skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't an appeal to authority though. That would be saying, "I'm right because I'm the expert." This is saying, "I don't trust you because you're not an expert." That's not a logical fallacy.

Even experts in adjacent or overlapping fields are suspect. I'm a flight instructor. I teach in airplanes. Would you believe what I have to say about helicopters? You shouldn't. I don't know jack about them.
It's a great take from Tim and seems to ring very true. I just don't think people really think about what fame means. It's got huge tradeoffs and its mostly not fun but rather scary and unnerving. Eric Weinstein also seemed to run into this fairly quickly and has now stopped making his podcast because the fame part is mostly toxic.
Even if they did, it would likely be some bloated Javascript laden app that my phone couldn't load properly.

And it isn't like the BB10 Browser was bad tech, when it came out I believe it was a more standards compliant browser than its counterparts on IOS or Android.

It's just old. Apparently old is bad.
Incredibly brave of them to go with nightly build of Rust for async functionality. Not as in the weeds, but I would have been afraid of release being delayed forever and being stuck with the nightly release for a long time.
I don't know.

I think I replied to assimilation of the idea of totalitarian regime institutionalizing otherwise mentally healthy people for dissidence to merely not letting them vent on radio.

Indirect lines explaining seemingly unrelated concepts are everywhere. They even made some shows about that.
However, linking these two particular concepts together is strange.
Is IgE present in the bloodstream if I have not been exposed to the allergen recently? E.g. will I show as positive for a pet dander allergy if I have not been around pets for many years?
>Nothing is going to work any better than lockdowns, though.

They haven't worked, and they can't work. There are many third world countries that don't have internet access or the equivalent to the CDC. Global cooperation is just absolutely not going to happen. We can't even agree city to city in the US, much less state to state.

The way out of a global pandemic is the same it always has been. Vaccination. Attempting to control individual behavior on a global scale is a fools errand.
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Along similar lines, nickjj also has a similar (but bash) notes script at:

https://github.com/nickjj/notes
Since the dawn of the iPod and significantly more so since AirPods, many people walk nearly everywhere with headphones in their ears.

Before covid this bothered me immensely at work, where it was that much more difficult to get someone’s attention in common spaces.
I went hiking last month in Yakima, WA. It was a beautiful day and I got to the trailhead at about 9 o'clock. A hundred steps or so up the mountain, I pulled out my AirPods case...and it was empty. I can't describe the panic, then anger, then dread that doused me.

I did the 7 mile hike in a few hours, without a podcast or a song. About 20 minutes in, I forgot that I wasn't piping audio into my skull, and it turned out to be one of my favorite hikes. Made me realize that 1) I'm probably addicted to podcasts, and 2) these kind of activities are more enjoyable if you're _really_ present for them. I spent the rest of the day without my AirPods in, and I wish I did that more often.
Smaller point as most have covered the insanity of this, but am I reading this right that they are paying 125K for adding a field to some piece of data? I know government contracts can be bloated and there can be complications that don't make it straightforward, but give they itemized 3 separate fields and charged 185 developer hours each for them, that's just either insane gouging or blatant corruption right? That's nearly 400K for three fields being added.

https://media.kjzz.org/s3fs-public/styles/special_story_imag...
I feel bad for anyone who needs this reminder. Why are we even talking about productivity and goals in the context of taking a walk or playing with children?
Performance is a cost concern; if I can pay for less server resources then I can either pay my programmers more or hire more programmers.
> a practice which would have destroyed interoperability

A baseless reason is not a compelling reason. Some imagined eventual use is not relevant to the utility and convenience. Interoperability (in this greater undefined sense posited) cannot be maintained via syntax anyway.

> stripping comments before handing off the a JSON parser.

Putting an extra processing step before use of JSON is impractical.
In actual industrial practice, most YOUNG C++ developers I know would love to be able to work with Rust at work.
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Thanks. I assumed it was an allusion to the .Net runtime having a bunch of unnecessary crap built into it, including a ringtone for some arcane reason.
I never worry much about cardinal points when I'm home. But then I spent some months in two countries in which the addressing system does not use street names or house numbers but points of references and cardinal directions [1].

After about a month there, keeping track of the cardinal points became second nature because it was a necessary part of functioning in those countries. Since directions in conversations usually are "Just walk two blocks then one East"

However when I'm home, I stop keeping track where the North is, because it is not that necessary. And while we also speak Spanish in my country, we tell directions in a different way, using words like "Turn right, the left, downhill, uphill.

[1] Addresses in Nicaragua and Costa Rica are very unusual for the rest of the world. For example "From the Cowboy's Sour Milk, Two Blocks West, Right hand" is a completely valid address in Managua.
I think you might be mistaken about the time-frames of the different labels/generations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z#/media/File:Gener...

