skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most Googler SWEs have Mac laptops, not linux or windows laptops. But only a fraction of them use brew to install additional software.

I'd love to interview the creator of homebrew. There are so many dependency and reliabiltiy questions that it's clear brew doesn't handle well (same criticism of CPAN, and pip to some degree) in terms of performance or correctness that you could just talk for an hour about graph problems... who knows, something like... inverting a binary tree?
This was on the front page then went poof from the front page without slipping to the 2nd or 3rd page and was not flagged. Why did that happen?
> Source?

More interesting, however, is the fact that ketones can provide as much as 70% of the brain's energy needs, more efficiently than glucose. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3219306/

You are ignoring the most important part, humans don’t need outside sources of carbs/sugar (glucose) to power the brain, the body will produce the required glucose internally. So humans can live without carbs/sugar but the same can’t be said without fats.

And no ketosis is not a state of starvation, it’s not clear why you keep saying that, it’s a metabolic state that the body only gets thrown out of when insulin is spiked.

Again it is the default the body only gets knocked out of when introduced to certain foods in certain quantities, which would not have been available pre-ag.
By that logic, if someone is born without a leg, and technology allows us to give them a functional prosthetic, we shouldn't bother, because that would be "discriminating", not giving them back equal functionality to the majority of the human race. It's just amazing that anyone could equate restoring measurable physical deficits in functionality to discrimination.

Very sad psychological defensiveness for your in-born lesser function. "Naturally", my vision is poor enough that I would be completely unable to drive, watch TV, and barely able to read or use a computer without glasses, but if I were to call optometrists and my parents who wanted to give me the full function and opportunities that other humans have discriminatory and evil for giving me glasses, I would definitely be displaying some unjust ego defense.

When the world has been out of focus your entire life, and a pair of glasses suddenly makes it snap into sharp focus, it is nearly indescribably overwhelming. However, it absolutely means I can do jobs I would not be safe doing otherwise (operating machinery, driving, etc.). This type of discrimination is justified for the safety of others. If you have the right type of color blindness that glasses such as these could help, then you _can_ learn and adjust to more proper colors, if you are willing to do so, just as I could adjust to the way the world looked utterly suddenly changing. Just don't be so stodgy and defensive.
There's no internal state of the callee leaking out. The act of communication between the signaling site and the handling function is done via condition objects - which are just like standard Lisp classes whose slots can be read by the handling function.

The slots and/or accessor methods via which one can access the condition objects can (and should!) be documented as a part of the contract of any piece of code that is expected to signal conditions.

Resuming execution is possible since the original stack is not destroyed by unwinding it. The handling code can simply perform a transfer of control to a point on that stack established earlier and continue from there.
Really? I thought it was common knowledge that UK are brutal about surveillance. James Bond and Kingsman, CCTV on every corner, Canonical CEO dismissing privacy concerns in new products “because you already trust us when we sign the packages” ...
It did not stop with the statues in Year Zero. (Hint: it never stops with the statues.)
At least some people could related a few issues when Trump was only targeting illegal immigrants. But, what is the deal with students and high-skill workers?

To me the logic is like this: "I have eight years max. And I know that I can't fix the unemployment problem. So let's go and blame other things and promise this problem will disappear when we solve those other things. If I repeat it, everyone will believe it"
This relatively new order made it significantly easier for them to get permission to engage in these attacks, and the order's exact provisions are still a secret.
Well, there's reason that there's so many programmers with at least mild autism. One of the symptoms is obsessive focus. Can work wonders in coding.

Otherwise, I tend to ignore most of these "connect to your inner power" things.

I don't dispute their validity (usually), and have friends that have done things like the Tony Robbins courses and Lifespring, and whatnot. It seems to have helped them. It's just not the way I feel like going.

I do have a personal process that depends on a fairly rigorous self-discipline. Not many "shortcuts." Does seem to work.
It does seem like watercooling might be a better option for these high-TDP CPUs. I went back to air cooling on my latest build because I went with a Ryzen 3600 which only puts out around 65W under load. IMO, the cost/benefit of watercooling just isn't there for normal use cases because of the risk of leakage.

Building an open water loop would be awesome for the GPU cooling. I just can't justify the expense.
There has already been such an agreement (The Hague Land Warfare Order, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_...), but "cyber warfare" wasn't a thing then and thus not included.
I'm always confused why my experience never matches that of others in this arena. I run bare i3 and NeoVim. When I add Slack, Chrome and Spotify, I often see 12 Gigs of usage after a couple of days. Most of the time it comes down to Chrome's tabs... and Slack appearing to be leaky. I've recently started using an extension for Chrome which puts my tabs to sleep and frees the memory they were using. But still, I'm sitting at 8.33 Gigs of RAM used.
This is the same way as pioneered by Flowdock ten years ago or so, right? I think that approach is way way better than what Slack has. I remember eagerly waiting for Slack to implement threading and the being dismayed how crippled design they chose.
Well, one approach is to find people in the same reference class who have spoken and, for speaking, faced serious consequences. For example, they got formally punished (kicked out of a group, demoted, fired) for it, and a sympathetic journalist gave them a platform to tell their story about it later.

