skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's totally fine. Not everyone should code all the time or think about it that way.
Can you eat or sell happiness? What about contentment, satisfaction, meaning or purpose?

I mean, no skin off my back if you want to frame yourself as a cog in the economic machine, but surely there's more to life than materialism?

Am I perhaps misunderstanding your post and are you instead making a point about the disposable nature of men as a gender group?
Huh, I guess there are multiple variants of that same mod, made by different people. It could very well be as you say.
Well, they have been doing that for ages already, remember they hold a monopoly on the personal computer operating system software. Of course now it isn't as easy as it used to be as they couldn't just force IE and Bing into everybody's phone, but they're working on it.
Neuralink monkey mindpong deconstructed [video]
This breakdown of the video Neuralink shared by an expert in the field gives great context to what is being shown and drives home how impressive the demo was.
There is, but people have started using it as a catch-all defense so the conversation changes from whatever was initially said, to "stop harrassing me". It's the same tactics game developers use when they do something blatantly scummy, then start talking about how they're receiving death threats over what they did, that way they're seen as the victim.
I love this idea. I have a pet idea too that's a little different. You know how dogs get fence anxiety which causing them to viciously bark or attack the fence when they see another dog or strange person? Oftentimes, if you open the fence and let them greet the dog or person, they are completely at ease. They just don't like being unable to assess the situation.

I see the internet or driving cars as an example of that. You don't see the human behind the computer or car, you just see the enemy and you act accordingly. I think if you had to meet or see that person face to face, you'd automatically have empathy and no longer be a dick.
Yes I think there is based on intent of the question, whether it actually is just a clarification or an attempt to lead the conversation into a debate. That being said though, I feel like calling any disagreement Sea-Lioning might become the new way for people to dismiss any arguments against their opinions/ideas without actually having to provide valid thought behind their opinion/idea.
Denver/Aurora is very much talking about Elijah McClain still. The protests over his death last summer were impossible to not notice. The ongoing fallout in Aurora has rocked the city to it's core and many people have had careers ended over them (some may argue that it's not enough). Many local municipalities have made changes to laws and enforcement and the statehouse can be considered to be quite progressive, nationally speaking. The fallout from his death still is a large issue in local politics and the larger front range community.

https://www.denverpost.com/tag/elijah-mcclain/
I think it helps build an intuition of how higher dimensions can help us explain physics, if instead of a shadow, you think of projection as a cross-section, like the ones you see in brain scans, where you only see one "layer" of the brain at a time. Objects that are moved into the plane of the scanner (so they intersect the plane) will essentially "pop into existence" from the perspective of someone looking only at that cross-section - and then that cross-section morphs and changes shape as the object is moved so different parts of it intersect the scanner. What if the same thing is happening when elementary particles pop into existence and later annihilate, that we're seeing the cross-section of a higher-dimensional object as it intersects our 3 dimensions? What if matter and antimatter are like the outer edges of such a cross-section, appearing in a single point as the object touches our plane, moving apart as the bulk of the object passes through our plane, and then finally coming together in a single point before disappearing (annihilation), as the object stops intersecting our plane?
Wunderlist was killed off before Microsoft ToDo achieved feature parity. The web version wouldn't reliably let me log in. After a few months I switched to Todoist and never looked back.
I've been using it for some time (arewefastyet.rs and a personal blog) and I've been pleased with it so far. It replaced my use of a $5 droplet. Less hassle around deployment and $5 cheaper. The killer feature is probably the previews - the private links allow me to get feedback without pushing to the main site.

It's not perfect, but I'm sure they can fix the quirks soon. My main one was git clone failing and not understanding why("Failed: an internal error occurred"). The other is that I want a way for the pages.dev site alone to be invisible from search engines but couldn't figure out a way to do that with robots.txt. Lastly I wanted to share this feedback during the beta program, but I couldn't find a way other than creating a twitter account and hitting up the PM. Fortunately, this thread saved me from having to do that.
http://www.shadedrelief.com/world/Data/map1_type.jpg a good map of mountain ranges to search for counterexamples. Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the Magdalena river runs parallel with the Andes and has some squarish curves. It also seems likely that the map could be thought of as not being accurate itself with the "real world" geography of Middle Earth given its sketchy design.
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Are you suggesting that leaving off the shebang line makes these types of mistakes less likely? That makes no sense.
As a former MS employee around those years this is not entirely correct.

Test people changed their titles to software engineers and were judged by that, this means that if you could code (and MS helped with that when necessary) you were fine. Since MS favored test people who can code anyway that wasn't a big problem for most, but not all.

Personally I used a macbook and so are many of my colleagues,some even use Linux machines- all on a need to basis.
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Legacy uses and a smattering of personal preference.

