emotion than reason.

I'm curious, do you have a spouse or children?
Is there any equivalent on chromium?
I believe Firefox devtools have been ported to chromium.
Awful move. If they just remove users with all their tweets it breaks internet and I hate when companies do that. The stated reason (not logged in can't agree on terms changes) seems feeble - there's million ways to handle it better. And why do that starting with Dec 11th, what's up with the rush?
Much more sensible way could be something like: set a policy before hand that requires login for example once a year (6 months seems too short) and if account didn't have any tweets or had like 3 tweets and 2 followers, delete it. That will allow to shed completely inactive users and free up some squatted handles, but will not be detrimental to the content.
Dear OP,

The basic principles of economics show us supply means little withour demand. The dependence on fossil fuel is not due to current supply of the fuel source but rather a result of how the global economy has evolved to rely on it. You don't even have specific actions recommended as solutions big oil can implement to alleviate fossil fuel dependance. At this point you can't even blame them for the cost disparity with renewables since they are much more competitive. These "oil" companies call themselves energy companies because they are investing well outside of petrol for energy supply (such as wind farms).

Fossil fuels are not strictly oil and gas. And petroleum had many many critical uses well outside of fuel. R&D is focusing on making "smart" things instead of cheap renewable powered solutions. The likes of Exxon spent a lot of money trying to lobby against climate change mostly to protect their business interests but why are your politicians sk easily bought out? It seems you have a political problem here. Should they listen to big tech's lobbyists instead? Or maybe big tech should protest government's being bought so cheaply by any big corp?

Regardless, what is your solution? Make it harder for them by denyig them business? Slow them down? That won't happen. How hard is it for big oil to buy out one of the lower end cloud providers and offer it as an industry optimized alternative to big tech?

How about protesting car and plane manufacturers,airlines and cruise ships,etc... as well? You're picking on big oil because they're big and loud not because they can affect the most change.

Is this much different than targeting drug cartels in the drug war? Did it work? The solution it appears after all this years is solving for the more difficult problem of why dependence is formed and how to legally and safely administer drugs while solving for the root cause.

The problem is too critical to waste time and attention on curing symptoms. The root cause needs solving. The planet was dependent on oil long before climate change research was established, why was dependence formed and what steps can be taken to elimnate it?

It feels nice to blame on big bad guy and have a villain to terminate but in the process you're wasting time and effort.

And also, please ffs stop trying to do activisim by making companies do things politicians should do. Figure out why the election ballot is not effective before you vote with your wallet.
They also have incredible underground aqueducts that have been maintained for thousands of years. Smart people.
This seems like a great opportunity to grab that twitter handle you always wanted.
> I don't know why people think compilers are so infallible, or are more likely to be better written than your application.

Since they are rare and written by relatively small and knowledgeable people, most of the users (incl. me) think that they're meticulously tested and developed with utmost care.

I just remembered that one of my applications were hanging in a hot code path if I didn't write a small debug directive in the middle of it. I always thought the problem was with me but, it can be anywhere between me and the silicon. When you're in the middle of the development heat, you always blame your code or the libraries you use. Compiler and the lower levels are not put in the suspect list until bug becomes fairly stubborn to persist.
Mostly in French, unfortunately.

Games: https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_list.php?cat=Jeux+z80

A lot of emulators there: https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_list.php?cat=Utilitaires...

One of them is web-based: https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=1414 (also hosted online at brandonmeyer.net/projects/TI8XEmu/TI8XEmu.html but I can't access it now)

Coming second as communities are Omnimaga, and ti-calc.org

I feel like the only redeeming quality of these calculators is the community around them; and they make kids interested into programming and electronics. The landscape is looking better and better for who wants to hack his calculator.

Of course, the most convenient emulator is offered by numworks for their calculator: it's right there, on their website: https://www.numworks.com/simulator/
What you're experiencing indeed doesn't sound like burnout. It's plain old alienation. Big corporations are the prime example for this, small startups generally promise to alleviate this (though obviously this only holds true to a degree unless you hold a significant share in the company).

