skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who came into electronics in a pretty indirect manner (started designing software for electronics testing, hard to be good at it without at least a decent understanding of how it works), connecter names/terminology/nomenclature proved to be one of the most annoying parts. I ended up doing a lot of reverse engineering to understand how things worked, and I hope that when a prospective EE is going through their ABET accredited program that they have some class that breaks it all down for them, but I had no such luck so just sort of brute forced my way into learning all connector types I encountered.

For anyone who wants to know - turns out, there a surprisingly limited number of types of connectors that are commonly used in most electronics today. You can go to any decent electronics supply outfit (mouser, digikey and many others) and in the space of a few hours familiarize yourself with most of what you need to know just by clicking through the connectors category and sorting by number of parts in stock.
Yes, but in my case it makes more sense to stack in the direction of the motherboard, rather than perpendicular to it.
I actually really like Gitlab’s, but that’s only because we moved from Gitlab to Azure Dev Ops...
>> Few if any are claiming RMS is "a bad person" in totality

I used the word 'believe' for a reason, it's people's beliefs who drove him out in the first place. Besides, the term 'stawman argument' makes no sense when discussing ethics or human behavior. This is not math or engineering. These kinds of statements are necessarily axiomatic; either you understand it or you don't. Either it neatly fits into your logical understanding of the world or it doesn't.

I wouldn't write off someone who has done such great things for so many decades when I know for a fact that most people in positions of power today are hypocritical monsters (only difference is that they have good PR teams to manage their public images); you need to put it in perspective.
The UK doesn't quite manufacture its entire supply of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine - some is imported from India, and apparently one small batch was from a factory in the Netherlands which doesn't have enough production capacity to make much of a dent in the European demand: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56483766 But yeah, the vast majority is apparently locally manufactured.

The EU has been pushing the conspiracy theory that the reason there's a shortfall in supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine there is because they've been exporting it all to Britain, but there's no evidence for that which anyone can find and the numbers don't add up either.
Please read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang
Python also has active sponsorship. Guido and the mypy folks were employed at Dropbox for the express purpose of working on Python last I checked, and even then my biggest grievance with Python is that the big hairy problems (performance, package management) still never get solved.
I'm not that commenter, but if I won the lottery, like the big one, I'd buy a castle, gild one toilet, and Instagram the shit out of it, pun intended. Then I will never have to work again because I'll become an Influencer.
Those crimping tools are usually good enough for male pins, but they make a mess out of female pins. They just don't come out square enough.
It's also valid because the real-returns of investments typically exceed the gains on housing[1] and you tie up a minimum of 20% of the value of your home when you buy.

1: This gets complicated because (at least in the US) most people don't leverage their investments at a 5:1 ratio, but do leverage their home value by that much.
> "it's a feature request not a bug" shows Stephen did not even understand the problem he introduced.

He clarifies a little bit further down the thread:

> It's not a bug because it's working exactly as designed. We're very aware that you regard it as a misdesign.

If a project / community has adopted specific definitions for given words such as "bug", "feature request", etc., then IMO you should not get mad at people for using them as defined.

You may feel strongly that the auto-updating feature is a terrible idea in application, and you may even disagree with this project's decision to define a "bug" as "something that isn't working as designed", and that's fine. But I don't think it suggests that Stephen does not understand the issue, or did not read the thread.
Just to balance out the crowd of self hosting fans, I work with compliance requirements and have no issues with managed services. Sign the right agreements and then it's not my problem to manage auditing and compliance requirements. I'm paying you to make it your problem. Self hosting just makes it my problem.
And to note the obvious... the companies that you might think would be most opposed to it (e.g. facebook, google) really don't care because their page tracking hooks are omnipresent so they're not missing out on any precious meta data.
I'd consider it more seriously now it's 1.0. You've basically got an ecosystem of Ruby-likes:

- Ruby itself

- Crystal

- Elixir

I'm massively keen on Zig, too, but it still feels like early days for the language itself. The C-interop is utterly astounding but I don't want to write Zig as syntax-sugar around C libraries.
> And if the virus had totally natural - accidental freak of Nature - origin, why would you give 4 year prison to a journalist who was covering the beginning of the pandemic in Wuhan?

I really wouldn't attach that much meaning to the prison sentence handed out. It is entirely in line with the CCP's behavior in the past. They strongly repress any information or people they perceive as causing them to lose face or look bad.
Bullshit.

The way the story is told the price doubled after and because of the CEO screaming.

