skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess we will see more and more Amazon Basic products that are copies of high-quality, well-selling items. They just have to look at their massive amounts of data, manufacture a similar product, then placing it on the top ranking in the store.
I keep wondering if there’s an underwriter angle here where you offer insurance and audit the company to set the premiums based on how broken their IT situation is.
Doesn't Gmail roughly do the same thing already? Offer AI canned choices.

This all seems like automating what secretaries used to do when a boss said: "tell X my plate is full and I'm unable to help them with Y" and then the secretary crafted a diplomatic version of that as a memo.
This is an ad, most of the user's submissions are for this site.

It's also a terrible article. The first example is why saying "sorry I can't" is bad, the last example is literally just "no." It's not a revelation that those could be stated better.
Exciting news. Windows and multithreading are still showstoppers for me, unfortunately, but with the progress over the last couple years I'm hopeful that there's a light at the end of the tunnel on those fronts, especially now that the language itself is (ostensibly) stable.
Maybe two and half years. I'll give it another try, thanks.
This is an extremely poor theory formulated by blindly speculating and then skipping the step where one gathers evidence for or against or even considers whether the idea even makes sense in theory.

Nobody would sell lab animals from a virology lab to markets to eat. The consequences are obvious, animals would be accounted for, the risk would be extremely high to the persons future, and the profits small.

It's the kind of ideas you find on racist conspiracy theory blogs and you shouldn't share it here.
Hahaha, interesting. Ok, will avoid in new Wolfram threads
There are already blacklists and sanctioned bitcoin addresses. It might defeat your point of bitcoin, whatever that is, but not mine... There is no universally agreed "point of BTC".
That, and don't get me started on their search. Love getting 0 results on initial submit, then reloading the page with the results magically appearing...

Also love being redirected in order to continue reading certain threads
In one of Dan Gilbert’s talks he cited some research around activities and how they correlate with happiness. Unsurprisingly people like sex and socializing. But “doing nothing” turned out to be about as enjoyable as work at the bottom.
I toured that part of Iceland 2 years ago. That area is very desolate, even that close to the capital.
@cl0ckt0wer: "You bough a brand new computer without an SSD?"

I already have an SSD, I was planning on installing it and using the harddrive as an archive. Then adding some extra RAM and an M.2 memory card.
It seems that the CCP actually very deliberately covered tracks here... nothing accidental about it.
Divorce is better than an unhappy marriage with someone who doesn't share values.
I agree.

The ultimate question of consciousness regards the phenomenological experience of being - what is it? Where does it come from? What does it mean about us? Who else shares it?

Any theory of consciousness that doesn’t address those questions may indeed be addressing some version of how we might define consciousness, but it’s redefining the mountain from the foothills - justify it all you like, but nobody’s giving you credit for the summit.
Not really. The lab is in a major city, and imported samples from all over China (and the rest of the world).

The hypothesized bat in question, if it was really a wet-market outbreak, was imported from hundreds of miles away.
> but we think we can drive both at the same time

Eh.. I think the comments here are telling otherwise. I'll admit I haven't used Gitlab in over a year now. But I know the entire team I worked with really despised the switch to Gitlab internally. So much so we dragged our feet as the only team staying on Github while the rest of the company moved to Gitlab as long as we could.

It was a really unpleasant experience using Gitlab. The diffing in particular was truly awful by comparison. And in general everything was slower with Gitlab.

You should rethink this mindset of doing both at the same time and focus more on making what you have now better. It would likely benefit you greatly.
Ah, I feel this. Kind of funny (funny ha ha or funny ouch?) but on my last two projects, I was definitely riding a high of sorts. New languages/frameworks but before long, I had figured out the lay of the land and some of the quirks of these languages and felt like I was really productive, and able to help teammates with questions.

In both cases, 6-12 month long projects ended with basically being thrown in the bin. So, yeah, you can imagine any sense of purpose I may have assigned myself by being involved in these projects was an illusion. Nope - I just enjoyed getting good at something!

Then I spent six months unemployed, and spent some of that doing hobbies I enjoyed... even getting half decent at some things I've tried before. But by the end of the period, given the constraints of the pandemic, I was missing that feeling of doing something on work days that felt like accomplishment. I definitely think for anyone retiring, early or otherwise, you will have to spend a period of decompression and adjustment, either learning to accept consumption over creation, or finding new ways to create. You'll need to find a new balance, and you'll have a lot more time to do it.
AstraZeneca also exported EU stockpiles to the UK leading to this shortfall.
I’ve been rejected 5 times from Google. And yet every year like clockwork they email me again asking to interview. At this point I just say yes every couple of years and try again because why not. I think I do well enough to deserve a call-back but never good enough to get hired (I made it to the hiring committee though).
that is a security issue on it's own. you should never have an openredirect bug, that's why openid servers need to store redirect uris somewhere and validate them.
Not everything. The USBFS pair (D+/D-, at the center of the connector) is mirrored; the two D+ lines are connected together. This is not true of the four USBSS pairs -- TX1+/- and TX2+/- are separate, and can both be used at the same time for different purposes. The CC1/2 lines (which aren't mirrored either) are used as part of the process to negotiate how these pairs are used.
They still pollute, even if they're carbon neutral. Particle emissions won't go away.
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology is one of only two BSL–4 labs in China.
Maybe they shouldn't -- but Rome was not built in a day, and tomorrow people have to get to work.

