skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really dislike how posts of this kind simply assume that everyone lives in Silicon Valley (and hence there are abundant jobs with ridiculously inflated pay) and has no ambition beyond working on hard technical problems and making loads of cash by working for other people.

This is completely invalid advice for people with any kind of entrepreneurial ambition, for instance, and even more so for those who might care more about building a family or spending time with loved ones than frittering their time away "increasing their net worth" by working on things they don't own.

What is most infuriating is the implication that if you don't live life by this person's constraints, you're "wasting it".
I still wonder what the outcome would have been had it not been televised.
Sometimes the reductio ad absurdum is helpful. But really the poster's initial argument is just complete ignorant nonsense. Perhaps they have never read the Constitution's definition of the Census or are unaware of 200+ years of history.
I think either you've had bad luck or I've been very lucky! I've never encountered this (been using Linux since 2005)
> Shipping goods is one major source of CO2 and other pollutants,

It's less than 4.5% of CO2 emissions. Incredibly low good compared to the volume of goods and the benefits.

You can remove other pollutants with regulations. Requiring exhaust scrubbers or using other fuels has worked miracles in EU.

You can reduce CO2 emissions even more with slower speeds, thinner ship shape and cleaning the bottom of the ship regularly.
The Constitution was, however, written with massive amounts of slaves being in the country in mind. And even they were counted as three fifths of a person. Should illegal immigrants be counted as less?
I mean that overall they may be good takeaways, but managers don't do these things intentionally. They do it because they are trying to hold on to the other pressures of the job (meetings).

This article is one-sided.
I am a little skeptical about how dire this will really be. Census takers are allowed to guesstimate if non-responses reasonably make them believe they are undercounting:

>In instances where the bureau is unsure of the number of residents at an address after a field visit, its population characteristics are inferred from its nearest similar neighbor (hot-deck imputation). This practice has effects across many areas, but is seen by some as controversial.[6] However, the practice was ruled constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in Utah v. Evans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census#Procedure
>The game was codesigned by a climate scientist

How is a climate scientist qualified to codesign an app? I thought you had to be a registered software developer to do that! ;)

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Se...
Thank you, I resonate with this. I feel it's a perspective reached after spending those decades in the hustle; you reach a point where it's just a job (that doesn't have to be negative).

The grass is always greener as the saying goes - I'm going to do the same work at company X vs company Y (my specialty), so long as I'm being treated fairly with compensation, tasks, rewards, management, etc. and I believe enough in the core mission of the company, I'm satisfied. Leaving at 5pm to go work on a loved hobby is now more important than some ephemeral career goal. :) I think a key is financial stability though, it takes that hustle to build an investment reserve in the early years.
I have to say that, as I read the author's detailed description of the program, I wondered if this was sarcasm! I don't think it is, and I don't think it would be particularly persuasive if it were, but given Poe's law, you can never be sure...

As for the claim "As this program has only one thread, it can be formally proven to be thread safe": well, it is technically correct, but it just looks like a somewhat desperate attempt to make something out of nothing, when compared to, say, "thread safety is not an issue here."
Some of the key points for early career progress are:

1. Seek the counsel of trusted mentors.

2. Pick accelerated learning over money at the beginning of your career.

3. If given the opportunity to take remuneration in form of equity, take it.

4. Go work in an industry for a fixed amount of time to pick up some skills.

5. Learn early on what industries your personality type is not suited for.

6. Know what you want and go for it.

7. Don’t get too hung up on the job title when you first start out; Especially if the opportunity to learn is enormous.

There is an interesting article on this https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/early-career-tactics...
Sometimes that database feels more like a jetplane when all I need is a hammer for my nail. Excel (or libreoffice calc) is perfect for a lot of stuff, especially those small things that you won't ever do again.
Am I the only one wondering what the National Institutes of Health has to do with ornithological research? Isn't this a little outside their mandated field?
Be extremely, extremely, extremely careful for staying at any company for the "mission". The primary mission of any capitalist company is to make their biggest investors and founders a lot of money, and you shouldn't forget that.

While some exceptions do exist (I actually think your SpaceX example is a very good one - Musk has pointed out, rightfully IMO, that if he just wanted to get richer there are easier ways to do it), they are few and far between. VCs and investors largely depend on the "mission" myth solely as a motivational tool to get employees to work harder.
* Indium
Open source confronts its midlife crisis (2018)
Absolutely do not expect long term support.

I'm more curious if the community will be able to keep the project alive or if Google is going to keep the project theirs.
Interesting, I’ve never consciously thought about where I’m touching to start the drag, I guess it has ”just worked” wherever I have put my finger. The control does not have a ”physical” slider knob so I think it’s fairly intuitive to expect that you don’t have to be particularly precise (like in touch interfaces in general!)
Not an exact reply.. but in python dealing with binary data is very inelegant and unintuitive.. Simple things like packing and forming and reading binary packets seems very convoluted in python..
They aren't. (The workings of body and mind are not encoded in DNA.)

