skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will go against the grain here a bit because on anonymous forums humans (myself included) have this nasty habit of forgetting they might be talking to a 12 year old child and instead imprint a vague version of themselves on the people they talk to.

If you are close to the beginning of your journey, like say 1-3 years ago you didn't know how to program at all, them I would take the advice you are getting with a grain of salt. I would recommend pouring your free time into your trade, gaining both a breadth of knowledge about software engineering (like spending 3 hours learning about C++ not to write a program in it but to be able to understand what it is and what it isn't so you can carry a brief conversation when the topic turns to it) and a depth of knowledge with your preferred toolset (like 200+ hours going through 3-4 ground up resources on Python because its your most reached for language to get work done).

Once you have that strong foundation, the other advice here is very sound. Turn your computer off and go do wood working, or read a comprehensive history series that tackles each decade (and then do it again from an Asian focused author rather than a Western focused one), or find a solid podcast to listen to while you go for long walks in nature, etc. Pretty much anything other than sitting at your computer for both your job and your hobby.
Ok, I’ll do the googling for you... https://lmgtfy.app/?q=nurse+pay+pandemic
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>I feel like reading books that have no relationship with my job (software engineer) is a waste. Do any feel the same? Is this a harmful mindset and should stop worrying about "wasting" my free time?

This is very harmful to your "intellectual growth" and you should break out of the mindset that everything you read should be oriented towards your job and career only. Something from the book The 7 habits of highly successful people which i had read a long time ago stayed with me. There is a concept of P (for Production) and PC (for Production Capability/Capacity) mentioned in that book. P is what gets you a job in the present time since you are employed to "Produce" something for the Company immediately. However your future growth, both professionally and personally depends on how well you cultivate your "Production Capability/Capacity" so as to take advantage of whatever the future might throw at you. This is why expanding your mind and intellectual horizons by reading on widely different domains is so important. Don't limit yourself by reading only job/career related stuff. Go outside your comfort zones and expose yourself to various ideas and concepts. Life is much more fulfilling that way.

One thing to note is that you don't read all books cover-to-cover. You skim and jump back-and-forth to quickly identify the gist and essentials. Only then do you sit down for serious study of the identified sections. Also don't try to remember everything you study; only the essence/core is to be assimilated, for everything else keep a mental bookmark so that you know where to look for when you need the details later.
Well - the quote is not true. People who are blind can also understand things. Visual is only one way of understanding.
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IMO integration will force us stuck in a point of local optimum, Apple,Tesla,Microsoft,Google will decide what this point is and you will have to like it, changing a wallpaper will need to be approved, starting an application will be also approved and logged, social media apps or groups will also be censored to protect you. You will not be able to tweak a color or replace the shitty browser with a better one (Microsoft would have loved to have Apple privileges and force all it's users to use IE).

If you don't like regulators deviding, maybe we should ask users ?
Good critiques, but I disagree with the last one. At least in practice in the sciences, correlation is frequently used to find good candidates for causation. In many scenarios, correlation is pretty much your only hope for finding a causal link between some variable and an outcome of interest.
Reading is rarely a waste of time. Who knows, maybe you won't be an engineer forever? Maybe you'll become management, or leadership? Reading will help. Maybe you'll read something that will inspire you to switch careers? More reading will help you get there. And then of course there's reading to start and carry conversations. You'll be surprised what asking, "Have a book you recommend?" can do.

Finally, if you have children, reading is a great habit to instill in them. Trial and error is a good way to learn, but it's time consuming and sometimes painful. Reading is one of few shortcuts in life that's not a fool's errand.
SVG is vector. So basically XML is suitable for that task.
Aren't they solving different problems? One is about retrieving data from backend systems, the other is about exposing the data model safely to different clients.

I'm not well versed on SQL injection attacks but know they exist, so I assume that's why you can't just write plain SQL from front ends, if you could, perhaps there would be no need for GraphQL.
Camo is just a proxy that allows them to (a) always serve remote content from HTTPS and (b) more constrained CSP rules. Camo doesn't remove any code nor sanitize it.

Edit: I think I narrowed down where you were wrong! Github "raw" endpoints for repository files DOES have a sanitizing option. But that's not Camo (camo is for remote, non repo, assets (linked in comments or in markdown)).
As a ROS (Robot Operating System) package, the convention is to build it in a workspace that you source the environment of afterward.

