skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks - I re-read this. There was one death in the control arm, which was one of two severe cases (table 5). No statistical analysis is presented of those results (if they were significant under any straightforward model I suspect it would have been mentioned) I think it's too early to claim that there is strong evidence that the Oxford vaccine reduces cases of severe covid.
Amazing read, lots of hacks involved. Taking lots of different car parts, engines, transmissions, drive shafts, etc and constructing a unique car and then being able to have the tools and skills to repair them in the most remote and toughest place in the world. Very nice, hacker news indeed.
I enjoyed this, thank you!
You can write Rust code with almost no lifetine annotations. That's heavily dependent on the domain, of course. But for relatively simple function signatures they are usually inferred correctly, and you can often just clone instead of requiring references.
I'll note that only the largest of those companies had this deployment style. The rest were either ~quarterly (with client pressure to slow that down) or weekly/monthly (agile-ish).

I think the only one with a formal release process was the quarterly release outfit, and even that was due to single-client risk.
The specific part of the ToS being referred to:

(i) publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Cloud Products
For me it's usually the volume buttons that die first, not the battery.
Ouch! And just in time for New Year's resolutions. Thanks!
I am of the opposite view. Mostly because I am world champion at forgetting to apply a function with enough arguments. I think partial applivation should be explicit, at least in dynamic languages where this is not enforced at compile-time.
A lot of people out there don't get to choose their workstation OS. Their only options are a linux VM in virtualbox, or a linux VM in WSL2.
I know the script format, I just wasn't aware that there is a freedom to excessively capitalize random words. :)
Not Being There: From Virtuality to Remoteness
I bought the Pinecil (temp-controlled soldering iron running on a RISC-C micro) and had no problems. Customs was ~$15 and fully automated (Sweden). Got it delivered in our mail box.
> but for subscription/"enterprise" software it's definitely one of the differences between "great" and merely acceptable (or worse).

I couldn’t agree more.

I tried writing more informative but easy to digest release notes when a couple noisy users mentioned at a trade show that they wanted to know more about our bug-fixing efforts.

To my surprise, we got a huge volume of communications from our users that they loved our new release note style and to keep it up.

It takes us about 1 hour / release to write. We release small changes weekly and large changes monthly to about 1mm MAUs.
All those? Very small amounts of an average Rust code base will have lifetimes.
You probably won't find this a particularly helpful response, but no, I have not experienced any such issue.
https://www.quora.com/If-a-video-is-demonetized-can-ads-stil...
I can't find it now, but I remember a story from somebody in the Lean Manufacturing world about a place that was having safety problems, so they appointed somebody Safety Director. This signaled to everybody that safety was that one guy's problem, not theirs. Accidents went up further and stayed up until they got rid of the Safety Directory position and made everybody responsible for safety.

That resonated for me because I've seen that happen in software, that classic pattern where cowboy coders ship garbage to QA. The lowest bug rates I've seen are where everybody cares about quality.

With Facebook, I expect that "Chief of Advertising Integrity" is sort of light a lightning rod. The job is not to solve the problem, it's to take the hits.
This makes sense. If you're acknowledged by society as a rare genius, you're more likely to give credence to your heterodox or just odd ideas.
I believe the paper includes random samples at the end.
I’m not claiming it’s open and shut. Every time something like this comes around you have all these guys giving out. I don’t say free market doesn’t work in all cases but just that it doesn’t work in all cases. Libertarianism is a dead end. Also BSD Unix.
Have you tried WSL1? It sounds like it might fit your use cases better:

- WSL1 shares the same network interfaces and addresses as the host, no proxying like WSL2

- Significantly less RAM usage

- No time sync bug
How to fix “Skipping duplicate build file” warning in Xcode
It might be worth considering that if you start too much, you might finish nothing. If the payoffs only come after finishing something, that would be a lot of effort for not achieving much.

It might be better to put the same (total) effort into fewer things. If those things get finished, leading to payoff, there might be more payoff in total for the same total effort invested.

This is my interpretation of Warren Buffet’s idea of “focus” as described here: https://jamesclear.com/buffett-focus
I am certainly no fan of FB or MZ, but if I am being open-minded and fair, that article doesn’t seem so bad. I’ve said stuff like that sarcastically/ironically that would sound really bad if taken out of context.
The comment I replied to made broad statements and based on the second sentence was talking about anyone with a cancer risk and not just those making low income. I don't disagree with your statement about costs to those lacking decent insurance, I merely disagree with creating broad generalizations unfounded in reality.
/proc came from Version 8 UNIX.
I think his issue with Alien 3 was he was forced by the studio to compromise his vision, not that he listened to much or was insecure. Unless you have "final cut" in the contract, the studio can and probably will force you to make changes against your will.
I have been looking at:

https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/50-new-years...
Not the exact answer but sort of related:
Google "our incredible journey".
I was inspired by this article and wrote "Twenty minutes to learn Go" [0]. Go being a much simpler language than Rust, I feel that anyone who knows a programming language can become productive in Go in less than an hour. Of course this simplicity comes at the cost of increased boilerplate, less expressiveness...