The oldest GenZ'er would be ~24 years old.

I am a GenX'er and looking at the butt-crack of 50 (yes I have grey hair).

Most Boomers that I know are retired, but not dead yet. (74-57 years of age)
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Thanks! I looked at a wrong release date on wiki ("Final release", which is actually Service Pack 3)
I am waiting for an article that has title:

"Amazon workers paid off before union vote."

Article: "Payday arrived two days before workers are set to vote on a new union."
> Calling fees taxes is just bullshit.

General “fees”, probably; there's a sense in which monopoly rents are tax-like, though.
They're pretty unbiased according to Media Bias Fact Check. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/arizona-capitol-times/

However, it's worth noting that this article is under the Opinion section.
It depends on the exact nature of the radiation. Note those pools. The dangerous radiation is blocked very well, but you can still see the stuff in the tank because light passes through water. Electromagnetic radiation isn't blocked by water as effectively as alpha/beta particles.
It's true there hasn't been a lot interesting going on. Though I'd argue the Dark Forest articles on Ethereum recovery were quite fascinating for illuminating a possibility I hadn't predicted and doing so quite lucidly. Of course, the message I took from the series as a whole was that this is a world full of people out to exploit your mistakes and the way to get around them is to have private connections external to the blockchain, so... It didn't shine a positive light, either.

But really, it kind of feels like the Tether investigation is the only thing shaking up the ecosystem in an interesting way, and it's doing so at a glacial pace. There really isn't much else new to say.
Field-specific SaaS companies post-F&F, pre-A round with exactly 1 employee (probably an engineer) and two or more founders, where a founder joined later.

People who need to communicate with one another because not everyone is on exactly the same page (employee may not have the full context, late arriving founder doesn't know everything yet), and that communication needs to be specific enough to start implementing something, but not so specific that other existing processes would be better suited (e.g. a pitch deck).

...or something like that!
The buck seems to stop at the computer/AI nowadays, in an alarmingly growing number institutions and companies. And you can't punish a computer or hold an AI accountable. This seems to be an end state desired by people who were previously accountable.
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> I wonder why they didn’t try doing things like putting the LRU cache into foreign, unmanaged memory to avoid garbage collecting it

Ah yes, because what I really want out of an ostensibly memory-safe language like go is to have to resort to C, or what amounts to C, to get anything done. Or I could use a language which doesn't have this garbage issue. But that would just be political nonsense apparently.
You should probably not be blocking out ambulance, construction, and speeding car sounds while walking outside for your own safety
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> - Simple language

So simple it can't do Object.keys()

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy writing code in Go, Rust, and TS. But my god, Go literally is a pain in the ass every time I want to do something that isn't a map reduce problem. And even for map reduce problems it's annoying due to lack of generics.

Maybe generics will finally give Go something that every other language has. A strong, useful, standard library for collections.
A flash loan is a loan you pay back immediately...

So you're right, this isn't a thing that exists today outside of crypto because it's not needed outside of crypto. Someone who can pay a loan back as part of the same transaction in which the loan is issued is not a default risk, and in the real world you just don't bother with the loan: you just pay for the underlying transaction directly.
Looks cool!

By the way, instead of alias, you can use setuptools to add it to your PATH[0].

[0] https://python-packaging.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command-li...
I don't know any of the other "many examples", the only one I keep hearing about is the thalidomide incident.

Kind of like when people opposing nuclear power keep bringing up Chernobyl and Fukushima while ignoring their relative tiny victim count compared to the millions of people killed by our fossil energy production.
Yes, the idea is similar. If you make a huge map in Go with millions of items, it will stress the GC. If you take the same information and just put it into a big byte slice, and index into it in a way that the GC doesn't think you're pointing to addresses, then it will be much faster. Of course now you are writing a little more code.
As they say, "you can write FORTRAN in any language".
Welcome to the world where your government does not actually have a proper, audited, secure and centralized database of all its citizens. Even third-world countries have it better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006#Object...

Reasons for disbanding it:

1. Costs

2. "Effectiveness"

3. "Racism"

4. "Privacy Concerns"
People working at prisons have no incentive to be kind or instill any kind of humanity in their actions, thus I would expect having them go through their list of prisoners and determine when prisoners should be released to have just as cynical a result as relying on broken software.
As someone with a civil engineering background:

This right here is the difference between conventional engineering disciplines where designs require a Stamp from an Engineer of Record who takes on personal responsibility in the event of design failures vs. the current discipline of software engineering.

There's a big difference between a software developer and a software engineer, and I think that difference should be codified with a licensure and a stamp like it is in every other engineering field in the states.

Software like this ought to require a stamp.

