skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't think any American hunting and eating raccoon harbors delusions about the social status of such activities, even in places where it's relatively popular. If anything, it being looked down upon is a point of pride.

I agree. I'm just saying that if it's not considered low class in Europe (why would it be?) it'd be amusing if one of the people who normally looks down on people for eating that kind of thing comes across a European who a) occasionally eats 'coon, is b) of similar socioeconomic class to them and c) doesn't see what the big fuss is about because then said American would have to reckon with their prejudices.

>That said, I would imagine that raccoons carry a very high parasitic load on account of their omnivorous diet and the places they tend to poke around.

Yup. A willingness to eat meat and hang around dumpsters certainly ups the stakes. I don't eat raccoon but would have no problem eating one that I know is primarily fed from my compost pit. One from an urban area that's eaten raw meat from god knows what dumpster would give me pause. The same would go for sunk and possum. I'd have no problem eating a Boston Common squirrel. The nastiest thing they eat is probably moldy french fries.
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This is great advice. Other advantages of DAFs:

- Super easy donation process - log in, search for the nonprofit you want to give to, click a couple buttons and you're done. Even lower friction than going to the nonprofit's website and entering credit card info.

- If you don't already itemize your tax deductions every year, you can "bunch" several years of charitable giving into one year by contributing in advance for future years. For example, if you plan to donate $5k per year, you can contribute $15k to your DAF this year, but grant $5k out of the fund each year. You can itemize the contribution in the first year, while taking the standard deduction in the 2nd and 3rd years.

- Fewer things to track and list when you do your taxes. You only need to report your contributions into the DAF (often 1 or fewer per year), so you no longer have to scour your records and record each individual charitable donation you made.

[not an accountant nor a lawyer, not tax or investing advice]

Vanguard, Schwab, and Fidelity all have low-cost DAF options that you can set up online in a couple minutes. Annual fees, minimum contributions, and minimum grants vary by provider so it's worth doing a little bit of research.
Correct. BEAM does real TCO as far as I'm aware. LYSE has a blurb about it and seems to agree (https://learnyousomeerlang.com/recursion).
The developer of the app "thisisyourdigitallife" handed over data collected from that app to Cambridge Analytica. Facebook claims this violates their TOS. Based on that, the data can be called stolen.

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/17/17134072/facebook-cambridge-an...
I can't get rid of my lawn. I would be sued by my HOA and fined and eventually evicted.
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I suppose it depends on how much content you put in your calendars, but I agreed with you on the usefulness, at first.

Then I thought about how meeting requests are basically PRs. How how easy it could be to create shared calendars using submodules and such.
Probably the most useful takeaway from CA's approach is that it's useful to realize how malleable opinions are of large swaths of "independent" voters. Ad experts and entertainment companies have known this for decades, but I get the sense the average American citizen still thinks of themselves as a free and independent thinker and not a product of their environment.

Problem is, even if they are a free and independent thinker, voting populations are large enough that the "average is the outcome" phenomenon comes into play, and voters are on average demonstrably vulnerable to coercion. Not enough to flip people's opinions 180 degrees, but enough to, say, get a reality TV star elected over a politician with a checkered history (that has itself been subject to decades of effort and millions spent to make said history checkered).
I didn't say dental, or "family". I said we paid $500 for our son's medical costs, not for the whole family.

His dental is completely free until he turns 23. Same as for anyone living in Sweden.
I get the point the article is making, but as others have pointed out you could extend this logic to the entire stack of your software/hardware and conclude you're not safe unless you audit every bit. At some point you're going to have to trust software you haven't personally reviewed, as the article awkwardly demonstrates.

It's obviously a matter of risk management (a term I was surprised to not see in the article); the more crypto you have the more care you should put into storing the wallet.
Ah so you're that neighbor that's concerned about what everybody else is doing rather than minding your own business.

There's nothing wrong with a yard full of native plants. You should stop trying to keep up with the neighbors and start letting people live their lives without your input.
> focus on forming good relationships with their neighbors in meatspace

Remember that garbage you mentioned. We don't want to deal with other people's garbage in meatspace any more than we do online.
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Semver is used for regular releases when you need to communicate deeper information to multiple consumers. A library version usually needs to communicate lots of information, to developers, to users, to distributions. Maybe this release is a dev release, while this other is stable, this release is LTS while another is not, this release has breaking changes, this one doesn't, etc.

Calver is used when you don't care about anything but the temporal difference between releases, and you can basically toss any expectation of compatibility between versions, other than something temporal ("this version is compatible with previous versions for up to one year"). That's why APIs use it.

