skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correctly judging this tradeoff is what makes the difference between a good architect and a great architect. There are definitely cases where I have put in a bit of effort (a week or so's worth of programming) to make things flexible because due to the requirements I knew they would be necessary in the 9-12 month timeframe (I've also been wrong about architectural decisions). Then when the time came around, it was painless to make the transition.

I suppose if you were cynical, you could claim that if it's painless no one sees how important you are. And then you wind up leaving the company, because they think everything is easy and don't provide you with the autonomy to achieve what you need to make their system work. And then they discover that it's actually hard.
Is that right?

Check this too

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche,_New_York
"I don't understand" - "then call it god" is a false premise that was uttered many times in history:

https://evolutionspace.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/then-call-it...

Since you've identified what you don't understand, evolution, there is some hope.

Try a basic programming exercise: evolutionary growing 2d or 3d "walkers" on a simulation on a PC, or alternatively running core wars.

It's enlightening to see order, logic and machines arise from total randomness.
I suppose it would be tougher to prove it was the suspect placing an order and not someone merely placing it from their home (or to their address.) Not justifying this data collection, just pondering how the police will justify it.
200,000+ of human history any we are still overwhelmed with people who will only be happy when everyone else is under their boot.
Cliff Mass' audience (which includes me, someone who uses his forecasts for special events), likely has above average levels of education, and are better-equipped than the average citizen to interpret his writings. We are talking about a weather blog, not a re-cap of Keeping up with the Kardashians! Mass' blog audience doesn't seem particularly large, or uneducated, so it's a bit paternalistic to say that they can't handle a new view.
Well yes, it is used by Android SDK emulator (despite the name, it's just a x86 VM)
I think it’s important to address the fact that there is a different answer for different contexts. There is no, “just”. It’s always a decision tree.

The comparison table there has some good food for thought, but it doesn’t cover the entire space. There are other CSPRNG classes not listed here, which have been used in various programming languages to generate TLS session keys, for instance.

If I’m creating a computer game for a console, then I probably don’t care too much about most of these (until someone has figured out how to cheat).
What are your recommended brands of USB chargers?
Teams is too corporate IMHO. The video chat is really good from experience though.

Everywhere I've worked Slack's basically a free for all, can add custom emojis and create private channels etc.

Teams was always more locked down. One place even disabled the GIF feature!

I know you can lock down Slack too but nowhere I've been has bothered to do so.
Reply outside of the edit window since those comment threads are still moving around.

It was this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529609
A car you can drive drunk is the only meaningful definition of a self-driving car, imo.

I mean both, and specifically that driver assist should be pay to use to offset usage because it is likely higher net risk for a collision than a human. Free driver-assist has a "tragedy of the commons" problem, or a moral hazard, where there is no cost to over-using it and courting a collision event, so this overall risk can be reduced by metering its use.

Also, yes, the system should be safe enough to text while using it. That's what "self driving car" should mean. Another criteria would be that a person should be able to use it with a blood alcohol level higher than is legal today as well, and that it absolves people of an "impaired driving" charge.
There is a division between driver assist and full autonomous self driving, but these are features that could be pay per use based on relative actuarial risk.

To people who say you can't put a price on human life, clearly you do not have auto insurance?
No, a junior researcher / assistant professor would earn about 2000 euros per month. After 10-15 years, they can expect 3000 euros but it'll stop there unless they get a full professor position (which are hard to get). I'd say a qualified engineer should be able to earn twice as much.
Ask HN: What Happened to the NoSQL Tapes?
Where can I find the content that used to be in http://nosqltapes.com/?
The budget for UK Test and Trace is £10 billion.

Incompetent is too kind a word for it.
Agree. The difficulty is that as we learn more, we often (not always) tend to believe that we have most of the answers and become less open to other possibilities with respect to God or simply more understanding. We have to keep in mind how much of our current knowledge has been acquired in perhaps the last one or two hundred years. In other words, we are probably complete neophytes with respect to our understanding of the universe as a whole. As a result we have to resist our more arrogant tendencies and try to keep an open mind to things that we may not yet be able to sense or measure. As scientists, I think we have to recognize that God may not exist, but we must also recognize that it may exist, keeping in mind that our definition of "God" is probably way off base from what we might eventually come to recognize.
I don't think it is however there is an unprovable element here in that it's difficult to prove absence. However, depending on implementation it may not very difficult to demonstrate presence! If you run the basic tests and there's clearly a substantial difference between the two you're done. If there isn't, you need to dig deeper.

