skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Society is nowhere near a population level that is dangerously low.

I'd suggest looking into the economics of social security (even if you won't need it, most people will), as well as what happens to societies with plummeting birth rates.
Reflecting on Performance Testing
Yes, demonstrably and provably. Count the number of pageload indicators (spinners, throbbers...whatever you like to call them) in your daily browsing. They are everywhere...now.

AJAX (and, I suspect, the shadown DOM model) have proliferated in recent years, and there is no site design simple enough that someone hasn't thought to put every page element behind a JS call. Don't forget to put CSS in there, too!

Frontend developers are at fault for all this. There, I said it.
Software is like running water. It will fill up whatever container (hardware) it's on.
Looks like the project is no longer being maintained (as of two weeks ago?), so it kind of pours water on that idea (unless you or someone else is going to take over the main library maintainer work).
Kindle for Android can now permanently delete ebooks
Sure. And now instead we have 37 million people displaced, and millions killed. Ain't that much better.

Iraq itself asked the US to leave, and they didn't. I believe the technical term for that is "occupation".

And by the way, if the US was so interested in stopping torturous dictators they'd go after the Saudis. And we don't, because the only thing the State Department cares about is US imperial interests. Notice in all these cases, the life of the common man got worse, but magically the US achieved all of its interests. How interesting.
I'm using Chef since 2010 for myself and customers. I never understood the hate but I saw so many developers not getting it and/or overengineering it to a state which was beyond their capability to debug.

For example the different levels of attribute types. I saw "senior" developers writing nasty Ruby code (actually `system("rm -rf directory")` to delete directories (outside the chef DSL) because they didn't understand the appropriate chef resource.

The market decided to take away the power of a real programming language DSL as an interface. People are now forced to deal with terraform (HCL), YAML or JSON. It's a lobotomy.
They (russians) are conducting large scale phase 3 experiment, with up to 40k volunteers. Need to watch closely; most of the volunteers are in Moscow, and it will be difficult to conceal high rate of side effects .
My mom died from Frontotemporal Dementia.

She was diagnosed and was dead with in a year. But she experienced symptoms for at least a year before. For about 1.5 years I don't think she really understood much of what we said to her, and of course the last 6 months she was basically a child.

Near the end I told her I loved her and she was a great mom, but I really should have told her that 2 years before. Its one of my biggest regrets.

Don't wait. Say it now.
I’ve been using w3m as my primary browser for the past few weeks. Pages load faster, but the real awesome part has been recapturing attention from image based ads I didn’t even realize I was losing.
Meh.... he’s a conspiracy crank
It's definitely not her choice. That kind of decision is typically not made unilaterally. The expectation that the cost of that decision be borne unilaterally is incongruous with actual family dynamics.
When I left my old research lab 6 years ago, we had a machine running Windows 3.1
Great, so you actively chose to have a kid and you managed to deal with the consequences. That’s all I’m arguing for. I support you.

If you wanted to minimize chaos in your life, you wouldn’t have had a kid.

You don’t get to choose to have a kid and then complain about the chaos.
Weird, the article talks about air ambulances being billed as out of network. I thought that after Obamacare passed insurance companies were required to treat all emergency care as if it were in-network. Does that not apply to transportation? Or are helicopters being used in situations that insurance doesn't think are emergencies?
The assumption that industrial civilization is possible in 50 years is the absurd proposition.
Real stepdaughter screwed in the kitchen – You Teen Porn
Expanding the network (more routes, right?) achieves improvements, yes, Adding capacity to existing lanes, though? Continued congestion.
I'm pretty sure Amazon already does this. I have always received a delivery confirmation straight from Amazon, even for stuff shipped by a third party.
It Will Take More Than a Vaccine to Beat Covid-19
The problem is that this website is down and no-one can access its content. This problem would not exist if the author had simply released their static content on a CDN. Your 5€ DO droplet is not helping me access this content.
> The name/address on the was that of a recent immigrant living in New York City

How did you gather so much information from a shipping label?
I would argue that having kids is the only reasonable goal you can have as a species. Everything else that humans do is optional.
Yes, they don’t replicate virons that could be assembled the virus was modified to mainly replicate the spike proteins since your cells send samples of anything they replicate to the cell wall for your immune system to monitor and sample this is how the adaptive immune response is achieved.
Which should tell you something. The vast majority of tech advancements are because of hardware, not software. I think that software people should feel a bit of shame at this point in time.
Fairness, Evidence, and Predictive Equality
A country whose leader was overthrown, military was dissolved, and entire government structure was dismantled as a result of unilateral foreign activity will most likely feel the ripple effects of that for the next hundred years.

You can't just do that and then go 'well, it's their own democracy now, they're good.'

