skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I wonder if we focus too much on the human family and not enough on the human community.

As someone raising kids in a city with no community network, no family around, etc - I am acutely aware that it's quite bad for my kids despite my ongoing best efforts.

A supportive community can enrich life so much in ways that an isolated nuclear family probably can't. It can offer things parents can't themselves.

So in isolation, sure, let's talk about what the best family structure can be and we will certainly discover important things. But I think it has to be one which integrates well socially, and allow community in. Without that there is a lot of lost potential.

Just my opinion of course. Perhaps this mostly reflects my own inadequacies, I'm not sure.
https://archive.ph/KoaAk
Economists predicted 100 of the last 1 recessions.
Too weird for today? Have you seen Yo Gabba Gabba?

Parents of today like weird. And yes, maybe some stuff would be offensive in today's context, but not that bad.

We watched a couple of the old Pee-Wee movies with my kids and a bit of some of the old shows and they loved them. We're very lefty and I don't recall anything in them that raised any particular alarm bells.
Those apples sound like "Golden Delicious" which I believe we in the UK import from France.

"I always thought it silly" - fair enough but these are very complex things when you look deeply.

At the point of pick, the apple is now a self contained thing. It contains all sorts of chemicals, cells, structures and so on, contained within the skin. If you wax the skin then you might inhibit oxidation for a while (tends to make the flesh brown and sweeter) but the added wax means the skin is now not nice. Let's leave waxing for lemons.

Temperature will affect most reactions but too cold will destroy fragile tissues, so let's keep things at roughly fridge temperature, so around 5degC.

An apple is a very complex beast, sorry: fruit. There are sugars and an extremely complex cell structure to maintain. The thick skin will keep things stable for a short while but it's not enough.

So you pick it unripe and delay those processes a bit.
Obnoxious that your comment was downvoted. Just examining retirement benefits, public pensions pay out what would take a normal worker multiple millions of dollars of wealth to receive.
You are leaving zero space between “cannot work as a nurse” (or “cannot submit testimony as an expert witness in engineering”) to to “life is ruined.”

Furthermore you do seem to be consistently saying a nurse, at a hospital, giving medical advice that doesn’t meet standards of care should not face normal malpractice charges not even face a suspension of license. (Just go to a quack hospital!)

I mean yeah that is position, but like I said elsewhere in this thread, I can’t distinguish it from libertarian “license to toast” bullshit.
Any source to support this assertion? Never heard from any professional security reporting that they actually do that, and sounds very Hollywood. Most cases I've heard about are dumb simple - just encrypt everything you have write access to and ask for money. You don't need a complex operation when a simple one brings the same amount of cash. These people aren't making a movie, they are making money, and less they have to work for it, the better. Simple is always cheaper and more efficient, in crime too.
Four bytes are still overhead. Also, you often need to keep the capacity of a string. Another four bytes.

The C string APIs are like the lowest denominator of all use cases. When you know string lengths, you can avoid quadratic strcat() or other performance pitfalls with the existing APIs. On the other hand, if the APIs forced everyone to keep string lengths, performance/memory/convenience would be affected for certain use cases. Memory is not cheap when you deal with many short strings or when you do embedded programming.
Depends on the car. You can have speakers, valves,... anything to make a modern, powerful 4 cylinder turbo engine sound like a Group B rally car. The more upmarket and sportive the car, the more likely.
Held too many strong opinions for really no good reason other than technical "virtue signaling" of sorts. At the time, it felt so right. I had all the perfect, rational arguments.

Years passed, experience and nuance decayed the strength of my opinions, and it was fascinating to realize -- even where I was perfectly right, I was mostly only right accidentally, my arguments were just a story to fit the narrative, never really fully internalized.
That's a pretty accurate summary, though I'd say that the following is more accurate still:

"About a quarter of social science students at a (deliberately chosen left-leaning) university in Frankfurt, Germany, are in favour of removing controversial books about certain topics from their university library."

ETA: And, in fairness to pg, the sentence quoted ("Roughly one-third of students are also in favor of banning controversial books from their university library") is in fact a direct quote from the study.
i simply listed my perfectly ordinary residential flat's address in the uk. and, as far as i can tell from the text in the link i gave above, they are giving these away to anyone who wants one as an educational public service, hence the fact that it's the philanthropy department that runs the scheme.

> We believe all people should have access to important scientific information to help their research and education. [...] Roche provides copies as a free service to the public.

they are pretty cool to have, with very high quality two colour printing, and you also get a wee booklet with an index to the two posters to help you find things. there's also a book [0] by the same author with much more detail, and obviously much more portable, but sadly much more expensive ;(

so, i'd try asking for them again, if i was you.