A large portion of the world's real estate development since the advent of the car has been designed to work around those constructs. It took us a century to get into this mess and it'll probably take at least that to get out of it. We need to stop burning gasoline today, and EVs are the only way to do it. Erasing the sprawling suburbs that blanket car-centric places today isn't going to happen soon enough, and the environmental impact of the construction that would have to take place to do that is also very significant on its own.
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Love the idea... could someone do a similar idea with Python.
Yeah, but viruses evolve faster and branch out. Again, you make all your conclusions based on our experience with DNA viruses - this is an RNA viruses, things are different. Imagine the flu as we know it only more contagious and more lethal. How can we be optimistic when even the flu kids enough and damages the economy already and vaccines have spotty success against it.
Upvoted. People are brainwashed in both directions but discussion shouldn't be banned.

EDIT: The downvotes to me represent people who want to silence discussion on the matter.
I agree with the language part you said. I find worrying that Wolfram is not talking enough about it.
One possible explanation:

Their dream was to sit around, do nothing, and judge other people. And they have achieved it.
Lack of correct leadership.

Java, Kotlin, C# and TypeScript are led by companies that want usage. Scala was and still is primarily an academic exercise. Same problems as with Haskell - the leadership are paid to add random optimised-for-sounding-clever ideas to the language, not design a language in the gestalt that optimises for user success.

In particular TypeScript is not a research language and therefore the documentation, marketing, leadership etc doesn't strongly emphasise convoluted FP type theory. That means the sort of people who really want to go wild with that stuff stay away.
Direct YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA-9QzIcr3c
Road to a fast(er) Java CLI, part 1: AppCDS
Thanks for the tip on the pricing! We'll add it to our menu.

At the moment we're quite focused on teams' internal development process and we're a very small team (though we'll be growing a bit soon). That being said, we're having a lot of discussions with teams on how we can make it even more useful. One area that comes up a lot is capturing user feedback/feature requests/etc. Another is support tickets. Let's see what comes next!
Just got off a FB phone screen which I think I failed. Only got through one question, and even that required assistance from the interviewer. My understanding is that if you don't finish two problems, you're doomed.

Spent the past week basically taking time off from work to do leetcode problems nonstop. Too bad it didn't help.

Third time failing at FB. First time failed the phone screen in 2018. Passed phone screen last year but bombed the onsite. And now failed the third time on the phone screen.

Also failed at Amazon (onsite), Netflix (twice - once on the phonescreen, once on the onsite), Uber (twice phonescreen), Microsoft (onsite). Got offers from Credit Karma and WeWork...how I dearly wish those offers were from any of the other companies I had failed at...

Needless to say, I feel horrible.
Very very easy in much of the midwest, with a tech job.
The word is "financial independence". It's only half for "FIRE".
> People _want_ to be a musician or content creator so they are willing to do the job even without being paid much. Which pushes the value down for the job.

Well, no, I don't think so, because this isn't like the market for maintaining PHP garbage. :) Creative work -- at least in this context -- isn't fungible. One low-rent PHP contractor is probably interchangeable with another one, but Patreon creators are not: if you're giving Bob $5 a month, it's because you specifically like Bob's stuff. What a Patreon creator with 50 patrons makes has no material effect on what a Patreon creator with 50,000 patrons makes.
That’s curious. I wonder if the frozen seafood origin hypothesis holds any merit, or if it’s just an attempt by the CCP to divert attention from what seems to be the far more likely lab leak hypothesis... I’m inclined to believe that the CCP is being disingenuous.
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Podcasts run on a given domain run by domain experts are certainly a good step above, epistemologically speaking, than a lot of news source on said domain. Obviously you can't be 100% sure any statement about the physical world is true, so you know, believe what you want.
The OS, files and configuration which can be unchangeable are trivially replaceable and thus does not really need to be protected.

