skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a more cynical take that what exactly happened is less important than how we interpret what we believe to have happened. Perhaps there are historians that are so objective as to be robotic in uncovering and disseminating only the facts, but I believe most historical studies are entangled with moral arguments.

Firstly, even if we focus only on the facts, reality is so complex and multifaceted that it is inevitable a historian must selectively omit material in order to communicate a story a public can understand, and this inevitably obscures the facts and pulls in the historian's own moral interpretations of what is worth communicating.

Secondly, although there may be people who study history for the love of uncovering past events without preconceptions or bias, they are funded by those that may not share the same goals. History is used to induce a sense of shared national identity in schoolchildren, demonize others to justify confrontation, and stir citizens into making personal sacrifices for the group. Even if all the events are true, how they are presented, interpreted, and selectively omitted can create wildly different opinions on the same historical event.

Ultimately, I think history is more a tool of social control than any objective study. A person unmoored from history will focus only on his immediate wants and needs. A person with some education in history will call upon historical grudges and pride in the heroism of those long dead to take part in social structures that far exceeds him in numbers and lifespan. Storytelling is what makes us social animals, and history is just a more believable form of storytelling. What really happened isn't valuable in itself but how it adds to the persuasiveness of that story.
If "something" includes safety and maintainability, then no.
True, but most Americans seemingly do not know how to make such a distinction. The key, but seemingly too nuanced aspects of European governments in that regard, gets distilled to "liberal/leftist/commie/pinko" states.

It's daft as hell, and quite annoying.
Yeah, my primary use case for it has been running proprietary utilities to inspect/operate hard disks, and things like that, which may only be available as statically-linked ia32 binaries, potentially until the end of time.

There is a lot of performance left on the floor by real-time-only DBT when applied to binaries which do not jump into dynamic memory at all. QEMU is also, in my opinion, too general-purpose to be efficient. I think high-performance SBT and DBT is crucial to the adoption of new ISAs, it should maybe be something RISC-V International/The Linux Foundation puts up a bounty for (along with native ports of popular JITs like v8 and HotSpot).
I've worked at both kinds of shops. I'd never work at somewhere that follows the above strictly again.

It's been my experience that you get crappy software, produced with great effort and much gnashing of teeth, if your developers don't know your users.
Everything is generated through a config file which you can completely customise. So you could literally change the colour of bg-white if you wanted to.

It's part of the selling point, that config file becomes your design system. They provide a decent one but you are free to overhaul it as you see fit. It works really well.
That’s what I was getting at. 400 is the lower bound, if you have many windows open on a breezy day in the country.

The tear emoticon was a nod to how high that baseline is.
Oh, I gave you the UK link, sorry, I don't know where in the world you are, but I bet you can ship a brand new battery there either from the UK site or the US site.
This is identical to how I feel. My advice to people who want to get in a routine of exercising is to minimize the barrier to entry. For me it was running. I leave my house and can immediately start the thing I don't want to do without having all this overhead to start doing the thing I don't want to do (going to the gym etc).
This is particularly hard during quarantine. As much as I dread lifting weights because of the difficulty, I love the feeling during and after.

But now that gyms are closed (I wouldn't go if they were open anyway), I don't have a good substitute. And bodyweight exercises take significantly longer to get the same "pump".

At the gym, I'm forced to get through the workout. At home, it's so easy to hop on the laptop during breaks between sets and get distracted.
Take a look at this story, where covid-positive hairdressers interacted with over a hundred clients (all involved wearing masks) without infecting any of them: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e2.htm

Masks are tremendously effective. They protect you from others a small amount, but protect others from you a huge amount. They are absolutely not theatrical.

When it comes to stopping transmission, we don't have to get 100% effectiveness. We just need to get the r-value below 1 and the disease will die out. It's a game if probabilities, not absolutes. Masks have a very low cost for the tremendous benefit they confer.
Are you open to experienced devs who fit the bill in other respects, but aren't Go pros (but are very willing to learn) ?
I think this is all abysmal, dangerous advice. The author says to 'become a robot' and you're saying to 'lie to yourself'. It's all very anti-Zen. I think Alan Watts would say it leads to double-binds and discordant psychological feedback loops that will cause you suffering.

