skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to generalize, but the US is more diverse (rank #90 vs #151 for Germany, #169 for France, #111 for Croatia [0]) and we also have a very painful past and present that makes us acutely aware of our inability to socialize.

America also has a cultural obsession with self-reliance/liberty/frontier-as-a-virtue which makes "socializing" a bit of a taboo concept, in a weird way. It's a crutch to "need" to be around others, despite it being fundamentally human to feel this way.

When you combine these two things, I think you get a group of people who need to interact with one another, but also kind of hate one another, and refuse to admit the dichotomy. What we've discovered then, is by heavy drinking we can start to pick at those barriers, though maybe that is, itself, part of the problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level
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> The finances of software people cannot be that precarious.

You’d be surprised. hedonic treadmill intensifying
Many people constantly recommending Evil mode don't seem to get why some use Vim.

No, Evil mode is not better than Vim itself. For one it's slower, defining keybindings is much more verbose, everything outside the actual text file has completely different controls, and I lose most of the seamless interoperability with other terminal tools. And it runs within an environment that tries to be literally every text-related tool by itself, making it overly complicated in many aspects.
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This looks really cool, but even as someone who has dabbled a bit in poker I have no idea what I am looking at.

Presumably, this is for people who are already advanced to get a little bit better? Otherwise, if you want to level up my poker game I would need a few lower rungs on the ladder.
I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.
Quoted by Israel Shenker, "Critics Here Focus on Films As Language Conference Opens," The New York Times (1972-12-28)

Often quoted as "How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him"; referring to George McGovern's loss to Richard Nixon in in the 1972 presidential election.
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> I rather would use ...

you'd rather use six complex things instead of one simple one?
"design patterns" are mostly here to make up for the flaws of Java or C++. For instance, there is no need for factories classes when a language supports passing functions as arguments of other functions and closures.

I say mostly, because something like the Observer pattern is still useful even outside OO. It's also a way to communicate an intent or a role a certain class has.

I think all the SOLID/DRY/Clean code concepts were more harmful to development in general than design patterns, because these ideals became an obsession.
Monthly Budget (basic, 1 person)
Rent: $1.5k
Food: $500
Health: $1k
Everything else: $500
Total: $3.5k * 12 =
$42k per year? Okay.

$1 billion / $42k =
24,000 homeless people? Wow, seems high.

Nah. Internet search says 8,000. But let’s assume 24k based on the calculations.

Population of SF: 875k

Note that percent homeless in US: 0.2%

Percent of homeless in SF: almost 3%? Or 10 times worse than US average?

If that’s true, then it sounds like SF needs a new mayor and a new city council.
I would buy such a keyboard too. Or a touchscreen. I can raise my hand, touch the screen to place the cursor close to where I want and probably be faster than with a touchpad, surely much faster than with a mouse. Unfortunately I would have to clean my screen as often as my glasses.
For whatever it's worth, on a somewhat-current Linux Mint, with the test from https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1387:

System jq:

$ jq --version
jq-1.6
$ echo '{"number":288230376151711744}' | jq '.number'
288230376151711740

Fresh compile from source according to the build instructions at https://github.com/stedolan/jq:

$ ./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin && make -j8
$ ./jq --version
jq-1.6-137-gd18b2d0-dirty
$ echo '{"number":288230376151711744}' | ./jq '.number'
288230376151711744

Alternatively:

$ ./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin --enable-decnum=no && make -j8
$ echo '{"number":288230376151711744}' | ./jq '.number'
288230376151711740

So the basic bug is fixed, jq has included a bignum library for > 2 years. I don't know if Mint (and thus presumably Ubuntu, and thus possibly Debian) includes an older version of jq or sets nonstandard user-unfriendly flags on purpose, but I'm somewhat underwhelmed in either case.
wouldn't it be better to change age/profession/etc stuff per website?
Don't you need to be an accredited investor? I listened to several of these platforms over the years, the biggest hurdle seemed to be "compliance".
As another non-drinker, Kombucha and occasionally non-alcoholic beers.

Kombucha has a tiny bit of alcohol (<0.5%) and tastes a bit like a soda but has a tiny amount of sugar (usually only 8g / serving).
My anecdote here is, I quit drinking temporarily three years ago to lose weight. My blood pressure went through the roof (Hypertension II) and I had extreme general anxiety. My physiological response was so intense I started thinking I might be in danger level of addiction. As I researched this more, it turns out high blood pressure and anxiety are normal responses.