Generally speaking, OSS uses Calver when the releaser doesn't need to care about the consumer, compatibility, etc. You'll find Linux system packages using Calver when someone basically cloned a random Git repo, made a one-off build, and decided "this will be a release" (you find this with firmware a lot), or as a way for 3rd parties to fork an official version with patches.

Random assortment of Ubuntu packages with a variant of Calver (sometimes along with Semver): libargon2, gyp, aspell, language-pack-en, libcrystalhd3, ntfs-3g, x11proto-* , python-cliapp, net-tools, rtmpdump, iputils-*, dh-python, amd64-microcode, lsb-release, libstring-escape-perl, wireless-regdb, ubuntu-keyring, tzdata, fonts-vlgothic, usb-modeswitch-data, publicsuffix, autotools-dev, geoip-database, ca-certificates, dns-root-data
Also: "why haven't the cops arrested all these homeless people yet?"
I will take a look! I'm looking to further distance myself from Google and such this year, so this is very timely.
Me too! Unfortunately none of them ever married those men and most of them remain pretty unhappy with their dating lives. Another serial coincidence!
I used to do road biking, but I imagine the same will apply to mountainbiking. Find a group ride in your area and start going on it consistently. On the calm stretches there's plenty of chance to pull up alongside people and have a conversation. Push conversations beyond mountainbiking, learn about these people and teach them about yourself. When you find someone you like, who seems to also like you, invite them to hang out outside the group and take it from there.

The hard part is getting the first 1-3 friends to bootstrap your social network. Once you're at that point your friends will introduce you to others, and your network will blossom organically.
Not really. If you put water on plants, most of it evaporates. Example: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/sustainable...
Samsung sells millions of Galaxy Note devices with a stylus.
Imho the 2nd part applies to those that use the quote too.
k8s and chill?
Cargo de-duplicates packages as much as possible, and only includes multiple copies if there are multiple incompatible versions required.
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Both interpretations would be wrong because it's not either or. It's both.
The question is, as always, at what cost?

Low-level languages (aka "systems programming" languages) already suffer from various constraints that increase their accidental complexity. Is it really necessary to complicate those particular languages further to support embedded DSLs?

I don't think there's a universal right or wrong answer here, but there is certainly a big question.
The Rifftrax short "Goodbye, Weeds" gives one perspective on how Americans thought about their lawns circa the 1950's: [0]

[0] https://www.rifftrax.com/goodbye-weeds
Haha, your comment reminded me when I went to Las Vegas and the hotel told us to go into bus X that they offered as part of the service for their guests.

When we arrived to the bus, we asked the driver: "Is this the bus service that goes to XYZ place and it si free?" . The driver very seriously told us: "It is not free", to which we replied "but they told us it was free!", finally he added: "it is not free, it is complimentary"

I found amusing how the US culture finds the concept of "free" (gratis, kostenlos) somewhat dirty.
This has been rejected by most rabbinic authorities. The designer is an engineer, not a an expert in Jewish law.
>Mixing spaces and tab for indentation and alignment is how it should be done if you want things to remain aligned when you change the tab width.

How it should be done is to never write code that needs alignment if you're using tabs for indentation.
I kinda stumbled onto a viable "build" for this game by being a socially awkward neckbeard, but female. No makeup, conference t-shirts with jeans and hikers, video games and 4chan for water cooler talk topics. I get automatically considered more competent than I actually am.
I'd say it's the opposite, Windows gamers are more used to this. I think by now one of the biggest parts of Nvidia/ATI drivers are patches and workarounds for certain games. Add the patches to the games themselves, and you've got a very fragile landscape. I've known a lot of people who aren't upgrading certain games and drivers for fear to upset their fps rate, mod compatibility or overall stability.

Heck, there are people keeping older PCs around just for that, so you can e.g. run your Skyrim LE with Win7 and an older DirectX release etc.

"Retrogaming" is quickly approaching a very small time delta.

I guess that's the price you have to pay for performance and availability. Games shouldn't be that brittle, but any fast-paced industry is likely to run into those problems, and with high-speed internet patches and a GPU duopoly, fixing it is too easy.
Most of the seattle area. Anywhere there is only comcast, or frontier or non ATT Uverse fiber in orange county (Orange, Santa Ana, Anaheim, etc. im sure most of irvine is there). I have doubts about shared google fiber in high density housing as well. 35 MB is a big number.
That's sad. Clover is easier to manage and it's actually softer on your feet. So if you have kids who want to play outside and forget their shoes they won't get scratched up like you would on some more durable grass species.
>> Consumer internet access is nowhere near capable enough for it to make sense.

> But the issue isn’t bandwidth, really, is it?