Your brain isn't a separate part of you. And you should simply be mindful and fully aware of life, do what you want and enjoy doing, when you feel like doing it.

No wonder there is such an issue with anxiety and depression when culture seems intent on mind-games that trick people into spending life doing things that they don't really want to do.
In Portland hundreds of demonstrators used the mesh-networking app Bridgefy, and some affinity groups used goTennas which even served streaming movies, music, and documentaries that spoke to the revolutionary tenor.
From the article, that's exactly what's being questioned:

"There is a big dispute in the scientific community, however, about both the size and the behavior of these particles, and the resolution of that question would change many recommendations about staying safe. Many scientists believe that the virus is emitted from our mouths also in much smaller particles, which are infectious but also tiny enough that they can remain suspended in the air, float around, be pushed by air currents, and accumulate in enclosed spaces"
Yeah, that's one line and doesn't tell me a whole lot about the outside life. Are there more than average number of people per household, are there family gatherings, etc. I'm a bit worried they are comparing it to similar population like reservations and concentration a bit too much on the job. Seeing what you want or from the wrong perspective is not good.
This is true. I had experience in every technology in the stack except Postgres (did a lot of TSQL work back in the day but never SQL with NodeJS).

After getting used to it it wasn't so bad but the unclear error messages, abstractions and lack of types really made it a steep learning curve.

If the codebase was in typescript it would've saved a lot of time trying to sleuth out the documentation for an abstracted piece of code.
> Why does anybody think that masks actually help?

If you know of scientific studies that show that masks don't make a significant difference, please share them.

Here's a list of 70 scientific papers (including reviews/meta-analysis and individual studies) on the efficacy of masks: https://threader.app/thread/1279144399897866248
> No, the virus is real but the risk is low.

What do you mean by "the risk is low"? Do you mean "COVID doesn't kill a large portion of the people that get it"? "There are no long term consequences to a COVID infection"? "I personally don't have any of the factors that would put me at higher risk of death"?
Autodesk changes the format only every 3 years, and since r2007 the changes were minimal. Haven't looked into the r2021 changes yet.

Afaik only LibreDWG matches Acad and ODA/Theiga, the rest does only DXF, no DWG write and a minimal numbers of objects.

LibreDWG only offers GPL, but many CAD packages thrive with the GPL: Qcad, FreeCad, SolveSpace, Blender.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeches_by_Michael_Crichton#G...
Let's Create a More Human Internet
Hard to say. I have friends too (ha) and I'm not afraid to talk to them about my ideas, but alt Twitter still was different.
more machines buying that selling. but will sell at a millisecond notice.
The world is everything that is the case
So instead of chinese spyware its American spyware. Great!
I fully agree. I'm just questioning the use of entrepreneurial terms such as "exit strategy", especially early in the life of your project.

"What are you doing?"
"I'm painting, some people bought my pictures"
"So what's your exit strategy?"
Strangely, they didn't shutdown the economy with something that killed 100K in the US.
> We expect candidates to be located within North America

Do you mean that living inside the US is required? Or Mexico/Canada are fine too, but not other countries? Is this a timezone restriction or US work authorization restriction?
If I stole a car and tried to use "I was just following my incentives" as a defense, how far would it get me?
The problem with this: updates. You buy a version. They fix the bugs you report and release a new version. Do you pay full price for it? No, it's just an update. You'll pay a reduced upgrade price, but you want it for free. Your price probably doesn't pay for ongoing upgrades and might not pay for the updates. So no one is paying for updates. Every new version has to be sufficiently improved to get everyone to buy a new copy. Or the company could release a version and coast on it until revenue stops coming in.

Renting software is ridiculous, but at least the incentives are kind of pointed in the right direction.
Privacy is an integral part of security. The terms have just become disassociated due to those who use the refrain of "security" to mean their security at the expense of your security - eg airport molesters.
You probably don't use a lot of things, right? Did you do a background-check on the thousands of developers that contributed to all the software you use? Did you check the smartphone you use wasn't built in modern slavery facilities? Did you check in what conditions all the raw material needed for it was extracted, what countries and their political situations? Did you check the ethics for all the chain of the food you eat?
> Fund schools.

