skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would only take one person from a small village where the virus was otherwise burning itself out to travel to a big city.

I think the Chinese's response was very good considering they had no warning. And western countries did far worse when they had 4-6 weeks of warning.
$15/hour is the minimum at Amazon not the median - from the news articles I've read, they also do this for temporary/seasonal/part time workers, not just for full time workers. You’re drawing a false comparison.

Also is there any evidence that conditions are “really horrible”? Lots of people love working at Amazon warehouses - it pays well for unskilled labor and includes benefits. How do you know the complaints aren’t just from a small number of workers who are bad at their job and feel the time crunch, while most might be getting along fine? I feel like there isn’t available data to say either way - all we have are anecdotes that are being amplified in social media.
But if you travel at close to the speed of light (without exceeding it), the universe will age 200 years when you take a 200ly trip. In which case, I'm not sure if there is any benefit to dragging around a bubble of spacetime?
That looks very graphical - not the ASCII characters of the portrait.
stray char at the end of your URL
> people don't want to have to advertise themselves as "willing to take criticism". That should be norm.

I don't think this is precisely correct. In the situations like in the article, the issue is that both parties are playing a dance around _what kind of feedback/criticism_ is acceptable.

If I ask you "why might my business fail?", and your gut reaction is "your personal life is a mess", do you tell me this? Even with an NDA, that's _super harsh_ feedback.

(This feedback would hurt me more AFTER the NDA. The NDA would change my expectations around the types of feedback. I'd expect "you're not a good programmer" or "you don't work enough hours to beat the competition".)

But if I _really_ wanted to have my business succeed, that's feedback I probably need from someone other than my therapist. :)
the quick and dirty solution would be for any male VC to partner up with a female VC to deal with such situations.
Why?

Subversion is way easier to use than git, and it takes minutes to setup a server. Pushing your project history is just a few steps with git-svn, though it may take a while depending on the size of your project.

TortoiseSVN is probably the most straightforward and easy to use version control GUI there is.
It's not an uncommon word, even in speech. I did a quick check and the Times, Telegraph and Guardian all have plenty of examples of its use, too, across different sections of the paper. Even the Daily Mirror had 4 entries.

The Sun, however, came up blank.
Science is (a lot less) powerful than religion.

Indoctrination taken to religious levels, in a confined and controlled environment, would be more than enough to propagate programming for hundreds if not thousands of years.
The State (Commonwealth!) of Massachusetts used your SSN for your Driver License number, as recently as the mid-1990s.

Every time you had to show ID anywhere, you were giving your SSN away.
Immunor & St Georges University of London released a paper outlining evidence that SARS-CoV-2 Spike was artificial. The paper was criticised for going against the popular narrative. While I hope they're wrong, many researches dance around the topic. https://www.minervanett.no/files/2020/07/13/TheEvidenceNoNat...
You got your quote wrong by an order of magnitude of order of magnitudes. (;

> requires roughly 100 times the energy contained in the mass of Jupiter, said Lentz. That’s about 30 orders of magnitude higher than the power of modern nuclear reactors.
Vulnerability fixes, post upgrade support, bug fixes.
> And how could I forget compilers! LLVM might save the day for all of this stuff (except versioning and distribution... ick). Build a tool that can grok LLVM-IR, and you've solved the problem for most languages out there.

You do still have to maintain it. LLVM is just a compiler IR and reserves the right to change at any time. (same goes for other compiler IRs of course)

I suppose you could use SPIR-V or PNACL which are based on fixed versions of LLVM.
Then there is this saying that if a lawyer represents himself in a court, he has a fool for a customer
To me, listing dozens of resources to learn a new language doesn't help. On the contrary, it makes it even more overwhelming. I'd rather have one or two recommendations (maybe one for beginners and one for experienced programmers).

Besides, most of those resources (in fact most other languages resources too) are concept-driven, not problem-driven. To paraphrase a comment I made a while ago on a similar topic [1]:

I wish the style of teaching complex programming topics walked me through the pain of making something work, exploring a few alternative solutions, showing the tradeoffs, and then after the pain has been experienced by the learner, a proper solution is finally introduced and recommended. IMO it's a much more powerful technique for teaching if you walk the learner through the pains first, then arrive at a solution, and tell them that "you've just [discovered how ownership works in rust]"; i.e. the concept is given a name at the _very end_, not defined at the beginning as a solution to a pain the learner never experienced. Unfortunately very few books/tutorials take this approach.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19010428
Talking about this stuff without saying what kind of music you mean seems a little silly. There is a reference to "one popular song", and it seems the author is thinking of pop music. But it seems most things that can be said about keys/chords in one genre/tradition/style, don't apply to others. And even within genres, things naturally evolve so that old rules no longer apply.
Odd to call it forgotten; I've known about it for sometime, and it isn't just the fruit-nerd circles I run in. There was even an older tree growing in the yard of an immigrant Greek family in my old neighbourhood in Toronto, they made preserves from them.

