skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spending time with my kids (but that isn't a change from normal times).

Since I live in a rainy country which enforced a 5km movement restriction over the winter and have young kids who needed home schooling and minding in the evening, what was a change was exploring different apps in VR after they'd gone to bed with the Oculus Quest 2. There's something about getting out into different places.. Seems like a basic human need. VR helped to scratch those itchy feet!

While I was stuck at home I even switched from working out on the cross trainer to working out with The Thrill of the Fight VR. I was amazed to discover that by really going at it I can get the same or better workout heart rate stats in Thrill of the Fight to the fairly intense level I was doing on the cross trainer. So much fun. It really doesn't take much motivation at all to work out that way.
The proper question is, when did threads stop being some kind of inscrutable black magic?

And the answer is, if you consider the whole of the programming space, that it's still a work in progress. There's a lot of good ideas in various places, but I'm not sure I've seen it unified into one coherent whole in any one language in such a way that it's simply a solved problem for virtually no effort. Every A-list or B-list language I know either has easy concurrency that can still get you deep in trouble (like Go), or "solves" the concurrency problem but at a fairly steep cost to the programmer (like Haskell).

Arguably Pony is the closest I've seen, but that's not even B-list yet, that's an "up and comer".
> We did not screw them. We just wrote a decent contract, and they wrote an awful one.

Screwing someone in writing is still screwing them. By your same logic, the EU hasn't screwed anyone, since it's within legal powers to do what it's doing - i.e. it's in the contract of being in the EU.
Out of curiosity... how is he with women? That is, does he seem like the nice, respectful, intelligent, interested type? Or is he just a lucky jerk?

I ask because it's my experience that it's not that hard to get lucky on Tinder, especially in a city (where there are lots of people nearby). You just need to be willing to treat women like human beings so that they don't feel unsafe with you.

In particular you don't need to be exceptionally gorgeous. Women have told me over and over just how badly most men behave online and then on dates. Simply being able to hold an intelligent conversation, and not starting with "DTF?", puts you in the top 10%.

But I don't have a lot of data points. So I'd be curious if your friend refutes my theory.
And almost all of it is funding by the employees, just like in Europe.
People keep saying this yet https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/22/iran-crypto-mine...

98 % of the electricity in Iran is generated from burning either gas or oil. https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/country/IRN
That's not what the thread says? It says that the EU/Germany should have insisted on a European partner for BioNTech.

I don't see how the UK insisting on a British partner for Oxford is 'screwing' the EU, given the fact we were leaving the EU around this time and Trump was not known for his globalist worldview at the time.
> bmc is a Python wrapper for MinIO’s command line interface mc and minio. MinIO has a useful client library which unfortunately lacks administrative capabilities, such as adding users and hosts, which we need to do for the iko machine learning platform.

No. But I also do not know what MinIO is, nor mc, minio or iko.

It also does not say why it is called bmc.
LinguaGraeceaPerSeIllustrata, a monolingual textbook to self-teach Ancient Greek
> Management said we don't have enough money to fix any of this.

It's often even worse. Many years ago I was responsible for backup a DEC Unix system. Asked for funds to conduct a disaster recover exercise to find out if our backups worked and was turned down even before we had tried to work out how much it would cost.

I often wonder what proportion of backed up files and systems are actually in a state to be restored and have the necessary tools and expertise to do it in a timely manner.

An even worse problem in some places, including the one I worked at, is a tendency for users to assume that backups are kept forever and for the management to totally neglect archiving of important documents such as specifications, drawings, and design calculations of products that have an expected lifetime of over fifty years.

I had to inform several users that I could not restore the file that they had only just noticed was missing because it was last seen more than two years ago and presumably disappeared longer ago than our longest backup cycle which was one year of monthly full backups.
You are right. I should not have even picked two random projects. I merely just wished to say that most Rust projects I have encountered contained a lot of unwrap.
"Boys will be boys" was (and still is) a phrase used by most to describe to idiotic stuff boys do like firing roman candles at each other or brothers wrestling with each other and breaking a lamp in the process. How it got twisted to mean that people using it are excusing sexual harassment and assault is beyond me, other than being an obvious attempt by the woke to subvert a common phrase for political purposes.
>“I’ve made a Cursed USB-C 2.0 device”

You and everyone else.

I knew this was not going to be ideal in the late '90's when USB 1 came out.

Radio Shack was still going strong but this was the first PC connector that you could not purchase plugs or jacks for to solder your own. Also no suitable 4-conductor cable.

Even though the USB 1 approach was for a 92 foot maximum cable length (since it was only intended for the low-bandwidth webcams at the time) this was rapdily nonpublicized since USB 2 was already in planning, for much faster speed and a 25 foot max cable length, eventually shortened to 16 feet.

