skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 95% effective figure refers to the percentage of people who develop full immunity, not how resistant an individual is. A more accurate way of phrasing that would be "[...] if I only have a 95% chance of immunity".

I don't mean to split hairs; the distinction is important.
Let us note that Henry David Thoreau was wrong about a great many things, but especially on the counting of cats in Zanzibar and therefore Istanbul, a Turkish delight on a moonlit night: "It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar."

I asked my cats, and they agree.
Even my dogs agree because the cats do.
As the person tasked with debugging one of those "linux in a box with some simple peripherals", I'm not even 100% convinced they sell them with more than the intent of the consumer turning it on once, playing with for a few minutes, then forgetting it exists.
I know a lot of people who don't have to work, they simply choose to work, in large part to get the insurance. They are usually older and near the end of their career, before medicare kicks in.
Register moves aren't free, even if you do renaming tricks. They take up fetch bytes, they take up decode slots, they take up a lot more resources than just Regfile/ALU bandwidth.
Yeah, which is why I didn't get one. Doesn't change the fact that you can get an all-inclusive first-class VR experience for $300.
This only matters for things like encryption and secrets. Imagine if you published your game online as multi-player, someone could devise the randomness and predict the next moves in the game, which could allow them to cheat. For encryption, a predictable RNG can break the entire scheme.

In your casual sense of just a single-player game, there's no harm, but the idea in replacing MT with something like PCG is to be more secure/safe by default, since you never know what someone will use rand() for.
What a terrible company to join and give your project to.
What's a good way to detect this early? Just from the pattern you shared it sounds like a good idea to check who they're talking to on instagram to catch any new contacts and review them.

I'm personally trying to decide whether I want a digital panopticon for my children where I won't be surprised by anything like this, and being more laissez faire. I enjoyed unrestricted and unmonitored internet traffic growing up and quite enjoyed it. On the other hand, my wife did too but had a significant negative experience.
The other major benefit of podman is that it doesn't use a daemon.
IMO, the Web could stand to be a little bit harder to use.
> drop into an irb in a running process

This is a thing?
Unless you're optimizing for stagnation, this really is a terrible approach to reaping the benefits of innovation. If your prereq to trying something better is that it needs to mirror something that's "decent already," you'll spend most of your life stuck on the same plateau.
Am I understanding this wrong or is HEALTHCHECK supposed to enable that?

https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#healthchec...
Had to look it up to check, but it's not marketing. That function is part of a family that requires double precision floating point. So "runs faster" is a bit spun relative to a 32 bit integer function. Sure it does, on your desktop CPU.
>Why does it feel like no other software company has these sort of branding issues?

AWS has entered the chat
I think it's because they grew up in a leftist community where its was cool to make fun of the groups going under moral panics. Most of the moral panics came from some sort of lower / middle income religious right.

Now the moral panics are in the upper income left, and they actively try to get you fired if you trangress and all of a sudden it feels a bit restrictive in that environment.

Also social media makes average people significantly more vulnerable. Drunk comments would stay drunk environments outside of work comments, now drunk FB comments on a public group can get you fired.
I don't think this is the best comparison. People use notebooks in Python to work with data and code, not for lack of a popular IDE.

Comparing R and Python also could be done better. Python is a general purpose language. R is for statistics and science. Even then, Python is extremely popular for these very domains with Jupyter notebooks.

This is why I shrug looking at "Jupyter killer" notebook alternatives tackling machine learning: in my experience delivering machine learning products to large, paying, clients, the bottleneck never was slicker stylesheets or cool animations. It was the nuts and bolts of things.
This was a fun video, glad I bought a "ticket" to support them when it was made.

Anyone know what happened to the Limited Run Games thing? I am not sure I would pay for the full box, but I might. :D
Hey everyone, I’m a Product Designer, working on a side project called Volume. Right now, it’s a newsletter about men’s fashion, but I’m looking at turning it into something more in the future. I hope you you enjoy my take on a perspective that I feel is missing in menswear. Thank you.
I'm using quasi-random generators where I can, and MCG 128 where I can't.
Yes, this is exactly what I meant.
It’s just missing the fact that the popularity of posting S-1’s in general might be changing so charting the # of posts may be different than the real # of “tech ipos”
> I contend that it would be wrong, i.e. immoral. If you disagree with that, we can try to have an argument about that.

Read again what you have formulated above. You just asserted that it's 'immoral' without giving any argument or evidence for it. Surely, you should formulate an argument yourself first, before asking for one.
Article is 7 years old
FWIW, as someone who had HBO therapy for five days a week for six months, I would not call it stress reducing.
Look, I absolutely agree. I am actually admitting my privilege.

Even if it's the right thing to do, a lot of people are going to be opposed to it if it hurts them (even marginally). I think NPR sort of overlooks this, and focuses too much on the poorest 10 or 20 percent.