Perl was hugely productive in its day, when alternatives were either non-existent or extremely nascent (Python and Ruby) or things like C, C++, Java, or Bash. You can probably imagine how writing Perl was fun for script-y tasks when compared to doing it in those languages. So, it has a large legacy presence and isn't going anywhere.

Plus there's a few people for whom it is muscle memory, and IME muscle memory can easily beat out language niceness/appropriateness for productivity in personal things.

Disclaimer: I was born in the early 90's so I was learning long division during Perl's glory days. My perspective is mostly from working in a large Perl codebase that was born in those years and talking with the people who chose Perl for said codebase.
a Buran replica

If you want to see a real Buran, Technik Museum Speyer is nice:

https://speyer.technik-museum.de/en/spaceshuttle-buran

Though, overall, I liked Technik Museum Sinsheim more, which has both a Concorde and a Tupolev TU-144. They are fairly close together, so you can visit both of them in one or two days.
So your answers just confirm my 'angry dude' bullet list.

As far as I can see, the only really problematic one is startup time, which is surely something that will be resolved in the future. I witnessed this only rarely while I use PowerShell on Windows and Linux - it was on windows and it was on VM with very slow disk, and some modules that each keep functions separated by files.

I welcome nushell development, but you can't really compare it to pwsh - even if they continue developing it, its decade or so from being usable as main shell.

> you grossly overestimate the “awesome”.

Nah, its awesome. I save bunch of time any time I open the PowerShell. And any time when one tries to be quicker in some other language one is not, eventually.
Ran proxmox from beta .9 to 1.8 ish at my previous job in production - maybe 20 VM's with uptimes in the 5 years range.

Solid product, solid team. Really a nice polished product at this point.

Edit: just for clarification this looks really neat for GPU pci switching? Back in 2012 ish we tried to build a 8 GPU bitcoin mining beast group thread over on bitcointalk on proxmox and we could never get more than 6 GPU's working IIRC. Things were different then.
Ruby has its jit disabled by default as far as I can tell^1 . Lua exists in both jit compiled and interpreted forms. Python definitely is interpreted unless you run it through pypy. JavaScript is basically the only language in that lineup that enables just in time compilation with most of the "default" runtimes.

^1 Most likely because it generates C code and has to call an external C compiler to get things done.
Interesting to see it framed this way. In July of 2020 (a high stress point in my life), following two weeks of job-related sleep deprivation (had to be up at 5 to get to work at 6:30 to troubleshoot an automation), noisy home environment making it impossible to sleep early, a night of high blood sugar, hung over, and following a two hour drive I had some kind of 'brain event' while pulling into my friend's driveway.

I call it a 'brain event' because at the time I thought I was going into DKA, after the event I was worried I'd had an aneurysm or something, the symptoms were similar to the negative parts of coming up on LSD, and I basically felt like I was tripping for about 3 days. I had to call out of work for that time and slept for about 12-14 hours the following few days.

My doctor told me that it was a panic attack, and that they can last three days. I've never had a panic attack before in my life, but I can't describe how much more fragile I feel now. Often when driving now the sensation of cresting a small hill during a turn will trigger something that will make me feel 'off', which leads to a deep fear. It doesn't feel like what I used to call anxiety, it's much closer to an external stimulus. Now I hate driving (for reference, I used to be a delivery driver, and I loved that job back in the day).

Anyway, I'm not sure what to do now. It seems like you're describing something similar to what I've experienced, though. I don't worry about 'what if it doesn't work the next time,' but I am distressed by anxiety that comes on completely disconnected from the reality of the moment or my thoughts at the time. Sometimes I think it just cracked the veneer of normalcy enough to make me understand on a deep level that driving is itself a terrifying thing to participate in, but I don't think that can possibly be true because I don't feel the same anxiety when riding a motorcycle, which should be much more terrifying.
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26774367

Note: everyone is getting this acquisition wrong. It's not about Dragon and their Speech-to-Tex. This is all about owning an enterprise Communication Platform (e.g. Contact Center, etc).

I'll repost my previous comment from the other HN thread below:

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Everyone is wanting to take on Twilio.
Last September, Microsoft first announced their Communication Cloud.

A huge focus at Twilio now is moving upstream to the Call Center, where Nuance is a significant player. So Microsoft picking up Nuance makes sense.

It’s clear Microsoft sees communication services as a strategic core part of their business.

(Even at the consumer / gamer level with the rumored Discord acquisition talks)

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/microsoft-challenges-twili...
I have both experiences - it can be painful when I dont have time put away, distractions put away, and I need to have some investment in the project, some skill enough in the tools to not be stuck in documentation hell.