Well once you got suitable cable, you still had to cut pigtails off of USB cords so you could get the cable ends.
Why would I trust them with my files? I trust them only to store the encrypted bits.
Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
It's like we're back in the middle ages.
Absolutely, it's crazy that they get away with it really.
NPA suspends all export cargoes for 14-day to reduce ports congestion
Could you please try to provide any sort of sourcing for your statement? You might be right, but how is anyone supposed to take what you say as fact if you don't provide any evidence?

Just being Pro-EU doesn't mean the reporting on this vaccine-drama is inaccurate. It means we probably need to be careful of what they are saying, but doesn't automatically mean it's wrong.
Code generation only solved part of the problem - saving the trouble of having to write repetitive code. It does not solve the maintainability problem because if something needs to change then you need to manually change all the generated code.
I have been using Go since last ~6 years and I'm really excited that the only pain point I had with Go will soon go away \o/
In the end it's just more of the breakdown of the trans-atlantic cooperative model that kept western (and especially the Anglo/American countries) economies relatively integrated for the last few decades and which broke down significantly after the election of Trump.

This has been especially difficult for us in Canada where our dependant relationship with the US ("sleeping with an elephant") has screwed us not just on vaccine supply but on other geopolitical issues (China imprisoning our citizens as proxy conflict with the US, trade conflict over steel and aluminum and dairy, etc.).

If you traveled back 15-20 years and told people at the time that there would be a situation where Canada would be poor in vaccine supply while the US was drowning in it, people would be a bit shocked. During the Clinton/Chretien era this kind of lack of cooperation would be unheard of, continental integration was the agenda of the day.

Some of this is now alleviating with Biden at the helm, but it's still not a good situation. We just "borrowed" 1.5M doses of AstraZeneca from the US that they weren't using, but that's really a drop in the bucket.

So yeah, it's not just EU vs UK, it's a whole situation, the breakdown of the neo-liberal concensus. It's not clear what replaces it.
> you'll never get notice you're being fired

In Europe you will. Or you’ll be sent home with the respective 3 months in salary anyway, but generally you work your 3 months.

To be fair, I’ve never seen a notice period longer than a month.
I looked it up "The song's lyrics tell a story set in a future in which many classes of vehicles have been banned by a "Motor Law."" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barchetta
They didn't try to prevent it. They bullied them in order to scare other nations to try something similar. I would rather an EU that listen's to the people of it's member and makes them want to stay instead of pushing the agenda of the bureaucrats and bully them into staying.

Over the last decades many EU nations had referendums, and it was clear the majority of the people in many countries are agains further expansion of EU power. Yet the EU bureaucrats didn't listen and kept pushing as a result even more people feel alineated with the EU project, the Brexit is in direct line of these developments. And even now they still keep pushing.
That sounds like their testing worked out for them. Better than a random failure.
I also wrote Python but then read "you wish you had"
Exports of vaccines so far:

US: 0

UK: 0

EU: 41.1 million doses

The EU should never have allowed Biontech and other European vaccine companies to partner with US companies and thus fall under the American export bans.

Unfortunately the EU has acted in a naive manner and now have to mop up a mess.
Burn it to the ground and start over? In a world designed to divide us, everyone agrees that US politics is broken, ans massive corruption is the reason why.
From the summary at the end of the thread:

"What mistakes did EU make? To me it seems obvious.

EU took decisions based on an assumption of a free market and good faith from its partners. They didn’t think forcing an EU partner on BioNTech was essential, or EU plants should be for Europeans 1st.

That now appears naive.

EU assumed good behavior. US & UK manoeuvred to benefit themselves."
Have you noticed how the UK has been acting politically? They're literally risking a no deal Brexit because they're basically not upholding the deal they got out of the kindness of the EU's heart. The only reason the UK had a deal was the EU went out of their way to make it happen.

And the fact before the referendum for Brexit the EU gave the UK better terms than they already had when they already had the best deal in the EU and you're ashamed of this?`

The whole vaccine thing seems to be the UK has their risk groups covered the EU hasn't. Seems one needs the vaccine more than the other in terms of saving lives. But honestly, it all really breaks down to the fact the UK has been pissing all over the EU for years. This is what happens when you have no politcal capital in a politcal arena.
Which apparently was written by someone else who then snapped the photo.
I think Twitter in general is such a harmful thing. There's very little worth saying that can be compressed into 280 characters beyond "I'm right, you're wrong, anyone who disagrees with my subjective opinion is scum" yet somehow it's become the platform of choice for journalism in general.
It could be more than one downtime per year, if we take security patches into account.
> The only actual backup is one that has [recently] been tested
Only the jester can make fun of the king I guess
Hungarian has no gendered pronouns, but English has them. The text has been translated from Hungarian to English. What would be the "correct" (or "non-biased") way for Google Translate to handle this scenario? Should all pronouns in the translated text be either a "he", a "she" or a "they"? Wouldn't that still be considered "biased"?
Yet Go's code generation is clunky even compared with Java's Annotation Processors.
The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work–Are We Ready?
> This is true of electrical power outlets (15A/20A)

You mean that one can hold 15A and the other - 20A? If so, they do work the same, they just have different capacities (like a tap, some of them will provide more water, others less but they work the same (especially if they look the same))
> A "firefighting" consultancy might be fun, no?