The only thing that's encoded in DNA is how to make proteins. Everything else is emergent from the interactions of those proteins and "encoded" only in evolutionary history of how those interactions work when they do so in a repeatable fashion. DNA is not a "blueprint" for making a body or a mind... it is much more like the "seed" pattern for a run of Conway's Game of Life, except with a bit of indeterminism for environmental influences thrown in. There are things about the phenotype you can predict from the DNA because you've got past examples, but a small change in initial conditions or the environment during development can also throw you way off... you have to run the whole process (i.e. grow a complete animal) to ever be sure what the phenotype looks like or behaves like.
I could only see people making more courses on how to make a passive in come, followed by more of the same ... you know.

A course on react seems a lot more productivity friendly
<< to get rid of an indent. People are religious about this because if you use a shiftwidth (or sts) different than your ts, you end up with a mixture of tabs and spaces. If you change your ts to something other than 8, then you end up with code that looks weird on everybody else's screen.
You aren't wrong.

Google has screwed their biggest fans too many times and we aren't Apple drones that can be pushed around.
The quest to the perfect Makefile (2018)
Taxicab's first post explicitly stated that the study they linked found race to be significant even after controlling for economic status.

It's about race.
>clickbait helps a lot also

I do like to point out that there are bad examples. Titles that misrepresent content or low quality listicle stuff + "You won't believe #2!"

But headlines have been trying to entice people to read stories since before there were clicks to bait. I know a lot of people here think headlines should be basically boring but that's not how publications outside of journals etc. have ever operated.
It’s also worth remembering that this is written by someone who is approaching 30 years old.
Poor white people aren't likely to have an undocumented - person of color - living in their household.

I've known a number of local households that had undocumented Canadians, Brits and Germans.

It's been my experience that Americans who are hyper-concerned with illegal immigration, aren't grinding their teeth over these nationalities.
This is an idealistic oversimplification.
Facebook is the new catch 22
Dead Code Elimination in JavaScript
Have you tried using Doom Emacs? The process of installing everything you need for a particular language only involves uncommenting a line on your config and running "doom sync". It's really good.
I am interested in what would happen if we took this a step further.

Judgments by judge or jury to be done 'blind'. Neither to see the person on trial.

How many people are not given proper justice becuase of how they look?

No matter what you will not be able to remove bias, whether it is being overly harsh because of the persons skin color, or overly easy because the person is attractive.

https://www.thelawproject.com.au/insights/attractiveness-bia...

>>in one study, the effects of physical attractiveness on judges were so influential, they fined unattractive criminals 304.88% higher than attractive criminals.
What if we do wind/solar hybrids?

While double the ships is more costly to procure, it’s more flexible and fault tolerant, so there are benefits!

Ultimately I think the question is, what is the price difference to transport a car, and if higher would customers pay more?
My actual quote ended "...and status", and "frame of reference" was important.

The article is a reflection on

I recently saw this tweet asking people about their career's most expensive mistake

which appears to at least indicate a long term financial (and no doubt time/energy/status/skills/etc) view.

It's not to say there aren't useful (if rather overly played) points in there and similar articles; but the whole thrust is about "career growth" and "brand" and dismissing either directly or by implication engineers who prioritise life as being vastly more important than work.
UK bans all uses of mobile phones while driving
Streamlit sharing – deploy and manage Streamlit apps
What if users brought the infrastructure?
> Have I done anything noteworthy these last three months?

Either the author’s bar for noteworthy is really low or I’m really out of touch with what an individual can achieve every three months.
升级 / Tractor / 找朋友 / Finding Friends
I agree with the overall message to optimize for learning early on and check with yourself every few months and take some risks while you are young.

OTOH, it must be nice to get a job into a FAANG right out of school (if you got to Stanford or Carnegie Mellon like the author) and then get to choose a job at the new sexy unicorn, and the type of job/team once inside. As in, this work history and the people who can afford it is a tiny, tiny minority in the world, or even in the US and it's kind of depressing to read for the rest of us.
Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi)
Many of these types of posts of reflections of the insecurity of the authors.

You don’t want to be like one of the IBM lifers back in the day who sat around waiting to get culled like a steer. But staying at a job where you enjoy what you do usually isn’t a bad move.
Yeah, there was a multiple dev long effort to build "complete" solution but I did what you described to satisfy impatient stakeholders. Since then the fancy solution is incomplete and mothballed while the simple deployment has been running ever since.

