skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine_fasting

> Detractors say that the overall concept of dopamine fasting is unscientific since the chemical plays a vital role in everyday life; literally reducing it would not be good for a person,[10] and removing a particular stimulus like social media would not reduce the levels of dopamine in the body, only the stimulation of it.[10] Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor in Neuroscience at the University of Reading, considers the idea that the brain could be "reset" by avoiding dopamine triggers for a short time to be "nonsense".[9]

> Cameron Sepah, who has promoted the practice of dopamine fasting, agrees that the name is misleading and says that its purpose is not to literally reduce dopamine in the body[9] but rather to reduce the impulsive behaviors that are rewarded by it.[6]

For further thought: Stimulant medication significantly improves excessive impulsivity in those with some types of executive function disorders. ADHD is extremely well studied in this regard.
I see the swarm in a different way: it is a set of objects and effects happening within time but still identifiable from a single source. The synchornisation that you are talking about could be required but we can see the swarm as exploring an distributed system in time as well in space and using the external world as some sort of synchronisation support. The entities of the swarm are like messages with an simple associated behaviour. Synchronisation is complex and it is part of world exploited by swarms for a while but not really an behaviour of the swarm... Look at my examples: in choregraphies the synchronisation becomes the propagation of some effects in a distributed system, in the business process case the swarm happens in time but at a specific time you have few swarm members alive and just persisting the instance is some sort of synchronisation. In the case of smart contracts, the swarm is just at a logical level as part of consensus... May be is a bit strange to play this game but I find it usefull to imagine or even progam complex events as swarms of little entities with short lives and with fairly simple behaviours that can compose in complex behaviour of the swarm itself.
FOIA Fauci Email Proves Gain of Function in 2020
Fauci needs to be arrested yesterday.
Why Avoid an ORM
These are distinctions without differences. The point is that someone other than the homeowner is making the decisions. The details of how that other entity is organized, or the source of the power that it has to enforce its decisions, or the specific mechanisms it uses to punish you, don't matter.

But just for the record, you are factually incorrect about a number of your claims.

First, if push really comes to shove, the HOA can force a sale of your house in order to pay your delinquent fines. If you refuse to vacate, the cops will come and they will arrest you and take you to jail. So there really is no difference at all other than the number of steps that it takes to get to that point.

Second, there is no "meeting of the minds" with regards to HOAs because there is no other mind. The HOA CC&Rs are established by the original developer long before anyone joins, and they are take-it-or-leave-it. There is no negotiation. Joining an HOA is exactly the same as becoming a legal resident or naturalized citizen of a country. There are restrictions on your behavior. Whether those restrictions are called "laws" or "HOA rules" is immaterial. If you choose to join, you have to abide by those restrictions or face punishment. If you don't like the terms, your only recourse is to try to effect change via the governing body or leave.

Third, you are factually incorrect about the nature of laws against allowing people to camp on your lawn. Those are generally zoning or public health laws, and violating them is generally a civil offense, not a criminal one. But violations are nonetheless generally prosecuted by the state. Even in private lawsuits, an individual has to show that a law was violated in order to prevail.

You are correct that HOAs are not bound by Constitutional constraints, but I fail to see how that is germane to the matter at hand. Different governmental and quasi-governmental entities have different powers. So what? That doesn't change the central point: either you get decide what you can and can't do with your house, or someone else does. It really is that simple. Attaching a label to the entity that makes the decisions changes nothing. If it quacks like a government...
This is really great, love the dialogue.
Doesn't Netflix practice cutting the bottom 10% every year?
Of course you can invest at random and it will sometimes work. But it does not explain the realities of the industry. Even just one of the top funds has an infinitesimally small chance of existing randomly, let alone a glut of them.
There are pieces on all genres that speak to me. If there’s a genre you don’t like that is telling you that there is a feeling in life that you have not yet keyed into.
I'm not sure what problems you're hoping they'll solve. I think the biggest problem with Stack Overflow is the endless stream of low-quality questions. It's hard to find interesting, helpful-to-others questions among all the "do my homework for me" type questions, repeats, poorly-worded unresearched posts, etc. That only gets worse as more people use it. I used to moderate, and got sick of it because it's not rewarding to wade through all the garbage. I don't know how they're going to grow the business and improve the quality at the same time.

My biggest concern is that they'll ruin it with ads. Historically, Stack Overflow has had some of the least-offensive advertising, to the point that I didn't even need an adblocker (although lately I do). They're going to want to monetize it for a return on their investment, and that can only lead to bad things.
Wikipedia also has a nice overview:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number
The V60 dripper fits almost exactly over the Luminarc quadro pitcher. When I do cold brew, I do it in a large french press, which catches most of the big chunks, then use an unbleached coffee filter to catch the fines.