A decent analogy is the environmental work I've done. When we come up with solutions and mitigations to environmental problems, like software, we can't always predict the result because of the complexities involved. So we stamp a design, but we, or the agencies responsible for allowing the project often specify additional monitoring or other stipulations with very specific performance guidelines. It's a flexible system and possible to adapt to, but there are real consequences and fines when targets aren't met. When bad things happen, the specifics of what went wrong and why are very relevant and the engineer may be to blame, or the owner/site manager, or the contractor who did the work, or sometimes no one is to be blamed but the agencies are able to say: "Hey this isn't working and needs to be addressed, do it by this date or else."

In engineering, there's an enormous amount of public trust given to engineered designs. The engineer takes personal responsibility for that public trust that a building or bridge isn't going to fall down. And if you're negligent, it's a BFD.

Given the current level of public trust that we are putting into software systems, it's crazy to me that we haven't adopted a similar system.
yah I closed this article as soon as the author implied that the "atelic" activities described have "no end goal"

(ie making love has "no goal"? what kind of relationship does this describe?? end goal for sex for some people is orgasm, for others it's to make their partner happy, for even others, it's to bond and have a closer, more intimate relationship, for others, it's to work out physically and have fun)

I'd do a puzzle with my toddler since my goal is to make my baby interested and happy.

I'd play a piece of music to entertain the idea that my goal is to be able to read sheet music.

There is nothing without goals. The goals this person has needs to be reconsidered.
One of the things to consider when comparing C# and Go is how it does parallelism. In C#, the new async/await mechanism can go horribly wrong if the programmer doesn't use it correctly. This can cause threads to start up, which is in fact slower than older .NET tech that had larger starting thread pools. You can view this with PerfView to see if it's your load issue.

In Go, the scheduler is smart enough to stop something even when it's not blocking on IO. This makes it more robust.

Of course, use what you need for when you need it. Rust definitely shines in some circumstances.
There is plenty of useful software. For example: scientific software.
OIT (oral immunotherapy) and SLIT (sublingual) is still in a clinical research stage for food allergies; however, a small subset of doctors do currently offer it in their own practice outside of the research setting (see oit101.org). Some of these practitioners do tell patients at some point that they have achieved "sustained unresponsiveness." Most allergists do not yet offer it as there is no standardized protocol for it, it's not considered "standard of care."

The first food allergy OIT product, Palforzia, released last year. It's claim to fame (and competitive moat) is the combination of them sponsoring a series of large trial using the same, standardized protocol which now has become part of the drug labeling, so physicians don't have to decide themselves, as well as a exclusive supply agreement for peanut flour that is characterized so each pre-measured capsule has a known amount of protein rather than just a known amount of flour.

From what I remember, SCIT (sub-cutaneous allergy shots) have generally not performed very favorably in research for food allergies; they cause too many severe adverse reactions and they are not anyone's favorite anyway.
There's more than just bitcoin and ethereum
Your comment reminded me of a clever and well-written short story called "Understand" by Ted Chiang.

> We could fuzz it and see if we can crash a brain.

Sadly, this we already know. Torture, fear, depression, regret; we have a wide selection to choose from if we want to "crash a brain".
The Australian government is simply an arm of Murdoch.

There's nothing more to this than helping Murdoch get his way.
+1 going from meme language to meme language seems highly suspicious. Go and Rust are fine languages, but given these are relatively new and immature, I find it startling that Discord had to do writes/rewrites so often. I'd wager that if Discord had started sooner than 2015 (say, 2013ish) - we'd have seen Scala thrown into the fray as well.
People have choice now. What you are implying is that they should get to choose, and have it paid for by tax dollars.
This already exists: https://www.inaturalist.org
"85% (95% confidence interval [CI] 76 to 91) ... 94% (95% CI 73 to 99)"

Those aren't overlapping?
> These are the sort of real-world constraints that you can't just ignore.

These constraints were drafted by a handful of rich white bankers in a secret meeting. I have no problem ignoring their constraints. It seems you do.

Can you imagine all the hot-takes HN would generate if email were invented today?

"You can't just encroach on the sovereignty of USPS like that"
"Electronic Mail doesn't do anything the pony-express can't do"
"If we allow Electron Mail then how do we attach a postage stamp"

Email adoption, like Crypto doesn't require convincing the entire population. The laggards will join eventually.
I feel like this neglects a huge use case: women that get harassed by random men in public spaces. Headphones are a godsend for this. I have multiple friends that wear headphones even when they’re not listening to anything for this reason. If you live in a major city it can be hard to make it a couple blocks without aggressive hellos.
Source data should not experience deletes or updates, otherwise backfills will not work. Deletes can be handled by mirroring source data. Updates are difficult and will need a full CDC system to capture them. Better is to negotiate with data provider to send data updates as appends and never to delete from history.

