skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it wastes space to represent time on one axis, if space is a resource that you want to conserve, and I see how that has historically influenced music notation. But, I have a digital screen that can scroll at a specified pace, so I don't find it necessary to conserve space.

> If you can remember the duration of notes based on a few different symbols

I can do this but I find it a heavy cognitive load to translate symbols into duration while I am also reading/playing music: that was my point.

> Could you tell the difference between 31 and 32 1/32 rests?

Yes, if there was an adequately marked time scale/axis. There are already bars: just turn them back into the equal areas they are already abstractly representing. (I'm not suggesting that you notate a rest with only blank space - you can still explicitly notate a rest).
You'll have a broken moral system imposed on you either way then, if not by a church than by the shifting values of politics and society. You'll never derive an absolute moral code by yourself, you are forced to accept the changing values of society or risk being ostracized. Most people just allow their morals to shift with society rather than dig in their heels or try to develop an absolute moral code.
Windows Update. To reboot a server, you need to take it out of production. With a TTL of 5 minutes, it can take an hour for (nearly) all users to stop using that server.
I don’t think you voluntarily chose the city or country you were born in. Taxation is like paying rent. Would you use this argument to say that you get to squat rent free in an apartment because you were brought there after birth by your parents and you never signed a lease? The only reason you don’t think about this is because the apartment complex is small. The larger the organization, the more likely it is that you were born there. And you just have to realize that this organization doesn’t “owe you” anything other than the rights it has agreed to guarantee all its citizens.

If you want to find a jurisdiction that will be willing to enforce your property rights above every other right of all its citizens, you’re welcome to try to immigrate there, leaving your family and others or taking them with you. Maybe the Honduran cities are such a jurisdiction, or the high seas, but you’ll probably find they are not. And the jurisdiction you are moving from has no obligation to let you move any arbitrary amount of money out of it.

You don’t really choose where you live unilaterally. Wherever you go, people have already formed organizations and have jurisdiction with laws, and by moving there, you have to agree to abide by those laws. If you have ever traveled, you’ll know this is the case!

And no, it’s not “stealing” when it’s according to the laws of the jurisdiction. And furthermore, stealing implies that it’s your property to begin with. You should look up the difference between Sovereign/Alloidal title and Fee Simple. Read up on property laws. Your revenues are simply numbers in the account of a banking system chartered by your jurisdiction.
That's a fairly "mainframe era" definition of an operating system though ;) Let me reformulate: If an "operating system" or any other sort of application runtime (like a web browser) needs to handle UNICODE strings anyway in its UI layer, doesn't it make sense to expose an UNICODE API to the applications because all the code and data exists anyway in the OS.

This is one of my main gripes with web browsers: They have excellent text rendering, but there are no APIs which expose the text rendering capabilities to APIs like WebGL.
Funny enough you mention url, I had to fix a bug recently in JS code where our project was rejecting valid urls, the issue was that someone found somewhere a regex that validated urls but during the years the standards updated and now more characters were allowed. So copy pasting perfectly good code is bad because it might get outdated.

I would bet that on average Java standard library code(that is not deprecated) will be higher quality then npm packages.
lol. you really fail to understand why everything is dumbed down? it’s because 1) people don’t have a lot of time 2) a lot of people don’t need or can’t understand the arguments. why bother?
I'd start by computing the number of ships that went around the Southern tip of Africa as a result of the stuck ship. I wonder how much the cost of extra fuel and food/pay for all of those ships doing additional miles will be? And the resulting increase in wholesale/retail costs?

Regarding penalties re late delivery, I'm less worried about that. Cargo ships always have language about loss and force majeure. I think a stuck ship would qualify as force majeure. And a week shouldn't affect most perishables e.g. grain, that go into containers.
This is a strawman for what you believe all religious organizations to be. In fact, you don't even need to be a religious organization to hold such beliefs. See: Alcoholics Anonymous.

The problem that religious doctrine seeks to address is one of how to preserve our sanity when we're inexplicably stuck on this rock together. Science doesn't seem to have any good explanation for why we're here either -- just that we exist and the universe has for a long time too. There a multiple colliding personal beliefs of individuals on things like: fairness, justice, or whatever a favorable outcome socially even might be. I think it's fine that people might seriously study the mythos of Greek, Abrahamic, and Eastern religion together.

People are born without a purpose other than survival and it is perfectly normal, if not recommended, that they maintain a healthy curiosity about the meaning of their existence. The alternative, unless I'm mistaken, is nihilism.
I didn't know either until I put together a couple of other references in other comments... Uncle Bob Martin.

