skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>vaccines which are made to flood the body with fake ACE2 proteins

There is no such thing as a vaccine that floods the body with fake ACE2 proteins.
> Because Asian languages have a word for orange unrelated to the fruit! In Chinese, the word remains "saffron".

Maybe you're thinking of a different Asian language or a time before the introduction of oranges in China, but in modern Mandarin, the term is some variation of (橙/橘)(黄)色, the (yellow) color of (oranges/tangerines).
The "IT Responsibility" and "Ease of Use" statements are incredibly pithy rewordings of "don't make me think, do what I mean".

Whoever wrote this thinks that infrastructure systems come about by businessperson a one way royal decree, not actual engineering processes that are interactive.
> Does anyone care what language were any particular games that keep being replayed or remembered fondly?

> No. Never.

I certainly remember games more that still have an active modding community, which is (somewhat) enabled by the choice of programming language.

I doubt Rimworld or Minecraft would have the thousands of mods they do if modders had to write OCaml instead of Java or C#.
From my anecdotal evidence it seems worse - but that might be down to how many notifications you've enabled on it.
I have never made a serious attempt to develop a game, but it has always seemed to me like a problem that inherently breaks a lot of software engineering concepts.

A lot of what makes games fun are the exceptions to the rules. An extra game mechanic in a special circumstance that allows you to do something that the basic rules don't. Or just a mechanic that stops something un-fun from happening (getting stuck, or it being too easy to trick an enemy).

But clean code always follows the rules, and makes it harder to introduce special cases.

I'm not saying software engineering has no place in a game, nor that rust would be bad it it. Just that it's less clear how software engineering will help a game, or if the game will be nudged toward a different style by the language somehow.
I've given this a lot of thought and pretty much concluded government needs to get out of the retirement game. Not saying this as a libertarian or any kind of principled statement, simply looking at what happens time and again. We need to switch to 401(k)-style DC plans or something similar where the funds have to be contributed today and are beyond the reach of politics.

The incentives to game the system are just too strong. Whether incorrect discount rates, systematic underfunding, whatever, people always treat the pension assets as a "big pot of money" for today's emergency, and use it for the pet project du jour.

I even see this at my condo association. We have a replacement fund to stay on top of long-term replacement liability. We can't even balance that. What chance does a large government, with many stakeholders, have of getting this right?
Yes there are known essential vitamins, minerals, and amino and fatty acids. That does not mean that current produce doesn’t provide enough of them. It’s possible that is true, but also possible that it is not.

Your last link just shows a correlation, not any kind of causation. It is suggestive, and somebody should do the actual research which might tell us whether it is causative. But they won’t, because it would cost too much and nobody could profit monetarily from the results.

Nutritional science is in a pretty sad state right now. It’s cheap and easy to find correlation between things, but expensive and time consuming to actually test interventions to see whether they work.
Keeping a list of things I've found:

Anti-Capitalist (https://anticapitalist.software/) - Only usable by non-profits, individuals, etc. Too extreme.

AGPL ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License) - Requires all other code in a project to be GPL. Basically just GPL with one less loophole for SASS.

A bunch of other licenses (https://choosealicense.com/licenses/)

Asked about it on legal stack-exchange (https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/57914/is-it-possible...)

Spite license (https://github.com/voynix/spite-license) - Humorous and potentially could work. But it's mostly just a joke.
But Pfhreak's point is that most people don't want to "build their own engine", they just want something that lets them make a game, and Unity and GameMaker are very good at giving you that running start, even if you know very little programming. The Rust gamedev community, so far, hasn't even tried to create that experience.
These are the most difficult numbers to have because the vaccine and trials are still only a few months old.
You can hack your phone by jailbreaking without paying anything to Apple.

I don’t have any problem with you being unhappy with Apple for not building what you want. The iPhone is pretty far from what I want too.

What I dispute is that they should be forced to build something for you, or that there is any ‘should’ about this. I want an open device too, and would prefer such a device to the iPhone, however I don’t want Apple to be forced to make one for me.

There are no gymnastics going on here. Apple’s software is not designed to make it easy for you to customize the way you would like. Nobody disputes that.

What I dispute is the use of the government to force them to change their designs, especially since we have alternatives to choose from and can contribute to them if we so desire.
As far as I understand consumer inkjets are designed as loss leaders. They make the majority of product revenue with the ink.

Pretty much everything that people hate about them comes from this business model.

I personally print very rarely, but I found laser printers are much better for rare printing. When I had an Inkjet the Ink was always dried up when I tried to use it occasionally, so when I actually needed it it didn't work. So now I buy the cheapest laser printer that can do duplex, and that works when I need it.

Probably the only reason to have an Inkjet is if you need color printing
Or will they just put it into their "burgers"? Seems like the kind of thing they'd do.

