skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked with banked blood sample data before for influenza research, it's very, very much not representative.
The Slept on Benefits of Quitting Your Job to Create Content
Not sure why someone decided to downvote my comment, as it's a completely valid suggestion made in good faith and not some kind of nag or offtopic.

The BSD OSes are often overlooked as a desktop platform despite being very easy to run and configure. They have excellent built-in documentation that the rest of the community could take inspiration from. They are a complete OS built and maintained together, rather than a distribution of disparate software from various sources bundled around a kernel. Even this reason alone is enough to make them very cohesive, and easy to understand. Their default installations are minimal (perhaps even to a fault in some users' eyes) allowing you to be clearly aware of the software that gets installed. Managing and configuring services is, IMO, far easier than on Linux (depending on distribution).

This introduction to OpenBSD is a good video to watch get a bit of an idea of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkDVKthufAM

I understand that it's not for everyone, but I thought it's worth mentioning in case you hadn't looked at this family of OSes before, since I think they offer a huge amount of what Linux offers, but in a more cohesively-structured and simplified way. I'm definitely gradually becoming more invested myself (though still testing the waters hehe).
I have.

And stripping comments before working on it is a thing I have done many times, on code I wasn't familiar with.

The biggest problem is lies. If you don't update your comments, don't write them. If you know someone less careful than you is going to take over and not update your comments, don't write them either.

And then, there are the redundant comments, the ones I see most often. For example

- Don't describe the function both in the header and source code, it is a useless copy-paste that will never be updated correctly. (mostly for C/C++)

- I know the syntax for declaring a constructor, thank you, you don't need to tell me that is is a constructor in the comments. And I can also guess that getX() gives me the value of X, no need to fill my screen with dozens of useless lines of comment.

- I don't need a comment to know who did what. We are under source control and we have a "blame" command.

- Don't use comments to disable code. Just delete it, it is not lost, we have history, and we are unlikely to need it anyways.

But the one that makes me rage the most is something like "int time; // the time". Not only it is useless, but you are not giving the info I want: the fucking unit! I've seen it way too often, sometimes with far from obvious units, like tens of microseconds. So if you want to put a comment, at least tell us the unit. Or better yet, don't comment anything and make your variable something like time_in_ms, or define a type.
Appreciate the feedback!
The number of turns before lock is an interesting indicator. There are some corner cases that I'd have to think more about though - e.g. when a tile is almost at the threshold but at a deadlock (both colors are evenly surrounding it)
> will probably switch to their own language when in more than 2-3 person.

That's just rude and why would you want to socialise with such people. I had some great experiences and even when I was the only person not speaking the local language, everyone spoke English in my presence. There is plenty of people that have standards and if you cannot find them at a given time, just focus on something else.
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The optionality value of not being dead is surprisingly high, meaning that most folks would trade 1 hour of not-death for many hours of not-delayed.
IOT could be a big issue which looks like a solution to something actually noone wanted.

Like that twitter acc that collects stuff like a shoe that needs firmware updates
Other countries have laws that prohibit suspects from being named. I wish we had those laws because the follow up is never going to happen. You can't unring a bell that someone is a rapist, when they are found to be innocent or the charges are dropped.
That's a vital aspect. Kenny vs Spenny is an example of this too, I think. You wouldn't be able to capture that authenticity with a top down approach.
Then I would say you're very lucky. My entire family in California absolutely feels this way. Not everyone can be in tech.
Python context managers seem to be sort of a decoupled relative of this. Where this paints the inverse as a feature of the “positive” function, context maangers could conceivably support having many different context managers with the same entrance function and different exit functions.
Ask HN: Best of E3 2021?
What was your favorite game or accessory announced this year? What games are you looking forward to playing the most in the coming year?

Nintendo's Metroid Dread announcement was truly and joyously surprising. 19 years since it's last 2D predecessor, it brings finality to the symbiotic story of Samus and the mysterious floating bio-engineered particles. But with a remarkable level of emotion imbued into the design, mirroring the loneliness and alienation of its predecessors.