Only ever seen a few minutes of one or two presentations... so no personal opinion.
Github is far from just a git repository. It's a ticket tracking system, a discussion system, a release binaries host, a CI/CD component and a pastebin. The linux kernel has no CI/CD, no binaries, it doesn't even have a centralized server (only a copy of Linus' tree) and does everything through mailing lists.
Cutter 2.0 with Projects saving and Reversible Debugging
> What should I preach? That they're victims and screwed because of accident of geography/genetics? Is that a useful framework for life?

> Whats the alternative for those less fortunate?

(disclaimer: atheist)

Your stance is a classic of church thinking: remove the agency from the people in the situation, and delegate it to god, saying he will fix the problem __somehow__, but they need'nt involve themselves.

The alternative is honesty and historical accuracy. To try to conceal or ignore what forces in their past have done to minimize them is to make it impossible for them to decide for themselves how they want to deal with these problems--you're removing their agency.

Maybe they'll choose to dedicate their lives to researching genetic problems, or to correcting social injustice, raising awareness of subconscious bias or changing how certain systems in our culture purposefully minimize portions of the population.

This attitude, that being kind to those around them will bring change, while noble, is incredibly naive and shortsighted. Nearly every major social change in United States history was brought about through groups of people uniting and demonstrating their combined force, demanding the rights they'd been denied.

> You can say that you teach them the system is unfair will help them break it. But that amounts to political indoctrination if you're not careful.

Your alternative will lead to stunted critical thinking, and serves only to prevent the questions many deconverting folk have asked of the god they believed in: "How is this fair?", "How could you let this happen?", "How will you fix this?"
> "Cloudflare is, in general, a delight to use."

Agreed. There's lots of companies in the space that Cloudflare operates in. Cloudflare is the "macOS/Apple" of the market whereas their competition is the unwieldily mess that is "Linux".
Android update is nasty spyware – what you need to know
I've seen this neumorophism theme and really liked it, especially all the individual components that they've made.
https://demo.themesberg.com/neumorphism-ui-pro/html/componen...
But that in itself is a value judgment. You go from an "is" to an "ought" on how humans should behave. There's no logical reason why we "ought" to do any of these things. These are just a reflection of your values, and what you perceive in your mind would make the world a better place.

This is the same type of religious "value" based thinking you are criticizing without realizing it.

Why is "education" more important than a million other things. What if my son values playing sports more. He could easily make the argument that the world would be a better place if we played more sports. For one, less obesity. For two, more fun. We all be happier if we just played more sports. Why should I take your value judgments over my sons.
> "There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there's some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly,"

I couldn't find the original Fauci quote, but the WHO quote from the linked article is a lot more nuanced than "masks don't work."

Samed with the linked FOX article about the CDC/the Surgeon General.

> “There may be a day when we change our recommendations particularly for areas that have large spread going on about wearing cotton masks, but again the data is not there yet,” he continued. “We are continuing to follow it.”
Maybe they are thinking more about the subsription model?
Also, are there any paths for supply chain interruption insurance to kick in?
Unfortunately those experts are only experts in their respective fields and are either unable or unwilling to consider the second order consequences of their decisions, such as greatly diminished trust in their institution by people who recognize their obvious lies and in this specific case, causing mask resistance in a large number of individuals.
I learned JS when it first showed up. Still write backend servers in C++ and JS libraries to interact with those servers from a browser.
> remember that they probably do have their assessment of your own best interests in mind. Think of them as an overprotective parent, not as an enemy.

Tell this to thousands of Americans who lost their jobs from international trade agreements. Sorry we had to take away your ability to earn an income and then lie about why we did it. We actually had your best interests in mind.
The Crane Wife (2019)
I think Ada/GNAT performs roughly on par with C and C++, so we have reason to be optimistic. It's not just the dominant languages that end up with mature optimizing compilers.
Less collateral damage. L

Much more accessible to regular people.

Ability to be anonymous and hide in a crowd of drones.
Isn't everything a bias in some way? But point taken. I don't attend multiple churches, I attend one, and it, like others of its ilk, has been under attack, so observations are of course my own. But if you want to mute the language some, let's s/strong//, s/freedom/choice, and s/vibrant/well-attended.
men’s Groups are now often political in nature.

Social justice groups (which are not that secular, actually), libertarians, militias.

Church membership declined. Qanon membership soared.
This also assumes good weather. Part of what caused the ship to run aground was high winds. I imagine that any winds high enough to cause that would also make it impossible to use the helicopters. How often are the winds in that area that high in that area?
This is what should be done with Police departments in some places.
This mirrors my experience.

