skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been reading "The End of Alzheimers" which implicates inflammation as one of the 36 (!) causes of Alzheimers.
Imo if you are a stressed out swe, you should be working on software to automate/simplify stressful thing. And if people get in the way of that, then change employers.

Software is not supposed to be super stressful — the machines should do the heavy lifting

I’m sure there are a zillion exceptions to this that ppl will point out
Thanks you! With COVID, I found myself calling the local health department hundreds of times a day. After day 2, I found myself deep in the world of asterisk. I figured out how to build a service similar to the one you are providing, but it damn sure wasn't easy. Wish I had found you a few days ago!

Can you talk about the stack you used? I used asterisk + questblue. I got asterisk running in a docker container. I still want to play with ASI.
Nice chatting with you, thanks for humoring me. If we don't modify the constitution legally, how do you propose we do it? I am aware that the constitution doesn't mean much of anything in the courts these days. But how is this different from the law of the west? The powerful make the rules with no accountability.

Historically, people have burned the government to the ground and started with a brand new document. I suppose that's what most people are advocating when they wish to change the constitution in a way which it does not allow.

If not by law, how is it decided? Can I decide? I suppose I can if I become a supreme court justice or someone like Bill Gates.

The founding fathers certainly knew that the constitution would be hard to change - that's the whole point. They saw what happened to past governments with wimpy foundations. I really can't see the point of keeping the constitution at all if we are going to violate it due to "current sentiments" - it's all a sham.

Perhaps they would have voted for becoming a state even without their 2 senators, but that seems far from certain to me. Like the American Revolution itself, I just can't see Wyoming people sitting down and taking what's given to them.

Of course, my predictions about the future of America are different from most. I think we've only just begun to hear the rumblings of a deep conflict. This election was not the climax, but the prologue.
I lived in London where new buildings are required to be zero parking - the thinking is that the roads are already congested enough and so anything that encourages bringing more cars in is bad for the city. It's a pretty good approach IMO, though I guess you need to combine it with something like Tokyo's rule that you can't buy a car unless you can show you have a parking space to register it to.
It possible that the only sensible option is to ban all political groups from these platforms.

The reason is that ultimately no one what's to have extreme polar opinions on these sites, but it's going to be very difficult to determine that in a non partisan manner.

Though also to be fair it might be difficult to truely flag all political groups.
I don't know that any EV is capable of providing power from its charge port, but that would be helpful for stranded vehicles.

Even if my EV could push power to the grid, I'm not sure I would want it too. It would require me to keep my EV plugged in and topped off which isn't good for the batteries. Currently both my EVs are sitting at around 50% unplugged.
Was Twitter Right to Have Booted Trump?
> It implements message-based programming, which is "real" OOP

No, it's message-based programming, which is a very powerful and useful tool. It's not the one true inheritor of the fundamental OOP concept.

OOP wasn't defined by "you send messages to objects", it was defined by the idea that objects had their own semantics which in turn constrained/defined the things you could do with them. Some OOP languages implemented "doing something to an object" as "send it a message"; some didn't.

ObjC is in the former group; C++ is in the latter.
Nice! This is very similar to https://tab.bz
They're like Michel Foucault books, fascinating history with a clear slant that serves a central thesis.
Code-centric vs. Product Goal-centric Teams
Yes, but Element is also a client for many protocols, Matrix being one of them.

Maybe then I should have asked why still use Pidgin over Element?
They can just turn off the internet connection. If that doesn't work then they can just destroy the transmitter/receiver if they are going to part it out anyways.
You might want to beef up your 'summary' section with any achievements, special skills, etc.

with 25 years exp, I'm assuming you're going to be more expensive then an entry level person. Use that section to highlight why you're worth the money. Business case stuff is always good: reduced costs by X at company Y, or implemented XX which increased revenue, implemented scalable X that allowed us to grow to Y. Soft skills like mentoring, communications, customer focus, etc. are good as well.

You have some good stuff in the experience section, but I have to hunt to find it. Put some of the best bits of that in the summary, to get me 'hooked'. Like:

"Experienced in IOS and Android application design and implementation"

"Built base app and API modules for company later acquired by IBM"

Anyway - Hope this helps!
We should create a brightline, even if approximate and requiring later adjustment, to determine which companies are too big and must be governed by a different set of rules. Normally we would consider it unremarkable if a restaurant quits a customer, or if a law firm refused a client altogether.

On the other hand we consider it disaster if Amazon quits you as a vendor, or if your only local hospital refuses you. Perhaps any firm handling more than $1M yearly revenue shouldn’t be able to randomly quit customers.
I’m curious what makes you feel like this is the kind of argument made on 4chan. Are you a regular?
Yes, I figured that out from other posts on this thread (including one where I looked at g_malloc source).