Edited to add the full name.
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100 years is not “long lived” in the context of radioactive waste disposal.

http://www.acamedia.info/sciences/J_G/fusion.html
In the interview, the main reason he gave is the commute: He's spending all his time recently getting Gigatexas and Boca Chica up and running. He's not gonna live in California if for the next year or so he's gonna be spending a majority of his time at installations in Texas.

I mean, Musk is opening up a Gigafactory in Germany near Berlin, a place that culturally and regulatory, out-California's California in terms of politics.

People really really want to turn this into an anti-California story and sell conservative politics. I'm sure Musk will enjoy lower taxes, but if you listen to the same interview, he rakes MBAs and bean counters over the coals.

I don't think Musk cares about profits or money as much are libertarians fetishize, he cares about what he can accomplish. He's more concerned with his goals and how much stands in his way, not whether or not he can get a tax cut.

If anything, environmental and labor regulations that slow down his rate of building are more important to him.

How can people listen to the audio of this WSJ interview, where he claims corporate boards, and power points, and financial meetings, are all bullshit and a waste of time. This is a guy who doesn't want to take investor Q&A during earnings calls. He routine tells people not to buy Tesla stock! He tells people people to sell Tesla stock if they don't like his answers to Q&A. He literally gives two fucks about the kind of stuff hyper-libertarians on Seeking Alpha care about. He's also tired of the games, the constant bullshitting and trying to short the stock.

He doesn't care about the money as much as he cares about making cool shit and getting yo' ass to Mars.
I bought a Kinesis Advantage 2. My wrist/hand pain has disappeared completely. Still not typing as fast as I'd like to, but the lack of pain makes up for it. The onboard remaps and macros are amazing.
Sure, but then there's no real answer to "why not X?" Why X? Why not Y? Let's just do both.
I would also like to mention that university TAs/teachers didn't teach me how to use one (never). I just ran into a CS student that already happened to be an experienced programmer, and he showed me.
Indeed, and the self-serving reply given to the author when he tried to do something about a similar situation ("some people just can't hack it in engineering") suggests a vicious cycle in which the survivors of this process might well believe that this attitude has been vindicated by the process they themselves have been through. It is not hard to imagine this leading into the casual acceptance of the idea that people of the "wrong" gender, ethnicity or social status are inherently among those who just can't hack it, and it is suggestive of some of the techniques used by cults in indoctrinating new members.
The conclusion I draw is that draconian regulations and taxes to lessen global warming are not worth it. Economist Bjorn Lomborg has written books about this, the latest being "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" (2020).
I think the USSR was typically very keen to avoid a war for obvious reasons: they had a much smaller economy, exhausted population, significantly smaller military and massively smaller industrial base than the West.

America was more keen, but the logistics of actually invading the USSR would make any war essentially unwinnable.

Maybe if the nukes didn't exist, the USSR would have annexed western Berlin, but I don't really know how they would have managed more than that, even if they had wanted to.

I also don't think nuclear weapons would have prevented a war if the USSR was more aggressive or more close to the USA in military power.
Context.

The picture at the top of the confounding article gives it away. Those kinds of diagrams are common in "hierarchical Bayesian models" like LDA.

In the simple linear setting, they are the same thing. Teaching people the "confounding variable" concept in a general setting before teaching them about "omitted variable" in a linear setting is like teaching people about Riemannian manifolds before teaching them about vector spaces.

Correlation isn't a particularly useful concept outside of simple linear models.
Presumably he opened an Office document containing macros. Macros are able to execute system commands and load malicious PowerShell code.

Executable files are blocked by pretty much all corporate e-mails systems. Zero-days for PDF viewers are rare. After all, most hacking attacks are things like ransomware campaigns, where everyone is a potential victim and phishing mails are sprayed all over the internet. A zero-day would be burnt pretty quickly.

However, many users legitimately need office macros and also need to open office documents to collaborate with contractors or customers. Many times, the phishing mail comes from a legitimate address because the other company has been compromised already.

The solution would be to only allow signed macros, but depending on the size of the organization, that can be costly.
Sorry could not resist: Kraftidioten

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2675914/
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "doesn't count"?
Actually, sounds more like Occam’s Razor is being misapplied here.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/occams-r...
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To be clear, it’s not just “conservative lawyers.” Roe v. Wade is the Lochner of liberal jurisprudence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochner_v._New_York. Both decisions only make sense under a sweeping libertarian view of the Constitution that isn’t broadly embraced anymore (if it ever was). Even Ginsberg didn’t like Roe’s privacy formulation: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/us/ruth-bader-ginsburg-ro...

