skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar experience but late December/early Jan after a flight. I got a terrible cough and was laid up for a day and my youngest got Pneumonia and was notably "our-of-breath" for a few weeks afterwards.

So I have always wondered, however this occurred during holiday gatherings and no one else in the group really got it so I've kind of written it off as some 'other' less contagious virus.
A Programming Idiom You've Never Heard of (2012)
Heh, I don't doubt that they are powerful and I sure won't bend over backwards to still get rim brakes next time I want/need a bike, but the "want" isn't exactly strengthened by the switch. And yes, even aluminium wheels aren't really a joy decelerating in the rain (and yes, I've been to that group ride where one guy could show off his nice new aero carbon toy while my nice new aero carbon toy had to stay at home because for a dozen hours of mostly rain as a rim rider your choice will definitely fall on the one with the aluminium wheels. I guess I just can't warm up to the idea of front wheels with twentysomething spokes. It's confusing enough already that carbon front wheels (for rim) almost universally come with 18 instead of 16, what's up with that?
mind you the german education system is very different from the US/English one.

Germany (and many other european countries) has the idea of a trade school, in which one learns a trade. Usually these are combined with working experience in the form of apprenticeships. In my experience, continental europe has far more emphasis on early work experience compared to ango-saxon countries. An internship usually lasts a couple of years, people get payed a wage for the work they do and it is combined with schooling.

A plumber would be a prime example of the vocation which is using this kind of system.

people finish secondary education at an earlier age then in the US (16 or even 15 in some cases), then they transfer into tertiary education in a fachschule.
It's an argument for a certain code style, characterised by descriptive names and specific types. This calls for a language capable of e.g. doing maths with user-defined types, which not all languages can do.

I think one of the major motivators for the original style of code are legacy pressures and a concern about code width.

If every other function that manipulates temperature set points takes "int sp", then you're going to get a lot of pressure for consistency. A lot of programmers regard consistency as a goal in and of itself, and it's very easy to demand it during a code review. However, the demand for consistency prevents us from finding a new consistent target without excessive amounts of work. It may be better to reach a new consistency within a narrower scope, as long as a consensus has been reached to extended that consistency outwards. In this system, consistency should be viewed as a compromisable target: something that makes you ask a careful question. And when asking a question, take into consideration the propensity of the code author to view a question as a demand. If you're a senior and the code author is a junior, presume that means: ask a genuine question vocally; write down minutes of your discussion.

The code width concern is a bit silly, but for some reason we assume that things get weird when lines exceed 80 characters. That's easy to do.
Overly appreciative of the Heros who maintain the (Linux) repos
In a world where not being evil is considered "leaving money on the table," I have little faith that there are many that don't resort to these practices.
I'm more of a terminal guy and don't care so much about a "stellar open source UI", but one example is the Gnome Desktop Environment, it's very polished.

Today, the world runs on open source, so we shouldn't call it "clunky".
What university is this where a humanities major is required to learn and apply integration rules?
Jackass came out of CKY (Camp Kill Yourself) which started off as a bunch of friends who rode skateboards making homemade skate videos with a bunch of bloopers/excerpts.

They quickly realized that people liked the filler as much as the actual content and capitalized on that interest with Jackass.

It felt authentic because it was. The people making the videos had a genuine connection / were actually friends, and were really just doing it for fun in the beginning and that makes it feel different than a lot of the manufactured content that people are exposed to today.
You seem to be confusing illegal immigrants with legal ones.
Meritocracy Failed Our Kids
Probably said from his _n_th home in Aspen or whatever. Too bad, so sad; we'll go elsewhere and still get paid.
What studies? The information that I’ve found on PubMed and clinicaltrials.gov indicates that this is a poorly studied question, not a decided one.

A 2015 survey (Raymond Pary, MD, et al) found evidence that many psychostimulants were effective adjuncts for MDD and Bipolar depression. The results weren’t extraordinary but they were statistically significant. The authors noted in the results that the topic was generally poorly studied and double-blind clinical trials were limited.

In 2010-2011 Shire ran Phase II FDA trials on Vyvanse as an adjunct to traditional antidepressants for MDD with mediocre but also statistically significant positive results. Considering the age of most psychostimulants in use, that’s a fairly recent result from a clinical trial.

I certainly agree that psychostimulants are not a good choice to treat depression but that’s a far cry from “formally trialed for depression... don’t work”.
the blockchain is a huge social experiment. it's a study of anthropology masked as a hard-science experiment.
One missing feature that has been requested many times, and largely ignored, is linking between pages quickly like in Confluence or a wiki. The biggest value in taking notes for me, comes from the ability to link multiple notes together freely and quickly.
Putting aside that the election wasn’t forged, didn’t the media make him fall too?