This Twitter thread (oh lord, how did I end up citing Twitter multiple times in this conversation?), by the founder of an online magazine that seems to specialize in stories of this sort, has a long list of examples. https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1282215876553400321
I agree it doesn't make sense for the purpose of convincing anti-vaxxers. But I do think sometimes valuable research topics end up getting thrown out "with the bathwater" so to speak when the general public gets too wrapped up in a pseudoscientific interpretation (especially when that interpretation was originally supported by some poorly done or fraudulent published research).

For example, galvanic skin response was used for very bullshit purposes, which led to research on it essentially stopping for over a decade. But recently it has been rebranded as "electrodermal activity", and turns out to have use for studying Epilepsy as well as other promising potential use cases (such as improving sleep staging without EEG).

I am less aware of literature on side effects for current vaccines, so I don't know if this same phenomenon has happened. But I wouldn't be surprised if certain lines of thinking are reflexively stomped down right now.

Maybe this just needs to be the natural life cycle of science though, it might be for the greater good to let anti-vax die down before doing anything which could stoke their flames.
Look at temporal.io. I believe we managed to get rid of the original SWF rough edges while maintaining the "workflow as code" approach. And the best part is that it is open source and you can run it anywhere yourself.
Hotels are as bad about this or worse. At least the cleaning fee is only paid once for the booking. Lots of hotels now charge nightly resort or destination fees. There is no excuse for that not being part of the nightly rate.
Liquid cooling excels in flattening temperature spikes, usually from bursting CPU frequencies, since it has more thermal mass and can absorb spikes without much change in coolant temperature.

Air cooling excels mostly everywhere else.

Neither can cool your system to below ambient room temperature.
I've replied to the parent comment with a different, more complex example. Is it more illustrative than the previous one?
I was, several replies up. Yet my post has been flagged.
Check my post out about using nail varnish to cover up the LEDs.

But the design problem is much, much bigger than just gaudy LEDs. There are so many electronic appliances (and software UIs, etc.) around that have been designed by people without any skills whatsoever in design or without any understanding in user ergonomics. It's a serious problem even from a secondary perspective, as it so annoys people that they chuck equipment away before its use-by date which only adds to the mountains of e-waste.

I have several set-top boxes (PVRs) with software that is so dreadfully bad (not to mention full of serious software bugs) that I consider these appliances close to being unusable.
In their own words: Trinity at 75 – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
> Is it a race to the bottom though?

It's a race to the bottom as soon as any of those other countries undercut your tax rate to try to steal the MNCs back. Most countries realize that isn't sustainable, so for now it hasn't happened.
Lol another reason for me to hate snaps. I didn't yet know that.

PS: My other reasons:
- Much more resource wasteful
- Single store operated by canonical only
- No simple updating a library with a vulnerability and having all apps that use that library automatically fixed.
- Makes really messy virtual mountpoints everywhere.
I have my plague doctor mask all ready for this, but honestly I don't find much reason to go in to a Walmart store anymore. Overall retail shoppers have become a lot more self-centered and a lot less socially aware than they used to be. Walmart seems to have a excessive concentration of these people.

I remember being taught as a child don't leave your cart in the middle of the isle when you need to get something or examine a product. Move it to the side so there's room for people to pass. To be aware of others around you who might want to get products your standing in front of and move to the side so they can get them. These kind of basic things have vanished. It seems people don't even try and corral their children anymore, or at least that its so common it seems everyone is this way.

While Walmart can't always control their patrons they seem to have management issues to. The express line seems to allow and ever increasing number is items. They usually put the oldest and slowest worker on the express line instead of the fastest. The self checkout is kind if a joke of a mess herding people around.

I guess if there was no other options Walmart would be where I would go, but it's so rare for me to even step in their store anymore. I'll order Walmart products online, but in store shopping they better have a fantastic deal but overall their prices are that much different than other places that don't have that kind of Walmart mess.
Actually the argument is "why lose the forrest for the trees?".

Every day you make abstractions to better understand reality. For example, you don't devote equal attention to every blade of grass, you sum it as "this is a lawn" and move on.