When producer Yoshio Sakamoto speaks of the need to wait for console tech to advance to meet the vision. I imagine it isn't just graphics prowess, but also the AI planning and motion for the E.M.M.I pursuit drones. Something I imagine the folks at Boston Dynamics will be looking at closely ;)

MetroidDread Producer, Yoshio Sakamoto Development History Video

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1404848036187197448
This. A perennial annoyance among infectious disease epidemiologists is how not seriously people take influenza. As noted, it kills tens of thousands of people a year, and both times I've gotten it, I've felt like I got hit by a bus.
The number of people that are ok dying to prevent "lost human life hours" is probably near zero.
- Do you SaveUser to the database directly or do I have to somehow call something to validate the transaction ?
- Once it’s saved, can I continue to use my User model or should I fetch the more complete one from the database ?
- Does this even SaveUser to the database or on a temporary structure that will be fetched by our UserCreationBot ?
- Does SaveUser checks if the username already exists or should I check myself before calling it ?
- Does SaveUser checks that current user is allowed to create new users or should I check it before ?
- What happens if SaveUser is called with a User with an empty password ? Does it means that the input is wrong or am I legitimately creating a user that can’t login?
what about if someone else did your reviews for you?
A still evening in winter in a dense forest, as hinted at in the article, is actually a pretty easy environment to design for.

Any sort of weather conditions, exposure or ambient humidity would really reveal its weaknesses.

To poorly re-tell a joke from someone who has made been on dozens of expeditions around the world - the ultimate test of any tent is an autumn day on a camp site in a farmers field in north Wales.
Maybe some kind of vertical line through the hex, say green on left, blue on the right, and as the line moves away from the middle it's obvious which side is gaining influence there? When it hits one side or the other, it's locked.
Ahhh, something tells me, you're not their core customer.
I can’t agree with your anecdote. Your previous doctor could have forwarded your medical records.

If multiple doctors are of the opinion they won’t prescribe it I don’t think that justifies drug seeking behavior.
A low-level implementation library of the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) in PHP
A low-level implementation library of the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) in PHP that follows the RFC 959 standards and others related RFC extensions.
> Google doesn't share their data with 3rd parties.

I used to work for one of those third parties, here's google's public docs detailing how they provide that information: https://developers.google.com/authorized-buyers/rtb/realtime... (note: "geo", "geo_criteria_id", "postal_code", etc.)
As noted elsewhere, you cannot be "found innocent". The accused is presumed to be innocent. They can be found guilty, subject to some standards based on the circumstances.

This misconception is precisely the reason for this policy change.
The risk of loss of a passenger aircraft isn't the same thing as not wearing a seatbelt or being late for a party. Nobody sane would want to be personally responsible for the death of 200 or 300 people in one go. The FAA has a no commercial aviation accident policy and I for one support that policy.
I've been thinking of getting one (or something similar) since I tend to write short-term notes on stickies and leave them on my desk or monitor. I haven't found a computer based equivalent that I like using as much as writing.

This works well when I'm working 100% at home or at the office, my notes are where I work, but my company plans to have a hybrid workplace with employees working from the office 2 or 3 days a week, now my notes will be scattered between home and office. (well, worse, the office might move to a "hoteling" desk format where no one has a permanent desk, so I can't leave my notes on my desk at work).

So one of the electronic paper products seems like a good solution - write my notes in epaper, and I can access them from work (or vice versa).

Though they are still pretty expensive so more likely, I'll just switch to keeping notes in a notebook that I carry back and forth.
The book Release It!, listing some techniques for enterprise software resiliency has airline booking systems going down as the first real-world horror story, and I have to say, that is any engineer's nightmare fuel.

I was paying attention after that.
What do you mean exactly? If someone else reviews unstead of the person who has been asked ?
I don’t have numbers, but intuitively speaking: Wouldn’t the cost differential in saving lives come down over time as the technology and procedures mature and amortize?

In other words, wouldn’t the calculation need to be treated much like any capital investment with net benefits needing some time to kick in?
I don't understand how this shortens a URL, most URLs are still pretty long.
It lets you edit things inline like the browser dev tools. And drag them around like Figma.
The main thing is that you can edit visually, and changes are reflected in code. So it goes in both directions. Editor + Live Reload only goes in one direction.
Well, It is an interactive GUI for one...
> Loose mandatory holidays kinda suck to work with for bigger projects, at best you can weave them together with your PTO.

those are like a few days per year

it's maybe relevant once or twice a year

>Even working 32h weeks, which a lot of Europeans started doing

? first time I hear about this in Eastern EU
Thanks for agreeing :)

Unbounded flexibility is what most of business people expect. I am always a bit sad when I see the look on their faces when I have to tell them that their great idea is going to cost 5x more because they wanted their previous great idea ASAP/cheap/#timeToMarket and we have to build on top of that.

I just imagine how it must look when someone tells "sorry, it is not possible, because our low code platform does not support something like that".
> This all assumes that without Google this would not happen.

To be fair, I am not the one that's assuming things here. I am speaking of how Google has indeed contributed when they really didn't have to (as pointed out with the example of Amazon).

> Linux happened without single corporation controlling it.