0: https://ibraheem.ca/posts/go-in-twenty
He got the nobel price in 2009, the year he was sworn in. He couldn't have been yet the "killer" you describe.
I don't understand what the problem would be. If there is a pressure limit with PEX, use larger diameter PEX, then reduce it where you need the higher pressure. This is the same concept of cleaning something by putting your thumb on the front of a garden hose.
Maps could learn a thing or two from the typesetting of the Yale manual.
The last opera I saw in Philadelphia at the Academy of Music, we sat next to a guy who was almost a comic book caricature of a blue collar worker. He loved coming to the opera; if you do it right, it costs about as much as a movie ticket.
Could someone please explain the following line to me?

export const Button = styled.button``;

Why is there a string right after the field "button" of the object "styled"? How is this valid JS? What does it do?
Oh, interesting! I hadn't heard of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Mazes

At this point, its research is nearly 40 years out of date. Is it still worth reading? And are there more up-to-date versions?
I would be highly impressed if this was done in shadertoy.
Ambiguity is a tool as well.

"Advertising" for example could mean the benign "show me a picture of some product" or it could mean "identify who I am, how I behave, where I work, how much I make, who I know, and maintain and share a dossier on all of it"
The financial efficiency of a well managed charitable organisation is atrocious compared to state programs. This is largely due to state programs having the capability to actually solve problems.

Eliminating working three jobs is desirable, it isnt debilitating to prevent exploitation of workers, its enabling. Setting a minimum wage and maximum working hours creates a minimum quality of life.

For most people this is desirable. As far as I can see you'd either have to be a sadist, or incredibly obsessed with how well off you are vs others to not want this.
Unfortunately one can’t live solely in C++17. The sheer amount of syntax and knowledge required to write C++ productively is insane.
The cost is crazy low. Any insight on if this will function as a standard smartwatch (ie buzz for alerts) out of the box, or do I need to write my own bluetooth driver for this to be useful?
Note Taking in vim with markdown and pandoc and bears, oh my
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My point is that it is not black-and-white. Stocks represent companies with real products and cash flows, but there is also a ton of speculative, bubble like behaviour on top of it. Take a look at a 1 year chart of something like TSLA or NIO and tell me that isn't true.
>consequentialism

Moral calculus is clearer when growing up without basic needs met. But more or less.

>access to all kinds of propaganda

Access to information does not make one more informed. Chinese who live through daily propaganda inherently understands nature of propaganda. Very few trust official news sources. Outside extremely partisan media platforms, western manufactured consent is more subtle and sinister. Most global south diaspora in the west will tell you how absolutely bullshit western reporting is in general, a free fifth estate is frequently seemingly indistinguishable from state propaganda from those who know it intimately.

It's a matter of comprehension. There are more Chinese diaspora multilingual Chinese with English fluency able to share news from across the wall. You can't say the same about anglosphere and Chinese information literacy. The amount of absolutely ignorant western commentary on China is staggering, where as Chinese net actually has western perspectives that somewhat comport with reality.

Chinese information control doesn't generate brainwashed people as much as create political disengagement. The more ideology Xi pushes the less believers there are are outside of the inevitable proportion of fierce nationalists / new generation of little pinks. But much of CHinese society skew old, have through Mao/Deng - they've experienced the spectrum of propaganda and understands when the levers are being adjusted.

Modern western ecosystem generate extreme dogmatism without media literacy. Too many think access to information is the same as being informed. The debates people have on the effects of social media are similar lessons learned through the "lived" propaganda experience of just growing up in China. Recognition of the issue frequently doesn't generalize outside of the domestic realm, i.e. China issues. The fact that this story, a substack post by a non-subject matter expert using biased sources is generating this much engagement is more or less illustrative of the point.
This is nothing new. It has been happening since Firefox first added their "in-browser" PDF renderer. The in browser renderer does not handle the full gamut of the PDF spec (the actual PDF spec. doc. is on the order of 800+ pages long) so whether a PDF renders, or not, depends upon what portions of the PDF spec. it utilizes.

This is what the warning "this doc may not be displayed correctly" really means. It is saying: "this PDF uses PDF features we do not yet support" (but without being so explicitly direct about the meaning).

