skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the author that the need to write descriptive commit messages (and untangle off-topic commits using `git add -p`) does take one out of the "flow" state, but in my experience these post-work, commit-time self-checks are very useful: I run `git diff --cached` on the staged changes and review them to see what's going into the commit and often catch some bugs or forgotten pieces at this time, so overall I'd say the loss of flow is worth it.
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Point three is why I alway open a brainstorming session with one or two ideas roughly in the theme of “shut it all down”. Sometimes it’s “what if it also poisoned people? Then they can’t complain.” Other times is “we could just not? How bad could it really be?”

It’s important to prevent people thinking their ideas are foolish. Running a good brainstorming session is a skill just like running a good scrum, it’s not just another generic meeting and a lot of people try to think you can “just brainstorm”.

Experience has taught me that first improvisation skills help, because at least when I’m the first idea gathering phase you really need to both “yes, and” all the ideas being presented you also have to try and avoid “shutting down the scene” in that you want a good flow of ideas and until you start trying to select the useful apps you don’t want anyone’s behaviour to steer other people from sharing ideas they may have.

Second, if you’re the only one with any improv skills you’re also the one best equipped to “play the fool” and relentlessly suggest outrageous things and make sure they are placed on the board, to make sure everyone else is more likely to think “my ideas are better than that” and then you can encourage others to share those better ideas.

Also a brainstorming session doesn’t need to be an extrovert party. You can run one semi-asynchronous via slack it just takes longer, the key is involvement and attention. It works better when people pay enough attention and try to think of new ideas instead of doing other things which is harder to be sure of if you don’t bring the group together effectively.
It clearly does. You seem to indicate that a male is “guilty” of gender-specific bias no matter what he does. So a non-murdering male is still a murderer because he is a male?
Having less exposure to advertising, given that I watch less advertising-interrupted television than ever and have had a pi-hole running for a good couple of years, when I am exposed to advertising I'm reminded of how incredibly bottom-feeding it is.

I've said it before: Advertising is a psychological attack on human weakness.

> I find it hard to separate the fraudsters from the engineers that enable them

Paraphrasing because I can't find the original:

"What does it say of humanity to have so many of the smartest minds in the world working on making advertising more effective"

> this screed was therapeutic

+1
https://www.hhs.gov/hepatitis/learn-about-viral-hepatitis/da...

It can be said that hepatitis care is more necessary than covid.
Drawing an elephant with four complex parameters (2009) [pdf]
Pretty much, yeah. At my hardware-focused corp, we have specific supply chain people that will argue about price all day. It's just a different business world than retail.
> Thomas Aquinas said that the four typical substitutes for God are wealth, pleasure, power, and honor.

The most typical substitute for Catholic god throughout human history is probably some other god (or group of gods), followed by non-theistic religion, followed by non-religious pragmatic ethics of some sort. I really don't think the quote is relevant outside Thomas' church culture. That's especially true for modern Protestants who might be tempted to think this quote applies to them; you probably don't even know God in Thomas' opinion. I was raised Mormon, personally, and I'm sure the once-human God worshiped by my close ancestors would be an abomination to a Catholic like St. Aquinas.
The Linux kernel uses email. I can’t imagine that crowd does things the inconvenient way.
Like shadows creating artificial shadows with paint.
Perhaps, but going down that path means making a moral judgement about every activity someone undertakes. Fuel efficiency is at least fairly objective. Whether someone should stay at home instead of travel in their RV, that is a moral thing. And I'm pretty sure that just about 0 people have an unassailable record of life choices.
I would get a list of unsolved problems, and full access to all the people who might know part of the answer in different fields, and solve as many of them as possible, by connecting things in ways nobody else saw.

I want a lab, someone who knows safety so I don't kill myself, and a budget.

As others have said, I'm not extremely qualified in anything, but I'm willing to learn, and already know a lot of odd things.

I can fix ANYTHING if given a sufficient time and budget.

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A list of specific projects I'd like to work on

build a machine to mine the moon or mars, and replicate itself, or build a bigger version

Evangelize Capability Based Security/Multilevel Secure Systems so we can get back to actually owning our own general purpose computers.

Document the shit out of the libraries for Free Pascal/Lazarus, there should be a working code example for each and every unit, object, function, procedure, property, etc.

Set up, document, and popularize a second separate non-overlapping supply chain for civilization. Document the process, to help make humanity more antifragile.

Build a machine shop from scratch, and figure out how to offer a parts kit with castings that anyone could purchase and build as well.

Put an optical lattice clock at the top and bottom of a mineshaft, and verify relativity below the surface of the earth (as near as I can tell, the experiment hasn't been done yet)

Help find innovative ways to use free energy technologies the government has been hiding for decades.

Develop technology to stop those little drones from harassing our ships at sea.

Build a magnetic core based computer capable of operating on the surface of Venus.