The next value add was consolidating data in a db with web ui so relevant non-devs can view and help add to it + easily integrate different data sources with automatic validation. I wish their was a nice open source thing here you could spin up without much effort. There's middle ground between complex/paid full solution that can scale to huge data sets and integrate with turking etc and emailing csvs or sharing google sheets links around.
To be clear, I'm not being anti-semitic. Jon Stewart, to me, is emblematic of everything wrong with liberal politics in the United States. He spent 8 years dunking on George W and Republicans for being "stupid" while they consolidated power. He had a massive platform to mobilize liberals and instead they all made jokes about how uncultured Republicans were, while the Republican Party played a ground game that let them redistrict and take control of courts at every level to establish minority rule over the country.

Bill Maher - I don't follow him as closely, but everything I hear is basically regurgitated reactionary schtick. He says "the things they don't want you to say" which really means punching down at fat people, queers, people of color, etc. He's a relic of the early 2000s when you could attract a sizeable audience just by being a substance-less edgelord. As far as I know he's basically done a 180 politically because liberals used to enjoy that stuff but now it's more popular with right wingers.

The person in the article also discovered Ray Romano, so... he's 3/3 in my book.
Hydrocarbons are mostly C by mass. Carbon dioxide is 27% C, 73% O (one C atom to two O atoms). So the output of one ton of hydrocarbons (coal, gasoline, paraffin, it doesn't matter) is three tons of CO2.

Some of the rest of the 14 parts air goes to burning the H atoms, which don't weigh much, and producing water. Most of it is nitrogen which isn't burned.
No ship sails forever. And given the amount of energy you get per kilogramm, nothing beats nuclear which is why the waste stream for anything that is nuclear-powered is extremely small.

I‘m also pretty sure that even a sail ship will have fossile-powered backup generators. No one is going to design such a big ship with no additional backup power supply and certainly those aren’t just batteries.

I don’t understand why people here still keep coming up with arguments against nuclear when countries with a large share of nuclear in their energy mix have the lowest emissions in their energy sector.

Oh, and the waste isn’t really a problem. In fact, nuclear waste is one of the best types of waste.

See: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...
Such a ship has probably an expected life of 40+ years so the CO2 savings of the wind ship vs the diesel one are at most (the ship won't be at sea continuously) about 1.5 million tons.

You make good points, and I don't know the answer, but a meaningful comparison should indeed be made over the ship's entire lifetime, from manufacture to disposal.
Same is true in Linux. Unless livepatch is enabled, kernel updates require a reboot.
Seems likely Haskell will get stack traces by default fairly soon.
That can definitely be a downside of a traditional publisher. It's even more the case when you're not really trying to make money with a book but are using it as a more reputational thing.
Is software really so shallow?
Does it wash away so quickly as fads change?

How do you get really, really deep knowledge?

A person that works at the same company for 25 years should show a progression of titles and work assignments, ending up with a very valuable perspective into the companies products, customers, and business issues.

Job hopping every 2 years? Do you even know how to make coffee before you leave?
Yes, I just thought about that one. That's funny.
> Lockdowns kill people

Agreed. But what causes lockdowns? An uncontrolled pandemic. What does uncontrolled pandemic also cause? Collapse of healthcare infrastructure, which is a civil emergency that also results in countless deaths.

Lockdowns, as implemented in places like the US, are a reactive measure because of a system-wide failure to adopt and maintain proactive measures needed to control things. You don’t arrive at “herd immunity” without them, but mass deaths, both from the disease and being unable to receive other routine or emergency healthcare.
Dr. Flaxman of IHME reviews the paper as unsalvageable.

https://rapidreviewscovid19.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/p6tto8hl/re...

Dr. Ioannidis makes some of the same statistical mistakes he made in his Santa Clara seroprevalance estimate paper in April.

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/how-not-to-do-an-...
Eventually the party will end and software will face the same comp as other engineering disciplines.

Make money while you can, for it may already be 5am.
You seem to miss my point: i am saying you can't speak for the people conquering egypt in 700AD. You can't describe what they believed, because unlike them you grew up in a culture that eradicated polytheism centuries ago and has only a very abstract idea of what that even means. You can't fathom how people thought in a world where the vast majority of their neighbours burned incenses in front of statues. Yes the hadith calls for violence against such people and their idols, i am not denying that, i am not saying you can't make an educated guess what happened back then, what i am saying is that you should speak for yourself, not for some imaginary "we". Tell me, when you say "we only do it" do you say that you yourself destroyed such statues?
Tapeworm mouth is pretty: https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2020-photomicrogra...
> (2) Actually we didn't. My wife works in a small city hospital.