Most people I know would not think I had a problem because I was functional and I didn't day drink. I might have two or three strong (> 7%) IPAs in the evening daily before bed. I would also on occasion binge pretty hard on weekends with friends.

After some time of not drinking my anxiety actually got better and I decided to keep it that way. I'm not a teetotaler but I have completely stopped bringing alcohol home and binge drinking in general. I still find that 2 drinks is harder than none, however.

My own take away (which may be different for everyone) is that alcohol is a reasonable way to make uncomfortable social situations tolerable but when used to treat a more general anxiety, it will likely make it worse.
Isn't that worst of both worlds?

Still EXPENSIVE as hell, and no big open spaces to yourself, but also still not a quick stroll to all the world-class amenities of SF.

Maybe it varies for other people, but when i think of "live in to enjoy the city" i think 2 blocks from enough food to never cook again, new bars every friday, a quick transit ride to almost any activity i could want - and no car ownership needed. Its a lifestyle of living out of the city as a communal space, not a destination to visit on weekends.
Agreed. PSA: OBS can be used to create videos as well.

I first used OBS to create a video presentation for school. Most of the time I was showing slides, but occasionally I would switch to a full view of myself (as required by the assignment). Or you can do the common view of big slides and a small video of the speaker in the corner.
Any idea when it’s coming? I know no one likes that question, but... well, I have an M1 Air, and I’d love to stream some coding sessions or tutorials. So arm64 support would be tasty.

Is there some way we could help with the arm64 patching?
maybe the moat is the market size.
This is horrible advice.

Just because something has been done a certain way for a long time does not mean it's something we should continue. In a lot of cases it just means we didn't have the knowledge that it was so bad for you. And that's exactly where alcohol fits in. We know alcohol is bad for us in just about every way. So there's really no such thing as "under drinking".

Cigarettes. Cocaine. Tanning. Not wearing seat belts. Not wearing helmets. Beating kids as punishment. Bloodletting. X-rays. I mean the list is just endless.

Folks should do as they please. I'm not suggesting everyone needs to stop drinking or anything. But to suggest that "perhaps also be cautious of under drinking as well" is just downright wrong.
Yo People!! A friend keeps sending links to guitar pedal discussions to me and I thought I chip in to the conversation.

While you can emulate any guitar pedal with AI and you don't have to pay 120$ I'd like to introduce you to some understanding.

MUSICIANS love to purchase shit they can show off to others. it's in their ego nature. While 120$ for software might compete with quad pro cortex pedal, you can't show off with 120$ but with a pedal you bought fo 2g you can.
That is why BOSS made a big travel box for physical pedals this year, this is what they released at the NAMM2021.

How do I know that? I make software for them. GarageBand has 1000s of different pedals already and those are free. most musicians have apple or abelton live or some similar.

Also, not to discourage anyone - live music is dying. More and more you see musicians dancing on the stage with their instruments pretending they are playing, while pro-edited backtrack is going through the speakers.

If you want to make this world a better place think how to improve housing/farming/healthcare with technology. Things like roof above the head, food on the table will be always in demand. There is no money to be maid with musicians, cause they don't have any. it took me few years to realize, you can learn on my mistakes.

If you have some cash and time and thinking if you need to build some software product - kill that, buy some land and build a cabin. In the end you'll have another property. you can sell it or rent it. you can live it to your kids, there is value there. There is no value in your software idea unless people use it like crazy, and they really won't cause they already have 100 pedals and that new pedal bag from boss
I am not too sure with border. Especially when you have on mouse over the Tab are floated out with different colour.

Especially when you have dozens of tabs, the current style make it cleaner.
I hear this argument a lot but with all due respect, simply understanding the tech is what got them into this issue. They didn’t understand the commercial.

PE has some scars, but they don’t typically take over healthy, well run companies. They take over mismanaged companies, and refocus on the pursuit of profit that you seem to take issue with, ultimately saving the company from bankruptcy.
I have not seen the complete series yet, but I found William Byrd's miniKanren uncourse to be fascinating material! This seems to be in the same area of knowledge.
s/weary/wary
LSP seems like a real blessing for editor authors, since "it can't do anything useful with my preferred programming language" has been a big lock-in.
Cool - my company doesn't really care what you wear, tbh. Look at us - different experiences.

I never said you couldn't do development on a local machine.

A lot of your arguments stem from a different work culture and aren't particular to WFH. You want async work? Argue for that. WFH isn't async. You want to wear whatever you want? Fine - argue for that. WFH doesn't mean you are never seen or heard.