0. https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780470146842
Are there similar tools for GCP?
Steam allowing a lot of garbage on its store also allow a lot of niche games to be sold there, remember one's man trash is another's treasure.
I have, though it was in Western Washington out in the middle of a long straight boring stretch of highway.
I haven't used quotients (or Lean), but I've certainly encountered subject reduction problems in Coq when using coinduction, so this sounds a tad hypocritical.

It's certainly good to avoid breaking subject reduction even more though ;)
I think you’ll find those parents who don’t don’t have the time to engage with their kids are working far more than 40 hours. The lucky ones are probably working 60-70 for a tech company and making bank, the unlucky ones are working multiple minimum wage jobs to just live with the basics.
It’s a lot of fun to use it’s a nice tool to use along with reaper
Because they see you as "another one person they have to interview" while they should approach you as someone completely new. I did the same mistake as an interviewer in the past.
I really like Apple's direction on privacy so far, and I think they've taken privacy as a feature further than any other company.

The weighing of leverage is more or less how the market has and still works to this day. Thus if you send me or my family out there to negotiate with Popeye's (which really wants you to create an account), or Walmart, Facebook [1], or even a small company making todo apps, I will simply not win, and neither will my family members.

I love that cross-app tracking is now opt-in, because that's not something I'd ever imagine negotiating with any company, ever. I love the fact that all subscription-based services purchased through the iOS platform can be managed in a centralized place. I love that companies that provide services on iOS must provide a way to register with Apple's anonymous account service. I love that companies seeking payment on the iOS platform must support Apple Pay, which protects my payment information.

Without Apple I'm not sure how you'd ever negotiate these things to happen.

[1]: https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/30/facebook-research/
> there is not evidence according to the standards of medical science.

What the hell are you trying to say? That doctors treating patients observations can be dismissed because they don't talk the academic language or their results don't follow academic guidelines?

There is more to medicine than just clinical trials.

Many different things can count as evidence, even if they are not up to your academic standard. Doctors observations, population-level improvements, and studies of different cohorts.

There are levels of evidence, there is strong evidence based on reports of observable ivermectin benefit to profylaxis and some benefit in treatmeant of early infections.
Continuing education is another.
There came a time where the site was moved to a different department. We, the dev team, went along with the site. Before we left we asked the business person we got along with best about our suspicions and she confirmed every one of them.
All of our modern standard of living traces back to initial govt investment.

Govt routinely provides seed capital, grants, financing, patents, and other perks. Which then attracts private interests.

Often jump starting entire sectors, creating new markets.

Do you think we'd be enjoying solar boom today were it not for public investment?
still legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGK-EzEa45U
> Shenzen has elements which are probably not reproducible.

They are reproducible if we have the political will.
But... nobody is asking them to vote on this question, ie nobody is proposing to let the students decide on this.

Rather, the study is about the opinion of those students on certain topics, and for that, you have to ask them about their opinion.
Professional here: I hate Amazon and die a little inside every time I hear about people buying electronic parts from them.

So I am not trying to push an agenda when I say that they're fine for generic parts. You are probably not going to cry if your 0.25W resistor smokes itself at 0.2W instead of 0.3W like the name-brand part. Your random 1N4007 is probably still a 1N4007; it's not like they're hard to make. I wouldn't use it on a 999V line, but I probably wouldn't do that with a genuine 1N4007 either.

Where Amazon starts to get dodgy is when you are dealing with delicate parts: precision amplifiers, precision resistors... really, precision anything... or anything where you will need more of that exact thing in the future. You'll get something when you order from Amazon or AliExpress. It might even be the right something. But good luck getting it again later!
Trackers are very, very different from the clip-manipulation style of Reaper/Logic/Pro Tools. They are typically seen as being best for electronic music, though this is partly historical. You would be learning a whole new workflow for a DAW.
Made an account just to reply to this, fucking BTFO
Technically not a mistake but a good lesson anyway, db2 drop database dbname, where the production and Dev db had the same name just on a different VM. For a very long probably only 10s of seconds in reality I thought I had dropped the production DB of a securities and money market reconciliation system that was reconciling up to 50M a day at the time. Still gives me a shudder when I think about it 10 years later
My four year old has far better mask discipline than the majority of adults, kids are adaptable
What he meant is you overfitted the network with video footage. There is no game, just seemingly clever stitching and playback of learned footage

similar concept applied to animations and implemented in a state machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSTn3ePDt50

and optimized with nn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16CHDQK4W5k
Surely more of a mitigating factor is that there's nothing to 'do' with it afterwards? It's easy to get people to (try to) join your WiFi network, but then what? Without some serious secondary effect I'd guess it's probably not getting desperately quick attention or a big payout.
A counterpoint: https://archive.is/tL7Rj (NY Times)
Something that is often overlooked in these conversations is the elementary schools should perhaps be considered completely differently from high schools. There were zero transmissions between students at my kids elementary school this whole year, despite the school opening as quickly as possible and despite several kids with asymptomatic COVID showing up at school and only being detected belatedly. I don’t think the same outcome would necessarily be expected at a high school.

