skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found esbuild to be great for this: https://esbuild.github.io/content-types/#typescript
There are plenty of alternatives, try Newpipe on Android. Just another youtube client without the google source.
Code that is in the tree will get picked up by everyone who does a refactoring of an internal interface.

Code that is outside of the tree will need someone who goes through all of the refactorings manually.
I see very little incentive for China to release covid intentionally. What could they possibly have gained from that?

Mind you, I'm becoming increasingly convinced it was an accidental lab leak due to negligence, so this isn't my attempt at defending China in any way.
> This is not an argument that fairs well on HN in general, but the fact that we can eat something this similar to a burger but without the slaughter of living, feeling, individual being is so unbelievably important and incredible.

The problem I have with this argument is that it always seems to me to focus on the life of the animal, but not on the death of the animal.

All animals eventually die, and most natural deaths are far more horrifying than how we slaughter animals, especially in modern times (though even traditional slaughter is nothing compared to starving to death, being eaten alive by insects, being hunted and terrified by a predator etc).

So, I think that it is important how the animals are grown (factory farms are absolutely horrible, unacceptable places to live in, and should ideally become illegal sooner rather than later, regardless of the consequences on the price of food). But I really don't think there is any reason to feel bad about the slaughter of animals who have led a decent life, even if it may be shorter than they would expect in nature (the huge proliferation of their species is kind of payment for that, in a way).
It is a culture problem, something that only will change with mentality reboot.

"CppCon 2016: Dan Saks “extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++”"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Sd8A6_fYU

"Writing better embedded Software - Dan Saks - Keynote Meeting Embedded 2018"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VtGCPIoBfs

"Embedded & C++ - Meeting 2017 Keynote"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNPfsUZb3vs

In a way, the same kind of subculture in C++ that jumps in cries of horror if you happen to use std::vector/array/string with bounds checking enabled.
>As much as we like to imagine our minds to be impenetrable bastions of rationality, they are not. We can easily be enticed and manipulated to do things we wouldn't otherwise do

I don't think advertising does work well on everybody nor does it have to. Maybe not even half of us need to be susceptible for it to be as profitable as it is.

I have noticed some people are much more susceptible to suggestion than others. These people are probably responsible for a disproportionate amount of commercial profits and probably more likely to be taken in by paid political campaigning.

Furthermore, I reckon if we could hold a mirror up to many of these people they might reconsider their behavior (it probably would work better than shouting at them at thanksgiving or over Facebook).
You can inline the binary as base64 or simply a Uint8Array and instantiate it without having to fetch a wasm file. Many choose that approach as it also makes the library `import`-able in sync. The code I was pointing can be used to compile the WebAssembly Text format to binary and instantiate it afterwards on-the-fly, which is useful if you don't want a build step, so skipping the tooling(outside the browser) and also make edits which will then be compiled directly when the file executes. It's an option for experimentation mostly.
Rage is monetizable. The entire talk radio ecosystem exists on this basis, as do many political Patreons. And the people that got banned from Patreon.
Nier Automata is easily among the best single player games I've played. Fantastic and subversive story, but you have to play it 3 times where each replay differs significantly. Very diverse gameplay. Amazing soundtrack.
I was the GSuite Admin, trying to log into my GSuite Admin account, and had control of the domain, so this might not work for you.

One of the problems being on the legacy Google Apps for Domains free accounts is that you're not technically entitled to support.

So, this might not work for your situation.

In any case, for me I went and logged a ticket through https://support.google.com/a/contact/recovery_form

You will then get an email to the nominated email address in the form telling you the case is opened. Don't get your hopes up just yet.

A while later you'll get an email telling you that you're not entitled to support because you're on the free plan, and to go through the self reset options (which you already did, presumably via https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery)

If you reply and explain that you've done this, and you're still getting <the error message specific for you> - it may be assigned to a human. If it's not, try again, maybe with a new case. You will need to be patient - expect 24-48 hours between you sending them email and them responding.

For me, they wanted me to prove domain ownership (TXT records), as well as a whole bunch of information about the account and it's users.

Once I submitted the ownership information it took several more days, and then they send you a one-time reset link to reset the password (yes, even though I knew it).
Try searching for "docking layout" with a dash of "Visual Studio" (the drop target hints presented by the original, non-Code version are quite good at letting the user figure out exactly where the dragged window will attach).