"It didn't happen to me so it must not be happening anywhere else"
Problem with these kind of tools, they don’t play nicely with other applications, e.g games. Does it handle it? Like by automatically disabling it or some other way, preventing control change to effect any other program.
There's probably a lot more to the calculation too. I can imagine the wind-powered vessel could have a longer operational lifetime and require less maintenance since there's no combustion. Then again, if the mechanism is fragile it might be the opposite. I think it's still valuable to put this into production and iterate on better and better designs as we learn. Even if this first try can't make the math work.
SQL is great for relational tables with a two-dimensional structure of rows and fixed columns.

It's not so great for schemaless object databases or navigating nested arrays and hashmaps.

Some relational databases can store JSON objects, and incorporate SQL extensions to navigate those objects.

But in general, SQL doesn't seem to be a great tool for data that isn't a collection of two-dimensional data structures.
Linux 5.10 Will Have a Fully Lock-Less Ring Buffer
Right, according to https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v... (table 3) its probably just a bit over 0.06% for 40 year olds.
I share with you my structure. This doesn't mean that it's the recipe to success. I feel comfortable with this. If I have a 1-hour meeting, then I make two more 30mn sessions during the night. Anyway, You must find a structure that fit to your personality to maintain your level of commitment in the long-term.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfoil
Richard Stallman's Personal Homepage
How to Win the Early Stages of Your Career
Wingsail works with the same principle as conventional sail, it's just more efficient (hang gliders use the sails to fly).
"Families without a permanent home might not be counted because they are only temporarily living with another family when the census arrives at that house, or they might be moving between addresses so that they aren’t counted in the response by any household at those addresses."

Apartment living is also a big factor for postal balloting. Security of mail boxes, inconsistent updates for forwarding addresses, etc.
More to the point, EULAs companies insist they can change at will and without notice, with your continued use of the service constituting your assent to the changed terms. The courts might say it doesn't work like that — again — but that's rather cold comfort when you're locked out of the system on Wednesday for something which was allowed on Monday:

https://medium.com/@jlkoepke/we-can-change-these-terms-at-an...

https://archive.vn/gwVci

https://web.archive.org/web/20201017150508/https://medium.co...
Excellent point. I may add an "examples" item on the menu, so it would start with a grid map and some texture already loaded. Thanks for the input.
> As I said and you conveniently ignore, user generated content would have to be scrubbed from the Internet except from the big players like Facebook

I've repeated it ad nauseam but I'll repeat it again - this is just hyperbole.

In what capacity do the majority of Internet users aggregate the content of others? I'm thinking about my own use of the Internet. In what capacity do I own domains or applications where I personally publish the content generated by others?

Let's consider a few possible cases (which do not apply to me). I have a blog with a comment section. Someone posts some comment that leaves me open to legal liability. I have a few options including turning off comments on my blog, moderating all comments on my blog before they go live, paying a third party to handle moderation (and indemnify/insure me against legal liability).

Second, I am passionate about some hobby and wish to create a public forum on a domain I host that allows for the discussion. Malicious participants start to show up that start to post content on this unmoderated forum that open me up to legal liability. Again, I have to deal with this now in some capacity.

Third, I am an entrepreneur with my sights on a startup. This startup is like an Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumbler/Blogger, Medium, Quora, Yahoo Answers, Stack Overflow etc. I am concerned that malicious actors will use my new venture to publish malicious content. Right now, I don't care I just build it without any worry. Without Section 230 I have to seriously think about how I ensure content is moderated.

I'm just not seeing the Internet break in any of these scenarios. I'm not seeing the Internet being scrubbed of content. In fact, as far as I can tell all of the above happens already to some degree. Do you expect defamatory content on stack overflow? Or do you expect it to be removed?
> He has some points, but maybe he didn’t...

Host site is Valley Girl Newsletter, author Apoorva Govind with feminine avatar. Why the assumption this is a male engineer and author?
For the sake of future would-be employees I hope you left a Glassdoor review of your experience at that company. If not for others, then at least for catharsis.
As far as I know a pandemic is defined by the spread rate not by fatality rates. Doesn't include flu and the sorts.

You can have a virus that doesn't qualify as pandemic but can reach 100% kill rate or one that can hit 100% of planet with 0 dead.
This is a good way to put it. I work at a well known big tech, and in many ways the money has given me a lot of freedom. I travel with my young family now because I can both afford it and I have enough co workers to easily cover my shift, which was NOT true at my startup.

It’s especially useful having young children, because there is no time for “side hustles” right now. After 5:00 my time and attention goes to my family and my work encourages that.
How interesting that the Soviet government didn't mind. Another commenter in a different thread relayed that the French government found the books "subversive" and banned faithful translations; the hacked translations that were allowed (understandably) bombed.