This is just the nature of indirect observation. People in the natural sciences deal with this problem all the time.
I have used "walking desk" setup now for about a year. Treadmill is kind of special walking treadmill, speed ranges from 1-5 km/h (0.5km/h steps). I normally walk about 5-6km per day while working. Mostly speed is 1 or 1.5km/h.

Only downside is that when having video meeting, my head is bouncing while walking. Usually leads the conversation on treadmill.
After years of listening to ex-soviets speaking nostalgically about how things were better under the Soviets, the people in the West have unconsciously fallen for the full spectrum mommy state and our overlords are merely addressing this unspoken popular demand to live in a surveillance state. This state of affair naturally reflects the West's advancement relative to other parts of the globe. So "resistance is futile but if you join early you can have a short id!". So don't lose your place in the line bothering yourself over triffles such as overwhelming asymmetries of your social existence. The future is now comrade, buck it up [bsts: /s]
Those lessons that C++20 is still learning from Fortran
The dangerous and inexorable rise of the instant expert
Very nice, how long the shortened URL will last? Is there a limit on the length of the URL?
Thanks for the explanation. I guess the reason I find it hard to visualize is that we ordinarily think that 'vacuum sucks". If there is container which has been pumped empty of air and we make a hole in it it sucks in air. So it looks like empty/vacuum space "sucks" anything around in it.

But that is obviously a misconception. Vacuum is not attracting anything, it is the fast moving molecules around it that PUSH themselves into the vacuum if we make a whole in the container.

What makes it hard to visualize is that we don't see the fast-moving molecules ever, which are forcing themselves into the container through the pierced hole by the power of their own (tiny) momentum yet very fast speed. :-)

It is also counter-intuitive that tiny things could have fast speeds, perhaps because we think in terms of a person being able to walk much faster than say an ant.
The OP suggested the EARNIT act provides provisions to put surveillance in your speakers, not provide piracy.
A compile time immutable name binding is not a variable in the same sense as variables in proceudral programming. Just in the mathematical equation sense.
Why can't the weather be a critical issue that only works in combination with the other factors?

My intuition says that Silicon Valley wouldn't be possible in a beach town nor in a place that's too cold or too hot, simply because of how much the weather would distract you from work. The great thing about the weather in the Valley is that it's pleasantly bland (or blandly pleasant?).

But I think it's very likely that the weather doesn't matter at all if you don't already have some equivalent of the Stanford-Berkeley nexus and California labor law and a lot of very rich people willing to make high-risk investments.
I though for sure s7.c was an amalgamation file like sqlite3.c, but evidently it's not. Eesh indeed.
Unfortunately I have no advice to give to you in such a shitty situation, but this is #1 reason why I have never installed any Facebook-owned app on any smartphone I've ever owned (including WhatsApp and Instagram, of course).

I still interact with their products when I have to, but exclusively from a browser with an adblock.

And Instagram forcing people to install an app to even create an account in its early days was the sole reason why I've never had one.
Step 1. Delete the app.

Step 2. Logout of facebook on your browser / clear cookies.

Step 3. Make all private purchases in firefox.

Step 4. Create a new facebook account telling your friends you were hacked.

Step 5. Never open facebook in public and don't create that expectation with peers.
should be easy to calculate if you measure the full site size vs plaintext content.
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Often it's simply the signal to noise ratio. It varies tremendously between institutions.
Are you sure the data is from the purchase? For example, did you search for similar things before making the purchase?

Otherwise, sometimes I suspect ads are targeted by IP. Sometimes I see ads for things my wife is interested in.

You might want to try VPN. At least you'll see ads for all the sketchy things other VPN users buy!
Hear hear. You may enjoy “An Exaltation of Larks” by (the late) James Lipton of “Inside the Actor’s Studio”
Deleted app data completely. Made no difference. (I'm on Android).
You could also check out all the notebooks on https://DataCrayon.com

e.g.

https://datacrayon.com/posts/search-and-optimisation/practic...

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Pretty interesting story about Aurochs: apparently two brothers in Germany both ran programs to "back breed" the Auroch in the 1920s. One brother, Lutz Heck, eventually became a Nazi and his program became an official Nazi program. After an attempt to reintroduce some animals into German forests, he and Hermann Goering eventually went on a hunting expedition together for them. Heinz Heck, the other brother was imprisoned at Dachau. The result of his program is the current breed of cattle known as "Heck cattle"[0]. He was also responsible for the reintroduction of European Bison into the wild.

There are several other programs [1] that are attempting to reintroduce Aurochs, through a variety of methods.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heck_cattle

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs#Breeding_of_aurochs-li...
If only things were so simple.
The only squeak I hear is if I sit down or get up from the chair and put the weight of my hands on the seat. No squeaking when just sitting in it, even when adjusting tension and recline.
I think part of it is that there are probably lots of additional items that you want to constrain to the main column, so your CSS would end up looking more like:

#content p, h1, h2, h3, nav { .. }

Kind of a pain to manually specify each element that you want to constrain, when it's most of them. This approach allows you to instead target the items that you don't want to constrain.