Help transition Bitcoin to proof of stake instead of proof of work.
Sorry, rereading my post doesn't really make the dynamic clear and I'm not sure I could do it justice without having a dialog, but I'll attempt it.

First, neither of us make purchasing nor time commitment decisions without checking with each other, my last comment made it appear there's a large imbalance in the relationship with her making all decisions.

Our natural dynamics are that I operate on a system of respect, and she operates on a system of love. Yet the Bible calls us to do the opposite, I am to act in love, and she in respect (basically showing each other care in the way we best receive it).

Earlier in our marriage, I was really bad at showing her love as she received it (acts of service and giving her verbal feedback to her opinions and thoughts --- sometimes I still fail, but I get better as we grow). She was bad at showing respect (when she didn't feel loved/heard she would yell).

Regarding her choosing to submit, it's a motivation/outlook more than anything. When we are discussing a decision, she most always asks what I think we should do first. She will then give her thoughts on the topic and then leaves the decision up to me. There have of course been times where I end up making decisions that don't end up being the best in hindsight, but she never comes back and throws it in my face, because she chose to submit to my decision.

Since it's easy to say something that is misconstrued in text, I do want to be clear I never lord over my wife. I never demand that she submit to me, she chooses to do that on her own.

Hopefully that helps a little, I'm sure it's still probably unclear, my mom (who is quite left leaning and a feminist) doesn't grasp the Biblical concept of submission (thinking it means being weak and timid) and doesn't feel women should submit. Although she admires my wife's and my relationship, even though it differs from her views and has zero concern that both my daughters are raised in a household where the wife submits because the leadership is carried out with love and patience.
MLK's message was never about "I'm angry at you, I demand reparations" like we're seeing today and he NEVER advocated for violence or "positive" segregation. The idea that he's radical the same way we're seeing the radical anti-racists of today is simply ridiculous.

> The OP isn’t saying they ever sat down and behaved. They are saying that invoking the white washed versions of Gandhi and MLK are some ways to tell people either directly or indirectly to calm down, chill out, and relatively speaking, keep the status quo.

You simply reframed what he said. He made a big straw man making statements based on nothing and therefore I simply pointed out it can be dismissed with nothing.

> Empathy isn’t necessarily that helpful in these sort of situations. I appreciate Yale’s Paul Bloom’s idea of compassion over empathy.

Why it's not useful? If seeing and recognizing injustice does nothing at the emotional level there would never have been a motivation to make things right. Even Bloom recognizes that. The idea that "you can't know if you're not it" just doesn't make sense and has plenty of counter-examples from every day life.
Although I haven't used Semiotic but Echarts [1], I agree with the sentiment. D3 is regularly on top of HN and I always wonder if its popularity is due to people not knowing there are easier alternatives, or because plotting with a low-level library is intellectually more interesting (gotta do some maths), or because they really need a library as low-level as D3 for plotting their data.

I have been using Echarts for the last 4 years on a near daily basis and I've yet to find a visualization I couldn't do with it.

[1] https://github.com/apache/echarts + https://github.com/hustcc/echarts-for-react

Some examples here: https://echarts.apache.org/examples
Oh sorry, I was too trigger happy with people claiming facts on China affairs without much backing.

As for your data, I read nperf FAQ, it states they have 350 global servers. I am not sure how good that covers.

And geo coverage vs population coverage, is another important factor, as Chinese people tend to live in much higher density partly because the livable lands are more concentrated, partly because that's a top down design to improve manageability and efficiency.
Whoops, my bad. From the downvotes, I guess HN doesn't find it amusing that Google is using a pre-CSS era, 1999 technique to space the ships apart.
> Free-ridership problems exist and are very big with unions, even those with indisputably good effects. This is why unions can't always be voluntary.

That statement is illogical. It reeks of treating labor as a captive market to prop up an organization that no longer provides value.

That's why the union has to be voluntary. Either it provides value and employees continue to participate, or fades away like a bad restaurant.
The big difference between Lua and Python C APIs is that Python values are exposed directly as first-class values (as pointers in CPython, and as handles in HPy). If one native function wants to call another native function and pass it a Python object, it can do so directly - the VM is none the wiser for it, except for reference count updates.

In Lua API, all Lua values are bound to a stack, and C functions have to exchange values via that stack - there's no free-standing "Lua value" type in the API. Thus, the runtime is fully aware of all the objects that flow back and forth, even if one native Lua function is calling another native Lua function.
I hear you, but shouldn't they be capitalized well enough so these known holds wouldn't prevent customers from withdrawing their funds?

