skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is wrong.
The pay is vastly higher, accounting for cost of living differences.

Levels.fyi
You need to lump people into higher and higher level "intersections" (district, city center, region, state, continent, planet) along with other identifying data, until at least "k" people are in each group and can not be told apart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-anonymity
It's kind of funny, pharmaceuticals have similar economics to software now that I think about it: extremely high upfront fixed costs, minimal marginal costs.
This is probably the only saving grace to Paradox's DLC model. Its a very friendly way to do it.
This comment is embarrassing. The tools a person uses is not an indicator of their skill level and thinking so is only holding you back, not the person using them.
They don't all land, I guess.
While I sympathize, I think that train left long time ago.

I had that aha moment, when during early 2000s I found myself explaining to C++ developer what linker is and what exactly it does. Until then, it was just the thing that VC++ did as the last step after clicking the Build menu item.

It certainly didn't improve since then.
Full Text of a Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms on Medium
I was referring to the companies that were against the sanctions.
Those links are immensely more helpful than the hollow shell of an article that was posted. The Manager FAQ in particular does a better job of delivering on what this article promised (and failed to deliver on).
Your comment made me think of something, I'll share it as a "PSA" in case it helps someone stay safe.

Neanderthal DNA has been linked to severe outcomes from COVID.[0] To me that means I'll get vaccinated (and strain specific boosters that may have to happen), full stop. But if I have a choice of more than one type of vaccine available at the same time (unlikely? But still), then I will try to keep this in mind. Other than that it just means I will be extra careful.

Disclaimer: not a scientist; and anything I say here is first-person (I'm in the demographic groups I'm referring to).

My non-scientific speculation: there is a chance the stuffy nose could be a proxy for high neanderthal DNA. I say that because other sinus and nasal issues are among the things linked to genes inherited from Neanderthals. They had different anatomies in that regard. I've read it could have been an adaptation to cold.

I've also read that the extinction of Neanderthals may have been related to viruses causing respiratory problems/diseases.[1]

Anyways, the point is, that some of these genes could correlate with severe outcomes from coronavirus.

If a reader knows their genetics, and/or knows people who have mentioned they have a relatively high amount of neanderthal DNA... You might want to think about it or mention it to them. Especially if they have other respiratory or sinus things going on.

[0]:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2818-3

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/neanderthal-gene-fou...

[1]:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190919080755.h...

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[btw I accidentally posted this comment to the wrong thread then moved it. Not trying to spam or rant, I'm just bad at commenting because I rarely comment. Anxiety and so on...]
23andme was a great company, but stopped innovating a long time ago. They could gave offered a lot of different products related to sequencing, but didn’t.
Notes on My Chemotherapy
1. Is there a reason you are in HN?
2. Are you really suggesting to believe ‘chinese officials’ in stead of BBC?
3. Oh wait...
I worked for one of them. Completely agree. One day I decided I’d had enough though and just went home, changed my phone SIM for a PAYG one and immediately moved half way down the country.

I was his last remaining employee.
A modern, open-source text editor that understands web design
The werst Infosec fail fail
Here's some historical precedent of how that can be a problem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
It's close not but quite. That problem is describing terms where the issue is a substring of the term itself.

Here, the issue is due to the gross sexual fetishization of Asians in western culture. That is, it's context based, not term based.
Thanks for that captain obvious. I’m more worried that my client was focusing on fake security rather that stuff that actually matters.
The scientific method works at a very slow pace and goes even slower when public opinion is against an idea.

We have a lot of known unknowns about gut biota. And a lot of people whose gut biota are literally killing them. And a lot of friends and family of those people. They are of course going to be frustrated. Especially when they look at how long those question marks have existed. Get to it already!

Feyman’s wife died while the antibiotic that saved people like her was in drug trials. Can you imagine being that close to a cure and missing it? When I read about people dying of infections mid century I have to pull up my calendar and just pity them a little bit more.
My guess is the soil and fertilizer. But it may be fertilizer from the past too.
Good for him, standing up for his employees who clearly must be very alarmed.

B8ta has stores around the globe, and Norby told SFGATE last month that the crime in San Francisco is unlike anything the company experiences elsewhere. “This actually doesn’t happen anywhere else in the country,” he said. “We have 17 other stores, including three internationally. This just doesn’t happen anywhere else. It’s only here.”

Why do the stores in SF attract violent crime compared to, say, a store in another West Coast city? Is there a gang that specializes in this sort of crime in the Bay Area, or is the level of all kinds of violent street crime off the charts? Or something else?
Not if they're holding. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/lcjh0m/wall...
I wonder if it could be simply inserted into the other end instead of being swallowed. Perhaps a suppository would do?
Pycharm Professional edition has a Scientific project type, which I was hoping someone has experience with.
While I won't comment on your other points, I do want to correct you that many SPAC acquisition deals involve a lengthy investor presentation deck that shows historical/projected financials (which are then republished in a more typical/formatted SEC document closer to the proxy vote date of the merger).