You're arguing for things that aren't part of WFH or remote work. They're entirely separate, part of a entire work culture, and I've seen both in-office and remote to prove such.
I had the option a few days ago and now it has disappeared in both my phone and my wife's.
I considered OBS a really nice piece of software, specially after a 10-year long track record of testing desktop capture software like Camtasia and the like. After fighting myself with ffmpeg (libav) to build a simplified desktop capture software myself, my appreciation for OBS has increased even more, because dealing with libav or anything multimedia is definitely a pita.
I think you’re quite off-base with your assertion that someone wearing a mask would be met with violence. Nobody would care. You’d just say “oh I am immuno-compromised so I try not to get sick” and then that’s that. In fact more likely someone would go to great lengths to make you feel comfortable and help you out because generally people are sensitive to people who are sick or have health problems, especially in America. Somebody might have question you because it’s abnormal, but it isn’t any more abnormal or different then someone noticing you are wearing pink hair or a random interesting t-shirt.

I agree that people now feel they have permission, which is good because people who actually need to wear a mask should be able to wear one without being looked at strangely. But the vast majority of people who will continue to wear masks won’t fall in this category. Even after the Democratic administration (who I voted for) and CDC relaxed mask mandates people still wear them for no good reason. (They’re not sick, have no scientific reason for them, etc.)
> without deception

I am not a native English speaker, but I am not sure about that. Look at the word "track" -- pretty much no one would want to be tracked, right?

I guess if they replace "track" with "identify", more people would actually allow that. Something like "Allow this app to identify your device across apps and websites". Average users usually don't have problem being identified. They use the same email across websites, and will prefer facebook login on 3rd party websites if it is an option...

End of day, the thing getting blocked by the prompt is iOS IDFA, where letters "ID" mean "identifier".

But still, I don't mind Apply play a little wording game here. The ad industry, on the other side, did way uglier than Apple in the last decade.
Obviously it's possible to just use the keyboard if that's how you want to work.

The point is that using a good quality trackpad positioned below a keyboard doesn't actually require you to move your wrist much, if at all. With this set up, there is not really any cost associated with switching between the trackpad and the keyboard. Thus, there is really no benefit to using the keyboard for tasks which can also be accomplished efficiently using the trackpad (as you are not paying any significant penalty for switching between the two input methods). For example, I was able to move my mouse cursor to the 'update' button to submit this form faster than I would have been able to use the relevant keyboard shortcut.
Sounds like you're not the target market then. Apple generally tries to sell computers to people who feel productive using their OS.
Why crytpo and fiat is pointless
Good catch on the macos advertiser id. It's just a matter of time for it to actually work as expected though.
> There are large-scale dysgenic Demographic changes occurring in the West

The article you linked dismisses the "dysgenic" idea immediately. Yet that's what you picked to make your point?

Surely you must've known some of us would read the article. It concludes with wild swings and guesses...I'm wondering why you linked it.

> China needs merely wait a few generations (if it has the patience) and it will have a much easier time asserting itself.

I'm on mobile and lacking the patience to type a more nuanced, thoughful reply. I suppose "we shall see" will suffice.
What does a cohort model look like? I've never heard of such a thing, at least not in software development.
As a French person, it feels incredibly weird to see how much opposition other countries have for a concept (a national id database) that we've had before the internet even existed.

Looking into the details, I recently learned that the generalization of the national id dated from the Vichy regime, which... okay, yeah, I get why we might be alone in this.

But in practice, it works pretty well, and with very few negative effects.
"Sans some stylistic differences, they are functionally the same thing."

You can't raise the whole vehicle several inches (although crossovers have weirdly low ground clearance) without affecting the handling. Modern wagons corner like modern cars, not like minivans.
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Using this on the same computer with casino software will net you a ban and probably cost you any winnings.
Its a personal preference thing for sure. For me theres no comparison in feeling control between downshifting into a turn on a manual vs flicking steering wheel shift paddles.
> When the pyramids were being built, the builders were paid in beer.

Yeah, because water used to be much harder to sanitize, and “beer” (thick, lumpy, mildly alcoholic – think fermented porridge) is basically liquid bread. Doing manual labor all day takes a lot of calories, and cereals are much cheaper than alternative foods. It’s hardly a healthy diet though.

Keeping peasants drunk enough to be pliable is a side benefit much appreciated by the lords of just about every feudal/plantation economy throughout history.
Good news and bug fixes.
That black screen capture on laptops was annoying.
"Media coverage, meanwhile, has swung from cheerfully overselling the (now disputed) health benefits of wine to screeching that no amount of alcohol is safe, ever; it might give you cancer and it will certainly make you die before your time."

