skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reactive programming model (or whatever you call it, honestly don’t know) is at the core of so many great tools and products - eg Terraform/Pulumi, Kubernetes, React, Mobx, Observable...

At the same time, we’ve struggled to find decent reference material or libraries for building a reactive framework for X (for our use case, X = data science workflows). Most of these libraries seem to implement all the primitives from scratch.

I’d be interested to here other people’s thoughts on this!
> IQ doesn't measure educational attainment.

That's what I wrote.
The name of the commenter they replied to.
This is fascinating... but I do believe there’s a reason that those fields are not re-arranged by the go compiler already, which is to preserve C ABI Compatibility. I doubt that’s worth it in most cases, though. Does it still preserve them in “pure” mode?
If you control the back and front end, I don't buy into this argument. You don't have to define all your REST endpoints up front, you can add them as needed.

If you're serving a public API and you really don't know up front what endpoints people will need, or like facebook you have tons of people with different needs, then maybe GraphQL makes sense.
I'm a FTE by day, hobbyist gamedev by night and some of the best advice I got when learning how to do basic pixel art was to start with a small palette and work your way up.

Working at 16x16 _only_ has greatly increased by skill since I have to be creative and work around the size limitations. Additionally, a small color palette does the same, but I'm not there yet..
Agreed it is a terrible name. Honestly I think food companies have no idea how to do vegan options. They keep trying to compete directly with meat and dairy and the results are just kind of unsettling. Just the phrase "no-meat meat" by itself is mildly horrifying. I prefer my food to be recognizable, describable.

Taco Bell did a good job: they just give you a burrito full of beans. The only problem was they have no idea how to cook vegetables with seasonings so the bean burrito is just bland and nasty. For McDonald's, make an actual vegan sandwich: spinach, cucumbers, sprouts for texture, some kind of sauce, tomatoes, a dash of salt and pepper. Vegan food is just like meat-based food: if the recipe is good, and the cook does a good job, it tastes good.
They want it to replace gold more than fiat.
But that surely was only known positive isolation, not the blanket "everybody stay home" thing grandparent was suggesting. That's a huge difference particularly wrt (child)care: someone will take over until you are healthy again vs nobody can take over because everybody else is going through the same solitary confinement thing.
Yeah, I agree with you.

It's hard to avoid feeling like the free software movement has failed pretty comprehensively at its stated goals.

For me, as a computer nerd, it's always been hard to understand why normal people aren't fascinated by computers like I am, but the plain fact is they're not. Something like two billion people think facebook is the internet, eh? Everyone has a radio-connected supercomputer in their pockets but it's a locked-down mall and video game arcade, and that seems to be all most people want.

I try not to think about it too much. Maybe this is the shape of human destiny? To be cells in some vast AI body?
> That said, some structs may have a smaller size, but for efficiency, the Go runtime will allocate them in the same size class, then those structs are not considered sloppy:

It's not for efficiency, per se. As in C, to support arrays of structs all structs are padded so their size is a multiple of the strictest (largest) alignment of any of its members. If the example struct described above were 24 bytes instead of 32, then the second element of an array of those structs wouldn't be properly aligned for any of its uint64 or pointer members. On architectures that require aligned loads and stores that's not an efficiency optimization, but required for correctness.
That reminds me of when I took and distance learning electronics technician course. You could Google (search) all you wanted to but seeing answers didn't help in knowing how to solve the equations.
What about qutebrowser? It's based on QtWebEngine (a sort of ungoogled
chromium), has a minimal UI, extremely customisable and can be extended with
userscripts (nothing to do with js). You can do stuff like editing textareas in
your editor by spawning a subprocess, open a video with mpv, pipe something to
dmenu.
Slingbox is a brand of Sling Media. A brand which appears to be getting killed off.
If your VM is running on my computer, it is not locked down. I'm going to get in, and so will anyone else who really wants to.
CSP also encourages writing very racy programs, as the order in which messages arrive in queues can be non-deterministic.
Oh sorry about that, I'll check what is happening, thanks for the heads up!
I grew up on pizza in the NYC/NJ area. The Italian styles with minimal cheese are a disappointment to me. Many are able to get the crust and sauce perfect, which is no small feat, and then it feels like they just gave up with the cheese.

Pizza in NYC usually not only has great crust and sauce, but it also has plenty of cheese. They don't "overload" it like many places outside the area. (I am purposely separating "Pizza in NYC" from "NYC Style" because people around the US suck at emulating it).
It’s up to individuals to make that risk assessment. If you fit the risk profile of COVID, it may be an easier assessment.
I'm very interested in this, but I can't seem to get the demo page working in latest Firefox:

> AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported.

Edge worked though. Didn't try Chrome.

Edit: This is beautiful!

