skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. Just because you have an educated workforce doesn't mean you'll be booming with jobs.

More like you need a business friendly environment with low taxes, minimal corruption and frictionless bureocracy to create a thriving local economy and also attract external investors.
It seems that it positions itself as RAD-like, so not surprising. Boxing and constraints models have one huge downside – your visual interface builder always sucks.
Does anyone have a source for relevant stats on arrests that result in releases of violent criminals? This appears to be the major argument here, but I haven’t seen data supporting it.

When I look at clearance rates from 2019 vs 2020 as reported by the SFPD[1], they appear identical.

If I look at “action taken” and “filing” rates on the DAs website[2], the rates look down from last year, but so do the overall counts of cases presented to the DA by the police. Could be pandemic influence. Also, though the rates have dipped, they are where they were only a few years back and rather within what looks like a normal range, especially considering that 2020 was far from a normal year.

[1] https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/clea...
[2] https://sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/da-stat/
To my knowledge, most developers have gone back to binary patching for obfuscation purposes. Bethesda does this now (and ID, by extension), as well as many other developers I've seen.
Are Pull Requests Holding Back Your Team?
The state department memo disclosing the sick researchers story isn't anywhere near as strong as the article implies. It's not US original reporting and there is disagreement about how strong the unnamed sources really are.

I'm also going to attack the sources... This was strongly pushed by the Trump administration which was looking for this result. And originally reported by in the WSJ by Michael R. Gordon who is also one of the original reporters about the Iraq Aluminum tubes/centrifuge story that turned out to be wildly false.

It took about 15 years to trace the origins of SARS [1] to a specific bat cave. We cannot be this confident this early on SARS-CoV-2.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
It has been a long time since programs were written in a sane way: with lots of functionality so that experienced users can figure out a routine speed and become blazingly fast. Modern computing has decided to make people dumb. They like them like that, mindless drones who can only scroll and press YES. In life you get what you pay for, and right now we get users who don't care because they don't know, and big tech keeps feeding them more of the same.

When developers care more about imposing their opinions on others they have jumped to the class of people who care about power. They are the new lawyers and people should start making jokes about them being at the bottom of the sea.
Or keep the lawn, and plant some vines. If you combine two or more you can get some stunning results. A climbing rose with clematis for example. Maybe some sort of native vine. Best of both worlds.
In my case, I almost always want paste to override most formatting — if I copy something from a website, I want it to match my formatting.

What I'm looking for, though, is particularly for the font itself, the font color and maybe the size to match. If something is bolded, or italicized, that should ideally be retained.

A good configuration could be to ask whether you want the formatting of what you're pasting to match the document, and then ask if they want to set that choice as default.
You might be interested in Aaron Hsu's work on co-dfns, which is a compiler that compiles a subset of Dyalog APL to the GPU.

https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns
That would maybe require a culture of trust, or very strong leaders. In some places, weak leaders even rose to the occasion, though may melt afterwards.
Hi Adam. Thanks for doing the podcast. Listening to it is easily one of the most enjoyable parts of my life. I have also learnt so much about coding in general which I am pretty sure I would have never learnt.
> In most other cases, with far fewer resources dedicated to the search, the origins are reliably indicated fairly quickly.

Is this true? I've seen claims, including in the most recent TWIV podcast, that it took over a dozen years to reliably indicate the origins of SARS-COV-1 (which seems to be supported by this 2017 paper[0]), and that we are still working on identifying the origins of last decade's Ebola outbreaks.

Although I suppose it may depend on what precisely is meant by "origins" and "reliably".

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171130141222.h...
Just like you should have the freedom to be a part of one, you should have the freedom to not be a part of one. But right now HOA works over full neighborhoods, there is no opt-out. If I move into a neighborhood like that, suddenly neighbors have control over how my house look.

I think that's the crazy part. It's like a marriage you cannot leave without moving away from it.

And yes I agree, don't move into such a neighborhood then. But it's still strange that a whole community can unite against one house within the gates (or whatever) and decide how things should be. Not what I would expect in a country that prides itself on its freedoms.
FWIW, the active channel volume is much more than a dozen atoms in a modern FinFET process.

For a ~5nm process, there might be only a few dozen atoms across the width of the fin, but the other dimensions are much larger, for a total of probably somewhere around hundreds of thousands of atoms per channel.

see e.g. https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2408/tsmc-7nm-hd-and-hp-cells... and other wikichip articles for some dimension info.

but regardless, modern semiconductor manufacturing processes are incredible. the much-too-brief summary is that they shine very precise patterns of light on the silicon using very high frequency light to activate photoresist, and then etching away the silicon that isn't protected by the photoresist. this doesn't actually produce features as small as the fins, so there are a lot of tricky techniques, like doing this patterning + etching once, then growing a layer of some other material on top, then etching again to leave only the very narrow sidewalls that grew around the original feature, then etching again using the sidewalls as the pattern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacer_patterning

it really is amazing - reliably writing tiny structures on stones with light.
> Why shouldn't I be able to team up with my neighbors to set standards for our community?