I think libstc++ on the other hand does or did have such a cache as an always-on thing though. So not unheard of.
Thanks for the insight. I have heard similar comments from varying states at the national events. The policy and literature around child welfare is surely in a state of change in the US right now.
I regret missing Adam Curtis and Massive Attack to this day.
But as I understand it, Adium can't just use the same plugins as Pidgin, they're very similar but need to be modified a bit.

I ran into this ~ 6 months ago when I was trying to make Slack work in Adium. The plugin for Slack was outdated. There was a newer libpurple Slack plugin, but it wasn't compiled for Adium. I attempted to recompile it, but I couldn't seem to manage it, all of the tutorials on how to do it were super confusing...

(If anyone knows how to make Slack work in Adium in 2021, please let me know!)
What is "the download icon"? I'm not even sure there is such a thing. My browser has an icon that looks little bit like "↓̲", so I suppose that’s what you might mean. Unfortunately, my poor web browser doesn’t render "↓̲" the same way my text editor did, so there is that.

If there is some frequently–used icon for downloads, you would have to convince everyone to use it, update all the fonts to include it, update all the keyboards to type it, etc. Meanwhile the rest of us will just be over here typing out "download" instead. The beauty of an alphabet is that anyone can compose a new sequence of letters and they automatically have a new word! Nobody has to ask permission, or convince anyone, or add characters to their fonts, or provide justification to the Unicode committee.

In principle you could add letters to the alphabet, but would that really be more efficient? Maybe words could start using fewer letters drawn from a larger set, but the storage requirements for a given any given piece of text would likely remain the same. After all, the computer already translates everything we type into binary, which is just an alphabet with only two characters. Each character that we type becomes 8 or more of these binary bits. Adding letters to the alphabet will just mean that we use more bits for every character. Plus there's still the problem of updating all the fonts, and keyboards, and textbooks, and teaching everyone about the new letters.

Meanwhile the rest of us can just compose the letters we have into new arrangements as often as we please. Perhaps you should search for "spelling reform" and read about all the past failures to change how we write before you jump to the conclusion that it would be an obvious improvement. See also "Shannon information theory".
Most of the electrons in a NaCl crystal are quite localized (all the core electrons od Na+ and Cl-, and it's not a good conductor, so the valence band is full). So I don't expect too much interesting interference patterns. It looks like a problem with vibrations that make it go out of focus.
I don't see how you can call ObjC any more of a superset of C than C++.

Object-related syntax in ObjC is completely alien to C. Object-related syntax in C++ (mostly) extends C structure syntax.

Yes, ObjC takes its cues from Smalltalk. C++ does not. And so... ?

[EDIT: ok, so people want to interpret "superset" as meaning "every valid C program is a valid Objective C program too. This is, with very few exceptions, true of C++ as well ]
Started early. This is a blog post from 2016:

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/solving-bit-magic.html

I'm jealous of people who started programming as a kid.
Not an Australian, but I don't find it entirely silly. Google delisting Australian news would be the inevitable outcome. It's worth almost nothing to them.

They're evening out the playing field. Google can shrug off Australian news, but they're going to have to think carefully about whether they're willing to turn off Search for a first world country.

One loophole I'm very curious about is Google creating their own news organization. Not even a news organization, really just a news licenser and republisher. They have access to everyone's Google searches. I would imagine they're capable of creating a piece of software that calculates how much they're paying to news organizations for what keyword searches, then automatically purchasing an article about that from another publisher that scores better for those keywords (putting them above the other publishers in the searches) and publishing it. Bonus points if they don't even pay for it, they have a human write an article summarizing the other articles, and run it through their scoring pipeline so the writer can tweak it until their SEO score is better than the other articles.

Then Australian news will really be screwed. Little money from Google, and even fewer clicks than they got before.

The one thing I do think was silly is making it adversarial. If you want news agencies to make more money, making Google pay to send them traffic is a bad way to go about that. They should have done something like introducing a tax on Google, and then refunding part of the tax when Google sends people to an Australian news site instead of a foreign one.
Since you have mentioned this I have read three more articles and short blurbs about this kerfuffle and _they all_ have used the same "based on Lucene" text when describing Elasticsearch. As you say, Wikipedia seems to be the one true source of this phrasing!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch

While I still think this phrasing is unfair, it certainly seems to be the consensus. At least when measured by Google search results.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Elasticsearch%20is%20a%20...
Look at how much money Fortnite, GTA Online, FIFA, Clash of Clans etc. are making. If there is a business justification for it then every problem you mentioned above will be solved.
There's a gulf between something better and utopia.
>Verbose code is code you can come back to an understand years down the road.