No, bandwidth isn't the issue, I believe the op was referring to Latency.

I have 75mbps DSL and the Latency is garbage with 29ms being best case. I get frequent periods of 90+ms latency.
Ive was just one voice among many executives, if anyone is culpable it's the CEO and/or board that exacerbated a bad keyboard with years of bad policy.

Apple's bad policy choices have survived Ive's departure too. Apple is still selling computers they know they might have to replace under "lemon laws" in many jurisdictions. Apple is still investing in impossible-to-repair laptops while fighting "right to repair" legislation.
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Lithium-Sulphur has high energy per kilogram which makes it good for transportation. Also high energy per dollar to manufacture which makes it good for grid storage (where weight and size don't matter too much, but cost does).

At the nominal rate of 750 amp hours per kilogram for lithium-Sulphur is well above normal lithium-ion batteries. But compared to gasoline, it raises the bar from 1% vs gas, to 2%. Do I have that right?
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It is a legit design choice, but it does detract from your comment about language complexity. Not having AST macros inherently adds complexity to a language by requiring features to be built into the compiler rather than be implemented as libraries.
Elchemy too which is based on Elm.
they'll need pcie 4.0 capable cpus too
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That's interesting. Thank you for that analysis. Again, I wasn't arguing that they were exactly equivalent. They're just not as different as they appear at first glance. It is true that you have a good chance of increasing your savings rate if you can get a job with a FAANG, which is a big deal.

It's also true that it's much easier to change jobs there. That's IMHO the biggest asset and what I used to argue for moving (wife won out).

The culture stuff isn't as interesting. Sadly, wife and I are just homebodies. When we were first married, we lived within a short subway ride of Manhattan yet rarely made it down there. We tend to enjoy cooking, reading, hobbies, etc. Kids are the same. Also, there are multiple other extenuating circumstances that make a move not possible at present.

I do agree with you about the opportunity cost of working outside high COL areas, and I agree that it's not a good thing. It's increasing the country's polarization, which bodes poorly for everyone. But you're right that it's the current reality.

What about my assertion about senior software engineers usually getting shuffled into engineer positions. Do you think that's true, or no?
What are the negatives that the six-month term sheet implies that I'm missing (I'm not familiar with them)?
> They provide less donor data, so charities can't thank donors or reach out to them again in the future.

wait, facebook does something to help me maintain my privacy? i hate giving some place $25 and then getting monthly mail for the next 10 years.
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Your primary role would be to develop applications and connectors related to the LumApps product (migrations tools, internal tools…). You will also provide information and advice internally as well as to the company's customers and partners (documentation, training).

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Not that it actually matters much[1] but as you insist very much on performance here a benchmark

http://www.navioo.com/ajax/examples/json/test.php

In the first example XML actually is a tad faster, in the second example it is practically a tie (JSON wins by three or four milliseconds).

[1] Are we seriously arguing about milliseconds when it comes to document parsing?
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Pennsylvania is also a huge producer of coal and natural gas. I believe northern New Jersey produces a lot of coal as well.
I think this kind of thing may be hard to study, at least for prominent issues, because the effects have been magnified by the creation of media to exploit it. Not only do people reinforce things for each other, but they have authoritative-seeming sources to point to. Those sources are in fact carefully crafted for that purpose, partly for political gain, partly for the sheer commercial power of being perceived as the only acceptable information source.

Once you've bought into the notion that everybody else is lying to you, no amount of getting outside your social circle is going to help. You can simply reject their reality and substitute your own. The cause-and-effect of these superpowered propaganda machines and social networks are hard to untangle; they arose together and influenced each other.
I don't make claims that SV is one way or another, nor do I dismiss anything, but the skeptical response to your proposal is that hers is just another data point, and our media systems only select for data points that support certain narratives. Perhaps this sounds conspiratorial, but it's not that far fetched if you consider how much the newsmedia and literary industries skew progressive and the fact that the narratives in question are progressive narratives--it's not a conspiracy but rather the predictable fruit of two utterly homogeneous industries.
It's primarily latency but bandwidth can also be an issue. Assuming you have a fast enough Internet connection (possibly not a safe assumption here in the U.S.), imagine your PC or mobile device(s) decide to update themselves or just generally get 'chatty' while you're playing. I've had this create problems for relatively bandwidth-sipping VoIP sessions so I'd imagine it would be much worse for a game experience.
> companies are uncomfortable making some of this data SaaS / external

SaaS can be on-premises.