The whole point of ETL is to bring data from one database to another. The comparison of source and destination primary keys can be done in python outside of db. And should be done on entire partitions instead of individual rows. Eg. you only consider which 'day' partitions have been loaded, not which rows have been loaded.
> Then please tell me what the example of Mac OS with word "closed" nearby is doing in that Wikipedia page?

In the sentence “Mac OS is not a closed system”, the word ‘closed’ is near the words ‘Mac OS’.

I assume you don’t think that sentence means that Mac OS, is a closed system.

Generally, when words are ‘nearby’ other words you have to read the context to understand why they are there.

> Does it say that Mac OS is an open ecosystem?

Yes, it does say that it’s an open ecosystem.

In the parts of the table describing the ecosystem it has the word open in the rows for MacOS.

Obviously you can see that.
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>poverty and depression

So you support NZ's style "zero covid" policy? Because that beats the economic consequences of letting COVID run loose.

>"death's door"
=> an average of 16 years of life.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83040-3
Better tooling for the programmers you mean? I don’t regularly program in either language (Go or Rust), but I thought Google ran a pretty tight ship on good Go tooling, except with a bit of module SNAFU in its past.
I get the impression that this advice is accurate for the python ecosystem, but that’s because the entire ecosystem is broken with respect to backwards compatibility.

The exact same mechanisms work fine with other programming languages, and (more importantly, probably) different developer communities.

In fairness, Python’s lack of static types does make things worse than the situation for compiled languages. (Though that’s a general argument against writing non-throwaway code in python).

People claim node does better, even though JS is also missing static types, so presumably they solved this issue somehow (testing, maybe?). I don’t use it, so I have no idea.
wow great collection of names to checkout!
I see but C++ is widely used and you can easily find C++ devs compared to Rust.

This brings me to my next questions C++ has been there for a long time compared to Rust but still people decide to go with Rust

Just curious to know
Lack of garbage is a pro, not a con.
Instead of making the vaccination desirable, politicians in German spent a lot of time assuring people there would be no mandatory vaccinations. But if you have to entertain the thought of making it mandatory and if you calm people by saying it will not be, you imply that there is something bad about it.

They should have emphasized that they are making sure everybody can get it and that it is the norm to get it, like with a measles vaccination. I also think there should be a "yes I am vaccinated" campaign, and they should give away a certain amount of doses in a lottery. The vaccination is not something to fear, but to be excited about. I think the current strategy is a psychological fail.
I think the figures from Israel show you are at increased risk of infection for the first week after the vaccine is administered. Presumably because people are already starting to change their behaviour.
Discord also runs in cloud. They could save $$$ by just going to the colo instead
I only included the pronunciation because you used a version of "graduate" in your original comment that has a different pronunciation and different meaning. (gra-jə-wāt vs. gra-jə-wət)

> a graduate degree may encompass both master's and doctoral degrees, which would only serve to obscure the meaning.

Nope, 99% of the time "graduate degree" == "master's degree". Usually "postgraduate degree" is used to refer to doctoral degrees. "graduate degree" is very common and generally unambiguous.

"undergraduate degree" = bachelor's degree, etc.

"graduate degree" = master's degree, etc.

"postgraduate degree" = doctorate, etc.
This whole business is so capital-intensive the decisions often follow non-obvious patterns. There are advantages in keeping a fleet uniform, even if a newer plane lease is cheaper than another model you already have a bunch of just because of the costs of training ground and air crews. Some leases may end up cheaper for you - and only for you - because of some tax break you got from one government that, for now, wasn't questioned by the WTO (and, since it's the manufacturer who'll pay the fines, it's not a concern).

It's... complicated. Very complicated.
We switched Ruby -> Scala, and it took considerable training effort and some years before everyone was comfortable.
I would estimate 15% of the developers still can't write moderately good Scala code.
I think it's aimed at people who say this to themselves (there are plenty in the thread).
> Make friends in real life, meet partners via your social life

What social life do you have during a global pandemic? Where I'm located everything is shut down since December and won't reopen before some still-not-determined date next month. I'm glad I was already in a stable relationship covid, otherwise I wouldn't know how to have contacts with people in real life in the current situation.
Interesting choice - those two societies also have 1000 years of respect for nobility? It seems to be a strong factor then.
For myself? I have no idea. I think this would fall under a general data quality concern.

I can say I have not seen this brought up too much on Twitter. With the caveat that I am not following everyone. :)
When I studied journalism in the early '90s our professors drew a direct correlation between newspapers that showed ads "above the fold" and those that didn't. According to the profs if they practiced the former they were clearly not real journalistic enterprises. USA Today did it and they used it as a case that proved their point. How times change.
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