I have checked out a variety of songs, and I feel the visualization is rather dominated by whatever frequency is loudest. (E.g. bass sound -> three- to five-fold symmetry and most detail obscured by it).

Have you considered applying something like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour somewhere in the process to more evenly weight the frequency contributions according to human hearing perception? Not sure if would have the intended effect, but I'd be curious what happens.
What is your point? He can maintain it without pay. Good for him, good for us, good for all. This case is different.
Oh absolutely, I've been getting more and more email from Amazon Q&A telling me that I recently bought a product so I should try to answer a question about it.

On the other hand, I did ask a question on Amazon just yesterday and have received 5 answers in under a day, so it their system does work to some extent.
I don't think I claimed that the UK's system was "foolproof", my point was just that trying to make it faster likely wouldn't make it any better.
I don't think you're using "disenfranchise" in the same way the parent is. You're being denied the ability to truly own your hardware and run whatever you want on it. You're being hurt in ways you don't even know because by definition you can't, as you don't know what you're missing.

You're ok with this now, and may never change your opinion on that, but you are being harmed by this in the long run, as is the entire market for these sorts of devices. An entire generation is being brought up on devices that they're not allowed to tinker with -- and don't know that anything different is even possible -- and that will have negative long-term ramifications, though we may not be sure exactly what those are yet.
there are lots of current one star reviews that prove otherwise. If anything I surf one star and two star reviews of products I am buying and factor in the date of the review to see if a product improved or got worse.

Now what I do find inexcusable are reviews that are obviously not for the product I am looking at. I will report abuse on those but I do admit that I do not go back and check if they removed
How do you feel about using SQL for everything, eg using Postgres policies for RBAC, or PL/pgSQL to generate passwords?

In principle, I love the idea of Postgraphile but this is what turned us off.
Ahhh! Thank you for the explanation, and also for taking the time to make me more aware of my words (and English is my first language!)

I suppose it’s hard to categorise what forms of truth would be a right. And in some cases it could directly oppose privacy.
"Vegans" aren't who really want burgers. Newbie vegans who have been indoctrinated by a lifetime burger culture.

Burgers aren't a huge deal in Asia, for example.
Honestly? Because I'm setup to download PDFs automatically, and the indicator that this has happened is too inconspicuous. So I often click a link twice or even three times before realizing its a PDF, and then I have to clean up 2 or 3 files.
I spent a few hours migrating my email away from Gmail to Fastmail. Probably had to update 100+ sites with my new email address.

I you ask me why I did this, I might grumble about Google becoming too powerful, and my desire to decouple my life from them. And that's true.

But the concrete thing that pushed me over the edge was the UI getting worse and worse and worse.

I'm sure there are a dozen great web mail services out there, but Fastmail is the one I landed on and it's been fantastic. But the moral of the story is that I might have stayed with "evil Google" longer if they also didn't screw up the UX.
That’s kinda hard not to support. The second you have a relation modeled bidirectionally in GraphQL, you support infinite nesting (well, there are complexity guards, but alas).
Not only did NASA help create and enable SpaceX, they were one of the primary early customers, with about half of SpaceX’s revenue coming from government contracts. [1] Apparently government is involved with all space entrepreneurship to some degree or another.

One thing that people also aren’t pointing out is that Space is considered a multi-trillion dollar market for whoever can access it due to the Wild West “if you can reach it, it’s yours” resource policies, which is why it attracts so much investment for long term projects. Many sectors that need investment in fundamental research don’t have those properties (untapped, unclaimed resources you can look to the sky and see), and therefore don’t attract the same kind of money.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18683455/nasa-space-angel...
I wasn’t aware of this. Looked it up and this in fact true. I imagine people from other countries are in fact weary of the US vaccine for this or similar reasons
The reality is, the appeal to eating a vegan pizza to some is that they know it will be cruelty free, and I admire that, to be sure.

However, if you want to win over the average consumer, or someone who has developed tastebuds over twenty years, or really anyone who doesn't already eat a vegan diet, you have to overcumb 1 crucial thing:

It needs to taste good or better than whatever you are trying to replace.

I haven't come across a vegan pizza that doesn't taste like the way I have come to expect pizza to taste, the cheese just isn't right. All the food science in the world can't seem to solve this problem (I've tried it homemade, by several skilled professionals, I've tried what was rated as some of the best vegan pizza in my city, mutiple times of the years, and the list goes on).

Until it tastes like the pizza I have fundamentally come to expect pizza to taste like, it just isn't worth switching for me.

If you can solve this problem, nobody is going to care if its vegan or not, because it just taste good.

I wish PETA and the like would focus their time and money on this, since it would actually yield the net benefit results they're looking for without the air of hositility some of their followers have.