There's all sorts of neat things in the same tribe as apples ("Maleae"); one of my favourites is the Amelanchier genus... Known as Saskatoons, Juneberries, Service berries, Shadbush, depending on where you are and which species you're looking at (though they're all very similar in flavour.) Make the best pie.

EDIT: this breakdown process described for medlars is also similar to some varieties of pears, which aren't really ripe "off the tree" but require chilling hours and then re-warming in order for the sugars to transform into something more edible.
"Son, you may not understand why you're getting taunted, bullied online, and threatened by anonymous people with violence now, but in 15 years you'll come to appreciate what I stood up for and that'll erase all of this traumatic social ostracism I brought on you inadvertently and without consulting you by sticking to my guns."

Yeah, that's some great parenting... </Sarcasm>
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There's plenty of cases where they spliced footage to purposely be deceptive. For instance [1], though Google has many more

[1]: https://entertainment.time.com/2011/03/13/the-twisty-bent-tr...
Facebook is more private (as in you don't follow random people on Facebook; you are either friend or not), so it doesn't happen as frequent as it happens in Twitter, not in the same degree.
For quite a few in this space, reaching an understanding is the opposite of their goal. Intentionally obtuse word meanings that shift constantly to match whatever one party wants them to match is a staple of these discussions. The last thing such people want is a richer vocabulary where everything is clearly defined. Understanding isn't the goal, getting their way is the goal.

Intentionally misunderstanding is a tool for accomplishing that goal.
You can name PostgreSQL tables with poop emoji
Sounds like microaggressions.
Telling people the truth does not, in fact, satisfy them. They reason low quality, biased punditry as "news" exists is because people actually like it when it agrees with them.
Similarly, if I understand it, in the recent Sidney Powell filing and partial representations thereof. Out of a 60(?) page filing, presumably offering point after point after point after point, one point apparently offers [rhetorical hyperbole] for consideration. And I hear this on the progressive radio I follow as [the fact of] "Powell's admission that nothing she said is to be taken seriously."
They misquoted him and attributed malice to quotes that did not exist. Two months later they posted a correction that they were wrong: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/16/washingto...
I definitely agree the book felt like a series of set pieces strung together. I don't really find space opera action scenes very interesting in writing, so it was a bit of a chore to get through it all. The tactical setup of the finale on Schar's World was novel but otherwise it was tedious.

As has been said elsewhere in the larger thread, it was interesting how ultimately inconsequential the plot was - possibly only changing the end date of the war by a couple months or so. I appreciated this, but it isn't enough to hang an entire plot on!
Developers write developer tools. Developers wants to be paid to create the tools not pay someone. If they can't find someone to pay them then they will use a foss product and at times contribute back.

Why would you expect a toolmaker to buy someone else's tools?
The overwhelming majority of history education leaves out inconvenient truth of vile and anti democratic acts committed in the name of American Capital interests.

Actually, the overwhelming impression I have of the "US history" in the minds of young people, is summed up by that very sentence. However, real history is always nuanced and complex. I certainly wouldn't disagree that bad things have happened in the name of US power. However, the actual history isn't that one-sided.

And often, it's that one-sided skew which is then used to justify throwing out principles like due process and innocent until proven guilty.
HR stands for Human Resources so that’s somewhat common. It’s also common in businesses to treat their employees like that. Why’s this different? Because it’s like a return to factory line work before we had things like mandatory break times. When people are pissing in bottles because their delivery quota is so high they can’t take bathroom breaks, when every move they make is scrutinized by software, respect for the human worker’s needs is reduced even from the “human resource” perspective. The point of economic progress shouldn’t be more dehumanizion for ever cheaper products while asset prices explode.
>May I suggest reading RT

I find it deeply ironic that Russia can run a news network that acts as a propaganda weapon by just talking about all the scandalous topic that American media wont touch (US war in Yemen, CIA black sites, Hunter Biden emails, Saudi government involvement in 9/11, CIA dumping billions of $ of weapons into the hands of ISIS, etc).
I would love for someone to pay me to write an IDE. I've been in that situation a couple of times in the past (SQLWindows, Visual Basic) and it was a lot of fun.

However, my current job is developing a voice response system for restaurant drive-thrus. I don't have time to write my own IDE right now!

So I farm that out to JetBrains and get to use all of their awesome work for less than fifty cents a day.

If that's too much, their free versions are very good too.

I may also take exception to this:

> A doctor tries to avoid general checkups with other doctors.