Additionally, as a more specific issue, the static-site generator that I use renders markdown such that images are inside a paragraph, so your approach wouldn't work at all for me.

Edit: As an aside, that's a super fun site! Lots of neat little UI easter eggs.
git has that, it's called a merge commit. You can use `git log --first-parent` to see them unexpanded and then find what you want to expand.

A lot of higher level tools don't expose this functionality but it's not like it's not there.
The speakers are convenient and most people aren't worried about these kinds of invasions of privacy.
Jupyter notebooks are almost a huge step forward for programming. The instant feedback, saving of partial program state, and visualizations mixed in are amazing and fun to work with. The fact that it's taking place in a browser, you don't have modal editing with Vim, you don't get plugin support (like MyPy), and you don't have intellisense is a huge step backwards.

I'm hoping that someone addresses these issues, I know VSCode is trying, and Scala "Metals" worksheets are another similar concept (though different, it puts variable values in comments next to code as you update the code).

I feel like all of these are a step closer than what the Lighttable/Eve teams were shooting for, but not quite the next generation way of coding that it could be.
I liked the book, but I'm pretty sure we wouldn't get along as friends and I definitely would not want to work for him.

I might be all wrong with this, but it's the impression I got from his book.
Under what circumstances did following YAGNI lead to added complexity?
Oh it's simple, just use the FB/Alphabet support system: Twitter. But make sure you or a good friend have enough social cache or you will be ignored.
Some time back there was an article posted here about those calculations, and the majority of those emissions accounted not for the serving part but for running the reader's device while they read it.

I hate the javascript deluge as much as the next guy but probably the most energy is spent in keeping the screen on.
Whether or not you agree with his approach, Anders Tegnell described the lockdown model used in most of Europe as "not sustainable," and the UK, Spain, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and more are proving him right.

> If you gave everyone time and resources to prepare for a total 3 week lockdown...

This is a great idea in theory, but it ignores a lot of realities. You have to keep some level of basic infrastructure running; that will cause spread. There will always be some level of violations. Borders are more porous than people think. The mental cost of lockdown is also higher than people originally thought. "Listen to the experts" really meant "listen to epidemiologists," but this is their first time trying this at this scale, and it ignores psychologists and economists, even though those forces are going to be major drivers of behavior.

There's also the elephant in the room: If Covid-19 were 10x more deadly or 10x less deadly, people would actually take it very seriously or brush it off. It falls in a very awkward place, and a lot of people are looking at the death rate for their age group, weighing the risk against 1-2 years of partial lockdown, and deciding if the risk is worth it.
Since the element you're trying to apply the full-bleed to lives in a container that has a max-width, wouldn't you need to play with negative margins or absolute positioning to accomplish this with only margins?
Did anyone else get weird screen flickering[0] from the animated stars used in a few places on this site? The dev-tools show the stars are <span> elements being added/removed dynamically. The animation is cutesy, but the flickering is annoying.

FF 80.0.1 MacOS 10.14 (yeah it's old)

[0]https://vimeo.com/465078029
Would a non-zero number of people use the store? Of course. But voluntarily, and with the realistic option not to, which isn't tied to their choice of hardware or operating system.

And enough people wouldn't that Facebook would still feel a lot of pressure to have their app in Apple's store under Apple's rules, or at least some store and some set of rules that the users actually trust.
Who keeps those?
If Discord wades into the business communication space, I would move without a second thought. The voice/call reliability seems better, anecdotally. I think the voice lounge concept could translate well into the enterprise space as well, if done right.
I find this initially unintuitive, but it makes sense when you think about it.

Look at any other system that produces aggregate emergent behavior out the behavior of smaller parts. For example, here's Conway's Game of Life implemented using... Conway's Game of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8 It takes many many steps of the inner game of life to produce a single iteration of the outer simulation.

In general, with emergent behavior, it takes a lot of inner steps to produce a single meaningful step in the outer system. So it makes sense that our cells are much faster than we intuititively think of as "fast". Because our intuition about speed is itself the product an emergent system. We are that larger Game of Life there, so it looks incredibly fast to watch the inner one according to our own time scale.
This advice is not popular but I will share it.

There are some counter-examples: there are certain products for which the official manual are not useful.

Examples of products that have usable manuals are PostgreSQL, MySQL, C, Python, Java, Javascript (at MDN), beautifulsoup, CSS and HTML specifications, C#, etc.