I've seen more problems caused by the JVM, by default on some configurations, caching DNS indefinitely, regardless of TTL, than caused by a short TTL.
> illegal strike

I genuinely can't tell if you're being sarcastic with your comment.
It'll be interesting to see how colleges and universities react to GPT-3. Students will surely use it to write entire assignments.
High end engineering uses the simplest and most cost effective solution to get the job done right.

It would have been a mistake to throw expensive, complicated solutions at a problem that had a relatively simple solution.
#3 has a specific example. Their stories are consistent with non FSF employees' stories. Bradley Kuhn painted a similar picture.[1] What's more likely?

[1] http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
> Economists have known for many decades that some countries as a whole can be hurt by free trade.

I was with him up to here. This is a bit of a handwave that deserved deeper treatment.

It isn't obvious that America has ever been made worse off by free trade. The US government has been waging a War on Savers from at last the 90s. 40 years of anti-savings policy seems like a much more obvious culprit than free trade.

In the last 30 years the States burned huge amounts of resources fighting silly physical wars, engaged highly questionable monetary policy and run up jaw dropping amounts of debt (I haven't yet found anyone who will argue it is going to get payed back in real terms, the evidence otherwise might be overwhelming). Foreigners and free trade didn't do that. The Chinese are out there talking about the Belt & Road, the biggest infrastructure program ever. Their army is deployed close to the border.
> aren't DNS queries a drop in the bucket compared to the size of most web pages anyway?

The client needs to wait for the result of a DNS query before it can do anything else. The bandwidth is irrelevant, the problem is the delay.

Usually DNS queries are cached by a server near the user, so they are very fast. But if the authoritative name server has a very short TTL, then those cached results will often be stale, and the name server has to resolve the name recursively, which can be slow.
"The remaining chunks were of such a size, no respectable seagull would attempt to tackle anyway."

This guy assume gull's are respectable.

Man I hope this guy had an amazing career, because that was an awesome report.
In your examples, only Java and Go have robust standard libraries and both are essentially corporate programming languages.

The claim that C has a safe and/or robust standard library is very bizarre. Python only got there after years of community development (Python is 30 years old, Node is 11), and even today I wouldn't consider it particularly high quality.
This is dumb. I did not see the article quoting students of color who are offended by sheet music. Many of the best classical musicians are Asian.
> It is 'literal' and therefore not subjective. This is a fallacy - as there is always subjectivity and interpretation in human understanding, and certainly in interpreting something as nuanced and contradictory as the bible.

At the sermon on the mount, Jesus said "you are the salt of the earth". A literal take would be Jesus was saying the listeners were salt. You can be subjective and think this is a metaphor, but allowing for metaphors in the bible puts an end to literalism.
> How the numbers are derived is completely unrelated to how large the role they play is.

It is not, actually; it's fundamentally important. Your claim is in two parts: 1) numbers play a larger role in this context in Dutch society; 2) this is a direct cause of lower/non-existent incidence of, e.g., accusations of sexism.

I'm only suggesting that it's terribly easy for someone to use numbers to justify after the fact a decision based on sexism, and that I'm skeptical this condition is absent in Dutch culture.

> So you aren't attacking the claim itself; you're merely saying that the claim is misleading.

No, I'm not calling the claim misleading, I noted that the numbers used to justify a decision can be misleading (which is, in fact, a direct attack against your claim).
Reminds me of TNG: Déjà Q, in order to move something of large mass simply “change the gravitational constant of the universe.” Thanks John De Lancie.
As an outsider (i.e. someone from a different culture) this is equal parts hillarious, terrifying and englightening to watch. Like, all of a sudden you people can’t say racist, sexist or edgy things, and no one can explain why – it’s some kind of unspoken axiom, it’s just, like, wrong, man, dont’ you get it, it’s not polite. Not halal. Well, who deciced that politeness is halal? Did you people have a vote or something?
> Call me imperialist if you want while I help save the planet. I don't mind.

Not sure why you're projecting your resentment towards me given them I'm sympathetic to your viewpoint. <rant>But moreover, such a tone can be hurtful to your message. Even if their interlocutor is right, people loathe condescension, and it can often galvanize them into their cherished bad ideas. Not everyone is acting in bad faith. Understand peoples' motivations and fears, and then you might have a path to persuade them you have the better idea. But also learn where you might be wrong, or where the subject is more complicated and nuanced than you've conceived it to be.</rant>
The World's Strongest Man format contains a number of events that are probably a lot closer to real workplace lifting tasks than barbell events are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Strongest_Man#Compet... . Though of course those full competition weights are very much an upper bound and wouldn't be viable as everyday one-man lifts even if you hired elite strongmen to be your warehouse operatives.