Wouldn't the opposite be true? As far as I know, every psychiatrist has a psychiatrist, every counselor has a counselor (or should), and I would guess that every doctor has a doctor.

A doctor is more likely than the rest of us to have particular insight into their own health, but I don't think they try to do it all alone.

Of course I'm only speaking for myself. If anyone prefers to write all their own tools, more power to them!
You may want to take a look at lit-html coupled with ApplicationState [1] (disclaimer, I'm the author of ApplicationState)

https://github.com/claytongulick/applicationstate
How many millions of people use MS Office and Google Docs with absolutely no support?

I fear they are misunderstanding how commoditised office software has become.
> I interpret it like this

I'm a bit confused, did I not respond in a way that recognized this? It appeared to me as a low quality response that did not actually have anything to do with my comment. I believe the comment vastly oversimplified the problem, which is part of what I'm trying to address, that the problem is complicated and we need to recognize the nuances involved and respond in good faith. To clarify, I do not think a good faith response results in

> instantly assuming that any criticism a man might give to a woman is rooted in sexism

As such a belief is itself rooted in the belief that the only criticism a man can have of a woman is that she is a woman, which I'd argue itself is sexist (and not responding in good faith). As an example we saw this during the 2016 election where people often said that anyone who criticized Clinton was doing so because she was a woman, which honestly is an extremely dehumanizing platform. While there were people criticizing her on this basis (openly and through more careful language) the claim itself positions Clinton as being infallible and thus not human, which is absurd. This is far from a good faith response because Clinton, as any human (and especially politicians/leaders), are deserving of criticism (not that you should be mean about it). So by a good faith response I would expect someone to respond to that criticism instead of accusing the other person of being sexist. But I honestly believe people making such claims are a minority, albeit with high visibility because of the sensational nature of their bad faith responses.
The foot indeed does have two eyes though. The answer provided by the actual AI (linked in the article) is accurate if not profound, since the foot is attached to a human and most humans have two eyes. It is a pretty solid thesis.
Exactly. It’s like yelling at a cashier - I guess people do it because once in awhile it works.
That's the reason it is expected to have 5 sigma, so that anomalies are extremely rare. The more experiments one makes, the closer one gets to the mean value and this happens exponentially fast. By that, I mean that using some probability theory and some algebra you can get a confidence bound on the accuracy you demand based on the number of experiments that you run.
Seems like a narrow view of developer tools. Isn't this the bread and butter of GitLab/Microsoft and others? I work in a dull industry and the perception isn't we need new tools to understand our abstractions. The main challenges I run into are that we need more staff to run and maintain new ways to work with our APIs. How do we keep track and find our APIs? Who owns the database? Am I allowed to connect to this database? My main job is to figure out how to make an on-rails experience so that when a developer leaves after two years new ones aren't relearning the flavor of the month pattern or tech someone wanted to try. It's a broad enough problem I'm sure it can be productized if you keep it general enough.
If only it was that simple. But obviously the corporation has an incentive in open source as most do. There is pressure to present as open but internally the priority is not on reported issues, unless they are security related or something is broken.
As others pointed out, "Excession" is his novel written at least in major part from the POV of the minds, and it's a bit of a weird one. Hard to read.
Because of how sorry they are each time they get caught.
FTL travel means that: it’s FTL. You're a

you're a

you've been given FTL travel and you’re viewed as a FTL entity.
Your comment only works if it’s possible to construct your words so precisely that there is no way to misinterpret them. You honestly believe that’s possible?
And “thalidomide causes birth defects” was no doubt “misinformation” early in the crisis as well.

You’d be suppressing that too.
The other party. You can't fix broken people.
...after all, in the end is not truth most situations are about, but power. Tell the truth, you're exposed, vulnerable. Tell something else - a lie sometimes - and the balance of power is restored. For good or bad, who am I to judge.
Presumably, since a man complaining about a woman getting special treatment "because she is a woman" would hardly be unprecedented.
People dying of cancer is funny!
thoughts specific to SSN:

Seems like the SSA will will run out of 9-digit usable numbers in about 1 generation (~70 years).

Then what ?

Is this software's next Y2K ?

https://www.quora.com/Why-havent-we-run-out-of-Social-Securi...
For Verizon at least, they sub out the 5G local towers to a third party and avoid paying CWA unionized guys. They would set mounds of dollar bills in fire to spite the union.

I think they use wireless backhaul too.
> I would say that the web revolution gained so much momentum because so many developers could easily get the best tools to learn and experiment with for free with zero barriers.

IMO (based on my limited view; I haven't studied the history) it happened because the market for smart mobile devices enlarged (one could argue Apple basically created the future & the market with iPhones, which Blackberry didn't manage to), Firebug and then Chrome made it easier to develop for the web, and developers found that these tools let them make cross-platform apps from a single codebase, with a much larger audience to go with it too.