It is true that there was a breach in the fabric, which allowed someone billionaire to become president (albeit with little control over other key institutions), and that was probably because they hadn’t harnessed control over internet when it took off, circa 2012-2016, but that gaping hole is now closed: Someone reasonable is back as the head of state, media now agree with the president, social networks put a cap on network effect for viral news, people can be arrested in UK and Canada for mistweeting, and the accusations of rape/pedophilia will do the rest for the remaining figureheads - In France for the last 3 elections, accusations/investigations on tax evasion hit 4 figureheads (excluding the DSK story, not talking about Assange accused of rape intermittently). Everything is back on track, “Oops, you saw through the matrix, move on”.
Unless you were part of the team designing and building them I'm not sure you know how an ipad works. Pop Quiz: How does an ipad work?
> So you are saying that HN-types got theirs (the huge salary), so they should not care about others? Or are you causing them of a "I got mine, fuck you" attitude?

Neither of those things, no. (Also, if you think of €100k as "a huge salary", you should recalibrate; in the industrialized world it is not.)

> I am still not sure what you are trying to say. But the fact that you LEFT the US that has that kind of dynamic for Germany, where income inequality is smaller and many things -- including medicine -- are more widely accessible makes me scratch my head.

The healthcare in Germany appears to be somewhat crap compared to the highest level of care available in the US. It's an order of magnitude cheaper, though.

I left the US because the US is a police state, not because best-in-the-world healthcare has highest-in-the-world prices.

My comment could best be summarized as "health care costs should not be a major concern in your life as a SWE because they will be cheap (to you) everywhere, so make your SWE life choices based on other things". You can inaccurately paraphrase this as a rejection of concern for social justice, income inequality, or a generalized "fuck you, got mine" at your own peril.

(FWIW, I think national boundaries are mostly irrelevant and unimportant, and drawing the boundary of your official-concern-for-the-wellbeing-of-others at an invisible line checkpoint to be somewhat closeminded. There are billions without meaningful modern healthcare access at all (or even clean water) so the selfrighteous indignation bit about the relative quality and expense of healthcare in two major industrialized western nations is sort of a silly nit to pick.)
the funny thing is that the calculation in this article misses the point, especially in the Feynman context.
First, beyond all trickery, the log(alpha) answer might suggest that something bad happens at alpha=0 . What makes this integral interesting is that it is equal to zero identically for alpha<1 .

The reason, of course, is that this integral is not randomly chosen -- it represents the two-dimensional coulomb potential (log(r)) of the sphere (circle) of radius 1 at distance alpha from the center. By when point alpha is inside the circle , the potential is constant (or zero -- no force) . When alpha is outside, the potential is log(r) as if all the mass of a circle is at its center. The expression under the log in the integral is just (square of ) the distance between the point alpha and point on a unit circle.

beyond tricks -- the physical reason for the singular behavior of this integral is gauss theorem for coulomb potential .
so no magic.
The long-term operational strategy of the CCP (and probably every other foreign hostile power) is clear. Backdoor all critical and vital systems. Keep finger on button. Presumably, our folks at the NSA are doing the same. This becomes the new MAD doctrine.
I use it for simple off-site redundancy.
Legalizing prostitution, drug use, and gambling would eliminate most of organized crime.
Ah, so that terminology refers to the absence of tread. Thanks for the link.
Is it truly unlimited? Or does it slow way down after x gb a month in traffic? I'm having trouble finding a truly unlimited hotspot on att's site right now.
`cargo install ripgrep-all` fails to compile due to a missing cachedir dependency, and the author won't make a new release out of master due to a possible deadlocking issue. This fails to inspire confidence:

https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/issues/88
Are you dumb or just a troll?
Here is another data point...

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/illinois/...

99.9% minority students, 94% economically disadvantaged. Testing scores are horrible...across the board. 2.8% percentile for their SAT scores...26% of the students took an AP exam and 3% those that took them scored acceptable (3). This brings up a lot of questions...like why is a school that can barely graduate kids (54%) focused on having 1 out of every 4 seniors take an AP exam?
I had a 2011 Macbook Air and the iPhone 5S and really enjoyed the combo, however as the years passed OSX and iOS felt like they were being intentionally hobbled for planned obsolescence. I moved over to Fedora Workstation and the Pixel 2 and haven't looked back. I'm still a little uneasy putting all my eggs in the Google basket, but I try to keep local backups and could move my email to Fastmail in a jiffy if I needed to. I'm keeping my eye on the Pinephone, but currently I'm in too deep with Gmail/Youtube/Keep/Drive to justify moving to a low-spec phone.