For ObjC, "verbose code" means "code you can come back to years down the road and hope there's still a manual to translate those message argument names into whatever current programming terminology uses".
Overcoming the Imposter Syndrome
>being able to take out enemy satellites (nav, surveillance, missile launch detection, etc)

You can easily do it without having objects in orbit. You can simply launch a ballistic cloud of debris at suborbital speeds and kinetic energy of the targeted satellite will do the rest. Time to hit could be shorter for an orbital system, but not significantly so. This is why I consider the recent news about the Russian orbital satellite killer to be a cheap fearmongering.
Don’t spread FUD. The statement you’re referring to had nothing to do with blacklisting sites.
Yes, that’s what I meant to refer to in my post above:

> It's worth the U.S. spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on climate-change mitigation. The EU is planning on spending 260 billion euro annually by 2030. That's roughly the scale of Biden's plan.

I’m not arguing against those investments. My point is that saying climate change will have “untold cost” suggests that massive economic shutdowns or “war time mobilization of the economy” will be worth it to avoid climate change. They won’t be. In particular, anything that jeopardizes economic growth through Green New Deal-style government takeover of vast sectors of the economy will cause more harm than it averts.

More information here: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/how-much-will-the-green-ne...
If the leaks are that small, sounds like putting an elastic coating on it should fix it.
My guesses were worse than a coin toss. Why is there not a metal band called Wolverine?
"the initial article is talking about porting a desktop client based program with a reasonable amount of views to the web. Now Facebook scale and quality UI isn’t good enough to demonstrate that React is a strong front end tool"

Not the whole truth. It was a big job. "Enterprise level" has no clearly defined meaning, but I assume millions of dollars. A large team of C# programmers doin the system.

So it is worth doing sustainably. There is no evidence that react, which judging from the "I have N years experience of React..." N <= 5 is about five years old, can be a sustainable solution for anything. It might look good now, but can it be maintained in twelve years when all the script kiddies are off on the next Best Thing

Whichrelates to your rude and sweary comment about: "... is serving a industry, not the industry itself" it is not complexity but sustainability. Facebook is the software. Your bank is not its banking software. The bank needs to know that in a decade they will still be able to maintain the software. If they use React, or Angular or goodness knows what else the bountiful world of JS frameworks will throw up for us, they cannot guarantee that.

I can reasonably say that Facebook doesn’t show React scales for sustainability: It does not.
Much of the groundwork for the internet and open software happened in the 1970s and 1980s thanks to influxes of government funding, including at many universities and research organizations.

I advocate for government funding for public good internet software, because the societal benefit can be so high, and the only alternative so far is monopoly-equivalent companies such as FAANG. In the United States, and in many other countries, there's plenty of precedence for government funding for public libraries, public broadcasting, public transportation, etc.
I like the idea! There are a lot of websites that have so many ads the article is impossible to read.
This assumes that there is a political spectrum and that all parts of it have equal power. The SWP have miniscule political clout. In general the left (not the liberal center often mislabeled as "left" in the USA) has few institutions and less power. The most likely outcome is the consolidation of censorship in the hands of Republican/Democratic censors. Left-wingers will be welcome to post to ten followers at a time on Mastodon.

There really is only one obvious response to this: Facebook, Google etc are common carriers, not allowed to censor. They should also be broken up given their massive size which enables them to drive policy which affects them.
> I’m sure there are a zillion exceptions to this that ppl will point out

It's not really "exceptions" that will be pointed out. The reality is that someone if going to have to stop automating\simplifying and actually fix the bug or implement the feature. Or in the worst case debug the "brilliant" automation from the really chill guy that left the company last year :)
Evan hydroxychloroquine isn’t much fun.
It increases cranial pressure a little, drys out skin and hair. Interferes with sleep etc.

Dramatically reduces rashes, swelling. Great substitute for viagra. Improves energy.

So it’s a weird balance.
Redistribution. I try to support local stores, and yet I've had to use Amazon much more now. The pandemic has centralized the economy and harmed small businesses - tons of restaurants shutting down here, hair stylists out of work, etc.
Consumers are different with one another. I would gladly pay, for something i like, a bit more money to have some luxuries. A faster car may be it, or maybe i pay to lichess, to pair me for a game with good players, so as not to be cheated for example. Or maybe analysing my games, with some state of the art chess engine to spot mistakes or improvements. Other chess players however may not be so keen about more, just play a game and that's it.
BTW: I do not believe you are sorry! Hard to tell in comments like this, but I think probably you are not.

