skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s because our ancestors came from Appalachia - and before that, from the Shenandoah Valley, and before that, from Scotland.

It’s interesting to me to look around and see so much of my local culture influenced by our largely shared Scottish ancestry while simultaneously realizing that so few people here really know much about it.
What is your point? zacwest isn't asking them to completely rewrite the page—the problem they pointed out is trivial to solve and simply needed to be recognized. If you can spend 20 minutes to drastically improve the usability of your product for "dozens" of users, why wouldn't you?
Conclusion > I don't think the mobile web – as experienced by users – has become slower overall.

Even as a subjective result this seems really bad. Most web-pages are text & images, outside of apps like maps/email, most content is static and while CPU's and bandwidth has skyrocketed the UX has stayed about the same... we think.
Where would one get this today? Also, what else should I try to get the proper DOS vibes from back in the day?
or maybe she is feeding an exceptionally intelligent crow
How does this compare with https://github.com/openintegrationhub/openintegrationhub ?
Ah yes, the mythical "lost potential sale/revenue" quantum ogre. Truly the fiercest of courtroom opponents.
Not sure if it is what you want, but found this git repository seems a decent fit to read. https://github.com/Sandermoen/instaclone
Everyone is raised by a parent at some point.
are you sure?

> An individual’s likelihood of being a Democrat decreases with every additional dollar he or she earns. Democrats have a huge advantage (63 percent) with voters earning less than $15,000 per year. This advantage carries forward for individuals earning up to $50,000 per year, and then turns in the Republicans’ favor — with just 36 percent of individuals earning more than $200,000 per year supporting Democrats.

> Interestingly, the median household income in the United States is $49,777 — right near the point where the Democratic advantage disappears and the Republicans take over. [0]

seems like, at least in aggregate, people stop voting blue around the point where taxes/benefits stop being a net positive transfer to their household.

[0] https://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/economic-demogra...
Probably if I also had problems understanding things like humor or sarcasm.,
100% pay for 100% work and 16/5 availability. 50% pay for 75% work and 10/3 availability. Are you going to be ok with this on the receiving end?

The second part of comment is asinine trolling. No one is ready for once-in-a-century thing by definition. If once in a century flood leaves the team stranded and water still does not drain away after 6 months it has nothing to do with management. There are no continuity plans for disasters that keep happening for such a long time.
I have to say you really don't have much experience with any of this. Have you ever built a house? I have, and it's a lot of work. And it's still a massive amount of money.

Loans do increase costs in asset inflation. At the same time they increase home ownership. Also it's not the same thing as college tuition. Bankruptcy is an option on home loans.
Not America, but my mother in law had to pass a test in China in the mid/late 80s to have a child.
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It's a give and a take, isn't it? For example, I don't have kids, but I know this whole experience is a nightmare for many people with kids. I can hear it in the background in conference calls - and sometimes I can literally see little kids running and jumping up and down.

That's all you need to show me to gain my sympathy, because that's a nightmarish scenario as far as I'm concerned. I don't admire people with kids.

Now, one day I might get sick, or a family member might, or something happens, or I need to take time for some reason. I expect the company to give a little there, too, if I've been there a while.

It's not an exchange, just a humane approach one hopes and expects.
> Sorry, but what? Once I've bought the app, that analogy is broken. I've taken it home and opened the box, but somehow Walmart think they now get to control any subsequent transactions between me and the manufacturer?

You can indeed find terms for physical products that they can't do this.

If someone did this with Wal-Mart, I imagine the best the manufacturer could hope for is that Wal-Mart returns all 'defective' products on the manufacturer's dime.
So much so that we fought a titanic war with hundreds of thousands if not millions of casualties to end it!
Convolution has been an established term in image processing long before convnets were invented in the 90s (or 80s or whenever). It's the same thing. It's useful to learn a bit of basic image processing, edge detection etc before jumping straight into the flashiest shiniest DL model with no basic foundations to conceptualize what is happening.

(Even before that it has been used in signal processing.)
A triple-star gravitational dance creates ridiculously complex sculptures
This is interesting article;
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fearful-memories-...
and it is a reason I said some evidence.