If the only thing that happens is that the business disappears , with depositors fully recouped, id still say that's not good enough.
The world is not in lockdown becuse of hepatitis, though.
That assumes that someone is willing to accept Bitcoins as a payment.
your argument would make some sense if this were the only adverse type of events that existed, and if you used the total number of AZ vaccine administered, rather than total of all SARS2 vaccines, which include SputnikV, JJ, pfizer mRNA, moderna mRNA, Sinovac, etc. .
Vaccines can be very lucrative. Pfizer has billions in sales for Pentacel.
This.If I’m gonna have to waste time and effort to block my network gear sending its spy data back home, and blocking ads it tries to show, why wouldn’t I just do that on much cheaper throwaway Chinese hardware? I’m much more likely to buy stuff like TPLink gear that can be flashed with OpenWRT, or jump feet first into Mikrotik gear - than ever spend more money on Ubiquity’s modern shitware...
I found your point of view interesting, so I did some research. I found this meta analysis in favor of masks that had a lot of good sources: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118. A few highlights:

- There aren't any good randomized controlled trials to tell how well mask wearing works due to ethical concerns of experimenting on pandemic prevention methods. I could see why researchers would be reluctant to force people NOT to wear masks during a pandemic, since there's a good chance they could be putting people in danger.

- Several studies found that wearing masks are effective at reducing transmission of other respiratory illnesses, so I could see why the CDC issued guidance on wearing masks when faced with a respiratory illness like COVID-19.

- There's also randomized controlled trials referenced in the analysis that suggest masks are effective at reducing the occurrence of influenza-like illness.

I'm looking for studies that suggest face masks are ineffective, but I'm not finding a whole lot...I found a few websites claiming that masks were ineffective, but upon closer inspection, the studies they were citing compared N95 masks to standard surgical masks, not masks vs. no masks. I would love to read any studies you find suggesting that masks are ineffective at reducing the transmission of respiratory illnesses!
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It's an interesting structure, but probably partly out of patent law. To wit, SARS-nCoV-2 is non-patentable, being of natural occurance.

But a specific composition that encodes its spike protein, encapsulated in a lipid nanoparticle? That's much more of a creative work.
There are also places in KC that have fiber from zero companies.
Canada stops using AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine for people under 55
Visx basically solves this problem: https://airbnb.io/visx/
Ask HN: Graphical/visual Unix shell with built-in file explorer etc.?
I remember a few years ago someone wrote a graphical UNIX shell (for Linux and OSX, Windows was highly experimental). So instead relying only on text-based commands, we can also do visual-based operations like displaying image files, browsing our file system, etc.

Anyone remember it?
Queries to ALIAS records that are AWS resources (ELB, CloudFront), etc are indeed free. The reason is directly related too; we want to be able to raise and lower the TTL value without customers being impacted.
This is useless reasoning. An atheist is someone who is sure there is no God.

An agnostic is someone that admits they don’t know.

A militant agnostic is a person that knows that you don’t know, and wants you to admit it.

The first and third are actual religions / political movements. Claiming the people that ascribe to them are wrong is as offensive as saying all modern members of religion X are self-deluding hypocrites.

Since we’re apparently not using words to mean what they mean, you have no possible rebuttal.
Chinese Loans to Africa Database
Who could forget the spiritual predecessor to the oregon trail, the via appia?
We need to show some restraint towards extremely bright fully saturated colors, especially for text. Observe contrast and don't just go around cranking up the saturation slider. It's the HDR of website design, stop doing this please.
It'd be cool if the learning set was built on humans coming up with challenges and then strangers drawing them, and then them being guess by a third person, and then validated by the challenger as true/false.
I had a Dream Machine (the all-in-one, not the pro) and it fried the very next day. Even after that I was willing to give Ubiquiti another try, but now I don’t know what to do.
Sometimes it's really tempting to tie ones value to their own ability, especially when one's pretty successful at it.

But in the end, the ability of one person on the backdrop of the planet and the universe where it reside is minuscule. I've felt content to just marvel at the surrounding, satisfying my own curiosity, and the world has never been a greater place for that. So much knowledge available over just a click, and so much more to come from talented researchers all over the globe. This is how I will feel peace - when my inevitable decline arrives.

Being an observer is also a lot of fun. I love writing rng based simulations for the same reason.
At least takes like the theirs is why people in cybersecurity can easily find jobs.
Not sure about the 'fact-based conservative pundits' but some hollywood celebrities are migrating to Australia.
I mean he's right. Autonomous weapons are inevitable, anyone who thinks the other side isn't building these is kidding themselves.
Z has online education and partnerships with some schools.

https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/master-the...

There is/will be a lot of old gov’t C/C++/java code out there that will have to be maintained forever. IRS, FAA, DoD, see who owns those support contracts.
How far?

That's really the biggest issue with electric towing right now. To get a reasonable range while towing a travel trailer, the EV needs four times the battery capacity, maybe more. This is a pretty big capital investment, and then you're toting around an extra few thousand pounds even when not towing.