It is... interesting. I have been doing this over last 4 years. The biggest problem, as I pointed out before, is the disconnect between what companies claim they would do to fix the problems vs. what they would actually do. So ~90% of selling is repeatedly explaining the same things to different people whose jobs are in the eminent danger of being restructured/deprioritized/eliminated if your services are successfully engaged.
What specifically do you think he got wrong in the thread? That’s more useful to know, rather than name-calling.
I wonder if maybe we need age segregated social media sites. I wonder if twitter/facebook/reddit segmented their content so that teenagers and young adults could run amok, without it being visible to the adults on the site - if that would stop companies from taking all this bullying seriously.

Sarah Mei herself isn't a teenager, but looking at the comments that she got, a huge percentage of the people that liked/shared/upvoted are.

Teenagers and young adults amplify irrational voices on social media. We need to give them their own playground.
Edit: Ah, I see -- you mean the last line in flexie's comment. Alright, it was either added after I read it, or I somehow managed to miss it.
Considering how long and how much discussion it took to implement generics (coming in 1.18 according to FAQ [1]), I'd be inclined to say it supports their principle.

I don't think they ever said they wouldn't implement Generics. It was a matter of maturing and consideration of different proposals.

[1] https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
Even bigger than the city by city ban is the huge, and ever more demanding EU commission fines on car makers, measured by grams of CO2 averaged across the fleet.

So what's happening is VW is trying to get ahead of the enormous fines which will make it impossible to keep selling larger sized ICE cars in the EU (e.g. SUVs which are becoming ever more popular in Europe).

> According to the EU, fleet emissions in 2018 were 120g/km, which means automakers need a 21 percent reduction overall to avoid fines that could total as much as 33 billion euros this year, according to some estimates. Each gram over the limit, per vehicle, will cost automakers 95 euros.

> Each automaker has a different target, based on the average mass of the vehicles they sell, and only 95 percent of sales are measured in 2020, meaning that some high-polluting cars won't count. Even so, analyst ISI Evercore has warned that the "2020-21 CO2 regulation poses the biggest risk to the auto industry in recent memory."

Source: https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/how-automakers-plan-a...

EDIT: Some countries, e.g. Ireland[1] and the UK[2], have decided to ban all new ICE cars completely from 2030.

[1] https://www.newstalk.com/news/electric-vehicle-ownership-sho...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/18/the-uk-plans-to-ban-sales-of...
Okay that is extremely antisocial. I had no idea the site author did that. Live and learn I guess...
Some ad networks use(d to use) referers for brand safety when resource serving an ad is embedded iframe. For example if the parent URL contains "osama-bin-laden-killed", don't display ad about nice family moments together (or anything else, likely)
I'm not sure you'd want to live in that kind of America.

We aren't talking about "free riches" here, we are talking about keeping a country and society stable. And I'm convinced you can't do that without keeping inequality of all kinds -- income, wealth, education -- in check, because you'd cripple the country and ultimately end up with revolts otherwise, and probably justifiedly so.

Every individual benefits from the (infra)structure and stability that a country and society offers them, so pretending it's okay for someone to make millions by using those benefits and then turning their back and saying "yes but all this is now solely my own and taxation is theft" is kind of ridiculous.
Banning for-profit no-alternative services within the prisons would be meaningful, though.
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Let's see if it is legal. I'm not sure it is, for example why are they just doing AZ and not Pfizer (despite Pfizer exporting WAY more than AZ)? Also, there are significant unused stockpiles of AZ all over Europe (and very few Pfizer stockpiled). If anything it should be the other way round.

IANAL though.
It's even sooner than that in places. The UK has announced a ban on new ICE vehicles from 2030. To be seen how closely that's followed through on, we have a long way to go on charging infrastructure.
It's not possible for a rational, cohesive mind to
believe that a person who dedicated his whole life
to free software is a bad person just because he once
said something without thinking through it.

Multiple strawman arguments in the same sentence.

1. Few if any are claiming RMS is "a bad person" in totality. While I realize the internet is no place for nuance, please understand the question is about whether somebody who's said these things is fit to lead or represent an institution. You can disagree or disagree with that. But please understand that is the question, not "is Richard Stallman a bad person." I certainly don't think he is.