I am cautions my self not to be romantic about this topic, but at same time neural development is not random structure of cells and arguably brain has predispositions to behaviors. There is possibility that some genetic mutations over single generations are not strictly random, furthermore such genetic mutations specifically evolved over millions of years to introduce changes to environmental pressure. (this is only my speculation of course)
What's your point? Slavery was abolished a long time ago in the US. Any pressure to stop enslavement or forced labor of humans should be celebrated.
Voatz urges Supreme Court to place limits on security research
Perhaps more relevant is the fact that there have been over a thousand instances of slavery in Florida tomato farms in the past decade
Well that and high quality video. One and only one tangible benefit of this new web is better quality video. Everything else sucks as much or worse than in the days of Altavista and punch the monkey ads.
[...guide authors approach games with the mindset of a medical examiner. They do not play games so much as dissect them, which erodes enjoyment of the hobby they like best. Rarely can authors “just enjoy the game;” instead they must “stop every 20 seconds to write something.” ...]

Is this really the case?

I would rather believe that the writers are gamers too. It's quite common for gamers to play a [fun] game through more than once. So there's plenty of chance to enjoy the game without "dissection", then document the success on the next take.

The way the article put it makes it look like it's a kind of OCD behavior. Which sounds unfair.
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> One reason for this was how heavily we prioritized first mover advantage. We pushed extremely hard to get into new markets, and while strategically this worked out extremely well for us, it meant that later development was hamstrung by earlier decisions.

I've seen so many developers over the years who view having to rewrite that module because it can't scale well enough anymore as a failure, but I call it a success. Software is meant to be tumultuous, things SHOULD be getting replaced.

In another post in this thread I mentioned that software systems are like children in that they have phases. Assuming that your company and software team is dedicated to fixing those issues (slowly, beside new features), then I think you're probably in a healthy spot despite the pain.

An observation is that business interests must ALWAYS trump technical interests when those business interests are critical. No business = no technical. But at some point when the company becomes stable that balance has to start shifting back towards the technical or the company itself becomes ridiculously inefficient.
I had tons of issues with mailman added headers causing entire HTML messages to be interpreted as plain text, rendering their encoding tags visible. I think they fixed this. I was still a bit surprised that this was an issue 1+ years into the IMAP bridge.

Big plus is that if you complain about this to their support things actually seem to get fixed? That was kind of a shocker, I'd suggest sending them a note if you have issues. Though this particular IMAP transfer between accounts has worked between my other email accounts (exchange and some linux server long ago) and gmail since I first tried it so it's a little sad. But a smaller team I guess? But paying for it so...

Mixed feelings for sure.
> China knows that no other country has the influence to form such a coalition. That means it doesn't even need to be coy about what it's doing

At least now that CCP is showing its true colors, the world is more aware of its threat.
Definitely. Still though, many modern games' players would be well served by the FAQs of old instead of ad-laden, poorly researched wikis. And even for those games frequently updated, eventually they do tend to crystallize into a final version after 3-5 years. It's only games like Dota 2 which are constantly getting balance* patches which are a constant sync battle of development and documentation.

* more like humans are incapable of balancing a game of Dota 2's complexity. The cynic in me thinks they don't want to balance it, that that's part of their monetization strategy. Long term I think a balanced game is more fun for everyone, though.
The most important point here is that this is about the company's own self interest and the complainers are asking them to act against that. People who are unable to reconcile the demands of parenthood with those of their job will quit. That's bad for the bottom line, the company wants to avoid that, so they make accommodations. The reward - salary, equity, perks - each employee gets was always about supply and demand and cost of replacement, not mushy ideas of deservedness or fairness.

The second point is that these same people were strangely silent when everything about working conditions benefited them. Long working hours and oncall requirements are far more burdensome to those with families than to those without. Ditto performance-review and promotion standards that require consistent delivery on pre-planned items over a long period of time. Easy enough to arrange your life around that when you have no other demands or commitments. I did that myself when I was single. It's a lot harder when an event within the family - even a joyous one such as a long-desired child - can throw your availability and concentration for an unexpected loop. Goodbye, last 11 months of effort. Have to reset now.

After benefiting from years of policies that favor the childless, suddenly strict equality must be the rule? Please. Again, this is about the company acting in its own self interest. Attrition and lack of diversity are bad in the long run. The complainers are simply easier to replace than those they're complaining about. See first paragraph.
The point is that now it's up to the employer to decide what's a work-acceptable thing to ask for; at which point they are kind of affecting your life choices.

