skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which reminds me of Emac's unexec(): https://emacshorrors.com/posts/unexecute.html

(Not sure if that's the best link, but it is easily Googleable.)
I still miss browsing at Computer Literacy in Sunnyvale and San Jose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Literacy_Bookshops
That doesn't mean it made people's opinion of driving high more favorable. It could just mean more people are high period, but the rate of people who drive high remained the same.
Is this explanation based on a study, or just a guess?
Every centralized "open to everyone" social media platform, yes. No "trends" on Mastodon though, so you don't have to worry about this BS on there, and blocking instances that allow bots/spam is easy. :)
hah I did not know that

Does this mean all my rhythm game personal best are invalid '-'
Will it though? The feds could still come after you if you're publishing research that admits possession, etc.
Canada is effectively unicameral. Random data point.
Was github worse, prior to the microsoft purchase? It's still relatively recent and only a small chapter in the history of the company. I'm not sure you can say at this stage that it's better than if Github had remained independent.
Just like regular Wikipedia.
Whoever made this call must have been pretty inebriated. All of the bad actors here are willing to pay for their Tor nodes with crypto, which really only sabotages the legitimate users on the platform.
Except when Söder closes the border (again) g
Oh wait, he doesn't do the immigrant thing any more, and for a while he and his politics were actually making sense. Seems like that's over now, but had some (two? three?) good years.

In the end it doesn't matter where the panels are installed, as electricity is distributed throughout Europe, I guess?
> I am thus convinced that philosophers ENJOY the mud, not the clarity.

I agree that this describes many philosophers, but "quietists" such as John McDowell and (late) Wittgenstein would disagree:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quietism_(philosophy)
The problem is peoples’ notions of justice are capricious and savage. The draconian laws over psychedelics represents yesteryear’s popular conception of “true justice.”
I don't understand how it's legal for PayPal to hold his money for 180 days because they don't like the nature of his transactions. Kick him off their platform, sure...that's their prerogative. But why do they get to hold the money hostage?
Having trouble with your AWS bill? Vantage just launched forecasting
It's a bit controversial to call moka pots espresso makers, tho I do adore them and their coffee.
nixpkgs is of a very similar size to the aur (or even larger depending how you count), but is significantly more up to date: https://repology.org/
My issue with Feynman, the one I cannot get past (no matter how much I like his lifestyle and intellect), is the work on the Manhattan Project. His defence was, essentially, that a war was on, and the US needed the same capabilities as other nations were developing. However the resultant catastrophes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki just negate that for me. He didn't order those bombs to be dropped. But he is partially responsible for those deaths, whether he foresaw them or not.

Incidentally, I've not read much about his womanising - perhaps I'm not reading between the lines?
Yes and no. Article comment can be toxic downvote brigades to anyone who does not adhere to the hive's opinion and Ars is a mala fide Apple boot licker to the bone. Ars forums have gone to hell in this regard.
It's easy to be mad about some outcome that you don't like. It's much harder to actively consider tradeoffs among various available (actual, not hypothetical) options.

Pesticides raise crop yields and increase farmer productivity. Of course we could stop using pesticides, but then we would need to devote more labor to farming, losing out on whatever else that labor would have produced instead. We would have fewer haircuts, shoes, medical procedures and houses. Maybe that's okay - I'm not trying to argue that point. But we have to consider the tradeoffs.
Branding the conservative part of the country as nazis and making ridiculous statements about white supremacy being the greatest threat to this country is part of the problem. There is plenty of lunacy on both sides of the political spectrum.

One side acting as if they are arbiters of truth and justice, when everyday we have to live with the destruction that they've shown not only in this country but the world, does more to unbalance and polarize than all the conspiracy theories of the right thrown together.
>That kind of drug usage is a manifestation of degeneracy...

Please define "degenerate". Would you consider individuals who hold successful, stable careers (they may even hold down a high-level role), have a family, no criminal records, for all intents and purposes are 'normal' people, but maybe once every few years they go camping with friends and consume psychedelics, to be a "degenerate"?

Because to me it sounds like you're making a gigantic blanket generalization.
> Another misconception is that a machine placed part is in some way superior to the same connected part placed by hand. It’s not. It’s faster and more efficient, but hand (re)placement is equally stable. Electronics off a line are hand repaired more often than people understand. This only increases cost (labor and time), it doesn’t reduce reliability.