Here's 23&Me from the SEC website: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1804591/000095010321...

See page 34 for summary of financials.
Wow.

I believe the British court system just ruled that if you don't bundle the transmission of data in the same stack frame as where the data is entered, it isn't message interception.

That's rather bold.
Homebrew helps you with that, even if the app was installed without Homebrew:

brew uninstall --zap --force CASKNAME
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I think you're spot on, for what it's worth. The context for my comment above is that I have a math PhD, and even then a lot of the articles are an unnecessarily tough read. For the general public they are pretty impenetrable...
Nuclear conflict is inherently horrific, but I would hope we were (and are) willing to do appalling things to deter a nuclear attack on the US.
Has anybody used Pycharm's Scientific project type for data analysis?
> It's important, of note, news, that the word 'Asian' is blocked (why else are you bothering to comment here?). Whether or not it's blocked for a semi-automated reason, this is indeed what discrimination looks like. It's the sexual fetishisation of a whole race of people bleeding into every-day life.

This is a bad argument because the word "readhead" is banned as well. Does that mean the fetishization of redheads is also bleeding into every-day life? It's a badly-generated list of porn terms. Trying to tease out large-scale societal issues here is misguided, but I'm sure that won't stop the armchair sociologists on HN.
You cant change narcissist full stop. And you cant change toxic boss from below. I agree with these.

But, I also dislike that a majority of advice on workplace and toxic people is basically "run away or enable it". Sometimes people can actually influence how much damage narcissist do and how far narcissist will grow in company.

There is little advice on how to communicate and protect yourself when toxic person is peer and you have some power over situation. Or how to report the situation in a way that will make impact, how to recognize who to report to, how to communicate in a way that will make situation transparent for third parties.
Ask HN: Any research labs/companies using neuromorphic chips in production?
There's been a lot of progress on neuromorphic computing and some companies are providing solid solutions (e.g., Intel Loihi). In theory NM should improve speed of inference and training and cut down the costs of running neural nets. Does anyone on this community have experience using NM chips in production environments for real-world use cases or for research? If you do, what is your take? If you don't, what's the main barrier?
Once Upon a Time There Was a Big Bubble
Or rather: testicles -> alligator pear
It's quite baffling that you can't define your own content filter on your own device.

Perhaps this will finally make some Apple users tired of
being parented by Apple.
Even before Philip, plenty of hoplites served as mercenaries. Xenophon’s Anabasis is a great example.
Are you serious? Trevor Noah is widely considered to be the least funny host on television. Google "trevor noah not funny" and the list is endless. He's so, so, so bad. His jokes are pandering to 12 year olds, and he reads the jokes off the teleprompter like it's the first time he's reading the lines. It's so cringy. I have no idea how
People manage to watch an entire episode because every joke is just not funny.

https://youtu.be/FwqT-FSJj6E

Are you Trevor Noah? Because I really don't see how anyone can defend the dude, especially compared to John Stewart
It's certainly better than C++ as a starting language.

And, if you're just starting out, is Rust really more alien than C?

C, quite famously, needs you to understand at least double indirection of pointers (pointer to pointer of type) to be even mildly useful in the language. You can go a long way in Rust before needing to hit that level of complication.

I still wouldn't recommend C or Rust for a first programming language, but Rust really isn't that bad compared to the alternatives.
Their video course [1] is supposedly based off the book. In the course they state that they are not focused on (nor do they have expertise) in the "electrical engineering" aspect of computer systems.

In the first part of the course they focus on computer "hardware" but only on the logical aspects of it (i.e. logic gates etc.). So it probably is considered part computer engineering (though the second part does focus on software) but I wouldn't say it really overlaps with electrical engineering.

[1] https://www.nand2tetris.org/
I think you're conflating different issues here. Usability, vs privacy. Chrome usability is actually better, 'not 100x worse'. I've stopped using Chrome because of the privacy issues, but let's be accurate about the issues so we build better community understanding and possibly solution.

e.g. By realising that Mozilla has better (than Chrome, but still flawed) privacy, but also issues with usability, a nice solution suggests itself: another user-focussed organisation could maintain patches to Firefox to produce a better browser fixing the regular anti-user things Moz does.
You can get out of anything if you put machine learning in between the developers and customers
There is something similar - it's under the About section:

> CodeMirror is open source (MIT or GPL3). It is being developed on GitHub. Contributions are welcome.