For the uninitiated: McD's used to fry their fries in lard, and then changed in the 90's to vegetable oil to lower cholesterol, etc. But they still (secretly) used beef flavor, from animals, and lost a $10M lawsuit from vegetarians and Hindus.

But they didn't change the recipe [1].

1: https://www.eatthis.com/mcdonalds-french-fries-taste-differe...
It's still quite easy to shoot oneself in the foot with modern C++:

#include <string_view>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
std::string_view v = std::string("xyz");

std::cout << v << '\n';
}
Just wondering, why do you think the previous approach was more successful, as opposed to using mathematics and probabilities?
Why do people think this is a "bad thing"? It's no different than buying an expensive home anywhere in the world, except it comes with a citizenship. I doubt he can use the favorable taxation - he would have to renounce his US citizenship for that.
because nobody would invest in a hippie with a half-finished hardware product these days
Developers are the toughest customers because we all think: "that's just a small script and a cron job" done in a weekend and basically worth $0. All the while staying each day in a meeting costing a cumulative $xx(x) just to announce what the job for today is.
Fine. We're Fine
That's all well and good, but starlink won't work in dense urban areas, and there are plenty of those still stuck on DSL.
You're being downvoted for no good reason. Mass farming is what brought us here. This will keep happening, unless we change our behavior.
I got the Steelcase Leap from some kind of office liquidation store for 50% off. There are some great deals and these are very sturdy and well made chairs so second hand is often just as good.
I have a HP OfficeJet Pro 8710 (released ~2016 or so) that has a great automatic document feeder (ADF — with duplex!) for scanning, but is too expensive for non-urgent printing.
have you ever tried raising money from an angel investor for a hardware startup?
No significant short-term side-effects. Long term effects unknown (obviously).
I'm glad we are going to have a vaccine, but I'm not so happy about 90%

I have built up in my head the idea of all the things I'm going to do 'once I get vaccinated', but at 90% that gets pushed off to "once most people get vaccinated". If it were by myself, I might push my luck. But I want to do those things with friends, or family. .9^n is pretty shitty odds once n gets to around 5.

There's a sort of rhetoric that's pointed out by 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' as a warning sign for agendas, and I've seen a bunch of them used by both sides this election cycle. But at the same time one of the defenses against these rhetorical devices is reframing: rephrase the bargain from another context and see if you'd still accept it. They don't seem to reconcile that in public discourse this reframing happens in public.

"If I go out for steak, I'm probably okay at 90%," versus, "If we have our family reunion at Disney World, there's a 50% chance we're all going to be attending a funeral in a month, even if everybody got the vaccine." You could call the latter shrill, sure, but "there's a 50% chance everything will work out fine," is self-deception. You're trying really hard not to look at all of the potential, statistically significant outcomes.
The pdf version is 67 pages, hardly something only a giant company could afford to read, and the rest of this comment falls apart once you notice this detail.
Care to share which company ? Hows the latency and bandwidth speed with satellite.
I disagree. It was a time when there wasn't much around to invest in and computers were "hot" and "new", and something everyone wanted to become a part of.
You’re exactly right. If people want an an annuity when they retire, they can go buy it from an insurance company. Politicians should be forced to pay government employees in cash or cash equivalent (aka 401k/HSA/etc), but any and all compensation needs to happen immediately.

As a side note, defined benefit pensions don't have a place in the world anymore. It's the same thing as putting your money in a target date retirement fund from Vanguard/Schwab/Fidelity, except you also have to pay all those actuaries and pension fund managers so the expenses are higher.

Their purpose has been automated out of existence, but only exists due to politics in the government sector.
It's not merely nostalgia or availability. I continue to use emacs because it has the features that I want, where other software does not.

Some things I want out of an editor:

* Never having to touch the mouse in any way.

* The ability to customize any feature for my current project or mindset on a whim.

* No UI, as much as possible. Show me the content I'm editing and nothing else.

* A good, extensible, set of keybindings with a bunch of features for editing of raw text

I run my project in an IDE and will sometimes use a feature, but I generally don't develop there.
How would they prove it? Dealers have always been having small amounts in them and going to their stash between sales. They can always claim they bought 2-3 doses so that they don't have to look for dealers a few times a day/week.
Thanks for writing that - he's such a supreme hypocrite, but why expect more from the originator of, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

So many of his own peccadilloes are out there too, despite his personal attempts to delete them from Google.
Broken: "End first-past-the-post voting system and explore alternative electoral reform options."