Because that's freedom to overspill your freedom of deciding what others should do with their own, self-contained, freedom?

I don't understand the dq part can you please expand on that?
Shouldn't Google be probed first?
Chase bank banking.
What an unbelievable bloated animated JavaScript monstrosity... I do my bills once a month, so I open chase side by side with all the other tabs, and it's like - click a button in chase, pay one entire credit card/mortgage/check account history/whatever in the other window while it's loading.

I usually have time for everything and sometimes even to research and do my option trades in the time it takes to check and pay 3 cards with chase. Cancelling chase sapphire soon in part because of that (I have another similar fee card with a normal site), and stopping the use of another no-fee card purely because of the site.

If we ever interview someone who worked on this atrocity I'd have to recuse myself :)
As a kid, I had more fun playing in untamed woods and patches at the edge of the property where plants did their own thing than I ever did on dried out, razor-sharp summer grass.

Kids aren’t too picky about what they play in. They’ll make do with anything.
> Maybe this will get me downvoted

This is a tragedy, a healthy discourse is only possible when those with differing opinions are allowed to partake. This becomes even more important now that divisive and authoritarian ideologies based on critical theory are starting to take hold in an increasing number of societal institutions.

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Don't downvote, discuss. A downvote is just a sign of a lack of arguments or an inability to formulate those arguments.
Accessible technology is better when it’s built by those who rely on it
I could see that keeping one big file would still be advantageous too in that environment. As a fopen on a set of small sized files plus read plus close over and over does add up. Just in cpu time and memory slack. Whereas treating it as one giant packed backing store would have advantages in speed. But at a cost of dev time. Even if you are compressing it as well could be an advantage. But I would expect there to be some spot where it crosses over from being an advantage to a disadvantage. I suspect it would be on small files/objects. But that would just be for speed. You may have to optimize for size in some cases. In the end it is usually better to build some test code and find out. Sometimes the results are what you expect. Sometimes you are spending time on things that do not matter anymore but were a big deal 20 years ago.
Sure, it was able to handle this trip once during ideal conditions. What happens when road conditions become tricky? Will the AI be able to navigate a lane closure that forces it to drive on the shoulder due to an accident? How about adverse weather conditions?

The edge cases are where the real challenges are.
Yeah I have heard both sides of the debate.

Strongest argument for lab leak seems to sourced here:

https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-th...
Honestly, it sounds like they might have been willing to purchase a license from you to redistribute the code. Had you reached out, you may have received a few bucks and proper attribution for your work (and your work would have reached a broader audience).
>I don't think a company has any responsibility do anything but hire the candidates with the most merit.

Do you think society as a whole (and by extension, said company) has a responsibility to create a system where there is an equal opportunity to develop merit?
Painting a ceiling is more difficult for a climbing robot than cleaning the ceiling, since it's got to carry the weight of the paint up there.
Looks like something you'd find at some no-name technical college in Germany and not a top university. Where's the linear algebra, multivariate calculus, real analysis, differential equations, graph theory, abstract algebra, numerical mathematics, stochastics, etc.? Those are all required courses in my degree with additional options in complex analysis, functional analysis, topology, measure theory and so on. How are they planning to do those robotics or machine learning classes without the mathematical prerequisites in linear algebra, differential equations and optimization? It looks more like a vocational training program to me. No self-respecting university here would offer courses on "mobile development" or "web development". Even for analysis of algorithms you need basic calculus which apparently isn't part of the high school curriculum in the US (although we can assume that everyone who makes it to Stanford would've taken AP classes).
That should probably be `curl cht.sh/tar`
That was my first thought as well.

I found Tk was really great for simple layouts, but I worked on a Tk project that had some very complicated control panels. Ultimately it became unwieldy and difficult to refactor the UI as moving code around would have breaking consequences.
Probably because Chinese companies have been shown to give user data over to a regime that gives people social credit scores dictating where you can live or whether you can travel, disappears political dissidents, etc.
What were the arguments that support the hypothesis of it being a natural occurrence? That there was a seafood market nearby? Ok. There was also a lab nearby that did experiments with corona-viruses. Which theory is more likely? I don't know, do you? My question is: why is one theory more likely than another? Why was the lab leak theory completely rejected and people who played with it were called nuts?
The conflict of interest is with Trump. He lifted the ban and should take all the blame for any bad outcome from gain-of-function research. Instead he pushed a deliberate leak conspiracy as cover.
The moratorium was rescinded in 2017.
Does anyone know if changing the display type of table elements (table, tr, td, etc.) to `block` or `flex` affect accessibility in any way? I would hope that the semantic structure of the tags would override changes on the styling level, but never been able to find a solid answer.
No, it’s not inevitable. That’s poisonous thinking. We can always de-escalate. That’s the kind of stupidity that led to the First World War, and the First World War led to the Second World War. None of it had to happen. There were always other options.

