skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
laughable or not, the American lockdowns certainly destroyed plenty of livelihoods and devastated a thriving economy where wages were finally rising for the majority.

what would a proper lockdown look like to you anyway? I uniformed officer at your front door forcing you to remain inside?
Australia’s ham-handed attempt to save journalism will only aid the powerful
And yet being a regular IC at either of those companies looks identically mind numbing. Who cares what their personalities are like if you’re not lucky enough to be up there?
I'm not sure what you mean. That was the "if" that started this comment thread - an assertion that the US would be back to normal already if only it had done what Australia did.
> You do not move yourself closer to your goals when you do a puzzle with your toddler.

If that's true, you may need to reconsider your goals.
Congrats on your launch! This sounds really promising!

How do you deal with the risk of severe reactions? Is that risk diminished with drops instead of shots?

I'm undergoing shot therapy now and had a life threatening anaphylactic reaction to a shot just a couple months ago. I'm concerned if I had been by myself at home I may have died?

I was at the doctors office but they still called 911 for "backup" because I got so sick so fast. What struck me about the experience was the speed of the whole thing. I was fine one moment, the next moment I didn't feel great, then I started dry heaving, then I got upset with the staff as I was insistent I be allowed "just lay on the floor" which they wouldn't allow. This whole deterioration took maybe 5 minutes? I felt very very tired like I wanted to sleep. When they gave me an EPI injection it didn't just magically fix everything right away. I was still very sick for another 15-20 minutes. I never had any breathing distress I was aware of and had I been alone I don't think I would not have injected myself with EPI, I think I would have just gone to sleep and not woken up.

I presume you all have thoughtfully addressed this risk but I didn't see that in my quick skim of your materials/website so I'm interested in how you handle it?
Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday were both events where many people that were diligent about quarantine protocol for the past year decided to break protocol "just this once" because it involved the two primary holidays for gathering with loved ones.
At this rate, the No True Scotsman fallacy is going to be renamed to No True Lockdown.
The web was officially launched in 1990. The web's killer app was information exchange, and it was used for that purpose even before the web existed; see for example Compuserve, AOL, Usenet, the academic webs between universities that predated the "Internet."

Amazon launched in 1994. Ebay 1995. Netflix 1997. Google 1998.

In contrast, 10+ years on, and cryptocurrency still hasn't demonstrated a compelling use case beyond money laundering and collecting ransom payments. If anything, the one thing crytocurrency has demonstrated is how flexible and resilient our existing old school financial system is.
My cynical take is that the lack of accountability is exactly what makes software enabled bureaucracy so appealing. If this true, there is no incentive to change.
He got censored.

What do you call censorship when you don't trust the censor? Entropy? Noise?
My guess would be that compressing lossless audio will sound better than compressing already-compressed audio.
I guess if it can't write to /home/test your system is safe...
Biden's Transportation Battle Begins
I know I should be listening to the sounds of the birds when I take my daily walk. After all, the purpose is a sort of reset - an active meditation. And maybe it's a product of this productivity meme, whereby every waking moment must be utilised to it's maximum potential. But everyday I want to explore one or two recently released albums, and it just fits to fit them into my daily dose of vitamin D. I actually feel like a pleasure of mine has been lost if I go out without them.
Some researchers from top-10 schools still publish python2 code in 2020. I don't have an explanation for that. It's not even a lack of experience, but something on another level.
The point is the USA was right when everyone else was wrong and didn't bow to public pressure, and so I trust them a bit more when they are conservative with approvals.
I'll accept that as a reasonable conclusion. Then he also said the following:

https://usesthis.com/interviews/rob.pike/

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...

(and some other stuff about syntax highlighting from around that time (?) I couldn't find.)

So maybe it was a bit of both.
Maybe all creativity is just mimics who repeat things and add a little bit of variation.

I think the book Steal Like an Artist addresses this.
> While version 3 of the dependency is innocent, commit 5678 is not. Something went wrong in the interaction between the code and its dependencies in that change and discovering that change quickly is valuable.

The trouble is that this will tend to point the finger at large changes that jostle many things around at once and become a rabbit hole rather than the two line commit with a typo that actually caused the problem.

The main advantage you're putting forth is to know the versions of each dependency needed to reproduce the problem. But you can get that from the person reporting the bug. You can add a switch to your software to output the versions of every dependency it's using and then it's there in the bug report. And once you have a combination that can reproduce the bug, the process of experimenting with things to identify the cause is basically the same either way.
Holy cow, I didn't know until your comment and I subsequently looked her up on Wikipedia that she's the vocals on "Destiny"!
Blockchain dapps can potentially threaten HN jobs so its not exactly a hit on here.
The official release of built-in treesitter comes with neovim 0.5. Which looks like it'll be out pretty soon. I've been watching a fairly steady march toward release here: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/milestone/19
Thanks, that's a great video and I'm going to look through the references. Lots of great points made in the video.

