skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess there's something to be gained by doing that. (By contrast, electrodynamics wouldn't gain anything by calling Maxwell's equations "the lambda calculus of physics.")
I would rephrase #1 as, "a way for content creators to monetize what they make, other than running ads." Certainly credit cards exist, but (for several reasons) people won't whip out their CC to buy a funny cat video on someone's website. Patreon is one solution, but signing up to support a new creator is kind of a heavyweight operation.

I think a platform like Flattr makes sense: you pay a flat $X/month to Flattr, and they handle the logging of what you watched/read, and splitting up your $X among those creators.
Oh, are we still doing the Russia thing?
I guess the sweatshop jobs these days are mechanical Turk things in Calcutta, Bhubaneswar, and... New Orleans?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/technology/ai-humans.html
Ah, thank you! I just picked up Siddhartha, haven't started yet but it is on my next-up list.
more qualified people congregate, in general in the places with the highest cost of living

That has to do with short job tenures (in the US) and industry consolidation. In the past, someone might have joined Upjohn in Kalamazoo, Eli Lilly in Indianapolis or Dow in Midland and stayed there their whole careers. Nowadays everyone changes jobs every 5 years and employment is in San Francisco, Boston and San Diego. It's problematic.
Context is important. Developing applications vs libraries vs scripts is different, developing internal company software vs external software is different.

If you're shipping a package on pypi, you will want to develop and automatically test using multiple Python versions and maybe a range of versions of your dependencies. Having good tools to manage multiple sets of Python versions and dependencies and parallel automated testing is a godsend.

If you're writing an internal or web application that will run only in a single well-known environment, pip + venv + pytest might well be good enough.
I read the comment as implying that they were overly broad and so should not be applied to the larger population outside of a professionals supervision.

My counter-argument was that they were properly narrow and could indeed be applied to the general population, though this would not provide definitive diagnoses only prevalence information.

I read the OP as saying that these statistics were not representative of the actual underlying mental health phenomena. I believe and asserted that they are.
You are 100% correct. I guess it's because it's a js developer doing audio, instead of an audio engineer doing js! So I have a lot to learn, most of the plugins have minor issues, but I 'll be focusing in correcting those when I get the chance!
COVID on My Back

Well I’m running
COVID on my back
I've been hiding
COVID on my back
Avoiding maskless spreaders
COVID on my back
And the victim?
Well he won’t come back

I've been running
Zoomday
Doomsday
Whatstheday
Blursday
Fryday
Blursday
Zoomday

What have I done?
What have I done?

Yes, I'm running
Down the WFH track
Won't you help me?
COVID on my back
It will catch me
If I dare drop back
Won't you give me
All the f*cks I lack?

What have I done?
What have I done?
The ones I can see that are clearly nuclear power plant control rooms really don't look all that different than the Western designs of the same era. They don't even look that different now in those plants, except for more computer screens (at the operator desks mostly, not necessarily many "on the boards") and digital strip chart recorders.

The biggest difference I see is that the Soviet stuff clearly wasn't seismically qualified.
Big "tech's" positions about what they will and won't enable people to do have become so inconsistent with public focused principal that I struggle to be sympathetic.

If Section 230 is so important, then who the fuck got us in position that it's the current chesspiece between government and industry?

Consolidation of power invites attention from other power. Once that happens to you, don't expect to win on principal. You've already decided that you're not fighting on principal.
More like anyone can rip off employers. When you are dealing internationally, you are out of the bounds of US law. There is no guarantee that your code won't simply be stolen. You have no recourse except travel twelve time zones to a place you have no power in. No one need worry about outsourcing. It's been proven that the only work going to outsourcing is low risk service labor like phone support.
I've always wondered if people found scrollers to be as hard to read as I did.
How long? They also represented the organizer of the Charlottesville white supremacy rally just a few years ago.
Source code, bug database, accounting database. Currently 2GB out of 4.5GB.

On a separate DVD: Email, documents, spreadsheets, diagrams, etc.

Ransomware can't re-write DVDs.
"Calling its methods in the desired order"

This is my point. The order of calling the methods matters, because it manipulates opaque internal state. Since this ordering matters, the caller is implicitly dependent on this internal state as it must know the order to call the methods in to get the desired result.

So it's very relevant to the outside world in my opinion and nothing is truly hidden. It becomes part of the public API whether you hide it or not.
Tools to Measure Core Web Vitals
I'm giving the Google home mini a shot right now.

I think I'm going to get rid of it.

Besides playing some music with voice control or telling me the news I have absolutely no use for it.

I can do those tasks with very few clicks and a Bluetooth speaker.