As an aside, I want Google's killer new app to be customer service. It feels like their current goal is to have ML/DL handle all their support, but if they made it so paying customers could reach a domestic person within 5-10 minutes my confidence in them would go up 80% .... also it would be nice to have a 1-month grace period for full account download for suspended accounts, no matter the reason. There are too many stories of people losing permanent access to documents/photos/emails without any ability to get them back.
Don't know about you, but when I put any address into my maps app I expect it to guide me there.
A voicemail only encourages them to call further. You could forward all calls (or simply forward on busy/reject) to a disconnected phone number.

Alternatively, some people say that if you put SIT tones ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_information_tone ) on a voicemail greeting, that can help.
> you need to be able to present the user with self consistent alternatives to choose between

That seems very high bar to aim for compared to git (and other traditional VCS), which do not ensure that the end-result of a merge (or rebase) is in any way sensible.
I don't really buy this whole "parasocial relationship" theory. If there's any science on it, I'd love to see it, but people have had obsessions for ages: that doesn't necessarily excuse them or make them healthy, but also don't see how the information age changes that in any way.
I use a pencil extender to get more out of the stubs. I like the Staedtler 900 25 for this purpose.
Great question! If you're interested, I'd recommend reading up a bit on all the different rendering and deployment modes Next offers with and without Vercel/Netlify.

If you use Next.js only for CSR, as I'm sure most people do, the benefits are great defaults, easy upgrades, fantastic routing, page prefetching, and easy upgrading to any of the other rendering modes if you ever need them.

You don't run any kind of server if you just use CSR - you bundle your code and push it to anywhere you'd push your normal React SPA (CDN, Vercel, Netlify, etc). I you decide you need to server side render or pre render a page, you can of course run a full node server - but the far easier route is to use the Vercel/Netlify lambda functions(which work out of the box with Next).

I find thinking of Next pages as separate little apps composing the same layout component to be far more maintainable than the more traditional SPA single layout swapping the contents to simulate a page transition.
In this thread, you're comparing crypto to Madoff and Theranos, and you think this is an argument in its favour.
That's pretty cool. I think if the monitors are thin enough and wall-mounted, they ought to give a house a sci-fi look
Related ongoing thread:

Next.js Live: Code in the Browser with ESM, ServiceWorkers, Replicache, and WASM - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517440 - June 2021 (23 comments)
Your entire post is pure speculation and fear mongering

All drugs are decriminalized in Portugal, Uruguay, etc. with less addiction and better addiction outcomes than the U.S.

They treat addiction like a disease like diabetes instead of a crime.

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/04/18/524380027/...
> My ssid is probably _less_ associated with my name and other identifying info than my address is, for that matter.

But I don't have your exact address.

> Whereas I regularly supply my address to forms when I sign up for things or order packages for delivery, I never really explicitly give out my ssid.

You'd think so. But it's easy to accidentally do this by submitting/posting a crash report (they quite often contain the WiFi SSID), asking for technical support, sharing a screenshot or simply opening the wrong window while streaming. Maybe you posted once in an "AskReddit: What's a funny wifi name?" thread. I doubt you'd simply post your address freely online and it would be much harder to get you to enter it into a form controlled by me.

> A passerby could collect my ssid. They might be able to narrow it down to my building (or maybe the neighbors), but that's not terribly interesting data to strangers trying to "find my address".

Sure it is. Right now, you could be anywhere in the world; the chance that I'd just walk by your house is minuscule. Even knowing you're near Boston makes that very hard. Only thanks to this database I could find out your exact address in minutes, given your SSID and a cursory look at your profile.
Nvidia’s $40B Takeover of Arm Faces New Foe: European Vacations
yeah I remember the CKY guys had similar premise. But they were more 'dark' or extreme or something. Definitely not as entertaining as Jackass, and never really got as popular either, probably for that reason.
I think NYCs metro only works 24/7 because there’s enough 4 track to allow two tracks to close for maintenance overnight. If you don’t close a stretch of track how do you maintain it?
Eh, it depends on what kind of work you're doing within the music industry.

Solo studio tracking artist? Yeah, an iPad is probably good enough for you to practice with and do some rough scratch recordings for demo purposes.

If you're running a studio, you need the I/O to handle at least a few physical devices with dedicated PCIe lanes, and a high resolution input device like a mouse or trackpad to make precise edits in a DAW. Plus a keyboard. Audio/video editors love their keyboard shortcuts just as much as developers!

While it may be possible to connect any one of those devices to an iPad, connecting all of them and making it easy to disconnect the iPad, makes it impractical in reality. The iPad in it's current format is not a great device for professional audio recording and mixing, and if you changed the format to better fit that workflow, you've now described a Mac Mini and you should buy one of those instead.
This is maybe OK until you get a library user who doesn’t know what “ctx” means and now you have another Discord ping or GitHub issue. Just write the documentation.
Maybe press-hold TAB view them, like the production markers on tiles in Civ 4
I deployed PDM at my company. It works fine, and even for people who don’t really know what version control is.