We're still seeing the repercussions of slavery playing out on the streets of the United States in the form of protests to this very day.
> At a place where smokers can take random 5-minute breaks, I can practically guarantee that non-smokers can as well.

Never seemed okay for non-smokers to take these breaks in the Army
To be clear, what I am referring to are people who would want someone other than themselves to be more generous to someone other than themselves. This a very common pathology in well-off, educated people. You get the virtue points without the actual sacrifice.
Gitlab is actually the perfect WFH company because it forces them to eat their own dog food.
The comment I replied to said that parenthood was like military service or jury duty, whose residual benefits accrue equally to the entire populace, and I was simply pointing out that parenthood was different.

Non-parents get many benefits from children, but the parents get far more. To be clear, I think many of the arguments for subsidizing the rearing of children are coherent, such as arguments in favor of public schooling and healthcare (on the basis that the children are the primary beneficiaries), but I think those arguments do not apply to the parents' workplace.
Very cool for the cases where extensions or alternative browsers are not an option.
At an individual level, it's a choice. At the societal level, it's not. You need 2.1 kids per person for society to continue existing. That's true more or less however you slice it--even if you take lots of immigrants, those immigrants are going to have to have kids (or you're externalizing the cost of child raising onto other societies). This is a hard scientific limit that you're not going to get around.

From the perspective of analyzing society, therefore, treating having children as a choice is unworkable. If your societal design doesn't accommodate 2.1 kids per person, its useless. It's like designing an electric car that can't be recharged. Nobody cares what other characteristics it has.
The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit
I started using w3m primarily a few weeks ago. It’s been awesome for actually grabbing the information I need and not getting sucked into attention sinks.
Given how hard it is to get an abortion in some parts of the US and that I was ten weeks along before I learned I was pregnant, it's possible that if I had wanted an abortion, I would have been unable to get it or I would have had to get it illegally and that would have caused complications, as illegal abortions are often performed under unsafe conditions and have something of a tendency to go badly because of it.

People often do not have as much choice as you are more or less flippantly trying to claim they do.
Yes but isn't that childcare in france gone?
Now that is a clever project name
GOP senators unveil new bill to update tech liability protections
I understand the stance of "taking responsibility of your actions", such as deciding to have a kid, but I'm pretty surprised how people view the current situation. At one point, society has to decide when to help those in need for benefit of society and your morality. How is this any different from any other natural disaster? You wouldn't expect one of your colleagues to work normally if they lost their house to a wild fire. You wouldn't tell them, "well you shouldn't of decided to live in a wild fire prone area. Suck it up and figure it out.".
There is also evidence of Epigenetic Memories, memories that are genetically encoded and passed from generation to generation.
Yeah, that's one of those remoter areas! No doubt about it. If you need an AED, definitely get it.
>"The very first hierarchical file system was developed for Multics. It is described in the paper A General-Purpose File System For Secondary Storage (1965) by Robert C. Daley and Peter G. Neumann. There are several things that I find astounding about this paper:

There were apparently no hierarchical file systems before Multics. The references do no cite any previous work on this and I haven’t found any."

(PDS: As an amateur computer historian, I'd be interested in this myself, if there existed any hierarchical file system before Multics, or if one was conceived in any academic paper before the one cited...)

[...]

>"Directory entries that point to secondary storage. This is a game changer for file system management. More on this below."

(PDS: Which, to this day, is one of the great abstractions, one of the great ideas, in computing!)
FMLA covers caregiver leave. The law is fine with it being unpaid though.

It's weird that companies are looking inside people's homes to decide how to treat them. People should get the same flexibility, for whatever reason. If people want reduced hours to deal with other things, give it to them, and so on.
I followed the first link in the stat article, which says
"A large, Phase 3 study testing a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford at dozens of sites across the U.S. has been put on hold due to a suspected serious adverse reaction in a participant in the United Kingdom"

As I read that, it was a UK participant in a AZ and US-run study.
The data we have gives some information about the risks, although it not a completely clear picture. There is uncertainty, but any sort of risk/benefit analysis has to deal with uncertainty.