It was cheap enough to give it a shot but i wont be investing in the ecosystem.
You vastly underestimate the difficulty of immigrating to the United States (or even just _visiting_ it legally).
Awesome - kind of reminds me of the Renoise interface!
I will definitely admit that those numbers are made up, more of a rhetorical technique. Numbers are important, I do agree.
It’s been a long time since Python just worked. You can’t just hand someone a Python script and expect it to work on their machine. Yes, if you keep things simple and avoid all dependencies except the most trivial maybe you can get away with that. But that’s not going to be the case if you’ve got whole teams using Python.
There are probably only a dozen of c popular extensions that needs to support HPY reach the tipping point of mass adoption: numpy, scipy, pycuda, tensorflow, matplotlib, uvloop, etc. and some db drivers.

The rest is not popular enought to be a blocker. You will hear them scream a lot, but they will be like 0.00001% of the user base, and we can just tell them to stay on CPython with its limitations. They don't lose anything, just not gain anything either.

Those C extensions authors are directly in communication with Python core devs, when they are not core devs themselves, so if HPY is adopted, we can expect a total adoption under 5 years.

Numpy authors already said it would take 1 year to adopt it.

Give the huge number of benefits of HPY, I deeply hope it will be a success.
I think your questions assume a lot of things:

- Women do most of the shuttling of kids? I've yet to see any evidence of this.

- There are differences between the genders, but 'genetic behavioral differences' is a very broad and deep assumption regarding nature vs nurture and opens a whole other spectrum of basic questions.

- Over representation of a gender in some particular field. Being equal does not mean we all have the same aptitudes and interests.
Because tracking on the client-side gives you can give you a lot more info on what the visitor is doing.

For example, if you have a landing page and only track on the server side, you can not know the session length as you only know when the request to that page happened, but not when the user left.

I am considering to also add a server-only tracking option for for my analytics platform[0], but the data it provides will be limited by a lot. For example now you can tag users based on the actions they do (click a button, scroll on the page, encounter an error, etc.) and it's gonna be lot harder, if not impossible to track those actions on the server-side, thus user segmentation and other useful features are vastly restricted.

Also, as you mentioned, tracking server-side means that your server should be able to run the analytics platform and it might be harder to integrate analytics than simply including a JS on your pages. Imagine you have a static website, hosted for free, in that case you don't even have the option to add analytics on the server-side.

[0]: https://usertrack.net/
I long for the day when I don't have to hear about Trump's useless tweets anymore
But you saw everything they had done before you got back on board, and you still got back on board. What's different this time?

I'm not even saying you shouldn't like MS, or whatever. But what about this specific incident forms a line in the sand, that all the stuff they did through the 90s-2000s didn't?
But it's really hard for me to feel bad about people who end up with a massive amount of school loans. There are plenty of state school options available. Work moderately hard in high school and you'll get a massive discount on college, too. Would it be great if it were free? Absolutely. But it isn't. And that shouldn't be an excuse for ending up with a massive loan afterwards.

I hear you, and you're absolutely right. So many people with massive student loans would be better off had they made better decisions. But why didn't they? Why has student loan debt massively exploded to $1.6 trillion? To me it seems obvious that there are systemic incentives and disincentives at play that are actively making it more difficult for people to make good decisions in these areas, not a sudden rash of people being born or raised with inferior character or intellect to the generations that came before.
I think this just means employers will still have incentive to hire people to be employees (as then they benefit from the employee's growth), rather than contract out work to firms which may reassign or replace the (now valued, experienced) employee. When you contract out instead of hire, you're giving an incentive to a firm to get the work done as cheaply as possible, and that's not always the right trade-off.

The earlier waves of outsourcing were about shifting things like management responsibility out of the company, and I think that was shown to have unintended negative consequences for a lot of firms. I don't think there's much reason why an employer wouldn't be excited about hiring good, talented people from cheaper labor markets now.
The idea is, if you need the functionality that classes give you (passing the implicit state between multiple calls), why not use the special syntax for that use case?
I work for a FANG company and we literally don’t care what “cool” concert you went to and some of our top folks have “kids screaming in the background” of calls. We do have some really interesting people on the team but I never found out how interesting until after they had been on the team for awhile. Hiring people because they are “cool” is an amateur move. Even screening for “coolness” is a bit ridiculous.
If there's anything innovative in the new version of the product, I don't see why not.
Let’s flip this around. If [anyone] can take [your] job, then it stands to reason that remote work means I can take someone else’s job.

But what would this mean for me? First off it would mean doing all the same work to prepare myself as a candidate. Take Machine Learning for example, which is my area. I need to prepare my resume based on my current projects. I need to brush up for nauseating leet-code hazing trivia dumb shit (probably on a virtual whiteboard now). I need to research companies that have roles I’d be interested in.