Hire tech capable teachers that care. Funding only works if it's toward this specific end.
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Alternatively, stop using your phone while you're driving. It's illegal to hold it in your hand while driving in many (most?) states now.
Zero Downtime Release: Disruption-Free Load Balancing of Multi-Billion User Site [pdf]
BuildZoom is hiring engineers, growth/marketing, and sales in Scottsdale, San Francisco, and remotely.

We are a construction marketplace that helps people build and remodel. We are generally focused on large projects; those that require a building permit.

BuildZoom is a managed marketplace in that we have construction engineers with home building/commercial construction experience on staff who help property owners with finding contractors, identifying the scope of the project, material selection, bid negotiation, bid leveling (making sure each bid says the same thing and includes the entire scope of the project).

Our data business (we collect the complete building permit history of the largest 1500 municipalities in the country) helps us identify the best (and worst) general contractors and builders.

We've grown 75-100% each of the last three years..
The world is multi-faceted. Situations and individuals are complex. Externalities and exceptions abound.

Multiple perspectives can accurately describe the same event - e.g. the fable about the blind me all describing an elephant.

Each of their individual descriptions is true. There is also a larger truth that none of them are aware of. That doesn’t make them liars either individually or a group.

Additionally, it can be highly politically advantageous to frame, spin, or otherwise mischaracterize, on the thinnest evidence, both out of bad faith and naïveté.

So, about Truth with a capital ‘T’, I’d like to paraphrase PK Dick’s statement, “truth is what exists when you stop believing.”
All ADT does is call the police. During the most recent civil unrest incidents the police were not responding to 911 calls like this, making it pretty useless when you actually need it.
Pro tip: store configuration files in git.
Federal govt should be paid as part of the deal with TikTok
This is how I got though college classes I found boring or tedious. I'd just stay up all night doing "interesting" things, then about 6am I would actually do the homework assignments, studying, etc I didn't want to do.

I'm sure it wasn't an effective strategy for information retention, and I developed pretty terrible sleep habits which plagued me for years after. But the homework got done...
It seems like when "UI" became "UX" is when that kind of design arrogance started to be more common.
Are you open to UK-based applicants?
Remember [HitClips](https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/9f3q8p/anyone_re...)?

One minute of incredibly low quality audio from popular songs stored in a physical cartridge, with a dedicated player.

The 90s had some wild ideas for music monetization.
A large portion of pizzagate was focused on Epstein... and arguably was responsible for him finally being arrested.

I think the key for conspiracy theories is that they find a kernel of truth that powerful people don't readily admit, and then fill in the information gaps with their own narrative.
Another great trick is when you don't have the energy to do something, do miscellaneous things only to get ready to do the thing at another time. Once you have the idea that you're explicitly not doing something the prep part is incremental, trivial/negligible units of effort. Often I find once all the prep is done, I'm actually psyched to start and will start on the spot or at the very next opportunity.
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For full time: Been doing backend server dev so far. Looking to change it up.
as someone whos really interested in this kind of thing, what kind of memory semantics specifically does c++ support compared to rust?
Then nobody in society should ever drive a car, since you can't guarantee you won't injure others.

Society understands the concept of acceptable risk. We need to get past the absolutist hysteria and treat discussions of Covid in that manner too.
What I've been doing so far is have a parallel computer to my airgapped one, installing all the packages that I could possibly want in the parallel computer, copying the .julia folder to the airgapped one, and then crossing my fingers that I won't need any other package.

In the article, they said all the packages would be in tarballs and in their Pkg server. I haven't explored this yet but what I'm hoping to do is download all the packages from the links in the package registry, and then point the Pkg client to my local drive somehow.
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I am really hoping the proliferation of 4GB RAM - limited devices like the Pinebook Pro (and this) will encourage people to develop things that are far more memory efficient, so eventually 4GB will be enough for anyone, even if they want to run Slack, for example. There is no technical reason whatsoever that a glorified IRC client should be taking up gigabytes of RAM. The same goes for many web services. I seem to recall reading my email on a device with 8MB RAM total in my childhood; why does Google need 2GB for my Gmail tabs?
Google Pay signs up six more partners for its digital banking platform
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I am currently interning with a national laboratory and am likely to get an offer there upon graduation, but also thought I should put my name out there on HN, because there are some awesome employers here. I will be graduating in a few months here with a BS in Computer Science, and I worked as a web developer for over three years when I was younger. My current internship has given me experience in the Python, Java, and C/C++ languages, while allowing me to work with Docker, Ansible, Gitlab (w/ CI/CD), and other technologies, and I'm always willing to learn the stack necessary for a job.
I think it’s probably simpler than that, there are some docker Postgres image that are setup by default to trust connections.