Multiple downsides though… cost, only really wants Solidworks files (although does handle everything as binaries), but the worst and most unforgivable issue…

They keep full versions of every file, at every check in… forever.

If you have a 500MB file, change the color, and check it it, you now have 1GB of file space taken up, with no clear way to cut that down! Coupled with the fact that deleted files don’t delete until someone manually does a destroy operation, it’s a storage space murderer.
> When I showed him the steps and explained the origins

Did you not put the steps on the paper you submitted?
no. because bank going bankrupt doesn't wipe away YOUR debt. it wipes away banks obligation to the governing body.

also micro-lending will be as big in west as it's in China in the next decade. borrowing 10k to margin trade the stock market is inherently more risky than borrowing 10M for a mortgage.
What is stopping 300 million American consumers from doing their business, emails, dating, instagram, phone calls, photography, etc. on Raspberry Pi?

... and if it's "They don't want to; Apple's user experience is better for their use case," why should the government intercede to take that away from them?
Thanks, that's a good example. I always forget how long the Shah held on...
I wish for a text editor that shows the comments to the side of the code, like in a split pane.
> But we can change around the name of the parameters like this and use proper strict types

Sometimes. Other times proper strict types aren't possible because the language doesn't support them (many scripting languages, C, etc.)

Assuming this is C, even a type like "celsius_degree_t" tells me nothing about the valid range. Am I supposed to just try it out and see what error code I get or are we back to looking at the implementation? In the case of C this will most likely involve locating and opening a completely different file whose name doesn't even have to be related to the header file.

The comment also doesn't need to be about all parameters and can contain additional information that's non-trivial to determine: is the function thread-safe, are there performance implications, is there notable resource usage, and so on.

Python in particular is notorious for having optional (keyword-) arguments and polymorphic arguments. Proper naming schemes are impossible in this case (lest you accept monstrosities like "node_as_id_or_name_or_object" as proper argument names) and type annotations have only very recently (as of 3.10) become somewhat sane. Type annotations don't help with kwargs, though.

TL;DR it greatly depends on the programming language and its capabilities whether naming and types alone can replace comments.
Excuse my ignorance, but why is that a problem? Presumably, whoever is snooping on said broadcasts doesn't know how to find "my_awesome_wifi", do they? Would the attack be "harvest SSIDs from Starbucks and then drive around the neighborhood until you find the house it belongs to"?
Hardly, it may (or may not) help to mitigate the fallout though.
> English really is the lingua franca at this point.

a good thing to point out is that Continental Europeans seem to talk a slightly different english compared to americans and the british.

Usually more direct, with less complex vocabulary etc.

I wonder how long it will take for this to become somewhat standardized. especially now that britain has left the EU.
I was seriously considering popping over to their site and ordering an RM2. But no backlight? That's a show-stopper for me - thanks for mentioning it as I think I just assumed it would have one given that most eReaders do.
> "Well, we barred them from doing it within our borders" is not a great example of a democracy in action.

It kind of is, though. The voters voted to protect themselves. And while you could think of that as selfish and not be wrong, at least they were able to protect themselves against a well-funded lobby that almost certainly would have liked to prevent them.
Millions.

Graphic designers are in every non-trivial company. Professional photographers are part of every western community. Millions of amateurs edit and manage their photographs.

Even relatively small media shops spend tens of thousands on Creative Cloud licenses.

You already have the evidence - their market cap.
A that point they are a "used".
I refer to this type of problem a lot when arguing comments are useful. No amount of code can document the code that isn’t there for a reason.
Originally I was using greyscale and dithering (I have another bespoke tool for exploring a dozen or so dithering algorithms) but the results were less than ideal. Dithering works great at larger sizes, but with my final sprites being only 30x30px (much, much smaller than the example images in the blog post) the results were a mess.

After the exploration with greyscale, as the blog post hopefully explains, I moved from to pulling out black and white separately - which gave better results - to this RGB Channel approach to generate the masks more easily.

I have headroom to squeeze another colour by using the alpha channel as the base colour and using the free colour for some other detail. But so far I've not needed to. Though good to know it's there if I need it to be!
The lack of official solution eventually made me ditch in favor of Gatsby. Granted it was a large change but I found that the way Gatsby handled images was just better than how Next.js handled them.
It's quite interesting how you're completely unwilling to argue the original point (which is that a 1860s construction project is no model for today as it came at a great cost we're not willing to accept, besides being completely incomparable to the modern-day example you gave), but completely willing to argue quite meaningless aspects to the discussion seemingly for the sake of it.
Discussed at the time:

Exponential Backoff and Jitter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9206090 - March 2015 (15 comments)