OTOH 73kg (160lb) full beer kegs still get a fair bit of one-man manhandling, and to be a proper professional scaffolder you have to be able to lift a full-length scaffolding pole (just under 30kg, apparently?) from flat off the ground to straight up above your head, partly one-handed in one smooth movement, several times a day routinely.
When you hear a government officials make statements, you are not "listening to science", even if the official has impeccable science credentials.

They're doing a job, and that job is not science.
I disagree. I think it sends mixed messages and just confuses people further, especially in light of CDC statements that people don't have to wear masks if everyone present is vaccinated but you do have to still wear a mask in public even if you are vaccinated (why?)

The ultra risk aversion is what many people are souring on, especially considering the risks are low to begin with for the vast majority. My opinion is that if you are fully vaccinated, you don't need a mask. If you are vulnerable then by all means continue social distancing and masking and bunkering down in social isolation even after receiving the vaccination if you so desire, but stop forcing it upon me.
There may have been weak leadership at the federal level, but that’s not the same thing as the tone and direction of professional messaging from the medical community. The US mask story was just very convoluted and lacked policy or professional confidence.
I read a book by Eckhart Tolle that gave me two takeaways. The first was that the book was full of nonsense. The second was that it was clear why this nonsense was so effective for people.

What are the downsides to suspending scientific accuracy for the purposes of doing Aikido?
> We base our beliefs in the teachings of Jesus, who was born as a human despite being divine

The teachings of Jesus are a collection of stories from ~2000 years ago. That Jesus is/was divine is something which there is very little evidence for. But even if he was, his teaching are a collection of stories from 2000 years ago.
If you want hot-deployed distributed Java VM HTTP app. server + JSON database you can use my open-source alternative: http://host.binarytask.com

It uses comet-stream instead of WebSockets.

But it's fully "joint" parallel on all cores.
Thanks for linking the article so I could find the context that you removed:

> “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Dr. Fauci said. “Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.”

> “We need to have some humility here,” he added. “We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent. But, I’m not going to say 90 percent.”

> Doing so might be discouraging to Americans, he said, because he is not sure there will be enough voluntary acceptance of vaccines to reach that goal. Although sentiments about vaccines in polls have bounced up and down this year, several current ones suggest that about 20 percent of Americans say they are unwilling to accept any vaccine.

> Also, Dr. Fauci noted, a herd-immunity figure at 90 percent or above is in the range of the infectiousness of measles.

> “I’d bet my house that Covid isn’t as contagious as measles,” he said.
They don't reverse left and right. They reverse forward and back.

Things on the left side of your body are still on your left as you look at the mirror. You imagine switching places with the mirror image by turning on an axis down your body, because that's how you're symmetric. That also reverses forward and back, but not the way a mirror does, so you get an extra left-right reversal as well.

If you had writing on your chest, it appears reversed in the mirror because it's reversed in front of you. If you looked through a tee-shirt, you'd see that the things seem reversed. The writing is meant to be read by a person looking at you, not by you. The first letter is on your right, so that it's on the left to a viewer in front of you looking towards your back.
>And truly it already has. Our society requires complete unquestioning philosophical adherence to its new religion.

Obviously, since speaking heresies like this will get you killed. /s

Take a step back, disengage from the culture war, and take a look at what is actually happening.
But the thing is, these non-religious communities tend not to be stable long-term, they're not as well-coordinated, and don't seem to influence people's behavior all that much.

Abstracted from all particulars of a given belief system, religions seem to be a refined, hyperoptimized form of community building.
is people publicly debating your existence good for society as a whole?
Probably not. Certainly the vast majority were not deliberately made up within recorded history.
I can almost feel and smell the textbook.
Just to be clear: The ship is still there and still stuck. They were just able to straighten it enough (parallel to the shore) to be out of the way and no longer blocking boat traffic.

Edit: I think I saw an earlier article, other reports are now saying it's fully floating and moving.
Some industries crucial to public safety have legal restrictions on the right to strike.
"Working class' is generally identified as a 'trade' job in terms of ATC it was a trade job back then because it did not require much to get the job in terms of experience or education, you were trained to do the specific job and it rarely changed over the course of your career.
if you know, you know ;) i'm happy to hear you like it!
I wasn't aware of that, so thank you for pointing it out.

It is worth noting that it doesn't change the underlying thought I was getting at, though. When a union decides to strike, the options other than "concede" (that's a simplistic way of putting it, obviously, since most strikes result in some sort of compromise) that are available to the employer need to be considered.