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

At least having worked in Big Tech you have likely built up enough resources to be able to just do something else now, rather than being stuck in this situation until you can retire (or become physically unable to continue working).
> a well-integrated experience on a platform tailored to their hardware

Unfortunately, that would mean not using Firefox on MacOS, in my experience.
Or too hard - why are they US only?
I've observed the horrible nature of this program in person while traveling. During the practice, the TSA staff talked loudly to threaten passengers and then also made "jokes" to passengers about finding chemicals on them. Essentially they try to escalate the fear among all the passengers and then single out someone who responds the most poorly. Not to mention the fact that anyone who has protested or complained about any of these controversial programs are being targeted without any basis. Psychological warfare is being conducted on American soil against innocent Americans.
I read this article on TechCrunch yesterday and I just cannot fathom how an app can go from zero to 5 million downloads in four days.

What kind of marketing are these guys doing to go so fast out of the gate?
I'm sure there are aspects of it are not settled, but that is not the same as not knowing anything. We can not predict accurately if it will rain 10 days from now, but we still know it rains every now and then.

There are deserts on earth that have been created by humans (Iceland for example, and the "Karst", victims to wooden ship building), and large lakes that are almost gone because of human actions.

It also seems obvious that humans pollute water bodies around us to a degree that makes swimming in them or drinking from it impossible, to take up your pissing example.
My problem is that given the following examples, only 3 can be eliminated even though there's no visible marker:

return f(a,b,c)

return f(a,b,c) or False

try: return f(a,b,c)
finally: os.remove(tempfilename)

return [north,south,west,east][dir]()

return a[0]

In the presence of try (also with, and perhaps a few others I can't think of right now) even the examples you gave cannot be TCEd.

Personally, I consider broken a language in which enclosing a construct with "try: .... finally: pass" to switch between constant memory and endless memory requirements.

That is already true for scheme in a way. Guido's refusal to break python in this sense is wholly supported by me, even if that's not his reason to refuse.

And "return from" suggested by another poster is the perfect pythonic syntax for such a thing.

And I definitely thing it is a property of the specific call site, NOT the entire function, whether it should be checked for tailness. Decorators are the wrong solution here.
But only if you can split parts more or less evenly; in other case, numbers go down quickly...
If anyone is using an unreleased product on anything other than a test environment with anything other than test data, then the nicest thing anyone could do for them at this point is to simply point out the bug has been fixed.
> the tendency to prioritize accessible fast iteration in early stages over performance and scalability

well, I'm glad you're describing the way you see the tradeoffs, I just have a hard time seeing how hanging your hat on the ability to eek out every little bit of resource optimization at the expense of early iteration is a worthwhile tradeoff for the majority of gamedevs. Running the game at a worse framerate or render setting so that you can tune the gameplay early, get through many different gameplay design iterations, and get the artists and sound people working sooner seems like it would be of value to more teams than something highly performant that makes it harder to experiment and iterate. (on the ECS vs inheritance point I'm in agreement.)
Which actual real capitalist economy has survived without intellectual property?

Without the enclosure of the intellect, capitalism is unable to effectively organize research and development, leading to its failure.
I think the reason it doesn’t make sense is that when you buy art IRL you actually own the original which can’t be duplicated.

This is not true of a JPEG. I can perfectly duplicate it.

Now where it might make sense is if everyone views the asset through an authoritative “viewer”.

For example cryptokitties website.

In that case it somewhat makes sense.

As an analogy if I create a private World of Warcraft server and give my character a billion gold, no one cares.

But if they see my character on the official server (the official “viewer”) has a billion gold then its impressive.
I've been doing alot of deep dive into 'Technical Analysis', picked up a couple text books on the markets and have been flipping cryto to great success lately.

I've come to realise that 'Technical Analysis' is just insider trading. Us day traders come to this 'Agreement' on which technical analysis to buy and sell at. There are thousands of different 'methods' to coordinate this insider trading but if a boolinger band lines up with the bottom of linear regression chart, it's a pretty safe bet to assume other people 'Agree' to pump and dump up to some other technical analysis.