Certainly we need to care about the poor, but the rest of the people matter too.
Here you go: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-not...
6 years ago, you could turn on a feature that let you receive Google Voice calls and messages in Hangouts.
Oh for sure, it’s all just an embodiment may blah blah. But it’s present tense.
Yeah, the xorshiro family are the current cool kids.

But really: use whatever your library provides. Despite the protests in the article, MT is just fine. It's not slow. It's state requirements are not that high. It's quality is not actually bad in any way that typical applications (yes, even crypto) care about.

This is a mature area. It's last revolution was more than two decades ago when we walked away from LCRNGs, and frankly not much has really changed since.

It's not worth your time. But yeah, if you have to pick something pick xorshiro.
It seems to me like there's a lot I can do as a parent. I control the endpoints. I can use certificate pinning and a proxy to read https traffic on the network. I can get passwords and accounts and monitor contacts.

Whether I should do that is more of a question. But I don't think it's a forgone conclusion that children will be able to escape digital surveillance.
> It is creating a schism in the American workforce, and those on the outside lack access to the necessary educational institutions to ever catch up.

The implicit idea of offering a transition to knowledge work as a means for people who have been economically shut out to catch up is a misreading of the situation.

An economy must consist of more than just knowledge workers. If a guy who's stuck stocking shelves in a supermarket gets an education and moves up to a career working at a keyboard, those supermarket shelves still need to be stocked. The supermarket will need to hire someone else to fill that dead end job, and will need to do that again (and again) when/if the next guy with the dead end job gets training and moves up. Repeat.

Repeat for every hands on economic sector that treats its workforce poorly.

As long as low-status need to be done to keep civilization running by keeping food on the shelves, there will be people who cannot be knowledge workers. If there is a solution to help people who do hands-on work catch up, it involves paying them more for the jobs that must be done rather than training them to do other work.

(This does not apply to transitioning workers out of dying industries -- retraining people in this situation is the only reasonable option.)
There's certainly truth in this notion - if you have a goal in mind, going directly after it is often the most effective and straightforward choice. What I'm advocating is that the most direct path isn't always obvious.

Many masters say the fastest progress can be made in chess by doing "find the checkmate" exercises on tricky or otherwise interesting positions. This aspect of chess disproportionately contributes to success, compared to how much time is spent on each of these positions in the natural course of play. A bit of meta-knowledge about what makes someone successful at chess lets players play more effectively by focusing most on whatever helps them win.

Similarly, if you're learning a language and find yourself constantly groping for the right word, you might make a connection between your ineffectiveness at communication and lack of a memorized vocabulary, then shore it up by focusing specifically on that.

While there's a very strong correlation, there's no special rule of nature dictating that the best way to learn a thing is the same as doing it.
Sciter.JS is going to change that: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk

I cloned a 165mb Electron app in Sciter, and it was only 6mb:

https://github.com/GirkovArpa/clipper-sciter
facebook is a monopoly. it should have never been allowed to buy instagram or whatapp but I government does nothing.
Not just that, but their game is mildly more resource hungry than it could be because of the large MT state space, and depending on the exact nature of how many rolls/cards are expected per game and what is done with them MT could yield "unnatural" games at a highly elevated frequency which might play significantly differently from a physical counterpart.

I mostly agree though, the downsides are minor and/or rare if you aren't defending against attacks to the PRNG.
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Catching syntax errors is the realm of linters, but if you don't have a linter, the parse phase will immediately tell you that you messed up.
...unless you’re a blockchain startup.
A Framework for Configuring Cross Account Access in AWS
Thanks for the detailed and insightful answer! It seems that welding is what takes over when engineering can't go any further.
Right behind the cost of your employees is the cost of your infrastructure. If your company is profitable, every dollar of infrastructure costs cut is a dollar more profit. For a company still working on a runway, every dollar cut from your infrastructure is more time you can spend working on a product.

It's also important to note that those efficiencies don't go away on their own. It's more profit/runway until you retire that code.

Opportunity costs exist, but so does spending your money wisely.
There's always Memrise https://www.memrise.com/ which does pretty much the same as Anki, with some interesting extra features
Though the word does have a dictionary definition, it's just sort of empty. That's what I was criticising. Both adjectives, modern and readable, are subjective and not really meaningful in a technical context. Unless you define precisely what modern and readable are, they are just vacuous words in an otherwise technical write up.
Same thing with (at least) Dubrovnik in Croatia
based on my understanding climate change is inevitable. we will probably never solve it.
Why is banning LGBT immoral, but banning nipples is moral? Who decides what is moral and what is not? Who should have the power to decide what 2.7B (or whatever number of) users see?

LGBT is just an example, because in many cultures it is immoral. As is the nipple.

