skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is plenty of blame to throw around during interventionist policies during the Great Depression. Take a look at Wickard v Filburn:

> An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat to feed animals on his own farm. The US government had established limits on wheat production, based on the acreage owned by a farmer, to stabilize wheat prices and supplies. Filburn grew more than was permitted and so was ordered to pay a penalty. In response, he said that because his wheat was not sold, it could not be regulated as commerce, let alone "interstate" commerce (described in the Constitution as "Commerce... among the several states"). The Supreme Court disagreed: "Whether the subject of the regulation in question was 'production', 'consumption', or 'marketing' is, therefore, not material for purposes of deciding the question of federal power before us.... But even if appellee's activity be local and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce and this irrespective of whether such effect is what might at some earlier time have been defined as 'direct' or 'indirect

It was illegal for farmers to grow wheat above a certain amount... on their own land... to feed their own animals...

You have people trying to tinker with complicated system. Gold is not complicated. It's a unit of account. There's a fixed amount of it with a pretty well known supply and demand. This is the way the world existed since 1971. That's the main value prop of crypto currencies, and by the price appreciation and interest, its a pretty strong feature. Its good to have a fixed unit of account available in the world when money supply can jump by 25% at any time due to the actions of a dozen or so individuals appointed by politicians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
Do you really think someone would write a lexer, a parser, and an implementation of the LSP protocol for Bash in Bash?
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Or, maybe even better, they need to keep coming up with new nonsense to put in headlines. After a year or two people know "one weird trick" articles are in fact spam, so it becomes necessary to produce new phrases to put in headlines to entice / trick unwary readers.
2014, the last year Intel made any good improvements to their ancient architecture.

Just ignore the "i7" part if it confuses you. I've not had a desktop in over a decade, so I'm talking about mobile chips 90% of the time.
> Environment variables is exactly this: mutable global state.

Not really; environment variables can't be externally changed once they're passed in. If it were true mutable global state, some external process could change their value while a program is running. Or the program could change the value of the environment variable in the shell that launched it. Either of those would be horrifying.

In other words, environment variables could be worse. They could also be better. My main objection to environment variables is that they're not a discoverable interface. Ideally, it should be possible to find out what environment variables a program accepts without running the program (or grepping the source code for "getenv"), and in most cases it should be possible to enumerate the valid values.

Environment variables are just one of many things about they typical POSIX / ANSI C interface that have been around so long people don't even question it anymore.
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Don't you mean "1/1000th less" developers working on it?
Expect to get vaccinated several times a year. No kidding.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vac...

"The European Union aims to increase the region’s COVID-19 vaccine production capacity to 2-3 billion doses per year by the end of 2021"

Hint: The EU has about 400 Million people
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I already filed 83(b). How do I report the stock on my personal returns? Any help around this will be really helpful.
I need to force myself a bit and setup a "study" giving people eos on old laptops and ask them to live in it for a month.

And kudos to the team, even it's highly macos inspired (someone would say stolen or lifted) it was a brilliant ~replica and felt great right away.
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> The interesting thing about attribution is it flips the infamous "attacker's edge" around.

Q: Do we think that anyone in North Korea, never mind anyone in power in North Korea, cares whether some group in the West "attributes" another alleged hack to them?

> forensic investigators often only need to discover one mistake to start pulling on threads and pivoting

Would that be the forensic investigators who can't actually disclose their evidence of the "mistake" because it might help the adversary?
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Java itself is most definitely not overly complicated. Many frameworks, and created programs are due to enterpriseTM software development, but it’s orthogonal. And spring is a really feature-packed framework which has a solution for almost every business problem that one can face. Of course it comes with a great deal of complexity, but it is a tradeoff. I rather tinker with how to use a given feature than implement it myself, often in an inferior way.
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Software developers should be required to have a license to use the word "simple".
What an exciting time we live in, where links between quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and GR May finally be emerging in physics! What will the final ramifications be? Hopefully something new comes of it.
If there are cases where conservation laws break down, or physical principles constrain one another in unforeseen ways, and they can be accessed at human scale, what an exciting thing! I’d guess you mostly feel this way too if I have not yet imposed any quackery on you, and suppose where we diverge is I do not see the harm in exploration as far out as the experimenter can dream to go. —Even if there is no theory for it. I know, the horror!
Do I think it will work? Well heck no. But that does not mean I wish the attempt to be quashed like I’m the inquisition. On the contrary, I bid them good luck. And if they do have good luck, they better have some results that are easily duplicated. I hope they do overthrow the foundations of physics. Why not? The earth will still possess curvature, and all the extant physics will still be as approximately right, and beautiful, as it was yesterday.
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It does though. Email marketing is all about crafting a message that gets the highest conversion rate and the rates are already pretty low. So if a blinking gif annoys most of your users, but the response rate goes from 3% to 4% it's a win for the sender.
> I am assuming people in the study were younger people who needed the money and not older folks who are at a higher risk.

That may be true in the earlier phases, when you are just trying to show that the vaccine isn't too harmful and works in at least some cases.

It's not true for the large phase 3 trials. For those you try for a study group that matches the demographics of the people who will be getting the vaccine in the wild.

For the J&J phase 3 trial, 34% of the participants were over 60. 41% had comorbidities associated with an increased risk for progression to severe COVID. Race was 74% white, 13% black, 6% Asian, and 1% Native American. Ethnicity was 15% Hispanic.