If you didn't you'd be lost in the first few feet walking outside of your house, seeing everything as an equally important detail.
> How do people building these things become convinced this is ok?

Because they have the data proving that opt-in telemetry means no telemetry. Every time this topic comes up, HN sticks its fingers in its ears and refuses to accept this, but it's the truth. 99% of users, even for a developer-focused application like VSCode, just click through and accept the defaults. So if you want telemetry that isn't useless for any practical purposes, it has to be opt-out.

If you want, you can have a separate argument about whether having the telemetry is worth it, but if you've had that discussion and decided the answer is yes, then opt-out follows immediately from that.
I assume they lookup members by email address, then fetch their organisation(s), then emails the admins of each org?

That's opaque to the requester though isn't it? They wouldn't be entirely sure to which company they are requesting to be invited.
This also reveals a fundamental bug in naive democracy (i.e. we should do everything that the majority wants). It creates an implicit tyranny against the minority by the majority. Of course the same person can be in a majority group in one category but minority in the other.

U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and other similar fundamental laws were conceived as essentially a way to fix this problem; to keep the minority safe from the majority. You wouldn't be able to solve slavery with democracy. The majority would vote to maintain it.
It’s nice to see an article that makes assumptions and then realizing that they didn’t really work out and walking back on them. It’s often good to try rewriting things, but often the thing you think is old and crusty (FORTRAN) is actually quite good, perhaps in ways you weren’t aware of. So it’s important to be able to say, “yes I tried some nice new thing, it didn’t really work out how I had expected, also some of my assumptions I started off with were not really correct either and I might not have made a fair comparison”.
A shot with saline would help demonstrate some of the side effects (localized aches or damage to the muscle), but would not elicit the same response as different vaccine with roughly known side effects (feedback on vaccine administration reactions is far from ideal). The other possibility is minimizing the appearance of side effects by comparing against the control group.
I believe we are fast-tracking production of several vaccines on the assumption that they might work. So even though testing is still going on, currently producing them just in case.
Cloudflare Network expands to more than 100 Countries
Everything else in an interview is also completely different from 9-5 engineering.
Arguing that the safety of the Apple App store is equivalent to that of the Google Play Store, or any of the other Android markets (which are far worse), is pretty nonsensical.
how about considering that the people telling you they're being silenced is a group of privileged folks unaccustomed to being pushed back upon publicly, with "cancel culture" as the reactive appellation for that push back?
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No you're wrong. Galileo's experiment doesn't apply here. Heavier objects DO fall faster at terminal velocity. A glider in sustained flight is an example of that.

Galileo just showed that objects accelerate at the same rate due to gravity. But they do NOT fall at the same rate unless in a vacuum.
In my experience, the people making those decisions are aware of the benefits of deep work. But optimizing for it has commonly been a lower priority than other things like the ability to drop in and interrupt developers since that directly benefits them immediately.
Well, adding mandatory payments/taxes such as, social security, health insurance (%7.45 + %7.45 paid by employer), unemployment insurance and solidarity tax, pushes it to 20 percent - 35 percent area, based on your tax class. I am not even talking about the church tax if you are religious. In my opinion, I do not see any difference between income tax and the mandatory taxes.
That isn't overkill size for a 24 core cpu. However that particular heat sink is not great on threadrippers. It is probably ok for the 24 core TR because it doesn't have chiplets on the edges. The DarkRock TR model doesn't have heat pipes on the edge of the heat plate. They just made the heat plate wider, and it suffers on the 3990x for it. The Noctua equivalent is a better choice for these cpus.

For the normal desktop cpus, I like the Dark Rock better. Cooling is the same as noctua but was quieter for me.
Firstly that has nothing to do with redistribution.

Secondly total cost of living in a major city has gone up, not down, due to rent and realestate. Sure, i can but more polypropyl, bread and stainless steel, but what good is that if i have nowhere to live.
Build taller. Skyscraper has been invented long time ago.
Go to hotels.com or any other hotel aggregator. Look at any hotel in New York City or Hawaii. Almost every hotel does this and all of the major chains do this.
There are at least 5 mechanisms by which filters can filter out particles. Four of them are explained in this document [1]. Some filter materials also trap particles electrostatically. but I have no idea if that is relevant for masks filtering viruses.

For at least some of the four mechanisms covered in that document (inertial impaction, diffusion, and interception) it seems plausible that once you have a particle caught that way any other similar particle that otherwise might have been caught at the same spot the same way might either bounce off the first particle or dislodge the first particle.

This could eventually reach a steady state where as many particles are coming out as are coming in the other side, just with the individual particles being delayed.