And nor should you be! (Perhaps for being sweary, but I am a reformed potty mouthed person - so a bit of a snow flake in that department)
It is simply too expensive for government to do it. It'll have to be private enterprise. (Not that private enterprise could pay what NASA spends either, but that it would be 10x cheaper for private enterprise to do it.)
See: https://phys.org/news/2019-11-climate-impacts-world-trillion...
Solid State batteries offer much higher speed charging and I suspect most manufacturers would move towards those.
There are a lot of different sources out there. I recommend you read a few and start a journal to track diet and symptoms and figure out what works for you as an individual.
I wonder what makes California so strong that they always get more support from the government. Is it like having a socialist paradise in a capitalist country.
I think there are many improvements. Shorthand comes to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand
Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead for a Analytics Contractor. Pretty highly paid.

I put together teams around projects, mentor juniors, and build cross project teams to fix architectural problems. My favorite part is actually teaching juniors and watching them grow. I live for that!

My advice is to find a niche that you love and stay away from industries that stress you out. There are a ton of different sub industries in SWE.

I would definitely stay clear of startups if you don’t handle stress well: startups and failing companies are the worst and for the same reason – they are both in a financial free fall trying to gain a new lease on life.
He did an AMA here once:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851
I'm a little worried in a few years it will only be safe to put up recipes and tell people happy birthday on social media, everything else will be too controversial
The problem is actually lithium batteries. Mining that material destroys the earth.
Huh? Obviously they are different things, one is consequence of the other.
The valley is well known for not building enough, thus allowing this to happen. You can find apartments like that in any city, but it will be the bad part of town and rent will be in the 500 range.
Of course not. Correctness doesn't mean that everything has to be perfect. It means that things work as defined. A C program should operate as specified.
Linux/LXQT boots to a ready desktop in about 10 seconds. Not everything is slow.
As long as the plastic is actually thrown into a landfill, it's probably not actually that bad. There's plenty of room for landfills, honestly; this stuff can be shredded, compacts well, and if the landfill is built with proper barriers and modern design there's no reason to expect anything leeching into the water table. If the virtue of people having sorted their garbage is maintained by burying separated plastic apart from other materials, what we're actually doing is pre-seeding potential future fuel stock for some process that can cleanly use the plastic. After all, it burns, so there's energy there... we just need a way to get to it without releasing a ton of gross smoke.

The real problem is when plastic is thrown into the ocean. Rivers of garbage in India are a terrifying sight, and absolutely need to end. The problem here is that plastic is the artifact of a more advanced society, and it rests on certain requirements in order to not be a nightmare. One of those requirements is functioning waste management system, which in turn stems from the civilizational technology of caring about where your waste goes. I assume that that develops in turn as an evolutionary advantage after repeated plagues stemming from lack of hygiene, but this evolution has not happened uniformly to all human cultures.

Significant improvement is necessary. Either waste management, or super-quickly biodegradable cheap organic polymer alternatives. Until that happens, probably it is the case that some countries simply shouldn't be using plastic at all, and should return to more traditional distribution and packaging mechanisms.
Job Transitions in a Time of Automation and Labor Market Crises
Carbon-Carbon composite has a cycle life in the millions when cyclically loaded between 0% and 85% of ultimate tensile strength.
Furthermore, that material has a very low thermal expansion coefficient and remains structurally sound at high temperatures.

It does oxidize at high temperature, so you'll have to coat it with something. It's also fairly brittle, basically a strong ceramic (it caused us to loose Columbia during re-entry).
The grandparent's example is a poor indicator of the political leaning of Facebook's executive team. VP of U.S. Public Policy is a euphemism for Head Lobbyist and now that the Democrats control both the Presidency and Congress, I would not be surprised if the current guy is fired and replaced with someone with deep ties to the Democrat party.
Exactly, I'm pretty curious what they said? Were they being dishonest? Hate speech? threatening violence?
I think it comes down to certain people and what they are driving towards, my belief is that if you are the 0.1% who have the stamina and you find that goal that you are willing to live and die for, then its magic. For everyone else > there is burnout.
Bose Dead or Alive
housing in the US is just not that great for the thing right in the center of the national psyche: cookie cutter designs with no attention to the environment, low-quality constructions, apartments with zero soundproofing (no wonder everyone wants a house) and then the laws that force people to keep antiquated structures around for way longer than reasonable.
Right, but I don't see a tangible difference. People are responsible for themselves, if someone is going to stop using Gitea based on the fact that a random internet commenter decided to put "Please avoid Gitea" at the start of their explanation of flaws, isn't that their choice? I'm not sure how those three extra words "remove" anyone's "choice", can you explain why you think that is the case? Thanks.
> E.g. using the download icon to write “download” instead of using the alphabet to convey the same meaning?

Perhaps you'd like Chinese, that use ideograms instead of letters. 下载 (using Google translator)
I've been paying with my phone using Google Pay connected to PayPal for the past year. It works basically everywhere, except for places that only take cash.