I stopped making cold brew however because it's too easy to drink and my family would like it very much if my heart did not explode.
The point is that front-end libraries are not as critical as most of today's web developers think they are. Sure, you can use a well-known templating library on the back end to assist in constructing HTML before you output it. But once the HTML is in the browser, 90% of it is page-based documents with some CRUD sprinkled on top. Front-end libraries are rarely required given modern HTML/CSS and modern back-end languages like PHP/RoR/Python or even JS, and it's front-end libraries that are the causing the bloat.

There's no need to develop from scratch: Use third party libraries on the back end to output plain HTML/CSS on the front end.
> purpose built systems

You can see the benefits and limitations of this approach by considering commodities where "purpose built" is economical.

One common purpose built device is the dumb gigabit network switch. It has a well defined and stable specification, and for performance reasons the switching fabric is implemented in a dedicated ASIC which cannot be reprogrammed or remotely disabled. This makes it very stable and difficult to attack directly.

The limitation is that this rock-solid infrastructure only shifts the attack surface to a higher layer in the stack. The same switch that can't be attacked directly will happily deliver an email that tricks a human into assisting a hacker's scheme, like installing a virus onto their accounting PC.

Sure, you could implement your accounting software in an ASIC as well, but unfortunately, the requirements upon accounting change much more frequently than the gigabit 64b/66b waveform spec; if the government is allowed to issue new regulations then it will always be more economical to build the accounting system on a general purpose machine.
Reminds me of Darryl in The Office saying generic things that they could use for sound bites: "This person has really gotten him (or her) self into quite a predicament".
You can technically add the repos through Yast, but I agree, it's a pain.
Thanks for the informative answer. I still have trust in engineers and assume truth and good faith, so that's is comforting to know.
I hope they dismantle it and start over. So many outdated answers on there that I don't find it worth using anymore, whereas it used to be a staple of my software development.
Sounds like they were all Western European languages.
Fully informed and "Have to click the checkbox" opt-in.
>union-backed study

In other words an overtly bias source.
I don't have the full story on what happened to the tickets and the dry aged beef, but on several podcasts, Kokonas talked about how they pivoted hard to takeout and actually did some of their best sales during COVID than at any other time.

https://news.yahoo.com/nick-kokonas-pivoted-hard-onset-19010...

COVID is weird in that it doesn't have a uniform effect on everyone.
Yes, trees can migrate. This ‘shotgun scientist’ is learning how
Yet soft influence mechanisms exist. Pretending like the “bar raiser” is an infallible human being or has extra skill in detecting talent vs not is a dangerous assumption. This is especially the case when you consider that tech companies have repeatedly stated that the data shows that no one has such an ability and that’s why interview panels are needed in the first place.

Whether or not this actually happens, I don’t know. Do I think that managers (or really anyone else) can use soft skills to exert some influence some of the time? Having participated in many such panels, I think it’s pretty doable despite what many people claim because of the discussion process that happens.
Since when is Stack Overflow dying, or focused on social justice? That's not my experience at all. The purpose of the site (as well as the many, many sister sites) is to succinctly ask and succinctly answer questions. It does so admirably.

Occasional drama is just what happens when you become the effective Wikipedia of everything that is possible to ask about any technical topic. The actual Wikipedia is also not free of drama or political struggles in the background. But, much like Stack Overflow, it's also far from dead and continues to be a priceless resource to all of humanity.
Subtle readability improvements on patterns that see extensive use actually make a difference.

I had the exact same thoughts when `.includes()` was proposed to be added to the spec - it's just `.indexOf() !== -1`! - but time has proven me wrong, and I suspect it will prove us wrong about `at` as well.

I've written an `.indexOf() !== -1` check hundreds if not thousands of times, and I've gotten the conditional wrong enough times to actually need to revert a change in prod.

I have similar thoughts about .at(). Taking an element from the end of the array is ever-so-slightly error prone. Sure, you won't make a mistake this time, or the next time, but write it a hundred times, or a thousand, and I bet a bug will slip in. It's darn near impossible to get `.at(-1)` wrong, however.
Direct link to FOIA Fauci emails: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561/leopold-...