A consortium of corporations, sure: linaro.org
> In the meantime, Customer Service wait times might be longer than normal

Might?
It is a high bar, but consider what happens when you get an inconstant merge. With text representing a program you get a compiler or interpreter error and can view and edit the text to fix things up. With something like a CAD drawing you may not be able to open the file, or it might be almost incomprehensible to the user (if you broke coordinate transforms or accidentally combined sub assemblies or something). If you are really unlucky you end up with something that looks okay but subtly breaks the application in a way you will not notice for a long time, and then it’s going to be hard to fix.

Oh, and you need to implement this for every file type.
NFT representing Tim Berners-Lee’s source code for the web to go on sale
Why would you assume they’d change? They will simply go to non tech companies and “manage “people there
If you give users the right self-service options, they'll resolve it for themselves between the start of the outage and when they expected to fly. They'll rebook or take their money and go.
"Yet every other airline is up and running, having (presumably) spent roughly the same on engineers"

That's an odd line of thinking. Other airlines have catastrophic outages too. Just at different times/dates. They do sometimes share 3rd party dependencies, but that happened to not be the case this time.
They did? That sounds very unprofessional.
> Dr. Francis Collins, director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said the Abbott ID Now machine, which is used to perform rapid coronavirus tests, has “about a 15% false negative rate.”

https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/us-coronavirus-update-0... (May 2020)

EDIT: The above is just one of the search results I found. There may be more recent (and more accurate) data.
> We can't prevent US citizens from returning to their homes.

SCOTUS has ruled that the US does have quarantine powers for medical emergencies, even for its own citizens. Maybe a complete ban if poorly orchestrated might run afoul of the Constitution, but a policy like "all travelers [US citizen or not] from X region must present at <specific port of entry>, whereupon they will be transferred to a quarantine facility for 14 days" would totally be fine. Note, for example, the way that the quarantine on dogs because of rabies is being handled.

> But we can prevent others from traveling to the US. It might make sense to ban all passports except the US for flights originating from China, but then you end up dragging in connecting flights through China from other countries.

Why should you exempt people whose only presence was via connecting flights? This generally involves long layovers inside of airports, where a large enough fraction is potentially susceptible to already be concerned about (due to local people making their flights), and you're likely to be spending a decent period of time on the plane with such people as well, too.
Unfortunately the law was so bad even its creators can’t implement/understand/respect it.
This is such a Google solution.

It reminds me that there was a version of Google Maps on iOS where if you wanted to cache a region of the map locally for offline use, you would (1) zoom out to view the full area to cache and (2) search for "OK Maps" to cache that area.†

Yes. Searching for "OK Maps" to cache it. You know, instead of maybe adding a button like in any normal app made for human beings?

I'm not at all surprised by this _nomap "solution".

† 2013 article: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-cache-offline-maps-in-lat...
> What it lacks is freely flowing funding such that risky enterprises can be funded even if 1 out of ten or 1 out of hundred actually are successful.

Or that people pay great % in tax and they cannot afford to save their own money to start a business. They need to apply for government grants instead (which people who decided about them can be corrupt) or share their business with someone from the start. That's a buzz killer.

Funnily big corporation are free to avoid tax as they please, because the high earners won't even turn to the streets to protest so they can be taxed through the nose.
Indeed, I know a few people who have been holding out for months and months to buy a GPU on its own.. and they have settled for just purchasing a whole prebuilt system because they're sick of waiting. Pretty frustrating all around :(
> I'm not OP but how he phrase it isn't about dead to you, but dead in a "commercial" sense.

There was never a commercial sense to IRC. In fact this is one of the things I really love about it. It's so cheap to run it can be run entirely for free by some enthusiasts. Some sponsors too, sure, but the costs of running it are never huge.
I am very interested in this. I am a low-coder you could say. I have to start coding a front-end in React soon (and I have yet to learn React) so with all the overhead of learning React as well as fiddling with html, css etc, it feels like a really big task. I saw some visual builders for React , downloaded/tried a couple but they had pretty big learning curves of their own so I didn't bother taking it any further.

You guys seem to be addressing the right pain point in the right way.

I will definitely give this a go soon
It's not the content, it's the attitude
This reminds me (fondly) of the Caribbean.

GP commenters is missing out that this is usually a culture-wide expectation.

If you're 30 minutes late, you mention the bus, and your boss gives you a knowing smile. Because it happens to him too.