I had no idea! Worth the price of admission. Whole article fascinated me tbh
So basically he was deplatformed yet again by Big Tech -- this time by Google when they killed Reader in 2013?
I will wait for the European edition. I can imagine its a unique selling point for people in North America
If the earth's population suddenly dropped to 0, that would help global warming a lot too. Does that mean we should do it?
Yes, what's newsworthy is that an in-depth study has concluded some specific quantities about just how manipulated the trends are. Rather than "yeah, you can just tell that stuff is manipulated", they have concrete analysis to substantiate that.
You've taken that sentence out of context. ;)
Amazon ends testing most employees for cannabis, will lobby for legalization
Who said anything about handing out free money? We're talking about decriminalizing drugs here.

But yes, as a country we absolutely have the funds available to fix the homeless problem and live in a much fairer/happier society. But we don't prioritize that over the freedoms of individuals to live excessively.
> If you've got good stories please do share them

60% of stories on teamblind these days seems to be about how amazon sucks for engineering.
I literally cannot name an acquisition of a useful but not maximally profitable product that I was a user of that has worked out better for me. So that's why my expecatations are low.
In theory perhaps, but in practice Amazon simply has horrible safety practices. The push older workers to meet objectives their not fit enough to maintain which directly results in a lot of significant back and other injuries.

Combined with an unsafe environment and it’s simply an injury factory.
In Europe these QR codes are also printer on invoices
“Average technology has 3 answers a week” factoid actualy just statistical error. average technology has 0 answers a week. Jon Skeet, who lives in cave & answers over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
I mean, there've been a lot of studies done on what works and doesn't work in practice for both homeless people and drug problems. If you want to look for that research I don't think it's particularly difficult to find tbh.

Mostly, what works, according to empirical studies (housing first strategies, safe injection sites, etc), also tend to be politically unpalatable, even when it would be a lot cheaper.

A medical system that doesn't bankrupt people for getting a broken arm would be a hell of a good start though.
Win32? ...Ha! That's modern stuff.
My first thought was "who the heck would need to maintain .COM DOS executables in 2021?":)
Sadly the specter of fentanyl, heroine and methamphetamine ODs, ruined lives and crime will over-shadow the goodness that is decriminalizing psychedelics. The drug-war states will simply say, "so what, everything's legal there and that place is a mess" and they won't be entirely wrong. If SF could shit-can Chessa Boudin and get rid of the Honduran fentanyl gangs terrorizing the City that'd be great.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/08/07/tenderloin-hero...
Psychedelics are part of traditions practiced and led by respected elders of communities. There's nothing degenerate about that
Is their claim about electronic components 'origin declaration'[1] credible or is it just marketing sleight-of-hand? Aren't they just buying the same components made in Taiwan/China/wherever from a U.S. distributor such as Digikey and then saying 'Made in U.S.A.' in the same way other manufacturers do? (which would seem to seriously undermine their 'secure' supply chain claim) I've been under the impression that we don't have fabs in the U.S. making anywhere near the variety of components needed for a complete modern smartphone. I don't ask to be pedantic, but rather if it would be more accurate to say 'assembled' rather than 'manufactured' in USA.

[1] https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa/
I very much appreciate the section: The Dangers of Thinking Like a Philosopher. I was a philosophy major and then graduate school student, and if it weren't for the financial crisis in 2008, i would likely have attempted some career in academia.

After finishing graduate school, i found myself constantly sort of being referred to as awkward, out of touch, unpleasant person, because i was used to the university discourse of the philosophy department. A place where playing devil's advocate is required, not frowned upon. I thought people cared about the correctness of their ideas. I eventually had to unlearn, or re-learn how to talk to people.

I now deeply value my friends who want to engage in good-faith discussions in which "controversial" ideas (often just genuine curiosity) are allowed, and you're not seen as some sort of persona non grata for entertaining them. The true persona non grata, from my perspective, is entertaining these wrongthink ideas as a means to justify them, rather than good-faith explore them.

Now, as a way to avoid responding to certain people talking about certain subjects, i'll just say some subject should stay inside the walls of academia.
How much "food waste" is done by individuals instead of corporations?
I actually strongly disagree with the statement

> Political tensions with China are one factor.