But barring a recent bug that has broken everything, the cause is inside the particular PDF's because they use features that FF's render library does not yet support.
As a corporation, Facebook truly seems to be trying to improve its behavior for the benefit of society at large, but the company is finding it very difficult to do The Right Thing, because it would reduce future revenue growth, shrink long-term profitability, and hurt the company's competitive standing against the many other companies that are trying to eat Facebook's lunch every day.

In the extreme, Facebook's choices appear to be: (a) act in the best interest of society and get f#cked by competitors; or (b) remain a dominant force in the market, but as a side effect, f#ck everybody. All options for Facebook appear to be a mix of those two horrible choices.
Internet marketing forum why use them?
Feeling too full to eat while not maxing out on your calories is a desirable goal for many people.
I agree it's not pretty. It took me several passes to just understand what was going on there. But ownership is something I've never come across before and it doesn't exist in Python (not to an average user anyway), so it seems a little unfair to compare Rust and Python based on that feature.

However when you take a high level feature like overriding operators which can be done elegantly in Python, for a complied language, Rust's way is quite concise, readable and to my eyes quite pretty.

Edit: Typos
Recursion is like a slingshot where you pull the rubber band until a certain point and then let go.
I kinda would suggest the problem in some ways is the opposite, that even people who are well-suited to what academics should be are being driven out.

It's such a mess at the moment that it's not really possible to continue out of inertia. Even if you're well-suited to research and discovery at some level, and motivated, it's a soul-crushing experience because at every step you're incentivized toward something else.
I can't find a definition like that. Wikipedia has it as "Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words." Which seems to fit perfectly for Facebook's behavior.
Just googled it and I'm none the wiser. Maybe onions are the superfood of the future and people will need a way to store them?
Whatever your politics, we should endeavor to stop giving oxygen to rhetoric that misstates easily verifiable facts:

> I don't wanna make 250k while most people work three jobs

About 5% of people work more than one job in the US: https://www.qualityinfo.org/-/it-takes-two-or-more-oregon-s-...

In Germany, where the author is based, that figure is 3.5 million of a labor force of 45 million--over 7% https://www.dw.com/en/germany-more-and-more-people-work-mult...

> My father is disabled and my mom had the mentioned medical issues.

Portugal has a disability pension of 430 euro per month: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/2018-2019/eur...

The average Social Security Disability benefit in the U.S. is $1,260 per month: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/082015/what-are-max...

Additional benefits are paid to disabled workers with families--the average is $2,200. That is higher than the cost-of-living (PPP) adjusted average monthly wage in Portugal.

> My mom had cancer on minimum wage back in Portugal and we didn't pay a fucking cent

A minimum wage worker with a disabled spouse would almost certainly be eligible for Medicaid, which has extremely low out-of-pocket costs: https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/cost-sharing/cost-sharing-...

You can take anecdotes and spin out a story that is highly misleading. You can find people abusing public benefits and spin out a myth about "welfare queens." But you can also find plenty of people who have fallen through the cracks of the system for whatever reason, and spin out a myth that we have no safety net and people are dying in the streets.
Animal Crossing hands down would be the best bet.
The only way to compare them are to exhaustively enumerate benefits, taxes, costs, and risks of costs beyond the salary number. Comparing these numbers across countries would allow for a more apples-to-apples comparison.
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All I want for 2021 is to see Mark Zuckerberg up in court
This is it for me. We're a 'windows shop'. I think only the IT guy is happy about that.
Will it work on a fetus? Maybe we can use this to proactively save them from their would-be miserable existence as a sub-7'er.

Think of the vast amounts of suffering that would be spared, and the huge burden on society that would be lifted. /s
Has there ever been a lawsuit in which a company was held liable for bugs despite the usual disclaimer?
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25611053
This is clear advocacy for racial discrimination. She is now a legal liability for github. Someone who initiates a suit against github can use that post as evidence against them.

Interestingly her statement is not against "The Twitter Rules". There is no rule against advocating for discrimination.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules
Well, in case of a global thermonuclear war I think we'll have bigger problems than some transactions being reversed.
>they would not have been able to afford becoming a software engineer without this welfare setup.

Maybe if her parents didn't have to pay so much in taxes, they'd be able to save for her education... or she'd be able to pay back in no time, specially because of the amount of money she could be making.

>yes you save much more, but when your mother has cancer and dad is disabled, realistically much more than what you save ends up being spent to take care of them and paying their medical bills.

That's not achieved by magic. It's just an insurance scheme, but at a national level, and you can't opt out even if you have different values. Not only that, you don't magically get better care either, because you still have to fight for limited medical resources. In most European countries, it's achieved by nepotism or corruption. In some others, you have an option of buying additional private insurance on top of the national scheme, which if you make enough is a no brainer because of how bad the waiting is, depending on what illness you happen to get.
50 Years of Text Games – A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
I only see 1 user confirming it and he had a special or odd disk setup (merged disks which also do not show as merged, might be the source of the problem).