Random books, web pages, stackoverflow add mistakes and misunderstandings; really you want to know the official docs inside and out and be able to find things in it like fonzie putting his motorcycle back together when he was blind. There will always be cases where somebody talks about some way to put elements together that you wouldn't have thought of yourself (particularly in front end design) but for any question that can possibly be answered from the manual you should skip the spam and go to the source.

This is the difference between reading real scientific papers and the scientific american version.
Same here!! If you want wifi just go ahead and double check what works w/ it beforehand.. also remember that the USB bandwidth is shared on the Nano
I live at sea level, and I've been up to 10,000 feet five times. I've felt fine for four of them, but the fifth time, some light physical activity (~60 minutes of walking) put me flat on my ass, made my feet feel like lead, and made me want to do nothing other than to lie down and sleep.

Different people react to altitude differently.
If everyone is bought-in on using them, they can be a really nice way to keep single topics in one place rather than having interleaved conversations in a single channel. If people don't use it 100% of the time, though, it's honestly worse because now you're not always sure where to read/continue a conversation.
Waymo and Cruise safety drivers face a bleak choice: pandemic or pollution?
Did you use the same email address? I backed something on Kickstarter, and the only common factor between that web session and my facebook web sessions was my email address. I suggest you put in a GDPR request to delete everything they have on you.
Did you purchase the item from a retailer that you gave an email or phone number which matches the one on your Facebook account? If so, I would suspect such an identifier is being supplied by the retailer to Facebook for ad targeting. It could also be your credit card issuer, potentially.

Private browsing helps prevent browser-based tracking, but doesn't help at all if both sides are playing together and have ways of correlating your identity.
Do you know who I could contact to request a review unit? (if you can share ofc - email in bio) I have an open-source Jetson-related project that I think the new model could be useful for.
I believe Home Assist has some options?
> There are open source alternatives if you want to setup your own assistant that doesn't transmit all your data back to Google/Amazon/Apple.

Really? The Mycroft project claims to be just that, and it shows promise, but it still seems really clunky. And right now, as far as I can tell, you need to set up an account on their service so it can do things like voice recognition, which is a pretty critical component to this type of thing.
You're not wrong. Categories have an inherent monoid on their arrows which composes them, and so concatenative programming is extremely close to categorical programming.

The two main ingredients that are missing in the ecosystem are (1) a good intermediate compiler target, and (2) a way to write programs categorically so that we don't have to retype them in each different programming system's syntax.
Facebook worms its way into system apps. Nokia phone camera app pings FB every time you start it up.
Sorry, ships would grind to a halt? I find it very difficult to imagine the physics that would make that possible as opposed to the fish simply shifting apart, and I googled for a while and was not able to find any corroboration. Do you have some links on that?
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I _suspect_ I might have clicked a link for order tracking outside private mode (Gmail's Chrome WebView, go figure...)

Now, to prevent such events in the future I installed Firefox on my smartphone along with uBlock Origin. I use FF on desktop since forever, should have used it on mobile as well.
I heard one number in the discussion in Germany (where in some areas the wolves discussion runs wild) which I found interesting: The number of people killed by wolves in Germany in recent years is zero, the number of people killed by dogs is around 3-4 per year.
Michael Mina [1] has promoted [2] the idea of $1 antigen tests as a screening tool. The idea is not that these are diagnostic (medical) tools, rather they are tools to use in schools, workplaces, sporting events. A positive antigen test would be followed up by a PCR test. The "This week in Virology" hosts had Mina on their podcast [3] and fully buy this argument for cheap tests for screening

It seems to me that this test from India is going in the same direction, though it's not clear why it's so much more expensive than what Mina describes.

[1] https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab

[2] https://www.rapidtests.org/

[3] https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-640/
Races to zero never reach zero. Eventually someone says it isn't worth it.
That might theoretically trigger updates of packages on which NVidia stuff depends (through indirection), which will then render your system unusable. You might be lucky, though.
Botched Excel import may have caused loss of 15,841 UK Covid-19 cases
Ok wow. I know that commenting on down-votes is discouraged but - Why the down-votes? I clicked the link and got hit with a "you need to enable JavaScript" error so I enabled it for the origin site and got hit with a "we would like to serve your request but GDPR". Please explain why my comment is being down voted so that I can avoid doing whatever it is that triggered the down votes.
> Now I can't open FB in the public... :/

Sure you can. Let your freak flag fly man ... I wouldn't be too worried about whatever it is you bought. You bought it after all, didn't you?

(I am coming at the context of this being an adult purchase, like a dildo or something)

The situation is a bummer, but don't let something in your FB account give you any amount of shame over this.