> If you are using CodeMirror commercially, there is a social expectation that you help fund its maintenance. Start here.
It's worth pointing out that this is a NLNet Foundation funded project; they seem to back useful projects, from the ones I've seen personally
In case it wasn't clear to anyone: this is a product very early in the planning phase, to the extent that many of the features are unspecified (no processor has been chosen, they aren't even certain on whether it'll be RISC-V or ARM), underspecified to the point of being unintelligible ("detachable USB gender-changer dongle"), or outright ridiculous (SSH-based communications between the keyboard and CPU).

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a product here. This does not have the smell of success on it.
Given all the weird shi... phrasing... stuff that has happened with performance enhancing drugs I have to wonder if there aren’t some sports doctors out there who know a bit more about this stuff than they’re letting on...
Looks like gist.github.com with a wysiwyg, cool stuff.
Is there a lot of pressure to keep these version number types as compact as possible?

I suppose it has to do with the use a tuple of 3 values and a desire to pack them efficiently into an API?

An API for fetching a version number doesn't need to be particularly efficient though. It needs to be friendly to humans and easy to reason about in code.
> Does that mean the fetishization of redheads is also bleeding into every-day life?

Yes it does. Why is this so hard for you to understand?
Voice recording and processing for talks, streaming and conferencing
How does beating a dishwasher for taking a 45 minute break benefit his personal skill?
We typically support N-2, N-1 and N, which means you’ll be fine with Mojave until Big Sur’s successor comes out.
> I also wrote a lot of 6809 assembly in the 80s- for broadcast character generators.

I got into broadcast character generators in 1989. Mind telling me who you worked for, and what you worked on?
> The inserter-alike that pushes/pulls to/from belts must start or end the belt, which back to our smelting array example means you can't trickle a single belt past a line of smelters you have to hit a splitter first

What? This isn't true at all. You can definitely have a single belt going past your smelters:

https://preview.redd.it/zh1ezv02ule61.jpg?width=1920&format=...

> The inserter-alike also has a transfer rate dependent upon the distance it covers (think normal vs long inserter throughput) and I have had trouble getting them to consistently snap to the closest belt segment, instead going one further and halving their transfer speed. Which has been maddening.

12+ hours of DSP so far and I have never had that problem.

Are you playing with the grid turned off or something? I'm trying to understand why you're having trouble.
Extra robustness in your Koa projects with TypeScript
Thank you, Homebrew maintainers, for all your hard work. One of the very first things I've done on new computers is install Homebrew, couldn't live without it :)
...in mice
>This book follows more along the lines of the coursework for a computer engineering degree than a computer science degree

> but CS curricula generally completely omit the electrical engineering portions

Where in this book does it talk about electrical engineering?
Personally I use content filters to block me from going on yahoo.com (don’t ask). As a byproduct it blocks a lot of other stuff - including this article. Too ironic.
There is a fourth now https://twitter.com/PhysRevLett/status/1354866900036153352 and a write up in Physics (The more casual write ups at APS about major topics):
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/15

The actual article links:

[1]- https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...

[2] - https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...

[3] - https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...

[4] - https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
> If you watch his stand-up (not his Daily Show)

(I have no knowledge of how funny his stand-up is, but you’re arguing against a point the comment didn’t make.)
I am not sure if it is that simple, and I think companies have little choice but to be greedy, because if they choose not to be greedy, another greedier company is all but guaranteed to prevail. I suppose it could be argued that companies the size of Apple and Google are not bound by the same constraints as smaller companies. But if they choose to stop doing business in Pakistan, what would become of all of their existing customers? What about all the people who would be deprived of Apple and Google products/services?
Tell HN: All your Google Music deleted on February 24th
I didn't buy that much on Google Music, it was mostly indie, self-published bands/groups who needed a platform, but from 24th All Google Music is being deleted and the platform shutdown.

This is the email I received:

> We'll soon delete all of your Google Play Music library and data

> On 24 February 2021, we will delete all of your Google Play Music data.

> This includes your music library, with any uploads, purchases and anything you've added from Google Play Music.

> After this date, there will be no way to recover it.

> You can download your Google Play Music library and data with Google Takeout, or transfer it to YouTube Music.

> As a reminder, with one click, you can still transfer your music library, including uploads, playlists and recommendations, to YouTube Music before 24 February 2021.
Anecdotally, I've found this to be surprisingly impactful. One of my brothers was a bodybuilder/athlete who ate clean and exercised a lot early in life. The rest of us were typical "mountain dew and warcraft" types. As we all enter our 30s, fit brother is able to do things the rest of us can't get away with, like eat a box of donuts a day for a weeks straight and keep an impressively lean figure, even when neglecting his fitness routines. Surely this would take a toll if he did it constantly, but his metabolism appears to have a "buffer" that my other brothers don't/didn't have at the same age.

Really makes me regret all that young stress eating, and a crazy example of how "The body keeps the score" w/r/t early life experiences.
Building a NoSQL E-Commerce Data Model
I'd never heard of Arch Mac until I read this comment, but reading your post about pulling the plug gave me chills.