The market has nothing to do with that except the good old "The fair price is the one that god paid, uh.” I suppose.
Something like PPAs is the sweet spot since it uses the package manager but is under developer control. It's a shame that Mac and Windows don't have something like that.
Combine with a gyro to ensure that the rotations are made in the correct respective directions.
I think the issue is that in the US the pendulum has swung so far in favor of landlords that the government needs to adjust things just to realign it so that both buying and renting are easy. Both should be options - I absolutely agree - but buying is quite difficult right now and a lot of folks are forced into renting for financial reason. That's pretty bass ackwards - a lot of folks aren't paying extra to be mobile - they're paying extra to be static and the additional costs they're forking over are deferring the time when they'd be able to afford purchasing.
You have to pay this thing called interest and it's pretty high in the first 10 years. Your equity portion is not that big.
> Early on there was not a spike in cases, so that would not have sparked an interest.

My understanding on this was that doctors local to Wuhan noticed a surprising and sudden uptick in pneumonia that did not respond to antibiotics. The Chinese government managed this badly[1]. Your timeline doesn't reflect how things happened at the time - there was a "slowly" (over two months?) growing problem in Wuhan that locals noticed and authorities suppressed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang#Role_in_2019%E2%80...
The logo on the top right should be a link to the homepage, not a rotateable 3D model. Or if it is, it should still be a link when you don't rotate it.
Sastrify – Virtual software as a service procurement team
It will load 2 big arrays in memory (per classloader).
Code is super complex so maintenance would be very hard.
I guess it makes sense to use it as a library (MIT license) if your code parses a log of doubles.
Exactly. We in the EU are supply limited. In Austria, the first Pfizer shot was given before Christmas, and we are still at only 4% fully immunized (12% got at least one shot). We are even continuing to vaccinate while other countries have stopped AZ because of the recently reported potential issues - still doesn’t move the needle much.
No one to blame but Angela Merkel who personally pushed other EU member states into delegating authority on the issue to the EMA even overruling her own minister of health.

Needless to say that the EU – the hotbed of excess politicians who've been "early reitred" by their domestic parties into Brussles/Strasbourg – isn't surprising anyone with failing so hard on the vaccine issue.

Failing on so many levels: From the fine-print of contracts (e.g. with AZ) to the big scale disinformation campaigns (by Euractiv and domestic media outlets) spurring Anti-British sentiments (e.g. good old nationalistic hate, up-cycled for the upper-class).

What we are witnessing is compound incompetence, which upon fear being detected hastingly looks for an escape goat.
I think this was covered in the article. His assets have grown 20% (inflation adjusted) since retiring and that's with a number of years having higher than average expenditures due to unplanned medical issues. His financial plan didn't really collapse per se.
A thai person to make a feet massage..
> so what the fuck am i doing here, then?

Learning how the world works, apparently :(
Believe whatever you want. If you believe the zoonotic origin, ok sure, but your circumstantial evidence for that is weaker than the circumstantial evidence for a lab leak.

Yes. You are supposed to believe the administration of a president when they claim: The virus came from China. Whether deliberate or accidental, it likely originated in a laboratory. If you don't, I reckon you have bigger problems than a pandemic. If you can't trust your government on such critical matters, if you really believe the US government would stand for the secretary of State spreading lies, then you should probably flee to China and ask asylum there.

> Sorry, but that's just not good enough.

But experts saying: "Virus is likely zoonotic, but we have no idea" is good enough? Again, demanding others to proof that a teacup is orbiting Venus is reasonable. But not when you can't even show the existence of teacups or Venus yourself.

> Actual evidence in the zoonotic origin column greatly surpasses that in the lab leak column.

There is no actual evidence. Actual evidence of zoonotic origin would establish the transmission chain and identify patient 0. There is none. You have "Bats can be the original carrier". So your hypothesis could be true. It is circumstantial. Any actual evidence would instantly kill one of the hypothesis. So you share some responsibility there.

For an example of how to turn the BBC article into circumstantial evidence for a lab leak, is to study the franticness that went on with sequencing and publishing. Wuhan lab published the sequencing of bats captured in 2017 in 2020. It was complete PR management campaign, with scientists blaming "Mother Nature" not their research, information black-outs, and sharing of "secret" sequences years after the fact in support of zoonotic chain, while blocking any outside investigation into the origin which would support/not support the zoonotic origin.
Maybe. I understand there are physical side effect from morphine and such but imagine if you were designed such that water would remove from your mind doubt, remorse and guilt.

I can't speak for you but for me I think they might have to lock up the water. I'm not saying that your suggestion wouldn't work but if you could turn off those things with a switch - even if you had to rely on someone else to flip the switch - I think that would create some problems.

:-) That remind me of Catch-22. Where Yossarian is arguing with a nurse about the utility of pain. Yossarian says it's stupid - "why don't we have a neon sign on our forehead that says "ouch" in big red letters." The nurse believes it has utility. As it develops they're both atheists but Yossarian doesn't believe in a cruel malevolent God while the nurse doesn't believe in a good, kind and just God.
Interestingly, they appear to be using Sparkle [0].