Which is why I didn't see it as being an issue of price-point: I don't recall any better alternatives to it, whatever the price. Even if you were willing to shell out $1000+ for software tools, what alternative tools could you have bought to make it nearly as easy to make apps that ran on practically every major platform out there? Your only practical option for language was JavaScript (or if you were really desperate, Java, or I guess Flash), and Firebug and Chrome had (and many say Chrome still has) the best dev tools for JS. I don't see how being more willing to spend money on dev tools would've changed this on the client side.

On the server side, Windows had more to offer (and perhaps ASP.NET was a decent alternative), and prices probably mattered a ton there. But that's not primarily about dev tools, that's about the Linux being free and Windows Server very much not.
I think context is important. If you are talking about guitar based music, then E is a pretty safe bet as home. But what if a group doesn’t use standard tuning? The first two examples that come to mind are Alice In Chains and Tool. They use E flat tuning and drop-d tuning, respectively (mostly). When I listen to them, Eb and D are home.
Viruses get out of labs all the time, what’s so crazy about it?
Sure, but where do we draw the line on people saying bad things while venting?
Are you sure about that? I drink coffee all day long and in the evenings too. Doesn't affect me much. But some of the energy drinks gets me completely hyper so that I can't sleep.
That's correct. I should have said, new physics with high confidence. Physicists tend to be very very conservative when it comes to discoveries as there have been some big blunders during the last century.
And then there is a chance that their next 15-minutes-of-hate session will be pointing towards you. Safer to stay away.
You're completely right (and this, my friend, is a lie).
Do you deny the irony?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-call-georgia-i...

"CORRECTION: [...] Trump did not tell the investigator to “find the fraud” or say she would be “a national hero” if she did so."

That's a pretty whopping correction that changes the entire story. If he's asking her to investigate the votes to find wrongdoing, then there's absolutely no wrongdoing.
No, I didn't mean for that purpose.

I just mean it's exceptionally bad price/performance for a display.
I hope they are, but yet some large number of people who want to post stuff online are promulgating a ridiculous one-sided view. That the United States is essentially a slave state, and that all of the wealth was created on the backs of slavery, and thus all of that wealth should be given over.

The fact that this sort of dreck isn't widely debunked and ridiculed whenever it appears is kind of mind boggling. Yes, some very bad things happened. But by the same token, the founding fathers weren't B-movie villains doing bad things for the evulz!
The absence of excitement may stem from a number of things. The first thing I would look at is mental health, which is important to personal well-being. In particular, a sedentary lifestyle is so hard on the body. Otherwise, if an older developer is relatively healthy but struggles to be excited about their field, then I would suggest changing things up. There are many ways to try out different roles that relate to tech without leaving tech entirely. Or...just do something radically different from tech.

For some people, changing their job is the answer, but for others, even a career change won't feel different. For this bunch, my hunch is that the choice of field is not what's truly bothering them. In which case, I would revisit my first point -- make self-care a priority.

I haven't directly answered the question posted by OP because I think trying to convince yourself to be excited about something leads you further from a solution that addresses the root cause.

I hope the answer I gave was not too prescriptive. There is no judgment here. Best of luck, OP.
This looks great! I was disappointed when Logisim was discontinued but it's good to see there are a number of clones or forks of it now being developed.
If you are struggling with the loss of criticism from that wise and powerful man that you look up to, you are not a feminist.
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I really like Consider Phlebas; but it is a sprawling novel which doesn't actually focus that much on the Culture and more on its tortured protagonist. Use of Weapons is similar, a very similar story to CP in fact. (EDIT: but more focused and less sprawling)

Look to Windward is a bit slow paced, but shorter than CP, and has a lot more about the Culture, and it has got a more nuanced emotional tone? It's a very well written novel, and the characters are ones you find sympathy with. It's the first Culture novel I read, and it got me into the series.

Excession is the weirdest in the series, written a lot from the POV of some ships, in a very weird style meant to sort of capture the inside of their thought processes. But it's good in its own way, if you can get into it.
That's true, but trust is the way most everything is built outside of academics.

Why do we use X framework? Well, because Mr. Deep Pockets over there is using it!

I wish we could have a more mathematical world, but it doesn't scale beyond a handful of architects and really talented engineers.

The amount of hassle and push back I get for getting 100% code coverage tells me that it's rare for people to leverage more concrete and deeper ideas to even validate their thinking. The market rewards "just ship it" way more because ultimately customers just learn to manage the shit that ships.
Humans Are Eating the World
Interesting, thanks for this. I'll give it a read.
It is sad that so many people would rather compromise their integrity rather than agree with Trump.