Edit: We should immediately attack China because they’re a bunch of godless communists! The CCP is a murderous regime trying to develop biological weapons to murder everyone! Better to just have at it now while we still have the bigger army! Why not just use nukes!

Every time anyone mentions China for any reason we just end up in the dumbest flame wars imaginable.
OTOH, CSS can handle a vastly wider array of styles and use cases. I agree it’s crufty, but there are many historical / legacy reasons for it that are still in use today.

If used in practice for anything substantial, RectCut will start to acquire cruft too. First thing to get added would be resizeable / dynamic layouts. Next would be something akin to the CSS grid layout, which is already the successor to flexbox (closest CSS layout mode to RectCut).
FAANG are the declared target of this action, if they find loopholes too quickly these governments will throw the book at them. A pound of flesh is necessary, at least for some time. I don't doubt that they'll find new loopholes eventually, but for a while they'll have to pay more.
My brothers and I did the ring road in Iceland a few years ago. One night we were eating dinner at a restaurant in a small village in North Iceland. Our server had a perfect North USA dialect of English. He sounded to us just like an American. We asked him if he had lived in the USA. He said he had never left his village and had never even been to Reykjavík. We asked him how he came to speak American English so perfectly and he said he learned it from watching movies and TV shows.
USA Today fights subpoena aimed at readers of Florida FBI shooting story
It doesn't need to be, but it could turn out that way. Perhaps someone convinces the masses that a distributed blockchain is preferable and then it gets built and persists on first-mover advantage.
Republicans dive into politically fraught push for Covid's origin story
they also (in my limited experience) treated sales as an afterthought. Its the only time I've contacted a company to inquire about a product, and had them actively dissuade me from buying the product (IAM).
The iceberg in the glass: Two views of Agile, and what they say about your team
> It was something I and my consulting colleagues had run into before: The belief at Sun that only Sun could make good use of its own technologies, and anything created outside of Sun was trash.

Yep. See Sun's response to the Linux SPARC maintainers technical critique of Solaris for SPARC. Meanwhile at Red Hat we started hiring all the ex-Sun people that had been pushing for x86 internally at Sun and gotten frustrated with the flip flops (RHEL 3 on Xeon already demolished Solaris/SPARC) .
A Pro E-Sports Team Is Getting $210M to Change Its Name
Toyota Mirai sets new distance record for hydrogen-powered vehicles 1003 km
Not only that, but I think the "average user" probably has lesser taste than the tweeter. They see a blue font on the text they are copying from some random web page, they expect a blue font when they paste it. This would be especially important to the average user if they are copying a lot of text with bullets and headers.

So the tweet may be describing a better practice for many use cases, but it may not be the practice most people want.
Pretty cool. Nothing beats reading the docs, being curious.

Weird notion:

Is there a FindBugs for HTML, CSS, JavaScript?

Such a tool might have to analyze the live DOM, with the actual behavior, to infer what's actually happening, to better suggest refactorings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FindBugs
Non Paywall

https://archive.is/Av0UW
Well, the gold will all still be there years later, while some of the Americium will have decayed into other elements.
As someone who suffered it, it was way worse.

There was “ingeniería informatica”, which was kind of CS, but focused highly on software (databases were a significant part of the curriculum).

Then there was “licenciatura informatica”, although it was rarer to find and a lot of colleges woudn’t offer it. It should be the CS equivalent, but it was generally seen as very heavily related to math, and computation was seen in “general terms”. There were 2 or 3 programming courses at best, with most of the curriculum being similar to pure maths degrees.

Then, if you wanted to focus on hardware (like I did), your best path was “ingenieria de telecomunicaciones” (telecom engineering?) and then do a 2 year “superior engineering in electronics” (which just meant you need a previous engineering to acces).

Nowadays the scheme is similar, but instead of 3 and 5 year plans, they’re 4 or 5.
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While I find this effect to be really surprising, it's also somehow intuitive to me. I think it reminds me of holding a piece of grass between my thumbs and blowing to make it vibrate. Different, sort of reversed physics, but somewhat related. What really surprises me about this effect is how much weight it can support.
Anybody can dance now! yay!
A video on this topic from my favourite botanist: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oz9I2YwmV8M
Work-from-home should really have made this whole mindfulness industry obsolete.