I don't think OP is arguing that people be encouraged to take the vaccine, just that the option be made available to them if they want it. I don't think it would squander trust if it is explicitly repeated that the vaccine is not known to be effective yet and that there are still potential side effects, and the recipient acknowledges they understand.
I think not identifying yourself is a key part of a successful scam
I use BT much more than 5 years ago since most popular content was removed from Netflix. Many folks here have said the same.
It can be re-ordered w.r.t. a hard-link and any derived written block data (e.g. indexes) and I've seen this first-hand with early maildir implementations across a crash, and that was even without throwing the spanner of NFS into the gears.
> I always thought for instance that SSL/TLS ought to be implemented in the kernel

Linux provides TLS sockets. Only the bulk transmission is handled by the kernel. Handhsaking and renegotiation has to be handled by userspace. That allows offloading to hardware accelerators. In theory you can sendfile() from a NVMe drive through the a network card with crypto/compression handling without ever touching main memory with all the normal IO syscalls, i.e. with no userspace modification other than opening a TLS socket instead of a TCP one.
Your examples were the CCP, Nazi and Russia. So were mine.
I think that’s a really smart approach. The bulk of the country are near center not the extreme edges. A site that organically gathers and represents that middle effectively would be beneficial to everyone.
There's also arguably more psychological impact on young single people who live by themselves and are used to and rely on the companionship of friends.

I worked with a couple of youngish folks that have just recently moved for work internationally. They've been in the new city from a few weeks to a couple of months when the lockdowns hit. They seem pretty isolated socially and now even as things are opening up a bit, the avenues for socializing and meeting new people in a new city is greatly reduced.
Well, we're adding a bit over 30 gigatonnes per year (33 last year). 4000 (tons) * 1.102 = 4408.000 (metric tonnes).
1 gigatonne = 1,000,000,000 metric tonnes
So each year we're emitting enough that this particular scale of capture would require:

33,000,000,000 / 4408 = ~7486388 years to remove.

All the vegetation, land, and ocean can absorb about 17 Gt CO2 per year (Currently. Of course massively burning forests or increasingly carbon saturated oceans are going to significantly impact this equation as things get worse.)

So this technology would need to get at least 16,000,000,000 / 4408 = 3629764 times more effective just to keep things from getting any worse. And even so, this still seems like one of the more hopeful options because artificial capture could potentially be scaled much higher using less space than vegetation, given enough renewable energy. But even more efficient is simply emitting less carbon.
can't find the link at the moment but there is now some academic comment that the russian data has some fakeness to it
Not widely enough understood. Influenza is a segmented virus and generates new strains by reassorment. Where two different strains of influenza infecting a cell shuffle their RNA segments to produce a third strain.

Best to think of influenza as an ever shifting and recombining family of viruses.

Covid19 has a single strand of RNA and doesn't do that.
Pocket casts
I do think that voting should be as streamlined and easy as possible. If electronic voting becomes a thing, you should still be able to do an in-person voting at a poll both on election day, an in-person absentee voting at a designated place, a mail-in absentee voting, etc. in addition to the e-voting.

All of these (except for in-person voting on election day) should have a sealed timestamp and a public key/barcode attached so previous ballots can be nullified with a more recent vote by an other—or the same—means.
Unfortunately, similar to a number of other Enterprise Open Source projects, despite being on GitHub, potential contributors still cannot open any tracked bugs, and need to print and scan a CLA before submitting any code.
Absolutely this.

I'm in an at-risk population, as are the two others in my household, and this pattern of perpetually delaying is driving me insane.

I'll gladly take a 0.1% chance of an unspecified SAE over a 50% chance of death. I'm about to the point where I'd consider outright bribing someone at a research lab to slip me a dose of any of them, even if I had to administer it myself.
> They still collect payment before actually giving you the package.

Yes, but the package is still _shipped_ before payment.
You can't go wrong with Ncurses. Ancient, bindings to literally every language, stable and works everywhere including the kitchen sink.

The terminal is not meant to be existing. You are emulating 80 year old technology at the base of it.
What's the conservative libertarian take on what to do when those norms are gone and haven't been replaced?
Mario Warp Pipe succulent planter pots from 3D printed parts and PVC pipe
But both are pissed because one is paying taxes and the other not getting services
Hey Tucker! Have you seen https://10up.com/careers/ ? Happy to chat about opportunities. I'm @saltcod on twitter.
Selecting games your child is going to play is helicopter parenting, labeling them as educational does not change it.
Your burden is real. The loss of connection you suffer, especially if you live alone, is legitimately devastating. Very few amongst us can go indefinitely without an on-going external investment of care. While I believe that it's just to provide parents with the slack they need to continue as healthy contributors, I also firmly believe that we owe you and all those that suffer differently, an incomparable, but adjacent duty to provide care and support in the ways that address your needs.

As far as I can tell, the right course of action would be for each of us, parent or otherwise, to outwardly acknowledge the ways that the pandemic has harmed us and the ways others could support us, while also advocating for and contributing to the well-being of our peers.