With those conditions it really is like a garden, slowly improving or changing things as you observe the need.

That being said, part of it is also appreciating the outputs of one's labor - not implying you don't - but I see many programmers who are only satisfied with instant solutions when the amount of work needed to solve any problem would be significantly larger, they get bored, and they walk away from the problem.

To me that's generally because the problem itself isn't interesting enough on its face to get the programmer to want to solve it, and frankly if it isn't interesting enough of a problem... who cares about solving it?
also means the offset can be larger than the data
For point 1 above and point 2 below: to my knowledge this was widely already known by the medical community, and is widely used throughout asia to protect others against any cough or airborne diseases. Did the previous studies for flu only take into consideration the protecting value for the individual wearing it? How does the wearing of masks during the spanish flu fit into that? Was that not effective then?

I guess its hard to say. It seems, well, obvious in hindsight surely, but you'd think that something this obvious in hindsight would be figured out by experts beforehand. Telling people actively to not wear masks seems like they not only missed the shot but were actively harmful.
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When looking at the clustering, I'm asking myself if a density -based clustering algorithm (looking at you DB-Scan) would be also interesting. While loosing the "center color" information, the clusters could be used to replace the color with whatever color one wanted.
Works fine. Since I own a Model 3 it just made sense, they even threw in a free wall connector.
Why not do both? It sounds like you have already created both marketing plans. How many professors and or SMB owners have you reached out to? If it's not a number in the thousands, you're going to have trouble validating whether or not it is viable. Keep pushing. Maybe spend some cash on lead gen if necessary.

If you're getting excessively low response, try splitting further into 4 different sets of copy, positioning, etc., and spread those among your targets. See what is sticking.
Hah, picturing an IDE plugin that auto swaps a couple random keywords or characters after last save to always give you a fresh syntax error when getting started!

Whack-a-mole reverse linter, the next big thing...
"Populist ideas need not be dumb, and the term itself has roots in politics that would be valued and beneficial, in terms of reducing unnecessary struggle."

What unnecessary struggle?

I can see how popular ideas are good from the standpoint of the majority of the population liking them. Some of that is being eroded now. For example, wanting to eliminate the 60 votes in the senate related to the filibuster as they already did with some conformation hearings (how can they use a 51 vote to abolish a 60 vote rule anyways, that seems to undermine the point). So now, we are reducing the amount of people necessary to like the law and reducing the likelihood of compromises to make laws less partisan and more acceptable to all. The downside to populist laws is that the people may not be educated in even the basics of how the system works (or is supposed to). Maybe it was a populist idea that things should be segregated by race. That doesn't make it right, and it infringes on the minority faction.
Local media is suffering but substack isn't solving that. Axios is actually trying interestingly enough.

I still read NY Times as my default. They have a lot more soft news than they used to but their reporting is still top notch. They've taken a turn for being more direct in their language and not tap-dancing around political double-speak but I think it's appropriate. My other go-to is NPR and local NPR affiliates.
From the first half of your comment, I assumed you were talking about connecting from China.
Not pertinent to the main issue, but I just find it funny how the guardian never forgets to include such “facts” about countries: “poor, small and non-western countries”. Does similarly when it talks about racial “equality” up to the point its readership will pretty much always associate certain countries and ethnicities with poverty. Basically, promoting stereotypes.
The problem with this quote is twofold:

1. It assumes that inexperience in reporting correlates well across disciplines (i.e. if you read one badly researched physics article, it means the sports pages are similarly bullshit)

2. It assumes the existence of better-informed alternative media

In the particular case Crichton cites, it's entirely reasonable to assume a news outfit might have better reporting on Palestine then on physics, if only because politicians have an incentive to talk to news outfits where scientists might not. In fact, much of journalistic ethics and process revolves around trying to determine political "truth", as much as something like that can exist. Conversely, there are plenty of scientists who can explain the details of the Standard Model or Quantum Field Theory; but don't have a single clue as to how trade negotiations work or why we sided with Saudi Arabia despite them not sharing our values one bit.

Michael Crichton assumes knowledge is an RPG stat and that if a newspaper fails a knowledge roll once we should discard the paper because it's writers didn't put enough points into INT.

Second, most alternative media I've encountered does no better on the "wet streets cause rain" problem. Actually, my experience is that they're more prone to shoddy reporting, because their goal isn't to try and find out something approaching the truth. It's to sell me a series of plausible lies that lead up to their particular political bias.