You no longer need to do all this crap to look sophisticated in front of your co-workers, you can just, say, pick your nose and contemplate on the gradual change in texture as you rub it between your thumb and index finger.

I'm all for mindfulness, but you don't need any fancy techniques or rituals, and you most certainly don't need to pay a subscription for it.
Why Cloudera Might Be Worth $5.3B After All
Not investigating would provide fuel to group 2a, the people who will defend China at any cost and against all evidence, and their Western enablers who engage in performative anti-racism.
Yeah HOAs claim to increase property values but I'm convinced any benefit they provide is undone by the multitudes of people who refuse to buy property compromised by one.
Nice!! I think I'm ~2 weeks out from strawberry time.
This is what my wife is concerned about. She also wants to let our kids to be able to play in the backyard. (We have a 16 year old that locks herself in her room, and a 5 month old that will probably like moving around a lot).

There are a couple things on the other side of this:

- I'm not planning on making purely ornemental plants. What I'm planning are edible plants, and as such, there is great functionality.

- I'm not planting this for the whole yard, but rather, will have different things in different places

- Making it an edible landscape, perhaps even having a perennial food forest, teaches my children the things I want them to learn: that they are part of an ecosystem, that abundance is from the land and not from the grocery store.

- There are alternative cover plants that work better for the landscape, such as white dutch clover. White Dutch Clover are hardier towards drought, can fix its own nitrogen, and pollinators love them. You can get varieties that grow no more than 8" so you don't really have to mow them. Sure, you might piss off your neighbors who see it as weeds they have to kill with glysophate. Other perennials such as thyme or oregeno can make for better cover on paths between garden beds

- I have started on reshaping the topology by adding basins and bearms so that rainfall can be captured and stored. It reduces the space my kids can run, but I will also be bringing in the kind of things I think people seek out from hiking in nature or strolling through a garden.

- I can't play baseball, but we would be able to play things like lazer tag, which is more fun when you have cover.

- There's a great park about 10 min walk away from our house. We'd probablty go there for soccer (I don't like baseball).
> There is much more evidence in the article for a lab leak than there was for the wet market story which was uncritically parroted in the media for over a year.

There was zero evidence of a lab leak in the article, only conjecture. So the bar of "same amount of evidence as the article for lab leak" is pathetically easy to reach. The fact you are throwing the "parroting" term around is ridiculously ironic as well, the "lab leak" has been parroted around the world since day one.

More importantly, who gives a shit even if *was* a lab leak? It's literally the less evil/worse of the two possibilities (wet market vs lab leak). Since that means it was "only" a lapse in lab security (one which will probably be learned from and not repeated) rather than the result of negligence in keeping open these markets despite being told over and over again that they are going to cause outbreaks just like this one, and these markets are still open!
If full-time mothers are considered NEET then this is quite meaningless. Why in the hell we'd ever consider 100% employment to be a good thing is beyond me.
I’m trying to understand what you mean here. How does one pronounce and with 2 syllables?
So does this mean assembly and C coding is going to make another resurgence in terms of need as more companies begin to use their own silicon? I'm looking this entirely at the angle of hardware support and drivers too.
Many experts are predicting declining job rates. I do think we can create jobs though as a society. For example instead of one teacher handling 12 toddlers we can pay for 4 teachers to do it. Or improve the care old people get by increasing staff. These are jobs automation cant replace easily...but there needs to be a will to make the investment.
What if there was a standard way to describe inputs, outputs and side effects of programs?

Think of it like writing/downloading type definitions for existing untyped code. With program descriptions like this shells could become smarter, generate warnings, abort before execution if types don’t match up, etc.
It is not hard if you are privileged enough that alternatives are within your budget—not just of money, but of time and mental effort—to seek out and continue to use.

Most people on HackerNews, with incomes well above the national median, and often sources of passive income that earn above the national median income, are thus privileged. Many, many more people are not, and to decide that what is not hard for you is not hard for anyone is a conclusion without merit.
Is this a different grant than what I'm thinking of? The institution that got the grant is a global non-profit(I think, and run by americans afair). They actually appealed this and said how damaging this is because they've had a long term working relationship with various labs across the globe relating to virus research. They've been on This Week on Virology many times on a variety of different subjects. Is the funding in question here different from that? Rand Paul makes it sound like the money went directly to China, which isn't the case.
US colleges often don't even do that. They just learn differentiation and integration rules but none of the actual math, hence why it's called "calculus" and not "real analysis" which the math majors take.
Thanks Brendan for creating the
bpfcc-tools! I’m using it in magicmake [1] which is a tool to automatically find missing packages when compiling, based on file path accesses.

[1] https://github.com/truthly/magicmake