The configuration and data which gets changed all the time is valuable (the effort that was made in making those changes) and the prime target of ransomware, and it can't be write-protected because, well, it needs to get changed. I mean, if "reimage all these computers to the default configuration" would be a viable solution, everybody would just do that instead of paying large ransoms.
There was an "X" hidden in the popup dialog.
same here, and i exercise more... in fact i wonder if i ever have to go back to dreaded office how i will supplement
As a serial entrepreneur who has raised money a bunch of times, I have absolutely lost count of how many angels and VCs have rejected the companies I've worked for (or founded) and been a part of the process with. Now they just roll off my back.

Odd though how in other areas of life, rejections seem much more personal. I suppose there is a difference between a professional rejection vs a personal one.
> Do you have any trace of this in writing?
Yes. One problem was they were merging their code without PR approvals, which caused many regressions. This is generally not allowed in our codebase. My manager was aware of it and the extra work it brought on to the team. It took months for them to correct this behavior, where as most devs, even interns correct in < week. And it only ended when I escalated the issue to my manager's manager. My manager's point though was that the coworker was "improving" which was... true. They had been submitting a higher percentage of PRs over the few months.

sorry for the vent... This was probably the most "solid" issue I had that wasn't subjective.

> Make sure it will not become a he said she said issue. Every interaction in writing.
Good point, I should document our interactions even during meetings. I rely mostly on our written communications to think through our interactions but recollections of meetings are unclear. especially when I didn't view some interaction as memorable from my point of view at all but then later it's used as a vague example as "created fear" in a meeting.

> When doing things in writing, do not exclude th possibility of reading what you wrote and thinking "Holy cow, I'm the asshole". Either way, verba volant, scripta manent.

Also good advice. I am not by any means perfect in my communications and sometimes I really was the asshole in some situations.
Crystal's appeal, for me at least, is the productivity of Ruby with the memory efficiency and execution speed of C++. Static typing is just a way of achieving that, it's not something I'm seeking per se.
I mean, as someone who previously looked at Rust and is currently looking at Zig, Crystal is certainly on my radar.

That said, my current dayjob is around a Rails codebase, so I might not be representative of the normal systems programming crowd.
Are you saying an opinion piece stating that we should leave open the possibility of a leak is misinformation? That doesn't make any sense.
Depends on what you think the point of cryptocurrency is. I’ve heard a lot of different explanations over the years. I believe the most popular one currently is an inflation resistant store of value, which should be compatible with blacklists.

As for timing, either blocking spending or tracing the transaction back to a person is equally valuable as a deterrent.
Really excited for Crystal.

We embarked on a huge project (search engine) using Crystal a year ago after also considering Rust. We have been very satisfied with the exceptional performance, language capabilities and the community.
Sometimes diplomacy means you smile when you don't want to smile. WHO has to play politics until we get this virus under control (ie, vaccines distributed worldwide). If WHO blames China now, in the thick of things, it would damage the world's ability to further study the origins of the virus and the results of Chinese research. Chinese vaccines are being used and studied in many countries worldwide and that is a good thing. Apart from the obvious benefits of those vaccines, better access to data gives us an inactivated vaccine counterfactual with which to evaluate the mRNA and protein subunit vaccines.

CDC and other US government officials, on the other hand, must ratchet up their criticism of China as well as WHO. I agree with you there. It's alarming that there are so few PR ramifications for China. From the looks of it, either their unsanitary bushmeat consumption got the world sick, or their irresponsible laboratory containment procedures did. Both are a reflection of China's culture, and were only exacerbated by authoritarian crackdown upon the early warnings issued by Chinese medical professionals. The US government shouldn't defend bad practices and systemic problems in the name of multilateral cooperation. That variety of ethical blindness forgives bad faith from our counterparts and damages our hegemony.
Jira itself is a crime
The two situations are entirely separate. What you, essentially, wrote is that there is no difference between gaming an election and the privacy afforded by a wiretapping statute.
If we have no say in whether or not scientists should be creating super viruses (a.k.a. weapons of mass destruction), I'd prefer they do so somewhere like Antarctica or on a space station, not in the middle of a city.
Yeah, that's another hurdle that needs to be tackled. Going electric is going to take decades, and we'll probably never be completely rid of combustion engines.
> is not much of a defense, to me, ethically

So what? It's not a defense, obviously, but it's enough to ask not to use the word "assault" when talking about those accusations because it's clearly misleading. It makes you imagine different things when you hear it than what is actually being talked about. You don't even have to give Minsky any benefit of doubt to ask for that.

Whether that changes the moral or ethical outcome is completely irrelevant (and of course, I don't think it does).

We're talking about a person who refuses to use singular they because... it's grammatically ambiguous so he comes up with and consistently uses perse/per/pers instead[0]. Like, c'mon, showing up in that thread to argue about used words is the most on-brand thing he could do.