Specifically - I think that, at the end of the day, the economic flow is the only thing that matters and all the other considerations are sort of moot. What the US offers to the world is a gigantic consumer market, and it's quite difficult to actually control a consumer market since any applications of force or restriction of goods flow ends up deteriorating the market faster than it yields control. If the US embargoed Chinese imports tomorrow the Chinese government would receive a lot of domestic pressure to take action but, logically, there isn't an action it can take overtly to actually reopen the US market - instead we'd see this war play out in propaganda within the US trying to force politicians to reverse the decision by causing mass discontent. And, honestly, it's likely that companies affected by any such embargo would just act independently of the Chinese government to those ends - so, essentially, the only real forces Chinese businesses would have to oppose an economic breakdown are their personally contained forces. I think, essentially, that the Chinese government would be impotent to deal with such a situation buuuut... that's just like my opinion man.
European consumer group joins EU antitrust case against Apple
Very well summerized. For those who care about the longer version:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
I believe that's in the ToS. At least in the US, they have a quite restrictive binding arbitration agreement.
(this is not compound interest.. )
again, if drugs is what you need to "treat" depression then you probably have a much bigger problem in life that needs to be addressed rather than looking for another band-aid. depression is not some random disease you catch like a bad cold, it stems from personal or systemic issues that will only continue to feed into said depression until fixed.
Is that just to see the comments or what?
GH Discussions is great when the question is closely tied to a particular repo. I don't see how it competes with SO for things like design patterns, algorithms, programming language usage, etc.

I wonder how much of SO fits in the "particular repo" category? Not so much for my interests, but I imagine the chunk for popular web frameworks is huge.
Ok, my home 3900x Compiles a 10-project VS2019 solution in about an eight of the time my half-decade old retail work computer. So?
What is an MVP and why I think you need one
Was using Aeropress, the coffee was great. However, I noticed that it irritates my stomach a lot more than the V60, so I switched back. I wonder if it is because of the added pressure getting small particles through the filter or something else.

The same dark roast [edit, added same] from V60 is much easier on my stomach. I wonder what might be the cause.
most: anyone not in a job that requires it by law, either state or federal. Drivers, for example, will continue to be tested because DOT drug tests are law.
Selecting a ready-made cluster that you just have to check is marked healthy and has the resources your project needs?

Sounds like they made it really easy for you.
Here are some unintentional consequence of this policy,

- Due to the URA targets managers have to keep getting rid of people. If everyone on a team gets a "A+" grade, they have to get rid of the person getting "A-". Many times the "A-" person had a difficult period in their personal lives such as a medical emergency, depression, anxiety, pandemic induced anxiety, birth of a child, death of a family member.

- This has a detrimental impact on team morale.

- The people who stay long enough realize that its every person for themselves.

- So code isn't written with maintainability or customers in mind, its written with promotion and impact metrics in mind. As long as one can hit those metrics targets, it doesn't matter what was compromised in the process. Ask anyone at amazon about the internal tooling.

- Tech debt, and bugs are the problem of the person who's on-call, they can write Correction of Error document if things go terribly wrong.

- There are metrics for the number of comments / revisions on a code review, if someone receives too many comments, or has too many revisions on their code review, then its counted against them. On the other hand senior engineers have figured out that putting out nitpick comments, and getting a junior engineer to go through multiple revisions results in the senior engineer having a better chance at being at top of the stack rank during OLR season. Too many isn't a clearly defined metric, its arbitrarily applied based on the manager's judgement.

- PMs get the same treatment on their documents; nitpicks, frivolous comments, spending hours and hours fine tuning every single word in a document.

- In a world where everyone is looking out for themselves, and has to operate in fear of being put on their manager/skip-level's hit-list, people are merely working towards their ultimate goal of staying long enough to see their vesting schedule complete, or their Permanent Residency approved.
The term "pied piper" comes from an old German tale, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," about a man with a magic pipe that comes to a town called Hamelin.[a] Without getting into details, the tale ends with the piper playing his magic pipe to hypnotize the town's children, who follow him out of town and into a dark cave, never to be seen again. (Like most old tales, this one is horrible.)

The author of the article likely chose the term on purpose, all but saying that non-insiders who buy into SPACs are like little children being led into the dark cave, never to be seen again.

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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin
$1.8B seems like a lot for a website that doesn't even have a homepage.
Interesting. I wonder if a small claims court (assuming the balance wasn't too large) would help.

Edit: found the text in the TOS:

"Holds based on PayPal's risk decisions

We may place a hold on payments sent to your PayPal account if, in our sole discretion, we believe that there may be a high level of risk associated with you, your PayPal account, or your transactions or that placing such a hold is necessary to comply with state or federal regulatory requirements...

Risk-based holds generally remain in place for up to 21 days from the date the payment was received into your PayPal account. We may release the hold earlier under certain circumstances ..., but any earlier release is at our sole discretion. The hold may last longer than 21 days if the payment is challenged as a payment that should be invalidated and reversed based on a disputed transaction as discussed in the following paragraph below. In this case, we'll hold the payment in your PayPal account until the matter is resolved (but no longer than 180 days)."

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full
What do you do during your Pomodoro rest gaps?