> The way Justice Ginsburg saw it, Roe v. Wade was focused on the wrong argument — that restricting access to abortion violated a woman’s privacy. What she hoped for instead was a protection of the right to abortion on the basis that restricting it impeded gender equality, said Mary Hartnett, a law professor at Georgetown University who will be a co-writer on the only authorized biography of Justice Ginsburg.

Ginsberg realized that “equal protection” has the benefit of being in the constitution, while “privacy” nowhere appears in the document.[1] As the left has shifted away from social libertarianism, the ideological underpinning of Roe has become increasingly unsettled. That’s why in the recent confirmation hearings you only heard discussions of “super precedent” not any sort of debate about a sweeping privacy right.

[1] “Privacy” as an “unenumerated right” makes little sense under either liberal or conservative readings of the constitution. If you, like Scalia, believe that the “unenumerated rights” were those that were understood to exist at the time of the founding, then privacy isn’t one of those rights. But even if you subscribe to a “living constitution” view that fundamental rights can change over time—what’s the basis for your claim that “privacy” is generally recognized as a fundamental right today? I’m not aware of any constitutional court in the world that has embraced a notion of “privacy” broad enough to include both abortion and freedom from surveillance. Around the same time as Roe courts in Canada, France, Italy, and Germany declined to recognize any right to an abortion. The first three found it to be a legislative matter. The latter found legalizing abortion to be unconstitutional as a violation of the German Basic Law’s right to life.
For French people out there, the article in their language:

https://vgdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/179039509353/la-création-...
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I mean they'd more likely do that than target you personally with a curl|bash. That's a very noisy and blatant move, super unlikely to work on anyone techy enough to know what curl and bash is, probably the last resort. Other exploits are on the table and indeed much more likely too
To be honest, Obamacare is a slap in the face to poor people.
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Spoiling the fun with facts ;-P

Another example of this effect: since taking a passing interest in the fairly niche Forth and Ada programming languages, I see them crop up on HN with surprising frequency.
Agreed.

The truth is: We're downloading and executing code from the internet all the time and the amount of trust we can put into this is very fragile. Some risks can be mitigated by installing stuff in containers if you don't need them to interact with the rest of your system. It's conceivable that the whole situation could be improved by a combination of reproducible build and packaging processes, transparency logs etc., but none of that exists today in any way that would provide a reasonable level of protection.

Right now the curl|bash-pattern isn't any more problematic than downloading an installer from a random page and doing chmod +x;./install.sh or using a package manager installing an unreasonable amount of dependencies.
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The core idea is kind of ok. But they screwed it up in a few ways:

1. Using Javascript. It's not a good language, especially without Typescript. And it's type system doesn't match C++'s well at all. For example you can't really pass uint64s to QML very easily. Apparently Javascript will be optional in 6.1.

2. The scene graph. A good idea but I'm pretty sure there's still no way to make custom QML widgets that contain text because there's still no public QSGTextNode (at least last time I looked into it). Here's people trying to do it in 2013: https://forum.qt.io/topic/24179/how-to-draw-text-in-qquickit...

I think they've pretty much given up on letting users make custom QML widgets - instead you have to use QPainter and it copies the resulting image across, which seems like a step backwards.

3. The encapsulation is really bad. I honestly never figured out the rules around widget ID scope because it seems like they are all in a global scope so all widgets can refer to any other widget (e.g. children can depend on their parents) which encourages spaghetti. Not sure if they're fixing this.

4. It's really hard to do transient widgets like dialogs. This is kind of the same as in React but it still seems like a step backwards from QtWidgets.

5. Lots of the QtQuick widgets are really lacking features compared to QtWidgets. It's like they got to the MVP and then gave up.

I haven't tried it for a number of years so some of those thing may have improved but I haven't heard about it. I get the impression that 90% of their income comes from car manufacturers using Qt for their software, which is why there is such a focus on fancy 3D UIs.
I had no idea there was a native be [open] CSS selector. It's the first time I hear about details too. Idk if that's a useful was to do footnotes, but I learned something today
Just a random note: both versions of your website seem as fast (instant) to me ona PC with good LAN connection. I wouldn't know there is a loading time difference unless looking at the numbers. Things might be different on 3G mobile though.
Interesting that you as a Dutchman did not model Tussenvoegsel, which is unique to Anglosaksian names and in particular Dutch, Belgian and German names. Handling of them is unique within these cultures. It should also not be confused with infix.
I've spent the last 7 months doing fuck all except skateboarding, playing videogames, and hiking, so that's been nice. Now that I'm re-entering the stupid gauntlet of interviewing, I'm starting to get sad and dissauded from trying to succeed in a software role again.
I bought a standing desk for working from home from UPLIFT Desk: https://www.upliftdesk.com/