One example is https://github.com/node-projects/dock-spawn-ts , but there are many more. Maybe you can also tease out the layout logic from VS Code or Theia (or even better, someone else might have done the work).
Well I for one won’t download or run a separate browser, even if that means I’ll miss out on your app or website. I find Safari convenient and fast and it is easy on my battery, while doing a great job at protecting my privacy.
> But it could be similar to the case where Target was able to targets ads to women who did not even know they were pregnant

In this case, she knew she was pregnant. Her family didn't.
I call it The Eternal Refactor. Gets completely absurd if you're at the same company over 5 years or so and have seen 3 or more groups of devs blame all the issues of the software on the previous tech choices and their preference will solve all the issues and a rewrite is the only way forward yet every time when the rewrite is done and the thing is maybe 10% better at best but has new issues from the rewrite the team begins to cycle out and the process begins again.
Thanks for subbing, this is really interesting!
Have you heard of Bezier curves? (2015)
The ads are effective to bring awareness. There are doctors who will “help” patients to discover if they have conditions to warrant the use of the drugs they saw on TV or social media ads.

This brings patients to doctors, then they get lab work done and finally the use of drugs. That activates the full value chain of the system meaning that all the participants in that chain get paid.
Bingo. This is going to get used for sex work, and then Twitter will have to either act surprised and ban a whole swathe of users or embrace it and face condemnation from the religious right.
> What do software staff have to do with laying rural fibre infrastructure?

The rural fibre point was only to illustrate how German Mittelstand is blocked on not just the treatment of their tech staff.

> What do octogenarians have to do with software managers who these days are usually younger than the engineers

Micromanaging octogenarians are who are calling the shots in way too many Mittelstand companies, often against the express demands of their younger staff and management level.
I agree with you completely to the extend that I feel like world has grown little bit weird recently. "White supremacy" is especially ironic, considering there's countries where white people were oppressed and sold as slaves and had to fight for their own freedom, these people don't owe anything for anyone.
Why and How Relationship Crisis Arise and Make Happy Lovers Unhappy?
I've just tried to use this example and it appears that there's been zero consideration to any form of accessible features here.

The show example "button" is a non-focusable div element

<div class="button" onclick="window.examples['theme-modern']()">Show Example</div>

Once the window is open, the minimise, maximise, full-screen and close "buttons" are spans containing no useful text.

<span class="wb-min"></span>
<span class="wb-max"></span>
<span class="wb-full"></span>
<span class="wb-close"></span>

The list goes on...

Sure, sometimes accessibility can be hard to get right but it's quite something for it to have been completely disregarded.
Hi Robert! :)
Our Brilliant Friend: Stamen and OpenStreetMap through the years, part 1
I think you could make the argument that it's possible to ethically raise animals in a way where it's a good deal for both sides, as long as an animal suffers less than it would suffer in nature. If causing unnecessary suffering is unethical, then the opposite should be a moral imperative, so this simple mathematical argument leads to the conclusion that ethically raising animals should be morally superior to veganism.
If it's non deterministic, if these people are just extraordinarily lucky, then OK. But that means it's all just luck, just being in the right place and knowing the right people at the right time. And I don't have that kind of luck so I should stay away from mass-market ideas. Or probably, any ideas at all because there's nothing special about the mass-market, and it's all "just luck".

There are millions of beautiful people out there trying to get rich and famous. The Kardashians have managed to do that very successfully, and consistently, for years. I don't think that's luck. That doesn't look like luck. I think they knew exactly what they were doing, had a good plan, and executed it perfectly. And a major component of that was understanding their market perfectly.
The difference is that Facebook says they specifically avoid sensitive health information https://www.facebook.com/business/help/361948878201809?id=18...
It’s usually just nepotism. I know a retired principal of an elite high school, and he’s full of stories of the shenanigans surrounding admissions. He would get calls from governors and mayors offering favors and applying pressure. He told me that half the buildings on the school campus were built as a result of accepting the children of high officials and rich businesspeople. In fact he once showed me a picture of the ornate gate of the school and said, “I call it the chicken gate, because it was the admission ticket of a kid whose family owned a chain of famous chicken restaurants.”
Racism. But we'll call it anti-racism!
Replace the word patient with customer or "money".
"An agreement between the Clinton administration and congressional Republicans, reached during all-night negotiations which concluded in the early hours of October 22, sets the stage for passage of the most sweeping banking deregulation bill in American history, lifting virtually all restraints on the operation of the giant monopolies which dominate the financial system."

...

[On lifting regulations affecting interstate banking (and note Bill Clinton's first term began on Jan 1993):]

"While Democratic and Republican congressmen and industry lobbyists claimed that deregulation would spark competition and improve services to consumers, the same claims have proven bogus in the case of telecommunications, airlines and other industries freed from federal regulations. Consumer groups noted that since the passage of a 1994 banking deregulation bill which permitted bank holding companies to operate in more than one state, both checking fees and ATM fees have risen sharply."

source:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/11/bank-n01.html

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So that motivates a simple search for "1994 banking deregulation bill" and voila [there are 11 instances of "interstate" in that article]:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riegle-Neal_Interstate_Banking...
In the US, it's legal to advertise drugs directly to patients. There's not a lot of places in the world where it happens, I'm assuming Scandinavia is one of them.
I tried starting a website a while back that would give reliable, unbiased information on a certain class of goods and services.