[0] https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html
> > Our bodies were never designed to sit in chairs 8 hours a day for forty years.

> Your body wasn't designed to do anything. It's the result of random mutations that survived better than other random mutations.

Fair enough; it would be more accurate for me to say, "Our bodies are poorly adapted to sitting in chairs for 8 hours a day for 40 years."

> A somewhat sedentary job with the option to take breaks to move around and exercise outside of that is still vastly preferable to any other combination. Non-sedentary jobs and manual labor will break and wear down your body in different ways, they aren't some ideal to aspire to.

I'll agree with you that many jobs will wear your body down, but it isn't obvious to me that a sedentary job with forced motion breaks is the best combination.
Good question! I wish people asked more often because so few here know the answer.

The “fluff” establishes tone. The correct tone builds and reinforces a relationship.

In contrast, a “clear and concise” response with no “fluff” is just as likely to be read as aloof or sarcastic.

As long as you’re dealing with fellow humans, take care: the niceties matter.
If the backups are made by the system, and the user can't access them, and the system protects itself (and the backups, obviously)... ransomware shouldn't be possible.

No matter what the application does, it can't access the backups in such a system.
You described Nim: https://nim-lang.org
C++
HOLAA
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Why are the most productive members dissatisfied with the distribution of rewards, though? Is some kind of an ideal distribution part of human nature, or is it maybe learned from the environment you grow up in? If a more equal distribution was the norm in our culture, they might not get dissatisfied.
Generally the price of information is race to the bottom, people shouldn't be expected to get payed anymore. I'm happy to pay for content: I pay for Youtube and Netflix, and they pay content creators. I'm also buying books on Kindle. But when I signed up for the Economist, what I read was significantly worse content than Hacker News comments.
Ask HN: Code territoriality – good or bad?
I have always read that people being too possessive of some section of the code base that they wrote is a bad thing, and should be avoided. Almost universally it is said to be bad for organizations that one programmer owns one particular module, particularly in larger organizations.

On the other hand, my company previously had strong code ownership where a small team owned each module, and rearranged a few months ago where we have collective code ownership.

The problem is that so many of the pull requests I see are people who have little understanding of the domain specificities of our old module, and the architecture of it. I see drive-by pull requests which, if they went in as is, would look very sloppy in this clean module we spent so long building.

Is code ownership always bad? Martin Fowler has an interesting dynamic he calls weak code ownership - a team (or person) is responsible for a module, but other teams can change it, although larger changes usually would involve consultation.

I've always heard the notion that being possessive or territorial about a section of code is bad. But our old team spent over a year building a nice clean module, and the pull requests coming in could do substantial damage in one merge to something we spent over a year making nice and clean. I don't block people from doing work but I do hold up pull requests touching our old module until they clean up what they're doing.

Also - some of what is coming in is from consultants who might not be around in six months, and are a drive-by pull request where they may never touch our module again. So spending time educating them and so forth would be a waste of time. The handful of people who will be working with the module on a more ongoing basis I have spent more time educating, helping and bringing in.

https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/CodeOwnership.html

(also -

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3023-why-programs-become-territorial

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-code-ownership-sucks-and-you-should-never-work-somewhere-that-practices-it-b8fc1c694074/

https://www.coderhood.com/12-reasons-avoid-individual-code-ownership/
)
There is a cache that was previously cold. Subsequent runs should be faster. However compile times are longer than other languages like Go.
EtOH usually works on one gender, while it doesn't have the desired effect on the other in excess.

Whatever you find pleasant is probably the best, because it's all about relaxation. CBD isolate sublingual tincture is probably a good idea too.
This is definitely not my area of expertise but:

role of furin cleavage site in covid:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-020-0184-0

"In fact, no influenza virus with a furin cleavage site has ever been found in nature,"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7435492/

Where did this mutation come from?
Same could be said for any site that is smaller in scale than the #1 result.

If I'm looking for a review of a Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, I will see links to Amazon, Pitchfork, Rateyourmusic and other sites well before I find something written by a regular person on their personal blog.

Same goes for products. I will see a page of Amazon links before anything on say, a boutique Ecommerce website with a Shopify backend.
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People were doing in 2009 and posting it here [1] (project link is dead though).

The massively multiplayer online part would be clearly in favor of Erlang; although the RPG part maybe not so much. It would depend in my mind on how you model the environment and the game objects in it and their interactions. I think there would need to be too much communication to model game objects as processes, you'd need to make a simulation zone a process, and the game objects data for the simulation processes, and immutability makes that not a whole lot of fun probably.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=981597
Third time failing at FB. First time failed the phone screen in 2018. Passed phone screen last year but bombed the onsite. And now failed the third time on the phone screen.

Being rejected by Facebook in 2021 is probably a good thing