Now I do all that, let’s say I do well in the interview.

Am I going to take less money to take the job? No. In fact, I’ll probably want more money than I am earning now if I am going to risk switching jobs.

Am I going to accept my salary to be adjusted by geographic region or cost of living data? No. My compensation is about the value I add to your company. It has nothing to do with where I live.

If I want to do lifestyle arbitrage on my high salary, that’s purely my business and is a private matter my employer does not get to know about or consider.

Given this, how many employers are really likely to want to hire me? I’m going to demand a NYC salary no matter where I live. They won’t get to replace their existing NYC-salary-person with a cheaper competitor, because nobody is cheaper, and a lot of people are more expensive.

In essence, supply went up if you can hire from anywhere, but the price for that supply did not go down, it’s just permanently higher.

I think if companies are looking to trade employees for a cheaper model, they are going to be surprised that hiring remote doesn’t facilitate this at all. The people from rural Kansas who can do the same job are not idiots happy to take 1/2 the pay because of where they live. It’s stupid to expect they would be.
Can you provide an example where this worked for a large scale company? I’ve heard this at smaller companies but nowhere big
Tests.h
#define private public
#define protected public
Reverse Proxy for Google Drive
this may not be entirely what you were getting at, but for the "daily pill" vs. "once a month" or "once every 6 months" - the business models already have precedents for this - there are psychiatric, migraine, autoimmune disease, and oncological drugs that are dosed monthly, every 3 months, every 6 months etc.
> Democrat-associated civil rights organisations such as the ACLU

There is an overlap in membership, but that doesn't always extend to policy: the ACLU sued the Obama administration over immigration, and they have backed up Rush Limbaugh, Oliver North, and the KKK in the past.
I can't find it now, but I'm pretty sure a very early version of The Onion had an article that predicted this for THC.
Most online courses I’ve taken (university or MOOC) were not improvements over simply reading the textbook/source and doing the published exercises. I have taken a handful of online courses from “real universities” and they have all been atrociously bad. Some MOOCs I have taken have been much nicer (Ng’s Machine Learning stands out). Courses on platforms like Udemy seem to almost uniformly consist of regurgitated documentation. Maybe that’s helpful for someone (or they wouldn’t be so popular (?)), but I find video to be a slower and less dense form of info transmission.

The main thing I find annoying is that most of the courses I’ve tried don’t leverage the interactivity available to them. The exercises don't seem to have the right level of challenge to enable flow. In college, I took a linear algebra course with lectures on one day and group work on the other. On the second day, we’d have a difficult application problem of whatever we learned earlier in the week. We’d break into groups (small enough that you couldn’t hide) and work through the hard problem together. Each time, I’d leave the class feeling like I had truly gained a deep understanding of the subject matter.

In contrast, most online courses (if they have exercises at all) seem to be of the form: show pattern, change obvious detail, ask for obvious implementation. I haven’t found a lot of exercises that actually require a stretched understanding of the material to get through. Maybe this is optimized to mitigate huge drop off rates in MOOCs - easy problems keep people around longer. But, that doesn't really create a valuable learning experience.
WaSCC: A dynamic, elastically scalable WebAssembly host runtime
I never use WA, but I'm typically reaching for fairly basic math calculations that don't involve units. Last example was calculating an estimate cost of DynamoDB based on the peak RPS I'd found, which is just basic math with a lot of significant digits.
How do you know those pages are high converting? Do you have conversion rates stats for them?
Are many companies terrible? Sure. Is that an accident? No.

However, Microsoft specifically has a history of being aggressively terrible in exactly this way, which is what I was referring to. For example, the time they talked with a company about an acquisition only to ghost them and totally steal their work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics#Microsoft_law...
four pi times the square feet?
PRC Approves Controversial Law for HK
If anything, my comment was a false analogy, not a straw man.

Your comment was arguably a straw man, however, as it attacked a point which the article did not make (i.e., Hong Kong should not be responsible for itself) instead of any of the actual arguments (which focused on the benefits to the United States: strategic, economic, and political).
These are great for my collection of realistic yet not-realistic Zoom meeting virtual background!
I've been reading lately that CBD alone doesn't do much, maybe they can also synthesize some THC out of the peels?
Building the FusionAuth Homebrew Formula (2019)
Good idea. I've seen a few places doing this around the country (although in SF almost all hotels are unable to open). Hilton in Ohio charges $69/day though, and that's more expensive than a private shared office would be
Don't most tech people leave to get their promotions?
Well the political consequences are kind of bad. CA system is built around trust. Not being able to secure their servers, even non critical ones, degrades trust.
I've tried more than a couple of times to use a personal knowledge base and haven't been succesful in making it stick.