Pfizer was 45% age 56-85, Moderna was 16% over 65. Race for both was about 80% white, 10% black, 4-5% Asian, 1% Native. Ethnicity was 26% Hispanic for Pfizer, 20% for Moderna. I don't know what percent had comorbidities.
Undocumented immigrants definitionally are not Americans.
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I don't understand how they could just take it away if you haven't done anything abusive. So much for innocent until proven guilty.
In 2000 have you seen experts in landline companies, who would see WWW as the core solution to their problems?
I'm not in the Perl world. I have heard of Perl 6 and know what it is. I've never heard of Raku before this thread. "perl6" and "perl 6" together have 58 matches on this page right now (before my comment). Raku has 28.
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Hiring managers/recruiters may filter those out, but I think if you're talking to an engineer, they can kind of discern whether those open-source contributions are meaningfully equivalent to yoe. I was working as a software engineer up until I started the company, so it's 100% meaningful signal to me!
The "product" part of MVP refers to something you sell (rather, offer) in a market, and the "minimum viable" part refers to it being barebones but functional enough to be "sellable" and provide value, ie someone that isn't you is willing to go through the stated process to install and use it. So writing a tool that you use yourself without "customers" (used loosely) isn't in my mind an MVP, and neither is a product with no thought given to distribution.
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Which doesn’t have value types because it should be implemented in the JVM?
I mean maybe in the broader sense, but bringing it back to something concrete: the CDC has a singular purpose, and plenty of money for planning so it can carry out that purpose. But having leaders who say things like (paraphrasing) “masks are better than vaccines” isn’t helpful, and I don’t see how that could be caused by the media.

It’s possible that trust in institutions has decreased due to media and our specific disease control institutions suffer from cultural rot and antipathy towards the little people.
I know both Python and PHP had numerous successful and moderately successful web frameworks. I don't know what it was like with Perl, was it still much more roll your own custom set for each app from libraries?
You seem to be implying that "only things which we can measure should be used for decision-making" and I would caution against that limitation for the reason that this is exactly how perverse incentives are realized. We are seeing it now when we conflate "good" with "gets engagement" or "makes money".

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#Cobra_effec...
> the first 5 digits are a derivative

SSN assigned after 2011 are randomly assigned. The first digits no longer have any special meaning.
It also means that your text editor is now a distributed system.
> But there also was a dotcom bubble 20 years ago. Does that mean that the World Wide Web is useless?

No. But the web's sole claim to usefulness wasn't as a "store of value". Just as well it was useful for other things, because it turned out that speculator driven bubbles aren't superior places to store value...
As long as it doesn't interfere with your libretarian cowardice right?
> Anyone who’s actually worked with frontend tooling knows it’s light years ahead of the tooling in most backend languages.
The developer experience out of the box with TypeScript + VSCode + Next.js is 1000x better than any stack

You should practice your April fools jokes to be less obvious, that post is not gonna make it.
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Good call. Post updated. Thank you for advocating.
The south side of SF bay is pretty awesome for watching ducks. But it's really the waterfront network of trails that are the ticket. That duckpond at Bayshores definitely attracts a diverse set, but you can find them all on a nice walk, with fewer zillionaires buzzing overhead on approach to the Bayshores airport.
> I seriously wonder if this is still nursing ancient Persian Greek/Roman rivalries and is a byproduct of a chauvinist classical education of the European educated set of 19th century. I find it very strange.

You are overthinking this. It is called Arabian Nights (in some translations) because the stories are translated from Arabic. It is like calling the Brothers Grimm fairy tales German, even though some of the stories may have originated somewhere else.

The 19 century orientalists were certainly chauvinist by modern standards, but did not in particular elevate Arab culture above Persian culture.

Suggesting that Arab culture supplied just one story to the collection makes you the chauvinist. The stories have all kinds of origins - Persian, Indian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Syrian, even European.
All of my agreements. The Devops Engineers slack (devopsengineers.com) has been enforcing this recently, and we've had a notable uptick in the quality of job postings.
Proposal: Downward Assignments
Google dis-respecting one's email login settings (and abruptly eg enabling 2FA) is annoying and I'm thinking about migrating -- at the same time, what they do, makes one's account more secure (from what I've seen) but with a higher risk of locking people out permanently from their own accounts

A good trade-off for Google I guess
It's OK, I'm sure more stars will start appearing in Space as visibility improves :)
Reminds me of a coworker many years ago who wrote a script he called bash-reduce. Turned out not to be so simple in practice ;)
I interpreted the result as being the convnet equivalent of implementing a multilayer perceptron network as an analog circuit (e.g. using operational amplifiers).
It depends a lot on the target audience, but some subreddits also have a Slack/Discord channel where you can be more open about your intentions and get immediate feedback.

What I like about this model is that if any customer is really interested in your product, you can start a video call and discuss about it. Also, you can put these people on an email list of interested people (with their permission), which can be your first cohort.
So... set yourself up a GoFundMyLawyer.com. Is anybody preventing you from doing that?

If you can't get a transaction processor to handle that, take bitcoins.
Sorry that I find it necessary for yet another answer to your verbosity question, but: The real verbosity is in the standard libraries. What would be a one-liner in any other language is usually at least 2, often 3, and sometimes enough that you end up writing your own wrapper function or library. Especially noticeable is the agony of Lists & Maps, which are first-class citizens in most languages (classic job interview question: what is the difference between ArrayList and LinkedList? Real answer: Nobody actually uses LinkedList).

The stdlib often seems to be written by people who had no intention of using it. I guess maybe this applies to C++ as well, so for some folks it seems normal.
You can only assume non-null for your own code though. The java ecosystem of 3rd-party libraries will give you nulls, and most of the time won't include nullability annotations.

var is a nice step, but encourages mutability since it's not final by default.