One of two that has over 1,000+ comments. It was only reason I originally voted for him.
Some people might see the ultra wealthy in the USA of late as having taken part in destroying the country and also preparing to leave it, which they can do thanks to their wealth. Pete Thiel and his New Zealand plans are another more explicit example.
Actually they do perform (drastically cutailed) computation; for example INI performs computations of the form:

[foo] # section = "foo"
bar=baz # table[section]["bar"] = "baz"

Similarly, wc is a programming language with ~4 operations:

'a' # inc byte counter, add word flag to word counter, clear word flag
# any other non-space/newline is the same as 'a'
' ' # inc byte counter, mark word flag
\n # inc byte counter, mark word flag, inc line counter
EOF # (implied) print counters

That set of operations is of extremely limited usefulness, but that's more or less true of any non-turing-complete language (and many that are turing-complete, even).
History of Web Browsers: The Evolution of Online Productivity
Most people don't want to build their engines since it's hard in cpp. If building an engine consists of selecting a couple of crates, people might have a different opinion.
How different is this from oligarchs using private jets to escape lockdowns?
well now I'm hearing more of plans to "begin healing" and to combat hate. I see the government using "hate" as a reason to implement backdoors and monitor citizens, just like the Patriot Act.

Whenever I bring this up, I'm accused of being "for hate", when I really just am a big fan of Snowden and don't people to give up safety for security. Most people would see a measure to combat hate on the internet and vote for it, not realizing its giving the govt the right to monitor all data or crack down on something that isn't even hateful (e.g. Free Palestine, Hong Kong etc).

Give the local "community government" the right to run the internet and now the federal govt will be spidered throughout all local govt ISPs.

> The bar for restricting what you can access, and for what reasons your service can be cancelled, becomes much higher when it's governed by the constitution

I wouldn't put it past Biden or Harris to issue and executive order for the sake of "hate speech". I couldn't imagine Sanders or even Trump doing that.
I agree, but it also fairly easily to be dogmatic overanalyzing things instead of executing.

Especially early stage, you have limited knowledge what the requirements of a product that will stick might be.

I think considering cost of future change and try to keep it low as a general rule is more important, than trying to make all the right choices from the get go for something you don't yet understand. You might have a good understanding of the problem, but that doesn't mean your solution will work and you have to adapt.
> Many people have an aversion to something if it's called plant, healthy or natural.

Moreover, to many "McPlant" will sound like a healthy alternative, when in reality many plant-based meat replacements are a similar number of calories or higher than meat, and are unlikely to be healthier in general.
I bet the telecom Hizbollah manages is more corrupt, so let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
Ah, I see. I suspected that but I wasn't sure. Which makes me wonder why they're even doing HPLIP in the first place. Printing is only really a thing on the desktop and in business networks but in both cases I'd guess the majority of HP's customers are using Windows.
Productionization new languages at Google is a lot of work
This used to be a concern for me earlier on in my vegan years but I soon realized that veganism isn't about eating a "pure" diet, it's about the animals. The best thing for the animals is for these products to sell and I shouldn't let a little cross contamination deter me from that.
Latest headline I saw, didn’t read because I didn’t want to be depressed, was that asymptomatic carriers were shedding the virus for months.
VCs Spent Election Night – and What's on Their Minds Now
> maybe slightly look into things before posting

> suggest seeking help

Sure thing bud. Keep the personal insults coming, and then say I'm the one breaking the rules.
> I guess I’m not convinced that if software is offered for free in the first place that it always makes sense to expect money to be offered without asking for it.

I'm explicitly not talking about the "software ... offered for free in the first place". I'm talking about changes to that software at someone else's request.

> I just don’t necessarily agree with the hyperbole that unpaid labor is “wrong”, because that undermines the initial OSS transaction.

I don't think this is true because of the genesis of the open source software itself. I created it for my needs. I would do it even if I didn't plan to give you a copy, but the transaction between us is near zero cost so I go ahead and let you use it too because I'm a cool guy.

> The software was offered for free-as-in-beer in the first place, and that is unpaid labor.

I'm making a claim that doing something to scratch your own itch doesn't qualify as 'unpaid labor' in any useful sense. It would be like saying doing a hobby is unpaid labor.

> It’s perfectly fine to request pay for changes, so isn’t that better and more straightfoward than not asking for money but complaining when none comes?

The current norm is to not request pay or to expect to pay. My argument is that norm should be inverted and maintainers should expect payment to be offered, and requestor should expect to offer to pay. If a specific dev doesn't want to be paid, then fine. It's really about the norm changing, not mandating individual behavior.
Feel free to do so, as long as you don’t expect someone else to pay the price.
Mcsomething it had to be. The question is what is the something. McVeggie doesn't work, because veggie burgers became synonymous with the last generation of plant based burgers. McPlant does sound awkward right now but with the full backing of mcdonalds marketing / their resturant footprint it will roll of the tongue within a few months of launch.
> HP is literally the only company that I never heard anyone praise.