We will get there eventually, but I expect that tow vehicles will be amongst the last personal vehicles to be successfully electrified.
I am amazed by the level's of stupidity crypto has gotten to. Time for the regulators to crash the party.
I think it's more about: in a year from now will you understand the purpose of a change to some code you're debugging? If the commit says "merged PR 2234", answer is probably not.
In no particular order because you kinda keep repeating yourself and rehashing strawmen I've already answered:

- I didn't ask how this is related to the topic, you did. And I answered you.

- The 42% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes says the movie is bad. The -$700M box office difference between VII and VIII says the movie is bad. The < 5 user score on Metacritic says the movie is bad. The fact that lots of people felt the need to make videos about how bad it was says the movie is bad. The fact that you didn't like it says the movie is bad. The fact that I actually enjoyed the spectacle of the film in the cinema but found it borderline unwatchable when I tried to rewatch at home says the movie is bad. Is most of this subjective? Of course. Does that mean we're not allowed to try to figure out what went wrong? Um, no? Is your stance really "shhh don't ask why the movie was bad it's not for you to know"?

- It's still unclear what you mean when you say "reactionary", so it kinda just sounds like you're trying to use that as some sort of putdown / dig and honestly it's not working.

- I don't "seem to think the goal of diverse hiring is a damning statement". I don't think that hiring diverse staff (which is not even what I was criticizing so...?) means you don't want to make a good movie. I merely think when your primary goal (evidenced by repeated public statements on the part of Kathleen Kennedy) is to make your movies "woke", that will inevitably be the thing you are most likely to succeed at. I honestly can't believe you're trying to make the argument that a split focus does not negatively impact your likelihood of succeeding in one particular area. That's a given. You can't be good at everything, so if your focus is "being woke" it invariably means you will be worse at executing on other things, like telling a good story.
Apple App Store Review Guidelines, Section 5.1.1:

"(iv) Access: Apps must respect the user’s permission settings and not attempt to manipulate, trick, or force people to consent to unnecessary data access. For example, apps that include the ability to post photos to a social network must not also require microphone access before allowing the user to upload photos. Where possible, provide alternative solutions for users who don’t grant consent. For example, if a user declines to share Location, offer the ability to manually enter an address."

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#pri...
"Some vaccines require two doses because the immune response to the first dose is rather weak. The second dose helps to better reinforce this immune response." - I would have to think over time that could be optimized somehow to just require one w/ ML and test results, etc.
Latest thing that set me off was noticing Mandalorian wallpapers on my Pixel phone.
- delivery mechanism: you need to take a very unstable molecule, protect it from the environment - both external, and when inside the patient - and insert it into a human cell. (This is called the "platform", and is usually developed independently from the specific payload.)

Sounds like a problem you solve once and for all, for any vaccine. And also that this problem was already solved since decades (e.g viral vectors)

- testing: the newly-developed payload and the existing platform were integrated at small scales within weeks, but testing the thing for safety and efficacy took months
And so many people have been killed by this overly conservative testing, phase ~<2.5 was enough
The article makes the action seem unpopular, but I remember it differently. To my blue-collar family, the air traffic controllers were holding up travel and were demanding even more money. The author sees it from a different angle, I think.

It's worth noting that 3 years later Reagan won re-election by winning 49 of 50 states. He lost only Minnesota, where he did not campaign. (He thought it would be unsporting and mean spirited, having seen the way polling was going.)
Thanks for commenting. That's a helpful and insightful perspective.
Are you prepared to legislate what constitutes allowable leisure activity? Require people to justify why they aren't choosing the smallest plausibly usable car, if they can justify a car at all? Submit to the government every vacation plan, every potential career change, every hobby to make sure it has the least environmental impact?

For every choice you make, I guarantee someone can point out how you could have been more environmentally friendly. Let's not go down that path.
I guess it is supposed to help us find tumors and whatnot, synthesize images rather than rely on an artist to do it, etc. But if you listen to a lot of ML talks they sometimes say, "we trained this on images but the technique works on any 2D or 1D signal" so it's applicable to signal problems in general.

What those are, I have no idea.
I use an email client I wrote for this purpose:

https://aerc-mail.org/

Greg-KH has also written about his mutt workflow:

http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2019/08/14/patch-workflow-with...

Though his volume and needs are probably different from most users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinamax

This has a rather odd diagram, and I'm not sure if it supports your comment or not.

It shows Suezmax as having "unlimited length", while Chinamax is given as 360 meters, which I think is smaller than Ever Given.

Obviously unlimited length can't be literal, if the Suez isn't perfectly straight, right?

On the other hand the Chinamax diagram says "unlimited air draft" which again, can't be literal since at some point it would be impossible to keep upright?

The Chinamax designation seems to imply a greater draft, which does make sense, but it's only 20% greater than the greatest stated for Suezmax.