At that point, people without kids start thinking “Wait, why is my employer peeking inside my home to decide what I can take time off for? This is a capitalist society, right?”.
> Change it all you want, but don't expect Tesla to fix your car once you've messed with it yourself.

There are laws regarding car warranties that would make Tesla's behavior illegal, if they voided your warrenty.

Cars have been around for a long time, as has the laws regarding them.

People have a right to repair their car, this is reflected in the law, and unless the specific modification to the car is directly related to the "failure" that you are making a warranty claim on, it would be illegal for Tesla to void the warranty.

Just because a company is a tech company does not mean that they can get around laws that have existed for a long time, regarding this stuff.
We already have government schools that are closed by the edict issued by teachers’ union. How having government childcare would help?
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I am quite familiar with the tactic, often employed on this very site, of pretending to answer something that was not said. It is trolling, and I know better than to engage with it. Complaining about not engaging with trolls is itself trolling, which you have now done twice. Accusing people of trolling for not engaging with trolls is trolling.

You have introduced yourself, and I promise to remember.
Thought Emporium has a decent video where he modifies an Adenovirus to inject the lactase gene into the cells of his intestinal tract.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY
If Google wanted, it could prohibit that practice. If you want Play Store, Youtube, Gmail, and all the other Googlies, you play by Google's rules. It ain't rocket science.

If Samsung decides not to play, Sony and Huawei will eat its market.
Coronaviruses are called so because they look a certain way under an electron microscope. They don't necessarily have common proteins. So you point a does not stand. As for point b,due to the fact that antibodies are specialized and there are tons of viruses that cause the common cold, I wouldn't expect them to match or even exist at any given time in the bloodstream since they only last ~6m and after that memory takes the role of rapid production of new antibodies in case of a new infection.
computers aren't becoming that faster though. And it s not like new affordances are being added to pages , it's mostly aesthetics and ... trendiness that is driving the crazy monstrosity that is most pages today.

Doesn't it have to do more with current software development practices? The requirement for reusable code , and the practice of coders having no loyalty and switching companies every very few years leads to the adoption of anti-optimizing standard practices. If Carmack was making doom today he would be ridiculed for not bundling his functional code and looked down upon for reinventing math functions. The idea that speed doesnt matter is just too prevalent
I run a website about this kind of thing. You might find this page useful: https://startyourownisp.com/posts/backhaul-picker/
Being made to work till 11 without any reward is one thing. Having the ability to work till 11 for overtime pay or get ahead is another.

Having a law that mandates that I cannot work when I want to because other people need the time sounds terrible
> strikes me as extremely selfish, immature and displaying a total lack of empathy

We're talking about 22 year olds who have always been told they're smarter than everybody, spend more of their free time with computers than with people, and started making $200k+ immediately after college. Those adjectives correctly describe a large portion of those people.
>hmmm... this method of vaccination has never been used in an approved vaccine.

Yes, frightening isn't it? Anyone else worried that we're going WAY too fast with vaccine business? Typical development time is 5-10 years now down to less than a year? Its insane to me but yeah I get it, people are so sick of masks they might be willing to accept _any_ vaccine, efficacious or not.

We almost owe Trump a thank you for saying "lets get this out by October 31st" (almost, but not really). The media predictably took the opposite stance as Trump as it always does and now we're beginning to have much needed discussion on the safety risks of rushing a vaccine. Vaccine safety is a topic that is rarely talked about (mostly due to censorship) and frankly, even suggesting such a topic gets you called an "anti-vaxxer". Clown world.
I suppose if they're able, workers with children should quit and go somewhere more child friendly.

Most ... no, all of the places I've worked, except the USN, have been matter of factly child friendly. It shouldn't be hard to find such a place.
Not as a correction but more of an into the weeds clarification; neurons at rest have a pretty stable cytosolic ionic composition, they hover around -80mV resting potential due to leak channels.

The firing of an action potential, on the other hand, only happens when they become depolarized enough to reach their threshold potential. If they reach the threshold (generally due to ligand-receptor binding) then voltage gated sodium channels open up and the neuron gets flooded with positive charge - this is the electrical impulse that moves down the axon.

To be honest I'm not someone who knows much about about computer science, but in terms of a boolean type operator the closest thing that comes to mind is the threshold potential? It's an all or nothing process, either T or F, and if it's true then an action potential is generated.
Women have the choice to whether or not to bring a pregnancy to term nation-wide. I'm sure you can identify edge cases where people aren't made aware about contraceptives and birth control due to an isolated community, but the overwhelming majority of the population it's correct to say that becoming a parent is a choice.