This is relevant because younger kids need more supervision and are less likely to spread COVID, while older kids need less supervision and are more likely to spread; therefor keeping older kids home and sending younger ones in might be totally rational. But it doesn’t seem like this gets brought up.
Yeah, some parents do value “100% on their tests” more than receiving a quality education.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/22/colleg...
And ditto for MS's and Sony's Gaming Consoles if one can only game on them and owners not allowed instillation or use other Applications like Blender 3D, Gimp, Krita, Inkscape, LibreOffice etc!

Apple's M1 based tablet that's not allowed to use MacOS and end users restricted to that closed ecosystem.

It's really time once again for active Antitrust enforcement there and all of theses locked down devices and the search engines that are mostly useless now for any productive research or unfettered usage.
Yikes, I hope they don’t add it, that would make people want to use it even more. Given its surprising performance characteristics it’s usually not what you want.
Bitwig is a competitor to Ableton made by ex-devs that runs on Linux, and better in some ways
The main reason to use Renoise is if the tracker style sequencing is a productive process for you.

I believe there’s a minimal version called Redux, but that changes the workflow.

There is a free alternative. It isn’t native Linux and not as slick, but OpenMPT is meant to run in Wine and functions as a competent modern tracker.
My family got into this "tough love" garbage. It destroyed our family relationship so badly that in my teens I ran away and didn't speak to anyone in the family for 20 years. And even now, decades later, we are still very distant.

That's how well tough love worked out for us.
My 2018 Q5 is extremely quiet. When I drove an etron loaner, I noticed the artificial sound it makes, but it was otherwise quiet as well.
> Ban anyone without a minimum teaching experience of x years from participating on boards

Why do you think you need to be a teacher to direct how our schools are run?

Seems technocratic and anti-democratic.

The same way we have civilian control of the military, we should have civilian control of our schools.

Did you know in the UK there is actually a structure called governors to ensure that schools are being directed by the community, not by education insiders?
Because this is how strings in C have always been done and this is how the language and pretty much all libraries treat strings.
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> With literally everything else, if you want something, you need to pay to acquire it because it took time and resources to make. That doesn't go away just because the end product is digital.

The thing is that making a copy of something digital is really really cheap compared to something physical. The difference between the cost of producing one copy of a software or music and a million is way lower than for a physical object.
This is a big oversimplification. There are many differences in education between Finland and the US. Pointing to a single one and declaiming it as the cause is unjustified.

As a counter example, the OECD PISA ranking for education puts Estonia as just barely ahead of Finland[1]. Estonia has public and private schools[2]. So, it is at least possible to have Finland quality schools while maintaining a public and private system.

Another thing to consider would be the population differences. The US has ~65 times more people than Finland. In this larger group of people there will be Finland sized subgroups that outperform and underperform Finland even though the US as a whole underperforms.

Massachusetts, for example, one of two states in the US to perform and report their own PISA numbers, is pretty comparable to Finland in 2015 (1 or 2 points above or below on scores of ~500 for science and reading and 11 points below on math)[3]. I couldn't find the official OECD results for 2018, but I believe Massachusetts is slightly ahead by then.

1 - https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/education/

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Estonia

3 - https://www.oecd.org/pisa/PISA-2015-United-States-MA.pdf
This could also be an intentional thing put into iOS to force an iPhone off Wi-Fi so it will connect to a Stingray device so traffic can be intercepted.
Would you mind elaborating on how you went about learning the fundamentals? I think id benefit from the same.
This goes for pretty much everything in life. People generally won't care how competent you are if they like having you around.
I've never done this and I am not sure what would happen, but I would probably avoid getting a .xxx using your business name for any purpose other than parking on a different IP not owned by your business and avoiding someone else from registering it. One of the goals of .xxx was to allow the adult industries to make a clear distinction from non adult sites so people and browsers could avoid filters, adult content headers, etc... [1] AFAIK this never really took off. I don't know how search engines will factor in your business having a .xxx domain or if they will even do any correlation. At very least you should ask your marketing department to inquire within their circles about this. My concern would be the potential correlation to an indicator that your business has adult content, thus potentially excluding it from non age verified searches. This may not even be an issue, but if it were getting this fixed may be difficult. Reaching real people at the popular search engines can be time consuming.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xxx
Here's a good overview of why posts disappear:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/why-has-ivermectin-become-a-di...
Their pension and retirement benefits likely cost way more now.
Tools are free if you know where to look... ;-)

But the fab costs are still huge, especially if you don't get it right the first time.
You could probably blame the SIDstation (and its successors) for that. People have been putting SIDs into various synths (including DIY like the MIDIbox SID and others) since the late 90s.
> Intravenous bleach suggested by someone we trusted may have caused some real harm.