Whatever you call technical analysis, I call sophisticated insider trading. It's been working out great for me, but i do feel alittle gross sometimes.
If x EUR is worth y USD, any discount results in someone losing money or taking on Forex risk through some derivative product. It doesn't matter which settlement layer is used.
Yep. I can't claim to know how everyone else responds to these things.

The Signal example isn't the worst. It's a mutual connection. It's not like they're emailing hundreds of people saying "Waterluvian wants you to get on signal!"

What's to stop them from doing that when they get sufficiently desperate? I don't even own my contact lists. They seem to grow on their own with anyone I've ever emailed.
> why huge commerical engine like Unreal Engine or idTech don't even lift a finger about that?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/...
Not my work, but found this via a video from excellent YouTuber Two Minute Papers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ny-p-CHNyM

The paper "Monster Mash: A Single-View Approach to Casual 3D Modeling and Animation" is available here:
https://dcgi.fel.cvut.cz/home/sykorad/monster_mash

Web demo - make sure to click "Help" and read the instructions:
http://monstermash.zone/#

Thought you might also enjoy!
34% is a big chunk, though, and it makes sense to accomodate them on a deal-breaker, if possible. Doesn't mean everyone has to work remote, but for instance it might be sensible to make meetings remote-friendly by requiring everyone to connect through zoom, even if most of them are in the same room.
Well, I think it is about remote workers. For folks who have to be onsite like warehouse managers it is anyway not an option.

> we can't force the other 66% to work remotely

Yes, I think it is not going to happen. But management can force quite a few more than those who are themselves willing to work from home, if it can save some money.
The popularity of ReSharper really helps with this, I find. People pick up the new features because ReSharper constantly recommends them.
Keep in mind that everyone working in COBOL trying to squeeze costs.

It's a dead ecosystem.
If you actually cared about privacy, you'd have just used Monero, and saved yourself 4 years effort building YAS (Yet Another Shitcoin).

And no, speed is not the most important. As long as the user can see the payment incoming, it's trivial UX to say "Payment received. Will be confirmed and available for use in 3 minutes."

edit: it appears MobileCoin is (allegedly) built on a combination of XMR + the Stellar consensus protocol? If true that's a slightly better scenario than I previously thought
Signal's choices never really felt right, as their justifications tended towards authoritarian paternalism - eg willfull reliance on Play services, keeping it out of F-Droid (which while flawed as Signal pointed out, seems to be the best we currently have), bottleneck centralized servers, and phone numbers as primary identifiers (?!).

But the standard Free Software development/distribution model does lack in some areas. And so Signal got a bunch of community leeway for going against the grain, in the hopes that a fresh approach would somehow bear fruit.

We're now apparently seeing some of the fruit from that approach.
Just remove clutter before reading

https://getscroll.com/r/f5146
> Stereotypical Smart Bored Youth Programmer

See also Jamie Zawinski's "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers": http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
It's a side project. You have to want it or choose another one.
Maybe people in Oakland don't need food delivered because we don't have multi-hour lines out the door of every restaurant like SF has :)
I get energized about my side project when I get suggestions, comments, or other feedback from users. I can go months without doing anything and then I'll get one person asking for a feature or change and I'll work for a few hours or days to get it done.

My advice is to make is easy for customers / users to give you feedback. Use a support ticket system and provide email links on your homepage.
Being in danger in Oakland is related to being part of a dense network of dangerous people. If you're not in that network, you're not in danger. I don't know why those people make their home in Oakland, but basically if you're not a criminal or friends with criminals than you'll survive.
The first question you should ask is, if you can't keep motivated, why are you doing it?

For me, side projects are things I do because I'm interested in them and have free time to invest. If I don't, I don't work on the project, and it's no big deal. Yeah, sometimes I'd love to have more time, but oh well.

It'd be different if I made money off of them, but I don't. To me, that would make it a job, and not a side project.