This advice that if if someone doesn't want to deal with the responsibilities of having children, then don't have children isn't going to result in the whole country's birth rate plummeting to zero. Demographic choices like these in a country of hundreds of millions don't change overnight. It'll be a continuation of the trend of developed countries' dropping birth rates. Humanity isn't in any danger of dying out [1].

While people of working age do support retirees, the idea that increasing population is an unqualified net good for society is a much more dubious proposal. Sustaining another human's life takes a lot of energy, on the order of hundreds of thousands of calories per day most of it from fossil fuels. Experiencing a declining population creates pressure to support retirees, but it's something Japan and European countries have been doing for a while now.

The rest of your comments seem to paint a very negative set of assumptions about childless people:

> ..there is no one to take care of us in our old age as our species dies out, having promoted the idea "You only live once and you should live for today and just indulge selfishly."

You assume that childless people are indulgent and live selfishly because...? Because they made different life decisions, you assume they selfish and indulgent?

> unless you want to follow up this policy with "Let's just start executing people who fall ill with anything that could require long term convalescence and, also, start executing people when they hit a certain age so we don't have to deal with the frailty of old age."

> (No, I am not being extremist. I'm really not.)

Is this a joke? Because I fail to see how anyone can convince themselves that this isn't an extremist view. You're literally trying to equate childlessness with extermination of the elderly, and execution of people with illnesses.

1. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Estimated-human-populati...
Woah. Apparently the guy who made it also uses it to write his novels.

http://geraldbrandt.com/
A litmus test: who writes Chef recipes in your org? A relatively small group of engineers responsible for infrastructure provisioning, or any engineer who wants to deploy software? The latter is a pathological case and super destructive to engineering teams, but in my experience almost inevitable if you use Chef for the former.
I don't see any dead comment submissions, just lots of bookmarklet (itself) submissions, the only comments I can find aren't dead.

But perhaps you're right, someone vouched for it, there's enough upvotes someone probably would have?
> Then is it cool if I skip a few meetings to volunteer to help the homeless?

maybe? at my company we get a few days worth of "VTO" (volunteer time off) per year. so if you worked here, you could absolutely do that.
Only if by 'faster' you are referring exclusively to latency. In some situations (not all) you can achieve slightly better latency with wireless than fiber, but for raw throughout nothing compares to light in glass.
The US has consistently fought against using forced labor to produce cotton since 1861.
> Have you ever built a house? I have, and it's a lot of work.

Is work bad, somehow? Should one get a house without work, simply because one wants a house?
Oh you mean the caches of weapons sold to Iraq by the US that had been buried for decades?

As opposed to the rationale for the invasion which was Iraq building stockpiles of WMD from their own factories?

Or are you talking about a different cache of chemical weapons?
All good points!

I think just as reliability engineering benefited moving from 'keep the system always up' (but fail occasionally in the real world) to 'keep the system up 99.999% of the time' (and succeed in a measurable way), fixing bugs in software might benefit from such an honest and quantitative approach.
> Huawei has employed an army of reportedly 80.000 developers

Any source on that?
LOL! Pointing out that an unfamiliar vaccine technology has never been used before is now officially anti-vax fear mongering.
Yes, governance by the people trying to stop these reporters. The story talks about protesters governing the press by yelling, stealing, and smashing equipment.

Of course, I’m also against government governance of press, but I’m not asking about that. I’m asking whether you think this behavior is appropriate of protesters.
We should prioritize people with children. The entire biological point of your life is to reproduce and we should value this. If you can’t reproduce (for a variety of reasons) but you take care of a child then this should be valued just the same. Society should prioritize people with children to raise instead of having a nihilistic philosophy of “ain’t my problem”.

The social benefit of well raised children benefits all. There are no benefits to having you get equal time off. You’re only serving yourself, not society.

Btw - smokers got to go outside to have a smoke break because we banned smoking from inside. Before that a smoke break didn’t exist. So it’s a trade off. Smokers stop creating second hand smoke in exchange for us tolerating them getting a “break” to feed their nicotine addiction so they can function. Cigarettes are legal and taxes are collected - we should tolerate them getting time to service their addiction so the rest of us don’t have to breath it.