Arrest Fauci!
> investing in this means something else can't be invested in

Eh, maybe - often that "something else" is capital sitting on its hands or investing in things that serve to protect its own interests.
A guy supposedly tells another guy that some highly weird thing that makes no sense at all is common at their company. This is how we learned about Enron, so sure, let's admit the evidence. But also, this is how 99% of BS spreads across the internet, so whenever possible let's please use more than just anecdotal evidence from an anonymous account. If your friend has a story to tell, please direct them appropriately - we all know that the NYT would love to tear Amazon a new one. But please recognize just how weak your argument sounds as of right now.
When it compromises longevity and reliability of an engine and adds increased maintenance costs and complexity.
You can tell it's bullshit because no one calls them orange badges unless it's their 2nd week on the job. They're yellow badges. Not to be confused with vendor badges, which are also yellow.
Microsoft to unveil new version of Windows on June 24
Zerodium offers $100k for a RCE in Pidgin, who received $25k donation this year
Sure, GH lags SO considerably on the size of the knowledge base, but I don't think that's very important since, due to the rapid pace of tech, content rapidly loses value with age (consider all of the jquery or flash content, or content pertaining to old versions of libraries or frameworks).

What matters more is the rate at which content is generated, and I think GH has a pretty competitive story considering that people naturally want to ask the project maintainers/community questions directly (as evidenced by all of the GitHub Issues which are formulated as questions) and considering GitHub's significant share of those maintainers/communities. I posit that new content will increasingly appear on GH Discussions.

Please don't mistake this for some exaggerated "GH is going to kill SO" argument--SO will do fine, but there is a compelling story for why MS wouldn't spend $1bn on SO.
Url changed from https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/amazons-controversial-hire-to..., which points to this.
i hope you aren't still using that shared secret
> The iPhone 12 Pro Max is $1,099

Is it made in the US?

If not, you should compare it with the other Librem model.

I am interested in Librem 5 phones, precisely because they are not iOS or Android. No need to deal with their rules.

I use my phone very little - so I can't say I care about the screen quality or performance.
That’s a hell of a lot of money for all those dead topics on obsolete knowledge moderated into uselessness.

Stackoverflow is where I go when I don’t want an answer.
One annoying reality of the business world is that to prevail there you need to drink the full BS cool aid. You have to start talking business lingo (growth, empowering, success) to even get access to the financial support to grow the business and hire others. If you're down to earth and don't stand the whole BS, your chances in that area are very slim.
Docker on NixOS with only cgroups v2
Naspers might have made smart bets in past but I am not sure how this means they will run the community well.

I would have been more happy with a Microsoft acquisition (although that ends up making them even more powerful) as it ties into Microsoft's existing products well, so they don't need to necessarily change SO too much to make money from it.

It can tie to their dev tooling story with GitHub, VSCode etc on one end and from LinkedIn end, they could have tied SO's jobs platform to Linkedin one. This makes MS more powerful but it might have left SO largely untouched.
That makes more sense. So the bar raiser is there to nudge people toward better hires, but generally isn't overruling the HM?
Huh, I wonder what will happen to MathOverflow.net. IIRC, they negotiated an escape hatch when they integrated into the stackexchange network.

I don't imagine Prosus or SE cares very much.
Click-bait headline, much?
Problem is that those changes will be prohibitly expensive for a lot of people. There's a lot of people who rarely get out, and who's struggling just to be able to buy a cheap smart phone every year and a last-minute all-inclusive trip to Las Palmas twice per decade.

If rents go up due to climate-saving efforts, they will have to give those up. Because landlords won't give up their profits.

Change incurs costs. Costs means someone is paying.
> Now their products are withering. Dying a slow death.

What is SO business model? Is it ads-based?

Just hope it won't devolve into news-sites free-article quota with account points mixed in for some throttling. IMO, the most attractive part of SO is that low friction to contribute an answer, oftentimes seeing a relevant topic to suggest an answer in passing or when looking for answers myself.

Also SO's value is tied to the intensive community moderation effort, hope this would not be discounted in any future roadmap (wonder if there's anysuch).
Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington and Chuck Berry among others made old popular music. I'm not seeing any of their names here. The author restricts it to just "classical music".
> Also, what is Jeff Atwood's and Joel Spolsky's net worth now?

This is a fun game.

Some assumptions: both founders own equally. Early funding rounds take 20%, late funding rounds take 10%, all rounds make a new option pool (I used 15% to account for the Option Pool Shuffle). There were 5 rounds AFAICT.

So each founder would get:

$1.8B
* 0.5 # initial
* 0.8 * 0.85 # series A
* 0.8 * 0.85 # Series B
* 0.9 * 0.85 # Series C
* 0.9 * 0.85 # Series D
* 0.9 * 0.85 # Series E
= $186M

The numbers usually skew worse than this ideal version,, and it also depends how much of the deal was cash for ownership, vs incentives to keep the existing team (which is often included in the headline number but doesn't cash out owners). So I'd round down to maybe $100M. (They might also have had a few sweetheart rounds, so it could also go better).

