skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's plenty you can do with WordPress as a developer. There are also no-code tools like Pinegrow that attach dynamic WP functions to static HTML templates.

Automattic's failure IMO is making Wordpress.com feel like a blog platform for far too long. A lot of what users would consider reasonable functionality for a website was not provided in WP core but by the plugin ecosystem. So people just defaulted to plugins for everything, which eventually gave WP a bad name, because plugins were often janky and poorly supported.
> The odds of "putting things in your body" having any effect on you are far less than the odds of getting Covid again, even if those odds are low.

Regardless on one’s position, this is simply baseless bullshit. Please don’t spread it.
That's only true if they are trying to avoid taxation, which is also ilegal (even if you think it is justified). Moving capital from a place to another doesn't use the same mechanisms of money laundering if done legally.
What's happened is the philosophy has been that more layers allows less experienced developers to write business systems. This situation with layers on layers of cruft is the result of that.
Ridiculous that this thoughtful post is down-voted.
Just as you can with anything else copyrighted. Why would that be any different? NFTs just are a different way of tracking who has them, noting more.
How much does Twitter want to remove me from "view more replies"?
Does an Alcubierre warp drive violate causality? From my understanding, it's no different than regular FTL travel, which implies time travel, which implies violation of causality.

To me that would indicate that an Alcubierre warp drive still shouldn't be possible despite the negative energy requirement being lifted.
I call them Indian numerals because they're from India.
I think the fundamental challenge of coding isn't that different from many other professions (to agree with GP's point).

What is rarer is the moment of effective effort's nature, for many types of coding (to agree with your point).

The author's house of cards analogy trivializes it and makes it easier to dismiss as a rhetorical device. I'd use activation energy as a more apt comparison.

IOW, if you put in 30 minutes (or 3 days) understanding code, and do not make the correct 5 minute addition / change at the end of that, all that previous time is wasted. And moreover, that knowledge has some half life in my head, after which it must be reacquired.

And that correct addition / change cannot be made without first paying that cost.

This is not unique to coding, but is generally limited to professions involving the modification of dynamic complex systems. E.g. legal, biological, mathematical.

And I'd hazard to say of those, programming has a wider universe of possible approaches (aka "Why did the last person? Oh... Oh. Oh no."). Legal is probably the closest analogy.
Whatever happened to good ol' "Plus"? Although, god forbid they come up with a "Twitter Pro"...
I never thought of the old liveleaks site as a type of roman colosseum but I think you're right
YouTube Red was terrible because it was so similar to RedTube (which friends tell me is a porn site.)
so, in your response to frankfrankfrank, help me parse it:

"When you are accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like oppression."

what you are saying is that, now that women are accustomed to their privilege, equality (including men in the field of faces) would feel like oppression again, so best to leave them out?
Suspended objects will behave like a pendulum as they change their speed and/or direction. I suspect they're going to look very different from the trajectory of a self-propelled object.
I played only the coin-op version as a kid, so I never played competitively with other humans (the two-player version is more cooperative than competitive). It's a very different game against humans!

A suggestion: when you kill someone, you receive the points that they had (min 1). Have each player's point total hover around their sprite. This would set a higher bounty on the better/luckier players and balance the gameplay a little.
Would happily pay this amount (or a little more) for a plan without tracking and ads.
It seems Twitter Blue doesn't reduce ad volume
Will there be some sort of marker in my Twitter profile to indicate I'm a Blue subscriber? Maybe a smaller lighter blue checkmark?

If anything, I would want it as a social signal rather than the features.
Who's arguing? You or experts?
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I say algorithm as a shorthand for both the implementation of the software but the scientific theory on the entire chain of processing that needs to be strongly validated before being accepted as evidence (expert opinion?) for prosecution.
I'm interested in your point number 2. Do you have any links that back it up?
Yeah, my rule of thumb for tools is that I don't get one unless I feel a strong need for one at least twice. This has worked out well. (Although I haven't come to grips with how to do "tool decay" so that they don't pile up. That's a problem for future me to deal with!)
hmm this is amazing.
I tried https://overnightdrugsales.com to find out.
> with low maintenance and despite its popularity, nobody was paying or donating nothing to keep the project going.*

There probably is a Wikipedia page describing this phenomena but I'll settle for calling it "the commodity effect": when something is very widely used then everybody assumes it has been improved to perfection and that it has no flaws (this is not exclusive to software engineering, it happens in many areas of life).

> the same could happen in one of those unsafe{} blocks a Rust project like this might need to use

Sure but they are much easier to search for and audit (like with e.g. `cargo-geiger`). That by itself is a win. Whereas C/C++ needs a special class of linters and scanners, a good chunk of which are paid (a deal-breaker for many software devs not because they're poor but because they don't want to pay for them out of their pocket, and their employer is blind to see the added value and buy those tools for them).