As he acknowledges in the end, a lot of cyclists prefer clip-in pedals just due to stability. In my experience, it's not so much about the upstroke (which to be fair I am surprised was not measured to provide a power benefit), but the knowledge that I will never lose my footing. Without that knowledge, I simply wouldn't apply as much power.
Don't look at that kind of benchmark, most cheat, and notice how latency is bad, because C# is not native code, so the JIT needs warmup just like java, wich introduces hicups and non-deterministic performance

So these perfect situations where you only do the same thing and call same code over and over never happen; never!

Anyways, GO isn't popular for its RAW perf, GO is popular because:

- Simple language

- Native code

- GC

- Cross compilation

- Fast iteration (build/rebuild/deploy)

- Relatively tiny, statically compiled executable
Rust in hot paths
This whole comment chain is about global covid. Any course of action that relies upon global cooperation is pointless. We can't even get country wide cooperation in the United States. If we try to stop the global spread of covid with lockdowns, we'll all die of old age in lockdown.
Yeah but the cost of that chain will also rise.

If I'm (or my company is) personally on the hook for bugs, then I'm going to adopt a NASA-like software quality regimen, pushing up the cost of the product.

Every single part of the software stack below me, from hardware, OS, compiler toolchain, disavows responsibility so if I have to absorb all the risk, the product is going to be mind bogglingly expensive.
One Item Store #2: Delays
I think the difference is that when I start drinking with the intention or possibility of blacking out, I know that I'll wake up and there will be some continuity of consciousness.

When I wake up in a simworld and asked to finally refactor my side project so it can connect to a postgres database, not only do I know that it will be the last thing that this one local instantiation experiences, but that the local instantiation will also get no benefit out of it!

If I get blackout drunk with my friends in meatspace, we might have some fun stories to share in the morning, and our bond will be stronger. If I push some code as a copy, there's no benefit for me at all. In fact, there's not much incentive for me to promise my creator that I'll get it done, then spend the rest of my subjective experience trying to instantiate some beer and masturbating.
If items get returned twice while iterating, then I know something got added. Manga websites do this and it's a nice unintended feature.

Slicing by ID is how Github does commit history and it drives me nuts that I can't jump several pages, for example, to see when the first commit was, or to guess whereabouts some commit is given a known time range. IDs make it impossible to do anything but iterate step by step.

I much prefer an interface that exposes:

a) how many items exist in total

b) which offset it's starting from

c) how many items in the slice

Then if I want a slice from 300-8000th items, I can type exactly that in the URL. Yes, I understand this will render a huge page, just let me do it the one time so I won't be spamming your server with requests over the next hour trying to find something while fighting against bad UX.
Is it suppose to matter how you feel?

Giving up the human species because zarchose will be unhappy he didn't survive the apocalypse seems a waste.
source: Vice. Shocking...
Several, like https://www.expertengine.com/

Apparently a $1B business https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-28/investors...
AMD Zen 3 outperforms on workloads that can take advantage of having more cores, but for single threaded workloads, it leads in some SPEC subtests and falls behind in others.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
Has anyone ever seriously suggested that it isn't OK to take a walk without headphones?

I like walking. I walk a lot. I've never in my life worn headphones while doing so.
This one?
https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
If there’s penal consequences for bad software, you can bet that the development cost will easily 10x overnight.
You were unfairly down'd

People are really desperate to believe the worse about amazon...
If you're introducing breaking changes in every new release you should still be in the 0.x stage of SemVer. You're doing something wrong if you end up on v77.0.0. The Node ecosystem's strict compliance with SemVer works fine 99% of the time because SemVer is indeed an effective versioning system (when people use it right).
> In term of the latter, women are more involved with healthcare than men – accounting for 77% of NHS employees8 – and, according to research from the US9 females make 80% of buying decisions about healthcare products and services.

Why are the authors of these slides not equally concerned with the under representation of men in health care?
Isn't Future lifetime must be tied to I/O operation, so Future will not outlive I/O operation? Can you post an example, please?
A Tale of Two Viewports
I've been saying this for 30 years, and it's been proved that I'm the outlier, but think collecting pictures of one's self, especially standing in front of things, is weird. I theoretically understand sending pictures of yourself in exotic places or having fun with friends as proof that you go to places and have friends, but my actual friends just believe me when I tell them that I went somewhere and I know people.
"Also it is 100% clear that tons of people can’t wait to be allowed to visit each other. Claiming ‘people aren’t going to congregate’ is simply a lie. In the Netherlands we had one test event with 1500 tickets and over 100000 people applied for a ticket. They can’t wait to congregate."