I looked at my competitors and saw that most of them were obviously shilling for the company that was paying them the most, which was never the best. I figured by being the most honest I could be the most trusted and win out.

The trouble is, the best companies would rely upon word of mouth. Promoting them wouldn't get me paid a dime. Honesty would benefit them, but not me.

Getting traffic, meanwhile, I realized would cost me money.

That's when I realized that the only way to get a non negative margin in that industry was to sacrifice your objectivity (which is what everyone did).

Theoretically you could charge users for this I guess, like Which? magazine does but I couldn't see a straightforward route to that point that wouldn't involve burning a lot of capital I didn't have. The chicken/egg problem rose its ugly head again.

I gave up soon after.
By picked up I meant your Case 2.
But I don't believe people are afraid of stigma. I think people in general are very curious about and interested in these kind of news. Think about the Oumuamua coverage. It was a strange thing that had no clear explanation and a remote but exciting possibility that it was an alien ship.

That went all over the world and credible/authoritative people commented on it and the possibility. Of course with all the appropriate caveats and scepticism, but the discussion was had.

About the capabilities of other civilizations, I of course concede there are almost certainly many out there with vastly greater capabilities than us. But space is just so stupidly large. Also what is the chance that aliens happen to make contact just as we as a species started to realise there was more out there than us?

Why isn't there already an alien colony here that was established a 100 million years ago?

That's actually the plot in a sci-fi I'm reading these days so there's that... In addition to the Prime Directive there is also the Dark Forest theory explaining no contact, I quite enjoyed Ken Liu's Three Body Problem trilogy.

I am very excited by our near-term (next 200 years or so) possibilities to colonize the solar system. Rather disappointed I won't get to see it happen barring some major life prologing therapies in the next decades.
The Blackest Black
RocketReach and the creepy world of data harvesting
The threat is not just external and controllable.

Communist party rule will be in big danger if chinese people start blaming it for this clusterfuck.

Externally, its not controllable, US invaded 2 countries after 9/11, it would be easy to think that politicians will do something or someone more radical will get elected.
Ventoy is indeed one of the best (if not THE best) tool for this. Even if it does not support absolutely everything (last time I checked), it is by far the most hassle free and sure-fire solution.

For context, I have professionally deployed Linux on USB, ever since around 2004. I honestly don't care to remember all the odd issues/failures I've encountered during those 17 years. The situation certainly got better/easier with the years, but it can still be a gamble if an odd Linux distro will actually boot successfully from USB or not.

Until I discovered Ventoy, about a year or two ago, I would always be hesitant to recommend running Linux from USB, unless I knew the exact setup (or it involved someone with a decent technical skills).

Ventoy is great!!! I'd recommend everyone to at least have a look at it. It's one of the very few tools I endorse without any hesitation or reservation.

I am in no way personally involved with Ventoy, nor do I have a stake in it. I just love the tool for what it is.
Exactly, if it was only available for websites added to the homescreen I would jump from happiness for at least 24 hours.
This dude is my hero.
I agree that for complex scripts bash isn't ideal. But my criticism was about unnecessarily verbose syntax. Bash is synchronous by default, this project is the exact opposite.
I think the basic issue is that C++ want to spend a lot of time focusing on C++ The Language, while C developers mostly want to focus on developing the logic of whatever they are doing.

When I worked on C++ projects half of the discussion was on just the use of language or various consequences of it.

On C projects that never happens. There is nothing to talk about so everybody focuses on making the project better.

Things I don't miss after I switched from C++ to C:

-- discussing compiler feature set,

-- discussing how exactly to format complex C++ constructs,

-- regular calls for help from less experienced devs to more experienced C++ "gurus" for their wisdom to just interpret what the code does or tell them how to write the thing they want to write,

-- trainings for less experienced developers so that they can even understand the syntax of the code,

-- hunting bugs due to lack of understanding of complex internal mechanisms,

-- having hard time working with a debugger on complex code,

-- not being able to tell wtf is the exact type of the thing that I am looking at or what exact code is going to get execute when I use an operator or call a function. The IDE not being able to locate it for me is an added "bonus".
Noise_reduction#Software_programs
Just googled that to see if the ads are helpful. They weren't. Not surprising, because Google ads are ranked by profitability, not helpfulness, and those metrics don't correlate as much as Google would like you to think. The ads just took my attention away from organic results, which are the ones that are supposed to be ranked by helpfulness.