Which is ok until about 5 seconds after you open the port to the world.
I feel like that as well. Running isn't great for me but biking works - I can commute or shop and also get a workout all at once.
Except we're all using Electron and React and give zero F's about writing native Mac software. Platform doesn't really matter anymore.
That's where the Pomodoro technique might be useful. If one adheres to it, it does what the article describes as "making the decision in advance." After you take a break after the stopping point, the technique makes you continue on. But of course, that means you have to embrace the plan and not resist against it, either.
> Had a chance to work with Leon on the TestAnything protocol. Really great guy to work with.

Why thank you :-)
Getting Back into Interviewing Shape
Headline updated:

Trump Says TikTok Must Sell U.S. Arm by Sept. 15, or Close
I had those same issues with first numbness, then progressing to sore joints, in the fingers and toes. Then it progressed to sore joints around the body.

It seems that the flare-ups heighten pain sensitivity in the peripheral nerves in addition to the gut problems. My whole body feels 'raw' when it happens.

I have no idea on what the pathology is, but I expect it has a genetic component. It seems that my gut has issues with the self-regulation of certain neurotransmitters.

Over the past decade or more, I've tried nearly all of the other treatments for IBS and none of them work. The peppermint oil capsules were the worse. It was a complete waste of time and you walk around with the smell of toothpaste, at least that's how it felt to me.

You can refer back to some credible information for patients like this here from the NHS -

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/irritable-bowel-syndrome-ibs/f...

Amitriptyline is clearly a treatment option for IBS there. Insist on it and your doctor should have no reason to deny it to you unless you have a contraindication.

If you're not in the UK, then there are other sources like this -

https://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/digestive-d...

Key takeaway from that article -

>In one trial, nearly 70 percent of patients receiving 10 mg of amitriptyline experienced a complete loss of IBS symptoms compared with 28 percent of those on placebo.

I guess I'm lucky and in that 70%. I hope you are as well. It's such a big effect on my health, I wish I knew how to deal with it sooner.
That may be true. But in response, they should write differently. If you're the underdog discourse, don't start the conversation by assuming that you're right. Worse, don't start it by assuming that the reader agrees that you're right.
$30 more, plus you have to buy through a no-name Amazon seller. Maybe other people are okay with that, but I feel much more secure buying from Google directly (in terms of whether or not you feel secure having a Google device is a whole other story, of course...).

Checking on best buy (as a US user), the A71 actually goes for $600 if you want it unlocked and without activation [1]. So a more fair comparison is that for Americans the A71 is $250 more than the 4a, but you could get it for cheaper if you activate or buy it locked, or are willing to buy from a 3rd party on Amazon.

The A51 does seem to be available from Best Buy for $400, unlocked and unactivated, or $300 from an Amazon 3rd party, but the specs there are of course not as good as the a71.

Posting as I was excited to buy something non-Google and fully featured, but I personally don't feel the same confidence buying from some 3rd party on Amazon as I would from Best Buy or Google.

1) https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-galaxy-a71-5g-128gb-unl...
What a sign of the times: a ~6 year old YC-backed subscription box / clothing rental startup had purchased "the oldest department store in the United States"
Ok, but then you could call almost everything in the news a lie because there is always a chance that it's a set up by some nefarious, false-flag operation.

Not exactly helpful.
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and tunnel boring cutting heads under the nose to avoid traffic
In February 2020, I decided to get back on the job market after 5 years. I was really worried about my interviewing skills, knowing that after 5 years they weren't as sharp as I'd like. This is how I got back into interviewing shape.
I regularly end up pushing through drudgery by repeating "Don't think just do. Don't think just do..."