I'm not up to date on the situation in the Netherlands. Is it that you can do anything you want if you have a negative test? Because otherwise, I don't think that anecdote means what you want it to mean.
I mean, there's the odd band I like everything of (eg, Jethro Tull), but other times either the "new stuff" isn't "right", or -- when I come to a band late in their career -- I work backwards only to discover I don't care for their early stuff.
software is a tool used by people. You are measuring America.
i don't know why you're being downvoted.

This statement is true
"Must be the no true lockdown: if it doesn’t work we just say it wasn’t strict enough."

any criticism of the lockdowns is met with "you didn't lockdown enough".
Peter Gabriel chilled out in Rochester NY (my home town) for a while. In an interview he mentioned that it was nice to be anonymous. Not sure what that says about my home town that nobody recognized him ;)
To a degree this is what happens already. Just not generally fast enough to avoid putting in the hard work of exercising and diet. (In fact, muscle growth is you damaging your muscles with strenuous exercise and then the body repairing itself to a better state during your sleep.)

Fix your sleep is pretty good baseline advice for people starting fitness.
On power markets, snow storms, and $16k power bills
This sounds incredible.
Off-topic: who is in charge of choosing colors for graphs? Being red-green colorblind, choosing blue and purple is makes it impossible for me to read the charts. I know its stylish, but every time i make a graph i choose very high contrast colors. Another point: is it just being color blind or do other people struggle in charts/maps that have shades of a color? like different shades of blue represent different rates of covid deaths across a map. just curious if anyone else struggles with this
What if the root cause is the ever increasing complexity that software is trying to manage? At all levels (legislature, management, bureaucrats, programming languages, developers, testers, users, subjects) we are creating more and more complex situations we ask software and the institutions that produce it to manage for us.

But as the complexity goes up and the number of these complex situations increases, are we reaching a point where we outstrip the amount of money, talent and experience our institutions would need to deliver solutions to successfully manage them?

With our resources and intelligence as a species being capped, it seems at some point this is inevitable.
Who's this guitar playing sonzabitch?"

Is a question common asked

On his head a bucket of chicken bones

On his face a plastic mask
He's the bastard son of a preacher-man

On the town he left a stain
They made him live in a chicken house
To try and hide the shame

He was born in a coop, raised in a cage

Children fear him, critics rage

He's half alive, he's half dead

Folks just call him Buckethead!
> My colleagues are watching bitcoin prices all the time... most of them don't even own any!

I love this comment. It shows how different people's brains are wired as you say. For me bitcoin is like the story of the princess and the pea. I know it's a tiny thing but I can't get it out of my head.

I have shares I live with quite easily. Shares seem as close to me as I can get to actually having a connection with a product. I think I struggle morally to persue money for moneys sake. That's not a judgement on bitcoin owners. I just know for me I don't give two hoots about bitcoin and that somehow is important to me. I don't do the lottery either as I decided some time ago not to dream of what may be. This is a quick way to lose a sense of gratefulness for what you have.

Anyway, from the over sensitive to the emotionless, good luck with your coin :-)
There was Windows NT 4 which was awesome, released in 1996, and Windows 2000, released in 1999.

As a kid I used both of those. NT 4 was a bit hard to use since most programs (read games) were written for DOS or win95/98.

But Windows 2000 was awesome. It was like having winXp a couple years early
It probably depends on how old you are. When I was rounding out my 20's and still going to clubs, Homework dropped, I listened to it so many times (but looking back, that album was kind of inaccessible to most unless they were already techno-heads). And then 2001 and Discovery, which I'd personally consider their magnum opus, and everything after that is just kinda meh for me except for the TRON remixes (which figures, since I'm an 80's kid).
As snarky as a fish, a barrel, and a smoking gun!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suck.com

https://web.archive.org/web/20181215003853/http://www.suck.c...
Right now, Wyndly only treats environmental allergies like pollen, pet dander, and dust. We do not treat food allergies because oral immunotherapy for food allergies is still being researched.

Stanford has a shellfish clinical trial going on right now. See https://med.stanford.edu/allergyandasthma/clinical-trials.ht...
IMO, having a hobby that's completely unrelated to your profession is critical, especially for people who do any kind of "knowledge work" for a living. Doing something entirely different gives your brain the time and space to process things. It's sort of like how people say they have their best ideas in the shower/when out for a walk/etc. It's not about splitting time between what you enjoy and what you don't - it's more that just doing one thing all the time isn't particularly healthy and can be an active hindrance to doing your best work.
That's the unsurprising outcome of our relentless poisoning of insects, which continues unabated today.