Normally, I work at an office building, but I needed something for home due to the pandemic. It's been great.
thanks!
There's a nice commarts article:
https://www.commarts.com/webpicks/physics-of-beauty
My designer Alessia and Developer Gianluca talk about their approach to the design and implementation of the interactive visuals. I was just happy that Alessia had a clear vision about how to visualize my music and curiosity in science / exploration. Also I wanted to find a new approach to release a LP long player music album, that is more "lusty"
It does take a long while though (I have been waiting for... I didn't pay attention but more than 15 minutes) so I can understand how using email would be the easiest solution for them.

I'm willing to make many concessions anyway to get something that is as good as Chef Watson was. Losing this was a real tragedy.
In English was that person a 'Fachingidiot'.
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ROS is the Robot Operating System (https://www.ros.org) for those not keeping up with the latest acronyms...
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This is what I don’t understand of the Biden Administration over Trump’s. I thought they were for the people? As much fluff as Trump talked about, we did not see any state surveillance advancements during his time.
Is `$name->sorted` incorrect? I would have thought it sorted on family name, not middle name?

For example, "Alice Betty Cass" should be sorted as "Cass, Alice Betty". The example given would sort it as "Betty Cass, Alice". That would only make sense if the surname was double-barrelled. e.g. Alice Betty-Cass.
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> Is this a service you would use?

Perhaps to track my grandma, who lives alone. Or on festivals or while skiing with friends. Not in everyday life.

> Would you pay for it?

Yes, but I would prefer a solution where I host a server myself to be honest. I would more gladly pay for a license here instead of a service with monthly costs. In reality I have some dev friends and if it was a feature we really wanted, we might hack something ugly together ourselves. But for commercial use I would do pay for it.

> Would you or your company sponsor it?

No. I am in a position where I could influence such decisions in the company I work for, but I think it would just lead to employee surveillance, which I don't support. My boss might, but I would recommend to refrain from doing so and would gather arguments against it.

I know it is common in logistics, but that shouldn't mean everyone has to accept such tracking. Poor souls...
If you want a breadth of grounded fantasy (IE takes place in our world but contains elements that don't really exist in our world) then I would recommend picking through Stephen King.

If you want to completely escape our world then I recommend the old Conan books or the modern Brandon Sanderson starting with Stormlight Archive.

You have received plenty of Sci Fi recommendations but I will add my own personal favorite (this is one novel in the series):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Death_Ground

If you want fiction that is grounded in reality with little to no fantasy elements then the murder mystery genre has quite a few gems that are fun to try and guess the twist of when you are reading. Murder on the Orient Express is great if you havn't experienced the story yet.
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We're definitely in a war. It's a war of unrest and faith in one's country. For decades the west tried to arm revolutionaries to help overthrow unfriendly tyrants, but in recent years the west has become a target itself. Modern politics is tainted by this war money, which pays for ads and social groups and calls to protest that only seek to incite violence, not bring about social change. China is seemingly ahead of the curve, creating AI to counteract the effects of this external influence. As a nice side-effect it enforces nice homogenized citizens the way only AI can (with lots of false positives, who are real people who will get destroyed because they're a false positive, but who cares, the ends justify the means etc.) but also, you'll notice that Facebook and Twitter have been building up such self-inoculations as well, first with automated detection of COVID falsehoods, and then with automated detection of election falsehoods, and the latest is you can get a suspension on Facebook for posting a series of words that a dumb AI thinks is similar to a racist phrase.
Here in spain a lot of restaurants have posted QR codes on the tables so people can see the menu without touching it. Its been a great help during the pandemic. The experience on the iPhone has been really good. Android.... depends on the phone / os version / app etc. QR is something that should be part of the OS and apps should be able to register apps / protocols so it opens directly.
Absolutely right about Kindle. I did not elaborate that point. My daughter, when she was 5-ish, used to think I do not read because I'm on a Kindle. So, after going fully digital I went back to physical books about 5 years back. Now, I mix about 1 physical for every 4 kindle books. At 11-year, she do gets it now and have her own Kindle with one -- you can read as many books as you want.

I wrote about it at https://oinam.blog/why-physical-books-matter-7a2872c64821
Website designers could just not have cookies. This is the original intent of the law.
Ok fair enough, but that's not really what I understood when I read 'new appetizing vegetarian recipes', that's almost orthogonal :)