I just don't think it's a good idea for a private company, to be able to decide arbitrarily what is moral and what is not. Especially facebook.... there are many bakeries, but not many social networks with billions of users.
Same for Memrise
Yes, I think the success is pretty clear. It's kind of what I thought Minecraft might have (should have) developed into but it never really had the sort of accessible development tools that Roblox has. To the best of my knowledge there's still no official visual development toolset of that sort. A real missed opportunity. Seeing what modders had been doing with it for years should have lit a fire under Microsoft on that front. Heck I thought that was the whole reason they bought Minecraft.
> $5 worth of Robux for an amount of in-game $$$ you could earn by playing for 5 minutes

Probably not a good trade-off for kids who make less than $60/hour. Then there's the issue of game developers who make their game (or essential parts of it) so unpleasant that people are tempted to pay real money to avoid playing it. "Robux" sounds like a system that is ripe for misuse.

> It took months of gentle denials to my kids & constant explanations about the relative value of spending their week's allowance on something that will save them 10 minutes to finally convince them these things aren't worth it.

A lesson many adults should learn as well!
A container image is just an archive file with some metadata, could you take the same approach as Google Jib?
Browser fingerprints are turning up in court cases now. Probably not wise of EFF to frame it as "covering your tracks". It's more like "closing your blinds".

https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/17/exmicrosoft_engineer_...

https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/07/17/us_v_kvashuk.pdf
You seem to misunderstand. With too few registers you may have to spill to the stack. You can't turn those into register moves in the presence of stores without a very advanced memory disambiguation.
Where did you get the part about it being cheaper from? Most people can't afford private insurance
SQLite is not a substitute for a proper database; it's a substitute for fopen().
I dislike how the author talks about 1998 style web design like it's a bad thing. What we have today is absolute garbage.
This is likely what is going to happen. The issue is that without those aircraft carriers it will be exceedingly difficult if not impossible to gain a foothold and maintain forward positions.

10 000km is a very long distance.

And of course, air bases closer to the theater will be bombarded using missiles, and thus the US would be deprived of air support.
Emailed you a copy. Cheers!
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Sciter is missing from that list for some reason.
WiRed Panda – Real-time logic gates simulator
I don't know why more products dont follow the software pattern of cycling the alphabet. Pick a unique new name each time, and just run it down the alphabet for the first letter of the name. So easy.
"The MLB app, always an iOS exemplar, did allow me to play video in full screen and send it to Picture in Picture. More like this, please!"

MLB here - we stay as true to native Apple HLS as possible including open-source HLS.js where possible. .tv games are a little more complex but we're big fans of Apple's frameworks
Google chat was great. Back when MSN Messenger was also a thing and chat apps actually worked, were simple and light and kept your history every time you opened the program, unlike Skype, a current product that is worse than its predecessors
> Why?

Seriously? LGBT people are being bullied and beaten not only in Russia but also in Poland, which from here is about an hour away. In Iran and other countries they are hanged. In Chechnya, they're being deported and murdered.

But even in the West, suicide rates for LGBT people are much higher, AIDS continues to be an issue (even though significant progress has been made), there are still crazy people who think that teaching LGBT issues in school - which would be enormously helpful for teenagers in accepting themselves - is some sort of propaganda, and to this day, some families still don't accept if their kid is gay (or trans). Oh and also, just a short while ago, in a city not that far from where I live, there was a murder attempt on a homosexual couple and one of the guys actually died. These are real issues with real impact for the people that are affected. It's easy to think that homophobia is gone in the West, because of the public opinion, but secretly and deep down some people (even if they are fewer) are either latently or sometimes deeply homophobic.
Congratulations. Last time I used GoDaddy to look up a domain name, it magically became unavailable right away. One person I know also had this happen to them. Very strange and sounds like the "I talked about X near my phone and next thing you know, ads are appearing", but it's strange.
TikTok Mansions Are Publicly Traded Now
I was moved, quite against my will, into the Mac field three years ago, by the company I was working for. It didn't start as my cup of tea, but I eventually got used to it. Hell, I even started enjoying using my MBP. It checked the right boxes in my list.

Since Catalina, it doesn't anymore. Or, at least it doesn't check as much boxes as it used to. And, frankly, it's not worth the cost anymore. I could justify the expense for an used 2015 MBP, which felt like a slick and comfortable machine. Can I justify the expense for another Mac, now that it feels distinctly uncomfortable?
NASA wants to put a nuclear power plant on the moon
I assume someone gets paid a lot of money to make these decisions, and they don't want people to think they're a drain on resources. That seems to happen a lot when large organizations overthink decisions too trivial for the CEO but too important for the intern.
A few more resources for this:

https://www.fossjobs.net/
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/Resources
I don't agree that it's a misreading.