My process so far has been I keep a daily journal where I write down the most interesting things I learnt or did everyday. If my daily notes are getting unwieldy then I use a Markdown file which I sync on Github. And when I really want to make sure that I've understood something I'll either write a blogpost or stream myself going through a library.

I would definitely appreciate the ability to search my old notes better since they got too long to efficiently parse a long time ago but this process lets me structure the really important concepts I learn without adding too much overhead when I'm just learning random stuff. I also expect my notes to outlast many knowledge base projects and part of the appeal of markdown to me is that it's probably gonna be around for a while.

I'm curious if any writers here have found personal knowledge bases to be worth the initial overhead.
How to Disprove Your Own Ideas
Exactly! You don't need classes to obtain information hiding. In general treating the state as an opaque pointer is a good thing. But the state is part of the public API whether you want it to be or not. Even if you try to "hide" it in the OOP sense, the result of the methods depends on the internal state so it is leaked through the behavior of those methods.

However, when it is hidden in the OOP sense it makes it much harder to reason about the behavior of a function without reading the source code. Because there is this internal "hidden" state that you do not know exists.

But a referentially transparent function is much easier to understand. For a given input, you get an exact output.
Which side are you even insinuating is "my team"...? I can assure you I care about civil rights legislation in the US (which affects the whole Western world, since the US controls every major piece of ASCII-based WWW) more than I care about either political party in the US winning, not being American myself. What I was trying to say with my previous post is that I suspect that _most organisations_ that would be in a position to defend said civil rights legislation really just care that their team wins, which is a problem for civil rights if civil rights wind up being seen as a win for the other team.
I wish Intercooler and htmx were more popular. But I think that practical examples, copy and pastable code, youtube tuts are keys for a library to succeed. Think about php manual, react... There's often no need for some websites to bring big frameworks but they're well documented. That's the new nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.
Can you provide some recent actions that lead you to believe this? I'm genuinely curious.
Haven't tried that yet. My assumption is that most companies would be worried about security/privacy OR just not be motivated by a few hundred bucks
Penetration tester or application security audit. Not cyber.
There was a phrase after the questiona inviting OP not to solve problems they don't have, as worrying about setup before building is a dead giveaway for procrastination. Let me just spend two months figuring out the perfect standing desk, two months fingering oipeoof water cooled stations, and a year mastering an editor.

I couldn't leave it at that and added one resource recommendation. Then I removed the part in the middle, and the result of removing that is straight out of an infomercial.
At a previous company we had "the office phone" which had a number that everyone used. SMS notifications were forwarded to a desktop app if you were out of the office.
Did you link the wrong article? The one you linked basically says that (1) you are using yaml files to describe the package instead of scripts and (2) you have the ability to specify multiple installers per package to support multiple architectures.

If that's all the innovation that MSFT has supposedly 'copied'...
Fair point.

Please now explain how reopening the schools will reduce the replication factor.
Having worked many years with globally distributed teams, especially offshored IT in India, I'd say...LOL.
Google deletes negative reviews for TikTok
Meditation has similar effects - some people will have a single mind-blowing experience and a lot of their problems go away at once. Others practice for years and slowly whittle away at the sharper corners of their mind.

The problem is, you may not know what type of person you are going to be till ten years in. I suspect the same is true of psychedelic dosing: some of those soccer moms may need a strong depersonalization experience to get any real benefit from it. In some psychonauts it's going to trigger psychosis. I'm glad there's finally research being done in this area, the possibilities are certainly very exciting.
I enjoy subtitles, my wife doesn't. I don't think I would enjoy subtitles when we're late-night binging until 2 or 3am.

Regardless, do Netflix, Apple and Disney have better engineers than HBO (and Amazon)? Do the latter two not care about offering Spanish (or non-English)? Do they have some contractual obligations to not offer the options online?

Turns out I don't care what the reason is. They don't offer extra language options, so I don't subscribe.
I understand; I used Beamer back in college. It just seems like that's not really a good fit for the original purpose of PDF files. If they wanted to support presentations, maybe they should have created a new file type based on PDF but with extra capabilities.
It’s a dangerous kit. There are no mounts included (zip ties don’t count) and the demo image on the website shows a panel sitting on a window ledge. Seems like a good way for a panel to fall and injure/kill somebody. Real solar panels installed on a home are bolted to structural members of the home so they can resist severe winds that happen yearly (60 mph+)

“Move fast and break things” is dumb when it comes to electricity or physical products that get mounted on the exterior of a building, and there’s nothing wrong with calling someone out for failing to take safety into account. It’s a huge oversight.