Efficient? Less so. More relaxed? God yes.
Well dude, they're... stuck. They're stuck in the middle of nowhere. That feels horrible no matter what happens. It happened to me yesterday at MCO.
Comparing all of these points against Western Europe, the US is objectively behind. There's your point of comparison. Western Europe has far more expansive worker protections (just look at "right-to-work" states, you can get fired for any reason whatsoever), far more encompassing free healthcare (not just for the poor and older individuals, Medicare and Medicaid is what you're referring to I presume right? There are no other programs for free healthcare in the US), far freer press (according to the World Press Freedom Index, the US is 44th, most Western European states are higher), infrastructure is not crumbling in Western Europe in the same way it is in the US, far lower inequality (this is obvious, check any inequality index), less corruption, on what point exactly of these is the US better than Western Europe?
I find the lights to be fun. I'm playing a game after all :)
Actually that's much closer to the definition of a cost center.

A cost is a thing you need to pay but if you spend more on it you get very little benefit. Thus it has a binary nature or at least a nature where "good enough" is all you need. A profit center is something where if you make it better you generate more revenue. Therefore things like necessary infrastructure is a cost, whereas adding more routes is a profit.

Whereas I think you are confusing cost and profit to mean "important" and "unimportant". Not having your headquarters fall down is important. Having HVAC for your office workers is important. But no one is going to say "Let's choose this airline, have you seen how awesome the HVAC in their main office is? And how the foundation to their HQ is going to last a hundred years longer than their competitor?" But they will say "Let's choose this airline because it has a direct flight to where we want to go".
Looks like one of the consistent pieces of feedback is for numeric values :) Will think about how to implement that.

Checked out your site too. Looks interesting!
OpenSCAD is a neat tool, but it has a few huge drawbacks for real world use:

- a weird domain specific language that only adds a bit of syntactic sugar and is a pain to learn. They would have been *way* better off using Python and extending it.

- no filet / chamfer tool. No CAD program can be taken seriously unless it has those.

- the CAD core is (IIRC) CGAL, which only works with polygonal models and is god-awful slow as soon as the model gets complex. For example, Minkowski sums are basically unusable on any real-world model.

What is really neat about OpenSCAD is the notion that a 3D object is basically code.

This brings in for free a ton of very nice things:

- version control
- collaborative editing
- parametric modeling
- object optimization
But you'll need a wider grip.
I also really like instantdomainsearch.com. I don't have any specific feedback, but thank you for your team's work!
I don't really care to make the argument, no, since I think street numbers are reasonably expected to be in the public domain in the culture I've grown up with.

But I wouldn't rule out that someone else looks at it differently to the degree that I'd pose it as a rhetorical question, as an example that's illuminating in its absurdity. That was really all I was trying to say.

Though whether or not it'd be a logistical nightmare for Google or startups really doesn't play into it; all kinds of privacy (and other) regulations are logistical nightmares for those whose business it is to violate them. E.g. kyc regulations were a logistical nightmare for financial services that didn't bother or didn't want to k their cs.
Yes, but that doesn't mean it doesn't benefit from being inline. I love being able to skim over the paragraph-comments to get the big picture and then dip into the details without having to jump to another file / part of the file and lose my context.
My handwriting sucks too, and much of it is nearly illegible, but I find that I have much better retention if I keep written notes rather than typing.

Even if some of my notes are difficult (or even impossible) to read, it's still sufficient to help remember what I felt so notable that I wrote it down.

I realize that everyone's not the same, but studies have shown that writing leads to better conceptual recall (but typing tends to record more information)
Arguably, a lot of the same things that are wrong with 32 bit software. If we're being pedantic, both of them should still be supported: but they aren't.
It's more magnanimous to just ignore such users, and listen carefully to the users who care about (but not necessarily understand well) the software.
Better than my wife's first attempt :)
In the settings you can disable the AI. I had a lot of fun playing against my girlfriend!
Please forgive my curiosity, but how do interactions with employers usually go? I’m surprised that you seem not to have had any major issues with this.
> it is, again, far too slow

It also fails miserably as soon as the geometry you're trying to fillet is complicated.
So if a plane is in flight (and I'm sure some were), and the weather system goes down, then what? Stick with the previous plan? Divert?
No. Code is intended for your teammates.

Compiled machine code is for your computer.

If you were addressing a machine, you would be writing 0s and 1s, because o boy do the machine know how to execute those little ons & offs.
It is perfect on Sun keyboards up to Type 4 and IBM keyboards up to Model F. Starting with Type 5, Sun adopted the giant caps lock key next to the pinky layout that IBM Model M keyboards used, but many Emacs users remap control back to where it should be anyway.
A physical process unable to reach the clouds which has been prevented by a logical process maintained in the clouds.

Who's on first. What's on second. I don't knows on third. Where are the clouds?