> Sally in accounting refuses to change

The tools need to adapt to the user, the user shouldn't need to adapt to the tool. That said, if there are obvious efficiency gains (e.g. you can stop typing "COMPLETED" three hundred times a day and just click a button that fills the field for you; even better, the process marks it 'completed' once all the human verification has taken place) and the user is stubborn, well, maybe the tool should offer the efficient solution, allow the inefficient behavior, and log metrics on the whole thing. Management might take interest.
Not feature-rich as Little Snitch.
However, it's free and open source. I primarily use Little Snitch for my iMac and MBP. But use LuLu as well on other machines.

Can highly recommend all the other apps Patrick Wardle (Objective-See) has developed.
Maybe you need to think differently about this: What's your contribution to the company and what is your replacement cost? In non-hub areas, it might be very difficult to replace you, thus your value increases. Likewise, if you are driving significant revenue / cost savings, you can justify a significant piece of the action. Point being, rather than just making a comparison to bay area comp (for example), negotiate your own deal on its own merits.
the one useful thing Nextdoor is good for is lost/found pets. Other than that, i've never liked it.

I have a Ring and some of it is just downright funny.

> "suspicious person on my porch, be on the look out!"
>> "um, that's the mailman."
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I take the pragmatic view that meaningful interaction is as weighty as meaningful connection. You can be lonely in your own family, for instance, and find great pleasure in good conversation with people you barely know. We do seem to form 'bonds' with people, however (particularly with partnership), so I would not discount the impact of closeness with others, but I think it takes very few to be satisfied here. Even in a large family, you're probably only very 'close' to few people.

> erosion of family units

They're smaller now, but can we really say they've gone? Besides the scattering which is not really new, we choose our level of involvement with family.
hmm, I always assumed it's a single "heeby-jeeby" and therefore multiple "heeby-jeebies", because that's how English mostly does singular/plural.

But the repetition in "heebie-jeebies" looks more appealing. Even if grammatically unlikely.

I'm confused now.

Is "heebie-jeebies" intrinsically plural (like "sheep"), and therefore the pluralisation doesn't matter?

Is there even such a thing as a single "heeby-jeeby"?
You're missing latency which is arguably more important.
https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711 is the original post (what you linked). The quote is from https://probablydance.com/2019/12/30/measuring-mutexes-spinl...
> Chunk out a four by four foot section and grow some sugar peas and tell me it wasn't a thousand times more rewarding than a lawn.

If you have an HOA - there might be a bit of problem...
While I agree with "how malleable opinions are...", the actual answer is, "not very malleable". Every well-designed study of political advertising I've ever seen has shown that it's impact is very small, in some cases unmeasurably small. Thus, for example, the 2016 Clinton campaign raised a lot more $$ than the Trump campaign, whereas the Sanders primary campaign out-fundraised the Clinton one.

Now, the impact on the politicians of fundraising, is not at all small. The primary advantage of personalized advertising and fundraising, is to help a campaign rake in more cash, which is both legalized bribery, and an incentive to stoke your base's outrate instead of reaching towards the middle.

The worst thing about the CA/Facebook scandal, is that it's become an excuse for a large swath of the Democratic party to decide that it didn't make any mistakes in 2016 worth mentioning (or correcting).
Runoff still exists. That fertilizer (and honestly most commercial fertilizers) will still enter the stream and other water via rain.
Linus is right (for the kinds of code Linus tends to think about). There are good reasons videogame engines tend to use spinlocks, and if the takeaway is "Linux pessimizes for that use case," the implication is "Linux pessimizes for high-performance games atop its kernel."
New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Nashville, Austin, Dallas and many more.
You are lucky that you can identify what is wrong with you.

My only suggestion would be: Pick 2-3 technologies you have been using most and which are popular (in terms of finding jobs) and really spend time mastering them. Otherwise, good luck finding a more senior job.
But you don't really need it to use it. One son bought the latest one, was handing the old one to his brother to use when the stylus popped out. He said "Huh. I didn't know that was there". Had used it for 2 years without noticing the lack.
> I personally work remotely for a FAANG from the upper Midwest

Which FAANGs hire remotely, please?

And why do you think online COL calculators are inaccurate? They're relatively close to government reimbursement tables, which are pretty well-researched.

Edit: Also, once again, I'm not arguing that I wouldn't come out ahead, only that you have to consider COL. So many new grads I know have moved to CA for a junior position, elated at making the same salary I make here as a senior, only to realize that cost of living eats up a huge percentage of that salary. Granted, some of these people may not be the most financially frugal around...

My main argument is that COL is an important component of salary.
that would be 4+ birds
Discounting the fact that a 'successful test flight' probably isn't useful data, the equipment would of course only be packed away after the repairs have been tested and signed off.
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