For example, let's talk about climate science. It's a demonstrable fact that the Earth is warming due to human activity, but there's multiple ways one can be wrong about that. The kind of inaccurate reporting I'd expect to see out of a mainstream outfit would be something like "CO2 causes ozone depletion". A right-wing alternative rag would instead try to deny the science altogether, either by casting FUD on the scientific process or worse. The former is something that might be technically incorrect, but the latter is deliberately trying to convince me that black is white, up is down, and short is long.
Hi, I'm the tech lead for Workers. (I assume your question is about Workers and not Pages.)

Unfortunately, we can't just take the dotnet CLR or deno off the shelf and deploy them the way we've deployed Workers. To make edge computing possible (with good performance and accessible pricing), it's necessary to be able to host tens of thousands of workers on one machine. That means we can't put each worker in its own container. We need something much lighter-weight. So, we built a custom runtime based on V8 isolates. That means we can only run programs built on JavaScript and Wasm, and written against the specific platform API we provide. (It's true that node and deno are also based on V8, but we use V8 in a very different way in order to achieve our scalability and security goals.)

More on how our tech works, and the trade-offs involved: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cloudflare-v8/

In order to support other languages, we basically have two options:

* Find a way to compile/transpile them to Wasm or JavaScript that works in our runtime. This works better than you'd expect but it definitely has limitations. See: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-announces-bro...

* Offer a general container hosting service, as an alternative to Workers. There would have to be some down side here in terms of performance or cost, so we'd still recommend using Workers whenever possible. But we could do this...
I’m not really sure the answer to this but Cloudflare’s beta programs in general are a bit frustrating.

For example, Durable Objects came out a year ago, was impossible to get into (check community forums and Discord, lots of people eager to just tinker concept who couldn’t).

Now, that super interesting technology that supposed to shake things up a bit, has almost ZERO code samples after a FULL year after announcement. I’m not exaggerating. Check GitHub search.

I write this comment because I could have sworn Pages came out of beta already...

Either way, looking forward to deeper tool integration. The idea of your front end and back end application getting to a point of single commit is attractive.

Edit: Not a FULL year, 6 months or so. See note below
Sure but I think programmers is an implicit assumption here when talking about which programming languages to learn. We don't need to start splitting hairs here.

And COBOL is extremely niche, while C is still quite common and useful to know.
Definitely. There's a sweet spot, where you're the go-to guy, and you leverage that for work-life balance (because no one else can do what you do), but it also means you're leaned on a lot to move things along. It definitely requires some fortitude and ability to manage time and expectations (and stick up for yourself).
I googled “the dispatch political bias” and got political garbage like “ Bernie Sanders and the Rise of Woke Marxism” which took me to a real article on the dispatch website with that title. How the heck is this not political commentary? I’m explicitly asking for news that doesn’t have stuff like this.
What does the yearly maintenance involve?

I've only ever had asphalt shingle roofs, which require basically no maintenance (unless hail or a tree branch or something damages it).
> That said, give me proper pattern matching in JS. Hard to live with languages that haven't caught up yet.

I really want this. Along with switch being as expression. Seems like something that JavaScript is obviously missing.
Returns on investment? Even public pension plans can have them.
A lot of the giant companies are really concerned about anti-trust. Microsoft is under pressure too, but there would be an uproar if Google or Apple bought given their pressure around the app store. Having access to the code that writes the apps would be tough to pull off...
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Ordering one of these is a bad idea because the physical device could easily be intercepted and have a backdoor or spyware installed.
We’ve been using Cloudflare pages for Jellyfin’s experimental client[0] and it’s been really nice having automatic deployments on each PR and automatic master builds.

[0] https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-vue
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If there were an infinite number of dimensions, would that mean there was also a path, if we could find it, from any point in 3d space to any other point in 3d space that was of arbitrary length?
Ask HN: Wich game to play with my remote team?
We have a remote team and I would like to organize some moments of meeting and cohesion around an online game.

I would like a game:
- free
- simple, accessible even to non-gamers,
- not too long to play

Do you have any recommendations?
As a non-programmer (work on the business side) I have enjoyed getting into code since the lockdown.

The infamous 'Automate The Boring Stuff by Al Sweigart' was one of my top reads last year and I have developed several products from it that I use to make my life a bit easier every day.

There is something nice about coding in that its black and white, ones and zero, where a lot of what I deal with is somewhere in the middle. Plus its nice to get away from Powerpoint and Excel and I get a bit of kudos with the Engineers (I stress 'a bit'!)

Currently working my way through Hands-on Machine Learning by Aurelien Geron.
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I looked into Glenn Greenwald but as I said before I’m not looking for political commentary, just the facts, from reporters who aren’t just re-reporting something that some other journalist already found.
No. I can't find the original post, but I do remember reading a Substack post (by the founders) saying that they deliberately don't like using content recommendation systems.
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