Is this confirmed by anyone else?
Thanks for sharing this. I imagine it had to be painful to write. Sharing such experiences help others in the same situation understand that it's not their fault: unfortunately, toxic people and toxic work environments exist.

If you are in a situation like the one described, my advice is: _just leave_. It's not worth it: it's not worth the money, it's not worth the feeling of "failure", it's not worth the fear that you won't find anything better. Just leave. If you have some friends at that job, don't worry: they'll understand.

Don't be afraid of not finding anything else: we're very lucky in this regard, software engineering jobs are relatively easy to find. And "there may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you".
The only use-case for crypto is that it fills in the gaps in demand that the global banking system creates. There are a lot of people who are left out or kicked out of the banking system, but they still need financial services, so the demand remains.

e.g. An IPO is too expensive, so a company pursues an ICO. Or a family in Venezuela needs money so they receive bitcoin. Or college kids wants to buy LSD so he sends the payment with bitcoin. Or a paedophile wants to buy child porn, so he pays with bitcoin. etc.

The second use-case for crypto is as a commodity investment for its first use-case.
WSL1 was loads convenient back in the day. All you had to do was pop open a terminal instance and you'd have access to authentic GNU tooling, on any Windows PC. I use Linux full-time now, but I have several friends who use Windows, and almost all of them have WSL installed.
Nothing says “great product” like a ToS that bans you from discussing the problems.

I self-host a confluence install, and it’s performance is poor even with a good sized VM and absolutely zero other traffic to it.
Al Capone committed a lot of crimes besides tax evasion, but he went to prison for the crime he could be convicted of.

The more offenses someone commits, the more likely they'll make a mistake committing one of them and get caught. Yeah most money launderers will have no moral qualms about lying on a form, but someone already on the fence might be dissuaded if the risk of getting convicted increases.
> yet she thinks that in the USA, a good student can't go to college without money

No, she actually thinks that an average (or below average, or without some exceptional physical skill etc. etc.) student can't go to college without money.

That's a non issue here in Europe (generally).

> Also, the idea that poor people with cancer in the US are left to die

You still have to pay for it.

Without premium insurance premiums forget about premium health care.

Here in Europe is not perfect, bu paying more is not necessary to get better health care.
Ask HN: When to Build a Faster Horse?
Henry Ford once said: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

But he didn't went out to make horses faster, he built a car.

I read many stories like that. People say listen to your customers, but many successfully built something their customers wouldn't have tought about, let alone liked when they heard the idea.

What's your opinion on this?

Is there a point in faster horses?

Should we focus on cars?

Are their heuristics that help us choose the right way?
Not an answer to your question, but rather an observation regarding budgeting:

I daily document my account balance to the penny, which unexpectedly acts (for me) as a brake on superfluous spending.

Simply the act of penny-wise documentation compels the need to be aware of spending. Having merely a spreadsheet and a budget app, that framework encouraged me to compare my current day balance with the previous month's day, and provided a visual reward when my balance was higher.

In sum, maintaining granular data about my account led to good things.
For starters, “most” people don’t work three jobs, obviously, and the U.S. is in fact a very wealthy country with a vast middle class. Second, anybody who wants to can go to college. I went on student loans and Pell Grants. Third, we don’t have universal health care in this country, but poor people actually do get care and are insured, via Medicaid. Cancer patients aren’t left to die in the street.

It’s good that there are so many discussions on the internet about the people who fall though the cracks, but it can create an inaccurate picture of reality, which is what seems to have happened to this observer. On the facts, she has a confused understanding of both the typical and the extreme American experience.
being able to play video games and alt tab into writing and testing code during queue times is huge for me
> Americans using shell companies may evade taxes. Foreign entities using shell companies may evade our counterintelligence.

Americans use incorporated entities to buy assets to limit their personal or corporate liability in operating businesses. This requires all of those to be queried for beneficial ownership - for what reason?

Anonymous Shell corporations is being used synonymously with legitimate holding companies because it markets the cause well - greater tracking on who owns what.
First I hear of this. Source? Googling for this predictably returned unhelpful results.
As a startup we write fairly detailed changelogs weekly [1]. For us it has been a major way to communicate all the new features and fixes as they come available to users. It’s also a good way for the team to celebrate their accomplishments. I was surprised to learn it also had helped with investors and generally marketing.

Usually the person who was a major contributor to the highlighted feature of the week writes the changelog and then we look through our PRs to add anything that could be interesting. We don’t include things like “migrated x” “upgraded library x” if there is no visible benefit for there.

Wrote about the lessons here:
https://link.medium.com/9YuBV3dUIcb

1: https://linear.app/changelog