> and we are forgetting all the ordinary bugs even in the safe portions of the code

Only people with agenda forget about those. I worked with Rust in 3 companies in total so far and I've only seen serious, diligent, hard-working devs with attention to detail and a slight case of efficiency mania. :) And they were very mindful of potential bugs and we wrote a lot of tests of different kinds like acceptance/integration, unit, property, and probably others.

No normal smart developer forgets that memory safety bugs are just one class of all the bugs. Turns out however that those are the most widespread bugs in general so IMO it is sensible to use a language that eliminates them by the mere virtue of compiling your program -- and not using unsafe{} in certain ways.

As another poster said, time and attention are limited resources. By removing memory safety bugs from the picture our brains are now free to pay proper attention to the more subtle bugs.
Doesn't that corroborate the hypothesis that wealth begets higher SAT scores? Access to the quality education available in the Bay Area requires wealth (in general, you have to be pretty wealthy to live in the Bay Area--of course there are some exceptions which prove the rule)?
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The main issue is that there is a very ill-defined wall between vaccines from science and a political agenda.

The average human (except maybe the elderly?) does not have the same problems with flu season and vaccination in the same way we view covid. Granted, covid is a big problem, but the mortality rate is about 10% [0]. The main difference here is that the flu season is mostly dictated by science, there are no public restrictions and people go about their lives mostly without consequence. Covid is a different beast for a bunch of reasons, and one major one is politics.

I have never up until this point in my life saw the amount of political pressure that everyone needs to be vaccinated. Probably going more off opinion that fact at this point, but I can't foresee any place in the world going back to normal once n% of people get vaccinated. At least the mayo clinic doesn't seem certain on what the long term effects of the current vaccines will be [1], specifically around "A COVID-19 vaccine might...Prevent you from getting COVID-19 or from becoming seriously ill or dying due to COVID-19." The CDC website seems to have more confident information, but I'm not convinced that we actually have the long-term data yet to back that up, but I'm open to being corrected with any studies that last more than 2 months, and use saline for control groups (and not another vaccine, which seems to be the popular method, which I'm also interested in opinions on). So _if_ the vaccines don't provided long term protection from being sick AND spreading the disease, don't expect vaccinated percentages to change the state of the current lockdowns.

I've been told I'm a bad citizen for just waiting for data that proves that shooting this vaccine in my body will actually support a good long term solution.

[0] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...
I love Twitter and use it every day. Unlike many other sites, owned by tech-giants, I have a lot of goodwill for them and think if anyone can prove that social-media users can be paying customers, it's them.

It's just a bummer that Twitter Blue is not removing ads.

I assume they're not going ad-free because they don't want to cannibalise their ad-business. As in: You can't say your ads are so great and helpful and also offer a way to turn them off. That might decrease the value of their ads?

But it's also the reason I'm a bit on the fence here. I want to be part of the message that says: "Yes, I'm willing to pay for you Twitter!" but without removing ads (and frankly with a pretty bad value prop here) it's not an easy sell.
And their stock shows that. Especially when compared to other big tech companies that started at about the same time.
While geothermal systems do use heat pumps, the term "heat pump" in general conversation almost always refers to air-source heat pumps (air to air), not geothermal. In the US/Canada, drilling additional wells is prohibitively expensive for most people, which is why geothermal systems haven't taken off.

Heat pumps don't perform very well, or at all, when it's -30° or -40°, so a secondary heat source is needed. Usually, that will be natural gas, in which case why bother with a heat pump when you can just burn much cheaper natural gas?
That and an option to permanently opt out of their curation of my timeline. I just want to see the content of people I actually follow in a chronological fashion.

At the moment I‘am quiet happy using Tweetbot but most 3rd party clients are hampered due to API restrictions on Twitters side.
Could anyone summarize for me what modern interview prep is like? Last I heard, it’s “learn Java only for the interview” then grind leetcode for 3 months. Whiteboarding probably doesn’t matter during a pandemic but that means you need correct runnable code to enter into some web ide?
https://reddit.com/r/bigseo
leetcode trains you to prematurely optimize and cannot teach you the skills that come with years of experience, which is what you need to be able to do what the above describes.
What is the rationale for disabling paste on passwords, account numbers, other "sensitive" data?

The absolute worst are fields where paste is disabled, and the characters are also echoed as "*" so you can't even see what you are typing. I saw this with SSNs when I submitted some tax forms on my state's website recently.

The only argument I can think of for disabling paste (and I think it's pretty weak) is on a form to set a new password, where you need to input the password twice (and the form validates that they match) you might want to make the user actually type the same password twice, rather than let them copy/paste the first entry into the second field.
> Others said they had so many meetings they couldn't possibly find enough time to have that many meetings in a day (doesn't make sense to me but that's a direct quote).