If the particles are small enough so that sieving isn't significant, then there would probably be little change in the ability of air molecules to get through regardless of whether or not the filter is in the early, nearly clean stage or is in the steady state late stage where there are plenty of particles trapped.

[1] http://donaldsonaerospace-defense.com/library/files/document...
But I think that's still possible. For example when testing a new idea that just takes some months, it's pointless to show an alpha version where half of the buttons create error messages - even if it solves a much more valuable problem and these errors could be ignored. Instead one should make a presentation of a mockup or a screen recording how a single feature will work. That's much more digestible for everybody and gives far better results if the one watching has anyways only 3 minutes time.
I believed this for years, and in spite of all the stuff going on now, I think it still holds true.

And the trouble is, saying that "It's about class, not race" is considered problematic in recent books like White Fragility. So this opinion, which can be debated and talked about and discussed in debt, is now considered wrong, taboo and even a 'dog whistle' to say you're actually racist.

And I want to acknowledge that there is a difference in lived experience. A poor white person may not get followed around in a store by security like a non-poor black person. There are some things we have difficulty understanding because we don't have the lived experience.

But we're in danger of closing off the conversation before we even get to the topic of those lived experiences, and we're told that if we can't have those lived experiences, our opinions are also invalid.
> according to that logic, lawyers, CEOs, line managers and HR should be paid what they were 100 years ago

Is that not true? Carnegie and Rockefeller were even relatively richer than the CEOs are today, and I'm sure their lawyers were compensated for as well as today's richest lawyers as well.
You don't need a strong processor for VMs, just a lot of cores. And AMDs U processors can have upto 8 cores and upto 16 threads on their 15W ULV parts.
That's marketing for you; a good proportion of Electric Imp are brits, and we generally don't get "really excited" by anything short of the prospect of a good curry and a nice pint.

Having been through other chains of acquisitions (empeg was acquired by Rio who then went chapter 11 and were acquired by DNNA who sold the engineering team to Sigmatel) where the plot was lost entirely over the passage of time, I'm entitled to play the "meh" card if necessary.

In this case though, I'm personally really excited about the possibilities. Watch this space :)
There is a good book on this called "Uncivil Agreement" which I enjoyed. It covers how, on both sides of the US political spectrum, identity trumps political issues in what people care about.

I think identity has been more of a focus of right-wing movements right throughout history, although people frequently refer to it in the context of the current US progressive zeitgeist; identity and nationalism are very intertwined. Identity and what it means to be an American plays a large role in Trump's support, for instance.
Everyone is responsible for their own heuristics to judge other people. Other people are not responsible for behaving in accordance to your heuristics, it is your error if you misjudge them.

Therefore, if someone uses a phrase also used by racists/communists/some other baddies, and does not fall into that category, it is your error to guess that someone does. It is just victim-blaming for error of judgement.
A substance-less complaint can become both helpful and a more honest critique simply by including a link to something less derivative.
This is what I don't hear anyone talking about.

Right now, my company is saying "we're going back to the office 2 weeks after the province fully reopens". This is great! It's tied to the progression of the virus and gives me expectations about the post-covid world.

I am OK wearing a mask right now. I don't want to be wearing one in 10 years. I want an expectation similar to above, something like "mask wearing will end 2 weeks after the last known case".

I went to the dentist the other day and it was less stress than ordering from my local Thai food place. It really seems like masks are people's way of externalizing their fears, I want to see proper leadership in this area so we don't let these fears get out of hand.
Almost by definition, the modern workplace* has zero tolerance for deep work.

Has anyone made their workplace compatible with deep work?

* by which I mean notifications, Slack, Zoom, email, meetings, open offices, sprints, etc.
...and if you are physically unable to see one of the colors in magenta, you cannot see magenta. Not sure what that has to do with anything.
Simple server logs for package downloads will give a very good idea which users have which packages installed.

Ubuntu doesn't even run all the mirrors, so hasn't even got control of if people are collecting this data.
It shouldn't immediately request mic/camera/screen access on the landing page. That's a complete put off for me.
In Asian countries a lot of people wear mask when they feel sick. This is to protect other around you from getting sick.

I wish this could become a new norm in the western countries.
Several reasons (I'm not op).

The main one is that you might not know the placement of the keys of the US layout by heart so having your printed keyboard match the layout is best. I'm a touch typist, but I still look from time to time to find things like | or ~.

Also, your physical layout might be slightly different, then finding the right key becomes a matter of trial and error for some edge cases (think the inverted L shaped enter key vs the long rectangle version).
You pay extra for not being able to install apps outside of Apple Store?

Or more specifically, you pay extra so others couldn't do it on their phones (because you as I understand wouldn't, but you don't want others to be able to)?