Oddly, stephen-turner claims that Sparkle is part of the reason it's taking some time to fix the issue. Direct quote:

> As said above, we're working on this: we're planning to download the update in the background and then give the user the choice whether to update to it on next start. It's taken a little longer than we hoped because the Sparkle framework we use on Mac doesn't expect that workflow: once the update has been downloaded, it wants to apply it without confirmation at next shutdown. We are keen to retain the invisible download but give the user a choice whether to apply it later.

It's hard to understand why they're struggling with a problem that seems to be solved by every other app that uses Sparkle...

- [0] https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/183#issuecomment-79...
Seriously. Before I made it to the part where they agreed to stop auto-updating, I was on the third revision/toning-down of the comment I was writing in my head. I get that having multiple versions in the wild makes support more difficult, but what's more important in a dev tool: your support workload, or your users' control over their configuration management?
This still doesn't provide an explanation for shipments to Australia, other than for higher profits. Which he explicitly denied doing so.
False dichotomy? It could be that his opinions were appropriately constrained by an editor previously and now is showing worse opinions.

(Note: I don't follow him... not super familiar, but this seems like a weird either/or)
It's the worst typing experience I've had to date https://datacrayon.com/posts/tools/misc/macbook-butterfly-ke...
My naive reasoning on why China didn’t create COVID-19 with the intention of using it is that I suspect (unburdened by education or the thought process) that engineering a virus is as difficult as coming up with a vaccine or treatment. If you are developing some kind of super virus to shut down the world economy and then immunize your own people to take advantage of the situation, wouldn’t you have the cure ready to go?

Now, an unintentional leak would be theoretically possible with these initial intentions but then wouldn’t China still have a leg up on developing treatments? If so, wouldn’t we have seen that in their vaccine development?

Of course you this is all uneducated speculation. Quite possible that engineering a deadly and very infectious virus is easier than creating a cure or a vaccine by orders of magnitude.
it is planned to let the user decide according to the issue.
It’s about the end product though, isn’t it? Some things are really simple.
Bing is the clear winner here, "Can cats eat asparagus" produces a nice H2 "Yes" followed by "According to 2 sources", then two side by side paragraphs with the "yes they can" and surrounding context right at the top of the results page.

I'm honestly such a huge fan of the Bing widgets, every time I see a someone google search for something basic and need to dredge through all of the AdWords laden blogspam, while I know bing has a good widget in your face widget with the answer, I can't help but feel confused at all the "Bing bad Google good" rhetoric.

Some of my favorites:

Annual Weather charts: See chart with monthly breakdown of temperature & rainfall for any location along with record temps, days of rain, and configurable units; Google has something similar but it presents the first few rows of a table first, with a separate tab for charts, and then the charts don't have nearly as much data (avg hi/lo, inches of rain, hours of daylight (bing doesnt have hours of daylight, so +1 to google for that))

Random animal fact cards: Try Binging something like "marsupial", you get a beautiful hand-crafted info card. There isn't one for every animal, but it's clear thought goes into creating them and they always make me happy to see for whatever reason.
Zoning is absolutely a big part of this. Though I would expect SF to have fewer skyscrapers than Chicago even if it weren't for zoning differences, given the earthquake risk.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/03/us/earthquake...
We need to start thinking more critically about long Covid
You know, I have been language-hopping for over a year now, in hope to find a secondary language I could learn beside the bread-winner Java. Trying to strike the balance between productivity and performance is pretty hard.

I tried Go, it looks ugly (sorry).

I tried Rust: it is beautiful in concept but I don't feel productive enough. I mean, maybe my use case is not align with Rust.

My secondary lang should allow me to do more exploration in data analysis and not system programming.

I looked and Nim/Zig and something else in between like Lua and Python (for the 4 times in 4 years I think). Nim is nice but the ecosystem is not there. Zig is also sys-programming focus. Python ecosystem is huge but I just don't feel like the perf is a killer. What I really love about Python is the list comprehension, i.e a_list = [(Ababa) for a in 1..100 for b in 'a'..'z'] for example.

Until I found Julia, everything else is history. It seems to have everything I have asked for and more. Albeit that the precompile time is abysmal but I know I could use the sysiamge hack-around.

I think I'd stick and be content with Julia! With VS Code's Julia extension plus the remote (SSH) development, I could do many "cool" things people do in Python except maybe more performant :-)
This is one thing that I've never noticed until the whole vaccine endeavor started, the amount of propaganda British tabloids pump it's mind boggling and quite honestly scary.