My manager absolutely has more than 8 hours of meetings ina given week, and not jut useless ones. I've seen calendars of people a level or two above me where several days a week are wall-to-wall meetings. I don't think it's all that uncommon either. At some point, your job is coordinating and strategizing and communicating what needs to be done, and after a while, beyond meetings being an unfortunate nesesity, the meetings are the work
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To be clear, I'm not advocating for students get pigeonholed into a particular major because of the subject exams they took. They should be free to change majors the same as they do now.

Passing 1 or 2 subject tests just shows that a student can: pick a subject, study it, and pass an exam on it. Which is what almost every class in college is like. There is no "general intelligence" class in college, or high school. Studying for a general intelligence test is not what college, high school, or any job is actually like. Studying for a test in a particular subject is useful for high school, college, and a requirement for some jobs (i.e. law, medicine, etc.)
Aging: Clinical trial on potential reversal of epigenetic age
I recognize robohash from gravatar mainly.

https://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/

Gravatar provides 5 fallback custom avatars:

identicon: a geometric pattern based on an email hash
monsterid: a generated 'monster' with different colors, faces, etc
wavatar: generated faces with differing features and backgrounds
retro: awesome generated, 8-bit arcade-style pixelated faces
robohash: a generated robot with different colors, faces, et
Is there a service you used to do that? If so, could you please share?

I am thinking of moving out in about a year and I would love to donate my belongings to someone in less-developed world instead of donating it to places like Goodwill (and I'm afraid that they'll send most of my donation to landfill)
Such naming is part of my break-up plan for the tech giants. If you break Facebook up into three successor companies with competing networks, you run into the problem of what do with the Facebook brand. It would be unfair and counterproductive to give one the brand and have the other two create new ones, so my idea is to give them color versions (e.g. Facebook Red, Facebook Green, Facebook Purple). Eventually they'd probably rebrand, but it's the best solution I can think of to start.
The internet. There are hundreds of complaints on the Tesla forums of phantom braking happening due to shadows.
I also immediately thought of 'plus' -- I wonder if there would be a trademark issue because of "Google Plus"?
https://overnightdrugsales.com
I've heard good things about it as well. Interested in trying it out.
Wow that's a huge RFC. I wanted to read it but now I'll have to set aside the better part of a day. Not to generalize but the best RFCs are amazingly concise.
Winamp should have monetized skins...

/s
There's a lot of great apps on App Stores that have a pricing model like this. Granted, most of them don't have millions in VC funding, but it's a fine business model that can make a tidy sum.
> Even with computer control a big long range gun will often run out of bullets before sinking an opposing ship as accuracy decreases quadratically with range.

We're talking about defensive missiles and guns, nobody is using a defensive gun to try and sink an enemy warship.

> Any modern air defenses/fighters will both outrange and destroy aircraft such as the Super Tucano which won't be able to mount sufficient radar to observe even non-stealth F-15s.

Of course, that's a built-in assumption. Another built in assumption is that it is a 1:4 or 1:8 F-35:Super Tucano ratio, since it is a "mass" strategy. A lot of cheap "good enough" assets instead of fewer incredible ones.

Even if the F-35 has air superiority where it is, it doesn't where it isn't, that's both obvious but also the trap the US has walked into by reducing the number and increasing the technological superiority.

Drone swarms are the ultimate anti F-35, because they're cheap, mass in numbers, and "good enough." The F-35 literally doesn't have the munitions onboard to kill more than half a dozen.
But the objects are able to fly 11,000 miles-per-hour, able to turn instantly, with no wings, no propulsion and no exhaust, disappear instantly and go into the ocean.

What kind of "cheap drone" can do that?
I think it’s internally case sensitive and provides case insensitive APIs to users, right?
Alaska's Great Sitkin volcano briefly erupts, first time since 1974
I don't think age has anything to do with it, and Fox News has plenty of younger viewers as well.

I think education, ideology, and sensationalism have more (everything?) to do with it.
Yes, it's inconsistent with observation.

1. It would tend to imply dark matter having the same shape as the matter in galaxies. It doesn't. So it doesn't explain the galactic rotation curves, which is the whole reason we hypothesized dark matter in the first place.

2. It doesn't explain the Bullet Cluster.

3. It doesn't match why some galaxies have more dark matter than others.

4. It doesn't explain Baryon Acoustic Oscillations.
That used to be common before wallets got better. People would accidentally set the fee way too high every once in a while.
I feel like this misses the point of why interruptions are frustrating to me. To me, I have so many things that I'm cramming into my short-term memory that I need to have access to while doing a certain task. If I'm in the middle of writing the contents of a loop, and then I note that I'm operating in row-major, and I need to go make sure that the inputs are row-major and that this is documented.