Your point that there are hierarchies within the skill set of various tasks is true, however the argument isn't that everyone needs to be a KE worker - it's that everyone needs the opportunity to be one. Presently that is not the case, many are completely shutout simply because of birth lottery.

A core part of Unger's argument is the expansion of a vital suite of protections for all people. E.g. if everyone has access to universal healthcare, greatly expanding public housing verticals, ample opportunities to retrain and direct their lives it fundamentally changes the nature of our relationship to work.

The grocery store job is only dead-end now because our well being is entirely dependent on our ability to generate capital. In this reimagined future it might be the perfect job for a new mom (or dad) who wants to focus on spending as much time as possible with their child while still having some human interaction outside the house.

If everyone is capable of being a KE worker, it doesn't mean they will be. When and if they want to they can.
Feel free to read the article, where those websites are linked as the examples being discussed. Absolutely hilarious comment though.

> Go on a safari around some of Japan’s most popular sites and here’s what you can expect to find (see Goo, Rakuten, Yomiuri, NicoNico, OKWave, @cosme, and more):

The links, in case you still don't want to read the article:

- https://www.goo.ne.jp

- https://www.rakuten.co.jp

- https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/

- https://www.nicovideo.jp

- https://okwave.jp/

- https://www.cosme.net/

- https://www.slideshare.net/socialogilvy/top-50-japanese-webs...
It's certainly possible. Smalltalk is absolutely an important inspiration for nbdev, and that's a really great reference that you pointed out.
I guess that's a risk for those willing to make it
Preschooler made search string finds dildo on Amazon
My preschooler (3.5yo) typed the following search into Amazon and then showed me the dildo she found: “huwkwqkk gf vwj Lo p MM. L h km myt”. New lessons in unusual search results.
> What can we do, now, as developers ?

Get a job at one of Apple's competitors, and make those competing products better.

Apple beats competitors because their product lineup is simpler and their products don't generally suck as much.

Look at Microsoft's attempt at ARM notebooks a few years ago compared to Apple's now. The difference is staggering.

If we want to see people move away from Apple, they need worthy competitors.
copying things might be slower if you have a .dockerignore file. try without the .dockerignore file.
I worked on a relatively narrow part of a complex domain, I had an anki deck to keep track of the various acronyms and remember some of the weirder processes my systems participated in. Most of the questions were one of:

- what does ABC stand for

- describe process X

- how process X differs from Y, and why

- what is the role of system A in process Z

- what is the shape of data that comes from A to B in process Ł

This vastly reduced the number of times I got stumped with something during various high-level meetings (to the point that I routinely pointed out some false assumptions people made). It worked better for me than passive documentation. The domain was unusually complex though.
You're not fan of thermostat controlled systems where you set a temperature you want and that's what it maintains?

We have a Subaru with manual settings (3 dials) and a Volvo with a thermostat. The Volvo was set the day we bought it and I don't know that we've messed with it since. The Subaru, on the other hand, is always being adjusted.

The Volvo one seems to be smart enough to know when hot or cold (dry) air is needed on the windshield. It's pretty great.
I prefer when trust is not necessary, because the capabilities were never granted in the first place. Even if the government was trustworthy (it's not), there is no guarantee that it will stay trustworthy.
But not updated in ~7 years since v0.1.1

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Pi_Edition
You can turn off all ability to chat & lock it behind a pin # you choose so they can't turn it back on.
You can turn off all ability for the child to chat in games and lock those setting behind a Pin #. Then you don't have to worry about inappropriate messaging etc. After than, it's about as safe as an online world can be, which is to say there's assholes everywhere, and Roblox is no different. If you're playing a capture the flag game, it's possible to have another player grief you with spawn camping etc.
> Do all languages have ...

Of course not
I didn't know Godaddy was in the explosives business
Can you blame them, though?

Not to pick on anyone, but I recently installed a stock storybook setup. Out of curiosity I did a count of all the node_modules (top level + nested). There were >2000 packages installed.

Now I know that if I follow the rules of a textbook professional (one that takes security seriously), then I'm obliged to audit all 2000 packages. But between you and the rest of the gazing internet, I don't do this. That's my dirty little secret. I don't give a shit. Gluing orphaned half-assed npm packages together and pretending everything is okay is my job.

The ironic part is how many hours we are murdering worrying about TypeScript or unit tests or integration tests and trying very very very hard not to notice that landfill we have placed under our massive rug.

There are too many technologies and not enough time to master them. Every time I dive into a popular node package I become more and more worried for the human race. We get things fundamentally wrong and it lives like that. For decades. And people come along and just obliviously use it like that and don't question it. Take something simple, like JWT. Or nonces. Or what people believe and implement around random numbers and how random numbers work (or, often, don't work). Bad information becomes bad code that sits around for a lifetime.