This back and forth cycle in media coverage on any health topic is so predictable. At this point can any study be taken at face value, or is the only real answer "it varies?"
Literally just some cheap-ass drones
This is a lot easier to use than sites with similar content presented in images.

Not seeing a color legend on mobile but I can reason it out; might be a helpful addition for tournament players who are newer to these concepts.

(Explanation for peanut gallery: if you are playing tournament Texas hold’em poker and have relatively few chips, the game becomes simpler that at other stages of the tournament: you either wager all your chips immediately after given your first choice in the hand or fold your chips. The optimal play is far closer to a math problem than most poker situations; these charts help describe it concisely for people to mentally cache prior to play.
> The nuclear threshold is being able to land nuclear bombs in the most strategic cities of any country, not carpet bombing them.

I mean that literally doesn't even make sense as a sentence... the threshold for deciding to use nuclear weapons in a given situation... is being able to use them in a particular way? What?
Well to get a little nuanced, it depends on if the backend for B is doing roughly the same stuff as for A (e.g. same optimizations?). I have no idea if that's generally true or not.
From the same paragraph: "there are still some (http://concurrencykit.org/) good (https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/documen...) options (https://github.com/facebook/folly/tree/master/folly/concurre...) out there."

There are plenty of practical solutions to the safe memory reclamation problem in C. The language just doesn't force one on you.

From epoch-based reclamation (https://github.com/concurrencykit/ck/blob/master/include/ck_..., especially with the multiplexing extension to Fraser's classic scheme), to quiescence schemes (https://liburcu.org/), or hazard pointers (https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/synchron..., or https://pvk.ca/Blog/2020/07/07/flatter-wait-free-hazard-poin...)... or even simple using a type-stable (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...) memory allocator.

In my experience, it's easier to write code that is resilient to hiccups in C than in Java. Solving SMR with GC only offers something close to lock-freedom when you can guarantee global GC pauses are short enough... and common techniques to bound pauses, like explicitly managed object pools, land you back in the same problem space as C.
It's not at all hard! A typical Wikipedia page has the "chrome", which changes based on your logon, and then content, which generally does not. Cache invalidation is trivial, because there's only one atomic "blob" to track instead of the output of some complex query.

This is why it amuses me that people seem to think that Wikipedia "requires" tens of millions of dollars of infrastructure to host. It doesn't require it. It's just that some things are better/easier with more kit, such as maintenance.
Why is it more reasonable to expect that the human individual is typical among intelligent lifeforms and thus belongs to an atypical, larger-than-median population and planet, than to expect that earth is a typical habitable planet and that its individuals are atypical?
"Why do people always advise others to find a new job before quitting the current one?"

There are a lot of jobs out there but the interview process can take months and after being exhausted from searching, you may well just accept a bad deal.

I've been in bad jobs though, and tried to job hunt from there. There was one where there's a meeting every half day to discuss progress. It was so draining that it was a confidence hit during interviews. I quit and it felt like the days were literally more beautiful.
What do you mean? They also form an algebra (a vector space where a "multiplication" is defined).
Just for clarification, no research (I'm aware of) has indicated that one cup of red wine has measurable health benefits above not drinking at all. The research suggests that if you must drink, then one cup of wine will have some positive impacts in addition to the negative impacts.

That said, I dunno if I'd be so strongly swayed either way by any single event without any real negative consequences such as you say here.
I suppose vim emulation also works if the emulation plugin is good.

The point is to make the switch and stick to it even though you will be slower for a while. And spend the time to look for better approaches when you feel like you are repeating yourself. (Just like you get that DRY itch to refactor when repeating the same code snippet a few times)
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I'm hoping they get one of the teams from the DINSIC to do it, in cooperation with equivalent teams of other countries. They have lots of relevant experience.
This right here. I was so skeptical of getting an Air. And yes, during heavy compile sessions with make -j8, it can hang after a half hour or so. But (a) you can make -j7 instead, and (b) it’s impressive how long it lasts without hitting that point.

I’ve been thinking of doing the cooling mod too, where you pop open the back and add a thermal pad to the cpu. It increases conductivity with the back of the case, letting you roast your legs while you work, aka cool the cpu. :)
Thank you for this. I've been getting progressively more crazy cars and progressively better performing ones.
Can’t find a download link of that article on that page nor another article explaining what “ropes” are. Can somebody tell me what a rope is?