Yes, you can debate whether its right or wrong to even think this way. The truth is, people in large already do, why not meet them where they are at?
It's extremely useful. The next person should know that they might get scammed.
People seem to generally not understand how borders work. In most countries you are allowed to enter ENTIRELY at the discretion of the border control agent. If they don't like the look of you, don't like your name, find something they think is suspicious, are in a bad mood or are being ridden by their boss, they can turn you around and put you on the next plane home, regardless of what bit of paper you're holding.

There are obvious exceptions for citizen and diplomats, but that's generally how it works.
So you believe in rule by poem?
> That's a pretty basic data structure and kind of table stakes for being a software engineer.

It really isn't. You don't need to know what a b-tree is to do most modern software engineering.

> Even then, Google gave him a good look with 7 interviews. Just speculating here, but they probably would have given him a chance if he wasn't "often a dick" and "often difficult".

I think you're right on this one.
How is that relevant to the question of what appeal vegan pizza has to people that consume it?
FYI, looking at your job descriptions as a non-citizen, this line is pretty cryptic: "Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment." Is this a really vague way of saying that only US citizens should apply?
Random sample != representative sample
Is there a school out there that doesn’t investigate and punish students who cheat or plagiarise? There are certainly differences in strictness, but I thought the “honor code” you describe was a basic policy at all institutes of higher education, regardless of the normal mode of assessment.
>If you live in a country with roads, infrastructure, buildings, etc.--then the markets are responsible for everything around you.

See, this kind of thing really gets to me. Here's you circa 1290: "If you live in a fiefdom with wells, irrigation, castles, etc. -- then your Lord is responsible for everything around you." See how fallacious that sounds when you transpose it this way?

The central issue is that you're justifying a thing from the context of the thing itself. You're explaining modern capitalism from the framework of modern capitalism. It's circular, and you get ridiculous things like "the markets built the roads". Ahm, no, workers built the roads!

>Are the markets all-knowing or perfectly efficient? Of course not. But it's literally the only place where you can measure how a global herd of humans are feeling about the state of the world at any given time with a single number.

They are a weighted way of seeing how some humans are feeling about things. A number that gives as much weight to 8 guys as it does to 3.7 billion. It's a pretty shitty indicator, I'd say.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24971372 (US Digital Service post from the most recent Who's Hiring thread)

Most recent impact report: https://www.usds.gov/resources/USDS-Impact-Report-2020.pdf
> just in time for me to accidentally click on them.

And somewhere a product manager earns their bonus. Engagement! KPIs! metrics! Omg people really love this feature, they keep clicking on it <3
That’s roughly the order of magnitude for likelihood of death by homicide during a lifetime.

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/06/us/around-the-nation-odds...

Thesis - An election is like a human life: unique, happens once, definitively ends, and there is a meaning in which it ends “correctly”.

We expect society to rule out, or identify, foul play in every death that happens. A murder is a wrong death.

We should make a strong effort to rule out or identify foul play in every election that happens, just as a matter of course. Election fraud is a sort of “wrong death” too. So don’t freak out about any investigation when it happens...

It’s like an IT system that only gets used every four years. You really care about those trouble tickets that show up every four years when it’s actually used.

Thanks for these actual numbers...
Apparently the company only received the information yesterday. It actually came sooner than expected, because of the excellent results.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/09/business/pfizer-covid-vac...

> But Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says the timing had nothing to do with politics. In an interview with CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta, Bourla said he first learned about the results of the trial Sunday and he has yet to see the data, throwing cold water on the idea that there was any political motivation behind releasing the news after voters in the United States chose their candidate for president. Pfizer took several interim looks at the data during its vaccine trial, but it did not have enough infections in its test group to gain any meaningful data -- until Sunday, Gupta reported. If anything, the data came earlier than expected: In October, Bourla made a comment in an open letter on Pfizer's website, saying, "Based on our current trial enrollment and dosing pace, we estimate we will reach this milestone in the third week of November."
Trump was one of Big Pharma's biggest enemies and even got them to lower the drug prices. That was a big, big no-no. So it's no surprise that they hate him so much.
As someone who has eaten McDonald's hamburger, no, it's not, it's an abomination. Just make a veggie/vegan burger instead...

In other woods, it's a matter of quality of ingredients and preparation.
FWIW, I think there are many people like yourself. I'd be curious to know what the "median" upgrade cadence looks like.

Anecdotally, I have a XS, my last phone was a 5S. My parents and SO's parents have 6's, and they're starting to think about upgrading.