So, instead of breaking my concentration on the loop itself, I just cache that knowledge and go back to it after I've finished the loop body. If I'm then interrupted, or worse, drawn away to something for a while, it's easy for that information to have fallen out by the time I return to finishing the code.

I ultimately need to keep a log of every single task (even if I plan on doing it in a minute) in order to thwart this. I don't like it, but that's just what I have to do to keep from introducing "interruption bugs" in my code.

I think another thing that is irksome is that the same people who are hounding you to finish some task in X amount of time are the ones making it go to 2X with their interruptions.
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Discounting the lab leak theory always seemed very politically motivated to me (although I am not sure exactly what the motive was).

It always seemed very suspicious that a definitive conclusion about the origin was drawn so quickly despite us barely knowing anything else about the virus. It also seemed incredibly suspicious that there was such a large effort to repress anyone who questioned the origin.

The cherry of irony on top is how considering all possible theories of origin was labeled “science denial”, but appealing to authority with questionable motives was “trusting the science”.
> If it is an Ada implementation, why wouldn't they call it Ada rather than alang?

In the same way that "the" C/C++ LLVM frontend is called clang and the Fortran frontend is called flang. So a hypothetical Ada frontend could be called alang.

> If the language implements the Ada standard (http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-TOC.htm...), it is Ada, regardless of how the particular implementation is licensed.

I wasn't arguing against that, but, yes I agree.
And a study just released has also contradicted this “assigned opinion” being weaponized by the vaccine virtue signalers.
Ok but how much money do we need to raise in crowdfund to permanently delete Twitter.
You make it sound as though this is an absurd way to monetize. This is the internet.
And whipping llama asses.
Thanks for the recommendation. If this comment piqued anyone else's interest, as it did mine, there is an updated version of Bloomfield's Let’s Read: https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Read-Linguistic-Clarence-Barnhar...

There is some discussion of the differences in the two editions in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4665466 as well as the reviews on Amazon. I am going to give the updated version a try.
I know, I understand it, I thought that too. It's just my opinion, I still think it's a silly name.
Completely agree with this in principle. I've passive-aggressively kept a spreadsheet that tracks how much time I spend in meetings, and it's averaged between 25% and 30% over the course of a couple years.

That's frustrating in its own right, but what's worse is that nobody ever factors it into scheduling estimates. If your team is getting 6 hours of work done in an 8 hour day, that's the equivalent of the whole team taking a day off every week and expecting everything to still get done on schedule. Except it's worse, because it makes you less efficient all the time rather than just one day a week.

On the other hand, I don't think that trying to fit all weekly meetings into a single day would solve the problem either. It's often the case that decision makers — the people you need to have at a lot of meetings — are involved in different areas of a business or product, so they'd have overlapping demands on their time. Where I work, there are a few people who are like this, and their schedule shapes how meetings are planned for everyone else. When any of these people have conflicting meetings scheduled, one or more of those meetings have to be rescheduled for another day.

So now everyone else has 2 half days of meetings a week, rather than one full day. And then, what happens if you learn new information and have to make a decision? Do you wait a week to talk about it? Probably not. So, you'd probably have a couple heavy meeting days, and then a number of ad hoc meetings scattered over the week. This is not the improvement we were looking for, and I think at a certain point the team would just drift away from the initial vision, and settle into the former pattern.

Not saying it's a good thing!
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one way to force chronological is to add everyone you follow to a private list.

even on official clients, it's always chronological and no ads -- but it's not perfect.
These factors are left out because they're rarely relevant.

> 1. Business value isn’t always a measure of coding velocity. Interruptions are often gifts in disguise.

Yes, there's a known partitioning between design and implementation, and it's very difficult to do both at once. Those "business value" decisions usually occur in the design phase, when you're not being precluded by implementation. However, interruptions are not the right way of doing the design phase.

Interruptions, by definition, occur when you were in the middle of some work, and if you were doing implementation work, result in you losing context (and therefore productivity) for something that is rarely design-related - and even relying on this for design/"business value" guidance is a hack, because you should be purposefully allocating some dedicated time to take a break from implementing and instead design and strategize.

Replying on unplanned interruptions to do this for you is suboptimal from every perspective and will be difficult and frustrating.

> 2. The ability to work in a way that allows for interruption is a skill that can be learned.

Absolutely - and yet, someone who has this skill and is interrupted is still less productive than someone who has the skill and isn't productive. Unless every one of your interruptions is essential (which isn't true for the vast majority of developers, including me), then learning the skill alone is just a hack, because the root problem is that you're being unnecessarily interrupted in the first place.