Who that was even remotely trustworthy suggested that?
for all the talk of "vaccine passports", not a single state has done it. Biden said he wasnt going to do it months ago. Not a single country has done it in all of the earth.

if I was so worried about such a thing i might start to think maybe I was being manipulated to fear something that didnt exist.

Nobody has implemented vaccine passports. And nobody will.

But the idea of a treatment even close to effective as a vaccine is attractive to those that believe that in such magical thinking

Ivermectin might be cheap but the vaccine is literally free if you're in the US. There's zero reason to not get it, and zero reason to hang onto hope that alternatives will work. We already have an extremely effective treatment, so effective it can wipe of the virus entirely, and its totally free.

Our government under Trump bought the vaccine en masse for a few dollars a dose. Those that refuse such a miracle treatment when the rest of the world dies of COVID are a stain on America's sheen
Without the 'what's the problem', It's in 'categories for the working mathematician' by Saunders Mac Lane. Of course, it's entirely seriously in that book.
It was a separate button on the toolbar, not right next to the address bar (which if you misclick you end up editing the URL instead of reloading).

And it was Safari 4, released in 2008!
Getting too big for my britches, and thinking that recruiter emails = job offers. I quit a lucrative junior position that had just promoted me to mid level thinking I would have multiple big offers lined up immediately. After 6 months of desperately interviewing and going broke I ended up somewhere I could work my way back up, but I learned the hard way to never quit a job without another offer letter signed.
I'm not aware of any politician who did that.
See also the open source Radium

https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp0wDH-OQlA - Radium 3.6.6 playing the demo song

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhwmT0G5EwM Radium Tracker - Quick 2Bars Only Demo (Renoise "maYbe"- Style, Piano Roll inlcuded..)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7-hJx7Lir4 RADIUM - Tree of bugs song

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYGDUpr1uYs Radium: Esau - Massaker (2015, 4 voice polyphony, 8-bit, 0-29kHz)

https://www.youtube.com/user/KjetilMatheussen/videos
No, because it requires you to have physical access to connect to it. If you have physical access, you could just turn off WiFi at that point.

If you think that someone targeted would notice their WiFi turned off and turn it back on, they would definitely notice and probably become suspicious of that behavior shown in the video where WiFi automatically turns itself on and off rapidly.
This is wrong on both points
1 - both drugs are safer than Tylenol,
2 - you can’t seek a more effective treatment as they do not exist. Well, there is remdisvir which is only available in the US and actually is dangerous and unproven
True, and Isabelle can call out to automated provers (a mechanism called "sledgehammer"!)
I maintain separate windows, but they still end up with 30+ tabs each.
Ha! Now I want to see Dax's 95 Raver's Megamix in Renoise :)
One cool development in the past year or so are hardware trackers. Basically trackers for the DAW-less crowd. The polyend tracker [1] is really nice and a great value. And I'm super excited for the dirtywave m8 [2], kind of like a supercharged hardware LSDJ [3] (which is also a great project). Starts shipping in the next month or so, but you can already try it with publicly available firmware using just a teensy 4.1.

Back in software, can't help but mention Sunvox [4].
Not exactly the same niche as Renoise (which aims to be closer to a traditional DAW), but it's an excellent modular tracker that runs pretty much anywhere, free (as in beer) on desktop and cheap on mobile. It doesn't have any support for VSTs but comes with a nice set of synth and FX modules that can be connected and bundled into "metamodules".

[1] https://polyend.com/tracker/
[2] https://dirtywave.com/
[3] https://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/index.php
[4] https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/
Accepting a job with QA out of school. It was 4 months before graduation, and I had been searching 2 months and my morale was low at having been rejected a few times. I was a very good student with many accolades so rejection was new.

As it happened, 1 month before I graduated, a job opened up in my ideal group, one I had interned in before and gotten a strong review, but by then I had already accepted the QA position (at the same company) and it was impossible to transfer. Took me nine years to transition to being a dev, studying nights and weekends.

At least in the U.S., your first job out of school tends to become your "career"
Maybe as a joke they could call it D since that's the letter after C...
memccpy≠memcpy, even though their names are similar. While the function is somewhat generic, I would bet 90+% of its use is going to be to copy null-terminated strings.
Turned down an acquihire offer at age 21. It was my first "startup" (me, cofounder, some code, few never ending trails, 0$ income). It was a 1m$ for each of us spread over 4 years, in addition to bigcorp salary and benefits.
What Is Going on at Yale Law School?