So long as we're focused on receiving a fungible equity that compares directly to our peers, I think that we will be grabbing at ever less valuable scraps of a torn social fabric while ultimately denying ourselves and our peers the benefits that would provide the satisfaction of a high-trust emotionally robust collaborative environment.
I don't have em, but having adult children when you're older and the experience of being a parent both seem like they're intrinsically valuable. I have a hard time believing any 18 year long cohabitation wouldn't form something of value, and struggling to deal with a problem together is a textbook team building exercise, for better or worse.
Have you actually noticed this happening in your workplace? I've read these stories in the news but no one is acting like that at all where I work which is a mid sized tech start up. Everyone is VERY understanding and accommodating there is a general atmosphere of dealing with a very difficult situation together.
Well, I don’t know what to do about that, but it seems to me that not releasing a vaccine which:

- Lowers the public’s chance of contracting COVID by 50%

- Causes 0.001% of the public to get seriously ill.

...then withholding that vaccine from everyone because some people who don’t understand probability may have a temper-tantrum would be deeply immoral.

None of this contradicts your point per se, but I don’t know what to do about it.
In terms of neural computation modeling or in terms of morphogenetic models that are fully distributed, we are not even close, in my non-expert opinion.
Dvorak has always been a troll. Half the time he’s wrong on purpose just to drive traffic. He really doesn’t take anything seriously.
I am not saying that parents do not deserve attention from their children, I am only making the point that the proposed benefits are disproportionately beneficial to parents.
I mean we have evidence chimpanzees engage in tribal warfare. This is an absurd thing for supposed scientific minds to assume.
You don’t get to choose the moral high ground and have fun at the same time, otherwise everyone would do it. If these kinds of conversations fulfill you then your high ground has been worth it!

You suffer now because you’re afraid of death later. I enjoy my time now because I know death comes for us all.
Well, it's kind of understandable isn't it? Everyone in pretty much every field has a notion that making it to a national stage/level of your work means something more meritorious than just being #1 in your little town, don't they? You don't just get to cover the Secretary of State's trade visit to Southeast Asia after graduating high school and working for the local paper, do you?

That is not to say that there's not absolutely good journalism done at the local level. And important journalism at that.

But to say that the average local journalism happening (at 5,000 local news outlets, say) will generally equal the level of national quality, is probably just not true. So the bias is not without foundation.

You get to the big leagues by doing a good job in your local level.

But it does not have to follow that there is not good work being done at the local level. Some people take that equally valid and societally important path, and it's important to point it out.
Are you saying people don't understand the concept of a salvage title? That's pretty clear documentation that the vehicle isn't in the condition the manufacturer sold it.
It's not just web pages, modern software engineers just make terribly unoptimised programs. Why does a recent game on a powerful pc take longer to open that old DOS games? Not just loading a level, but even getting to the start screen takes ages. Wtf takes 20+ seconds to show a menu of New - Load - Options.... (drm probably)
> "The degree to which ordinary Americans are isolated from the violence of <these conflicts> is mind-boggling."

I am not personally familiar with any school shootings in the United States that were perpetrated by militants from Iraq or Afghanistan.............?
Your story is nonfactual. The first US airstrikes in Syria were in 2014[1], the first US airstrikes against the Syria Government were in 2017[2]. Both long after the Syrian Armed forces had lost control of the situation.

The mass defection of Syrian Army soldiers and officers to the Free Syrian Army guaranteed that the conflict was going to a bloody mess with arms falling into hands of all parties, long before the US started supplying arms. And no, you can't for certain say that Iraq would have fared better, as Iran would have fueled Shia sectarianism all the same in Iraq as it did post US invasion. Iran in fact was Sadam's greatest concern before his WMD bluff backfired.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_t...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_attacks_...
How is that relevant? No one is talking about the Constitution. Neither I nor the parent comments I responded to ever mentioned that Strugis rally should have been shutdown by the government. We can criticize something or point out that it shouldn't have happened without us needing to have the Supreme Court weigh in.

From a moral perspective, getting people killed in order to have some fun is less defensible than getting people killed in support of civil rights. I wouldn't think that is a controversial statement.
Seems like a non-issue, it's not like journalists are doing anything besides pandering anymore. Let the ship sink.
Microsoft FOSS Fund supporting rust analyzer
I feel like I missed something because I don't understand why this resignation in particular was worth a Washington Post article. I read the resignation letter, but it doesn't seem all that special?
Slack’s new recent status feature is roasting us for our many lunch breaks
I agree until I disagree because it becomes a refresh trigger... but you sound like you have discipline.
> What if some external accessory or change was made without the owner's knowledge?. As cars become more software dependent, steps like these might become necessary.

Should whoever built your house be notified if you modify it after buying it? After all, those changes could have been made without the owner's knowledge.
Also some minor issues with a while host of *isms and segregation that we don’t talk about. Oh and still trying to ban abortion because having children is a choice , but not really.