2. "once said something without thinking through it" -- unfortunately this displays a spectacular misunderstanding. These are multiple things said over multiple years on mailing lists, his site, and so forth. Additionally, RMS's communiques are... well, they are not off-the-cuff. I've read reams of his statements over the years. They are the writings of somebody speaking very very deliberately about things he has reasoned through in very deliberate ways according to his beliefs.
“he”, “they”, or “one” can be neuter. Each has its pros and cons, because words both denote and connote things. “he” might read as sexist or old-fashioned; “they” does double duty for plural and singular; “one” practically drips with starched-collar stiffness.

“correct translation” is a matter of taste. You’re creating a new work, after all, so there’s some authorial contribution.
> They bullied them in order to scare other nations to try something similar.

No they didn't, the UK drew the red lines not the EU. The UK punished themselves. They could have gotten a Switzerland deal, a Norway deal, a Turkey deal, etc they decided they didn't like those deals.
USB 3 is also what kills your wifi if things aren't properly done (e.g. https://medium.com/ghostbar/your-usb-3-0-hub-is-killing-your... - and it's not only a mac problem), so it's not just 2.0 but faster.
I guess it’s more to the extend that the notice period from company to employee cannot be less than employee to company.
I have personally turned down an offer very much like this. I could have paid my (at the time) salary and benefits with about 2 days work a week with the option to bill as much time over that as I wanted as long as I agreed to work at least 2 days a week on thier top issues.

The ERP system was a nightmare, though, and the company was difficult to work with (key, long term employees). It was a system I inherited, built out of garbage, that I tried to improve. Before I left, I found a very experienced contractor to take over, on-boarded him, and stayed as a support resource for a couple months. Six months later, he's retired and I'm getting panicked phone calls. I valued (and still do) my current job far more, even though I would probably have done better financially in the short term with the alternative.

A few years ago, I heard they migrated to a new ERP at long last.
I mean, it seems like we should STILL be comparing them to Theranos, right?
> I think that showing up drunk for work might also be one of them?

Yes. Also if you just refuse to do any work.
£60k gives you about £3650 after tax. It could feel like a lot if you live in a flat share and don't plan to start a family, but otherwise this just gives you a very basic life. Definitely not something you would expect after committing your life to this trade. I have a friend who is a self-employed cleaner and she makes much more than that and is much less stressed (what I mean by this is you need to commit far less time to learn how to clean and you are unlikely going to be woken up by a dream about that corner you forgot to clean).
Looking through the comments, it appears concerns were raised for years and management refused to allow the necessary changes to save money.

While you can and should be the cool head in the room, it's a route to burnout if you end up being the hero who has to keep saving a dysfunctional organization and management from the consequences of its own failures. By all means do your best fix the immediate problem but get the hell out as soon as you can.
Not necessarily, there are many small companies in this space.

But knowing Reddit, I'd give this a solid 50/50 chance of being fake.
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There is nothing wrong with being pro-EU, even rabidly so. People who are rabidly against the EU get off the hook, all the time.

Also, it is not illegal for the EU to be banning exports of this vaccine product. Plus, where did the tax subsidies come from? In this case it is from an EU member state. This is how pharmaceutical companies work; they plant themselves where the subsides are.

The biggest mistake that the EU made was that they trusted free market forces too much.

Either way, this is a good read, from the Global Commission of Post-Pandemic Policy: Why States Should Invest in Vaccine Capacity: https://globalcommissionforpostpandemicpolicy.org/states-and...

It talks about the EU vaccine situation well, too.
> Or - and it would seem more consistent with the argument you just gave - not subsidising the other transit systems such as cars.

That is also possible, but probably impossible to get through in any country. Subsidy of other transit systems is a lot easier.

> They could purchase the land off you like anyone else, and you could refuse them as you might to anyone else. Why are you making government a special case when buying land?

Because the government is not just a person but represents everyone. You could never build a railway, airport, subway, etc. if all it takes is one person refusing to budge.
If there's anything I learned it is to be wary of any easy answers or definitive claims when it comes to software correctness.
Not all podcasts are for work / learning.

May be just listening for entertainment
I agree that everything feels very cookie-cutter in general, which is honestly not even a bad thing, all things considered.
Electric powertrain is boring.

You get 98.5% efficient electric motor with any amount of torque you want.

Or you get another 98.5% efficient electric motor with any amount of torque you want.

That's about all differentiating features.
Great questions!

I will add a section with measuring tips. Thanks for the feedback!

For pupillary distance, you would want to get that measurement from your eye doctor for the best accuracy. It is something you may need to request that they do when getting your prescription. Some vendors provide instructions for measuring that I can use to fill out the new information I will add.

For some of the other measures, typically frames are marketed using the lens width, bridge width, and temple length so you may even be able to find your frames online and get those numbers without too much fuss.

Point definitely taken there needs to be more information for folks who don't have access to these numbers on how to get these numbers.
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