The part of HP that was widely considered praise-worthy is their test equipment branch. Which, naturally, isn't HP anymore but is now Keysight after HP spun them out as Agilent in the late 90s.
Full disclosure: game development beyond the cli-based games and some simple asteroids-like games are the most I've ever done with games. I find them incredibly boring, both to make and play(kind of ironic considering up untilrecently I was working as a developer for a company that made games and I worked there for 8 and a half years). But 3 weeks ago I switched jobs and I am using rust in my current workplace, again, not for gaming but for data processing. I have no idea if rust will ever go deep inside the game development business but if it does, I feel like it will be in the very distant future. The main problem being the limited ecosystem compared to the big players. I do however believe it has the potential to give C++ a run for it's money should the ecosystem ever catch up. For starters it sits on top of llvm, so out of the box you have windows, linux, mac, ios and android covered and the tooling is the most batteries-included beast I've ever seen(namely cargo). I guess only time will tell but my bet is it won't happen in the next 5-10 years.
I certainly agree, and that is somewhat part of what I was saying.
Last time I was at a McDonald's, it was easy, even preferred, to order from a giant touch screen, so perhaps there's less friction on silly names than there used to be.

(Reminds me of a report I read ages ago about the "Ziosk" on-table ordering devices causing customers to be more likely to order desserts and other "guilty pleasure" foods.)
That's a therapy being worked on, not a vaccine.
The future - the next big game engine, being planned out or written right now, might be done in rust.
You know what though, I think American telecoms can stay out of Canada, thanks very much.
Test equipment was spun out as Agilent and then became Keysight. Great test equipment.
so all Expo apps will be banned?
> IoT is just the sexy name for embedded, and folks have been doing embedded remotely for a long time.

When I worked on embedded, we had to take boards down to the lab to get rewired/modified not too infrequently. All of the preproduction boards that ever came in straight from the factory needed reworking, and being able to change things 'as needed' was super useful. Having someone sitting in the next office over with an oscilloscope to help debug strange issues on a bus was useful.

Embedded is one of those fields where it really is an entire team with distinct, but overlapping, skills all working together. One of the MEs can do some EE, some of the EEs can code, some of the software engineers can do EE work and assembly, a few of the UI people know how to do assembly and C++, some of the C++ people know how to work with design and marketing, and if everyone works together a product ships out the door.

Could it be done remotely? Sure, but productivity would take a huge drop.
The Future of McDonald's Is in the Drive-Thru Lane
Rust over C++ for single player games is definitely of questionable benefit right now. For multiplayer games I think a much more compelling case can be made, certainly on the server if not both server and client.
What makes games more likely to lean on global state than other kinds of applications?
There's apparently been a massive upsurge in interest in more remote and rural property since the pandemic. As companies become comfortable with WFH due to being forced to try it out, connecting these places will go a long way to allowing Canadians to live in more remote places part and full time and still be connected to work.

There's a lot of struggling 'ghost' towns out there formerly based around resource industries that are no longer viable. This could have a big positive impact in distributing more wealth to more parts of the country instead of having it all centred on Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
Except:

- a $1k/mo MRR business generally has some fungibility to be sold. For a SaaS business @ $1k/mo MRR with a working product, I could easily see that being worth $30k+ to any number of buyers. (Because you have de-risked the problem significantly by going from $0 -> revenue.)

- You can potentially 10x that $1k/mo in a very short period by spending time (and money, if available) on customer acquisition.
I'm the same way. If a menu has "Eggs Benny" on it, I'll order "Eggs Benedict" because I can't bring myself to say cutesy things. I know it's my hangup. I'll change orders before I say something like that, most of the time.
Between 2000-2019 out of 5,778 elections, 31 recounts, 3 elections changed
Source data - https://www.axios.com/trump-biden-state-election-recount-rules-26b709d2-b5d2-4feb-9a17-670680d90572.html

My quick article - https://joshdance.medium.com/brief-history-of-recounts-229a54ee2dd2
Here's the first one from last November. The illustrations work surprisingly well with the NYT style. [0]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/science/randall-munroe-mo...
This article might help regarding the impacts multi tasking can have, and how you can stop context switching: https://bit.ly/2yrVV2W
> what the hell, am I actually hitting root nameservers every time?

Trace hits the roots because trace is for tracing the lookups from the root nameservers through the rest of the path. It's in the man page:

+[no]trace
Toggle tracing of the delegation path from the root name servers for the name being looked up. ...
Not symptoms, but positive test results...

In the US, people are going to work (or other events) WITH positive test results. Some because they won't get paid otherwise, others because they want to make a political statement, and some because they're ... well, I dunno why...

So, yes, even having people stay home after a positive test would be helpful, because currently, they aren't even doing that.
> bought a really good office chair. Herman Miller Aeron

Can you please give a link where you bought , what model?
Thank you!
The End of Athens: How the City-State’s Democracy Was Destroyed