Humans think about certain things as being infinite, until they aren't:

forests are so big we could never impact them

oceans are so big we could never impact them

the atmosphere is so big we could never impact it

the weather system is so big we could never impact it

there's so many insects we could never impact them

etc etc
They key takeaway really is that for high performance, the way you think about memory layout, data structures, memory management, etc. all start to really matter. It is possible to write programs with memory pools to reuse data structures as much as possible without having to defer the work to the GC, which can then introduce performance spikes.

That said, C# and JVM are both mature and have decades of GC improvements, which could explain why golang is falling behind. Time will tell.
I was 12 in 99, so my memory isn't great on this, but I remember having it around then. It could have been a few years later, though. I seem to recall that you had to pay extra for it, so most people didn't bother.
How does anyone know that they aren't already connected to the seller, and just passing 10,000 dollars from one wallet address they own, to another they also own, to create the appearance of a sale?

You get the same veblen bragging rights, the artist (assuming they are not simply your own alter ego) gets a visibility boost and nobody is going to be motivated enough to go digging around the custody trail to prove this was a sham.

This sleight of hand (in a slightly modified form) is standard operating procedure for inflating the value of ICO offerings (and by extension, crypto as a whole); I don't see why people wouldn't do it for NFTs, with the same motivations at work.
Why Don't Today's Deep Nets Overfit to Their Training Data?
that doesn't sound bad to me if we are dealing with people's life or people's freedoms
It seems that capital is only abundant through the VC-finance industrial complex, relative dumb money from LPs who buy into whatever thesis a VC firm constructs, and then those VCs will relatively poorly make decisions - only expecting the success of 2-3"unicorns" to pay off their losses and make all their profit - meanwhile that forces, applies pressure to all of their investments to charge more than they may otherwise need to, and use tactics that may not be great, and then that leaves them open to be competed against, disrupted; mind you, their ideal scenario/exit is to IPO and pass that risk off onto society in general. I am trying to combat this with the design decisions for my projects, we'll see if I succeed or if it has any impact.
Then you have to over-build your infrastructure, not just for daily intermittency but also seasonal intermittency. So you have to add that to your calculation. But this point is moot anyway, because there is no battery technology that is capable of that much storage.
I'd consider RedHat a top tech company. And FAANG all contribute a fair chunk to FOSS.
in my experience it is usually not required and not desirable to have distributed transaction where transaction coordinator is your remote client. It is also habitual behaviour, you are used to ACID so it must be that ACID is required. Currently have that type of discussions at work where people want to have atomic consistency across distributed systems just because mental model is easier. Whenever eventual consistency raises ugly head people get worried :)
That's a given -- at least from my standpoint.
> Not a ruby developer here: that sounds terrifying! Does it make it harder to have a proper mental model of the language

It is a little terrifying in the sense that I'd not want to write language level tools (eg: syntax highlighter).

But if you have scheme on one end and natural language on the other, ruby leans à bit towards natural language - but in a good way. In some ways ruby isn't that different from Smalltalk - but it has a lot (sometimes I think too many, sometimes not) conveniences.

Parantheses and brackets are largely optional "where it makes sense". Conditionals support postfix, eg these are equivalent:

if should_send?()
send_mail({to: 'u@x.com'})
end

send_mail to: 'u@x.com' if should_send?
I wonder what's the underlying software stack, mainframe? oracle?
Performance is rarely the top priority for a software engineering project. If you task a whole team to switch from Go to Rust or C# purely because “Rust goes brrr” you’re going to have a bad time.

I use Go because its decently fast, I like the syntax, has a great stdlib, and I feel like it’s very easy to share a Go codebase with other engineers.
You don't need a challenge trial if you have large enough control and experimental groups.

A challenge trial just reduces the time and number of people it takes--not everything needs a challenge trial.
I live in Alberta, Canada, which is heavily reliant on resource extraction -- namely, oil. With all the lockdowns (and people voluntarily staying at home), demand for oil has tanked.

If there weren't lockdowns (and people were travelling again), our economy would be doing much better.

[With all that said, and while I dearly missing socializing, it isn't obvious to me that removing the lockdowns would improve things; on the other hand, it isn't obvious to me that letting the disease run rampant would be worse than the mental and emotional toll the lockdowns are taking on people and the economy. So many poorly understood trade-offs.]
It's not about risk, it's about philosophy. They want to control the entire stack, and it's been in their DNA for decades. Most internal documentation also generally isn't public-level quality, so it's a non-zero amount of effort to release docs.
Even if we manage to address climate change in time, I worry we’ve already missed the boat for addressing the accompanying ecological collapse that seems to be rapidly accelerating.
Can I get one to put in a jet ski and or electric boat?