How long are your rest gaps?
5 minutes is too short for me.
This is very true. It sidetracked nearly all the communities for a full year, triggered resignations, and caused lawyers to get involved.

They've done other things to cause various 'controversies' with their base... changing the license answers are under, hiding controversial questions, etc... but their amazingly unprofessional treatement of Cellio caused more lasting damage than any of that.
With such a huge transfer of momentum -- a day on Venus is +/- 3 minutes the previous one -- the winds on the ground must be crazy!
You're incoherent.

You started complaining that all you want it is the ability to have custom layout & drawing logic and HTML doesn't let you escape the tree.

And currently you've given up this entire premise, and you're on a loop whining about how FOSS and professional UI libraries that have custom layout & drawing logic, which WORKS JUST FINE IN EVERY BROWSER take hundreds of kb (which is nothing) and some of them cost money (which is absolutely irrelevant).

You wanted to express "arbitrary relationships". This requires libraries implementing "arbitrary logic" with access to the presentation layer. You got it. Now you're whining about the fact these libraries exist.
A teeny-tiny orientation for (prospective?) Nix newcomers:

Having spent years on Arch and Gentoo, imo the NixOS community is outstanding even among 'advanced' Linux distros in terms of expertise and kindness.

I'll never forget one time I was having problems with a Python package generation tool and when I mentioned it on IRC, and one of its authors (Rok Garbas, who is so quite active in the community) just hopped on a call to debug the issue I was having right then and there.

If you're on the fence about Nix and that kind of community is valuable to you, make sure to check out the forums [1] and realtime chat [2] (the latter of which is unfortunately still in the process [3] of migrating away from Freenode).

If personal assistance/mentorship of the kind I described at the beginning of this post is appealing to you, several generous and knowledgeable community members host Nix ‘office hours’ [4]. I'm not sure who all are still running them, but I know tomberek is for sure [5] and you can find a link in the footnotes.

There is one serious problem with NixOS and the wider ecosystem right now, namely that the best experience available depends on Nix features that are unreleased. Nix makes it very easy to run bleeding edge builds of Nix and enable these features, but the unofficial status of it all has slowed adoption, integration, and documentation of these tools in the wider community.

That aside— i.e., if you're willing to be a little bit of a pioneer— the community is on the whole pretty rich with good documentation of everything but the bleeding edge, unreleased bits at this point. Those pieces mostly impact the CLI and specifying inputs to the expressions you use to define your system. Everything in the NixOS and Nixpkgs manuals is still accurate. The unreleased components are also fairly mature despite their unofficial status: many folks in the community have been using them for a year or two now.

Finally: if you're interested in dipping your toes in without committing to a system fully managed by Nix and you're a macOS user, nix-darwin [6] provides a pretty NixOS-like experience using a module system and CLI based on NixOS'. There's nothing equally complete in terms of managing system services in a declarative fashion on non-NixOS Linux, but home-manager [7] provides some functionality for enabling user-mode services in a declarative style.

You can check whether your favorite software is packaged for Nix here [8], and additionally NixOS does support several other forms of cross-distro packaging/deployment, including Flatpak, AppImage, and Docker. Steam support is native and works without much fuss, too.

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1: https://discourse.nixos.org/

2: https://matrix.to/#/!MKvhXlSTLGJUXpYuWF:nixos.org

3: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/94

4: https://discourse.nixos.org/search?q=office%20hours

5: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-office-hours/11945

6: https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin

7: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager

8: https://search.nixos.org/packages
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27364331
I don't think removing it is a good idea. Nix is a paradigm shift and things are done completely different, nix-env though is still one piece that might be somewhat similar to what people are used to.
Apple confirms Apple Card outage affecting all users (down 4+ hours now)
Mail.ru Group, btw, is a nasty Russian trash internet holding with interests everywhere, including food delivery
Decriminalization being looser than legalization, where the production and use is put into a legal framework
Great points. I would also add that you should look at their trajectory and momentum. An underperformer who is improving fast enough that they might catch up in a year is worth stick with. An underperformer who has become comfortable with low expectations is best removed from the company so they have a chance to recalibrate and reset in a new job.

Keep a close eye on how their underperformance is affecting other team members. If the rest of the team has to make up for the person's underperformance or rewrite their code, they could be subtracting rather than adding value to the team. Engineers are rarely islands of productivity.

Consider your headcount. If you can only hire 5 people and 1 of them isn't really contributing, you're giving up a full 20% of your team's potential. Replacing that one person with a performer on par with the other 4 people on the team will instantly boost their performance by 25%. Withholding that kind of advantage from your team isn't good.
I definitely used to buy and read more books back then, and documentation in general. Maybe that was a good thing.