They tailor narratives and pump the crap out of it, even if it contains wrong information or if it's things completely irrelevant of what's being discussed but that supports the narrative.
That was pretty common these years, especially in Moscow: https://www.mos.ru/en/news/item/13744073/
This actually looks like a pretty great collection. Thanks for sharing OP.
Apple's Longtime App Store Developer Relations Chief Retires
If you pick a pile of dead bodies and look for things that killed them, you will find things.
Yeah, but rent is covering that too, in addition to the equity. You've also got the inherent equity of the house itself being an appreciating asset.

Point is, when renting out an appropriating asset for the same as the monthly payments on your loan, defining "making a profit" as "completely paid off my loans on the appreciating asset that I can sell at any time" is a bit disingenuous.
I am becoming convinced by the idea that democracy itself is a bad and a terrible way to organize government. But I am also at losses for a less bad way. In similarities, I am at losses for a less bad than meritocracy. I am listening to hear more other options but am not hear any less bad.
Ostensive definitions can be indistinguishable from tautologies. A definition which ultimately boils down to a formula such as:

"The thing that is indicated when you say 'that thing there!'"

appears linguistically empty, because its meaning is not found in the words, but in something extra-verbal that it is intended to point to.

The problem in the debate surrounding consciousness is that there are two basic positions to hold, which are often talking past each other:

1) Oh yes, I see what is being indicated! There is something to discuss.

2) There is nothing here but a meaningless verbal tangle which will disappear when it is untangled.

This problem is similar to, but more intractable than discussing the color blue with someone who has always been blind. The blind person may never actually experience what it is to see blue, the 'qualium,' but there are physical hooks such as the associated frequency of light, and a tangible consensus amongst those who are not blind as to whether an object can be called blue or not.

The latter is missing from the problem of consciousness, which makes it a far more difficult and fascinating problem.
Not sure that Crystal is considered a “new” programming language.
Non-Western migrants will represent a negative net fiscal contribution to the Danish welfare state until 2050 according to this analysis:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-017-0636-1

"The natives generate a net surplus of EUR −695. Only for immigrants of Western origin the figures are positive, at EUR 2546 and EUR 47 for first-generation and second-generation immigrants, respectively, compared to EUR −2238 and EUR −1070 for first and second non-Western immigrants"

"The reasons for the expected deficits lie in the weak labour market performance of non-Western immigrants as a group and the fact that people with a low level of education, which includes many non-Western immigrants, tend to retire early"

Denmark has acknowledged this and has expanded assimilation efforts: https://qz.com/1320234/denmarks-new-laws-targeting-ghetto-ch...

The welfare state represents about 22% of the Danish economy: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/D...

And welfare spending is about 59% of Danish Government spending: https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/nationalregnskab-og-of...

I use the example of Denmark because their data is transparent, but their situation is not much different to other continental European countries.

Western European countries such as Denmark are benefitting hugely from migration from countries like Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria - because those migrants are educated and raised at the expense of their home country, but actually work and pay taxes as adults in the destination country. Its basically a form of 'human resource exploitation' - contributing to the depopulation of many Eastern European countries. These workers are basically keeping Western welfare states afloat, but the delta between quality of life in the West and East is shrinking.
If my project, AppFS [0], more widely adopted then packaging would be trivial for all distributions. And updates would be automatic or not depending on user preference.

[0] https://appfs.rkeene.org/
The virus likely didn't jump from bats to human directly, there are intermediate hosts involved. The hosts could be from anywhere, like SEA, nobody can locate the particular host and the particular moment.

Connecting dots == You believe because you want to

Unless someone came with causal evidence that someone gets infected from the lab, it is only your belief and there is no way to prove it.

You can believe whatever you like, so do the others.
If it's an ERP solution, where is the ERP support?

What is the "E" in ERP without support?
The US are vaccinating ~1% of their population every day. In the EU there are forecasts that we won’t finish before mid 2022.
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Youtrack has self hosted, free for less than 10 users so pretty easy to evaluate, and a migration path from Jira
Can't you just give a straight answer saying that the suggested idea will not be considered further due to company policy?
Wowzers.Question: Is there a supervolcano in Iceland?
I actually like the very tactile nature. I think it's a shame to have to return to the previous model, where key travel is longer, but the tactility is meh.
This approach has yielded us Icelandair's with fewer idiots therefore no baseless claims for lawsuit.

You see.. they fall into these boiling pools of mud. Problem solved.
Would nuclear fusion open up new avenues to reverse climate change?
Thanks, and I appreciate the openness to new information, far too rare. I also suspect that most people who believe that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a lab accident believe so based on wildly faulty reasoning; but there's unfortunately a real case too.
Even the 120k managers and on up to the two levels higher director level, check off Jira tickets at the company I work at...
Was at NY startup for awhile. The open bigotry toward white males was off the charts. You had to openly be something other then straight to get a break. Got out of there as fast I can, but this seems to becoming more acceptable.