I could tell that you poured a lot into this project, and I feel a surprising degree of wistfulness over your decision to abandon it.

I hope whatever you're working on now is as fulfilling as you wanted Arch Mac to be.
> but at my last job I could have really used somebody telling me as much.

Yeah, there's a subtle problem here:

- coworkers are a self-selecting population, that are likely OK working there.

- coworkers are probably over-represented in the people you talk to... and LISTEN to.

- people you do not work with "don't understand" (in theory)

I will say one thing:

Every time I've left a job... Every. Time. ... I was really conflicted about leaving.

Then, a week or two into the new job... Every. Time. ...I thought, "Wow! I should have done this sooner!"
CentOS and Debian stable will not like this hack. It's simply a trick to force upgrades on systems which promise bug stability.
haha, left-libertarian? With your dogmatic Propertarian propaganda that you consistently spout about here it's quite hard to believe that you're in any way shape or form adjacent to libertarian socialism.
lack of response by police and indifference of city residents towards store owners
> The Pakistani government can require that Apple and Google block certain apps and require that they maintain their ability to do so.

In general, we do not see governments doing this, no.

For example, I am sure that some people in Pakistan own intel/windows computers.

But Pakistan is not making laws that require every single intel/windows computer to block certain content, at the hardware level of the PC.

That is something that seems pretty difficult to enforce on all PCs.

If phones worked more like PCs, then it is likely that they would enjoy similar benefits.
https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
The mRNA vaccines were completed within a week or two with modern technology. It took nearly a year to test: prove that it was safe, prove that it was effective (preventing deaths, preventing hospitalizations, preventing symptoms).

This blogpost completely ignores the difficult proof issue.
Absolutely agree. I can't recommend enough that people look for new jobs as soon as they have major issues with their current one. Worst case, things improve and you just stop looking for a new one. Best case, you get a new job and things are way better. Even if the new job isn't amazing, at least the novelty and change of pace, plus the pride of having accomplished a new job, can recharge you enough to keep going.

At my first job, I was incredibly unhappy due to various reasons. I started looking for a job, and because I was already under so much strain from the current job, it took almost a year to find a new job. If I had waited until the breaking point, it would've been even more difficult to find a job due to having to recover from the first job, and then slog through almost a year of applying.

This isn't to scare people about the job market. But it's called a market for a reason. It's okay to have something today and look around for something better, even if what you have now isn't the worst thing ever.
I like this. I'll add something like this to the backlog.
It's getting hugged to death.

Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20210205204013/https://balthazar...

Can it possibly be be used with Libreboot? It would be nice to have some newly manufactured hardware in laptop form that Libreboot can use.
Humans can make errors in judgement or execution. When we look at affordances we look at filtering information to influence outcomes, and we try to eliminate mechanical errors like hitting the wrong button or transposing two activities.

Which is a long way of saying long numbers get more typos.

It’s all a tradeoff though. You just have to have all the competing concerns if you want to get a good answer.
Well, if we assume that your immune system takes a look at something that showed up in your nasal membranes once, and never reproduced, and said "that looks like a big problem we should learn how to make antibodies against". It is entirely possible that your immune system is smart enough to take a look at that and say "that looks like a bunch of inert junk", and does nothing, because it doesn't need to.
For what it's worth, the source code of OmegaSoft Pascal, a Pascal cross-compiler with linker/assembler/... for OS9/68000 targeting the 6809, is available: http://pascal-central.com/omega.html

Direct link to the archive: http://www.certsoft.com/PXK9_OS9_Source.zip

This seems to have been written in Pascal (Modula?).
Nix on macos only got a pre-built binary cache a couple of years ago - before that, yes, almost everything had to be built from the ground up.
Go to https://my.remarkbox.com and verify your email. From there you should see options.
And what's extra depressing is that they're usually not lying. For nontrivial AI, the developers can neither sufficiently answer why it does x or why it doesn't do y.
> Is it the kind of thing I could use to manage packages in my own directory as a non-root user (on Linux)?

Yes, exactly.

Not sure what exactly you mean with your second question though.
LOL. Why are you two not sharing the love?? Wube will not mind. Ok, I’ll do it. If you like Factorio, I think you owe it to yourself to try Satisfactory and Dyson Sphere Program. Satisfactory is my favorite since it has an expansive world that is aesthetically awe inspiring, combat that will traumatize you IRL, and dual tech trees with separate mechanics.

As to the GP comment, that’s actually what I came here to say. Original IP is a big risk when Factorio is that tough an act to follow. Sometimes you make something groundbreaking, but then your sophomore effort takes you to the stratosphere. Like the leap from Final Fantasy IV to VI. Other times you have that one period of genius that you can never really top, like Minecraft.