Joel also has his sale of Trello (probably >$120M), and his ownership of Glitch (formerly Fogcreek - private) and Hash (private).
Re Taiwan I think calling it an "ongoing initiative to reclaim Taiwan" is misrepresenting the situation. I think PRC would be happy to maintain status quo indefinitely, even allowing Taiwan to have strong informal ties with the world, as long as all parties don't try to break the One China Policy. The status quo has been hugely beneficial to both parties while still allowing de facto independence. By Korean standards, China is already reunified. In the late 80s or early 90s the PRC did offer One Country Two Systems with many negotiable options, but the KMT back then was too arrogant and shot that down, thinking PRC would collapse. Now that ship has sailed.

I'm hoping for a peaceful resolution. Whether that's reunification, or an acceptable form of independence, I'm fine with both. It wouldn't be that bad if China-Taiwan becomes like US-Canada: independent but at peace and with good relationships. Just... Stop fighting and hating on each other, for fscks sake.

I oppose any violent resolutions. But from my perspective, many parties involved in the matter seem to be hellbent on forcing a violent resolution.
Still on Phoebe at this point in the timeline.
Women are indeed held to different standards. For example, a woman viewing this image at work is unlikely to get in trouble for it. A man's motivations for looking at it are more likely to be questioned and judged, which is why they have to be more careful about any content that could be considered NSFW.

The same goes for Michelangelo's David. Because there is a default assumption of heterosexuality (and gay men are not considered a threat by a protected group), David is not going to arouse suspicion, no matter who is viewing it. Female nudes are a different matter, not because nudity in art is judged differently by the subject's gender, but because the viewer is judged differently because of their gender.
In this case, that means that it converges with desktop software. From what I can tell, GTK and QT have both been shifting their focus to touch-based, scalable UIs. The result is native code that feels just as good with a mouse as it does on a touchscreen.
Having each day be 3 minutes longer/shorter than the previous one is pretty crazy, even if it's mitigated by the fact that 1 Venusian day is ~243 Earth days.

That really makes me wonder how timekeeping would work for civilizations that evolved on planets with variable day length. Earth has variable periods of sunlight depending on latitude, but Earth's day length itself is relatively constant.
On the other hand, QR code payment systems only work while the user has a good network connection.

NFC payment terminals can work while the user's device is offline, like rural areas with poor cellular coverage. Not to mention tap-and-pay cards that don't even need a battery.

(Note: The few cases in the US I've seen QR code based payments, it's been for things like Alipay at a traditional point of sale terminal - which would also have a traditional card terminal with NFC reader. I could see QR codes being useful in other contexts, like paying a paper bill that came in the mail.)
https://archive.is/URMIs#selection-2397.0-2397.77
In the past year I've deployed Leap on 5 different workstations and servers. Three of them with more complicated active directory logins, and pam_mount setups. I've also compiled and installed a variety of academic software that was otherwise challenging to get working on CentOS.

Overall I'm very happy with Leap, and Yast makes some of the more complicated things a lot more straightforward.
There’s a couple of absent macOS-specific packages, compared to homebrew. So I have `trash` and `pngpaste` declaratively compiled-from-github in my nix config, but that's the only two I'm missing compared to brew. (That said, I never dealt much with brew-cask, so if you have a host of GUI packages from that, you may be missing more)

If you're on an M1 Mac it will use x86 binaries by default, running under Rosetta. The situation is improving - I use almost all of my packages in native aarm64-darwin - but it still requires using bleeding-edge code.

The learning curve has been pretty brutal, but I really like it for both managing my system-wide (well, user-wide) software, and for pinning to explicit package versions in a large ruby/javascript project.
People need to get out of these terrible orgs. In mine, I'd estimate >50% get to 5. The average tenure is a lot lower because the org has grown from ~15 to ~70 people in the past 5 years.
In Brazil too. And iFood is the largest "food-tech" company in Latin America.
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Who in their right mind would go on record blasting a company worth as much as Amazon? It'll ruin their career. Unless corporations stop being as powerful, whisper networks are all we have.
Your CNC works via USB because, like you said, the microcontroller in the CNC does the motor control.

What I was referring to is that in the old days, PCs would control the CNC cutting head directly via paralel port, there was no microcontroller in the middle. These setups do not work wit a USB converters.
I did some personal experiments back in the day when hard disks were expensive and found that the compression artefacts show up first in distorted guitars and cymbals, then brass instruments and everything else survives much lower bit rates. So that could explain why the punk rock fan hears the compression problems first.

By the way, the lossy compression algorithms don't try to produce exact frequency response but to leave out stuff that humans wouldn't hear anyway and compress the rest.
I just unfollow the people that only post memes and outrage.

My Facebook feed is mostly photos of my friends lives and I actually do enjoy seeing what they're up to. There's still memes and news articles but most of the really toxic stuff is gone.