I'm personally happy for the revival of the SE model (cheaper, touch id, upgraded processors, battery, etc). That'd probably be my next one, once the XS falls apart.
I visited the US 12 times if I count correctly. It was nice, but I seriously hope I'll never be tempted again. How deep can you sink to deal with such a defunct state? Others deserve my money more. If you travel often it's inevitable that some day you fill in some contradicting details just because you don't remember everything, you make a stupid mistake or you interpret some field differently than a couple of years ago. Their algorithms will conclude you are giving false information and the result can be seen in this blog post.
The phone is yours and you can do what you like with once you have bought it. That is not in question.
Curious. What brand/model of router did you use? My suspicion is that the manufacturer might be being "helpful" by bundling aspects of NAT configuration into its firewall configuration screen—so by disabling the firewall, you've also reconfigured the pseudo-firewall packet dropping behaviour of a typical NAT implementation.

Regardless as I have repeatedly said, this isn't sufficient to invalidate my claim. To recap, here's claim I made which you are attempting to dispute:

"NAT does provide some security, it’s just uncertain, unreliable..."

and

"...it sometimes makes inbound more difficult under certain circumstances. It’s not real security. But it’s also not nothing."

and

"however weak it may be, in the real world where normal people live, NAT is the first line of defence against inbound attacks for most personal computers"

Your counterpoint is that some non-zero number of NAT routing implementations will pass a very specific kind of traffic onto local IPs. Cool. For the sake of argument let's assume that's true of all consumer routers. All you've proven is that you're potentially at risk if the attacker has assumed control of the first outbound hop at your ISP. This doesn't for one second disprove that NAT has pseudo-firewall behaviour for any traffic passing through your ISP, which is the case for 99.99% of real world security threats.
Project Birmingham is legitimately a concerning incident in dirty politics, but the inflammatory tone of your post makes it very easy to downvote you based on the appearance of flame bait for anyone who isn't already familiar with Project Birmingham.
Economic and Ethical Dilemmas in Fighting Covid-19 with Tyler Cowen [video]
read the first sentence on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26W_Restaurants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26W_(Canada)
I get that, but I believe amazon's third party listings have segregated reviews.
Next trick: solicit a flood of one star reviews for your business that all have trivial complaints beyond your control.
That's only for the cheap fake cheese, not a good cashew cheese.

What's nice about cashew cheese is that it won't make you sick as quickly as a dairy cheese pizza will, which despite it's good taste charged a hefty tax afterward.
What are the alternatives that are deterministic?
For some, sure, if an API implements "new foo(), new foo(string), new foo(string, int), and new foo(string, int, int)" but the code that uses the library only uses "new foo()" and sets the other properties after creating the object then it would eliminate the extra constructors. Figuring out what stuff gets called is really hard in something as big as Chromium, where there are so many components that in some spots have their own domain-specific language to link stuff together.

For others, no, they do allow the minifier to break some sites: they analyze the Alexa top 1000 and check which functions get called and how often by those sites.
That's why i pretty much ignore every review that doesn't provide solid criticism of the product. I look for 2-4 stars trying to avoid super negative as well as super positive reviews
In theory I like channels, in practice I find them challenging to program with. The fact that only the sender can safely close a channel is frequently frustrating.
Lime green - sure. Olive green? Sure. Tomato? No I have never heard that used as a colour name unless you think “as red as a tomato” is a colour name.
Why the slowdown? (given that slowdown typically introduces artifacting, making the result as much a pattern of those artifacts as it is of the original signal)

(also note that your site does not currently work in Firefox, which would be nice to fix)
Why are you downvoted?

IQ screening is stupid as a screening process for the “best”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_huL5ynaI8Y
The best of the best of the best, Sir!
It's a difference of degree. The US has done (way more than) its fair share of shitty things, no doubt about that. It's still a democratic government (a flawed one) which is miles better than the autocracy of Russia or the oppressive totalitarianism of the CCP.
What our office spaces recreate are all the interactions you would get throughout the day, that are not just scheduled meetings. Our team uses it to work alongside each other, and you can easily drop by someone's desk to ask a quick question or talk as you're walking out of a meeting. After work, you might notice a group playing games in our arcade and join them.

You can see what our own office looks like here: https://staging.gather.town/app/oxrhEtb3sV7VutbQ/GatherOffic...

The problem that we've heard a bunch is that people feel disconnected from their coworkers, because you don't really get to interact with them socially anymore. Would love to get your thoughts--do you not feel like you have this problem, or do you think gather.town doesn't solve this?
Well, meat requires more plants to “suffer” than eating the plants directly. So if this was your line if reasoning, you would be a staunch vegan. The majority of crops are grown to feed livestock.

People usually make your argument in bad faith because even when corrected you never had a moral interest in “minimizing plant suffering” to begin with. You just thought you had a good gotcha.
I feel like this is unnecessarily condescending towards the parent comment. There have been at least a few cases in US history of medications / vaccines having some amount of long term side effects that were not known until a few years had elapsed.
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