Those sneaker ads probably aren't destroying our democracy[1], they're just costing the society things that are hard to quantify. They induce me to buy what's most profitable to the sellers, not what's best for me. They take away business from actually helpful resources, and from those who don't advertise on Google.

[1] They are enabling the existence of a search monopoly (along with other factors), so you know, "probably" is the strongest word I'd go with here.
First, "conspiracy theory" these days has a wider meaning, in that it can be used to refer to pretty much any claim that goes against conventional explanations. I'm not a fan of the wide use of this term but it is what it is and it's now basically a useless term in any discussion except for manipulation.

But let's flip this round as the author here is openly heavily weighing his dismissal of scientific support for natural origin by claiming that it is supported by ideological reasons. That's exactly the same as someone dismissing the lab claim for ideological/conspiracy reasons, just the other way round. Natural origin doesn't support the author's ideology, so he dismisses it and has a bias towards evidence for lab origin. The author has previous done this exact some thing with his previous writings, taking a fringe position and dismissing scientific objection that aligns with the scientific consensus as ideology. Basically, this is a subjective opinion piece, not objective analysis.
IMO holding individual stocks in most cases is silly. Unless you're willing to put in serious work (several hours a day) into deeply understanding companies and sectors so you can adequately value a stock you're probably better off just buying an index fund. And even if you do put in the time to understanding the investments you're making, you're still statistically unlikely to beat the market over extended periods of time.

As to whether you should diversify, there's really no right answer and it depends largely on your risk profile. Less diversification will typically provide better returns at the risk of greater losses. If you're really confident you know what you're doing arguably less diversification is better. More diversification generally means lower returns, but you'll also be less likely to get wiped out in the event of something like a dot-com bubble. With tech valuations being as high as they are today, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to have some diversification outside of tech.

If you decide you still want to hold individual stocks and also want more diversification you could split your portfolio 50/50, with 50% in index funds and the other 50% in some individual companies you really like. Alternatively, you could pick some solid blue chip stocks to add to your portfolio. Stocks like BRK.B and KO are IMO great stocks to hold if you want some safe and steady returns.

Whatever you do you should be prepared for a worst case scenario. Over the last year or so I've warned people repeatedly that stocks like TSLA could lose up to 90% of their valuation and potentially never reach new highs if market conditions change. If you're portfolio is full of stocks with a risk profile similar to TSLA it's really just a matter of time before you get wiped out. Having 10% exposure to a stock like TSLA isn't necessarily a bad idea, but a portfolio full of stocks like TSLA is a guaranteed way to look like a genius until the market changes and you lose everything.

Another thing to remember is that every company goes to 0 eventually. Today I see a lot of people speak about tech companies that have only been around for a decade as being "long-term holds". Historically this isn't true. If you don't believe me just look at the largest companies in the world from just a few decades ago. If you're holding individual stocks you need to be occasionally repositioning your portfolio to reflect changes in the economy. This means you'll be paying more tax than if you just held an index fund over several decades so you also need to factor this in.

My guess is that the fact you've asked about diversification suggests that you probably do need to diversify a little.
Aren't you hurting reMarkable with that behaviour? You're not going to buy from them and they pay to have those ads shown to you.
This is complete speculative junk.

> The virus entered humans with it's spike protein already fully adapted to the human ACE receptor protein.

1. Is a partially functional (still infectious) spike receptor protein possible? (you don't know, and present no evidence in this rant)

2. How do you know the virus shows "no accelerated evolution"...partially effective viruses would have a lower replication factor, and not become global pandemic, and would not spread far enough to preserved within the human population as anything of interest.

3. How do you know that a natural virus which was only partially effective at replication didn't in fact encounter favorable conditions when it encountered humans, having accidentally been better adapted for them?

> The fact that it doesn't mutate rapidly indicates it is near a strong local optimum.

4. How do you know that the spike protein - which is highly conserved amongst coronaviruses - can even have a range of mutations and still retain function (allowing viral entry to the cell for infectious purposes)? (you don't, research finds that the spike protein has suboptimal binding to ACE receptors - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239051/)

> This stands in intense contrast to every other zoonotic transfer we know of.

5. Does it? Because no research is proposing this. Research in fact finds that analysis of similar coronaviruses shows that the spike protein is likely the result of multiple recombinations between a few species (https://academic.oup.com/emph/article/2020/1/290/5956769).

> Do we have evidence? What is the probability of this pattern occuring in the case of a natural spillover?

6. Do you? Apparently not because there's not a single shred of peer reviewed research you care to link to support your position here, and you've done none of the legwork to support the logic part of your conclusions.